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Transit trouble talks bring out all agencies Southeast reps and residents query NYPD, DOT, TLC and MTA experts

by Michael Gannon

6,000 people who use the one-station extension of the No. 7 train. We have 200,000 people. ... We get commuter vans. The transportation alternatives that are available to other parts of Queens are not available to us.”

Richards said while the Long Island Rail Road can get him where he wants to go in less than an hour, its $25 per day round-trip cost, including subways, is beyond the reach of many residents.

Richards is embracing the currently stagnant MoveNY bridge-toll plan, which he said would dedicate funds to transit that he and Miller contend the state is constantly pilfering.

Richards said there could be a major bonus — a provision that would make any LIRR ride in New York City the cost of a standard MetroCard ride.

On issues more citywide, Garcia said Vision Zero, the initiative to cut pedestrian traffic deaths, is working.

“There was an 8 percent decline in deaths from 2013 to 2014,” Garcia said. “The fewest pedestrian deaths in more than 100 years, when the city started keeping track.”

With what she said is still incomplete information, the DOT and NYPD are estimating that deaths year-to-date in 2015 are down 13 percent.

The MTA planned to release its capital budget on Wednesday after the Chronicle’s deadline. But Miller and an MTA representative said the package was tentatively slated to include between $269 and $300 million for a new bus depot in Jamaica.

Miller, a former bus driver and head of the drivers’ union, has been calling for the old site to be replaced for years.

“You know the site off Merrick Boulevard, with 50 or 60 buses lined up out on the street,” he said. “Again, that doesn’t continued on page 53

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ity Councilmen Daneek Miller and Donovan Richards are not the first ones to refer to Southeast Queens as a public transportation desert in a refrain heard throughout the borough.

But both men — members of the Council’s Transportation Committee — signaled Tuesday night that they are prepared to start playing offense to get city and state transit dollars they say have been denied area commuters and taxpayers for too long.

Their audience of more than 70 at IS 59 in Springfield Gardens heard from Commissioner Nicole Garcia of the Queens office of the city’s Department of Transportation, and representatives of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the Taxi and Limousine Commission and the NYPD’s 103rd, 105th and 113th precincts.

All agencies made presentations and took questions from residents about a range of problems and conditions.

But Miller (D-St. Albans) and Richards (D-Laurelton) also used the meeting as an opportunity to discuss an end to the practice of their constituents having traveling on what they consider second-class tickets.

“We have the longest commute of any people in a major city,” Richards said. “It can take two hours to get from here to Midtown Manhattan.”

Richards said that they are working on some things, like extending the Q77 bus line to better connect with the Q3, Q111 and Q114 lines. Miller said more select and express service is coming.

“I would love to take my family to Linden Boulevard and take express service into Manhattan on a weekend and come

Queens Borough Commissioner Nicole Garcia of the Department of Transportation took questions from the public Tuesday PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON night at IS 59 in Springfield Gardens. back the same way,” Miller said. But, he added that the hours are often not family-friendly, and on workdays, the buses do not head directly into Downtown Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn, where many people work.

“The buses don’t go the places we want to get to,” he said.

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Jamaica Avenue building has been desolate since collapse next door

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

The Woodhaven-Richmond Hill Volunteer Ambulance Corps has voted to sell its headquarters at 78-15 Jamaica Ave. two and a half years after the building next door partially collapsed and caused major structural damage to the group’s home, the Queens Chronicle has learned.

Assemblyman Mike Miller (D-Woodhaven) said in a telephone interview that an email went out last Saturday alerting a group of select people about the vote, but he did not have details on who the buyer was or the price tag on it.

Kathy Dalbey-Sexton, co-president of the volunteer ambulance corps, did not respond to requests for comment by press time.

Miller and Ed Wendell, former president of the Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association, do not know if the ambulance corps will use the money to find a new space in Woodhaven or Richmond Hill.

The assemblyman noted there have been rumors it could merge with the Lindenwood Volunteer Ambulance Corps, though that has not been confirmed.

Both said it would be disappointing if the organization left Woodhaven.

“They’ve been a part of this community for so long,” Miller said.

The future of the Woodhaven-Richmond Hill Ambulance Corps building is in the dark after the organization’s officers voted to sell the building. It is not known who bought it or for how much, PHOTO BY ANTHONY O’REILLY community leaders said.

“They might cover this area, but the 50 years of relationship with this community would end,” Wendell noted.

Since April 2013, the volunteer group has been without a headquarters after the building at 78-19 Jamaica Ave. partially collapsed during a heavy rainfall. Until the repairs are made there, the ambulance corps can’t fix its

building or inhabit it, putting the group in a state of financial distress as its main tenant, the Woodhaven-Richmond Hill Senior Center, was forced to relocate.

George Kochabe, the collapsed building’s owner, was ordered to fix the structure last year but has been given multiple extensions by a Queens County Supreme Court judge.

Wendell blasted the city and the judge for allowing the development to deteriorate over the past two years.

“When you see one building destroy another building, it does make you lose faith in the way the city is run,” he said. “How can we really take the city seriously when they’re going around inspecting our property and writing tickets for people with scraps of garbage on the sidewalk, and letting this situation fester for almost two years? It’s very discouraging and I’m disgusted.”

Since the collapse, rallies and fundraisers have been held in an effort to keep the ambulance corps open. A member of the group recently stated it had $0 in its bank account.

The ambulance corps in 2014 filed a lawsuit against Kochabe for lost revenue.

With the impending sale, Wendell now feels “a lot of effort went into it for nothing.”

Miller echoed those sentiments.

“We did a lot of work to keep it going,” he said. “We had a lawyer working pro-bono and we finally had an agreement with a construction company to do the work.”

The civic activist added a double-blow could be dealt to the community should an unwelcome development go up where the building is.

“If, God forbid, some kind of shelter goes up there, how would the community react to that,” Q Wendell stated.

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Spring Creek work concerns some Officials say residents won’t be disturbed by the resiliency project

by Stephen Geffon Chronicle Contributor

and water samples, but subsurface testing and biological, topographic, aerial and bathymetric — the study of underwater depth — testing of the Spring Creek area — which separates Howard Beach from Jamaica Bay. Baron answered that soil sampling had, in fact, been done a long time ago; however, she said that refined soil samples are now being taken.

Residents also told Baron they were concerned about the noise that the borings and excavation would make. According to the state Department of Environmental Conservation, “community residents can expect to see equipment such as a mobile geotechnical drilling rig and survey tripods.”

Maria Asaro expressed concerns about the air quality.

Baron responded that the air quality would not be affected during the project.

Joann Ariola, president of the civic association, told the Queens Chronicle in an interview after the

Lisa Baron, Spring Creek project manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, faced quality-of-life questions at Tuesday’s Howard Beach-Lindenwood Civic Association meeting. She said there would be no disruptions to the area PHOTO BY STEPHEN GEFFON from a restoration project. meeting that the Spring Creek work is “a much needed project,” adding that resiliency is a priority in Howard Beach, “and we understand that this is all part of making

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Some residents expressed concerns at the Howard Beach-Lindenwood Civic Association meeting Tuesday that their quality of life could be disrupted during the study and construction of the Spring Creek Salt Marsh and Coastal Upland Restoration project.

“The area where the wetlands are, 165th [Avenue], is filled with rodents, raccoons, opossu ms, water rats and mice. What’s going to happen when you begin to disturb them? Are there some safeguards that they are not going to come into the homes, go into the sewers?” Howard Beach resident Darlene Keppel asked.

According to the city Department of Parks and Recreation, the Spring Creek project will restore 11 acres of salt marsh and 16 acres of coastal forest and scrubland that were damaged by Superstor m Sandy.

The plan includes excavating historical constr uction debris,

which will be relocated to degraded upland areas, graded, covered with soil and planted as coastal habitat in an effort to prevent future storm damage.

After explaining the project, Lisa Baron, the project’s manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, tried to quell concerns that people’s daily lives would be affected by that.

Regarding Keppel’s rodent concern, Baron did not give an answer but thanked the resident for pointing out that problem.

“That’s good to know. We can try to figure out how to prevent that,” she said.

Another resident, who did not give his name, said he is concerned about what the testing of the soil would reveal, noting the unknown nature of the debris that has been there.

“It’s a little disturbing that it has not been tested for all these years,” he said.

The first phase of the project involves the study of not just soil

Almonte to buy L’wood Waldbaum’s

Crime up in New Howard Beach: Schiff

A source with direct knowledge of the matter told the Queens Chronicle that Frank Almonte, owner of the Key Food at 163-30 Cross Bay Blvd. in Howard Beach, will purchase the Waldbaum’s at 82-35 153 Ave. in Lindenwood and convert it into a Key Food.

The Chronicle was unable to reach Almonte before press time.

The Lindenwood Waldbaum’s was one of the stores that the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company sold in July after declaring bankruptcy. It was announced then that it would become a Key Food.

According to the source, renovations to the store will not be made until later this year.

Almonte is no stranger to the Howard Beach-Lindenwood area.

In 2014, he opened a Key Food on Cross Bay Boulevard.

Many there were excited because it gave them an alternative to the Waldbaum’s at 156-01 Cross Bay Blvd., which has been the source of complaints of dirty conditions and rotten food. That store will Q reopen as a Stop & Shop on Friday.

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Crime up by 30 percent there, he says

by Stephen Geffon Chronicle Contributor

Deputy Inspector Jeffrey Schiff, commanding officer of the 106th Precinct, reported that crime in the Howard BeachLindenwood area dropped 9 percent, from 105 incidents to 96 in the most recent fourweek period compared to the same time last year.

“That’s the good news,” Schiff said.

In that monthlong period, he said, crime is down 6 percent in Howard Beach overall and 39 percent in Lindenwood. However, he said in the new side of Howard Beach, crime rose by 30 percent.

Schiff said that contributing to the increase were crimes occurring on Cross Bay Boulevard, with eight incidents reported so far this year compared to three the prior.

“That’s unusual,” he said.

The statistics are totals of several NYPD “index crimes” that can range from murder to burglary. Among the crimes that occurred on Cross Bay was a domestic dispute between a couple where the boyfriend alleg-

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He was later arrested, Schiff said.

A black female was allegedly robbed of her pocketbook at gunpoint by three black men in a red Camaro in front of the Cross Bay Diner on Oct. 7 at 5:30 a.m., the deputy inspector said.

At the SpeedWay gas station during an alleged dispute between two females, one dropped her wallet and the other allegedly grabbed it and sped off, Schiff said.

A man who parked near the Empire Buffet allegedly left $7,000 in cash in a bag inside his car. When he returned, the cash was gone. An individual posing as a Vichy cosmetics representative entered CVS and allegedly stole $2,000 of the products from the store, Schiff said.

The deputy inspector said precinct anticrime officers arrested an individual who allegedly placed a skimming device at the ATM in TD Bank on Cross Bay. He told the audience that although there were no burglaries in Lindenwood during the past 28 days, in Howard Beach there Q were three reported.

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Assembly ma n Ph il Gold feder (D-Rockaway Park) had called on the city Parks Department last month to install the facility at the park, located on Albert Road between 96th and Centerville streets, after residents complained of public urination in the area.

Last week’s vote differs from previous ones taken by the same civic, which has opposed placing a restroom there due to the illegal activity the comfort station that used to be there attracted.

Community Board 10 Chairwoman Betty Braton brought that up at last week’s meeting, but the assemblyman defended the request because he has heard from his constituents that park-goers have been ringing their doorbells and asking to use Q their private bathrooms.

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Shooting should be the last straw: Regulate Airbnb

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ractically since the day it started operating here, Airbnb has been a source of concern for Queens civic leaders and other people who care about safety and the quality of life in our neighborhoods. And now one of their worst fears has come true, with a shooting in a pricey part of Bayside. Luckily, no one was killed, but the two victims were hospitalized, one in critical condition.

The shooting never would have happened if not for Airbnb, which allows people to rent out rooms, apartments or even whole houses without any regulation or oversight whatsoever. The homeowner used the online service to rent out her basement to someone who then threw a party that reportedly drew 200 people. Word about the party was posted to social media, and obviously it drew at least one dangerous person, maybe more. And now two men in their 20s have suffered gunshot wounds while dozens of others went through the trauma of being around a shooting.

Maybe next time the wounds will be fatal. Maybe next time some reckless fool will start a fire in a multifamily building. Who knows? The only thing we do

know is there will be a next time.

This cannot be. Airbnb must be reined in. People cannot be allowed to turn their homes into illegal nightclubs and hotels the way so many have. Existing laws against doing so must be more strongly enforced: You are not allowed to hold a party in a house and charge people to serve them drinks. And someone on the City Council must stand up and draft new law.

We don’t know exactly what that new law would be.

And apparently we’re not alone. State Sen. Tony Avella, who represents the area where the shooting occurred, issued a statement afterward appropriately blaming the perpetrator for the crime while at the same time calling for regulation of Airbnb and other actors in the socalled “sharing economy,” without providing a concrete proposal. Avella rarely, if ever, shies away from specifics. Doing this obviously will not be easy.

City Councilman Paul Vallone, who also represents the area, suggested having Airbnb certify that its posters are indeed homeowners, which sounds reasonable, though it’s hard to see how that would have helped prevent the Bayside incident.

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Clueless Carson Dear Editor: What a Republican presidential lineup indeed do we have. Seems more like an episode of Saturday Night Live than a serious contest for the future presidency of the United States; a frightening thought.

Never mind Donald Trump, who indeed only a fellow huckster would. It’s enigmatic Dr. Ben Carson who’s a puzzle. Undoubtably a fine and skillful technician judging by his successful complex neurological procedures, he comes off amiable, yet when he opines or worse yet, concludes, on subjects requiring informed or at least common sense, he — in a slow, soft unthreatening manner, with eyes nearly begging to close — spouts utter uninformed nonsense.

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The City Council regularly demonstrates its willingness to impose more and more rules on the private sector, so we don’t see why it wouldn’t do that here. At the same time, people’s property rights must be recognized, so it will not be easy to find the right balance between sensible and overbearing regulation.

Airbnb issued a statement saying its thoughts are with the victims and their families, also oddly saying it’s in touch with the host to offer her “support.” What support? Would it not be better to ban her from using the service? The company also said such incidents are extremely rare, which we suppose is true, but with all the millions of people it says have visited the city by using Airbnb, more are inevitable.

As Avella said, while pointing out that Airbnb homes do not have doormen, or staff trained to deal with problems, “The unique business model of sharing services is not a reason to omit regulation. On the contrary, it is a reason to tighten regulation further.”

Let’s see some legislation drafted that can both pass legal muster and survive the lobbying effort against it that Airbnb surely would make. Lives are at stake.

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Sustainable post-Sandy Dear Editor: In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy I joined residents of Far Rockaway in their cleanup efforts. A 26-year-old working in the entertainment industry, I never thought I would swing a sledgehammer let alone partake in demolition work. I never thought I would wear a Tyvek suit and respirator to remove dangerous mold. But that’s exactly what I did. The damage was so widespread that volunteers, even inexperienced ones, were needed to help in areas that the government could not immediately attend to.

Three years later, Far Rockaway is still rebuilding. A response to storms like Sandy costs billions of dollars and countless hours of labor. That of course only comes after homes are destroyed and lives are lost. As human activity — specifically the emission of greenhouse gases — continues to accelerate climate change we will experience extreme weather events more often, and the cost will be great.

As we respond to the damage of the past we

must simultaneously prepare for a more sustainable future. That is why I support efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as well as investments in renewable energy and green infrastructure. Our city and state officials have been proactive in these efforts, as has our president. And I am hopeful that the people of New York will give them the political will to build on the progress.

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Help our church Dear Editor: As the anniversary of Hurricane Sandy looms over the residents of the Tri-State Area, many are still affected by the results of this devastating storm on a financial, physical and, perhaps more importantly, emotional level.

House On The Rock Church was devastated, the lead pastor killed with cancer and the assistant pastor burned in a horrific blaze including over more than 60 percent of his entire body.

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#DoSomething on guns Dear Editor: We need Congress to #DoSomething to reduce gun violence in America. Laws must be changed to make this happen. Although our Queens members of Congress support common sense legislation to reduce gun violence, we need to push them to work to change the minds of their colleagues who don’t.

Using #DoSomething online is an opportunity to use social media to push our communities and Congress to do the right thing.

So, let’s #DoSomething right now.

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The U.S. and Russia Dear Editor: As the Syrian civil war continues to rage on unabated, both the U.S. and Russia are heavily involved via their continued bombing runs over that country. Both nations need to come to the negotiating table and begin the very difficult but necessary task of forging a consensus on areas of common ground, so that this war might eventually be brought to an end, and the sooner the better.

President Obama and President Putin must put aside their personal differences and be the catalysts for these negotiations. While they do not agree on all issues, there is one issue that they seem to agree on, and that is that ISIS needs to be defeated. A convergent, rather than divergent, solution to this and other world crises is what is needed here, and both the U.S. and Russia know that this is the only logical and sensible way to work together, despite differences that they might continue to have.

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Dear Editor: In a letter you recently ran, I urged President Obama to use the Pentagon’s purchasing power to pressure gun makers to keep firearms out of the wrong hands. It looks like Sen. Chuck Schumer has beaten our president to the punch. Last Friday, Schumer stated his demand that the Army award a $560 million handgun contract to a bidder who blocks the sale of these weapons to illegal dealers. The contract winner must also develop “smart gun” technology that prevents unauthorized persons from shooting firearms.

Now all police departments must crack down on merchants of mass murder by refusing to buy weapons from any gun makers who allow their firearms to reach unlawful hands.

If NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton starts the ball rolling, others will soon follow.

Don’t wait. The “Glock” is ticking.

Richard Reif Kew Gardens Hills

MTA: Show me the money Dear Editor: There is more to “Cuomo, Blaz reach MTA funding accord” (by Michael Gannon, Oct. 15).

Gov. Cuomo previously said the proposed MTA $32 billion five-year capital plan was bloated by billions. Cuomo has never identified which are the bloated projects and programs that he would support being cut. Who has seen the details of what was reduced in scope or postponed to the next 2020-24 five-year capital plan that justifies reducing the program by $5.9 billion to $26.1 billion? The MTA board still needs to approve this plan and submit it to the New York State MTA Capital Program Review Board for review and approval.

Is anyone aware of the source of Cuomo’s proposed additional $8.3 billion contribution over five years to support the program? The same is true for Mayor de Blasio and the $2.5 billion he just conveniently found. This was after complaining for a year that New York City already pays more than its fair share. We will have to wait until the state Legislature reconvenes in January 2016 before any of these dollars possibly become real. Ditto for the City Council in June 2016.

The original proposed 2010-14 MTA $29 billion five-year capital plan was cut to $24.2 billion before being approved. How can the MTA justify cutting $10 billion in badly needed capital improvements over a ten year period and still provide the day to day services millions of New Yorkers count on? How many critical capital improvement projects will be postponed once again into the next 2020-24 capital program?

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All of these events happened during a very short period of time.

This community has rallied together and would like to share a powerful story of outreach, pain, turmoil, disaster and the change that can come when the residents of one community come together.

Please join us in this endeavor. Perhaps through your paper we can see continued change in the lives of these people some of whose stories involve: • one man donating his entire retirement fund of $100,000 in the midst of his own turmoil; • professionals donating their talents and time to children learning instruments and more; and • grants, donations and resources provided to this cause in the midst of this tragedy and its anniversary.

A land purchase of $1 million is on the horizon and movement on it growing fast, but it cannot be accomplished without your assistance.

Please visit vimeopro.com/r9/riseupandbuild and hotrockchurchny.com for evidence of real change and outreach that you can be a part of. Thank you.

Nuraldiin Singh Rockaway Park The writer is a House On The Rock Church parishioner and its design consultant.

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Holder’s Harlem death shakes Harrison in Qns. 112th Pct. commander, mourning again, was nearly shot in 1997

by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

Police Officer Randolph Holder’s life abruptly ended on a Harlem street corner last Tuesday when a heartless criminal allegedly pointed a gun at his head and pulled the trigger.

Miles away, in Central Queens, Deputy Inspector Judith Harrison, commanding officer of the 112th Precinct, felt a proverbial bullet shred through her heart, leaving her repeating the same two-word phrase.

“Not again. Not again.”

The ex-Far Rockaway resident’s murder allegedly at the hands of purported gang member Tyrone Howard was the fourth cop-killing in the city over the last 10 months, starting with the slaying of Detectives Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu in Brooklyn on Dec. 20 and the May 2 shooting of Det. Brian Moore on 212th Street in Queens Village.

And for the fourth time in 10 months, the f irst thing Har rison did when she arrived at the Forest Hills-based command the day after a brother-in-blue was killed was wrap her black mourning band around the badge on her jacket.

“You always hope you never have to do it again, but the truth of the matter is that I know I’m going put it back on again,” Harrison said in an interview with the Chronicle last Wednesday. “I don’t know when, but I know I’ll have to do it.”

The news of Holder’s murder left Harrison unable to sleep, with the commanding officer instead wondering how heartbreaking it must be to inform a family of their relative’s death.

But as the slain Housing Bureau cop’s image spent that night displayed all over t elev ision news, Ha r r ison s a id she couldn’t help but recognize Holder, possibly from working large-scale events such as visits to the city by Pope Francis or President Obama.

“You’re family. I look at his picture and he looks very familiar to me,” she said. “I’ve never worked in housing and he’s only got f ive years on him, so I probably never worked with him but I’ve

During her first year on the job in 1997, Deputy Inspector and 112th Precinct Commanding Officer Judith Harrison, right, nearly suffered the same fate as Police Officer Randolph Holder, who was FILE PHOTO, LEFT, AND PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA slain in Harlem last Tuesday. seen him somewhere.

“It’s hard to express the sadness you feel,” she continued. “It’s a sadness that hits close to home because you know that you would do the same thing.”

Phone calls, text messages and emails poured in from borough residents offering their condolences that night, which Harrison said she greatly appreciated.

However, one text she received from her son personalized Holder’s murder more than any message she could receive from a citizen.

“I got a text message from my son last night, asking me how my evening was. I told him my evening was going really well until I found out a police officer was shot,” she said. “He texted me back saying ‘Mom, when are you going to retire?’ That’s what police families go through.”

Harrison, unlike some lucky officers, also knows firsthand what it’s like to deal with a perpetrator attempting to end the life of a cop.

In 1997, Harrison was just a 29-year-old recruit still in the Police Academy. As part

of her training, she was paired with a senior Transit Bureau officer and given an order to patrol the No. 1 subway line in Lower Manhattan.

On the night of Oct. 17, she noticed 20-year-old Staten Island resident Earl Harrison smoking a cigarette inside a train car within the South Ferry station.

Determined to summons him for the infraction, she removed him from the train.

But what she and her partner were unaware of was that he had just robbed a civilian at gunpoint on the street level.

“He had done an armed robbery topside and this dork is pulling him off the train for smoking,” Harrison said of herself.

After being pulled off the train, the man took off running, with Harrison and her partner in pursuit.

In Harlem last Tuesday, the alleged perpetrator turned around during a foot pursuit and fired at Holder, mortally wounding him with a bullet to the head.

But on that mid-October day in 1997, Harrison was able to narrowly avoid a similar fate thanks to the poor marksmanship

of the gunman, who opened fire on her and her partner as they chased after him.

Harrison called a 10-13 — an officer in need of immediate assistance — over the radio, and responding cops exchanged gunfire with the man, wounding him.

He was arrested after officers found him hiding in an elevator shaft of a surrounding building and was charged with attempted murder and other crimes.

“If he wasn’t smoking,” the commanding officer said, “I would have walked right past him.”

Knowing what she knows about lifeand-death experiences as a police officer, Harrison said she reiterated to her cops to be aware of their surroundings at all times during her speech to the 4 p.m. to 12 a.m. shift the next afternoon.

“You have to tell them to just be careful and back each other up,” she said. “You have to watch out.”

As she walked out of the precinct’s fourth-f loor conference room, where its monthly community council meetings are held, Harrison made it a point to note that violence against the NYPD does not discriminate, as all four officers gunned down since last December were of different races.

However, it’s that same dark shade of blue that Asian, black, white and Latino off icers wear that unites the men and women of the NYPD. And when a river of red streams down white, brown or black skin underneath a blue jacket, cops from across the city feel the same hurt.

That pain never goes away, Harrison said. It only intensifies when another cop dies in the line of duty. And she knows all too well that the next cop the city will mourn could easily be her or any one of her officers.

“He went to work that day and I go to work the same way every day,” she said.

“You come to work and you do whatever it is that has to be done. You do it, and you don’t think you’re not going to go home but that’s the reality of it.

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Goldfeder bill would track some criminals Under a bill introduced Monday by Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Rockaway Park), nonviolent criminals such as the one who allegedly killed NYPD Officer Randolph Holder last week would be tracked while they are a part of the state’s Judicial Diversion Program.

“T he Jud icial Diversion prog ra m allowed this alleged cop killer to slip through the cracks,” Goldfeder said in a prepared statement. “It pains me to think that if law enforcement had been able to find him in the weeks leading up to October 20th, Officer Holder may still be with

Introduction follows killing of NYPD cop us. By requiring regular electronic monitoring of program participants, we can ensure that potentially violent offenders are accounted for at all times.”

The assemblyman states he introduced the bill after published reports claimed Tyrone Howard, the man accused of killing Holder, missed a scheduled court appearance in September. Goldfeder said cops had been looking for Howard in the weeks leading up to last Tuesday, when he alleg-

edly shot Holder in the head after being chased in connection for another shooting in East Harlem.

Howard, according to the assemblyman, was enrolled in the Judicial Diversion Program, a state initiative created in 2009 that puts nonviolent offenders in rehabilitation programs in lieu of jail or prison. According to published reports, Howard was repeatedly arrested for drug-related offenses. Electronic tracking of such criminals is used in 40

states, according to Goldfeder’s statement.

“This small, common sense approach will go a long way in improving safety in our city so that these tragic mistakes are not repeated in the future,” he stated.

Goldfeder said 29 Queens residents, and 550 people citywide, are in the Judicial Diversion Program.

Holder, a Guyanese native whose funeral was held on Wednesday, once lived in the Rockaways, where his father still does.

Goldfeder in recent days has called the Q slain officer a Rockaway hero.

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Now, in Howard Beach, NY, one doctor is helping local residents with knee pain live more active, pain-free lives.

Living with knee pain can feel like a crippling experience.

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New research in a treatment called Class IV Laser Therapy is having a profound effect on patients suffering with knee pain. Unlike the cutting type of laser seen in movies and used in medical procedures, the Class IV therapeutic laser penetrates the surface of the skin with no heating effect or damage.

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Is Build it Back working in Queens?

Despite the progress made by the program, some say it’s not enough

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

Very few people, if any at all, had an idea of how long it would take to get Queens residents back into their homes after Superstorm Sandy.

But the majority of those who spoke about it with the Queens Chronicle did not think it would still be a concern on the storm’s third anniversary.

“The fact that we’re sitting here and having this interview and talking about those people to me is an outrage,” Cou ncilman Er ic Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) said.

“I’m outraged. I’m shocked.

I know some people aren’t shocked, but I am shocked.”

Joann Ariola, president of the Howard Beach-Lindenwood Civic Association, had harsher words for the recovery initiative — meant to reconstruct affected homeowners’ houses or issue reimbursement checks to people who did the work themselves — created by Mayor Bloomberg in June 2013.

“Build it Back doesn’t work,” she said. “There’s no other way to say it. Build it Back has perhaps made strides and some people have benefited, and thank God for that. But broader picture, longer run: Build it Back is a failure.”

For as hostile as Ulrich’s and Ariola’s words were in recent interviews, they pale in comparison to the hostility the city faced in late 2013 up to mid-2014.

According to the city’s own statistics, construction had started on only nine houses citywide and it had sent out $560,000 worth of reimbursement checks to 30 people by April 17, 2014.

That prompted Mayor de Blasio to overhaul the program, appointing a new team to oversee the city’s response to the storm, reallocating $100 million in federal Housing and Urban Development to Build it Back and appointing Amy Peterson as its director.

By the second anniversary of Sandy, Build it Back had started construction on 1,606 houses and sent out $20 million in reimbursement checks.

Last T hu r sd ay, t hose numbers were 5,272 and $103 million, respectively.

At a press conference in Breezy Point on Tuesday, de Blasio promised that the next phase of Build it Back would be outlined today, Oct. 29.

Despite the prog ress, some South Queens leaders say it’s not enough.

A look at the Queens numbers Bu i ld it Ba ck c ou ld almost be described as the tale of two options. As of Tuesday, when it comes to reimbursements to homeowners who did the work themselves in Queens, 98 percent of the checks have been issued — which totals $45,245,922 of the $103 million citywide, according to the city’s statistics.

Homes undergoing construction, however, are a different tale — only 25 percent of those have had shovels in the ground.

On the new side of Howard Beach, a total of 228 Build it Back applicants applied for construction to their house. To date, work has been completed on 90 of them. All of the people who chose reimbursement have gotten their checks.

On the opposite side, in Old Howard Beach, 241 people sought to rebuild or elevate their property; 60 of them have seen it completed. Again, 100 percent of those who went the reimbursement route have gotten their money back.

Elsewhere on mainland Queens, Hamilton Beach has only seen four out of the 57 homes looking to be rebuilt completed. Four people are still waiting for their reimbursement checks there.

I n t he Rose d a le a nd Springfield Gardens-South Br o ok v i l le s e c t io n s of Queens, construction is also lagging, though less so in t h e l a t t e r p a r t of t h e borough.

Thirty-one Rosedale residents went for construction; on ly n i ne a re done. I n Springfield Gardens-South Brookville, 18 chose construction and only eight are still waiting. Both areas

Build it Back in Queens How are communities receiving help from the city?

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have had 100 percent of the checks sent to residents.

In Broad Channel, five of the 283 people who chose c o n s t r u c t io n a r e d o n e.

Reimbursements is at 100 percent there.

In Breezy Point, one of the hardest hit areas in the Rockaways and the part of the borough that has the most Build it Back applicants, 40 out of the 418 homes slated for construction are finished. Nine people are still waiting for checks.

Cutting the red tape In the early days of the recovery initiative, it wasn’t uncommon for people to go back and forth several times from their homes to Build it Back’s hub in the Rockaways to process paperwork they already submitted.

State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) recalled how some of his constituents would hand in copies of documents that were handed to them by program workers.

“It was a nightmare,” Addabbo said.

After the city’s overhaul, many of those problems disappeared and the ball got rolling a lot quicker for some applicants.

One of the biggest hurdles was the federal red tape surrounding the program. Build it Back is funded by U.S.

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government dollars.

People looking to get money from the program, or have construction done, were ordered to apply for a Small Business Administration loan — even if they didn’t need it.

Later, applicants found out that even if they didn’t get money from the SBA, the loan they applied for counted as a duplicative benefit. As a result, Build it Back could only pay for 60 percent of the damage caused by Sandy, leaving homeowners to cover the remaining amount. In July, the city announced it would cover 100 percent of the cost.

Zoning regulations also slowed down the process, limiting how people could rebuild their homes — a problem that was widespread in Broad Channel.

The City Council in July voted to expedite the process for elevations in Community Districts 10, 13 and 14 and allowed work to be done to a house even if it did not comply with zoning.

Roger Gendron, president of the New Hamilton Beach Civic Association, believes homes will be going through the Build it Back process much quicker thanks to those changes made by the city.

“You are going to see the program come into its fruition,” he said.

Ulrich, too, sees progress coming soon.

“But the fact that we’re only seeing that progress now, that’s not something we should be celebrat i ng,” Ulrich added. “What we should be doing is setting our sights on those people that still need to be helped.”

Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Rockaway Park) echoed those statements.

“Build it Back is going slow,” Goldfeder said. “But at the same time, tens of millions of dollars in reimbursement checks are being sent out. Things are moving, not quick enough, but definitely in the right direction.”

Who’s to blame?

Sp e a k i ng of wh at he called the slow progress at Build it Back, Ulrich stated there seems to be no consequences if work isn’t done in a timely manner.

“They can raise 10 houses or 100 houses in a week.

They’re still going to get paid. The problem is, people still aren’t in their homes,” he said.

Ulrich pointed to City Hall as a reason for that.

“By and large the city allowed the program to languish for months and months without set ti ng realistic benchmarks,” the councilman said of its beginning stages.

Gendron said the city still stands in the way — but there isn’t just one person or agency at fault.

“I never blamed Mayor Bloomberg. I never blamed Bill de Blasio. I never blamed the Build it Back program. I blame all of them,” he said. “I just think that there are so many, so m a n y, c i t y a g e n c i e s involved in this. They get in each others way and the bottom line is, people need to be home. It’s time, it’s time that people can go home.”

Nobody who spoke with the Chronicle blamed Peterson for the slow pace. Ulrich believes she’s not being supported by the city enough.

“She’s dealing with multiple agencies and a lot of red tape. I don’t know that the people of City Hall have put the full weight and power of the city behind her. I don’t think that she has all the tools she needs to do a better job. I don’t blame her personally,” the councilman said.

Gendron said appointing Peterson was “one of the best things Mayor de Blasio ever did.”

“Because she came in and she saw the issues and she did everything in her power to remedy them as quickly as she could,” he said.

Both Gendron and Ulrich praised Peterson for working with the community and appearing at meetings in Sandy-affected areas.

What comes next?

During his press conference on Tuesday, de Blasio said he would not answer questions on when he expects everyone to receive the aid they’ve been waiting for.

He said those details will be d iscussed at tod ay’s press conference.

Some South Queens leaders said it should’ve been here already, while others say there’s still time to ma ke the prog ra m a success.

“If we’re done in another three years, it’s like a home run for us,” Gendron said.

“Because you look at what happened with Katrina and they’re still rebuilding.” Q

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Getting back to business after Sandy Cross Bay Boulevard, Rockaway corridors see their favorite stores return

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

W

hen asked what the first step toward recovery after Sandy was for Howard Beach, state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) said it was the reopening of businesses along Cross Bay Boulevard.

“That for them was a place of normalcy,” Addabbo said of the commercial corridor.

“Most of my constituents mentioned to me that when they saw stores opened, that’s when they felt, you know, things are back to normal.”

Some of the business owners said a return to normalcy is still something they’re striving for and possibly may never accomplish.

“I don’t think we’ll ever get back to normal,” Frank Pantina, owner of Cross Bay Chemist at 157-02 Cross Bay Blvd., said.

“Because a lot of people aren’t living here.

Either they sold their house or they didn’t think about a rainy day. So they probably left the area, of which many are my customers, who are never going to come back.”

Angelo Mugnolo, who moved Sapienza Bagles and Deli from Ozone Park to 164-26 Cross Bay Blvd. in Howard Beach shortly before the storm hit, said he’s still feeling the hit on his profit margin three years later.

“I had a brand-new store with 2 feet of water and everything was just wasted away,” Mugnolo said. “I’m three years behind where I should be.”

Apart from getting the business he had before the storm back three years later, he had to pay tens of thousands of dollars for repairs to the eatery.

Mugnolo and Pantina’s tales can be found all along the boulevard. The storm hit and the next day everyone came back to see everything they had worked so hard for taken away from them.

“The basement was a disaster,” Nick Gramenides, owner of Cross Bay Travel, recalled of the scene at 158-20 Cross Bay Blvd. “Everything had to be replaced. We had a lot of souvenirs in the basement. All of those had to be thrown out.”

Pantina at the time was located at 158-14 Cross Bay Blvd., a block up from where he is now. He had a basement there, unlike his store now.

“Fifty-thousand dollars worth of merchandise was all gone,” he said of the damage. “I had eight years of records demolished. If I ever had to look something up or was audited, I don’t have those records anymore.”

The silver lining for Pantina? His Ozone Park location at 96-05 101 Ave. Between the computer system in Howard Beach being salvaged — that was stored on the first floor, which did not see any flooding — and the 900-square-foot former dance studio on 101st Avenue, Pantina was able to serve his customers and those whose pharmacies in Broad Channel and beyond were destroyed.

Still, the scene was chaotic for the pharmacist until his Howard Beach store reopened five weeks after the storm — after he removed the water from the basement and threw away all the material that had been destroyed.

Frank Pantina, in red shirt holding a child, celebrates the grand opening of Cross Bay Chemist’s Howard Beach location at 157-02 Cross Bay Blvd. His prior location had sustained major damage FILE PHOTOS from Sandy.

“We had to do so many overrides,” he said.

“We were calling up the insurance companies saying, ‘Yes, they just had this prescription filled but they lost it.’”

His move up the block wasn’t Sandy-related. His lease at 158th Avenue was up and where he is now has free parking for his customers — and no basement.

“All my electrical is on the first floor,” Pantina said.

When asked how he likes the 157th Avenue place, he simply replied, “I’m loving it.”

Farther up the road at 164-14 Cross Bay Blvd., the New York Families for Autistic Children’s new building was two weeks away from its grand opening when Sandy rolled into town.

“It was devastation. I just started crying,” Andrew Baumann, NYFAC’s president and CEO, said. “The company had already sent out invitations for the grand opening.”

Four months later, Baumann was crying again; this time because the new building held its grand opening, thanks in large part to donations from people around Howard Beach and surrounding areas.

“I don’t know where we’d be,” he said when asked what would’ve happened if people hadn’t donated money. “It was really amazing.

It’s a great feeling when people can support your vision.”

Baumann recalled how some of the neighboring business owners who were also hit by the storm came by with checks to help him out, in addition to people from outside of Howard Beach.

“I couldn’t believe it,” he said. “Everything just built from there.”

And now, he’s looking to become even bigger, saying he wants to add a gym to the building, and has applied to be a relief center in the event of another natural disaster.

A similar story can be found on the other side of the Joseph P. Addabbo and Cross Bay Veterans memorial bridges in the Rockaways.

Chris Romulo, owner of CROM Physical Culture at 217 Beach 92 St., knew as soon as he walked into his old location on Rockaway

Beach Boulevard that there was nothing left to salvage.

“Everything in our gym was destroyed by seawater and sewage,” Romulo said.

He and his wife, Sarah, bounced around from place to place, never leaving the peninsula, until they settled down where they are now in late 2013. Since then, their membership has grown by more than 200.

“We couldn’t even imagine where we are right now,” Romulo said. “For us to grow in the way that we have, it’s a blessing.”

Like Baumann, the Rockaway couple were the beneficiaries of many people’s generosity.

“This wasn’t all done by our hands,” Romulo said. “Those are the people that we’d like to give credit to.”

The fitness guru said he’s one of the lucky ones in the Rockaways.

“Not everybody has come back from Sandy,” he said.

Despite that, Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder

(D-Rockaway Park) said commerce on the peninsula is on the rebound.

Sitting in Rockaway Roasters, at 92-06 Rockaway Beach Blvd., Goldfeder said the strip has seen new businesses popping up since the storm, including the coffee shop.

That’s great news, he added, considering the immediate area around the beanery was further impacted after Sandy by a water main break that, again, flooded the block.

“You have new restaurants and small businesses of all sorts coming back,” he noted of the boulevard. “And this is just a tiny microcosm of the larger Sandy recovery that we’re making. Our economic development is going in the right direction.”

Goldfeder admitted that in the immediate aftermath of Sandy, it was hard to sell the Rockaways as a good place to open your business or to buy a house.

Since then, he said, commercial rents, as well as property values, are escalating throughout the Rockaway part of his district.

He told the story of how a house in Belle Harbor in the beginning of October sold for just over $3 million.

“Even on Mott Avenue in Far Rockaway, same thing,” the assemblyman said.

Back on Cross Bay Boulevard the only two big businesses that are no longer open are the Staples at 163-50 and the 7-Eleven across the street at 163-45.

Both sustained heavy damage, the latter closing right after the storm, never to reopen again.

Staples reopened after the storm, only to close last year, as did many of the chain’s locations across the nation.

Addabbo said “it “bothers me” to see the two vacant properties along an otherwise lively corridor.

He also pointed out, as Pantina and Mugnolo said, that profit margins are just getting back to what they would’ve been had the storm not slammed into Queens.

“People are just now recouping,” he said. Q

The staff at Sapienza Bagels and Deli celebrated the grand opening of their Howard Beach location days before Sandy destroyed the store, setting business back three years from where it should be.

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How planned changes in the federal maps could affect Howard Beach

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

Imagine this: walking through Howard Beach and seeing hundreds, possibly thousands, of empty homes. Cross Bay Boulevard is desolate and the shops are empty.

That’s what some fear should flood insurance premiums skyrocket, as has been proposed by the federal government.

In 2017, higher monthly payments could kick in for hundreds of thousands of people nationwide as part of the Biggert-Waters Act of 2012 — which was passed days before Superstorm Sandy in an effort to fix the bankrupt National Flood Insurance Program.

Those premiums were supposed to already be in effect, but were delayed by Congress last year.

But how much could people be paying?

According to several sources, payments could jump from $500 a month to $5,000, or even $10,000. Following the first delay, however, some expect Congress to legislate another one.

The federal government is also in the process of drawing new maps that could mandate residents who never before had flood insurance buy it. The city has appealed those maps, which are expected to go into effect late next year or in early 2017.

Joann Ariola, president of the Howard

A look at the city’s appeal of the federal government’s flood maps. Orange shows where they FILE IMAGE agree, purple shows where the two differ.

Beach-Lindenwood Civic Association, predicted a ghost town-like South Queens if the new maps are approved and the new rates are imposed.

“I think you’ll see zombie homes in Howard Beach,” she said. “Because people could not afford it and that would be terrible.”

Although not foreseeing an abandoned Howard Beach, Century 21 realtor Anne Marie Chirichigno said flood insurance is already affecting sellers in the area.

“With the high flood insurance rates that we possibly have coming, it’s going to decrease the value of the homes,” Chirichigno said. “People know that this change may be coming, and for buyers, they’re very skeptical of what flood insurance is going to be.”

She urged homeowners to study the potential flood insurance changes, adding that it was important for anyone who wants to qualify to purchase a home in the area.

Arlene Pacchiano, a realtor at Connexion

I, differed in her assessment of how flood insurance increases have and could affect the area: They haven’t and they won’t.

“We haven’t heard anything,” Pacchiano said about the potential rate increase.

Both realtors said the inventory of houses in the Howard Beach area is low, as is the case nationwide, and Pacchiano said the homes are moving quickly and prices are at an all-time high.

Pacchiano, too, did not predict a mass exodus out of Howard Beach should rates go up.

Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Rockaway Park) echoed Chirichigno’s concern that sellers would have a difficult time should $10,000 premiums become a reality.

“Nobody is going to want to buy your house,” Goldfeder said. “Not only are you not going to be able to afford it any more, you’ll no longer be able to sell it.”

State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) stated there’s very little legislators can do to fix these problems, and others, due to insurance companies’ lobbying power upstate and in Washington, D.C. “Legislation gets introduced and who stops it? The lobbyists,” Addabbo said.

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Where were you during Superstorm Sandy?

Community leaders recall the day of the historic storm and its aftermath

by Anthony O’Reilly

Lending a helping hand

Associate Editor

The destruction of Sandy is a sight nobody wants to see again.

But in its aftermath was a silver lining — neighbors helping neighbors and aid pouring in from outside of South Queens.

Goldfeder told the story of how he was cleaning out his own garage — a job he called “therapy” — and before he knew it, he had volunteers coming to help him. More volunteers later arrived, with coffee and food to feed the other volunteers.

“It was one of my greatest moments during Sandy,” the assemblyman and Rockaway resident said.

Addabbo praised the civic and volunteer organizations that poured in from the less-affected areas of Queens to help out their borough brothers and sisters.

“The Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association and Glendale Civilian Observation Patrol were out there with us every night,” the senator said.

He also lauded his staff, who were working out of an office with no power.

“I had a pen and paper and we were just trying to give out info,” he said.

On 101st Avenue in Ozone Park, Ulrich’s district office turned into a supply store for the various items people needed to live their day-to-day lives.

Ulrich personally helped give supplies out, including on Oct. 31, 2012 — the day his first daughter was born.

“I didn’t spend the night there,” he said, adding he went to Broad Channel to distribute supplies to his constituents.

“Because I felt that’s where I needed to be. It would’ve been very easy for me to stay there.”

Ariola — at the time the president of the Lindenwood Alliance — was still in outreach mode. She collected food and clothes to be sent out to those who needed it.

Gendron, meanwhile, was making sure people knew where the relief aid was going in Hamilton Beach. One instance was when Goldfeder sent 1,000 sandwiches to the West Hamilton Beach Volunteer Fire Department and he had to make sure everyone was aware.

The 106th precinct commander at the time, Thomas Pascale, made sure Hamilton Beach was patrolled in the immediate aftermath — Gendron had requested them after hearing of looting in other parts of Queens.

“Just to give people that sense of security,” he said.

Gendron also recalled how he had to turn away donations at one point. Shortly after Sandy, weather forecasters were predicting a Nor’easter would hit the New York area.

A firefighter had offered to give clothes to Gendron for Hamilton Beach residents, but he said no due to the impending weather system.

“I didn’t know if they were just going to get ruined again,” he remembered thinking.

Instead, he told the man to bring it to Seagirt Boulevard in Far Rockaway.

“This way, it’ll go to people who really need it,” he said.

Gendron also saw what Goldfeder saw; people coming out to help their neighbors.

“It brought a sense of togetherness back,” he said.

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ouncilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) drove down Cross Bay Boulevard the morning after Superstorm Sandy and was stopped by men patrolling the area. They were unloading search dogs and asked him where they should send the dogs first.

“And at that point I told them Hamilton Beach,” he recalled, noting the area’s low elevation. “And I still get chills up my spine just thinking about the fact that we sent dogs out to search for people we thought were dead. And thank God nobody was killed in Hamilton Beach. That is something you’re not prepared for when you run for political office. Instinctively, you just have to know what to do.”

In that community, New Hamilton Beach Civic President Roger Gendron walked around the area after he had brought his family to South Ozone Park.

“My jaw is down,” he said of seeing the area after the storm.

“People are bringing furniture outside and just bags and bags of garbage. I’m numb at this point.”

Gendron had only become the civic president in February of that year and prior to Sandy had dealt with people’s complaints of barking dogs or litter on their property.

He wasn’t ready for this.

“Joe Addabbo called me and I said ‘Joe, I don’t know what to do,’” he recalled. “And he talked me through it. He talked me off the shelf a few times.”

Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Rockaway Park) was on his phone seeking advice from a friend who worked in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

“I said ‘I don’t know what to do.’ He told me ‘Just start driving and you’ll figure it out,’” Goldfeder said. “I drove as far as I could and things started coming together.”

Meanwhile, Howard Beach-Lindenwood Civic Association President Joann Ariola was in “outreach mode.”

“There was an area in Lindenwood that didn’t get any water.

We had lights and phone service,” she said. “We went door to door asking if people needed anything. We had strangers coming into buildings and showering and using laundry services.”

The scene on Cross Bay Boulevard was like something out of a post-apocalyptic movie, many of those interviewed by the Queens Chronicle stated.

“To see Cross Bay Boulevard under military control, to be needed to be protected like that is a feeling I hope to never have again,” Ariola said.

“I was waiting for Bruce Willis to come out,” Gendron said.

“You had boats in the middle of Cross Bay Boulevard, sections of the Rockaway Beach boardwalk three blocks from the beach,” state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) said.

“Those are images I will never forget.”

Getting back to normal

The U.S. Army and National Guard was on constant patrol on Cross PHOTO BY JOANN ARIOLA Bay Boulevard after Superstorm Sandy.

In December, Goldfeder visited Community Board 6 to sell the idea of restoring the Rockaway Beach Rail Line, a right-of-way that would connect the peninsula to Rego Park. The Forest Hillsbased board has opposed the idea because it would require the removal of the Forest Hills Little League’s field on Fleet Street.

Still, going into the “heart of the beast” felt good for the assemblyman.

“I went there to take our tragedy and turn it into a positive message for change,” he said. “That was the first time I felt like a human being again and back on track.”

For Addabbo, it was seeing businesses on Cross Bay Boulevard open again after weeks of being closed. [See separate story].

For many though, it was seeing the U.S. Army and National Guard leave Cross Bay Boulevard.

Boats were ripped off trailers and anchors by the fierce wind and storm surges brought on by Sandy. This one was found FILE PHOTO outside a home in Howard Beach.

Never forget Today, on the third anniversary of the storm, Gendron’s civic will be holding a candlelight ceremony at the volunteer firehouse at 102-33 Davenport Court at 7 p.m. in honor of all those who were affected by the storm.

He said that will be done until all residents are back in their homes or are completely back to normal.

Goldfeder, too, said he will never forget the people who are still need help: something he was told to do at the White House’s 2012 holiday party by Vice President Joe Biden.

“He says, you have one job, ‘To make sure people aren’t forgetting what you’re going through,’” the assemblyman recalled of his brush with the vice president.

Was Queens prepared for Joaquin?

Many ignored the evacuation order given out in the days before Sandy. Elected officials said that’s because the previous year, Hurricane Irene was supposed to slam the city but the five boroughs escaped relatively unscathed.

When forecasters saw Hurricane Joaquin headed toward the East Coast, it was the opposite.

“I had people calling my office asking me ‘What’s my evacuation route? What do I need to be prepared?’” Addabbo said of the days before the storm eventually rolled out to sea, leaving New York untouched.

But what would’ve happened had the weather system hit Queens the way it did South Carolina?

“It would’ve been another devastating blow and maybe the final blow for the community,” Ariola said.

“You would’ve seen entire neighborhoods become ghost towns overnight,” Ulrich said.

Aside from the damage the area would’ve sustained, Goldfeder said most residents would’ve been better off than they were after Sandy.

“We’re stronger today than we were before Sandy,” the assemblyman said.

Gendron said it would’ve been devastating to see Joaquin hit, but the impact would not have been as great.

“Most people don’t have the property they had before Sandy,” he said.

Addabbo said Queens is not ready for the next big storm Q because resiliency projects have not yet been finished.

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Elmhurst dries off after Friday water main break Area businesses suffered flood damage after a construction mishap

by Gina Martinez Chronicle Contributor

The muddy water that flooded the intersection of Queens Boulevard and Broadway in Elmhurst has since receded, but area businesses are coming back from the effects of last Friday’s damaging water main break.

“We’re lucky because the water went to the basement,” said Ella Hsu, the manager of Broadway Discount at 86-30 Broadway, on Tuesday. “We were lucky this time.”

Shortly after 8 a.m., a construction worker toiling at the future location of Elm West, a luxury mixed-use building going up where the Wendy’s made famous in “Coming to America” was, accidentally broke through an underground water pipe with a drill rig.

The ensuing flow of liquid flooded the constr uction site and the sur rounding streets, forcing the closure of Queens Boulevard in both directions until 1 p.m., when the eastbound lanes reopened.

A few hours later, officials began allowing traffic through on three of the four westbound lanes, with a full reopening of the artery occurring on Saturday.

Businesses on along Broadway were evacuated. Some, such as Hsu’s, suffered water damage.

According to the store manager, various

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NYC appeals ‘Styrofoam’ ruling: reports The city is looking for a state appellate court to dump the ruling that overturned its ban on “Styrofoam” food and beverage containers, according to published reports.

According to the reports, the city is claiming that a panel of judges should review its case “that the [Sanitation] commissioner must defer on core municipal functions — with vast environmental consequences at stake — to short-term proposals made by manufacturers with a vested financial stake in the determination.”

The Appellate Division must decide if it wants to review the case.

If it does, it will either overturn the ruling that threw out the ban last month or uphold it.

In September, a lower court ordered the Department of Sanitation to come up with a plan on how to recycle expanded polystyrene foam, often called Styrofoam though it is a slightly different material. The justice disagreed with the conclusion of a 2014 city study that found there is no environmentally friendly way to recycle the material. Q — Anthony O’Reilly

Two firefighters trudge along a flooded Queens Boulevard last Friday, a few hours after a water main break sent muddy water gushing out onto the major thoroughfare’s intersection with PHOTO BY GINA MARTINEZ Broadway in Elmhurst. products that were sitting in storage in the basement were ruined and had to be thrown out.

“I feel bad,” she said. “All the papers got wet and some winter stuff is gone. We threw it away already. It was all wet, we

couldn’t use it.”

While some other entities escaped physical damage, locations such as Gino’s Pizzeria were impacted financially, as they were forced to close for the day.

Eatery owner Oscar Zumba lamented the

loss of a day’s worth of business due to the f lood in a Tuesday interview with the Chronicle.

“They should pay us for the day,” Zumba said. “We had to be closed all day. Thankfully there was no actual water damage, just a little water that came in through the front door.”

Sharukh Irani, who runs a food cart at 55th Avenue and Queens Boulevard, one block away from the gushing water pipe, said at the scene last Friday that business was slow because of the accident.

“Business today has been affected,” Irani said. “There are no customers coming and it’s very slow. The flow of people isn’t like it usually is.”

Subway service in the area was also slowed for hours by the water main break.

For most of the afternoon, M trains were not running between Forest Hills-71st Avenue, its Queens terminus, and Essex Street in Manhattan, while E and F trains made local stops between Forest Hills-71st Avenue and Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Avenue.

The Grand Avenue-Newtown subway stop, which serves the M and R trains, is located at the flooded intersection.

Water damage was not observed within the station on Friday, but the streets above Q were still muddy on Tuesday.

Youth council site opening in June Services center named for Serf Maltese will host pre-K

by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

T he G r e at e r R id gewo o d Youth Council, which celebrated its 35th anniversary this month, is expecting to open its newest location at 776 Fairview Ave. this coming June.

According to director Bob Monahan, the Ridgewood building will be named for former state Sen. Serf Maltese, one of t he orga n i z at ion’s big ge st supporters.

“It’s going to be called the Serphin R. Maltese Community B u i l d i n g ,” M o n a h a n s a i d Wednesday. “It’s going to be really nice.”

Plans to renovate the former home of American Legion Post No. 562 have been in the works for five years, but a lack of funding had been a constant roadblock.

However, a $1.75 million grant from the Queens City Council delegation last year to go along with $100,000 from Assembly members Mike Miller ( D -Wood haven) a nd Cat hy Nolan (D-Sunnyside) and $1

The memorial for Private First Class Richard Gilley, killed during the Vietnam War, will be renovated alongside the Greater Ridgewood Youth Council’s new services center opening up at 776 Fairview Ave. in June FILE PHOTO 2016. million donated by Maltese in 2008 has allowed construction to begin, and Monahan said work is moving at a steady pace.

“There will be four special needs universal pre-K classes.

You’re going to have a gym, physical therapy, speech therapy and all of the things that these kids need,” he said. “The nice part is that we’ve waited five years to start building this joint.

Now we can see the light at the end of the tunnel.”

The GRYC itself has also budgeted $200,000 for work on the site, with the project costing an estimated $2.1 million.

In addition to redesigning and beautifying the building, it’s the venue’s small, fencedin open area on its west side that is of great significance to Monahan.

A flagpole and two plaques, one dedicated to Private First Class Richard Gilley, a Maspeth resident who killed-in-action during the Vietnam War, sat unattended and covered in litter for years at the location.

But after consulting with Gilley’s family, Monahan said the memorial honoring the slain 20-year-old will look as good as new come next June.

“I actually have a full-time custodian over there to make it pretty and clean,” he said. “It’s going to be new pavement, the flag will be flown and it’s going to have a brand new iron fence around it to keep it protected.”

An assortment of trees and sh r ubs will also be placed around the memorial, which will also be handicapped accessible via a ramp leading from the building’s front door to the area.

A photograph of Gilley will hang in the lobby, as well.

“The building was a remembrance to our soldiers,” Monahan said. “We’re trying to preserve as much of that as we Q can.”

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Series becomes class act at Queens College Students, staff hold Mets pep rally

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A sea of blue and orange replaced the school colors for a day as dozens of students and other members of the Queens College family gathered on Tuesday outside the Student Union building in support of the New York Mets’ run in the World Series.

The pep rally drew a diverse crowd, from die-hard fans to casual observers in search of a T-shirt or, perhaps, one of the free blue or orange cupcakes or a cup of hot chocolate.

Among the first to arrive for the 4:30 p.m. event was business major Japneet Singh, 21.

“I’m a New York fan,” he said. “ I know the struggle and how special it is for New York and its people.”

Adriana Diaz, 17, a freshman from Woodhaven, is a self-proclaimed “huge Mets fan,” coming from a long line of supporters. “Everybody in my family is,” she said. “From genera-

tion to generation. We went to the postseason.

It’s great to be part of the Mets fan base.”

Diaz would go on to take first place in a placard competition, winning a World Series hoodie for her entry that featured a collage of photos of some of her favorite players beneath bold letters that proclaimed “Ya Gotta Believe.”

Her friend, Sadira Andujar, 23, a finance major, said she was born and raised in Queens and came to be a Mets fan naturally.

“The Mets are a Queens team,” she said.

Unaware that the borough was recently named the number one tourist destination in the country, she added, “The Mets are underdogs, just like Queens.”

Try telling that to some of the others who had come to celebrate, like Elster Aguilera, 20, a junior psychology major, who arrived in full Dark Knight regalia. His tribute to Matt Harvey, the Mets’ opening game pitcher who was given the moniker by Sports Illustrated on one

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Sophomore Daniel Albert, 20, a computer science major, has been a Mets fan “for as long as I can remember,” dating to his childhood, when his dad would be glued to the television screen whenever the Mets played. He described going to his first game at Shea Stadium.

“I was awestruck,” he recalled. “Seeing everyone cheering and seeing everyone in person ... rooting for Mike Piazza ... that was my childhood.” An observant Jew, he likened his belief in his team to waiting for the Messiah.

“Every year we say ‘maybe next year.’

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There’s no doubt that Plainview, LI resident Cheryl Solomon believes the New York Mets will be parading down the Canyon of Heroes in Manhattan next month after their World Series win over the Kansas City Royals.

Are the Mets destined to win the 2015 World Series? These enthusiastic fans came to Monday’s rally at Borough Hall in Kew Gardens to tell anyone who would listen that the Mets pounding the PHOTOS BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA Kansas City Royals in the World Series is the team’s destiny.

Mets fans take over Borough Hall for rally

by Christopher Barca The borough is at a fever pitch when it comes to the National League champion New York Mets.

Hundreds of residents and numerous elected officials from across Queens and the rest of the New York City area converged on Borough Hall in Kew Gardens on Monday for an afternoon of giveaways, free food and “Let’s Go Mets!” chants ahead of the Amazin’s battle with the Kansas City Royals in Game 1 of the World Series the next day.

“We came over here right from school,” Forest Hills dad Tom Miale said as his 5-yearold son Nate — who happened to be born the day the crosstown New York Yankees won the 2009 Fall Classic — played a game of cornhole. “He picks the Mets in five games.”

“Going to the game was so surreal,” Collins said on Monday. “It was such a blur that whole week.”

Collins accompanied members of the Russell Sage math team to the rally, with the group using it as an opportunity to raise funds for itself through the sale of “Will from Queens” Mets shirts, which can be purchased for $10 at the school.

The overnight celebrity said the team had raised $700 halfway through the gathering.

Flushing resident Marc Deutscher was part of a rowdy group of a few dozen fans who spent most of the afternoon rallying the proverbial troops — ranging from babies to baby boomers — and he showed off his massive Mets poster featuring photos of nearly every player during the team’s run to the World Series to anyone and everyone.

Brooklyn resident Ayton Eller fully expects the Mets to beat the Royals. After all, he’s already de c lar ing N e w Yor k t he 2015 Wor ld Champions.

Five-year-old Forest Hills youngster Nate Miale, seen here with his father Tom, predicts the Mets will win the World Series in five games.

Will Collins, also known as “Will from Queens” after he cried over the Mets on WFAN earlier this month, took his Russell Sage Junior High School students to Monday’s rally at Borough Hall in honor of the National League champions.

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“It took me about three days to make,” Deutscher said.

Another popular poster-wielding fan was Ayton Eller, of Brooklyn, whose creation was titled “2015 World Champions.” When asked by a Chronicle reporter if he was being overconfident, Eller simply said the 2015 Mets have made a believer out of him.

“In a few days,” Eller said, “they’re going to be having a ticker-tape parade.”

In addition to Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’,” the blaring of Queen’s “We Are the Champions” over the sound system added some bravado to an already-confident atmosphere. But it was the speech by former Met John Franco that put the icing on the cake.

“The Mets will be beating the Kansas City Royals,” Franco said. “The only good thing Q about Kansas City is the ribs.”

For nearly two hours, Mets chants, clanging cowbells and air horns drowned out the sound of traffic on Queens Boulevard, which was closed westbound in front of Borough Hall.

One attendee who garnered a crowd of his own was Russell Sage Junior High School math teacher Will Collins.

Earlier this month, the Forest Hills resident called into sports personality Mike Francesa’s radio show and cried on air when discussing Los Angeles Dodgers second baseman Chase Utley’s late slide that broke Mets shortstop Ruben Tejada’s leg in Game 2 of the National League Division Series.

The tearful moment earned him national notoriety, the nickname “Will from Queens” and a chance to sit behind home plate at Citi Field for Game 3 with Francesa, who provided the tickets.

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World Series tickets cost a pretty penny

by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

Mets fans looking to catch the first ever World Series game at Citi Field in person this weekend may have to choose between buying a ticket and paying their October rent.

In anticipation of the Fall Classic returning to Queens on Friday for the first time since 2000, the cost of admission has soared higher than a towering fly ball and broken records, according to ticketing website TiqIQ.com.

In a report released on Oct. 22, the website noted that the combined average ticket price on the secondary market for Games 3, 4 and a potential Game 5 at Citi Field on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, respectively, had climbed to $1,667.82, the most expensive average since TiqIQ began tracking such figures in 2010.

The previous record was set that same year, when San Francisco Giants fans were forced to pay an average of $1,660.96 a pop for seats at AT&T Park to see the eventual World Series champions take on the Detroit Tigers.

Tickets at Boston’s Fenway Park also averaged $1,612.82 during the 2013 World Series, the only other Fall Classic in which mean prices reached the $1,600 mark.

As of Tuesday night, standing-room-only tickets could be had on the popular website Stubhub.com for as little as $638 for Game 3, with the cheapest seats going for the affordable price of $730.

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Bring your binoculars and altitude medicine, though.

For that price, you’ll be sitting in the 14th row of Promenade Reserve 530, high in the upper deck in deep left field.

Looking for that perfect view of the ballpark from Promenade Gold 415 behind home plate in the upper deck? Just one seat in the second row on Friday night will cost you $1,500, while two seats in the first row of Promenade Gold 414 means a payment of $2,000 per ticket.

Is sitting on the field level more your thing? Never fear, because two seats in row 31 of Field Box 109 along the first base line in right field can be yours for a mere $1,450 each.

But if you want to heckle the umpire from a spot right behind home plate, you better hope you’ve been saving up enough money from every paycheck over the last 15 years, as four seats in the third row of Delta Gold 13 will run you $20,000 per ticket.

But that’s nothing compared to a single standingroom-only listing for the low, low price of just $800,000.

Maybe one lucky fan will find him or herself standing next to Jamaica Estates native Donald Trump on Friday at Citi Field.

According to USA Today, citing TiqIq spokesperson Jesse Lawrence, the Mets’ lengthy World Series drought has allowed 15 years of demand to build, leading to the obscenely high prices.

Games 4 and 5 are a bit cheaper to attend, but not by much. The least expensive listing for Saturday’s contest is $575, while a seat at Sunday’s tilt will cost you at least Q $574.

Who are Yankees fans cheering for?

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The New York Mets and the crosstown Yankees may call the same city home, but that doesn’t mean diehard fans of the Bronx Bombers are pulling for the boys from Queens in the World Series.

As the Mets marched their way to the Fall Classic this month, the team’s legion of supporters seemed to grow exponentially. Some of those newfound fans normally align themselves with the Yankees, but with the Bombers being bounced from the playoffs in the Wild Card Game, a “root for the New York team” narrative has taken off.

However, diehard fans of the Bronx franchise haven’t followed suit. Just ask Bellemore, LI resident Vinny Milano, best known

by Yankees fans worldwide as “Bald Vinny.”

“I don’t think anyone who’s a fan of any sports team should be rooting for anyone else,” Milano, a former resident of Astoria, Springfield Gardens and Forest Hills, said in a phone interview last Friday. “You live and die by your team. You choose one and that’s where your loyalty lies forever.”

The 40-year-old leader of the “Bleacher Creatures” — the group of season ticket holders who occupy Section 203 beyond Yankee Stadium’s right field fence — has gained

notoriety over the last decade for his line of unique Yankees tee shirts and as the voice of the “Roll Call,” where the fans in Section 203 chant the name of each Bomber fielder until he acknowledges the group.

With no defenders to name call, Milano said he won’t be rooting for either the Royals or the Mets in the World Series and neither should most other Yankees fans.

“The only Yankees fans that are pulling for the Mets have a vested interest,” he said.

“Like they own a bar or have close friends or family members that are Mets fans.

“The casual people who say it’s good for the city are not real fans,” he continued.

“Those aren’t people I’d waste my time with.”

When it comes to Yankees fans supporting the Amazin’s, Mets diehard Keith Blacknick says all are welcome on the bandwagon.

Blacknick, the founder of the annual Queens Baseball Convention and a contributor to the popular MetsPolice.com fansite, said in a phone interview last Friday that he’s seen a number of Yankees fans cheer for the Mets in support of their long-suffering fans.

“We’ve seen a bunch of Yankees fans saying they want to see the Mets win because the fans deserve it,” Blacknick, a Woodside resident, said. “It doesn’t surprise me. If your friends know what you’ve gone through,

Famous Yankees fan Vinny Milano, left, says no self-respecting lover of the Bronx Bombers should be rooting for the Mets, while influential Amazin’s supporter Keith Blacknick says all are welcome on the Queens bandwagon, but only if they remain permanently.

TWITTER PHOTOS they’ll support you.”

When it comes to converting those casual Yankees fans inclined to support the Mets as they take on the Kansas City Royals in the World Series, Blacknick said he wouldn’t be opposed to seeing more Citi Field seats filled with new faces in the coming seasons.

“A lot of Yankees fans aren’t even real fans. Some of them jumped on the bandwagon and only know them winning,” he said. “I don’t want bandwagon fans but if this is the way for them to become real Mets fans and stay Mets fans instead of going back to the Yankees, then I’m all for it.”

The two superfans, who both have thousands of followers on Twitter, also differ on who will win the World Series.

“I want the Mets to lose in seven games,”

Milano said. “Draw out the agony.”

“I don’t care which team comes into Citi Field,” Blacknick said, prior to the Royals defeating the Toronto Blue Jays in the American League Championship Series, “the Mets are going to win.”

But even though the fan bases of both teams may never see eye-to-eye, Milano said he has a great deal of respect for diehard fans like Blacknick.

“Those guys are super loud and passionate,” he said. “I feel awesome for them.”

But if the roles were reversed and it was the Yankees in the World Series, Milano strongly believes Mets fans wouldn’t be rooting for their fellow New Yorkers.

“People dislike the Yankees,” he said.

Q “People take joy in watching us lose.”

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by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

What fun would the World Series be without a few friendly wagers?

That’s the mentality of elected officials from both New York and Missouri, who placed some tasty bets this week on the 2015 World Series, which pits the New York Mets against the Kansas City Royals.

The most encompassing wager is between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his Missouri counterpart, Gov. Jay Nixon. Should the Mets win the Fall Classic, Nixon must wear a Mets jersey for an entire workday in addition to sending Cuomo a commemorative jersey from the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum; a bag of platinum edition blend coffee from The Roasterie in Kansas City; barbecue ribs from Gates BBQ and a Ford F-150 baseball cap.

Should the Royals win, Cuomo would have to wear a Kansas City jersey to work and send Nixon a hat from the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, bagels from JR’s Bagels in Springfield Gardens, original Anchor Bar wing sauce from Western New York, Gianelli’s hot Italian sausage from Central New York and a sam-

Rep. Grace Meng shows her support for the PHOTO COURTESY U.S. HOUSE hometown Mets. pling of craft beers from across the state.

“This year’s World Series is a matchup between two truly great teams,” Cuomo said, “but there is no doubt in my mind that the ‘Miracle Mets’ are going on to win it all.”

Queens elected officials also got in on the

fun, with Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing) making a bet with Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-Kan.) over the Fall Classic.

The losing lawmaker must take a picture of herself wearing the winning team’s jersey wh i le cong r at u lat i ng t he v ict or iou s representative.

District Attorney Richard Brown is hoping to dine on some Midwest barbecue next week, as his bet with Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker revolves around iconic food from each state.

If the Mets come away the victor, Peters Baker must provide Brown with barbecue from a to-be-determined eatery. But if the Royals are the ones hoisting the trophy, hero sandwiches from Mama’s of Corona will be shipped to Kansas City.

But it was Rep. Joe Crowley (D-Bronx, Queens) who’s wagering dessert with his Missour i counter par t, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.).

If the Royals win, Crowley will be sending Italian ice from the Lemon Ice King of Corona, as well as heros from Mama’s of Corona, to Missouri. If the Mets win, Gates BBQ will be providing a serving of food to Q Crowley, in addition to Cuomo.

QBC 2016 set for Maspeth After two years at McFadden’s within Citi Field, the increasingly popular Queens Baseball Convention is relocating to Maspeth.

The offseason will be a bit shorter this year, thanks to the New York Mets’ trip to the World Series, but fans looking for a baseball fix this winter can come to O’Neill’s at 64-21 53 Drive on Jan. 23 for a day of giveaways, panel discussions and guest speakers.

“This week, let’s all focus on the primary goal, winning it all while dressed nicely,” event organizer Keith Blacknick announced on fansite MetsPolice.com.

“We have baseball to watch, parades to attend and then we can focus on gathering together again in January.”

Hundreds descended on McFadden’s for the inaugural QBC in 2014, with Mets legend Ron Darling drawing a huge crowd as he signed autographs.

This past January, the guest of honor was former Met Mookie Wilson, who shared stories and signed autographs. Q

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Before you dive head-first into buying a home, make sure that you know how much you can afford. The first step is to calculate your “debt-to-income ratio.” You can do this by adding up your current monthly bills then subtracting your total current income. This will help you determine whether you can afford a mortgage payment, and if so, what amount might fit into your budget. Using an online mortgage calculator is a good way to help you determine what the estimated cost of your monthly mortgage payment will be. Doing these calculations first will help you assess your resources and determine your budget to purchase a home.

2. The loan application. Download a blank loan application ahead of time so you can look it over and familiarize yourself with it. This will give you an idea of the information you need when completing and submitting the application.

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Underwriting — An underwriter will review the application and determine the level of credit risk you represent based on your credit score, income, existing debt and down payment. You may be asked to provide additional information about your finances during this step.

4. Satisfying loan conditions and full loan approval. In this step, you will receive a “conditions to approval” list from your lender, which outlines the tasks you must complete before the loan can be closed. For example, the lender may ask for additional documentation to verify income, savings or emergency funds or other proof that you can afford to repay the loan. At this point in the process the lender may offer a conditional loan approval and start the document verification process. If you accept the conditional loan approval offer, once all conditions have been met, the lender will issue a full loan approval.

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Halloween comes alive in Hamilton Michael Giglio decorates his house to pay tribute to a ‘dying tradition’

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

More than 10 years ago, Michael Giglio and his Richmond Hill neighbors attracted celebrities such as Billy Joel and Mayor Giuliani to their dead-end block to check out their holiday decorations.

Now a resident of Hamilton Beach, Giglio doesn’t get quite the crowd he used to. But that hasn’t stopped him from going all out during this time of year.

He’s decorated his house at 102-24 Rau Court with hundreds of lights and a few scarecrows and other spooky items by his front lawn.

That’s way down from the more than 40,000 lights and hundreds of animated dolls he’d put on display at his previous house.

But he’d still like to see people come to his home to appreciate the work he put into it, as they did all those years ago in Richmond Hill.

“I miss them,” Giglio said of the crowd that used to come out every year.

The problem isn’t that he’s in a smaller house now, it’s his proximity to the water.

During a regular rainfall, he could have up to 10 and a half feet of water in front of his house. During Superstorm Sandy, that number was 12 feet.

“It’s treacherous here,” Giglio said.

Michael Giglio’s Hamilton Beach house seeks to keep the Halloween spirit alive. The enthusiastic decorator said Oct. 31 seems to be taking a backseat to Christmas. Giglio wants to see people PHOTO BY ANTHONY O’REILLY come out to his house to check out his work.

One year, the South Queens resident went all out for Halloween. Those decorations were washed away before any trick or treaters could get to his door.

“I get a call from my neighbor saying, ‘You have to come home right now. All your decorations are f loating down the

street,’” he said.

The witches, ghouls and pumpkins now adorning the front of his property are a dime a dozen, he said. He doesn’t have to worry if those get soaked.

Although acknowledging the limits he faces, he’d love to make an even bigger affair

out of the holiday.

“Would I love to go big? Absolutely,” he said.

But there’s another problem Giglio faces: An apparent lack of Halloween decorations in the New York area.

“It’s a dying tradition,” he said, adding that many stores have more Christmas items out at this time of year.

Many of the items he bought, Giglio said, have come from down south or were purchased online.

Once Halloween comes and goes, the next stop for the Rau Court property is to deck the halls for Dec. 25.

But again, many of the decorations Giglio used at his last home cannot be put out in Hamilton Beach, due to the flood risk.

He said he’s sold many of his decorations, but kept a good number of them to use at the house he’s been living in for eight years.

Just like he’s hoping for Halloween, he would like to see people come out to the house and admire the Christmas lights.

Giglio is also planning on asking for donations outside the house to benefit the West Hamilton Beach Volunteer Fire Department, the headquarters of which is around the corner.

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32, including Queens Rep. Grace Meng’s brother, are facing lesser charges in Pa.

by Michael Gannon

Chun Hsien “Michael” Deng, 19, was a pledge with the Pi Delta Psi fraternity at Five fraternity members from Queens were Baruch College in Manhattan.

Authorities allege that he was undergoing a formally charged with third-degree murder on Thursday in the alleged hazing death of Oak- fraternity initiation rite called the Glass Ceiling, in which he and other pledges allegedly land Gardens teenager Michael Deng in 2013.

Charles Lai, 24, Kenny Kwan, 26, Ray- were blindfolded and fitted with 30-pound back pack s before mond Lam, 22, Daniel being forced to run Li, 23 and Sheldon through a gauntlet of Wong, 23, also were he delay in treatment fraternity members charged in Monroe who hit and tackled C ou nt y, Pa . w it h of 1 to 2 hours t h e m o n a c ol d i nvolu nt a r y m a n December night outslaughter, aggravated significantly side a rented house. assault, simple Authorities allege assault, h i nder i ng contributed to the that fraternity memapprehension, hazing death of Mr. Deng.” bers waited more and conspiracy. than an hour before The Pi Delta Psi — Monroe County, Pa. grand jury seeking medical help Fraternity also was hit after Deng collapsed with all five charges.

Lai and Kwan additionally were charged and became unresponsive.

They also allege that fraternity members with possession of drug paraphernalia and attempted to conceal the fraternity’s involvepossession of a controlled substance.

Pennsylvania authorities confirmed that ment and coordinate stories while Deng lay Lai is from Queens Village; Lam from Kew stricken inside the house.

The 15-page grand jury report, dated Sept.

Gardens Hills; Kwan from Astoria; and both 17, recommended charges against 32 other Wong and Li from the borough of Queens.

They could face up to 40 years in prison people, including Andy Meng, the brother of under Pennsylvania law for the most seri- Congresswoman Grace Meng (D-Flushing).

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fraternity at the time of Deng’s death.

Authorities allege that Meng, via text message, directed fraternity members to hide or dispose of things that bore the name or letters of the fraternity.

The Pennsylvania grand jury findings

include testimony from Dr. Wayne Ross, a forensic pathologist, who found that Deng suffered from significant blunt force trauma and died as a result of traumatic brain injury.

No trace of alcohol or drugs was found after Deng was admitted to a hospital.

While some witnesses told police they brought Deng to a hospital within 15 to 20 minutes, the grand jury determined that “the delay in treatment of 1 to 2 hours significantly contributed to the death of Mr. Deng.”

Police officers executing a search warrant at the house allegedly seized a large sandbag that was placed in pledges’ backpacks; as well as numerous articles of clothing, banners and paddles.

A black, hooded sweatshirt and T-shirt found in a garbage bag allegedly tested positive for Deng’s DNA. Police told the grand jury that all cell phones seized under the warrant were processed “and revealed text message amongst members of the fraternity referring to getting stories straight, hiding the fraternity gear, and Deng’s ritual being too hard.”

Further analysis allegedly showed that several of the phones were used to search for terms such as “concussion — adults,” “Concussion can’t wake up,” “unconscious,” “snoring but not waking up” and “pupils Q don’t dilate.”

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Cross Harbor proposals continue to take shape Controversial rail tunnel idea is one of two possibilities still on the table

by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has whittled down its list of ideas to better ship freight in and around New York City to just two, and some residents of southwestern Queens won’t be fans of one of the finalists.

After months of crunching numbers, the Port Authority released its Tier I Environmental Impact Statement late last month, with the agency choosing to further study implementing either a railcar float system on the waters of Upper New York Bay between New Jersey and Brooklyn or a subterranean rail tunnel connecting the two states, with the Fresh Pond Rail Yard in Glendale serving as a critical intermodal terminal.

The purpose of the Cross Harbor Freight Initiative is to get as many cargo trucks off the metropolitan area’s aging bridge and roadway systems as possible, and the Port Authority estimates that both options would divert at least 2.8 million tons of freight per year.

However, Community Board 5, southwest Q ueens act ivists a nd residents have slammed the rail tunnel idea for years, claiming that with the Fresh Pond Rail Yard becoming a site where numerous trains

Community Board 5 has come out against the possibility of building a freight tunnel underneath Upper New York Bay multiple times in years past, most recently at a Port Authority public hearing FILE PHOTO at Borough Hall in March. would offload their cargo onto trucks, the amount of truck traffic in area neighborhoods would dramatically increase.

The agency acknowledged such concerns in its report, saying it would commission indepth studies of area truck traffic, emissions from vehicles and trains, noise and any other impacts the construction of a tunnel

and usage of the Fresh Pond Rail Yard may have on surrounding neighborhoods.

Even with the various drawbacks of the plan, the Port Authority report notes that transporting freight via train through a tunnel under the bay would provide the biggest reduction in cargo being driven across the Hudson River and increase in

jobs for area residents.

“The rail tunnel alternative would result in a reduction of 700 to 900 trucks per day, or 2 to 2.5 percent, across all bridges crossing the harbor and Hudson River in the 23-county analysis region in the eastbound direction,” the report reads. “The rail tunnel alternative would generate approximately 12,500 to 18,000 direct job-years.”

When it comes to the actual implementation of either idea, the construction of terminals on both the New Jersey and Brooklyn sides would take approximately two years, while a minimum of eight years would be needed to construct a freight tunnel.

At a Borough Board meeting in January, Director of New Port Initiatives Mark Hoffer said the rail idea would cost between $7 and $11 billion, while the cost of the float option would run upwards of $600 million.

“We’re going to have to be partners in terms of funding,” Hoffer said in January.

“A federal partnership or a private sector partnership will be needed.”

Options that were discarded over the last year by the Port Authority included a cargo truck ferry and a tunnel beneath the bay that would allow both vehicles and freight trains to pass through.

In-depth analysis of the two remaining Q projects will start in 2016.

Forest Hills High most overcrowded: UFT Union report says Queens classes are more packed than other boros

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There may be about 1,000 fewer oversized classes in public schools throughout the city this year compared to 2014, according to the United Federation of Teachers, but some Queens schools are still plagued with severe overcrowding.

In a report released on Oct. 19, the UFT cited Forest Hills High School as having the most overcrowded classrooms of any public school in the city this year with 264, three more than Bayside’s Benjamin Cardozo High School and 14 more than Hillcrest High School.

Long Island City High School is a distant fourth with 140 overpacked classes and Francis Lewis High School rounds out the top five with 136, as of Sept.

18.

The Fresh Meadows school would still have led any other borough in terms of overcrowded rooms, as Brooklyn was topped by the 135 such classes at Fort Hamilton High School.

In comparison, there were 120 swamped rooms in Staten Island’s Curtis High School, 30 in Manhattan’s Frederick Douglass Academy and just 23 in Bronx High School of Science.

Kingergarten classes are labeled as overcrowded once they exceed 25 students. With grades one through six, the limit is 32 kids. At the middle school level, it’s 33 students And in high school, 34 pupils is considered the standard, according to the UFT’s contract with the city.

However, there has been steady improvement in

the borough over the last year.

According to the UFT, there are 1,924 classes over the contractual limit in Queens this year as opposed to 2,329 last year. The number of oversized classes at Francis Lewis High School plummeted from 254 last year at this time to 135 this year.

At a press conference in Manhattan last week, UFT President Michael Mulgrew said the news was encouraging.

“We are moving in the right direction,” Mulgrew said, “but still have a long way to go.”

In terms of overcrowded classrooms citywide, there are 5,485 across the five boroughs in 2015, a sharp decline from 6,447 just last year.

The drop is the first in three years, as the number of packed classes steadily rose from 6,133 in 2012.

The city’s previous high was 6,978 in 2010.

Among elementary and middle schools, Queens leads the way with 734 total overcrowded classes, with Brooklyn’s 566 rooms, the Bronx’s 314, Manhattan’s 227 and Staten Island’s 185 falling by the wayside.

According to Mulgrew, 33,000 children are now learning in classrooms no longer labeled overcrowded this year, but 180,000 kids are still learning in jammed spaces throughout the city.

“I want to thank Mayor de Blasio and Chancellor Fariña for starting to tackle the class size issue, and thousands of students today are in classes smaller than they would have been thanks to the administration’s efforts,” Mulgrew said. “But much more Q remains to be done.”

There are 264 overcrowded classrooms in Forest Hills High School, according to a United Federation for Teachers report released on Oct. 19, more than any other public school in the five boroughs. Cardozo High School ranks second with PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON 261.

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People of all ages were able to enjoy facepainting, a pumpkin patch, free food and giveaways, live entertainment and more from noon to 3 p.m. during the festivities.

The FDNY showed up with its 150th anniversary memorial truck to let children get a sneak peek inside. The Sanitation Department also brought one of its trucks along.

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The story of the infamous 1978 Lufthansa heist has been told for years through the eyes of those who allegedly pulled it off.

Little has been told of what the employees at John F. Kennedy International Airport went through.

Until now.

Rolf Rebmann testified in Brooklyn federal court on Tuesday during the trial of Howard Beach resident Vinny Asaro, a Bonanno family associate who is the only person to be formally charged in connection with the robbery.

Rebm a n n , accord i ng to publ ished reports, said gun-toting, mask-wearing men burst into the JFK facility and started telling everyone there what to do.

“Do what we tell you, we don’t want to hurt you,” the men said, according to Rebmann’s recollection of that night, made famous in the film “Goodfellas.”

The man then had his shirt pulled over his head so he could not see and marched him into a van, where another employee who had earlier been cracked on the head was placed.

The other captive was Kerry Whalen, who has a self-published book called “Inside the Lufthansa Heist: The FBI Lied.”

Whalen, according to Rebmann’s testimony, was hit on the head because he had tried to sound the alarm on the robbers.

“One of them stepped over me and hit Kerry,” he said. “There is this guy who hollered and tried to run.”

The goons pulling off what was then the largest robbery in history took the workers’ wallets and said “Stay and don’t get up. We have your wallets and we know where you live.”

Rebmann later handed the keys to an

overhead garage door to the men there.

He was later marched to the lunchroom, where other captives had already been tied up.

“I saw three others, only from approximately the waist down, carrying guns,” Rebmann told prosecutors. “The fellow was leading me around the warehouse with a gun in my back. They put me in the lunchroom and made me lay down on the floor.”

When all was said and done, the masked men made off with more than $6 million in cash and jewels.

Rebmann’s testimony followed four days of Asaro’s cousin, Gaspare Valenti, telling the court how the now-80-year-old man helped to orchestrate the heist.

Asaro was allegedly in charge of overseeing the Bonnano family’s interest at JFK Airport.

He is also facing murder charges in connection to the killing of a low-level mob associate he suspected of being a government snitch.

If convicted on all the charges, he faces life in prison.

Valenti testified last week that he was one of those who pulled off the heist and his orders came from his cousin.

“Make sure you do everything you’re supposed to; don’t dog it,” he recalled being told by Asaro.

The stolen goods were later taken to Valenti’s house, where he swabbed the dollar bills with a cotton swab dipped in bleach to er ase i n k f rom t hem to ma ke t hem untraceable.

The monies and jewels were supposed to be split up among those who helped orchestrate and pull off the heist — though many of them were killed, as is told in “Goodfellas,” based off the book by FBI informant Henry Hill, who was a part of it Q and died in 2013.

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A C I A M A J Z Z A J Melodies mix with mass transit at the AirTrain

by Neil Chiragdin

The story of the program’s formation is a paradigm for a community seeing an opportunity and filling it. Mays initially approached then-Executive Director of the Sutphin Boulevard BID Simone Price last year, seeking a partner who could help find funding.

Price had previously organized live music in front of the nearby courthouse, and quickly came on board. Referring to the large keyboard mural in the concourse atrium, Price said,“Our roots are embedded right here on our walls,” and that she is “proud to pay homage to where we come from and who we are.”

Here, she refers to Queens’s long history in the jazz world. In the main atrium of the AirTrain station, the names of jazz greats such as Billie Holiday adorn the wall under a heading — “Queens: Home to Jazz Legends.”

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All fluorescence and bustle, the transit hub seems to slow as a smooth bass line swings into the station. Nobody seems prepared for an impromptu jazz show. Moments later, Vicky Love’s soulful crooning draws passersby into a full stop.

The band’s name? Prest 4 Time.

This was the scene at the Sutphin Boulevard AirTrain concourse in Jamaica last Thursday. The show is part of a weekly program run by nonprofit A Better Jamaica, in coordination with the Sutphin Boulevard Business Improvement District.

Greg Mays, A Better Jamaica founder, said the program is intended to bring a few moments of peace into the lives of AirTrain travelers. The commuting space can see more than 10,000 passengers in a single day.

“You’ll see people coming and going here, and the shows are designed to bring the place itself to life,” Mays said.

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W H AT ’ S H A P P E N I N G EXHIBITS “The Hollywood Classics behind Walkers,” screening series, exhibition artist talks. Nov. 8-Dec. 27, Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria. $12 adults, $9 seniors/students, $3 kids 3-12. Info: movingimage.us.

Watercolors by Christine Yost, until Nov. 24. Voelker Orth Museum, Bird Sanctuary, 149-19 38 Ave., Flushing. Suggested $2 donation. Info: Deborah Silverfine (718) 359-6227, vomuseum.org.

“Altered Appearances,” images that are not always what they appear to be. Thru Jan. 4. Fisher Landau Center for Art, 38-27 30 St., Long Island City. Free. (718) 937-0727, flcart.org.

MUSIC RAM Presents: “Groundings & Imaginings” celebrating 10 years. Random Access Music players and violinist Sabina Torosjan. Sat., Nov. 7, 8 p.m.

Broom Tree Theatre, 23-35 Bdwy., Astoria. Tickets: $15, brownpapertickets.com/event/2403320.

THEATRE “Flying Solo 3,” festival of solo shows, Oct. 28-Nov. 1. The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23 St., Long Island City. $18. For full schedule and ticket information, visit: secrettheatre.com.

“Othello,” staged Shakespeare reading by Queens Library and Titan Theatre Company. Mon., Nov. 2, 5:30 p.m., Central Library, 89-11 Merrick Blvd., Jamaica. Info: titantheatrecompany.com.

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Shakespeare’s classic comedy by The Gingerbread Players. Sat., Nov. 7, 14, 7:30 p.m. Sun., Nov. 8, 15, 2:30 p.m. St. Luke’s Church, 85 Greenway South, Forest Hills. $12.

Info/tickets: (718) 268-7772, gingerbreadplayers.org.

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FILM “Merchants of Doubt,” documentary about climate change, toxic hazards. Thurs., Nov. 12, 7:30 p.m.

Sacred Heart Church, JOBO Center, 215-35 38 Ave., Bayside. Free. Info: Maura Vance (917) 670-8140, sacredheartbayside.net.

HALLOWEEN Halloween party, Kew Gardens Community Center, Fri., Oct. 30, 1 p.m., 80-02 Kew Gardens Road, Suite 202. Info: (718) 268-5960.

“Come Celebrate Halloween,” The Bowne House Historical Society, Sat. Oct. 31, 1-3 p.m. 37-01 Bowne St., Flushing. Family-friendly Colonial crafts and caramel apples. Fun for all. $3 per child. Info: (718) 359-0528, bownehouse.org.

The Flying Solo Festival at The Secret Theatre continues its one-person shows through Nov. 1.

Alley Pond Environmental Center events: Teeny Tiny Trick O’Treaters, Fri., Oct. 30, 1-2:30 p.m. $21, kids 18 months-4, wear costumes, make crafts, have snack, play games. Haunted Forest Halloween Hike, Fri., Oct. 30, 6:30-8 p.m. $13, kids 8-12 (drop off only), wear costumes and bring courage, enjoy a cupcake too. Happy Halloween Happpening, Sat., Oct. 31, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. $26, kids 5-7, scavenger hunt, decorate pumpkins, hear a story, meet animal friends. APEC, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston. Pre-registration req’d. for all events.

Contact: (718) 229-4000, alleypond.com.

Halloween Haunted Waters walking tour, Sat., Oct. 31, noon. Greater Astoria Historical Society trustee leads 2.5-hour tour of Astoria waterfront.

Wear sturdy shoes, bring water. $15, $10 GAHS members, $5 if in costume. Meet under Hell Gate Bridge at Shore and Ditmars blvds. Tour ends at Socrates Sculpture Park.

Halloween Fest-On-Mall, 36th annual event by the 207th St. Block Association. Sat., Oct. 31, 4-7 p.m., on the grass mall at 208 St. and 42 Ave. in Bayside.

Betty the Witch is back to tell spooky tales. Free.

Annual Halloween festival, Flushing Town Hall, Sat., Oct. 31, 4-7 p.m. 137-35 Northern Blvd. Come in costume, celebrate with mask-making, pumpkin piñatas, ghost stories and holiday treats! Free. Info: (718) 463-7700, ext. 222; flushingtownhall.org.

“Boo at the Zoo,” Sat.-Sun., Oct. 31-Nov. 1, 10 a.m.4:30 p.m. Queens Zoo, 53-51 111 St., Flushing. Highlights include face painting, crafts, pumpkin treats for the zoo’s animals and much more. $8 adults, $6 seniors, $5 kids (3-12). Info: (718) 205-3428.

COMMUNITY Free speech and language screenings, for children ages birth to 5. Wed., Nov. 11, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. If you have concerns with your child’s understanding, listening, vocabulary, eating, articulation, language or behavior, please call to schedule a screening with a +licensed speech-language pathologist in Bayside office, 214-26 41 Ave. Info: (516) 731-5588, ext 216.

Animal Care Centers Foster Orientation: pets ready for foster care, prior to adoption, sponsored by Councilman Paul Vallone. Thurs., Oct. 29, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Vallone’s office, 42-40 Bell Blvd., Suite 507, Bayside. Info: nycacc.org/foster.htm.

“Tea and Torah,” join Judith Rosenthal and friends at the Hillcrest Jewish Center, 183-02 Union Tpke., Flushing, every Mon., 2:30 p.m. No previous Torah knowledge necessary. Info: Judith (718) 464-7681, heyjude523@nyc.rr.com.

Tuesday Night Bingo, every Tuesday in Nov., Rego Park Jewish Center, 97-30 Queens Blvd. Early game, 7 p.m., doors open at 6 p.m., regular games at 7:15 p.m., $4 includes 12 games. Cash prizes, everyone 18 & over. Info: (718) 459-1000.

BOOK TALKS “Leadership in the Bible” and This Topsy-Turvy World, by co-author David Arnow, Ph. D. Sun., Nov. 1, 2-4 p.m. The Sephardic Jewish Center of Forest Hills, 67-67 108 St. Books for purchase and signing. $5, parking available. Info: (718) 268-2100.

“Wherever There Is Light,” new novel by awardwinning author Peter Golden. Mon., Nov. 2, 6:30 p.m. Flushing Library, 41-17 Main St. at Kissena Blvd. Books for purchase and signing. Free. Info: (718) 990-0700.

“The Danish Girl” by award-winning novelist David Ebershoff. Sat., Nov. 7, 3 p.m. Queens Central Library, 89-11 Merrick Blvd., Jamaica.

Books for purchase and signing. Free. Register: http://deberhoff.eventbrite.com/?aff=Chronicle.

KIDS/TEENS Free kids’ dental screenings, by NYU College of Dentistry’s Smiling Faces, Going Places Dental Van, every Wed. in Oct., 3-8 p.m., outside PS 65, 103-22 99 St., Ozone Park. For kids 14 and under. Free dental cleanings, regardless of insurance. Must be with parent/guardian. Info: (718) 323-1685.

COURTESY PHOTOS

Gym and creative exploration for disabled preschool children (ages 3-5) and their families, every Mon. and Wed., 3-4:30 p.m. Samuel Field Y, 58-20 Little Neck Pkwy, Little Neck. $5 per family. Info: Amanda, (718) 423-6111 ext. 242, ASmith@sfy.org.

Free art classes, Latin American Cultural Center of Queens at ARROW Community Center, 35-30 35 St., Astoria. For ages 8-16, every Tues. & Thurs., 4:30-6 p.m. and Sat., 10-11:30 a.m. Info: (718) 261-7664, laccq@aol.com.

SPECIAL EVENTS Sunday Funday, Jewish music and comedian, Sun., Nov. 8, 2:30-5 p.m. Rego Park Jewish Center, 97-30 Queens Blvd. Family-friendly fun, light refreshments. $20. Info/tickets: (718) 459-1000, rpjc.org.

WORKSHOPS Grantwriting & Social Media Marketing, Queens Council on the Arts. Three-part workshop on expanding resources of social media. Every Fri., Nov. 6-20, 6:30-8:30 p.m. 37-11 35 Ave., Astoria. $10, members free, RSVP required. Info: (347) 505-3018, queenscouncilarts.org.

Poetry writing workshop group: Explore the craft of poetry writing, enrollment is free and open to all. Every Tues. 1:30-3 p.m., Kew Gardens Community Center, 80-02 Kew Gardens Road. Sponsored by Queens Community House. Info: (718) 268-5960, queenscommunityhouse.org.

CLASSES Latin dance lessons, every Thurs. thru Nov. 12, by the Ru Dance NY studio in Flushing. 6-8 p.m.; single classs $10, drop-in rate $15. Open dance floor (8-9 p.m.); $5. Queens Theatre, 14 United Nations Ave. South, Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Info/register: (718) 760-0064. continued on on page page 47 00 continued

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A Philippine panoply of art shows diverse views

by Cristina Schreil

ment in 2000. But, this is the first time the SPA A’s annual exhibition opted for The Philippines is at the center of the Queens instead of its Manhattan space. city’s art world this fall, with a popular “We chose this gallery because this is in exhibition of ancient gold on view at Asia Woodside, where the greatest numbers of Society in Manhattan. But in Woodside, Filipinos are living here in this area, in New wealth of a different nature competes for York,” said SPAA President Carlos Esguerthe spotlight. ra at the exhibition’s At To p a z A r t s , opening. He added, nestled in a neighdrawing laughter, borhood known for “And also, the largWhen: Thru Sat., Nov. 21 its Filipino-American est number of FilipiWhere: Topaz Arts, resident s, 24 new no restaurants.”

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Members of the Society of Philippine-American Artists gather at the “Territory: Unlimited” opening on Oct. 16; and, inset, a work by Athena Santos Magcase-Lopez titled “Ang Ulap.”

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life. A pleasant and pastoral impressionistic landscape oil painting of a distant red barn dotting a seaside cliff hovers not far from a vivid oil-on-canvas work by Aurora Caparas-Corpuz titled “Norwegian Rainbow.” It seems to show the center of a peaceful

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New Queens theater productions forthcoming

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A little laughter can go a long way, and thanks to a wide array of attractions on the local community theater boards, there should be plenty of laughs.

Theatre By The Bay presents Stephen Sondheim’s “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” the group’s first production under new artistic director Ovi Vargas, who also serves as the show’s director and choreographer. Alan Babof f provides musical direction.

Frank Josephs headlines the cast as a slave in ancient Rome seeking his freedom. He is supported by Sam Hunt, as a slave who is inadvertently caught up in wily schemes; Eli Koenig, as a dirty old man; and Lila Edelkind and Andria Amarosa, who alternate as his overbearing wife.

Performances at Bay Terrace Garden Jewish Center at 13-00 209 St. in Bayside are Nov. 7 to

Nov. 22. Tickets are $22; or $20 for seniors 62 and over and children under 13. For more, call (718) 428-6363.

William Shakespeare’s comedy, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” arrives through The Gingerbread Players. The play, which follows the adventures of young Athenian lovers and amateur actors manipulated by fairies, is under Dolly Guinther’s direction.

The cast includes Jim Chamberlain as Oberon, Terri Matassov as Titania, Andrew Dinan as Bottom, Louise Guinther as Puck and David Friedman as Theseus.

Performances are at St. Luke’s Church at 85 Greenway South in Forest Hills, Nov. 7 to Nov. 15. The suggested donation is $12. To learn more, call (718) 268-7772.

Opening Nov. 13 at the Douglaston Community Theatre is James Yaffe’s “Cliffhanger,” a comedy thriller on academic rivalry filled with unexpected twists.

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“The Pajama Game,” a classic musical comedy, returns thanks to the Parkside Players, with tunes “Hernando’s Hideaway” and “Hey There.”

In an unusual casting move, real-life husband and wife Mario Francisco Robles and Kristin Alexandra Robles play the leading roles.

He’s the new superintendent of a pajama factory, while she heads the workers’ grievance committee.

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Terri Matassov, left, and Jim Chamberlain, who play Titania and Oberon in The Gingerbread Players’ production of “A Midsummer PHOTO COURTESY JEAN TESSIER Night’s Dream,” starting Nov. 7.

Ushering in the new year will be David Ives’ “All In the Timing,” a series of short one-act plays, presented by the First String Players, under Stef Morisi’s direction.

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Queens and the jazz tradition that comes The major transit hub is a junction for from this community,” Roberson said, not18 buses, two subway lines, the AirTrain to ing that the per formers were chosen JFK Airport and all but one of the Long through a serious vetting process.

Last week’s band, Prest 4 Time, is an Island Rail Road’s branches — the latter of which may see more than 200,000 pas- R&B group with jazz influences that has played at the Jamaica sengers pass through Farmers Market and in a single day. will w be at the Queens The Port Authority, Night Market for its which maintains the final Saturday of the f station, played a cru2015 season on Hal2 cial role in coordinatWhen: Thursdays, 5 p.m.- 7 p.m. loween.

They’re one l ing the weekly shows. thru mid-May 2016 of the 20 bands After a pilot program already booked for a last autumn of eight Where: 93-40 Sutphin Blvd.; the sea son, which t shows ended, passenJamaica AirTrain Atrium, runs through midr ger s b ega n to a sk Concourse Level May, with just a few M when the music Website: abetterjamaica.org openings remaining. o would return, and it S o f a r, ha lf t he became clear that the acts are from Jamaia shows had to go on.

For Jerome Roberson, operations super- ca or the larger Southeastern Queens visor at JFK, chairperson at the Sutphin area. Bringing together culture and his Boulevard BID and a Cambria Heights resi- communit y is of great impor tance to dent who “grew up listening to Thelonious Mays. A Better Jamaica runs 10 initiatives Monk and Wynton Marsalis,” the program throughout the year, including film festivals, holiday music and a reading tutor holds personal significance.

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Prest 4 Time band members Glenn Gibson, left, on guitar, Sandy Anderson, on bass, lead vocalist Vicky Love and Ismail Ibrahim, on drums, perform at the Sutphin Boulevard AirTrain station in Jamaica last Saturday. Not pictured is keyboardist Fred Simmons. All PHOTOS BY NEIL CHIRAGDIN sing too. On the cover: another view of the show. first-graders. All ser ve to improve and enrich Jamaica residents’ lives.

For the great ambition of his nonprofit, Mays claimed he “just fell into” this position at the fulcrum of artistic enrichment and social outreach.

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Special guest, CUNY nursing student to answer questions on blood pressure, food and medication interaction and more. Thurs.-Fri., Oct. 29-30, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Medicare Changes and open enrollment seminar, Wed., Nov. 4, 10:30 a.m. Info: (718) 738-8100.

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

St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church, outdoors, Union Tpke. at Parsons Blvd.-150 St., Jamaica, every Sat. & Sun. until Nov., 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

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NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF QUEENS Wells Fargo Bank, NA, Plaintiff, against Dorrick Nurse, Deryck Nurse, Jennifer Nurse, et al., Defendant(s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated 10/9/2014 I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the Queens County Supreme Court, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, New York, in Courtroom #25 on 11/13/2015 at 10:00AM, premises known as 145-63 176th Street, Jamaica, NY 11434-5231 All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough and County of Queens, City and State of New York, BLOCK 13304, LOT 20.

Approximate amount of judgment $503,099.86 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #32566/09. Victor Levin, Esq., Referee FRENKEL LAMBERT WEISS WEISMAN & GORDON, LLP, Attorney for Plaintiff, 53 Gibson Street, Bay Shore, NY 11706 01-049147-F00 1147971

99 SECOND STREET BKLYN, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 9/22/2015. Office in Queens Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 63-84 Saunders St., #3A, Rego Park, NY 11374, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Cordusio Media LLC. Art of Org. filed with the SSNY on 6-10-15. Office: Queens County. SSNY is designated as the LLC agent and shall mail a copy of any process served against the LLC to: 75-22 37th Ave., #432, Queens NY 11372. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Hoston LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/21/15.

Office in Queens Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served & shall mail process to 55-34 137th St, Flushing, NY 11355. Purpose: General.

NEW YORK CITY GROUND T R A NSP OR TAT ION EB 5, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) on 09/21/2015. Office in Queens Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 33-24 Northern Blvd., Long Island City, NY 11101, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Rehab World Physical Therapy PLLC, a domestic PLLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 7/13/15. Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the PLLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The PLLC, 3815 Northern Blvd., Long Island City, NY 11101.

Purpose: Physical Therapy.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: Astoria Social LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/23/2015. 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 31-57 35th Street, Apt 5 Astoria, NY 11106.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: D’NELLS’S TRANSIT LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/15/2015. 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 Antonella Allison, P.O. Box 110048, Cambria Heights, NY 11411. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORM ATION OF LIMITED LIABILIT Y COMPANY. NAME: JOYCE CRAFT CREATIONS, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09 / 09 /2015. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to C/O UNITED STATES CORPOR ATION AGENTS, INC., 7014 13TH AVENUE, SUITE 202, BROOKLYN, NY 11228. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: OMAR A. CASTANOS PRODUCTIONS LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/16/2015. 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 Omar A. Castanos, 115-01 107th Avenue, Apt. 41, South Richmond Hill, NY 11419-2622. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SRR FAMILY LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/05/15. Office location: Queens County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP, Attn: Steve Ferszt, 1350 Broadway, NY, NY 10018.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED PARTNERSHIP. NAME: B O W N E S T R E E T C A P I TA L PA RTNERS L.P. Ar ticles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/01/2015. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to The Partnership, 4241 247th Street, Little Neck, NY 11363-1642. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: eFabIt, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/22/2015. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to The LLC, 58-77 57th Street, Maspeth, New York 11378. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

JULIA SZE AND ASSOCIATES, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/31/2015. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to The LLC, 82-08 135th Street, Apt. 5K, Kew Gardens, NY 11435. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

One&Only Data Systems, LLC, a domestic LLC, filled with SSNY on 07/01/2015. Office location: Queens County.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Kenneth M. Rubin, 1865 211th Street, Suite 6C, Bayside, NY 11360.

General purpose.

Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company. Name: Sunrise Ocean Aviation Enterprises LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/20/2015. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 14919 Guy R. Brewer Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11434.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 2821 46th STREET REALTY LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/15/2015. Office location: Queens County.

SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process served against the LLC to the LLC at 40-11 23rd Road, Astoria, New York 11105.

Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Credit Data LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 8/11/15. Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 159-41 83rd St., Howard Beach, NY 11414. General purpose.

FYLGDL Realty LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/11/15. Office in Queens Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served & shall mail process to 2118 149 St, Whitestone, NY 11357. Purpose: General.

MATTJAY, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 08/21/15. 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, 11-42 46th Road, Long Island City, NY 11101. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

OUTER BORO MEDIA LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 10/7/2015.

Off. Loc.: Queens Co. NYLLCCO, LLC designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to The LLC, c/o NYLLCCO, LLC, 305 Broadway, Suite 200, New York, NY 10007. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

VNR Capital, LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 9/3/15. Office location: Queens County.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 13805 Jamaica Ave., Queens, NY 11435. General purpose.

Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company. Name: 9308 Ditmars LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/22/2015.

Office location is Queens County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 9308 Ditmars LLC, 136-19 Franklin Ave., Suite 6A, Flushing, NY 11355.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Cheung Family & Sons Holdings LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/30/15.

Office in Queens Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served & shall mail process to Ming Yi Cheung, 6004 84th St, Middle Village, NY 11379.

Purpose: General.

GOPAL REALTY MANAGEMENT, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/28/06.

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, 81-43 262nd Street, Floral Park, NY 11004.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Mind Your Business Hospitality, LLC, a domestic LLC filed with the SSNY on 10/25/15. Office location: Queens County.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to C/O United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. General purpose.

PIERO G. GIUDICE, LLC filed Articles of Organization with the NY Department of State on 8/28/2015. Office Location: County of Queens. The Secretary of State of NY (“SSNY”) has been designated as agent of the PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any such process served to: 66-66 Grand Ave., Maspeth, NY 11378. Purpose: to practice law.

Notice of Formation of WLP 57-38 Myrtle Avenue, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/02/15.

Office location: Queens County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o JCI Realty, 39 Palmer Rd., Scarsdale, NY 10583, Attn: Matthew B. Axelrod.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

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Paul Vallone’s name comes off the bill

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

A proposed fee on plastic and paper bags could be cut to 5 cents, as opposed to 10, as part of a renewed push to have the controversial bill passed by the City Council, according to published reports.

The bill’s sponsors, Councilmembers Brad Lander (D-Brooklyn) and Margaret Chin (D-Manhattan), introduced the legislation two years ago but have yet to gain the support of the Council’s majority.

The legislation’s intent is to get the bags out of landfills. Opponents of it say it would hurt lower- and middle-class people who wouldn’t be able to afford the surcharge on each bag.

One of the opponents is Bertha Lewis, president of the Black Leadership Action Coalition, who in an emailed statement to the Queens Chronicle said, “A five cent tax is still a regressive policy, and it’s still going to hurt low-income families struggling to stay above the poverty line. With rents and other costs of living continue to rise, taxing New York’s most vulnerable

will have a damaging impact.”

The Queens Council members who are listed as supporters of the bill are Donovan Richards (D-Laurelton), Peter Koo (D-Flushing), Elizabeth Crowley (D-Glendale), Danny Dromm (D-Jackson Heights), Majority Leader Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside), Costa Constantinides (D-Astoria), Daneek Miller (D-St. Albans) and Antonio Reynoso (D-Brooklyn, Queens).

Councilman Paul Vallone (D-Bayside) was once a supporter of the bill, but has since removed his name from it.

“When this bill was first introduced I supported it because I recognize the need to address environmental issues for the welfare of our future generations,” Vallone said in an emailed statement. “However in the months since its introduction, we had hoped to see some amendments or compromises made to the bill to address some of the concerns. To date, this hasn’t happened so I cannot continue to support this bill in its current form and have Q taken my name off of it.”

Queens transit meeting continued from page 2 meet standards for insurance, vehicle safety and driver background checks. happen anywhere else in Queens.”

“Right now, we’re working to recruit Several questions to the police precincts had to do with commercial trucks parking drivers,” Gonzalez said, as there are now overnight, though Richards said that is a more licensed commuter vans in the city than people licensed to drive them. problem throughout the borough.

He also said things are in the works to Police also said they are in constant battle with illegal “dollar vans” that operate at and make van decals more counterfeit-proof, and around the Parsons’ Boulevard-Archer Ave- possibly specific color schemes for legal vans. He said the TLC has stopped seizure nue transit hub. of vans pending the Miller and Counciloutcome of recent litiman Rory Lancman gation, though the (D-Fresh Meadows) he transportation NYPD is continuing have two bills before the Council that would alternatives that are to do so when the statutes allow. increase enforcement available to other M i l le r s a id t h at and fines against the while the illegal vans illegal van operators. parts of Queens are have been able to proWhile Miller’s former union supports not available to us.” liferate because of city and MTA neglect, the Miller-Lancman — Councilman Daneek Miller riders have to share bills, the Amalgamatsome blame. e d Tr a n s i t U n i o n “If you get on [an illegal] van, you don’t Local 1056 opposes a third bill by Jumaane Williams (D-Brooklyn) and Ben get the buses,” the councilman said. “They Kallos (D-Manhattan) that would elimi- count every time you drop something in nate the need for van operators to work on the farebox.”

Richards, speaking after the meeting, a prearrangement basis, maintain passenger manifests and renew their licenses said he foresees some kind of regulation down the road of car services like Uber every six years.

Miller and Jason Gonzalez of the TLC’s and Lyft.

“Every industry has some sort of regugeneral counsel’s office said the city is working with legal van operators to combat lation,” he said. “We can’t have a million Q those who are not licensed and who may not cars out there.”

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Houdini’s grave is in Glendale

by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

This Halloween is the 89th anniversary of the death of Harry Houdini, who is buried right here at Machpelah Cemetery, at 82-30 Cypress Hills St. in Glendale.

Burials were outlawed in Manhat- Houdini’s grave at Machpelah Cemetary in Glendale. tan in 1852. Interments in churchyards and private properties became a thing result, from 1975 to 1993 the bust was either of the past. After a new law was passed, defaced or stolen four times. The Society of cemeteries became a legitimate commercial American Magicians restored the bust in enterprise. Acres of land were bought up strong, heavy concrete at great cost in 2014.

One hundred and fifty-five years after it cheaply in rural Queens for the purpose.

Machpelah Cemetery was founded in opened, the cemetery is now filled up. The 1860. Its function was to serve Jewish original families of these immigrant societimmigrants in a network of 83 component ies are long gone. With no new money comburial societies and help with the cost of ing into them, they exist only on paper.

Proper care of the graves has not been given Jewish burials.

For Houdini, born Ehrich Weisz in Buda- for some time.

Today, Queens cemeteries have a populapest, the son of Rabbi Mayer Weisz, this tion of five million deceased, almost three was the perfect burial site.

His funeral was attended by 2,000 times the borough’s living population.

Before you think of visiting Mr. Houdini mourners. His grave was adorned with a bust of his head, installed in 1926. Graven this Halloween, know that the cemetery is images such as that is generally forbidden closed to prevent a circus atmosphere, as Q on the grounds of a Jewish cemetery. As a had developed there in past years.

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A Royal challenge

by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor

The Kansas City Royals are the only impediment between the New York Mets and a parade down the Canyon of Heroes. Although they don’t have a lot of household names, the Royals are a very, very good team — as seen in that grueling, marathon disappointing Game 1.

They don’t make a lot of mental or physical errors and they don’t strike out a lot.

The Royals came within an eyelash of winning the 2014 World Series as they lost to the San Francisco Giants in seven games. I asked Mets manager Terry Collins after his team worked out Saturday afternoon at Citi Field if that’s an intangible asset for KC. Collins emphatically agreed as he outlined how they will be familiar with all of the World Series trappings such as Monday’s media day, when every uniformed team member must be available to the press for Q&A. Royals owner David Glass has been very averse to investing in payroll but has been fortunate to get a pipeline of talented players from the team’s minor league system. Mets CEO Fred Wilpon, even in the aftermath of the Bernie Madoff scandal, has looked like George Steinbrenner in his prime when it comes to spending for players, compared to Glass.

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Mets second baseman Daniel Murphy, who has become Superman during the postseason with his home run-hitting prowess, was asked about how his life has changed in the last two weeks. “Well, I get recognized a lot more wherever I go,” he answered with a smile.

David Wright was one of four Mets appearing on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” last Friday night.

Although he lives in Los Angeles now, Kimmel is a Brooklyn native and a huge Mets fan. He picked a fortuitous week to have his show return to his home borough for tapings.

I asked Wright whether, if the Mets beat the Royals, he would want to host “Saturday Night Live,” just as Derek Jeter did shortly after the Yankees won the 2009 World Series — if he were asked. “Well, it is a little out of my comfort zone but I’d be willing to do it,” he said.

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