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Woodhaven fights rise in illegal dumping PAGE 4 Jannio Cuervas, left, and Janet Ponce came out to help the Woodhave BID clean up Jamaica Avenue after trash has been piling up as a result of the cuts to Sanitation Department services across the city.

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Queens loses USPS sorting machines Postmaster General DeJoy claims to have no plans to put them back

by Max Parrott Associate Editor

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s Postmaster General Louis DeJoy was addressing the issue of high-volume sorting machines at his hearing before the House Oversight Committee on Monday, the triborough Postal Service region was operating without four of them.

I nt e r n a l USPS d o c u m e nt s obtained by the Chronicle show that the agency deactivated four out of 48 mail sorting machines serving all of Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island in mid-July.

While four may not seem like an overwhelming reduction, those sorting machines do a lot of work. At full capacity those now 44 machines process between 7 and 9 million pieces of mail per day, according to Tom McMenamy, president of the American Postal Workers Union, Brooklyn Local 251. As a result, postal workers are wary about potential delays.

“When we’re processing mail on the high side, those machines are going to be sorely missed,” said McMenamy in a phone interview.

Internal USPS documents show that the agency deactivated four out of 48 mail sorting machines serving all of Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island in PHOTO BY KEVIN PAYRAVI VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS mid-July.

Due to the pandemic McMenamy estimated that the region’s volume has reduced to about 2 to 2.5 million pieces per day, but he predicted that a possible increase in marketing materials as the economy recovers in combination with

an event like the rush of mail-in ballots for the presidential election could lead to problems.

The four machines, which are called Delivery Bar Code Sorter machines, handle letter-size, firstclass and marketing mail. One Flats

Sequencing System machine, which processes periodical mail, was also deactivated in the region. Since being deactivated, three of the DBCS machines are sitting idle in Brooklyn and one is in the process of being taken apart.

Though DeJoy suspended his recent initiatives until November in response to widespread pushback, at Monday’s congressional hearing he clarified he will not be putting back any of the removed sorting machines.

House Democrats investigated DeJoy’s association with the Trump administration, citing concerns that Trump’s attacks on mail-in voting are inf luencing the postmaster’s recent administrative changes. In response, DeJoy downplayed his affiliation to the president and affirmed his commitment to “delivering the nation’s ballots securely and on time” this fall.

In the triborough area, the Postal Ser vice’s recent equipment removal continues a process of consolidation that goes back to the Obama era.

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Since then, Brooklyn has been the only location providing sorting for the triborough area stretching over Queens and Staten Island.

With the Postal Service’s role in the presidential election, McMenamy raised concerns about the uncertainty of how it will affect mail volume.

“And that’s really going up to the election, we don’t know what the mail volume is going to be. I’m an optimist. I talked to postal officials when they were proposing to take the machines out, I asked them what happens if the mail volume returned to pre-COVID levels, and they’d already made a decision at that time to take these machines out regardless,” McMenamy said.

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Woodhaven BID steps in to stop garbage Trash piles along business corridor due to Sanitation budget cuts

by Max Parrott Associate Editor

Since the Queens West 9 Sanitation garage which covers Woodhaven had to reduce its pickups along the Jamaica Avenue business corridor from seven days a week to around three, the trash has been piling up.

The story is not unique to the neighborhood. In June, the city cut $106 million from the Sanitation Department’s budget, reducing pickups for public litter baskets in some neighborhoods by more than half.

Around the borough on Saturday, Aug. 22, community groups across the borough banded together to do what needed to be done.

Along Jamaica Avenue, the Woodhaven Business Improvement District was the organization that heeded the call to clean the area. Over 20 neighbors, many of them informed by an Instagram post, felt compelled to help out. Elsewhere in the borough, Howard Beach, Richmond Hill, South Ozone Park and Jamaica residents all were performing similar efforts.

“We’ve been walking around a lot in the neighborhood because of coronavirus and we’ve been seeing a lot of trash so we were motivated to try and help,” said

After trash started to pile up around the Jamiaca Avenue business corridor following the Sanitation Department’s PHOTO COURTESY WOODHAVEN BID budget cuts in June, the BID gathered a group of neighbors to come to the rescue.

Wandaly Capellan, a college student who came out with her sister.

On top of the budget cuts, Sanitation workers have seen other r e s ou r c e s a t t h ei r d i s p o s a l unavailable due to COVID. The garages often coordinate with residents performing court-ordered community service on the weekends, but due to COVID, they’re

not getting that workforce either.

In their place, residents have had to put their time in.

Over two hours, the volunteers had stacked dozens of trash bags on the corner and coordinated with the local Sanitation garage to clear them out. As they roamed the streets, a big part of the problem that they saw was that the lit-

ter baskets were overflowing, said the volunteers. Sanitation workers confirmed this observation.

“The main problem on this strip that I’ve seen is the illegal dumping on the corner. The stores usually try to clean their own area as much as possible,” said a Sanitation worker who declined to be named.

Though the area is a commercial district, several of the volunteers who have been paying close attention to the trash accumulation agreed that the businesses are not necessarily to blame for the problem in the area.

“Lot of tenants — they take their garbage and they put it in the corner pail, which is illegal,” s a i d Wo o d h ave n R e s i d e n t s Block Associat ion P resident Steve Forte.

Community Board 9 Chairman Kenichi Wilson added the root of the problem is that many residences, with upstairs apartments, don’t provide any trash storage.

That’s why it’s common to see people dropping off a bag on their way to work. “ I d on’t t h i n k it’s b ei ng enforced that landlords — they’re required by law to have an area within the building for them to hold trash for the next collection day,” said Wilson.

Though they don’t have the recourse to fine landlords for not providing trash storage, Sanitation workers have been fighting the illegal dumping other ways.

Garage 9 workers have been searching for addresses in the bags of trash they find. If they can clearly identify the culprit, then Q they issue a summons.

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Incident fits pattern of pedestrian injuries, deaths along Cross Bay Blvd.

by Max Parrott Associate Editor

The NYPD is looking to identify a vehicle that careened through a yellow light striking a 64-year-old pedestrian and then sped away.

The crash, which occurred at the intersection of Pitkin Avenue and Cross Bay Boulevard in the 106th Precinct, was reported to the NYPD at 7:14 a.m. Sunday, July 19. A southbound black SUV, which appears to be an Acura MDX based on the just-released video footage, slammed into the female victim in the crosswalk, and then fled the scene.

The victim was transported to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center where she was listed in stable condition, according to police. The police press office did not have an update on her condition four weeks later.

Reckless driving is not new to the thoroughfare. A little over a mile north, where Cross Bay turns into Woodhaven Boulevard, a driver struck and killed a 56-year-old Dunkin’ Donuts worker in a hit-and-run in the early morning hours of July 25, 2019. In response to that incident, area historian and activist Ed Wendell organized a protest against reckless driving.

“A guy came by and hit him at 92 miles per hour. That’s just absolutely insane,” said Wendell, who described the road as a 10-lane river of traffic that has been dangerous ever since he was a child. Asked what needs to change, Wendell said that there has to be a culture shift on the part of drivers.

In 2016, two 13-year-old girls were crossing the thoroughfare near 149th Avenue,

merely a block south from the recent crash, when they were hit by a car traveling southbound a little before 6:45 a.m. on Oct. 24.

One of the girls died as a result. The other suffered injuries to her leg.

That incident spawned controversy over the zoning of PS 335 to include families west of Cross Bay Bouelvard. Those opposed to the plan argued that students would have to cross the treacherous boulevard in order to get to school.

Though Community Education Council 27 eventually decided to go through with the zoning, it raised a number of conversations around the dangers of the street, which persist to this day.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1 (800) 577-TIPS (8477), or, for Spanish, 1 (888) 57-PISTA (74782).

The public can also submit tips by logging onto nypdcrimestoppers.com, or by texting 274637 (CR IMES) and then enter ing TIP577, or by going to @nypdtips on TwitQ ter. All tips are strictly confidential.

In an effort to solicit tips, the NYPD recently released footage of a black SUV careening through a yellow light and smashing into a IMAGE COURTESY NYPD pedestrian.

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Cuomo looks to stop another election mess Ballot reforms meant to avoid repeat of June primary confusion

by David Russell Associate Editor

Following criticism about the counting of absentee ballots in June’s primary races and with concerns about cuts to the Post Office having an impact on elections in November, Gov. Cuomo signed election reforms into law last Friday.

The three-part package includes new measures allowing absentee ballot applications to be submitted to the Board of Elections immediately; expanding the necessary protections to allow a voter to get an absentee ballot due to risk or fear of illness, including COVID-19; and ensuring all absentee ballots postmarked on or before Election Day or received by the Board of Elections without a postmark on the day after the election will be counted. Ballots with a postmark demonstrating that they were mailed on or before Election Day will be counted if received by Nov. 10.

“The federal administration has ordered an unprecedented attack on the U.S. Postal Service and with COVID-19 threatening our ability to have safe, in-person voting, these measures are critical to ensuring a successful and fair election at one of the most important moments in our nation’s history,” Cuomo said.

One of the tightest races over the summer

Gov. Cuomo signed election reforms into law that will expand necessary protections to allow a FILE PHOTO BY MICHAEL SHAIN voter to get an absentee ballot due to illness, among other changes. was Rep. Carolyn Maloney’s (D-Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn) race with Suraj Patel.

The BOE certified her as the winner but Patel, unhappy about a number of mail-in ballots that were rejected as they were not

postmarked by June 23, or at all, took the case to court and a federal judge ruled that some disputed ballots should be counted.

He praised the reforms, calling it “a victory for New York voters” in a statement.

“New York’s voting envelope design alone resulted in an astronomical 10 percent invalidation rate because it was too confusing,” Patel said. “Our outdated postmark requirements caused another more than 10 percent of ballots to be invalidated. While today’s Executive Order corrects these issues and other for November, unfortunately the damage in the June Primary is already done.”

Allowing voters to request absentee ballots immediately adds almost seven weeks to the amount of time a voter has to vote instead of the former provision that prevented voters from requesting absentee ballots until 30 days before election day.

Ballots can be postmarked on Nov. 3, and the BOE can count all ballots that have a time stamp showing it was delivered the day after the election but does not have a dated postmark.

“It’s critical we learn the lessons of the primary election and ensure every valid vote counts in November,” said state Sen. Mike Gianaris (D-Astoria). “The bill being signed today will help insulate voters from problems caused by difficulties with the US Postal Service.”

For the general election, voters can cast ballots in the early voting period from Oct. 24 through Nov. 1, at the polls on Nov. 3 from Q 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. or by absentee ballot.

Mayor announces outdoor learning Queens contains five neighborhoods that will receive priority in forming plans

by Max Parrott

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Two weeks out from the start of the school year, Mayor de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza are offering principals around the city the option to incorporate outdoor learning space in schoolyards or to find it in nearby parks and streets for classroom instruction.

With the Monday announcement, principals from all public, charter and private schools can begin the process of setting up classrooms in schoolyards, and create a process for them to submit a request for lear ning space in school-adjacent streets and nearby parks if their building does not contain any outdoor space.

As of Monday morning, 243 schools had already submitted applications for outdoor learning, according to Carranza during a Tuesday press conference. He added that when schools submitted their models of what their in-person learning would look like, many of them already involved outdoor space.

“So there is a real hunger and a real enthusiasm for that. And our commitment again is to turn these around as soon as possible, which some of them will be turned around today,” Carranza said.

The idea behind the plan is that outdoor learning could help reduce the r isk of COVID infection because the virus is thought to spread less easily in open spaces.

But the for mal announcement comes at least a month after lawmakers have been pushing for this idea and raising concerns about the state of school ventilation systems across the city.

Asked by Errol Louis on Tuesday’s “Inside City Hall” about why he waited so long to announce the plan, de Blasio said that there were many other more pressing pieces of the reopening plan to address first.

“This is something that has been among the topics being discussed but a lot of other things had to be resolved earlier,” de Blasio said.

He emphasized that the Department of Education is looking to approve these proposals quickly.

Any schools that submit a plan by

Aug. 28 will receive a response by Sept. 4, according to the DOE. Additional requests can also be submitted on a rolling basis.

Schools that decide to use on-site yards will also have to notify the agency.

If school principals are considering a street location, the DOE has encouraged them to pick a quiet, residential street, preferably a oneway street that is not an MTA bus or truck route, and is not being used by a police station, parking garage or hospital. The agency is also urging them to use the space for physical education, art, music, chorus and drama.

The mayor’s press release also said that schools in areas hardesthit by COVID-19 with no outdoor space would receive “priority” for the program, although the DOE did not get back to the Chronicle with an answer to whether this would involve help identifying park and streetspace near schools or whether it would involve extra resources to classroom equipment.

In Queens, those priority areas include Corona, Briarwood, Jamai-

The city recently created a formal process through which principals can facilitate classroom instruction in outdoor spaces like adjacent streets and FILE PHOTO parks. ca, Rockaway, Far Rockaway and Queensbridge.

South Queens Community Education Council 27 President Willie Jones said that he had many ideas for park space that Rockaway and Far Rockaway schools would be able to use, but he’s more con-

cerned with how they’re going to contend with the weather.

“We’re going into the hurricane season. There’s going to be a lot of rain,” Jones said. “How would they incorporate those students into the school that’s already allocated Q space for those inside?”

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P Don’t be left out of the Census EDITORIAL

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lected officials and advocacy groups have been beating the drum for years, and now the moment is here — it’s time to complete the U.S. Census.

You’ve heard it a hundred times before and it’s true: Without an accurate count of how many people are here, Queens, the city and really the entire state will get shortchanged when it comes to federal funding and, possibly, fair representation in the government.

New Yorkers pay more into the U.S. Treasury than the state gets back in federal dollars. According to a January report by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, we paid 8 percent of federal tax receipts in fiscal year 2018, and received 6 percent of spending, about the same as our share of the population. Key to ensuring that we get our fair share is letting the government know how many people live here, and the way to do that is through the Census. Yet fewer than 60 percent of people here have responded so far.

Also, New York State is likely to lose a congressional seat when the U.S. House is reapportioned because our population is actually shrinking a little, and at a faster rate than any other state. We could even lose two

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seats. So it’s imperative as a matter of political clout that we make sure everyone is counted.

You don’t have to leave your home to take part in the Census. You can do it online at my2020census.gov.

You can do it over the phone at 1 (844) 330-2020. Or you can wait for a Census taker to come to your door, though you should avoid that last option if possible, because you may not be home when someone comes.

It’s far better to just fill out the forms yourself, and it only takes a few minutes. And it’s great if you can convince people you know who are not as civicminded as you are that they have to get counted.

There’s really no excuse not to do it. You can’t get COVID from the Census. Your immigration status and criminal record if any are unknown to the people on the other end of the web or phone or the other side of the door and are irrelevant to them. You can call (212) 882-7100 to make sure the Census worker at your door is who he or she claims to be.

The Census Bureau is going to cease counting people Sept. 30, a month earlier than previously planned.

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hatever’s going on with President Trump, the postmaster general and the election, people in Queens have had problems with mail delivery since long before this summer.

The Elmhurst Civic Association used to tell us all the time how its newsletter never seemed to make it to the office of then-Rep. Joe Crowley. The civic checked the address and spoke with Crowley’s office more than once; everything was correct. The U.S. Postal Service just couldn’t seem to find the congressman.

When the Chronicle moved from Rego Park to Glendale, it often took three weeks for a piece of mail sent to our old address to get to the new one. We learned that one person was responsible for most mail forwarding, and sometimes it just didn’t get done. This writer once got two magazine subscriptions as a Christmas gift.

He should have gotten 24 magazines over the next year. He got five. We’ve got many more stories of mail not being delivered in a timely fashion, if at all, and so do you. That’s life in Queens.

So the last thing we need is Washington messing around with things ahead of the Nov. 3 election. If the goal is nefarious, to stymie mail-in voting, that’s an impeachable offense. If it’s an honest attempt at reform, however inept, it can wait until Nov. 4. Another crisis is one thing we actually don’t need the USPS to deliver.

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Dear Editor: Watch out, Astoria. NRG Energy wants to bring you a new generating plant that will burn fracked gas. Replacing the oil-powered peaker plant on the 20th Avenue site, the new peaker plant would just burn another climate-altering substance, perpetuating fossil fuel infrastructure and pollution in a neighborhood that has more than its fair share.

Similarly misguided is National Grid’s plan to build a gas pipeline in nearby Greenpoint. It’s part of National Grid’s “Plan B” to ramp up gas infrastructure after activists and community leaders successfully pressured New York State to reject the original plan, the notorious Williams pipeline under New York Harbor.

We need to build and use renewable energy from the sun and wind. No, the sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow when we need them to, but battery storage is the new technology replacing oil and gas peakers.

The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, signed by Gov. Cuomo, says no to fossil fuel and yes to renewables; it also mandates consideration of pollution impacts on nearby environmental justice communities when evaluating proposals for new energy projects.

Why doesn’t Cuomo just obey the law and deny approval for NRG’s Astoria gas plant?

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Dear Editor: Re: your August 20 editorial: “Will teachers show up.”

If Catholic school teachers are willing to work full time in classrooms, why can’t public school teachers do the same? By refusing to do so, teachers (and their union) are really saying that they are nonessential workers who don’t deserve to be paid. Those who won’t teach inperson must be replaced by those who will.

Show up or ship out.

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Face the rap, Chronicle Dear Editor: How can RUN-DMC perform clean, fun music in the rap genre as your Aug. 20 editorial “Justice for Jam Master Jay” says while the super popular Jam Master Jay was murdered while disputing a purchase of 10 kilograms of cocaine as the news story, “Two charged in 2002

slay of Jam Master Jay,” mentions?

The two stories don’t click. It is obvious the murder was not solved owing to the real truth — everyone was afraid to rat out the perpetrators.

Sometimes it is better to let sleeping dogs lie.

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Agree on aimless Dems Dear Editor: I must congratulate Ed Konecnik for his well written letter in the August 20 edition, “Dem’s reverse racism.” Had Donald Trump advised that he was going to select a white man as his running mate, the hue and cry would have reverberated across the nation from coast to coast.

For months it would be the lead story on every television, radio and online newscast. Nearly the entire hour of any evening news program would be devoted to such story.

I have been watching political conventions for over half a century. Never before have I seen one more disorganized, unfocused and immature as the recent Democratic convention.

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True blue New York Dear Editor: The numbers just don’t add up for President Trump’s belief that he can carry New York. The Democrats could run Mad magazine’s “What, Me Worry?” Alfred E. Neuman for president and still carry the Empire State by a wide margin.

Based upon the state Board of Elections registration figures as of Feb. 21, 2020, New York is a rock-solid Democratic Party bastion. Out of 11,701,136 active voters, there are 5,900,507 Democrats vs. 2,611,223 Republicans; 2,522,036 unaffiliated; 432,943 Independence Party; 147,606 Conservative; 40,335 Working Family; 24,504 Green; 13,657 Libertarian; 348 Serve America Movement and 8,063 other reg-

Dear Editor: In the Aug. 1, 2019 issue I wrote a letter calling out the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement as anti-Semitic (“Calling out BDS”).

I was happy to see the Chronicle agreeing with me in the Aug 20, 2020 issue.

Rep. Ilhan Omar has repeatedly come out with anti-Semitic comments and has supported BDS. Rep. Nancy Pelosi prevented a House resolution condemning her and recently supported Omar in a primary battle.

Democrats are silent when it comes to antiSemitism in their own party. I would like to see the following questions answered by Joe Biden.

Do you think Omar is anti-Semitic?

You have come out against BDS. Do you believe supporters of the BDS movement are anti-Semitic?

If the answer to the last question is no, why do the BDS supporters not want to boycott any other country, if not for their anti-Semitism?

These are legitimate questions. Would he be willing to risk the support of the far left or would he try to give them some political cover?

I am not voting for Trump because I do not believe he has the character and integrity to be president. I will not vote for Biden because I have major policy disagreements with him.

However, it is important to know if he has the courage to take on his own party on such an important matter. I only hope there is a reporter out there who will ask the question.

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Autocracy out; democracy in Dear Editor: Watching and listening to Joe Biden’s nomination speech was to see and hear a person possessing the two most important requirements for presidency — humanity and governmental experience, which Donald Trump neither has, nor ever had. The election of Joe Biden would restore democracy to the United States and an antithesis to autocracy. It will reintroduce not only good and healthy breath to the environment, but to government as well.

It will also remove Donald Trump, who was described by Jeffrey Toobin in his book, “The Crimes and Misdemenors — The investigation of Donald Trump” as a “narcissistic scoundrel.”

Four more years with Trump as president, will perpetuate a destruction of our democracy that will take 25 years to restore.

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Dear Editor: On Aug. 26, America celebrated the centennial milestone in the right to vote … the passage of the Suffrage Amendment to our Constitution!

This long unfinished journey started when Elizabeth Cady Stanton initiated the first Women’s Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, NY, in July 1848. The convention produced a far-reaching declaration of principles demanding educational and professional opportunities. A militant group led by Stanton and Susan B. Anthony organized the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869. Women began to win the right to vote in several state elections!

In our 21st century we have seen three women rise to the top of national political leadership. Nancy Pelosi is speaker of the House, Hillary Clinton in 2016 became the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party and Sen. Kamala Harris is the Democratic Party’s choice for vice president on the Biden-Harris ticket. If elected, she would become the first woman, and black at that, to serve at the top of the executive branch of our federal government! The unfinished journey continues.

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istered voters. Democrats outnumber Republicans by 2,792,486 voters. Democrats don’t have to spend any significant resources in New York.

Trump, the Republican Party and pro-Trump Independent political action committees would better off spending time and money in more competitive states such as Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin for him to have any chance for a second term. New York, just like California, is a sure bet for Biden.

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Completely lacking solutions or goals, offering no direct attention to any issue, it was a dog and pony show. Not once was there any mention of the severely rising crime rate in America’s cities, all run by Democrats. No aim of how to deal with the coronavirus or robo calls, nor condemnation of bail reform, release of prisoners from jails, defunding police efforts or dealing with rioters and looters destroying urban areas, and not wearing masks to boot.

Instead, it was a nonstop attack on Donald Trump, ad hominem and derogatory, behavior more typical of a junior high school yard. Blame was placed on the president, National Rifle Association, motorcycle rally, “systemic” racism. It was aided by former presidents and Hollywood celebrities, all of whom live in gated, secure communities. With absolutely nothing to offer, it was nonstop race baiting and demagoguery. It reminded one more of an episode of a situation comedy than any attempt by a political party to address real causes and solutions to serious issues.

Welcome to the new, aimless Democratic Party.

Edward Riecks Howard Beach

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Preserve and expand NYC’s successful G&T programs

by Yiatin Chu, Chien Kwok and Maud Maron

of improving and expanding them.

The tactics of shaming parents and intimidating them into silence if they stand up and speak out in favor of G&T, SP and screened programs as well as specialized high schools, no longer work. All parents have the right to seek the best education possible for their child. NYC parents want diverse classrooms where their child will benefit from academically rigorous instruction while also learning with children from different socio-economic, racial and cultural backgrounds.

Each year 33,000 students take the G&T placement test; of those, 11,000 are from Queens. Despite having twice the number of qualifying G&T students each year than available seats, the city Department of Education refuses to expand the program beyond the insufficient 3,700 seats currently offered. For Queens families, there is only one citywide G&T school in Astoria with just 50 kindergarten seats for the 362 kids who scored above the 97th percentile. Many qualified students, including black, Hispanic and low income, are left out in the cold.

Close observers of the DOE have reason to worry. The G&T testing contract with Pearson was on the June 17, 2020 Panel for Educational Policy agenda. At the last minute, this $1.7 million contract was pulled, while other contracts costing several hundred million dollars were approved. It failed to make it on the July 9 or the August 19 agenda when the PEP approved the $34 billion operational budget for DOE for 2020-21.

The failure to approve a G&T contract compounds the ongoing uncertainties of school reopenings. Families are still in the dark on middle and high school admissions changes and don’t know how the SHSAT will be given this fall with social distancing accommodations.

Parents deserve as much certainty as possible in these uncertain times. Let’s do right by all our children and commit Q to public G&T programs.

Yiatin Chu, Chien Kwok and Maud Maron are NYC public school parents and members of Place NYC (placenyc.org), a parent-leader group advocating for highquality, challenging education for all students.

Tribute for first responder On Saturday, Aug. 22, Eddie Earl organized a tribute for FDNY Battalion Chief Louis Modaferri, who passed away during the 9/11 terrorist attack on the Twin Towers. State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. presented

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One year ago the mayor’s School Diversity Advisory Group (SDAG) proposed to “[d]iscontinue the use of the Gifted & Talented admissions test” and “[i]nstitute a moratorium on new Gifted & Talented programs ...” in a misguided and ill-conceived plan to achieve the laudable goal of increased racial diversity in NYC public schools.

The backlash from public school parents and Queens elected officials was immediate. SDAG’s chairperson, Maya Wiley (yes, the one rumored to run for mayor) ,tried to explain away the plain meaning of the words in the report and suggested they were not calling to end G&T. In other words, 2+2 does not always equal 4. Mayor de Blasio and his embattled school chancellor said they needed time to review. A year later, the families that depend on and seek out G&T programs for accelerated and challenging education have no certainty about the future of the program.

Decades of research and documented outcomes have demonstrated the benefits of supporting all students across the learning spectrum from those with learning disabilities to those who need acceleration. High-ability students are also students with unique needs who require support to reach their full potential.

G&T and other honors programs such as Special Progress traditionally served as a pipeline for NYC’s specialized high schools to make these top schools truly diverse. Brooklyn Tech, the largest of the original three, was over 50 percent black and Hispanic for two decades when there was a robust offering of G&T and SP programs in local schools. This historically inconvenient fact was left out of SDAG’s reports. The same anti-acceleration reformers who pushed to “detrack” schools starting in the ’90s by eliminating G&T and SP programs are now decrying the obvious consequences of their bad policy choices — fewer black and Hispanic children, especially from the neighborhoods where G&T and SP programs were shut down, are academically prepared to take the Specialized High School Admissions Test or enter other academically rigorous middle and high schools.

In hopes of fixing the very real and troubling racial disparity at NYC’s most academically accelerated schools, the “take-away” reformers seek to eliminate these much sought after programs instead

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by Peter C. Mastrosimone Editor-in-Chief

The 2019 New York Press Association Better Newspaper Contest award announcements were unlike any other before, due of course to the coronavirus crisis. But one thing that did remain the same was the success of the Queens Chronicle in winning several recognitions of its work over a calendar year.

The Chronicle picked up five awards in the contest, the results of which were announced last Thursday and Friday. Gone was the annual spring conference in Saratoga Springs with newspaper people of all kinds from all over the state gathering for educational seminars, awards luncheons and semiformal dinners. But remaining was the fierce competition among the state’s weekly newspapers, with 2,918 entries submitted in categories covering news, photography, design, advertising and more. As always, the contest was judged out of state to avoid any ethical quandaries, this time by members of the press in Washington State.

The Chronicle’s first award came in the first category announced, Coverage of Local Government. The paper won first place in its division, the one reserved for entrants with the highest circulation numbers. The winning articles were written

by Editors Ryan Brady, Michael Gannon and Michael Shain.

“These varied entries show broad commitment to covering agencies and discovering facts,” the judge said. “They are such good reads you hardly notice what deep dives they are.”

Another first-place award was won by Associate Editor David Russell and Gannon, in the Best News or Feature Series category, for three pieces about police suicides. “The writing is strong all the way; a serious subject gets proper and professional treatment,” the judge said. “It’s hard to imagine how this could have been done any better.”

Gannon also won an honorable mention in that category, for four articles looking at hunger and efforts to fight it. “This series examines hunger in the Borough of Queens from multiple angles with excellent reporting that shatters stereotypes about

Three Queens Chronicle articles on police suicides, which surged last year, were honored with a first-place award in the New York Press Association’s 2019 Better Newspaper Contest.

The paper also won second place in the Past Presidents’ Award for General Excellence category, for which the judges examined several editions, including this one from Nov. 14, 2019 in western Queens. Announcement of the awards was delayed for almost five months by the coronavirus crisis. who needs help,” the judge said.

The Chronicle also took second place in Coverage of Education, for work done by Russell, Shain, Gannon and contributor Anthony O’Reilly. “The team delivers the latest on education with journalism that informs, enlightens and strengthens communities,” the judge said.

Lastly, the Chronicle won second place in the Past Presidents’ Award for General Excellence category, in which the judges look at three full editions of each paper that enters and give

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them a score out of 100. “This is an excellent newspaper, minus the very miniscule sports content,” the judge said. “This newspaper received 85.5.”

“Congratulations to our entire editorial team for winning five awards,” Chronicle President and Publisher Mark Weidler said.

“I am especially proud of winning first place for Coverage of Local Government, reflecting our primary mission. Also, second place for overall excellence, which includes contributions Q throughout the company.”

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Sports can begin on Sept. 21: Cuomo Lower-risk ones can practice and play; higher-risks can practice only

by David Russell Associate Editor

Play ball!

Kind of.

Gov. Cuomo announced Monday that lower-risk school sports can begin to practice and play Sept. 21.

For fall sports, lower- and moderate-risk sports include tennis, soccer, cross country, field hockey and swimming. Travel for practice or play will be prohibited outside a school’s region or contiguous regions or counties until Oct. 19.

Higher-risk sports, including those with full physical contact, may begin to practice Sept. 21 but cannot play “until a later date or Dec. 31,” according to a release.

Higher-risk sports include football, wrestling, rugby, hockey and volleyball.

“The State has done a lot of research on how we can safely have our students participate in school sports and get the exercise they need, and the guidance we developed will allow lower-risk sports to begin practicing and playing next month,” Cuomo said.

Schools will have to limit capacity of indoor facilities to 50 percent occupancy with a limit of to two spectators per player, in addition to implementing social distancing and face coverings.

Gail Emmanuel, the girls cross country,

indoor and outdoor track coach at Cardozo High School in Bayside, was glad to hear the news.

“It’s good for the kids not just for competition but socially as well,” she said Tuesday.

Emmanuel said the students have been looking forward to competing.

“The kids are going crazy,” she said.

“Many kids were calling over the summer because they wanted to practice in groups because they were bored.”

It will be good for the students to get a taste of what they were missing, according to Emmanuel, but there’s still the pressure on the upperclassmen to impress college recruiters.

“They’ll have to find a way to produce those times,” she said.

Cardozo volleyball coach Dan Scarola is concerned practices won’t be able to start as soon as Sept. 21.

“This isn’t as simple as saying, ‘Let’s get in and use hand sanitizer,’” he said.

There are no windows inside Cardozo’s gymnasium and Scarola, who coached Little League baseball on Long Island during the summer, says he doesn’t see how everything will be settled in less than a month.

The coach said there could be students on teams who may have opted for online-only learning and he doubts parents will allow

The LIC community is strong and we will pull through this together.

Gov. Cuomo announced Monday that lower-risk school sports, such as tennis, soccer and cross country, can begin to practice and play on Sept. 21. Higher-risk sports can begin to practice but NYS SCREENSHOT cannot play “until a later date or Dec. 31.” them to go to school only for athletics. And there are coaches who have opted out of inperson teaching.

“They really can’t say, ‘I won’t come into the building to teach but I’ll come after school to coach,’” Scarola said.

He said he wouldn’t mind the Public Schools Athletic League pushing sports back to early 2021, as Nassau County schools are discussing the change.

Newsday reported that Nassau County

called an emergency superintendents meeting to discuss fall sports with postponing the season until January as an option.

“We could kick the can down the road and wait to see if and how the numbers change when students return to school,” said Hank Grishman, the superintendent of Jericho, LI, schools. “We could follow the governor’s guidance and start [low-risk sports] on Sept. 21. Or we could go to a January to Q June option with three seasons.”

Parks addressed at 106 NCO meeting

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The 106th Precinct held its Sector A Build the Block meeting on Thursday, Aug. 20 in the Our Lady of Grace parking lot, where residents discussed issues involving the playground attached to PS 207 and Charles Park.

While neighbors have been commenting that Charles Park has been neglected for years, the pandemic has magnified those concerns. Over the past month, groups of concerned residents have organized to clean up parts of the park, but the level of waste still bubbled up as an issue at the meeting, according to attendees.

“The Charles Park issues do revolve around the COVID situation. There are a lot more people using the park,” said Community Board 10 Chairwoman Betty Braton.

Neighbors have also taken issue with people using the PS 207 playground at night, according to state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach), who was at the meeting. The 106th Precinct has taken on the responsibility of locking the park at

The recent 106th Precinct meeting focused on two problems at two Howard Beach PHOTO BY HOWARD BEACH CIVILIAN PATROL parks. night, but Addabbo said that someone recently cut the lock, causing a stir among residents.

“The park should really be closed at night,” said Addabbo.

The meeting also got heated when some residents brought up the idea of creating a neighborhood civilian patrol. This topic caused some confusion as it falls outside the purview of a typical Build the Block meeting, which is specifically aimed at opening up communication Q between residents and the NYPD.

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Most single-use carry-out sacks are banned; DEC to clarify enforcement

by Michael Gannon Editor

New York State may go ahead with its ban on most single-use plastic grocery bags.

But acting Supreme Court Justice Gerald Connolly, in his 47-page opinion issued on Thursday, also invalidated a section of the state Department of Environmental Conservation’s bag regulations that added reusable, thicker plastic bags not made of film to the list of allowed exemptions.

The regulations were originally intended to go into effect in March, but enforcement was delayed largely because of the COVID19 outbreak. Many stores did not allow people to bring their own reusable cloth bags in the early days of the outbreak over concerns that bags not properly cleaned could carry the coronavirus or other pathogens. Stores in the city were required to collect a 5-cent fee on paper bags requested by customers.

The law had been challenged by Poly-Pak Industries, a Long Island bag manufacturer; The Bodega and Small Business Association, and two grocery store owners.

“The Court’s decision is a victory and a vindication of New York State’s efforts to end the scourge of single-use plastic bags and a direct rebuke to the plastic bag manufacturers who tried to stop our law,” DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos said in a press release sent out

A judge has upheld the overwhelming majority of the state’s ban on most single-use plastic shopping bags. The state as well as environmental advocates have argued that the new law will FILE PHOTO save both money and the environment. by his office. “DEC encourages New Yorkers to transition to reusable bags whenever and wherever they shop and to use common-sense precautions to keep reusable bags clean.”

The law has been in effect since March 1, but the DEC will be providing notice to impacted stores and businesses regarding the initiation of DEC’s enforcement plans. Pub-

lished reports say the state will take 30 days to clarify its requirements to store owners.

Attempts at state and city laws banning single-use bags go back to 2017. New York City alone has been spending more than $12 million per year to dispose of the bags, which gover nment and environmental groups have criticized for their almost-ubiq-

uitous presence in the city’s streets, sidewalks, trees and waterways.

The plaintiffs argued that the Bag Reduction Act was vaguely written; and improperly favored manufacturers of cloth or paper bags over those manufacturing the plastic film bags. They also claimed that prohibiting stores from giving out plastic bags was in direct conflict with the existing Bag Recycling Act, which requires the practice.

While the DEC’s ensuing regulations added an exemption for plastic bags at least 10 mils thick — about the thickness of 10 pieces of paper, according to published sources — it was the only one of five causes of action on which Connolly, who sits in Albany, sided with the plaintiffs.

Connolly, on page 40 of his decision, wrote that the DEC exceeded its authority when adding the exemption in its bag regulations “in plain contradiction’” of the new law. “[T]he Bag Regulations expand this list of exempt plastic carry-out bags as set forth ... to include ‘reusable bag[s]’ which include [among other things], bags made of certain plastic, in contravention of the plain dictate of the statute,” he wrote.

But the justice also wrote that it is well within the Legislature’s purview to go back and add the exemption if it so chooses. He Q dismissed all the other complaints.

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Community rallies against Umbrella Hotel Kew Gardens site has been plagued with crime, noise

by Michael Shain Chronicle Contributor

The hotel on 82nd Avenue just off Queens Boulevard in Kew Gardens has dropped its rates to $80 a night, according to tripadvisor. com — a price so affordable that groups of young people are booking rooms and now appear to be its main clientele.

The Umbrella Hotel, the latest name of the 20-story hotel across the street from Queens Borough Hall with a long-troubled past, has been the scene of two shootings in a little more than a month.

Bullet holes in the hotel’s glass entrance are still visible three weeks after the last incident.

On Sunday, approximately 50 to 60 neighbors gathered in front of Borough Hall to demand that the Umbrella be shut down.

During the rally, a screaming confrontation broke out among a group of four youths leaving the hotel, sending half a dozen police officers monitoring the protest scurrying across Queens Boulevard to quell the disturbance.

No arrests were made.

“This is a community crisis,” Andrea Crawford, a member of Community Board 9 who lives nearby, told the rally. She and other speakers complained that the hotel has become party central for people with pot smoke wafting out its open windows and loud music and boisterous behavior at all hours.

Sunday was the second community rally against the hotel in recent weeks and local residents voiced their growing frustration with local elected officials who have not been able to get it shut down.

Former Borough President and now Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz came in for some of the harshest criticism.

“Her office is right down the block and she has done nothing about this hotel,” said Crawford.

A spokesman for Katz told the Chronicle Wednesday the DA’s office “is aware of concerns and is monitoring the situation. There was an arrest in the July shooting and the

Neighbors of the Umbrella Hotel maintained social distancing at a rally last Sunday, as they voiced displeasure about the Kew Gardens site that PHOTOS BY MICHAEL SHAIN has worried residents and lawmakers about crime and quality-of-life issues.

During the rally, a confrontation broke out among four people leaving the hotel. Police officers monitoring the protest went across the boulevard to stop the disturbance. No arrests were made. Dozens of area residents attended the rally, with some holding signs such as “Close this dangerous location.”

NYPD continues to investigate the shooting in August.”

Ethan Felder, a reformist contender for Democratic district leader and one of the rally’s organizers, decried what he characterized as weak support — a joint letter to Mayor de

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Built on the site of the long-closed Pasta Blasio — from area officials.

“Leadership by letter is not leadership at Lovers restaurant at 124-18 Queens Blvd., by the restaurant’s former owners, the hotel has all,” he said.

One protester carried a sign that read been leased to at least three different operators “Koslowitz Katastrophe,” a reference to Coun- since opening in 2017.

It functioned brief ly as an emergency cilmember Karen Koslowitz (D-Forest Hills) who represents the area. Felder is challenging shelter for homeless families after opening.

Koslowitz’s running mate for the district lead- The city stopped using the hotel after ership post in the primary election last June Koslowitz negotiated a deal that included her support for the de Blasio-backed plan to that is still in dispute.

Councilman Donovan Richards (D-Laurel- reopen the Queens House of Detention for prisoners if ton), the DemoRikers Island is cratic candidate closed i n the for borough future. president this his is a community crisis.”

T h e ow n e r fall and the only — Community Board 9 member Andrea Crawford of the hotel is elected official listed i n cit y to appear at the records as rally, said he Forge Realty, a company formed by Pasta would back any effort to close the hotel.

“You will have a partner at Borough Hall,” Lovers’ former owner, Gus Karayiannis. he told the group. “I won’t stand for shootings Calls to a phone number listed under his name and Long Island home address were to take place outside my office.”

The hotel has been a sore point in the part not answered this week, nor were emails of Kew Gardens near the civic center for more and messages sent to his email and social Q media accounts. than a decade.

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Port Authority plan would take four years, Promenade land to complete

by Michael Gannon Editor

The Federal Aviation Administration last Friday released its 552-page draft environmental impact study for the proposed AirTrain between Willets Point and LaGuardia Airport.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy International airports, is proposing the $2 billion project in an effort to speed up trips between LaGuardia and both Midtown and Downtown Manhattan. Gov. Cuomo also supports the plan.

The PA’s requested plan and route call for elevated tracks that run within the Flushing Promenade just off the Grand Central Parkway. A new station would be built near existing stations for the No. 7 subway line and Long Island Rail Road.

Residents of Corona and East Elmhurst, along with environmental groups, have opposed the project for its damage to and land taken from the Promenade; the permanent obstruction of residents’ views of the Promenade and Flushing Bay; and the noise, disruption and ground vibrations caused by four years of construction proposed between August 2021 and November 2025.

A number of houses on or near Ditmars Boulevard already have sustained damage from the ongoing construction to rebuild

LaGuardia in place while it continues to operate. The Port Authority has compensated homeowners for repairs in verifiable cases.

The entire draft repor t, including a 34-page executive summary, can be read or downloaded online at lgaaccesseis.com/ draft-eis-document.

Online workshops will take place from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 22 and 11:00 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept.

23. Public hearings will take place online from 7 to 9 p.m. on Sept. 22; from 2 to 4 p.m. on Sept. 23, and from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 24.

Anyone wishing to participate in the workshops or public hearings can register online at lgaaccesseis.com.

Benefits being touted by the Port Authority is a projected reduction in automobile traffic and the resulting pollution in the East Elmhurst-Corona neighborhoods, as well as the business and employment opportunities both in the construction process and after its completion.

Both the FAA and PA acknowledge that the construction process would result in temporary and permanent impacts that will have to be addressed in the short- and long-term.

The PA is pledging to work with the city, residents and elected officials to minimize and monitor the impact of noise, pollution, light

An architectural rendering depicts a new AirTrain station just across Roosevelt Avenue FILE IMAGE from Citi Field. and construction vibrations. The study points out that many environmental protections are required as conditions of the permits they would be seeking.

The report also says the PA is committing to extensive improvements along the entire 1.4 mile Promenade, including enhanced access and new amenities as part of the offset for the loss of some park land. It is projected to include improvements to the walkways and railings; upgraded lighting; replacement trees and new landscaping and repairs to the bulkhead/seawall.

To aid in the preparation and scope of a final mitigation plan, the PA is proposing the creation of a Flushing Bay Promenade Community Advisory Council.

As for the structure going through the park itself, the report said the design could incorporate measures to lessen the visual impact, including having a minimum number of support columns within the park and creative use of building materials, colors, trees and landscaping.

The Passerelle Bridge, the wooden deck bridge leading from the No. 7 train into the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center and Flushing Meadows Corona Park, would have to be rebuilt or relocated. The bridge was built for the 1939 World’s Fair and expanded for the 1964 World’s Fair.

Employee parking would be moved off airport property to an operations, maintenance and storage facility, the construction of which continued on page 18

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The Queens Chronicle and the King Manor Museum in Jamaica hosted a meet-and-greet for businesses, civic groups and the community on Aug. 21 in front of the 19th century home of Founding Father Rufus King.

At top left, Carl Clay of the Black Spectrum Theater, Lady Pauline of the Our World Hour of Power radio show and Glenn Greenidge, executive director of the Sutphin Boulevard Business Improvement District, talk business and entertainment. Next to them Tony Persaud of Infinity Honey shows the best his hives offer. At right, folks gather at the Kiwanis Club of Jamaica table.

Second row left, Fay Hill of Jamaica Kiwanis holds up a shopping bag from the Jamaica Center Business Improvement District along with BID Executive Director Jennifer Furioli and Director of Marketing and Business Services Trey Jenkins.

Next, Sgt. Khadija Faison of the 103rd Precinct

and Chronicle Account Executive Ree Brinn meet on duty. At right Deborah Padmore of the Epsilon Pi Omega Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and the Pearls and Ivy Foundation of Queens offers information on the 2020 Census.

Above, Ymara and Althea Magloire of Athena’s Tropical Delights serve up crave-worthy confections. Next to them, Andres Torres of Clutter Free Junk Removal and New York Home Cleanup Service mans his booth, while Stephanie Johnson of Highland Care Center does the same. At right, Phil Orenstein and James Trent of the Queens Village Republican Club register voters, while at far right, Scott Grimm-Lyon, executive director of JFK Gateway, discusses his group’s services.

Additional supporters of the event included state Sen. Leroy Comrie, Councilwoman Adrienne Adams, Chocolat Loft, Helium Image and the Black Spectrum Theatre.

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Unique Broad Channel retailer tries to overcome vaping regulation

by Max Parrott Associate Editor

A cloud hangs over Broad Channel’s sole bait shop, but not the flavored variety of vapor that emanated from its doors in the good times.

Vape, Bait & Tackle, formerly known as Vape Stop, has been struggling to find its footing ever since Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law a bill that bans the retail sale of flavored e-cigarette products in New York City starting last July. Gov. Cuomo passed a corresponding statewide ban that went into effect in July 2020.

“Our wonderful governor decided to kill my business. So I had no choice just to bring in something else,” said owner Leon Gindel.

Gindel knew that his model would take a big hit as soon as the flavor ban went into effect. Since the majority of his vape clients were boaters and fishermen, he figured he would try to pivot to a model that would kill two birds with one stone, and sling some bait and fishing equipment next to his vape stock of e-liquids, mods and atomizers.

But the idea is easier said than done.

Vapes basically sold themselves, according to Gindel. The bait game is not the same story.

“I’m a new guy. It’s hard to get bait on

time. On top of that because of the coronavirus, the wholesaler is like 80% empty on their stock, so it’s impossible to get hardware,” Gindel said.

He said that two bait shops in Howard Beach have a solid hold on the area’s customer base.

“They have more customers, more traffic, they buy more [bait],” Gindel said.

Their efforts extend to the area’s bait wholesaler, who Gindel thinks has been coordinating with the other two shops to leave him in the lurch. That day he was told that the wholesaler had run out of worms, so he had to travel up to his competition, who seemed to have fresh stock, to buy them at retail price.

“Everybody got the bait except me,” Gindel said.

New York is the fourth state to set in place such restrictions. He argued, as many It’s been a year since the city’s f lavor ban, and Gindel is still sore about it. The burgeoning network of vape startups and wholesalers that exploded in number several years ago was so accessible to retailers, he said.

“When I was opening a vape shop, wholesalers would give me free stuff, posters. They tried to help me,” Gindel said.

Though the number of youth using e-cig-

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Stumbling from flavors to tackle

On one side of the marquee a hand stretches out from a milky cloud of smoke gripping a vape; PHOTO BY MAX PARROTT on the other, a fish is hoisted up on a rod. arettes, primarily the JUUL brand, had surged to over 5 million, with nearly 1 million youth using the product daily as of 2019, Gindel argued, as many in the industry did, that vapes were fundamentally a

smoking cessation tool that “saves lives.”

Then he believed in his business, but he knows that the political reality is not likely to change any time soon.

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Electeds step in to save CUNY jobs Maloney says CARES Act meant to maintain jobs, health benefits

by Katherine Donlevy Associate Editor

Just one day before City University of New York classes began, eight congressional representatives published a letter urging the college system’s administrators to reverse its decision to allow 2,800 faculty contracts to lapse before the fall semester.

The Aug. 25 letter urges CUNY Chancellor Felix Matos Rodriguez and Board Chairperson Bill Thompson to reconsider the July 1 decision to layoff thousands of part-time and adjunct faculty, which would terminate their access to healthcare benefits, in an effort to mitigate pandemic-driven economic shortfalls. The elected officials argue that the decision is unconscionable following the passing of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act in March, which allocated $118 million in emergency f i n a ncia l a id for CUNY students and an additional $132 million in institutional support for CUNY colleges.

“One of the main obje ct ive s of t he CARES Act funding that employers received was to keep as many employees as possible on payroll so that in the midst of a national health crisis, Americans like these CUNY faculty members wouldn’t have the added stress of losing their jobs and signing up for a new healthcare plan,” Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens) told the Chronicle.

Maloney, along with Reps. Tom Suozzi (D-Nassau, Suffolk, Queens), Kathleen Rice (D-Nassau), Max Rose (D-Staten Island), Adriano Espaillat (D-Manhattan, Bronx), José Ser rano (D-Bronx), Eliot Engel (D-Bronx, Westchester) and Sean Patrick Maloney (D-Hudson Valley) note that the cost of keeping all 2,800 faculty members on payroll for the fall semester is approximately $30 million, which is a fraction of

the CARES funding allocated in part for that purpose.

Matos Rodriguez revealed on July 30 that CUNY had reallocated the CARES funding in direct student aid, prioritizing mental health services, reimbursements to campuses for COVID 19-related costs such as refunds and investments in online infrastructure and training, a plan that was approved by the state. The plan has not been finalized, however, because CUNY has not yet concluded the budget process for the 2020-21 academic year.

“We are optimistic that this student-centered approach will promote maintenance of our overall enrollment levels and sustain our students’ academic momentum ... In light of the financial uncertainties we face, this is the most prudent way to proceed,” the chanc el lor s a id i n t he announcement.

The officials disa g r e e w it h M a t o s Rodriguez’s sentiment, arguing that the decision to decrease staff will negatively affect the health of students.

“I’m also concerned ab out t he broa d e r effects this decision will have on the entire CUNY community; class sizes will increase, workloads for remaining faculty will increase, and the number of courses available to students will shrink, all of which bodes very poorly for the quality of education and academic outcomes for students,” Maloney also said.

A list shared by the Professional Staff Congress, the union representing CUNY faculty and staff, showed that the layoffs will short 422 CUNY adjuncts of healthcare benefits, 69 of whom were employed across four Queens campuses: LaGaurdia Community College, Queens College, York College and Queensborough Community College, the latter of which accounted for nearly half of the borough’s laid-off faculty.

The lists, titled “Adjunct Health Insur-

Draft LGA AirTrain study continued from page 15 would require a temporary relocation of a Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus storage facility; and to 200 Citi Field parking spaces.

In an email to the Chronicle on Tuesday, Rebecca Pryor, Guardians of Flushing Bay and Riverkeeper program coordinator, said the organizations still are reviewing the report.

“We remain deeply concerned about the waste of federal stimulus funds for a project that has been criticized for being circuitous, a land grab of public parkland, detrimental

to residents, and an additional burden to the 7-train,” Pryor wrote. “The AirTrain would take away parkland in the East Elmhurst neighborhood that was one of the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.”

The proposal confirms that the PA’s preferred route and the existing status quo, or the “no action” option, are the only ones being considered in the report out of more than 40 that have been presented by the public in a series of workshops, including expanding bus service and extending the N/W elevated subway line just over one mile from its existing terminus in Astoria. A sim-

Queensborough Community College fired 32 adjuncts who had been receiving health benefits FILE PHOTO for the fall semester as part of CUNY’s decision to lay off 2,800 faculty members. ance Plan Eligibility - Fall 2020,” notes that 1,835 adjuncts will stay on the CUNY payroll, thus preserving their insurance benefits. The list does not include the total number of adjuncts at each campus prior to the layoffs, a number that would have shown those who did not receive health insurance to begin with.

According to the same July 30 budget update from Matos Rodriguez, the college system had reached out to the PSC requesting an extension for submitting appointment letters but was denied, forcing the colleges to notify adjuncts that their positions were not guaranteed for the fall semester. Those faculty members have the potential for rehire if additional federal funding is allotted to CUNY in the coming weeks, however.

“We have reappointed college assistants and other hourly employees on a month-bymonth basis beginning with July, and we are doing the same for August. Similarly, we would have liked to postpone the reappointment process for adjuncts until our budget is finalized but, as you are aware, the PSC did not consent to our proposal. ilar N train proposal was rejected in the Rudolph Giuliani administration.

Some facilities within the Flushing Marina would have to be relocated with the projected loss of 0.08 acre of tidal wetland. The PA states it would adhere to its environmental permits that would “partially mitigate” the impact on wetlands; and will pursue additional mitigation efforts that are required under the permit approval process.

Pryor was unimpressed.

“At this point it has been made clear that Port Authority and FAA have no intention to legitimately compare the proposed AirTrain to other viable alternatives in more affluent neighborhoods, even though transit experts believe those alternatives would better serve

This forced us to make final decisions by June 30, at a time when we did not have a complete picture of our financial outlook.

If the fiscal and enrollment situation are more favorable in August, we plan to reappoint as many adjuncts as we can,” Matos Rodriguez said.

A spokesperson for CUNY told the Chronicle that it has continued the monthby-month reappointment of college assistants and other hourly employees for September.

Despite the state’s approval for CUNY’s CARES funding allocation plan, the PSC filed a federal lawsuit on July 2 in an effort to force the public university system to rehire the 2,800 laid-off employees. The lawsuit also demands that those who were laid off receive back pay.

“New Yorkers can be proud that our representatives are standing up for a strong and fully staffed public university and are holding college administrators accountable for using the institutional CARES Act funding, as intended, to protect the quality of a CUNY education,” said PSC President BarQ bara Bowen. the region,” she said.

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Protesters met by large NYPD force outside PBA Prez’s Bayside home

by Katherine Donlevy Associate Editor

Black Lives Matter protesters rallied outside New York City Police Benevolent Association President Pat Lynch’s Bayside home Aug. 20 to condemn the union’s recent endorsement of President Trump in his reelection bid.

“It was something we had been planning for a while because the PBA helped protect their officers when [charged with complaints] for excessive force or misconduct,” Jessica, founder of the Bayside BLM activist group, told the Chronicle, opting to leave out her surname. “But when they officially put out their endorsement, it was a slap in the face. That’s when we decided to press with the call to action.”

The demonstration was kept under wraps until Thursday evening — participants had to reach out to the group’s Instagram page for further details. Despite the organizers’ attempts to keep the event a secret, the information was leaked to the police, who showed up to the Auburndale Long Island Rail Road station, the protesters’ meeting place, and followed them to Lynch’s 203rd Street and 50th Avenue home.

The demonstration, which had been conducted silently and succinctly — the protesters made a point to only march on the side-

Protesters rallied on the corner of city Police Benevolent Association President Pat Lynch’s Bayside home Aug. 20 to protest his reluctance to accept reform of the NYPD and his recent PHOTO BY AARON COSTA GANIS / INSTAGRAM endorsement of President Trump. walk so as to not disturb traffic — became more chaotic when it reached the PBA president’s home, which was blocked by steel barricades and dozens of uniformed officers, restricting the protest to the street corner.

The dozens of protesters broke their silence to voice their dismay at the union’s Aug. 14 decision to endorse Trump, a move

that marks the first presidential endorsement ever made by the PBA. “For the PBA to endorse a president whose exact words were, ‘Don’t be too nice’ when making arrests and whose entire platform is driven by racist and xenophobic propaganda is an absolute disgrace ... History has its eyes on you, Mr. Lynch,” the activist group later released in a statement.

In addition to the endorsement delivered by the union’s president of 21 years, the activists also denounced Lynch’s opposition to police reform efforts, including policies passed in recent months in response to Black Lives Matter demonstrations — Lynch said that the City Council’s decision to slash the NYPD’s budget by $1 billion would plunge the city into “lawlessness” and lead to higher crime rates. In other statements, Lynch referred to the calls for police reform as an assault on the agency and as an attempt to restrict police officers’ rights.

Lynch released a statement of his own following the demonstration: “New York City police officers will protect your right to protest wherever it can be done safely and legally, including in front of my house. But these protestors should realize they are wasting their time. Their campaign of harassment and intimidation might have the politicians running scared, but it will have zero impact on the PBA.” Lynch did not appear at any point during the demonstration.

“The biggest outcome of the night was Lynch’s response, where he basically stated that he won’t be intimidated, but I found that ironic considering he had 20 to 30 police officers standing on the front of his Q house protecting him,” said Jessica.

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C M SQ page 20 Y K STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, FOR THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, COUNTY OF HORRY, Civil Action Numbers: 2020-CP-26-04168, Ocean Bay Club; Plaintiff, vs. Ely Bar and The Personal Representative of the Estate of Shirley Bar, if any, whose name is unknown; and any children and heirs at law, distributees and devisees, and if any of the same be deceased, any and all persons entitled to claim under or through them; also all other persons entitled to claim unknown claiming any right, title, interest or lien upon the real property described in the Complaint herein; any unknown adults being a class designated as JOHN DOE; any unknown minors or persons under disability or in the military service being a class designated as RICHARD ROE; Defendants SUMMONS (Non-Jury Foreclosure) TO: THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said Complaint on the subscribers at their office at 1271 Glenns Bay Road (physical address only), P.O. Box 14737 (mailing address), Surfside Beach, South Carolina 29587, and to file your answer in the office of the Clerk of Court for Horry County, all within thirty (30) days after the service hereof; exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for judgment by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint and a judgment will be rendered against you. YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that the Plaintiff in this Action will move for an Order of Reference of that the Court may issue a general order of reference of this action to a Masterin-Equity/Special Referee, pursuant to Rule 53, of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure. TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES, AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a Guardian ad Litem within thirty (30) days after such service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the morgagee immediately and separately and such appointment within thirty (30) days after service of the Summons and Complaint upon you. YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to Answer the foregoing Summons, the Plaintiff will move for an Order of Reference of this cause to the Master-in-Equity for this County, which Order shall, pursuant to the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 53(e) specifically provide that the said Master-in-Equity is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this cause with appeal only to the South Carolina Court of Appeals pursuant to South Carolina Appellate Court Rules, Rule 203(b)(4) and Rule 203(b)(1).

LIS PENDENS (Foreclosure) (Non-Jury) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced and is now pending in this court upon Complaint of the above-named Plaintiff against the above-named Defendants for Foreclosure of an Assessment Lien recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Horry County at Lien Book 256 at Page 1948. The premises covered and affected by the Assessment Lien were at the time of the making thereof, and at the time of the filing of this Notice, described as follows: APARTMENT (UNIT) NUMBER 1101 in OCEAN BAY CLUB HORIZONTAL PROPERTY REGIME located in the Ocean Drive Section of North Myrtle Beach, County and State aforesaid, a horizontal property regime established pursuant to the South Carolina Horizontal Property Act (Section 27-31-10, et seq., S.C. Code Ann. (1976) as amended) by Master Deed dated October 22, 1997, as amended with appended By-laws and Exhibits including plat and plot plans which Master Deed including the By-laws and Exhibits are recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Horry County in Book 1985 at Page 530, et. seq., as amended. The Master Deed, By-Laws, plot plan and plat above-mentioned, and the records thereof, are incorporated herein and by this reference is made a part hereof. OCEANFRONT PROPERTY DISCLOSURE STATEMENT pursuant to S.C. Code Ann. Section 48-39-330 (1988 Supp.), the Seller discloses to the Buyer that the property or a portion thereof is or may be subject to statutory regulation imposed by The South Carolina Coastal Zone Act of 1977, S.C. Code Ann., Sections 48-39-10 et. Seq., (1988 Supp.), as amended by The South Carolina Beach Management Act, S.C. Code Ann., Sections 48-39-270 et. Seq., (1988 Supp.) This being the identical property conveyed unto Ely Bar and Shirley Bar from Mohammad I. Javaid and Shamshad Javaid by deed dated February 11, 2004 and recorded February 17, 2004 in Deed Book 2697 at Page 1306, records for Horry County, South Carolina.

TMS #: 144-10-19-045, PIN#: 35607040332, PROPERTY ADDRESS: 201 South Ocean Boulevard, Unit 201, North Myrtle Beach, SC 29582 NOTICE TO MINORS AND PERSONS UNDER DISABILITY TO: THE INFANT DEFENDANTS OVER 14 YEARS OF AGE: TO: THE INFANT DEFENDANTS UNDER 14 YEARS OF AGE: TO: THE PERSONS WITH WHOM SAID INFANT DEFENDANTS RESIDE: TO: THE DEFENDANTS UNDER DISABILITY AND TO THE COMMITTEES AND GUARDIANS OF SAID DEFENDANTS AND TO THE PERSONS WITH WHOM SAID DEFENDANTS RESIDE: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED, required and notified to apply for the appointment of a Guardian ad Litem to represent you, or to represent said infant Defendants under fourteen (14) years of age, or to represent said Defendants under disability in this action, within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons upon you, or if you fail to do so apply or file appropriate pleading, application will be made by the undersigned as attorney for Plaintiff herein for such appointment.

ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI Upon reading and filing of the Petition of the Plaintiff herein, for the appointment of a Guardian ad Litem Nisi in these proceedings, it is ORDERED that Douglas M. Zayicek, Attorney-at-Law, be, and is hereby designated and appointed Guardian ad Litem Nisi for The Personal Representative of the Estate of Shirley Bar, if any, whose name is unknown; and any children and heirs at law, distributees and devisees, and if any of the same be deceased, any and all persons entitled to claim under or through them; also all other persons entitled to claim unknown claiming any right, title, interest or lien upon the real property described in the Complaint herein; any unknown adults being a class designated as JOHN DOE; any unknown minors or persons under disability or in the military service being a class designated as RICHARD ROE, if any, or either of them or someone on their behalf. FURTHER ORDERED, that said The Personal Representative of the Estate of Shirley Bar, if any, whose name is unknown; and any children and heirs at law, distributees and devisees, and if any of the same be deceased, any and all persons entitled to claim under or through them; also all other persons entitled to claim unknown claiming any right, title, interest or lien upon the real property described in the Complaint herein; any unknown adults being a class designated as JOHN DOE; any unknown minors or persons under disability or in the military service being a class designated as RICHARD ROE, or the persons with whom they reside, or any other person authorized to act for them, shall, within thirty (30) days, after the service of this Order upon them as herein provided, procure the appointment of a Guardian ad Litem. It is therefore, ORDERED, that this Order shall be served upon The Personal Representative of the Estate of Shirley Bar, if any, whose name is unknown; and any children and heirs at law, distributees and devisees, and if any of the same be deceased, any and all persons entitled to claim under or through them; also all other persons entitled to claim unknown claiming any right, title, interest or lien upon the real property described in the Complaint herein; any unknown adults being a class designated as JOHN DOE; any unknown minors or persons under disability or in the military service being a class designated as RICHARD ROE, by publication of a copy of this Order in the Queens Chronicle, a newspaper of general circulation published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks. MOORE, JOHNSON & SARANITI LAW FIRM, P.A., Attorneys for the Plaintiff, Elizabeth J. Saraniti (SC Bar #16150), P.O. Box 14737, Surfside Beach, SC 29587-4737, (843) 650-9757; (843) 650-9747

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Back to basics Two simple recipes when dining out means a picnic

by Peter C. Mastrosimone Keep it simple, they say. If you want to be adventurous with your cooking and picnicking as summer winds down, go for it. But if you just want to whip up a couple of classics, here’s an easy pair to consider. The first comes from cookingchanneltv.com and the second is by Meghan Splawn at thekitchn.com (that’s right, no E in kitchen). Come up with a nice dessert, and you’re good to go!

Directions: Put the drumsticks, 1 cup of the buttermilk and the hot sauce into a large resealable bag. Seal the bag, and shake several times to coat the drumsticks. Set the bag in a bowl or baking dish, and refrigerate for at least 4 hours up to overnight.

Set a rack on a rimmed baking sheet. Fill a large Dutch oven or pot halfway with oil (about 10 cups), and heat to 350 degrees over medium-high heat.

While the oil is heating up, whisk together the flour, 2 teaspoons salt, 1½ teaspoons pepper, paprika, garlic and onion powder in a medium baking dish. Gently stir in the heavy cream and the remaining 2 tablespoons of buttermilk with a fork until small lumps form throughout the mixture.

Remove 1 drumstick from the buttermilk marinade, letting any excess drip off.

Press the drumstick into the flour mixture until it is completely covered with a thick layer. Transfer the breaded chicken to the prepared baking sheet. Repeat with the remaining chicken. Let sit for 15 minutes (this lets the breading dry a bit and lets the chicken lose some of its chill, so it will cook faster).

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Picnic-perfect fried chicken Ingredients: • 8 chicken drumsticks (about 2 pounds) • 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons buttermilk • 3 to 4 tablespoons hot sauce • vegetable oil, for frying • 1½ cups all-purpose flour • Salt and freshly ground black pepper • 1½ teaspoons sweet paprika • 1 teaspoon granulated garlic • ½ teaspoon onion powder • 2 tablespoons heavy cream

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King Crossword Puzzle Fred DeCordova: the man behind Carson, Reagan

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Frederick Timmins DeCordova was born in New York City on Oct. 27, 1910. He fell in love with the stage at an early age and progressed to dialogue director, actor, director and producer. He lived with his parents, Margaret and George, who moved out to 98-11 Queens Blvd. in Rego Park in 1938. He got to work at the Shubert Theater on 44th Street in Manhattan quickly with the new fast IND subway line on Queens The Rego Park home of actor, director and executive proBoulevard.

He was the director of the ducer of “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” Fred famous Ronald Reagan and chim- DeCordova at 98-11 Queens Blvd., as it looks today.

GOOGLE MAPS IMAGE panzee movie “Bedtime for Bonzo” in 1951. He was the proIn 1971 he became the executive producer ducer of “The Jack Benny Program” and “The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show.” of “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny CarWhen in New York he always stayed with son” and remained the producer until the last his parents in the Rego Park apartment, show in 1992. He even stayed on to help out which they lived in until their deaths. In the new host, Jay Leno. He passed away at 1963, the 53-year-old lifelong bachelor mar- age 90 on Sept. 15, 2001, in Woodland Hills, Q Calif. a month shy of his 91st birthday. ried model and socialite Janet Thomas.

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Author Richard Panchyk has published a number of photographic books depicting life as it is or once was in Queens. And as can happen when looking into history, things discovered in one inquiry can lead to another.

His latest book, “Long Island Aerials Through Time” is one of those.

“In researching other books, I was always astonished looking at the aerial images of Long Island that are available in the National Archives,” Panchyk told the Chronicle in an interview last Thursday.

The book contains black-and-white photos from Montauk Point to Queens and Brooklyn, with the photos and captions arranged alphabetically by town or neighborhood. Flushing and Forest Hills, for example, fall in between Fire Island and Garden City.

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The photos were taken between 1920 and 1940, mostly by military photographers flying from Mitchell Field in Nassau County.

Between 1914 and 1918, the airplane introduced a terrifying new dimension to warfare. But it also allowed for new twists in reconnaissance and intelligence-gathering.

The photographers flying out of Mitchell Field after World War I were practicing their trade in the days when images were captured on film from between 2,000 and 3,000 feet; as opposed to satellite images available today, the film and prints had to be developed by hand in chemical baths in darkrooms. But they were still sharp and detailed.

He said aerial photography took the place of “bird’s-eye view” maps that would be drawn by artists standing on high elevations or tall structures to create their works.

“I was amazed at the high quality of the images,” Panchyk said. “If you take a look with your eyes or use a magnifying glass, you can really see a lot of little details. It’s incredible.”

One, for example, shows a trio of roller coasters in Rockaway Beach amusement parks in 1925. Another from Nassau County allows the reader to pick a horse likely oblivious to the photographer.

One Panchyk made sure to include is of

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Summer of 1925 was a season of fun at Rockaway Beach, with the shoreline, summer cottages and three roller coasters in shoreline amusement parks. NATIONAL ARCHIVES PHOTO Corona from May, 1930 depicting a flight of military biplanes heading west toward Manhattan.

“But you can see the Elmhurst gas tanks in the background,” he said of the old landmarks, which were torn down by 2011 and replaced with a six-acre park. Sharp-eyed historians and fans of F. Scott Fitzgerald can look off to the right of the photo and see the massive old ash dump written about in

“The Great Gatsby.”

And his favorite Queens photos in the book were taken as the site of the ash dump after it was designated at the site of the 1939-40 World’s Fair.

They depict the Trylon and Perisphere under construction in 1938, and both in their completed grandeur in September 1939, four months after the fairgrounds Q opened.

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names contained in such notice is on file and open to the public inspection at our Corporate Headquarters at 2651 Strang Blvd., Suite 100, Yorktown Heights, NY where such abandoned property is payable. Such abandoned property will be paid on or before October 31 to persons establishing to its satisfaction their right to receive the same. In the succeeding November, and on or before the tenth day thereof, such unclaimed property will be paid to the Comptroller of the State of New York and it shall thereupon cease to be liable therefore. Customer should contact the bank at (914) 2487272 or write to PCSB Bank – PO Box 712 – 2651 Strang Blvd., Suite 100, Yorktown Heights, NY, 10598.

Notice is hereby given that an on-premise license, #TBA has been applied for by Kiss Entertainment Inc to sell beer, wine, cider and liquor at retail in an on-premises establishment. For on-premises consumption under the ABC Law at 130-35 91st Avenue, Richmond Hill, NY 11418

NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS

BY PUBLICATION STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF MECKLENBURG IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE DISTRICT COURT DIVISION FILE

NUMBER

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2019-CVD-10793

JEANINE

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PEREZ, Plaintiff vs. CHRISTIAN IVAN PEREZ, Defendant TO: CHRISTIAN IVAN PEREZ, Defendant TAKE NOTICE that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above action.

The nature of the relief being sought is as follows: the Plaintiff is seeking an absolute divorce based on one year’s separation. You are required to make a defense to such pleading no later

Notice of Formation of Caspi246 LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/19/2020. 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: Caspi246 LLC 198 Beach St., Rockaway Park, NY 11694. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

DAR LOGISTICS LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 08/12/2020. Office loc: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 8942 Pontiac Street Floor 2, Queens Village, NY 11427. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 08-20-2020, bearing Index Number NC-000441-20/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) KRIS (Last) CHACOMAS. My present name is (First) KRISHNA (Middle) RAM (Last) CHAKMA FKA UPATISSA CHAKMA. The city and state of my present address are Long Island City, NY. My place of birth is BANGLADESH. The month and year of my birth are March 1982.

days from the first publication of this Notice. Upon your failure to do so, the party seeking service against you will apply to the Court for the relief sought on or after September 22, 2020.

This the 13th day of August, 2020 LANDON A. DUNN, P.A., Attorney for the Plaintiff, 624 Matthews-Mint Hill

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Suite

300A,

Matthews,

North Carolina 28105 Telephone: (704) 688-0505

Notice of Formation of DIAKARD NYC, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/07/20.

Office location: Queens County.

Princ. office of LLC: Endocrine Associates of West Village, 36-36 33 St., Ste. 311, Long Island City, NY 11106.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: The development of novel therapeutic methods to treat diabetes.

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A report of unclaimed amounts of money or other property has been made to the State Comptroller and a listing of names of persons appearing to be entitled is on file and open to public inspection at Fortera Credit Union. Such held amounts of money or other property will be paid or delivered to proven entitled parties by Fortera Credit Union through October 31. On or before November 10, any remaining unclaimed monies or other properties will be paid or delivered to the State Comptroller.

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Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company. Name: Angela’s House CBE LLC (“LLC”). Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (“SSNY”) on June 24, 2020. NY office location: Queens County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to Angela’s House CBE LLC, 221-10 Jamaica Avenue, LL1, Queens Village, NY 11428. Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity.

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Legal Notices Notice of Formation of DR PR Consulting LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/04/2020. 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: DAVID ROBBINS, 83-30 KEW GARDENS ROAD, APT 2P, KEW GARDENS, NY 11415. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of DW Urban Properties LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/13/2020. 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: DW URBAN PROPERTIES LLC, 128 AUDLEY ST., RICHMOND HILL, NY 11418.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of JAY INTERNATIONAL AUTO GROUP LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/23/2020. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: THE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, 124-06 JAMAICA AVENUE, RICHMOND HILL, NY 11418. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Jodon LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05-12-2020. 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: JODON LLC, 23505 120th AVE., CAMBRIA HEIGHTS, NY 11411.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Kondrat Retail LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07-15-2020. 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: CNS ASSOCIATES, 35-37 36TH STREET, 2ND FLOOR, ASTORIA, NY 11106. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Index No. 702047/2020 STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF QUEENS U.S. BANK TRUST, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR LSF9 MASTER PARTICIPATION TRUST, Plaintiff, -vs- THE HEIRS AT LARGE OF LEA SANZONE, deceased, and all persons who are spouses, widows, grantees, mortgagees, lienors, heirs, devisees, distributees, successors in interest of such of them as may be dead, and their husbands and wives, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors of interest of all of whom and whose names and places are unknown to Plaintiff; ANTHONY SANZONE; LUCY CAPRANZANO; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR INDYMAC BANK, FSB; THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; PORTFOLIO RECOVERY ASSOC. LLC A/A/O CAPITAL ONE BANK; “JOHN DOE” AND “JANE DOE” said names being fictitious, it being the intention of Plaintiff to designate any and all occupants of premises being foreclosed herein, Defendants. Mortgaged Premises: 20-41 HIMROD STREET, RIDGEWOOD, NY 11385 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days of the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after service of the same is complete where service is made in any manner other than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. Your failure to appear or answer will result in a judgment against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. In the event that a deficiency balance remains from the sale proceeds, a judgment may be entered against you, unless the Defendant obtained a bankruptcy discharge and such other or further relief as may be just and equitable. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer to the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. These pleadings are being amended to include Anthony Sanzone and Lucy Capranzano, as possible heirs to the estate of Lea Sanzone. These pleadings being further amended to include Portfolio Recovery Assoc. LLC A/A/O Capital One Bank and omit Portfolio Recovery Assoc. LLC. QUEENS County is designated as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the location of the mortgaged premises. Dated: March 10, 2020 Mark K. Broyles, Esq., FEIN SUCH & CRANE, LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff, Office and P.O. Address 28 East Main Street, Suite 1800, Rochester, New York 14614 Telephone No. (585) 232-7400 BLOCK: 3379 LOT: 50 NATURE AND OBJECT OF ACTION The object of the above action is to foreclose a mortgage held by the Plaintiff recorded in the County of QUEENS, State of New York as more particularly described in the Complaint herein. TO THE DEFENDANT, the plaintiff makes no personal claim against you in this action. To the above named defendants: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of HON. TIMOTHY J. DUFFICY, Justice of the SUPREME Court of the State of New York, dated July 21, 2020 and filed along with the supporting papers in the QUEENS County Clerk’s Office. This is an action to foreclose a Mortgage. ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Second Ward of the Borough and County of Queens, City and State of New York bounded and described as follows, to wit: BEGINNING at a point on the northwesterly side of Himrod Street, distant thirty-eight (38) feet, L.S. (38.04 feet U.S.S.) southwesterly from the corner formed by the intersection of the southwesterly side of Grandview Avenue with the northwesterly side of Himrod Street; RUNNING THENCE northwesterly parallel with Grandview Avenue and part of the distance through a party wall one hundred (100) feet, L.S. (100.09 feet U.S.S.); THENCE southwesterly parallel with Himrod Street nineteen (19) feet, L.S. (19.02 feet U.S.S.); THENCE southeasterly again parallel with Grandview Avenue and part of the distance through another party wall one hundred (100) feet L.S. (100.09 feet U.S.S.) to the said northwesterly side of Himrod Street; THENCE northeasterly along the said northwesterly side of Himrod Street nineteen (19) feet, L.S. (19.02 feet U.S.S.) to the point or place of BEGINNING. Mortgaged Premises: 20-41 HIMROD STREET, RIDGEWOOD, NY 11385 Tax Map/Parcel ID No.: Block 3379 in Tax Lot 50 on the Tax Assessment map of the BOROUGH of QUEENS, NY 11385.

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LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 07/22/2020. Office loc: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Giovanni Sotelo, 91-42 118th Street, Richmond Hill, NY 11418.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY NAME: MJ HVAC LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/08/2020. Office Location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served whom is Michael J Accardi. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him or her to the company c/o MJ HVAC LLC 21271 26th Ave P.O. Box 604908 Bayside, New York 11360. Principal business address: 21271 26th Ave. P.O. Box 604908 Bayside, New York 11360.

Purpose: Any lawful acts.

Notice of Formation of PANCE PANRE GRANT BLUEPRINT PROOF REVIEW, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07-21-2020. 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: JASON GRANT, 127-15 157TH ST., JAMAICA, NY 11434. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS INDEX NO. 721575/2019 Plaintiff designates QUEENS as the place of trial situs of the real property SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Mortgaged Premises: 86-85 102ND STREET RICHMOND HILL, NY 11418. District: Section: Block: 9288 Lot: 43 U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE FOR MORGAN STANLEY MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006-15XS, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-15XS, vs. CONRADO LOPEZ if living, and if she/he be dead, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC.; GREENPOINT MORTGAGE FUNDING, INC.; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD; NEW YORK CITY PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU; NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU, “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #12,” the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants. To the above named Defendants YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $423,200.00 and interest, recorded on August 8, 2006, at Instrument number 2006000447354, of the Public Records of QUEENS County, New York, covering premises known as 86-85 102ND STREET RICHMOND HILL, NY 11418. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. QUEENS County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND

BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: March 10, 2020 RAS BORISKIN, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff BY:KEESHA C. ROBINSON-ROBERTS, ESQ. 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, NY 11590 516-280-7675.

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All comments must be received by no later than 5:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, Monday, October 5, 2020.

Comments on the Draft EIS will help FAA in making an informed decision about the proposal. If you choose to include your name, address and telephone number, email, or other personal identifying information in your comment, be advised that your entire comment – including your personal identifying information – may be made publicly available at any time. While you can ask us in your comment to withhold your personal identifying information, FAA cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so.

The Draft EIS is available for viewing and downloading from the project website at www.lgaaccesseis.com. If hard copies of the document are needed, please contact Maria Bernardez at mgbernardez@ricondo.com.

FAA encourages all interested parties to provide comments concerning the scope and content of the Draft EIS. Comments should be as specific as possible and address the analysis of potential environmental impacts and the adequacy of the assessment of the Proposed Action or merits of its alternatives and the mitigation being considered. Reviewers should organize their participation so that it is meaningful and makes the agency aware of the viewers’ interests and concerns using quotations and other specific references to the Draft EIS and related documents. This commenting procedure is intended to ensure that substantive comments and concerns are available to FAA in a timely manner so that FAA has an opportunity to address them. Matters that could have been raised with specificity during the comment period on the Draft EIS may not be considered if they are raised for the first time later in the decision process.

Following the public comment period, FAA will prepare a Final EIS and Record of Decision pursuant to 40 CFR § 1503.4(c) [CEQ regulations] and FAA Orders 1050.1F and 5050.4B.

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is issuing this notice under the provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, as amended, to announce the availability of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed LaGuardia Airport (LGA) Access Improvement Project and its connected actions (the Proposed Action). The Proposed Action would provide direct access between LGA and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) Mets-Willets Point Station and the New York City Transit (NYCT) 7 Line Mets-Willets Point Station. FAA is the lead federal agency in the preparation of the EIS, with cooperating agencies including U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT), and New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. The Draft EIS was prepared to disclose the potential environmental impacts resulting from the Proposed Action, including real property transactions under the New York State Eminent Domain Procedures Law. This notice announces the beginning of the public comment period to solicit public comments on the Draft EIS and provides notice pursuant to the New York State Eminent Domain Procedure Law (NYS EDPL). FAA plans to hold two public workshops and three public hearings concerning the Proposed Action and information contained in the Draft EIS. The Draft EIS was prepared in response to a proposal presented by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (Port Authority). The Port Authority operates LGA under a lease agreement with the City of New York. FAA must decide whether to approve, pursuant to 49 U.S.C. §§ 47106 and 47107 relating to the eligibility of the Proposed Action for federal funding under the Airport Improvement Program (AIP) and/or under 49 U.S.C. § 40117, as implemented by 14 CFR 158.25, to impose and use passenger facility charge (PFC) revenue collected for the Proposed Action to assist with construction of potentially eligible development items shown on the Airport Layout Plan (ALP). FAA approval of the eligibility for federal funding under AIP or to impose and use PFCs is a Federal action that must comply with NEPA requirements.

The Draft EIS presents the purpose and need for the Proposed Action, analysis of reasonable alternatives, discussion of impacts for each reasonable alternative, and support appendices. Pursuant to Title 40 Code of Federal Regulations Part 1502.14(d), the No Action Alternative is also assessed in the Draft EIS as the baseline for comparison purposes. The Proposed Action includes: • construction of an above ground fixed guideway automated people mover (APM) system approximately 2.3 miles in length that extends from the future LGA Central Hall Building to the MTA LIRR Mets-Willets Point Station and the NYCT 7 Line Mets-Willets Point Station; • construction of two on-Airport APM stations (Central Hall APM Station and East APM Station) and one off-Airport APM station at Willets Point (Willets Point APM Station) that provides connections to the Mets-Willets Point LIRR and NYCT 7 Line stations; • construction of passenger walkway systems to connect the APM stations to the passenger terminals, parking garages, and ground transportation facilities; • construction of a multi-level APM operations, maintenance, and storage facility (OMSF) that includes up to 1,000 parking spaces (500 for airport employees, 250 for MTA employees, 50 for APM employees, and 200 for replacement Citi Field parking); • construction of three traction power substations: one located at the on-Airport East Station, another at-grade west of the proposed Willets Point Station just south of Roosevelt Avenue, and the third at the OMSF to provide power to the APM guideway; • construction of a 27kV main substation located adjacent to the OMSF structure on MTA property; • construction of utilities infrastructure, both new and modified, as needed, to support the Proposed Action, including a permanent stormwater outfall into Flushing Creek and a temporary stormwater outfall into Flushing Creek; and • acquisition of real property interests including but not limited to temporary and permanent easements.

The Proposed Action also includes various connected actions, including: utility relocation and demolition of certain existing facilities; a temporary MTA bus storage/parking facility; relocation of up to 200 Citi Field parking spaces; demolition and replacement of the Passerelle Bridge; temporary walkway to maintain access between the transit stations and Flushing Meadows-Corona Park; modifications to the MTA LIRR Mets-Willets Point Station, including service changes to the LIRR Port Washington Line; and the relocation of a boat lift, finger piers and connected timber floating dock, Marina office and boatyard facility, boat storage and parking, and operations shed, part of the World’s Fair Marina.

FAA provides the following notices: • Pursuant to 36 CFR § 800.8(c) that it is using the NEPA process to notify the public of FAA’s finding that the proposed undertaking would adversely affect properties listed or eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places and is seeking public comment on the measures proposed to avoid, minimize, or mitigate such effects disclosed in the Draft EIS. A Draft Memorandum of Agreement to resolve adverse effects to historic properties is included in Appendix K.11 of the Draft EIS. • Pursuant to Section 4(f) of the DOT Act, FAA has prepared a Draft Section 4(f) Evaluation (see Appendix I of the Draft EIS).

• Pursuant to DOT Order 5610.2(a), DOT Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations, the Proposed Action would have a significant impact on minority environmental justice populations and is seeking public comments on impacts and proposed mitigation disclosed in Chapter 3.14 of the Draft EIS. • Pursuant to Executive Order 11990, Protection of Wetlands, that the Proposed Action would temporarily affect less than 1 acre of jurisdictional wetlands in Flushing Creek and less than 1 acre of temporary and permanent impact in Flushing Bay. Impacts to these aquatic resources are disclosed in Chapter 3.16 of the Draft EIS. • Pursuant to Executive Order 11988, Floodplain Management, that the Proposed Action would not result in a significant encroachment on floodplains. Impacts to floodplains are disclosed in Chapter 3.16 of the Draft EIS. • Pursuant to NYS EDPL, the NYSDOT is using the NEPA process to notify the public of the public use, benefit and purpose to be served by the proposed public project; the approximate location for the proposed public project and the reasons for the selection of that location; the general effect of the proposed project on the environment and residents of the locality and other factors considered relevant.

The public comment period on the Draft EIS starts on August 21, 2020 and ends on October 5, 2020. As part of the EIS public participation process, FAA will hold two public workshops on the following dates where information will be presented and interested members of the public can participate in a moderated question and answer session on the Proposed Action and information contained in the Draft EIS with the FAA and the EIS Team: • September 22, 2020 from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

• September 23, 2020 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

FAA will also hold three public hearings on the following dates where interested members of the public can provide and listen to oral comments concerning the Proposed Action and information contained in the Draft EIS: • September 22, 2020 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

• September 23, 2020 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

• September 24, 2020 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

All speakers who register to give oral comments will be given up to 3 minutes to allow everyone the opportunity to provide oral comments, if they choose to do so. Written comments will also be accepted, as specified below.

Due to the ongoing public health emergency associated with COVID-19 and FAA’s responsibility to protect the health and safety of the community, all workshops and hearings will be virtual. Registration and instructions for the public workshops and hearings will be available on the project website at www.lgaaccesseis.com. Residents without internet access can call the project hotline at (855) 542-3479 to submit formal comment on the project and/or request a dial-in number to listen to a workshop or hearing of their choice. Translation services, including sign language interpretation, can be made available during the public workshops and hearings, if requested 10 calendar days before the sessions, via the online registration process.

Oral comments on the Draft EIS may be presented at the public hearings or by leaving a voicemail at (855) LGA-EIS9 or (855) 542-3479. Written comments on the Draft EIS may be submitted via the following methods: • Online on the project website at www.lgaaccesseis.com/formal-comment • Email to comments@lgaaccesseis.com • U.S Mail to Mr. Andrew Brooks, Environmental Program Manager, Eastern Regional Office, AEA-610, Federal Aviation Administration, 1 Aviation Plaza, Jamaica, NY 11434

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Shiro closed after 14 years at Atlas Park Another restaurant shuts its doors because of the coronavirus crisis

by David Russell Associate Editor

Another eatery has shut its doors as COVID claims another business casualty.

Shiro of Japan at The Shops at Atlas Park in Glendale announced its closure, citing an inability to have indoor dining.

“We want to thank you for your loyal patronage and suppor t throughout the years,” said the Aug. 14 announcement. “We will never forget the good times and celebrations we were honored to experience with you, a sincere thank you goes out from our family to yours.”

The restaurant opened in 2006. Peter Faccibene, who ran Shiro with Hiro Ishikawa, told the Chronicle it was not an easy decision to close as they had survived everything, including the recession of 2008.

“We put several million dollars into the place so for us to walk away from it at this point was not a very easy decision,” Faccibene said Monday.

Indoor dining has not returned in the city and outdoor dining at the Glendale site would never sustain the expense of running the eatery, according to Faccibene.

“The current administration’s ability to see what the businessman needs to survive in New York City is basically nonexistent,” he said.

Faccibene pointed to minimum wage increases in addition to rent, electricity and insurance costs as culprits in the closure.

“It’s just impossible for us to survive, particularly without indoor dining,” he said, adding, “We’re not national with big, deep pockets. We’re a local company.”

Faccibene said he’ll miss the customers most of all.

“We developed relationships,” he said.

“People came to see us. It was sort of like ‘Cheers’ where everybody knew you when you came in Friday night.”

One customer posted on Facebook that the news of the closure broke his heart.

“So many good memories there for myself, my family and my friends since it opened,” he said. “We were regulars there and are sad to see it go. I know there are other Hibachi restaurants out there but Shiro was more than that.”

Many eateries have closed in the borough and around the city because of the coronavirus crisis.

Shiro’s Carle Place, LI location is still open.

“There are a lot of options where we can space people out properly plus takeout,” Faccibene said. “We’re able to make it work there.”

He added that minimum wage increases

Shiro of Japan, at The Shops at Atlas Park in Glendale, closed after 14 years in business. Indoor dining has not returned in the city and Shiro co-owner Peter Faccibene said outdoor dining could PHOTO BY DAVID RUSSELL not sustain the expense of running the restaurant. in Long Island “did not go up to the catastrophic proportions that it did in New York City.”

Faccibene noted that the average restaurant lasts about three years, much less than

the 14 years Shiro was in Glendale.

“We had a good following and we had loyal and faithful customers that, thank God, are finding their way out to us on Q Long Island,” he said.

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Behind the racquet

by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor

The 2020 US Open starts Monday at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center but like nearly every other sporting event going on these days it’s being played without any fans.

Not surprisingly, a number of top tennis players are skipping this year’s Open, though Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams did commit to taking part. This may open the door for littleknown players to make deep runs and perhaps even win the shiny hardware.

Noah Rubin qualified for the men’s doubles competition but wasn’t named as a wild card entrant for the singles field. He will stay busy talking to players for his website, Behindtherac quet.com, which he started last year and was profiled by Ted Koppel on CBS’s “Sunday Morning.” Think of it as the tennis answer to the Players Tribune.

Rubin, who grew up on Long Island’s South Shore, told me in a recent phone conversation that he learned tennis from his paternal grandfather who lived in Bayside, as had his dad.

He won numerous tennis titles as a junior but found transitioning to the pros bumpy. “I started ‘Behind the Racquet’ to show that for most tennis players life is not as glamorous as most believe,” he said. “You incur a lot of expenses in order to be a professional tennis player and if you don’t win matches you don’t get prize

money and endorsements can dry up quickly.”

Aside from pro tennis not being the easiest way to earn a living, it can be a lonely one as you are often in places far from friends and family and it does take a toll on one’s mental health.

Rubin took a course in journalism at Wake Forest University and found himself playing the role of reporter. In casual conversations with players on the men’s and women’s pro tours he found that nearly all of them shared his experiences but few had publicly articulated them.

Hence “Behind the Racquet” was created.

The first-person testimony is riveting. Melanie Oudin, who made it into the fourth round of the US Open in 2009 at age 17, describes the frustrations of never matching that success because of a myriad of injuries that forced her to retire. Mary Pierce candidly writes about her abusive father who was also her coach.

“Behind the Racquet” has become popular in the tennis community, though Rubin told me there were some tennis organizations who expressed reservation because of its candor.

As is the case with any website, generating revenue isn’t easy. “I am looking for premium advertisers and I hope to create a ‘Behind the Racquet’ clothing line,” he told me.

Given tennis’s upscale audience it sounds like a credible business plan.

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