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‘GOD NEEDED MORE ANGELS’

MERGED EMOTIONS CB10 blasts DOT on Lefferts Boulevard plan

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SHELTER STORM Parents slam city on homeless sex offenders

In LIC, a look at Noguchi

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Mourners gather outside the funeral of Christopher Khan, insert top right, who died with three of his friends Darian Ramnarine, Peter Kanhai and Neil Rajapa, on the Southern State Parkway Monday morning.

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Police hopeful shot to death by detective Police Commissioner calls for Grand Jury, DA leads an investigation

by Josey Bartlett Editor

utside the Astoria nightclub, Ice Lounge, friends and family placed flowers and lit votive prayer candles honoring the 22-year-old Corona man who was shot dead by a NYPD detective early Thursday morning.

Above the memorial hangs a Xeroxed copy of Noel Polanco — described as not having one enemy — in his National Guard fatigues, which people had signed, including his mother who wrote “Mom loves you” flanked by two hearts.

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly is calling for a Grand Jury investigation of the police shooting. Queens District Attorney Richard Brown and the police department’s Office of Internal Affairs are also conducting their own investigations.

Polanco was shot during a traffic stop on the Grand Central Parkway near LaGuardia Airport. He had left the Ice Lounge, where he worked with other promoters f illing hookahs, a little after 5 a.m.

He had not worked there that night, but was giving his friend Diane Deferrari, a bartender at the lounge, and her friend Vanessa Rodriguez, an off-duty police officer, a ride home. Polanco lived in the LeFrak complex with his mother and younger sister. The other two women live close by.

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Coworkers Carlos Perez, left, and Luis Salvador keep candles lit outside of the Ice Lounge in Astoria.

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“Why him?” coworker and friend Alex Burgos said outside the lounge Sunday night. “He was one of the calmest kids. He had a clean record. Come on now.”

His coworkers organized a fundraiser —

with a goal of $2,500 — at the lounge on Sunday to help his family pay for the funeral.

Polanco had joined the Army Reserves six months before, and had hoped to one day become a cop, according to Nelson De La Rosa,

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another coworker.

“He wanted to join the force. That was his goal,” De La Rosa said. “His brother is a sergeant. He wanted to follow in his footsteps.”

However, unarmed Polanco’s life ended Thursday morning.

“In that situation you don’t know what happened,” De La Rosa said. “I want to think it was an accident.”

Two unmarked vehicles with a police apprehension team had successfully executed a warrant in the Bronx and were driving near LaGuardia Airport to Brooklyn on another directive when they spotted an eastboung car weaving in between lanes, according to police.

The black 2012 Honda Fit Hybrid — Polanco’s prize possession, De La Rosa said — swerved into their lane, police said, cutting in between the two unmarked vehicles. He then began to tailgate another car in the next lane, the NYPD report adds.

Burgos insists Polanco was making his way home.

“He was trying to get over,” he said. “He was trying to get out of traffic.”

Unable to pass the car ahead of him the Honda changed lanes from the left lane in between the police vans back into the right lane. At that point, NYPD reports say, a continued on page 25

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LI car accident victims mourned Driver, a Richmond Hill HS senior who survived, did not have license

by Domenick Rafter

The horrific accident occurred on the westbound side of the parkway on a dangerous curve. The so-called Five teenagers packed into a “Blood Alley” is termed that because brand-new 2012 Subaru Impreza of the high number of accidents at the Sunday night and drove out to Nascurve. It features an abrupt veer to sau County to see a movie. They right shortly before Exit 17 after a were heading home along the Southlong straightaway through Hempstead ern State Parkway hours later when Lake State Park. Though the curve is the routine night took a tragic turn usually clogged with traffic at busy as the car approached Exit 17 in times of day, at night and during Lakeview along a notorious stretch times of low traffic volume, the sudof road known for accidents. den curve often trips up even experiThe driver, 17-year-old Joseph enced drivers.

But Beer was not an experienced driver.

The 17-year-old did not even have a driver’s license and was only driving with a learner’s permit.

Legally, Beer should not have been driving at all. The accident took place at 3:40 a.m., when a driver with a learner’s permit is not legally allowed to be behind the wheel. Also, drivers with permits are never allowed to drive without someone over the age of 21 in the car, nor are they allowed to have more than one Friends of the four men arrive at Christopher Khan’s funeral in South Ozone passenger under the age of 21 who is Park Wednesday in a car bearing the names of those who died. not a family member.

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Beer of Richmond Hill, lost control of the car, veered across two lanes, across the shoulder and into trees along the side of the road, slicing the car in half.

Beer survived, but his four passengers — Christopher Khan, Peter Kanhai, Darian Ramnarine and Neil Rajapa, all 18 — died at the scene.

All four lived in Queens and graduated from Richmond Hill High School on June 26. Beer is a senior at the school.

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Christopher Khan’s casket is carried out of the funeral home on Rockaway PHOTOS BY DOMENICK RAFTER Boulevard Wednesday morning Whether or not Beers should have been at the wheel Monday morning was a question for another day at the funeral for Khan held Wednesday morning in South Ozone Park. Hundreds of people packed the Bergen Funeral Home on Rockaway Boulevard to say goodbye.

“God needed more angels,” said Avinash Ramkumar, 17, who was a friend of all four guys. Ramkumar fought back tears in the funeral home.

Virenda Ramkissoon, who

arrived at the funeral in a maroon Honda Odyssey with the names of his late friends painted on it, said he was closest to Ramnarine. They attended Richmond Hill High School and City Tech together.

“It’s just sad that I will never get another hello from him,” he said.

The accident sent shockwaves through the Richmond Hill HS community. A teacher at the school, who did not want to be identified due to continued on page 28

DOT eyes changes to Lefferts Blvd.

Agency presents ideas that includes lane reductions to a skeptical CB 10

by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

The section of Lefferts Boulevard between Rockaway Boulevard and 149th Avenue is slated for reconfiguration by the Department of Transportation, but Community Board 10 is not happy with the PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER idea.

CB 10 members expressed a number of concerns over the new plan for Lefferts Boulevard, including what would be done about double-parked cars and trucks. McCarthy said the wider parking lane is meant to accommodate double-parkers.

“We don’t want people to double-park, but we have to acknowledge reality,” she said.

Donna Gilmartin, CB 10 member and president of the Locust Grove Civic Association, suggested the change could cause trucks and other traffic to divert to 114th Street to avoid Lefferts Boulevard traffic, aggravating an already existing problem, a concern continued on page 38

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For much of its length between Kew Gardens and JFK Airport, Lefferts Boulevard is your typical outerborough congested thoroughfare. Two lanes wide between its northern end at Kew Gardens Road and Rockaway Boulevard in South Ozone Park, traffic often backs up on it at rush hour and on weekends.

But south of Rockaway Boulevard, Lefferts is wider — four lanes in each direction — and less congested.

It is, however, dangerous.

According to city Department of Transportation records, the stretch of Lefferts Boulevard between Rockaway and North Conduit Avenue has seen 211 accidents since 2009, causing 135 injuries and five fatalities — two at the intersection of Lefferts and 135th Avenue and three at the corner of Lefferts and Rockaway boulevards.

Of the 211 accidents, 71 occurred at Lefferts and North Conduit Avenue, which is remarkably higher than average.

“The major intersections, most of them don’t have any more than 20 accidents,” Nichole Altmix, senior project manager for the DOT, said at the Oct. 4 Community Board 10 meeting, where the agency presented a plan for comment. “That’s pretty scary.”

The statistics, part of a study that began in 2009 for the stretch of Lefferts Boulevard in South Ozone Park have led the agency to look at changes to the configuration of the road.

The plan they presented last week would reduce the number of lanes from two in each direction to one between Rockaway Boulevard and 149th Avenue, allowing for a wider parking lane and dedicated left turn lanes. There will be a wider painted median and new crosswalks would be installed.

The lane reduction will also reduce speeds, Altmix said, noting that the road, which the DOT says is used by 495 vehicles per hour at peak times, is notorious for speeders.

“More than 70 percent of cars speed along this stretch,” she said, adding that the DOT has found that converting to a busy onelane road reduces speeding.

“We believe one lane in each direction can handle the amount of traffic on Lefferts Boulevard,” Altmix said.

Nothing will be touched south of 149th Avenue, but northbound traffic will merge into one lane beginning about 100 feet from that intersection and the left lane will be turned into a turning-only lane to allow traffic to merge into the single lane before the intersection. Altmix said 100 feet of merging traffic will allow it to flow freely.

No changes will be made north of Rockaway Boulevard where Lefferts is one lane both ways for the rest of its length.

The DOT’s presentation was met with a blend of skepticism and frustration, mainly deriving from the agency’s reconfiguration of Rockaway Boulevard in Ozone Park and South Ozone Park last year. Coinciding with the opening of Resorts World New York City Casino, the DOT reduced the number of lanes on Rockaway Boulevard from two to one for a stretch eastbound in South Ozone Park and westbound in Ozone Park.

“What you did on Rockaway Boulevard is a mess,” said Margaret Finnerty, president of the Richmond Hill South Civic Association.

Queens DOT Commissioner Maura McCarthy defended the changes on Rockaway Boulevard.

McCarthy said the Rockaway Boulevard changes are proven to have worked because fatalities and accidents are down along the route.

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PS 124 parents want shelter gone DHS, shelter management listen to concerns at PTA town hall

by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

The parents of students at PS 124 are done being angry. They’re far too scared and too cynical for the emotion. Having spent the last 19 months trying to get answers to questions no one seems to have answers for, they are now left to vent in frustration, lock up their children and go so far as to threaten to take them out of school entirely.

The South Ozone Park school is now entering is third school year educating students two blocks west of the Skyway men’s homeless shelter on South Conduit Avenue. Since the shelter switched, literally overnight, from a family shelter to an all-men’s shelter in February 2011, parents and staff at the school have spent day after day, week after week, month after month finding ways to protect the roughly 1,200 students in the school from dangers that could be lurking in the shelter.

Their worst fears were realized in July when the Queens Chronicle reported that roughly two dozen registered sex offenders were living in the shelter at 132-30 South Conduit Ave. Now, a number of parents say

sinister looking men from the shelter have mixed in with their community, gawking at them as they pass, and generally making them feel uncomfortable.

“I don’t want to come to this side of the Belt Parkway,” said one resident who lives on 128th Street and says she sees some of the men from the shelter at the bus stop across the street from the school in the morning.

Feeling as if their 2011 worries were justified and wanting more answers, the PTA and Councilman Ruben Wills (D-South Jamaica) held a town hall meeting at PS 124 on Tuesday evening where representatives from the Department of Homeless Services, BASICS — the company that runs the Skyway shelter — and Deputy Inspector Thomas Pascale, the commanding officer of the 106th Precinct, fielded questions from more than a dozen parents and community members.

But even at the meeting, anger continued to fester over the process in which the shelter opened. Until 2011, it was a family shelter and homeless children who went to PS 124 lived there until they were moved during February recess —

Parents of students at PS 124 line up to express their concerns about the Skyway men’s shelter two blocks from the PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER school in South Ozone Park. mid-school year.

“This decision was rammed down our throats without any input from the neighborhood,” said Assunta Soldano, the PTA treasurer at PS 124, at Tuesday’s meeting. “I don’t begrudge the male shelter and men who are down on their luck. There are many families here who are one paycheck away from living on the streets. But our children cannot feel safe in the streets.”

Douglas James, deputy commissioner for adult services at the Department of Homeless Services, said no one has legal authority to track the men from the shelter, even those on the registered sex offender list, because they had already served the time for the crime they committed and were free men.

“They have a right to be outside,” he said. “We want them to be productive members of the community.”

The shelter has between five and seven security guards on site, depending on the time, and the officers do a sweep of the neighborhood on a regular basis within a mile radius, to make sure no men from the shelter are hanging around. Sixty percent of the men at the shelter work or are part of work training programs, BASICS said, and those who work or are looking for work continued on page 32

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Fundamental issues are at stake on Election Day t’s less than a month from now that voters across the United States will determine the direction of the country for the next four years, by either re-electing President Obama or choosing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney instead.

The voters will be answering fundamental questions about how best to boost a still-lagging economy, what the nation’s role in world affairs is, how healthcare should be provided, how big the military should be and more — including, yes, whether the taxpayers should continue subsidizing Big Bird or if he should be left to stand or fall on his own in the marketplace.

Do the Public Broadcasting System and National Public Radio need the small amount of their funding that comes from the government? Obama says yes; Romney says no.

Should the budget of the armed forces, on which the taxpayers spend more than the next 17 largest militaries combined, be reduced? Obama says yes; Romney says no.

Will the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act reduce healthcare spending without harming the quality of care people receive? Obama says yes; Romney says no.

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Has the Great Recession been handled by the president as well as it could have? Obama says yes; Romney says no.

Is the recent drop in unemployment an indicator that things are changing for the better thanks at least in part to federal policy? Obama says yes; Romney says no.

The president believes the government should help drive the economic recovery through stimulus programs paid for by tax increases on the wealthiest people. His challenger believes the best thing the government can do is get out of the way and let the free market rebound on its own.

The country appears to be split nearly evenly between the two philosophies. Whatever your view, it’s crucial that you express it, and exercise your fundamental right as an American citizen, by going to the ballot box Nov. 6.

And while the presidential election is by far the most consequential, and the only one to be held nationwide, Queens voters will get to make their choices in several other races that also can have a serious impact on our communities and way of life. The issues driving the presidential contest are reflected to one degree or another in many of those races, for Congress and the state

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Romney lied Dear Editor: The debate results are in, and even though most say Obama was short on spunk that night, the bigger news is that Romney spent the night telling whoppers … 27 falsehoods in 33 minutes by the latest fact-checking count! Yes, fact checking counts.

Obama was right to say at a rally the next day that he didn’t know who that guy was he was debating the night before. He should have said that during the debate. Mitt had Etch-a-Sketched himself to please the vast television audience, many of whom are lowinformation viewers who haven’t been following his campaign. Mitt took the night to spin himself as a different guy in order to fool those who don’t follow politics.

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Take the race for the 6th Congressional District, which covers large sections of northern and central Queens. The race pits Assemblywoman Grace Meng of Flushing, a moderate Democrat, against Councilman Dan Halloran of Whitestone, a conservative Republican. On most, though not all, issues, Meng’s views are in line with Obama’s and Halloran’s align with Romney’s. Voters have a clear choice in the contest.

More nuanced is a key race covering another large part of Queens, that between Democratic state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. and his challenger, Republican Councilman Eric Ulrich. Both lawmakers are moderates, but Addabbo’s views are certainly closer to Obama’s and Ulrich’s are closer to Romney’s.

The importance of voting, whichever side you take in a given race, cannot be overstated. It’s our right and our duty. There are a little more than three weeks left for those who aren’t already well-informed to learn the various candidates’ positions and decide who to support. We urge all Queens residents to become informed and put their knowledge to good use on Election Day, Nov. 6.

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He took pleasure in vetoing 844 legislative initiatives, only to have many overturned by the majority. Mitt even went as far as to mount an unprecedented vindictive campaign to unseat Democratic leaders who opposed him, which backfired, leaving the Republicans with the smallest legislative group since 1867.

His claim to have cut taxes 19 times in Massachusetts is also inaccurate because many of the tax cuts were first proposed by the Legislature, not Romney, and many were routine extensions of existing tax reductions.

Several included one-day sales tax holidays for shopping like we have here occasionally.

Mitt was trying to take credit when credit is not due.

One has to look at Mitt as a master salesman, the Bain boss guy who’s called in from the other room to close the deal with a smile, a f irm handshake and a pat on the back.

“Don’t worry folks; “we’ll take care of you.”

We all know the type. That’s what he says when economists and the Congressional Budget Office says his numbers don’t work out: “Trust us.” That’s what Paul Ryan was saying when he answered a reporter’s budget question by saying, it would take “too long to provide specifics.”

No thanks, guys. I want specifics, and I don’t trust anyone who waffles on important issues when the audience changes. As they say, the devil is in the details. And, above all, I hate being lied to, especially when I know the truth.

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Dear Editor: Are you better off today than you were four years ago? My letter will illustrate the views of five people, each a member of a vast group expressing similar views.

1. If you were an LGBT person serving in our military in 2008, you were hiding in the shadows of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell law.

Today your fear is gone. Obama signed the DADT Repeal Act of 2010.

2. In 2008, did you have a credit card nightmare with high fees and pages of confusing contract language? Today, Obama’s Credit Card Reform Act has stopped unfair banking fees and required banks to simplify their contracts.

3. Equal pay for equal work was only a dream for working women in 2008. Today, Obama’s first law, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, will begin to make their dream a reality.

4. There were six million Pell Grant students in 2008. Today, Obama has eliminated the middle man, the banks, so as to provide additional funds to increase the number of grants by three million. Are you one of these students?

5. In 2008, Osama bin Laden was the world’s No. 1 terrorist. Today the world is a safer place thanks to the skillful role of our Navy Seals.

Under orders from our commander in chief, they took him out. To quote Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), “Ask Osama bin Laden — is he better off than he was four years ago?”

I’m sure all the folks represented in my letter would say yes.

Anthony G. Pilla Forest Hills

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Dear Editor: The USS Michael Murphy, a DD261-class destroyer, was christened a few days ago. It was named after a true American hero, Lt. Michael P. Murphy, who died in 2005 trying to save his fellow Navy Seals. Murphy, of Patchogue, LI, received the Medal of Honor for his brave actions in Afghanistan’s Kunar Province, where he was mortally wounded but continued to keep fighting. Here is a great honor for a great man who now has a great ship named after him.

I myself had served aboard the USS Leahy DLG 16 during the Vietnam era and was very proud of my ship and our mission. As a former sailor I salute Lt. Murphy for a job well done, and would say to him what my captain once said to me, “Carry on sailor” — for now you will never be forgotten.

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Dear Editor: Forty years ago Congress enacted the Clean Water Act to end pollution of our rivers, lakes and bays. Since then, New York has taken the lead on water protection by maintaining some of the best water quality laws in the nation. However, Gov. Cuomo has recently proposed lowering the clean water standards for factory farms in New York. He is putting our water in jeopardy with this plan, instead of helping farms to meet the state’s strong water protection standards.

New guidelines are being crafted by the Environmental Protection Agency that would ensure better protection of our waterways from factory farms across the country. As the rest of the nation is moving forward with water protection, now is not the time for New York to be stepping backwards. Guidelines and standards that keep our rivers and lakes protected should be upheld and enforced, rather than lowered, putting the places where we love to swim and fish in danger.

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Dear Editor: It has been reported by opponents of some women’s organizations that these groups, which have been defending women’s legal rights to have an abortion, will not make abortion moral, even though it is legal in other countries, as well as here in the United States.

One must ask what is moral about being anti-abortion and permitting the births of overwhelming numbers of babies that will be unloved and uncared for further populating the Earth with persons who will likely become not only a burden to themselves and their relatives, but to the rest of society at large. (What do anti-abortionists do afterwards to aid unfortunates who are born unwanted and unloved? Anything?)

When an abortion is performed (within the present medical and legal guidelines) a group of cells that isn’t even remotely like a fully functioning baby is removed from the impregnated woman’s body. The procedure is done to alleviate the potential ill health of the woman, whether physical, emotional, or social.

Which has been judged to be more significant, if not more important in this grossly overpopulated, environmentally degraded world, a not-fully formed or functioning prehuman, either as an embryo or as a fetus, or a living, breathing, thinking, impregnated female human being?

By the way, look up the phrase “ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.”

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One month after more than a dozen residents of 84th Avenue in Richmond Hill flooded a meeting of Community Board 9 to express their united opposition to a plan by the city Department of Transportation to change the road from a twoway to a one-way, the board unanimously rejected the change.

After receiving a request from a resident, the DOT proposed changing 84th Avenue between Myrtle Avenue and Lefferts Boulevard from a two-way to a oneway eastbound street. The busy residential road, which is often used by vehicles to avoid Park Lane South and Lefferts Boulevard when traveling from South Queens to Kew Gardens, has been the site of a number of accidents because of cars maneuvering around each other and pedestrians getting hit, especially at a section where a blind curve obscures the view.

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But the person who requested the change does not have the support of his or her neighbors, or CB 9. After hearing more than 15 pleas to vote down the change — and three more at Tuesday’s meeting — CB 9 voted down the project without a single member expressing support. The board also voted down a proposal to make 97th Avenue a one way through a section in Ozone Park.

Residents who spoke said they do not believe changing the street to a one-way would solve the traffic problem. Though it would divert westbound traffic away, some residents said they feared the street would be a speed zone.

CB 9 Chairwoman Andrea Crawford said the reconf igurations of 84th and 97th avenues were a “piecemeal” way of dealing with the area’s traffic problems and the DOT should conduct a broad traffic study in the community instead.

“What is needed is a full study of the area,” Crawford said. “And we will request that.”

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Ulrich funds his anti-graffiti initiative through the Woodhaven Business Improvement District, which he allocates funds to for graffiti cleaning districtwide.

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A week and a half after vandals defaced the wall of the Lindenwood Medical Center, the facade looks as good as new.

The graff iti left on the wall late last month was cleaned Tuesday morning and the owner of the building, Dr. Anthony Napolitano, is installing cameras, lighting and protective paint to deter any more vandalism.

Joann Ariola, president of the Lindenwood Alliance, said her civic group met with Napolitano and representatives from Councilman Eric Ulrich’s (R-Ozone Park) office on Monday to discuss the cleanup. Ulrich utilized some funds he allocated for graffiti

A man is dead and a teenager was left seriously injured after a shooting in Richmond Hill early Saturday morning police said occurred during a brawl that erupted outside a pool hall on Jamaica Avenue.

The shots were fired around 2:30 a.m.

Saturday morning on 102nd Street just off of Jamaica Avenue. Police say a brawl involving up to three dozen people had broken out outside the Rack Em Up pool hall at 102-14 Jamaica Avenue and spilled into the street near the intersection with 102nd Street. During the fracas, gunfire erupted and 21-yearold Michael Tineo of Brooklyn was shot in

the back and another man, a 17-year-old victim police declined to identify, was shot in the chest. Tineo was taken to Jamaica Hospital where he was pronounced dead, while the teen remains in stable condition.

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PA offers apology on JFK runway proposal Southeast Queens residents left out of the notification, comment process

by Michael Gannon Editor

Port Authority officials last week apologized to residents of Southeast Queens for bypassing them during the application process to move a runway more than 700 feet closer to populated areas outside John F. Kennedy International Airport.

The uncharacteristic gesture took place at a meeting of the Eastern Queens Alliance on Oct. 4 at which the PA also reopened the public comment period for an additional month after residents and civic groups in Southeast Queens decried a lack of public notice.

“Government isn’t always perfect,” Brian Simon, director of government and community affairs at the PA, told a crowd of more than 200 at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Rosedale. “We could do a better job. And we’re going to make that happen. Your views will be included.”

The PA wants to move Runway 4L-22R toward Rockaway Boulevard to the north, while adding a 1,000-foot long, 500-foot wide safety zone on the northern end. The runway would be widened by 150 to 200 feet, while the operational length would remain at 11,351 feet.

The work is primarily to accommodate the new, larger Airbus A380 aircraft. PA officials want to have the project approved and the work done before a federal deadline of 2015.

Brian Simon, right, and Edward Knoesel of the Port Authority field questions from concerned residents on a proposal to relocate a runway at Kennedy Airport closer to populated areas at a meetPHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON ing of the Eastern Queens Alliance.

“And ‘to the north’ means closer to us,” said Barbara Brown, president of the EQA. And ‘closer to us,’ residents fear, means more, larger and noisier passenger jets coming lower and lower over their homes.

“And nobody knew about it,” Brown said.

Residents of Rosedale, Laurelton and other neighborhoods spoke at the meeting,

saying the PA’s choice for posting a public notice for comment — in New York City editions of Newsday — may have met legal requirements but was not satisfactory for informing them of a project with potential to increase noise and pollution in the area.

Simon said the PA has reopened the public comment period through Nov. 1 to accom-

modate Queens residents, and that all their comments must be included in the f inal report to the Federeal Aviation Administration, including how each concern will be addressed, or why the PA believes it should not be a concern.

“The comment period that you were supposed to have between May and June you will have now,” Simon said.

Edward Knoesel, the PA’s manager of environmental services in the aviation division, said the agency’s draft environmental assessment determined that any noise increase within the affected area would be 0.7 decibels.

He said the change is not detectable by the human ear and is less than half the 1.5 decibels that federal regulations require for further environmental impact studies.

Gregory Holder of Rosedale, a retired airport worker, wasn’t impressed.

“You talk about noise increments, and not about whether the current levels are tolerable or not,” Holder said. He added that the PA’s contention that closer landing approaches would not have an environmental impact “just defies logic.”

While numerous residents and civic groups called on the PA to conduct a fullscale environmental impact study, James Steven, manager of physical plant and redevelopment at JFK, said it was not required continued on page 22

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Campaign heats up at the printer’s shop Out of state, or unknown, sources do mailings for SD 15 campaigns

by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

With four weeks to go before voters go to the polls, their mailboxes are beginning to fill up.

But the contents are not just overdue bills, coupons and catalogs. In voters’ mailboxes sit laminated, colored looseleaf paper-sized documents, each telling potential voters why they should or should not vote for a candidate next month.

The art-infused pamphlets scatter through a politically volatile community like dust bunnies in the air, landing in the mailboxes and doorsteps of every voter whom a campaign identifies as a must-win.

Nobody’s mailboxes have been fuller recently than those of residents in the 15th state Senate District. Coming off a rough GOP primary in which the district’s Republican voters were hit with mailer after mailer, the general election between incumbent Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (DHoward Beach) and Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) is even more hardfought, on the ground and in the mail.

But gone are the days when fliers came only from the candidate’s respective campaigns.

The mailers that voters in the 15th District are receiving are coming from out of state groups with unknown sources of funding, or coming from somewhere completely unknown.

A number of mailers that have gone out attacking Addabbo announce that they are paid for by a group called Common Sense Principals, based in Virginia. Their website appears to be focused solely on New York state Senate races, with attacks on Addabbo and Democratic candidates running for seats in Westchester County and Rochester on the front page. The group is also mailing against the Democratic candidates in both of those districts as well. The group claims to be inspired by the pamphlet “Common Sense” written by 18th-century author Thomas Paine and often cited as a primary inspiration for the American Revolution.

Ulrich said his campaign does not know who Common Sense is or anything about it, but this type of situation is typical of campaigns today.

“It’s the nature of the beast,” he said.

Legally, the campaign is not allowed to coordinate with independent expenditures, noted Ulrich’s spokeswoman Jessica Proud.

Common Sense does not disclose its funders and failed to register with the Board of Elections.

Its mailers attack Addabbo for joining his party in a walkout earlier this year in which the party protested the Senate’s redistricting bill. While Senate Democrats were out of the body, Republicans passed a number of measures, including a DNA database bill supported by Gov. Cuomo. The mailer does not mention the redistricting protest, but alludes to Addabbo walking out on the DNA database bill.

The other mailers focus on Addabbo’s support of Resorts World Casino New York City and accuse him of taking money from executives at the casino, although it only quotes a newspaper article about a fundraiser he held at the casino earlier this year.

Another set of mailers, this time supporting Addabbo, do not even mention who paid for them, which is illegal.

Addabbo said he does not know where the mysterious mailers are coming from and emphasized that voters need to know their origin, even ones sent in his favor.

“No matter who the candidate is, no matter where it originates from, the better practice is to see who it’s coming from, who is paying for them,” Addabbo said.

He also called the Common Sense mailers “a form of outsourcing” since they came from outside the state, and said he supported a bill that would force Common Sense to reveal its donors, and accused the Senate GOP of blocking the measure.

Mysterious mailers, such as the one favoring Addabbo, are uncommon. A number of mailers from teachers unions in the Rochester race were sent as paid for

by a different organization, called VOTE/COPE, and attacked the Republican candidate in the race on issues unrelated to education.

The UFT has denied that they are responsible for the Addabbo mailers, which focus on Addabbo’s record with seniors and his opposition to eliminating the millionaire’s tax.

The New York State Independence Party, which has endorsed Ulrich and given him its ballot line next month, has also been mailing in favor of him, attacking Addabbo on his time on the City Council from 2001 through 2008. In one mailer, the headline reads “While Joe Addabbo was a city councilman, the city cut the number of cops on the street,” alluding to budgets, including the one for fiscal year 2002 which Addabbo supported. That budget cut police officers and raised taxes during the 2001 recession.

Addabbo said the mailer did not tell the entire story.

“I didn’t single-handedly raise taxes. I didn’t single-handedly cut the police force. We were trying to save the city, while facing the worst fiscal situation in history. There were cuts that had to be made,” Addabbo said. “We did what we had to do to save the city in 2002. We rolled back the taxes that were increased in 2002. We restored funding to the Police Department and added cops. Nobody tells that story except me.”

He also noted crime went down during the period after the budget cuts.

Addabbo said the mailers often drive campaigns into the gutter because they can be so negative. In the Senate GOP primary, mailers attacked Ulrich for associating with LGBT staffers and colleagues, while another featured a photo of him dressed as a Soviet general. Community Board 9 member and Woodhaven resident Alexander Blenkinsopp said on Twitter that he believes the mailers were turning the race unnecessarily negative.

He got an immediate response from Ulrich.

“Agreed,” he replied to Blenkinsopp’s Q tweet.

Mailers attacking incumbent state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr., left, came from a group with an address in Virginia, while some supporting the incumbent, right, had no information on where they came from or who paid for them.

Addabbo vs. Ulrich race is a dead heat

by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

The race between state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) and challenger Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) is tight, according to a Siena Research poll released Monday, with Addabbo holding a slight lead within the margin of error.

According to the poll, Addabbo leads Ulrich 45 percent to 43 percent, with 17 percent still undecided four weeks before voters go to the polls. Addabbo leads by 5 points in the section of the 15th State Senate District he has represented since 2007,

Incumbent holds small edge in poll which includes Howard Beach, Ozone Park, Woodhaven, Glendale, Middle Village and Maspeth. Ulrich leads in parts of the district added in redistricting earlier this year, including the Rockaways and Kew Gardens Hills.

Divided by region, Ulrich holds a sixpoint lead in the southern portion of the district, including the Rockaways and Howard Beach, but trails in the northern portion by seven points. Both candidates

reside in Ozone Park.

The two candidates are split on most issues including property taxes, the budget and ethics reform, with Ulrich holding a very small edge on the first two issues. Addabbo holds a small lead among those concerned about healthcare and job creation, the latter being the No. 1 issue according to voters.

The poll shows the presidential race close in the district too, with President Obama holding a 3-point lead on GOP challenger

Mitt Romney — 48 percent to 45 percent.

Obama narrowly won the area comprising the new 15th District in 2008.

Ulrich takes just over a quarter of Democrats, but there is little crossover from the Presidential race. Eighty-one percent of Obama voters are backing Addabbo while 80 percent of Romney voters are also casting their ballots for Ulrich.

Addabbo received the endorsement of Gov. Cuomo, the most popular politician polled in the district, on Monday. Cuomo’s approval rating in the district according to Q the Siena poll is a sky high 73 percent.

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U.S. Department of Agriculture workers were spotted eyeing trees in Woodhaven and Richmond Hill recently prompting Community Board 9 Chairwoman Andrea Crawford to call agency and ask why.

She discovered that they were in the area checking trees to make sure the Asian long-horned beetle, an insect native to China that destroyed hundreds of trees in Queens from 1999 through 2003 — including dozens in Flushing Meadows Corona Park — has not returned.

Though it has been years since the beetle wreaked havoc on trees in Queens, the USDA is not taking any chances. Workers from the agency have been checking trees near Forest Park for any signs of the beetle.

Robert Miller — outreach, safety and training supervisor for the USDA’s Asian Longhorned Eradication Program — spoke at this month’s CB 9 meeting and said the agency was checking trees in the area because it was the site of the last place in Queens the beetles were spotted.

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New features are looking good at Highland Park project in Ridgewood

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City officials still are not commenting as to whether they will pursue the construction of athletic fields on the site of the old Ridgewood Reservoir. But upgrades visible from the street appear to be progressing nicely.

Phase 1 consists of new fencing, new staircases and the installation of ramps to allow handicapped accessibility to the newly repaved walking trail around the old basins.

New fencing is being added and a brand-new wiring and electrical system is being installed to accommodate new lights atop classic-style lampposts.

Phase 1 was scheduled to be completed this past spring, until work began and contractors discovered walls and paths that were structurally unstable.

But Gary Giordano, district manager for Community Board 5, was upbeat on Monday.

“It should be done sometime this coming spring, which is better than I was expecting,” he said.

Still at issue is whether or not the city will allow one of the three basins to be f illed in for the construction of athletic fields.

Officials from the Department of Parks and Recreation did not respond to requests for comment this week.

But Giordano said members of Community Board 5 remain steadfastly opposed to any plan that does not turn the former reservoir into a nature preserve for passive recreation, academic and scientific uses.

“With all the bird species there, you certainly have a reason for that,” he said.

“We’ve been opposed to any of those basins being developed for active recreation, and the thought of thousands and thousands of truckloads of fill having to be brought in to fill one of those basins. It would be damaging to the surrounding community.”

He said there are plenty of ballfields of all kinds both in Highland Park and surrounding areas in both Queens and Brooklyn that would only need to be refurbished to serve

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In 1988, NYPD officer Edward Byrne was assassinated by four men in cold blood after he was assigned to protect a witness who had agreed to testify against a drug dealer. The four convicted murderers — David McClary, Scott Cobb, Todd Scott and Phillip “Marshall” Copeland — will be coming up for parole hearings sometime this fall, and many in New York are not happy about that.

“We live in a nation of consequences and justice, and to allow these murderers out of prison would undermine both,” Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) said in a press statement.

“To grant them even the hope of freedom would be a slap in the face to those who keep our streets safe every day, and would dishonor the memory of this heroic officer.

I hope and pray that the parole board will listen to our plea today and keep those jail cells locked for good.”

For the early morning hours of Feb. 6, 1988, Byrne was assigned to protect a Guyanese immigrant named Arjune in South Jamaica in the 103rd Precinct. That past November, a series of threats against Arjune and his family culminated in a firebombing of his apartment after he had reported local mafia to the police multiple times and had agreed to testify against them.

Earlier that February, drug kingpin Fred “Pappy” Mason had been sent to jail. To retaliate, he called members of his gang from prison and ordered them to kill a police off icer. The four murderers knew that cops would be stationed around the clock to protect Arjune, and so they chose to strike there.

“Starting this November, every two years for the rest of their lives they are eligible for parole,” Eddie Byrne’s brother Larry told the Queens Chronicle. “I will be at the parole meeting every 2 years as long as they’re getting parole hearings.”

“This wasn’t just a callous, premeditated murder, which in and of itself was so horrible that parole should be flatly denied,” wrote Schumer. “It was a brazen attempt to terrorize both the decent, hard-working people who are the backbone of New York City’s neighborhoods and the brave men and women in the law enforcement community who put their lives on the line to protect them.”

Byrne’s death had the opposite effect from what Mason had intended. Rather than intimidating the NYPD, the death revitalized its war on drugs. “Eddie’s murder galvanized our city, our state and our nation to say: Enough! It sparked the monumentally successful Byrne grant program, that I was

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“His death was very much a turning point in the fight against drug dealers and violence and crime,” said Larry Byrne. “In the year that my brother was killed, there were 2,000 murders in New York, and last year there were 500. My brother represented a turning point in how police dealt with violent crime and drug crime.”

Today, the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant is a program that allows local police forces to apply for grants that would help them combat violent and dr ug-related crimes. It has distributed millions of dollars to police forces and community organizations around the nation that have come up with novel approaches to local crime issues.

“Killing a police officer is like killing a part of society, you might say. They’re protecting all of us. We’ve got to do everything we can, I believe, as a society to hold individuals who kill or hurt police officers to a higher standard,” NYPD Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly told WPIX11.

“My brother was killed five days after his 22nd birthday,” said Lar ry Byrne. “He always wanted to be a police off icer because our dad had been a police officer for 22 years. He wanted to follow in our father’s footsteps. He wanted to be assigned to a busy precinct so he was very happy because 103 was one of busiest at the time.”

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An increasingly popular synthetic drug — a substance comparable to a combination of LSD and ecstasy — is being mixed with candy and ingested by teens to get high, causing harmful side effects and even death, according to published reports.

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In one fatality in Minnesota, a 17-year-old began hyperventilating and hitting his head against the ground after reportedly taking 2C-I mixed with melted chocolate. Hours later, he stopped breathing. His friend, who allegedly gave him the drug, has been charged with thirddegree murder and second-degree manslaughter, the reports said.

“I’m sure if they are mixing it with things like chocolate, kids are going to pick it up,” said Herman Lozada, a resident of Rosedale and specialist in the drug addiction field for more than 25 years. “They are into experimentation, and the chocolate probably makes it more ingestible.”

The Drug Enforcement Administration classifies 2C-I as an illegal Schedule I controlled substance. “Smiles” causes auditory and visual hallucinations, along with feelings of giddiness, relaxation and empathy. But a “bad trip” can nausea and vomiting and feelings of fear and panic.

Lozada said he has not heard of any cases of 2C-I being used in the five boroughs, noting that the most popular drugs here remain cocaine, alcohol, marijuana and oxycodone. He said LSD and ecstasy have declined in popularity in recent years.

“All these drugs can cause an imbalance in the chemicals in the brain,” Lozada said. “A lot Q can go wrong.”

A woman was shot in the leg at the Queensbridge Houses on Oct. 3, making it the second shooting there in as many weeks.

According to police sources, the woman was shot in the thigh and knee at 10:25 p.m. by a male perpetrator who got away in a grey vehicle and has yet to be apprehended. The victim was taken to Cornell Hospital.

The shooting happened in spite of a renewed focus by city politicians on gun safety in the troubled housing project and a gun-control rally held the previous Friday.

Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (DSunnyside) said he has spoken with NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, 114th Precinct Deputy Inspector Stephen Cirabisi, and other city law enforcement officials about the incidents. “I think they are concerned,” he said. “They’re thinking about ways to make Queensbridge safer, they’re actively engaged.”

Although a date is not yet set, Van Bramer says he is working with Bishop Mitchell Taylor, the Center of Hope International and the NYPD to organize Q a gun buy-back event.

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A Ridgewood resident is believed to be a suspect in Sunday’s fatal stabbing and slashing of a 25-year-old soccer coach in Manhattan.

Published reports state that Orlando Orea, 32, fled the country to Mexico hours before police moved to arrest him at his 67th Avenue residence.

Michael Jones, a native of Great Britain, worked in a youth development program with the New York Red Bulls of Major League Soccer.

He was stabbed and slashed to death on W. 14th Street near Fifth Avenue, not far

from a bar where Orea allegedly had been drinking.

Jones had been visiting his girlfriend, and multiple sources quote police, including NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, as saying Jones was a victim of mistaken identity.

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“It is not considered a new runway,” he said. “We’re moving a runway. We’re not lengthening the runway.”

He also said the end of the relocated runway still would be slightly over 1,000 feet from the curb line on Rockaway Boulevard.

But many residents also said during the three-hour meeting that they do not believe their input on the proposed $500 million project will have any sway with the PA or

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For two incumbents, election totals in base neighborhoods meant little

by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

In last month’s state Senate primary races, two Democratic incumbents fought for their political lives. In both cases, the candidates relied on their political bases to lift them over well-funded opponents.

Official results from the NYC Board of Elections, however, show the voters in the two senators’ base neighborhoods did not ultimately help, or hurt, them.

State Sens. Shirley Huntley (D-Jamaica) and Toby Stavisky (D- Flushing) both faced primary opponents in the Sept. 13 election.

Huntley lost while Stavisky held on. In one race, the candidate’s home base voted for her; in the other, the voters in her base neighborhood did not.

Huntley, whose district prior to this year’s redistricting was based mostly in Southeast Queens, was soundly defeated by her primary challenger, Councilman James Sanders (D-Far Rockaway). Nevertheless, Huntley, who was indicted on corruption charges in August, won in much of the territory she had always represented — Rochdale and South Jamaica — defeating her opponent there, 58 percent to 42 percent, while losing overall.

In the newly-reconfigured 16th Senate District, incumbent Stavisky, who defeated her primary challenger John Messer by 14 points, lost her political base of Downtown Flushing — a community she has represented in Albany since 1999 and her husband for 35 years before that.

The margin in the 40th Assembly District, which includes Downtown Flushing, was 52 percent for Messer to 48 percent for Stavisky.

But while Stavisky lost her Flushing base, she made it up — and then some — elsewhere in the district.

Stavisky defeated Messer handily in the Rego Park and Forest Hills portion of the district, as well as in Pomonok and Electchester. She also defeated her opponent in his home community of Oakland Gardens.

These neighborhoods were initially added to Stavisky’s district in redistricting after the 2000 U.S. Census. This year’s redistricting

cut out some of Stavisky’s strongest areas, including Bay Terrace and Whitestone.

The results suggest Messer had some success in his outreach to the majority AsianAmerican community in the district. He also defeated Stavisky in the Elmhurst section of the district, specif ically in the precincts around Broadway, where there is a growing Chinese population.

Messer emphasized his connection to the Asian community and his wife’s Chinese heritage during the campaign.

But in the end Stavisky triumphed, keeping Messer’s margin of victory in those areas low and thumping him in the Jewish parts of the district.

In the 10th District, the exact opposite scenario occurred. While Huntley won her South Jamaica/Rochdale base, she lost handily everywhere else in the new district, much of which was new to her.

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Sanders also crushed Huntley in Richmond Hill, where he reached out to South Asian and Indo-Caribbean voters during the Q campaign.

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That was Flushing Democratic Assemblywoman Grace Mengâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s response to a question posed to her by the Queens Chronicle earlier this week during a sit-down interview that focused on her race for Congress against City Councilman Dan Halloran, the Whitestone Republican.

The question asked her opinion of an idea floating in political circles that says the federal government is really seeking bigger fish in its case against her father, Jimmy Meng, a former assemblyman allegedly caught red-handed taking an $80,000 bribe for influence peddling â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the bigger fish being City Comptroller John Liu. The idea is that the elder Meng may know something that would help make a case against Liu, whose campaign treasurer, Jia â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jennyâ&#x20AC;? Hou, is under indictment for allegedly using straw donors to beef up his war chest for a mayoral run and lying about it to the FBI. Liu fundraiser Xing Wu â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oliverâ&#x20AC;? Pan was also indicted, but the comptroller himself â&#x20AC;&#x201D; who still refuses to pay the city half a million dollars in fines for posting illegal campaign signs â&#x20AC;&#x201D; has not been charged.

Grace Meng noted that her father and Liu are not exactly political allies, and that anyone who thinks they might be just doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know much about â&#x20AC;&#x153;Asian politicsâ&#x20AC;? in Flushing. But that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean Jimmy Meng might not have damaging information on Liu, and Meng repeated the statement, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a crazy theory,â&#x20AC;? before the conversation moved on to other topics.

She also said the case against her father is â&#x20AC;&#x153;one of the hardest things Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had to go through,â&#x20AC;? that she was â&#x20AC;&#x153;shockedâ&#x20AC;? when she heard about it â&#x20AC;&#x201D; while out with her kids at Chuck E. Cheese â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and that she â&#x20AC;&#x153;just wanted to make sure he was emotionally OK.â&#x20AC;?

She said people sometimes ask her about the case as she campaigns, but that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not necessarily hurting her run for the House. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If anything, community members have been very sympathetic and come out strong in their support,â&#x20AC;? she said.

Katz running for beep Former Councilwoman Melinda Katz announced this week that sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s running for borough president next year and held her first fundraiser, interestingly hosted by the Queens Democratic Party leader, Rep. Joe Crowley. Her run is no surprise. Since leaving the council after making a failed bid for comptroller, Katz has been working at a white-shoe law firm in Manhattan, and, no doubt, keeping in touch with her backers in the business community. Critics say sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too tight with builders making bundles of money off the overdevelopment of Queens, but they say the same about Council Speak-

er Christine Quinn, and sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still the leading candidate for mayor.

Katz brings an indirect touch of celebrity power to the field of possible borough president contenders.

A s s e m b l y w o m a n Her life partner is Grace Meng in Rego c r i m e - f i g h t i n g Park on Monday. PHOTO radio talk show

BY PETER C. MASTROSIMONE host Curtis Sliwa, revealed just this year as the father of her two children. Opposites attract, people might say as they consider how Sliwa, the rough-and-tumble Guardian Angels founder and multiple gunshot survivor with as much street cred as 50 Cent, got together with Katz, the elegant and well-to-do attorney and concert pianist whose father founded the Queens Symphony Orchestra. One also might wonder if heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s had a conservative influence on her politics.

Other likely or possible contenders for the seat, all Democrats, include state Assemblyman JosĂŠ Peralta of East Elmhurst, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s made fighting the sex trade a top priority; Astoria Councilman Peter Vallone Jr., the Public Safety Committee chairman, motorcyclist and gym rat whose views on crime are often much like Sliwaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s; Councilman Leroy Comrie of St. Albans, the leader of the Queens delegation and one of a relative few lawmakers in the greater Jamaica area not touched by one scandal or another; and state Sen. Tony Avella of Bayside, an independent thinker never afraid to speak his mind no matter who he ticks off.

No Republican sacrif icial lamb has stepped forward yet. But with this crew in the running, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no need for one to make for a very interesting race.

Addabbo-Ulrich debate now at 7 The Oct. 18 debate between Democratic state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. and Republican Councilman Eric Ulrich has been bumped up by a half hour. It now will start at 7 p.m., at Ave Maria Academy, formerly Our Lady of Grace School, located at 158-20 101 St. Q in Howard Beach. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re invited!

Happy together: former Councilwoman Melinda Katz and her partner, the activist and talk show host Curtis Sliwa. FILE PHOTOS

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Noel Polanco continued from page 2 car stop was attempted. One of the unmarked vehicles pulled in front of Polanco’s car and the second one pulled behind it, causing Polanco to pull over.

A sergeant and a detective, both in unifor m, exited the front van and approached the Honda. Polanco stayed behind the wheel, while Deferrari sat in the front and Rodriguez dozed in the back seat.

Detective Hassan Hamdy, 39, a 14year veteran of the force, discharged one round at the driver striking him once in

The fun for a cause starts at 7 p.m., and do expect fun, as these are not stuffy organizations — BRAT actually stands for B****es Rescuing Animals Together. And the party goes on, as the official BRAT/Heavenly Angels flier puts it, “till FILE PHOTO the ghouls come out.”

The bar is located at 20-14 29 St. For more information, visit face book.com/HeavenlyAngelsAnimalRescue or call Heavenly Angels at (347) 722Q 5939 or Gussy’s at (718) 728-9418.

the torso. Reportedly, Hamdy was named in a 2007 br utality case in which a Queens woman claimed the detective and other officers had illegally searched the home she shared with her grandson.

Polanco had reached under the seat for something they feared was a gun, radio reports said, though none was found. They later said a drill was there. But Deferrari said he had kept his hands on the steering wheel.

The driver was removed to New York Hospital Queens, where he was pronounced dead at 5:58 a.m.

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BRAT Animal Rescue and Heavenly Angels Animal Rescue, both of which save stray, feral, unwanted and abused animals in Queens, invite everyone to a Halloween fundraiser the night of Oct. 27 at Gussy’s Bar in Astoria.

The $15 per person cost covers an open buffet and soda for all, and children will be admitted free. A DJ will spin tunes and there will be raffles and gift certificates. Halloween costumes are encouraged but optional.

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Officials protest Greek political party De Blasio, Astoria officials demand neo-Nazi Golden Dawn leave area

by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, Astoria officials and leaders in the neighborhood’s Greek community have a message for the Greek right-wing political party, Golden Dawn: If Astoria had a seat in the Greek Parliament, you would not be elected to it.

The neighborhood, which houses one of the largest Greek communities outside of Athens, is the home of the American headquarters of the political party, notorious in Greece for its anti-immigrant, fascist viewpoints.

De Blasio held a press conference outside of Athens Square Park on Friday, denouncing the party’s viewpoints and demanding it take its U.S. headquarters out of Astoria and New York City. “[Golden Dawn has] one of those wonderful euphemistic names that suggests something positive, but in reality what they’re about is something very negative,” de Blasio said.

“Golden Dawn stands for something that is absolutely foreign to this great city. They stand for intolerance, they stand for division, they stand for a kind of negative attitude toward people who are not like them,” The party’s Greek name, Chyrsi Avyi, is literally translated “Golden Dawn” but it has used slogans including “White Power” in its campaigns in Greece.

The organization, which was founded in the 1990s, rose to power in Greece in recent years in the wake of the country’s fiscal and economic crisis. Golden Dawn won 7 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections on May 6. Though it was the sixth largest party to win seats, the two major parties refused to include its members in a coalition, forcing a second election a month later, when Golden Dawn still won 18 seats.

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio holds up one of Golden Dawn’s political fliers which includes anti-immigrant slogans.

PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER

The party ran on a campaign against the euro and criticized the budget cuts of the previous government meant to protect the country from defaulting. The budget cuts caused riots and protests nationwide making the party’s anti-austerity and antieuro agenda attractive to voters.

However, Golden Dawn’s leader, Nikolaos Michaloliakos — a member of the Athens City Council — has had a history of making controversial statements, including some allegedly denying the Holocaust. The party has also not been quiet about its anti-immigrant views and some supporters in Greece have had a history of making anti-Semitic remarks during protests, while some candidates running in Northern Greece in 2012 have expressed negative viewpoints toward Greece’s longtime nemesis, Turkey, including suggesting “taking Istanbul.”

Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas (D-Astoria), who immigrated from Greece as a child, said the party’s anti-immigrant stance is counter to what Astoria represents.

“We came here and people welcomed us,” she said. “And that is what the Astoria community is. It is a community that loves diversity, one that is tolerant. Astoria is a community that was built by immigrants. To have a group like Golden Dawn come here and think that they’re going to establish themselves is very concerning to me.”

Golden Dawn has told a number of its supporters and said on its website that it has established its American headquarters in Astoria, but has not been specific as to where. Their presence in Astoria went unnoticed until members of the Golden Dawn went to The Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York to help collect clothing for Greeks, according to Christos Vournas, first vice president of the federation.

“When I asked them if they’ve come to help, they said yes,” he said. “That was a lie.”

He said the Golden Dawn members labeled boxes of clothes “For Greeks Only” and took pictures of the federation’s office.

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Fiancee: He didn’t deserve to die A Diallo cop kills knife-wielding man who allegedly tried to hurt officers

by AnnMarie Costella Assistant Editor

Walwyn Jackson was a new father, a caring friend and neighbor, and a generally happy person, according to his fiancee, but on Sept.

7, something went horribly wrong. And Jackson ended up dead. At the hands of the NYPD. At the hands of an officer who was one of Amadou Diallo’s killers 13 years ago.

Walwyn Jackson with his then-pregnant fiance Donna Spalding.

This is the knife Jackson allegedly used. It was FILE PHOTO recovered by police.

His nickname was Smiley because he was always happy,” Spalding said. “He was genuine, friendly — he always helped his neighbors. He put everyone before himself. He would give you his last dollar.”

Feeling overwhelmed after being unemployed for two years and having to care for his family and a new baby, Jackson, of Springfield Gardens, was sitting in his room on the second floor of his house holding a knife to his neck, his fiancee, Donna Spalding, told the Chronicle Tuesday.

Though she was not there at the time of his death, Spalding had heard the details from family members who were present — Jackson’s grandmother and two cousins.

Knowing that he had been hospitalized earlier that year for depression, Jackson’s grandmother called for an ambulance, Spalding said, but instead the police arrived.

“She told them, ‘My grandson is sick.

Don’t hurt him,’” Spalding recounted.

The officers ordered Jackson to drop the weapon several times, but he refused. Then he began to advance on one of the officers while holding the knife in the air, according to the NYPD. Spalding said she does not believe Jackson would have lunged at the cops.

The police officer, Kenneth Boss, discharged one round striking Jackson in the shoulder. He was taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 7:32 p.m.

The knife was recovered at the scene and the investigation is continuing, according to police.

“I don’t know exactly what happened,” Spalding said. “All I know is that my child’s father is dead.”

Now more than a month later, the family is demanding answers and an update on the police investigation. But they say they have received neither.

“To add insult to injury, no one had the common courtesy to come and talk to the family — not the police, not the district attorney. They haven’t told us anything,” Spalding said.

Boss was transported to North Manhasset Medical Center for tinnitus and the NYPD has returned his gun, according to the attorney for Jackson’s family Neville Mitchell.

Boss was one of the officers responsible for the shooting death of Amadou Diallo in 2009.

Mitchell said the family is keeping its options open and has not ruled out suing the city or filing with the Civil- Walwyn Jackson and his infant son Landon.

PHOTOS COURTESY DANA SPALDING ian Complaint Review Board.

“Walwyn Jackson’s death will not be swept under the rug,” Mitchell said. “The one sister and a seven-week-old son named family demands an open, transparent investi- Landon. “We were excited to start a family,” Spalding said. “He was an amazing man, an gation, and a just resolution to this tragedy.”

Jackson leaves behind three brothers and amazing father. He didn’t deserve to die.” Q

continued from page 5 Department of Education rules, said the school was “still processing” the tragedy.

Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott came to RHHS Tuesday morning when the school community returned from Columbus Day weekend and met with students and staff to express condolences. DOE spokesman David Pena said grief counselors are on hand at the school for both students and teachers.

The teacher said due to staff turnovers last year, many of her colleagues were unfamiliar with the graduates who died A makeshift memorial sits on the side of the Southern State but knew Beer, whom she Parkway in Nassau County where the four teenagers were PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON killed early Monday morning described as “a typical kid.”

“I can’t imagine how he According to police sources, Beer was must feel,” she added.

A number of teachers attended Khan’s found alive and awake at the scene, screamfuneral Wednesday morning, including ing for his deceased friends.

New York State Police, who have jurisFideline Segall, a teacher and senior class advisor. Segall spoke inside the funeral diction over the parkways on Long Island, are investigating the crash and are looking home of Khan’s smile and kind manners.

“If he was in pain, he would never show into whether or not drugs and alcohol may have been a factor or if Beer was high at it,” she said. “He was always smiling.”

Friends and family left messages of con- the time of the accident.

Beer is still recovering at a Nassau dolences on the four teenagers’ Facebook pages, including one set up purposely as a County hospital and police have not said if Q they will charge him with anything. memorial for Ramnarine.

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Mr. Tony’s Science Garden Anthony Luisi, a fireman who also worked at PS/MS 146 in Howard Beach, retired after 35 years of service earlier this month.

On Wednesday, Oct. 3, the students and staff honored Luisi, above, whom they call “Mr. Tony,” with a school celebration in his honor.

Science teacher Jodi Tucci said Luisi helped her create an outdoor science garden. “He was dedicated to making a beau-

tiful outdoor space for my science students to learn,” she said.

He also created and starred in an award-winning video about energy conservation for her science students called “PS 146 Then and Now.” “He is a great man, a resident of Howard Beach his whole life and gave back to our children in our community,” Tucci said. “He is loved by all of the students, teachers, parents and staff.”

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City partially paves uneven mow strip Blacktop thrown down at bus stop

by AnnMarie Costella Assistant Editor

Several Springfield Gardens residents, most of them seniors, who were concerned about an unpaved mow strip, have gotten their wish for a safer bus stop.

The city Department of Transportation has added blacktop to the area — well, at least some of it — enough to give residents some solid footing, but not enough to cover the entire strip, located on Springfield Boulevard, near 145th Avenue at the bus stop for the Q77.

Several residents said they had tripped or knew of those who had while trying to get on the bus, and blamed the barren mow strip.

The paving job seems to have been rushed, however, as the blacktop was not evenly distributed and some loose pieces were scattered in the dirt.

Donovan Richards, chief of staff to City Councilman James Sanders Jr. (D-Laurelton), said the lawmaker had been asking the city to pave the spot for about a year, but to no avail.

And the Chronicle reported on the concern in its Sept. 13 issue.

When asked about the bare-dirt depression and why it had not been paved over sooner, a

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The sunken mow strip, which residents complained is dangerous, has been partially paved.

PHOTO BY ANNMARIE COSTELLA

spokeswoman for the DOT said in an email last month that the area will be reconstructed soon as part of a capital project that will include enhancements to the roadway, sidewalks and drainage systems.

Richards said the residents he spoke to are happy about the blacktop. The agency did not respond to an email this week asking why the paving was done before the scheduled capital project and why the entirety of the mow strip Q was not covered.

Columbus Day celebration Dancers from Fazio Dance Center of Howard Beach participated in Monday’s Columbus Day parade in Manhattan. They accompanied singer LaSara and “rocked the float” to help raise awareness of Cooley’s anemia, also known as thalassemia, a group

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MLS: stadium will bring jobs, goodies Doubters persist as league pitches FMCP soccer home to residents

by Joseph Orovic Chronicle Contributor

Flushing native and Major League Soccer commissioner Don Garber considers Queens home. He grew up in Bayside, using Flushing Meadows Corona Park the same way most residents do today.

“I’m a dyed-in-the-wool Queens guy. Flushing Meadows Corona Park was a big part of my upbringing,” Garber said during a gathering with local press on Friday.

Garber’s blowing kisses to his native borough, last week’s press gathering and more planned meetings with residents and community groups kick off an airing of ideas and outreach, as the league hopes to build a stadium in the borough’s largest park.

While some residents and community groups may share Garber’s love of Queens, they do not endorse his league’s big-ticket plan for its 20th franchise.

The league is currently ironing out details with the city over a 25,000-seat stadium that would rest at the north end of the park, costing up to $350 million and using 10 to 13 acres currently occupied by the Fountain of the Planets, or Industry Pond.

Barring any hiccups, construction would start in 2014 and be completed by 2016 the latest, according to the commissioner. Yet the devil is in the details.

The league’s filings with the city call for a

35,000-seat structure, a provisional measure in case increasing popularity would mandate an expansion. The 10,000 additional seats would not increase the stadium’s footprint, according to league’s spokeswoman Risa Heller.

The plan must go through the Universal Land Use Review Procedure, face a council vote and also get approval at the state level. MLS must also alienate and create park space elsewhere in the city to replace the lost acreage within the park.

ULURP calls for an Environmental Impact Statement that provides a big-picture look at the stadium’s effect on the surrounding area.

The EIS will quantify many of the uncertainties in contention at the moment. But its timing allows MLS to base its environmental assessment on the area’s condition during the first build year. The technicality allows MLS to ignore a planned redevelopment of Willets Point and a proposed one-acre expansion of the United States Tennis Association’s facilities within the park — possibly painting a rosier picture.

The league is confident its proposal will ultimately be seen as a positive addition.

The franchise and stadium would fit the character of a global borough with an immigrant population keeping soccer close to its heart, Garber said, adding the league checked potential sites citywide before settling on Flushing Meadows.

The stadium comes with promises of

increased economic activity to the tune of 2,100 to 2,300 construction jobs, and an additional 160 full-time and 750 part-time jobs. The league also plans to improve existing soccer fields within the park, add volleyball courts and make additional improvements to open spaces. The latter, Garber admitted, has its limits.

“There is a ceiling to what we’re willing to spend,” he said, pointing to the $10 million the league will invest only on rejuvenating the soccer fields.

But not everyone is welcoming the plan with open arms.

An amalgam of local groups, called the Fairness Coalition of Queens, has held a series of town hall meetings to garner community support against the project.

“Bringing a stadium to Queens has its merits, but its location is problematic,” said Anna Dioguardi, Director of Community Organizing and Development at the Queens Community House, which is a member of the coalition.

Aside from the loss of open space, the influx of pedestrian and car traffic would have a negative impact on the surrounding parkland, she added.

The league estimates over 50 percent of visitors will use mass transit, and the stadium will not host one of its up to 20 MLS games during the U.S. Open or a Mets home game. Also, “not one blade of grass will be used for parking,” Garber said and only one acre of what is

A dispute between a terminally ill, incapacitated Flushing woman begging to be allowed to die and her pastor father reportedly ended on Wednesday when a judge granted the R ev. M a n H o L e e s t a t u s a s h i s d a u g h t e r S u n g e u n G r a c e L e e ’s health proxy and guardian, after the father and daughter already made amends.

The decision ends what had become a textbook right-to-life case.

The 28-year-old Grace Lee was found to have a tumor on her brain stem last November, eventually suffering from a seizure last month.

Doctors at North Shore University Hospital in Long Island have said Lee is paralyzed from the neck down and terminally ill.

The former bank executive, bedridden and kept alive by a ventilator, originally requested the machinery keeping her alive be unplugged. Her father, a devout Christian pastor from Seoul, South Korea, fought her decision and requested guardianship over his daughter.

Grace Lee reportedly changed her mind and made amends with her parQ ents over the weekend.

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currently green space will be lost.

Some Queens natives are an admittedly sentimental bunch, with many against the stadium proposing the park be rejuvenated instead.

Garber said he cannot account for why some of the World’s Fair’s structures have fallen into disrepair.

“The question is what’s that Fountain of PlanQ ets like now?” he said.

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F. Hills Staples to close The Staples office supply and services store at 107-16 71st Ave. in Forest Hills will close its doors for good on Oct. 28, according to a statement issued by the company on Wednesday.

A spokeswoman said all employees from

the site have been offered other positions in the company. A sign in the window is directing customers to other Staples stores at 90-30 Metropolitan Ave., and 61-35 Junction Blvd.

The Forest Hills Chamber of Commerce could not be reached for comment.

continued from page 6 are given van service to the subway so they do not need to walk through the neighborhood. BASICS also said it sends security guards to the school three times a day, although at least two members of the school staff said that was not the case.

But parents say despite all that, the men are still causing problems.

“They’re sizing up the mothers with their eyes,” Soldano said.

Lisa Black, director for government relations at DHS, said the agency does not know if a man entering a shelter is a sex offender or not until after he is moved in.

But many parents, as well as Community Board 10 Chairwoman Betty Braton, wanted to know why so many sex offenders lived there. Black said that was not a decision on her agency’s part. She flatly denied the agency decided to move the men’s shelter to the site because other neighborhoods did not want it.

Wills said he hopes to find some solution to the problem as quickly as possible and before anyone gets hurt.

“The city’s mandate is to house the homeless,” he said. “And the city’s mandate is to also to take care of its own, especially seniors and children. I didn’t get the memo about when those things Q became mutually exclusive.”

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Men plead guilty to sex trafficking charge Two men pleaded guilty this week to sex trafficking, forcing a young teenage girl into prostitution for their own financial gain, and beating her when she said she no longer wanted to â&#x20AC;&#x153;workâ&#x20AC;? for them, according to the Queens District Attorneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office.

The defendants, Shaquan Gould, 21, of South Ozone Park and Evan Harrington, 21, of the Bronx, both pleaded guilty last Thursday to one count of sex trafficking.

They will each receive an indeterminate term of three to nine years in prison when they are sentenced on Oct. 23.

Forced girl, 14, into prostitution, beat her â&#x20AC;&#x153;The defendants in this case admitted to forcing a young girl to perform sexual acts with various men against her will,â&#x20AC;? Queens DA Richard Brown said in a prepared statement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sex trafficking is a serious and disturbing crime that my office continues to vigorously pursue and prosecute.â&#x20AC;?

Brown noted that the defendantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; guilty pleas bring the number of sex trafficking convictions obtained by his off ice to eight, since state legislation strengthening

penalties for the crime and providing assistance to victims took effect on Nov. 1, 2007.

The 14-year-old victim met with defendant Harrington on April 19, and he took her to a residence located at 135-38 123 St. in Jamaica, where she then met Gould.

The two defendants told the victim to engage in prostitution acts at the Jamaica home between April 19 and April 26 and

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to give all of her earnings from her customers to them.

When the victim told Harrington that she no longer wanted to work for them, he struck her about the face and body, the DA said. The victim managed to escape from the house on April 26 and called a relative, who then called police.

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Expired farm bill leaves Queens residents paying up to $6 a gallon

by Trevina Nicholson Chronicle Contributor

A sudden hike in milk prices at some stores and the likelihood they’ll rise elsewhere have left many Queens grocery storeowners and residents wondering how will they cope U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said on Sept. 30 that if the House of Representatives doesn’t soon pass a new Farm Bill, which passed the Senate but hasn’t moved in the House because the Republican majority wants to cut it, milk could soon hit $6 a gallon.

The next day, that’s exactly what happened in some stores in Queens. One was the J and J Superstar Deli on Woodhaven Boulevard in Rego Park — although the next day the price dropped back to $5.49.

Ayman Alim, the store’s owner, said everything is getting too expensive, noting that he has to pay for more than just the delivery and the person driving the truck.

“I have to pay rent, light, employees and gas,” Alim said. “Who’s going to pay $6 a gallon for milk?”

And, he predicted, “The eggs and meat are going to be up too — it’s all from the same cow.”

Grocery store manager Margarita Lee, who also runs a store on Woodhaven Boulevard, worries about the loss of revenue to her business if the bill, which is passed every

Milk for sale at the J and J Superstar Deli in Rego Park. five to seven years and provides subsidies that keep the price down, is not passed soon.

“People are going to buy less milk,” she said. “It’s going to be terrible.”

Lee explained that she already had to release a few employees due to the slow business she has been getting.

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“Since BJ’s came into business, small business die,” she said.

Not all stores are raising prices yet, however. The Merrick Deli, located on 119th Avenue in Jamaica, said their milk is still at $4.99 a gallon.

The Farm Bill was generated during the

Great Depression with the sole purpose of supporting farmers and ranch owners to maintain their land. The bill also helps everyday consumers with affordable prices, at the expense of federal taxpayers.

Schumer blames the House GOP leadership for holding it up.

“They say you shouldn’t cry over spilled milk, but it seems perfectly reasonable to cry over a hundred-percent increase in the price,” he said. “This is an entirely avoidable and unnecessary burden on families, and it could be easily addressed. All the leaders of the House of Representatives have to do is put the bipartisan Senate Farm Bill on the floor for a vote. It will pass, and we can avoid this problem all together.”

Councilman Dan Halloran (R-Whitestone), who is running for a House seat against Assemblywoman Grace Meng (DFlushing) believes instead that both parties need to come to a new agreement.

“There is no one easy way to the solution,” Halloran said, adding that he sees signs of inflation that could keep driving the price up anyway.

“I don’t see it coming down anytime soon.”

He also has other concerns with the Farm Bill. “Farmers are being paid to not grow certain crops,” he noted, asserting that that causes a ripple effect that ultimately hurts Q consumers.

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Business regulation revamp announced City Council considers easing the code for mom-and-pop violations and fines

by Dovilas Bukauskas Chronicle Contributor

At the beginning of the month, the New York City Council announced legislation focused on easing or eliminating excessive or unnecessary regulations placed on small businesses by the city.

The bill is less focused on adding regulations than it is on changing existing rules and making them easier for businesses to work with. One change, for example, would give businesses a â&#x20AC;&#x153;warningâ&#x20AC;? for some violations, which will give them the opportunity to learn about some regulations before having to pay for violating them. â&#x20AC;&#x153;More emphasis needs to be placed on educating business owners on how to better comply with regulations, not on punishing business owners when they fail to do so,â&#x20AC;? reads a press release issued by the lawmakers, led by Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D-Manhattan).

The council members also promise to identify and cut obsolete regulations, as well as to streamline the process by which small businesses register themselves and how they communicate with city regulators. For example, the press release says that the Place of Assembly permitting process required for businesses â&#x20AC;&#x153;is currently an overly complicated process that involves duplicate work by the Department of Buildings and the Fire Department.â&#x20AC;?

Jacob Bruno of Kalish Pharmacy in Ozone Park has complained about overly burdensome city regulations in the past, but says that things have gotten much better. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At the time they were being very abusive,â&#x20AC;&#x153; he said, referring to recycling f ines he had received in 2011. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They overpowered us with so many regulations, penalties and fines, but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve really eased up.â&#x20AC;? Bruno attributed the ease-up on regulations in part to local Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park). â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to operate a business and get things done when there are so many issues that we arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t aware of or that are simply irrelevant,â&#x20AC;? said Farid Lancheros of Bogota Latin Bistro in Park Slope. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are antiquated laws that have no impact on health and safety. I know of another restaurant that got f ined for having napkins that were a quarter of an inch shorter than their silverware.â&#x20AC;?

At one point, Lancheros says he was fined $100 for having an open chalk sign on the sidewalk on a Sunday. According to him, the antiquated regulation demanded that shopkeepers lean chalk sidewalk signs against their buildings on Sundays instead of keeping them open in an â&#x20AC;&#x153;Aâ&#x20AC;? position. Lancheros said he is not sure why that is the case. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rules and regulations change, and usually businesses only find out by being fined,â&#x20AC;? said Jeff Bank, owner of the small national

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Carmineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s restaurant chain and president of the New York Hospitality Alliance. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For the last 25 years, people were allowed to leave tomatoes out to ripen. The Health Department changed the regulation so that you had to refrigerate tomatoes. No problem, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not difficult for me to refrigerate those tomatoes, it wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cost me extra. But they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tell you, and all of a sudden you get a violation for those tomatoes and you get a $1,000 fine.â&#x20AC;?

Ulrich, whom local businesses have credited with helping them deal with their violations, said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The main agitator is the Health Department. They nickel and dime pizzerias and other restaurants. When a restaurant or pizzeria gets a visit from a health inspector, they get fines for sometimes suspicious or frivolous violations.

The Health Department has been used as a revenue generator for the city. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The City Council is really leading the way in reducing burdensome regulation,â&#x20AC;?

Ulrich said of the new legislation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Government needs to get out of the way of the private sectorâ&#x20AC;? to allow it to create jobs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m optimistic, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not holding my breath,â&#x20AC;? said Lancheros. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bloated with bureaucracy. Getting people to play together nicely is difficult. This is a very good sign, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just hoping that they follow through.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a small step to a bigger process,â&#x20AC;? said

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When renowned environmental scientist and iconoclast Barry Commoner died on Sept. 30 at the age of 95, much was made of his status as the father of environmentalism. But the one-time presidential candidate also had deep ties in Queens, where he worked for over two decades.

Commoner was a member of the faculty at Queens College during two stints in his career, first teaching biology in the 1940s.

The biologist then focused his research on the environmental effects of the postWorld War II industrial boom. The result? A new focus on the dangers of dioxins, the untapped use of solar energy and recycling.

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“Every time DOT does traffic calming, it diverts traffic onto residential streets,” he said.

Dardani suggested building traffic islands on Lefferts Boulevard to keep vehicles from driving over the yellow lines in the center of the street, something the DOT did not promise, but agreed to look at.

“We like to be conservative,” Altmix said.

“We don’t want to take everything away at the start.”

McCarthy also took a suggestion to add countdown clocks to Lefferts Boulevard, adding that the thoroughfare is one being

considered for installation of the pedestrian safety devices.

The representatives from the DOT also entertained a suggestion to end the changes at 135th Avenue instead of 149th Avenue, which would keep Lefferts Boulevard as is for the one-block stretch that includes stores and restaurants including Foodtown and Don Peppe. A few members of the community board suggested the reduction to one lane would negatively affect the parking lot at Foodtown which exits onto Lefferts Boulevard.

The concerns over the plan led Peter Granickas, one of the more outspoken members of CB 10, to suggest the DOT take back a radical suggestion.

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Blasts judge for alleged bias, says he should recuse himself from case

by AnnMarie Costella Assistant Editor

Merit Matters, an organization than opposes race-based hiring in the FDNY, is firing back against the Vulcan Society, a fraternal organization of black firefighters, and its attorney for consistently intimating that the group is trying to keep the department free of minorities.

The battle is centered on a ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Nicholas Garaufis stating that the department’s entrance exams given in 1999, 2002 and 2007 were biased because of the small number of minorities who passed.

The latest war of words followed the first day of a fairness hearing held on Oct. 1. It was designed to allow those who oppose the outcome of the bias lawsuit, launched by the Vulcans and U.S. Justice Department, to air their grievances. Some 300 members of Merit Matters showed up to demonstrate their disapproval, according to the group’s founder, Deputy Chief Paul Mannix.

The Vulcans also held a press conference, at which their lawyer, Darius Charney, with the Center for Constitutional Rights, called the protesters, though not mentioning Merit Matters by name, “disgruntled white firefighters,” and asking them to “step aside,” something that infuriated Mannix.

“We are not stirring up hostility; if anything, we are providing an appropriate outlet for the

Paul Mannix, center in white, accompanied by his lawyer, Keith Sullivan, talks to a reporter, in hat.

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resentment held by firefighters of all races and both genders to the “disgraceful and humiliating” (in the words of an Hispanic Battalion Chief) arguments made by the Vulcan Society,” Mannix said in a written rebuttal.

According to Mannix, there were very few speakers voicing their support for the Vulcan Society, with those who did speak at the hearing complaining that although they passed the test, they didn’t get a job.

“Relevant details, unfortunately, were left out,” Mannix said. “What was your score and list number? Did you follow up and keep all appointments, or fail another part of the process?”

Mannix, who is not a spokesman for the FDNY, recalled one speaker in particular who claimed that after he took the exam he was offered a position as an EMT. “While I think this claim is specious,” Mannix said, “I gave this gentleman my phone number and said if he was treated unfairly Merit Matters will advocate for him.”

Paul Washington, immediate past president and a spokesman for the Vulcan Society, could not immediately be reached for comment. He holds that Garaufis’ decision and the creation of a new exam will ensure that the Fire Department is as diverse as the city it represents.

Mannix has long maintained that Garaufis should recuse himself because he appeared to demonstrate empathy for the Vulcans. A recent article in the New York Times, Mannix said, confirmed his suspicions.

Garaufis vigorously opposed the integration of his area school district in the 1970s and was labeled racist by black parents, according to the report. It also said that he once asked an African-American judge, “How does it feel to be a black person in society?”

“That is a very telling part of his life,” Mannix said. “Is he trying to exhibit empathy? A judge is not supposed to be empathetic, he is supposed to make decisions based on cold, hard facts.”

Mannix also noted that Garaufis’ nephew had taken the FDNY exam and was seeking a position in the department, another reason why, he said, the judge should step aside.

He cited a Supreme Court ruling, which states that “any justice, judge, or magistrate judge of the United States shall disq u a l i f y h i m s e l f i n a ny p r o c e e d i n g i n which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.”

It requires recusal when, “He or his spouse, or a person within the third degree of relationship to either of them, or the spouse of such a person … is known by the judge to have an interest that could be substantially affected by Q the outcome of the proceeding.”

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‘This is a Queens-bound [inaudible]’ Subway announcements clearer, but many still poor, survey finds Campaign used 69 volunteers from mid-January through the end of April to make 6,000 Subway announcements of delays and observations of in-car announcements on 20 other disruptions are clearer than they’ve ever subway lines. The participants experienced 116 been since the Straphangers Campaign started delays during that time.

For the 2011 survey, which was released last analyzing them in 1997, but they’re still comprehensible and accurate only a little more Thursday in conjunction with the 2012 report, than half the time, the transit advocacy group 62 volunteers made the same number of observations on the same number of lines, experiencreported Oct. 4. ing 148 delays and serFifty-nine percent of vice changes. the announcements were The reports were not clear and correct in 2012, udibility is far better on broken down by specific the Straphangers Camsome trains, such as routes.

But the paign reported, compared Straphangers also to 51 percent in 2011 and the N and Q, than on reported on basic in-car 40 percent in 2010. The announcements, those 2012 survey marked the others, such as the 7. naming the next stop, a 11th time since 1997 that train’s direction and the the organization, an arm of the New York Public Interest Research like, and in that case did report its findings for Group, studied the announcements by deploying individual lines.

It found that announcements such as “This is volunteers throughout the system.

“In the previous 10 surveys, in a majority of a Manhattan-bound E train; the next stop is delays and disruptions experienced by our Queens Plaza” and “Stand clear of the closing raters, there was either no announcement — or doors” were also made more often and more an inaudible, garbled or incorrect one,” the clearly than before — but that they were least comprehensible on two lines that run through group said in its report.

Fourteen percent of the time there was no Queens, the R and the 7.

Only 56 percent of those basic announceannouncement to explain a delay, 3 percent of the statements were inaudible or garbled and 24 ments were clear and accurate on the R train in 2012, down from 70 percent in 2011 and 62 perpercent were determined to be incorrect.

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Systemwide, the notifications were audible and correct 85 percent of the time this year, virtually the same as the 86 percent in 2011 and the 83 percent in 2010.

The best line for in-car announcements was the 4, on which the Straphangers found that 100 percent were clear in 2012.

Several others scored 99 percent, including, in Queens, the N and Q. The audibility of other Queens lines rated as follows: • M and E — 98 percent; • J — 97 percent; • F — 96 percent; • A — 79 percent; • G — 71 percent; and • C — 69 percent.

The R was the citywide leader in garbled or inaudible announcements, with those being made 27 percent of the time; while 7 train riders heard no announcement more often than anyone else, 20 percent of the time.

Overall, however, “We found that transit Two trains that run through Queens, the R and 7, officials are doing a better job keeping rid- have the least understandable in-car announcements ers informed,” the Straphangers’ campaign of any line in the city, according to a new study by field organizer, Jason Chin-Fatt, said in the the Straphangers Campaign. Here a 7 train operator Q PHOTO BY JULIE COURT speaks into the mike. report.

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by Joseph Orovic Chronicle Contributor

No perceived good deed goes unpunished. At least not in politics.

A robocall used by Joe Concannon, the Republican challenger in the 11th Senate District race, lambasts incumbent state Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) for appearing at a Muslim parade that featured radical Islamic speakers.

The call to potential voters followed the usual script of accusatory questioning, denouncing the first-term senator for a series of alleged misdeeds.

“Did you know that Tony Avella went to Manhattan to support a radical Islamic preacher who supports anti-American ideologies last week?” it asked, according to a transcript provided by the campaign. “A vote for Tony Avella is too much a gamble.”

The robocall goes on to laud the former NYPD captain Concannon for various spells of public service.

The robocall goes on to reference Avella’s walkout on the 27th Annual United American Muslim Day Parade, which went viral on YouTube — at least by local political standards.

Golden Dawn continued from page 26 what happened and Golden Dawn’s announcement of an office in Astoria was discovered. The party has also recently opened a chapter in Montreal, which was met with protests.

The party’s appearance in Astoria is not the first time a radical movement found its way into the neighborhood. Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D-Astoria) said when his father represented the neighborhood on the City Council in 1978, his office was firebombed by a neoNazi group after he led a protest against them.

“He didn’t back down, the community

During a post-parade ceremony, two speakers made controversial declarations, one calling for a global ban on blasphemous speech, the other referencing “Zionist Nazis” and unborn Muslim “martyrs.”

Avella silently left during the speeches, in objection to the content, and refused to comment immediately after the event.

According to Concannon, the appearance itself was an offense.

“By staying in this parade and standing up on the bandshell, it’s a tacit endorsement of everything that was going on,” he said.

“As far as I’m concerned, these speakers were radicals. ” Avella dismissed the accusations, saying Concannon should be ashamed of himself.

“Does he not know that there are Muslims in this Senate district?” he said. “He does not believe that the Muslims in the 11th Senatorial District need any attention?

There’s apparently racist overtones to his campaign.”

Concannon said Avella should have more important business to attend to, preferably something closer to home.

“My priorities would be attending a Q parade in the district,” he said.

didn’t back down then and we won’t back down now,” he said.

A public meeting against the Golden Dawn was held on Tuesday, Oct. 9 at 7 p.m. at the Church of the Redeemer, 30-14 Crescent St. in Astoria and is being hosted by a number of groups including the New York chapter of the Greek Left Movement and Occupy Astoria-LIC. Greek citizens living in Astoria can and have voted in Greek elections, including the two held earlier this year. Simotas says there are about 16,500 registered Greek voters in the district who can cast ballots in elections at home. She said she did not know how many did in May and June, though total turnout was low for both. Q

Go pink in October for the cure!

The Queens Chronicle supports National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and on Oct. 18 will publish a section dedicated to awareness and early detection of breast cancer.

Breast Cancer Awareness Month has been celebrated each year since 1985.

While the pink ribbon may seem like it’s been in use for just as long, it actually came to symbolize the battle against the disease only about 20 years ago.

Pink had already been associated with breast cancer in the past. Just a few years earlier, the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer

Foundation had given out pink visors to its Race for the Cure participants. It had also created a pink ribbon. The pink ribbon quickly took off and now every October, women are urged to don pink.

Today, people rarely think twice when they see pink ribbons. Many embrace the pink ribbon as a symbol of hope, one that has done its share of work toward spreading the word about the need for more breast cancer awareness and research.

For more information contact the American Cancer Society at cancer.org or by callQ ing 1 (800) 227-2345.

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The materials used for Isamu Noguchi's sculptures, featured here in all pictures, changed depending on his surroundings.

In New York he focused more on metal and landscape architecture; on porcelain in Japan; and on granite in Italy.

In LIC, a look at Noguchi

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by Josey Bartlett

Isamu Noguchi didn’t sit still.

In 1906 his mother, Léonie Gilmour, an American writer, took Noguchi to Japan to be closer to his poet father, Yone Noguchi, just two years after his birth in Los Angeles. Twelve years later he was sent to back to the states for schooling, and thus started his travels within the U.S. and abroad, which eventually reached into his artistic career.

As a sculptor, Noguchi worked in France, Mexico, Italy, Japan, China and beyond.

The Noguchi Museum’s associate curator, Matthew Kirsch, said it was almost impossible to track the nomad back to all his workspaces.

“He was very transient,” Kirsch said.

Although some of his stints at studios only lasted a few months, each still left a mark on his work.

When he lived in New York City, Noguchi experimented with metal — inspired by the skyscrapers surrounding him — as well as with landscape architecture and creating oases within the city.

He moved into his studio on 10th Street in Long Island City in 1961, which he used to create art as well as to collaborate with assistants who helped manufacture his sculptures, until his death in 1988. Even though he had his headquarters in LIC for the last 20 years of life, he still continued to travel to his studios in Japan and Italy.

He opened the museum across from his studio in 1985, where it still remains today.

At the museum, the exhibition “Hammer, Chisel, Drill: Noguchi’s Studio Practice,” which opened last week, explores five studios that made a lasting impression on his art, includContinued onpage page48 ing his 10th Street home. continued on

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MEETINGS

Queens Historical Society presents “Permanent Residence: Uncovering the Cemeteries of Queens” through April at the Kingsland Homestead, 143-35 37 Ave. in Flushing. Call (718) 939-0647, ext. 17 or email info@queenshistoricalsociety.org

A women’s prayer breakfast will be held on Saturday Oct. 13 at 10 a.m. at the Salvation Army, 45-18 Broadway, Astoria. There will be special presentations, music and breakfast following the meeting. There will be translation to Spanish. RSVP at (718) 721-9046.

Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, 11-03 45 Ave., Long Island City, announces the continuation of its program of independently-curated exhibitions: “Contested Territories,” that will remain on view through Jan. 6, 2013. Contested Territories is an exhibition that explores the interaction of the city and society in an age of conflict. Gallery hours are Thursday through Monday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and by appointment.

A leisure group meets every Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. at the Hillcrest Jewish Center, Prince Room, 183-02 Union Turnpike, Flushing. Cost is $7 for lunch. The program includes yoga instruction, discussion groups, card games, bingo, birthday celebrations, guest speakers and holiday celebrations. For info., call Dr. Roz Gold at (718) 229-7511.

Reopening after extensive renovations, the GodwinTernbach Museum at Queens College will mark the event by exhibiting the work of Swiss abstract artist H.A. Sigg through Oct. 26. This retrospective of nearly 40 paintings and numerous collages celebrates the career of a remarkable octogenarian artist.

Museum hours are Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

“Three Generations” features the works of three generations of the Aguilera family — artists Raphael, Florencio and Chench. Their paintings and drawings capture the history of Ayamonte, Spain from 1903 to the present day. The exhibit opens at the Queensborough Community College Art Gallery, 225-05 56 Ave. in Bayside beginning Friday, Oct. 12 and will continue through Jan. 5. For more information visit the website at QCCArtGallery@qcc.cuny.edu or call (718) 631-6396.

AUDITIONS STAR is looking for actors to audition for established senior repertory company. Call (718) 776-0529.

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W H AT ’ S H A P P E N I N G

AARP Chapter 2889 meets on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month at noon at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 69-60 Grand Ave., Maspeth. New members are welcome. Parking available. On Wednesday, Oct. 17 there will be karaoke.

FOR KIDS Flushing Town Hall hosts the Guyi Guyi puppet show on Saturday, Oct. 20 at 2:15 p.m.

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‘Octogenarians of Jazz’ on Saturday, Oct. 13 at 3 p.m. at Steinway Reformed Church, 41st Street and Ditmars Boulevard in Astoria. The concert will feature Nonagenarian tenor saxophonist Fred Staton accompanied by Carol’s quartet. The free event includes a talk by Staton and a jam session for young and old Queens talents in the last two numbers.

St. Nicholas of Tolentine Parish continues to run its outdoor flea market every Saturday and Sunday through Nov. 25 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. It is located at the intersection of Parsons Boulevard and Union Turnpike in Jamaica.

World-renowned tabla player and Yale faculty member Samir Chatterjee, bansuri flutist Steve Gorn and others will officially launch the Year of India with a free concert, Hindustani Music of North India, on Friday, Oct. 12 at 10 a.m. in LeFrak Concert Hall, Queens College campus, 63-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing.

The Israel Center of Conservative Judaism, 167-11 73 Ave. in Flushing, is hosting lectures on Friday, Oct. 12 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 13 at 10:30 a.m. and 8 p.m. about domestic violence. For more information visit the website at renilow@aol.com or call (718) 591-5353, ext. 4.

The AARP Queens Chorus performs at Queens nursing homes and rehab/senior centers. If interested in joining call (718) 523-1330 for audition dates.

Queensborough Performing Arts Center, 222-05 56 Ave., in Bayside presents Tony Orlando in Concert with special guest Elayne Boosler on Sunday, Oct. 14 at 7 p.m. Tickets: $40. For more information visit the website at visitqpac.org or call (718) 631-6311.

THEATRE

FLEA MARKETS

The New Theatre Players of St. Helen’s presents Joe DiPietro’s “Over the River and Through the Woods” at 157th Avenue and 84th Street in Howard Beach on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, October 18, 19, and 20 at 8 p.m. and on Sunday, Oct. 21 at 3 p.m. For reservations and/or further information call (718) 848-8448. Tickets are $12 and $10 for seniors.

Church of Resurrection, 85-09 118 St., Kew Gardens, will be having its Autumn Treasure, Bake and Book sale on Saturday, Oct. 20 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 21 from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

MUSIC Join a forum which will focus on “Korean Traditional Music, Today and Tomorrow,” including a panel discussion, Q&A and a networking reception at Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Boulevard on Wednesday, Oct. 17 from 6-10 p.m. The event will be in English. Suggested admission is $10. Members are free.

Carol Sudhalter’s Astoria Jazz Band will give its fourth and final concert in the grant-funded series

Redeemer Lutheran Church, 69-07 Cooper Ave., Glendale, hosts a rummage sale on Thursday, Oct. 18 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m, Friday, Oct. 19 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 20 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

A rummage sale will be held on Friday, Oct. 12 and Saturday, Oct. 13 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at United Methodist Church, 112-14 107 Ave., Richmond Hill.

St. Josaphat’s R.C. Church of Bayside, 34-32 210 St. in Bayside, will hold a flea market plus ethnic Polish bake sale on Sunday, Oct. 14 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Parish Hall.

LECTURE

Join master puppeteers from the Periferia Theater project in Murica, Spain in a puppetry workshop, Guyi-Guyi, at Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd., on Saturday, Oct. 20 at 1 p.m. Cost is $6/$4 children/members free with tickets to 2:15 p.m. show. Tickets to the 2:15 p.m. show cost $12/$10 members; $8/$6 members children. For ages 8 and up. Maximum 25 participants.

CLASSES A points/insurance reduction defensive driving course will be held in the VFW Hall, 102-17 160 Ave., Howard Beach, on Saturday, Oct. 13 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Cost is $35. Call Keith at (917) 599-6674 or visit progressive-training-ltd.com

A forum entitled “Obama or Romney — Who’s Better for Israel” will be held at the Reform Temple of Forest Hills, 71-11 112 St., on Sunday, Oct. 14 at 10:30 a.m. The participants will be Dan Fleshler, author of “Transforming America’s Israel Lobby — and Jeff Wiesenfeld, who has served in various government positions including the foreign counterintelligence division of the FBI. The moderator will be David Halperin, executive director of the Israel Policy Forum. The event is free. Pre-registration is required. Call (718) 261-2900.

Qualified instructors from Flotilla 12-01 of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary will hold an About Boating Safety class at Fort Totten in Bayside on Sunday Oct. 21 at 8:30 a.m. This class is for recreational boaters. Certification is required for boating in NJ waters, and operating a PWC in the Tri-State waters. The fee is $65. Pre-registration required.

Call Mike Kaff at (917) 952-7014 or Ralph Traub at (347) 336-5866, email 12-01@verizon.net or visit uscgaux1201.org

St. John’s University Vincentian Center for Church and Society is sponsoring the “Beyond Accommodation: Embracing Persons with Disabilities” conference on Tuesday, Oct. 16 from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the University’s D’Angelo Center, 80-00 Utopia Parkway, Room 416 ABC. Mark Shriver, senior vice president of Save the Children’s U.S. Programs, will serve as the keynote speaker. To register or for more information call (718) 990-1612.

Central YM & YWHA, 67-09 108 St. in Forest Hills is now offering a ballet fitness fusion class which will combine the fundamentals of ballet barre work with traditional fitness training. This Wednesday class is designed to strengthen, tone and shape the lower body. Classes will run through Wednesday, Dec. 19. Free for members of the CQY; nonmembers can purchase a 10-class card at $150. One can start classes anytime.

Join the American Association of University Women in a dialogue about women’s issues such as equity and preventing violence at Queensborough Community College, 222-05 56 Ave., Bayside on Wednesdays, Oct. 17 and 24 and Nov. 7 from 6:30-8:30 p.m.

There is a one-time registration fee of $15. Call (718) 631-6675 or (718) 631-6343.

The Sisterhood of Bay Terrace Jewish Center, 13-00 209 St., Bayside, will be giving a defensive driving course on two Thursday evenings, Oct. 18 and 25 from 7-10 p.m. Participants are eligible for lower insurance rates and point reduction. It is good for three years and the cost is $50 per person. To register call Harriet Wolfe at (718) 423-6426.

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A ‘Halloween Spectacular’ at the library person at the library prior to the start of the class using a library card. The Corona branch is located at For the rest of October the folks at the Queens 38-23 104 St. The program is limited to 30 people.

Library will be hosting a variety of “Halloween Next the Queens Library at Flushing, located at Spectacular” events around the borough.

41-17 Main St., is having a Halloween parade, At “Halloween Crafts,” children are invited to wherein the kids can dress up in costumes like Dismake different Halloween-themed paper decora- ney princesses, baby pumpkins and pirates, and tions to kick off the library’s “Spooktacular Hal- parade around the plaza of the library. loween.” Some of these crafts will Joanne King, the library’s director include paper jack-o-lanterns, bat of communications, explained that banners, trick-or-treat paint art the parade is a way that the kids and much more. can dress up and show off their The craft time will be held on costumes while the parents can When: Through Oct. 31 Oct. 24 and 25 at the Fresh Meadfeel at ease without the worry of Where: Queens Library, ows and Windsor Park libraries. the kids going door-to-door. various branches Other locations include LeFrak “It’s a way to keep safe and Tickets: Free.

City, Peninsula and the Queens enjoy themselves at the library, she (718) 990-0728 Central Library, all being held on said. “It’s a place where they can queenslibrary.org Oct. 30 and 31. have a good time.”

Another Halloween happening Lastly, the “Halloween Party” is at the Corona Library only is a a main attraction that offers kids a face-painting class being taught in Spanish, which fun, spooky night at the Seaside Library, located at is designed to help parents “become an expert” 116-15 Rockaway Beach Blvd in Rockaway. It will in “fantasy makeup, hair styles, and fingernail be held at 4 p.m on Halloween. decorations.” The parents will use a nontoxic Children ages 4 and above are welcome. Guests water-based paint for the unearthly things they are asked to come in costume and to bring packwill create. aged food and drinks.

The event will be held on Oct. 19 and 26 at 5 For the times of other events including more Q p.m. Preregistration is required and must be done in spooktacular activities visit Queenslibrary.org

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The national Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response created a zombie preparedness page on its website as a way to reach a “varied” — aka lots of guys and one reporter googling zombies — audience: “If you are generally well equipped to deal with a zombie apocalypse you will be prepared for a hurricane, pandemic, earthquake, or terrorist attack,” PHPR Director Ali Khan said.

Astoria premiered its Thanksgiving zombie walk last year and zombies were Actors Eric Bailey, left, Jada Sanders, Miriam Lipner, Kevin a popular costume for Russo and Matt Bernhard play zombie surviors and adults last Halloween in nonsurviors, but we won’t tell which is which, in “Zombies” bars with an unlimited at the Secret Theater.

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And the popular AMC television series group of strangers have found each other.

“The Walking Dead,” which chronicles a They set up base in the upstairs of an sheriff on his mission to find survivors of a abandoned house under the semi-leaderzombie apocalypse, will premier its third ship of Joe, played by Eric Bailey, who named the group and house “Jojo-opolis.” season on Sunday.

Bailey was humorous, talking directly to In that vein the Secret Theater in Long Island City presents Salvatore Brienik’s the audience to give a different viewpoint, “Zombies” through Oct. 20 — with $2 of while the other actors turned into vegetaeach ticket purchase going to the Food bles, slabs of meat and hunks of cheese — Bank for New York City. This is part of the which is apparently how zombies view the mission of Breaking the Proscenium — one human species. These costumes, complete half of the production company duo bring- with exposed brains, were unique and ing “Zombies” to LIC, the other half being pretty cool.

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The show, performed on the theater’s inti- with her portrayal of the stern, no-noncontinued on page 00 50 mate stage, flips between the ridiculous side sense character. of this madeup apocalypse and the serious vantage point of how it would feel to be one of only a few people still living, to lose family members and to fear being hunted.

“Zombies” begins with a radio personWhen: Oct. 11, 12, 13, 18, ality — played by Alex Ferrill, who is heard 19 and 20 at 8 p.m. but not seen — in the greater WashingOct. 14 and 20 at 3 p.m. ton, DC area, thanking his 17 or so listenWhere: Secret Theater, ers who had survived the “bird flu.” Then 44-02 23 St., LIC four of the five-person cast enter the stage Tickets: $18, (718) 392-0722 to plot their survival. secrettheatre.com A slow-walking, undead army has taken over the city — although the audience never sees them — and somehow this

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Sculpture that traveled around the world continued continuedfrom frompage page43 00 “Sculptors are receptive to their environment,” Kirsch said.

In 1942 Noguchi moved into the MacDougal Alley Studio in New York City, known as a haven for sculptors since the 19th century.

There he used softer materials such as slate and wood — collecting scraps from other artists using MacDougal Alley and from the nearby East River stone yards. These delicate materials required him to use power tools, which created a smoother and more consistent product.

The artist’s next major studio was a complete 180degree change from MacDougal Alley. In Kita Kamakura, Japan, he lived on the restaurateur and potter Kitaoji Rosanjin’s property.

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“Having lived in New York he was very drawn to the quiet life,” Kirsch said.

Noguchi lived in this idyllic setting with his actress wife, Shirley Yaguchi. Their marriage disintegrated — one factor could have been that she was not able to travel to the U.S. because of Japanese propaganda films she had acted in.

With the bare, mud wall backdrop of his studio, Naguchi began to work with ceramics. Rosanjin offered up a host of different clays from the area as well as different kilns and glazes to experiment with. During this short period, from 1952 to ’56, he created utilitarian items such as bowls, plates and mugs; and experimented with smaller, spontaneous, abstract forms.

After Japan he started visiting Querceta and Pietrasanta in Italy annually. There he began using marble from Henraux, the source from which Michelangelo allegedly took his materials. Here he played with the raw shape of the marble, using the contours of the freshly quarried stone to spark the inspiration for his sculptures.

In Italy he also bound pieces of marble together with steel, called post-tensioning, which allows for snake-like shapes and different colored rocks to be married together in one artwork.

The last studio represented in the exhibition is in Mure, Japan. Here Noguchi lived in a converted Samurai headquarters near a stonecutting village. He was drawn there because he wanted a challenge. He had worked with soft marble, and in Mure he utilized harder igneous rocks such as granite and basalt.

In Italy Isamu Noguchi tried his hand with a technique called post-tensioning, in which he would connect different types of marble together with metal rods.

PHOTO BY JOSEY BARTLETT Although some of the pieces from these different eras were sold, Noguchi kept a large collection — 250 sculptures, several hundred models and unfinished works, and 4,00 drawings — for himself, which can be seen at the Q museum named in his honor.

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The Jackson Heights Art Club offers art classes in all mediums, adults, children, days, evenings. Classes are held at St. Mark’s Church, 82nd Street and 34th Avenue. Costs are: adults, $75 for four sessions; children seven years and up, $50 for four sessions.

Membership available. For information, call Geraldine at (718) 446-4709.

The Sunnyside Community Senior Center, 43-31 39 St., Sunnyside, offers free classes in Argentine Tango every Thursday from 10 to 11 a.m. Beginning Tai Chi classes are Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. with the intermediate level on Thursdays at 11 a.m. Creative writing classes are at 1 p.m. on Thursdays. For more information call (718) 784-6173 ext. 411 or email jmonterroso@scsny.org.

Ongoing watercolor class every Wednesday from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the National Art League, 4421 Douglaston Pkwy., Douglaston. Instructor is Diane Leiberman. Fee is $25 per class. Call (718) 969-1128.

Suran Song offers a free yoga class every Wednesday from 8-9 a.m. at JH Laundromat, 85-15 37 Ave., Jackson Heights.

The YWCA of Queens, 42-07 Parsons Blvd., Flushing, has expanded its GED preparation program to include free adult classes. Tracks vary in length from 10 to 20 weeks depending upon entrance test results. Contact the YW and sign up for the next placement examination. Call Stacy McKelvey at (718) 353-4553 for more information or to reserve your placement exam seat.

Mindfulness Meditation one-hour class with Rabbi Michael Weisser at Free Synagogue of Flushing, 4160 Kissena Blvd., on Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. Free. For more information, call (718) 961-0030 or email info@freesynagogue.org.

Ongoing drawing class every Wednesday 1-4 p.m. at the National Art League, 44-21 Douglaston Pkwy, Douglaston. Instructor, Marc Jasloff. Call (516) 2237659. Fee: $25 per class.

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Meet outside Green-Wood Cemetery, entrance at 5th Avenue and 25th Street, for a Forgotten New York walking tour on Saturday, Oct. 13 at noon. Boss Tweed, Samuel Morse, mobster Albert Anastasia and additional little-known but fascinating figures are in store in this visit to the central and southwestern portions of GreenWood Cemetery. Fee is $20 to Greater Astoria Historical Society members and $25 for nonmembers.

SPECIAL EVENTS All Saints Episcopal Church, 43-16 46 St., Sunnyside hosts its annual Pumpkin Fair on Saturday, Oct. 13 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Enjoy lots of pumpkin treats, balloon animals, live music, a same-day raffle, great bargains and live music.

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PS 188Q Kingsbury School is having a 60th anniversary alumni event on Sunday, Oct. 21 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the school, 218-12 Hartland Ave., Bayside. It is for all past graduates of the school. There will be a ribbon cutting for the new playground.

5K Walk-Run Health Forum at Roy Wilkins Park at Merrick Boulevard in Jamaica will be held on Saturday, Oct. 13 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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Noguchi Museum associate curator, Matthew Kirsch, leads a tour and discussion on the special exhibition “Hammer, Chisel, Drill: Noguchi’s Studios Practice” on Sunday, Oct. 14 at 3 p.m. at The Noguchi Museum, 9-01 33 Road, Long Island City. Call or visit (718) 2047088 or noguchi.org

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The show dragged a little, but was entertaining on the whole. Miriam and Dan, played by Miriam Lipner and Kevin Russo respectively, added emotion to the play. Dan fell in love just like that and wasn’t quick to take any risk, while Miriam lost a loved one during the apocalypse and put on a tough exterior, but broke down easily.

Lastly, Tim the redneck, played by Matt Bernhard, was easy to not like, with his macho behavior. But, after all, every play needs a bad guy, and with so much hype and humor surrounding zombies, it’s hard to Q not feel for the recently undead.

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During the 1930s Robert Moses saw to it that beautiful parkways such as the Grand Central, Belt and Cross Island were built for motorists. Commercial vehicles, however, were and still are today prohibited from using these superhighways.

After World War II, going cross-island from north to south became a major problem for commercial vehicles. A more direct route from mid-Manhattan to the new Idlewild Airport, later renamed JFK, was sought. Moses chose to expand Van Wyck Boulevard into a new super-expressway.

It would still be named for Robert Anderson Van Wyck, the first mayor of Greater New York, the five boroughs consolidated in 1898. Van Wyck (correctly, or at least formerly, pronounced “Van Wike”), a part of the Tammany Hall political machine who never lived in Queens, fled to France in 1906 after an ice industry scandal killed his career and died there in 1918.

In May 1946 the demolition of homes along Van Wyck Boulevard for the new expressway began. But resident James B.

James B. Curry’s house being moved from Van Wyck Boulevard to South Ozone Park on May 17, 1946.

Curry, whose beautiful six-room English Tudor was barely 10 years old, opted instead to move his house to a vacant lot at 133rd Avenue and 140th Street in South Ozone Park. Other homeowners followed suit.

As soon as the early 1950s, the new expressway was already burdened with unexpectedly excessive traffic. Moses was mostly likely sorry he had not taken additional blocks of homes to expand its width.

After some extensions made over the years, the highway is 9.3 miles long and, together with the Whitestone Expressway and the southernmost sliver of the Hutchinson River Parkway, is designated I-678.

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According to the play “Zombies,” people look like food groups to the undead: Kevin Russo, left, Miriam Lipner and Jada PHOTO BY AL FOOTE Sanders.

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With the 2012 season now history, the Mets look ahead to 2013. General Manager Sandy Alderson makes no secret that the first order of business is to sign long-term contract extensions with Cy Young Award candidate RA Dickey and third baseman — and, far more importantly, franchise face — David Wright.

Alderson should also budget some funds for free agent-to-be outfielder Scott Hairston.

On a team infamous for its collective lack of home run prowess, Hairston belted 20 dingers playing more or less in a part-time role.

Although known for his bat more than his defense, Scott was also very reliable with his glove — and he’s a go-to person for the media to speak with before and after games, after losses as well as wins.

Manager Terry Collins announced that every member of his coaching staff will be returning. Given the team’s bullpen woes, shoddy defense and anemic hitting — which led to the traditional second half of the season blues that Mets fans have become all too familiar with — I am not sure that this is a good idea. Granted, coaches can only do so much, but the Mets’ decision to maintain the status quo reinforces the impression that the acceptance of mediocrity is an ingrained part of their corporate culture. In contrast, the

Phillies, who made a late dramatic push for the playoffs but fell short, fired three of their coaches the last day of the season.

A number of Mets fans became nervous reading an article in The New York Times this past Saturday about their beloved team talking to banks about refinancing their long-term debt. Given the post-Madoff financial fallout, consternation on the part of aficionados of the Amazin’s is an understandable gut reaction, but this is a nonstory. All enterprises routinely refinance long-term liabilities.

Is it possible that the operators of the world’s most famous thoroughbred racetrack, Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., are jealous of Aqueduct? Ryan Jordan, the general manager of Churchill Downs, was one of the many movers and shakers at the annual Sports Business Journal’s Sports Marketing Symposium, held in Manhattan last week. He told me that it was imperative for the home of the Kentucky Derby to have a casino because they are legal across the Ohio River in Indiana, and that’s killing his track’s revenue.

In a split that is becoming increasingly more apparent in the national Republican Party, the family values advocates are at odds with the pro-business wing of the Kentucky GOP. The values crowd is winning, according to Jordan, and that’s why gaming has not Q come to Churchill Downs.

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• Painting

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Since 1970

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• Window & Door Replacement

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CALL

VINYL SIDING SALE! Call For s ate tim Es Special EE FR

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OLD CORONA CONSTRUCTION CORP. Specializing in: Brick & Block (patio) Sidewalk, Driveways, Stoops, Interlock Brick Paving, Brick Pointing, Carpentry, Roofing and Waterproofing Lic. #1229326 Licensed & Insured 40 10% Discount with ad Call Billy 718-726-1934

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CARDI CONSTRUCTION CORP.

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• Bathrooms • Kitchens • Basements • Windows/Anderson/Pella/Skylights • Decks • Concrete • Pavers • Flooring • Painting • Sheetrock • Carpentry • Plumbing • Electrical • Extensions & New Construction ★ 20 Years Excellent Record with Consumer Affairs FREE ESTIMATES LICENSED AND INSURED

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• Brick • Stone • Concrete • Patios • Walks • Pool Areas • Basement Entrances • Fireplaces • Stoops • Cultured Stone Veneer Lic. & Insured

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HOME IMPROVEMENT HANDYMAN SERVICES

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500,000 Readers Weekly

By Advertising in Services

Painting Plastering Taping, Etc. Sheetrock

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Accepted

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• Kitchens & Bathrooms

& OVERSEAS MOVING SPECIALISTS

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Commercial and Residential • • • •

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Reach

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WE BUY ANTIQUES, GOLD, SILVER, OLD FURNITURE, PAINTINGS, OLD TOYS, TRAINS & COSTUME JEWELRY. 105-18 Metropolitan Ave. Forest Hills, NY

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Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: IEFA LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/03/2012. Office location is 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, 108-14 67 Rd., Forest Hills, NY 13175. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Great Stone Development LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/17/12. Office in Queens County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 135-21 Roosevelt Ave., #A, Flushing, NY 11355. Purpose: General.

Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company. Name: Valenti Martin Media LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 4/2/2012. Office location is New York County.

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Howard Beach/Rockwood Park, Sat 10/13, 10-3:30, 162-31 91 St. HUGE MULTI-FAMILY SALE!

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05 78 Ave. Many new & used Old Howard Beach, Sat 10/13, 9- items, clothes, electronics, col4, rain date Sun 10/14, 96-20 159 lectibles & more!

Ave. Multi-family.

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11 81 St. Last one of the season!

Forest Hills, Sat 10/13, 10-4, 7156 Kessel St. Marine Corps League yard sale, households, electronics, Christmas items, Howard Beach/Rockwood Park, games & much more!

Sat 10-13, 9-4, rain date Sun Howard Beach/ Rockwood Park, Sat 10/14, 87 St betw 156 & 157 10/13, 9-2, 162-08 91 St. Bargains Aves. Something for everyone. galore! Everything must go!

Too much to mention!

Howard Beach/Lindenwood, Sat 10/13, 9-3, 153 Ave near 84 St. SITTING AREA SALE. MULTIRichmond Hill, Sat 10/13, 10-4, FAMILY! 104-36 112 St. Rain or shine.

Howard Beach/Lindenwood, Sat Indoors.

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SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Index No.: 32067/10 Date of Filing: August 30, 2012 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, COUNTY OF QUEENS US BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff, -againstDANIELLE T ADAMS; SANDREAUS COBB, 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 SANDREAUS COBB, 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; SANDREAUS COBB; CITIZENS BANK, NA; CRIMINAL COURT OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR FIRST RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE SERVICES CORP; NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD; NEW YORK CITY PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU; NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; STATE OF NEW YORK; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; “JOHN DOES” and “JANE DOES”, said names being fictitious, parties intended being possible tenants or occupants of premises, and corporations, other entities or persons who claim, or may claim, a lien against the premises, Defendants.

TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service, where service of this summons is made by delivery upon you personally within this 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 complaint.

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

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The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, executed by DANIELLE T ADAMS; SANDREAUS COBB to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR MORTGAGE SOURCE LLC in the principal amount of $407,483.00, which mortgage was recorded in Queens County, State of New York, on February 2, 2010, as CRFN: 2010000037353. Said mortgage was thereafter assigned to Plaintiff by assignment of mortgage dated December 8, 2010 and recorded December 28, 2010 as CRFN: 2010000433847.

Said premises being known as and by 75-10 95TH AVENUE, OZONE PARK, NY 11416.

Dated: July 25, 2012 Batavia, New York Virginia C Grapensteter, Esq. ROSICKI, ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff Batavia Office 26 Harvester Avenue Batavia, NY 14020 585.815.0288 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.

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What an anniversary present!

Happy couple is remodeling their home and saving money too, thanks to the HRA program Iris Escobar is a coupon clipper, proud to be frugal. But you don’t usually clip coupons for home improvement, so when she and her husband, Victor, decided to remodel their home, she had to find another way to save.

But Iris didn’t have to look far. The answer arrived in her mailbox one day last summer: a card advertising the Housing Rehabilitation Assistance program.

Thanks to the HRA, the Escobars are getting a world-class makeover to their kitchen, dining room and downstairs bathroom, along with a new roof and energy-efficient windows — all without spending a dime in cash, and without increasing their mortgage payments a penny. Taking advantage of the program is letting them save thousands of dollars on a project that would have cost $103,000, and thanks to refinancing, they’re making the same monthly payments they were before on their Baldwin home — but now $200 each month is going toward the principal.

They couldn’t be happier — not about the savings, not about the work that’s being done, and especially not about the full range of services HRA is providing as their home is transformed.

“It’s been a great ride,” Victor said.

“I can’t say enough about the HRA program. I can’t say enough about everybody involved with the program.”

His wife agrees. “I’m excited, I’m very excited,” she said. “I’m glad I met this team; they’re great!” Speaking to Carlos Fontanez, the couple’s HRA representative, she added, “I told my sister about you, I told my coworkers about you — I tell everyone about you.”

What Iris is telling everyone is how the HRA guides clients through every step of the home remodeling process, from helping decide what

work should be done to how it will be financed, from securing financial assistance to overseeing the work and making sure the contractors are not paid until the homeowner is satisfied.

A fan of “The People’s Court,” where she sees a lot of irresponsible contractors sued over jobs that weren’t done correctly, Iris said she was especially glad that the HRA holds clients’ money in escrow until they certify that they’re satisfied.

Carlos described how he starts a project with clients like the Escobars: “I explain to them what HRA does and show them the different options for how we can accomplish what they want to do to reach their goals, help them get financing and a reduced interest rate on their mortgage.”

“Af ter t he f i rs t 10 m i n u tes speaking to him, I was sold on the program,” Victor said. “All through this, he’s been great.”

An HRA administrator explained the program’s basic approach: “The services offered by the HRA extend beyond just financial assistance for home improvement projects. We have implemented numerous processes to ensure that projects completed by HRA-approved contractors are done to the homeowner’s satisfaction.”

Just take a look at some of the program’s requirements for contractors. They all must be: • licensed, bonded and insured for at leas t $100,000 per incident; • registered with the Better Business Bureau, with a rating of an A or higher; • in business for at least 10 years; • able to provide the names and addresses of eight clients they have done home improvement projects for in the past year; and • able to perform four test proj-

ects for the HRA prior to working for any clients.

With that kind of screening, it’s no surprise that only the best contractors get to do HRA-sponsored jobs.

At the Escobars’ house, it’s a big job that’s underway. First the roof and windows were replaced, and new gutters and leaders installed. The couple is thrilled with the result. There’s a stunning new bay window in the dining room that measures about 8 feet wide by 5 feet high. The kitchen features a garden window, an especially deep one with a glass shelf so their plants can be surrounded by light from all sides.

Next the interior of the kitchen and bathroom were completely gutted, with everything from new gas lines and plumbing to new Sheetrock and insulation going in. The door to the basement was moved from one wall to another to make room for all the cabinetry surrounding the garden window.

The new kitchen is going to feature only the best equipment and materials, including a six-burner stove with a pot-filler faucet, double sink with pullout faucet, beautiful real-wood cabinets, granite countertops and floor tiles.

A new two-level peninsula with a granite top will serve as a bar, or just another place for family and friends to gather.

There will even be a tilt-out drawer for sponges and brushes in front of the sinks.

“I’m a hoarder,” Iris said. “They’re giving me lots of drawers and shelves to put away my stuff.”

Even more of her and her husband’s “stuff” will go in the new pantries that will be built in an area just off the kitchen. Those will be done in the same deep finish as the kitchen cabinets, and feature modern conveniences like pullout drawers

Iris Escobar shows off the new tiling that will be going in her bathroom. behind the doors.

The bathroom also will be allnew. The shower will feature a bench and a modern rain shower head. The tile walls will be accented by a mosaic design running around the whole room. The hardware will be bronze, and the contractor even found a toilet in Mexican sand, a cream-like color, that will complement the decor perfectly.

I n t h e f r o n t o f t h e h o u s e, the contractor replaced all the windows in the foyer and added insulation. Not only will the Escobars earn tax credits for energy ef ficiency, but Iris says she felt the difference immediately. Drafty for years, the foyer is now cozy, she said.

After all the interior work is done, the project will go back outside, as a new deck and patio get installed.

Iris likes to entertain, but for the last three years hadn’t bothered because she wasn’t happy with how the house was looking. But now she’s looking forward to holding a big bash in June, to show off the renovations made possible by the HRA program and to celebrate the couple’s 10th anniversary. The timing couldn’t have worked out better.

To find out if you qualify for the Housing Rehabilitation Assistance program, just call the HRA toll-free at 866-791-6302. Tell them you read about the Escobars’ job, and they’ll give you the same level of excellent service.

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Iris and Victor Escobar are getting rich wood cabinetry in the kitchen and bathroom, and got to see how various colors would look on their walls before choosing. The bathroom will get a carved stone sink.

Carlos Fontanez, the couple’s HRA representative, has become a friend as well — they’ve invited him to a party they’re planning to celebrate their 10th anniversary — and their newly remodeled home.

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HOWARD BEACH/LINDENWOOD

Greentree Condo Townhouse. Gorgeous!

Move in! Double unit. 2 BRs/2 Baths w/jacuzzi, Terr onlooking yard, New maple Mint Hi-Ranch, Totally Redone, 6 BRs, 3.5 Baths, Wood Moldings, S/S & Marble fl kit, Granite countertop, 3/4 BRs, New Kit w/SS Appl, New Stainglass Windows, Manicured Yard, & Lower level 1 BR/1Bath Unit w/sliding Brick, Stucco, Windows, Pavers Pocket & French Doors, Pvt Driveway, doors to yard, Pvt dvwy & 1 car gar, New Front & Back! Asking only $699K 2 Car Garage, New Roof. Asking $659K boiler & hot water heater. Asking $355K

HOWARD BEACH 4 Rms, 1 BR Hi Rise Co-op, All redone, New Granite Kit, New Bath, New Appl. PARKING AVAILABLE! Asking $111K

HOWARD BEACH 2 BR Garden Co-op, 2 fl, Pet ok, Washer allowed. Asking only $122,500, Call Now!

HOWARD BEACH 4.5 Rm JR 4, Hi-Rise Co-op, 2 BRs, 1 Bath.

Asking only $82,500 Call Now!

PROFESSIONAL OFFICE SPACE

APARTMENTS FOR RENT

OZONE PARK

HOWARD BEACH/OZONE PARK

Professional Office/Desk Space Available.

Call 718-641-6800, Ask for Tom

Howard Beach, 3.5 Rm 1 BR Apt, Terrace, Laundry Room on Premises, and parking.

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HOWARD BEACH CO-OPS

HOWARD BEACH/HAMILTON BEACH Mint "Waterfront" Ranch on double lot 50x70, All updated, New kitchen & new bath, Deck overlooking bay, dock space.

Only $279K

REDUCED TO $599K

• Hi-Rise, JR/4, Maint incl all utilities ............................ $95K • Move in Condition, JR/4, HiRise, Low Maintenance..$139K • 2 BR, 2 Baths, Hi-Rise ...$150K

HOWARD BEACH CONDO • Heritage House - 2 BRs, 2 Bath Condo, 1st Floor Unit, Pets OK, Owner Motivated........... $199K

OLD HOWARD BEACH Beautiful Mint Legal 2 Family Being used as 1 family, 4 BRs, 2.5 Baths, New Kitchen w/Hardwood Fls, Granite. Asking only $599K

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3.5 Room Hi-Rise Co-op, Just Painted, Comes with a parking spot. Must Sell! Asking $82,500

HOWARD BEACH All brick colonial, 4 BRs & 3.5 Baths, All new LR w/fireplace, 9' ceilings 1st & 2nd fls. Full fin bsmnt, sep ent, pvt dvwy, det 1 car gar, new PVC & wrought iron gate, pavers in yard.

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