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Queens ranks third in ELA, second in math Charter advocates say their pupils outpaced other public school children

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

ueens students, like their peers in the other four boroughs, did better on the state English language arts and math exams this past school year than in previous years, and fewer pupils are choosing to opt out of the exams than before.

The state Education Department Tuesday released a breakdown of the results, showing New York as a whole made improvements on both subjects. For ELA, 39.8 percent of students statewide earned a proficient grade – scoring a 3 or 4 — and 40.2 made the mark in math, a 1.9 and 1.1 percentage point increase, respectively, from 2016.

New York City students exceeded the state’s ELA average, with 40.6 being proficient, but fell behind in math, 36.4.

“We are focused on building on these gains and others — such as the highest-ever high school graduation rate — to deliver equity and excellence for every public school student across the City, no matter their zip code,” Mayor de Blasio said in a statement.

But the city isn’t the only one declaring victory following the release of the test results. Several charter school organizations noted their students outperformed their peers in traditional public schools. Citywide, 52 percent of charter school students were profi-

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More Queens students earned a proficient grade on the state English language arts and math exams in 2017 than ever before. The borough came in third on the ELA test, behind Staten Island and Manhattan, and second in math, behind Manhattan. cient in math and 48 in ELA. In Queens, Success Academy in Rosedale saw all 69 students who took the math exam score a proficient grade and the charter’s Springfield Gardens campus had 51 of their 55 test-takers do the same.

Charter advocates saw the scores as a reason parents should send their children to those insti-

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“It’s obvious why thousands of parents across the state are choosing charter schools,” said Andrea Rogers, state director for Northeast Charter Schools. “In places like Rochester, where the district schools’ average proficiency rates are in the single digits, or in New York City, which is home to many charter

schools but there are still tens of thousands of names on waiting lists, charters work for children and families.”

Charters also saw fewer students opt out of taking the test, 0.6 percent in math and 0.5 in ELA, compared to 3.4 and 2.9, respectively, in traditional public schools.

“Once again, New York City’s public charter schools are driving the gains made by the city’s highest-need students,” said Jeremiah Kittredge, CEO of Families for Excellent Schools. “It’s long past time for the teachers union and their elected allies to stop stifling the growth of these excellent public schools by disparaging their results and denying them access to public space.”

The number of students refusing to take the tests has dropped statewide, with 19 percent opting out this year compared to 21 in 2016.

Out of the five boroughs, Queens ranked third in ELA, behind Staten Island and Manhattan, with 45.7 percent of borough students being prof icient, a 2 percentage point increase from last year. The World’s Borough came in second for math, behind Manhattan, with 44 percent scoring a 3 or 4, a 0.8 percentage point increase from 2016.

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CB 9 leaders brace for library repairs Chairman concerned over ‘possible’ overlap of R. Hill, W’haven projects

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

As long-awaited repairs to the Richmond Hill and Woodhaven branches of the Queens Library approach, area leaders are hoping to ensure both buildings are not checked out at the same time.

“We have concerns that both libraries are going to overlap,” said Raj Rampershad, chairman of Community Board 9. “This is going to be a tough situation, but it’s a much needed renovation.”

A gut renovation of the Richmond Hill branch, located at 118-14 Hillside Ave., is expected to start late this year or early next and take about a year and a half. There will also be a new ADA-compliant ramp, elevator and HVAC system installed.

During that time, the building will be closed and a mobile unit will be placed near it during construction.

But at the nearby Woodhaven branch, located at 85-41 Forest Pkwy. — the closest library to the Richmond Hill one — plans are also underway for renovations to its exterior and interior.

Although no plans are set in stone, there are concerns the two projects might overlap at some point.

Rampershad and other CB 9 leaders met with Queens Library officials last Friday to discuss the Richmond Hill project.

According to Elisabeth de Bourbon, a spokeswoman for the Queens Library, plans were discussed to ensure “both [branches] are not closed at the same time.”

Speaking on the Hillside Avenue branch, which is more than 100 years old, de Bourbon said “A plan for alternative library service will be finalized by the time we present the renovation proposal to the full board in the fall.”

“Members of our capital projects and government affairs staffs briefed the board chair about the scope of planned renovation of the interior of Richmond Hill Community Library and discussed ways to minimize the impact of the closure on the community,” De Bourbon added in her email.

Community Board 9 leaders are preparing for the imminent closure of the Richmond Hill branch of the Queens Library as plans for a gut FILE PHOTOS renovation move forward, and the possible overlap of a project at Woodhaven that would involve it shutting its doors as well.

Rampershad said Queens Library officials are scheduled to appear in front of the board in October.

He’s looking to only schedule them and no other public speakers for that time.

“Because that’s going to be a long meeting,” the board chairman said. “People are going to have a lot of questions about this project, especially since it involves both libraries.”

Richmond Hill residents have called for repairs to the site for years and have expressed frustration at the lack of progress made in moving the plans along.

Rampershad added the library system is in the process of speaking with the Department of Transportation over

whether the mobile unit will go on the Richmond Hill branch’s property or a nearby street.

Seth Wellins, chairman of CB 9’s Education & Youth Services Committee, which handles library-related issues, and Jon Carter, a member of the panel, did not express concerns over the two projects overlapping.

But Rampershad is not taking any chances.

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Seven of the tennis courts in Forest Park have been abandoned for months.

Several Woodhaven residents want to see the space transformed and used for something else if the Parks Department won’t fix them. PHOTO BY ANTHONY O’REILLY

Seven of the 14 tennis courts in Forest Park have not been in ace condition for years, and now some residents are amping up their calls for something to be done with the space.

“Just because you can’t use it or f i x it , do esn’t mea n you shouldn’t utilize it for something else,” said Martin Colberg, president of the Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association, in an interview last Saturday. “I’m hoping that’s what we can get out of this push that we’re trying to do with some of these agencies. We have the money, we have the ideas, make it happen.”

The seven asphalt courts were closed years ago due to “safety concerns,” according to Parks Depa r t ment spokeswoma n Meghan Lalor. They had fallen into poor shape and since being closed off to the public, their condition has further deteriorated.

Repairs to the facility would be difficult because it’s located up a hill just off Park Lane South. The slope of the hill would make getting equipment up there problematic, thereby driving up the cost of any proposed renovations.

Although returning the courts to their former glory is not off the table, Lalor said, the space might be changed to accommodate different activities.

“As we continue to seek funding for this site, we plan to have a dialogue with the community to gauge their interest in redesigning the space for alternative uses,” the spokeswoman said in an email.

The courts came up during the WRBA’s monthly meeting last Saturday, when residents asked Kate Mooney, a representative for Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley (D-Glendale), about their status.

While there is no set plan, the idea of installing a T-ball field came up during the Aug. 19 meeting and others.

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Mike Scala: Not just the train guy Wants more for healthcare, education in addition to improved transportation

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

Mike Scala has made a name for himself in South Queens and Rockaway as one of the most vocal advocates for bringing trains back to the Rockaway Beach Rail Line.

But in an interview with the Queens Chronicle last Thursday, he vowed to focus on much more if elected to the City Council.

“I went to law school with an eye towards serving my community. I took an interest in public policy and being a public servant,” said Scala, a Howard Beach attorney running to be the Democratic nominee in the 32nd Council District. “It’s about holding the city more accountable to our communities and transportation is just one example of that ... We’re taking that approach to education, to the homeless issue.”

Scala is one of three Democrats seeking to win the Sept. 12 primary in the hopes of unseating Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park), who is running for his third and final term.

When asked why he’d be the best choice to take on the councilman, Scala said, “I have the experience for the job. I’m an attorney with private sector and public sector experience, which I think helps.

“On one hand, I have experience being in the real world and seeing the issues businesses face,” he added. “But I also have experience in government, so I know how to navigate that system.”

And should he win the primary, why should the voters pick him over the incumbent?

“We don’t think he’s been the strongest advocate on some issues,” he said, pointing to transportation as just one example.

But Scala said Ulrich shouldn’t even be running this year,

Mike Scala is running to be the Democratic nominee in the 32nd Council District. Should he win the three-way contest, he’ll go on to challenge Councilman Eric Ulrich.

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was convicted on corruption charges. He’s worked in government for 10 years.

“Council Member Ulrich previously repCouncilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) on Monday crossed party lines to endorse resented parts of District 28 and is one of the Community Board 9 member Richard David most effective members of the Council,” in the race to replace former Councilman David said in a statement. “He has been able Ruben Wills in the neighboring 28th Council to bring resources back to his district, including participatory budDistrict. geting, new community “ R ic h a r d D av id centers, parks and w ill ma ke a g reat schools. He has also member of the New been the leading voice York City Council,” on veteran’s issues. I’m Ulrich said. “He is honored to receive his honest, hardworking support and look fora nd e mb o d ie s t he ward to working with American dream for him if elected.” so many people of Community Board West Indian descent. I 12 Chairwoman Adrisupport him and urge enne Adams, Rochdale my Democratic f r iends in Cou ncil Councilman Eric Ulrich endorsed Rich- Village attorney Hettie District 28 to vote for ard David. PHOTO COURTESY RICHARD DAVID Powell, former Councilman Allan Jennings, him on Sept. 12.”

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before a 2010 referendum limited future city office holders to two terms.

At the time, Ulrich opposed an element of the referendum that allowed sitting lawmakers to seek a third term, grandfathering them into a 2008 law that extended term limits from two to three.

“We actually took him at his word and thought he was not running again,” Scala said of Ulrich, who before deciding to run for his seat teased a mayoral campaign.

The attorney’s roots run deep in South Queens — his parents met on Rockaway Beach and he’s been active in the district for years. He ran for Congress in 2012, challenging Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-Queens, Nassau) in the Democratic primary and won the communities within the 32nd Council District, he said, though he failed to come close to unseating the congressman and came in third in the four-way race. At the time Meeks represented much more of the 32nd Council District than he does now, following redistricting that took effect in 2013.

While Scala may be running as a Democrat, and has been endorsed by the Liberal Party of New York, he sides with the right side of the political aisle on some issues.

“I actually think the City Council has gone too far [to the left] in many ways,” he said. “For example, I don’t support voting rights for illegal immigrants.”

His main focus on education would be “modernizing” the curriculum and improving afterschool programs.

“The main goal here is making sure our students are prepared for the job market they’re going to inherit and I think we’re behind the curve on that in many ways,” the candidate continued on page 36

Pol get results on DOJ feminine product rules Agency to give female inmates tampons The Trump administration has issued a memo saying that it will provide women incarcerated in federal facilities with free feminine hygiene products.

Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing) and Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras-Copeland (D-East Elmhurst) last year wrote a letter to-then U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch in support of the reform. And they are glad that the Department of Justice is now complying with it.

“The move will be a huge boost in our efforts to make tampons, pads, liners and other feminine hygiene products more accessible to women, and it will help restore dignity and proper hygiene practices to the many inmates who found these items out of reach,” the congresswoman said in a prepared statement.

The Aug. 1 memo on the Federal Bureau of Prisons website says that wardens are to ensure that female inmates have access to Maxi pads with wings, super size and regular; tampons, regular and super size along with regular panty liners.

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Hopefuls duke it out at St. John’s Citywide and borough president candidates talk issues during forum

by Ryan Brady Associate Editor

The tough-talking impudence of Bo Dietl stuck out like nothing else at Tuesday night’s cand id at es for u m at St. Joh n’s University.

Along with the other hopefuls, the independent challenger to de Blasio was asked which New York City elected official he would most and least like to be stuck for 10 minutes in a elevator with.

“Most? Bill de Blasio, so I could punch him,” Dietl said.

A nd cit y Compt roller Scot t St r i nger, he said , was least because he “hasn’t done a damn thing” in his job as the city’s financial guardian.

Responding to the same quest ion, St r i nger joked t hat he would like to be stuck with Dietl because it would be “fun.” To wh ich t he br a sh ex-law m a n replied: “I don’t k now if it’s gonna be fun after 10 minutes.”

Dietl did not spare Assemblywo m a n N i c ol e M a l l i o t a k i s (R-Staten Island, Brooklyn), the Republican candidate for mayor, either.

“Well, I’m glad, Nicole, you went to a housing project yesterday,” he mocked. “Eight different ones. Welcome to the campaign. I guess when you run for m ayor, you v i sit hou si ng projects.”

The event, which was sponsored by the Queens Tribune and other groups, was split into two par ts. First, there was a forum in which a range of issues was discussed by the citywide candidates — for mayor: Democrat ic pr i ma r y hopef u ls Sal A lba nese, R ich a rd Ba sh ner,

Bo Dietl, a brash private investigator running against Mayor de Blasio, speaks at a candidates forum on Tuesday night at St. John’s University. Public advocate candidates Juan Carlos Polanco and David Eisenbach, center and PHOTO BY RYAN BRADY right, respectively, look on.

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De Blasio and Public Advoc a t e L e t it i a Ja me s d id not attend. Stringer and Borough President Melinda Katz were the only elected off icials making their case on the stage of the school’s Little Theater.

A f t e r t h at , K at z a nd t h e Republican candidate for borough president, William Kregler, one-on-one took questions from a panel of SJU students and Tribune reporters.

The candidates took questions on some of the biggest concerns in city government, like homelessness, an issue that has been contentious in this borough.

“What you have seen is a number of hotels here in Queens that have been transitioned to shelters i n wh ich the t axpayers are paying tens of millions of dollars for contracts to private developers instead of using that money t o t r y a nd bu i ld affordable housing and suppor tive housing,” Malliotakis said.

Borough President Melinda Katz speaks at TuesDietl suggested PHOTO BY RYAN BRADY that homeless shelday’s candidates forum.

ters be built on Rikers Island and Randall’s Island, which are city property, so they aren’t “in the backyards of New York City.”

The hopef uls also took on another housing issue — whether the New York City Housing Authority, whose financial situation has suffered from federal divestment, should be privatized.

“When it comes to management, we shouldn’t be privatizing NYCHA, but we should be deploying private-sector best practices,” Tolkin, a tech capitalist considered a longshot candidate in the Democratic primar y race for mayor, said. “We need to be operating with greater competence and g reater efficiency.”

Faulk ner, a Harlem pastor, spoke about the situation of a NYCHA tenant in Manhattan whose bath room ceiling was leaking for more than two years.

“The problem is we don’t have people at City Hall who really care,” he said. “The people at N YCH A have been polit ical p aw n s for t o o long ; I w i l l change that.”

During the “lighting round,” all the citywide candidates said they would like to see the Rockaway Beach Rail Line restored.

Another question asked the hopefuls if the United Federation of Teachers has “undue inf luence” over city education policy.

“The testing regimes that are being implemented to create students who are good little test takers — well, that’s not the way in which we’re gonna get the

entrepreneurs of tomorrow, the artists, the thinkers,” said Eisenbach, who teaches histor y at Columbia University.

A for mer teacher and UFT member, Polanco said that while he liked being part of the union, w h e n h e w a s a m e m b e r it occurred to him that the organization has some ser ious problems.

“You realize that the same people you thought were looking out for you were not looking out for the children more than they were looking out for their members,” said the candidate. The UFT, he added, has a “stronghold” over both city and state governments.

What role the city should play in the crisis facing the MTA was also discussed by the candidates.

Stringer said that, in the short term, the city has a “responsibility” toward funding the plan put for th by MTA Chair man Joe Lhota. And for a long-term solution, he said, “We need to put all ideas on the table — whether it’s congestion pricing, whether it’s a tax to raise revenue or an idea that I have, which is to support a transportation bond act to raise $2.9 billion.”

Albanese ripped the mayor for the politics of how he has handled the transportation crisis.

“You gotta work with the governor and the Legislature,” the former Brooklyn councilman said.

“You can’t make this personal.

It’s part of your job. We have to fix and fund the system.”

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how he went to de Blasio’s gym in Park Slope, urging the incumbent to take the train; the mayor ended up doing so.

Bashner, a lawyer and Brooklyn community board member, s u g ge s t e d u s i n g a r e ve n u e stream that Cuomo has praised to fund fixes to the MTA crisis.

“I agree with congestion pricing. Along with the governor, we need to work out a proposal that works,” he said. “There is one source. Another source would be a carbon t ax on com mercial buildings and residential buildi ng s t o s u p p or t t h e t r a n sit system.”

Katz and K regler took the stage shortly after the citywide candidates forum ended.

Each candidate at one point was asked what thei r “ideal vision” for Willets Point is.

“Right now, we did not need another mall,” K regler said, referring to a related plan for the Citi Field pa rk i ng lot. “You could throw a stone and hit the other mall on the other side of the water. ... If I was going to use it for anything, put a stadium there, for soccer.”

He’s not the first person to make that proposal.

“I have called over the last year for a soccer stadium and affordable housing to put on those 35 acres that we now control,” Katz said about Willets Point proper. While the borough president added that any plan would require input from the community, she said she would suppor t the constr uction of a stadium for soccer and housing u n it s t h a t a r e 10 0 p e r c e nt affordable.

The incumbent and her Republican challenger were also asked about how to balance the development needed for a growing borough with preserving the character of neighborhoods.

“One of the arguments that I consistently have with the City Plan ning Com mission is that they have not downzoned one neighborhood in four years,” Katz said, adding that some areas are not appropriate for high-density development.

Kregler stressed how important zoning is to communities, and how it must be followed closely. The zoning code, he said, “addresses the quality of life. We have to stop trying to put another million, two million people in the Q city. It’s going to bust.”

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mid all the abysmal things President Trump said after the chaos and fatal right-wing terrorist car attack in Charlottesville, Va., he actually made one point that’s proving to be correct.

No, it wasn’t that “many sides” were to blame for the violence that ended in the death of a young idealist and injuries to many more at the hands of a Nazi. No, it wasn’t that Trump’s response to the raging street battles and killing was “perfect,” as he claimed in a bizarre, divisive speech Tuesday in Phoenix. And no, it wasn’t that there is any equivalence between honoring the memory of Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and that of Confederate leaders who were willing to split the country in two, through the horrors of war, in order to maintain the evil of slavery.

But he did stumble onto some truth on that last point, when he said, “This week it’s Robert E. Lee. ... Stonewall Jackson is coming down. I wonder, is George Washington next week and is it Thomas Jefferson the week after? You really do have to ask yourself: ‘Where does it stop?’”

Yes, Washington and Jefferson owned slaves, as did many men of their time, both in the South and the North — including in New York, including in Queens. Laws and social

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mores evolve over time, as exemplified, in our own day, by former President Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s changing views on same-sex marriage. Both opposed it at first but then came to favor it — the same journey taken by many.

Addtionally, the government Washington and Jefferson each led also contained, in the Constitution’s Three-Fifths Compromise, the seed for the eventual abolition of slavery.

The idea, favored by Northern delegates, was that the South would have fewer representatives and be less able to keep slavery going. In the end, of course, it wouldn’t give it up without a war that killed at least 620,000 on both sides.

But the truth Trump hit upon is that the idea of removing statues of Confederate leaders such as Lee and Jackson could well lead down a slippery slope. It already has.

First it was the destruction in Durham, NC, of a statue honoring no specific person but the average Confederate soldier by a group of protesters. Of course every member of the Confederate Army fought on the wrong side of the war, on the wrong side of history. But they didn’t all do it to preserve slavery; many had no choice at all. Toppling and crushing that statue is quite different from taking those of rebel leaders off courthouse lawns and moving them to museums.

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Then it was the vandalism of a monument to Christopher Columbus in Baltimore. And here in New York, Columbus also is a target: specifically the statue of him in Columbus Circle. City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito wants the city to consider removing it. Mayor de Blasio, who has ordered a review of controversial statues around the city, has not gotten on board with that idea, to his credit. Columbus did commit some evil acts, but so have many historical figures who were admirable otherwise.

We believe South Queens City Councilman Eric Ulrich got it right in opposing removal of the statue. As he said on Twitter, “Christopher Columbus, albeit controversial, is historically significant — especially for Italian American immigrants who built this city.”

What’s next, renaming the FDR Drive because Roosevelt ordered Japanese Americans and others into prison camps?

The racism and oppression that truly must be tackled is that which still exists today in too many people; witness the Sunnyside man who allegedly has his neighbors living in fear due to things such as putting up a poster of Adolf Hitler.

Let’s see what de Blasio’s review has to say, and let any removal of statues take place in an orderly, open fashion.

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expressway service road, is NOT a superhighway and drivers who treat it as such need to know that they will receive a traffic citation for going above the 25 mph speed limit that is, in most places, the speed limit for residential zones.

Unfortunately, in spite of Vision Zero’s emphasis on pro-active thinking regarding transportation safety, both the DOT and traffic enforcement remain reactive. The city should not wait for fatalities to occur before taking steps to improve safety at intersections, but rather the police and the DOT should listen to residents’ concerns and act upon them before accidents and fatalities happen.

David Snyder Forest Hills

Ways yes, greens no Dear Editor: I read in your paper that Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz is for the “Greenway.” I could

not believe it! As a lifelong resident of Rego Park, I can see firsthand that “transportation” is of the utmost importance.

With all the new construction, The Alexander Luxury Rentals near 63rd Drive, subway and buses are jammed packed. Then there is the closing of about 6 or 7 stores to make way for construction of new condos on or about 67 Road in Rego Park, with some parking spaces in the building itself. But where will other tenants park their cars when parking spaces were taken away because of these “bike lanes”? Then there is the big one — the closing of the Key Food store on Yellowstone Boulevard for development again of condos — how many units I have no idea? Continental Ave platforms joined with the bus lines will be overcrowded.

So I cannot see why Councilwoman Koslowitz wants a “Greenway,” another park, when she already has beautiful Forest Park in Kew Gardens. We do not need another park. We, the residents of Rego Park and Forest Hills, need

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Right-wing wrong Dear Editor: Mr. Rodin in his recent Chronicle letter is consistent in his never ending bias, once again trying to paint the right-wing right when every action by them proves the right-wing, wrong.

The large mob carrying the traditional flaming KKK torches, Nazi signs and swastikas, toted by those singing, “Jews Will Not Replace Us” and striking the all too familiar ‘Nazi Sieg Heil’ stance marched down the streets of Charlottesville, set the stage. Most frightening is that they no longer feel the need to blanket their faces under sheets thanks to their security blanket, President Trump.

Sorry, I thought I was finished writing this letter but no ... there is one more thing, healthcare. There is ObamaCare (ACA) and how to improve it? Simple; join the rest of the advanced industrial world with “single payer” healthcare for all. Sadly, with our present administration, we have now forfeited our global leadership. But perhaps with future elections we can reclaim that position. It’s time to catch up with the greatness of America rather than bringing it “back again” to Jim Crow. It is this administration that has pulled us back. Perhaps a people’s president and not that of the Electoral College will bring our country forward.

It could (should) have been!

I have always found Rory Lancman’s columns insightful and look forward to reading them. Judging by Mr. Rodin’s past letters, I can understand why he does not.

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Pastor Stephen Roser Stephen Roser is the pastor of Howard Beach Assembly of God Church Public Relations Consultant Karol Markowicz recently wrote, “…contentious times are the rule, not the exception.” That was never more true than of 1969, the year that gospel songwriter Gloria Gaither realized that she’d soon be having another baby.

Racial tensions were tearing the nation apart.

The Vietnam conflict was claiming thousands of lives, and university students were growing disillusioned and “dropping out.” Added to the national turmoil was the Gaithers’ personal trouble. Gloria’s husband, musician Bill Gaither, had contracted mononucleosis, which left him exhausted and depressed.

The couple was discouraged and even asked each other, “If the world is like this now, what will it be in fifteen or sixteen years for our baby?” But while praying about these things, they came to see that their courage didn’t come from a stable world, because the world has never been stable. Instead, people have babies,

raise families, and risk living because the Resurrection of Christ is true.

Their baby arrived safe and sound, and just a few weeks later “Because He Lives,” a gospel song that is loved by millions, was birthed in their hearts. The second verse speaks of their own experience: How sweet to hold our newborn baby, And feel the pride and joy he gives; But greater still, the calm assurance, This child can face uncertain days because He lives.

The Lord’s Resurrection is the central truth of life. Because He lives, we can face tomorrow.

Our God has defeated death, and we have hope for a future that will lift us out of the heartbreak and strife of this world, for our resurrection is as sure as the Resurrection of Jesus Himself.

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Dear Editor: General Robert E. Lee, 1807-1870, the American Napoleon, graduate of U. S. Military Academy second in his class with a commission in the Engineer Corps, superintendent at West Point (1852-1855), has remained an American hero, despite his role in the Confederacy from 1861 to 1865. As a native Virginian, General Lee is especially honored by Virginians for his audacity, initiative, strong character and military brilliance, but now the leftists have made him the scapegoat for their worn racistbaiting diatribes.

I suggest that the leftists thoroughly study the gravity of the underlying political and economic causes of the American Civil War and the failure of all attempts at political compromise between the North and South vis-a-vis their sectionalist socio-economic interests.

Despite the moral fervor against slavery of Northern and Southern abolitionists and the issue of political secession, equal smokescreens, the Civil War was neither calculated as a Northern crusade for black freedom nor as a Southern agenda for the fostering of slavery upon the slave-free states of the North and Midwest-West (i.e. the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 enshrined popular sovereignty — states’ rights). The bottom line in the eyes of both Northern and Southern antebellum politicians was the question: Should the federal government in Washington have been the instrument of Northern or Southern political end economic aggrandizement? Since all efforts at diplomacy failed from the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and onward, the answer (or answers) could only have come through civil war. (The Inevitability of the American Civil War, Joseph N. Manago, Aesthetics, Bloomington: AuthorHouse, 2005, pp. 75-89).

I would also suggest that the statues of slave owners Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and others should likewise be demolished, if we are to believe the moral imperative against Robert E. Lee is not another smokescreen for the leftist agenda.

Joseph N. Manago Flushing

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Dear Editor: The nation has been plunged into chaos in the course of just one week. This has brought up a debate, which is plain foolish, about if so called “hate speech” should be protected under the First Amendment right of free speech.

First, we must establish facts for some clueless individuals out there. The only speech that is not free speech is speech that defends or overtly pushes violence. If someone says something you don’t like, which is inevitable in everyone’s lives, that’s not hate speech, and if you think that it is, you yourself are being a fascist. It’s seems mainstream to attack the “altright,” but one can’t help but be perplexed about the thought process of the opposition on the other side of the political spectrum.

On Saturday, Aug. 19, a so-called “free speech” rally occurred in Boston. Now, what occurred on that day is one of the most bewildering and idiotic events to occur on the shores of this continent. Headlines were plastered all over the web, reading, “Thousands of counterprotesters march against free speech rally.” Hold the phone! Am I reading an excerpt from George Orwell’s 1984? Nope, this is America in 2017. Does no one possess the mental capacity to comprehend how counter-intuitive that is?

You are protesting against free speech, yet using free speech yourself to express that opinion? I’d like to see you try to organize and protest on that scale in Maoist China or Stalinist Russia.

Are there some racist imbeciles in our society? Absolutely! No one with a brain can deny that. The problem is, among others, that people hold this ludicrous belief that racism is more widespread than it is in actuality, and that you can tell if someone is racist based upon their political standpoint.

If someone holds a different opinion, no matter how stupid, and as long as is it doesn’t promote violence, that’s fine, they have a Godgiven right to believe whatever they want, no matter if it’s offensive to you or not. The state has no business telling people how to think. To those counter-protesters, I leave you with this: Millions have died fighting to protect those freedoms that you so detest. By opposing the right of free speech, you’re no better than those idiots who abuse it to begin with.

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Kathleen Schatz Rego Park

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Pols to MTA: Don’t forget the buses 45 Assembly members seek a master plan to go along with subway fixes

by Michael Gannon Editor

More than 40 members of the state Assembly on Tuesday called on Joe Lhota, chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation, to include bus service in the agency’s ongoing move to address the city’s mass transit crisis.

A ssembly m a n Jef f rey Di now it z (D-Bronx), chairman of the Committee on Corporations, Authorities, and Commissions with oversight of the MTA, circulated a letter among his colleagues calling for bus service to be included in plans to address the transit crisis. The letter was signed by 45 members of the Assembly, including 13 from Queens.

“Although our buses do not receive the same amount of media attention as the crisis underground in our subway system, over 2.5 million New Yorkers depend on the bus to get around every day,” said the letter on Dinowitz’s letterhead. “The state of bus service is poor, with riders suffering through slow travel speeds and near-certain unpunctuality. We are requesting from you, as the new chairman of the MTA, a comprehensive plan to improve bus service within six months.”

Signatories included Queens representatives Nily Rozic (D-Fresh Meadows), Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway Park), Francisco Moya (D-Jackson Heights), Ron Kim (D-Flushing), Vivian Cook (D-Jamaica),

While the subways are getting the attention, thirteen Queens representatives in the state Assembly have signed onto a letter calling on the MTA to develop a master plan for improved PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON bus service in the next six months.

Aravella Simotas (D-Astoria), Catherine Nolan (D-Long Island City), Mike Miller (D-Woodhaven), Brian Barnwell (D-Maspeth), Andrew Hevesi (D-Forest Hills), David Weprin (D-Fresh Meadows), Michele Titus (D-South Ozone Park) and Michael Den Dekker (D-East Elmhurst).

The letter states that bus ridership has been steadily declining, but not because of

lack of demand.

“Average bus speeds in New York City are seven miles per hour, and as slow as four miles per hour in congested areas such as Midtown Manhattan, Downtown Brooklyn, and Jamaica, Queens,” according to the missive. “New Yorkers who take the bus do so because they do not have other options, either because there is no train nearby or because

the subway is not fully ADA compliant.”

Rozic, in the statement issued by Dinowitz’s office, said inclusion of buses in the MTA’s calculations is essential.

“As a representative of a district in Queens that does not have a single subway or train station, I know how challenging it can be to get around the borough and connect to other parts of the City when bus service is infrequent and unreliable,” The MTA, in an email to the Chronicle, said bus riders’ complaints are not falling on deaf ears.

“Reliable and strong bus service is a key priority of the MTA which is exactly why we are installing Transit Signalization Prioritization technology across our fleet and exploring ways to expand all-door boarding,” a spokeswoman wrote.

“We look forward to continuing to work with our partners at the NYPD who do bus lane enforcement, as well as at NYC DOT who play a key role in reducing congestion on their streets, installing their own technology and helping our buses move faster,” she added.

Commuter and rider advocates said they hope so.

“The Summer of Hell has made the dire state of the subway obvious, but that’s just one part of the public transit meltdown riders continued on page 24

NYLCV rates Queens delegation to Albany Environment group gives borough mostly high marks; Simotas, Rozic rate 100%

by Michael Gannon

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The New York League of Conservation Voters, which has issued a scorecard on City Council members since 2003, has turned its attention in the direction of the New York State Legislature.

Both the borough’s Senate and Assembly delegations scored relatively well compared to those from other parts of the state, with individual members of both chambers running the gamut from perfect scores — Assemblywomen Nily Rozic (D-Flushing) and Aravella Simotas (D-Astoria) — to the 60 percent rating for Sen. James Sanders Jr. (D-South Ozone Park).

The 18-page report grades all legislators in the state with the exception of those in leadership positions on their votes and sponsorship of 16 bills.

The most controversial one was the successful effort to block implementation of the city’s planned grocery bag fee, an effort opposed by the NYLCV. Other bills dealt with farmland and open space preservation, energy, home heating oil standards, clean water, paint disposal and lead poisoning.

In the introduction to its findings, the league called the bag bill its largest disappointment of the session.

“This was a tough vote for even our strongest allies to take given pressure to support the

bill from [Senate Majority Leader John] Flanagan (R-Suffolk) and Assembly Speaker [Carl] Heastie (D-Bronx),” the report said. “It puts extra meaning on a score of 100 this year.”

The report is available at nylcv.org/news/ nylcv-releases-inaugural-state-scorecard/.

In the state Senate, Sens. Tony Avella ( D - B ay s id e) , L e r oy C o m r ie ( D - St .

Albans),Jose Peralta (D-East Elmhurst) and Toby Ann Stavisky (D-Flushing) all got ratings of 94 percent. Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard beach) was next with an 88 percent approval rating, followed by Sen. Mike Gianaris (D-Astoria) with 75 percent, followed by Sanders.

As a delegation, Queens senators were rated at 86 percent, ranking fourth of the 12 regions in the state.

The Queens Assembly members, with an average rating of 80 percent, also were fourth out of 12.

Following Rozic and Simotas were members Vivian Cook (D-Jamaica) with 92 percent; Andrew Hevesi (Forest Hills), 87 percent; Ron Kim (D-Flushing), 83 percent; Ed Braunstein (D-Bayside), Brian Bar nwell (D -Maspeth), Michael Den Dek ker (D -East Elm hu rst) and Mike Miller (D-Woodhaven), all scoring 81 percent; Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway Beach), 80 percent; Catherine Nolan

Queens state Assemblymembers Nily Rozic, left, and Aravella Simotas both earned 100 percent scores from the New York League of Conservation Voters for their votes and advocacy on enviFILE PHOTOS ronmental issues in the session that ended this summer.

(D-Long Island City), 75 percent; Michael Simanowitz (D-Flushing), Alicia Hyndman (D -Spr ingf ield Gardens), Clyde Vanel (D-Queens Village) and Francisco Moya (D-Jackson Heights) all at 73 percent; Jeffrion Aubrey (D-Corona) and David Weprin (D-Fresh Meadows) with 69 percent; and Michele Titus (D-Far

Rockaway) , at 67 percent.

Rozic and Sanders were the only members of the Queens delegations to vote against quashing the city bag law. Simotas, Kim, Hevesi and Vanel were classified as having excused absences on that day.

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Families fawn over the solar eclipse Dozens of kids get a crash course in celestial science in Glendale

by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

Ridgewood residents Ray, Michele and Alice Martin had been looking forward to Monday’s partial solar eclipse for months.

And when the moon finally began crossing in front of the sun shortly after 1:30 p.m., the awestruck family could barely utter complete sentences.

“Amazing, totally incredible,” Ray Martin said.

“Really cool,” Alice Martin added. “So awesome.”

Middle Village brothers Luke, left, and Alex DeFeo watch the eclipse.

The Martins were just three of the approximately 75 people who descended on the Glendale branch of the Queens Library for a free eclipse viewing party — all with high hopes for an afternoon of a lifetime.

Programming included arts and crafts, snacks and a livestream of NASA’s eclipse coverage, but it was the free — and very much necessary — solar glasses that most people came for.

“It’s amazing what nature can do,” said Middle Village mom Cindy Favia, alongside her son, John, and daughter, Toni. “This is a oncein-a-lifetime family experience.”

Here in Queens, the sun was only about 75 percent covered by the moon.

The path of totality — where the moon blocks out 100 percent of the sun’s rays, turning day into night — occurred in a 70-milewide band stretching southwest across 14 states, from Oregon in the west to South Carolina in the east.

Still, the first eclipse to cross the United States since 1918 — dubbed “The Great American Eclipse” by scientists — provided Queens residents some sweet views of the crescent sun.

“They’ve been talking about it and reading about it, and now they can actually look at it,” Middle Village mom Josephine DeFeo said of her sons Alex and Luke. “They got so excited the first time they looked up.”

Ray, Michele, right, and Alice Martin of Ridgewood gleefully watch Monday’s solar eclipse at the PHOTOS BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA Glendale library’s viewing party.

As the moon neared its peak coverage of the sun, a number of nearby residents walked out of their homes and approached watch party attendees, asking to borrow their special glasses.

Nearly a dozen people even stopped a Chronicle reporter walking from the event back to the newspaper’s office and asked to take a peek at the eclipse with the glasses he

got from the library.

“Oh my goodness, that’s incredible,” one passerby said. “I can’t believe it.”

Sara Espanol, the children’s librarian at the Glendale library, told the Chronicle that demand for the glasses and interest in the watch party were “overwhelming.” continued on page 17

Help homeless kids Miller, Addabbo copy go back to school Ulrich homeless bill Supply drive at Boro Hall thru Sept. 1

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Shopping for school supplies is oftentimes an unexpectedly expensive endeavour. But for homeless children, it’s not often they have the luxury of breaking out that brand new binder or notebook on the first day of classes.

So Borough President Melinda Katz is calling on charitable residents to help put smiles on the faces of undomiciled Queens students next month, once the academic year gets underway.

In conjunction with the Coalition for the Homeless, Katz’s office is hosting the fourth annual “Project: Back to School” event at Borough Hall —located at 12055 Queens Blvd. in Kew Gardens — where donations of backpacks and all sorts of school supplies for needy kids will be accepted through Sept. 1.

In addition to backpacks, the Coalition for the Homeless says the items it needs for elementary school students include No. 2 pencils, pencil sharpeners, composition notebooks, colored pencils, cray-

ons, washable markers, glue, erasers, safety scissors and rulers.

For middle and high school pupils, the group is accepting one- and one-and-ahalf-inch binders, scissors, pocket folders, scientific calculators and pens.

Donations can be dropped off in a large box located next to the security desk in the front lobby during business hours Monday through Friday.

Once the drive concludes, the items will be distributed to children living in Queens homeless shelters.

“All children, no matter where they sleep at night, deserve the opportunity to learn,” Katz said in a statement. “We can help ensure every child has that opportunity by providing the backpacks and school supplies that all school kids need.

Such donations will make a real difference in the lives of so many in need.”

According to the Coalition for the Homeless, there are over 100,000 undomiciled students in the five boroughs, about 10 percent of the kids enrolled in Q the city’s public school system.

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) and Assemblyman Mike Miller (D-Woodhaven) will follow in the footsteps of one of their colleagues in government and introduce a measure requiring hotels to notify potential guests if any homeless people are staying there.

The bills will be introduced in their respective chambers when Albany’s session begins in January, and mirrors a City Council bill proposed by Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) Aug. 9.

“Paying customers have the right to know what an establishment they intend to lodge at is doing,” Miller said in a statement. “We have an obligation to be transparent about where homeless families and individuals are being housed.”

The use of hotels to house the undomiciled has been a hot-button issue in recent years, with many in Queens being utilized and paid for with taxpayers dollars as the number of homeless people in the five boroughs has increased significantly.

At press time, the number of homeless people staying in city shelters was

58,975, according to the Department of Homeless Services.

The de Blasio administration unveiled a plan in March to phase out the use of 360 hotel shelters and cluster apartment sites by building 90 new shelters and expanding 30 others by 2023.

“This legislation is not in any way intended to hurt homeless individuals and families living in hotels in Queens or throughout the five boroughs, but it is an effort to ensure that the City hears loud and clear that this type of housing to address the homeless crisis is not working and is almost always completely inappropriate for those in need,” said Addabbo.

Ulrich, whose district overlaps with Addabbo’s and Miller’s, applauded the state legislators.

“The public has a right to know whether or not a hotel is also being used as a temporary homeless shelter,” he said in a statement issued by his colleagues in government.

Before introducing the legislation at the city level, Ulrich said the proposal would be a “stick in the eye” for Mayor Q de Blasio.

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Borough President Melinda Katz speaks at Tuesday’s unveiling of the new pedestrian plaza honoring influential Queens women outside Borough Hall on Tuesday. She was joined by Judge Carmen Velasquez, left, DDC Acting Commissioner Ana Barrio, former Borough President Claire Shulman, Councilman Barry Grodenchik and state Sen. Leroy Comrie. PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA it do enjoy it.”

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The late political trailblazer Geraldine Ferraro, a three-term member of Congress from Queens and America’s first female vice presidential nominee from a major party, would have turned 82 this Saturday.

So Borough President Melinda Katz thought there was no better time than this week to unveil the new pedestrian plaza dedicated to influential Queens women outside Borough Hall.

“Today is a great day,” Katz said during Tuesday’s ribbon-cutting ceremony. “It’s about remembering history and making history. It’s about looking forward and who we want to be.”

Helping Katz unveil the plaza was one of her predecessors, former BP Claire Shulman, along with state Sen. Leroy Comrie (D-St. Albans), Councilman Barry Grodenchik (D-Oakland Gardens), Department of Design and Construction Acting Commissioner Ana Barrio and Queens Supreme Court Justice Carmen R. Velasquez.

Shulman, with a grin on her face, even joked that she hoped Katz could scrounge up enough money to install a fountain.

“It is a beautiful, beautiful plaza,” Shulman said, “and I hope all the women in the borough who have the opportunity to enjoy

ing influential Queens women, and the plan was finally put out to bid in January.

After a few months and $960,000 worth of work, the site was reopened late last month, in conjunction with Mayor de Blasio’s City Hall in Your Borough week.

A plaque reading “This fountain plaza is dedicated to the women of Queens” was recently attached to the fence surrounding the statue’s remaining base.

The plaza’s concrete base has been fully restored to its original, whiter color and turned into a planter. New benches, landscaping and lighting were also installed.

“It had always been a sore thing for me,” Shulman said. “I tried to get rid of it but it cost so much money to move it.”

In his speech to those in attendance, Comrie noted the increased interest in removing statues of Confederate leaders in the wake of the recent racist terror attack in Virginia, saying Queens had been out in front when it comes to taking down monuments some deem offensive.

“I’m glad the work was done to get rid of something that had become an eyesore,” Comrie said. “It’s good that we were ahead of the curve on this one.”

“It’s important to remember these dedications are more than brick and mortar,” Katz Q added.

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Barnwell endorses Crowley, makes waves Holden slams the assemblyman, saying he’s ‘part of the machine’

by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

Assembly man Br ian Bar nwell (D-Maspeth) has joined a long list of elected officials in endorsing Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley (D-Glendale) over her Democratic primary opponent, Juniper Park Civic Association President Bob Holden.

But in doing so, he’s left his relationsh ip with the civic leader on rock y ground.

In his endorsement, announced by the Crowley campaign on Tuesday, Barnwell specifically cited her opposition to last year’s plan to convert the Maspeth Holiday Inn Express into a homeless shelter as a reason for his support.

“For the last eight years, Elizabeth Crowley has been a tireless fighter for ou r com mu n it y. She stood w it h u s against the Mayor to oppose the disastrous homeless shelter proposal for the Maspeth Holiday Inn,” Barnwell’s statement reads. “This is the kind of leadership that Elizabeth Crowley brings to the Council, and I’m proud to endorse her reelection and stand with her on the issues that matter to our families.”

The lawmaker had told the Chronicle multiple times since Holden announced his candidacy in April that he didn’t expect to officially support anyone in the race.

And his endorsement of Crowley represents something of a departure from his rhetoric during his successful Democratic pr i m a r y ca mpa ig n aga i n st t he n Assembly woman Marge Markey last year.

Originally seen as a longshot candidate when he started his campaign in 2015, Bar nwell rose to prom i nence par tly t h roug h h is at tend a nce of Holden’s meetings.

His chances of an upset victory grew dramatically last August, however, when the city’s plans for the Maspeth Holiday Inn Express were made public.

Barnwell was present at nearly every nightly protest for over a month, speaking to the crowd of angry constituents

Assemblyman Brian Barnwell, right, after initially pledging to stay neutral, endorsed Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley in her primary campaign against Juniper Park Civic Association PresiFILE PHOTOS dent Bob Holden, who slammed his friend for doing so. multiple times — even being introduced

by Holden on some occasions.

A nd in at least two of those br ief speeches, Barnwell took swipes at Crowley for not at t e nd i ng a ny of t hose protests.

“Is Liz Crowley here? Who’s that? ” Barnwell asked the crowd on Aug. 19.

“The fact is [Crowley, Markey and state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach)] haven’t showed up to give us an update and it’s atrocious.”

“You guys stopped this. The elected officials didn’t stop this,” Barnwell said on Sept. 10, after the city announced it would not convert the entire hotel into a shelter. “They haven’t stood with us. And it’s not the first time they haven’t stood with us.”

The assemblyman defended his past statements in a Tuesday interview with the Chronicle, saying Crowley deserved credit for bringing a lawsuit against the city over the shelter plan.

“She brought a lawsuit and it was dismissed for a lack of standing. So as a legislator, I brought up a bill that would give us standing,” Barnwell said. “How many other politicians have ever brought a lawsuit against Mayor de Blasio?”

Crowley said in a Tuesday statement that it was an “honor” to have the assemblyman in her corner prior to the Sept. 12 primary.

“It is inspiring to have young leaders like Brian Barnwell fighting for our community at home and in Albany,” Crowley said.

The first-term assemblyman and Holden had established a good rapport in the months since the protests and the former’s election. Crowley’s challenger went so far as to say at March’s Juniper Park Civic meeting that, “If you want something done, you better ask Brian Barnwell.”

But the relationship between the two soured rapidly in the hours after Barnwell’s endorsement, as Holden told the Chronicle on Tuesday that it was the most disappointing thing to happen during the primary campaign.

“Everyone close to Brian Barnwell or at the protests knows how he really feels about Liz Crowley. This is a good example of how t he Q ueens Democr at ic machine can put the screws to someone,” Holden said. “I’m disappointed in Brian, I thought he would stand up to them.

Another example of how self-preservation in politics won out again over honesty. I guess that’s why you can’t believe

politicians.

“He’s part of the machine now,” he continued. “I don’t think he’s a fighter. I don’t see that in him.”

Barnwell shot back on Tuesday, saying the idea of him being part of the party machine was laughable.

“Because I don’t agree with everything someone says, it doesn’t mean that I’m magically part of a machine,” he said.

“So many people are screaming that no one works together. And when you try to work together with a colleague, you get ridiculed more.”

Holden also claimed Barnwell told him last month that Crowley threatened the assemblyman to force him to endorse her.

If Barnwell declined, the civic leader said, then Crowley would arrange for him to have a primary challenger in 2018.

“I never expected Brian would cave,” Holden said. “Brian said to me he thought she doesn’t have the clout to do that.”

When contacted on Tuesday, Crowley campaig n spokesman Jon Greenf ield denied Holden’s claim, calling it “sad.”

“Bob Holden’s paranoid and angr y attacks have now become outright lies about Assemblyman Barnwell’s endorsement of Elizabeth Crowley. Every time he doesn’t get his way, Bob sees conspirac ie s a nd mys t e r iou s s u p e r-v i l l a i n s because he can’t handle the truth.”

Barnwell also threw water on the allegation, saying it was “ironic” that Holden came forward now about the threat after the endorsement announcement instead of when it supposedly happened.

“I was never threatened by her. However, they did both ask me if I would endorse them,” he said. “I talked to both of them a few times about endorsements.”

When it comes to threats, Barnwell was subjected to a number of them from district residents in the hours after he a n nou nced h is suppor t of Crowley, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.

While many of them are believed to be harmless, the source said one was strongQ ly worded and considered serious.

Coca-Cola’s Maspeth bottling plant is sold

by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

The Coca-Cola bottling plant in Maspeth has been sold to Home Depot for $63 million, according to the broker in charge of handling the property.

A spokesperson for Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley (D-Glendale) told the Chronicle on Wednesday morning that the lawmaker’s office received a call the previous night informing them of the sale, but further details were not immediately available.

However, Pinnacle Realty broker James

Home Depot buys the site for $63M Tack confirmed to the Chronicle later in the day that Home Depot purchased the 59-02 Borden Ave. site from property owner Kaymac Corp., and the sale closed on Tuesday.

A Coca-Cola spokesperson confirmed to the paper that the site had been sold by Kaymac Corp., the property owner, but did not provide additional information.

“The production facility Coca-Cola Refreshments currently leases in Maspeth has been sold by the building’s owner,

Kaymac Corp.,” Francis McGorry, CocaCola’s president of tri-state metro operations, said in a statement. “Coca-Cola has a proud history in Maspeth and a longstanding commitment to New York City. We look forward to continuing to operate in New York and are evaluating our options to ensure we continue to provide world class service to our customers and the people who enjoy our beverages.”

The Chronicle reported in April that the 59-02 Borden Ave. site had been put on the

market. Pinnacle Realty broker James Tack, who handled the listing, told the paper at the time that the plot had garnered “tremendous” and “unprecedented” interest from prospective buyers.

The lease for the Coca-Cola plant, which employs 118 people, runs through March 30, 2020.

It is unclear if the company will remain there through that date. Tack said there has been “some talk” about when Coca-Cola will move, but discussions about the company’s lease being broken is just “conjecture” Q at this point.

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continued from page 2 made this possible — but we need to keep making progress and pushing towards equity and excellence for all students,” Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña said in a statement.

School District 26 in northeast Queens continued its intellectual dominance, with 68.2 percent of students being proficient in ELA and 71.2 in math — a 2.7 and 0.6 percentage point increase, respectively, for the borough’s top-performing district from last year.

At the bottom of the pile was School District 29 in southeast Queens, with 34.8 percent of students getting the top grades in ELA and

26 percent in math — a 1.6 and 0.2 point, respectively, increase from the 2016 exams.

In South Queens and Rockaway, School District 27 students had the second-lowest proficiency rating.

In ELA, 38.7 were proficient and 34.1 were in math — a 1.4 and 0.9 point, respectively, jump from 2016.

School District 24, which covers parts of southwest and western Queens, had 40.8 percent of its students proficient in ELA and 40.7 in math — a 1.2 and 0.2 point increase from the prior year.

The students of School District 28, in

central Queens and South Jamaica, scored a proficient rating 44.2 percent of the time in ELA and 41.9 percent in math — an increase of 1.7 and 0.7 points.

Taking the bronze is School District 30, the borough’s westernmost district, with 47.6 percent getting the highest honors in ELA and 44.9 in math — an increase of 3.6 and 2 points, respecitvely.

And in northern Queens, School District 25 came in second, though still far behind neighboring district 26, with 54.9 percent of students proficient in ELA and 59.5 in math — a 2 and 0.1 percentage point increase, respectively.

The state Education Department said the 2017 tests were similar to the ones adminis-

tered last year, which saw a decrease in the number of correct answers needed to pass compared to prior exams.

“The State did not make significant changes to the ELA or math assessments administered in 2017,” the agency said in a statement.

“Therefore, the 2017 results can be compared with the 2016 results.”

It was also the second year in which there were no time limits — students could take as long as they needed to complete the exam, so long as they were working productively.

“Real progress takes time,” State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia said. “So, the test scores we’re announcing today are a positive sign that we continue to steadily head in Q the right direction.”

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continued from page 14 “We got so many calls over the last week,” Espanol said. “But I think everything turned out really well. It was a little hectic, but I think everyone had fun.”

Espanol had hundreds of special glasses to give away, as they were donated through a grant the Queens Library system received from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s “NASA @ My Library” initiative. Like Glendale, nearly every other borough library branch also handed out the eyewear and had watch parties.

Queens residents looking to view a total solar eclipse won’t have to wait too long, in the grand scheme of things.

On April 8, 2024, the path of totality will run northwest from south Texas to upstate New York, turning day into night in Empire State cities like Buffalo, Syracuse and Watertown.

A number of watch party attendees were unaware of that fact, including Favia, who told her daughter to start planning as soon as possible.

“Put an alert in your phone,” she told Toni. “You and your brother can drive up there and watch it together.”

Meanwhile, Michele Martin said after 30 minutes of sun-watching that she caught the solar eclipse bug.

“Now I need to see a total eclipse,” she Q said. “I just have to see it.”

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Flagship trying to stay its ‘execution’ Beloved Briarwood diner and its new landlord sparring in court

by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

The Flagship Diner has been a staple of Briarwood for 52 years, a restaurant seen more as a communal meeting place than just a spot to get a decent burger and fries.

But there’s no guarantee the eatery sees its 53rd birthday.

That’s because the diner is embroiled in a legal fight with its landlord, White Rock Management, over claims from the latter that the former isn’t properly keeping up the property.

“They want us out now so they can start building tomorrow,” Flagship coowner Vincent Pupplo said in a Tuesday interview.

White Rock Management purchased the 138-28 Queens Blvd. property last July for $6.125 million and soon filed plans for a seven-story, 64-unit residential complex with the Department of Buildings.

But Pupplo said that even after the sale, he was always under the impression the diner could remain at the site through Oct. 31, 2019, when its 25-year lease expires.

That was until this sum mer, when DOB permits to build the new residential str ucture were approved. White Rock representatives then offered to buy out Pupplo and co-owners Frank Lountzis and Jimmy Skartsiaris for $150,000 each, which the three men turned down.

Soon after, Pupplo said, White Rock started demanding unlimited access to the diner, apparently to scour for building violations.

According to Pupplo, the landlord found 14 such violations and served the eatery owners with a five-day “notice to cure” earlier this month, meaning every issue had to be rectified within a week or they would face eviction.

“Most were bogus and the others were easily fixable,” he said. “They said the pa rk i ng lot mu st be r ipped up a nd replaced. But it’s OK for ever yone.

Except for them.”

Many of the violations, including a

broken sidewalk, are impossible to fix in less than a week. So Pupplo and his co-owners have taken legal action to have the notice to cure nullified.

After a two-week search, eate r y le a d e r sh ip h i r e d M i ke Reich of t he u lt r ap owe r f u l Sweeney, Reich, Bolz f i r m.

Reich was able to secure a “Yellowstone injunction” — where the tenant is given the right to f i x a ny alleged i n f r act ion s w it hout t he not ic e t o cu r e expiring.

The temporar y victor y — delaying what Pupplo called the “execution notice” — was a costly one for the Flagship, as Reich’s r et a i ne r a lone wa s $25,000.

“They are trying to bankrupt us through the cour t. That’s how it appears to me,” Pupplo said. “This is just going to be their battle plan. These guys have deep pockets.”

The diner owners are press- Customers leave the Flagship Diner after eating lunch on Tuesday. The Briarwood institution, open for over ing on, however, as they have five decades, is now embroiled in a legal battle with the property owner, as owners of the former claim the f i le d t hei r ow n c ompla i nt , latter is making up “bogus” building violations in hopes of closing the eatery early — allowing development which will be heard in court on of a new residential tower to start.

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“That was a 150-page complaint say- something,” Pupplo said. “The people I would be like taking away a playground, ing, ‘stop harassing us,’” Pupplo said. want attending are those who are really leaving all the children with nowhere to Requests for comment via telephone behind us.” go. message and email were not returned by “There’s nothing else in this communiIn terms of Briarwood’s reaction to the White Rock Management by press time diner’s legal troubles, he said nearly ty like the Flag,” he continued. “Business on Wednesday.

1,000 people have signed a petition in people need to have hearts. It’s not all Seven days prior to their court date, support of the Flagship at its front desk. about money.”

Pupplo and his colleagues will hold an 11 While he had not signed the petition as “The community is up in arms. They a.m. press conference at the diner to draw are furious that this is happening,” the of Tuesday, Varlack said he planned on attention to their plight alongside state co-owner said. “We have people who are taking 10 blank pages of paper and passSen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside), who rep- literally crying. Everyone that finds out ing them out this Sunday at his church, resents the northeast Queens neighbor- says, ‘How can they throw you out?’” where many of the worshipers are also hoods where all three owners live.

One of those heartbroken customers is frequent Flagship patrons.

Diner leadership also plans to invite 73-year-old Jamaica resident James VarWhen it comes to his staff’s reaction to area law makers such as Cou ncilman lack, a pastor at The Church of The First the legal issues, Pupplo said many have Rory Lancman (D-Fresh Meadows) and Born on Sutphin Boulevard. been unfazed. state Sen. Leroy Comrie (D-St. Albans), “The employees are pretty calm about Varlack has come in six mornings a among others. week for over seven years and ordered the it,” he said. “They think we will win and “Maybe one of them will be able to do same thing — scrambled eggs with let- we will stay open.”

If White Rock were to come forward tuce, tomato, cucumber and toast.

While he would deeply miss his “fan- with a “reasonable” buyout offer that tastic” daily breakfast, Varlack said it’s financially takes care of all three cothe atmosphere of the Flagship that he owners as well as every diner employee, would mourn the most, if it were forced Pupplo said he would have to seriously vided. The community last year held a consider it. to close prior to 2019. similar cleanup, in which volunteers But in the absence of one, to the court “This diner is not just a place to eat. focused just on the park.

It’s a place of fellowship,” Varlack said. system they will go.

The cleanup is taking place a week P upplo k nows a v ictor y i n cou r t “You could put a sign in here that reads, before the fifth annual “Baby Parade,” in ‘This is the house of love’ because they against a powerful real estate company which toddlers ride along 104th Street in and its high-priced lawyers won’t be treat you like family.” custom-made floats decked out in cosFor nearly 30 minutes on Tuesday, Var- easy. But he said it’s the least he can do tumes. Trophies and ribbons are handed lack told stories of how he ran into ele- for those loyal employees who, like him, out to those with the best floats. mentary school classmates at the Flag- have given their lives to the Flagship.

At the end of the parade, residents get “I have to pull out all the stops. They ship, became close friends with fellow to enjoy bouncy castles, rock climbing regulars and even mentored troubled are trying to bury us,” he said. “They’re walls, free food, face painting and more trying to put 35 families out of work. neighborhood teens over lunch.

Q at Hamilton Beach Park.

“I have people working here 40 years,” “We would lose a place of refuge. A — Anthony O’Reilly place where you can escape your trou- Pupplo continued. “What are they going bles,” he said. “Taking this place away to do at 70 years old? Get another job?” Q

Hamilton Beach cleanup To prepare for one of the most anticipated community events of the year, Hamilton Beach will clean up its park and main corridor this Sunday.

The community cleanup will start at 11:30 a.m. at Hamilton Beach Park and make its way up 104th Street to the West Hamilton Beach Volunteer Fire Department’s headquarters, where 104th meets Davenport Court.

Attendees are asked to bring gloves, rakes, brooms and hand tools for weeding and wear bug spray and sunblock.

Water and garbage bags will be pro-

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A p a i r of Q u e e n s health centers are each receiving tens of thousands of federal dollars from a grant program rewarding excellence in patient care.

U.S. Sens. K i r sten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced last Thursday that the Damien Family Care Center network and the Joseph P. Addabbo Family Health Center chain had won a Health Center Quality Improve- The Joseph P. Addabbo Family Health Center network and the Damien ment grant from the feder- Family Care Center chain are getting tens of thousands of dollars in fedal Department of Health eral grant money for exellence in patient services.

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In total, 62 community health centers tion — worth a combined $176,594.

The biggest recipient was the Addabbo across New York earned a combined $6.4 network — which includes clinics in Ozone million in federal grant money. NationPark, Jamaica and the Rockaways — which wide, the HRSA handed out nearly $105 million in funding to 1,333 organizations. earned a $106,094 grant.

“Today’s awards will help health centers The Briarwood-based Damien network — which includes clinics in Richmond to provide their communities with highHill, Jamaica and Long Island City — is quality, affordable primary care,” HRSA Administrator Dr. George Sigounas said. picking up $70,500.

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Pol, city settle suit about FMCP alliance

by Ryan Brady Associate Editor

Councilman Rory Lancman (D-Fresh Meadows) announced Friday that his lawsuit against the city over the Alliance for Flushing Meadows Corona Park has been settled.

The suit by Lancman, who represents a southern portion of the green space, had two parts. Launching the litigation last July, he charged that the alliance violated city law by not allowing him representation on its board of directors. His litigation also alleged that the public-private partnership’s being funded by private groups in exchange for them using Flushing Meadows parkland was an illegal setup.

In the settlement, Lancman and other Council members whose districts include or abut the park were given representation on the alliance’s board of directors. Before the settlement, the only two represented were Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras-Copeland (D-East Elmhurst) and Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito (D-Manhattan, Bronx).

According to the councilman’s office, representation has been extended to the following: Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz (D-Forest Hills) along with Councilmen Peter Koo (D-Flushing) and Paul Vallone (D-Bayside).

Their districts all cover or abut parts of the green space.

According to Lancman’s office, the United States Tennis Association agreed in 2013 to give around $10 million over 23 years to the

A lawsuit involving the Alliance for Flushing Meadows Corona Park has been settled, but not PHOTO BY RYAN BRADY everyone is pleased. conservancy, which was not fully formed then, to secure City Council approval for the group using more land in Flushing Meadows.

Sterling Equities and the Related Companies, the councilman’s office said, agreed to fork over $15.5 million over a 25-year-period.

The two firms had planned to build a megamall in the Citi Field parking lot, but earlier this year the state Court of Appeals deemed

the plan illegal because the parking lot is technically parkland whose alienation must be approved by the state Legislature.

The alliance, which was off icially launched in 2015, was supposed to receive half of the funds. The other half would go to capital improvements in Flushing Meadows.

The councilman had said that the funding stream was illegal, because the money given

in exchange for using the park was not paid into the city’s general fund.

Lancman said last year that the alliance “is a rogue organization bargaining off access to Flushing Meadows and making important decisions about the park’s future without proper oversight or input from the public’s elected representatives.”

He seems to have settled for representation on its board of directors, though.

“Our constituents all use and care deeply about the park, and I look forward to working together to bring resources to Flushing Meadows to make it the truly great park it was meant to be,” the councilman said in a prepared statement last Friday.

The settlement did not resolve the matter of the alliance’s funding system.

“That portion of the lawsuit was dropped, as part of the larger settlement,” Lancman spokesm a n Josh L ev it t em ailed t he Chronicle.

The settlement disappointed NYC Park Advocates President Geoffrey Croft. While the activist said that he was glad that Lancman will now get representation in the alliance, he believes that the group itself is problematic.

“It appears just in discussions with the Council member that him having representation on the board is the most pressing issue instead of dealing with the illegality of the alliance itself, which is diverting money from Q the city general fund,” Croft said.

Ribbon cut at new Fort Totten facility

by Ryan Brady

tenance facility.

“What does revitalized means to us?” said The U.S. Army Reserve and two northeast the major general, who oversees Army Reserve Queens elected officials cut the ribbon on a soldiers in 13 states. “It means that we’ve taken revitalized military facility in Fort Totten last an older facility and we’ve brought it into the 21st century.”

Thursday.

Around 300 square feet have been added to “What a great day it is to be an American,” Major Gen. Troy Kok said during the ceremony the building, according to the Army Reserve. before the ribbon was cut. Kok is the com- Floor drains, two bay wash racks and an oilmanding general of the 99th Regional Support water separator were also added to the building to “improve environmental impact.” The faciliCommand, which uses Fort Totten.

A $12.6 million project completed by a ty is now certified for Leadership in Energy New Jersey-based contractor, Kok praised and Environmental Design, a rating of how the revitalization for modernizing the main- green a building is developed by the U.S. Green Building Council.

In military jargon, the building is an “Organizational Maintenance Shop” that is used for “Area Maintenance Suppor t Activity.” This means that it is a maintenance facility for equipment used mostly by the 77th Sustainment Brigade of the 99th Regional Command, along with other units from the command who use the Fort Totten base.

Kok spoke about how the revitalization reflects Major Gen. Troy Kok, center, was thrilled to cut the ribbon on a new how the U.S. military has facility in Fort Totten. Respectively, Rep. Tom Suozzi and Council- evolved in decades past.

“These facilities were man Paul Vallone are third and second from right. PHOTO BY RYAN BRADY

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This shot is a drone’s-eye-view of the interior of the newly revitalized U.S. Army Reserve facility in PHOTO COURTESY U.S. ARMY RESERVE Fort Totten, which was revealed last Thursday. built predominantly in the 1950s and they met the requirements of our army and the army reserve at that time, with the types of equipment we had during that period of time,” he said. “But as we become a better fighting force, a more professional force, our equipment has adjusted to time.”

Councilman Paul Vallone (D-Bayside) and Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Suffolk, Nassau, Queens) joined the Army Reserve officials for the ribbon cutting.

“I think a day like today, whether it’s for a

maintenance facility or anything that brings attention to the success here at the 77th and here Fort Totten, is a wonderful day,” Vallone said.

Suozzi, a member of the House Committee on A r med Ser vices, also extolled the revitalization.

“I know it’s not easy to get things done with all the bureaucracy you have to deal with in the federal government to get a project done,” the congressman said. “This is an absolutely beauQ tiful facility.”

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Sunnyside stands against a ‘bully’ Hateful posters plastered in lobby of condominium; families living in fear

by Victoria Zunitch Chronicle Contributor

The Sunnyside man accused of racist and anti-Semitic bullying at the condominium he has been managing might not be the legitimate managing agent or even an owner entitled to attend board meetings, some suggested at a press conference held Wednesday by Councilman M e m b e r J i m m y Va n B r a m e r (D-Sunnyside).

“He’s a bully. He’s a terrorist,” said Lynn Calvacca, an attorney and landlord of a unit at the building in question, 47-55 39 Place in Sunnyside.

Neal Milano stands accused of intimidating African-Americans who visit or walk past the building, making antiSemitic remarks, intimidating people with reference to owning “10 guns” and demanding exorbitant sums of money, such as $10,000 for improperly folding cardboard boxes for recycling. Milano recently hung pictures of Al Capone, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in the lobby.

A large gun photo hangs over an elevator door, something Van Bramer said upsets parents with children.

Sprinkled in the lobby are quotes from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Albert Einstein, which Van Bramer said is used

by Milano’s lawyer to claim he is merely documenting history.

“We like to think we’re a safe haven here i n New York ,” said st ate Sen. M ichael Gia na r is ( D -Astor ia) . “But unfortunately, these things have been happening right here in New York.”

Some residents are afraid they’ll lose their right to rent in the building if they complain because, they told Van Bramer, one family who complained did in fact

Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, at podium, speaks out against the racist and anti-Semitic posters recently put up in the lobby of a Sunnyside condominium by a man who may or may not be PHOTOS BY VICTORIA ZUNITCH the property manager for the site. lose their home there.

“We are compelled to be here to defend the people who live here,” the councilm a n s a id . “ We a r e ou r neig hb or’s keeper.”

Calvacca, who is suing Milano, said he has been representing himself as the president of the board and as the property manager of the condominium, a position every condo is required to fill.

But she said she has been unable to conf irm that Milano was legitimately hired by the board.

Milano has bar red residents f rom attending board meetings if they’re not

on the deed of a unit, but she called into question his right to attend.

“He’s not on the deed,” Calvacca said.

Calvacca said Milano used to own an apartment in the building, but now lives in one of two apartments owned by his daughter. Those apartments appear to have been placed in a limited partnerships registered in Las Vegas, Nevada, and later in Wyoming, Calvacca said.

“I think the financial implications of this are worthy of investigation,” Van Bramer told the Chronicle.

Milano could not be reached for comment on this story.

Calvacca said she felt comfor table speaking against Milano because she rents her unit out and doesn’t live there.

But she said residents constantly call her to share stories about Milano’s intimidation and ask for help.

Van Bramer said that the building residents he spoke with this week are afraid to go on television unless both their faces and voices were changed.

Residents leav i ng the bu ild i ng appeared to show fear.

A woman who appeared to be a resident stood on the stairs with her face obscured by a railing, watching photographers in the lobby.

Van Bramer said he has discussed the issue with the state Attorney General, the Mayor’s Office, city Police Department and the city’s Commission on Human Rights.

“We have not yet had meaningful or fruitful conversation [with the NYPD] about the lack of substantiated complaints,” he said.

Van Bramer added he believes residents have made valid complaints but that they have not been given the attention they deserve.

The councilman said he was reserving a ny add it ional com ments about t he NYPD’s handling of the matter until he has the opportunity for further discussions with the department.

A 108th Precinct Community Affairs Officer who observed the press conference told the Chronicle that the precinct has been receiving complaints about Milano for five or six years.

Van Bramer and Calvacca said they believe the attorney general is looking into whether the condominium law is Q being violated in this case.

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Allegedly brought drugs, cigarettes, phones into fed. lockup Three Queens residents working as correction officers at a privately operated federal jail facility in the borough have been arrested for allegedly taking bribes to smuggle contraband to inmates.

Saquan Williams, 34, Jabar Allen, 26, and Shawn Pettigrew, 31, were charged in a complaint unsealed last Thursday in federal court in Manhattan, according to a statement issued by the office of Joon Kim, acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.

The Springfield Gardens facility, leased by the U.S. Marshals Service, houses federal inmates.

“As alleged, these correction officers abused the public power entrusted to them by taking bribes to smuggle contraband, including drugs, into a jail that housed federal inmates,” Kim said. “Corruption of those who

work within our criminal justice system, including officers at a private detention facility, cannot be tolerated and must be rooted out, as it undermines the public faith in the system and betrays the trust of all fellow officers who dedicate themselves to the proper administration of justice.”

All three have been charged with one count of bribery, which carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison; and one count of conspiracy to commit bribery and to introduce contraband into prison, which carries a maximum penalty of five years.

According to the complaint, Williams, Allen and Pettigrew took bribes from numerous inmates at the jail in exchange for smuggling contraband, including smokable synthetic marijuana, also known as K2, marijuana, alcohol, tobacco and other items

into the jail for the inmates.

The bribes allegedly were funneled to the three by nonincarcerated friends and relatives of the inmates either in cash or by wire transfer.

Citing one example, Kim’s office said Williams, on at least three occasions in 2017, received bribes from an inmate in exchange for smuggling in K2, marijuana and cigarettes.

On at least two occasions in 2016, Allen also allegedly took bribes from the same inmate in exchange for marijuana and cigarettes.

Prosecutors allege that Pettigrew received bribes from an inmate on about 10 occasions this year in exchange for K2, marijuana, cigarettes and cellular telephones.

Williams also allegedly took a bribe from Q the second inmate.

Acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim PHOTO COURTESY U.S. DOJ

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continued from page 12 face: Buses have been in a state of slowmotion crisis for years,â&#x20AC;? said Nick Sifuentes, deputy director of the Riders Alliance. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fortunately, we know our state and city elected officials can fix bus service for millions of daily riders â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and do it quickly and for a fraction of the cost to repair our subway system.â&#x20AC;?

Veronica Vanterpool, executive director of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, called out the MTA for having no stated deadline for its bus improvement plans.

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Environment continued from page 12 who endorsed [the city bag bill], or some form of it,â&#x20AC;? Rozic told the Chronicle.

The assemblywoman, who sits on the Environmental Conservation Committee, also was recognized in the report as one of three â&#x20AC;&#x153;rising starsâ&#x20AC;? for their leadership on environmental issues.

Simotas, in an email to the Chronicle, said she is pleased that the NYLCV has turned its attention to the Legislature. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The total eclipse of the sun on Monday was a powerful reminder of our dependence on the natural world and our role as its

stewards,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When we forget or deliberately ignore this, we end up with an environment that sickens people and makes other species of life extinct. So I am proud to vote for clean air, clean water and clean energy, to vote to protect the planet we all share.â&#x20AC;?

Perhaps to the chagrin of state and city Democrats, the eight-member Independent Democratic Conference as a whole averaged a 97 percent approval rating, by far the highest, followed by mainstream Senate Democrats at 89 percent.

The Assembly Democrats (82 percent) Senate Republicans (76 percent) and the Republican Assembly caucus (61 percent) Q rounded out the rankings.

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Free yoga and capoeira classes keep you fit at Socrates

by Neglah Sharma

As Socrates says on its website: “Saturday Yoga classes, taught by Morgan Miller, combine physical poses, breathing techniques, relaxation, and meditation. Sunday Yoga classes are led by Yojaida Estrella, who offers a Vinyasa-style class in which participants flow through a series of connected yoga poses with an awareness of the breath.”

Sunday’s substitute yoga instructor, Afia Bediako, filling in for Estrella, explained that though she works independently teaching yoga within different communities, she believes teaching vinyasa at the park is a “good opportunity.”

“We probably don’t do that many vinyasas,” Bediako said, referring to the method of yoga which coordinates breathing with a flowing sequence of postures.

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Veiled from the beaming late August sun, nearly 50 yoga mats lay assembled in arc-formation tucked under a shadowy canopy at Astoria’s Socrates Sculpture Park, anticipating the start of one of the season’s few remaining waterfront yoga sessions.

The skyscrapers across the East River gleamed with morning sunlight as a myriad of yoga enthusiasts — college students, couples, parents, children, and even a bouncing baby — roamed the waterfront nook moments before the clock struck 10 a.m.

“I’m excited to see what’s in store for the next hour, and happy to be here,” said one of the first arrivals, Astoria resident Collette Campbell, who

said she visits the expansive park regularly at her leisure but had never taken a class there.

“This is the first Sunday I had free time, so I came to take a yoga class,” said Campbell, who said she has experience from attending various other studios.

Astoria resident Gabrielle Torrano, on the other hand, said she has been attending the popular park yoga sessions with her husband for nearly 15 years. Torrano misses the former instructor, Monique Schubert, saying she went into more depth when teaching than others do. “The health of having a straight spine, various yoga postures, and the importance of having good posture throughout the day was really explained well by Schubert,” said Torrano, who added that it has helped her live a healthier life.

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EXHIBITS “The Jim Henson Exhibition,” with nearly 300 artifacts including 47 puppets tracing the film and TV career of the Muppets creator and his impact on popular culture on permanent display. Related live events and screenings of Muppet movies and other Henson films thru Sun., Aug. 27, various times, Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria. $15; $11 seniors, students; $7 kids 3-17. Info: (718) 777-6888, movingimage.us.

KIDS/TEENS Pond Life, with kids 3-4, with one parent, and kids 5-7, with no parent, learning about plants and animals and hiking to a pond. Sun., Aug. 27, 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. (3- and 4-year-olds); 1:30-3 p.m. (5to 7-year-olds), Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston. $21. Info/preregistration (req’d): (718) 229-4000, alleypond.com.

“Angry Birds Universe,” with attendees using slingshots to propel balls with the images of characters from the video game series, learning about its creation and about real birds, and more. Thru Sun., Aug. 27, New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Corona. Free with admission: $16; $13 seniors, kids, students with ID. Info: (718) 699-0005, nysci.org.

“Summer through Greta’s Lens,” nature photography from single flowers to misty landscapes, all on 35-mm film and unaltered, by Greta Jaklitsch.

Thru Tue., Aug. 29, Voelker Orth Museum, 149-19 38 Ave., Flushing. Suggested $2. Info: (718) 3596227, vomuseum.org.

“Picturing Female Robots and Androids,” a look at the portrayal of women in various media, from ancient times to today, including “Lady Fortune,” left, based on Julie Wosk’s book “My Fair Ladies: Female Robots, Androids, and Other Artificial Eves.” Thru Sun., Sept. 3, New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Corona. Free with admission: $16; $13 seniors, kids, college students with ID. Info: (718) 699-0005, nysci.org.

“Solid Doubts: Robert Stadler,” with pieces by the designer placed next to the sculptures of Isamu Noguchi to exhibit contrasts and yield insight into both artists’ work. Thru Sun., Sept. 3, Noguchi Museum, 9-01 33 Road, Long Island City. $10; $5 seniors, students; NYC HS students, families of active-duty military, kids under 12 free. Info: (718) 204-7088, noguchi.org.

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Queens College Choral Society, for its upcoming “Season of Unity,” performing Mozart’s “Requiem,” “1001 Voices: A Symphony for a New America” and Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem.” Wed., Aug. 30, Sept. 6 and 13, 6-7:15 p.m., Music Building room 246, Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing.

Info: (718) 997-3818, qcchoralsociety.org.

“Maureen Gallace: Clear Day,” paintings drawn from the American landscape and still-life traditions, but with elements that unsettle the reassuring sentimentality of the genres. Thru Sun., Sept.

10, MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City. $10; $5 students, seniors; free under 16. Info: (718) 784-2084, momaps1.org.

“Past Skin,” with diverse paintings and sculptures, such as Jillian Mayer’s “Slumpie 1,” left, addressing the idea that technological devices are extensions of ourselves, that our bodies don’t “end at the skin.” Thru Sun., Sept. 10, MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City. $10; $5 students, seniors; free under 16. Info: (718) 784-2084, momaps1.org.

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FILM The US Open Qualifying Tournament is under way, and Arthur Ashe Kids’ Day is set for Saturday. It’ll feature games, music and more, including appearances by pro players, such as the one Victoria Azarenka, above, made in 2014. See Special Events.

PHOTO BY IVAN NIKOLOV Photos of Astoria & NYC, with a rotating selection of pictures by Astoria photographer Brian Sills, available for sale. Thru Thu., Nov. 30. QED, 27-16 23 Road, Astoria. Free. Info: (347) 4513873, qedastoria.com.

“Bayside: The Actors’ Enclave,” with photos, posters, newspaper articles and ephemera from the early 20th century, when many stage, vaudeville and silent movie stars lived in the neighborhood. Thru Dec. at least, Thu.-Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sat., 12-4 p.m., Bayside Historical Society, 208 Totten Ave., Fort Totten Park. $5. Info: (718) 352-1548, baysidehistorical.org.

MUSIC

Conjunto Guantanamo, an Afro-Cuban jazz ensemble playing a mix of vintage and original songs, part of Kupferberg Center for the Arts SummerSounds series. Sat., Aug. 26, 6 p.m. Newtown Park, 92-2 56 Ave., Elmhurst. Free. Info: (718) 570-0920, kupferbergcenter.org/summer-sounds, conjuntoguantanamo.com.

Inkarayku, Peruvian folk music, in last of weekly Live at the Gantries concert series. Tue., Aug. 29, 7 p.m., Gantry Plaza State Park, 4-09 47 Road, Long Island City.

Free. Info: Info: (718) 544-2996, kupferbergcenter.org.

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Jazz Mobile, with special guest Ghanniyya Green, Summerfest concert at Cambria Playground/ Cabbell Park. Thu., Aug. 24, 7-8:30 p.m. Francis Lewis Blvd. and 121 Ave. between 219 and 222 Sts., Cambria Heights. Free. Info: (718) 776-3700.

Silent disco, with revelers choosing among three kinds of music played by three different DJs thru headphones with lights showing each dancer’s choice.

Fri., Aug. 25, 10 p.m., Studio Square, 35-33 36 St., Long Island City; Fri., Sept. 1, Bohemian Beer Garden, 29-19 24 Ave., Astoria. $5 early bird; $10 online; $15 at door. Info: 1 (800) 833-9281, quietevents.com.

Mattviolinist, a violin master from the Bronx. Sun., Aug. 27, 4 p.m., Resorts World Casino Bar360, 11000 Rockaway Blvd., South Ozone Park. Info: (718) 215-2828, rwnewyork.com.

“Love Express,” the 2014 short narrative about young Chinese Americans’ lifestyles and two who meet on the 7 train, featured in the 2015 Queens World Film Festival; screened as part of Queens Historical Society Immigrant Voices Series. Sun., Aug. 27, 2:30 p.m., QHS, 143-35 37 Ave., Flushing. $5; $3 students, seniors. Info: (718) 939-0647, queenshistoricalsociety.org, bit.ly/2v4pNzD. CHEN XI HAO FILMS

Beach Sessions Series: Arena, a series of duets with six dancers and rakes that comb the sand to create a stage for them first, by Madeline Hollander.

Sat., Aug. 26, 6 p.m., Beach 110th St. at Rockaway Beach. Free. Info: beachsessionsdanceseries.com.

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Warm Up, with live groups and DJs playing music of many genres, in second-to-last performance of the year. Sat., Aug. 26, 12-9 p.m., MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City. COST. $18; $22 at door. Info: (718) 784-2084, momaps1.org.

The Ronald Reagan Picture Show, with five movies starring the 40th president from his days as an actor, from 1940’s “Knute Rockne All American” to 1964’s “The Killers.” Fri.-Sun., Aug. 25-27, various times, Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria. $15; $11 seniors, students; $7 kids 3-17. Info: (718) 777-6888, movingimage.us.

AUDITIONS “Little Shop of Horrors,” a musical comedy being produced as a fundraiser for Venture House, will have auditions for performers in the last two weeks of August, date to be determined. Venture House, located in Jamaica, is a nonprofit helping those diagnosed with mental illness. Info: (347) 697-5570.

“Fences,” the 2016 drama starring Oscar winners Denzel Washington and Viola Davis about the life and challenges of an African-American family in 1950s Pittsburgh. Sat., Aug. 26, 7:30 p.m., Montbellier Park, Springfield Blvd. and 139 Ave., Springfield Gardens. Free. Info: nyc.gov/parks.

SPECIAL EVENTS Arthur Ashe Kids’ Day, the tennis and entertainment event honoring the legendary player and humanitarian, with a concert hosted by Radio Disney, appearances by pro players and more. Sat., Aug. 26, 9:30-3 p.m., Arthur Ashe Stadium, USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, Flushing Meadows Corona Park. $10 and above. Info: (718) 760-6200, arthurashekidsday.com. US Open Qualifying Tournament, Thu.-Fri., Aug. 24-25, starting at 11 a.m., BJK NTC, FMCP. Free. Info: usopen.org. continued on page 30

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Mural, mural on the wall — the Large Wall Her fascination with the confluence of the past and present — iconic works of art meeting daily human experience — When you go to the museum, do you ever consider your- became the basis for this set of work.

At 140 feet across and 27 feet high, the mural is a massive self to also be on display?

Frequent museumgoers may be familiar with the ebb and focal point of the main chamber of the Queen Museum, flow of persons from frame to sculpture to video screen — impossible to miss on a visitor’s walk from either entrance to great rivers of visitors cascading between show-stopping any exhibition.

Its sheer size commands you to crane your neck in order to pieces, smaller streams and rivulets channeling off to meander past each and every caption and credit panel. Movement receive it from most vantage points on the floor before it, or between these stations of a cross can seem choreographed, else climb the stairs to the mezzanine for a better view.

The piece is composed of five major sections: two billor even ritualized, but there is room for innovation within the shoulder-to-shoulder shuffle—in recent years, the museum board-sized images of the artist in front of Otto Dix’s “The Businessman Max Roesberg, Dresden” (1922), and Balthus’ selfie has become a social media mainstay in popular culture.

One of the subliminal truths about viewing art is that what “Girl at a Window” (1957), and three nearly two-dimensionmight be a personal experience occurs in such a public forum, al quasi-sculptures. They are further supported by four archiand this is part of the arena in which curatorial staffs operate. tecturally complex shoebox-sized sculptures that serve as displays for four of the artist’s films, But artist Anna K.E. has channeled which Hitomi Iwasaki, the Queens the viewer’s perspective of art into Museum’s director of exhibitions and the focus of a series of work, titled curator, said were added toward the “Profound Approach and Easy Outtail end of installation. come,” part of which is now on view Both of the blown-up photoWhen: Through Feb. 18 on the Large Wall of the Queens graphs depict the artist mimicking Museum in Corona.

Where: Queens Museum, the subject of the photo in great She conceived the series in 2006 Flushing Meadows Corona Park detail—with Dix’s work, protruding during a visit to the Metropolitan Entry: $8, seniors $4. (718) 592-9700, the neck and rigidly holding the arms Museum of Art, where she watched queensmuseum.org out to the side; with Balthus’, an as other visitors had their photos exacting pose of the awkward positaken in front of pieces of artwork.

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‘Profound Approach and Easy Outcome’

You’ll never visit an art museum the same way again after viewing Anna K.E.’s massive mural at the Queens PHOTO BY NEIL CHIRAGDIN Museum through Feb. 18. tion of the young woman in the painting. There is symbolism here, of a young woman taking her place among the old male masters — not quite in front of, not quite to the side — and also of the artist taking the place of the subject, both within continued on page 31

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St. Michael’s will commemorate the attacks of 9/11 this year on Saturday, September 9th at 2PM. For the first time St. Michael’s will introduce an essay competition open to all school children. The essay will be “What it means to be an American.” Winners will be announced on Sept. 9th.

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Just don’t tell your kids that they’re learning.

The outdoor Science Playground at the New York Hall of Science has developed over the years into a fun but educational experience for all ages, according to Iboun Morrison, a training specialist with NYSCI. “At first it was a playground geared toward older audiences in middle school,” Morrison said. “But we’ve expanded, so now it lends itself to all age ranges, kindergarten to high school and college.

People are amazed at the sheer size of it.”

The climbing net is like a large weblike structure that children can climb all over, right to the top.

“But they’re learning about tension and compression as it adjusts to their movement,” Morrison said.

Visitors do adjustments of their own on the wobbly bridge, which lends itself to the study of balance and motion.

The Archimedes screw is a wheeland-axle device that can be a lot of fun on a hot day — but it also is pretty much the same technology used by ancient Greeks, Romans and Egyptians to bring water to elevated heights.

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Other hands-on exhibits deal in easyto-understand ways with the workings and effects of light, sound and energy. A shelter path includes a child-sized bird’s nest, a rabbit hole and three different playhouses.

“The main thing about the Science Playground is that kids get to enjoy themselves in a learning environment,” Q Morrison said.

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Bediako has taught yoga since 2005 independently at different studios.

“It’s nice, it’s free, we’re into it,” she said, highlighting that the classes will continue to run through Labor Day weekend. They are given on both Saturdays and Sundays.

While the free outdoor yoga classes end on Sept. 3, those still wanting outdoor fitness courses can attend a six-session capoeira class lead by instructor Camaleão from Sol Dance Center beginning Sept. 2.

Capoeira is a Brazilian martial art combining elements of dance, acrobatics and music. “[T]his six-part series will introduce participants to the basic fundamentals of the Brazilian martial art of capoeira,” Socrates says on its website. “This introduction will offer guidance with balance, flexibility, and agility while also providing a brief history of capoeira traditions.”

Karla Choko, the Sol Dance Center director, pointed out that her studio teaches a variety of dance techniques. “We offer seven classes per day, ballet, salsa, bellydance, and others, including capoeira, taught by Camaleão. The studio also orga-

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Choko, who founded the venue in 2009 after moving from Mexico and graduating Alvin Ailey Dance School, has an enviable dance resume, including a steady gig dancing on Broadway for “On Your Feet!” and a brief stint on the Amazon series “The Tick.”

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seeking to snag a complimentary yoga class in September, Choko is encouraging fitness and dance enthusiasts to contac t the center at (347) 935-3955 for a Q free class.

Yoga and capoiera classes When: Each Sat., Sun. through Sept. 3 (yoga); each Sat., Sept. 2-Oct. 7 (capoeira) Where: Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Blvd., Long Island City Entry: Free. (718) 956-1819, socratessculpturepark.org.

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continued from page 26 Whale watching and dolphin adventure cruises, on a boat boasting a 90 percent sighting rate. Thu.-Fri., Aug. 24-25; Wed.-Thu., Aug. 30-31; select dates Sept.-Nov.; 12-4 p.m., Riis Landing, State and Heinzelman Roads, Breezy Point. $48; $43 seniors; $33 kids 5-12; free under 5. Info: (718) 474-0555, americanprincesscruises.com.

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continued from page 27 her own work and as the mirror image of the original artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; work.

In the exhibition guide, Iwasaki, in conversation with K.E., asks how she approaches this work. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Trying to give up for a moment my own way of thinking â&#x20AC;&#x201D; while getting overwhelmed by the image or the light or the vitality in the square rooms of museums â&#x20AC;&#x201D; trying to interpret and analyze and deconstruct the given, suggested truth. There is no concept of woman or man surrounding me â&#x20AC;&#x201D; only the idea of driven,â&#x20AC;? K.E. said.

For the artist, the unpacking of artistic intent and content, while struggling against personal attachments, is the utmost purpose of approaching art, and this forms the basis of her own work.

Supporting the two massive images are three wall sculptures. One, pouring out of the Dix photograph, is a waterfall of tessellations in a vivid array of sunset Technicolor.

Two others flank the Balthus image, and offer differing textural components; on the left, a foldable, polished smooth polygonic surfboard of precise proportions, on the right, an amorphous blob of varyingly craggy and feathery textures.

On the floor beneath the mural are the four video-boxes, each showing the artist

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11 Small lake 16 Common Mkt. inits., once 20 Sacred 22 Relocate 23 Chris of tennis fame 25 Cowboyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sweetie 26 Work with 27 Pickpocketâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crime 29 Met melody 31 Feathery neckpiece 32 Web address ending 34 Catch sight of

38 Decapitate 40 Some stockings have them 42 Restroom, for short 43 Team leader (Abbr.)

44 Sandwich treat 45 Wound reminder 47 Therefore 48 Came down 49 Measure of force 52 Whopper 53 Keebler employee?

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performing in her studio. In one video, her arms are wrapped around herself as she attempts to interact with objects around her studio and play-fights the cameraman. Iwasaki suggests that these are the artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s humble contributions of her personal space, which she displays in small format to contrast with the major wall piece â&#x20AC;&#x201D; forcing visitors to crouch down and look closely, to see her in her own space.

Of the video boxesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; architectural elements, Iwasaki said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;You need only look at what sits behind them,â&#x20AC;? gesturing to the center of the Large Wall and the entrance to the Queens Museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most famous piece, the Q Panorama of the City of New York.

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3 Mermaid’s Realty LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 7/19/2017. Cty: Queens.

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30 EAST 98TH STREET ASSOCIATES LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/03/2017. 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: Joseph Yunatanov, 7013 Austin Street, 3rd Floor, Forest Hills, NY 11375. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Apex Visual LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/05/17. Office location: Queens County.

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LEWIS BRISBOIS BISGAARD & SMITH LLP Michael L. Trucillo – Attorney ID #029952002 One Riverfront Plaza Newark, New Jersey 07102 Tel: (973) 577-6260 Fax: (973) 577-6261 Attorneys for Plaintiff, Bally’s Park Place dba Bally’s Atlantic City; and Showboat Atlantic City Operating Company, LLC dba Showboat Casino Hotel SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY LAW DIVISION: ATLANTIC COUNTY DOCKET NO.: L-717-17 Civil Action SUMMONS BALLY’S PARK PLACE dba BALLY’S ATLANTIC CITY; and SHOWBOAT ATLANTIC CITY OPERATING COMPANY, LLC dba SHOWBOAT CASINO HOTEL, Plaintiffs, v. CHAO Y. LIN aka CHAO YI LIN aka CHAO YIN LIN aka CHAO MING LIN aka LIN CHAO, Defendant. STATE OF NEW JERSEY TO: Chao Y. Lin aka Chao Yi Lin aka Chao Yin Lin aka Chao Ming Lin aka Lin Chao 13550 Roosevelt Avenue Apt. 1713 Flushing, New York 11354 13807 60th Avenue, Flushing, NY 11355 The Plaintiff, named above, has filed a lawsuit against you in the Superior Court of New Jersey. The complaint attached to this summons states the basis for this lawsuit. If you dispute this complaint, you or your attorney must file a written answer or motion and proof of service with the deputy clerk of the Superior Court in the county listed above within 35 days from the date you received this summons, not counting the date you received it. (A directory of the addresses of each deputy clerk of the Superior Court is available in the Civil Division Management Office in the county listed above and online at http:// www.judiciary.state.nj.us/pro se/10153_deptyclerklawref.pdf.) If the complaint is one in foreclosure, then you must file your written answer or motion and proof of service with the Clerk of the Superior Court, Hughes Justice Complex, P.O. Box 971, Trenton, NJ 08625-0971. A filing fee payable to the Treasurer, State of New Jersey and a completed Case Information Statement (available from the deputy clerk of the Superior Court) must accompany your answer or motion when it is filed.

You must also send a copy of your answer or motion to plaintiff’s attorney whose name and address appear above, or to plaintiff, if no attorney is named above. A telephone call will not protect your rights; you must file and serve a written answer or motion (with fee of $175.00 and completed Case Information Statement) if you want the court to hear your defense. If you do not file and serve a written answer or motion within 35 days, the court may enter a judgment against you for the relief plaintiff demands, plus interest and costs of suit. If judgment is entered against you, the Sheriff may seize your money, wages or property to pay all or part of the judgment. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may call the Legal Services office in the county where you live or the Legal Services of New Jersey Statewide Hotline at 1-888-LSNJ-LAW (1-888-576-5529). If you do not have an attorney and are not eligible for free legal assistance, you may obtain a referral to an attorney by calling one of the Lawyer Referral Services. A directory with contact information for local Legal Services Offices and Lawyer Referral Services is available in the Civil Division Management Office in the county listed above and online at http://www.judiciary. state.nj.us/prose/10153_deptyclerklawref.pdf /s/Michelle M. Smith MICHELLE M. SMITH Clerk of the Superior Court Dated: April 5, 2017 Name of Defendant to Be Served: Chao Y. Lin aka Chao Yi Lin aka Chao Yin Lin aka Chao Ming Lin aka Lin Chao Address of Defendant to Be Served: 13550 Roosevelt Avenue. Apt. 1713, Flushing, New York 11354 - 13807 60th Avenue, Flushing, NY 11355 Notice of Qualification of BGY Cityview LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/11/17. Office location: Queens County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 7/6/17. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Jia Shu Xu, 112-15 Northern Blvd., #2, Corona, NY 11368.

DE address of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Company, 251 Little Falls Drive, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any purposes permitted by applicable law.

DADI NY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/23/17. Office: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 131-05 40th Road, Unit 15D, Flushing, NY 11354. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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JOUNG SUK SHIN A/K/A JOUNG S. SHIN, ET AL., Defendant(s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly filed on April 18, 2016, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Queens County Supreme Courthouse, Courtroom 25, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, NY on September 15, 2017 at 10:00 a.m., premises known as 84-34 Dana Court, Middle Village, NY 11379.

All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Queens, County of Queens, City and State of New York, Block 3000 and Lot 14.

Approximate amount of judgment is $253,291.71 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 6246/2012.

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Notice of formation of TRAYNOR CONTRACTOR AND FLAGGERS LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on FEBRUARY 14, 2017. Office in Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to, CLAUDETTE ANNMARIE BAILEY, 219-31 130TH DRIVE, SPRINGFIELD GARDENS, NY 11413. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF QUEENS, H & R Block Bank, a Federal Savings Bank, Plaintiff AGAINST Jesus Guevara; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated February 5, 2014. I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Queens County Courthouse, Courtroom #25, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, New York on September 8, 2017 at 10:00AM, premises known as 84-12 108th Avenue, Ozone Park, NY 11417. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough and County of Queens, City and State of NY, Block: 9143 Lot: 6.

Approximate amount of judgment $447,206.67 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 17858/2012.

Nicole Katsorhis, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney (s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard, Rochester, New York 14624, (877) 759-1835, Dated: July 23, 2017 47641

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What’s new at this year’s US Open?

The 2017 tournament brings with it a number of new things to enjoy

by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

This year’s US Open, which officially gets underway Monday, is lacking a bit of starpower compared to previous tournaments in Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

Serena Williams, arguably the greatest fe m a le t e n n is playe r eve r, re ce ntly announced she is pregnant and will be taking the rest of the year off.

Stan Wawrinka, the winner of last year’s men’s bracket, and Novak Djokovic, arguably the best player in the sport today, will both miss the tournament due to injury.

A number of top-tier athletes will still be competing, however. And there will be plenty of new attractions around the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center worth seeing.

Arguably the most noticeable change on campus is the halfway-built new Louis Armstrong Stadium.

The previous, aging iteration of the venue was knocked down after last year’s tournament and a temporary 8,500-seat court was built nearby for this summer’s event.

The new, 14,000-seat stadium, complete with a retractable roof, will be ready for the 2018 tournament, so if stadiums are your thing, you only have one year to get your fill of the temporary venue.

In terms of look-but-not-touch, a new

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FP tennis continued from page 4 funded through participatory budgeting next year.

“The Forest Park tennis courts continue to be a concern for Woodhaven residents and for the many people who frequently use the courts,” Crowley said in an emailed statement. “The community is in need of a solution, as well as communication and cooperation from the Parks Department.”

Wo o d h ave n r e s id e n t s a l m o s t received help from the U.S. Tennis Association in 2014, when the organization was seeking to refurbish courts somewhere in Queens.

Forest Park almost got the honor, but lost out to Juniper Valley Park.

Virgil Christian Sr., director of Market Development for the USTA, said in an emailed statement, “The natural geography around the Forest Park courts, however, did not allow the proper access needed to carry out a refurbishment.”

The group is not opposed to looking at Forest Park again in the future.

“We would be open to re-evaluating the possibility of refurbishing the Forest Park cour ts when the next opportunity arises, and we are always open to assisting communities that desire to grow the game of tennis,” Q Christian said.

This will soon be the scene at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center within Flushing Meadows Corona Park, as the US Open kicks off on Monday. This year’s tournament brings with it a FILE PHOTO number of new experiences for fans. showcase for Mercedes-Benz vehicles has been built adjacent to the South Plaza.

The display models will be housed on the first floor of the new two-story building, while the second floor will contain the campus’ popular Wine Bar Food eatery, complete with expanded seating.

Speaking of food, this year’s US Open

boasts a number of new vendors including, among others: • Poke Yachty, where seafood lovers can fill up on tuna, salmon, crab or shrimp; • Creperie by Le Chef Paul, which will be serving, you guessed it, crepes of various flavors; • Joju, for those who prefer Vietnamese

Christ the King HS has a new principal MidVille school hires Geri Martinez

by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

With the start of the academic year right around the corner, Christ the King H i g h S c h o ol i n M i d d l e V i l l a g e announced last Friday it has hired a new principal.

Leading the facility going forward will be Geri Martinez, who most recently served as the interim principal at Bishop Kearney High School in Brooklyn.

A 30-year educator, Martinez began her career as a guidance counselor at Stella Maris High School in Rockaway Park, where she later became assistant principal and, eventually, principal for 14 years.

When the all-girls facility closed in 2010, she was hired to serve as the interim principal at Bishop Kearney.

Martinez has also taught at St. Joseph’s College in Brooklyn for the last 16 years.

“I am very eager to join this community and family of administrators, teachers, parents and students,” Martinez said in a letter sent to parents earlier this month.

Geri Martinez has taken over as principal at Christ the King. PHOTO COURTESY CHRIST THE KING “With this strong foundation and conviction in the value of Catholic education and the force behind that education, we cannot help but to be successful.

“Together,” she continued, “we can reach great heights!”

Martinez replaces Peter Mannarino, who retired at the end of the most recent school year after 10 years as principal. Q

cuisine; and • Dean & Deluca, an upscale American market offering sandwiches on the go, as well as performance bars.

If you want to feel like you’re a part of the action on the court, enjoy the new American Express Air Tennis game.

Visitors can partake in an interactive live gaming experience that captures fans going through the entire motion of a serve from the perspective of the ball. Gamers can also walk away with a piece of content that they can share on their social media channels.

One girl who actually will be a part of the tournament is Forest Hills 11-year-old Anna Gael Dejano, who was selected to be one of the 12 children from across the nation to sing patriotic songs prior to each evening’s main event matches.

Dejano, a seventh-grader at JHS 157 in Rego Park, will perform “America the Beautiful” before competition gets underway on Aug. 30.

The US Open Qualifying Tournament, which began Monday, wraps up Friday. The main tournament kicks off this coming Monday, with country pop star Shania Twain serving as the musical guest for that night’s opening ceremony inside Arthur Ashe Stadium, which itself turns 20 years Q old this summer.

Mike Scala continued from page 6 said. “We need more coding and technology.”

On Build it Back, Scala was quick to give the Sandy recovery program an “F.” “We’re still nowhere near finished,” he stated. “In some parts ... it looks like Sandy just hit yesterday.”

He said the initiative has evolved into “a jobs program.”

“They have no incentive to finish the work,” Scala said.

He’d also like to see healthcare options in Rockaway improve, either by expanding services such as the Addabbo Family Health Centers or bringing a new hospital to the area.

“St. John’s cannot serve the entire peninsula,” he said, referring to St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway. “We want a dedicated ER somewhere else, or at least a trauma center.”

The closest trauma center for Rockaway residents is Jamaica Hospital Medical Center.

And while the candidate admitted he might not get City Hall to do everything the way he and the community want it done, he said he’s going to try his hardest.

“You need to be a strong advocate,” he said. “Even if City Hall is hell-bent on doing something a certain way, you don’t give up the fight on behalf of your Q constituents.”

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A not so Amazin strategy

by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

Charles Garrison Meyer, born in Maspeth on Sept. 21, 1879, married 22-year-old Sara Willets Leavitt — from an old, well-to-do Flushing family — on Oct. 8, 1902. Upon the death of his father, real estate developer Cord Meyer, in 1910, he was thrust into the position of family patriarch as the eldest child. He chose Bayside as his personal home for his wife and family. The address was 11 Bell Avenue, within the neigh- The Charles borhood’s section of large circa 1930. estates.

According to Census records, Meyer had 13 servants living on his property — people who came from England, Germany, Poland and Ireland. His wife passed away in 1939 at age 58 and was buried in Flushing Cemetery.

Their house and property were appraised at $143,500 in 1940.

Upon Charles Meyer’s death on April 9,

G. Meyer Estate at 11 Bell Ave. in Bayside, 1950, the family decided to sell the 225-acre estate. The section of the neighborhood the home sat in was also given the name “Bay Terrace.”

Today, with the Bay Terrace shopping mall occupying the former site of the Meyer home, real estate prices in the area continue to climb and it is known as one of the most Q desirable places to live in Queens.

by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor

Was anyone truly surprised that the Yankees swept last week’s four-game Subway Series?

Even the most sophisticated and mature Mets fans have that elementary school kid in them and take immense pleasure when the Amazins beat the Bronx Bombers. Likewise, the losses to them sting more than those to other teams in low-stakes games. The last two seasons sure seem like a distant memory.

Comedian Bill Maher often has a bit on his Friday night HBO show “Real Time” called “I can’t prove it but I know that it’s true.” There is no certain way of knowing but I strongly doubt that the Mets would have gone winless against the Yankees had they not given both Jay Bruce and Neil Walker away to the Indians and Brewers the week before for basically bupkis in return. If Mets General Manager Sandy Alderson wanted to trade Walker and Bruce, as he did Curtis Granderson and Rene Rivera this past weekend, he should have dealt all of them before the July 31st trade deadline.

He could have gotten back prospects who are on the verge of being major leaguers as opposed to low-level minor leaguers who will probably never get to “The Show.”

Last year, when Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman thought the Yankees wouldn’t make the playoffs, he traded relief pitchers

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Aroldis Chapman and Andrew Miller, for a treasure trove of quality, high-level minor leaguers and was widely applauded by both his peers and even Yankees fans who loath waving a white flag.

Clearly, Alderson was more inspired by the prospect of reducing the Mets’ payroll for the last two months of the season than he was getting a return for his player assets.

This sends a bad message not only to frustrated Mets fans, but to other general managers who now feel empowered to offer the Mets pennies on the dollar in future deadline trades.

It’s also safe to say this kind of parsimonious behavior doesn’t make the Mets a preferred destination for free agents.

While Yankees CEO Hal Steinbrenner is not the spender his dad was, the Yankees business model has always been on revenue maximization but that involves making winning a real priority and not just lip service.

The Mets’ business model has generally been more about cost containment as the path to maximizing profits. Ticket revenue may decline a bit but the broadcasting and licensing revenue streams are constant and high.

Winning on the income statement is what really counts to Sandy Alderson and the Mets’ Q owners, the Wilpons.

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Lovely Hi-Ranch. Great for extended family, just needs updating. Hardwood floors that have been covered with rug.

with 2 car garage. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, living room, formal dining room, EIK, working fireplace.

HOWARD BEACH Co-op Hi Rise, Beautiful, 2 bedrms, 2 new bths, lg din rm, all renovated move in cond, 2 ceiling fans, 2 ac units, new dishwasher, track lighting, must see,

ROCKAWAY BEACH Water-view, 6 rms, 3 bedrms, 2 bths duplex Condo, rooftop patio & terrace,

Beautiful Studio Condo, 400 sq. ft., (The Broadway Bldg.), 2fl.,

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• Middle Village • One Family Prime Location In Middle Village with private driveway; one car garage and well manicured backyard for entertaining. Home features formal living and dining room, eat-in kitchen, three bedrooms, two baths, and finished basement. The home has had many improvements to the mechanics and exterior in the last 5 years. ©2017 M1P • CAMI-072210

• Lindenwood • 1 Bedroom, 1 full bath, Eff kitchen, dining room, living room, 1 AC, all utilities included, great starter home.

• Hamilton Beach • Beautiful Property, double lot, custom closet, private driveway, large yard and patio, a must see!!!

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• Rockwood Park • Totally Renovated 1 Family Brookfield on a 40x100 lot. Features master bedroom suite with walk-in closet plus luxury master bath. Additional 3 bedrooms, LR, DR, kitchen, playroom, 2.5 baths, 1 car garage, saltwater pool (4 foot), security, too much to list!

A must see! Flood zone “B”-flood insurance- $450/year

HAMILTON BEACH 1 Family Colonial, waterfront, 6 rms, 3 bedrms, CALL NOW!

HOWARD BEACH ROCKWOOD PARK 8 rms, 4 bedrms, Hi-Ranch, pvt drive, gar, cent air, 43x100,

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LONG BEACH

HOWARD BEACH ROCKWOOD PARK 1 Fam, Det Hi-Ranch, 8 rms, 3 bedrms, formal dining rm, 45x100, gar, pvt drive, and granite countertops, mint cond.

New heat & central air.

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Totally new (built in 2015) mint Colonial featuring 3 BRs/2 baths on top floor, master has walk-in closet, balcony and master bath. Laundry room on top floor. 1st floor has beautiful kitchen, stainless steel appl. & granite counter, large living room, dining room & den, 43x100 Asking $699K

Large Brookfield style Hi-ranch, 4 BRs, 3 full baths, sunken living room, in-ground saltwater pool

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Detached 2 family on 40x100, 6 BRs, 2 full baths, finished bsmt., pvt. dr., lovely block near shopping & transportation Asking $857K

Custom large Colonial, huge MBR w/luxury bathroom, premium floors, radiant heat and CAC unit on each floor, gourmet kitchen w/hi-end appliances, 3 more BRs, 3 baths, study, 41x107

Beautiful 4 BRs, 2.5 bath, Colonial, gourmet kitchen, Reduced $874,900K

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LINDENWOOD CONDO BAYBERRY

"WATERFRONT" Corner 1 family, 3 BRs, 1 1/2 baths, 20x80 lot w/2 car garage. Large dock, fits 5 boats, 30x22 deck over water. New siding w/architectural roof. Asking $489K

(Move in ready) Colonial. 3 BRs/1 bath, featuring lovely updated kitchen with stainless steel appliances, updated bath/mud room with washer/dryer area. Large pvt driveway, large living room & dining room, 3-year-old roof, close to public transportation.

Asking $399K

One of a kind!!! 3 BRs, 2 full baths, EIK w/granite and SS appliances, LR, DR, Den w/sliding doors to yard. Washer/ dryer. Private driveway & garage. Asking $499K

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HOWARD BEACH LINDENWOOD • Hi-Rise Co-op – 2 BRs, 1 bath, w/terrace. All updated ..... $219K • Garden – 3BR, 1 bath, needs renovation .................. $179K • Mint Garden – 2BR with FDR, 1 bath, newly carpeted, soundproof, low maint. Asking $245K IN CONTRACT • Hi-Rise Co-op – All new 2 BRs, 2 baths, with 19" terrace. Pack bags/ move in...... $269K IN CONTRACT • Garden Co-op – 3 BRs, 1 bath (freshly painted), 2nd floor, new refinished wood flooring, party room, (fee) $199K RENTAL • Howard Beach Mint, 3 BRs/2 baths + driveway and use of yard .................. $2,450/mo • Lindenwood Mint, freshly painted 3 BRs/2 baths, duplex, incl driveway, use of yard, storage .................. $2,500/mo • Middle Village Rental, Renovated 1 BR apartment, new kit & bath, 8 fam building, walk to Metropolitan Ave. ..............$1,500/mo

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