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Mayor de Blasio’s plan to offer universal prekindergarten has run into several issues, including criticism from Comptroller Scott Stringer over delayed contracts with private operators and the closure of nine centers across the city just days before the first day of school, but the administration and pre-K staff are confident the program will be a success.

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Two races, few voters could turn NY Senate Control of the chamber may once again rest with those in two Queens districts

by Michael Gannon Editor

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he fervor and passion that can attach to people’s politics may, in New York State, succumb to cold, hard numbers on Tuesday.

And the most important numbers may well be in Democratic primaries in Queens’ 11th and 14th Senate districts.

The 11th features the well-funded and party-backed John Liu trying to unseat the popular and hard-charging incumbent Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside).

In the 14th, incumbent Malcolm Smith (D-Hollis) is battling his ongoing legal troubles as well as party-backed former Councilman Leroy Comrie and attorney Munir Avery.

Brian Browne, assistant vice president for government relations at St. John’s University, said an off-year primary, with no heated contests at the top of the ticket, means turnout will be key in any close race.

“With an especially low turnout in a primary, things like money and a get-out-the vote presence are essential to a successful campaign,” Browne said.

Liu, a proven fundraiser, has the backing of the Queens Democrats and numerous unions, almost all of them angry over Avella’s jump to the Independent Democratic Conference this past spring.

Democratic primaries in two Queens state Senate districts could be key to the political makeup — FILE PHOTO and control — of the Senate when the new session begins in January.

But Liu also had more than $406,000 remaining in the bank in a report given to the state on Aug. 25.

Avella has the support of some unions and Mayor de Blasio, and a record of delivering for the district, especially after joining the IDC. H i s c a m p a ig n r e p o r t e d ju s t ove r $112,000 cash on hand.

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Comrie reported more than $94,000 cash on hand, while Smith had $7,700 and Avery’s campaign was listed as more than $2,600 in debt.

Browne sees Comrie’s overwhelming support from labor as an advantage.

“Leroy Comrie has the Democratic organization and a lot of union support, which helps in pulling out the voters in a year with

a low turnout,” he said.

Avella’s fate would have at least some impact on the IDC, as well as on the struggle by both Democrats and Republicans to take control of the Senate in January.

The five-member IDC has a power-sharing agreement with Senate Republicans, but recently cut a deal with Gov. Cuomo to reunite the party after the elections.

Liu has vowed to be a solid Democrat if elected, as has Comrie. Avella would be expected to remain with the IDC. Smith and Sen. John Sampson (D-Brooklyn), who also is under federal indictment, have not been caucusing with Democrats. Like Smith, Sampson almost certainly would be replaced by a Democrat should he lose his primary.

Also coming into play are races for two vacant Senate seats and the fact that Republicans, who currently hold only 29 of the 63 seats, are campaigning aggressively, particularly upstate and in the Hudson Valley, to reach the magic number 32 in the November elections.

Browne said only the elections can determine just how much clout the Independent Democrats will take to the Capitol in January.

“Time will tell,” he said. “I think the IDC will have some degree of leverage.

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Without Drugs, Shots or Surgery Now, in Howard Beach, NY, one doctor is helping local residents with knee pain live more active, pain-free lives.

Living with knee pain can feel like a crippling experience.

Let’s face it, your knees aren’t as young as you used to be, and playing with the kids or grandkids isn’t any easier either. Maybe your knee pain keeps you from walking short distances or playing golf like you used to.

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

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

Professional athletes like The New York Yankees and team members of the New England Patriots rely upon cold laser therapy to treat their sports-related injuries. These guys use the cold laser for one reason only…

It Promotes Rapid Healing of the Injured Tissues.

Before the FDA would clear the Class IV laser for human use, they wanted to see proof that it worked.

This lead to two landmark studies.

The fi rst study showed that patients who had laser therapy had 53 percent better improvement than those who had a placebo. The second study showed patients who used the laser therapy had less pain and more range of motion days after treatment. If the Class IV Laser can help these patients, it can help you too.

Could This Noninvasive, Natural Treatment Be the Answer to Your Knee Pain?

For 10 days only, I’m running a very special offer where you can find out if you are a candidate for cold laser therapy.

What does this offer include? Everything I normally do in my “Knee Pain Evaluation.” Just call before September 14, 2014 and here’s what you’ll get…

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Howard Beach supermarket will open Sept. 5 with big celebration

by Domenick Rafter

County. Among his other operations is the Food Dynasty at 63-76 Woodhaven Blvd. in Rego Park.

Attention, Howard Beach shoppers!

Almonte, the son of immigrants from the The long-awaited Key Food on Cross Bay Dominican Republic, is no stranger to the Boulevard opens this week.

A little more than a year after a banner market business — his family owned a bodewas unveiled over the former Duane Reade ga in Brooklyn — and he said the store will building at 163-30 Cross Bay Blvd., the cater to the population in the community.

For example, he is partnering with a store is finally ready to welcome customers.

Fra n k A l monte, ow ner of the new well-known name in local cuisine for the new Key Food’s deli supermarket, said he department. has been extremely Fran k Russo, busy getting set up e have been working owner of Russo’s On in the f inal weeks really hard to get ready. The Bay and Vetro before the opening. c a t e r i ng h a l l s i n “ We h ave b e e n It’s been really crazy” Howard Beach, will working really hard be offering packaged t o get rea dy,” he — Frank Almonte, owner, Key Food lunches in the supersaid. “It’s been realmarket’s deli. ly crazy.” “[Russo] has really been a great help and The store’s official ribbon cutting is scheduled for Friday at 11 a.m. Almonte I’m looking forward to continuing to work said Borough President Melinda Katz and with him,” Almonte said.

For many residents, Key Food’s opening other elected officials have been invited.

There will be customer giveaways, a DJ represents another significant step in the neighborhood’s recovery from Hurricane with live music and live animals.

The new Key Food is one of over half a Sandy. The building that will house the dozen supermarkets Almonte owns and supermarket has been vacant since the operates in Brooklyn, Queens and Nassau storm in October 2012. The Duane Reade Editor

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The new Key Food at 163-30 Cross Bay Blvd. in Howard Beach is slated to open this Friday.

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that occupied the site never returned after the storm. Before the pharmacy, the site was the location of the Waterview Diner, which was demolished to make way for the current building.

The community has also been vocal about more shopping options in the neighborhood.

The only other supermarkets in Howard

Beach are the two Waldbaum’s — one on Cross Bay Boulevard and 156th Avenue and the other in the Lindenwood Shopping Center. Many residents travel to the Pathmark in Ozone Park, Scaturro’s in Woodhaven or Glendale’s Stop & Shop to do their shopping.

Key Food’s hours are seven days a week Q from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Build it Back meets its Labor Day goal Reconstruction work started on more than 500 Sandy-damaged homes

by Domenick Rafter Editor

Buildings inspectors and staff.

The administration also overhauled Build it Back field officers to create “one-stop shops” for homeowners and embedded staffers in elected officials’ offices, including two Build it Back staff members at state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr.’s (D-Howard Beach) office on 102nd Street, where they are still located every Wednesday.

That move was important, Addabbo said, because many of his constituents in Howard Beach had to go to the Rockaways to see Build it Back representatives, often multiple times a week because of lost or forgotten paperwork and missed appointments.

“They didn’t take the [Cross Bay Bridge] toll into consideration,” he said. “That’s seven dollars. When you have to go back and forth eight, nine, ten times a week, that’s seventy bucks.”

A new web portal was also launched that allows homeowners to track their status in real time and submit paperwork.

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Contractor Gerry Romski at a house in Broad Channel being worked on as PHOTO COURTESY NYC BUILD IT BACK part of the Build it Back program.

City Hall says Build it Back is actually building stuff back.

Mayor de Blasio announced that the city has approved the start of construction for 535 homes and sent 543 reimbursement checks through the Build it Back program, exceeding the 500-home goal de Blasio set when he revamped the city’s Hurricane Sandy-recovery program in the spring and appointed Amy Peterson to head the program.

Build it Back was established in June 2013 — eight months after Sandy — but was mired with problems for months. When de Blasio took office in January, not a single home had been fixed or even had construction started.

“It was simply unacceptable that not a single homeowner had gotten relief as of the beginning of this year,” de Blasio said in a statement. “We committed to putting Build it Back back on track, and that’s exactly what we’ve done, exceeding our Labor Day goals with 535 construction starts and 543 reimbursement checks. But we

know there’s much more work ahead — and we’re committed to continuing to speed up recovery so that every homeowner gets the relief they need.”

City Hall says 68 of the 535 homes have been completed. The rest are somewhere on a scale that ranges from contractors having actually met with homeowners and devised a reconstruction plan to nearly completed work.

The 543 checks ref lect more than $9 million in reimbursements that has gone out to homeowners who completed repairs themselves, the administration said.

A source close to the administration noted that the first complete rebuild and the first elevation of a home were both in Queens. The former was a home in Breezy Point.

Other changes to Build it Back implemented by the de Blasio administration include expanded eligibility and options, and the elimination of priority levels, more Build it Back staff, including a deputy director for homeowner services, borough directors, and 44 new dedicated Department of

City Hall prepares for day one of UPK Amid controversy over contracts and closures, providers ready for children

by Domenick Rafter Editor

In the final days before Mayor de Blasio’s ambitious — and perhaps signature — first term policy initiative rolls out, the finishing touches were being put on classrooms across the city, and City Hall was dealing with the bumps in the road.

More than 50,000 students, the first class in the mayor’s universal prekindergarten program, were slated to meet their teachers for the first time on Thursday.

The Mayor’s Office said last week the total number of children registered for UPK topped 50,000, including more than 19,000 in district school pre-K and more than 31,000 in community-based early childhood center pre-K programs.

But as those students gathered their bookbags and pencils, the administration is navigating a minefield of issues.

Last week, city Comptroller Scott Stringer announced that his office had not seen nearly three-quarters of the contracts with private organizations that will operate pre-K classes this year, and wouldn’t be able to review all of them before the school year starts.

The City Charter mandates that the Comptroller’s Office be given 30 days to conduct integrity reviews on all contracts for corruption, fraud and fair contract practices.

Stringer said that many contracts received to date have included other errors such as missing permits, inconsistent counts of students on multiple documents and vendors not listed on a given charity’s website as being up to date with filing requirements.

Further, his office said it has uncovered significant problems, including a vendor that had a former employee who was charged with conspiracy to commit child pornography,

City Comptroller Scott Stringer, right, says his office still hasn’t seen 70 percent of the city’s contracts with private communitybased early childhood centers to operate prekindergarten classes as part of Mayor de Blasio’s UPK program, even as students were due to start school Thursday.

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as well as a vendor that had six violations issued for failing to have required personnel screened by the New York State Central Register of Child Abuse and Mistreatment.

Stringer’s office added that the administration has since been able to provide documentation to prove that those problems were addressed.

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But with so many contracts left outstanding, the question over the integrity of the CBECCs that are to be welcoming children this week is in question.

“My office will continue to work expeditiously to review and register contracts as we receive them, in accordance with our Charter-mandated responsibility,” Stringer said in a statement, adding that he believed UPK “holds the promise of transforming our City’s educational process,” but warned the city cannot “sacrifice safety in the name of expediency.”

Sources close to the administration last week said the city Department of Education was doing its own due diligence internally over private contracts and suggested that several sites could be closed before the start of the school year.

Then on Tuesday, nine pre-K centers across the city were shut down by the DOE and 36 others were delayed in opening because of issues with their contracts caught by the administration.

Three of those centers were in Queens, including the Queens Early Childhood Center in Springfield Gardens, operated by Birch Family Services, which also operates three other centers that were closed in Brooklyn and Manhattan.

A phone call and email to Birch’s executive director requesting comment was not returned by press time.

The other two Queens locations were the Alpha Academy in Jamaica and the Rising Stars Islamic School, also in Jamaica.

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A disgusting case of animal cruelty Get out and vote Tuesday

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ll over Queens you see them, furtively jogging down alleyways, sunning themselves on sidewalks, dodging across the streets that often spell their doom.

They’re housecats, at least as far as their DNA is concerned.

Really they’re former pets who somehow parted ways with their owners, or, more often, they’re descendants of those who did, reverting somewhat to the ways of wild animals, albeit in an urban environment.

You may scorn or ignore them; you may have become friendly with them. Or you may be among the growing number of people who do their best to care for them even while letting them live their own lives, by feeding them, providing them with shelter or by trapping, neutering and returning them in hopes of reducing their population.

Or you may be one of the sick, demented individuals who cornered one in Astoria the night of Aug. 24 and stabbed and stomped it to death. If so, know that your victim’s name was Bobby. And that you should turn yourself in to the police, and then seek the mental help you obviously need.

Many in Astoria are aghast at the cruelty that took place on 21st Avenue between 33rd and 35th streets just before midnight that night, as are we and other faunatarians — animal

protectors — everywhere. It was a disgusting act committed against an innocent creature that was probably too slow, maybe too trusting, to save himself.

This is hardly the only recent case of animal cruelty in Queens. You may remember the incident a couple years ago when a man apparently messed up by steroids threw his own dog out a window, killing him. He was brought to justice. We hope the same will happen to those who killed Bobby. There were witnesses; they just didn’t know what they were witnessing until it was too late.

Justice is one reason whoever knows the identity of these men must turn them in. Another is what their cruelty could possibly lead to next. Many mass murderers torture and kill animals before graduating to homicide. The list includes David Berkowitz, the “Son of Sam” whose killing fields included Queens, as well as cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer, “Boston Strangler” Albert DeSalvo and school shooters Luke Woodham and Kip Kinkel. Could their madness have been thwarted if they had been caught earlier? Surely it’s possible.

If you know who killed Bobby, please call or text (917) 6536093 or (917) 435-2399, or visit Astoria7.org/tips. You may earn a cash reward, and you’ll certainly earn a karmic one.

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As the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs, I make it a priority to extend my own services to the veterans of our state and to, most importantly, show my appreciation for their dedication to our country. It was amazing to see such a wide range of people, from all walks of life and from some of history’s biggest military conflicts, come together for a casual afternoon outside my district office.

We had a local duo perform live music for the guests, including some old-time favorites that brought a few people out of their chairs to dance. To eat, in classic Italian, Howard Beach fashion, we were able to offer lasagna, penne a la vodka and more thanks to generous donations. The conversations that could be heard around the tables as people enjoyed their lunch were some that could not be heard most © Copyright 2014 by MARK I PUBLICATIONS, INC. All rights reserved.

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The hottest races are those between 14th District State Sen. Malcolm Smith and his two challengers, Leroy Comrie and Munir Avery, in Southeast and Central Queens; and between 11th District State Sen. Tony Avella and John Liu in northern and northeastern Queens. The results could heavily impact how the state Senate operates come January.

Less dramatic are the races between 16th District State Sen. Toby Stavisky and S.J. Jung in northern and Central Queens; and between 30th District Assemblywoman Marge Markey and Dmytro Fedkowskyj in Western and southwestern Queens.

That’s only because the challengers in those races are not believed to be as strong, but upsets are always possible. Every vote counts in these races, and we urge everyone in these districts to cast theirs.

places — guests ref lected on their time serving in the Army, Navy and Military and swapped stories.

My thanks also to my staff, Pat Connelly and Coleman Post 2565, Fran Scarantino, Laura Lee and Richie, Roger Gendron, Mike Sarter, Howie Kamph, Rileys Yacht Club, Howard Beach Motor Boat Club and the following food contributors — Russo’s On The Bay, Aldo’s Pizza, Prima Pasta, McDonald’s, Sugar Bun, The Rail, Gino’s Pizza, Bruno’s Ristorante, Lenny’s Pizza, Ragtime, Frenasia, Cross Bay Diner and Pasticceria la Torre bakery. Without their generosity, this event would not have been possible.

It is my hope my staff and I will be fortunate enough to keep the tradition alive and host another barbecue next summer for our nation’s bravest, and I wish you all the very best.

Joseph P. Addabbo Jr. NYS Senator for the 15th District Howard Beach

Vote! (Democrat, that is) Dear Editor: Vote! It’s not only a privilege, it’s a duty, and shame on those too lazy to avail themselves of it — the very ones so eager to complain about our president’s inability to move parts of his agenda forward due to the fact that we allowed an ignorant regressive Congress to be voted in, one proudly pledged to obstruct any motion put forth by President Obama.

The importance of that vote was never more pronounced than in the 2010 midterm election. Our self-congratulating progressive Democrats were so busy patting themselves on the back for having initiated one of the proudest, almost inconceivable achievements in our country’s short history — the election of a black person as president of the United States — that they sat on their priggish progressive posteriors and neglected to follow through and vote for an equally perspicacious Congress. As a result, the most ill-equipped,

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Unhappy anniversary I Dear Editor: I’m greatly troubled by the belief of some who think we must move on, that there is too much talk of 9/11 after 13 years. I beg to differ.

We lost thousands of good people, including 343 firefighters who gave up their lives to save others. Husbands lost wives, mothers lost daughters and friends lost friends. How does one forget? We need to remember all that we lost on that day of terrorism, which was pure evil. Future generations need to know what happened.

When we disregard history, we are doomed to repeat it. As long as there is terrorism in the

Dear Editor: On Sept. 1, 1939, the world was plunged into what was to become the most devastating war ever to affect so many nations and peoples.

Early on that day, hundreds of Luftwaffe aircraft from Nazi Germany began swooping over Poland, mercilessly bombing and strafing cities and towns, killing hundreds of innocent civilians, while the Nazi army swept across the border with thousands of tanks and troops, overrunning the Polish countryside. While the Polish army fought bravely, it was no match for the brutality of the Nazi invaders.

This day, Sept. 1, 1939, was the day that the world lost its innocence and peace, which were forever gone with the winds of war.

John Amato Fresh Meadows

Safety agents’ pay Dear Editor: Congratulations are due to the school safety agents and the city for their fair though overdue settlement of a lawsuit over the unequal pay that these predominantly female workers were getting compared with their counterparts in hospitals and homeless shelters. The case was decided on its merits. Their complaint was proved to be fact.

The job that SSAs do is underappreciated because it is not fully understood. They are not “square badge” security guards who do nothing but sit on stools and sign in visitors at the front desk. Their migration from the Board of Education to the NYPD some years ago elevated their prestige, though not their pay.

They are genuine law enforcement, peace officers with arrest powers.

Violations and some serious crimes that abound in the streets occur daily in many schools despite some principals’ not reporting them. Many people would be surprised to discover what the life of an SSA is like. A glance into their logs would be a revelation.

It’s a rewarding and meaningful job. But it can be harrowing and dangerous. There are fights, drugs, weapons, intruders, irate parents and community conflicts that can penetrate the building. There are security breaches, environmental hazards and sensitive matters that can have legal ramifications.

One of the challenges can be maintaining independence from a controlling principal without sacrificing one’s own skin. It requires integrity and other skills to successfully humor yet resist a principal who wants to keep his or her school’s “dirty laundry” top secret.

To his credit, Mayor de Blasio reached what he himself called a “fair and right settlement.”

He recognized, as all New Yorkers should, that the value of school safety agents towers over their price to the city.

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Under Gov. Cuomo’s SAFE Act, all assault weapons owners must register their firearms with New York State. This law should expand to require all gun owners to register their weapons, from single-shot pistols to multipleround murder machines. The public registry must separate legal gun owners from violent felons. But it will strengthen law enforcement’s power to track down criminals and reduce gun violence. We register cars, so why not guns?

The NRA (Not Really Awake) and other gun lobby lunatics will promote paranoid fears about government seizing everyone’s firearms.

Nonsense. These are the same folks who think it’s fine for a 9-year-old girl to fire an Uzi assault rifle. They substitute Bushmasters for brains, but we shouldn’t. A statewide registry of all gun owners will create safer and saner communities.

Richard Reif Flushing

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nonproductive, pro-obstruction (to list just a few applicable derogatory prefixes) House of Representatives our country has ever had the misfortune to experience, was installed … or more accurately, inflicted.

Although not part of the 2010 Congressional infection but rather the previous one Regressive Republican representative stands out, Louis Buller “Louie” Gohmert Jr., un-shockingly of Texas. This ignorant congressman makes Gomer (Jim Nabors) Pyle of Andy Griffith seem a genius. Words cannot do justice. Only seeing or hearing this imbecile is believing. This is the quality of representation we can expect from today’s degenerate Conservlican Party. Pity; they once were actually a Grand Old Party.

We soon will have the opportunity to make our country incredibly proud once again with the election of the first woman president of the United States. Let’s hope that the progressives outnumber the regressives at the voting booth come the midterm election.

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Ridgewood Reservoir to be reclassified?

Parks Dept. will apply to the state for a Class A ‘low hazard’ designation

by Christopher Barca Reporter

Activists fighting for the reclassification of the Ridgewood Reservoir shouldn’t uncork the champagne just yet, but they may have scored a victory this week.

The Parks Department will apply to the state Department of Environmental Conservation for a redesignation of the reservoir, within Highland Park on the GlendaleBrooklyn border, from a Class C “high hazard” dam to a Class A “low hazard” dam, according to agency spokesman Zach Feder.

That could negate the need for a project that residents say would destroy the park by requiring the cutting down of almost 500 trees and the construction of roads that would negatively impact the habitat of many of the park’s wildlife species.

“Parks has discussed the prospect of instead reclassifying the reservoir as a Class A “low hazard” site with DEC, which would eliminate the need to create any breaches,” Feder said. “Parks is currently working on a package that we will submit to DEC in support of this reclassification.”

If the state DEC approves the agency’s reclassification application, the proposed two-year, $6 million culvert creation project mandated by the DEC will be deemed unnecessary and terminated.

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Senior centers get $15,000 Assembly ma n Ph il Gold feder (D-Howard Beach) has allocated $15,000 in state funding to the Howa rd Bea ch a nd Rock away Pa rk senior centers, two facilities badly affected by Hurricane Sandy.

Each center will receive $7,500 to support daily operations, programming and essential services.

“The ser vices offered by our local senior centers are not luxuries but an important necessity for our growing senior population trying to stay active,” Goldfeder, who is a member of the Assembly’s Aging Com mit tee, said in a statement.

“This State funding will allow for these essential services to continue and help our centers flourish.”

Both centers were badly affected

by Sandy and their members displaced for a time after the storm.

The Howard Beach Senior Center was previously located at the Rockwood Park Jewish Center and moved into its permanent space at the Peter J. Striano senior residence last summer. The Rockaway Park Senior Center was also displaced for a time before moving back into its space. Q

The Parks Department will apply to the state Department of Environmental Conservation for a redesignation of the Ridgewood Reservoir. If the application is approved, a two-year, $6 million FILE PHOTO culvert creation project will be deemed unnecessary.

The planned construction work would include creating large culver ts in the embankments between the three basins of the park, one of which is filled with water.

According to the DEC, such work would reduce the risk of a breach of one or more of the basins during an unprecedented storm, which might lead to severe flooding in the surrounding areas.

However, residents and Com munity

Board 5 have claimed that it would be nearly impossible for enough precipitation to fill the basins to a point where a potential breach will seriously threaten the surrounding area.

In recent months, area elected officials and activists have petitioned for the reclassification of the reservoir in their own way.

In a letter to Gov. Cuomo dated July 24, Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing), Councilmembers Elizabeth Crowley (D-Glendale)

a nd A nt on io Rey noso ( D -Brook ly n , Queens), state Sens. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) and Michael Gianaris (D-Astoria) and state Assemblymembers Mike Miller (D-Woodhaven) and Cathy Nolan (D-Sunnyside) expressed their concern over what the proposed work would do to the park’s ecosystem.

“The proposed work consists of breaching the berms that separate the Ridgewood Reservoir’s basins, building permanent access roads into this habitat, and cutting down at least 470 trees,” the letter reads. “We are concerned these changes will significantly harm the natural and largely undisturbed habitats of the animals that live there.”

Additionally, the preservation group Save Ridgewood Reservoir started a petition on the social change website Change.org to rally support for its cause in July. As of Wednesday, 793 people had signed it.

Many of the petition’s signatories are from the area, including Queens Civic Congress Vice President Richard Hellenbrecht and New York City Audubon President Harrison Maas, but some from as far away as Kentucky left messages of encouragement.

“This is a rich environmental habitat,” Hellenbrecht wrote, “and offers a unique perspective of NYC history and must be Q maintained in its natural state.”

A women’s advocate for the library New trustee Baker is Susan B. Anthony award winner

by Peter C. Mastrosimone Editor-in-Chief

Another of the many empty seats around the Queens Library boardroom table was filled Tuesday, when Mayor de Blasio named Martha Baker of Fresh Meadows as the system’s newest trustee.

Baker is a longtime advocate for women and served as a city official in the Dinkins administration.

“The founder of Equity in Education and Employment, which provides program design, advocacy and training to improve opportunities for women and girls, Baker has worked locally and at the national level to secure leave policies that support working families and promote women in the workplace,” the Mayor’s Office said in announcing her appointment.

Under Dinkins, Baker was executive director of the city’s Commission on the Status of Women, where she coordinated a year-long study on sexual harassment and published works on how to prevent it at college campuses and in the municipal workplace. She also has worked as the deputy director of operations for the state Workers Compensation Board.

Baker is a recipient of the Susan B. Anthony Leadership Award and a founding

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in late July over the controversy surrounding the institution’s finances and governance that erupted this year. A ninth trustee resigned, so the board now has 13 members. Those who were dismissed were the strongest supporters of embattled library President Tom Galante, who is at the center of investigations Q into the library.

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Construction on the two 99 year-old stations began in May with the closures of the Queens-bound platforms in order to reconstruct or replace staircases, floors, windows on the mezzanine level, walls and the canopy over the platform.

The work was slated to be completed last month, but the scope of the construction meant it needed to be delayed.

“There was more extensive work to be done on the steel girders under the platform,” MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz said. “We had anticipated reopening the station in mid-August.”

He said the new date for reopening the platforms will be Monday, Sept. 29.

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City has (sort of) fixed 101st Street potholes Two weeks after the Queens Chronicle published a story on two giant holes in the middle of 101st Street in Ozone Park, the city has filled them up.

How good of a job it did is another question.

The depressions in the street — bigger than normal potholes, but smaller than what are typically seen as a sinkhole — were located in the middle of the street about a third of the way between 101st and 103rd avenues. Each hole had a traffic cone in it to keep cars from hitting it That clearly hadn’t worked as the holes were filled with debris that appeared to have come from vehicles, including pieces

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The $39 million project is part of a complete overhaul of the elevated line between the Brooklyn border and Lefferts Boulevard.

After the two stations currently under reconstruction are finished, the same work will begin on the 80th Street and 111th Street stations.

The overhaul will also includes the construction of a new elevator at the Lefferts Boulevard station.

The elevated line that runs above Liberty Avenue opened in September 1915, at the time an extension of the now-dismantled Fulton Street elevated line in Brooklyn. The tracks were overhauled in 1999 and the trestle was painted in the mid-2000s.

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An employee of a business near the site of the holes said she would call 311 to report them again, but was pessimistic it would help.

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Cooper Avenue homeless shelter plan is a bad one

by Joseph P. Addabbo Jr.

Lester Lin, sixth from left, his brother, Karl, fourth from left, and other volunteers prepare to give away hundreds of backpacks filled with school supplies at the Boulevard Family Residence in Elmhurst on Tuesday. The Lin brothers were once homeless themselves. PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA

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Lester Lin knows what the approximately 370 children living at the Boulevard Family Residence are going through.

When the Taiwanese immigrant was 4 years old, he and his family slept on the sidewalk in front of a Flushing church.

When he was old enough to go to school, he would go barefoot at times.

He and his brother, Karl, were jealous of their classmates, who had the luxury of wearing backpacks and eating their meals out of a lunchbox.

Now, as a pastor at t he Refor med Church of Newtown and an Elmhurst resident, Lin wants to make a difference in the lives of the students, 97 of whom will be going to District 24 schools this year, who are going through the same kind of hardships he once did.

“There’s definitely some sort of relationship we naturally have,” Lin said. “We want to empower them. We don’t want to just feed them, we want to teach them.”

Two weeks after Councilman Danny Dromm (D-Jackson Heights) donated hundreds of backpacks to the students at the residence, formerly the Pan American Hotel, at 79-00 Queens Blvd. in Elmhurst, around a dozen volunteers from the Reformed Church of Newtown, the New Life Fellowship Church and St. James Episcopal Church donated an additional 285 backpacks filled with school supplies to eager children.

The bookbags and supplies, such as crayons for pre-K and elementary school students and USB drives for high schoolers, were paid for entirely through donations to each church.

One of the more sizable contributions was a $1,500 out-of-pocket donation from Lin’s brother Karl, 38, who volunteers at the Reformed Church of Newtown and co-owns Liberty Land Abstracts, a real estate insurance company, with Lester.

“When my family emigrated, we didn’t have much either,” the elder Lin brother said.

“I’m just very glad to be a part of this. Hopefully it will give the kids some confidence because it’s always important to have a good start in school.”

The younger Lin said the three raucous protests outside the shelter earlier this summer were also one of the driving factors behind setting up the giveaway.

“When I first came to the protests, I was surprised it was all Chinese people,” Lin said. “I naturally thought it was racism because our families bring us up this way when there is someone different around. But then as you grow up, you see they are normal people who suffered through the same thing as everyone else did.”

Inside the shelter’s cafeteria, five tables, each labeled for a different age group and manned by two volunteers, were set up, all packed with supplies.

For younger children, backpacks featuring Spider-Man were distributed while older students received bags with the New York Yankees’ logo on it.

Dozens of children were lined up outside the building’s cafeteria to take advantage of the giveaway, something Lin hopes to use as another opportunity to connect with the families living at the shelter.

“We’re Christians. We want to share that love we have with people,” he said. “It’s not Q something you keep to yourself.”

It has been a long road in the fight for the residents of my district against the city and the nonprofit Samaritan Village’s proposal to convert the abandoned factory on Cooper Avenue into a homeless shelter for 125 families.

Despite clear opposition from the community, the city has moved forward with its plans and the proposed 5-year, $27 million contract with the Department of Homeless Services. Summer is over and plans are moving forward, but this is also the time civic associations and community boards reconvene, giving us an opportunity to band together even more so.

This is not a matter of shutting down a homeless shelter — helping those less fortunate and providing housing for people during tough times is not to be disregarded — but this is a matter of factors, including safety. I can’t help but be concerned when considering the location for this site, and it becomes a matter of safety for both the shelter’s tenants as well as the surrounding community, my constituents.

For the same reasons I don’t believe in this location for the homeless shelter, I would like to see the proposal sent back to the drawing board. If the city will not listen to our rallies and our town halls, and if it must have the shelter, only then will my priority be to work on reducing the number of families to under 100, ideally 75.

I have had conversations with Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office and spoken with city Comptroller Scott Stringer and at various civic meetings and town halls on my opposition to a shelter in Glendale. I have also sent letters to DHS Commissioner Gilbert Taylor, Department of Education Chancellor Carmen Fariña and Mayor de Blasio expanding on my concerns. However, the work is far from done.

Although the beauty of Glendale and camaraderie amongst its residents

create a wonderful and comforting place to live, it is no secret that the neighborhood is diff icult to access using publ ic t r a n s p o r t a tion. If the shelter’s tenants do not have vehicles of their own, I believe it does not make sense to house them in an area inaccessible via city buses or trains.

Furthermore, with 125 families come potentially more than 100 kids to be placed in School District 24, which is already plagued with overcrowding issues and is arguably the most overcrowded district in the five boroughs. It does not benefit current students or even the new ones coming in if they are placed in an environment in which they cannot get the necessary attention and instruction to learn.

This is not an issue that will subside with time — extra students means extra seats, extra resources needed, extra time and more.

Additionally, my concerns continue with the site and its environmental issues.

I still contend that the area is not appropriate to house individuals due to its proximity to the chemical plant and brownfields. I can’t imagine a rationally thinking person would say that this former manufacturing plant, in its current dilapidated condition, given its location, is a suitable site to place over 100 families.

I will continue my efforts to persuade the mayor’s administration to think rationally and reconsider this proposal that the city says addresses the homeless issue, but that in the end may cause so many more issues for the community Q and city.

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

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Corrections The Aug. 28 editorial “On policing and race, good news and bad,” misstated the percentage of white poll respondents who find the Rev. Al Sharpton is a negative force in the city.

It is 63 percent.

Due to an editing error, the Aug. 28 article “Is one test the best HS admissions stan-

dard” misstated the position of Assemblyman Ron Kim. He had not cosponsored the bill in question.

The number of Queens students in the city’s elite specialized schools also was misstated. It is 1,919.

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9/11 Queens events remember victims Solemn programs around borough for 13th anniversary of WTC attacks

by Liz Rhoades Managing Editor

Memories of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center 13 years ago still run deep in Queens. The borough lost an estimated 283 people and they will not be forgotten.

Events in Queens to commemorate the anniversary will begin on Sunday and run through Saturday, Sept. 13.

A memorial ceremony will be held on Sunday at 12:30 p.m. at the Dry Harbor Playground on Myrtle Avenue and 80th Street in Glendale near the 9/11 Memorial Garden.

Organizers say 42 people from Glendale, Middle Village, Ridgewood and Woodhaven lost their lives that day 13 years ago.

The Poppenhusen Institute at 114-04 14 Road, will hold its annual memorial service and concert on Sunday at 1 p.m. in the facility’s garden. Performing will be the Tarumi violinists and inspirational singers.

The annual candlelight vigil sponsored by the United Community Civic Association will be held Wednesday, Sept. 10 at 7:30 p.m. at McManus Memorial Park, located on 81st Street, Ditmars Boulevard and the Grand Central Parkway service road in Astoria Heights.

The Doughboy Park Patriots, a coalition of area civic groups and nonprofits, will

Runners at last year’s Remember Me run at St. Michael’s Cemetery in East Elmhurst to honor COURTESY PHOTO first responders killed on 9/11 at the World Trade Center. conduct a candlelight vigil and a reading of the names of the fallen on Thursday, Sept. 11 at 6:30 p.m. at Doughboy Park, at the corner of 56th Street and Woodside Avenue in Woodside.

The event will be held rain or shine and this year will also pay tribute to the bicentennial of “The Star Spangled Banner” with a reading and performances.

The Bayside Hills Civic Association

will hold its commemoration at 7 p.m. on Sept. 11 at its memorial garden located on the Horace Harding Expressway at Bell Boulevard. Deputy Inspector Jason Huerta of the 111th Precinct will speak. Flags will be distributed and participants are asked to bring candles.

The Forest Hills Volunteer Ambulance Corps, at 99-29 Metropolitan Ave., will conduct its memorial at 7 p.m. on Sept. 11

in front of its headquarters. Invited is the family of Richard Pearlman, an FHVAC member who lost his life that day.

Also on Sept. 11, the annual candlelight vigil will be held at Juniper Valley Park at 78th Street in Middle Village at 7:30 p.m.

This in Queens’ largest gathering in the shadows of the 9/11 Tribute in Light. The program will include piped-in music, speeches, poetry and representatives from the FDNY, elected officials, Scouts and religious leaders.

The Queens Historical Society at 14335 37 Ave. in Flushing will sponsor a 9/11 children’s workshop on Sept. 13 at 1 p.m.

The program will focus on “September Roses,” a book written by Jeanette Winter based on a true story about the aftermath of the WTC destruction. The event is free for children and their adult companions.

Each year, St. Michael’s Cemetery in East Elmhurst hosts the two-mile Remember Me Run in honor of the first responders who gave up their lives to save others on 9/11. The run will be held on Sept. 13 at 3 p.m. to be followed by a memorial service.

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Assault occurred outside Pan American

by Christopher Barca Reporter

A Yonkers, NY man has been arrested in connection with the Aug. 24 attack on a mother and her three children outside the Boulevard Family Residence, formerly the Pan American Hotel, in Elmhurst.

Pedro Vargas, 48, has been charged with third-degree assault, endangering the welfare of a child and operating a vehicle for hire without the proper license after he allegedly drove the family from Manhattan to Queens before allegedly assaulting the 26-year-old woman and her children, ranging from 1 to 5 years old, after a dispute with the mother.

If convicted, Vargas faces up to two years in jail.

The initial statement from police on Aug. 27 about the incident said he attempted to sexually assault the woman, but an Aug. 29 release from Queens District Attorney Richard Brown does not mention any attempted sex attack.

Brown and police said Vargas posed as a taxi driver and picked the family up from

207th Street and Post Avenue in Manhattan around 2 a.m. and drove them to the rear of the homeless shelter at 79-00 Queens Blvd., where he and the mother began arguing.

Surveillance camera footage released by police shows Vargas allegedly struggling with the woman as she attempted to free her children from the vehicle.

Moments later, Vargas allegedly viciously elbowed the 5-year-old in the head as she stood on the sidewalk next to the car, knocking her down.

He then allegedly pulled the 3-year-old from the vehicle and slammed the youngster to the ground.

Brown said the 1-year-old child fell from the mother’s arms in the struggle and was struck by the open passenger door as Vargas drove away.

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Qns. sees the needle and the damage done Heroin overdose deaths jump in boro, but not elsewhere, new report says

by Mark Lord

Health System, the increase in prescription pain medications is a “big The death of actor Philip Seymour factor” in the increase in opiate use, Hoffman earlier this year from a not just locally but across the country.

“People who use prescription pain combination of drugs including heroin exemplifies the startling statistics medications are at a greater risk to recently released by the city Depart- use heroin,” Krakower said.

“Heroin, is general, has become ment of Health & Mental Hygiene, which indicated that the rate of unin- purer and more of a socially accepttentional overdose deaths involving able drug in some ways,” he said, heroin among Queens residents has adding that the legalization of marimore than doubled from 1.9 per juana can also “act as a gateway to 100,000 residents in 2010 to 4.3 per using heroin.”

He praised the National Prescrip100,000 residents in 2013.

So distressing are the numbers tion Drug Monitoring Program, that in February, the department which, he said, is in its infancy. New urged the state Legislature to York has only recently looked into approve legislation that would using naloxone to counter the effects increase access to naloxone, a drug of heroin, but, according to Krakower, it “has been that can reverse effective.” heroin overdoses.

According to That was done, eople who use the DOH, in and some police officers are now prescription pain 2013, heroin was involved in 54 carrying the antimedications are percent of all dote under a prooverdose deaths gram funded by at a greater risk citywide, making st ate At tor ney it the most comGeneral Eric Schto use heroin.” mon substance n e i d e r m a n’s involved in fatal office.

— Dr. Scott Krakower overdoses.

Perhaps most The DOH disturbing is that heroin-related overdose deaths in reports that the largest age group New York City increased 84 percent increase was among those 15 to 34. between 2010 and 2012, with Queens The rate in that age bracket more repor tedly seei ng the largest than doubled from 2.1 per 100,000 increase, from 53 in 2012 to 81 last people in 2010 to 4.8 per 100,000 people in 2013, representing an year, a rise of 53 percent.

Last week, the DOH announced increase of 129 percent.

In its report, the DOH also indithat it is partnering with two hospitals in the borough — Jamaica Hospital cated that from 2010 and 2013, those Medical Center and Flushing Hospi- aged 35 to 54 had the highest rate of tal Medical Center — to promote the overdose deaths involving heroin.

Between 2000 and 2013, nearly safe and judicious prescribing of opioid analgesics, or pain relievers, 10,000 overdose deaths occurred in the city, or an average of 700 per across their hospital systems.

According to Dr. Scott Krakower, year, according to the DOH. Krakower indicated that heroin assistant unit chief in psychiatry at Zucker Hillside Hospital in Glen addiction used to be most prevalent Oaks, part of the North Shore-LIJ in poor neighborhoods, but today, he Chronicle Contributor

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The number of people dying from heroin overdoses in Queens, represented by the line that starts lower than the others but then meets two of them, has more than doubled since 2010 and went up 53 percent from 2012 to 2013 alone.

Eighty-one people here died from the drug last year. said, upper class urban neighborhoods are also being greatly affected.

“It’s a scary thing,” he said.

In his own practice, the doctor said, “We’re getting more young, upper class people using heroin,” suggesting that, come party time, for many young adults it is the drug of choice.

Over the past three to four years, he has personally seen an increase in heroin use among young adults, in the 20 to 30 age range.

“And,” he added, “the older crowd still uses it.”

Earl Roberts, president of the 113th Precinct Community Council in Jamaica, said he has seen an increase in heroin addicts in the community, though not specifically in his precinct.

St ate Sen. Malcol m Sm it h (D-Hollis), who represents some of the area where the 113th Precinct is located, said he is well aware of an overall increase in the drug’s use, though not in the mostly minority communities he represents.

“It’s a very interesting phenomenon and I don’t know what’s causing the spike in heroin use,” Smith said during a Tuesday interview that otherwise was about his run for re-election. “We need to get a handle on it.”

Across the borough, Community Board 5 District Manager Gary Giordano said he has read that the use of heroin is rising and has asked the 104th Precinct about it, but has not gotten a response. The precinct also did not respond to requests for

comment for this article.

Giordano said he was not, however, aware that the number of overdose deaths is rising so quickly in Queens.

“The abuse seems to be an escalating problem, and I’m told — I’m not sure — that part of the problem is those who get in trouble with prescription drugs are using heroin as a lower-cost, and possibly more easily available, alternative,” he said.

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Pol asks feds to allow online EBT purchases

by Domenick Rafter Editor

Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Rockaway Park) wants to make it easier for seniors on government assistance to get their groceries. Goldfeder is asking the federal government to expand to Southern Queens a pilot program that started in the Bronx and allows residents to buy groceries online for home delivery using their food stamp benefits, which he said would help senior citizens who often cannot leave their homes.

“Buying groceries should not be a nightmare for seniors with limited mobility,”

Calls to include S. Queens in pilot program Goldfeder said. “No senior should have to rely on friends and family when technology allows for an easier option.”

In a letter to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, the head of the federal department that oversees food stamp benefits at the national level, Goldfeder requested the ZIP codes of southern Queens and Rockaway be included in the program that allows for online purchase of groceries using electronic benefit transfer cards. Recipients use

EBT cards to make purchases with their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, commonly referred to as food stamps. He argued that allowing residents to use their EBT cards to order groceries online would be a great relief to seniors unable to make it to the supermarket, Goldfeder noted in his letter.

Roseanne D’Angelo, an Ozone Park senior and food stamp recipient, said her breathing problems make it hard for her

to get to the store.

“Using my EBT card online would mean greater independence,” she said. “I could grocery shop whenever I wanted without relying on my family all the time.”

Goldfeder noted that senior citizens in South Queens had trouble getting food after Hurricane Sandy, when many residents were unable to leave their homes for long periods of time.

The pilot program in the Bronx was a partnership between the USDA and Fresh Direct in 2012. The federal government has Q not said if it is looking to expand it yet.

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Last call to apply for space at Arts Day Artists have until Friday to submit applications for Oct. celebration

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Kew Gardens Community Arts Day organizer Carol Lacks wants the second annual event to be even bigger and better than the first.

So she’s calling any and all interested Queens artists of any kind to sign up and share their passions with the community.

“It’s a really sweet event. We had 18 artists from Kew Gardens, Woodside, Sunnyside and other areas show off their work last year,” Lacks said. “We’re going for 25 or more artists this year.”

The community celebration of various forms of art is scheduled for Oct. 5 at Cinemas Park, but the deadline for artists to apply is Friday, Sept. 5.

Artists specializing in pottery, sidewalk chart art, comic book illustration, origami and even classical music played on a harmonica took part in last year’s premiere event and Lacks said coaxing such talented residents out from behind the scenes and into the forefront of the community is a huge reason behind the event.

“We have a lot of talented artists here in Kew Gardens. That’s why we decided last year we wanted to highlight the area,” she said. “We really believe artists can change a neighborhood. Kew Gardens needs to be

An artist draws a portrait of a woman at last year’s Kew Gardens Community Arts Day. Pottery, painting, sidewalk chalk and other abstract art forms will all be on display at this year’s event on PHOTO COURTESY CAROL LACKS Oct. 5 in Cinemas Park. energized and we look to the artists to help with that.”

While Lacks has expressed reservations over the ability of the gathering to grow

into a tremendously popular community d raw, she said new, engaging events geared towards adults and children alike are in the works.

For adults 21 and older, area liquor stores may provide a wine-tasting experience while face painting may be available for kids at area beauty salons.

“It’s geared for everyone,” Lacks said.

“This year, we realized parents enjoyed some of the arts and crafts as much as the kids did.”

Lacks said she hopes the wine-sipping parents and paint-donning children aren’t the only ones benefitting that day.

“We really want to bring people into the surrounding businesses as well,” she said.”

Plans for this year’s event, according to a press release f rom the Kew Gardens Improvement Association, will include lessons from a master tailor, jewelry displays, fiber art, glassmaking and even a quilt made of international flags called “Wishes for the World.”

At the end of the day, Lacks hopes residents from Kew Gardens and throughout Queens see just how talented their friends and neighbors really are.

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With sig n if icant i nf rast r uct u re upgrades, implementation of crowdcontrol measures and painstaking attention paid to mitigating security and quality-of-life issues, concerts have resumed and have proven to be a tremendous success.

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BTECH welcomes its first freshmen New STEM-focused Queens Village high school held orientation Aug. 26- 27

by Mark Lord Chronicle Contributor

With the primary goal of making graduates workplace ready, Business Technology Early College High School, or BTECH, will open its doors to its first students on Sept. 4 in Martin Van Buren High School’s building in Queens Village.

To help the new pupils get their feet wet, orientations were held on Aug. 26 and 27, during which the incoming freshmen had the opportunity to tour their future home and become acquainted with some of their soon-to-be teachers.

A mong those on hand was 13-year-old Jaelen Jones, who said he and his mother, Tracci, discussed several options before deciding on BTECH. With a “strong passion for computers,” Jones was drawn to the school, which will emphasize a STEM — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — curriculum, where he looks forward to discovering “how they work.”

For his mother, the chief selling point was the school’s affiliation with SAP, a software developer. “[It’s] an opportunity to get my son’s foot in the door,” she said. “For me, SAP was the way to go. I see a great future with this program.”

BTECH will enable its students to earn not only a high school diploma, but an associate degree in business systems or engineering technology, while gaining relevant work experience in the business technology field.

The first class of 124 ninth-graders, of which 70 percent are males and 30 percent females, includes approximately 35 percent African Americans, 30 percent Hispanics and 20 percent Asians. About 89 percent of the students are coming from public schools all over the city, with the other 11 percent coming

The Pollicino family, at BTECH’s orientation on Aug. 27 with son and future student Giuseppe, center, were joined by fellow incoming freshman Aiyana Middleton of St. Albans, top left, and Howard Robinson IV, and his father, bottom PHOTOS BY MARK LORD right.

from private schools. About 13 percent of students have individualized education programs.

Each year, approximately 100 more students will be admitted to the school. It is expected to eventually serve about 660 students in grades 9 through 14.

There will be nine teachers on the high school level in the first year.

By the time they enter their third year, students will begin taking college classes on the Queensborough Community College campus.

“It’s a wonderful opportunity for students to become academically and workplace-ready,” said Denise Ward, interim vice president for pre-college, continuing education and workforce development at QCC. “We’ll help students determine what direction they want to go in,” she said.

BTECH will share only limited services with Van Buren, such as the library and gymnasium.

Academically, BTECH is “a completely separate program and high school,” Ward said.

Students entering the school participated in the same application procedure as do students in most DOE schools.

“We are not a specialTracci Jones and her son, BTECH freshman ized high school,” Ward Jaelen Jones, 13, show some QCC pride. As said, “but a unique high part of the school’s curriculum, students can school.” earn an associates degree from there.

The high school staff

was recruited by the principal, Hoa Tu, Ward said.

Seven-year teaching veteran Knatasha Hunter of Queens Village will teach algebra and introduction to business and entrepreneurship at the school. Though she said this will mark her first year teaching a business class, she comes equipped with experience in the business world. She was particularly excited by the prospect of working in a brand new school.

“We’re deciding everything,” she said. “The students will help us decide on a mascot and a school song. We have the ability to create our ideal school.”

Samuel Elfarah, 13, of Corona, who will likely be one of Hunter’s st udents, will have to t ravel upwards of an hour to get to school every day, but he feels it will be worth it.

“They offer so much. It’s amazing,” he said. While admitting he hasn’t been the best student, he added, “I’m going to try to focus the best I can.”

He is particularly encouraged by the prospect of having an associate degree in six years.

Howard Robinson III, a parent of an incoming student, said, “A good part of it is it’s backed up by a large corporation and a good college. It’s a vision of what a school should be.”

Also on hand at the orientation last week was the Pollicino family, helping 14 -year-old Giuseppe acclimate to life in high school.

Giuseppe had been homeschooled, his mother, Bernadette, said. “We felt he was missing out on socialization and being able to collaborate” with others his age.

His father, Anthony, admitted that sending their son to a brand new school came with a certain level of risk, but said, “My son was willing to take that step. He was very excited. He did a lot of research. It made me feel a lot more comfortable.”

For Aiyana Middleton, 14, of St. Albans, attending BTECH means an opportunity for “two free years” of college.

“In my family we don’t have that much money,” she said. “My parents didn’t have the opportunity to go to college. This is a really good opportunity for me.”

T he school was developed

through a partnership between SAP, the city Department of Education, QCC and the Early College Initiative at the City University of New York.

Its mission is to “combine academic excellence with technical aptitude, thus empowering students to be successful in our moder n, infor mation-based global economy and community.”

Students will study core topics, as well as develop technical, design and communication skills. Graduates of the six-year program will receive professional certifications and, it is hoped, the workplace experience necessary to give them a competitive edge.

BTECH students will be paired with SAP mentors to help them understand what kinds of careers are available in the information technology field.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment in STEM occupations is projected to grow nearly two times faster than the average for all occupations over the next four years. BTECH is seen as a response to this employer demand.

The school’s path to formation was not without its hardships.

The location was proposed by the Bloomberg administration last year.

The co-location led to some opposition within Van Buren and from local officials, including state Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) and Mark Weprin (D-Oakland Gardens) and several civic leaders who felt it was an attempt by the previous administration to destroy Van Buren.

However, the new school did receive strong support within the com mu n it y a nd a mong civ ic associations after learning more about the school. It was approved by the DOE’s policy-ma k i ng body, the Panel for Educational Q Policy, last November.

Samuel Elfarah, 13, and one of the new teachers at the school, Knatasha PHOTO BY MARK LORD Hunter.

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US Open — a hot time for all High temperatures do not deter tennis fans or players in Flushing Meadows Last weekend was the sweltering midpoint of the annual US Open at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows Park.

Despite soaring temperatures and a rain delay, action continued on the courts with many familiar faces heading to the quarter- and semifinals.

A rain delay on Sunday affected play by the men. Meanwhile, the USTA has plans to construct a moveable roof to prevent that from happening in a few years.

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Bob Katz, formerly of Kew Gardens, stocks up on water.

Cooling off at the fountain between matches are Jason Roer, left, of New Jersey, Paul Roer of Sunnyside and Ginta Dominua and Aniko Sorgi, both of Briarwood.

Caroline Wozniacki makes it to the semifinals.

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Serena Williams heads to the semifinals.

Andy Murray lobs one in.

Actress Sally Field, left, with Alec Baldwin and his wife, Hilaria, take in a match.

Novak Djokovic is the favored to win the men’s title.

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Councilmen for harsher hit-and-run penalties and safer rides for taxi drivers

by Tess McRae Associate Editor

Queens leaders took center stage in the fight to reach Vision Zero’s goal of eliminating pedestrian fatalities.

A hearing was held Wednesday by the City Council Transportation Committee to discuss legislation to establish civil penalties for drivers who leave the scene of a collision, introduced by Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside), and legislation to protect taxi and livery cab drivers, introduced by Councilman Ror y Lancman (D-Fresh Meadows).

Intros 82 and 371 are two new proposals being added to the mosaic of laws, marketing campaigns and road redesigns dedicated to making the city a safer place for those inside and outside a vehicle.

“We in the City Council, along with the administration are committed to confronting the plight of traffic-related hazards in our city and establishing safe streets for all,” Van Bramer said in his opening statement. “Every day, far too many people are injured or killed on our streets and many, many more fear for their safety and the safety of their children as they try to navigate our sometimes chaotic streets by foot, car and bus.”

Representatives from the Taxi and Limousine Commission, NYPD, Transportation

Councilmen Jimmy Van Bramer, left, and Rory Lancman, right, introduced two bills that could FILE PHOTOS help reach Mayor de Blasio’s Vision Zero goal.

Alternatives and other groups spoke highly of both bills.

Lancman’s Intro 82, referred to as the Taxi and Livery Driver Protection Act, would require signs regarding penalties for assaulting a driver to be placed in all cabs.

While many representatives of the TLC community were in favor of the bill, a group speaking on behalf of black car and limousine drivers said the rule should not apply to them.

The reason being most of these drivers own the vehicles they operate and deal

mostly with credit cards rather than cash.

“Bus drivers and train conductors don’t have a lot of cash on them either, but there are signs on their vehicles,” Councilman I Daneek Miller (D-St. Albans) said in response. “In order to give this bill teeth, signage must be posted in all of these cars.”

Lancman said he understood black cars operate under different circumstances and would be happy to meet and discuss the situation.

Van Bramer’s Intro 371 aims to create

greater penalties for hit-and-run drivers and ultimately increase enforcement in highrisk areas.

“Currently, the penalties set forth ... are minor compared to the severity of the consequence for the victim, particularly when the offender is driving and under the influence,” Van Bramer said. “Knowing that they could face harsher penalties for staying at the scene of an accident, drivers have a perverse incentive to flee the scene.”

According to the bill, causing physical injury would be classified as a class A misdemeanor with a penalty of a $500 to $1,000 fine; serious injury would be a class E felony with a fine of $1,000 to $2,500 and a maximum of four years imprisonment; and in a case of fatality, the driver would be charged with a class D felony, pay between $2,000 and $5,000 with a maximum sentence of seven years.

“I am very supportive of this,” Noah Butnik, deputy director of Transportation Alternatives, said. “Since New York City can’t pass laws for jail time, I’m even for increasing the fines even more as a deterrent.”

Van Bramer also said he was considering amendments.

In the coming weeks, the Transportation Committee will review the bills and vote. It will then be brought before the Q entire Council.

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City prepares for universal prekindergarten continued from page 6 Several other issues have arisen in the weeks before classes start, including whether or not parents would be able to get seats for their children in their own communities. One parent in Long Island City said he couldn’t find a seat in his neighborhood and would be unable to travel elsewhere.

Another mother in Howard Beach was told there were seats in Rockaway, but that would require she pay a toll to take her child there.

The city Department of Education did warn last winter that parents who register late may have to send their kids to pre-K classes outside their immediate community.

In the meantime, pre-K centers across the city were putting the final touches on their classrooms.

In Elmhurst, Emilia’s Kids, which has offered half-day pre-K for several years, is preparing to welcome its first fullday classes, thanks in part to a $157,000 grant from the state Depar t ment of Education.

Though the center has a con-

Tanya Sanchez, center, director of operations at Emilia’s Kids early childhood center in Elmhurst, speaks in her organization’s new full-day pre-K classroom with state Sen. Toby Staviskly, left, and PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER Councilman Danny Dromm. tract with the city for half-day pre-K, it is the only one in Queens to be awarded extra money directly from the state, part of the roughly $5 million in the $340 million allocation from the state that will go directly to private pre-K providers in neighborhoods where the demand is high. The center’s director, Tanya Sanchez, said the grant will help pay for

salaries and materials to offer 24 kids full-day pre-K on top of the 11 signed up for half-day.

The center was important because District 24, which includes Elmhurst and is one of the most overcrowded in the city, has no room for pre-K in any of its schools, and some of the surrounding districts had scarce space.

Sanchez said Emilia’s Kids

focuses on emotional intelligence and development and she feels that is why her organization won the extra grant money. “We’re really proud of what we do here and we’re excited about going full day,� she said.

Sanchez added that she hopes to be able to add another class of half-day pre-K by October.

Councilman Danny Dromm (D-Jackson Heights) and state Sen. Toby Stavisky (D-Flushing) were both at Emilia’s Kids on Tuesday to announce the grant funding and express further support for pre-K. “It’s about getting kids ready to lear n at an early age,�

D rom m , chai r ma n of t he Council’s Education Committee, said, adding that as a teacher, he had students who didn’t even know how to use glue. “We want these kids to be college-ready, and it starts in pre-K,� he added.

Dromm said he plans on holding hearings during the course of the school year on the progress of the first year Q of UPK.

Job assistance for disabled Gov. Cuomo announced last week the launch of an online state recruitment resources website that will allow for disabled persons and veterans to gain easier access to state jobs.

The site assists job seekers who are “certified eligible to participate in the Governor’s Program to Hire Persons and Veterans with Disabilities,� according to a press release from state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach).

C a n d id a t e s c a n u plo a d t h e i r resumes and transcripts as well as their disability information so they can be linked to employment opportunities at the state level.

Addabbo, the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Veterans, Homeland Secu r it y and Militar y Affairs, said he “is optimistic this program will help a population in need of assistance.�

Addabbo also will be hosting a job fair on Sept. 19 at the YMCA in Arverne by the Sea, 207 Beach 73 Street, Rockaway, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. “I will continue to support and examine ways to find people jobs,�

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Three air crews reported bird strikes within four hours at or on the approach to LaGuardia Air port on Tuesday morning.

No people were hurt according to a statement issued by the Federal Aviation Administration, which said the incidents are under investigation.

The FAA said the first incident took place at approximately 7:18 a.m. when an ExpressJet Airways regional jet reported a bird strike as the aircraft was turning to land on its approach to Runway 31.

FAA officials said that a preliminary inspection upon landing found evidence that a bird struck the craft’s nose gear.

The second incident was reported at approximately 8:53 a.m., when a second ExpressJet plane was taxiing to a ramp after it had landed on Runway 31.

The final incident was reported at approximately 11:15 a.m., when an Air Canada aircraft reported striking a bird about 12 miles nor theast of LaGuardia.

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New president starts work It was moving-in day recently for dorm students at Queens College as well as the school’s new president, Felix Matos Rodriguez, who began his new job last Thursday, the first day of classes.

With him are his two sons, Lucas, left, and Juan Carlos, and the president’s wife Liliana Arabia.

Returning students were greeted by Matos Rodriguez, stilt walkers and South African dancers and drummers.

A confetti cannon salute preceded the president’s welcome address to students followed by a large-scale interactive game, “Playfair,” a performance by the pop duo Timeflies Tuesday and lunch.

continued from page 5 responded positively to the news, but were cautious about the progress, noting that 535 homes is just the beginning. As many as 20,000 homes could be eligible for repairs or reimbursements under the program, but up to 700 are eligible for full reconstruction.

“Build it Back is finally starting to produce real results for homeowners,” Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) said in a statement. “This progress is long-overdue, but good news nonetheless. As I’ve said since the very beginning of this program, the day when every family affected by the storm can be restored and made whole again cannot come soon enough!”

Addabbo said he’s noticed progress, but cautioned that the recovery is a long way from being complete.

A s s e mbly m a n Ph i l G old fe d e r (D-Rockaway Park) said he is “encouraged” and “optimistic” about the progress, but wants to see Build it Back build back even faster.

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Those with diabetes may complain warning sign for diabetes.

They also should discuss their diabeof certain oral symptoms. Uncontrolled tes with a dentist and other oral diabetes can result in a decrease in saliva flow, which health practitioners so that a custom exam and screening leads to dry mouth. Saliva is important to wash away bac- schedule can be implemented. It is vital for diabetics to teria in the mouth. maintain oral health to reduce the risk of infections of the Gum inflammation can occur because diabetes causes mouth that can spread elsewhere throughout the body. P — Metro Creative Connection blood vessels to thicken, slowing the flow of waste and

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Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes, occurring weight and maintain that weight loss. A diet low because the body does not use insulin properly. in calories and fat is a good start. Men and Initially, the pancreas will make extra insulin to women who need to lose a significant amount of account for the body’s resistance to insulin, but weight may want to work with a dietitian and/or over time the pancreas cannot produce enough nutritionist to create a meal plan that is likely to insulin to maintain normal blood glucose levels. produce the best results and address any vitaThe risk of developing type 2 diabetes increases min or nutrient deficiencies they might have. as people age, and while there is no way to halt • Focus on fiber. Adding more fiber to your the aging process, there are many other ways for diet is another way to prevent or delay the onset men, women and children to reduce their risks of of type 2 diabetes. Foods that are high in fiber developing type 2 diabetes. tend to make people feel fuller, reducing the like• Shed those extra pounds. Being over- lihood that you will overeat. Fiber also helps the weight increases your risk for a host of ail- body control its blood sugar levels, and fiber can ments, including type 2 diabetes, heart disease lower a person’s risk of heart disease. Many and stroke. According to the American Diabetes foods include fiber, but some high-fiber foods Association, losing as little as 10 to 15 pounds include beans, fruits, nuts, and vegetables. can make a significant difference for people • Avoid refined carbohydrates. Studies looking to reduce their risks of developing type have shown that diets rich in refined carbohy2 diabetes. When attempting to lose weight, drates increase a person’s risk of developing diamen and women should recognize that making betes, while additional studies have shown that lifestyle changes is a more effective way to diets rich in whole grains protect the body shed pounds and keep weight off than fad diets against diabetes. Researchers examining the that may promise quick weight loss but tend to results of several studies that explored the relabe less effective at keeping that weight off over tionship between whole grains and diabetes the long haul. Successful weight loss typically found that eating an extra two servings of whole involves a combination of physical activity and a grains each day can reduce a person’s risk of healthy diet. Include physical activity as part of type 2 diabetes by as much as 21 percent. your daily routine several days per week, taking Refined carbohydrates, which can be found in it slow at first if you have not exercised regularly white bread, white rice, mashed potatoes and in quite some time. As your body begins to many cereals, cause sustained spikes in blood adapt to exercise, you can gradually increase sugar and insulin levels, which can increase a P the intensity of your workout routines. person’s risk of diabetes.

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Grandparents are a force to be reckoned with Give them their due on Grandparents Day, Sept. 7 Grandparents Day is a family day.

Some schools, churches and senior organizations honor grandparents with special events. Families can hold small private gatherings or a family reunion.

For those who entertain large groups, it can be fun to have a storytelling time, allowing grandparents to relate stories of their past, enlightening children about “the old days.”

Also interesting is to take a census, such as oldest and youngest grandchild, family with the most grandchildren and families with five generations present.

As Grandparents Day approaches, help children and/or grandchildren to identify and date all photos in old family albums. Many happy memories can be derived from this. Everyone is a grandchild and can be involved in the observance of this day — a time to discover one’s roots and learn patience, understanding and appreciation for the elderly.

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time to enhance communication between the generations.

Focus on some special talents, such as cooking, sculpting or quilting which can be passed on to those who display an interest. Old family music, songs and dances, along with their meanings and origins, are important in maintaining a strong sense of family background. Together, reconstruct a family tree, giving children the opportunity to learn the ancestral line of their family. Strive to preserve particular ethnic or religious beliefs.

Many times, only grandparents have answers to questions about family histories. When this information is passed down to the grandchildren, all family members can be assured of their heritage being preserved.

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There are a lot of misconceptions about El Paso, Texas. This summer there were plenty of news reports about refugees from Central America overwhelming Texas border towns. President Obama even met with Texas Gov. Rick Perry about it in June. What wasn’t said was that the problems were contained to basically Brownsville and McAllen, Texas, which are nearly 800 miles from El Paso.

There is also the mistaken notion that El Paso, being a border town, is seedy and dangerous. The 2008 Academy Award-nominated film “No Country For old Men” certainly played up that myth even though it wasn’t filmed there. The reality is that El Paso is quite modern and is considered to be one of the safest cities in the United States.

Although El Paso is located in Texas, and it does get hot there in the summer, it’s not humid because it is located in the Chihuahuan Desert.

It’s not flat like Texas as evidenced by the Franklin Mountains, which many consider to be part of the Rockies.

Driving into El Paso along I-10 you can clearly look into Juarez, Mexico because the distance between the USA and Mexico along that part of the Rio Grande is narrower than where the East River separates Long Island City and Roosevelt Island.

Juarez is no longer the drug-infested capital that it once was (although you wouldn’t know it watching FX’s Peabody Award-winning “The Bridge”) but there’s not much to see or do there and it’s not worth the hassle of crossing the border.

This Texas town became a part of American pop culture in the fall of 1959 when Marty Robbins had a hit song, “El Paso,” that went to the top spot on both the pop and country singles charts. The lyrics dealt with two men in love with the same woman but only would come out alive and then would have to spend his remaining days as a fugitive. The setting for this fictional tale was Rosa’s Cantina and this legendary Tex-Mex restaurant is still in business today.

El Paso is home to several downtown museums that are within walking distance of each other. The best way to get oriented is to visit the El Paso Museum of History that has exhibits about the city and its various neighborhoods from the 18th century through today. A block away, the El Paso Museum of Art has a terrific collection of Southwest paintings and sculptures from such renown artists as Frederic Remington and Tom Lea as well as a permanent collection of Renaissance era paintings from many of the lesser known European artists of the period.

The El Paso Holocaust Museum, which opened in 1994, is a smaller version of the one in Washington but it’s no less moving. Given recent events in Europe, a visit here is sadly more relevant than ever.

The El Paso Zoo is one of the most charming that I have ever visited. Yes, it has such crowd-pleasers

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as elephants, orangutans and tigers, but it also has nearly extinct species such as the Mexican wolf and the Galapagos tortoise. You can even feed tree leaves to its giraffes.

It is rare to laud a zoo for cuisine but the El Paso Zoo utilizes some of the area’s top chefs to prepare healthy farm-to-market dishes for its patrons at reasonable prices no less.

El Paso’s largest employer is the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP as it’s referred to) which is celebrating its centennial. The university is located in the Kern neighborhood of El Paso and is home to some of West Texas’s best restaurants, such as Crave.

Although it doesn’t have a major league sports team, El Paso has a rich sports history. In 1966 Texas Western University (UTEP’s old name) made history by winning the NCAA men’s basketball championship with a starting five who were African American. The Sun Bowl, played on the UTEP campus, is our nation’s second-oldest football bowl game (just behind the Rose Bowl) and celebrated its 80th anniversary this past January. Minor league baseball returned to El Paso this year as the San Diego Padres moved their top farm team here to play in brand new Southwest University Park.

The Doubletree Hotel is located a block away from the ballpark and is right near all of the attractions that I have detailed. It offers a free shuttle bus to any place you want to go within three miles of downtown El Paso.

Another option is to stay 45 minutes north of El Paso in the scenic town of Las Cruces, NM. The Hotel Encanto (hotelencanto.com) is a beautiful resort whose architecture is in the Spanish colonial style. Its magnificent palm tree-lined swimming pool reminds one of the Beverly Hills Hotel. There is a spa, health club and even a physician on the premises. There is also a complimentary shuttle that will take you anywhere in Las Cruces including the campus of New Mexico State University.

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

The plight of the worker who’s hard-up for cash For those who are less Internet-savvy or just don’t in today’s economy is something that Arthur Elias have the time, Ice Jewelry Buying offers a convenient and Edward Goldberg can relate to firsthand, eBay sales service. If what a customer has isn’t an having been laid off from their jobs in jewelry item that Ice Jewelry Buying would purchase, like manufacturing. They understand that people get a handbag or antique furniture, they can help find into situations where they just need a little cash fast a buyer on their eBay store. Elias consults with the to make the bills and Ice Jewelry Buying Service customer to find a target price and hopes to help out in the most STORE HOURS let the Internet auctioneers handle honest way they can. the rest. “For this, I like to think we’re MON.-FRI. 11am - 7pm For anyone who has ever dealt doing the community a service,�

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When that woman told me her previous offer, it made “At the end of the day, I just want people to feel me wonder how many times this happens — how comfortable doing business with us. People have many people who really need that money get taken this conception of gold buying stores as these slimy advantage of?� places with slimy people, and they’re typically right.

Elias opened his Rego Park shop with Goldberg But we want to be different. I don’t think it’s cool to in 2009, and already they’re seeing a lot of repeat see someone buy a ring for $200 and put it in their customers and referrals. This is a sign to them that counter for $800. We don’t do that.� they’re doing something right — the pawn business Ice Jewelr y Buying Ser vice is located at typically deals in one-time transactions but Elias is 98-30 Queens Blvd. in Rego Park. Hours of operation determined to break that mold, building a reputation are Monday-Friday from 11 am to 7:00 pm and on trust.

Saturday 10 am to 6 pm; Sunday – private “Everyone around here is buying gold these days; appoinments are available. Call for more information you can go into the barber shop down the road and Q (718) 830-0030. sell your jewelry. The problem with all these places is

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Bill allowing suits on terror moving ahead A bill that would allow U.S. citizens to sue foreign governments and other organizations when they are injured by terrorism or their loved ones killed may go before the Senate on Sept. 11, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced Tuesday.

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If approved, the JASTA would allow families of Sept. 11 victims and others harmed by terror to sue Saudi Arabia, Qatar and nongovernmental entities that fund groups such as Al Qaeda, Hamas and the Islamic State, which Schumer referred to by the common acronym ISIS. The bill will be considered on Sept. 11 by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Schumer said, and he will push for a full Senate vote. In the House, however, it remains stuck before the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice. Q

Anti-tenure lawsuit set for a Sept. 11 hearing A hearing on one of two lawsuits that seek to overturn teacher job protections in New York State will be the subject of a hearing set for Sept. 11 on Staten Island, according to the United Federation of Teachers.

The case, Mymoena Davids et. al. v. The State of New York et. al., alleges that it is so difficult to dismiss bad teachers that students’ constitutional right to a “sound basic education� is being denied to many.

The UFT is not party to the suit but seeks to become an intervenor-defendant, which is one of two main issues the hearing will address.

The other is whether the case should be combined with another one, John Keoni Wright et. al. v. State of New York et. al., that makes largely the same arguments and seeks the same goal — to have existing teacher job protection laws overturned. The UFT says the laws protect teachers’ due process rights and do not deny students of their right to an education.

The cases both come on the heels of a suit in California that resulted in the plaintiffs’ victory.

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Police from the 105th Precinct responded to the 228th Street home of Daniella Okoye just after 6:30 p.m.

Off icers found the child to be unconscious and unresponsive.

City EMS personnel responded to the home and r ushed Daniella to Franklin Hospital North Shore-LIJ, where she was pronounced dead.

An autopsy was performed, though no information on a possible cause of death was available from authorities on Tuesday.

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Authorities are asking for the public’s help in apprehending a murderer who stabbed a man to death inside his Elmhurst apartment building late last month.

Police said Mukesh Patel, 50, was killed in the lobby of the residential complex at 83-45 Broadway on Aug. 22 by a white male wearing a white shirt, dark-colored shorts and black sneakers, as seen on surveillance footage fleeing the scene.

W hen emergency person nel responded to the scene around 3:10 p.m., Patel was found suffering from stab wounds to his chest.

He was transported to Elmhurst General Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

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Small Business Services Commissioner Maria Torres-Springer is calling on community businesses for their input.

This week, Torres-Springer sent out a letter to SBS’ network of more than 91,000 city business owners, inviting them to contribute their ideas for the Small Business First initiative.

The project aims to maintain “the city’s commitment to public health and safety while also approaching regulation, government systems and communication through the eyes of the business owners.”

Small businesses can submit ideas and feedback until Friday, Sept. 26 by visiting on.nyc.gov/ContactSB1 and filling out the questionnaire.

Business owners will be asked to fill out basic information and select from a list of issues they want addressed. Once categories are selected, the questionnaire asks the business owners to specifically lay out their questions and considerations in a text box.

As recommendations for Small Business First come in, SBS will begin

compiling those that touch on providing clearer and more accessible information about government requirements, simplifying rules and compliance processes to reduce violations, ensuring enforcement encou rages compliance rather than fines, easing the process for correcting violations and engaging underserved communities to better deliver information and services.

“Small businesses are a critical part of the city’s economy, and yet, with more than 6,000 rules and regulations, the process of opening or growing a business in New York City is hard work,” TorresSpringer writes. “We believe that this approach will not only help businesses, but also improve the efficiency of our city’s government.”

When Mayor de Blasio was campaigning, one of his major goals was to strengthen the bond between city agencies and small businesses. For years, mom-and-pop shops complained of harsh inspectors issuing expensive fines and Q lack of regulation knowledge.

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Math and science are critical compo- tile environment that allows the young nents of the school curriculum. If libraries learner to take the lead.

STEM education and traditional library are truly supportive of education, they need to do more to facilitate learning in those offerings complement each other. Literacy areas. At the Queens Library’s Children’s is a critical component in all aspects of the Library Discovery Center in Jamaica, kids Discovery Center. The books, interactive from all cultural and economic back- exhibits, web resources and other learning grounds are welcomed and encouraged to materials reinforce literacy skills.

There is a growing understanding of the learn the joy of reading, as well as the joy role that early childhood education can play of scientific exploration.

Science, technology, engineering and in building science literacy. Infinitely curimathematics — STEM — education has ous about the world around them, children been completely integrated into a traditional constantly observe and explore, take in new children’s library experience. Parents and information, and generate their own ideas a b o u t h ow t h e their little ones can world works. play, learn and disIt is w idely cover STEM eading is fundamental. So acknowledged that through interactive play-based learning programs and are science, technology, isn’t just fun, but an hands-on museumengineering and math. effective tool for style exhibits — for early education. no admission fee.

Of course, time-honored literacy-based According to a paper recently written by events like Toddler Time, Toddler Learning Alison Gopnik, professor of psychology and Center story hours and spelling bees remain affiliate professor of philosophy at the Unipopular, but now you can also examine real versity of California, Berkeley, very young bugs up close, swing a magnetic pendulum, children’s learning and thinking is similar explore the structure of crystals under a to learning and thinking in science.

Gopnik writes that, “Everyday playing is microscope and even make electricity!

Books covering the same topics are a kind of experimentation — it’s a way of always displayed close by in the exploration experimenting with the world, getting data plazas, so the chance to dig deeper is readi- the way that scientists do and then using ly available. And with the help of our spe- that data to draw new conclusions.” Organicially trained staff, programs such as the zations like the National Science Teachers Saturday Science Lab, Discovery Cart Association recognize that informal enviactivities, computer coding and other ronments — like the Discovery Center — STEM-infused programs and workshops perform an important role in promoting sciprovide the opportunity for children to ence learning.

We already know that literacy begins at experiment, investigate, work together in birth; it makes sense that STEM skills would, too. By combining STEM with conventional literacy in an informal, fun environment, The Children’s Library Discovery Center is expanding the definition of a children’s library, and we may just hold the keys to increasing our performance in STEM as a nation and fostering a lifelong Q love of learning.

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Angelo DiGangi sang “The Star Spangled Banner” to start the game, which was attended by Council Members Eric Ulrich and Peter Koo. After the game, the league

was honored with a citation from state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr., inset, to founder Randy Novic.

“Our 2014 season was a terrific success with the league growing over 60 players this year,” Novic said. “We want to thank our sponsors and all those who have donated their time and money to this worthy cause.

With your continued support, we hope to further expand membership in the league next year and in the future open additional locations in New York City and around the country.”

After weeks of construction and confused straphangers, the G train is back up and running.

The subway line is the only one that doesn’t go through Manhattan, and for five weeks, it was shut down between the Nassau Avenue station in Greenpoint, Brook ly n and Cou r t Square in Long Island City.

The line was shut down so crews could repair a tunnel that suffered damage during Superstorm Sandy. After undergoing $80 million in repairs, the Greenpoint tube now has a water resistant cable and new pumps.

The MTA provided riders with a shuttle bus. At Court Square, many people looking to go to Brooklyn were dumbfounded when they realized the G train was not running.

“Where did it go?” one man asked his friend at the time.

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AY CORONA!

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A woman from BombaYo, a youth project that works to preserve the Afro-Puerto Rican tradition of bomba, dances in Corona Plaza on Sunday.

by Cristina Schreil

Even the occasional roar of the passing 7 train couldn’t dampen the vivacious energy at August’s Oye Corona celebration.

On Saturday, the multicultural festival filled Corona Plaza with a steady, diverse stream of music with roots in Mexico, Bangladesh, Puerto Rico and the United States. The event attracted a crowd with eclectic cultural performances, an exercise class, arts and crafts stations and a positive message of unity across communities.

The festivities were part of a series of monthly events spearheaded by the Queens Museum.

José Serrano-McClain, community organizer and Corona studio manager from the Queens Museum, hopes events like Oye Corona reinforce the space as a place for residents to relax and cultures to blend. The celebration, whose name means Listen Corona in Spanish, showcases local and global talent for people of all ages to enjoy.

Serrano-McClain mentioned how the triangular plaza — once a parking lot plagued by trash and traffic — now fosters family activity; children scampered about, or zipped around on scooters and bicycles throughout the afternoon.

Corona Plaza was created in August 2012 and Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras (D-Corona) allocated $17,000 for the Queens

Museum to have regular public programming there.

Despite the neighborhood’s identity as a predominantly Spanishspeaking community, the message of last month’s Oye Corona — like many of the past, which have featured hula-hoop artists, a marionette-building workshop and an Afro-Colombian band — was all about stirring the melting pot.

“This is very interesting because we live in a neighborhood that is constantly changing,” Serrano-McClain said in Spanish to the crowd. “And what we want is to have a sense of the other cultures that are our neighbors.”

The Astoria-based Bangladeshi Institute of Performing Arts brought bursts of color to the overcast day with traditional Bangladeshi music and dance. The crowd swelled around dancers as they twirled in traditional costumes; musicians played several songs. It was the group’s first time performing in Corona.

Their first performance was a song written by the 19th-century poet Rabindranath Tagore, the first non-European to win a Nobel Prize in literature. Tagore, who was influenced by art forms across the world, is known as “the world poet” in Bangladesh, Nadia Ahmad, a BIPA performer, explained.

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boro EXHIBITS “Japan — An Island Nation: 1870-1890,” Resobox Gallery, 41-26 27 St., Long Island City. Opening reception: Fri., Sept. 12, 7-9 p.m. Exhibition thru Oct. 10. Info: resobox.com.

“Homeland [In]security: Vanishing Dreams” by Margaret Matthews-Berenson, Dorsky Gallery, 11-03 45 Ave., Long Island City, runs thru Nov. 16; opening reception: Sun., Sept. 7, 2-5 p.m. Info: dorsky.org.

THEATER “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Wombat Theatre Co., Thurs.-Sat., Sept. 4-6, 8 p.m., Sun., Sept. 7, 3 p.m. $15, $10 students. Secret Theatre, 44-02 23 St., Long Island City. Info/tickets: wombatmidsummer.bpt.me.

DANCE Amy Cova Dance & TeatoLocal, choreographed

by Joel Sherry, presented by Take Root, Fri., Sept. 12, 8-10 p.m.$15 pp. Fertile Ground New Works Showcase, for emerging & established artists, different choreographers each month, post-performance discussion, Sun., Sept. 14, 7 p.m., $10 pp. Green Space Studio, 37-24 24 St., #301, Long Island City. Tickets: (718) 956-3037, greenspacestudio.org.

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Doug Leblang & Dmitri Zisl Slepovitch, Sisterhood of Bay Terrace Garden Jewish Center Social Hall, 13-00 209 St., Bayside, Tues., Sept. 9, 12:30 p.m. Info: (718) 428-6363.

Music of Haydn, New York Classical Quartet, Fri., Sept. 12, 6 p.m. King Manor Museum, 15030 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica. $25 in advance, $30 at door. Reservations: (718) 206-0545, ext. 13; kingmanor.org/events/concert.php.

Con Brio Ensemble, Schubert, Dubois and Dvorak concert, Sun., Sept. 28, 4:30 p.m., The Church-inthe-Gardens, 50 Ascan Ave., Forest Hills, to open its annual three-concert series at the church. $12 pp, $10 students & seniors. Info: (718) 459-1277.

AUDITIONS Oratorio Society of Queens, Handel’s “Messiah,” fall rehearsal season, auditions at Temple Beth Sholom, 172nd St. & Northern Blvd., Flushing, Mon., Sept. 8 & 15, 7 p.m., for holiday concert, Dec. 21. Reservations req’d. Info: (718) 279-3006, queensoratorio.org.

Author Talk with Mitchell S. Jackson, “The Residue Years,” his novel about a family in the drug trade, Q&A and book-signing follow, Queens Central Library, 88-11 Merrick Blvd., Jamaica, Mon., Sept. 15, 6-8 p.m.

Info: (718) 990-0714.

Queens College Choral Society, Handel’s “Messiah,” auditions for new members for 2014-15 concert season, no preparation necessary, Queens College Music Building, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, Wed., Sept.

10, 6-7:15 p.m. Rehearsals are Weds. 7:309:45 p.m. Info: James John (718) 997-3818, qcchoralsociety.org.

Charity Texas Hold ’Em, NYFAC Autism Center, 164-14 Crossbay Blvd., Howard Beach, Fri., Sept. 19, 7:30 p.m. Seating reserved for only 99 players, preregister online only (no admission at door). Seating starts at 6:30 (doors close at 7:15), prizes awarded. $200 donation buy-in, unlimited re-buys for 1st hour. Register: nyfacfoundation.org/holdem.

Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Choir, 110-06 Queens Blvd., Forest Hills, is looking for new singers in any voice category. Contact: David Close, director of music (718) 279-2939, davidwclose@gmail.com.

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Outdoor Classic Cartoons Night, familyfriendly program featuring several early animated cartoon films from Fleisher Studios, from the 1920s-1930s, Sat., Sept. 6, 7:30 p.m., Voelker Orth Museum garden, 149-19 38 Ave., Flushing, $5 pp, popcorn included, $3 children, under 3 free. Info: (718) 359-6227, vomuseum.org.

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Queens Green Party campaign, support Howie Hawkins for Governor and Brian Jones for Lt. Governor of New York as an alternative to Democrats & Republicans.

Thurs., Sept. 4, 7 p.m., All Saints Episcopal Church, 43-12 46 St., Sunnyside.

The 2014 NYC Parks Bocce Tournament begins this Saturday and ends on Sept. 20 at Juniper Valley Park on the new bocce courts.

Yoga classes, Central Queens YM & YWHA, 67-09 108 St., Forest Hills, registration for Fall series (15 classes), Mon. starting Sept. 8 (open level), 10:20-11:20 a.m.; Wed. starting Sept. 10 (beginners), 10:10-11:10 a.m.; Fri. starting Sept.

12 (intermediate/advanced), 11:30 a.m.-12:40 p.m. $180 CQY members, $225 general; seniors, $71 CQY members, $128 general. Contact: (718) 268-5011, ext. 504; cgy.org.

Free English classes for Spanish speakers every Saturday, South Asian Center, 72-26 Roosevelt Ave., Jackson Heights. All levels available, must call (646) 727-7821 to register.

Hawkins-based modern technique dance with Valerie Green, every Tues. starts Sept. 6, 6:30-8 p.m. $18 pp; $15 dancers/students. Green Space Studio, 37-24 24 St., #301, Long Island City.

Contact: (718) 956-3037, greenspacestudio.org/ classes.html.

Italian for Beginners, every Tues., 7-9 p.m., 10-week course. $60 pp. Dance with Instruction, every Mon. and Fri., 7:15-8:15 p.m. $10.

Italian Charities of America, 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst. Contact: (718) 478-3100.

Watercolor classes, National Art League, 44-21 Douglaston Pkwy., Douglaston, Wed., 9:30 a.m.12:30 p.m. All techniques, beginner to advanced with demonstration. Call: (718) 969-1128.

KIDS/TEENS Tumbling with Autism Program, Team Up with Play4Autism at Triumph Gymnastics Center, 79-41

Cooper Ave., Glendale, Sun., 1:30-3:30 p.m. Child’s first Sunday free; after: $20 for 1 hour, $30 for 2 hours per child, $40 for 2 hours/2 children. Child must be a registered at Play4Autism (play4autism.org).

Info: Greg Vasicek, Play4Autism, (646) 836-4535.

Kids free art classes, by Latin American Cultural Center of Queens at Arrow Community Center, starts Tue., Sept. 9, 35-30 35 St., Astoria, every Sat., 10-11:30 a.m. Reserve: (718) 261-7664. Info: (718) 261-7664 laccq@aol.com.

SPECIAL EVENTS NYC Parks Queens Bocce Tournament 2014, represent your borough. Sat., Sept. 6, begins at 8 a.m., Juniper Valley Park, 76th St. & Juniper Blvd. South, Middle Village. Borough winners go to citywide championship on Sept. 20.

Adults of all ages are welcome. Info: (718) 393-7370; queens.recreation@parks.nyc.gov; nycgovparks.org/events/bocce-tournament.

34th annual Antique Motorcycle Show, Queens County Farm Museum, Sun., Sept.

14, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. $5 pp, (register 10-11 a.m. to enter your own bike), includes family fun, free parking. 73-50 Little Neck Pkwy., Floral Park. Contact: (718) 347-3276, info@ queensfarm.org.

Walk at Flushing Marina, Corona-East Elmhurst Kiwanis, Sat., Sept. 13, 8:30 a.m., 27th Ave. & Ditmars Blvd., East Elmhurst. $20 includes T-shirt & water. Proceeds to send kids to Kamp Kiwanis.

41st annual Park Fair, Richmond Hill Block Association, Sat., Sept. 13, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Buddy Monument in Forest Park, Myrtle Ave. & Park Lane South.

Vendors, food, rides, games, live music & more.

Queens County Bird Club presents “Do Fish Sleep?” with guest speaker Dr. Judith Weis, Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston, Wed. Sept. 17, 8 p.m. Free. Info: qcbirdclub.org.

Ukrainian Heritage Day Festival, Holy Cross Catholic Church, 31 Ave. & 30 St., Astoria, Sun., Sept.

21, begins at 12 p.m. Music, games, prizes, raffles, traditional Ukrainian food. Free admission.

Annual Sickle Cell 5K Walk/Run, Queens Sickle Cell Advocacy Network, starts at York College, 160 St. between Liberty & Archer aves., ends at Roy Wilkins Park on Merrick Blvd., Sun., Sept. 7; registration, 8 a.m., walk/run, 10 a.m. Health & wellness, zumba, vendors, food, face painting, music, free massage. $20 preregistration, $25 day of walk. Register: qscan.org, sicklecellwalk@verizon.net.

St. Matthias School 105th anniversary gala & all-years reunion, Sun., Sept. 28, 11:30 a.m., alumni Mass followed by dinner in the auditorium, 1-6 p.m., induction of two alumni into Hall of Fame, Helen Wolf (class of 1977) and Robert Lohrey (1961). $60 pp. Register: stmatthiasschool.org. Info: (718) 5173455, alumni@stmatthiasschool.org.

Indian Subcontinent Partition Documentation Project’s Museum Open House, Sat., Sept. 13, 3-5 p.m., ISPaD NYC office, 85-60 Parsons Blvd., Jamaica.

Farmer’s Market Fridays, Queens Botanical Garden, Dahlia Ave., off Main St., Flushing, thru Nov. 21, every week, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Info: (718) 886-3800, queensbotanical.org.

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by Mark Lord qboro contributor

Calling all artists!

Seniors Partnering with Artists Citywide wants to hook you up with groups of industrious senior citizens to see what kind of magic you can weave together.

A s S PA RC — a c o m m u n i t y a r t s engagement program that places artistsin-residence at senior centers across the five boroughs — begins its talent search for the new year, its coordinator, Daniel Arnow, recently recalled some of the projec t s t hat emerged from ea r lier collaborations.

Last year, one of the artists, Jennie Thwing, was in residency at SNAP Innovative Senior Center in Queens Village.

Under her guida nce, t he s enior s brought to life a project called “The Living Room,” which consisted of eight animations that were filmed in a fabricated living room, over a period of 13 weeks.

“The class designed the set, then created a series of animations that address subjects like family tradition and childhood memories,” Arnow said. “Seniors were immersed in every aspect of the video

SPARC info session When: Tues., Sept. 16, 6 to 8 p.m.

Where: Queens Council on the Arts, 37-11 35 Ave., Astoria Reserve at: queenscouncilarts.org

Senior artists pose at last year’s Queens Council on the Arts’ program with Seniors COURTESY PHOTO Partnering with Artists Citywide. production, including development, set and costume design and narrative.”

The previous year, he said, another artist, Jennifer Bailey, was in residency at the center and led such a successful program

that she was hired as its center art director.

With Thwing, lightning struck twice; the center was so pleased with her work that it has agreed to hire her as a teaching ar tis t to continue working with

seniors on the project, Arnow said.

Another center, the Catholic Charities Neighborhood Services’ Hillcrest Senior Center, created a project that focused on the installation of a mural depicting “all the great things happening” there, Arnow said.

Through their work on the project, the seniors learned the fundamentals of drawing, color mixing and painting.

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Circus shows are generally pretty shallow. Of course, there is tremendous talent behind the contorting acrobats and silly clowns, but most circuses do not approach the show with the intent to create substantial and meaningful thoughts and discussions among audience members.

Circus Amok has broken that tradition.

The Brooklyn-based group, headed and directed by Jennifer Miller, aims to provide genuine circus entertainment with a social justice twist.

“I came up as a young activist but I also came up working as a clown,” Miller said. “I was always interested in bringing them together because there is so much crossover.”

While the crossover may not be blatant, Miller and her cast have hit on some serious issues.

“We had a clown act dealing with stop and frisk,” she said. “It was a classic Americana slapstick, meanwhile, only one of the clowns was getting stopped even though all of them were tumbling and bouncing around.”

This year, the show will mostly focus on climate change, though Miller said other issues will be touched upon as well.

While a show promoting social issues is a noble cause, it is a difficult line to tread. Kids don’t want to feel they’re being lectured to and parents don’t want to feel a sanctimonious vibe from the performances.

“That’s one of the challenging pieces of it,” Miller said. “We’re trying to make it hit on multiple levels at one time.”

Though Circus Amok is unlike most circuses, it stays true to the big top’s roots.

There are sparkles, elaborate costumes, men and women on stilts and, of course, clowns.

But for Miller, there is always room for a twist or two.

“We embrace all of [the tradition] but we also play with it and toy with it,” she said.

“For example, I’m the woman with the beard, but I’m not part of a sideshow, I’m the ringmaster. Our look and our sound is a little more traditional. This is not elitist or high art.”

Circus Amok has been performing in parks since 1994 when it was, and remains, a free, no-animal show.

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connec tion to celebration and expression “It’s equally important to understand that through movement. As singers and percussionthere are some universal things like, if you hear a ists performed, dancers took turns at center beat you like, you should just move,” Ahmad stage, whirling voluminous skirts in rhythm with said, inviting all members of the crowd to dance the beat, Dr. Drum encouraged audience members to join in. along, as unfamiliar as the music may seem.

Audience participation was a common thread The events constantly compelled a steady trickle of passersby from nearby Roosevelt Ave- throughout the day. Earlier, the event kicked off with Mujeres en Movnue to glimpse at the fun. imiento, which mea ns Af ter BIPA’s per forWomen in Movement in mance, members of BomSpanish, a free exercise baYo, a Bronx-based youth When: Sept. 27 and Oct. 25, dance class that’s part of project that preserves the 1 to 5 p.m. the organization ImmiAfro-Puerto Rican tradiWhere: Corona Plaza, grant Movement Internation of “bomba,” kept the Roosevelt Ave. at 104 St. tional. IMI regularly offers rhythm going. free cla sses in Zumba, The group showcased Tickets: Free, queensmuseum.org yoga and tai chi. the nearly 300-year-old Throughout the afterpercussion-driven st yle that mixes influences from Spanish, native Taino noon, there were several tables set up for children’s arts and crafts. and African cultures in Puerto Rico.

There was also a booth for the silk printing “This music that you hear today has a lot of New York flavor, but it comes from Puerto Rico,” collective Mobile Print Power, where people took José L. Ortiz, aka “Dr. Drum,” said. “This music, turns pressing vibrant colors through screens to for us as Puerto Ricans, believe it or not, is an imprint graphic designs.

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COMMUNITY Greenmarkets — Long Island City: Socrates Sculpture Park, Vernon Blvd. & Broadway, every Sat., thru Nov. 22, 8 a.m.- 4 p.m.

Info:grownyc.org/socratesgreenmarket. Astoria: 14 St., between 31 Ave. & 31 Road, every Wed., thru Nov. 26, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Info: grownyc.org/astoriagreenmarket.

Saturday night dance, Italian Charities of America, 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst, Sat., Aug. 30; Sept. 13, 27; 8 p.m.-12 a.m. Call: (718) 478-3100.

Free lung cancer screenings, Forest Hills Hospital, Weds., 10 a.m.-1 p.m., 102-01 66 Road.

Scan takes about five minutes & uses low-dose radiation. App’t req’d. Info: (855) 375-5864.

Wednesday Night Singles Group, SFY Adult Center, 58-20 Little Neck Pkwy., Little Neck, second and fourth Wed. of each month, 7-9 p.m.

Fee: $7 members, $9 nonmembers.

Spanish for beginners and face & hand reading according to Zohar, Bayside Jewish Center, 203-05 32 Ave., Free. Info: (347) 771-9132.

FLEA MARKETS St. John Vianney Church Center, Union St. & 35th Ave., Sat., Sept. 6, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Info: (718) 762-7920.

Italian Charities of America, 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst, Sat., Sept. 6, 9 a.m-4 p.m. Call (718) 478-3100.

St. Raphael’s Church, 35-20 Greenpoint Ave., Long Island City, outdoors, Sun., Sept. 7, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Info: (718) 729-8957, straphaelrectory@ yahoo.com.

Kew Gardens, LIRR North Parking Lot, 82-60 Austin St., Sat., Sept. 13 (rain date, Sept. 20), 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Heavenly Angels Animal Rescue will have dogs & cats for adoption, 1-5 p.m.

United Methodist Church of South Richmond Hill, fall rummage sale, 112-14 107 Ave., Fri.-Sat., Sept. 19-20, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Call: (718) 843-4841.

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Richmond Hill, 117-09 Hillside Ave., every Sun., 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Largest flea market in Queens.

St. Benedict the Moor Church, Merrick Blvd. at 110th Ave., Jamaica, every Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Vendors welcome. Call: (718) 332-0026.

MEETINGS North Shore Chapter of Hearing Loss Association of America, LIJ Hearing & Speech Center, 270-05 76 Ave., New Hyde Park, every third Wed. of month, 6:30 p.m.

AARP meetings: Open to the general public.

Chapter 1405, Flushing, Bowne Street Community Church, 143-11 Roosevelt Ave., 1st and 3rd Mon. each month, 1 p.m. Chapter 2889, Maspeth, American Legion Hall, 66-28 Grand Ave., meets 1st and 3rd Wed. each month, 12 p.m. Contact: (718) 672-9890.

SENIOR ACTIVITIES Our Lady of Mercy Golden Age Club trip to Sands Casino in Bethlehem, Pa., Tues., Sept. 16, 8 a.m. (from OLM), 8:15 a.m. (from Queen of Martyrs, 110-06 Queens Blvd.). $37 includes: $30 slot play & $5 food credit. To reserve send check to: OLM Golden Age Club, 70-01 Kessel St., Forest Hills, NY 11375. Info: call Ed (718) 849-0234.

It’s Never to Late to Do Something New, local author Terrie Farley Moran discusses & signs her recent mystery book, “Well Read, Then Dead,” publisher giveaways and Q&A. Wed., Sept. 17, 7-8:30 p.m. Barnes & Noble, 176-60 Union Tpke., Fresh Meadows.

Senior Theater Acting Repertory group, Queens Village Library, 94-11 217 St. Fridays, 11 a.m. Older adults invited to join STAR and perform theater at the library. Info: queenslibrary.org, (718) 776-0800.

Have a loved one with memory loss? Selfhelp Community Services Inc., 208-11 26 Ave., Bayside. Stimulating program – One, two, three or four days a week; half-days are also available. Call Ellen Sarokin or Cathy O’Sullivan: (718) 631-1886.

Pomonok Senior Center, 67-09 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, men's exercise group, Tues. & Thurs., 10:30 a.m., starting Sept. 9 (all men 60+ with doctor's note). Free SNAP screenings for all seniors 60+. Eligibility check and application help.

Info: (718) 591-3377, Mon.-Fri., 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

Selfhelp Innovative Senior Center (Benjamin Rosenthal-Prince Street Senior Center), 45-25 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, Email & the Internet, computer class for seniors 60+.

Call: John (718) 559-4329.

SUPPORT GROUPS Job placement assistance, ANIBIC, 61-35 220 St., Bayside, a nonprofit organization serving children and young disabled adults in the community with job & apartment placement.

Bereavement groups for loss of a spouse, facilitated by a licensed social worker. Central Queens YM & YWHA, 67-09 108 St., Forest Hills. Call: Lisa Elhanyi, (718) 268-5011, ext. 621.

Overeaters Anonymous, for help with weight loss and/or other issues. Long Island Consultation Center, 97-29 64 Road, Rego Park, Sun., 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Call: (718) 937-0163. Rego Park Library, Thurs. at 11:15 a.m., 91-41 63 Drive. Holy Child Jesus Outreach Center, 11206 86 Ave., Richmond Hill, Tues., 7:30-9 p.m.

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SPARC program 00 continued from page 43 The deadline for the completed submissions is Sept. 30.

Selected artists, chosen via a competitive application process, will receive stipends for their participation.

According to Arnow, residencies run from January through June, all culminating in a final public event, which may take the form of an exhibit, reading, performance or other presentation, all of which will be open to the community.

In the past, artists have ranged “from recent college graduates, who are developing their artistic practice and careers, to older adults who have been working in the field for decades,” Arnow said.

SPARC began in 2012 and was developed as par t of Age-Friendly NYC, a citywide effort to make New York more livable for seniors.

It was initially funded by an Our Town grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. “Since the pilot program was such a resounding success, the city has been funding this important initiative through the Dept. for the Aging,” Arnow said.

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Department for the Aging and a local arts council in each borough, including the Queens Council on the Arts.

The mission of the Queens Council is to foster and develop the arts in the county and to support individual artists and arts organizations in presenting their cultural diversity for the benefit of the community.

Further information and an application for the upcoming SPARC season are availQ able at queenscouncilarts.org/sparc.

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Office location: Queens County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to 8888 NYC LLC, 219-22 64th Ave., Oakland Gardens, NY 11364. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: ALLIED ENTERPRISES NY, LLC. Certificate of Conversion was filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/11/08. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, c/o Muss Development Co., 118-35 Queens Boulevard, Forest Hills, New York 11375.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: CASH OUT CARDS LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/16/2014. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process c/o United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

BEACH 25 REALTY LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 4/17/14. Office location: Queens County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 536-538 Beach 25th St., Far Rockaway, NY 11691. General Purposes.

Notice of formation of Delta Enterprise USA NY, LLC a limited liability company. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/24/2014. Office Location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process served against the LLC to Delta Enterprise USA NY, LLC, 253-25 Union Tpke., Glen Oaks, NY 11004 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Ben David Development LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/2/14. Office in Queens Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served & shall mail process to c/o Michael David Saidian, 124-15 Metropolitan Ave, Fl 2, Kew Gardens, NY 11415. Purpose: General.

Notice of Formation of Elson Group LLC. Art. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/15/2014.

Office location: Queens County. SSNY Designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: The LLC, 50-23 Weeks Lane, Fresh Meadows, NY 11365.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of BL Advisory Services, LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/1/14. Office location: Queens County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to c/o Richard P. Weiss, Esq., 155 Willowbrook Blvd., Ste. 300, Wayne, NJ 07470.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Evergreen 46th St LLC Arts of Org filed with NY Sec of State (SSNY) on 6/20/14. Office: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 40-01 Little Neck Pkwy, #26B, Little Neck, NY 11363. General Purposes.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: BRIDGE AND TUNNEL BREWERY LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/30/2014. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 61-02 60th Avenue, Maspeth, NY 11378. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

FLUSHING COMMONS MANAGEMENT, LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/16/14. Office in Queens Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served & shall mail process to 142-32 38th Ave Fl M, Flushing, NY 11354. Purpose: General.

SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Index No. 701785/2014. STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF QUEENS BRANCH BANKING AND TRUST COMPANY, Plaintiff, -vsTHEODORA TARVER, if living and if she be dead, and all Persons who are wives, lienors, heirs, devisees, distributes, successors in interest of such of them as may be dead, and their husbands and wives, heirs, devisees, distributes, and successors in interest all of whom and whose names and places are unknown to Plaintiff; CITY OF NEW YORK NYC DEPARTMENT OF FINANCEPARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU PAYMENT AND ADJUDICATION CENTER OF QUEENS; CRIMINAL COURT OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK; NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; “JOHN DOE” AND “JANE DOE” said names being fictitious, it being the intention of Plaintiff to designate any and all occupants of premises being foreclosed herein, Defendants.

Mortgaged Premises: 167-15 109TH ROAD, JAMAICA, NY 11433.

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days of the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after service of the same is complete where service is made in any manner other than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service. Your failure to appear or to answer will result in a judgment against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. In the event that a deficiency balance remains from the sale proceeds, a judgment may be entered against you, unless the Defendant obtained a bankruptcy discharge and such other or further relief as may be just and equitable.

NOTICE- YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

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YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. That this action is being amended to include possible heirs of Theodora Tarver as said individual cannot be located. That this action is also being amended to include the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance and United States of America as necessary parties.

QUEENS County is designated as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the location of the mortgaged premises.

Dated: May 29, 2014. /s/_______________ Mark K. Broyles, Esq. FEIN, SUCH & CRANE, LLP. Attorneys for Plaintiff.

Office and P.O. Address: 28 East Main Street, Suite 1800, Rochester, New York 14614, Telephone No. (585) 232-7400.

Block: 10186, Lot: 40 NATURE AND OBJECT OF ACTION The object of the above action is to foreclose a mortgage held by the Plaintiff recorded in the County of QUEENS, State of New York as more particularly described in the Complaint herein.

TO THE DEFENDANT, except THEODORA TARVER, the plaintiff makes no personal claim against you in this action.

To the above named defendants: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Hon. Augustus C. Agate, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of N.Y., dated June 12, 2014 and filed along with the supporting papers in the Queens County Clerk’s Office.

This is an action to foreclose a mortgage. The premises is described as follows: All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, in the Borough of Queens, County of Queens, City and State of New York, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point on the northerly side of 109th Road distant 120 feet easterly from the corner formed by the intersection of the northerly side of 109th Road with the easterly side of 167th Street, running thence Northerly parallel with 167th Street, 98.2 feet; thence Easterly parallel with 109th Road, 25 feet; thence southerly again parallel with 167th Street, 98.2 feet to the northerly side of 109th Road, 25 feet to the point or place of beginning. Premises known as 167-15 109th Road, Jamaica, NY 11433.

J & PAN’S ENTERPRISE, L.L.C., Articles of Organization filed NY Sec of State of New York (SSNY) 06/16/2014. Office location in Queens County. SSNY design. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to c/o J & PAN’S ENTERPRISE, L.L.C., 33-67 154th St., Flushing, NY 11354.

MARTOS 57 LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 07/25/14. Office: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 56-75 49th Street, Maspeth, NY 11378.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of formation of MAJOR LUCKY TAXI LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York SSNY on 5/21/2014. Office located in Queens County.

SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process served against the LLC, 133-06 129th Street, #2, S. Ozone Park, NY 11420.

Purpose: any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: MONSTROUS LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/17/2014. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to The LLC, 235-51 147th Dr., 2nd floor, Rosedale, NY 11422. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: ARSENAL LIGHTING, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/03/2014. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to Benjamin Suarez, 98-50 67th Ave., Apt. 2G, Rego Park, NY 11374.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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LEGAL NOTICES

File No.: 2013-3693/A CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

BY THE GRACE OF GOD, FREE AND INDEPENDENT To: Argyrios Roussos, Leonidas Roussos, Agnes Roussos, Nina Paratore, NYC Human Resources Administration, Attorney General of the State of New York. The unknown distributees, legatees, devisees, heirs at law and assignees of ANDREA NICOLAS, deceased, or their estates, if any there be, whose names, places of residence and post office addresses are unknown to the petitioner and cannot with due diligence be ascertained. Being the persons interested as creditors, legatees, distributees or otherwise in the Estate of ANDREA NICOLAS, deceased, who at the time of death was a resident of 68-47 Selfridge Street, Forest Hills, NY 11375, in the County of Queens, State of New York. SEND GREETING: Upon the petition of LOIS M. ROSENBLATT, Public Administrator of Queens County, who maintains her office at 8811 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, Queens County, New York 11435, as Administrator of the Estate of ANDREA NICOLAS, deceased, you and each of you are hereby cited to show cause before the Surrogate at the Surrogate’s Court of the County of Queens, to be held at the Queens General Courthouse, 6th Floor, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, City and State of New York, on the 9th day of October, 2014 at 9:30 o’clock in the forenoon, why the Account of Proceedings of the Public Administrator of Queens County, as Administrator of the Estate of said deceased, a copy of which is attached, should not be judicially settled, and why the Surrogate should not fix and allow a reasonable amount of compensation to GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ., for legal services rendered to petitioner herein in the amount of $48,616.30 and that the Court fix the fair and reasonable additional fee for any services to be rendered by GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ., hereafter in connection with proceedings on kinship, claims etc., prior to entry of a final Decree on this accounting in the amount of 5.5% of assets or income collected after the date of the within accounting; and why the Surrogate should not fix and allow an amount equal to one percent on said Schedules of the total assets on Schedules A, A1, and A2 plus any additional monies received subsequent to the date of this account, as the fair and reasonable amount payable to the Office of the Public Administrator for the expenses of said office pursuant to S.C.P.A. §1106(4); and why the claim from NYC Human Resources Administration in the amount of $42,850.55 should not be paid; and why each of you claiming to be a distributee of the decedent should not establish proof of your kinship; and why the balance of said funds should not be paid to said alleged distributees upon proof of kinship, or deposited with the Commissioner of Finance of the City of New York should said alleged distributees default herein, or fail to establish proof of kinship. Dated, Attested and Sealed 18th day of August, 2014. HON. PETER J. KELLY. Surrogate, Queens County. GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ. (718) 459-9000, 95-25 Queens Boulevard, 11th Floor, Rego Park, New York 11374. Margaret M. Gribbon, Clerk of the Surrogate’s Court. This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not obliged to appear in person. If you fail to appear it will be assumed that you do not object to the relief requested unless you file formal legal, verified objections. You have a right to have an attorney-at-law appear for you. Accounting Citation.

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NEUE DESIGN WORKSHOP LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 6/26/14. Office in Queens Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC, 21-42 45th Road, Long Island City, New York, 11101.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: SMART START TODDLERS, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/26/2014.

Office location: Queens County.

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

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

PROJECT BOOTHS LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 6/12/2014. Off. Loc.: Queens Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to The LLC, c/o Shafi Mahbub, 168-27 84th Ave., Jamaica, NY 11432. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: TAPR LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/17/2014. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to Jack Xia, 25-14 Queens Plaza North, Apartment 8A, Long Island City, NY 11101. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF QUEENS H & R Block Bank, a Federal Savings Bank, Plaintiff, against Jesus Guevara; et al., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated February 5, 2014 I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction in the Queens County Supreme Court, 88-11 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, New York 11435, in Courtroom #25 on October 3, 2014 at 10:00 AM, premises known as 84-12 108th Avenue, Ozone Park, NY 11417.

All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough and County of Queens, City and State of NY, Block: 9143 Lot: 6.

Approximate amount of judgment $447,206.67 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 17858/2012. Nicole Katsorhis, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff, 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard, Rochester, NY 14624 (877) 759-1835 Dated: August 18, 2014 1108799 9/4, 9/11, 9/18, 09/25/2014

Notice of formation of Richmond Restaurants LLC a limited liability company. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/31/2014. Office Location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process served against the LLC to Richmond Restaurants LLC , 79-15 268th Street, Glen Oaks, NY 11004 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: VALVERDE FILMS, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/22/14. 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 United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 1521 Concord Pike, Suite 301, Wilmington, DE 19803.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Willets Point Tower, LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/9/14. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Jiashu Xu, 134-03 35th Ave., Flushing, NY 11354.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILIT Y COMPANY. NAME: SAFEWAY TRANSPORTATION LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/02/2013.

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 Ravinder Singh, 114-12 95 Ave., Richmond Hill, NY 11419.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qualification of SINO - U.S. EDUCATIONAL CONSULTING LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/05/14. Office location: Queens County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/27/14. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Samuel R. Hashim, 156-03 Horace Harding Expressway, Flushing, NY 11367. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor

CBS has been broadcasting the US Open ever since its inception in 1968 at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills. The men’s final, which will take place Monday at 5 p.m. at Arthur Ashe Stadium, will mark the end of CBS’s broadcast rights for the Open. The Tiffany Network, which usually goes all out to retain its heritage sports properties, decided that it did not want to match ESPN’s very high bid for exclusive rights.

Aside from cost, CBS executives were concerned about the lack of success for Americans at the Open who are not named Serena Williams. The failure of American men and women to even make it to Labor Day at the Open (Serena aside), as was the case again this year, has hurt ratings.

Another source of frustration for CBS executives has been their misfortune with the weather. They have had to cede more top matches to ESPN than they would care to remember. And it happened again last Sunday when they lost the Roger Federer-Marcel Granollers match to the late afternoon torrents.

The hard-to-find Tennis Channel (channel 406 on Time Warner Cable) was the beneficiary of Mother Nature wreaking havoc once again with CBS. For those unfamiliar with it, the Tennis Channel generally broadcasts live matches

featuring deservedly little-known players on the side courts of the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center during the US Open. Having Roger Federer play a Grand Slam match live on the Tennis Channel is the equivalent of Josh Groban singing on the stage of a junior high school auditorium.

Even more frustrating was that CBS invited back Dick Enberg, one of the greatest tennis sportscasters ever, to broadcast the Federer-Granollers match. Enberg has written and narrated a tribute saluting CBS’s 40-plus year relationship with the Open that will air on Saturday.

Don’t expect to see John Isner, the face of American tennis mediocrity, to be part of Enberg’s highlight reel. Isner once again exited after the third round. During his post-match press conferences he caviled about the media asking him about the futility of our male professional players.

Isner’s snippiness reminds me of how the sports information department at my alma mater, Columbia University, is always upset with me because of how I have made fun of their football and basketball programs almost as long as I have been writing this column. I wouldn’t have to write how awful they are if Q they would just win once in a while.

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German immigrants Frank and William Haufe owned land off Metropolitan Avenue wedged between the Lutheran cemetery and the BMT subway system and worked as farmers in a thriving florist business.

In March 1923, 41-year-old Frank Haufe took 23-year-old Emma Liebl as his bride.

With her great love for flowers, the store was named Emma Haufe Florist Shop.

With hard work and success they built a large home at 78-02 66 Road (then called Carhart Avenue). Frank and Emma had four children in rapid succession — Frank Jr., Regina, Joseph and Anna. Frank generously took in his mother and father-in-law, Veronica and John Liebl, to live with them.

At the bottom of the hill a baseball park was built called the New Farmers Oval, which was host to the Queens Alliance baseball teams. By 1959 the land was eyed as a possible site for a Catholic high school.

There was a massive drive and campaign taken up by all the parishes in the Diocese of Brooklyn to make it a reality.

The largest tracts of land there were

Emma Haufe Florist, 67-44 Metropolitan Ave. in Middle Village (formerly 1842 Metropolitan Ave. in Ridgewood) in 1959, shortly before its closing. owned by real estate broker Frank Von Monchzisker. But three parcels needed to get down to the bottom of the hill were owned

by Frank and Emma Haufe. They sold their parcels, and in April 1961 all the contracts were finalized and Christ the King High School was under construction.

Emma Haufe lived comfortably until she passed away in September 1983 at age 84.

Her son Joseph continued in the garden business as groundskeeper of the 225-acre Q All Faith’s Cemetery across the street.

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