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Opposition left in the dark at MLS town hall

by Joseph Orovic Assistant Managing Editor

ajor League Soccer on Tuesday evening held a town hall discussion in Queens Theatre in the Park aimed at reaching out to the community and airing thoughts surrounding its proposed 25,000-seat stadium in Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

A town hall meeting that featured Argentinian soccer broadcaster Fernando Fiore riling up the crowd and leading chants of “Futbol en Queens.”

A town hall that included a sweeping promotional video, intermixing impressive MLS plays with members of the community welcoming the stadium proposal.

A town hall in which an overwhelming majority of the 472 seats were reserved and occupied by supporters of the proposal, who were directly contacted by Major League Soccer and encouraged to show up early.

A town hall in which the league’s commissioner pledged all members of the community will be involved in the plan’s process.

A town hall in which the microphone was not given over to any member of a leading opposition group.

The whole experience left members of stadium opposition group the Fairness Coalition of Queens crying foul — from the basement.

The meeting was part of a push by MLS to inform and accumulate feedback on its proposed 25,000-seat stadium, constituting up to 13 acres of parkland at the current site of the Pool of Industry. It is slated to be completed and operating by 2016.

The league denied it orchestrated the town hall to resemble something closer to a pep rally, as members of the Fairness Coalition alleged after the event.

“Any suggestion that our town hall wasn’t open to the public is sour grapes,” said league spokeswoman Risa Heller. “This was a come one, come all event.”

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Unable to protest during the town hall, opponents of Major League Soccer’s stadium took to the lobby. PHOTO BY JOSEPH OROVIC The Fairness Coalition, a collective of community groups opposing the plan, has called upon MLS to seek another site for the stadium. Members say they don’t want to chase soccer out of Queens, just keep it out of the park.

“I’m for soccer, but when we give up parkland, we will never get it back,” said Steven Moyano, a protester.

Opposition members found themselves in the theater’s 99-seat, below-ground studio stage, where the event was projected onto a screen in a completely dark room. They claim MLS deployed a subtle system geared at drowning out dissent, making the theater audience awash in pro-stadium sentiment.

To enter the event, guests had to fill out a sign-in sheet. Aside from the rote fields that included a name, address, email and phone number was a small checkbox asking if the guest supports the stadium. It only offered one option: “YES.” Members of the coalition claim MLS’s volunteer staff directed them to the studio stage in the basement after they used the space to write in “No.” “They said the upstairs was full,” said Leandra Requena, holding a bilingual oak tag board that read “No Land Grab for Corporate Profit” in English and Spanish. “Everyone who signed ‘no’

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MLS said the folks downstairs were simply late and relegated to the overflow area as a result. Included in the overflow audience were a number of supporters of the plan, as well as virtually all opposing it.

Being early might not have helped anyway. As audience members shuffled about and left, they revealed reservation signs on the theater seats, which limited the number of seats open to the general public.

“They have town people in the basement and supporters upstairs,” said a visibly irate Maria Alvarez, a member of Make the Road New York, one of several groups that make up the Fairness Coalition.

The resulting theater audience was awash in MLS scarves and T-shirts, which were handed out gratis at the door, holding up signs in favor of the stadium. A visual survey of the audience did not reveal a single opposition sign.

A member of Archbishop Molloy’s varsity soccer team sat front row, stage left, holding a poster board with “MLS Stadium = Jobs” scrawled in marker ink. The sign was handed to him at the door by someone in an MLS T-shirt with a name tag reading “Staff,” without questions or instructions, he said.

Heller said the signs were made up by MLS volunteers and handed to folks who wanted to carry them.

The town hall’s announcement arrived at different times for different groups as well, with Fairness Coalition members claiming they only heard of the meeting 48 hours before it was set to take place. The short warning left them scrambling to organize and show up on time.

MLS said its Twitter and Facebook pages were filled with announcements and reminders of the town hall, and pointed to fliers handed out in the park in the weekends leading up to the event. It announced the town hall to local media, including the Chronicle, on Friday. continued on page 54

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Not yet business as usual on Cross Bay Boulevard commerce, damaged in Sandy, slowly coming back to life

by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

Theresa Punzi looked through a box full of hair-styling supplies, putting them back into a cabinet. Behind her, the ear-splitting noise of a tile saw caused the walls of her beauty salon, Claudine’s, located at 162-26 Cross Bay Blvd to shake.

When Hurricane Sandy blew through the community on Oct. 29, the 5-foot storm surge that submerged Cross Bay Boulevard flooded businesses, including Claudine’s. The salon’s furniture, wood floor and equipment were all destroyed. Punzi, who owns the salon with her husband Vincent, said they were able to reopen as soon as the power came back — which still took over two weeks — but even more than a month later, the salon is still a construction site.

They are, however, open for business.

“We are serving customers,” Punzi said.

The beauty shop saw no damage on its recently renovated second floor and the chairs used to seat customers survived, but construction is ongoing. As of Monday, the establishment’s new tile floor is being put down and better days are ahead.

“We’re going to be doing a grand reopening soon,” Punzi said, noting her salon also was hit by a fire not long ago.

Lenny’s Pizza was also damaged by fire less than a year ago, and suffered extreme damage from Hurricane Sandy’s storm surge. The waterline is still visible on the restaurant’s windows at the corner of Cross Bay Boulevard and 164th Avenue.

Though a piece of plywood advertises that the pizzeria is open, the storefront was dark at dinnertime on Monday.

Lenny and Claudine’s stories are the rule far more than the exception on Howard Beach’s main commercial strip.

A few blocks north, Sean Heaphy’s business, Clearwater Pools, sits directly on Shellbank Basin, where the Cross Bay Boulevard flood originated from. His office was inundated with five feet of water and he lost his computers and furniture.

Heaphy said even though his office was destroyed, he was only out of business for a few days. Most of his vehicles were moved to Rockaway Boulevard in Ozone Park, far from the flood zone, and survived. He only lost one dump truck in the storm.

“I’ve basically been working in a shell,” he said.

Since the storm, his business has been busy responding to customers whose pools were in the flood zone.

“Some people had sewage in their pools, oil, salt water,” Heaphy explained. “I have customers whose filters, heaters were destroyed by the flood.”

He acknowledged that the time of the year made the effect on his business less severe.

“If this was summer, it would have been bad for me,” Heaphy said.

Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Far Rockaway) said the signs of progress in Howard Beach are encouraging, but acknowledged that “it’s a long, slow battle.”

For the first few weeks after Hurricane Sandy hit, the stores and their parking lots were relief and governmental staging areas, and the initial cleaning and lack of power continued on page 26

Businesses on Cross Bay Boulevard place signs in their windows informing customers that they are open, even as the commercial strip continues to rebuild after being devastated by Hurricane PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER Sandy’s storm surge five weeks ago.

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by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

An Elmhurst man has been convicted of the murder of a Woodhaven man on a subway platform above Jamaica Avenue in 2010.

Benjamin Moreira, 21, of Elmhurst, was convicted Friday for the murder of 27-year-old Dario Paiva at the 85th StreetForest Parkway subway station in July 2010, after Paiva came to the aid of his younger brother, Khristian Paiva.

“This senseless stabbing has robbed a young man of his life and his family of his companionship,” said District Attorney Richard Brown. “Such a vicious act of violence demonstrates that this defendant is a threat to society and deserving of a lengthy prison sentence.”

According to trial testimony, the younger Paiva called his mother who lived nearby on 85th Street at around 11:30 p.m. on July 30, 2010. Upon overhearing a commotion over the phone, Paiva’s mother thought he might be in trouble.

After speaking with his mother about the phone call, Dario left the home and met up with his brother on 85th Street near Jamaica Avenue a few minutes later and was told by Khristian that he had been attacked and punched by a group of men, and his assaulters had fled up the stairs to the elevated J train subway station. Dario went into the station to look for them and became involved in a verbal dispute when he was stabbed once in the chest by Moreira.

Khristian carried his injured brother off the platform to the mezzanine level of the train station. EMS responded and Dario was taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he later died.

Moreira was later arrested and stood trial on charges of second-degree murder, first-degree manslaughter, tampering with physical evidence of seconddegree murder and fourth-degree criminal position of a weapon. He was convicted of all.

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A month ago, the Howard Beach Judea Center was facing a daunting task: cleaning up the mess left behind by Hurricane Sandy’s storm surge.

Up to three feet of water flooded the synagogue, its offices, its classrooms and its kitchen. It devastated the school adjacent to the temple, destroyed the schoolyard and wiped out many of the prayer books.

The Conservative Jewish synagogue at 162-05 90 St. was out of commission for weeks until the power came back on. Even then, the waterline was still visible in offices and the smell of stagnant water remained.

The floors of the main synagogue were still waterlogged two weeks after the storm and the walls at the front entrance need to be ripped out.

Outside, the remnants of the playgrounds were strewn in the soaked grass.

Because the temple is a nonprofit, it has received no help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and that left

the congregation in dire financial trouble.

Lisa Mason, who helps run the temple and the school, said she feared that the temple and the school would have to close.

So on Saturday, the temple hosted a fundraiser for its recovery. Mason said it turned out to be a success.

“It worked out well,” said Mason, whose mother, Dorie Pearlman, organized the event and made the food.

Mason said more than 150 people attended, including both congregants and other neighborhood residents who wanted to help out. The synagogue’s rabbi and cantor, George Hirschfeld, performed at the event.

“It was nice to see the neighborhood come together,” Mason said.

She said it was too early to estimate how much money was raised at the event, but added that the immediate focus is on repairing the playground for the 28 schoolchildren who attend class there. The temple’s school also took in a number of displaced students from Neponsit in the Q Rockaways after the hurricane.

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Back to square one for districting panel Council Speaker Quinn asks for new legislative maps, and will get them

by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

The final draft of the new City Council lines from the NYC Districting Commission made very few people happy, so the commission voted Tuesday to scrap them.

Among those least pleased is City Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D-Manhattan), who in an unprecedented move last week asked the commission to go back to the drawing board after a number of controversies erupted over the draft maps.

The council was expected to vote on the maps before Dec. 7, but a final vote is in limbo as the commission met Tuesday to respond to the issues.

One major sticking point with the new maps is the change in the 34th Council District, one of the few that cross borough lines.

The district, represented by term-limited Councilwoman Diana Reyna (D-Brooklyn) includes Williamsburg, Bushwick and Ridgewood. The lines were tweaked in the final draft to include the Bushwick home of embattled Assemblyman Vito Lopez (DBrooklyn), who was ousted as chairman of the Brooklyn Democratic Party and is on thin ice in the state Assembly because of allegations of sexual harassment. Lopez is said to be eyeing a run for Reyna’s soon-tobe vacant council seat, and has been a political foe of Reyna, supporting her 2009 oppo-

nent, Maritza Davila, who lost the Democratic primary to Reyna by 223 votes. Davila ran in the general election on the Working Families Party line, receiving a third of the vote.

“I think it was obvious that that was a concern of the public,” Commission Executive Director Carl Hum said of the proposed 34th District.

In order to run for the seat, Lopez would have to move into the district by Jan. 1, 2014.

Some saw the relocation of his home into the district as a self-serving move in his favor.

That led to Quinn’s decision to ask for a redo.

“The most signif icant concern I have relates to the new lines for District 34,” Quinn said in a Nov. 29 letter to the commission. “Given the Commission’s laudable interest in continuing the public process, I am requesting in the strongest possible terms that the Commission withdraw its submission to the Council to receive additional input from the public.”

One commission member who opposed the changes was former state Sen. Frank Padavan of Bellerose, who denied that Lopez’s home was moved purposely.

“If my life depended on it, I couldn’t tell you where he lives,” Padavan said at the Tuesday meeting. He also slammed the commission for voting on the changes “piecemeal.”

The commission then decided unanimously to scrap the maps and start the process

over again. A new round of public hearings will begin in January.

The maps in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan would need to go through preclearance with the U.S. Justice Department to make sure they comply with the Voting Rights Act because of the high minority population in those boroughs. That means the new maps would have to be drawn and approved quickly to have them in time for petitioning to start for the September 2013 primaries.

The now-canned maps were heavily criticized among civic leaders in Queens, notably in Woodhaven, Oakland Gardens and North Flushing, where the commission divided neighborhoods that asked to stay together.

Earlier, before the commission decided to trash the maps completely, members had made a change to North Flushing’s border, reuniting the Mitchell-Linden complex into one district. It had been split. The borders of North Flushing also changed with the border between the 19th and 20th District being 33rd Avenue, rather than the larger Northern Boulevard a few blocks to the south.

In Woodhaven, the maps had divided the neighborhood at Forest Parkway, despite its having been united in the first round of mapmaking.

The maps also separated Briarwood and Jamaica Hills, as well as Oakland Gardens

Council Speaker Christine Quinn asked the NYC Districting Commission to toss out their new council maps, which they voted to do Tuesday.

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and Bayside despite local pleas to keep the neighborhoods united. A curious gerrymander of JFK Airport was also in the maps, with the terminals and cargo areas being drawn into the 28th District, represented by Councilman Ruben Wills (D-South Jamaica), while the runways remained in the 31st District, where the entire airport is now.

Because of the redistricting limbo, nonincumbents or potential primary challengers continued on page 40

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MLS stadium doesn’t belong in our park occer coaches often say controlling the ball and dictating the pace of play are integral to winning games. It appears Major League Soccer has adopted the same tactics when it comes to its proposed 25,000-seat stadium in the heart of Flushing Meadows Corona Park. This paper took a look at the league’s initial proposal and gave it casual backing. No more.

Simply put, we cannot understand why the league insists on setting up shop on public property, in a park utilized on any given weekend by thousands of borough residents. This atop a whole litany of lingering concerns.

We are dismayed by a largely muddled outreach process embodied most recently by allegations of muted dissent at a “town hall meeting” on Tuesday. Our editor found troubling evidence the event was something more akin to a pep rally than an airing of ideas. A sign-in sheet was allegedly used to filter out the rabble. Pro-stadium groups were given an early invite and priority seating. And the theatrics of a crowd draped in MLS regalia and holding up pro-stadium poster boards was largely fabricated.

Questions about the feasibility of building a stadium on a swamp will remain until MLS explains in detail how it will

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manage to build a stadium in an area where the water table is three feet below the surface at most, according to the 2006 U.S. Geological Survey map. Those concerns are only magnified by the proposed parking facility — not for public use — below the stadium, which we presume will be a wonder of water-repellent engineering.

The league is also ignoring the lack of parking for fans, a problem anyone who frequents the park during the U.S. Open can attest to. While we respect MLS’s traffic advisor, our own contributor Sam Schwartz, his projections that 50 percent of fans will take mass transit still leaves thousands of people driving to games. Where will they park?

Most troubling is the still-unspecified replacement parkland, a major sticking point for many. Yes, the league is required to replace every inch of parkland, but there are no rules mandating it be in our borough. MLS is in the throes of a search, though that process has been closed to public input.

We’re assuming the parkland it ultimately chooses will be safe, clean, close to a populace that will utilize it and accessible. So … why not build the darn stadium there?

The league’s argument that the world’s sport needs a home in the heart of our borough simply doesn’t score many goals

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with us. We still don’t have a complete list of other sites MLS was considering before it chose our park. Why not consider the myriad of pesky, unused sites around our borough, places that need an infusion of life and vitality? Something like the old Flushing Airport, Aqueduct Racetrack or the old home of the U.S. Open in Forest Hills?

We’re left wondering how serious the league is about its repeated odes to collaboration and community input.

This is not a call to end all discussions of an MLS stadium in our borough. Far from it.

The stadium’s estimated $60 million in annual economic activity, 150 permanent jobs and host of other economic benefits are nothing to overlook, in any economic climate.

But the cost is too much. It’s a price that rejuvenated soccer fields, fixed fountains and an updated water management infrastructure cannot cover. Besides, don’t we pay taxes so the Parks Department can handle those improvements? The city’s silence on this issue is deafening.

Commissioner, you’re a Queens guy. C’mon. It’s our park.

It’s yours too. You’re welcome to use it — like the rest of us.

It’s time you and your league go back to a map and find another location.

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Critics will scream about a tax increase, but I say “So what?” We’re just putting money aside for when we need it later in life. Or, how about a national sales tax of 1 or 2 percent, or a national lottery to fund these services? Let’s raise the cap from $110,000 to $150,000, and see how that helps. Bargaining for drugs from the drug companies, just like the Veterans Administration does, would cuts costs significantly.

The last thing we want to do is cut benefits or raise prices on those who receive Medicare and Medicaid. Raising the age limit would only punish those who have physically demanding jobs. It’s not fair to do that.

In a recent survey of the 10 most prosperous countries in the world, Norway, Denmark and Sweden topped the list, while the United States didn’t even make the list. The Scandinavian countries all have much higher taxes than we do here. People in those countries are happy to pay higher taxes because they expect and they get high-quality services and benefits.

Why can’t we take some lessons from

them and do the same here? We could, if our focus was on improving the lives of all of us instead of maximizing profits for somebody at the expense of others.

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In certain areas, is it worth it to rebuild at all?

These are issues that the city, state and federal governments need to address.

Basements and first floors of homes were flooded where furnaces, water heaters and electrical panels are located in most homes. Do we replace them in our basements and take a chance that a few years down the line they may be destroyed by another hurricane? Can we afford as a nation to spend $42 billion every time there is a hurricane? While I pray that we never experience such disasters in our lifetime, we should act to prevent the negative effects.

Moving forward, electrical panels, furnaces and water heaters should be moved to a utility room on higher floors in flood prone areas.

The Department of City Planning may exclude the square footage of the utility room from being counted towards the floor area ratio to compensate for the loss of square footage.

Tank-less water heaters should be used to eliminate the possibility of leakage. The federal government should assist in funding these projects by offering a special income tax deduction to the homeowners.

The state should do its part as well. Mandate installation of flood-proof generators in nursing homes, senior residences and rehabilitation centers in flood-prone areas. A partial rebate for having the installation done would be useful. Gas stations should be mandated to have another source of power. It can be a generator or even solar power (probably ideal).

Offer a rebate for such work.

The blizzard of 1888 brought the Northeast to a standstill, paralyzing transportation and communication. We learned from this and made telephone wires go underground and constructed the first American underground rail in Boston. We are now at a similar crossroad — we must resolve to rebuild not the homes of the past but those of the future. Let’s move forward.

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I’ll get us working again Dear Editor: The one thing made crystal clear in the days since Hurricane Sandy hit is now is the time to rebuild New York City’s infrastructure. As a candidate for New York City Council (19th CD) in 2013, I feel this issue must be put front and center.

The images of flooded subway tunnels, downed power lines, major hospitals being evacuated and destruction of homes are overwhelming. We must all come together and develop a comprehensive plan to rebuild our great city. Whether it’s building storm doors for our tunnels, metal gates that will seal entrances to subway stations, creating levees, or moving all power lines underground, all

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Dear Editor: I read your Nov. 22 editorial “The Red Cross let us down.” What you wrote about the American Red Cross was no surprise to me. I am 87 years old and remember World War II and the many sacrifices that were made. I remember too that someone in the service was annoyed that he had to pay for a cup of coffee and doughnut that the Red Cross was serving. Why? The American Red Cross is supposed to help people without charge. Doesn’t it get enough donations? Needless to say, since that incident I have never given a dime to the group.

In view of their actions since Sandy hit, I think it’s time there was an investigation made of the American Red Cross.

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Seniors are at particular risk. In addition to serving as a heart attack trigger, secondhand smoke can trigger or worsen a range of preexisting health conditions.

At this point in our lives we would not consider moving to a building that allows smoking. And we’re not alone. Fifty-nine percent of New Yorkers support smoke-free housing.

Fortunately, Mayor Bloomberg has proposed legislation that would require landlords of multi-unit buildings to make their smoking policy known to current and future tenants and buyers. The proposed policy will not require landlords or owners to change their policy. It will merely require that they disclose it.

Given the number of New Yorkers who support smoke-free housing, I urge every property manager, co-op and condo board to have their buildings go smoke-free. A smokefree multiple-unit building means higher property values and lower property costs. We have a right to know if our new home allows pets, outdoor grilling and subletting. We should certainly have a right to know if smoking is allowed in a building to protect our health and property.

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Holiday charity event focuses on Sandy

Liu proposes bonds to fund PCB removal

Many who attend annual gala affected

by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

Every year on the f irst Saturday in December, hundreds of people gather in the banquet hall of the Immaculate Conception Center in Douglaston. Each comes bearing an unwrapped toy or other gift and enjoys a buffet, open bar, dancing and raffles.

But while this year’s event saw a record crowd, according to co-organizer Thomas Flood, there is also a record need.

Many of those who typically attend the gala, or at the very least offer their charity, were directly affected by Hurricane Sandy five weeks ago.

“There are so many of our brothers and sisters in need of the bare necessities,” Flood told the crowd. “There are so many for whom this Christmas will be very different.”

Flood said this year’s event helped 200 children. He also noted that some of those the gala, called Make a Difference Christmas, has helped are people affected by the hurricane, who in the past have been donors themselves.

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“Sometimes the givers have to accept the gifts,” he said.

The annual charity dinner, sponsored

by St. Mary Gate of Heaven parish in Ozone Park and Holy Child Jesus parish in Richmond Hill, collects gifts and raises money to help struggling families and children during the holidays. The concept began when Thomas Heaphy, a deacon at St. Mary Gate of Heaven, and his children started helping poor children at Christmas by bringing them toys. Heaphy’s daughter, Ann Turner, also daughter-in-law of Rep. Bob Turner (R-Middle Village), organizes the annual function.

The event started out at Austin’s Ale House in Kew Gardens, but moved to the Immaculate Conception Center — the Diocese of Brooklyn’s four-year seminary college — after it grew too large to fit in Austin’s event room. The restaurant still is involved with sponsoring the gala.

The five-and-a-half hour event included a full bar, cocktail hour, buffet and dancing, as well as raffle prizes and a Q silent auction.

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City Comptroller John Liu wants to expedite the removal of PCBs from city schools by raising money.

The potential mayoral candidate said last week he would seek to establish a program called Green Apple Bonds, which will be sold to raise $380 million to fund quicker removal of PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, the dangerous colorless and odorless chemicals found in lighting and linked to cognitive diseases and other health problems such as cancer and heart disease.

PCBs exist in most schools built between 1950 and 1978, when the chemical was banned.

Liu said he hopes the plan would allow the Department of Education to eliminate PCBs in city schools by 2015, six years faster than the DOE estimates completing their removal. Seven hundred seventy-two schools citywide are slated for removal of the chemical and all school lighting ballasts where they are located are to be replaced by 2021.

“Our students should learn about PCBs in class, but through their textbooks, not through firsthand exposure,” Liu said in a press release last week.

Liu said the borrowed money would be paid for through savings in energy costs for city schools when cleaner, more energy-efficient lighting is installed earlier than anticipated, as well as lower interest rates and federal subsidies for conservation. His off ice estimates the savings would reach $719 million, more than half the new debt the city would take on.

In July, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest filed a federal lawsuit against the DOE and the School Construction Authority under the federal Toxic Substances Control Act to move up the timeline for remediation from the city’s initial 2021. The PCB issue got more attention in September after the substance was found in IS 204 in Long Island City.

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Emergency workers praised for rescue Hamilton Beach vollies saved two women from home during Sandy

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Maria Fabbraro rode out Hurricane Sandy in her Hamilton Beach home with her mother, Faye. Having survived Irene a little more than a year earlier, they had not expected any more than some minor nuisance flooding and wind damage.

What happened instead would traumatize them both and force a daring rescue by the neighborhood’s volunteer fire department, whose members themselves lost most of their equipment.

When Sandy’s storm surge submerged much of Hamilton Beach the night of Oct. 29, Maria, who requires the aid of a walker to get around, and her elderly mother were trapped in their home as the rising water inched closer to them.

A block away, the West Hamilton Beach Volunteer Fire Department was also dealing with rising water, which threatened to destroy their ambulances and fire trucks.

Nevertheless, even while trying to stay above water, when the alarm rang, the volunteer firefighters inside the flooded building at Davenport Court and 104th Street sprang into action.

Armed with little more than a boat, the firefighters on the scene headed to the Fabbraros’ apartment and pulled the two women from their home as the storm surge rose.

Faye and Maria Fabbraro, seated, pose with members of the West Hamilton Beach Volunteer Fire Department and Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder, center left, last week. Joining them are, Roger Gendron, left, President of the WHBVFD; Mitch Udowitch, former captain; Jonah Cohen, past chief; Nick Spinelli, EMS Lieutenant; Carol Scheper, EMT, and Alvin Quiles, firefighter. PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER “It was scary,” Maria Fabbraro said, adding that she was looking for a new home away from the flood zone. “I never want to go through that again.”

But after getting the women to safer ground, the f iref ighters returned to their

headquarters to find Hurricane Sandy had not been kind to them.

The department lost all of its equipment as well as six vehicles — two pumpers, two ambulances, one 4x4 brush fire unit, a command vehicle — and lost thousands of dol-

lars worth of tools, including carbon monoxide detectors, a thermal imaging camera, portable radios, mobile radios, vehicle extrication tools and forcible entry tools.

The vollies received donated trucks from fire departments in Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Mississippi to help put them back in service and they are up and running — their firehouse has heat and electricity back — and the parking lot is now a relief center where hot food is being served.

“These guys are real heroes,” said Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Far Rockaway), who presented a certificate of appreciation to the firefighters involved in the rescue last Thursday. “What the volunteer firefighters were able to do here, and in Broad Channel and Rockaway, was amazing.”

Mitchell Udowitch, the department’s excaptain, said that immediately after the hurricane, the firehouse became a community meeting spot and a relief center where residents came during the 2-3 week span when Hamilton Beach had no electric or heat.

The West Hamilton Beach Volunteer Fire Department is one of five that suffered damage in Southern Queens. The Broad Channel Volunteer Fire Department was also hit hard

by Sandy, as were three vollies in the Rockaways, including Pointe Breeze, which responded to the Breezy Point fire the night Q of the hurricane.

Queens dad pushed to death on tracks PS 207 will Alleged attacker spotted by police the next day

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A Queens father trying to protect fellow subway passengers from a mentally deranged man ended up losing his life Monday.

Ki Suk Han, 58 of Elmhurst met his end when the man pushed him onto the subway tracks at the Times Square subway station.

After being pushed on the tracks, Han desperately tried to climb back to safety but the Q train struck him moments later.

The train’s conductor at West 49th Street and 7th Avenue tried to slow down the train but

could not bring it to a complete stop.

Eyewitnesses at the scene said that prior to the train’s arrival at the station the perpetrator grabbed Han and threw him straight onto the tracks.

People tried frantically to stop the train, waving their hands and yelling to the man on the tracks to get out.

According to the New York Post, eyewitnesses said they could see Han’s body flying through the air. Many saw him looking directly at the oncoming train lights before he was struck.

City Comptroller John Liu, center left, met with the victim’s widow, Serim Han, their daughter and church and Korean community leaders Wednesday at Woori Presbyterian Church in Maspeth. At PHOTOS COURTESY NYC AND, RIGHT, COURTESY NYPD right is the alleged killer, Naeem Davis.

One witness said that Han was dragged at least 10 to 15 feet along the tracks.

Han, who lived with his wife and daughter in Elmhurst, was taken to Roosevelt Hospital, were he was pronounced dead.

No one could be reached for comment at Han’s residence in Queens. On Wednesday the family and community and church leaders met with City Comptroller John Liu at their church, Woori Presbyterian in Maspeth.

Police arrested the alleged attacker, Naeem Davis, 30 in connection with the gruesome murder on Dec. 4. Area residents described Davis as a homeless man who previously worked at the Pax eatery in Times Square, the Post reported.

The attacker told police that the victim was harassing him and that he repeatedly asked to be left alone, the paper said.

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reopen Jan. 2 PS 207, one of the last schools to remain closed after Hurricane Sandy, will reopen in January after Christmas break, according to a Facebook post from state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach).

A spokesperson for the city Department of Education conf irmed reopening is anticipated for Jan. 2.

The Howard Beach school was closed after Sandy’s storm surge flooded the basement, filling it with seawater and 32,000 gallons of household heating oil, which took weeks to pump out.

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Mayor Bloomberg and other city officials held a press conference at the school Nov. 12 to announce $500 million in emergency funding to repair schools and other infrastructure damaged in Hurricane Sandy. At the press conference, Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott met with parents outside the school and said the DOE was aiming to reopen the Q school by January.

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Spreading cheer on a canvas of glass Woodhaven’s Deborah Camp takes her painting skills to boro windows

by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

Dressed in a messy pair of sweatpants, a construction shirt and a worn down Old Navy baseball cap, Deborah Camp meticulously blotted her paintbrush on the cartoon body of Rudolph the RedNosed Reindeer being merry with a snowman and a Santa Claus that she had just finished painting. She turned to acknowledge passers-by who recognized the work.

“Nice job,” one man said walking by with a shopping cart.

“Yeah, ya did!” a young woman said patting Camp on her arm and smiling.

A boy stopped to talk art with Camp as she cleaned her brushes.

It took about three hours to paint the front window of the Woodhaven Pharmacy on the corner of Jamaica Avenue and 87th Street, only this is an easy job for her.

For Camp, who studied art at Bayside High School and Queens College, painting a window in her own neighborhood is the culmination of a long dream and a lot of hard work.

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to do,” she said. “I’ve always wanted to paint.”

Camp had worked as a cashier at a convenience store in Woodhaven and about a year ago left that job to begin painting windows for a living. She had been doing it outside of her normal job, but decided she should pursue it professionally full time. Since then she has done a number of panes around Queens and Brooklyn and works as a freelance artist.

Among the windows she’s painted

are Pet Menu on Northern Boulevard in Auburndale, Five Burro Cafe and Belle Arti Center for the Arts in Forest Hills and New Park Pizza in Howard Beach, where she painted the Halloween/fall-themed scene before Hurricane Sandy.

She’s also painted the windows of stores in Bensonhurst and Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Some of her pieces have taken over a week to finish, including one in a children’s medical facility in Brooklyn.

Though she’s busy now painting holiday windows, Camp said her window-painting business takes a break after this month.

“There’s not much work in January,” she said. “Maybe someone will ask me to paint a winter scene or something, but my next big holiday is Valentine’s Day.” She says the busiest time of year for her is springtime.

“Easter, spring scenes are popular,” she explained, “and the weather gets better, which makes it easier to paint.”

Though most of her paintings are done on the outside, she said she does paint the inside of some win-

Deborah Camp paints a holiday scene on the front window of Woodhaven PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER Pharmacy on Jamaica Avenue. she said. “It brings some cheer to people. They come here to the pharmacy to get medicine because they are sick and hopefully they see this and it makes them feel a little better.”

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“I’ve mastered my name,” she said with a laugh.

On every painting she leaves her name and number — a calling card for future customers.

“It’s nice to be able to do this,”

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Two men allegedly assaulted an elderly man Nov. 24 after asking if he was either Hindu or Muslim in a residential section of Corona.

At about 5:20 p.m. two suspects approached a 70-year-old Muslim man in front of 109-25 46 Ave., according to NYPD. After asking his ethnicity the two men struck him in the face.

The two Hispanic suspects are in their late teens to early 20s. One had short hair and the other sported a pony tail.

The victim was taken to Elmhurst Hospital, where he was quickly reported to be in stable condition.

“We stand together in sending a clear message that we will not tolerate this act of violence nor any other hate crime. Our diversity is what makes our city so great.

We will not be intimidated by this hateful act of intolerance,” Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D-Manhattan), Councilman

Danny Dromm (D-Jackson Heights) and Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras (D-Corona) said in a joint statement. “We are confident that the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force will apprehend those responsible for this hateful act.”

Three day eariler on Nov. 21 a man was stabbed in front of a mosque located at 7255 Kissena Blvd. in Kew Gardens Hills.

The suspect allegedly made anti-Muslim statements, setting off suspicions the assault was a hate crime.

The NYPD has a Muslim Advisor y Council, which it works with as a liaison to the community. The council’s founding member, Moustafa Elshiekh, said NYPD sent the group emails detailing the Nov. 24 incident and plans to hold an informational conference about the crimes.

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Museum puts the H in help The New York Transit Museum has launched a limited collection of H-line merchandise for sale through the museum’s online store to raise money for hurricane relief in the Rockaways.

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“I can confirm that Sen. Malcolm Smith has joined the IDC!” Eric Soufer, a spokesman for the group, tweeted Tuesday.

The Independent Democratic Caucus welcomed Smith (D-Hollis), the fifth renegade Democrat to split from the main party and join the group. The decision makes the balance of power in the 2013 Senate unclear, since neither Republicans nor Democrats won the majority on Election Day.

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Republicans have taken 30 seats in the 63seat Senate, grabbing an extra one with the addition of Brooklyn Democrat Simcha Felder, who has said he would caucus with them. That leaves the GOP one short of a majority with a Democrat leading in the undetermined 41st District race and the winner in 46th District race too close to call.

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get things done for the taxpayers,” Hank Sheinkopf, a spokesman for Smith, told the Chronicle on Wednesday.

The IDC is led by Sen. Jeff Klein (DBronx) and besides Smith, its other members are state Sens. David Carlucci (D-RocklandOrange), Diane Savino (D-Staten Island) and David Valesky (D-Oneida).

Asked if Smith is concerned the move would hurt Democrats by possibly costing them the majority in the chamber, Sheinkopf said, “Senator Smith doesn’t lead the Senate.

Senator Klein doesn’t lead the Senate. We just want to make sure things get done.”

The IDC is seeking to change the body’s rules in order to become a permanent third conference and to form a coalition with the Republicans to run the chamber. Smith has also been trying to drum up support from the GOP as he ponders a move to run for mayor on that line.

Assemblywoman Barbara Clark (DQueens Village) said she was shocked when she heard about Smith’s decision to join the IDC, but says the lawmaker has always “done different things that he thinks are good moves.”

“I don’t like Democrats becoming Republicans,” Clark added. “This climate hasn’t worked too well for Republicans, but maybe now in the State of New York it will. We’ll just have to wait and see.”

Assemblyman Bill Scarborough (DJamaica) was also surprised by Smith’s move.

“I think, like a lot of people, I’m still digesting it,” Scarborough said. “If it helps to get things done in Albany and it’s beneficial to Southeast Queens and the people he represents, then fine.”

Asked whether he thinks it would hurt his party by taking away its possible majority, Scarborough said, “It was problematic before this happened. It’s hard to say what will happen to the Senate leadership.”

State Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) called Smith’s decision “a power grab,” and added that “it is unfortunate because it defeats the will of the people who voted in favor of having the Democrats control the Senate.”

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Notes of interest — HEAP applications are available for assistance with your regular heating bills and special funding for Sandy-related bills and repairs. Call Borough President Helen Marshall’s office at (718) 286-2650 for more information. If you need information on this and any other social services, call (800) 692-0557. The number for our 102nd Precinct is (718) 805-8200.

FEMA is hiring local residents. People interested in applying for positions can search online on the New York State job bank website newyork.us.jobs/ then insert FEMA in the website keyword search box to access the postings.

This year’s Holidays in Woodhaven weekend will be on Friday, Dec. 7 at 6:30 p.m. with the Christmas tree and menorah lighting ceremony at the Forest Parkway Plaza area off Jamaica Avenue. The only thing missing this year will be our beautiful Christmas tree. Unfortunately it was a casualty of Sandy, but we will have a tree to light along with our menorah.

The next day, Saturday, Dec. 8, the “Welcome Santa to Woodhaven” parade kicks off at 12 noon from 100th Street marching down Jamaica Avenue to Dexter Court, where Santa and Mrs. Santa Claus will greet the children. Bring your cameras. After this weekend the WBID will take free pictures with Santa and friends at our Forest Parkway Plaza area on Saturdays, Dec. 15 and Dec. 22 from 1 to 4 p.m. (weather permitting).

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Holiday music fills the avenue air as shoppers feel the holiday spirit. Our stores are also in tune with bargains. Shop all of the stores offering 30 to 50 percent discounts.

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Bloomberg in the park Mayor Bloomberg met with Parks Department workers at Alley Pond Park last Friday to thank them for their hard work in the recovery from Hurricane Sandy.

The mayor noted the danger of falling trees. A Flushing man was killed by one tree during the hurricane on Oct. 29. He added

that Sandy destroyed thousands of trees in the city, including more than 7,000 in the borough of Queens alone.

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“The guidelines were met,” he said.

Vallone, in a statement issued by his off ice, was not impressed, saying the generic email was sent out one week after the hurricane “when city Council and other emails were still not working,” he said.

“First DCAS denied this decision had been made, and then the decision is secretly ratified two weeks after one of the worst natural disasters in the city’s history,” he said.

“Their next step is probably to throw a black bag over Civic Virtue’s head and take him to Brooklyn in the back of a van.”

He said the timing gave those seeking to keep the statue in place virtually no opportunity to attend or to send relevant comments to the commission for consideration.

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Opponents of the process are crying foul, but the city appears to have cleared the last legal hurdle in its efforts to relocate the controversial “Civic Virtue” statue from its place at Borough Hall in Kew Gardens.

The city’s Design Commission held a public hearing on Nov. 13 to examine the “longterm loan” of the 1922 Frederick MacMonnies statue to Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

The towering statue depicts a male figure with a sword standing over two female figures depicted as mythological sirens.

It has been at Borough Hall since 1941 when Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia had it moved from City Hall.

The statue, which once featured a fountain, has fallen into disrepair over the last few decades. Members of the MacMonnies family are buried in Green-Wood, though the artist is not. The family has offered to pay for the statue’s transportation and restoration.

Critics, including Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D-Astoria), have praised the statue as a great work of art, while many, including women’s groups, have called the statue sexist and misogynistic.

Several groups and borough leaders have discussed the possibility of replacing the statue, at the northwest end of Borough Hall on Queens Boulevard, with some sort of display recognizing prominent women in Queens history.

Vallone wants the borough to retain the historic sculpture.

“This great work of art belongs to the people of Queens, and it should be kept in place and restored to its former glory here,” Vallone said. “A statue in Central Park would never be allowed to fall into disrepair and then be taken away from Manhattan.”

Vallone felt the fix was in to move the statue earlier this year, though the city’s Department of Citywide Administrative Services denied that claim.

But Vallone criticized the Design Commission’s decision to hold the hearing two weeks after Hurricane Sandy, and the timing of public notice of the hearing.

A city spokesman said in a telephone conversation on Wednesday that the commission posts the dates for all meetings a year in advance, and is required to post the agendas no less than 72 hours before the meeting.

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ESSAY

Flooded and burned by Sandy, but surviving

by Phillip Goldfeder Hurricane Sandy proved to be the biggest challenge of my life, just as it did for so many of my constituents in the 23rd Assembly District.

I received the call that Mayor Bloomberg would be ordering evacuations for all of Rockaway and Zone A shortly before noon on Oct. 28. It seemed strange considering the lateness of the decision, but I wasn’t going to take any chances. I am familiar with dealing with public tragedy, but ultimately Sandy turned out to be a force of destruction that invaded my home, displaced my family and gave me an intimate experience in the tragedy of my neighbors and constituents that is unimaginable.

Prior to the storm, my staff and I prepared at our Rockaway office by compiling emergency information for residents. We reached out to community and civic leaders, religious organizations and healthcare institutions to ensure they knew the severity of the storm and were taking the appropriate precautions.

That Sunday night, we experienced large storm surges that rose to levels most people saw during Hurricane Irene last year. But that was only the beginning. By the next day, we saw that every preventative measure that had been taken on the beach by the city Parks Department was now destroyed, and we had little or no protection for what was coming that night when the full force of Sandy was expected to hit.

I spent the day visiting district volunteer firehouses and police precincts, checking to see how they fared and urging any remaining residents to evacuate. At 5 p.m. I left the Pointe Breeze Volunteer Fire Department and could already see the Jamaica

Cross still had not arrived to provide any sort done. I attended block meetings and spent Bay water running over the bay wall.

I made it home. My family had already of assistance, but our community was not every day at various sites and traveling in the evacuated, but I stayed behind to ensure that I waiting. We knew that we had to start relief community to inform neighbors about imporwould be around to help with the recovery efforts immediately. I saw people battered by tant updates.

We all owe a tremendous debt of gratitude efforts immediately. As I waited, I knew that a night of no sleep and fear, drenched in the water would only continue to rise and I water, coming out to help their neighbors for the response from the NYPD, FDNY, National Guard and Department of Sanitation. decided that I should leave my home before it without hesitation.

Our neighborhoods, our businesses and I have been on the front lines since the beginwas too late. I quickly packed a bag of clothes and bare essentials and headed out to our homes were torn to pieces, flooded and ning of this storm and many days have tested a safer location. I struggled to walk through burned by Sandy, but our community had to my resolve, but seeing the kindness of strangers and the strength of our first responalmost 4 feet of water to escape. I ended up at take the lead to save ourselves.

I was humbled by the heroism of regular ders willed me to keep going. Those entities the 101st Precinct in Far Rockaway which became my temporary home for the follow- citizens working around the clock with com- that failed, including the utility companies, munity leaders from every neighborhood to will be held accountable, and I will work with ing days.

Through the night, I watched the heroic set up food and distribution sites in the Gov. Cuomo to ensure that we are better preHamilton Beach fire house, pared for the future. actions of the police officers As my wife and I begin to piece together Broad Channel American and listened in absolute Legion, Waldbaum’s parking our own home and life, I am encouraged by shock to the police radio as calls were coming in and will not rest until lot of Howard Beach and all the tremendous resiliency that I have seen over the Rockaways from during the last month. As I said before, Sandy officers were being sent out. every family is Breezy Point to Far Rock- came in as a force of destruction, but what My children were safe with away. Each day, new sites came next was a force of unity and strength my wife and her family, but safe and secure. would open and we worked that no storm can take from us. the pit of my stomach There are still enormous tasks ahead of us. to make certain that each churned thinking about other children and other families, hoping they one had necessary food and supplies. It was There is still suffering. But I have an unwamade it out, hoping that they survived. through the kindness of strangers and neigh- vering faith that this community will come back bigger and stronger than ever and I will Reports of raging fires, high floodwaters and bors helping neighbors that we survived.

My district office was completely flood- not rest until every family is safe and secure people stranded were nonstop.

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Phillip Goldfeder is New York State Assemdevastation that Sandy had ravaged on our Miller welcomed my staff immediately, as well as set up a collection site for food and blyman for the 23rd District in South Queens. beachside community.

I sat in my car on Tuesday morning not supplies that we were able to dissure what to do, considering that about 85 seminate where needed. I cannot percent of my district had been seriously thank him enough for his kinddamaged. Only as I drove around the com- ness and generosity.

Throughout this ordeal, I munity did I actually understand the level of damage that had been done. I quickly real- responded personally to every ized the awesome nature of this tragedy and email that was sent to me and was the enormity of the challenges that were able to utilize social media to before us. Because there was no power or respond to immediate concerns and cell service, I had to physically visit every let people know what was needed. community leader in each neighborhood to Rumors were running rampant, and strategize how we could begin recovery I used every resource to dissemiefforts immediately to give families the nate good, reliable information so people knew what resources were Hurricane Sandy tore up the boardwalk — and so much urgent relief they needed.

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Parks plans new, stronger boardwalk Mayor Bloomberg says concrete will likely be used to build new structure

by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

Rockaway Beach’s destroyed boardwalk will be rebuilt, according to Mayor Bloomberg and Parks Department officials, but the new structure may not be made of wood.

Bloomberg said last week he would consider rebuilding the 5.5-mile-long boardwalk out of concrete. “‘There will be no more wooden boardwalks in Rockaway or anywhere else,” Mayor Bloomberg told the editorial board of the Rockaway newspaper The Wave last week.

Most of the boardwalk, which was completed in the 1930s, was wiped out by Hurricane Sandy’s storm surge. From Beach 80th Street to Beach 126th Street, the structure was washed away, leaving behind only the support piers sticking out of the sand. Sections of the wooden boardwalk, which weredamaged last year in Irene, broke apart, but pieces with the lampposts and

benches still bolted in washed up side streets almost as far as Beach Channel Drive.

But the small concrete sections of the boardwalk, especially around Beach 94th Street survived, Queens Parks Commissioner Dorothy Lewandowski pointed out at the November meeting of the Queens Borough Board.

Some residents are concerned that, without the boardwalk, there is little to protect the neighborhood from the sea during nor’easters that could strike this winter and spring. Due to erosion on the beach, the tide now laps at the foot of the boardwalk’s pillars at high tide.

Meanwhile some residents are asking for bigger rock jetties to be built along the beach. There are already large rock jetties along a portion of the beach ending at about Beach 90th Street, but nothing west of that, where only smaller, wooden ones exist.

At a rally last weekend, hundreds of residents from the Rockaways demanded not only the boardwalk be rebuilt, but the beach reconstructed, along with new rock jetties.

Organizers of the rally estimate 50 jetties would need to be built to protect Rockaway from another storm surge like Sandy’s. A jetty can cost as much as $1 million to build, according to a Parks Department source. There is no estimate to the cost of the complete reconstruction of the boardwalk but the minor repairs done after Irene last year, when parts of the boardwalk split in the middle, ran near $4 million.

Lewandowski said rebuilding the beach and the boardwalk are priorities, but noted it could take a long time before the area returns to normal and that would probably not be done by next summer.

“Our hope is to have some of the beach opened by the Q summer,” she said at the borough board meeting.

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JOHN ADAMS HS SCHOOL SPOTLIGHT

October “Student of the Month” awards handed out n October 12th, several students from the Media Communication Arts Small Learning Community at John Adams HS in Ozone Park received much-deserved recognition from their teachers. Pictured, left to right, are: Nathaly Gonzalez, Peta Gaye Thomas, Shelby Brewer, Rashana Lydner, and Daryll Farillas.

Not pictured are award recipients Venesa Ghansham and Morris Johns. Ms. Rufo, director of the MCA SLC, distributed the certificates to the students. Whether it was for excellent attendance, wonderful class participation, terrific group leadership, helping fellow students, going above and beyond expectations or for showing a genuine love for school, the efforts of these students during October were surely appreciated and worthy of praise.

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they’re in school or looking out a window.

For each class that he visited, Azi, a Syracuse University graduate, worked with students on creating their own written documentaries called, “A Day in the Life.” The goal was for each student to paint a picture, in words, of every aspect of one single day, with even the smallest details present in that picture. He also asked students to attach elements such as color and music to their emotions of that day in their documentaries.

Students pondered questions such as, “How do I really feel at this exact moment of my day? What color would I

connect to that feeling? What’s going on in my mind at that precise point in time? What song would relate to that emotion or thought?”

He wanted them to identify one day as a special and unique event, rather than as something simply mundane and routine.

Students demonstrated a lot of enthusiasm with the task, and Azi was very grateful for their interest and creativity.

It is also worth noting that, if Azi’s last name sounded familiar to the students, it is because his mom, Ms. Yikiel, is an English teacher at John Adams HS.

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ilmmaker Azi Yikiel stopped by John Adams HS on November 20 to talk to students in various Media Communication Arts Small Learning Community classes. The main message Azi was conveying focused on the importance of each person getting in touch with his or her own feelings and emotions.

“When you look in the mirror in the morning,” he said to an audience of teenagers, “what do you see and what would you like people to see in you?”

He encouraged everyone to take notice of each and every detail they observe in a particular setting, whether it’s when

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Ex-Met Dykstra is sentenced Len Dykstra, the starting centerfielder of the world champion 1986 New York Mets, was given a 6 1/2 month sentence for bankruptcy fraud by a California judge this week, according to multiple published reports.

Dykstra, 49, played all or part of f ive seasons with the Mets in a 12year career that ran from 1985 to 1996. The three-time National League all-star was nicknamed “Nails” for his aggressive play.

The charges stem from allegations that Dykstra sold or concealed items of personal property such as baseball memorabilia from his playing days while he was barred from doing so because of bankruptcy proceedings.

Dykstra’s sentence will run concurrently with a three-year term he already is serving for grand theft auto and providing a false financial statement. He is scheduled to be released in 2013.

Dykstra hit one of the biggest home runs in Mets history, a walkoff shot in game 3 of the 1986 National League Championship Series against the Houston Astros.

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Four more Queens gas stations investigated AG suspects Sandy price gouging Four more Queens gas stations have been notified by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman that they will be subject to enforcement proceedings based on allegations of price gouging in the wake of Hurricane Sandy in October.

A statement released by Schneiderman on Thursday named the Getty station at 141-50 Union Turnpike in Flushing; a Gulf station at 60-90 Eliot Ave. in Maspeth; a Shell station at 92-10 Astoria Blvd. in East Elmhurst; and a Sunoco station at 18-84 Flushing Ave. in Ridgewood.

They were among 12 stations named in Tuesday’s release. Seven of the 25 gas stations Schneiderman has named in the last three weeks are in Queens.

“We are actively investigating the hundreds of complaints we’ve received from consumers of businesses preying on victims of Hurricane Sandy,” Schneiderman said. “There must be no tolerance for unscrupulous individuals who take advantage of New Yorkers trying to rebuild their lives.”

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A select few, such as Ragtime, were able to operate under generator power.

The chain stores — like Burger King, Staples and Starbucks — are able to get repaired quickly, he said, but for some of the smaller business, it is relatively difficult.

Smaller businesses are trying to operate while renovations go forward.

However, some chain stores are still closed. The CVS below Gold’s Gym at 157th Avenue and Cross Bay Boulevard is gutted. The Gap’s local franchise has been closed since the hurricane as its inventory is restocked.

Goldfeder noted the situation is worse the farther south you go on the boulevard, though the floodwater damaged every business as far north as Matteo’s on the Belt Parkway.

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He added that the timing of the storm is cause for concern because many businesses on the boulevard see an uptick in business this time of year.

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Vallone seeks to boot dog killer from country Pol starts letter-writing campaign, proposes creating abuser registry

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This country is no place for a dog killer — that’s the view of City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D-Astoria), who has started a letterwriting campaign to get just such an individual deported.

“He tossed his dog out of a window, so now we should toss him out of the country,” Vallone said.

The dog killer is Milan Rysa, an illegal immigrant from the Czech Republic living in Astoria, who last City Councilman Peter year threw his Vallone Jr. shar-pei, Brooklyn, out of a third-story window on Steinway Street to its death.

Rysa pleaded guilty to second-degree reckless endangerment and served twothirds of his 364-day term, Vallone said.

Now, he faces deportation. A hearing to decide his fate will be held in May. Vallone, who is an avid animal rights supporter, has written letters to both the judge in charge of Rysa’s case and Immigration and Customs Enforcement encour-

provided to animal shelters and pet stores. aging deportation.

Rysa’s crime sparked outrage across There are currently registries in Suffolk Queens. Heavenly Angels Animal Rescue, and Rockland counties, and Albany — the based in Astoria, organized a protest vigil in only ones in the country.

Brooklyn’s memory outside Rysa’s apartThe bill was referred to the council’s ment in the days following the crime.

Committee on Health on Sept. 12. It is One attendee pasted a flier with the word being supported by several Queens Coun“murderer” above a picture of the dead dog cil members — Peter Koo (D-Flushing), on Rysa’s building, while other attendees Elizabeth Crowley (D-Middle Village), held photos of the bodybuilder with the Dan Halloran (R-Whitestone) and Eric words “puppy killer” written across them.

Ulrich (R-Ozone Park).

Rysa’s attorney “Of course, we did not return calls want to protect anif course, we want to seeking comment. mals from being This is not the abused and to keep protect animals from f irst time Vallone abusers from pet has gone to bat for ownership,” James being abused and to his four-legged conMcClelland, a stituents. spokesman for Koo, keep abusers from pet He recently introsaid. “We looked at ownership.” duced legislation to the Suffolk County create an animalregistry, which is — James McClelland, spokesman abuser registry, simiworking very well, for City Councilman Peter Koo lar to the sex-offendand we thought it er registry. It would prohibit those convict- would be a good thing for New York City. ed of animal abuse from ever owning a pet In Suffolk County, they found a correlation again. A violation would be a misdemeanor between people who abuse animals and punishable up to a year in jail. Vallone has- other crimes. Since it is just a registry, the n’t said where the funding would come cost is nominal and would not have a big from yet. impact on taxpayers.”

The database would be run by the city Vallone said anyone who wishes to Department of Health and the list would be write a letter in favor of Rysa’s deporta-

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Mulla, right, and Ronald Dunnagan in undated FACEBOOK PHOTO mug shots.

A Long Island City woman is facing extradition on a warrant charging her with a cold case murder in Louisiana in 1984.

Queens District Attorney Richard Brown, in a statement issued by his office on Tuesday, said Leila Mulla, 47, of 11th Street, is facing charges of second-degree murder, criminal conspiracy and simple robbery in the death of 29-year-old Baton Rouge businessman Gary Kergan.

Brown said Mulla, a registered nurse who was an exotic dancer at the time of Kergan’s murder, was arrested at her apartment on

Monday and was to be arraigned in Queens Criminal Court as a fugitive from justice.

The Baton Rouge Police Department issued a statement saying that Kergan was last seen at Mulla’s home on Nov. 28, 1984.

His vehicle was later recovered with “a significant amount of blood” in the trunk.

Kergan’s body was never found, according to NOLA.com, the website for The Times-Picayune newspaper in New Orleans. Police said Mulla and Louisiana resident Ronald Dunnagan, now 64 and also under arrest for the crime, were arrested in connection with the death in 1984, but that prosecutors dropped the case for

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lack of evidence.

Kergan, who published reports said owned a chain of Sonic drive-in restaurants with his brother, was declared legally dead in 1986.

The blood found in Kergan’s car, a pink Cadillac, was recently retested by the Louisiana State Police Crime Lab and determined positively to be his.

Published reports said when Louisiana detectives searched an apartment shared by Mulla and Dunnagan a few days after Kergan’s disappearance, they allegedly found the residence to be abandoned and evidence of a violent struggle.

Baton Rouge police credited both the NYPD and Brown’s office with assisting them in the investigation.

Mulla has Facebook and Myspace pages, websites and numerous social media outlets in which she promotes the power of optiQ mism and positive thinking.

Police in Baton Rouge, La. have secured an arrest warrant accusing Queens resident Leila MYSPACE PHOTO Mulla of a 28-year-old murder.

Richmond Hill Civic Richmond Hill South Civic Association will be holding its next meeting on Thursday, Dec. 13 at 7:30 p.m. at the United Methodist Church, located at 112-14 107 Ave. This will be its annual Christmas party and Santa may visit.

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Queens native sets up ‘Secret Sandy’ Organization geared at helping storm victims enjoy the holidays

by Alessandra Malito

stores like Home Depot and Target, and Secret Sandy will send the gift cards to the families who need items from those stores “Dear Secret Sandy.”

That’s how some children may be start- accordingly.

According to the cofounders, there is no ing their letters for toys this holiday season after being affected by the October hurri- place the organization won’t help. A lot of cane that flooded homes, washed away the letters are currently coming from the memories and left people powerless in the Rockaways, but they have also received letters from New Jersey and Long Island.

Northeast.

They do the best they can to vet the letWhile efforts are being made to restore power, build back businesses and restart ters to ensure the writers were affected by lives, Secret Sandy, an organization started Hurricane Sandy.

“What makes it work currently, why it by two women — one in Queens and one in New Jersey — is looking to bring a little came to be, is it’s a human connection,” Berdy said, adding that those who want to happiness to children in need.

“To know that in three weeks, hundreds donate can directly contribute to a family in need. With donating and hundreds of kids to larger companies are getting something sometimes donators makes it worth every might not feel they minute of time,” Joy t’s sad to see people made a difference Huang, cofounder of but “this Secret Sandy, who are going through this, directly, they know they have, was born and raised in and it’s tangible.”

Jamaica Estates, said. so why not give back WNYC Radio Two and a half weeks whatever we can?” tweeted Secret Sandy after the day of the (@Secret_Sandy) as storm, Huang started - Joy Huang, cofounder of Secret Sandy being their cur rent the group with friend favorite post-Sandy Kimberley Berdy, from holiday help and Hoboken, N.J. The two met years ago while they were Chelsea Clinton tweeted the group was a working on a Broadway play, and came great idea.

“The letter sparked conversation together to figure out something they could between parents with what their kids have do to help.

“It’s sad to see people are going through been going through versus just cleaning this,” Huang said. “So why not give back up,” Huang said.

Secret Sandy is looking to have an event whatever we can?”

The group currently has more than 1,000 in the Rockaways the weekend of Dec. 22, “likes” on Facebook and has received about and when the holidays are over, continuing 330 letters. About 1,000 people have con- to help by finding ways to rebuild schools, tacted Secret Sandy looking to donate. through donating textbooks, bookbags, Huang and Berdy, who both have jobs out- desks and school supplies.

“This is going to take a whole lot more side of their volunteering for Secret Sandy, collect the letters — digitally and paper — time than just gifts,” Berdy said.

“Schools need to be rebuilt. Hopefully and with the help of volunteers, make wish try and parlay this into more than holilists on Amazon.com.

They then send the child’s letter, which days.”

Huang attended Immaculate Conception includes up to four items the child wants, to two people so that at least one or two gifts School in Astoria and The Mary Louis can be donated. The items can then be Academy in Jamaica Estates and has visitdelivered directly to the child’s home from ed the Rockaways with her friends from the academy. She and Berdy have gone to visit Amazon.com.

That leaves about 400 people who are the Rockaways numerous times too.

To fill out a letter or learn more about still looking to donate toys.

Almost 200 people have signed up to Secret Sandy, visit secretsandy.org.

“It extends so deep. People feel so lost. help wrap gifts, participate in toy drives or It is that direct one-to-one,” Huang said. enter data into the wish lists.

Huang suggests for those who can’t “Even if it is anonymous, someone is thinkQ donate specific items to donate gift cards to ing about you.”

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Christmas at the casino Resorts World Casino New York City welcomed the holiday season with the lighting of the borough’s biggest Christmas tree last Thursday outside the casino’s main entrance at Aqueduct Racetrack.

The 40-foot evergreen from Canada was decked out in white lights and was lit using a slot-machine inspired switch, pulled with the help of Community Board 10 Chairwoman Betty Braton.

Revelers were also treated to a visit from Santa Claus, candy canes, free hot chocolate and Christmas carolers.

The tree will grace the plaza in front of the casino until January.

The entertainment center, which opened 13 months ago, has been a staging area for the Red Cross and FEMA since Hurricane Sandy struck nearby communities hard a month ago.

Woodhaven tree lighting Friday Woodhaven will host its holiday celebrations this weekend, beginning with the annual tree lighting on Friday night.

But this year’s lighting will be a lot different than the typical one.

In past years, Woodhaven has lit up its famed 50-foot-tall evergreen tree at Forest Parkway and Jamaica Avenue outside the Chase bank branch, but the tree was destroyed during Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 29.

However, the neighborhood will continue the tradition, Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association President Ed Wendell

said there will be a temporary tree for this year’s celebration, which will take place on Friday evening at 6:30 p.m. at Forest Parkway and Jamaica Avenue.

The tree lighting will be followed by the annual parade at noon on Saturday along Jamaica Avenue.

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Giving makes the body feel good The warm and fuzzy feeling that arises when helping others is what drives many to donate money or do good for others. Studies show that altruism may actually have profound physiological effects.

Scientists have determined that the feelings of happiness associated with doing good can be traced to a particular pleasure center of the brain that can be viewed and measured with brain scans. There are physical components to doing thoughtful or charitable things, according to a report in The New York Times.

This bodes well for donations as the recession continues to hit the country in a big way.

Individuals who are facing layoffs or pay cuts may still dig deep into their pockets for charitable donations because they seek the high that donating provides.

And it isn’t just financial donations that make a person happy. Any type of goodwill toward others is a way to generate the endorphins and mood-boosting properties of altruism. That means there are plenty of opportunities that can boost feelings of happiness: • During the holiday season, write a “Letter from Santa” to a less fortunate child and include a gift card to a toy store so that he or she can get a treat.

• Visit seniors in a retirement community or assisted-living facility and sit and chat for a while.

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• Volunteer to watch neighborhood children so other mothers and fathers can get a much-needed break.

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• Hold a door, smile at someone or offer to get something down from a tall shelf in a store. It’s the little things that can bring pleasure.

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Remembering holiday traditions, then and now

by AnnMarie Costella Assistant Editor

For many people the holidays conjure up memories of good food, seasonal movies and music and quality time spent with family. Over the last several years, those memories may also include the long lines and fighting associated with Black Friday shopping. Queens seniors tend to prefer the holiday memories of childhood, when everything seemed much simpler.

On an average day, Carole Rehns, 70, is behind the counter at the Gyro Grill in Rego Park, which serves up tasty Greek fare. This time of year, the restaurant is decorated with garlands, Christmas trees and snowmen, and it provided the perfect backdrop for Rehns to reflect on how she celebrates the holidays.

She comes from a big family and she was raised in the Jewish faith, so Hanukkah was really an opportunity to spend time with relatives. There wasn’t the commercial gift giving that there is today.

“We always used to get together — like 40 people, and it was nice,” Rehns

said. “It was a home holiday and it was also religious.”

They would light the menorah, and make traditional foods like potato latkes and chicken soup, along with plenty of sweets. The extended family would come over for the first and last days of the holiday’s eight days, while those in between were celebrated by the immediate family alone.

“We always had dinner together,” Rehns said. “There was none of this working all the time and not coming home for dinner. Things were simpler in my day — much simpler.”

And that included the gifts.

“We used to get little things — a scarf, a sweater, some Hanukkah money,” Rehns recalled. “We used to play the game with the dreidel.”

She doesn’t think too highly of Black Friday, calling the crowds pushing and shoving in the stores to get the best deals “disgusting.”

“We didn’t have Black Friday when I was growing up as a teenager. We didn’t have a lot of things. We didn’t go to clubs. We didn’t have credit cards. We

didn’t have cell phones.”

Since her ex-husband is Catholic, she raised her children to celebrate both holidays and continues to do so today, spending time with family and friends, though there isn’t a large crowd like she had growing up.

As one of 17 children, community activist Adjoa Gzifa, 65, of Jamaica, who grew up in Spanish Harlem, remembers celebrating Christmas by going to church, and then coming home for a feast prepared by her mother.

“The house always smelled so good, with the chicken and turkey cooking,” Gzifa said. “My mom made the best coconut banana cake. We also had chocolate cake, sweet potato pie, banana pudding, mac and cheese and collard greens.”

It was a holiday for spending quality time together as a family, with each person helping with the cooking and decorating.

“We all had our piece to do,” Gzifa said. “We would hang out and talk, joke around, sing Christmas carols and watch Christmas movies,” Gzifa said.

Carole Rehns celebrates Christmas and PHOTO BY ANNMARIE COSTELLA Hanukkah.

Her two favorite holiday films remain “It’s a Wonderful Life” and “A Christmas Carol.” No matter how many times she has seen both, she said she still feels compelled to watch them again when they are on television.

Today, Gzifa’s traditions vary from those of her childhood. She still attends a church service on Christmas Eve and spends time with family, watches holiday movies and drinks eggnog, but doesn’t decorate or buy gifts. “I’m a Scrooge,” she said with a laugh.

Gzifa doesn’t believe Christmas should be a commercial holiday. “You would never catch me in a store on Black Friday,” she said. Also, her late son

used to love putting up the Christmas tree, but since he died — he was killed during a robbery 17 years ago — having one causes painful memories.

Gzifa, having gotten in touch with her African roots about two decades ago, also celebrates Kwanzaa. She has a meal with family and they recite the seven tenants of the holiday.

For Astoria Jazz musician Carol Sudhalter, who is over 50, but asked that her age not be published, the holidays are spent helping others celebrate, whether performing at office parties or New Year’s gatherings or volunteering to perform at hospitals and nursing homes.

Growing up, Sudhalter celebrated Hanukkah and remembers lighting a menorah and exchanging gifts. “Everyone was in a good mood,” she said.

“They were much more festive than usual.”

Today, however, Sudhalter laments the consumer, product-driven season.

“These commercial holidays don’t mean anything to me,” she said. “Starting all that shopping six weeks in advance P doesn’t appeal to me.”

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Don’t spend it all in one place.

The small increase is due to the Consumer Price Index, which Social Security adjustments are based on. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the index increased just 1.7 percent overall in the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 2012.

The USDA does concede that because of the droughts in the Midwest (the worst in 50 years), food prices will rise in 2013 above the “average” inflation of 2.5 percent to 3 percent that’s taken place in 2012. It takes several months for that type of disaster to impact food prices. It says that for 2013, “inflation should be above the historical average for food categories such as cereals and bakery products, as well as other foods.”

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Hollis and Jamaica voted Republican last month. Overwhelmingly. Surprised? So are the people of Hollis and Jamaica.

They of course did not vote Republican at all. The black community is by far the most reliable Democratic voting bloc there is, casting more than 90 percent of its ballots that way.

And that’s in elections when President Obama is not at the top of the ticket.

Yet this week Southeast Queens residents learned that one of the officials they sent to Albany is leaning a little to the right.

So far to the right, in fact, that he’s fallen right out of the actual Democratic Party into the Independent Democratic Caucus.

That off icial is state Sen. Malcolm Smith. He’s been floating the idea of running for mayor as a Republican — two other longtime Democrats have already decided they’re doing the same — and his jump to the IDC may be designed to help that goal. Or it may just be a naked power grab. Or both.

The state Senate has been controlled by a Republican majority for decades, other than a two-year stint, 2009-10, when the Democrats led the body. In fact, none other than Smith was in charge for much of the time.

It was a disaster, with spending skyrocketing in the midst of the recession, political coups, wheeling and dealing leading to investigations and voters putting the Republicans back in charge — albeit by a slim majority — the next chance they got.

They also elected centrist Gov. Cuomo, who seems quite pleased to have the GOP in charge of the Senate while his fellow Democrats retain their much tighter, more disciplined control of the Assembly under apparent Speaker for Life Sheldon Silver.

The Senate GOP, ever willing to retain

its power by just about all means necessary, tried to expand its majority in the last election by creating a new Senate district, widening the body from 62 to 63 seats. Majority Leader Dean Ske- State Sen. Malcolm FILE PHOTO los (R-Nassau) Smith and his compatriots thought winning the new district would be a cakewalk. Instead it’s likely going to a Democrat.

So the party moved to offering any Democrat who’d throw aside his beliefs some goodies like choice committee assignments, bigger offices and that great vote-buying tool, bringing home the bacon.

Skelos found several takers, including, most notably, freshman Sen. Simcha Felder (D-Brooklyn), who had made it publicly known he’d jump ship if offered enough by the Republicans.

At least Felder represents a community largely compromising Orthodox Jewish voters who are socially conservative, sometimes fiscally, and even occasionally vote Republican. One might see some common ground there, something other than pure opportunism to justify Felder’s flip.

It’s hard to see that in Smith’s case. He represents a mostly working-class black community. The only time he’s publicly sounded like a Republican in recent memory is when he came out in favor of stop and frisk for crime fighting.

The extra irony of Smith’s joining the IDC is that it was born a few years ago, created by Democrats who wanted to break free of the Democratic leader at the time.

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The Glendale Volunteer Ambulance Corps and other regional rescue officials are teaming with local businesses and organizations to collect donations of Christmas toys for children in the Rockaways who were affected by Hurricane Sandy.

The GVAC is teaming with The Avenue Bar, Hans’ Gasthaus, Farrell’s Pub, the off ice of Assemblyman Mike Miller (D-Woodhaven) and the New York State Volunteer Ambulance and Rescue Association, District 4, to collect and distribute the toys.

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Three high schools’ performance probed Flushing, Campus Magnet schools eyed by DOE, could be shut down

by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

Only a few months after a court ruling gave a last-minute reprieve to seven Queens high schools, the city Department of Education is eyeing three schools — including one of those seven — in a new round of academic performance probing that could lead to closure of the schools.

Flushing High School and two schools located at Campus Magnet in Cambria Heights — Law, Government and Community Service High School; Business, Computer Applications and Entrepreneurship High School — have been targeted by the DOE’s early engagement program. As part of the program, DOE officials have been meeting with parents, staff and students to discuss academic performance after the three schools earned D grades on the DOE’s annual report cards released last month. Department officials get updates from members of the school community and report that information to the superintendent.

The superintendent of the high schools then puts together a report with the information received during those meetings and brings it back to DOE headquarters. That information will play a role in whether or not the department will seek to close the schools next year.

Flushing High School, one of seven Queens high schools on a closure list last year, received a “D” grade this year and is part of the department’s early engagement program, which could lead to it’s FILE PHOTO closure.

Two dozen high schools citywide made the list.

Dmytro Fedkowskyj, Queens’ representative on the Panel for Educational Policy, said the early engagement process does not necessarily mean the schools will be put on a closure list, but that they are being looked at for phase out.

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Business, Computer Applications and Entrepreneurship High School, and Law, Government and Community Service High School, both within the Campus Magnet complex in Cambria Heights, are being threatened with closure due to a D letter grade from the city based on academic performance.

The move would follow the ongoing phaseout of Jamaica High School and the planned but aborted closures of several other schools in Queens over the last year.

While closure is far from definite, the two schools, along with two elementary schools and one middle school in Southeast Queens, are on a new list of troubled institutions the Department of Education is keeping a special eye on [see separate story].

Campus Magnet students interviewed this week about the possibility are not happy about the negative impact closure could have on them.

Sophomore Isaya Palacio, 16, called the threat “unfair,” saying, “A lot of kids want to pass and do well.”

Palacio said he heard of the possible

shutdown through rumors spreading around the school, from both students and teachers.

He thinks a lot of the problems stem from allowing the troublemakers and students who don’t care about academic performance to stay in the school.

“Just kick those kids out,” he said.

He is unsure of what he will do if the closure does happen.

Armani Gregory, a 15-year-old from the school for Law, Government and Community Service, wasn’t surprised about hearing the ominous news for his school.

“There are fights, bad kids, kids in the class literally jumping off of tables, throwing food,” he said.

He agreed with his friend Palacio that getting rid of troublemakers could help, but that also more teachers should be hired.

If the school were to close down, he said, he might move and go to a school on Long Island, where he said he has family.

Jermaine Harriott, 18, a senior at Law, Government and Community Service, also believes his low-performing peers and their “attitude” is a reason for the low grade.

“There are just bad students,” he said.

Q “They don’t want to learn.”

the right direction, but our struggling schools need additional support and engagement more than a few months before one is considered for phaseout or closure,” Fedkowskyj said.

Three grammar and middle schools — PS 140 in South Jamaica, IS 59 in Springfield Gardens and PS 156 in Laurelton — are also on the early engagement list.

Fedkowskyj noted that it was unlikely any

other borough school would make a potential closure list and that it was possible no schools from Queens will actually close in the end.

Last year eight schools were targeted.

One, Grover Cleveland High School in Ridgewood, was removed from the list at the last minute. Flushing High School was one of the seven that were closed, but a judge quashed the closure plan after teacher and administrative unions sued the DOE on the plan.

Business, Computer Applications and Entrepreneurship High School had been eyed for closure a few years ago. It is one of four schools inside the Campus Magnet complex — formerly home to Andrew Jackson High School, which closed in 1994.

Of the eight schools that made the closure list in the borough last year, two — Grover Cleveland and Newtown High School in Elmhurst — received B scores on this year’s report cards. John Adams, Long Island City, Richmond Hill and William Cullen Bryant all scored a C. Flushing and August Martin in South Jamaica scored Ds, but August Martin did not make this year’s early engagement list.

The DOE will decide which schools, if any, it wishes to close in the next few months. Those closures would have to be Q approved by the PEP in the spring.

Redistricting maps thrown out continued from page 6 are also in a state of wait and see while candidates wait to find out if they live in the district they want to run in. The shortened time frame may make fundraising and campaigning more difficult for challengers.

But some, including Councilman Dan Halloran (R-Whitestone), say ditching the map was an important step toward improving the credibility of the process.

“This morning’s resolution by the Districting Commission is a step in the right direction,” he said. “I am hopeful that deliberations and the next public hearing will lead to the restoration of northern Flushing to the 19th District, so that the single-family homeowners in that area will continue to have a voice in the Council and not be disenfranchised.”

The Asian American Community Coalition on Redistricting and Democracy, which has been pushing for strengthening representation among Asian-majority neighborhoods, praised the decision of the commission to redraw the maps, but noted there had been some improvement from the earlier draft.

“ACCORD has considered a third round to be necessary and welcomes this announcement,” the group said in a statement. “These upcoming hearings will present an opportunity for the Districting Commission to maintain positive changes made in the revised (second) map, further

improve boundaries to reflect demographic changes, and in particular, address outstanding issues affecting minority voting rights and Asian American communities.”

ACCORD had praised the new map’s consolidation of Elmhurst, which has a growing Asian-American population, into one district — District 25 currently represented by Councilman Danny Dromm (DJackson Heights). They also noted the improvement in Richmond Hill and South Ozone Park, where the border between districs 32 and 28 was moved 17 blocks west to 103rd Street from Lefferts Boulevard. ACCORD said the border should be moved further to Woodhaven Boulevard to unite the Indo-Caribbean and West Indian community in Richmond Hill, South Ozone Park and Ozone Park.

The group also backed the consolidation of Bayside and Oakland Gardens, which remains split between two council districts. Halloran, who represents one of the two districts, said the housing stock in the two neighborhoods are very different and suggested a different potential reason for Oakland Gardens wanting to join his district.

“I can’t fathom why an R3 and R4 zone would want to be in my district other than it’s such a nifty place to be,” he quipped.

“They probably just want to have the best councilmember in the city, and I can’t Q fault them for that.”

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The donations will be equally divided, with $2,500 designated for purchasing Having been active in the community for school supplies and $2,500 used for toys and more than eight years, Tropix Bar and other gifts for displaced children.

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by Maria Fitzsimons “It’s very fun for me to be with my friends and sing,” Luis Loannou, 13, said with a smile after the debut Christmas caroling performance at last Saturday’s Holiday Kids’ Bazaar in Astoria.

Loannou is a member of the show choir Cool Vocals, made up of students 9 to 15 years old from Art House Astoria, a nonprofit music and art conservatory where children and adults can flex their creative muscles.

For the first time in the school’s threeyear history, it is organizing community Christmas caroling throughout the month of December. The program is for all ages, with no singing or musical experience necessary to participate.

But instead of singing indoors to a group like during the bazaar — sponsored by The Story Nook and babyNOIR, two Astoria businesses with strong ties to the community, and organized to support local artists with proceeds from a raffle going to support the Queens Library Foundation — the carolers will be hitting the streets to spread holiday cheer throughout the neighborhood, with the hopes of bringing suburban charm to urban living.

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body. Classes will run through Dec. 19. Free for members of the CQY; nonmembers can purchase a 10-class card at $150. One can start classes anytime.

Queens Historical Society presents “Permanent Residence: Uncovering the Cemeteries of Queens” through April at the Kingsland Homestead, 143-35 37 Ave. in Flushing. Call (718) 939-0647, ext. 17 or email info@queenshistoricalsociety.org

Italian Charities of America, 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst, teaches ballroom dancing every Monday and Friday night form 7:15 to 8 p.m. followed by a social dance. Cost is $10.

“Three Generations” features the works of three generations of the Aguilera family — artists Raphael, Florencio and Chencho. Their paintings and drawings capture the history of Ayamonte, Spain from 1903 to the present day. The exhibit is on display at the Queensborough Community College Art Gallery, 225-05 56 Ave. in Bayside and will continue through Jan. 5. For more information visit the website at QCCArtGallery@qcc.cuny.edu or call (718) 631-6396.

The New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Flushing Meadows/Corona, presents ReGeneration now through Jan 13. Ten artists will present their interpretations of cultural sustainability. For over 450 exhibits as well as featured events and programs, visit nysci.org/visit

AUDITIONS Socrates Sculpture Park at 32-01 Vernon Blvd., Long Island City, is looking for artists and architects with a deadline of Jan. 7. Visit socratessculpturepark.org, click on the exhibition tab and search for artist opportunities for more information and to print out an application.

The AARP Queens Chorus performs at Queens nursing homes and rehab/senior centers. If interested in joining call (718) 523-1330 for audition dates.

Slow Pitch Softball of Queens is now enrolling for the 2013 summer season. Visit spsofqueens.com or email spsofqueens@gmail.com for more information. Limited space is available.

THEATRE Emmy-nominated actor Rob Schneider brings his zany comedy to the Queensborough Performing Arts Center, 222-05 56 Ave., Bayside, on Sunday, Jan. 27 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $40 for all seats. You must be 21 or older to attend.

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DANCE The Thalia Spanish Theatre, 41-17 Greenpoint Ave., Sunnyside, presents Colombia de fiesta with Mestizo Dance Company and Harold Gutierrez and his Band on Friday, Dec. 9 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25. Call (718) 729-3880.

A one-hour auto clinic for women is held the third Saturday of every month at 3:30 p.m. at Great Bear Auto Repair Shop, 164-16 Sanford Ave., Flushing.

The class is free. Call to reserve at (718) 762-6212.

Discuss Torah portion Miketz with Rabbi Samuel Waidenbaum, Rabbi Romie Daniel and Charles Lehat on Saturday, Dec. 15 at 12:30 p.m. following Shabbat services at the Parashat and Haftarat Club at the Rego Park Jewish Center, 97-30 Queens Blvd.

Call (718) 459-1000 for more information.

An exhibit at Socrates Sculpture Park by Catherine Opie, Untitled (Stump Fire #4) is on display on the Broadway Billboard through March 31, 2013. The park is looking for new artists and architects through Jan. 5.

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A winter concert will be held at Church on the Hill, 167-07 35 Ave., Bayside on Saturday, Dec. 15 at 8 p.m. sponsored by the Community Singers of Queens. Tickets are $10. Email csofg@aol.com.

FLEA MARKETS Flushing House, 38-20 Bowne St., Flushing, will hold a flea market on Saturday, Dec. 15 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

St. Josaphat’s R.C. Church of Bayside will hold a flea market plus ethnic Polish bake sale on Sunday, Dec. 16 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Parish Hall, 35th Avenue and 210th Street.

Holy Martyrs Armenian Church, 209-15 Horace Harding Expy., Bayside, holds a Chinese auction on Saturday, Dec. 8 at 6 p.m. $10 admission includes tickets and refreshments. No children under 12. For every nonperishable item you being, you will receive a ticket for a special drawing. Food will be given to the victims of Hurricane Sandy.

MEETINGS VFW post 4784, located at 19-12 149 St., Whitestone, will hold its monthly meeting on Monday, Dec. 10 at 8 p.m. All those who served in the military overseas are invited to attend.

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Free public speaking/effective communication meetings are held on the first, third and fourth Saturdays of the month at 10 a.m. Learn to be comfortable speaking before an audience. Meetings are held at the Elmhurst Hospital Center, Conference room A-1-15, 79-01 Broadway. Contact club vice president membership at (646) 748-8290.

The Queens College Choral Society and Orchestra presents Gustav Mahler’s “Symphony No. 2 (“Resurrection”) on Saturday, Dec. 8 at 8 p.m. in Colden Auditorium on the Queens College campus at 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, with guest conductor Maurice Peress. Tickets are $20 and $18. Call (718) 9975597 for more information.

A leisure group meets every Wednesday at 11 a.m. at the Hillcrest Jewish Center, Prince Room, 183-02 Union Turnpike, Flushing. Cost is $6 for lunch. The program includes yoga instruction, discussion groups, card games, bingo, birthday celebrations, guest speakers and holiday celebrations. For info., call Dr. Roz Gold at (718) 229-7511.

A schizophrenics anonymous self-help support group will be held on Sundays from 10 to 11 a.m. at L.I. Consultation Center, 97-29 64 Rd., Rego Park.

Call (718) 896-3400 for more information. The group is free.

FOR KIDS Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston, invites Young Chefs between the ages of 7 and 12 to design, build and decorate a graham cracker gingerbread house on Saturday, Dec. 15 from 10:30 a.m. to noon. The cost is $24 per child. Space is limited to 8 participants. Call (718) 229-4000 to pre-register.

Join Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston, for a safari on Saturday, Dec. 15 from 1-2 p.m. Ages 6-11 are welcome and the fee is $9 per child. Pre-register by calling (718) 229-4000.

All children between the ages of 5 and 6 are welcome to join Alley Pond Environmental Center, 22806 Northern Blvd., Douglaston, for a day of “Dino”mite Dinosaurs on Saturday, Dec. 15 from 1:30-3:30 p.m. Youngsters will learn how these prehistoric creatures lived then go on an “archeological dig” including a craft, a snack and nonprehistoric animals. Limited to 12 participants. Cost is $21 per child. Call (718) 229-4000 to pre-register.

CLASSES Every Wednesday from 6:30 to 7:45 p.m. join Rabbi Waidenbaum at the Rego Park Jewish Center, 97-30 Queens Blvd., to learn and discuss the weekly Torah portion. There is no charge and all are welcome. Call (718) 459-1000 for more information.

Central YM & YWHA, 67-09 108 St. in Forest Hills is now offering a ballet fitness fusion class which will combine the fundamentals of ballet barre work with traditional fitness training. This Wednesday class is designed to strengthen, tone and shape the lower

Thrill to an evening with the stars with astronomer Mark Freilich at Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston, on Saturday, Dec. 15 at 7 p.m. View highlights of the night sky.

Cost is $12 per person, $7 for children ages 7-12.

Pre-register by calling (718) 229-4000.

A Scrabble club will be held at the East Flushing Library, 196-36 Northern Blvd. on Tuesdays at 3:30 p.m. Seating is limited; first come, first served.

Ongoing drawing class every Wednesday 1-4 p.m. at the National Art League, 44-21 Douglaston Pkwy, Douglaston. Instructor, Marc Jasloff. Call (516) 2237659. Fee: $25 per class.

The Jackson Heights Art Club offers art classes in all mediums, adults, children, days, evenings. Classes are held at St. Mark’s Church, 82nd Street and 34th Avenue. Costs are: adults, $100 for four sessions, nonmembers, $75 for members; children seven years and up, $75 for eight sessions. Membership available. For information, call Geraldine at (718) 446-4709.

Mindfulness Meditation one-hour class with Rabbi Michael Weisser at Free Synagogue of Flushing, 4160 Kissena Blvd., on Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. Free. For more information, call (718) 961-0030 or email info@freesynagogue.org.

Adult education classes will be held at the Rego Park Jewish Center, 97-30 Queens Blvd., Rego Park.

Rabbi Waidenbaum will be teaching several adult education classes. No charge. Call for more information, (718) 459-1000.

The YWCA of Queens, 42-07 Parsons Blvd., Flushing, has expanded its GED preparation program to include free adult classes. Tracks vary in length from 10 to 20 weeks depending upon entrance test results. Contact the YW and sign up for the next placement examination. Call Stacy McKelvey at (718) 353-4553 for more information or to reserve your placement exam seat.

Italian Charities of America, 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst, will host a dance with instructions every Monday and Friday from 7:15-8 p.m. From 8-11 p.m. there will be a social dance. Call (718) 478-3100 for more information. Cost is $10 per person or you can buy a series card.

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Oh, the dangers of love ... and doughnuts At the play’s outset, she has never had her own heart broThe commitment from the Flux ken, never having experienced Theatre Ensemble, which has rejection. taken over the stage for the Secret When she does, finally, face this most human emotion, her Theatre’s newest show, was more initial reaction is to commit to a than clear on Saturday night, as life of celibacy. the troupe played to a packed A cardiologist named Peter, and enthusiastic house. on the other hand, has had “We love what we do, we his heart broken so many have fun doing it, and we times it’s permanently damwant to inspire that passion When: Dec. 6-8 and Dec. 11-15 at 8 p.m.; Dec. 9 at 7 p.m. aged, and thus he sets out to in others,” the ensemble Where: Secret Theatre invent an artificial one to says in the show’s program.

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“I used to work in construc- can’t have love, no one can.” He seen. Running some 90 intermissionless minutes, it flies by, tion,” she explains, “but too gloats each time he threatens his fellow characters on stage as well scarcely leaving time for the many men fell to their deaths.”

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actors or the audience to catch their breath. The innovative play, which questions the purposes and passions each individual has in life, has come up with situations and lines that are at once ludicrous and hilarious.

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“The gallery space will be fairly loud,” Carl Goodman, executive director of the Museum of the Moving Image, said about the venue’s latest tribute, this one to the granddaddy of video games.

The museum will host 17 interactive beeping and buzzing game platforms and about nine arcade games starting on Dec. 15, which can all be linked back to “Spacewar!” In 1962 three Massachusetts Institute of Technology students created what no one had before — a digital video game.

“They didn’t call it a video game; they called it a computer toy,” Goodman said.

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The computer whizzes then shared the software on the precursor to the Internet. People took interest and soon many other games followed suit, creating a story line in a fanciful space world.

“SpaceWar!” chose the backdrop of a black sky out of necessity for its plot, because at the time computers couldn’t draw the elaborate scenes of modern games. But the space theme has proved a nice fit for programs decades later as well, because it allows the player to fill in the created environment, Goodman said, adding the plots were the reason why the museum, which is dedicated to showing visual stories, became interested in the exhibition.

“They are emotionally engaging,” Goodman said, “You care about what you see on the screen.”

Another reason the museum will be displaying games in its “Blast Off” show is the more serious topic of education. These games, Goodman said, demonstrate “how to create a game from moving pixels.” The works additionally educate, either knowingly or unknowingly, about physics and the trajectory gamers must take to win.

Some of the games available for the public to play at the Museum of the Moving Image will be “Halo 4,” a first-person shooter game released this year based in a science-fiction-like world; “Space Invaders,” the wildly popular 1978 Japanese arcade program — the “Elvis” of arcade games, which changed everything; “Star Wars,” a 1983 game that introduced colorful vector graphics;

A model of a PDP-1 (Programmed Data Processor-1) computer on which a playable simulation of “Spacewar!” will be presented as part of the exhibition “Spacewar! Video Games Blast Off” at Museum of the Moving Image. The screen is at the center.

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the community?’” Burgess added.

The Christmas songs were chosen by the “I’m from a really small town; we’d carol around the town from house to house,” Jane Burgess, a cofounder of carolers themselves, according to Burgess, Art House Astoria along with her husband, Micah, recalled with suggestions presented during of Christmastime in her native West Virginia. Burgess addi- rehearsals when the group was asked what some of their favorites tionally serves as the choir’s musical were to sing. Some instructor and performed Christmas songs are even songs at the bazaar, along with accompanied with about 20 singers after Cool Vocals small instruments, kicked off the show.

When: i Friday, Dec. 7 at 6:30 p.m., like sleigh bells and Laura Ware, Art House Astoria’s meet at Art House Astoria, wooden tone blocks school administrator and acting 23-35 Broadway, Astoria with mallets to keep coach, was on hand to sing too. at 6:15 p.m. the beat.

She is also the person who was i Saturday, Dec. 15 at 5 p.m., “We’ve had a meet on Steinway Street inspired to bring this communityreally nice turnout of and 31st Avenue building project to Western i Thursday, Dec. 20 at 6:30 p.m., our regular students, Queens. meet on 23rd Avenue and folks from our Meet“I went caroling a couple years Ditmars Boulevard up group, members ago with a group down in the VilContact: (347) 738-4148 of the Presbyterian lage and I thought that would be a arthouseastoria.org Church and new Art House Astoria students Valentina Padovan, left, Will Cusanelli, really fun community project for friends who have Krisnina Magpantay and Luis Loannou sang Christmas carols at the Art House Astoria to start,” Ware found us through Holiday Kids' Bazaar, Saturday, Dec. 1. said.

PHOTO BY MARIA FITZSIMONS Twitter, Facebook and The self-dubbed “Community Car“They put me in a good mood,” Loannou said of olers” had several rehearsals during November, when word of mouth,” Ware said.

“We’ve had a great response so far and we hope to Christmas songs, especially his favorite to perform, “We they met to work on harmonies as a group.

Wish You a Merry Christmas.”

“Laura is quite an idea person and said, ‘Why don’t we make this an annual event,” she added.

Families are encouraged to participate in this commu“I really enjoy Christmas — because it brings my family put the word out there to the community to see if people Q even closer together than we already are.” are interested getting together to carol, reaching out to nity caroling group together.

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Rego Park Jewish Center, 97-30 Queens Blvd., hosts the National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene Troupe, which will perform the “Heyse Latkes” with English translations on Sunday, Dec. 9 at 2:30 p.m. After the performance enjoy hot latkes. Tickets in advance are $10; at the performance, $12.

The Greater Astoria Historical Society, 35-20 Broadway, 4th Floor, is hosting a book sale on Saturday, Dec. 8 form 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Hundreds of books are available, including history, children’s, fiction, sports, health, cookbooks, biographies and many other special books. Call (718) 278-0700 or visit astorialic.org for more information.

The Samuel Field Y has two weekday programs for preschool children ages 3-5 with developmental disabilities and their families. On Mondays from 3 to 4:30 p.m. there is Monday Magic: Learn and Play at the Bay Terrace Center: 212-00 23 Ave., Bayside. On Wednesdays from 3-4:30 there is Gym and Creative Exploration at the Little Neck Site, 58-20 Little Neck Pkwy. Contact Amanda at (718) 225-6750 ext. 262 or email asmith@sfy.org for more information.

SENIOR ACTIVITIES The Ridgewood Older Adult Center, 59-14 70 Ave., Ridgewood, welcomes seniors age 60 and older. The center is open Monday-Friday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

A food pantry is available Tuesdays-Thursdays from 9:30-11:30 a.m. Other activities include daily hot lunch, mini-trips, monthly birthday parties, theme parties and daily exercise. An AARP defensive driving class well be held on Monday, Dec. 17. Movies are held every Tuesday at 1:15 p.m. Call Karen at (718) 456-2000 for more information.

Ridgewood Older Adult Center arts and craft class holds a holiday sale, today and tomorrow at the Ridgewood Savings Bank, 71-02 Forest Ave. The Selfhelp Benjamin Rosenthal-Prince Street Senior Center, 45-25 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, as an eight week computer basics class using Windows 7 starting on Monday, Dec. 3. Call (718) 559-4329.

The CCNS Bayside Senior Center, 221-15 Horace Harding Expy., hosts free programs Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.: Mondays at 12:30 p.m., first-run movie; Mondays and Thurdays at 1 p.m., Ping Pong; Mondays at 9:15 a.m., Wednesdays and Fridays at 10:15 a.m., Exercise class; Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, bingo; Tuesdays at 9 a.m. and 10:15 a.m. and Fridays at 9 a.m., chair yoga; Wednesdays at 9:15 a.m., Wii bowling; Tuesdays at 9:15 a.m., Big Apple Strollers; Tuesdays at 9:30 a.m. and Thursdays at 10 a.m., line dancing; Tuesdays at 12:30 p.m., duplicate bridge; Tuesdays at 1 p.m., chorus; Mondays and Wednesdays, bridge instruction; Tuesdays at 1 p.m., ESL for Chinese speakers; Thursdays at 10:45 p.m., tai chi; Wednesdays and Thursdays from 1-2 p.m. and 2-3

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The Pomonok Senior Center, 67-09 Kissena Blvd., is offering free Chinese language classes every Thursday at 1 p.m.; its very first Dear Abby Group every Thursday at 11 a.m.; free ESL classes for Chinese speakers, every Tuesday and Thursday from 9-10:30 a.m.; and the Knitting and Crochet club every Thursday at 1 p.m. for beginners and experts. For more information, please contact the Pomonok Senior Center at (718) 591-3377, Monday-Friday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The Rockaway Boulevard Senior Center, 123-10 143 St., South Ozone Park, offers service programs Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Lunch is at noon with a suggested donation of $1.50. Exercise programs include: tai chi stretch, dance groups, choral group, ceramic, camera class, computer classes, trips, birthday parties and more. For more information, call (718) 657-6752.

Activities at the Clearview Senior Center, 208-11 26th Ave., Bayside, are held Monday-Friday. For more information, call (718) 224-7888.

The Howard Beach Senior Center invites seniors aged 60 and older to become members. The center offers exercise, yoga and tai chi classes, crafts, weekly dances with a DJ, painting and sketching classes, bingo, ballroom and line dancing, Wii bowling and computer classes. It is located at 156-45 84th St., use the 85th St. entrance, open from 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Lunch is served at noon. For more information, call (718) 738-8100, or visit their new website at howardbeachseniorcenter.org.

An exercise class for seniors. meets Saturdays at 9 a.m. at the SNAP of Eastern Queens Senior Center, 8045 Winchester Blvd., Bldg. 4 on the Creedmoor Community Campus, Queens Village. For more information call Kathleen at (718) 454-2100.

SUPPORT GROUPS Al-anon meets every Sunday at noon at Resurrection Ascension Pastoral Center basement, 85-18 61 Rd., Rego Park.

Drug problem? Call Narcotics Anonymous Helpline at (718) 962-6244 or visit westernqueensna.com.

Meetings are held seven days a week.

Problem with cocaine or other mind-altering substances? For local Cocaine Anonymous meetings call: 1-(212) COCAINE. Co-Dependents Anonymous (women only) meetings are held every Friday from 10 to 11:45 a.m. at Resurrection Ascension Pastoral Center, Fr. Freely Hall, 85-18 61 Rd., Rego Park.

Free caregiver support groups at Queens Community House, Kew Gardens Community Center, 80-02 Kew Gardens Road. Call (718) 226-5960 Ext. 226 for details.

Nar-Anon is a self-help support group or anyone affected by a loved one’s use/abuse of drugs. The group meets every Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in the basement lounge at the Church in the Gardens, 50 Ascan Ave., Forest Hills. For information, call 1(800) 984-0066, or go to nar-anon.org.

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As Doctor X, August Schulenburg’s opening line is, “I have a face like a bowl of worms.” Not quite, but he has a most expressive visage that changes from that of a Lothario to a madman within a single — yes — heartbeat. He is a most ingenious performer.

Quite resourceful, too, is his real-life sister, Marnie Schulenburg, a former Emmy nominee for her role on “As the World Turns,” who, as Lisa, is not only a looker but quite adept at playing a wide variety of emotions and delivering lines that almost always find their target.

Chinaza Uche as Peter has a difficult time keeping up with the high energy of his cast mates, though, it must be admitted, his role is, for the most part, that of the play’s straight man.

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like it’s a one-shot deal and we don’t do that,” Elias said.

In addition to buying gold, silver, diamonds, Recently, a woman and her boyfriend went watches and coins, Ice Jewelry Buying also into an unassuming gold buying and cash loan offers instant cash loans for jewelry and eBay shop on Queens Boulevard. She had a $35 selling services. offer on her ring from another area shop, but Their cash loans program is straightforward and was looking to get a better deal. In what may simple. “It’s a perfect solution for someone who be viewed as poor business acumen, she told has a bill due and a check on the way,” Goldberg her new prospective buyer what her previous said. “But we make sure they have a game plan to offer was. Still, after examining her piece, he buy their jewelry back before the end of the term. offered her $1,600. He did so, as he says, Sometimes these are people’s heirlooms we’re “...because that’s what it was worth.” talking about and we respect that.”

The plight of the worker who’s hard-up for For those who are less Internet-savvy or cash in today’s economy is something that just don’t have the time, Ice Jewelry Buying Arthur Elias and Edward Goldberg can relate to offers a convenient eBay sales service. If what first-hand, having been laid off from their jobs a customer has isn’t an item that Ice Jewelry in jewelry manufacturing. They understand Buying would purchase, like a handbag or that people get into situations where they just antique furniture, they can help find a buyer need a little cash fast to make the bills and Ice on their eBay store. Elias consults with the Jewelry Buying Service hopes to help out in customer to find a target the most honest way they can. price and let the internet STORE HOURS “For this, I like to think we’re auctioneers handle the rest. doing the community a service,” MON.-FRI. 11am - 7pm For anyone who has Elias said. “We’re in the business SAT. 10am - 5pm ever dealt with the hassle of helping people who are in a SUN. by Appointment of selling and shipping tough spot. They can come to an item on eBay — all the our store and know that we can forms involved in setting up a user and paypal educate them on what they have and we’ll give account, the 10-15 percent fee that Ice them what their items are worth. When that Jewelry Buying charges to do all the work is woman told me her previous offer, it made me really a bargain deal. wonder how many times this happens — how “At the end of the day, I just want people many people who really need that money get to feel comfortable doing business with us. taken advantage of?”

People have this conception of gold buying Elias opened his Rego Park shop with stores as these slimy places with slimy Goldberg less than a year ago, and already people, and they’re typically right. But we they’re seeing a lot of repeat customers and want to be different. I don’t think it’s cool to referrals. This is a sign to them that they’re see someone buy a ring for $200 and put it in doing something right — the pawn business their counter for $800. We don’t do that.” typically deals in one-time transactions but Ice Jewelry Buying Services is located at Elias is determined to break that mold, 98-30 Queens Blvd. in Rego Park. Hours of building a reputation on trust. operation are Monday-Friday from 11am to “Everyone around here is buying gold these 7:00pm and Saturday 10am to 5pm; Sunday days; you can go into the barber shop down private appoinments are available. Call for the road and sell your jewelry. The problem Q more information (718) 830-0030. with all these places is they treat everything

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Soccer stadium town hall continued from page 2 Members of area high school soccer teams, as well as soccer clubs supporting the proposal, said the league informed them of the gathering directly and well ahead of time — up to two weeks in some instances. Some were also encouraged to arrive early.

The event included MLS Commissioner Don Garber, who enjoyed a fanatical welcome as Fiore deployed the trademark exuberance that makes him a household name to Univision’s soccer viewers.

Bayside native Garber touted a host of economic benefits for the community. The $350 million proposal comes laced with the promise of 150 full-time jobs and $60 million in annual economic activity, according to MLS. “We will be a good partner in helping to drive the economy of Queens,” he said.

The borough, with its diverse community filled with soccer-loving nationalities, is a natural fit, he said.

“You can’t be a dominant league without a dominant soccer team in the largest and greatest city in the world,” he said.

Garber walked back previous comments he made during an interview with the Associated Press that claimed MLS and the city were “at the finish line.”

“We have a lot of work to do to finalize the plan,” he said Monday night.

Garber welcomed elected officials he said support the stadium, including Assemblyman

Francisco Moya (D-Corona), state Sens.

Toby Stavisky (D-Flushing) and Jose Peralta (D-Jackson Heights) and Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras (D-East Elmhurst).

He also pointed to the planned rejuvenation of the park’s soccer fields, fountains, and water management infrastructure as tens of millions of dollars in added community benefits due to MLS’s presence.

The league is required to find up to 13 acres of replacement land as part of the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure the plan must navigate in order to come to fruition.

That replacement parkland was at the heart of a contentious borough board meeting held Monday night at Borough Hall, in which the chairpersons of Queens’ community boards and elected officials expressed some skepticism about the plan in general, and often returned to the 13 replacement acres as a sticking point that must be ironed out first.

“I don’t think we can make a responsible decision on this until we know where the parkland will come from,” said Councilman Peter Vallone Jr (D-Astoria).

The league is seeking input and considering several sites for the replacement parkland, which can be created anywhere in the city.

Other community board leaders opposed the plan outright, and sternly.

“One thing I want to hear for this park is ‘Not for sale,’” said Community Board 2 Q Chairman Joe Conley.

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David Wright’s productive season was a rare bright spot for Mets fans in 2012. With one year remaining in his contract, David picked a good time to finally feel at home at Citi Field, a place where he had struggled for the first three years of its existence.

Mets owner Fred Wilpon was quoted in New York magazine as saying that Wright, while a good player, was not a superstar.

Wilpon may have been right, but the reality is that his woebegone organization had no choice but to re-sign Wright to the most lucrative contract in Mets history. Had the Mets traded him, Citi Field would have resembled the ghost town that Shea Stadium was in the late 1970s following Tom Seaver’s departure.

For better or worse, Wright is more than just a fan favorite; he is the face of the organization. No one sells more Mets jerseys and Tshirts than he. It’s obligatory for Wright to hold a lengthy press conference on the state of the Mets after every single game. No matter how awful things are for our Flushing heroes, David always says something reassuring to the faithful about how they’ll get better.

I’m not sure if it was a coincidence but the Mets inked a deal with Wright just a few hours after the lowly, small-market Pittsburgh Pirates spent $17 million to pry catcher Rus-

sell Martin away from the Yankees. It would have been humiliating and insulting for the parsimonious Pirates to spend big bucks on new talent while the Mets count their pennies watching their name players go elsewhere.

The death of Marvin Miller, the former executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, last week at age 95 did not receive the attention that it should have.

Marvin is the man who was singlehandedly responsible for the economic freedoms and high pay that big leaguers enjoy today, which were but a pipedream for them 40 years ago.

Ironically, the high salaries and free agency led to more public interest in the sport and thus higher ticket prices, licensing fees, and billion-dollar television contracts for the owners. Of course, the owners and old guard members of the Baseball Writers Association of America refused to accept that notion, and that’s why Miller was never inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.

Washington Wizards GM and former Forest Hills High basketball star Ernie Grunfeld normally never misses a chance to return home.

But his awful team was 1-12 when they came into town last Friday to play the Knicks, and that had to have influenced his decision to skip the game. “He made the right call!” laughed Knicks rookie forward Chris Copeland, who Q played well in his team’s easy win.

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Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Michael Levine, 25-11 B 41st Ave., Long Island City, NY 11101. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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ALEX & JEM STABLE & RACING LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 9/19/12. 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, 90-10 Pitkin Ave., Ozone Park, NY 11417. General Purposes.

Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: DCT, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/19/2012. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 36-14 11th Street, Long Island City, NY 11106. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company. Name: Prince 35NY LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/24/2012.

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, 134-04 35 Avenue, Flushing, NY 11354.

Purpose: for any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SDS WIRELESS LLC, a domestic LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/04/12. Office location: Queens County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: The LLC, 11-11 44th Drive, Long Island City, NY 11101.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Index No.: 27973/2011 Date of Filing: November 23, 2012 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff, -against- PHYLLIS BAKER, if living, or if either or all be dead, their wives, husbands, heirs-at-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, assignees, lienors and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said PHYLLIS BAKER, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, of any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, and the respective husbands, wives, widow or widowers of them, if any, all of whose names are unknown to plaintiff; JEAN SANON; NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD; NEW YORK CITY PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU; NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU; STATE OF NEW YORK; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; “JOHN DOES” and “JANE DOES”, said names being fictitious, parties intended being possible tenants or occupants of premises, and corporations, other entities or persons who claim, or may claim, a lien against the premises, Defendant(s).

TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service, where service of this summons is made by delivery upon you personally within this state, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner, 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. YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT, AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Honorable Diccia T. Pineda-Kirwan of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, signed on October 31, 2012 and filed with supporting papers in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Queens, State of New York.

The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, executed by PHYLLIS BAKER and JEAN SANON to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR MORTGAGE SOURCE LLC in the principal amount of $402,573.00, which mortgage was recorded in Queens County, State of New York, on February 17, 2010, in CRFN. 2010000054165. Thereafter said mortgage was assigned to U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION by assignment of mortgage dated November 18, 2011 and recorded on December 7, 2011 in CRFN. 2011000426697.

Said premises being known as and by 130-16 124TH STREET, SOUTH OZONE PARK, NY 11420.

Dated: August 20, 2012, Batavia, New York. Virginia C. Grapensteter, Esq., ROSICKI, ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C., Attorneys for Plaintiff.

Batavia Office 26 Harvester Avenue, Batavia, NY 14020, 585.815.0288.

Help For Homeowners In Foreclosure.

New York State Law requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process. Please read it carefully. Mortgage foreclosure is a complex process. Some people may approach you about “saving” your home. You should be extremely careful about any such promises.

The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. There are government agencies, legal aid entities and other non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about foreclosure while you are working with your lender during this process.

To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Banking Department at 1-877-BANKNYS (1-877226-5697) or visit the Department’s website at www.banking.state. ny.us. The State does not guarantee the advice of these agencies.

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Alta Loma Productions LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/13/12. Office in Queens County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Ave., Ste. 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: General.

CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

BY THE GRACE OF GOD, FREE AND INDEPENDENT To: Alena Jarabekova, Zdenka Akosiova, Alfred Bachner, Anna Szabo Horvath a/k/a Mrs. Jenone Horvath, Istvan Dravarits, Katalin Dravarits Szendentis a/k/a Mrs. Istanne Szendentis, Gizella Dravarits Galavits a/k/a Antalne Galavits Scott Kaufman, Esq., Diane Lowenburger, Esq., Attorney General of the State of New York The unknown distributees, legatees, devisees, heirs at law and assignees of IRENE GRECH, deceased, or their estates, if any there be, whose names, places of residence and post office addresses are unknown to the petitioner and cannot with due diligence be ascertained.

Being the persons interested as creditors, legatees, distributees or otherwise in the Estate of IRENE GRECH, deceased, who at the time of death was a resident of 1924 Stanhope Street, Ridgewood, NY , in the County of Queens, State of New York.

SEND GREETING: Upon the petition of LOIS M. ROSENBLATT, Public Administrator of Queens County, who maintains her office at 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, Queens County, New York 11435, as Administrator of the Estate of IRENE GRECH, deceased, you and each of you are hereby cited to show cause before the Surrogate at the Surrogate’s Court of the County of Queens, to be held at the Queens General Courthouse, 6th Floor, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, City and State of New York, on the 20 day of December, 2012 at 9:30 o’clock in the forenoon, why the Account of Proceedings of the Public Administrator of Queens County, as Administrator of the Estate of said deceased, a copy of which is attached, should not be judicially settled, and why the Surrogate should not fix and allow a reasonable amount of compensation to GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ., for legal services rendered to petitioner herein in the amount of $14,248.74 and that the Court fix the fair and reasonable additional fee for any services to be rendered by GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ., hereafter in connection with proceedings on kinship, claims, etc., prior to entry of a final Decree on this accounting in the amount of 6% of assets or income collected after the date of the within accounting; and why the Surrogate should not fix and allow an amount equal to one percent on said Schedules of the total assets on Schedules A, A1, and A2 plus any additional monies received subsequent to the date of this account, as the fair and reasonable amount payable to the Office of the Public Administrator for the expenses of said office pursuant to S.C.P.A. §1106(4); and why each of you claiming to be a distributee of the decedent should not establish proof of your kinship; and why the balance of said funds should not be paid to said alleged distributees upon proof of kinship, or deposited with the Commissioner of Finance of the City of New York should said alleged distributees default herein, or fail to establish proof of kinship, Dated, Attested and Sealed 25 day of October, 2012 GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ.(718) 459-9000 95-25 Queens Boulevard, 11th Floor, Rego Park, New York 11374 HON. PETER J. KELLY, Surrogate, Queens County Margaret Gribbons, Clerk of the Surrogate’s Court This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not obliged to appear in person. If you fail to appear it will be assumed that you do not object to the relief requested unless you file formal legal, verified objections.

You have a right to have an attorney-at-law appear for you.

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To Advertise Call 718-205-8000 At an IAS Part 17 of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Held in and for the County of Queens at the Queens County Court House, City of Jamaica, on the 22nd day of October, 2012.

Present: Honorable Orin R. Kitzes, Justice Supreme Court of the State of New York County of Queens in the matter of the Application of Christopher Rooney, Petitioner, for the dissolution of R-Way Moving & Storage, Ltd., Pursuant to Section 1104(a) and 1104-a of the Business Corporation Law, Respondent.

Index No. 21674-12 Order To Show Cause Upon reading and filing the petition of Christopher Rooney, duly verified the_day of October, 2012, the holder of one-half of all outstanding shares of R-Way Moving & Storage, Ltd., (“R-Way”), it is ORDERED that Joseph Rooney, R-Way, the State Tax Commission, the State Attorney General, and all other interested persons, show cause before this court at Part 17 thereof, to be held at the Courthouse at 88-11 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, New York 11435 on the 12th day of December, 2012, at 9:30 am o’clock in the forenoon on that day, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard, why an Order should not be made and entered herein as follows: 1. Granting dissolution of R-Way; 2. Granting an accounting of the assets and liabilities of R-Way; and 3. granting to Petitioner such other, further and different relief as to the Court may seem just and proper, together with attorneys’ fees and the costs of this proceeding; and it is further ORDERED that pending the hearing and determination of this application, Joseph Rooney and any agent of Joseph Rooney acting on his behalf is hereby stayed and enjoined from selling, transferring, moving, alienating, hypothecating, encumbering, dissipating, diverting, conveying or disposing of any of the stocks, assets or good will of R-Way, except in the ordinary course of business; and it is further ORDERED that pending the hearing and determination of this application, Joseph Rooney is hereby restrained, enjoined and prohibited from forwarding any telephone calls or e-mails to any telephone number or e-mail address; respectively, of which Petitioner is unaware and to which Petitioner does not have direct access; and it is further ORDERED that a copy of this order shall be published in The Queens Chronicle once in each of the three weeks before the time appointed for the hearing thereon; and it is further ORDERED that a copy of this order shall be served upon Joseph Rooney, R-Way, the State tax Commission, the Attorney General, and all other interested persons, in the manner prescribed in Section 1106(c), Business Corporation Law, and it is further ORDERED that an affidavit of service be filed with this Court on or before the return date.

EASTERN ENTERPRISES TRAVEL LLC Art. of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 03/12/2012. Off. Loc.: Queens Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to the LLC, 249-40 51st Avenue, Little Neck, NY 11362. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of CROSSROADS DEVELOPER MANAGING MEMBER LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/21/12. Office location: Queens County. Princ. office of LLC: 42-09 235th St., 2nd Fl., Douglaston, NY 11363.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Golden Peace, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/18/12. Office in Queens County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Ning Chen, 35-06 Leavitt St., Unit CF-D, Flushing, NY 11354. Purpose: General.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: 501 LEONARD STREET, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/16/12.

Office location Queens County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of the process to the LLC, 29-10 120th Street, Flushing, New York 11354.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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EQUAL HOUSING. Federal, New York State and local laws prohibit discrimination because of race, color, sex, religion, age, national origin, marital status, familial status or disability in connection with the sale or rental of residential real estate. Queens Chronicle does not knowingly accept advertising in violation of these laws. When you suspect housing discrimination call the Open Housing Center (the Fair Housing Agency for the five boroughs of New York) at 212-941-6101, or the New York City Commission of Human Rights Hotline at 212306-7500.

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Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: GAIL SCHECHTER, NUTRITION & FOOD CONSULTING, LLP. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/01/2012.

Office location is Queens County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to THE PARTNERSHIP, ATTN: GAIL SCHECHTER, 6 Burns Street, Apt. 310, Forest Hills, NY 11375. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: Y & Y DENTAL RESEARCH GROUP, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/04/2012.

Office location is Queens County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the Yu Han Young, 133-36 41 Rd., #1G, Flushing, NY 11355. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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Bayside school gets major federal honor PS 203 awarded ‘Blue Ribbon’ from feds for academic excellence

by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

Parents call it the “Jewel of Bayside,” or perhaps more specifically, it’s a sapphire.

The pale brick building on the east side of Springf ield Boulevard, blends in with the college and high school it sits adjacent to, but inside the structure is an institution of learning that has gotten the attention of education officials right up to those in Washington, DC, who awarded it a prestigious honor this year.

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A banner outside PS 203 proudly announces the school’s Blue Ribbon award.

PS 203, the Oakland Gardens School, is the second home for 862 children from pre-K through fifth grade. This year, it received a Blue Ribbon award, an honor from the U.S. Department of Education that students and staffers celebrated last Thursday in a school assembly, which included songs and speeches and proclamations from local officials.

The school received the award from the U.S. DOE in September — one of five schools in the city and two in Queens to get the award. PS 191 in Floral Park was also awarded a Blue Ribbon.

The award is given to schools with “significant achievement” in academics. Only 269 schools in the country received the honor.

“To be named a Blue Ribbon school is to join a special elite group,” said PS 203’s principal, Carol Nussbaum. “That is a really big wow!”

Outside the Oakland Gardens School, a banner flapped in the wind, announcing the recognition.

Inside, students and teachers wore blue shirts with the name of the school and its recognition as a

“National School of Excellence.”

The students even gave a shirt to Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott who proudly donned it over his suit.

“The students in this school will be prepared for life to be productive adults and make this city and country a better place,” Walcott said to the assembly.

Anita Saunders, superintendent of District 26, noted that the Blue Ribbon award is not an easy thing to achieve.

“To be recognized as a Blue Ribbon school is the result of years of excellence,” she said.

The students treated their guests to a program featuring dancing and singing to a number of “blue” songs including “Blue Suede Shoes,” “Blue Velvet” and “I’m Blue (Da Ba Dee).” The pupils closed their program with a performance of the Beach Boys’ “Be True to Your School,” expressing their school spirit. Music was arranged by a band of PS 203 teachers.

Comptroller John Liu, himself an alumnus of PS 203, said winning the Blue Ribbon was “no small feat” for the school.

“This shows how much their hard

PS 203 students perform a medley of songs with “blue” in the lyrics in celebration of the school’s Blue Ribbon status, awarded by the U.S. Dept. of PHOTOS BY DOMENICK RAFTER Education last Thursday. work has paid off,” he said.

State Sens. Toby Ann Stavisky (D-Flushing) and Tony Avella (DBayside), as well as Councilman Mark Weprin (D-Oakland Gardens) and representatives of Councilman Dan Halloran (R-Whitestone), Assemblyman David Weprin (D-Little Neck) and the U.S. Department of Education were also present.

For students, the morning assembly was a good chance for them to show their pride.

“What this means is that now everyone knows what us kids here have been saying for years. This school is amazing,” said Student Organization President Lance James.

Past Queens schools to receive Blue Ribbon awards include PS 41 and PS 159 in Bayside, PS 173 in Fresh Meadows, PS/IS 178 in Jamaica Estates and Transfiguration Roman Catholic School in Q Corona.

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