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Propane heat banned for outdoor dining City cites safety concerns; gas or electric systems will be required

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runo Rinaldi has been in the restaurant business for 54 years; and you don’t need to see him shake his head to suspect he is doing so when talking about the city’s new regulations prohibiting propane heaters for outdoor dining this winter.

The city is requiring that restaurants choosing to have outdoor heating this winter buy and install costly gas or electric equipment, both of which require city permits and inspections and the hiring of a master plumber or electrician to do the work.

“Of course it’s going to hurt,” said Rinaldi, owner of Bruno Ristorante on Cross Bay Boulevard in Howard Beach. “Since September, when the city said we had to check vaccines, we’ve lost 25 percent of our business.

Now we can’t use propane ... If they keep piling on and piling on — I’m 72 years old. I don’t need this. At some point I may have to decide to close down.”

The propane cylinders were permitted last winter under the city’s emergency conditions when the government and business community were trying to save the restaurant industry.

Mayor de Blasio, however, has said in published reports that the new regulations are in keeping with the FDNY’s recommendations with an emphasis on safety. A 20-pound can-

The city’s Open Restaurants program is tightening some of its requirements this winter, with a ban on outdoor propane heaters that were permitted last year. Some in the industry are questioning the city’s timing, while others are slamming the added costs and regulations that already FILE PHOTO BY KATHERINE DONLEVY burdened businesses must now face. ister of propane, for example, has the potential explosive power to destroy an entire building, the Mayor’s Office said, citing a 2009 case.

There is a $21 million program administered by the city Department of Small Business Services that will provide grants of up to $5,000 to help restaurants doing less

than $1 million in annual business offset the cost of new systems. SBS and the FDNY also are running education campaigns for businesses through Jan. 1.

Loycent Gordon, owner of Neir’s Tavern in Woodhaven, said it did not impact him directly.

“When they started this last year, we decided with all the strings that were attached that it wasn’t worth it,” Gordon said. “You had to store the propane off-site. We didn’t want the time or cost. We didn’t have the staff to go get it and bring it back.”

But Gordon did acknowledge that the new rules could hurt some of his colleagues in the business.

“Restaurants have learned to pivot quickly.

That’s life under Covid,” Gordon said. “But if things keep piling on and piling on ...”

“It’s a challenge with a lot of new rules,” said Melissa Fleischut, president and CEO of the New York Restaurant Association.

“There’s a lot of uncertainty.” Fleischut and Gordon both would like state government to do more to help the industry.

Elizabeth Lusskin, president of the Long Island City Partnership, also questioned the timing.

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Cats gone missing in Howard Beach Suspicions raised over four cats gone from a block; reward offered

by Deirdre Bardolf Associate Editor

Genna Borriello knows her cat, Chase, went missing between two and four o’clock in the morning on Monday, Oct. 11 because she last saw him in her son’s room when she yelled at him to turn the television off. Then, the cat never appeared at the front door to send her husband off in the morning as was his routine.

Then she noticed that the two strays she has been feeding for the three years she has lived in her Howard Beach home were gone, too.

Then, it was her neighbor’s cat that also went missing.

“These are cats that I’ve seen almost every day or at least every other day but never, never, not for three weeks at a time,” said Borriello. “All four of them — you know, that’s strange.”

One cat, Lulu, was a stray but Borriello’s neighbor, Janet Figueroa, had gotten her microchipped and carried out trap-neuter-release, or TNR, an approach to addressing community cat problems, and had been feeding her for almost 10 years.

When Borriello moved to the block, she started pitching in feeding Lulu and another stray, Buster. The neighbors live near 84th Street and 164th Avenue in Howard Beach.

Genna Borriello is offering a reward for her cat who went missing over two weeks ago, along with three others in the PHOTOS COURTESY OF GENNA BORRIELLO neighborhood. Experts say foul play is not uncommon with outdoor cats.

Since they went missing, Borriello has been searching for Chase every day and reached out through every site and service she could find: Craigslist, Facebook groups, PawBoost, Lost My Kitty, HomeAgain, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Bobbi and the Strays and MeowSquad.

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lo. She explained that it is unusual because her cat is fixed, microchipped and never would venture off beyond two houses in either direction or for longer than an hour or two. Although Chase was chipped, his chip cannot be traced unless he is brought to a vet or shelter by someone.

She also thinks it is strange because the neighbors on the surrounding blocks still have their cats,

so she does not believe it is a case of another animal getting to them or poisoning.

After this long, both women are starting to get suspicious. “I’m almost a hundred percent positive that someone is trapping the cats,” said Borriello.

Animal experts say those concerns are not far-fetched. Roberta “Bobbi” Giordano, owner of Bobbi and the Strays, said neighbors can

get fed up with the stray cats in the area and have “bad intentions.” She recommends home security cameras to deter that.

Steve Gruber of the Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals said, “Four cats disappearing is unusual — there certainly is the possibility of foul play.” His office advocates for keeping cats indoors for their own health and safety.

Borriello now wishes she had listened to her sister, a vet, and kept Chase insde.

“It is very important that anyone else letting their cats outdoors know the danger and heartache they’re facing,” she said.

In the meantime, she and Figueroa remain hopeful.

“We’re concerned neighbors and we miss them,” said Figueroa. “They were not just stray cats, they were part of the block.”

Borriello is offering a $200 reward for her cat, Chase. “If anybody knows what happened to these cats and returns them, there’s a reward, no questions asked,” she said. “We don’t care where they were and what happened. We just want them back.”

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An Oct. 18 gun bust in Richmond Hill uncovered an arsenal of illegal weapons including assault rifles, “ghost guns” and approximately 15,000 rounds of ammunition, according to the District Attorney’s Office.

Jonathan Santos, 36, of 102nd Street in Richmond Hill, was charged last Wednesday with multiple counts of criminal possession of a weapon, criminal sale of a firearm and numerous other charges — 252 in total.

Many of the firearms retrieved were “ghost guns,” privately made firearms that are constructed piecemeal and do not have serial numbers, making them untraceable.

“I call it the ‘Polymer Pipeline’ because a crucial component of these ghost guns is made of a durable polymer plastic,” said District Attorney Melinda Katz.

Between his home and car, Santos allegedly had 28 firearms including completed semiautomatic ghost guns as well as two rapid-f ire modif ication devices, three silencers and many more firearms-related

parts and components.

Santos was allegedly buying the parts online which was discovered through ongoing surveillance of the defendant. On Monday, Oct. 18, police observed him allegedly loading gun cases into his trunk and pulled him over after he drove away from his home. According to the District Attorney’s Office, he did not have a license to possess firearms in New York City. Santos is due to return to court on Nov. 9.

There have been a total of four ghost gun takedowns in Queens since August — two in Richmond Hill, one in Hollis and one in Rosedale. In total, dozens of completed ghost guns, components to build dozens more, accessories that turn pistols into automatic weapons and over 32,000 rounds of ammunition have been seized in the busts.

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Proposed 75 new parking spots

Assemblywoman’s Woodhaven plan to free up spots if DOT approves

by Deirdre Bardolf Associate Editor

When Ali Tokko’s cigar burns down to the end, he knows he has spent about half an hour looking for parking in front of the Forest Park Co-op, where he has lived for the last three years. “Parking when you come home from work is terrible,” he said.

Tokko works for the United States Postal Service and gets home around 4:30 in the afternoon when many other people are also arriving home and looking for parking.

“It’s like deer hunters,” he said. “They’re on every corner, giving you dirty looks — everybody’s looking for parking.”

He is afraid to park on the opposite side of Woodhaven Boulevard, where there is less lighting at night, out of concerns over theft or break-in.

There have been five instances of grand larceny auto in the 102nd Precinct so far this month as compared to two in October of last year, according to NYPD crime data.

In the mornings on his days off, sometimes Tokko drops his wife off at work and comes back to smoke his cigar and observe. People drive onto Woodhaven, park their cars alongside the co-op and then get on the bus, he said.

“If they make it angled parking, maybe we’ll have like a few extra spots,” he said.

One elected official has proposed just that

Residents of the Forest Park Co-op support angled parking to add spaces, especially in areas like 98th Street, left. Assemblywoman Jenifer Rajkumar has also proposed utilizing the striped PHOTOS BY DEIRDRE BARDOLF median on Woodhaven Blvd., outside of her office. and more as part of a plan she hopes would create about 75 new spots around the co-op.

“We need to make it happen — the first step was meeting with the commissioner,” said Assemblywoman Jenifer Rajkumar (D-Woodhaven). “It’s a process to make it happen but I’m glad we started it.”

In early September Rajkumar met with Department of Transportation Commissioner Nicole Garcia to identify different areas that could be used to add new parking spaces.

As the Chronicle has previously reported, the plan includes turning the median striping on the Woodhaven Boulevard service road into

parking, creating angled parking on 98th Street between Woodhaven and Park Lane South, shortening the Woodhaven Boulevard-Myrtle Avenue bus stop and creating one additional spot at the end of the unused service road that stretches out of Forest Park onto Woodhaven.

There was controversy at the time about aspects of the plan that were unclear. An initial announcement said park space would be used, though that was not meant to be the case.

A courtyard on 98th Street was considered early on but was decided against as it is privately owned and valued by seniors as a sitting area, said Rajkumar’s chief of staff Vjola Isujaf.

“We have to see what the city’s willing to do and then we go from there,” said Rajkumar.

“People literally come in and say, ‘You have to do something about parking.’”

Isufaj recalled a woman in recent weeks coming into the office with only socks on her feet because she ran down from her apartment to avoid getting a parking ticket in an area where it’s unclear if parking is allowed.

“It was not her first time getting a ticket there,” said Isufaj. “She had to pick up an extra shift at UPS, to make sure that she was able to pay that $150.”

Kenneth Mankowitz, president of Forest Park Cooperative Section 1, knows parking is a struggle.

“The lack of parking has been a continuous source of frustration for residents of the Forest Park Co-Ops,” he said in a statement.

“Her plan to create angled parking on 98th St. and open up spots on the Woodhaven Service Road are common sense solutions that many of us support. Her suggestion to narrow the bus stop lane outside Don Tequila to open up spots would be a huge boost to co-op residents.” He added that many of those spots were at one point used for parking but removed.

A DOT spokesperson responded in an email, “We are still reviewing the request to see if parking can be added to Woodhaven BouleQ vard.” The exact time frame is unknown.

Housing bill meant to give ‘fair chance’

Landlords would be prohibited from asking about arrests, if it’s enacted

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Advocates fighting for a bill to prevent housing discrimination are making a final push to have legislation passed by the end of the year.

The New York City Council Fair Chance for Housing Act, Intro 2047, would prohibit landlords and real estate brokers from inquiring about criminal record information and conducting background checks on prospective tenants at any point in the process.

“Part of our push to get this bill done is to try and have an impact on the number of people living in shelters,” said Alison Wilkey, director of public policy at the Institute for Justice and Opportunity at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, which is leading a campaign to pass the Fair Chance for Housing Act, alongside The Fortune Society.

“The shelter system isn’t designed to give people the kind of stability to be able to care for their families, to be able to maintain jobs, to be able to contribute to their communities because their community is constantly changing as they’re moved around in the system,” said Wilkey.

The bill was introduced by Councilman Stephen Levin (D-Brooklyn) in 2020 and sponsors include Queens Councilmembers Adrienne Adams (D-Jamaica), Daniel

Dromm (D-Jackson Heights) and Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside).

“It’s long past time to end housing discrimination for formerly incarcerated people who deserve a fair chance to have a stable roof over their heads, just like everybody else,” said Adams in a statement. “This legislation would have a tremendous impact on thousands of New Yorkers, including many in Queens, who are struggling to find a home.”

It applies to renting, leasing, subletting and occupancy agreements but the two exceptions are for roommates and for housing providers who must abide by any federal or state law or regulation that require consideration of conviction record information. New York City can not override the federal law which would include Section 8 or public housing.

The law would cover sex offenders, as well. According to the Fair Chance for Housing website, people with sex offense convictions often are already under supervision by law enforcement and are required to get approval for any residence and allow a parole officer to visit their residence.

The law seeks to fight housing discrimination and address racial bias, as well, said Wilkey.

“Background checks are a reflection of what happens in the criminal legal system

and we know that there is racial bias in the criminal legal system ... People believe that background checks are some sort of assurance of safety. Background checks are not predictors of the future.” They can be inaccurate and by the time a tenant may spot an error, the apartment has likely been filled by someone else, she added.

The new bill follows the Fair Chance Act or “Ban the Box” law, prohibiting employers from asking about criminal history before making a job offer.

John Dibs is a real estate broker in Ozone Park and has been in practice for 36 years. He sees the step as similar to laws that prohibit landlords from finding out if a renter has been evicted in the past.

“I have sympathy for tenants getting apartments, and by all means, they should have their rights protected. But I also feel that if you have a small house, a two-family home, and somebody is going to be living in the home with you, you have a right to know this person’s background,” he said. “What protections does the small landlord have to make sure he has a good tenant?”

He said that landlords want the ability to decide that for themselves. Unlike versions of the law in Portland and Seattle, the City Council bill does not have a “first in time” tenant provision so landlords can still judge

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“There has to be some sort of fair middle ground that can protect the small landlords.

And this is people’s life savings — the most valuable asset most people own is their home,” Dibs said. He worries that people may not want to invest in real estate in the future if it is perceived as riskier.

The bill, which is backed by Mayor de Blasio, follows Levin’s Intro 146 from last May, which the City Council voted to pass, requiring the city to pay higher rates in its rental assistance for homeless New Yorkers.

Levin said it’s an issue of the city’s values.

“Somebody could pass a credit check, have a good credit history, be gainfully employed but if they go for an apartment and a conviction history comes up, often they don’t get the apartment,” said Levin.

“In reality, we’re making people pay for their offenses long after they have left prison.”

He said housing people is in the interest of public safety and he is continuing to get sponsors for the bill. It now has 26 co-sponsors.

With only four stated City Council meetings left in the year, he hopes it will make it onto the agenda soon.

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Queens schools overcrowded already, with geographic priorities

by Deirdre Bardolf Associate Editor

A Community Education Council in northeastern Queens has approved a resolution opposing the removal of geographic priorities for high schools, which is set to take full effect in 2022.

CEC 26 in Bayside passed the resolution unanimously on Oct. 21, detailing its reasons for opposing the decision based on overcrowding and transportation issues in Queens and calling on the chancellor to rescind the removal.

Although CECs, which are advisory bodies responsible for reviewing and evaluating the district’s educational programs, approving zoning lines and holding public hearings, do not have jurisdiction over high school admissions, parents say the move is still valued.

“What CEC 26 did is helpful because it amplifies the issue to politicians and the public,” said Jean Hahn, a Rego Park parent and administrator of the Queens Parents United group.

The Citywide Council on High Schools is expected to offer a resolution soon as well.

Former New York City Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza announced in December 2020 that all geographic-based admissions priorities, which grant priority to attend a particular high school program based on where a

Queens parents oppose the removal of geographic priorities that allow their children to attend FILE PHOTO schools close to home, saying that their schools are already too crowded. student lives, would be phased out over a twoyear span. The decision was in response to the pandemic and sought to make the high school admissions process simpler and more equitable.

“Removal of geographic boundaries is highly unfair for students who want the option of attending a school close to home,” said Hahn. “Many students have extracurriculars like sports, music and arts that they

would have to drop if they are having to commute long distances. In the outer boroughs, it’s really a big issue, too, because schools are spread further out geographically so the next closest school could be a long hike.” Many schools, especially in Queens, are located in transportation deserts, she added.

Adriana Aviles is the former president of CEC 26, and she said many parents moved to the area for the schools and now they will no

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longer have priority to send their children to them. She pointed out that the district remained one of the last few to be impacted by the phasing out of the system.

“I know a lot of families that were calling the district office and the CEC because they couldn’t get their kids into the schools by their own homes,” said Aviles, who is still a member of CEC 26, and spoke not on the panel’s behalf but as a parent. Her daughter is in high school in Manhattan.

The CEC’s resolution points out that Queens high schools are already operating at 112 percent capacity and enrollment exceeds capacity by 8,849 seats, citing NYC Department of Education data from 2019-20. It also states that Queens needs an additional 21,243 high school seats.

According to the resolution, the CEC has called on the NYC School Construction Authority to build more high schools in Queens for over a decade but the SCA’s fiveyear plan includes only four new high schools, which they say meets less than onethird of the current need in Queens.

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ast year the restaurant industry survived in large part thanks to outdoor dining. Indoors, eateries were subject to the vagaries of Cuomo math, as the then-governor used his expertise in air currents and geometry to determine just how many people could sit in each fine restaurant and taco joint from Amagansett to Amherst. And then change his mind, depending on “the science,” or maybe how he felt about Mayor de Blasio that day.

Outdoors there was a lot more freedom, even if it wasn’t a free-for-all. Dining structures had to be stable and protected from traffic. But restaurateurs were given the leeway they needed to survive — including flexibility in how they could heat their structures. Few wanted to run new gas lines or permanent wiring to a plywood shack in the street.

But now they’ll have to, if they want to continue outdoor dining. The city just announced that the portable propane heaters that helped so many eateries survive the winter, without incident, are no longer allowed. They were safe enough last year but apparently no longer are.

Last year, you see, there was an emergency that allowed the rules to be bent a little. But the emergency is hardly over.

We’ve seen unexpected surges in the virus, with more

Americans dying from it so far this year than did in 2020.

We’re on the right side of the curve now and hope to stay there, but we all know that’s not guaranteed. There are people who would not want to go inside a restaurant but would be willing to eat outdoors, and then there are those who are not allowed inside because they remain unvaccinated. All of them, if they eat outside, need to be kept warm.

But to comply with the city’s new rules for outdoor heating, eatery owners have to pay far more money, obtain permits, hire master electricians or plumbers and be subject to inspection. That’s the way it has been for a long time indoors, but for temporary shacks in the street?

We suspect a lot of owners will feel something like Bruno Rinaldi, owner of Bruno Ristorante in Howard Beach, did when he told us, “Of course it’s going to hurt.” He said he had lost 25 percent of his business since the vaccine mandate took effect in September and lamented how the city keeps “piling on and piling on” more regulations that could at some point make him decide to close down.

If portable propane heaters were safe enough last year, they should be today. They should be allowed until the emergency is truly over. It will be one day, but we’re not there yet.

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Keep libraries local Dear Editor: Richard Reif asserts that by folding the Brooklyn and Queens library systems into the New York Public Library, “a central system will save money by cutting costs for administration, technology and purchasing books and other materials” (“Library fines were unfair,” Letters, Oct. 14). Yet interlibrary loans and returns between the three systems could make all of their “books and other materials” available to residents throughout NYC, while allowing each borough, and each local branch, to decide its own policies.

Joel Schlosberg Bayside

Poor candidate coverage Dear Editor: I find it very surprising — given the fact that the editor of this fine publication has always impressed me as doing his darnedest to maintain a fair, balanced and even letters section and given the fact that two pages later QC mentions all the “other” candidates for mayor — that in its endorsement of Eric Adams the editorial mentions only Adams and Curtis Sliwa (“Vote Eric Adams for mayor of New York City,” Oct. 21).

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ow that the final debate between mayoral candidates Eric Adams and Curtis Sliwa is over, you’ve seen all you need to see. It’s time to go vote. This page has endorsed Democrat Adams over Republican Sliwa for reasons of experience, policy and temperament, but however you intend to vote, there’s no time like the present. Early voting runs through Oct. 31. Election Day is Nov. 2.

So far, not too many people are taking advantage of early voting. The total by the end of Tuesday was 55,106 citywide, with 12,006 of those from Queens.

Granted, it’s not a presidential election year, as it was when New York began the practice last year, but still, we’re selecting a mayor, comptroller and members of the City Council, along with other positions. And there are five ballot proposals to vote on, some with serious repercussions.

Go to vote.nyc if you need more information, and then go exercise the right so many fought to win and protect. We all get to decide our city’s fate. And you only get to complain later if you take part now.

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to vote. But I virulently believe in the open and free flow of information, something this newspaper has — in truly atypical fashion — eschewed. A candidate works very hard to get on the ballot. The least this media outlet, or any other media outlet, can do is mention their names as mayoral candidates.

I’m also very surprised that this newspaper has concluded that Sliwa has never held elected office. Last I checked the consolidated laws of New York State, this is not grounds for disqualification for any office. Michael Bloomberg never held an elected office. Every politician in the city at one point had never held elected office.

All in all, a rare “shame on you” to QC. Nat Weiner Bronx

Hochul OKs drug abuse Dear Editor: Re. Michael Gannon’s Oct. 21 report: “Council Dems seek bail reform reforms”: I agree with the letter sent by 23 City Council members to Gov. Hochul and state legislative leaders urging revision of bail reform and giving judges discretion to consider a defendant’s criminal history. But I have little hope for a positive response.

Rather than strengthen law enforcement, Gov. Hochul seems to favor lawbreakers. The latest example is a bill she signed that decriminalizes open drug use and allows addicts to shoot up in public places with no interference by cops (“NY Needle Nightmare,” New York Post, Oct. 19). It bolster’s far left lunatics’ goal of “harm reduction,” but will actually heighten

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equity. Under the current system, the mayor saves tens of thousands on his properties per year while you with your Queens row house pay through the nose. You would have to collect at least $25K from some poor slob living in your former laundry room to net a similar windfall. NYC can better provide 100,000 affordable units of living space for New Yorkers struggling to pay rent, and provide relief to gouged middle-class homeowners, by obliging wealthy New York co-op and brownstone owners pay their fair share of property taxes.

Edwin Eppich Glendale

Silence on tax havens

Dear Editor: Republicans say raising our national debt ceiling by $480 billion is nothing to be proud of. They’re right. But, as usual they are incorrect in blaming Democrats and President Biden for the costs incurred by the GOP. How difficult is it to understand that Democrats are always forced to pay the bills rung up by Republicans? Just like parents paying the credit card bills of their irresponsible children.

Do you know what else is irresponsible?

Having taxpayers pay the hospital bills of people like Robbie Walker. Walker refused to be vaccinated. Then he got Covid. Three million dollars is a reasonable estimate of what it cost to save his life. That includes $2.5 million for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, which costs about $825,000 a week; $125,000 for the air ambulance; $30,000 for time on a ventilator; and another $300,000 in lost wages, physical therapy costs and other incidentals.

Walker could have been vaccinated for free — just like many other unvaccinated fools who are filling all available hospital beds, demanding expensive monoclonal antibodies and overwhelming healthcare workers. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, preventable hospitalizations involving unvaccinated adults generated almost $6 billion in costs in the last three months. Insurance companies should cancel the healthcare coverage of people who don’t want to get the vaccine. Plain and simple.

By the way, the GOP complains that the rich are overtaxed and wonders where the money will come from to pay for all the infrastructure needs. Could Trump’s permanent tax cuts for billionaires be to blame? Or maybe the problem is that between 1978 and 2018 average worker compensation went up 11.9 percent, and CEO compensation went up 940 percent! Read that again. It’s not a misprint!

Robert LaRosa Sr. Whitestone

Dear Editor: Since the Pandora Papers exposed U.S. corporations have $600 billion in offshore accounts to avoid paying taxes here, there has not been a peep about any plan to reverse that situation. Ho-hum.

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Basement pols are taxing Dear Editor: So some assemblyman named Harvey Epstein, representing Manhattan of all places, with the support of Assemblyman Khaleel Anderson (D-South Ozone Park) and state Sens. Jessica Ramos (D-Jackson Heights) and Leroy Comrie (D-St. Albans), wants to legalize basement dwellings (“Housing advocates want basement units,” Oct. 21). Their pitch: You own a house in some working-class area (not theirs, heavens no); you too can be a landlord!

Watch out. We saw during the pandemic the headaches endured by landlords trying to collect rent from nonpaying tenants. Is this why you struggled to buy a house, so you can share it for free with strangers?

This is another feel-good device by liberals to burnish their woke credentials at no cost to themselves by bamboozling the working class, who in many cases pay four times the property taxes as in those chic districts (Manhattan, Brownstone Brooklyn) where these elites own and reside, still paying property taxes like it’s 1999. Somehow, the hallowed concept of equity does not have the same urgency when it might get in the way of their tax bonanza.

Rather than play the Park Slope liberals’ game, Anderson, Ramos, Comrie and many other Queens state politicians should legislate in their constituents’ interest for property tax

The anti-vaxxers Dear Editor: In World War II, a time of national emergency, millions of men were drafted. Most may not have liked it but more than 99.9 percent served, and many made the ultimate sacrifice for their fellow Americans.

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Holden, Cruz dig in on hospital dispute Legislators swap allegations over committee talk, social media posts

by Michael Gannon Editor

Neither side is backing down in a dispute between state Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz (D-Corona) and city Councilman Bob Holden (D-Middle Village) stemming from a Council Health Committee meeting on Oct. 15.

Cruz, who testified at the hearing on the cost of hospital stays, is accusing Holden of taking out of context complaints she raised in a subsequent Facebook post.

Holden, in an interview with the Chronicle and in letters to Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx) and Ethics Committee Chairwoman Jo Ann Simon (D-Brooklyn), is accusing Cruz of attempting to blackmail him into taking the post down during what his chief of staff told the paper was an obscenitylaced phone call.

The complaint to Heastie was first reported in the Daily News.

The meeting was on the high cost of hospital care, and included David Rich of the Greater New York Hospital Association.

“These companies, these corporations that we call hospitals have chosen to make money out of healthcare, have chosen to make money out of allegedly saving lives,” she said in a video of the meeting. “And yes, they’re saving lives. But I say ‘allegedly’ because when you get a $200,000 bill that you have to pay or

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Indictment in Ozone Park shooting A Buffalo man has been indicted for the murder of Brandon Rodriguez, a 20-year-old father from Ozone Park, who was gunned down on the block where he lived.

On Sept. 24, Dwayne Scott, 22, allegedly fired multiple times at Rodriguez near the intersection of 102nd Road and 84th Street. According to the charges, Rodriguez had just parked his car and was steps away from his home.

Scott was arraigned last Thursday and charged with murder in the second degree and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree.

“The murder of this young man has left a family devastated and a young toddler without his father,” said District Attorney Melinda Katz in a press release.

“This was yet another example of the senseless gun violence that is wreaking havoc in our community and causing untold grief. The defendant has been returned to Queens from upstate New York to answer for his alleged crimes.”

Scott was arraigned before Queens Supreme Court Justice Michael Aloise.

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when you have to choose between a worldrenowned doctor at one hospital versus a decent doctor at another one, you’re playing with your health care. You’re playing with your life.”

Rich immediately defended hospitals and their workers.

“To say hospitals are allegedly saving lives? They’re saving them every day,” he said. “And this pandemic is not over.”

Holden at the time called Cruz’s remarks “out of line.” He subsequently posted a segment of the video ending with the “allegedly saving lives” comment, followed by Rich’s rebuttal on Facebook.

Holden’s chief of staff, Daniel Kurzyna, told the Chronicle that he took a call that afternoon from Cruz, who he said launched an obscenity-filled tirade, saying her remarks were taken out of context and demanding that the post be taken down.

“She threatened to make race and her gender an issue,” Kurzyna told the Chronicle. In a memo to Holden that the councilman said was drafted immediately following the call, Kurzyna said Cruz stated ‘He better take it [the Facebook post] down in five minutes or it’s f---ing war’ ... The assembly member insinuated that she would use her race and gender as a way to blackmail you and pressure you to take down the social media post ...”

State Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz and City Councilman Bob Holden have been engaged in a social media war for two weeks with Cruz alleging Holden took her testimony before a Council committee out of context; and Holden lodging an ethics complaint with Assembly FILE PHOTOS leadership.

The memo states Cruz said, “if he wants f---ing war, I’ll give him war.”

Cruz on Wednesday declined to comment on the matter beyond social media posts of her own, one following a Twitter entry in which Holden accused her of bashing hospital workers and called her testimony before the committee disgraceful.

“What we are not going to do is use me to get likes for you,” Cruz responded. “You were there, you know I was bashing the

Miles for MBC and Kelly

Saturday’s fundraiser was in honor of Kelly Adams-Mahindra, left, a mom and doctor from HowPHOTOS COURTESY OF DANIELLE GRAZIANO ard Beach.

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A walk last weekend in honor of a Howard Beach mom fighting metastatic breast cancer raised over $1,100 that will go towards a research grant for the disease.

Kelly Adams-Mahindra, a pediatric pulmonologist, has been fighting since her diagnosis in November of 2019. She was 39 when she found a lump while nursing.

“Miles for MBC & Kelly Marie” raised the money for a grant of $250,000, which will go to METAvivor, a volunteer-led nonprofit organization.

Through the combined efforts of fundraisers across the country, they are just $25,000 short of their goal.

“After researching a lot of organizations, I found METAvivor. One hundred percent of

the proceeds go to metastatic breast cancer research,” said Adams-Mahindra.

“Only 3 to 5 percent of the money donated to breast cancer is allocated towards metastatic breast cancer and that is the one that kills people.”

Saturday’s event was held at Charles Park in Howard Beach and participants walked three miles in honor of Adams-Mahindra.

Adams-Mahindra fights the disease with support from her husband, TJ, and their 5-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter.

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Hospitals who make money from our families, who turned healthcare into a $ making biz Been at the forefront of fighting for the workers ...”

Cruz subsequently posted that she was in the front lines of the fight to keep NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst from having its funding cut during the pandemic.

Holden, in his letter to Heastie, called for a formal ethics inquiry.

“For a standing member of the State legislature to harass, bully, yell and curse at my staff member is reprehensible,” he wrote. “It is unfathomable that Assembly member Cruz would engage in bullying tactics to my staff and me by threatening to use race and gender to blackmail my office into removing the social media post.”

Holden, in a telephone interview, called it conduct unbecoming of an elected official; and said it has gotten Cruz nowhere.

“The strange thing is I’ve never met her,” he said. “I’m not going to be intimidated by someone who comes along out of the blue whom I’ve never met.”

Holden said Simon responded by saying that Kurzyna’s position would not qualify the alleged conduct to come under the committee’s jurisdiction.

“I would beg to differ,” he said, adding that Q he hopes Heastie will take up the matter.

Restaurants continued from page 2 nate that the directive came out so late, after many restaurants have already had to make their plans to survive the winter months. Given that we are still dealing with the pandemic, outdoor seating continues to be the lifeline for countless businesses, many of which are still not making anything approaching pre-pandemic profits.”

Andrew Rigie, executive director of the New York City Hospitality Alliance, also criticized the move.

“This news is another chilling setback for the city’s financially devastated restaurant industry,” Rigie said in an emailed statement. “Many struggling restaurateurs and barkeepers are concerned that having fewer reliable and affordable heating options amid frigid temperatures will freeze out badly needed customers and revenues during the winter months.

“Businesses that don’t have outdoor electric or natural gas heaters are not going to be able to keep their patrons warm, whether it’s diners who aren’t permitted to eat indoors because they aren’t vaccinated, or who are vaccinated but aren’t comfortable eating inside yet.”

Information on the city’s regulations and the permitting processes is available online at nyc.gov/openrestaurants or by Q calling 311.

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Maspeth to honor World War II hero

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Stanley Wdowiak will be honored in COURTESY PHOTO Maspeth on Nov. 6.

— Wdowiak and the others still had to race to close valves and disconnect explosive charges designed to sink the U-boat before it took all three of them to the bottom of the Atlantic.

Their work allowed U-505 to be towed to Bermuda where it was examined by Naval Intelligence. The sub now is on permanent display at the Chicago Museum of Science Q and Industry.

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Offering a wide selection of popular fiction and nonfiction titles, the vending machine operates on “golden tokens,” which students can earn in a variety of ways. Each token allows a student to select a book to keep. The vending machine was made possible by a grant from Donors Choose, a charitable organization connecting contributors nationwide to public school projects.

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On June 4, 1944, Maspeth native Stanley Wdowiak and two of his shipmates from the destroyer USS Pillsbury stormed a surfaced German U-boat in the Atlantic Ocean with no knowledge of what they might encounter, and no guarantee that they would come back.

The small raid netted the U.S. Navy a pair of German encryption machines, code books, reams of intelligence and the intact U-505. It resulted in Wdowiak, who passed away in 1988, receiving the Navy Cross, the second-highest honor a sailor can receive.

He will be honored again on Saturday, Nov. 6, when the plaza at the intersection of Grand and Flushing avenues in Maspeth is renamed in his honor.

The event will take place at 11 a.m., sponsored by Councilman Bob Holden (D-Middle Village) and the American Legion’s Kowalinski Post. Members of Wdowiak’s family will be present, as will representatives of Maspeth Federal Savings and the Maspeth Lions and Kiwanis clubs.

Though they met no armed resistance onboard — the crew had abandoned the sub

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Borough President Donovan Richards, above at mic, led a town hall last week with elected officials and agency represenatives from Eastern Queens, Southeast Queens and portions of Far Rockaway to highlight the progress of the regions and address chronic problems brought up by residents seeking feedback and guidance to move the World’s Borough forward. At right, some of the agency heads in attendance were NYPD Deputy Chief John Clune, left, of Queens South, Courtney Yu of NYCHA, and Carl Dombek of the Small Business Administration. PHOTOS BY BOROUGH PRESIDENT’S OFFICE

Southeast Queens got $70M in funds Community board members receive feedback on quality-of-life problems

by Naeisha Rose

Jamaica Hospital Medical Center received $7 million in funding and NYC Health + HosQueens Borough President Donovan Rich- pitals/Queens received $5 million; York Colards hosted a town hall at York College’s Mil- lege received a portion of $4.5 million that was ton G. Bassin Performing Arts Center last allocated to the City University of New York week, which was co-sponsored by elected offi- schools throughout the borough; and $5 milcials from Eastern Queens, Southeast Queens lion was allocated to kindergarten-to-high and parts of Far Rockaway to highlight areas of schools, according to Richards, who is up for progress in those regions and address issues re-election Tuesday.

An additional $10 million was allocated to with constituents, who were able to get feedback from representatives of various city the libraries in St. Albans, Arverne, Brookville and Baisley Park; South Jamaica Houses agencies.

“There are a lot of issues impacting Queens, received $2 million for security; $2 million but I want to thank the residents of Queens was invested in Far Rockaway for affordable County because we are the most vaccinated housing; $5 million in transportation, $8 milborough in New York City,” said Richards. “At lion toward parks in the districts; $92 million least 91 percent of all Queens residents have at was invested in a new recreational center at least one dose of the vaccine. There is still a lot Roy Wilkins Park, which will include an Olympic-sized swimming pool; $92 million of work to be done in Far Rockaway.”

Together, state Sens. Joe Addabbo Jr. was invested in the planned 116th Precinct that (D-Howard Beach), Leroy Comrie (D-St. will include a small community center, food Albans) and James Sanders Jr. (D-South Ozone pantry and plaza; and $14 million was diverted Park); Assemblymembers Alicia Hyndman to cultural institutions.

Construction has started at a new co-work(D-Springfield Gardens) and Clyde Vanel (D-Queens Village); and Councilmembers ing space in Downtown Jamaica and Adams Adrienne Adams (D-Jamaica), Daneek Miller has advocated for creating affordable houses via (D-St. Albans), Selvena Brooks-Powers Habitat for Humanity, added Richards, when it (D-Laurelton) and James Gennaro (D-Hill- came to some of the highlights of the borough.

A Com munity Board 12 constituent crest) have brought $70 million in capital fundlaunched the first inquiry during the questioning to their districts, Richards said. and-answer portion of the town hall.

“Why doesn’t the city take care of its own trees?” said the CB 12 member.

“The trees are dying, no one is taking care of the trees and when we have these superstorms the trees are uprooted ... and the city wants to charge us for the sidewalks.”

Since Mayor de Blasio has taken office, homeowners are no longer held responsible for the damage to a sidewalk that is caused by a tree, according to a Queens Borough Commissioner Nicole Garcia of the city Parks Department representative.

“If you have summonses for that, they Department of Transportation, left, Borough Coordinator Karen Ellis of the city Department of Environ- can be vacated,” said the Parks representative. “The City is now responsible for mental Protectiion and Councilman Daneek Miller.

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those repairs ... the homeowner has the option of repairing it and submitting [costs] to the comptroller for reimbursement.”

The CB 12 member also had complaints about garbage workers mishandling trash and sometimes leaving it behind. The city Department of Sanitation representative shared his contact information to learn more about the location of the garbage mess.

Constituents can also go to portal.311.nyc. gov to issue complaints.

Another question that was handed in to a spokeswoman for the borough president inquired about how entrepreneurs should go about becoming green. There were no representatives from the Small Business Services division in attendance. However, the borough president made some suggestions.

“One good example is the requirement of a green roof with solar panels or a wind turbine on any building that is 25-feet and up,” said Richards.

Donald Abraham, a constituent in CB 12, wrote in his question about illegal dumping and wrecked cars on Farmers Boulevard.

“We are going to look to purchase cameras in the next budget,” said Richards, who thanked Brooks-Powers and Miller for advocating for that to fight illegal dumping and wrecked cars. “If you have chronic locations where you see dumping, you have to give us those locations.”

To file a complaint with the Borough President’s Office email: constituentservices@ queensbp.org.

One parent inquired about speed bumps at PS 48 at 108-29 155 St. in Jamaica.

“We will send our team out,” said Nicole Garcia, the Queens Borough Commissioner of the city Department of Transportation. “We are going to assign you to our school safety team.

We are going to see how the crosswalks look and ask for some refurbishment [and] for a study around the school to look to see if the speed bumps are feasible.”

There were caveats, however. The study

alone for the speed bumps take several months and the infrastructure can only be installed when the weather is good, preferably spring or summer, when the asphalt adheres.

One Queens resident wanted a study at Brookville Boulevard, which is also known as Snake Road, to prevent flooding in the area.

That was more complicated than the other inquiries, according to Richards.

“There is going to be a project ... a $62 million project obviously with [Councilwoman] Selvena Brooks-Powers, which is going to start the first quarter next year,” said Richards, adding that “the complication” is that the road is subject to various jurisdictions.

Raising the road would require federal permission, according to the borough president.

“The beginning of the road is city, the middle of the road is state and the end of the road is federal and everything around it is federal,” said Richards. “That is something we can examine again under the Biden administration.

God willing, sometime we will try to reconvene all the different stated levels of government to raise that road again. It is far past the time for that to happen.”

To see a stream of the town hall visit QPTV. org. To learn more about upcoming town halls in southwest and northeast Queens follow the borough president @QueensBPRichards on Facebook and Instagram or @QnsBPRichards Q on Twitter.

Corrections The Oct. 21 story “Whom to expect on your ballot in Queens” contained two errors. It misstated Councilman Eric Ulrich’s party affiliation. He is a Republican. It also misstated Councilman Bob Holden’s margin of victory in the primary, due to the use of early figures that later were updated. He won by 9.6 percent.

The Oct. 21 item “Early voting locations” misstated the last day of early voting. It is Oct. 31.

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Addabbo to resubmit auxiliary protections

Time for Haunt N’ Treat!

by Michael Gannon Editor

In March of 2007, NYPD Auxiliary Police Officers Eugene Marshalik, a 19-year-old NYU student, and Nicholas Pekearo, 28, were shot and killed while in uniform — and unarmed — along with an employee of a Manhattan pizzeria.

“Auxiliary officers often stand side-byside with police officers, and can face many of the same risks,” state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) said in an interview on Monday.

And the senator said come January he will be reintroducing a bill that would significantly increase the punishment for those convicted of crimes such as criminally negligent homicide, assault or menacing of an on-duty auxiliary officer. His bill had eight co-sponsors, including, in Queens, Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky (D-Flushing).

The bill would make assault of an induty auxiliary officers a class-C felony.

Doing so with the intent of preventing performance of duty in response to an offense would be second-degree assault.

The Assembly bill sponsored by Assemblyman David Weprin (D-Fresh Meadows)

Auxiliary officers in the 112th Precinct were honored in August at National Night Out PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON Against Crime. had nearly 60 co-sponsors, including Brian Barnwell (D-Maspeth), Vivian Cook (D-Jamaica), Ed Braunstein (D-Bayside), Jeffrion Aubry (D-Corona), Catalina Cruz (D-Corona), Alicia Hyndman (D-Springfield Gardens), Stacey Pheffer-Amato, (D -Rockaway Beach, Clyde Va nel (D-Queens Village), Daniel Rosenthal (D-Flushing), Ron Kim (D-Flushing), Andrew Hevesi (D-Forest Hills), Catherine Nolan (D-Long Island City) and Nily Rozic Q (D-Fresh Meadows).

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Businesses prepared Halloween treats for each child who previously had gotten a

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Some retirees can’t afford new health plan Court ruled opt-out deadline ‘irrational,’ ‘arbitrary and ‘capricious’

by Katherine Donlevy

“The Court feels that the method of implementation of this plan at present has Alan Odze, a retired NYPD officer and been irrational, and thus arbitrary and capri9/11 first responder, would not be able to cious,” Judge Lyle Frank wrote in his decipay his medical bills under the city’s new sion. “It is not in dispute that currently, in the midst of a pandemic, that has been hardhealth insurance plan.

Odze was diagnosed with melanoma of est on the elderly and infirm, retirees have the eye in 2014 as a result of his bravery at been given a deadline of October 31 to either do nothing in the World Trade Center. which case their health Since then, he’s been care plan will change, visiting his doctor every or to stay in their cursix weeks for an injeccan’t afford to play rent plan in which they tion. Odze only pays a games with this or will likely have to pay few hundred dollars per what can only be visit, but would have to the end result is 6 described as a penalty. pay as much as $7,500 “At the same time, for both the visit and the feet under.” there is little clarity as treatment under the new to which health care Medicare Advant age — Alan Odze, retired NYPD officer prov iders w ill be program, which his docand melanoma patient a c c e pt i ng t h is n ew tor is not accepting.

Medicare Advantage Because of his condition, Odze was forced to opt out of the Plan. It is simply irrational for retirees to insurance he had been using for decades. have to make this decision as circumstances His pension wouldn’t even begin to cover currently stand.”

Frank concluded that retirees required to his healthcare costs, and finding another doctor who accepted the plan was not an opt in or out by the original deadline would option, Odze said, because he was seeing be faced with “irreparable harm,” and the best melanoma specialist in the area and ordered that they remain in the current plan is unwilling to take the risk of trusting until the defects of the proposed new Medicare Advantage Plan are cured. someone new.

Despite the court’s decision, Odze did not “That’s the deal. I’m being treated for melanoma and it’s a form of cancer, so I withdraw his opt-out request. He believes can’t play games with this,” Odze said. “I the city will continue moving forward with can’t afford to play games with this or the its implementation regardless of opposition and he will just be forced to opt out again end result is 6 feet under.”

Odze is one of about 250,000 retired city before the end of the year. Odze said the employees whose healthcare program is due recent lawsuit had more to do with the deadto be changed under an agreement between line than the plan change itself.

The Medicare Advantage program is the administration and the Municipal Labor Committee. Retirees can choose to opt-out scheduled to go into effect Jan. 1, and it is and stay in their current plan, but at a cost of not clear whether further legal action will affect that implementation date. nearly $200 a month.

“I’m hoping there’s a restraining order A Manhattan Supreme Court justice, however, ruled in favor of a lawsuit by the put in place by the judge or the court to stop NYC Organization of Public Service Retir- this thing from moving forward,” Odze said.

The group that filed the Article 78 action, ees Oct. 21 that delayed the opt-out or -in deadline for city retirees. The original Oct. the NYC Organization of Public Service 31 deadline was not appropriate, the court Retirees, was created in August to counter ruled, especially because the choice is irre- the Medicare Advantage plan change. The group hired its attorney using donations versible once decided by a retiree.

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Police union sues over shots Facing a deadline for its members to get vaccinated against Covid-19 or be put on leave, the city’s main police union on Monday sued to stop the rule from taking effect.

The Police Benevolent Association says in the suit that “the city has provided no explanation, much less a rational one, for the need to violate the autonomy and privacy of NYPD police officers in such a severe manner, on the threat of termination,” according to the Associated Press.

All city workers must get at least their first shot of the vaccine by Nov. 1 under order of Mayor de Blasio or be put on unpaid

leave. Until now, most city workers, with some exceptions, such as teachers, have been allowed to either get vaccinated or be tested weekly in order to work.

Opponents of the new mandate protested Monday in a demonstration that went from Brooklyn to City Hall, shutting down traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge for a time.

Police Commissioner Dermot Shea is calling for cops to get vaccinated, and says about 68 percent of the NYPD workforce, sworn and civilian, already has. He noted that 63 department members have died of Covid. Q — Peter C. Mastrosimone

The new Medicare Advantage healthcare program would force thousands of retirees to pay drastically higher out-of-pocket prices for prescriptions or hundreds of dollars a month to remain in PHOTO BY KAROLINA GRABOWSKA / PEXELS.COM their current plan. from some of the 250,000 city government retirees who would be affected by the switch.

Under the program, private companies contract with the federal government to offer the public health benefits. The new plan would save the city $600 million, but would drastically increase some retirees’ out-of-pocket costs because it would not cover the supplemental insurance retirees buy for areas Medicare doesn’t take care of.

Each retiree’s union would have to accept such supplemental programs instead.

That vital exclusion prompted William Shenton, a retired city Housing Authority manager, to opt out of the new Medicare Advantage program.

His wife, who suffers from a chronic immune disease that affects her lungs and other internal organs, requires a monthly medication priced at $1,200. With the family’s insurance, as well as the supplemental insurance his wife purchased herself, the prescription only costs $640 per month.

Under the new plan, she’d be forced to pay full price, which the family would not be able to afford.

“It would bankrupt us,” said Shenton.

Shenton has prescriptions of his own that he needs to take monthly. When the prices are combined with his wife’s, as well as the additional $200 per month in opt-out fees, the Shentons would be shelling out well over $1,000 every month.

The 70-year-old retiree said the city has been “sloppy” with its former workers. Not only is the Medicare Advantage program itself not ideal for hundreds of thousands of retirees, Shenton said, but the city has been doing a poor job of explaining what options are available to them.

“It’s all convoluted. It’s difficult for us,” said Shenton. “We’re not spring chickens anymore.”

Shenton said he was only made aware of the situation by a friend who had been following the news. The city didn’t alert retirees as a whole until August, which didn’t leave much time for those who would be affected to weigh their options.

“There’s a lot of stress involved and they may have taken years off our lives. We worried about it and worried about it,” Shenton Q said.

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Clicking on the “Police Officers” tab on that page brings one to a site that gives a brief description of the NYPD and has links to other pages. One allows a candidate to register for the exam. Another, for

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CB 5 still pushing for a Grand Ave. bridge

1903 span, built at the dawn of the auto industry, too small, board says

by Michael Gannon Editor

The steel truss bridge with the metal grate deck that carries Grand Avenue across Newtown Creek to connect Maspeth with Brooklyn was built closer in time to the George Washington administration than that of President Biden.

No wonder the folks at Community Board 5 remain eager to have it replaced.

“It’s still one of our top budget priorities; certainly in our top five,” said Gary Giordano, district manager at CB 5. “It’s us on one side and Brooklyn [Community] Board 1 on the other.”

Giordano said the structure has long been outdated, and now represents a traffic and safety hazard.

“The bridge was built in 1903,” he said.

“The bridge is too narrow for two large vehicles to pass each other at the same time. You couldn’t have two trucks passing each other in the opposite direction.”

The bridge also has pedestrian walkways on both sides.

Large vehicles are increasingly an issue as the bridge is in a massive industrial area and services the countless trucks heading to, from and between businesses operating there.

Just as a benchmark, Henry Ford’s first Model A vehicles — somewhat smaller than modern commercial trucks or a school bus —

Tuesday morning rush-hour traffic heads across the Grand Avenue bridge between Maspeth and Brooklyn. Leaders of Queens Community Board 5 are continuing to prioritize its replacement in PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON their requests for spending in the city’s capital budget. also made their debut in 1903.

The city’s Department of Transportation did not respond to requests for comment prior to the Chronicle’s deadline, but Giordano said the eventual replacement of the span is on the Divi-

sion of Bridges’ radar screen.

“First of all, it’s going to be a very expensive project,” he said. “They’re not even in preliminary design yet. Right now they’re scoping out the area. They’ve got their consultants working

on this. We have had a presentation on this [from the DOT] at a remote meeting of our Transportation Committee.”

Giordano said that the design process can take the better part of two years.

“As for a timeline, you could have the start of construction in 2025 if all goes well,” he said.

On a positive point, the district manager did say that conditions at the bridge give lie to some stereotypes about New York City drivers.

“It’s amazing,” he said. “There are situations in this world where, when a civility level is required, it’s amazing how civil drivers behave.

There are times when you and I are both driving in opposite directions and both driving some big vehicle, a bus or truck ... and one of us has to stop, like at a four-way stop sign, and let the other person go ahead.”

One of the requirements would be an environmental review, seemingly a paradox as Newtown Creek below was designated a federal Superfund cleanup site in 2010, and one of the most heavily trafficked and polluted waterways in the city.

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King Manor fall festival in Jamaica Pumpkin patches, sashes, comedy, magic and more at Rufus King Park

Over 140 people came to the King Manor Museum fall festival on Oct. 23. LaToya Lindsay, far right, is a family coordinator at the Growing Up Green Charter School II in Jamaica and at the fall PHOTOS BY REE BRINN festival she taught children how to plant basil seeds.

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King Manor Museum held a fall festival over the weekend at Rufus King Park in Jamaica that was attended by over 140 people.

At the Oct. 23 fest, kids played in pumpkin patches, learned about composting from the Queens Botanical Garden and how to plant herbs from family coordinator LaToya Lindsay of the Growing Up Green Charter School II in Jamaica.

“We sold recycled uniforms,” said Lindsay.

“We also taught kids how to plant edible things, like basil. Everything that we used was sustainable and biodegradable.”

Lindsay showed the kids how to properly plant the seeds in biodegradable flowerpots.

This was also the third year that the Museum recognized Breast Cancer Awareness Month by collecting donations for breast cancer research, while Flowers of Hope, a nonprofit that fights for marginalized groups and

raises cancer awareness, gave sashes to breast and those who have died from breast cancer cancer survivors Audrey Robertson and also made dedications to loved ones.

Trey Jenkins, the director of marketing and Annecita Joseph.

“Flowers of Hope members enjoyed all the business services at the Jamaica Center Busifree activities at the fall festival hosted by the ness Improvement District, made his dedication to his mother, Queens Chronicle,” who will be 65 in said Gina Vasquez, November. the founder of the ur cancer survivors and “I wanted to honor nonprofit. “We had a my mother Katrina tour of the museum, the group as a whole Jenkins, who is a which was education12-year breast cancer al. Some of us did not had a blast.” survivor,” said Jenknow the museum — Flowers of Hope Founder Gina Vasquez kins. “My mom was existed, so we got to diagnosed with breast learn about our community’s landmark. We had the opportunity cancer in 2009 and it was caught in the early to listen to beautiful poetry and interact with stages so she was able to recover quickly. At the artists. There were many activities going the time I lived in Orlando, Florida, and on such as the magic show, drawing, coloring wasn’t able to be there during her chemo sesand more. Our cancer survivors and the group sions and treatment. My dad helped her get through everything and six months later she as a whole had a blast.”

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Katrina lives in Geneseo and works as a teacher’s aide at an elementary school.

Steven Palmore, a jack-of-all-trades — comic, jazz musician and magician — performed at the park and commemorated his mother, who passed away from breast cancer.

“I dedicate this performance to the memory of my late mother Helen Palmore,” said the performer about his mom who died Aug. 26.

“I was fortunate to see her reach 94 years on this planet, but she will forever be in my heart.”

The Queens Chronicle was a sponsor of the fall festival, which was hosted by the paper’s very own Ree Brinn.

Greeters who helped to set up the event included Ilana Dandridge, Peta-Kaye Burt, Azrael Jackson and Sharon Baker, who are all members of the Queens College chapter of The National Society of Leadership and Success, the largest honor society in the Q country.

Sharela Bonfield, left, jazz magician and comic Steven Palmore, breast cancer survivor Audrey Robertson, Flowers of Hope Founder Gina Vasquez, breast cancer survivor Annecita Joseph and Kenisha Tucker in front of King Manor Museum in Jamaica. The festival also included a pumpkin patch for kids, center, and a magic show by Palmore. Visitors also learned about composting at the Queens Botanical Gardens booth, right.

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Vaughn’s curriculum, faculty and overall academic reputation once again earned it a place in U.S. News and World Report’s 2022 survey of the best regional colleges in the North. More than 88 percent of Vaughn graduates, 75 percent in their fi eld of study, are employed or continue their education within one year of graduation. Vaughn remains committed to providing its students with a private college experience at a highly competitive tuition rate: 90 percent of students receive some type of fi nancial aid. Vaughn College was ranked number

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This January, Plaza College will be welcoming students admitted to the fi rst cohort of Queens’ newest Bachelor of Science degree program in Nursing. The program is designed as an upper-division program whereby students will apply previously-earned college credits to 60 core nursing credits to complete the B.S. degree.

The nursing program can be completed in 4 semesters, an equivalent of 16 consecutive months.

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Explore these college savings strategies Enrolling in a trade school or college is widely considered the next step after a student graduates from high school. College is especially popular, as the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that 62.7 percent of high school graduates went on to colleges and universities in 2020.

Finding ways to pay for higher education has long been a goal for students and their families. PrepScholar, a college testing preparation resource, calculates that, by 2033, students can expect to pay around $237,000 at in-state public universities and $464,000 at private colleges or universities for four-year degrees.

That high cost is why so many families take proactive steps to set aside funds for college soon after their children are born. No matter the situation, taking the steps to plan and save helps to make schooling more affordable.

529 college savings plan A 529 is a specialized savings account for college and university costs. Most plans can be opened by a U.S. citizen or resident alien age 18

and older. The individual opening the account can be a parent, grandparent, cousin or even a friend. The student is the beneficiary of the account.

Four-year schools, community colleges and vocational/trade schools accept 529 accounts as payment sources. The only requirement is that the school must participate in the U.S. Department of Education student financial aid programs.

Education savings account, or Education IRA The financial experts at Ramsey Solutions say an ESA works like a Roth IRA but it is designed specifically for education expenses. Individuals can invest up to $2,000 (after tax) per year, per child. The account grows tax-free. The rate of growth varies based on investments in the account. Ramsey estimates that at an average return rate of 12 percent on a $36,000 investment ($2,000 per year for 18 years) would grow to around $126,000 by the time the child starts college.

An ESA also can be used to pay for K-12 private school tuition, school

supplies, tutoring or textbooks. It also can be transferred to a sibling if the money is not needed for a particular student.

UTMA/UGMA plan This plan is different from ESAs and 529s because it is not specifically designed for college savings. The Uniform Transfer/Gift to Minors Act is in the child’s name but is controlled by a guardian until the child reaches age 18 or 21. This mutual fund account can be used to save for college with reduced taxes, or funds can be used for other expenses, such as a car or housing.

Advanced placement classes AP classes allow high school students to take college-level courses that can be converted into college credits. Each AP class reduces the need to pay for a class in college. This can add up to some significant savings. In addition, performing well in AP classes may make students more attractive to colleges and universities, helping students to earn academic scholarships.

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ia, treats and hot chocolate, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. for kids 9 to 11 for $32. On Saturday, kids ages 6 to 8 can meet live animals and make treats for them and for themselves from 10 to 11:15 a.m. for $24 per child.

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B a n d, who play jazz on — you guessed it — stilts.

Halloween at the Garden is back at the Queens Botanical Garden in Flushing on Sunday with a trick-or-treat trail,

access to the pumpkin patch where children can get a pumpkin and a seed-planting activity.

Queens reaps bushels of holiday events for all ages and interests Environmental Center in Oakland Gardens is offering three days of Halloween programming for a variety of ages, starting with Eat, Drink & Be Scary! today, Oct. 28, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. for kids ages 8 to 12 for $26. On Friday, there will be a haunted nighttime hike through the park, seeking nocturnal animals and ending with triv-

advance.

Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City will have a Halloween Harvest Festival on Saturday free of charge.

It will include the “Rocky Horror Doggie Show,” a costume contest for dogs, a pumpkin carving and catapulting competition, artist-led workshops and music played by the Shinbone Alley Stilt

performances, a magic show, pumpkincarving demonstrations and creepy compost activities, all included with admission. It runs from noon to 4 p.m. and the full schedule for the day is on the garden’s website. If you’re there for the boos, and at least 21, grab a harvest beer or cider from the Beer & Wine Garden. A separate ticket grants

The Jackson Heights Beautification Group will be hosting its 30th annual Halloween parade on Sunday at noon on 37th Avenue from 89th to 76th streets. Halloween trick-or-treat bags will be handed out at the end and participants can trick-or-treat from vendors along the way.

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rick or treat yourself and the whole family to a Hallo-week full of ghostly good times across Queens.

From haunted hikes to dog costume contests, pumpkin decorating to pumpkin launching, there is something for all ages.

For outdoor adventures, Alley Pond

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, October 21, 2021 Sharon Alexander – Executive Director 718-657-6730 salexander@jspoa.org Yolanda Sales - Program Manager 718-657-6500 Ext. 1597 ysales@jspoa.org Jamaica Service Programs for Older Adults RECEIVES $506,225 Grant Center for Workforce Inclusion, Inc. awards grant directed to assist in workforce training for older jobseekers 55+ Queens. Thursday, October 21, 2021 – Jamaica Service Programs for Older Adults announced today that it was awarded a $506,225 grant from the Center for Workforce Inclusion, Inc. (Center). Almost 90 percent of this grant – originally from the U.S. Department of Labor – will provide temporary employment to no less than 50 lowincome older New Yorkers living in Queens County. These older adults will participate in the Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) a cornerstone program of the Older Americans Act. SCSEP is celebrating its 56th anniversary this year.

SCSEP, the only federal job training program targeted exclusively to low-income older jobseekers, promotes personal dignity and self-suffi ciency through work. Its temporary part-time community service jobs provide a hand-up, not a hand-out for older, unemployed low-income Americans. Th e Senior Community Service Employment Program allows eligible persons to participate for up to four years, but the average tenure nationally is 19 months with the experience and training they receive leading them to permanent employment.

As the joint largest U.S. Department of Labor National Grantee of SCSEP, the Center works through a network of local partners delivering various career training programs for eligible 55-plus-year-old workers in 34 states. To date, the Center has placed over 90,000 older workers into permanent employment through the SCSEP program. “Our long-term, local partners are a key to the strength of the Center and provide the systems to train older Americans into strategic advantage for employers and the Country.” said Gary A. Offi cer, Center for Workforce Inclusion President and CEO. “We are very pleased to continue our support of the Jamaica Service Programs for Older Adults for the 38th consecutive year.

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“SCSEP was a godsend during the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Sharon Alexander, Executive Director. SCSEP participants were able to keep training from home.

Continuing to receive funds prevented participants from becoming homeless. And now, the participants are safely returning to their training sites where they help local community, faith-based, and public agencies carry out their mission, such as the Allen AME Senior Community Service Center. By working in SCSEP positions, SCSEP is providing hope and dignity to low-income jobseekers 55 and older who have the toughest employment challenges. The grant from the Center is essential to our being able to deliver this program in our community.”

About Jamaica Service Programs for Older Adults: The Jamaica Service Program for Older Adults mission is “a total community working together to provide services to, and develop skills in, older adults in order to promote independence and enhance their quality of life.” JSPOA serves 5,000 senior adults yearly and reaches 15,000 indirectly. The agency works cooperatively with over 100 agencies to advocate for programs and services.

About the Center for Workforce Inclusion The Center for Workforce Inclusion is the only national nonprofi t dedicated exclusively to employment for older workers in both the public and private sectors. Since 1962, the Center has provided workforce development and support services to nearly half-a-million older workers. Our mission is to deliver workforce readiness programs that empower local job seekers, attract employers, and transform communities. Th e Center provides employment opportunities low-income and other older adults aged 50 and older in 34 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. For 56 years, the Center has operated the Senior Community Service Employment Program and currently partners with a diverse network of local organizations in 14 states. For more information, please visit www.centerforworkforceinclusion.org.

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Kids’ show star Sandy Becker got start in Elmhurst

by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

George Sanford “Sandy” Becker was born on Feb. 19, 1922, the only child of George and Selma Becker. They all lived with Selma’s parents at 609 West 149 St. in Manhattan.

In 1939, when Sandy was 17 years old, they moved to a brand-new apartment building at 41-06 Case St. in Elmhurst. His father, an NYPD patrolman, could now walk to work at the 110th Precinct.

Sandy, blessed with a smooth melodious voice, was hired as an announcer for radio station WWRL in Woodside. He was hired by a CBS affiliate, WBTV, as an announcer in Charlotte, NC in 1942 and fell in love with a girl there named Ruth Venable. They married in August that year while both were aged 20.

They came to New York and Sandy was hired for the radio soap opera “Young Doctor Malone.” He could have transferred the role to TV, but decided to pursue other projects with WNEW Channel 5 with a variety of children shows. The advent of “The Sandy Becker Show” in 1961, in which he operated puppets and played roles as various goofy characters, bought him the biggest fame.

The teenage home of Sandy Becker at 41-06 Case St. in Elmhurst as it looks today.

GOOGLE MAPS IMAGE; INSET PHOTO COURTESY CHRISTOPHER C. DESANTIS VIA WIKIPEDIA

Sandy was a household staple every evening in New York. After 49 years of marriage, Ruth passed away in May 1991. Still young at heart and full of life, Sandy married Cherie Ann in September 1991. He died of a heart attack at his home in Remsenburg, LI, on April 9, 1996 at age 74.

Sadly most of Sandy’s TV work was never recorded and saved, but lives on in the memQ ories of baby boomers.

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continued from page 31 Play4Autism is hosting a Halloween Family Fun Day on Saturday from 11 to 3 p.m. at The Shops at Atlas Park in Glendale. There will be pumpkin decorating, a costume parade, trunk-or-treat, a photobooth, a DJ, raffles and more. Entry is free but vendors and food will be separate. Proceeds go towards Play4Autism and Angels 4 Autism.

The rain date will likely be Sunday.

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toric Vander Ende-Onderdonk House Museum in Ridgewood is offering arts and crafts, storytelling, goody bags and more on Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. It is recommended for ages 6 to 10, $5 for kids and $10 for adults.

There will be timed entry with three sessions: 1, 2 and 3 p.m. Buy tickets in advance through the museum’s website. Their rain date is Sunday, too.

For more gourd-geous arts and crafts, visit Flushing Town Hall on Saturday for a Chinese paper-cutting workshop at 1 p.m. or create Halloween decorations at 2:30 p.m. Both are free with advanced RSVP online.

Art Strong NYC in Long Island City is hosting its first Halloween party with a variety of activities for kids ages 2 to 10. It is $35 per child but receive a 10 perent off sibling discount with SIBS10 when you purchase tickets online.

For some nonspooky indoor playground fun for the kiddies, ages 6 and under, check out Playlab Kids in Flushing for their first Halloween party with raffles, games, trickor-treating and a costume party. It costs $25 for two hours and will be open on Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. RSVP in

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Hallow-Queens fun for the whole family

From pumpkin decorating to pumpkin smashing, Halloween fun is happening across Queens the whole week leading up to the big day. On the cover: A couple of pumpkins relax at an event. FILE PHOTO BY WALTER KARLING, ABOVE; PHOTO BY JÜRGEN HOWALDT VIA WIKIPEDIA, COVER advance because spots are filling up quickly but they will reserve space for walk-ins if possible. Remember to bring socks!

For ghost stories in the comfort of home, tune into a virtual horror author panel hosted by Kew & Willow Books in Kew Gardens.

Authors will read their work and discuss horror as a genre. It starts at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday and is free but requires registration.

It is recommended for teens and older. For in-person bookstore thrills, stop by the shop from 11:30 a.m. until 6:30 p.m. in costume and bring the kids for some trick-or-treating and a scavenger hunt.

Check each organization’s website first as advanced registration is often recommended, as well as vaccination requirements.

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Wander through the travels of Frances Hynes

by Katherine Donlevy associate editor

“The Leaving,” left, and “The Wanderer” are two of 20 pieces by Frances Hynes on display at St. John’s PHOTOS BY KATHERINE DONLEVY University’s Yeh Art Gallery. could be anybody.

“S h e us e d t h e s e f ig u re s because there’s an indistinctness about them,” Duffy said. “This became the type of figure she would use to connote any sense of wandering.”

“The Leaving” itself tells the story of the 19th-century Irish potato famine, which forced millions of people from their home-

land to escape starvation. Hynes, who is of Irish descent, captured the uneasiness the people felt during the massive exodus. She created the piece in 1995 in commemoration of the Great Hunger’s 150th anniversary.

Duffy described Hynes’ work as a mix between figuration and abstraction. It is very much open to interpretation, he said, adding

that students have come in and debated the amount of deer they can see in some of her landscapes.

The exhibition is on view to the public Tuesdays through Fridays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturdays from 12 to 5 p.m. until Dec. 11.

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Frances Hynes has been captivated by the nomadic nature of humans for much of her life. The narrative that people are constantly searching for something more is one she weaves through all of her artwork.

An exhibition at St. John’s University, “The Wanderers,” features more than 20 paintings that reflect Hynes’ fascination with the timelessness of migration. She created all the works throughout the 1990s while she herself was living the life of a traveler in Ireland.

“I traveled quite a bit,” Hynes said. “I think being in Ireland was an amazing experience for me, especially in the winter when there wasn’t a lot of tourists. I got to see a different way of life, a rural way, which I found absolutely delightful.”

During this period, the Baysidebased artist and St. John’s alum began introducing figures into her work, which she noted is a tradition that goes all the way back to cave paintings. Hynes has also

included layering and landscapes in the series, as well as animals, such as dogs, deer and horses.

Several of the works, including the exhibition’s namesake, “The Wanderer,” bear physical marks of Hynes’ travels throughout Ireland.

The cloth the painting lives on has permanent creases from where it had been folded up into a compact square hat Hynes slipped into her travel bag.

“They fold up, open like a roadmap,” Hynes said, a unique aspect of the work that furthers the nomadic meaning behind the painting.

“The Wanderer” is one of Hynes’ favorite pieces that is featured in the exhibition at St. John’s Yeh Art Gallery. Another is “The Leaving.” That painting, situated directly across the gallery from “The Wanderer,” features almost the exact same figure of a person walking seemingly off the print.

Curator Owen Duffy said the use of the figure allows the observer to put him or herself into the narrative. It’s vague and faceless, he pointed out, so that it

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Notice of Formation of TMOBIS, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/28/2021. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: YURI STARIKOV, 1717 S OCEAN BLVD., UNIT #7, POMPANO BEACH, FL 33062. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 10-05-2021, bearing Index Number NC-000620-21/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) ANUEL (Middle) ISAIAH (Last) VEGA. My present name is (First) ANUEL (Middle) ISAIAH (Last) GINORIO ROMAN AKA ANUEL I. GINORIO ROMAN AKA ANUEL GINORIO ROMAN (infant). The city and state of my present address are Woodhaven, NY. My place of birth is BROOKLYN, NY. The month and year of my birth are March 2019.

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Notice is now hereby given that Richard Enrique Acevedo, living at C/o 86-37 127 street Richmond Hill, New York [11418], is the Executor/ Beneficiary/Minnesota Name Holder of the business now being carried out at 86-36 127 STREET. RICHMOND HILL, NEW YORK 11418 in the following assumed name, to wit RICHARD ENRIQUE ACEVEDO all caps name; and the nature of Business is Commerce.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 10-05-2021, bearing Index Number NC-000612-21/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) ALEXANDRA (Middle) HALL (Last) BOWLES. My present name is (First) ALEXANDRA (Middle) DAWN (Last) HALL AKA ALEXANDRA D. HALL AKA ALEXANDRA HALL AKA ALEXANDRA DAWN BOWLES AKA ALEXANDRA D. BOWLES. The city and state of my present address are Woodside, NY. My place of birth is VIRGINIA. The month and year of my birth are February 1990.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 10-25-2021, bearing Index Number NC-000700-21/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) BIANCA (Last) PIERRE. My present name is (First) BIANCA (Last) GERMAIN PIERRE. The city and state of my present address are Ozone Park, NY. My place of birth is HAITI. The month and year of my birth are October 1989.

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ORANGE LID, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 9/21/21. Office in Queens Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 503 Half Moon Bay Dr., Croton on Hudson, NY 10520. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Principal business loc: 5-21 47th Rd., LIC, NY 11101.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 08-312021, bearing Index Number NC-00053321/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) GAZI (Middle) SHAHRIAR (Last) RAHMAN. My present name is (First) MOHAMMED (Middle) SHAHRIAR (Last) RAHMAN AKA MOHAMMED S RAHMAN, MOHAMMED RAHMAN. The city and state of my present address are Sunnyside, NY. My place of birth is BANGLADESH. The month and year of my birth are May 2002.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 08-30-2021, bearing Index Number NC-000480-21/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) SAMANTHA (Middle) HELENE (Last) CARACTOR. My present name is (First) SAMANTHA (Middle) HELENE (Last) CLAY AKA SAMANTHA CLAY. The city and state of my present address are Rosedale, NY. My place of birth is MANHATTAN, NEW YORK. The month and year of my birth are October 1996.

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, COUNTY OF QUEENS, INDEX NO. 714877/2019, SELENE FINANCE LP, Plaintiff, Plaintiff designates QUEENS as the place of trial situs of the real property vs.AMANTA ADONIS A/K/A AMANTA ADONISMAITLAND; DELROY MAITLAND if living, and if she/he 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 the following designation, namely: the 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; SLOMIN’S INC.; SUSTAINABLE NEIGHBORHOODS LLC; NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD; NEW YORK CITY PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU; NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU, THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK; THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #12,” the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants. SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS, Mortgaged Premises: 110-32 207TH STREET QUEENS VILLAGE, NY 11429, District: Section: Block: 10947 Lot: 48. To the above named Defendants: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; 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 OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $423,702.00 and interest, recorded on February 17, 2009, at Instrument number 2009000046221, of the Public Records of QUEENS County, New York, covering premises known as 110-32 207TH STREET, QUEENS VILLAGE, NY 11429. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. QUEENS County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county. 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 the mortgage company will not stop the 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. Dated: January 31, 2020, ROBERTSON, ANSCHUTZ, SCHNEID, CRANE & PARTNERS, PLLC, Attorney for Plaintiff, MERVE KATI, ESQ., 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, NY 11590, 516-280-7675

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Notice of Formation of Howie Homes LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/24/21. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 47-38 Vernon Blvd, Apt 1R, Long Island City, NY 11101.

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Notice of Formation of 16018 SANFORD LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/12/2021. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: 16018 SANFORD LLC, 56-19 195 STREET, FRESH MEADOWS, NY 11365. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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so it’s clear he has the requisite media skills to do well in New York. It was his disdain for analytics, The task of finding a new president of base- combined with a drop-off in the standings for the ball operations has quickly become a holy grail Giants after 2016, that led to Sabean becoming for Mets owner Steve Cohen and team President marginalized in the Giants organization.

While Sabean would be a solid choice, the Sandy Alderson. Given the job’s importance, lofty title and the fact the Mets play in the Mets would be wise to ask the Texas Rangers nation’s largest market, all attention has under- for permission to talk to their president of basestandably been on the biggest baseball execu- ball operations, Fresh Meadows native Jon Dantives of the last 20 years. Two of them, Theo iels. He is only 44 but has been with the RangEpstein and Billy Beane, turned the team down. ers for 16 years, starting as their GM in 2005.

A third possibility, native New Yorker and Mil- He is respected throughout baseball even waukee Brewers general manager David Stea- though the Rangers have only been to one rns, was not allowed to talk to the Mets because World Series during his tenure. And yes, Danhe is still under contract to the Brewers who iels grew up a Mets fan.

Mets management believed Carlos Carrasco have no intention of letting him go.

The Mets’ search for a president of baseball was an elite pitcher when he was acquired from operations was quickly starting to resemble the the Cleveland Indians in the Francisco Lindor late comedian Henny Youngman’s famous one- trade last winter. It’s safe to say he was anything liner. Instead of “Take my wife, please,” it was but that in 2021. He missed the first half of the turning into “Take this job, please.” Last Friday, it season recovering from a hamstring injury. His seemed as if every sportswriter was urging Alder- return in the second half coincided with the son and Cohen to set their sights on former San Mets’ collapse and he was a big reason for it.

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Propane heat banned for outdoor dining City cites safety concerns; gas or electric systems will be required

by Michael Gannon

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runo Rinaldi has been in the restaurant business for 54 years; and you don’t need to see him shake his head to suspect he is doing so when talking about the city’s new regulations prohibiting propane heaters for outdoor dining this winter.

The city is requiring that restaurants choosing to have outdoor heating this winter buy and install costly gas or electric equipment, both of which require city permits and inspections and the hiring of a master plumber or electrician to do the work.

“Of course it’s going to hurt,” said Rinaldi, owner of Bruno Ristorante on Cross Bay Boulevard in Howard Beach. “Since September, when the city said we had to check vaccines, we’ve lost 25 percent of our business.

Now we can’t use propane ... If they keep piling on and piling on — I’m 72 years old. I don’t need this. At some point I may have to decide to close down.”

The propane cylinders were permitted last winter under the city’s emergency conditions when the government and business community were trying to save the restaurant industry.

Mayor de Blasio, however, has said in published reports that the new regulations are in keeping with the FDNY’s recommendations with an emphasis on safety. A 20-pound can-

The city’s Open Restaurants program is tightening some of its requirements this winter, with a ban on outdoor propane heaters that were permitted last year. Some in the industry are questioning the city’s timing, while others are slamming the added costs and regulations that already FILE PHOTO BY KATHERINE DONLEVY burdened businesses must now face. ister of propane, for example, has the potential explosive power to destroy an entire building, the Mayor’s Office said, citing a 2009 case.

There is a $21 million program administered by the city Department of Small Business Services that will provide grants of up to $5,000 to help restaurants doing less

than $1 million in annual business offset the cost of new systems. SBS and the FDNY also are running education campaigns for businesses through Jan. 1.

Loycent Gordon, owner of Neir’s Tavern in Woodhaven, said it did not impact him directly.

“When they started this last year, we decided with all the strings that were attached that it wasn’t worth it,” Gordon said. “You had to store the propane off-site. We didn’t want the time or cost. We didn’t have the staff to go get it and bring it back.”

But Gordon did acknowledge that the new rules could hurt some of his colleagues in the business.

“Restaurants have learned to pivot quickly.

That’s life under Covid,” Gordon said. “But if things keep piling on and piling on ...”

“It’s a challenge with a lot of new rules,” said Melissa Fleischut, president and CEO of the New York Restaurant Association.

“There’s a lot of uncertainty.” Fleischut and Gordon both would like state government to do more to help the industry.

Elizabeth Lusskin, president of the Long Island City Partnership, also questioned the timing.

“Of course safety always comes first,” Lusskin said in an email. “But it is unfortucontinued on page 12

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Cats gone missing in Howard Beach Suspicions raised over four cats gone from a block; reward offered

by Deirdre Bardolf Associate Editor

Genna Borriello knows her cat, Chase, went missing between two and four o’clock in the morning on Monday, Oct. 11 because she last saw him in her son’s room when she yelled at him to turn the television off. Then, the cat never appeared at the front door to send her husband off in the morning as was his routine.

Then she noticed that the two strays she has been feeding for the three years she has lived in her Howard Beach home were gone, too.

Then, it was her neighbor’s cat that also went missing.

“These are cats that I’ve seen almost every day or at least every other day but never, never, not for three weeks at a time,” said Borriello. “All four of them — you know, that’s strange.”

One cat, Lulu, was a stray but Borriello’s neighbor, Janet Figueroa, had gotten her microchipped and carried out trap-neuter-release, or TNR, an approach to addressing community cat problems, and had been feeding her for almost 10 years.

When Borriello moved to the block, she started pitching in feeding Lulu and another stray, Buster. The neighbors live near 84th Street and 164th Avenue in Howard Beach.

Genna Borriello is offering a reward for her cat who went missing over two weeks ago, along with three others in the PHOTOS COURTESY OF GENNA BORRIELLO neighborhood. Experts say foul play is not uncommon with outdoor cats.

Since they went missing, Borriello has been searching for Chase every day and reached out through every site and service she could find: Craigslist, Facebook groups, PawBoost, Lost My Kitty, HomeAgain, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Bobbi and the Strays and MeowSquad.

“We dropped his kitty litter three blocks in every direction to make a trail back to our house,” said Borriel-

lo. She explained that it is unusual because her cat is fixed, microchipped and never would venture off beyond two houses in either direction or for longer than an hour or two. Although Chase was chipped, his chip cannot be traced unless he is brought to a vet or shelter by someone.

She also thinks it is strange because the neighbors on the surrounding blocks still have their cats,

so she does not believe it is a case of another animal getting to them or poisoning.

After this long, both women are starting to get suspicious. “I’m almost a hundred percent positive that someone is trapping the cats,” said Borriello.

Animal experts say those concerns are not far-fetched. Roberta “Bobbi” Giordano, owner of Bobbi and the Strays, said neighbors can

get fed up with the stray cats in the area and have “bad intentions.” She recommends home security cameras to deter that.

Steve Gruber of the Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals said, “Four cats disappearing is unusual — there certainly is the possibility of foul play.” His office advocates for keeping cats indoors for their own health and safety.

Borriello now wishes she had listened to her sister, a vet, and kept Chase insde.

“It is very important that anyone else letting their cats outdoors know the danger and heartache they’re facing,” she said.

In the meantime, she and Figueroa remain hopeful.

“We’re concerned neighbors and we miss them,” said Figueroa. “They were not just stray cats, they were part of the block.”

Borriello is offering a $200 reward for her cat, Chase. “If anybody knows what happened to these cats and returns them, there’s a reward, no questions asked,” she said. “We don’t care where they were and what happened. We just want them back.”

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An Oct. 18 gun bust in Richmond Hill uncovered an arsenal of illegal weapons including assault rifles, “ghost guns” and approximately 15,000 rounds of ammunition, according to the District Attorney’s Office.

Jonathan Santos, 36, of 102nd Street in Richmond Hill, was charged last Wednesday with multiple counts of criminal possession of a weapon, criminal sale of a firearm and numerous other charges — 252 in total.

Many of the firearms retrieved were “ghost guns,” privately made firearms that are constructed piecemeal and do not have serial numbers, making them untraceable.

“I call it the ‘Polymer Pipeline’ because a crucial component of these ghost guns is made of a durable polymer plastic,” said District Attorney Melinda Katz.

Between his home and car, Santos allegedly had 28 firearms including completed semiautomatic ghost guns as well as two rapid-f ire modif ication devices, three silencers and many more firearms-related

parts and components.

Santos was allegedly buying the parts online which was discovered through ongoing surveillance of the defendant. On Monday, Oct. 18, police observed him allegedly loading gun cases into his trunk and pulled him over after he drove away from his home. According to the District Attorney’s Office, he did not have a license to possess firearms in New York City. Santos is due to return to court on Nov. 9.

There have been a total of four ghost gun takedowns in Queens since August — two in Richmond Hill, one in Hollis and one in Rosedale. In total, dozens of completed ghost guns, components to build dozens more, accessories that turn pistols into automatic weapons and over 32,000 rounds of ammunition have been seized in the busts.

“We have a clear message to those who think they can get away with bringing these gun parts into our borough: Think again.

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Proposed 75 new parking spots

Assemblywoman’s Woodhaven plan to free up spots if DOT approves

by Deirdre Bardolf Associate Editor

When Ali Tokko’s cigar burns down to the end, he knows he has spent about half an hour looking for parking in front of the Forest Park Co-op, where he has lived for the last three years. “Parking when you come home from work is terrible,” he said.

Tokko works for the United States Postal Service and gets home around 4:30 in the afternoon when many other people are also arriving home and looking for parking.

“It’s like deer hunters,” he said. “They’re on every corner, giving you dirty looks — everybody’s looking for parking.”

He is afraid to park on the opposite side of Woodhaven Boulevard, where there is less lighting at night, out of concerns over theft or break-in.

There have been five instances of grand larceny auto in the 102nd Precinct so far this month as compared to two in October of last year, according to NYPD crime data.

In the mornings on his days off, sometimes Tokko drops his wife off at work and comes back to smoke his cigar and observe. People drive onto Woodhaven, park their cars alongside the co-op and then get on the bus, he said.

“If they make it angled parking, maybe we’ll have like a few extra spots,” he said.

One elected official has proposed just that

Residents of the Forest Park Co-op support angled parking to add spaces, especially in areas like 98th Street, left. Assemblywoman Jenifer Rajkumar has also proposed utilizing the striped PHOTOS BY DEIRDRE BARDOLF median on Woodhaven Blvd., outside of her office. and more as part of a plan she hopes would create about 75 new spots around the co-op.

“We need to make it happen — the first step was meeting with the commissioner,” said Assemblywoman Jenifer Rajkumar (D-Woodhaven). “It’s a process to make it happen but I’m glad we started it.”

In early September Rajkumar met with Department of Transportation Commissioner Nicole Garcia to identify different areas that could be used to add new parking spaces.

As the Chronicle has previously reported, the plan includes turning the median striping on the Woodhaven Boulevard service road into

parking, creating angled parking on 98th Street between Woodhaven and Park Lane South, shortening the Woodhaven Boulevard-Myrtle Avenue bus stop and creating one additional spot at the end of the unused service road that stretches out of Forest Park onto Woodhaven.

There was controversy at the time about aspects of the plan that were unclear. An initial announcement said park space would be used, though that was not meant to be the case.

A courtyard on 98th Street was considered early on but was decided against as it is privately owned and valued by seniors as a sitting area, said Rajkumar’s chief of staff Vjola Isujaf.

“We have to see what the city’s willing to do and then we go from there,” said Rajkumar.

“People literally come in and say, ‘You have to do something about parking.’”

Isufaj recalled a woman in recent weeks coming into the office with only socks on her feet because she ran down from her apartment to avoid getting a parking ticket in an area where it’s unclear if parking is allowed.

“It was not her first time getting a ticket there,” said Isufaj. “She had to pick up an extra shift at UPS, to make sure that she was able to pay that $150.”

Kenneth Mankowitz, president of Forest Park Cooperative Section 1, knows parking is a struggle.

“The lack of parking has been a continuous source of frustration for residents of the Forest Park Co-Ops,” he said in a statement.

“Her plan to create angled parking on 98th St. and open up spots on the Woodhaven Service Road are common sense solutions that many of us support. Her suggestion to narrow the bus stop lane outside Don Tequila to open up spots would be a huge boost to co-op residents.” He added that many of those spots were at one point used for parking but removed.

A DOT spokesperson responded in an email, “We are still reviewing the request to see if parking can be added to Woodhaven BouleQ vard.” The exact time frame is unknown.

Housing bill meant to give ‘fair chance’

Landlords would be prohibited from asking about arrests, if it’s enacted

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Advocates fighting for a bill to prevent housing discrimination are making a final push to have legislation passed by the end of the year.

The New York City Council Fair Chance for Housing Act, Intro 2047, would prohibit landlords and real estate brokers from inquiring about criminal record information and conducting background checks on prospective tenants at any point in the process.

“Part of our push to get this bill done is to try and have an impact on the number of people living in shelters,” said Alison Wilkey, director of public policy at the Institute for Justice and Opportunity at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, which is leading a campaign to pass the Fair Chance for Housing Act, alongside The Fortune Society.

“The shelter system isn’t designed to give people the kind of stability to be able to care for their families, to be able to maintain jobs, to be able to contribute to their communities because their community is constantly changing as they’re moved around in the system,” said Wilkey.

The bill was introduced by Councilman Stephen Levin (D-Brooklyn) in 2020 and sponsors include Queens Councilmembers Adrienne Adams (D-Jamaica), Daniel

Dromm (D-Jackson Heights) and Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside).

“It’s long past time to end housing discrimination for formerly incarcerated people who deserve a fair chance to have a stable roof over their heads, just like everybody else,” said Adams in a statement. “This legislation would have a tremendous impact on thousands of New Yorkers, including many in Queens, who are struggling to find a home.”

It applies to renting, leasing, subletting and occupancy agreements but the two exceptions are for roommates and for housing providers who must abide by any federal or state law or regulation that require consideration of conviction record information. New York City can not override the federal law which would include Section 8 or public housing.

The law would cover sex offenders, as well. According to the Fair Chance for Housing website, people with sex offense convictions often are already under supervision by law enforcement and are required to get approval for any residence and allow a parole officer to visit their residence.

The law seeks to fight housing discrimination and address racial bias, as well, said Wilkey.

“Background checks are a reflection of what happens in the criminal legal system

and we know that there is racial bias in the criminal legal system ... People believe that background checks are some sort of assurance of safety. Background checks are not predictors of the future.” They can be inaccurate and by the time a tenant may spot an error, the apartment has likely been filled by someone else, she added.

The new bill follows the Fair Chance Act or “Ban the Box” law, prohibiting employers from asking about criminal history before making a job offer.

John Dibs is a real estate broker in Ozone Park and has been in practice for 36 years. He sees the step as similar to laws that prohibit landlords from finding out if a renter has been evicted in the past.

“I have sympathy for tenants getting apartments, and by all means, they should have their rights protected. But I also feel that if you have a small house, a two-family home, and somebody is going to be living in the home with you, you have a right to know this person’s background,” he said. “What protections does the small landlord have to make sure he has a good tenant?”

He said that landlords want the ability to decide that for themselves. Unlike versions of the law in Portland and Seattle, the City Council bill does not have a “first in time” tenant provision so landlords can still judge

the merits of each application.

“There has to be some sort of fair middle ground that can protect the small landlords.

And this is people’s life savings — the most valuable asset most people own is their home,” Dibs said. He worries that people may not want to invest in real estate in the future if it is perceived as riskier.

The bill, which is backed by Mayor de Blasio, follows Levin’s Intro 146 from last May, which the City Council voted to pass, requiring the city to pay higher rates in its rental assistance for homeless New Yorkers.

Levin said it’s an issue of the city’s values.

“Somebody could pass a credit check, have a good credit history, be gainfully employed but if they go for an apartment and a conviction history comes up, often they don’t get the apartment,” said Levin.

“In reality, we’re making people pay for their offenses long after they have left prison.”

He said housing people is in the interest of public safety and he is continuing to get sponsors for the bill. It now has 26 co-sponsors.

With only four stated City Council meetings left in the year, he hopes it will make it onto the agenda soon.

“We’re still plugging away,” he said. “My hope is to have it voted on by the end of the Q year.”

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Geographic-based admissions fight

Queens schools overcrowded already, with geographic priorities

by Deirdre Bardolf Associate Editor

A Community Education Council in northeastern Queens has approved a resolution opposing the removal of geographic priorities for high schools, which is set to take full effect in 2022.

CEC 26 in Bayside passed the resolution unanimously on Oct. 21, detailing its reasons for opposing the decision based on overcrowding and transportation issues in Queens and calling on the chancellor to rescind the removal.

Although CECs, which are advisory bodies responsible for reviewing and evaluating the district’s educational programs, approving zoning lines and holding public hearings, do not have jurisdiction over high school admissions, parents say the move is still valued.

“What CEC 26 did is helpful because it amplifies the issue to politicians and the public,” said Jean Hahn, a Rego Park parent and administrator of the Queens Parents United group.

The Citywide Council on High Schools is expected to offer a resolution soon as well.

Former New York City Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza announced in December 2020 that all geographic-based admissions priorities, which grant priority to attend a particular high school program based on where a

Queens parents oppose the removal of geographic priorities that allow their children to attend FILE PHOTO schools close to home, saying that their schools are already too crowded. student lives, would be phased out over a twoyear span. The decision was in response to the pandemic and sought to make the high school admissions process simpler and more equitable.

“Removal of geographic boundaries is highly unfair for students who want the option of attending a school close to home,” said Hahn. “Many students have extracurriculars like sports, music and arts that they

would have to drop if they are having to commute long distances. In the outer boroughs, it’s really a big issue, too, because schools are spread further out geographically so the next closest school could be a long hike.” Many schools, especially in Queens, are located in transportation deserts, she added.

Adriana Aviles is the former president of CEC 26, and she said many parents moved to the area for the schools and now they will no

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longer have priority to send their children to them. She pointed out that the district remained one of the last few to be impacted by the phasing out of the system.

“I know a lot of families that were calling the district office and the CEC because they couldn’t get their kids into the schools by their own homes,” said Aviles, who is still a member of CEC 26, and spoke not on the panel’s behalf but as a parent. Her daughter is in high school in Manhattan.

The CEC’s resolution points out that Queens high schools are already operating at 112 percent capacity and enrollment exceeds capacity by 8,849 seats, citing NYC Department of Education data from 2019-20. It also states that Queens needs an additional 21,243 high school seats.

According to the resolution, the CEC has called on the NYC School Construction Authority to build more high schools in Queens for over a decade but the SCA’s fiveyear plan includes only four new high schools, which they say meets less than onethird of the current need in Queens.

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ast year the restaurant industry survived in large part thanks to outdoor dining. Indoors, eateries were subject to the vagaries of Cuomo math, as the then-governor used his expertise in air currents and geometry to determine just how many people could sit in each fine restaurant and taco joint from Amagansett to Amherst. And then change his mind, depending on “the science,” or maybe how he felt about Mayor de Blasio that day.

Outdoors there was a lot more freedom, even if it wasn’t a free-for-all. Dining structures had to be stable and protected from traffic. But restaurateurs were given the leeway they needed to survive — including flexibility in how they could heat their structures. Few wanted to run new gas lines or permanent wiring to a plywood shack in the street.

But now they’ll have to, if they want to continue outdoor dining. The city just announced that the portable propane heaters that helped so many eateries survive the winter, without incident, are no longer allowed. They were safe enough last year but apparently no longer are.

Last year, you see, there was an emergency that allowed the rules to be bent a little. But the emergency is hardly over.

We’ve seen unexpected surges in the virus, with more

Americans dying from it so far this year than did in 2020.

We’re on the right side of the curve now and hope to stay there, but we all know that’s not guaranteed. There are people who would not want to go inside a restaurant but would be willing to eat outdoors, and then there are those who are not allowed inside because they remain unvaccinated. All of them, if they eat outside, need to be kept warm.

But to comply with the city’s new rules for outdoor heating, eatery owners have to pay far more money, obtain permits, hire master electricians or plumbers and be subject to inspection. That’s the way it has been for a long time indoors, but for temporary shacks in the street?

We suspect a lot of owners will feel something like Bruno Rinaldi, owner of Bruno Ristorante in Howard Beach, did when he told us, “Of course it’s going to hurt.” He said he had lost 25 percent of his business since the vaccine mandate took effect in September and lamented how the city keeps “piling on and piling on” more regulations that could at some point make him decide to close down.

If portable propane heaters were safe enough last year, they should be today. They should be allowed until the emergency is truly over. It will be one day, but we’re not there yet.

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Keep libraries local Dear Editor: Richard Reif asserts that by folding the Brooklyn and Queens library systems into the New York Public Library, “a central system will save money by cutting costs for administration, technology and purchasing books and other materials” (“Library fines were unfair,” Letters, Oct. 14). Yet interlibrary loans and returns between the three systems could make all of their “books and other materials” available to residents throughout NYC, while allowing each borough, and each local branch, to decide its own policies.

Joel Schlosberg Bayside

Poor candidate coverage Dear Editor: I find it very surprising — given the fact that the editor of this fine publication has always impressed me as doing his darnedest to maintain a fair, balanced and even letters section and given the fact that two pages later QC mentions all the “other” candidates for mayor — that in its endorsement of Eric Adams the editorial mentions only Adams and Curtis Sliwa (“Vote Eric Adams for mayor of New York City,” Oct. 21).

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So far, not too many people are taking advantage of early voting. The total by the end of Tuesday was 55,106 citywide, with 12,006 of those from Queens.

Granted, it’s not a presidential election year, as it was when New York began the practice last year, but still, we’re selecting a mayor, comptroller and members of the City Council, along with other positions. And there are five ballot proposals to vote on, some with serious repercussions.

Go to vote.nyc if you need more information, and then go exercise the right so many fought to win and protect. We all get to decide our city’s fate. And you only get to complain later if you take part now.

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to vote. But I virulently believe in the open and free flow of information, something this newspaper has — in truly atypical fashion — eschewed. A candidate works very hard to get on the ballot. The least this media outlet, or any other media outlet, can do is mention their names as mayoral candidates.

I’m also very surprised that this newspaper has concluded that Sliwa has never held elected office. Last I checked the consolidated laws of New York State, this is not grounds for disqualification for any office. Michael Bloomberg never held an elected office. Every politician in the city at one point had never held elected office.

All in all, a rare “shame on you” to QC. Nat Weiner Bronx

Hochul OKs drug abuse Dear Editor: Re. Michael Gannon’s Oct. 21 report: “Council Dems seek bail reform reforms”: I agree with the letter sent by 23 City Council members to Gov. Hochul and state legislative leaders urging revision of bail reform and giving judges discretion to consider a defendant’s criminal history. But I have little hope for a positive response.

Rather than strengthen law enforcement, Gov. Hochul seems to favor lawbreakers. The latest example is a bill she signed that decriminalizes open drug use and allows addicts to shoot up in public places with no interference by cops (“NY Needle Nightmare,” New York Post, Oct. 19). It bolster’s far left lunatics’ goal of “harm reduction,” but will actually heighten

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equity. Under the current system, the mayor saves tens of thousands on his properties per year while you with your Queens row house pay through the nose. You would have to collect at least $25K from some poor slob living in your former laundry room to net a similar windfall. NYC can better provide 100,000 affordable units of living space for New Yorkers struggling to pay rent, and provide relief to gouged middle-class homeowners, by obliging wealthy New York co-op and brownstone owners pay their fair share of property taxes.

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Silence on tax havens

Dear Editor: Republicans say raising our national debt ceiling by $480 billion is nothing to be proud of. They’re right. But, as usual they are incorrect in blaming Democrats and President Biden for the costs incurred by the GOP. How difficult is it to understand that Democrats are always forced to pay the bills rung up by Republicans? Just like parents paying the credit card bills of their irresponsible children.

Do you know what else is irresponsible?

Having taxpayers pay the hospital bills of people like Robbie Walker. Walker refused to be vaccinated. Then he got Covid. Three million dollars is a reasonable estimate of what it cost to save his life. That includes $2.5 million for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, which costs about $825,000 a week; $125,000 for the air ambulance; $30,000 for time on a ventilator; and another $300,000 in lost wages, physical therapy costs and other incidentals.

Walker could have been vaccinated for free — just like many other unvaccinated fools who are filling all available hospital beds, demanding expensive monoclonal antibodies and overwhelming healthcare workers. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, preventable hospitalizations involving unvaccinated adults generated almost $6 billion in costs in the last three months. Insurance companies should cancel the healthcare coverage of people who don’t want to get the vaccine. Plain and simple.

By the way, the GOP complains that the rich are overtaxed and wonders where the money will come from to pay for all the infrastructure needs. Could Trump’s permanent tax cuts for billionaires be to blame? Or maybe the problem is that between 1978 and 2018 average worker compensation went up 11.9 percent, and CEO compensation went up 940 percent! Read that again. It’s not a misprint!

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Dear Editor: Since the Pandora Papers exposed U.S. corporations have $600 billion in offshore accounts to avoid paying taxes here, there has not been a peep about any plan to reverse that situation. Ho-hum.

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Basement pols are taxing Dear Editor: So some assemblyman named Harvey Epstein, representing Manhattan of all places, with the support of Assemblyman Khaleel Anderson (D-South Ozone Park) and state Sens. Jessica Ramos (D-Jackson Heights) and Leroy Comrie (D-St. Albans), wants to legalize basement dwellings (“Housing advocates want basement units,” Oct. 21). Their pitch: You own a house in some working-class area (not theirs, heavens no); you too can be a landlord!

Watch out. We saw during the pandemic the headaches endured by landlords trying to collect rent from nonpaying tenants. Is this why you struggled to buy a house, so you can share it for free with strangers?

This is another feel-good device by liberals to burnish their woke credentials at no cost to themselves by bamboozling the working class, who in many cases pay four times the property taxes as in those chic districts (Manhattan, Brownstone Brooklyn) where these elites own and reside, still paying property taxes like it’s 1999. Somehow, the hallowed concept of equity does not have the same urgency when it might get in the way of their tax bonanza.

Rather than play the Park Slope liberals’ game, Anderson, Ramos, Comrie and many other Queens state politicians should legislate in their constituents’ interest for property tax

The anti-vaxxers Dear Editor: In World War II, a time of national emergency, millions of men were drafted. Most may not have liked it but more than 99.9 percent served, and many made the ultimate sacrifice for their fellow Americans.

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Far-left Democrats, who call themselves “progressive,” are really regressive. They want to return our city to the bad old days of the 1970s. I urge Queens’ city and state legislators not to let NYC become a paradise for junkies and a living hell for the rest of us.

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Holden, Cruz dig in on hospital dispute Legislators swap allegations over committee talk, social media posts

by Michael Gannon Editor

Neither side is backing down in a dispute between state Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz (D-Corona) and city Councilman Bob Holden (D-Middle Village) stemming from a Council Health Committee meeting on Oct. 15.

Cruz, who testified at the hearing on the cost of hospital stays, is accusing Holden of taking out of context complaints she raised in a subsequent Facebook post.

Holden, in an interview with the Chronicle and in letters to Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx) and Ethics Committee Chairwoman Jo Ann Simon (D-Brooklyn), is accusing Cruz of attempting to blackmail him into taking the post down during what his chief of staff told the paper was an obscenitylaced phone call.

The complaint to Heastie was first reported in the Daily News.

The meeting was on the high cost of hospital care, and included David Rich of the Greater New York Hospital Association.

“These companies, these corporations that we call hospitals have chosen to make money out of healthcare, have chosen to make money out of allegedly saving lives,” she said in a video of the meeting. “And yes, they’re saving lives. But I say ‘allegedly’ because when you get a $200,000 bill that you have to pay or

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Indictment in Ozone Park shooting A Buffalo man has been indicted for the murder of Brandon Rodriguez, a 20-year-old father from Ozone Park, who was gunned down on the block where he lived.

On Sept. 24, Dwayne Scott, 22, allegedly fired multiple times at Rodriguez near the intersection of 102nd Road and 84th Street. According to the charges, Rodriguez had just parked his car and was steps away from his home.

Scott was arraigned last Thursday and charged with murder in the second degree and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree.

“The murder of this young man has left a family devastated and a young toddler without his father,” said District Attorney Melinda Katz in a press release.

“This was yet another example of the senseless gun violence that is wreaking havoc in our community and causing untold grief. The defendant has been returned to Queens from upstate New York to answer for his alleged crimes.”

Scott was arraigned before Queens Supreme Court Justice Michael Aloise.

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when you have to choose between a worldrenowned doctor at one hospital versus a decent doctor at another one, you’re playing with your health care. You’re playing with your life.”

Rich immediately defended hospitals and their workers.

“To say hospitals are allegedly saving lives? They’re saving them every day,” he said. “And this pandemic is not over.”

Holden at the time called Cruz’s remarks “out of line.” He subsequently posted a segment of the video ending with the “allegedly saving lives” comment, followed by Rich’s rebuttal on Facebook.

Holden’s chief of staff, Daniel Kurzyna, told the Chronicle that he took a call that afternoon from Cruz, who he said launched an obscenity-filled tirade, saying her remarks were taken out of context and demanding that the post be taken down.

“She threatened to make race and her gender an issue,” Kurzyna told the Chronicle. In a memo to Holden that the councilman said was drafted immediately following the call, Kurzyna said Cruz stated ‘He better take it [the Facebook post] down in five minutes or it’s f---ing war’ ... The assembly member insinuated that she would use her race and gender as a way to blackmail you and pressure you to take down the social media post ...”

State Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz and City Councilman Bob Holden have been engaged in a social media war for two weeks with Cruz alleging Holden took her testimony before a Council committee out of context; and Holden lodging an ethics complaint with Assembly FILE PHOTOS leadership.

The memo states Cruz said, “if he wants f---ing war, I’ll give him war.”

Cruz on Wednesday declined to comment on the matter beyond social media posts of her own, one following a Twitter entry in which Holden accused her of bashing hospital workers and called her testimony before the committee disgraceful.

“What we are not going to do is use me to get likes for you,” Cruz responded. “You were there, you know I was bashing the

Miles for MBC and Kelly

Saturday’s fundraiser was in honor of Kelly Adams-Mahindra, left, a mom and doctor from HowPHOTOS COURTESY OF DANIELLE GRAZIANO ard Beach.

by Deirdre Bardolf Associate Editor

A walk last weekend in honor of a Howard Beach mom fighting metastatic breast cancer raised over $1,100 that will go towards a research grant for the disease.

Kelly Adams-Mahindra, a pediatric pulmonologist, has been fighting since her diagnosis in November of 2019. She was 39 when she found a lump while nursing.

“Miles for MBC & Kelly Marie” raised the money for a grant of $250,000, which will go to METAvivor, a volunteer-led nonprofit organization.

Through the combined efforts of fundraisers across the country, they are just $25,000 short of their goal.

“After researching a lot of organizations, I found METAvivor. One hundred percent of

the proceeds go to metastatic breast cancer research,” said Adams-Mahindra.

“Only 3 to 5 percent of the money donated to breast cancer is allocated towards metastatic breast cancer and that is the one that kills people.”

Saturday’s event was held at Charles Park in Howard Beach and participants walked three miles in honor of Adams-Mahindra.

Adams-Mahindra fights the disease with support from her husband, TJ, and their 5-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter.

“Along with prayer, positivity, exercise, chemotherapy and some homeopathic treatments, Kelly is an inspiration to those that know her,” said her friend Danielle Graziano in an email.

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Hospitals who make money from our families, who turned healthcare into a $ making biz Been at the forefront of fighting for the workers ...”

Cruz subsequently posted that she was in the front lines of the fight to keep NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst from having its funding cut during the pandemic.

Holden, in his letter to Heastie, called for a formal ethics inquiry.

“For a standing member of the State legislature to harass, bully, yell and curse at my staff member is reprehensible,” he wrote. “It is unfathomable that Assembly member Cruz would engage in bullying tactics to my staff and me by threatening to use race and gender to blackmail my office into removing the social media post.”

Holden, in a telephone interview, called it conduct unbecoming of an elected official; and said it has gotten Cruz nowhere.

“The strange thing is I’ve never met her,” he said. “I’m not going to be intimidated by someone who comes along out of the blue whom I’ve never met.”

Holden said Simon responded by saying that Kurzyna’s position would not qualify the alleged conduct to come under the committee’s jurisdiction.

“I would beg to differ,” he said, adding that Q he hopes Heastie will take up the matter.

Restaurants continued from page 2 nate that the directive came out so late, after many restaurants have already had to make their plans to survive the winter months. Given that we are still dealing with the pandemic, outdoor seating continues to be the lifeline for countless businesses, many of which are still not making anything approaching pre-pandemic profits.”

Andrew Rigie, executive director of the New York City Hospitality Alliance, also criticized the move.

“This news is another chilling setback for the city’s financially devastated restaurant industry,” Rigie said in an emailed statement. “Many struggling restaurateurs and barkeepers are concerned that having fewer reliable and affordable heating options amid frigid temperatures will freeze out badly needed customers and revenues during the winter months.

“Businesses that don’t have outdoor electric or natural gas heaters are not going to be able to keep their patrons warm, whether it’s diners who aren’t permitted to eat indoors because they aren’t vaccinated, or who are vaccinated but aren’t comfortable eating inside yet.”

Information on the city’s regulations and the permitting processes is available online at nyc.gov/openrestaurants or by Q calling 311.

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Maspeth to honor World War II hero

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Stanley Wdowiak will be honored in COURTESY PHOTO Maspeth on Nov. 6.

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Offering a wide selection of popular fiction and nonfiction titles, the vending machine operates on “golden tokens,” which students can earn in a variety of ways. Each token allows a student to select a book to keep. The vending machine was made possible by a grant from Donors Choose, a charitable organization connecting contributors nationwide to public school projects.

Michelle Brier, the school’s librarian, sees the project as a means of getting more books into students’ hands. “We know that students will read more if they

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On June 4, 1944, Maspeth native Stanley Wdowiak and two of his shipmates from the destroyer USS Pillsbury stormed a surfaced German U-boat in the Atlantic Ocean with no knowledge of what they might encounter, and no guarantee that they would come back.

The small raid netted the U.S. Navy a pair of German encryption machines, code books, reams of intelligence and the intact U-505. It resulted in Wdowiak, who passed away in 1988, receiving the Navy Cross, the second-highest honor a sailor can receive.

He will be honored again on Saturday, Nov. 6, when the plaza at the intersection of Grand and Flushing avenues in Maspeth is renamed in his honor.

The event will take place at 11 a.m., sponsored by Councilman Bob Holden (D-Middle Village) and the American Legion’s Kowalinski Post. Members of Wdowiak’s family will be present, as will representatives of Maspeth Federal Savings and the Maspeth Lions and Kiwanis clubs.

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Borough President Donovan Richards, above at mic, led a town hall last week with elected officials and agency represenatives from Eastern Queens, Southeast Queens and portions of Far Rockaway to highlight the progress of the regions and address chronic problems brought up by residents seeking feedback and guidance to move the World’s Borough forward. At right, some of the agency heads in attendance were NYPD Deputy Chief John Clune, left, of Queens South, Courtney Yu of NYCHA, and Carl Dombek of the Small Business Administration. PHOTOS BY BOROUGH PRESIDENT’S OFFICE

Southeast Queens got $70M in funds Community board members receive feedback on quality-of-life problems

by Naeisha Rose

Jamaica Hospital Medical Center received $7 million in funding and NYC Health + HosQueens Borough President Donovan Rich- pitals/Queens received $5 million; York Colards hosted a town hall at York College’s Mil- lege received a portion of $4.5 million that was ton G. Bassin Performing Arts Center last allocated to the City University of New York week, which was co-sponsored by elected offi- schools throughout the borough; and $5 milcials from Eastern Queens, Southeast Queens lion was allocated to kindergarten-to-high and parts of Far Rockaway to highlight areas of schools, according to Richards, who is up for progress in those regions and address issues re-election Tuesday.

An additional $10 million was allocated to with constituents, who were able to get feedback from representatives of various city the libraries in St. Albans, Arverne, Brookville and Baisley Park; South Jamaica Houses agencies.

“There are a lot of issues impacting Queens, received $2 million for security; $2 million but I want to thank the residents of Queens was invested in Far Rockaway for affordable County because we are the most vaccinated housing; $5 million in transportation, $8 milborough in New York City,” said Richards. “At lion toward parks in the districts; $92 million least 91 percent of all Queens residents have at was invested in a new recreational center at least one dose of the vaccine. There is still a lot Roy Wilkins Park, which will include an Olympic-sized swimming pool; $92 million of work to be done in Far Rockaway.”

Together, state Sens. Joe Addabbo Jr. was invested in the planned 116th Precinct that (D-Howard Beach), Leroy Comrie (D-St. will include a small community center, food Albans) and James Sanders Jr. (D-South Ozone pantry and plaza; and $14 million was diverted Park); Assemblymembers Alicia Hyndman to cultural institutions.

Construction has started at a new co-work(D-Springfield Gardens) and Clyde Vanel (D-Queens Village); and Councilmembers ing space in Downtown Jamaica and Adams Adrienne Adams (D-Jamaica), Daneek Miller has advocated for creating affordable houses via (D-St. Albans), Selvena Brooks-Powers Habitat for Humanity, added Richards, when it (D-Laurelton) and James Gennaro (D-Hill- came to some of the highlights of the borough.

A Com munity Board 12 constituent crest) have brought $70 million in capital fundlaunched the first inquiry during the questioning to their districts, Richards said. and-answer portion of the town hall.

“Why doesn’t the city take care of its own trees?” said the CB 12 member.

“The trees are dying, no one is taking care of the trees and when we have these superstorms the trees are uprooted ... and the city wants to charge us for the sidewalks.”

Since Mayor de Blasio has taken office, homeowners are no longer held responsible for the damage to a sidewalk that is caused by a tree, according to a Queens Borough Commissioner Nicole Garcia of the city Parks Department representative.

“If you have summonses for that, they Department of Transportation, left, Borough Coordinator Karen Ellis of the city Department of Environ- can be vacated,” said the Parks representative. “The City is now responsible for mental Protectiion and Councilman Daneek Miller.

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those repairs ... the homeowner has the option of repairing it and submitting [costs] to the comptroller for reimbursement.”

The CB 12 member also had complaints about garbage workers mishandling trash and sometimes leaving it behind. The city Department of Sanitation representative shared his contact information to learn more about the location of the garbage mess.

Constituents can also go to portal.311.nyc. gov to issue complaints.

Another question that was handed in to a spokeswoman for the borough president inquired about how entrepreneurs should go about becoming green. There were no representatives from the Small Business Services division in attendance. However, the borough president made some suggestions.

“One good example is the requirement of a green roof with solar panels or a wind turbine on any building that is 25-feet and up,” said Richards.

Donald Abraham, a constituent in CB 12, wrote in his question about illegal dumping and wrecked cars on Farmers Boulevard.

“We are going to look to purchase cameras in the next budget,” said Richards, who thanked Brooks-Powers and Miller for advocating for that to fight illegal dumping and wrecked cars. “If you have chronic locations where you see dumping, you have to give us those locations.”

To file a complaint with the Borough President’s Office email: constituentservices@ queensbp.org.

One parent inquired about speed bumps at PS 48 at 108-29 155 St. in Jamaica.

“We will send our team out,” said Nicole Garcia, the Queens Borough Commissioner of the city Department of Transportation. “We are going to assign you to our school safety team.

We are going to see how the crosswalks look and ask for some refurbishment [and] for a study around the school to look to see if the speed bumps are feasible.”

There were caveats, however. The study

alone for the speed bumps take several months and the infrastructure can only be installed when the weather is good, preferably spring or summer, when the asphalt adheres.

One Queens resident wanted a study at Brookville Boulevard, which is also known as Snake Road, to prevent flooding in the area.

That was more complicated than the other inquiries, according to Richards.

“There is going to be a project ... a $62 million project obviously with [Councilwoman] Selvena Brooks-Powers, which is going to start the first quarter next year,” said Richards, adding that “the complication” is that the road is subject to various jurisdictions.

Raising the road would require federal permission, according to the borough president.

“The beginning of the road is city, the middle of the road is state and the end of the road is federal and everything around it is federal,” said Richards. “That is something we can examine again under the Biden administration.

God willing, sometime we will try to reconvene all the different stated levels of government to raise that road again. It is far past the time for that to happen.”

To see a stream of the town hall visit QPTV. org. To learn more about upcoming town halls in southwest and northeast Queens follow the borough president @QueensBPRichards on Facebook and Instagram or @QnsBPRichards Q on Twitter.

Corrections The Oct. 21 story “Whom to expect on your ballot in Queens” contained two errors. It misstated Councilman Eric Ulrich’s party affiliation. He is a Republican. It also misstated Councilman Bob Holden’s margin of victory in the primary, due to the use of early figures that later were updated. He won by 9.6 percent.

The Oct. 21 item “Early voting locations” misstated the last day of early voting. It is Oct. 31.

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by Michael Gannon Editor

In March of 2007, NYPD Auxiliary Police Officers Eugene Marshalik, a 19-year-old NYU student, and Nicholas Pekearo, 28, were shot and killed while in uniform — and unarmed — along with an employee of a Manhattan pizzeria.

“Auxiliary officers often stand side-byside with police officers, and can face many of the same risks,” state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) said in an interview on Monday.

And the senator said come January he will be reintroducing a bill that would significantly increase the punishment for those convicted of crimes such as criminally negligent homicide, assault or menacing of an on-duty auxiliary officer. His bill had eight co-sponsors, including, in Queens, Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky (D-Flushing).

The bill would make assault of an induty auxiliary officers a class-C felony.

Doing so with the intent of preventing performance of duty in response to an offense would be second-degree assault.

The Assembly bill sponsored by Assemblyman David Weprin (D-Fresh Meadows)

Auxiliary officers in the 112th Precinct were honored in August at National Night Out PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON Against Crime. had nearly 60 co-sponsors, including Brian Barnwell (D-Maspeth), Vivian Cook (D-Jamaica), Ed Braunstein (D-Bayside), Jeffrion Aubry (D-Corona), Catalina Cruz (D-Corona), Alicia Hyndman (D-Springfield Gardens), Stacey Pheffer-Amato, (D -Rockaway Beach, Clyde Va nel (D-Queens Village), Daniel Rosenthal (D-Flushing), Ron Kim (D-Flushing), Andrew Hevesi (D-Forest Hills), Catherine Nolan (D-Long Island City) and Nily Rozic Q (D-Fresh Meadows).

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Kids and adults alike had a ball celebrating Halloween early at the Howard Beach Lindenwood Civic Association’s Haunt N’ Treat event, held last Saturday along Cross Bay Boulevard.

Businesses prepared Halloween treats for each child who previously had gotten a

ticket to the sold-out event. Parents and kids walked all the way from 156th Avenue to 165th and back up the other side as the kids collected their goodies along the way.

Some adults wore costumes too!

The fall weather was excellent and a great time was had by everyone on hand.

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Some retirees can’t afford new health plan Court ruled opt-out deadline ‘irrational,’ ‘arbitrary and ‘capricious’

by Katherine Donlevy

“The Court feels that the method of implementation of this plan at present has Alan Odze, a retired NYPD officer and been irrational, and thus arbitrary and capri9/11 first responder, would not be able to cious,” Judge Lyle Frank wrote in his decipay his medical bills under the city’s new sion. “It is not in dispute that currently, in the midst of a pandemic, that has been hardhealth insurance plan.

Odze was diagnosed with melanoma of est on the elderly and infirm, retirees have the eye in 2014 as a result of his bravery at been given a deadline of October 31 to either do nothing in the World Trade Center. which case their health Since then, he’s been care plan will change, visiting his doctor every or to stay in their cursix weeks for an injeccan’t afford to play rent plan in which they tion. Odze only pays a games with this or will likely have to pay few hundred dollars per what can only be visit, but would have to the end result is 6 described as a penalty. pay as much as $7,500 “At the same time, for both the visit and the feet under.” there is little clarity as treatment under the new to which health care Medicare Advant age — Alan Odze, retired NYPD officer prov iders w ill be program, which his docand melanoma patient a c c e pt i ng t h is n ew tor is not accepting.

Medicare Advantage Because of his condition, Odze was forced to opt out of the Plan. It is simply irrational for retirees to insurance he had been using for decades. have to make this decision as circumstances His pension wouldn’t even begin to cover currently stand.”

Frank concluded that retirees required to his healthcare costs, and finding another doctor who accepted the plan was not an opt in or out by the original deadline would option, Odze said, because he was seeing be faced with “irreparable harm,” and the best melanoma specialist in the area and ordered that they remain in the current plan is unwilling to take the risk of trusting until the defects of the proposed new Medicare Advantage Plan are cured. someone new.

Despite the court’s decision, Odze did not “That’s the deal. I’m being treated for melanoma and it’s a form of cancer, so I withdraw his opt-out request. He believes can’t play games with this,” Odze said. “I the city will continue moving forward with can’t afford to play games with this or the its implementation regardless of opposition and he will just be forced to opt out again end result is 6 feet under.”

Odze is one of about 250,000 retired city before the end of the year. Odze said the employees whose healthcare program is due recent lawsuit had more to do with the deadto be changed under an agreement between line than the plan change itself.

The Medicare Advantage program is the administration and the Municipal Labor Committee. Retirees can choose to opt-out scheduled to go into effect Jan. 1, and it is and stay in their current plan, but at a cost of not clear whether further legal action will affect that implementation date. nearly $200 a month.

“I’m hoping there’s a restraining order A Manhattan Supreme Court justice, however, ruled in favor of a lawsuit by the put in place by the judge or the court to stop NYC Organization of Public Service Retir- this thing from moving forward,” Odze said.

The group that filed the Article 78 action, ees Oct. 21 that delayed the opt-out or -in deadline for city retirees. The original Oct. the NYC Organization of Public Service 31 deadline was not appropriate, the court Retirees, was created in August to counter ruled, especially because the choice is irre- the Medicare Advantage plan change. The group hired its attorney using donations versible once decided by a retiree.

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Police union sues over shots Facing a deadline for its members to get vaccinated against Covid-19 or be put on leave, the city’s main police union on Monday sued to stop the rule from taking effect.

The Police Benevolent Association says in the suit that “the city has provided no explanation, much less a rational one, for the need to violate the autonomy and privacy of NYPD police officers in such a severe manner, on the threat of termination,” according to the Associated Press.

All city workers must get at least their first shot of the vaccine by Nov. 1 under order of Mayor de Blasio or be put on unpaid

leave. Until now, most city workers, with some exceptions, such as teachers, have been allowed to either get vaccinated or be tested weekly in order to work.

Opponents of the new mandate protested Monday in a demonstration that went from Brooklyn to City Hall, shutting down traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge for a time.

Police Commissioner Dermot Shea is calling for cops to get vaccinated, and says about 68 percent of the NYPD workforce, sworn and civilian, already has. He noted that 63 department members have died of Covid. Q — Peter C. Mastrosimone

The new Medicare Advantage healthcare program would force thousands of retirees to pay drastically higher out-of-pocket prices for prescriptions or hundreds of dollars a month to remain in PHOTO BY KAROLINA GRABOWSKA / PEXELS.COM their current plan. from some of the 250,000 city government retirees who would be affected by the switch.

Under the program, private companies contract with the federal government to offer the public health benefits. The new plan would save the city $600 million, but would drastically increase some retirees’ out-of-pocket costs because it would not cover the supplemental insurance retirees buy for areas Medicare doesn’t take care of.

Each retiree’s union would have to accept such supplemental programs instead.

That vital exclusion prompted William Shenton, a retired city Housing Authority manager, to opt out of the new Medicare Advantage program.

His wife, who suffers from a chronic immune disease that affects her lungs and other internal organs, requires a monthly medication priced at $1,200. With the family’s insurance, as well as the supplemental insurance his wife purchased herself, the prescription only costs $640 per month.

Under the new plan, she’d be forced to pay full price, which the family would not be able to afford.

“It would bankrupt us,” said Shenton.

Shenton has prescriptions of his own that he needs to take monthly. When the prices are combined with his wife’s, as well as the additional $200 per month in opt-out fees, the Shentons would be shelling out well over $1,000 every month.

The 70-year-old retiree said the city has been “sloppy” with its former workers. Not only is the Medicare Advantage program itself not ideal for hundreds of thousands of retirees, Shenton said, but the city has been doing a poor job of explaining what options are available to them.

“It’s all convoluted. It’s difficult for us,” said Shenton. “We’re not spring chickens anymore.”

Shenton said he was only made aware of the situation by a friend who had been following the news. The city didn’t alert retirees as a whole until August, which didn’t leave much time for those who would be affected to weigh their options.

“There’s a lot of stress involved and they may have taken years off our lives. We worried about it and worried about it,” Shenton Q said.

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Clicking on the “Police Officers” tab on that page brings one to a site that gives a brief description of the NYPD and has links to other pages. One allows a candidate to register for the exam. Another, for

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CB 5 still pushing for a Grand Ave. bridge

1903 span, built at the dawn of the auto industry, too small, board says

by Michael Gannon Editor

The steel truss bridge with the metal grate deck that carries Grand Avenue across Newtown Creek to connect Maspeth with Brooklyn was built closer in time to the George Washington administration than that of President Biden.

No wonder the folks at Community Board 5 remain eager to have it replaced.

“It’s still one of our top budget priorities; certainly in our top five,” said Gary Giordano, district manager at CB 5. “It’s us on one side and Brooklyn [Community] Board 1 on the other.”

Giordano said the structure has long been outdated, and now represents a traffic and safety hazard.

“The bridge was built in 1903,” he said.

“The bridge is too narrow for two large vehicles to pass each other at the same time. You couldn’t have two trucks passing each other in the opposite direction.”

The bridge also has pedestrian walkways on both sides.

Large vehicles are increasingly an issue as the bridge is in a massive industrial area and services the countless trucks heading to, from and between businesses operating there.

Just as a benchmark, Henry Ford’s first Model A vehicles — somewhat smaller than modern commercial trucks or a school bus —

Tuesday morning rush-hour traffic heads across the Grand Avenue bridge between Maspeth and Brooklyn. Leaders of Queens Community Board 5 are continuing to prioritize its replacement in PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON their requests for spending in the city’s capital budget. also made their debut in 1903.

The city’s Department of Transportation did not respond to requests for comment prior to the Chronicle’s deadline, but Giordano said the eventual replacement of the span is on the Divi-

sion of Bridges’ radar screen.

“First of all, it’s going to be a very expensive project,” he said. “They’re not even in preliminary design yet. Right now they’re scoping out the area. They’ve got their consultants working

on this. We have had a presentation on this [from the DOT] at a remote meeting of our Transportation Committee.”

Giordano said that the design process can take the better part of two years.

“As for a timeline, you could have the start of construction in 2025 if all goes well,” he said.

On a positive point, the district manager did say that conditions at the bridge give lie to some stereotypes about New York City drivers.

“It’s amazing,” he said. “There are situations in this world where, when a civility level is required, it’s amazing how civil drivers behave.

There are times when you and I are both driving in opposite directions and both driving some big vehicle, a bus or truck ... and one of us has to stop, like at a four-way stop sign, and let the other person go ahead.”

One of the requirements would be an environmental review, seemingly a paradox as Newtown Creek below was designated a federal Superfund cleanup site in 2010, and one of the most heavily trafficked and polluted waterways in the city.

It had been used for industrial waste and the disposal of city sewage dating back to the 1860s when the land around it began getting converted to the industrial area it is today. The 3.5-mile creek also has been the site of at least Q two major oil spills in the last 70 years.

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King Manor fall festival in Jamaica Pumpkin patches, sashes, comedy, magic and more at Rufus King Park

Over 140 people came to the King Manor Museum fall festival on Oct. 23. LaToya Lindsay, far right, is a family coordinator at the Growing Up Green Charter School II in Jamaica and at the fall PHOTOS BY REE BRINN festival she taught children how to plant basil seeds.

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King Manor Museum held a fall festival over the weekend at Rufus King Park in Jamaica that was attended by over 140 people.

At the Oct. 23 fest, kids played in pumpkin patches, learned about composting from the Queens Botanical Garden and how to plant herbs from family coordinator LaToya Lindsay of the Growing Up Green Charter School II in Jamaica.

“We sold recycled uniforms,” said Lindsay.

“We also taught kids how to plant edible things, like basil. Everything that we used was sustainable and biodegradable.”

Lindsay showed the kids how to properly plant the seeds in biodegradable flowerpots.

This was also the third year that the Museum recognized Breast Cancer Awareness Month by collecting donations for breast cancer research, while Flowers of Hope, a nonprofit that fights for marginalized groups and

raises cancer awareness, gave sashes to breast and those who have died from breast cancer cancer survivors Audrey Robertson and also made dedications to loved ones.

Trey Jenkins, the director of marketing and Annecita Joseph.

“Flowers of Hope members enjoyed all the business services at the Jamaica Center Busifree activities at the fall festival hosted by the ness Improvement District, made his dedication to his mother, Queens Chronicle,” who will be 65 in said Gina Vasquez, November. the founder of the ur cancer survivors and “I wanted to honor nonprofit. “We had a my mother Katrina tour of the museum, the group as a whole Jenkins, who is a which was education12-year breast cancer al. Some of us did not had a blast.” survivor,” said Jenknow the museum — Flowers of Hope Founder Gina Vasquez kins. “My mom was existed, so we got to diagnosed with breast learn about our community’s landmark. We had the opportunity cancer in 2009 and it was caught in the early to listen to beautiful poetry and interact with stages so she was able to recover quickly. At the artists. There were many activities going the time I lived in Orlando, Florida, and on such as the magic show, drawing, coloring wasn’t able to be there during her chemo sesand more. Our cancer survivors and the group sions and treatment. My dad helped her get through everything and six months later she as a whole had a blast.”

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Steven Palmore, a jack-of-all-trades — comic, jazz musician and magician — performed at the park and commemorated his mother, who passed away from breast cancer.

“I dedicate this performance to the memory of my late mother Helen Palmore,” said the performer about his mom who died Aug. 26.

“I was fortunate to see her reach 94 years on this planet, but she will forever be in my heart.”

The Queens Chronicle was a sponsor of the fall festival, which was hosted by the paper’s very own Ree Brinn.

Greeters who helped to set up the event included Ilana Dandridge, Peta-Kaye Burt, Azrael Jackson and Sharon Baker, who are all members of the Queens College chapter of The National Society of Leadership and Success, the largest honor society in the Q country.

Sharela Bonfield, left, jazz magician and comic Steven Palmore, breast cancer survivor Audrey Robertson, Flowers of Hope Founder Gina Vasquez, breast cancer survivor Annecita Joseph and Kenisha Tucker in front of King Manor Museum in Jamaica. The festival also included a pumpkin patch for kids, center, and a magic show by Palmore. Visitors also learned about composting at the Queens Botanical Gardens booth, right.

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Explore these college savings strategies Enrolling in a trade school or college is widely considered the next step after a student graduates from high school. College is especially popular, as the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that 62.7 percent of high school graduates went on to colleges and universities in 2020.

Finding ways to pay for higher education has long been a goal for students and their families. PrepScholar, a college testing preparation resource, calculates that, by 2033, students can expect to pay around $237,000 at in-state public universities and $464,000 at private colleges or universities for four-year degrees.

That high cost is why so many families take proactive steps to set aside funds for college soon after their children are born. No matter the situation, taking the steps to plan and save helps to make schooling more affordable.

529 college savings plan A 529 is a specialized savings account for college and university costs. Most plans can be opened by a U.S. citizen or resident alien age 18

and older. The individual opening the account can be a parent, grandparent, cousin or even a friend. The student is the beneficiary of the account.

Four-year schools, community colleges and vocational/trade schools accept 529 accounts as payment sources. The only requirement is that the school must participate in the U.S. Department of Education student financial aid programs.

Education savings account, or Education IRA The financial experts at Ramsey Solutions say an ESA works like a Roth IRA but it is designed specifically for education expenses. Individuals can invest up to $2,000 (after tax) per year, per child. The account grows tax-free. The rate of growth varies based on investments in the account. Ramsey estimates that at an average return rate of 12 percent on a $36,000 investment ($2,000 per year for 18 years) would grow to around $126,000 by the time the child starts college.

An ESA also can be used to pay for K-12 private school tuition, school

supplies, tutoring or textbooks. It also can be transferred to a sibling if the money is not needed for a particular student.

UTMA/UGMA plan This plan is different from ESAs and 529s because it is not specifically designed for college savings. The Uniform Transfer/Gift to Minors Act is in the child’s name but is controlled by a guardian until the child reaches age 18 or 21. This mutual fund account can be used to save for college with reduced taxes, or funds can be used for other expenses, such as a car or housing.

Advanced placement classes AP classes allow high school students to take college-level courses that can be converted into college credits. Each AP class reduces the need to pay for a class in college. This can add up to some significant savings. In addition, performing well in AP classes may make students more attractive to colleges and universities, helping students to earn academic scholarships.

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ARTS, A ARTS S C CULTURE UL UR & LIVING

by Deirdre Bardolf

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ia, treats and hot chocolate, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. for kids 9 to 11 for $32. On Saturday, kids ages 6 to 8 can meet live animals and make treats for them and for themselves from 10 to 11:15 a.m. for $24 per child.

Space is limited so RSVP online in

B a n d, who play jazz on — you guessed it — stilts.

Halloween at the Garden is back at the Queens Botanical Garden in Flushing on Sunday with a trick-or-treat trail,

access to the pumpkin patch where children can get a pumpkin and a seed-planting activity.

Queens reaps bushels of holiday events for all ages and interests Environmental Center in Oakland Gardens is offering three days of Halloween programming for a variety of ages, starting with Eat, Drink & Be Scary! today, Oct. 28, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. for kids ages 8 to 12 for $26. On Friday, there will be a haunted nighttime hike through the park, seeking nocturnal animals and ending with triv-

advance.

Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City will have a Halloween Harvest Festival on Saturday free of charge.

It will include the “Rocky Horror Doggie Show,” a costume contest for dogs, a pumpkin carving and catapulting competition, artist-led workshops and music played by the Shinbone Alley Stilt

performances, a magic show, pumpkincarving demonstrations and creepy compost activities, all included with admission. It runs from noon to 4 p.m. and the full schedule for the day is on the garden’s website. If you’re there for the boos, and at least 21, grab a harvest beer or cider from the Beer & Wine Garden. A separate ticket grants

The Jackson Heights Beautification Group will be hosting its 30th annual Halloween parade on Sunday at noon on 37th Avenue from 89th to 76th streets. Halloween trick-or-treat bags will be handed out at the end and participants can trick-or-treat from vendors along the way.

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rick or treat yourself and the whole family to a Hallo-week full of ghostly good times across Queens.

From haunted hikes to dog costume contests, pumpkin decorating to pumpkin launching, there is something for all ages.

For outdoor adventures, Alley Pond

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, October 21, 2021 Sharon Alexander – Executive Director 718-657-6730 salexander@jspoa.org Yolanda Sales - Program Manager 718-657-6500 Ext. 1597 ysales@jspoa.org Jamaica Service Programs for Older Adults RECEIVES $506,225 Grant Center for Workforce Inclusion, Inc. awards grant directed to assist in workforce training for older jobseekers 55+ Queens. Thursday, October 21, 2021 – Jamaica Service Programs for Older Adults announced today that it was awarded a $506,225 grant from the Center for Workforce Inclusion, Inc. (Center). Almost 90 percent of this grant – originally from the U.S. Department of Labor – will provide temporary employment to no less than 50 lowincome older New Yorkers living in Queens County. These older adults will participate in the Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) a cornerstone program of the Older Americans Act. SCSEP is celebrating its 56th anniversary this year.

SCSEP, the only federal job training program targeted exclusively to low-income older jobseekers, promotes personal dignity and self-suffi ciency through work. Its temporary part-time community service jobs provide a hand-up, not a hand-out for older, unemployed low-income Americans. Th e Senior Community Service Employment Program allows eligible persons to participate for up to four years, but the average tenure nationally is 19 months with the experience and training they receive leading them to permanent employment.

As the joint largest U.S. Department of Labor National Grantee of SCSEP, the Center works through a network of local partners delivering various career training programs for eligible 55-plus-year-old workers in 34 states. To date, the Center has placed over 90,000 older workers into permanent employment through the SCSEP program. “Our long-term, local partners are a key to the strength of the Center and provide the systems to train older Americans into strategic advantage for employers and the Country.” said Gary A. Offi cer, Center for Workforce Inclusion President and CEO. “We are very pleased to continue our support of the Jamaica Service Programs for Older Adults for the 38th consecutive year.

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“SCSEP was a godsend during the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Sharon Alexander, Executive Director. SCSEP participants were able to keep training from home.

Continuing to receive funds prevented participants from becoming homeless. And now, the participants are safely returning to their training sites where they help local community, faith-based, and public agencies carry out their mission, such as the Allen AME Senior Community Service Center. By working in SCSEP positions, SCSEP is providing hope and dignity to low-income jobseekers 55 and older who have the toughest employment challenges. The grant from the Center is essential to our being able to deliver this program in our community.”

About Jamaica Service Programs for Older Adults: The Jamaica Service Program for Older Adults mission is “a total community working together to provide services to, and develop skills in, older adults in order to promote independence and enhance their quality of life.” JSPOA serves 5,000 senior adults yearly and reaches 15,000 indirectly. The agency works cooperatively with over 100 agencies to advocate for programs and services.

About the Center for Workforce Inclusion The Center for Workforce Inclusion is the only national nonprofi t dedicated exclusively to employment for older workers in both the public and private sectors. Since 1962, the Center has provided workforce development and support services to nearly half-a-million older workers. Our mission is to deliver workforce readiness programs that empower local job seekers, attract employers, and transform communities. Th e Center provides employment opportunities low-income and other older adults aged 50 and older in 34 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. For 56 years, the Center has operated the Senior Community Service Employment Program and currently partners with a diverse network of local organizations in 14 states. For more information, please visit www.centerforworkforceinclusion.org.

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I HAVE OFTEN WALKED

Kids’ show star Sandy Becker got start in Elmhurst

by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

George Sanford “Sandy” Becker was born on Feb. 19, 1922, the only child of George and Selma Becker. They all lived with Selma’s parents at 609 West 149 St. in Manhattan.

In 1939, when Sandy was 17 years old, they moved to a brand-new apartment building at 41-06 Case St. in Elmhurst. His father, an NYPD patrolman, could now walk to work at the 110th Precinct.

Sandy, blessed with a smooth melodious voice, was hired as an announcer for radio station WWRL in Woodside. He was hired by a CBS affiliate, WBTV, as an announcer in Charlotte, NC in 1942 and fell in love with a girl there named Ruth Venable. They married in August that year while both were aged 20.

They came to New York and Sandy was hired for the radio soap opera “Young Doctor Malone.” He could have transferred the role to TV, but decided to pursue other projects with WNEW Channel 5 with a variety of children shows. The advent of “The Sandy Becker Show” in 1961, in which he operated puppets and played roles as various goofy characters, bought him the biggest fame.

The teenage home of Sandy Becker at 41-06 Case St. in Elmhurst as it looks today.

GOOGLE MAPS IMAGE; INSET PHOTO COURTESY CHRISTOPHER C. DESANTIS VIA WIKIPEDIA

Sandy was a household staple every evening in New York. After 49 years of marriage, Ruth passed away in May 1991. Still young at heart and full of life, Sandy married Cherie Ann in September 1991. He died of a heart attack at his home in Remsenburg, LI, on April 9, 1996 at age 74.

Sadly most of Sandy’s TV work was never recorded and saved, but lives on in the memQ ories of baby boomers.

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continued from page 31 Play4Autism is hosting a Halloween Family Fun Day on Saturday from 11 to 3 p.m. at The Shops at Atlas Park in Glendale. There will be pumpkin decorating, a costume parade, trunk-or-treat, a photobooth, a DJ, raffles and more. Entry is free but vendors and food will be separate. Proceeds go towards Play4Autism and Angels 4 Autism.

The rain date will likely be Sunday.

For another day of outdoor fun, the his-

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toric Vander Ende-Onderdonk House Museum in Ridgewood is offering arts and crafts, storytelling, goody bags and more on Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. It is recommended for ages 6 to 10, $5 for kids and $10 for adults.

There will be timed entry with three sessions: 1, 2 and 3 p.m. Buy tickets in advance through the museum’s website. Their rain date is Sunday, too.

For more gourd-geous arts and crafts, visit Flushing Town Hall on Saturday for a Chinese paper-cutting workshop at 1 p.m. or create Halloween decorations at 2:30 p.m. Both are free with advanced RSVP online.

Art Strong NYC in Long Island City is hosting its first Halloween party with a variety of activities for kids ages 2 to 10. It is $35 per child but receive a 10 perent off sibling discount with SIBS10 when you purchase tickets online.

For some nonspooky indoor playground fun for the kiddies, ages 6 and under, check out Playlab Kids in Flushing for their first Halloween party with raffles, games, trickor-treating and a costume party. It costs $25 for two hours and will be open on Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. RSVP in

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Hallow-Queens fun for the whole family

From pumpkin decorating to pumpkin smashing, Halloween fun is happening across Queens the whole week leading up to the big day. On the cover: A couple of pumpkins relax at an event. FILE PHOTO BY WALTER KARLING, ABOVE; PHOTO BY JÜRGEN HOWALDT VIA WIKIPEDIA, COVER advance because spots are filling up quickly but they will reserve space for walk-ins if possible. Remember to bring socks!

For ghost stories in the comfort of home, tune into a virtual horror author panel hosted by Kew & Willow Books in Kew Gardens.

Authors will read their work and discuss horror as a genre. It starts at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday and is free but requires registration.

It is recommended for teens and older. For in-person bookstore thrills, stop by the shop from 11:30 a.m. until 6:30 p.m. in costume and bring the kids for some trick-or-treating and a scavenger hunt.

Check each organization’s website first as advanced registration is often recommended, as well as vaccination requirements.

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Wander through the travels of Frances Hynes

by Katherine Donlevy associate editor

“The Leaving,” left, and “The Wanderer” are two of 20 pieces by Frances Hynes on display at St. John’s PHOTOS BY KATHERINE DONLEVY University’s Yeh Art Gallery. could be anybody.

“S h e us e d t h e s e f ig u re s because there’s an indistinctness about them,” Duffy said. “This became the type of figure she would use to connote any sense of wandering.”

“The Leaving” itself tells the story of the 19th-century Irish potato famine, which forced millions of people from their home-

land to escape starvation. Hynes, who is of Irish descent, captured the uneasiness the people felt during the massive exodus. She created the piece in 1995 in commemoration of the Great Hunger’s 150th anniversary.

Duffy described Hynes’ work as a mix between figuration and abstraction. It is very much open to interpretation, he said, adding

that students have come in and debated the amount of deer they can see in some of her landscapes.

The exhibition is on view to the public Tuesdays through Fridays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturdays from 12 to 5 p.m. until Dec. 11.

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Frances Hynes has been captivated by the nomadic nature of humans for much of her life. The narrative that people are constantly searching for something more is one she weaves through all of her artwork.

An exhibition at St. John’s University, “The Wanderers,” features more than 20 paintings that reflect Hynes’ fascination with the timelessness of migration. She created all the works throughout the 1990s while she herself was living the life of a traveler in Ireland.

“I traveled quite a bit,” Hynes said. “I think being in Ireland was an amazing experience for me, especially in the winter when there wasn’t a lot of tourists. I got to see a different way of life, a rural way, which I found absolutely delightful.”

During this period, the Baysidebased artist and St. John’s alum began introducing figures into her work, which she noted is a tradition that goes all the way back to cave paintings. Hynes has also

included layering and landscapes in the series, as well as animals, such as dogs, deer and horses.

Several of the works, including the exhibition’s namesake, “The Wanderer,” bear physical marks of Hynes’ travels throughout Ireland.

The cloth the painting lives on has permanent creases from where it had been folded up into a compact square hat Hynes slipped into her travel bag.

“They fold up, open like a roadmap,” Hynes said, a unique aspect of the work that furthers the nomadic meaning behind the painting.

“The Wanderer” is one of Hynes’ favorite pieces that is featured in the exhibition at St. John’s Yeh Art Gallery. Another is “The Leaving.” That painting, situated directly across the gallery from “The Wanderer,” features almost the exact same figure of a person walking seemingly off the print.

Curator Owen Duffy said the use of the figure allows the observer to put him or herself into the narrative. It’s vague and faceless, he pointed out, so that it

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NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 10-05-2021, bearing Index Number NC-000620-21/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) ANUEL (Middle) ISAIAH (Last) VEGA. My present name is (First) ANUEL (Middle) ISAIAH (Last) GINORIO ROMAN AKA ANUEL I. GINORIO ROMAN AKA ANUEL GINORIO ROMAN (infant). The city and state of my present address are Woodhaven, NY. My place of birth is BROOKLYN, NY. The month and year of my birth are March 2019.

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Notice of Formation of OCTAQUAD LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/20/2021. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: KIICHI TAKEUCHI, 2728 THOMSON AVE, #427, LONG ISLAND CITY, NY 11101. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SHARO’S COLLECTION LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/16/2021. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: REGISTERED AGENTS INC., 90 STATE STREET, STE 700 OFFICE 40, ALBANY, NY 12207.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice is now hereby given that Richard Enrique Acevedo, living at C/o 86-37 127 street Richmond Hill, New York [11418], is the Executor/ Beneficiary/Minnesota Name Holder of the business now being carried out at 86-36 127 STREET. RICHMOND HILL, NEW YORK 11418 in the following assumed name, to wit RICHARD ENRIQUE ACEVEDO all caps name; and the nature of Business is Commerce.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 10-05-2021, bearing Index Number NC-000612-21/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) ALEXANDRA (Middle) HALL (Last) BOWLES. My present name is (First) ALEXANDRA (Middle) DAWN (Last) HALL AKA ALEXANDRA D. HALL AKA ALEXANDRA HALL AKA ALEXANDRA DAWN BOWLES AKA ALEXANDRA D. BOWLES. The city and state of my present address are Woodside, NY. My place of birth is VIRGINIA. The month and year of my birth are February 1990.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 10-25-2021, bearing Index Number NC-000700-21/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) BIANCA (Last) PIERRE. My present name is (First) BIANCA (Last) GERMAIN PIERRE. The city and state of my present address are Ozone Park, NY. My place of birth is HAITI. The month and year of my birth are October 1989.

Notice of Formation of MAIN & 58 LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/22/2019. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: MAIN & 58 LLC, 4918 PARSONS BLVD., FLUSHING, NY 11355. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

ORANGE LID, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 9/21/21. Office in Queens Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 503 Half Moon Bay Dr., Croton on Hudson, NY 10520. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Principal business loc: 5-21 47th Rd., LIC, NY 11101.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 08-312021, bearing Index Number NC-00053321/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) GAZI (Middle) SHAHRIAR (Last) RAHMAN. My present name is (First) MOHAMMED (Middle) SHAHRIAR (Last) RAHMAN AKA MOHAMMED S RAHMAN, MOHAMMED RAHMAN. The city and state of my present address are Sunnyside, NY. My place of birth is BANGLADESH. The month and year of my birth are May 2002.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 08-30-2021, bearing Index Number NC-000480-21/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) SAMANTHA (Middle) HELENE (Last) CARACTOR. My present name is (First) SAMANTHA (Middle) HELENE (Last) CLAY AKA SAMANTHA CLAY. The city and state of my present address are Rosedale, NY. My place of birth is MANHATTAN, NEW YORK. The month and year of my birth are October 1996.

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SUMMONS–SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, COUNTY OF QUEENS – 108 JACKSON HEIGHTS INC., Plaintiff, vs. “JOHN DOE 1” THROUGH “JOHN DOE 10,” SAID PERSONS INTENDED TO BE THE UNKOWN HEIRS AT LAW, IF ANY, OF ESTELLA HATCHER BENNETT, DECEASED, Defendants. Index No. 709073/2021. To the above-named Defendants –YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action within twenty days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service or within thirty days after service is completed if the 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. Plaintiff designates Queens County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the county in which the property is being which is the subject of this action is situated. The foregoing summons and verifi ed complaint is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Hon. Allen Weiss, J.S.C., dated October 18, 2021, and fi led on October 18, 2021. The object of this action is a declaratory judgment declaring plaintiff to be the sole owner of the premises located at Block 1750, Lot 23 on the Tax Map of QUEENS County and also known as 108-17 35th Avenue, Jackson Heights, Queens, New York. Dated: October 18, 2021 CHARLES R. CUNEO, P.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff By: Charles R. Cuneo 82 Main Street, Suite 200 Huntington, New York 11743 (631) 923-2700 AnthonyEspinal LLC Art of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/13/2021. Office: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, LEGALCORP SOLUTIONS 11 BROADWAY SUITE 615 NEW YORK, NY 10004 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

3047 29TH STREET LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/22/21. Office: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 18-29 27th Avenue, Ground Floor, Astoria, NY 11102. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of ANTONYBUILT LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/01/2021. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: ANTONYBUILT LLC, 90-30 METROPOLITAN AVE #1045, QUEENS, NY 11374.

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, COUNTY OF QUEENS, INDEX NO. 714877/2019, SELENE FINANCE LP, Plaintiff, Plaintiff designates QUEENS as the place of trial situs of the real property vs.AMANTA ADONIS A/K/A AMANTA ADONISMAITLAND; DELROY MAITLAND if living, and if she/he 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 the following designation, namely: the 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; SLOMIN’S INC.; SUSTAINABLE NEIGHBORHOODS LLC; NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD; NEW YORK CITY PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU; NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU, THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK; THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #12,” the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants. SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS, Mortgaged Premises: 110-32 207TH STREET QUEENS VILLAGE, NY 11429, District: Section: Block: 10947 Lot: 48. To the above named Defendants: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; 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 OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $423,702.00 and interest, recorded on February 17, 2009, at Instrument number 2009000046221, of the Public Records of QUEENS County, New York, covering premises known as 110-32 207TH STREET, QUEENS VILLAGE, NY 11429. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. QUEENS County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county. 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 the mortgage company will not stop the 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. Dated: January 31, 2020, ROBERTSON, ANSCHUTZ, SCHNEID, CRANE & PARTNERS, PLLC, Attorney for Plaintiff, MERVE KATI, ESQ., 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, NY 11590, 516-280-7675

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Notice of Formation of Howie Homes LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/24/21. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 47-38 Vernon Blvd, Apt 1R, Long Island City, NY 11101.

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so it’s clear he has the requisite media skills to do well in New York. It was his disdain for analytics, The task of finding a new president of base- combined with a drop-off in the standings for the ball operations has quickly become a holy grail Giants after 2016, that led to Sabean becoming for Mets owner Steve Cohen and team President marginalized in the Giants organization.

While Sabean would be a solid choice, the Sandy Alderson. Given the job’s importance, lofty title and the fact the Mets play in the Mets would be wise to ask the Texas Rangers nation’s largest market, all attention has under- for permission to talk to their president of basestandably been on the biggest baseball execu- ball operations, Fresh Meadows native Jon Dantives of the last 20 years. Two of them, Theo iels. He is only 44 but has been with the RangEpstein and Billy Beane, turned the team down. ers for 16 years, starting as their GM in 2005.

A third possibility, native New Yorker and Mil- He is respected throughout baseball even waukee Brewers general manager David Stea- though the Rangers have only been to one rns, was not allowed to talk to the Mets because World Series during his tenure. And yes, Danhe is still under contract to the Brewers who iels grew up a Mets fan.

Mets management believed Carlos Carrasco have no intention of letting him go.

The Mets’ search for a president of baseball was an elite pitcher when he was acquired from operations was quickly starting to resemble the the Cleveland Indians in the Francisco Lindor late comedian Henny Youngman’s famous one- trade last winter. It’s safe to say he was anything liner. Instead of “Take my wife, please,” it was but that in 2021. He missed the first half of the turning into “Take this job, please.” Last Friday, it season recovering from a hamstring injury. His seemed as if every sportswriter was urging Alder- return in the second half coincided with the son and Cohen to set their sights on former San Mets’ collapse and he was a big reason for it.

He won just one game and was constantly Francisco Giants general manager Brian Sabean.

Sabean, 65, was the GM when the Giants won shelled by opposing teams, especially in the the World Series in 2010, 2012 and 2014. His first inning.

Last week he had surgery to remove bone Giants also beat the Mets in the Mets’ last postseason appearance, the 2016 National League fragments from his elbow. Hopefully, that will Wild Card game. I remember being in the Giants’ make 2022 a better year for him and the Mets. Q See the extended version of Sports Beat dugout the day before that game, watching Sabean have fun engaging in Q&A with writers, every week at qchron.com.

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Beautiful Top fl oor 2 BR 1 Bath Co-op. This home has been completely renovated from fl oor to ceiling. Immaculate hardwood fl oors w/a satin fi nish & All new electric & high hat lighting throughout.

Plenty of storage with 7 closets! All closet doors are solid wood, including French doors in Primary BR closets & hallway pantry. The bath features a brand new glass enclosed shower w/double soap niches & In-shower lighting. The kitchen was custom built & has a tremendous amount of cabinet storage space.

Top of the line appliances “GE Gallery Series” & a Samsung refrigerator. This Co-op is very well maintained & has some of the best perks included in its low monthly common charges. Monthly maint includes Heat, hot water, taxes, electric, gas, cable (w/premium stations & internet).

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Wonderful opportunity for extended family. 5 bedrooms, 2 bath, 100 foot driveway, Ceramic fl oors.

Second story dormer is legal and 1st floor is 1.5 stories. 2nd story deck and steps with private entrance. 40x100 lot, Taxes: $8,500.00

1 bedroom, 1 bath Co-op. Selling as is. This home is a great opportunity. Laundry on lobby level.

Maint: $547.92, electric charge will vary by monthly usage. 210 shares, $30/share flip tax.

Move right in to this amazing spacious 1 bedroom with nothing to do. Updated bath and completely updated kitchen.

New cabinets, new appliances and Corian countertops. Since co-op is on 1st fl oorno rugs are required. Wood fl oors thruout. Security in the evenings. All utilities included in Maint. Base: $754.01, AC’s: $42.00, Guard fee: $35.00, appliance fee: $8.00= $839.01. 210 shares, $32/share fl ip tax. Building wired for Fios or Spectrum.

Parking is $20/month (waitlist).

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Asking $675K

MINT AAA 5 bedroom 3 bath EMPIRE hi ranch - ALL NEW Granite kit, stainless appliances, sunk in living room, full master bath, vaulted celings, walk in 1 BR apt with seperate entrance, trex deck, pavers, totally mint.

Welcome to this lovely, well-maintained cozy 1 BR unit, converted to a Jr 4. This unit features a LR / DR with new fl ooring throughout the unit, a fi replace, stainless steel appliances, updated bath with marble tile, 2 walk-in closets & ample closet space. The home boasts Google controls. Convenient to all transportation & shopping. Washer & dryer on each floor. Flip tax is $5 per share, 240 shares. Base: $790.13, Security:$20.00, Special Assessment: $21.66, Assessment: $16.18= $847.97.

Welcome to this oversized 2 family house located on the border of Greenpoint & Williamsburg. The house is recently renovated, has a brand new roof, new heaters and boilers. The interior has exposed brick, high ceilings, wood fl oors & plenty of daylight. It’s an oasis for interior decorators. Corner unit!! The house is conveniently located near public transportation, schools, stores, trendy restaurants & cafes.

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