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Changing the way we Eliot Spitzer: Let see the comptroller the voters decide

Stringer says think outside the box

by Tess McRae Reporter

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cott Stringer knows he may not be well-known in the outer boroughs but says that doesn’t mean he won’t fight for them if he is elected comptroller. In fact, he says he always has.

“If you look at the issues I’ve talked about in my years in office, they have been issues that are city-focused issues,” Manhattan borough president and Democratic comptroller candidate Stringer said. “People want to move to the outer boroughs but the challenge is building up Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island and the Bronx because Manhattan has already been built. It’s already established.”

Promoting the outer boroughs is just a bullet point on the lists of ways he says he plans to improve the city’s economy and change the way the comptroller’s office functions.

“A steady hand is how I would describe my approach,” Stringer said. “We have to analyze the information but also get to our targets and not overplay our hand.”

The “slow and steady wins the race” mentality that Stringer has adopted is a dramatic

contrast from his primary competition, former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who has aggressively spoken out on unnecessary spending and ending corrupt agencies.

“The comptroller does not have the sledgehammer to say ‘I’m the comptroller and this is how we’re going to do it,’” Stringer said.

“Only four out of the 58 board trustees represent the comptroller’s office. I have served on the pension fund, so I know a lot of the players, and I learned that you can have strong elected officials who can work with finances and still come up with a solution to our problems — as opposed to working the crowd. Sometimes it’s easier to work the crowd, but I’m going to call it like I see it and if that’s not good enough for the people of New York City, then I won’t be re-elected.”

Stringer, who met with the Chronicle editorial board on Aug. 16, cited his redesign of the Borough President’s Office as proof that he’s the man for the job.

“When I became Manhattan borough continued on page 24

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“I have the skills,” Spitzer said when asked why he wants the job, and is the better candidate.

“I’ve run a business — my family real estate business,” he said. “It requires management and asset allocation.”

Spitzer said his experience in business and numerous investigations and lawsuits against corporate and financial institutions in eight years as attorney general give him a knowledge of Wall Street, finance and capital markets that is essential to managing and growing the city’s $140 billion in pension funds.

Like the current occupant of the office, John Liu, and Stringer, Spitzer said the office’s investment choices can sometimes take on the mantle of a broader social agenda. He said dropping firearms companies is akin to divesting from South Africa during its apartheid regime in the 1980s.

“Part of the fiduciary responsibility continued on page 24

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ormer Gov. Eliot Spitzer would be capping an improbable political comeback should he prevail against Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer in the Democratic primary for comptroller on Sept. 10.

The two-term state attorney general was forced to resign as New York’s governor in 2008 after only 13 months amid scandals involving prostitution and using the state police to gather information on political enemies.

But the latest Quinnipiac poll shows him with a 19 percent lead over Stringer, even though Spitzer jumped into the campaign days before the filing deadline.

He said he simply has a desire to return to public service in some way.

“My record should be judged in totality,” he said Monday after noon in a meeting with the Queens Chronicle’s

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Family says Gary Zammett Sr. was out to buy cheesecake for his wife

by Domenick Rafter Editor

Gary Zammett Sr. left his house in Canarsie on Wednesday evening to go to Howard Beach to buy a slice of cheesecake for his wife, Celeste. He hopped on his bike and pedaled across the borough border.

Less than two hours later he was dead at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center.

Zammett was struck by a car in the intersection of 160th Avenue and 84th Street and died only about 90 minutes later. The driver stayed at the scene and no charges were filed.

Now Zammett’s family, busy planning his funeral, and residents who live near the scene are searching for answers and looking for the city to prevent a tragedy like this from happening again.

“It’s been a little difficult for my cousin’s wife,” said Sheniqua Jones, Zammett’s cousin.

Jones said she did not know Zammett’s exact age, just that he was in his late 50s or early 60s.

“That’s the last thing you expect,” Jones said. “You don’t expect a family member to say ‘I’ll be right back’ and then not come back.”

Jones said Zammett suffered extensive injuries to his face and limbs, and his funeral will be closed-casket. She and her family went to the scene after the accident and residents nearby told them the corner was a

The bicycle ridden by Gary Zammett Sr. lies in the intersection of 84th Street and 160th Avenue PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER less than an hour after the accident that killed the Brooklyn man. disaster waiting to happen. Until it did.

Eighty-fourth Street is a major thoroughfare in the Rockwood Park section of Howard Beach. It is the only two-way route in that section of the neighborhood besides Cross Bay Boulevard and connects the community with Lindenwood on the other side of the Belt Parkway.

“That intersection was a ticking time bomb

that exploded,” said a resident who lives a block away, who identified himself only as Gary. “We need more lights on 84th Street.”

The intersection has a four-way stop — as do most of the others along 84th Street — but Gary and other residents say drivers often run the signs. Jones said she and her family witnessed cars jumping the stop sign at the scene when they visited after the accident.

“We saw cars physically run straight through the stop sign,” she said.

Immediately after the incident, police officers pulled over drivers near the intersection who ran through stop signs or were not wearing their seatbelts.

Karyn Petersen, district manager of Community Board 10, said the board has not received any requests for lights along 84th Street, but has for other means of traffic control, including turning lanes near St. Helen School.

Jones said she would request a traffic light be put at the intersection and at least two residents said they would join her in calling for one. She is also looking to have the street renamed for her late cousin.

Zammett’s funeral is set for Saturday at Layne Funeral Home at 1078 Bergen St. in Brooklyn and he will be buried at Canarsie Cemetery. Jones said she and Zammett’s family will go out to the intersection after the funeral to place flowers and a photo of her cousin near where he was hit.

A few years ago a traffic light was installed two blocks north of the accident site at 158th Avenue and there has always been a light at 157th Avenue, where St. Helen School and the Rockwood Park Jewish Center — and a kindergarten at the Q center — are located.

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QueensWay study to begin this month Trust for Public Land leads plans to build park on former LIRR line

by Domenick Rafter Editor

of diverse Queens neighborhoods, many of which are in need of more parkland.

“It would give people access to all the wonderful things Queens has to offer,” Crawford said.

Travis Terry, of Friends of the QueensWay, and a Forest Hills resident, said he hopes the project will promote Queens’ diversity.

“We’re really hoping that as audiences come onto the QueensWay and it becomes an interest for tourists that they’ll learn about this great cultural activity that’s here and visit it,” he said.

The last train ran along the line in June 1962 and the route south of Liberty Avenue in Ozone Park is occupied by the A train, but the rest of the vacant right-of-way includes an elevated structure in Ozone Park and Woodhaven, which in the latter neighborhood abuts residents’ backyards. It then runs along a ravine through Forest Park before rising to an embankment from Union Turnpike until it meets the

Community Board 9 Vice Chairperson and QueensWay supporter Andrea Crawford, left, joined by Andrew Stone and Marc Matsil of The Trust for Public Land, announces the start of a feasibility study to build a High Line-like park along the former Rockaway Beach Long Island Rail Road line.

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LIRR Main Line in Rego Park. The route includes elevated overpasses over Yellowstone Boulevard, Metropolitan Avenue, Union Turnpike, Park Lane South, Jamaica Avenue

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The plan to build a High Linelike park along the former Rockaway Beach Long Island Rail Road line moved forward Tuesday as The Trust for Public Land — an urban parks advocacy group which received $467,000 from the state to study the feasibility of the project — k icked of f t he st udy by announcing the two firms that will lead the project.

WXY Architecture + Urban Design and Dlandstudio were the two firms chosen to lead the study that will put together a conceptual design for the project and hold workshops and meetings for area residents to add in their views.

The plan is for a park similar to Manhattan’s High Line for the 3.5mile route between Rego Park and Ozone Park, where the line merges with the A train subway.

“We’re really thrilled that we can kick off what we consider one of the city’s most iconic and economical-

ly-transformative projects: The QueensWay Cultural Greenway,” said Marc Matsil, New York State director for The Trust for Public Land, at a press conference in Forest Hills on Tuesday announcing the study. “The goal of the feasibility study is to come up with engineers’ cost estimates.”

Adam Lubinsky, a principal at WXY, called the QueensWay plan a “once in a lifetime” project.

“This will be an amazing amenity for Queens,” he said. “There’s so much embedded here that we need to bring out in our work. It’s really an opportunity to connect all the neighborhoods in Queens through one linear route in the borough.”

Andrew Crawford, vice chairwoman of Community Board 9, which includes the neighborhoods of Richmond Hill, Woodhaven and part of Ozone Park, and a member of the pro-QueensWay advocacy group, Friends of QueensWay, said the project would connect a number

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Senior housing opens in Howard Beach Former Fineson Center development includes 83 apartments for seniors

by Stephen Geffon Chronicle Contributor

The construction of the Howard Beach senior residence that started early last year has been completed, and it is now ready for occupancy.

Catholic Charities of Brooklyn and Queens began interior demolition and reconstruction of the former Bernard Fineson Developmental Center at 155-55 Cross Bay Blvd. in Jan. 2012. Seniors whose applications were accepted by Catholic Charities began to view their new apartments in the facility last week.

Monsignor Al LoPinto, pastor of St. Helen Parish and vicar for human services of Catholic Charities, said the goal is to have the facility completely occupied by October.

“We’re excited about it,” LoPinto said of the facility. He added that the prospective tenants he spoke with were also excited about what is being offered to them.

“I think that it will be an asset for seniors,” he said, adding, “This is certainly something that was needed.”

There are 83 senior rental units, including 27 studio apartments and 56 one-bedroom apartments, as well as a live-in superintendent and a 24-hour security desk.

Another 12 apartments are reserved for persons with disabilities.

The senior housing development run by Catholic Charities of New York and New Jersey opens this PHOTO BY STEPHEN GEFFON month at the former Bernard Fineson Center in Howard Beach.

Among the other amenities at the facility are laundry facilities, recreation rooms, landscaping, parking, and close proximity to super markets, ban ks, phar macies, healthcare facilities, public transportation and restaurants. The apar tments have sound-attenuated windows, air conditioning, Energy Star appliances, bathrooms with safet y bars and emergency call systems.

LoPinto called the building “multipurpose” noting that it is not just a senior residence but also contains a senior center and the offices for the Catholic Charities MealsOn-Wheels program.

“There will be a number of different entities that will be participating in the building,” he said.

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basement of the Rockwood Park Jewish Center after Sandy’s storm surge flooded and destroyed the senior center’s offices, will now be located on the first floor of the new facility.

LoPinto said the senior center will not be exclusive to the tenants of the residence but will serve seniors throughout the Howard Beach community.

Catholic Charities took over sponsorship of the Howard Beach Senior Center in January, though it is still funded through the city Department of the Aging.

Debbie Hoffer, director of field operations for Catholic Charities of Brooklyn and Queens, said the group was thrilled when the center came under its sponsorship, noting the center’s “wonderful reputation” in the area. The senior center will be moving into the building on Aug. 22.

“We will be providing a brand-new beautiful new home for seniors to really enjoy state-of-the-art programming and daily hot, nutritious, delicious meals and have an opportunity to meet with other seniors in the apartment building,” Hoffer said.

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Eliot Spitzer for the Democratic comptroller nomination

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his was going to be the Scott Stringer endorsement for the Democratic nomination for city comptroller.

The Manhattan borough president has served his constituents well, with integrity. He’d make a fine candidate to face Republican John Burnett in November, and if he were to win, a fine comptroller, we figured. He was certainly a safer bet than his primary opponent, former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who had, after all, resigned in disgrace after doubtlessly committing illegal acts.

But then we met with both candidates, Stringer last Friday and Spitzer on Monday. And, after much deliberation, we changed our minds.

We hereby endorse Spitzer.

This was not an easy decision, and it puts us at odds with all three of the city dailies that have endorsed in the race.

But before you throw the paper across the room, hear us out. Spitzer is far better prepared for the job, much more qualified than Stringer to manage the city pension fund’s $140 billion in investments, which is the position’s main responsibility. How the comptroller handles that money dictates to a large degree how much taxpayers have to contribute to the fund. Spitzer is also better suited to the job’s other

main task, approving or denying city contracts.

This is not a criticism of Stringer, who, again, has served with honor and, we trust, will continue to in some capacity.

But while Spitzer has dealt with high finance from all angles throughout his career, Stringer’s one foray into the business world was owning a bar that failed after a year.

Spitzer, by contrast, has protected investors, especially small ones, through landmark investigations and prosecutions, and also successfully navigated the world of high-end New York real estate by running his family’s firm.

It was Spitzer who, while working for then-Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, led the 1992 investigation that ended the Mafia’s stranglehold on the city’s garment and trucking industries. After that, he worked for a private firm on many antitrust and consumers’ rights cases.

As state attorney general, Spitzer went after fraud in the market with a vengeance. He revealed how certain favored investors were making illegal after-market trades, to the detriment of the little guy. He also famously took on AIG, the insurance giant, years before its meltdown in September 2008, which epitomized and drove the financial crisis from which we are still recovering. And he went after predatory

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Crisis in Egypt Dear Editor: The situation in Egypt continues to spiral further out of control, and it is just a matter of time before total civil war breaks out throughout the country. Should this occur, the entire Middle East will erupt into even more violence, terror and bloodshed. This would certainly have a major effect on world peace and stability — and it would be a very serious effect, certainly not for the better. The international community needs to work to bring a halt to the violence and bloodshed now!

Just remember what happened on Sept. 1, 1939 — the day our innocence was forever gone with the wind.

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‘Curing’ gays Dear Editor: The recent wiltingly depressing heat-wave was eased somewhat with a little comedic relief offered up on Tuesday, July 30. An event took place in Washington. Despite being rejected and deemed dangerous by all major physiological organizations, it involved a march on Washington’s Supreme Court by the “scores” of ex-gays advocating the “curing” of gays of their gayness.

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lenders years before their role in the crisis was revealed.

And, yes, Spitzer also went after prostitutes. In a very different meaning of the phrase. His lawbreaking and infidelity while serving as governor are tough hurdles for the voter to overcome. He also went way too far in using the State Police to target a political opponent.

Has he changed? We cannot know. We hope so. Unlike former Rep. Anthony Weiner, to whom he is naturally compared during this campaign season, he did not go back to his “old ways” after resigning his position, as far as we know.

The voters seem to have a sense of this too. While Weiner’s support has been dropping and it now looks like he’ll never be elected mayor, Spitzer’s has been increasing. He leads Stringer by 19 percent in the latest poll.

One thing we don’t have to worry about when it comes to Spitzer is corruption for financial gain, something that has plagued past comptrollers, city and state. He’s more than wealthy enough to make us confident he cannot be bought.

In our interview, Stringer said he would hire the best and brightest to advise him on investments. Spitzer is the best and brightest. Despite the misgivings, it’s clear he’s the better candidate. Vote Spitzer on Sept. 10.

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demonstration validating their “medicament.”

The major conservative sponsors were “American Family Radio” and the celebrants of “Ex-Gay Pride Month” who confidentially predicted that, “Thousands of ex-gays are descending on Washington” to display the validity, success and strength of their movement. Fewer than 10 showed up; so much for the “Pray Gay Away” faction.

Encouraging also, after 37 years, Exodus International, an organization whose mission was to “help” gay Christians become straight, is not only shutting down but offering an apology.

The board of directors voted to begin a new and separate ministry called “Reduce Fear.” They say it is founded in John 13:34: “A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.”

One must ask, why does it take so damned long for these professed God lovers to see what Jesus was all about, rather than being among of the most prejudiced, selfish and self righteous of people. Somehow labeling themselves, “Christian” seems to absolve them of doing unto others as they would have done unto themselves.

Nicholas Zizelis Bayside and Amagansett, LI

Weiner could win Dear Editor: Why are so many newspaper editorial boards along with other candidates calling upon former Congress member and mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner to drop out of the NYC Democratic Party primary with less than 4 weeks to go. Are they afraid that voters couldn’t care less about Weiner’s so-called scandal and he just might actually win?

Larry Penner Great Neck, LI

Not the teachers’ fault Dear Editor: Don’t blame public school teachers for the drop in test scores. They have zero control over curriculum and education policy. Almost every detail of their professional experience is dictated to them. They have little or no independence of choice over teaching instructional methods or style. They are choked by mandates and lockstep orders. If the arrangement of desks in their classroom or the color of paper on their bulletin boards is not to the liking of their supervisors, they can be found insubordinate

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Come here legally Dear Editor: Andrea from Jackson Heights hit the nail right on the head with your view on illegals (“They’re illegal aliens”). I’m 86 years old, so we both have seen the change in ideas this country has gone through. I do hope our politicians will open their eyes and hear what we as legal residents are saying. We have many

How to fund the library Dear Editor: Tired of threats to close libraries? Picture a future without petitions or rallies. Picture sixday service sealed into city law. Honorable Council members James G. Van Bramer and Vincent J. Gentile, DC 37 and the library local unions have proposed legislation designed to retire the library’s annual budget dance with City Hall.

Baseline Funding (Intro. 1050-2013) will siphon 2.5 percent from existing property taxes. Rest assured, the bill is not tied to any increase in property taxes. Public library systems in Los Angeles, Sacramento, Detroit, Columbus, and Pittsburgh all receive various forms of baseline funding. In our city, the American Museum of Natural History’s Planetarium and public schools benefit from baseline funding.

Honorable Council Members Charles Barron, Gale A. Brewer, Fernando Cabrera, Margaret S. Chin, Leroy G. Comrie, Inez E. Dickens, Daniel Dromm, Mathieu Eugene, Julissa Ferreras, Helen D. Foster, Sara M. Gonzalez, Robert Jackson, Letitia James, Andy King, Peter A. Koo, G. Oliver Koppell, Karen Koslowitz, Brad S. Lander, Stephen Levin, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Darlene Mealy, Rosie Mendez, Annabel Palma, Donovan Richards, Ydanis Rodriguez, Deborah L. Rose, Mark S. Weprin, Jumaane D. Williams and Ruben Wills have pledged co-sponsorship. The public will not vote on this specific piece of legislation. If a majority of council members vote for the bill, it will be sent to the mayor to sign in to law or veto.

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Abigail Goldberg Brooklyn The writer, a senior librarian with the Queens Library, specified that her views are her own, not an official position of the library.

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Dear Editor: Re: “They’re illegal aliens,” Letters, Aug. 15: First of all, people are not aliens, they are human beings who came to America to get a better life for their families, and they are working hard just as everybody else in America.

They are not getting free health insurance and food stamps or free doctors.

Some of us have Tax ID numbers issued by the government to pay our taxes just like every American, and cannot get to see doctors or receive food stamps without a valid Social Security number. We pay cash for our kids’ college too.

Nothing is free in America. Everyone works hard. So, I do not know where people get off accusing aliens of accepting free things. Please people, get your facts straight. America is a land of dreams for everybody. Do not be a hypocrite.

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Let crime rise by you Dear Editor: A candidate for City Council in the 27th District, I. Daneek Miller, advocates stopping stop and frisk (“One view of stop and frisk,” Letters, Aug. 15). He may be right, he may be wrong.

Why not stop it for a year or two in the 27th District on a trial basis? If it works out OK, then make it the new policy citywide.

We don’t want a rise in killings, do we? So first try it in a district that would like stop and frisk ended. Why do that in other districts that aren’t opposed to it?

John Zach Flushing

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unless they show repentance by conformity. They can go through the motions of filing a grievance, but that grievance procedure will not save them, because the Department of Education representatives have been instructed to invariably side with management.

Teachers typically have no influence over budget decisions or the allocation of materials and resources. Educators are an endangered species at the Department of Education. They have been replaced by MBAs and lawyers.

Many senior managers at headquarters and in schools are hardly old enough to vote. All this dates from the “glory” years of mayoral control. By all means hold teachers accountable.

But first give them the means to do the job!

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City appeals stop-frisk ruling; Council to vote Seeing bias, U.S. court, lawmakers both seek to rein in NYPD strategy

by Peter C. Mastrosimone Editor-in-Chief

The war over the Police Department’s practice of stopping and frisking hundreds of thousands of people each year continues to be waged on two fronts.

The city last Friday took the first step toward appealing the Aug. 12 ruling of U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin, who found the practice unconstitutional in that it discriminates against minorities, violating the 14th Amendment, and constitutes unreasonable search and seizure, violating the Fourth Amendment.

And today, Aug. 22, the City Council is set to override Mayor Bloomberg’s veto of the Community Safety Act, which comprises two police oversight bills drafted in response to the policy. They would make it easier for people who have been frisked to sue the department — though not for monetary damages — and would appoint an inspector general to oversee the NYPD. Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly say stops are not conducted in a discriminatory manner, pointing out that while minorities are stopped more often, they are also responsible for the vast majority of gun crimes in the city — more than 90 percent. And they say reining in stop and frisk would endanger the progress the city has made against violent crime over the last 20 years.

The NYPD had until recently been conductOpponents of the policy as practiced say that’s hogwash, and that the main effect of stop ing a growing number of stops, often resulting and frisk is to create a divide between the in frisks: quick searches for weapons or other contraband. The number of stops grew rapidly police and the public they serve.

Scheindlin ordered several “remedies” to over 10 years, from 97,000 in 2002, Bloomreform the practice, including forcing some berg’s first year in office, to 685,000 in 2011, police officers to wear small video cameras to according to the New York Civil Liberties record interactions with suspects, and the Union, citing NYPD data. In 2012 the number appointment of an NYPD monitor — on top of dipped to 533,000. The vast majority of people stopped are either black or Latino. the IG a majority of the Council wants.

The administration The city maintains contends stop and frisk stop and frisk is legal, is an effective crimeas per the 1968 U.S. re widespread searches fighting tool that helps Supreme Court decian effective tool against keep guns off the street. sion in Terry v. Ohio, Critics issued statewhich determined that crime or a violation of ments last week lauding police may conduct such actions as long as New Yorkers’ civil rights? Scheindlin’s ruling and then, a few days later, an officer has a “readecr ying the cit y’s sonable suspicion” that the target may have committed a crime or is announcement of its appeal.

One of the fiercest, Public Advocate Bill de about to commit one.

“As the mayor and Police Commissioner Blasio, a Democratic candidate for mayor, Kelly said on Monday, we strongly disagree quickly issued a statement last Thursday.

“The overuse and abuse of stop and frisk is with Judge Scheindlin’s order,” the city’s top attorney, Corporation Counsel Michael Cardo- driving police and communities apart instead zo, said Aug. 15 in announcing the city’s plan of making our city safer,” de Blasio said. to appeal. “We said we’d take immediate steps “Mayor Bloomberg’s decision to appeal the to appeal, and we plan to do so tomorrow by federal court’s ruling is wrong and deeply misguided.” filing our notice of appeal.”

He continued, “I’m the only candidate comThe case is a class action suit, named Floyd mitted to appointing a new police commissioner, et. al. v. City of New York.

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RHHS parents: give principal time School community irate over DOE attempts to oust him

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A year ago, Richmond Hill High School was in a state of educational purgatory.

Attempts by the city Department of Education to shut down the school and reopen it under a new name with a new administration had failed, with a court backing a teachers’ union lawsuit killing the plan.

The school reopened last September under its original name, but with a new pr incipal, and parents and st udents entered the halls of another school year hoping for the best.

A year later, a number of parents at the school say they were seeing brighter days ahead, which is why they’re confused and angry about the DOE’s alleged plans to remove the new principal, Wayne Anderson, from his post only two weeks before his second school year starts.

“We are very happy with Mr. Anderson,” said Theresa Echevarria, president of the school’s Parent Teacher Association. “He has opened up a line of communication between parents and students and he has attended all the PTA meetings.”

Echevarria said Anderson has been much more responsive to concerns from parents and students, and she is confi-

dent that his work would improve the school if given the chance.

“Every school is going to have their ups and downs,” she said. “But Mr. Anderson really pushes the kids. He’s having the kids strive for stuff. He wants to see that they want to succeed.”

The DOE did not respond to multiple inquiries seeking to confirm its plans to fire Anderson as of press time, but at least one staff member at the school confirmed that the department is looking to terminate Anderson as principal before school opens in two weeks. The DOE did not propose closing the school again this year af ter its 2012 plans failed.

Vishnu Mahadeo, a member of the school’s leadership team and president of the Richmond Hill Economic Development Corporation, said the school has made clear progress in the past year.

“Mr. Anderson has stopped the downward slide the school had experienced,” Mahadeo, who has two children in the school, said.

He added that under Anderson, the school has moved to a more streamlined program, from three daily schedules to one, and has made efforts to reach out

to the community.

“Com mu nit y involvement is ver y important and Mr. Anderson understands that,” Mahadeo said. “This school is very important and vital to our community.”

Parents also fear RHHS will lose the annex that opened at site of the former site of St. Benedict Joseph Labre Catholic School on 117th Street, to relieve overcrowding at the school, forcing students back into trailers in the school’s yard.

News of Anderson’s potential dismissal moved fast through the school community and was met with disapproval.

“I’m not surprised,” said one teacher at the school who asked not to be identified, and but said she was left “jaded” by her experiences at Richmond Hill. “They must be afraid the school will actually succeed.”

Echevarria said she shares the jaded opinion that the DOE is purposely torpedoing the school.

“My view as a parent is that they want to close the school down, so they want the kids to fail, to give them a reason to,” she said, adding that she has called for other parents at the school to make their Q views known by calling the DOE

creating an independent inspector general for the NYPD, and passing a ban on racial profiling. As mayor, I would drop this appeal on day one, and work with the federal monitor to make necessary changes at the NYPD to promote public safety and rebuild trust between police and our communities.”

Across the aisle, Republican frontrunner Joe Lhota took the opposite stance in a statement issued Friday, applauding the mayor for appealing and saying Scheindlin’s opinion was flawed. Lhota also blasted the Democratic contenders for repeatedly “vilifying” the Police Department.

“I’m incredibly disappointed with my opponents in this race who continue to vilify Commissioner Kelly and the brave men and women of the NYPD rather than be honest with New Yorkers about how to keep our streets safe,” he said. “I have yet to hear a single answer from them about how they would effectively lower crime in the absence of proactive policing.

Every New Yorker who is concerned about the direction of our city should take heed of their positions.

“As mayor, I will continue this appeal and ensure that our law enforcement has the tools necessary to keep all New Yorkers safe. In the meantime, I urge the courts to initiate a speedy process before we begin to feel the dangerous effects of a handcuffed Police Q Department.”

Richmond Hill fire injures five A fire destroyed a two-story home on a dead-end street in Richmond Hill Sunday night, leaving five people injured.

The blaze erupted shortly after 10 p.m. at 100-18 90 Ave., on a street that dead-ends at the former Rockaway Beach Long Island Rail Road line at the border of Richmond Hill and Woodhaven. The fire was called in to the FDNY at 10:23 p.m. and units responded less than three minutes later.

The flames engulfed the first and second f loors of the home and the smoke from the fire could be seen in the night sky from over a mile away.

The FDNY said the blaze was declared under control at 10:56 p.m. Of the five people hurt, four were civilians — including one who suffered serious injuries — and the fifth was a firefighter with minor injuries. All five were taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center.

Responding fire engines and ambulances were forced to block off 102nd Street, a busy thoroughfare connecting Ozone Park with Forest Park, for nearQ ly an hour.

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Flood cause; broken catch basins DEP fixes issue in Howard Beach, Ozone Park site next

The Ozone Park branch of the Queens Library will close at the end of bu si ne s s Fr id ay for r e p a i r s , according to library spokeswoman Joanne King.

The building, which is located at 92-14 Rockaway Blvd. on the corner of Rockaway Boulevard and 93rd Street, will get an entirely new heating and ventilation system. King says the library will be closed for about three and a half weeks while the work is done. The project will cost $420,000, King said.

In the meantime, residents can u se nea rby br a nches i n Howa rd Beach at 92-06 156 Ave., the Lefferts branch at 103-34 Lefferts Blvd. or beginning on Aug. 20, the Woodhaven branch at 85-41 Forest Pkwy., which is reopening then after a massive five-month-long renovation.

A nu mber of libra r y bra nches h ave u n d e r go n e r e n ov a t io n s i n recent years and two, Far Rockaway and Cour t Square in Long Island City, closed for repairs this summer.

The Mitchell-Linden branch closed in June and will move to a new locaQ tion next door.

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The city is looking into two different f looding problems in two locations in southern Queens.

The first issue, at the corner of Cross Bay Boulevard and 165th Avenue in Howard Beach, has already gotten a response by the city Department of Environmental Protection, while the other location, outside John Adams High School in Ozone Park, may be eyed for a fix, according to Rudy S. Giuliani, chief of staff to Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park).

“It has been an ongoing issue we’ve been working on with DEP,” he said in an email, adding that the agency has identified the issue near John Adams as a broken catch basin and are working on a timetable to fix the problem. But a DEP official said the agency has no record of a complaint there, but will have crews investigate it.

A broken catch basin was the blame for the flooding issue in Howard Beach as well, Guiliani said. The intersection, just feet from Jamaica Bay at the foot of the Joseph P. Addabbo Bridge and outside the restaurant Vetro, regularly floods even during light rainstorms. After heavier rainfalls, several

Workers fixing a broken catch basin at Cross Bay Boulevard and 164th Avenue in Howard PHOTO BY ERIC ULRICH Beach last week. lanes on Cross Bay Boulevard — including the southbound left turn lane that goes into Vetro’s parking lot — become impassable.

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Building a bigger, stronger beach US Army Corps of Engineers outlines Rockaway shorefront reconstruction

by Domenick Rafter Editor

Along Rockaway Beach between Beach 89th and 101st streets, there’s no shortage of action on this particular sunny Thursday in August.

But the action is not the sound of radios, kids playing in the sand or umbrella cloth whipping in the seabreeze; rather it’s the sound of backhoes rolling over damp sand dunes and construction workers shouting.

On one of the concrete boardwalk islands built around the Beach 97th Street concession stand, Col. Paul Owen of the Army Corps of Engineers shields his face from the sun with the palm of his right hand as he points out toward the ocean with his left. Next to him, Mayor Bloomberg and Parks Commissioner Veronica White look out to where Owen is pointing.

In the distance, a dredging craft, the CR McCaskill, works in the Rockaway Inlet between Far Rockaway and Atlantic Beach in Nassau County.

The sand it is picking up, Owen explained, is sent through a pipe laid in the water parallel to the beach

until it is turned at Beach 101st Street onto the shore, then through a pipe onshore to the spot where workers are piling up the sand to be distributed along the beach.

The work that was underway last Thursday morning is part of the first phase of the reconstruction of Rockaway Beach, which was destroyed in Hurricane Sandy last October. The storm eroded the beach so badly that for weeks afterward, high tide brought waves right up to the pilings of the destroyed boardwalk.

The first phase of the project — a $10 million contract awarded to New Jersey-based Weeks Marine — was awarded earlier in the summer and calls for placement of roughly 600,000 cubic yards of sand from the inlet to be placed on the beach.

That work will also serve to clear the Rockaway Inlet, where sediment buildup is threatening the channel.

“It has kind of a dual benefit,” Owen said. “We’re able to clear the navigation channel that hasn’t been cleared in a long time. We’re taking the material out of the navigation channel and using the good

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The “CR McCaskill” dredging in the Rockaway Inlet, seen from Beach 97th Street.

Sand from the Rockaway Inlet is pumped through a series of tubes onto Rockaway Beach at Beach 95th Street, above, last Thursday. quality sand to place on the beach.”

But that was only the first part.

The second, larger, contract, which Weeks Marine bid on and won, calls for nearly 3 million more cubic yards of sand from another dredging location in Lower New York Bay to be placed on the beach at a cost of $26.4 million.

That will allow the Army Corps to rebuild Rockaway Beach as it was in the 1970s — 100 feet wide from boardwalk to waves and 10 feet above sea level.

The project, which is still in the first phase, is being done in stages between Beach 89th and 149th streets, which were the hardest-hit areas by Sandy. The beachfront east of Beach 89th Street, where long jetties jut out into the sea, was not badly eroded in the storm.

“We’re working in 1,000-foot sections,” Owen said. “We’re shut-

Col. Paul Owen of the US Army Corps of Engineers explains the beach restoration plans with state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr., left, Mayor Bloomberg, Councilman Eric Ulrich, Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder and Councilman Donovan Richards at Rockaway Beach last PHOTOS BY DOMENICK RAFTER Thursday.

ting off portions of the beach and then reopening them. We’re making good progress.”

This week, the work is being done between Beach 89th and Beach 101st, and then later will be done west of Beach 101st, where the pipe comes in from the ocean.

Some areas will be replenished with sand multiple times before the project is complete.

Work will continue through the winter and the estimated completion date is in mid-2014, but Owen said he’d like to get the work done

by Memorial Day. “You’ll see some incredible resilient features that will provide recreational benefits, but the primary purpose of our projects is to reduce the risk from future storms that are coming here,” Owen said.

There will be a third phase, that will be a longer project dealing with

resiliency along the entire shoreline, including the Jamaica Bay-side of the peninsula, which was hit hard

by Sandy’s storm surge. That phase will include a study of other means of protection, including the possibility of seawalls and jetties.

That project will cost around $200 million more in federal investment, Owen said.

For officials and residents from the Rockaways, the projects gave a hint of optimism to an area that has struggled to recover from the storm.

“This is hopefully the beginning of what will be a process that will include the community and a process that will work hand-inhand to make sure that residents who have lived there for so long will be part of a process to make Rockaway bet ter tha n ever,” Assembly man Phil Goldfeder Q (D-Rockaway Park) said.

Rockaway ferry will run through January Service originally scheduled to end on Labor Day

by Domenick Rafter Editor

The Rockaway ferry service put in place after Hurricane Sandy washed out the peninsula’s main public transportation link, the A line, will continue into the winter.

The route, operated by Seastreak, was due to end its service between Beach 108th Street and Manhattan on Labor Day weekend, but the city announced Wednesday that it will extend Seastreak’s contract to operate the ferry service through Jan. 31.

“As a Rockaway resident, I’m excited,” said Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Rockaway Park), who has been fighting to make the ferry service permanent.

The city contracted Seastreak to run the service to the Rockaways last year when the A train was shut down. The subway reopened in May, but the ferry continued through the summer, being extended twice. It runs from a dock at Beach 108th Street, across the street from a vacant lot used for free parking. Since the closure of the R train under the East River a few weeks ago, the ferry has added a stop at the Brooklyn Army Terminal in Sunset Park.

In late June, Goldfeder delivered hundreds of signatures from Rockaway to City Hall — traveling there on the ferry — demanding the service remain permanently.

Last week, Mayor Bloomberg said he supported ferry service, but expressed concern about the viability of the route

through the winter when the weather is colder and the waters off the Rockaways are more rough. The service extension will also serve as an experiment to see if the ferry can run through the winter months.

“It’s up to the next mayor now to make the commitment to keep the service,” Goldfeder said, noting the expiration date for the Seastreak contract is after a new administration takes office.

Goldfeder, who has been openly critical of Bloomberg’s response to Sandy, praised his work on keeping the ferry operating.

“I don’t say this very often, but I commend Mayor Bloomberg on his commitment to bringing better transporQ tation options to the Rockaways,” he added.

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Control of Queens Republican Party at stake in September primary

by Domenick Rafter

back a new leader.

“The county leadership’s failure is so complete and the scanAs the Democratic primary races for citywide offices and dals so widespread, that the only way for the Queens GOP to open seats on the City Council top the headlines, on the Repub- carry on is to elect new leadership and bring all Queens Republican side are key elections that have gone relatively unnoticed, licans together,” he said. “Sal and Anne Marie will be a vital but could hold huge consequences to the future of the borough’s part of the force that makes being a Queens Republican something to be proud of again.” small, but powerful, GOP. In another key race, Bart Haggerty, state committeeman in Across Queens, there are nine races for the state committee, a key position that often decides who gets the county organiza- the Forest Hills-based 28th District, former Ulrich staffer and brother of John Haggerty, a GOP official who was convicted of tion’s backing for statewide races.

Among the district leaders being challenged on the Sept. 10 stealing money from Mike Bloomberg’s campaign, is being ballot are Queens GOP Chairman Phil Ragusa, who is fighting challenged by Juan Reyes, who ran unsuccessfully against Ulrich in the GOP primary for state Senate last year. for his position in the Bayside-based 26th Assembly District Reyes’ mother, Catherine, is facing off against Amanagainst Salvatore Bacarella. Ragusa’s fellow district da Kohut for the female position in the same district. leader and ally Judith Stupp, who was the borough’s Kohut was a staffer for former Rep. Bob Turner.

Republican Board of Election commissioner, is There are challenges in the two positions in the being challenged by Anne Marie Devlin.

Maspeth-based 30th District. Tony Nunziato, who Stupp lost her position at the BOE last year ran for the seat in 2010 and is a district leader there, when Queens GOP officials failed to file the coris being challenged by Daniel Creighton. Nunziato rect reappointment papers. That allowed the GOP’s is a backer of Ognibene’s bid for the leadership. The small City Council delegation to appoint a replace2013 female district leader, Rosemarie Iacovone, a Ragusa ment and Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park), supporter, is being challenged by Margaret Ognibene, the more senior of the two Queens GOP council memwife of the former councilman. bers and a critic of Ragusa, appointed Michael Michel, a There are races for both positions in the 35th Assembly DisRepublican loyal to Ulrich and Ragusa-foe former Councilman trict in Corona between Fernando Bernal and Melvin Morgan Tom Ognibene.

The party’s division goes back several years and climaxed in for the male committee position and Ivy Mingott is facing off 2011 when Ognibene held a separate meeting in Richmond Hill against Ruby Muhammad for the female district leader position. from one held in Whitestone called by Ragusa. At Ognibene’s The district was the site of a battle in the county party’s civil war meeting, he was elected chairman of the party and Ragusa was last year when the Republican candidate for the seat, Mingott’s re-elected chairman at his meeting. Both filed paperwork with husband Eric — a supporter of Ragusa — was knocked off the the state, but Ognibene’s leadership vote was rejected and Ragu- ballot, allegedly at the hands of Ognibene allies. The legislative seat is held by Assemblyman Jeffrion Aubry (D-Corona). sa held on to the chairmanship.

In the St. Albans-based 29th District, GOP Council candidate The division geographically divides Queens in half, with Ragusa holding sway in the north and his foes controlling much Scherie Murray, who is running against incumbent Donovan of southern Queens. One GOP operative said the dividing line Richards (D-Rosedale), is running for district leader against Maureen Petitphare. Murray said it was her desire to see new was roughly along the Long Island Expressway.

Kevin Ryan, general secretary of the Northeast Queens ideas and new leaders that led to her campaign.

“We’ve had leadership, but it’s been poor leadership,” she Republican Club, who is managing Bacarella’s campaign, said a Ragusa defeat may mean the end of his chairmanship said. “I think it’s time to diversify government and do away with as members of the county committee, who typically take the old boys club. I really feel it is time to revitalize the party.”

In 2011, the 29th District was one of three Southeast Queens their cues from state committee members, may decide to Editor

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GOP district leader races heating up

Phil Ragusa, left, is being challenged by Sal Bacarella for the state committee position in the 26th Assembly District in a race that could determine if Ragusa holds on as county GOP FILE PHOTO, LEFT, PHOTO COURTESY KEVIN RYAN chairman. districts that did not have any GOP state committee members.

Due to the small number of registered Republican voters, it is often difficult for Republicans to get enough signatures to qualify for the ballot there.

“The party here was dead,” Murray said. “We really needed new faces, new leadership with new ideas. The state committeewoman position is a wonderful opportunity to be a liaison between the party and the people.”

The battle between the party factions are also evident in this year’s mayoral primary as Ragusa is backing supermarket magnate John Catsimatidis, while the Ognibene wing, including Ulrich, is supporting former MTA chief Joe Lhota.

Queens has the largest Republican Party in all five boroughs and despite being Democratic-leaning, has voted Republican in every mayoral elections since 1989.

“You can’t get elected mayor in New York City as a Republican without winning Queens,” said one GOP operative. “That Q makes the party and it’s leadership very, very important.”

Making room for affordable housing

by Tess McRae Reporter

ing are located on Manhattan’s West Side and the waterfront of Williamsburg and Greenpoint in Brooklyn,” he added. “In two dozen other areas where such zoning was permitted, only 6 percent of the residential developments were deemed affordable — suitable for those with incomes of $68,700 or less.

Mayor Bloomberg’s affordable housing plan, which sought to create 160,000 units by the end of his term, should be completed on time and New York City has one of the strongest affordable housing programs in the nation, according to ANHD. And yet City Council members like Councilwoman Diana Reyna (D-Queens, Brooklyn), who represents highly industrial, middle- to low-income areas, are calling on the city to do much more.

“I don’t know if one mandatory program is the answer but I do know that what’s in place today is not enough in this housing crisis,” Reyna said. “The inclusionary zoning was a tool that came out in 2005 and it took two years for them to implement it.”

Reyna said that her district, which includes a sliver of Ridgewood that is being considered for Industrial Business Zoning, has fallen victim not only to higher rents but a removal of local manufacturing jobs.

“A majority of manufacturing land has been rezoned over the years with the promise of creating new housing units that target areas where there is need for economic opportunity and yet we see time and time again that this never happens.”

The councilwoman, who represents areas of Williamsburg and Greenpoint, which have both seen a major overhaul in luxury apartments, said that the lack of jobs and affordable housing have turned low- and middle-income areas into pressure cookers as more and more families struggle to keep their heads over water.

As it stands, Bloomberg has voiced no intention of re-drafting his affordable housing plan, meaning the burden of finding homes for the thousands of New Yorkers living on a modest budget will likely fall on the newly elected mayor come November. Q

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A new report put out by the Association for Neighborhood and Housing Developme nt a nd Cou nci l m a n Br a d La nde r (D-Brooklyn) last Friday shows that the city’s affordable housing strategy isn’t producing enough units.

ANHD, which represents nonprof it affordable housing groups, found that the inclusionary zoning plan, which gives developers the option to create larger complexes if they agree to make 20 percent of the homes permanent affordable developments, has generated 2,700 affordable units since 2005.

While that number may seem high, it only accounts for less than 2 percent of all apartments developed in the city during that time.

What’s more, while rents continue to skyrocket, annual income has hit a plateau. The Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy at New York University conducted a study that found the median monthly rent in the city rose by 8.5 percent from 2007 to

2011, yet real wages — payment that takes inflation into account — dropped after the 2008 economic collapse.

That is why Lander is calling on the city to make inclusionary zoning mandatory.

“As New York City housing prices continue to rise, many of our low- and middleincome neighbors are struggling to find affordable housing,” said Lander, the former director of the Pratt Center for Community Development which specializes in urban planning and policy.

“In Manhattan’s West Side and North Brooklyn, our report found that inclusionary zoning has made a real difference by building thousands of new affordable units. But other neighborhoods have been left behind, seeing mostly development of more expensive new housing. We need to make inclusionary zoning a citywide program and ensure that affordable housing is a guaranteed part of new developments.”

According to the report, a majority of the afforable units built under inclusionary zon-

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Domes announced for tennis stadiums USTA says Arthur Ashe facility ready by 2017, Armstrong in 2018

by Liz Rhoades Managing Editor

Officials from the U.S. Tennis Association are making sure it doesn’t rain on their parade in the future with the announcement last week that a retractable roof will be built over Arthur Ashe Stadium.

During a Manhattan press conference last Thursday, Dave Haggerty, USTA chairman, CEO and president, revealed that a $100 million roof, covered with a translucent teflon-coated fabric over a steel frame will be supported by eight steel columns and is expected to be ready for the 2017 US Open.

In addition, a new Louis Armstrong Stadium that will be constructed in 2018 also will have a retractable roof.

Matt Rossetti, president of Rossetti Architects, who designed the roofs, said they will open and close in five to seven minutes.

“This engineering solution mitigates risk and creates a beautiful structure,” he said.

The USTA for years has been looking for a solution to prevent rain from delaying the US Open. For the past five years, the men’s finals have been held over for a day due to poor weather conditions.

Gordon Smith, executive director and chief operating officer of the USTA, said the Arthur Ashe Stadium, built 16 years ago, was not designed for a retractable roof “and the land around it is abysmal,” pointing to

The USTA’s 2018 vision of the tennis center with a retractable roof on Arthur Ashe Stadium, in the RENDERING COURTESY USTA background, plus one on the rebuilt Louis Armstrong Stadium, foreground. the wet conditions of the ground.

Haggerty called it a long and arduous process but “we feel that we now have a design that meets the criteria of being architecturally sound, aesthetically pleasing, reasonably affordable and buildable.”

In June 2012, the USTA announced a $500 million project to update and revitalize

the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows Park. It did not mention the retractable roofs.

Phase 1 calls for starting work on the Arthur Ashe Stadium roof, shifting existing practice courts and two tournament courts to the north.

The second phase of work will include

constructing a new 8,000-seat Grandstand Stadium in the southwest quadrant of the center. The plan also calls for moving some field courts south and creating a larger pedestrian esplanade.

Phase 3 involves building the new 15,000-seat Armstrong Stadium, adding 5,000 more seats than the current facility.

The original stadium was built for the 1964 World’s Fair as the Singer Bowl and used for U.S. Olympic trials, sports demonstrations and folk festivals.

The redevelopment will allow 10,000 more people to attend events at the US Open, held for two weeks every August and September. The plan includes the addition of three-quarters of an acre of parkland to the 42-acre site. That has already been approved by the City Council.

The USTA will self-finance the project through bonds and its own revenue.

Smith said construction equipment and gear will be situated on USTA property and will not impinge upon the park.

“We recognize there are many known and certainly many unknown hurdles we will have to confront to meet this schedule,” he said. “We are ready for the challenge and hope we can achieve it,” he added.

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says he is the only candidate to support changes to the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk poliThere was a Christine Quinn sighting in cy is completely untrue, laying out the views of several Democrats.

Floral Park Tuesday evening.

“And our opponent, John Liu, is for endCouncil Speaker Quinn (D-Manhattan) came out on offense against Public Advo- ing it completely,” she said.

Neither De Blasio nor Bill Thompson, cate Bill de Blasio at a forum for mayoral considered the other Democratic frontcandidates at North Shore Towers. runner, attended the forum. But pubThe event was sponsored by the lished reports quoted the de Blasio Presidents Co-op and Condo campaign as calling the attacks a Council and the Queens County distraction f loated by Quinn to Bar Association. More than 600 divert talk from her overall supresidents attended the forum, port of Bloomberg’s policies. including those watching in an Other Democratic candidates in overflow crowd in the complex’s 2013 attendance included former Conmovie theater. gressman Anthony Weiner, former Qui n n, the once-presu mptive favorite for the Democratic nomination, fell Councilman Sal Albanese and the Rev. behind de Blasio in a recent Quinnipiac Erick Salgado.

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“He was for it before he was against it,” George McDonald — were in attendance, as Quinn said. “It’s a tale of two Bill de Bla- was independent candidate and former Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion Jr. sios. He’ll say anything to get elected.”

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Stringer points to cooperative nature in run for comptroller continued from page 2 president, people said the position was dead on arrival and that the borough president had no real power, and I built that office and brought in the best and the brightest to make it what it is today,” Stringer said.

Par t of Stringer’s refor ms included revamping the community board member selection process. The native Manhattanite put in a merit-based screening process to help eliminate political and patriarchal influence.

He also spearheaded an urban planning fellowship program by partnering up with New York, Columbia and Fordham universities.

“I was able to put young professional planners with stipends into community board offices to work on land use issues to level the playing field,” he said. “I think my reform politics and my ability to bring the best and the brightest into the comptroller’s office as well as my management skills puts me in a position of being very qualified for this job.”

Stringer went on to say that Spitzer’s “go at it alone” mentality will prevent him from accomplishing any of his goals if elected.

“Our funds can’t carry the day at a shareholder’s meeting of a Fortune 500 company so you have to build relationships,” Stringer said. “You can’t go at it alone; you’re not a sheriff, you’re a steward. If you want to change a policy in a corporation that you think is detrimental, the impact you have is not enough so you can’t go in with a shareholder revolution. You have to be strategic and part of my opponent’s problem is that he

has no strategy.”

In addition to making the comptroller’s office a more open place, Stringer said he will place emphasis on the middle class.

Though supporting middle-income families has been the center of almost every candidate in almost every race, Stringer said his vision can help those aspiring for more.

“The best way to support the middle class is to work toward that in a serious way,” he said.

“We need to work on the issues that allow people to aspire to be in the middle class.”

An example Stringer used was the everexpanding computer science and information technology field.

“Technology jobs have grown 60 percent in the city,” he said. “This is our industry now but our kids cannot access it. Every parent aspires to the middle class and when they can’t quite get there, the hope is that their children will. A few decades ago, it was all about manufacturing, but now we have yet another opportunity to bring up the middle class and that’s something that needs to be focused on.”

Stringer went on to say that the treatment of small businesses, particularly in the outer boroughs, is unacceptable.

“The city has been outrageous to small businesses and that is a middle-class issue,” he said. “We fine and fee our small businesses but we hope they open up, and once they do open and the ribbon is cut, the city starts with the fines, and it’s very shortsighted. A lot of people use their family’s money so it’s a

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer says he has the experience and the creativity to turn New York City into a profitable metropolis, not just in Manhattan but in the outer boroughs PHOTO BY PETER C. MASTROSIMONE as well. one-shot deal. Most middle-class people can’t keep going to the bank and asking for a $300,000 loan. I’m going to hold every agency accountable for the way we treat small businesses.”

Stringer also wants to bring back the commuter tax that was repealed years ago which, he said, has been detrimental to the city budget.

In the end, Stringer said, he has the guts to change the city into a more positive, profitable place.

“If you have a little moxie and you can think outside of the box, you can take a mundane position like the borough president or a traditionalist position like the comptroller and you can make a difference and change Q the position for the better.”

Spitzer cites knowledge of markets as key

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continued from page 2 involves the moral framework we live in,” he said. “After the Connecticut massacre I called [state Comptroller] Tom DiNapoli about Cerberus [manufacturer of] the AR-15. I said New York State should not be making money off the production of semiautomatic weapons.”

He said the more common approach, however, is to leverage the city’s stock ownership to inf luence more responsible corporate behavior, an effort that often takes coordination and cooperation among numerous fund

managers to get enough clout.

And could the self-proclaimed “Steamroller” and “Sheriff of Wall Street,” famous for his combative style, work cooperatively with corporate leaders, other fund managers, a new mayor and City Council, and the nearly 60 trustees of New York City pension funds? Spitzer says yes.

“That image is not always accurate,” he said. Spitzer said as attorney general he worked on big tobacco lawsuits and others that had all 49 other state attorneys general on board.

Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer says he is willing to let the electorate render its verdict on both his PHOTO BY LIZ RHOADES qualifications and the scandals that drove him from office in 2008.

As to the scandals that brought his administration crashing down, he said he already has addressed them in the public record.

He replied that voters will answer the question as to whether they think he has the judgement, temperament, maturity and stability to hold the job as the city’s top financial officer.

“If I lose, fine. I’ll accept their verdict,” he said.

Asked directly if his effort at transporting a prostitute across state lines violated the federal Mann Act, Spitzer replied that investigations did not result in charges.

But he said that same standard does not have him walking back recent comments accusing Hank Greenberg, the former head of insurance giant AIG, with fraud.

“Not a single one,” Spitzer said.

AIG was at the center of the nation’s financial crisis in 2008. Spitzer, depending on one’s source, either convinced or strongarmed AIG’s board into getting rid of Greenberg in 2005.

A unanimous Court of Appeals ruling in June said there is enough evidence for Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to proceed with a civil suit against Greenberg.

Spitzer said the city should be wary of alternative investments, such as hedge funds, where incentive fees that do not exist with products like index or mutual funds can often eat into investment gains.

He said one place where the city could invest, make money and fill a crying need in the five boroughs is real estate.

“And not just because I’m in the business,” he said. “Residential housing would

be a profitable investment.”

He said that would bring income back to the city, all while developing housing stock that is needed. Spitzer said some of the profits could go back into a revolving fund that would continue the process.

“You make money while doing what the city needs,” he said.

He did say that the process would have to be fraught with safeguards to ensure transparency.

A handful of city comptrollers in recent history have found themselves in legal or ethical trouble. Two of Liu’s mayoral campaign aides have been convicted in federal court of improprieties related to fundraising, resulting in Liu losing matching funds for the race.

For mer Cong resswoma n Eli zabet h Holtzman ran into problems running for reelection as comptroller in 1993 when a bank that loaned money to her U.S. Senate campaign was approved to underwrite city debt.

She was cleared of wrongdoing but lost to Alan Hevesi in the Democratic primary.

Hevesi years later would go to prison on corruption charges connected with his illegal activities as state comptroller.

Spitzer said with all else, that should never be the voters’ concern.

“An advantage of being [financially] comfortable,” he said. “I’m not in this for money.

I’m not in this for a lower mortgage or a car.”

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A voice for those who are struggling Reshma Saujani vows to serve the underserved as public advocate

by Peter C. Mastrosimone

been forced out of the African nation by dictator Idi Amin, along with other residents of IndiIn the race for public advocate, Reshma Sau- an descent.

Her father, an engineer, worked hard and jani says she’s the candidate of the underserved, the downtrodden, those who don’t have passed that ethic on to Saujani, who said she has been working since she was 12. And he a strong voice in the political process already.

They may be immigrants, legal or not. They inspired in her a concern for those at the may be women who still face glass ceilings. bottom.

“I remember always seeing my father’s tired They may be small business owners, taxed by the city both through actual taxes and excessive face and wanting to make sure no family ever felt like that,” she said. fines. They may be young residents of Working toward that goal is what minority communities who do not Saujani wants to do in the public believe the police are the good guys. advocate’s office. She’s running for Whoever they are, Saujani pledgthe position against three fellow es she will be there for them if she Democrats: state Sen. Dan Squadis elected. ron (D-Brooklyn), City Council“People are really struggling, and woman Letitia James (D-Brooklyn) the reason I’ll make the best public 2013 and educator Cathy Guerriero. advocate is because I’ve struggled too,” Though two of her opponents are already she said during a recent interview with the Queens Chronicle editorial board. “I come in elected office and the other has been racking up the support of one city union after another, from a humble background.”

Indeed she does, though her hard work has Saujani says she is confident she will be electsince propelled her to the top of the education- ed. She has the endorsement of the Queens County Democratic Party, though some elected al, financial and political worlds.

She started off the interview by saying she is officials here have backed another candidate.

Saujani boasted of having hundreds of vol“my father’s daughter,” and speaking of how her parents were refugees from Uganda when unteers working her ground campaign and of they arrived in the United States. They had gathering more signatures on her petitions to Editor-in-Chief

A former Wall Street attorney and deputy public advocate, and founder of the nonprofit technology organization Girls Who Code, Reshma Saujani is making her second run for elective office.

PHOTO BY PETER C. MASTROSIMONE She vows to be a voice for women and the downtrodden. run than any of her opponents other than James.

And she noted that she is the only candidate in the race who has experience in the public advocate’s office, having served as deputy public advocate prior to starting her campaign.

“This race is wide, wide, wide open,” she said.

This is Saujani’s second run for public office. In 2010 she challenged Rep. Carolyn

Maloney (D-Manhattan, Queens) in a primary, and lost by a wide margin. But, she said, the race marked the “10 best months of my life.”

If elected this time, Saujani said, she will utilize the Fund for Public Advocacy, a publicprivate partnership, to serve the people. It was through the fund, where she was executive director, that she saw to it that 10 undocumented young immigrants could go to college. continued on page 36

Creating a city office that can get results State Sen. Dan Squadron discusses his campaign for public advocate

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At a recent debate for the public advocate’s race, state Sen. Dan Squadron (D-Brooklyn) was told by one of his opponents that she “won’t be lectured on ethics by an Albany politician.”

But Squadron — the only state legislator in the race for public advocate, and the only male among the four main candidates — is quick to dispel the notion that he is part of a historically unpopular, corrosive Albany club, noting that he has been a champion of reform from the moment he ran for his state Senate seat in 2008.

In that year, Squadron defeated a 30-year Democratic incumbent and has proposed and passed ethics reform legislation, while in his five years in Albany, and he called himself “one of the most vocal critics” of the State Legislature. He has also had a number of other successes in the Senate, noting his legislation on homeless policy and helping enact full-line subway reviews at the MTA. As for the job he’s seeking, Squadron said he has a “very special vision” for the public advocate’s office and says his experience in Albany getting results makes him the best-qualified candidate for the job.

He sees the office as a place “to play an essential role for those communities and issues who have no where else to turn and for whom results really make a difference in their ability to make a decent life in the city.”

Among those communities and issues: day laborers, small business owners, homeowners and residents of public housing projects.

“It’s partnering with groups and communities that don’t have City Hall on speed dial or high-powered lobbyists

and taking on a bureaucracy that impacts every New Yorker,” he said.

Squadron would divide the office into four bureaus: The office of the accountability advocate, which would report on public information, disaster-preparedness and 311; advocate for the most vulnerable, which will oversee healthcare, and employment issues for the poorest and “most vulnerable” city residents; the children’s advocate, which will report on issues concerning city children including the foster care system, juvenile justice parks and education; and the housing advocate, which will report on public housing, renting and homeownership.

And he says he’ll do it without asking for an increase in the public advocate’s budget, which has been drastically cut due to spending constraints since the office was created in the early 1990s.

“Each of the ideas are within the scope of the public advocate’s office and I believe I can get results on them,” Squadron said. “It is possible to get results by using the bully pulpit and building public support, understanding where the stakeholders are on an issue and having a strong position and being willing to be for something in order to get change to happen.”

Among the changes he’d like to see is directing conservancies for specific parks to transfer money to other parks that are in need and end the $70 million price tag the New York City Housing Authority pays to the police department for policing. Squadron also said he wanted to strengthen parent groups at schools.

Squadron said he would be ready to take over as mayor if the office is vacated and noted that he has experience bringing people together and that would be key for an

Brooklyn State Sen. Dan Squadron is the only state legislator in the race for public advocate and says he has a history of getting results which would serve him well in the office.

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administration following a vacancy.

“It’s a transitional period,” he said. “You need to work with the current administration and leaders in all levels of government to communicate that the government is in continued on page 37

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All the right moves in South Queens Neighborhood dance schools offer classes for all genres, to all ages

by Domenick Rafter Editor

Feelin’ groovy? Want to loose some weight? Or just looking for some activity for your children to do? South Queens has no shortage of places to learn how to dance, and have some fun doing it.

TKO Dance Studio has grown so big in its mere five years in existence that it was forced to open a second, larger, studio several blocks away from its original location at 95-12 101 Ave. in Ozone Park.

“The amount of students that have started to register has doubled, so we need to grow,” said co-owner Marie Tibball, whose son Tommy and Tommy’s friend Kareem Hills are instructors at the school and award-winning dancers themselves.

“Their reputation is spreading,” Tibball said. “That’s what they’re soaring on.”

TKO has a long list of awards they’ve brought home from competitions all over the country, including most recently winning a Showmanship Award for an 8-minute Whitney Houston medley at the Starpower competition in Maryland, where more than 1,700 routines were performed. Forty-five students performed in the number, which received the highest score vaulting them into first place.

“It’s better than hitting the lotto,” Tibball said. “The judges were crying. Every single

person in the auditorium gave them a standing ovation. It was an amazing experience.”

Fazio Dance Center has existed in Howard Beach almost as long as the neighborhood has. At its 164-48 Cross Bay Blvd. location, Fazio offers students from pre-K to adult a wide variety of genres including tap, jazz, ballet, hip-hop, modern and even musical theater. And for many of the dancers who first put on their dancing shoes at Fazio, those classes are the start of a career in the arts.

“Over the years, we’ve had dancers from our studio go on to get college degrees in dance,” said instructor Julie Fazio. “Obviously they enjoyed it enough that it was something they wanted to do and pursued it.”

Many of Fazio’s dancers go on to get involved in dance teams and theater groups in their own schools. Dancers who took classes at Fazio also have gone on to perform at venues from Resorts World Casino New York City to the Broadway stage.

The studio’s location near the southern end of Howard Beach meant it was badly affected

by Hurricane Sandy. Fazio said the center lost everything, but it reopened for business on Dec. 1 with little more than music and a floor.

“That was a big challenge,” Fazio explained. “We got back on our feet. Everyone had to step it up.”

Danielle Jenkins, an instructor at Steps

Ahead Dance Studio in Ozone Park, said their studio at 90-55 Desarc Rd. is a perfect place for young children to learn to dance.

“We have a very nurturing environment,” Jenkins said.

Steps Ahead, which has been in business for 21 years, offers tap, jazz, ballet, hip-hop, lyrical, modern, competition and technique classes as well as Zumba and Zumbini, which Jenkins describes as a “Mommy and Me” type of dance routine. Jenkins added that the studio has special guests come in to teach.

“Every week we have renowned choreographers teaching master classes,” she said.

Steps Ahead has its own mantle of awards to brag about. Recently, members returned from the Starpower competition in Maryland with a first-place trophy won by the junior competition team.

Rising Stars Dance Studio at 110-05 Liberty Ave. in Richmond Hill has also racked up the awards in the 22 years they have been teaching dance in southern Queens.

Instructor Suzanne Pafundi-Rodriguez won the National Teacher of the Year award in 2005 and 2006 and the center won the 2006 Dance Studio All Star award. Rising Stars has also won an Entertainment Award and a Director’s Choice Award for its performances at past competitions and has also competed at Dance USA and Starpower competitions.

South Queens is home to a number of awardwinning dance schools.

Rising Stars has also donated to a number of charities, including St. Jude’s, the Arthritis Foundation and Epilepsy Foundation. Q

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QueensWay study kicks off continued from page 5 chosen among 29 applicants that answered the request for proposals that was issued earlier this year.

The study should take about 10 months, Stone added, after which supporters hope to come up with designs and a cost and lobby for approval of the project. The entire right-of-way is owned by the city.

The right-of-way is also being eyed for reactivation of the railroad. Supporters of that plan, including Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Rockaway Park), say transportation is a priority.

“There are over 2.3 million local residents in Queens who would greatly benefit from a complete restoration of the Rockaway Beach Rail Line,” he said in a statement Tuesday. “I

am confident that any objective study regarding the best use for the abandoned rail line will conclude that a transportation option is the only real choice. The current lack of public transit options in Queens is strangling our businesses and hurting our families and I will continue to work with my colleagues and the governor to completely restore the abandoned rail line.”

Others, like Neil Giannelli, a resident of 98th Street in Woodhaven, whose house is adjacent to the line, said the route should be left alone.

“People would be able to look right into my bathroom window and my daughter’s bedroom,” said Giannelli, who attended the press conference “to hear what they Q had to say.”

New Kiwanis leadership The new leaders of the Queens West Division of Kiwanis International’s New York District were installed at the district convention in Rochester on Aug. 18.

Being inducted above are Queens West Lt. Gov. Stephen Sirgiovanni, a member of the Howard Beach Kiwanis Club, lef t; Kathy Chan, governor of the Queens College Circle K, and Joseph Aiello of the

Glendale Kiwanis Club, the governor-elect of the New York District.

The service organization’s Queens West Division includes the following Kiwanis clubs: Astoria, Corona-East Elmhurst, Forest Hills, Glendale, Howard Beach, Jackson Heights, LaGuardia Airport, Lefferts-Liberty, Maspeth, Middle Village, Queens Boulevard, Ozone Park, Sunnyside and Woodside.

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Interracial couple attacked in LIC Charges could be upgraded to hate crime

by Josey Bartlett Editor

Billie, left, and Jacob James-Vogel were attacked by three men early Saturday morning FACEBOOK PHOTO outside an LIC restaurant.

An interracial couple was attacked leaving a waterfront bar in Long Island City early Saturday morning, police said.

A group of three men yelled racial slurs at Jacob James-Vogel, 37, and his wife, Billie, 40, as they left the restaurant Shi on Center Boulevard at 2 a.m. As the couple began to walk away, one of the suspects assaulted them, according to the NYPD. Police charged Nikolaos Katsos, 28, with

assault and harassment. The charges could be upgraded, police said.

James-Vogel sustained non-life threatening injuries to his face. His wife was thrown to the ground when she tried to stop the assault and blacked out as her head hit the sidewalk.

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“As a business serving Long Island City and beyond, we have a very diverse clientele and are very involved in the community. We strongly condemn discrimination in all forms and under no circumstances would we turn away anyone who needed help for whatever reason,” the statement adds. Police are still looking for the other two men.

The James-Vogels could not be reached by Q press time.

continued from page 6 “Our growing senior population can finally achieve the quality housing they deserve, while keeping financial and economic independence and most importantly, remaining in their own backyard. Additionally, this building will finally provide a centralized location for our diverse senior community to meet under one roof.”

State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) said he was grateful to LoPinto for working with the senior center on a temporary space after Hurricane Sandy and for a permanent new site to socialize in.

“Recently, I personally toured the new center and was impressed with its size and quality,” he said. “Many of the seniors I spoke to were excited about going to their new location. While I understand a few of our seniors don’t like changes and there will be minor issues at the new site, I believe that the seniors will benefit from their new location and I am prepared to help address any issue that arises. Our seniors deserve to have a new center that remains open and various programs to participate in and enjoy.”

The Fineson Center occupied the building, originally a hospital, from 1975 until 2009. The conversion to senior housing was discussed almost immediately and the $31 million to fund the project was raised by December 2011, with construction beginning the next month.

“Certainly we have a high concentration of seniors in the area,” LoPinto said, adding, “This is one of the highest concent rat ions of sen iors i n Queens County and probably in the city.”

Hoffer said there is no date yet set for the ribbon cutting of the new development, though LoPinto said he expects the formal dedication of the Senior Residence to be in October. Q

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And all favored de-emphasizing standardized tests that have teachers and students more concerned with exams than learning.

De Blasio wasn’t even safe from McDonald, who has been running a dist a nt th i rd i n GOP polls, a nd who unleashed a broadside attack on the pubic advocate’s plans to fund mandatory pre-K and middle-school afterschool programs with a tax increase on those making more than $500,000 per year, a plan he said w ill requ i re approval of the st ate Legislature.

“The City Council can raise one tax on its own — the property tax,” he said.

“Bill de Blasio says he will pay for pre-K by raising taxes and he doesn’t know if he can do it. ... It’s his signature proposal, and it’s something he can’t possibly do.”

And, as expected, the candidates were divided directly along party lines on the recent ruling by a federal judge mandating massive changes to stop and frisk.

Quinn said the City Council votes scheduled for today, which are expected to impose an outside inspector general in the NYPD and greatly reduce the criteria police can use for stopping suspects, is a sign of action while other candidates have been merely talking.

“We had 700,000 stops in the last

year,” she said. “Mostly men of color. In most cases no guns, no weapons, no contraband. That’s a danger.”

Countering claims that crime could increase, she said rates in Los Angeles dropped 33 percent when similar oversight was enacted.

Lhota said stop and frisk has absolutely made the city safer.

“The gains we have made in the last 20 years have been the result of smart policing,” he said. He said the federal court ignored all pertinent information regarding the NYPD’s use and application.

He also offered Democrats a history lesson.

“Mayor Bloomberg has been called the face of stop, question and frisk,” he said.

“That’s not the case. It came from a 1968 decision from the United States Supreme court — decided 8 to 1 and written by Earl Warren, not exactly the most conservative justice on that court.”

Catsimatidis, who grew up in Harlem, agreed.

“We can’t give the streets back to the thugs,” he said.

Weiner, Albanese, and Carrion all favored at lease some tweaking, centered around more officers on the streets.

Weiner said they might not have the money to hire new officers, but could return many to patrol from jobs that he Q would give to civilians.

Police arrest alleged Sunnyside arsonist Former councilman’s car burned

by Josey Bartlett Editor

A 22-year- old man was arrested Monday for allegedly lighting several piles of garbage and the car of a former councilman on fire early Sunday morning, police said.

Devon Page, who lives a couple blocks from the incidents, was charged with five counts of arson.

Former Sunnyside councilman Eric Gioia’s SUV went up in flames while it was sitting in his driveway across from Sunnyside Garden Park on 49th Street and 39th Avenue. Police responded at 5 Former Councilman Eric Gioia’s car was burned by an a.m. on Sunday, but did not unknown suspect.

FACEBOOK PHOTO suspect that the politician was Two rubbish fires were found on the specif ically targeted. The home suffered some heat damage, accord- block and two more on 50th Street and 39th Avenue. ing to District Attorney Richard Brown.

Police have video footage of the alleged “We are fine! The car not so much,” Gioia posted on Facebook, “Just went up arsonist. He faces up to 25 years in prison Q if convicted. fast while sitting in my driveway.”

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by Ahmed Fahd There has been much heated discussion on all sides in New York City about the NYPD’s policies of stop and frisk, surveillance, and profiling, and the push for many policing reforms. Fundamentally, the issues are really about the everyday impacts on communities that bear the brunt of these policies, and it is their experiences that need to be understood.

In the context of the highly controversial revelations about governmental intrusiveness as a result of the NSA surveillance scandals, discussions of race and profiling as a result of the Trayvon Martin case, and the recent federal court ruling against the NYPD’s use of stop and frisk, the New York City Council is facing a monumental juncture on Aug. 22 regarding the way our city treats and investigates its own citizens. After the Community Safety Act was passed by the Council, Mayor Bloomberg vetoed it, and this week the City Council will be voting to override that veto. This CSA will create independent oversight over the NYPD, and create a ban on identity-based profiling.

As an organization working on the grassroots level, our experiences show us that members of South Asian communities, numbering over 200,000 in Queens and 800,000 in New York City, are at the intersection of the NYPD’s many discriminatory policies. Over the last two years, DRUM — Desis Rising Up & Moving, has been surveying and documenting our communities’ experiences with law enforcement, and the picture is not pretty.

Let’s start with stop and frisk. Manny, a 14-year-old Bangladeshi girl, was stopped on her way home from school twice. None of her friends with her were frisked or searched, and the officer could not give a reason why he stopped her.

Amarjit, who is now a 23-year-old Indian man, has been stopped and frisked nearly two dozen times since he was 15. “Once I was stopped by two NYPD undercover officers in the middle of the day on Woodside Avenue,” he said. “They made me take down my pants, told me to bend over, and joked about me ‘coughing’ as they laughed and searched me.”

The 103rd and the 115th precincts have the highest rates of stop and frisk in Queens, and always among the top 10 in New York City, and both precincts have large populations of South Asians. Yet the stop-and-frisk policies have a dismal success rate in producing arrests, convictions or gun recoveries.

Regarding the NYPD’s spying programs, we found a mosque in Kew Gardens that threw out a congregant for trying to incite others to hateful and crimi-

nal conduct. Later on they discovered that the man was an NYPD undercover officer. One of our Afghani members testified in front of a C o ng r e s sio n a l briefing that upon his demand to have an attorney present for any conversations, NYPD officers began to follow him around in unmarked cars, onto his campus and even into his classroom. In court last year, NYPD Intelligence Chief Thomas Galati noted that the department’s widespread surveillance programs, which cost New Yorkers millions of dollars every year, have produced zero leads, and “never made a lead” as far as he knows.

These same policies also target the everyday workers, such as immigrant cab drivers and street vendors, who make this city run.

Nasima’s husband, Taher, was arrested in an NYPD raid on street vendors around Canal Street and charged with selling counterfeit merchandise. The charges were later dropped, but by that time he had been turned over to immigration authorities, and has spent over 18 months in detention. Nasima testified at a City Council hearing in February in support of a law that changed how the NYPD and the Correction Department deal with immigrants to minimize such damage.

Osman, a cab driver for over 20 years, gets five to seven frivolous traffic tickets every month. He is then forced to either pay the tickets, totaling nearly a $1000, or take a day off from work and fight them in court. In the court, he says, “even the judges laugh off and dismiss these tickets. But I still lose a day’s pay.”

The underlying theme in all these instances is that our communities are treated as “guilty until proven innocent,” regardless of evidence. As a community that has moved to this country and this city relatively recently, we understand that such policies have much longer histories in African-American, Latino, immigrant, and all poor communities, and that we are just beginning to experience that process.

The Community Safety Act will impact all New Yorkers to create safer and more efficient policing in the city, and particularly for those communities that have been targeted by the NYPD’s unjust policies of profiling. It will in fact make our city safer for all of us as families, immigrants, workQ ers, youth and parents.

Fahd Ahmed is Legal and Policy Director of the Queens-based organization DRUM, Desis Rising Up Moving.

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On Wednesday, Aug. 28, music will fill the West Side Tennis Club stadium in Forest Hills once more but outside, the gentle strumming of a banjo and the easy sounds of a harmonica may be replaced with car horns, exhaust pipes and frustrated residents.

Mumford and Sons, the pop-folk fusion band, will be rocking out in this historic stadium that once hosted A-list acts including the Beatles, Frank Sinatra and Jimi Hendrix.

A concert has not been held at the WSTC for 17 years.

So far, the event has all of the ingredients for a successful concert: it is sold out, food and beverages will be served and the band’s website has been buzzing with comments from excited fans. The true test, however, will come the night of the concert when roads will be shut down.

“It looks like the traffic trouble will be in and around Yellowstone all the way down to the stadium,” Community Board 6 District Manager Frank Galluscio said. “I think they’re working on having some traffic flow but Burns Street will be closed.”

The stadium is located in Forest Hills Gardens, a planned community with private security and parking, and may prove difficult for out-of-towners who decide to drive to the concert.

Already several Gardens residents have posted offers on the Mumford and Sons website, selling their parking spaces. The prices range from $35 to spare concert tickets.

The concert is a pilot of sorts to help the WSTC pay for desperately needed renovations to the stadium that once held the

US Open. If the Mumford show goes off without a hitch, more musical acts are expected to hit the main stage.

Though parking and driving may prove to be difficult, Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz (D-Forest Hills), Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi (D-Forest Hills) and CB 6 have met with the WSTC board members and the concer t promoters to i ron out potential problems.

“The main concern was the police,” Koslowitz said. “I was promised that we would have a sufficient amount of police.”

Koslowitz, who will be attending the concert, added that the promoters and board members are encouraging fans to use public transportation.

“In that area, using public transit is easier, so we are very lucky in that way,” she said. “You have the Long Island Rail Road, the buses and a lot of subway lines. I feel that the agencies involved made a commitment to not let any incidents occur and I am going to go along with that. If there are problems, I will fight very strongly against bringing more concerts here.”

Another potential problem is the seating arrangements. The stadium does not have seats but rather bleachers, which means there will be no assigned seating. For an additional cost, fans can pay for standing room to be up close and personal with the band on the clay courts.

On the Mumford and Sons website, fans have posted that they plan on lining up for the 6 p.m. show as early as 5 a.m.

A representative from the WSTC and the event promoter would not return requests to Q comment.

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Designer killed in studio fire An 83-year-old South Jamaica man was killed Tuesday when his home on 157th Street caught fire.

P u bl i s h e d r e p o r t s s t a t e t h a t C h a r l e s Pol lo c k , w h o i n 19 63 designed the widely successful Pollock Executive Off ice Chair, died when he was unable to escape the fire that engulfed his first-f loor design studio.

The New York Post reported that Pollock, who was pronounced dead at the scene, was confined to a motorized wheelchair. Reports said he was a native of Michigan who first came to New York to study at the Pratt Institute’s School of Art and Design.

P ublished repor ts quoted cit y building officials as saying that the two-stor y, wood-frame house had been illegally subdivided into four apartments, and that the owner has been hit with six violations, including defective wiring and using gas without a permit.

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Saujani’s run continued from page 26 Along with aiding those at the bottom of the economic spectrum, Saujani says she will serve the interests of women if elected. That’s a big part of what she’s doing now, heading a nonprofit organization called Girls Who Code, which she founded, teaching high-technology skills to young women. The organization has the support of tech luminaries such as Randi Zuckerberg, an executive with Facebook and sister of its founder, Mark Zuckerberg.

Saujani spoke of girls whom she had to teach how to use a mouse who just weeks later were writing computer code.

Along with education and social mobility, a top issue Saujani is concerned about is the state of relations between police and minority communities. When a grand jury recently declined to indict a police officer who shot an unarmed black teenager he said he thought was armed, she issued a statement saying he should have been charged. And she stood by the statement when pressed about it during the Chronicle interview.

“I see it as murder,” she said, adding that too many young people are “terrified to walk the streets.” Asked of who, criminals or cops, she said both.

Details of Saujani’s positions on other issues and her biographical information are available at reshmafornewyork.com. Q

Civic leaders want info on lot Some say city not holding developer accountable

by Laura A. Shepard Chronicle Contributor

Convinced that something is amiss in an Elmhurst real estate deal, community board members and civic association leaders are investigating the history of a 2.3acre property located between the Queens Center mall and the Long Island Expressway, where the Mattone Group plans to build three restaurants: Olive Garden, Longhor n Steak house and Joe’s Crab Shack. The Newtown Civic Association filed a Freedom of Information Request with the city’s Economic Development Corporation for all documents related to the site, last Wednesday. If the EDC’s records confirm their suspicions, the civic association will bring its findings to the city’s Department of Investigation.

Newtown Civic Association President Tom McKenzie, a longtime member of the Community Board 4 Planning Committee, remembers when the city sold the land, which was then a municipal parking lot, to the Mattone Group for $2.2 million in 2001.

Mattone signed a contract with the Community members are considering asking the Department of Investigation to look into the EDC, promising to build a movie theater history of a property between the Queens Center mall and the Long Island Expressway, where PHOTO BY LAURA SHEPARD on the lot within four and half years and to the Mattone Group plans to build restaurants. buy the dilapidated Elmwood Theater “Litigation is a very lengthy process,” a thecase, and he believes the appeal would across the street and donate the proceeds to the Catholic Medical Center of Brook- city off icial speaking on behalf of the likely have been thrown out because the lyn and Queens, which operated nearby St. EDC said. “It has a very uncertain out- agency was successful in the lower court John’s Hospital. If those conditions were come. We were able to reach an agreement and could have reclaimed the property.

The ULURP report from Jan. 19, 2000 not met, the city would be able to buy back that allowed the owner of the land to pay a settlement, proceed with a modified as of states that CB 4 disapproved Mattone’s the property for $1.

Mattone had originally planned to have right project that is in accordance with application by a vote of 22-7, but since the Loews operate the theater, but Loews existing zoning and complete an economic vote was not received by the Department declared bankruptcy and Mattone strug- development project that will create 225 of City Planning in time, its objections gled to find a replacement. The lot has permanent jobs, about 150 more than the were overridden by City Planning, the City original project, and Council, including former Councilman been used for comt o b e c o m p l e t e d John Sabini (D-Elmhurst), and Mayor Giumercial truck parkquickly, rather than l ia n i a nd Borou g h P r e sid e nt Cla i r e ing u ntil recently, ng t h roug h a n Shulman. when Mattone erecthe CB 4 Zoning Committee goi Shulman approved Mattone’s applicaadditional process ed a fence around a n d l e a v i n g t h e tion, subject to the conditions that Mattone the proper ty. Matwill discuss new plans for would pay for traffic mitigation, develop property vacant.” t o n e n e v e r p u rthe property at the Queens Howeve r, c o m - the site within two years, provide adequate chased the Elmwood m u n i t y m e m b e r s security for the public parking garage, and Theater and thereCenter mall community feel that they should develop the Elmwood Theater site as fo r e no p r o c e e d s not have to choose affordable senior housing. were donated to the center at 7 p.m. Aug. 27.

The city official who spoke on behalf of between Mattone’s C a t h ol ic Me d ic a l rest au r a nt s a nd a the EDC said that much of the traffic mitiCenter. The theater was sold to the Rock Church and St. John’s vacant lot and would rather use the space gation included in the old ULUR P is unnecessary now because the restaurant for a communal purpose.

Hospital went bankrupt in 2009.

“I believe the city should buy the prop- project is much smaller than the movie In 2010, the EDC issued an eviction notice and Mattone sued the city. The erty back for $1 and build a new police theater project, which would have contained a parking garage with 650 spaces. judge ruled in favor of the EDC, but Mat- station,” MacKenzie said.

Howeve r, com mu n it y me mb e r s The 110th Precinct’s current station was tone appealed and reached a settlement with the agency for $3 million and signed built in the 1940s and is technologically expressed concerns about traffic congesa new contract with it on Feb. 6, 2013, obsolete, he said. Moreover, it is located tion on the adjacent streets and having free modifying the zoning requirements so that on 43rd Avenue, a one-way street that is parking for the restaurants.

Christian Cassgnol, the District ManagMattone could build the restaurants. The often clogged with double-parked cars.

“We are united as a com munit y to er of CB 4, said the Zoning Committee money went straight to the agency and the p r o m i s e s m a d e t o t h e c o m m u n i t y ensure that we are not shortchanged,” said Meeting on Tuesday night will address Robert Valdes-Clausell, a member of the many of the questions that have come up evaporated.

“Something is rotten here,” McKenzie Newtown Civic Association and CB4’s since Mattone presented the plan to the said, regarding the community’s exclusion Unifor m Land Use Review Procedure community on Aug. 7. He said that Mattone, City Planning and the EDC have all from the negotiations and the EDC and Committee.

Valdes-Clausell said that he does not been invited to the meeting.

Mattone’s failure to notify residents before Mattone has yet to RSVP to CB 4 and the deal was complete. “It’s a rotten, rotten know why the EDC settled for $3 million Q in the appeal, when it had already won declined to comment for this article. thing.”

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Laughing Devil here to stay

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Two months ago the Laughing Devil, a relatively new comedy club in Long Island City, went on the market, but now the club’s co-owner said he’s keeping the joint.

“After a two-month process, we sold the Laughing Devil to, well, me,” said Steve Hofstetter in an email. “I will be passing on some opportunities in LA and coming back to NYC every so often to ensure that the Laughing Devil is here to stay.”

The club went on the market after Hofstetter moved to Los Angeles for a writing gig and his business partner had a new baby. An offer fell through at the last minute and subsequent deals would allow the space to be just a bar, which didn’t jive with Hofstetter.

Laughing Devil general manager Scott Sharp will share ownership with Hofstetter with additional capital from minor owners.

Some changes include a wall between the bar and the performance space so beer drinkers will not be “shushed” during the shows, and movies like “The Big Lebowski“ will be shown on Wednesday nights and weekend afternoons.

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good hands while the transition is in place.”

A native of the Bronx, Squadron now lives with his young family in Brooklyn and represents a district that includes the Brooklyn waterf r o n t f r o m C a r r ol l G a r d e n s t o Greenpoint, spans the East R iver and includes Lower Manhattan.

Squadron said he is enjoying the campaig n and lear ning about the entire city and it’s 8 million people.

“To be going around the city and peeling the onion deeper and deeper a nd t r y i ng to ever i ncrease you r understanding of the infinite city is an incredible thing,” he said.

Although the Queens Democratic Party has thrown its support behind Reshma Saujani in the race for public advocate, Squ ad ron boasts a modest entourage of Queens political figures backing him; his allies in Albany such as state Sens. Joe Add abbo Jr. (D -Howa rd Beach), Mike Gianaris (D-Astoria) and Jose Peralta (D-East Elmhurst), as well as two of the newest members of the borough’s Albany delegation; Assembly woma n Nily Roz ic (D-Fresh Meadows) and Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Rockaway Q Park).

Soccer team visits NYHQ New York Hospital Queens in Flushing recently announced that the New York Cosmos soccer club had chosen the facility as its official hospital.

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The players gave out miniature soccer balls with autographs to patients.

The new partnership allows NYHQ and the team to work together to raise awareness about bone and joint health.

The Cosmos play their home games at Hofstra University on Long Island.

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In addition to buying gold, silver, diamonds, watches and coins, Ice Jewelry Buying also offers instant cash loans for jewelry and eBay selling services.

Recently, a woman and her boyfriend went into an unassuming gold buying and cash loan shop on Queens Boulevard. She had a $35 offer on Their cash loans program is straightforward her ring from another area shop, but was looking and simple. “It’s a perfect solution for someone to get a better deal. In what may be viewed who has a bill due and a check on the way,” as poor business acumen, she told her new Goldberg said. “But we make sure they have a prospective buyer what her previous offer was. game plan to buy their jewelry back before the Still, after examining her piece, he offered her end of the term. Sometimes these are people’s $1,600. He did so, as he says, “...because that’s heirlooms we’re talking about and we respect what it was worth.” that.”

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by Josey Bartlett Resobox, a small gallery off Queensboro Plaza, kicked off a show this month paying homage to its home nabe of Long Island City.

Gallery-goers will see photographs and paintings depicting the neighborhood, works by Queens artists or those that convey an LIC vibe in the show titled “Explore LIC: Life, Time and History.”

Suffolk County artist Jenri Gonzalez says that even though he’s not from the neighborhood he feels a closeness to it.

“I was hearing all these stories

about Long Island City and how far it has come,” Gonzalez said. “In a way I am a lot like Long Island City.”

Gonzalez was homeless for nearly eight years, but when his close friend died a couple years ago he decided to work harder toward his goal of exhibiting artwork.

Every year on the anniversary of his friend’s death he writes down his own accomplishments for the year, folds them into paper boats and sends them out onto the water.

“Little paper boats” is being displayed at Resobox along with “April flowers,” which represents the

moment when he moved into his first home and saw roses outside. They are brightly colored paintings with loose brush strokes.

Gabino Castelan’s drawings give a healthy dose of color to the exhibition.

The artist, who was born in Puebla, Mexico but grew up in Spanish Harlem and now has a studio in LIC, says his drawings are about the “worker.”

“I consider myself a cultural sociologist,” Castelan said. “I focus on words, symbols, popular culture, political control, social class, working class, language, and cultural change.”

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“Queens Surface” photography exhibition, through Aug. 28, weekdays, Flushing Queens Library, 41-17 Main St. Free. Information: Michelle Cheikin, m@michellecheikin.com, (917) 669-0877.

Summer Sunrise Yoga, Wednesdays in August, 6-7:15 a.m., BambooMoves, 107-40 Queens Blvd., Suite 206, Forest Hills. Donation $5. Information: Melissa Seigel (347) 684-0451.

AUDITIONS

Free hour-long yoga classes at: Astoria Park, 21 Hoyt Ave. N, Saturday, Aug. 24, 10 a.m.; Gantry Plaza State Park, 4-09 47 Rd., Long Island City, Sunday, Sept. 8 5:30 p.m. Call the Yoga Room at (718) 274-0255.

The Queens College Choral Society, Duke Ellington’s “Sacred Concerts” and Mendelssohn’s “Elijah,” Queens College music building, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., room 246, Wednesdays, Sept. 4, 6-8:30 p.m.; Aug. 28, Sept. 11, 6-7:15 p.m. Rehearsals, Wednesdays, 7:30-9:45 p.m. beginning Aug. 28.

Call (718) 997-3818.

Coed mixed-level line dancing for adults, Cambria Heights Community Church, 116-02 220 St., Saturdays, Sept. 7, 21, 9:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m. $10 per session. Call (646) 229-0242.

The Bayside Glee Club, a male chorus, fall rehearsals begin Tuesday, Sept. 3, 7:30 p.m., All Saints Church, 214-33 40 Ave., Bayside. Men who love singing are invited to join. Call (718) 961-6852.

The Community Singers of Queens, rehearsals for winter concert in December, Messiah Lutheran Church, 42-15 165 St., Flushing, Monday, Sept. 9, 8 p.m. Call (718) 658-1021.

HOLIDAY Free Jewish holiday services (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur), Thursday, Sept. 5, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., St. Paul’s International Church, 262-22 Union Turnpike, Floral Park. Contact: office@templeshalom. org, templesholom.org, (718) 343-8660.

THEATRE The 1st annual UNFringed festival, The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23 St., Long Island City, through Aug. 24. Contact: info@secrettheatre.com, (718) 392-0722, secrettheatre.com.

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Chinese flute recital, Mr. Yuyan Xu and His Students, Flushing Library, 41-17 Main St., Saturday, Aug. 24, 1 p.m. Free.

New City ‘s 2013 Street Theater tour of “Sanitation or Off the Grid,” an operetta, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2 p.m., Travers Park, 34th Avenue between 77th and 78th streets, Jackson Heights. Free.

FILM Movies at Cunningham Park, 193rd street and Union Turnpike, Fresh Meadows, Thursdays, starting at 8 p.m.: Aug. 22, “Les Miserables;” Aug. 29, “Kinky Boots.” Free.

Movie night in Astoria Park, great lawn, Shore Boulevard between the Hell Gate Bridge and Astoria Pool, Monday, Aug. 26, “Juno,” both at 8:30 p.m.

Free. Contact: (718) 728-7820 or centralastoria.org.

ShakesBEER, NYC’s Original Shakespearean Pub Crawl, will be held on Saturday, Aug. 24 in Astoria.

PHOTO BY JOSEY BARTLETT Laughing Devil Comedy Club, 47-38 Vernon Blvd., Long Island City, Devil Science Theater 3000, an interactive event with audience participation, Thursdays: “The Ramrodder,” Aug. 22.; “The Creeping Terror,” Sept. 5. $5. 10:30 p.m. Contact: Daniel Reynolds, devilscience@gmail.com, (407) 276-6724.

About Boating Safety class, qualified instructors from Flotilla 12-01 of U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, held at Fort Totten, Totten Avenue and Cross Island Parkway, Bayside, Sundays, Aug. 25 and Sept. 29, 8:30 a.m. $65. Pre-registration a must. Call Mike Kaff (917) 952-7014, Ralph Traub (347) 336-5866.

2013 Bay Terrace Community Alliance, Meet the Candidates Night, 13-00 209 St., Tuesday, Aug. 27, 7 p.m. Over 30 candidates running for mayor, comptroller, public advocate and City Council member for the 19th Council District invited. Visit facebook.com/bayterrace.

Maspeth Town Hall Community Center, 53-37 72 St., offers toddler playgroups in September, children 3 and under. Call (718) 335-6049.

Selichot service, Rego Park Jewish Center, 97-30 Queens Blvd., Saturday, Aug. 31, 10 p.m.; plus a film, “The Exodus Revealed,” and refreshments, 8:45 p.m. Call (718) 459-1000.

Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston, hosts: hiking club monthly meetings, Mondays, Aug. 26, Sept. 23, 7 p.m., Adults only. Membership Required. Contact: (718) 229-4000 or alleypond.com.

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Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston, hosts: (Knot Only) Knitting Circle, Mondays, Aug. 26, Sept. 9, 23, 6-8 p.m. Adults, $5 per session. All knitters, crocheters or crafters welcome. For adults who know how to knit.; Preregistration required. Contact: (718) 2294000 ext. 214 or alleypond.com.

AARP Chapter 2889 meets on the first and third Wednesdays of each month at noon at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 69-60 Grand Ave., Maspeth.

Free mobile mammography, Saturday, Aug. 31, 9 a.m. -4:30 p.m., New Jerusalem Baptist Church, 122-05 Smith St., Jamaica. Contact: Rosalie Harris, remhamf@verizon.net, (718) 723-6287.

Educational Forum for District 22, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 6 p.m., The Variety Boys and Girls Club, 21-12 30 Road, Long Island City. Meet District 22 City Council candidates and hear their views on critical issues involving education in Astoria.

Contact: Patricia Batista, pbatista@zone126.org, (347) 960-2102.

FLEA MARKETS The Ridgewood Youthmarket, an urban farmstand supplied by local farmers and operated by youths to provide fresh healthy foods to the community, intersection of Myrtle and Cypress avenues, Saturdays, 10 a.m.–3 p.m. until November 23.

Labor day weekend Artisan Flea Festival, Ridgewood Market, Saturday, Aug. 31- Sunday, Sept. 1, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Greater Ridgewood Youth Council, 59-03 Summerfield St. Contact: contact@ridgewoodmarket.com, (347) 460-7549.

FOR KIDS Play4Autisim, programs for kids on the Autism Spectrum: “Kidz Into Action” street hockey program, Fridays in August, Juniper Valley Park, Juniper Boulevard between Lutheran Avenue, 71st Street and Dry Harbor Road, Middle Village. Small registration fee. Contact: Grey Vasicek, greg@ play4autism.org, (718) 894-3400.

Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston, hosts: Wet and Wild, Saturday, Aug. 24, ages 5-7; 1:30-3 p.m., $18, enjoy the water at APEC, water tables, sea shell and fish games, live sand and water animals, wet and wild craft, snack.

Young Discoverers — Watching Weather, Saturday, Aug. 24 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., ages 8-12, $24; learn what causes the weather and how it affects us, who studies the weather and instruments they use, hands-on learning, snack included. Preregistration required. Contact: (718) 229-4000 or alleypond.com.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Live music and comedy show to benefit Hope for the Children, Friday, Aug. 23, 8 p.m., 90-21 Springfield Blvd., Queens Village. $12.50-$25. Contact Danielle Cocchi, daniellec@amyleo.com, (631) 707-5994.

ShakesBEER, NYC’s Original Shakespearean Pub Crawl, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2:30-6 p.m., Astoria Brewhouse, 28-50 31 St., Astoria. Other participating bars include: The Irish Rover, Rapture and Blackbird’s. $40 includes 4 performances and 4 drinks. Contact: Brown Paper Tickets, 1 (800) 838-3006, brownpapertickets.com, shakespeareexchange.org.

Sacred Heart School, 84-05 78 Ave., Glendale, collecting for Annual White Elephant Fundraiser in October; donations dropped off at 84th Street entrance to school, Tuesday-Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Call (718) 456-6636. \The Whitestone School for Child Development, free tours of the school and speech screenings by licensed speech therapists, Aug. 28, 29, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Schedule an appointment at (718) 746-6555.

St. Josaphat’s leisure club trip to Aqueduct Casino, $25, Thursday, Aug. 29. Contact: Joy, (917) 9217631. Meets at the church, 34-32 210 St., Bayside.

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A hospital in Flushing brightens up its walls

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N e w Yo r k H o s p i t a l Queens believes brighter walls will lead to brighter dispositions.

“It’s difficult to be in a hospital to begin with,” said Anita Liu-Chen, the director

of occupational therapy.

“The community art garden can enhance the halls by creating an uplifting, inspirational environment.”

The hospital at 56-45 Main St. in Flushing began distributing blank canvases to community residents, employees

North Woodmere resident Moeen Din interpreted the hospital theme of healing by painting the Greek goddess Akeso turning winter into spring.

and patients earlier this year with the intention of creating a “community art garden” — a cute way of naming the growing collection of art lining its walls. At last Wednesday night’s opening reception more canvases were distributed, to be added as they are completed.

Liu-Chen created a swirling abs trac t pa int ing of shades of yellows and reds with her 3-year-old son and husband.

“I like abstract art and wanted to create something for people to stare at,” she said during a phone interview while looking at one of the bright paintings of a house.

“It’s much more positive to stare at these colors than at people or at blank walls while waiting or thinking.”

About eight other occupational therapists participated with artworks of cats, trees,

houses and abstract themes.

Budding artists were asked to use the idea of healing, compassion, health, wellness, Queens, diversity and community as their inspiration.

North Woodmere resident and Chronicle Associate Art Director Moeen Din grabbed a canvas for the cause.

His oil painting shows the Greek goddess of healing Akeso turning a barren winter forest into a blooming spring scene.

“I want to do something for a hospit a l since my mother has been in and out of them since she was in her 30s,” Din said.

And now that his house is finally back to normal after Hurricane Sandy, Din plans on contr ibut ing another painting called the “Green Room,” of a surfer inside the Anita Liu-Chen, the director of occupational therapy, eye of a wave to promote poses with her painting in the hospital’s community Q health and fitness.

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Walking is a part of life for many of us.

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Independent curator Earl Miller will be bringing walking art to the Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs in an exhibition entitled “Artists’ Walks: The Persistence of Peripateticism” through Nov. 17.

“The proposal we received from Earl Miller hit on a number of our targets,” Noah Dorsky, the co-founder of the gallery, said. “It was an interesting idea around the world began creating strollbecause there was an important art ing art. movement of these artists’ walks that But while Brouwn and artists like him began in the ’60s and ’70s and now we had limitations, technology, including the have new artists who are following in GPS, has created a new realm in which that tradition.” artists’ walks can thrive.

Artists’ walks can be “They have gained a traced back to 1960 wider audience because when Stanley Brouwn, a of their hybridization Dutch artist, stood on When: Sept. 8 to Nov. 17 with other genres and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. the street and asked fields, notably perfors t r a ng e r s t o s ke t c h Where: Dorsky Gallery mance art, video art and direc t ions from one urban geography,” Mill11-03 45 Ave., LIC given point to another. er writes. “They have Tickets: Free, dorsky.org “Indeed, a half-cenbeen granted increased (718) 937-6317 tury later, artists’ walks potent ia l for exp er ihave become a paramentation by GPS and digm,” Miller writes in the exhibit bro- Google map technologies’ provision of chure. “They have ridden on the high new documentary possibilities.” tide of social practice art from the 1990s Featured artists use different media to onward that encouraged art production connect viewers to walking. In Samuel and sometimes presentation outside stu- Rowlett’s “Landscape Painting in the dios and galleries.”

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“It will now forever be written into my own personal history as a person and artist,� Bailey said. “I am so proud and grateful to say that.� “Commute� is a sepia and shades of gray painting of the No. 7 train, but Bailey says the painting can connect to anyone.

For him it reminds him of Chicago, where he lived until recently, where most trains are elevated.

Other works include photographs of the neighborhood several decades ago by Pierre Pullis and Eugene de Salignac, abstract paintings by Ana Sånchez, a s tudent at LaGuardia Community College and LIC resident, and Rafael Gonzalez’s 360-degree When: Through Aug. 30, Monday, photographs of Wednesday and Friday from 10 a.m.

LIC landscapes, to 6 p.m. and Saturday noon to 5 p.m. along with many Where: Resobox, 41-26 27 St., LIC others.

R e s o b o x Tickets: Free, (718) 784-3680, resobox.com founder Takashi

He uses images from history books to inspire his chalk, charcoal, chalk pastel, Sharpie and acr ylic permanent marker drawings.

The works straddle the modern and the archaic by clearly being depictions of historical events, but shown in a new way with thick black outlines filled in with bright colors such as neon pink and orange.

Christopher Bailey of Washington Heights is showing his paintings for the first time — in fact he only began painting last January.

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The group show at Resobox features the 360-degree photograph of Long Island City by Rafael Gonzalez, left, and the painting “Little paper boats� by Jenri Gonzalez along with several other works.

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Ikezawa said forming the show was no easy task. “Unfortunately, this time, after we set up the theme for LIC, not so many ar tists could gather

since arts in LIC have not yet matured, so we included the artists from Queens including Sunnyside or any other places,�

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Poetry readings in Bengali, Catalan, English, Italian, Persian, Polish, Russian, Sicilian, Spanish, Swahili, Turkish and Yiddish; music and dance presentations; art contest for children ages 5-13.

SENIOR ACTIVITIES The CCNS Bayside Senior Center, 221-15 Horrace Harding Expy., Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Both kosher and nonkosher lunch at 11:30 a.m. with a $2 contribution. Bingo 3 times a week. Adults 60+. Much more. Contact (718) 225-1144.

Middle Village Adult Center, 69-10 75 St., offers: computer training classes, all levels, beginners to advanced, including: 21st Century Technology, teaching use of iPods, smartphones, e-readers, tablet computers, and other latest gadgets; and Microsoft Excel (separate class); fitness classes in Zumba, aerobics, line dancing, chair and mat yoga, tai chi, lower-body toning, sit and be fit; recreational activities (daily bingo, singing, watercolor painting, bus trips, daily meals and more).

Call Hindy at (718) 894-3441 or visit the Center.

Jamaica Service Program for Older Adults, 92-47 165 St., details its safety program about rent, Medicaid and food stamps. Call for an appointment at (718) 657-6500. Free.

The Ridgewood Older Adult Center, 59-14 70 Ave., hour-long classes: jewelry making, Mondays at 10:30 a.m.; Richard Simmons exercise, Mondays and Thursdays at 10:30; free computer classes, Mondays at 12:30 p.m.; Eldercise, Tuesdays at 10 a.m.; massage therapy, Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m.; manicures, Thursdays at 12:30 p.m.; yoga, Fridays at 10:30 a.m. Movies every Monday, Tuesday and Friday at 1:15 p.m. MetroCard van, 4th Thursday of month. Call Karen (718) 456-2000.

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The Selfhelp Latimer Gardens Senior Center, 34-30 137 St., Flushing, offers ballroom dancing, Mondays, Wednesdays through Fridays at 10:30 a.m. to noon; tai chi, Tuesdays at 10 a.m. to noon; English as a second language, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 10 a.m. to noon; Ping Pong, exercise and mahjong, Mondays though Fridays. Call (718) 961-3660.

Computer classes are being held at Selfhelp Benjamin Rosenthal Prince Street Senior Center, 45-25 Kissena Blvd., Flushing. For seniors 60 plus. Call John at (718) 559-4329 to register.

The Rockaway Boulevard Senior Center, 12310 143 St., South Ozone Park, offers service programs Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Lunch is at noon with a suggested donation of $1.50.

Exercise programs include: tai chi stretch, dance groups, choral group, ceramics, camera class, computer classes, trips, birthday parties and more. Call (718) 657-6752.

The Selfhelp Clearview Senior Center, 208-11 26 Ave., Bayside, hosts: Qi Gong, Mondays at 10:45 a.m.; topical club, Mondays through Fridays at 12:30 p.m.; Wii time, Mondays and Thursdays at 12:45 p.m.; Music with Dee, Mondays at 1 p.m.; beginner’s drawing, Tuesdays at 9:30 a.m.; aerobics, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11 a.m.; drawing and painting, Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m.; yoga, Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m.; bingo, Wednesdays at 12:45 p.m.; tai chi, Wednesdays at 2 p.m.; dance fitness and “You Be the Judge,” Fridays at 10:45 a.m. Plus music appreciation, current events discussions, card playing and more. Call (718) 224-7888.

Activities at the Clearview Senior Center, 20811 26th Ave., Bayside, are held Monday-Friday.

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SUPPORT GROUPS Bereavement groups for the loss of a spouse, facilitated by a licensed social worker. Central Queens YM&YWHA, 67-09 108 St., Forest Hills.

Call Pamela Leff: (718) 268-5011 ext. 621.

Gay and Jewish siblings of Gay and Jewish Victims of Domestic Homicide/Violence meets in Forest Hills. All are welcome. Call (917) 561-4252.

Nar-Anon is a self-help support group for anyone affected by a loved one’s use/ abuse of drugs. The group meets every Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in the basement lounge at The-Church-In-The-Gardens, 50 Ascan Ave., Forest Hills. Call 1(800) 9840066, or visit nar-anon.org.

The Lupus Alliance of Long Island and Queens meets once a month on Tuesdays from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in Flushing. To attend and for more information, Alliance members can register by calling Paula Goldstein at (516) 8023142. A fee of $10 per person for members and $15 for nonmembers includes a light breakfast, handouts and lunch. Call (516)826-2058.

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Emotions Anonymous, an emotional support group, will be held on Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. at Victoria Congregational Church, 148th Street and 87th Avenue, Briarwood. Call (718) 9388869 or (917) 312-7150.

Free caregiver support groups at Queens Community House, Kew Gardens Community Center, 80-02 Kew Gardens Road. Call (718) 226-5960 Ext. 226 Drug problem? Call Narcotics Anonymous Helpline at (718) 962-6244 or visit westernqueensna.com. Meetings are held seven days a week.

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primed canvas, straps it to his back and wanders through fields, forests and rivers.

The video and photo documentation of this performance piece “highlights the contrast between real landscape and the absent painted one.”

Then there are artists like Jessica Thompson, whose piece “Swinging Suitcase” requires audience participation The piece involves a mobile audio device in a suitcase that plays short recordings of sparrow songs to merge nature with the urban landscape. As a person’s gestures change and the distance walked increases, the sounds accelerate and multiply, using 60 source clips of house sparrows.

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Miller was not available to speak on his new exhibit as he is based in Toronto but Dorsky spoke highly of the independent curator’s idea.

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M.C.A. INTERNATIONAL CONSULTING, LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 4/29/13. Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

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M A RQUEE TA LENT MANAGEMENT LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 6/20/13. 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, P.O. Box 750578, Forest Hills, NY 1113750578. General Purposes.

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Notice of Qualification of BRICKMAN 48TH AVE LIC LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/15/13. Office location: Queens County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/28/13. Princ. office of LLC: 30-02 48th Ave., Long Island, NY 11101. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Brickman Associates, Attn: Steven H. Klein, 712 Fifth Ave., 6th Fl., NY, NY 10019. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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LAMBRAKI REALTY LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 07/15/2013.

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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 the LLC, 23-54 Crescent St., Astoria, NY 11105.

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150-24 CENTERVILLE LLC, a domestic LLC, currently known as 880 METRO REALTY LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 9/29/10. 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, 82-17 153rd Ave., Ste. 206, Howard Beach, NY 11414. General Purposes.

563/65 MYRTLE AVENUE LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 7/23/13. Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Bartolomew Tesoriero, 138-03 Whitelow St., Ozone Park, NY 11417.

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168 J, LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 4/19/13. Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

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Notice of formation of 71-37 66th Drive LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/2/2013.

Office location, County of Queens. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 71-35 66th Drive, Middle Village, NY 11379. Purpose: any lawful act.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of 2 UP LLC. Article of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/22/2013. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon her is C/O the LLC 136-20 38th Avenue, Ste. 11G, Flushing NY 11354. Purpose of LLC: to engage in any lawful act or activity. Street address of Principal business location is: 7-15 119 Street, College Point, NY 11355.

7MATKIDS METROTECH LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 7/25/13. 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, C/O The Mattone Group, 13401 20th Ave., College Point, NY 11356. General Purposes.

Notice of Qualification of 3JS MANAGEMENT, LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/26/13. Office location: Queens County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/25/13. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Urban American Mgmt., Attn: Jana Schmidt, Esq., 590 56th St., West New York, NJ 07093.

DE addr. of LLC: Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State for the State of DE, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: ASTORIA OWNERS LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/02/13. 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 the LLC, 43 West 47th Street, Suite 203, New York, New York 10036.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

File No.: 2012-461/C CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

BY THE GRACE OF GOD, FREE AND INDEPENDENT To: Giovanni Bigioni, Rita Marcatante Landri, Jeannette Marcatante Gallo, Our Lady of Fatima, R.C. Diocese of Brooklyn, Angelo Colapietro, Vincenzo Colapietro, Alessandra Bigioni, Claudia Bigioni Attorney General of the State of New York The unknown distributees, legatees, devisees, heirs at law and assignees of ANGELO BIGIONI, deceased, or their estates, if any there be, whose names, places of residence and post office addresses are unknown to the petitioner and cannot with due diligence be ascertained.

Being the persons interested as creditors, legatees, distributees or otherwise in the Estate of ANGELO BIGIONI, deceased, who at the time of death was a resident of 24-40 79th Street, East Elmhurst, NY 11370, in the County of Queens, State of New York.

SEND GREETING: Upon the petition of LOIS M. ROSENBLATT, Public Administrator of Queens County, who maintains her office at 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, Queens County, New York 11435, as Temporary Administrator of the Estate of ANGELO BIGIONI, deceased, you and each of you are hereby cited to show cause before the Surrogate at the Surrogate’s Court of the County of Queens, to be held at the Queens General Courthouse, 6th Floor, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, City and State of New York, on the 10th day of October, 2013 at 9:30 o’clock in the forenoon, why the Account of Proceedings of the Public Administrator of Queens County, as Temporary Administrator of the Estate of said deceased, a copy of which is attached, should not be judicially settled, and why the Surrogate should not fix and allow a reasonable amount of compensation to GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ., for legal services rendered to petitioner herein in the amount of $9,055.65 and that the Court fix the fair and reasonable additional fee for any services to be rendered by GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ., hereafter in connection with proceedings on kinship, claims etc., prior to entry of a final Decree on this accounting in the amount of 6% of assets or income collected after the date of the within accounting; and why the Surrogate should not fix and allow an amount equal to one percent on said Schedules of the total assets on Schedules A, A1, and A2 plus any additional monies received subsequent to the date of this account, as the fair and reasonable amount payable to the Office of the Public Administrator for the expenses of said office pursuant to S.C.P.A. §1106(4); and why each of you claiming to be a distributee of the decedent should not establish proof of your kinship; and why the balance of said funds should not be paid to said alleged distributees upon proof of kinship, or deposited with the Commissioner of Finance of the City of New York should said alleged distributees default herein, or fail to establish proof of kinship; and why the Last Will and Testament dated September 30th, 1979 should not be admitted to Probate as an ancient document; and why said Will dated September 30th, 1979 should not be deemed ineffective; and why Letters of Administration duly issued by the Surrogate’s Court on November 9, 2012 should not be revoked; and why Letters of Administration C.T.A should not be issued to the Public Administrator of Queens County; and why the net distributable estate should not be distributed pursuant to E.P.T.L. 4-1.1.

Dated, Attested and Sealed 9th day of August, 2013 HON. PETER J. KELLY, Surrogate, Queens County, Margaret M. Gribbon, Clerk of the Surrogate’s Court, GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ., (718) 459-9000 95-25 Queens Boulevard, 11th Floor, Rego Park, New York 11374 This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not obliged to appear in person. If you fail to appear it will be assumed that you do not object to the relief requested unless you file formal legal, verified objections. You have a right to have an attorney-at-law appear for you.

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533 48th LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/26/13. Office in Queens County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 533 48th LLC, 25-19 Borden Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101. Purpose: General.

CAD LEE LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 5/2/13. Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Kwong L. Lee, Manager, 45-24 216th St., Bayside, NY 11361.

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Christian Culture Daycare Learning Center, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/23/13. Office in Queens County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 147-12 231 St., Springfield Gardens, NY 11413. Purpose: General.

DAC LEE LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 5/2/13. Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Kwong L. Lee, Manager, 45-24 216th St., Bayside, NY 11361. General Purposes.

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SQ page 52 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS Index No. 9834/2012 Date of Filing: 5/9/2012 Plaintiff designates Queens County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon County in which premises are situated. SUMMONS Tax Lien Foreclosure Block: 10161; Lot: 30 a/k/a 104-52 164th Street NYCTL 2011-A TRUST and THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON as Collateral Agent and Custodian, Plaintiffs, -against- THE HOLY TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH OF CHRIST INC., ADMINISTRATOR OF VETERANS AFFAIRS, COMMISSIONER OF LABOR – NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, TANYA WARTERS, CITY OF NEW YORK ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD, “John Doe No. 1” through “John Doe No. 100” inclusive, the names of the last 100 defendants being unknown to plaintiff, it being intended to designate fee owners, tenants or occupants of the tax lien premises and/or persons or parties having or claiming an interest in or a lien upon the subject property, if the aforesaid individual defendants are living, and if any or all of said individual defendants be dead, their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, committees, devisees, legatees, and the assignees, lienors, creditors and successors in interest of them, and generally all persons having or claiming under, by, through, or against the said defendants named as a class, of any right, title, or interest in or lien upon the premises described in the complaint herein, Defendants.

To the above named Defendants: You are hereby summoned to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff’s Attorney(s) within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within thirty (30) days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. Notice of Nature of Action and Relief Sought. The Object of the above entitled action is to foreclose a Tax Lien in the original Tax Lien Principal Balance of $150,823.04 with interest as described in a certain Tax Lien Certificate dated November 16, 2011 and recorded in the Office of the City Register for the Borough of Queens, County of Queens, on November 23, 2011 in City Register File Number (“CRFN”) 2011000408634 upon premises described as follows: ADDRESS: 104-52 164th Street BLOCK: 10161 LOT: 30 COUNTY: Queens The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Tax Lien described above. Plaintiff designates Queens County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the county where the Property being foreclosed upon is located.

NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the Plaintiff who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you may lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and complaint and protect your property. Sending a payment to the Plaintiff will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: May 7, 2012 New York, New York THE LAW OFFICE OF THOMAS P.MALONE, PLLC By: Thomas P. Malone, Esq., Attorneys for Plaintiffs, 60 East 42nd Street, Suite 1540, New York, New York 10165, Ph: (212) 867-0500 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing summons is being served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Court dated July 2, 2013 and filed along with the supporting papers in the Queens County Clerk’s Office

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PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, PURSUANT TO LAW, that the NYC Dept. of Consumer Affairs will hold a Public Hearing on Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at 2:00 p.m., at 66 John Street, 11th floor, on a petition from Barosa Inc, to continue to maintain and operate a sidewalk café at 62-29 Woodhaven Blvd., in the Borough of Queens.

REQUEST FOR A COPIES OF THE PROPOSED REVOCABLE CONSENT AGREEMENT MAY BE ADDRESSED TO: DEPT. OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS: ATTN: FOIL OFFICER, 42 BROADWAY, NEW YORK NY 10004

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: ECOGROWTH HOLDING LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/24/2013. Office location: New York 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 the LLC, 401 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, NY 10013. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of FX HOLDING LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/9/12. Office location: Queens County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: F&T Group, 136-20 38th Ave., 12th Fl., Flushing, NY 11354, Attn: Earle Tockman, Esq. Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The NYC Board of Standards and Appeals has scheduled a public hearing on the following application: Variance (§72-21) for the construction of a mixed-use building containing residential and community facility uses, that don’t have frontage on a legally mapped street contrary to General City Law Section 36. C8-1/R3-2 Zoning Districts.

Address: 78-70 Winchester Boulevard, Premises is a landlocked parcel located just south of Union Turnpike and west of 242nd Street, Block 7880, Lots 550, 500 Borough of Queens.

Applicant: Sheldon Lobel, P.C., for Indian Cultural and Community Center, Incorporated, owner.

Community Board No.: 13Q This application, Cal. Nos.: 78-11BZ & 33-12-A thru 37-12-A, has been calendared for Public Hearing *Tuesday, September 10, 2013, 10:00 A.M. session, in Spector Hall, 22 Reade Street, Borough of Manhattan.

Interested persons or associations may appear at the hearing to present testimony regarding this application.

This application can be reviewed at the Board offices, Monday through Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.

This notice is published by the applicant in accordance with the Rules of Procedure of the Board of Standards and Appeals.

Dated: Thursday, August 22nd & 29th, 2013.

Sheldon Lobel, P.C., Applicant *Please confirm hearing location by visiting www.nyc.gov/bsa or contact 212-386-0078. The BZ calendar will immediately follow the SOC and A calendars.

GANZO MOVING, LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/1/12. Office location: Queens County.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Alfredo Tepale, 108-47 42nd Ave., 1st Fl., Corona, NY 11368. General Purposes.

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BEACHWALK LLC App. for Auth. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 7/12/2013. LLC was organized in CT on 6/7/2013.

Office in Queens Co. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY to mail copy of process to 18 Nawthorne Rd., Old Greenwich, CT 06870, which is also the principal business location as well as the required office in CT. Cert. of Org. filed with SSCT, State Capitol, Rm 104, Hartford, CT 06106.

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Mets give Jay his day

by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

Woodside Avenue may be the main artery that goes through its namesake neighborhood, but it’s hardly the only storied street in town.

The main cross street in Woodside is 69th Street, a wide strip known for many years under its original name, Fisk Avenue.

The thoroughfare runs through Maspeth and Jackson Heights too.

The name Fisk derived from the inventor Almond Dunbar Fisk, who invented the first metallic burial coffins. Fisk opened a coffin foundry near 50th Avenue and 69th Street to be near the railroad station then called Winfield Junction to make it easier to ship the coffins.

The coffin business closed in 1888 and the Winfield Junction railroad station closed in 1929.

In the 1930s the street was home to a Fisk Garage, Fisk Shoe Repair and the Fisk movie theater, at No. 68-02. The Fisk theater originally opened around 1915 as the Apollo Theater, but owners Lou Goldberg and Jacob Weinberg changed the name in

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Woodside Avenue looking east at the corner of 68th Street, on March 7, 1939.

1936 so as to avoid confusion with the Apollo in Manhattan.

How things change. When this photo was taken in 1939, as part of a survey for the taking of land to build the BrooklynQueens Expressway, the Queens telephone directory listed 90 theaters in the borough.

The vast majority are gone. The last mention of the Fisk Theater was in the 1940 Queens telephone directory.

Today a triangle-shaped building exists in the Fisk’s old corner location, showing how the lot was probably sliced up for the service road for the new expressway.

Another casualty of progress in the everQ changing borough of Queens.

by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor

Bobblehead doll giveaways have long been popular promotions at ballparks. Normally the souvenir is a likeness of a current or former player. Tomorrow the Mets will probably have what has to be a first as they will be giving all who come to Citi Field a bobblehead of their longtime public relations director, Jay Horwitz.

I have known Jay since 1980. Yes, we’ve had some disagreements over the years and some of the arguments have been heated, but to Jay’s credit, he has always been willing to listen; hasn’t held grudges; and most importantly, has given me the access that I need.

There is no doubt that Jay will be enshrined into the Mets Hall of Fame when he retires, but that won’t be for another 30 years. Congratulations, Jay! The most important aspect of Jay Horwitz Bobblehead Day is that a portion of the ticket revenue will be earmarked for the Hope Shines for Shannon Foundation. Shannon Forde, a St. John’s University alumnus, has been working in the Mets media relations department for 20 years. In 2012 she was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer. The costs associated with fighting that insidious disease are staggering.

Amazingly, Shannon continues to work with enthusiasm and vigor while raising a family.

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The National Hockey League announced that a pair of games involving the three local teams will be played at Yankee Stadium during Super Bowl week. The Devils will play the Rangers in one game while the Islanders take on the Blueshirts in the other. The Rangers will be the visiting team in both contests.

While it makes sense the Devils game would take place at Yankee Stadium since it’s very close to the GW Bridge, I find it disgraceful that the NHL has turned up its nose at Citi Field.

While I understand the economies of scale of having two games at one venue, Citi Field is adjacent to the Islanders’ Nassau-Suffolk fan base. Queens has more Islanders fans than any other borough including Brooklyn, where the team will be moving in 2015. It also would have created more buzz for the NHL to utilize both of New York’s ballparks.

The US Open gets underway at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Monday but you can catch some quality tennis there today and tomorrow for free as the US Open Qualifying Tournament for a number of wild card spots will be taking place.

The PGA Tour is making its annual stop in our area as the Barclays Tournament will take place at Liberty State Park Golf Course today through Sunday. There will be free shuttle buses running from the Pavonia PATH stop in Q Jersey City.

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