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The Department of Transportation is restricting parking along parts of Cross Bay Boulevard thanks to the highly controversial Select Bus Service project. Meanwhile, more SBS routes will be added to Queens.

And Department of Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg apologized for joking that this paper makes her look like “the Antichrist.”

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City plans more SBS routes for Queens DOT declines to provide a specific list of lines that will be changed

by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

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ine Queens bus lines and two that run between Queens and Brooklyn will become Select Bus Service routes over the next 10 years, according to a new Department of Transportation plan released last Friday.

When it comes to which exact lines will get the SBS treatment, however, the city is being less than forthcoming.

In the DOT’s report, entitled “Bus Forward,” a map of Queens is provided that features routes and arrows that appear to be consistent with 11 existing bus lines.

But instead of naming the exact routes that will transition to SBS, the legend accompanying the map only says what two neighborhoods the buses run between, as streets are not shown at all.

When asked via email for a comprehensive list of future Queens SBS lines last Friday, a DOT spokesperson first requested the Chronicle reporter send them the agency’s Bus Forward map. After a second request for a list, the representative referred the reporter back to that same map for answers.

Upon additional requests for the list on Monday and Tuesday, the DOT spokesperson simply responded by saying the lines on the map are the proposed routes without provid-

ing more specific information.

A Chronicle analysis of the 11 routes that run at least through a portion of Queens revealed 14 possible lines that will receive the SBS treatment — in three cases, multiple buses run along the same stretch of roadway being studied. They include: • the Q58 bet ween R idgewood a nd Flushing; • the Q27 between Flushing and Cambria Heights; • the Q43 along Hillside Avenue between Jamaica and Floral Park; • the Q46 along Union Turnpike between Kew Gardens and Glen Oaks; • the Q66 along Norther n Boulevard between Long Island City and Flushing; • the Q113 or Q114 between Jamaica and Far Rockaway; • the Q4 or the Q5 between Jamaica and Rosedale; • the Q25 or Q34 between Jamaica and Flushing via Kissena Boulevard; • the Q10 between Kew Gardens and Kennedy International Airport; • the B15 between Williamsburg and Kennedy, which runs through Howard Beach; and • the B38 between For t Greene and Ridgewood.

It is unclear what, if any roadway rede-

Riders in Elmhurst board the Q58, one of 11 Queens bus routes the city is believed to be exploring for Select Bus Service, according to a Department of Transportation report released PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA last Friday. signing will be necessary to accommodate SBS along those streets.

According to the DOT’s report, both ridership and the average speed of buses citywide are down.

However, the agency said that SBS routes have seen an approximately 10 percent jump

in ridership since the SBS program began in 2008. When it comes to average bus speed, the increase is between 10 and 30 percent since then.

The Mayor’s Office said 309,000 people — 12 percent of city bus riders — use an SBS route, and the goal is to see that rise to about 800,000, or 32 percent, by 2027.

“Select Bus Service has been a truly great partnership for the DOT and the MTA, as hundreds of thousands of daily riders citywide enjoy its real benefits that make buses faster, more reliable and more convenient,” DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg said. “But as the Mayor notes, our success means we now have much more to do, and so we will now tackle other corridors in neighborhoods around New York City where we believe the addition of SBS and the expansion of our bus-priority treatments on local bus routes could make a major difference.”

In recent years, the Q58 has developed a reputation for being one of the slowest and moreovercrowded buses in Queens, thanks to a winding route through residential streets and stops at transit hubs in neighborhoods such as Elmhurst and Maspeth.

A significant portion of the bus route is within the district of state Sen. Jose Peralta (D-East Elmhurst), who said in a Monday continued on page 6

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Councilman Eric Ulrich, left, was endorsed by Democrat Helal Sheikh last Friday. The two also denounced a flier with “racist undertones” that was supposedly sent out by someone affiliated with Democrat Mike Scala’s PHOTO BY ANTHONY O’REILLY campaign.

The gloves are off in the race for the 32nd Council District.

Incumbent Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) last Friday received the endorsement of Democrat Helal Sheikh, who came in second to Howard Beach attorney Mike Scala in the Democratic primary last month.

“It’s not about the party,” said Sheikh, standing outside his former campaign headquarters with members of the Bengali community.

“It’s about the person who I believe can do it better for our community.”

The crossing of party lines came one day after Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway Park), whose district overlaps with the councilman’s, backed the challenger.

“Mike Scala jumped into this race with great energy, winning a crowded primary field,” the assemblywoman said in a release issued by the Howard Beach attorney’s campaign. “He’s passionate about the fight to bring real mass transit options to South Queens. That’s a big issue for me and for my district,

and we’re thrilled to have his advocacy in our corner.”

The Council hopeful was also backed by Queens Democratic Party Chairman Rep. Joe Crowley (D-Queens, Bronx) last Tuesday.

“Mike is a dedicated fighter for his community, a candidate of unwavering principles, and he is the clear choice for the people of the 32nd District on November 7,” Crowley said in a statement.

Ulrich, responding to Pheffer Amato’s endorsement of his challenger, said, “Stacey and I are good friends and Mike is very lucky to have her endorsement.

“But this is partisan politics,” he continued. “Democrats support Democrats, Republicans support Republicans. I’m just glad I have a lot of other great Democrats supporting me like Mike Miller, Phil Goldfeder and now Helal Sheikh.”

After Sheikh endorsed Ulrich, the councilman unveiled a Scalaaffiliated flier with “racist undertones” supposedly found in Rockaway during the primary race — and provided to his campaign last week.

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someone with radical views like Helal Sheikh representing Rockaway ... If you don’t vote, they win.”

It did not say who paid for the note.

“I don’t know who ‘they’ is, I don’t know what radical views Helal Sheikh espoused during the primary campaign,” the Republican said. “I think it was meant to scare the voters in Rockaway not to vote for Helal Sheikh because he comes from a very vibrant and g row i ng Bengali, Mu sli m community.”

A Scala campaign spokesman “categorically” denied having any prior knowledge of the flier and charged “someone associated with Eric’s campaign” with making it to “dissuade a vulnerable community of South Asian voters into voting against their actual interests.

“It is disgusting and it is the act of desperate individuals without any principles whatsoever,” the spokesman continued.

An Ulrich campaign spokesman responded, “Mike Scala should apologize to the Bangladeshi and Muslim community for his despicable slur against their faith and Q stop hiding behind lies.”

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The DNA testing method advocated for by the family of Karina Vetrano, the Howard Beach jogger killed in Spring Creek Park last year, can now be used throughout New York.

Familial DNA testing became effective in the Empire State Oct. 18 — municipalities must seek permission from the New York State Commission on Forensic Science before they can use it in a specific case. The commission authorized the method’s use 9-2 in June.

“Today’s the day,” Phil Vetrano, Karina’s father, wrote in an Oct. 18 statement.

“Today, familial DNA testing is in use in NY State. Yep, today all the murderers, pedophiles, rapists and terrorists have to worry about the law coming to get them.”

Familial DNA testing examines a sample found at a crime scene and looks to see if it is a close match to that of anyone in criminal databases, providing investigators with a possible path to the actual perpetrator.

The Vetrano family, along with Howard Beach lawmakers and Queens District Attorney Richard Brown, pushed for the test’s approval in the months following their daughter’s murder, believing it might lead to the killer — but a suspect, Brooklyn resident Chanel Lewis, was captured Feb. 4 through traditional police work. Lewis faces life in prison if convicted of the charges.

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Parking restricted on Cross Bay Blvd.

Queens Chamber of Commerce leader fears businesses will be impacted

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Customers of Today’s Home Décor, located at 137-07 Cross Bay Blvd. in Ozone Park, don’t just come from Queens.

“They come from Long Island and they come from Brooklyn,” said owner Nancy Composto.

And when they come to the store, which has been on the boulevard for 18 years, they need to find parking.

“Very few of our customers are within walking distance,” Composto said. “Mostly, our clients drive here.”

But, thanks to the highly controversial Select Bus Service project on Woodhaven and Cross Bay boulevards, customers will soon find it much harder to find parking near the home décor business and dozens of others between Liberty Avenue and the Belt Parkway.

Along that stretch, bus drivers starting Nov. 12 will be given exclusive use of the curbside lane in both directions on weekdays from 7 to 10 a.m., and 4 to 7 p.m.

That means cars will be unable to park in the lanes during morning and evening rush hours.

Business owners said they were not notified of any changes to the boulevard until workers started painting the lanes last week — and haven’t heard much, if anything, from the city since then.

“People don’t know what to do,” said Thomas LaVecchia, owner of Howard Beach Realty at 137-05 Cross Bay Blvd. “They don’t know whether they can park here or not. Nobody has told us anything.”

Thomas Grech, executive director of the Queens Chamber of Commerce, said he’s “very concerned” the planned parking

Buses, such as the Q53, will be given exclusive use of curbside lanes along parts of Cross Bay Boulevard, meaning motorists will be unable to park on the street between Liberty Avenue and FILE PHOTO the Belt Parkway. restrictions will affect many stores.

“I’m fearful they’re going to lose a lot of business,” Grech said in a telephone interview Monday. “It’s going to be a huge problem, especially for some of the older people ... They’re going to need access to the stores.”

LaVecchia said his clients “absolutely” rely on finding parking curbside.

Composto said she “opposed it from the very beginning.”

“We voiced our opinion to DOT ... but nobody seems to have responded,” she added.

Grech is urging the DOT to “review the entire process.

“Update it, review it and change it,” he said.

State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) said the change amounts to “cutting off the businesses’ lifeline, which are their customers.”

“Making it as a business in the city is not easy to begin with,” Addabbo said. “To burden them even more with the fact their customers can’t park or can’t access them is even worse.”

A DOT spokesperson did not offer any

comment on the parking restriction, beyond explaining the rules of the lanes.

The spokesperson added that cameras – which will catch drivers in the lanes when they’re not supposed to be — will not be in effect until Nov. 12 and for the first 60 days after that, motorists will only be issued a warning. After that, the penalty for driving or being parked in the lane — except for those making a right turn or making passenger pickups and drop-offs — will range from $115 to $150.

“We will be monitoring conditions after launch,” the spokesman concluded.

Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park), in a wide-ranging interview Monday, said the bus lane fine is too high when compared to other, more serious violations. Although he did not use this example, the fine for running a stop sign in New York cannot exceed $100.

“The cameras that are going to be installed along the bus route, that’s about revenue,” Ulrich said. “The city’s spending millions of dollars in concrete and fencing and planning and studies ... How are they paying for this project? Where’s the money coming from? I think the city is fronting a lot of the money, but I believe the city is planning to get a lot of the money back by collecting tens of millions of dollars in tickets people will get ... It’s going to be a disaster, I’m predicting this.”

Whereas the bus lanes will be in effect during rush hour between Liberty Avenue and the Belt, they will be 24/7 on Woodhaven from Park Lane South to Liberty — the bus lanes there will be along the median — and from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekdays southbound on Woodhaven from Union Q Turnpike to Myrtle Avenue.

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Select Bus Service set to expand in Queens continued from page 2 interview that the Q58 is a sore spot for many of his constituents.

“We have received complaints. People have complained about it often,” Peralta said. “People hear more about what happens with the trains as opposed to buses, but buses are such a huge part of our transportation system too.”

While he noted Bus Forward did not produce many specific details regarding road reconstruction or other changes that come with SBS, Peralta believed the addition of the service “will be welcomed.”

“With SBS, the buses are paid attention to more. The city will pay attention to that route,” he said. “A regular route can fall through the cracks. Now, it won’t.”

The southern half of the Q58’s route runs entirely through Community District 5 — predominantly Maspeth and Ridgewood, where the line terminates.

Community Board 5 District Manager Gary Giordano said he has also found the Q58

to be “quite slow,” with the worst service occuring during the evening rush.

But would SBS be the answer? He didn’t think there were enough details to say one way or the other.

“I wouldn’t say it’s impossible, but a lot of that route is Fresh Pond Road and Grand Avenue. They are not very wide streets,” Giordano said. “But I can understand why the MTA would be looking for something to make bus travel more efficient.”

One thing he hoped the MTA would explore — either before SBS is implemented or if the ser vice is ultimately not brought to the area — is additional limited buses, which skip a number of stops to significantly shorten trip times.

“There’s a lot of ridership there,” he said. “I don’t know the extent to which they run limited service, but more of that could certainly help.”

In eastern Queens, residents are desperate for a faster way to get to the subway in either Jamaica, Kew Gardens or Flushing.

And while Councilman Barry Grodenchik said (D-Oakland Gardens) in a Tuesday interview he is open to “any idea that speeds up the amount of travel time from eastern Queens,” the lack of detail offered in Bus Forward makes him hesitant.

“I’ve asked for a meeting with the city on this,” Grodenchik said. “It’s a long process, but the devil is in the details. I’ll have to learn more before I can say I support it.”

Grodenchik’s colleague, Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park), warned Queens residents in a Monday interview to be wary of anything SBS-related the DOT pitches, citing the headaches caused by the controversial planning and ongoing construction of the service on Woodhaven and Cross Bay boulevards.

“I would just caution those communities to ask lots of questions and get very involved from day one because what the city says and what they do are two different things,” Ulrich said. “This is something that’s going to be around for a long time. Buyer beware.”

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ayor de Blasio’s five-point plan to reduce traffic congestion across the city is another mix of the good, the bad and the probably undoable.

First the good: Yes, by all means ticket more drivers who create gridlock by “blocking the box.” There’s always a lot of pressure on a driver to move into an intersection before it’s clear, but people must learn to stay where they are when the light’s green until there’s a clear path to the other side. And the idea of imposing new rules on certain crosstown Manhattan streets could pan out for the better; it’s at least worth a try.

The bad: Banning truck deliveries on the street during rush hour, as the city will do on select roadways including much of Roosevelt Avenue, sounds good at a glance and likely will help move traffic. But the cost to businesses and the truck drivers is too high. Not all merchants can just wave a magic wand and dictate when deliveries arrive. And drivers have lives too; They want to complete their routes as soon as possible and go home, and they shouldn’t be forced to make deliveries only during certain hours of the workday.

The probably undoable: How will the city reduce congestion in places such as Downtown Flushing and Jamaica?

There’s no room for more lanes for traffic, something City

Hall is ideologically opposed to anyway. Street redesigns by the Department of Transportation today are all about reducing space for cars to make more room for bikes and buses.

And what could a task force possibly suggest to reduce congestion on highways like the Cross Bronx and Gowanus?

Again, you can’t fit more lanes. Creating HOV lanes could just make things worse. Look at what dedicated bus lanes have done to drivers on Woodhaven Boulevard.

And it’s only going to get worse as Select Bus Service is imposed there and on Cross Bay Boulevard. Worse for everyone except those who can just get where they’re going on the bus, that is — which is why DOT chief Polly Trottenberg recently joked that articles in this newspaper make her out to be “the Antichrist” [see separate story]. Don’t worry, commissioner; unlike the queen, we were amused.

But jokes aside, we were not amused that after the DOT announced that 10 more Queens bus routes are slated for SBS, its press office was unable to say which those are and even feigned (we hope) the inability to understand what we were asking [see page 2]. No wonder just about everyone here outside of the bike and bus crowd is fed up with that agency and its Manhattan solutions to Queens problems.

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Trolley folly Dear Editor: BQX: It sounds like a spaceship being sold as the greatest thing since sliced bread. Only $2.5 billion. That number has already grown and will keep growing like all city projects.

Instead of putting in one trolley line, how about fixing up 100 subway stations at $25 million each? One hundred subway stations instead of one trolley line.

Where is the big demand from people to go from Brooklyn to Queens? I know that people in Brooklyn and Queens would like to get into Manhattan quicker. The way the subway is running now it could use all the dollars it can get.

This is just another way the mayor is paying off his friends who donated to his election. This would replace buses with even slower trolleys.

There is no reason given as to why the trolleys would be better than buses that now do just what the trolleys would do. It’s our money they are wasting.

Robert Hartling Flushing

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hree cheers to western Queens state Sen. Jose Peralta for trying a new tack in the fight against massage parlors where sex acts also take place. Home not only to voluntary prostitution but in many cases sex trafficking, these places seem to be spreading like wildfire, and law enforcement needs whatever tools it can get to rein them in.

Peralta’s bill, which Flushing assemblyman Ron Kim says he supports, would require massage parlors to be licensed by the state. Anyone who runs one without a license would face a fine of up to $2,500 and six months in jail. That may be enough so it’s not just written off as the cost of doing business.

Of course the key to anything like this is enforcement, so the police, prosecutors and judges must utilize the bill’s provisions if they become law.

That late-night massage joint you pass on the way home from an evening out could very well be housing an underage unauthorized immigrant forced to perform sex acts against her will. She needs all the help she can get. Albany should pass this bill.

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above and beyond the widely circulated RFP online at bit.ly/2gJTdZV. Queens County, a borough once traveled through, is now traveled to. The reasons are simple: Queens is a national leader in diversity, education /technology and infrastructure improvements.

Queens is the most ethnically diverse urban area in the world, with an astounding 48 percent of our 2.3 million residents foreign-born. If Queens were an independent city, it would be the fourth-most populous in the U.S. with over 130 nationalities represented and an equal number of languages spoken. The tenacity of our Borough President Melinda Katz, who has zeroed in on making Queens welcoming to not only residents but businesses as well, makes us the preferred location to live, work and play in New York City and beyond.

World tech leaders such as Amazon have the unique ability, by virtue of their presence, to not

only talk the talk of diversity, but walk the walk. What better way to lead by example than to take up residence in the World’s Borough?

Queens is also a leader in educational excellence and technological advances like never before. Its higher-education landscape offers everything from modern dental hygiene programs at Plaza College to graduating the most world-class computer science majors in all of NYC at Queens College. St. John’s University, LaGuardia Community College and Queensborough CC all fill needs not encountered anywhere else. York College and Vaughn College teach advanced classes in aviation and aeronautics along with other cutting edge majors. Plus, the spillover effect from the newly opened Cornell Tech Center will be to the east, into Queens.

And, we have the Coalition for Queens (C4Q), an organization that fosters the Queens Tech ecosystem to increase economic opportunity and transform us into a leading hub for innova-

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Focus, councilman Dear Editor: Councilmember Eric Ulrich should stay focused.

There are three weeks until Election Day and we keep hearing complaints against another Council member. Ulrich should stick to the race he has in our district or else he’ll open up a shot for Mike Scala to steal his seat.

It doesn’t make any sense for Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley to call in underage drinking on an establishment where her sons work. If anything, Ulrich should be investigating why there was an altercation in the first place. If Bayview provided underage minors alcohol, it was rightly issued violations. This entire controversy isn’t helped knowing Bayview’s coowner contributed to Ulrich’s campaign, either.

Ulrich should keep his focus on one front, Scala, instead of opening himself up to two with the addition of Crowley.

Dennis Futoryan Rockaway Beach

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The biased Juniper Berry Dear Editor: Another Juniper Berry magazine, this month, was filled with Bob Holden rants about Liz Crowley and raves about his so-called “accomplishments.”

Who gave him the right to use the Juniper Park Civic Association, and the Juniper Berry, to laud his blown-out-of-proportion view of himself? Also, his flip-flopping from the Democratic primary to the Republican line surely shows how dedicated he is to a party for his own personal gains.

I thought the Juniper Berry was organized as a magazine with no party affiliation. It certainly is one-sided and biased. It should be representing “all” Middle Village residents and it is not.

B. Rudzewick Middle Village

No state convention Dear Editor: On Nov. 7, I plan on voting “no” on Proposal 1, calling a state constitutional convention, for the following reasons.

I resent the fact this proposal will appear on the back of the ballot. There is no valid reason why it does not appear on the front. I believe this is intentional so that many voters will be unaware or simply neglect to turn the ballot to its reverse side. This does not comport with good and responsible government.

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Dear Editor: Let me start by saying that I have been a great admirer of your publication for more than two decades and consider it the best local paper in Queens. This is why I am deeply disappointed in the coverage from the Queens Chronicle of the Douglaston Civic Association’s candidates night (“Malliotakis, Albanese talk animal policy,” Oct. 26, multiple editions).

With 75 percent of the article focused on a very specific and worthy topic — animal abuse – and the positions on it of the two mayoral candidates who actually showed up, Nicole Malliotakis and Sal Albanese, I believe that the Chronicle did a disservice to the other candidates who showed up as well as the civic association.

For example, while the article did mention my position on how climate change will affect northeast Queens, there was no coverage whatsoever of the biggest topic of the evening: the new bicycle lanes on Northern Boulevard. Considering that there have already been four major accidents since their installation and they are a point of great contention, it’s baffling they was not mentioned at all in the article.

Additionally, the other topics discussed by the two mayoral candidates were of great interest, as were the discussions of the three

other candidates who showed up, Joe Concannon, Bill Kregler and Letitia James. Beyond a mention at the end of the article — an update only available online — these candidates received no coverage.

Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, were the candidates who literally refused to show up: Bill de Blasio, Melinda Katz and my opponent, Paul Vallone. Sean Walsh, the president of the civic association, spoke about this at the beginning of the event, describing in detail the outreach it conducted and lack of response from Vallone in particular. None of this was covered by the Chronicle.

As a former journalist and current candidate for City Council, I’ve learned that sometimes it’s just as important to tell the public what was left out — certain candidates not showing up, for example — as it is who actually came and what they said in full summary, if possible.

Considering that we have several more candidates nights during the next two weeks, I hope that the Chronicle will be more vigilant in its coverage of these events.

Not to sound too dramatic, but at least in northeast Queens, candidates nights are the grassroots of our democracy. It would be a shame for the Chronicle — and your readership — to miss out on them.

Paul Graziano Candidate for City Council, 19th District Flushing Editor’s note: The writer is correct that the article had many flaws, unintentionally and due to multiple reasons, and we regret that it did not live up to our usual standards.

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tion and entrepreneurship. From a tech perspective, we are home to Boyce Technologies, Shapeways, Precision Gear, Flight Safety International, Mondial Automotive and Digital Natives, among others. And transportation infrastructure spending runs to the tune of $15 to 20 billion in Queens County alone.

If Amazon or any other Fortune 500 wants to break out and truly become an international organization, they need to experience and operate in Queens. They need our neighborhoods, they need our workers, they need our intellect and they need our diversity. The time is ripe and the time is now for making Queens the next headquarters of Amazon.

Thomas J. Grech Executive Director Queens Chamber of Commerce Jackson Heights

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Letters continued from previous page vention, until the convention. General statements are insufficient. I want to know exactly what will be sought at the convention. The only specific item floating around is to alter or deprive civil service workers of their pensions, which I do not approve of.

Lack of transparency alone is reason enough to vote “no” on Proposal 1.

Benjamin M. Haber Flushing

Horrible Harvey lived here Dear Editor: Queens hails itself as the breeding ground for some of biggest names in entertainment, including Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Fran Drescher, Jerry Seinfeld and Marvin Hamlisch.

Another name joins that list whose shame exceeds his fame, Harvey Weinstein. He was born in Flushing in 1952, grew up in the Electchester housing complex and graduated from John Bowne High School. He earned a BA at the University of Buffalo and received an honorary doctorate in humane letters there in 2000.

That doctorate is probably the only humane thing about him. He was cruel to many women but generous to top Democrats like Sen. Charles Schumer, Gov. Cuomo and Hillary Clinton. Schumer and Cuomo said they will return his money or donate it to charity.

Will Hillary do the same, including the $250,000 he gave to the Clinton Foundation?

Or will she hop on her broom and fly away?

Stay tuned.

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Dear Editor: If Harvey Weinstein is the sex addict he claims to be, then he should be doing a “9090.” Ask any addict of any kind what this means. Otherwise he is still acting out, the rest of us are his enablers and he should be asked, “OK, if you are an addict then what meeting are you going to or have gone to today and do you have a sponsor?”

Stew Frimer Forest Hills

Funds to fight Alzheimer’s Dear Editor: The Alzheimer’s Association estimates there are more than five million Americans living with Alzheimer’s disease and more than 15 million Alzheimer’s caregivers.

The human toll of Alzheimer’s is obvious, especially to someone living or caring for someone with this disease. Alzheimer’s is the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S. and the only cause of death without a way to prevent, cure or even slow its progression. In addition, according to the Alzheimer’s Association 2017 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures, Alzheimer’s deaths nearly doubled in the last 14 years.

The report also revealed that Alzheimer’s-

related costs soared to $259 billion in 2017, $175 billion of which come in direct costs to Medicare and Medicaid.

That’s why I am urging Rep. Gregory Meeks to support a $414 million increase for federal Alzheimer’s research funding for fiscal year 2018.

It is only through adequate funding and a strong implementation of the National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease that we will meet the goal of preventing and effectively treating Alzheimer’s by 2025.

To learn more about this disease and how you can help combat it, please visit alz.org.

Ian Magerkurth Director of Government Affairs and Advocacy Alzheimer’s Association, NYC Chapter Manhattan The writer is a resident of Long Island City.

Reps make you pay more Dear Editor: Reps. Joe Crowley and Nydia Velazquez are in the pocket of the nation’s beet and cane sugar cartels! They continually vote to maintain the U.S. Sugar Program. Why? It is really quite simple.

Crowley received well over $68,000 in political donations from the sugar cartels since coming to Washington in 1999. And Write a Letter!

Velázquez over $80,000 Letters received should bewell no longer than 400in political donations from themThey sincemay coming words and may be edited. be toemailed Washington in 1993. to letters@qchron.com.

Please Thanksyour to Crowley, and others, include phone Velazquez number, which will the Sugar Program continues. The notU.S. be published.

Sugar Program is a Soviet-style command and control scheme that restricts planting and imports. This inflates the price of sugar in the United States to almost double the world price. So, when you go to the store to buy a snack cake or anything sweetened, you pay more! According to the Congressional Budget Office, the program means Americans pay $3.5 billion every year in increased grocery costs, which breaks down to $58 per household.

In Crowley’s 18 years in office, he repeatedly voted against sugar reform, costing each New York family an additional $1,044 for groceries. In Velázquez’s 24 years in office, her antireform votes cost each New York family an additional $1,392.

You have to ask yourself, is my member of Congress really fighting to make life better, or is he just another politician in it for the campaign contributions? It’s time for Crowley and Velazquez to step up and end this costly government giveaway to the cartels!

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by Rachel Bloom When looking at the extremely low voter vote for him in our turnout for New York City’s recent primary st at e’s pr i ma r y.) election, one wouldn’t know that city resi- These rules mean dents were deciding who would run for that new voters this mayor this year. It is clear that New York year or those who needs to do more to encourage voter partic- want to change their party for next year ipation and competitive elections.

While the need is evident, what is lack- had to have done so ing is the political will to change the status by Oct. 13.

With voting so quo and breathe new life into our politics.

That’s why this November, New Yorkers difficult, it’s also no surprise that voters must take control themselves and vote to don’t care to turn out, especially when most hold a state constitutional convention to elections are noncompetitive and feature an introduce much-needed reforms that would incumbent heavily favored to win. Perhaps make it easier to vote, reduce the power of that’s why so few city voters showed up for the primary. With a decision between an incumbents and level the playing field.

In this year’s primary, just 14 percent of incumbent mayor with low approval ratings New York City’s eligible voters turned out and a few longshot challengers, why even to vote. Dismal, yes, and sadly on trend bother to make time to go a polling station?

Voters see the same with previous years. In names, faces and ideas 2016, 8 percent of eligible year after year, in part city voters voted in June’s he people can because elections in New federal primaries and 10 York have become a race percent voted in Septemenact election for dollars. Rules that treat ber’s st at e a nd local law reforms that limited liability corporaprimaries. as individuals allow What’s behind these state lawmakers tions s p e cia l i nt e r e st s a nd low numbers? First and wealthy donors to pour foremost are difficulties have not been money into elections, makNew Yorkers have getting willing to pass. ing the cost of mounting a to the ballot. New York has campaig n exceedingly no early voting, no Election Day registration and limits access to expensive and discourage anyone but an absentee ballots, which means that all vot- incumbent. Public financing of elections, like we have in New York City to great ing must happen in person, on a work day.

Laws governing voting in primaries are acclaim, would also benefit first-time caneven more restrictive. Not only does a voter didates, but there isn’t a statewide system, need to be registered with a political party meaning that many would-be challengers before being able to vote, but New York are shut out.

Several common-sense proposals would also doesn’t allow citizens to register or switch parties on Election Day. And the energize our politics and allow new faces in cut-off deadlines to do so are absurdly the room — enacting term limits, allowing early. First-time voters must register with a early voting and lowering maximum camparty 25 days before the election. Those paign contributions are just a few reforms who want to switch their affiliation must do that New York needs. Despite these obviso 25 days before the general election of the ous solutions, legislators have been unwillyear before the primary they plan to vote ing to enact any changes. Perhaps that’s not in, by far the longest deadline in the entire surprising when the current system makes country. (Some New Yorkers may remem- it easier for those in power to stay in power.

For the first time in 20 years, these soluber that this is why Donald Trump’s chiltions can be created outside of the legislative process and passed without the interference of legislators. New Yorkers must seize the once-in-a-generation opportunity provided by the constitutional convention and pass these much-needed reforms that will make our elections more dynamic and include more voices in the process.

With Albany unwilling to act, change must come another way, and that way is a constitutional convention. New Yorkers must vote yes on Nov. 7 to fix our broken Q democracy.

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DOT head walks back ‘Antichrist’ comments Trottenberg said Chronicle makes her look like the ‘Chris Christie of Woodside’

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Looks like it’s time for some hyperbole in Woodhaven.

Department of Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg recently sat down with Transportation Alternatives, an advocacy group, for a wide-ranging interview.

During the discussion, the issue of SBS came up, at which time she said, “Go Google me in the Queens Chronicle. There are 50 stories about how I am the Antichrist and I’m ruining the neighborhood. I’m the Chris Christie of Woodside.”

On Monday she apologized for saying this paper’s coverage of the Select Bus Service project on Woodhaven and Cross Bay boulevards makes her look like the enemy of the Christian God. “The Commissioner meant that particular line in that interview as a joke, but realizes now the language was ill-considered — and she wants to offer a sincere apology,” a DOT spokesman said in an email. “We have appreciated the spirited community and media response we have received around our plans for Woodhaven/Cross Bay Boulevard Select Bus Service, much of which helped us make necessary improvements to our designs for the corridor. As the roadway continues to be transformed in the months ahead, we look forward to

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Department of Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg, seen here during a sitdown interview with the Queens Chronicle, apologized for saying this paper’s coverage of the Select Bus FILE PHOTO Service project makes her look like “the Antichrist.” getting more of that invaluable community feedback.”

The Chronicle has covered the SBS project at length, beginning at the planning stages, and has reported on countless meetings where the issue has been discussed.

There also have been numerous letters to the editor and op-eds written from those on both

sides of the debate published in this paper. Multiple editorials have opposed elements of the project. And while we gladly accept the apology of the commissioner — who is indeed not the Antichrist — the editors and publisher here found her remarks humorous, and somewhat complimentary, not insulting.

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“While the war on cars and the damage the DOT has done to our communities are no joke, the newsroom had a good laugh over the commissioner’s comment,” Editor-in-Chief Peter C. Mastrosimone said. “No apology needed, though of course we thank her for it. We and many of our readers don’t thank her agency for most of what it’s done on Queens, Woodhaven and Cross Bay boulevards, though.”

Peter Beadle, a transportation activist, SBS supporter frequently quoted in Chronicle stories and member of Transportation Alternatives, declined to comment.

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Scala has come ‘a long way’ since rap Ulrich blasts ‘sick’ lyrics; Dem says incumbent lied about endorsements

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Democratic City Council hopeful Mike Scala, who is challenging Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) in the general election, said Tuesday he’s come “a long way since youth,” during which time he sang on a rap album that featured derogatory lyrics.

“I used music and entertainment as an escape and an outlet, eventually being signed to a record label as a young man,” Scala said in a statement. “While sometimes vulgar [and it’s easy to cherry pick specific lyrics and disregard positive messages, or attribute some lyrics to me that were written and performed by someone else, as they did] the characters portrayed tended to receive their comeuppance by the end of the song or album.”

Ulrich’s campaign on Monday released a video featuring Scala during his time with “The Fam,” a rap trio. Some of the lyrics denounced by the councilman include “These girls are basically my favorite animals,” “Me and rap go together like Spanish chicks and baby strollers,” and “F--k a leash, I need a harness for my new freak.” Others talked crudely about sex acts and violence against cops.

Liam McCabe, Ulrich’s campaign manager, said in a statement, “This type of sick thinking has no place in our community or in City Hall.”

Scala, in his statement, accused the incum-

Mike Scala, who is challenging Councilman Eric Ulrich in November, is being criticized by the incumbent for derogatory lyrics sung on a rap album the candidate put out years ago. In turn, YOUTUBE SCREENSHOT the challenger accused the incumbent of lying about union endorsements. bent of “looking for dirt from many years ago, before I was a public official and grew into the candidate I am now...”

The album came out eight years ago, and Scala is now 34.

“I understand they would rather talk about rap music than the fact he supported the Constitutional Convention to achieve ‘pension entitlement reform,’ but we won’t fall for the distrac-

tion,” Scala continued. “I’m proud to be supported by many men and women in our district, of all backgrounds and walks of life, who believe I can make a positive difference.”

The Howard Beach attorney has been endorsed by Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway Park) and Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley (D-Glendale). Representatives for both elected officials did not respond

to requests for comment on whether the lyrics becoming known changed their position.

Scala’s campaign, in turn, pointed out that Ulrich falsely claimed the Transportation Workers Union Local 100 had endorsed him.

The Democrat released an Oct. 23 statement touting the union’s endorsement for him, and not the Republican.

“Residents throughout New York City, especially Queens, are in dire need of improved access to public transportation services and we firmly believe that Mike is the only person who can provide that much needed change,” said TWU Local 100 President Tony Utano in a prepared statement.

Ulrich had claimed the endorsement in fliers and mailings. He also is accused of touting an endorsement from the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association — the union’s website states it has not yet backed a candidate in the 32nd Council District. An Ulrich campaign spokesman said, “Councilman Eric Ulrich is proud to have the support of more than a dozen unions. He will continue to fight for organized labor in the New York City Council, protecting pensions and supporting workers.”

The 32nd Council District includes parts of Richmond Hill, Woodhaven, South Ozone Park and Rockaway and all of Ozone Park, Howard Beach and Broad Channel.

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The first thing Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) will do, should he be re-elected Nov. 7, is taking all the plaques and commemorations off his district office wall.

“I told my staff, ‘It’s not about what we did in the past, it’s about what we’re going to do in the future,’” Ulrich said in an interview with the Chronicle’s editorial board Monday. “If we get re-elected, and we get a chance to serve people again for four more years, I don’t want to know what happened eight years ago, I want to know what we’re doing to help people now and in the future.”

Ulrich is running for a third, and final, full term representing the 32nd Council District, a position he’s held since 2009.

There are two reasons he believes the voters should pick him on Nov. 7 over Democratic challenger Mike Scala. The first is his track record of fighting for the communities he represents, specifically finding a balance in advocating for those on the mainland and in Rockaway.

“Before I got there, they had a very somewhat adversarial, competitive relationship because of what my predecessors were doing ... We really don’t hear much of that anymore,” he said. “What we’ve done in the mainland, we’ve tried to do the same in Rockaway.”

The second is that Mayor de Blasio will get another four years in office, and he believes he’s the only one who can stick up for his constituents.

“I think it’s critical we elect Council members who are truly independent, who fight for their constituents and who aren’t afraid to stand up to the mayor when necessary,” Ulrich said. “There aren’t many people like me in the Council.”

The councilman has brought the mayor to task on a number of issues — such as the slow progress of Build it Back and resiliency issues — and even considered running against him in November.

“I’m probably the No. 1 thorn in his side from Queens,” he said.

But, he added, that doesn’t mean all of his colleagues from this borough aren’t big fans of the mayor — some of them just express their displeasure in different ways than he does.

“They have a different style, they have a different approach,” Ulrich said. “They do a very good job fighting for their constituents but they’re doing it in a different way.”

Although he wouldn’t name anyone in particular, he added there are some who “lie down” and let the mayor do whatever he wants.

On spending, Ulrich wants to see changes to programs he calls “fiscally irresponsible.” One major example is the city paying hotels tens of thousands of dollars per week to house homeless people. Ulrich would like to see the return of Section 8 vouchers, which subsidized living expenses for the “working poor.”

“Let them live independently and with dignity,” he said.

Section 8 was paid for by the state and city of New York and expired under Mayor Bloomberg — it’s now only available in special circumstances. But there’s one thing standing in the way of reinstating the program — the feud between de Blasio and Gov. Cuomo.

“Because he doesn’t have a good relationship, not only with the governor but other people in Albany ... it’s no wonder we have 10,000 more homeless people in the shelter system, and many of them are women and children,” Ulrich said.

He added the Department of Environmental Protection is

Councilman Eric Ulrich spoke with the Chronicle’s editorial board and gave his reasons why he should be re-elected to a PHOTO BY ANTHONY O’REILLY third, and final, term on Nov. 7. an area where “there are millions of dollars we’re spending that frankly no one can account for.”

But the fiscal conservative believes the city has not spent enough money in other areas — mainly, on veterans’ issues.

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He was 48.

“He suffered from depression due to the fact that he was wrongly convicted,” his sister Jayne Lester told the Times. “He was just tormented. He was never the same.”

Lester, who at the time lived in Lindenwood, was the ringleader of a group of white teenagers who, on Dec. 20 1986, began chasing three black men whose car had broken down on Cross Bay Boulevard.

One of the men managed to escape — another, 36-year-old Cedric Sandiford, was beaten with a tree limb, tire iron and a baseball bat. Lester, who originally pleaded not guilty to second-degree manslaughter and first-degree assault, later admitted to hitting the man with the bat.

The third man, Michael Griffith, was fatally struck by a car while running away from the attackers. The incident created

racial tensions in the neighborhood, and throughout New York City.

“What happened in Howard Beach — and make no mistake about it, no ifs, ands or buts about it — it was a racial incident that triggered off this violence,” Justice Thomas Demakos said during Lester’s 1988 sentencing.

Griffith’s mother, who married Sandiford, told the Times “I always forgave them.

“In my heart I’m sorry to hear of his death,” Jean Griffith Sandiford said of Lester’s passing.

The former John Adams High School student told the New York Daily News in 1996, “I accept responsibility for Michael Griffith’s death. If we hadn’t chased him, he wouldn’t have died.”

Lester was released from prison in 2001 and deported to England where, according to the Times, he earned a degree in electrical engineering and started his own electrical services company. He lived in AshtonUnder-Lyne, a town in Greater Manchester, and had three children with a woman.

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“They handed me lemons and I made lemonade and limoncello,” he said. “It was an injustice that we corrected.”

The councilman would also like to see more money invested in the Administration for Children’s Services, particularly so the workload of case workers can be lessened. Right now, one employee may be working on 50 cases at a time.

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UPK, he said, also needs to become “truly universal,” many parents in his district have problems finding the program in schools near their home — or are forced to send an older child to one place and a younger sibling to one farther away.

Throughout his campaign, Ulrich has been criticized by his opponent and some of his constituents for originally supporting a Constitutional Convention. He has since rescinded his support, saying calls, face-to-face conversations and social media messages were the reason for his change of heart.

“I did not receive five calls or 10 calls,” he said. “If I added everything up together ... I probably got two or 300 hundred calls ... After enough of those conversations, I took it under advisement and rescinded my support for ConCon.” Should the ballot measure be approved on Election Day, Ulrich would like to be a part of the process.

“If it does pass, I would like to run for a delegate seat,” he said. “I wouldn’t need even need the salary, I’d donate it to charity.”

Regarding Woodhaven and Cross Bay boulevards, Ulrich said Select Bus Service is “going to be a disaster” once fully implemented and called for Traffic Signal Priority — which can change the timing of streetlights at designated intersections Q — to be implemented along the road.

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Five years later and still not home As another Sandy anniversary nears, city tries to complete Build it Back

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But since then, nothing has been done.

“They have no problem stopping a job, John Fazio’s story is hardly unique in they have a very big problem starting it South Queens and Rockaway, even as the back up again,” Fazio said.

The New York Times reported Monday communities prepare to mark the fifth anniversary of Superstorm Sandy wiping that 87 percent of the 8,300 homeowners who are still in the Build it Back pipeline out thousands of homes and businesses.

The 81-year-old retired firefighter owns have received some sort of assistance, and three houses in Hamilton Beach — he lives the rest should see work completed by March. in one and rents the other two.

But that doesn’t include the thousands of And while he’s back in his home, which residents who, for various he reconstructed on his reasons, either left or were own, his two rental propkicked out of the program. erties have yet to open got everybody Compt roller Scot t their doors, despite being Stringer said last month rebuilt after being batting for me 9,284 Queens residents destroyed. sought help from Build it “They have not conand I can’t hit Back. nected the water or sewer a single.”

Now, only 3,584, such and they’ve given me six as Fazio, remain in the different excuses on why — John Fazio pipeline. they haven’t done it,” In Howard Beach alone, Fazio told the Chronicle in there were 936 people who a t ele phone i nt e r v iew Tuesday. “I’ve had Senator Addabbo’s left Build it Back.

The Mayor’s Office claims 5,000 of the office on it, I’ve had the assemblywoman’s office on it ... I got everybody batting for 20,275 original applicants never fully applied for help, while another 1,100 did me and I can’t hit a single.”

One of the properties, which has already not qualify.

Build it Back, which sought to rebuild been elevated, has had work halted because of a water main break that has been repaired. homes affected by Sandy, had helped zero people and the city had not issued a single check to those who did the work themselves when Mayor de Blasio took office — he overhauled the program and put Amy Peterson in charge of it, and in the weeks following hundreds saw progress. But work has since slowed.

De Blasio in 2015 vowed to have all homes completed by Oct. 29, 2016, the fou r t h a n n ive r s a r y of Sandy — he admitted days before that date the goal Build it Back in Broad Channel.

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Almost five years after Superstorm Sandy, hundreds of homes still remain in the Build it Back pipeline. The city says it’s completed work on 87 percent of the homes that needed reconstrucFILE PHOTO tion and the rest should be done by March. effort to speed up the work, the city is now employing the use of modular homes that snap together like building blocks.

Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park), who has railed against the slow progress of Build it Back and called for a criminal investigation into it, said “it’s about time” the city resorted to the modular homes.

“They should have done that from Day One,” Ulrich said in an interview Monday.

“It’s faster, that’s the bottom line. We should have been doing that from Day One.” Build it Back has also proved to be more expensive than anticipated.

Last year, the mayor moved $500 million in taxpayer dollars to help pay for the overbudget program, which was initially paid for with federal funds.

“It’s almost like nobody is accountable for the failures of the administration,” Ulrich said, “but they want to take credit for all the good things.”

One of the many problems is the city will put more money into a house than it’s worth.

“I’ve asked, ‘Why does it cost $1 million to rebuild a house that’s worth $300,000?;” the councilman said.

It’s been seven weeks since Fazio last saw work done on his rental properties. He originally put $80,000 worth of work into them but they had to be remodeled after he entered the program — he was given different excuses for why they had to be redone, such as they were too close to the water.

“I have nothing but fights,” the longtime Community Board 10 member said. “I’m just beside myself.”

Fazio relies on the properties for income and loses money every day they’re not occupied. One of his tenants, he said, has ca ncer a nd is livi ng i n a basement apartment.

“They promised to have him back by Q Christmas,” he added.

Hamilton plans its annual Sandy vigil

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Sunday will mark five years since Superstorm Sandy rocked much of South Queens, Broad Channel, Rockaway and other areas — and to this day, many are still trying to put together the pieces.

And until those people are in their home, the New Hamilton Beach Civic Association will continue to hold a vigil in honor of those people.

“While much has been accomplished towards our recovery since the storm, many homes are still waiting to be rebuilt, repaired or elevated and the scars are still visible throughout our neighborhood,” Hamilton Beach civic president Roger Gendron said in an email.

The group’s vigil will take place starting at 6:30 p.m.

at the West Hamilton Beach Volunteer Fire Department, located at 102-33 Davenport Court.

“At times, it’s hard to believe that five years have passed since Sandy hit our area but when you see all of the homes that are still being repaired and some, where work has yet to begin, it reminds us just how bad the storm really was,” Gendron said.

The civic president and elected officials will address those at the vigil, as they have in prior years.

The community was hit especially hard by the historic storm and many homes are still being rebuilt.

Others became frustrated with the process and left the community.

“Unfortunately we have lost some of our friends and Q neighbors,” Gendron said in his email.

Hamilton Beach residents at the annual Sandy vigil last year.

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Nonprofit gives a taste of Qns. More than $50,000 was raised for the Boys & Girls Club of Metro Queens at the nonprofit’s 14th annual Global Cuisine of Queens Food Tasting event Oct. 18.

The event, held at Resorts World in South Ozone Park, showcased dozens of the finest eateries from Queens, Brooklyn and Long Island.

“I would like to thank all of the sponsors, restaurants, wineries, and bakeries for helping

to make our Global Cuisine of Queens event a tremendous success” said John DeCristoforo, CEO of Boys & Girls Club of Metro Queens.

Resorts World made a $35,900 donation to the club at the event. DeCristoforo, second from left, accepts the check along with Imani Murray, a racino representative; Michelle Stoddart, director of Resort’s community development; and Joseph Liana, the Richmond Hill club’s president.

Ozone Park teenager Maxine Ramkissoon will be representing her community when she competes in the 2017 Miss Teen Pageant on Nov. 5.

She was selected as one of the finalists following interviews conducted by the Miss Teen pageant coordinator.

The South Queens teenager will be competing for prizes and gifts distributed to contestants.

Modeling casual and formal wear will be one of the competitions Ramkissoon and others will participate in, but the pageant organizers say “personality is the number one aspect that each contestant is judged on during all phases of competition.”

South Queens businesses, organizations and individuals may help Ramkissoon as she prepares for the pageant by sponsoring her. Sponsors ensure each contestant receives necessary training, rehearsals and financial support.

Anyone wishing to become a sponsor for the Ozone Park teenager can do so by calling the Miss Teen pageant coordinator at (877) 910-4190.

Maxine Ramkissoon will compete for the FILE PHOTO Miss Teen crown Nov. 5.

In addition to vying for prizes on Nov. 5, Ramkissoon will be trying to book a trip to the Miss Teen national competition in Orlando.

There, more than $30,000 in prizes and awards will be given out.

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OP biz owner shot in head Cops are still on the hunt for three shar ply-dressed men who shot an Ozone Park business owner in the head and pistol-whipped his son in broad daylight.

The victim, a 53-year-old man whose name has not yet been made public, is still in critical condition at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center.

He and his 32-year-old son run a 101st Avenue business that supplies goods to delis and gas stations.

According to published reports, three men dressed in suits approached the two and shot the elder.

Other 101st Avenue business owners told reporters they’ve been robbed by men in recent weeks, but it’s not known if there’s any connection to Monday’s incident.

The suspects fled in a black Nissan.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1 (800) 577TIPS (8477) or, for Spanish, 1 (888) 57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit tips by logging onto nypdcrimestoppers.com, or by texting 274637 (CRIMES), then entering TIP577.

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WOODHAVEN EVELOPMENTS Getting ready for the holiday season

by Maria A. Thomson Executive Director GWDC

This year, the Woodhaven Business Improvement District will once again have a beautiful, artificial tree for our Christmas celebration.

There was once a real, century-old tree that was used for the holiday season but that one was destroyed by Superstorm Sandy in 2012.

Look for it this year in the Forest Parkway Plaza area.

On Nov. 11, we will honor our defenders, our protectors, on Veterans Day. I have many veterans in my family — four from World War II, two brothers and two brother-in-laws, who were highly decorated.

As of last year, only my brother, who is 92-years-old, is still alive.

We also have his son, who served in Vietnam.

We in Woodhaven revere and honor those who have served in the Armed Forces, for without their sacrifices there would be no we.

Thank you to my family veterans, those that have passed and those who are still with us.

Regarding what I call “Woodhaven’s Eyesore,” the building at 78-19 Jamaica Ave, the collapsed building: I will keep you posted on this location, the former furniture

store next door to the Woodhaven Richmond Hill Ambulance Corps’ former headquarters, which was sold.

I hope you have a very happy Halloween.

“Bobbi and the Strays” held its annual Halloween Dinner Dance again this year.

As always, it was a great party, all for the animals and the no kill center.

It’s Queens Restaurant Week through Nov. 2.

So eat out, or order in from one of the many great Woodhaven restaurants serving varied foods from tofu to sushi.

So shop and eat locally on Jamaica Avenue.

Now mark your calendar for the Woodhaven Business Improvement District-sponsored Holiday Weekend, which will start on Dec. 1 with the tree and menorah lighting ceremony.

Then on Dec. 2, the Holiday Parade will kick off.

Fly your American flag proudly above all others. Finally and most importantly, vote on Election Day, Nov. 7. This is your sacred right and many have died to preserve this right for American citizens. So honor them by casting your vote.

May God bless our leaders, may God bless our armed forces, may God bless our disabled veterans, may God bless our NYPD and all of our police officers and Q may God bless our America.

Eight-year-old found dead An 8-year-old girl was found dead in her Ozone Park home two days after she complained of stomach pain, according to published reports and police.

The NYPD said Oct. 22 Kayla Sanchez, of Liberty Avenue, was found facedown on her bed and unconscious.

According to the New York Daily News, emergency personnel tried to rev ive t he you ng g i rl but were unsuccessful.

She had complained of stomach pains last Friday, the News reported.

The Medical Examiner will determine the cause of death. Police do not believe there was any foul play connected to the untimely death, accordQ ing to reports.

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The MetroCard is on its way to joining subway tokens and the nickel fare as an exhibit in Brooklyn’s New York Transit Museum.

The board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Wednesday afternoon voted to award contracts for a new fare payment system that will incorporate apps, bank cards and other methods for boarding buses and going through subway turnstiles.

In a statement issued Wednesday afternoon, the MTA said 500 turnstiles and 600 buses will have the new technology, The contract was awarded to Cubic Transportation Systems, Inc., which built a similar system that is in use in London.

MetroCards still will be usable until 2023, when the new system is expected to be fully operational.

“The move to a truly 21st century method of payment represents a critical step in our overall efforts at modernizing the subway system and improving service for all our customers,” MTA Chairman Joseph Lhota said.

“The subway, bus and commuter rail network is the lifeblood of our regional economy and major upgrades like this help make the system more convenient and efficient for

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Girl attacked with ‘burning’ liquid: cops Cops are on the hunt for a man who uttered a racist remark and tossed an unknown liquid into a 13-year-old girl’s face.

The victim got off the Q10 bus at Lefferts Boulevard and 101st Avenue Oct. 24 at 3:25 p.m. when she was approached by an unknown man, who tossed the liquid into her face and made an anti-white comment.

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The girl sustained burning in her eyes and was treated at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center for her injuries. The suspect is described as a 30-year-old man with a bald head, dark complexion and was last seen wearing a dark-colored hooded sweatshirt with a red shirt, royal blue pants and tan and brown boots.

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Several candidates vying for public office will appear at the Howard BeachLindenwood Civic Association Tuesday in an effort to sway voters before the Nov. 7 general election. The meeting will take place at St. Helen Catholic Academy, located at 83-09 157 Ave., and start at 7:30 p.m. The following candidates have confirmed their appearance at the forum: • Mayoral candidates Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island), the Republican; Reform Party candidate Sal Albanese; and Bo Dietl, who is running on the “Dump the Mayor” line; • Incumbent Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) and his challenger, Democrat Mike Scala; • Republican Juan Carlos Polanco, who is running for public advocate; • Republican comptroller candidate Michael Faulkner; • Republican Bill Kregler, who is trying to unseat incumbent Borough President Melinda Katz; • Civil Court Justice candidate Tracy Catapano-Fox; and • Queens Supreme Court hopeful Q Joseph Kasper.

the millions of New Yorkers who use it every day,” he added.

The MTA will test its first systems with alldoor boarding Select Bus Service routes. Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North riders will be able to combine subway, bus and rail tickets into one integrated form of payment.

The MetroCard was first introduced in 1994, when the single-ride fare was $1.25.

In an email to the Chronicle, John Raskin, executive director of the Riders Alliance, said his group is excited about a cha nge that presents a mu lt it ude of possibilities.

“The post-MetroCard fare system will be more convenient and accessible for riders, who will be able to use their credit cards or phones or other forms of payment that are more a part of their day-to-day lives,” Raskin wrote. “Over time, it will also save money for the MTA, which is money that can be used to improve transit service for millions of daily riders.”

Raskin said in addition moving to a new fare payment system can facilitate more creative policy that would help some of most vulnerable transit riders, such as shifting to a system of all-door boarding on buses or more easily implementing Fair Fares for Q low-income riders.

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House hunting: better credit, better rate By now it is something of a cliche to call homeownership the American dream. But even if sitting on your own deck, looking over your picket fence and sipping lemonade doesn’t move you, homeownership is still one of the best ways to build wealth.

For many, owning a home is cheaper than renting and, in the long run, the biggest investment they will ever make. It is also a practical financial move thanks to the fact that you’re likely building equity while getting a mortgage interest tax break.

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Upgrading to more eco-friendly appliances Home improvement projects often involve remodeling. But homeowners can improve their homes without ever picking up a hammer. Upg rading a home’s appliances with products that are more eco-friendly can add value to a home and make the home more at t r act ive t o buyers who wa nt their homes to look good and pay dividends for the environment.

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Reform hopefuls unveil homelessness plan

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Underdogs they may be, a trio of candidates on the Reform Party line in November’s election spent more than 45 minutes on Tuesday pledging to overhaul how the city handles affordable housing and homelessness should they win political office.

Alongside city comptroller candidate Michel Faulker and Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa — the state Reform Party chairman — City Council hopefuls Paul Graziano and Bob Holden used the Boulevard Family Residence shelter in Elmhurst as a backdrop in offering their community-based solution to the proliferation of Queens hotels being used to house the undomiciled.

Should the trio win their respective races next month, they pledged to push a policy that would see faith-based organizations across the city take in more homeless individuals or families — all while leaning less on human service providers and phasing out the renting of hotel rooms with little or no notice given to neighbors.

“Churches have convents that are empty. We can put a few families in there and use that space,” said Holden, the president of the Juniper Park Civic Association. “It’s keeping with the mission of these churches and synagogues.

We’re not saying one size fits all, but it certainly could cut into the numbers we’re seeing with the homeless population.”

And once the homeless have been sheltered, advisory committees made up of “the best and brightest” community board members, civic leaders, representatives from charities and other volunteers will work to help them craft resumes, land jobs, find housing, get legal assistance and more.

While offering few specifics on who would actually be in charge of hiring committee

Alongside Reform Party Chairman Curtis Sliwa, in red, and city comptroller candidate Michel Faulkner, second from right, City Council candidates Paul Graziano, left, and Bob Holden unveil PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA their joint proposal for addressing the homelessness crisis. members and how large the groups would be, Holden — who is running against Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley (D-Glendale) — said they would be far more transparent than the city-run advisory boards for shelters like the Boulevard Family Residence.

“We want to tap into the volunteer base,” Holden said, while Graziano added it wouldn’t be an advisory board “filled with donors.”

Under the Reform Party plan, the Department of Homeless Services would still screen homeless people at its intake center and provide general oversight of the sheltering process.

But instead of sending the undomiciled to shelters or renting out a hotel room, the DHS would direct them to a willing house of worship near their most recent address.

Without providing a cost estimate, Holden said this system would transition homeless people into permanent housing quicker and save untold millions of dollars — money that would otherwise continue to go paying hoteliers thousands of dollars per month per room and shelter providers much more.

“You know who’s benefiting from the homelessness problem in New York City? The socalled not-for-profits and providers,” Holden said. “Look at the millions they’re making. It’s a disgrace.”

Faulkner, Holden and Graziano — the opponent of Councilman Paul Vallone (D-Bayside) — noted how similar systems have “worked well” on a hyperlocal scale in the past.

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Cops testify at trial of Moore’s accused killer Police officers from the 105th Precinct this week testified about the shooting of Officer Brian Moore in May 2015, and their desperate fight to save the young cop.

The officers, including Moore’s partner, PO Eric Jansen, were called as prosecution witnesses in the murder trial of Demetrius Blackwell.

Blackwell, 37, is accused of shooting Moore as he and Jansen sought to question him on a suspicion of possessing a gun while on an anticrime patrol in Queens Village.

Published reports quote Blackwell’s attorney as denying his client’s guilt, and saying that he has a medical condition that could be relevant to the case.

The New York Times quoted Jansen as saying Moore called out to Blackwell, ‘You got something on you?” Blackwell allegedly replied “Yeah, I got something” before firing into the car three times.

Jansen said he and Moore ducked as Blackwell opened fire, and that he radi-

oed for backup as he dove from their unmarked car. Upon seeing that his partner was hit, he used his shirt to try and stop the bleeding.

Jansen identified Blackwell in court and, according to reports, picked him out of a lineup back in 2015.

Sgt. Christopher Noll said in the witness stand that he tended to Moore in the back of Officer Richard Tarver’s police cruiser.

Tarver estimated he was driving 100 miles per hour to reach the emergency room at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center.

The New York Post quoted Tarver as saying he ran lights and drove on sidewalks and medians en route. He said Noll was trying to get Moore to squeeze his hand in the back seat, saying “I know it hurts, but I’ve got to keep pressure on your wounds. Stay with us!”

Moore, who was 25 years old and a decorated four-year veteran, died two Q days later.

Baptist Church, which he attends, as that Manhattan house of worship has housed the homeless in the past.

However, Holden said Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s insistence on creating a licensing system and other regulations for faith-based organizations looking to house the undomiciled killed any interest for such groups looking to get involved.

“They had to take tests. They had to get licenses,” he said. “When Bloomberg got involved, it stopped faith-based organizations from getting involved.”

The plan announced by the candidates is two-pronged, as Graziano, an urban planner, also called for changes to the city’s zoning law as it relates to affordable housing.

Specifically, Vallone’s opponent said he supports mandating that residential developments planned for zones R6 through R10 set aside at least 15 percent of units for low-income residents or at least 25 percent of dwellings for middle-income residents.

According to Graziano, people would be labeled low-income if they make up to 60 percent of the area median income within either a ZIP code or community district.

Under the city’s Mandatory Inclusionary Housing text amendment passed last year, the area median income of the entire New York metropolitan area is used to delineate what constitutes affordable housing.

Such a zoning amendment, he said, would give people facing imminent homelessness more opportunity to find affordable housing, in addition to protecting communities from overdevelopment.

“This all comes down to profits for developers,” Graziano said. “That’s what this is all about.

“It takes a bite out of developers’ profits but it doesn’t take a bite out of our communities.” Q

Ozone Park Kiwanis to host masquerade ball The Ozone Park Kiwanis will host its “Masquerade & Costume Ball” Oct. 28 at Villa Russo in Richmond Hill from 8 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.

Tickets are $90 per person. Attendees will enjoy a cocktail hour, buffet dinner, open bar, raffles, dancing, DJ music, costume contests and more. All proceeds go to charity.

The Ozone Park Kiwanis will honor Maria Thomson, executive director of the Greater Woodhaven Development Corp., that night.

For tickets or more information, call Frank at Q (718) 847-9722 or (516) 732-3650.

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Boys and ghouls will have the opportunity to visit a “haunted house” at TKO Dance Academy Oct. 30 and 31 from 5:30 to 10 p.m.

Entrance is $10 per person and all are welcome. Money will be raised to benefit the victims of Hurricane Maria.

TKO Dance Academy is located at 99-16 98 Q St. in Ozone Park.

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Critics: ‘Cosmetic’ work delays elevators, basics; MTA: both are being addressed

by Michael Gannon Editor

Two subway stations in Astoria were officially mothballed for the next eight months on Monday morning.

And while the stations that serve the N and W trains at 30th and 36th avenues are 100 years old and in dire need of renovations and modernization, several advocates were out on Monday to talk about the one thing they say is missing from the project — namely, elevators.

Right now, fewer than 25 percent of the city’s 472 subway stations are handicappedaccessible. The number in Queens is 19 of 81.

Next July, shortly after the 30th and 36th Avenue stations are completed, those down the line at 39th Avenue and Broadway will close for similar upgrades.

Neither of those will have elevators.

Monday’s press conference, held by the 36th Street station, was organized by TransitCenter, an advocacy group that promotes mass transportation.

City Councilman Costa Constantinides (D-Astoria), who attended Monday morning’s press conference, said in a statement afterward that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority should be deploying more of its resources toward basics.

“The MTA’s closure of the 30th Avenue and 36th Avenue stations for eight months is indicative of the overall dysfunctionality of

The century-old 30th Avenue subway station in Astoria closed for eight months of renovations on Monday, along with the station at 36th Avenue. Critics say the money would be better spent on PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON basic services and accessibility, but the MTA says both are priorities. the subway system,” he said.

“Closing entire stations to complete only cosmetic upgrades while not even addressing the need for accessibility upgrades demonstrates the extent to which the subway system is broken,” Constantinides added. He also pointed out that equipment-related delays still are plaguing riders.

State Sen. Mike Gianaris (D-Astoria), who has made no secret of his distaste for the MTA’s funding priorities, slammed what he called the cosmetic nature of the projects.

“Even worse, the MTA recently diverted over $1 billion dollars from signal fixes and new subway cars to pay for this initiative,” Gianaris said in a statement from his office.

“While it will be more pleasant for subway riders to stare at more beautiful stations while they wait longer and longer for delayed trains, the MTA’s inattention to the larger problem is bordering on scandalous.”

The MTA issued a statement saying that it is steadily improving subway accessibility.

“Increasing accessibility is a priority for the MTA and elevators are being added where possible, through the ‘Key Stations’ plan to make 100 major stations accessible by 2020, as well as additional non-Key stations being made accessible in the next few years via the MTA capital plan,” the agency said in an email to the Chronicle.

“In Astoria, new elevators will be added to the Astoria Boulevard station, and the MTA’s fully accessible bus fleet provides strong service across the neighborhood — including connections to accessible stations nearby.”

The MTA in November 2015 announced that it was setting aside approximately $35 million for the Astoria Boulevard station elevators in its 2015-19 capital budget.

The money is part of $82 million that was earmarked for accessibility improvements for Queens including the No. 7 train section of the Court Square station, and the still-tocome work at Woodhaven Boulevard and Jamaica Avenue. The MTA said Tuesday that the Astoria Boulevard project is still in the Q planning phase.

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E-bike enforcement to get stricter: Blaz NYPD to start fining businesses that utilize the devices in 2018

by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

The electric bicycle rider zooming the wrong way down a one-way street won’t be the only target of law enforcement starting in 2018.

If he’s working for a company that requires the use of such a device — defined as a bicycle with an electric motor — that entity will also face consequences.

Mayor de Blasio announced last Thursday that the city will be stepping up its enforcement of e-bike laws even further starting next year, saying that “the top of the food chain needs to be held accountable.”

“Electronic bicycles have emerged over the few years as more and more of a problem particularly in some of our mostly populated neighborhoods,” de Blasio said at a press conference announcing the crackdown. “And what people have seen is absolutely unacceptable — electronic bicycles going the wrong way down streets, weaving in and out of traffic, ignoring traffic signals, sometimes going up on sidewalks.”

According to the mayor, businesses that utilize e-bikes or allow employees to operate them will receive a civil summons and a $100 fine for a first offense, with that penalty going up to $200 for each subsequent offense, starting Jan. 1.

Riders caught operating an e-bike will still be subject to a civil summons, confiscation and fines of up to $500, as they have been since the e-bikes — popular with eateries that deliver — were made illegal in 2013.

Also starting next year, the mayor said, the NYPD will train officers to execute civil enforcement against businesses much more efficiently by allowing them to issue civil summonses through the mail.

According to police statistics, 923 e-bikes have been confiscated this year compared to the 341 it had taken at this time last year.

Nearly 1,800 civil and moving summonses have been issued to e-bike operators in 2017, as well.

“If you’re caught operating it, we will stop you, you will be issued a summons, and we’ll seize the bike,” NYPD Chief of Patrol Terrence Monahan said last Friday.

Mayor de Blasio announced a 2018 NYPD initiative aimed at cracking down on the usage of e-bikes and businesses that require employees to operate them for work at a Friday press PHOTO COURTESY NYC conference.

“But we’re also going to identify what business you’re delivering for. All our business delivery people, we know they wear the vest identifying what business that they’re going to or they have an identification card.”

In a Monday interview, Community Board 4 District Manager Christian Cassagnol called e-bikes a “huge, huge” issue in Corona and Elmhurst. Saying a crackdown such as the one proposed “sounds good” to him, Cassagnol openly wondered if many of the NYPD’s confiscations happened within the district.

“You would be hard pressed to find a delivery service that doesn’t use them in Corona,” Cassagnol said. “I’ve seen underage kids driving them. I’ve seen people driving the wrong way. It’s bananas. I see them so much you would think that they’re legal now.”

His counterpart at Community Board 5, Gary Giordano, sang the same tune on Tuesday, saying e-bikes are quite problematic in southwest Queens — so much so that “people don’t even need to be complaining to us anymore for us to know it’s an issue.”

“In too many instances, they’ll drive on the sidewalk, they’ll drive against traffic,” Giordano said. “They don’t really obey the rules of the road.”

While he applauded the city’s effor t to ramp up enforcement, Giordano said he personally believes legalizing e-bikes — while also requiring riders be licensed and the devices be registered — would go a long way to cutting down on reckless driving.

“If they don’t have to be licensed and registered,” he said, “you’re inviting craziness.”

Legalizing e-bikes is something that state Sen. Jose Peralta (D-East Elmhurst) said in a Monday interview should be considered if the mayor’s new plan isn’t effective.

“In terms of these e-bikes, I think the mayor is heading in the right direction by involving the store owners.

It’s been illegal for a while now and things are still happening,” Peralta said. “Maybe they should look at the notion of legalizing them and lean toward the way I’m looking at motorized scooters.”

Peralta first introduced legislation in 2015 that would require motorized scooters with combustion engines be registered with the Department of Motor Vehicles and covered by insurance.

He said many riders of those kinds of vehicles act as improperly as e-bike operators in Corona and Elmhurst, and creating a system of accountability could go a long way toward restoring at least some sanity on the streets.

“If they get into an accident, someone will be liable,” the lawmaker said. “Now, business owners will be careQ ful who he has riding them.”

PS 144 traffic irks Community Board 6 Extension construction means few parking spaces for parents: member

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The simple act of dropping a child off at PS 144 in Forest Hills has become a headache for many parents, according to Community Board 6 member Soumaly King.

Speaking at the advisory group’s meeting last Thursday, King — whose child attends Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Academy one block away on Juno Street — said the area around the 69th Avenue public school is chaos most mornings.

“You need someone to manage traffic,” King said.

She blamed the traffic and parking difficulties during the morning drop-off on the construction of PS 144’s extension and gas pipe installation work on an adjacent section of Juno Street that is expected to last months.

King said that parents’ concerns about morning drop-off congestion and unsafe conditions have been met with the ticketing of

cars, but that has been ineffective.

She added that parents trying to drop off children in the “No Standing” zones in front of the two schools are blocked from doing so or ticketed; and they can no longer park on two school-adjacent blocks of Juno Street, where the expansion and gas pipe projects are taking place.

The MTA’s Q23 bus moving through the area exacerbates the issue, King said.

During last Friday morning’s drop-off, a Chronicle reporter observed school families searching for parking, eventually finding it several blocks away and then walking their children back to school.

CB6 District Manager Frank Gulluscio said he would look into the possibility of setting up a meeting with the 112th Precinct, the administrations of both schools and their respective parent-teacher associations to discuss the traffic issues.

In other board news, CB6 unanimously

approved its capital spending and budget priority recommendations, with the proposed two-story Rego Park public library topping its wish list, as it has for many years.

Announced by Mayor de Blasio earlier this year, the new library would replace the existing structure at 63rd Drive and Austin Street.

“Until the money is actually dropped into the slot and we see it is passed, we keep it right at the top of the list,” said Peter Beadle, CB 6’s vice-chairman of scoping.

Denia Tavarez, workforce program coordinator at the Central Queens Y, talked about some of the free services it provides, including career programs, computer classes, preinternship training and placements for the city’s Ladders for Leaders youth program.

Representatives from the Lost Battalion Hall Recreation Center in Rego Park also made a presentation, reminding residents about their programs, which include arts and Q crafts, fitness and computer classes.

Traffic cones block the “no standing” zone PHOTO BY VICTORIA ZUNITCH outside PS 144.

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by Ryan Brady Associate Editor

When a Dahlia Travel & Tours bus sped through a red light on Northern Boulevard to hit an MTA bus turning from Main Street last month, three were killed and more than a dozen were injured.

One of the deceased was the Charter vehicle’s driver, who had previously pleaded guilty to DUI in Connecticut and had been fired from the MTA. But the DMV reportedly did not know that he was working for Dahlia.

Aiming to avoid similar tragedies, Assemblyman Ron Kim (D-Flushing) and state Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky (D-Flushing) have introduced bills in their respective chambers to tighten regulations on the private bus industry.

Joined by the wife of a man who was injured in the September crash, the pair revealed the legislation at a Tuesday press conference.

“There’s no way for a rider, consumer to know when they step on a bus whether that bus driver was properly vetted, properly licensed by the state of New York and that’s a problem,” Kim said.

The bills aim to amend Article 19-A of the New York State Vehicle Traffic Law to regulate private buses in two major ways. First, it would require the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue a new credential for commercial bus drivers, which would have to be visible to riders while the operators are on duty.

“We’ve got to be sure when someone enters a bus, no matter where the bus is going, that the

Assemblyman Ron Kim speaks about a bill he and state Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky, left, are pushing to prevent deadly bus crashes like the one in Flushing last month. Young Lim, center, whose husPHOTO BY RYAN BRADY band was injured in the Northern Boulevard collision, came out in support. driver is fully licensed, that the driver doesn’t have a history of reckless driving, whether it be DUI or driving while impaired or whatever,” Stavisky explained.

As it stands now, New York law prohibits those guilty of DUIs from operating private buses depending on if they have done it once or twice, along with the other circumstances, Kim spokesman Eric Meyer told the Chronicle after the press conference. In the case of the Dahlia driver, he “should have been automatically disqualified for leaving the scene of an accident in addition to driving while under the influence of alcohol,” Meyer added.

That incident happened in Connecticut, a state that shares information about drivers with New York through the Drivers License Compact, an agreement under which those states and most others share information about traffic violations and license suspensions, Stavisky spokeswoman Tess McRae told the Chronicle.

Because of the compact, states where nonresidents commit violations send that information to the states that issued their license.

Yet no action was taken against the Dahlia driver.

The second major change would require the DMV to perform random curbside audits on

bus companies annually, rather than once every three years as it does now. Kim said that the agency may not even be actually enforcing that rule on a large scale.

“From interviews we’ve had with various companies, they don’t really go out there and audit the businesses,” he said. “It’s essentially a self-certification process, leading to perhaps more bus drivers out there who shouldn’t be out there.”

Young Lim, whose husband Sangki Kang was injured in the bus crash last month, joined the lawmakers in support of the bill. With a Kim staffer translating, she discussed her emotionally fraught experience on the morning of the deadly collision.

Kang went to a deli by Main Street and Northern Boulevard to get coffee. Ten seconds after he got into the driver’s seat of a car parked nearby to join his co-worker, the Dahlia and MTA buses collided. One of them hit him.

“He hurt his head and the back and the legs and he was bleeding and he was subconscious, so he couldn’t even get up from the seat,” said Lim, via translation to English by Gaeun Kim, a community liaison for the assemblyman.

Lim rushed to the scene.

“So, she was so nervous and worried and he was telling her how if he got the coffee 10 seconds later, he would’ve been hit by the bus without any protection,” the Kim staffer added.

Despite his injuries, Kang is now back at work, the assemblyman said, and he is underQ going physical therapy.

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Before New York City Football Club’s match against Columbus Crew kicked off at Citi Field Sunday, thousands of fans had the opportunity to enjoy games and giveaways provided by the team.

Howard Beach resident Lucas, top left, practiced his free kick skills. His father, Steven, middle left, also took a shot.

Top right, supporters group Los Templados #12 got off the No. 7 train and immediately began making as much noise as possible.

Above left, Templados members try to drum up more support.

Above right, an NYCFC flag is flown by the

original Home Run apple outside Citi Field.

Center, NYCFC fans get off the 7 train and DJ Mode provides music for those in attendance.

Center right, while a vast majority of the 20,113 at Sunday’s game were cheering for the boys in blue, some traveled from Columbus, Ohio, to show their love for the Crew. Alex, left, Riley and Nick hold a sign protesting reports that the Columbus team might move to Austin, Tx. Right, NYCFC defender RJ Allen signs shirts for young fans. Far right, while Citi Field looked the same on the outside, the inside was quite different.

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NYCFC settles for a draw in Queens debut Citi Field hosts its first-ever MLS game due to the Yankees’ postseason run

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

New York City Football Club captain David Villa failed to score a penalty kick that would’ve given his team the victory in the firstever Major League Soccer game played at Citi Field Sunday.

But NYCFC’s 2-2 draw against Columbus Crew — along with results that went in their favor in games played elsewhere — was enough for the team to clinch second place in the Eastern Conference on the final day of the soccer league’s regular season.

“It was a really good game of football,” said NYCFC head coach Patrick Vieira. “And I think we all enjoyed the game but of course we’re delighted and really pleased to get that second spot.”

Sunday’s game was a big one for MLS’s eastern teams, with four clubs — separated by only three points — vying for a chance to secure the No. 2 seed for the upcoming playoffs.

With Eastern Conference leaders Toronto Football Club tying Atlanta United 2-2 and the Houston Dynamo besting Chicago Fire 3-0, it was NYCFC that locked up the position, which gives them a first-round bye before facing the highest-remaining seed after the knockout round.

The soccer team typically plays home games at Yankee Stadium. Sunday’s game had to be

moved to Queens because the Bronx Bombers were in town last Thursday and it takes three full days to turn the grounds from a baseball diamond to a soccer pitch, meaning the field would not be ready in time for Sunday’s match.

The players had no problem adjusting to life at Citi — which has hosted international soccer matches before, but never an MLS game.

“Obviously we can’t say the pitch was the reason we had a draw in the game,” NYCFC goalkeeper Sean Johnson told reporters after the game. “It’s not Yankee Stadium but it is what it is … We did our best given the circumstances and Citi Field has been great to us for the past few days.”

Midfielder Jack Harrison said of the venue change, “We tried not to think about it too much.”

“At the end of the day, it’s not too far away,” the England native added. “It’s not that different and we just appreciate all the fans who came out tonight.”

Vieira credited the 12th man — the 20,113 supporters in the stands — for helping the players feel at home.

“I think for us it didn’t make any difference because the crowd really turned up today,” the coach said. “Our fans make a lot of noise, the support was fantastic and we had the chance to train on Friday. We adapted ourselves quite well.”

With the Yankees failing to reach the World Series, falling to the Houston Astros away from home in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series Oct. 21, NYCFC will be in the Bronx for the second leg of the Eastern Conference semifinal on Nov. 5 – they’re on the road for the first leg.

It was the Crew that scored the first MLS goal at Citi; Federico Higuain’s pass found Ola Kamara, who slotted the ball left to right past Johnson for the opener 11 minutes into the match.

Villa responded in the 18th minute with a header off a corner kick from Maxi Moralez and in the 45th got into the 18-yard box and hit the ball hard enough to get it into the net — Crew goalkeeper Zack Steffen got a hand to it, but couldn’t prevent the goal. City’s 2-1 lead lasted only 12 minutes past halftime, when Josh Williams tied it for Columbus off a header from a corner kick three minutes shy of the hour mark.

The two sides had several chances to get the winner, but both failed to finish.

The most dramatic opportunity came in the 90th minute when a penalty kick was awarded to NYCFC; Moralez was brought down in the box and though the referee originally didn’t award the kick, he allowed it following a video review.

But Steffen read Villa well enough to pre-

David Villa celebrates one of his goals at Citi PHOTO COURTESY NYCFC Field Sunday. vent the Spanish international from getting the hat trick that would’ve sealed a win for the home team.

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A father-daughter dance, a family portrait and a child’s coloring book. These are tokens of sentimentality, but they are not universally cherished. How could they be when experienced in prisons?

Sable Elyse Smith’s “Ordinary Violence” exhibition at the Queens Museum in Corona is an often heartbreaking look at the criminal justice system from a very personal point of view — her own.

Smith’s father was incarcerated 19 years ago, and the works on display at the museum draw upon her experience visiting him in prison over this time. The effect is at times emotionally overwhelming, but wholly personal, as the viewer absorbs the day-today trauma and dehumanization visited upon not

only prisoners, but also their families. As a statement against incarceration, Smith’s work stands apart in an age when the discourse can tend towards statistics and lived experiences are forgotten.

The exhibition opens with two large-screen printings filled in with oil pastels of varying colors that resemble crayon scribblings in a children’s activity book. One image depicts a waiting room, asking if you can find 10 things that don’t belong in the image, and the second features a bird saying, “Thanks for visiting!” It is probably not coincidental that 10 people populate the first image, apart from such random things as a turtle and a wedding cake.

An unseen charac ter named Judge Friendly explains, “It is difficult to wait,” as a character

wears a full jumpsuit and a law enforcement officer stands guard near an elevator — providing ample evidence that we are in fact looking at a courthouse or prison waiting room.

For Smith, the prison visitors’ room appears to be a liminal space, a transition from the public realm of the free world to the private confines of the incarceral state. Two of her pieces, “7665 Days” and “7665 Nights,” depict family portraits in front of intricately rendered murals of lush palm gardens with black bars blocking the people’s faces, and capture the broken public-private threshold def tly. Inmates themselves paint the murals, and the photographs are taken in the same room a s other inmates, their families and guards. continued on page 39

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EXHIBITS “Small Works Variety Show,” with 44 figurative and landscape paintings in watercolor and oil by Long Island City-based Elinore Schnurr. Through Sat., Nov. 11, Dougherty Gallery at Crescent Grill, 38-40 Crescent St., LIC. Free. Info: (718) 729-4040, crescentgrill.com.

“First I Was Afraid,” with works in various media by 11 artists, addressing what living in an age of anxiety means and trying to make people feel less alone. Thru Sun., Nov. 19, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, 11-03 45 Ave., Long Island City. . Free.

Info: (718) 937-6317, dorsky.org.

“The Sculpture of Gonzalo Fonseca,” with roughly 80 works, most in stone, with some drawings and sketches, by the major figure in developing modern Latin American art. Thru March 11, 2018, Noguchi Museum, 9-01 33 Road, Long Island City. $10; $5 seniors, students; NYC HS students, kids under 12 free. Info: (718) 204-7088, noguchi.org.

“Self-Interned, 1942: Noguchi in Poston War Relocation Center,” works by Isamu Noguchi focusing on his time voluntarily spent in a WWII camp for Japanese-Americans ordered there by the U.S. Thru Sun., Jan. 7, Noguchi Museum, 9-01 33 Road, Long Island City. $10; $5 seniors, students; NYC HS students, kids under 12 free. Info: (718) 204-7088, noguchi.org.

“One Hundred Years Later: Impressions — Russian Artists of America and the Century of Revolution,” with dozens of paintings by 30 Russian artists now in the U.S., including this one by Yelena Tylkina, to commemorate the communist revolution of 1917. Sat., Nov. 4-Sun., Nov. 12, Plaxall Gallery, 5-25 46 Ave., Long Island City. Opening reception with live performances, refreshments and reps of the Russian, Belarussian and Bulgarian consulates, Sat., Nov. 4, 6-10 p.m.

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MUSIC An Evening with Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter of Peter, Paul and Mary fame and co-writer of “Puff the Magic Dragon.” Sat., Oct. 28, 8 p.m., LeFrak Concert Hall at Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing. $35-$45. Info: (718) 544-2996, kupferbergcenter.org.

Jazz Jam, the monthly event led by saxophonist Carol Sudhalter, with musicians and vocalists welcome to join in. Wed., Nov. 1 (each first Wed. of the month), 7 p.m., Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. Free to play; $10 to listen. Info: (718) 4637700, flushingtownhall.org.

It’s a new season for community theater in Queens, with three shows opening next week and two more soon after that. Among next week’s offerings is “Little Shop of Horrors,” with a cast including Billy Marengo, left, as Seymour, Michael Chimenti as Dr. Scivello and, as the Street Urchins, a ’60s-style girl group, Menyon Harrell, Steffy Jolin and Chantel Nicole. See Theatre.

PHOTOS BY DINA ANTONUCCI Safam, the decades-old group known for “The Jewish-American Sound.” Sun., Nov. 5, 2 p.m., Hillcrest Jewish Center, 183-02 Union Tpke., Fresh Meadows. $36-$90 (top price includes meet-and-greet); $18 students, kids; sponsorships $108-$500. Info: (718) 380-4145, hillcrestjc.org.

THEATRE “Richard III,” the historical Shakespeare tragedy about a ruthless king’s rise to power and short reign, by the Titan Theatre Co. Thu.-Sun., Oct. 26-29, 7:30 p.m. except Sun., 4 p.m., Queens Theatre, 14 United Nations Ave. S., Flushing Meadows Corona Park. $18 (discount with code ITSINQUEENS16). Info: (718) 760-0064, titantheatrecompany.com.

“The Mother----er with the Hat,” a story about the struggles of addiction, friendship, love and the challenges of adulthood, by Stephen Adly Guirgis.

Thu.-Sat., Oct. 26-28, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Oct. 29, 2 p.m., The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23 St., Long Island City. $15. Info/tickets: (718) 392-0722, secrettheatre.com.

“Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme” (“The Bourgeois Gentleman”), the 17th-century Moliere comedy about a merchant who yearns to be an aristocrat, by The Gingerbread Players. Sat.-Sun., Nov. 4-5; Sun., Nov. 12, 2:30 p.m.; Sat., Nov. 11, 7:30 p.m., St. Luke’s Church, 85 Greenway S., Forest Hills. $15 suggested; $12 students, seniors. Info: (718) 268-7772, gingerbreadplayers.org. PHOTO BY STANFORD VOGEL “Young Frankenstein,” a musical adaptation of the Mel Brooks comedy about the grandson of the mad scientist who created a monster, by the Royal Star Theatre. Fri.-Sat., Nov. 3, 4, 10, 11; 8 p.m.; Sun., Nov. 5, 3 p.m., Immaculate Conception Catholic Academy,

179-14 Dalney Road, Jamaica. $18 advance; $15 seniors 65 and up, kids under 13; $2 more at door.

Info: (718) 428-8681, royalstartheatre.org.

“Miracle,” a show about purity and impurity, birth and death, documentation and rebellion, using “extreme vocal techniques,” by Sophia Cleary and Neal Medlyn, with DJing by Gillian Walsh. Wed.-Sat., Nov. 1-4, 8 p.m., The Chocolate Factory Theater, 5-49 49 Ave., Long Island City. $20. Info: (718) 4827069, chocolatefactorytheater.org.

“Little Shop of Horrors,” the horror-comedy rock musical about a plant that eats people, by Theatre

By The Bay. Sat., Nov. 4, 11, 18, 8 p.m.; Sun., Nov. 5, 12, 19, 3 p.m., Bay Terrace Garden Jewish Center, 1300 209 St., Bayside. $22; $20 seniors 62 and up, kids under 13. Info: (718) 428-6363.

AUDITIONS Sacred Music Society, under Maestro David Close, to sing at weekly Sunday Mass at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Church for all ages and different levels of singing ability. Rehearsals each Tue., 7:30 p.m., OLQM, 110-06 Queens Blvd., Forest Hills. Info: (718) 268-6251, ourladyqueenofmartyrs.org/music.

DANCE Dances of the World, “a cultural voyage” featuring salsa, merengue, tango, belly dancing and more, by Cali Salsa Pal’ Mundo. Each Fri.-Sat., 8 p.m.; each Sun., 4 p.m., thru Nov. 26, Thalia Hispanic Theatre, 41-17 Greenpoint Ave., Sunnyside. $40 advance; $45 at door; $37 advance students, seniors; $42 at door. Info: (718) 729-3880, thaliatheatre.org.

LECTURES/TALKS Free adult civic education classes, sponsored by the organization It’s Who We Are and the Taft

Institute at Queens College, a six-week series on topics including the U.S. Constitution and the lawmaking process in Washington. Each Thu. thru Nov. 16, 6 p.m. Forest Hills Library, 108-19 71 Ave. Info: iwwaa.itswhoweare@gmail.com.

“Call Me Crazy,” a screening of the A&E documentary on understanding what happens when families struggle with mental illness and the success of healing, with guided discussion, by NYC Dept. of Veterans Services. Wed., Nov. 1, 6-9 p.m., Jamaica Performing Arts Center, 153-10 Jamaica Ave. Free.

Info/registration: (718) 658-7400, bit.ly/2xB8rM5.

Author’s Cafe: “Jewish Humor: A Serious History,” a talk by Columbia University professor Jeremy Dauber on his new book about Jewish comedy’s evolution from biblical times to today. Co-sponsored by the Central Queens YM &YWHA. Sun., Nov. 5, 2 p.m., Reform Temple of Forest Hills, 106-06 Queens Blvd. $18 advance; $23 at door; student, group discounts available.

Info: (718) 268-5011, cqy.org.

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TOURS/HIKES World’s Fair bike tour, a leisurely tour of a dozen sites in Flushing Meadows Corona Park built for the 1939-40 and 1964-65 World’s Fairs, led by Bike New York and NYC Parks docents.

Sat., Oct. 28, 11 a.m., meeting behind the Aquatic Center. Bikes available for borrowing for the ride.

Free. Info/preregistration (req’): (212) 870-2080, bike.nyc/events/local-rides.

King Manor behind the scenes, a complete, topto-bottom walk through the home of Rufus King, signer of the U.S. Constitution and early antislavery voice. Sun., Oct. 29, 4-6 p.m., 150-03 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica. $25. Info: (718) 206-0545, kingmanor.org. continued on page 40

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The formula used by Titan Theatre Co. — fast-paced, high-action, somewhat abbreviated versions of the classics, with a focus on the storytelling — seems to be working. This season, the company, the resident troupe at Queens Theatre, will be expanding its repertoire to four fully staged productions, including its rendering of Shakespeare’s “Richard III,” running through Oct. 29.

Titan brought with it to the theater a loyal fan base of audiences anxious to experience the new life and clarity the group strives to bring to classical works.

Speaking by telephone from Pocatello, Idaho, where he’s directing a production of “The Taming of the Shrew” at Idaho State University, the group’s co-founder Lenny Banovez seemed pleased at the increased interest in Titan’s productions.

“We moved to the heart of Queens and we’ve been able to reach more people,” he said, seeing a “kick-up in attendance,” with more Queens residents and Long Islanders added to the Manhattanites who previously made up the majority of their audiences.

“Titan was a very young company when

tional material as a royally mesit first came to Queens Theatre,” merizing villain who hacks his way said the venue’s executive directo the throne. tor, Taryn Sacramone.

As with all of Titan’s produc“T it a n ma kes t hought ful tions, this one gets right to the choices, connecting their shows heart of the matter, running a to the present moment,” she added. “Their energy is infectight, taut 100 minutes. A large tious. They are also exceptionally cast, under the direction of community-focused.”

Edward Morgan, includes several Indeed, Titan’s involvement in Titan regulars, including Astoria the local scene extends well resident Brad Makarowski beyond its productions. The group He portrays Hastings, whom he has a relationship with the Metrodescribed as “one of the nonroyal politan Museum of Art via the higher-ups, the guy who has the “Teens Take the Met” event, king’s ear.” Makarowski’s long hiswhich involves teenagers in arttory with Titan (since before the making and performances.

Lloyd Mulvey as Richard III & Angela Iannone as Queen Marga- group even took on its current And, more ambitiously, Titan ret in Titan Theatre’s “Richard III,” running through Oct. 29 at name) includes two stints in the has teamed up with the Queens Queens Theatre.

PHOTO COURTESY TITAN THEATRE CO. acclaimed produc tion of “A Library, offering free staged readChristmas Carol,” which is returnings of Shakespeare’s works the first Mon- Banovez, the group wants to get involved in ing again this year in time for the holidays. day of each month at various libraries across more outreach, particularly through its acadWhile Makarowski finds theatergoers simthe borough. Next up, on Nov. 6, at the emy program, which offers teens a chance ilar everywhere, Queens audiences are parRego Park branch, is “As You Like It,” to be to expand their passion for acting. ticularly “gregarious, and welcoming, and For four more performances, “Richard appreciative,” he said, always willing to “go followed on Dec. 4, at the Long Island City III,” which Banovez said has “turned out along for the ride.” And he is “constantly branch, by “Twelfth Night.”

According to Laura Frye, Titan’s co-found- really well,” will entice audiences with its tale impressed by the diversity we get.” er who also happens to be married to of the title character, described in promocontinued on page 41

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Plenty of Halloween fun to be had in Queens

by Ryan Brady Associate Editor

With Halloween right around the corner, it’s the spooky season again in Queens. And no matter where you live in the borough, fun both creepy and noncreepy won’t be too far. Here’s some of it.

Oct. 27 Courtesy of the city, you can watch “Ghostbusters” at the Lost Battalion Hall Recreation Center in Rego Park at 6 p.m for free. More details are at nycgovparks.org.

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collected at the event for the needy. Participants should dress up their vehicles for a “Best Decorated Trunk Contest.”

See friendsofmaplegrove.org for more.

PS 36 in St. Albans will host a fun costume party at 6:30 p.m. The free event will have music, food and other attractions. The school is located at 187-01 Foch Blvd.; the event goes until 9 p.m.

RSVP required; details are at tinyurl. com/y8x7h762.

Oct. 29 Take your kids to the Children’s Fall Festival at the Queens County Oct. 28 Farm Museum in Floral From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., the Park.

Park It runs from 11 Halloween Harvest Festival stival a.m. a.m to 4 p.m. There will hit Socrates Sculp-will be pie- eat ing w ture Park in Astoria. contes t s, b ounce c The free event is houses and more Day of the Deadfun. The museum’s themed this year pumpkin patch will and will feature also be open. plenty of fun, like More details are at a performance by queensfarm.org.

Ballet Folklórico A Halloween Mexicano de Family Fun Day will F Nueva York. Go to spook spo Bayside from 11 socratessculpture a.m. a.m to 4 p.m. on 41st p a r k .o rg f o r m o r e Avenue between Bell Ave details.

“Boo at the Zoo” willll Looking for some Halloween fun? Boulevard and 213th hit the Queens Zoo This borough will have plenty of it. Street. Kids can make jack-o’-lanterns, check from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

People of all ages can enjoy live animal out a pumpkin patch and do other demonstrations, a haunted trail and awesome stuff. More info can be found more cool stuff. Tickets are $8, though at baysidevillagebid.com.

Flushing Meadows Corona Park’s Playit’s free for youngsters 2 years old and under and $5 for kids from 3 to 12. Go ground for All Children will host “Shockto queenszoo.com for more details on toberfest” from noon to 3 p.m. It’s free.

Head there for music, food, crafts, an the event, which continues on Oct. 29.

At 11:30 a.m., the Kiwanis Club of inflatable playground and other cool Howard Beach will kick off the 31st stuff. Details are at nycparksgov.org.

Boo at the Zoo continues; see Oct. 28. annual Halloween Parade at 159th Avenue at Cross Bay Boulevard. The rain Oct. 31 date for the parade, which ends at 165th The Alley Pond Environmental Center Avenue, is Nov. 4 at St. Helen Church’s is having a “Spooktacular Celebration” parking lot at 57-10 83 St. The Juniper Valley Park Halloween from 12:30 to 2 p.m. for kids between Festival and Parade will kick off at 11:45 18 months and age four. Costumes are a.m. at 80th Street and Juniper Boulevard encouraged; there will be a mini-pumpNorth. Kids should gather at 11:30 a.m. kin patch and fun activities for kids. at 74th Street and Juniper Boulevard Check out the details at alleypond.com/ South. Festivities will go from noon to 4 specialevents.

The Glendale Kiwanis Club will have its p.m. More details are at junipercivic.com.

The Friends of Maple Grove are host- annual Halloween Parade from 7 to 9 ing their “Trunk or Treat” food drive p.m.; it starts at Myrtle Avenue and 69th from 2 to 4:30 p.m. at the cemetery’s Street at 7 p.m. Preparation for the parade Kew Gardens Road and Lefferts Boule- starts at 6 p.m. in the parking lot of the Q vard loc at ion. Canned food will be Stop & Shop at 64-65 Myrtle Ave.

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Prisoners must then pay for the photographs with their own money — since family members are not allowed to pay for them — at a cost of $2 to $4, which is significant when the inmates make only 12 to 40 cents per hour for their labor. This makes the prison mural a repeatedly commodified piece that exists both in the public and private world, much like the correctional visitors’ room itself.

Beyond the prison economy story written into the regulation of what would otherwise be a simple family moment, “7665 Days” and “7665 Nights” also display the somewhat surreal escapism of the prison mural: the cold comfort of a family portrait in a

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vacation locale while wearing a prison jumpsuit. This is echoed in Smith’s neon light sculpture, “Landscape I.” A horizontal green line recalls a verdant landscape, but the cold words and lettering above it leave the viewer in a state of unease.

Throughout all of the exhibition’s video work, examinations of bodies are often tight and zoomed in to extreme closeups. In the nine-channel “Untitled: (Father Daughter Dance),” fragmented glimpses of bodies appear as quickly as they disappear, but the imagery is contextualized through Smith’s story and the rest of the exhibition’s work — a father, a daughter and prison waiting rooms. The two never seem to share a screen throughout the piece.

The heart of the exhibition is in two of Smith’s single-channel films, “Men Who Swallow Themselves in Mirrors” and “How We Tell Stories to Children,” which play sideby-side, one after the other. Both films feature original footage, including homespun testimonial-style videos from the perspective of a father speaking to his daughter. “How We Tell Stories to Children” opens with the line “Okay, daughter, what can I say? I remember you when you was a little girl ...”

The man recounts memories of both his criminal past and of the daughter asking, when she was younger, why he had a gun.

Interspersed throughout, a woman’s voice lists snippets of daily life (presumably from before his incarceration): “Mickey Mouse pancakes,” “my father’s smooth hands,” “mud pies baked” among others, and the word “watching” over and over again.

While elements such as these imply grounding in Smith’s experiences, she also collages the original footage together with appropriated footage, often used to leave the prison setting and explore the where, why and how of how these men became prisoners in the first place. Both films feature imagery of young black men — running among back lots, riding the subway and up against police cruisers. In “Men Who Swallow Themselves in Mirrors” a young black boy in 1920s clothing falls from the clouds to the city below in slow motion. Smith’s videos render explorations of the world that sets young men up for a life of incarceration, and the work is deeply moving.

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C M SQ page 40 Y K Supplemental Summons and Notice of Object of Action SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS Action to Foreclose a Mortgage INDEX #: 700011/2015 WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR STRUCTURED ADJUSTABLE RATE MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-4, Plaintiff vs Pranant Ram Anatram, Jairam Pranantram aka Jayraam Pranantram As Heir To The Estate Of Pranant Ram Anatram And, Yasmanie Pranantram As Heir To The Estate Of Pranant Ram Anatram If Living, And If He/She Be Dead, Any And All Persons Unknown To Plaintiff, Claiming, Or Who May Claim To Have An Interest In, Or General Or Specific Lien Upon The Real Property Described In This Action; Such Unknown Persons Being Herein Generally Described And Intended To Be Included In Wife, Widow, Husband, Widower, Heirs At Law, Next Of Kin, Descendants, Executors, Administrators, Devisees, Legatees, Creditors, Trustees, Committees, Lienors, And Assignees Of Such Deceased, Any And All Persons Deriving Interest In Or Lien Upon, Or Title To Said Real Property By, Through Or Under Them, Or Either Of Them, And Their Respective Wives, Widows, Husbands, Widowers, Heirs At Law, Next Of Kin, Descendants, Executors, Administrators, Devisees, Legatees, Creditors, Trustees, Committees, Lienors, And Assigns, All Of Whom And Whose Names, Except As Stated, Are Unknown To Plaintiff, Bank Of America, N.A., Bissoondai Shivlall, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. As Nominee For First Magnus Financial Corporation, New York State Department Of Taxation And Finance, People Of The State Of New York, Vanessa Singh, JOHN DOE (being fictitious, the names unknown to Plaintiff intended to be tenants, occupants, persons or corporations having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the property described in the complaint or their heirs at law, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, guardians, assignees, creditors or successors.), Defendant(s) MORTGAGED PREMISES: 90-63 198TH STREET HOLLIS, NY 11423 BL #: 10481–1. To the Above named Defendant: You are hereby summoned to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Supplemental Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff(s) attorney(s) within twenty days after the service of this Supplemental Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Supplemental Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. The Attorney for Plaintiff has an office for business in the County of Erie. Trial to be held in the County of Queens. The basis of the venue designated above is the location of the Mortgaged Premises. TO Defendant In this Action. The foregoing Supplemental Summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an order of HON. Leonard Livote of the Supreme Court Of The State Of New York, dated February 6, 2007, executed by Pranant Ram Anatram (who died on October 27, 2011 a resident of Queens County, New York State) and Jairam Pranantram to secure the sum of $540,000.00, and recorded at CRFN 2007000212188 in the Office of the City register of the City of New York, Queens County, on April 24, 2007; which mortgage was assigned by an assignment executed March 10, 2009, and recorded on March 27, 2009, in the Office of the City Register of the City of New York, Queens County at CRFN 2009000089244; which mortgage was further assigned by an assignment executed July 9, 2013, and recorded on August 19, 2013, in the Office of the City Register of the City of New York, Queens County at CRFN 2013000327276; which mortgage was further assigned by an assignment executed November 14, 2014, and recorded on December 15, 2014, in the Office of the City Register of the City of New York, Queens County at Instrument No. 2014000411575. The property in question is described as follows: 90-63 198TH STREET, HOLLIS, NY 11423. HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE NEW YORK STATE LAW REQUIRES THAT WE SEND YOU THIS NOTICE ABOUT THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY. SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME. IF YOU FAIL TO RESPOND TO THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT IN THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION, YOU MAY LOSE YOUR HOME. PLEASE READ THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT CAREFULLY. YOU SHOULD IMMEDIATELY CONTACT AN ATTORNEY OR YOUR LOCAL LEGAL AID OFFICE TO OBTAIN ADVICE ON HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF. SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE The state encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid office, there are government agencies and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process. 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boro continued from page 36 Bird Walk with NYC Audubon, spotting and ID’ing birds and learning how the Queens Botanical Garden provides them with resources like food and shelter. Sun., Oct. 29, 9:30-10:30 a.m. at the garden, 43-50 Main St., Flushing. Free with admission: $6; $4 seniors; $4 students, $2 children over 3. Info/registration (req’d): (718) 886-3800, queensbotanical.org.

Whale watching and dolphin adventure cruises, on a boat boasting a 90 percent sighting rate. Various dates, times, thru Nov.; usually 12-4 p.m., Riis Landing, State and Heinzelman Roads, Breezy Point. $48; $43 seniors; $33 kids 5-12; free under 5. Info: (718) 474-0555, americanprincesscruises.com.

SPECIAL EVENTS Health & Business Expo, with more than 35 exhibitors on massage, solar power, video games, healthy lifestyle demonstrations, business services and more. Sun., Oct. 29, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Young Israel of Jamaica Estates, 83-10 188 St. Free. Info: Mark, (917) 703-4694, mark@lifereallybeginsat50.com.

Bobbi and the Strays Masquerade Ball: “Go Bats for Halloween,” with four-course dinner, unlimited beer, wine, soda, dancing, raffles and more, to benefit the animal rescue group. Costumes optional (prizes for best). Thu., Oct. 26, 7 p.m., Russo’s On The Bay, 162-45 Cross Bay Blvd., Howard Beach. $100. Info: Bobbi, (718) 8450779, (917) 213-9840, bobbiandthestrays.org.

HEALTH EVENTS Free health event, with flu shots for the first 50 people, blood pressure and blood oxygen screenings. Thu., Oct. 26, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., EMU Health, 83-40 Woodhaven Blvd., Glendale. Info/ app’t: (718) 805-0950.

Free mammograms, for NYC women 40 and over who haven’t received one in 12 months or more (50 and over only if no health insurance), in the American-Italian Cancer Foundation’s “mammovan” mobile care clinic. Sun., Oct. 29, 9 a.m.-12 p.m., outside the office of Assemblyman Mike Miller, 83-91 Woodhaven Blvd., Woodhaven. Info/app’t (req’d): (718) 205-0950.

KIDS/TEENS Arts and crafts for school-age children, all welcome, no registration req’d. Each Fri. thru Oct. 27, 3:30-4:15 p.m., Briarwood Library, 85-12 Main St. Free. Info: (718) 658-1680, queenslibrary.org.

“Dead or Alive: Special Effects,” with demonstrations and hands-on activities exploring “the science of creepy,” including pumpkin carving and chucking and the making of costumes, fake blood, spooky sounds and more. Sat., Oct. 28, 3-7 p.m. (some activities at certain times), New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Corona. Free with admission: $16; $13 seniors, kids, college students with ID. Info: (718) 699-0005, nysci.org.

Chess, card and board games for teens, with Uno, poker, chess and more, every Mon.-Sat. except major holidays, 2-6 p.m., Queensboro Hill Library, 60-05 Main St., Flushing. Free. Info: (718) 359-8332, queenslibrary.org.

Lego Building Club, where children grades K-6 have fun being creative with Legos.

Most Wednesdays, 4-5:30 p.m., Bellerose Library, 250-06 Hillside Ave. Free, no registration required. Info: (718) 831-8644, queenslibrary.org/bellerose.

FESTIVALS Church of the Resurrection parish fair, with sweet bake shop, apple orchard of “treasures,” international faire, collectibles, gifts, auction, raffles and more. Sat., Nov. 4, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; homemade dinner 5:30-7:30 p.m., 85-09 118 St., Richmond Hill. Free (dinner $15). Info: (718) 847-2649, resurrectionrichmondhill.com.

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continued from page 37 He also appreciates the chance to share the stage with actors with whom he is already familiar. “There’s a little bit of comfort having a relationship already established,” he said, “especially with abbreviated rehearsal periods,” such as Titan’s actors experience. “With strangers you need time to get comfortable.”

Following “Richard III,” and “A Christmas Carol,” Titan’s award-winning take on Dickens’ timeless tale (running Dec. 8 to 22), the company will present a new adaptation of Euripides’ masterpiece, “Medea,” a tale of treachery, lust and unspeakable revenge, from Feb. 16 to 25, 2018.

Doing the play, which dates to 432 BCE, Banovez admitted, “is a risk,” adding that he likes to “throw new things into the mix.”

The season will end on a light note with Shakespeare’s comedy “Much Ado About Nothing,” co-starring Banovez and Frye as sparring duo Benedick and Beatrice.

Running April 6 to 22, 2018, the play gives the husband and wife team a rare chance to appear opposite each other, and each is already relishing the thought.

“Our relationship mirrors [the stage couple’s] verbal jousting,” said Banovez, who is a “big supporter of couples in the theater.”

Frye agreed, saying “there is a lot of

Benedick and Beatrice in our everyday selves — a bit headstrong and stubborn. It will be fun to see how we navigate the waters together on stage.”

“I’m sure there’ll be a lot of sleeping on the couch,” Banovez surmised.

Remaining performances of “Richard III” at Queens Theatre (14 United Nations Ave. South in Flushing Meadows Corona Park) are on Oct. 26, 27 and 28 at 7:30 p.m. and Oct. 29 at 2 p.m. All tickets are $18.

For further information on all performances at Queens Theatre, call (718) 760-0064 or visit queenstheatre.org. For information on Titan, including performances and other offerings, visit titantheatrecompany.com. Q

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Approximate amount of judgment $447,206.67 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 17858/2012.

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87-26 80TH STREET LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 9/01/17.

Office in Queens Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC 53-48 63rd ST Maspeth, NY 11378. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of formation of BONNYAY, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on JUNE 7, 2017. Office in Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

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Legal Notices STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO. 2017-CP-10-2649 OCA: 2016-006681B SUMMONS Charleston County Sheriff’s Office, Plaintiff/Petitioner, vs. Remigio Silva and Liza Smart, Defendants/ Respondents, IN RE: Two Thousand One Hundred and 00/100 ($2,100.00) Dollars in United States Currency. TO: LIZA SMART YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED, and required to answer the Complaint/Petition for Forfeiture, a copy of which is served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer/response at the Charleston County Attorney’s Office, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, 29405, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint/ Petition for Forfeiture within the time, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint/Petition for Forfeiture. CHARLESTON COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE KATHERINE J. DAHLHEIM, Assistant County Attorney, CHARLESTON COUNTY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE, Lonnie Hamilton, III Public Services Building, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina 29405 Charleston, South Carolina (843) 958-4010, May 23, 2017 ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF

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SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS, Index No.: 707556/2017, Date of Filing: September 15, 2017 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS, U.S. BANK TRUST, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR LSF9 MASTER PARTICIPATION TRUST, Plaintiff, -against- CASSANDRA WHITAKER AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF CLARENCE WHITAKER; CLARENCE WHITAKER AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF CLARENCE WHITAKER; JACQUELINE WHITAKER AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF CLARENCE WHITAKER; NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD; NEW YORK CITY PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU; NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU; JOHN DOE 1 THROUGH 50; “JOHN DOE” AND “JANE DOE” 1 THROUGH 50, INTENDING TO BE THE UNKNOWN HEIRS, DISTRIBUTEES, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, TRUSTEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, AND ASSIGNEES OF THE ESTATE OF CLARENCE WHITAKER WHO WAS BORN IN 1943 AND DIED ON APRIL 12, 2003, A RESIDENT OF QUEENS COUNTY WHOSE LAST KNOWN ADDRESS WAS 114-72 225TH STREET, JAMAICA, NY 11411, THEIR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST IF ANY OF THE AFORESAID DEFENDANTS BE DECEASED, THEIR RESPECTIVE HEIRS AT LAW, NEXT OF KIN, AND SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF THE AFORESAID CLASSES OF PERSON, IF THEY OR ANY OF THEM BE DEAD, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE HUSBANDS, WIVES OR WIDOWS, IF ANY, ALL OF WHOM AND WHOSE NAMES AND PLACES OF RESIDENCE ARE UNKNOWN TO THE PLAINTIFF; “JOHN DOES” and “JANE DOES,” said names being fictitious, parties intended being possible tenants or occupants of premises, and corporations, other entities or persons who claim, or may claim, a lien against the premises, Defendants. TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: – YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorney(s) within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service, where service is made by delivery upon you personally within the State, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner, and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE – YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME - If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT, AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE - TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Honorable Timothy J. Dufficy of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, signed on September 6, 2017, and filed with supporting papers in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Queens, State of New York. The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, executed by CLARENCE WHITAKER to NATIONRESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE BANKING CORPORATION bearing date June 27, 2001 and recorded in CRFN: 2004000226324 in the County of Queens on April 14, 2004. The aforesaid instruments were assigned to HOMESIDE LENDING, INC. by assignment of mortgage dated August 28, 2003 and recorded in the County of Queens on December 16, 2003 in CRFN 2003000510611.

The aforesaid instruments were assigned to FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION, by assignment of mortgage dated December 19, 2013 and recorded in the County of Queens on October 28, 2014 in CRFN 2014000359507. The aforesaid instruments were assigned to JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION by a corrective assignment of mortgage dated February 9, 2015 and recorded in the County of Queens on February 23, 2015 in CRFN 2015000060484. The aforesaid instruments were assigned to FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION by assignment of mortgage dated February 9, 2015 and recorded in the County of Queens on February 23, 2015 in CRFN 2015000060485. The aforesaid instruments were further assigned to U.S. BANK TRUST, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR LSF9 MASTER PARTICIPATION TRUST by assignment of mortgage dated January 3, 2017 and recorded in the County of Queens on February 6, 2017 in CRFN 2017000052128.

Said premises being known as and by 114-72 225TH STREET, JAMAICA, NY 11411. Date: August 22, 2017, Batavia, New York. Andrea Clattenburg, Esq., ROSICKI, ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C., Attorneys for Plaintiff, Batavia Office 26 Harvester Avenue, Batavia, NY 14020, 585.815.0288. Help For Homeowners In Foreclosure – New York State Law requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process. Please read it carefully. Mortgage foreclosure is a complex process. Some people may approach you about “saving” your home. You should be extremely careful about any such promises. The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure.

There are government agencies, legal aid entities and other non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about foreclosure while you are working with your lender during this process.

To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Banking Department at 1-877-BANKNYS (1-877-226-5697) or visit the Department’s website at www.banking.state.ny.us. The State does not guarantee the advice of these agencies.

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SPORTS

I HAVE OFTEN WALKED

The Harmony Tavern: a neighborhood hangout

by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

The beautiful brick english tudor style building was a d el ig h t f u l s t r u c t u r e designed by Florence Godwin in the early 1930s. It had an early fully-air conditioned system powered by gas, which drew in customers. With a firehouse few doors aways, it catered to the FDNY crowd.

Florence was very proud of her special tea room within the restaurant, which was a popular neighborhood hangout for the ladies.

The upstairs drew rent The Harmony Tavern, 89-52 162 St., Jamaica, circa 1935. from a tenant, Dr. Robert building was sold and demolished. It Gwydir, a dentist.

Sadly, Florence died in 1944 at age 48. was purchased by the famous Ciampa The building was never the same and building empire which constructed a large commercial and residential buildwent through a succession of owners.

The Godwin family sold it to a J.W. ing on the site.

The building and block today are Klein in the 1950s. When Jamaica Q passed through a recession period the thriving.

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Roar, Lions, roar!

by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor

Now that the Yankees season is over after they failed to reach the World Series, New Yorkers can start following the best Big Apple sports story of the fall — Columbia University’s undefeated football team.

The Lions haven’t won an Ivy League title since 1961, but that really isn’t the story here.

My alma mater has been a gridiron joke for most of the last 50 years. If the Lions managed to win a game in a given year, it was considered a successful season. In the 1980s, the Lions set a record Charlie Brown would envy, as they lost 44 games in a row.

The Lions’ previous head coach, Pete Mangurian, was thoroughly incompetent, as evidenced by his 3-27 record from 2012 to 2014.

Ironically, Mangurian was not fired by school leaders for his pathetic win-loss mark, but rather because some players complained that he ignored injuries and was verbally abusive.

Things began to turn around when Columbia hired former University of Pennsylvania head coach Al Bagnoli, whom Penn canned so the school could hire a younger head coach in spite of the many Ivy League titles he won.

I asked Bagnoli at his introductory press conference in 2015 if he could guarantee that the Lions would win a game that year. He refused to issue a Joe Namath-type guarantee

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and I have to admit that I didn’t think that anything would change for the Lions.

This is one time when I’m glad to be wrong.

Bagnoli proved to be a top-notch recruiter and he, along with athletic director Peter Pilling, managed to increase the budget for training and facilities for players without lowering the school’s rigorous academic standards.

The Lions still endured losing seasons during the first two years of Bagnoli’s tenure, but at least they won a few games and played well in close losses to superior competition.

Most alums would gladly have settled for that, given the humiliations of the past. But that wasn’t good enough for Bagnoli and his team.

The Lions managed upsets against both Penn and Princeton in 2017, two teams that had kicked sand in their faces for years. This past Saturday, Columbia went up to Hanover, NH to face undefeated Dartmouth, and against all logic, they came away with a 22-17 victory.

There are still four games left, so beleaguered Columbia fans shouldn’t start celebrating yet. If they do win the Ivy League title, Mayor de Blasio should have a parade for them down the Canyon of Heroes.

Alabama and Penn State should count their lucky stars that they don’t have to face the Q beasts of the Ivy League this season!

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