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Turnout for Ozone Park food distribution doubles PAGE 4 The Ozone Park Residents Block Association’s effort to provide food for the neighborhood at the Deshi Senior Center has had to expand rapidly to keep up with demand.

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NYC public schools delay reopening

by Max Parrott Associate Editor

M

ayor de Blasio appeared with labor leaders on Tuesd ay mor n i ng to announce that he has reached a deal to delay the previously scheduled Sept. 10 start date of New York City’s schools until Sept. 21.

Teachers will still return on Sept. 8, with Sept. 10 to 11 and 14 to 15 now devoted toward preparation. Students will begin online orientation from Sept. 16 to 18, but school buildings will not officially open for hybrid learning until the 21st.

“It’s a revision that still allows us to keep moving forward, but with additional preparation time,” d e Bl a s io s a i d d u r i n g t h e announcement.

In addition to the extra preparation time for teachers, the deal will also provide a mandatory system of testing for adults and students once in-person learning has begun. A blind representative sample, comprising 10 to 20 percent of all students and adults from every public school, will be selected each month for free COV ID testing, with results

available within 48 hours.

The decision comes after the mayor had emphasized his commitment to a Sept. 10 start date for months. De Blasio came to the agreement with the labor leaders amidst the threat of a teachers strike, after they had cited safety concerns with the proposed timel i n e. I n t h e Tu e s d ay p r e s s announcement, the mayor said that the agreement came as the result of “intense” conversations over the past three to four days.

“Teachers who usually get two days of professional development at the beginning of the school year will now get nine. We’ve hea rd f rom ever yone i n ou r schools that have said we need some more time,” Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza said.

United Teachers Federation President Michael Mulgrew said the delay represents a consensus b et we e n t he u n ion a nd t he Department of Education about what a school needs to have in place before the start date.

“What the schools will now see is definitively what they need to get done,” said Mulgrew, adding that teachers are not getting any time off. The additional time

UFT President Michael Mulgrew appeared with Mayor de Blasio and other labor leaders Tuesday morning to announce that the city would delay FILE PHOTO reopening its public schools. will go toward preparation.

Though the delay represents a significant display of leverage on the part of the teachers union, not all the rank and file were pleased with the outcome. The Movement of Rank and File Educators Caucus of the UFT released a state-

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ment saying that while it welcomed the delay, it rejected the way that UFT leadership reached the decision th rough behindclosed-doors negotiations with the mayor instead of conversations with the membership.

MORE also pointed out that

questions around the plan’s staffing measures remain.

“Will there actually be staffing

by September 21st? We STILL don’t know who’s teaching in-person and remote. Teachers are resigning /retiring early,” the MORE Caucus Twitter account said During an interview on “The Brian Lehrer Show,” Mark Cannizzaro, the head of the city’s principals’ union, reiterated that staffing shortages are a concern but said that he hoped to get those and other issues worked out before the 21st.

Meanwhile, some parents in Queens have zeroed in on the mandatory testing requirements as an example of overreach. Irene Raevsky of Forest Hills, a member of Queens Parents United, told the Chronicle that for one thing she does not think testing a 10 percent sample would be effective. “ I f t e st i ng is so v it a l t o reopening schools, then we don’t understand why parents cannot have their children tested at a place of the parents’ choosing and convenience, which can be done within the first month of school for all students as opposed to doing it piecemeal by the Q DOE,” Raevsky said.

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It takes a village to fight food insecurity As turnout doubles in Ozone Park, food pantry expands its efforts

by Max Parrott Associate Editor

The turnout for the Ozone Park Residents Block Association’s weekly food distribution has nearly doubled over the last two weeks.

OZ PK R BA P r e sid e nt S a m Esposito had predicted two weeks ago that food insecurity would spike once CARES Act unemployment benefits ended. His site’s turnout has suggested that he was right.

Last Saturday the group served 745 families on foot and a line of 143 cars that stretched over at least four blocks, as clients sought shelter from intermittent rain.

The OZPKRBA has been steadily working to address Ozone Park’s food insecurity since the end of March. What started off as food deliveries for families in need eventually morphed into a distribution model that requires volunteers working five days a week at the Deshi Senior Center, at 83-10 Rockaway Blvd.

But in spite of the mounting need in the neighborhood, the group has chosen a model that it says is aimed at normalizing a visit to a food pantry. Each week the volunteers break down the hundreds of boxes of food donations so that those in need can pick out individual items like in a grocery store.

Volunteers arrange vegetables so that recipients of the Ozone Park Residents Block Association can pick them out PHOTO BY MAX PARROTT like they would in a grocery store.

T he t i me -i nt e n sive for m at requires a loyal volunteer base to pick up and reorganize hundreds of boxes per week.

“I felt like breaking the boxes down and allowing people to shop like in the supermarket brought back human dignity. It took away that degradation of feeling like they’re poor

or need something,” said Esposito.

Starting on Tuesdays the civic gets calls from the different food providers like the Civic Foundation, Hungr y Monk and GrowNYC, which tells the group how much it can give out that week. Esposito and co-organizer Iqbal Ali, Cityline Ozone Park Community Patrol pres-

ident, then go to pick up the food, and put out a call out on Facebook for volunteers to stop by the civic center to help them break down the boxes.

“We’re here until 1 a.m. in the mor ning almost ever y night,” Esposito said. “We do what we have to do for the people.”

In between guiding food recipients out of the parking lot and making announcements on a megaphone, PJ Marcel, a volunteer from Howard Beach, said that the group’s greatest asset is its boots-on-the-ground connection to a diverse cross-section of the neighborhood.

“But the problem is, with certain communities, dispersement of information with people who are not on social media — that are in a small community that are not active with how New York City operates and knowledgeable of the programs that are available,” Marcel said.

Marcel said that it’s those groups of people, often within immigrant communities, that the food distribution is able to target through word of mouth.

Waiting in line for food, Ozone Park resident Basha Mohan said she found out about the distribution by driving by it one Saturday on the bus.

Sandra Jara said it was her fourth time coming to the distribution. Her family was still trying to cope with the financial loss incurred when her husband was out of work for four months.

“We need to pay the bills, food, everything,” said Jara. Each week the line gets longer and longer, she Q said.

With COVID, comes noise in the 106th An increase in park gatherings has resulted in tension in Ozone Park

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Adding to the many quality-of-life complaints that the pandemic has wrought on the city, quarantine has brought the noise to Ozone Park, in the words of Public Enemy.

As the public health crisis forced more people into park space in order to congregate safely, it has exacerbated noisy behaviors.

When the 106th Precinct held its Sector B Build the Block meeting last Thursday in Tudor Park, Ozone Park residents identified two problem areas where nearnightly gatherings involve stereo systems that break the city’s noise code.

State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach), who lives in the precinct, started out the meeting by confirming that after his office had received a rash of noiserelated complaints, he reached out to

Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Vincent Sapienza, who is willing to deploy staff to patrol the area and issue summonses in coordination with the 106th officers.

“I like a good party, but 3 o’clock in the morning on a Monday is a little excessive,” Addabbo said.

Anthony Licitra, who lives in the vicinity of Gemini Fields, where people have been gathering, vented his frustration that his 311 calls did not result in fines. He said when he made four reports about the noise one night, each time the police investigated, they came back without finding anything.

“In my experience driving in a gigantic truck, they see us, and they turn their music off,” said Officer Gurvinder Singh, sergeant of the 106th neighborhood coordination officers, who added he had not personally responded to any of the recent

complaints at Gemini Fields.

“It has to be personally observed for us to issue a summons,” said Officer Carlo Santoro. But the officers added that they are making efforts to file a summons when they catch a violation.

The other problem area was at the dead end of Arion Street off Whitelaw Road, which leads into Rocket Playground, and PS 202, where neighbors have grown tired of regular get-togethers that block the street and create a racket.

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MTA: Feds must act now on bailout Foye says ‘everything has to be on the table,’ including fare hikes and layoffs

by Michael Gannon Editor

Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman and CEO Patrick Foye last week said it is in the nation’s interest that Congress and the Trump administration reach a COVID-19 relief deal that would speed $12 billion to the agency.

But Capitol Hill Democrats and Republicans remain at least $1 trillion apart with no sign of budging, and the GOP-led Senate is not scheduled to return from its summer recess until Sept. 8.

The MTA, which received nearly $4 billion this past spring in the first bailout package, said it has been losing $200 million a week, and that everything will be on the table in November if the agency does not get a federal bailout.

“The MTA simply cannot wait any longer for relief from Washington,” Foye said Wednesday in a statement from the agency.

“New York’s economic future, and the country’s, relies on a strong MTA powering progress. If the Senate fails to step up and deliver $12 billion, it would be a devastating blow to mass transit as we know it. We need action now, and the more we can amplify this message, the better.”

Foye spent a good part of Aug. 27 doing the rounds of morning shows. He pointed out that at the height of the pandemic, the MTA was down more than 90 percent of its normal subway ridership, and as of Aug. 26 still was down 75 percent from pre-pandemic days. “[I]f we don’t get federal funding the entire equation changes,” Foye told WPIX Channel 11, according to a transcript provided by the agency. “And if we’re not able to, we will be $12 billion in the hole. Everything has to be on the table; that includes unfortunately — and again, no one at the MTA wants to do this — significant service reductions, layoffs and higher than budgeted increases in fares and tolls ... We’ve got to keep the MTA afloat. The best way to do that in the national interest is for the federal government to provide $12 billion of funding.”

At an emergency meeting on Aug. 26, the MTA Board discussed fare hikes, increased bridge tolls, thousands of layoffs and wage

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has been feeling the COVID-19 pandemic at the farebox for more than five months. Officials are saying layoffs, fare hikes and service cuts will be inevitable if Washington, DC, doesn’t come up with $12 billion in relief. PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON freezes, along with cuts of 40 percent or more in bus and subway service.

A freeze would be placed on the $51 billion five-year capital plan, which includes elevators for dozens of subway stations. Long Island Rail Road and Metro North service also could be drastically curtailed.

“If they don’t do that we are going to have to reduce service along the lines of what we described yesterday, what I described today, and we’re going to have to lay people off and increase fares and tolls, none of which we want to do,” he continued.

Foye also said the American taxpayer has plenty to lose in a protracted delay of funding.

“The MTA is critical to the economic recovery of the New York City region, which accounts for about 10 percent of the GDP,” Foye told WPIX. “... [This] is a national crisis ... And it’s only the federal government that has the solvency and the funds to provide funding to the MTA to avoid these terrible service cuts and layoffs.”

BP Lee announces CEC picks Acting Queens Borough President Sharon Lee announced appointments for seven Queens parents to fill vacant positions in Queens community education councils for the upcoming school year.

The seven appointees will serve the remainder of the two-year term that concludes at the end of June 2021.

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

The appointee from CEC District 24

is John D’Amico.

The appointees from CEC District 25 a re A n ne Ma r ie K a n able a nd Brooke Stergion-Abady.

The appointee from CEC District 28 is Rajwinder Kaur.

The appointee from CEC District 29 is Rochelle Carter.

The appointees from CEC District 30 are Dani Marr and Charles Park.

Following a multiweek application period, Lee’s office received 65 applications of individuals interested in fillQ ing the seven vacancies.

Transit advocates, such as the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, were giving the MTA their full backing.

“If the federal government does not provide emergency funding immediately, public transit in New York City will not survive,” Tri-State said in an email. “Without the MTA, there will be no clear path to a recovery for our nation’s economy — plain and simple.”

The Democrat-led U.S. House of Representatives in May passed a $3 trillion national bailout plan including mass transit aid. Senate Republicans last month made a $1 trillion counteroffer that did not include things like transit funding and money for states and municipalities.

The TSTC last week called on the U.S. Senate to act immediately.

“If they don’t, the [MTA] will go into a death spiral of service cuts and fare hikes,” the statement continued. “The financial and economic ramifications for our nation will be nothing less than catastrophic.”

The Riders Alliance also joined the call for

immediate assistance.

“Time is running out and Congress must act now to save millions of riders who depend on trains, buses, and paratransit to get around,” said Organizing Manager Stephanie BurgosVeras. “Letting the MTA fail would reverse the progress we’ve made toward recovery, leave millions of riders stranded and tank the national economic revival.”

Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was brief in a tweet posted on Aug. 26.

“To my Democratic colleagues: The coronavirus doesn’t have a stake in this election.

Struggling families across America need our help, and Republicans stand ready to deliver.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) did not appear optimistic the next day in a press release that followed a 25-minute phone call with White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.

Pelosi said Democrats are offering to meet the GOP in the middle at $2.2 trillion.

“The conversation made it clear that the White House continues to disregard the needs of the American people as the coronavirus crisis devastates lives and livelihoods,” Pelosi said. “ ... This is not about dollars, this is about values. These investments will not only help crush the virus, they will also help bolster the Q economy.”

Queens chamber to give out free PPE The Queens Chamber of Commerce’s Neighborhood Sidewalk Outreach initiative is coming to Woodhaven at 1 p.m. Sept. 17.

For this program, the chamber is going around the borough to distribute free personal protective equipment, such as face masks and face shields, to small business owners on a first-come, first-serve basis.

The chamber is asking businesses to register to this program and stop by for free PPE curbside pickup at the Woodhaven BID at 89-07 Jamaica Ave. For more information, contact Jacqueline Donado at jdonado@queenschamber.

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Reopen biz, buy home, be happy The Queens Chamber of Commerce is hosting three webinars in the first half of September that could appeal, respectively, to business owners looking to reopen safely, first-time homebuyers and anyone looking for happiness, whether in the workplace or life in general.

Each event will be held online via Zoom and is free to join. Participants do not have to be chamber members.

“Reopening Your Business: From A Health, Legal and Protected Prospective” will be held from 2 to 3 p.m. Sept. 10, with a panel of legal, financial and medical

experts passing along their knowledge of “what’s needed legally to reopen the doors” in today’s environment.

“Increasing Your Happiness” will be held from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Sept. 15, and is designed to help participants “engage in unique and helpful ways to increase their happiness” to improve their lives.

“Home Buying Made Simple” will be held from 2 to 3 p.m. Sept. 15, and will be conducted by Dahiana Genao of the TD Bank Charitable Foundation.

Further information and Zoom links to the webinars are at queenschamber.org. Q

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P De Blasio flails about on restaurants and schools alike EDITORIAL

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hen it comes to the haphazard plans to reopen city public schools, Mayor de Blasio has his heart in the right place, though of course his head can’t follow it there — he’s a terrible manager. But when it comes to his insistence that restaurants remain closed for indoor dining indefinitely, he’s out to lunch in every respect, callous, dense and full of disdain for regular people — he’s an ideologue.

It’s actually Gov. Cuomo who mostly calls the shots on the restaurant shutdown, having assumed unprecedented powers over the private sector early on in the coronavirus crisis. But de Blasio has been OK with Cuomo’s authoritarian rule-making and unwillingness to relinquish his emergency powers no matter how low the transmission of COVID-19 gets, because the mayor shares those inclinations.

And he’s actually worse than the governor when it comes to his sneering dismissal of the entire restaurant industry as a luxury for the middle and upper classes. Someone should tell him who’s working the kitchens and waiting the tables.

Someone also should tell him to stop engaging in class warfare all the time, but that’s what we have to expect from someone who goes on the radio and says, “Help me tax the wealthy. Help me redistribute wealth.” And someone who

approvingly says there’s a “socialist impulse” among people all over the city who “would like to have the city government be able to determine which building goes where, how high it will be, who gets to live in it, what the rent will be.”

It was relatively easy for the city to put up with such a misguided mayor at the helm while the economy was good and he could do things like hire tens of thousands more public employees while spewing dumb stuff about economics and liberty, but now that we’re in a crisis, it’s unacceptable.

Finally, the pushback is getting serious. One Queens restaurant, Il Bacco in Little Neck, is leading a class action lawsuit against the city and state to end the indoor dining shutdown, and reportedly has been joined by more than 300 eateries in the effort. And on Wednesday City Council Speaker Corey Johnson went out on a limb and tweeted that restaurants should be allowed to reopen. This is leadership today.

Meanwhile, Long Island officials led by Nassau County Executive Laura Curran are actively luring Queens residents to dine out east, where officials are following the science and allowing the hospitality sector to try to survive.

It’s hard to say why Cuomo, who is far smarter than de Blasio and knows restaurants mean jobs and tax revenue, is

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unwilling to put an end to the shutdown farce. Perhaps he’s haunted by the way his COVID nursing home policy led to thousands of deaths and is unwilling to risk any more. Not when he’s looking down the road at the White House.

On the schools, Cuomo is willing to let de Blasio flounder. That way he won’t have to shoulder the blame when things go awry, as they have before classes even begin. This week the United Federation of Teachers made enough noise about possibly going on strike — which would be an illegal act — that de Blasio caved on his months-long insistence that the schools will open Sept. 10. Instead, they’ll open Sept. 21, with teachers preparing in the interim. And if the UFT decides it’s not ready on Sept. 21, it’ll push the mayor around some more. We hope that most teachers believe deep down inside that they are essential workers, on par with the store clerks and nurses who’ve stood strong throughout the crisis, but we worry that too many do not. It would be tragic if the schools reopened at long last only to be closed again.

And it would be a tragedy largely written by de Blasio, whose plans came late and lacked key components that could have given them a better chance to work. Now we can only hope he gets lucky, like he did when he won office.

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Dear Editor: It seems to me that all the black lives being lost at the hands of police have something in common, and that is that these deaths could have been avoided if the people just stopped resisting being arrested. Resisting arrest seems to be the ongoing theme of all these lives being taken away.

I am not sure who or where all these millions of dollars that are being donated to Black Lives Matters are going, but I would like to see a fund set up by BLM to tell all who feel that they are being arrested unjustly to just stop resisting, go peacefully and then get in touch whoever is in charge of BLM and tell them exactly what happened. The Black Lives Matter group then would take care of all their legal bills and they would not have to worry about anything.

Maybe stopping the resistance would stop the police from using force. This would help stop the resisting arrests. Things would go a lot more peacefully and maybe even save a life.

Kathleen Schatz Rego Park

Dear Editor: You don’t know what you’ve got till you lost it. They took paradise and made it a parking lot.

The surgeon leading his castrato choir aided by Baron Papers Please has almost succeeded.

Times Square empty, Coney Island closed, Broadway lifeless, restaurants empty, Fifth Avenue deserted. Street games with real bullets.

You vote cheap, you get cheap.

Joseph T. Klonowski Middle Village

Back a winner: the Chronicle Dear Editor: Congratulations on “Chronicle wins five awards in contest” (Peter C. Mastrosimone, Aug. 27). You could not have done it without your winning team, today including Mastrosimone and editors Michael Gannon, Katherine Donlevy, Max Parrott and David Russell.

Queens residents have many daily newspapers to select from including the Daily News, New York Post, New York Times, Newsday,

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What has Biden done?

KGH post office crippled Dear Editor: While “neither snow nor rain no heat nor gloom of night” can stop the U.S. Postal Service from doing its job (according to the USPS’ motto), an internet outage has prevented customers at the Kew Gardens Hills Post Office (Main Street between 76th and 75th avenues) from buying stamps and money orders, ordering special delivery for items or conducting other vital transactions from Aug. 29 through at least Sept. 1 (the last time I checked). No backup system exists, so customers were referred to post offices in Fresh Meadows and Pomonok.

Trump lies a lot Dear Editor: I’m so glad Ed Konecnik and Edward Reicks bonded over Trump’s speech at the RNC convention (“Dem’s reverse racism,” Letters, Aug. 20, and “Agree on aimless Dems,” Aug. 27).

Which lies did they enjoy the most? Was it when Trump claimed that he is the one who passed “Veterans Choice”? The bill Barack Obama signed into law in 2014. Or when Trump said, “I have done more for the African American community than any president since Abraham Lincoln.” Anyone ever hear of Lyndon Johnson? He signed the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. Or maybe it was when Trump said he’ll “continue to lower drug prices.” They’ve increased during his presidency. Maybe it was when he said they opened the Jerusalem embassy for less than $500,000. “Facts” show it cost at least $21 million.

Perhaps it was his statement that he ended the “NAFTA nightmare” and he signed a brand-new U.S.-Mexico-Canada agreement, the USMCA. That agreement actually preserves and maintains most of NAFTA. Wait, I think I have it. It must be when he claimed to have built over 300 miles of new border wall.

What he didn’t say is that most of that is replacement barrier. As of Aug. 7, according to official data (otherwise known as facts) just five miles have been built where none existed before. Trump’s wall costs $20 million a mile.

The overall cost of $11 billion is approaching the price of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

Thank God there is nothing more important where that money could’ve been spent like fighting the coronavirus or helping rebuild areas devastated by Hurricane Laura. Which begs the question: Why didn’t our “glorious, wonderful, supreme, omnipotent” president just redirect Hurricane Laura back out into the Atlantic by using his Sharpie marker?

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Dear Editor: All the accolades for Joe Biden’s acceptance speech are being heard from both left and right commentators.

Everyone was surprised by his calm demeanor, forceful presentation and his fierce determination to recapture the heart and soul of our country and finally look out for the little guy.

But where was he 25 years ago when he wholeheartedly voted for NAFTA, the trade agreement that wiped out the hopes and dreams of the blue-collar worker? Their jobs, their homes and their dreams of sending their kids to college were gone in a flash.

And after being in government for 47 years, when did you ever hear him address this travesty and talk about the devastation it caused and how to rectify it? In the end, actions speak louder than words, no matter how inspiring a speech may be!

Thomas and Constance Dowd Oakland Gardens

While this may seem like a small inconvenience to some, it underscores many large problems that the USPS is experiencing. I hear complaints from neighbors about slow mail delivery or items dropped off at the wrong address. If things are bad now, what will happen when mail-in voting starts this fall?

The USPS has been under siege by the GOP since 2006 when Congress passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, requiring the Postal Service to fund retiree health benefits 75 years in advance. No other government agency has this mandate.

Republicans want to cripple the USPS and then privatize it. Current Postmaster General Louis DeJoy (who has financial stakes in firms competing with the USPS) accelerated this process by shutting down sorting machines and removing mailboxes.

The Postal Service has bound our nation together since it was created in 1775. Its operations must not be hindered. I hope the Chronicle probes the KGH Post Office’s disruption and that our elected officials step up to keep it running without interruptions.

Richard Reif Kew Gardens Hills

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Daily newspapers concentrate on international, Washington, Albany, City Hall, business and sports stories. They have few reporters assigned to cover local neighborhood news stories. These reporters have to compete against colleagues for limited available print space. As a result, daily newspapers miss significant news and political stories from local Queens neighborhoods.

Weekly newspapers based in Queens such as our own Queens Chronicle provide more in-depth coverage of local news especially transportation issues not found in major daily newspapers.

Newspapers and magazines have to deal with increasing costs for newsprint, delivery and distribution along with reduced advertising revenues and declining readership due to competition from the internet and other new information sources.

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Anti-chokehold bill could be altered Sponsor Lancman claims added language would provide a loophole

by Katherine Donlevy Associate Editor

It took six years for the City Council to pass the Eric Garner anti-chokehold bill, but it may only take a month for the chamber to amend it.

The legislation, signed into law July 15 as part of a sixpronged NYPD Accountability Package, makes police use of the restraint, as well as other forms of potentially deadly force, by arresting officers a criminal offense punishable by up to 15 years in prison. The NYPD chastised the bill, with Police Commissioner Dermot Shea calling it “insane” and “crippling” to police officers. Now, officials are looking to revise the language in an effort to make it more clear.

The amendment, introduced by Public Safety Committee Chairperson Donovan Richards (D-Laurelton), would add the word “recklessly” to the provision that states: “This bill establishes a misdemeanor for restraining an individual in a manner that restricts the flow of air or blood by compressing the windpipe or the carotid arteries on each side of the neck, or sitting, kneeling, or standing on the chest or back in a manner that compresses the diaphragm, in the course of effecting or attempting to effect an arrest.”

Mayor de Blasio said Aug. 26 that the amendment would be in response to a surge in shootings and gun violence — the city clocked in 955 shootings incidents so far this year, an 87 percent increase from 2019.

“Clearly the crucial reform in the original legislation continues. Chokeholds will be illegal no matter what. As I understand the focus here is just on some clarification on the issue of diaphragms,” he said.

Though De Blasio also denied rumors that officers have been purposely slowing down arrests as a form of protest to the

The NYPD anti-chokehold legislation, signed into law July 15, may be amended by the City Council to include additional language aimed at clearing up any confusion after police claimed FILE PHOTO it hindered their abilities. legislation, NYPD data shows that arrests for the year as of mid-August were down by nearly 40 percent. City Councilmember Rory Lancman (D-Fresh Meadows), the original bill’s sponsor, said amending the legislation would be a clear concession to the officers’ refusal for reform.

“We can’t get the cops to go out and do their job, so it

doesn’t take any deep insight to understand why this amendment is being moved forward — it’s in order to get the cops back on the street to do the job that they’re paid to do,” Lancman said Aug. 27 as a guest on “Inside City Hall.”

Lancman argued against adding language to his bill, which passed 47-3, claiming that it was already constructed directly out of the NYPD Patrol Guide that discouraged officers from using the maneuver. The chokehold, used on Garner in 2014, was banned by the NYPD in 1993, but there were little repercussions for officers who still employed it.

“It is an enormous loophole and ... for all practical purposes is the loophole that allowed the Federal Department of Justice to not bring criminal charges under the Federal Civil Rights laws against Daniel Pantaleo, who killed Eric Garner on video for all of us to see,” continued Lancman. “So why would we import the same legal standard from the Federal Civil Rights law that’s already failed us into this new law which we passed in New York City to protect people from chokeholds or from being asphyxiated from someone sitting, kneeling or standing on their diaphragm?”

The police union itself does not support the amendment, claiming that it doesn’t go far enough.

“Nothing short of a full repeal can repair the damage from this insane law,” Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President Pat Lynch said in a statement. “That won’t happen, because the mayor and City Council have no intention of actually fixing this problem. They are content to blame cops for the mess they created. If they wanted us to be able to do our job safely and effectively, they would never have passed it in the first place.”

The City Council has not yet scheduled a hearing for the amendment, though its next stated meeting is scheduled for Q Sept. 16.

NYPD use-of-force reforms announced Focus on public role, demographics and discipline; no new laws needed

by Peter C. Mastrosimone

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Mayor de Blasio on Monday announced a new series of NYPD reforms that he said fulfill a pledge put forth by The Obama Foundation to address police use of force.

The changes mostly involve getting the public more involved with the Police Department, making the ranks more diverse and providing more data about officers’ demographics and how they are disciplined.

The pledge involved reviewing use of force policies, getting public input, reporting the findings of the review and initiating new policies, according to the Mayor’s Office, which said de Blasio’s plan “focuses primarily on areas that have a critical impact on use of force: community, transparency and accountability.”

“We’ve shown we can change this city these past nearly seven years. Now we are showing it again,” the mayor said in a prepared statement.

“Reform goes beyond just changing policies. It means improving transparency, increasing accountability, and ensuring community engagement is centered in our approach.”

Officials said the plan builds upon reforms that have been undertaken for the nearly seven years de Blasio has served as mayor.

“Over the past nearly seven years, our NYPD officers have worked tirelessly to carry out a series of cutting edge reforms, all geared toward

increasing fairness, impartiality and account- group building the Obama Presidential Center in ability in policing and to deepen our ties with Chicago; it is also involved in various charitable those we serve in every New York City neigh- and educational initiatives. De Blasio said he borhood,” Police Commissioner Dermot Shea took the foundation’s pledge to address police said in a statement. “Our work to deepen these use of force in June. critical efforts across all aspects of the NYPD Separately, Gov. Cuomo on June 12 ordered continues.” all law enforcement agencies throughout the Pat Lynch, president of the Police Benevolent state to implement reform plans in light of the Association, blasted the national reckoning with changes establishing racism and police brutalstricter guidelines for ity sparked by the May ov.

Cuomo has ordered disciplining officers.

25 killing of George “Apparently mandatoFloyd after he was arrestreform via legislation, ry minimums and sened in Minnesota. Cuomo but it is not used here. said the plans would tencing guidelines are unfair to criminals but have to be subject to pubperfectly fine for cops,” Lynch said in remarks lic input and passed by the legislature for each reported by the Staten Island Advance and post- municipality overseeing a police agency — in ed on the PBA’s website. “This matrix has noth- the NYPD’s case, the City Council. Cuomo said ing to do with fairness. It’s an avenue for the any government that did not pass a reform plan City Council’s policing ‘experts’ — the ones by April 1, the start of the state’s next fiscal year, who brought chaos back to NYC — to manipu- would not receive state aid for law enforcement. late NYPD discipline to further their radical Asked whether the mayor’s reform plan fits political goals.”

Cuomo’s requirement, Arredondo declined to The reforms involve NYPD policy changes, answer directly, saying, “We have been conso there is no need for City Council action, may- stantly reforming policies and evaluating how to oral spokeswoman Julia Arredondo said via improve the relationship between police and email in response to a question from the Chroni- community, not only in the past few months but cle. They will be implemented “within the next in the past 7 years.” few months,” Arredondo said.

The key elements of the mayor’s plan, as listThe Obama Foundation is the nonprofit ed by City Hall, are:

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• Bring the community in: Incorporate community members into the instruction of classes and panel discussions at the Police Academy.

• Involve the community in developing key policies and strategy: Establish formal committees of community members to assist in developing crime prevention, policing strategies and NYPD policies.

• Public input: Involve the public in developing and evaluating key policies and initiatives by inviting public comment.

• Community feedback: Gather and incorporate community feedback through surveys.

• Expanded use of CompStat: Introduce a broader range of indicators in CompStat, such as measuring the relationship with the community.

• Diversity in the Department: Continue to build and support a more diverse workforce by understanding barriers through robust engagement, and creating recommendations to address them.

• Operationalizing transparency: Add interactive dashboards and other data visualizations of metrics, such as information about Department diversity and Department composition by race, gender, age and other demographic information.

• Accountability: Release an NYPD disciplinary matrix, which will promote fairness, transparency and accountability for officers and Q promote trust with the public.

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Electeds rally at Department of Finance to push back deadline

by Max Parrott Associate Editor

Over the past two weeks a group of Queens state and city legislators have rallied to push the de Blasio administration to indefinitely defer a set of tax lien sales due for small homeowners at the end of the week for the extent of the pandemic.

Every year, homeowners who do not pay their tax or water bills on time can find themselves subject to the city’s annual lien sale, a process through which the city sells outstanding tax and water debts, and the ability to collect them, to private investors.

According to the Department of Finance, those tax lien sales are due to occur Sept. 4 after the original due date was pushed back from May due to COVID. Legislators helming the push included Councilwoman Adrienne Adams (D-Jamaica), Congressman Gregory Meeks (D-Queens, Nassau) and state Sens. Leroy Comrie (D-St. Albans) and James Sanders Jr. (D-South Ozone Park), all of whom represent districts that are slated to be some of the most heavily affected in the city, according to data by the Coalition for Affordable Homes.

In Queens, around 2,500 properties are on the 2020 lien sale list, according to CAH’s data. Altogether, it is slated to be the secondmost affected borough in the city after Brook-

lyn, but a large section of Southeast Queens will be highly affected.

Council Districts 28, 31 and 27, represented respectively by Adams and councilmen Donovan Richards (D-Laurelton) and Daneek Miller (D-St. Albans), contained the second-, third- and fourth- largest number of properties of all Council districts.

On Aug. 24 the legislators wrote a letter to the mayor demanding that he push the lien sale back again.

“Even under normal circumstances, having a lien sold on their property can destabilize families in economic turmoil and jeopardize their homes. This year, in the midst of a pandemic that has caused skyrocketing unemployment, the sale must be canceled,” wrote the electeds.

Asked about the issue in an Aug. 25 press conference, the mayor was firm that he would not be adjusting the lien sales again.

“The sale is scheduled. It had been postponed previously, and I want to emphasize this is properties that had gone into arrears before the pandemic. So these are not situations caused by the coronavirus,” de Blasio said.

Responding to the mayor’s refusal to suspend the sale, which the legislators argue will exacerbate housing insecurity in minority districts, the electeds rallied with state Attorney General Letitia James and a group of advo-

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New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks at rally to push back the city’s sale of property PHOTO BY ADRIENNE ADAMS / TWITTER liens during the pandemic. cates outside of the Department of Finance headquarters Wednesday, Sept. 2.

“Communities of color have suffered disproportionately from the impacts of COVID19 and moving forward with the 2020 lien sale will further compound recovery,” said Adams in a statement. “Housing instability was a major problem in this city before the pandemic and moving forward with the 2020 lien sale

will only exacerbate that. We must ensure that financial hardships are not heightened at this time and cancel the lien sale.”

In addition to the rally, Adams introduced a bill to the Council on Friday that parallels Comrie’s existing Senate bill, which formally would postpone the New York City tax lien sale until one year after the COVID-19 state of Q emergency has been lifted.

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100 years of women’s suffrage celebrated Pioneers remembered as speakers also note minorities could not vote

by David Russell Associate Editor

In August 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, finally granting women the right to vote.

Last Wednesday, Women’s Equality Day, the community celebrated the centennial at MacDonald Park in Forest Hills — while also noting how suffrage was often for white women only.

“People use the phrase, ‘We got the right to vote.’ To me, that’s insulting,” said state Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky (D-Flushing). “We didn’t get that right. We took it, we earned it, we fought for it, we demonstrated for it.”

She added that other women could not cast ballots until the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965.

“How terrible is this? We didn’t get rid of slavery with the Civil War and the amendment in 1865,” Stavisky said. “It took until the 1950s and 1960s until segregation became part of history. And it still exists today.”

Aleda Gagar in, senior director of development at Candid, a nonprofit that studies charitable giving and connects people with resources, spoke on the issue of people of color being excluded.

“What the centennial of what my right to vote means is 100 years of white women upholding white supremacy,” she said. “Leaving out black women was not an accident.”

Gagarin read a quote from Belle Kearney, a lobbyist for the women’s suffrage movement who said allowing white woman to vote would secure “immediate and durable white supremacy honestly attained.”

Kearney later became the first woman elected to the Mississippi state Senate.

The problems persist, Gagarin said.

“In 2016, white women helped elect Donald Trump and we have to look ourselves in the mirror as our neighbors are thrown into vans, into cages and as the suffering continues,” she said.

Lynn Schulman, the City Council’s community and emergency services liaison, spoke about suffragists Carrie Chapman Carr, Anna Howard Shaw, Jane Addams and Susan B. Anthony.

“All of these women were leaders of the suffrage movement and all of them were lesbians,” said Schulman, who is openly gay. “But in those days they didn’t use the word lesbian.

They were referred to as women who loved other women, and wo m e n w h o h a d r o m a n t i c relationships.”

She said that opponents to t he move me nt wou ld shame them, using stereotyped images in adver tisements portraying them as “unfeminine looking man-haters.”

Cou nci lwom a n K a r e n Ko slow it z (D-Forest Hills) called it a “disgrace” that women had to wait so long to vote.

She remembered running in the early 1990s to become the first woman to represent the area in the City Council. Her opponent made mention of her divorce “like that was a terrible thing that I was divorced. To me, it was the best thing.”

Jenifer Rajkumar, who recently won her Democratic primary race in Assembly District 38, spoke of her admiration for suffragettes.

“I am in awe of their courage and it is because of them that we’re able to vote,” she said.

Children read names of suffragettes during Wednesday’s centennial celebration of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, allowing white women to vote. Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz, inset, recalled how an opponent used her divorce as campaign fodder. PHOTOS BY DAVID RUSSELL State Sen. Jessica Ramos (D-East Elmhurst) said the 19th Amendment was “just the start of suffrage for all people despite so many characteristics and systems and concepts created by our society to keep us divided and not standing with each other on the issues that matter most.”

She also criticized Abby Johnson, a speaker at the Republican National Convention, who has advocated for policies that could bar women from voting.

Ramos said that was embarrassing and dangerous. “That woman believes not everyone has an equal voice,” she said.

Elizabeth Newton of The Legal Aid Society remembered the diversity of the pioneers who were not even able to vote despite helping the cause, women such as Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, a Chinese advocate.

“She was only 16 years old and she was wellknown for her advocacy for the right to vote although she could not vote because of the Chinese Exclusion Act,” Newton said.

Also notable was Milagros Benet de Mewton, a Puerto Rican suffragette. And there was Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, known as Zitkala-Sa, a Native-American who fought for civil rights.

Newton also remembered several AfricanAmerican suffragettes, including Ida Wells and Sojourner Truth. Newton read Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech that Truth delivered at the Women’s Convention in Ohio in 1851.

The speech included the lines, “That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place. And ain’t I a woman?”

Newton also spoke on what the 19th Amendment means to her.

“It means unity to me,” she said. “It means that no matter what we look like or where we Q come from we must unite for justice.”

Lynn Schulman, the City Council’s community and emergency liaison, and former Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley with a young girl remembering Congresswoman and 1972 presidential candidate Shirley Chisholm. Elizabeth Newton, right, of The Legal Aid Society spoke about the diversity of the suffragettes and read Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech that Truth delivered at the Women’s Convention in Ohio in 1851.

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Pandemic-driven factors lead to rise in Catholic school enrollment

by Katherine Donlevy Associate Editor

Catholic academies across Queens are finally seeing their enrollment numbers go up, but the increase isn’t made up of students transferring from recently closed schools — most of the new students are transferring from public schools.

“We are seeing an influx of phone calls from public school parents. We’re seeing a number of new families interested in Catholic academics,” said Ted Havelka, the director of Enrollment Management and Financial Assistance for Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, which encompasses Queens.

Enrollment in private schools has been dwindling for several years, forcing the diocese to close six schools this summer, four of which — Our Lady Catholic Academy in Ozone Park and Our Lady of Grace Catholic Academy in Howard Beach, as well as Holy Trinity Catholic Academy and St. Mel’s Catholic Academy, both in Whitestone — were in Queens. Approximately 60 percent of the students attending the closed schools have stayed within the Catholic academy system by finding another one nearby, said Havelka, who added that he expects the numbers of returning students and public school transfers to continue to rise as the start of the 2020-21 academic year draws closer.

Though Holy Trinity Catholic Academy in Whitestone, above, was one of four Catholic schools in Queens to close this summer, other diocesan facilities have seen an increase in enrollment FILE PHOTO stemming from public school student transfers.

Though there’s no consensus for why public school families have decided to make the switch, Havelka is sure the COVID-19 crisis played a role.

“I think the pandemic certainly has an impact and changed things in our lives in so many ways,” he said. “Different families need different things right now. Some prefer in-per-

son, some prefer full distance ... We have to do our best to accommodate everyone.”

St. Nicolas of Tolentine Catholic Academy in Hillcrest only admitted a handful of transferred students from closed diocesan schools, including one family of four, and has maintained its typical enrollment of approximately 400 students for the academic year. The typi-

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One of the schools to benefit from the inf lux of public school students is St. Michael’s Catholic Academy in Flushing, a neighborhood that has long suffered from school overcrowding.

“I think it’s too early to say [it’s a result of the pandemic], but parents are watching how the Board of Ed is handling this,” said Principal Maureen Rogone. “Some are coming in for other reasons.”

Rogone noted that some parents have mentioned the cost benefit to sending their child to a Catholic academy rather than to child care.

For parents in Flushing, the difference could be thousands of dollars a year — St. Michael’s tuition stands at $550 a month while nearby Joy Daycare, the top-recommended facility by Yelp in the neighborhood, costs $1,258 a month for full-time child care.

The Diocese of Brooklyn announced Aug. 25 that most of its facilities will return to some form of in-person learning, but it also offers families a remote learning option, called St. Thomas Aquinas at Home, offered Q by the Brooklyn institution.

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Manhattan ferry stop a big hit in Queens Residents, pols say new five-minute crossing will bring huge benefits

by Michael Gannon Editor

Adding a stop to an existing ferry route five minutes across the East River from Queens looks small on a map.

But the new leg on NYC Ferry’s Astoria route that now links to Manhattan at 90th Street was big enough to bring out the mayor, a congresswoman and civic leaders from throughout western Queens last Friday.

Mayor de Blasio, in a transcript issued by his office, said there had been service between the two sites until 1936, when, he said, it was stopped by Robert Moses.

“Well, we’re righting that wrong,” de Blasio said. “Most of a hundred years later, we’re righting that wrong and restoring that connection.”

The route now begins at 90th Street on Manhattan’s East Side and crosses to the Astoria landing at 3-10 Astoria Blvd.

“It takes five minutes, and it doesn’t add to anyone else’s travel time,” Richard Khuzami, president of the Old Astoria Neighborhood Association, told the Chronicle in a telephone interview on Tuesday.

Also in attendance was U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn) and Claudia Coger, president of the Astoria Houses Tenants’ Association, whose residents also had supported the extension.

Mayor de Blasio chats with Manhattan Councilman Ben Kallos on the NYC Ferry’s new run PHOTO BY ED REED / NYC between 90th Street on the East Side and Astoria.

“And I have to say, I want to give credit where credit is due to you, Claudia, to the residents association, to the Old Astoria Neighborhood Association, to so many other community leaders, community groups, to the elected officials ...” de Blasio said. “... It’s only a few minutes away and it would open up a world of possibilities for everyone.”

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Khuzami said his group began thinking about the extension almost from the time the Astoria landing became the start of the route established about two years ago.

“We were just looking across, and it’s so close,” he said. They began investigating and eventually put out petitions and began reaching out to the city’s Economic Development

Pretrial motions for ex-Melrose leader

by Katherine Donlevy

by Michael Gannon

Associate Editor

Editor

Speakeasies are back.

The managers of a Flushing karaoke bar were arrested between the late hours of Sunday night and into early Monday morning after authorities alleged they were serving customers inside the facility.

City Sheriff’s Office investigators said they found more than 75 people inside Soho KTV & Bar on the night of Aug. 30 being served food and alcohol, a direct violation of Mayor de Blasio’s executive order banning indoor dining.

The investigators shut down the 32-03 Farrington St. bar and slapped managers Li Zeng Meng, 30, and Chen Yong Quan, 44, with desk appearance tickets for offending the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law and city Administrative Code. The three charges could lead to the revocation of the bar’s liquor license.

The state’s ban on indoor dining and nightlife is increasingly coming under fire — two days after the bust, state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) called on the city to allow food vendors to resume indoor operations.

The former CEO of the defunct Melrose Credit Union could go to trial this month on bribery charges in federal court in Manhattan.

Alan Kaufman, whose family founded the credit union back in 1922, is facing bribery charges along with Tony Georgiton, whose company had a large fleet of taxis.

Melrose, which was located on Queens Boulevard in Briarwood, had a vast majority of its loan portfolio in taxi medallions, and took a beating with the rise of app-based ride share companies.

The Chronicle reported in 2019 that Kaufman was accused of accepting a rent-free house and financing for his personal residence from Georgiton in return for allegedly approving millions of dollars in loans to Georgiton’s companies.

Crain’s New York Business reported this week that Kaufman’s attorney, Nelson Boxer, has filed motions to suppress some evidence or statements from being introduced as being prejudicial.

In a 28-page motion obtained by the

A Flushing bar was shut down after allegedly serving customers inside. NYC PHOTO / TWITTER “By not allowing indoor dining — especially when just over the border into Nassau County allows it and with the cold weather approaching — it will cripple many businesses,” Addabbo said in an Sept. 1 statement. “Our city and county continue to meet the low COVID criteria set forth by Governor Cuomo that would allow them to open their doors. We need a plan to safely bring indoor dining back so our local restaurants and bars can not only survive, but thrive again.”

The Department of Labor reported that food and drink services suffered nearly 256,100 job losses between July 2019 and Q July 2020.

Corp., which oversees ferry operations, including inviting EDC representatives to their regular meetings.

Last summer they got the word that it was a go. Other stops include Roosevelt Island, Gantry State Park in Long Island City, East 34th Street and the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

“It’s just common sense,” Khuzami said.

“It doesn’t add to the cost of operations because the landings were already at both sites.” He said commuters to Manhattan now have a viable option for work or other needs.

“Look at healthcare,” he said. “People now have direct access to the hospitals on the East Side like the Hospital for Special Surgery. If someone from the Astoria Houses works at a hospital on the East Side, they don’t have to take a bus or a subway to Manhattan and take another one in Manhattan. Their trip goes from an hour and a half to five minutes.”

Maloney, on her Twitter page, liked linking two neighborhoods in her district.

“It will streamline commutes & provide much needed access for these communities, including for public housing residents,” she said.

Khuzami also said restaurants and other businesses in western Queens can now reach out to Manhattan residents for whom they are now more conveniently located.

“This is a win-win for everyone,” he said. Q

Chronicle, Boxer objects to the introduction of “uncharged conduct” to a potential jury, including investigations both within Melrose and by the National Credit Union Administration.

The findings alleged that Kaufman attempted to get deferred compensation from the MCU; paid for meals and trips for vendors who also were MCU members; and signed checks on Georgiton’s behalf.

“The uncharged acts do not pertain to, or even form the background of, the criminal bribery charges alleged in the indictment ... nor do they evidence a common scheme or plan or intent by Mr. Kaufman to be bribed by Mr. Georgiton ...” the motion argues.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York did not respond to requests for comment for this story.

Kaufman was removed by the MCU in 2016. In 2017 Melrose was taken into conservatorship by the New York State Department of Financial Services.

Te a che r s Fe d e r a l Cr e d it Un ion obtained Melrose and its accounts in Q August 2018.

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DOJ to investigate NY nursing home deaths Old Cuomo order may violate Civil Rights Act; Queens leads in deaths Associate Editor

New York State lost 3,804 nursing home and adult care facility residents to COVID-19 between March 1 and Aug. 31, a total that doesn’t include the 2,835 deaths presumed to be coronvirus-related. Recording the highest number of nursing home victims of any other state, New York fell under suspicion of the Department of Justice, which on Aug. 26 requested that Gov. Cuomo submit all data prior to a potential investigation.

“Protecting the rights of some of society’s most vulnerable members, including elderly nursing home residents, is one of our country’s most important obligations,” Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Division Eric Dreiband said in a statement. “We must ensure they are adequately cared for with dignity and respect and not unnecessarily put at risk.”

In a letter addressed to Cuomo, Dreiband requested data for the number of public nursing home residents, staff, guests and visitors who contracted COVID-19, whether inside a facility or outside; who died of COVID-19, including those who died in a nursing home or after being transferred to a hospital or other location; all state-issued guidance, directives, advisories or executive orders regarding admission of persons to the facility as well as the dates each document was in effect; and the number of persons who were admitted to a facility from a hospital or any other facility, hospice, home care, or other location after testing positive for COVID-19 during the period the guidance or orders were in effect.

Governors from New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan received the same letters for requiring nursing homes to admit COVID-19 patients to their vulnerable populations.

Cuomo had ordered such a directive on March 25, declaring that “No resident shall be

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denied re-admission or admission to [a nursing home] solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19. [Nursing homes] are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident who is determined medically stable to be tested for COVID-19 prior to admission or readmission.”

Cuomo reversed that executive order May 10, stating that patients from hospitals seeking to enter as residents into a nursing home must test negative for COVID-19 before admittance. The previous executive order has since been deleted from the governor’s website.

Assemblymember Ron Kim (D-Flushing), who lost his uncle, a nursing home resident, to the virus, welcomed the investigation.

“After months of hiding critical information and data relating to statewide policies, like the March 25th Executive Order to send COVID-19 patients to nursing homes, and the April 2nd blanket legal immunity clause for nursing homes and nursing home deaths, I hope the truth can finally come out,” Kim said in a statement, referring to Cuomo’s provision to the budget bill that protected nursing homes from lawsuits for many instances, including a shortage in staffing and equipment. “The Department of Justice should investigate every state that issued orders which may have led to nursing home deaths. My family and over 12,000 others who lost loved ones in nursing homes deserve nothing less than the truth, closure, and justice.”

Kim had been pushing for a state investigation into COVID-19 related nursing home deaths since early July. He, along with state Sen. Jim Tedisco (R-Glenville), introduced legislation that would establish a bipartisan group of elected officials to conduct an independent investigation, with subpoena power, to fully examine any policies that led to the deaths of thousands of New Yorkers in nursing home facilities.

Queens reported 469 confirmed nursing home deaths as of Aug. 31. The borough had once led the state in adult care facility deaths but now trails behind Suffolk County, which reported 589. When examining the death toll by combining the confirmed and

A March 25 executive order by Gov. Cuomo required nursing homes to admit positive COVID-19 patients, which was rescinded two months later, might have earned him a Department of Justice investigation over the deaths of thousands of adult care facility residents. NYS SCREENSHOT / YOUTUBE presumed figures, however, Queens still claims the highest with a total of 967 nursing home deaths. Brooklyn follows with 854 confirmed and presumed deaths, while Suffolk County reports 832.

“We would be failing these families if we didn’t come together to demand the truth,” Kim said a week before the DOJ announced

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Community rallies to save Astoria Key Food Politicians, activists decry pending closure, criticize incoming Target

by David Russell Associate Editor

Key Food’s lease at 22-15 31 St. in Astoria will expire Oct. 1 but the community is rallying as concern over Target moving in looms.

Macaela Spears, founder of Astoria Food Pantry, spoke of the importance of having a place to buy food as residents have been lining up the night before distribution dates at the pantry. “Our neighbors are spending all night out on the sidewalk because they’re afraid they won’t have enough food for their families,” she said at a press conference at the Key Food last Thursday, as seen in a Twitter video. “There are mothers and fathers and grandparents and even children spending all night on the street to get two bags of groceries from ordinary citizen volunteers to survive their week.”

Maryan Shariat Mudrick, founder of the Astoria Mutual Aid Network, said 60 percent of requests the group receives are about food access, including many from the area “where this Key Food may be the only store they have.”

The supermarket’s lease with Jenel Real Estate expires Oct. 1. Jenel reportedly plans to knock down the site for the incoming Target.

Michael Hirschhorn, president of Jenel, told the Chronicle in May 2019 that there were negotiations for more than two years for a deal with Key Food to return to the new building when it is completed. “The narrative out there

State Sen. Mike Gianaris speaks at a rally for Key Food in Astoria. is not true,” he said. “We would like to have them in this project. I tried to accommodate them at every turn. We wanted it to happen.”

State Sen. Mike Gianaris (D-Astoria) said Key Food “stood strong” during the worst of the pandemic. “This is no exaggeration: Thousands of our neighbors were able to eat because this Key Food stayed open and continued to serve and kept people on the job,” he said.

State Sen. Jessica Ramos (D-East Elmhurst) also spoke of the importance of Key Food, while also slamming big business.

“Our community has been under attack from corporations for a very long time,” she said. “We want to protect not only the 150 jobs

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of these essential workers, who showed up to work every day at the peak of the pandemic, putting their lives at risk for us.”

Irak D. Cehonski, an Astoria native and scheduler for Councilwoman Carlina Rivera (D-Manhattan), tweeted, “I got to speak with a few immigrant families who are very concerned of losing this resource, join this effort!”

Lawmakers, citing “predatory actions,” also wrote a letter to the CEO of Target, other highranking members of the company, the CEO of New York Community Bank and Hirschhorn, saying that profits were being prioritized over the needs of the community.

“Losing a local supermarket that’s been

around for 40 years threatens severe food insecurity of our neighbors and the loss of over 150 union jobs in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, which is unacceptable,” the letter said.

The letter, demanding that the company cease actions to close Key Food, was signed by Gianaris, Ramos, Rep. Alexandria OcasioCortez (D-Bronx, Queens), Councilman Costa Constantinides (D-Astoria), Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas (D-Astoria), Assembly member-elect Zohran Mamdani, District Leaders Shawna Morlock and Zachariah Boyer, Mudrick, Spears and Astoria Food Pantry coorganizer Catie Fireman.

Target responded in an email to the Chronicle Wednesday. “We’ve been serving neighborhoods throughout New York for more than 20 years, and our philosophy all along has been really simple: Take care of our guests, take care of our team and be great neighbors in the communities that we serve,” a spokesperson said.

The email said that includes working with the Queens Chamber of Commerce and civic leaders to understand area needs.

“As we look to open new stores in Jackson Heights and Astoria, we continue to invest time in learning how to best serve each community — not just to make sure we have the right products on the shelves, but to determine how we can work together to support the things they Q care most about,” the spokesperson said.

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Venerable Riccardo’s forced to shut down

Top-grade education For the 29th consecutive year, Queens College landed a spot in Princeton Review’s 2021 “Best Colleges” guide, the school announced Aug. 27.

The guide lists 386 top schools across the country for undergraduate education, and points to Queens College’s high-quality academics, affordability and diversity as high points. Queens College has appeared

on the list every year since the Princeton Review was founded in 1992.

“For over 83 years, we have provided an unparalleled combination of equal access and opportunity for ambitious students — many of modest means — to advance toward successful and rewarding futures,” Queens College President Frank Wu said in the announcement.

After nearly 70 years serving Astoria, Long Island City and the greater New York City community, Riccardo’s by the Bridge will be closing permanently due to the operational impacts of the COVID pandemic.

After reviewing all options and weighing all known factors, the landmark event venue determined that there is simply no realistic path forward given the many unknowns, the primary ones being when reopening might be safely allowed and, even then, the city, state and federal restrictions that are anticipated to accompany such a reopening.

Founded by Richard Corbisiero Sr., in 1951, Riccardo’s by the Bridge has been a family-owned business for all of its nearly 70 years, focusing on treating all guests like family, providing a “home away from home” and staying true to the owners’ guiding principle that “at Riccardo’s, your elegant affair does not have to cost a fortune.”

“Our Astoria family has honored four generations of the Corbisiero family with their loyalty and trust. To say that we are humbled and honored would not capture even a small sliver of our appreciation,” Riccardo’s President Anthony Corbisiero said. ‘’This decision has been extremely diffi-

Riccardo’s by the Bridge will issue refunds to those who have made deposits. GOOGLE MAPS IMAGE cult to make, and is solely due to the various impacts of the COVID pandemic; if it were up to us we would cater your special events forever. We are tremendously proud of what we’ve accomplished over these four generations.”

The Riccardo’s by the Bridge office will be contacting anyone who has an event booked and a deposit on file. All deposits will be refunded over the next 90 days. All communications will be by email or by phone, as the Banquet Offices will not be Q reopening.

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Little Neck business says it is losing customers a block away in Nassau

by Michael Gannon Editor

A Queens restaurant has filed a lawsuit against the city and state in an effort to end the blanket ban on indoor dining in New York City. Il Bacco, an Italian restaurant on Northern Boulevard in Little Neck, filed the complaint last Friday.

The Chronicle was not immediately able to contact the restaurant or its attorney, though Tom Grech, president and CEO of the Queens Chamber of Commerce, said Monday that he was aware of the suit.

“Restaurants, retailers and small businesses are at the breaking point,” Grech said. “We understand that the government wants to base its decisions on science, and the science tells us that the results are under 1 percent. If we have to wait another 30 days or 60 days more, there may be nothing left to return to.”

Richard Azzopardi, senior advisor to the governor, said in an email to the Chronicle that the decision was a necessary one.

“The bottom line is that New York City was hit the hardest and the Governor took action to reduce infections in the areas that were driving clusters in other large cities around the country,” he wrote. “We understand that some people are unhappy, but better unhappy than sick or worse.”

A spokesman for the Mayor’s Office said

the city is declining to comment on pending litigation. But the mayor did take a question on indoor dining Monday morning at his daily press conference.

Mayor de Blasio acknowledged that restaurant owners and workers have been having a tough time. But he also said the city is not ready to reopen for indoor dining.

“We’re working every day,” he said. “Our Health team is looking at this issue all the time, and we’re going to be working closely with the State on this as well. Is there a point, is there a way where we can do something safely with indoor dining? So far we have not had that moment, honestly. We’ve been really straightforward about it. We have not had the opportunity to do it safely ... But it’s going to — it would take a huge step forward to get to that point. That’s the truth.”

Multiple published sources state that restaurants in Staten Island and Brooklyn are planning lawsuits in the immediate future.

The NYC Hospitality Alliance is not a party to the Il Bacco suit, but sent the Chronicle a comment tying the case to New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s announcement that restaurants and movie theaters in the Garden State will be able to open at 25 percent capacity as of Sept. 4.

“With indoor dining resuming soon in New Jersey, New York City will be surround-

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Restaurant owners sue for indoor dining

The owners of Il Bacco, an Italian restaurant in Little Neck, doesn’t see why they cannot have indoor dining while their competitors a block away in Nassau County can. They are suing the city and state for $2 billion and an end to the ban on indoor dining in the city. PHOTO BY KATHERINE DONLEVY ed by indoor dining but locked out from participating at significant economic peril,” Andrew Rigie of the Alliance said. “The situation is at a boiling point and our government leaders must immediately develop a plan to reopen indoor dining across the five boroughs, like what’s been provided to restaurants throughout the rest of the state. Other-

wise, our city’s economic crisis will reach a point it cannot come back from, with thousands of more restaurants permanently closing and likely more lawsuits filed against the government.”

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by HSBC Bank USA, N.A., as successor in interest to East Brooklyn Savings Bank, Capital One, N.A., as successor in interest to The Green Point Savings Bank and New York City Transit Adjudication Bureau; directing the City Register of the City of New York to reform the Land Records in the Clerk’s Office to reflect that the mortgages recorded June 26, 1959 in Reel 7604 Page 89, Page 470 and October 31, 1991 at Reel 3224 Page 1766 are extinguished and HSBC Bank USA, N.A., as successor in interest to East Brooklyn Savings Bank and Capital One, N.A., as successor in interest to The Green Point Savings Bank no longer have any interest in the Subject Property; directing the City Register of the City of New York to reform the Land Records in the Clerk’s Office to reflect that the TAB liens recorded December 18, 2013 in TAB Violation No. 061-746-291, December 18, 2013 at TAB Violation No. 061-378-736, December 19, 2013 in TAB Violation No. 070-163-134, December 19, 2013 in TAB Violation No. 061185-951, December 17, 2013 in TAB Violation No. 058-092-522, December 18, 2013 in TAB Violation No. 061-063-512, December 17, 2013 in TAB Violation No. 056-741-906, and June 22, 2015 in TAB Violation No. 109-434-638 are extinguished and New York City Transit Adjudication Bureau no longer has any interest in the Subject Property; quieting title as to any interest in the subject property held by Unknown Heirs of George Mitchell; directing the City Register of the City of New York to reform the Land Records in the Clerk’s Office to reflect that the Unknown Heirs of George Mitchell no longer have any interest in the Subject Property; enjoining the defendants from taking any action that is adverse to the Plaintiff’s lien position or its related rights; and such other and further relief that the Court may deem is just, equitable, and proper. The property in question is described as follows: 116-28 201st Street, St. Albans, NY 11412 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 quiet title proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered. 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. DATED: August 26, 2020 Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney(s) For Plaintiff(s), 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100, Williamsville, NY 14221 The law firm of Gross Polowy, LLC and the attorneys whom it employs are debt collectors who are attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained by them will be used for that purpose. 69177

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Global antiquarian book fair features more than old tomes

by Max Parrott

Getman brought Chidester on to help with the fair several years ago, giving him carte blanche to bring together seminars on literary movements like Afrofuturism, mystical experiences and all manner of outsider artists. Turnout went from the modest group of Getman’s loyal collector base to packing out the Brooklyn Expo Center’s presentation room.

“The establishment now feels like the bubonic plague. You’ve got systemic racism, vast income inequality — maybe that’s why people are continued on page 21

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Paging all readers seeking mystical enlightenment, tired of the cultural mainstream or interested in uncovering forgotten Native American mythology.

A celebration of the bizarre, esoteric and otherworldly will come to Brooklyn via the internet next week. Its venue? A book fair, of course.

While antique book fairs tend to cater toward the taste of seasoned collectors with deep pockets, the Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair, operating online from 12 p.m. Sept. 11 to 6 p.m. Sept. 13, has a broad focus going beyond exclusively high-end collectables to affordable items and one-of-a-kind live programming.

This year, the fair’s producer, Marvin Getman, will bring the experience online, so that anyone in the five boroughs and beyond can participate. As soon as the pandemic hit in March, Getman commissioned proprietary software that has allowed him to replicate the experience of an in-person book fair on the computer screen.

Participants will be able to join the event for free and look through the wares of 225 vendors from all over the world, with over 3,000 items for purchase.

“You can buy a book for 25 dollars and 50,000 dollars,” Getman said.

But Getman added that what makes the Brooklyn fair unique among the six that he organizes per year is the live programming, which is organized by Brian Chidester, a Greenpoint-based art curator and former writer for The Village Voice and LA Times, with a fascination in the intersection of spiritualism and counterculture.

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He worked for CBS and then moved over being the master of TV spin-offs, with new to ABC. At a time when there were only series based off his hit shows.

He married his assistant, Catherine Kihn, three networks, he raised ABC from No. 3 to No. 1. Some of his hit shows as an execu- in 1971, and they had two children. They tive and producer include “All in the Fami- were married for almost 49 years until his Q ly,” “Family,” “Charlie’s Angels,” “The Wal- death on Jan. 30, 2020 at age 82.

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Van Wagenen was speaking with an unseen associate in the Citi Field press conference room complaining that MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred had requested the Mets and Marlins take the field at 7:10 p.m. and then leave for an hour as a way of acknowledging the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisc., and then return to the field to play their scheduled game.

“He just doesn’t get it!” Van Wagenen told his associate, referring to what appeared to Manfred’s lack of understanding about why this game needed to be postponed rather than be played given both the prevailing mood of the public and most of the players, especially popular Met Dominic Smith. The game was called off after the players took the field and stood on the first and third baselines and then walked back to their respective clubhouses.

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Wilpon has only himself to blame. Forget the fact it was a harebrained idea. What is really egregious is his failure to communicate his thoughts to Van Wagenen from the outset, which could have saved the organization embarrassment. This has long been par for the course.

Things really got ugly, however, when both Fred and Jeff Wilpon had the Mets media relations department put out separate press releases about this cause celebre. Instead of simply saying there was some miscommunication about the game but everyone in the Mets organization is behind the decision the players made, the Wilpons chose to publicly humiliate Van Wagenen by emphasizing their anger and disappointment in him by name. Perhaps the Wilpons, realizing their time running the Mets is coming to an end, were just blowing off some steam.

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Ask Forest Hills resident David Russell his favorite ballplayer as a boy and he goes back to Mike Piazza and the 1999 Mets.

The team that year featured a monster 40-home run, 120-RBI season from its catcher; a now-established Edgardo Alfonso; the second go-’round of Bobby Bonilla; and journeyman Matt Franco carving his name eternally into Mets-Yankees lore with a pinch-single against Mariano Rivera.

But do you remember that they also had a pitcher named Pat Mahomes, whose kid became a decent football player?

Russell, an associate editor with the Chronicle, does. And he has compiled that and lore from every season of the Metropolitans’ existence in “Fabulous to Futile in Flushing - A Year-by-Year History of the Mets,” published by Summer Game Books.

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The book combines the best parts of a media guide, trivia book and serious study of Mets history. Don’t be intimidated by its 345-page count — it’s a fast, enjoyable read with black-and-white photos.

“It was a labor of love,” said Russell, who exhaustively searched newspaper clippings, magazine articles, wire service accounts and numerous other sources while working on and off on the book for a few years.

“It’s amazing what articles you can find if you Google enough,” he said.

But he rewarded readers with a treasury for both Mets fans and baseball geeks in general.

“It’s not just about the 1969 and 1986 champions, though I did write a lot about those teams,” he said.

Each chapter — one for every year from 1962 to 2019 — features the opening day lineup, key acquisitions and departures from the year before, and informative but fun details, such as the fact that the Mets went over .500 in April 1969 — for the first time in two years, 358 days.

It is a trivia lover’s dream, with seven separate quizzes that test just how big a Mets fan the reader is.

Russell delves into Casey Stengel’s loveable losers, Gil Hodges’ Miracle Mets, obscure players who wore the team’s uni-

form and trades from Marvelous Marv Throneberry to Nolan Ryan-for-Jim Fregosi to 1977’s Midnight Massacre.

Charts for each year include the top five batters and pitchers and the top five season highlights. Each chapter also features a player who was fabulous — Joel Youngblood appeared in only 43 games for the 1981 Mets but represented them at the AllStar Game; and the futile — Wayne (3-for33 in 1964) Graham.

“He Was a Met?” offers memories and surprises, reminding fans of players who were successful elsewhere either long before or long after their tours in Flushing.

Then there are cases like Jose Lima, not necessarily obscure or forgotten, but who puzzle Russell just the same.

“The Mets gave him No. 17 after Keith Hernandez,” Russell said, recalling the fanfavorite first baseman turned top-flight broadcaster. “They don’t retire 17 for Keith, then they give it to Lima, David Newhan and Fernando Tatis.”

Russell said perhaps the biggest “what if?” in Mets history was the death of Manager Gil Hodges of a massive heart attack in spring training in 1972, two days short of his 48th birthday and less than four years after a small heart attack in 1968.

And, while any book with the ’62 Mets,

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Chronicle Associate Editor David Russell has compiled a fan- and reader-friendly history COURTESY PHOTO of the New York Mets.

Casey Stengel and Yogi Berra is humorous, “Final Resting Ground” graphics pay tribute to the likes of Willie Mays and former Brooklyn Dodger favorite Carl Erskine, those in the twilight of their careers when they came to the Polo Grounds, Shea Stadium or Citi Field to briefly bask just one Q more time under the big league sun.

Book fair unites antiques and the underground

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Horse, aka Deputy Hawk from David Lynch’s cult-hit 1990s TV show “Twin Peaks.”

Chidester personally discovered the art of Horse, who created the hieroglyphics that play an important role in the plot of “Twin Peaks.” After reaching out to Horse, he learned more about his practice of ledger art and his depth of knowledge about lesser-known Native American history According to Chidester, Horse has been a fixture in avant-garde circles for decades.

He met Lynch when he was a part of the Hollywood alternative scene in the ’70s.

His visual art integrates ideas about alternate dimensions and mystical experiences that are derived from Native American mythology.

Chidester said that he decided that the Beach Boys would make a fitting exhibit because of the combination of kitsch and spirituality present in their album art.

“There’s nothing more ephemeral than the Beach Boys. Somehow there’s a spiritual quality to that as well,” he said.

When the band was in its prime in the early ’60s, Capitol Records employed a wealth of talented and progressive design-

Michael Horse, right, will be one of the mystical and countercultural presenters that have become the Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair’s bread and butter. On the cover: Self-proPHOTOS COURTESY BROOKLYN ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIR claimed witch Veronica Varlow is another. ers to create the band’s art. After Brian Wilson’s mental health began to falter the original lineup slowly collapsed, art historians and fans created a wave of Beach

Boys-related art in the form of bootleg albums, fanzines and posters.

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continued from page 19 interested in spiritualism and the occult,” Chidester said.

This year Chidester brought together programming that includes a visual history of freak show banners, a presentation by pin-up girl and self-proclaimed witch Veronica Varlow, an exhibition into the spiritual and avant-garde undercurrents running through the design of the Beach Boys’ album art and a talk by Michael

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that a pleading seeking relief against

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for premises located at 70-15B

The nature of the relief being sought is

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Notice of Formation of 9711 86th Street LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/16/2020. 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: 9711 86TH STREET LLC, 97-11 86TH STREET, OZONE PARK, NY 11417. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of Command Collective LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/25/2020. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

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NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 08-21-2020, bearing Index Number NC-000364-20/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) DAVID (Last) KRAMER. My present name is (First) ELI (Last) KRAMER (infant). The city and state of my present address are Flushing, N.Y. My place of birth is MANHASSET, N.Y. The month and year of my birth are June 2019.

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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.

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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.

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NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 08-25-2020, bearing Index Number NC000449-20/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) CLAUDIA (Middle) DAPAT (Last) RONE. My present name is (First) CLAUDIO (Middle) DAPAT (Last) RONE (Seniority) JR AKA CLAUDIO JR RONE AKA CLAUDIO JR DAPAT RONE AKA CLAUDIO DAPAT RONE. The city and state of my present address are Elmhurst, N.Y. My place of birth is ZAMBOANGA CITY PHILIPPINES. The month and year of my birth are December 1992.

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An art installation, “Museum Without Doors,” was launched at the Flushing Greenmarket Aug. 26 in an effort to bring art and culture to the community during the pandemic.

The project, facilitated by the Greater Flushing Chamber of Commerce, New Inspiration Cares, Crystal Windows and GrowNYC, is located at Maple Playground in Flushing, at 136-50 Maple Ave. It is accessible during greenmarket hours: every Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. until Nov. 24.

The launch was attended by City Councilmember Peter Koo (D-Flushing), Crystal Windows owner Thomas Chen, Jack Huang of Taipei Economic and Cultural Center, exhibit curator Xinya Li and representatives from GrowNYC and the FCC. The first installment of the exhibition features artist Shih Pao Lin’s “Bull King.” The sculpture, conveying the message of love and peace to all New Yorkers, is made entirely from recycled materials from Crystal Windows and

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Also featured are photographer Joseph Hsu’s works from his “New York on PAUSE” series. The four photographs depict vivid images of the city during the pandemic, following Hsu’s documentation of city life in Midtown Manhattan, Flushing and other neighborhoods during the past four months.

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Renovated One bedroom Condominium with Terrace in Howard Beach. Kitchen features Granite countertop; new stainless steel appliances and cabinets. New overhead lighting and closet doors throughout. Monthly common charges are only $330 a month and that includes your heat, hot water, and cooking gas. Low Taxes estimated $2,225 annually (w/out Star). Close proximity to shopping center; express bus to Manhattan; LA Fitness; Gateway Mall; expressway and Resorts World. Pet Friendly Building!

Mint Condition L-Shaped 2 BR, two Bath Cooperative with Terrace. This home has been renovated over the last 2 years! Kit. Features New Stainless Steel Appliances; Marble Countertop & ceramic Flrs. The alcove dining room area was converted to a ‘bonus’ room but can be easily re-opened. The 2 BRs have open built-in closets; the master has additional walk-in closet, & ensuite bathroom. New overhead lighting; doors throughout; and a lot of natural light. Must see! Laundry room on every floor. Intercom & Buzzer Vestibule Entrance.

Park Benches Throughout Common Grounds. Located Near Shopping Center; Park And Express Bus To Midtown NY. Low Flip Tax, $5.00/Share, 345 Shares. Monthly Maintenance is $1,113.97 + $14.00 (security); $21.66 (special assessment June 2022); $23.25 (assessment June 2022) =$1,172.88 includes heat, hot water, cooking gas and real estate taxes.

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• Lindenwood • 2 BR, 1 bath. Electric, gas and water included in maintenance. Nightly security guard from 10 PM to 6 AM. Excellent fi nancials. 2 outdoor parking spots. $20 a month electric AC. Live-in super plus 2 full-time porters. High-tech intercom system. 62 cameras on-premises.

Playground. Storage, fitness and social rooms.

Welcome to this unique & beautiful 2 fam. home with a fi n. bsmnt, a spacious backyard & central A/C. This recently-renovated property was updated with top-of-the-line fi xtures & fi nishes. The 2nd apt has a custom kit. made from recycled wood imported from France. The Mediterranean bathroom is breathtaking, with spa fi xtures such as a rain shower, Jacuzzi, jet massage & heated floor.

The apt has beautiful wood fl rs, new noise reducing windows and a charming terrace. The 1st apt is a true gem with unique moldings, French doors, beautiful wood fl rs, an updated kit., patio & stunning bathroom. The bsmnt is fully renovated with marble fl rs, large mirrors throughout & exposed brick. The bohemian style backyard, accessible from either apt, is perfect for a private relaxation session yet spacious enough to entertain family & friends.

The property boasts parking & is conveniently located right on the border of Greenpoint & Williamsburg.

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HOWARD BEACH Pristine/Stucco unique contemporary Colonial, 3/4 BRs, 3 full baths, 2 half baths, open floor concept on first floor & winding S.S staircase to second floor master bedroom en suite w/ Jacuzzi and bidet, 2 other BRs & full bath, fin. bsmnt, storage rm. den, ping, pong rm or 4th BR, fences front & backyard has I.G. saltwater heated pool, Jacuzzi (seats 8) Cabana, full bath, storage rm, S.S. gates, 2nd flr balcony granite & awning.

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Colonial 3 BR, 1 Bath, needs updating, pvt. dvwy, 1 car garage, 30x100 lot, 3 floors

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Mint Cape on 50X100. Featuring 4 BRs, 3 full baths. Partial dormer, extended family room, finished bsmt. and garage.

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Mint 1 family brick Colonial, 3 BR/ 1 bath cathedral ceilings, updated kitchen, access to paved pvt yard, pavers front & back, community drive with pvt driveway & 1 car garage, one yr old gas furnace & hot water heater, 7 yr old roof, Andersen windows, ceiling fans, washer/ dryer room.

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1 Fam Colonial 3 BR/ 2 full bath, 20x100 lot, 9 ft ceilings, skylight in bath, tall kitchen wood cabs, basement inc LG storage room, LG patio off Asking $588K kit w/entry.

Mint Hi-Ranch on 40x100 lot, 4 BRs/3 full baths, Vinyl siding with brick front, Andersen windows, Hi-Hats, tiled floors, new carpeting in BRs, security cameras, alarm system, freshly painted, mechanics all updated, heated spa & in-ground pool, brick patio, CAC, rollout $899K awning

New bulkhead/new double docks, spectacular view, $850K Neg. all new interior.

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