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DOES NOT COMPUTE Technical problems mark a precarious schools start PAGE 2

In addition to a Department of Education-wide platform failure at the start of the first day of school, Queens parents describe internet outages and connectivity issues that plagued the phased-in reopening under Mayor Bill de Blasio.

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A precarious first day of online school Parents say that tech bugs riddle the DOE’s phased-in reopening

by Max Parrott Associate Editor

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fter Mayor de Blasio announced that in-person classes for most students would be delayed again at the end of last week, the last-minute phased-in reopening plan kicked into gear on Monday, with some fresh snags along the way.

Following three days of remote orientation last week, technology problems popped up first thing on Monday as soon as students tried to log in to their first day of classes. Around 9 a.m. as students from kindergarten to high school began to boot up their online classrooms, the Department of Education login site, which acts as a portal to all Zoom, TeachHub, email and other platforms, shut down, stopping some anxious parents and students from signing in.

Though the DOE said that the server failure only lasted 10 minutes and was caused by an IBM service outage, a number of Queens parents say that not only did they experience the initial problems logging in, they continued to have technical difficulties throughout the day.

Middle Village parent Katie Malone, whose daughter Ava goes to PS 128, said that she had trouble logging on to Zoom several times during the day.

“I’ve had to run back and forth three

Parents report connectivity issues that go beyond a school system-wide platform shutdown at PHOTO BY IVAN RADIC / FLICKR the very beginning of the first day. times from work yesterday. She’s calling me freaking out, ‘I can’t get on again,’” said Malone. “My daughter was having a heart attack. She was like, ‘They’re going to mark me as absent.’”

Phil Wong, Community Education Council 24 president and father of a student at Francis Lewis High School, said his problems with the DOE portal extended beyond Monday morning. His daughter and other students that he’s heard from in his district continued to get disconnected from the por-

tal throughout the day on Monday and into Tuesday.

Marie Curie Middle School in Bayside Hills reported that the school had no internet for at least an hour and a half at the start of the school day Monday — apparently the result of electrical work that left the network unready after power was restored.

Adriana Aviles, CEC 26 president, said that the internet was also down at PS 221, her daughter’s elementary school, for three hours at the beginning of class Monday.

The internet outages at the two northeastern Queens schools were particularly troublesome because during the first week of remote learning, teachers are conducting their online classes from within the schools where they work.

“My internet was fine at home. I can get on my Google classes, right? But to connect with a teacher who was using a live service through Spectrum at the school, there was no connection because there was no internet service at the school,” Aviles said.

On Wednesday afternoon, a DOE spokesperson said the agency was not aware of any other internet outages at PS 221.

“Our technology team is working day and night to ensure our platforms are working optimally to support the remote learning needs of students, staff and families. We have not experienced any long-term technical challenges at this time and are working to quickly address any isolated issues that arise,” said the spokesperson in a statement.

Though the DOE maintains that it has stabilized its internet issues, the parents complaints present fresh problems for the agency to tackle as it ramps up its efforts to finish the task of hiring and training thousands of new teachers whom it will need to staff the next phases of in-person learning Q beginning in a week.

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Halloween comes to Hamilton Beach Popular holiday display contends with chronic flooding

by Max Parrott Associate Editor

Michael Giglio, a fixture of Hamilton Beach, the lesser-traveled neighbor of Howard Beach, looks forward all year to putting up massive holiday displays during Halloween and Christmas, which he’s been doing for over 11 years.

Though COVID provides an unprecedented backdrop to his annual Halloween display, Giglio is actually more concerned about flooding this year.

The lot next to his house is filled with skeletons, witches, ghosts and about 40,000 lights. But this year he latched all his decorations to cinderblocks and elevated them above the ground to avoid flooding he sees as inevitable.

Giglio sets his Halloween decorations up every year with the goal of attracting families to come spectate for the two months leading up to the holiday. Asked why he does his display every year, Giglio says it’s simple: “I want attention.”

But that attention isn’t just for

Hamilton Beach resident Michael Giglio has made a name for himself with his elaborate Halloween and Christmas COURTESY PHOTO decorations. personal gratification, it’s also about neighborhood pride.

“I live in an area that I call the land of dinosaurs. We pay our

taxes over there, but we don’t get what we deserve.”

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Sandy, has suffered chronic flooding problems for years. During the highest tides each month, the waters of Jamaica Bay flood the

streets of the 10-block Queens community, connected to mainland by a single road.

“Problem is that I fight the weather,” said Giglio. “This October on the 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th we’re supposed to have a really high tide. If we have a storm on top of that, this will all be gone,” he said.

His lot has seen flooding over the past month, but that’s not stopping Giglio from consecrating his annual Halloween ritual with the goal of spreading joy to his neighbors.

“I want their tongue to drop out of their mouth. I want them to go, ‘How did you do this? How long did it take you to do this?’” he said.

He has already gone out and dropped an extra $800 on decorations after first setting up his yard display because he thought that it wasn’t scary enough.

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A new fix for ritual litter in Howard Beach Nabe activists teamed up with the religious community in a town hall

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Environmentalists met with members of the Queens Hindu community last Wednesday to come up with a new approach to a years-old problem in Howard Beach: ritual debris.

As part of religious worship, Hindu groups from around Queens frequently leave fruits, vegetables and flowers, statues, candles and more in the waters of Jamaica Bay and along Charles Park’s beach.

Since 2013, Sadhana: Coalition of Progressive Hindus has organized cleanups on the first Saturday of every month from April through November. During the pandemic those cleanups took a hiatus, but the debris did not.

During the virtual town hall hosted by Howard Beach attorney and candidate for City Council Mike Scala, and Aminta KilawanNarine, co-founder of the group, Sadhana led a conversation about how to form a long-term solution to the problem that the litter poses.

Recently Kilawan-Narine and Scala have organized cleanups of the area and found that while ordinary trash makes up most of the litter, remnants from religious rituals remain an issue.

The talk proposed an educational campaign that would attempt to address environmental issues to those of the Hindu faith. The conver-

sation covered monthly environmental sermons to be conducted at Hindu temples around Queens that would raise alternative practices, facilitate round table meetings between religious and community leaders, and enlist youth ambassadors in the temples to promote eco-friendly worship.

It also included a presentation from KilawanNarine, followed by a talk from Mohan Narine, a pandit, or Hindu priest, about the intersection of environmentalism and Hinduism. Narine said that Hindu scripture does not require leaving anything behind in a ritual.

Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway Park) joined the forum to say that she was interested in helping in her capacity as a representative, while acknowledging that the push needed to come from within the religious community.

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D23 sees law-and-order challenger Republican crypto entrepreneur is running against Pheffer Amato

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years at Astoria law f irm Pardalis & Nohavicka, and has referred to that experiRepublican Peter Hatzipetros, a self- ence to ground his criticism of the Legisladescribed right-leaning libertarian, is run- ture’s landmark criminal justice reforms ning for South Queens Assembly District last year, which he calls his “first priority” on his online platform.

23 in the Nov. 3 general election.

In line with NYPD brass, his website Though he has no prior experience in politics, Hatzipetros has recently made a suggests that the passage of the New York name for himself in the tech sphere through state’s expansive bail reform is to blame for the current uptick in violent crime and th his law practice focusing on the lesserr ccalled for rolling it back further than explored legal terrain of cryptocurtthe changes to the law that passed rency. But instead of focusing his iin the governor’s 2020 budget. platform on business or tech Though a New York Post analysis T issues, Hatzipetros has primarily of Compstat data showed little framed his candidacy as a lawconnection between most people and-order bid to save the city released under the reforms and the from rising violence, in addition to summer’s spike in shootings, in concreating more STEM opportunities 2020 versation with the Chronicle, Hatzipetros in schools and restore respect for law narrowed his criticism of two broader legal enforcement.

His opponent, incumbent Assemblywom- ramifications of the bail and discovery laws.

Hatzipetros’ issue with the discovery law an Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway Park) successfully defended her district is that it requires state prosecutors to profrom Matthew Pecorina, a staffer for Coun- vide the defendant information on who the cilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park), in 2018 investigating officer is as well as informaby a 37-point margin after winning her seat tion about any testifying witnesses. Hatziin 2016 against a Republican opponent by petros believes that the change will limit the number of witnesses willing to testify in nearly the same amount.

In addition to his current position as a trial and put police investigators in danger.

His criticism of the bail law is that he cryptocurrency lawyer, Hatzipetros previously worked in criminal defense for two sees stopping elected judges from using Associate Editor

Fleeing police, driver crashes into TD Bank Wreck along Cross Bay in Howard Beach

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After fleeing a traffic stop, a driver lost control of his vehicle and crashed into the TD Bank along Cross Bay Boulevard in Howard Beach on Saturday morning, officials said.

Around 6:50 a.m., a state trooper pulled the vehicle over going southbound on Cross Bay Boulevard near 162nd Avenue after noticing an allegedly fraudulent Fleeing a traffic stop, a driver crashed into the TD temporary Texas plate.

Bank on Cross Bay Boulevard. PHOTO BY ROBERT STRIDIRON As the trooper placed his patrol vehicle in park, the subject sped off and in the crash.

When searching Simpson’s vehicle, collided with a pole and then the bank while attempting to make a right-hand troopers said they found a handgun with a turn, according to bystander reports. The defaced serial number and heroin.

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their discretion as a dangerous precedent.

In addition to opposing her suppor t of t he leg islat ion , Hatzipetros has accused Pheffer Amato of not doing enough to keep residents informed about the content of bail reform and discovery laws before she voted for it.

“I’m all about transparency.

People need to know what goes on behind closed doors. It’s time we come back to leaders of common sense and not nonsense,” Hatzipetros said.

Though Hatzipetros told the Chronicle that his experience in cr iminal defendence ranged f rom any thing f rom misdeme a nor la r c e ny t o v iole nt crimes, his Linkedin prof ile states that during his stint at Pa r d a l i s & Noh av ick a , h e focused on employment and labor law, civil rights violations Crypto-lawyer Peter Hatzipetros is mounting a challenge and contract disputes. against Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato on the Another aspect of his uni- ground of the bail reform and discovery laws the Legislafor med ser vices protections ture passed last year.

COURTESY PHOTO would include a bill that specifies the job responsibilities of first respond- education. Hatzipetros’ online platform ers because he believes firefighters’ duties states that he will determine areas where the education budget can be redirected to are overly broad.

Hatzipetros said that his decision to cre- focus installing technological updates.

“Do we really need things like critical ate his own firm revolving on providing legal counsel, risk management assessment race theory, as opposed to learning how to and business consultation to crypto compa- code?” he asked the Chronicle.

Asked how we would operate with the nies spawned from his own past mistakes possibility of a potential Democratic with the volatile market.

After his father died, Hatzipetros took supermajority in the Senate that could over his own stock portfolio, and liquidated embolden progressives, he said that he was it to invest heavily in cryptocurrency. very confident that “this city goes red” in Though he claimed that investments made November.

Though Hatzipetros said he’s socially libhim a quarter million dollars, he lost those gains shortly after in a cryptomarket eral on some social issues like abortion plunge. From then on, he decided that he (he’s pro-choice), he could not see himself would use his legal background to stop oth- working across the aisle on environmental issues that mandate green energy and ers from making the same errors.

His interest in tech informs his approach construction.

“I don’t necessarily like being told to fall to public education, where he proposes to Q secure additional grant funding for STEM in line,” Hatzipetros said.

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It does not require a user to enter a name, email address or identifier of any type, just to answer a series of questions.

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There’s a pattern here, and it consists of high spenders in city and state government — as well as some future lawmakers waiting in the on-deck circle — driving away the businesses that fund the very programs they find so vital.

While the Amazon plan would have produced an estimated 25,000 jobs, Industry City was set to deliver 12,000, along with about $100 million a year in tax revenue. Now those numbers are zero. Unlike Amazon, the developers weren’t even getting subsidies. But in the end, they decided that “the current political environment and a lack of leadership precludes a path forward for our rezoning proposal.”

South Queens City Councilman Eric Ulrich summed it up succinctly on Twitter: “NYC is going to s--t. God save us!”

New York City was very fortunate following both 9/11 and the Great Recession, with businesses bouncing back and funding the ever-rising budgets enacted under Mayor Bloomberg and then, from fiscal year 2015 on, Mayor de Blasio. Whether it was more cops or de Blasio’s signature achievements, universal prekindergarten and then 3-K for all, taxpayers led by the financial sector have been there to pay for it. And the tax base became more diversified — a big goal of Bloomberg’s — with technology paying a growing share even as property taxes and other levies related to real estate made up 53 percent of revenue before the pandemic.

Ahh, “before the pandemic.” The good old days before the virus came. New York City could lose Amazon in February 2019 and think the jobs will just be made up somewhere else. But now the unemployment rate here is 16 percent, the city is expected to lose 500,000 jobs in total by the end of the year thanks to the pandemic, and there doesn’t seem to be any answer to our dreadful budget crunch other than a massive infusion of federal funding that may never come.

The pandemic also has shown that many people, especially in those high-end, white-collar jobs that pay most of the taxes, may not need to be here. One small Manhattan com-

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Meanwhile the Titanic keeps racing through the iceberg field, Captain de Blasio asleep in his bunk, as his would-be successors and other up-and-coming politicians plan to steer us further to the left, vowing even greater public spending.

Some are open Socialists (three from Queens alone will be joining the state Legislature in January). Neither they nor our heretofore more moderate leaders seem to remember Margaret Thatcher’s timeless axiom about socialism: “that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”

If what the world needs now is love, sweet love, what New York City also needs is that thing that can’t buy us love: money. And lots of it. And it can only come when people who have the ability to take their business elsewhere choose not to, when not only is the virus on the run but so too is the corrosive belief that the city doesn’t need job creators and high earners. We do need them, and our leaders better take current events as a reality check and change their ways. Otherwise we’re sunk. Otherwise ... what Ulrich said.

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off their life-saving equipment.

It appears Gianaris has listened to scientists in the past because he has a Jan. 22, 2011 press release on his website saying he “commended state utilities regulators for granting approval for the construction of a $1.4 billion power plant in Astoria along the East River.” He said, “Anytime we replace an old, dirty generator with a newer, cleaner one is a significant step in the right direction.”

Will Cabán, Ramos and Stringer have the courage to drop their association with Gianaris because of this past indiscretion?

David Soukup Sunnyside

Leaders spark school daze Dear Editor: Re your Sept. 17 report: “NYC school start delayed again” (qchron.com): Mayor de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Carranza proved they are the Beavis and Butt-

Head of public education by postponing the start of in-school instruction for grades K-12 for the second consecutive time this month.

They cite a shortage of teachers for their “blended learning” program. But the sad truth is that blended learning is really “ended learning” because you can’t successfully combine the classroom and online experiences. NYC’s Catholic schools recognized that by conducting their fall semester fully in-person, and it’s worked smoothly so far. Do they have God on their side, or just a much more competent leadership? Granted, the Catholic schools have a total of 82,000 students vs. more than 1 million served by NYC’s Department of Education. But the Archdiocese has a much smaller budget than the DOE and its teachers earn less than their public school counterparts, although they showed up for work without griping. Public school teachers took their cue from whiner-inchief Michael Mulgrew, head of the United Federal of Teachers, who proved that UFT really stands for Union Fails Teachers.

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Unethical mainstream media Dear Editor: It is important for the press to hold politicians accountable for their words and actions.

This is especially true for President Trump, who often has trouble with the truth.

However, the mainstream media often report fake news in an attempt to take Trump down. A recent Atlantic article stated that according to anonymous sources, Trump called fallen soldiers “suckers and losers.”

The article also stated that Trump didn’t want to go to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in France because he did not want to mess up his hair in the bad weather. After the article appeared, various people, whose identities we do not know, confirmed or denied Trump’s comments; but the story about the hair was challenged by John Bolton (not a Trump fan), who said publicly that that part of it was made up. No one confirmed that part of the story.

Sharyl Attkisson, a five-time Emmy winner, has listed on her website 144 negative stories about Trump that turned out to be fake. When we hear or read the news we assume that it is true. There have been too many false stories. Anything less than 100 percent accuracy should not be acceptable.

Yet many Democrats don’t care since the stories hurt Trump. To them, the end justifies the means.

In the early 1990s, I was on CNN. They edited my comments and distorted them to present a false narrative. It seems their behavior has not changed over the years.

Instead of worrying about Russian misinformation, maybe we should be concerned about the misinformation coming from CNN, The New York Times and the rest of the mainstream media.

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Dear Editor: MTA Chairman Pat Foye claims his agency is facing a financial “five-alarm fire.” Putting it out requires not only federal assistance but also fare box, City Hall and Albany revenues. First, the MTA requested $3.9 billion in additional funding. After receipt of $3.9 billion in CARES COVID-19 funding, the MTA announced it needed another $3.9 billion. Today, it is $12 billion. What will it be tomorrow? Weeks ago, it was a four-alarm fire. Now it is a five-alarm fire. What will it be tomorrow? MTA Chairman Foye reminds me of Pinocchio.

Riders and Washington are already fighting the financial fire. City Hall and Albany must do likewise. Foye recently blamed Washington for a loss of $1 billion. This was based on the Federal Highway Administration not working fast enough with the MTA in completion of the environmental review process necessary to implement congestion pricing. That is supposed to raise $15 billion for the MTA’s $51 billion 2020-24 five-year capital plan. Even if the FHWA made a finding tomorrow, tolling could never be implemented on Jan. 1, 2021.

For nine months, Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio never announced their appointments to the MTA Traffic Mobility Review Board.

Details of who will pay what can never be resolved and made public until this board is established and completes its mission. This process is politically sensitive. It could take many months to a year before congestion pricing is set.

I will not hold my breath waiting for Foye’s future guest op-ed holding de Blasio and Cuomo accountable for their inaction delaying implementation. This $15 billion could have solved the financial crises.

Larry Penner Great Neck, LI The writer is a transportation historian, advocate and writer who worked for 31 years for the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration Region 2 New York Office.

‘Love Song to the Sky’ Dear Editor: O, Sky, my love, you won’t believe how deeply you have made me grieve.

For days and days my upward gaze met nothing but a sickly haze.

Your lovely tint had turned so dim; I’d never seen you look so grim.

Your ivory clouds looked quite bizarre, as if they’d just been brushed with tar.

Stock-still they stayed, each one in place. No wisp of wind to make them race.

Unholy thought! That you would be a still-life for Eternity.

The Sun himself appeared distraught; he tried to smile; it came to nought.

So weak he was, so deathly pale from all the smoke he did inhale.

He could not rouse himself to gleam, to liven up the dreadful scene.

But now the fires in the West have at long last been put to rest.

I want to skip and shout, “Hoo-ray!” to celebrate this joyous day.

For now my eyes again embrace your dear, delightful azure face!

Maxine Fisher Maspeth

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As a volunteer tutor at PS 164 in Kew Gardens Hills for seven years, I saw firsthand how tough a job teachers have. Their work requires the skills of instructor, mentor, entertainer, administrator and substitute parent. I admired and respected them for showing up to do it every school day, regardless of any personal problems they had. Teachers must continue to show that dedication during the COVID crisis, the same as other essential workers like police, firefighters, healthcare providers, sanitation crews, grocery store clerks and postal workers.

Teachers who refuse to enter their schools are really saying that they are nonessential workers, and as such, they don’t deserve to be paid. Stop whining and start doing your job.

Richard Reif Kew Gardens Hills

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Last push to be counted in Census Area organizations rally for Queens participation in vital questionnaire

by Katherine Donlevy Associate Editor

Sept. 30 marks the final day to get counted in the 2020 Census and is quickly approaching, and several organizations are teaming up for a boroughwide event to make sure Queens doesn’t get left behind!

Queens Gets Counted! is both a virtual and in-person event aimed to increase Census participation. Hosted by the Queens Night Market, Queens Museum, Queens Public Library and Association for a Better New York, the event will take place on Sept. 26 from 12 to 5 p.m.

“When every New Yorker is counted in the 2020 Census, we get more of the funding we need for education, small businesses and other programs that help our communities get ahead. Unfortunately, many areas of Queens have historically been undercounted, so we are working with partners who bring people and culture together to get out the count in the World’s Borough,” said Melva Miller, CEO of ABNY, in the announcement. “The best way to raise awareness about the importance of the 2020 Census is to do what Queens does best: celebrate diverse cuisine and culture. This socially distant event is a great way to have fun with friends and family while helping our local neighborhoods get the money, power and resources we deserve.”

According to 2020 Census data, only 61.1 percent of Queens residents have responded to the 10-point questionnaire, which is only a 0.3 percent higher response rate than the 2010 Census.

The borough falls short of the state response average, which lies at 63 percent. In New York City, Queens trails behind Staten Island and Manhattan, which have response rates of 65.2 percent and 61.2 percent, respectively, but leads ahead of the Bronx at 60.9 percent and Brooklyn at 57.2 percent.

According to Queens Gets Counted, every Census undercount equated to over $6,000 lost in federal funding for the public in 2017 and area amenities such as healthcare, infrastructure and schooling.

“A complete Census 2020 count is critically important in ensuring that the people in Queens get the representation and resources they are entitled to. This is especially important given that our communities have suffered so disproportionately due to the ravages of COVID,” Sally Tallant, president and executive director of Queens Museum, said in a statement.

The in-person aspect, labled “See You on the Block!,” of Queens Gets Counted! will be accessible at over 30 locations across the borough, including Queens Museum, New York Hall of Science, Flushing Town Hall and other high-pedestrian traffic hot spots. Each location will be equipped with representatives from the partner organizations, Census Bureau staff and volunteers to help participants fill out the questionnaire. The tables will be operated from 12 to 5 p.m. and will be supplied with free swag to help incentivize live Census participation.

The virtual programming will run for two and a half hours as a call-to-action platform to amplify the importance of Census participation and will be available in English, Spanish and Mandarin. Broken up into segments, the programming will include a magic show, an animal show and cooking demonstrations, as well as musical performances such as Afro-Brazilian percussion, vinyl hip-hop, beatboxing and Colombian music.

The virtual programming will be accessible through the Queens Night Market or the Queens Museum’s Facebook Lives, or from the Queens Museum’s YouTube Live.

Queens Get Counted! is also actively searching for additional tabling partners, swag donors and event volunteers.

Queens County has a Census response rate of 61.1 percent, which is less than half a percentage point higher than the CENSUS BUREAU IMAGE response rate in 2010.

For more infor mation or to join the effor t, visit queensmuseum.org/events/queens-gets-counted, or contact Q info@queensnightmarket.com.

Bag-law enforcement to begin on Oct. 19 Single-use plastic banned for most uses in supermarkets, shops, bodegas

by Michael Gannon

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New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos announced Friday that the DEC will begin enforcement of the state’s ban on single-use plastic carryout bags beginning on Monday, on Oct. 19.

The plastic bag ban, which went into effect on March 1, was not enforced per an agreement between the parties in a lawsuit brought by Poly-Pak Industries, Inc., et al., in New York State Supreme Court.

“The Court’s decision is a victory and a vindication of New York State’s efforts to end the scourge of single-use plastic bags and a direct rebuke to the plastic bag manufacturers who tried to stop the law and DEC’s regulations to implement it,” Seggos said in a statement issued Friday afternoon.

“As we have for many months, DEC is encouraging New Yorkers to make the switch to reusable bags whenever and wherever they shop and to use common-sense precautions to keep reusable bags clean,” he added. “The Court has ruled and DEC will begin to enforce the ban on Oct. 19th. It’s time to BYOBagNY.” The ban applies to most plastic film bags given away by supermarkets, shops and bodegas. Plastic bags for things like takeout

New York State will begin enforcement of its ban on most single-use plastic grocery bags beginFILE PHOTO BY STEVE MALECKI ning on Monday, Oct. 19. food, fresh meat and fish and produce are exempted. Most New York City merchants are required to charge a 5-cent fee for paper bags.

Pursuant to an order of the state Supreme Court in Albany County, the DEC agreed to provide the parties and the court at least 30 days’ notice prior to commencing enforce-

ment. The DEC said it is conducting “extensive outreach” to stakeholders, including grocery stores, retailers and others, to provide notice of the start of enforcement and answer questions.

Additional information about exemptions to the plastic bag ban, frequently asked questions, and posters, fliers, and tip strips to download, as well as tips for keeping reusable bags clean are available on the DEC website at dec.ny.gov.

According to the state, New Yorkers use an estimated 23 billion plastic bags annually with approximately 85 percent going to landfills, recycling machines, waterways and streets.

Gov. Cuomo in 2017 created the New York State Plastic Bag Task Force, chaired

by Seggos. In addition, following passage of the New York State Plastic Bag Waste Reduction Act, the DEC held a series of meetings with industry stakeholders across the state to invite input from the public and guide the agency’s development of rules and regulations to implement the law.

For more information about the plastic bag ban, reusable bags, or to file a complaint about entities using single-use plastic carryout bags, visit DEC’s website, email plasticbags@dec.ny.gov, or call (518) Q 402-8706.

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One day, 80 volunteers, and thousands are fed Young people take on the hard work at La Jornada’s weekly food giveaway

by Michael Shain Chronicle Contributor

The fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic was cruel everywhere, but it had an especially troubling effect on the volunteers who help the needy of New York.

“Who volunteers? Retirees, that’s who,” said Pedro Rodriguez, who runs the largest food pantry in Queens. “Then, the government told people over 60 to stay home.”

In a single week last March, the pantry, La Jornada, saw the number of people lining up for food increase tenfold. At the same moment, the workforce that had been distributing the food to families for 12 years disappeared.

Before the lockdown, La Jornada provided food for about 1,000 families a week. This month, it services as many as 10,000 a week, Rodriguez said.

“I cried,” he said. “I figured I had no choice but to open the doors. And what we got were all these 20-year-olds.

“The biggest lie in the world right now is that 20-year-olds don’t care,” he said.

Sitting in a chaotic office in the basement of the Bland Houses, the city-owned housing project on Roosevelt Avenue in

the heart of Flushing, Rodriguez pointed across the hall to where more than a score of volunteers are pulling fresh produce, canned food and baked goods out of cartons and filling hundreds of plastic shopping bags.

Outside, another 20 people or so are handing out the bags and managing the lines of people who showed up early that morning to make sure they get food before it ran out.

Last week, nine volunteers from a Muslim youth group called Who is Hussain? were among the first-time volunteers at La Jornada.

The group is made up mostly of high school and college students from New York and New Jersey who undertake two projects a month, said team leader Ali Hassan, 27. But this, he said, was “a humbling experience.

“To see that many people lined up, you realize how much work there is to do,” he said. “I wish we could have helped more.”

The group, Hassan explained, is named for the seventh-century religious martyr who advised: “If your neighbor goes to sleep hungry, you have failed that day.”

“We are so isolated in our own worlds,”

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Fatima Hamdan, left, Zahra Karnib, Dana Ayach, Houda Karnib, Katia Issa, Maryam Fares, Fatima Issa, Batool Shirazi and Sayed Ali Hassan from the group Who is Hussain? staff their table at the La Jornada food giveaway.

said Kubra Shirazi, 29, one of the group’s officers. “It is good to step out.”

Who is Hussain? offered to bring coffee, snacks and hot sandwiches for the other volunteers and the people waiting on line before plunging into the pantry’s well-organized assembly-line food operation.

“I always say ‘yes’ to groups like this,” said Rodriguez. “Two or three people always come back.

“They see something bigger than themselves, something important. They made a difference. ‘Hey, I fed 3,000 families today.’”

Saturday is La Jornada’s biggest day.

As many as 4,000 people sign up for an appointment time to pick up donated food on Saturdays. (The group operates similar but smaller pantries in Corona and Woodside Monday to Friday.)

Every Saturday, about 80 volunteers are needed, Rodriguez said.

Some are students fulfilling community service requirements, others are assigned through the city’s volunteer signup. But the majority come because they heard about it from a friend or read about it in a big Sunday New York Post article that put La Jornada on the media map last summer, he said.

Bethany Hall, 32, of Astoria, has been working the early shift on Saturday at La Jornada for about two months. She found her way to the pantry by accident, sitting in the park near the Bland Houses, and asking if they needed help.

Hall has a job in finance and speaks five languages, which makes her an unofficial volunteer coordinator.

“Working here has made me feel a lot better about the future,” she said of the young people she works with.

She figures the volunteer force is split 50-50 between regulars and those who come only once or twice.

“They’re really relaxed,” she said of the pantry. “That’s what I liked about it. You show up at 9 a.m. and they say, ‘We’ll put Q you to work.’”

Volunteers with La Jornada Food Pantry, top, fill shopping bags with fresh produce from bins before carting the packages outside for distribution. The food pantry is headed by PHOTOS BY MICHAEL SHAIN Pedro Rodriguez, above.

Council wants drones studied by the DOB

by David Russell Associate Editor

The City Council passed a bill last Wednesday requiring the Department of Buildings to study the safety and feasibility of permitting building facade inspections to be conducted by drones.

Under the Facade Inspection and Safety Program, owners of all buildings over six stories tall must conduct a facade inspection and make needed repairs every five years.

Drone use in the city is prohibited under a 1948 law, restricting the takeoff and landing of any “aircraft” to air ports and Port

Authority-designated locations.

The bill, which passed unanimously, had 10 sponsors, including Queens Councilmen Paul Vallone (D-Bayside) and Barry Grodenchik (D-Oakland Gardens).

“An outdated local law, drafted decades before the advent of what are popularly known as ‘drones,’ is leaving New York City on the ground while other cities are already using rapidly advancing technologies to support businesses and improve safety,” Vallone said.

Carlo Scissura, president and CEO of the New York Building Congress, voiced his

support for the drones as well.

“Drones offer a 21st-century solution to provide more detailed building inspections, increase public safety and reduce costs,” he said. “New technologies, like drones, are already being used effectively around the country and the world, so it is essential that New York embrace innovation and not be left behind.”

Michael Brennan, general manager of The Bay Club in Bay Terrace, wrote a letter in support of the bill, saying drone inspections will provide a better view.

“Currently an engineer gets a view using

binoculars, and scaffold drops are used in areas of concern,” he wrote. “A drone can take high resolution photographs in a faster and less costly manner. A drone inspection would also be much safer for those working, inspecting and pedestrians below.”

The bill will take effect immediately once enacted and the study is to be completed and submitted no later than Oct. 31, 2021.

Vallone is also working with Council Speaker Corey Johnson (D-Manhattan) to explore legislation that would be required to move forward with legalizing drone use in Q the city.

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Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway Park) is holding a series of mobile office hours events.

On Sept. 30 the event will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. at Lindenwood Shopping Center at 153rd Avenue and 83rd Street, Howard Beach.

On Oct. 1 it will be held from 9 to 10:30 a.m. at the Wavecrest Garden Apartments flagpole by the boardwalk in Far Rockaway.

On Oct. 7 it will be held from 9 to 10:30 a.m. at C-Town Supermarket at 107-66 Cross Bay Blvd. in Ozone Park.

On Oct. 8 it will be held from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at Bay Towers at Beach 98th Street and Rockaway Freeway in Far Rockaway.

On Oct. 14 it will be held from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at Tudor Park at 82nd Street and 133rd Avenue in Ozone Park.

On Oct. 15 it will be held from 9 to 10:30 a.m. at 34-11 Beach Channel Drive, Far Rockaway.

On Oct. 17 it will be held from 9 to 10:30 a.m. at the Wavecrest Garden Apartments flagpole in Far Rockaway.

On Oct. 21 it will be held from 9 to 10:30 a.m. at Stop & Shop, 70-20 Q Rockaway Beach Blvd., Arverne.

Need for food aid remains dire City Harvest report: COVID-19 continues hitting hard

by Michael Gannon Editor

Subway workers, nurses, first responders and grocery store clerks were among those who did not have the luxury of saying they were not ready for the COVID-19 outbreak.

Neither could the soup kitchens, the food pantries or those agencies that kept them supplied for the needy.

The need for emergency food has been so great it seems that every week since the COVID -19 pandemic st r uck the cit y, churches, nonprofits and just about every elected official has hosted one or more popup food pantries to supplement them.

A report put out by City Harvest this past week takes a look at the big picture six months into the pandemic. And the numbers are sobering.

“As a result of the pandemic, 800,000 New Yorkers are expected to join the ranks of 2.5 million New Yorkers who were already struggling to make ends met,” the agency says.

City Harvest collects food from supermarkets, manufacturers and distributors.

The nonprofit agency has rescued more than 56 million pounds of food since March and distributed it to its partners in the five boroughs and through its own nine mobile markets between March 9 and Aug. 30.

City Harvest delivers bread, rolls and some bottled iced tea to a church food pantry in FILE PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON Queens.

“A 79 percent increase over the same period last year,” the report states.

Between March and July of 2019, nearly

7.33 million people visited the partners and ser vices supplied or offered by Cit y Harvest.

The number for 2020 was just under 9.46 million.

Six months into COVID-19, the nine mobile markets have served more than 54,000 families throughout the city, a 64 percent increase.

Nu mbers in Queens show that the World’s Borough has been hit as hard as anyone.

The mobile market in Astoria served 2,940 participants from March through June, an increase of 16 percent over the same period in 2019.

The market at Queensbridge has seen clients jump from 2,197 between March and June of last year to 4,111 this year — a staggering 87 percent increase.

City Harvest right now has eight emergency food distribution sites in Queens.

They include the Evangel Christian Center and the Center for Hope International in Long Island City; the Salvation Army in Jackson Heights; the Singh Family Charity in Ozone Park; Greater Springfield Community Church Food Pantry in Jamaica; the Hungry Monk in Ridgewood; The Flushing Inter national High School; and Dare Q 2B-Help USA in Jamaica.

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Monster job underway deep below Maspeth

PHOTOS BY MICHAEL SHAIN

Lengths of pipe are lowered and pushed into place as a tunnel boring machine cuts through the earth below Maspeth. Water had to be pumped out of the shaft before the machinery could get started.

by Michael Shain Chronicle Contributor

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Three stories under Queens Boulevard, with thousands of cars zooming by overhead, a “mole” is boring a new sewer tunnel.

Instead of cutting an open trench across six lanes of traffic, closing the busiest street in Queens, the city instead is using the same engineering technology that built the rail tunnel below the English Channel.

Last Friday, a huge tunnel boring

machine — called a TBM for short — was lowered into place down a deep shaft on the corner of 69th Street and Queens Boulevard.

This week, moving at a speed of 30 to 40 feet a day, the computercontrolled TBM is cutting a circular hole, 6 feet wide, directly under the crosswalk from the south side of the boulevard to the north.

The storm sewer is the second par t of a troublesome sewer rebuilding project in flood-prone

Maspeth that began six years ago.

The open-cut dig along Calamus Avenue dragged on for years, cracked foundations and left residents without water.

A year and a half ago, the city Department of Design and Construction decided to rework the plan that required an open excavation across Queens Boulevard and call for the TBM, said Ali Malick, the assistant DDC commissioner for northern Queens. “This was faster,

cheaper and more environmentally sound,” he said.

The unusual $2.5 million operation began full-scale on Monday. A score or so of city officials left their off ices to watch as pipe was hydraulically pushed into the tunnel behind the machine to shore up the walls.

If all goes according to plan, the TBM will finish eating through 300 feet of rock, dirt and sand on Saturday, officials said.

But the unexpected has already reared its head.

A boulder the size of a city bus was discovered three weeks ago directly in the path of the machine.

That’s too much for the TBM’s drill bit to handle. So on Monday, while it was boring below the south side of the street, a crew of about a dozen men was furiously digging out the boulder on the north side.

“We’ll get it,” said a worker Q climbing out of the hole.

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The Shops at Atlas Park is hosting a blood drive Friday, Sept. 25, from 1 to 7 p.m. at 80-00 Cooper Ave. in Glendale, below the former Shiro of Japan site.

To schedule an appointment visit donate.nybc.org or call 1 (800) 933-2566.

Appointments are strongly encouraged and walk-ins will only be allowed if social distancing can be maintained.

Donors must wear a face covering and temperatures will be taken prior to be allowed to start the donation process.

For eligibility information, visit nybc. org/donate-blood/become-donor/can-i-

donate-blood/ or call 1 (800) 688-0900.

Donors must be 17 years old — 16 with written consent from a parent or legal guardian — weigh at least 110 pounds and be in good health.

Donors 76 and older can donate if they meet the criteria and present a physician’s letter allowing them to donate. Without a letter, they must be cleared by a New York Blood Center medical director at each location.

Residents can also visit nybc.org/blood for donor center hours and for informaQ tion on other mobile blood drives.

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Pol says he’ll seek re-election instead; counterprotesters appear in Maspeth

by David Russell Associate Editor

Approximately 40 residents rallied Tuesday in Maspeth in hopes that Councilman Bob Holden (D-Middle Village) will run for mayor next year — despite the lawmaker previously stating that he plans to run for re-election and not showing up at the event.

Supporters lauded his support for the NYPD, his criticism of the city’s plan to close Rikers Island and build four boroughbased jails, and his views on wanting to keep the Specialized High School Admissions Test in place.

“Right now, Bob Holden is the most rational person who could possibly run for mayor,” said Ryan Girdusky, a Maspeth resident and author of “They’re Not Listening: How the Elites Created the National Populist Revolution.”

Retired prosecutor Jim Quinn noted that crime has spiked in 2020, as thousands of inmates have been released from Rikers. “[Mayor de Blasio] wanted Rikers closed not for any real, legitimate reason,” Quinn said. “He wanted it closed because the radical base of the Democratic Party wanted Rikers closed and they wanted everybody released from Rikers Island. Mayor de Blasio went along with it and crime in New York started to increase.”

Community residents wanting Councilman Bob Holden to run for mayor rallied in Maspeth Tuesday, PHOTO BY DAVID RUSSELL while counterprotesters criticizing Holden also arrived on the scene.

Quinn, who was a borough president candidate until Gov. Cuomo canceled the nonpartisan special election, said Holden was one of the only Council members to adamantly oppose bail reform and the jail plan, while also praising the police.

“New York City has the finest police department in the country ... They are the

most polished, the most professional, trained police department,” Quinn said.

About 20 critics of Holden voiced opposition from across the street, calling him a racist for his views on the homeless shelter on Cooper Avenue in Glendale. They also chanted, “No cops, no KKK, no racist USA.” While the event remained peaceful with

police monitoring the situation, community activist Charlie Vavruska ripped the counterprotesters, saying he remembered the 1970s, the worst times for the city.

“But when it gets like that, they’re going to be running back to mommy and daddy’s house in the suburbs or wherever it is,” he said. “And they’re going to start getting their rent paid by their parents’ trust funds.

But we’re going to stay here and we’re going to fight and we’re going to elect Bob Holden as mayor.”

Quinn said he has never been so concerned about the future of the city.

“I’ve heard it over and over again, ‘You think de Blasio is bad, you should see what’s behind him.’ And that’s one of the scariest things I’ve heard in a long time,” Quinn said.

“I was humbled when I heard about this, and I certainly appreciate the support,” Holden said in a statement. “We have great people in District 30 and I’m focused on being the best council member I can be. I plan to run for re-election to the NYC Council and will announce in the near future.”

Holden, who ran on the Republican line and defeated Elizabeth Crowley in the 2017 election after losing the Democratic primary to her, is one of four Council members in Q Queens not facing term limits.

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Fidelis ad mortem.

Two police officers killed in the line of duty around 100 years ago were remembered last Saturday at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Maspeth on National Thank a Police Officer Day. “We say, ‘We will not forget our lost. We will remember those that went before us.’

And what happens here today is that this puts air in the lungs of that saying,” said Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President Pat Lynch, at rear center right in below right group shot. “It’s not just something that we say.”

Tr ibute was paid to Rober t Hen r y Holmes, the second black NYPD officer in the department’s history. He was born in South Carolina in 1888 and moved to New York City with his parents in the early 1900s. Holmes graduated from Howard University, joined the Black Elks Club and became friends with Samuel Battle, the first black NYPD officer.

Holmes joined the force and was assigned to the 28th Precinct in Harlem, where Battle had once been. He was later transferred to a neighboring precinct where the two walked the same beat during different shifts.

Working the night shift on Aug. 5, 1917, Holmes was shot twice in the head by a burglar whom he had chased along Lenox Avenue. Holmes was pronounced dead on Aug. 6.

Both of his parents died the following year, but not before his mother was able to unveil a monument to Holmes.

Police Off icer Ale Swider was also remembered at the ceremony. Born in 1900, he emigrated to America at age 12 with his family and lived on the Lower East Side.

At 18, he was drafted into the U.S. Army and was sent to France during World War I. Swider was a sergeant in the Infantry.

He joined the N Y PD in 1921 and patrolled on a motorcycle in the 37th and 33rd precincts. Known as “Flash,” Swider would patrol Central Park.

In pursuit of a motorist, he collided with a taxicab. Swider succumbed to the injuries he sustained in the accident on Nov. 1, 1923.

A monument to Swider at the Maspeth cemetery was unveiled in June 1924.

Groups at last Saturday’s ceremony included the Blue Knights Motorcycle Club, NYPD Ceremonial Unit, NYPBA and Vietnam Veterans Chapter 32, below right.

“Many of you, who know what a life of service is, and what it means to be selfless and to go out there and courageously protect your communities or protect your country, you understand the sacrifice that these two officers made,” said Jeffrey Maddrey, top left, the NYPD’s chief of Community Affairs.

Deputy Inspector Victoria Perry, the outgoing commanding officer of the 104th Precinct, also spoke to those gathered.

“Today’s a bittersweet day,” she said.

“Like the chief said earlier, we come out here every day and we take pride in what we do. We do it because we want to do it, not because we have to do it.”

Perry said she tells her officers each morning at roll call that they are special.

“You’re special to me, you’re special to the men and women that walk this street,” she said. “It’s you that separate the victim from the perpetrator.”

State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach), Assemblyman Brian Bar nwell (D-Maspeth), Councilman Bob Holden (D-Middle Village) and Queens GOP Chairwoman and borough president candidate Joann Ariola also attended.

Newtown Historical Society President Christina Wilkinson read the tributes for the officers and placed wreaths on their monuments along with Juniper Park Civic President Tony Nunziato, second row, right.

“That blue line is what gives us the safety, the security so we can all go out, so we can go shopping without worrying about being attacked, to give us that security all the time,” Nunziato said, adding, “I’m so happy that we have that blue line because Q we would never function without it.”

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Queens lawyer wins suit against DeJoy Election at issue, Najmi, 17 plaintiffs sued U.S. gov’t over slowing down mail

by Katherine Donlevy Associate Editor

A Manhattan federal judge ruled Sept. 22 that the Postal Service would have to reverse its slowdown ahead of the election, following a lawsuit from 17 plaintiffs who alleged that current policies cannot adequately accommodate an expected surge in mail-in voting.

“This is an unprecedented election year, and we’re going to have a record number of voting by mail,” said Ali Najmi, a Queensbased lawyer and community advocate who filed the lawsuit against President Trump and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy along with four representatives from Cohen & Green PLLC. DeJoy announced in June that the agency would remove a substantial amount of mail sorting machines, which would reduce the rate at which mail would be delivered, in response to a nationwide decrease in mail volume. He also announced that the agency would ban daily trips beyond employees’ initial runs in an effort to save $200 million.

The lawsuit, filed on Aug. 17, claimed that the changes were unconstitutional and would jeopardize the chances of all mail-in ballots arriving in time. Over a month later, Judge Victor Marrero ruled in favor of Najmi and his 17 plaintiffs from six states.

“Now, more than ever, the Postal Service’s status as a symbol of national unity must be validated by the demonstrated degree of its commitment to utmost effectiveness of Election Mail service,” Marrero wrote in his nearly-90 page ruling. “And while the Court has no doubts that the Postal Service’s workforce comprises hardworking and dedicated public servants, multiple managerial failures have undermined the postal employees’ ability to fulfill their vital mission.”

Marrero ordered DeJoy to treat all election mail as first-class and priority mail to ensure its speedy delivery. He also ordered DeJoy to update the court on a weekly basis on the post office’s progress in improving its mail delivery as well as come up with a plan to restore on-time delivery to its highest level within the year.

“Anytime you sue the federal government it’s not easy,” said Najmi, adding that the lawsuit was successful due to testimony gained from USPS workers and managers who established what the agency slowdown looked like and how it would affect the efficiency in delivering mailed-in ballots. “It troubled the people in this nation.”

Najmi pointed to Marrero’s ruling that DeJoy must approve all overtime requests

A Manhattan judge ruled in favor of Queens lawyer Ali Najmi, left, who sued USPS leader Louis DeJoy, right, and President Trump for intentionally slowing down mail delivery ahead of the Nov. ALI NAJMI PHOTO, LEFT / TWITTER; USPS PHOTO 3 election and an assumed surge in mailed ballots. from Oct. 26 to Nov. 6, which is regarded as the peak of election mail submittance and delivery.

“It was clear that overtime is essential for processing the ballots swiftly,” he said.

“There was confusion across the nation about DeJoy’s statements. They were inconsistent, didn’t meet the demands we need.”

Najmi assures all those who had been apprehensive about voting via mail that their ballots will now be surely counted, but he encourages everyone to do it as soon as possible to ensure they are postmarked in time.

He himself has already postmarked his ballot, and said he’s assisted his mother in Q securing hers as well.

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111 Pct. community officer charged with reporting Tibetan citizens to PRC

by Katherine Donlevy Associate Editor

“Not everything in the media is true.

We’re not the bad guys, we’re the good guys.

Always have been, always will be,” Capt.

John Portalatin, commanding officer of the 111th Precinct, said at a Sept. 2 award ceremony honoring neighborhood children who had completed the NYPD GetFit summer camp. “I can show you an example right here: my officers here.”

Less than three weeks later, Off icer Baimadajie Angwang, the precinct’s leading community affairs officer and one of the GetFit ceremony’s organizers, was arrested by the FBI on charges of acting as a Chinese spy.

Angwang, who manned the precinct’s social media accounts and routinely engaged with the community, was charged Sept. 21 by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York with acting as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China, committing wire fraud, making false statements and obstructing an official proceeding.

“As alleged in this federal complaint, Baimadajie Angwang violated every oath he took in this country. One to the United States, another to the U.S. Army, and a third to this Police Department,” NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said in a statement,

referring to Angwang’s position as a staff sergeant in the U.S. Army Reserve, where he acted as a civil affairs specialist, which authorized him a “secret” level security clearance.

According to the complaint, Angwang initially traveled to the U.S. on a cultural exchange visa, overstayed a second visa and eventually sought asylum on the basis that he had been arrested and tortured in the PRC for his Tibetan ethnicity. Angwang became a naturalized U.S. citizen, but was recruited by an unidentified PRC “handler” in the Chinese consulate in Manhattan since at least 2014, prosecutors said.

The 33-year-old police officer allegedly spotted and assessed potential ethnic Tibetan intelligence sources in the New York and reported on their activities to the Chinese Consulate.

The 24-page complaint outlined multiple alleged phone conversations from the past two years between Angwang and at least two PRC officials, one of whom the FBI suspects of being assigned to the “China Association for Preservation and Development of Tibetan Culture,” a division of the PRC’s United Front Work Department that works to neutralize sources of potential opposition, namely ethnic Chinese individuals living outside the PRC, to the policies and authority of China.

111th Precinct Community Affairs Officer Baimadajie Angwang was charged with acting NYPD PHOTO / TWITTER as a Chinese spy.

Angwang referred to his handlers as “Boss,” and made statements such as, “Let them know, you have recruited one in the police department,” and “It’s necessary, necessary to support you,” according to the documents.

Angwang is also charged with committing

wire fraud, making material false statements and obstructing an official proceeding — for his position in the Army Reserve, Angwang submitted a form for a background investigation in which he allegedly denied having maintained connections with a foreign government or its consulate. He also allegedly denied having close contact with foreign nationals, including his family members who live in the PRC, some of whom are affiliated with the People’s Liberation Army.

“This is the definition of an insider threat — as alleged, Mr. Angwang operated on behalf of a foreign government; lied to gain his clearance, and used his position as an NYPD police officer to aid the Chinese government’s subversive and illegal attempts to recruit intelligence sources,” said FBI New York Assistant Director-in-Charge William Sweeney. “We will we not tolerate the behavior of those who willingly violate their oath to the United States, and covertly work against their fellow citizens.”

The government’s case is being handled by the district office’s National Security and Cybercrime Section. Angwang was ordered detained by a federal judge at a virtual court appearance on Monday afternoon, but a hearing regarding bail has not yet been set. If convicted, Angwang faces a maximum senQ tence of 55 years in prison.

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Anti-Asian hate crime jumps 1,900 percent Meng’s resolution denouncing COVID-driven bias passes House

by Katherine Donlevy Associate Editor

In response to a major uptick in antiAsian sentiment during the pandemic, the House of Representatives passed a resolution sponsored by Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing) to denounce racism by a vote of 243-164 on Sept. 17.

“Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, Asian Americans have been forced to endure demeaning and disgusting acts of bigotry and hate, consisting of everything from verbal assaults to physical attacks,” Meng said in a statement following the passage of her resolution.

Meng had introduced the measure in late March, just before first-quarter hate crime statistics revealed that the amount of reported anti-Asian hate crimes in the first three months of 2020 were nearly double the incidents of the last two years combined.

According to NYPD data, hate crimes motivated by anti-Asian sentiment jumped by 1,900 percent in the last year — there was only one reported anti-Asian incident during all of 2019 compared to 20 in the first half of 2020. Hate crimes against Asia n A mer ica ns had been stead ily decreasing throughout the last three years until the pandemic — in 2017, racially motivated incidents toward Asians only

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reports of anti-Asian incidents throughout 47 states across the country from March to May. More than 70 percent of the incidents involved verbal harassment, followed by shunning, or deliberate avoidance because of race, at nearly 22 percent and physical assault at nearly 9 percent.

Meng said that the increase was partly caused by the use of racially charged language by political leaders, such as President Trump, who has used the terms “Chinese virus,” “Wuhan virus” and “Kung-f lu” when referring to COVID-19. In an effort to

hold Trump and other officials accountable for the influence they may have lent to the increase in anti-Asian sentiment, the resolution calls for all public officials to condemn and denounce all anti-Asian rhetoric, as well as forms of intolerance against all ethnicities, races and religions.

Additionally, the resolution calls for federal, state and area law enforcement to work together to investigate and document all reports of bias crimes, incidents and threats against Asian Americans, especially due to the pandemic, and to hold the perpetrators accountable for the sake of recommitting the country as an inclusive and diverse society.

As a guest on MSNBC’s “The Week with Joshua Johnson,” Meng said that the resolution was meant to be an “easy way” for Democrats and Republicans to take a united front against bias. All the 164 negative votes on the resolution were Republican, and only 13 House Republicans voted in its favor.

The Senate version of the resolution is still pending in its chamber.

“It’s time for this hysteria and discrimination to end,” Meng said. “This measure is about condemning hate and violence and attacks on innocent individuals. We’re talking about people’s lives and their right to Q feel and be safe.”

Indoor pools reopening Alternate side parking Those at city rec centers staying closed adjustments extended

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Queens residents who want to get soaked won’t have to stand in the rain or buy black-market Lysol any longer — private indoor pools may reopen Sept. 30 at 33 percent capacity, Mayor de Blasio announced last Friday.

The ruling does not, however, apply to pools in city recreation centers, which will remain closed, city officials said. At least two city web pages, one focused on public pools and one on the recreation centers that house them, note the reopening of pools without making that distinction clear.

“All outdoor pools have closed for the Summer 2020 season and will reopen on May 29, 2021,” one of the pages says in a box labeled Coronavirus (Covid-19) Alert.

“Indoor pools will be allowed to reopen on September 30th at 33% capacity.”

Below that it lists the fees for pools and links to more information about them.

Links on both pages lead to Parks Department websites. Those explicitly state that pools and rec centers, respectively, remain closed.

De Blasio touted pools’ value to their communities in a prepared statement.

“As New York City continues its gradu-

Swimming will soon be allowed again at PIKREPO.COM indoor pools in the city. al reopening and economic recovery, we’re proud to announce we are ready to reopen indoor pools,” he said. “Swimming pools are a community anchor, an exercise center, and an oasis in their neighborhoods — both literally and figuratively. New Yorkers have worked hard to f ight back COVID-19. As transmission rates remain low, we’re proud to offer more ways to slowly return to business as usual.”

The city Health Department will continue inspections of the pools to promote compliance with state regulations. Anyone who sees crowding or other unsafe condiQ tions is asked to report it to 311.

Mayor de Blasio on Friday announced that adjustments to alternate side parking first introduced in June will be in place until further notice.

They were supposed to revert back to normal as of Sunday, Sept. 20.

It marks the second time in two weeks the adjustments were extended just before regulations were supposed to revert back to pre-June status.

Under the adjustments, nonmetered streets that have multiple ASP days each week to permit street cleaning will continue to be cleaned only on the last day listed for the week.

Amended rules pertain to nonmetered residential “side streets” and not to commercial areas. A street with ASP regulations posted on Tuesday and Friday, for example, will be cleaned on Friday only.

Daily sweeping regulations in metered areas will not change, and the DSNY will continue cleaning streets with posted No Standing, No Stopping and No Parking regulations as needed.

The city first unveiled the reforms in June.

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Changes to alternate side of the street parking regulations to accommodate street cleaning have been extended until further PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON notice.

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ARTS, ARTS T CULTURE CULT C TURE & LIVING

by Max Parrott

Hanging in the corner of the Plaxall Gallery are a cluster of punching bags sewn up with quilted breasts, covered in veiny looking thread and splattered red paint. “We fight back,” is scrawled across one.

On the other side of the room, a brightly colored animation projects across heaps of drab, turn-of-the-20th-century clothes hanging across a laundry line.

Diverse in mediums, and full of the juxtaposition of everyday items with sociopolitical imagery, “Someone Will Remember Us” is the first exhibition that the Plaxall Gallery has hosted since quarantine.

According to curator Lisa Di Donato, the exhibition seeks to get its viewers to confront the question of “Who are we?”

Though the exhibition spun off from Caroline Voagen Nelson’s laundry line installation, which the artist designed to honor the centennial of the passage of women’s suffrage in the Unites States, Di Donato said that she encouraged other artists to think more broadly in commenting on their cultural identity.

Di Donato was given the opportunity to curate the exhibition by Culture Lab, a brand-new nonprofit formed to support the efforts of local artists.

Though the Plaxall Gallery, a 12,000-square-foot converted warehouse, has been around since October 2016, Culture Lab’s Executive Director Edjo Wheeler established the nonprofit in April to take over running the space from Long Island City Artists, which had been doing so for the past couple years. continued on page 23

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John Santucci was born on April 2, 1931 to Tommaso “Thomas” Santucci and Mary Pagano. His father, an Italian immigrant who traveled to America in 1905 at the age of 17, only had an eighth-grade education, but experience as a plasterer and worked as a building contractor during the building boom in Queens in the 1930s. John, his parents and two brothers lived in a home at 130-07 116 Ave. in South Ozone Park.

Santucci graduated from St. John’s Law School in 1953 and married his wife, Edna Ann Hayes, one year later. He entered Democratic politics and was appointed by Gov. Hugh Carey as the Queens County district attorney on Dec. 30, 1976 after DA Nicholas Ferraro was named a judge. Santucci was elected to and held his position from 1977 to 1991 and was embroiled in high-profile cases such as the Howard Beach hate crime killing of Michael Griffith and prosecution of former Rep. Geraldine Ferraro’s (D-Queens, Brooklyn) husband, John Zaccaro, for trying to secure a bribe from a cable company to enter the Queens marketplace.

The childhood home of former Queens County DA John Santucci at 130-07 116 Ave. in South Ozone Park as it appeared in FILE PHOTO, INSET the mid-1940s.

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Although it was expected Steve Cohen would ultimately be the buyer of the New York Mets, it was still surprising to get the press release from the team last Monday that the Wilpon family had agreed in principle to sell the team to him.

The sales price was not stated in the press release but a number of analysts estimated it to be $2.4 billion, which makes it the largest sales price for a professional sports franchise.

The deal will become official when 22 of the 29 Major League Baseball teams give their blessing. It’s doubtful if things would have gotten this far if that isn’t a fait accompli.

As happy as most Mets fans were to learn of the impending change in the ownership suite, it’s safe to assume Major League Baseball Players Association Executive Director Tony Clark is ecstatic. Having a deep-pocketed owner in Flushing will inevitably drive up offers to free agents and for players willing to sign long-term contracts with their current teams.

Normally ownership changes are voted on by team owners at their annual mid-November meeting. Given how much business in this COVID-19 era is transacted remotely, it’s likely Cohen will be confirmed well before then.

Cohen grew up a huge Mets fan in Great Neck, LI, and has been a minority owner for the past decade. He clearly knows many Mets execu-

tives but the relevant question for cleaning house will be “How well does he know management personnel from other baseball teams?” My advice to Mets fans is not to expect a radical change in 2021. Cohen may see his first year of ownership as one for evaluating team employees.

If there was one game that seemed to typify the Mets offense in this strange pandemic-shortened season, it was last Tuesday’s battle against the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park.

The Mets lost 4-1 but what was absolutely galling was they had 11 hits that night while only generating one measly run. That box score should be posted in a Ripley’s Believe It or Not attraction.

It would make for an interesting debate to argue over whose stock has fallen faster: Yankees third baseman Miguel Andujar or Mets shortstop Amed Rosario. Andujar has spent more time than he’d like at the Yankees alternate training facility, PNC Field, in Moosic, Penn., which last week served as the site of a CNN town hall with Joe Biden.

Former National Baseball Hall of Fame President Jeff Idelson paid tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg by posting a photo of him giving her a tour of the Cooperstown Museum on social media.

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As part of Flushing Town Hall’s celebration of the Harvest Moon Festival, music fans can watch a psychedelic Korean folk music group perform Tuesday.

Coreyah’s prerecorded concer t will stream at youtube.com/flushingtownhall at 7 p.m. as the Flushing Town Hall at Home Series continues.

The band’s six members integrate traditional Korean instruments, vocals, guitar and percussion as they try to deliver positive energy during challenging times.

“We cannot compare the experience of exchanging energy with the audience on stage with online performances,” the band’s leader, Kyungyi, said in an email.

“But there are also advantages to online performances because more people can easily access the performance without being limited by time and space.”

Coreyah concert When: Tue., Sept. 29, 7 p.m.

Where: bit/ly/32Jfekt Tickets: Free flushingtownhall.org

He said that while many performances this year have been canceled or gone online, the group is still producing music videos and other clips.

Coreyah, a Sino-Korean homonym that refers to the inheritance of the past and also in Korean means “whale” — the group’s totem animal and good luck charm — began playing 10 years ago. The band’s freewheeling, polystylistic vision combines a variety of influences, including AngloAmerican rock, Balkan gypsy music and genres from South America and Africa.

“Just like Coreyah, there are many Korean bands that combine pop with Korean traditional music,” Kyungyi said. “We hope you enjoy our music and the interesting musical movements taking place in Korea from a distance.”

The band, which has performed in 34 countries, released its fourth album, “Clap & Applause,” in July. Korean traditional rhythms combine with toe-tapping and hand-clapping dance beats set to the sounds of the soulful daegeum flute, electrifying geomungo zither and fierceful janggu hourglass drum.

Are audiences looking for such entertaining distractions during the pandemic?

“I don’t think that people’s musical taste will change suddenly because of the pan-

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Band mixes psychedelic sound with folk music

Coreyah, a psychedelic Korean folk group, will perform as part of Flushing Town Hall’s COURTESY PHOTO celebration of the Harvest Moon Festival. demic,” Kyungyi said. “I believe that music, regardless of genre, will still bring joy and comfort to people.”

Among the seven songs to be performed are “How Far You’ve Come,” dedicated to a musician’s life on the road, “Big Things,” about trying to keep calm and living up to dreams, and “Good Dreams,” imagining a child’s slumber and a youth staying up all night, two portraits offering a contrasting,

yet shared, experience of nighttime.

Kyungyi also spoke about possible peace between the Koreas. “I believe that peace is when people of various minds coexist without hating each other, whether it’s political or cultural,” he said. “When people’s lives are threatened by the pandemic, it is easy to reveal the feelings of hating people, but I hope we can have a little Q more time to love each other.”

LIC gallery asks, how will we be remembered?

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“We’ve always helped local organizations. That’s why we’re here. But then it turned solely into that,” Wheeler said.

The exhibition had originally been scheduled for April as a prelude to August, the month that Congress passed the 19th Amendment, which recognized women’s right to vote in 1920. Asked how the meaning for the exhibition had changed for her during quarantine, Di Donato said that it brought some of the themes to life.

The central question for her was what happens to cultural identity during periods of major social upheaval.

“The title of the show refers back to what eyes which people will use to look at us from in the future,” Di Donato said.

She added that being quarantined inside for months did give her a different appreciation for the art in the exhibition.

“We’ve all been sitting in front of screens; we have a lot of installation work here. One of the things here is that it’s very tactile, which was by design before, but now I’ve noticed how there’s a lot of very material-oriented work,” Di Donato said.

Amanda Thackray’s 400-square-foot installation embodies this textured

Zhen Guo’s “My Punching Bags” installation juxtaposes images of masculine and feminine strength. On the cover: Curator Lisa Di Donato, left, Amanda Thackray and some guests talk PHOTOS BY MAX PARROTT in front of Caroline Voagen Nelson’s installation. approach. The work consists of a large pattern of screen prints on homemade paper from four different water sources.

“She marbles them with inks and dyes to give it the impression of the original water source. Then she takes objects that have been located within that water source

and creates mono prints,” Di Donato said.

Guests will get the opportunity to explore these textures and those of the other artists in the gallery within a social distanced capacity. For this reason, registration is recommended ahead of time by Q emailing info@licartists.org.

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continued from page 21 The exhibition’s opening took place simultaneously with a jazz trombone band concert in the lot next to the gallery, a separate piece of Culture Lab programming set against the Anable Basin waterfront.

During quarantine, Wheeler said the organization had turned the space into a food pantry, Census training site and venue for A lcoholic s Anonymous meetings.

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LISTONE ENTERPRISE LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/04/2020. Office loc: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Linda Irene Stone, 52-30 65th Place, Apt 2G, Maspeth, NY 11378. Reg Agent: Linda Irene Stone, 52-30 65th Place, Apt 2G, Maspeth, NY 11378.

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NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 09-14-2020, bearing Index Number NC-000482-20/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) DAVID (Last) WU. My present name is (First) SHUI (Middle) P (Last) WU AKA SHUI PING WU AKA SHUI PING AKA SHUI PING WOO AKA PETER L. CHAN AKA DAVID WU. The city and state of my present address are Oakland Gardens, NY. My place of birth is CHINA. The month and year of my birth are May 1957.

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

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: COMMAND COLLECTIVE LLC, 150 50TH AVE, APT 544, LONG ISLAND CITY, NY 11101.

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NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 08-04-2020, bearing Index Number NC-000400-20/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) ELI (Middle) NIGEL (Last) MARKEY. My present name is (First) ELIZABETH (Middle) DOROTHY (Last) MARKEY (infant).

The city and state of my present address are College Point, NY. My place of birth is QUEENS, NEW YORK. The month and year of my birth are March 2007.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 09-15-2020, bearing Index Number NC-000492-20/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) HAYDER (Last) CANDIA. My present name is (First) HAYDER (Middle) DELOSSANTOS (Last) CANDIA AKA HAYDER DE LOS SANTOS CANDIA AKA HAYDER DE LOS SANTOS AKA HAYDER CANDIA. The city and state of my present address are Corona, NY. My place of birth is QUEENS, NEW YORK. The month and year of my birth are July 1999.

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Notice of Formation of DR PR Consulting LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/04/2020. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: DAVID ROBBINS, 83-30 KEW GARDENS ROAD, APT 2P, KEW GARDENS, NY 11415. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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

NOTICE OF SALE MARGARET E. MEYERS, ET. AL. v. ANGELIQUE MAMALAKIS AS ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF EFSTRATIOS MAMALAKIS, et al. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered March 12, 2020, bearing index no.

709650/2016, I will sell at public auction on Friday, October 23, 2020 at 10:00 AM in Courtroom #25 of Queens County Supreme Court, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, New York, 11435 the premises known as 29-12 172nd Street, Flushing, New York 11358 (Block: 4934, Lot: 11).

Premises sold subject to filed Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale and Terms of Sale. Judgment amount $531,184.38 plus interest and costs.

Lamont Bailey, Esq., Referee.

Harry Zubli Esq., attorney for plaintiff (516) 487-5777.

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Notice of Formation of Moolah ATM LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/02/2020.

Office location: Queens County.

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

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: MOOLAH, 10420 37TH RD, CORONA, NY 11368. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Nature’s Best Snacks LLC, Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/16/2020. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: THE LLC, 139-15 222ND STREET, LAURELTON, NY 11413.

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Supplemental Summons and Notice of Object of Action Supreme Court of the State of New York County of Queens Action to Quite Title Index #: 701103/2020 FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION Plaintiff, vs UNKNOWN HEIRS OF GEORGE MITCHELL, IF LIVING, AND IF HE/SHE BE DEAD, ANY AND ALL PERSONS UNKNOWN TO PLAINTIFF, CLAIMING, OR WHO MAY CLAIM TO HAVE AN INTEREST IN, OR GENERAL OR SPECIFIC LIEN UPON THE REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THIS ACTION; SUCH UNKNOWN PERSONS BEING HEREIN GENERALLY DESCRIBED AND INTENDED TO BE INCLUDED IN WIFE, WIDOW, HUSBAND, WIDOWER, HEIRS AT LAW, NEXT OF KIN, DESCENDANTS, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, DEVISEES, LEGATEES, CREDITORS, TRUSTEES, COMMITTEES, LIENORS, AND ASSIGNEES OF SUCH DECEASED, ANY AND ALL PERSONS DERIVING INTEREST IN OR LIEN UPON, OR TITLE TO SAID REAL PROPERTY BY, THROUGH OR UNDER THEM, OR EITHER OF THEM, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE WIVES, WIDOWS, HUSBANDS, WIDOWERS, HEIRS AT LAW, NEXT OF KIN, DESCENDANTS, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, DEVISEES, LEGATEES, CREDITORS, TRUSTEES, COMMITTEES, LIENORS, AND ASSIGNS, ALL OF WHOM AND WHOSE NAMES, EXCEPT AS STATED, ARE UNKNOWN TO PLAINTIFF, HSBC BANK USA, N.A., AS SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO EAST BROOKLYN SAVINGS BANK, CAPITAL ONE, N.A., AS SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO THE GREEN POINT SAVINGS BANK, NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU, CITY REGISTER OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK Defendant(s). Mortgaged Premises: 116-28 201st Street, St Albans, NY 11412 BL #: 11072 - 44 To the Above named Defendant: You are hereby summoned to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Supplemental Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff(s) attorney(s) within twenty days after the service of this Supplemental Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Supplemental Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. The Attorney for Plaintiff has an office for business in the County of Erie. Trial to be held in the County of Queens. The basis of the venue designated above is the location of the Mortgaged Premises. TO UNKNOWN HEIRS OF GEORGE MITCHELL Defendant In this Action. The foregoing Supplemental Summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an order of HON. Robert J. McDonald of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, dated the 18th day of August, 2020 and filed with the Complaint in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Queens, in the City of Jamaica. The object of this action is to quieting title as to any interest in the subject property held

by HSBC Bank USA, N.A., as successor in interest to East Brooklyn Savings Bank, Capital One, N.A., as successor in interest to The Green Point Savings Bank and New York City Transit Adjudication Bureau; directing the City Register of the City of New York to reform the Land Records in the Clerk’s Office to reflect that the mortgages recorded June 26, 1959 in Reel 7604 Page 89, Page 470 and October 31, 1991 at Reel 3224 Page 1766 are extinguished and HSBC Bank USA, N.A., as successor in interest to East Brooklyn Savings Bank and Capital One, N.A., as successor in interest to The Green Point Savings Bank no longer have any interest in the Subject Property; directing the City Register of the City of New York to reform the Land Records in the Clerk’s Office to reflect that the TAB liens recorded December 18, 2013 in TAB Violation No. 061-746-291, December 18, 2013 at TAB Violation No. 061-378-736, December 19, 2013 in TAB Violation No. 070-163-134, December 19, 2013 in TAB Violation No. 061185-951, December 17, 2013 in TAB Violation No. 058-092-522, December 18, 2013 in TAB Violation No. 061-063-512, December 17, 2013 in TAB Violation No. 056-741-906, and June 22, 2015 in TAB Violation No. 109-434-638 are extinguished and New York City Transit Adjudication Bureau no longer has any interest in the Subject Property; quieting title as to any interest in the subject property held by Unknown Heirs of George Mitchell; directing the City Register of the City of New York to reform the Land Records in the Clerk’s Office to reflect that the Unknown Heirs of George Mitchell no longer have any interest in the Subject Property; enjoining the defendants from taking any action that is adverse to the Plaintiff’s lien position or its related rights; and such other and further relief that the Court may deem is just, equitable, and proper. The property in question is described as follows: 116-28 201st Street, St. Albans, NY 11412 If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this quiet title proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. DATED: August 26, 2020 Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney(s) For Plaintiff(s), 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100, Williamsville, NY 14221 The law firm of Gross Polowy, LLC and the attorneys whom it employs are debt collectors who are attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained by them will be used for that purpose. 69177

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Notice of formation of North America Adult Day Care LLC Articles of organization filed with the Secretary of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 9/1/2020. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Wei, Qing Yan, 132-18 41 ROAD, FLUSHING, NY 11354.

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Nice sized BRs with plenty of closet space. The first floor has tile throughout with 3-zone radiant heat floors. Beautiful full kitchen with quartz countertops, under cabinet lighting, instant hot water, rollouts in all cabinets and a full bath. Large Pella sliding door leads you to the fully paved backyard with PVC fencing that is perfect for entertaining. The huge garage has been completely tiled and can possibly be converted to a 4th BR & has a pvt drvwy with plenty of parking on the block.

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AirTrain could benefit economy, damage park Concerns and support raised at hearing for transportation project

by Katherine Donlevy Associate Editor

Three weeks after it released its 552-page draft environmental impact study for the proposed AirTrain between Willets Point and LaGuardia Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration held its first of three virtual public hearings Sept. 22, where community members voiced their support and opposition to the plan.

The $2 billion project, led by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy airports, was proposed in an effort to quicken trips to LaGuardia from Manhattan as well as relieve congestion on nearby highways.

“First and foremost, Guardians of Flushing Bay believes the proposed LaGuardia AirTrain is an ill-conceived transit project that alienates parkland, burdens overburdened transit infrastructure and is an irresponsible use of federal stimulus funding,” Rebecca Pryor, that organization’s program coordinator, said during the meeting. Pryor noted that the Guardians group was still reviewing the impact study and would put out an official statement upon completion, but at this time opposes the plan as is.

As a group of environmental advocates, the Guardians of Flushing Bay pointed out that the proposal would use land on the Flushing

Community advocates and representatives joined Sept. 22 for a virtual hearing on the proposed LaGuardia AirTrain, which would use up partial space at the Flushing Promenade, to voice their PHOTO BY MICHAEL SHAIN support and opposition to the project.

Promenade, park space that would cease to be publicly accessible and which would subsequently become damaged and polluted.

“We are not blind to the fact that our parkland is effectively being treated as an environmental sacrifice zone,” she said.

Other speakers during the two-hour hearing shared similar concerns with Pryor, especially when it came to transit congestion — though the proposal aims to speed up travel time for commuters and alleviate highway traffic, residents of the area were

concerned it would do the opposite.

Warren Schreiber, the second vice chairperson of Community Board 7, worried that the AirTrain will result in increased ridership on the 7 train, which he notes was already at full capacity before the COVID19 outbreak, as well as the Port Washington branch of the Long Island Rail Road.

“Everyone’s going to be using public transportation,” he said, adding that he won’t take a position on the AirTrain until the transportation issues are resolved.

Positive testimonies were also heard during the virtual call, including from Tom Grech, the president and CEO of the Queens Chamber of Commerce. Grech referred to the AirTrain as a requirement in the immediate area as a way to combat traffic as development in Willets Point continues to grow.

“The LaGuardia AirTrain project will reduce traffic, decrease greenhouse gases and allow a better use of LaGuardia Airport,” he said, adding that all members of the organization “wholeheartedly” support the project as an important component of the city’s transportation network.

Carlo Scissura, the president and CEO of the New York Building Congress, also voiced support for the proposal because it would provide union jobs for local workers and economic opportunity to small business vendors as well as revitalize public spaces.

“At a time of unprecedented economic crisis in our city, state and truly in our nation, this investment in reliable and sustainable mass transit is needed for our community and for the future of the entire New York region,” he said.

The second meeting took place Wednesday afternoon, and the final public hearing will be held Sept. 24 at 5 p.m., though the 45-day public comment period for the DEIS Q will remain open until Oct. 5, 2020.

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A Long Island City property sold for $40 million with plans to construct an approximately 270,000-square-foot commercial building at the site, Newmark Knight Frank announced last Thursday.

Botanic Properties, backed by the investment firm the Carlyle Group, purchased the spot at 24-02 Queens Plaza South from Atlas Capital Group, according to reports.

A commercial building is planned once the lease ends. The property is home to Apex Technical School.

“The QPS transaction illustrates what developers with a clear vision and strong commitment to the long-term resilience and viability of New York City can get the deal done,” said Bill Harvey, managing director of Newmark Knight Frank.

Atlas purchased the site for $13.5 million in 2012, Crain’s reported last Friday.

The building at the address stands three stories tall and spans about 74,000 square feet.

“Both debt and equity have not been as readily available as they were before Feb-

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A 270,000-square-foot building is planned for 24-02 Queens Plaza South in Long Island PHOTO COURTESY NEWMARK KNIGHT FRANK City. ruary and when they are, they have become much more expensive,” Atlas Vice Chairman Brian Ezratty said, adding that the industry is still dealing with the perceived impact of the coronavirus and restrictions for on-site tours and inspections in recent months.

“When both buyer and seller demonstrate patience and perseverance as they did here, properties can and will still trade hands to the mutual benefit of all Q concerned,” Ezratty said.

Waterfront Colonial- raised, new foundation. Large 4 bedrooms, 2 full baths, dining room, new floors, sliding doors to yard overlooking Jamaica Bay. Walk to parks, tennis courts, library, “A” train, 15 minutes to JFK and express bus to NYC. Near Rockaway Beach and NYC Ferry.

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Beautiful & sunny 1 BR, 1 bath Co-op in a beautiful well maintained building.

Conveniently located near shopping and public transportation. Apartment is in mint condition. Updated & freshly painted. Ready to move in!!

Ranch Style 1 Family home located in Rockwood Park / New Howard Beach.

Home has 3 BRs 2.5 baths, living room, Eat-in-kit., dining room, full basement & pvt dvwy. This home is a great opportunity for someone who wants to create their own space. Conveniently located near shopping and transportation. Home is Selling “as is.”

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Commercial building planned for $40M site

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• Lindenwood • Lovely 3 BR, 1 bath converted to a 2 BR. Gut renovated- take a virtual tour and you won’t believe the worksmanship and quality of everything in it. Laundry closet with extra large stackable top of the line large capacity washer/dryer. Kitchen totally redone.

Cabinets, stainless steel appliances, granite countertops & moveable island. Formal tiled DR, LR, redone wood floors. Master BR with wall to wall California closets. Excellent size 2nd bedroom. Lowest maint. in Lindenwood.

Free storage, Fios ready.

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

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

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

• Lindenwood • Renovated 1 Bedroom, 1 Full Bath Co-op in the Heart of Lindenwood. Completely Renovated with a New Kitchen with Stainless Appliances. Hardwood Floors and Carpeting, Updated Bath, Lots of Windows and Storage. Low Maintenance.

Cat Friendly Building, Nighttime Guard, Elevator Building, Storage Lockers, Fitness Center and Onsite Laundry. A must see!

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Mint Detached Colonial, pvt dvwy & 2 car garage, 3 BRs, 2 full baths, completely renovated throughout within 7 years, windows, roof, gas boiler, hotwater heater, stoop, wood doors, porcelain tiles on 1st flr, hardwood flrs upstairs, lg living rm, lg formal dining rm. lg kitchen with cherry cabinets, S.S. appl, island, Beautiful.

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

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Mint Waterfront property with views of the bridge, all redone inside, new bulkhead, new double docks, beautiful kit with S.S. appl., open flr plan, vaulted ceilings, 2 BR converted to one lg master with wall to wall closets, lg new bath with state-of-the-art huge shower, new electric & plumbing

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

Lovely High-Ranch (well taken care of) 5 BRs, 2 full baths, on 40x100.

Priced to sell. $789K

Det. 1 Family, 3 BRs, 2 baths, basement, pty driveway and 1 car garage

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Howard Beach /Cross Bay Blvd.

2nd floor 350 sq. ft. $1,500 per mo.

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$610K

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

Mint Hi-Ranch on 40x100 lot, 4 BRs/3 full baths, Vinyl siding with brick front, Andersen windows, Hi-Hats, tiled floors, new carpeting in BRs, security cameras, alarm system, freshly painted, mechanics all updated, heated spa & in-ground pool, brick patio, CAC, rollout awning Asking $889K

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Commercial Building (101st Ave.) 2 blocks off Cross Bay Blvd./25x100 lot, 25x46 building/ 2nd flr., Dental Office $2,200 per mo./ 1st floor gutted to studs & vacant / basement clean with new furnace / zoning R6B / building K2

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