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Ed Wendell, Martin Colberg and Alexander Blenkinsopp of the Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association stand outside the civic group’s Jamaica Avenue office with the tickets the organization has received from the Sanitation Department for illegal garbage outside their office that they say was left there in the middle of the night. Theirs is just one of at least half a dozen storefronts that have been ticketed for garbage that was not theirs before they had time to clean it up.

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Library funded luxuries under CEO Galante

by Peter C. Mastrosimone

The comptroller revealed the findings in an Oct. 1 letter to the Library Board, whose composition has changed radically think this is what, quite honestly, I was always since July, when Katz and Mayor de Blasio dismissed eight afraid of,” Borough President Melinda Katz told the members of a majority bloc that had kept the documents away Queens Chronicle last Friday. “There was no trans- from Stringer’s auditors and refused to put Galante on leave parency, nobody had any idea what was going on — and while investigations of library spending play out. Two other that’s completely unacceptable for an institution that’s so members of the faction later resigned.

The probes, including one by the Federal Bureau of Investigamuch funded by the taxpayers.”

Katz was referring to documents newly provided to city tion and city Department of Investigation seeking out any potenComptroller Scott Stringer’s office, which show that the Queens tial criminality, were prompted by a late January Daily News Library under now-suspended President and CEO Tom Galante scoop on spending at the library, including $27,000 for an outdoor deck attached to Galante’s office made what Stringer calls “a substanwhere he can smoke, and on his contial number of questionable expenditract, which was paying him $392,000 tures that may not be sufficiently he Library’s monies are a year and was automatically renewed related to the mission of the library.” every day for another five years.

Those include dinners for library not meant for lavish meals, The CEO was placed on paid leave trustees that cost about $1,000 each after the board purge and the appointand featured delicacies such as filet but solely to advance its ment of several new trustees, which mignon and soft-shell crab, as well as important public purpose.” quickly followed enactment of a state cocktails and wine; four tickets to a law allowing Katz and de Blasio to rock concert to show “employee — The new Queens Library Board of Trustees dismiss members at any time and appreciation” at a total price of made other reforms. $1,962.95; the autographs of former Six of the trustees — those fired by Katz — sued her in fedMet Mookie Wilson and former Boston Red Sox player Bill Buckner to decorate Galante’s office, which cost $235; and the eral court in an effort to keep their positions but lost.

“This is the answer to why they fought so hard to stay on the president’s desk, an import from England with a price tag someboard,” she said of the comptroller’s findings. “This is why where between $2,000 and $3,275.

There were also other charges, not detailed, for travel and res- when we started asking questions there was so much resistance. taurants. All came from credit card statements from fiscal year I’m anxious to see what else the comptroller finds.”

Stringer said in his letter that Galante’s having been put on 2013, according to Stringer, who along with Katz is an ex-officio leave should not distract from the need for thorough reform of member of the library Board of Trustees.

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“The potential impropriety of these charges as well as some limited and inconsistent amounts of supporting documentation accompanying the credit card statements available for inspection suggests, at a minimum, that the library lacks adequate policies and fiscal controls,” the comptroller said. “Best practice for good corporate governance dictates that an organization have continued on page 33

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Businesses have received tickets for garbage dumped during the night

by Domenick Rafter Editor

The Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association is fighting the Sanitation Department’s practice of issuing tickets to property owners in the middle of the night for garbage dumped outside their properties, an issue that has affected the civic organization personally.

The problem stems from a common nighttime occurrence — people dumping trash outside Jamaica Avenue storefronts.

Then, Sanitation Department agents write summonses in the middle of the night, fining property owners for failing to dispose of this rubbish they never even had the chance to see because it had been dumped there after their businesses were closed for the day.

The WRBA said it has cost business owners on Jamaica Avenue hundreds of dollars. Moreover, the civic said the Sanitation Department agents routinely take the trash with them when they write the ticket, without providing any photographs to the property owners — meaning that they see no evidence of the infractions for which they are being fined.

The WRBA, which has a storefront at 84-20 Jamaica Ave., has been hit repeatedly. In recent weeks, it has received $25 Sanitation tickets at 1:05 a.m. and 3:30 a.m. for trash dumped long after business hours outside its office. Just last week the Sanitation Department fined the civic group $100 because somebody discarded a mattress in front of the building.

On Monday, the WRBA wrote to Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia, asking her to end the practice. Previous efforts to communicate with Sanitation Department per-

sonnel have not resulted in any discernible changes.

The group is hoping to get help from the very top of the political chain — the mayor himself — who had acknowledged the problem before.

Last year, then-Public Advocate Bill de Blasio wrote a letter to the Sanitation Department to defend the WRBA and encourage the end of middle-of-the-night ticketing. He then called for the rules to be changed to mirror those regarding shoveling snow; property owners cannot be fined in the middle of the night for failing to shovel snow that has just fallen.

“Enough is enough,” WRBA President Martin Colberg said in a statement. “The Sanitation Department has refused to listen to us, and they’ve refused to listen to Bill de Blasio. This unfair practice must end.”

Maria Thomson, executive director of the Woodhaven Business Improvement District, said she was aware of the problem and that several stores along Jamaica Avenue have been hit with fines from garbage dumped there after hours.

She said the Woodhaven BID will fight tickets on behalf of the store owners, and she has taken further action.

“I’ve brought it to the Department of Small Business [Services],” Thomson said. “It’s a shame, because we can’t afford tickets we did not earn.”

Thomson noted that business owners often have to close their shops to fight the tickets and that costs them not only the cost of the ticket, but also lost revenue for the day. Colberg noted that the WRBA has only one paid employee who staffs the office for several hours during the day, and he didn’t want her to have to go to court to fight the summonses.

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Woodhaven civic: End storefront trash fines

Several Jamaica Avenue storefronts, including the Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association’s office, have been fined by the Sanitation Department for garbage that had been dumped in front overnight, continuing an unfair practice that Mayor de Blasio himself said should end when he was public advocate.

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“If we have to send her to fight the ticket, then it affects our ability to serve the community,” he said.

Thomson is especially bothered by the practice of continued on page 35

Katz has ‘reservations’ about soccer stadium Borough president at CB 10 says there are infrastructure, access issues at site

by Domenick Rafter Editor

to CB 10 during her term as borough president.

She also spoke on several other issues, including the April 30 Lindenwood f lood and responses to future emergencies.

She generally gave positive remarks for the city’s response to the Lindenwood flood, noting that the Department of Environmental Protection quickly accepted blame for the failure of the Spring Creek sewer retention facility and city Comptroller Scott Stringer’s office started cutting checks to flood victims.

“Quite honestly, we know how slow the city can sometimes be, and they’re moving,” she said. “And that’s a good thing.”

She added that in her meeting with the city’s Office of Emergency Management, there has been discussion of holding “fire drills” to create an organized response to future disasters from minor ones to emergencies like Hurricane Sandy.

Katz also channeled the borough cheerleading spirit of her former counterpart from Brooklyn, Marty Markowitz, plugging her borough extensively.

“I think that his borough has more to offer the City of New York than any other borough,” she said. “We not only offer our diversity, which I think is a gift by the way, but we also offer our expertise in this borough, our culture, our parks and our people who have dedicated Q their lives to this borough.”

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Borough President Melinda Katz is not on the Aqueduct soccer stadium bandwagon — at least not yet.

At Community Board 10 last Thursday in South Ozone Park, Katz said she “likes the idea” of a Major League Soccer stadium in Queens, but had “deep reservations” about siting it at Aqueduct, which she said is not easily accessible from other parts of the city.

“We have a 90 percent increase in subway ridership right there,” she said. “It takes a long time to get there, and during rush hour it’s worse. There’s infrastructure and access issues.”

Katz’s concerns echo those of many in the community who feel Aqueduct Race Track is not easily accessible by car or public transportation.

“I think it’s good for us, it’ll bring tourism in. I think there’s a response from folks here with a deep interest for that,” Katz said of a stadium in Queens, but noted that even from her own house in Forest Hills, getting to Aqueduct would be rough.

She did not offer any other potential sites.

The stadium plan, which would be home to MLS expansion franchise New York City Football Club, was originally proposed for Flushing Meadows Corona Park, before

being moved to the Bronx when the New Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Rockaway York Yankees took a 20 percent share of the Park) said at CB 10’s meeting that he is conteam. NYCFC begins playing at Yankee cerned about transportation and traffic issues Stadium next year. and wants community input.

But a Bronx deal was not worked out, and “All development is not bad,” he said.

Aqueduct was the next “Development is good idea to be floated. if it’s done responsibly, Katz’s support would but the com munit y be essential to a stadineeds to be involved.” um at the site because The site is served the most likely location only by the Far Rockaon Aqueduct grounds way spur of the A for the facility is at the train, which takes up to southern end, on city an hour to get to Manproperty leased by the hattan. Vehicular trafPort Authority of New fic would need to use York and New Jersey. the Belt Parkway — The 20-acre plot was near one of the most transferred from the congested spots — or Port Authority to the Rockaway Boulevard city in 2004 as part of a to access the site.

Unifor m Land Use Borough President Melinda Katz, speaking Goldfeder said Review Procedure deal- at a meeting of Community Board 10 last restarting trains along i ng w it h J FK a nd Thursday, said she has “reservations” about the Rockaway Beach LaGuardia airports. As a proposed soccer stadium at Aqueduct LIRR line, which he has PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER pushed for a few years part of that ULURP, the Race Track. city agreed that for any now, should be considdevelopment other than parking on the site at ered as an option because it would give soccer Aqueduct, another ULURP would be done. fans a quicker route from Manhattan and other That means a stadium would go to Katz for parts of Queens. approval as part of the procedure.

Last Thursday’s visit was the first for Katz

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Residents get another say at greenway plans DOT mulling proposals to complete path fully encircling Jamaica Bay

by Domenick Rafter Editor

Representatives from the city Department of Transportation came to Howard Beach Tuesday for the second of three workshops aimed at getting community input into the expansion of the Jamaica Bay Greenway through the neighborhood.

About two dozen Howard Beach residents attended the meeting at the Old Mill Yacht Club, and their opinions on the proposals to extend the walk and bike trail through the neighborhood ranged from guarded support to complete opposition.

The greenway between the Belt Parkway and Joseph P. Addabbo Bridge is connected via street bike lanes along 157th Avenue and 91st and 92nd streets, but the DOT’s plan is to construct a safer and more streamlined route through the neighborhood.

Meetings were also held in the past month in other locations where uncompleted portions of the greenway were being built including Rockaway Park and Canarsie and Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn.

The project would also seek to improve the greenway’s path over the Addabbo Bridge and connect the greenway to parkland on the north side of the Belt Parkway in South Ozone Park between Lefferts Boulevard and Aqueduct Race Track.

All three parts came from public input that was given at a similar workshop in South Ozone Park in March, said Alice Friedman, greenway projects manager for the DOT. The first proposal aims to connect the greenway, which ends at Shore Parkway and 90th Street in Howard Beach, with North Conduit Avenue in South Ozone Park. The plan would require the path to cross Cross Bay Boulevard and then the Belt Parkway at Cohancy Street.

The DOT has two suggestions. One is to build the greenway along the north side of 155th Avenue, where there are only two traffic conflicts, which are turns onto Cohancy Street and a Belt Parkway entrance ramp. The north side of 155th Avenue has no sidewalk and often attracts litter. It is used by runners, bikers and people walking their dogs.

“We found that this was something that people wanted,” Friedman said of building a sidewalk or some kind of official path there.

The only problem was how to connect the greenway’s 90th Street terminus to 155th Avenue, which would send it through a busy stretch of Cross Bay Boulevard where traffic enters and exits the Belt Parkway.

“They’re going to have to figure out what they’re going to do about the area around 155th Avenue and Cross Bay,” noted Betty Braton, chairwoman of Community Board 10.

The second suggestion was to build a greenway Alice Friedman, the DOT’s greenway projects manager, goes over along 156th Avenue between Cross Bay and Cohancy options for the Jamaica Bay Greenway’s route through Howard Beach Street. Friedman explained that the road was wider Tuesday evening at the Old Mill Yacht Club.

PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER than needed and could accommodate bike paths and side-street parking without losing any traffic lanes. But that cent to Spring Creek Park: the other inside the park, which is proposal was unpopular with residents who felt the intersec- slated for an overhaul by the state Department of Environmental Conservation. tion of 156th Avenue and Cross Bay was too dangerous.

The 84th Street route would build a greenway that would For the connection between the Addabbo Bridge and the greenway, residents seemed to coalesce around a plan to build not take away street parking and separate the pathway from it along 84th Street, the only wide two-way route west of Cross street traffic. It would connect an exit of the greenway at Bay. That is despite the fact that 84th Street has buses and is a 84th Street and Shore Parkway near St. Helen School to 165th Avenue, where it would turn to connect to the Addabresidential street.

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City Hall’s attack on small business

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f all the campaign promises Mayor de Blasio made but has yet follow through on — and there are a few — he probably takes the most heat over not banning the horse-drawn carriages in Manhattan, an issue that arouses strong passion and good arguments on both sides.

But there’s another issue that has a more direct impact on far more people, even if it doesn’t get their blood boiling quite as much: the overregulation and excessive fining of small businesses. And in this case it’s not just that de Blasio has failed to do what he promised to do — reduce summonses for mostly petty infractions that don’t really affect New Yorkers’ health and safety — he’s actually doing the opposite, jacking up revenue from merchants.

It’s as if he not only didn’t ban the carriages but proactively brought in dozens more to ferry tourists around.

The number of tickets issued this summer is way up from where it was under the administration of Mike Bloomberg, who was rightly criticized at the time as being too friendly to big business and too unfriendly to small business. According to a report in the New York Post, the number of summonses issued in July and August jumped 18.9 percent compared to the same time period last year, with 117,615 issued.

Commercial property owners along Jamaica Avenue in Woodhaven have lately become victims of one particularly insidious type of summons. They say that after business hours, some area residents dump their garbage in front of stores there, the Sanitation Department comes by in the middle of night and writes tickets, also removing the trash — and people end up with fines for violations they had no control over and weren’t even aware of.

“Fines have been increasing for so long

it’s become de facto City policy,” de Blasio said in 2012 while prepping his run for mayor. “We need answers about what this ‘fine-first, ask questions later’ enforcement is doing to our small businesses and their ability to survive in this economy.”

Yes, we do. The city recently set up a task force to address the problem, but that’s just political window dressing and a classic way to simply shelve an issue.

Maybe a task force could do some good over the long term, but business and property owners need relief now. At the very least they need a mayor who won’t promise them a break and then hit them with the exact opposite.

The economy continues to struggle and we see far too many vacant storefronts here in Queens. De Blasio should order a cut in the number of summonses issued over violations that do not affect health and safety immediately.

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Dear Editor: Peter C. Mastrosimone’s article “Queens Library spent money on luxuries, NYC comptroller says” (Oct. 3, qchron.com) highlights a massive problem within the Queens Library.

Instead of funding literacy programs and hiring qualified teachers such as myself, staffers such as suspended President and CEO Tom Galante are allowed to spend money on $1,000 dinners and baseball memorabilia.

This is so upsetting to me. One reason is that even as a volunteer tutor at the Queens Library’s Long Island City center branch, I wasn’t even given reimbursement for the $10 per week I spent on subway fare.

Our libraries these days are little more than havens for homeless people, with obnoxious staff, dark lighting, and not enough space for children to sit and read. It is so disheartening when I compare Queens libraries to those in Manhattan, such as the one located at 328 East 67 St. That branch includes the latest books, a huge children’s library, and educated, polite staff who are more than happy to help the library’s visitors.

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most applications seemingly going into a black hole. Those running the library are too distracted allocating funds for personal use.

Perhaps Queens Borough President Melinda Katz and whoever takes over now should become more involved in picking those running the daily operations.

Allison Krampf Forest Hills Editor’s note: See page 2 of this edition for a revised version of the article cited by the writer.

One callous cop Dear Editor: (An open letter to NYPD Deputy Inspector Jason Huerta) I am writing to you regarding an incident that happened to me on Monday, Sept. 22, 2014, between 3 and 4 p.m.

I had just gotten off of the Q13 bus on the corner of Northern Boulevard and Corporal Kennedy Street in Bayside after returning from Bay Terrace. I was on my Hoveround scooter

Tragic lessons

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he fire that killed two young children in St. Albans Monday is of course a tragedy, and grief over the loss of brothers who were only 6 and 11 years old is your first response.

But the fire was entirely preventable, and should serve as a reminder for everyone of exactly what not to do.

The lessons really are simple, and there’s no excuse not to learn them: • Do not leave young children at home alone.

• Do not leave them home alone with burning candles.

• Do make sure your home has working smoke alarms.

In St. Albans, the family of John and Andrew Kavanagh did the exact opposite on each count. The result is horror.

Please don’t let something like that happen to you and your family.

because of my disability and advanced age. A police officer (he was an African American) had parked his unmarked car in part of the bus stop and was out of his vehicle giving out tickets to drivers whom he had pulled over.

I told the officer that I would need his assistance to cross Northern Boulevard, since my scooter battery was getting low. He did not respond to my request in any way, although I know that he saw and heard me. I then proceeded to the corner to wait to cross Northern.

When the light was with me, I pressed the lever to move forward. Unfortunately, the scooter died out and lurched, and I was thrown from my seat to the ground.

The police officer continued to ignore me and did not come to help me. Luckily, a gentleman came along and helped me get up. He then pushed me out of danger to the south side of the boulevard and continued to push me home. I was not seriously injured.

I am at a complete loss to understand the callous inaction of the police officer whom I asked for help. I would request an investigation

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Dear Editor: If the Olympics had an event for stupidity, our mayor would win a gold medal.

Bill de Blasio topped off a string of dumb decisions by hiring and defending a key staffer who’s lived with a convicted killer and drug dealer for the past 6 years — a thug who called cops “pigs” on Facebook. “You don’t fire someone for something her boyfriend said,” de Blasio told reporters. Wrong, you fire her if she’s a $170,000-a-year city employee responsible for improving police-community relations, and one who failed to mention her criminal companion in a Department of Investigation background check.

Bumbling Bill fired his campaign press secretary for dating Eliot Spitzer. But client No. 9 didn’t have a 20-year rap sheet. Rachel Noerdlinger also lied about her child’s health to get exempt from a rule that all appointed city employees must live in New York. She claimed her 17-year-old son needs medical treatment for severe injuries, requiring her to live in New Jersey. Really? Then how does her son play linebacker for his high school’s football team, a fact disclosed by the New York Post?

Keeping Ms. Noerdlinger on the payroll insults taxpayers, police and all honest city staffers. If de Blasio doesn’t fire her, voters must deny him a second term in office.

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Save the animals Dear Editor: It seems there is a growing threat to wildlife that lives in our region for various reasons.

While there are large populations of swans, geese and deer, as well as other types of wildlife, why must there be such a push to begin eradicating these creatures? There must be more humane ways of controlling these populations, without having to kill them.

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It is difficult to distinguish fact from fiction in a media-dominated age when the lines between politics and news reporting are blurred. Superficiality, voyeurism, celebrity and image trump truth. Humanity’s predilection for distractions and love of entertainment and trivia has, according to some, destroyed our capacity to think. The individual is engulfed by a group mindset and the tyranny of mob-think.

Some pundits warn that we should fear those who would ban books but perhaps we should fear there would be no reason to ban a book because there would be no one who wanted to read one. Author and media critic Neil Postman observes “Our devices deliver so much information we have become a captive audience preoccupied in a culture of trivia where truth is drowned in a sea of irrelevance.”

Postman writes that Aldous Huxley in “Brave New World” fears man is controlled by inflicting pleasure, that what we love will ruin us. In other words, we are amusing ourselves to death.

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Dear Editor: The United Nations’ summit goal to forge a universal climate agreement in Paris next year is “one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind.” Recent public demonstrations calling on Congress to enact strong, effective laws to reduce carbon fossil fuel pollution into Earth’s atmosphere are a spirited second step.

What is next? Galvanized citizens’ voting power to fight the alliance of GOP corporate polluters! A good third step to stop these culprits should start on Nov. 4, mid-term Election Day. If the Republicans capture control of the 114th Congress, Americans can kiss green energy legislation goodbye! The wrath of extreme weather, caused by global warming, will rapidly increase worldwide in the next 30 years. Many more Superstorm Sandys?

Let me illustrate a little-known example of a current tragic event taking place on the equator in the west central Pacific. In a recent TV interview, Anote Tong, president of the Island Republic of Kiribati, made three alarming observations proving that unchecked climate is endangering his island nation: 1) Kiribati is becoming a “drowning nation”; 2) many of his

islands are only one meter above sea level; and 3) his government is buying an island from another nation, so as to relocate thousands of Kiribati citizens to higher, safer land.

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CB 10 gets look at new Centreville school Facility on Albert Road will have 500 seats, serve pre-K through fifth grade

by Domenick Rafter Editor

A vacant plot of land in the Centreville section of Ozone Park will be home to a brand-new elementary school in three years, if the Department of Education’s plans, which were previewed at Community Board 10 last Thursday, come to fruition.

The site — a triangle shape bordered by Albert Road, Raleigh Street and North Conduit Avenue — has always been vacant, often overgrown with tall grass and weeds in one of the few neighborhoods in Queens with space to spare.

But in recent years, developments have begun to pop up in the low-lying part of Centreville between Centreville Street, Aqueduct Race Track and Pitkin and North Conduit avenues. With the new homes have come new families, with children.

The result is more overcrowded schools and an often perilous commute to class. For students living in Centreville, the closest elementar y schools are PS 63, which requires crossing Cross Bay Boulevard, and PS 146 in Howard Beach, mandating parents to drive — or walk a dangerous route — across North Conduit Avenue.

“Queens is a borough of many things,” Mary Laes, director of external affairs for the School Construction Authority, said at CB 10’s public hearing last Thursday. “One of those many things is children.”

Betty Braton, chairwoman of Community Board 10, noted the specific importance of a new school in the Centreville neighborhood.

“Right now, just in Centreville, there are over 700 students who are under the age of 5,” she said. “By the time this school is built, those children are ready to get to school.”

For several years now, the DOE has been searching South Queens for a place to build a new school. In 2012, the SCA said in its 2012-14 Capital Plan for Queens that it was seeking 416 new seats somewhere in the Howard Beach/Lindenwood/Ozone Park area.

The Albert Road site, as it’s been collo-

quially called, fits that bill and then some.

The new school, which is slated to be ready in September 2017, would serve 500 kids from prekindergarten through fifth grade. One hundred seats would be reserved for special education students.

The facility will be handicapped-accessible, have two two-story wings and one fourstory wing and include four pre-K classrooms, a gym, an auditorium and cafeteria.

The building is being constructed with air conditioning and “ample” natural lighting in the classrooms.

There will be a playground behind the school with a performance stage that can be used for community events.

The building is to be named for Art Beroff, a former member of CB 10 — who joined at age 19 in 1980 — and elected member of School Board 27 under the former Board of Education system. Beroff died in 2004 at age 44 from cancer.

His widow, Carol, spoke at the CB 10 hearing and said that her husband would be thrilled to see the new school plans.

“It’s wonderful to see that schools don’t just look like boxes now in the street,” she said. “They’re built to really engage children in what they should be doing, which is learning and playing. On behalf of myself, my kids, Art’s parents and our family, we fully support this school.”

Laes said it is about 50 percent through the design phase.

There was little opposition to the construction of the school at CB 10’s public hearing — the first for a school in the board area since MS 137 was built more than a decade ago — last Thursday, but plenty of concerns from both residents living near the site about how it would affect the community.

Laes said the first issues that came up were the size and design of the school. Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park), who has been working with SCA on the school for a while, made it clear he did not want it to dominate the neighborhood, which is mostly made up of one- and two-family homes.

Centreville resident Cynthia Marciano asks a question during the public hearing on the new PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER school last Thursday.

A rendering of the new elementary school proposed for Centreville which will named after former Community Board 10 member Art Beroff, inset, shown to CB 10 members and the public during PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER/INSET FILE PHOTO last Thursday’s hearing. “[Ulrich] was insistent that the school aesthetically fit into the surrounding neighborhood,” Laes said.

Cynthia Marciano, a resident of Raleigh Street, had several concerns about the school, notably the traffic aspect.

As part of a separate project, the city Department of Design and Construction agreed to extend Raleigh Street, which dead ends several dozen yards south of Albert Road, so that the two streets intersect. Huron Street, which was mapped between Albert Road and North Conduit Avenue but never built, will be demapped completely.

Marciano said she was happy about the Raleigh Street extension but concerned about school buses on her block.

“Where are the buses going to be entering?” she asked.

The plan is for the buses to use Raleigh Street because Albert Road is a busy oneway westbound route that would force kids to step off the bus on the opposite site of the street and cross it to get to the school. Buses would travel down Centreville Street, turn left onto North Conduit Avenue, then left on Raleigh Street to access the school.

But Braton noted that most of the students would be from the immediate neighborhood and would likely walk or be driven to school by their parents.

Nevertheless, some board members noted that 100 special education children may mean as many as 10 small school buses, which could take away parking on Raleigh Street or clog it up during the day. “[The city Department of Transportation] won’t take away spaces until they know how many buses will come,” Laes explained to those concerned.

Resident Susan Koenecke inquired about the adjacent playground.

“You have no idea the kinds of people that walk down that block,” she said. “My

concern also is if the school will be locked up at night. I see you have some lovely benches there. I wouldn’t want homeless people sleeping on them.”

The SCA representatives informed her that, pursuant to DOE policy, the gates are locked at night there.

Koenecke was also concerned about the noise from low-f lying airplanes as the school would sit directly under a busy flight path for landing planes at JFK Airport.

“Do you have any idea how low the planes fly there?” she asked the SCA representatives. “I have a big tree. I swear to God, I think they’ll hit the tree.”

Though the school will be four stories, higher than the adjacent buildings, it will be nowhere near the FAA regulations for that area. The school will also be constructed with soundproof windows and insulation to reduce the effect of noise.

Because schools are exempt from the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, used in other forms of development, the public comment period is shortened. The public can comment through Nov. 8.

Laes said the design should be completed by late spring with contracts going out in the summer and construction starting soon after.

“I know you probably have construction fatigue in this neighborhood,” Laes said.

“And now we’re here to build a school.

We’re moving as fast as we can.”

She added that there are some factors they can’t control, such as the steel beams needed for the building, which would need to be brought in at night because trucks carrying them are only allowed over bridges during the overnight hours.

“Everything we could do to reduce the effect we’ll do,” Laes said. “We know there will be some disruption to the neighborhood, but But I don’t want to let you think Q you’re not going to know we’re there.”

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Jeffries talks storm resiliency at CB 10 Congressman says Army Corps of Engineers study due in January

by Domenick Rafter Editor

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-Brooklyn, Queens) paid a visit to Community Board 10 last Thursday to discuss the federal response to Hurricane Sandy and resiliency measures that are being taken in its aftermath.

“Normally, I’m in Washington, D.C. during the time in which this board meets,” he said. “But of course we’re in recess for the next few weeks and I wanted to make sure I made it my business to come out to be with

you this evening and just share a brief thought about some of the things we are working on in partnership with the Army Corps of Engineers that may be relevant to the residents still recovering from Sandy and concerned about resiliency efforts.”

Jeffries, who is in his first term representing Howard Beach, Lindenwood and Ozone Park, as well as much of Eastern Brooklyn, said the Army Corps is undergoing a comprehensive study on resiliency on coastal communities, a mandate given to

them through the Sandy recovery legislation passed in 2013. That study will include Howard Beach and other coastal communities in Queens.

A report from the Army Corps highlighting potential resiliency projects is due to Congress in January, Jeffries said, when the report will be made public and there will be a public comment period.

He said a number of potential infrastructure projects, including seawalls and flood gates, are being considered.

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After that period, the Army Corps will list projects that it can undertake to secure coastal neighborhoods. Each project will then have its own feasibility studies done, then the corps will begin securing funding for the projects it thinks are most feasible.

“Then, we’re going to want to advocate for specific projects that will be beneficial to our communities,” he explained.

Jeffries, a former state Assemblyman, provided some praise for Howard Beach’s representatives working on the community’s behalf in Gov. Cuomo’s “New York Uprising” program, which was established to help fund community-specific projects on the state level in storm-damaged areas.

“In my conversations with Gov. Cuomo and his folks, they are very impressed with the level of engagement here,” he said. “I make sure to let them know that those communities I represent that were impacted deserve the highest level of attention.”

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Is there a skunk loose in the neighborhood?

Some in Ozone Park claim to have seen — and smelled — it recently

by Domenick Rafter Editor

New York City has its share of wildlife. Besides the iconic pigeons and rats that crowd our skies and subways, the city has been known for being a haven for raccoons, squirrels, bats, even opossums, foxes and the occasional coyote, including the one that roamed Central Park several winters ago.

But for many residents, a skunk is not something that they expect to see in Queens.

The sight surprised several residents in Ozone Park living near a vacant overgrown lot near 102nd Road and 84th Street. The rodent, known for its stinky defense, was spotted among other wildlife including raccoons, opossums, and even a snake.

“I’ve never seen a skunk in the city before,” one resident who lives near the plot of land said. “I didn’t know they exist in New York.”

They do.

One a few years ago was spotted in Middle Village and sprayed several pets. It was last seen roaming in St. John’s Cemetery.

They have become a common sight in Maspeth near All Saints

Cemetery and in Southeast Queens as well. Several were spotted recently in Charles Park in Howard Beach.

On Sept. 26, the odor of a skunk’s spray was smelled in the vicinity of Woodhaven Boulevard and Atlantic Avenue. The scent was reported again on Friday near JHS 210 and Sunday night on 101st Avenue and 99th Street.

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“We have not received many calls regarding skunks in recent months.”

— Alexandra Silver, spokeswoman, Animal Care & Control of NYC

Ozone Park, it, or they, have been elusive, or at least haven’t been bothering anyone. Skunks are nocturnal, so they typically hunt at night and hide during the day. Often if skunks are seen during the day, they may be an indication that the animal has rabies or is ill.

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resenting the neighborhood have received any calls complaining of sk un ks around, and neither has Animal Care & Control of NYC, which responds to 311 complaints of wildlife.

“We have not received many calls regarding skunks in recent months,” said Alexandra Silver, a spokeswoman for AC&C. “AC&C will work with the homeowner on how to peacefully coexist with these critters. In general, AC&C will only remove skunks — which are classified in NYC as rabies vectors, along with raccoons and bats — if the animal appears injured or ill; has bitten or scratched a person or animal; or otherwise poses a significant public health threat.”

AC&C suggests in order to prevent skunks from getting inside homes, homeowners close or screen all holes and crawl spaces, especially around sheds and garages, and keep dogs confined. Since dogs will sometimes chase skunks and cause them to spray, it’s best to keep them inside at night.

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It’s cool after school at PS 207 Program welcomes students in grades 6 through 8

by Domenick Rafter

tion’s expansion of afterschool is to serve underserved and in-need communities.

Editor It’s 2:30 p.m. and the hallways of PS But the perception is often that described 207 in Howard Beach have quieted, but lower income or minority neighborhoods, and not a middle class community like the building is not empty.

In the cafeteria, several sixth- and sev- Howard Beach.

Not true, Taylor enth-g raders sit said. with thei r homeHoward Beach is work, work ing considered underswiftly through it ser ved because because they know before t h is yea r, at 3 p.m., the fun two of the neighstarts. b o r h o o d’s t h r e e The students are public schools, PS part of the school’s 232 in Lindenwood n e w a f t e r s c h o ol program, operated PS 207 in Howard Beach received an after- and PS 207, did not by the Sports and school program this year, operated by the have af terschool.

A r ts Fou nd ation, Sports and Arts Foundation of New York, There has been one par t of Mayor de part of Mayor de Blasio’s expansion of after- for several years at FILE PHOTO PS 146 in Old HowBlasio’s cit y wide school across the city. ard Beach. expansion of after“This program was something that was school services.

PS 207 is among the dozens of schools definitely lacking in this community,” across the city to get a program this year. Taylor said.

The program at PS 207 runs Monday Michael Taylor, the program’s executive director, said there are 91 seats in the pro- to Friday from 2:30 to 5 p.m. It ends eargram, though there’s funding for several lier than other programs because the school, heavily damaged in Hurricane more.

The focus of the de Blasio administra- Sandy, is still being repaired after hours.

But in those two and a half hours, the students do a lot.

One hour per week is forcused on literacy and leadership, the rest of the week is a mix is dedicated to a host of other activities, including Zumba, visual arts, performing arts, gardening classes, basketball, volleyball and other activities.

Taylor said he is even planning on field trips and other remote programs in the near future.

Lisa Kerrigan, parent of seventh-grader James Kerrigan, said she was excited about the program at her son’s school.

“I’ve been looking for something for years for my son,” she said. “I didn’t want him to just be home. I’d rather him be there, be occupied and doing other activities.”

Taylor said he is aiming to make SASF’s program at PS 207 a lasting part of the school community.

“My hope is that long term, we wil have a growing interest,” he said.

Parents of PS 207 students interested in more information about the afterschool program can contact Taylor at PS207@ sasfny.org.

To sign up, visit nyc.gov/afterschool Q and search for PS 207’s program.

Fire alarms are fixed at PS 207 The slow recovery for the school that may have been the hardest hit in the city during Hurricane Sandy shows a real sign of progress — working fire alarms The alarms at PS 207 in Howard Beach had not been operational since Sandy flooded the school on Oct. 29, 2012.

The building was inundated with up to 14 feet of water in the basement that ruptured the school’s oil tanks, requiring months of work pumping the oil and saltwater from the basement. The school was one of the last in the city to reopen after the storm, welcoming back students in January 2013.

But the school, along with several others hit by the storm across the city, did not have working fire alarms until last month.

Instead, the city Department of Education hired fire watchers to work at the school and facilitate fire drills.

PS 207 Principal Eileen Davies said she was glad the f ire alar ms were finally fixed, and praised the fire watchers for the work they did in the interim.

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Utility crews working on a gas main on 108th Street in Richmond Hill made a chilling discovery Tuesday when they found human bones under a front yard.

But police sources say there is no criminality suspected — the bones may be of a person legitimately buried there.

Police were called to 86-42 108 St. just north of Jamaica Avenue and across the street from PS 90, at around 11:30 a.m. after National Grid crews dug up the front yard searching for a gas main. Police sources say they believe the bones had been there for “an extended period of time, beyond a few decades.” They suggested the bones may have been in a grave. The investigation was handed over to the medical examiner.

Carl Ballenas, a Richmond Hill historian, said he wasn’t sure of a cemetery or grave at that specific location, but noted that in the 1873 map of the neighborhood, the land between 108th and 109th streets north of Jamaica Avenue — which includes where the bones were found — was a farm owned by the Napier family and that there was a famiQ ly cemetery in that area.

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Police have identified the suspect in the murder of Gerrard Edwards on Liberty Avenue in Richmond Hill last year.

Cops say David Haridat, 31, may be the man who pulled the trigger at 3:26 a.m. on Dec. 22, 2013 at Liberty Avenue and 112th Street.

According to police reports, Edwards was shot after a dispute that involved a group of men with Edwards and another group. After the fight broke up, Edwards and his friends walked away, but were approached from behind by the group they were fighting with, and Edwards was jumped and shot. He was taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he later died.

The investigation continued until police were able to identify Haridat as the suspect. Cops say he is 5 feet, 4 inches tall and weighing 150 pounds.

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David Haridat, 31, is wanted for the December 2013 murder of Gerrard Edwards on LibPHOTO COURTESY NYPD erty Avenue.

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Moniram Barran, of South Ozone Park, appeared before a Queens County Supreme Court on Sept. 30 and was ordered to pay the state $76,218 in personal income tax, $30,810 in alcoholic beverage tax, and $27,882 in sales and use tax, for a tax total of $134,910.

Barran, who wasn’t a registered New York State liquor distributor, was convicted of possessing more than 360 liters of untaxed alcohol, a class E felony.

The State Tax Department’s Criminal Investigations Division, working with U.S. Army Criminal Investigators at Fort Hamilton, discovered through surveillance operations that large quantities of untaxed liquor were being purchased by Barran over the course of several years and transported off base for resale.

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St. Albans fire kills brothers, 11 and 6 FDNY says candles caused blaze; boys believed to have been alone

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Unattended candles and smoke detectors both missing and inoperative are being blamed in the deaths Monday night of two St. Albans children who were alone when a fire broke out in their Tioga Drive home.

John Kavanagh, 11, and his 6-year-old brother, Andrew, were in cardiac arrest when firefighters reached them on the second floor of the wood frame house.

A 33-year-old man who lived in an upstairs apartment sustained minor injuries but was able to escape.

“All too often our members respond to f ires where our children are victims,” FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro said in a statement issued by the department. “Our mission is to make certain all New Yorkers learn from this tragedy and obtain working smoke detectors for their home.”

City fire marshals have determined that the blaze began on a sofa in the family’s first-floor living room, with a candle found melted to the floor nearby.

Fire officials said additional candles, which witnesses told them the family often used in religious ceremonies, were found throughout the house.

The FDNY said there were no smoke detectors on the first or second floors, and that those in the basement did not work.

Investigators on Tuesday continued to search through the charred shell of the house at 188-19 Tioga Drive in St. Albans where two children died on Monday night in a fire caused by unattendPHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON ed candles.

There still was an acrid smell of smoke along Tioga Drive Tuesday morning as investigators from the FDNY and the city’s

Department of Buildings continued their investigations.

A man who said he was a family friend

was distraught when he dropped by on Tuesday to lay a bouquet of flowers on the front steps of the house.

“They were from Haiti,” said the man, who declined to give his name. “I have k now n the ch ild ren si nce they were babies.”

A woman who lives around the corner said she only knew John and Andrew’s mother enough to exchange greetings on the street.

“I feel very sorry for her,” the woman s a id . “I h ave t wo ch i ld r e n a nd si x grandchildren.”

The Fire Department began receiving calls at 7:09 p.m., and the first unit was on scene in less than three minutes. Firefighters were met immediately by frantic neighbors telling them there were children trapped inside.

The first fire officers on the scene found a heavily engulfed house and put out an “All hands” call, summoning 12 units and more 60 firefighters to the house.

The FDNY said the boys were found on the second f loor and brought out within minutes of fire crews’ arrival.

Firefighters initiated CPR on the children before EMS personnel took over and transported them to the hospital.

The fire was declared under control Q within 45 minutes of the first 911 call.

Communities seek leg up in war on graffiti Vandal fighters get reinforcements thanks to Councilman Eric Ulrich

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The dedicated cluster of graffiti-fighters in Woodhaven and Richmond Hill are getting some professional reinforcements.

Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) announced Wednesday that he has allocated $25,000 to the Queens Economic Development Corp. to hire a professional graffitiremoval service that will regularly clean graffiti along six corridors in the 32nd District.

“The citizens of my district elected me and gave me the ability to spend their money,” Ulrich said at a press conference held at Comco Plastics near the Richmond Hill-Woodhaven border Wednesday to demonstrate graffiti removal.

If that money can be reinvested locally to remove graffiti, Ulrich said, he believes his const it uents w ill consider it money wellspent.

The six streets that will benefit from professional cleaning are Rockaway, Woodhaven and Cross Bay boulevards and Jamaica, Atlantic, 101st and Liberty avenues.

Ulrich has allocated money for the graffiti removal program for several years, and it has expanded over time.

Last year, the money went to the Woodhaven Business Improvement District and Greater Woodhaven Development Corp.

This year, it was decided to move the large-scale graffiti removal program to the QEDC, although the GWDC, Woodhaven BID and other community groups will continue to remove graffiti from smaller targets such as utility poles, mailboxes and street lamps.

“Everyone cares about their community here in the vicinity and they all work very hard to keep the area graffiti-free,” said Maria Thomson, executive director of the Woodhaven BID and GWDC. Wednesday’s announcement was attended by leaders of local government and civic groups, including several groups that regularly remove small-scale graffiti utilizing volunteers.

“We have limited resources. We live on grants,” said Simcha Waisman, President of the Richmond Hill Block Association.

The civic groups cover a lot of Woodhaven and Richmond Hill’s graffiti-removal work with volunteers.

Martin Colberg, president of the Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association, said this past summer his group was able to clean graffiti off every marked Woodhaven mailbox as well as call boxes, green traffic signal boxes and a few street poles. The group is now circling back for finishing touches before winter sets in.

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A Magic Touch worker demostrates how the company removes graffiti outside Comco Plastics headquarters at 101st Street and Jamaica Avenue near the Richmond Hill-Woodhaven border on PHOTO BY VICTORIA ZUNITCH Wednesday. said the organization considered three local graffiti-removal companies before hiring Magic Touch Cleaning, owned by Anthony LaRussa and Joseph Militello. While volunteers handle small jobs, Magic Touch is

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Chasing the sun in the center of Queens Kew Gardens Cinemas goes green by installing nearly 200 solar panels

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which plays lesser known indie films instead of Hollywood blockbusters, the Elgarts As long as the sun is shining, Kew Gar- turned their solar panel idea into reality at their two Brooklyn theaters. dens Cinemas’ energy bill will be shrinking.

The sunlight-harvesting technology was In an effort to go green and save money, the movie theater at 81-05 Lefferts Blvd. in installed by Fiveboro Solar at Williamsburg Kew Gardens is in the process of installing Cinemas in August, and once work in nearly 200 solar panels on its roof, following Queens is complete, Cobble Hills Cinemas, where steel beams to the lead of a neighsupport the green inibor i ng apa r t ment tiative have already building and a sister been put in place, theater in Brooklyn. will receive the solar According to panel treatment.

Andrew Elgart, the Elga r t said the cinema’s head techfeedback from neighnician and son of boring residents and owner Har vey businesses in both Elga r t, the newly Brooklyn and har vested solar Q ueens has been energy will generate overwhelmingly posmore than one-quarter of the theater’s A worker installs the final panels at the cinema. itive and supportive. “ T h e r e’s m o r e power, with the total energy produced by the panels varying conversation about solar panels these days,” he said. “We put [the idea] up on depending on the weather.

“It’s not going to power the whole the- Facebook and people were amazed. I didn’t ater. That’s impossible,” Elgart said. “But hear anything negative.”

Utilizing solar power isn’t the only it’s supposed to account for at least 30 pergreen initiative Elgart is focusing on at the cent of our power.”

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The event was held on the center green of The Shops at Atlas Park, where restaurants, including O’Neil’s Bar and Grill, Shiro Japanese Restaurant and California Pizza Kitchen offered up samples of some of their most popular dishes.

“During Restaurant Week, everybody wins, everybody benefits,” state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) said.

“From the participating restaurants, to the people taking advantage of it as I speak.

Eve r yb o d y w i n s d u r i ng Re s t au r a nt Week.”

The Queens Economic Development Corp. announced that this year’s Queens Restaurant Week will be the biggest yet, with more than 200 eateries participating.

“From new restaurants to Neirs in Woodhaven, which has been here since 1829, we are featuring places with great diversity, culture, food and history,” QEDC President Seth Bornstein said.

Despite its name, Queens Restaurant Week will wrap up on Oct. 30, giving people plenty of time to sample all of the food and shopping the borough has to offer.

“We are the borough of Queens and we have food from all over the world,” Queens Borough President Melinda Katz said. “We have more than 130 languages spoken in our

school system and its languages bring with it its own culture, its own food, its own preparation, its own restaurants and we are excited to show that off.”

Approximately 100 people attended the kickoff event, filling their plates with corned beef sandwiches, tomatoes and mozzarella and chocolate chip cookies.

“I think this is a great way to get the message out,” Ellen Bigby, a Middle Village resident, said. “I didn’t even know there was such a thing as Queens Restaurant Week. I wouldn’t have known if I didn’t come here to do some shopping at Chico’s.”

Katz, Bornstein and Addabbo said they want Queens Restaurant Week to not only attract borough residents, but also bring people from other parts of the city into the area.

“We consider this to be a gift to the City of New York and that is why we call ourselves the world’s borough,” Katz said. “So we want to make sure that when you come here and you partake in Restaurant Week here in the borough, that you come with plenty of time to not only try our great cuisine from all over the world ... but come here, shop here, go to our cultural events here, go to our dances, and at the end of the day, spend your money in the borough of Queens. We’ve got lots to spend it on.”

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Congress set to make noise on airplane roar New Quiet Skies Caucus backing laws to require new jet technology

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Queens Congressional representatives have joined with colleagues from Long Island and five other states to form a new Quiet Skies Caucus with the aim of combating aircraft noise in neighborhoods near major airports.

Formation of the group was announced locally in a joint statement issued on Oct. 1

by U.S. Reps. Steve Israel (D-Suffolk, Nassau, Queens), Joe Crowley (D-Queens, Bronx) and Grace Meng (D-Flushing), along with Carolyn McCarthy (D-Nassau).

A statement on Oct. 2 said Congressmen Gregory Meeks (D-Queens, Nassau) and Tim Bishop (D-Suffolk) are also on board.

They have thus far been joined by representatives from Califor nia, Illinois, Florida, Minnesota and Massachusetts.

“Too many of my constituents are dealing with an influx of aircraft noise that is negatively impacting their way of life,” Israel said.

Meng, whom Meeks credited with spearheading the effort along with Israel, said it is necessary to go beyond concerns around LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy International airports in Queens.

“It is imperative that we continue to work on solutions to this problem, and raising it to the national level through this new caucus is a very sensible way to do that,” Meng said in the statement.

Meeks, in his statement, said aircraft noise impacts every aspect of people’s lives in surrounding communities, and that taking the fight to Washington is the only option.

“It resonates t h roug h ou r homes, schools, hospitals and businesses,” he said. Crowley has long lamented that “airports can never be perfect neighbors. But we can take steps to make them better neighbors.”

Earlier this year he introduced the Quiet Skies Act, which would require all U.S. carriers to either replace all existing planes with newer jets or retrofit older

A JFK-bound passenger jet announces its presence over homes in Rosedale on Friday. Members of the Queens delegation to Congress have joined forces with legislators from as far away as PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON California to bring attention to noise problems near airports. ones with quieter technology by 2035. A spokesman for Crowley said Monday that there is not yet a companion bill in the Senate.

Janet McEneany of Bayside, president of the group Queens Quiet Skies, said Crowley’s bill is worth fighting for, and that the caucus will prove valuable.

“We’re very pleased to see that members of Congress ... see that this is an issue for representatives from the entire metropolitan New York area,” McEneany said.

With LaGuardia on the North Shore and JFK to the south, most of Queens is locat-

ed under a flight path for jumbo passenger or cargo jets. Some of the takeoff patterns at each air por t overlap with landing approaches for the other.

T he Easter n Q ueens A llia nce, a n umbrella organization for a number of civic groups, is in federal appellate court in an effort to force the Port Authority and the Federal Aviation Administration to conduct a full-scale environmental review associated with plans to extend JFK Runway 4 Left-22 Right some 700 feet closer to residential areas north of the airport.

The alliance’s primary concern is that

moving the runway closer will mean more and more planes coming in at a much lower altitude than they already f ly on final approach.

The crux of Crowley’s bill is the socalled Stage 4 federal requirements for air carriers to meet for lowering aircraft noise output. Stage 4 standards went into effect in 2006 but only apply to new planes.

Should the Quiet Skies Act pass as now written, older aircraft also would have to be retrofitted or replaced.

All domestic carriers would be required to bring 25 percent of their f leets up to Stage 4 standards every five years until 2035, when the transition, either through purchasing new planes or upgrading old ones, would be complete.

McEneany said anti-noise advocates would like to supplement Crowley’s legislation with new regulations to lower the amount of DNLs, or Day-Night Sound Levels, a measure of noise events in a particular area over a 24-hour period; and repeal of Section 213-C of the existing FAA Modernization Act, which she said allows the FAA to avoid environmental assessment studies when applying the next generation — NextGen in American aviation ver nacula r — of tech nolog y at airports.

McEneany also said that aside from the states represented in the caucus, her group has been working on how to deal with NextGen with counterparts in places l i ke Atla nt a a nd D e nve r, a nd eve n internationally.

“They call it something different [overseas], but they have the same problems,” she said.

State Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside), who helped lead the charge for airport roundtable groups in which citizens discuss airport concerns directly with officials, called the caucus a good first step.

“However, the Quiet Skies Caucus can’t be just for show,” he said. “Queens residents need real changes and that’s what we’ll be looking for as this caucus proQ gresses.”

Two jets bump into each other at JFK

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A commercial jetliner waiting on the tarmac at JFK Airport was rear-ended by another plane Sunday, authorities said, in the latest runway collision at the airport.

According to published reports, Royal Jordanian Airlines Flight 261, an Airbus A340 carrying 159 passengers, had just arrived from Amman, Jordan at 7 p.m., when the plane’s wing allegedly hit the tail of Delta Connection Flight 6087 from Charleston, SC, a 50-seat Embraer 145 that had 44 passengers and was operated

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Royal Jordanian Airlines in a statement called it a “minor incident” while taxiing.

“There were no injuries and all people onboard didn’t feel its impact,” the statement read.

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Nearly 30 years after Long Island Rail Road passenger trains last stopped in Elmhurst, the MTA has laid out plans to construct a new stop in the bustling northwest Queens neighborhood.

However, area elected officials and civic associations who have pressed for a station for years shouldn’t consider the $40 million plan as set in stone just yet.

The MTA’s Capital Program Review Board rejected the agency’s 2015-2019 capital budget last Thursday, leaving the futures of the dozens of projects laid out in the program, including the proposed Elmhurst station, up in the air for now.

According to the MTA, $ 4 million would be spent on the station’s construction in 2016 and $36 million would be spent in 2018, adding up to a total of $40 million.

The stop would be along the Port Washi ng ton Bra nch a nd feat u re elevators between the 12-car platform and the street in order to be fully ADA-compliant.

The station would also contain staircases, platfor m shelters a nd t icket-vend i ng machines.

The former Elmhurst station was closed and razed in January 1985.

The rejection of the MTA’s proposed budget may sound worrisome, but Joan McDonald, the state Department of Transportation commissioner and chairperson of the Capital Program Review Board, said in a statement on Tuesday the group nixed the budget to allow for additional time to parse it.

“I vetoed the plan without prejudice,” McDonald said, “so that we had sufficient

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The Magic Touch crew demonstrated graffiti removal at the event.

Before the press conference, a strongsmelling chemical, which Magic Touch says is environmentally friendly, was applied to the paint. Toward the end, a worker used a power washer with hot water as if he were using an eraser on colored pencil, and the paint melted off the brick wall. The single-wall job with a f illed-in g raphic costs about $350, Militello said.

Comco President Michael French said his company employs both area residents

time to evaluate the capital plan proposal, the various proposals that may be part of the capital and may require legislative approval and to do the proper due diligence.”

According to a state DOT spokesman, the rejection of the budget is not unusual.

Since the Capital Prog ram Review Board’s creation in 1982, the only plan it accepted on first submission was the one for 1982-1986.

Every budget since was rejected because the 90-day review period “simply isn’t long enough” to properly analyze the plan, with the renegotiation, resubmission and approval of new budgets occurring weeks later.

MTA spokesman Sal Arena said the review board’s rejection is “just a pro forma first step” and that the Elmhurst proposal is “still in the mix.”

“It’s what they do every time,” Arena said of the board’s decision. “Technically nothing is on the table or off the table at this point. Elmhurst is in no danger at this moment, but whether it survives remains to be seen.”

Councilman Danny Dromm (D-Jackson Heights) and Reps. Grace Meng (D-Flushing) and Joe Crowley (D-Bronx, Queens) expressed their hope for the Elmhurst station plan in a joint statement issued Wednesday.

“As the MTA spokesman said, the veto was expected and it gives the board more time to review the plan,” the electeds said.

“Nothing is off the table and we’re hopeful that funding for this critical investment in Elmhurst will continue to move forward.

“In the coming days,” they continued, “we will send a letter to Commissioner McDonald urging that the money proposed Q for this project be kept intact.” who walk to work each morning as well as people from as far away as the Bronx, Nassau and Suffolk counties.

“We deal with a lot of Fortune 500 companies,” French said. “It’s an awkwa rd conversat ion to explai n t h is graffiti.”

Ulrich and Com munity Board 10 Chair Betty Bratton asked citizens to continue to report graffiti any time they see it, even as the area gets cleaner, so the city doesn’t forget that graffiti is an important issue and continues to allocate resources to keep the community clean.

To report graffiti, NYC residents can call their Council member’s office, 311, their community board, or in Woodhaven, the Wood haven BID or the Q QEDC.

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Religious High Schools RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS SECTION

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 “Outstanding American High School� by U.S. News & World Report.

(718) 441-2100.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Monsignor McClancy Memorial High School in East Elmhurst, offers courses in theology and religious values and honors courses in all major subjects and college extension programs in English, math, business and art with St. John’s University and Adelphi University. (718) 898-3800.

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.

St. Edmund Preparatory High School in Brooklyn, is a Catholic college preparatory school.

They challenge students to achieve academic excellence through practical learning experiences. (718) 743-6100.

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.

St. John’s Preparatory School in Astoria, is a coeducational college prep school affiliated with St. John’s University. (718) 721-7200.

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.

OPEN HOUSE NIGHTS 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.

Bishop Loughlin Memorial HS 357 Clermont Ave., Brooklyn (718) 857-2700 Website: blmhs.org Sunday, Oct. 26, 12 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..

St. Agnes Academic HS 13-20 124 St., College Point (718) 353-6276 Website: www.stagneshs.org Saturday, Oct. 18, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

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St. Edmund Preparatory HS 2474 Ocean Ave., Brooklyn (718) 743-6100 Website: www.stedmundprep.org Saturday, Oct. 18, 11 a.m. to 1 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.

St. Francis Preparatory School 6100 Francis Lewis Blvd.

Fresh Meadows, NY 11365 (718) 423-8810 www.sfponline.org Saturday, Oct. 20, noon to 4:30 p.m.

Holy Cross HS 26-20 Francis Lewis Blvd., Flushing (718) 886-7250 Website: www.holycrosshs.org Sunday, Oct. 19, 1 to 4 p.m.

St. John's Preparatory School 21-21 Crescent St., Astoria (718) 721-7200 Website: www.stjohnsprepschool.org Saturday, Oct. 18, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Msgr. McClancy Memorial High School 71-06 31st Ave., East Elmhurst (718) 898-3800 Website: www.msgrmcclancy.org Saturday, Oct. 11, 1 to 4 p.m.

The Mary Louis Academy 176-21 Wexford Terrace, Jamaica Estates (718) 297-2120 Website: www.tmla.org Sunday, Oct. 19, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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The Mary Louis Academy: College prep for young women

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The Mary Louis Academy is recognized and highly regarded as one of the nation’s preeminent college preparatory high schools for young women. Our reputation—for dedicated teachers, academic rigor, outstanding facilities, and committed students—has been maintained at a level of high esteem for more than 75 years.

TMLA is a Catholic school imbued with the charism of the Sisters of St. of Brentwood, New York. Our religious curriculum follows the Catholic tradition.

Our students are consistently among those recognized by The National Merit Scholarship Program, National Achievement Scholarship Program for Black Americans, and The National Hispanic Recognition Program. All students receive the New York State Regents Diploma with the majority receiving the New York State Regents Diploma with Advanced Designation, New York State’s highest standard.

All of our graduates—yes, 100% —go on to college. Many are accepted into the most prestigious colleges and universities in the nation. Each graduating class receives numerous academic-based scholarships and grants. At TMLA, students enjoy the support and direction of the same guidance counselor for four years.

During their junior and senior years, they also have a full-time college counselor who helps chart their paths up to and after graduation.

We offer Honors and Advanced Placement courses in every academic discipline. TMLA offers more than 17 Advanced Placement courses. The TMLA Honors Program offers great flexibility. A student who is exceptionally gifted academically may be selected for an all-

Honors/Advanced Placement course of study, challenging herself at the highest intellectual level. Another student may have a particular affi nity for science or languages and choose advanced study in those areas while continuing in a Regents curriculum in other courses.

TMLA’s VOICE Leadership Program is an initiative aimed at helping each young woman at The Mary Louis Academy to fi nd her voice. It is based on Vision, Optimism, Inspiration, Confidence, Empowerment. With the incredible challenges facing girls and young women today, having a confident, educated and empowered voice is the greatest asset a young woman can possess.

Each year TMLA sponsors trips to Europe.

TMLA students are awarded top honors, including scholarships, for their performance on the annual National Competitive Exams given for French, Italian, Latin and Spanish.

TMLA offers a program in Fine Arts with a focus on Art or Music. Under the guidance of our highly skilled Arts faculty, students gain in technical proficiency while attaining a high level of artistic achievement. Our multi award-winning Art Program includes Graphic Art & Design.

Our afterschool hours are bursting with highenergy exuberance. From clubs that focus on culture to social issues and community service to artistic expression, there’s an extracurricular place for everyone.

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While criticism of inmate treatment and safety at Rikers Island is nothing new, it has been brought to the forefront by the newly elected and progressive City Council and administration.

Questions of treatment of the mentally ill and the alleged covering up of correction officers being violent toward inmates have been brought up, but no practice has been scrutinized as much as the Department of Correction’s use of solitary confinement, or punitive segregation, of 16and 17-year-olds.

Now, after negative reports from the Department of Justice, the City Council and Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, the DOC has decided to eliminate solitary con f i nement for 16 - a nd 17-yea r- old inmates before Jan., 1, 2015.

In August, Bharara’s office issued a critical report on the DOC’s handling of teenage inmates. It noted the use of solitary confinement was “excessive and inappropriate.” He gave the city 49 days to find solutions.

“In the rest of the country and the civilized world, these teenagers would not be immediately put in a system meant for a du lt s,” Cou nci l m a n Da n ny D rom m

Rikers Island, criticized for being a hot-bed for violence between inmates and officers, will face major changes in 2015 when 16- and 17-year-olds will no longer be allowed to be placed in soliFILE PHOTO tary confinement.

(D-Jackson Heights), who sponsored legislation on adolescent inmates being placed in segregation, said during a City Council oversight hearing on Wednesday. “As an aside, I want to note that the system also fails adults, but that is a significant topic worth its own hearing.

“The universal consensus runs counter to New York, which disregards the psychological, sociological, criminological and just about every other sort of evidence against the practice.”

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New York Families for Autistic Children President & CEO Andrew Baumann, left, presented a check for $6,000 from the NYFAC Foundation to Joe Mure Jr., who sits on the Board of Directors of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation last Friday.

The donation was from funds raised during the 1st Loop bike ride around Jamaica Bay that was held on July 26, which benefited NYFAC and JDRF. More than 200 riders took part in the event, which raised more than $15,000 in total.

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which provides it with private donations, can only help fund operational expenses.

“The purpose of the foundation is to add to the money the library raises for educational purposes, so every dollar that is used from this foundation that is not used for operations is a dollar taken from our kids,” she said. “You have to make up that money.

There’s only a finite amount of money in our world, even for the Queens Library.”

The new Library Board also issued a statement on the spending last Thursday.

“Gross misuse of Library funds by prior management and past trustees is a grave violation of the public’s trust, and confirms our long-held concerns about its entrenched corporate culture,” the statement reads. “The current Library Board and its interim president have been taking aggressive measures to insure strict and comprehensive transparency, accountability, and oversight controls. The Library’s monies are not meant for lavish meals, but solely to advance its important public purpose.”

With Galante on leave, Chief Operations Officer Bridget Quinn-Carey is serving as the library’s interim president and CEO. Several vacancies remain on the board, whose members are alternately selected by de Blasio and Katz. The mayor is due to make the next appointment.

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Qns. teacher arrested for drunk driving Cutting class and getting drunk isn’t just for rebellious high school students anymore.

A Glen Oaks teacher was arrested for driving drunk during school hours Monday morning after crashing her car in Forest Hills.

Authorities said Lauren Barnes, 29, was charged with DWI after she slammed her 2003 Honda Accord into a parked car at the intersection of Queens Boulevard and 69th Street just after 8:30 a.m.

A Department of Education official said Barnes is a special education teacher at PS 721 in Manhattan, where she has been employed for one month.

Her position at the West Houston Street school, which serves grades 6 through 12, is her first with the DOE. According to reports, a bottle of alcohol was found in her car, Barnes’ eyes were bloodshot and her speech was slurred.

Reports also say the special education teacher’s blood alcohol level was .31, nearly four times the legal limit.

The DOE said it was “reviewing the Q incident.”

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continued from page 2 strong and clear policies and internal controls to ensure that expenses are sufficiently related to the organization’s charitable purpose and that they are reasonable and costeffective. Based on my representative’s review of information that the library has shared with me as a trustee, I am deeply troubled by the nature and possibly excessive amount of many expenditures.”

Stringer has been seeking all library financial documents, but under Galante and the prior board, the institution had refused to give up those it said dealt only with the spending of private funds it receives. It was allowed to do that under a court agreement made with a previous comptroller.

Though it provides a municipal service and gets about 80 percent of its funding from the city, plus more from the state and federal governments, the library is not a public agency but a private, nonprofit organization.

Stringer got access to the documents in his capacity as an ex-officio member of the board. Among the new trustees’ first moves was to pass a resolution forcing the library to share all records with the board.

The comptroller’s letter does not address whether the funds spent on meals, travel, the concert and Galante’s office amenities were public or private, and his office could not immediately say one way or the other.

But Katz said it really doesn’t matter, because the Queens Library Foundation,

punitive segregation at Rikers Island to air their grievances, was tense. Officers from the Correction Officers Benevolent Association called out the Criminal Justice Committee — headed by Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley (D-Middle Village) — for not taking into consideration the awkward position many Rikers Island employees are placed under.

“It is I who is with the inmate every single day, all day,” one of the officers, speaking on behalf of COBA President Norman Seabrook, said. “You need to talk to us if you are really interested in improving the conditions for the youth. Judges put these kids in jail. Why are you questioning us when we’re taking care of someone who was sent to us by a judge? Those are the people that need to be grilled on why they set a $2,500 bail for someone jumping a turnstile.”

Crowley, who appeared to become increasingly frustrated with the COBA representative’s comments, said she understands the majority of officers who work at Rikers are good at their jobs and that the problems inmates face is a multifaceted issue, but reiterated that changes need to be made.

Many psychological experts, including former Judge Brianne Hammel, who has continued on page 38

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The new executive director and president of the Queens Museum says the institution is at a key point in its development “and we’re going to do great things. It’s a gem.”

Laura Raicovich, 41, was named last week to head the art museum located in Flushing Meadows Park. A native of Roslyn, LI, Raicovich now lives in Manhattan with her husband and 5-year-old son.

She will take over the museum’s reins in January, replacing Tom Finkelpearl, who is now commissioner of the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs. Raicovich will be leaving her job soon as director of global initiatives for Creative Time, which commissions and promotes public art projects.

Reflecting on the history and location of the Queens Museum, the new director called it “a unique institution. Its physical position at the foot of the Unisphere, being built for the 1939 World’s Fair and used for the 1964 World’s Fair offers a real moment in time.”

She is also impressed with what she calls the “extraordinary community engagement” of its outreach and education programs.

Raicovich thinks the museum is the perfect place for active artists to make art and participate in programs. “This will be their institutional home,” she said. “We’ll be a matchmaker” with the community.

She praised Finkelpearl for dedicating over a decade to improving the facility and leading the drive to enlarge the building.

“It’s a gorgeous space,” she said. “It welcomes people.”

She loves the museum’s World’s Fair collections, calling them eccentric and wonderful. “It would be great to have a contemporary artist see it in a different way, bringing out favorite gems and highlighting them.”

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continued from page 6 Residents felt that the perimeter route would not be good because it would force the DOT to build an opening at 78th Street and Shore Parkway that they worry will be dangerous at night. A route inside the park was also deemed dangerous if law enforcement was not present, especially at night.

The outright-favored option for the Addabbo Bridge portion was to keep both ways of the greenway entirely on the western side of the bridge, because the greenway in Broad Channel and in Howard Beach is in the western side of the neighborhood.

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Raicovich often drove through Queens to visit relatives in Astoria. She remembers seeing the museum while on the Grand Central Parkway.

While finishing up at Creative Time, she will travel to Stockholm in November to lead an arts and politics conference. Then she’ll take off some time to spend with her family before taking over at the Queens Museum.

A graduate of Swarthmore College, Raicovich received her master’s degree from the CUNY Graduate Center.

She previously worked at the Dia Art Foundation, Solomon R. Guggen heim Museum and Public Arts Fund. In addition, Raicovich served as curator of public art for the city Parks Department, is a member of the Art and Social Justice Working Group, lectures and is the author of a recently published novel titled “A Diary of Mysterious Q Difficulties.”

Cross Bay Boulevard,” noted Frances Scarantino, a Howard Beach resident and bike rider. “And that could be dangerous because cars go really fast over the bridge.”

The other options allowed for paths on both sides of the bridge going in the same directions as the traffic.

Friedman said the DOT will come before the community for one more workshop in the spring before moving forward with the plans. Though it was suggested by one resident, she said there were no plans to eliminate the bike lanes on 91st and 92nd streets, though the community board could still do it. For one thing, Friedman said, it would make it harder for riders coming from the east to access the greenQ way at the Addabbo Bridge.

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continued from page 5 increasing fines for tickets that are fought, which she said discourages people from fighting summonses that are not deserved.

“I don’t think that’s fair,” she said. “As soon as you fight the ticket, they should just leave it at the original fine even if you lose.”

Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park), who had said last year that he would pursue legislation to cease the ticketing, criticized it in a statement.

“This practice penalizes property owners who already pay enough in high taxes, utilities, and skyrocketing water and sewer rates,” Ulrich said. “Woodhaven deserves better, not city tickets that nickel-and-dime hardworking middle class families and small business owners.”

Marti Adams, a spokeswoman for de Blasio, said the city was looking into the WRBA fines.

“DSNY is investigating the details of this particular case,” she said in a statement. “Mayor de Blasio remains fully committed to fairness in the issuance of violations of the health and administrative codes against property owners.”

Keith Mellis, a spokesman for the Sa n it a t ion D e p a r t me nt , e cho e d Adams’ statement, saying the agency’s Enforcement Unit has reached out to Q Colberg and is investigating.

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A Long Island Rail Road locomotive derailed in Maspeth on Tuesday evening, sending gallons of diesel fuel spilling out of the tipped engine.

The incident occurred around 6:30 p.m. about a mile west of the Fresh Pond Rail Yard, near the intersection of Eliot Avenue and 60th Lane.

The locomotive was not towing any freight or passenger cars at the time of the derailment, according to Paul Victor, the president of New York & Atlantic Railway, which operates the tracks the train was traveling on.

Victor said the toppled train had already been righted and removed from the scene by early Wednesday morning.

An FDNY spokesman confirmed there were no injuries to any crew members or responding firefighters, but around 100 gallons of diesel fuel leaked from the locomotive onto the surrounding soil.

Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing) raced to the scene and later tweeted a picture of herself talking to first responders.

An LIRR spokesman said the derailQ ment is under investigation.

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A former NYPD detective has pleaded guilty to reckless assault and driving under the influence of alcohol in connection with the April shooting outside a Howard Beach diner that wounded his partner.

Jay Poggi, 57, of Long Island, must complete an intensive alcohol safety program and pay a $500 fine, according to a statement issued on Friday by the office of Queens District Attorney Richard Brown.

Poggi, who also had his driver’s license suspended, must appear before a victim impact panel, in which first-time offenders meet with people whose lives have been changed by drunk drivers.

He also must install an ignition interlock device on every vehicle he owns.

The device works like a Breathalyzer, and prevents a vehicle from starting if it detects alcohol.

“Queens has a strict and very successful alter native sentencing program that emphasizes treatment and supervision of DUI offenders in order to prevent reoccurrences of unacceptable conduct,” Brown said. “However, if the defendant, who is a

first-time offender, fails to comply with all the requirements imposed by the court, then we will seek more severe sanctions.”

According to the charges, Poggi was showing his Smith and Wesson revolver to Detective Matthew Sullivan when the gun fired a bullet into Sullivan’s wrist.

Poggi drove the wounded detective to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center for treatment.

Poggi was observed by hospital personnel to have bloodshot eyes. A field-sobriety test resulted in a reading of .113 percent blood alcohol content, above the .08 limit needed for a charge of drunk driving.

Poggi also subsequently refused to submit to a Breathalyzer test at the 112th Precinct in Forest Hills.

A report published in the New York Post states that Poggi, who had put in for retirement, was terminated by NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton following an internal affairs investigation and a departmental disciplinary proceeding.

Poggi will retain his pension, as he Q was not convicted of a felony.

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Neglected parks slated for upgrades Mayor outlines initiative in Flushing for 35 locations throughout city

by Liz Rhoades Managing Editor

Saying the city “has a lot of making up to do,” Mayor de Blasio announced in Flushing Tuesday that 35 neglected city parks would be getting major improvements as part of his equality initiative.

Speaking at Bowne Playground adjacent to PS 20 — one of the facilities that will get a facelift — the mayor said upgrades to play areas in rapidly growing, low-income neighborhoods are a priority for his administration.

“We are fighting inequality and it applies to everything we are doing,” de Blasio said.

The other Queens parks slated for makeovers are Astoria Heights Playground, Corona Mac Park, Van Alst Playground in Astoria, Grassmere Playground in Far Rockaway, Rockaway Community Park and nearby Conch Playground.

Surrounded by Parks Department workers and elected and city officials, the mayor spoke on a windy morning about the unfairness in the past of ignoring the needs of some parks in favor of more prominent locat ions. “Some pa rk s d id n’t get the suppor t they deserved,” de Blasio said. “We are setting a new pace for fairness and equality.”

He indicated that $138 million will infuse the program as a start. Also, the Department of Environmental Protection will add $36.3 million for green infrastructure at parks.

Another $7 million will go for recreational programs, gardeners and maintenance workers. The mayor indicated that an additional 55 park sits will get minor improvements, but did not give locations or the cost.

De Blasio pointed to Bowne Playground with its cracked pavement, lack of greenery, safety turf and unappealing look. “Many children come here to play,” he said, “Yet less than $60,000 has been invested here over two decades despite the huge amount of wear and tear it’s taken.

“This is the first step,” he added. “We will turn to park conservancies to make contributions in the future to address the decades of neglect in many parks.

“The public sector is putting its money where our mouth is,” he added, noting that he expects the major park conservancies to make substantial donations.

Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito (D-Manhattan, Bronx) said it’s important “to all of us to equalize the playing field. It will make our neighborhoods livable.”

Public Advocate Letitia James said it’s been a struggle in the past to get money for overlooked parks. “Now we are sharing the wealth with the communities that have been neglected,” she said.

Councilman Mark Levine (D-Manhattan), chairman of the Parks Committee, said the funding is “essential to the health of communities. These spaces are not on tourist maps,” but are vital to neighborhoods.

Councilman Peter Koo (D-Flushing) said that by targeting underserved neighborhoods and making investments in underfunded playgrounds, “the city is making it clear that a park in Flushing deserves equal attention and no less care than a park located on the West Side of Manhattan.”

Queens Parks Commissioner Dorothy Lewandowski told the Queens Chronicle that scoping meetings with residents on what they want to have in the playgrounds will be held soon and the design stage will begin next year.

Q Work is expected to start in 2016.

Some students from nearby PS 244 attended the mayor’s press conference on Tuesday and held their homemade signs about PHOTO BY RICK MAIMAN Bowne Playground.

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Community Board 2, during their monthly meeting on Oct. 2, voted in favor of reapproving special permits and applications for the construction of Silvercup West — a mixed-use development to be built next to the Queensboro Bridge.

“All it was about was reaffirming that nothing has changed since the original [Uniform Land Use Review Procedure] application,” CB 2 Chairman Joe Conely said.

The applications, which originally went through in 2006, are about to expire and required approval of the community board in order to be renewed.

The permits are for a Silvercup sign on the side of one of the new buildings; building setbacks, which would allow contractors to pull back the height of the buildings; and 50,000 square feet of waterfront access on the East River. A special authorization that was also re-approved is for the construction of a 1,400-car parking garage.

On Sept. 17, a public hearing was held and most of the board was in favor of the plan. The full board vote was unanimous.

But around the same time of the CB 2 vote, renderings of a U- or magnet-shaped building were released, indicating a possible redesign of the entire site.

No announcement of a new design had

The U-shaped building was designed by Lesser Architecture as an ‘alternative’ to the approved project for the Silvercup West development. According to Community Board 2 Chairman Joe RENDERING BY LESSER ARCHITECTURE Conely, the plan was not sanctioned by the Silvercup company. been made by the developers or the Silvercup company and during the Sept. 17 meeting; the original proposal, not the U-shape building, was shown to the Land Use

Committee.

“When we first saw the renderings, we were like ‘What?’” Conely said. “But almost immediately, we heard from the peo-

ple at Silvercup West, who sent a letter stating that they did not authorize a new rendering of the project.”

According to the chairman, the rendering has not been sanctioned by Silvercup and is, more than likely, an attempt by an architect or company to appeal to the film company.

Lesser Architecture is the business credited for the design, but it is unclear if the plan was completed at the request of an outside party or if it was the architect company’s idea.

“We believe it was someone who was interested in doing it and trying to see how they can make themselves attractive to the developers so that they could get involved with the project,” Conely said.

Nevertheless, the developers of Silvercup West have assured CB 2 the plan will move forward as it was originally proposed.

“They’ve had a long relationship with the community,” Conely said. “They’ve provided jobs and contributed money to the Queensbridge projects. They’ve been doing what they’ve been preaching, so there’s no question about their commitment to the community. “ While the special permits and special authorization were approved by the board, a footnote was added that requests the developers to return to the board should the projQ ect change in any way.

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The State University of New York will establish a common set of practices to combat sexual assault on all its campuses, Gov. Cuomo announced last Thursday.

The governor attended that day’s meeting of the SUNY Board of Trustees, which he said then passed at his urging a resolution to establish the policies that will be adopted at each school. Those will include implementing a uniform, system-wide definition of consent that is required between participants before engaging in sexual activity; an immunity policy to protect students coming forward to report sexual assault; a statewide training program for campus police and administrators regarding how to address sexual assault incidents; a public campaign to increase awareness among students and parents; and a uniform Sexual Assault Victims’ Bill of Rights that will, in clear and specific language, inform a student of his or her rights following an attack including the option of approaching State Police.

Cuomo said that next he will work to get legislation passed to set the same standards at private colleges.

Saying there is an epidemic of sexual violence plaguing college campuses nationwide, Cuomo said, “This is not just a SUNY problem, but SUNY can lead and SUNY can reform on campus safety so we can better protect our students, and make our university communities a Q safer place for our children.”

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The Washington Times quoted James Maney, director of the New York Council on Problem Gambling, as saying, “It’s not even close to what we need. Gambling is more normalized now. It’s not just the lottery or casinos.

It’s fantasy football. Sports betting. Internet betting. Every form of gambling has taken off, and we haven’t done a great job of responding to it.”

According to the Washington Times piece, somewhere between 660,000 and 1 million New York State residents have a gambling problem. But the state’s gambling hotline received 1,224 calls seeking help last year, while the one Q in Iowa, for comparison, got 4,000.

Crime and disrepair go hand-in-hand at NYCHA City housing projects that suffer from the most violence also need the most repairs, according to an exclusive report in Monday’s Daily News.

Among what the paper called the “worst of the worst” is Queensbridge South, which it said has seen major crime jump 47 percent since 2009. At the same time, the housing complex needs $26 million in immediate repairs, according to New York City Housing Authority figures the report cited, and another $102 million over the next five years.

All told, major crimes have risen 31 percent in the city’s housing projects since 2009, and NYCHA says it needs $1 billion for immediate repairs and $15 billion for the work needed Q over the next five years.

State lags on aiding PA wins bird-killing suit Authority has defeated a lawsuit problem gamblers filedThebyPort animal rights activists over the agenDespite making more money off gaming than any other state, New York provides far less assistance for those hooked on gambling, a slew of recent media reports say.

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“The youth must be removed for their own safety and well-being,” Hammel said. “Solitary confinement is thought to breed more violence and prevents access to educational services. Out of the 2,500 inmates, 1,000 have special education needs. Needs that are not being met.”

Accord i ng to DOC protocol, a n inmate, regardless of age, is placed into segregation after violating a rule. A hearing is held and a judge — usually a former correction officer — determines how long the inmate will serve in “seg.”

“They have no right to counsel during these hearings,” said Barbara Hamilton, a publ ic defender who re present s inmates looking to appeal their solitary confinement. “All they need to place someone in segregation is substantial evidence that the inmate committed an infraction.”

While substantial evidence in a criminal or civil courtroom could include video surveillance and other physical proof, segregation hearings need nothing more than a verbal account from a correction officer.

“There is such a low legal standard,” Hamilton said. “These are staff-based reports from staff members who get the opportunity to testify and yet there is no cross-examination process.”

Hamilton represents anywhere between 600 to 700 inmates in solitary a year and approximately 30 of her clients are adolescents.

“Adolescents rarely appeal,” Hamilton said. “Some feel there’s no point, others don’t understand the process.”

A sweeping majority of teenagers she represents are males, but she does occasionally represent females.

“Usually the female cases are very sad,” Hamilton said. “I had one client who attempted suicide and was placed in segregation for 100 days because of it.”

Teenagers are usually placed in segregation for fighting or mouthing off.

“Kids get into fights,” Hamilton said.

“There’s a very ‘Lord of the Flies’ atmosphere in jail which leads to altercations.”

“These are teenagers whose brains are still developing,” Hammel said. “They are less capable of good impulse control.”

However, COBA maintains revoking off icers’ ability to place dangerous inmates in segregation will result in disastrous consequences.

“If you want to move these adolescents to outside facilities, do you want them in your community? I don’t think so,” Seabrook said in a written statement to the Council. “We want to put them in time out? That’s for my granddaughter, not for a murderer or a rapist. I’m not suggesting someone caught smoking a cigarette should be placed in segregation, but violent criminals who put an officer’s life in danger should be. You are misleading the public about Rikers Island. Rikers has become the dumping ground for the city. We get the homeless, we get the mentally ill and I will not take responsibility for the decision the Council makes that will strip away rights of officers.”

According to Seabrook, 107 officers have been sent to the emergency room this year due to an altercation with an inmate.

Still, the Council, Hammel, Hamilton and dozens of people who testified during the public forum said they believe the DOC uses an over-punitive center model.

“I’ve watched my clients deteriorate right before my eyes,” Hamilton said.

“They are malnourished and not receiving the things they need for their growing bodies and brains. They are paranoid, depressed and suicidal.”

While the city has not made any official plans to remove 16- and 17-year-olds from Rikers Island, many Council members have indicated that it is the ultimate goal.

Crowley and Councilman Fernando Cabrera (D-Bronx) have suggested places such as the Queens and Brooklyn houses of detention — city jails — to be taken into consideration as an alternative to Q sending teenagers to Rikers Island.

Prep open house readied St. Francis Preparatory School, the largest private Catholic high school in the country, will hold an open house on Saturday, Oct. 18 from noon to 4:30 p.m.

The school is located at 61-00 Francis Lewis Blvd. in Fresh Meadows.

There will be presentations by faculty and staff and tours of prep including its new science labs. Also recently completed were a physical education-fitness center, expanded cafeteria space and visual arts education wing.

Performances by the school’s Jazz Band, Chamber Choir and Chamber

Orchestra will be held and 200 students will be on hand to answer questions and discuss the school’s many afterschool clubs.

Also on tap, prospective students and parents will find out about prep’s 60 sports-related teams.

For additional information, call Lisa Schaefer, director of admissions, at (718) 423-8810 ext. 264.

The school was founded in 1858 in Brooklyn. It moved to its current location in 1974. Officials say 98 percent of Q seniors go on to college.

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ARTS, CULTURE CUL C ULTURE UR & LIVING IVING

The installations in the Conception Gallery unpack the sensation of being on the edge of something great or something terrible in the new exhibit “BRINK.”

o be on the brink of something is often an In the center of the room stands the “crown unwelcome sensation, and yet, it can also jewel” of “BRINK,” an installation entitled “Misresult in people accomplishing the unthinkappropriation of a Modern Artifact.” able and overcoming obstacles they may not have To the uninformed viewer, the pop-up shed

by Tess McRae otherwise thought possible. resembles a clubhouse, and in a way, for Eddie The Conception Gallery, which recently settled Rehm and Ken Husband — the artists behind the in the renowned Falchi Building in Long Island installation — it kind of is a place for them to esCity, has effectively taken the sensation of being cape the outside world and paint. on the edge and translated it into a series of pieces “Originally, Ken’s dad used to paint in here and through its new exhibition, “BRINK.” eventually we kind of took over,” Rehm, an offThe gallery is bare-bones — unfinished conbeat painter from Long Island, said. “This was crete floors with hospital-white walls and fluoreswhere we spent all of our time.” cent lighting — which could be considered cliché, The shed was badly beaten on during Hurricane if not for the powerful energy each piece radiates.

Sandy, though it did not face as ill a fate as Husband’s and Rehm’s homes did Each work is intense and any layer of humor is veiled with a dark tone, some— they lost everything. thing that provides an ever-present reminder that while being on the brink can But as little miracles can emerge during some of the most dire circumstances be fun, it’s also scary as hell. continued on Continued onpage page43

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EXHIBITS

COMMUNITY

“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.

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.

“Elaine Hajian: The Evolution of an Artist,” Queens Botanical Garden, Visitor & Administration Building, 43-50 Main St., Flushing, admission included with entry ($4 adults, $3 seniors, $2 students/children 3-12). Contact: (718) 886-3800, queensbotanical.org.

“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.

P h ootog t og r a p hhee r J a n eett Zi Zinn presents images from her recent birding and wildlife expedition to northern Tanzania to the Queens County Bird Club on Wed., Oct. 15.

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.

LECTURE

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.

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.

MUSIC

CLASSES

“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.

Defensive driving course, for insurance and point reduction, sponsored by the National Safety Council, Sat., Oct. 25, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Holy Family Church, 175-20 74 Ave., Flushing, $45 pp. Info/reservations: (631) 360-9720.

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.

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.

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.

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.

SPECIAL EVENTS

“A Tribute to the Music of the Beatles,” Sat., Oct. 25, 8 p.m., St. Pancras School, 68-20 Myrtle Ave., Glendale. $25 pp, free parking, incl. food; cash bar. Info/reservations, call Hank Kraker (718) 866-5471, hankthek@aol.com.

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“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

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

Community Singers of Queens is looking for new members; please attend a rehearsal, Mons., 8 p.m., Messiah Lutheran Church, 42-15 165 St., Flushing.

Contact: Ruth Amsterdam (718) 658-1021.

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.

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.

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.

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.

KIDS/TEENS

Halloween Hoedown, presented by the Josephine Foundation, Fri., Oct. 31, 7:30 p.m.-midnight, Immaculate Conception Center, 7200-7250 Douglaston Pkwy., Douglaston. $30 pp, incl. buffet dinner, square dancing, raffles & costume contest.

RSVP: (516) 334-1536, thejosephinefoundation.org.

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.

Octoberfest: A Beer-Tasting Fundraiser, to benefit Alley Pond Environmental Center, Wed., Oct. 22, 6:30-9 p.m., Beer Belly’s, 39-17 Bell Blvd., Bayside. $50 APEC members, $55 nonmembers. RSVP by Oct. 10, alleypond.com & click under Special Events.

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.

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.

Fall festival, Grace Episcopal Church, 14-15 Clintonville St., Whitestone, Sat., Oct. 28, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Flea market, carnival games, rides, pie-eating contest, pumpkins, live music featuring Capt. Kirk Douglas of the Roots and more.

Day at the Races, Thurs., Oct. 16, 12 p.m. $5, incl. lunch. Empire City Bus Trip, Thurs., Oct. 30, 9:30 a.m. $25, incl. $15 slot dollars. Info: Call Joy (917) 921-7631. St. Josaphat’s Leisure Club, 35th Ave. & 210th St., Bayside.

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

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.

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

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) 8863800, 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. Fee: $7 members, $9 nonmembers.

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Alicia Silverstone, embarrassment and Spam

by Doran Miller-Rosenberg qboro contributor

“Embarrassment is proof of pain,” Sam Haft says.

It’s also the manna of funny, flawlessly demonstrated in the preceding hours of an organic, magnetic comedy show.

Haft and Tommy Kang co-host “Comedy Llama,” a weekly podcast recorded live at The Laughing Devil, a charmingly informal comedy club in Long Island City.

Intimate is an understatement for the space, a small bar leading into a railroad club, the devil’s womb.

Although it’s been around since 2011, it emanates discovery, birth and possibility.

It’s a place where fledgling comedians

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share a diminutive stage with professionals, to the audience’s delight.

It’s refreshing, as live comedy often feels exclusionary — a hyper-competitive marinade of insecurities barely masked by, “I’m funnier than you, now watch me prove it.”

But this isn’t the Comedy Cellar, and the warmth of the show gushes inclusion and scotch. This is where you go to laugh and participate in something experimental, associative and hilarious.

Before the show even starts, Kang, Haft and guests blow through a kaleidoscope of free association humor.

Everything from the abrasive whiteness of certain boroughs to Alicia Silverstone’s full-contact parenting gets scathed. Silverstone believes in premastication — feeding her son Bear Blu as a bird would — and full-family sleeping arrangements.

Haft and Kang think this will destroy young Bear’s psyche.

They theorize he might end up like the Oedipal Jimmy Darmody from HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire.”

“What, dead in a ditch?” jokes guest Jordan Carlos. The show hasn’t started,

and the riffs are already scythes.

Kang is taunted for being 12 days sober, yet he and Haft hurl into their histories of involuntary excretions when they were wasted. “ L l a m a” f e a tures mor tif ying stories all revolving around central themes; last week’s theme was sobriety and Spam. Sam Haft, left, and Tommy Kang talk about embarrassment after PHOTO BY DORAN MILLER-ROSEBERG After the hosts their show “Comedy Llama.” trade brutal banter about both subjects, guests come up to do commentary throughout the casual sets. prepared material, or simply launch into Watching their joyful spontaneity makes their own experiences with intoxication, one think anyone could do this. However, the effortlessness of the show camouflagmisleading emails and masturbation.

Spam, perhaps the most mundane es its difficulty.

Comedy is a muscle that needs to be aspect of modernity, becomes captivating worked and reworked, but here the repetiunder the Llama’s lens.

Haft, Kang and a plethora of stand-up tions are both fascinating and wildly continued 45 comedians exchange machine-gun-fire continued on page 00

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Welcome to the world of Xavier Le Roy

by Tess McRae qboro editor

A dancer performs one of Xavier Le Roy’s pieces at MoMA PHOTO BY TESS MCRAE PS1 in Long Island City.

At the Museum of Modern Art PS1 in Long Island City, in a white box of a room, three performers move silently. The “routines,” each different, resemble a variety of things, from a flow of yoga poses to street performance art and yet they are all tied to one man — Xavier Le Roy. “Hi, my name is Andrew and that was my retrospective of a 1994 Xavier Le Roy piece,” a young man wearing loose-fitting clothes murmured in my ear.

At first, the exchange was uncomfortable.

People don’t usually enjoy speaking with and being in close proximity to a performer who is still in the midst of performing. Something about eliminating the fourth wall created a sense of vulnerability within that took a few seconds to get used to.

But just as I settle into this unusual dialogue between Andrew and myself, he politely interrupts me.

“I now must end this retrospective and welcome the new visitors,” he said.

Andrew then pursed his lips together and made a buzzing noise, similar to that of a high-pitched bumble bee.

His fellow performers shot out of their poses and responded by making the same unusual sound before quickly running across the room into an open doorway.

Confused, I merely shrugged and looked to the couple who had just entered the space as they stood wide-eyed in the threshold of the exhibit.

“Retrospective” is an unusua l When: Thurs. - Mon., 12 to 6 p.m., group of through Dec. 1 pieces choreogra phed Where: MoMa PS 1,

by Xavier Le 22-25 Jackson Ave., LIC Roy, a French Tickets: $10, $5 for students dancer. momaps1.org It ’s an interes ting take on the retrospective in that there is no linear path and, at times, two dancers may be performing the same piece at the same time.

Every routine begins with the entrance of a visitor and can range from a singular pose to a series of movements.

Once completed, a single dancer approaches the new visitor and discusses the piece they’ve just performed.

We were allowed to ask questions, make comments and converse with the dancers. That is, until a new visitor entered the room.

Despite the uncomfortable feeling I initially felt, I stood in the white room for at least 45 minutes. I was drawn to the dancers and the world they painted for me and the other spectators.

The white walls and fluorescent lighting became less stark and soon I felt myself melting into Le Roy’s world, Q with the dancers acting as my tour guide.

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From failure and tragedy comes art continued from from page page 00 39 continued — the two also lost their significant others on separate occasions — so the shed emerged as a sanctuary of sorts.

“When we came here to set this up, we did it in one night,” Rehm said. “It was like we automatically went into that zone where I was like ‘Yeah, this is Ken’s, so this goes here’ or ‘This, this is mine and it goes here.’

It sort of fell into place.”

While many “traditionalists” may guffaw at Rehm and Husband’s quick pace — Rehm can finish a painting in a manner of hours — there is an undeniable degree of sincerity, frustration and sadness to each of their pieces.

The two as a pair possess the same type of

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familiarity with one another as a teenage boy would with his best friend. They take hits at one another’s lifestyle and mess around with each other’s stuff. It is almost as if in the shed Rehm and Husband are in their own bubble, surrounded by the more raw and aggressive work of the other artists.

Though “Misappropriation of a Modern Artifact” is no doubt the first piece viewers gravitate toward, there are a plethora of other artists showcased in “BRINK.” Stephen Hall, a Scottish-born painter who is just as controversial in person as he is on the canvas, provided some of the most thought-provoking pieces in the exhibition.

Almost all his pieces have layers of meaning symbolized by simple shapes and colors. The paintings in “BRINK” almost exclusively deal with weaponry and violence, or rather, how American society holds them on high.

As most are portraits, the paintings create a sensation of disturbance, humor and intrigue.

The subjects — many of whom are friends of Hall’s — pose nonthreateningly with a gun and the artist paints a repeated silhouetted object as a background, such as a chandelier to represent wealth or a fern to represent nature.

“They’re definitely addressing the gun

Eddie Rehm, holding violin, and Ken Husband inside their art studio/installation “Misappropriation of a Modern Artifact” in the new exhibit “BRINK.” PHOTO BY TESS MCRAE culture in this country, but I also like to go into social and racial inequality and put little things in, like an animal or a shape to symbolize those things.”

“BRINK” as an exhibit can also be considered a metaphor for Conception Gallery as a new art space.

As more and more venues open up in the Long Island City area, the first few exhibi-

tions curated are the most essential and can make or break a gallery.

If the gallery founders Rachel Wilkins and Mike Wolf — who are artists themselves — curated for “BRINK” is any indication of where the Conception Gallery is headed artistically, it can be assumed the space is destined to become a staple in the Queens Q art community.

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FLEA MARKETS 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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Kew Gardens, LIRR North Parking Lot, 82-60 Austin St., Sat., Oct. 18 (rain date, Oct. 25), 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Heavenly Angels Animal Rescue will have dogs & cats for adoption, 12-4 p.m.

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

St. Luke’s Church, 85 Greenway South, Forest Hills, fall rummage sale on Sat., Oct. 11, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sun., Oct. 12, 12-4 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.

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

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

MEETINGS 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.

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

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.

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

Call: John (718) 559-4329.

Jamaica Service Program for Older Adults, 92-47 165 St., Jamaica, details its safety pro-

gram about rent, Medicaid and food stamps.

Call (718) 657-6500 for appointment. Free.

Rockaway Boulevard Senior Center, 12310 143 St., South Ozone Park, offers service programs Mon.-Fri., 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Lunch is at noon with a suggested donation of $1.50. Programs include: tai chi stretch, dance groups, choral group, ceramics, camera class, computer classes, trips, birthday parties and more.

Contact: (718) 657-6752.

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.

Bereavement groups for loss of a spouse, facilitated by a licensed social worker. Central Queens YM & YWHA, 67-09 108 St., Forest Hills. Call: Lisa Elhanyi, (718) 268-5011, ext. 621. Services Now for Adult Persons, Inc., SNAP, 80-45 Winchester Blvd., Bldg. 4, CBU 29, Queens Village, eight-session group, Mon., 2:15 p.m.

Contact: Marion (718) 454-2100 Alcoholics Anonymous, daily meetings around Queens for those with a drinking problem. Info: queensaa.org, (718) 520-5021.

Narcotics Anonymous Drug problem?

Call Helpline at (718) 962-6244 or visit westernqueensna.com. Meeting 7 days a week.

Al-anon, self-help group for anyone affected by another’s drinking: St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 82nd St. & 34th Ave., Parish house, 1st floor, Jackson Heights, every Tues. Contact: (718) 457-1511.

Resurrection Ascension Pastoral Center basement, 85-18 61 Road, Rego Park, every Sun. 12 p.m.

The Lupus Alliance of Long Island and Queens meets Tue., once a month, 7:30-9 p.m., Flushing. Register/info: (516) 802-3142.

Members $10, nonmembers $15, includes a light breakfast, handouts and lunch. Contact: (516) 826-2058.

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King Crossword Puzzle

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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell must feel like a quarterback who is about to be sacked ever since the 2014 season began. It seems as if everyone is calling on him to resign because of the unfortunate domestic violence incidents involving Ray Rice, Adrian Peterson, C.J. Spillman, Greg Hardy and others.

ESPN talking head Bill Simmons went as far as labeling Goodell a liar and dared his bosses to suspend him. They complied by taking him off the air for three weeks.

Rego Park native and former New York Times sports columnist Robert Lipsyte is ESPN’s ombudsman — the equivalent of being an independent internal auditor with respect to ESPN’s journalism principles. Lipsyte defended ESPN’s handling of Simmons and added his concern about whether Roger Goodell will be able to receive a fair shake.

Until evidence clearly points otherwise, I am willing to give Goodell the benefit of the doubt in the Rice incident. Now, if an owner was reported to have engaged in domestic violence, I could understand the thinking that Goodell engaged in a coverup since he is paid $44 million a year by those with NFL franchises.

The NFL, however, has never been known as a paternalistic league when it comes to its players. No one has explained to me what incentive Goodell has in suddenly protecting his players

since the league’s de facto mantra has always been that they are all replaceable.

Yes, Rice was caught pummeling his fiancee (now wife), in the elevator of the now-closed Revel Hotel in Atlantic City. Even if that tape did find its way into the offices of the NFL, there is nothing the commissioner could do if someone there hid it from him. The other question no one seems to be asking is “Why didn’t the Atlantic County district attorney press charges against Ray Rice?” I’m certain Goodell would have taken action immediately had the DA gotten an indictment from a grand jury.

Former Pittsburgh Steelers head coach, and current CBS NFL air personality Bill Cowher was an honoree at the annual Buoniconti FundMiami Project fundraiser at the Waldorf-Astoria last week. This nonprofit whose mission is to find a cure for paralysis has raised over $100 million from this event. It was founded by former Miami Dolphins linebacker Nick Buoniconti after his son, Marc, was paralyzed while making a tackle playing for the Citadel in 1985.

Cowher is an unabashed supporter of the Jets’ Geno Smith and thinks fans should be more patient with the second-year QB. “Geno doesn’t have a lot of good receivers to throw to, especially with Eric Decker being injured,” Cowher told me, though he may have second thoughts after the Jets’ debacle in San Diego. Q See the extended version of Sports Beat every week at qchron.com.

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There’s a patch of land once called Old Mill that was once a part of Brooklyn and is now a piece of Howard Beach — but it hardly matters. It no longer has any residents; it’s part of Spring Creek Park.

Located on the east side of Spring Creek, the area was always marshy meadowlands loaded with mosquitoes. It was also the site of the Old Mill Yacht club, which can be seen on the far right of this photo.

William Powers, a chief executive with Mutual Life Insurance at 32 Nassau St. in Manhattan, was the club commodore. To get from work to the secluded club was a problem for him, so in 1916, he pushed to have Sheridan Avenue opened up as a street. It’s unclear if he succeeded, but the line where Sheridan was mapped became the new borough border on April 3, 1931.

By 1934, Borough President George Harvey had ordered Sanitation Commissioner Ernest Goodrich to deposit refuse at the bottom of Sheridan Avenue near Jamaica Bay to build up the soft marshy ground.

Borough engineers got lost in the wilder-

Though not prominent here, the Old Mill Yacht Club can be seen at the far right in this photo of its former neighborhood. ness and hired Ferdinand Gundermann of Bradford Street, who owned a lumber mill and a hotel in the area, to be their guide during the project, according to Gundermann’s family.

The project was pointless over the long term anyway, as it was announced in 1938 that Old Mill was being condemned for the building of Shore Parkway. Residents were forced out and the sailors now have their Q headquarters on Cross Bay Boulevard.

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Notice is hereby given that license #1281504 has been applied by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a catering establishment under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 69-02 Garfield Avenue, Woodside, NY 11377 for on-premises consumption.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: W CONSTRUCTION & DEVELOPMENT LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/20/2014. 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 Ridgewood Realty Group LLC, 451 Seneca Avenue, Ridgewood, NY 11385.

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 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 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.

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

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: Y & CKC LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/03/2014.

Office location: Queens County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to c/o Y & CKC LLC, 37-09 Main Street, Suite 3B, Flushing, NY 11354. Purpose: For 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.

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 is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 8/18/2014, bearing Index Number NC-000643-14/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) OSBALDO (Last) CILIA SANCHEZ. My present name is (First) OSBALDO (Last) SANCHEZ-CILIA AKA OSBALDO SANCHEZCILIA. My present address is 106-63 97th Street, Ozone Park, NY 11417-2101.

My place of birth is BROOKLYN, NY. My date of birth is June 20, 1995.

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 Top Key Real Estate LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/5/14. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 4 Greenview Circle, Huntington, NY 11743.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: ZHUU LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/18/2014.

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 Zhuu LLC, 43-27 161 St., Flushing, NY 11358. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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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.

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To Advertise Call 718-205-8000 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF CHENANGO Index No. 2013X510 SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT served upon MARCUS BROWN in PREFERRED MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY V. FIRST AMERICAN ALLIANCE, INC. et al, pursuant to an ORDER dated July 21, 2014 and signed by Kevin Dowd, J.S.C. allowing for Service of the Summons and Complaint upon Marcus Brown by Publication pursuant to CPLR §315.

TO MARCUS BROWN: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Verified Complaint for Declaratory Judgment in this action, which was filed in the Chenango County Clerk’s office, on July 11, 2013 and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after the service is complete (or within thirty (30) days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded.

Plaintiff’s Complaint seeks Declaratory Judgment pursuant to CPLR §3001, that the Defendants have fraudulently procured a policy of insurance from the Plaintiff, have breached the subject policy of insurance issued by the Plaintiff and/or have submitted fraudulent claims in an attempt to defraud the Plaintiff and regarding the Plaintiff’s duty to make any payments under the subject policy of insurance. Plaintiff respectfully demands judgment against defendants for the costs of its investigation, attorney’s fees, other incurred costs, and interest, as well as a Declaration that the Court adjudicate the controversy that has arisen between the parties and make a binding declaration of the rights, duties and obligations of the parties and afford such other relief as justice may require.

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: 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.

ISOL GROUP LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 08/19/14.

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 United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228, which also serves as registered agent address.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Century Sweet Home, LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/19/14.

Office in Queens Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served & shall mail process to 149-19 15th Drive, Fl 2, Whitestone, NY 11357.

Purpose: General.

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.

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF CHENANGO Index No. 2013X510 SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT served upon FEDELINE PIERRE in PREFERRED MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY V. FIRST AMERICAN ALLIANCE, INC. et al, pursuant to a STIPULATION TO MODIFY COURT ORDER dated September 9, 2014 and signed

by Kevin Dowd, J.S.C. allowing for Service of the Summons and Complaint upon Fedeline Pierre

by Publication pursuant to CPLR §315. TO FEDELINE PIERRE: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Verified Complaint for Declaratory Judgment in this action, which was filed in the Chenango County Clerk’s office on July 11, 2013 and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after the service is complete (or within thirty (30) days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded.

Plaintiff’s Complaint seeks Declaratory Judgment pursuant to CPLR §3001, that the Defendants have fraudulently procured a policy of insurance from the Plaintiff, have breached the subject policy of insurance issued by the Plaintiff and/or have submitted fraudulent claims in an attempt to defraud the Plaintiff and regarding the Plaintiff’s duty to make any payments under the subject policy of insurance. Plaintiff respectfully demands judgment against defendants for the costs of its investigation, attorney’s fees, other incurred costs, and interest, as well as a Declaration that the Court adjudicate the controversy that has arisen between the parties and make a binding declaration of the rights, duties and obligations of the parties and afford such other relief as justice may require.

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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LEGAL NOTICES

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.

You are not obliged to appear in person. If you fail to appear it will be assumed that you do not object to the relief requested unless you file formal legal, verified objections. You have a right to have an attorney-at-law appear for you.

Accounting Citation

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: ANDY’S 3000 BARBER SHOP LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/12/13. 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, 26-13 Francis Lewis Boulevard, Flushing, New York 11358.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Miscellaneous No. 1891950 UNDER THE REGISTRATION OF TITLES LAW OFFICE OF TITLES P.O. BOX 494 KINGSTON September 24, 2014 WHEREAS I have been satisfied

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Abracadabra: Houdini’s grave to get a facelift Society of American Magicians to restore legendary magician’s tomb

by Christopher Barca Interred at Machpelah Cemetery in Glendale for the last 88 years is the body of Erich Weiss, a Hungarian-born son of a rabbi who died in Detroit of a punch to the abdomen in the midst of his bout with appendicitis in 1926.

Deceased nearly nine decades, Weiss’ grave, visible from Cypress Hill Street, looks almost as old.

The concrete is stained a darker shade of gray, even orange in some spots. The small glass mosaic, the massive headstone’s centerpiece, is caked in dirt and missing several tiles. Even the granite slabs of his sister Gladys and his brother Leopold, located feet from Erich’s, are missing.

Other decaying graves there might go unnoticed or unrepaired, but the Society of American Magicians has taken a special interest in this plot, as it is the final resting place of the man better known as Harry Houdini, history’s most iconic magician.

Kenrick “Ice” McDonald, the society’s president, and David Bowers, its presidentelect, made the pilgrimage to Houdini’s grave last Thursday to videotape the aging plot, which they will present to the group’s executive board in order to secure funding for the project.

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Society of American Magicians President Kenrick “Ice” McDonald, right, and President-Elect David Bowers announced plans last Thursday to restore the grave of Harry Houdini in Machpelah PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA Cemetery in Glendale. that the Society of American Magicians will approve the funding request, simply because Houdini, who founded the association in 1902 and served as president from 1917 until his death in 1926, deserves to have a pristine resting place.

“The big motivation is the fact that he served as the society’s first president,” Bow-

ers said. “Houdini is responsible for the Society of American Magicians being what it is today. We feel like we owe a debt of gratitude to him.”

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In the first phase, the glass mosaic will be repaired and the large, U-shaped stone will be power-washed in order to restore its original gray color. The second phase will be to replace the missing headstones of Houdini’s brother and sister.

The total cost of the project is still undetermined, as the society is waiting on a price estimate for the mosaic’s repair.

McDonald is much more optimistic in terms of repairing the plot, with the San Diego native hoping to have it completed within a year.

“One of the first things I wanted to do as president was to come here personally and see exactly what’s going on,” McDonald said. “I’m more ambitious. I think we’re going to be able to start this, at the latest, in the spring.”

Like Bowers, McDonald said the motivation behind the repairs is to properly honor the grave of the “Babe Ruth of magicians.”

“This is hallowed ground,” he said.

“When you ask people about magicians, the first thing they say is Harry Houdini.”

While the actual plot will remain under the control of Machpelah Cemetery management, the Society of American Magicians, with the help of the Harry Houdini Museum in Pennsylvania, run by Dorothy Dietrich and Dick Brookz, will be in charge Q of the restoration.

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