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Queens precincts losing cops to Trump protests The staffing crunch is hitting small commands harder than large ones

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apt. Robert Ramos, the commanding officer of the 112th Precinct, doesn’t care where President-elect Donald Trump lives once he’s sworn in come January.

Just as long as it isn’t Trump Tower in Manhattan.

“I wish he moves to Alaska!” Ramos said with a laugh in an interview last Friday. “As long as Trump doesn’t move to the Forest Hills Gardens, everything should be fine.”

No, Ramos isn’t talking politics. Instead, what drove that comment is the number of officers he may not have at his disposal in the coming days and weeks.

In the aftermath of Trump’s shocking Electoral College victory earlier this month, repeated massive protests in opposition to him have been held outside Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, where the president-elect is living until he moves to the White House in January.

To police the protests, the NYPD has been siphoning a number of officers from each precinct, including those in Queens.

Ramos said he has been losing between four and six cops per day in the two weeks since the election, an unexpected obstacle for his command of 115 officers to get over.

“The last week was a rough week,” he said. “Every precinct has been losing guys. It happens, but it can be a strain.”

While the commander said there hasn’t been a specific example of his Forest Hills-based precinct failing to respond properly to a 911 call because of the staffing crunch, deciding

Capt. Robert Ramos of the 112th Precinct, left, seen here chatting with former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton in June, said his command has been “hustling” to keep up as he’s been losing a handful of cops to anti-Trump protest detail since the PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA election. how many cops to send to certain jobs has been harder than normal.

“Everything comes in waves, it seems,” Ramos said, noting the three days prior to the interview required fewer of his

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The 105th Precinct also has been losing a handful of cops per day to the protests in Manhattan, according to Inspector Jeffrey Schiff, the Queens Village-based station’s commanding officer.

But because the number of cops under his command is approximately 300 —more than double that of the 112th Precinct — Schiff said he’s seen very little impact in his squad room.

“It’s all relative of course. Crime is down and we’re still doing well,” Schiff touted in a Friday interview. “It’s not impinging on our ability to do the job, with the surplus that we have.”

He added that precinct commanders are used to losing officers in such a way, as cops are always siphoned for details like presidential visits, parades and sessions of the United Nations.

“We lose a little, but more than the smaller command,” he said. “That manpower’s got to come from somewhere. Everybody has to chip in, like always.”

Assistant Chief David Barrere, commanding officer of Patrol Borough Queens South, said that, while policing protests isn’t that unusual, there is an unprecedented nature about it this time.

“Obviously this is something we’re not used to chipping in on,” Barrere said. “This is an exciting time for New York continued on page 41

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Frustrations with PB in Woodhaven Ulrich’s chief of staff asks residents not to give up hope on the initiative

by Anthony O’Reilly

Since that time, however, very few winning projects have seen the light of day.

Some residents of Woodhaven are not The problem is not limited to Ulrich’s distoo pleased with the progress projects trict, as other communities throughout funded by participatory budgeting have Queens and the city have seen similar issues. One example are emergency call made in recent years.

“With the exception of the [School Con- boxes in the parts of Forest Park that Ulrich struction Authority], we don’t see much represents, a $140,000 endeavor that won getting done,” Martin Colberg, president funding in 2015. Bus countdown clocks, a of the Woodhaven Residents’ Block Asso- project that won in 2014, have also not ciation, said at his group’s monthly meet- come to the district.

Ma r icela Ca no, ing last Sat u rday.

Ulrich’s director of “Participatory budpar ticipator y budgeting has put a bad geting, told memtaste in a lot of peoarticipatory budgeting bers of the WRBA ple’s mouths.” has put a bad taste in that the of f ice is Colberg was back at prior speaking to staffers a lot of people’s mouths.” looking w i n n i ng project s, from Councilman Eric particularly in Broad Ulr ich’s (R-Ozone — Martin Colberg, president of the Channel, to see how Park) district office Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association they can get off the who were advertising ground quicker. upcoming workshops Cano and Kevin Tschirhart, Ulrich’s for the initiative, in which people brainstorm ideas for capital projects that can be funded chief of staff, told residents that the projects funded by participatory budgeting are with $1 million in taxpayer money.

A ballot will be created and voted on like any other capital venture — subject to early next year, with the highest vote get- bureaucratic red tape.

For example, a project may be funded ters receiving funding.

Ulrich, who sponsors the initiative in but won’t start until the next fiscal year Community Districts 9 and 14 in his dis- when the price of cement, and everything trict, was one of the first four Council else, has gone up, thus escalating the cost, members to participate in it when it started which the city has to cover. There is also the hassle of coordinating with two or three in 2011.

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Woodhaven residents in prior years have come together to brainstorm ideas for participatory budgeting, but last Saturday some of them expressed frustration that many of those projects FILE PHOTO have not yet come to fruition. different agencies on certain projects.

Ma r ia Concoli no, president of the Fr iends of Wood haven Librar y and a trustee of the Queens Library, suggested creating a department that specifically deals with initiatives funded by participatory budgeting, to which Ulrich’s aides

said that is something that could be explored.

Tschirhart pleaded with the civic to not give up hope on participatory budgeting.

“I know it may have given you a bad taste in your mouth,” he said. “But we’re Q asking you not to give up hope on it.”

CEC asks for guard on Cross Bay Boulevard New Centreville school to be PS 377

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Community Education Council 27 wants to see a crossing guard at the intersection where Jazmine Marin was killed.

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Community Education Council 27 on Monday filed its request for a school crossing guard at the intersection where Jazmine Marin was hit and killed by a car last month, citing safety concerns as well as the elementary school scheduled to open next September in the Centreville section of Ozone Park.

“We feel, obviously, that this is a prime location for a crossing guard,” CEC 27 President Dr. Harold Paez said at the panel’s monthly meeting at PS 114 in Belle Harbor.

The crossing guard, should one be approved, would be placed at the intersection of Cross Bay Boulevard and 149th Avenue.

The community has wanted one for years due to the presence of a middle and high school nearby — however, city law only requires a guard near every elementary school.

State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) is exploring legislation that would deploy one near every public school.

This time, however, the CEC may be more likely to receive one because the Centreville elementary school’s zone stretches west past Cross Bay Boulevard at 149th Avenue.

The intersection was brought into the spotlight when Marin, 13, was hit by a car going south on Cross Bay Boulevard as she was crossing the thoroughfare to get to Robert H. Goddard High School a little before 6:45 a.m. on Oct. 24.

“The high school is a short walking distance from the new elementary school, and with a portion of the zoning for the elementary school extending over Crossbay Boulevard, it is anticipated that there will be a f low of elementary school students joining the high school students already crossing at this busy intersection,” the CEC states in its letter requesting the guard, which was sent to various city agencies and provided to the Queens Chronicle.

Marin’s father, Geo, told the Queens Chronicle last Tuesday he, too, wants a guard at the intersection.

“If I can prevent just one kid’s death, just one, then that’s one less grieving parent,” Geo Marin said.

The approval and placement of crossing guards is under the control of the NYPD’s Division of School Safety.

Speaking on the new school, School District 27 Superintendent Mary Barton told the CEC it will be known as PS 377. It had been called PS 335 in prior months, but Barton said that was a code the School Construction Authority was using for its own purposes. She said she was only told of Q the new school number relatively recently.

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Cleaning up Hamilton Beach Park About 50 people came out early Saturday morning to lend a helping hand Close to 50 people got out of their beds early last Saturday morning to lend a helping hand in the cleanup of Hamilton Beach Park.

The event was a joint effort among residents and various agencies, including Con Edison, the National Parks Service, the MTA and the New Hamilton Beach Civic Association.

“It was a great time,” civic President Roger Gendron said. “We had close to 50 people show up to it.”

The park, located at 104th Street and 165th Avenue, has been in poor condition for years and a massive cleanup such as the one conducted last weekend has not been done for a while.

In addition to the 15 Hamilton Beach residents who showed up from 10 a.m. until about 1:30 p.m. to pick up trash, the MTA showed up to cut down some of the weeds in the park. Phragmites in the area had been cleared by NPS, which oversees the federal parkland, earlier this year.

Gendron said he’d like to see cleanups happen on a regular basis from now on.

“Then we’ll just have to maintain it and it won’t be as bad,” he told the Chronicle.

Members of the 106th Precinct Explorers program, Assemblywoman-elect Stacey Pheffer Amato and staffers from Councilman Eric Ulrich’s (R-Ozone Park) office also attended and helped to clean up for a while. Pheffer Amato and state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) donated water Q for the event.

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Kevin Tschirhart, Councilman Eric Ulrich’s chief of staff, does his part.

Holly Gendron, left, helps Hamilton Beach resident Pat with picking up trash near PHOTOS BY ANTHONY O’REILLY the water at the park.

An MTA worker went throughout the park, whacking weeds in the area.

The phragmites there had been cleared by the National Parks Service earlier this year.

Mary Prentis lends a helping hand.

Streets No. 1 issue at Woodhaven meet Resident calls for street repaving; civic discusses unwanted realty solicitations

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A variety of quality-of-life concerns were discussed at last Saturday’s meeting of the Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association, but the condition of area streets was the No. 1 issue discussed.

“The conditions are horrendous,” said Woodhaven resident Tomy. “Everywhere is potholes.”

Tran was talking about 86th St re et b et we e n Ja m a ica a nd Atlantic avenues, but many residents chimed in saying their roads are in similar shape.

“Ninety-first Avenue has been pits for years,” said resident Maria Concolino.

Tomy told the Chronicle the potholes aren’t the only dangerous condition at 86th Street. A blind spot where the road meets 91st Avenue causes drivers to pull far out into the street before they can see if there’s any oncoming traffic.

“A street light, or even a stop sign, would help to slow things down,” she said.

There is also a lack of clearly marked crosswalks at the inter-

section, she said.

Speaking on the need to have 86th Street repaved, Tomy said she’s collected more than 40 sign a t u r e s f r om h e r n eig hb or s expressing frustration with the conditions of the road.

Neil Gianelli, a representative for state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D -Howard Beach), said 86th Street is scheduled for paving next spring.

Woodhaven residents also discussed the appearance of solicitations from real estate companies advertising their services for selling people’s homes.

Several people at the meeting said they’re receiving multiple f liers per day. Some have had real estate agents come to their door and ask if the property is for sale.

That used to not be the case, as the entire borough between 1989 and 2009 was a cease-and-desist zone — meaning realtors could not approach homeowners out of the blue and ask if they were willing to sell their house.

Under state law, certain neighborhood s ca n be decla red a

cease-and-desist zone — state Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) is seeking to make his district one of those. Martin Colberg, president of the WRBA, encouraged people in Woodhaven to save the solicitations for area politicians to show the Department of State when they attempt to have the same done for their community.

The civic president and others wor ried that if enough people sold their homes to the realtors, it could have a negative impact on the community.

“It’s something we have to keep an eye on,” Colberg said.

“We want to make sure we don’t have the character of our area changed.”

Such concer ns ranged from straining the infrastructure and schools to exacerbating the lack of parking in Woodhaven.

There is also the worry that it might lead to gentrification.

“The whole city is a market for gentrification,” Colberg added.

Residents also discussed the bag fee, a law the City Council passed earlier this year that’s due to go into effect in Febr uar y.

Woodhaven residents called for the paving of bumpy roads, such as 86th Street between Jamaica and Atlantic avenues, calling the corridors safety hazards. Other quality-of-life issues were also discussed at the Woodhaven READER PHOTO Residents’ Block Association’s meeting.

Gianelli and Assemblyman Mike Miller (D-Woodhaven) said state legislators are working to further delay, or permanently do away

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P Wins for community and commerce EDITORIAL

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he Queens economy just won a nice little victory, and this weekend it’s sure to score another one, as long as everyone who can afford to does his or her part.

First, the city last month mothballed its plans to hyper-regulate street fairs to the point that it effectively would have shut them down, along with the small business people who rely on them — and the fun enjoyed by families who attend them.

As is often the case, officials had a noble enough goal: in this case to assist neighborhoods that face massive disruptions from a constant stream of fairs closing block after block for days on end. But their plan would have crippled not only many vendors — the smallest of small businesses, many of them making their wares at home and having no place but fair booths in which to sell them — but also the nonprofit groups that rely on them, everything from chambers of commerce to charity groups like the Kiwanis and Rotary clubs.

Responding to problems bedeviling three Manhattan community districts in particular, the city came up with a one-size-fits-all proposal to sharply curtail the number of street fairs everywhere. Half of the permits for multiblock festivals would have been reserved for Manhattan. Vendors would have to sign up a month before a fair, ignoring the way they often wait until the last minute so they’ll have an idea of what the weather might be beforehand.

Most onerous of all, the city would have granted a fair permit only if at least 50 percent of the vendors had a business or other presence within the community district where it would be held. No one can manage that, not according to Queens nonprofit leaders and not according to the vendors who led the outcry against the plan.

The best anyone can get is about 40 percent. And as one Brooklyn jewelry maker said in an online petition started by the Forest Hills Chamber of Commerce, she’s still a “local artist” even when she’s selling her creations at a fair outside her immediate neighborhood.

The city contends the street fair system still needs to be reformed — and maybe it does around the edges; the festivals certainly are disruptive as well as beneficial — but shelving this plan was the right move. Back to the drawing board.

Meanwhile, two days from now is your chance to join in a great initiative that’s been turning into a tradition over the last seven years: Small Business Saturday. Started by American Express, it’s designed to boost mom-and-pop shops in between the Black Friday spending spree and Cyber Monday peak of online ordering. Many businesses and groups, including here in Queens, are offering incentives to shop small; check with your area chamber of commerce or business improvement district to see what’s on tap. And then support your local merchants, to help keep our communities strong.

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Dear Editor: Regarding the already implemented rushhour bus lanes on Woodhaven Boulevard in Rego Park (“A year later, no study on bus lanes,” Nov. 17, multiple editions), the Department of Transportation is claiming bus riders are spending less time on the buses. Even if true, that should not be the only goal.

Bus riders only account for about 25 percent of the motor vehicle users. There are 33,000 daily bus riders, but at least 100,000 others in motor vehicles. So even if the average bus rider saves 10 minutes at the expense of other vehicles adding only four minutes, more minutes are lost than gained by this plan, making it a poor one. (5,500 hours saved vs. 6,666 lost.)

Is the DOT saying bus riders are the only ones whose time matters? We do not have real numbers after a year because the DOT is waiting for more favorable numbers to imply success, as it did in its B44 Select Bus Service review.

Those data were not released for 2 1/2 years.

The DOT waited until it could say that bus ridership rose by 10 percent, declaring success. It counted on no one actually reading the report.

That stated that ridership only on the SBS portion of the route increased by 10 percent and only during the second year. Local bus ridership declined by 4 percent. The real second year gain was only 6 percent. When you also include first-year ridership, total bus ridership © Copyright 2016 by MARK I PUBLICATIONS, INC. All rights reserved.

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on the route declined by 2 percent over the twoyear period. Other corridor users experienced increases in travel time due to the exclusive lanes.

The initial preliminary data for Woodhaven showed average speeds for northbound peak hour drivers between Metropolitan and Furmanville avenues declined from 19.5 mph to 12 mph, increasing travel time by 38 percent.

If the DOT is forced to release unfavorable data, will it take the position that we will have to trust that with SBS also in place the numbers will be much more favorable? More importantly, will the agency force us to trust it?

Allan Rosen Brooklyn The writer is a former director of bus planning for NYC Transit.

It could’ve been Sanders Dear Editor: Had the media lavished as much ink and airtime on Senator B. Sanders as it had on D. Trump, I am certain that the Vermont senator’s

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resident-elect Donald Trump took a big step toward unifying the country Wednesday when he said he has no interest in reopening a criminal probe into Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information.

Clinton suffered enough during the “vicious” campaign, he said, and he does not want to hurt her, or her husband, any further. Instead, he wants to move forward.

That’s the kind of Trump we hope will occupy the White House. Not the hyper-touchy tweeter but the magnanimous winner. No one can say if he’ll stick to his position, but it’s the right thing to say at a time when healing is greatly needed. If he next were to give a speech denouncing his most rightwing backers and all acts of violence, we’d really have some serious progress.

votes would have swept the country. He knew how tough it was for the working class and spoke to the enormous gulf between the supermoneyed classes and the rest of us.

Barbara K. Brumberg Howard Beach

Thanks, Obama Dear Editor: The Nov. 17 editorial in the Chronicle, entitled “The danger of deepening divisions in America,” cited recent examples of harassment.

This is not due to the election of Donald Trump. For eight years under President Obama those of us who believe that life is sacred and the Bible is the standard for our lives have been marginalized and our voices suppressed.

Instead of people supporting freedom of speech in the case of Tim Tebow’s kneeling to pray, he was ridiculed. However, athletes who demonstrate against the country that we love are supported by our current president.

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blacks-81%” (it’s actually 15 percent) was false, Trump’s response was, “Am I gonna check every statistic? This came out of radio shows and everything else.”

Amazing. This man is going to be our president and facts don’t matter to him.

Some of the people Trump is bringing in as part of his transition team are horrifying. Ken argues that homosexuality is a JVB doesn’t speak for me Blackwell choice. Myron Ebell (another choice to lead the Dear Editor: EPA) has said, “The whole case for global (An open letter to Councilmember Jimmy warming is silly, and therefore I’m a bit embarVan Bramer) rassed that I waste time on such a silly issue.”

How dare you imply that you are the answer The World Meteorological Organization has to “Queens values.”

This 86-year-old native New Yorker brought just put out this statement: “Concentrations of up three daughters in Queens public schools major greenhouse gases in the atmosphere conwhen the Board of Education had us at the top tinue to increase to new highs. There is significant melting of the Greenland ice sheet.” of the international list of schools.

This artist, dreamer and conceptualizer Aren’t scientists “silly”?

Republicans want to get rid of Obamacare designed ads for New York’s leading department and specialty stores to place in The Her- and Roe v. Wade. I’m sure you women who ald Tribune, the New York Post and the Daily voted for Trump will be proud. Just rememb e r, w h e n yo u’r e d y i n g News, when your father probably started the presses at The ONLINE because you don’t have health New York Times (even before insurance to treat the infection you were born). you got from a back-alley aborMiss an editorial or a This Tea Partier didn’t know t ion you h a d t o u nd e rgo letter cited by a writer? any better being a staunch liberbecause of fetal lead poisonWant breaking news al Democrat until “Nanny” ing, you’ll be able to hold your from all over Queens?

Bloomberg became mayor of my Find the latest news, head high and say, “At least I New York City and our school past reports from all didn’t vote for someone with a system became the Department over the borough and private email server.” of Education ... and we dropped more at qchron.com.

Yes, Hillary used a different to something like No. 30 on the email server, but former head list of public schools. of the CIA David Petraeus was More than 25 years ago, I retired to follow a dream (ask state Sen. Tony Avella) serving my found guilty of giving classified information Queens as a volunteer who would help our to his mistress! And now Trump is consider“needy” students early onin the nationally rec- ing him for secretary of state. Many others ognized Adult and Child Together project. I have been pushed out of Trump’s transition was founder of the AMP Program: a 501(c)(3) team, including national security experts.

Trump is considering Rick Perry for secrenonprofit organization whose final goal, Liberty Fair, The Permanent World’s Fair Dedicated tary of energy. The same agency he forgot and to Peace by the honor students at Queens Col- said he wanted to eliminate during a 2011 preslege, CUNY Graduate School in the AMP Pro- idential debate. That’s right: Trump wants him gram, was a continuum of the 1939-40 and in charge of the agency he said he would elimi1964-65 New York World’s Fairs — meant to nate. teach our children and the world’s children Now that Trump and the Republicans will what made the United States of America the be in full control, maybe it’s time to move to greatest nation in history based on the Declara- someplace more progressive, like Canada or tion of Independence and the Constitution.

North Korea.

It is time for you and your followers to Robert LaRosa accept our 45th president of the United States Whitestone Donald J. Trump, who grew up as a Queens resident and will help us come back to “Make Bye, bye, celebrities America Great Again.”

Carl Zimmerman Dear Editor: Oakland Gardens As usual, whenever there is a presidential election the phonies from Hollywood say that if the Republican wins they will be leaving the Trump lied; we’ll pay country. This year was no different. Such Dear Editor: The media and the internet played a huge “political experts” as Whoopie Goldberg, Amy Schumer, Miley Cyrus, Lena Durham, Samuel part in Trump’s election.

The false claim that the pope had forbidden L. Jackson and Barbra Streisand, to name a Catholics from voting for Hillary was shared few, said they will be long gone.

On Nov. 10, only two days after the election, all over the internet. Back in March Trump claimed that a man who rushed the stage at one an Atlas V5 rocket was launched from Vandenof his rallies had ties to ISIS. When it was berg Air Force Base in, of all places, Lompoc, pointed out to him that it was untrue he Calif.

Unfortunately, although Lompoc is not too responded, “What do I know about it? All I know is what’s on the internet.” And when Bill far from Hollywood none of them were on it.

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Let’s give the new president a chance. There are many of us who are pleased with the change.

Sharon Roser Howard Beach

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PS 174 was one of three Queens schools to receive a grant from author James Patterson FILE PHOTO to improve its library.

Brianne Stewart, library media specialist at JHS 216, said the school is using its $5,000 grant to purchase the materials needed to do “virtual reality field trips” using Google Expeditions, an educational app that allows viewers to see such sites as the surface of Mars or the bottom of the Great Barrier Reef.

This is the second time Patterson has teamed up with Scholastic.

“The amazing outpouring from schools combined with the continued generosity of James Patterson helped us solidify a second year of grants to help more children have access to high-quality books and, ultimately, revive school libraries. We are proud to announce this year’s new grant recipients and thank James Patterson for his continued personal commitment to save school libraries,” said Judy Newman, president of the Scholastic Q Reading Club.

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Three Queens schools are among hundreds nationwide to receive a grant from famous author James Patterson and Scholastic to enhance their libraries with additional books or other resources.

The winners in Queens are MS 137, America’s School of Heroes, in Ozone Park; JHS 216, the George J. Ryan School, in Fresh Meadows and PS 174, the William Sidney Mount School, in Rego Park. There were 363 winners nationwide. The grant prizes range from $1,000 to $10,000.

Patterson — who has written nearly 150 novels — earlier this year pledged $1.75 million for school libraries, and Scholastic, the publisher of children’s books and a provider of educational resources, promised to match his contribution.

“We’ve just come out of the most divisive presidential election in history — and among all the issues that captivated voters, education wasn’t one of them. It was hardly discussed,” Patterson said in a statement issued by Scholastic. “Nearly half of the American population reads at or below a basic level, and we need to address that problem to foster an informed future electorate. I’ve made it my mission to underscore the vital role reading plays in children’s lives, and the need to sustain school libraries is at the heart of that mission.”

Laura Schneid, media specialist at MS 137’s library, said her school was “very excited” to receive $5,000 from the organization, which will be used to purchase the newest books.

“It’s all about getting the most current books out there,” Schneid told the Chronicle.

Karin Kelly, principal at PS 174, said in addition to getting new books the school will be looking to host author Lynn Hunter, author of the “Meet the Dooples” series, with its $1,500 prize.

“We know the children like her,” Kelly said.

“It’s also just very cute and age appropriate and teaches about writing and proper punctuation.”

Court proceedings against City Councilman Ruben Wills (D-Jamaica) will be delayed a bit more with some final pretrial proceedings, according to the office of New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

The trial had been tentatively scheduled to get underway last Monday after a delay of one week.

Wills has been present at the courthouse during many of the proceedings, including this past Monday.

A spokesman for Schneiderman said on Tuesday morning that a few more pre-

trial matters would have to be dispensed with. Then there is the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday.

Schneiderman’s spokesman said he said it is not yet certain when jury selection would begin. Depending on how long that process takes, it is not yet known if opening arguments could begin before the week of Dec. 5.

Wills is accused of misdirecting campaign funds for his personal use.

He also has been charged with pilfering money from a nonprofit that prosecuQ tors allege he controlled.

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Queens Chronicle’s toy drive begins This holiday season, remember that giving is better than receiving

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

Christmas movies often show scenes of happy families gathered on the living room floor, the children shouting with glee as they tear the wrapping off their gifts.

It’s a scene we’re sure many of you have witnessed throughout the years.

But the unfortunate truth is that’s not the case for thousands of our neighbors here in Queens.

Many of them had no other option but to be moved into homeless shelters throughout the borough, where they will be this holiday season.

These children may not be in homes on Dec. 25 but with your help, they could have the simple joy of a new toy to play with thanks to your contribution to the Queens Chronicle’s 22nd Annual Toy Drive.

We’re looking for everything from dolls, coloring books to toy trucks and more.

Even though we call it a toy drive, we’re also looking for items like perfume, backpacks and grooming products for some of the older children.

New or gently used items of clothing ranging from infants to teens are also needed and will be gladly accepted.

The gifts will go to children in four city homeless shelters: the Kings Inn Family Center in East Elmhurst, the Boulevard Family Residence in Elmhurst, the Metro Family Residence in East Elmhurst and the Saratoga Family Inn in Springfield Gardens, as well as Dove House, an emergency shelter for battered women or men and their children in eastern Queens.

Gifts can be dropped off at the Chronicle office, at 62-33 Woodhaven Blvd. in Rego Park, Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

If you can’t deliver gifts during regular office hours, you can leave them at Barosa Brick Oven Pizza, next door at 62-37.

A number of elected officials also let their offices be used as drop-off points. They are: • Councilman Daniel Dromm, at 37-32 75 St., 1st floor, in Jackson Heights; • Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, at 47-01 Queens Blvd. in Sunnyside; • Councilman Donovan Richards, at 23426A Merrick Blvd. in Laurelton; • Assemblyman Ed Braunstein (who collects for other drives as well as ours), at 213-33 39 Ave., suite 238, in Bayside; • state Sen. Leroy Comrie, at 113-43 Farmers Blvd. in St. Albans;

The Queens Chronicle’s elves want to remind you to donate to our toy drive. Intern Bryant Rodriguez, left, contributor Suzanne Ciechalski and Associate Editor Ryan Brady pose with some of the PHOTO BY ANTHONY O’REILLY items that will be brought to children in need this holiday season.

• Assemblyman Mike Miller, at 83-91 Woodhaven Blvd. in Woodhaven; and • state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr., at both 159-53 102 St. in Howard Beach and 66-85 73 Place in Middle Village.

We’ve already received some letters to Santa from the children at Dove House, who are looking for items such as winter jackets — one for a male 19 year old and another for a

9-year-old girl — an Elsa doll from the movie “Frozen” and board games.

Over the next few weeks, we will be including specific requests from children in need and recognizing our contributors.

We thank you in advance, and if you have any questions, please visit the Queens Chronicle office during business hours or call us at Q (718) 205-8000.

Boro Hall parking lot one year away Officials ‘break ground’ on since- demolished garage’s replacement

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Relief is in sight for the parking crunch around Borough Hall and Queens Supreme Courthouse in Kew Gardens.

Officials symbolically broke ground Monday on the long-awaited 302-space replacement for the since-demolished parking garage, with Borough President Melinda Katz saying the relief when the new lot opens next fall should surpass the frustration of the previous location’s surprise closure.

“We were sad that [the old garage] went so fast without warning,” Katz said, “but at the end of the day, it is safe, it will be a better parking lot and this really is an example of agencies working together for good, to make sure we have a place to park.”

In September 2014, the city deemed the 50-year-old, approximately 400-space fourdeck parking garage behind Borough Hall structurally unsafe for use and subsequently demolished it last year.

While about 50 spots of additional parking were added on 134th Street, as well as Queens Boulevard at 83rd Avenue, residents visiting Borough Hall and the courthouse have been left scrambling for spaces over the last two years.

The garage’s abrupt closure was a surprise to many, according to Katz.

Borough President Melinda Katz speaks at Monday’s groundbreaking ceremony for a new municipal parking lot in Kew Gardens, directly behind Borough Hall. The previous parking facility was PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA deemed unsafe and torn down in September 2014.

“We were all quite stunned to say the least,” she said. “It happened without any plans for a substitute for those people losing parking spots.”

But after 11 meetings between her office and various city agencies, the borough presi-

dent said, a design for the new lot was finalized and it should be open for use by next fall.

The 302-space municipal facility will feature six spots compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act, seven spots for motorcycles and four electric vehicle charging stations.

A number of environmental upgrades are also slated for the space, including bioswales to capture stor mwater r unoff, recycled asphalt — one of the first projects in the city to use it — and 120 different species of drought-resistant, low-maintenance plants and trees.

Security cameras paid for by the Borough President’s Office will also be installed, along with ample lighting.

“The lot was designed to complement the character of Borough Hall, rather than detract from it,” Department of Transportation Queens Borough Commissioner Nicole Garcia said. “The lot will feature landscaping, a sitting area and is designed with stateof-the-art technology that will make it more sustainable.”

The spaces will be metered, but the length of time a motorist can park there during the daytime hours has not yet been determined, according to DOT Borough Planner Vikram Sinha.

He added that the meters could be adjusted, should the agency determine that permitted parking stays need to be lengthened or shortened for any reason.

While Katz jokingly pleaded with the city officials flanking her to have the lot open by autumn’s start, no month-specific completion Q date was given.

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

Laser Therapy has been tested for 40 years, had over 2000 papers published on it, and has been shown to aid in damaged tissue regeneration, decrease inflammation, relieve pain and boost the immune system. This means that there is a good chance cold laser therapy could be your knee pain solution, allowing you to live a more active lifestyle.

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102, 106 precincts tow oversize vehicles School bus towed by 106th Precinct; 12 trucks hit in sting by 102nd Pct.

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

Police precincts in South Queens have been hitting vehicles parked on streets where they shouldn’t be in recent days.

In Ozone Park, officers with the 106th Precinct addressed three modes of transportation after a series of complaints were lodged at the Nov. 15 meeting of the Ozone

The 106th Precinct removes a school bus illegally parked on Pitkin Avenue. READER PHOTO

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False bomb scare in HB A suspicious package that turned out to be a smoke detector caused a bit of a scare in Howard Beach last Wednesday.

According to police, the package was found in Charles Park in the afternoon hours of Nov. 16. As a precautionary measure, the streets adjacent to the park were closed off.

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When officers arrived at Centreville Street and Linden Boulevard last Wednesday, the owner of a recreational vehicle that has been making its way around several streets in Ozone Park and Howard Beach drove it away after talking with cops.

The owner moves it every six days to avoid getting towed, according to cops.

Similarly, the owner of a boat that was parked on Pitkin Avenue took it away. Not too far from there, a school bus — which residents said had people living inside of it — was towed, according to police.

Community Affairs Officer Mark Competello, of the 106th Precinct, told the Chronicle Monday there was no family found inside the bus at the time.

“It was just a school bus that was not being used by any school that was where it shouldn’t have been,” Competello said in an interview.

Not to be outdone by their colleagues to the south, the 102nd Precinct conducted an overnight heavy-duty towing operation from Nov. 15 to 16, touting the initiative on its Twitter page.

In that time, the command towed four trucks and booted nine others. Officers also issued 29 summonses to the owners of illegally parked commercial vehicles.

The 102nd Precinct last week towed four commercial vehicles throughout the command in the latest heavy-duty towing operation. In addition to the towed rigs, nine other vehicles were TWITTER PHOTO booted and 29 received summonses.

The operation, the latest carried out by the precinct, took place throughout the command, which patrols Kew Gardens, Richmond Hill, Woodhaven and the northern part of Ozone Park.

Illegally parked commercial vehicles are a common issue in those communities. They

are not allowed to park on residential streets from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m., but many of them do anyway.

Owners of towed and booted vehicles have to pay fees upwards of $200 to get them back, according to the Department of Q Finance’s website.

Hamilton volley dies at 44 GoFundMe established to help Fred Grey’s daughter

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

Fred Grey, a volunteer firefighter with years of experience in Broad Channel and Hamilton Beach, died unexpectedly due to cardiac arrest on Nov. 19.

He was 44.

“Freddie was a big part in the relief center after Hurricane Sandy cause he was always there,” said Roger Gendron, president of the New Hamilton Beach Civic Association. “Freddie was a really good guy.”

“His heart was always into the department,” said Mitch Udowitch, an ex-captain at the West Hamilton Beach Volunteer Fire Department. “He was always in 100 percent.

He looked to make things better.”

Grey was waked Tuesday and his funeral was set for the next day, Nov. 23.

He was interred at Calvary Cemetery in Woodside.

The Broad Chan nel Volunteer Fire Department & Ambulance Corp, where Grey served as a lieutenant before coming to Hamilton Beach, has set up a GoFundMe account to help pay for his funeral, as well as provide financial assistance to his daughter.

At press time, a little more than $3,500 of the $10,000 goal had been raised online, with many contributors posting messages of condolences and memories of Grey.

“His deep, raspy voice, great sense of humor and most of all his friendship and dedication to the brotherhood will be sorely missed amongst us all throughout the fire service,” the department said on its Facebook page.

While in Broad Channel, he responded to both the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks — during which he was injured with three other members — and the crash of Flight 587 in Belle Harbor.

He was with the West Hamilton Beach department for about five years.

Gendron spoke fondly of Grey and told stories of how he helped in any way possible in the days following Sandy.

The Broad Channel department’s Facebook page was filled with comments from those who knew Grey from his time at both departments.

Chris Kagenaar said any EMS personnel from Brooklyn or Queens sent on a call to Hamilton Beach would see Grey there nine out of 10 times.

“May he rest in peace,” Kagenaar added.

“Rest easy brother, we have it from here,” said Michele Zepke-Collis. “Just be our guardian angel as we continue to do our job.

You will never be forgotten and you will always be missed.”

In addition to this daughter, he is surQ vived by his mother and father.

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Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying three men and a woman who, along with a fifth alleged perpetrator who has already been arrested, assaulted and stabbed two Taco Bell employees on Atlantic Avenue on Oct. 16.

According to cops, the five suspects were sitting on the counters at the Taco Bell at 97-01 Atlantic Ave. at 9:45 p.m. when they were asked by two employees to get down.

The five then began to assault the workers, stabbing one of them in the torso. He was treated at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center and has since been discharged.

The other victim suffered bruising to his face and body.

On Oct. 26, police arrested Erickson Cepeda, 25, of Richmond Hill, in connection with the crime and charged him with

NYFAC’s Toy Run Howard Beach-based New York Families for Autistic Children will host its third annual Toy Run on Dec. 4 at 1 p.m.

The event has attracted 200 motorcyclists to ride Woodhaven and Cross Bay boulevards from Forest Park to Broad Cha n nel. Each pa r t icipa nt brings an unwrapped toy for a boy or girl with them.

Those interested in participating this year are asked to bring the toy and a $25 entry fee to the event, which will start at the Band Shell in Forest Park.

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one count each of gang assault and seconddegree assault.

The four at-large suspects are Hispanics aged 22 to 28, according to cops.

The incident was a topic of discussion at last Saturday’s meeting of the Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association, in which civic activist Ed Wendell asked Community Affairs Officer Jose Severino if there were any updates on the case. There were none at the time.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1 (800) 577-TIPS (8477), or, for Spanish, 1 (888) 57-PISTA (74782).

The public can also submit tips by logging onto nypdcrimestoppers.com, or by texting 274637 (CRIMES), then entering TIP577.

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MetroCard van in HB State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) will host a MetroCard van in Howard Beach and Broad Channel on Nov. 30.

Staff at the van will be selling unlimited and pay-per-ride MetroCards and will also be able to add money to cards.

The vehicle will first be parked in front of the Howard Beach Senior Center, located at 155-55 Cross Bay Blvd., from 10 a.m. to noon and will then relocate to the Broad Channel Library, at 16-26 Cross Bay Blvd., from 1 to 3 p.m. For more information, contact the senator’s Howard Beach office at (718) 738-1111.

“The MetroCard van brings these services directly to the residents of my district and offers another outlet for people to conveniently take care of their MetroCard Q needs,” Addabbo said in a statement.

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New measures to probe hate crimes State Police to create new unit; schools should have bullying policies: commish

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

Gov. Cuomo and other state leaders have announced new measures to ensure any hate crimes committed in the state are investigated and reported properly. The initiatives were announced in light of FILE PHOTO President-elect Trump’s victory on Election Day.

Following a rash of alleged hate crimes in the days following President-elect Trump’s victory in the Electoral College, state leaders have taken precautionary measures to ensure any future incidents are properly dealt with.

On Sunday, Gov. Cuomo announced in Manhattan that he’s directed the State Police to create a Hate Crimes Unit to investigate and offer assistance to municipal law enforcement agencies looking into potential hate crimes.

The unit, according to Cuomo, will consist of investigators across the state who have been trained as bias crime specialists and will coordinate with area district attorneys to provide any support necessary during the prosecution of any hate crimes.

Some of the investigators, the governor added, have already been part of investigations of recent alleged hate crimes, including the drawing of swastikas found across the Empire State since Trump was elected.

“With these decisive actions, we say to people of all backgrounds and beliefs: New York is your home and refuge, and we will do whatever it takes to keep you safe,” Cuomo said in a prepared statement.

The governor also announced he will look to expand the state’s Human Rights Law — which allows the state Division of Human Rights to investigate reports of bullying or other acts of discrimination in private schools

— to students in all educational facilities.

Also on the school front, state Education Commissioner Mar yEllen Elia and Attor ney General Eric Schneiderman last Friday sent a letter to all school districts asking every area superintendent to ensure it’s in line with state law directed at protecting students from discrimination and bullying.

“We must focus our efforts to ensure that our schools are safe havens where students can learn without fear of discrimination, harassment or intimidation,” Elia and Schneiderman said in their letter.

All school districts must have a policy aimed at prohibiting bullying and discrimination and to report such incidents under the Dignity for All Students Act, but it was found earlier this year that many were not in compliance.

Schneiderman and Elia urged the districts to review materials provided by the state to help them with creating a policy.

Finally, Cuomo announced the creation of the nation’s first emergency public/private legal defense fund for all immigrants. The initiative will be run by the state’s Office for New Americans in partnership with major colleges and universities, as well as law firms, legal associations and advocacy groups.

New Yorkers wishing to utilize the defense fund can call its toll-free hotline at 1 (888) 392-6644 from 9 a.m.

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Velazquez pushes new hate crime hotline bill Legislation introduced in response to the recent rise in bias incidents

by Nicholas Theodorou Chronicle Contributor

Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens) introduced the National Hate Crimes Hotline Act of 2016 last Wednesday in response to an increase in hate crimes throughout the country.

With this bill, the U.S. attorney general would oversee a toll-free national hotline to which hate crimes could be more centrally reported. There would also be a secure internet site where citizens can report bias incidents.

“The first part of solving any problem requires admitting there is one,” Velazquez said in a press release. “We need a mechanism for improving the reporting of these crimes so that we can better tackle the problem.”

Velazquez hopes to get this bill passed in the new legislative session.

“I fully intend to push this legislation forward as we move into 2017,” she said.

Minority communities have experienced a spike in hate crimes the past few months, especially following the election.

Last Friday, the FBI reported a 6.8 percent increase in bias incidents from 2014 to 2015 with 5,850 cases reported.

Rep. Nydia Velazquez, right, seen here at an unrelated event, is calling for a national hotline where victims of hate crimes can report their experiences. This comes as a result of an increase PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA in post-election bias incidents across the country.

The number of hate crimes in the city has risen 31.5 percent from 2015 to 2016, according to reports citing NYPD statistics.

“These numbers are astonishing and terrifying,” Velazquez noted.

Council on American-Islamic Relations spokesman Ibrahim Hooper thinks a national hotline would be a good way to address

the problem, as he has seen a spike in hate crimes involving the Muslim community.

The FBI report noted a 67 percent rise in Muslim hate crimes within one year as well.

“I think it would be extremely helpful to have a centralized hotline,” Hooper said.

Hooper has seen similar efforts, including with his group’s own hotline, to central-

ize reported incidents but nothing on the national level until now.

“It will quantify and centralize the problem,” he said.

The Jewish community has also seen a 9 percent uptick in hate crimes, according to the FBI. Cathy Zalisky, executive director of the Queens Jewish Community Council, said although she hasn’t personally seen hate crimes increase in the Jewish community she thinks the hotline would be helpful.

“I think the idea of having resources is a big deal; so many people feel alone,” Zalisky said.

She added that she supports the right of people to protest as long as it is nonviolent.

“I never heard of anything like this. I don’t know what is stirring the pot,” she said. “I hope that cal mer heads will prevail.”

According to Velazquez’s bill, federal resources would also go toward local law enforcement training to better solve hate crimes and work with civic groups.

“We need to work at all levels of government to stamp out hate crimes,” Velazquez concluded. “And this bill will take imporQ tant steps toward that goal.”

MinKwon Center warns about Trump Nonprofit offering DACA-related services to immigrants, other help

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The MinKwon Center for Community Action issued an open letter last Friday decrying President-elect Trump’s comments about immigrants and giving notice of the services it is providing to them.

“Mr. Trump fueled his candidacy using hate — making targets of immigrants, people of color, women, Muslims, LGBTQ, and other marginalized groups,” the statement said. “Since his election, we have heard him reaffirm his intention to deport or imprison millions of immigrants and seen him appoint a known white supremacist to his in ner circle of advisers.”

The Korean-focused, Flushing-based group added that hundreds of reported discriminatory incidents have happened since Trump’s victory in the election.

The president-elect has said that he will get rid of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a program that many undocumented immigrants use to avoid deportation, and all of President Obama’s other executive orders and actions, according to the MinKwon Center.

“If this happens, DACA recipients will lose their ability to work, not to mention their protection from deportation,” the statement added.

“Also alarming is the fact that their application process has revealed their identity to the federal government.”

MinKwon is helping immigrants in various ways in response to the issues they now face.

The group is requesting that DACA recipients whose protections will expire in the next six months contact it immediately, so a renewal can be processed. To put the applications through, MinKwon is holding additional clinic days.

Its young adult group, the Asian American Dreamers Collective, will be holding special events and meetings so Dreamers, young unauthorized aliens, can respond together as well as share a space of pain and grief.

Consultation about their status and legal services for immigrants will continue, according to the statement.

The group is also strategizing on how to respond to any immigration crackdown with allies in the philanthropic, nonprofit and government worlds.

To prepa re i m m ig ra nts who may be approached by immigration officials, MinKwon will be holding know-your-rights workshops.

“I think it’s a great letter,” state Sen. Jose Peralta (D-East Elmhurst) told the Chronicle. The senator, a staunch advocate of immigrant rights and programs, added that services for them are also being provided by the Legal Aid Society, the New York Immigration Coalition and other groups. “I hope more of this comes around because this is a time where we should all be uniting and I’m glad that various organizations are coming forward Q and stepping up to the plate.”

The Flushing-based MinKwon Center for Community Action is offering extra immigration services after the victory of President-elect Trump, who has promised to get rid of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals deportation-exemption program.

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A post-election briefing sponsored by the Queens Interagency Council on Aging at Queens Borough Hall on Nov. 16 — with several elected officials on hand to discuss how the policies of the new United States president-elect may impact older adults and services for the aging — allayed fears on several fronts while finding many still conjecturing as to what lies ahead.

“I’m sure the outcome of the election has shocked some of you,” QICA’s executive director, Bruce Cunningham, told the audience. “We’re at a time when there will be enormous changes, I assume.”

“Critical things will be happening in the next couple of years,” added Acting President Barry Klitsberg.

Promising to keep an eye on those developments is Public Advocate Letitia James, who said, “The reality is that Donald Trump is our president-elect and we have to respect that. We have got to stand up for our values and our principles as Americans. Whenever our values and our principles are trampled upon, we’ve got to organize and mobilize.”

Trump, she said, “will soon realize the

Social Security, “this public advocate will be on the front line.”

Still, she admitted that “we don’t know where they stand on a lot of issues,” referring to Trump and the administration he’ll lead, but she cautioned that “we should not be divided by race and gender and geography.”

Speculating on Trump’s successful campaign, she said, “I’ve seen the poverty, the misery, the people who are concerned about tomorrow and that’s what they voted. They voted their pocketbooks.” She added, “Some people may have some racial problems but they represent a small minority.”

Assemblyman David Weprin (D-Fresh Meadows), who called himself “a big Hillary Clinton supporter” and served as a delegate at the Democratic Convention, pointed out that on the national level, the Democrats picked up six seats in the House and two seats in the Senate, prompting him to say it “would make it hard for President-elect Trump to totally disregard Congress and the Democratic voice.”

Should Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) become the new minority leader of the U.S. Senate, as expected, it would be “very good continued on page 42

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Islamophobic tirade filmed in Astoria Driver tells the cameraman ‘Trump is president ... He’ll deport you soon’

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

A Woodside actor posted a video to Facebook last Thursday showing a man going on a profanity-f illed Islamophobic tirade against his friend, an Uber driver, while the two were driving in Astoria.

“F--king Arab motherf--ker,” the man said in the video. “I don’t care bro, video.

You’re a loser. You’re not even from here you motherf---er. F--k you and your family you terrorist f--k. Video all you want, you’re an Arab.”

The caption to the video only said “This just happened to my friend while in the car.”

It did not say if anything provoked the hate speech and the man who posted the video, Karim Metwaly, did not respond to a request for comment.

The man in the video later goes on to say, “Trump is president a--hole. So you can kiss your f--king visa goodbye scumbag. He’ll deport you soon don’t worry you f--king terrorist.”

The video ends as the two drive onto Crescent Street. It can be seen at qchron. com.

The incident is just the latest anti-Muslim

The man seen in this video can be heard going on an Islamophobic tirade on Crescent Street in FACEBOOK SCREENSHOT Astoria. act in Queens since Trump won the election last Tuesday. Two weeks ago, a group of high school girls on a city bus suggested that another group, made up of minorities, sit in the back.

And a Bellerose Muslim woman was

yelled at on another by a couple who told her to take her hijab off.

“You’re not allowed to wear that anymore,” one of them told the woman, Fariha Nizam, before they tried to remove the hijab.

According to the NYPD, hate crimes against Muslims have risen citywide by 13 — from 12 at this time last year to 25 so far in 2016.

Islamophobic acts are also on the rise nationwide, up 67 percent since last year.

Speaking on the incident in Astoria, state Sen. Michael Gianaris (D-Astoria) said in a statement issued last Thursday that such acts “should not be tolerated in a neighborhood where all races and different beliefs are welcome. More than ever, now is the time to unite and organize. We will stand together against cowardly attacks and show that our values and vision for our country will triumph over hate.”

Cou ncil m a n Cost a Con st a nt i n ides (D-Astoria) blasted the incident in a statement saying, “Our city’s strength is our diversity. Now more than ever, cities must lead the way against harassment and prejudice. We’ve heard about some recent incidents of discrimination including several incidents in Western Queens. I stand united with the Queens community — hate and bigotry have no place in our neighborhoods.

Any New Yorker who is the victim of continued on page 25

‘Queens responds’ to Donald Trump Van Bramer leads thousands across Queensboro Bridge to Trump Tower

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About 2,500 people marched over the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge to Trump Tower last Saturday with City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) to distinguish their values from those of President-elect Donald Trump.

“Donald Trump may have been raised in Queens, but he is not from here any more,” Van Bramer said at Queens Plaza’s Dutch Kills Green before the “Queens Responds with Queens Values” march kicked off.

Van Bramer said Queens is about diversity, love and equality.

“We reject racism,” Van Bramer told the crowd, encouraging the cheering crowd to chant against misogyny, sexual assault, gay conversion therapy, antiSemitism, scapegoating of Muslims and hatred of immigrants, and in support of LGBT families and abortion rights.

Van Bramer is openly gay and led the rally with his husband, Dan Hendrick.

He received an emailed homophobic death threat last Thursday after distributing march fliers.

The NYPD is investigating the incident.

“We are here today because we are not powerless, we are not weak, and we are not wrong,” Van Bramer said.

The councilman asked the marchers to behave lawfully and avoid foul language in consideration of the children marching.

“Seeing children of all different backgrounds at this

rally today sends a very powerful signal that we are not going to sacrifice the future of our children,” said Comptroller Scott Stringer.

Marchers expressed numerous disagreements with Trump.

“He’s riling up hate mongers. He’s not denouncing it, and by not denouncing it, he’s enabling it,” said Astoria-based Community Board 1 member Rod Townsend.

“Trump was sued because of his hotels not being accessible,” said Kathleen McKeon of Queens, who works with disabled people and wants to ensure they don’t get left out.

Ethan, who is Polish, and Kathrine, who is Mexican, fell in love in New York and marched in support of diversity with a sign reading, “Love Only.”

Some chanted “Hands too small! Can’t build a wall!”, referring to Marco Rubio’s primary-season “small hands” retort to Trump’s “Little Marco” insult.

Some signs read, “Make Racists Afraid Again,” “Queens — Where the World Lives Together,” “No One is Free When Others Are Oppressed,” and “Diversity Trumps Hate.”

Astoria’s Sanjay Merchant marched with fiancé Colin Pearce and a sign reading “Fire the Nazis.”

“I’m not exaggerating here. The first thing [Trump] did when he got into office was to hire a Who’s Who of white supremacists,” Merchant said.

Michael Goldman’s sign said, “First they came for the Muslims and we said hell no! This stops now.” continued on page 42

Marchers walked across the Ed Koch Bridge last Saturday to Trump Tower to protest PHOTO BY VICTORIA ZUNITCH the proposed policies of the president-elect.

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Prepared to fight hate in the 112th Commander said the squad hasn’t seen any post-election bias crimes

by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

Racially and religiously motivated bias incidents have been reported around Queens in the wake of Donald Trump’s stunning Electoral College win, but none have been seen in the 112th Precinct.

That doesn’t mean the Forest Hills-based command isn’t fully prepared to tackle any hate crime allegations that come its way.

“If that happens, we are going to investigate it. It goes up to me and I make the determination if it’s a bias incident or not,” Capt. Robert Ramos, the station’s commanding officer, said at last Wednesday’s community council meeting. “More times than not, if it gets up to me, it is a bias incident. After that, it goes to the Hate Crimes Task Force and they investigate it.”

Even when the task force takes charge of the investigation, Ramos said the incident doesn’t get put in the rear view mirror.

“As far as the 112 goes, our crime prevention officers will pay a visit to the victim, see if they need anything from us or if there’s anything we can do for them,” he said.

“Depending on the severity of the incident, we’ll do directed patrols. We’ll drive by the victim’s house once every hour to make sure they’re OK.” Hate crimes in the aftermath of Election Day were a major topic at the community council, with a question from a Forest Hills resident named Alexa serving as the jumping off point for a lengthy discussion.

“The recent climate has me concerned,” Alexa said. “I’m concerned for my black, immigrant, women, Muslim, LGBTQ and homeless neighbors.”

Capt. Rober t Ramos, commanding officer of the 112th Precinct, pledges to the community council that his station will vigorously investigate any hate crime in Forest Hills or Rego PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA Park.

Even Heidi Chain, the normally jovial community council president, began the meeting on a serious note, giving a speech about the inclusiveness of her group and the neighborhood.

“We have had contests to celebrate the diversity in our community. We had essay contests like ‘We are one New York,’” Chain told the crowd. “We embrace ethnic differenc-

es and we embrace our diversity. That has been the legacy of this precinct council.

“It is what we are. It is what we have been about,” she continued. “We have been doing it not for 15 minutes, but for 15 to 20 years.”

Not only have no hate crimes been reported in the 112th Precinct since the election, Ramos said, not a single bias incident has been reported there all year.

In terms of incidents not inspired by race, religion, gender or sexuality, Ramos noted the precinct is doing “pretty well” with crime reduction.

Felony assaults are down 20 percent for the year, stolen cars have fallen 40 percent and burglaries are down 30 percent. In the last 28 days, only one burglary has been reported compared to 11 during the same time period in 2015.

But grand larcenies are up 11 percent from last year, with a substantial number of those crimes being identity theft in the form of telephone scams.

“The crime that we have the most of are grand larceny crimes,” he said. “Of the 25 grand larcenies we’ve had in the 28-day period, 11 of those are identity theft.

“These guys know what they’re doing.,” he added. “Don’t entertain them, just hang up the phone.”

Crime Prevention Officer Alex Avila supplemented Ramos’ remarks with a speech on avoiding becoming a victim of a scam artist, adding that a 31-year-old neighborhood man was just swindled out of $41,000.

“If they call you, you’re obviously not to give [personal information] to them,” Avila said. “If I go call Capital One or an agency to donate money, that’s a little different. You’re Q making the initiative.”

ELECTION AFTERMATH: POL THREATENED OVER ANTI-TRUMP PROTEST

Death threat directed at JVB Person said he would ‘execute’ lawmaker as a traitor

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Electoral College victory on Nov. 8.

“He may have grown up here,” the flier reads, “but he’s not Associate Editor Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) was the subject from here anymore.”

In a statement issued last Friday, Van Bramer said he will not of a vile death threat last Thursday, with an unidentified person telling the majority leader in an email he will “execute” him for be deterred.

“This is not normal or acceptable, but we will not back down. being a “traitor.”

“Seven hundred of your communistic socialists can erase some- We still plan on marching tomorrow and fighting the racist, sexist, homophobic and xenophobic demaone’s hometown? Where did you get that goguery of Donald Trump,” Van Bramer f--king idea?” the individual emailed Van said. “Queens is the most diverse county in Bramer. “Rest of the people from Queens et the f--k out of the country, and we know that our differdo not agree with your homosexual lifeences make us stronger. We will fight for style, so get the f--k out of this country, you this country, you these values every single day, no matter f--king traitor! what.

“I will keep a close eye on your every f--king traitor!”

“I am not scared and I will not back moves [sic] so that when it’s time to execute — Anonymous person to Councilman down,” he continued. “Too many are at traitors, I will try my best so that you [sic] Jimmy Van Bramer such risk. We must all stand up and peacename is included on that list of traitors,” the fully resist.” person continued. “Execution is the penalty A Van Bramer aide said the lawmaker reported the incident to for a traitor,” the person continued, “that is the law of this land!”

The vulgar death threat was sent from the email account aler- the NYPD. A number of city leaders have issued statements of support for tingtube@gmail.com to Van Bramer’s electronic distribution list after his office forwarded a flier for the march he hosted last Sat- Van Bramer, with Mayor de Blasio tweeting, “New York stands urday from the Queens side of the Queensboro Bridge to Trump with you, Jimmy.”

A number of high-profile bias incidents have occurred in Tower.

The march, titled, “Queens Responds with Queens Values,” Queens and across the country since Trump’s win last week, was held to protest President-elect Donald Trump, whose inflam- including obscene verbal attacks against a Muslim Bellerose matory rhetoric and campaign promises regarding Hispanics and woman on the Q43 bus two weeks ago and a Muslim Uber driver Q Muslims have spawned massive protests nationwide after his in Astoria last Thursday.

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Meng phone scam bill OK’d

by U.S. House The House of Representatives passed legislation on Nov. 14 sponsored by Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing) to crack down on spoofing, a type of widespread telephone scam.

Caller ID is disguised by criminals who scam to make it look like they’re calling from a law enforcement agency, financial institution or other official entity. They trick the victims into sending them cash, or bank account or Social Security numbers.

“Millions of unsuspecting Americans continue to get ripped off through this unconscionable scam,” Meng said in a prepared statement. “We must do all we can to combat it and my bill would go a long way towards accomplishing that critical goal.”

The bill, which is called the “AntiSpoofing Act,” would prohibit spoofing through internet-based Voice over Internet Protocol services, text messages and calls from other countries.

A Senate version of the bill is included in the Communications Act Update Act of 2016, according to Q Meng spokesman Jordan Goldes.

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Avella considering de Blasio challenge State senator will announce run ‘pretty soon’ if he is entering primary race Associate Editor

State Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) is considering running in the Democratic primary for mayor.

Avella, who served in the Koch and Dinkins administrations, previously ran in the Democratic primary for mayor in 2009 and in the primary for borough president in 2013. He has been a vocal opponent of de Blasio, whom he says has a “my way or the highway attitude” t h a t h a s n eg a t ively i m p a c t e d lo c a l neighborhoods.

“Well I think I take a much more community-minded approach,” the state senator told the Chronicle. “And I have a hands-on approach to government and I don’t think this mayor does.”

“One of the major underlying problems that we face in the city is that it’s too expensive to live here,” he said, adding that the mayor continues to raise property taxes.

The state senator said he will announce his run “pretty soon,” if he decides to do it.

The blog Queens Crap first reported the possibility.

Juniper Park Civic Association President Bob Holden, one of the mayor’s most vocal critics in Queens, warmly received news of Avella considering a mayoral bid.

“Well, obviously, Tony’s been a friend, Holden said. “He’s been great, not only as a

senator, on every level. He was a terrific councilman, he represented civic associations very well.”

The former councilman has been a critic of the de Blasio administration using hotels as homeless shelters, and worked with civic associations and Councilman Barry Grodenchik (D-Oakland Gardens) to phase out the usage of two hotels in Bellerose as shelters. He also joined protests against one in Maspeth.

“We would call him in to our area as far back as 2006 with our problems because we didn’t have a council person who could handle the problems,” Holden said. “I would certainly hope he would throw his hat in the ring, personally.”

Queens Civic Congress Executive Vice President Richard Hellenbrecht, a Bellerose resident, also seemed supportive of the possibility.

“He’s a friend to the community, he’s very active in identifying problems and figuring out solutions to resolving those problems,” Hellenbrecht said.

“I think it’s gonna be a tough battle,” he said, adding he would support him. “He’s a local Queens guy against who knows what other city wide individuals.”

The only Democratic primary challenger to announce against de Blasio so far is private detective and media personality Bo Dietl,

although some others have been floated as potential contenders, including City Comptroller Scott Stringer and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-Brooklyn, Queens). Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) and billionaire John Catsimatidis are considering running against the incumbent in the general election.

Rep. Joe Crowley (D-Bronx, Queens), the leader of the Queens Democratic Party, did not immediately return a request for comment.

Bayside Hills Civic Association President Michael Feiner was supportive of Avella but expressed concern about his temper.

“I’d even vote for him but he’d have to have somebody like me as his chief of staff,” Feiner said, adding that Avella would be a great mayor.

“He gets upset about certain things and he loses his supporters, so that would be the thing that he would need somebody like me for.”

“This man is community-minded, he has been out there chopping wood for the community for years and years and years,” United Community Civic Association President Rose Marie Poveromo said. “I would support him 1,000 percent.”

Jamaica civic activist Earl Roberts, however, is “not very much familiar with” Avella.

“I supported de Blasio last election, I don’t have a stand on him right now,” he said.

De Blasio’s campaign could not be reached Q for comment.

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St. Albans seeks noise relief from LIRR locos Residents want idling engines moved

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Everyone wants the Long Island Rail Road to keep moving between the city and the farthest reaches of Suffolk County.

But some residents along a section of 180th Street in St. Albans will settle for some engines to go just a block or two to the north.

Bishop Melvin Artis, a resident, a member of Community Board 12 and pastor of the Greater Universal Highway Deliverance Church in St. Albans, said residents would like the LIRR to end what they say is the occasional practice of keeping diesel engines running and idling on tracks south of 110th Avenue.

“They do it when the nights get colder,” Artis said, adding that after complaints in recent years the railroad moved the engines north of 110th to an industrial area, away from residences.

Artis said he has written state officials on the matter. He also led a resident demonstration at the intersection of 180th Street and 110th Avenue on the morning of

Nov. 16.

Artis said they typically show up Friday nights at the start of a weekend. A visit by the Chronicle on the night of Nov. 18 did not come across any trains between 6:25 and 7 p.m., though Artis said beforehand that would be the earlier part of a possible window. An LIRR spokesman said they have received Ar tis’ letter and are investigating.

“At some point, Bishop Artis will be hearing directly from the Railroad and once that has happened, we would be happy to make our findings public,” he said. Assemblywoman Alicia Hyndman (D-Springfield Gardens) in an emailed message from her office, said she has been following the matter at residents’ request.

“My office has been working with community residents and other elected officials to address the hazardous condition along this section of the Long Island Rail Road,” Hyndman said.

“This is not just a quality-of-life issue, it is affecting the health of my constituQ ents,” she added.

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Parks Department officer refused to hit him with $41K charge: report

by Christopher Barca

continued from page 20 harassment or discrimination shouldn’t be afraid make a report through official channels so that we have a record to fight against this intolerance.”

On Tuesday, Gianaris hosted a press conference in which Chris Cody — a St. John’s University professor who was picked up by the Uber driver who filmed the Facebook video — said he felt “ashamed as a New Yorker, as an American that he had to experience such hate and felt I owed it to him and others to share.

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“The fine issued to Mr. Ricatto was determined by the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings, and is not based on the amount of damage or the cost associated, but rather on the rule broken,” Lalor said in a Monday email. “Parks’ expert foresters inspected 40 trees and determined that 11 of them had deep staple wounds. While many of them had been stapled and taped, only trees where the staples were excessive or penetrated the cambium were written up for tree damage.”

Ricatto did not respond to a request for comment by press time, but he told the Daily News that he appreciates Oro’s gesture not to fine him $41,000.

“I paid it because lawyers said it would cost more to fight it,” Ricatto said. “I would like to shake that man’s hand. The rest of Q this is an outrage.” hope it serves as a wake up-call that an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” he continued.

The professor said the driver told him he and his family moved to America six to seven years ago.

Cody added, “To stay silent would have validated his behavior — indefensible regardless of what occurred prior between two disgruntled New Yorkers on the road. My intention was not to belabor the hate and divisiveness that the recent presidential campaign brought on and that most people I know hope to put Q behind us.”

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Not every Donald Trump supporter has been celebrating everything about this month.

Michael Ricatto, the owner of 82-28 Abingdon Road in Kew Gardens, had to pay $1,600 in fines after doing approximately $41,000 in damage to 11 neighborhood trees.

Ricatto made headlines over the summer after stapling “Wanted” posters to the trees in hopes of catching the bandits who had been repeatedly stealing his Donald Trump yard signs.

After a number of his neighbors complained about the postings, the Parks Department announced in September the staples had done $41,000 in damage to the trees he put the fliers on.

But the Daily News reported last Thursday that Ricatto was only hit with a $1,600 fine after a Parks officer refused to deliver summonses totaling $41,000 to the Kew Gardens man.

The newspaper highlighted an agency email chain in which officials questioned why Ricatto should be fined $41,000, along with Sgt. Joey Oro’s refusal to enforce it.

“I said no because we have been trained that we must witness a violation to write a summons,” Oro wrote in an email, according to the Daily News. “I didn’t see any of this.”

The newspaper also reported Oro was brought up on a disciplinary charge for refusing to fine Ricatto.

Parks Department spokeswoman Meghan Lalor did not address the controversy when questioned by the Chronicle, but she did say the fine issued to the real estate investor — who splits his time between Kew Gardens and Florida — was not based on the damage done to the trees.

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FDNY touts coming attractions at CB 13 New technology, personnel and tactics slated to build on success

by Michael Gannon Editor

Attendees at Monday’s meeting of Community Board 13 got a firsthand assessment of fire and EMS safety in the borough.

Assistant Chief Edward Baggot, the FDNY’s commander for Queens, and Division Chief Christine Mazzola, who is in charge of EMS, were the guest speakers.

Baggot covered much in his talk, but he took care to address the coming holidays.

“We have had 43 fire-related deaths in 2016,” Baggot said. “The record was in 2013, when we had about 53, and there’s four weeks left in the year. Forty-three is 43 too many. But in a city of eight million, that is amazing. In the 1970s to the ’90s we could be over 300.”

He said while the holidays for most people are a time of joy and celebration, too often they are interrupted by fires that could be avoided by people using a little more caution and care.

“A lot of people use candles during the holidays,” he said. “And a major cause of fires is unattended cooking. What do people do during the holidays? They cook a lot.”

The meeting took place at the North Shore Towers apartment complex in Little Neck. Baggot said the reduction in fire

FDNY Assistant Chief Edward Baggot discusses changes for the good in the future of firefighting and emergency medical service on Monday with Community Board 13, including Board PresiPHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON dent Bryan Block, left, and District Manager Mark McMillan. deaths is attributable to many factors, such as better equipment, smoke detectors, modern apartment building construction, such as in the Towers, and the proliferation of cell phones allowing for quicker notification and response.

“And because of advances in EMS,” he said. “Even the drop in murders is partly

because of advances in EMS.” Mazzola said Queens, handling about 22,000 calls in Queens thus far in 2016, will be getting more punch with an additional 34 tours being added in the coming year.

Baggot also said they will be taking a page from the NYPD’s CompStat practices beginning Jan. 1, when 10 ambulances will

be dispatched in Queens, not at the traditional sectors that most crews will serve, but floated throughout the borough on their shifts to areas where the computers and supervisors determine that response time is starting to slow down.

Mazzola also said that EMS is training constantly to be better prepared in the event of an active shooter situation, such as the one at an Orlando, Fla. nightclub massacre in June.

Aside from constant training on medical procedu re, EMS person nel now have formed tactical response units which train with the NYPD in an effort to get EMS personnel to the wounded more quickly, while giving medical personnel the protection they would need while treating patients.

Mazzola also said the department will begin rolling out new “green” ambulances which, while still red, will not require that the engine run constantly to keep electrical equipment, such as refrigeration and cooling units for drugs, charged.

Baggot said a modern EMS ambulance is like a mini-emergency room with equipment that needs to be kept at the ready. But he said the new ambulances will mean less noise and lower emissions.

“You won’t be able to tell the difference Q looking at the outside,” Mazzola said.

Why the delay at Metro-Fresh Pond?

Dept. of Transportation says work is finally beginning at intersection

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First, it was July. Then, it was August. Later, it was October.

So what’s the holdup with construction at Metropolitan Avenue and Fresh Pond Road on the Middle Village-Ridgewood border?

Community Board 5 District Manager Gary Giordano, speaking at the advisory council’s Nov. 9 meeting, blames the contractor, Mugrose Construction.

“It’s a serious problem. They’re very late,” Giordano said. “I question whether or not the contractor has their act together.”

The district manager and others have been f r ust rated for months over repeated delays in bridge deck replacement work at the busy intersection, which was originally slated to begin immediately after the Fourth of July.

T he th ree -st age project — which was set to be completed in January 2018 — will start with the six-month demolition of the northeast corner of the intersection, adjacent to the defunct gas station.

The next stage — split into two sections — involves three months of night work along Metropolitan Avenue east of Fresh Pond Road, with three more months of nighttime constr uction along Fresh Pond Road north of Metropolitan Avenue to follow.

The final stage will take six months and include work along the sides of the two well-traveled southwest Queens arteries.

The work will bring with it numerous detours and traffic pattern changes, starting with left t u r ns f rom southbou nd Fresh Pond Road onto eastbound Metropolitan Avenue being banned.

Giordano said it’s been hard to get st raig ht a nswers f rom Mugrose about why the project is behind schedule.

“I have to be honest with you, the people in charge of the job don’t have many answers for me,” he said. “I think the [Department of Transportation’s] division of bridges hierarchy is quite upset with this contractor.”

When contacted by the Chronicle on Tuesday, a Mugrose repre-

sentative directed all questions about the project to the city.

D OT s p oke swom a n A la n a Morales said in a Tuesday email that work has just begun at the site.

“Mugrose Constr uction was chosen as the contractor for the bridge deck replacement through a competitive bid and they have since begun installation of the underdeck shield,” Morales said.

“DOT is currently working with the contractor to schedule completion work of the Metropolitan Avenue structure first, then proceed to the Fresh Pond Road structure.”

Ever since the project was announced, Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley (D-Glendale) and others have worried about possible overlap with next year’s repair of the M train tracks. That plan calls for shuttle buses to drive through the intersection to connect com muters in southwest Queens to the Myrtle Avenue stop in Brooklyn.

Morales said the city is working with the MTA in an effort to avoid any conflict as it pertains to

Work is only now just beginning on the replacement of this bridge deck at the intersection of Metropolitan Avenue and Fresh Pond Road on the Middle FILE PHOTO Village-Ridgewood line. buses moving through the significantly disrupted intersection “ D OT is m i nd f u l of t he upcoming construction on the M line and we are working closely with the contractor on phases of

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Electeds and kids call for school safety Vallone backing legislation package for slow zones throughout city

by Ryan Brady Associate Editor

Councilman Paul Vallone (D-Bayside), other northeast Queens elected officials, parents and students called for safe school zones last Friday.

“Why are we here? Do you know why we’re here? We want safe streets for safe students,” Vallone said. “That’s how simple this is. That’s why we’re all here.”

The event comes after two recent incidents in which cars hit two students outside JHS 185 in Flushing and JHS 194 in Whitestone last week, leaving an 11-year-old in critical condition.

“And I’m tired of being rejected when you ask for a speed bump, a light, a crossing guard, signs, tickets, enforcement and they say we can’t do it,” the councilman added. “That’s not good enough anymore.”

Vallone has introduced a package of bills that would require a re-examination of all school slow zones to determine if further safety measures are needed, require school safety slow zones at all middle and elementary schools and reduce speed limits to a maximum of 20 miles per hour.

“Most schools in our district don’t have a slow zone unfortunately, meaning the speed limits are the default 25 mph,” Vallone spokesman Lionel Morales said in an

Councilman Paul Vallone speaks at an event with parents, teachers, students and other elected officials, demanding that the streets around schools be safer, which the lawmaker is working on PHOTO BY RYAN BRADY legislation to do. emailed statement.

A resolution calling for the end of federal guidelines that can be interpreted to deny local requests is also being drafted by the councilman, and another piece of legislation — which has been introduced and is at the committee stage — would require the Department of Transportation to annually place a minimum of 100 pedestrian countdown signals at intersections in front of parks and schools.

“It is time to have every school in the city of

New York designated a safe slow zone for our children,” he said.

A slow zone for JHS 185 at 149th Street that had been previously secured by Vallone will be re-examined for extra improvements, according to the councilman’s office. The DOT also made 21st Avenue and 21st Road by PS 184 one-way streets after Vallone requested the change, which had previously been asked for by the school.

“It is time to get all of these pieces in place.

It sounds so simple but it just hasn’t happened,” Vallone said. “You know, it’s a community responsibility, too. We’ve gotta be better drivers. We’ve gotta be more aware.”

“How many years do we have to go back and forth with the city’s Department of Transportation before they finally do the right thing?” state Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) said. “So, I commend Council Member Vallone for introducing this legislation.”

“We need to pass this bill in the City Council and we need to make sure that all of our students in all of our schools, that they’re supported in every way and we are doing everything we can to protect our schools,” Assemblywoman Nily Rozic (D-Fresh Meadows) said.

Councilman Barry Grodenchik (D-Oakland Gardens) is also supporting the legislation.

“We have got to make the areas around schools safe for our children,” the councilman said. “It’s a very simple message. I will be working with Paul on this legislation. One accident is one accident too many.”

“We need enforcement, we need speed bumps, we need the lights, we need crossing guards, we need cameras,” Vallone said.

State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) is looking into legislation which would require that crossing guards be placed at all Q public schools in the city.

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Queens is the home to all sorts of world champions. Dalilah Muhammad won an Olympic gold medal in the 400-meter hurdles in August. The Mets have won a number of pennants, most recently in 2015.

And now the GingerBread Lane display at the New York Hall of Science in Corona is vying for its fourth straight title as the Guinness World Records’ largest gingerbread village.

“I like the carousel,” said Alif of Elmhurst, a young child who visited the display on a recent Sunday, just after it opened for the holiday season. “It’s cute. It looks nice.”

Icing-painted animal forms ride the carousel, which, like the village’s other structures, is formed from only edible ingredients, including slabs of gingerbread, icing and candy.

This year, the village is bigger than ever, expanding by about 150 square feet and about 100 houses.

Ziva Lyons of Manhattan and her grandparents from Connecticut saw the village on their second-ever NYSCI visit. Ziva posed with grandmother Elaine Sabsels in a special winter-scene photo-opp area while grandfather Jerry Sabsels played photographer.

GingerBread Lane is a four-year NYSCI tradition and a 23-year tradition for its creator, former chef and now gingerbread artist Jon Lovich of Forest Hills. It’s a full-time job for the self-described Christmas fan.

“The one thing I like people to know that I do is that it’s truly made from scratch, made by hand,” Lovich said.

“I live with them all year long,” he said of his creations. “They have their own little private room in a bedroom on the second floor. That’s the gingerbread workshop.”

Budding entomologists might want to know that bugs aren’t a problem, though the houses sometimes dwell in his home for up to 13 months.

“Bugs cannot handle aromatic spices, cayenne, curry, ginger, cinnamon. And bugs don’t look for dry stuff. Bugs look for moisture,” Lovich said.

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boro EXHIBITS

A Holiday Jubilee, a choral concert by The Community Singers of Queens. Sat., Dec. 3, 8 p.m., The Church on the Hill, 167 St. and 35 Ave., Flushing. $10. Info: (718) 658-1021.

“Shivers,” dystopic paintings by Sascha Braunig of fantastical sculptural constructions and more that depict bodies under duress at a time when individual experience seems threatened by outside forces. Thru March 5, 2017, MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City. Free with admission: $10; $5 students, seniors; free under 16. Info: (718) 784-2084, momaps1.org.

THEATRE “Cabaret,” the hit musical set in a seedy Berlin nightclub during the Nazis’ rise to power, by the Parkside Players. Fri.-Sat., Nov. 25, 26, Dec. 2, 3, 8 p.m.; Sun., Nov. 27, 2 p.m., Grace Lutheran Church, Union Tpke. and 71 Road, Forest Hills. $20; $18 seniors. Info: (718) 353-7388, parksideplayers.com.

“It Is Not Enough To See, One Must See Through To Find Truth,” works spanning 60 years by Jamaica-based Emmett Wigglesworth: paintings, sculptures and more, many with his signature “scribble” lines and patterns. Thru Nov. 25. Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, 161-04 Jamaica Ave. Free (donations welcome). Info: (718) 658-7400.

“GingerBread Lane,” the 2013-15 world record holder for largest gingerbread village, with edible, homemade houses by chef Jon Lovitch. Thru Sun., Jan. 15; with gingerbread house-building workshops Nov. 26, 1 p.m.; Dec. 3, 4, 10, 17, 28, 29, 1 and 3 p.m., New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Corona. Free with admission; workshops $10 per kit.

Info: (718) 699-0005, nysci.org.

“Intuitive Progression,” with 75 works of paint, ink and more by 20 modern artists, depicting the creative process as a unique journey. Thru Nov. 28, Thu.-Mon., 12-5 p.m., Fisher Landau Center for Art, 38-27 30 St., Long Island City. Free. Info: (718) 937-0727, flcart.org.

“Rockaway!”, exploring painting in regard to location, condition and possibilities, by Katharina Grosse, in collaboration by MoMA PS1 and Rockaway Artists Alliance. Thru Nov. 30, 12-6 p.m., Fort Tilden. Free. Info: (718) 784-2084, momaps1.org.

“RootedinQueens16,” with about 40 photos focusing on the boro’s green environs and promoting sustainability and environmental consciousness, drawn from 700 submitted on Instagram under the titular hashtag. Photos available for sale. Thru early Dec. Qns Collective, 36-27 36 St., Astoria.

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“Jesus Christ Superstar,” the 1970 rock opera loosely based on the Gospels’ accounts of the last week of Jesus Christ’s life. Sun., Nov. 27; Tue., Nov. 29; Fri.-Sun., Dec. 2-4, varying times, The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23 St., Long Island City. $20.

Info/tickets: (718) 392-0722, secrettheatre.com.

No Golden Ticket is needed to step into a world of pure imagination at screenings of “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” this weekend, with related family workshops before and after the movie.

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PARAMOUNT PICTURES “Another Land: After Noguchi,” astrophotography-like works by Leah Raintree, considering the microcosms in Isamu Noguchi’s sculptures. Thru Jan. 8, Noguchi Museum, 9-01 33 Road, Long Island City. $10; $5 seniors, students; NYC HS students, kids under 12 free. Info: (718) 204-7088, noguchi.org.

“Maintenance Art,” photos and more celebrating the importance of cleaning and other work, by longtime Sanitation Department artistin-residence Mierle Laderman Ukeles. Thru Feb. 19, Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Suggested $8 admission; $4 seniors; free students, children. Info: (718) 592-9700, queensmuseum.org.

“Meeting,” the second Skyspace created by James Turrell and the only one in NYC, exploring the nature of human perception and inviting viewers to gaze upward at an unobstructed view of the sky. Thru spring 2017, MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City. Free with admission ($10; $5 students, seniors; free under 16). Info: (718) 784-2084, momaps1.org.

“Life Reimagined,” more than two dozen paintings in various styles by residents of the Pomonok Senior Center in Flushing. Thru Dec. 31, Resorts World Casino Red Wall Art Gallery, 110-00 Rockaway Blvd., South Ozone Park. Free. Info: rwnewyork.com.

FILM “East of East River,” photos of Astoria and Long Island City showing their changing landscapes from 2004-15, by area resident Vikram Dogra. Thru Feb. 26, 2017, Tue.-Sun., 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main St., Flushing. Free with admission: $6; $4 seniors; $4 students, $2 children over 3. Info: (718) 886-3800, info@ queensbotanical.org.

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“Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory,” the beloved 1971 musical fantasy starring Gene Wilder as an enigmatic candy mogul giving a tour of his incredible factory. Fri.-Sun., Nov. 25-27, 12:30 p.m. (related family workshops 11:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.), Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria. $12; $9 seniors, students; $7 kids 3-17; workshops free with admission: $3 over film admission.

Info: (718) 777-6888, movingimage.us.

“See it Big!” holiday movies, both classic and unconventional, including “The Ice Storm,” “Gremlins,” “Die Hard,” “Miracle on 34th Street” and “Fanny and Alexander,” all in 70mm format. Fri.Sun., Nov. 25-27, one screening of each film, varying times, Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria. $12; $9 seniors, students; $7 kids 3-17. Info: (718) 777-6888, movingimage.us.

DANCE The History of Salsa, with award-winning Colombian dance co. Cali Salsa Pal Mundo performing the genre’s “intoxicating rhythm and mesmerizing moves.” Thru Dec. 11; Fri.-Sat., 8 p.m.; Sun., 4 p.m., Thalia Hispanic Theatre, 41-17 Greenpoint Ave., Sunnyside. $40; $37 students, seniors; special group rates too. Info: (718) 729-3880, thaliatheatre.org.

“Just the Three of Us,” an evening of improvised theater, with Lucy Avery Brooke, Joe Perce and Katha Cato. Wed., Nov. 30, 7 p.m., Made in Queens, 27-24 Queens Plaza S., Long Island City. Free.

Info/RSVP: (718) 606-6365, madeinqueens.nyc.

WORKSHOPS World’s Fair Memorabilia, with kids 5-12 and their adult companions exploring the exhibit on the 1939-40 and 1964-65 events and using its inspiration to create a new souvenir. Sun., Nov. 27, 1:30-4:30 p.m. (drop in anytime), Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Free with admission: suggested $8; $4 seniors; free students, kids. Info: (718) 592-9700, queensmuseum.org.

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Brooklyn Rider, a genre-defying chamber music string quartet with an eclectic repertoire. Fri., Dec. 2, 7:30 p.m., Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. $25; $10 students. Info/RSVP: (718) 463-7700, flushingtownhall.org.

Black Friday Hike: Nature Exploration, a moderate walk through Alley Pond Park, led by Urban Park Rangers. Fri., Nov. 25, 10-11:30 a.m., meeting at Alley Pond Park Adventure Center, at Winchester Blvd. under Grand Central Pkwy. Free. Info: (718) 352-1769, nycgovparks.org.

The Red Violin and Its Legacy, with Elizabeth Pitcairn playing sonatas by Mozart, Mendelssohn and Franck on her Stradivarius, joined by Barbara Podgurski and two kids from the Luzerne Music Center, presented by Musica Reginae. Sat., Dec. 3, 7:30 p.m., The Churchin-the-Gardens, 50 Ascan Ave., Forest Hills. $20; $10 students 13-30; kids under 13 free with adult. Info: (718) 894-2178, musicareginae.org.

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Annual Turkey Scramble on Ice, with ice-skating races for all ages and levels, exhibition performances and more. Sat., Nov. 26, 5 p.m., World Ice Arena, 131-35 Avery Ave., Flushing. $9; skate rental $5.50 more. Info/registration: (718) 760-9001, swatkins@worldice.com.

Community Candlelight Gathering, for unity, peace and love, honoring cultural diversity. Sun., Nov. 27, 4-5 p.m., Manorhaven Beach Town Park, 158 Manorhaven Blvd., Port Washington, LI. Free.

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Dancing while the world hurtles toward doom

by Mark Lord

The show has undergone various incarnations, including a much-heralded film adapAt a time when this country’s uncer- tation starring Liza Minnelli, but the book by tain political future is causing consterna- Joe Masteroff, music by John Kander and tion among various branches of the lyrics by Fred Ebb remain masterpieces of population, the always-star tling and musical theater construction.

The setting is Berlin, as 1930 is about to brilliantly conceived musical “Cabaret,” now being presented by Parkside Play- roll in and the world is about to change forers in Forest Hills, makes for a particu- ever. The Emcee (a heavily rouged and barelarly unsettling evening (or matinee) in chested Jeffrey Tierney) welcomes the audience to the Kit Kat Klub, a third-rate joint the theater.

This version is not the 1966 original, where “life is beautiful” and the cares of the which shot Joel Grey to stardom as the outside world are meant to be forgotten.

The rousing opening number, “Willkominsidious Emcee. Rather, it adheres more closely to the far grittier rendering that men,” which will ultimately remain the arrived on Broadway some three decades high point of the show, sets the tone, as the Emcee is joined by the club’s six female later. and two male dancers and, eventually, its star attraction, Sally Bowles ( Nili Resnick), a singer whose When: Fri.-Sat., Nov. 25, 26, Dec. 2, 3, 8 p.m.; talents have not gotten her Sun., Nov. 27, 2 p.m. anywhere.

Where: Grace Lutheran Church, Director Bill Logan has Union Turnpike and 71st Road, Forest Hills taken a minimalist approach Tickets: $20; $18 seniors. here, as has been his wont (718) 353-7388, parksideplayers.com as of late, with a nearly bare backdrop and a few qboro contributor

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The Emcee, surrounded by the girls and boys of the Kit Kat Klub. easily disposable furnishings setting each scene. The result is a show that glides seamlessly, often with one scene spilling over into the next.

Before long, we find ourselves in a board-

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Holiday Happenings AT THE HISTORIC

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o you miss those small town celebrations of Christmas and the holidays, where hearts are aglow with holiday wonder and the magic of the season? Then why not join us for one or all of the Holiday events at the historic Poppenhusen Institute.

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Come alone or with family and friends - either way, we’ll be sure that you feel welcomed.

Sat., December 3, 5:00 pm “A Taste of College Point” Event includes samplings of food from local restaurants and wine, soft drinks, dessert and coffee and tea. Entertainment - local choirs, the Tarumi Violinists, vocalist Sunny Sun (view her on Youtube), and pianist Catherine Tsai.

Tickets - $40 pre-event

$50 at the door.

(Not wheelchair accessible)

Sun., December 4, 5:00 pm The Annual Tree Lighting at Poppenhusen Monument (College Point Blvd. & 11th Ave.) with holiday music, caroling, and refreshments - then caroling at our local group home and firehousee (we will be carpooling) (Tree donated by Greg’s Quality Trees, which is located in the CVS parking lot on 14th Ave. & 132nd Streett Why not purchase your tree and holiday decorations there.)

(Wheelchair accessible)

Sun., December 18, 2:00 pm A Delightful Presentation of a Holiday Classic, Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,”

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Vivian Reyes and Jhonathan Ramos, the artistic directors of Cali Salsa Pal’ Mundo, hoof it across the stage.

presented by the Once Upon A Time Theatre Co. Ticket Price: Pre-event - $7-General Admission by $4-Children, Seniors, Students & Veterans Charles Dickens’ At the door: $10-General Admission $6-Children, Seniors, Members, Students & Veterans Homemade cookies, hot apple cider, and hot cocoa will be served.

FREE DOOR PRIZE RAFFLE TICKET for a chance to WIN a $50 Gift Certificate at Toys “R” Us

Special Guest: SANTA CLAUS (Not wheelchair accessible)

Contact us at (718) 358-0067 or email us at poppenhusen@juno.com These programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Councilman Paul Vallone. ©2016 M1P • POPI-070755

Where the show, and the tickets, are just too hot

by Mark Lord qboro contributor

The temperature outside might have taken a sudden dip this week, but “The History of Salsa,” the current attraction at Thalia Spanish Theatre in Sunnyside, has more than enough heat to make up for it.

Patrons at the venue first experienced the show, which runs — no, zooms — 90 intermissionless minutes, in February, when, according to the theater’s artistic and executive director, Angel Gil Orrios, its run was completely sold out.

Now it’s back by popular demand and a recent Sunday matinee found nearly every seat filled.

Oyster Bay, LI resident Arlene Morizio made the trip to the Thalia because “they do great stuff.” She was not disappointed, praising the show for its “high energy” and the dancers’ “extremely fabulous footwork.”

For Charles Escobar, who came in from New Jersey, the experience was equally thrilling. Told of the theater by his co-workers at the MTA, he called the show “phenomenal.” Indeed, throughout the performance he appeared to be playing air congas along with the live on-stage musicians.

“I couldn’t believe the amount of talent, the display of the beauty of the Latino culture,” Escobar said.

His sister, Debbie, was transported back in time. “This was the music we heard 40 years ago,” she said.

The show is performed by two dozen members of Cali Salsa Pal’ Mundo, a dance company that was founded in 2011 in Jackson Heights by its artistic

directors and choreographers, Jhonathan Ramos and Vivian Reyes, who are also center stage for much of the performance.

Through 27 numbers, audiences experience the evolution of salsa, from its origins in Cuba to its development in Puerto Rico, New York and Cali, Colombia. Rear projections help establish each locale along the way.

The lively African opening number, “Aguanile,” sets the tone and the pace of the show, which remains breathtaking nearly throughout. The athleticism of the dancers is impressive. Even the company’s youngest members, at 13, display a strong sense of rhythm.

And kudos to the four-piece combo, led by Harold Gutierrez, which plays nonstop, including several musical interludes, allowing for more costume changes than can be counted. The outfits, not incidentally, are absolutely gorgeous.

According to Orrios, the show is likely to repeat its earlier success, as it is already “selling very well.” He expects it to be completely sold out for the holiday season. So, now might be a good time to Q order your tickets.

‘The History of Salsa’ When: Fri.-Sat., 8 p.m.; Sun., 4 p.m., through Dec. 11 Where: Thalia Spanish Theatre, 41-17 Greenpoint Ave., Sunnyside Tickets: $37-$40. (718) 729-3880, thaliatheatre.org

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Take a sugary stroll down GingerBread Lane continued from page 29

Lovich did lose 30 houses one summer to humidity-softened gingerbread. His dehumidifier now pulls about 1,500 gallons of water from the air each year to prevent trouble.

At the Hall of Science, there’s a large viewing area with a long line of benches facing the exhibit, allowing parents to rest while kids cruise the display area.

Viewers can get close enough to see details but not close enough to touch.

Lovich likes creating villages for children’s museums like NYSCI because he believes hands-on activities have been lost to many children these days. He finds

‘GingerBread Lane’ When: Through Jan. 15; workshops many weekends until Dec. 29 Where: New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Corona Entry: Free with museum admission; workshops $10 for kit.

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that kids can’t imagine how he could possibly make such things by hand.

To that point, families can register for the House-Building Workshops scheduled for many — but not all — of the Saturdays and Sundays in November and December. The cost is $10 per housebuilding kit, or $8 per kit for NYSCI members, plus museum admission. The ar tist might appear at some of the December workshops.

Tinier kids, from 18 months and up, would better enjoy one of two Little Makers Gingerbread House Celebrations, on Nov. 27 and Dec. 11, where they, too, can design and build a gingerbread house. The cost after museum admission is $ 8 per family, or $5 per member family.

Creative destruction will be the name of the game on Jan. 16 from 3 to 5 p.m.

Visitors should bring a box or flat-bottomed bag and can start lining up at 2 p.m. to take home one of the houses on a first-come, first-served basis.

Toddler Gemma of the Dow Family from Roosevelt Island told her mom the gingerbread houses looked like castles.

The streets of GingerBread Lane contain their own version of Big Ben, top right. Among the display’s early visitors were Ziva Lyons and her grandparents, Elaine, right, and Jerry Sabsels, out of view. On the cover: A coffee shop with one particular specialty.

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boro continued from page 30 Thanksgiving celebration, a Latin-flavored event party with music by DJ Woody and more, by the Latin American Cultural Center of Queens.

Sun., Nov. 27, 2:30-5 p.m., El Paraiso Tropical, 102-11 42 Ave., Corona. Free; donations welcome.

Info/RSVP: (718) 261-76764, laccq@aol.com.

Holly Bazaar and Breakfast with Santa, with new merchandise, Christmas trees, wreaths, poinsettia plants, country kitchen, raffles and more. Sat., Dec. 3, 9 a.m. (breakfast; bazaar times TBA), All Saints’ Episcopal Church, 214-35 40 Ave., Bayside. Luncheon Sun., Dec. 4, 11:30 a.m.

(RSVP req’d). Info: (718) 229-5631.

KIDS/TEENS “Junie B.’s Essential Survival Guide to School,” a musical based on Barbara Park’s book about a first-grader and her friends’ tips on surviving and thriving in style. Fri., Nov. 25, 1 and 3 p.m., Queens Theatre, 14 United Nations Ave. S., Flushing Meadows Corona Park. $14. Info: (718) 7600064, queenstheatre.org.

Spelling Bee, weekly for kids in grades 1-6.

Most Thu. thru Dec. 29. Ridgewood Library, 20-12 Madison St., 3:30 p.m. No registration req’d, but parent or guardian must be present. Info: (718) 821-4770, queenslibrary.org.

Friday Kids Club, with board games, knitting, arts and crafts, Legos and more, for kids 5-12 and parents, grandparents, other caregivers. Every Fri. thru Dec. 30, 3-4:30 p.m., Glen Oaks Library, 256-04 Union Tpke. Free. Info: (718) 831-8636, queenslibrary.org.

Chess club, learning the basics and improving one’s game, for ages 8 and up. Every Sat., 2 p.m., Flushing Library, 41-17 Main St. Info: (718) 661-1200.

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“Hooks & Needles” Crochet & Knit Club, with participants bringing their own projects, hooks, needles and yarn, or working on charity projects, for entire meeting or just dropping in. Every Thu., 6:30-9 p.m., Big 6 Shopping Center, 60-10 Queens Blvd., Woodside (entrance inside shopping center, up one flight, down hall to left of 99-cent store). Info: Lorraine, (718) 817-4037.

FLEA MARKETS Holiday fair and flea market, with more than 80 vendors, food, raffles, ample parking and more. Sat., Dec. 3, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Our Lady of Hope Church, Eliot Ave. at 71 St., Middle Village.

Info: (718) 429-5438.

SENIOR ACTIVITIES Flushing-Fresh Meadows Jewish Center. Sisterhood sponsors an exercise program for active older adults every Tue., 11 a.m.-noon. 193-10 Peck Ave., Fresh Meadows. $5 per session. Info: (718) 357-5100.

Howard Beach Senior Center, with exercise classes every weekday except Thu.; dances with a DJ and hot lunch every Tue.; adult coloring classes every Wed.; art classes every Thu.; monthly book club; and more, 155-55 Crossbay Blvd. Info: (718) 738-8100.

Young Israel Forest Hills Senior Center, with fitness classes and lunch every day, Mon.-Fri. Ping-Pong every Tue., 1 p.m.; Movie Club every Thu., 1 p.m.; Chinese Culture Club, every Mon., Wed., 1 p.m.; Beaded Jewelry Class first and third Tue. every month, 1 p.m., 68-07 Burns St. Info: (718) 520-2305, foresthillsseniorctr@nyc.rr.com.

Della Monica-Steinway Senior Center. Serving adults 60 and over. 23-56 Broadway, Astoria. Exercise classes daily, 10 a.m. Social dancing every Mon. and Thu., 1 p.m. Daily lunch served 11:45 a.m. Info: (718) 626-1500.

Knitting and crocheting class, to learn a new skill or share an idea for a craft project, by Jamaica Senior Program for Older Adults. Each Thu., 10:30-11:30 a.m., T. Jackson Adult Center, 92-47 165 St. Info: (718) 657-6500, jspoa.org.

SUPPORT GROUPS Post-election mood management discussion: “Blues and Reds,” on how the election affects you and your community, helping attendees find support and cope while absorbing change. Facilitated by Foundation for Religion and Mental Health. Tue., Nov. 29, 7 p.m. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Queens, 147-54 Ash Ave., Flushing. Info: (718) 461-6393, (516) 547-4318, frmh.org.

Family Place Corner, babies, toddlers and caregivers welcome to an afternoon playing and reading while parents and guardians can meet and get information on social services. Corona Library, 38-23 104 St., noon to 2 p.m. Mon., Nov. 28.

Registration not required. Info: (718) 426-2844.

Overeaters Anonymous, for people who want to lose weight or have any eating disorder. Every Tue., 7:30-9 p.m., Holy Child Jesus Outreach Center, 112-06 86 Ave., Richmond Hill; every Thu., 12:15-1:40 p.m., Rego Park Library, 91-41 63 Ave. Info: (718) 564-7027 (Richmond Hill); (718) 8964756, (718) 459-5140 (Rego Park).

Bereavement groups for assistance dealing with loss and the process towards healing, with others experiencing similar situations. Central Queens YM & YWHA, 67-09 108 St., Forest Hills. Registration req’d. Info: (718) 268-5011, ext. 160, olderadults@cgy.org.

Gam-Anon is a 12-step program for families of someone with a gambling problem. Call hot line (212) 606-8177.

Al-anon, self-help group for anyone affected by another’s drinking: St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 82 St. and 34 Ave., parish house, 1st floor, Jackson Heights, every Tue. Contact: jacksonheightsalanonon@gmail.com. Resurrection Ascension Pastoral Center basement, 85-18 61 Road, Rego Park, every Sun. 12 p.m.

BEAT

Garth’s gotta go

by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor

New York Daily News sportswriter Peter Botte has long been respected by his colleagues because he believes in facts and not writing incendiary columns primarily designed to generate internet clicks and buzz, which sadly has become more common in what passes today for sports journalism. So it caught my attention when he wrote an article last Tuesday that more or less called for the dismissal of New York Islanders General Manager Garth Snow as well as harshly criticizing the thin-skinned nature of Islanders communications department.

Snow was a backup goaltender for the team before he was hired by then-owner Charles Wang in 2006 to replace Mike Milbury who had held the post since 1995. Milbury lasted 11 years, during which they generally missed the playoffs, and the rare times they made the postseason, they were bounced in the first round.

Milbury’s civil service-like tenure was a testament to the fact that Wang valued his friendship more than he cared about his team winning.

The same criticism can be leveled at Snow, who has now been at the job as long as Milbury was. Yes, the Islanders made it into the second round of the playoffs last spring for the first time in 23 years, but only because they were fortunate enough to have played the Florida Panthers in the first round, who themselves

hadn’t made it past the first round since 1996.

This year the Islanders have reverted to losing form as the team consists of superstar center John Tavares and a bunch of nobodies. Tavares has been with the team for eight years, but Snow has yet to find another player who can take the pressure off of him.

The Islanders’ futility has understandably led beat reporters to ask head coach Jack Capuano if he was worried about his job security. Capuano took the questions in stride, but according to Botte, the media was berated by the Islanders’ communications department for raising the issue. I can’t say that I was surprised.

Most general managers in the various professional sports generally concern themselves strictly with talent acquisition and development.

In the National Hockey League, however, general managers frequently deal with other areas, such as media credentialing, according to an NHL insider whom I trust. A lot of these oldschool hockey lifers care little about revenue streams and ignore the fact that media coverage helps sell tickets and merchandise. They prefer their insular culture, profits be damned.

New Islanders majority owner, Jon Ledecky, who grew up in Bayside, undoubtedly hoped to hold off making any personnel changes until after this season. He may not have that luxury. Q See the extended version of Sports Beat every week at qchron.com.

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‘The Silk King’ reigns in LIC — for a short time

by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

In 1920, Hiram Royal Mallinson of Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, a leader in silk fabric fashions, decided to build a three-story mill on 24th Avenue in Long Island City He was h ig h ly successf u l, employing thousands of Queens residents. Mallison died suddenly of heart disease in May 1931, a few The Hiram Royal Mallinson Silk Factory, at 19-19 24 months short of his 60th birthday. Ave. in Long Island City.

The media called him “The Silk the building. Post-bankruptcy, Mallinson King” in his obituary.

Compounding problems for the company, Fabrics changed its name to National MalliMallison Fabrics, Japan’s invasion of China son Fabrics in 1947, merging with National in 1931 disrupted supplies of Asian raw silk, Fabrics Corp. Eventually the company was leading to progressively greater American subsumed into Burlington Industries Corp. in 1955. reliance on synthetic fibers.

The latter decades of the 20th century The company experienced more difficulties in 1935 when its stock declined sharply were sad ones for the building as it awaited a and it went into bankruptcy after failing to for new purpose and owner.

The Pistilli Group saw the potential and file for permanent registration with the New York Stock Exchange, in accordance with transformed it into Pistilli Riverview East, containing 188 residential units. the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934.

Condos can be purchased for upwards of August Hafner, who was superintendent Q of silk manufacturing at the factory, bought $500,000.

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continued from page 31 We also meet two other residents, Herr Schultz (Kieran Larkin), a German Jew who owns a fruit shop and shares a mutual affection with his landlady, and Fraulein Kost (Laura Packer), who earns her keep (and some laughs) by entertaining sailors.

Throughout, the scenes shift back and forth between the “real world” and the cabaret, the intrusive figure of the Emcee ever-present. While the device serves as a constant reminder of the impending doom, it also proves a distraction during some of the more intimate scenes.

Logan’s artistic collaborators include musical director Paul Johnson, who keeps the five-piece orchestra firmly in tune, and choreographer Amanda Montoni, who provides apropos and sometimes surprising routines in a dance-heavy show.

The set, a black box with startling splashes of red, was designed by Logan himself, and it proves a major asset. Glenn Rivano’s lighting scheme is on-point and Debra Mayo’s costume design is apt.

The company of 15 performers, some of whom play more than one character, are unusually committed to their roles, with many being stronger actors than singers.

Tierney, who ties the show together, seems completely at home at center stage,

selling each of his many numbers with sleazy relish. Resnick is vulnerability personified, a fine actress in both her musical numbers and in the dramatic scenes.

Guarino puts across her difficult songs with aplomb and proves a fine partner for Larkin, who imbues his character with just the right amount of naivete to make his inevitable fate all the more heartrending.

In Cliff, Davis is saddled with a role that has always been on the bland side, though he has several breakout moments, as do Packer (who shares two emotional musical segments) and Will Frenzel, as Cliff’s first German friend. The hardworking girls and boys of the ensemble are to be commended Q for their contributions.

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NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION TO INVOLUNTARILY T E R M I N AT E P A R E N TA L RIGHTS IMPORTANT LEGAL NOT IC E. In Re : Adoption of Baby Girl Perez a / k /a Catherine Grace Perez, a minor, No. 84921 of 2016 in the Orphans Court of Berks County, Pennsylvania.

To: John Arizbel and any Unknown John Doe, or Anyone Claiming Paternity of Baby Girl Perez a/k/a Catherine Grace Perez born on June 21, 2016. The mother of said child is Katherine Perez. A Petition has been filed asking the Court to put an end to all rights you have to your child, Baby Girl Perez a/k/a Catherine Grace Perez.

The Court has set a hearing to consider ending your rights to your child. That hearing will be held in the Courtroom designated for Senior Judge Arthur Grim, Berks County Courthouse, 633 Court Street, Reading, PA 19601, on December 21, 2016 at 9:30 A.M. You have a right to attend the hearing. If you fail to attend the scheduled hearing, the Hearing will go on without you and the Court may end your rights to your child without your being present. You have a right to be represented at the Hearing by a lawyer. You should take this paper to your lawyer at once. If you do not have a lawyer, or cannot afford one, go to or telephone the office set forth below to find out where you can get legal help. LAWYERS REFERRAL SERVICE OF THE BERKS COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION, 544-546 Court Street, READING, PA 19601. Call (610) 375-4591. BARBARA B. CASEY, ESQUIRE, 527 ELM STREET, READING, PA 19601

6704 Myrtle LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 9/15/16. Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 62-68 Dry Harbor Rd., Middle Village, NY 11379. General purpose.

NOTICE OF FORM ATION OF LIMITED LIABILIT Y COMPANY. NAME: ANBA NAN FON, LLC. Articles of Organization (DOM LLC) were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08 / 05 /2016. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to c/o United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

616 Seagirt, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/03/16. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

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Alicia’s Candles LLC Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/7/16. Off. Loc.: Queens Co. SSNY desig. as agt. upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 23-20 36th St #3F, Astoria, NY 11105.

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Coriolanus Capital Management LLC, a foreign LLC, filed with the SSNY on 10/18/16. Office location: Queens County.

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GENERAL REALTY GROUP LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/07/2016. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: THE LLC, 80-22 210th St., Queens Village, NY 11427 Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Perez & Company LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/25/16. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS Index No. 14045/2014 SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS WITH NOTICE. CITIMORTGAGE, INC., Plaintiff, against TANYA M. JOHNSON, If she be living and if she be dead, the respective heirs-at-law, nextof-kin, distributes, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors and successors in interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said defendant who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or inheritance, lien or otherwise any right, title or interest in or to the real property described in the amended complaint, MAURICE JOHNSON AKA MAURICE E. JOHNSON AKA MAURICE E. JOHNSON, JR., SYMANTHA JOHNSON, COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICT, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE, CRIMINAL COURT OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, QUEENS SUPREME COURT, KENNETH BENJAMIN, NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD, NEW YORK CITY PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU, NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU AND STATE DEPARTMENT FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA-INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, Defendants. To the above named defendants: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the amended complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the amended complaint is not served with this supplemental summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the plaintiff’s attorneys within 20 days after the service of this supplemental summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND

BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. The foregoing supplemental summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Honorable JANICE A. TAYLOR, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Queens County, dated the 19th day of July, 2016 and duly entered in the office of the Clerk of the County of Queens, State of New York. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT The object of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $305,000.00 and interest, recorded in the Office of the City Register of Queens County on September 2, 2003 in CRFN 2003000322925, covering premises known as 145-26 232ND STREET, ROSEDALE, COUNTY OF QUEENS, CITY AND STATE OF NEW YORK (Block: 13489, Lot: 97). The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above. The Plaintiff also seeks a deficiency judgment against the Defendants, TANYA M. JOHNSON, for any debt secured by said Mortgage which is not satisfied by the proceeds of the sale of said premises, unless discharged in bankruptcy. Premises lying and being in the Borough of Queens. BEGINNING at a point on the westerly side of 232nd Street, 229.75 feet southerly from the corner formed by the intersection of the southerly side of 145th Avenue and the westerly side 232nd Avenue; being a plot 100 feet by 40 feet by 100 feet by 40 feet. Block: 13489; Lot: 97, Rego Park, New York. Dated: October 4, 2016. DAVID A. GALLO & ASSOCIATES LLP. By: Rosemarie A. Klie, Esq., Attorneys for Plaintiff, 95-25 Queens Boulevard, 11th Floor, Rego Park, New York 11374 (718) 459-9000

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS Index No.: 596/2015 SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS WITH NOTICE CITIMORTGAGE, INC., Plaintiff, against ALBERTO L. IMPERIAL, ALBERT A. IMPERIAL JR., DARLENE GRACE T IMPERIAL, if they be living and if they be dead, the respective heirs-at-law, next-of-kin, distributes, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors and successors in interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said defendant who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or inheritance, lien or otherwise any right, title or interest in or to the real property described in the complaint, NEW YORK CITY PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU, NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD, NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, HECTOR BAEZ, ZORAIDA TORRES, LILLY TORRES, Defendants. To the above named defendants: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the amended complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the amended complaint is not served with this supplemental summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the plaintiff’s attorneys within 20 days after the service of this supplemental summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME. If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND

BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. The foregoing supplemental summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Honorable CHEREE BUGGS, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Queens County, dated the 19th day of May, 2016 and duly entered in the office of the Clerk of the County of Queens, State of New York.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT. The object of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $517,650.00 and interest, recorded in the Office of the City Register of Queens County on June 18, 2008 in CRFN 2008000244027, which mortgage was assigned to CitiMortgage, Inc. by assignment of mortgage dated November 19, 2010, which was recorded in the Office of the City Register of Queens County on December 14, 2010 in CRFN 2010000418639, covering premises known as 78-19 PITKIN AVENUE, OZONE PARK, COUNTY OF QUEENS, CITY AND STATE OF NEW YORK (Block 9134, Lot 76). The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above. The Plaintiff also seeks a deficiency judgment against the Defendants, ALBERTO L. IMPERIAL AND ALBERT A. IMPERIAL JR., for any debt secured by said Mortgage which is not satisfied by the proceeds of the sale of said premises, unless discharged in bankruptcy. Premises situate lying and being in the Borough of Queens. BEGINNING at the corner formed by the intersection of the westerly side of 79th Street with the northerly side of Pitkin Avenue; being a plot 28.18 feet by 67.17 feet by 25.24 feet by 75.08 feet. BLOCK 9134, LOT 76 Dated: October 26, 2016, Rego Park, New York. DAVID A. GALLO & ASOCIATES LLP By: Rosemarie A. Klie, Esq., Attorneys for Plaintiff, 95-25 Queens Boulevard, 11th Floor, Rego Park, New York 11374, (718) 459-9000

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Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1298291 for beer, wine, and liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine, and liquor at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 121-14 Liberty Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11419 for on-premises consumption. New Oriental Jade Corp.

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF QUEENS H & R Block Bank, a Federal S av ings B a nk , P la in t i f f AGAINST Jesus Guevara; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated February 5, 2014 I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the Queens County Courthouse, Courtroom #25, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, New York on December 9, 2016 at 10:00AM, premises known as 84-12 108th Avenue, Ozone Park, NY 11417. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough and County of Queens, City and State of New York, Block: 9143 Lot: 6. Approximate amount of judgment $447,206.67 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 17858/2012. Nicole Katsorhis, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff, 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard, Rochester, New York 14624, (877) 759-1835. Dated: October 26, 2016

S & W REALTY DEVELOPMENT, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/18/2016. Office loc: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 5316 193rd Street 2/F, Fresh Meadows, NY 11365. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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SHERPA ASSOCIATES LLC Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 08/01/2016 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 Sherpa Associates LLC, 2071 28th Street, Astoria, NY 11105. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

T R E E H O U S E DEVELOPMENT LLC, Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/27/2016. Office: Queens County. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 41-14B Main Street #L5, Flushing, NY 11355.

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VINCENZO & ELISA LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/19/16. 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, 163-54 Willets Point Boulevard, Whitestone, NY 11375. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil C our t, Queens C ount y on 03/16/16, bearing Index Number NC-001212-15/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) AISHA (Last) RAJOAL. My present name is (First) AISHA (Last) HASSAN. My present address is 154-34 64th Avenue, Flushing, NY 113671225. My place of birth Is INDIA. My date of birth is June 26, 1970.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 09/30/16, bearing Index Number NC-000272-16/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435-3710, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of MICHAEL VINCENT GARGIULO. My present name is VICTOR VINCENT COLON AKA VICTOR V. COLON. My present address is 80-22 Park Lane South, Woodhaven, New York 11421. My place of birth is St. John’s Hospital, QUEENS, New York. My date of birth is December 29, 1986.

Public Notice New York City Department of Transportation Notice of Public Hearing The New York City Department of Transportation will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, December 7, 2016 at 2:00 P.M., at 55 Water St., 9th Floor, in Manhattan on the following petition for revocable consent in the Borough of Queens: 171st Street LLC–to construct, maintain and use a force main, together with an air release valve structure and a manhole, under, across and along 171st Street, between 89th Ave. and Hillside Ave. Interested parties can obtain copies of proposed agreement or request signlanguage interpreters (with at least seven days prior notice) at 55 Water Street, 9th Floor, New York, NY 10041, or by calling (212) 839-6550.

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Phase two of Evergreen Park work gets the OK Design to be completed next summer, with construction to follow soon after

by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

Inspector Jeffrey Schiff, commanding officer of the 105th Precinct, said his squad hasn’t struggled as much as the 112th has in terms of losing cops to police the antiFILE PHOTO Trump protests. tangible impact of losing a handful of cops on the precinct at this time.

Community Affairs Officer Mark Competello, of the 106th Precinct, also said his station hasn’t seen any negative impact because of the protests.

“We’re still sending out the same amount of patrols every day,” Competello said on Monday. “It’s like any other detail.

When they need bodies, we send them Q down.”

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Evergreen Park’s $3.4 million facelift continues.

Com mu n it y Boa rd 5 u na n i mously approved the Parks Department’s second phase of work at the Glendale green space on Nov. 9, which includes the overhaul of the playground.

“The committee is 100 percent for it,” CB 5 Parks Committee Chairman Steven Fiedler said in his report to the board.

The first phase of the project, completed in June, involved the reconstruction of the playground for toddlers, the rebuilding the spray shower, the replacing of benches and the adding of new plantings and new paving.

Older kids will see their play equipment revamped in the next phase, which makes up $2.4 million of the entire project’s $3.4 million cost.

“This next phase will focus on replacing the existing play areas located west of the comfort station with expanded playground equipment for kids aged 5 to 12,” Parks Department spokeswoman Meghan Lalor said in an email last Tuesday. “Additionally a new seating area will be provided off of St. Felix Avenue allowing views to all play areas, while also providing a place for all ages to sit and enjoy the park.”

According to Lalor, the “innovative” second phase of the project is still in design, a process that should be finalized by late summer, with construction starting in summer 2018.

“The innovative playground design will

provide older children a place to play, encouraging physical activity through a number of activity circuits throughout the playground,” she said. “The colors of the new play equipment will match the play equipment installed in the first phase.

In addition to the expanded play equipment, the number of swings will increase, providing additional opportunity to neighborhood children,” Lalor added. New pavements, safety surfacing, site furniture and plantings will be installed throughout the playground, swing, and seating area.”

Fiedler said his favorite aspect about the plan was the fact that every corner of the park is visible, no matter where one stands.

“No matter where you are in the park, from the street to the school to the baseball fields, wherever you are in the park there’s a line of sight all the way through,” Fiedler said. “Nothing is blocking you so no one can do anything underhanded.”

He added the green space off St. Felix Avenue should become a haven once the warmer weather arrives, as its bevy of trees should make for an oasis of shade.

“There’s a tremendous amount of trees in the park,” he said. “It should be very nice for the summer time.”

While his committee did have some questions about the placement of garbage cans, the number of plantings and the type of wood the Parks Department will use in some of the playground equipment, Fiedler said the city has been responsive to his group’s requests and inquiries for more information throughout the design process Q thus far.

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continued from page 2 City. The president-elect lives here and we have to keep him safe just like we have to keep you safe.”

The assistant chief noted that about 50 officers from the eight commands under the umbrella of Queens South were sent to Manhattan last Friday, and that each station was doing an admirable job of making sure its daily duties were not impinged.

“For the most part, this has all been handled very well,” he said, noting that some commands, like the 112th Precinct, may have a harder time than others. “Trust me, we’re experienced with this kind of thing and the police department will do a fine job.”

When asked if he would like to see Trump move out of his Midtown tower for at least the next four years in order to lighten the load on the NYPD, Barrere respectfully declined to comment.

“I’m not touching that with a 10-foot pole,” he chuckled.

Officer Jose Severino of the 102nd Precinct’s Community Affairs division told the Chronicle last Saturday that the command — which patrols Kew Gardens, Richmond Hill, Woodhaven and the northern section of Ozone Park — has been sending officers, but the cops get to volunteer for the assignment.

That could change in the future, however, he said, noting that there has been no

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Senior services under Trump continued from page 19 Another featured speaker, Allison for New York, very good for seniors,” Nickerson, executive director of LiveOn Weprin said. “He’ll be a significant voice N Y, a n advocacy orga n izat ion for seniors, expressed concern over what the of opposition to President-elect Trump.”

Weprin said he grew up four blocks Republican-controlled Congress might away from the Trumps and admitted that do to offset Trump’s planned $6.2 trillion the business mogul’s election is “some- in tax cuts.

“We need to mobilize thing I wouldn’t have imagarou nd the issues that ined, but sometimes strange trickle down to the state things happen in politics.” level,” Nickerson said.

Featured speaker Richard Allaying some fears, Danford, director of the James added that in the state’s Long Ter m Care presidential transition, “a Ombudsman Program, said lot of people are afraid. it is “difficult to predict We’r e goi n g t o s t a n d what’s going to happen as a together and show America result of the election. We that we are the model for have a level of anxiety that democracy.” is off the table.” He said that Borough President there is a need for people to Richard Danford advised come together to find the against panic on Social Melinda Katz indicated that by 2030, there will be action they can take.

Security and Medicare.

But, he advised the audiPHOTO BY MARK LORD more tha n 1.8 m illion seniors in the borough, repence, “Don’t panic on Social resenting 20 percent of the population, up Security and Medicare.”

Of more concern, he said, is a possible from the current 15 percent.

“The advocacy that QICA gives is so reduction in nursing home regulations, which were updated this year to offer res- key in making sure that ... the services we require are there for us,” Katz said. idents stronger rights protection.

Klitsberg repeated the catchword of the “If the regulations go away, that’s not a good thing,” he said. Repealing the day: “Advocate!”, saying, “If you don’t Affordable Care Act, he added, would not make your voice heard, especially now, have a big impact on long-term care the consequences could be critical. If we Q don’t raise our voices, it’s on us.” issues.

Thousands march to Manhattan continued from page 20 “Donald Trump is a very dangerous man and people need to wake up to that. We’ve seen people gain power this way before and it doesn’t end well,” Goldman said.

Driver rehabilitation specialist Rosamond Gianutsos, of Sunnyside, opposes deporting unauthorized immigrants, something Trump has vowed to carry out as president.

Christina Furlong, her son Jackson, Jennifer Ochoa and her son Oliver Bobadilla carried a huge American flag during the march.

When City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito (D-Manhattan, Bronx) was asked what her biggest concern is, she said, “Everything.”

Mark-Viverito said Trump hasn’t definitively rejected the hate crimes committed in his name that have increased since the election. She wants a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants because those already here are making positive contributions, she said.

A few nasty signs stood out, including one “F – Trump” and one urging people to shun Trump voters, “especially family and friends.” Several Revolutionary Communist Party, USA members held signs reading, “America Was Never Great! We Need to Overthrow This System!” They refused to answer questions. Others carried signs supplied by the communists but said they’re against communism.

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