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Several sources claim that the proposed Major League Soccer stadium at Aqueduct could be built on the site of the track, ending horse racing at a venue that many say the New York Racing Association has long ignored.

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Does MLS mean the end of horse racing?

Sources say demolition of racetrack at Aqueduct for arena is one possibility

by Domenick Rafter Editor

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everal sources have confirmed that demolition of Aqueduct Race Track for a new soccer stadium is not off the table.

It was announced last month that Major League Soccer was looking at Aqueduct as a site for a soccer-specific stadium to host the New York City Football Club, an expansion team that will begin playing next year at Yankee Stadium.

“The discussions leave open the possibility of the racetrack being torn down and the stadium being built on that site,” one high-level source said. “[The New York Racing Association] would make Belmont Racetrack a yearround venue and hold winter racing there.”

The source did say, however, that is not the most likely or desired option, noting Though it is not the favored option, sources say Aqueduct Race Track could be demolished to that the favored choice is to build the stadi- make way for a new Major League Soccer stadium that is being proposed for the site if the arena um on top of lightly used parking fields cannot be built elsewhere on the property.

PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER owned by the city on the southern end of those lots to go through ULURP in the The track itself is on state-owned land, the Aqueduct site, near the Belt Parkway.

But building a stadium even on the 20 event they are proposed to be used for any- which would require state approval to both demolish the track and build the stadium. acres of city property currently leased by the thing other than parking.

The ULURP would require public hearA separate source said all locations on Port Authority of New York and New Jersey ings and approval from Borough President Aqueduct property not occupied by Resorts would require going over some hurdles.

During a Uniform Land Use Review Pro- Melinda Katz, the City Planning Commis- World Casino New York City are being looked at, even the location of the Home cedure in 2004 dealing with PANYNJ prop- sion and the City Council.

Should something go awr y with that Depot store on Rockaway Boulevard, which erty leased from the city in Queens, Community Boards 10 and 12 suggested forcing option, the track proposal could emerge as a is owned by the company. Home Depot wanted to close the store several years ago the plots of land at Aqueduct that includes backup plan.

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when it opened another store at Gateway mall in Brooklyn a few miles away.

State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) said he had not heard of any proposals to tear down the racetrack.

“I haven’t heard anything,” he said. “I’d have to consider all aspects real strongly if that’s the case.”

Addabbo said he doesn’t favor demolishing the track but noted that the New York Racing Association, which operates it along with Belmont and Saratoga, does not prioritize Aqueduct and has ignored it.

Addabbo said he “sees the direction NYRA is going in, focusing on Belmont and Saratoga,” adding that he had a different idea of what to do in the track’s place.

“Should Aqueduct cease to exist at some point, my feeling and, I believe my constituents, would rather see the casino expand,” Addabbo explained.

Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Rockaway Park), who has called on NYRA to make Aqueduct a priority, said he would “be open to any and all suggestions that would increase economic activity.”

Betty Braton, chairwoman of Community Board 10, whose area includes the track, said she had no knowledge of any proposal to demolish it, but added that she has not been privy to any discussions. continued on page 38

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Living with knee pain can feel like a crippling experience.

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September agenda includes flooding update, Build it Back, rats and traffic

by Stephen Geffon

Program Rudy S. Giuliani discussed the program, promising the audience that, “The cusAfter a summer hiatus, the Howard tomer service experience will be better.”

Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-RockaBeach-Lindenwood Civic Association resumed its meeting schedule on Tuesday way Park) discussed his efforts to mitigate the noxious odors emanating from the evening at St. Helen School cafeteria.

The more than 300 neighborhood resi- Rockaway Water Pollution Control Plant in dents who packed the meeting heard from Rockaway Park and wafting into southern elected officials and representatives of city Queens.

Goldfeder said that the city Department agencies. Many expressed their concerns about area problems including rodents and of Environment Protection has responded to his requests and will make a comprehensive traffic on residential streets. review of ever y sewer Residents were advised system in the area. that a new sign would be Councilman Eric erected in the next couple he customer Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) of weeks at the entrance the audience on to Lindenwood on Cross service experience updated Council matters. He disBay Boulevard, courtesy cussed the f ree senior of American Legion Post will be better.” citizen shuttle van for 1404 in Broad Channel.

— Rudy S. Giuliani, which he had allocated A cleanup under Shore Borough Director, Build it Back funds. The van, which Parkway by St. Helen has, can hold up to eight peou nfor t u nately, created ple, w ill t a ke sen iors another problem – disturbing the vacation spot of rodents, who are between their homes and the senior center now running through the area looking for and also to shopping malls.

Ulrich touched on the proposed ban on another home, but the civic assured resihorse carriages in Central Park being disdents they were “on top of it.”

Pesach Osina of city Comptroller Scott cussed in the Council, calling it a waste of Stringer’s office updated the audience on time, but did not say how he would vote on the comptroller’s response to the April 30 the bill.

However, he did say he would vote f looding in Lindenwood. He said there have been 700 claims filed, which have against a bill seeking to charge a fee of 6 or been given the office’s highest priority. In 8 cents on the use of plastic bags in superaddition, six additional inspectors have m a r ke t s , c a l l i ng it a not he r t a x on been hired to bolster the four already work- consumers.

“If we were against plastic bags, we ing on the claims.

“They expect that this inspection process would just ban them,” Ulrich said.

Instead, he said that he is proposing a should be done within the next few months,” 10-cent rebate to people who bring their Osina said.

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Deputy Inspector Jeffrey Schiff, commanding officer of the 106th Precinct, speaks to the Howard PHOTO BY STEPHEN GEFFON Beach-Lindenwood Civic Association Tuesday night.

Also attending the civic meeting to speak to voters was Michael Conigliaro, the Republican candidate facing state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D- Howard Beach) on Nov. 4.

Debra Lapadula, a patient advocate of Elder Watch, attended with the organization’s chief operating officer, Adam Rosenblatt. She discussed the group’s mission and how it helps seniors in their visits to doctors, accompanying them and taking detailed notes of the visits and ensuring that the appointment goes smoothly.

The group said in its literature that it will

also send a full report of the visit to the caregiver or family member. They also work with elderly family members to suggest new activities for them to participate in.

Deputy Inspector Jeffrey Schiff, commanding officer of the 106th Precinct, gave the audience an update on what the officers in the precinct have been doing, noting that to date crime has gone down two percent compared to last year.

He said that for September, car break-ins in Lindenwood have gone down dramatically, continued on page 36

Man jumps in front of train in Ozone Park Police suspect suicide in Saturday evening incident at 104th Street Editor

A 51-year-old man is believed to have committed suicide Saturday evening when he jumped in front of a Manhattan-bound A train as it pulled into the 104th Street-Oxford Avenue subway station in Ozone Park.

Authorities say the victim was standing at the beginning of the platform, behind the staircase from the mezzanine level over Liberty Avenue and 104th Street at around 6:45 p.m. on Saturday when he jumped in front of the train.

There were few people on the platform at the time of the man’s death and only a few witnesses.

T he eastbou nd platfor m was empty at the time because it was still closed due to ongoing construction work.

The victim’s remains landed on a van below the station and on the st re et , cau si ng pa sser sby t o scream for help. Police arrived quickly to shut down Liberty Avenue both ways between 103rd and 105th streets for over an hour.

Trains were also stopped between Euclid Avenue in Brooklyn and Lefferts Boulevard for several hours Saturday night as police investigated the suicide.

The incident, and the ensuing traffic chaos on side streets, caused residents and business owners near-

by to flock to the corner for the second time in a month.

On Sept. 12, police responded to an attempted robbery of a deli that ended in a fight with significant damage to the store on the same corner.

The man’s suicide is the first incident of a person being hit by a train over Liberty Avenue since April 22, 2002, when a woman accidently fell in front of an oncoming train and was killed at the Rockaway Boulevard station.

In 2013, 151 people were hit by subway trains, according to the MTA. About a third of those were classified as suicides or suicide Q attempts, the agency said.

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DOT changes the light bulbs in Howard Beach City also replaces broken fence, cleans up pedestrian walkway

by Domenick Rafter Editor

A darkened section of Howard Beach is getting a bit brighter, just in time for winter’s earlier nightfall.

The NYC Department of Transportation is replacing broken street lights and had begun cleaning the pedestrian walkway from 80th to 84th streets, between 157th Avenue and Shore Parkway in Howard Beach after pressure from civic leaders and at least one area official. The department has already replaced dark and dim lighting under the 84th Street overpass between Lindenwood and Howard Beach.

“This is a huge victory for our community and families,” Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Rockaway Park), who met with the DOT and the Sanitation Department earlier this year with members of the Howard Beach-Lindenwood Civic Association to discuss the issue, said in a statement. “Fixing our street lights and cleaning up this neighborhood eyesore will not only beautify our community, but also create a safer atmosphere for our families to enjoy.”

The two agencies also agreed to fix a collapsed fence and has scheduled routine maintenance to clean up bird feces at the site.

Additionally, Goldfeder and the civic group have been working with the DOT to

Workers replace the lightbulbs on 84th Street under the Belt Parkway between Lindenwood and PHOTO COURTESY HOWARD BEACH-LINDENWOOD CIVIC ASSOCIATION Rockwood Park in Howard Beach last week. paint the walls of the overpass.

“Sum mer is usually a time to slow down, but this summer was all about stepping it up,” said Joann Ariola, president of the Howard Beach-Lindenwood Civic Association, in a statement. “The civic worked closely with Assemblyman Goldfeder and his office team to tackle eyesores and safety conditions in the area. We

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The pedestrian walkway, which is part of the Jamaica Bay Greenway, operates as a footpath and bike path along the Belt Parkway into Brooklyn. It runs past 84th to 90th streets and 155th Avenue.

The section between 84th and 80th streets, which runs behind St. Helen Catholic Academy school, has become more popular as a shortcut between Lindenwood or the Gateway Shopping Plaza in Brooklyn and the westernmost section of Howard Beach, where 157th Avenue — the main route to 84th Street — lacks sidewalks for several blocks, ever since a fallen tree cut a hole in the fence between 80th and 81st streets. The tree has mostly been cleared away, but a clear dirt path has formed at the location and it has become such a popular access point that a garbage can has been Q placed there to prevent littering.

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The finish line for Aqueduct?

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major Queens institution celebrated its 120th birthday last Saturday, but hardly anyone noticed.

That fact, along with the possible fate of said institution, is a shame.

We’re talking about The Big A, Aqueduct Race Track. Today the only racecourse in New York City, Aqueduct opened on Sept. 27, 1894 and has had a storied history ever since.

But, as often has been the case in recent years, there’s good reason to believe the track could soon shut down, this time in order to make room for a stadium for Major League Soccer’s New York City Football Club. Proponents of replacing the track with a soccer arena no doubt would see that as “progress.” But while we don’t oppose progress, we know that what it constitutes is often up for debate, and we believe Aqueduct remains an important part of South Ozone Park

and the greater Queens community.

For one thing, it provides jobs. Those would be lost, or at best moved to Belmont Park, just over the city line in Nassau County, if Aqueduct were closed and its races held there instead. While the total is not that large, the change still would mean fewer people working within New York City.

Then there are the fans. As with the jobs, the number is not that large, as horse racing’s popularity has been declining for years, but there’s still a sizeable group of people who like to come out to the track. Those who live in the city shouldn’t be forced to trek out to Belmont any more than they already do.

Then there’s the low winter sun. No, not the failed AMC TV series, the actual sun.

Belmont is odd among racetracks in that its grandstand is oriented to the north, which would cause problematic shadows if

winter racing were held there instead of at Aqueduct. That’s one very practical reason to keep things as they are.

We know the New York Racing Association has been neglecting Aqueduct and probably wouldn’t mind closing it. But we’d rather see the agency make improvements to it. After all, Resorts World Casino, located at the track, is raking in the money. It would be nice to see some creativity applied to drawing more fans to the races.

And the bottom line is that there simply is no need to replace the track with a soccer stadium because there’s room for both at Aqueduct. The site has more than enough barely used acreage to house an arena — something we’d be glad to support as long as issues such as transportation and congestion can be adequately addressed.

Let’s not let Aqueduct itself go into the final stretch just yet.

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Dear Editor: I was so happy to see the Sept. 18 I Have Often Walked article “The Hillside Diner in Jamaica” by Ron Marzlock, because the owner of the diner was my grandfather, Charles Kuegerl (who, by the way, was Austrian, not German as stated in the article).

My father, Karl Kuegerl, often spoke about the diner, and how in his youth he would work there part time prior to World War II. I had never before heard the story of how the city took over the property from my grandfather.

After Grandpa left the diner business, he started a real estate and insurance business in Floral Park, Queens with my father, which my father owned until his retirement in the late ’80s or early ’90s.

My dad was very active in Eastern Queens politics, committees and organizations after World War II, and was one of the founders of the Eastern Queens Democratic Club in the 1950s. He was the first president and served for eight years. He was then elected in Eastern Queeens as a district leader and also elected as a representative of the New York State Constitutional Convention in Albany in the late ’60s.

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ably wouldn’t know, but were important back then. My parents were always attending a function at Antun’s honoring one politico or another! He loved politics, but mostly loved the people he served and would do whatever he could to help them.

Sorry to go on and on about my father to you. But maybe since at the Chronicle you specialize in Eastern Queens, I kind of thought this trivia might be interesting to you. It’s not often I get to brag on him!

What I was wondering was where Mr. Marzlock came upon the information about my grandfather’s diner, and if he knows any other information not mentioned in the article. I would like to find some information about a bakery my grandfather owned prior to the diner, which I have a photo of. My father is the young boy in the picture, which was taken around 1920. The back of the photo says the bakery was on Jamaica Avenue, so it might have been in Jamaica, but I always thought the bakery was in Ridgewood. I’d love to find out the name of the bakery.

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t turns out that it’s not just the streets that the city Department of Transportation hasn’t been maintaining properly. The very heart of Queens, governmentally as well as geographically, is now facing a major predicament thanks to the agency’s neglect.

The 400-space public parking garage in Kew Gardens that serves Borough Hall, the courthouse and the surrounding area has been shut down because it’s falling apart. People’s parking options in the already-congested area are limited, so now they’re doing things such as leaving their cars in bus stops. That creates problems for the bus drivers, the passengers and the people stuck behind them in what should be travel lanes. Queens deserves better.

The city must tear down the garage and replace it pronto. And do a better job of maintaining our infrastructure.

My grandfather would tell the story about how in those days, the cheesecake was baked as a flatter cake, and that he had a special oneof-a-kind pan made for him that allowed the cheesecake to bake taller and be the size of the cheesecake as we know it today. To his dying day, my father insisted that Grandpa invented the cheesecake at that bakery!

I enjoy the Queens Chronicle, as my family has long standing ties to Eastern Queens.

Although I now live in Suffolk County, I like to read about the happenings of Queens.

Carole Kuegerl North Coram, LI

Attorney General Bharara Dear Editor: The resignation of Eric Holder from the attorney generalship leaves an extremely important vacancy. Who will be selected to fill it?

Why not U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara? As U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New

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No amnesty for illegals Dear Editor: Re “Compromising on illegal immigration,” Editorial, Sept. 25: Every dollar for an illegal alien is a dollar less for a citizen!

We have no money to house the hundreds of thousands of homeless veterans and we seem to not have the billions needed to fix the nation’s infrastructure, but we have money for illegal aliens.

Your “compromise” will only achieve one thing, tens of millions more, for the next amnesty. When will you learn?

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President Obama needs to get tough with Putin. All of Eastern Europe is nervously waiting to see what Putin’s next move will be.

We live in a very dangerous and unstable world. Peace is extremely fragile at this point in time. Will that continue to be the case, or will peace throughout the world improve?

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The idea is that this should be a mandatory program. The problem is that there has to be the will to do this. But think of how the lives of the perpetrator and their targets would be different if such assaults were prevented.

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He was an all-around good guy on and off nature of the communications between that the field, and he had a work firm and the Madoff entity. ethic that drove him to play Bharara also initiated a masONLINE hard, do his best and to treat all sive probe of insider trading, people with respect. The Yanto divert attention away from Miss an editorial or kees really struck gold when the fact that he had no intenarticle cited by a writer? they hired Jeter to play for them, tion whatsoever of investigatWant news from our other and I think it was the best deciing or prosecuting the bank editions covering the rest sion they ever made. He confraudsters who nearly capsized of Queens? Find past ducted himself well and didn’t the world’s economy in 2007 r e p or t s , ne w s f r om disrespect America’s pastime by and 2008. Insider trading — a across the borough and doing things that would tarnish victimless crime of tertiary more at qchron.com. the game as others have done. significance — had absolutely He is, was and forever will be a nothing whatsoever to do with the causes of the near worldwide depression true role model for future generations to look up to. I think even our own politicians could that occurred so recently.

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Authorities get two for drug smuggling CBP says suspects attempted to bring cocaine into U.S. in separate incidents

by Stephen Geffon Chronicle Contributor

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it caught two suspects at JFK Airport allegedly attempting to smuggle more than $100,000 worth of cocaine into the United States from Latin America and the Caribbean in two separate incidents just days apart last month.

Anthony Bucci, spokesman for the agency, said that in the first incident, officers stopped Janisha A malee Atkins, who arrived on a JetBlue flight from Montego Bay, Jamaica on Sept. 19. During the course of the inspection of her luggage, CBP officers found two pairs of platform shoes that felt unusually heavy, Bucci explained.

Atkins was escorted to a private search room, where the officers examined the shoes and allegedly discovered a white powdery substance that tested positive for cocaine.

The officers continued examining the luggage and discovered a black Chanel pocketbook that also felt unusually heavy.

Examination of the pocketbook allegedly revealed more white powder that tested positive for cocaine, Bucci said. The total weight seized was approximately 3.7 pounds with an approximate street value of more than $64,000, authorities said.

Atkins was arrested for the importation

The shoes and black Chanel bag authorities suspect Janisha Amalee Atkins used to smuggle cocaine through JFK Airport from Jamaica, left, and the sauce containers Reynalda Leal Ricando allegedly attempted to use to smuggle the same drug in from Mexico three days later.

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of a controlled substance and was turned over to the Depar tment of Homeland Security.

Atkins now faces federal narcotics smuggling charges. She was ordered detained with a preliminary hearing set for Oct. 3.

Three days later, Reynalda Leal Ricando arrived on a flight from Mexico City and was referred to CBP agriculture specialists for an inspection after declaring food items, said Anthony Bucci, spokesman for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

He added that during the X-ray examination of her baggage, CBP agriculture specialists allegedly identified a suspicious shape concealed in plastic sauce containers and referred the package to CBP officers to complete the inspection. Officers probed a tar-like mass within the sauce container and allegedly discovered a white powdery substance that tested positive for cocaine, Bucci said.

R icando, a citizen of Mexico, was arrested for the importation of a controlled substance and was turned over to Homeland Security. The total weight of cocaine found in the two containers seized was approximately 3.3 pounds authorities said, w ith a n approx i mate st reet value of $58,000.

Ricando now faces federal narcotics Q smuggling charges.

Port Authority Police last Thursday, arrested a Bellerose man on his way to California for allegedly trying to slip a cane sword past a security checkpoint in JFK Airport.

Joe Pentangelo, a spokesman for the PAPD, identified the suspect as Martin Berchenko, 66.

Police said Berchenko was stopped at Terminal 4 after a Transportation Security Administration screener allegedly spotted the sword concealed inside his cane as he attempted to board the flight

to Burbank, Calif.

Pentangelo said Berchenko was arrested and charged with criminal possession of a weapon. He was released with a desk appearance ticket for a future appearance in Queens Criminal Court.

After the incident the TSA tweeted out a video warning travelers they may accidentally be hiding a sword or dagger inside their walking canes.

The TSA added that if travelers are using an antique or used cane purchased at a garage sale or antique shop or received as a gift, “you may want to give Q the handle a twist or inspection.”

A Bellerose man had a sword in his cane at JFK Airport.

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Few things have been constant since 1979, but: • the Middle East is a war zone; • the Belt Parkway is a traffic nightmare; • planes fly low over Centreville; and • that neighborhood still needs some new infrastructure Except unlike 1979, it may be actually getting it.

Work has begun on preliminary work for the long-awaited — and I mean LONG-AWAITED — HWQ411B project, which will replace sewers and repair streets and sidewalks throughout the Centreville section of Ozone Park — a section of Ozone Park bounded by 135th Avenue and Linden Boulevard to the north, Cross Bay Boulevard to the west, Aqueduct Race Track to the east and North Conduit Avenue to the south.

The project first proposed early in the Koch administration, is to include reconstruction of nearly 12 miles of street with

new asphalt, sidewalks, curbs, pedestrian ramps, storm drains and trees in the Centreville area. Almost three miles of water mains and two miles of sewers will also be constructed.

A precursor job, in which National Grid will replace gas lines, has already beg u n along Alber t Road bet ween Cohancy and Centreville streets.

Howie Kamph, president of the Ozone Park Civic Association, announced the work has commenced in the civic group’s latest newsletter.

The project took several decades to get off the ground because the city had to acquire land from homeowners in order to build sidewalks, which the city is in the final stages of completing. Work on the main project is slated for spring, but Kamph, who has repeatedly said he felt the city was dragging its feet on the project, remains cynical even though the first phase of the project is underway.

“I hope it is not another 35 years for phase two to begin,” Kamph wrote in the Q newsletter.

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Man shot in car on Van Wyck A 33-year-old man was shot last Friday night in his car on the Van Wyck Expressway Service Road in Richmond Hill.

Police said the victim and the alleged gunman got into a verbal dispute while driving in the Jamaica and Richmond Hill area at around 9:30 p.m. According to published reports, the suspect then followed the victim who was driving a blue BMW and, while stopped at a red light at 94th Avenue and the Van Wyck Expressway, the suspect allegedly got out of his SUV, shot the victim through the driver’s side window, pistolwhipped the female passenger and stole three gold chains she had been wearing.

The victim was taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he is recovering.

The alleged shooter is described as a black male who drove off in a white Jeep Grand Cherokee who fled southbound on the Van Wyck Expressway, hitting several cars in the process.

Police later recovered the SUV, unoccupied, at 134th Street and 97th Avenue in South Richmond Hill.

There have been no arrests and the Q investigation is continuing.

— Stephen Geffon

Cops search for second man wanted for robbery First suspect was arrested last week

by Domenick Rafter Editor

The NYPD is looking for the following suspect wanted for a robbery in Richmond Hill last month.

On Sept. 23, at 1 p.m., the victim, a 19-year-old male, was walking at the intersection of 114th Street and 103rd Avenue, when two males approached and began to punch the victim in the face and body. The suspects demanded the victim’s property when one of the suspects took out a knife and slashed the victim’s wrist. The suspects removed a ring from the victim and fled.

One of the suspects, Joshua Cerna-Gonzalez, a 19-year-old male who lives in Ozone Park, was arrested last Thursday and has been charged and arraigned on one count of robbery in the first degree. He was released on $ 20,000 bond at arraignment.

The second suspect is still on the lose.

Police describe him as a black male, approximately 17- to 19-years-old, with a slim build.

The suspect wanted for a robbery in Richmond PHOTO COURTESY NYPD Hill last month.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1 (800) 577-TIPS (8477). The public can also submit tips by logging onto nypdcrimestoppers. com, or by texting 274637 (CRIMES), then entering TIP577. All tips are strictQ ly confidential.

Shooting victim dies in hospital A 28-year-old man who was shot Sept. 20 outside a South Richmond Hill nightclub has died, and his death has been ruled a homicide.

The man, whose name police have not released, was shot outside the Vue Sky Lounge nightclub at 123-07 Liberty Ave. at around 4 a.m. after a fight allegedly broke out inside the club and he was among a group of people ejected.

Afterward, the victim was hanging out in front of the club when the suspect, a Hispanic male wearing a hooded sweatshirt, got out of a car and shot him, before fleeing westbound on Liberty Avenue.

The victim was taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in serious condition and succumbed to his injuries last Thursday.

It is the first shooting incident in the 106th Precinct since June 12 and its second murder of 2014.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1 (800) 577-TIPS (8477). The public can also submit tips by logging onto nypdcrimestoppers.com, or by texting 274637 (CRIMES), then entering TIP577. All tips are strictly conQ fidential.

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Council plans legal aid for immigrant minors Lawmakers earmark $1 million to pay for counselors for unaccompanied kids

by Tess McRae Associate Editor

With thousands of undocumented, unaccompanied minors facing possible deportation and the federal government not doing as much reforming as city officials would like, the City Council has taken it upon itself to assist the immigrant youth who are unable to pay for proper legal representation while in immigration court.

Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito (D-Manhattan), the Robin Hood Foundation and New York Community Trust announced the new Unaccompanied Minor Children Initiative last week — a $1.9 million publicprivate partnership that will provide funding to legal organizations to address the need for free legal representation and access to social, mental health and medical services.

“The New York City Council will not stand by as this humanitarian crisis unfolds — we will take action,” Mark-Viverito said in a written statement. “This innovative initiative will go a long way towards alleviating the overflow at the surge docket while also providing representation to thousands of children.”

The City Council has earmarked $1 million in the fiscal year 2015 budget. In addition, Robin Hood — New York’s largest poverty-fighting organization — helped match the funding with a donation of $550,000.

The New York Community Trust also donated $360,000.

On Monday, the Immigration Committee and Committee on Courts and Legal Services held a hearing on the new initiative and unaccompanied minors as a whole, the majority of whom live in Queens.

“What could be more important than ensuring that young children — most under the age of 13, most here without their parents, most here after a long and dangerous journey — have their legal rights protected by a fair and efficient adjudication system, where they are represented by experienced, competent counsel? ” Councilman Rory Lancman (D-Fresh Meadows) asked. “I emphasize — these children have legal rights. The law provides various grounds for these children to remain in the United States.”

The City Council has made it a priority to fund organizations that provide legal services to unaccompanied minors who enter the country, often from Central America, illegally.

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According to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, approximately 1,350 unaccompanied minors came to New York City in the first seven months of 2014 and another 1,200 are expected to f lee here from Central America by the end of this year.

NYC Immigration Commissioner Nisha Agarwall said in late July she expects 10,000 children to come to the city as a result of the immigration surge.

Approximately 60 percent of these children will not have legal representation.

One of the organizations that represents the children who otherwise would not have legal counsel is The Door.

“For several years now, we have been struggling to meet the need for representing these young people,” Eve Stotland, director of the legal services center at The Door, said.

“Starting on August 13 when the courts began expediting procedures, it was clear we would not be able to meet the need because we were already performing at capacity.”

The funds earmarked by the Council will help groups including The Door provide more assistance than they would have otherwise been able to.

“We needed to grow and we needed to meet the needs of these kids,” Stotland said. “Working together with these other organizations, we are committed to making sure every child and every sponsor gets a legal orientation in Spanish before heading to court. Every child also gets referrals to social services and school enrollment.”

Groups The Door will be working with include Catholic Charities, The Safe Passage Project, Make the Road New York, The Legal Aid Society and Central American

Legal Assistance.

Yvonne Garcia, a client of Legal Aid, recalled how important a role the organization played in her obtaining residency papers.

“I didn’t know I could obtain my documents until I met Christina,” she said, referring to her legal counselor. “Christina explained that I could have the juvenile visa since I came to the United States without any parents when I was 16 years old and had been abused by my father.”

Garcia and her siblings were also running from gang members who threatened to kill her.

“I’m not afraid of going out or looking for work anymore,” she said.

Still, standing in a court room can be intimidating for the children, many of whom are barely teenagers.

“Last week, one of the children was so frightened, she had a panic attack which resulted in a seizure and she had to be brought to the hospital. We play a very important role in helping them face their fear in working with the court.”

Even immigration court judges have tried to make the children as comfortable as they can.

One judge even shed her black robe to appear more approachable to a child.

“A lot of people don’t realize that the judge doesn’t want to scare them,” Stotland said. “The judge is friendly and if the child gets sent back to Honduras or wherever, they make sure that child will be safe.”

None of the Council members at the hearing expressed any disagreement with Mark-Viverito’s initiative. In fact, many, including the speaker, felt more needed to be done.

However, as the city is limited to staying within a budget, the elected officials are hoping the federal government will step off the sidelines and do more to assist the unaccompanied minors.

“These children, who made an incredible journey over thousands of miles and who have suffered, they cross alone and arrive exhausted and hungry,” Stotland said. “It’s our job to make sure we have lawyers for them and that, whatever the judge decides, they will leave the court and go to a place where they will be safe and able to live their Q lives to their fullest potential.”

NYPD promotes CO of 113th Precinct

by Michael Gannon Editor

Deputy Inspector Milt Marmara, the commanding officer of the NYPD’s 113th Precinct since Summer 2011, was reassigned as of Monday, being promoted to the Investigations Unit of Patrol Borough Queens South.

Capt. Rod Dantini has been named acting commanding officer for the precinct.

“For the last three-and-a-half years it truly was my honor to work with the 113th Precinct community that I truly believe is the best in the city,” Marmara said. “The

Marmara to Patrol Borough Queens South officers here in the 113th also are truly the finest in the city.

So much positive has been done thanks to your friendship and commitment, and as the new commanding officer will see, so much more can be done with your continuing help.”

T he preci nct covers St. Albans, Hollis, Springf ield Gardens, South Ozone Park, South Jamaica, Addisleigh

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Park and Locust Manor.

Back in June, the precinct was honored by NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton with a unit citation for crime reduct ion, the on ly preci nct i n Queens accorded the honor at the NYPD’s annual awards ceremony.

The 113th earned the citation for having a 14 percent drop in major crimes in 2013,

the second-largest reduction of any precinct in the city.

As of Sept. 14, the precinct year-to-date crime statistics are down almost 6.3 percent.

“I will never say goodbye since I am still in Queens South, but I will say thank you and will have a lifetime of great and positive memories of all the good things we have done as officers and community together,” Marmara wrote.

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A Flushing priest recently had the honor of delivering the opening prayer at the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, DC. The Rev. Joseph Holcomb, pastor at St. Andrew Avellino Catholic Church, served as guest chaplain at the House on Sept. 17.

His participation was sponsored by Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing).

“Father Holcomb was appointed in 2009 as the sixth pastor of Saint Andrew Avellino Roman Catholic Church, and has worked tirelessly to make improvements where possible,” Meng said.

“His efforts have led to crucial enhancements in the church and an enriched connection with its parishioners. His work in the parish has touched thousands of lives, and we are privileged to have him in the Queens community.”

The parish, founded in 1914, has 3,000 members and an award-winning school which opened in 1925. It recently celebrated its centennial. Built in 1940, it is located on Northern Boulevard and 158th Street.

A native New Yorker, Holcomb, 59, earned a bachelor’s degree from Cathedral College in Douglaston, a master’s degree in

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divinity from Immaculate Conception Seminary and a master’s in social work from Fordham University.

Joseph Brostek contributed to this story.

Ozone Park veteran honored Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) presented a Good Conduct Medal from the Uni te d S t a te s Nav y and a Ci t y C ounc il Citation to Edward Boes, a veteran of the Korean War and resident of Ozone Park.

Boes, 79, joined the Navy at 17 and served as a station policeman and trained Navy cadets how to fly in inclement weather.

After some work with the militar y and the National Personnel Records Center, Ulrich’s office obtained a replacement for the Good Conduct medal Boes misplaced af ter he left the service.

“Ed Boes is an American patriot and a pillar of the community,” said Ulrich, who chairs the Council’s Veterans Committee.

“This award recognizes his exemplary service to our country and is only a small token of appreciation for all that he has done on our behalf. I am proud to know him personally and consider it an honor to present him with this commendation.”

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Boes is a lifetime New Yorker. He was grateful for the medal and for the efforts by Ulrich and his staff.

He plans on passing this medal, along with others, to his children and grandchildren as a reminder of the sacrifices made by members of his generation and the important role they played in American history.

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The arrest came as part of an ongoing joint effort between Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli called “Operation Integrity.� The investigation was conducted with the assistance of the FBI. “We need to restore public confidence that there is one set of rules for everyone,� Schneiderman said. He said when voters cast their ballots for someone, they expect that person to be honest and abide by the law. “That confidence has been eroded by corrupt acts by public officials and it is time to change the culture of corruption.�

Scarborough, who represents the 29th District in Jamaica, was taken to Albany and faces state and federal charges.

He is accused of allegedly stealing campaign funds and falsely collecting travel reimbursements. He is further accused of withdrawing and diverting over $40,000 from the “Friends of Bill Scarborough� campaign committee for his personal expenses. “Elected officials cannot use taxpayer money or campaign funds as their personal piggy banks,� DiNapoli said. “Assemblyman Scarborough tried to game the system.�

Some of the money was taken out directly as cash, according to the indictment and court papers. Five checks made payable to “Friends of Bill Scarborough� totaling $3,450 were also deposited in his personal bank account.

Schneiderman said they have “clear evidence� against Scarborough and that no campaign filings during the years in ques-

tion reported the withdrawals.

The assemblyman pleaded not guilty to the 23-count indictment in a public corruption case. The alleged crimes were committed between 2007 and 2014.

At the federal level Scarborough is being charged with four counts of theft concerning a program receiving federal funds and seven counts of wire fraud relating to communications directing payment of specific false state travel vouchers to his bank account. “Today’s indictments demonstrate the commitment of state and federal authorities to combat the fraud and corruption that have plagued our political system,� said Richard Hartunian, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York.

This indictment follows an investigation in March by the FBI into Scarborough’s per diem expenses. Assembly members are granted travel and lodging expenses to defray the cost of commuting to the capital to conduct legislative business.

In the federal indictment, Scarborough is accused of submitting 174 false reimbursement vouchers for per diem expenses, mileage and tolls in excess of $40,000. The assemblyman is accused of stealing more than $80,000 alltogether. If convicted of all charges, he faces up to 37 years in prison.

This is only the latest in a string of Southeast Queens officials being indicted on corruption charges. Schneiderman is adamant that the region is not being unfairly targeted by these arrests and that they are equally prosecuting officials from all levels of government across the state. “We’ve pursued town clerks and town supervisors and their cronies all over the state of New York and we will continue to do so,�

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Mayor de Blasio announced Monday that the city will be funding the installation of solar panels on two dozen city schools, as part of the administration’s “One City, Built to Last,” green buildings plan.

The new panels will triple the amount of solar currently planned on city-owned buildings, the mayor said, and are part of a commitment to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent over 2005 levels by 2050.

As part of his general plan, de Blasio said he wants to ret rof it ever y cityowned building with solar panels by 2025, including City Hall, which would require approval from the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

“These 24 new solar installations at our schools mark a significant step forward, tripling the amount of solar currently on City buildings — but they’re also just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to how we’ll dramatically reduce our contributions to climate change,” de Blasio said at one of the schools, the John F. Kennedy Educational Complex in the Bronx, on Monday. “Our very future is at stake, and New York must continue to lead the way.”

The $28 million project will be funded through $23 million from the city, as well as by another $5 million from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority as part of Gov. Cuomo’s NY-Sun Initiative. The Department of Citywide Administrative Services and the New York Power Authority will implement the projects, in partnership with the Department of Education.

The city did not specify which other 23 schools would have solar panels.

Officials say the panels will generate 6.25 megawatts of solar power and will eliminate more than 2,800 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions a year, the equivalent of taking over 600 cars off the road.

The installations will be paired with a n env i ron ment al cu r r icu lu m pla n , including dashboards and web portals where students can track in real time what the systems are generating and the amount of emissions that have been offset, and undertake related analyses of the systems’ impacts.

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be environmental stewards is crucial as they have a critical role in making sure that New York is sustainable for centuries to come.”

Solar power advocates praised the program.

“This strong commitment from Mayor de Blasio represents an important step forward in ongoing efforts to expand solar deployment across New York City,” said Rhone Resch, president and CEO of the solar power trade organization Solar Energy Industries Association. “Increasing the use of solar power on public schools can help save money for textbooks a nd teachers’ sala r ies, wh ile reducing carbon emissions and fighting climate change. That’s a win all the way around.”

In a statement, Councilman Donovan Richards (D-Laurelton), chairman of the Environmental Protection Committee, called the program “a new dawn” for the city.

“Following the de Blasio administration’s pledge to an 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions citywide by 2050, the conversion of municipal buildings affirms our commitment to shifting from a carbon-based economy to one that will sustain life for subsequent generaQ tions,” he said.

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Garage closure’s full effect coming Monday to be first day with no lot, no parking waivers at court, Boro Hall

by Michael Gannon Editor

Absent a last-minute extension, the emergency suspension of alter nate-side-of-the-street pa rk i ng a rou nd t he Q ueen s Supreme Cour thouse in Kew Gardens will end on Monday morning, giving residents and businesses the first full taste of life without the condemned Borough Hall parking garage.

The garage, where the city’s Department of Transportation had about 400 spaces used by people going to the court house and Borough Hall, was shut down last week, about seven months after published sources claimed the city determined it to be unsafe.

Alter nate-side-of-the-street park ing had been suspended since Sept. 24 in the area on days it was not already suspended for Rosh Hashanah.

I n r e s p o n s e t o q u e s t io n s emailed from the Chronicle, the DOT said things are in hand.

Judges still have on-st reet pa rk i ng i n desig nated a reas adjacent to the courthouse, and the streets also have zones open only to cour t employees and personnel with special parking permits, a practice common in other boroughs.

“Prior to closure, the DOT surveyed sur rounding private pa rk i ng lots a nd fou nd that there are nearby facilities that can accommodate the volume of vehicles,” the agency said.

T here is a pr ivate ga rage directly across the street.

Representatives of the New York State Court System could not be reached for comment on whether those who must use pr ivat e ga r ages wou ld be rei mbu rsed for the ext ra expense.

The DOT also said there is not yet a time-line for demolishing the garage, which eventually will be replaced with a surface parking lot with an undetermined number of spaces.

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A Department of Transportation vehicle takes up about the only space available PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON on Hoover Avenue — in front of a fire hydrant.

The parking garage that served the courthouse and Borough Hall on Queens Boulevard now sits empty awaiting demolition, while those who have relied on it are being forced to find alternative parking or use public transportation.

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At the courthouse, a spokesman for Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said in a statement that the garage closu re will have a sig n if icant impact on the criminal justice system in Queens.

“W h ile prosecutors, cou r t personnel and defense attorneys are used to working at times under adverse conditions, the g a r a g e ’s c l o s i n g w i l l b e extremely burdensome on crime victims, witnesses, jurors and defendants, as well as the surrounding neighborhood,” the spokesman said.

He did add that the first few days went smoothly with the alternate-side suspension, and that the DOT has promised to make rectifying any problems a priority.

The DOT’s primary advice to those heading to the courthouse

is to use public transportation.

Bus lines ser ving the Bor ough Hall-courthouse complex include the Q10, Q37, Q46, Q60 and Q74 lines. The E and F subway lines also stop at the Kew G a r d e n s - U n i o n Tu r n p i k e station.

A spokesman for Borough President Melinda Katz said employees of her office affected by the closure could apply for permits to access an employee lot on the grounds.

As for on-street parking, an unscientific survey conducted by the Chronicle this past Monday morning showed little available on the blocks located either side of Queens Boulevard.

The closest spot on Queens Boulevard was exactly one half mile away in front of the Flagship Restaurant in Kew Gardens.

One problem for a juror or witness having business before the court is that the space was in a two-hour MuniMeter zone, and could require several trips per day depending on the length of a person’s stay.

Closer to the courthouse was more proble m at ic. A che ck along Hoover Avenue and its side streets going as far east as 141st Street did not uncover one open space.

A vehicle from the DOT, in fact, was apparently forced to p a r k by a f i r e hyd r a nt o n Hoover with people in the car, but with the ignition off.

On the other side of Queens Boulevard along 82nd Avenue, 82nd Road and 83rd Street and Kew Gardens Road, all parking spaces not eliminated by construction projects or a nearby Q school were filled.

Ulrich: audit FEMA boardwalk money

by Domenick Rafter Editor

Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) is asking city Comptroller Scott Stringer to audit the funds the Parks Department received from the federal government to reconstruct the Rockaway Boardwalk, which was destroyed in Hurricane Sandy.

Several published reports said FEMA is expected to announce $480 million in federal reimbursement money to rebuild the boardwalk and related park amenities in Rockaway Beach, but Ulrich noted that the total far exceeds the $274 million Parks

Parks says reconstruction will cost $274M budgeted for the project, which isn’t due to be completed until 2016. Ulrich said he wants to know where the extra $206 million is going.

“It is imperative that every federal dollar the city receives for rebuilding communities impacted by Hurricane Sandy is spent wisely,” he said in a statement. “The Parks Department must come clean and open the books regarding how much money the new Boardwalk will actually cost and where this money will come from.”

In an email, a spokesman for Stringer said his office is looking at “every dollar” closely.

“It’s critical that we rebuild the Rockaway Boardwalk as efficiently and transparently as possible, ensuring we put every dollar of FEMA funding to good use,” the spokesman said. “The Comptroller’s Office is putting Sandy recovery efforts under a microscope to understand why so many critical projects — from housing rebuilds to infrastructure restoration —

have taken so long, and this will be part of that review.”

A spokesman for the Parks Department said the final amount has still to be worked out with FEMA and the reconstruction “may require some additional funding over the original projection.”

The Rockaway Boardwalk has been a subject of controversy since its destruction in 2012 because of the slow progress in its reconstruction compared to other boardwalks destroyed by Sandy, and the fact that plans call for it to be concrete instead of Q the original wood.

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Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña has released an RFP for vendors for the specialized high school exams even as the test’s future is still FILE PHOTO under debate. because it identifies the student’s ethnicity and may create scoring bias, especially if there is an essay component.

Though the content of the test may change, the method of placing students in schools will still be determined by their raw scores. The cutoff score for each school is determined by the number of students who rank a given school as their first choice.

Dr. Ivan Khan, the CEO of Khan’s Tutorial, a tutoring academy based in Jackson Heights, attended the conference and asked if the DOE is making any efforts to open the test up to all eighth-graders.

Advocates of the multiple-criteria legislation often point out the racial disparities at the specialized high schools, which are over 50 percent Asian American and white, and only 5 percent Hispanic and 4 percent black, according to records from the United Federation of Teachers. Khan notes that far fewer black and Latino students take the test in general. Students must register in school with the help of their guidance counselor.

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Whether a high score on the SHSAT — Specialized High School Admissions Test — ought to remain the single gateway to eight of the city’s elite high schools has become a hotly debated issue.

Two bills being debated in Albany would require multiple criteria — including middle school attendance records, grade point averages and state test scores — play a role in admissions decisions.

While the bills are stalled in Albany, at least until January, Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña issued a request for proposals for a new test. This is a routine procurement, as the city’s contract with test-generator Pearson is about to expire. Regardless of what happens politically, the Department of Education will need a new test, since testing will still be one of multiple measures, even if it does not remain the sole criteria. Several testing vendors attended a conference at the city DOE’s Brooklyn office on Monday to discuss the requirements for the proposals and potential changes.

The SHSAT is a three-hour multiplechoice test administered to about 30,000 eighth-graders every year and about 5,000 ninth-graders. It includes questions on mathematics and English language arts, with an emphasis on critical thinking and problem solving skills.

However, the RFP contains a key difference to the current format: a 100 percent multiple choice, machine-scorable test. The DOE requests that vendors also include essays or constructive-response questions, which would be handwritten and hand-scored, but vendors who do not include essays will not be penalized, according to the DOE panel.

Coalitionedu, an organization that is critical of the multiple-criteria legislation, was quick to criticize altering the test in this way.

They say that essays add a subjective scoring element, which violates the state law that says the SHSAT must be absolutely objective.

Coalitionedu cites the College Board’s removal of the essay component from the SAT because of its faults and argues that an essay component fosters more test-prepping, not less. Additionally, those who score the test matters because teachers score things differently than anonymous individuals who are not familiar with the NYC schools.

The proposers also must translate both the math and ELA sections of the test into several languages: Arabic, Bengali, Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), French, Haitian Creole, Korean, Russian, Spanish and Urdu. They must also explain the translation process and how they would ensure it does not impact the difficulty level, relative to English versions.

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Brightening up an eyesore intersection Former dilapidated newsstand site gets paved over; mural also installed

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woman Elizabeth Crowley (D-Glendale), benches and other forms of street furniture It might not be the most appealing inter- may be installed at the site in the near future.

“After long delays from both the DOT section in the world, but the junction of Metropolitan Avenue and Fresh Pond Road and the LIRR, I am pleased to see persisin Middle Village received significant aes- tence pay off,” Crowley said. “With this eyesore f inally gone, thet ic upg rades last we can now work to month, and more may make this a great new be coming. public space for the Until its long-awaited community to enjoy.” demolition, last FebruAcross the street, a ary, a crumbling, graffil e n g t hy m u r a l w a s ti-covered former newsi n s t a l le d a lo n g t h e stand stood on the southfence of the the abaneast corner of the interdoned Mobil gas stasection in front of the tion last weekend.

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Painted by R idgeWhat replaced the wood a r t ist A nd rea structure was an unsightBergart, a former Fully st one fe nce a nd bright Scholarship winuneven earth, but the ner, the 144-foot-long Department of TransThe site where the newsstand once stood mural, titled “Swish portation and the Long Swash,” stretches the Island Rail Road com- has been paved over and widened. entire length of the fence along Metropolipleted its renovation of the area last month.

The strip has been completely paved tan Avenue, as well as the section facing over and a retaining wall has been con- Fresh Pond Road.

Community Board 5 Chairman Vincent structed on the south side of the sidewalk.

Bollards have also been installed every Arcuri, despite only seeing pictures of the mural, said the area was due for much six feet to prevent sidewalk parking.

According to a statement from Council- needed visual improvements.

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While the abandoned gas station at the intersection of Metropolitan Avenue and Fresh Pond Road may still be an eyesore, recent aesthetic improvements there include a new mural and paving over PHOTOS BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA the site of a former dilapidated newsstand across the street.

“It looks a lot better,” Arcuri said. “We expected them to put a painting of green forestry on there instead though.”

Crowley also announced $68,000 in additional discretionary funding has been allocated to hire Doe Fund cleaning crews,

who will be tasked with cleaning Fresh Pond Road between Myrtle and Metropolitan avenues.

The crews began work on Sept. 23 and during the winter, they will be tasked with shoveling the newly widened sidewalk. Q

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City Hall is planning to settle on a franchise to provide free public Wi-Fi locations this fall, but one Long Island Citybased telecommunications company says the contract could lead to a monopoly.

Back in the spring Mayor de Blasio’s office issued a request for proposal for the creation of “a robust, citywide network of Internet hotspots that will constitute one of the largest free Wi-Fi networks in the country.” The tentative plan is to convert the city’s obsolete payphone kiosks to high-speed internet hotspots.

Telebeam Telecommunications Corp. is one of about 10 companies that still have franchise rights to the city’s pay phones, according to CEO Ray Mastroianni. Those francise rights will expire on Oct. 14 and the Long Island City company says it was one of three to respond to the RFP. But Mastroianni is concerned that the city’s plan to grant the contract to only one company could constitute a monopoly.

Although his company did respond to the RFP, he wishes for the city to allow multiple franchises to set up their own Wi-Fi hotspots.

“We don’t want the exclusive, we want to upgrade our network. We’ll use whatever standard they want,” Mastroianni said.

He thinks a little competition among service providers is a good thing.

Telebeam currently operates 20 hotspots around the city and 95 percent of their kiosks have access to electricity. Part of Mast roia n n i’s pla n for t he upg r ades includes using the available electricity to turn pay phones into charging stations for mobile devices.

According to a statement from City Hall, the administration aims to have the selection process completed this fall, with

a new franchise in place by early 2015.

Officials say that any franchise will be nonexclusive and that the RFP encourages partnerships and joint ventures among companies angling to create the city’s Wi-Fi network.

“Mayor de Blasio is committed to fostering a competitive bid process for selecting operators of our revamped public payphone hubs,” the statement reads.

Mastroianni testified at a joint hearing in June of the City Council Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises and Committeee on Technology, where he spoke out against the dangers of monopolies.

“Monopolies are the enemy of innovation because they are about making the most money for themselves and not necessarily delivering the best services and offerings to the public,” he said.

Councilman Mark Weprin (D-Oakland Gardens) also stressed the importance of innovation.

“Competition leads to improvements in technology. We’re talking about a 15-year contract in a field were the technology is going to change tomorrow,” he said.

Telebeam’s specific plan would provide high-speed internet access in public spaces such as parks and playgrounds, and around schools.

“It’s not intended to go down a side street and compete with broadband companies,” he explained. But he does see it as a mobile service that could offset the glut of d at a bei ng t r a n sfer red by cellphone carriers.

“We’re not going to put Verizon out of business. But we’ll get a few subscribers and they’ll still be Verizon customers.”

Updated pay phone kiosks could support hyper-local, targeted advertising on digital screens that can be programmed to Q switch ads at regular intervals.

Coastal Preservation Network will present a fall naturefest at MacNeil Park in College Point on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The program will kick off with the dedication of a weeping beech tree and a talk by the Urban Park Rangers on the importance of trees.

A scavenger hunt for children will be held from 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. where youngsters will look for leaves and seeds and become nature detectives.

Participants in the naturefest will help plant 500 daffodil bulbs from noon to 2

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Those coming to the naturefest are asked to bring a nonperishable food item to help support the St. Fidelis Food Pantry. Suggested items include peanut butter, jelly, canned fruits and vegetables, canned soup, tuna fish, cereal, juice and pasta sauce.

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Flushing project impacts church Macedonia lacks free parking for congregation; merchants hurting too

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McEachern noted that parking is at a premium in the neighborhood and that there are a lot of seniors in the conWork on Flushing Commons, the large mixed-use gregation who find it difficult to walk long distances to development, has not only affected area businesses but the the church.

“We haven’t been vocal about the problem,” he said. historic church next door as well.

“Construction has impacted the congregation,” said the “We knew it had to happen during construction and we Rev. Richard McEachern, senior pastor of the approxi- want to be a good neighbor.”

McEachern said the church has a good working relamately 300-member Macedonia AME Church. tionship with the Flushing Commons The house of worship, located at developers “and we are trying to 37-22 Union St., is on one side of work things out with them.” the $1 billion project that is also The remaining piece of the former bounded by 138th Street and 37th e want to get our old municipal lot is being developed by and 39th avenues. So while conthe church. It has const r ucted a struction work — which began officustomers back.”

14-story, 142-unit affordable housing cially in June — continues through — Ikhwan Rim, president of the Union str ucture located adjacent to the 2021, the 203-year-old congregation Street Small Business Merchants Assn. house of worship. will have to put up with noise, dirt It was completed months ago, but and a definite hemmed-in feeling. the city is taking its time in making The church was founded in 1811 by freed black slaves, Native Americans and poor whites. inspections before giving the project a certificate of occupancy. McEachern is hoping the paperwork will be comIt is the third-oldest church in Flushing.

Although 1,144 parking spaces remain during construc- pleted soon.

More than 40,000 applications were received by the tion, using them is no longer free at certain times. The site previously served as a municipal parking lot and parking cit y’s D e p a r t me nt of Hou si ng P r e s e r vat ion a nd Development. was free on Sunday and for some evening hours.

Prior to the start of Flushing Commons construction, Korean stores on Union Street feared a loss of business due to the work.

The city, however, has set up a $2.5 million small business assistance fund for all Flushing merchants that is being administered by Asian Americans for Equality and the city.

But Ikhwan Rim, president of the Union Street Small Business Merchants Association, said on Monday that businesses are closing down. “I’m okay, hanging on, but it’s not too good for business,” the jewelry store owner said.

He blamed the drop-off in commerce to lack of parking, the cost of what remains and additional traffic due to construction. “The developers need to work harder for us,” Rim said.

As to the city fund for merchants, he said it has been slow coming in, although he is unaware of anyone who has applied since it’s early in the process.

Rim is also angry with the Department of Transportation for taking too long to implement safety measures.

“We need a traffic signal at 37th Avenue and Union Street, but DOT said it will take seven months,” he said.

State Sen. Daniel Squadron of Brooklyn talked to Flushing He added that the city needs to put up signs and lines merchant Ikhwan Rim last fall when he was running for public in the road to direct pedestrians because people are FILE PHOTO advocate. forced to walk in the street at some locations. “It’s very Managing Editor

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Although not visible here, the Macedonia AME Church on Union Street is being surrounded by construction of Flushing Commons and the recently completed Macedonia Plaza affordable PHOTO BY RICK MAIMAN housing, to the right. dangerous and even before the building project, people have been killed in past years,” Rim said.

But he added that his association, which represents 150 businesses, also needs to do more to get the word out the stores are open and parking is available while work continues at Flushing Commons.

“We need to expand our customer base and educate businesses to write their signs and literature in English, Chinese and Korean,” Rim said.

He indicated that association members are looking into the possibility of offering discount coupons for their businesses and advertising on the internet.

“Ninety-five percent of the businesses are mom-and-pop stores,” Rim said. “We want to get our old customers back.”

Also a problem for the merchants, according to Rim, is that landlords keep raising the rents. “Some merchants pay up to $13,000 a month for 1,000 square feet of space,” Q he said. “The landlords are always hiking rent.”

Police make laser arrest in Queens

by Liz Rhoades Managing Editor

Police arrested a Jamaica Hills man on Sept. 24 for allegedly shining a high-powered laser beam into an NYPD helicopter flying over the area looking for a suspect in an assault case.

“I put the helicopter in hover and all of a sudden I see, out of the corner of my eye, a bright green light that illuminated the cockpit,” said Officer Tarek Otero, the pilot.

The incident took place at 9:30 p.m. over the Jamaica Hills and Hillcrest neighborhoods.

As Otero turned his head to investigate the

Beam strikes helicopter pilots green light, the beam’s “painful” flash caused him to pull off his night-vision goggles and ask his co-pilot, Officer Michael Porcheddu, to radio patrol units on the ground.

“I told my partner, ‘We’ve just been lasered. I’ve got sight of him and we’re going to go after him,’” Otero said.

The pilots honed in on what they say is the rear yard of a school at 162nd Street and 86th Avenue, where they saw a woman, a small child with a white dog and “a very large” man.

Otero, a 22-year NYPD veteran who has served for eight years with the Aviation Unit, broadcast descriptions over the police radio and directed officers from the 107th Precinct Anti-Crime Unit to the location.

“I said, ‘I have a visual on a possible perp that just lasered us,’” Otero said. “‘They are directly under us in the street.

Stop that big guy right there.’”

Officers arrested Daniel Parris, 26, who lives a block away and recovered a 6-inch laser device from his pocket. Parris was

charged with reckless endangerment, menacing and obst r ucting gover n mental administration. He was released on bail and his next court date is Wednesday.

The Federal Aviation Administration reports that in 2010 there were 3,000 laser incidents nationwide. Offenders can be charged with a federal crime and face up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

A week earlier, police pilots flying over Brooklyn witnessed a drone hovering nearby and had to move to avoid a collision.

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The Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens supports high schools in the borough of Queens and Brooklyn. Though the schools have a Catholic Christian mission, they are open to students of all faiths.

Archbishop Molloy High School, in Briarwood, educates young men and women and is run by the Marist Brothers. The school has received many awards of excellence, including recognition as an â&#x20AC;&#x153;Outstanding American High Schoolâ&#x20AC;? by U.S. News & World Report.

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Monsignor McClancy Memorial High School in East Elmhurst, offers courses in theology and religious values, honors courses in all major subject areas, and college extension programs in English, math, business and art with St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s University and Adelphi University.

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Cathedral High School, a Catholic College Preparatory school located in the heart of Manhattan, welcomes young women of all faiths and cultures and challenges students to become productive members of society who will conduct themselves with religious and moral integrity in the pursuit of social justice. (212) 688-1545.

St. Agnes Academic School in College Point, is a small college prep school for young women. En rollment totals approximately 500 students. (718) 353-6276.

Cathedral Preparatory School and Seminary, in Elmhurst, is an all-boys school, for young men who have expressed a desire to join the Catholic priesthood. (718) 592-6800.

Christ the King Regional High School, in Middle Village, is a coed high school, near Maspeth, with a college-preparatory curriculum and is known for its technology program, one of the best New York state high schools. The school also offers continuing education classes for adults and day care for kids. (718) 366-7400.

Holy Cross High School, in Flushing, is an allboys school run by the Brothers of Holy Cross.

Almost all of its graduates continue their education in college. (718) 886-7250.

St. Francis Preparatory School in Fresh Meadows, is a Catholic, college preparatory school in the Franciscan tradition. Its mission is to enable all students to develop and broaden their spiritual, intellectual, creative, emotional, social, and physical abilities. (718) 423-8810.

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Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School in Brooklyn, is a Catholic co-educational, college preparatory high school. It provides a Lasallian Education. Its primary goal is to create a safe learning environment for the students.

The Mary Louis Academy, in Jamaica Estates, is a college-preparatory school with small classes and offers bridge programs with local colleges and an exchange program. (718) 297-2120.

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Archbishop Molloy HS 83-53 Manton St., Briarwood (718) 441-2100 Website: www.molloyhs.org Sunday, Oct. 19, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Cathedral High School 350 East 56 St., NYC (718) 688-1545 Website: www.cathedralhs.org Saturday, Oct. 19, 12 to 3 p.m..

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Cathedral Preparatory Seminary 56-25 92 St., Elmhurst (718) 592-6800 www.cathedralprepseminary.com Saturday, Nov. 1, 1 to 4 p.m.

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Many show interest in affordable units at Hunters Point South site

by Tess McRae Associate Editor

If there was any doubt over the demand for affordable housing, the 400-plus people who squished themselves into Sunnyside Community Servicesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; cafeteria to get information on the new Hunters Point South development settled it.

Scores more stuck outside the community center scrambled to snag a brochure, flier or any information on the affordable units up for grabs. The event, held on Monday, was the first of three housing forums being sponsored by Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) and Community Board 2 with Assemblywoman Cathy Nolan (D-Sunnyside) and state Sen. Mike Gianaris (D-Astoria). â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hunters Point is an incredible neighborhood, growing at an incredible rate,â&#x20AC;? Van Bramer, who emceed the event, said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These apartments are going to be an incredibly great place to live and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great there are affordable units that the people of this community can take advantage of.â&#x20AC;?

As part of the project, there will be 738 moderate-income u nits and 186 lowincome units.

Compared to typical rent costs in the Long Island City area, prices are quite low.

Low-income rates are $494 to $640 for a

A packed room at the Sunnyside Community Services building listens to Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer praise the Related Companies for their work in bringing almost 1,000 affordable units to PHOTO BY TESS MCRAE Long Island City as part of the Hunters Point South project. studio, $533 to $689 for a one-bedroom, $648 to $835 for two bedrooms and $743 to $959 for three bedrooms.

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There were dozens of questions from the crowd, most of which were clarifying questions, but one concern was echoed by several residents.

As part of the process, applicants must provide the name and contact information of their landlord, something some residents consider risky. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re saying youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to let my landlord know Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m looking at other apartments?â&#x20AC;? one woman shouted. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Maybe if I was guaranteed an apartment at your development that would be fine, but donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you think youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re putting a lot of us at risk of getting in trouble?â&#x20AC;?

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Concert series a success: promoter Tennis events are also being eyed for next summer as well as music

by Christopher Barca Reporter

A little more than two weeks after the final guitar riffs and drumbeats of the summer concert series reverberated through the crowd at the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, the venue’s promoters and the West Side Tennis Club have given the perfor mances series a standing ovation.

O ve r t h e c o u r s e of fo u r months, tens of thousands of people descended on the Forest Hills stadium to see the five scheduled conce r t s, i nclud i ng cou nt r y group The Zac Brown Band in June, rap superstars Drake and Lil Wayne in August and alternative rock pioneers The Replacements in September.

Despite the stadiu m being located at the northern end of Forest Hills Gardens, an upper-middle class residential neighborhood, Mike Luba, the president of concert promotion group Madison House Presents, said the reaction to the concert series was overwhelmingly positive.

“It was a tremendous success.

We’ve gotten a great response from the neighborhood,” Luba said.

“We’re super excited to bring another full season of music next year.”

The promoter also said that, in just one summer of concerts, the venue has already garnered a positive reputation in the live music circles.

“The artists love playing it and the fans love going to the shows,” he said. “The word in the music community is that Forest Hills is back.”

While the logistical issues that plagued last year’s Mumford & Sons concert, such as long lines and a slow exodus from the stadium, have been mostly solved, efforts at limiting concert noise in the surrounding residential streets haven’t been foolproof.

After The Replacements concert last month, the venue racked up over $3,000 in fines, which Luba said stemmed from a few minutes of noise approaching 80 decibels when the band’s encore seeped into the surrounding area outside the stadium.

“We’re going to take some real

steps inside the stadium to mitigate the sound,” he said, noting how exact solutions have yet to be determined. “Even if it bothers one person, we want to reach a point where no one has a problem with it.”

Specifically, Luba said soundproofing technology is being studied for the 10 portals between the venue’s concourse and the seating area as well as the entrances and exits to the stadium.

West Side Tennis Club President Roland Meier said this year’s concerts proved to be as successful as he hoped they would be.

And despite some residents’ fears that throngs of people descending on the area might lead to drunken unruliness, he said those worries never materialized.

“Frankly, there were no complaints about people being out of hand,” Meier said. “The general consensus within the club is that we’re so happy about the stadium’s revival.”

However, concerts may not be the only events drawing people from all over the city to the venue next year.

Concert promoter Mike Luba said the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium’s five summer concerts, including that of hip-hop superstar Drake, above, were a PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA “tremendous success.”

Meier said the club is exploring hosting tennis tournaments there next summer, with hopes for a tennis museum at the location in the future.

“We would like to have tennis back. We have the concerts, but on the other hand, this is a tennis

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Doo-wop concert The Kiwanis Club of Howard Beach will host “The Fabulous Acchords Doo-woop Extravaganza,” on Oct. 4 from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. at St. Helen’s Father Dooley Hall, 83-09 157 Ave. in Howard Beach. Tickets include hot buffet, soft drinks, coffee and dessert. BYOB. Prices are $50 per person or $45 per person for a table of 10. There will be door prizes and a 50/50 drawing.

For tickets and information call Bob at (917) 805-3115, Dino at (646) 401-2805 or Q Tommy at (718) 551-4836.

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Veterans Town Hall Councilman Eric Ulrich, chairman of the Veterans Committee, and Assemblyman Mike Miller will host a Veterans Town Hall on Oct. 15 from 7 to 9 p.m. at American Legion Post 118, 89-02 91 St. in Woodhaven. Loree Sutton, commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Veterans Affairs, is slated to attend, as are representatives from the Department of Veterans Affairs, New York State Division of Veterans Affairs and various other veterQ ans service organizations.

stadium,” he said. “We’re looking to make this a venue that is not only for concerts.”

Talks to install a temporary ice rink or a soccer field at the stadium also took place, Meier said, but u lt i m at ely fel l t h rou g h Q because of “liability issues.”

SJU prez serves community As part of St. John’s University’s service day last Saturday, new President Conrado “Bobby” Gempesaw, watched as his wife, Clavel, played the piano with a child at St. Mary’s Hospital for Children in Bayside.

A total of 2,100 volunteer students, administrators and faculty performed community service at more than 130 sites in

the New York area.

“It’s all about the blessings that we have and sharing those blessings with others,” Gempesaw said. “I can’t begin to express how the staff [at St. Mary’s Hospital] makes a difference in these children’s lives. It is a very touching place to visit and St. John’s is fortunate to be able to contribute ...”

attributing this decline to the arrest of one individual who is still in jail.

Residents voiced their concerns about traffic issues to Schiff and executive officer Capt. John Ganley.

Cars speeding in the community and aggressive panhandling seemed to be the top complaints of those present.

One resident said he was most concerned about cars speeding near PS 207.

Ganley said that speed enforcement in the community was a priority with numerous summonses being issued to violators.

Another resident brought to Ganley’s attention 95th Street in Old Howard Beach, which he said lacked stop signs and has become “a virtual speedway.”

In Lindenwood, 89th Street between 153rd and 155th streets was also pointed to by residents as a place where cars were using the street as a speedway.

Aggressive panhandling on Cross Bay Boulevard was brought to Schiff’s attention. The commanding officer told the audience that he would make the pa n ha nd li ng issue a pr ior it y i n October.

“If they’re out in the street blocking traffic, they need to be arrested, it’s Q that simple,” Schiff said.

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QUICK Ice Jewelry: where the owners can relate to their clients Mayor gives raises to workers at city-aided commercial locations

Ice Jewelry Buying Service is located on Queens Boulevard in Rego Park.

WE PROVIDE CASH LOANS FOR AUTOS AND MOTORCYCLES! they treat everything like it’s a one-shot deal and we don’t do that,” Elias said.

In addition to buying gold, silver, diamonds, watches Recently, a woman and her boyfriend went into and coins, Ice Jewelry Buying also offers instant cash an unassuming gold buying and cash loan shop on loans for jewelry and eBay selling services.

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

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

“For this, I like to think we’re MON.-FRI. 11am - 7pm For anyone who has ever dealt doing the community a service,” SAT. 10am - 6pm SUN. by Appointment with the hassle of selling and Elias said. “We’re in the business of helping people who are in a tough icejewelrybuyingservice.com shipping an item on eBay — all the forms involved in setting up a user spot. They can come to our store and paypal account, the 10-15 percent fee that Ice and know that we can educate them on what they Jewelry Buying charges to do all the work is really a have and we’ll give them what their items are worth. bargain deal.

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

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

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

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Some who earn as little as $8 per hour will now be paid $13.13, bringing their annual income from $16,640 to $27,310, de Blasio said in announcing an expansion and increase of what is called the city’s living wage.

With some exceptions, the increase will apply to workers at companies whose landlords get $1 million or more in city subsidies such as tax breaks. City Hall estimates it will affect 18,000 jobs over the next five years — including 4,100 in retail and fast food — compared to what would have been 1,200 without the expansion. Exempt are manufacturers, firms that gross less than $3 million a year and businesses in certain affordable housing developments.

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Aqueduct site continued from page 2 “No one from the city administration has had any communication in regard to a soccer stadium or any land or building at Aqueduct with Community Board 10,” she said via email Tuesday.

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UFT: Queens still king in school overcrowding Classrooms in Queens remain the most overcrowded in the city, according to new figures from the United Federation of Teachers, with six of the 10 most crammed schools located here, including the three worst.

The highest numbers of classes with more students than allowed under the UFT’s contract were at Hillcrest High School, where there were 250, Forest Hills High School, which had 208, and Benjamin Cardozo High School in Bayside, which had 147, according to an article in the union publication New York Teacher.

Also in the top 10 were Francis Lewis High School in Fresh Meadows, which tied for fourth with 90 overcrowded classes, and JHS 210 in Ozone Park, which tied for sixth with 60.

Overall, Queens had 604 overpopulated high school classes, compared to 383 in Brooklyn, 381 in the Bronx, 170 in Staten Island and 166 in Manhattan. The union article said there were 3,569 overcrowded classes in all city schools but did not break down that total by borough.

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Tax rebate phone scam The state’s taxpayer rights advocate, Margaret Neri, warns that scam artists are calling people seeking personal information to “confirm” they are eligible for a rebate. The state Tax Department always contacts people by letter first, Neri said, and anyone who gets such a call should hang up and report it to the AttorQ ney General’s Office at 1 (800) 771-7755.

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But Addabbo said it might be possible that Resorts World could operate on the site without the track under current law.

“I don’t think it’s contingent on the racetrack for the casino to operate,” he said.

But current law exempts New York City from a having a non-racino gambling facility for seven years.

The idea of demolishing Aqueduct and turning Belmont into a year-round facility is not new.

In August 2013, NYR A’s f inancial oversight board suggested closing the track and moving winter racing to BelQ mont as a means of saving money.

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Work was supposed to start this fall but now held off to next June

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The long-awaited construction of a new headquarters for Alley Pond Environmental Center in Douglaston is on hold once again.

The $9 million city project was expected to begin later this year. Now, the earliest the Parks Department is estimating the start is next summer.

APEC Executive Director Irene Scheid said on Tuesday that the delay may be a blessing in disguise. “It’s a perfect time for us because the summer is slow months and we won’t have to cancel any school bus trips,” Scheid noted.

Nevertheless, the construction, estimated to take 18 months, will disrupt regular APEC activities and Scheid thinks it will curtail visitors, especially while parking is an issue.

Plans call for the city to construct the new building behind the old facility at 22806 Northern Blvd. The site now holds one of APEC’s parking lots.

Because of wetlands and a landfill at the location, she said the city determined through soil samples last spring that piles are going to have to be driven in deeper than expected, endangering the original building.

So the city decided to place several trailers on the property during the construction to be used for classrooms and staff offices. “We

The headquarters of Alley Pond Environmental Center in Douglaston will be torn down and a new one built behind it on a parking lot. The earliest date for construction to begin is next June.

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don’t know how long it will take them to tear down the old building. Until then, parking will be limited,” Scheid said.

“It will be an issue,” she added. “We are still working on that, but once the building

comes down, there will be parking.”

Scheid noted that it is possible to park on Northern Boulevard, but that it is a very busy street and parents with young children are unlikely to want to leave their cars there.

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Parks Department spokesman Zach Feder said that as part of the design process, “we investigated subsurface conditions and discovered that the building will require a more complex foundation system, incorporating pilings for stability. This is being incorporated into the design, resulting in the updated schedule.”

The new facility will be one story in height with 10,000 square feet of space. It will include several environmental features, such as a rain garden that will capture rainwater for irrigation.

In addition, it will include a large lobby where special events and fundraisers can be held, four early-childhood classrooms and three large additional classrooms.

An overhanging roof will offer protected outdoor space for classes and events in good weather.

Scheid says classes will continue when the trailers are erected, but large events like the National Estuaries Day held outdoors last Saturday will have to be canceled until the new building is completed.

She added that the event drew a large crowd, but that it will have to be put on hold for the near future. .Q

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Khan also asked if the DOE will set a hard deadline for distributing the Student Handbook, a hefty volume that details information about applying to every high school in New York City.

Currently, distribution is staggered so some students get the book months before others.

The DOE panel members said they will look into it and address Khan’s question in writing.

The new vendor’s tests would be administered for the first time in fall 2016 to eighth- and ninth-graders who would enter high school in 2017. That means study materials must be available by 2015.

All proposals must be submitted by 1 p.m. on Oct. 23. Only organizations with at least three years of experience providing similar services are eligible.

The vendors are instructed to focus on the “standards that are most important for high achievers prepared to succeed in rigorous and advanced high school math, science and humanities courses.” The RFP document states that the tests must align with the Common Core Standards for the grade prior to the grade of the students takQ ing the test.

‘Healthy Kids and Family Day’ NYHQ Pediatric Center helps kids with asthma Today, Jonathon Honya of Whitestone, is a thriving 6-year-old. He’s enjoying first grade and running around the playground. Looking at him, you’d probably never guess that he lives with asthma.

Regular checkups with Dr. Hadi Jabbar and the other doctors at the New York Hospital Queens Pediatric Asthma Center help to manage his asthma.

This wasn’t always the case. By the time Jonathon was 13 months old, he had been rushed to the emergency room and hospitalized several times at another facility for trouble breathing — he’d wake up in the middle of the night wheezing and coughing, and couldn’t catch his breath.

At each visit, he was diagnosed with bronchitis. “I was scared because Jonathon was very sick and we didn’t know why,” says Bonnie Honya, his grandmother. She requested a consultation with a lung specialist and was referred to the New York Hospital Queens Pediatric Asthma Center.

There, doctors diagnosed Jonathon with asthma and prescribed medications to treat it and improve his breathing.

“Now we’re able to manage Jonathon’s asthma without going to the

emergency room, and he feels so much better,” says Honya.

To help support the New York Hospital Queens Pediatric Asthma Center — and its dedication to helping families like the Honyas — everyone is invited to come to the “Healthy Kids and Family Day” on Sunday, Oct. 5, from 12 to 4 p.m. at the New York Hall of Science and Rocket Park in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. The family-friendly event will feature soccer clinics led by professional players from the New York Cosmos, mini golf in Rocket Park, open play and exploration in the Hall of Science, balloon twisting, face painting, refreshments, games, prizes and more!

For tickets and information about the programs that will be supported by funds raised at “Healthy Kids and Family Day,” visit nyhq.org/Healthy-Kids-Family-Day. Throughout the U.S., asthma is a leading cause of emergency room visits, hospitalizations and missed school days.

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A Memory

PHOTOS COURTESY MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE

INSTALLATION SHOWS A GROWING ASTORIA

by Tess McRae

Stills from Ezra Wube’s piece “A Memory of Astoria.” The artist walked through the neighborhood surrounding the Museum of the Moving Image and created a special animation of what he saw.

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Some marks of previous frames remain in later frames, acting as marks of the past.

Wube’s technique is impressionistic.

The effect is not only cool to watch, but is seemingly appropriate for the way parts of many city neighborhoods — especially in Astoria — melt into one another.

Commercial blocks can quickly turn residential and historic train stations stand quietly above new restaurants and condos.

Wube stays true to the Astoria area, not even going outside the boundaries of a few square blocks.

Though this could be considered limiting — neighborhood icons, including Astoria Park, Socrates Sculpture Park and the Hell Gate Bridge are never shown — Wube’s piece turns the microscope on full strength and takes apart the little things city residents would otherwise overlook.

One example is a scene that takes place in a hole-in-the-wall-type eatery.

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zra Wube’s video installation “A Memory of Astoria” is only minutes long and yet took months to finish.

The Brooklyn resident, originally from Ethiopia, spent time walking the streets of Astoria to explore the community that surrounds the Museum of the Moving Image.

Focusing on everyday moments, sights and sounds, he reconstituted his experiences into a poetic visual collage.

Wube inserts himself as a silhouetted observer exploring the memories of the walks.

What is most impressive and unique about the piece is, rather than using separate drawings for each frame — the way animation is typically created — Wube paints each frame on top of the last.

The result is a powerful and striking visual in which street scenes assemble and disassemble on their own.

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W H AT ’ S H A P P E N I N G

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Poet Terrance Hayes reads poet Lynn Emanuel, Wed., Oct. 8, 6:30 p.m., Godwin-Ternbach Museum, 405 Klapper Hall, Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing. Recently named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, Hayes will recite the award-winners words, followed by a Q&A and book signing. Free.

“Japan — An Island Nation: 1870-1890,” Resobox Gallery, 41-26 27 St., Long Island City. Exhibition thru Oct. 10. Info: (718) 784-3680, resobox.com.

“Wayfinding: 100 NYC Public Sculptures” by Bundith Phunsombatlert, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, located on the lawn between the Unisphere and Queens Museum, on view thru November.

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“Homeland [In]security: Vanishing Dreams” by Margaret Matthews-Berenson, Dorsky Gallery, 11-03 45 Ave., Long Island City, exhibition thru Nov. 16; Info: dorsky.org.

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THEATER “In the Heights: The Musical,” Chappell Players, 8 p.m., Fri.-Sat., Oct. 10-11, Thurs.-Sat., Oct. 16-18; 2 p.m., Sat.-Sun., Oct. 11-12; St. John’s University Little Theatre, 8000 Utopia Pkwy., Jamaica. $14; $5 SJU students; $6 other students/seniors. Info/ Tickets: sjucptg.com/current.html.

Queens Secret Improv Club, Queens’ only allimprov comedy theater, Indie teams: Wed. & Thurs.

7, 8 & 9 p.m., $5. House teams: Fri., 7:30, 8:30 & 9:30 p.m., $7 for the whole night. Secret Theatre, 44-02 23 St., Long Island City. Info: secrettheatre.com.

MUSIC Dance Party: M.A.K.U., Sat., Oct. 4, 8-10:30 p.m., Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd., hints of Colombian folklore, psychedelic rock, jazz, Caribbean grooves, M.A.K.U. SoundSystems lyrics about love, hardships, culture & the immigrant experience. Post-concert artist talk back. $15 pp, $12 members, $10 students. Contact: flushingtownhall.org.

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“Jazz Italiano,” Paul Joseph Quartet, Sun., Oct. 19, 1 p.m., Mary’s Nativity Church, 46-02 Parsons Blvd., Flushing. $10 in advance, $15 at door. Info/ Tickets: pauljoseph.com.

FILM “Blue Velvet/Halloween,” inaugural Cinema Under the Influence, Sat., Oct. 11, reception begins at 7 p.m., movies begin at 8 p.m., Chain Theater, 21-28 45 Road, Long Island City, double feature includes free beer compliments of Queens Brewery.

AUDITIONS Community Singers of Queens is looking for new members; if interested, attend a rehearsal, Mons., 8 p.m., Messiah Lutheran Church, 42-15 165 St., Flushing. Contact: Ruth Amsterdam (718) 658-1021.

SculptureCenter celebrates its expansion with a reception and community day on Oct. 5, featuring pieces such as Saul Steinberg’s “Rainbow Reflected” from 1974, above.

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

LECTURE “Fugitive Art & Fugutive Testimony: Slave Narratives Then & Now, King Manor Museum, Talking About History series, lecture by Janet Neary, Tue., Oct. 7, 12 p.m., the African American Resource Center at York College, Room 3B04, 94-20 Guy R. Brewer Blvd., Jamaica. Free, reservations recommended. Contact: (718) 206-0545, ext. 13, programs@kingmanor.org.

Queens County Bird Club presents a safari adventure with photographer Janet Zinn as she presents her recent trip to Tanzania, Wed., Oct. 15, 8 p.m.

Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston. Free. Info: qcbirdclub.org.

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

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

Yoga classes, Central Queens YM & YWHA, 67-09 108 St., Forest Hills, registration for fall series (15 classes), open level: Mon. 10:20-11:20 a.m.; beginners: Wed. 10:10-11:10 a.m.; intermediate/advanced: Fri., 11:30 a.m.-12:40 p.m. $180 CQY members, $225 general; seniors, $71 CQY members, $128 general.

Contact: (718) 268-5011, ext. 504; cgy.org.

Hawkins-based modern technique dance with Valerie Green, every Tue., 6:30-8 p.m. $18 pp; $15 dancers/students. Green Space Studio, 37-24 24 St., #301, Long Island City. Contact: (718) 9563037, greenspacestudio.org/classes.html.

Turkish cooking class, Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston, Thurs., Oct. 9, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $20 adults, preregistration required. Contact: (718) 229-4000, alleypond.com.

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

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

SPECIAL EVENTS Healthy Kids & Family Day to benefit New York Hospital Queens Pediatric Asthma Center, Sun., Oct. 5, 12-4 p.m., New York Hall of Science and Rocket Park, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, 47-01 111 St., Corona. Activities include: mini golf, soccer with the NY Cosmos, 450+ exhibits & more: $35 pp, $125 for package of four, children under 2 are free. Tickets/info: call Alexis (212) 921-9070 x16; nyhq.org/healthy-kids-family-day.

70th anniversary Fall Adoption Festival, North Shore Animal League, Sat., Oct. 18, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Citi Field, Lot G, Flushing. Hundreds of animals up for adoption plus fun for the entire family.

Amazing Maize Maze, interactive cornfield adventure, Queens County Farm Museum, 73-50 Little Neck Pkwy., Floral Park, every Sat. & Sun. thru Oct. 26 (and Columbus Day, Mon. Oct. 13), 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m. $9 adults, $5 kids (4-11), under 3, free. Contact: (718) 347-3276, queensfarm.org.

Kids free art classes, by Latin American Cultural Center of Queens at Arrow Community Center, 35-30 35 St., Astoria, every Sat., 10-11:30 a.m.

Reserve: (718) 261-7664. Info: (718) 261-7664 laccq@aol.com.

Boy Scout Pack & Troop 351 open house, Fri., Oct. 3, 7:30-9 p.m., St. Nicholas of Tolentine gym, 150-75 Goethals Ave., Jamaica. Cub Scouts: ages 7-10 (1st-5th grades); Boy Scouts: ages 11-18 (6th grade & above); adult volunteers: age 18 or above.

COMMUNITY Safety First crime prevention fair, 103rd Precinct Community Council, Sat., Oct. 4, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Detective Keith Williams Park (Liberty Park), 173 St. & Liberty Ave. Free bicycle helmets for first 25 to register for anti-bike theft program.

Free. Info: Crime Prevention Officer Lawrence: (718) 657-8194.

Bus trip to Mt. Airy Lodge & Casino, American Legion Continental Post 1424 Forest Hills, Sat., Oct. 4. Bus leaves 9 a.m. from 107-15 Metropolitan Ave., return approx. 7:30 p.m. to post for heros & salads. $45 pp ($25 slot play, $10 food coupon). Info: Call Tom Long (718) 704-4197.

Take Home a Free Tree, Sat., Oct. 4, 1:30-3:30 p.m., Maspeth Federal Savings Bank, 56-18 69 St. Register req’d.: nyrp.org/treegiveaways.

SculptureCenter: Opening Reception and Community Day, Sun., Oct. 5, 12-5 p.m., free museum admission & family-friendly activities to celebrate newly renovated/expanded facility. Sculpture St., intersection of 43rd & Jackson aves., Long Island City.

Info: sculpture-center.org.

Greek festival, Greek Orthodox Shrine Church of St. Nicholas, 196-10 Northern Blvd., Flushing. Thurs., Oct. 9, 6-10 p.m.; Fri., Oct. 10, 6 p.m.-12 a.m.; Sat., Oct. 11, 12 p.m.-12 a.m.; Sun., Oct. 12, 12-8 p.m.

Flea market, Greek music & food. Free admission.

Fall family festival, Sat., Oct. 11, 12-4 p.m., Brookville Park, Brookville Blvd. & 143rd Ave., Rosedale. Pony rides, inflatables, arts & crafts, pumpkin patch, mummy wrap, costume contest. Free.

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Professional companies to go all out this fall

by Mark Lord qboro contributor

From an evening with Johnny Mathis and a taste of Gilbert and Sullivan to the astounding athleticism of Momix and a new adaptation of a Dickens classic, there’s something in store for everyone as the fall season gets under way at the borough’s top professional performance venues.

Queens Theatre’s dance series kicks off with three performances by Momix on Oct. 11 and 12, employing little more than light, shadow, props and the human body to create a multimedia experience.

According to Managing Director Taryn Sacramone, “Even for people who are not dance people, it’s a beautiful, different show.”

They will be followed on Nov. 1 and 2

by Dance Entropy, an innovative Queensbased modern dance company.

The theater series includes “The Cottage,” described as a “wickedly murderous comedy” set in the English countryside.

The play runs Nov. 7 through 16.

Also on its way is “The Complete History of Comedy (abridged!),” a bawdy adult comedy that looks at centuries of laughter,

from the ancient Greeks to Charlie Chaplin, which runs on Oct. 25 and 26.

A special holiday event attraction, from Dec. 11 to21, is “A Christmas Carol,” a new take on Charles Dickens’ classic story of Ebenezer Scrooge and the three transformational visits he endures.

The Titan Theatre Company, Queens Theatre’s new in-residence troupe, offers a newly-imagined mounting of its lauded production of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” from Friday to Oct. 12.

The director, Lenny Banovez, is particularly pleased to be able to share the show, which he describes as “a brisk 80-minute adapted version” of the popular play that involves sly sprites, rude mechanicals and confused lovers, with the Queens community at large.

The show’s most intriguing catch: none of the nine actors, taking on a total of 16 characters, will know whom they’re playing until the audience randomly draws their names at the start of each performance.

Queens Theatre is located at 14 United Nations Avenue South in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. For further information, call (718) 760-0064.

The Titan Theatre Company’s production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” will feature PHOTOS COURTESY TITAN THEATRE COMPANY the cast playing different characters every night.

Colden Auditorium, part of the Kupferberg Center for the Arts at Queens College, located at 65-30 Kissena Blvd. in Flushing, brings romantic jazz and pop singer Johnny Mathis to the borough on Oct. 26.

He will be followed by Leonard Bernstein’s “Mass,” presented by the Aaron Copland School of Music, on Nov. 1 and 2.

The operatic work investigates issues of faith and doubt, as well as the political and social upheavals of the late 1960s. The performance will include a pit orchestra, two

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An evening with Gladys Knight, dubbed the “Empress of Soul,” will be the attraction at Colden on Nov. 7 when she performs live on the big stage.

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It’s no secret that New York City is a popular area to film in. From television shows to feature films, using the city as a backdrop is attractive to many directors and producers, and Queens has become a hotbed for production.

With Kaufman Studios in Astoria, Silvercup Studios in Long Island City and many other independent studios around the borough, the most diverse area in New York has been featured in some of the most popular shows and movies in recent years.

Now MapHook, a social location app, has launched a new map that highlights popular locations of some of America’s favorite TV shows.

The map, dubbed the “NYC TV Map,” is part of MapHook’s CultureHook project, designed to help people discover more about the area around them.

With just the tap of a finger on your smartphone, pins show the locations of famous TV series, from classic hits such as “Seinfeld” to current shows such as “Boardwalk Empire” and “Law & Order: SVU.” “Inspired by the previous success of our San Francisco movie map, we decided to search for another locale where we could create something that’s new, exciting and highly relevant to the area and that’s how ‘NYC TV Map’ was born,” Paul Carter,

president of MapHook, said. “We can’t wait to see how our fans interact with the new map and complement it with their regular MapHook app experience while in the Big Apple.”

While a majority of the pins are in Manhattan, there is a growing number in Queens.

Fans can use the map to find hotspots including the Hell Gate Bridge in Astoria Park, where the famous boob-punch scene from “Orange is the New Black” was filmed; The Foundry, a hip industrial venue, where Jessa surprised her friends with a spontaneous wedding in the HBO show “Girls;” The Brownstone rooftop in Long Island City, where establishing shots for the show “Elementary” were filmed; and The Poppenhusen Institute in College Point, which was the site of Nucky’s speech to the Women’s Temperance League in season one of “Boardwalk Empire.”

The app, which is free on iTunes and Google Play, also features fun trivia and facts about each location.

If you don’t have a smartphone and still would like to take a look at the TV locations on MapHook, visit the web version at maphook.com/culture/nytvmap.

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Astoria uncovered in animated video piece continuedfrom frompage page00 42 continued changing neighborhood that the Museum A typical Styrofoam clam container of the Moving Image has lived in for more holds yellow rice and next to it sits the than 25 years. almost iconic blue, white and gold disThe video installation greets museumposable coffee cup that takes its inspira- goers as soon as they walk into the lobby tion from Greek art. and though the piece may not be the reaAs the image becomes more promi- son someone would go to the museum, nent , found s ound of a n excha nge the four-minute video is worth watching. between the cashier Ups t a ir s in the and someone the museum’s amphitheviewer must assume is ater, another animaWube is threaded in. tor’s work is analyzed.

It’s an interaction Bill Plympton, one When: Through Jan. 8 residents of Astoria of the most iconic Where: MoMI, exper ience on an indep endent f ilm36-01 35 Ave., Astoria almost daily basis, makers and animaand yet, projected on tors, has his work — Tickets: Free with admission the museum’s walls, including an hourmovingimage.us it becomes art. long presentation of It is interesting to his cartoon shorts — see Wube’s take on lining the walls. the neighborhood as he is not from Queens.

Plympton drew all of his own cartoons The artist seems heavily influenced not and often directed and wrote the scripts as only by his Brooklyn home, but also his well.

Ethiopian culture.

The shorts are sick but really, really funny The colors used include bright yellows and while the younger generation may not and greens with earthy browns and reds. understand the underpinnings of “Santa: His impressions reveal a diverse, rapidly The Facist” they still got a kick out of the

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boro COMMUNITY 12th annual Open House NY Weekend, Queens Historical Society at Kingsland Homestead, Sat., Oct. 11, 2:30-4:30 p.m., 143-35 37 Ave., Flushing. Celebrating the city’s architecture, design history; a house tour and current exhibition “Remembering Yesterday: Queens and Its World’s Fairs.” Info: queenshistoricalsociety.org.

Day at the Races, St. Josaphat’s Leisure Club, Thurs., Oct. 16, 12 p.m., 35th Ave. & 210th St., Bayside. $5, incl. lunch.

Free immigration services, first and third Wed. of each month, City Councilmember Elizabeth Crowley’s district office, 71-19 80 St., Glendale.

Make appt. for help with naturalization and deferred action for childhood arrivals. All services are confidential and open to the community. Info: (718) 366-3900.

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

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

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

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

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

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FLEA MARKETS Italian Charities of America, 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst, Sat., Oct. 4, 9 a.m-4 p.m. $25 per table. Call (718) 478-3100.

Maspeth Kiwanis, to support scholarship fund, Maspeth Federal parking lot, 56-18 69 St., Sun., Oct. 5, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

St. Josaphat’s Church, and ethnic Polish bake sale, parish hall, 35th Ave. & 210th St., Bayside, Sat., Oct. 11, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.; Sun., Oct. 12, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

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St. Luke’s Church, 85 Greenway South, Forest Hills, fall rummage sale on Sat.-Sun. Oct. 11-12.

Collecting used items every Sat. 10 a.m-12 p.m., Sun., 12-1 p.m. Info: stlukesforesthills.org.

St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church, 150-75 Goethals Ave., Jamaica, outdoors every Sat. & Sun. until Nov., 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

MEETINGS AARP meetings: Open to the general public.

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

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

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

Pomonok Senior Center, 67-09 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, men’s exercise group, Tues. & Thurs., 10:30 a.m., all men 60+ with doctor’s note. Free SNAP screenings for all seniors 60+. Eligibility check and application help. Info: (718) 591-3377, Mon.-Fri., 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

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

Overeaters Anonymous, for weight loss and other issues. Long Island Consultation Center, 97-29 64 Road, Rego Park, Sun., 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Call: (718) 937-0163. Rego Park Library, Thurs. at 11:15 a.m., 91-41 63 Drive. Holy Child Jesus Outreach Center, 112-06 86 Ave., Richmond Hill, Tues., 7:30-9 p.m. Call: (718) 564-7027.

Women’s Support Group, Center for the Women of New York, Queens Borough Hall, 120-55 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens, Room 325. Thurs. (weekly) 6:30-8 p.m. Registration required. Free. Contact: CWNY (718) 793-0672, centerwny@yahoo.com.

New Sibling Support Group, for individuals with a sibling who has a mental disorder, Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 48 Shelter Rock Rd., Manhasset. Beginning in October, 2nd & 4th Wed. of every month, 7-8:30 p.m., call NAMI (718) 347-7284.

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For more information on the live events coming to Colden Auditorium, call (718) 793-8080.

Queensborough Performing Arts Center has set out to “book exceptional, professional talent that all people of varying ages can find intriguing, enlightening and enjoyable,” according to Executive and Artistic Director Susan Agin.

With that goal in mind, QPAC celebrates Broadway’s rich Jewish musical legacy with “Shalom Broadway!” on Sunday.

The “5 Kings of Motown,” a popular Vega s show that pays tribute to the Motown sound, will be in the spotlight on Oct. 12.

One of America’s most esteemed repertory ensembles, The New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players, brings the comedic opera “The Pirates of Penzance” to QPAC on Oct. 19, its tale replete with romance, disappointment and, of course, lilting melodies.

The Voca People, “an intergalac tic vocal musical phenomenon,” combines a capella and beat box to create a totally innovative sound. The group will appear on Nov. 16.

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Nov. 23 with “My Life on a Diet,” a journey through Renee Taylor’s 60-plus years in show business. Taylor, best known as the mother on the TV series “The Nanny,” stars in the show, which she co-wrote with her husband, Joe Bologna, who also directs. The show is described as “a hilarious and nostalgic tour de force with videos and slides.”

QPAC is located at Queensborough Community College, 222-05 56 Ave., in Bayside. For further information, call (718) Q 631-6311.

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SPORTS

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Being a baby boomer, I admit that I have an affinity for the Seventies. Sure, it’s easy now to make fun of the clothing and knickknacks as the lava lamp and smiley-face stickers but they were stylish back in the day anyway. I confess that I try not to miss Sirius XM 7’s Saturday noon replays of the late Casey Kasem’s “American Top 40” countdowns.

Mets fans, however, are understandably tired of the ’70s. No, not the “Me Decade,” but rather the fact 2014 marked the sixth straight year that the team didn’t muster more than seventy-something wins. Granted, their 79 wins in 2014 was the most that they achieved under general manager Sandy Alderson’s four-season stewardship.

Alderson was recently awarded a three-year contract extension but my guess is that had little to do with results and more to do with the troubled Mets’ ownership’s desire to stay in the good graces of Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig and his successor, Rob Manfred.

Sandy is the ultimate MLB insider and I have gone on record stating that Selig insisted that Mets CEO Fred Wilpon hire him when he fired Omar Minaya after the 2010 season.

It will be interesting to see whether Alderson sits pat this off-season and merely tries to sell his fan base on the Mets’ current roster. He has been playing up the fact that Matt Harvey will

be back in the starting rotation next spring after recovering from Tommy John surgery in 2015 as well as touting his other young hurlers Zack Wheeler and possible Rookie of the Year Jacob deGrom. Expect Sandy to tell the media that he’s confident that he expects the team’s two highest paid players, David Wright and Curtis Granderson, to have better seasons in 2015 than they enjoyed in 2014, although Grandy did hit 20 homers albeit with a low batting average.

The bottom line is the Mets’ lineup needs at least one new bona fide hitter.

Prior to Friday’s Astros-Mets game, outfielder Bobby Abreu met with the media to announce his retirement. Abreu missed the entire 2013 season because no team wanted his services even though his statistics are Hall of Fame worthy. “I worked hard to get back to the big leagues so that I could go out on my own terms,” he said.

The Mets would be wise to add him to their coaching staff considering what a great mentor he’s been to their young Hispanic players.

I’d like to thank a terrific lady who made going to Citi Field a truly enjoyable experience no matter how poorly the home team was playing. Regina Corker once again did a great job running the press dining room making sure that the cuisine was both delicious and nutritious.

Considering that Aramark is the Mets’ food Q provider, Ms. Corker is a miracle worker.

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I HAVE OFTEN WALKED

On the slope at Union and the Blvd.

by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

In 1930 the city was marking the parcels to be taken for the construction of a new highway called the Grand Central Parkway and the IND subway in Kew Gardens.

On the northern corner of Queens Boulevard and Union Turnpike was the Burrows and Archers Turnpike Garage. It was at the time the oldest gas station in Forest Hills and a neighborhood institution since 1911. Its owner was Lemuel Burrows, who lived at 50 Greenway South in Forest Hills Gardens. At the right in the photo is the rear of the garage as seen from Union Turnpike.

Other casualties of progress were the historic Sarah Bolmer farmhouse off 78th Court and Bolmer Place, streets since demapped forever, and a riding academy. There also was a budding new development called Maple Hill, located in what is now Kew Gardens Hills, in the way of the parkway.

The ironic ending to the story is that the corner property was never really needed in the design of the Grand Central Parkway.

For almost the next 50 years generations of Forest Hills residents loved to use their

Union Turnpike looking west toward Queens Boulevard near 78th Crescent in Forest Hills, Oct. 1, 1930. sleds in the snow on this deep, hilly property.

Many wondered why it was vacant.

After any family members who once owned the 1.97-acre site were long deceased, the city decided to put it on the market. As a result, Forest Hills Tower was built by the Muss Organization in 1981, with 17 floors and 582 parking spots. True to its name, it rises high over the corner and offers great Q panoramic views.

Correction The Sept. 18 article “The Hillside Diner in Jamaica” misspelled the owner’s name and misstated his nationality. He was Charles Kuegerl, an Austrian. We regret the error.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: INSTINCT NYC, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/17/2014. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to Alexandre Hu, 38-30 147th Street, Flushing, NY 11354.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

LAZANDRA, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 07/31/14. Office: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Jacob Sebag & Associates, P.C., 21-50 44th Drive, Long Island City, NY 11101. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Ocean Queen NY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/11/14. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 36-10 Bud Place, Flushing, NY 11354.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

PITUKA, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/02/2014.

Office loc: Queens County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: Miladys Felix and Vasilios Miliopulos, 15 Perry Avenue #C10, Norwalk, CT 06850.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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

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

KJ FORTUNE LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/22/2014. Office loc: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 4122 Fuller Place, 4th Fl., Flushing, NY 11355. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

MATTONE FLUSHING LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 9/5/14. Office location: Queens County.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 13401 20th Ave., College Point, NY 11356. General Purposes.

PILLAR CHOCOLATE, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 04/24/2014.

Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 14139 Pershing Crescent, 4B, Briarwood, NY 11435. Lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Presso Coffee LLC. Art. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/12/2014.

Office location: Queens County. SSNY Designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: The LLC, 164-27 78th Ave., Fresh Meadows, NY 11366.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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

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

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

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

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

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: HIGH STONE REGIONAL CENTER, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/05/2014. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to High Stone Regional Center LLC, 136-20 38th Avenue, Suite 11C, Flushing, NY 11354.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: HERLIEN SECOND LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/21/2014. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to Chung Lian Wang, 136-20 38th Avenue, Suite 3C, Flushing, NY 11354.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: IMPOLITE COMPANY LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/27/2014. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to Ryan Carmichael, 14-56 31st Drive, Apt. 7E, Astoria, NY 11106.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS - Index No.: 22938-13. D/O/F: September 26, 2014. Block: 12205. Lot: 8. SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS. NYCTL 1998-2 TRUST AND THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON AS COLLATERAL AGENT AND CUSTODIAN FOR THE NYCTL 1998-2 TRUST, Plaintiffs, -against- QUZJIENDA JOHNSON, AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF GERALDINE ANDERSON, HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF NANCY ANDERSON; FREDDIE JOHNSON, AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF GERALDINE ANDERSON, HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF NANCY ANDERSON; ZJAQUANASIA JOHNSON, AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF GERALDINE ANDERSON, HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF NANCY ANDERSON, if living, or if either or all be dead, their wives, husbands, heirs-at-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, assignees, lienors and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said; ZJAQUANASIA JOHNSON, AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF GERALDINE ANDERSON, HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF NANCY ANDERSON, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, of any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, and the respective husbands, wives, widow or widowers of them, if any, all of whose names are unknown to plaintiff; JOHN DOE 1 THROUGH 50; JANE DOE 1 THROUGH 50, INTENDING TO BE THE UNKNOWN HEIRS, DISTRIBUTEES, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, TRUSTEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, AND ASSIGNEES OF THE ESTATE OF NANCY ANDERSON WHO WAS BORN AUGUST 13, 1913 AND DIED ON MAY 20 1998 AND WHO DIED IN THE COUNTY OF QUEENS, THEIR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST IF ANY OF THE AFORESAID DEFENDANTS BE DECEASED, THEIR RESPECTIVE HEIRS AT LAW, NEXT OF KIN, AND SUCESSORS IN INTEREST OF THE AFORESAID CLASSES OF PERSONS, IF THEY OR ANY OF THEM BE DEAD, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE HUSBANDS, WIVES OR WIDOWS, IF ANY, ALL OF WHOM AND WHOSE NAMES AND PLACES OF RESIDENCE ARE UNKNOWN TO THE PLAINTIFF, COLORADO CAPITAL INVESTMENTS, INC; CRIMINAL COURT OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK; NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD; NEW YORK CITY PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU; NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA-INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICES; “JOHN DOE No. 1” through “JOHN DOE No. 100” inclusive, the name of the last 100 defendants being fictitious, the true names of said defendants being unknown to plaintiffs, it being intended to designate fee owners, tenants or occupants of the liened premises and/or persons or parties having or claiming an interest in or a lien upon the liened premises, if the aforesaid individual defendants are living, and if any or all of said individual defendants be dead, their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, committees, devisees, legatees, and assignees, lienors, creditors and successors in interest of them and generally all persons having or claiming under, by, through, or against the said defendants named as a class, of any right, title, or interest in or lien upon the premises described in the complaint herein, Defendants. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Amended Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your Answer, or, if the Amended Complaint is not served with this Supplemental Summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance on the Plaintiffs’ Attorneys within twenty (20) days after the service of this Supplemental Summons, exclusive of the day of service, where service is made by delivery upon you personally within the State, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner, and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Amended Complaint. YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT, AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THE PURPOSE. TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Honorable Augustus C. Agate of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, signed on September 2, 2014, and filed with supporting papers in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Queens, State of New York. The nature of this action is to foreclose a tax lien certificate recorded against said premises. Said premises being known as and by 150-14 118th Avenue, QUEENS, NY 11434, which is more fully described as Block: 12205; Lot: 8. Dated: September 24, 2014 Batavia, New York, Virginia C. Grapensteter, Esq., ROSICKI, ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C., Attorneys for Plaintiffs, Batavia Office 26 Harvester Avenue, Batavia, NY 14020, 585.815.0288, 585.815.0299. Help For Homeowners In Foreclosure – New York State Law requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process. Please read it carefully. Mortgage foreclosure is a complex process. Some people may approach you about “saving” your home. You should be extremely careful about any such promises.

The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. There are government agencies, legal aid entities and other non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about foreclosure while you are working with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Banking Department at 1-877-BANKNYS (1-877-2265697) or visit the Department’s website at www.banking.state.ny.us. The State does not guarantee the advice of these agencies.

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File No.: 2013-985/B CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

BY THE GRACE OF GOD, FREE AND INDEPENDENT To: NYC Human Resources Administration, Attorney General of the State of New York The unknown distributees, legatees, devisees, heirs at law and assignees of HANS WENZLER, deceased, or their estates, if any there be, whose names, places of residence and post office addresses are unknown to the petitioner and cannot with due diligence be ascertained.

Being the persons interested as creditors, legatees, distributees or otherwise in the Estate of HANS WENZLER, deceased, who at the time of death was a resident of 140-13 114th Street, Rockaway Park, NY 11694, in the County of Queens, State of New York.

SEND GREETING: Upon the petition of LOIS M. ROSENBLATT, Public Administrator of Queens County, who maintains her office at 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, Queens County, New York 11435, as Administrator of the Estate of HANS WENZLER, deceased, you and each of you are hereby cited to show cause before the Surrogate at the Surrogate’s Court of the County of Queens, to be held at the Queens General Courthouse, 6th Floor, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, City and State of New York, on the 30th day of October, 2014 at 9:30 o’clock in the forenoon, why the Account of Proceedings of the Public Administrator of Queens County, as Administrator of the Estate of said deceased, a copy of which is attached, should not be judicially settled, and why the Surrogate should not fix and allow a reasonable amount of compensation to GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ., for legal services rendered to petitioner herein in the amount of $38,185.29 and that the Court fix the fair and reasonable additional fee for any services to be rendered by GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ., hereafter in connection with proceedings on kinship, claims etc., prior to entry of a final Decree on this accounting in the amount of 6% of assets or income collected after the date of the within accounting; and why the Surrogate should not fix and allow an amount equal to one percent on said Schedules of the total assets on Schedules A, A1, and A2 plus any additional monies received subsequent to the date of this account, as the fair and reasonable amount payable to the Office of the Public Administrator for the expenses of said office pursuant to S.C.P.A. §1106(4); and why NYC Human Resources Administration should not be paid the claim of $339,613.86; and why each of you claiming to be a distributee of the decedent should not establish proof of your kinship; and why the balance of said funds should not be paid to said alleged distributees upon proof of kinship, or deposited with the Commissioner of Finance of the City of New York should said alleged distributees default herein, or fail to establish proof of kinship. Dated, Attested and Sealed 26th day of August, 2014, HON. PETER J. KELLY, Surrogate, Queens County; Margaret M. Gribbon, Clerk of the Surrogate’s Court; GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ., (718) 459-9000, 95-25 Queens Boulevard, 11th Floor, Rego Park, New York 11374. This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not obliged to appear in person. If you fail to appear it will be assumed that you do not object to the relief requested unless you file formal legal, verified objections.

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File No.: 2013-4607/A CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

BY THE GRACE OF GOD, FREE AND INDEPENDENT To: Donald Habinc, Patricia Mattison, Attorney General of the State of New York The unknown distributees, legatees, devisees, heirs at law and assignees of CHARLOTTE BUTCHER, deceased, or their estates, if any there be, whose names, places of residence and post office addresses are unknown to the petitioner and cannot with due diligence be ascertained.

Being the persons interested as creditors, legatees, distributees or otherwise in the Estate of CHARLOTTE BUTCHER, deceased, who at the time of death was a resident of 78-08 75th Street, Glendale, NY 11385, in the County of Queens, State of New York.

SEND GREETING: Upon the petition of LOIS M. ROSENBLATT, Public Administrator of Queens County, who maintains her office at 8811 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, Queens County, New York 11435, as Administrator of the Estate of CHARLOTTE BUTCHER, deceased, you and each of you are hereby cited to show cause before the Surrogate at the Surrogate’s Court of the County of Queens, to be held at the Queens General Courthouse, 6th Floor, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, City and State of New York, on the 6th day of November, 2014 at 9:30 o’clock in the forenoon, why the Account of Proceedings of the Public Administrator of Queens County, as Administrator of the Estate of said deceased, a copy of which is attached, should not be judicially settled, and why the Surrogate should not fix and allow a reasonable amount of compensation to GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ., for legal services rendered to petitioner herein in the amount of $15,268.92 and that the Court fix the fair and reasonable additional fee for any services to be rendered by GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ., hereafter in connection with proceedings on kinship, claims etc., prior to entry of a final Decree on this accounting in the amount of 6% of assets or income collected after the date of the within accounting; and why the Surrogate should not fix and allow an amount equal to one percent on said Schedules of the total assets on Schedules A, A1, and A2 plus any additional monies received subsequent to the date of this account, as the fair and reasonable amount payable to the Office of the Public Administrator for the expenses of said office pursuant to S.C.P.A. §1106(4); and why each of you claiming to be a distributee of the decedent should not establish proof of your kinship; and why the balance of said funds should not be paid to said alleged distributees upon proof of kinship, or deposited with the Commissioner of Finance of the City of New York should said alleged distributees default herein, or fail to establish proof of kinship. Dated, Attested and Sealed 2nd day of September 2014, HON. PETER J. KELLY, Surrogate, Queens County; Margaret M. Gribbon, Clerk of the Surrogate’s Court; GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ., (718) 459-9000, 95-25 Queens Boulevard, 11th Floor, Rego Park, New York 11374. This citation is served upon you as required by law.

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More than partying for Parrot Heads Area Buffett fans support many charities and volunteer their services

by Liz Rhoades Managing Editor

The Metro Parrot Head Club likes to party with a purpose and its Bayside president is making sure that effort continues.

Fans of musician Jimmy Buffett and his Coral Reefer Band are legendary. They attend his concerts dressed in tropical garb and many join one of the 200 Parrot Head clubs in the United States.

Lynne Creamer joined the Metro group 18 years ago and has served as its president for two years. An island girl of sorts herself, Creamer grew up on Long Island, where she

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The Metro flock, organized in 1992, has 325 members from Long Island, the five boroughs and parts of New Jersey and Connecticut. But Creamer would like to see more members from Queens and some younger ones.

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Metro members do road cleanups, adopted an endangered manatee and provide supplies for soldiers. Their major fundraising efforts go to research for Alzheimer’s disease and pancreatic and breast cancers.

Creamer said the group also works closely with the Wounded Warrior Project.

“It’s fun and we do community work,” she said. “It’s a nice blending of people and a way for them to give back.”

She has met Buffett more than once when he showed up at a March of Dimes walk and

Members of the Metro Parrot Head Club recently volunteered at the Cycle for Life cystic fibrosis fundraiser in Riverhead, LI. With them is their new mascot, Marty the parrot. PHOTO COURTESY METRO PHC “Queens is an easy place to get to by public transportation,” she said. “We are hoping to set up a Buffett happy hour maybe in Forest Hills or Bayside at a restaurant-bar and recruit members.”

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The group’s major event each year is at Jones Beach, when the performer has a show every summer. “It’s the highlight of the year,” the president said. “We set up an area in one of the parking lots all day and this year 220 members came.”

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• Extra Large L-Shaped Studio, updated ......................................................... $72K • Mint L-Shaped Studio. ..................$76K • Large 1 bedroom co-op. .......Ask $86K • Mint XL 1 BR, EIK .........................$109K • Mint 1 BR Garden, 1st fl .............$129K • Garden-beautiful 1 BR, new bath, hardwood floors, hi-hats, pets Ok. ....................................................... $145K • Hi-Rise 2 BR, 1 bath, mod kit & bath, granite counters HW fls. ............$159K • Largest 3 bedroom/2 bath co-op, 1st fl., HW flrs, pets OK. ............. $175K • Mint 2 BR, with terrace, granite kit, SS appl, wood cabinets. ..... $179K • Mint AAA 3 BRs, 1 bath, Garden..$219K • Hi-Rise 2 bedroom, 2 baths, mint, with terrace. all renovated .............................IN CONTRACT $227K

HOWARD BEACH • ROCKWOOD PARK Mint custom, all stucco extended Colonial on 50x100, circular driveway, 3/4 Bedrooms, 3.5 custom baths, fireplace, den, full finished basement. ONE-OF-A-KIND!

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Mint, large stucco corner Hi-Ranch on 49x100, 5 BRs/3 full baths with in-ground pool.

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WANTAGH WOODS Mint AAA, split, school district #23, 4 levels, kitchen w/granite, S.S. appliances, 58x95, 3 BRs, possible 5 BRs, 2 full baths, new roof, new siding, new PVC fence.

ASKING $539,999

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HOWARD BEACH Mint AAA, new construction 2009. All Brick Colonial. 4 BRs, 3.5 baths. All new LR with fireplace. 9’ ceilings 1st & 2nd floors. Full finished basement & separate entrance.

Pvt dvwy & detached 1-car gar. IG sprinklers, PVC fencing & wrought iron gates. Pavers in backyard.

REDUCED ! $759K

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