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Parents continue bashing screener

Criticism over lack of transparency in social-emotional assessments

by Deirdre Bardolf

Education NYC, Queens Parents United and the South Asian Fund for Education Scholarship Training put out a press release last Friarent leaders and advocacy groups are day criticizing how the DOE sent notices to calling on the Department of Education to halt a new social and emotional parents that did not include information on how to opt out and how some parents did not screening test in NYC public schools, calling it “invasive” and raising concerns over priva- receive the notice at all.

Sources allege that several public schools cy, security and transparency. started rolling out the tests without notifying The city has begun rolling out the Devereux Students Strengths Assessment, or parents at all.

Nathaniel Styer, deputy press secretary for DESSA, for kindergarteners through high the Department of school students.

Education, maintains The survey conthat all parents were sists of just over 40 hy are we not asking notified. questions that are “The social-emointended to be comthese questions to the tional health of our pleted by a teacher or students has never faculty member who children if we want to been more critical, has come to know a gauge how children and all families were child well since the sent letters about this beginning of the are doing?” tool with instructions school year. on how to easily optIt asks questions — Cathy Grodsky, president of the out,” he said in an such as “During the D26 PTA Presidents’ Council email. past four weeks, how “This screener is a often did the child research-backed tool that will help us quickly carry herself/himself with confidence” and get support to students who need it,” he said “How often did the child accept responsibiliin an email. ty for what she/he did?”

Parents were also angered by the last-minThe New York City Parents Union, the ute notice that they did receive, which, in Parent Leaders for Accelerated Curriculum

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some cases, only gave them a week to write a letter stating they would be opting their child out, as the memo instructed. Parents are specifically told to write a letter stating that they do not want a staff member to complete the screener for their child and in some cases that letter also has a due date.

“The Department of Education should extend the opt-out deadline until every parent has been informed of their rights to opt-out of this survey,” said Maud Maron, vice president of PLACE NYC and former president of Community Education Council 2 in Manhattan, in the statement.

“The DOE must immediately communicate to parents of New York City public school students the reason for this survey and how the answers will be used. The DOE must also answer questions related to data storage and security.”

Aperture Education, the company that developed the tool, acceded to security agreements that comply with privacy laws, according to DOE officials.

Jean Hahn, a Rego Park parent advocate and co-founder of Queens Parents United, urged the DOE to pause the screenings until more information in multiple languages could be reviewed and called for more transparency on what the screenings will do. She also proposed an option to opt

in rather than only opt out.

Mona Davids, founder of the NYC Parents Union, continued with concerns over privacy.

“The New York City Department of Education’s continued efforts to mine student data and circumvent parental rights continues with DESSA.” The press release also said it is unclear if non-English speaking families received the notices.

The statement also asked, “Are teachers qualified to make this type of assessment that would normally be performed by pediatric behavioral psychologists or social workers?

Does it make sense to require teachers who are already burdened with addressing wide learning losses in the classroom to take time out for this?”

The United Federation of Teachers recently came to an agreement with the DOE to allow teachers time during their workday to complete the assessment.

“While we all agree about the importance of supporting our students’ social-emotional well-being, we don’t agree with the DOE’s choice of such a time-consuming screener — especially in a year where we are already spread so thin,” the union said in an email to teachers. continued on page 22

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School vaccine sites are up and rolling

Mayor says first-day shortages at some schools addressed quickly

by Max Parrott Chronicle Contributor

Families at PS 7 in Elmhurst await vaccines for their children.

Mayor de Blasio said he was pleased by the demand.

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The city’s school-based vaccine clinics for 5- to 11-year-olds were popular enough to cause some snags for the Department of Education as it rolled out its program this week in the wake of the authorization of the Pfizer vaccine for that age group.

After the first day, parents reported that the demand for the vaccines in many schools across the city outstripped the supply that the city sent to individual schools, and kept some families from getting the shot.

Community Education Council 24 President Phil Wong said that parents from PS 229 and IS 5 in Maspeth had reported long waits and shortages of the vaccine on Monday mor ning.

When he observed the vaccine distribution at PS 7 in Elmhurst the next day, he said the lines persisted but that the city sent over a mobile vaccine van to meet the demand.

The mayor acknowledged that he was surprised by the popularity of the program and promised to correct its problems at his press event Tuesday.

“We saw that demand, it was actually greater than we expected, which is a very good thing,” Mayor de Blasio said in his daily press conference in response to the reports of shortages and disorganization. “So we immediately shifted supply to the schools

where there was a high-level demand.

We’ve sent those mobile vaccination vans to schools.”

The school-based clinics rotate from school to school on certain days.

Parents need to check on a calendar that the DOE has posted online to see what days and times their children’s school will offer the vaccines. The clinics are walk-in only, so there is no way to make an appointment ahead of time.

The DOE has been adding sites to the calendar throughout the week, with the city reporting around 200 sites cit y w ide i n oper at ion a s of Wednesday.

Children must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian, or by a designated adult while receiving their vaccine. In the first two days of the program, the DOE reported giving out 10,000 shots to the roughly 660,000 5to 11-year-olds in the city.

Although the number of cases in the city’s public school student body is at its lowest point in the past year, according to city data, the rush to school vaccination clinics coincided this week with the second school closures of the school year at Long Island City’s PS 166 Henry Gradstein on Wednesday.

One obstacle to the school clinic plan’s implementation is that the sites are open to all students, not just those

who attend the designated school.

“The problem is that we have kids coming from all over, not just public school kids. Private schools, charter schools, Catholic schools — those kids are coming, and DOE cannot turn them away,” said Wong.

Some principals said that the DOE had initially provided a fixed allocation of 50 doses per school, Wong reported along with other news outlets.

De Blasio said on Tuesday that the small distribution of doses to each site was partly based on the response to school clinics for 12- to 17-year-olds, which was not as popular.

“Any school that believes they need more, we’re going to give them more doses, period. And that can happen right now,” he said.

The high demand for the school clinics was not consistent across Queens, though, parents reported.

Unlike Wong in his central Queens school district, Adriana Aviles, the CEC 26 president, said she hadn’t heard any problems with shortages from schools in her district.

“All I know is that my schools are completely dead. It’s like no one is interested,” said Aviles, whose fourthgrade son said that not many of his peers seemed to be getting pulled out of their class for the vaccine.

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District Leader Lew Simon passes

Rockaways advocate and Democratic Party activist remembered

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Lew Simon, a longtime community activist and leader in the Rockaways, passed away last Saturday.

Simon was a Democratic district leader for the 23rd Assembly District and served as a community liaison. He previously ran for City Council for the 32nd District.

Born and raised on the Rockaway Peninsula, Simon started his community advocacy at age 10 when he fought to keep the Arverne Library open, according to the New York City Campaign Finance Board. He fought to eliminate the Crossbay Bridge toll for residents and also led sewage and transportation projects.

Simon’s passing caught the attention of many elected officials.

“There was no one like Lew Simon,” said Mayor de Blasio on Twitter.

“His love of his community was irre-

pressible. Whenever you were in Rockaway, you felt his presence. And we’ll still be feeling this impact for years to come.

We’re mourning a true New York City original today.”

Queens Borough President Donovan Richards tweeted, “The Rockaways has lost a true fighter. Lew Simon was a strong individual who dedicated his life to helping the people of his community. He will truly be missed. We send our sincere condolences to his family.”

A funeral was held for Simon on Monday and was broadcast on Zoom. Family, friends and local officials joined in the event.

“I have encountered uncountable numbers of different persons in my time in government,” said Councilman Barry Grodenchik (D-Oakland Gardens). “Lew was unique in all the good ways. He fought for others and his beloved Rocka-

way Peninsula without thought to himself.

May his good deeds inspire others and may his memor y be for a blessing always.”

Councilwoman-elect Joann Ariola, a Republican who just won the seat Simon previously ran for, wrote, “Lew will be missed, but never forgotten.”

The NYPD 100th Precinct wrote on Twitter, “Shocked to hear of the passing of the legendary Mayor and District Leader of the Rockaways, Lew Simon. He leaves a legacy of fighting for the people of Rockaway and he will be missed. ‘God must have needed a special angel in Heaven.’ Sleep in power my friend and thank you!”

A memorial service for Simon will take place on Sunday at the Rockaway Beach Roller Rink at Beach 107th Street and Shore Front Parkway from 3 to 5 p.m. and Q stories and memories will be shared.

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Woodhaven BID backs shops old and new

25 businesses open recently as group helps them prosper

by Emily Dattilo Chronicle Contributor

Margie Schmidt, the owner of Schmidt’s Candy on Jamaica Avenue, works while she talks, her hands fluttering between trays of homemade treats. The old-fashioned shop’s interior is lined with glass cabinets on either side displaying everything from marshmallow caramel bars to almond patties. Jars of brightly colored candy perch on counters. The smell of chocolate softly envelops the room.

Schmidt’s Candy is one of about 325 businesses in the Woodhaven Business Improvement District — which stretches from Dexter Court to 100th Street — and it’s been a fixture in the community since 1925, even as the business landscape around it shifted into the 21st century.

“It was ice cream parlors are replaced by bars 30 years ago, and then bars got replaced by bodegas — 24 hours, flowers outside,” said Schmidt, 62, who serves as the BID secretary. “I was thrilled with that, because it was almost like we were a mini Manhattan, you know.”

The Woodhaven BID has overseen this length of urban space since 1993 — Schmidt’s mother was one of the founding members — and it’s one of many such entities throughout the city. According to NYC OpenData, as of this year, New York City has 76 total such districts, with 13 in Queens. Some may debate the positives and negatives of such organizations, but Woodhaven community organization leaders are quite confident in the positives.

Bakry Elmedni, an associate

professor of business at Long Island University Brooklyn and co-author of a research article titled “Business Improvement District (BIDs): An economic development policy or a tool for gentrification,” is one researcher who’s looked closely into the topic.

He says although BIDs improve communities, they can also lead to real estate value appreciation and higher rents. To address those consequences in the short term, he suggests affordable housing and rent relief programs. Looking ahead, however, necessitates understanding the inevitable.

“But in terms of long-lasting solutions, I don’t really think you can do anything because these are dynamics of appreciation of value,” Elmedni said. “There is nothing you can do to keep rent down or to keep price down when real estate value goes up.”

Ed Wendell, who serves as president of Woodhaven Cultural and Historical Society, said he can’t really find the negatives to having a BID, and he also doesn’t see the typical disruptions that follow sharp rises in property values happening in a community as big as Woodhaven. He adds that many residents might not know the BID exists, despite the fact that it aids the community.

Before any pros and cons can be debated, however, the actual entity must exist in the first place, and a BID isn’t something that just any neighborhood, district or corridor can get, said Wendell. In simple terms, individuals within that area must apply for one, and that request can only then be granted by the City Council.

Schmidt’s Candy has been serving Woodhaven’s sweet tooth since 1925. Owner Margie Schmidt says she is thrilled PHOTOS BY EMILY DATTILO with one element of how other businesses in the area have changed over the decades.

Then, it’s determined how much a particular area will be assessed, and that money is paid by property owners — “it’s the building owner that gets taxed, not the business,” Wendell said — which goes back into the BID budget.

“The manner of assessment is decided before the City Council votes to approve, and the Council votes to approve generally because a majority of people support the BID,” Raquel Olivares, the Woodhaven BID’s executive director, wrote in an email.

Wendell says that sometimes, part of that assessment could be collected by owners from businesses, as part of rent, but the figure is low — around $600 to $800 a year or less, depending on the size of the store, Olivares adds.

And although some BIDs tend to

One of the newest businesses in Woodhaven is Cevis Louisiana Chicken and Grill. It’s within the boundaries of the FILE PHOTO, RIGHT, BY MICHAEL SHAIN Woodhaven Business Improvement District, headed by Raquel Olivares, right.

focus on tasks like holiday lights, these are people that are investing, events or sanitation, Woodhaven’s you know, sometimes their life savis different, said Olivares, who’s ings in something, and they know been in the role for about three the odds are against them,” he said.

One new business is Cevis Louiyears.

“But in our case, because this is siana Chicken and Grill, which a low-income community, we see opened last month. Owner Osman Cevallo, who prethe need of doing viously worked as way more than a general managthat, right?” said at Popeye’s for Olivares. ncoming merchants er seven years, says As such, the business is slow.

Woodhaven BID see a stable place His goal, he does everything where they hope to said , “for th is f rom helping year — just deliver pr inted do good business. surviving.” i n for mat ion to The high businesses in perdemands of runson to helping with city referrals or pro bono law- ning a small business aren’t yers, she said. It also closely works reserved to newer places alone.

Florence Rah ner, who has with other local organizations like the Woodhaven Residents’ Block worked at Schmidt’s Candy for several years after a career in the busiAssociation.

Unfortunately, between the pan- ness world, wasn’t sure she wanted demic and landlords’ raising rents, to return after working her first some older businesses ended up holiday — a particularly busy one closing down, said Steve Forte, the for candy stores.

“And then I’m like come on, WRBA president and commercial property owner on the BID’s Board Florence, you worked for the stock market — you can’t take a candy of Directors.

“But fortunately, other business- store on Valentine’s Day, what’s es came in,” Forte said. “And they wrong with you? ” Rahner said, said, ‘Yeah, we’d like to try the laughing. Years later, she and area. We’ve heard a lot about your Schmidt, who were high school area. It’s a stable neighborhood. classmates, are still happily workAnd you know, hopefully we can ing together.

And outside the candy shop, this do business there.’”

According to Katty Garces, the piece of Jamaica Avenue brims Woodhaven BID program manager, with businesses of all kinds, the the community has welcomed 25 subway rattling above shops new and old, all of whom are overseen new businesses from 2020 to 2021.

Wendell acknowledged the diffi- by the Woodhaven BID. “You name it, we help them,” culty of opening a business.

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Economy’s return staggered across boro QCC prez says Queens margin of growth is below national average

by Katherine Donlevy Associate Editor

The U.S. economy only grew by 2 percent in the third quarter of 2021, the federal Commerce Department reported Oct. 28.

The crawl marks the smallest gain in a year, when the country began its slow economic recovery from the pandemic.

Tom Grech of the Queens Chamber of Commerce doesn’t have equivalent numbers for the borough, but if he had to estimate, he’d say Queens’ margin of growth is even smaller than the country’s.

“I would think it’s below the national average,” he told the Chronicle Nov. 4. “It’s more difficult than ever to get things done in New York City and Queens. Everyone’s gone through a hellish 18 to 20 months. It’s a hard environment.”

The QCC president doesn’t expect the city to be back to “normal” until spring 2022. On a scale of one to 10 — 10 being totally recovered — Grech would put Queens at a seven.

“The thing that’s holding our companies back from doing well is the inability to hire people,” Grech continued. “There’s been an inflation in wages. It’s harder than ever for people to go back to work. Small businesses live and die on a small margin.”

He also said strict rules and regulations

The pandemic caused businesses across the country to shut their doors for good, but neighborhoods across Queens are seeing a slow economic return. The vacancy rate in the Myrtle Avenue BID’s area is at 7 percent, while it’s under 4 percent in Downtown Flushing. FILE PHOTO BY MARK LORD from even before the pandemic are hindering businesses, such as limitations on overtime. But speaking two days after Election Day, Grech said he’s been greatly encouraged by Eric Adams’ win in the mayoral race and hopes there will be an overhaul in the favor of small business owners.

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Myrtle Avenue Business Improvement District Executive Director Ted Renz places its vacancy rate at 7 percent, which is the same as it had been pre-pandemic. The Ridgewood strip lost between 25 and 30 businesses during the pandemic, most of them being retail clothing stores, he said, but gained back the same number of new businesses.

Just because the vacancy rate mirrors the BID’s pre-pandemic one does not necessarily mean Myrtle Avenue is back to normal though, Renz asserted.

“It’s hard to gauge stuff like this,” he said. “What will happen in the holiday season will be a telling sign.”

Renz believes the business owners are guarded and on the alert that the tide could always change back in a negative direction, but they are still hopeful that things will continue to get better as customers begin doing their holiday shopping.

The Myrtle Avenue BID will soon be celebrating the holiday season with weekend festivities, a tradition it has kept in the years before the pandemic struck. Last year, there was live music, but Renz was forced to cancel face painting, balloon distribution and continued on page 24

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e know you love your community just as much as we do at the Queens Chronicle, your community newspaper. So this week you’re in for a treat!

In our 43rd annual Anniversary edition, entitled “Welcome to the neighborhood!”, you’ll find profiles of nine neighborhoods across the borough, looking at them both historically and in the present day. In researching the stories we learned much that we didn’t know, and hope you will too.

We open with Forest Hills, not because it’s the best — though many who live there will tell you it is, just as people elsewhere would say about their neighborhoods — but because it seemed a fine place to start, located as it is right in the heart of the borough. Like most of Queens, it was, from Colonial times on, farmland until development and the population exploded. Long synonymous with tennis, it also has been home to a lengthy list of celebrities of celebrities of all kinds — how many can you name? And, like any place, it’s seen its share of darkness. Did you know that two of the young innocents killed by the Son of Sam in 1977 were slain, on different days, less than 100 yards from each other?

From Forest Hills we move northeast to Bayside, long a playground of the rich, known for Gatsby-style estates, elite

clubs and golf courses. But, as an assistant professor of history from Queens College tells us, two key events, the imposition of the federal income tax in 1913 and the stock market crash of 1929, took their toll on the wealthy. The great estates were subdivided, the golf courses too; and today’s more middle-class community took shape.

Heading west, we next stop in Jackson Heights, a largely planned community that today exemplifies what former Mayor David Dinkins called New York’s “gorgeous mosaic” of different races, religions, nationalities and sexual orientations. It is the most diverse community on Earth, according to one longtime resident, City Councilman Danny Dromm, with 167 languages spoken.

From there we head way south — we’re like cabbies heading from one neighborhood to the next, all over the borough — to Ozone Park. Talk about community: This is where the late Congressman Joe Addabbo Sr. lived his entire life, moving five times but never leaving one square mile of space. He’s not the only one who loves the place, which realtors pitched to Manhattanites way back when as a healthy location boasting clean ocean air — hence the name. Addabbo’s son, Joe Jr., the state senator, says the warmth and

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Helicopter hell Dear Editor: Another election year gone by, all the knocks on the door and unsolicited phone calls from local politicians trying to gain our favor nothing new.

With all these calls and knocks on the door not one word was addressed regarding this scourge of helicopter concussions shaking our homes and putting us in a bad mental state.

Because we are middle-class Howard Beach residents nothing was ever done or is ever done in this matter especially. Privileged Manhattanites do not care that they are making our life miserable so they can save a half hour on the roads.

When will we wake up and fight for what is right like other communities do? I would like to see our local politicians respond to this and get their feedback. Wake up, Howard Beach residents.

Michael Spoto Howard Beach

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camaraderie among the residents that he remembers from his youth remains.

Next it’s on to Jamaica, long a regional hub — so it’s funny to be reminded its original name was Rustdorp, “Rest-town” in Dutch. Jamaica keeps busy and has for a long, long time. It’s a business hub, a transit hub and a center of government. It’s got a lot of history too.

Also bearing a lot of history is our next stop, Ridgewood.

It’s home, after all, to the oldest Dutch Colonial stone house in the entire city, dating to 1709. And talk about historic districts! It’s got 10 of them.

After Ridgewood we head back to Queens Village, which, among other things, has had a remarkable number of names over the years. Blame the railroad and power politics for that. Lastly we hit two shore-front communities: Long Island City with its unique blend of industry and art, and Whitestone, another area once known for celebrities that today is all about folks living in a quiet community.

Queens has 90-some-odd distinct neighborhoods, so of course we couldn’t write about them all in one edition. If yours isn’t here, we bet you’ll find it has a lot in common with at least one of the others. Welcome to the neighborhood!

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nue and Metropolitan Avenue where there are no dedicated bus lanes, contributing to delays” as the MTA spokesman pointed out.

Not only that, often some Newtown Creek boat captain will decide to chug under the Metropolitan Avenue drawbridge right during rush hour, further backing up standstill traffic on both sides of the raised roadway.

Straphangers who use the Q54 bus have had enough, but what’s the solution? Eliminate all rush-hour street parking on Metropolitan and Grand avenues in favor of dedicated bus lanes.

Set up strict enforcement mechanisms, including traffic cops and citizen snitch apps allowing for submission of photo evidence of violators, with a bounty awarded for fines collected. Also, as the Q54 route is mostly a straight line, replace the fleet with accordion double buses and modify the route as needed. Lastly, get those boat operators in Newtown Creek to use their heads or at least show some consideration

and wait till off hours to set sail.

How much of this can be done at the city level is always a question, but the inauguration of an (at least comparatively) actual functional, competent mayoralty on Jan. 1 sets up the possibility for intergovernmental innovation, cooperation and remedial action.

Edwin Eppich Glendale

Light needed at 153rd and CB Dear Editor: There should be a traffic light exiting 153rd Avenue entering Cross Bay Boulevard. The cars don’t give you a chance to sneak in. When the light just to the north turns red, cars making a right turn from South Conduit Avenue proceed nonstop. This is an accident waiting to happen.

Jerry Marino Howard Beach

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Dear Editor: Congress authorized the most current aid package on March 10, 2021, which includes $11 billion for a worldwide response to the Covid pandemic. This is a critical step in alleviating the strains caused by the virus throughout the world. Nonetheless, significant financing problems exist.

Global severe poverty, for example, is growing sharply for the first time in over two decades. Furthermore, as a direct result of the pandemic’s influence on the global food chain, hunger levels might reach their highest point in over a decade. Years of sustainable developThe real hospital crisis ment effort in nations all over the world might Dear Editor: come to a halt or possibly reverse owing to a Re “Queens pols fight for maternity ward lack of essential funding. funds,” June 10, 2021, multiple editions: Right now, Congress must support a coorThe Queens politicians who attended the press conference at NYC Health and Hospitals dinated COVAX campaign to internationally distribute vaccinations and devise a strategy Elmhurst (Elmhurst Hospital) obviously know to share the United States’ 533 million extra about the country’s rising maternal mortality rate. However, their request for a $3 million vaccines that will be left over after every fund towards the renovation of the hospital’s American gets immunized. The Borgen Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to OBGYN unit does not necessarily address the ending global poverty, believes that foreign root causes of this severe health crisis.

People of Elmhurst are well aware that money would aid in the health-related while the hospital largely serves Medicaid and research of CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, and U.S. civilian underinsured patients, the provided care is agency operations abroad. inadequate. Money might trickle in with this As a Borgen Project ambassador, I am confund, but how does the addition of private hospital rooms combat institutional racism and tacting my congressional leaders to support structural inequalities? the bill. I urge you to take 30 seconds out of Had the well-intentioned politicians direct- your day to do the same. ed the fund toward supporting uninsured and Tien Mai underinsured patients, ensuring culturally Astoria competent care, updating OBGYN protocols, The writer is a student at SUNY Oneonta and tracking data on pregnancy- and childmajoring in communications. birth-related deaths, the health outcomes of birthing people would improve.

We also have to remember that those at risk Write a Letter! of pregnancy- and childbirth-related deaths are We want to hear from new voices! Letters those who are already vulnerable. And yet, the should be no longer than 300 words and representatives of another Queens neighbormay be edited for length, clarity and other hood did not show at the conference, even reasons. They may be emailed to letters@ knowing their district has one of the city’s qchron.com. Please include your phone highest maternal mortality rates and a large number, which will not be published. Those Black population. received anonymously are discarded.

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Stop the shoplifting spiral Dear Editor: It is very disturbing to see everyday toiletries locked up on shelves in the neighborhood drug stores.

Have we, as a society, fallen so low that common thieves now have the power to manage the merchandise in the stores?

This is more than a broken window argument. It is more like a vig to be paid before entering a building or in the old days, when town criers were posted on the ramparts to watch for marauders.

Whether the crime of looting cartloads of shaving cream, toothpaste deodorant and other sundries is classified as a felony or misdemeanor is irrelevant.

Eric Adams has to help rewrite the books on crime and stop this downward spiral.

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Your neighborhood HS Dear Editor: Re Deirdre Bardolf’s Oct. 28 article “Geographic-based admission’s fight”: I agree with Community Education Council 26’s opposition to ending geographic priority for high school admission. Disgraced former Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza proposed removing geographic priority before resigning in March under a cloud of controversy.

Students should attend the high schools closest to their homes, which they did until 2004, when NYC’s Department of Education introduced a school choice program. Eighthgraders must submit a list of 12 high schools they wish to attend, no matter where they live.

The DOE matches student choices with each school’s enrollment capacity.

The goal was to not limit students’ quality of education to their ZIP codes. But instead of leveling the playing field, school choice made it more lopsided. Students flocked to schools with high rates of college admission, like Bayside HS, while enrollment plummeted at high schools with lower levels of academic achievement.

Prioritizing zone-based admissions will restore a proper enrollment balance at most high schools. The only exceptions should be the eight specialized schools that require a rigorous admission exam for students citywide.

In substandard schools, teachers, principals, parents and students can work to improve educational quality.

Richard Reif Kew Gardens Hills

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Life came full circle for Theresa Labiento as she continued her 100th birthday festivities with a celebration last Thursday at the Golden Age Club of Nativity Church.

“I had a wonderful time at this party,” said Labiento.

She attended the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Roman Catholic Church growing up and got married there.

Local officials sent gifts including a cake from Councilwoman-elect Joann Ariola and a citation from Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway Beach).

Labiento also celebrated her Oct. 11 birthday with a family party at Roma View on Crossbay Boulevard.

The grandmother of seven was born in Ozone Park and grew up on 102nd Avenue with her sister and seven brothers. When she got married, she moved to 79th Street. She lived there until 14 years ago when she moved in with her daughter in Howard

Beach. In between having her three children, she worked as a dressmaker.

“I loved where I lived,” she said. “I miss it very much.”

They spent Thursday playing bingo, which is what Labiento has been doing at the church since high school when she would write the numbers on a chalkboard.

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On Monday, after her office vacated 60 convictions that were secured substantially by the testimony of tainted detectives, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said the move was “the first step in an ongoing and systemic review.”

Professor Joseph Giacalone, a retired NYPD detective sergeant who now teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Brooklyn, has no doubt.

“I think what you saw is going to happen in every borough,” Giacalone told the Chronicle Tuesday. “You need to know how long people have known about this; how long has this been going on? How long have these people been testifying? It’s a domino effect, and this is just the tip of the iceberg. You’ll be talking about this again in a few weeks.”

The DA’s Office said Katz’s Conviction Integrity Unit has identified 34 cases in which former Det. Kevin Desormeau was “the essential witness.” Desormeau subsequently has been convicted of first-degree perjury, official misconduct and other charges. He also was found to have fabricated facts in a gun possession arrest and to have lied about a drug sale that it was proven never took place.

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Sasha Cordoba, whose record “You have a situation where includes a guilty plea to firstpeople could be sitting in jail. degree perjury and official misSometimes it’s just better to conduct. Six were linked with expunge the records and move former Det. Oscar Sandino, who on.” pleaded guilty to federal charges The press release sent out by related to sexual assault and sexKatz’s office said 20 names were ual misconduct involving on a list of officers who had subarrestees. sequently been convicted of perAll three have been fired by jury or other serious crimes. The the department. three named Monday were Queens DA Queens Supreme Court Justice among 10 who have been conMelinda Katz Michelle Johnson granted the FILE PHOTO nected with cases in Queens, and request to vacate the cases. the others remain under “We cannot stand behind a criminal coninvestigation. viction where the essential law enforcement Giacalone also said those involved have witness has been convicted of crimes which caused serious harm to the NYPD and their irreparably impair their credibility,” Katz fellow officers. said in a press release. “Vacating and dis“You have police officers who have gone missing these cases is both constitutionally rogue,” he said. “Not only do they tarnish required and necessary to ensure public con- their reputations and family names, they also fidence in our justice system.” could be putting innocent people in prison.

“At this stage of the game, if you found a Myself and other cops, we don’t tolerate that. couple of cops who were fabricating evidence I don’t disagree with what the district attoror who were doing what we used to refer to ney did.” as flaking — like planting drugs on someGiacalone said one of his rules was to body — everything they’ve done comes into never make the front page of the newspapers. question,” Giacalone said. “Even if when “The only time you make the front page is they started out they were doing what they when you’re dead or under arrest,” he said. were supposed to do, now all that comes into “If you do something good you wind up on question. page 47.

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In the statement from Katz’s office, CIU Director Bryce Benjet said the dismissal of the 60 cases “does not constitute a finding of actual innocence and is based instead on a finding of constitutional error.”

Katz said vacating the convictions is both required by the Constitution and necessary for preserving the public’s faith in the criminal justice system. Benjet said the office “cannot re-prosecute these cases where the essential law-enforcement witness has forever lost professional credibility,” but the DA’s Office did not respond to an inquiry asking to clarify if that is due to constitutional requirements or prosecutorial discretion.

Benjet did say that the office is open to reinvestigating claims of actual innocence by the defendants who were affected.

The request sent to Katz’s office also sought information on the charges in the cases that were tainted; and whether anyone was still incarcerated as a result of the former Q officers in question.

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City honors Maspeth World War II hero Wdowiak earned Navy Cross for famed capture of German U-boat

by Max Parrott Chronicle Contributor

A World War II Navy veteran who was on the front lines of an operation that helped the Allies break through the Nazis’ Enigma code machine got a permanent place of honor in Maspeth on Saturday.

A plaza and stretch of 64th Street where it intersects Flushing and Grand avenues was renamed U.S. Navy Radioman Second Class Stanley Wdowiak Way after the heroic veteran and lifelong Maspeth resident. The ceremony was coordinated by Councilman Bob Holden (D-Middle Village), who submitted the application to honor Wdowiak.

“Stanley was not only a hero for the Allies and the United States but a hero for Maspeth,” Holden said at the street-renaming ceremony.

Born on Jan. 20, 1925, in Brooklyn, Wdowiak enlisted in the Navy during the war, where he was thrust into a pivotal moment of the conflict. Wdowiak was a crewman on the U.S.S. Pillsbury who boarded and captured the German submarine U-505 off the coast of West Africa on June 4, 1944.

After engaging in a naval battle in which the submarine was damaged with depth charges, Wdowiak joined a nine-man party that ventured into the surfaced vessel. He and two others entered the sub prepared for a fight, but found that the Germans had desert-

The family of Maspeth World War II veteran Stanley Wdowiak celebrates the renaming of a plaza PHOTO BY MAX PARROTT there after the late Navy Cross recipient. ed the ship. They collected valuable contents: two Enigma encryption machines, code books, charts and papers.

They also took up the task of maintaining the sub. Although water was pouring in and there was a possibility that it would blow up or sink, the Maspeth veteran remained below, keeping it afloat so that it could be salvaged and towed to Bermuda. He was awarded the Navy Cross for heroism, the second-highest

honor that can be accorded a U.S. sailor.

“The capture of the U-505 was kept secret until after the war, as we were able to secure very valuable German codebooks and the Enigma machines allowing U.S. Armed Forces to intercept German communications, just before the D-Day invasion,” said Wdowiak’s son-in-law Nick Mascia at the ceremony.

The U-505 now resides in the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. A represen-

tative of the museum traveled to Maspeth for the ceremony in order to display Wdowiak’s medal and a pair of binoculars his family donated to the collection.

After he came back from the war, Wdowiak settled in Maspeth with his wife, Margaret, living there until his death in 1988. They reared daughters Nancy and Patricia and son Peter, who is now deceased, and worked in the dairy industry. He is survived by his daughters and their families.

“It was special for him to be honored,” said Patricia. “He’s a hometown hero, that’s for sure.”

The location for the renaming was chosen because it’s less than a block away from where Wdowiak lived on Grand Avenue.

Initiated by Holden’s office, the renaming has been in the works since 2019 before it was stalled by Covid. Maspeth Federal Savings helped organize the ceremony, along with organizations including the Kowalinski Post, Maspeth Kiwanis and Maspeth Lions Club.

“Whenever he returned from a long trip, Stanley would always say, ‘Ah, we’re home in Maspeth, in God’s Country,’” Kenneth Ruzewick, former CEO of Maspeth Federal Savings, said at the ceremony.

The St. Stanislaus School choir performed the national anthem and “Anchors Aweigh” in Q honor of Wdowiak.

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Queens vets honored Queens veterans were honored on Wednesday at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Elmhurst Park.

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz was joined by Borough President Donovan Richards for the observance ceremony along with Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato, Asemblyman Brian Barnwell and state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. They honored Specialist Sean McCabe, above, who served in the United States Army, Specialist Daren Wilkes who also

served in the Army, Sgt. Suzanne Bettis who served in the United States Marine Corps and Signalman 2nd Class Douglas Williams, who served in the Navy in the Vietnam War. McCabe now works for Addabbo’s office and Bettis is an assistant district attorney in Katz’s office.

“Every night that I put my kids to sleep safely in their beds, I thank all of you that are here today,” said Katz.

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Former 106th Precinct Officer Valerie Cincinelli was sentenced last week to four years in prison for a scheme to have a hitman kill her ex-husband, Isaiah Carvalho Jr. The plot also included killing her boyfriend’s teenage daughter.

Back in 2019, Cincinelli, then 34, of Oceanside, LI, was in a custody battle with her ex-husband when, according to authorities, she tried to have him killed.

She allegedly gave her boyfriend, John DiRubba, then 54, of Howard Beach, $7,000 to hire a hitman for the job.

DiRubba went to the FBI and cooporated in an investigation, recording conversations with Cincinelli.

She pleaded guilty to an obstruction charge on Friday as part of a plea deal and was sentenced to 48 months.

The plea agreement called for a sentence of about five years in prison but federal prosecutors agreed not to ask for more than 60 months.

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months with good behavior.

“I can’t believe I allowed myself to get to that dark place,” Cincinelli said in federal court on Long Island, according to CBS New York. “I never thought in a million years it was going to happen. I was deeply, deeply damaged at that time. I was Q not thinking clearly.”

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Less than two weeks after championing a two-year repeal of the cap on deductions for state and local taxes, which was set at $10,000 under the previous Trump administration, Democrats are now proposing an $80,000 cap that will extend to 2030.

The new scheme seems to have divided Democrats on how to move forward with addressing the Trump-led 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Acts, which restricted the deductions people can take on their federal taxes.

“We have been fighting this unfair, targeted tax since its inception in 2017,” said U.S. Reps.

Tom Suozzi (D-Nassau, Suffolk, Queens), Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) and Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) in a joint statement Nov. 5. “This agreement to address the cap on our state and local tax deduction will effectively eliminate the undue burden for nearly all of the families in our districts who’ve been unfairly double taxed for the last four years.”

This comes after analytical studies by Jason Furman, a Harvard economics professor and senior fellow at The Peterson Institute for International Economics, a nonpartisan research institution dedicated to economic policy, and the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget came to the conclusion that repealing SALT altogether would negate potential gains of Biden’s proposals to hike taxes on the rich.

Couples making $9.9 million in New York would save $306,000 if the existing $10,000 cap on SALT deductions were repealed, according to Furman.

The CRFB said the repeal would reduce taxes on the top 5 percent by $70 billion in fiscal year 2023, while President Biden’s Build Back Better is designed to raise $800 billion from corporate taxes over the course of a decade and increase the tax burden on the top 5 percent by $50 billion by 2023. However, tax credits for renewable energy via research and experimentation would result in another $10 billion in tax cuts for the top 5 percent, the CRFB said.

“This fix will put money back in the pockets of hardworking, middle-class families in our districts and help ensure that our local communities can continue making investments that we need,” said the joint statement. “We’re confident that with this agreement, we can move forward on this crucially important package and we will continue working to ensure that this tax cut gets signed into law to deliver this relief to our constituents as soon as possible.”

U.S. Rep. Greg Meeks (D-Queens, Nassau), however, still wants a full repeal.

“Trump’s SALT cap has financially crippled families across New York State for years, impacting middle-class families the most,” said Meeks to the Chronicle via email. “Raising the cap to $80,000 is a move in the right direction but our work does not stop here. I will continue to advocate with my colleagues in Congress — especially the New York Delegation — for a full repeal of the SALT cap.”

U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) supports the $80,000 amendment and the Senate majority leader hopes it will pass before Thanksgiving, which is Nov. 25.

“Senator Schumer will fight hard to keep SALT relief in the Senate bill,” said a spokeswoman to the Chronicle via email.

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), however, prefers a repeal for families making under $400,000, while keeping the cap for billionaires and millionaires, as a way to support the middle-class and tax the rich. Sanders chairs the Budget Senate Committee.

Rene Hill, an accountant in St. Albans, agrees with Suozzi and Schumer.

“That really helps the middle class,” said Hill. “The wealthy have enough deductions.

That might work. It’s better than it was and should help enough people.”

Hill believes the $80,000 is a fair amount and that will make more middle-class people eligible for deductions, while the rich continue to get taxed.

“It’s not giving the rich more,” said Hill.

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Over one month, nine relay boxes were reportedly tampered with

by Katherine Donlevy

There have been a series of mail thefts in Flushing, confirmed by the United States Postal Service, with at least nine green street relay boxes “compromised.”

“Mailboxes were getting absolutely violated,” one resident said.

“We have received reports in the Flushing area, specially in 11358 ZIP code,” Donna Harris from the Postal Inspection Service, the law enforcement division of USPS, told the Chronicle Nov. 5.

Harris was unable to confirm how many boxes have been tampered with, but the resident, Frances Scanlon, said it happened 12 times between Oct. 1 and Nov. 1, as told to her by a Flushing Post Office manager.

Scanlon said she religiously checks her mail at her Beech Avenue apartment complex mailbox, between Kissena Boulevard and Bowne Street, every day. She subscribes to the USPS’s electronic delivery digest, which she said is extremely accurate in estimating when mail should arrive in her mailbox.

On Nov. 1, Scanlon was notified that she should expect three or four pieces of mail in her box, and she asked her sister to go down and pick them up. When her sister arrived, the box was empty.

Scanlon followed up with the Flushing Post

The relay boxes at 140-65 Beech Ave. in Downtown Flushing were reportedly tampered with on Nov. 1, and thieves made off with two bags of mail. The lock, right, appears to have been tamPHOTOS BY FRANCES SCANLON pered with and left open.

Office, and was told by a manager that the relay box for her building had been compromised and two bags of mail were stolen, she said.

The manager did not respond to multiple calls for comment by the Chronicle.

In an email shared with the Chronicle, Scan-

lon was told by a postal employee that two others were hit that day, in addition to nine other instances in the weeks earlier.

The green relay boxes that were compromised between Oct. 1 and Nov. 1 in Downtown Flushing are located at:

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The latter two locations were reportedly tampered with two and three times, respectively, during that month.

The Postal Inspection Service is investigating the thefts, Harris said. At press time, the agency was unsure how the thieves accessed the boxes, but Harris dispelled the rumor that there are universal keys for every box across the country that the thieves could have gained a copy of.

In the meantime the public can help protect themselves from becoming victims.

First, individuals should take their mail out of their boxes each day. Mail left behind is at a higher risk of being compromised or stolen, she said. If you’re not at home to pick it up, have someone trustworthy do it for you, Harris said.

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Here’s how your gardens grow

Volunteers say flowers in Kew Gardens, Richmond Hill are just the start

by Emily Schutz Chronicle Contributor

Off the kitchen table and into the garden, a Parmesan cheese shaker leads a new life as a vessel for red clover seeds. A small group of children excitedly jiggle the jars as the seeds fall and permeate the soil in a local tree well that not too long ago was covered in clutter and trash. Soon enough, the little multicolored orbs will grow into a sea of miraculous pink flowers.

The transformation of the tree well on Metropolitan Avenue between 116th and 118th streets and many other spots like it is entirely owed to Kew Gardens residents Anne Craig and Carol Lacks, and the support of the Kew Gardens Council for Recreation and the Arts.

Craig and Lacks hope to inspire their Queens community to get involved in gardening. Planting red clover is just one of the many beautification projects the pair is working on.

With big hopes, Craig said, they received 600 daffodil bulbs from The Daffodil Project, an organization that provides these flowers to volunteers in honor of the victims of 9/11. On Nov. 6 the pair, along with a few volunteers, planted many of them near The River Fund, a food bank in Richmond Hill, which, just like the other tree well, was sprinkled with litter.

“They’ve done an amazing amount of work cleaning up trash off of the streets,” Craig said of The River Fund. “Come next spring I want to start turning that into an area that’s not just cleaned of trash, but that’s beautiful.

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At top, Swami Durga Das, founder of The River Fund, thanks Anne Craig for beautifying the charity’s neighborhood. Above, Bob Murphy of Kew Gardens waters some newly planted seeds.

Carol Lacks, left, Andrew McFarland, Viana McFarland, Henry Vas Nunes, Anne Craig, Catriona PHOTOS BY EMILY SCHUTZ Schlosser and Mark Morrill take a break from cleaning and greening. for food, but you know, it might as well be beautiful.”

Swami Durga Das, founder and CEO of The River Fund, was excited to have the volunteers there, calling the project “a reward for our neighborhood and site.”

The morning of the beautification of the River Fund, Craig met up with the volunteers at a Kew Gardens senior center, the New Homestead Home for Adults, where they planted a few bulbs. Next, they headed to the tree wells on Metropolitan Avenue and continued to pick up litter and plant the bulbs.

Many of the volunteers were passionate about beautifying the community.

“We want to take care of the neighborhoods,” said Kew Gardens resident Andrew McFarland. “We live here. It’s our home and we want to take care of it.”

Henry Vas Nunes, another Kew Gardens resident, agrees.

“It’s important to get involved in your community to make a difference and to make sure your neighborhood is clean,” he said.

Clearly, Craig and Lacks aren’t alone in wanting to beautify the community and bring neighbors together in the process. Since the early days of the pandemic, gardening has exponentially increased in popularity, and it shows no sign of slowing down anytime soon, according to an article published by the University of Florida. There are quite a few residents who have expressed interest on social media in starting a community garden, specifically in Ozone Park, where there’s never been one.

Although community gardens present some obvious neighborhood benefits, they also come with their own challenges to get them literally off the ground. Melissa Checker, author of “The Sustainability Myth” and a professor at Queens College, said the first obstacle is obtaining a plot for a garden. Additionally, the city mandates insurance coverage, which must be paid for by a volunteer who is in charge of the garden.

Despite these difficulties, gardens are still wanted by so many in these communities and there are ways to work around the financial burden that one might bring. The Whole Kids

Foundation provides grants to those who create a garden in tandem with a local K-12 school or nonprofit that works with children.

Other assistance for these kinds of projects might come from GrowNYC, which has built more than 130 gardens in the city.

Even so, none of their gardens reside in Kew Gardens, and for those who want to partake in community planting, they must travel outside of their own neighborhoods to the Rockaways or Woodside, where community gardens are thriving.

Nabilah Islam, a long-time Ozone Park resident and program associate with Land, Water and Climate Justice at American Jewish World Service, said many residents enjoy gardening, particularly immigrants from Bangladesh. She said that she believes gardening is an amazing way to build a sense of community in the neighborhood, while preserving cultural heritage.

Staples in Bangladeshi cuisine, such as squash and cilantro, are grown from seeds and then used in cooking, whether by the gardener who planted them, or by a neighbor who is given the vegetable or spice.

“In Bangladesh most people do have their own farms and home-grown vegetables and stuff,” Islam said. “It’s just like what they would do in their normal everyday lives, back in their country. That really makes them feel like they’re still connected in a way ’cause it’s their hobby and they’re so used to being able to be themselves that way.”

Although many residents currently grow produce in their yards, that isn’t possible for everyone. The housing market is changing in Ozone Park, Islam said, and single-family homes are becoming multifamily homes. She said that more apartments are being built and fewer people will have backyards. According to reports from the city the number of multifamily homes in Queens has increased by more than three thousand since 2017.

With the change comes the need for a community garden, and Ozone Park resident Carolyn LaVeglia said she intends to spearhead the campaign.

While taking an afternoon stroll with her husband last February, LaVeglia came across

At top, Carol Lacks, left, and Anne Craig want community gardens to spread across Queens.

Above, Avangeline Bacchus, Olivia David and Sydney Bacchus help them out. a lot of land which was entirely empty, other than a few tires and trash scattered about.

Near a baseball field, and a park, this plot had the potential to transform from dirt and scrapes, plastic cups, and old crumpled receipts to a community garden where residents could plant food and f lowers, said LaVeglia.

This idea blossomed into something more after she created a poll in a local Facebook group, asking her neighbors whether they’d like to have a community garden in the area.

Ninety one percent of the 84 survey participants agreed that they would.

By early March, LaVeglia pitched the idea at a community board meeting, but says the idea was not met fondly by officials, who brushed her off and said they were working on a different beautification project. This did not satisfy LaVeglia. She is in the process of creating a formal proposal and gathering signatures of residents who are interested in the project. She said she is determined to transform the poorly maintained lot into an enriching space for her neighbors.

“It could be a great source of green space for the community, planting trees and planting flowers and all those kind of things,” said LaVeglia. “But you know in our mind, being able to produce food for the community in this neighborhood is really important to us.” Q

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FH Jewish Center to be sold, redeveloped

by Michael Gannon Editor

Members of the Forest Hills Jewish Center have agreed to sell their building and grounds at 106-06 Queens Blvd. and will relocate in the future, according to published reports.

The iconic stone structure, built in the 1940s, has a commanding view of MacDonald Park, which is practically the synagogue’s front yard. But the aging structure has grown more troublesome to maintain, and leaders of the congregation have been discussing some type of move for two decades. The congregation will relocate nearby following the sale.

Plans had been in place to tear the building down in 2019 and have the congregation return in what was to be a mixed-use tower. A deal with a developer fell through that year for reasons that were not announced. Terms of the impending sale have not been released, though any deal would have to pass muster with the office of state Attorney General Letitia James.

Officials from the center could not be reached for comment prior to the ChroniQ cle’s deadline

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DESSA criticisms continue continued from page 2 The agreement stated that teachers could spend four hours of their workday to complete the screener but the coalition of parent groups estimate that would only allow about eight minutes to answer the questions for a class of 34 students.

DOE officials estimate that it will only take about two and a half minutes to complete.

DESSA concerns also came up in an online CEC 26 meeting on Tuesday night.

Cathy Grodsky, president of the District 26 PTA Presidents’ Council, raised the question, “Why are we not asking these questions to the children if we want to gauge how children are doing and how children are feeling?”

Instead, she said, administrators are “relying on teachers who have known students for a couple of weeks ... to answer these obscure questions that have been posed. It just seems ridiculous.”

One notice to parents sent for a Queens high school stated the tool would be completed by someone who knows the child “really well” and that parents could learn about the results at family conferences.

In a virtual town hall meeting on Tuesday night with CEC 27, School Chancellor Meisha Porter stood by the DESSA rollout, calling it an “asset-based approach to ensuring that our students and our teachers are aware of the social-emotional

needs that our students are dealing with day to day.”

Katherine Jedrlinic, chief of staff at the DOE, said the department is asking all schools across the system to use the screener.

“The DESSA screener we picked after careful consideration because it will help ensure that schools think about every single student, take a minute to say, ‘how is this student dealing with being back in school, what have they been through?’”

DOE off icials say the tool was researched extensively and found to be the only strengths-based assessment of students social-emotional development.

Jedrlinic said the screener can help identify if a student could benefit from extra support like individual or group counseling or a referral to a service.

DOE officials say that the questionnaire is not intended to be a mental health screener, rather a tool to match students with supports and connect them with clinicians if needed. There are no mandatory requirements regarding interventions.

They say the tool can be used by teachers at the classroom-level to identify social-emotional learning curriculum, at the school-wide level alongside counselors and social workers and to develop interventions for individual counseling, group counseling, mentoring and behavior interQ vention plans.

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Students of the Month at PS 49 State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. visited PS 49, The Dorothy Bonawit Kole School, in Middle Village on Nov. 9 to hand out Student of the Month awards to the children for their displays of kindness.

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continued from page 8 tree lighting in the plaza, but all those things will be back in the coming weeks, he said.

Business in Downtown Flushing is seeing a completely different trend, according to BID Executive Director Dian Yu. “Main Street is fully open for business and, economy wise, Flushing is back,” he said.

The vacancy rate in Downtown Flushing, including the malls, is between 3 and 4 percent, Yu said. Businesses that closed last year are quickly replaced by new ones, which he takes as an optimistic sign that the area’s economy is on a positive upward swing. Most vacancies were left by retailers, he said, who have to compete with an online market as well Flushing’s illegal vendors.

However, there is a slight divide in how the businesses are doing: The ones located on Main Street are flourishing even better than before the pandemic while those located on side streets are struggling. Yu believes that’s due in part to a overall decrease in foot traffic in the area.

Yu can list three reasons that could be negatively affecting business in the area: a decrease in foot traffic, the Main Street busway and Asian market booms in other neighborhoods.

Foot traffic has significantly slowed over the last 18 months, though Yu said it was beginning to come back. The walkers mostly travel toward transit hubs, leaving side-street businesses with less customers, he said.

The Downtown Flushing BID has long opposed the busway because of its belief that limited access for cars would deter customers who drive to the neighborhood. One business on 41st Avenue and Union Street lost 25 percent of its revenue because of the busway, Yu said.

Yu has noticed that Downtown Flushing “is losing the competitive edge,” as Asian markets and restaurants have begun cropping up in Bayside, Fresh Meadows and Little Neck.

“We pride ourselves on being the capital of everything for the Asian community,” Yu said. “We as consumers no longer have to come to Downtown Flushing to do the things we need to do ... all those business opening in new areas is making Downtown Flushing less important.”

Despite the struggles, Yu said Downtown Flushing is generally doing well, especially following the success of the pop-up market at Lippman Plaza that the BID initiated to encourage outdoor shopping.

“I am hopeful.” said Yu. “I am optimistic that we will continue to grow as a Q community.”

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Community Board 6 weighs zoning requests for Queens Blvd. high-rise

by Michael Gannon Editor

Michael Perlman of Forest Hills always will have fond memories from the Tower Diner on Queens Boulevard in Rego Park “I was the first customer in 1993 when I was 11,” he recently told the Chronicle. Jimmy and Anthi Gatanas named their diner at 98-95 Queens Blvd. in Rego Park after the building’s most prominent feature, a clock tower from its days as Emigrant Savings Bank. Their sons, Spiro and John, now own it.

Perlman has been leading the effort to save the diner, as well as the Ohr Natan Synagogue on the same block at 98-81 from being razed to develop a proposed 15-story, mixed-use tower that was to be the subject of a public hearing Wednesday night at the monthly meeting of Community Board 6.

The meeting was set to take place after the Chronicle’s production deadline. The meeting’s agenda stated that the board is scheduled to vote on the Trylon applications on Dec. 8.

Trylon LLC is proposing 162 residential units and commercial space. The developers are seeking changes to the zoning map and an amendment to the zoning text for the property.

Trylon representatives could not be reached for this story prior to deadline, though they have told the Chronicle in the past that Ohr Natan, the diner and the other businesses are

The futures of the Ohr Natan Synagogue and Tower Diner in Rego Park are tied to a request for zoning changes by developers who want to construct a 15-story apartment building and comFILE PHOTO BY DAVID RUSSELL LEFT, GOOGLE MAPS IMAGE mercial space on Queens Boulevard. as welcome as anyone else to enter into leases for space in the new building.

Perlman and others, who have been unsuccessful in getting the city to landmark the

property, say the restaurant and the synagogue — particularly Ohr Natan’s Art Deco facade from its origins as the Trylon Movie Theater — merit preservation.

He submitted just over three pages of testimony on Nov. 3 at the meeting of CB 6’s Land Use Committee that considered the developer’s applications.

Perlman, chairman of the Rego-Forest Preservation Council, is no stranger to such battles. He started a petition to save the structures with more than 3,500 signatures.

“It’s a sad day when a rezoning application and demolition is even being considered of what truly is in spirit ‘community landmarks,’” he said in written testimony.

The New York Post reported that numerous other residents raised objections in the Nov. 3 hearing.

In an interview last week, Perlman said while he would not like to see Ohr Natan, a Bukharian Jewish congregation, to have to go through the difficulties of relocation, it also is an important structure in the history of the borough.

It was built in 1939, with its facade inspired by the 1939-40 World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

Even its name came from the fair. The Trylon for which it was named was a towering structure that along with the Perisphere became a symbol of the fair.

The Rego Park building closed as a theater in 1999, and following renovations, reopened Q as a synagogue in 2006.

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Burial ground properly memorialized by city Olde Towne of Flushing site etched with known names of the buried

by Katherine Donlevy Associate Editor

As many as 1,000 people who have been laid to rest at the Olde Towne of Flushing Burial Ground have finally been properly memorialized.

Dozens of community activists, residents and area leaders celebrated the new plaza dedicated to the hundreds of 19th-century deceased, most of whom were AfricanAmerican and Native American, at the 46th Avenue and 164th Street park on Nov. 9.

“It is the place to pay respect to those who came before us. It is also a space to reflect on their stories, their struggles and their triumphs,” said city Parks Department Commissioner Gabrielle Fialkoff. “It is our hope that this memorial will give New Yorkers a way to rediscover this sacred historical space.”

The new plaza includes a memorial wall, etched with 318 known names of the people buried below the ground, with space left on the granite for other names of those who may be discovered in the future to have been buried there. Construction finished in August, but the battle to get the project started preceded the work by over two decades.

The Olde Towne of Flushing Burial Ground Conservancy led the efforts to

bring justice to the hundreds of indigenous and Black people buried there during the mid- and late-1800s and forgotten in subsequent centuries.

The land became city Parks property in 1914, during which time the grounds were used as common land for the neighborhood.

In 1936, Parks Commissioner Robert Moses commissioned a playground. During the excavation for the project, workers found evidence that the site was actually a burial ground for those who succumbed to the cholera epidemic of 1840 and smallpox epidemic of 1844, and as an African-American and Native American burial ground during the 1880s through 1898.

It wasn’t until the 1990s that Bayside activist Mandingo Tshaka began unearthing this history, discovered he was related to some of the deceased at the site and prompted the city to conduct an archaeological study in 1996.

The study concluded that between 500 and 1,000 individuals had been laid to rest at the graveyard. Additionally, death records for Flushing between 1881 and 1897 indicated that 62 percent of the buried were African-American or Native American, 34 percent were unidentified and more than half were children under the age of 5.

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The new memorial wall at the Olde Towne of Flushing Burial Ground is etched with the names of 318 individuals who were laid to rest at the site in the 19th century, though there could be as PHOTO BY KATHERINE DONLEVY many as 1,000 there.

Burial Ground Conservancy began efforts to properly memorialize the burial site. The grounds were renovated in 2004 to include a stone inscribed with the site’s history and a historic wall was recreated and engraved with just the names of the only four headstones that were remaining in 1919.

The site was renamed from Martin’s Field to the Olde Towne of Flushing Burial Ground in 2006.

On Nov. 9, the $1.76 million plaza was finally completed. The center of the new memorial includes a butterfly garden to offer a feeling of peace and tranquility. Previously existing cardinal directions have been recreated in the new design to allow for the continuation of Native American ceremonies in the park.

The total funding the city put into the site since the 1990s comes out to as much as $5.477 million.

“It’s taken years to get us to this day and I don’t mind telling you it wasn’t easy,” said conservancy Co-chairperson Robbie Garri-

son. “It’s been almost 30 years coming. It’s finally gotten here.”

Beverly Riley noted that at events held at the site in the past, she asked visitors to close their eyes, open their ears and hearts to hear the anguish coming from beneath their feet that cried out for justice and peace.

“Today I’m happy because if I ask you to do the same thing today, what you’ll feel in your heart is the rhythms of a jubilee that is taking place,” she said.

Unfortunately, Tshaka was unable to attend the celebration for the project he led the effort to achieve. He is being treated in Manhattan for multiple ailments. Despite his physical absence, his colleagues from the conservancy made sure to honor him as an integral part of the ceremony.

“Mandingo, Mandingo, Mandingo Tshaka. Your name will echo on the wings that blow over this sacred land forever. You are a true warrior through it all. You never wavered, you stood tall and for that we say Q thank you,” said Riley.

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Alley Pond School will have new amenities, elevator and playground

by Katherine Donlevy Associate Editor

The addition at the Alley Pond School, which will allow the student body to expand by 440, is expected to open for the 2023 school year.

The $45 million project is just one of many that will bring nearly an astounding 2,600 new public school seats to Education District 27, which City Councilmember Barry Grodenchik (D-Oakland Gardens) says is the greatest addition since many of the buildings were erected in the mid-20th century.

“This is the most seats added to this part of New York City since the building of many schools in the late ’40s to early ’60s,” he said during a site visit with the Chronicle to the PS 46 school Nov. 9. The most amount of seats added at one time since that era, Grodenchik said, was nearly 20 years ago when the Frank Padavan Campus in Glen Oaks was built.

The efforts to bring more school seats to eastern Queens is part of the city’s overall goal to create 83,000 seats throughout the city, which the city School Construction Authority is on target to achieve by 2024, spokesperson Kevin Ortiz said. Approximately 5,400 of those seats will be for high school students in Queens.

City Councilmember Barry Grodenchik, left, PS 46 Principal Stamo Karalazarides and representatives from the city School Construction Authority stand in front of the in-progress addition for the Oakland Gardens school, which will accommodate 440 new seats. PHOTO BY KATHERINE DONLEVY Over 885 primary school seats were added to District 27 last fall when the city Department of Education took over two former Catholic elementary schools in Bayside Hills and Queens Village and a former charter school in Jamaica.

The other 1,715 seats are in progress, Ortiz said. Two of the projects are also addi-

tions, like PS 46 — The Rufus King School in Fresh Meadows will get 458 new seats in 2024 and Benjamin N. Cardozo High School in Bayside will get 795 in 2023.

Those three schools will also be ADAcompliant and outfitted with elevators.

“We heard testimony [and were] listening to parents describe how they literally had to

carry their kids up steps ... that is outrageous,” said Grodenchik.

When completed, the Alley Pond School addition will also have music and art classrooms and be finished with a foliagethemed mural on its facade.

The new structure was built on a portion of the adjoining playground, but Grodenchik assured that it only ate up asphalt and didn’t intrude on the play space. When the building is completed, plans to erect a new early childhood playground will begin.

Overcrowding in schools has been an ongoing issue throughout the city, but especially in neighborhoods Grodenchik represents. Finding space to accommodate extra development had been a struggle, he said, because there is limited available space for additions or new buildings. Also, government tends to move very slowly, he pointed out.

But, with only about seven weeks left in office, he said it’s a great accomplishment of his to have thousands of seats secured.

“It’s satisfying to have followed this all the way through,” said Grodenchik. “We’re building for the future. Someone was there to build for me — I didn’t know, I was a kindergartner — but now I’ll get the feeling that this was something that we did, and it Q really does take a village.”

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$1.1M gift kicks off QC’s school of arts

Thomas Chen honored by college and Borough President Richards

by Katherine Donlevy Associate Editor

A generous donation from Thomas Chen, the founder of Crystal Window and Door Systems, is the first major gift that will help establish an entire new school at Queens College.

The $1,105,000 Thomas Chen Family/ Crystal Windows Endowment will be put toward the creation of a new School of the Arts. The specific donation from Chen will support Asian contemporary art at the college through exhibitions, student scholarships and a visiting artist program.

“I am proud to make this contribution on behalf of the Chen Family and Crystal Windows to Queens College,” Chen said a Nov. 10 statement. “As someone who never had the opportunity to attend college, I believe supporting a prestigious local institution like Queens College with its long history of benefitting immigrants and first-generation Americans makes perfect sense. This is the first major gift to help establish the new School of the Arts, a subject near and dear to my heart. This makes the endowment all the more special to me and a wonderful legacy for my family.”

Chen emigrated to the U.S. from Taiwan in 1982 without much money or understanding of English, but built his booming busi-

Queens College President Frank Wu, left, accepts a donation from Thomas Chen, center, and his PHOTO BY ANDY POON / QUEENS COLLEGE family Nov. 9 to help establish a new School of the Arts. ness within eight years. In the decades since, Chen has used his success to support countless individuals and institutions throughout the borough. Recently, Chen unveiled a bronze statue to honor the memory of late Borough President Claire Shulman, and in 2020 donated the resources to replace the visitor walkway that surrounds the Panorama of the City of New York at the Queens Museum.

“Queens College is profoundly grateful for the generous support of Thomas Chen, whose endowment will enable the college to offer exciting new programs and scholarships,” said Queens College President Frank Wu. “At the same time, Chen’s remarkable life and outstanding career will inspire our students, showing them that with vision and hard work, the American dream is attainable.”

The hefty donation was celebrated by the

Queens College community Nov. 10, when Chen was issued a proclamation in his and his family’s honor by Borough President Donovan Richards.

The proclamation acknowledged their “deep and ongoing commitment to the borough,” recognizing that “with this generous gift, Queens College will remain one of the most affordable public colleges in the country and will be better able to offer a firstrate education to talented people of all backgrounds and financial means.”

Queens College announced its School of the Arts as part of its 2021-26 Strategic Plan. It will offer undergraduate degrees in studio art, art history, design, photography and imaging, and graduate degrees in studio art, art history and social practice.

Chen, an art appreciator and collector, was happy to help usher in the new school.

He is a founder of the Taiwanese American Arts Council, which frequently collaborates with the Queens Museum to support Asian artists throughout the city. He also supports Queens Theatre in the Park, the NYC Winter Lantern Festival, Flushing Town Hall and the Flushing Taiwan Center.

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Jacob Javits Center to host Anime NYC convention next weekend

by Naeisha Rose Associate Editor

Anime NYC is a Big Apple convention that showcases the best of Japanese pop culture and will feature the work of 15 Queens entrepreneurs and businesses at the Jacob Javits Center from Nov. 19 to 21.

Over 50,000 fans of Japanese animation, manga, cosplay, movies, food, fashion, travel, technology, toys and games will be featured, including firms and people from Forest Hills, Jamaica and Astoria.

Sponsoring the event is Crunchyroll, an American distributor, publisher and licensing company of anime, manga and dorama.

Anime is a term describing a highly-stylized two-dimensional animated show or film from Japan that focuses on fantastic settings and mature themes. Manga showcases a similar art style, but for graphic novels and comic books. Doramas are daily serial dramas also from the East Asian country.

There will be four panels from 2:30 to 5:45 p.m. on Nov. 19; an additional four from 12 to 6:45 p.m. on Nov. 20; and another three from 12 to 5 p.m. on Nov. 21, which will include popular voice actors Doug Erholtz, Lex Lang, Michelle Ruff, Richard Epcar and more; anniversary film presentations; appearances by anime directors; attend film screenings; and trivia contests, according to Anime NYC. The Queens companies and artists are Hinatsukki (plush pillows and prints); Sushit Clothing; Tal Cyndachoo and Xenvita (digital artists); Rica Takashima (voice actor); Tephlon Funk (comic book writer); Eleni Mutafopulos (freelance illustrator); Kingkaiyo (traditional and digital artist); Ninoluva (merchandiser); Tales of echo dice (handmade dice); Yangiee (writer and host of “Beyond the Bot” anime podcast); Tired but Trying (illustrator); Orangiah (illustra-

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A Covid-19 vaccination is required for those 12 years old and older. Guests must show proof of at least one dose and then a wristband will be given for the entirety of the weekend. Those under 12 must have proof of a negative test from three days prior to the event. Guests 2 years old and up are expected to wear masks covering their nose to mouth at the convention. Mesh masks and face shields are not acceptable substitutes.

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Feds’ robocall rule a state law Gov. Hochul on Monday signed two new anti-robocall bills into law, the latest in a series of state and federal attempts to rein in telemarketers and scammers through legislation.

One bill requires phone carriers to adopt systems to authenticate calls and prevent spoofing, according to media reports. It codifies into state law a federal rule already in effect. “Under the standards, networks are able to validate the source of phone calls, allowing providers to block obviously fraudulent numbers or warn of potential spam,” Gothamist reported.

The second bill gives the Public Service Commission authority to oversee compliance with the protocols.

“New Yorkers are fed up with annoying, predatory robocalls, and we’re taking action to stop them,” Hochul said in a prepared statement.

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JCAL relaunches talk series for the fall

by Naeisha Rose Associate Editor

The Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning will host a speaker series highlighting Queens-based thought leaders in arts, culture, education and politics.

The first speaker will be Berenecea Johnson Eanes, the president of York College, whose talk takes place at the JCAL building, located at 161-04 Jamaica Ave. on Nov. 16 at 6:30 p.m., according to the arts organization.

The series was initially launched during Black History Month earlier this year.

Johnson Eanes will be in conversation with JCAL Executive Director Leonard Jacobs, and their talk will be about education and the Southeast Queens community, said a JCAL spokesman to the Queens Chronicle via email.

“I am delighted by the invitation to be the inaugural speaker for JCAL Talks in person,” said Johnson Eanes via a prepared statement.

Johnson Eanes is the seventh president of York College, and began her permanent tenure in the summer of 2020.

“I congratulate Executive Director Leonard Jacobs, who, like me, is still new to the

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Jacobs called York Col- Ber e ne c e a lege a touchstone for not just J o h n s o n CUNY, but for Southeast Eanes. PHOTO Queens.

COURTESY JCAL “It is a beacon for our values,” said Jacobs. “In a comparatively short tenure that has coincided with the pandemic, Dr. Eanes has confronted unprecedented challenges with remarkable grace — and, in doing so, she has created a template for leadership that is both outstanding and inspiring.”

Courtney Ffrench, the JCAL artistic director, said the two institutions have a long history together.

“One of the many things we have in common is a commitment to arts and culture — and to diversity and inclusiveness in our Southeast Queens community,” said Ffrench in a prepared statement. “Dr. Eanes is a visionary and we’re so excited to welcome her as part of our JCAL Talks series.”

Other speakers in the series, which continues in January, include area business leaders and educators.

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Blood drives this week There are three blood drives coming up in northeastern Queens this week: • at Bay Terrace Shopping Mall, at 212-51 26 Ave. in Bayside, on Nov. 11 from 1 to 7 p.m.; • at St. Anastasia Church, at 45-05 245 St. in Douglaston, on Nov. 14 from 8:45 a.m. to 2:45 p.m.; and • at St. Kevin RC Church, at 45-21 194 St. in Flushing, on Nov. 14 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of Honorable Robert I. Caloras, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, signed the 14th day of October, 2021 at Long Island City, New York. The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage on the following property: Tax I.D. No. Block 1373 Lot 28 ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough and County of Queens, City and State of New York, bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at a point on the westerly side of 100th Street, formerly 43rd Street, distant 320 feet northerly from the corner formed by the intersection of the westerly side of 100th Street and the northerly side of 27th Avenue, formerly Beauregard Avenue, as shown on the Final Topographical Map of the City of New York for the Borough of Queens; RUNNING THENCE westerly at right angles to 100th Street, and part of the distance through a party wall, 110 feet; THENCE northerly parallel with 100th Street, 16 feet; THENCE easterly at right angles to 100th Street, and part of the distance through a party wall, 110 feet to the westerly side of 100th Street; THENCE southerly along the westerly side of 100th Street, 16 feet to the point or place of BEGINNING. Subject to easements, covenants, and restriction of record. These premises are also known as 25-42 100 Street a/k/a 2542 100th Street, East Elmhurst a/k/a Flushing, NY 11369. WOODS OVIATT GILMAN LLP Attorney for Plaintiff 500 Bausch & Lomb Place Rochester, NY 14604

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ARTS, CULTURE & LIVING

Faces and facades

by M b Max P Parrott tt

‘Greater New York’ exhibit blends the real and the surreal ducted by the museum.

Several of the Queens artists included in the exhibition combine both its tendency toward historical archivist and abstraction.

The exhibition brings out the fantastical side of E’wao Kagoshima, a surrealist painter and sculptor who grew up in Japan before becoming a fixture in the ’80s countercultural New York art scene and later settling down in Queens. Kagoshima was part of an influential cadre of East Village artists that included Keith Haring, Martin Wong and Peter Hujar, among others.

In a large canvas painting included in the exhibit, the demonic eyes seem cracked into an egg-shaped face, grinning with a menacing fang-toothed smile On the museum’s third floor, a series of outsider art sketches commemorate continued on page 37

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An artistic survey of the New York area at MoMA PS1 archives homespun diagrams about how breath affects heartbeat; sprawling, impressionistic charts cataloguing urban noisee and piles of oyster shells left behind by the Lenape Nativee American tribe.

After being delayed a year in response to Covid, the fifth edidition of the museum’s “Greater New York” show documents the he city’s changing art scene and manages to reflect on the history of of the city, even as it assembles a collection of often surrealist works.

The works on display through April in the Long Island City museum reflect the idiosyncratic approaches of artists who have struggled against the odds to cultivate a practice in a metropolis increasingly adverse to the lifestyle of an artist.

The exhibition, which stretches over three museum floors, features the work of 47 artists and collectives, and cobbles together a collection of young emerging artists with established New Yorkers whose work portrays or reacts to a segment of the city’s history.

“It really became necessary to think of the show as an intergenerational exhibition because so many generations of artists were affected differently by the pandemic,” said MoMA PS1 curator Ruba Katrib, in an interview con-

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King Crossword Puzzle Ed Herlihy, voice of the newsreels, lived in Forest Hills

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Before Ed McMahon there was Ed Herlihy.

Edward Joseph Herlihy was born in Boston on Aug. 14, 1909. He came to New York in 1935, working for the Columbia Broadcast ing System. His mellifluous voice made him an instant success.

In January 1940, he married top illustrators’ model Jeanne Graham in New York.

They set up home in a apartment building at 75-40 Austin St. in Forest Hills. Within a year, however, they purchased a home in the neo-Tudor style at 111-33 76 Ave. in a country-like setting.

When World War II broke out, Herlihy’s voice reported the events of the war in the famous Universal Newsreels of the day, as there were no television sets. The Queens Boulevard subway got him to work in a prompt fashion. Herlihy had four children, and would be the “Tonight Show” announcer for host Jack Paar.

With great success can come great tragedy, too. Jeanne passed away of cancer at age 50 in 1970. He headed out to Hollywood.

The building at 75-40 Austin St., Forest Hills, in the 1940s. Ed Herlihy, “The Voice of AmeriINSET VIA RADIO ANNUAL 1959 / ca,” lived there.

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Fest celebrates son jarocho, the sound of Veracruz

by Mark Lord qboro contributor

When it comes to Mexican music, it’s not all about mariachi.

Son jarocho, or Veracruz sound, is a style of folk music that originated in that Mexican city, fusing Spanish and African musical elements and evolving over a period of some 300 years.

It almost disappeared from the Mexican musical patrimony but has experienced a revival in recent years, with followers around the world.

An upcoming event in Queens, the 11th annual New York Son Jarocho Festival, is out to prove that this genre — deeply entwined with the environment and often featuring song lyrics about flora and fauna, the weather and earth cycles — is back in a big way.

Running at Flushing Town Hall for the first time and featuring many free offerings, the Nov. 17 to 20 event promotes the music, dance and culture of Veracruz, with talent largely culled from the East Coast of the United States taking center stage.

Julia del Palacio, a key figure in New York’s Mexican music scene, will be among those performing at Flushing Town Hall in the 11th PHOTO BY GUSTAVO GARCIA annual New York Son Jarocho Festival.

“It’s very exciting,” said Julia del Palacio, a performer who was among the first to present this style of music in New York 15 years ago.

An arts administrator at Queens College, del Palacio said she became more involved with the festival three years ago.

“It started as a community event at small venues,” she said.

Last year was supposed to see a major 10th anniversary celebration, but it was relegated to an

online presentation because of the Covid-19 pandemic. This year, del Palacio will perform a percussive dance as part of her own project, Radio Jarocho.

The festival gets underway on Nov. 17 at 7 p.m. with a book presentation by Rafael Figueroa, whose latest publication is “Son Jarocho Discography in the U.S.” The book catalogs all the musical projects published in this country that focus on or include ele-

ment s from the son jarocho tradition.

“I decided to publish it to strengthen the memory of a community that sees son jarocho as a way of identity, not necessarily connected with Mexico,” Figueroa wrote in an email to the Chronicle.

“Son jarocho is impor tant because it is a part of our culture, with a history of centuries,” he added.

A bilingual (Spanish-English) panel discussion, entitled “Identity and Territory in the Isthmus of Veracruz,” will be held on Nov. 18 from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

According to Flushing Town Hall’s website, “Urban projects and oil refineries, as well as forced displacement of people near the region, threaten to disrupt the traditional knowledge and natural environments that sustain son jarocho in the region.”

The discussion will focus on these challenges facing Veracruz.

Nov. 19 will bring a solo dance performance (7 to 8 p.m.) of “Acusticorporal” by Argelia Arreola, offering a reflection around the

body as projector of anything it perceives and how it is affected by rhythm and words.

All three of the named events are free to the public. Online reservations are required.

Two of the festival’s highlights take place on its closing day, Nov. 20. From 1 to 4 p.m., multiple performances, including del Palacio’s, will take place in the hall’s theater.

In-person tickets for this event are $15 ($12 for members). Virtual tickets are $7 ($5 for members).

From 5 to 7 p.m. in the garden and gallery, “Culminating Fandango” will be offered. These are traditionally community celebrations in which people gather to play, sing and dance son jarocho. Tickets for this event are free with online reservations.

The festival is produced by the Son Jarocho MX Collective; events are presented in collaboration with Flushing Town Hall and the Kupferberg Center for the Arts.

Flushing Town Hall is located at 137-35 Northern Blvd. For more information and tickets, go online Q to flushingtownhall.org.

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Documentary and fantasy meet at MoMA PS1

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He died this past February after he was diagnosed with amyloid cardiomyopathy, a cardiac condition that causes a stiffening of the heart muscles.

The collection also features the work of Rosemary Mayer, who was born and raised in Ridgewood. One of the drawings included in the exhibit lies somewhere between the bursts of color of the abstract expressionist and the record-taking of a journal entry. The drawing follows a process of illustrating instances of urban noises like sirens, yells and whirring sounds throughout the hours of the day with deep reds, purples and bright yellows.

One of the show’s contemporary artists, Alan Michelson, on the other hand, used his multimedia contribution to explore the history of the city’s indigenous Lenapehoking population, with an installation called “Midden,” which was commissioned for the exhibit.

The installation projects video footage of the modern-day Newtown Creek and Gowanus Canal waterways, lined with Home Depots and container ships, onto a jagged pile of oyster shells. “Middens,” Native American monuments made of the

The “Greater New York” exhibition’s expansive third floor contains fantastical egg sculptures

by Matthew Langan-Peck, along with a portrait by Luis Frangella. On the cover: A demonic creature grins as part of a series of paintings by E’wao Kagoshima, left, and a sketch from Jamaica artist Milford Graves that honors the jazz percussionist’s legacy. PHOTOS BY MAX PARROTT oysters, would have been situated along the city’s coastal areas before the Dutch first arrived. A mournful tribal chant reverberates through the room as indus-

trial imagery shows on the Michelson’s midden recreation. To source the shells, he collaborated with the Billion Oyster Q Project.

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continued from page 35 the legacy of Milford Graves, a pioneer of free jazz percussion and a figure of the Black Arts Movement, who grew up in the South Jamaica Houses and lived in the Queens neighborhood most of his life.

The sketches reflect Graves’ contributions as a botanist and researcher outside of his musical work. Graves studied the relationship of human heartbeats to music and its therapeutic potential.

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Assume the name of (First) AMBER (Middle) ZHAO YING (Last) SAFANOV. My present name is (First) ZHAO YING (Last) SAFANOV AKA ZHAO YING LIN AKA ZHAOYING LIN. The city and state of my present address are Corona, NY. My place of birth is CHINA. The month and year of my birth are March 1991.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 12-07-2020, bearing Index Number NC-000627-20/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) ANAN (Middle) LEBORAH (Last) BEY. My present name is (First) ANN (Middle) LEBORAH (Last) EARNELL AKA ANN L EARNELL. The city and state of my present address are Jamaica, NY. My place of birth is BEAUFORT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. The month and year of my birth are October 1951.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 10-262021, bearing Index Number NC-000734-21/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) AUDREY (Middle) XIN YI (Last) CHIANG. My present name is (First) TONG-EN (Last) YU (infant). The city and state of my present address are Hollis Hills, NY. My place of birth is TAIWAN. The month and year of my birth are October 2015. Assume the name of (First) ZOE (Middle) XIN YUE (Last) CHIANG. My present name is (First) CHEN-EN (Last) YU AKA CHEN EN YU (infant). The city and state of my present address are Hollis Hills, NY. My place of birth is TAIWAN. The month and year of my birth are September 2016.

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

8406 Woodhaven LLC filed Arts. of Org. with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/22/2021. Office: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 2700 215th St, Bayside, NY 11360. Purpose: any lawful act.

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

86-23 111TH STREET, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/25/21. Office: Queens County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 23-45 92nd Street, East Elmhurst, NY 11369.

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NOTICE is hereby given that an order entered by the Civil Court, Of the City of New York, Queens County on the 13th day of October 2021, bearing Index Number 211QNC2017, a copy of which may be examined at the office of the clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, New York, grants me the right to assume the name of JOSEPH ANTHONY FELICETTE. The City and State of my present address is, Howard Beach, New York; the month and year of my birth is October, 1972; the place of my birth is Brooklyn, New York; my present name is JOSEPH ANTHONY RUZICKA, a/k/a JOSEPH A. RUZICKA.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 11-04-2021, bearing Index Number NC-000629-20/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) SUVANSH (Last) ADHIKARI. My present name is (First) SANGRAM. (Last) ADHIKARI (infant).

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The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the company upon whom process may be served, and the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the company served upon him or her to Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman, LLP, Attn: Gregory J. Pond, Esq., 90 Merrick Ave, 9th Floor, East Meadow, NY 11554. The business purpose of the company is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under the laws of the State of New York.

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AnthonyEspinal LLC Art of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/13/2021. Office: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, LEGALCORP SOLUTIONS 11 BROADWAY SUITE 615 NEW YORK, NY 10004 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of DCRK1 Management LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/12/2021. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: CHRIS CHUNG, 10447 41 AVENUE, CORONA, NY 11368.

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OAKLAND GARDENS

Beautiful 2 BR, 1 bath 825 sq.ft.

Co-op on 1st fl oor in Alley Pond Owners Corp. Updated kitchen & modern tiled bathroom/window. Living room, dining room combo w/hardwood fl oors. Near major expressways & all express buses. $897.47 monthly maintenance includes gas, heat, water, real estate taxes & parking for Bushwick, 60-68 71 Ave, #3R. 2 two cars. Assessment of $78.40 a BR/1 bath railroad apt, $2,000/ month. Pets OK… $368,000 mo. Avail Now. Fully renov.

Bright Horizons Dishwasher, SS, HWF, high ceilings, closet space, small pets OK Realty w/Per Deposit. Call Elizabeth Arce, 718-615-1441 917-881-4498. Capri Jet Realty

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East Williamsburg, 16 Seigel Court, #2. 3 BR/1 bath, $3,200/ mo. Avail NOW. Fully renov, skylight, natural light, newly renov kit, lg LR, porch, full bath, HWF, SS, closets in every room. Call Stellina Napolitano, 646-372-7145. Capri Jet Realty.

Howard Beach. Recently renovated 1 BR. Private entrance w/ door that opens up to a fenced-in backyard. Great location. Tree-lined street. Ground level, no stairs & easy access. All utilities are included. King-size BR. Renovated bath. Plenty of closet space.

Natural light. $1,600/month. Call Tim, 732-547-1071

Howard Beach/Rockwood Park, Sat 11/13, 4:30pm-6pm, 91-15 164 Ave. Mint AAA Hi-Ranch, totally renov electric home on 30x100 lot, 4 BR, 2 full baths. Must See! Asking $899K. Connexion Real Estate, 718-845-1136 Woodhaven, Sat 11/13, 2:30pm-4pm, 91-23 89 St. Lovely fully det Colonial. 3 BRs, 1 1/2 baths, custom closets, indoor porch, FDR, pull down stairs to attic, new updated kitchen, party yard & Jacuzzi, partially fin bsmnt w/yard access & half bath, new boiler/hot water tank & deck.

Reduced Asking $675K. Connexion Real Estate, 718-845-1136

Howard Beach/Rockwood Park, 3 Classified Ad Special. Pay for 3 rm walk-in. Gas/electric/cable. weeks and the 4th week is FREE! $1,700/mo. No Pets. Call Broker, Call 718-205-8000 347-846-7809 Ridgewood, 489 Onderdonk Ave, #1RR. 2 BR/1 bath, $1,900/mo.

Avail NOW. Renov apt. Heat & hot water incl. HWF, great location.

Call Waleed Nassef, 347-282-3384. Capri Jet Realty

Furn.Rm.For Rent Richmond Hill, near “J” train, furn rm for rent, quiet person. Must be vaccinated, refs req, personal & work refs. Call for info, 347-502-6435

Co-ops For Sale Howard Beach/ Lindenwood, HiRise. Jr. 4 Rm Co-op, 2 BRs All New Flrs, Building has pvt GymPlay Area. Reduced $229K Connexion Real Estate 718-845-1136

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In contrast, the Mets did little outside of acquiring infielder Javier Baez, and that came at Although there was no official press release the price of sending recent first-round draft pick from the Mets, word filtered out last week the Pete Crow-Armstrong to the Chicago Cubs. That team’s acting general manager, Zack Scott, had was a heftier price tag than what Anthopoulos been terminated. Scott had been on administra- paid for the four players he got. Baez played well tive leave since Sept. 1 after he was arrested in but the Mets still sank like a stone. The team was White Plains on a DWI charge. He was found never able to overcome the loss of ace pitcher sleeping in his car by police and subsequently Jacob deGrom because of elbow issues. Scott failed a Breathalyzer test. He had attended a soi- was not able to find a credible starter who could ree the night before at the home of Mets owner stop the bleeding.

Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers Steve Cohen. Whether Cohen was aware of Scott’s impaired state may come out at Scott’s should have heeded the old political adage, “it’s not the crime that does you in. It’s the cover-up.” trial next month.

While it seemed like a forgone conclusion Rodgers was asked by a reporter in training Scott’s days with the Mets were numbered the camp if he had been vaccinated. “I’ve been moment he was arrested, his job tenure wasn’t immunized,” he quickly replied.

Rodgers tested positive for Covid-19, but it helped by the Atlanta Braves winning the World Series last week. At the July 31 trade deadline, wasn’t a breakthrough case as he was never vacthe Braves were trailing the Mets in the stand- cinated. By pretending he was, however, Rodgings and had lost the services of their best hitter, ers violated NFL protocols for players who have Ronald Acuna, and a top pitcher, Mike Soroka, opted not to be vaccinated by not wearing a to season-ending injuries, as well as power hitter mask when he wasn’t on the playing field and that included at press conferences. Rodgers Marcell Ozuna to legal issues.

Despite the seemingly slim postseason odds needlessly put people at risk through his big lie.

The Packers were clearly aware of his decepfor his team, Braves general manager Alex Anthopoulos decided to beef up his roster by tion and yet aided and abetted him. They should acquiring outfielders Joc Pederson, Eddie Rosa- be fined millions by the NFL. Rodgers should Q rio, Jorge Soler and Adam Duvall at very mini- be suspended for the rest of the season.

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Asking $769K HOWARD BEACH/ ROCKWOOD PARK

Unique home, 5 BRs, 4 baths, huge master, whole 3rd flr., cathedral ceilings, radiant heat, granite countertops, S.S. appliances, wood burning fireplace, I/G pool and pavers.

Sunday, Nov. 14th 12:30-2:00PM 88-12 151st Ave. #2M

• Lindenwood •

• Lindenwood •

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

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

• Lindenwood •

• Rockwood Park •

Large Contemporary situated on a 5900 sq. ft. lot. Resort backyard which includes a pond with waterfall, gas fi re pit, built-in hot tub, outdoor kitchen that features BBQ, sink, refrigerator and storage. Paved patio with seating for many. Shed with electricity for storage. 5 BRs, 3 full baths plus a 1/2 bath. Top-of-the-line appliances thruout. 3 CAC’s units. Move your family right in and enjoy your beautiful new home!!

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WOODHAVEN Lovely fully detached Colonial in the heart of Woodhaven.

3 BRs, 1½ baths, custom closets, indoor porch, formal dining rm, pull down stairs to attic, new updated kitchen, party yard & Jacuzzi, partially fin. bsmnt with yard access & half bath, custom detailed railing to second flr., beautiful stained glass window, new boiler/hot water tank & deck.

Saturday, Nov. 13th 2:30-4PM 91-23 89th Street

REDONE MINT 1 family with high ceilings, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths on 42x100 lot, open concept, living room, formal dining room, pvt dvwy with 1.5 det garage in back of home.

HOWARD BEACH

• Lindenwood •

Lovely 2 bedroom, 1 bath Garden Co-op. Located in courtyard.

Near shopping, schools and bus to Manhattan. Renovated kitchen with granite countertops, bathroom is renovated with porcelain walls.

• Lindenwood •

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

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

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

HOWARD BEACH/ ROCKWOOD PARK Mint AAA High-Ranch, Totally Renovated Electric Home on 30x100 Lot, 4 Bedrooms, 2 Full Baths,

OPEN HOUSE Saturday, Nov. 13th 4:30-6PM 91-15 164th Avenue

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Asking $899K

HOWARD BEACH HOWARD BEACH/ HAMILTON LINDENWOOD BEACH

Lot For Sale 69X154 on Canal

GARDEN CO-OP

Hi-Rise JR 4 Rm Co-op, 2 BRs All New Flrs, Building has pvt Gym Play Area

Asking $150K

Reduced $229K

Reduced $989,000

Asking $1.25M

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

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

Parking is $20/month (waitlist).

Reduced Asking $675K

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

L-Shape Alcove Studio Cooperative.

Updated with recently renovated Kitchen; Great natural light; Good Closet and Storage Space. *Studio Can Easily Be Converted To A Small Private One Bedroom.

Base Monthly maintenance is $559.67; security services $20.00; Assessment $21.66 (Until March 2022); Assessment $11.46 (Until March 2022) Total: $612.79.

Includes heat, hot water, cooking gas, and real estate taxes. Laundry In Building.

Low Flip Tax, $5.00/Share, 170 Shares.

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