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NOT A DRILL PASSING THE TORCH Woodhaven civic head stepping down

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THE MAYOR AND THE SCHOOLS A look at Bloomberg’s education legacy

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Fire alarms at PS 207 will finally get fixed with federal money PAGE 5 PS 207 in Howard Beach was devastated by Hurricane Sandy’s storm surge last year. Though it reopened to students nine weeks later, it has had no functioning fire alarm system since the storm but soon will thanks to a U.S. government grant.

Avonte Oquendo headquarters opens Weeks after autistic teen goes missing, mother and volunteers continue search

by Tess McRae Associate Editor

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he press has slowed and the city’s search parties have been scaled back, but the hunt for Avonte Oquendo continues.

Vanessa Fontaine, Avonte’s mother, has gone from her home in Rego Park to a tent in Long Island City to an official Help Find Avonte headquar ters in the t wo months since her son bolted from his school and into the street.

“He’s still out there and we just needed a place where the volunteers can come in and do the fliers, pass them out and where I can get everything set up for when they come in,” she said.

The office is modest, no larger than a small apartment, with cream-colored walls covered with pictures of Avonte’s face.

Though the pict ures show the skin ny 14-year-old smiling and happy, each poster acts as a haunting reminder of the mute autistic child who disappeared into the crisp autumn afternoon.

The pain parents must feel when their child is missing cannot be easily seen on Fontaine’s face. She maintains her composure and, like an athlete preparing for a big game, she keeps her eyes on the prize.

“I never struggle to stay positive,” she said, sipping from a Styrofoam cup filled

Envelopes, fliers, posters and banners to help find Avonte Oquendo, an autistic 14-year-old who is unable to speak. Avonte ran out of his Long Island City school building two months ago and PHOTO BY TESS MCRAE has not been seen since. with coffee from the Keurig machine she set up for the volunteers. “I can never think anything negative when it comes to my son. I just keep thinking that he’s still around, that someone has him and that he

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Whether Avonte is alive is not a question Fontaine entertains. She said she is absolutely confident that he is alive.

“My gut feeling is that someone took

him,” she said. “On the street, there are no cameras around and he’s just walking alone.”

Fontaine is not alone in her search.

Countless volunteers still show up every week to hang f liers and go on searches across the city, but it is her sons who appear to be her most loyal seekers.

Anthony and Andrew, two of her four sons, work with their mother throughout the day, hauling boxes, fixing the office up and folding fliers.

Her stepson, Jason, has been active on social media and Instagram, posting frequently about Avonte.

There is a sense of determination in the air as boxes and boxes of envelopes and fliers are laid on top of one another to be mailed out around the city.

With Christmas coming up, Fontaine says her one wish is to have Avonte home for the holidays.

“If I could have one gift, that would be it,” she said. “We’re going to keep Christmas normal and hopefully he’ll be home by then and we’ll do what we do as one big happy family.”

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Sandy-damaged school has had no fire alarm since it reopened

by Domenick Rafter Editor

Howard Beach’s PS 207 may have been the most heavily damaged school in Queens

by Hurricane Sandy.

The school, at 159-15 88 St., is in the heart of the heavily residential Rockwood Park section of the neighborhood that was hit hard

by Sandy’s storm surge last year.

The school was devastated. Twelve feet of water flooded the basement, bursting open the school’s oil tanks, causing 3,000 gallons of oil to flood the basement along with the water. The power and heating systems were also destroyed. The auditorium was also flooded in the storm.

Although most schools in the disaster zone — including the neighborhood’s other public school, PS 146 — were able to reopen fairly quickly, PS 207 remained closed for over two months, forcing students to attend classes in other schools in Brooklyn and as far away as Long Island City until it reopened last January after Christmas break.

The damaged school played host to Mayor Bloomberg and several city leaders, including Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Comptroller John Liu and Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott, for a press conference several weeks after Sandy in which they announced the investment of city money into damaged schools in the four hard-hit boroughs: Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan and Staten Island.

But that money did not go to fix at least one important piece of equipment at the school.

PS 207 in Howard Beach suffered extensive damage in Hurricane Sandy, including the destruction of its electrical and heating systems and oil contamination when the storm surge burst its oil tanks. The school’s fire alarm has also been nonfunctional since the storm. PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER Since the school reopened in January, it has been without a fire alarm system.

To allow the school to hold the mandated fire drills, the city Department of Education hired 12 “fire watchers,” whose job it is to watch for fires during the school day. According to multiple sources and at least one published report, the watchers are getting paid $13,000 a week to look out for fires in the school.

But finally the alarm bell may ring again soon in PS 207.

Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-New York) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York) announced this week that nearly $2 million will be released from the $67 billion Sandy aid pack-

age to focus on repairs at PS 207 specifically.

The grant, which comes from the Federal Emergency Management Agency awards $1,861,901.33 in federal funds to the School Construction Authority for emergency repairs undertaken at PS 207 post-Sandy. The 48-yearold school sustained over $2 million in damage during the hurricane. It was so severe that a rumor, later debunked to parents by Walcott in person, spread in the neighborhood that the school would need to be demolished and rebuilt. The funding will reimburse 90 percent of the cost of repairs on the building.

Angelica Katz, chief of staff to Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Rockaway Park)

confirmed that those fixes will include a new fire alarm system for the school. Several other schools in Sandy-affected zones, including Beach Channel High School in Rockaway Park, also had fire alarm problems, but they have since been fixed.

The DOE did not respond to multiple requests for comment on the fire alarm issue, but a source close to the department said the city was unable to replace the alarm system until federal aid money was cleared and given to the SCA. “[The SCA] expected to have that money months ago,” the source said. “Unfortunately it was delayed.”

Furthermore, the DOE was not able to use funds it had to repair the system because it was not allocated to the SCA, who oversees school construction, renovations and repairs.

More than $5 million in FEMA funds were given to the SCA in September for repairs at three Rockaway schools.

At the school on Wednesday, parents were happy to hear that PS 207 would be getting funds to fix the fire alarm, but cynicism was still prevalent.

“It’s ridiculous and we never got any answers from anybody as to what they’re going to do or when they’re going to fix it,” said one parent of a fourth grader who did not want to be identified. “It seems like something so simple and stupid to fix.”

She added that the school did not have any fire drills between January through June, but wasn’t sure if any were held this Q school year.

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New leadership for Woodhaven civic Martin Colberg will succeed Ed Wendell as block association head

by Domenick Rafter Editor

have done a tremendous job over the past several years, so I know I have big shoes to fill,” Colberg said. “But I also have a solid foundation to build on, and I’m grateful for this opportunity. I’m looking forward to continuing the WRBA’s good work and its outreach to everyone in Woodhaven.”

The group also recently hosted a public town hall on the plans to develop the former Rockaway Beach LIRR line, which runs along the western border of the neighborhood. Next year, it hopes to be involved in the participatory budget process that Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park), who represents most of Woodhaven, has vowed to bring to the community. Members of the board have been lobbying Woodhaven’s other Council member, Elizabeth

Martin Colberg, left, was elected president of the Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association, succeeding the retiring Ed Wendell, who has lead the PHOTO COURTESY WRBA/FILE PHOTO civic group for three years.

Crowley (D-Middle Village), to also bring participatory budgeting to the district.

The WRBA’s next Town Hall

will be on January 18, 2014, 1 p.m., at Emanuel United Church of Christ, at 91st Avenue and Q Woodhaven Boulevard.

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After three years as president of the Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association, Ed Wendell announced this week that he will be stepping down at the end of the year.

He will be replaced by WRBA board member Martin Colberg, who was elected president last week.

Wendell said he would still serve as a member of the WRBA board and will devote energy to the Woodhaven Historical Society, where he serves as president. “ T h e W R BA h a s wo r ke d extremely hard to expand our presence in the community, and the fact that we will now be steered by relatively new members shows that we’ve succeeded in that mission,” he said. “Our

new officers reflect our community and the continued progress we w i l l m a ke, i n 2014 a nd beyond.”

Colberg will be joined by Giedra Kregzdys, who will serve as vice president. Stephen Forte will continue as treasurer and Alexander Blenkinsopp, who is also a member of Community Board 9, will continue to do communications for the civic group.

Wendell said he has extreme c o n f id e nc e i n C olb e r g a nd Kregzdys.

“After Hurricane Sandy, they were out there day and night helping,” he said.

The WRBA took up collections for hurricane victims in neighborhoods to the south after the storm.

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Civics merging in Howard Beach Lindenwood Alliance announces it will unite with Howard Beach Civic

by Stephen Geffon Chronicle Contributor

The Lindenwood Alliance will join with the Howard Beach Civic Association on Jan. 1, 2014 with a change of the group’s name to the Howard Beach-Lindenwood Civic Association, Joann Ariola, president of the Alliance, informed residents who attended Monday’s meeting of the Alliance.

Ariola also said meetings will now be held at 7:30 p.m. on the last Tuesday of the month and the new meeting place will be in the cafeteria of St. Helen School in Howard Beach.

Also at Monday’s meeting, the Alliance honored Lindenwood resident Sheila Shale as Woman of the Year in recognition of her help to the group in making available the Fairfield Arms Co-op community room in Lindenwood for members to meet after their former space at the Rockwood Park Jewish Center was damaged by Hurricane Sandy.

“You saved us, you gave us a new home, you took care of us,” said Ariola.

Shale was also honored by state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach), Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Rockaway Park) and Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) with legislative certificates.

The Lindenwood Alliance also honored

Lindenwood resident Sheila Shale, holding plaque, was presented with the Woman of the Year PHOTO BY STEPHEN GEFFON Award by members of the Lindenwood Alliance.

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Goldfeder also discussed the aircraft noise over southern Queens, a problem that has plagued the community under flight paths to and from JFK Airport for decades.

“Not only is the increased air traffic affecting day-to-day quality of life, but long-term exposure to loud jet engines can have permanent harmful effects on one’s hearing,” he said. “But new technology is now available to make the routes quieter.”

He added that with the new technology planes can make tighter turns to fly over nonpopulated areas of southern Queens, such as Gateway Natural Recreation Area and Jamaica Bay, and not over Lindenwood and Howard Beach.

Gulluscio said the Federal Aviation Administration’s answer to residents’ aircraft noise complaints is what it calls ‘pilot discretion’ for safety, allowing the pilot to make a “judgment call” as to how high or low to fly based on various factors such as weather and wind speed.

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Give Bloomberg credit for school reform, improvement

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ayor Bloomberg is all about statistics when it comes to making a point. And nowhere is that more obvious than in his evaluation of his own performance as mayor on the education front.

High school graduation rates are up 42 percent since 2005, with 66 percent of students, an all-time high, finishing in four years in 2012, he’ll tell you. Among black students, the four-year rate is 59.8 percent, compared to 40.1 percent in 2005, and among Hispanics, it’s percent vs. 37.4 percent.

A mayor’s legacy 57.4The dropout rate has been cut Third in a series almost in half, from 22 percent in 2005 to 11.4 percent in 2012. Violent crime in schools is down 55 percent. The percentage of students earning Regents diplomas has more than doubled, from 30 percent to 61.5 percent. So has city spending on education, from $5.9 billion to $13.7 billion. More than 650 new schools, including 175 innovative charters, have been created. And so on, and so on, and so on.

As with many things, the mayor’s right for the most part but seems oblivious to the downsides of his policies. City students are doing far better since he won control of the

school system in 2002, but reform has caused massive disruption and public angst, especially in the very neighborhoods it’s designed to benefit the most, which is a shame.

Take the case of Jamaica High School, which is being phased out and replaced with several smaller schools of the kind the mayor has created all over the city. The first thing Jamaica students and teachers noticed as phaseout began in 2010 was the “tale of two schools” it entailed. Advanced placement classes such as AP government and AP Spanish were cut. Science classes were reduced, robotics and engineering gone. While students in the new schools got the latest in technology, those stuck in the old JHS lost even their music classes. Just imagine entering your senior year after previously excelling in high school and having to explain to a college admissions officer that you stopped taking language and music classes because they were simply cut.

Several other Queens schools on the mayor’s chopping block survived only because the teachers union fought their closure in court. But the process didn’t exactly create a stable environment for the students. Those at Flushing High School, for example, ended the 2011-12 academic year thinking their institution was closing, only to see it survive into

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Raise the wage Dear Editor: One of the biggest issues that America faces is the growing poverty rate. The average minimum wage in the United States is $7.25 per hour, which implies that full-time minimum-wage workers make an annual salary of $15,000. This salary is considered to be less than the federal poverty line for a parent with one child. A full-time minimumwage worker cannot cover the cost of basic necessities with his or her yearly income. The majority of minimum-wage workers are hardly getting by in America.

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the September, only to see it become a target of the administration’s latest school co-location plan.

In the case of the school shutdowns that create a second class of students, we saw the teachers union’s point. On the other hand, we side with the administration when it comes to allowing charter schools to flourish, as they are important incubators for new ideas and demonstrate that public schools unencumbered by union work rules can do a better job serving students than some traditional schools. Charters are the vanguard of the national education reform movement, and Bloomberg is to be commended for encouraging them, even if his decisions on where to locate some have been lacking.

Any massive reform effort will entail some failures, such as the administration’s loss in the school closure lawsuit and, most embarrassing of all, the brief, stumbling moment of Cathie Black’s appointment as chancellor. And we agree that standardized test scores are not the only way to measure success. But overall, the mayor has made significant, positive reforms to the school system, ones that have shown some benefit already and will show more in years to come, as long as they are not reversed under a future administration. We’d give Bloomberg an A-minus. Not too shabby.

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overdue. It would not only benefit workers but the country as well. Higher-income jobs would construct a stronger economy. The government would benefit, as with more people working, it would pay less for welfare programs.

An increase would improve the economy, lessen poverty and assist the working class in financially supporting their families. It would reduce the income gap between the rich and poor, increase the standard of living for low earners and maintain social stability. We need this raise so that workers in the lowest-paying jobs can afford what they need, and businesses have the customers they need.

Jonathan Yagodayev Rego Park The writer is a student at Baruch College and a part-time retail employee.

Airbnb’s red herring Dear Editor: Astoria resident Michael Naess argued in last week’s Chronicle that he shouldn’t be

prevented from renting out a spare bedroom in his condo on Airbnb (“Airbnb empowers New Yorkers,” Opinion, Dec. 12, multiple editions). But as one of the authors of the 2010 state law that enabled the city to take enforcement actions against illegal shortterm rentals, I’d just like to make it clear: What Mr. Naess is doing isn’t illegal!

Mr. Naess wrote in his op-ed that he rents out his spare bedroom on Airbnb — as long as he’s home when that happens, it doesn’t violate the illegal hotel law. As far as the city and state are concerned, Mr. Naess, and the many other New Yorkers hosting guests in spare bedrooms, aren’t violating the illegal hotel law.

Airbnb has put its PR machine into overdrive to scare the New Yorkers hosting Airbnb guests, hoping they will push their elected officials to change the law in ways that will benefit Airbnb’s biggest source of revenue in New York: illegal hotel operators, the folks who take entire residential apartments and turn them into illegal hotel rooms.

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Dear Editor: While there are some aspects of Mayor Bloomberg’s tenure as mayor that may leave a laudable legacy, his partnership with 21 term-limited City Council persons to overturn twice-public-supported term limits will not be among them. Nor will his abysmal record in support of small business and his contempt for local com mu nit y boards (“Bans to tech funds: the mayor’s legacy” and “Bloomberg’s record on business is mixed,” Editorial, Dec. 12).

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Run, Hillary, run Dear Editor: (An open letter to Hillary Clinton) History has honored significant contributions of women as chiefs of state. Examples: Spain had Isabelle, queen of Castile and Aragon. Russia had Catherine the Great, empress of Russia. England had Queens Elizabeth I and Victoria, and today has Queen Elizabeth II. Also Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Israel had Prime Minister Golda Meier. The chancellor of Germany is Angela Merkel.

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Don’t go Greek Dear Editor: The hazing ordeal that killed a 19-yearold Baruch College freshman raises an alarm. A CUNY spokesman said: “We have zero tolerance for hazing.” Really? Then why does CUNY tolerate the source of that hazing, fraternities and sororities? They’re a ruinous relic of the 1950s, as relevant now as Joe College, Betty Coed sock hops and the sweetheart of Sigma Chi. They defy CUNY’s goal of diversity by excluding, not including, a broad segment of students.

Pledges are recruited by race, ethnicity and other divisive factors. They endure a hazing process that makes “Animal House” look like “Sesame Street.”

As a result, one Baruch student is dead and several face criminal charges. This is not an isolated incident. CUNY, SUNY and all private colleges must ban the Greek system on campus. It’s as outdated as the ancient language it’s based on.

All fraternities and sororities must share one set of initials: RIP. Dick Reif Flushing

Point project approved in 2008 so as to allow a 1.4 million-square-foot shopping mall at Citi Field, but he also ignored the fact such a mall will wreak havoc on all the small businesses on Northern Boulevard, Roosevelt Avenue, 108th Street and other shopping areas.

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Flushing Meadows Corona Park and refused to compel the shopping mall developers to replace parkland. He refused to accept the fact a mall is a radical change of use from that of a parking lot and required a Uniform Land Use Review Procedure; all of this for the benefit of big business. He is forcing the eviction of many small businesses from Willets Point without their getting other places to which to relocate. He justified the Willets Point project on the basis the area was a blight, ignoring the fact it was the city that caused the blight by collecting taxes and failing to install sewers and repair the infrastructure.

Perhaps most egregious of all in his romance with real estate moguls is his failure to understand small businesses are not only the backbone of our economy, but, unlike big-box mall stores whose profits are often posted to head offices located far from New York City, their money stays and is spent in our communities. Bloomberg’s legacy will surely include a lack of care or interest in the poor, the middle class and small businesses and may well exceed those things that could be considered laudable.

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The reality is, the illegal hotel law isn’t the real threat to everyday New Yorkers who occasionally host Airbnb guests. For one thing, if you’re just renting out part of your apartment and you’re home the whole time, then you’re not violating the law. (The law also does not apply to one- and two-family homeowners.) For another, the enforcement system is complaint-driven, and designed to target the worst offenders who are creating safety and quality-of-life problems for neighbors in their buildings.

The real threat to tenants and co-op/ condo owners who host Airbnb guests is the fact that much of the time, they’re violating their leases or co-op/condo bylaws, and they can be evicted if they’re caught by their landlord or building management. I’ve asked Airbnb to clearly explain this risk to potential hosts in New York — it’s the responsible thing to do! Unfortunately, but maybe not surprisingly, they’ve refused.

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Anyone with information about the case South Ozone Park woman’s apartment last Friday night and tried to rape her but man- is asked to call the Crime Stoppers unit at 1 (800) 577-TIPS (8477). The aged only to cut her with a public can also submit tips by pocket knife. logging onto nypdcrimestopThe man gained entry to the pers.com, or by texting 274637 apartment, located somewhere (CR IMES), then enter ing within the 106th Precinct area, TIP577. All tips are strictly at about 8 p.m., police said. He confidential. pulled out a pocket knife, put it While violent crime is mostagainst the victim’s throat and ly down across the city, with the ordered her to undress. murder rate poised to hit a She complied, but then she fought back, police said. Do you know this man? record low this year, rape, homiAttacker and victim struggled SKETCH COURTESY NYPD cide and felony assault are all up in the 106th Precinct. Accordfor the knife, and she wrestled it away from him. The would-be rapist ing to official police statistics, there were 18 pulled out a second knife, cutting the wom- rapes reported in the precinct through Dec. 8 an’s wrist and right ring finger. He then this year, compared to 15 at the same point last year. There were also five murders, comretrieved the first blade and fled.

The suspect is described as a black man pared to two in the first 49 weeks of last in his early 20s, who stands 5 feet, 10 inches year; and 236 felony assaults, compared to tall and weighs 180 pounds. He has a dark 178. Burglaries are down, however, from 354 Q complexion, police said, and was wearing a to 320 through Dec. 8.

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Merry X-mas, unemployed Dear Editor: Congress has just recessed without extending unemployment insurance for those who need extended assistance.

Happy Holidays from the Republicans who see them as “takers.”

Now those needing extended benefits have to stressfully penny-pinch through the holidays for fear of not getting any more benefit checks even though they and their companies have contributed to the government for years, for just this time of need. In addition, they’re continually demonized as lazy freeloaders in the black-or-white, zero-sum world of the Mitt Romney right wing.

People getting unemployment benefits are those who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own. That’s how you qualify. The insurance only pays a fraction of what they were earning when they LIVW-063136

had a job. For example, somebody making $1,200 a week will only get around $400 a week in unemployment insurance.

That’s the maximum payout and it is taxed to boot. This small amount only helps with life’s necessities for survival.

W hen asked, the unemployed would much rather have full-time jobs than get a fraction of their salary to live on with the insurance money. Yes, there are some gaming the system, but most jobless people are seeking work. Unemployment benefit money is good for the economy because it’s all spent money; there is no surplus to save and squirrel away.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) just said that he is against extending unemployment insurance benefits because companies would much rather hire somebody who is only 26 weeks unemployed than somebody who is 90 weeks unemployed. Talk about callous, distorted logic! Because somebody is unemployed longer doesn’t mean he or she is less valuable. Most of the more senior or specialized workers don’t find jobs for at least six months, or even a year. Surveys tell us so. In Paul’s whacky Libertarian world, there is no government helping anybody because it limits one’s freedoms.

Come next election, let’s hope the unemployed and demonized remember those who abandoned them when they vote. It’s time to take back the government for the people.

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106th Pct. Cop of the Month Police Officer Vincent Siraco was honored on Dec. 11 with the 106th Precinct’s Cop of the Month award for his arrest of an individual who allegedly brutally beat NYPD Sgt. Mohammed Deen, an off-duty cop, in South Richmond Hill on Nov. 17, leaving him unconscious.

Capt. John Ganley, the precinct’s executive officer, said that at 4:40 a.m. the day of the incident, Siraco, a member of the precinct’s Midnight Conditions Team, was deployed in the area of Liberty Avenue and 118th Street in response to a robbery pattern around Liberty Avenue’s bars and nightclubs.

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After responding to the incident, the officers first rendered what aid they could to the victim, who at the time they did not know was an off-duty officer, and then got a description of the perpetrator. Witnesses pointed out the suspect who was fleeing down 118th Street. He was chased by Siraco and the sergeant and apprehended without further incident or injuries to any police officers.

Ganley called the arrest a matter of “being in the right place at the right time.”

He added that the community was very for tunate to have Siraco patrolling at night.

Siraco started at the 106th Precinct in June and has been with the NYPD for two and a half years. Ganley said he has an “impressive record for a short time on the job, with 61 arrests, including 25 felony arrests.”

Awarding the honor to Siraco at the Community Council meeting in Ozone Park were 106th Precinct Community Council President Frank Dardani, left, and Ganley, right, as friends and members of his family look on.

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Howard Beach residents packed the 106th Precinct Community Council meeting in Ozone Park on Dec. 11 demanding more police in response to two recent gunpoint carjackings and a spike in robberies.

Police said that on Nov. 26 at 11 p.m. on 91st Street and 159th Avenue, one block west of Cross Bay Boulevard, a gunman carjacked a man and stole his white Porsche Cayenne.

Two weeks earlier another driver was carjacked a block away.

“How are you handling the recent carjacking incidents,” a Howard Beach resident, who did not give her name, asked precinct Executive Officer Capt. John Ganley.

“I want to make sure that my children and my family are safe.”

Ganley said he had personally increased precinct patrols in the neighborhood. In addition, Patrol Borough Queens South has also provided additional officers. The precinct’s detective squad and members of the PBQS auto larceny squad, robbery squad and the auto crime squad have also given the community their attention. Checkpoints have been set up and officers have been patrolling Cross Bay Boulevard and side streets.

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He added that on Dec. 10 there was a similar carjacking in Bayside.

“It looks like they are moving away from the 106th,” Ganley said, adding, “I believe that with our increased presence there it made it a little too hot for them to handle.”

A member of the audience asked the captain how long the police presence would remain in the community.

“We deploy based on what we see in crime,” said Ganley. He said that for the recent 28-day period compared to last year reported robberies and larcenies were up in the precinct area. He said that robberies were up in the northern end of the precinct

by Liberty Avenue. He assured the Howard Beach residents that although crime in the community is trending downward it is not off the radar and it will continue to be monitored.

A resident of 97th Street in Howard Beach said she was concerned about the number of speeders racing down her block between Charles Park and 157th Avenue.

“They just barrel down,” she said, adding that this was an ongoing problem.

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Parents of students attending PS 124 in South Ozone Park and PS 232 in Lindenwood expressed their concern about cars speeding and double-parking by the school.

Det. Ken Zorn adding that enforcement is just one part, saying police also need the cooperation of the school administration and the Parent Teacher Association.

Angie, a South Ozone Park resident, asked Ganley for an update on robberies in the community. Ganley said that police had made an ar rest a week ago of a 15-year-old on a bicycle whom he said was caught within 20 minutes of three robberies in the area. He said the suspect had three cell phones in his possession which were not his.

Ganley said that precinct officers in addition to PBQS officers were patrolling in the area of Lefferts Boulevard and 111th Avenue. He added that since the patrols robberies have been trending downward in the area.

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West Hamilton Beach lost nearly every vehicle by Sandy

Andy’s Deli at 82-17 Eliot Ave. in Middle Village became the latest victim of a string of burglaries in southwest Queens on Tuesday morning.

At approximately 4 a.m., the deli was broken into by an unknown number of suspects, who then broke through the wall of the building to also burglarize the D&P Convenience Store next door, according to Det. Thomas Bell of the 104th Precinct.

Bell could not say if anyone was harmed or what was taken in the incident. The Major Case Squad is currently investigating the burglary, as it appears to be part of a larger pattern of such crimes throughout the area, according to Bell, who could not provide more information.

However, it is the first such burglary within the conf ines of the 104th Precinct.

The Major Case Squad investigates commercial burglaries in which the value of the property stolen exceeds $100,000, as well as bank robberies and art theft.

“This is not a one-time thing,” Bell said. “This is part of a pattern that has been going on for a while.”

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The West Hamilton Beach Volunteer Fire Department welcomed two new members of their crew last Thursday.

But the weren’t human members; they were two new twin ambulances.

The vehicles, their freshly-applied paint glistening in the winter sun, sat in the department’s parking lot Thursday as members of the department milled around the twin vehicles, glancing insides the interior, taking whiffs of the new car scent that permeated from the warm inside.

West Hamilton VFD Chief Jonah Cohen inspected the cubbies of one of the ambulances and checked out the vehicle’s electrical system.

Then members of the department drove the two ambulances several blocks away to Hamilton Park to pose for a photo with Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Rockaway Park).

The new $153,000 ambulances, purchased by the department, increase its fleet to nine — five ambulances and four fire trucks.

Some of the vehicles are donations from other volunteer fire departments that were given to West Hamilton Beach after it lost all but one of its vehicles when the department’s firehouse was flooded in Hurricane Sandy last year. Volunteers from the department were on duty during the storm and were able to save two women from the rising floodwaters in their Hamilton Beach home.

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They will allow the department to take its oldest vehicle — the ambulance that survived Sandy because it was parked on higher ground — out of service, according to WHBVFD Treasurer Mitch Udowitch. One of the department’s other ambulances was given to them by the East Farmingdale Volunteer Fire Department in Suffolk County.

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But this Christmas, with most neighborhood residents back to some kind of normalcy, holiday spirit seems to be in full bloom all over Howard Beach.

At Cross Bay Diner, Carol Letzter, president of Howard Beach-based Harmony Hearing and Speech, and a regular customer, offered to help owner Michael Siderakis decorate his business’ Christmas tree. He accepted and Ozone Park, Jennie Stuart, snapped this photo of Letzter decorating the diner’s tree on Dec. 8.

The diner reopened in May after being closed for more than six months after suffering severe flood damage during Sandy.

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The mayor who took control of schools On education policy, Bloomberg is either a saviour or Satan himself

by Domenick Rafter Editor

When Mayor Bloomberg leaves office at the end of this month, he will do so having a legacy of completely transforming the largest school system in the nation.

Whether that transformation has been positive or negative is a contentious argument that will continue to define the legacy of the city’s longest-serving mayor in nearly half a century.

Central to Bloomberg’s legacy was his plan, approved by the state Legislature in 2002 — the year he took office — to abolish the former Board of Education and form a centralized Department of Education, a policy commonly known as mayoral control. That system, which gave the mayor complete control of education policy by giving him an outright majority of the appointees on the Panel for Educational Policy, remains controversial.

Supporters of mayoral control say the system provides accountability and roots out the corruption that made the former system notorious. Critics of mayoral control say it gives the city’s chief executive dictatorial powers that cut out parents and school community members.

But 10 years in, mayoral control has become so ingrained that some of the Democratic candidates who sought to replace Bloomberg — even Mayor-Elect Bill de Blasio — advocated keeping it, with reforms.

“Why would you give up a tool like mayoral control?” former Rep. Anthony Weiner asked during his mayoral campaign, noting that mayoral control would give a new mayor the ability to easily undo Bloomberg-era reforms and institute his or her own.

Councilman Danny Dromm (D-Jackson Heights), a former teacher and a harsh critic of Bloomberg’s education policies, said mayoral control has become rule by fiat in which others are left out of the discussion.

“Things needed to be shaken up and we had a lot of high hopes for mayoral control. Where he fell down was with parental input and teacher input,” Dromm said. “You can’t have top down management because you’re dealing with people.”

Dmytro Fedkowskyj, who has served as Borough President Helen Marshall’s appointee to the PEP since 2011, said serving on the board was sometimes difficult.

“Serving on the PEP presented frustration and challenges during mayoral control, because it was close to impossible to change the mind set of mayoral appointees before an upcoming vote,” he said. “We all had jobs to do and did what we thought was best, but in the end they controlled the board. We were neutralized as [borough president] reps, but I always made sure that the concerns and values of our school communities would be debated before a vote, even though I knew it was unlikely to change the outcome of the vote. The importance of the debate was to ensure that our school community voices were heard.”

The Bloomberg administration more than doubled the number of career and technical education schools in the city. Among them are the High School for Construction Trades, Engineering and Architecture in Ozone Park.

Fedkowskyj said the borough president representatives were more “reactive than proactive” during his time on the PEP. Perhaps Bloomberg’s most controversial move in education was when he chose media executive Cathie Black as schools chancellor in 2010. Her short, ill-fated term as chancellor led critics like Dromm to believe educators needed to have a bigger place in running city schools.

“It gave the impression that anybody could do it, but it’s not that anybody could do it,” he said. “We have to go back to a time when experience counts, empathy counts.”

Black, who was previously chairwoman of Hearst Magazines, needed a waiver from the state to serve as chancellor since state law requires the position be given to someone with education administration experience.

In an interview last week at Queens High School for the Sciences in Jamaica Hills, Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott insisted the DOE has emphasized parental involvement and said parents have said they were satisfied with the department.

“We conduct the largest survey second to the Census in the country,” he said, noting 985,000 parents respond to it. “I will not take a backseat to anyone in so far as what we’ve done for parents and how we’ve been accessible to parents.”

Indeed, mayoral control has allowed Bloomberg to institute a number of reforms, from the creation of more than 100 charter schools and dozens of career and technical schools. In Queens alone, the DOE added new 41,585 seats across 63 new school buildings, additions and leases. Many of those schools are in overcrowded areas such as Corona in District 24 and Astoria in District 30.

“Things needed to be shaken up and we had a lot of high hopes for mayoral control.”

— Councilman Danny Dromm (D-Jackson Heights)

As the administration prepares to leave office, it boasts higher SAT scores among New York City high school seniors — up eight points according to New Jersey-based SAT test administrator College Board, which released the statistics earlier this month — while the national average declined by three points.

The same group said the number of city students passing one or more advanced placement exams has also increased — from 9,700 in 2002 to a record high of 19,500 students in 2012.

But the administration’s record on test scores has had its critics. In November, the DOE released data showing city students performed poorly on new Common Core tests, which Bloomberg argued set a new performance baseline.

“The new Common Core curriculum, as it is phased in, will empower students to achieve at higher levels in the years ahead and graduate high school ready for college and careers,” he said last month.

Critics like Dromm said the scores show Common Core has been implemented poorly.

“They have become a victim of their own focus on test scores,” Dromm said.

The administration also boasts a renewed focus on career and technical education, which Walcott said was helping change the negative image of public schools.

In 1960, there were 18 career & technical education schools, then called vocational schools, citywide. In 2002, there were still 18. Today, there are 46, including the High School for Construction Trades, Engineering and Architecture in Ozone Park and Energy Tech in Long Island City.

“I think that’s changed the buzz as far as the attractiveness of schools,” Walcott said last week. “I think the creation of new, different and exciting schools along with the schools that existed

Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Dennis WalFILE PHOTO cott in 2011. before will really contribute to the negative buzz around public schools is changing.”

Another factor that helped improve school reputation, Walcott said, was the increase in charter schools. When the Bloomberg administration took office, the charter movement was still in its infancy. Mayoral control gave Bloomberg’s first schools chancellor, Joel Klein, power to explore charter schools as an option.

“As Joel looked at the system, he concluded a number of things. One of them was he wasn’t going to be able to fix the school system from the top down,” said James Merriman, CEO of the New York City Charter School Center. “He saw that the school was the unit of change.”

He said the opening of new charters — 175 since Bloomberg took office — provided more choice for parents, especially in areas with failing schools where parents were struggling to send their children to better schools outside their communities. Merriman said charters have had trouble keeping up with demand.

More than 70,000 students are now in charter schools, with 50,000 parents on waiting lists.

Perhaps the biggest critic of charter schools — not only in New York, but nationwide — has been the United Federation of Teachers. The union has criticized charters, many of which aren’t unionized, as a backdoor way to break them.

But Dromm said one charter school in his district, the unionized Renaissance Charter school, is working.

“That debunks the myth that unions are the problem,” he said. “There’s a collaboration there between parents and teachers and the child is the focus of everything that goes on. If the DOE is saying charters are the answer, then take what works from the public schools and implement them into charters.”

Critics also said charter schools take resources from traditional schools, but Merriman said that isn’t the case. He noted that traditional schools are also helped by the existence of charters because they force competition and bring in better teachers.

“I think we’ve reached a place where traditional and charter schools see what unites them rather than what divides them,” Merriman said.

In fact, Bloomberg’s often frosty relationship with the UFT came to a head last year when the DOE attempted to close seven Queens high schools, and several more citywide, and reopen them under new names and with new administrations. The plan was stopped by an arbitrator appointed by a judge after the UFT sued the city.

Earlier, the DOE had succeeded in implemented the phasing out of Jamaica High School, which was replaced with multiple smaller high schools. That phaseout was controversial because critics and the school community said the DOE did not do enough to support Jamaica. continued on page 22

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Sanders hosts Mandela honor State Sen. James Sanders (D-South Ozone Park) will host a holiday tribute to the late Nelson Mandela on Dec. 27 with a free showing of the movie “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom” from 9:30 a.m. to noon at the Jamaica Multiplex Cinema at 159-02 Jamaica Ave. Sanders is sponsoring the viewing for 300 people, including breakfast served beginning at 8:30 a.m., along with Dreamland Amusements, National Amusements, City Rib and Touchstone Health.

Mandela, who served 27 years in South African prisons for his actions against segregationist apartheid policies, eventually became the nation’s president and a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

He died in South Africa on Dec. 5 at age 95.

“The world lost a truly powerful and transfor mational f igure and it is important that we take a moment to teach and ref lect on a life that will reverberate throughout history,” Sanders said.

Constituents may obtain tickets by calling Sanders’ district office at (718) Q 523-3069.

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continued from page 20 Walcott defended the DOE, saying it had done everything it could to help the schools that were closed or on closure lists.

“I still think it’s a necessary step for schools that aren’t meeting the muster,” he said.

The DOE has also been criticized for its use of co-locations, in which new schools are placed in the same building as other schools. Critics say co-locations cause overcrowding, pit schools against each other and waste space and money because each school has its ow n administration.

But Walcott said co-locations are necessary because of lack of space. He pointed out that the vast majority of co-located schools are traditional schools and not charters and some of them are temporary while new school buildings are being built.

“You got a lot of quality schools that are sharing space,” Walcott said.

Still critics see little to be impressed with.

“I hate to be negative, but I don’t see anything to point to that’s a positive,” Dromm said, added that the chancellors during Bloomberg’s term often publicly criticized teachers and administrators, creating a morale problem in the system.

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Dmytro Fedkowskyj, who has represented Queens on the Department of Education’s policy-making body, the Panel for Educational Policy, is now serving on the subcommittee dealing with education on the transition team of Mayor-Elect Bill de Blasio.

Fedkowskyj, who lives in Middle Village, was appointed by Borough President Helen Marshall to the PEP in 2011.

He acknowledged that he had been chosen to serve on a subcommittee.

“I’m honored to serve Mayor-Elect de Blasio with other members of the transition team to help shape the next administration,” Fedkowskyj said on Tuesday.

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Fedkowskyj has often been a vocal critic of Mayor Bloomberg’s education policy during his time on the PEP. Last year, he proposed a moratorium on school closures when the DOE sought to close seven borough high schools and reopen them under

Queens PEP representative Dmytro Fedkowskyj has been chosen to serve on an education subcommittee in Mayor-Elect Bill de Blasio’s transition team.

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President of National Honor Society always helping and volunteering around school

Sheana Latiff, who is president of the John Adams High School (Ozone Park) chapter of the National Honor Society (NHS), is always doing things to help her school. One of the requirements of being in the NHS is to do volunteer activities, so she worked with the NHS to conduct a canned food drive which collected more than 320 cans for the needy.

Other activities she takes part in are the Model United Nations Class, PBIS or Positive Behavior Intervention and Support initiative, working with the Leadership Class, and volunteering in the Program Office.

The Model UN Class focuses on world events and activities at the UN. The students attend model UN meetings in Manhattan and act out what a UN member might do to solve world problems. Sheana has attended conferences at City College and events at hotels in Manhattan as part of her school’s UN Class.

The Leadership Class spearheads all kind of events in John Adams HS from supporting cultural activities to currently hosting a coat drive. She takes part in all these activities. Being in the PBIS has given her a chance to work with other student leaders and the staff to create a safe and productive learning envi-

ronment where everyone follows the New York City Department of Education Discipline Code so teachers can teach and students can learn. This is a very important activity she takes part in.

Latiff commented that, “I spend any free time helping someone around the school.” A favorite saying is, “There is no point in dreaming when it can be in reality.” She is in the LAW Small Learning Community, one of 10 in her school, with an average of 92.06, and has plans to attend Brooklyn College to major in business administration and management with the dream of becoming the CEO of a company.

John Adams junior works to make her school prettier

The new John Adams High School PepBand, above, rehearsed in the basement of the school for the first school game performance. The band hopes to create more school spirit with an exciting loud sound at school games. Front: Lois Henry. Rear: Mr. Lotze, left, Chamaille Singh, Cymone Snuling, Mr. LaRocca and Austin Burrell.

Felicia Drepaul is a junior at John Adams HS in Ozone Park who happens to live just across the street from her school. She is in the Law and International Academy, which is one of the seven Small Learning Communities into which the school is divided. Last year she and a fellow classmate, Alisa Gonzales, wrote a grant from the Love Your Block Citizens Committee with the help of English teacher Mr. Scalia.

They wanted to beautify their school and the surrounding community.

The two students went to meetings, created a survey to get the school and community united, and budgeted how the money would be spent. They bought gloves, trees, shovels, plants, and soil and the students and people of the community worked together cleaning the streets around the school and an area in the rear of the school which was unkempt. The students grew vegetables in the area behind the school, which were given to shelters and to neighborhood residents. Flowers were given to the neighbors for their cooperation.

A garden club at John Adams HS currently maintains the garden with plans for future activities. The students met with state Senator Joe Addabbo. They are looking for more grants. Felicia was on the swimming and bowling teams and was vice president of the Key club, which is a community service organization associated with local Kiwanis Clubs, and also volunteered for Senator Addabbo.

These accomplishment shows what can happen to a community when students attend a neighborhood school.

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Mall plan raises civic concerns over traffic Atlas shrugs: Shops welcome plan for new shopping center next door

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As opposed to Atlas Park, which charges A new shopping center proposed for Glendale has community leaders raising for parking, the center would not, with the concerns about traffic and the economic document noting there would be “ample viability of another mall that would be locat- parking (504 spots) with great convenience and accessibility.” ed adjacent to The Shops at Atlas Park.

When Kathy Masi, president of the GlenPresented by Schuckman Realty, the plan would convert the Atlas Terminals site at dale Civic Association, heard of the plan, 8200 Cooper Avenue into retail stores and a she questioned whether there would be public storage facility of 26,100 square feet. enough interest in businesses leasing stores Three anchor stores are proposed, one of in the proposed center since Atlas Park does them to be a grocery store, with additional not have all its stores leased.

“I can’t imagine space for restaurants, what [the developa bank and smaller ers] would have to retail shops, including e believe the surrounding of fe r t h at wou ld a “junior box anchor make more people oppor t u n it y” for market is strong and wa nt t o lea se t o 42,000 square feet. them,” Masi said in Although a Schuckthere is plenty of room a phone interview. man brochure does Originally owned not mention a specific in the marketplace for by the Hemmerdingstore yet, a diagram additional projects er family, Atlas Park does cite a letter of was sold to Macerich intent to occupy at — Dawn Simon, in 2011 after its ownleast one space. senior marketing manager for Atlas Park ers had to default on The plan is split their loans. Macerich, i n t o t wo p h a s e s , which owns Queens totaling about 350,000 square feet. Phase one would be Center mall, one of the most profitable shopsituated directly east of Atlas Park and ping centers in the nation, renovated Atlas phase two, across 83rd Street. The bro- Park and added Forever 21 and Charlotte chure cites phase one “delivery” in fall Russe stores this year, but vacancies still exist.

When asked about any possible competi2015 and spring 2016 for phase two. The mall would be called the Glendale Shop- tion that the new center would bring, Dawn Simon, the senior marketing manager for ping Center.

Some of the shopping, as well as at least Atlas Park, said, “We believe the surrounding market is strong and there is plenty of room in the marketplace for additional retail projects.”

But Masi isn’t the only area civic leader to question the wisdom of adding stores.

“It’s a ghost town,” Bob Holden, president of the Juniper Park Civic Association, said of Atlas Park. Holden said that he is worried about overdevelopment in the highly residential area.

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Schuckman Realty is proposing to turn Atlas Terminals, above, into a new shopping center that PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON would be built in two phases. shopping center. Citing the layout of Glendale, Holden said that its many cemeteries, railroad lines and highways already lead to frequent congestion on Woodhaven Boulevard and Cooper Avenue since there is a lack of alternative routes in the area.

Moreover, Holden and Masi both mentioned that two public storage facilities already exist in the area, and they do not see the immediate need for another one.

The 11.3 acres of land at Atlas Terminals is zoned for a combination of manufacturing, retail, storage and office space.

According to Vince Arcuri, chairman of Community Board 5, if developers plan to have a retail space of more than 10,000 feet, they will need to request a variance, meaning that the community will get to voice its opinion on what should become of the property. As of now, the topic is not scheduled for discussion at CB 5.

While Arcuri has his reservations about

the project, he said that if done right, there is hope for increased business.

“We do need jobs. We need to put people to work so they can afford to live in housing instead of shelters,” he said in a phone interview.

The city is moving toward approving a homeless shelter nearby at 78-16 Cooper Ave. In 2011, the industrial park where the new mall would go was put up for sale by the Hemmerdinger family, but as of December 2013, it is still owned by their ATCO Properties and Management.

Schuckman Realty, which posted its proposal on its website, has been in the business for 30 years. Its client list includes multiple shopping centers such as Atlantic Plaza in Ozone Park.

Both Schuckman Realty and ATCO’s Damon Hemmerdinger declined to comQ ment on the plan.

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Community Board 5 has become the third Queens community board to express interest in reviving the Rockaway Beach Rail Line, voting 36-2 with one abstention in favor of bringing back the rail line to the abandoned tracks.

The only dissenting members of CB 5 were Thomas Rossi and Mercy Wong, while Dorie Figliola abstained from voting.

Boa rd Chai r m a n Vi ncent A rcu r i believes that reactivating the rail line to alleviate traffic on Woodhaven Boulevard

Board votes 36-2 against park plan would be the best course of action, as opposed to the QueensWay project.

That idea involves creating elevated park space on the abandoned railway, similar to the popular High Line park in Manhattan.

“Woodhaven Boulevard is just overwhelmed. We need relief and the only way to relieve traffic is with public transportation,” Arcuri said. “The people in the Rockaways have been clamoring for public transportation better than what they currently

have for years. That A train is like going on a safari.”

Andrea Crawford, Community Board 9 first vice chairwoman and pro-QueensWay advocacy group Friends of QueensWay member, believes that CB 5’s vote in favor of bringing back trains to the line is “ridiculous” and “interesting” in addition to being completely unfeasible.

“This is a right of way that has absolutely no infrastructure and is deteriorating.

The bridges would have to be rebuilt to

carry modern train equipment,” Crawford said. “A rail line would help traffic in what, 20 or 30 years when it’s reactivated?”

Abandoned in 1962, the 3.5-mile stretch of railway between Rego Park and Ozone Park has been the topic of heated debate between those who want either parkland or a reactivation of the rail line.

CB 5 joins Community Board 10 and Community Board 14 in expressing interest in bringing back rail service to the abandoned line, while many CB 9 members believe that the QueensWay project is Q the best use of the tracks.

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Mayor Bloomberg made the announcement last Friday, and officials in Western Queens are cheering the decision.

“The East River ferry has been a huge success and demonstrates the demand for efficient, affordable transit to points along the city’s waterfront,” Bloomberg said in a

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Operated by BillBey Fer r y Co. and launched in July 2011, the service runs at regular intervals linking Long Island City, and four points in Brooklyn with Pier 11 and East 34th Street in Manhattan.

Bloomberg said the program quickly outdistanced expectations, reaching the three-year-goal of 1.2 million passengers in only 18 months. It carries 100,000 riders per month.

C o u n c i l m a n J i m m y Va n B r a m e r ( D - Su n nysid e) s a id t he s e r v ic e h a s become an important cog in his district.

“Ferry service is an essential component of the transportation mix for residents of Long Isla nd Cit y,” he said. “[They] love the convenience and the frequency of the East River Ferry.”

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In a statement issued by his office, Gianaris said Western Queens remains in dire need of better mass transit “due to woefully inadequate service on the 7 subway line.”

He hopes Bloomberg’s announcement marks the first step in the direction of continued attention to the mass transit needs in and around Long Island City.

City Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, quoted in the statement from Bloomberg’a office, believes the benefits will be far more extensive.

“For thousands of commuters along the water f ront, the East R iver Fer r y has grown into a transportation lifeline and a daily way of life,” she said. “As more and more New Yorkers get on board with commuting on our waterways, this commitment ensures that this crucial transit option will keep the city moving for years to come.”

Kyle Kimball, president of the city’s Economic Development Corp., said evidence of that already is manifesting itself.

“The city’s commitment to ferry service has already made a sizable impact on the economy, catalyzing further private investment in the neighborhoods served and now poised to continue to strengthen the city’s economy.”

The program already was classified as a success when Hurricane Sandy damaged or destroyed thousands of feet of tracks and bridge supports that carried the A train between the Rockaways and mainland Queens.

The EDC built a ferry ramp in the Rockaways to augment shuttle bus service for more than seven months while the tracks were replaced, and the service to and from Manhattan became an instant hit.

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Christmas tree safety tips from the FDNY Real, artificial trees require care PHOTO COURTESY MARGARET FINNERTY

The New York City Fire Department is reminding residents that both real and artificial Christmas trees pose an increased risk of fire in the home, and is offering tips for tree safety this holiday season.

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on. At the end of parade the festivities with Santa, Mrs. Claus and our costumed characters took pictures with the little ones and with the antique sleigh.

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Michael Woods, a junior guard for the men’s basketball team at York College in Jamaica, last week was named City University of New York Athletic Conference Men’s Basketball Player of the week.

It is the second time this year he has earned the honor.

Woods averaged 32.5 points in a pair of conference wins last week. His 40 points in a 107-93 win over Brooklyn College were the second highest single game total in school history.

Wood leads all CUNYAC in scoring and is third in the NCAA Division III with 27.5 points per game.

St. John’s University had alums and current students place in fencing’s December North American Cup in Dallas.

Adam Watson of the class of 2013 took a bronze medal in men’s epee competition, while alums Benjamin Bratton, Class of 2007, and Nicholas Vomero, Class of 2012, took fifth and 10th place.

Senior Max Blitzer, who took 15th place in the men’s foil competition, had the highest finish among current Red Q Storm fencers participating.

Fake cop targeting seniors in bank scam Queens residents among 24 stung The NYPD is asking the public’s assistance in locating a man who has impersonated a police officer to scam 24 senior citizens out of various sums of money in four boroughs since June 3, 2011.

Police said the man calls victims saying that he is a police officer working on an investigation concerning the victims’ bank accounts.

The suspect, described by police as a black man, says he needs money from their accounts to assist him in his investigation.

The victims then meet the suspect and hand off what the NYPD has termed “large sums of money” to the man.

All of the victims have ranged in age from 77 to 98 years old. Twenty-three of the victims have been women.

The suspect has struck 17 times in Manhattan, including 13 times in the 19th Precinct.

But he also has struck twice in Queens in 2013, conning an 89-year-old woman on Jan. 19 in the 105th Precinct, and an 86-year-old woman on May 15 in the

100th Precinct.

Three incidents took place in the Bronx and two more in Brooklyn.

The man last struck on Nov. 21 in Manhattan.

Jackie Eradiri, director of the Ridgewood Older Adult Center, said seniors can be more vulnerable to such crimes.

“We have the crime prevention officer from the 104th Precinct come in regularly to talk to our seniors about the latest crimes and scams, and how to protect themselves,” Eradiri said in a telephone interview on Friday. “She was just here today talking about protecting yourself f rom burglaries and while you are traveling.”

The NYPD is asking that anyone with information on the identity of the scam suspect or his whereabouts to call Crime Stoppers at 1 (800) 577-TIPS (8477).

The public also can submit tips by logging onto nypdcrimestoppers.com or by texting 274637 (CRIMES), then entering TIP577. All tips are kept strictly Q confidential.

Avonte search continued from page 2 “The Facebook page is to keep people in the loop and send out information in a quick way, and the PayPal is to help pay for some of the expenses we accumulate here,” Fontaine said.

Expenses including staples, paper clips, envelopes, paper and rent add up quickly and the family has relied on the help of friends and strangers alike to help them out.

“They’re small things but they add up quickly,” Fontaine said.

She added that the account has done well and as of Wednesday, just over a week after it started, the Facebook page has accumulated more than 3,000 likes.

“It’s nice to know that so many people have identified with us and have helped us out,” Fontaine said.

If you would like to donate to the Help Find Avonte headquarters, you can do so by visiting the Facebook page at facebook.com/official-helpf ind-Avonte. The headquar ters, at 21-81A 24 St. in Astor ia, is also accepting donations of office supplies, coffee and hot chocolate for volunteers and other essentials.

“If I could say one thing to him I’d say that I love him, I will never stop looking for him and that he is coming Q home soon,” Fontaine said.

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Winter Wonderland: Christmas musical and tree lighting celebrations Christ the King High School’s theatre production group hosted a special preview of their Christmas musical theatre production for local schools in the Middle Village area. This year, a record number of more than 1,300 students attended the performance of A Christmas Carol: The Musical. Local schools in attendance included Notre Dame Academy, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, St. Adalbert’s, St. Helen’s, Divine Mercy, St. Thomas the Apostle, Sacred Heart, IS 128, JHS 189 and PS 58.

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Departing city comptroller vows to remain involved in public affairs

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Comptroller John Liu may be stepping down at the end of the year, but he’s leaving office with some parting shots at the Bloomberg administration and still has some unfinished business with the City of New York.

Speaking last week with the Queens Chronicle editorial board for the last time as comptroller, Liu, a Flushing resident, blasted the administration for what he and many critics call a bait and switch in the Willets Point redevelopment.

Mayor Bloomberg and other officials made drastic changes this year to the plan the City Council originally approved several years ago, most notably delaying the affordable housing component that had been promised, and even leaving the developers an opportunity to never build it at all. It was approved nonetheless.

Liu, in his capacity as a member of the city’s Industrial Development Agency, voted against the plan when it came before that panel last week, but it passed there too.

“This was supposed to be the greatest new neighborhood in New York City, with the focus on housing and a school — and now you don’t hear anything about the housing,” Liu told the Chronicle the day before the vote. “If you think this is a far cry from the revised plan passed by the City Council, imagine how far it is from the original plan.”

Willets Point is not the only issue the outgoing comptroller and former councilman has with the city. He has filed the preliminary papers needed to sue the Campaign Finance Board over its denial to him of matching funds during his run for the Democratic nomination for mayor. The decision was made over a scandal in the campaign that saw his treasurer and one fundraiser convicted of wrongdoing, but he says it was all overblown.

It did, however, effectively end his run.

“I have no regrets; we ran as hard as we could,” Liu said. “At the end of the day it was

John Liu with his wife, Jenny, and son, Joey, more than 10 years ago. Joey is now in eighth COURTESY PHOTO grade. basically this ridiculous denial of three and a half million dollars that flushed the campaign down the toilet.”

Liu said he will not be seeking money if he goes ahead with the suit but to “flesh out the issues” that saw his funding denied.

On another issue of public monies, Liu boasted of increasing the city’s pension fund’s value by a little more than 50 percent during his term, bringing it to more than $150 billion.

Liu said that he does not know what his next job will be, but that he may return to privatesector finance, where he worked before winning office. He vowed to remain involved in civic affairs, possibly through a citywide goodgovernment group like Citizens Union. And he said he has things to take care of at home, with his wife, Jenny, and their son, Joey.

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Ice Jewelry Buying Service is located on Queens Boulevard in Rego Park. they treat everything like it’s a one-shot deal and we don’t do that,” Elias said.

In addition to buying gold, silver, diamonds, watches Recently, a woman and her boyfriend went into and coins, Ice Jewelry Buying also offers instant cash an unassuming gold buying and cash loan shop on loans for jewelry and eBay selling services.

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

The plight of the worker who’s hard-up for cash For those who are less Internet-savvy or just don’t in today’s economy is something that Arthur Elias have the time, Ice Jewelry Buying offers a convenient and Edward Goldberg can relate to firsthand, eBay sales service. If what a customer has isn’t an having been laid off from their jobs in jewelry item that Ice Jewelry Buying would purchase, like manufacturing. They understand that people get a handbag or antique furniture, they can help find into situations where they just need a little cash fast a buyer on their eBay store. Elias consults with the to make the bills and Ice Jewelry Buying Service customer to find a target price hopes to help out in the most and let the Internet auctioneers honest way they can.

STORE HOURS handle the rest.

MON.-FRI. 11am - 7pm “For this, I like to think we’re SAT. 10am - 6pm For anyone who has ever doing the community a service,” SUN. by Appointment dealt with the hassle of selling Elias said. “We’re in the business of helping people who are in a tough icejewelrybuyingservice.com and shipping an item on eBay — all the forms involved in setting spot. They can come to our store up a user and paypal account, the 10-15 percent fee and know that we can educate them on what they that Ice Jewelry Buying charges to do all the work is have and we’ll give them what their items are worth. really a bargain deal.

When that woman told me her previous offer, it made “At the end of the day, I just want people to feel me wonder how many times this happens — how comfortable doing business with us. People have many people who really need that money get taken this conception of gold buying stores as these slimy advantage of?” places with slimy people, and they’re typically right.

Elias opened his Rego Park shop with Goldberg But we want to be different. I don’t think it’s cool to in 2009, and already they’re seeing a lot of repeat see someone buy a ring for $200 and put it in their customers and referrals. This is a sign to them that counter for $800. We don’t do that.” they’re doing something right — the pawn business Ice Jewelr y Buying Ser vice is located at typically deals in one-time transactions but Elias is 98-30 Queens Blvd. in Rego Park. Hours of operation determined to break that mold, building a reputation are Monday-Friday from 11 am to 7:00 pm and on trust.

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Queens Chronicle’s 19th annual Holiday Toy Drive ends Friday

by Liz Rhoades Managing Editor

It looks like it will be a very good year for needy children at three Queens homeless facilities, thanks to Chronicle readers who donated new toys and accessories for the deserving youngsters.

So, instead of ending our story with a list of contributors, we will start off with those who so generously gave to our 19th annual toy drive in the last week.

More than 300 children from the city’s Metro Family Residence in Elmhurst and the Kings Inn in East Elmhurst, as well as Dove House, for domestic violence victims and their children in Eastern Queens, will receive the gifts in the next few days.

Here are the latest contributors: Lisa Picarella of Howard Beach, the Di Cristo family of Maspeth, Bill Gillette of Flushing, Carmella Cevas of Howard Beach, Irene Giovanni of Ozone Park, Marie Parisi of Flushing, Mary Ann Giovelli of Howard Beach, Dolores Daman of Elmhurst, Tricia Echevarria of Howard Beach, Connie Grazia of Glendale, Richard Giovelli of Howard Beach, Rachel Marks of Forest Hills, Candace Chu of Middle Village. Peter Basile of Brooklyn, Mary Jacob of Ozone Park, Dorothy Amodeo of Ozone Park, Helen Quinn of Howard Beach, Linda Medford of Middle Village, Madeline Del Guidice of Middle Village, Ellen Leonbruno of Middle Village and National Grid, Bob Schwartz of Rego Park, Chronicle Editorial Production Manager Terry Nusspickel, Doris and Lou Litt of Rego Park, Caroline Maffetone of Forest

Hills, Robert and Caryn Perlman of Forest Hills, Veronica and Jason Dunlop of Forest Hills, Helen Borowik of Ozone Park, Elaine Brill of Rego Park, Dan Andrews of the Borough President’s Office, Dolores Kordova of Rego Park, Indira Jagroup of Hollis, Karyn Mooney of Maspeth, Pat Miller of Middle Village, Judy and Eric G. of Forest Hills and Diana Rivello of Forest Hills.

Just in case you haven’t delivered your presents to the Chronicle office yet, here are excerpts from a few wish list letters to Santa from children at the Kings Inn: Anna would like an Easy Bake ultimate oven, Crayola marker airbrush kit and Monster High dolls.

Eden, 5, would like a football, basketball or baseball and mitt, action figures and dinosaur toys.

Natasha, 2, asks for a doll and a doll stroller and a black Barbie doll The mother of Alice, 2 1/2, says they recently moved to the Kings Inn. Her daughter would like a doll house with dolls, learning DVDs and “a little girl toy for me to cuddle.”

Unwrapped items may be dropped off Monday through Friday until Dec. 20 from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Chronicle office, 62-33 Woodhaven Blvd., in Rego Park, about a quarter mile south of the Long Island Expressway, exit 19, on the east side of the street.

After business hours, presents may be left at Barosa restaurant, next door to the Chronicle at 62-29 Woodhaven Blvd., or Barosa Brick Oven Pizza at 62-37.

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Cops launch ticket blitz against reckless drivers Police on Tuesday announced that last week they issued thousands of tickets citywide for moving violations and double-parking, and arrested 226 people for driving illegally, in an operation targeting streets near shopping centers and other areas with many pedestrians. The blitz ran from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Dec. 9 to 13.

In Queens, cops cited 705 people for moving violations and 637 for double-parking, while arresting 70 for driving with a suspended license, according to the NYPD. The Police Department has come under increasing criticism from groups seeking to

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reduce driving in the city, such as Transportation Alternatives and StreetsBlog.org, for allegedly not enforcing traffic laws aggressively enough. The activists point to the fact that there are now fewer people murdered in the city with firearms than killed in traffic accidents as proof police must do more.

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City will try recycling Styrofoam before ban New York will test out recycling polystyrene foam, commonly called Styrofoam, under amendments to a City Council bill that initially would have banned the material. The measure could be voted on today, Dec. 19.

The new version of the bill directs the sanitation commissioner to test recycling and determine if it can be done safely, profitably and without damage to the environment. It is supported by Mayor Bloomberg and a key maker of Styrofoam, Dart Container, which said the city can make $4 million a year by recycling the material. Backers of the proposed ban had said it would save the city money by reducing the amount of garbage that needs to be disQ posed of and protect the environment.

Speaker battle is hot Mayor-Elect Bill de Blasio and most of the city’s five Democratic county leaders are on opposite sides in choosing the next City Council speaker, media reports said this week. The leaders, including the Queens chairman, Rep. Joe Crowley (D-Queens, Bronx), reportedly favor Councilman Dan Garodnick, while de Blasio is said to back Councilwoman Melissa Mark-VivQ erito. Both are from Manhattan.

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The bill is before the Health Committee, and proponents want it passed quickly so Mayor Bloomberg can sign it before he leaves office.

E-cigarettes contain nicotene but not tobacco and produce a vapor instead of smoke. Proponents and users, referred to as “vapers,” say they are safer than tobacco and help smokers quit, while opponents say they can lure more people, especially youth, into actual smoking.

Among e-cigarettes’ primary backers in the city is Spike Babiain, president of the National Vapers Club and co-owner of VapeNY, a Forest Hills store that sells them. Babiain said in a Dec. 15 Crain’s New York Business profile that pushing e-cig users outdoors with traditional cigarette smokers would make them more likely to switch to real tobacco.

The merchant groups that wrote the Council argue that letting users vape indoors is good for business and for the neighbors of establishments such as bars, who would rather not see Q more people congregate on the sidewalk.

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Holiday favorites including sugar cookies, gingerbread and more will be prepared and enjoyed on the days leading up to Christmas.

Recipes for other treats are below.

Chronicle staff shares its favorite recipes

by Tess McRae

he holiday season is the most wonderful time of the year to indulge in good food.

From sugar cookies to eggnog, holiday parties feature some of the most delicious comfort food.

To make your holiday season extra special, the Chronicle staff shared some of their favorite sweet and savory recipes.

For starters, Editor Domenick Rafter’s pomegranate martinis are sure to put a tangy twist in your usual holiday spirits.

Pomegranate Martini Ingredients: • pomegranate juice • vodka (use pomegranate flavored vodka for the extra kick) • sugar • pomegrante seeds Directions:

Add 3 parts juice per 1 part vodka into a shaker with ice.

Shake the mix for 15 seconds.

Dip your martini glasses into water and place the rim of each glass on a plate with sugar, spinning gently.

Pour the cocktail into the glasses and garnish with 4 pomegranate seeds for each drink.

What are the holidays without an array of cookies?

Chronicle Editor Michael Gannon’s sister Liz GannonGraydon’s famous cathedral cookies put a unique spin on a classic treat.

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Oratorio Society of Queens, Annual Holiday Concert, Queensborough Performing Arts Center, 222-05 56 Ave., Bayside, Sunday, Dec. 22, 4 p.m. Traditional Christmas favorites and Chanukah songs. $30, $25 for seniors and students. Contact: (718) 279-3006 or queensoratorio.org.

Wildlife Conservation Society’s Queens Zoo, Flushing, registration for 2013-2014 winter education programs, including teen zoo internship and meeting zoo keepers. Register: (718) 2717361, queenszoo.com/programs, qzeducation@ wcs.org.

Queens County Farm Holiday Open House, 73-50 Little Neck Pkwy., Floral Park, ThursdaySaturday, Dec. 26-28, 12-4 p.m. Enjoy family tours of decorated farmhouse, craft activity for kids and mulled cider. Free. Contact: queensfarm.org.

SPECIAL EVENTS Blue Suede Birthday - The Elvis Bash, Queensborough Performing Arts Center, 222-05 56th Ave., Bayside, Saturday, Jan. 25, 8 p.m. Master performers Scot Bruce & Mike Albert deliver a superb Elvis experience. $40. Box Office: (718) 631-6311.

Art House Astoria Community Carolers, Astoria First Presbyterian Church, 23-35 Broadway, caroling walks on Thursday, Dec. 19 & Saturday, Dec. 21 in the Ditmars area along Broadway/Steinway.

Greater Ridgewood Historical Society, Onderdonk House, 1820 Flushing Avenue, Ridgewood, Saturdays 1-4 p.m. Candlelight tours for the holidays, mulled cider, tuning the instruments for a special musical treat, Sunday, January 5, 6- 8 p.m. Contact: (718) 456-1776, www.onderdonkhouse.org.

Hawaii in December, New Year’s Eve Dinner, Danny's Szechuan Garden, 156-40B Cross Bay Blvd., Howard Beach, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 9 p.m.12:30 a.m. Choice of Hibachi table or Chinese dining, soup to dessert, two cocktails, champagne toast, party favors. $69.95 per person. Call: (718) 738-6500 for reservations.

EXHIBITS Art of Ink in America, “Gesture and Beyond,” Godwin Ternbach Museum at Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, thru Dec. 30, Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.; Saturdays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. An East/West exhibition of contemporary calligraphy.

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MUSIC Afrikan Poetry Theatre, Jazz Education Concert, The Center for Culture, featuring Podor Jazzical dos Sons do Brasil and Brazilian vocal sensation Debora Watts, guest poet Haitian sensation Monique. 176-03 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica, Saturday, Dec. 21, 8 p.m. Delicious cuisine available.

Advance tickets $15, 17 at door. Contact: (718) 523-3312, ext. 10, afrikapoetrytheatre.org.

FILM Afrikan Poetry Theatre, ”Running Dry,” The Center for Culture, 176-03 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica, Documentary about water issues in Kenya; discussion to follow. Friday, Dec. 20, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Contact: (718) 523-3312, ext. 10, afrikapoetrytheatre.org.

AUDITIONS

Museum of the Moving Image, Indie Essentials: 25 Must-Play Video Games, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria. Exhibition of 25 playable, independently produced games, through March 2. WednesdaysThursdays, 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m.; Fridays, 10:30 a.m.-8 p.m.; Saturdays-Sundays, 11:30 a.m.-7 p.m. $12 adults, $9 seniors over 65 and students with ID, $6 children 3-12, under 3 free.

Beari Productions, “Children of Eden,” All Saints Church, 214-35 40 Ave., Bayside, Thursday, Dec. 19, 7:30 p.m.; auditions for children, Saturday, Dec. 21, 1 p.m. Need males and females, singers and dancers, children ages 6-15. Call (718) 736-1263.

THEATER

Forest Hills Symphony Orchestra, Forest Hills Jewish Center, 106-06 Queens Blvd. Rehearsals/ auditions, Wednesdays, 7:30-10 p.m. Contact: Franklin Verbsky, (718) 374-1627, fhso.org.

The Secret Theatre, “Oliver! The Musical!,” Thursdays-Sundays thru Dec. 21, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, Dec. 22, 3:30 p.m. $25, $15 children. 44-02 23 St., Long Island City, Contact: secrettheatre.org.

Queens Secret Improv Club offers comedy every Wednesday-Saturday, approx. 7:30 p.m. $7, for the best improv in Queens. 44-02 23 St., Long Island City, Contact: secrettheatre.org.

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CLASSES English as a Second Language Course, Latin American Cultural Center of Queens, 120-55 Queens Blvd., Room 333, Kew Gardens, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6-8 p.m., thru Dec. 19. Free. Register: (718) 261-7664, laccq@aol.com.

Ballroom Dance Classes, Year ‘Round Social Dance Program, Monday & Friday evenings, Italian Charities of America, 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst. Call 718) 478-3100.

English as a Second Language Adult Classes, Immanuel Church, 68-10 31 Ave., Woodside, Saturdays, 10 a.m. Licensed NYC teacher. Free.

Contact: (718) 335-1623, rnadar@ImmanuelChurchNY.org.

Watercolor classes, National Art League, 44-21 Douglaston Pkwy. & Northern Blvd., 9:30 a.m.12:30 p.m., Wednesdays, $25/session. Instruction from award-winning artist. Call (718) 969-1128.

COMMUNITY Kiwanis Queens West Division, visit to Ronald McDonald House to help feed and give holiday presents to sick children and their families, 405 E. 73 St., Manhattan, Saturday, Dec. 21, 5:30 p.m.

Contact: Glendale Kiwanis, president Gerry Gonzalez, (917) 615-4886, gonzalkaezg@yahoo.com to donate cash/gifts or help this worthy cause.

Rego Park Jewish Center, 97-30 Queens Blvd.

Parashat & Haftarat Club, Saturday, Dec. 21, 12:30 p.m. Discuss Parashat Shemot with Rabbi Samuel Waldenbaum, Rabbi Romiel Daniel, Charles Lehat. Free. Call (718) 459-1000. Singles Social & Dance, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2-6 p.m. Ages 45+, proper attire please. $10. Call Bernice (718) 897-6255.

Briarwood Action Network, canned food & diaper collection, 3rd annual drive for the Briarwood Family Residence. Collection box locations: HSBC Bank, 137-61 Queens Blvd.; Key Food, 13837 Queens Blvd., until Thursday, Jan. 2. Contact: briarwoodactionnetwork.com.

Indoor Flea Market, St. Nicholas of Tolentine Parish, Parsons Boulevard & Union Turnpike, Jamaica, Sunday, Dec. 22, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Call (718) 591-1815.

Richmond Hill Flea Market, 117-09 Lefferts Blvd., off Jamaica Ave., every Sunday, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Largest flea market in Queens, something for everyone.

MEETINGS Kiwanis Club of Bayside, Bourbon Street Restaurant, 40-12 Bell Blvd., meets 1st Wednesday of every month, 1 p.m. Contact: joecorace@aol.com.

The American Legion Continental Post, 107-15 Metropolitan Ave, Forest Hills. All veterans invited, enjoy comraderie and support, every first Friday of the month, 7 p.m. Call Tom Long, (718) 704-4197.

The Flushing AARP Chapter No. 1405, Bowne Street Community Church, 143-11 Roosevelt Ave., meets Mondays 1 p.m.

AARP Chapter 2889, American Legion Hall, 66-28 Grand Ave., Maspeth, meets 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month, noon. Call (718) 672-9890.

SENIOR ACTIVITIES Bagel Brunch and Book Discussion Group, SNAP of Eastern Queens Innovative Senior Center (Creedmoor Community Campus), 80-45 Winchester Blvd., Building 4, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 10 a.m.

Discussion of ”Defending Jacob“ by William Landay.

Call Marian (718) 454-2100.

Computer class for seniors, Selfhelp Innovative Senior Center (Benjamin Rosenthal Prince Street Senior Center), 45-25 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, 8 weeks, basics/email/internet began Monday, Dec. 2, 11 a.m. Call John to register (718) 559-4329.

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Kew Gardens coffeehouse honors sports writers

by Tammy Scillepi

make it a cozy gathering place for local writers, poets and artists — including regular, Jay Flemma, who lives Back in the day, before anyone knew what a caramel just down the street. He said he’s done a lot of sports latte macchiato was, The Interlude coffee shop, tucked writing there, before heading off to his Manhattan law away by the Kew Gardens LIRR station, off Lefferts practice.

Boulevard, was a popular hangout, where locals Flemma’s been touring the country in his spare time, schmoozed with their friends over a cup of joe and a doing golf-centric readings from short stories he’s writslice of cherry pie. ten as a golf aficionado, making It was a “folky” place for uphim the perfect candidate to and-coming musical artists, such organize and host last Thursas Jose Feliciano and Al Cooper. day’s exciting NYC Sports WritOdradek’s Coffee House’s Years later, the torch wa s ers’ Night at Odradek’s.

Reading Series passed to Jake Ganz, who owns After speaking with Ganz, the newly renovated Odradek’s Flemma said he phoned three When: Second week of every month Coffee House and Wine Bar in of his buddies to join him at the (see site for 2014 schedule) the same location. It’s the nabe’s event: author and Sports IllusWhere: 82-60 Austin St., hip go-to spot, which can serve trated writer Kevin Cook and Kew Gardens up a mean omelet as a sidekick veteran New York Post writers Website: odradekscoffee.com to your latte or cappuccino.

R a l p h W i m b i s h a n d M i ke Named after influential 20thVaccaro. centur y writer Franz Kafka’s For a frigid evening, there imaginary creature, Odradek, the wa s a great turnout at the café hosts monthly events and showcases artwork by action-packed literary sports event. local talent on its walls.

The lattes and wine were flowing, and spirits were Ganz said he’s excited that his coffee shop is “part high as local sports fans came by, along with a handful of an ongoing interest and pursuit of art in all its many of curious city folk to hear Vaccaro read excerpts from Golf writer and lawyer Jay Flemma hosted Odradek’s Coffee House and Wine Bar’s “Sports Writers’ Night” as part of a forms.” his book “1941: The Greatest Year in Sports.”

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If you don’t have a s weet tooth, Managing Editor Liz Rhoades’ spic y coleslaw will put a nice kick into your holidays.

• 1 10-ounce package of miniature marshmallows, preferably multicolored

Spicy Coleslaw Ingredients: • 1 1/4 cup sour cream • 3/4 cup mayonnaise • 2 tablespoons prepared horseradish • 1/4 cup cider vinegar • 1/2 teaspoon salt • 1/2 teaspoon pepper • 1 small head savory or regular cabbage, shredded • 1 small head red cabbage, shredded

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Refrigerate overnight.

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She notes, “In Taiwan, in China, especially the mainland, [jazz is] still someJazz pianist Helen Sung brings her act what of a novelty for an audience. But it’s back home to Queens this weekend for exciting to see young people studying the a jazz vespers service. From her Elm- music and learning, getting into it, ’cause I hurst home, the Houston-born Sung think that’s where it starts.” spoke about the program, her upcoming A graduate of The University of Texas projects and her outlook on jazz. at Austin and the Thelonius Monk InstiSung says the service, which will fea- tute of Jazz Performance, Sung teaches ture two sets, is “a program that high- at Boston’s Berklee College of Music and lights the beauty of the Christmas sea- finds it “really intense, but it ’s also s on t hroug h ja z z inspiring to be in a music.” school environment It will close out a again. Learning, disHelen Sung busy year for the covering, searching pianist who ha s vespers service concert — that process of been ac tive with growing and develWhen: Saturday, Dec. 21, 5 p.m. the Mingus Big oping never stops as Where: Church in the Gardens Band, Mingus an artist.”

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Middle Village Adult Center, 69-10 75 St., offers: computer training classes, all levels, beginners to advanced, including: 21st Century Technology, teaching use of iPods, smartphones, e-readers, tablet computers, and other latest gadgets; and Microsoft Excel (separate class); fitness classes in Zumba, aerobics, line dancing, chair and mat yoga, tai chi, lowerbody toning, sit and be fit; recreational activities (daily bingo, singing, watercolor painting, bus trips, daily meals and more). Call Hindy at (718) 894-3441 or visit the Center.

Selfhelp Clearview Senior Center, 208-11 26 Ave., Bayside, activities include: Qi Gong, Mondays at 10:45 a.m.; Dance Aerobics, Mondays at 10 a.m. & Tuesdays at 9 a.m.; Wii time, Mondays and Wednesdays at 12:45 p.m.; Music with Dee, Mondays at 1 p.m.; beginner’s drawing, Tuesdays at 9:30 a.m.; aerobics, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11 a.m.; drawing and painting, Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m.; yoga, Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m.; bingo, Wednesdays at 12:45 p.m.; tai chi, Wednesdays at 2 p.m.; dance fitness Fridays at 10:45 a.m.; health education class, Tuesdays at 10 a.m.; fire prevention exercises, Wednesdays at 11 a.m.; mahjong/canasta, Wednesdays at 12:45 p.m.; stay well exercises, Thursdays at 9:30 a.m.; Music, Dance & Fitness, Thursdays at 1:30 p.m., Scrabble, Thursdays at 12:45 p.m.; Sculpture, Fridays at 1 p.m; current events, card playing and more. Call (718) 224-7888.

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

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Bereavement groups for loss of a spouse, facilitated by a licensed social worker. Central Queens YM & YWHA, 67-09 108 St., Forest Hills.

Call Pamela Leff: (718) 268-5011, ext. 621.

Narcotics Anonymous Drug problem? Call Helpline at (718) 962-6244 or visit westernqueensna.com. Meetings held seven days a week.

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

Caregiver support groups at Queens Community House, Kew Gardens Community Center, 80-02 Kew Gardens Road. Free. Call (718) 226-5960, ext. 226.

Overeaters Anonymous, try a NEW way OUT of FAT with Thursdays at 11 a.m. at Rego Park Library, 91-41 63 Dr. The Lupus Alliance of Long Island and Queens meets once a month on Tuesdays, 7:30-9 p.m., Flushing. Register/information: (516) 802-3142. A fee of $10 per person for members and $15 for nonmembers includes a light breakfast, handouts and lunch. Call (516) 826-2058.

Emotions Anonymous, an emotional support group, will be held on Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. at Victoria Congregational Church, 148th St. and 87th Avenue, Briarwood. Call (718) 938-8869 or (917) 312-7150.

Co-Dependents Anonymous (women only) meetings are held every Friday from 10 to 11:45 a.m. at Resurrection Ascension Pastoral Center, Fr. Freely Hall, 85-18 61 Rd., Rego Park.

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Wimbish talked about his experiences as a bat boy for the St. Louis Cardinals — in 1960 he watched Los Angeles Dodgers legend Sandy Koufax pitch.

Flemma read from some of his own “favorites,” including “The Golf Rum Diaries,” which is available at cybergolf.com.

Cook read excerpts from his latest book “The Last Headbangers: NFL Football in the Rowdy, Reckless ‘70s: the Era that Created Modern Sports.”

Though Cook spends most of his time writing about sports, he recently finished a book, about Kitty Genovese, who was murdered 50 years ago in Kew Gardens.

Cook, who lives in downtown Manhattan, shared some interesting details about the book, entitled “Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that Changed America.”

He said he was fascinated with the case for years and realized the 50th anniversary of Genovese’s murder was coming up, so he felt compelled to find out more about her life. He pointed out that for decades, “she had been portrayed almost exclusively as a victim.”

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locals, as well as neighbors who knew Genovese, Cook found many discrepancies between their accounts and the New York Times’ reporting that set the public’s view of the crime. “[She is shown] not just as a victim, but as a real, vibrant and generous person,” Cook said.

He also discovered that those stories about 38 bystanders doing nothing to help her weren’t accurate.

“I’ve come to believe that the case is one of the most misunderstood in AmeriQ can history,” he said.

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Notice of Qualification of 35-16 34TH STREET, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/13/13. Office location: Queens County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/11/13. Princ. office of LLC: c/o A & E Real Estate Holdings, LLC, 1065 Ave. of the Americas, NY, NY 10018.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: AFB LOUNGE LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/23/2013. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 3727 Hunters Point Ave., Long Island City, NY 11101. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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DIVANZSAK PROPERTIES, LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 10/11/13. Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: BRISAM JFK LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/03/05. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 92-29 Queens Boulevard, #2B, Rego Park, New York 11374.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: EPOCH PROPERTY LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/26/2013. 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 Ai Mou Lin, 5117 92nd St., Elmhurst, NY 11373. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

BTS COLLECTIVE LLC , a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 7/18/13. Office location: Queens County.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to C/O United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Ave., Ste. 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. General Purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: GAK 2010 Enterprises, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/30/2013. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 229 Cleveland Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

CHUIS DEVELOPMENT LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/29/2013.

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SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 56-15 228th St., Bayside, NY 11364. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation: JLK Group, LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/06/2013. Office Loc.: QUEENS COUNTY. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 36-27 166th Street, Flushing, NY 11358.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: D & B LIMO, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/01/2013. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 7119 162nd Street, Apt. 1G, Fresh Meadows, NY 11365.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: KOLLEGA, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/24/2013.

Office location: Queens County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 90-02 63rd Drive, Apt. #5J, Rego Park, NY 11374. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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SQ page 52 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS Index No. 5489/10 AMENDED SUMMONS Plaintiff Designates QUEENS County as the Place of trial. The basis of venue is plaintiff CARLOS INTRIAGO’s residence. Plaintiff CARLOS INTRIAGO resides at 163-09 99th Street, Howard Beach, NY 11414 County of Queens CARLOS lNTRlAGO, VIVELKA DOMINGUEZ and IVONNE lNTRIAGO, Plaintiffs, -againstFIDENCIO VASQUEZ and JOHN DOE a/k/a ANTONIO AMIGON, Defendants.

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your amended answer, or if the amended complaint is not served with this amended summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the plaintiff’s Attomey(s) within 20 days after the service of this amended summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if the amended summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded herein, DATED: Forest Hills, New York, October 12, 2011 Defendants’ Addresses: FIDENCIO VASQUEZ, 192 Crescent Street, #2R, Brooklyn, NY 11208. JOHN DOE a/k/a ANTONIO AMIGON Address unknown Yours, etc., WITTENSTEIN & WITTENSTEIN, ESQS., P.C. By: ROBERT H. BRENT, ESQ. Attomey(s) for Plaintiff(s) CARLOS INTRlAGO, VIVELKA DOMINGUEZ and IVONNE INTRlAGO, 108-18 Queens Boulevard Forest Hills, NY 11375, (718) 261-8114 Notice: The nature of this action is for severe personal injuries, sustained as a result of an accident on January 20, 2010 on Jamaica Avenue at or near the intersection of Lincoln Avenue, County of Kings, City and State of New York. The amount of damages sought exceeds the jurisdictional limits of all lower courts which would otherwise have jurisdiction. Upon your failure to appear, judgment will be taken against you by default for damages with interest from January 20, 2010, and the costs of this action.

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS Index No.: 11519-2013 Date Summons filed: 06/14/2013 Plaintiff designates Queens County as the place of trial. The basis of venue is: Plaintiff’s residence SUMMONS WITH NOTICE Plaintiff/Defendant resides at: 79-25 150th Street, Flushing NY CARMEN EMILIA JIMENEZ GARCIA, Plaintiff, -againstJULIO DIEGO GUERRERO LOIZA, Defendant.

ACTION FOR A DIVORCE To the above-named Defendant: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff 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); and in case of your failure to appear, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the notice set forth below.

Dated: December 12, 2013 Plaintiff: Carmen E. Jimenez Garcia Address: 79-25 150th Street, Apt D-26 Flushing, NY 11367, Phone No.: 718-577-9728 NOTICE: The nature of this action is to dissolve the marriage between the parties, on the grounds: DRL §170 subd. (2) abandonment.

The relief sought is a judgment of absolute divorce in favor of the Plaintiff dissolving the marriage between the parties in this action.

The nature of any ancillary or additional relief demanded is: Sole distribution of matrimonial property to the Plaintiff and exclusive occupancy of the marital residence.

AND any other relief the court deems fit and proper.

SUPREME COURT - QUEENS COUNTY- MARILOU S. MARTIN and ROBERT ABAD as Sole heir of VIOLET M. ABAD vs. MARIA CARMELITA M. CASTANEDA Index No.: 25640/2004Pursuant to judgment of Partition and sale dated April 13, 2010 and Order Appointing Referee ZENITH THERESA TAYLOR, ESQ. dated March 20, 2013 auction in Courtroom #25 of Queens County Supreme Court, 88-11 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY on Friday January 17, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. prem k/a 85-09 Kendrick Place, Jamaica, NY. Said property located at the corner formed by the intersection of the northerly side of Kendrick Road, (formerly Pembroke Road) with the easterly side of Mayfield Road, (Kendrick Road being also known as Kendrick Place); northerly along the easterly side of Mayfield Road, 72.34 feet; easterly 97.42 feet to a point distant 86.91 feet northerly from the northerly side of Kendrick Road; southerly 86.91 feet to a point in the northerly side of Kendrick Road, distant 114.06 feet easterly from the point of beginning measured along said northerly side of Kendrick Road; westerly along the northerly side of Kendrick Road, 114.06 feet to the point or place of beginning, said premises known as 85-09 Kendrick Place, Jamaica, NY Sold subject to terms and conditions of filed Order and terms of sale. ZENITH THERESA TAYLOR, Referee, LAW OFFICE OF SCOT T SCHWEBER, P.C, 250 West 57th Street Suite 1216 New York, NY 10107 Attys. for Plaintiffs.

SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS INDEX NO.: 4119-2013 DATE FILED: 12/6/2013 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS NYCTL 2012-A TRUST AND THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, AS COLLATERAL AGENT AND CUSTODIAN FOR NYCTL 2012-A TRUST, Plaintiffs, -againstLYDIA R. CARRAWAY, if she be living, if she be dead, her respective, heirs-at-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors, and successors in interest, and generally all persons having or claiming under, by, or through LYDIA R. CARRAWAY, if she be dead, whether by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, including any right, title or interest in and to the real property described in the complaint herein, all of who and whose names and places of residence are unknown to the plaintiffs; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; CITY OF NEW YORK ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD; PORTFOLIO RECOVERY ASSOCIATES, LLC; ERIN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC; ASSET ACCEPTANCE LLC,; “JOHN DOE # 1” through “JOHN DOE # 100”, the last 100 names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiffs, the persons or parties intended being the owners, tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, and if any of the aforesaid individual captioned defendants, if any, be dead, their respective heirs-at-law, next of kin, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors, and successors n interest, and generally all persons having or claiming under, by, or through any of the aforesaid individual captioned defendants, if any, if they be dead, whether by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, including any right, title or interest in and to the real property described in the complaint herein, all of who and whose names and places of residence are unknown to the plaintiffs. Defendants.

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action, to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with the summons, to serve notice of appearance, on the plaintiffs’ attorney within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the date of service (or within thirty (30) days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York), and in case of failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.

Plaintiffs designate Queens County as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the location of the subject property.

Dated: October 22, 2013 LEVY & LEVY Attorneys for Plaintiffs, 12 Tulip Drive, Great Neck, NY 11021, (516) 487-6655 BY: JOSHUA LEVY, ESQ. File No.: 32612 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Thomas D. Raffaele, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Queens County dated Nov. 4th, 2013 and filed with the complaint and other papers in the Queens County Clerk’s Office, Jamaica, NY. The object of the action is to foreclose a tax lien and to recover the amount of the tax lien and all of the interest, penalties, additions and expenses to real property k/a Block 9591, Lot 40.

Dated: Dec. 2, 2013. LEVY & LEVY, Attys. for Pltf. #83501

LEGAL NOTICES To Advertise Call 718-205-8000 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: NEW ISL AND ENTERTAINMENT LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/27/2013. 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 SUCIPTO NFN, 88-15 Justice Avenue, Elmhurst, NY 11373.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: Queens Market LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/13/2013. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 7268 Main Street, Flushing, NY 11367. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

RED HOUSE BK LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 11/18/11. Office in Queens Co. SSNY design.

Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC 311 6th Ave., #3F, Brooklyn, NY 11215. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

LAND OF OPPORTUNITY, L.P. has been formed as a Limited Partnership (LP) in NY. The office is located in the County of Queens.

The Cert. of LP was filed with the Department of the State of NY on 10/30/2013. The Secretary of the State of NY (“SSNY”) is designated as agent upon whom process against the LP may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon him to: c/o the LP, 83-26 Lefferts Blvd., Apt 3E, Kew Gardens, NY 11415. The latest date on which the LP is to dissolve is: 12/31/2093.

The name and address of the General Partner is available from the Secretary of State.

The purpose of the LP is any lawful act.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: MBH IT, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/14/2013. 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 Incorp Services, Inc., One Commerce Plaza, 99 Washington Avenue, Ste. 805-A, Albany, NY 12210.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: SAGA VENTURES, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/13/13.

Office location: Queens County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 153-01 Jamaica Avenue, Suite 201, Jamaica, New York 11432.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: MAGNUS GROUP LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/13/13. 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 MAGNUS GROUP LLC, 2623 213th St., Bayside, NY 11360.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: MIKA CONTRACTING LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/20/2013. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 18-12 25 Rd., Astoria, NY 11102.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

SUMAN LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/01/2013. Office loc: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Updenra Solanki, 98-07 161 Ave., Howard Beach, NY 11414.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

NOTICE OF ACTION BEFORE THE BOARD OF MASSAGE THERAPY IN RE: The license to practice massage therapy of Zhen Ji Piao, L.M.T., 3733 College Point Boulevard, Apartment C1D, Flushing, New York 11354 CASE NO.: 2012-15666 LICENSE NO.: MA 63970 The Department of Health has filed an Administrative Complaint against you, a copy of which may be obtained by contacting, Elana J. Jones, Assistant General Counsel, Prosecution Services Unit, 4052 Bald Cypress Way, Bin #C65, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-3265, (850) 245-4444.

If no contact has been made by you concerning the above by January 30, 2014, the matter of the Administrative Complaint will be presented at an ensuing meeting of the Board of Massage Therapy in an informal proceeding.

In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, persons needing a special accommodation to participate in this proceeding should contact the individual or agency sending this notice not later than seven days prior to the proceeding at the address given on the notice. Telephone: (850) 245-4444, 1-800-955-8771 (TDD) or 1-800-955-8770 (V), via Florida Relay Service.

Notice is hereby given that an on-premises license, #1275326, has been applied for by Fatty’s Inc. to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on-premises establishment. For on-premises consumption under the ABC Law at 45-17 28th Ave., Astoria, NY 11103

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by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor

I don’t have a problem with the Mets signing recent Yankees outfielder Curtis Granderson, for reasons I outlined last week. But I’m still scratching my head over why Mets general manager Sandy Alderson rushed to sign dimea-dozen outfielder Chris Young to a one-year $7.25 million contract, and I’m absolutely stumped as to why he would commit $20 million for two years to rotund, soon-to-be-41 year-old pitcher, Bartolo Colon.

Yes, I know that Colon won 18 games for the Oakland A’s last year, but that doesn’t mean he will come remotely close to repeating that success in a Mets uniform. Colon missed a good chunk of the 2012 season serving a suspension for using performance-enhancing drugs.

Getting back to Granderson, you would think the Mets would introduce their first major free-agent recruit in four years with a splashy press conference at Citi Field. You’d be wrong. The Mets had a press conference with Granderson in Orlando, where the winter meetings took place. The Yankees, it should be noted, had the common sense to wait until after the winter meetings had concluded to introduce their latest free-agent signing, centerfielder Jacoby Ellsbury, at Yankee Stadium last Friday.

The Mets were their usual shortsighted selves. My guess is they figured that they could

save the cost of paying the wages of the catering staff, as well as the cost of food for the media, by having it in Orlando. On the other hand, they lost a golden opportunity to get more coverage in both the print and electronic media by limiting access to Granderson to just the few New York journalists whose outlets had a budget to send them to the winter meetings.

Sandy Alderson could learn a lot from his Yankees counterpart, Brian Cashman. It would have been easy for Cashman to take a swipe at Robinson Cano, who signed with the Seattle Mariners while griping about the lack of respect the Bombers showed him, or fire back at Granderson when he said that “true New Yorkers are Mets fans.” Instead Cashman took the high road by praising both players while meeting with the media following the Ellsbury press conference.

I doubt that Alderson would have been that gracious, judging by how he has publicly disparaged Mets shortstop Ruben Tejada, who endured a miserable 2013 season.

Alderson admits there is a good chance the Mets will have no choice but to make him their Opening Day shortstop. Of course Sandy makes it sound as if he will have to hold his nose in doing so. That’s not a smart Q way to motivate an employee.

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Merry Christmas

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by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

You are looking at what was considered the downtown hub of Jamaica in 1916 — Washington Street and Jamaica Avenue.

At the time there were 36 Washington streets throughout the Borough of Queens. Can you imagine the problems encountered by the police department, fire department The south side of Jamaica Avenue at Washington and the post office? In 1917 the Street (today 160th Street) looking west on Dec. 15, 1916 — just 10 days before Christmas with no name was changed to 160th Street.

Prior to 1910 Jamaica was largely holiday decorations seen anywhere. known as one of the largest farmers trading markets, with goods hauled in from lyn, were a big boon to the economy.

At this corner were two landmarks, the farms in southeastern Queens. That year the Long Island Rail Road was electrified and a Minden House Restaurant and Daly’s Corner Restaurant. Both were torn down by strong residential area began to develop.

Shown here is one the last photographs 1930. Martin’s Wallpaper and Paints was taken shortly before the Jamaica Avenue El dominant on the avenue. Owner Samuel was built, obscuring the street in darkness Martin and his wife, Mary, lived in Jamaica for the next 60 years. The El went up quickly Estates. Upon his death in 1942, the store and cheaply and was completed in 1917. was sold and developed into a large chain.

Transit buffs refer to the job as contract The growth of the area made this photo route M-25. The new overhead trains, run- look quaint by the 1950s, and today it is Q ning all the way to 168th Street from Brook- totally unrecognizable.

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Johnnies fall to hated rival Syracuse The Red Storm nearly upset the second-ranked Orange at MSG

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They are no longer Big East Conference adversaries after Syracuse’s defection to the Atlantic Coast Conference prior to this season. But on Sunday, they rekindled one of college basketball’s best and fiercest rivalries in a game for the ages at Madison Square Garden.

T he second -r a n ke d Sy r a cu se Orange, whom many experts view as a sure-f ire NCA A championship contender, advertise themselves as “New York’s college team,” but the Syracuse tops St. John’s 68-63 on Dec. 15 Red Storm players and fans alike made it known that the Johnnies are still the Big Apple’s premier college hoops The Red Storm found themselves down squad even in defeat.

39-27 at halftime and it appeared that the In a pulse-racing contest filled with Johnnies didn’t have enough firepower to clutch shots and a raucous crowd, the bust the famous Syracuse zone defense. But Orange thwarted the Red Storm’s attempt the Johnnies stormed back on the strength of at a stunning upset and sent the Johnnies leading scorer D’Angelo Harrison’s 14 secback to Queens with a 68-63 defeat on ond-half points.

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The foes traded baskets and St. John’s St. John’s now falls to 6-3 while Syra- even took a 60-58 lead with five minutes cuse remains undefeated at 10-0. remaining in the contest, but much like previDonning either Syracuse orange and St. ous years, the game got away from the JohnJohn’s red, the crowd of 16,357 at the Gar- nies at the free-throw line. den cheered on a back-and-forth duel feaWith three minutes remaining and the Red turing All-American talent in Orange Storm down 62-60 to the Orange, Sampson freshman point guard Tyler Ennis and star missed two key free throws. Fair took advanpotential in Red Storm rookie Rysheed tage of the Red Storm’s missed chance to tie Jordan. the game by burying two baseline jump shots Ennis, regarded as one of the best play- on back-to-back possessions, giving the ers in all of college basketball, dominated Orange a lead they would never relinquish. the game at times. His unmatched speed “That’s going to kill me,” Sampson told and athleticism allowed him to weave the media after the game. “Me missing two through the nor mally tough St. John’s big free throws; I feel like that was a big part defense under the basket and score 21 of the game. I feel like it turned the points, despite shooting just 42 percent momentum.” from the field.

“It hurts to lose but it hurts to lose to SyraHis ability to draw fouls on drives to the cuse in particular,” Harrison added. “When hoop was on display as well, as the Cana- we play Syracuse, it’s 16,000 fans. It’s a great dian product nailed all 10 of his free-throw rivalry and that’s why we play them every attempts. year. We just need to get over that hump, But the Red Storm’s stellar freshman maybe next year.” was able to keep up for the most part. JorWith his single three-pointer against Syradan scored a career-high 13 points of his cuse, Harrison is three such shots away from own, two of which came on an impressive, breaking Willie Shaw’s record for the most a c robat ic lay u p i n b et we e n O r a nge threes in school history. Unfortunately for defenders.

Harrison and the Johnnies, Harrison’s three While the freshmen shined bright in the was the only one the Red Storm hit against spotlight, it was the play of each team’s Syracuse in 15 attempts. veterans that made the difference late in On Wednesday night, the Johnnies were the game. Unfortunately for the Red Storm, set to return to Queens and take on San it was Syracuse star C.J. Fair who seeming- Francisco, the alma matter of coach Steve ly hit every big shot on his way to 21 points Lavin’s late father Cap, who was a star for of his own while St. John’s sophomore the Dons in the 1950s. St. John’s will then JaKarr Sampson missed key free throws welcome Youngstown State to Queens on Q down the stretch.

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