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On Jan. 1, sweeping changes in the state’s criminal justice system will mean no-bail release for misdemeanors and most nonviolent felonies.

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Criminal justice laws soon to arrive Debate over Jan. 1 bail, discovery and speedy trial reforms continue

by Katherine Donlevy Associate Editor

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he sweeping bail and discovery criminal justice reform laws are less than a month away from being enacted, but the debate over their impact continues.

Acting Queens County District Attorney John Ryan opposes the laws, while DA-elect Melinda Katz, who will take office Jan. 1, the same day they will be implemented, supports them.

“This law will strip from judges their discretion to set bail for hundreds of crimes, including the violent felony of a residential burglary,” Ryan argued in a recent statement. “In perhaps the ultimate irony, a judge will not be able to set bail for a person charged with bail jumping.”

“We do not and will not have to sacrifice safety for justice,” Katz said in response to Ryan’s statement “We will get rid of cash bail, and will continue to keep Queens safe.

On January 1st, we will build trust across all aspects of the justice system and with the general public that we can respect everyone’s civil rights and protect our communities, because we deserve nothing less.”

The reforms were passed in April by a newly Democratic state Legislature. The changes in law will eliminate cash bail for low-level offenses, such as misdemeanors

Acting Queens District Attorney John Ryan, left, strongly disagrees with the impending criminal justice reforms while his successor, DA-elect Melinda Katz, supports the changes in law. The FILE PHOTO reforms will be enacted on Katz’s first day as DA — Jan. 1. and nonviolent felonies, and require prosecutors to disclose evidence to the defense earlier in the case proceedings. According to the Center for Court Innovation, the changes in law aim to shrink case proceeding times, resulting in shorter jail stays for defendants held in pretrial detention and

potentially reducing the total amount of jail sentences.

The reforms will, however, abolish cash bail for at least 36 offenses that have raised concerns from community members and law enforcement officials. Those against the reforms argue that a number of the offenses

should not be considered low-level, such as aggravated assault upon a person less than 11 years old, criminal possession of a weapon on school grounds, manslaughter in the second degree, promoting a sexual performance by a child and stalking in the second degree.

“The Legislature could’ve created categories of crimes where release was presumptive, but still left judges with their sound discretion to set bail where they felt it appropriate,” continued Ryan. “The Legislature could’ve let judges consider the danger to the community in setting bail. They could’ve done that, but they didn’t.”

The District Attorneys Association of the State of New York, which encompasses all 62 state DA offices, including the Justice Center for the Protection of People with Special Needs and the Office of the New York City Special Narcotics Prosecutor, worry that DA offices will be underfunded in the wake of the reforms and unable to adequately adhere to the changes.

“I urge the Governor and our legislative leaders to listen to the collective perspective of our State’s law enforcement experts,” said DAASNY President and DA of Orange County David Hoovler. “We must continue to prioritize the victims and witnesses of continued on page 14

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Racist graffiti hits Lindenwood block Police still searching for culprit who ‘bombed’ fences and trees

by Michael Shain Editor

Lindenwood woke up Thanksgiving morning to racist messages spray-painted onto fences, tree trunks and sidewalks — a disturbing attack that unsettled the neighborhood and sparked a major police investigation.

The messages were anti-white and nearly all used language considered unprintable.

The graffiti was as extensive as it was obscene, covering long stretches of fencing in front of three houses on 151st Avenue near 81st Street.

Nearby t ree t r u n ks and the sidewalk were also defaced.

“One day I will come back to this and see how successful I am!” read one message, followed by “No cap at all!”

The expression “no cap” means “no lies,” according to The Urban Dictionary Police f looded the area in the hours after the vandalism was discovered, according to neighbors.

Evidence collection teams knocked on doors searching for residential surveillance

cameras that may have captured images of the culprit or culprits.

Detectives from the 106th Precinct and Hate Crimes Task Force were investigating, said Capt. John Costello, commanding officer of the 106th.

From the large area covered by the messages it seems apparent the graffiti-bombing may not have been a hit-and-dash operation.

It would have taken a period of time to write so much and do so much damage.

The racist overtones of the messages and the fact that the perpetrator or per petrators left a chilling threat to “come back” seemed to be most upsetting.

A cleanup effort that i n clu d e d n e ig h b o r s , civic groups and an auxilia r y police of f icer f rom 106t h P reci nct removed nearly all traces of t he va nd alism within 36 hours.

“If this idiot comes back, he will see that he wasn’t successful at all,” read one of the comments on the Howard Beach Dads’ Facebook page where photos of neighbors using powerwashers to

After spray-painting racist slogans on the fences and sidewalk along 151st Avenue in Lindenwood last week, a graffiti vandal left a puzzling message vowing to “come back.” A neighborFACEBOOK PHOTO / HOWARD BEACH DADS hood brigade, left, showed up the next day to clean it up. remove the paint were posted late Friday.

In the days following the vandalism, social media sites bristled with posts calling for neighbors to pitch in for a cleanup.

Facebook pages such as Howard Beach Moms were used to coordinate volunteers.

Hundreds of comments chronicled runs to the Home Depot on Rockaway Boule-

vard for graffiti removal solution, which volunteers paid for themselves, and where and when to show up the scrubbing devices. By Saturday, the tone of comments had turned from anger and outrage over the attack to cheers for how the community had rallied to wipe out nearly all traces of Q the criminal mischief.

Spirit of Valentina lives this holiday She touched the heart of Howard Beach and left a legacy of giving

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This Christmas will be the fifth without Valentina Marie Allen, the Howard Beach toddler who won the heart of a neighborhood with her battle to overcome a rare birth defect.

The extraordinary 2-year-old died in May 2015 after a number of surgeries at a Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to repair her defective heart.

But her memory and spirit are still very much a part of community.

Valentina’s mother, Danielle Allen, is gearing up again for the toy drive she started five years ago in her daughter’s name on behalf of the kids stuck for the Christmas holidays at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where Valentina was treated.

“She takes down a truckload of toys, and I mean a truckload,” says Valentina’s grandmother, Maria Del Cielo.

Then there is the fifth annual Vally’s Very Little Valentina, who died in 2015, lives on in a toy drive. Right, the plaque outside her hos- Merry Christmas party at Roma View, the pital room door. PHOTOS COURTESY ALLEN FAMILY catering hall on Cross Boulevard, thrown by

Del Cielo for all the people who have contributed toys and money in Valentina’s name.

“It’s not a fundraiser,” said the grandmother. “It’s my husband’s and my way of saying thank you to everyone who helped.”

This year, the party is set for Dec. 10.

Valentina was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a defect in which one side of the heart is severely underdeveloped, as well as other congenital disorders.

To date, more than $450,000 has been raised by Team Valentina in her memory through dinners, walkathons, T-shirt sales and the like, said the family.

All the proceeds have gone to Children’s Hospital.

The suite where the youngster stayed has since been dedicated to her. The slogan her parents came up with to promote their fundraising — “Half a heart but twice the fight” — is engraved on a plaque outside the suite.

“It’s the fifth year and we’re going to make a big deal about it,” said Del Cielo. “I don’t Q want my daughter to think Vally is starting to be forgotten.”

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Caught! Fugitive in child abuse case Homeless shelter resident charged with second sex attack in 6 weeks

by Michael Shain Editor

The Ozone Park homeless shelter resident wanted for skipping bail on charges of sexually assaulting a 3-year-old child in a Woodhaven laundromat is behind bars again.

After nearly a month on the run, Luis Olivo, 63, was arrested Sunday afternoon in Downtown Jamaica, police said.

Police say he was apprehended in a second-hand clothing store on Jamaica Avenue after a witness spotted him allegedly groping an 8-year-old girl.

It was the second time in six weeks he’d been arrested for allegedly molesting a young child in a public place.

The saga of the Ozone Park homeless shelter resident has resurrected the anger and resentment of neighborhood groups long opposed to the shelter.

The city, which opened the 117-bed men’s shelter at 101st Avenue and 85th Street last February, had promised local leaders it would screen residents of the facility, located within a half mile of four schools, for histories of sex offenses and mental problems.

“When I started this battle against the homeless shelter, I stated unequivocally that it would only be a matter of time before a woman or child were molested or raped,” Sam Esposito, president of the Ozone Park Residents Block Association and the leader of a long legal battle to stop the shelter from opening, said in an email to the Chronicle.

The civic groups did not learn that Olivo — who has an arrest record that dates back to 1987 — was living in the shelter until two weeks after he’d been arrested at a Woodhaven laundromat and

A 63-year-old homeless man, wanted for skipping bail last month on sexual misconduct charges, was arrested last Sunday inside Unique, a clothing store in Downtown Jamaica, on charges of GOOGLE PHOTO groping an 8-year-old girl. charged with pulling a 3-year-old boy between his legs.

A laund romat patron recorded the encounter on her cell phone, which was turned over to police.

News of that first arrest came out during a contentious monthly meeting of the shelter’s Citizen Advisory Board when the commanding officer of the 102nd Precinct, Deputy Inspector Courtney Nilan, asked administrators if Olivo was eligible to return to the shelter, if he made his $2,000 bail.

A few days later, Olivo was freed from Rik-

ers Island after a justice-reform group called the Bronx Freedom Fund posted his bail.

When Olivo failed to appear at a scheduled court appearance Nov. 8, a warrant was issued and he has been a fugitive until now.

Last Su nd ay, a n employee of My Unique clothing store on Jamaica Avenue told police he’d seen Olivo slip his hand under the skirt of a child he’d been sitting with, according to the criminal complaint.

After his arrest, Olivo gave police a false name, the complaint said, and tried to convince them the debit card he was carry-

ing with the name Luis Olivo was not his.

The arrest report lists him as homeless with no known address, leaving it unclear where he’d been living during his weeks as a fugitive.

Olivo was arraigned late Monday on charges of first-degree sexual abuse, a felony, and forcible touching and false personation, both misdemeanors, Criminal Court Judge Judge Karina Alomar declined the prosecutor’s request to hold Olivo without bail. She set bail at $100,000.

Olivo’s Legal Aid lawyer declined comment on Tuesday.

Esposito noted the lack of any reaction from elected leaders.

“There is no outrage by our politicians,” he said. “The mayor comes to Queens to comfort the people whose houses got flooded by sewer water but could care less about the kids that were molested.”

At a town hall meeting in Jamaica late last month, Mayor de Blasio said he’d not heard of the case until being handed a copy of the Queens Chronicle, but labeled the shelter’s failure to work with community groups as “unacceptable.”

The new police commissioner, Dermot Shea, who accompanied de Blasio to the meeting, said he’d been briefed earlier on the case — and praised the civilian who took a cell phone video.

Since Olivo skipped bail, the mother of the 3-year-old victim in Woodhaven said that she had been dist raught by the thought that other children may be in jeopardy.

After learning of the circumstances of the new arrest, she told the Chronicle in a message relayed through a relative, “I’m Q very angry.”

MTA slow to check new hires Workers with unknown criminal records on job: study

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Justice may be blind, but the MTA has been looking the other way for years when it comes to hiring bus drivers and train operators.

A report issued Wednesday by the MTA inspector general found the agency waited up to a year before doing background checks on its new hires.

In a dozen cases between January 2015 and August 2017, employees who’d failed to disclose their criminal records when hired had gone through long and expensive training programs and been on the job for nearly a year before being discovered.

State laws prohibit the agency from turning down felons who have served their sentences and reveal their backgrounds.

But the IG report found new hires who had been convicted of crimes ranging from

rape and criminal possession of a weapon to robbery, and drug dealing — without disclosing their rcords.

Failing to run timely background checks on new hires also allows unqualified persons to work in sensitive positions.

In one case the IG found, a subway maintenance employee claimed he had enough previous professional experience to qualify as a car inspector—the job he got in 2013.

“Our review of his application materials — which included his date of birth — revealed that if the reported information were accurate, the employee would have been just 13 years old at the start of his first qualifying full-time position,” the report said.

Two agencies are responsible for hiring at the MTA, the city Department of Citywide Administrative Services and New York City Transit.

Under state law, the DCAS is responsible for administering civil service hiring, which covers transit employees as well as traditional city workers.

The requirement that the city must process hiring for the subways and buses is a vestige from the days when the then-Transit Authority was a city agency.

Together, they vet more than 90 percent of transit employees, the report said.

“But they don’t really talk to each other,” said an IG official. “That’s the problem.”

“Clearly, a fundamental problem is that NYC Transit lacks full authority over the hiring process for its civil service employees,” according to the report.

It is not the first time the hiring process at the MTA has been faulted.

A nearly identical study was done in 2004 and found many of the same deficienQ cies, the IG said.

Twelve transit employees had been working for a year or more before anyone checked their records, the MTA inspector general found in a FILE PHOTO new investigation.

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City admits it was late to sewer mess But mayor vows to pick up full tab to clean up S. Ozone Park disaster

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The city is vowing to clean up and repair the damage caused by a smelly sewage backup that f looded as many as 74 homes in South Ozone Park over the weekend.

Investigators from the Department of Environ mental Protection still don’t know what caused the block in a sewage line u nder 150 t h Street at the Belt Parkway.

But early specu lat ion s wa s it m ay h ave b e e n caused by grease poured dow n k itchen d rains over the Thanksgiving holiday.

The answer, officials said, may not be known for a week or more.

The backup affected an area of about 40 square blocks bounded by Baisley Pond Park and the Van Wyck Expressway on the east and west, and Rockaway Boulevard and the Belt Parkway on the north and south.

Residents repor ted their basements began f looding around 1 a.m. Saturday.

The foul-smelling effluent rose to several feet in some homes. The losses, some homeowners told reporters, were total.

The cleanup was delayed by heavy rains on Sunday that, in some cases, drove water back into basements that had just been pumped out.

“I’m here now to let people know that everything they need that we have in our power, we’re going to do for them,” Mayor de Blasio told reporters on Monday during a visit to the scene.

Residents had been complaining about the slowness of the city response to f r a nt ic cal ls t o 311 ea rly Sat u rd ay morning.

“There’s a lot of frustration that calls to 311 went in, and the response was not as quick as it could have been,” the mayor said.

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DEP Commissioner Vincent Sapienza said that 311 operators initially believed the complaints were isolated events.

“It took a few hours before someone connected the dots and said, ‘This isn’t a sporadic problem but it’s very concentrated in one area. Something is going on.’”

The city Office of Emergency Management said it has hired seven private contractors to clear water from the basements and clean up the mess left behind by the receding sewage.

“The crews will remain on-site until all affected homes are cleaned,” the agency said.

The Red Cross has so far provided hotel rooms for 40 families who were forced to evacuate, said a spokesman for OEM. Crews worked Su nd ay to bu ild a bypass in the sewer system between the area and the Jamaica Wastewater Treatment Plant just south of the Nassau Expressway.

“This should end any further backups into basements,” the spokesman told the Chronicle.

But repairing the broken sewer main is prov i ng to be a major const r uct ion project.

By Wednesday, workers had yet to reach the pipe buried 40 feet under the city streets.

The groundwater at the site is so high, wells have to be drilled to drain it and the area sealed off before excavation can begin, said a DEP spokesman.

The break did not cause any interruption in the water supply to homes, but the

DEP has asked homeowners to cut back on consumption as much as possible.

Cit y workers bega n Su nd ay n ig ht going door to door, assessing damage and identifying homes that need assistance, according to a DEP spokesman.

A service center for residents was set up Monday at the Courtyard Marriott at 145-11 North Conduit.

Represent atives of the OEM, Red Cross and DEP are in the office to offer assistance with cleanup and help residents who wish to file claims against the city fill out the paperwork.

“If a boiler or a hot water heater has been damaged, if it can be repaired, we’ll pay for those repairs,” the mayor said Monday.

“If we need to get a replacement, we’ll get a replacement.”

The service center has provided help — including cleanup kits — to 81 households, said OEM. Some of the 74 houses hit by flooding had more than one family living there, which accounts for the larger number, a spokesman explained.

It is too early to assess how much repair and cleanup of so many homes is going to cost.

City Comptroller Scott Stringer, who also walked the area on Monday, said he has designated the area an “emergency situation” and had cleared the way for claims to be paid as quickly as possible.

St r inger, who is among a growing group of elected officials preparing to r u n for mayor in 2021, also said he planned to investigate the DEP’s slow response time. “We’re going to hold the agency accountable,” he told the New Q York Post.

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ew York has already lost its status as the third most populous state in the union to Florida. And we’re sure to lose at least one congressional seat after the next Census because although the population continues to grow, the rate of increase lags behind that of other states.

Yet here we have state legislative leaders looking to drive yet more people down to Boca Raton — not to mention North Carolina, Texas and everywhere else New Yorkers fleeing high taxes and a high cost of living head to. They’re eying a tax hike, even after the recent Republican tax bill limited the amount of state and local tax deductions residents could take, effectively raising rates.

Meanwhile, housing prices are falling in Manhattan and the suburbs, meaning that homeowners have less equity. But don’t think that means their property taxes will be reduced. On top of that comes a potential energy crunch as the Indian Point nuclear power station, which provides 25 percent of the city’s electricity, gets shut down, and utilities claim they will not be able to guarantee a

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We’re looking at quite a potential mess.

The problem state leaders face is a deficit of approximately $6 billion, a figure you can only expect to grow as time goes on. Their answer, however, is not to reduce the state’s out-of-control spending — already the fourth-highest per capita in the nation — but to raise taxes some more.

“For us in the Assembly, we would always rather raise revenue than cut,” Speaker Carl Heastie of the Bronx told reporters. He then joked about how “generous” some New Yorkers are, and said “we would always like to call on them to do more.”

And this at a time when the state wants to spend up to $100 million on public financing of politicians’ campaigns. That’s some timing.

We can only hope Heastie’s comments amount to no more than his own idle thinking. State Budget Director Robert Mujica has said Gov. Cuomo will not entertain any new taxes. Cuomo must stick to his guns and find another way to close the deficit. New Yorkers can’t afford to pay any more.

ur thanks and respect go out to the good people of Lindenwood, who, when faced with a vile act of hate-filled graffiti vandalism, immediately took action and cleaned it up.

They saw no need to wait for the city to come in and help, though among those who did was an auxiliary police officer with the 106th Precinct. The quick cleanup was an act of neighbor helping neighbor. People coordinated on Facebook pages and made runs to Home Depot for solvent until the cleanup job was done.

What these Howard Beach residents cleaned up was a bunch of expletive-filled graffiti saying things like “F--k white people.”

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Hitchcock’s genius Dear Editor: Alfred Hitchcock may not have had computer graphics imagery when making movies with “Creativity, Genius, Imagination” (“Queens on big screen,” 41st Anniversary Edition, Nov. 21), but he made full use of the special effects techniques existent at the time. He surrounded actors with mattes, double exposures and rear projection rather than green screens; in “Foreign Correspondent,” the cockpit window through which ocean water seemingly bursts during a plane crash is really a paper screen with projected footage.

To say that Hitchcock’s ingenuity is “lacking” in modern cinema is as unduly dismissive as when Dwight Macdonald, reviewing “Psycho” for Esquire magazine in 1960, wrote it off as “a Grand Guignol drama in which the customers hang around just for the tiny thrill at the end,” which lacked the “humor and romance” of Hitchcock’s earlier British movies.

A visit to the Museum of the Moving Image shows that Queens viewers maintain the focus to communally share an experience on a big screen, whether a Hitchcock classic like “The Birds” or “Marnie” or a digital-era suspense thriller brimming with both forms of “CGI” like Brian De Palma’s “Mission: Impossible” or George Miller’s “Mad Max: Fury Road.”

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People were naturally disturbed not only by the vandal’s hateful language but by his threat to one day come back and “see how successful I am,” whatever that means. One line crudely declared the vandal’s desire for sexual relations, which might leave one to wonder if he is one of those “incels,” or “involuntarily celibate” young men — who sometimes end up as mass shooters.

The NYPD is investigating, and we hope the perpetrator is soon caught and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. And he’d better not come back. He’d be much better off getting caught by the cops than anyone else.

Helicopter hell

Presto! Homeless disappear

Dear Editor: I would like to compliment the Chronicle for its continued coverage of the plague we are experiencing in Howard Beach and other communities affected by the concussion from the rotors of helicopters rattling the windows and upsetting our way of life (“FAA can’t find any copter complaints,” Nov. 28, multiple editions).

As a recent retiree, I thought I’d be able to spend some quality time in my own home, which seems not to be the case. All our local politicians mentioned in your article last week should have some influence in this matter, but apparently they do not so far.

Uber should be sued, along with whatever other company is involved in this abomination to the serenity and mental well-being of all who are affected by this catastrophe of corporate greed.

Michael Spoto Howard Beach

Dear Editor: It’s probably no surprise, but shipping the homeless to Jersey sounds a bit over the top.

How does any city accept this deal unless there is big money being passed under the table? They are just changing one dilapidated residence for another. Mayor de Blasio is doing his “now you see them, now you don’t” impression by making the worst-case homeless literally disappear.

Ray Hackinson Ozone Park

Carranza’s crazy crusade Dear Editor: Re Michael Shain’s Nov. 28 report “Diversity plan, First steps start Dec. 5”: A plan to send District 28 students to schools outside their own neighborhoods reflects NYC Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza’s clueless

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Medicines cost too much Dear Editor: I am an older American, and I want my members of Congress to address skyrocketing prescription drug prices. There are bipartisan proposals in Congress to fix this — so this is the moment to finally enact legislation into law.

Like many seniors, I cannot afford to keep paying higher and higher prices for the medications I need. No one should have to choose between putting food on the table and filling life-saving prescriptions.

I’m demanding that my members of Congress vote yes on a bill that lowers drug prices. Thanks.

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Kings not above the law Dear Editor: The current impeachment proceedings remind one of the English king Charles I, who believed in the “Divine Right of Kings” and felt he was above the laws of Parliament. Oliver Cromwell, a member of Parliament, protested that its members were the representatives of the people and no one is above the laws of the land, not even the king. Unfortunately, that confrontation resulted in the English Civil War and, ultimately, in the execution of Charles I. That event was a major factor in reducing the power of the monarchy to this day.

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Republican cult of Trump Dear Editor: How low will the GOP go?

Denying facts, smearing accusers, attacking honorable witnesses and causing as much chaos as possible in an attempt to distract people from the mountain of evidence piling up against them. Flushing what’s left of their morals down the toilet while defending the indefensible. And never even attempting to refute the core of the allegations against their lord and master because Trump officials, lawyers and Trump himself have admitted to it all.

The GOP continues to be a fanatical cult bowing down to a false idol. Even Fox “news” has been forced to report the truth. Yet Trump still calls his mindless puppets on “Fox and Friends” to rant for almost an hour. There are two sides from which to choose. One has the rule of law, democracy, truth and intelligence.

The other has corruption, deception, autocracy and mindless obedience.

And now it’s been reported that Devin Nunes, the man in charge of defending Trump during the impeachment hearings, met with Lev Parnas (Giuliani’s indicted pal) to promote the fantasy of Ukraine and not Russia hijacking the 2016 election. Republican corruption just goes on and on.

And in Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu indicted for corruption? Accepting bribes? Helping media companies in exchange for positive news stories? How is Trump’s “honorable” friend going to deal with the fact that he was unable to pass legislation that would have prevented him from being indicted? Israel has woken up.

When will Republicans? And how long before Trump tries to pardon him?

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DC gives NYC plenty of cash Dear Editor: For years, Mayor de Blasio has said that both Washington and Albany continually shortchange the Big Apple in financial assistance. “New projections hike city budget by $1.6B” (Michael Gannon, Nov. 28). Today, he justifies expanding City Hall’s budget by $1.6 billion to a record $94 billion by receipt of $974 million in additional federal and state grants to support new spending. It is time for him to stop biting the hands (Albany and Washington) that feed his insatiable appetite for spending above and beyond what is necessary to provide the basic services New Yorkers desire, without breaking the bank.

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Follow school rules Dear Editor: The sooner the student learns that there are rules we should follow, the better off he or she will be. Whether at home, on the job or in a public or Catholic school, we must follow the rules, or find another school or place of employment.

The Yankees baseball team for instance, does not allow anyone to have long hair, braids, a mustache, long sideburns, earrings or such. If you don’t like the rule, go somewhere else. This is something we all must learn.

Bernice Chorzepa Rego Park

remained consistent and growing for decades.

Does NYC submit grant applications on time for both formula and discretionary competitive funding opportunities? Are current federal programs being completed on time and within budget? Are funds being expended on a timely basis? Are there any unspent funds carried over year after year? Is there any waste, fraud or abuse? Are all change orders for construction projects fair, reasonable and documented?

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More than half of all NYC students in grades 3 to 8 failed New York State’s 2019 English language arts and math exams. This means the majority of our town’s elementary and middle school students can’t read or write at grade level. Nor can they adequately add, subtract or divide numbers, and the only thing many of them can apparently multiply is themselves.

Carranza tries to solve this situation by playing racial roulette with kids and their parents.

Rather than improve performance in weak schools, he wants to make all schools equally bad. The only person in our school system who should be relocated is Carranza — far away from NYC. Fire this fool now.

Richard Reif Kew Gardens Hills

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Beware as pro-criminal law takes effect Jan. 1

by Bob Friedrich

The Queens District Attorney’s Office was forced to release its confidential, internal list of NYPD officers — 65 names, in all — who have been cited by the courts in earlier criminal cases for FILE PHOTO less-than-credible testimony.

DA releases list of cops with ‘issues’ Forced to make public names of officers with ‘adverse credibility’

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Defense lawyers just call it “the list” — the shorthand name for a confidential database that prosecutors circulated among themselves containing the names of cops whose testimony has proved problematic in court.

Last week, the Queens District Attorney’s Office released the list, the result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by Gothamist, a news website.

Formally, it is called the Adverse Credibility List. It contains the names of 65 active officers and detectives who have been cited by judges for being less than forthright, either while testifying in court or in official police reports.

Similar lists were released by the Brooklyn and Bronx DA offices in October and November.

The lists were compiled to alert prosecutors to potential defense challenges to testimony from investigators whose credibility has been found wanting in past.

Most of the names on the list are of officers who have been cited in lawsuits for false arrest or evidence tampering.

Under the legal rules of discovery, prosecutors are required to notify defendants in criminal cases if the credibility of investigators has been successfully challenged in court in the past.

“This speaks to the larger problem of police secrecy in New York, where officers are able to hide their misconduct records,” Tim Rountree, attorney-in-charge of the Queens Trial Office at The Legal Aid Society, said in a prepared statement.

“New Yorkers should be able to rely on police officers to tell the truth, but too often, that is not the case, and officers are caught telling lies on the witness stand and in their official reports.”

Legal Aid lawyers have, for some time, kept a list of off icers with credibility issues.

Most of the names on the Queens list are familiar to defense lawyers, Legal Aid told the Chronicle.

But some 11 officers were not in its database, it said. Most of them appeared to be fairly new to the force.

Defense lawyers have long suspected the list is used internally by prosecutors not just as a discovery alert but as a guide to plea bargaining.

“They know when their key — or sometimes their only — witness has credibility issues,” said the source.

If prosecutors know the testimony of a cop on a case is open to challenge in a trial, they might offer defendants plea deals — rather than reveal that the evidence may be suspect.

An NYPD spokesman told Gothamist the department takes adverse-credibility rulings by judges seriously and uses them as a guide for officer training, reassignment and, in some cases, investigation.

But the spokesman also noted that there is no appeal from such rulings and that it believes they are not always correct.

Legal Aid said it is “in the process of reviewing our files” to see if any of the officers on the list are involved in pending cases, or have not been revealed in past Q ones.

We are witnessing in real time the downfall of a once-great city by rigid political ideologues who are more concerned about protecting criminals than victims. Rikers Island, with a capacity of 15,000 and currently housing a historically low 7,500 inmates, is being replaced by four neighborhood prisons that shockingly will have a maximum capacity of 3,300 in 2026 when the city population is expected to exceed 8.5 million people. Yes, in a city of 8.5 million people, we will have jail capacity for only 3,300. The last time NYC had 3,300 inmates was in 1920, when the population was much smaller. The vote to close Rikers was overwhelmingly approved by Council members who will surely be re-elected by voters who know more about their members’ next Rain Barrel Giveaway than their voting records.

With insufficient prison space, courts will be forced to release dangerous felons back into the community and police will be encouraged to make fewer arrests and abandon proactive policing. That is already happening in our city. In order to accommodate the closing of Rikers, it will be necessary to shrink the current prison population by 59 percent, or 5,000 inmates. Ask yourself if your family asked your Council member to close Rikers, spend $8.7 billion to build a neighborhood prison system that can only accommodate 3,300 and release 5,000 inmates back into our community. Unless your Council member is Bob Holden, every other Queens member voted to do just that.

To most community leaders, this is just incomprehensible and crazy. Civic associations in the Queens neighborhood where one of the new neighborhood jails is slated to be built vociferously opposed the plan. That opposition didn’t stop Councilmember Karen Koslowitz, who represents that community, from voting in favor of it.

Just a small uptick in crime will mean more jail space will be necessary, but the city has made no contingency plan to increase capacity. To make matters worse, the current City Council prohibited future use of Rikers as a prison after 2026, long after these members have moved on. A breakdown in civil society is becoming evident to most civic leaders and others who follow the news. We witness this breakdown almost daily in our subways and in the growing number of encampments on city streets — all a harbinger of things to come and your Council member has left our city alarmingly unprepared. Inevitably and long after these members are gone, horrendous community battles will ensue as the city will be pressed to create even more neighborhood jails in your community.

To make matters worse, the NYS Legislature has just ended cash bail effective Jan. 1.

Bail exists to ensure those charged in a

crime return to court and in many jurisdictions to give judges the ability to protect vulnerable communities by considering the dangers an individual poses to the community by holding dangerous individuals on pretrial bail detention. The Legislature has denied judges this tool, which means dangerous repeat offenders with multiple arrests and prior convictions will remain on the streets.

Make no mistake about it, these laws protect criminals at the expense of their victims.

Proponents of ending pretrial bail, such as Councilman Donovan Richards, insist that violent offenders can still be held on bail.

Unfortunately, that’s illusory, not reality.

Violent crimes such as burglary, robbery and manslaughter in the second degree, along with drug possession with the intent to sell, will all now require mandatory release.

Burglary 2 is when a person forcibly enters your home to commit a crime, and robbery 2 is when a person forcibly steals from you in a face-to-face confrontation. In both instances, the arrested individual cannot be held and must be released back on the street.

Political correctness has also run amok in this legislation. Arrested individuals, formerly known as “defendants,” will now be called “principals.” And in a macabre twist to the rules of evidence, these “principals” with their defense attorneys can seek a court order giving them the right to visit, inspect and record the crime scene. Imagine that you’ve been the victim of a crime, and you learn that you must allow the accused back onto your property so they can build their case against you. Being victimized twice is an unforgivable consequence of this law.

The dysfunctional NYS Legislature passed this bill as part of the budgetary process, which means when members voted for the budget they voted for the bill and did so without “leaving fingerprints.”

As police are forced to make fewer arrests and fewer perpetrators are sent to jail, legislators will tout this as “crime reduction” and boast about reduced incarceration rates. How does such a lack of responsiveness by elected representatives happen? A toxic combination of one-party rule that lacks accountability, low voter turnout and voters casting their votes on name recognition instead of issue awareness. In such a scenario, politicians fear no retribution and are emboldened to chase their costly utopian ideological visions while Q the rest of us suffer the consequences.

Bob Friedrich is President of Glen Oaks Village, a civic leader and a former City Council candidate.

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Santa’s on his way!

by Lisa Komninos Executive Director, GWDC

Hope you all had a very enjoyable Thanksgiving with family and friends.

Immediately after Thanksgiving I think Christmas — and since the stores have had their decorations out for some time now, it really feels like the holidays are coming much faster. Did you happen to see the new holiday lights strung along Jamaica Avenue?

Throughout the years some things change and some stay the same. Among those staying the same, the popular tradition of the Greater Woodhaven Development Corp.’s “Welcome Santa to Woodhaven” Parade kicks off this Saturday, Dec. 7, at noon. Santa and his better half will be riding in their vintage sleigh along Jamaica Avenue from Woodhaven Manor, at 96-01 Jamaica Ave., to the old Franklin K. Lane High School.

Along with Santa and the Mrs. you can see Frosty, Rudolph and more. If you would like to march, wear a costume, help hold a banner or just say hello, come out that day and join us. Marchers will meet at 11:30 a.m. by Woodhaven Manor. The parade starts promptly at 12. At the end of

the parade you can take pictures with Santa and friends alongside the sleigh.

Bring your phone or camera — no need to go to the mall for a photo, this is free!

Also at the end of the parade we will be giving out pizza courtesy of La Nostra Pizzeria, located at 84-07 Jamaica Ave. Get it while it’s hot and enjoy a day with your community of Woodhaven.

If you can’t get to the parade, come see us for free pictures with Santa and friends at the Forest Parkway Plaza area (Maria Thomson Way) on Dec. 14 from 1 to 3 p.m. (weather permitting).

These holiday traditions I remember from when my children where very young, and I have those memories with me now and always. So, if you haven’t seen our parade yet, Saturday is your chance!

Also happening this week is the Woodhaven Business Improvement District’s tree lighting at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 6,

by Forest Parkway. Enjoy hot chocolate, singing and more. Try to get out and see this too. Don’t miss these events, all free to you, the community of Woodhaven.

Until January (wow, I can’t believe 2020 will be here soon), I wish you all a Very Q Happy, Healthy Holiday Season!

Criminal justice law reforms continued from page 2 our state who are the most vulnerable residents of our State and are at the heart of the criminal justice system.”

In a letter to Gov. Cuomo on DAASNY budget priorities for the upcoming year, Hoovler requested increased funding for law enforcement officials across the state in order to implement the new bail, discovery and speedy trial laws. The DAASNY did not request a specific number, but noted that it would be put toward computer systems used to facilitate electronic discovery and pretrial services that encourage court date appearances such as referrals for housing, job training and mental health and substance abuse treatment.

Those who support the laws look toward the progress of New Jersey, which had enacted similar laws in 2017. Since the introduction of the reforms, the neighboring state has not reported serious issues or spikes in crime.

“This is by no means revolutionary,” said CUNY School of Law Professor Steve Zeidman, an expert on criminal justice. “Other states have much more liberal discovery and approaches to bail and their system isn’t collapsing. Crime is not running rampant.

“I don’t see these bills as progressive reforms, but rather more in the nature of correctives. Bail and discovery should always have been handled in the manner

the bills prescribe,” said Zeidman, who believes that due process was barely made available to defendants accused of crimes.

The expert also believes that the only reason law enforcement, prosecutors and judges are rejecting the refor ms is because they will take away a portion of their power.

“Change is hard. This is a baby step,” said Zeidman. “Their objections are runof-the-mill fear mongering that have no basis in data and facts.”

Proponents of the reforms say the current bail and discovery laws are racially and economically skewed; lower economic classes, largely consisting of minorities, could not afford bail and were forced to sit in jail over misdemeanor crimes. The reforms aim to correct the flaw and level bail standards for all economic classes.

“Our current laws criminalize New Yorkers who cannot afford to buy their own freedom and erode the accused’s right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty,” Marie Ndiaye, supervising attorney of the Decarceration Project at The Legal Aid Society, told the Chronicle in an emailed response to a question.

“Data from non-profit bail funds and supervised release programs prove that people who are released return to court.

Public safety is not jeopardized and crime continues to be at historic lows, per the Q City’s own numbers.”

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Biz owner: ‘The fight’s not over yet’ Lefferts Boulevard retail complex in Kew Gardens faces uncertain future

by David Russell Associate Editor

In July 2018, the Long Island Rail Road reversed itself and announced that the Lefferts Boulevard bridge in Kew Gardens would be repaired rather than torn down, saving the businesses on it.

“My customers come back and go, ‘Oh, I’m sure you’re so relieved that everything is taken care of,’” Thyme Natural Market owner Nathalie Reid told the Chronicle Tuesday.

In reality, “the fight’s not over yet,” she said.

Reid, and other owners, have questions about an MTA letter they received in November stating that the LIRR, through the MTA Real Estate Department, is formulating a long-term plan for the Lefferts Boulevard Retail Complex. The LIRR expects to offer the property, as required by law, through a public offering process in 2020.

The lease is set to expire at the end of March 2020. The LIRR’s “expectation” is that following the expiration “you would be allowed to continue and use and occupy the licensed location on a holdover basis for at least three months.”

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Nathalie Reid stands outside her store, Thyme Natural Market.

The Lefferts Boulevard bridge was saved from demolition but now business owners in the area are wondering what will happen when their collective lease expires in March 2020. PHOTOS BY DAVID RUSSELL The biggest issue is that “We don’t know” what it all means, said Pradeep Agarwal, a certified public accountant who owns an accounting business on the street.

Zee N Kay Management LLC was previously managing the buildings from 81-09 through 81-21 Lefferts Blvd. and 81-12 through 81-24 Lefferts Blvd. Rents increased 200 percent when the company took over.

“He charged us like we were sitting in Manhattan,” Agarwal said.

Several stores opposite Thyme Natural Market have closed in recent years, including a supermarket and a jewelry store.

“I want to see people shopping here and want to shop here and not just walk straight past all of our stores because they see empty ones,” Reid said.

She added, “Once it becomes dark, because there’s no stores open over there, it’s pitch black on the other side of the street.”

Agarwal agreed. “You come in the night time, it looks very ugly,” he said.

Longtime neighborhood staple Village Quick News closed down and has been left alone with the gate down for about 10 years, next to Thyme Natural Market.

Now Zee N Kay is out. The LIRR terminated the master license for the buildings and now operates them though managing agent CBRE Property Management, according to MTA spokeswoman Meredith Daniels.

“Together, LIRR and CBRE are developing plans for priority repairs with a focus on winter weather,” she told the Chronicle in an email Wednesday.

Still, Reid is wondering what happens next.

“I feel like for the 10 steps that we took forward, getting the bridge fixed, getting rid of Zee N Kay management and all of

this, now I feel like we’re just taking five or six steps backwards,” she said. “We’re right back not knowing what’s going to happen.”

Dominick Pistone, president of the Kew Gardens Civic Association, told the Chronicle there will be a meeting Friday between community members and a representative from the MTA’s real estate division, though Reid said she wasn’t told.

“We don’t quite know what’s going to happen yet,” Pistone said about the businesses.

Pistone said it would be “terrible” if the buildings were torn down but “I have not heard anything that they’re going to close the stores or make the tenants leave.”

In 2017, merchants were told by the MTA that the century-old bridge over the LIRR tracks would have to come down after their collective lease ran out.

A f ight to save the bridge ensued, which included several lawmakers in addition to the merchants.

During that time, engineer Phillip Eng became president of the LIRR and was able to get the bridge repaired without putting stores out of business. Pieces of cement had been falling. Reid said a hole found underneath her floorboards was fixed.

The structural issues were taken care of though Reid said stores still have additional concerns, such as worrying about any weather that could cause the pipes to freeze and explode.

“We’re like sitting ducks here right now,” she said.

The stretch of stores are notable in that the popular Kew Gardens Cinema and Dani’s House of Pizza are diagonal from each other but the businesses between them have closed or face u ncer t ai n futures.

“It’s a really quiet neighborhood,” Reid said. “It’s not Forest Hills. We don’t have that kind of foot traffic.”

With the lease expiring soon, Reid said, Q “We’re at the day of reckoning.”

Holidays on the Avenue Dec. 14 Cultural Collaborative Jamaica will host its annual Holidays on the Avenue celebration on Saturday, Dec. 14.

The family-friendly event will kick off at Grace Episcopal Church. There are children’s holiday workshops from 2 to 5 p.m. There will be holiday arts and crafts, a visit from Santa, refreshments and gifts for the children.

The church is located at 155-24 90 Ave. in Jamaica.

Festivities will be followed at 5:30 p.m. by a community tree lighting at nearby Rufus King Park at Jamaica

Avenue and 153rd Street.

All children must be preregistered by Dec. 12 to receive gifts, either at HolidaysOnTheAvenue.eventbrite.com or by calling Cultural Collaborative Jamaica at (718) 526-8700.

Sponsors of the event, aside from the CCJ, include South Jamaica Reads, the Greater Jamaica Development Corp., Fresh & Healthy, the offices of Councilmen Daneek Miller (D-St. Albans) and Rory Lancman (D-Fresh Meadows) and the Jamaica Center Business ImproveQ ment District.

The bridge was repaired after the initial plan was for it to be torn down once the collective lease expired.

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Break on parking tix for trucks assailed Officials want delivery firms to pay full fines for blocking bike and bus lanes

by Richard Heaton Chronicle Contributor

Thousands of delivery trucks block bus and bike lanes throughout New York City each day. That’s a $115 traffic violation, but the delivery firms don’t have to pay the full amount. Now many elected officials want that to come to an end.

The practice is known as the Stipulated Fine Program. On Cyber Monday — when many people make online orders that then get delivered by companies such as UPS and FedEx — Councilmember Costa Constantinides (D-Astoria) and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams called for the program to be terminated.

“The Stipulated Fine Program and Commercial Abatement Programs have evolved into a sweetheart deal for major logistics companies,” said Williams in a press release. “Our roads are less safe because of double parking and illegal parking in bike lanes. Residents of New York deserve safer streets, and parking rule violators must pay their fines.”

In the same press release, Constantinides highlighted the number of violations such vehicles evade.

“We have seen more than 50,000 bike lane violations over a two-year period with little to no penalty for these companies,” he said.

Adding bus lane and other violations brings the total number of tickets that the Stipulated Fine Program helps with much higher. According to the Independent Budget Office, the program assists with more than a million violations a year.

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UPS is one of the companies that saves millions in parking tickets through the Stipulated Fine FILE PHOTO Program, according to the Independent Budget Office.

Normally a driver has a time frame in which he or she may dispute a ticket. The program allows for delivery firms to waive their rights to dispute tickets in exchange for a decreased fine.

In some cases, the fine is completely dismissed.

According to the IBO, the program helped save the largest delivery services in the city more than $20 million in 2018. UPS and FedEx alone had more than 350,000 summonses combined and saved more than $11 million that year.

Six other firms faced more than 25,000 summonses each, including Verizon, Fresh Direct and Time Warner Cable.

From 2010 until 2018, the IBO estimates that the Stipulated Fine Program assisted delivery firms with more than 7.4 million v iolat ion s. T he yea rly est i m at e h a s decreased from 986,000 in 2015 to 678,000 in 2018.

Constantinides has long been an advocate of keeping New York’s bike lanes clear and has spoken numerous times on the need to erase the program.

“This 14-year-old program lets delivery companies pay as little as $0 on a $115 ticket,” Constantinides said in an op-ed for Streetsblog NYC over the summer. “There’s no incentive for drivers not to block streets, bike lanes, fire hydrants, and handicapped spots.”

Fellow Councilman Bob Holden (D-Middle Village) echoes Constantinides’ view on the matter.

“Double parking and blocking bike or bus lanes is a dangerous practice for motorists, cyclists and pedestrians that contributes to this city’s congestion problem,” Holden said this week in an email. “Any legislation that increases enforcement of careless parking and improves safety on our roadways is a win for our city.”

Elected officials who are calling for an end to the program face opposition from the delivery firms themselves. Companies such as UPS and FedEx disagree with the views of Williams and Constantinides, and hope that city legislation upholds the program.

A FedEx spokesperson suggests the prog ra m i nadver tently affects customer satisfaction.

“The stipulated parking fine program plays an important role in our ability to serve our customers in New York City,” the spokesperson said in an email. “It allows us to better manage the ticketing process while meeting our customers’ pickup and delivery requirements.”

A spokesperson for UPS claims that the company wishes to handle such matters differently.

“We’re actively engaged with city officials and looking for solutions that make it easier to deliver while reducing congestion and enhancing sustainability methods and quality of life for New Yorkers,” they said in an email.

Delivery firms that aren’t as big as UPS or FedEx also had a say in the matter.

FreshDirect, an online grocer based here in Queens, faced 28,000 summonses in 2018 and opposes the possible change.

“The program benefits both the City of New York and its businesses by reducing bureaucracy and working together to address ticketing issues,” said a FreshDirect spokesperson. “FreshDirect agrees with the NYC Department of Finance’s position that eliminating this public private partnership does not serve the pubQ lic good.”

Join your neighbors at tree lightings Five big celebrations in just four days. Here’s where to catch them.

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Rockefeller Center has nothing on the neighborhoods of South Queens when it comes to Christmas tree celebrations.

The trees in neighborhoods such as Woodhaven and Howard Beach may not be as big — but the lighting ceremonies are still among of the highlights of the season.

Here’s a list of the events coming up this week: Richmond Hill It’s the first year the Richmond Hill-South Ozone Park Lion’s Club is sponsoring a neighborhood tree.

They’ll light it up tonight, Thursday, Dec. 5, at 5 p.m. at the Richmond Hill Triangle at 133rd Street and Liberty Avenue.

Woodhaven The tree lighting on the corner of Jamaica Avenue and Forest Parkway is being sponsored by the newly reinvigorated Woodhaven Business Improvement District.

Festivities are set to begin at 6:30 p.m. Friday night, Dec. 6.

The choir from PS 97 — 25 students strong — will perform.

Music will be provided by the Afro-Latineers band.

The hot chocolate is free. So are the cookies and Santa hats.

The ceremony will take place under the new holiday lights installed by the BID this year, the first new Christmas display on the avenue in something like 30 years, said Racquel Olivares, executive director of the BID. Ozone Park I The official tree lighting ceremony is set for Dec. 7 at 6 p.m. at the Living World Christian Fellowship Church, 13205 Cross Bay Blvd.

The event is sponsored by the Ozone Park Residents Block Association for the second year in a row.

Last year, the block association held its tree lighting ceremony at the home of Harris and Gilda Taormina on the corner of Pitkin Avenue and 78th Street.

This year, the tree lighting is moving to the boulevard.

Ceremonies will include a live DJ, Mike Nappi, singers, photos wirth Santa and free food — including hot dogs, hot chocolate and pretzels.

Ozone Park II The Ozone Park Civic Association is holding its tree-

lighting ceremony Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m., Dec. 8, at Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC Church at 10141 91 St. It starts with a performance by the combined choirs of Nativity and its sister church, St. Stanislaus.

Religious school students are putting on a Nativity pageant after that.

The tree lighting is scheduled for 5 p.m. and refreshments will be served in the church hall afterward.

Howard Beach and Lindenwood The Howard Beach Lindenwood Civic Association has set Sunday, Dec. 8 for the annual Christmas tree lighting.

The ceremony starts at 4 p.m. and will feature the St. Helen Children’s Choir and Fazio Dance.

As it has in years past, the civic association is erecting the community tree near the “Welcome to Howard Beach” sign on Cross Bay Boulevard at 156th Avenue.

But the tree had always been unlit.

Starting in 2017, Fred Lisena of Lisena Landscaping was able to arrange for electricity on the grassy plot across from Q Matteo’s Restaurant.

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Annual Turkey Trot scores thousands Thanksgiving runners raised a total of $2,300 for disabled athletes

by Katherine Donlevy Associate Editor

Flushing Meadows Corona Park continued to honor its Thanksgiving tradition by hosting the annual New York City Turkey Trot on Saturday, Nov. 30. “It’s your post-turkey workout. Your body will thank you later,� joked the registration table posters. All Community Events, the organizers of the Turkey Trot, teamed up with communities throughout the nation to form the American Turkey Tradition, a multicity

Tom Garvey poses with the inflatable turkey before his third-place finish.

running festival. Participants ran with neighbors at their local venue, but had the ability to later compare their results with other Turkey Trotters, totaling approximately 60,000 runners, across the country on a national leader board. “I used to run this race with my mom when it was on Thanksgiving Day,� said Annie Reeves of Whitestone. “We’d run and then go home to start cooking dinner. We liked it better when it was on the holiday, and my mom couldn’t make it this year, but I still came to keep the tradition.�

Reeves is training to run a half-marathon in May and looked at the event as practice.

Although the Turkey Trot offered a half-marathon race, Reeves chose to run the 5K. A third option, a kids’ “fun run,� took place before both races.

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Anderson points team in the right direction St. John’s head coach Mike Anderson was an assistant at Arkansas in the 1990s when the Razorbacks would unleash “40 minutes of hell” on opponents.

When he was introduced as Red Storm coach in April he joked that his young St. John’s team “might be 30 minutes of hell, then 10 minutes of what the hell are you doing?”

That was true on Tuesday night when St. John’s saw a 23-point lead trimmed to six as underdog Saint Peter’s went on a late 19-2 run, though the Red Storm held on for a 79-69 win.

The coach, who has won seven of his first nine games at St. John’s, said there are all different kinds of wins, comparing some to a stylish car that doesn’t get the job done against a car that does.

“It may be a jalopy but it can get you places,” Anderson said.

He has been a head coach for 17 seasons and has never had a losing season. He advanced to the Sweet Sixteen at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His

Missouri Tigers advanced to the Elite Eight. And he twice made the Round of 32 at Arkansas.

He is quickly showing differences from his predecessor, Chris Mullin. Mullin would favor shorter rotations. In Tuesday’s win 10 different Johnnies played at least 10 minutes. None of them played 30. When Marcellus Earlington took an ill-advised three with plenty of time remaining on the shot clock with St. John’s easily ahead, Anderson immediately replaced him.

Distributing the playing time allows the team to develop players as well as keep fresh for conference play. Two years ago, St. John’s was 10-2 but lost 15 of its final 21 games. Last season, the team won its first 12 games but lost 13 of its final 22, due in par t to a weaker early season schedule.

Shamorie Ponds, one of the greatest scorers in school history, went pro instead of returning for his senior season. While the team will miss his ability, St. John’s is sharing the ball, with 24 assists on 29 field

St. John’s head coach Mike Anderson directs his defense during Tuesday’s 79-69 win over Saint Peter’s at Carnesecca Arena. The Red Storm are off to a 7-2 start under Anderson, who is in his PHOTO BY DAVID RUSSELL first season replacing Chris Mullin. goals Tuesday.

“That’s within the offense,” said Mustapha Heron, who scored 17 points. “You have to share the ball in our offense. In our system, you have to share the ball. I think that we’re doing a pretty good job of trying to learn how to keep doing that, how to do it at a better rate and a higher level every game.”

LJ Figueroa scored a game-high 19 points, grabbed six rebounds and had three steals. Julian Champagnie had 14 points and 11 rebounds. Josh Roberts, who didn’t

see much playing time under Mullin but improved vastly over the summer, grabbed eight rebounds and blocked four shots.

Nick Rutherford dished out five assists.

The hiring of Anderson was considered surprising by many because of his lack of New York ties. It also came after a wild job search that saw the school criticized for failing to land candidate after candidate.

Fortunately for St. John’s, Anderson was available. Now opponents might see 30 minutes of hell and 10 minutes of what the Q hell are you doing?

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Over two weeks just prior to Thanksgiving, the students at PS/MS 146Q in Howard Beach held a sock drive, aptly named #socksgiving.

By spreading the word through the PTA and to the parents, the school was able to collect 216 pairs of socks of all sizes to keep families warmer during the holiday season.

“Today marked the end of our #socksgiving holiday drive, as we are giving in the donation tomorrow to a local shelter,” said Kayleen Estevez, the program director of the Boys & Girls Club of Metro Queens at PS/MS 146Q, who coordinated the effort. “I just wanted to thank you for all of your support.”

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Under the leadership of Mrs. Maura Stone, PS 146Q’s 3K, pre-K and kindergarten collected 64 pairs of pajamas to donate to children in need. The school would like to thank all of the families who donated and for teaching the young children about the importance of doing good for others. With both collections, the students showed the spirit of the holiday season — giving to others!

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Library puts disabled on a shelf, suit says Much of new $41.5M Hunters Point branch is alleged to be inaccessible

by Anthony O’Reilly Chronicle Contributor

A new chapter of controversy has started for the Queens Borough Public Library and its new Hunters Point branch, after a Queens woman and an advocacy group alleged the building makes it impossible for some individuals to access certain parts of the structure.

In a federal lawsuit filed against the QBPL, its trustees and the city, the Center for Independence of the Disabled-New York alleges the Hunters Point Library was “designed and built with a total disregard for adults and children with mobility disabilities and in flagrant contempt of the legal requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act.” The lead plaintiff is Tanya Jackson, a Long Island City resident who, according to the lawsuit, is a frequent library user who is hesitant to return to the Hunters Point building because she could not access all of its features due to her dependence on a walker. For example, the lawsuit states, the rooftop terrace is inaccessible to those who use wheelchairs, walkers or scooters.

Additionally, the fifth-floor seating area is located up a steep ramp, which Jackson had difficulty navigating due to her walker.

“It is shocking to me that a brand-new public library would not be fully accessible to people with mobility disabilities like myself,”

The Hunters Point Library’s rooftop deck, shown to the media earlier this year, is not accessible PHOTO BY MICHAEL SHAIN to people with physical disabilities, a new lawsuit charges.

Jackson said in a statement provided by Disability Rights Advocates. “Libraries should welcome everyone, not exclude whole populations of people.”

CIDNY also lists in its complaints that there are long waits for the library’s sole elevator, and that three floors with comfortable lounging, study areas and bookshelves are not ADAcompliant because the areas can only be accessed by stairs. The group is asking the

courts to demand the QBPL “implement a remedial plan to permanently remedy all barriers to equal access to Hunters Point Library.”

“The ADA is not a new requirement, and it is not hard to understand,” Andrea KozakOxnard, an attorney at DRA, said in a statement. “It is baffling that this $41.5 million building is missing these fundamental elements.”

Elizabeth de Bourbon, a spokeswoman for

the QBPL, said in an emailed statement, “It is always the Library’s goal to be welcoming, open and available to everyone, including customers with disabilities. We are taking this matter very seriously.”

City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) in a statement urged the QBPL to fix the issues outlined in the lawsuit.

“Libraries are the most Democratic institutions we have, and they must be accessible to all,” Van Bramer said in an email.

The alleged lack of ADA compliance is just one of many problems plaguing the building, according to the New York Post, which reported the $41.5-million structure also has leaky ceilings and inadequate space for shelves.

The branch, first proposed in 1998, opened in September after more than 10 years of delays in its design and construction. One eight-month delay was due to a strike in Spain, which held up the delivery of windows specially manufactured in Germany.

And any time the design was altered, city officials said, more money needed to be added to the project.

The eight-story building received positive reviews upon its long-anticipated opening, with New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman calling it “one of the finest public buildings New York has produced Q this century.”

Voices of feminism finally moving in Center for the Women of New York opens new HQ at Ft. Totten Dec. 8

by Katherine Donlevy

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After 16 years of waiting, the Center for the Women of New York will finall move its headquarters into a landmark Fort Totten building.

The organization announced that the Grand Opening and Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony for the 207 Totten Ave. location will take place on Sunday, Dec. 8. The CWNY says it is ready for the move despite signs remaining on the building that read “Do not enter. Building unsafe by order of the NYAC Fire Marshall.”

“The new building will allow the Center to expand its function and corresponding opportunities to reach many more women,” CWNY founder Ann Jawin said in a statement. “The renovation of this beautiful historic building will allow not only a ‘home’ for the Center, but also permit space for a wider variety of programs.”

The Center for the Women of New York was established by Jawin in 1987 and acts as a “one-stop, walk-in resource center for women.” According to its website, the nonprofit offers workshops, support groups, clinics and conferences in support of women and women’s rights and spearheads programs on economic conditions of women, sex bias in employment, education, women and health, and legislative issues.

The CWNY had previously occupied a different Fort Totten building from 1997 until it lost its temporary usage in 2003. The Parks Department evicted the center, and an FDN Y facilit y moved in. The center responded with a four-year legal battle. The struggle between the group and Parks became so heated that it was mediated by state Supreme Court Justice Duane Hart. At first, the agency said the group’s mission did not meet the requirements for a park, and later demanded that 80 percent of its programs be park-related. Possible classes agreed upon included yoga, identifying tree diseases and fine arts.

Then in 2007, the city agency granted the feminist organization approval to use the 1905 former bachelor officials’ residence as its headquarters. The CWNY signed the lease that same year, but renovations were required before the center could move in. The 10 apartment-style units were devoid of electricity, running water and heat. The century-old building required various renovations, including repairs on the front porch, and the Parks Department required the installation of an elevator for disabled visitors. Jawin expected the projects to take a year, but raising funds and completing construction dragged the process out for another 12.

The nonprof it ref used to allow the extended waiting time and renovations to

The CWNY is planning its grand opening on Sunday, despite multiple “Do not enter. Building unsafe” signs, as at right, that remained early in the morning of Dec. 4. PHOTO BY KATHERINE DONLEVY slow it down; the CWNY has been running out of a small office and classroom space at Queens Borough Hall in Kew Gardens, donated by the Queens borough president.

Jawin hopes to maintain the borough office as a second location for center visitors who can’t make the trip to Bayside.

The Fort Totten location is designed to be a research and conference center and “living”

museum, dedicated to recording and aiding women’s struggles to achieve full equality within society, according to the organization’s website.

The CWNY believes that it will be the only full-service women’s center completely devoted to women’s equality between the New York City metropolitan area and SeneQ ca Falls in upper New York State.

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Pols urge an enviro-friendly bus depot MTA study leaning toward open-air parking; 18 officials want it enclosed

by Michael Gannon

(D-Bayside), Costa Constantinides (D-Astoria), Rory Lancman (D-Fresh Meadows), Now that the long-sought reconstruction of Peter Koo (D-Flushing), Barry Grodenchik the old Jamaica Bus Depot is nearing realiza- (D-Oakland Gardens), Danny Dromm tion, elected officials from the surrounding (D-Jackson Heights) and Karen Koslowitz neighborhoods and from areas served by (D-Forest Hills).

The state lawmakers who signed were buses from the terminal are asking the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to adopt Sens. Leroy Comrie (D-St. Albans) and John what they see as the most environmentally Liu (D-Bayside); and state Assemblymemfriendly of three proposed construction bers Alicia Hyndman (D-Springfield Gardens), Vivian Cook (D-Jamaica), Nily Rozic options.

In a letter “expressing our disappoint- (D-Fresh Meadows), David Weprin (D-Fresh ment” to MTA Chairman and CEO Pat Foye Meadows) and Michele Titus (D-South and NYC Transit President Andy Byford Ozone Park).

Miller’s office also stated that Alternative dated Nov. 22, 18 elected officials requested that the MTA pay the extra money to go with D is favored by Community Board 12 and “Candidate Alternative D,” which would Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1056, the house the highest number of buses on-site union representing bus drivers and other NYC Transit employees. and do so in enclosed parking facilities.

An MTA spokeswoman in an email told The MTA, in the conclusion of its 371page environmental impact study, is for now the Chronicle the agency has not yet commit- Buses turning from Merrick Boulevard queue up on 107th Avenue to pull into the Jamaica Bus opting for “Candidate Alternative A,” which ted to a single reconstruction design. She for- Depot. As of now elected officials and the MTA differ on just how the 80-year-old terminal warded a comment from Byford based on an should be rebuilt. would have outside parking.

PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON The 80-year-old terminal’s state of disre- inquiry from Richards.

All also would increase the number of “In terms of Jamaica Depot, we’re doing Construction tentatively is to begin in 2021 pair, the officials write, sometimes requires up to 60 buses to park on public streets sur- the environmental assessment,” Byford said. and end in 2025. The depot will remain in bus trips to and from the site each day; and “The environmental assessment has been sub- operation the entire time. On page 57 of the that while all alternatives would allow for rounding it.

The terminal is bordered by Merrick Bou- mitted. There’s an issue that I know the coun- study the MTA estimated the costs of its pro- more than 300 standard buses, Alternative levard to the east, 107th Avenue to the south, cilmember will be interested in, in terms of posal at $385 million for construction with D would only expand capacity from 200 $1.05 million physical buses to 266 when accounting for 165th Street to the west and Tuskegee Air- the uncovered p e r ye a r i n the 60-foot articulated buses, 50 percent men Way, formerly known as Smith Street, to parking space.

T h a t ’s w h a t energ y costs longer than standard buses, and express the north. o allow for open air parking at for operation. buses, which are 15 percent longer.

“Candidate Alternative D would provide we’ve assumed In its conclusion the MTA stated that “the native an administrative building and main depot, for now, I know the depot would be to contin- D Alter is estimated EIS analysis demonstrated that there would offering 338 bus parking spaces, three fuel- he has a conat $519 million be no unavoidable significant adverse enviing lanes, three bus wash lanes and 15 main- cern for that, he ue to perpetuate decades of for construction ronmental impacts (i.e. Air Quality, Noise tenance bays to maximize operations,” the would like to environmental injustices see a different and $1.95 mil- and Vibration, Traffic, etc.), with any of the politicians’ letter states. lion in annual three Candidate Alternatives for both the “The plan includes a 20-foot security- design. That is against the residents of construction and operational conditions.” energy costs. sound barrier adjacent to the residential still an option.

The politicians weren’t convinced.

“Our analyneighborhoods surrounding the depot,” it The reason we Southeast Queens ...”

“While we recognize the difference in sis demonstratcontinues. “Combined with the enclosed have submitted — Eighteen Queens lawmakers, in a letter to the MTA ed that there size and complexity, we feel that these are parking, this best serves to minimize the i t w i t h t h e would be no appropriate considering the importance of visual and spacial disruptions, and mitigate uncovered solution is purely to s i g n i f i c a n t this reconstruction, and completely warrantnegative environmental impacts.”

On the city level, the letter was signed by keep this thing moving along. That depot des- adverse environmental impacts from any of ed in the context of addressing the persistent Councilmembers Daneek Miller (D-St. perately needs to be rebuilt, and that will hap- the three Candidate Alternatives,” the MTA inequality in MTA resources and service for said in a statement accompanying the report. Eastern Queens, particularly as we head Albans), Donovan Richards (D-Laurelton), pen in this Capital Plan.”

The spokeswoman said there is not yet a “However, the evaluation did demonstrate into the era of congestion pricing,” the letter Adrienne Adams (D-Jamaica), Jimmy Van Bramer (D -Su n nyside), Paul Vallone firm cost estimate or construction time line. that, from engineering and economic perspec- continues.

“Additionally, to allow for open air parktives, Candidate Alternatives B and D would be: more complex to design; more difficult to ing at the depot would be to continue to perconstruct; cost more to build and maintain; petuate decades of environmental injustices against the residents of Southeast Queens, and, have higher ongoing energy usage.

A third option, Alternative B, would cost who suffer from some of the highest asthma Police are searching for the above male in an estimated $493 million to build and an rates in the city. To simply rebuild a depot connection with a burglar y in the 107th additional $1.55 million annually in energy that has been part of this problem — allowPrecinct. ing pollutants and noise to be released into costs.

On Sunday, Nov. 3 at 2:28 a.m., the burglar After taking into account public and offi- the open air in our community — is for the forced entry through the basement door of cial input “[W]e have concluded that Candi- MTA to be complicit in continuing to vicGenesis Pharmacy at 65-58 Fresh Meadows date Alternative A is the Preferred Alterna- timize local residents.”

Lane. The perpetrator was unsuccessful in The final EIS and its executive summary tive because it demonstrates the greatest gaining entrance to the main level of the pharpotential to minimize, based on integrated can be found online at new.mta.info / macy and fled the scene empty handed. consideration of engineering, economic, and system _ moder n i zat ion /Ja maica _ Bus _ Anyone with information is asked to call environmental factors, the effects/impacts of Depot. Paper copies are available for public Crime Stoppers at 1 (800) 577-TIPS (8477). construction and operation of the recon- examination at the office of Community The public can submit tips by logging onto nypBoard 12, located at 90-28 161 St. in Jamaistructed Jamaica Bus Depot.” dcrimestoppers.com, or by texting 274637 In a 71-page executive summary accompa- ca; the Queens Central Library at 89-11 (CRIMES), then entering TIP577. Tips are strictnying the EIS, the MTA said all three propos- Merrick Blvd. in Jamaica; and the South ly confidential. als would require off-site storage of approxi- Jamaica Public Library at 108-41 Guy R. Q Brewer Blvd. mately 170 buses during construction.

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Festive tree-trimming tips and techniques

The Christmas tree is still an important component of the holiday celebrations. So when complete, sit back and enjoy its beauty.

People have visited forests to select their Christmas trees for centuries. While tree sellers conveniently stationed in store parking lots and artificial trees displayed in various retailers have led fewer people to venture into the wilderness, the Christmas tree is still an important component of holiday celebrations.

Long before the spread of Christianity, evergreen plants and trees held special meaning for people during the winter. Boughs and garlands were hung in homes and over doors and windows to repel evil spirits and illnesses. On the winter solstice, the greenery represented that spring would once again arrive and banish winter’s dreariness.

Germans who decorated trees inside of their homes are credited with starting Christian Christmas tree traditions during the 16th century. Early Americans were late to adopt Christmas trees because early Puritan settlers thought the tradition — as well as carols and other concepts — were pagan influences. It took the popularity of England’s Queen Victoria and her German Prince Albert appearing around a decorated Christmas tree to eventually win over much of Europe, Canada and the United States.

Trees are very popular today. According to StatisticsBrain, 10 million artificial trees are sold in the United States each year, while 34.5 million real trees are sold annually. Such trees require decorating, and the following secrets and tips can help celebrants do just that.

• Prune the tree first. Be sure to shape the tree as desired, since natural trees will have branches

sticking out. Wear gardening gloves to avoid being covered in sap.

• Position trees away from heat sources, such as fireplaces, vents or radiators, which can cause the tree to dry out prematurely and become a fire risk.

• For added safety, anchor a tree to a wall or ceiling, so it will not tumble over onto children or curious pets.

• In homage of the f irst German Christmas trees, decorate with natural ingredients, such as berries and pinecones. Also, use apples, nuts and marzipan candies.

• To free up more space for presents, place a narrow tree stand inside of a waterproof planting container. Place the tree inside. This will provide a more streamlined look that’s neater than a tree skirt.

• The more lights the better, especially on dense trees.

• For a whimsical approach, match the tree decor to home decor and the color of furniture.

• Make handcrafted ornaments with the whole family.

• Hang the most delicate pieces toward the top where they won’t be disturbed.

• Step back and enjoy your handiwork, which will also give you a chance to find any blank spots that need filling in.

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Tips on cooking for a crowd this holiday season Families big and small typically cele- consuming trip to the grocery store. And brate the holiday season together. For thanks to the familiarity factor, hosts’ own some, celebrating the holidays with family specialties likely won’t require as much requires traveling, while others stay put time to prepare.

2. Share some cooking duties. Another and welcome family and friends into their way to simplify cooking for a crowd is to homes.

At some point during the holiday season, invite guests to bring along a side dish or celebrants who host family and friends will dessert. Guests who live nearby can make no doubt prepare a homecooked meal for something in advance of the big meal, their loved ones. Cooking for a crowd can while hosts can hand over their kitchens to overnight guests seem like a daunting who express a willtask, especially for ingness to contribf i r s t- t i m e h o s t s . ute their own homeHowever, there are va r iou s ways for haring the cooking duties cooked dish to the party. Sharing the hosts to simplif y gives hosts more time to cooking duties gives cooking for a crowd hosts more time to this holiday season. connect with friends connect with friends 1. Prepare a a nd fa mily and familiar dish. Hosts and family and serves serves as a great way may agonize over as a great way to plan to plan the menu in their holiday menus, advance. and some may feel the menu in advance.

3. On ly ma ke compelled to prepare what guests are likea family specialty or ly to eat. Hosts also the same dishes their parents or grandparents prepared for holi- should not feel pressured to cook more day dinners when they were children. But food than is necessary. Holiday meals have holiday hosts can make things easy on a tendency to be lavish, but hosts don’t themselves by choosing dishes they’ve have to spend all day in the kitchen preparmade in the past, regardless of their place ing food that will likely end up as leftovers in family history. Chances are the ingredi- or trash. Get a final headcount in the days ents for hosts’ own specialties are already before everyone comes over and adjust in the pantry, saving a potentially time- your recipes accordingly.

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Cooking for a crowd can seem like a daunting task, especially for first-time hosts, but by following some simple tips you can alleviate some of that worry.

4. Start early. If the big meal is on Christmas Day, that does not mean hosts have to star t cooking while ever yone unwraps their presents. Hosts who are uncertain about what to cook can look for me a ls t h at c a n b e pr e p a r e d i n advance so come the big day all they

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Home decorating for the holidays ings hung from stocking holders that reflect your decChances are good that at some point during the holorative theme, seasonal throw pillows and evergreen iday season, you’ll welcome guests into your home. arrangements on the end tables and coffee table.

Whether you lease or own your home, creating a cozy, • Bathrooms. It may be a smaller space, but the festive setting for holiday gatherings can actually be bathroom is a room every guest is likely to visit. quite simple, especially if you take on the project one Incorporate flameless candles and seasonal metallic room at a time. accents that complement the fixtures. Hang holiday Get started decking the halls this holiday season with items from shower curtain rings and replace your stanthese room-by-room decorating tips from the design dard curtain with a festive or candy-cane striped alterexperts at Invitation Homes, one of the nation’s premier native. Be sure to finish the look with seasonal decorahome-leasing companies with more than 80,000 singletive towels. family homes for lease in the United States.

Tidy up. Before you go all out with the tinsel and • Exterior. Curb appeal isn’t a concept reserved for holly, take some time to tidy up the areas in your home buying and selling; set the festive mood from the guests will use the most. Your decorations can shine moment guests arrive by enhancing your home’s outbrighter and make a better impression without school door space. Bold or twinkling, strings of lights add bags and shoes cluttering the display. Take advantage instant holiday appeal, and the possibilities for creating of holiday sales and invest in some storage cubes or a custom look are nearly endless when you use weather-resistant removable hooks. You can embellish the other storage options. design with fun, whimsical inflatables or go more tra- Two benefits of seasonal decorating are that you can get creative with decor and • Candles. Not only do can they add visual appeal, ditional with stylish wreaths and garlands to accent the make your home inviting for family and friends to gather. but the right scent creates an ambiance that brings door. Make the look your own with unexpected touches everyone together. If you want to stay away from anylike an old sled propped against the porch railing. The beau- lights from the chandelier or stacking pinecones with string thing with flames, there are plenty of alternatives, such as ty of outdoor decorating is that virtually all of it can be easi- lights in a bowl or vase to accent the buffet line or to use as plug-in scent diffusers, room sprays and wax warmers. ly removed to make way for a new season or event.

• Snacks. Waiting for the big holiday meal can be tirea table centerpiece. Holiday desserts can be artwork in their • Kitchen. In most homes, the kitchen is an entertaining own right, so get creative to make the dessert table a stand- some. Set out some hors d’oeuvres for everyone to enjoy while they wait for the main course to be served. Cheese hub. While platters of food may occupy many of the avail- out element of the decor. able surfaces, you can still incorporate a holiday theme. Set • Living room. A comfy, cozy environment that invites and cracker plates, hummus, veggies, mixed nuts and pretthe table with a festive yuletide log with faux berries, pine- guests to make themselves at home as they catch up with zels can help keep your guests from getting hungry. Make cones and candles artfully placed nearby. Seasonal candles, loved ones is a holiday entertaining must. Extend the holi- sure you ask about any allergies or dietary requirements Q festive seat cushions and a cheerful table runner all add sub- day happiness into this space with little touches like a lan- beforehand so you can be prepared. tle touches of holiday flair. Other ideas include dangling tern filled with pinecones, faux gifts by the mantle, stock— Family Features

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We’re ready for your gift to kids in need Toys, games, clothes, accessories and more sought for young people

by Peter C. Mastrosimone Editor-in-Chief

The Queens Chronicle’s Annual Toy Drive for needy children and young adults gets bigger just about every year, and we’re sure this holiday season will be no exception, thanks to the amazing generosity of you, our readers.

We’re looking for donations of new, unwrapped toys, games and other diversions, along with items of clothing and accessories including scarves, hats and gloves.

High-tech items such as portable phone chargers are always appreciated, and are not necessarily that expensive. Books are great too — but, as with all presents, new ones only, please.

The donations will go to families living in homeless shelters in Queens, as well as the children of veterans in need, thanks to our partnership with the Marine Corps League’s Toys for Tots program.

Gifts may be dropped off through Wednes-

day, Dec. 18, at the Chronicle offices at The Shops at Atlas Park, 71-19 80 St., suite 8-201 in Glendale, above HomeGoods, weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Anyone with questions may call us at (718) 205-8000 and ask for either Stela or Lisa.

And there are many other dropoff locations that may be more convenient for you: • Maspeth Federal Savings Bank branches at 56-18 69 St. in Maspeth; 64-19 Woodhaven Blvd. in Rego Park; and 101-09 Metropolitan Ave. in Forest Hills; • Cross County Bank branches at 80-10 Eliot Ave. in Middle Village; 60-20 Fresh Pond Road in Middle Village; and 79-21 Metropolitan Ave. in Middle Village; • Sterling Bank at 75-25 Metropolitan Ave., Middle Village and 31-24 Ditmars Blvd., Astoria; • TD Bank at 79-55 Metropolitan Ave., Middle Village;

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• St. Margaret’s School and Church at 66-10 80 St. in Middle Village, (718) 326-0922; • Moose Lodge at 72-15 Grand Ave., Maspeth • Abraham Kevin Spann & Sons Allstate at 64-77 Dry Harbor Road, Middle Village; • The Glendale Kiwanis Club, via Kueber Reality at 67-13 Myrtle Ave., Glendale; • Astoria Bowl at 19-45 49 St., Astoria; • Modell’s Sporting Goods at 30-88 Steinway St., Astoria; • Verizon Wireless at 30-02 30 Ave., Astoria; • Push Fitness Club at 188-10 Union Tkpe. in Fresh Meadows; 15 Jericho Tpke. in New Hyde Park; and 132-15a 14 Ave., College

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• Bella Nova’s Pizza at 65-26 Metropolitan Ave., Middle Village; and • Joe’s Resturant at 66-11 Forest Ave., Ridgewood.

They may also be brought to the offices of those elected officials who have again partnered with us: state Sen. Joe Addabbo, Jr. at 159-53 102 St., Howard Beach or 66-85 73 Place, Middle Village; Assemblyman Ed Braunstein at 213-33 39 Ave., suite 238, Bayside; Assemblyman Mike Miller at 83-91 Woodhaven Blvd., Woodhaven; Councilman Eric Ulrich at 93-06 101 Ave., Ozone Park; and Councilman Bob Holden at 64-69 Dry Harbor Road, Middle Village.

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Liu witnesses swearing in State Sen. John Liu, second from left, attended the swearing in ceremony of New York Supreme Court Justice Phil Hom on Tuesday, Dec. 3.

Hom, center right, was sworn in as the new state Supreme Court justice for the 11th Judicial District. Liu witnessed the ceremony for Hom, who had served as Liu’s

chief of staff during his days as a City Council member.

Presiding Justice Randall Eng of the Appellate Division, right, administered the oath at the Queens Civil Court in Jamaica.

Councilmembers Peter Koo, left, Karen Koslowitz and Barr y Grodenchik also attended the ceremony.

The Queens Chronicle’s 12th annual Holiday Photo Contest is now underway — and you’re invited to join in!

Take pictures of lights, miniature villages, snowy landscapes, joyous children and families — anything that reflects the season — and send them on in. Be inspired by t he s e quali t y pas t entries, by Kimberly Graves, our 2013 winner, top, and Kayla Luongo.

Our main requirement is that the photos be taken in the borough this season. We also ask that you give us all the details you can, especially the location, the names of any people in the picture, whenever possible, and when it was taken (but don’t use time stamps!). Some entrants give us a whole backstory, and that’s never a problem.

And please tell us your correct name, where you live and whether you’re an amateur or professional photographer.

The winner or winners will receive tickets to a family-friendly performance in or around the city, such as an off-Broadway show.

Send your high-resolution digital photos to peterm@qchron.com, saying “contest” somewhere in the subject line, or mail prints to Queens Chronicle Photo Contest, 71-19 80 St., suite 8-201, Glendale, NY 11385. The deadline is Friday, Jan. 3. Good luck!

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Why you should get your annual flu shot

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When it comes to getting a flu shot, Dr. Bruce Hirsch, who specializes in infectious diseases at Northwell Health, acknowledges “Getting a shot is uncomfortable, inconvenient and unpleasant. But getting the flu is very inconvenient, very uncomfortable and occasionally can lead to making other health conditions worse.”

While some people might be apprehensive about receiving a shot, Dr. Teresa Amato, chief of emergency medicine at LIJ Forest Hills, said the vaccine is extremely safe.

“In this case the benefits of the vaccine far outweigh any risk,” she said.

Amato added that flu season is underway in the Northeast and that getting the vaccine as soon as possible is vital because it takes up to two weeks to build up an immunity to the flu after a shot.

Hirsch noted the “experience of getting the flu three or four days after the flu shot is not really a failure of the flu shot. It’s a failure of timing and not getting the flu shot earlier.”

It’s estimated that between approximately 70 and 85 percent of seasonal flu-related deaths have occurred in people 65 or older according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Between 50 and 70 percent of seasonal flu-related hospitalizations have occurred among people in this group,

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More than 12,000 people 65 and over died from the disease from October 2017 through October 2018 — more than double the death toll from the 2016 to 2017 period and six times the total of the 2015 to 2016 period, it said.

CDC spokeswoman Kristen Nordlund told AARP that the number of flu-related hospitalizations from 2017 to 2018 “was higher than we’ve seen in any other previous year.”

Not only can a shot prevent the flu but it can weaken the severity for someone who does catch it.

“As we get older our immune system does weaken, and so it makes us more vulnerable to

the complications of the flu,” Hirsch said.

He also said it helps if those around an older person get a flu shot themselves to prevent mild cases before being in contact with them.

There are two flu vaccines designed specifically for people 65 and older. One is a high-dose flu vaccine, containing four times the amount of antigen as a regular flu shot and associated with a stronger immune response following vaccination.

Results from a clinical trial of more than 30,000 participants showed adults receiving the high-dose vaccine had 24 percent fewer influenza illnesses compared to those who received the standard dose vaccine. There is also an adjuvanted flu vaccine, an additive that can create a stronger immune response to vaccination.

One shot, Fluzone High-Dose, is not recommended for people with a history of severe allergic reaction to the vaccine or to components other than eggs.

Amato said the elderly and the very young are more vulnerable to the deadly side effects of the flu, making it even more vital for those age groups to receive a vaccine.

“When it comes to the elderly who work as caregivers to young children they should strongly consider getting a flu shot to protect themselves and to protect the young children in their charge,” P Amato said.

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• Medicare Part B provides coverNilsa Henriquez age for physician services, outpatient hospital services, certain home health services, durable medical equipment and other items. Most beneficiaries will pay a standard premium for Part B coverage. Some beneficiaries may also pay a late enrollment surcharge. A small number of beneficiaries with higher incomes will pay a higher Part B premium based on their income.

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Mental and physical preparation are your best tools for managing the feelings that may accompany holidays. While family members, particularly children, may want things to be as they’ve always been, the reality is things have changed. It can also be a time to create new traditions and memories that honor your absent loved one.

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1. Get plenty of rest. The holiday season pulls people in many directions, and that can mean getting less sleep than you need. However, being tired not only has a physical impact on how you feel, it can affect your ability to process emotions.

2. Give yourself permission to take a break. No two people process grief and loss the same way; only you know your limits. Even in a season filled with obligations and commitments, know that it’s OK to set boundaries and remove yourself from holiday reminders and triggers. That may mean flipping the channel on the TV or bypassing the holiday display at the store. Taking care of yourself when you’re grieving isn’t just about finding comfort, it’s also about avoiding discomfort.

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6. Honor your feelings and needs. As most who have experienced loss know, grief comes in waves. The only way to process grief is to ride one wave to the next. That may mean putting off your holiday shopping for a day when you’re feeling less emotional or bowing out of an event you planned to attend.

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There’s no right or wrong way to incorporate your loved one’s memory; that all depends on what feels right to you. It may mean serving his or her favorite dish, placing a photo on the mantel or simply slipping a memento in your pocket so you can touch it when you’re feeling overwhelmed.

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Access to perks and discounts in your golden years One of the best things about aging is being able to enjoy the fruits of your labor without as many obligations as you might have had when you were a younger adult. For example, many men and women have a lot more freedom to travel once they turn 50.

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kids to enjoy that stuff, as well. And they do.”

A great-grandmother transplanted to North Carolina, Susan Huff came back to New York to visit her family in Maspeth, and spent the day with them at the museum.

“I’m having such a good time,” Huff said, “seeing new things I’ve never seen before and watching the

children have a good time.”

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Perhaps the only things more animated than the stop-motion videos made by visitors to the Museum of the Moving Image are the expressions on the faces of the youngsters (and many an adult, as well) as they enter the Moving Image Studio, where the sight of puppets, Legos and colorful costumes is sure to brighten everyone’s day.

It’s a drop-in space, free with admission to the Astoria museum, that is filled with all kinds of inspirations for creativity.

Guests are invited to create media and other projects, all under the watchful eyes and guiding hands of museum educators, who work with visitors in small groups and even one-on-one.

Four stations are available: stop-motion animation using Lego pieces; a green screen for making videos; Muppet-like puppets that may be brought to life by enthusiastic hands and employed in those videos; and an arts and crafts table.

In short, the room encapsulates many of the motion picture techniques that are highlighted throughout the museum, home to “The Jim Henson Exhibition,” an exploration of the transformative impact the creator of the Muppets had through his groundbreaking work in film and television, and “Behind the Screen,” an exhibition that explores how moving images throughout history were made, marketed and shown.

Recent visitors to the studio included Adela Martinez and her young sons, Elijah, 7, and Ethan, 8, on vacation here from their home in Texas.

“We loved Jim Henson,” Martinez said. “I grew up with him. It was amazing the things he did. I want my

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W H AT ’ S H A P P E N I N G EXHIBITS

“Apollo 11: First Steps Edition,” an exclusive version of the 2019 documentary about the mission that landed men on the moon for the first time 50 years ago, with never-before-seen footage. Daily through Tue., Jan. 21, 3 p.m., New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Corona. $6; $5 kids, students, seniors, plus admission: $16; $13 seniors, kids, students with ID. Info: (718) 699-0005, nysci.org.

Artist Co-op 2019, with paintings, sculptures, mixed media works and more by 12 emerging and midcareer Queens and NYC artists. Through Sat., Jan. 25 (artists’ talk Tue., Dec. 10, 7 p.m.), Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, 161-04 Jamaica Ave. Free (donations welcome). Info: (718) 658-7400, jcal.org.

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“At Sea,” with works by multiple artists in various media using sea imagery to address the idea of being adrift in the face of fraught events, natural and manmade, global and personal. Through Sun., Dec. 8, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, 11-03 45 Ave., Long Island City. Free. Info: (718) 937-6317, dorsky.org.

National Lampoon’s LIC Comedy, with multiple comedians performing. Fri., Dec. 6 and 13, 10-11:30 p.m., The Plaxall Gallery, 5-25 46 Ave., Long Island City. $15. Info: (347) 848-0030, nationallampoon. com, licartists.org.

“Time to Leave,” with works by Queens artist and poet Aileen Bassis on people forced to emigrate from their homelands, in Myanmar, the Middle East, Central America and elsewhere. Through Fri., Dec. 13, Lewis H. Latimer House Museum, 34-41 137 St., Flushing. Free. Info: (718) 961-8585, latimernow.org.

“Sculpture & Textiles by Linda Rettich,” with sculptural scenes made of tiny beads, figures, textiles, culinary delights and more. Through Sun., Dec. 22, Voelker Orth Museum, 149-19 38 Ave., Flushing. $2 suggested. Info: (718) 359-6227, vomuseum.org.

“GingerBread Lane 2019,” the new edition of the world’s largest gingerbread village, with every single element edible, created by Queens chef Jon Lovitch; with make-your-own workshops on select days.

Through Sun., Jan. 12, New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Corona. Free with admission: $20; $15 seniors, kids, students with ID (workshops extra).

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

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Holiday concert, with special musical guests Trio des Reinas; book donations for Briarwood Family Center sought. Sat., Dec. 7, 4 p.m., The Center at Maple Grove Cemetery, 127-15 Kew Gardens Road, Kew Gardens. Free with RSVP; $5 walk-ins. Info: (347) 878-6614, friendsofmaplegrove.org.

Community Carol Sing, with anyone who wants to join in singing beloved music of the season from “Silent Night” to “White Christmas,” accompanied by music director Nick Martellacci on piano and organ; with reception to follow and $20 prize for the craziest holiday sweater. Sun., Dec. 8, 4 p.m., Grace Lutheran Church, 103-15 Union Tpke., Forest Hills. Free-will offering. Info: (718) 268-6189, gracefhny.org.

Jazz Jam, the monthly event led by saxophonist Carol Sudhalter, with all musicians and vocalists welcome to join in. Wed., Dec. 11, 7-10 p.m., Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. Free to play or sing; $10 to listen; free students. Info: (718) 4637700, flushingtownhall.org.

Jackson Heights Orchestra, performing Chabrier’s “Suite Pastorale,” the world premiere of PK Waddle’s “Concerto Evocativo for Contrabassoon and Strings” and Mozart’s Symphony in D (“Paris Symphony”).

Billed as the largest lantern show in North America, the Hello Panda Festival will celebrate the holiday season with more than 120 lantern sets, entertainment, interactive games, cultural experiences, crafts, food and more outside Citi Field for seven weeks starting Dec. 6. See Special Events.

COURTESY PHOTO Wed., Dec. 11, 7:30 p.m., St. Mark’s Church, 33-50 82 St., Jackson Heights. $10 suggested; $5 seniors, students. Info: jhbg.org Anna Webber Septet, with the avant-garde flutist, saxophonist and composer and her band blending avant-garde jazz and new classical music, part of Thursday Night Jazz series. Thu., Dec. 12, 8-9 p.m., Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, 161-04 Jamaica Ave. $10. Info: (718) 658-7400, jcal.org.

Roberta Piket Sextet featuring Karrin Allyson: Celebrating Marian McPartland, with the acclaimed pianist’s group and the five-time Grammynominated jazz vocalist performing works by the late jazz pianist. Fri., Dec. 6, 8 p.m., Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. $16; $10 students; free teens.

Info: (718) 463-7700, flushingtownhall.org.

DANCE Ecuadorian Winter Recital: Ñukanchik Sapi, with live music and traditional dances by both children and adults, by the Ecuadorian American Cultural Center.

Sun., Dec. 8, 2-3:30 p.m., Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Free. Info: (718) 592-9700, queensmuseum.org.

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THEATRE “The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Dr. Faustus,” the c. 1590 tragedy by Christopher Marlowe about a brilliant scholar who makes a

deal with the devil, leading to his eternal damnation. Thu.-Sun., Dec. 5-8; Wed.-Sun., Dec. 11-15, 7:30 p.m.; Sat., Dec. 14, 3 p.m., The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23 St., Long Island City. $22; $25 at door.

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

“Tess Dworman — A Child Retires,” a one-woman show referencing the collapse of the performer’s maturation as an artist, with standup comedy, memoir, Irish step-dancing and more included. Daily through Sat., Dec. 7, 8 p.m., The Chocolate Factory Theater, 5-49 49 Ave., Long Island City. $20. Info: (718) 482-7069, chocolatefactorytheater.org.

“Añoranza de Colombia” (“Nostalgia for Colombia”), a musical love story about dancers of modern ballet and Colombian folklore, with 5 musicians and 15 dancers. Each Fri.-Sat., 8 p.m.; each Sun., 4 p.m., through Dec. 15, Thalia Spanish Theatre, 41-17 Greenpoint Ave., Sunnyside. $40$45; $37-$42 seniors, students. Info: (718) 7293880, thaliatheatre.org.

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Frank Conniff’s Open Riff Night, with attendees riffing on awful movies in groups of three, hosted

by TV’s Frank of Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Wed., Dec. 11, 9-10:30 p.m., QED, 27-16 23 Ave., Astoria. $5 to riff; $8 to watch. Info: (347) 4513873, qedastoria.com.

LECTURES/TALKS Book Talk: “The City Game: Triumph, Scandal and a Legendary Basketball Team,” with author Matthew Goodman discussing the 1949-50 double-championship City College Beavers and their point-shaving scandal. Thu., Dec. 12, 7 p.m., Temple Israel of Lawrence, 140 Central Ave., Lawrence, LI. Free. Info/RSVP (required): (516) 2391140, office@tilny.org, alan.freedman@tilny.org.

TOURS/HIKES Holly Tour: Holiday Historic House Tour, the 32nd annual, now rebranded, with visits to six sites including the Bowne House, Flushing Town Hall and Lewis H. Latimer House, above. Sun., Dec. 8, 1-5 p.m., starting at Queens Historical Society, Kingsland Homestead, 143-35 37 Ave., Flushing. $20; $25 at door; one or two kids under 12 per family free; more kids $5. Info: (718) 939-0647, queenshistoricalsociety.org.

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CLASSES/WORKSHOPS “Downtown 81,” the real-life look at a hip subculture in post-punk Manhattan filmed in 1980-81 but only released in 2000. Fri.-Sun., Dec. 6-8, varying times; Sat.-Sun., Dec. 14-15, 2 p.m., Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria. $15; $11 seniors, students; $9 kids 3-17; includes museum admission. Info: (718) 777-6888, movingimage.us.

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Wreathmaking, with all materials provided, along with music, cider and cookies, but attendees bringing their own garden shears. Sat.-Sun., Dec. 7-8 and 14-15, Queens County Farm Museum, 73-50 Little Neck Pkwy., Floral Park. $25.

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The world premiere of a new, nearly wordless musical, “Añoranza de Colombia” (“Nostalgia for Colombia”), running at Thalia Spanish Theatre in Sunnyside through Dec. 15, provides a veritable smorgasbord of the music and dances that have ties to that South American country.

The show, presented in conjunction with Mestizo Art Center and featuring a cast of about a dozen young, tireless and talented performers, is a feast for the eyes and ears.

Running slightly over 90 minutes without an intermission, the show begins with the appearance of an elderly couple, celebrating

‘Añoranza de Colombia’ When: Each Fri.-Sat., 8 p.m.; each Sun., 4 p.m., through Dec. 15 Where: Thalia Spanish Theatre, 41-17 Greenpoint Ave., Sunnyside Tickets: $40-$48; $37-$45 students, seniors. (718) 729-3880, thaliatheatre.org

their 50th wedding anniversary.

They unwrap their gif t s, mostly an a ss o r t m ent of hats, each of which inspires a da nce. It ’s hokey and, after a while, repetitive, but it suits the evening’s intent: to provide a nostalgic overview of some of Colombia’s cultural contributions to the world.

There’s a slight storyline that finds the show’s participants meeting at an audition, touring Colombian theaters (as the dancers display great versatility) and, in the final scene, participating in a 1960s-style wedding, bringing the celebration to its conclusion.

The small stage and matching stadiumstyled seating area make for an intimate combination. The performers are within touching distance from the spectators, who, at the end of the show, are invited onstage to take photos with the cast — a

The dancers are the heart and soul of “Añoranza de Colombia,” a show that lavishes PHOTOS BY MARK LORD some of that nation’s cultural contributions upon the audience. nice touch.

Helping to set the scene are rear projections, including loving tributes to both Colombia and New York. While most of the music is based in various regions of Colombia, there are a few numbers featuring tunes that would be more familiar to nonnatives, “New York, New York” and “I Can’t Help

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MoMI explores the Andy Kaufman influence

by Michael Gannon editor

Trying to pin down Queens native Andy Kaufman (1949-1984) as a comic, performer and entertainer can be tough.

Just ask artist Brian Hubble, who has been delving into Kaufman’s life and work for 13 years.

“What he did was genius,” said Hubble.

“I’ve tried to figure things out, what he invented and discovered in the field of comedy. There are a lot of people, a lot of young comics who have been influenced by him. It can be hard to find where the Andy Kaufman influence ends and something new

‘I Trusted You: Andy Kaufman on the Edge of Performance’ When: Sat., Dec. 14, 5-9 p.m.

Where: Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria Entry: $20; $15 members, seniors, students. (718) 777-6800, movingimage.us

begins.” Hubble is the guest curator of “I Trusted You: Andy Kaufman on the Edge of Performance,” a combination screening and live event that will celebrate Kaufman at the Museum of the Moving Image on Dec. 14.

While Kaufman is best known for his performance as Latka Gravas on “Taxi” (197883), he first came to fame for his off-kilter stage act, some of it meticulously planned and some totally improvised. That led to appearances on talk and variety shows.

He was 35 when he died of a rare form of lung cancer. He inspired a documentary and a song by the band REM. Later actor and comedian Jim Carrey, who was influenced by Kaufman, won a Golden Globe for his portrayal in the 1999 biographical feature film “Man in the Moon.” While acknowledging that Kaufman was well-documented as “an outsider” on the “Taxi” set, Hubble said backstage Kaufman’s reputation was “the sweetest person you could hope to meet.”

“One time when his plane was going to be delayed, he rented a car and went to visit a sick child in a hospital in that city who had written to him,” he said. “He didn’t notify the media or call attention to it. He didn’t have to do that.”

Andy Kaufman never considered himself a comic, but his groundbreaking comedy still PHOTO COURTESY MOMI influences the entertainment industry 35 years after his passing.

The MoMI retrospective came together gradually through Hubble’s research and interviews. Part will consist of a showing of clips of both Kaufman’s better- and lesserknown performances, as well as a screening of “My Breakfast with Blassie,” a 1983 film featuring Kaufman and pro wrestling legend “Classy Freddie” Blassie, and a direct sendup of “My Dinner with Andre.”

There also will be live performances — “some of which were never recorded” — with actors popping up throughout the museum and its galleries.

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Getting involved herself, Huff posed in front of a green screen that allowed her to be photographed in what appeared to be a multitude of different settings. As a memento, she had the pictures sent to her via email, an option offered to participants.

Coming from Brooklyn were 9-year-old friends Maru Matsuura and Mugen Tolentino, who wasted no time in getting to work on a stop-motion animation project, photographing Lego cars one frame at a time, painstakingly creating a video that makes them appear to crash and break apart. p

“It’s very interactive,” Maru’s mother, Akiko Matsuura, said. “It gets my son engaged in the process. He likes making things that move.”

“I like the creativity,” said Mugen, a budding filmmaker. “It’s fun to make stop-motion movies.”

“We bring all the museum’s practices into this room,” said museum When: Each Sat. and Sun., 11 a.m.-4 p.m., educator Zatise Boyd. “We walk famthrough Dec. 22 ilies through the activities. We take a Where: Museum of the Moving Image, hands-on approach.”

36-01 35 Ave., Astoria This space comprises but one tiny Entry: Free with museum admission: part of what MoMI offers. Other $15; $11 seniors, students; attractions include various installa$9 kids 3-17. (718) 777-6888, tions, such as “Creatures from the movingimage.us.

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Creating stop-motion videos at the Museum of the Moving Image are brothers Sire, above right, and Zavier, and friends Maru and Mugen, left. On the cover: Adela Martinez and her two sons, Elijah, left, and Ethan prepare to shoot a video with puppets. PHOTOS BY MARK LORD as well as various screenings and special events.

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Born in 1890 in the border town Eteimbes, where France meets Germany and Switzerland, Joseph Cousy married late in life.

The same year he immigrated to America, 1927, he married Juliette Corlet, who’d come to the U.S. from Belfort, France, just few miles down the road from Eteimbes. He was 37.

They had a son, Robert, the following year while living in an apartment, along with Juliette’s mother, at 18-21 Ditmars Blvd. in Astoria By 1935, Joseph, who worked as a Checker taxi driver, saved up enough to buy a house at 189-25 116 Road in St. Albans, a block from Linden and Farmers boulevards.

Young Bob discovered his talent for basketball, also late, at age 13. Breaking his hand falling out of a tree forced him to become ambidextrous, a skill that later served him well on the court.

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This is the childhood home, circa 1940s, of Basketball Hall of Famer Bob Cousy, 189-25 116 Road, St. Albans. sion Championship in 1946, which earned him a scholarship to Holy Cross College.

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Holiday Flea Market, with Xmas gifts, décor, cards, paper, tote and cosmetic bags, costume jewelry, toys, games, books, bric-a-brac and more. Sun., Dec. 8, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., American Martyrs Church, 79-43 Bell Blvd., Bayside. Info: (718) 225-0217.

Queens Farm Holiday Market, with Christmas trees, wreaths, pointsettias, toys, games and more, to support the School-to-Farm education program. Daily through Mon., Dec. 23, 10 a.m.5 p.m.; Tue., Dec. 24, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., 73-50 Little Neck Pkwy., Floral Park. Info: (718) 3473276, queensfarm.org.

Astoria Holiday Market, with local crafters selling clothing, accessories, jewelry, chocolate and more. Sun., Dec. 8 and 15, 12-6 p.m., Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden, 29-19 24 Ave., Astoria. Info: (718) 274-4925, bohemianhall.com, astoriamarket.com.

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And then there are the dancers, the heart and soul of the production. A round of applause is due all of them (they are not individually identified in the printed program), for displaying a wide range of skills and personalities. In addition to Mena, they are Lorena Ayub, Sebastian Lozano, Danny Ochoa, Mario Erazo, Deiner Ivan Caraball, Carlos Beltran, Miguel Sanisaca, Pamela Sanchez, Rashel Orellana, Nathally Higuera, Genelle Cardenas and Katherine Alvarez.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWELFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR MANATEE COUNTY, FLORIDA. Filing #98949652 E-Filed 11/15/2019 12:23:08 PM. CASE NO: 2019 DR 003617 IN THE MATTER OF THE PROPOSED ADOPTION OF LEYLA MARGARET COAKLEY, Minor Child. NOTICE OF ACTION FOR PUBLICATION TO: MUTALIP YALCIN a/k/a TALIP YALCIN, Turkish, age 35, brown hair, brown eyes, Height-5’11”, stature-tall and thin, Child born 5/3/05, Long Island, NY. YOU ARE NOTIFIED that an action to Petition for Adoption by Stepparent has been filed against you. You are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, to this action on Melissa CascioIa, Esquire, of JODAT LAW GROUP PA, Petitioners’ attorney, whose address is 2620 S. Tamiami Trial, Sarasota, Florida 34239 on or before 12/27/2019 and file the original with the clerk of this court at Manatee County Clerk of Court, 1115 Manatee Avenue West, Bradenton, FL 34205, either before service on Petitioner’s attorney or immediately thereafter; otherwise a default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the petition. DATED this 20th day of November, 2019. CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT By: Laura Griffin, Deputy Clerk

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Notice of Formation of A M & Z Car Service LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/31/2019. 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: A M & Z CAR SERVICE LLC, 8824 189TH STREET, HOLLIS, NY 11423. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

116-07 REALTY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/15/09. Latest date to dissolve: 12/31/2109.

Office: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 116-07 Metropolitan Avenue, Kew Gardens, NY 11418.

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Notice of Formation of CREATIVE BEGINNINGS REALTY GROUP, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/23/2019. 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 LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, 83-19 141ST STREET, APT. 705, BRIARWOOD, NY 11435.

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17 E ST MARKS PL LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 10/7/19. 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, c/o ABDUL WASI, 5517 137TH St., FL. 2, Flushing, NY 11355. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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REAL ESTATE ATTORNEY; Buy/ Sell Real Estate Broker. PROBATE/ CRIMINAL/WILLS/BUSINESS MATTERS—Richard H. Lovell, P.C.,10748 Cross Bay Blvd. Ozone Park, NY 718-835-9300; www.LovellLawNewYork.com

Legal Notices NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 10-24-19, bearing Index Number NC-000861-19/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) ALEXANDER (Last) DONA. My present name is (First) ALEXANDER (Last) DONADZE (infant). The city and state of my present address are Corona, NY. My place of birth is QUEENS, NY. The month and year of my birth are August 2002.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 11-26-19, bearing Index Number NC-001079-19/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) MILLY (Last) ROY. My present name is (First) MILLY (Middle) ROY (Last) KULAKKATTOLICKAL AKA M KULAKKATTOLICKAL AKA MILLY MATHEW AKA MILLYROY KULAKKATTOLICKAL. The city and state of my present address are Bellerose, NY. My place of birth is INDIA. The month and year of my birth are September 1968.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 10-23-19, bearing Index Number NC-000941-19/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) RUBEN (Middle) DARIO (Last) ROMERO VASQUEZ. My present name is (First) RUBEN (Middle) DARIO (Last) CLARA. The city and state of my present address are Jackson Heights, NY. My place of birth is QUEENS, NY. The month and year of my birth are February 1995.

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NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 09-30-19, bearing Index Number NC-000740-19/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) RAYYAN (Middle) AHMMED (Last) AYYASH. My present name is (First) RAYAN (Middle) AHMMED (Last) ARIYAN (infant). The city and state of my present address are Elmhurst, NY. My place of birth is QUEENS, NY. The month and year of my birth are March 2016.

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF QUEENS JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, Plaintiff AGAINST Carl Casseus; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated December 20, 2019 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Queens County Supreme Courthouse, Courtroom #25, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, New York on December 20, 2019 at 10:30AM, premises known as 209-50 111th Avenue, Queens Village, NY 11429. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough and County of Queens, City and State of NY, Block 11123 Lot 17. Approximate amount of judgment $131,013.97 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 713333/2017. Hon. Randolph Jackson, Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC, Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff, 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard, Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: October 10, 2019 For sale information, please visit www.Auction.com or call (800) 280-2832

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SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS–SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, COUNTY OF QUEENS – THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS CWALT, INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2006-43CB, MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-43CB Plaintiff, against DOROTHY PUGH AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF DORIS PUGH; ANTHONY BURGESS AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF DORIS PUGH; CRYSTAL FAULKNER AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN AND ADMINISTRATOR TO THE ESTATE OF DORIS PUGH if living, and if she/he be dead, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; KEITH AKEEM FAULKNER AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF DORIS PUGH; DONOVAN VASSELL DUFFUS AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF DORIS PUGH; NEW YORK CITY PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU; NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 0/B/O INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; MAKALO SAMBUJANG; STEPHANIE BROWN, Defendants-Index No. 11720/2011 Plaintiff Designates Queens County as the Place of Trial. The Basis of Venue is that the subject action is situated in Queens County. 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(s) within 20 days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); the United States of America may appear or answer within 60 days of service hereof; 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.

That this Supplemental Summons is being filed pursuant to an order of the court dated July 29, 2019.

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 the mortgage company will not stop the 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. HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE; New York State law requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process. Please read it carefully. SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT You are in danger of losing your home. If you fail to respond to the Summons and Complaint in this Foreclosure Action, you may lose your home. Please read the Summons and Complaint carefully. You should immediately contact an attorney of your local legal aid office to obtain advice on how to protect yourself. SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid office, there are government agencies and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Department of Financial Services at 1-800-269-0990 or visit the Department’s website at http:// www.dfs.ny.gov. FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS Be careful of people who approach you with offers to “save” your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner’s distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services. We are attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose. The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Honorable Laurence L. Love, J.S.C. dated July 29, 2019. The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage and covering the premises known as 105-26 171 Place, Jamaica, NY 11433 located at Block 10240 and Lot 39 Filed: October 3, 2019 Dated: November 6, 2019 Pincus Law Group, PLLC Attorney for Plaintiff, By: Cynthia Malone, Esq., 425 RXR Plaza, Uniondale, NY 11556 (516) 699-8902

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Guardian Notice of Sale of Real Property. Supreme Court, County of Queens, Matter of TYRONE JACKSON, an Incapacitated Person. Pursuant to an Order of the Court, Index Number 15297/2013, dated November 18, 2019 by the Hon. Lee A. Mayersohn, an application to sell real property located at 172-15 144th Avenue, Jamaica, New York 11434 will be made on the 17th day of December, 2019 at 9:30 A.M. at I.A.S. Part 22G of the Supreme Court located at 88-11 Sutphin Blvd., Courtroom 22, Jamaica, NY 11435. Said sale is subject to the approval of the Court. Best offer over $530,000. Contact Mark J. Keller, Esq. (718) 297-1890.

Bidders must be prepared to enter into a contract of sale and make a deposit of at least 10% of the purchase price by bank or certified check payable to “Mark J. Keller, Esq. as attorney”. No personal checks will be accepted. Closing within 60 days of Court Order approving contract of sale of real property. Mark J. Keller, 90-27 Sutphin Boulevard, Suite 402, Jamaica, New York 11435; (718) 297-1890.

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS, U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE FOR GREENPOINT MORTGAGE FUNDING TRUST MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2007AR3, V. MOHANIE BISHU, ET. AL. NOTICE OF SALE. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated April 12, 2018, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Queens, wherein U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE FOR GREENPOINT MORTGAGE FUNDING TRUST MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2007-AR3 is the Plaintiff and MOHANIE BISHU, ET AL. are the Defendant(s).

I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the QUEENS COUNT Y COURTHOUSE, COURTROOM #25, 88-11 SUTPHIN BLVD., JAMAICA NY 11435, on December 13, 2019 at 10:30 AM, premises known as 92-24 175TH STREET, JAMAICA, NY 11433: Block 10214, Lot 17: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE 4TH WARD, BOROUGH AND COUNTY OF QUEENS, CITY AND STATE OF NEW YORK. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 705689/2016. David H. Sloan, Esq. - Referee. RAS Boriskin, LLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff.

KG 6011 DEVELOPMENT LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/16/19.

Office: Queens County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 132-01 34th Ave, Flushing, NY 11354. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Action by MONTEFIORE CEMETERY, located at 12183 Springfield Boulevard, Springfield Gardens, NY 11413, to declare abandoned and reacquire certain unused grave sites on the grounds of the SHELIBER AND ZALINER BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION Burial Society pursuant to NY CLS N-PCL § 1513-a. Contact Information: Montefiore Cemetery c/o Carl Schramm (718-528-1700) Notice of Formation of Terom & Sons LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/18/2019.

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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: SEETA ROMONA LATCHMAN, 9419 96TH ST, OZONE PARK, NY 11416.

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C M SQ page 53 Y K THE CROSSING AT JAMAICA STATION 667 NEWLY CONSTRUCTED UNITS AT 148-10 ARCHER AVENUE & 147-40 ARCHER AVENUE, JAMAICA, QUEENS Amenities: controlled entry access system, 24/7 on-site maintenance, fitness rooms, bicycle storage, outdoor terraces, children’s rooms, resident lounges, laundry rooms, on-site management office (located at 148-10 Archer Ave) Transit: E/F/J/Z, LIRR, AirTrain, Q6, Q8, Q9, Q20A, Q20B, Q24, Q25, Q34, Q40, Q41, Q42, Q43, Q44-SBS, Q54, Q56, Q60, Q65, Q83, Q84 1R DSSOLFDWLRQ IHH 1R EURNHU¶V IHH 6PRNH-free building More information: www.liveatJSQueens.com & NYHousingSearch.gov These buildings are being constructed through the ELLA program and the Mix-Middle program of the New York City Housing Development Corporation (HDC),the Inclusionary Housing Program of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), and Tax Code Units through NYS Division of Homes and Community Renewal (HCR).

Individuals or households who meet the income and x A percentage of units is set aside for applicants with disabilities: household size requirements listed in the table below R Mobility (5%) may apply. Qualified applicants will be required to R Vision/Hearing (2%). meet additional selection criteria. Applicants who live x Preference for a percentage of units goes to: in New York City receive a general preference for R Residents of Queens Community Board 12 (50%) apartments.

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AVAILABLE UNITS AND INCOME REQUIREMENTS

3 Bed

$681

16

$949

3

2 Bedroom

3 Bedroom

2 Bedroom

3 People 2 People 3 People 4 People 5 People 3 People 4 People 5 People 6 People 7 People

$2,142

$2,582

2

9

11

3

Monthly Units Rent1 Available

145% AREA MEDIAN INCOME (AMI)

1 Bedroom

$1,705

$2,975

Unit Size Studio

2 People $25,372 - $34,160

Monthly Units Rent1 Available

125% AREA MEDIAN INCOME (AMI)

1 Bedroom

11

$828

Unit Size

Studio

2 People $23,658 - $34,160 1 Person $25,372 - $29,880

3 Bedroom

$2,026

$2,542

$3,063

$3,530

8

20

19

2

$25,372 - $38,440 $30,446 - $34,160 $30,446 - $38,440 $30,446 - $42,680 $30,446 - $46,120 $35,178 - $38,440 $35,178 - $42,680 $35,178 - $46,120 $35,178 - $49,520 $35,178 - $52,960

$1,007

$1,081

17

50

$1,309

51

$1,504

7

Annual Household Income3

1 Person

$36,480 - $44,820

2 People

$36,480 - $51,240

1 Person

$39,086 - $44,820

2 People

$39,086 - $51,240

3 People 2 People 3 People 4 People 5 People 3 People 4 People 5 People 6 People 7 People

$39,086 - $57,660 $46,938 - $51,240 $46,938 - $57,660 $46,938 - $64,020 $46,938 - $69,180 $54,206 - $57,660 $54,206 - $64,020 $54,206 - $69,180 $54,206 - $74,280 $54,206 - $79,440

Household Size2

Annual Household Income3

1 Person

$60,412 - $93,375

Units House Monthly Avail -hold Rent1 -able Size2

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Monthly Rent1

DŝŶŝŵƵŵ ʹ DĂdžŝŵƵŵ

$1,946

80% AREA MEDIAN INCOME (AMI)

2 Bed

5

1 Person $23,658 - $29,880

House -hold Size2

130% AREA MEDIAN INCOME (AMI)

1 Bed

$633

Units Monthly Avail Rent1 -able

DŝŶŝŵƵŵ ʹ DĂdžŝŵƵŵ

$1,380

2

Annual Household Income3 DŝŶŝŵƵŵ ʹ DĂdžŝŵƵŵ

1 Person $49,269 - $59,760 2 People $49,269 - $68,320 1 Person $52,800 - $59,760

$1,481

13

$1,789

16

$2,059

3

2 People $52,800 - $68,320 3 People 2 People 3 People 4 People 5 People 3 People 4 People 5 People 6 People 7 People

Units Household Available Size2 15

$52,800 - $76,880 $63,395 - $68,320 $63,395 - $76,880 $63,395 - $85,360 $63,395 - $92,240 $73,235 - $76,880 $73,235 - $85,360 $73,235 - $92,240 $73,235 - $99,040 $73,235 - $105,920

Annual Household Income3 DŝŶŝŵƵŵ ʹ DĂdžŝŵƵŵ

1 Person

$68,675 - $97,110

2 People

$68,675 - $111,020

2 People

$60,412- $106,750

1 Person

$75,463 - $93,375

2 People

$75,463 - $106,750

3 People

$75,463 - $120,125

2 People

$90,583 - $106,750

3 People

$90,583 - $120,125

4 People

$90,583 - $133,375

5 People

$90,583 - $144,125

3 People

$104,640 - $120,125

4 People

$104,640 - $133,375

5 People

$104,640 - $144,125

6 People

$104,640 - $154,750

6 People

$118,903 - $160,940

7 People

$104,640 – $165,500

7 People

$118,903 - $172,120

Household Size2

Annual Household Income3

1 Person 2 People

$71,418 - $108,315 $71,418 - $123,830

1 Person

$89,178 - $108,315

2 People

$89,178 - $123,830 $89,178 - $139,345

2 People

$107,075 - $123,830

3 People

$107,075 - $139,345

4 People

$107,075 - $154,715

5 People

$107,075 - $167,185

3 People

$123,669 - $139,345

4 People

$123,669 - $154,715

5 People

$123,669 - $167,185

6 People 7 People

$2,943

$3,391

Monthly Rent1

DŝŶŝŵƵŵ ʹ DĂdžŝŵƵŵ

3 People

$2,442

165% AREA MEDIAN INCOME (AMI)

Studio

40% AREA MEDIAN INCOME (AMI)

Unit Size

Annual Household Income3 60% AREA MEDIAN INCOME (AMI)

Units House Monthly Avail -hold Rent1 -able Size2

41

39

5

$2,587

61

$3,243

104

$3,904

1 Person

$85,749 - $97,110

2 People

$85,749 - $111,020

3 People

$85,749 - $124,930

2 People

$102,960 - $111,020

3 People

$102,960 - $124,930

4 People

$102,960 - $138,710

5 People

$102,960 - $149,890

3 People

$118,903 - $124,930

4 People

$118,903 - $138,710

5 People

$118,903 - $149,890

Units Household Available Size2

123

1 Person 2 People

Annual Household Income3 DŝŶŝŵƵŵ ʹ DĂdžŝŵƵŵ

$90,652 - $123,255 $90,652 - $140,910

1 Person

$113,212 - $123,255

2 People

$113,212 - $140,910

3 People

$113,212 - $158,565

2 People

$135,909 - $140,910

3 People

$135,909 - $158,565

4 People

$135,909 - $176,055

5 People

$135,909 - $190,245

3 People

$156,960 - $158,565

4 People

$156,960 - $176,055

5 People

$156,960 - $190,245

$123,669 - $179,510

6 People

$156,960 - $204,270

$123,669 - $191,980

7 People

$156,960 - $218,460

$4,501

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Tenant pays electricity; rent includes gas for cooking, heat, and hot water.

Household size includes everyone who will live with you, including parents and children. Subject to occupancy criteria.

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Apply online or through mail. To apply online, please go to nyc.gov/housingconnect. To request an application by mail, send a self-addressed envelope to: The Crossing at Jamaica Station, Attn: Application Request, 909 Third Avenue, 21st Floor, New York, NY 10022. Only send one application per development. Do not submit duplicate applications. Do not apply online and also send in a paper application. Applicants who submit more than one application may be disqualified.

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Last Wednesday’s Rangers game marked the 1,000th for 37-year-old goaltender Henrik Lundqvist, who was able to turn away 41 shots in a 3-2 win over the Hurricanes. Many saves came in acrobatic form because of a soft defense.

The decisive goal was scored by rookie Adam Fox, who grew up in Jericho, LI and exemplifies the Blueshirts’ youth movement.

What has to be troubling was that the Hurricanes won 60 percent of the faceoffs. Even worse, Carolina outshot New York 43-25.

Fluky wins don’t get a team to the playoffs.

The Yankees dropped frequently injured first baseman Greg Bird from their 40-man roster. That proved yet again that the sports gods aren’t always kind. Bird is one of the friendliest athletes you’ll ever have the pleasure of meeting. When he was healthy, he showed power and was a solid fielder. A team looking for a power hitter who won’t cost much such as the Rays would be wise to take a flier.

The Bronx Bombers also cut another frequent habitue of the injured list, outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury. What was surprising is that the Yankees, who are on the hook for the remaining $26 million he’s owed, are seeking to void the contract and avoid having to pay him by claiming Ellsbury underwent a medical procedure that wasn’t authorized by the team.

The Major League Baseball Players Association is challenging the team on the unusual action, and my guess is that the union will prevail. Had Ellsbury missed physical therapy rehab sessions the Yankees would have a strong case, but that’s not what happened.

The Mets will hold their first-ever fan festival at Citi Field on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020.

New manager Carlos Beltran will be on hand, as will several current and former players as well as on-air personalities from the Mets cable home, SNY. The Mets are promising a number of interactive activities. For more information log on to mets.com/fanfest.

Middleweight boxing champion Jermall Charlo will put his title on the line at Barclays Center Saturday night when he faces challenger Dennis Hogan. During a promotional press conference a few weeks ago, Hogan broke up the crowd of media by promising that he’ll paint the town green after upsetting Charlo.

Sports Illustrated’s new corporate owner, Seattle-based Maven, is reflecting the American economy by showing that there’s no middle class, at least when it comes to journalists.

Maven kept a few of SI’s best-known writers, such as Chris Mannix and Tom Verducci, but fired nearly everyone else and replaced them Q with low-paid newbies.

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HOWARD BEACH/LINDENWOOD

Beautiful Hi-Ranch. Top floor features 3 BRs, 2 all-new full baths, new mint kitchen with granite countertops, SS appl., custom granite island, tiled kitchen floor, walk-in apt., central air, in-ground pool. Asking $849K

Beautiful 4 Bed Colonial with deck overlooking water. All new. First floor features large living room and dining room, 1/2 bth, mint kitchen with granite countertops, new cherrywood cabinets, S/S appliances and commercial stone oven and broiler. 2nd fl features 3 BRs with beautiful full bth and water views. Top fl has another bedroom with deck overlooking water, yard, pvt driveway and garage.

Asking $769K

One-of-a-kind Janet Ann Duplex Condo, 2 BRs, 1 1/2 bths. Renovated, granite, SS appl., washer and dryer, terrace.

Reduced $365K

Cape on 50x90 lot, 4 BRs, 2 full baths. 1st floor, hardwood floors, living room w/fireplace, formal dining room, kitchen, 2 BRs, full bath, access to enclosed sunroom. 2nd floor, 2 BRs, full fin. bsmt., new gas furnace & hot water heater (4 yrs old), large den. Owner Motivated!

Reduced $749K

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HOWARD BEACH/LINDENWOOD

Co-ops For Sale Hi-Rise - 1 Bed Co-op, low maint., G & E and taxes incl.

Asking $149K Hi-Rise - 2 Bed, 2 Baths updated kitchen.

Asking $247K Hi-Rise - Mint AAA, 2 Bed, 2 Baths, custom kit., new baths.

Asking $310K Garden Co-op - 3 Bed, 1 Bath, freshly painted, Hi-hats, new closet doors, w/dryer in apt, updated kit.

Asking $299K

HOWARD BEACH All brick, legal 2 fam, 2 BR, 1 bath over 2 bed, 1 bath. Full finished basement with sep. entrance, 40x100 corner property.

Asking $959K

Commercial Space For Rent HOWARD BEACH

HOWARD BEACH

Beautiful Townhouse, 2 terraces, 3 BRs, 2 full baths, 2 half baths. Kitchen with SS appl., granite counters and table. Deck, AG pool, tiled floors, all renovated, 2 car driveway, garage, view of water from front balcony.

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Cross Bay Blvd, commercial space for rent, 2nd fl, 850 sq. ft., all new tiled office w/bath, $2,750/mo., plus electric.

HOWARD BEACH Cross Bay Blvd, 2nd fl., approx 350 sq. ft., $1,500/mo., plus heat & electric. Bothgood for attorney/mortgage company/accountant/ trucking company, etc.

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Legal 2 fams, 4 BRs, 4 baths. Large brick on 25x100 lot.

5 over 5, full bsmt. with sep. ent. 9' ceilings. Driveway and det. garage, needs TLC. Asking $1,228,000

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