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Howard Beach man recalls his incredible Sept. 11 story PAGE 4 NICK ROTUNDO ’s life, like thousands of others, was drastically changed on Sept. 11, 2001 The Howard Beach man recently told his story of driving fi rst responders to and from Ground Zero on his MTA bus for 22 straight hours. His story doesn’t end there.

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Mixed reactions on overcrowding report Analysis claims problem is limited to 9 school districts; five are in Queens

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vercrowding in public schools has been a major problem throughout New York City for years, but a new report claims the issue may not be as pervasive as many people might think.

The Citizens Budget Commission states in its analysis that overcrowding is limited to just 9 of the 32 school districts in the five boroughs — and five of them are in Queens.

The Queens districts with more students than capacity, the report states, are, from most-crowded to least, 24, 25, 26, 28 and 30.

District 24, located in Glendale, is the second-most crowded area throughout the city, with roughly 8,000 more students enrolled than its buildings can handle.

“It doesn’t sur pr ise me,” said Nick Comaianni, president of Community Education Council 24. “We have such a growing population and we’ve built many schools over the past 10 years but, regardless, they all seem to get overcrowded.”

The most-crowded district in the city is 20, in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, at more than 9,000 students over capacity.

The other 23 school districts, including 27 and 29 in Queens, have “excess capacity,” meaning there are empty seats in classrooms in those areas.

It’s no secret that overcrowding is an issue in areas such as Forest Hills, but a report put out last week claims the problem is not as widespread as some people may think. According to the analFILE PHOTO ysis, just 9 school districts are overcrowded.

The CBC used Department of Education statistics to come to the conclusions in the report.

Leonie Haimson, executive director of the advocacy group Class Size Matters, however, is not sure the analysis is entirely accurate.

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Analyzing DOE numbers, Haimson said the estimate of need in just about every district is higher than the city agency or the CBC contends.

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Despite that, the CBC report claims District 27 has slight excess capacity.

Both organizations used DOE numbers to come to their conclusions.

The CBC also stated there are more than 50,000 seats of extra capacity citywide.

Comaianni said there are some excess seats in his overcrowded district, using IS 77 in Ridgewood as an example.

The problem, he explained, is that they cannot be filled because they’re located in parts of the district that do not have a need for extra seats and bringing children from the areas that do, such as Elmhurst and Corona, would be a hassle.

“You can’t bus these kids 45 minutes through the district during rush hour,” he said.

He also cited the issue of schools being built during “temporary” stages of overcrowding in certain neighborhoods.

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Come hell or high water, Nick Rotundo won’t quit Howard Beach man survives 9/11 and Sandy; lives to tell the tale

by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

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oward Beach resident Nick Rotundo has gone through more tragedy and actual heartbreak in 15 years than most people experience in a lifetime.

His pain hasn’t gone away; his smile is a pained one as he tells his story. But there’s a sense of optimism in his voice.

He knows there’s nothing in this world — whether it’s a terrorist attack or hurricane or h is ow n body — that he ca n not overcome.

Three times, he’s stared death in the eyes. And three times, death was the first one to blink.

“I wake up every day and I’m lucky,” Rotundo, 55, said at Northwell Health in New Hyde Park, LI last Thursday. “Just as long as I wake up, there’s nothing that can defeat me.”

Rotundo’s story of survival begins on Sept. 11, 2001, the day more than 2,700 lives ended in Lower Manhattan.

A longtime MTA bus operator, the Woodhaven native was driving an M11 up Amsterdam Avenue on the Upper West Side shortly after 9 a.m. when a police officer jumped in front of the vehicle at 100th Street, frantically waving his arms.

The cop, Sgt. Vinny Benvenuto, boarded the bus and im mediately ordered everyone to get off, leaving Rotundo confused. He had heard over his MTA radio that a plane of some kind had hit the World Trade Center’s North Tower, but he didn’t know the gravity of the situation.

So when Benvenuto asked Rotundo for his name, he used his favorite joke to break the ice.

“I said, ‘I’m Brad Pitt’s brother, Arm Pitt,’” Rotundo recalled. “He laughed.

We looked at each other and we bonded.”

That distinctly human moment, piercing through the thick cloud of tragedy hovering over the city, was short-lived, replaced with an incredible demand of the ma n who was just a bus d r iver moments earlier.

Little did Rotundo know, the hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 had crashed into the South Tower minutes before Benvenuto flagged him down.

“He said, ‘We’re under attack, a second plane hit the towers. You’re working for the Police Department now,’” Rotundo said. “I said, ‘No problem, whatever you need.’ Little did I know, I was now a first responder.”

Moments later, the Howard Beach man found himself driving a bus full of officers from the 24th Precinct down to the burning towers, with a police escort clearing the streets of traffic in front of him.

And that’s what Rotundo did for the next 22 hours straight, transporting first

Howard Beach resident Nick Rotundo gets emotional at a Sept. 11 first responders panel last Thursday as he recalls how he drove cops, firefighters and doctors to and from Ground Zero in PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA his MTA bus for 22 straight hours that tragic day. responders between Ground Zero and their station houses across Manhattan.

Some t r ips, his bus was f ull with stunned cops and f iref ighters. A few other runs saw just one single officer hitching a ride.

Rotundo also lent a hand to Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital on Amsterdam Avenue and 114th Street, driving doctors, nu rses a nd med ical supplies to t he destroyed World Trade Center site.

It wasn’t until the sun was rising on the city’s first day without the Twin Towers as anchors of the skyline that he was told to go home and take a nap.

“I didn’t want to leave,” he said. “I was exhausted but I didn’t want to leave.”

Rotundo escaped Sept. 11 without any physical injuries, but the mental anguish the terror attacks left him with remained with him for years.

Speaking during a panel discussion of 9/11 and its medical consequences at Nor thwell Health, the for mer Astoria Volunteer Ambulance Corps member said the depression and post-traumatic stress would overwhelm him every September.

“Every year since then, Sept. 11 was a day that I dreaded,” he said, pausing to compose himself. “The thoughts, the memories, they brought me down.”

It wasn’t until 2011 when, at the urging of some of h is colleag ues, Rot u ndo sought help at Northwell Health’s Queens World Trade Center Health Clinic in Rego Park. “ T hey wou ld say, ‘Rot u ndo, you should really go there,’” he said. “I really didn’t want to deal with it. But I’m glad I did, the clinic is amazing.”

His road to recover y was slow and steady, but just one year later, another tragedy named Sandy brought terror right to his doorstep.

Rotundo and his wife chose to ride out the storm inside their 96th Street home bet ween the Shellban k and Haw t ree basins just north of Charles Park, but they wouldn’t be there for long.

As the hurricane made landfall in New Jersey in the early morning hours of Oct. 29, the cyclone’s storm surge inundated his neighborhood and f looded his home with over 4 feet of water.

“My wife and I, we actually went out the f ront w i ndow du r i ng Hu r r ica ne Sandy,” he said. “We got so nervous this time because of Hurricane Hermine, we stayed at the Comfort Inn in Ozone Park.”

The powerful cyclone did heavy damage to his home, forcing him to rebuild from the ground up.

Rotundo added he lost nearly all of his possessions i n Sa ndy, i nclud i ng the clothes he was wearing on Sept. 11, 2001.

“I even had my shoes with the gray dust still on them,” he said. “I don’t want to call it memorabilia, but I lost a lot of that stuff that was dear to me.”

But Rotundo rebuilt his home, just like he did his spirit, with help from the World Trade Center clinic.

These days, the anniversar y of the Sept. 11 attacks still carries with it a sense of solemnity, but not the same despair as it once did.

Instead, it is one of the most joyous days of Rotundo’s year as his first granddaughter, Charlotte, was born on Sept.

11, 2014.

“I was suffering from minor depression. I thought Sept. 11 would always be a 100 percent somber day for me,” he said.

“But that changed in 2014, when my granddaughter Charlotte was bor n on Sept. 11. And now, it makes everything just a little easier.”

While playing with his new granddaughter has raised his spirits tremendously, so has helping other children enjoy birthdays and holidays.

Rotundo also goes by the nickname “Nick the Balloonatic,” as the Howard Beach man maintains a wildly successful balloon artistry business.

He’s been called by people and companies from Las Vegas to Melbourne, Australia to provide balloons for various gatherings.

He’s even been featured in The New York Times and on television programs like The Meredith Vieira Show.

Rotundo knows from experience that even something as simple as a balloon animal could make a world of difference for someone going through a rough time.

“I give back a lot. I do a lot for sick children. I go to Sloan Kettering and make balloons for kids with cancer. I make housecalls for sick kids,” he said. “I think karma comes back to you.”

But even now, 15 years after the terror attacks, with his business thriving and h is ment al health vastly i mprovi ng, things aren’t always easy for the rejuvenated Howard Beach man.

In April, one month before he retired from the MTA, he went for a routine check up. A few days later, the avid Charles Park jogger found himself on an operating table, undergoing quadruple bypass surgery to save his ailing heart.

Rotundo is already back on his feet, though, smiling as he shows a Chronicle reporter the scar running down the center of his chest.

T h e r o a d le a d i ng Rot u nd o f r om Amsterdam Avenue and 100th Street on Sept. 11, 2001 to Northwell Health last Thursday has been a rocky one, filled with heartache and even a hurricane.

And while Rotundo and the rest of the city incurred an indescribable feeling of loss that day, the Howard Beach man knows firsthand how the events of 9/11 brought New Yorkers together.

The cop that jumped in front of his bus 15 years ago, Sgt. Benvenuto, is now one of Rotundo’s best friends.

But every year on the anniversary of the attacks that shook a nation, Rotundo relays the same message to the police officer now working in Hartford, Conn.

“I tell him ever y Sept. 11, “Vin, I would give up your friendship to put Q those towers back up.”

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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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Community blasts homeless shelter Wills, Miller say residents must ‘come together’ to oppose the plan

by Anthony O’Reilly

People have expressed concerns that registered sex offenders would be violating their requirement to stay 1,000 feet More than 100 people showed up to Community Board 9’s away from the school by going into the center.

Breaking Ground officials have said they do not check the meeting Tuesday to express opposition to a proposed drop-in center for homeless individuals on Atlantic Avenue in Ozone state sex offender registry before accepting a homeless individual into one of their centers.

Park.

“We have no safeguards to protect our children or others,” “Once they’re entrenched, they can never come out,” said said Councilman Ruben Wills (D-South Jamaica).

Carlos, a resident who lives near the location.

Wills cited his previous battle with the city to kick regisThe advisory panel did not hold a vote on the planned site tered sex offenders out of the Skyway — which would be run by nonprofit Men’s Shelter — which he succeeded in Breaking Ground, not the city — but after fighting with the Department of allowed residents to speak on it during ou’re going to have Homeless Services for three years. the public forum. It was CB 9’s first a ton of sex offenders He and Assemblyman Mike Miller meeting since news of the plan broke (D-Woodhaven) told those present they last month. and a ton of repeat have to “stick together” in opposing the “You’re going to have a ton of sex site. offenders and a ton of repeat criminal criminal offenders.”

Both also touted a plan by Assemblyoffenders,” said board member Nick — Nick Comaianni, man Andrew Hevesi (D-Forest Hills) to Comaianni.

Community Board 9 member provide rent subsidies to more lowThe site is proposed for 100-32 income individuals in an effort to preAtlantic Ave., the former home of Dallis Bros. Coffee Inc. The drop-in site would not be a perma- vent homelessness.

Others speaking against the proposal cited the school, a nent place of residence for homeless people but they would be allowed to stay there for a few weeks at a time, or simply get a lack of public transportation, the residential nature of the surrounding community and a lack of public services in the area bite to eat or take a shower. as reasons for their opposition.

The proposal states there would be 50 beds in the building.

“They’d be better served at another location,” said one One of the main sticking points for opponents of the center is its proximity to the High School for Construction Trades, resident.

Another speaker noted the at-times deplorable condition of Engineering and Architecture.

At the shortest point, there is less than 250 feet between the homeless shelters across the city, saying some may not even continued on page 25 two property lines.

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Community residents on Tuesday blasted the plan to place a drop-in center for homeless individuals on Atlantic Avenue. Those speaking against it cited concerns of sex offenders and mentally ill people possibly staying there, FILE PHOTO among other things.

Some for, others against SBS at CB 9 Panel to vote on controversial bus lane proposal at next month’s meet

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Opponents and proponents of the Select Bus Service plan for Woodhaven and Cross Bay boulevards made their pitch at Community Board 9’s meeting on Tuesday following a presentation from the Department of Transportation and the MTA. As with previous hearings on the proposal to have dedicated bus lanes run along much of the corridor, those against the plan brought up concerns of the planned median bus stops between Park Lane South and the Rockaway Boulevard/Liberty Avenue intersection.

“It’s not safe,” said board member Maria Thomson. “I’m totally against it.”

Woodhaven activist Paul Capocasale railed against the proposal, saying commuters will be put in harm’s way trying to catch the bus. He also cited concerns of vehicles running up on the bus stop after any accident.

He was not confident any barrier would protect commuters.

“It better be a German bumper,” he said during the public forum portion of the meeting.

Besides the DOT and MTA, defense for the median bus stops came from at least one board member.

“Wouldn’t it be safer to run to a median bus stop than across eight lanes of traffic? Yes or no?” asked board member Joel Kuszai, a staunch supporter of SBS. Other concerns about the median bus stops involved its cleanup during the winter time.

DOT officials said it is working with the Department of Sanitation to finalize a plowing plan for those stops.

Riders Alliance member Stephanie Veras and Toby Sheppard Bloch, a member of CB 5, spoke in favor of the plan during the public forum portion of the meeting.

Both said other SBS routes have improved traffic in other parts of the city and the same would prove true for Central and South Queens.

Veras, a Woodhaven resident, pointed out that 30 percent of people on the corridor use public transportation — so putting a dedicated bus lane there “is just common sense.”

One of board member Alex Blenkinsopp’s concerns about the plan was the offboard payment machines that passengers use to pay for their fare.

Blenkinsopp cited published reports stating the machines malfunction often and are left unrepaired for long periods of time.

DOT and MTA officials said they’re working to implement a plan that would ensure commuters have access to the machines at all times.

The first part of SBS, from Park Lane South to Liberty Avenue and Rockaway Boulevard, is scheduled to be completed by fall 2017, with the full capital project stretching into Rockaway set for completion at an unknown time.

CB 9 is set to take a vote on the proposal at its meeting next month. Its vote is nonbinding and has no effect Q on the project.

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Community Board 9 once again debated the plan to put a dedicated bus lane along much of Woodhaven and Cross Bay boulevards. Unlike most of its other hearings, some spoke in favor of the proposal.

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ongratulations to the people of Maspeth and their allies in nearby communities — they fought City Hall and won! ... Or did they?

The issue, as it so often is these days in Queens, from Long Island City to Floral Park, is the planned conversion of yet another hotel into a homeless shelter. As usual, the city would break its own law by doing that, housing families in rooms that have no kitchens. But, also as usual, the city says it’s an emergency, so the rules don’t apply.

And, as always, residents are rightly worried that turning the Holiday Inn Express on 55th Road into a homeless shelter would bring down the neighborhood. So they’ve been demonstrating against it every day, and even intend to protest tonight outside the home of Human Resources Commissioner Steve Banks.

They may not even need to, as the hotel’s owner says the plan is dead, but they’re not counting on that until they see it in writing. Naturally. Told of the owner’s statements, the city claimed negotiations with him continue. And after Assemblywoman Marge Markey announced that City Hall had agreed to at least delay moving people in beyond its initial

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Oct. 1 goal, Banks told her and two other elected officials there would be no delay. It’s hard to tell where the truth is one day to the next, especially given the Department of Homeless Services’ penchant for misleading the public.

Of course most people who’ve lost their homes are fine folks just down on their luck in a city where the cost of living is extravagant and the cost of housing keeps skyrocketing. Many others are a paycheck or two away from the same fate. But there’s also no denying that establishing a homeless shelter in or at the edge of a residential community doesn’t exactly do wonders for said community. Reports of increased shoplifting, loitering and worse around shelters aren’t a function of people’s imagination.

It seems it would be better, and even legal, to place homeless people in apartments around the city whenever possible rather than warehouse hundreds of them in one building. It would be better both for area residents and, it would seem, for the homeless themselves, who could more easily blend in with their neighbors and not automatically carry the stigma associated with being homeless. Mayor de Blasio in fact says he wants to move away from the hotel takeover model, but of course he’s been doing the exact opposite.

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Dear Editor: The police have already identified areas of prolific gun violence. Those neighborhoods should be declared “Public Health Emergency Zones” that the police and National Guard can cordon off, search and seize all illegal weapons and arrest their owners.

The innocent residents may be temporally inconvenienced but will benefit greatly from having a much safer community.

Bill Herbert Kew Gardens

We Muslims must stay safe Dear Editor: (An open letter to the Muslim community requesting vigilance and better security preparedness) Assalamu Alaikum (Peace be upon you), brothers and sisters, Muslims of New York. On behalf of the administration and membership of Majlis Ash Shura (Islamic Leadership Council) of New York, I hope you had a happy and blessed Eid Adhha and ask Almighty Allah to grant us joy, safety and security in these blessed Adhha holidays.

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The city could probably save money too by putting as many homeless people as possible in individual apartments all over the place, even at today’s prices, rather than continuing to pay nearly $4,000 a month for hotel room and board and various social services.

That high cost is one reason state Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi, the Forest Hills Democrat who chairs the Social Services Committee, has offered a new plan to financially assist both the homeless and those in danger of losing their housing, using state and federal funds. The potential savings sound promising, and the plan would have the added benefit of rolling multiple rent subsidy programs into one.

The city could also try expanding former Mayor Bloomberg’s program of paying travel costs for homeless people to leave New York when they could prove they have someone they could stay with elsewhere. Maybe it even could provide those who would need to find their own place, somewhere where the cost of living is far lower, with enough money to get settled down. Even at several thousand dollars a pop, it would still be cheaper than long-term hotel sheltering, and wouldn’t invite the civic fury and social chaos that accompany these stealthy conversions. Queens can’t take it anymore.

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Perhaps there are more events of this type we are not aware of as Islamophobic attacks against members of our community are not always reported and do not always make news. In light of the recent horrible hate crime attacks against members of our community, we urge you to be more vigilant and to assign at least 10 individuals with the security of your masjid, community center and prayer gathering. If a couple of masajid are planning to have a joint prayer, we still suggest that each masjid contribute with 10 security professionals or volunteers in order to insure the safety and security of the gathering. In addition, we ask all masajid and community centers to stay in close contacts with local precincts and ask for increased police visibility and patrolling of masajid and community gatherings during holidays.

May Allah bestow on us all the blessings of these blessed holidays and may He accept our good deeds. Jazakum Allahu Khairan (May Allah reward you with goodness).

Dr. Abdelhafid Djemil President, Islamic Leadership Council of New York Jamaica

Stop J’Ouvert now Dear Editor: Re your Sept. 8 report: “SJU student killed in J’Ouvert violence” (multiple editions): The death of St. John’s accounting student Tiara Poyau could have been prevented if our mayor and other local leaders put public safety ahead of political correctness. Cops caught heat for calling the West Indian Day Parade “a scheduled riot” last year. But the event preceding it, J’Ouvert, is a sanctioned slaughter that must end. Some compare it to “The Purge,” a hit film in which all of society’s rules are dropped for 12 hours, once a year, letting people to do whatever they want, including murder. “The Purge” is fiction.

J’Ouvert is a frightening fact.

Despite beefed up police patrols, increased lighting and warnings not to shoot or stab anyone, two victims were killed and four others injured this year. Our mindless mayor, who promised us a safe event, now says J’Ouvert will continue, but more will be done to prevent violence in the future. Wrong. The only way to end Brooklyn’s bloodbath is to abolish J’Ouvert forever. Spineless politicians defend this pre-dawn disaster as a “cultural

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The strongest selection the DNC could make would be Al Gore. His health is perfect and the Green Party presidential candidate, Jill Stein — who consistently siphons about 5 percent of the votes from the Democrats in most polls — would probably leave the race and endorse the Democratic Party in such a case.

Clinton, due to her health difficulties and terrible negative publicity over the email busine s s a nd he r fa m i ly fou nd at ion , is unelectable. The Democratic National Committee would be well advised to encourage her to call it a day, to leave the political arena, and instead throw its support to a Gore presidential bid, still possible at even this late date.

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Dear Editor: I would like to admit an error I made in my Sept. 1 letter (“Obama out-lies the others”).

I questioned why Obama would make 13 payments of just under $100 million and speculated that the administration found a way to wire the money to Iran. After two weeks, the administration stated that the system limited the amount of any one transfer and that all the money was converted to cash before payment to Iran was made. In that regard, I was wrong. The way it took two weeks to answer reporters’ questions is another example of an adminis- ONLINE tration trying to hide the truth.

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K apla n st ated Find the latest news, that he found no past reports from all evidence on the over the borough and internet that Iran more at qchron.com. claimed the payments were ransom (“Iran funds not ransom”). He obviously missed the quote of Iranian Brig. Gen. Rezi Nadqi telling FARS News that “the money was returned for the freedom of the US spy and it was not related to the (nuclear) negotiations.” Bill also missed hostage Saeed Abedini stating that he was told that he was not going to be released until the plane with money arrived.

Finally, Bill was factually wrong when he wrote that the $1.7 billion was made in response to an international court judgment related to an old arms deal. Wrong! No judgment was ever issued. Obama claims that the United States would have lost the case and he negotiated a great deal. Congress has asked for the legal analysis behind this decision, how the interest was calculated and the status of offsetting U.S. claims against Iran. The administration has not provided the information. Why? Maybe Obama made a good deal but until he gives us all the facts the old adage of “If it looks like a duck ...” holds true.

The United States paid ransom. Sorry, Bill, Obama lied.

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3) Trump: I want a deportation task force.

Guess who deported 2.8 million illegal aliens?

Why our (Deportation President) Obama!

4) Trump wants to repair bridges. Guess who drafted the American Jobs Act? Why, Barack Obama. While standing on a bridge over the Ohio River, viewing GOP country, he called on the GOP Congress to support his act.

Guess who objected? Why, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)!

5) When Obama sent a $60 billion Sandy relief measure to Congress, guess who voted “no”? Why, 37 GOP senators!

6) Several GOP states enacted minority voter suppression laws. Guess who requested the judicial branch to declare these voter ID laws null and void? Why, President Obama!

7) Trump: I will help vets! Guess who killed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ $25 billion increase for Veterans Affairs? Why, GOP senators.

8) Trump blames Democrats for our massive federal debt. Guess who gave a $10.2 trillion debt (FY 2009) to Barack Obama?

Why, Bush-43.

9) Guess who crafted the 18-day “government shutdown” that cost $25 billion? Why, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas)?

10) Want more proof? Read the Dallas Morning News editorial on Trump!

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Richard Reif Kew Gardens Hills

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Bringing new life to a neglected site GallopNYC looks to open Gemini Stables to the public in October

by Anthony O’Reilly

“We’re working really hard to get this place cleaned up,” Alice Kershaw, execuFor years, the sight of Cedar Lane Sta- tive director of GallopNYC, told the Queens Chronicle during a tour of the bles has been a dreary one.

The weeds were overgrown, trash piled facility.

Working with volunteers from her orgaup on the grass and further into the property, horses suffered from a lack of venti- nization and area Home Depots, Kershaw lation in the stables, which themselves was getting her hands dirty last Friday as fences were reboarded and trash was were falling apart.

In 2013, the stables were temporarily hauled away.

Their work is already getting noticed. shut down after six horses died in as many “I’m really happy to see what’s being months of various causes.

Neighbors have often complained about done there,” said Frank Dardani, president the smell of manure emanating from the of the nearby Ozone Tudor Civic Associaarea, which has suffered f rom poor tion. “When I drove through there, I noticed a big change in the whole surdrainage. rounding area.”

In short, it was a blight on the community.

For years, the facility was leased by the The blight, however, has slowly been disappearing as the new owners of the sta- Federation of Black Cowboys through the bles have stepped up to bring a sense of Parks Department.

That group, which could be seen with pride back to it.

GallopNYC, a popular horse-riding pro- their horses at community events throughgram with locations throughout the city, out the years, has seen its membership has been cleaning up the site for the past decline and all phone numbers on its webfew weeks in anticipation of opening their site have been disconnected.

GallopNYC was granted the contract, doors to the community next month. beating out the Black Cowboys after both submitted bids to the city’s request for proposals last year.

T he Black Cowboys may still be able to operate at the stables, as GallopNYC is of fer i ng t hem space at cost.

Kershaw said her g r ou p wa nt e d t h e location because it has a waiting list of more than 800 riders.

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The therapeutic program is offered by GallopNYC at Prospect Park, Van Cortlandt Park, Pelham Bay Park and Jamaica Bay. Workers last week focused on the rehabilitation of the stables. Much of the work involved cleaning out litter stored in there and replacing rotting lumber.

Kershaw said the group will also focus on increasing ventilation in the stables to provide a better experience for the horses.

The horses owned by the Black Cowboys have since been moved out and GallopNYC will be bringing new ones, right now at some of its other facilities, in once all repairs are completed.

Kershaw is also looking to create a way for horses to ride around on the field following heavy rainfalls.

For Dardani, the physical changes in the

field are a great start. But he’s now waiting to see how GallopNYC works with the community.

“I hear good things about them,” he said. “We’re hoping for the best.”

State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) echoed Dardani’s concerns.

“We need to make sure that they’re a good neighbor,” he said.

Area residents often complained of a lack of communication from the Black Cowboys during their tenure in charge of the stables.

Kershaw said her group is committed to having a good rapport with the community.

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Empty UPK seats a major headache Howard Beach Judea Center in dire need of students by end of the month

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

On the first day of school last Thursday, Lisa Pearlman-Mason noticed six students were not in attendance at the Howard Beach Judea Center’s Universal Pre-K program.

“I started to panic a little,” PearlmanMason, director of the preschool, told the Queens Chronicle on Tuesday.

After calling the parents of those children, she discovered they had decided to bring them to a different UPK site.

Parents are able to move their children from site to site until Oct. 5 — should a seat at a more-preferred school open up — at which time they become permanent students at that location. When applying for UPK, parents can pick up to 12 locations and are able to select a top three. According to the Department of Education, more than 14,000 Queens parents got their children into their top UPK site this school year.

Pearlman-Mason wants those parents still looking for a place to send their children to know about the empty seats at her program.

“We need to fill these seats,” she said.

The preschool director, who started as an instructor at the school and worked her way up, has a financial incentive to get children to the Judea Center.

For each child the school enrolls, it receives

a little under $10,000 from the DOE. The UPK program holds up to 18 students at a time.

With a six-seat gap in its enrollment, the school — which pays rent to the synagogue — stands to miss out on nearly $60,000 in revenue if it doesn’t get new students by the October deadline.

“It’s a problem,” said Pearlman-Mason.

Just last year, there was one seat empty at the center’s preschool program.

The loss in revenue caused the school to cut a staff member.

The DOE instructed Pearlman-Mason to call parents who put the Howard Beach Judea Center as a potential site for their child but that did not yield the desired results.

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The Howard Beach Judea Center is in dire need of pre-K students. There are six empty seats at the school, which helps pay the rent for the Jewish center. Parents interested in sending their PHOTO BY ANTHONY O’REILLY children there have until October to sign up.

She has asked area civics and politicians for help in recruiting students.

Those who are interested, or know anyone who may be, in sending their children to UPK at the Judea Center should contact PearlmanMason at (718) 843-1111.

The Howard Beach Judea Center is located at 162-05 90 St. At the time of her interview, PearlmanMason was waiting for a student who had been referred to the school by the office of state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach).

“But we haven’t seen them yet,” she said a little past 9 a.m. Tuesday morning.

Addabbo, a member of the Education Committee, said it’s uncommon to hear of a UPK program in need of students.

“It’s quite odd,” the senator said in a Tuesday interview.

The UPK initiative was a campaign cornerstone for Mayor de Blasio in 2013, who lobbied state legislators to fund it.

It was ultimately approved by the Legislature in 2014.

Despite its success, Addabbo said he has heard complaints from constituents who are unaware of where they could possibly send their child to pre-K. “I have a lot of parents coming to me asking ‘Where is the most local UPK in my area?’” he Q said. “That to me is the bigger issue.”

Following an NBC report about rats taking over Vito Locascio Field in Ozone Park, the Parks Department has started implementing a plan to keep the vermin away from the park.

“NYC Parks is working with [the Depa r t ment of Health a nd Ment al Hygiene] to aggressively resolve rodent issues in Ozone Park with weekly baitings (which have already begun), rat-safe trash cans, and enhanced park cleaning,” Parks Department spokeswoman Megan Lalor said in a Tuesday email. “In addition, parkgoers can help keep our all parks rat-free: don’t litter or feed birds, as any food left on the ground can attract rodents.”

NBC aired a video from an Ozone Park resident showing rats at the field, located at Cross Bay Boulevard and North Conduit Avenue.

The story stated the vermin were then making their way to nearby homes.

A Queens Chronicle reporter could not

find any rats at the field during two trips.

Frank Dardani, Community Board 10’s Parks Committee chairman and president of the Ozone Tudor Civic Association, said he was surprised to hear of rats being in the park, which he said is usually clean.

That aside, he hasn’t heard any complaints from residents about the vermin.

“They’ll usually hide in a heavy weeded area,” said Dardani, who recently retired from the pest control business after more than 35 years in the industry.

“Rats don’t want to be detected.”

The NBC report did not elaborate on where the rodents were coming from, but not too far from the field sidewalks and streets are being ripped up as part of a long-awaited sewer project in Centreville.

Dardani said it’s likely that could be the source of the problem.

“Once they hear the rumblings, they’re going to look for somewhere new to stay,” he told the Chronicle. “Even dumb animals like mice would instinctively look Q for a new place.”

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After finally prevailing in his fight to have the cameras he funded more than two years ago placed in Forest Park, Assemblyman Mike Miller (D-Woodhaven) is looking to once again put more eyes in the sky.

At Tuesday’s Community Board 9 meeting, the assemblyman said he’s looking to fund NYPD cameras for all of the precincts he represents.

“I just spoke to the 102, they gave me their list,” Miller said at the meeting.

“So we got another two years before we see them,” he joked.

The assemblyman allocated the money for 14 surveillance units in his section of Forest Park following the rape of two women there more than two years ago.

But, as Miller learned, getting cameras in the park was not as simple as setting the money aside for them.

The state Division of Budget only approved the request late last year, more than a year and a half after the assembly-

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After months of pushing for the placement of the cameras, NYPD crews finally installed the equipment in late July.

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Funding for the 102nd and 106th precincts was recently approved for other equipment necessary for their patrols.

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Always missed but never forgotten Bikers, colleagues gather to honor volunteer EMT Richard Pearlman

by Mark Lord Chronicle Contributor

As a little boy, Howard Beach resident Richard Pearlman used to ride his tricycle around the neighborhood, setting off its siren for all to hear.

“He always had a calling to help people,” said his mother, Dorie.

By the time he turned 15, the Forest Hills Volunteer Ambulance Corps headquarters on Woodhaven Boulevard had become his home away from home, putting his talents to good use.

But it was Pearlman’s instincts that ultimately cost him his life when, at the age of 18, the law office messenger out on an errand in Lower Manhattan heard an allhands-on-deck call and headed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

The last time anyone saw Pearlman alive, he was helping a bloodied woman out of the skyscraper before going back into the burning building, which would soon collapse on top of him.

Marking the 15th anniversary of the Sept.

11, 2001 terror attacks, the FHVAC teamed up with the Punishers Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club to sponsor the “Run for Richie,” a motorcycle ride from Resorts World Casino to One World Trade Center and back to Forest Hills last Saturday.

Hundreds of motorcyclists ride down Woodhaven Boulevard to honor Richard Pearlman, the Howard Beach resident and Forest Hills Volunteer Ambulance Corps member who died trying to PHOTO BY MARK LORD save people at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.

The event was the brainchild of Paul “PJ” Marcel, president of the motorcycle group and event coordinator for the corps, who wanted to “show respect and homage to the family” who are still actively involved with the volunteer organization.

Marcel imagined “something over the

top” to honor Pearlman, whom he knew as a friend from the neighborhood and who was himself a motorcycle buff.

“This is PJ’s way to honor Richie. It means a lot to us,” said Pearlman’s mother, who was joined at the ceremony by her husband and other members of the family.

And honor him they did, with an estimated 1,200 bikers from as far away as California and Florida participating in the run.

FHVAC president Alan Wolfe, who planned the event with Marcel, remembered Pearlman as “an eager kid” who “loved coming down here.”

“He must have really liked this place,” Wolfe said of Pearlman’s commute from Howard Beach to Forest Hills and back.

“We remember Richie because he was our member, but we remember everyone who was lost.”

Longtime volunteer Daniel Exler, wearing a shirt with a shoulder patch dedicated to Pearlman, recalled that the young man “wanted to be an EMT more than anything.”

“He knew what he had to do when the plane hit that tower,” Exler said. “The heart and soul Richie had inspires us to do what we do.”

Lifetime corps member Michael Rizzo, who delivered the invocation, didn’t know Pearlman well but admitted, “It’s still not easy to accept.”

For Pearlman’s mother, the loss is tinged with further bitterness.

“It’s disappointing to me how my government’s Justice Department didn’t do justice by me and my family,” she said, noting they continued on page 21

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On Sept. 11, 2001, Lt. Dan Carbonaro of the Port Authority Police Department led a contingent of officers from their posts at Kennedy Airport to the World Trade Center after the Twin Towers were struck by hijacked aircraft.

“We arrived just as Tower 2 began coming down,” Carbonaro said to a crowd at Vaughn College in East Elmhurst on Sept. 8.

“I gave one order — ‘Run!’” he said.

Carbonaro, a former Jackson Heights resident, was among the guests last Thursday as Vaughn hosted those in the aviation industry and the military whose lives were impacted by the 9/11 attacks.

Some speakers were flight attendants and managers who had placed friends and colleagues on the doomed aircraft.

Vaughn College, which caters to those seeking careers in aviation and aviation technology, was a natural host for the conference on resiliency among people who have suffered catastrophic loss, according to Tom Murphy, who served as a moderator.

“Resiliency means not moving on, but moving forward,” said Murphy, a professor at Fordham University in the Bronx. He also is the founder Edge4Vets, a veterans assistance group, and the author of “Reclaiming the Sky: 9/11 and the Untold Stor y of the Men and Wome n W ho Ke pt A me r ica Flying.”

“People in the aviation industry suffered losses on 9/11,” Murphy said. “Some in the military joined up because of 9/11. Many people in aviation and the military came to the same place from different directions.”

Panelist Debbie Roland, an American Airlines flight attendant, and Tony Knisley, American’s fight services manager at Dulles Airport in Washington, DC, put friends and colleagues on Flight 77, which eventually struck the Pentagon.

United Airlines flight attendant Eileen Ammiano trained the crew for Flight 93 out of Newark, NJ, which crashed into a field in Pennsylvania as passengers attacked the hijackers to take the plane back.

Sudahee Henriquez, now a psychotherapist, was a flight attendant

on JetBlue that day, with a problem no one could have forseen, and one that required absolute calm and cool.

“We were the first airline to have televisions,” she said.

“Passengers were watching the news. We didn’t know what was happening, but we had to keep reassuring them.”

Q ueens nat ive Ma r y McKenna, an American Airlines f light attendant, lost friends on 9/11, and again t wo mont h s lat e r whe n American Airlines Flight 587 came down in the Rockaways, killing 265 people Queens native and flight attendant Mary McKenna, right, speaks of coping on and when the plane lost its verti- after 9/11 in a conference last week at Vaughn College with flight attendant trainer cal stabilizer.

Eileen Ammiano, left, flight services manager Toni Knisley and flight attendant “I knew [Flight 587] Capt. Debbie Roland.

PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON Edward States; I knew co“Dirt therapy,” one said. pilot Sten Molin,” McKenna said. get to work.”

They also took teddy bears Airline employees responded “I must have lost 25 friends.”

Moving forward for Carbona- gradually, given time to ref lect that have been sent by the public ro, now retired, and his men took on just the right way to move to a children’s shelter where slain flight attendant Michelle Heidenforward. place instantly.

Among the things American berger long had volunteered.

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OPINION

We must do more for the first responders of Sept. 11 This is a good

by Stacey Pheffer-Amato This past weekend, I joined families first step.

But, our f irst across southern Queens and Rockaway to reflect on the 15th anniversary of the Sept. responders deserve 11 attacks. In moments of silence that spoke to be protected by louder than any words, we remembered the this law so long as lives lost that terrible day. We laid flowers they live.

With many illin memory of those who never returned home from work and paid tribute to the nesses not developincredible sacrifices of our first responders ing until five, 10 or who died saving people they never knew, as maybe 20 years well as those stricken with illness as a result after the attacks, this is the least we can do of the recovery efforts. We must never for- to anticipate the health problems that some get the price paid by so many in our will face. As your assemblywoman, I intend to fight for more lasting protections that community.

For so many of us, Sept. 11, 2001 was no would benefit our police and firefighters, more distant than the skyline visible across including so many from South Queens and Rockaway.

Jamaica Bay. We can only ensure these protections We remember where we were and what we were doing when the towers fell. Some will last for years to come if we make the future leaders of our of us have friends or c o m m u n it y f u l ly family who perished, aware of the attacks or k now someone e must never forget and what they mean directly affected by to our city, state and the attacks. the tragic events of country. That is why I Now, 15 ye a r s September 11. will take up Assemlater, we’ve reached blyman Phil Goldfedthe point where young er’s fight to make people today might have no memory at all of the attacks, or Sept. 11 a statewide day of remembrance in our public schools. Our children must know may not have even been born yet.

This is the case with my two children, what happened in Lower Manhattan so that and with young people around the country. they can fight to protect the health and wellAs Sept. 11 risks becoming distant history being of first responders when they become to young people, we need to take steps to our state leaders.

In our nation’s darkest hour we came ensure that issues still very much relevant together as a country and a community to are given the attention they deserve.

First, we need to make sure that our first confront pure evil with love. This same responders are properly cared for as they spirit should continue to guide us this anniface a host of ailments known to be caused versary and every year on out.

This is the best tribute to those we lost, by the dust and debris of the attacks.

This week, Gov. Cuomo signed an exten- and the best way to ensure that they are Q sion to the World Trade Center Disability properly remembered.

Stacey Pheffer-Amato is the DemoLaw through Sept. 11, 2018.

This extension allows for Ground Zero cratic candidate for the 23rd Assembly first responders to apply for compensation, District, which encompasses most of disability and accidental death benefits as a Rockaway, all of Howard Beach and parts of Ozone Park. result of the attacks.

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Rockaway, as it does every year, honored those lost on Sept. 11.

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A color guard presents the American flag at last Sunday’s Sept. 11 candlelight vigil in Juniper Valley Park in Middle Village. The annual gathering is the highest attended annual 9/11 terror PHOTOS BY STEVE FISHER attack commemoration in the entire borough.

After 15 years, Middle Village still remembers Hundreds gather at Juniper Valley Park to commemorate Sept. 11

by Matthew Bultman

Arcuri Jr. recalled how, in the aftermath of the attack, construction companies provided Fifteen years ago, people gathered in Juni- materials and personnel to help in the cleanper Valley Park to watch smoke billow from up. Arcuri himself was stationed in a secLower Manhattan as the Twin Towers col- tion of Ground Zero where the South Tower once stood. lapsed in the distance.

“My last day of employment, I was standOn Sunday, hundreds again joined together in the Middle Village park for the solemn ing in the pit on Dec. 31, 2001, wondering annual ritual: a candlelight vigil honoring the why we had brought in all this crushed stone,” Arcuri said. “And then I realized, we lives lost in the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.

With One World Trade Center visible didn’t bring it in. That was 110 stories of conabove the treeline, the group sang songs, read crete that were crushed in the weight, explopoems and reflected on the thousands slain a sions and everything.

“Many of us carry those memories,” he decade and a half earlier.

“Fifteen years should be a long time,” said continued. “Many of us who worked also carry the physical results of Middle Village resident John being there.”

Rowan, “but it seems like The vigil has become a trayesterday.” dition in Juniper Valley Park, Flute music played as the taking place every year since names of 111 area residents the first time it was held the who died in the attacks were week of the attack. Volunteers read, one by one. People sitting posted f liers throughout the on blankets and lawn chairs neighborhood and nearly 6,000 held candles, while a series of people showed up on Sept. 15, small American flags spelled 2001. out 9/11 on the hillside.

“I don’t think we ever knew As the sun began to set, the when we came that night how Tribute in Light appeared high above the trees.

One World Trade Center busy we would be in this Several elected officials glistens amidst a blood neighborhood going to all the street renamings for all the attended the hour-long ceremo- orange sunset. folks who lost their lives in that ny, many speaking about the impact of the attacks and the sacrifices that horrible attack,” said Rowan, who is a Vietnam War veteran. had been made.

The amount of time that has passed since Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing) said peothat first vigil was evident in the crowd that ple are still healing.

“There is not one person in this area that gathered in the park on Sunday evening.

Many there hadn’t witnessed the attacks or wasn’t affected in some way,” Meng said.

“Whether they were down at the Twin Tow- even met relatives who died.

Several of those in attendance spoke of the ers or simply reminded of all that has changed with a simple glance at the Lower need to teach future generations about that day and make sure no one ever forgets the Manhattan skyline.”

Q Community Board 5 Chairman Vincent lives that were lost.

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Lew talks economy at Queens College Secretary of the treasury, Forest Hills native, at student town hall

by Michael Gannon

sury in February 2013.

During the town hall, Lew fielded quesU.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew was tions on topics ranging from historically low home in his native Queens on Monday, tak- interest rates and the interplay of U.S. and ing questions at a student town hall meeting world economies to why the United States still mints the penny. at Queens College.

“I usually let the students set the agenda Well over 100 students packed into the auditorium at the Benjamin S. Rosenthal when I attend these meetings,” Lew said Library for the forum, which was moderated before going out on the stage.

He told the Chronicle and the

by David Brancaccio, host of students that schools like Queens “Marketplace Morning Report” College are integral to the future on National Public Radio. success of the country.

Lew, who granted the Queens “Queens College is a place Chronicle an exclusive interview where higher education is availprior to the session, said he first able and affordable,” said Lew, thought of entering government who has a sister and an aunt as a New York City public school among the school’s alums. student attending Forest Hills He also encouraged students to High School. do what it takes to actually com“But treasury secretary was a plete their degrees, given the difbridge farther than I was thinkference it makes in career opporing,” he said.

Jacob Lew t u n ities. A nd he cautioned Lew served as director of the Office of Management and Budget under against being too regimented when starting President Clinton from 1998 to 2001, and in the workforce.

“Don’t be the one who says ‘I don’t really again under President Obama from Novemdo that,’” he said. “Do what has to be done. ber 2010 to January 2012.

He served as President Obama’s White That person gets more work and more House chief of staff for just under one year opportunities.”

Asked by the Chronicle about the probetween January 2012 and January 2013.

Obama appointed him secretary of the trea- longed period of low interest rates, he said it Editor

U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, left, who grew up in Forest Hills, was the featured speaker Monday afternoon at a student town hall meeting at Queens College moderated by David Brancaccio PHOTOS BY MICHAEL GANNON of National Public Radio. was just one tool that the administration has used to bring the country out of the great recession of 2008.

He said it is a bit more complicated than assertions from some critics who say the prolonged rates punish savers and reward borrowing.

“It is a reason people coming out of the crisis could buy cars, why they could buy houses,” he said, while acknowledging that

the other side of the coin has had an impact on pension funds and similar accounts that rely on interest on invested money.

“I’ll let my colleagues at the [Federal Reserve] decide when to change rates,” Lew said.

He said during the forum that the United States’ recovery over the last eight years has been the model for countries from around the continued on page 21

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One student hid a picture of Superman under sheets of colorful paper and, using a method created by the group, directed another student to where the superhero was hiding. The purpose behind the game is to teach children the concept of an algorithm.

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Queens Olympians get a warm welcome home Athletes receive proclamations and praise from Borough President Katz

by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

Olympic gold medalist and Rochdale Village native Dalilah Muhammad had one message for Queens kids during Monday’s homecoming ceremony on the steps of Borough Hall.

Don’t strive to be like her.

“Coming home, so many young kids have been telling me that they just want to be like me and they want to be me when they grow up,” Muhammad said. “I have a message for you guys. Strive to be 10 times better than me.

Have dreams that are so much bigger than what anyone else can fathom for yourself.”

The Rochdale product was one of six American Olympians from Queens who were honored in a proud ceremony, a group that, Borough President Melinda Katz said, has become an inspiration to many Queens residents.

“When I think of this borough, I think of a prototype that the rest of this country follows,” Katz said. “And no one represents that better than our Queens Olympians who have joined us here today.”

The four athletes present at the event — Muhammad, fellow Cardozo High School graduate Deajah Stevens, former Rosedale resident Natasha Hastings and former Flushing resident Jennifer Wu — were honored

Queens Olympians Deajah Stevens, left, Dalilah Muhammad, Jennifer Wu and Natasha Hastings were honored with proclamations from Borough President Melinda Katz during a homecoming PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA ceremony for the athletes on Monday. with proclamations from Katz, as were the mothers of fencer Daryl Homer, a St. John’s University graduate, and track star Phyllis Francis, a former Laurelton resident.

Muhammad made history in Rio, becoming the first American woman to ever win a gold medal in the 400-meter hurdles, dominating the rest of the field in the process.

“I’m so happy to be able to bring this home for Queens,” she said of her victory.

Track stars Francis and Hastings won gold medals of their own as part of the 4x400meter relay team, while Homer won silver in the men’s individual sabre competition.

Francis and Hastings also just missed earning a medal in the 400-meter race, as Hastings finished fourth with Francis crossing the line one spot behind her.

Stevens and Wu, a table tennis player, failed to medal. The former qualified for the 200-meter final but finished in seventh, while the latter was knocked out in the second round of her event.

Regardless of whether they placed at the Olympics, Rep. Greg Meeks (D-Queens, Nassau) said all six athletes being honored have become role models, whether that was their plan or not.

“It’s an example that if you stick to it, you put your mind to it, you can accomplish what you want to accomplish,” Meeks said. “We are so proud of you. We honor you. We know that this is only the beginning for you. You are a shining example of excellence that all our children and adults can follow.”

Hastings told the crowd that Queens should expect to see her at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

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A gold in Rio means a parade back home Rochdale Village celebrates its Olympic champ Dalilah Muhammad

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Dalilah Muhammad has raced everywhere from California to the Czech Republic. Her latest journey took her to Rio de Janeiro, where she became the first American woman to ever win an Olympic gold medal in the 400-meter hurdles last month.

But the superstar never forgot where she came from.

“So many people have been asking what this gold medal means to me and it’s not until this moment here that I can truly put it into words,” Muhammad told the crowd out-

Holding their camera phones high, pedestrians wave at Muhammad as she passes by.

side the Rochdale Village Community Center on Saturday. “This is where it started for me. I was 7 years old when I joined the track team, when I was just a little girl running around Rochdale.”

And Muhammad’s native Rochdale Village never forgot her, either.

Despite the heat and humidity, hundreds of people flocked to Merrick Boulevard on Saturday to get a glimpse of the champion as she was paraded three miles from Roy Wilkins Park to the Rochdale Village Community Center.

From the second the 26-year-old Muhammad got out of a limousine at the park, she was swarmed by area children desperate to meet her or take a picture with her.

Along the parade route, dozens of people stepped out of their homes and businesses to wave to her, with the smiling gold medalist waving back every time.

Joining Muhammad on her extravagant float were her parents and event organizer state Sen. James Sanders Jr. (D-South Ozone Park), with a teenage drum corps and Muhammad’s former youth track club, the New York Novas, walking behind them.

Upon her arrival at the Rochdale Village

Olympic gold medalist Dalilah Muhammad was welcomed home to her native Rochdale Village on Saturday with a parade through Southeast Queens. Hundreds descended on Merrick BoulePHOTOS BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA vard to smile and wave at the track superstar.

Community Center, Muhammad received a proclamation from Sanders and a bouquet of f lowers from the development’s board of directors before taking questions from a handful of excited kids in the crowd.

When asked if she would run any other event beside the 400-meter hurdles at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, should she qualify, Muhammad let the crowd in on a secret.

“Well you know what? I think so,” she

told the crowd. “Next year I’m picking up the 100-meter hurdles.”

Amid a crowd of autograph-seeking young girls, the modest Muhammad told the Chronicle before the parade that despite all the international attention she’s been receiving, she still considers herself just a girl from Rochdale Village.

“I wouldn’t call myself a celebrity,” she Q said. “I feel at home here.”

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continued from page 14 were denied line-of-duty death benefits from a fund intended to compensate for such losses, the government claiming Pearlman was not acting in an official capacity.

The hour-long service included a musical selection, “Take the Time” — written by Forest Hills resident Marc Rosett and performed by Christine Solimeno — and brief remarks by Borough Bresident Melinda Katz, state Sen. Toby Stavisky (D-Flushing) and Cou ncilwoma n K a ren Koslow itz (D-Forest Hills).

Members of Boy Scout Troop 106 closed the ceremony by lowering the flag, which had been flying at half staff.

All proceeds from the ride will benefit the FHVAC, which, according to the service’s master of ceremonies Benjamin Betancourt, has a design in place for an expanded memorial garden to honor Pearlman, at a cost of $50,000.

A former classmate wrote to Pearlman on an online memorial page: “The last time I saw you we were in the fourth grade together in P.S. 272. I remember how you always used to be so kind to me when no one else was.

“It was a kindness that will likely be remembered by many for a long time Q to come.”

Stepmother gets 15 years in beating case Teenager she abused was 58 pounds An Ozone Park woman has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for beating and starving her stepdaughter over a two-year period, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said last Friday.

The sentencing of Sheetal Ranot, 35, follows her July conviction on charges of first-degree assault and endangering the welfare of a child.

Ranot beat her stepdaughter so badly that the child’s wrist bone was exposed following a beating with a metal broom handle. When found by authorities, the child weighed only 58 pounds, the DA said.

“The defendant was the epitome of an evil step-mother. Not only did she refuse to provide basic nourishment for the child, but the defendant also wantonly beat and abused the girl inflicting pain still evident by the scars that mark her body today,” Brown said in a statement announcing the sentencing. “No child deserves to be treated in this manner.”

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According to Brown, Sheetal Ranot repeatedly struck the preteen between Dec. 1, 2012, and May 6, 2014 while repeatedly refusing to feed her.

In April 2014, after being observed by medical officials following one of the beatings, the then-12-year-old girl weighed 58 pounds, according to the district attorney, a dangerously low weight for a girl that age.

In another instance, Ranot kicked the preteen while wearing boots, causing bruising, swelling and substantial pain around her face.

The child testified at her stepmother’s trial, detailing the beatings for the jury.

The panel deliberated for a day before handing up the conviction earlier this sumQ mer.

Jacob Lew continued from page 18 world, adding that the country’s banking system is much safer now through new monetary, fiscal and regulatory policies.

He said he likes to think of U.S. Treasury securities as the definition of risk-free security investment. Lew also said the nation’s deficit has been reduced to more manageable levels than eight years ago.

He said the administration actually reduced the deficit more quickly than he would have liked, preferring at the time to make investments for short-term gain while taking a bit longer to pay down the more manageable deficits.

He right now would prefer investment in infrastructure to an equivalent reduction in the deficit as a means of keeping the count r y competitive internationally.

Lew elected to stay out of political conversation, declining to comment on the possible impact of a Donald Trump presidency on the economy; on whether he has received overtures from Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton to stay on in some capacity should she win; or just how a Queens guy looks to aim higher after having been in the president’s cabinet.

“I think treasury secretary is pretty good for a Queens guy,” he said. “Or Q any guy.”

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Sanders tops Adams in 10th SD primary Vanel secures Dems’ nomination in the 33rd Dist.; Cook, Hyndman win

by Michael Gannon Editor

State Sen. James Sanders Jr. (D-South Ozone Park) successfully held off a primary challenge on Tuesday, defeating Community Board 12 Chairwoman Adrienne Adams for the state Senate’s 10th District.

Unofficial figures from the New York State Board of Elections gave Sanders 56.8 percent of the vote, while Adams received nearly 41.4 percent.

The primary had been hardfought and in the closing days turned acrimonious.

But Sanders said Adams was gracious in a phone call after the close of the polls, and that the two have agreed to work together.

Sanders is not expected to face strong Republican opposition in November in the heavily Democratic district.

Adams had secured the Queens County Democratic Party endorsement. She first entered the race when Sanders was working on a campaign to challenge Congressman Gregory Meeks (D-Queens, Nassau).

Assembly incumbents Vivian Cook, left, and Alicia Hyndman won their primaries handily.

Clyde Vanel topped a five-candidate field in FILE PHOTOS the open 33rd District.

Sanders’ supporters had alleged that the party’s endorsement of Adams and even allegations of corruption being investigated by the FBI were retribution for the senator’s plans to challenge Meeks.

Surrounded by supporters in Rosedale Tuesday night, Sanders credited Adams with running a strong race. He did not classify his victory as a vindication.

“I’ll call it a mandate,” he said. “The people have spoken. ... Party leaders do not determine what is best for this district. The people deter mine what is best for the district.”

Still, Sanders said he remains ready to work with any leaders in the county or Albany interested in advancing issues of importance in the 10th Senate District.

He eschewed a suggestion that he might join the Senate’s Independent Democratic Conference, a breakaway group of five senators, including Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) who have had a power-sharing agreement with Senate Republicans in recent years.

“I think I’m the original independent Democrat,” Sanders joked. “I’m even independent of the Independent Democrats. ...

But all my life I’ve been a Democrat. I believe in democratic ideals — small ‘d’ is as important as capital ‘D,’ even more so.”

Sanders said he hopes subsequent numbers show his support was evenly spread out in the district, and not just strong in his home base of the Rockaways. He also said he did not have to wait for the polls to close to be confident of the outcome.

“You don’t win an election on election

State Sen. James Sanders Jr., right, chats with supporters in Rosedale Tuesday night following PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON his primary victory in the 10th Senate District. day — you can lose it,” he said. “But if you don’t go into election day knowing you’ve won, 10 to 1 you probably won’t.”

In Democratic primaries for the state Assembly, attorney Clyde Vanel emerged as the top vote-getter in a five-candidate race for the nomination in the 33rd District.

The seat has been open since the death earlier this year of longtime Assemblywoman Barbara Clark.

Vanel, in uncertified returns, received 31.7 percent of the vote, outdistancing Nantasha Williams, who got 27.6 percent.

Bryan Block, chairman of Community

Board 13 and the party-endorsed candidate, came in third with 24 percent. Roy Paul finished with 10.9 percent, while Sabine French got 3.5 percent.

In the 32nd Assembly primary, incumbent Vivian Cook (D-Jamaica), with just under 75 percent of the vote, withstood a challenge from Rodney Reid, who won 21.5 percent.

The race in the 29th Assembly District saw incumbent Alicia Hyndman, running for her first full term, get 72.1 percent of the vote. Lorraine Bridges got 20.6 percent, while Linda Guillebeaux received just over Q 6 percent.

Barnwell rips Markey over campaign mailer

by Christopher Barca

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Did Assemblywoman Marge Markey (D-Maspeth) tout endorsements she never received in a recent campaign mailer distributed throughout her district?

That claim — made by her primary opponent, Brian Barnwell before he routed Markey in Tuesday’s primary — isn’t correct, but it isn’t completely wrong, either.

In the mailer are photos of Markey posing with Borough President Melinda Katz, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-New York) and Councilman Costa Constantinides (D-Astoria) below the line, “Her record has earned Marge Markey the endorsements of:” Underneath the photos are the logos of 10 unions and labor groups — including the New York State Nurses Association and the New York State AFL-CIO — along with the names of Schumer, Katz, Constantinides and other politicians, including Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing) and Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley (D-Glendale).

While the mailer doesn’t specify what year or race the endorsements were made in, Barnwell told the Chronicle last week that the longtime lawmaker did not receive an endorsement from Constantinides, 1199 SEIU, the United Federation of Teachers or 32BJ SEIU in 2016.

But in researching his claim, the Chronicle confirmed only one of the four entities, 1199 SEIU, did not endorse Markey this year.

“We did not give her an endorsement,” 1199 spokesman Dave Bates told the Chronicle on Friday. “We endorsed her in 2014, but she did not ask for an endorsement this time around and we did not give one.”

However, Barnwell was incorrect in claiming the UFT or 32BJ SEIU did not endorse Markey. Both unions list Markey as a recipient of their 2016 endorsement on their websites.

Phone calls and emails left with the office of Constantinides — whom Barnwell, 30, previously worked for — went unreturned.

The councilman was spotted at Barnwell’s victory party on Tuesday, however, and a staffer of his retweeted multiple posts about Barnwell winning that night.

Markey’s office did not respond to a voicemail or email seeking comment before the primary, but Barnwell said Monday that voters shouldn’t trust anything Markey says.

“Voters should care because she has a history of saying misleading statements that she never gets called out on,” Barnwell said. “That is exactly the problem in politics, politicians who aren’t telling the truth. If she lies about something like this, how can we trust her on other issues?”

When asked about his incorrect claim that 32BJ and the UFT didn’t endorse Markey, the Woodside resident said his campaign had no knowledge of the endorsements because they were never publicized by the two unions.

Barnwell added that he was not endorsed by any unions, labor groups or politicians this year, something he said was expected.

“We have received no endorsements as we are not a part of the Albany lobbyist machine that has seen Markey receive hundreds of thousands of dollars in political action committee money over her tenure,” he said. “The campaign finance shows she is funded by lobbyists whereas our campaign has been funded by the individual people in the community.”

Barnwell became a popular figure in the Maspeth and Middle Village area, especially over the last month, as he’s been present at nearly every protest against the planned conversion of the 55th Road Holiday Inn in Maspeth into a homeless shelter, which was announced in early August.

On Aug. 30, Markey signed onto a lawsuit with Crowley and state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) to stop the city from continuing with the plan.

But at a Community Board 5 hearing on the subject on Aug. 31, Markey was heavily booed by hundreds of people, prompting her to ask, “Why are you booing me?” before waving to the crowd and walking out of the meeting.

As predicted by civic leaders and residents alike, her absence at the nightly protests outside the hotel hurt her Q with voters in Maspeth and possibly beyond.

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Barnwell trounces Markey in primary Woodside attorney claimed nearly 65 percent of the vote on Tuesday

by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

The 30th District will have a new Assembly member come January.

Upstart challenger Brian Barnwell throttled nine-term incumbent Assemblywoman Marge Markey (D-Maspeth) by nearly 28 percentage points in Tuesday’s primary, sparking a celebration on one side and tears on the other. “Hard work pays off,� Barnwell told the press at his victory party at O’Neill’s Restaurant in Maspeth. “It’s humbling. It’s really humbling because you had so many people in the community get behind you.�

While his victory may not have been a shock to many in the district, the margin by which he won surprised both candidates.

Turnout was incredibly low — only 2,543 of the district’s 32,162 registered Democrats cast ballots — which Barnwell feared days earlier, in speaking with a Chronicle reporter, would most likely mean a significant defeat.

But with 100 percent of the precincts reporting by 10 p.m., Barnwell had earned 1,622 votes — 63.8 percent of the tally — to Markey’s 921.

The race was called by WNYC for the 30-year-old Woodside attorney at 9:20 p.m., just 20 minutes after the polls closed.

When asked a couple hours later if his confidence in the days leading up to the election was just projection, Barnwell said he honestly believed he would win. “Before tonight, I felt like I was up 3-2 in the seventh inning,� he said. “I felt like we had it.�

Barnwell will now face off against Maspeth Republican

Tony Nunziato — who was seen hugging and talking with the Woodside man at the victory party — in November’s general election.

The handful of staffers and supporters at Markey’s watch party appeared stunned by the results.

They informed the incumbent of her defeat at 9:35 p.m., with Markey soon beginning to tear up as she was comforted by those in the room. “This is another chapter,� Markey told her staff afterwards, adding she was surprised by the outcome. “I have my dreams of what I would like to do in the next couple of months. It is what it is. The people have spoken. “I’m truly proud of the work I have done over the years,� she continued. “I have brought a lot of money back to my district.�

About 25 people attended Barnwell’s victory party, including a jubilant Bob Holden, the president of the Juniper Park Civic Association and an outspoken critic of Markey for years. “We’ve been waiting 18 years for this,� Holden said. “This puts all the incumbents on notice that they have to work. If they don’t, this is what’s going to happen.�

Just two years ago, it was Markey who destroyed her primary opponent, Community Board 5 member Dmytro Fedkowskyj, by nearly 50 percentage points, one of the largest margins of victory in the city that year.

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Woodside attorney Brian Barnwell, right, defeated longtime Assemblywoman Marge Markey in Tuesday’s primary. His general election opponent in November is Maspeth Republican Tony Nunziato, seen here conPHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA gratulating Barnwell at his victory party.

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Stavisky wins primary race against Jung State senator defeats community activist for second time in landslide

by Ryan Brady Associate Editor

State Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky (D-Flushing) won the Democratic primary race for her seat on Tuesday after a challenge from community activist S.J. Jung, whom she beat in the same race in 2014.

“Tonight’s election showed that the voters and the people in the 16th Senate District care about the issues that are important to everybody,” Stavisky said at her victory party at the Good Kitchen Seafood Resturant in Flushing. “And I’ve been talking about these issues since the campaign began — whether it be civil rights, human rights, women’s rights, we talked about things that mattered and we stood up for what is right.”

Stavisky, who has been an incumbent since 1999, won with 57.3 percent of the vote and Jung received 42.1 percent.

“The support in the community, I must tell you is just amazing and I am totally grateful to the people in the 16th Senate District who came out and voted and even those who didn’t vote,” the state senator said. “But let me indicate that I look forward to continuing what we’ve been working on, whether it be the women’s equality agenda, whether it be affordable housing, the DREAM Act, the issues, good schools, these are issues that matter, not to the Asian

State Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky celebrated her primary election victory against S.J. Jung at a victory party in Flushing that included Assemblywoman Nily Rozic, left, Assemblyman David Weprin and PHOTO BY RYAN BRADY Councilman Paul Vallone. community but to the entire community.”

The Jung campaign did not immediately return a request for comment.

Stavisky and Jung differed on issues such as gay marriage and abortion.

“The first call I had was from the leader of the Democratic Conference, my friend

Curtis Sliwa says he likely won’t run for BP Guardian Angels founder eyeing mayor

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The race for Queens Borough President next year will probably be a lot less dramatic than some might have thought.

Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa told the Chronicle last Friday that he most likely won’t be challenging Borough President Melinda Katz — his former partner and the mother of his two youngest children — for her seat in 2017 after all.

Instead, Sliwa said at last Friday’s protest outside the Holiday Inn in Maspeth that Mayor de Blasio is the one he would love to run against.

“I’ve moved it up on the burner,” Sliwa said. “I may give Melinda a pass and go at de Blasio. We’ve got to get him out.”

Sliwa exclusively told the Chronicle in April after a Juniper Park Civic Association meeting that he was “absolutely” going to run for borough president as a Republican.

Speaking to a crowd of around 200 protesters — who were expressing their anger with the city over a plan to convert the

hotel into a homeless shelter next month — Sliwa slammed de Blasio for ramming shelters down the throats of working-class neighborhoods like Maspeth.

His passionate speech elicited huge cheers from the audience, with some shouting out to him, begging him to run either against Katz or de Blasio.

“They don’t want me to run for mayor,” he said of “the parties that be” after his remarks. “I would say the way this mayor is going, and the fact that nobody has emerged to challenge him ...”

In his speech to the Juniper Park Civic Association, Sliwa said his main motivation for running for borough president would be to scrub the borough of institutional corruption.

“It’s nothing against Melinda,” he said in April, “it’s just all roads that give the Queens County Democratic machine a badly needed colonic lead through the borough presidency because that’s where the patronage is.”

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[st ate Sen.] A nd rea Stewar t- Cousins [(D-Yonkers)],” Stavisky said. “I want to thank Senator Stewart-Cousins and her staff and let us hope that we work together, so that come November, we elect Hillary Clinton as president and a Democratic state Senate in Albany.”

The senator was joined by other Queens politicians at her victory party.

“I was out early today on Kissena Boulevard meeting voters for Toby Stavisky and what I found was that everyone wanted her re-elected, across the board people know Toby and know her leadership,” Assemblywoman Nily Rozic (D-Fresh Meadows) said.

“And that’s why we’re so lucky as a community to have her in Flushing, in Forest Hills, across Queens and more importantly, going back to Albany for another two years.”

Assemblymen Ed Braunstein (D-Bayside) and David Weprin (D-Fresh Meadows), Councilman Paul Vallone (D-Bayside), Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz (D-Forest Hills) and Flushing Chinese Business Association Executive Director Peter Tu were also at the event. Stavisky thanked all of the elected officials in attendance and Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing), Councilman Peter Koo (D-Flushing), Assemblyman Ron Kim (D-Flushing), her campaign manager Veronica Ng and others for their support.

“I think this is a victory for everybody, it’s a victory of what I think was a campaign about issues, not personalities and I think we will continue to work together in the days ahead,” the senator said. “So, again, I must Q tell you, I thank you all very much.”

Markey trounced on Tuesday continued from page 23 was her response to the city’s planned conversion of the Holiday Inn in Maspeth into a homeless shelter.

Although she is a plaintiff in a lawsuit seeking to block it, Markey was absent from a public meeting to discuss the issue in early August, did not attend any of the nightly protests outside the hotel and abruptly walked out of an Aug. 31 hearing about the proposal after questioning why the crowd was booing her.

Meanwhile, Bar nwell appeared at nearly every protest, in addition to just about every community board, civic and property owners meeting in Maspeth and Middle Village for the last year.

“It says a lot about him,” Holden said.

“But it also says a lot about her.”

“I do think it highlighted she failed to show up,” Barnwell said of the shelter issue. “She failed to lead on the issue and that’s what you expect from your elected officials.”

One piece of legislation Markey says she will regret not being able to see through is the Child Victims Act, which would increase the time a sexual abuse case could be brought by five years, open a six-month window to revive old cases, and treat public and private entities the same when it comes to sex abuse.

While she’s pushed for it every year, the bill last passed the Assembly in 2008,

with the state Senate repeatedly failing to pick up the proposed legislation.

“What really upsets me is my bill. It’s a very important bill for me and I don’t know what’s going to happen down the line,” she said. “There are victims who have always supported me and I feel an obligation to them to make sure, somehow, that bill gets passed.”

When asked if he would try to push the bill forward should he become the district’s representative, Barnwell would not commit to doing so but did not rule it out.

“For 10 years, it was a bill that had loopholes in it,” he said. “I’ve got to see the bill.”

Markey told the press at her watch party that she didn’t believe her opponent would continue that fight.

Barnwell also addressed one of Markey’s main talking points, that he will be far less successful in bringing money back to the district than she was.

“You’ve got to build a base,” he said.

“She started from day one and now I’m starting at day one.”

Barnwell added he would be open to debating Nunziato before November.

Holden said it was too early to say whether the Juniper Park Civic Association would possibly host a debate, as it did when Craig Caruana ran against Cou nci lwom a n El i z abet h Crowley Q (D-Glendale) in 2013.

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Drop-in center continued from page 6 feel comfortable at the drop-in site.

“They’d rather sleep on the streets,” the resident said.

There was one speaker, who lives near the building, who expressed support for the center.

“They are people who need to be embraced by the community,” Maria Estrada said at the meeting.

Estrada addressed people’s concerns that some of the people staying at the center may be mentally ill or registered sex offenders, but still urged everyone to

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“You have a one-family house that’s holding 10 families living in it and they’re all coming to school in our district,” he said.

Riley Edwards, the author of the CBC report, told the Queens Chronicle she compiled the study, released on the first day of the new school year last Thursday, to give parents a “clear, factual understanding” of the issue.

“This way, they can take action at a disQ trict or borough level,” she said.

be compassionate.

“Even if they are, they’re people and they need help,” she said.

Richmond Hill resident Dee Nixon did not say if she was for or against the plan, but added the community should get additional services — such as more public transportation or beautification projects to pick up property values — if the site is approved.

Wills said he and other elected officials will be holding roundtable conversations with advocates for the homeless and other groups in the future to discuss how to better serve those in need.

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continued from page 2 years but then later on those classes are empty,” he said.

The report also claimed that, contrary to popular belief, overcrowding is more a problem in more affluent areas than poorer neighborhoods.

Maria Kaufer, of CEC 28 — which represents Forest Hills, Kew Gardens, South Jamaica and parts of South Ozone Park and South Richmond Hill — has heard arguments that support and contrast that claim.

“Forest Hills schools are the ones we tend to hear more concer ns about,” Kaufer said. “But I’ve heard different things in terms of the schools in South Jamaica, South Ozone Park and South Richmond Hill.”

Kaufer said she wouldn’t be surprised if that was the case, noting that schools in better off areas tend to do better on tests and attract families looking to give their children a better education.

“If you look at the results, it looks like the more wealthy neighborhoods tend to perform higher and those schools tend to be the ones that attract people,” she said.

Comaianni outright disagreed with that finding, saying that while overcrowding is a problem throughout the district, it’s most concentrated in Elmhurst and Corona.

The CEC president faulted the Department of Buildings for not aggressively cracking down on illegal subdivisions in

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Stan the man: Wawrinka wins US Open in upset Serena Williams loses in semis as Angelique Kerber earns her crown

by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

It’s not often that Novak Djokovic, the world’s top-ranked player, gets overpowered on the tennis court.

But that’s exactly what happened in Flushing Meadows Corona Park on Sunday, as three-seed Stan Wawrinka topped the alltime great to win his first career US Open.

The Swiss star dropped the first set, a back-and-forth slugfest, but took the next three, slowly wearing down a clearly hobbled Djokovic, who received medical attention throughout the match for cramps and a toe injury.

In the end, Wawrinka’s electric onehanded backhand ended up being too much for Djokovic, as the power tennis expert won the match 6-7(1), 6-4, 7-5, 6-3.

He was gracious in victory, however, saying all the matches he’s played against Djokovic over the course of his career have made him a better player.

“We’ve known each other for many, many

years,” the 31-year-old Wawrinka said on court. “Because of you I am the player I am today.”

On the women’s side of the bracket, newly-minted world No. 1 Angelique Kerber outlasted Karolina Pliskova — who had beaten both Serena and Venus Williams en route to the final — to win her first US Open crown 6-3, 4-6, 6-4.

It is Kerber’s second career Grand Slam title, having beaten Serena Williams in the final of this year’s Australian Open.

“It’s the best year in my career,” Kerber said on court with tears in her eyes. “It’s just incredible. Everything started here in 2011 and now I’m standing here with the trophy.

It means so much to me.”

It was another disappointing tournament for Williams, as she was looking to avenge her stunning 2015 semifinal loss to unseeded Italian Roberta Vinci with a win in this year’s event.

The superstar lost to Pliskova in straight Q sets, 6-2 7-6 (7-5).

Swiss tennis star Stan Wawrinka gives the US Open trophy a hug after he topped Novak Djokovic, the top-ranked player in the world, in Sunday’s tournament final. Angelique Kerber won the PHOTO BY RICK MAIMAN women’s tournament one day earlier, besting Karolina Pliskova.

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Tennis under the stars

The US Open women’s semifinal match that pitted Serena Williams against Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic on the evening of Sept. 8 saw a very pro-Serena crowd — both inside and outside of Arthur Ashe Stadium.

A few thousand gathered on the grounds of the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center as they do every year on the final Thursday, when the tournament allows those who do not have or could not get tickets to the main night match

to watch for free on gigantic screens outside the stadium.

Fans were situated close to the food court, restrooms and bars to enjoy the match under the stars, with tournament organizers this year also requisitioning clear, balmy weather.

At left and at top, fans relax by the fountains.

Above, Brenda Allen, Eve Nebrida, Evonne Burgess and Abby Than, relax during a break in the action.

At right, Yvonne Cheeseboro and Millicent Williams, who have attended the Open nine times between them, applaud as Williams wins an extended rally.

But most of the fans outside Ashe went home disappointed, the festive atmosphere turning instantly to one of stunned disbelief as Williams, on an injured knee, lost in straight sets, with the deciding point coming on an uncharacteristic double fault.

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Sept. 11 isn’t over, even after 15 years Northwell Health pledges to forever care for sick 9/11 first responders

by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

It’s been 15 years since the Twin Towers came down, but the terror attacks of Sept. 11 still haven’t ended for many first responders who were there that day.

That’s according to Mineola, LI Mayor Scott Strauss, who was the emcee of last Thursday’s panel talk in New Hyde Park regarding health issues 9/11 first responders still suffer from.

“Even 15 years later, 9/11 is not over,” Strauss said. “It will never be over for those people who heroically devoted themselves to helping in the recovery efforts.”

Strauss was a member of the NYPD’s Emergency Services Unit on Sept. 11, 2001. His dramatic rescue of Port Authority officers Will Jimeno and John McLoughlin from the rubble of the collapsed South Tower was depicted in the 2006 box office hit “World Trade Center.”

“There was no way any of us could go home, hug our kids and look at ourselves in the mirror knowing we left these two men, fathers like us, to die,” he said.

While Strauss escaped Sept. 11 without any severe physical or mental ailments, three of the five panelists at Northwell Health weren’t so lucky.

Dr. Michael Guttenberg was an emergency medical services fellow for the FDNY on 9/11, working 16-hour days at Ground Zero to aid anyone who was injured during the attack and subsequent relief effort.

He’s since become a success in the medical field — serving as the medical director of the Center for Emergency Services and Clinical Preparedness for Northwell Health — but

Retired NYPD cop Danny Rodriguez, right, speaks about the care he’s received at the Queens World Trade Center Health Clinic in Rego Park alongside fellow 9/11 first responders Nick Rotundo, Bernard Robinson and Dr. Michael Guttenberg, and clinic director Dr. Jacqueline Moline. Rodriguez, Rotundo and Guttenberg all became ill after the attacks.

PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA he’s also a patient.

Three years ago at the age of 46, Guttenberg, an otherwise healthy nonsmoker, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer after complaining of abdominal pain and fatigue.

Howard Beach resident Nick Rotundo was driving his M11 bus on the Upper West Side when two planes flew into the World Trade Center on that September morning.

For 22 straight hours, he transported police officers,

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firefighters and doctors to and from Ground Zero in his bus.

That traumatic experience led to his battle with depression, something he’s just recently begun to get over.

Since-retired NYPD officer Danny Rodriguez, of Brooklyn, was driving across the Verrazano Bridge when he saw ash and charred paper floating in front of his car.

He looked left, saw the burning towers and knew he had to get there as fast as he could.

Rodriguez didn’t go into what he did at Ground Zero, only saying “I made my peace with God several times that day.”

He soon after became known internationally as “The Singing Cop,” performing at various Sept. 11 memorials in the immediate wake of the disaster and at massive gatherings such as the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City in the years afterward.

Despite being showered with love and press attention, he never felt quite right physically or mentally.

And it wasn’t until eight months ago when he was diagnosed with a massive infection in his sinuses and brain that, his doctors said, should have been fatal.

All three men had vastly different experiences on Sept. 11, but what bonds them together is the “life-saving” care they have received at Northwell Health’s free Queens World Trade Center Health Clinic in Rego Park.

“There’s not a day that goes by where I don’t think of 9/11,” Rotundo said. “But I must say the 9/11 clinic has really helped me cope.”

“I was escaping into the persona that became the singing policeman. I never thought about my health,” Rodriguez added. continued on page 30

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Five health screenings women shouldn’t miss A nutritious diet and daily exercise can promote long-term health, but preventative care also plays a key role in keeping adults healthy as they age. Routine health screenings can head off potential problems, preventing illnesses and possibly limiting the duration of sickness.

Women may have longer life expectancies than their male counterparts, but that does not mean they can afford to overlook preventative care. The following are five health screenings women should include as part of their healthy routines.

1. Pap smears and pelvic exams: Beginning at age 21 (or earlier if they are sexually active), every woman should get regular Pap smears and pelvic exams to test for any abnormalities in their Cer tain health screenings are recommended for reproductive systems. Pap smears women at various stages of life. may be suggested every two to three years depending on a woman’s age. A skin every month for new moles or changes in routine visit with a gynecologist is recom- existing spots or moles to detect early signs of mended annually to discuss any changes or skin cancer. Be sure to check all areas of the worrisome symptoms. body, as skin cancer can appear just about 2. Mammograms and breast exams: In everywhere. Some doctors perform skin canaddition to conducting self-examinations, cer screenings as part of routine physical women should get clinical manual breast exams, or women can visit a dermatologist. exams. Women age 40 and older should get 5. Bone density screening: Those with a a manual breast exam each year and an risk for osteoporosis, such as women with annual or bi-annual mammogram. fractured bones or slender frames, should 3. Cholesterol checks: The ideal level of be screened earlier and more regularly than total cholesterol is below 200 mg/DL. Indi- women without such histories or body viduals with a higher level of cholesterol types. Doctors generally recommend that may be at a greater risk for heart disease. women receive annual bone density screenCholesterol screenings can alert doctors to ings beginning at age 65. Healthy bones potential trouble and help them develop plans will show a T-score, or the measurement to for their patients to lower cholesterol levels. determine bone density, of -1 or higher.

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“The reason I’m here today is because the Northwell World Trade Center clinic. I thank them for saving my life.

“All that time I was singing, I was never thinking there may be something wrong.”

As the three men recounted their stories of sickness and recovery, many in the crowd — mostly made up of Northwell doctors and administrators — shed tears.

But Dr. Jacqueline Moline, the director of the Rego Park clinic, said those stories are perfect examples as to why the Rego Park clinic needs all the government support it can get.

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“For most people, 9/11 was the defining moment. For me, it sent my career on a different trajectory,” Moline said. “I have to say the Queens World Trade Center Clinic is by far the shining star in clinical centers.

Our patients are happy and getting phenomenal care.”

She also profusely thanked Congress for giving the federally administered program an extension of 75 years, ensuring that first responders will be guaranteed care for decades to come.

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Since becoming an international epidemic, the Zika virus has been a cause of concern among Queens residents, especially women. The disease, which is transmitted by mosquitoes and sexually, can cause the birth defect microcephaly in babies born to pregnant women who are infected with it. The defect results in a small head and an improperly developed brain.

The Health Department has been spraying sites to reduce the number of mosquitoes throughout the city, such as in Queens at Linden Hill, Edgemere, Brookville Park, Kissena Park, College Point, Alley Pond Park and Somerville.

Congress has been unable to fund a federal response to the virus, as legislation to do so has failed to move through both houses. President Obama requested $1.9 billion in anti-Zika emergency funding, but it has not been granted yet.

The House of Representatives offered $1.1 billion to fund anti-Zika efforts in June, but the money was originally purposed for programs against Ebola and an effort to set up an Obamacare exchange in U.S. territories and the plan would cut funding from Planned Parenthood, which Democrats opposed.

As of Sept. 1, there were 671 pregnant women with evidence of a possible Zika infection in the United States and 1,080 of them in U.S. territories, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“Our federal elected officials must put politics aside, treat this healthcare issue with the seriousness it deserves, and appropriately fund President Obama’s $1.9B request.” Deputy Mayor Dr. Herminia Palacio said in a prepared statement.

Aedes aegypti, a mosquito species that carries the Zika virus, which has caused concern among women in Queens and nationwide. PHOTO COURTESY CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION On Monday, the president said that his “hope is that by the time Congress adjourns, before the election, that we will have an agreement in place to fund the government and that Zika funding will be taken care of.”

CDC Director Thomas Frieden has said that the agency is quickly running out of funding for anti-Zika programs. Last Friday, he said that “we are now essentially out of money” and that the United States “is about to see a bunch of kids born with microcephaly.”

In the city, 568 people in total have tested positive for the virus. Most of the infections — 520 — were associated with travel. There are 110 Queens residents infected with the virus.

Four hundred and one women in the city have been infected

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CEO Jerry Walsh welcomed dignitaries, Council Member Donovan Richards, Reva Oliner, Chair of the Ocean Walk Committee, Dr. Don Morrish, Chief of Obstetrics & Gynecology to St. John’s 10th Annual Ocean Walk. The funds raised from this walk will benefit the Obstetrics and Maternity Department by bringing in new and innovative technology.

“Recently, with the gracious support of our diocese, elected officials both Councilmember Richards and Queens Borough President Melinda Katz, we raised nearly 3 million dollars towards this redevelopment that will not only benefit the look and feel of labor and delivery but most importantly provide better quality of care to mothers and families in the community,” said Jerry Walsh.

Community support is a major component of the progressive growth of any hospital and at St. John’s we are always grateful for the collaborative partnership of our elected officials Lisa George, who is the Community Liaison for state Senator James Sanders Jr. was our special Zumba instructor for this evening St. John’s Episcopal Hospital, the cornerstone of Episcopal Health Services, is the only fullservice acute care hospital in The Rockaways.

Celebrating 110 years of community care, the 257 bed facility provides people of all faiths with comprehensive preventive, diagnostic, treatment and rehabilitative services.

with the virus, 64 of whom are pregnant. None of the infections have been locally contracted. In July, the first baby was born in New York City with Zika-related microcephaly.

The Health Department, which monitors and controls mosquitoes, advises pregnant women to not travel to countries with Zika, such as certain South American, Central American and Caribbean ones as well as several Pacific islands. Many visitors to the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico have been affected by the virus.

Dr. Jill Rabin, an expert on the virus at Northwell Health, advises women to wear approved mosquito repellants with lemon eucalyptus, DEET and permethrin.

“We want them to not take a chance and not get bitten to begin with,” Rabin told the Chronicle, adding that staying indoors is another way to avoid mosquitoes.

The doctor says that women should wait at least eight weeks after being infected with to conceive and that men should wait at least six months.

“If your partner’s infected, you shouldn’t be having sex with him,” Rabin said.

Women experiencing the symptoms of Zika, which include fever, conjunctivitis and rash, should be tested at North Shore University Hospital’s Zika center, Rabin said, as should all pregnant women. Eighty percent of people infected with the virus are asymptomatic, however.

The hospital opened up its Zika in Pregnancy clinic in March for expecting women who have traveled to South America, the Caribbean and Latin America.

“It shouldn’t affect you in subsequent pregnancies,” she added. “It doesn’t make you terribly sick but just don’t get Q pregnant.”

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SPOTLIGHT ON ELDER LAW Proper planning with ‘irrevocable’ trusts

by Alexander Bader, Esq.

These pieces can be purchased at an ongoing art exhibit, which seeks to help Italian earthquake PHOTOS COURTESY ROSEMARIE BUZZEO victims.

Helping Italian earthquake victims Art and sport seek to raise funds

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Following the devastating earthquake that killed 296 people and injured hundreds more in central Italy last month, the Cultural Association of the Molise Region has launched a fundraising campaign to aid the victims of the disaster.

Based in Long Island City, the CAMR was founded by Italian native Alfredo Buzzeo in 2006 “to promote, spread, and celebrate the traditions and culture of the region of Molise and the rich language and culture of Italy in general,” according to the association’s website.

Funds will be raised by selling images provided by artists Tony Vaccaro, Mauro Presutti, Flavio Brunetti and Danilo Susi.

The association has previously sponsored the artists’ work in prior exhibitions.

All of the funds raised during the campaign will be donated to the Italian Agency for Emergency Response, a network of nine Italian nongovernmental organizations.

The Italian regions of Lazio, Umbria, Abruzzo and Marche were devastated when

an ear thquake register ing 6.2 on the moment magnitude scale occurred on Aug. 24 local time. Thousands of people were displaced as a result of the natural disaster.

It was the deadliest earthquake in the country since 2009, during which 300 people were killed following tremors in L’Aquilla.

The pieces up for purchase will be on exhibit 2 to 6 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays through Sept. 30 at the The Buzzeo Building, located at 31-16 36 Ave. The CAMR is also hosting a tennis tournament in conjunction with the Sunnyside Gardens Tennis Club on Sept. 18 to benefit the earthquake victims.

The tournament will take place at Sunnyside Gardens Park, located at 48-21 39 Ave. Start time is 10:30 a.m.

Interested competitors can take part in men’s or women’s doubles matches, with the winning teams facing off in a mixed doubles final set.

The cost of admission is $10 for member of the tennis club and $15 for nonmembers.

Those interested in competing must register Q by today, Sept. 15, at camruco.org.

JFK noise study report The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will present an update on its noise compatibility study — also known as a part 150 study — for John F. Kennedy International Airport from 7 to 9 p.m. on Sept. 15 at the St. Clare Catholic Academy Auditorium in Rosedale.

The study deals with noise levels to which those who live around Kennedy Airport are exposed. The study also is intended to outline a program to reduce noise.

The meeting is being sponsored by the Eastern Queens Alliance, and all residents

who have concerns about air and noise pollution associated with airport operations are invited to attend.

Residents also have expressed concerns that such problems will be exacerbated by the scheduling of more flights into and out of JFK, along with new approach routes that have large passenger jets coming in over residential neighborhoods at lower altitudes since the recent relocation of one of a main runways.

The St. Claire Catholic Academy auditorium is located on 241st Street between Q 137th and 138th avenues.

When a client comes to our office for an initial consultation the attorney that the client is meeting with will obtain information about the client’s family structure, asset picture and the client’s particular goals. Most often, a primary goal of our prospective clients is to “protect” their assets so that such assets can be passed to their children (or other loved ones) upon the client’s passing, as efficiently and with as much value retained as possible.

In helping our client reach this goal, “trusts” are often employed as extremely useful tools.

Two important questions logically follow from what is written above: (1) What exactly is it that assets need “protection” from?

(2) What precisely is a “trust”?

Answers: (1) In short, assets should be protected as best as possible from the astronomical costs of long-term care. Over 100 million Americans will unfortunately face a chronic illness at some point in their lives. Many people have the misconception that private health insurance and/or Medicare (if one is over 65) would help cover a chronic illness but this is not true. Only “acute illnesses,” or injuries / illnesses from which you are rehabilitating, would be covered by such insurance. By contrast, the only avenues available to help in paying for in-home care or nursing home care for a chronic illness are long-term care insurance and the Medicaid program. Given that many individuals cannot afford the often high premiums for long-term care insurance, the only option remaining to help with costs associated with a chronic illness, such as the $13,500 minimum per month that it costs in New York State to privately pay for a nursing home, is the Medicaid program.

An additional way that your assets can be depleted without proper planning is through legal fees accrued in relation to surrogate’s court proceedings that may take place upon your passing. If a person dies with assets in his or her name alone, with no joint owner or beneficiary designation, that asset (whether

financial, real estate, or personal property) cannot be passed to a beneficiary unless a fiduciary is appointed by a surrogate’s court.

The process of determining the person or persons to inherit such property is known as probate (when a person dies with a will in place), or the administration process (when no will has been done).

Now the key: in many circumstances, proper advance planning with irrevocable trusts can minimize or totally eliminate the costs described above!

(2) A trust is a legal arrangement in which one party (the trustee) holds and manages property for the benefit of other(s) (the beneficiary or beneficiaries), according to the terms of the arrangement. Different types of trusts can be used for various purposes such as avoiding the costs and delays of probate, preserving assets in the event of a long-term illness, tax planning, supplementing public benefits, planning for disabled children, among other purposes.

Our clients frequently choose to establish irrevocable trusts to avoid probate, and to protect assets and real estate from the costs of in-home care and nursing home care. One of the advantages of the irrevocable trust is that upon the grantor’s death, remaining trust assets will be distributed directly to named beneficiaries without the costs, problems, publicity, or delays of probate/administration. Another important advantage of the Irrevocable trust is that assets “retitled” in the name of one’s Irrevocable trust will be protected from the cost of in-home care immediately and the future costs of nursing home care (5 years from the transfer of the assets). Since one’s home is often his or her most valuable asset, engaging in the type of trust planning described in this article to protect the value of one’s home (as well as other assets where appropriate) is often extremely beneficial to the financial well-being of our clients and their families. Q The contents of this article are in no way intended to be legal advice and are provided for educational and informational purposes only.

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Exhibit envisions Noguchi’s work as heavenly bodies

by Neil Chiragdin Land: After Noguchi,” a photography exhibition at the Noguchi Museum in Long Island City by photographer and sculptor Leah Raintree. The exhibit comprises 10 prints from a book by the same name, which includes 32 of Raintree’s images in all, and is for sale in the museum’s gift shop.

As is true of nearly all non-Noguchi exhibitions at the museum (with the recent exception of Tom Sachs’ exhibit), the work featured here is based on the namesake artist’s own oeuvre. All the photographs are of sculptures Noguchi made, and are viewable throughout the museum. The show borrows its name from one of Noguchi’s “landscape tables,” which were low-lying sculptures that, along

with many of his other works at the time, were meant to challenge viewers to fathom the infinity of the universe.

In an interview for the book, Matt Kirsch, associate curator at Noguchi, quotes the artist as saying “Another Land” was one of many attempts to upset “the false horizon of the museum pedestal.”

Acknowledging the importance of the individual’s relative position in viewing the artwork, Raintree responds, “The scale and proximity of bodies is critical in my work.” For both artists, the work never stands alone, but always in relation to the individual — not a statement, but a dialogue.

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There is a special discomfort that can accompany your first time viewing photographs of the Earth as an object in space, as if perspectives beyond the surface level alienate the planet’s place in our minds as home. The vastness of space and smallness of the globe both evoke a sense of the sublime. At once, we know more and less about our great blue rock, like something learned in a dream.

Viewing images of earthrise over the moon — the planet relegated to a penumbra of blue light over Luna’s cratered surface — was a turning point for humanity. These first pictures, and the wonder they evoked, are part of the inspiration for “Another

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boro EXHIBITS “Forced from Home,” interactive public awareness campaign on the world’s refugee crisis, with film, virtual reality documentaries and more, led

by Doctors Without Borders aid workers. Fri.-Tue., Sept. 16-20, 9 a.m.-5.p.m. New York Hall of Science parking lot, 47-01 111 St., Corona. Free. Info: (718) 699-0005, nysci.org.

“Maintenance Art,” photos and more celebrating the importance of cleaning and other work, by longtime Sanitation Department artist-in-residence Mierle Laderman Ukeles. Opening reception Sun., Sept. 18, 3-6 p.m.; on view thru Feb. 19, Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Suggested $8 admission; $4 seniors; free students, children.

Info: (718) 592-9700, queensmuseum.org.

“Expressions,” presentation of photos by artist Luca Mazzara, with artist Monica Sarmiento and collector Jaime Andrade, on how facial expressions communicate feelings, with interactive discussion, wine and appetizers. Fri., Sept. 23, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Queens Council on the Arts, 37-11 35 Ave. (entrance on 37 St.), Astoria. $10. Info/RSVP: queenscouncilarts.org.

“The Wildlife of Baisley Pond,” photos of the fauna at the Jamaica park, by Marvenia Knight of Jamaica, with the artist on hand. Thru Sat., Sept. 25, King Manor Museum, 150-03 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica.

Free. Info: (718) 206-0545, kingmanor.org.

“Summer Glory: Indoors and Out,” photographs of the summer garden, with dahlias, sunflowers and more, by Little Neck resident Dora Sofia Caputo.

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

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“Fantasias y Carnavales,” hand-crafted masks, drawings, and paintings incorporating nature and animal imagery, Dominican heritage, by Manuel Macarrulla. Thru Nov. 13; mask-making workshop Sun., Oct. 30, 12-4 p.m. Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main St., Flushing. Free with admission: $6; $4 seniors; $4 students, $2 children over 3. Info: (718) 886-3800, info@queensbotanical.org.

“Going Places,” with flight simulator, remote-controlled mini blimps, other interactive transportationrelated features. Thru Sun., Sept. 18, New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Corona. $15; $12 kids, students, seniors. Info: (718) 699-0005, nysci.org.

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“Rockaway!”, exploring painting in regard to location, condition and possibilities, by Katharina Grosse, in collaboration by MoMA PS1 and Rockaway Artists Alliance. Thru Nov. 30, 12-6 p.m., Fort Tilden. Free.

Info: (718) 784-2084, momaps1.org.

W H AT ’ S H A P P E N I N G Nocturnal Wildlife in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, seeking the lesser-seen creatures of the night, led

by Urban Park Rangers. Sat., Sept.

17, 8-9:30 p.m., meeting at Albert H. Mauro Playground, Park Drive East and 73 Ave. Terrace. Free. Info: (718) 352-1769, nycgovparks.org.

“Intuitive Progression,” with 75 works of paint, ink and more by 20 modern artists, depicting the creative process as a unique journey. Thru Nov. 28, Thu.-Mon., 12-5 p.m., Fisher Landau Center for Art, 38-27 30 St., Long Island City. Free. Info: (718) 937-0727, flcart.org.

DANCE Making Moves Dance Festival, with innovative, contemporary pieces by various NYC-based performers. Sat., Sept.

24, outdoor presentation (free), 2 p.m.; family dance workshop 4-6 p.m.; indoor presentation 7 p.m., Jamaica Performing Arts Center, 153-10 Jamaica Ave. $15; $12 seniors, students. Info: (718) 6587400, jcal.org.

Actors and Actresses in Maple Grove, visiting graves of people like Shakespearean actors Count Joannes, and Charles Bishop, the second a friend of John Wilkes Booth, led by JoAnne Raskin. Sat., Sept. 24, 3-4 p.m., meeting at Victorian Administration Building, Maple Grove Cemetery, 12715 Kew Gardens Road, Kew Gardens. $5. Info: (347) 878-6614, friendsofmaplegrove.org.

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Community Singers of Queens, rehearsal and audition, Mon., Sept. 19, 7:30 p.m., Messiah Lutheran Church, 42-15 165 St., Flushing. Info: (718) 658-1021.

Hispanic Heritage Month Concert, with music of Latin culture including works by Cuban comThe 36th annual Antique Motorcycle Show will get your motor running poser Enrique Ubieta and exhibit this Sunday at the Queens County Farm Museum.

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Sat., Sept. 17, 7 p.m. (exhibit opens 5 p.m.), Maple Grove Cemetery, 127-15 Kew Gardens Road, Kew Gardens. Free.

Info: friendsofmaplegrove.org.

“Ghost,” the 1990 romantic fantasy thriller about love’s power over greed and murder, with Patrick Exploring the Night Sky, astronomy led by a seaSwayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg. Thu., soned professor, with Q-and-A, activities and view- Con Brio Ensemble, classical works of Kahn, Sept. 15, 7:30 p.m., LIC Landing, Hunter’s Point ing session, for adults and kids 9 and older. Attend- Fuchs, Dvorak on strings, oboe and piano. Sun., South Park, Long Island City. Free. Info: (917) 282- ees may bring telescope or binoculars. Sat., Sept. 17, Sept. 18, 4:30 p.m., The Church-in-the-Gardens, 4123, rbasch@hunterspointparks.org.

7:30-9:30 p.m., Alley Pond Environmental Center, 50 Ascan Ave., Forest Hills. $12; $10 seniors, stu228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston. $15. Info/pre- dents. Info: (718) 459-1277, conbrioensemble.com. registration (req’d): (718) 229-4000, alleypond.com.

Colombian Capoeira for beginners, a six-part series teaching drum circle, the “The Merchant of Venice,” about a young suit- the basics of the Brazilian martial art. Each Sat. thru under or taking out a loan and the lender insisting on a Oct. 8, 12-1 p.m., Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Harvest Moon, “pound of flesh” as a guarantee, set in post-World Vernon Blvd., Long Island City. Free. Info: (718) 956- led by Martin Vejarano, War II Italy and exposing anti-Semitism. Thru Sun., 1819, socratessculpturepark.org. founder of La Sept. 18, various times, The Secret Theatre, 44-02 Cumbiamba 23 St., Long Island City. $18. Info/tickets: (718) 392eNeYé, to kick 0722, secrettheatre.com. off National “Apartment for Sale (Tenant Included),” a com- Gardening tips, weekly classes on different topics. Hispanic Heriedy about human relations and living space, in Propagation Made Easy, every Mon., 11:30 a.m.-12 tage Month.

Spanish, “Se Vende Apartamento (Con Inquilino).” p.m.; Creative City Gardening, every Wed., 6-6:30 Fri., Sept. 16, 7 p.m., Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 In English: Fri., 8 p.m.., Sat., 3 p.m.; in Spanish: p.m.; Soil Preparation for Organic Gardens, every Fri., Northern Blvd. $5 (to watch; participation sold Sat., 8 p.m., Sun., 4 p.m.; Sept. 23-Oct. 23, Thalia 6-6:30 p.m.; Woody & Pete’s Honky Tonk Lyceum, out). Info: (718) 463-7700, flushingtownhall.org.

Hispanic Theatre, 41-17 Greenpoint Ave., Sunny- 146-49 Horace Harding Expy., Flushing. Info: (718) COURTESY PHOTO side. $25. Info: (718) 729-3880, thaliatheatre.org. 762-8880, codyannherrmann.com/lyceum.

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Women in Afghanistan, on improvements in their self-determination, education, healthcare in face of ongoing violence, by advocate and Afghan emigre Naheed Bahram. Mon., Sept. 19, 1:30 p.m., Central Queens YM & YWHA, 67-09 108 St., Forest Hills. $8 suggested donation. Info: (718) 268-5011, cqy.org, pkurtz@cqy.org.

A Day on the J, diverse views and bucolic landscapes seen from the elevated subway line, with walks in Downtown Jamaica, residential Richmond Hill and Woodhaven, ending at Neir’s Tavern, led

by Jack Eichenbaum. Sat., Sept. 17, 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. $25. Info/registration (req’d): (718) 961-8406, geognyc.com, jaconet@aol.com.

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Mother Nature can be easily ignored in New York City but never escaped.

In “The Wildlife of Baisley Pond,” a photo exhibit running the next two Saturday and Sunday afternoons at King Manor Museum, Jamaica artist Marvenia Knight captures scenes of urban animal life at the 30-acre pond in Southeast Queens.

Flora and fauna survive and thrive in and around New York humans, in the city’s parks, ocean shores, river banks, nature preserves and farms (yes, we said farms; see “Decker Farm” and “Queens County Farm”).

Baisley Pond is a place where nature finds

‘The Wildlife of Baisley Pond’ When: Sat.-Sun., Sept. 17-18, 24-25 Where: King Manor Museum, 150-03 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica Entry: Free. (718) 206-0545, kingmanor.org

a big enough lair that you could almost convince yourself, whether physically visiting the park or just looking at Knight’s photographs, that you’re viewing scenes from a rural area.

In just a few minutes visiting Baisley Pond last Saturday, the Chronicle spotted a school of fish, mallards, a dragonfly, the ubiquitous squirrel and a swan.

But in some of the photographs in this exhibit, Knight has intentionally included human habitats such as expansive trimmed lawns and single-family homes to remind us that this is the wildlife of the city.

In “Baisley Pond, Summer 2015,” and “Waterfowl Sanctuary,” Knight shows waterfowl such as mallards, a swan and Canada geese going about their business in the grass or water with human homes taking a noticeable but subordinate role in the background.

“Even though this is a community, they’re in the wild,” Knight said.

This exhibit is a rare opportunity for visitors to meet the artist in person.

Knight serves as a soft-spoken but open guide to her work.

In “Canada Geese Walking on Ice,” the

Marvenia Knight with some of her photos of fauna on Baisley Pond. geese are shown walking across thin ice, possibly to look for food just under the surface. These are migrating waterfowl that normally would have flown north, but Knight surmises that the abundance of human-provided food kept them in the city.

The tightly curated exhibit includes 14 photographs, almost all of them of birds, displayed on a series of horizontal wire

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racks in a single room at the museum.

The park itself contains more than 109 acres bordering on the neighborhoods of South Jamaica, Rochdale and St. Albans.

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Running to remember our fallen Sept. 11 heroes

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Running into burning skyscrapers.

Running up smoke-filled stairwells.

Running away from safety and toward a likely death, looking for complete strangers to save.

When 343 firefighters, 37 Port Authority cops, 23 NYPD officers and eight paramedics died at the World Trade Center 15 years ago last Sunday, that’s what they died doing: running against human instinct and toward danger.

And according to St. Michael’s Cemetery in East Elmhurst, running is a great way to honor the brave first responders who gave their lives to help others during the terror

‘Remember Me Run’ When: Saturday, Sept. 17, 2 p.m.

Where: St. Michael’s Cemetery, 72-02 Astoria Blvd., East Elmhurst Entry: $25 to run; free to attend.

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attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Whether you’re addicted to marathons or a couch potato, all are welcome to run, jog or walk the two-mile course through the cemetery at 2 p.m. on Saturday during the annual “Remember Me Run.” Immediately following the trek will be a memorial service to honor those who died on 9/11 and those still suffering from health problems stemming from that tragic day.

“We started the memorial service for all the first responders two years after 9/11 occurred and we started the Remember Me Run three years ago,” St. Michael’s spokesman Ed Horn said in an interview. “We were shocked to find out that people were still dying from working on the pile, so that’s how the Remember Me Run came to be.”

Normally, the proceeds from the run go to the families of the fallen first responders in need of help paying for their children’s higher education.

But this year, some of the money will go toward the dedication of a new monument at the cemetery, featuring the names of every first responder who died on Sept. 11.

Horn said attendance at the service has been slipping in recent years, but the new

St. Michael’s Cemetery in East Elmhurst will honor Sept. 11 first responders with their FILE PHOTO annual Remember Me Run on Saturday. memorial has brought with it a rise in interest from people and organizations from across the metropolitan area.

But that means an increase in the number of devastating stories of loss being told.

“It’s a terrible time for me and my staff honestly,” Horn said. “Over the last 13 years, we’ve gotten to know a lot of the first responders’ families. We get to hear all over

again the story of their loved ones dying and it’s heartbreaking.”

Registration costs $25 for adults, with no cost for children under 10.

Participants can either sign up ahead of time at stmichaelscemetery.com or do so starting at 10 a.m. the morning of the run.

The first three male and female finishers Q will win plaques.

Art galleries going free once a month

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In a rare opportunity for the public to meet artists in an informal and personal way, the LIC Arts Open is presenting a new monthly event to be known collectively as LIC Gallery Nights, kicking off on Sept. 22.

“There is so much great art and culture in Long Island City. Anything we can do to encourage people to see what’s in their own neighborhood, or to come into Long Island City from elsewhere, is a positive thing,” said Ben Whine, associate director of SculptureCenter (44-19 Purves St., (718) 3611750), one of the participating venues.

On each of the nights, which are free and open to the public from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month, the neighborhood’s galleries and art spaces will open their doors to celebrate a wide variety of artists and cultures.

For its debut, the event will involve a

LIC Gallery Nights When: Third Thursday each month starting Sept. 22, 6-9 p.m.

Where: Long Island City Entry: Free. licartsopen.org

A still from a new video that is part of the exhibit “Aki Sasamoto: Delicate Cycle,” on COURTESY PHOTO view at the SculptureCenter in Long Island City. dozen or so local sites, including the SculptureCenter, which was founded in 1928 and is New York City’s only contemporary art museum dedicated to sculpture.

The museum explores experimental and innovative developments in contemporary sculpture by commissioning new work and presenting exhibits by both emerging and established artists.

Two new exhibits are opening just in time for the upcoming event: “Cosima von Bonin: Who’s Exploiting Who in the Deep

Sea?” representing the German artist’s first solo museum exhibition in the city; and “Aki Sasamoto: Delicate Cycle,” the JapaneseAmerican’s first solo museum exhibition, featuring a new body of her work.

Another venue represented will be Local Project (11-27 44 Rd., (646) 298-0969), which serves as a gallery for art exhibits, organizing multi-disciplinary shows, music events, workshops and performances.

On view on Sept. 22 will be “A Growing Storage Problem,” a solo show by New York

City-based sculptor J. McDonald. Through absurdity and abstraction, the exhibit is said to explore the “current state of our anthropocentric dystopia.”

According to the gallery’s director, Carolina Penafiel, “Art has always been a connector between cultures, communities, people in general. I strongly believe this is a good tool to become closer and have a dialogue, not only about art but about everything.”

Other venues on board for the first goround include: Brickhouse Ceramic Art Center (10-34 44 Drive, (718) 784-4907), a sanctuary in the city where adults can relax and create art, with year-round pottery classes at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels; Dougherty Gallery at Crescent Grill (3840 Crescent St., (718) 729-4040), a restaurant whose owners, brothers Dan and Shaun, are passionate about the culture of LIC and who created a dedicated space to showcase artists; and Eleventh Street Arts (46-06 11 St., (917) 574-9950), an exhibition space for contemporary drawings, paintings and sculptures.

“Art is an excellent excuse to come together, support your neighbors and meet new people,” said Penafiel.

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An artist’s final frontier continued from page 33 All photography is the manipulation of light, but in Raintree’s photographs, light and dark are wielded as hammer and chisel. Noguchi’s sculptures are “carved” once more, rendered new in her imagination.

Light sources are precisely placed and effectively dampened, “illuminating only portions of the sculptures.” The effect, in images such as “Sun at Noon,” is to create a wildly alien planet-rise. Whereas Noguchi’s sculpture pieces together disparate pieces of pink stone to form a clean, rounded whole, in Raintree’s photograph, the segments are highlighted to form hemispheres, one peach-hued and desertlike, the other a roiling red ocean with

stormy white flecks. The effect is a strange one, as if the viewer had floated up upon a planet on which nature had learned to design in straight lines.

The motion inherent in the photographs is noticeable and noteworthy as well, and Raintree mentions this as part of her process. Though Noguchi’s work often awes with its hulking structures defying gravity, they are all ultimately bound by the laws of physics. Raintree challenges this notion by trying to capture the sense of zero-gravity free fall: “Noguchi exploited the tension between the ground and the weight of stone ... I worked to achieve a sense of weightlessness through the simple interaction of light against its features.”

This manipulation of light makes the granite boulder in “Spin-Off” appear as graceful as a ballerina, entering a pirouette. Elsewhere the light plays upon stone to evoke a cave floor, or the pitted and gouged surface of an asteroid, as in “This Earth, This Passage” or “Euripides.” The references to astrophotography here are clear, which is why it’s no surprise to hear that the European Space Agency’s 2014 landing of the Philae probe on Comet 67P/

‘Another Land: After Noguchi’ When: Through Jan. 8, 2017 Where: The Noguchi Museum, 9-01 33 Road, Long Island City Entry: $10; $5 students, seniors (718) 204-7088, noguchi.org

“Sun at Noon,” above, and “(object for the hand)” evoke thoughts of outer space.

On the cover: The stone is at the center of the exhibit. PHOTOS COURTESY NOGUCHI MUSEUM, ABOVE, AND BY NEIL CHIRAGDIN, RIGHT, AND, COVER, NICHOLAS KNIGHT / COURTESY NOGUCHI

Churyumov-Gerasimenko helped “set the stage” for Raintree’s Noguchi project.

At the center of the exhibit, a small pockmarked stone sits on a pedestal. “(Object for the hand)” is a callback to a former work of Raintree’s, “8,807,” in which she documented through photography the number of times she was able to strike a small boulder until the hammer she was using to impact it broke. That the stone

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National Down Syndrome Society Buddy Walk, 22nd annual fundraiser to support people with Down syndrome. Sat., Sept. 17, 11 a.m. Great Hill, Central Park, Manhattan. Info: ndss.org/buddy-walk.

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Forest Park Fair, the 43rd annual, by Richmond Hill Block Assn., with food, rides, games, music, vendors and more. Sat., Sept. 17, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Forest Park, Myrtle Ave. and Park Lane South.

Free. Info: (718) 849-3759, rhba@att.net.

Viva La Comida, area eateries and vendors offering foods of the Americas and Asia, with art, poetry, music and more. Sat., Sept. 17, 12-7 p.m., 82 St. between Roosevelt and Baxter aves., Jackson Heights. Free. Info: vivalacomida.com.

NYS Beach Cleanup, with volunteers cleaning shorelines, documenting what litters them and devising strategies to combat pollution. Run

by American Littoral Society. Sat., Sept. 17.

Info: (732) 291-0055, nysbeachcleanup.org.

Sunnyside Restaurant Week, with 30 eateries offering 3-course dinners for $25, chance to win $250 gift certificate. Mon.-Sun., Sept. 19-25. Info: (718) 606-1800, sunnysideshines.org.

Trip to Atlantic City, sponsored by Kiwanis Club of Lefferts-Liberty. Leaving Sat., Sept. 24, 8:30 a.m., from Queens County Savings Bank, 82-10 153 Ave., Lindenwood; going to Taj Mahal.

Refreshments, movie, raffles on bus. $45; $35 cash back. Info: John, (347) 730-9638; Marie, (347) 255-2450.

KIDS/TEENS Young Chefs: Apple Brown Betty, teaching kids 7-12 how to make a classic traditional dessert.

Sat., Sept. 24, 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m., Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston. $24. Info/pre-registration (req’d): (718) 229-4000, alleypond.com.

Super Cinema Saturday, great feature-length films for kids 5 and up and “their special grownups.” Every Sat., thru Oct. 29, 2:30 p.m., Forest Hills Library, 108-19 71 Ave. Tickets first-come, first-served 45 minutes before show. Free. Info: (718) 268-7934.

MEETINGS Flushing Camera Club, with judging of Digital/ Creative Photography Competition, chance to see how judges appraise entries and meet club members. Wed., Sept. 21, 7:30-9 p.m., Flushing Hospital Medical Center auditorium, 5th floor, 146-01 45 Ave. Free. Info: hjs124@gmail.com, flushingcameraclub.org.

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Remember Me Run and Memorial Service, honoring Sept. 11 first responders and those who died after working on the pile. Sat., Sept. 17, 2 p.m., St. Michael’s Cemetery, 72-02 Astoria Blvd., East Elmhurst. $25 to participate; kids under 11 free.

Info: (718) 278-3240, stmichaelscemetery.com. ¡Oye Corona!, cultural celebration, with books and pop-up reading rooms, art-making workshop, DJ and more, all at different times. Sat., Sept. 17, 3-7 p.m., Corona Plaza, Roosevelt Ave. at National, 104 sts. Free. Info: queensmuseum.org.

Myrtle Avenue Fall Street Festival, with merchants, rides, games, live music by Fuoco and friends, dance, antique cars and more, by Myrtle Ave. BID. Sun., Sept. 18, 12-6 p.m. from Wyckoff to Forest aves. Info (including for nonprofit and city agencies seeking to participate): (718) 3817974, (718) 366-3806; other would-be vendors and groups: (646) 230-0489.

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Antique Motorcycle Show, with out-of-production makes and models, music, tours, hayrides, other rural activities and more. Sun., Sept. 18, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Queens County Farm Museum, 73-50 Little Neck Pkwy., Floral Park. $5. Info: (718) 347-3276, queensfarm.org.

Italian Charities of America, with refreshments.

Sat., Sept. 17, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst. Info: (718) 478-3100.

SENIOR ACTIVITIES Knitting and crocheting class, to learn a new skill or share an idea for a craft project, by Jamaica Senior Program for Older Adults. Each Thu., 10:30-11:30 a.m., T. Jackson Adult Center, 92-47 165 St. Info: (718) 657-6500, jspoa.org.

Young Israel Forest Hills Senior Center, with fitness classes and lunch every day, Mon.-Fri. Ping-Pong every Tue., 1 p.m.; Movie Club every Thu., 1 p.m.; Chinese Culture Club, every Mon., Wed., 1 p.m.; Beaded Jewelry Class first and third Tue. every month, 1 p.m., 68-07 Burns St. Info: (718) 520-2305, foresthillsseniorctr@nyc.rr.com.

Howard Beach Senior Center, 155-55 Cross Bay Blvd., across from Stop & Shop. Basic beginner computer classes every Fri., 10:30 a.m. Adult coloring classes, every Wed., 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Karaoke, every Fri., 1 p.m. New craft class, every Fri., 10-11:30 a.m. All seniors invited to join in the fun. Open 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Lunch served at 12 p.m.

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Baisley Pond photos continued from page 35 Brooklyn at age 9 from the one-stoplight town of Sunbury, NC, where nature surrounds the populace.

She was old enough to visit Prospect Park alone and with friends, and noticed the abundant natural life there.

“For a long time, there was no enrichment going on in the schools,” prior to her childhood, Knight said.

But in 1970s New York, city schools were encouraging students to pursue the visual and performing arts.

Knight went on to study graphic design and photography at Parsons New School and

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Empire State College. She now lives within walking distance of Baisley Pond Park.

The photography project was inspired after Knight began collecting the park’s leaves for mixed media acrylic work and learned in conversations that many people are intimately connected to the animals living there.

“Just from speaking to the people and seeing how dedicated they were told me I’ve got to do this,” she said.

The exhibit reminds one that wild animals can live without us, but our lives would be Q diminished if they were gone.

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NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 07/18/16, bearing Index Number NC-00031216/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) AFSHEEN (Last) JAMIL. My present name is (First) AFSHEEN (Last) HADI. My present address is 157-47 ROSE AVENUE, Flushing, NY 11355. My place of birth is PAKISTAN. My date of birth is January 02, 1984.

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Office in Queens Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served & shall mail process to The Limited Liability Company, 93-23 202nd Street, Hollis, NY 11423. Purpose: General.

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ACCOUNTING CITATION File No. 2014-3154/C SURROGATE’S COURT-QUEENS COUNTY CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO Scott Matovich; Keith Matovich; Kristine Waller; Phillip Matovich; the heirs at law, next of kin and distributees of Robert Matovich, deceased, if living, and if any of them be dead to their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, legatees, executors, administrators, assigns and successors in interest whose names are unknown and cannot be ascertained after due diligence; the Attorney General of the State of New York; The Hanover Insurance Company A petition and an account having been duly filed by John J. Matovich, whose address is 14621 Stone Crossing Court, Centerville, Virginia 20120, YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Queens County, at 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, New York, on October 20, 2016, at 9:30 o’clock in the fore-noon of that day, why the account of John J. Matovich, a summary of which has been served herewith, as Administrator, of the estate of George Matovich, should not be judicially settled, [State any further relief requested] that the Court find that Robert Matovich pre-deceased the decedent George Matovich and had no issue who survived the said decedent, that the Court order service of the Citation upon the possible issue of Robert Matovich by publication pursuant to Section 307 3(a)(1) of the Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act, that the Court approve payment of the following expenses: American Agency, $3,375.00, further premium on Administrator’s bond; expenses of publication of Citation in the approximate amount of $1,000.00; Dougherty & Schneider, Administrator’s further legal fees in the approximate amount of $15,000.00; and Tax Advisors Group as accountants’ fee for preparation of further fiduciary income tax returns in the approximate amount of $500.00; and that the Court order such other relief as is just and proper.

Dated, Attested and Sealed, Aug. 23, 2016, Honorable Peter J. Kelly Surrogate, Margaret M. Gribbon, Chief Clerk. Name of Attorney: Dougherty & Schneider, Tel. No.: 516-223-2621. Address of Attorney: 625 Merrick Road, Baldwin, New York 11510. [Note: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear; however, if you fail to appear it will be assumed you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you, and you or your attorney may request a copy of the full account from the petitioner or petitioner’s attorney.]

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BLACKWELL INTL CRE LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 08/12/16.

Office: Queens County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 106-09 Ditmars Boulevard, East Elmhurst, NY 11369. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

SUMMONS, NOTICE AND BRIEF STATEMENT OF NATURE OF ACTION CONSUMER CREDIT TRANSACTION SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS Index No. 702734/2015 GENERATION MORTGAGE COMPANY, Plaintiff, -against- ZENOLA BLUE; ALL UNKNOWN HEIRS, DEVISEES AND PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES OF HAROLD BLUE (deceased), AND ANY OF HIS, HER OR ANY OF THEIR SUCCESSORS IN RIGHT, TITLE AND INTEREST; et al., Defendants. TO THE DEFENDANT(S): ALL UNKNOWN HEIRS, DEVISEES AND PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES OF HAROLD BLUE (deceased), AND ANY OF HIS, HER OR ANY OF THEIR SUCCESSORS IN RIGHT, TITLE AND INTEREST YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to serve upon plaintiff’s attorneys an answer to the complaint in this action within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after service is complete if the Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York.

The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. In case of your failure to answer, judgment will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the complaint.

Trial is desired in the County of QUEENS. The basis of venue designated above is that the real property, which is the subject matter of this action, is located in the County of QUEENS, New York. NOTICE: YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT

BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE MORTGAGE COMPANY WHO FILED THIS FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. A DEFAULT JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED AND YOU CAN LOSE YOUR HOME. SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY OR GO TO THE COURT WHERE YOUR CASE IS PENDING FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON HOW TO ANSWER THE SUMMONS AND PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY. SENDING A PAYMENT TO YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY WILL NOT STOP THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of HON. Carmen R. Velasquez, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, signed on the 12th day of August, 2016 in the Jamaica, New York and to be duly entered in the QUEENS County Clerk’s Office, in Jamaica, New York. The Nature of this action pertains to a note and mortgage held by Plaintiff on real property owned by the above named defendants as specified in the complaint filed in this action.

The above named defendants have failed to comply with the terms and provisions of the said mortgage and said instruments secured by said mortgage, by failing and omitting to pay the balance due and owing and the Plaintiff has commenced a foreclosure action. Plaintiff is seeking a judgment foreclosing its mortgage against the real property and premises which situates in the Borough of Queens, County of Queens, City and State of New York and is commonly known as 150-16 122nd Avenue, Jamaica, New York 11434 and all other relief as to the Court may seem just and equitable. DATED: August 17, 2016 SCHILLER, KNAPP, LEFKOWITZ & HERTZEL, LLP BY: WILLIAM B. SCHILLER, ESQ., Attorneys for Plaintiff, 950 New Loudon Road, Latham, New York 12110 Telephone: (518) 786-9069

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DISTRICT COURT CLARK COUNTY, NEVADA CASE NO.: D-534542-D/Dept. R. Cesar De Souza, Plaintiff. vs.

Gloria De Souza, Defendant.

SUMMONS NOTICE! YOU HAVE BEEN SUED. THE COURT MAY DECIDE AGAINST YOU WITHOUT YOUR BEING HEARD UNLESS YOU RESPOND IN WRITING WITHIN 20 DAYS. RE AD THE INFORMATION BELOW VERY CAREFULLY. To the Defendant named above: A civil complaint or petition has been filed by the Plaintiff against you for the relief as set forth in that document (see the complaint or petition). The object of this action is: Divorce. If you intend to defend this lawsuit,within 20 days after this summons is served on you (not counting the day of service), you must: 1. File with the Clerk of Court, whose address is shown below, a formal written answer to the complaint or petition. 2. Pay the required filing fee to the court, or file an Application to Proceed In Forma Pauperis and request a waiver of the filing fee. 3. Serve a copy of your answer upon the Plaintiff whose name and address is shown below. If you fail to respond, the Plaintiff can request your default. The court can then enter a Judgment against you for the relief demanded in the complaint or petition.

STEVEN D. GRIERSON, CLERK OF COURT. By: Susanna Park, Deputy Clerk. Date: June 08, 2016, Family Courts and Services Center, 601 North Pecos Road, Las Vegas, Nevada 89155.

Regional Justice Center, 200 Lewis Avenue, Las Vegas, Nevada 89155.

Issued on Behalf of Plaintiff: Cesar De Souza, 6584 Isolated Avenue, Las Vegas, NV 89110. In Proper Person Published in Queens Chronicle, August 25, September 1, 8, 15, 22, 2016.

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You could bank on good food in Ridgewood

by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

In 1930, when Ridgewood was the city’s quintessential German neighborhood, Herman Kopfstedt (1898-1972) opened a cafeteria and restaurant at 903 Seneca Ave. The owner of the building was fellow German Conrad Linninger, who gave Kopfstedt a long-term lease.

By the end of the 1930s the eatery had been named Bank Restaurant, perhaps due to the Bank of Manhattan (later named Chase Manhattan Bank) across the street. The name identity Bank Restaurant at 903 Seneca Ave. in Ridgewood, helped but the real magnet to the summer 1954, after its shiny makeover. store was its “home cooking” The store continued its famous home and “Sunday dinner specials.”

In 1954 the aging neighborhood got a cooking until 2005, when new owners real facelift when the restaurant was John and Chris bought the business and given a makeover in striking chrome and renamed it Ridgewood Eats. Their catch bright, high-gloss, mirrored green glass phrase was “Great food done right” and (to be associated with money perhaps) they worked long hours — 7 a.m. to 11 and was the architectural pride of Seneca p.m. The place quickly became for many the “epicenter of Ridgewood cuisine.” Q Avenue amid the other storefronts.

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Let’s go, Tebow!

by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor

Sandy Alderson made one of his best free agent signings in his six-season tenure as Mets general manager when he inked Tim Tebow to a minor league deal. Now, before anyone thinks that I have gone totally bonkers, my statement has nothing to do with Tebow per se.

Tebow’s agent is Brodie Van Wagenen, who happens to be the agent of Mets slugging outfielder Yoenis Cespedes. As practically every Mets fan knows, Yoenis can opt out of his contract at the end of this season. Even with his quadriceps injury, which made him miss a number of games this year and still needs to be monitored, it’s safe to say that if he exercises his option, he will draw a lot of interest from other teams.

Cespedes has stated that he likes the Mets organization and working in New York City.

Van Wagenen frequently attends games and seems to prefer a cordial approach when it comes to relationships with baseball team owners, as opposed to the most famous player agent of them all, Scott Boras, who openly thrives on a more adversarial style. All of that bodes well for Mets fans.

Van Wagenen won’t breach his fiduciary duty to his client. If another team should make an offer for Cespedes that is far more lucrative than what the Mets are willing to spend he

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There is very little downside to the Mets giving Tebow a chance to see if he can play baseball. He will be 30 next year, and playing professional baseball must be on his bucket list.

Sure, he’ll create a press circus in Port St. Lucie next February when spring training commences but the Mets vice president of media relations, Jay Horwitz, and his hardworking staff are used to these things. If nothing else it will give minor leaguers a taste of what life in the majors is like if they make it to Flushing.

Yes, Tebow, who is incredibly popular in the Sunshine State, will help sell tickets in Port St. Lucie this spring. Since the World Baseball Classic will be taking place this March, many well-known ballplayers will be busy with their national teams, and thus there will be less starpower wattage at Major League Baseball spring training camps. Tebow will help fill the void.

Former Mets outfielder Jeff Francoeur was a major high school football star in Georgia and so has a unique perspective on Tebow. “He hasn’t played baseball since high school and this is a tough game to pick up later in life,” he Q told me two weeks ago.

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Large Ranch (65x27 on 80x100 lot) 3 lg BRs/2 full baths, living room, large dining room, new roof, new appliances, beautiful hardwood floors, lg full bsmnt, pvt driveway. Owner motivated.

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OZONE PARK Commercial Property For Rent On Busy Avenue.

Asking $3,000 A Month.

Sunday Sept. 18 1:30 - 4 pm 87-39 116 Street

GLENDALE

HOWARD BEACH

RICHMOND HILL

Large Beautiful Two Family Brick In The Heart of Glendale Complete With Full Fin. Bsmnt & Fully Updated Kitchens & Baths!

Excellent Condition 2 BR, 2 Bath Co-op With Updated Kitchen & Baths, Large Terrance – Great Unit!

2 Family Brick Det. 8 BRs With Nice Backyard, Shared Driveway & Full Finished Basement.

Contact Carolyn DeFalco For More Information 917-208-9176.

Call Gladys Martinez For More Information 917-443-0097

Contact John Dibs For More Information 718-848-4700

Contact Tom Dusi For More Information 917-804-3106

HOWARD BEACH

JAMAICA

OZONE PARK

HOWARD BEACH

Beautiful Waterfront House, Everything Is Brand New. An Absolute Must See!

2 Family Attached House Totally Renovated, New Roof, Hardwood Floors, New Windows & Appliances!

Mint Condition 2 BR, 2 Bath Townhouse Condo In Gated Community With Washer/Dryer In Unit, Parking On Premises & Storage In Basement.

2 Family Semi-Detached 6 Over 6 Complete With Finished Basement & Pvt. Driveway.

Great Starter Home or Investment Property!

Call Subhas Ramroop For More Information 347-581-5596

Call Carolyn DeFalco For More Information 917-208-9176

Contact Carolyn DeFalco For More Information 917-208-9176.

Contact Valerie Shalomoff For More Information 646-533-8142

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96-10 101st Ave., Ozone Park, NY 11416

OZONE PARK

OZONE PARK

Cozy 2 Family Attached Home.

Centrally Located Near Subway, Shops And More!

Well Established Barber Shop In Prime Ozone Park Location Right Off Woodhaven Blvd!

Call Valerie Shalomoff For More Information 646-533-8142

Call Paul Deo For More Information 347-581-9863

ARVERNE Bank Owned, Great Opportunity 2 Family With 6 BRs & 4 Baths with Pvt Driveway & Backyard.

Contact Anthony Fernandez For More Information 646-881-4165

OZONE PARK Great 3 Over 3 2 Family House With Full Finished Basement In The Heart of Ozone Park.

Call Paul Deo For More Information 347-581-9863

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FAR ROCKAWAY Spacious 1BR, 1 Bath Sunlit Co-Op Complete With New Lobby & 24-Hr Doorman & Security! Building Includes Shabbat Elevator, Near LIRR & Option To Rent Parking Space.

Call Riki Phillips For More Information 516-512-9626

RICHMOND HILL 2 Family Att Brick, 6 BRs, 2 Baths, 20 X 93 Lot, Ready To Move In!

Sunday Sept. 18 1 - 3 pm 75 Whitehouse Avenue

ROOSEVELT

Call Teddy Navarrete For More Info 917-513-6621

ELMHURST

2 Family House With 5 BRs, 3 Baths & Finished Basement. Huge Yard With 2 Car Garage.

Medical Office With Option To Purchase For $349,000 or Rent For $2,000 A Month, 1 Parking Spot Included.

Call Valerie Shalomoff For More Information 646-533-8142

Contact Nancy Yen For More Information 718-938-1298

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