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The Howard Beach community woke up on Sunday to find pornographic and lewd graffiti sprayed all over PS 207. The perpetrators, thought to be youths associated with the school, have not yet been caught. Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder also focused on the issue by asking for agencies to step up and clean markings on rocks by a Hamilton Beach coastline.

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MSG Co. applies to host Queens festival Up to 225,000 people may flood Flushing Meadows over three days

by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

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lushing Meadows Corona Park isn’t only popular with Queens families, it’s also become a desirable site for promoters looking to hold music festivals.

A month after AEG Live — the company behind the massive, wildly popular Coachella music festival in California — announced it was interested in creating a similar event in Queens called Panorama, the Madison Square Garden Co. said Monday it has filed applications with the Parks Department to do the exact same thing.

MSG revealed in a release that the yet unnamed music and arts festival would be held from Friday, June 24 to Sunday, June 26 and would draw an estimated 225,000 attendees to see the approximately 40 acts spanning many genres of music.

On Saturday, June 18, MSG said, it will host a “free Queens community celebration” featuring a concert played by acts from the borough, food vendors, children’s games, a New York Knicks basketball clinic and ticket giveaways for the festival and events at Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan.

The New York Mets, who play at Citi Field on the northern edge of the park, are on the road in late June and MSG added

The Unisphere may be the backdrop for not just one, but two massive music festivals in Flushing Meadows Corona Park next June, something Borough President Katz and park conservancy head PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA Jean Silva strongly oppose. that none of the park’s soccer fields will have to be closed during the event.

“The festival will feature a world-class lineup of music talent, a wide array of interactive activities and experiences, a free Queens community celebration and

investments in the park and the Queens com munit y,” the company said in its release.

According to Parks Department spokeswoman Meghan Lalor, the agency is reviewing applications to host June festivals

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The potential large-scale events overtaking the park have both Borough President Melinda Katz and Flushing Meadows Corona Park Conservancy President Jean Silva worried, but for slightly different reasons.

According to Katz, the apparent lack of a public review process and the renting of the park by a for-profit group hosting a paid-admission gathering is both unprecedented and inappropriate.

“While public events of any scale that enhance our borough are encouraged, I take issue when it is at the expense of cutting off public access to our treasured parks,” Katz said in a statement issued Monday. “Doing so without a public review process would fly in the face of the very principle behind our public parks, which is space designated for public access and equity.

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Mayor says Build it Back will finish work on single-family homes by ’17

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

Not everyone believes that construction on single-family homes that are a part of the Build it Back program will be finished by the end of next year, as was promised by Mayor de Blasio on the third anniversary of Superstorm Sandy last Thursday.

“I think it was too optimistic,” state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) said. “I would’ve rather have him say we’re going to hit 80 percent — this way if they hit 90 or 95 percent, it looks like a success. If they hit 90 or 95 now, it’s a failure.”

On Staten Island, the borough hardest hit by Sandy, de Blasio admitted it will take a lot of hard work to keep his promise.

“We’re going to need a lot of contractors who keep to their schedules, and we’re going to push them very hard on that,” the mayor told reporters. “And it’s going to take every bureaucracy getting out of the way ... But it is a very tough deadline — I’m not minimizing how much of a challenge it is — but we believe if we give it all we’ve got, we can get it done.”

De Blasio in spring 2014 overhauled the Build it Back program, cutting red tape involved in the process and appointing Amy Peterson as the head of the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Recovery.

Before he did that, the program had not started construction on a single house or sent

Mayor de Blasio, right, seen here last year in Broad Channel with the Galimi family, has promised all single-family homes will be completed by the recovery program by the end of next year, shortly FILE PHOTO after Superstorm Sandy’s fourth anniversary. The Galimis were in the program. out any reimbursement checks. As of last week, according to the mayor’s own statistic, 63 percent of eligible homeowners citywide have seen construction done to their homes or have received reimbursements for work they did on their own.

“But that is not enough,” the mayor said.

“We have to finish the job.”

Addabbo, whose district includes parts of the Rockaways, believes there’s still much more work to be done.

“I know the condition that many of my constituents are in and I don’t have that much faith they’ll be done by that time,” the senator said.

As of last week, about 25 percent of homeowners in Queens had seen construction started on their homes.

Addabbo added the recovery program should not be focusing on setting deadlines.

“It’s about getting people back into their homes. Just get it done,” he said.

Queens Borough President Melinda Katz, in a statement provided by the Mayor’s Office, expressed optimism toward the goal.

“Marking a Build It Back deadline at the end of 2016 means the completion of the recovery and rebuilding efforts is on the near horizon,” Katz said.

Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Rockaway Park) in his statement did not say whether he thinks the goal will be accomplished, but applauded the progress made by the program so far.

“The mayor’s continued attention to our Sandy-devastated communities and aggressive goals for the Build it Back program will hopefully reassure families still trying to get home,” Goldfeder said.

Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) said, “I’ll believe it when I see it.

“I think it’s a very ambitious plan on the part of the mayor and I hope it comes to pass, but I won’t be surprised if it doesn’t,” he added, “because at the pace that they’re at now, they’re lucky if they finish in six years Q never mind by the end of 2016.”

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Help on the way for homes hit by Sandy?

Howard Beach Stop & Shop opens New store name, new look — $2K check donated to youth soccer

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

changed — the employees.

All associates and workers who were there when it was Waldbaum’s — including those who were in a union — have been retained, Siragusa said.

“I’m very excited to keep my team,” the manager said. “They were very excited to get the opportunity to come work here.”

Stop & Shop is also planning to reach out to different community organizations, Sirag usa said, including the surrounding schools.

He also plans on reaching out to breast cancer awareness groups.

However, the outreach started at the ribbon cutting when Stop & Shop donated $2,000 to Woodhaven Soccer Club, a youth sports organization based at 134-02 Cross Bay Blvd. in Ozone Park.

The club’s president, Anthony DiCocco, accepted the check on behalf of the organization along with two of the players, Ezzio and Tiago Tirado.

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It’s official! The ribbon was cut on the Howard Beach Stop & Shop last Friday by store manager Mario Siragusa, center right with the scissors. He was joined by employees of the store, as well as Woodhaven Soccer Club President Anthony DiCocco, center left holding a check, whose organization received a $2,000 donation from the supermarket chain. Behind them is state PHOTO BY ANTHONY O’REILLY Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. reopenings in Queens has presented checks to community organizations. DiCocco said he was excited and honored to receive the check last Friday.

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People’s faces lit up last Friday as they walked into the new Stop & Shop at 156-01 Cross Bay Blvd. — one woman kept repeating “wow” as she pushed her cart around.

The ceilings had been replaced, the floor was clean and shiny and fresh food and produce could be seen all around the store.

It was the day Howard Beach residents have been waiting for, store manager Mario Siragusa said.

“Stop & Shop has built a stateof-the-art facility for people to come shop at,” he said.

The supermarket chain opened the Cross Bay Boulevard location last Friday after two weeks of renovations to the former Waldbaum’s site. It was one of six stores, including some former Pathmarks, in Queens that Stop & Shop purchased from the now-bankrupt Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company in July.

The Howard Beach site may have been one of the more highly

anticipated reopenings throughout the borough.

For years, residents complained about the dirty conditions there and the seemingly constant presence of spoiled and expired food left to stay on the shelves.

Siragusa, who was the store manager for the Waldbaum’s, believes that won’t be a problem anymore.

For one, the store underwent a two-week renovation in which work was done around the clock to transform the interior.

As important, Siragusa said, Stop & Shop has provided the location with quality items.

“We have an abundance of organic produce, a brand-new deli department,” he said. “We have a fresh bakery counter and a full line of organic meats.”

The cash registers have been replaced, Siragusa said, and there is now a pharmacy counter, as in all Stop & Shop locations.

But there’s one thing that hasn’t

Newlyweds finally get their home back Three years after their lives were uprooted, they come back to Queens

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its early stages, called the process “worth the wait.

“The house is that much bigger and better On Oct. 29, 2012, John and Mary Ross left their Hamilton Beach house as Super- and stronger,” the NYPD cop said. “It was definitely worth the wait.” storm Sandy was getting worse and worse.

In addition to the reconstruction — comWhen they came back the next morning, everything in the home they had been living plete with a new kitchen, hardwood floors and bathroom — the in for only a month house has been elewas ruined. vated off the ground “The house was a he house is that much to protect it f rom disaster,” John Ross future storm surges. said. “ T here wa s bigger and better Ross, a Belle Harabout 5 feet of water bor native, said the on the f irst f loor, and stronger. It was couple — who at the ever ything was in definitely worth the wait.” time were not yet disarray and nothing engaged — picked worked.”

— John Ross Hamilton Beach as a L a s t T hu r s d ay, place to live because exactly three years later, John Ross was handed the keys to his it’s a nice area.

“It’s quiet, it’s a nice neighborhood and brand-new home by Amy Peterson, director everybody is nice,” he said. “I plan on raisof the Mayor’s Office of Housing Recovery. ing my kids in Belle Harbor one day, but for “Welcome back,” Peterson told Ross.

The hardwood floors of the house shined right now it’s a great place to be.”

But it’s been a while since they’ve been as Peterson toured one of the dozens of properties repaired under the city’s Build it able to situate themselves into the neighborBack program, which seeks to rebuild hood. In the aftermath of Sandy, the two homes destroyed by Superstorm Sandy or stayed with family and friends.

“I had places to go and I was able to get reimburse homeowners for the work they cheap rent,” Ross, a member of the Navy did on their own.

Ross, who enrolled in the initiative in Reserves, said. “A lot of families didn’t have Associate Editor

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John Ross, center, receives the keys to his and his wife’s brand-new house from Amy Peterson, director of the Mayor’s Office of Housing Recovery, left. Joining him are a Department of Buildings inspector, in white shirt, Roger Gendron, president of the New Hamilton Beach Civic Association, behind Ross, Kami PHOTO BY ANTHONY O’REILLY Perrone, of construction firm RBBC, and state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. the opportunity that I had.”

During the key turnover, Ross met with Roger Gendron, president of the New Hamilton Beach Civic Association.

Later that night, Gendron cited the Ross house as an example of Hamilton Beach’s

continuing recovery effort from the storm during a candlelight vigil.

The Rosses are among 57 people in Hamilton Beach who chose to rebuild their property through the Build it Back program.

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Saluting the common soldier from Queens

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et ready to meet five good men: Rocco Moretto, Ed Boes, Michael O’Kane, Marvin Jeffcoat and Neil Law. They’re all just regular guys. But they’re regular guys whose job it was, and for one still is, to protect this country and its freedoms by aiding its war efforts.

In this pre-Veterans Day edition of the Queens Chronicle, you get to hear their stories, of World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf War and Afghanistan.

They’re all stories worth hearing. Moretto was there on D-Day. Boes taught pilots how to fly warplanes. O’Kane expected the glory of war but found there was none. Jeffcoat was born to fight. And Law, the highest-ranking of them all as a captain, is still serving. All Queens residents, they all put their lives on the line for the United States.

They are the kind of people we urge you also to salute on Sunday in Middle Village, at the Queens Veterans Day Parade, which kicks off at noon at the corner of Metropolitan Avenue and 80th Street. It’s not just for that part of Queens; it’s for all of us. Brigadier General Stephen Bucaria, commander of the New York Guard, will be the grand marshal, and the parade will be dedicated to the memory of Army Private First Class Le Ron Wilson, a

Brookville resident killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq in 2007. A preview of the parade is in some editions of this week’s Chronicle. Also appearing in some is the story of one of the men who worked on the atomic bombs that finally ended World War II and a report on the honors paid by the Marine Corps to the Queens chapter of the Vietnam Veterans of America, after the VVA buried an indigent Marine. The group has now done that 100 times.

It’s appropriate to honor America’s servicemen and women at this time not only because Veterans Day is at hand but because the country and the world face so many crises, and active soldiers such as Law could be deployed to handle them at any time.

Afghanistan, where he served twice for a total of 18 months, remains unstable after 14 years of U.S. occupation — the conflict there is America’s longest war, having surpassed Vietnam. Iraq was fairly stable for a brief time but has largely degenerated into chaos, and our forces are not completely leaving it anytime soon. We’re now sending advisors into Syria to deal with the civil war there — and they’ll be backing some forces that Russia just may decide to bomb as part of its campaign there. That makes for an

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Mideast reality Dear Editor: Re: “Mideast expert Dennis Ross coming to Queens” Oct. 22, multiple editions: In his new book “Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama,” Dennis Ross, who has advised several U.S. presidents about the Middle East, relates three major misconceptions that have hindered the U.S.-Israel relationship ever since the birth of the Jewish state.

“Three assumptions have echoed through the Middle East policy of every presidency since that of Harry S. Truman,” Ross says.

“They are that the United States needs to keep a distance from Israel in order to gain favor with Arab countries, that cooperation with Israel will automatically entail costs to U.S.Arab relationships, and that solving the Palestinian issue is a necessary requirement for the United States to secure a position of strength in the Middle East.”

It behooves the Obama Administration as well as all the living past presidents, who trusted Mr. Ross to represent the U.S. interests in most negotiations in the Middle East to finally recognize that their flawed assumptions have led to total irrelevance of our influence in the Arab/Muslim world.

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extremely dangerous situation.

And while they get most of the headlines, the Near East and Middle East are not the only parts of the world where conflict can erupt or spread and involve the United States.

Russian aggression in Ukraine has its neighbors such as Poland and the Baltic states fearing that the same could happen to them. They’re all members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, meaning the United States is legally obligated to defend them if they’re attacked.

On the other side of the globe, China is seizing international waters, claiming expanded territory by turning reefs into islands with military bases on them. The United States recently challenged China by sending a Naval vessel nearby, and who knows what could happen next.

North Korea is run by a madman who sometimes seems as if he wants to restart the Korean War — and tens of thousands of U.S. troops stand in his way to dissuade him.

The United States no longer can afford to be the world’s policemen, but its legacy as such means our forces remain in peril all over the world. Let’s all salute them properly, as we strove to do in this special issue dedicated to both those serving now and those who have in the past.

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proxies Hezbollah (Lebanon), Hamas, Syria and Iraq has enabled the expansion of Al Qaeda, the blooming of ISIS and more importantly the establishment of Russian and Chinese footholds in the region as the new kingmakers. It’s only a matter of time before Turkey feels the squeeze from being surrounded by hostile Iran, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon, with hardly any protection from NATO. It seems that close to 40 years of Israel bashing by former President Carter and almost eight years by current President Obama have failed to produce the expected rewarding relationships for the U.S. in the Muslim World from Morocco to Bangladesh, including Somalia, Sudan and the Arabian Peninsula. The U.S. foreign policies suffer from “Credibility and Reliability” issues. Now by sending U.S. ground troops in Syria, our government is risking a direct confrontation with Russia .... and they are doomed to failure as Iranian/Russian forces are strongly entrenched there and ISIS has the upper hand across Syria as compared to the miniscule rebel faction that remains.

The only option option still available for the

U.S., that will allow it to have a say in the newly established map of power and influence, is to mend its relationship with our only real ally in the area, Israel, that is under an existentialist threat from all its surrounding neighbors.

Jacques Hakim Bayside

Baldeo was railroaded Dear Editor: Albert Baldeo’s case confirms that oversight over prosecutorial abuse and judicial malpractice is necessary. Not only does it show that the U.S. attorney can wrongfully indict in cases where he or she has no jurisdiction or where there is no federal crime, but, worse yet, that the Second Circuit Judges can f lout and refuse to follow its own and the Supreme Court’s binding precedents, like the Aguilar, Andersen and Schwarz cases. Brooklyn’s DA Ken Thompson, to his credit, has bravely uncovered and freed many citizens who were wrongfully targeted, convicted and destroyed by his office’s former prosecutors’

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Shameful Congress Dear Editor: Social Security supports millions of Americans in their retirement and many of them depend on the program for the vast majority of their overall income. Yet even though retirees have had to make do with minimal cost-of-living increases in their benef its in recent years, Congess will not increase Social Security for 2016.

With so much focus in Washington on reducing deficits, Social Security and Medicare remain easy targets for some lawmakers and powerful special interests who continue to call for deep cuts, privatization and major

restructuring of both these programs.

Seniors must vote to protect our earned benefits, especially during this time of unprecedented support in Washington for cutting the social insurance safety net.

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Dear Editor: On Nov. 19, 1863, President Lincoln delivered his historical address at the Union Military Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pa. In that speech he proclaimed, “We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.” What did Lincoln imply with the expression, “a portion of that field”? It was a deliberate statement of exclusion.

In a separate “portion of that field” are the graves of Confederate soldiers killed in that same storied battle. “Exclusion” defined.

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Dear Editor: This loyal Democrat was amused by the resigned failed GOP Speaker of the House, John Boehner’s farewell speech. He said, “The House is the embodiment of the American Dream.” Well, I have news for the speaker — under his wicked direction his house of horrors was the embodiment of America’s longest nightmare!

Let me review his “Just Say No” policy, which was designed in 2009 to bring down the Obama presidency.

1) As chief architect of this GOP policy, Boehner denied funds for much of Obama’s recovery agenda to combat the Bush-43 great recession.

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While other politicians paid fines for similar violations to the Campaign Finance Board, none was sent to jail for common City Council or mayoral campaign violations, e.g. Liz Crowley and Sal Albanese. The CFB website (see Audit Reports) has hundreds of similar, indeed, worse infractions than Baldeo’s, but it was only in his case that the U.S. attorney bigfooted violations into federal crimes. Preet Bharara’s misconceptions of the law were rejected by the jury when it acquitted Baldeo of the underlying fraud charges.

Prosecutorial abuse is now systemic, and our justice system needs to investigate and remedy cases where the overarching, unfettered powers wielded by prosecutors like Bharara and Charles Hinds have brought injudicious and inhumane results. Why must citizens have to go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington for justice, which recently reversed Bharara’s “misconceived and injudicious” insider trading convictions? Prosecutors are ministers of justice, and must refrain from “striking low blows, wracking up convictions for career purposes and ulterior motives other than upholding the law, and ensuring justice is done.”

How can Aguilar and the police officers who sodomized the Haitian immigrant Louima be acquitted on the same principles that the Court of Appeals now refuses to free Baldeo on? Moreover, the judge and the officers lied to the FBI in their faces, while Baldeo was convicted of advising his third party donors not to speak to the FBI. There are troubling and glaring double standards here. Moreover, the ex-district leader was convicted of obstructing over crimes he did not commit. How can this prosecutorial and judicial hypocrisy go unnoticed?

It means that ambitious and hard-charging prosecutors riding the free publicity and statistics to higher offices can continue to selectively target, indict, and replace the office holder they seek to become — like the governor, for example, and the appeals courts will rubber stamp those perverse decisions against its own paradigmatic doctrine and mandatory precedents, and no one can do anything about it.

The Baldeo injustice shows why the unbridled powers and discretions of prosecutors and federal judges must be redressed in many cases-like his. Hope Baldeo is finally acquitted. Justice was not served!

Anthony Persaud Ozone Park

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civic and the surrounding community near the site in opposing the construction of this proposed high school.

At its monthly November meeting, Community Board 11 heard overwhelmingly from the residents near the site that they strongly oppose this new building. State Sen. Tony Avella spoke eloquently against this project. Congressmember Grace Meng and Assemblymember Ed Braunstein have sent in a joint letter to the School Construction Authority opposing the project. The board subsequently voted against it almost unanimously. It was democracy in action.

There are many reasons why a high school on the Bayside Jewish Center site is the wrong choice. For one, 32nd Avenue is already a busy street what with all of the other schools in the immediate area and the vehicular and bus traffic. The site itself is too small to support a high school of over 700 students. And the issue of parking for teachers and other staff members is a very pressing problem.

And then there is the question of enrollment figures. Students from outside the community choose and are accepted to attend our local three overcrowded public high schools (Bayside, Cardozo, Francis Lewis) because their own high schools are perceived by many as inferior or unsafe. The Department of Education should be concentrating on ensuring that all high schools are

excellent and safe instead.

But perhaps the most important reason why this is not the correct place for a new high school is because the local residents just do not want a building of this potential magnitude in their neighborhood. As taxpayers, local residents have a right to determine what goes in their neighborhood. And they certainly expressed their concern in huge numbers at the Community Board meeting.

The SCA has long been regarded as an agency that does as it pleases. Its effort to contact the community around the Bayside Jewish Center site was insufficient.

What should go at this proposed site? A lot of good alternatives were suggested at the community board meeting. This community needs a senior center and a community center. The building on the site would be suitable for a number of different uses.

We urge local residents to continue to express their concerns against the project by contacting Councilmember Paul Vallone, sending in written comments to the SCA by Nov. 20, and attending and testifying at the City Council hearing regarding this project whenever it is conducted.

As a civic association, we stand by the residents and our colleagues at the Northwest Bayside Civic Association in opposing the construction of a high school on the Bayside Jewish Center site.

Terri Pouymari, President Henry Euler, First Vice President Auburndale Improvement Association, Inc. Bayside

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Halloween hooligans haunt Howard Beach Vulgar graffiti found on PS 207 property; adolescents are suspects

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

Police on Wednesday were still trying to find the vandals who spray painted pornographic images and profanity on PS 207 property on Halloween night.

A source with knowledge of the investigation said the prime suspects are youths associated with the school, because some of the profane words were directed at the school’s principal and assistant principal. The source added there are security cameras near where the graffiti was found.

Joann Ariola, president of the Howard Beach-Lindenwood Civic Association, agreed with that assessment.

“These were people who were not unfamiliar with Howard Beach,” Ariola said. “It’s hard to think this wasn’t targeted to the school and the administration.”

Lewd images were painted.

The graffiti was discovered on Sunday, a day after Halloween, by a resident who contacted Ariola.

Besides the profanity, lewd images created by spray paint and shaving cream could also be found around the school.

Halloween is notorious for being a night when adolescents go around vandalizing public and private property.

Ariola said she’s seen Oct. 31 hijinks before, but the incident at the school was the worst she’s ever come across.

“Of course it’s happened in the past but never to this degree and with this much profanity,” she said. “It was all over. It was so profane that the kids could not have gone to school the next day.”

The civic president contacted area elected officials, the 106th Precinct and the school’s principal, Eileen Davies, whose last name was used in the graffiti.

Calls to the school for comment on this story were not returned by press time.

Ariola said Davies was “appalled.”

“Her first thought was that the children should not see this,” she said.

The 106th Precinct’s Auxiliary Unit cleaned up the site on Sunday and more work was done by Magic Touch Cleaning, whose graffiti removal program is funded through the Queens Economic Develop-

The doors of PS 207 were quickly painted over after the lewd graffiti was found by a nearby PHOTOS BY JOANN ARIOLA resident on Sunday morning. ment Corp. by Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park).

Ulrich said he was “disgusted like every other Howard Beach resident to learn that a school was vandalized with obscenity and profanity.

“Schools are very sacred places where children should feel protected,” he continued.

“They’re not places where people should take

out their anger, their frustrations or boredom, whatever it happens to be. I hope I will never have to see it again.”

Both Ulrich and the civic president praised the community for coming together to remove the markings before children came back to school on Monday.

Ariola said she would work with the preQ cinct to try to identify the vandals.

Someone must take care of graffiti: pol Goldfeder seeks cooperation from agencies to remove marks from rocks

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The rocks adjacent to the A train tracks in Hamilton Beach have been covered in graffiti for years, and now Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder is asking for the responsible agency to clean up the markings from the site.

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One of these things just doesn’t belong here: a beautiful coastline, a popular park and a rock with the word “f--k” written on it.

Spoiler: It’s the last one and Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Rockaway Park) is asking for several agencies to come together to find out which is responsible for removing the profane words.

“As a father of two young children, I would not want my children or anyone else’s children to see the kind of deplorable graffiti sprayed on these rocks,” Goldfeder said in a written statement. “Families in Hamilton Beach deserve to have a park they can be proud of. It’s time these agencies come together to resolve the question of who owns this property and who is responsible for cleaning it up.”

The word has been written on several rocks along the coastline in Hamilton Beach adjacent to the A train tracks by 104th Street. The nearby park is part of the Gateway National Recreation Area, operated by the National Park Service.

The assemblyman has had no luck in getting the NPS to clean up the rocks, because it claims it’s not park property. He’s asking them, the MTA, Port Authority and city Parks Department to find out who is the appropriate agency to clean it.

“With any government agency, there has to be accountability to our families,” the assemblyman said.

“This is the first step to making positive change in the community and I hope these agencies will step up and do the right thing.”

Roger Gendron, president of the New Hamilton Beach Civic Association, said graffiti on the rocks has been a problem in the community for a few years.

“It shouldn’t be there,” Gendron said.

The problem also seems to be expanding, he said.

“It used to be a handful, now it’s pretty much covered,” he noted.

Hamilton Beach is no stranger to graffiti marring public property. The Hamilton Park Playground was tagged before it opened last year and the “Blue Bridge” connecting the community to Old Howard Beach frequently has graffiti on it.

“The [Department of Transportation] will paint it and cover everything. And then one tag will go up and then everything will go up,” Gendron said.

The bridge and the rocks, he surmised, could be frequent graffiti sites because they’re isolated and out of the way.

“You have to be walking past someone while they’re doing it to catch them,” he said. “It’s a very isolated area that to me makes it an ideal place to be tagged.

There’s nothing stopping the people from doing it.”

Gendron added there’s little police presence by the park, which is federal property and is supposed to be patrolled by NPS employees.

The civic president said the NPS has previously neglected Hamilton Park, but the agency and civic association seem to have a much better working relationship now. Gendron mentioned how the NPS worked to replace playground parts that had been stolen during the summer.

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102nd Precinct tows The World Series is a more trucks off streets financial grand slam Fall Classic sparked $34 million in economic activity

Third such operation for the unit

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

The 102nd Precinct on Monday once again towed commercial vehicles off residential streets during the late night hours, the third time the South Queens unit has done so this year.

The precinct posted pictures of its heavy -duty tow truck taking vehicles off the streets on its Twitter page, but did not say how many were impounded.

The 102’s community affairs office did not return calls asking how many cars were taken away.

Commercial vehicles being left on residential streets has been an issue for years in the precinct — which patrols all of Kew Gardens, Woodhaven, Richmond Hill and parts of Ozone Park.

Residents in September brought their complaints about the practice to the 102’s community council meeting, a month after police had conducted a similar operation to the one done on Monday. Deputy Inspector Deodat Urprasad said then they were preparing to remove more vehicles from the streets.

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After the August operation, Urprasad said the precinct regularly uses the NYPD’s heavy-duty towing truck to remove vehicles from the area, but that the vehicle is in high demand across the five boroughs and it takes some time to make its way back to South Q Queens.

The World Series didn’t just give Mets fans a temporary emotional boost, the Fall Classic also gave the city a $34 million lift.

According to noted Boston Red Sox fan Mayor de Blasio and New York City Economic Development Corp. President Maria Torres-Springer, each of the three World Series games played at Citi Field last weekend were expected have created $11.6 million in economic activity, as tens of thousands of fans and press traveling from across the nation descended on New York to catch the games in person.

“The impact of the New York Mets postseason run transcends baseball,” TorresSpringer said in a release last Saturday.

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Rocco Moretto was an 18-year-old high school student when the U.S. Army drafted him, and 19 when it sent him to England in 1943 to join the First Infantry Division.

“The Big Red 1,” the World War II veteran and Astoria resident still says with pride, even wearing a tie emblazoned with the legendary force’s unmistakable logo.

“We were replacement troops,” he said.

“They had just come back from the Sicily campaign ... We knew we were there for the invasion, but none of us knew where we were going ... Then one day they gave us all $4 worth of French money ... ” The second front that the Allies had long promised would open up in the early morning hours of June 6, 1944. U.S. and British paratroopers had dropped behind German lines in the night. Moretto’s boat left from Portsmouth for the trek across the widest part of the English Channel.

All knew that the Germans were expecting them, though Normandy caught them by surprise. But nowhere that morning was the Wehrmacht able to recoup to fight more quickly and lethally than on a crescent of sand and cliffs code-named Omaha Beach.

Presighted artillery, rockets and machine guns, many in concrete bunkers that survived aerial and naval bombardment, turned the

beach into a slaughterhouse, with segments of the 29th Infantry Division and the Big Red 1 suffering horrific casualties in the first hours.

Red would be a color with which Moretto and his comrades would become all too familiar.

“The officer steering our landing boat said, ‘I’m gonna try and land you without getting your feet wet,’” Moretto recalled. “He was going all over, hitting underwater obstacles, sandbars.” Then German gunners dropped an artillery shell to their right, followed by one to their left.

“If you know anything about artillery, you know the next one is going to be in your back pocket. They had us bracketed. Our captain shouted ‘Get the hell out of this boat!’”

Moretto jumped out of the boat into water that came up to his hairline.

“I was carrying 40 pounds of equipment, and I couldn’t swim,” he said. Not all troops would even make the beach.

“The water was red.”

Moretto joined the waves of assault troops who just kept going through a rain of steel and fire.

“I got to the beach, and there were 10 or 12 guys laying there dead or dying,” he said.

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That first day they would capture the town of Caumont, securing the beachhead and sealing Germany’s fate. Moretto would fight in the French hedgerows, help breach the Siegfried Line and fight for weeks in a godforsaken place on the Belgian-German border called Hurtgen Forest before Germany’s last major

the offensive in the Battle of the Bulge during the coldest European winter of the century.

He was in Czechoslovakia on V-E Day. “Of the original 219 guys in my unit, two went from D-Day to Czechoslovakia without being killed, wounded or captured. One of them was me. ... But I’m not a hero. The Q heroes are the guys we left over there.”

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Ed Boes strapped a young pilot into a plane, preparing him for a training session.

The plane captain stood back, waiting for the man to take off. But he didn’t.

The fighter-in-training didn’t know how to close the hatch to his craft.

“I said, ‘And you’re going to f ly this baby?’” Boes recalled. “So I had to close it from the outside and make a prayer that he came back. He came back.”

That was Plane Capt. Boes’ responsibility during the Korean War. The Ozone Park veteran served in the U.S. Naval Air Force from 1952 to 1956, and never saw combat — but not because he didn’t want to go overseas.

“I tried,” he said about wanting to go to Korea. “I guess they just liked the job that I was doing there.”

He enlisted before turning 18 because he “was worried about the Communists,” who were trying to help North Korea invade South Korea.

He said he felt obligated at the time to join the military.

Boes was also following in the family footsteps.

Boes’ father was in the Army during World War II and fought in the European campaigns from 1941 to 1945. His uncle, a

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Both saw combat, and his uncle was shell-shocked three times.

During his four years, Boes was stationed at bases in Sanford and Key West, Fla. with the Naval Air Force. One of his first responsibilities was guarding the base and later he was tasked with teaching Navy cadets, such as the one who couldn’t close his hatch, how to fly T-33 fighter jets.

Boes was also put in charge of the maintenance of the jets, making sure they had enough oxygen and other necessary supplies, and later would be a ramp agent — the man with the flags guiding pilots in for a safe landing.

“And if there was something wrong, I waved them off,” he said.

But there was much more to his life on the naval bases than f lying and waving planes in for landing.

In 1953, several hur ricanes brought heavy rainfall and fierce winds to inland Florida and those on the base had to help nearby residents with the recovery effort.

“We had a lot of small-time businesses and pubs wiped out,” he said.

Some people would call asking for the military to retrieve rattlesnakes that had shown up on their front porch after the heavy rainfalls.

Ed Boes, seen here in his Ozone Park home, wears his Korean War veteran hat proudly PHOTO BY ANTHONY O’REILLY every day.

Boes was also there when the Ku Klux Klan burnt crosses by the bases.

The bases were home to some black cadets, Boes said.

After his service in the Navy was done, Boes was a member of the reserves for another six years but never was called back into service.

He took a job at Citibank and worked there for more than 30 years, starting as a bookkeeper and working his way up to assistant manager.

That’s also where he met his wife of more than 50 years, Violet. For a short time, he was her boss.

The couple have two children together: a son who is a Franciscan priest at a church in Rome and a daughter who works as an auditor for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre.

Boes called his family one of “devoted Catholics.”

He is president of the Holy Name Society at Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary parish in Ozone Park, an usher there and a member of the Catholic War Veterans.

Boes said he has fond memories of his service, and would recommend all to enlist in the military for at least two years.

“The way I feel is that every young fellow before he goes into college should enlist in the service,” he said. “If it’s peacetime or wartime, it doesn’t matter. I recommend it for everybody.”

One of the best things about military training, he added, was that it helped him grow up.

“I grew up fast,” he said. “Just the training alone, it taught you how to be a man, Q which was excellent.”

C M SQ page 17 Y K ‘THERE’S NO GLORY IN WAR.’

do what you can to stay alive

by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

As a little boy growing up in Brooklyn, Glendale resident Michael O’Kane would hear stories from his uncle, Bernard, of what it was like to fight the Japanese during World War II, including how the Marine was shot storming White Beach during the Battle of Okinawa.

Thanks to his uncle, his interest in serving his country was piqued at a young age, and O’Kane enlisted in the Navy in 1966 at just 18 years old.

But in just a few years’ time, aboard a minesweeper in the Gulf of Tonkin, he found out the glories of war only exist in Hollywood movies and television shows.

“I was interested in the glory of it,” he said.

“But I found out it was a load of s--t. There’s no glory in war. It’s dirty. It’s scary. You do things that you didn’t think you could do but you do them. You do them to stay alive and you do them to keep your shipmates — your buddies — alive.”

After informing his family just a day earlier, an immature O’Kane — admittedly more interested in Vietnamese alcohol and women than anything else — went to boot camp in Illinois and was quickly whipped into shape.

“I wasn’t ready to learn anything from anybody,” he said. “In boot camp, you don’t last long like that. They knock you down and

build you back up again.”

After helping track ships suspected of running supplies for the North Vietnamese military aboard the USS Implicit along with 170 other men for months — which he called “really boring” — O’Kane was eventually transferred to the USS Widgeon in late 1967, when he said the real action began.

“We were going up rivers on that ship.

That was bad,” he said. “That was really bad.”

The counterinsurgency mission given to him and the 29 other seamen aboard the ship was similar, to investigate suspicious boats and assist ground troops in any way.

But every two or three days, O’Kane said, the USS Widgeon would take fire from enemy soldiers posted on the riverbanks or the beaches of the South China Sea, and he’ll never forget the first time he was shot at.

“I remember seeing small splashes in the water in front of me,” he said. “We had a guy on a .50-caliber machine gun and I looked at him and said ‘Man, you really suck. You’re not hitting anything.’”

O’Kane didn’t fire back that day, but he said the feeling of both bewilderment and rage coursed through his body after the shooting ended.

“The first thing that happens is that you’re amazed someone is trying to kill you,” he noted. “The second thing is that you get really, really angry.”

Until 1970, O’Kane and his fellow seamen dealt with hit-and-run attacks, and while he never saw anyone on the other end of his gun take a bullet, he’s sure he ended the lives of enemy fighters.

“What I did was return fire and the firing stopped. That’s all I know,” he said. “I don’t know how many thousands of rounds I expended, but I’m sure somebody was on the receiving end.”

Despite being repeatedly exposed to gunfire from enemy soldiers — as well as Agent Orange — no one on the USS Widgeon was killed during O’Kane’s time aboard.

That’s something he’s still grateful for, as he remains close with many of the men he shared the ship with to this day.

“As horrible as those intervals were, it was the best duty I ever had,” he said. “I knew more about those guys than I know about my own family. I’m still in touch with most of them, those of us that are still alive at least.”

Upon his return to the United States, he found a supportive cast of family members and friends waiting for him, but the war was something he just couldn’t talk about.

“I didn’t think that any member of my family would understand,” O’Kane said.

But in 2005, while taking pictures of a street fair for the Chronicle, he came across the table operated by Chapter 32 of the Vietnam Veterans of America.

Middle Village veteran Michael O’Kane, bottom center, and his fellow seamen patrol North Vietnamese waters aboard the USS Widgeon in PHOTO COURTESY MICHAEL O’KANE the late 1960s.

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A SOLDIER’S STORY: VIETNAM

Once he joined the organization that year, the nightmares and cold sweats he had suffered from since Vietnam went away.

Now, the photographer and former cable splicer for Verizon, married for 36 years to his wife, Cathy, spends his days serving fellow veterans as an integral member of the VVA. But there is still one thing the 67-yearold yearns to do: return to Vietnam.

“I’d love to go back,” he said. “I can’t carry around that kind of anger around with me. It Q was a beautiful country and it still is.”

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‘I WAS BORN TO BE A SOLDIER.’

his boots still on the ground

by Hannah Douglas Associate Editor

Marvin Jeffcoat was born to be a soldier.

Jeffcoat, a retired sergeant first class who was born in Jamaica, and now lives in Woodside, served in combat in the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm. He served in the Army for 20 years, from 1984 to 2004.

“I always knew I was going to be a soldier,” he said. “I’m not a very patient person. I couldn’t wait to get in.”

His time in combat started in late January 1991. The Air Force had already begun bombing the enemy on his birthday, Jan. 17, he said, and it was over in mid-February.

His role involved a lot of capturing prisoners, as the enemy was a “defeated and weak” army, he explained. It also entailed what he called “mundane” desert patrolling that was far different from his previous training. Other tasks involved clearing bunkers and finding booby traps — enough to raise a few hairs.

While the Air Force was bombing, the Army waited for ground day, when soldiers would move in. He explained that the soldiers would listen to the BBC to hear how many tanks had been plinked. He said you could see a B-52 take off and then in the distance, the ground would light up, almost in a shift from night to day, he described. A few

seconds later the ground would rumble.

“It’s an experience I relish over my current circumstances,” Jeffcoat said. “I honestly mean that. Because the men I served with I could trust. And the enemy was readily discernible.”

Now that he has returned to civilian life, he said he battles an “enemy within,” mentioning one instance of how he sometimes finds it frustrating when folks welcome him home and thank him for his service because he doesn’t think they genuinely mean it.

However, Jeffcoat, a member and past commander of VFW Post 2813, as well as the Queens County organization, finds appreciation for his time at the post.

“You’re among friends,” he said. “You can relax, pick on each other a little bit.

We’re pretty good at that.”

Jeffcoat still has his boots on the ground in Queens, as he has been serving in an advisory role working with politicians on legislation pursuing improving veterans’ rights.

One piece of legislation he has worked on with state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) is the buy back bill, which would allow veterans to “buy back” up to three years of service credit toward their pension for peacetime military service.

Addabbo praised Jeffcoat, mentioning that he will continue to reach out to him in the future.

A SOLDIER’S STORY: AFGHANISTAN

Sgt. Marvin Jeffcoat is all smiles at VFW Post 2813 in Woodside Friday.

“Every veteran issue that I need insight on, Marvin is my go-to guy.”

Gov. Cuomo vetoed the legislation last week for a second time, according to the New York State Assembly website.

Jeffcoat, who has many decorations like the Combat Infrantryman Badge and a master of arts in diplomacy degree from Norwich University, also supports efforts that put veterans back to work in city and state government. He said he wants to see agencies hire veterans to fill 10 percent of the total workforce; upper management too.

PHOTO BY HANNAH DOUGLAS

“If you can tell somebody to maneuver under fire, you can definitely influence them to perform a civil service task,” he said.

The work opportunities can impact a veteran’s self-worth. Once hiring takes place, private employers will follow suit, he added.

Jeffcoat shared other thoughts that are cause for reflection this Veterans Day. “Everybody’s standing in line to take a picture with a veteran and march with that veteran, but they don’t want to hear from that veteran the 364 days that we’re not Q marching in that parade,” he said.

‘WE POSITIVELY IMPACTED THE PEOPLE.’

fighting the war on terror

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If there was ever much doubt in 13-year-old Neil Law’s mind about his interest in joining the military, the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 erased it.

“I always felt like the military was a calling; growing up, I learned that the U.S. gave my family an opportunity of freedom and liberty, something that they did not have in China,” Law, now an Army captain, said Monday in an email from his base in Virginia. “September 11, 2001 was the defining moment in my life when I knew that I wanted to serve, not only to give back to this country, but to protect my home. I joined the Army because of my love for country but have stayed in the service for this long because of my love for the people with whom I serve.”

The Forest Hills resident was commissioned as a second lieutenant in 2010 and since then has served two tours in Afghanistan, the country formerly run by the Taliban, Islamic extremists who had harbored Sept. 11 mastermind Osama bin Laden. The United States invaded shortly after the attacks and quickly overthrew the government, but it and its allies have been plagued by al Qaeda and Taliban insurgents there ever since.

On both his deployments — the first for a year in 2011 and 2012 and the second for six months in 2014 — Law was stationed at Forward Operational Base Shank, which he called “definitely one of the most contested areas in Afghanistan.”

During the summer, fighting season, one or two rockets a day would be fired at the base. None of Law’s personnel, logistics soldiers, were killed in the attacks, though a few suffered concussions in what he said “became a way of life.” But another soldier at the base, First Sgt. Billy Siercks, was killed during Law’s first deployment, before the base was fully constructed and its earlywarning system and counter-rocket artillery were installed.

Capt. Neil Law is welcomed home at a redeployment ceremony by his brother, Phil, mother, Kitty, father, Ricky, and girlfriend, now fiancee, Samantha Lymburn. The Forest Hills resident has COURTESY PHOTOS served two tours in Afghanistan, right.

“We worked right across the street from the impact site and we heard the screams and cries for help ...” Law recalled. “Days like those are the ones I will never forget.”

He himself had another close call when a rocket exploded just behind a truck he was driving, rattling the men in it.

Despite the risks, Law believes the U.S.-North Atlantic Treaty Organization mission in Afghanistan is worth it.

“My personal opinion, not one that reflects the United States Army, is that we need to continue to assist the Afghan government ... by battling insurgency and corruption,” he said. “Some may disagree as this type of action will require more aid and more troops to remain in the hostile country but by maintaining our presence there as an

advisor, we can help stabilize their government.”

“During my time there, I saw in many instances how we positively impacted the people of Afghanistan,” he said, adding that his team was usually well-received by civilians.

The next place he’s headed to is Japan.

Law’s family takes pride in the path he has chosen, which he may or may not make a career. His parents are “proud of him for serving his country and following his dreams,” Law’s brother, Phil, said. “Although it is a dangerous profession and they don’t see him often they understand it’s for a good cause.”

“I would just add that that there aren’t many things that are more noble than fighting and putting your life on the line to protect the freedom of others so it is very selfless of him.” Q

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Borough Republicans: It’s only the beginning Queens GOP looks to register voters, get new candidates for 2016 races

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“We developed an incredibly diverse coali“The message is there’s a new Republican party tion,” Orenstein said. “We’re just going to in town, come on in and see what we’re all grow from here.” about,” Concannon said.

While thanking his supporters, Concan“We’re a party that believes in strengthnon mentioned volunteers from the Latin ening the middle class and our doors are American, Car ribbean and Georgian always opened to people f rom Lat i n communities.

America, Guyana and from all over the Nikoloz Chkheidze was one of the peoworld,” Ulrich said. “We want them to regple who worked to get the vote out to memister as Republicans.” bers of the Georgian community — people As Concannon noted, the future of the from the fromer Soviet Eurasian country. party might be in younger candidates.

The easy part, he said, is getting “We have to star t with new blood,” people f rom there to suppor t Orenstein noted.

Republicans.

But the Council’s minority par ty — “The way the U.S. is going now is which citywide only has three representalike where we came from,” he said refertives — said it’s in everyone’s best interest ring to a political shift to the left, which he to have some Republicans elected to public equates to socialism. “Americans don’t know office. what socialism is. We know it; trust us, it’s not “You can’t have one party occupying every the best way you can choose.” seat,” Ulrich said. “You have to have balance.

The hard part, however, is getting them to That’s how we keep each other honest.” the polls on Election Day. “The people of Queens have been cheat“I don’t know how many people came out The Queens Republican Party ed,” Concan non said, echoing Ulrich’s from their houses to vote for him,” he said about is gaining traction, but still statement that there is only one set of ideas those who claimed to support Concannon. has more work to do ahead with only one party in power.

The former cop, too, said something must of the 2016 elec tions, Both also praised former U.S. represenbe done about voter apathy. tative Bob Turner, who was elected as the members said on Tuesday.

Queens GOP chairman earlier this year Others added voter registration drives have to be held across the borough to increase its membership in Queens. after a years-long internal struggle.

“I’m personally disappointed I couldn’t deliver the win Ulrich and Concannon said Republicans have to continue Q for him,” Concannon said. “I really wanted to do that.” their immigrant outreach ahead of next year’s elections.

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As Republican Joe Concannon gave his concession speech Tuesday after losing a race in the 23rd Council District to Democrat Barry Grodenchik, he marked it not as an end to his campaign but as a new beginning for the Queens Republican Party.

“We’ve laid the groundwork and certainly the foundation for the Republican Party here in Queens County to grow,” Concannon said. “This is the beginning of a long journey, one that might be carried by some of the younger people in this room. This party has to grow.”

In his bid to replace Mark Weprin, Concannon garnered a little less than 40 percent of the vote. One of his staffers pointed out that’s almost double the percentage of registered Republican voters in the Northeast Queens district.

Now, Concannon and other Republicans in the room said, it’s time for the party — outnumbered six to one by Democrats citywide — to grow those numbers ahead of the 2016 races.

“The party is united and we have a lot of work to do to build the party organization to get the county headquarters fully functional and up and running,” Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park), the only right-wing elected official in the borough, said, “and to next year run a full slate of candidates for state Senate, state Assembly and congressional races and to register new voters and to go to immigrant communities to let them know, we are a party of inclusion, not exclusion.”

Phil Orenstein, president of the Queens Village Republican Club, noted reaching out to immigrant communities was done during Concannon’s campaign.

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Route 878 in need of work, they say

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New York City and Nassau County officials reached over the border to call on agencies on both sides to expedite repairs to the long-neglected Nassau Expressway, which connects South Queens and the Rockaways to Long Island.

“The longer we delay repairs to Rockaway Turnpike, Rockaway Boulevard and the 878, the more our families are put at risk during our commutes and in the event of major storms,” Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Rockaway Park) said in a joint statement.

Goldfeder was joined by Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky (R-Nassau County), and Nassau County Legislators Howard Kopel (R-East Rockaway) and Denise Ford (R-Long Beach) in an interagency meeting with city and state departments of transportation and the Nassau County Department of Public Works to find out if repairs could be made to the highway ahead of planned construction, which isn’t slated to begin until 2023.

The lawmakers argue the highway, which serves as an evacuation route for

State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) on Monday announced that the Department of Transportation is preparing to host a series of town halls on the agency’s Select Bus Service plan for the Woodhaven-Cross Bay Boulevard corridor and urged residents to voice their opinions on it.

“Long after DOT has decided whether to implement this plan in our neighborhoods and move on, we are left behind to deal with the outcome, whether it be good or bad,” Addabbo said in a prepared statement. “It is crucial that we help the agency make an informed decision by providing as much input as possible before any plans are set in stone. You may think your opinion does not matter, but in this case, it could not be more important. I encourage all my constituents to take advantage of these town hall meetings, contact DOT and submit your questions and concerns while you still have the chance.”

The dates of the town halls have yet to be announced.

Addabbo is personally opposed to the plan as it stands to place off-set dedicated

Queens and Nassau politicians discuss Route PHOTO COURTESY NYS ASSEMBLY 878.

Queens and Nassau, can’t wait that long for the fixes.

“NY878 is in dire need of a comprehensive solution to its many issues,” Kaminsky said, using the highway’s Q numerical designation.

bus lanes along the corridor. The proposal would have commuters wait for the bus on medians and would ban left turns at certain intersections along the Q52 and Q53 bus routes, such as at Jamaica and Liberty avenues.

Supporters of the plan claim it would decrease travel time for commuters and make the corridor safer.

But the senator said the planned left-turn bans would put a strain on businesses, which depend on drivers making the turns down the streets to visit stores there. He also expressed safety concerns about putting commuters on medians while they wait for the bus.

He also opposes the idea of removing a lane of traffic to use for buses only, something already done on part of the corridor.

“Residential streets would become busier than ever as drivers — including delivery trucks — begin to use side streets to avoid the increased congestion on the main road as a result of removing a lane of traffic,” Q Addabbo said.

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A new look for one of NYFAC’s building Jeff Bershad donates his services

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

While recently working on a house nearby, contractor Jeff Bershad looked over at the siding of 95-16 Pitkin Ave. — New York Families for Autistic Children’s administrative office — and immediately wanted to do something to fix it. And that’s exactly what he did last Friday.

Working pro-bono, Bershad, owner of the Ozone Park-based J&B Home Improvements, assembled a team of construction workers and got to work on the office, which formerly served as NYFAC’s headquarters before the organization moved to 164-14 Cross Bay Blvd. in Howard Beach in 2013.

The workers, all part of the J&B Home Improvements team, worked all day last Friday, starting in the early morning hours, to replace the siding and the front awning on the office building.

Bershad, who has been a contractor for over 30 years, said he appreciates the work NYFAC does for children with autism, such as providing them with afterschool and educational programs, and wanted to give back to the organiQ zation.

The Rev. Mark Swartvagher of Our Lady of Grace parish, right, says a prayer at a candlelight vigil on the third anniversary of Superstorm Sandy. Roger Gendron, left, president of the New Hamilton PHOTOS BY ANTHONY O’REILLY Beach Civic Association, hosts the event every year.

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Sandy vigil looks back on how people came out to help their neighbors

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The destruction and chaos that Superstorm Sandy brought to South Queens was not the focus of a candlelight vigil held in Hamilton Beach last Thursday, the third anniversary of the storm.

Rather, it was how people came together to help one another rebuild their lives — neighbors helping neighbors and strangers lending a hand to those in need.

“It was the surest sign to all of us that God exists and he loves every single one of us,” Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) said at the event, in front of the West Hamilton Beach Volunteer Fire Department’s headquarters.

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Neighbors helping neighbors light their candles.

Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Rockaway Park) remembered not what was lost during the storm, but what was gained.

“The kindness of strangers from all over the world,” Goldfeder said.

One of those people was Assemblywoman Nily Rozic (D-Flushing), who after the storm brought pizzas to those who were in need of food, giving her the nickname “The Pizza Patrol.”

Rozic said she was amazed at how everyone in Hamilton Beach turned out to help their neighbors, even as their own lives were uprooted by the storm.

“You’re an amazing community,” she said.

Goldfeder also praised his constituents for helping each other out.

“Hamilton Beach embodies the spirit that every community across the world should want to embody,” he said. “When we’re together, we can get through anything.”

State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) said people’s actions on and after Oct. 29, 2012 had helped to make the community a stronger one.

“It was that kind of spirit that got us through our darkest hours,” he said. “We are a better community for it all.”

Roger Gendron, president of the New Hamilton Beach Civic Association, noted it was important to recognize that three years later, there are people still struggling to get their lives back together, and that a candlelight vigil will be held on every Sandy anniversary until “everyone is made whole again.

“We have a lot more to do,” Gendron added. “The scars are still visible throughQ out our neighborhood.”

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Galante sues Queens Library in U.S. court Ex-CEO claims he was wrongfully terminated; now seeking millions

by Michael Gannon Editor

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he for mer CEO of the Queens Library has filed a suit in federal court seeking more than $2 million from the library and two trustees, claiming he was wrongfully terminated.

The 50-page complaint, filed Monday, alleges that Galante is owed back pay, severance pay, interest, damages and legal fees.

It a lso de m a nd s t h at t he Q ue e n s Library resume paying the cost of his legal fees in connection with city and federal investigation into library spending practices under his tenure.

“Tom Galante was terminated and his name dragged through the mud,” said attorney Thomas Rohback of Hartford, Conn. in a telephone interview on Monday afternoon.

“This is his oppor tunity to set the record straight,” he added.

Galante was terminated last spring, the culmination of a series of events set into motion by multiple reports in the Daily News beginning in January 2014.

They alleged that Galante spent library funds lavishly on things like concert tickets, expensive restaurants and a smoking deck outside his office at the library’s central building in Jamaica.

Galante’s complaint asserts he was the victim of a political take-down by Borough President Melinda Katz — at one point calling the newly configured library Board of Trustees “the Katz Board” — and aided by what he termed an inaccurate audit report from the office of City Comptroller Scott Stringer.

W hile neither Katz nor Stringer is named as a respondent, Galante is alleging that board members Haeda Mihaltses and Judith Bergtraum deliberately and maliciously leaked confidential information about Galante to the media and other third parties. The information allegedly included information on Galante’s contract and compensation as well as negotiations connected with them. “[N]either Mihaltses nor Bergtraum had any valid purpose, excuse or justification for disclosing and causing the publication of confidential and other information ... other than to harm Galante,” according to the complaint.

Soon af ter the stor ies broke, Katz sought to have the library board — to which the borough president and mayor each appoints half of the voting members — place Galante on leave. The effor t failed in April 2014 when the board vote ended in a tie.

Galante’s complaint, and his attorney, said all seems to have coincided with Katz being sworn into office in January 2014.

“He spent 27 years at the library, working his way up through the ranks, and by all accounts and reviews by the trustees did a very good job,” Rohback said. “Then, suddenly, in 2014 everything changed.

Tom Galante, the former president and CEO of the Queens Library, is challenging his 2014 dismissal FILE PHOTO in federal court, alleging that he has been the victim of a political hatchet job.

“He was being hunted and at the end of March Melinda Katz was asking him to leave.”

Katz, along with state Assemblyman Jeff Aubrey (D-Corona) and state Sen. Mike Gianaris (D-Astoria), was able to get legislation passed in Albany that gave the borough president and mayor greater power to remove library trustees before their terms expired, a power up to that point left to a two-thirds majority of other board members.

Katz and Mayor de Blasio ousted several Galante loyalists, with others stepping down, and in December 2014 the newly constituted board informed Galante that he was being terminated for cause.

While Galante’s suit acknowledges that he could be fired “for any or no reason” at all, his contract called for compensation of more than $2 million if he was terminated for any reason other than “for cause.”

In the meantime, city investigators, along with the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York , bega n probes of libr a r y finances.

In July, Stringer released the findings of his audit after months of seeking financial information from the old board, some of which it had resisted disclosing.

The report asserted that Galante “used the Queens Library as a personal piggy bank,” allegedly racking up more than $ 670,0 0 0 i n expenses that were not approved by the library’s board or its chief financial officer between July 2007 and December 2013.

Stringer said parallel audits of the Bron x and Brookly n librar y systems turned up no such problems.

Galante has maintained from the start that all his actions were approved by the board, which had the authority to stop

him at any time; and that the library regularly undergoes rigorous audits.

His suit sets out to refute each of the reasons given for termination, stating that the conditions stated either did not occur or are not relevant under the terms of his contract.

As to “failure to perform employment duties,” the suit argues that to the cont rar y, “ the librar y th r ived u nder his leadership.”

The suit points to a number of positive annual performance reviews; an approximately one-third hike in revenues; large increases in programs and program attendance; and a tripling of website traffic.

On “misconduct which is injurious to the library,” Rohback asserts that there was no misconduct at all, much less injurious, listing the honors and awards the library received for service and achievement.

In regard to “breach of [certain] covenants contained in ... the employment agreement,” Galante said most of the provisions are unfounded and two sections dealing with actions “after the end of his employment” could not have been violated before he was terminated.

The suit reiterates Galante’s stand that any conf idential information that was leaked came from within the Librar y Board of Trustees.

The suit also points out one of the permissible g rou nds for ter mination for cause that Rohback claims was never included in the termination notice — that for “convict[ion] of a crime that reflects negatively on the Library ... and involving ... fraud, dishonesty or moral turpitude.”

The complaint states that the pending investigations have not yet resulted “in any findings, indictments or convictions.”

Asked if he had or would represent Galante on any potential criminal charges

that might arise from the federal or city investigations, Rohback said he has not discussed that with Galante, and that his client has retained other counsel.

Galante himself, in a prepared statement, said he loved his 27 years with the library, and reiterated his contention that he is the victim of a political hit job.

“I’m filing this lawsuit to set the record straight,” he said. “I don’t believe the whole truth will come out through the media, but it will through the legal system. I love the library I used to know, the one that was guided by Andrew Carnegie’s vision to help people in need. Now it’s overrun with a political gang who were put in place for one reason: to serve politicians.”

Reached for comment on Monday, representatives of Katz and Stringer said their bosses were unimpressed.

Katz spokeswoman Sharon Lee said in an email that the library has had to work hard to repair its reputation since Galante was let go, and has been able to launch several new initiatives, particularly with increased city funding that will allow all branches to open six days per week.

“The Queens Library exists to serve its educational purpose as a community hub of learning, literacy and culture for millions of patrons,” Lee said. “Its precious resources are not unlimited, and it is a shame that further resources will have to be expended to deal with this lawsuit.”

Stringer spokesman Eric Sumberg and state Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) were far less diplomatic.

“The Comptroller’s audit team found that while Tom Galante was in charge, the Queens Borough Public library lacked financial controls that allowed him to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars without oversight, including for concert tickets, a trip to Disneyland, expensive office furniture and alcoholic beverages,” Sumberg said in an email.

“Our audit and investigation revealed stomach-t u r ning layers of waste and abuse that have no place in a publicly funded institution,” he added.

“It takes an enormous amount of gall to stand by your actions in light of damning audits and figures; it takes even more gall to then sue the establishment you yourself debased,” Avella said in a statement issued by his office.

“Thomas Galante has only further disgraced himself by beginning this futile lawsuit against the Queens Librar y,” Avella added. “Every dollar spent on legal fees could have been a dollar spent towards new books and services. Instead, that money will now be the kindling for a petty feud.”

A statement from the library’s Board of Trustees said “after reviewing the complaint brought by Mr. Galante, we believe his claims are without merit and our actions to remove him were completely Q justified.”

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by Hannah Douglas Associate Editor

Health centers in the city will be added, and others will be expanding under Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Caring Neighborhoods Initiative, which seeks to improve primary care access in high-need neighborhoods.

Under the $20 million-dollar plan, Jackson Heights will receive a new Health and Hospitals Corp. center, and a Corona HHC center will be expanding, Ishanee Parikh, a Mayor’s Office spokesperson said.

The locations for the facilities haven’t been set, an HHC spokesperson confirmed.

Jackson Heights, Corona on the list “Ever y New Yorker deser ves equal access to healthcare — but poor access to care across the city is contributing to the wide disparities in the health of New Yorke r s ,” d e Bl a sio s a id i n a p r e p a r e d statement.

There are four Queens areas being targeted under the plan, which include Astoria, Long Island City, Flushing and Jackson Heights, Parikh said.

“The Caring Neighborhoods program expands upon and enhances HHC’s efforts

to help the most vulnerable New Yorkers live the healthiest lives possible, regardless of what neighborhood they live in and regardless of their insurance or immigration status,” HHC President Dr. Ram Raju said in a statement.

Eight other community health centers will be created, expanded through the New York City Economic Development Corp., according to a release by the Mayor’s Office.

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However, the locations for those facilities are also not yet in place and will be determined by request responses, an EDC spokesperson said.

“Investing in strong and vibrant neighborhoods is a key piece of our mission, so we are proud to help bring critical healthcare infrastructure into neighborhoods across the City,” EDC president Maria Torres-Springer said in a statement.

The expansion will begin in mid-2016, and will be completed by the end of 2017, the release stated.

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When contacted by phone on Monday, Silva expressed fears over the logistical aspects of the MSG Co. plan, which she called “insane.”

“I’m more concerned with safety than anything else,” Silva said. “I’m not saying we’re against something like this, but like the borough president said, we just want to really stay on top of it.”

In addition to worrying about possible unruly behavior from fans, Silva noted the crowds should be contained in one area, instead of having various stages and events spread out throughout the park, where members of the public trying to enjoy the green space would be.

“Our biggest question when we have big audiences coming is whether they’ll be confined in one area or will they have to walk all through the park?” she said. “That could lead to safety issues. In Central Park, they’ve been doing things li ke th is, but [attendees] not walking throughout the park. The event is in one place.”

The conservancy group head also wondered what direct benefits the park itself would receive from the festival, going as far as demanding that at least a portion of money generated by the event be diverted directly to the upkeep of the space.

“A percentage of the gate has to go into a fund specifically for Flushing Meadows,” she said. “We’ll be fighting until hell freezes over for that.” Q

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WOODHAVEN EVELOPMENTS SBS bus plan is a threat to Woodhaven

by Maria A. Thomson

The first problem is poor visibility under the elevated train, which can be solved by installing strong LED lighting under the elevated train for a block length on the four sides approaching Jamaica Avenue under the elevated train.

The second problem is high pedestrian volume. This can be corrected by a slowing of crossing traffic lights of Jamaica Avenue and the corners on both sides of Woodhaven Boulevard. Also countdown signs should be put on Woodhaven Boulevard and Jamaica Avenue.

The third problem is that it takes a long time to cross streets, which can also be solved by lengthening the time people are allowed to cross the road and installing countdown signs along Woodhaven.

The last problem is the left-hand turns from Woodhaven Boulevard onto Jamaica Avenue, which can be solved by posting signs at least one block prior to the Jamaica Avenue turns, stating turns are approaching onto the corridor.

Some of the suggested improvements made by Department of Transportation, a proposed leftturn southbound on 86th and 85th roads to Jamaica Avenue, will not work, because these are residential blocks and once the traffic passes Jamaica Avenue, it will not come back.

Also, this rerouting by Select Bus Service to our residential streets will come at the cost of parking spots being removed.

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There is a threat to Woodhaven that I have been writing about and talking about since May: Select Bus Service.

The Woodhaven Business Improvement District and the Greater Woodhaven Development Corp. have declared they are against this proposal for Woodhaven Boulevard because there will no longer be a left turn off Woodhaven Boulevard onto Jamaica Avenue. It would eliminate a lane of traffic on Woodhaven both ways and require everyone on the median of Woodhaven to board the buses. Cars that would’ve gone onto Jamaica Avenue will go onto our residential streets, to the detriment of the WBID and the small children playing on the blocks of our residential streets. Our economy and our family community will suffer. If people embrace this bus proposal in other areas, give it to them, but we do not want it in Woodhaven. That’s why we say “No to no left turns.”

The WBID, GWDC and the Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association and the Task Force Committee for an informed Woodhaven have formed a coalition to help us make sure this proposal doesn’t come to fruition. Our elected officials have joined together with us in our opposition.

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Tickets to the show sold out 10 days before everyone got to come together.

At top, Yesterday and Today perform, for the crowd, above.

District Attorney Richard Brown’s Office of Immigrant Affairs has launched a Facebook page.

“This is another access point for newcomers of Queens County as well as long-time residents who were bor n abroad to get the help they need. Whether you are a victim of a crime or have questions about your rights, the OIA’s Facebook page is a great starting point,” Brown said in a statement.

The Office of Immigrant Affairs was started to specifically help immigrants who are victims of crimes.

The Facebook page will assist the office in reaching immigrant communities, and it will provide tips on identity theft protection and the many scams that target immigrant communities.

It will have a variety of languages from Spanish to Bengali, and more.

The page will also have regular status updates about workshops, community meetings and cultural events.

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The corridor, from 159th Avenue to 165th Avenue, was filled with costumed characters, both those on the sidewalks watching the parade and people marching up the boulevard.

Parade-goers were also treated to free food, rides and more.

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MTA capital budget draws mixed reviews Queens officials like allocations; some wary about long-term commitments

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here seemed to be something for everyone to like or dislike when the M e t r o p o l i t a n Tr a n s p o r t a t i o n Authority approved its 2015-19 five-year capital expenditure plan on Oct. 28.

Big-ticket items for Queens in the $29 billion plan include a new Long Island Rail Road station in Elmhurst on the site of one that was closed in 1985 and torn down for lack of use.

Jamaica is slated to get a $298 million MTA bus depot, which will be constructed on the site of the existing one off Merrick Boulevard. The LIRR also will be spending more than $76 million on a new Sunnyside station upon completion of the East Side Access Project.

The budget also includes new buses, subway cars and both construction and routine maintenance on the agency’s bridges and tunnels.

Councilman Danny Dromm (D-Jackson Heights) and Congressman Joe Crowley (D-Queens, Bronx) have been leading the charge for a new Elmhurst station, which the LIRR is planning to fund to the tune of $30.5 million.

The money is scheduled to be allocated in 2019, but Dromm isn’t overly concerned about the delay.

“That means to me that they are taking this very seriously,” Dromm said. “Elmhurst has turned the corner. It’s population is increasing. That addition is necessary.

It’s vital.”

Crowley, in a statement issued by his office, said the new station will be transformational for Elmhurst.

“After years of advocating for this new station, the MTA Board approval means we are yet one step closer to not only ensuring local residents have the transportation options they deserve but also making sure Elmhurst lives up to its full economic potential,” he said.

Cou ncilman Daneek Miller (D -St. Albans) is a former MTA bus operator and served as president of their union. He said the new Jamaica bus depot will be rebuilt

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The Long Island Rail Road’s days of passing right through Elmhurst appear to be numbered, with FILE PHOTO the MTA approving more than $30 million to build a new station. on the existing sight, but will be expanded to properties that the MTA already has purchased or is endeavoring to acquire.

The budget calls for $12.9 million this year and an additional $285.3 million in 2018.

Miller said riders, residents and businesses all win with a larger, modernized depot, one where buses no longer will be parked on Merrick and surrounding residential streets because of a lack of room.

“It’s been a struggle to get this far, but I knew when they began to purchase land a few years ago that they were showing real commitment,” Miller said, not worrying yet about the backloaded amount.

The councilman said buses will no longer be blocking traffic, parked near people’s homes and spewing emissions into the neighborhood.

Miller said any project this large means numerous well-paid construction jobs for

the duration. He also said the additional space, infrastructure and equipment could lead to in increase of permanent jobs on the site.

“Right now they only operate at about 75 percent of capacity,” he said.

State Sen. Mike Gianaris (D-Astoria) did not get any big-ticked items, but said he isn’t complaining about the money budgeted for maintenance and upgrades along the Q-N line on top of train announcement technology and countdown clocks already in the pipeline.

“You never say it’s enough,” Gianaris said in a telephone interview. “But the t r uth is we’re get t i ng a subst a nt ial amount.”

S t a t e S e n . To b y A n n S t a v i s k y (D-Flushing) feels the groundwork was laid in the $10 billion funding agreement reached by Mayor de Blasio and Gov. Cuomo last month.

“What we have to do now is make sure the city’s $2 billion is locked up where it can’t be swept, where it will go toward city projects,” she said.

Cuomo has f loated the idea that the state may borrow some or all of its $8 billion obligation, something Stavisky said would concern her if it were going toward operating, rather than capital expenses.

“You also have to consider that right now interest rates are very low, and the [Federal Reserve] is signaling that rates will eventually have to go up.”

State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) said he is never overly impressed with long-range budget forecasts, taking part of a page from Miller’s book.

“Too many times, projects get moved to later years and never seem to get done,” he told the Chronicle. “I’m more concerned with the immediate needs in my district than those five, 10 or 20 years down the road in a capital plan.”

Addabbo said he is not seeing an emphasis placed on things like ferry service or other priorities in his district that he has sought for years.

As for the potential for bonding, Addabbo said all options should be considered, including public-private partnerships to increase levels of funding.

“I wouldn’t mind getting off a train into the McDonald’s subway station, or White Castle,” he said.

Miller too said there are items he would reprioritize.

“They’re spending $2 billion on the Jamaica (LIRR) station, but what about the J and E trains that run underneath it?”

Miller asked. “The Sutphin Boulevard station is the gateway into the city for people, the first thing they see when they get off the AirTrain from JFK.” Miller also would like the MTA to coordinate better with efforts underway to revitalize Jamaica and the surrounding neighborhoods, such as more express bus service on off hours and weekends; and lengthened routes that could take people f rom Sout heast Q ueens i nto Q Lower Manhattan.

Rep. Gregory Meeks has mild heart attack

by Michael Gannon Editor

Cong ressman Gregor y Meeks (D-Queens, Nassau) is recovering from surgery following what he called a mild heart attack in a statement issued by his office last week.

Meeks, 62, said he was rushed to a hospital on Oct. 28 after experiencing chest pain.

“In a short time my doctors informed me that I had a blocked artery which caused a mild heart attack,” Meeks said.

“The doctors successfully placed a stent

in my artery to clear it. I expect to return to work in a few days.”

The congressman in the same statement discussed a recent series of missed votes, possibly connected to his missing the vote that elected Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) as speaker of the House of Representatives.

Meeks said he has been dealing with the recent hospitalization of his father, 90, whom he described as seriously ill.

The congressman also said he hopes his scare will heighten people’s awareness of the symptoms of a heart attack. Q

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Ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease are typically diagnosed by a gastroenterologist. Those aware of each condition commonly mistake one for the other and may not know what to look for during a particular IBD event.

There are some distinct differences between the two conditions. Understanding the differences can assist patients who want to be actively involved in their treatment.

• Crohn’s disease inflammation can occur anywhere in the digestive tract. It may cause irritation from the mouth to the anus. Ulcerative colitis, meanwhile, is typically relegated to the colon, or the large intestine. Sometimes inflammation will be present in the very end of the small intestines as well.

• Ulcerative colitis tends to spread progressively through the colon, while Crohn’s disease may occur in patches without continuous spreading. As a result, with Crohn’s disease there can be healthy tissue between two diseased areas.

• During a colonoscopy or sigmoidoscopy, doctors can view the inflamed areas inside the colon. With Crohn’s disease, the walls of the colon often appear thickened and may look like cobblestone, thanks to the pockets of healthy tissue among diseased tissue. With ulcerative colitis, the walls of the colon are thin and the inflammation is evenly distributed.

• Individuals who have ulcerative colitis

tend to bleed during bowel movements, whereas blood may not be present in stool for those with Crohn’s.

• The name ulcerative colitis describes ulcers present in the mucous lining of the large intestines. These ulcers are quite shallow.

However, patients with Crohn’s disease could have ulcers extending deep within the bowel wall.

• Another interesting difference between Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis is that smoking tobacco seems to aggravate symptoms of those with Crohn’s while it eases symptoms for those with ulcerative colitis. However, smoking is not recommended to treat ulcerative colitis, as the negative side effects of smoking far outweigh any potentially positive consequences. P — Metro Creative Connection

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Here are some of the figures: Most of us currently pay $104.90 for Medicare Part B, and it’s taken directly out of Social Security checks before we even see the money.

The new costs for many of us are slated to jump up 52 percent, up to $159.30. The deductible is likely to jump from $147 to $223.

Seventy percent of us fall under the “hold harmless” rule, which means there will be no increase because there likely will be no Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) in 2016. Those people are covered. It’s the other 30 percent who will shoulder the increased costs of Medicare for everyone else. (It’s been calculated that if the costs were spread equally, everyone would pay

$120.70 per month.)

Those who will pay extra: • Anyone who signs up for Medicare for the first time in 2016; • People who are direct billed for their premiums; and • Those enrolled in Medicare but not Social Security because they’re still working.

AARP and more than 60 other groups across the country have written to various senators to ask them to intervene. Watch the news to see how this turns out, and watch out for it happening in the future.

Meanwhile, if you’re just signing up for 2016 Medicare, remember that your cost will be calculated based on your 2014 tax return. If you’ve had a life change that lowered your income, ask Social P Security to use more recent income data.

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Alzheimer’s disease progression varies greatly As the condition’s awareness month opens, stories and suggestions

by Mark Lord Chronicle Conributor

Caddy Santiago noticed something was wrong when her grandmother arrived from Puerto Rico to be with her family.

“She forgot who we were,” recalled Santiago, who, as a teenager at the time, chalked it up to the older woman’s anxiety over her first plane trip and first time in New York.

“My mother took her to the doctor,” Santiago said in a telephone interview. “They identified it as Alzheimer’s. They gave her eight years to live.”

Twenty-two years later, in 2009, her grandmother passed away.

Alzheimer’s, a degenerative disorder that attacks the brain, is the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States. Every 67 seconds someone in the country develops the disease.

The number of victims is expected to grow each year as the population aged 65 and older continues to increase.

Santiago, who lives in Corona, said that caring for her grandmother all those years was “very difficult. We were mourning someone who was alive.

It became very traumatic.”

Tammy Mangione of Little Neck found out firsthand about the disease through her father-in-law.

“He started forgetting where things were,” she said. But, she added, “He was brilliant and he covered it up. It took a while for us to realize” there was a problem.

Onset of Alzheimer’s is usually very slow and often not noticeable on a day-to-day basis.

Unlike Santiago’s grandmother, Mangione’s father-in-law lived for only two years after he was diagnosed. “It was one of the fastest cases, they told us,” Mangione said.

Research continues to lead to new treatment methods that can slow the progression of the disease and improve quality of life. Early diagnosis is key, giving families and patients the chance to prepare and helping to buy time for the patients.

Among the warning signs are memory loss that disrupts daily life, difficulty completing familiar tasks, confusion with time or place, new problems with words in speaking or writing, misplacing things, withdrawal from work or social activities and irritability when a routine is disrupted.

Once a diagnosis has been made, legal and medical experts recommend a healthcare proxy, power of attorney and a will for everyone over the age of 18. Those are usually drawn up with the assistance of an elder law attorney.

Recognizing November as Alzheimer’s Aware-

Alzheimer’s disease usually manifests itself slowly and is not immediately recognizable. ness Month, state Sen. Toby Stavisky (D-Forest Hills) last week issued a statement saying, “People living with Alzheimer’s need treatment, care and understanding, and that starts with having well-informed people in their lives. I urge New Yorkers to learn more about the signs, symptoms, treatment options and services associated with Alzheimer’s not only during

the month of November, but all year long.”

Santiago suggested that the most important thing for caregivers to remember is to have patience. And, she stressed, “find a community that knows about it.”

Her family did, in fact, find what they were looking for, in the form of the Alzheimer’s Association, but not until after her grandmother had passed away.

“I would hear a lot of stories that sounded familiar and get emotional and walk away,” she said.

To this day, Santiago said, “It affects me when I see someone with a caregiver who is going through it. It touches my heart.”

While some medications can manage symptoms and give patients a brief cognitive improvement, Matt Kudish, senior vice president of caregiver services for the association’s New York chapter, cautioned that they are still being studied and do not modify the course of the disease.

For further information, contact the Alzheimer’s Association’s New York Chapter via alznyc.org or call the 24-hour helpline at 1 (800) 272-3900.

You may also visithealth.ny.gov/diseases/ conditions/dementia and aging.ny.gov/Caregivers/ P Index.cfm for additional information.

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Here are some of the things you can do during the open enrollment: • Change from traditional Medicare to an Advantage plan, or vice versa.

• Switch from one stand-alone prescription drug plan to another.

• Drop Part D. • Sign up for a drug plan if you didn’t join one when you first enrolled in Medicare.

• Change from one Advantage plan to another.

You’ll be looking for convenience, cost, customer service and coverage.

There are two easy (or at least easier than doing it yourself) ways to pick a plan.

1) Go online to Medicare’s Plan Finder (medicare.gov/find-a-plan) and start by putting in your ZIP code for

plans in your area under the general search. Below that is the personalized search, but only use that if you’re absolutely sure of your computer’s virus protection, because it requires you to put in your Medicare number.

2) Call Medicare directly at 1 (800) 633-4227 or contact your State Health Insurance Program at shiptacenter.org.

If you need to learn more, check the AARP site (aarp.org) for A Newcomer’s Guide to Medicare or AARP Medicare Part D Guide.

Don’t forget that the open enrollment only runs through Dec. 7. Any changes you make will start on Jan. 1, 2016.

Open enrollment is for those who already have Medicare. If you’re just now signing up for Medicare, there is a different enrollment window for you: three months before your 65th birthday, your birthday month and three months after your birthday. P — Matilda Charles, King Features Synd., Inc.

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Retiring? Having a post-retirement plan in place is essential Scores of people spend their work ing days dreaming of the moment they are eligible for retirement. They may have retirement counted down to the minutes and seconds, particularly if they’ve been in a job that hasn’t been the most enjoyable. But many people find that once they retire they do not know what to do to fill their time. Boredom actually may be a side effect of retirement, and some people actually want to go back to work.

Much of the focus when planning for retirement concerns finances. All other factors t ake a backseat.

Therefore, there may be emotional issues that arise during retirement, and retirees are not always prepared to deal with such issues. Having a post-retirement plan in place can mean the difference between happiness and having a hard time adjusting, according to experts. Here are some tips that can help anyone ease into the golden years.

• Establish goals. After working for years, the idea of setting goals can seem counterintuitive. But goals

can give life direction and have you looking forward to things in the future. Goals also motivate retirees to get up in the morning now that a commute to work isn’t part of the daily schedule.

• Donate time or money. Giving back to others, whether to the community or to a charitable organization, can feel good and give retirees some structure. Volunteering your time at a place can give life some sort of purpose outside of a job.

• Start a home-based business.

Just because you retire doesn’t mean you have to fully retire. Now may be the opportunity to start a business venture you have always dreamed about, whether that is something hands-on or just serving as a consultant.

• Try new things. Part of goalsetting is to add things to the list you’ve never done before, which can boost feelings of excitement. You may discover a new interest that becomes a passion. Now that you have time to explore new hobbies, they might prove more rewarding.

Getting out with friends or former co-workers can help banish boredom associated with retirement.

• Meet with people. Part of what makes work fulfilling is the opportunity to get out of the house and interact with others who are not members of your family. It’s easy to fall into a rut when you are not being

mentally stimulated by conversation from different people.

• Realize it’s alright not to love retirement. Just because the grass seemed greener in someone else’s yard, doesn’t mean it always turns

out to be that way. It is OK to accept that maybe retirement isn’t entirely what you expected and to make changes that can enable the experiP ence to be better.

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own corps of musicians in the RAM Players.

RAM’s key mission is “to promote and produce high caliber composition and performance of music by living American composers in a variety of venues throughout New York City, with an emphasis in Queens.”

According to Galindo, diversity in composers is paramount to Schulz’s founding vision. RAM’s composers fall all over the spectrum of contemporary music. Many of them write within the traditional patterns of chamber music, but certainly Barash’s compositions explore newer territory.

In rehearsal with Barash a week before the show, Thomas Piercy, a highly accomplished clarinetist, jokes that the audience will question his skill, asking Barash, “Is it okay that I’m cracking?” But this is exactly what he wants. While Piercy is playing clarinet, Barash manipulates the sound in real time with a touchpad called a Lemur. Rougher sounds provide richer texture for the sonic landscape.

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Yelps, yowls and dry creaky hisses. These aren’t the sounds you might ordinarily associate with the clarinet — and you would be equally surprised to declare these sounds beautiful.

And yet, “Talkback I” for clarinet and computer is at once divine, serene and haunting. The piece is the first in a series composed several years ago by Guy Barash, a fairly new member of the music collective Random Access Music, and will be featured in an upcoming live concert at the Broom Tree Theatre in Astoria on Saturday, Nov. 7.

RAM is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year by displaying a great range of the members’ talent.

“Many of the songs are RAM staples and have appeared on our programs before,” said composer Gilbert Galindo, RAM’s artistic director. “This show will be a good opportunity to see what RAM is about.”

Founded in 2005 by B. Allen Schulz and David Fetherolf, the group began as a collective for composers out of the Astoria Symphony, but has developed to include its

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“Walkers: Hollywood Afterlives in Art and Artifact,” Museum of the Moving Image’s art exhibit explores Hollywood movies as contemporary artwork. Opens Nov. 7. Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria. $12 adults, $9 seniors/students, $3 kids 3-12. Info: movingimage.us.

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.

Nineteenth century Japanese photographs, from The Burns Collection & Archive, showing rice, tea and silk production, Nov. 13-Dec. 3. Opening reception, Fri., Nov. 20, 7-9 p.m. Free. Resobox Gallery, 41-26 27 St. Info: (718) 784-3680, info@resobox. 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.

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.

“The Band of Long Island,” celebration of the 60th anniversary of St. Albans Congregational Church, Sun., Nov. 15, 4 p.m. Robert Ross Johnson Family Life Center, 172-17 Linden Blvd. $25, $12 under 18.

Info/tickets: (718) 276-6175, (516) 326-9126.

Mark Wade Trio, jazz concert, MuSE Sound of Arts Festival, Thurs., Nov. 19, 7:30-8:30 p.m., The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23 St., Long Island City. $15, $12 students & seniors. Info: musefriends@gmail.com, (917) 583-4099.

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THEATRE “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.

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.

Fall film festival, Fridays, 7 p.m.: Nov. 13, “The Year of Living Dangerously”; Nov. 20, “The Mission”; Nov. 27, “Gandhi.” Immaculate Conception

The art exhibition “Walkers: Hollywood Afterlives in Art and Artifact” opens Nov. 7 at the Museum of the Moving Image.

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Queens County Bird Club presents “Chile, South Georgia and the Falkland Islands” with photographer Ardith Bondi. Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston, Wed. Nov. 18, 8 p.m. Free. Info: qcbirdclub.org.

“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.

“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.

“Keep the Change,” by Harley Spiller, who tells of lucky pennies, counterfeit notes and other curious currency. Voelker Orth Museum, 149-19 38 Ave., Flushing. Sun. Nov. 15, 2 p.m. $5, $4 members & students. Info: (718) 359-6227.

Bike ride food tour with Joe DiStefano will follow 7 train line from Long Island City to Flushing.

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Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 32 “can shaking,” Sat., Nov. 7, 10 a.m., Woodhaven Blvd. & Union Tpke. Donate or volunteer for St. Mary’s Children’s Hospital, Bayside. Info: stpancrastroop383#gmail.com.

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.

City View Pharmacy’s 10th annual Thanksgiving Food Drive. Now through Nov. 25. Drop off canned food at City View Pharmacy, 23-07 Astoria Blvd., Astoria, between 23 and Crescent sts. Info: facebook.com/City-View-Pharmacy-157740562373.

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.

Ridgewood Youthmarket, farmers market every Sat. thru Nov. 21, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Veteran’s Triangle, Cypress Ave. between Myrtle and Putnam aves. Info: twitter.com/nycyouthmarkets.

Annual talent show with a 1930s flair, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Commonwealth Blvd. and 87 Ave., Bellerose. Sat., Nov. 21, 6 p.m. $10 adults, $5 kids.

Can auction and more. Info: (718) 347-0278.

WORKSHOPS “Muslims, Jews and Catholics: Standing Together Against Climate Change,” Wed., Nov. 11, 6:30-9 p.m. Queens College, Rathaus, Blackbox Theatre, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing. $5 sug. donation.

Kosher meal, 5:45 p.m., $5 sug. donation. Info/ RSVP: cerru@qc.cuny.edu, (718) 997-3070.

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 Defensive driving course, sponsored by National Safety Council, Sat., Nov. 21, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

Holy Family Church, 175-20 74 Ave. $45. Info/ register: (631) 360-9720.

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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.

Boy Scouts Troop 383 invites 11- to 17-year-old boys to join. Mondays, 6:30-9:30 p.m., St. Pancras’ Pfeiffer Hall, 68 St. and Myrtle Ave., Glendale. Info: Sal, stpancrastroop383@gmail.com.

Watercolor classes, National Art League, 44-21 Douglaston Pkwy., Douglaston, Wed., 9:30 a.m.12:30 p.m. Call: (718) 969-1128.

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Taking a closer look at a small works exhibit

by Laura A. Shephard

nature keeps transforming itself.”

The unique features of each park, the tall red rocks and Size matters at the Jeffrey Leder Gallery’s Small Works deep valleys of Zion, the lace-like rock formations at Bryce Show, displaying 26 emerging and mid-career artists’ Canyon and the columns of stones at Devil’s Tower, came work. From paintings to sculptures and more, each piece through in the four works she had in the show. measures less than 12 inches.

“I’m proud to be in this gallery,” Soller declared. “JefLeder moved to Long Island City 12 years ago and saw frey selects wonderful artists. He has a sophisticated eye.” a need for a “local and friendly galArtist Nigel Rollings also found lery.” For the past five, he’s filled inspiration in a natural setting — that niche, providing the warm enviJamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge — a ronment that artists seek. place he loves dearly. Last fall, he “If it touches me and the judges or sat outside in a chair in the cold, as When: Now thru Nov. 8 curators, then we show it,” Leder winter approached, drawing the solWhere: Jeffrey Leder Gallery, said. “The main thing is that it affects itary scenes. He’s spent the last 15 21-37 45 Road, LIC us. We don’t like decorative art, but years going down there to capture Entry: Free art that touches us and shows some the peacefulness. jeffreyledergallery.com emotion or perspective.”

The pencil drawings show Broad The opening on Friday, Oct. 16, Channel and the mudflats of the at the gallery at 21-37 45 Road breached West Pond. Robert Moses hosted a lively cast of artists, friends, residents and created the pond in the 1950s as a place to go fishing students. with his cronies, but in 2012 Hurricane Sandy eviscerated A weeklong bus trip out west inspired Bayside artist the feat. Since then all the vegetation around the pond Helaine Soller’s “My National Park” series. She visited 14 has died and the birds have left. parks in seven days, all the while using the vacant seat “My heart, I was so devastated, my only response was next to her a s a mobile studio for sketches and to paint it,” Rollings said. photographs.

Rollings believes the National Park Service’s plan to “I was so impressed and overwhelmed by the forma- repair the breach is a mistake and sees his art as historic tion and national wonders,” Soller said. “Ever-evolving documentation of the way things should be. He supports qboro contributor

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Artist Lisa DiClerico stands with her works at the opening PHOTO BY LAURA A. SHEPHARD on Oct. 16. the Audubon Society’s alternative idea to build a bridge over the breach, to complete the loop for recreational walkers and birdwatchers.

Kyoko Miyabe, a teacher at the School of Visual Arts, collaborated with poet Celia Bland, who teaches at Bard.

Bland was not looking for illustrations for her poem, “Bird Bone” but gave it to Miyabe, who used the work as inspicontinued on on page page 43 00 ration for three drawings. continued

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The Kew Gardens Community Center, sponsored by the Queens Communit y House, host s an array of activities from crocheting to line dancing — even visits from Broadway veterans.

Belle’s Players, a group of budding thespians of a certain age, meet weekly at the center, where they prepare for upcoming per formances around the neighborhood.

The troupe received a special treat on Oct. 27 when Forest Hills resident Norma Doggett, a veteran of Broadway and the silver screen, showed up. Best known for her role as one of the brides in the classic film musical “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,” she stopped by to catch an early-afternoon screening of the movie.

But the participants in the theater workshop wanted to hear all about her career. The movie was scrapped and Doggett shared stories from the days when her

career was in full swing.

Larry Bloom, the group’s former leader, wanted to know what it was like for Doggett to work on “Bells Are Ringing,” the much-beloved Broadway musical.

“It was a wonderful experience,” said Doggett, whose nervousness at the audition made her voice higher than normal, giving it the exact quality the show’s creators were looking for.

“Once you’re in a show, it’s quite possible to get the next job,” Doggett said. “It’s been a wonderful journey.”

Doggett, who proudly announced her birthday milestone of a few days earlier, asked, “How are you supposed to ac t at 9 0 ? ” She then charmed her audience with an impromptu dance, followed by a song rendition from “Call Me Madam,” a show that put her on-stage with Ethel Merman.

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In the film, she plays Martha, appearing in several scenes. She describes her character as “the girl in the green dress in the barn d a n c e ,” t h e m o s t f a m o u s sequence in the movie.

Nowadays, Doggett, who lives in a basement apartment just off Queens Boulevard, continues to dance, sometimes, a s she explained, while waiting at bus stops, entertaining fellow passengers. She has found that “it helps to bring the bus.”

With Bloom’s retirement, Belle’s Players are being led by interim director Ralph Genzano, who encourages all interested performers to join. A permanent successor to Bloom is being sought.

Those who enjoy singing could also consider joining the center’s chorus, which meets on Friday mornings at 11 a.m. and performs in venues around the neighborhood, including assisted living facilities and nursing homes.

Norma Doggett, center, stands with Belle’s Players members at the Kew PHOTO BY MARK LORD Gardens Community Center.

The center holds an open mic talent show bimonthly, and the next is Nov. 18.

Rachel Epstein, the center’s director, said a special Thanksgiving dinner will be held Nov. 19.

Seating is limited and reservations must be made by Nov. 12.

The center is located at 80-02 Kew Gardens Road in Kew Gardens. For further information, call Q (718) 268-5960.

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song’s beauty lies within its overlay of sepWhat comes out of the speakers are tones arate but similar: the word dviraag transfamiliar and alien, and which explore the full lates to “two melodies.” Dillingham said, range of what a clarinet can do. “The struc- “The syntax — the notes that are emphature in some of the measures contrast with sized — keep changing.”

Falzon agreed, “It sounds simple, but freer gestures,” says Barash. In this way, y the it’s not. The result, piece is like a converthough, is lovely.” sation: a game of Falzon played this telephone in which piece in May at the the message may 4th Annual Queens change because of the When: Saturday, Nov. 7 at 8 p.m.

New Music Festival, way it is expressed.

Where: Broom Tree Theatre, which is a program In a separate re23-35 Broadway, Astoria run by RAM. hearsal that week, The festival opened another conversaTickets: $15 in Forest Hills before tion takes place. ram-nyc.org the remainder of its R AM Players shows moved to members Laura Falzon, a flautist, and Kate Dillingham, a cel- Long Island City. Galindo remembers a list, are practicing “Dviraag” by Asha couple who stumbled upon this year’s fesSrinivasan, a composer outside of RAM. tival, which runs concurrently with the The piece is especially challenging for its Long Island City Arts Open and benefits rapid melodic changes, which at times will from its increased foot traffic.

“They decided to attend because they differ between the instruments, until they had never heard a harpist perform,” Galincatch up to each other and play together.

Even for such experienced musicians, do said. “They sat in and enjoyed it. These finding synchronicity in their pacing needs are the unknown new music fans out there Q to be a constant focus, especially since this who we try to reach.”

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Amir Khosrowpour, left, on piano, Karen Kim on violin, Kate Dillingham on cello and Robert Meyer on viola perform at Random Access Music’s “Perceptions of Beauty” in March 2015. On the cover: Clarinetist Thomas Piercy practices during a rehearsal with PHOTO COURTESY RANDOM ACCESS MUSIC: COVER PHOTO BY NEIL CHIRAGDIN composer Guy Barash.

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Brianna Leatherbury, Leder’s intern, helped him select the works and label everything for the opening. An art student at Cooper Union, Leatherbury said she’d never been to LIC for anything other than MoMA PS1 before, but enjoys working with Leder and admires his local knowledge and ability to run the gallery “with his gut and his mind.”

Martha Robinson’s “dreamy” caustic works have an other-dimensional feeling.

Her work involves reworking pencil drawings on the computer, printing, transferring an image and layering things together. Robinson lives in Connecticut and this was her first time showing work in New York.

“I’m really happy to be a part of this show,” Robinson said. “I like Jeff’s vision and the way he selects work.”

The piece on display was about passing through scary unknown things, like Robinson’s own experience with breast cancer. It incorporates a mammogram and a drawing of herself.

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Lisa DiClerico, LIC resident and owner of LIC Market, works at a studio on 21st Street and 43rd Avenue. Her three works at the gallery consist of mixed media collages on paper mounted on wood.

“The surface and texture are indicative of certain processes of working,” DiClerico explained. “The orientation of how I cut and mounted the paper is important.”

“I’m excited to be in this show; there’s always great energy here and we’re in the company of great artists,” she added. “I love how unpretentious and hardworking and supportive the artist community is.” Q

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Real Estate EQUAL HOUSING. Federal, New York State and local laws prohibit discrimination because of race, color, sex, religion, age, national origin, marital status, familial status or disability in connection with the sale or rental of residential real estate.

Queens Chronicle does not knowingly accept advertising in violation of these laws. When you suspect housing discrimination call the Open Housing Center (the Fair Housing Agency for the five boroughs of New York) at 212-941-6101, or the New York City Commission of Human Rights Hotline at 212306-7500.

The Queens Chronicle reserves the right to alter wording in ads to conform with Federal Fair Housing regulations.

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OPEN HOUSE • HOWARD BEACH Sunday, 11/8, 1-3 pm • 97-16 161st Ave., Howard Beach, NY 11414 COMPLETELY RENOVATED, LUXURIOUS 1-FAMILY, 5 BRs, 3 Baths, Nice Backyard with Large Pool, 60x100 Lot.

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OCEANFRONT STUDIO located on the 2nd floor facing the beautiful sunrises & sunsets. Kitchen has gas stove, fridge, microwave, D/W, 1 bath, large closet space. Murphy bed w/built-in cabinet space. Two door entry. Easy access to elevator. Price: $155,000.

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Office For Rent Ozone Park, 2—400 sq.ft. offices for rent in NEW 2 story brick bldg.

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INDEX NO.: 16925/2013. Date Filed: 10/21/15. SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS WITH NOTICE MORTGAGED PREMISES: 9430 52nd Avenue a/k/a 94-30 52nd Avenue, Elmhurst, New York 11373. BL #: 1886-111.

Plaintiff designates QUEENS County as the place of trial; venue is based upon the county in which the mortgaged premises is situate. STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT: COUNTY OF QUEENS DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE OF THE RESIDENTIAL ASSET SECURITIZATION TRUST 2007-A7, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-G UNDER THE POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT DATED MAY 1, 2007, Plaintiff, -against- ELVA TORO AND ANTONIO ALBINO, if they be living, and if dead, the respective heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignors, lienors, creditors and successors in interest, and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said defendant who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise of any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, and their respective husbands, wives or widows, if any, and each and every person not specifically named who may be entitled to or claim to have any right, title or interest in the property described in the verified complaint; all of whom and whose names and places of residence unknown, and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained by the Plaintiff, ET AL., Defendants.

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the attorneys for the Plaintiff within 20 days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE MORTGAGE COMPANY WHO FILED THIS FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT, A DEFAULT JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED AND YOU CAN LOSE YOUR HOME. SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY OR GO TO THE COURT WHERE YOUR CASE IS PENDING FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON HOW TO ANSWER THE SUMMONS AND PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY. SENDING PAYMENT TO YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY WILL NOT STOP THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $560,000.00 and interest, recorded in the Office of the Clerk of QUEENS on June 4, 2007, in INSTRUMENT NUMBER 2007000286192, covering premises known as 9430 52nd Avenue, Elmhurst, New York 11373, - BL #: 1886-111.

The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. The Plaintiff also seeks deficiency judgment against the Defendant and for any debt secured by said Mortgage which is not satisfied by the proceeds of the sale and said premises.

TO the Defendants ELVA TORO AND ANTONIO ALBINO, the foregoing Supplemental Summons with Notice is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Rudolph E. Greco, Jr., J.S.C of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, dated September 10, 2015.

Dated: New Rochelle, NY. October 12, 2015, MCCABE, WEISBERG & CONWAY, P.C., Sonia J. Baez, Esq., Attorneys for Plaintiff, 145 Huguenot St., Ste. 210, New Rochelle, NY 10801, p. 914-636-8900, f. 914-636-8901, HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE NEW YORK STATE LAW REQUIRES THAT WE SEND YOU THIS NOTICE ABOUT THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY. SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME. IF YOU FAIL TO RESPOND TO THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT IN THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION, YOU MAY LOSE YOUR HOME. PLEASE READ THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT CAREFULLY. YOU SHOULD IMMEDIATELY CONTACT AN ATTORNEY OR YOUR LOCAL LEGAL AID OFFICE TO OBTAIN ADVICE ON HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF. SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE. The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid office, there are government agencies and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Banking Department of Financial Services at 1-800-342-3736 or visit the Department’s website at www.dfs.ny.gov. FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS. Be careful of people who approach you with offers to “save” your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner’s distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services.

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The 26-year-old drove in Analysis Jarrod Dyson with a single to right field off Mets reliever Addison Reed to break a 2-2 tie in the 12th inning, with the Royals eventually winning both Game 5 by a score of 7-2 and the World Series four games to one.

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With largely the same team this season, their experience in huge moments with the eyes of the world on them dwarfed that of the Mets, as only one Amazin’s player — Juan Uribe, who received just one at-bat this ser ies — had pr ior Fall Classic experience.

Give the Royals credit. They generally played very solid defense, both star players and benchwarmers came up with timely hits and key relievers dominated opposing hitters, unlike their Mets counterparts.

They were fundamentally sound in all aspects of the game, and the team that does the little things well normally comes out the winner. They’ve won the last two American League pennants for a reason.

The collapse of Tyler Clippard Everyone wants to talk about closer Jeurys Familia’s three blown saves, a World Series record. And while he absolutely deserves some of the blame for the Mets losing four out of five contests, he doesn’t deserve to bear the brunt of the anger emanating from fans this week.

Yes, the game-tying home run he surrendered to Royals outfielder Alex Gordon in the ninth inning of Game One, which the Mets went on to lose 5-4 in 14 innings, was a killer, but in his two other blown saves — Games Four and Five — the game tying run

was scored on ground balls that his defenders made errors on.

Instead, it was setup man Tyler Clippard, whom the Mets acquired at the trade deadline from the Oakland Athletics, who simply couldn’t get anybody out.

With the Mets leading 4-3 in the eighth inning of Game One, he surrendered a leadoff double to Ben Zobrist and later walked Kendrys Morales, with a wild pitch and two strikeouts sandwiched in between, forcing Familia to escape the jam.

With the Mets leading 3-2 in the eighth inning of Game Four last Saturday, Clippard walked both Zobrist and Lorenzo Cain, forcing manager Terry Collins to once again turn to Familia with the tying and go-ahead runs on base with just one out, a predicament which the closer ultimately could not escape from.

Asking your closer to throw multiple innings and work out of jams with no margin for error in his first World Series isn’t an ideal situation, and it came back to bite them more than once.

MISSING: offense What an abysmal series the middle-ofthe-order sluggers had. After leading the Mets to the playoffs with his powerful bat, outfielder Yoenis Cespedes managed just one RBI on three hits against a beatable Royals star ting rotation, equaling the amount of hits both catcher Travis d’Arnaud and playoff hero Daniel Murphy had.

Shortstop Wilmer Flores also went a forgettable 1-17, while Murphy, first baseman Lucas Duda and third baseman David Wright combined to strike out 22 times.

Defense optional Boy, did Murphy pick a bad time to remember his reputation as a below-average defensive second baseman.

After slugging seven playoff home runs prior to the World Series, it was his error on a routine ground ball in the eighth inning of Game Four, allowing the tying run to score, that turned him into one of the goats of the series.

Duda, a less-than-stellar defender at first base, committed an error of his own with the Mets leading 2-1 in the ninth inning of Game Five.

With one out, Royals first baseman Eric Hosmer, on third af ter doubling and advancing on a groundout, took off for home plate on a hopper to Wright, who threw over to first to record the out.

In Duda’s haste to get rid of the ball after catching Wright’s delivery, his throw to the plate sailed over d’Arnaud’s head, allowing Q Hosmer to score easily.

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The World Series didn’t just give Mets fans a temporary emotional boost, the Fall Classic also gave the city a $34 million lift.

According to noted Boston Red Sox fan Mayor de Blasio and New York City Economic Development Corp. President Maria Torres-Springer, each of the three World Series games played at Citi Field last weekend were expected have created $11.6 million in economic activity, as tens of thousands of fans and press traveling from across the nation descended on New York to catch the games in person “The impact of the New York Mets postseason run transcends baseball,” TorresSpringer said in a release issued last Saturday. “Besides uniting our city in blue and orange, Mets games are providing a huge

economic benefit that stimulates the local economy and provides opportunities for New Yorkers.”

Combined with the Mets’ two home games against the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League Division Series, the two home tilts against the Chicago Cubs in the National League Championship Series and the A mer ican Leag ue Wild Card Game the crosstown New York Yankees played against the Houston Astros last month, the Major League Baseball postseason likely generated about $94 million in commerce in for the city, according to the Mayor’s Office.

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Former Mets first baseman Ed Kranepool was standing by the expensive box seats behind home plate before Sunday’s Game 5, watching the video of his 1969 Mets that was being shown on the scoreboard. With the Mets trailing the Kansas City Royals 3 games to 1 and facing elimination, Kranepool thought the team was trying to inspire both their fans and their current players. “This doesn’t feel like the Miracle Mets,” I replied. Ed tried to be diplomatic in his response but basically agreed.

For all of the hyperbolic talk about the greatest starting pitching staff, the 2015 Mets were a flawed team that couldn’t field or hit particularly well. The stars lined up just right for the Mets, who saw the heavily favored Washington Nationals crumble in the National League East; had just enough gas to get by the Dodgers in the National League Division Series; and had a surprisingly easy time sweeping a talented but young Chicago Cubs team in the National League Championship Series. The Cubs did the Mets a huge favor knocking off both the Pirates and the Cardinals in the playoffs. I have a feeling that either of those two teams could have ended the Mets season weeks ago.

The 2015 World Series tone was set when Royals slugger Alex Gordon hit a ninth-inning home run off Mets closer Jeurys Familia in

Game 1. That tied the score at 4 and KC would go on to win in the 14th inning.

Mets fans may ruefully recall how Mets closer Armando Benitez blew a ninth-inning lead against the Yankees in Game 1 of the 2000 World Series at Yankee Stadium, and the Mets never recovered. On Friday night I spoke with Steve Phillips, who was the Mets general manager during that Subway Series, and asked him if he experienced deja vu 15 years later. “That was the first thing that crossed my mind,” said Phillips, now a baseball analyst for SiriusXM. If you’re a Mets fan who is feeling blue consider those who are really hurting. Modell’s and other stores had to forego the millions they would have made selling World Series champion Mets gear. The daily newspapers couldn’t run special advertising sections paying tribute to our Flushing heroes. Cable network SNY will not be able to show the 2015 World Series as part of its “Mets Classics.” Mayor de Blasio lost a chance to bask in the glow of a Mets clubhouse celebration the way that predecessors John Lindsay and Ed Koch did.

The Mets playoff run also distracted the media from unpleasant news. In a classy move, Mets skipper Terry Collins wore an NYPD cap at a press briefing during the Series as a way of Q saluting fallen officer Randolph Holder.

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by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

Henry Schloh (18821957) of the Real Good Construction Co. put up dozens of 40-by-100-foot wood-frame homes along Booth, Wetherole and Austin streets in 1925 and 1926. He even helped build the LIRR Rego Park station in 1929. However, in the end there was one thing missing — a church.

The Our Savior Lutheran Church was organized Our Savior Lutheran Church, located at 92-14 63 Drive, summer in 1926 and quickly rented 1935. It is the oldest church in Rego Park. out a storefront on Queens Boulevard west of 63rd Drive to hold ser- the church became a reality.

Schloh personally lived in South Richvices. Schloh, a Lutheran German-American himself, entered into a contract with the mond Hill and was not a member of the church in May 1928 when he combined and church when it was completed.

The church has stood the test of time and sold to it five valuable commercially zoned conducts services every Sunday. After 84 lots on 63rd Drive for the sum of $15,000.

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