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Early voting sites and dates in the borough Nine days to cast ballots in person leading up to Nov. 3 Election Day

by David Russell

• Queensborough Elks Lodge No. 878 at 82-20 Queens Blvd. in Elmhurst; • Rego Center community room at 61-00 97 ew Yorkers getting ready for Election Day don’t need to wait until Nov. 3 to St.; • LaGuardia Community College at 31-10 vote.

From Oct. 24 to Nov. 1, voters can visit one Thomson Ave. in Long Island City; • Queens Public Library at Jackson Heights of 18 locations in Queens, including: at 35-51 81 St.; • Rockaway YMCA at 207 Beach 73 St.; • First Baptist Church of East Elmhurst at • Resorts World Casino at 110-00 Rockawayy 100-10 Astoria Blvd; 1 Blvd. in South Ozone Park; • Variety Boys & Girls Club of • Holy Trinity Parish Church att Queens at 21-12 30 Road in Astoria; Q 222-05 116 Ave. in Cambria Heights; aand • Rochdale Village Community • Museum of the Moving Image Center at 169-65 137 Ave.; at 36-01 35 Ave. in Astoria.

• York College — Academic The times vary by day: Core Building at 94-20 Guy R. • Oct. 24 and 25, the polls will be Brewer Blvd. in Jamaica; open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m; 2020 • Creedmoor Hospital at 79-25 Win• Oct. 26 from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m; chester Blvd. in Queens Village; • Oct. 27 and 28 from 12 to 8 p.m; • Korean Community Services 203-05 32 • Oct. 29 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m; Ave. in Bayside; • Oct. 30 from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m; and • Helen Marshall Cultural Center at Queens • Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Borough Hall at 120-55 Queens Blvd. in Kew The machine votes collected in early elecGardens; • Queens College at 65-30 Kissena Blvd. in tion voting are tabulated on election night and the poll book is meant to prevent someone from Flushing; • The Boys Club of New York at 133-01 41 voting more than once.

“When they look at the poll book on Nov. 3, Road in Flushing; • Board of Elections — Queens Voting your signature would already be there as havMachine Facility Annex at 66-26 Metropolitan ing voted,” said John Conklin, director of public information for the state Board of Elections.

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Early voting follows the same process as Election Day, as opposed to absentee voting.

“Early voting is just another version of inperson voting,” Conklin said. “It’s exactly the same procedures as you would encounter on Election Day.” Absentee ballots are reviewed against the poll book.

“If the voter came and voted in person, then the absentee ballot is set aside and not counted,” Conklin said.

Addressing a recent controversy over mailed ballots, he said a typo left out a slash on ballots that were sent reading “Absentee Military” but that residents shouldn’t be concerned if they are not in the military.

“They’re exactly the same. There’s no difference between them,” Conklin said. “The ballot is accurate so they should use it.”

The Postal Service has told the BOE that the mail will be delivered in a timely fashion, as many have raised concerns about the state of the Post Office.

“We take them at their word,” Conklin said, adding that if people are hesitant to mail a ballot, they can drop it off at a Board of Elections office or at early voting sites.

For people undecided about mailing in a ballot or voting in person during the pandemic, Conklin said polling places will be clean and workers will have personal protective

equipment and be socially distant, while the space will be wiped down and disinfected throughout the day.

“There was no spike in COVID after the June primaries so they should feel confident and safe voting in person if that’s what they Q want to do,” he said.

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HBCOP returns to Howard Beach Founder Joe Thompson has built a 20-man operation since August

by Max Parrott

with 106th Precinct Capt. John Costello, the commanding officer, to The Howard Beach Civilian talk about starting up the patrol in a Observation Patrol is back on the full capacity, an important step given that the civilian patrol had stumbled beat.

Though the patrol’s leader, Joe years ago after it did not receive supThompson, never stopped posting to port from the precinct.

Thompson also felt that he needed the group’s Facebook page and responding to various quality-of-life to clear up his past in speaking with issues, the group resumed its car Costello. Back in 2015, the Forum ran a story revealing that in 2001 patrols in early August.

Thompson said that he has Thompson pleaded guilty to enterresumed his contact with the 106th prise corruption for promoting Precinct, regular neighborhood prostitution.

Thompson told the Chronicle that patrols and the recruitment of new members. He hopes to get overnight he had funded a family member’s illegitimate escort service, but patrols going in the near future.

Thompson, who has been in vari- served no jail time for doing so and ous neighborhood patrols since he had learned his lesson.

“It truly ruined my life. It’s been was 16 years old, began HBCOP in 2015, but the group has encountered 19 years since then, and I haven’t gotten so much as o b s t a cl e s , a n d a parking ticket,” taken a number of said Thompson, different breaks e are just the who said he otherduring its history. eyes and ears.” wise might have As the number had a life in law of burglaries has — Joe Thompson, founder enforcement. increased citywide of HBCOP During the from the previous meeting, Costello years for several months, the neighborhood has taken encouraged him to make a fresh start notice. Civics and neighborhood with the precinct’s blessing as long social media groups have vehemently as HBCOP follows the guidelines called for a community police patrol around unofficial neighborhood patrols. in Howard Beach.

Costello told him that the precinct Thompson said that the group mainly provides a crime deterrent would help provide a warrant check and arrest history for any new memand quality-of-life support.

“We don’t carry weapons. We bers as part of a preapplication prohave a flashlight, we have papers, we cess, before Thompson moves forhave our cell phone to call things in, ward and pays for a paid background but we are just the eyes and the ears,” check from Intellicorp.

“They’re basically just trying to Thompson said. “We like working on quality-of-life issues and smaller help out the community, which is great,” Costello told the Chronicle. “I things.”

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Joe Thompson, second from left, recently restarted the Howard Beach Civilian Observation Patrol in its full COURTESY PHOTO capacity. any type of vigilante because that’s how you get yourself in trouble. I think they’ll work out fine.”

According to NYPD guidelines, the group can only use amber lights on its patrol, instead of any red or blue lights. Costello added that it’s important from Thompson to vet his members himself because the group would ultimately bare all legal liability for them.

“You are your own entity,” Costello said.

That being said, members of a nonprofit group like HBCOP have more protections than individuals who respond to neighborhood incidents on their own. President Clinton signed the Volunteer Protection Act

of 1997, which limits the liability of individual volunteers for 501 (c)(3), a status that HBCOP has maintained over the years.

Thompson believes that’s one reason why it’s important for residents to par ticipate in neighborhood patrols rather than go out on their own. In addition to giving his members training, Thompson said that he emphasizes their duties are limited to observation.

“There’s a lot of individuals that think it’s just ‘Let me jump in my car and drive around.’ And if you see something happen what are you going to do? Jump in, grab them and be the hero?” Thompson said.

Since restarting, the patrol is up

to about 20 members. In addition to making the rounds in cars that they decal with HBCOP signage, the group has served in a community service capacity by restoring several ghost bike memorials in the neighborhood, a personal act for Thompson after he almost lost his life to a car as a kid.

What Thompson sees on patrol, he said, is mostly traffic infractions. He recently found a truck that had been blasting loud music into the night from an oversized speaker system. He also hopes to deter the trend of petty larceny from people’s unlocked cars that residents have recently been postQ ing online about.

Three-alarm fire in Richmond Hill house Morning blaze sends four firefighters to hospital

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The Fire Department responded with 33 units, sending about 138 members to the scene, who had the fire under control by around 11 a.m.

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AM Pheffer Amato runs for re-election Democrat will face Republican challenger in South Queens district

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in the Legislature.

In her bid for re-election, the assemblyAfter heading off one opponent since woman has focused on the dire economic winning her 2016 race, Assemblywoman straits of New York State.

“There are so many issues I want to Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway Park) will face another Republican challenger cover as far as resiliency and the protection gunning for her South Queens and Rocka- for our communities, but No. 1 is we’re going to have to recover as a state. This is way district in the Nov. 3 general election.

Though Pheffer Amato won her seat huge. We’re going to have a $50 billion defwith nearly 60 percent of the vote during icit over two years,” she said.

Pheffer Amato believes recent restrictions the last presidential election, her district of the COVID hot spot designation in Far stretches over some of the deepest Trump mp Rockaway, on top of the economic R strongholds in Queens including g rrecession, are going to have effects Howard Beach, Broad Channel on the health of small businesses o and the eastern corner of Far iin her district for years. As a Rockaway. ssalve, she brought up commercial She said that she’s proud of rent relief as one idea. her reput at ion for work i ng On the macro scale, one way across the aisle and her ability to Pheffer A mato, whose district court the vote of President Trump2020 encompasses Resorts World Casino, supporting constituents.

“You have to represent the community envisions generating revenue is through the that is there. It’s not these big political phi- legalization of sports betting in the state. losophies. It’s really about the people and She also touted a bill she introduced that would tax tech companies that sell consumtheir quality of life,” Pheffer Amato said.

Pheffer Amato first got into politics er data. If passed, New York State would be through her family. Her mother, Queens the first to enact legislation of that sort.

In her three-and-a-half-year tenure in the County Clerk Audrey Pheffer, previously held the assembly seat for over 25 years. Legislature, Pheffer Amato pointed to her After she was elected, they became the first 9/11 Heroes bills that Gov. Cuomo signed mother-daughter pair to hold the same seat into law last year as her biggest accomAssociate Editor

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Woodhaven gets book haven After establishing a community basketball league for kids in Woodhaven’s Equity Playground, Michael Pereira worked with fellow neighborhood volunteer Janet Ponce to unveil a new project: a give-and-take library in the park.

During its first week, the library, constructed entirely from donated books and materials, brought the neighborhood together, according

to Ponce. Among other things, the shelves are stocked with English, Spanish and Chinese language books.

“The community is coming together,” Pereira said.

Here a student gets help reading, left, and neighborhood kids look through the library’s —Max Parrott selection.

plishment. Three that she introduced to the Assembly were aimed at helping to close the gaps in services for 9/11 f irst responders and their families.

Pheffer Amato cited one in particular that made it easier for volunteers at the World Trade Center site who now work for the state to file claims for sick leave by providing a process for public authorities and municipal corporations outside of New York City to get reimbursed.

“They did n’t have unlimited sick. So I’m sick with cancer. I’m dying. I built up 30 days of sick. But with all my treatments, I’m done w it h s ic k . S o t h e y would have to either get detached, wouldn’t have Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato, whose district stretches from health benefits — they Howard Beach down to the western peninsula and parts of Far Rockadidn’t have the same way, is facing a Republican challenger on Nov. 3. PHOTO BY MAX PARROTT rights,” she said.

Her opponent, Peter Hatzipetros, the down to economic factors. But she also founder of a cryptocurrency-focused law described herself to the Chronicle as one of firm, has leaned heavily into criticism of the leaders of the movement to roll certain the Legislature’s landmark bail reform law parts of bail reform back in the changes last year. He calls his opposition to the that passed in the governor’s 2020 budget.

The assemblywoman painted her tenure legislation a “first priority” on his online less on policy wonk terms though, and platform.

In response, Pheffer Amato first coun- more as an advocate for her constituents tered that there is no connection between and public servant.

On that note, she promised to persevere most people released under the reforms and the summer’s spike in shootings and with the planned toll rebate program for all Queens residents driving over the Cross violent crime.

“The conversation about bail reform has Bay Bridge. Pheffer Amato had partnered nothing to do with violent crimes. There is with state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard an uptick. They also said that it is due to Beach) to announce the program in spring gangs recruiting in this time now, when 2019, but the MTA declined to implement the rebates as soon as it felt the stress of people are home,” she said.

Pheffer Amato, one of the more moder- low ridership during the pandemic.

“On a daily basis, how many people we ate yes votes on the bail reform and discovQ ery laws, said that jail time shouldn’t boil help — that’s the job,” she said.

SCOTUS cuts Census short The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Trump administration’s agenda for concluding the 2020 Census early, deciding on Oct. 13 that the questionnaire would cease just two days later.

A California judge had ruled Sept. 30 to extend the Census deadline to the end of October, but in a 7-1 decision, the Supreme Court approved a request to suspend that decision. Justice Sonia Sotomayor was the only one to dissent.

“This SCOTUS ruling is unconscionable but one thing is certain: We need every New Yorker to complete the census

NOW. There may only be hours left to do so. Time is running out,” said Julie Menin, director of NYC Census 2020, in an Oct. 13 tweet.

The national response rate is at 66.8 percent. New York’s response rate is 63.9 percent, while Queens’ is 62.3 percent.

The Census Bureau will accept responses at My2020Census.gov through Oct. 15 until 11:59 p.m. Hawaii time (5:59 a.m. Oct. 16 here) and set Oct. 15 as the postmark deadline for paper forms, phone responses Q and door knocking at households.

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hings are really happening over at the Umbrella Hotel in Kew Gardens. Things like shootings, raucous parties, drug use and prostitution — even the underage kind, according to the police.

And what’s City Hall’s answer? “We don’t have time for this.” At least that’s the word from state Assemblyman Daniel Rosenthal, one of the area’s elected officials who’ve been begging the de Blasio administration for help in doing something about it.

Last week Rosenthal led an online meeting with various officials including a representative from the mayor’s Community Affairs Unit. Apparently it was a waste of time, as the city had “literally no answers.”

The assemblyman called the meeting “an embarrassment.” Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz deemed it “a disaster.” And she summed up the situation well in comments to the Chronicle: “You have to make time for this. Child prostitution? You should be making time for this. Shootings? You should making time for this. Having no time is no excuse at all. It’s insulting.”

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mitting crimes at the hotel, which back in August he called his “No. 1 problem.” With cops out front all the time, he said, “You’d think ... that the crime would subside but it doesn’t appear that it has that much.”

Huh. Maybe the people making life miserable for the surrounding residents are aware of the disrespect for cops you can get away with showing these days.

Maybe they’ve heard the anti-police rhetoric coming from many of our elected officials and academics and the media. Maybe they’ve seen the videos of arrests being disrupted by mobs of people. Maybe they know what a revolving door the justice system has become thanks to last year’s insane “bail reform” laws. There must be some reason they believe they can get away with gunplay, underage prostitution and whatever else right across the street from the criminal courthouse.

If Mayor de Blasio sticks to his usual formula, eventually something terrible will happen at the hotel, he’ll say it’s unacceptable and that we have to do better and then take shots at President Trump and the New York Post. But surely there’s a legal basis to close up the Umbrella. What we need here is an actual mayor.

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ov. Cuomo is many things, among them a savvy politician, a builder and a man who will rarely miss a chance to put Mayor de Blasio in his place. All three of these aspects of Cuomo’s character came together Monday, when the governor unveiled the new statue of Mother Cabrini that he ordered built in Battery Park City. Italian Americans — many of them stung deeply by the hatred of the iconic Christopher Columbus that has spilled from the academy onto the streets — as well as anyone who hails those who dedicate their lives to the poor, are grateful for Cuomo’s move.

Born in Italy, Cabrini was a nun and teacher who dedicated her life to serving orphans as the founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart. Here she taught in three boroughs, built hospitals, orphanages and schools, and later became the first naturalized U.S. citizen to be canonized, and the patron saint of immigrants.

When New York City asked the public to name great historical women for whom statues should be erected, Cabrini was the top choice. But first lady Chirlane McCray and Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen said no. Enter Cuomo. In one year he went from announcing plans to build a statue of Cabrini to dedicating a beautiful monument, designed by Jill and Giancarlo Biagi, on Columbus Day. It was a great move, and a reminder that today’s City Hall is anything but.

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keep the police from doing their jobs (“Holden: Repeal the ‘chokehold’ statute,” Oct. 8).

It truly is a shame that we don’t have more councilmen like Holden who believe in keeping both the city’s police and citizens safe.

Instead, we have people like Councilmen Rory Lancman and Donovan Richards, who are anti-police. They were not happy with the amount of money that was defunded from the NYPD. They both wanted more money to be taken out of the police budget.

Besides Councilman Richards’ negative comments in the Chronicle regarding the legislation submitted by Councilman Holden, he was quoted in the New York Post as calling it “garbage.”

For someone who is running for the Queens borough presidency, he should be ashamed of

himself. The only way for there to be safety in all the borough is for the politicians to work with, not against, the police.

John Lynch Middle Village

Cuomo’s color catastrophe Dear Editor: Re your Oct. 8 editorial, “Cuomo’s new ‘cluster luck’ rules will divide us and fail”: As a resident of “red zone” Kew Gardens Hills, I resent Gov. Cuomo’s misguided mandate. His riotous rainbow of confusion is based on fear, not facts. Arrogant Andrew blamed the “ultra-Orthodox Jewish community” for causing spikes in COVID infection rates. If that’s true, then why did he close 124 public schools

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Globalization is profitable for the rich, but not for anyone else.

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Radical Republicans are now trying to undo all the progress we’ve made. They want to repeal the Affordable Care Act and don’t care how many Americans die because of their inadequate and irresponsible response to the pandemic. They repeatedly lie to us, ignore experts, appoint incompetent and often crooked people, and put obstacles in place to prevent some of us from voting. They have harmed average Americans in ways too numerous to list.

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City leaves us in hotel hell Dear Editor: Last Wednesday, City Hall officials were met with a torrent of discontent from community leaders at a meeting convened to address the violence plaguing Kew Gardens at the Umbrella Hotel.

After two shootings this summer that left one victim in the hospital, the 102nd Precinct revealed there were two arrests made on Oct.3 for human trafficking and aggravated assault.

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COVID contradictions Dear Editor: I have bitten the bullet and taken a COVID19 test, courtesy of the City of New York, which paid for the test. Now what? Waiting for the results anxiously, I have no symptoms and have been very good when it comes to social distancing and wearing a mask when outdoors.

I have seen people in my neighborhood ignore the risk, both to us and themselves, walking in groups and alone, ignoring the science about spreading the virus. Have they not listened to the news or do they feel they’re immune for some reason?

It has been six full days since a woman wearing a surgical gown, a plastic face shield and a mask stuck a swap up both of my nostrils.

She handed me a card explaining what I had to do, to obtain the results, though the card indicated that the results might not be available for five to seven days. Yes, days to find out if I had the virus, if I was infectious: all the information that I needed to know right away, to protect the people around me.

Does this make sense? I understand that getting tested is important, but what value does the test have if I have to wait a minimum of six days to find out the results? Isn’t it more likely that the testing, offered by the city free of charge, is to justify the restrictions put on some neighborhoods by Gov. Cuomo and approved

by Mayor de Blasio?

You hear of spikes in the positivity rate in certain areas in Queens. That is why harsher restrictions are being reimposed on businesses, houses of worship and the like. I find it funny, though, that it depends on which side of Queens Boulevard you are on.

SM Sobelsohn Kew Gardens

tion to raucous partying that has led to gunshots and numerous assaults. There are gangs operating, according to the precinct.

Moreover, the taxpayers are currently footing the bill for hotel security in the form of an around-the-clock NYPD presence. The 102nd Precinct commander stated, “under no circumstances will I allow a child to get killed.”

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and Catholic schools that had no repor ted cases of COVID-positive test results? And why did he shut down restaurants that are COVID-free? Cuomo used an ax instead of a scalpel to slash COVID rates in Queens and Brooklyn.

You said that Cuomo assumed new powers “unto himself.” But he was aided by compliant legislators who failed to question the need for those powers or resist their abuse. Our representatives in Albany must now rein in those powers and put King Cuomo back in his proper place. Contact your state senator and assemblymember now.

Richard Reif Kew Gardens Hills

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Over 1K line up for food in Ozone Park Need has steadily increased since food distribution began in July

by Michael Shain Contributor

The weekly food pantry that began in a Rockaway Boulevard parking lot in Ozone Park last summer passed a sobering benchmark this week.

For the first time, more than 1,000 people showed up for food.

“There’s a need, that’s all I can tell you,” said Sam Esposito, founder of the upstart Ozone Park Residents Block Association, which, with the local Kiwanis Club and members of the civilian patrol group, started the Saturday-morning food pantry last July.

“Think about it — people don’t start lining up at 6 o’clock in the morning unless there is a need. There’s a lot of unemployment,” he said.

“Everybody hits bottom.”

When the pantry first opened, barely 100 people showed up for food allotments, much of it bought from local supermarkets, according to Esposito.

Since the beginning of the pandemic last March, established food pantries across Queens have seen the numbers of the people they serve skyrocket.

Food operations sponsored by churches and civic groups were nearly overwhelmed by needy families who turned to them by the

thousands following the layoffs and business shutdowns of May and June.

In some parts of Queens, new food operations sprang up to help meet the need.

The new pantries could not get certified by the city fast enough to tap into the established distribution system that helps supply the older operations.

Since August, larger, city-sanctioned pantries in Brooklyn and Queens have quietly been supplying the Ozone Park pantry with fresh produce, milk, packaged food, necessities like baby diapers and the like, said Mohammad Kahn, OZPKRBA’s executive director.

“All the pantries order extra for us,” said Esposito. “Every Tuesday and Wednesday, they call and say come and get it.

“Other than that, no one wants to help us.”

The Ozone Park group has applied for city sanction but is still awaiting a decision. Until then, volunteers have to pay for the trucks that bring in the food each week themselves.

Names and addresses are recorded on laptops before families get a blue ticket that allows them to enter the parking lot, where the food is piled on folding tables.

“The city wants proof that you’re really doing the job,” said Esposito, “Everybody has

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A pallet of dog food, which the pantry recently added to its offerings, sits at the food distribution.

A line stretches around the block outside the Deshi Senior Center, while Rep. Greg Meeks, left, and City Councilman Donovan Richards speak with civic association founder Sam PHOTOS BY MICHAEL SHAIN Esposito. to sign the sign-in sheet.”

Unusual for food pantries, the Ozone Park operation puts out all its food and allows people to pick and choose what they want.

“We have Muslims, Hindus, Christians who come here and they all can’t eat the same thing,” said Kahn.

“By letting people take what they want, rather than put everything into one package, people don’t have to throw anything away.

There’s no waste.”

“I thought it was undignified to hand people a box and then say, ‘Now, go,’” said Esposito.

The pantry also allows a separate line for seniors, so they don’t have to compete with younger families at the tables.

“We grow because of what we did,” said Esposito.

The only publicity for the pantry is on the OZPKRBA’s active Facebook page with its 12,000-plus followers.

But on Sundays, volunteers organize popup pantries at different locations around Ozone Park to distribute hundreds of so-called

“Trump boxes” — food boxes, each containing a letter signed by the president bought and distributed under a $4-billion U.S. Department of Agriculture program since last August.

“Doing it at a different place every week lets people know what we’re doing,” said Esposito.

By the time the pantry opened at 11 a.m. last Saturday, the line stretched around the block, hundreds of people — some with children — standing over their empty shopping carts waiting to get in.

These days, when the line ends, there is usually a few boxes of food left over, said Esposito.

“We put it all on a table and start do clean up,” he said. “By the time we finish, the food Q is gone. People come back and take it.”

CB 9 unanimously approves biz requests

by Max Parrott Associate Editor

At Community Board 9’s stated meeting on Tuesday night it unanimously approved a restaurant to acquire its liquor license and a bar to modify its hours.

First it voted on a liquor license for the restaurant at 97-12 101 Ave. in Ozone Park, which previously had been El Viejo Yayo, a Dominican spot. In its previous iteration it never encou ntered any issues, according to CB 9 member Rabbi Daniel Pollack, co-chairman of the

Public Safety and Consumer Affairs Committee.

A bar in Richmond Hill, Tilt Lounge Corp., at 131-15 Jamaica Ave. proposed to change its closing time from 1 to 3 a.m.

T h e b o a r d h a d p r e v io u sl y encountered issues with the bar, but it decided not to oppose its request to increase hours.

Though the board was prepared to recommend passing the bar’s request on its own, Raymond Martin, associate director of the Mayor’s Office of Nightlife and Community

Affairs, attended the meeting to make the case for the bar.

Martin supported the Tilt application in particular to help out the owner in promotion of racial inclusion. He said that he spoke with the Tilt owner as well as the precinct officers, who assured him that they have no issue with the business.

The board then voted unanimousQ ly to grant both requests.

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State can enforce church limits for now Fed judges reject diocese, Agudath motions for TRO; lawsuits continuing

by Michael Gannon Editor

Two federal judges last Friday ruled that New York State can continue to enforce capacity limits on houses of worship in COVID-19 hot zones while a pair of lawsuits play out in court.

U.S. District Judge Eric Komitee last Friday, writing in the matter of Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens v. Cuomo, denied a request from the diocese for a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction against enforcement, but did write that the diocese may reapply for an injunction as the record in the case may be developed more fully.

In a suit filed by Orthodox Jewish organizations, including Agudath Israel of Kew Gardens Hills and Agudath Israel of Bayswater, U.S. District Court Judge Kiyo Matsumoto also denied a request for a TRO, ruling that the capacity restrictions do not violate the constitutionally protected right to free exercise of religion.

Cuomo on Oct. 5 issued an executive order establishing color-coded zones in the city based on resurgences of positive tests for COVID-19, with red sectors having the harshest restrictions on schools, businesses and houses of worship.

One such zone exists in central Queens,

including portions of Rego Park, Forest Hills, Komitee, citing U.S. Supreme Court preceKew Gardens and Kew Gardens Hills, and dents in his six-page ruling, wrote that “the another in the Rockaways. Houses of worship right to freely exercise one’s religion does not in the zones are limited to 25 perexempt worshipers from complicent capacity or 10 people. Cuomo ance with ‘neutral, generally and city officials have pointed out applicable regulatory law[s].’” that the red zones are centered On the other hand, where laws a rou nd O r t hodox Jew ish single out acts of worship for “discommunities. tinctive treatment,” courts must Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio said apply “the most rigorous of in a statement issued Saturday scrutiny.” that he is disappointed, but “When the government makes expects the diocese to prevail a value judgment in favor of secuwhen the case is decided. lar motivations but not religious “We are seeking what is just,” motivations, the government’s Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio said. “And we have kept actions must survive heightened DiMarzio parishioners safe and will continFILE PHOTO scrutiny.” ue to do so. Thus, there is no reaKomitee said the case comes son for this latest interference with our First down to whether the executive order is a neuAmendment right to celebrate Mass together, tral law that “incidentally burdens religion,” so we will continue to press the courts and our or one where religious worship “was being elected officials to end it as soon as possible. singled out for disfavored treatment.”

“We are left with no choice but, for now, to The judge wrote that Cuomo’s order abide by the new restrictions that limit Mass “explicitly” regulates houses of worship and attendance to 10 people in the red zones and “applies a capacity limit specifically to them 25 in the orange zones. But we will continue ... There are entities treated better than relito fight to vindicate our fundamental constitu- gious institutions in the ‘red zone’ — namely, tional rights, and we will continue to be a entities deemed ‘essential businesses’ — but model for safety in our religious community. other entities treated more restrictively, such And by doing right and being right, we will as restaurants and even schools, which are prevail.” closed entirely ...”

Komitee also cites an Oct. 9 interview with CNN in which Cuomo said, “[T]he cluster is a predominantly ultra-Orthodox [Hasidic] community ... [T]he issue is with that ultra-Orthodox community”. “[The diocese] appears to have been swept up in that effort despite having been mostly spared, so far at least, from the problem at hand.”

But citing the 1905 ruling in Jacobson v.

Massachusetts, Komitee wrote that “[A] community has the right to protect itself against an epidemic of disease which threatens its members.”

He also quoted U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts’ citation of “Jacobson” earlier this year in ruling on a suit against California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

“The ‘Constitution principally entrusts the safety and health of the people to the politically accountable officials of the States to guard and protect,’” Roberts wrote.

“And given the severity and complexity of the pandemic,” Komitee wrote, “it cannot be said, on this record, that the balance of equities favors the Plaintiff.”

Published reports state that Matsumoto, in her ruling, also found that the plaintiffs failed to demonstrate the likelihood of success on the merits of their claim that Cuomo’s execuQ tive order is unconstitutional.

Ognibene honored with Juniper garden Late Councilman remembered for passion, commitment to community

by David Russell

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Tom Ognibene, the late councilman from Middle Village, was commemorated with a garden named in his honor last Saturday at Juniper Valley Park, a public asset he helped revive during his time in office.

The dedication came two days before the fifth anniversary of his death at age 71.

“It was kind of a sad weekend but having that dedication was joyful,” Ognibene’s widow, Margaret, told the Chronicle Wednesday. “He loved his famil y, h i s f r i e n d s a n d h i s community.”

Councilmen Bob Holden (D-Middle Village) and Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) helped secure funding for the project.

An attorney, Ognibene was elected to the City Council in 1992, serving Maspeth, Glendale, Ridgewood and Middle Village.

He was also the Council’s minority leader from 1994 until 2001, when he was term-limited out of office.

“Being married to my husband and all the things he was involved in, it was never dull,” Margaret said. “He was very strong-minded.

When he had something to say he said it, and he

usually said it very loudly.”

Margaret met him on a blind date. A fraternity brother of his at NYU was dating one of her sorority sisters from Queens College and they set them up at a toga party.

“Ognibenes never did anything normal,” Margaret said laughing.

Ognibene, who graduated from CW Post and served in the Army from 1967 to 1970, ran an unsuccessful campaign for the state Senate’s 13th District seat in 1982. After his time in the Council, he ran unsuccessfully for mayor and twice in efforts to win back his old seat.

Ognibene served as executive vice chairman and executive director of the Queens County Republican Party and vice president of Christ the King High School’s Board of Trustees.

Holden told the Chronicle that he models his term in office after Ognibene and that he and Ulrich often wonder what Ognibene would do in a given situation.

“We don’t have him to ask but we remember so many times we did call him to ask,” Holden said.

The lawmaker also praised the Republican Ognibene’s ability to work with elected officials

Councilmen Eric Ulrich and Bob Holden helped unveil the Thomas Ognibene Garden at Juniper Valley Park last Saturday in Middle Village. Ognibene, whose widow, Margaret, spoke, was a forNYC COUNCIL PHOTOS / FACEBOOK; INSET, FILE PHOTO mer councilman in the district. on both sides of the aisle.

“He was very good at finding the middle ground,” said Holden, who also wants a street co-named for Ognibene. “He would work

together with both parties.”

Holden noted that Ognibene died on Holden’s birthday in 2015. “My biggest problem is Q that he never saw me get elected,” he said.

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by Peter C. Mastrosimone Editor-in-Chief

The city last week released an interactive map showing the boundaries of the new red, orange and yellow zones in which the state has imposed new restrictions on schools and businesses to stem surges of the coronavirus.

The map, available at bit.ly/34BlhHG, allows users to type in an address to see which zone they are in and what that means.

Queens Borough Hall, for example, is in the orange zone. Entering its 120-55 Queens Blvd. address, which autofinishes as Jamaica though it is in Kew Gardens, yields a panel that says houses of worship may remain open at 33 percent capacity, up to a maximum of 25 people, nonessential gatherings are limited to 10 people, businesses including gyms and personal care services such as nail and hair salons must close, restaurants may not offer indoor dining and schools are closed, with remote learning only being provided.

In the red zone, houses of worship may open at 25 percent capacity, up to a maximum of 10 people, nonessential gatherings are banned, businesses deemed nonessential must close and restaurants may provide takeout and delivery service only. Schools also are closed.

In the yellow zone, the least restrictive, houses of worship may open at 50 percent

Queens Borough Hall, at 120-55 Queens Blvd. in Kew Gardens, is in the orange zone under the new virus cluster map, but the red sector is quite nearby and the yellow one not far away. Together the NYC IMAGE three designations cover the heart of Queens, right. Another cluster is in Rockaway. capacity, nonessential gatherings are limited to 25 people, businesses may remain open and dining is allowed both indoors and out, with a maximum of four people per table.

In all three zones, the information panel says that anyone who “encourages, promotes or organizes” mass gatherings may be fined up to $15,000 a day.

Entering an address that is not in any of the three zones brings up a panel saying “You are not currently located in a designated hotspot” and noting that the virus is still spreading in the city, with a link to information about how

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In Queens, the three zones appear to cover about one-third of the borough by land mass.

The epicenter is the central part of the borough, with the red zone running from Rego Park in the west — specifically the junction of Queens Boulevard and the Long Island Expressway — through much of Forest Hills and Kew Gardens into Kew Gardens Hills, with 150th Street marking the eastern border.

The orange zone surrounds it for at least two blocks in every direction, often several more.

And the far-larger yellow zone encompasses

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Another hot spot is in Far Rockaway, inching over the city line to the Nassau Expressway. The proportions there are different, with the red zone the largest of the three; and the yellow zone lies only to the west, reaching Beach 62nd Street.

Biggest of all are the zones in Brooklyn, which together occupy more than half the borough, basically everything south of Linden Boulevard or west of the Prospect Expressway.

The map differs from that initially provided by the state a few days earlier in some respects. The borders of the zones are altered in some places. They also have been cleaned up so as to be more clear, no longer cutting diagonally across some streets or even dividing single properties. Instead they have been adjusted to run along the roadways.

In Forest Hills Gardens, for example, the original boundary between the orange and yellow zones had been drawn as the crow flies, slicing across a number of streets from the corner of Yellowstone Boulevard and Exeter Street in the west to Union Turnpike and Greenway North in the east. Now the line is much more clear, running between Burns Street and the Long Island Rail Road tracks at Yellowstone and then right along Burns east of there to Greenway Terrace, Greenway North and Markwood Road.

The map lets users zoom in close enough to see the silhouetted shapes of individual Q buildings.

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The T h ffamily il off N Nicholas i h l DeSola, D S l wants t to t wish him a happy, healthy 98th birthday!

He was born on October 17th, 1922 and is a resident of Howard Beach for the past 60 years.

As far back as we can remember, he always was a great role model to us, and still is! He still keeps active around his house and helps take care of his beloved wife Marie of 76 years.

His 39-year-old dad and his 12-year-old sister died of typhoid fever, and the Great Depression was approaching. His mom couldn’t afford to take care of her eight other children when this tragedy struck. So, the youngest three, my dad being one of them were placed in St. John’s boys home. His mom could only visit them once a week. He was 5 years old and came out at 16 years old. The first thing he did was get a job and buy his mom a sofa.

He served in WWII from 20-24 years old. He served in the medical corp and made six trips across the Atlantic Ocean to England, Belgium and France.

He then married my mom and they conceived my sister and me. He worked as a clerk at Jane Parker Bakery until he retired at 60 years old.

He never had the poor me attitude. He worked for everything he has and gave us a good life with love in his heart. No handouts, just hard work and dedication.

He is what a man should be, strong minded, gentleman, honest, faith in God, respectful of others and so much more. We never heard him complain or whine.

We all love him and admire him!

Happy, Healthy 98th Birthday! And as his grandson Mikey said “He’s the Best” With Love, Wife Marie, daughters Linda, Cheryl and John, grandchildren Michael, Nicole,

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The U.S. Supreme Court last week declined to hear an appeal of a 2018 decision forcing G&M Realty to pay the sum to 21 artists whose graffiti it whitewashed over prior to redeveloping the site, according to multiple media reports.

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When home is not safe due to abuse, help is available manent residence (a

by Bitta Mostofi Dur ing this pandemic home has “green card”). In become many things. Home has been the State of New where we work, where our children go to York, U and T visa school and camp, and a place to stay safe holders are also eligible for cash assisand healthy.

For many, however, home is not safe. tance, Medicaid, Domestic violence affects millions of peo- and other public ple a year — it knows no race, ethnicity, benefits.

To get informagender, class, language or religion.

This October, for National Domestic tion about these proViolence Awareness Month, we stand tections and to connect with services, call together united against this senseless vio- the NYC Family Justice Center in Queens lence — honoring the strength and resil- Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 ience of the millions of survivors and p.m., at (718) 575-4545. Help is available in over 20 languages. uplifting those we have lost.

While many of our physical locations I especially want to recognize the heartwrenching challenges many of our immi- are closed, please know that the city is still grant residents face in this time of crisis. here for you and our services continue to We know that fear and uncertainty about be available to support survivors of viopotential immigration consequences can lence. Don’t be afraid to reach out to the cause many immigrant survivors of Family Justice Center if you are experidomestic violence, especially those who encing violence at home and need help. are undocumented, to not report incidents Our laws protect your personal informaof abuse. This is particularly true at a time tion and forbid city employees from conwhen the federal government has been ducting immigration enforcement. The relentless in its attacks on our immigrant Family Justice Centers can help you with: • planning for your safety; community.

• applying for public benefits, shelter, Instead of inciting fear, we need to housing, and other build upon reasoned support services and policies that seek to programs; instill trust among all aising awareness in • mental health and immigrants and sepacounseling services for rate fears of immigraDomestic Violence you and your children tion enforcement from Awareness Month. to support emotional local criminal justice well-being; to make immigrant • referrals to job training and education survivors and our communities safer.

Under New York City’s confidentiality programs, including educational workpolicy, if you are an undocumented immi- shops to help with budgeting, credit repair, grant who is a victim of a crime, you may resume writing and interviewing skills; • legal help for orders of protection, report the crime to the New York City Police Department without fear of being custody, visitation, child support, divorce, investigated for your immigration status. housing and immigration; and • connecting to trained law enforceThe New York City Police Department will never ask victims of crime about their ment, such as the NYC Police Department, the NYC Sheriff’s Office and the immigration status.

Laws like the federal Violence Against District Attorney’s Office.

You can also call NYC’s Domestic VioWomen Act permit immigrant survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sex- lence Hotline — available 24 hours a day, ual assault and stalking to file for an 7 days a week — at 1 (800) 621-4673 immigrant visa petition on their own, (HOPE), via TTY at 1 (866) 604-5350, or without the knowledge of their U.S. citizen you can visit the NYC HOPE Resource or permanent resident abuser. These pro- Directory online at nyc.gov/NYCHOPE. tections are available to all individuals For all life-threatening emergencies please regardless of sex, gender identity or sexual call 911.

All of our communities are safer when orientation.

Immigrant victims of certain serious those who experience abuse can come forcrimes, such as domestic violence, sexual ward, instead of feeling trapped in the assault and human trafficking, may be shadows. Everyone deserves the right to able to get a U visa or a T visa. These be in a healthy relationship and end an visas provide temporary, renewable immi- unhealthy one. The city is here for you to gration status for up to four years; the abil- make sure you have the help you need to Q ity to apply for employment authorization; exercise that right.

Bitta Mostofi is Commissioner of the and temporary status for certain family members. They can ultimately lead to per- Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs.

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Prostitution arrests made as electeds criticize lack of action from mayor

by David Russell Associate Editor

Elected officials and residents are ripping City Hall over what they say is inaction about continuing crime, including prostitution, at the Umbrella Hotel in Kew Gardens.

Assemblyman Daniel Rosenthal (D-Flushing) called a meeting held online last Wednesday with officials, police and a representative from the mayor’s Community Affairs Unit “an embarrassment,” saying the city showed up “with literally no answers.”

His criticism was echoed by others in the area, from residents to elected officials.

The hotel has been a point of contention in the community, with a pair of shootings over the summer and drug and noise complaints from nearby residents.

“It’s basically a criminal enterprise taking place inside the hotel,” said community leader Ethan Felder.

He also criticized the city for not being more involved.

“It’s shocking that they’re not acting decisively and cohesively to address the problem before, God forbid, something even worse happens,” Felder said, adding, “Clearly it’s fallen through the cracks and City Hall is not taking action.”

Rosenthal said a colleague was told by a top City Hall official: “We don’t have time for this.”

But Rosenthal says that’s not a valid excuse for the inaction.

“You run a city of eight million people.

This is your job,” he said, adding, “It’s not like we gave you a call on Monday and wanted answers by Tuesday.”

Capt. Antonio Fidacaro, commanding officer of the 102nd Precinct, said a few arrests have been made in recent weeks, including some related to prostitution, which “appears to have an underage nexus to it” but is still under investigation.

Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz (D-Forest Hills), who called the online meeting a “disaster,” and wants to see the hotel closed, also criticized the city for saying there isn’t enough time to deal with the issue.

“You have to make time for this,” she told the Chronicle. “Child prostitution? You should be making time for this. Shootings?

You should making time for this. Having no time is no excuse at all. It’s insulting.”

Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi (D-Forest Hills) told the Chronicle in an email that he too is disappointed by the mayor’s handling of the situation.

“We understand that there are pressing issues this administration is focused on,” he said. “However, multiple shootings, gang violence, the NYPD being forced to deploy officers at all hours and now reports of the human

trafficking of a child at this location deserve and demand the Mayor’s attention.”

Fidacaro, who in August called the hotel “the No. 1 problem for me,” said he is surprised crime is still occurring at the site.

“I am because we have police officers stationed in front of there basically 24/7,” he said.

“You’d think that with uniformed officers in front of a location that the crime would subside but it doesn’t appear that it has that much.”

Community Board 9 member Andrea Crawford told the Chronicle Monday, “This is not an inconvenience. This is a dangerous situation.”

Rosenthal said he would like to see inspectors sent to the hotel or have the city issue a nuisance abatement order.

“You can be a homeowner in the city, one 311 call you get the Department of Sanitation and [Department of Environmental Protection] come to your house and issue you a fine, but yet we have serious crimes going on at a hotel and we can’t get city agencies to act,” Rosenthal said. “It’s just mindblowing to me.”

Problems at the hotel have been documented in police reports and news stories, and elected officials are still demanding action.

“The mayor is, quite frankly, disrespecting our neighborhood,” Rosenthal said.

The Mayor’s Office did not respond to a Q request for comment for this story.

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Guv closes 43 school sites across Queens Four schools closed by Mayor de Blasio ended up in yellow zones

by Max Parrott Associate Editor

Mayor de Blasio announced last Thursday that a total of 169 public school sites have closed in areas where there are clusters of COVID-19 cases in New York City.

The Chronicle broke down the citywide data and found that 43 of those sites are within Queens.

That is an additional 11 school sites in Queens from the ZIP code-based school closures that de Blasio set in motion last Sunday. All the schools from de Blasio’s original school closure announcement, which were closed beginning last Tuesday, will remain so, according to the city Education Department.

The updated list of shutdowns was released last Wednesday evening after Gov. Cuomo issued a set of last-minute boundary modifications to the hot spot zones that the mayor had originally set in place. After the governor approved school closures within nine ZIP codes across the city Monday evening, he then released a different, conflicting set of boundaries of areas that are experiencing clusters on Tuesday afternoon.

A bus sits outside PS 99 in Rego Park, one of the Queens schools that was PHOTO BY MICHAEL SHAIN closed in the recent COVID restrictions.

The governor’s updated COVID maps break clusters and surrounding areas down into red, orange and yellow zones, under which schools in red and orange zones will be closed for two weeks, but in yellow zones they will remain open while being subject to mandatory weekly testing starting Oct. 16 Of the school sites that originally closed last Tuesday in Queens, four ended up being in a yellow zone under Gov. Cuomo’s modified hot

spot boundaries, but according to the city, any schools that were previously shuttered will remain closed.

“The school sites that were closed previously will remain closed for that two week period even if they don’t end up under the new state rules… were still keeping them closed because based on our data it was the right thing to do,” de Blasio said in a press event last Thursday.

Additionally, there are 308 school sites in the yellow zones citywide. Of

those, 162 are within Queens.

The city has released an interactive map that will tell residents whether their schools fall within a COVID hot spot at nyc.gov/covidzone.

Below is a list of all school sites in Queens that fall into a red or orange zone and will be closed for at least two weeks: High School for Arts and Business in Corona; PS 164 Queens Valley in Kew Gardens Hills; PS 165 Edith K. Bergtraum School in Kew Gardens Hills; PS/MA 219 Paul Klapper School in Flushing; John Bowne High School in Flushing; The Queens College School for Math, Science and Technology in Flushing; Townsend Harris High School in Flushing; Robert F. Kennedy Community High School in Flushing; North Queens Community High School in Flushing; PS 43 in Far Rockaway; MS 53 Brian Piccolo in Far Rockaway; PS 104 The Bays Water in Far Rockaway; Lighthouse Elementary School in Far Rockaway; PS 197 The Ocean School in Far Rockaway; PS 253 in Far Rockaway; Frederick Douglass Academy VI High School in Far Rockaway; Knowledge and Power Preparatory

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Business owners try to figure out rules for different sides of the block

by Michael Shain Chronicle Contributor

Last Thursday night, a couple of police officers walked into Gabriel Yusupov’s barber shop, Fresh Looks, in Forest Hills and asked him if he was closed.

“It was the end of the day and we were sweeping up and I said, ‘Yes, I was about to close,’” the barber said.

Good, the cops said, because he wasn’t going to be permitted to open the next day — or for another two weeks after that.

The day before, Gov. Cuomo ordered all “non-essential” businesses in COVID-19 hot spots to

close for 14 days. As it turned out, without realizing it, Fresh Looks was caught in the net.

Cuomo’s “cluster action initiative” came with a map that showed that in one spot, the boundary of the most-restrictive area, the socalled red zone, went right down the middle of 108th Street.

The east side of the street, where Fresh Looks was located, was part of the less-stringent orange zone.

Yusupov assumed he was OK, until he got the visit from the cops.

Haircutting is not allowed in the orange zone.

“I didn’t know,” he said this week in a phone interview from the front of his shuttered shop. “They told me if I didn’t close, the fine was $15,000.”

Confusion has been high among store owners along the business strip of 108th Street, where the border was drawn last week by state a u t ho r it ie s , clo si ng s ch o ol s , restricting houses of worship and re-imposing harsh rules on businesses trapped behind the line.

On the orange side, supermarkets and restaurants are open with

outdoor dining allowed.

On the red side, it’s takeout only for restaurants. Gift shops, housewares stores and hair salons are closed behind roll-down gates.

“No one is dying now,” said B r e n d a M a n a n ov, ow n e r of Nadezhda, a kosher restaurant on the red side of the street. Government officials “are doing everything opposite” of what they should be doing, she said.

Business at her restaurant was down 80 percent when it was doing only takeout, she said.

Af ter sidewalk and limited indoor dining was reinstated last month, “the business came back to normal,” said Mananov.

“We spent a lot of money building outdoor seating and we were about to put in heating,” she said. “ Now, we’re not going to do anything.”

“It doesn’t make sense,” said Boris Svonu, who owns a kosher restaurant called Salute across the st reet f rom Nadezhda, on the orange side.

In Salute this week, a dozen tables were set with white table

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Cuomo’s cluster map splits 108th Street

Inside Salute, a kosher restaurant on 108th Street, the tables are set and ready but no one has sat at them since last week. Inside Jerusalem Bagels, left, the tables are pushed into a corner so they can’t be used, as businesses adjust to the mandates given by Gov. Cuomo as 108th Street has been PHOTOS BY MICHAEL SHAIN divided into different clusters. cloths and silverware, but no one had sat there in recent days. “Takeout only,” Svonu explained.

Back on the red side, the tables and chairs Jerusalem Bagels set up for outdoor dining are stacked in a lonely corner of the dining room.

“It’s definitely annoying,” said Manny Mikhaylov, a manager of the bagel shop.

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While some cities around the country have decried the holiday, Middle Village celebrated Columbus Day and Italian heritage last Saturday at Juniper Valley Park.

State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. addressed the gathering, above, as did former state Sen. Serf Maltese, seated, and Councilman

Bob Holden, whose birthday fell on Columbus Day this year.

The Columbian Lawyers Association, top right, proudly displayed its banner.

One supporter, far right, waved the American flag with Italian flag colors.

Columbus Day became a fed-

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Lefty from 34th Street became Yankees legend, Hall of Famer

by Michael Gannon Editor

Whitey Ford, the kid who rose from the sandlots of Astoria to legendary status with the New York Yankees and easily won his ticket the Baseball Hall of Fame, died Friday at his home on Long Island.

He would have been 92 on Oct. 21.

“The Yankees are incredibly saddened to learn of the passing of Hall of Famer Whitey Ford,” the club said on its Twitter account.

“Whitey spent his entire 16-year career as a Yankee. A 6x WS Champion and 10x All-Star, The Chairman of the Board was one of the best lefties to ever toe the rubber. He will be deeply missed.”

“We join the baseball community in mourning the passing of Baseball Hall of Famer, Whitey Ford,” said the New York Mets on Twitter. “The native New Yorker, who lived in Astoria, Queens as a child, spent all 16 years of his professional baseball career in New York as a member of the @yan kees. #RIPWhitey.”

Major League Baseball also tweeted its condolences.

Ford’s family moved to 34th Street in Astoria from Manhattan when he was 5. The lefthander pitched and played first base for the Manhattan School of Aviation Trades because it had a baseball team while his neighborhood

high school, William Cullen Bryant, did not.

“W hitey” was bestowed on Edward Charles Ford by his first minor league manager, Yankee icon and future Hall of Famer Lefty Gomez, for his blond hair. He joined the big club in mid-1950 as a 21-year-old rookie, but pitched like a veteran. He went 9-1 down the stretch, and on a staff loaded with established stars like Vic Raschi, Allie Reynolds and Eddie Lopat got the ball — and the victory — to clinch a four-game sweep of the Philadelphia Phillies’ “Whiz Kids” in the World Series.

Following two years in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, Ford anchored the staff for the next decade. He retired during the 1967 season, when his injured left arm could take no more punishment.

His 236 wins and 45 shutouts are still Yankee records. He also still leads the team in alltime innings pitched, and shares the record of 438 career starts with another lefty, Andy Pettitte.

Ford won the 1961 Cy Young Award in the days when only one was given in all of baseball, and pitched in 11 World Series.

His all-time record of 10 World Series victories has withstood assault from the likes of Sandy Koufax (4), Bob Gibson (7), Don Drysdale (3), Jim Palmer (4), Tom Seaver (1), Jim “Catfish” Hunter (5), Ken Holtzman (4), Steve

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Astoria’s Whitey Ford passes at 91

Whitey Ford’s talent took him from 34th Street in Astoria to baseball stardom in the hallowed NEW YORK YANKEES IMAGE / TWITTER grounds at 161st Street and River Avenue in the Bronx.

Carlton (2), Jack Morris (4), Greg Maddux (2), Tom Glavine (4), John Smoltz (2), Pettitte (5), Randy Johnson (3) and Madison Bumgarner (4) for the last 58 years.

He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1974 along with his buddy Mickey Mantle, the same year his No. 16 was retired by the Bronx Bombers.

Whitey Ford Field is on 26th Avenue between First and Second streets in Astoria.

His children and grandchildren have occasionally joined Friends of Whitey Ford Field for cleanups and fundraisers, and his granddaughter, Blair Clancy, is on their board of directors.

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Except for skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer in American women.

Breast cancer screening means checking a woman’s breasts for cancer before she has any symptoms. A mammogram is an X-ray picture of the breast. Mammograms are the best way to find breast cancer early, when it is easier to treat and before it is big enough to feel or cause symptoms.

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• You have changes in certain breast cancer genes (BRCA1 and BRCA2).

You are of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage.

• You were treated with radiation therapy to the breast or chest in childhood or early adulthood.

• You have had breast cancer or other breast health problems such as lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS), ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), atypical ductal hy per plasia , or at y pical lobula r Q hyperplasia.

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You have an average risk of getting breast cancer at a young age if the risk factors listed on the left don’t apply to you. If you are at average risk, it is important for you to know how your breasts normally look and feel.

Talk to your doctor if you notice any changes in your breasts. Aside from genetics, little is known about what causes breast cancer in women younger than 45 Q years of age.

Many factors can inf luence your breast cancer risk, and most women who develop breast cancer do not have any known risk factors or a history of the disease in their families.

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• Exercise regularly (at least four hours a week).

• Don’t drink alcohol, or limit alcoholic drinks to no more than one per day.

• Avoid exposure to chemicals that can cause cancer (carcinogens).

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estrogen and progesterone in menopause for more than five years; • taking oral contraceptives (birth control pills); • a personal history of breast cancer, dense breasts, or some other breast problems; • a family history of breast cancer (parent, sibling, or child); • getting radiation therapy to the breast or chest; and • being overweight, especially after menoQ pause.

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COVID-19 threw a wrench in the American Cancer Society’s annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk, but participants and survivors have refused to allow the pandemic to overthrow National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Instead, they’ve turned to multiple socially distant events to raise funds and awareness for the disease.

“After all, it has never really been about the walk, has it? It’s always been about helping to raise life-saving funds to ensure that no one facing breast cancer walks alone,” the ACS site reads.

In place of the walk, the ACS will host its first ever Making Strides of Queens Drivethru — survivors and the families of those affected by breast cancer will be spotlighted in a car parade at The Shops at Atlas Park on Oct. 18 from 9 to 11 a.m. Nicknamed “Making (St)Rides” and the “Rolling Rally,” the parade will still have many of the same elements as the annual walk through Flushing Meadows Corona Park, such as survivor tables, vendors games and sponsors.

Sharon Robinson, a breast and colon cancer survivor, believes the car parade is the perfect response to these pandemic-stricken times because it allows survivors to gather without risking their health.

“It is different, but we are able to still

The annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer of Queens walk was cancelled this year, but PHOTO BY KATHERINE DONLEVY there are plenty of upcoming socially distant events to take its place. fundraise, be there for those who need us,” she said. “It’s about being around a community of people who share the same interests and means of support, a community of people who share a common goal of walking to find a cure. It’s the opportunity to go out and do more.”

During the parade, the ACS will plant pink

pinwheels throughout the flower beds of the shopping center to form a tribute garden. Pinwheel purchasers are encouraged to post a picture of their pinwheel on social media and name it in honor of someone in their life who has been afflicted by breast cancer.

The ACS is also hosting several other events until the end of October to raise as

much money as possible during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Teams that raise $500 or more are invited to participate in a scavenger hunt from anywhere they choose while still competing virtually with other teams. A virtual programming event is also scheduled for Oct. 17 that will feature performers, survivor ceremonies and more through the ACS website and social media channels.

Though there are plenty of events in place of the annual walk, some breast cancer survivors have organized miniwalks of their own.

“It went very well. We were socially distant, we wore pink masks, and pink gloves,” said Allision Attong-Rogers, who was approved by the Parks Department for a 25-person walk around a Brooklyn park. “It was a good thing to come together and talk and get [our] feelings out.”

She, her sister, who also survived the disease, and other family members followed the walk with a lunch sale from their front yard — they sold Caribbean food to passersby in exchange for a $20 donation to breast cancer cure research. Combined with their other fundraising efforts, Attong-Rogers and her team brought in nearly $4,000.

Making Strides Against Breast Cancer of Queens has raised $65,458 so far towards its $755,000 goal. To make a donation or find out more information on upcoming events, visit Q bit.ly/3nKkeh9.

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COVID-19 presents some tough decisions

by Michael Gannon Editor

Ayne Allen of Queens had begun treatment for breast cancer in January, including a grueling regimen of chemotherapy through New York-Presbytrian Queens hospital in Flushing.

She had just finished four doses of chemo by the end of February and was preparing for another 12-week cycle in early March when the COVID-19 pandemic hit New York with full fury, shutting down most of the city.

She, like countless women, had decisions to make about if and how to continue their treatment when in-home care was not an option, meaning going to offices, hospitals or clinics, placing themselves at risk with their immune systems already under attack.

“I had fears,” the Queens resident said. “I couldn’t do it at the house. How was I going to get there in a pandemic? Who would take me?” And if she decided to stop, there was a real possibility she would have to start from the beginning again when treatment resumed.

Dr. Lauren Eldreda, who specializes in hematology and oncology at the hospital, said many women had to make decisions about continuing or interrupting treatment, or in some cases, going to their regular screenings and mammograms.

“There’s no uniform advice,” she told the Chronicle. “It depended on the patient —

The COVID-19 outbreak forced countless women to consider how to safely proceed with mamFILE PHOTO mograms, checkups and even treatment for breast cancer. what stage were they at? Were they taking chemothreapy? Immunotherapy?”

And she said the fears were very real particularly among older patients who were statistically more vulnerable to catching COVID-19 if they had to venture outside of

their homes.

She said they helped many patients with decisions as to which women could afford to wait based on their circumstances, and who should not. They also had their own doctors, nurses and staff to consider and protect.

“Our job was to come up with the best ways to treat our patients properly and safely.”

“I used masks, gloves, a lot of Lysol wipes and did it,” said Allen, who said she is feeling about 80 percent back to normal. “My best advice is to do it and leave the rest in the hands of God.” Helena Smalls of Jamaica would agree. At a breast cancer event last weekend, she told the Chronicle that upon turning 40, she decided to take advantage of laws making it easier to get a mammogram.

“I was lucky I did,” she said. “The first time they found a lump — it was benign. But I still go back for my screening every year.”

SHARE, an informational and support group for cancer patients and survivors, runs numerous programs in Queens.

Carol Evans, the CEO, and Gwen Harrison, its Queens ambassador and support group coordinator, said they see the continuing danger to women.

“It’s a very big problem because people are afraid to go out, and they are already feeling vulnerable,” Evans said. She said some are forecasting that up to 10,000 women in the country could die because of delayed screenings and treatment this year.

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Five ways to help reduce breast cancer risk Although there is no sure way to prevent breast cancer, there are several things you can do that may lower your likelihood of getting it.

Here are 5 ways to help protect your breast health.

1. Get to and stay at a healthy weight.

Being overweight or obese increases breast cancer risk, especially after menopause. Gaining weight as an adult adds to your risk.

After menopause, most of your estrogen comes from fat tissue. Having more fat tissue increases the amount of estrogen your body makes, raising your risk of breast cancer.

Also, women who are overweight tend to have higher levels of insulin. Higher insulin levels have also been linked to breast cancer.

If you’re already at a healthy weight, stay there. If you’re carrying extra pounds, try to lose some. There’s some evidence that losing weight may lower breast cancer risk. Losing even a small amount of weight can also have other health benefits and is a good place to start.

2. Be physically active and avoid time spent sitting.

Many studies have found that regular physical activity reduces breast cancer risk.

Recent updates to the American Cancer Society Guideline for Diet and Physical Activity recommend getting at least 150-300

Although there is no sure way to prevent breast cancer, there are several things you can do that PHOTO COURTESY AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY may lower your likelihood of getting it. minutes of moderate intensity or 75-150 minutes of vigorous intensity activity each week.

Getting to or exceeding 300 minutes is ideal.

You can learn more about getting active in the ACS’ “Fitting in Fitness.”

In addition, you should limit sedentary behavior such as sitting, lying down, watching TV, and other forms of screen-based entertainment. This is especially important if you spend most of your working day sitting.

3. Follow a healthy eating pattern.

A healthy eating pattern includes a variety of vegetables, fiber-rich legumes (beans and peas), fruits in a variety of colors and whole grains. It is best to avoid or limit red and processed meats, sugar-sweetened beverages, highly processed foods and refined grain products. This will provide you with key nutrients in amounts that help you get to and stay at a healthy weight.

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Research has shown that drinking any alcohol increases the risk of breast cancer. If you choose to drink alcohol, the American Cancer Society recommends that women have no more than one alcohol drink on any given day. A drink is 12 ounces of regular beer, 5 ounces of wine, or 1.5 ounces of hard liquor.

5. Think carefully about using hormone replacement therapy.

Studies show that HRT using a combination of estrogen and progestin increases the risk of breast cancer. This combination can also lead to increased breast density making it harder to find breast cancer on a mammogram. The good news is that within 3 years of stopping the hormones the risk returns to that of a woman who has not used HRT. For women who have had a hysterectomy, taking HRT that only includes estrogen may be a better option. Estrogen alone does not increase breast cancer risk. However, women who still have a uterus are at increased risk of endometrial cancer from estrogen-only HRT. Talk with your doctor about all the options to control your menopause symptoms, including the risks and benefits of each. If you decide to try HRT, it is best to use it at the lowest dose that works for you and for as Q short a time as possible.

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Screening is still important during the pandemic At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, elective medical procedures, including cancer screening, were largely put on hold to prioritize urgent needs and reduce the risk of the spread of COVID-19 in healthcare settings. One consequence of this has been a substantial decline in cancer screening.

As states reopen businesses and ease restrictions, many healthcare facilities are starting to offer elective procedures again, including cancer screening. Restarting cancer screening requires careful consideration of the risks and benefits of screening, along with ensu r ing safety for both patients and healthcare personnel.

Decisions about restarting screening depend on many factors, and they may not be the same for every person. They will likely vary by comm u n it y w h i le t h e p a n d e m ic continues.

If an appointment was made for screening that was postponed or canceled, patients should talk to their

healthcare team about when to reschedule. Providers can discuss balancing the risks and benefits of being screened now or postponing for a later date, considering personal and family history, other risk factors and the timing of the last screening test.

“Finding breast cancer early and getting high-quality cancer treatment are the most i mpor t ant strategies to prevent deat h s f rom brea st cancer. Getting regular screening tests is a cr itically impor tant part of finding breast cancer early,” said Dr. Lau ra Makaroff, senior vice president, Prevention and Early Detect ion for the American Cancer Society.

“Breast cancer screening disparities are already evident and without focused attention, are likely to increase as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Efforts to promote breast cancer screening and overcome barriers for populations with low screening prevalence must be at the forefront of our focus,” said Makaroff.

Many women get an annual mammogram for breast cancer screening.

However, leading organizations that issue screening guidelines recommend that average-risk women ages 55 and older can be screened every two years.

Women 55 or older who had a normal mammogram within the last year could choose to have their next mammogram up to 24 months after their last one.

As your regular facility for healthcare returns to providing cancer screening, it’s important that it is done as safely as possible.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommendations for healthcare facilities to r e d u c e t h e r i s k of C OV I D transmission: • Screening centers should be available to answer questions from patients via phone or web portal before and/or after the screening procedure.

• Patients should be prescreened for COVID-related symptoms before screening appointments.

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October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the American Cancer Society is urging women to talk to their doctors to find out what’s PHOTO COURTESY AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY best for them. ment times, if needed, to avoid crowding in waiting rooms and patient care areas.

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Page turners *** Queens bookshops will fill your need to read

by Michael Gannon

eased to allow limited indoor capacity, the shop schedules appointments at which customers can come in and browse for 15 or 30 minutes.

Appointments can be made on the store’s website, kewandwillow.com.

Castillo believes many of their new customers are people who found them while looking around during COVID-required isolation. Ray Harley, who has owned the Austin Book Shop on Jamaica Avenue in Richmond Hill since 1994, believes his business has benefited from that as well. He has customers as sseen een ne ee new cu cust stom omer erss

become repeat ones after finding his secondhand s tore on book exchanges.

“I’m sending out six and seven packages two days a week,” Harley said.

He specializes in baseball books, along with history tomes and biographies. He recently got requests from out of state for works by sportswriters from the 1950s such as Gene Schoor; and a biography of 1960s Dodgers outfielder Wally Moon.

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How does one spend only 30 minutes — or less — in a bookstore?

In t he days of A ma zon a nd COVID-19, store owners in Queens have been faced with that very question. But the customers have been reaching out, both in person by appointment and online, as they too adjust to find what they’re looking for.

A sign on the door at Kew & Willow Books on Lefferts Boulevard in Kew Ke Gardens Gard Ga rden enss su sums ms u up p th thee si situ situation tuat atio ion

nicely — “Stay safe. Read books.”

“It’s been going well,” said Vina Castillo, who owns the shop with Holly Nikodem. She said the statewide pause in March caused them to draw up some plans.

“We began curbside service and hand delivery in Queens, bringing the books to customers ourselves,” she said. The store also saw an uptick in online orders when they implemented $1 shipping for a time.

“We were getting orders from several states,” Castillo said. Now that emergency em m er erge genc ncyy co cond conditions ndit itio ions ns have hav avee been be en

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Vito Romita immigrated to America in 1921. Armed with only a third-grade education he worked as an ice man, got married and lived in an apartment on Ellery Street in Brooklyn.

John Romita was born on Jan. 24, 1930, the first of five children. A gifted artist, he entered the comic book industry shortly after graduation from Manhattan’s School of Art Design, working on the comic Famous Funnies.

He married Virginia Bruno in 1952 and bought a house at 103-20 217 Lane in Queens Village. The couple raised two boys there and later took in his parents.

Romita toiled as a penciler in romance comics for DC Comics for eight years before hooking up with Marvel Editor Stan Lee. A relationship was formed when he took over The Amazing Spider-man.

Romita also served as Marvel Comics’ art director in the 1970s and 1980s.

After the death of his father in 1984, they moved to Bellerose Terrace, a hamlet just over the city line in Nassau County.

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Queens is renowned for its cuisine, which brings in tastes from all over the world thanks to the borough’s heavy immigrant population. It’s a place where you can get meals derived from every populated continent — yes, including even Australia — and where a recently published cookbook is aptly titled “The World Eats Here.”

The book could just as easily have been called “The World Cooks Here.” So too, perhaps, could a monumental work of art now on display in Socrates Sculpture Park. Instead it’s called “Eternal Flame,” and it evokes the continuity of human communities in the form of the very foods and recipes brought here from all over the globe.

“Paul Ramírez Jonas’ ‘Eternal Flame’ is a monument in the form of a communal grill and imagines cooking culture as both a sym-

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bolic and real eternal flame — there is always a lit cooking fire somewhere on this globe,” Socrates Sculpture Park, which is displaying the piece until next March, says on its website. “The work honors the role of cuisine and cooking in cultural cohesion and expression among communities and identities, even when individuals and families relocate locally, nationally or internationally.”

Ramírez Jonas himself, in a short video about the work, says he “was thinking what is exactly the meaning of the eternal flame, what is eternity and how do we keep things alive” when he conceived of the piece.

One answer to those questions lies in cooking, in passing recipes down from one generation to the next. “The communal experience of sharing food — that exists for all people in all times and places — is what inspired Ramírez Jonas to title his monument sculpture ‘Eternal Flame,’” Socrates spokeswoman Sara Morgan said in an email.

“Eternal Flame” consists of four connected barbecue grills, open for public use, with an obelisk rising above them. The obelisk has no point, almost as if it is unfinished, just as the work of parents giving recipes to their children continues through the generations unendingly. Near each grill is a picnic table painted in a bright, cheerful color.

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At Socrates, a work that fills both body and soul

“Eternal Flame” is not just a monumental work of art but a practical one, with four barbecue grills available for public use. The sculptor, Paul Ramírez Jonas, is seen getting the fire started at one grill in a documentary short about the work posted on the Socrates SculpPHOTO COURTESY SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK, ABOVE; SCREENSHOT / VIDEO BY RAVA ture Park website. food is really beautiful because it’s more than memories; it’s tradition,” Queens chef Jonathan Forgash says in the video, which features several cooks using the grills and speaking to the value of handing down traditions. “It’s bringing stuff from the past into the present with our cooking, and it’s not just a memorial it’s something we’re actually

doing and sharing with others all the time.”

The grills are technically open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., when Socrates staff are on site, and may be used in any weather, on a first-come, first-served basis. Users must clean up after themselves and have been treating the work very respectfully so far, Q Morgan said.

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Assistant manager Nina Cassius said the seven-day-aweek used bookstore has had to make a concession or two to COVID-19, but wanted to get back to business as usual as quickly as possible.

“We’ve stopped accepting donations of books right now because of COVID,” she said. “And we’ve never done online or mail orders. But we have a lot of loyal customers who’ve kept coming back.”

Cassius said when they were first allowed to reopen they did so for five days per week just to test the waters. They soon felt confident enough to go back to seven days.

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continued from page 00 An advantage Harley has is an incredible deal on rent.

“I own the building,” he said. Another is that his sister-in-law, Kathy Keane, also works with the business.

Appointments for in-person visits can be made by calling (718) 441-1199 or through the store’s Facebook page.

And pretty much any business model can find a way to make it work.

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Notice of Formation of 5765 59TH STREET LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/21/20. Office location: Queens County. Princ. office of LLC: 57-65 59th St., Maspeth, NY 11378. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to David B. Friedrich, c/o 240 W. 52nd St, NY, NY 10019. Purpose: To hold real estate.

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

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

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

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

Notice of Formation of COAST 2 COAST ROBOTICS L.L.C. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/22/2020. Office location: Albany County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: LEGALINC CORPORATE SERVICES INC., 1967 WEHRLE DRIVE, SUITE 1 #086, BUFFALO, NY 14221.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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

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

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of AGS Business Partners LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/30/2020. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: AGS BUSINESS PARTNERS LLC, 8409 118TH STREET, KEW GARDENS, NY 11415.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Empire State Music & Arts, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/15/2020 amended on 08/26/2020. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: THE LLC, 560 ONDERDONK AVENUE, RIDGEWOOD, NY 11385. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of 19525 Woodhull Avenue LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/13/2020. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: BENIDA ALEXANDER-STOKES, 18 MISTAIRE PLACE, HOWELL, NJ 07731.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Bry’s Beauty Boutique LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/27/2020. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: BRY’S BEAUTY BOUTIQUE LLC, 18816 QUENCER ROAD, SAINT ALBANS, NY 11412.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of KDM Korporate, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/03/2020. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: KHAVEL SMITH-MARTIN, 179-09 SELOVER RD, JAMAICA, NY 11434.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Neat Home Organizer LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/21/2020. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: NEAT HOME ORGANIZER LLC, 151-14 19TH AVENUE, WHITESTONE, NY 11357.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Mar Design Studio LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/02/2020. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: MAR DESIGN STUDIO LLC, 3040 31ST STREET, ASTORIA, NY 11102. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of CASELLA FUNERAL SERVICE LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/23/2020. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: THE LLC, 494 SENECA AVE., RIDGEWOOD, NY 11385.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of LAVALATA, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/05/2020. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: RYAN KWON, 2728 THOMSON AVE. #804, LONG ISLAND CITY, NY 11101.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

filed with the SSNY on 09/14/20.

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41-28 Newtown Road, Astoria, kitchen wood cabinets, bsmnt, lg NY 11103. Purpose: Any storage room, lg patio off kit with lawful purpose.

Howard Beach, Cross Bay Blvd., 2nd fl., 350 sq. ft., $1,500/mo., plus heat & electric, all new tiles, new bathroom. Also in same bldg, 2nd fl, 850 sq. ft., all new tiles, new bathroom, $2,400/mo., plus heat & electric. Connexion Real Estate, 718-845-1136

Ozone Park, commercial building (101st Ave) 2 blocks off Cross Bay Blvd, 25x100 lot, 25x46 building.

2nd fl, dental office, $2,200/mo. 1st fl gutted to studs & vacant, bsmnt clean with new furnace, zoning R6B, building K2. Reduced $845K, owner mortgage. Connexion Real Howard Beach/Lindenwood, 3 1/2 Estate, 718-845-1136 BR. Call for details. By owner.

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Office: Queens County. SSNY Call designated as agent of the LLC

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Open House Howard Beach/Rockwood Park, mint Hi-Ranch, 40x100, 4 BRs, 3 full baths, vinyl siding with brick front, Andersen windows, High Hats, tiled floors, new carpeting in BRs, security cameras, alarm system, freshly painted, mechanics all updated, heated spa & IGP, brick patio, CAC, rollout awning. $889K. Connexion Real Estate, 718-845-1136 New Howard Beach, Sat 10/17, 11am-12:30pm, 163-12 87th St. Beautiful Hi-Ranch with mother/ daughter setup. 4 BR, 2 full baths, LR, DR, kit. Has a well maintained front yard w/paved drwy & huge backyard. Jerry Fink Real Estate, 718-766-3175 or 917-774-6121 New Howard Beach, Sat 10/17, 1pm-3PM, 164-35 89 St. 3BR, 2 full bath Hi-Ranch. Can be converted into a true mother/daughter with its own walk-in entrance.

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Notice of Formation of MCMN Rockaway LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/17/2020. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: MCMN ROCKAWAY LLC, 105-30 101ST AVE., OZONE PARK, NY 11416. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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

Office location: Queens County.

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

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

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

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Notice of Formation of 6507 COOPER REALTY, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/22/2020. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: 6507 COOPER REALTY, LLC, 2562 HYLAN BLVD. #61657, STATEN ISLAND, NY 10306.

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NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA MECKLENBURG COUNTY IN THE DISTRICT COURT 20 CVD 601930 20 CVD 12860 Danielle Beckford, Plaintiff vs.

Michael Thompson, Defendant To: Michael Thompson Take notice that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above-entitled action. The nature of relief being sought is as follows: Domestic Violence Protective Order and Child Custody.

You are required to make defense to such pleading not later than 40 days from the first date of publication of this Notice, and upon your failure to do so, the party seeking service against you will apply to the court for the relief sought.

This the 1st day of October, 2020.

Danielle Beckford, 13924 Haven Ridge Lane, Charlotte, NC 28215

FH virus zones continued from page 17 side of the street.”

Some business owners on the avenue who have already been through the long lockdow n ea rlier th is yea r seem resigned to the return of restrictions.

“It’s been difficult but there is nothing we can do about it,” said Patricia Ramirez, manager of a Spanish restaurant, El Rey Latino, on the red side.

“Most of our business is not sitdown. It’s pickup and delivery,” she said. “Thank God, it’s been a situation we can handle.”

In fact, shop owners are quick to sympathize with others on the street whom they believe are worse off.

“I feel bad for these people,” Ramirez said, pointing at the hair salon next door. “They were closed for four months. Now they have to shut down again.”

“We still have people, we’re mostly takeout,” said Mikhaylov of Jerusalem Bagel.

“But the restaurants down the street, their business is people sitting down and eating,” he said. “They don’t have that now.”

In the background lurks the fear that the virus will not go away quickly.

“We’re told it’s 14 days,” said Mikhaylov. “But I assume it will be lonQ ger if things don’t get better.”

Increasing awareness and prevention for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

by Richard Dal Col, MD October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. As our country grapples with COVID-19, it’s more important than ever to stay on top of your health and increase awareness of this devastating disease, which impacts one in eight women over the course of their lifetime. Every year, over 2,500 New Yorkers lose their lives to breast cancer, and these numbers will continue to rise if serious precautions are not taken early on by those who are at risk.

Here are four tips to consider for breast cancer prevention and awareness: • Be aware of your risks. Risk factors, including family history, gene mutations or exposure to radiation, can increase the potential risk of breast cancer. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends maintaining a healthy weight and limiting alcohol intake. The first step is to be aware of your risk factors and to discuss them with your medical provider.

• Make sure you self-screen. Self-exams are an important part of the process when it comes to early detection. Regular screenings will help you understand what is normal, so you can easily detect any changes and report them to a healthcare professional as soon as they occur. The earlier the detection, the better. Keep in mind, selfexams are the most common way that breast cancer is discovered — especially for women younger than 50 years old.

• Get routine screenings. Annual breast exams are the primary screening tool recommended every one to three years for women 25 to

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39 years of age. For women 40 and older, mammography is the primary tool for screenings.

Getting screened frequently is the most effective way to reduce your risk by detecting something early on. Talk to a doctor about getting a screening, and always call your doctor immediately if you have any concerns between screenings.

• Know the symptoms. Breast cancer symptoms can vary, but generally, early signs can include: skin changes in the breast(s) such as swelling or redness, change in the shape, or general pain and irritability in that part of the body.

Monthly self-exams can help you notice early signs of symptoms.

Each October, the country raises awareness about breast cancer, but it should remain on our minds year-round. If you have concerns, talk to your doctor and make a plan to get a mammogram. And don’t be afraid to ask for support from a loved one if you feel afraid or unsure — nobody is in this alone. For more information, Q visit emblemhealth.com.

continued from page 19 placed Ford’s photo atop its website next to one of Gibson, who passed away Oct. 2.

“Hall of Famer Whitey Ford’s incredible legacy will live on in Cooperstown,” the HOF tweeted, with links to videos from its archives.

“Today, New York City lost one of Astoria’s proudest sons and one of the greatest Yankees of all time,” said Councilman Costa Constantinides (D-Astoria) — an Astoria native and proud Yankees fan — in an email. “That legacy will live on every time an Astoria kid swings a bat at Whitey Ford Field and when every Yankee dons the pinstripes.”

“We are devastated to hear of the great Whitey Ford’s passing,” said the Yogi Berra Museum in New Jersey in a tweet.

“One of Yogi’s closest companions, Whitey was so incredibly kind and caring, beyond being a legendary pitcher. The loss is immense. Here’s to you, the Chairman of the Board. We love you.”

Palmer, the longtime Baltimore Orioles ace and Manhattan native who grew up idolizing Ford and joined him in the Hall of Fame in 1990, also felt the loss.

“Today I was asked who’s my fav pitcher of all time. I’ve never been asked!” Palmer tweeted. “It’s Whitey Ford. What an honor to call him my Q friend.”

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The right way Rays

by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor

Yankees fans were understandably upset at seeing another season go by the boards without an addition to their team’s 27 World Series championships after a loss to the Tampa Bay Rays last Friday. The Bronx Bombers’ last World Series title came in 2009 and they haven’t been part of the Fall Classic since.

While the knee-jerk reaction of the sports media was to criticize the Yankees, especially manager Aaron Boone, the reality is the Rays are an excellent baseball team and this was more a case of them winning a hard-fought playoff series than more the Yankees losing it.

If you look at the Rays-Yankees matchup from an accounting viewpoint, the Bronx Bombers should have crushed the Rays since their payroll is three times larger, roughly $248 million to $75 million. Of course it’s players who ultimately determine a team’s record and not the accounting departments.

The Tampa market is nowhere near the size of that of New York. Another negative is the Rays haven’t drawn as well as they should because they play in an ugly domed stadium, Tropicana Field, located in St. Petersburg and not in the more populated city of Tampa.

Team owner Stuart Sternberg, who grew up a Mets fan in Brooklyn, and his general manager, Eric Neander, have acquired underpriced talent

from other teams as well as minor leaguers.

The Rays have used the amateur draft wisely as the selections of outfielder Kevin Kiermaier and Cy Young Award-winning pitcher Blake Snell attest. Neander also made low-cost, highreward trades to obtain outfielder Randy Arozarena and first baseman Ji-man Choi.

The Rays’ success can be most attributed to the way Neander fleeced the Pirates at the 2018 trade deadline. The Pirates thought they could make the playoffs and believed Rays starting pitcher Chris Archer was the man to lead them to that promised land. They agreed to send Tampa two of their best prospects, outfielder Austin Meadows and pitcher Tyler Glasnow.

Archer never got the Pirates to the postseason and is currently recovering from thoracic outlet surgery. If that sounds familiar it’s because it’s what derailed former Met Matt Harvey. Meanwhile, both Meadows and Glasnow have become key contributors to the Rays.

When Joe Maddon, considered one of baseball’s best managers, left the Rays after the 2014 season for the Cubs, the team selected journeyman catcher Kevin Cash to succeed him. The reaction when he was hired was, as is often the case with Rays personnel, “Who’s he?”

I doubt any baseball fans are asking that Q question now.

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

• Lindenwood • Two bedroom 1 bath garden Cooperative set back in courtyard. The cooperative is selling “as is”; the owner makes no representation; but is priced accordingly. Home needs TLC but was just freshly painted and plastered to give you a head start to create your own space. Video Intercom & buzzer entrance system. Ideally located near a shopping center, public transportation, express bus to Midtown, airport & major highways. Monthly maintenance $733.32; plus utility $70.00 (fluctuates by usage). Includes all utilities: heat, hot water, cooking gas, & electric. Second floor unit. Pet Friendly. Flip tax is $25 per share.

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

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

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

• Lindenwood • Turn Key 1 BR garden Cooperative with great sunlight exposures & good closet space! This 2nd floor unit has new LED overhead lighting in the living room (12’ x 17’) & Dining room; New electrical breaker; insulated flooring; & New doors throughout. NEW Kit features Quartz countertop with bar seating; new cabinets; flooring & backsplash. Bathroom features a new toilet & vanity. The home has just been freshly painted too. Oversized BR is 16’ x 11’.4” - check out the provided layout. The monthly maint. $671.26; utilities is $50.00 (fluctuates by usage); includes all utilities: heat, hot water, cooking gas, & electric. Flip Tax is $25/share, 236 shares. Building is Pet friendly. Ideally located near a shopping center, public transportation, express bus to Midtown, airport & major highways.

HOWARD BEACH COMMERCIAL SPACE FOR RENT Howard Beach /Cross Bay Blvd.

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

Plus heat & electric, all new tiles, new bathroom, - Also same building 2nd floor 850 sq. ft. All new tiles, new bathroom, $2,400 per mo.

Plus heat & electric.

• Lindenwood • 1 Bedroom, 1 bath Co-op. Selling “as is”. This home needs TLC. Make it your own. Electric, gas and water included in maintenance. Nightly security guard from 10 PM to 6 AM. Excellent fi nancials. Live-in super plus 2 full-time porters. High tech intercom system.

62 cameras on premises. Playground, Storage, fitness and social rooms.

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

Mint Waterfront property with views of the bridge, all redone inside, new bulkhead, new double docks, beautiful kit with S.S. appl., open flr plan, vaulted ceilings, 2 BR converted to one lg master with wall to wall closets, lg new bath with state-of-the-art huge shower, new Asking $825K electric & plumbing

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

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• Lindenwood • Welcome home to this spacious Co-op in Howard Beach.

This move in ready unit features 1000 square feet of living space with a modern kitchen that includes custom Thomasville cabinets, stainless steel appliances & granite counters.

There are 2 large bedrooms, 2 full renovated baths and spacious closets for lots of storage. There’s also an extra large terrace, perfect for relaxing in your own private space. Conveniently located near shopping, stores, schools, highways, Q41, Q21 & express bus to Midtown Manhattan. Maint. includes heat, water, gas and taxes. Electric & cable separate.

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

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Lot size 20 x 100, zoning R6B. Close to transportation, Close to L&M trains 20 minutes to Manhattan.

PRICE: $875,000

Spacious, well maintained 1st flr rental located on a quiet treelined street in Floral Park. Entry foyer with double coat closets.

Large LR/DR combo with a lot of natural lighting. Master BR with an updated half bath. Large 2nd BR/home office. EIK with updated cabinets & dishwasher.

Beautiful large deck/patio.

Hardwood flooring & central air.

Washer/dryer can be added.

Introducing you to a magnificent 1 fam home with 5 BRs 3½ baths, fin bsmnt as recreation area, pvt dvwy & gar. Ceramic & wood floors with marble countertops, kitchen w/open concept, Stainless steel appliances: Microwave, Refrigerator with TV, Microwave, Dishwasher . Ready to move in.

Don’t lose the opportunity.

Close to transportation and everything else.

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PRICE: $2,750/Mo. Contact Anjaynee Rajkumar for more information 646-643-5808

RIDGEWOOD

MIDWOOD 2100 sq. ft. Semi-Att Single-Fam Home Newly Reno with Designer Interior, complete Fin Bsmnt with a shared Dvwy and a 1 Car Gar. The home has 3 BRs & 2.5 Baths. It's a Move in ready home, Great price for everything you are getting with reasonable taxes! Updated hardwood flrs, panel drs, custom moldings with industrial Pipe railing, updated modern kit w/S.S. appliances, followed by a bright LR & Din area. Conveniently located near all major highways & public transportation & close to shopping mall. PRICE: $669,999

Contact Anthony Johnson Freeman for more information 310-993-6787

ARVERNE 2 Family home for sale.

PRICE: $650,000 Contact Valerie Shalomoff for more information 646-533-8142

PRICE: $729,000 Contact Isabel Zenocratti for more information 917-915-5618

JAMAICA Beautiful Three BR Apartment With Wood Flrs Throughout. Close To All Public Transportation, Shopping, Schools, Highways, & Places Of Worship.

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NEW HYDE PARK This beautiful single fam home will NOT last! Located on rare huge corner lot, the property offers plenty of extra space. This Cape Cod Style home features BRAND NEW fully fin bsmnt, alarm system, renovated EIK, & L-shaped DR/LR w/ sliding doors to well-grounded backyard & pool, perfect for entertaining. Conveniently close to LIRR, shops, and a great school district! PRICE: $985,000

Contact Alise Vitale / Lauren DiNovi for more information 646-267-1871/ 917-847-2349

OZONE PARK 2nd Floor apartment full of sunlight, large rooms and lots of closets.

Background credit check required.

PRICE: $2,100/Mo. Contact Rene Rose for more information 718-810-0293

BROOKLYN Nice property in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

The house needs upgrading but it is in good condition.

PRICE: $990,000 Contact Sandra Torres for more information 347-432-7696

PRICE: $1,950/Mo. Contact Chatter Singh/ Ryan Singh for more information 646-354-0799/ 347-257-9475

RICHMOND HILL Beautiful ren 2 fam home. Heated bath floor, custom shower w/marble.

Custom kit cabinets with brand new S.S. high efficient appliances. Brand new electrical with smart switches & LED recess lighting throughout entire home. Brand New tankless hot water system. Brand New high end split ductless Heat & air conditioning system including full fin bsmnt completely reno with spray foam insulation & its own stand up shower. Custom deck & gazebo additional storage area, completely fenced in by a wonderful all new cedar fence providing complete privacy. Wide driveway fit 3 cars.

PRICE: $849,000 - $879,000

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2-Family diamond in the rough. Massive home with room to live. Fully det property with a brick home and 2-car det gar. Home needs updates and for you to make it yours. Gar is stable but needs a new beam. Home is extended with possibilities galore. 9 foot ceilings in both apartments.

Home has a 3 BR unit with extension over 2 BR unit over a full bsmnt with OSE. Dvwy parking for additional 4 cars. Easy commuting, Close to JFK, VanWyck, Belt Parkway, Nassau Expressway.

Unique 4 BR/1.5 Bath, featuring a large lot with private, very spacious dvwy complete with a gar. This home has been carefully taken care of and is ready for it’s new owner! Perfect Residential location - Adjacent to JFK Airport- Bordering North Conduit/Rockaway Blvd.

PRICE: $899,000 Contact Angela Orlando for more information 516-669-6119

PRICE: $599,999 Contact Vaclav Antos for more information 347-631-0403

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BAY RIDGE

JAMAICA ESTATES Located in Jamaica Estates. Huge 180x66.5 sq feet.

R1-2 Zoning. Five BRs, 2.5 baths. Charming Dutch colonial, all wood floors huge DR huge porch in the backyard can build 2 houses on lot.

Close to all transportation & expressway.

PRICE: $1,600,000 - $1,999,000 Contact Indira Persaud for more information 917-509-2874

VALLEY STREAM

Absolutely Beautiful 1 BR unit located in one of the most Whoa, whoa, whoa Do Not I repeat Do Not miss this sought-after buildings in Bay Ridge. Tastefully reno kit, Large opportunity to own a money making machine in the heart LR & spacious BR containing a custom walk in closet. Crown & of Green Acres Mall. This kiosk comes fully equipped flr moldings throughout. Close to shops, restaurants, & public to start your clothing business etc. heat press, printers, transportation including the 69th St Ferry & express bus to $15,000 embroidery machine, computers & more! Owner is Manhattan in front of Building. Walk across the street to the willing to train for a month, option to have employees that scenic bike/jogging path along the bay. PRICE: $475,000 are already there. Credit card sales alone were $65,000 Contact Cass Boggiano for 3 months. PRICE: $99,885

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Excellent location & condition. New roof, 16-solar panels.

5 air conditioners split. 9 video cameras in the house, 9 video cameras outside.

3 Refrigerators.

PRICE: $679,000 Contact Pedro Duarte for more information 646-552-4422

Contact Steven Pratt for more info 929-400-1063

FLUSHING 1 BR Condo for Sale.

PRICE: $1,375,000 Contact Nancy Yen for more information 718-938-1298

PRICE: $1,375,000 Contact Merlissa Samuel for more information 516-712-7801

RICHMOND HILL Eat-in Kitchen, Separate Living Room, Full Bath, Spacious Bedroom PRICE: $1,800/Mo. Contact John Amato for more information 929-268-6278

PRICE: $695,000 Contact Marco LaPadura for more information 917-846-0433

HOWARD BEACH Spacious 1 BR 1st Flr Corner Garden Co-op Unit. Convenient to Bus Transportation, Shopping, School & Houses of Worship.

25% Down Payment Required.

Pets Allowed (30 Lb. Limit). Base Monthly Maintenance $708.15 Month (Includes Heat, Electric & Cable) - Parking $35 & AC $35 Add’l. Laundry & Storage Rms on Site. Flip Tax Applies 236 Shares @ $40/Per Share.

PRICE: $195,000 Contact Theresa Laboccetta for more information 347-531-9060

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Spacious 1- BR, updated Co-op in the Westwood Terrace building on Sutphin Blvd. Very large Master BR, LR & Kit with 4 closet spaces.

Courteous doorman, laundry room, gym & party room in the building. A few steps and you’ll be on Jamaica Ave with access to the subway, bus, shopping, restaurants, etc.

Perfect location!

Lovely semi attac 1 fam home on a quiet dead end block. This home features a LR room, formal DR, updated eat in kit, 3 BRs & 1.5 baths. Close to shopping, schools, houses of worship & transportation. New heating system. Basement is fin plenty of storage space.

Wide pty dvwy & gar.

PRICE: $699,000 Contact Carolyn DeFalco for more information 718-848-4700

PRICE: $200,000 Contact Tara Persaud for more information 718-848 -4700

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PRICE: $619,000 Contact Jocelyn Pacheco for more information 917-627-0021

FAR ROCKAWAY House is a great investment.

Zoning R-4 PRICE: $349,999 Contact Max Levy for more information 917-254-5420

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RICHMOND HILL Beautiful 1 family in the Richmond Hill area in immaculate condition with Full fin bsmnt and a party driveway.

Steps away from the A Train. Close to all amenities, schools and transportation.

CROWN HEIGHTS Pristine Brick 3 Fam. Great for personal use + income-producing, or investment. The first flr is a triplex with 4 BRs and 3 baths, featuring galley style kit, DR, LR, master suite w/ample closet space, & hardwood floors throughout. The 2nd floor is a 1-BR 1 bath. The third floor is a large 2 BR, 1 bath with a galley style kit, living/dining rm combo, hardwood flrs throughout the entire apartment & ample closet space.

Fenced yard! With designated parking spot. House is conveniently located near public transportation, schools, close to shops.

Stop paying rent now!!!

Great investment in East New York. 5 over 6 with fin bsmnt. The kitchen & baths are updated. All info objective, not guaranteed gas heat 220 wiring vinyl Thermo windows semi-fin basement.