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Woodhaven lauds potential landmarking of St. Matthew’s Church and the adjacent historic cemetery PAGE 5 St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church on 96th Street and the Wyckoff-Snediker Cemetery behind it are both being suggested for landmark status to the delight of many in Woodhaven.

A PLACE TO GATHER St. Helen’s offers a temporary home to the displaced Howard Beach Senior Center

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Connecticut shooting shakes local schools DOE reassures parents, staff on safety, help in wake of tragedy

by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

arents and school staff in Queens Monday morning wanted to talk about anything other than Friday’s mass shooting at a Newtown, Conn. elementary school that left more than two dozen people, including 20 children, dead.

Sixty miles southwest of the site of one of the worst school shootings in American history, moms, dads, teachers and principals are trying to wander through the minefield of what to tell schoolchildren about the tragedy that ended the lives of so many their age.

“I really don’t want to focus on it,” one PTA president said in an email in response to a request for comment. “It’s too heartbreaking. I really have nothing to say right now. I guess we’ll have to deal with it as it comes up.”

Another PTA member suggested covering the story only made it more likely it would happen again.

“The more you see it on the television and in the newspapers, the more another crazy person thinks it’s worth doing,” she said. “I don’t want to be disrespectful, but we should stop glamorizing it.”

Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott sent out a message to Department of Education staff Friday afternoon, only hours after the shooting.

“In the wake of such an event, you and members of your school community may be faced with questions about your own safety,” the letter said. “We have been in constant communication with the NYPD and their School Safety Division, whose vigilance keeps our schools safe. I know that each of you

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has done a lot to prepare your Building Response Team to work with first responders in the event of an emergency. I encourage you to guide your staff and students in maintaining your school’s regular schedule and continuing to be sensitive to the needs of your students as they learn more about this loss. Crisis intervention resources and support strategies are posted on the Youth Development page on the Principals’ Portal, and your network is available to support you if you need additional assistance.”

Walcott, joined by Michael Mulgrew and Ernest Logan, presidents of the teachers’ and administrators’ unions respectively, sent a letter to school officials on Monday reiterating safety procedures and instructing teachers on what to do with students who are affected by the tragedy.

In the meantime, the borough’s elected officials are pondering potential security changes in city schools.

Councilman Dan Halloran (R-Whitestone) made a rather controversial suggestion that the massacre could have been prevented if one of the teachers had a gun.

“One armed teacher could have prevented this tragedy, but not in a ‘Gun Free School Zone,’” he said on Facebook over the weekend.

The suggestion was met with mixed reaction on his Facebook page, with some supporting the idea and others vehemently opposed.

Though not going as far as arming teachers, Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D-Astoria) said he continued on page 27

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Woodhaven church eyed for landmarking Historic cemetery on St. Matthew’s site also proposed for preservation

by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

Surrounded by modern houses and apartment buildings, the stone structure of St. Matthew’s Episcopalian Church in Woodhaven looks more like it belongs in a rustic town in the English countryside than a modern urban neighborhood on this side of the pond.

The Gothic stone church at 84-45 96 St. is located about a block north of Jamaica Avenue, a few blocks south of Park Lane South. It is no longer used for worship. The parish disbanded in May 2011 and the church has been inactive ever since, but a new congregation is expected to move into the church soon.

Adjacent to the church, also on its property, is what some say is an even more historical site: the WyckoffSnediker Cemetery.

The push to landmark the church, which was built during the 1920s, was reignited last month by Councilman Elizabeth Crowley (D-Middle Village), and supported by Ed Wendell, president of the Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association, and the Woodhaven Cultural and Historical Society.

“It would be exciting,” Wendell said, “especially if we could landmark the cemetery.”

Kate Moody, a representative from Crowley’s office, said the councilwoman supports landmarking the church as well as the cemetery.

Alexander Blenkinsopp, a member of Community Board 9, was baptized at the church and has lived down the block from it his entire life. He said making the

church a landmark would go a long way to protecting the structure as well as preserving important parts of the neighborhood’s history.

“I would enthusiastically support the landmarking of St. Matthews,” Blenkinsopp said. “The church’s condition has deteriorated.”

He called the cemetery a “historical gem,” and noted many of the people buried there are original settlers of Woodhaven. The graves, some of which date back to the late 18th century, have been swallowed up by overgrowth; and the cemetery, despite being surrounded by gates, is full of pollution and garbage, as is the rest of the property surrounding the church.

“It’s now in terrible shape; that’s a real shame,” he said.

“It’s a nuisance to neighbors and disrespectful to those buried there and shows a lack of care for our history” The cemetery, which is the final resting place for more than 200 people including members of the Wyckoff and Snediker families who settled in what is now Woodhaven in the 1700s, was restored in the 1990s but lately has been overrun by overgrowth and garbage. Neighbors report that homeless people have been seen in the cemetery at night.

Blenkinsopp added that he believes the church and the cemetery had the potential to be “a source of pride” to the neighborhood and serve as a place where residents can learn of the community’s rich, and relatively obscure, history.

“I’m not even sure how many people know how nice it Q is inside,” he said.

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Local activists and residents in Woodhaven want the Wyckoff-Snedicker Cemetery, behind St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Woodhaven, to be landmarked along with the 85-year-old church. PHOTO BY JOSEPHINE WENDELL

After Sandy, seniors meet once again Howard Beach Senior Center finds temporary home after hurricane

by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

Clockwise from left, Maddie Cordova, Mary Santoni and Edna Dzigas enjoy a game of dominoes on a folding table at St. Helen’s Father Dooley Hall, the temporary home of the Howard Beach Senior Center after its location in the Rockwood Park Jewish Center’s basement was destroyed in PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER Hurricane Sandy. idle, were working to restore power to what was formerly the senior center.

“It will never be the same,” said Maddie Cordova, a regular at the senior center whose home in Hamilton Beach was devastated by the storm. “Nothing will ever be the same.”

Cordova, who has been living on the second floor of her damaged home since the storm, enjoyed a game of dominoes with Edna Dzigas of Lindenwood and Mary Santoni of Howard Beach. Dzigas and Santoni were not hit as hard by the storm as Cordova.

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Walking together, two elderly women opened the doors of Father Dooley Hall in Howard Beach. They were greeted — fittingly — by a chorus of Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive.”

Inside the hall, the Howard Beach Senior Center was holding its weekly dance party.

But this wasn’t the center’s typical Tuesday dance party.

Before Oct. 29, the Howard Beach Senior Center had an expansive facility in the basement of the Rockwood Park Jewish Center.

More than 100 seniors gathered in the great room or the cafeteria to meet, talk, eat, play games and enjoy activities ranging from talent shows to yoga to showing off crazy hats during the crazy hat dance.

Then came Hurricane Sandy, and since then, the center has been struggling to return to normal.

The members’ facility was destroyed in the storm surge. Water flooded the offices, event rooms and kitchen. It was completely out of service for a month.

But on Dec. 3, the senior center reopened in a temporary home at St. Helen’s Father Dooley Hall, across the street from the former location, where emergency Con Edison trucks, a staple in this community a month ago, still

“We’re making the best of what we got,” Dzigas said. “We certainly missed the center while it was closed.”

As the three enjoyed a spirited game with a set of souvenir dominoes from Puerto Rico — where Mary escaped the storm and its aftermath — behind them members of the center danced to both modern hits and old tunes from crooners like Dean Martin and Perry Como, using St. Helen’s gym as their dance floor.

Judy Ascherman, assistant director of the senior center, said the group was offered a temporary home in the hall by St. Helen’s pastor Monsignor Alfred LoPinto. The center has also been taken under the wing of Catholic Charities, which is helping with the financial issues since the storm.

“The monsignor has been great,” Ascherman said. “Everyone has been great to us. The students have given us use of their gym. It’s good to be open again.”

Lacking a kitchen to cook lunch, the members’ food for the center is delivered daily from Meals on Wheels — at a cost to the center, however.

Ascherman said many of the seniors in the neighborhood were unreachable in the days and weeks after the storm and she desperately called members’ phone numbers looking for them to make sure they were okay. continued on page 38

Guard strike at JFK halted More than 300 private security guards who work at John F. Kennedy International Airport have cancelled a strike they had voted to begin today, Dec. 20, in a dispute over training, equipment and other matters with their employers.

The guards work for Global Elite of Garden City, LI, and Air Serv, an Atlanta-based company with offices in New York city and around the country.

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by Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union, a spokesman for the guards said they relented when the Port Authority, which operates Kennedy and LaGuardia airports, asked the companies to meet with the guards to discuss their issues.

The guards direct traffic outside terminals and help secure some restricted areas.

While the guards were not represented by the SEIU, the statement did say that the guards “are forming a labor organization to fight against suppression of their rights.”

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DEC: Letter warning of oil spill fines fake Agency says oil cleanup is done for free

by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is warning Hurricane Sandy victims of a scam perpetrated by a group describing itself as a state agency similar to the DEC, aimed at people whose homes were damaged by heating oil spills in the storm.

A number of residents living in areas flooded by Hurricane Sandy’s storm surge in October — including Howard Beach, Broad Channel and the Rockaways — are receiving letters from a group claiming to be a state agency called the “Department of Remediation” warning of potential fines of $25,000 per day for not cleaning up oil spills caused by the storm. The fake agency utilizes a logo that looks like that of the DEC. The letter points out sections of the New York State Navigation Law that requires those responsible for oil spills to promptly clean up those discharges, and says there could be a penalty of $25,000 a day for failure to complete that cleanup. It also states that any costs related to the DEC’s

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Morning bus runs on the Q53 route between Rockaway Park and Woodside now start 30 minutes earlier on weekdays due to overcrowded conditions caused by the long-term loss of the A train’s Rockaway line south of Howard Beach, which was destroyed in Hurricane Sandy.

The first Q53 trip now begins at 4:30 a.m. rather than 5 a.m., a change designed to incrementally enhance the line’s service throughout the morning rush hour.

The Q53 bus starts at Beach 116th Street in Rockaway Park, runs north along Cross Bay and Woodhaven boulevards and terminates at the Woodside LIRR station.

The Q53 runs with limited service between Broad Channel and Queens Center mall, stopping only at major intersections along Woodhaven Boulevard including Liberty Avenue, Jamaica Avenue and 63rd Drive. Another limited route, the Q52, runs from Arverne to Queens Center.

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“In the immediate aftermath of the Hurricane, the DEC provided spill cleanup services to more than 2,200 residences. For these actions, the DEC will not seek cost recovery from the homeowners,” DEC Commissioner Joe Martens said. “It is unconscionable that a company would try to take advantage of hurricane victims by threatening fines and then promoting the company as the solution.”

The DEC said it will not fine homeowners for discharging oil without a permit, or for delaying cleanup of residential oil spills due to Hurricane Sandy.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and the Department of Financial Services are investigating the letters.

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After the horror

resident Obama struck the right tone on Wednesday when he promised to make gun control a focus of his second term. Though not the only answer to incidents like last Friday’s massacre of 20 young children and seven adults in Connecticut, restrictions on the most high-powered weaponry are part of the answer — and would not be violations of the Second Amendment.

None of the rights in the Constitution is absolute. Freedom of the press does not allow this or any newspaper to slander people. The police need a search warrant to enter your house, but not if they believe a crime is in progress there. Those charged with crimes have the right to face their accusers, but not necessarily when it’s a rape case and the victim is testifying.

So too the right to bear arms does not mean that everyone can own every firearm ever conceived.

We find it perfectly reasonable to re-enact the Clinton-era assault weapons ban and limit the size of gun clips to cut down on the carnage caused by madmen such as Newton, Conn. shooter Adam Lanza. What defines an assault rifle is debatable, yes, but we can have that debate. We can also discuss and try to reach consensus on how many bullets private

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citizens should be allowed to have in one clip. But it’s only the most far-right ideologues who don’t believe some restrictions on gun ownership are warranted and constitutional.

They’re right that the Second Amendment is, at its core, a crucial tool in ensuring the continuance of all the other Amendments, but seem to forget that when it was written, the world’s most advanced rifles fired one round at a time and took forever to reload. Things are different now.

Bans on military-style submachine guns and oversized clips are ideas to be discussed on the national level, between the president, Congress, citizens and advocacy groups, including even the dreaded National Rifle Association. In New York City, it may be time to discuss arming school security officers, who are, after all, members of the NYPD. Whether that’s a smart way to improve student safety is up for debate, but again, let’s have that debate. It may well be that we can better secure our schools through other methods, but it’s time to think outside the box.

New laws, however, are never going to prevent every act of violence dreamed up by those who have psychological problems or are just plain evil. The president also recognized this fact in his comments Wednesday, but, as he said,

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Pro-gun, pro-death Dear Editor: Shame! Shame! Shame! Each and every member past and present of our Congress and the presidency should look in the mirror, if they can, and feel the guilt and the shame for bending over, or getting onto their knees for the NRA, and not passing federal legislation to more strictly regulate the manufacture, importation, sale and distribution of guns.

They are lethal weapons! They are not bats or knives that have useful functions.

Their main function is to maim and kill with the mere pressure of an index finger on a trigger, a trigger that can propel multiple bullets with impunity, tearing into flesh and doing fatal damage ... even into 20 little innocent children.

Enough is enough! There is no logical reason that private citizens (especially those who are of questionable character or mental capacity) need to own an apparatus in the palm of their hand that can do so much damage in so little time with so little effort.

Individual states can pass strict gun laws; however, if nearby states make it easy to obtain fantastically lethal weapons that are only a car ride away, we must ask ourselves, are we crazy enough to permit this to continue? This is insanity!

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“The fact that this problem is complex can no longer be an excuse for doing nothing.”

What else can average citizens do? As far as we can tell, just live our lives in most upstanding way we can. Parents shouldn’t let their children go into the basement to play violent video games for hours on end, as Lanza reportedly did.

Nor should they let them watch some of the brutal movies produced by Hollywood. Films like “Natural Born Killers,” however well made, desensitize vulnerable minds to violence.

Be neighborly. If the teenager down the street is getting really weird, don’t think it’s not your business to let his parents know. If you see something, say something. Society has taken the “none of your business” concept too far in recent decades as the “do your own thing” paradigm has advanced.

Freedom and individuality are vital, but so is community. It’s not for nothing that old-timers fondly recall “the old days when everybody knew everybody.” Put down your iDevice and talk to the new people down the street. Hillary Clinton was right when she said it takes a village to raise a child.

And you just may find that you like your new neighbors.

Publicly, it’s time for debate. Privately, it’s time to mourn, but also to renew the bonds that make a society whole.

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mit massacres, even of little innocent children!? Maybe the inmates have already taken over the asylum!

Dave and Sylvia Shlakman Howard Beach

Why? Dear Editor: The school shooting in Newtown, Conn., in which 26 adults and children were killed, is nothing short of horror. It just is senseless.

Schools are centers for learning, discipline and safety. Why would anyone come into a school and intentionally shoot innocent children and adults?

It is time for even more stringent gun laws to be passed in Congress and existing ones to be enforced. There are far too many people who possess guns who should not have them.

What is our society coming too? It has become so that you cannot even go into a movie theater, shopping mall, house of wor-

ship or a school, without the fear of being shot. There seems to be no more respect for life, morals or values. This is a very sad reflection on our society — one that only seems to get sadder and more tragic with each terrible incident that happens.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to all of those families and friends of the dead, as well as to all of the teachers, administrators and students of the school and their families and friends also.

John Amato Fresh Meadows

Unite in peace Dear Editor: I sat in disbelief in a mosque prayer hall just before the Friday Sermon, when this tragic shooting in Connecticut was announced. Just three days earlier the Oregon shooting left me dazed. This tragedy is on a whole new level and I am racked with grief.

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Democrats dismayed Dear Editor: (An open letter to NYS Sen. Malcolm Smith) First, let me thank you for meeting with me and some of the other district leaders from the 14th Senatorial District. We appreciated the opportunity to hear your rationale for leaving the Senate Democratic Party Caucus and joining with the four “rogue” Democrats in the Independent Democratic Caucus.

I, however, am not persuaded that this move on your part will best serve the interests of the

Moving ‘Civic Virtue’ Dear Editor: If “Civic Virtue” is art (and, yes, I agree it is), it belongs in a museum! Today, on a city street, it remains a constant thorn in the side to women of a certain age (perhaps even today), who were used or browbeaten by men who wielded power over them. As art, it would be a shame to lose it, so if Green-Wood Cemetery will restore and maintain it, it seems a good place for this “thorn” to rest — eternally.

Let us instead fight for our Flushing Meadows Corona Park! To restore and maintain it, and keep it and the treasures within it ours!

Claire Bazinet Flushing Editor’s note: The writer penned her letter before the city removed “The Triumph of Civic Virtue” from Kew Gardens on Saturday.

Russo’s made our day Dear Editor: (An open letter to Mr. Frank Russo Jr. and the entire Staff of Russo’s on the Bay) As one of the lucky teachers chaperoning the students of Ave Maria Catholic Academy to your event the other day, I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for what one child described as “the best day ever.”

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Dear Editor: The constant slaughter by madmen using guns acquired legally is an indictment of America. The rabid responses by the NRA to any suggestions that limit assault rifles or banana clips holding hundreds of bullets, or seeking background checks for mental issues is an insult to every parent and loved one suffering the grief of a senseless death.

The Second Amendment is not at risk. Americans are constitutionally guaranteed the right to bear arms. But as there are limits that restrict abuses in everyday rights such as driving a car beyond its speed limit, gun ownership must have meaningful oversight which protects the general public. It is truly that simple.

Those who have grown up with guns may believe Eastern liberals have a hidden agenda to forcibility remove their weapons. Those mistaken beliefs are fueled by the rhetoric of the NRA and extremists who deem government as evil.

The murders in Newtown, it will be claimed, are not the fault of guns but of the man who pulled the trigger.

Americans have suffered years of political warfare. It is nauseating that those who disagree with the right or seek to limit guns are called unpatriotic. How low has America become that we are not revolted by those who declare disagreement an enemy of the nation and a personal threat?

Amazingly, when Columbine occurred some Republicans blamed President Clinton for the killings. By using political disagreements to lay blame the magnitude of American’s gun problem will never be confronted in a fair and balanced approach. It is time for Americans to be revolted by the violence rejecting extremists who believe compromise is surrender.

Charlton Heston’s battle cry that his gun would only be removed from his dead hands should have rallied fair-minded people to decry extremists and given backbone to politicians to have the gall to fight for what is right.

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Democrats of the 14th Senatorial District who elected you, nor the Queens County Democratic Party, which has supported you over these many years. While it may create an office and staff positions for the IDC, it is not at all likely that such an arrangement will move our core Democratic issues and values forward one iota. I do not believe that Senate Republicans are prepared to work in concert with the Democratic Caucus to move our progressive and liberal legislative agenda, which speaks to the needs of our community, especially in the 14th District, and communities of color across the state.

I have worked in concert with the Queens County Democratic Party for more than 40 years, and now serve as an officer. I am fiercely loyal to the core values and principles of the Democratic Party. I believe that your move to the IDC, with the four other Democrats, has severely weakened the party and, indeed, has effectively denied our party of majority leadership after decades of Republican Party rule.

Again, I thank you for meeting with us. It was a healthy discussion. Although we met as a group, the comments and reflections expressed above are my personal views. My colleagues will of course share their own feelings in their own way.

Democratic voters elected you. We trusted you to defend core Democratic values. We are hopeful that you will return to the Democratic Caucus. I believe strong efforts, from all sectors, must be made to move duly elected Democrats back to the majority caucus.

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Dear Editor: Re “Reform the entitlements,” by Lenny Rodin, Letters, Dec. 13: When a system is broke, it must be changed. A Band-Aid will not help. That the U.S. healthcare system is broke has been known by the public and physicians for some time. However, it is easily fixable, i.e., by a one-payer or other universal system.

In round figures, the United States spends $2.8 trillion a year, or approximately 18 percent of GDP on healthcare. The next most expensive nation spends 12 percent. The difference would amount to 840 billion for the U.S., yet we as a nation have or recently had approximately 50 million people uninsured.

The other industrialized nations cover all people and at less cost, and in addition have equal or better results — a win-win situation.

In no case have any of these nations reverted back to a privatized system. As a matter of fact their healthcare systems are an off the table item, whether there is a Socialist or Conservative head of government.

Although it is not well-publicized, most of our politicians are aware of the above situation, but they do little to either educate or inform their constituents, because they are beholden to the moneyed people who fund them, ergo, they’ve sold out the public. That’s the story in a nutshell.

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Dear Editor: Readers of my letters to the editor over the years will not be surprised to learn that the city Campaign Finance Board has charged state Assemblyman David Weprin with numerous violations from his ill-fated 2009 city comptroller campaign. Weprin personally owes $28,000 in penalties and his old campaign committee must retur n $325,561 in matching public campaign funds.

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“f inancial expertise.” Responsibility for adhering to all CFB rules and regulations resides with Weprin, along with his campaign manager and finance directors. They clearly could not balance and properly manage his city comptroller campaign budget, which resulted in all these fines.

Weprin raised and spent several million dollars. A majority came from “pay-to-play” fundraisers, from $1,000 to $4,900 per contributor. These dollars supported his numerous quests to hold various public offices and leadership positions. Contributors were looking to making political investments today in return for favors in the future.

All the money in the world could not buy Weprin victories in his bids for City Council speaker in 2001 and 2005, state Comptroller in 2007 and Congress in 2011.

Weprin’s September 2009 Democratic primary loss for city comptroller was devastating. Out of 351,000 Primary Day voters, only 38,922 actually voted for Weprin. Having raised and spent almost $2.5 million dollars, each vote cost him $64 representing a terrible return on his investment.

Perhaps Weprin should consider taking a f inance course to rekindle his accounting skills.

Larry Penner Great Neck, LI

Goldman sacks our wealth Dear Editor: We were recently privileged to have a selfappointed representative of Wall Street visit Capitol Hill to voice his expert opinion stating that we should enact cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid so as to reduce the impact of the financial disaster, for which they, Wall Street, were virtually responsible.

What unmitigated gall. This CEO, this personification of greed, earned $16 million last year and together with his peers, was bailed out by the very middle class for which he is now requesting cuts to their welfare. His name is Lloyd Blankfein and he is the CEO of Goldman Sachs. Mr. Blankfein represents the mindset of the majority (but not all) of the 1 and 2 percenters, who refer to themselves as the “hard workers.” He further suggests that they should “lower expectations” about their retirement and healthcare. He gives new meaning to the word “callous.”

A few examples: Despite their self-created financial crises, Goldman Sachs received a government bailout of $10 billion while at the same time receiving an $814 billon near-zero interest Federal Reserve loan. I believe it’s called shrewd business rather than theft.

While in 2011 earnings at Goldman Sachs fell 14 percent, he rewarded himself with a raise from $16 million to $17 million. I guess that’s called incentive rather than finagling.

And then in 2008 he managed to get Goldman Sachs a $278 million refund from the IRS after earning a profit of $2.3 billion the same year. And I suppose that’s called creative bookkeeping or keen negotiating rather than lying.

Let us hope that Mr. Blankfein’s remedy to have the 98 or 99 percenters, the “lazy people,” pay for his and his fellow 1 or 2 percenters who created the financial mess is seen to be as absurdly self-serving as it truly is.

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106th Council talks thefts, PS 232 Parent says one crossing guard is not enough

by Stephen Geffon

a student attending PS 232 in Lindenwood, complained about the lack of a replacement for a school crossing guard at the intersection of Chronicle Contributor With the holiday season in full swing, Deputy Inspector Thomas 84th Street and 153rd Avenue, who she said has been out six times Pascale, commanding officer of the 106th Precinct, urged residents at since school started.

Cuneo said that with the addition of students from PS 207 in the community council meeting last week in Ozone Park to exercise Howard Beach, which has been closed since Hurricane Sandy, the sitcare as they go out and shop for gifts for the holidays.

“During the holiday season, bad guys go shopping too, but they uation at the school is precarious without a crossing guard there.

“It’s chaos in the morning,” she said. “I don’t don’t go shopping like you (do)...they take it feel comfortable when there’s no crossing guard from hardworking people like yourselves,” there.”

Pascale told the audience. t’s impossible for one Cuneo said that to avoid the disorder at the He urged residents not to leave the gifts crossing guard to cross corner she parks a block away to let her daughthey purchased in view in their cars, but to put ter cross that intersection. them in the trunk. all those children and Cuneo said that in the afternoon when classNoting the high rate of thefts of iPhones, are dismissed her daughter and her friends he also asked them to be discrete when they keep them safe. To me es walk to Waldbaum’s in the Lindenwood Shopuse their smartphones — especially when ping Center where she picks her daughter up. it’s unacceptable.” they get off a train. A high number of phone She added that even when the crossing guard thefts have been reported on and near sub— Dale Cuneo, parent of PS 232 student is on duty, it is not enough. way stations.

“It’s impossible for one crossing guard to To protect against identity theft, Pascale suggested that when residents use bank ATMs, they use one cross all those children and keep them safe. To me it’s unacceptable,” debit/credit card to enter the ATM area and another debit/credit card Cuneo said. “Where are the crossing guards from 207?”

Pascale told Cuneo that he would have the precinct’s school at the machine itself.

The inspector said that scammers can get personal information sergeant contact her about the situation.

The council members also used the meeting to hold a small celefrom the magnetic strips on the back of debit or credit cards used to enter the banks off-hours and combine that information with PIN bration for President Frank Dardani’s birthday, with a whipped cream cake for all to enjoy. numbers to withdraw money from bank accounts.

The next meeting of the 106th Precinct Community Council He also suggested using one’s free hand to cover the number pad will be held on Wednesday, Jan. 9 at 8 p.m. at 103-51 101 St. in as you enter the PIN number.

Q The meeting then turned to other topics. Dale Cuneo, the parent of Ozone Park.

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MTA holiday schedule The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has announced its Christmas holiday schedule.

The Long Island Rail Road and Metro North will offer extra early afternoon trains on Friday, Dec. 21 for those looking to get an early start prior to the holiday weekend.

The LIRR also will have extra early afternoon service on Monday, Dec. 24.

On Christmas, which falls on Tuesday, New York City buses and subways will operate on a Sunday schedule. The LIRR will run on its holiday schedule, and Metro North will run on a special holiday schedule.

The LIRR will add 10 early afternoon trains on Dec. 21 and 24, and will have extra holiday trains on Saturday and Sunday Dec. 22 and 23.

Metro North trains will run on their regular Saturday and Sunday schedules on Dec. 22 and 23.

Routine maintenance work and temporar y constr uction at all MTA bridges and tunnels will be suspended between 1 p.m. on Friday and the end of the morning rush hour on WednesQ day, Dec. 26.

Poster contest for 5th-graders The state Department of Environmental Conservation is now accepting submissions for its annual Arbor Day Poster Contest. Fifth-grade students are encouraged to design an original poster depicting the 2013 contest theme, “Trees Are Terrific in All Shapes and Sizes.”

The submission deadline is Jan. 17.

“Arbor Day is a national observance that celebrates the essential role trees play in our environment,” DEC Commissioner Joe Martens said in announcing the contest. “By participating in the annual Arbor Day poster contest, students learn about trees and how they promote a healthy, balanced ecosystem.”

Winners may compete at the regional level, and those winners will then compete for the state title. The final winner’s artwork will be replicated as the official 2013 state Arbor Day bookmark, distributed statewide. The winner will also receive an invitation to the state Arbor Day event in Albany in April, and a tree will be planted in the winner’s name at his or her school.

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Cops honored for nabbing thieves

by Stephen Geffon Chronicle Contributor

Police Sgt. Timothy Brovakos and Officer Mark Shackel of the 106th Precinct were honored with the Cop of the Month award at the community council meeting last week in Ozone Park for arresting two individuals allegedly riding around in a stolen car, with a loaded gun while smoking marijuana.

Brovakos and Shackel spotted the individuals driving in a black Hyundai at 10:30 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 25, according to Deputy Inspector Thomas Pascale, commanding officer of the 106th Precinct. The vehicle was being sought by police in connection with recent burglaries in Richmond Hill and South Ozone Park.

Giving some background on the arrest, the inspector said that on Monday, Nov. 12 precinct officers responded to a home burglary in the vicinity of Lefferts Boulevard and Sutter Avenue in South Ozone Park, in which a firearm in addition to two Lexus automobiles and other valuables were stolen.

Pascale said that a witness to the burglary told police that he saw a black Hyundai or Camry at the scene.

The next morning, around the corner from where the burglary took place, two individuals were ringing door bells on the block to look for empty homes.

Pascale said that at one of the homes the bell woke the owner, who had been sleeping in the basement, but he did not answer the door bell thinking that it was a salesman.

The alleged perpetrators, believing that no

Police Sgt. Timothy Brovakos, second from left, and Officer Mark Shackel, here with 106th Precinct Community Council President Frank Dardani, left, and the precinct’s commanding Officer, Deputy Inspector Thomas Pascale, right, were honored with the Cop of the Month award last week. PHOTO BY STEPHEN GEFFON one was home, climbed in a window, confronted the homeowner with a firearm and stole his car, said Pascale.

The inspector said the two cars stolen on Nov. 12 were recovered by police in the vicinity of 127th Street and 111th Avenue in South Ozone Park.

Brovakos, who was at the scene of the recovery of the vehicles, believed the thieves lived in the area.

Brovakos and Shackel returned to the area numerous times in the following weeks until

they spotted the two suspects on Nov. 25 in the black Hyundai and arrested them.

Pascale said that many members of the Richmond Hill and South Ozone Park communities like to keep large amounts of gold and cash in their homes.

“The bad guys know it,” said Pascale, adding, “You can’t keep this stuff in your house.”

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The Federal Aviation Administration is seeking public comment on draft regulations that would help identify structures and land uses that could pose dangers around airports by attracting wildlife to runways and air space.

Ken Paskar, president of Friends of LaGuardia Airport, said Tuesday that he had not yet finished reviewing the document.

But he said it appears to be tailor-made — sort of — for opponents of the trash transfer station under construction in College Point, about 2,200 feet from the end of LaGuardia’s Runway 13/31.

My preliminary finding is that the FAA is learning from a lot of the lawsuits we are filing,� Paskar said.

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FOLA is in federal court to block the College Point station, which is championed by the Bloomberg administration.

Paskar said the advisory and a report issued by the inspector general of the federal Department of Transportation in August appear to support what FOLA has been arguing — that the FAA’s review of the transfer station permitting process was lax.

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The fourth grade at Woodhaven’s PS 97 — the Forest Park School — hosted a toy drive to support the children who have been impacted by Hurricane Sandy.

Bags of toys were collected and will be delivered to the Roxbury Volunteer Fire Department headquarters in the Rockaways, to be distributed to the children of families who lost their homes and belongings in the storm.

“Putting a smile on the face of a child is important to the members of the Forest Park School community,� said Amelia Joseph, the school’s parent coordinator. “Our grade 4 students have worked hard in collecting many toys and are proud of their success!�

Above is PS 97’s Class 4-407 with some of the toys to be donated to the children in the Rockaways.

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Jury acquits local man of murder Queens club owner was accused of killing two in NJ

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A former Bayside nightclub owner was found not-guilty last Friday of killing two men from South Queens in New Jersey nearly three years ago, in what prosecutors said was a drugrelated case.

The defendant, Nicholas Kiriakakis, 25, a part owner and manager of the now-defunct Pearl Nightlife bar and restaurant on Bell Boulevard, was convicted on the lesser charges of conspiracy to sell cocaine and hindering apprehension by lying to police.

Kiriakakis had been charged with killing Jonathan Beneduce, 28, who grew up in Howard Beach and Ozone Park, and Michael Mirasola, 27, of Ozone Park on Feb. 17, 2010 in Teaneck, NJ. Both men were shot execution-style in a car on a residential street.

The trio had driven from Queens to New Jersey in two separate vehicles, Kiriakakis’ Mercedes-Benz and Beneduce’s Ford Explorer. According to trial testimony, they stopped on a street

Jonathan Beneduce, left, of Howard Beach was killed in Teaneck, NJ in February 2010, along with Michael Mirasola of Ozone Park. The man accused of their murders, Nicholas Kiriakakis, right, was acquitted by a FACEBOOK PHOTO, LEFT, AND FILE PHOTO New Jersey jury last week. named Oakdene Avenue in a residential section of Teaneck. Prosecutors alleged Kiriakakis got out of his car, climbed into the back of the Explorer and executed his victims with a gun.

The reason, according to the prosecution, was that Kiriakakis had taken tens of thousands of dollars from the victims to buy cocaine but hadn’t gotten the deal done, and then decided to

kill his investors.

The prosecution had evidence it said put Kiriakakis at the scene of the shootings. But the defense argued that the murders must have been the work of a professional hit man, that all three were in over their heads and that Beneduce had felt threatened by a third party. Defense attorneys described the murder as “classic hit style” and said while evidence

placed Kirakakis in New Jersey at the time of the killings, there was little evidence that he was at the scene.

Kiriakakis was also found notguilty of possessing a 9 mm handgun like the one that killed the victims. The gun used in the murders was never found.

The jury, seated in New Jersey Superior Court in Hackensack, returned its verdicts after less than a day of deliberating. Kiriakakis is due to be sentenced Jan. 25 and could get up to 10 years in prison for the conspiracy conviction.

Beneduce’s father is Nick Beneduce, a freelance photographer based in South Queens. On his Facebook page, the elder Beneduce displays photos of his son rather than himself and prominently says how deeply he is missed.

Friends of Nick Beneduce posted several comments lamenting the verdict on his page, but once he had announced it, his own updates quickly became focused on something else that happened the same day: the Newtown, Conn. school massacre. Q

Ex-schools chancellor dies Frank Macchiarola, a former city schools chancellor, died in his Brooklyn apartment on Tuesday. He was 71.

Macchiarola, who served as president of St. Francis College, Brooklyn, from 1996 to 2008. had been battling liver cancer.

Macchiarola became chancellor of NYC Schools in 1978 at the age of 37, when he was appointed by newly elected Mayor Ed Koch. He served until 1983.

He was known for replacing more than half of the city’s high school principals and blocking the automatic promotions of fourth and seventh graders.

More than 25,000 city students were left back in 1981 in part because of the policy.

Additionally, he was credited with the city’s math and reading scores exceeding the national average in 1982. Also in the early 1980’s, he promoted racial integration by closing a middle school in thenmostly white Rosedale and moving them to IS 231 in Laurelton, which had a large black population.

Macchiarola also tried his hand at elective office. A Democrat, he ran for comptroller in 1989, but finished third in the primary behind Liz Holtzman and Alan Q Hevesi.

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Helping children cope with Sandy Child HELP Partnership aims to aid hurricane’s youngest survivors

by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

In the days and weeks after Hurricane Sandy struck Queens, the focus for many adults was on insurance, FEMA, food, electricity, heat, money and other day-to-day necessities.

For the children of hard hit southern Queens neighborhoods, the storm’s effects on their mental well-being may be overlooked as the focus is placed on the recovery of homes, business and infrastructure.

Working with Dr. Elissa Brown, associate professor of psychology at St. John’s University and a specialist in childhood trauma, the Child HELP Partnership, a nonprofit group based at St. John’s that focuses on childhood mental and emotional health, has developed a program to help children affected by the hurricane through any issues they may have.

For Brown, it is not the first time working with children after a major disaster. She was heavily involved in dealing with children’s trauma after 9/11, and her work shined a new light on how to deal with a catastrophe’s youngest victims. She helped to bring trauma services to schools in Lower Manhattan and worked on bereavement programs for children who lost parents in the attacks.

“I learned a tremendous amount about the need and multilevel impact,” she said.

Hurricane Sandy has similarities to 9/11, Dr. Brown said, because of the localization of the disaster. It rendered, what she described, as “community trauma.” Even though the human toll in 9/11 was much larger, for many children, Hurricane Sandy is traumatic because it struck homes and schools and displaced entire neighborhoods over a large geographical area.

“That resonates so much with the Rockaways, where people are born, are educated and work,” she said. “It’s a tight-knit community.”

Brown estimates that as many as 6,600 children could have

long-term effects from Hurricane Sandy and it is important to bring them help as soon as possible to prevent permanent, longlasting emotional stress.

“We have to work together,” she said. “Lack of communication seems like the biggest problem.”

There are three stages of involvement for mental health professionals, Brown said: immediate, short-term and long-term.

Immediate involvement is minimal after a traumatic event because people are too concerned about essentials to really be focused on their mental or emotional state. The most important thing at that time is to minimize stress.

The initial involvement is minimal also because the immediate trauma fades for most people. She estimates 55 percent of children will still be feeling moderate or severe stress three months after the event, but that will dissipate to only a third within a year — and those are the children who need a lot of help. That’s when both short-term and long-term involvement, which are more intensive, occur.

A number of factors play into how a child recovers, including proximity to a disaster, loss of home, school or other major items, any pre-existing problems or history of personal trauma, how parents coped with the event and support from family and friends, as well as exposure to the media’s coverage of the event.

To support the children affected by Hurricane Sandy, the Child HELP Partnership is reaching out to community leaders close to the children already, including teachers, clergy and others.

“We need to get to the community leaders who know the cultures,” Dr. Brown said. “What we’re doing is taking expertise in disaster mental help and linking that with community leaders” The idea is to identify the children who may not be able to naturally recover from the trauma of the storm and get them help immediately rather than wait to see if they still have emotional

Of the 36,000 Queens children affected by Hurricane Sandy, Dr. Elissa Brown warns as many as 6,600 could have long-term ILLUSTRATION COURTESY CHILD HELP PARTNERSHIP trauma. stress a year later.

“We shouldn’t sit around and wait for that to happen,” Dr. Brown said. “Even if they may overcome it, they may have been lost.”

The program is reaching out to schools and libraries in the communities affected to “expedite the healing process” and let them know that experts are available to provide training in dealing with children’s mental health to community leaders.

One of Brown’s biggest concerns is what she calls “sleeper effects,” in which children may seem fine, but their trauma is trigQ gered by something, such as wind or rain.

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Five people have been busted in connection with a gun trafficking ring being run out of Southeast Queens over the past three years, the Queens District Attorney’s Office announced last Thursday — a day before the horrific elementary school gun massacre in Connecticut. Twenty weapons were recovered.

The weapons were sold for between $500 to $2,400, with most going for about $1,000, DA Richard Brown said, and some of the defendants are also charged with selling cocaine on multiple occasions. With a few exceptions the transactions occurred in broad daylight between noon and 5 p.m. in public places like street corners and parking lots, the DA said.

The defendants are all from Jamaica. They are: Manuel DeJesus Caballero-Castillo, 24, aka Alex, of 149th Street; Emilio Lopez, 38, aka Nelson, of 106th Avenue; Miguel Angel Tatis, 50, aka Colombia, of Brisbin Street; and Jose Toledo, 26, aka J, of 101st Street and Enrique Ramos, 44, of Cresskill Place.

“We must remain vigilant in our efforts to keep illegal firearms out of the hands of criminals and off of the streets of Queens,” Brown said in a prepared statement.

Tatis and Ramos are charged with third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance. If convicted, Tatis faces up to 15 years in prison and Ramos up to nine. The DA’s office did not explain the disparity, but where drug sales are made and criminal history are factors under state law.

Caballero-Castillo, Lopez and Toledo are variously charged with second- and third-degree criminal sale of a f irearm, second-, third- and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon and unlawful possession of pistol ammunition. They each face up to seven years in prison.

The investigation began in August 2009 and included face-to-face street transactions. The defendants allegedly sold the 20 revolvers and semiautomatic firearms in Southeast Queens between Aug. 12, 2009, and Oct. 3 of this year.

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Lopez and Castillo sold a defaced and loaded .45-caliber Uzi semiautomatic with a large-capacity magazine to an undercover agent on Sept. 7, 2011 near 90-47 149 St. in Jamaica.

Lopez and Toledo sold a defaced and loaded semiautomatic .380-caliber handgun for $1,100 to an undercover cop on Jan. 5 at 1:30 p.m. in front of 95-17 SutQ phin Blvd. in Jamaica.

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‘Civic Virtue’ gone after 71 years Local landmark carted to Brooklyn as local efforts to keep it fall short

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The controversial statue that had been outside Borough Hall for more than 70 years was whisked away to Brooklyn on Saturday.

“The Triumph of Civic Virtue” now will undergo restoration for display in GreenWood Cemetery.

The removal itself also has been controversial.

“They might as well have taken it out in the dark of night,” Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D-Astoria), who on Dec. 8 led a rally against its removal, said on Monday. “That is how this entire process was carried out — in secrecy.”

The 22-ton sculpture, created by Frederick MacMonnies and given to the city in 1922, has been controversial since day one, as it depicts a nearly naked man with a sword standing over two mythical female figures.

Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, no fan of the statue, had it moved from City Hall to Queens in 1941. It has been at Borough Hall on Queens Boulevard ever since until now.

The MacMonnies family, with members buried in Green-Wood, are reportedly securing private funds to restore the work.

Borough President Helen Marshall, while a critic of the statue in the past, said this past summer that she was disappointed the restoration would not take place in Queens.

“She is glad the statue will be restored, and as we have said, we hope to replace it

Workmen tend the steel frame that allowed them to lift the statue by crane and transport it from the grounds of Borough Hall to Brooklyn by flatbed truck. It is unknown how much it will cost to refurbish PHOTO BY RIYAD HASAN the 90-year-old sculpture, using private funds, or when repairs will be done. with a public space honoring women,” Dan Andrews, her spokesman, said Monday.

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Back in July a spokeswoman for the Department of Citywide Administrative Services said no decision had been made. Vallone on Monday said he was told the same thing this past summer. Vallone said he inquired about restoration when he saw a fence had been erected around it.

“Then I read it was being moved to Brooklyn,” he said. “They lied and told me that was not the case, that nothing had been decided.”

The final straw for the councilman was the Design Commission’s posting the notice of a Nov. 13 public hearing on the project six days after Hurricane Sandy struck, a time when council members and many other city officials did not have email access.

The city insists that the date of the meeting was announced a year ago, but at the Dec. 8 rally, officials with Community Board 9 said city off icials never notif ied them about their intentions.

“No statue in Central Park would be allowed to deteriorate like that and be removed,” Vallone said. “But it happened here in Queens.”

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Our glorious, although wet, Christmas tree (with our new tree and lights on the four little trees all courtesy of the Woodhaven Business Improvement District) and menorah lighting ceremony took place last Friday at Forest Parkway Plaza. Our “Welcome Santa to Woodhaven Parade” took place on Saturday. It was overcast with light rain but our hearty marchers lined up for the parade.

At the parade were antique cars (courtesy of Empire Cars), along with costumed characters, our 102nd Precinct police and auxillary police who kicked off the parade. The ROTC Franklin K. Lane High School marching band marched proudly down Jamaica Avenue with their precision national award-winning rifle team. I would like to thank Sgt. Carr for his assistance as their ROTC leader. They were the highlight of the parade.

The little ones of PS 97, the Forest School, and St. Luke’s Nursery School were true troopers and marched from 98th Street to Dexter Court. We thank them for being there for the WBID. All were cheered on by store and business owners and the Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association. At the end of the parade were festivities with Santa, Mrs. Claus and costumed characters.

On Saturday Santa sat on his throne for free pictures with the children. We also took a ride along Woodhaven’s Jamaica Avenue, from

Dexter Court to 100th Street, where Santa rode in an antique sleigh, circa 1877. We, at the WBID, hope that those gifts found their way to Santa from our Jamaica Avenue stores.

Music fills the air on Jamaica Avenue where WBID security ride and walk and the lighted menorah is visible from our WBID/GWDC window on Forest Parkway. Our Christmas tree decorations were made by the school children from PS 97, St. Luke’s Nursery School, St. Thomas the Apostle and St. Elizabeth. Also these decorations are on display at Pop’s Restaurant and the Avenue Diner.

We hope that you do your last minute shopping on Woodhaven’s “Everything Jamaica Avenue” where Santa will be distributing free goodies on Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Forest Parkway Plaza area courtesy of your award-winning WBID. Please view WBID/GWDC events on our website, Woodhavenbid.com and on YouTube at Mr. Woodhaven 11421. Our email address is Gwdcbid@hotmail.com and telephone number is (718) 805-0202.

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May God bless our armed forces this holiday season and may God bless our leaders and Q may God bless our America.

Redistricting hearing Jan. 14 The New York City Districting Commission will hold a series of public hearings in January on new lines for City Council districts after being asked to return to the drawing board last month by Council Speaker Christine Quinn.

The commission will hold its Queens public hearing on Monday, Jan. 14 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Little Theater at LaGuardia Community College, located at 31-10 Thomson Ave. in Long Island City.

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The panel released tentative final maps last month, but a number of controversies, including the suspicious change in a Ridgewood/Bushwick district that included moving the home of embattled Assemblyman Vito Lopez (D-Brooklyn) into an open district, led to the maps being scrapped.

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continued from page 2 would reintroduce his 2010 bill calling for the city to provide security for the roughly 900 private schools that are not entitled to school safety officers.

Those include religious and charter schools.

“We already provide nurses because we understand the health of students is important,” he explained. “Security should be a priority for all schools.”

Vallone noted that the bill would require hiring more school safety officers and would likely cost the city more, but he noted that there are other options besides manpower, including security cameras.

Vallone also mulled the possibility of arming security officers in public and private schools, saying the idea warranted “a valid discussion.”

“In my mind, there should a police officer or specially trained security officer in the school,” he said. “Many schools in the country have armed guards. That could be a suggestion worth looking at.”

A parent of daughters in college and high school, Vallone said the school shootings have left parents concerned about their children’s safety.

“We send our little angels to school for eight hours a day; we want them to Q be safe there,” he said.

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Talking to children about Newtown St. John’s professor says parents need to be source

by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

In the wake of the shooting that left 20 children dead at an elementary school in Connecticut, parents and teachers are struggling with how to explain to 6- and 7-year-old children how and why kids their age were savagely gunned down in a classroom.

The paradox has left parents scared, confused, nervous and even angry. But Dr. Elissa Brown, an associate professor of psychology at St. John’s University in Jamaica Estates, and a child psychologist who has been working with children dealing with traumatic events since 9/11, says it’s up to parents to explain the situation.

“We need to talk to our children,” she said. “Parents should always be the source of information. If not, as they get older, they will either believe you don’t know anything or are intentionally hiding information from them.”

That, Brown added, could prompt children to seek information elsewhere when it should come from mom and dad and often that could lead to parents being in the dark about what their child knows.

“We have to handle our own discomfort and find a way to have conversations with our children about this,” she said.

Brown agrees with the suggestion to shield children from photographs or news reports of the incident and provide them with nothing more than what they are asking.

“Only enough information that the whole topic isn’t fascinating,” she specified.

Children process information differently than adults and that can often lead to reactions parents don’t understand, Brown said. In this situation, she explained that children may not understand that the killer in Connecticut will not come for them, or that their schools are not being targeted.

She said children will have two main questions about the tragedy: Am I safe? Why did this happen?

A parent herself, Brown acknowledges parents are often left without a good answer immediately.

“Sometimes parents need to buy themselves a minute to think about the answer,” she explained. “We need to understand what the child is worried about.”

Dr. Brown suggested parents buy time by asking children why they are inquiring about the massacre or how they feel about it.

She also suggests varying the conversations for children of different ages because they process information at different levels depending on age.

In the end though, she acknowledges that parents may face the reality of a difficult final answer to the tragedy.

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Albany bigs assure tax abatement fix Co-op and condo leaders call for lasting fix to temporary solution

by Joseph Orovic Assistant Managing/Online Editor

Leaders in Albany have promised to finally enact the extension of a tax abatement for co-ops and condos, but some won’t celebrate until it passes an official vote.

Gov. Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan) promised to extend the abatement, which was left on the legislative floor in Albany this summer and subsequently put on the back burner after Hurricane Sandy. The bill would be retroactively enacted to its original June 30, 2012 expiration date. The assured passage did not come with a specific timeline.

“The Assembly, Senate and Governor Cuomo reached an agreement, at the end of Session last June, on tax relief legislation they have all stated will be taken up when legislators return to Albany,” Cuomo’s office said in a statement. “When the legislation is signed into law, the tax abatement will be retroactive and condo and co-op owners will be held harmless.”

The city has been so certain of the abatement’s continuation the Deptartment of Finance sent tax bills

as if passed in June.

The tax reprieve was f irst authored to right a perceived inequity in the tax code. Co-ops and condos are grouped into the same tax bracket as commercial properties, making them subject to significantly higher rates than standard 1to 3-family homes. The snafu was rectified by the temporary abatement, which has been renewed every year for nearly two decades. In some cases, it spares co-ops and condos $1,200 in tax increases per unit every month.

A version of the abatement authored by Assemblyman Ed Braunstein (Bayside) was thrown into an omnibus bill in June, which did not pass ahead of Albany’s summer recess.

“Many co-op owners in Northeast Queens have contacted my office to express their concern regarding the extension of the co-op tax abatement,” Braunstein said in a statement. “They are nervous that they will see a substantial increase in their maintenance costs if the abatement is allowed to expire. Therefore, it is reassuring to receive a commitment from the governor and the speaker to

pass an extension retroactively.”

The bill’s languishing had some co-op and condo owners distraught, holding gatherings and press conferences demanding it be passed in a special session before the holidays. Those same voices are not taking too much solace in Cuomo’s assurances.

“I am cautiously optimistic that we may actually see some positive action on this,” said Bob Friedrich, president of the Glen Oaks Village co-op and co-president of the Presidents Co-op and Condo Council.

“I have always maintained that talk is cheap and actions speak louder than words.”

The abatement’s temporary nature has many calling for a permanent fix. At heart lies the inequity in the classification, which leads the DOF to equate the value of co-ops and condos to revenue-generating properties.

“It puts us in with commercial properties, income-producing properties, which we’re not,” said Warren Schreiber, co-president of the Presidents Co-op/Condo Council and president of the Bay Terrace Community Alliance, who was among

Co-presidents of the Presidents Co-op/Condo Council Warren Schreiber, left, and Bob Friedrich joined state Sen. Tony Avella in calling for the tax abateCOURTESY PHOTO ment’s prompt passage this fall. those demanding a special session.

“You’d be hard-pressed to find that many rentals.”

Changing the classification would require a bit of legislative muscle in Albany, which simply doesn’t exist, according to state Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside). Tax matters that affect city coffers are usually guided by the Mayor’s Office, he said. A reclassification would cost the city millions in revenue, which Mayor Bloomberg has resisted.

“The annual abatement is just an annual Band-Aid,” he said. “The Mayor is the biggest hold up. He’s claiming the city doesn’t have enough money to do this. Even if it does cost the city money, co-op and condo owners have been overpaying for years. It’s time to give them a break.”

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Some of the youngest children staying at the Metro Family Residence in Elmhurst got early Christmas gifts from the Chronicle on Tuesday. Their older siblings were in school at the time, but they won’t miss out — plenty more presents will be brought to the shelter on Friday. PHOTO BY PETER C. MASTROSIMONE

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You should have seen the smiles when some of the children at the Metro Family Residence in Elmhurst got early Christmas presents on Tuesday, thanks to readers of the Queens Chronicle.

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The staff of Advanced Dental Care in Danvers, Mass. read about the Chronicle Toy Drive online and sent in dozens of gifts. Showing their holiday happiness here are, in the front, Dr. Steven Corben, Marina and Melissa; and in the rear, Christina, left, Becky, Jen, Dr. Sarita Malhotra, Sarah, Racheal, COURTESY PHOTO Shannon, Sharon and Jessica.

After business hours, gifts may be dropped off next door at Barosa restaurant, at 62-29 Woodhaven Blvd., or Barosa Brick Oven Pizza, at 62-37. Please leave your name and the name of your community with any gifts brought after hours so we may thank you later along with the donors who come to our office directly.

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The march ended where Benjamin’s mother, Francine Wheeler, met her “first mommy friends,” as stated in a letter from the grieving parent to the close-knit neighborhood group, SunnyMoms.

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“We just told him bad things happened,” Jeremy Lee said of his 3-year-old son Luke. “He’s just 3. He wonders if rocks can die.”

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Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside), who orchestrated the remembrance along with SunnyMoms, started off the speeches at Sunnyside Park, followed by a prayer led by Father Brian Dowd, of the Queen of Angels Roman Catholic Church.

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Vincent Sorrentino was born to be a butcher.

By the age of 12, he had a job as cleanup boy in a butcher shop where his brother worked. Before his 18th birthday, he had opened a shop of his own, N & V Meat Market, in Glendale.

Today, at 48, he also owns a second store, Sorrentino’s Meat Market, in Howard Beach, which opened just seven weeks before Hurricane Sandy struck.

The store was forced to close for almost three weeks, but has reopened, and Sorrentino says business is good. Aside from the storm, the store seemed destined for success.

“I live in the area,” Sorrentino said. “I thought they could use another meat market.

Before the storm, I was doing phenomenal business. We had three butchers and were looking for someone else.”

Customers came from all around: from Howard Beach, of course, but also from Breezy Point, Belle Harbor, the rest of the Rockaways and Broad Channel, he said.

Besides its full line of beef, pork and veal, Sorrentino said it’s the market’s specially prepared gourmet foods that set it apart.

“We make boneless stuffed chicken, ready for the oven, potato croquettes, pot pies,” he said. And, perhaps more importantly, “We don’t hide. We custom cut in front of you. We show that what you pay for is what you get. The butcher block is right in front of the people.”

For the holidays, Sorrentino’s is also selling special rib roasts — “We bone it, tie it, season it,” the expert butcher said — along with legs of lamb and fresh hams.

The 1,100-square-foot store also sells wholesale to catering halls and pizzerias.

With the motto, “Price, quality and service,” it’s not surprising that the newly reopened store already has what Sorrentino described as “a steady flow of customers” who’ve been “very happy.”

Many of them, after just one visit, were already placing orders over the phone. “For being brand-new,” he said, “customers were trusting me. I guess they feel comfortable.

It’s nice when people trust you.”

Though only open a short time, the market already has one customer review posted online — and it’s a positive one.

“My dad has been going in every week,” the poster, named Ann, said. “Meat has been excellent so far. He picked up a couple of things for me also. Roast beef was excellent, very tender, had a great taste. Chuck roast for pot roast was like butter. They have a customer in me and my dad! Great to have a good butcher in the neighborhood!”

Sorrentino’s pride in his work is obvious.

Perhaps this comes from being part of a long line of butchers. Two brothers, cousins and an uncle are all in the business. “It’s a family thing,” he said.

The store, according to Sorrentino, runs weekly sales and offers free local delivery service with a $25 minimum order.

Sorrentino’s Meat Market is located at 164-44 Cross Bay Blvd. Store hours, through April, are 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday to Saturday, and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday.

Come spring, the store will remain open one hour later every day except Sunday. It can be reached at (718) 843-9800 and is online at sorrentinosmarket.com.

N & V Meat Market is located at 66-03 Myrtle Ave., and its number is (718) 418Q 0629.

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Nation’s largest Catholic high school rolls out new administrative model

by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

The nation’s largest Catholic high school is changing the structure of its administration to f it the type more common in local parochial schools.

St. Francis Preparatory School in Fresh Meadows announced last week in an email to alumni that the Board of Trustees voted to create the position of President of St. Francis Preparatory School. The board also promoted the school’s current principal, Brother Leonard Conway, O.S.F., to the position.

“The decision to move to the President/Principal model was made after two years of study, discussion and education by all of the members of the Board of Trustees,” said Brother William Boslet, O.S.F., president of the school’s Board of Trustees.

In the email, Boslet announced that Conway chose Patrick McLaughlin, the school’s assistant principal of more than 20 years, to serve as the new principal. Though the choice of McLaughlin is pending approval from the Board of Trustees, they are expected to approve the choice.

McLaughlin said the new model is aimed at serving both current students and the vast network of alumni and other members of the school community.

As president, Conway will be able to

Brother Leonard Conway, O.S.F., left, will become the first President of St. Francis Preparatory School under the institution’s new administrative model, while Assistant Principal Patrick PHOTOS COURTESY ST. FRANCIS PREP McLaughlin will take over Conway’s role as principal. conduct fundraising and travel to alumni events nationwide while McLaughlin will be able to manage the day-to-day operations of the school. Currently, as principal, Conway is responsible for both duties, which often requires him to be away from the school for a few days at a time, leaving McLaughlin as acting principal during those times.

“When he is away, I assume his role,” he said.

Though he is familiar with the job, McLaughlin said he did not expect the transition to be “easy,” noting the greatest challenge will be bridging the school’s storied past with the changing climate.

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carrying on the customs and traditions of St. Francis Prep,” he said. “yet address the needs of the current students.”

He called technology a “game changer.”

Each classroom now has a smartboard and some courses have been trying out using iPads in the class.

“It’s given us an idea of what role technology plays in the world today,” McLaughlin said.

The school has undergone some changes in recent years, including the construction of a brand new f itness center behind the school’s gymnasium and upgrading its computer lab. McLaughlin added that the student body has also changed, both demographically and in the way they learn.

“It’s almost as if every day I come in, I learn something new about the school,” he said.

Conway and McLaughlin will assume their roles in September 2013. The school is run by the Franciscan Brothers and was founded in Brooklyn in 1858. It was located there until moving to Fresh Meadows in 1974, the same year it went from an all boys school to co-educational.

McLaughlin said there are over 2,600 students enrolled in the school, which is actually down slightly from a decade ago, but the school is still successful in its academic performances, with 99 percent of graduating Q students going on to college.

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by Peter C. Mastrosimone

Progressives make endorsements The City Council’s Progressive Caucus, composed of the legislative body’s most liberal members, last week announced its first endorsements for the 2013 elections.

The choices were made in conjunction with labor groups, activists and donors.

Two of the three endorsements were made for races in Queens. In the 31st Council District, which covers Southeast Queens and the Rockaways, the caucus endorsed Donovan Richards, chief of staff to Councilman James Sanders Jr., who won election to the state Senate and will take his seat there in January. Richards faces a number of competitors.

On the opposite side of the borough, the group endorsed Costa Constantinides for

Project calls for 17 more apartments

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a mapped city street.

“They’ve reconfigured the buildings a little bit, taking into consideration some needs of Here we go again.

The Indian Cultural and Community Center the Fire Department, the need for emergency has revamped plans for building senior housing vehicles,” Richard Hellenbrecht, chairman of on the campus of the Creedmoor Psychiatric CB 13’s Land Use Committee, said at the Center. The project has been embroiled in con- body’s Monday night meeting in Rosedale.

He added that the ICCC also appears to be troversy since it was first proposed. Now that the group wants to add an extra 17 apartments waiving the right to use an easement near the to the mix has civic leaders and at least one Bernard Fineson Center, which would exit onto 82nd Avenue and was granted to the group in elected official furious.

“The ICCC continues to amaze me,” state its deed. Most denied the claim and said that Sen Tony Avella (D-Bayside) told the Chronicle the ICCC plans to use the easement as well as the Creedmoor street grid, Wednesday. “There are two which it was also granted open investigations. The access to in its deed. community and elected offihe project will The idea of using the cials are dead set against this move ahead over emergency access point was plan, so why the ICCC conslammed by CB 13 when it tinues to pursue this is my dead body.” was first proposed back in beyond me.”

May, due to safety concerns.

The ICCC owns approxi— State Sen. Tony Avella Fineson provides housing mately 4.5 acres at Creedfor adults with disabilities moor, located at 79-25 Winchester Blvd., in Queens Village and wants to and often has heavily medicated patients who build a community center and senior housing. wander the property.

“I think we need some really serious clarity Originally they were seeking to construct two nine-story buildings, with 126 apartments. Now as to what their plans are to bring vehicles in it’s asking to place 143 apartments into the and out of the property,” Hellenbrecht said.

“Are they planning just to use the Hillside same size towers.

Jordan Most, the zoning lawyer for the Avenue and Winchester Boulevard entrances ICCC, said the new plan “fits the mode of and the street grid within Creedmoor? We certainly need more information about how senior affordable housing better.”

Both the state attorney general and inspec- Creedmoor’s internal street grid is going to be tor general are investigating the deal to deter- maintained in the foreseeable future.”

The amount of extra vehicles on the cammine if there was any inappropriate or criminal behavior on the part of the group and both pus as a result of the additional apartments and how that will effect traffic congestion in current and former elected officials.

“Even if the investigation doesn’t find any- the area also need to be taken into considerathing, the ICCC has been unethical through- tion, Hellenbrecht said.

“This population has a much lower auto out this process,” Avella said. They’ve lied to the community several times. They’ve changed usage and will not have a significant impact their plan three or four times. Now, they’ve on traffic,” Most said.

Several CB 13 board members, all of changed it again. ... The project will move whom are against the project, believe the ahead over my dead body.”

The ICCC has also recently petitioned the entire body should not weigh in on the Board of Standards and Appeals for a waiver ICCC’s evolving proposals until the state Q because the project does not have frontage on investigations are completed.

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Is there a Whole Lhota Love out there for now ex-MTA Chairman Joe Lhota? He sure hopes so. The transit chief quit his job Wednesday so he could run for another one — mayor of New York City.

Lhota, who served as a deputy mayor under former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, is hoping to grab the Republican nomination for the biggest seat in town.

That puts him up against several declared or likely GOP candidates: Manhattan newspaper publisher Tom Allon, former Bronx Borough President Adolpho Carrion, Doe Fund founder George McDonald and supermarket chain owner John Catsimatidis.

Unlike the first two names at least, Lhota has been a Republican for more than a few weeks. That may give him one advantage among the party faithful if there’s a primary next year. And unlike all but Carrion, he’s been in government for years — though whether a lack of public sector experience is seen as a negative for a given candidate is an open question (see “Michael R. Bloomberg”).

Lhota’s timing is interesting in that he resigned as MTA chairman just after the agency’s board approved another round of fare hikes. Doesn’t sound like the way to win a popularity contest, but maybe experience in “making the tough decisions” and taking the abuse from the public that comes with that, is just the thing to prep somebody for what is often called the second hardest job in the country.

Whoever wins a Republican primary for mayor, if there is one, will be facing any of several big-name Democrats in the running for 2013: City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, Comptroller John Liu or former Comptroller Bill Thompson Jr. And that’s only if no one else gets into the race.

Sen. Avella blasts new ICCC Creedmoor plan

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Ex-MTA Chairman Joe Lhota, who resigned Wednesday and is looking to run for mayor FILE PHOTO in 2013. the 22nd District Seat, which will be vacated at the end of 2013 by Councilman Peter Vallone Jr., due to term limits. Constantinides is a Democratic district leader, attorney and former president of the Queens County Young Democrats. Vallone is planning to run for Queens borough president, a race in which the field of contenders has gotten crowded.

Avella on Smith, Indy Dems One of the other hopefuls for borough president is state Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside). Avella gets to stay in the Senate if he doesn’t win the 2013 BP race, since he’s not up for re-election to Albany until 2014.

Meanwhile one thing on his mind is control of the Senate, where a group of rogue Democrats is caucusing with the Republicans, keeping the establishment Democrats from taking control.

Avella said most members of the Independent Democratic Caucus had some reason to break from the main party, but he’s puzzled about why Sen. Malcolm Smith (D-Jamaica) joined the group.

“He’s coming from a very strongly Democratic district,” Avella said. “He may find himself facing a strong opponent one day because of this.”

Joseph Orovic contributed to this article.

Correction Last week’s column, “Koch’s Katz endorsement for BP: a slap at Vallone?” misstated which endorsement was the last one former Mayor Ed Koch had made in Queens. His most recent endorsement was for Assemblyman Rory Lancman for Congress, in a primary held this year that Q Lancman lost. We regret the error.

Senior Center continued from page 5 “I know of many who have left. Some went to stay with children, others went to second homes,” she explained.

Ascherman noted that the center typically sees a drop off in attendance in the winter because of the number of snowbirds who split their time between Howard Beach and Florida.

Many of the center’s employees, including Executive Director Rosalie Hawk, suffered damage to their own homes in the storm and have had to deal with their personal concerns as well as the center.

Hawk said some of the center’s files were lost in the flood, but the administrators have been able to recover a lot of what they had. Still, more than six weeks after the hurricane, Hawk, Ascherman and the other employees are still trying to work out the kinks in their temporary working situation.

“I did a lot of work from home,” Ascherman said.

Though the center’s temporary home has its kinks to work out, Ascherman said it is important to let the seniors in the community know it is in the temporary facility and operational.

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Ice Jewelry: where the owners can relate to their clients

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Ice Jewelry Buying Service is located on Queens Boulevard in Rego Park.

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

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

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

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

by Denis Deck

The Fairness Coalition of Queens, an alliance of community groups opposing development plans in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, submitted a 5,000-signature petition to Mayor Bloomberg demanding any redesign and additions to the park include substantial community input.

The petition pointed specifically to an expansion of the United States Tennis Association’s presence in the park, a 25,000-

seat Major League Soccer Stadium and a 1.4 million-square-foot mall next to Citi Field. All three are reportedly considered “legacy projects” by the Bloomberg administration.

“We ask that all new uses or proposed redesigns in the area of Flushing Meadows Corona Park are undertaken in a fair and responsible manner to include a process for local resident and community stakeholder input,” the petition read.

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• Keep batteries, particularly the flat, coin-shaped kind found in holiday gifts, away from children because they pose a choking hazard.

• Don’t let babies or pets chew on foil wrapping paper and don’t throw it into the fireplace either. It may contain lead.

• Holiday plants, including mistletoe and holly berries, may cause mild stomachaches if swallowed.

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Heavy smoke could be seen billowing out of a junkyard in Jamaica as firefighters worked tirelessly to extinguish the blaze, which burned for several hours.

PHOTOS BY DANA CLOPTON

Gotti-linked Jamaica junkyard burns One firefighter and two police officers sustain minor injuries

by AnnMarie Costella Assistant Editor

A&J Scrap Metal Processing, a junkyard in Jamaica, owned by Carmine Agnello, the exhusband of Victoria Gotti, daughter of late Mafia kingpin, John Gotti, was engulfed in flames after a fire broke out Monday morning.

Victoria was among those at the scene watching the blaze, 1010 Wins News Radio reported.

The blaze began at around 8:30 a.m. at the establishment, located at 95-49 Tuckerton St., according to Donna Clopton, the president of the 103rd Precinct Community Council, who was at the scene, and reported hearing pops from burning cars and seeing helicopters flying overhead. Her daughter, Dana, took photos.

The call came into the Fire Department at 9:02 a.m. and 40 units and 170 firefighters

were on the scene three minutes later to battle the four-alarm blaze, a spokesman for the FDNY said. The fire was brought under control at around 1:30 p.m. Two police officers and one firefighter sustained minor injuries, the FDNY said.

“I hear the metal fence is glowing red, it’s so hot,” Clopton said, adding, “Just heard the fire started because a battery exploded and caught

gas in cars. It seems that batteries should never be stored in abandoned cars.”

The FDNY would not comment on the cause of the fire and a spokesman said the agency would conduct an investigation into it.

The junkyard abuts the Long Island Rail Road tracks that run toward Laurelton. York College is one block away on the other side of Q the tracks.

Dirty power plant to be torn down Pols say the Poletti facility in Astoria will disappear in 2013

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The New York Power Authority announced this week its plans to dismantle the Charles Poletti Power Plant in Astoria, which once contributed the most toxins to the city’s air.

“It feels like closure is finally coming,” Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas (D-Astoria) said.

“The physical plant served as a visual reminder of something that polluted the community for decades.”

An exact start date for the project has not been set, only saying it would be sometime early in 2013. Because of heavy truck traffic and pollution that comes with those trucks the Coalition Helping to Organize for a Kleaner Environment and state Sen. Mike Gianaris (D-Astoria) hope the pieces of the facility will be carted off via barge.

“It will take some time,” Gianaris said. “It will begin next year and will take the bulk of the year.”

Operations at the 885-megawatt plant ceased at 11:59 p.m. on Jan. 31, 2010, but for many politicians

and activists the shutdown wasn’t enough.

“No one in Northwestern Queens trusts NYPA, and until the plant goes down it can be restored,” Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D-Astoria) said. “People can finally breathe a fresh sigh of relief.”

Vallone, along with the environmental groups CHOKE and the Natural Resources Defense Council, initiated a lawsuit in 2001 to shutter the facility. Gianaris and Simotas supported the lawsuit and also fought for the plant’s closure.

A year after the lawsuit NYPA agreed to use the plant less, and in 2005 the organization installed a new cleaner-running 500-MW generators in an adjacent plant.

A study by the federal Environmental Protection Agency on toxic emissions across the country released earlier this year ranked Queens as the worst-performing borough. Queens’ businesses pumped 116,000 pounds of toxins into the environment whereas businesses in Manahtattan expelled less than 50,000 pounds during the same period of time.

The study named the old Poletti Power Plant and the Airgas Refrigerants facility in Long Island City as the two worst offenders.

These toxins may contribute to high rates of asthma in Western Queens, which because of all the plants and highways that crisscross its strip of waterfront neighborhoods was nicknamed Asthma Alley.

A 2008 study by the city Department of Health showed that the number of children with asthma in Queens from 2000 to 2008 did not waver. In comparison, child asthma rates in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Staten Island decreased over the same period of time.

There are five power plants situated on 21st Avenue and one more on 35th Avenue, all in Astoria. The NRG power plant has begun the process of repowering its circa-1970 facility. The US Power Gen plant and the Trans Canada plant, which took over the old Ravenswood facility, should be repowered, CHOKE founder Tony Gigantiello said.

“Our goal is to have no new plants until the old ones are repowQ ered,” he said.

The New York Power Authority plans to tear down the Charles Poletti Power FILE PHOTO Plant in Astoria sometime next year.

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by AnnMarie Costella Christmas in the Caribbean is a time to put a fresh coat of paint on the house, hang new curtains and seasonal decorations and listen to holiday music. It’s also a time to serve up some wonderful food.

But you can prepare the same dishes whether you’re in this Jamaica or that Jamaica, Glendale or Guyana, Astoria or Aruba, thanks to several Chronicle readers with island roots who were kind enough to share their recipes for the traditional dishes and sweets that make

their Yuletide so memorable.

All you have to do is follow their recipes and some basic principles.

“It’s very important for us to cook it from scratch,” said Vickie Malvo, a native of Kingston, Jamaica now living in Jamaica, Queens.

“You have to do everything from the beginning, well almost. You know how to use your own ingredients, it tastes good when you cook it.”

Malvo added that in her tradition, the holidays continued on page 50

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Vicki Malvo, of Jamaica, Queens cooks up a favorite dish from her native Kingston, capital of the island of Jamaica.

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placement examination. Call Stacy McKelvey at (718) 353-4553 for more information or to reserve your placement exam seat.

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

The Jackson Heights Art Club offers art classes in all mediums, adults, children, days, evenings.

Classes are held at St. Mark’s Church, 82nd Street and 34th Avenue. Costs are: adults, $100 for four sessions, nonmembers, $75 for members; children seven years and up, $75 for eight sessions. Membership available. For information, call Geraldine at (718) 446-4709.

Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria, will host a two-weekend showcase of 26 films and shorts from Jan. 4-13. Film screenings are Friday evenings, Saturdays and Sundays, and as scheduled.

Unless otherwise noted, screenings are included with museum admission. Admission is $12 for adults (18+); $9 for senior citizens and students (13+ with ID); $6 for children ages 3-12; children under 3 and museum members are admitted free. Call (718) 777-6888 or vitit movingimage.us “Three Generations” features the works of three generations of the Aguilera family — ar tists Raphael, Florencio and Chencho. Their paintings and drawings capture the history of Ayamonte, Spain from 1903 to the present day. The exhibit is on display at the Queensborough Community College Art Gallery, 225-05 56 Ave. in Bayside and will continue through Jan. 5. For more information visit the website at QCCArtGallery@qcc.cuny.edu or call (718) 631-6396.

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

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

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

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HOLIDAY On Saturday, Dec. 22 the Queens Economic Development Corporation and the Queens Tourism Council invite all to meet Santa at Applebees at 213-29 26 Ave., Bayside; 95-25 Queens Blvd., Rego Park; 38-01 35 Ave., Astoria; and 61-48 188 St., Fresh Meadows, from 8:30 to 10 a.m. For $10 guests get a photo with Santa and a breakfast buffet. Proceeds will go to QEDC/QTC, which will distribute funds to the Rockaway Waterfront Alliance.

For tickets call (718) 263-0546, ext. 12 or email rmackay@queensny.org.

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

The Museum of the Moving Image will showcase a series of 26 films and shorts from Jan. 4-13.

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The Center for Culture the Afrikan Poetry Theatre in Conjunction with National Council of Negro Women Queens County Section presents its annual gala Kwanzaa celebration Ujamaa on Saturday, Dec. 29 at 1 to 8 p.m. at Springfield Gardens High School, 143-10 Springfield Blvd. Free admission. For more information call (718) 523-3312.

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

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A leisure group meets every Wednesday at 11 a.m. at the Hillcrest Jewish Center, Prince Room, 18302 Union Turnpike, Flushing. Cost is $6 for lunch.

The program includes yoga instruction, discussion groups, card games, bingo, birthday celebrations, guest speakers and holiday celebrations. For info., call Dr. Roz Gold at (718) 229-7511.

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

MUSIC St. George’s Church, 14-20 27 Ave., Astoria, presents a piano, organ and carillon concert by Maxim Anikushin on Sunday, Dec. 30 at 5:30 p.m.

Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students. Proceeds will benefit the church’s building fund. Visit historic-stgeorge-astoria.org.

LECTURE The YWCA of Queens, 42-07 Parsons Blvd., Flushing, will be hosting a college admissions workshop on Saturday, Dec. 22 at 1 p.m. This free workshop is designed for high school students who plan to attend college, want to understand the admissions process and how to best present themselves to the colleges. Parents are encouraged to attend as well. Call (718) 353-4553 for more information.

MEETINGS A schizophrenics anonymous self-help support group will be held on Sundays from 10 to 11 a.m. at L.I. Consultation Center, 97-29 64 Rd., Rego Park. Call (718) 896-3400 for more information. The group is free.

FOR KIDS Join the animal care club on Thursday, Dec. 27 at 10 a.m. to noon at Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston, for children ages 8-12. Fee is $21 per child. Pre-register by calling (718) 229-4000.

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

A one-hour auto clinic for women is held the third Saturday of every month at 3:30 p.m. at Great Bear Auto Repair Shop, 164-16 Sanford Ave., Flushing. The class is free. Call to reserve at (718) 762-6212.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Learn about a Victorian craft tradition and create your own keepsake box at the Voelker Orth Museum, 149-19 38 Ave., Flushing, on Friday, Dec. 28 at 2 p.m. All materials included in the registration fee of $4 and $3 for members. Call (718) 359-6227 to reserve a place.

The Samuel Field Y has two weekday programs for preschool children ages 3-5 with developmental disabilities and their families. On Mondays from 3 to 4:30 p.m. there is Monday Magic: Learn and Play at the Bay Terrace Center: 212-00 23 Ave., Bayside. On Wednesdays from 3-4:30 there is Gym and Creative Exploration at the Little Neck Site, 5820 Little Neck Pkwy. Contact Amanda at (718) 225-6750 ext. 262 or email asmith@sfy.org for more information.

The YWCA of Queens, 42-07 Parsons Blvd., Flushing, has expanded its GED preparation program to include free adult classes. Tracks vary in length from 10 to 20 weeks depending upon entrance test results. Contact the YW and sign up for the next

“Shave the ‘Stache” fundraiser for autism will be held on Friday, Dec. 28 starting at 7 p.m. at Redken Saloon Salon, 36-17 30 Ave., Astoria. For more information, or to make a donation, visit qsac.com/shave or contact (718) 7- AUTISM ext. 2035.

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As a child I remember loving the “The Nutcracker.” I would dress up with my family, settle into the red velvet seats of the theater, the lights would dim and the groups of little boys and girls would take the stage at the beginning of the party scene.

And then I would nod off.

I would bounce awake for maybe the fight scenes where the rat army battled the Nutcracker. Let me reiterate that I loved “The Nutcracker” — especially the taped 1993 version wherein Macaulay Culkin played the title role. But the long show and the late night performance were often too much for me.

To help children make it through the ballet, Saturday’s two shows at Flushing Town Hall will be short and sweet, according to Ballet for Young Audiences Artistic Director Edwin Kinter, which means one-hour long.

“We do a lot of school-time performances and usually

‘The Nutcracker’ When: Saturday, Dec. 22 at 1 and 3 p.m.

Where: Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd.

Tickets: $16, $12 children; $12 members, $10 member children, flushingtownhall.org (718) 463-7700

the children have to get back to the schools. So that’s why we do an hour version,” Kinter said.

“The community certainly loves it,” Flushing Town Hall Executive and Artistic Director Ellen Kodadek said. “It’s a sweet version and a nice first introduction.”

The shows will additionally be during daylight hours — even one day after the shortest day of the year — at 1 and 3 p.m.

To keep the show short BFYA sticks to the main plot line, leaving out many of the large group numbers such as the flowers and snowflakes that the much, much longer versions of the show include.

Also to cater to the younger set, per the company’s mission as its name may suggest, the show will be narrated.

Even with the changes, audiences can still expect many traditional touches. The partygoers will don big hoop skirts and the men will be in their penguin-tail jackets. There will also be the dances from around the world which include Spanish dancers with colorful skirts and marzipan outfits.

The Dec. 22 stop at Flushing Town Hall, which BFYA has been visiting for about 10 years, will be the group’s last venue before they retire the holiday favorite for the season.

In addition to “The Nutcracker,” which was BFYA’s firstever show, the ballet company performs other shows such as “Cinderella,” making several stops in our borough — Queens Theatre in the Park, LaGuardia Community ColQ lege, Queens College and, of course, FTH.

The Ballet for Young Audiences presents a shortened version of ”The Nutcracker” at Flushing Town Hall.

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A show that has all squirming with delight shot out of cannons and a juggling act involving chainsaws.

“It’s an unbelievably lively show from start to finish,” he “Squirm,” in the world of children, is what you do said. “It’s the kind of theatrical ingenuity that takes your when you’re so excited you can’t stand still. “Burr” is breath away.” the sound you make when you shiver with anticipation.

And, according to Schneider, the show is appropriate And “pee” is what you just might do when you laugh for viewers of all ages. “We look at the Disney/Pixartoo hard. type films: There’s topical comedy Put ’em all together, and you’ve that the kids don’t get, comedy got “Squirm Burpee Circus — A that goes straight to the parents, Vaudevillian Melodrama,” coming but there’s still plenty for the kids. to Queens Theatre just in time for We do the same thing. We’re trythe holiday season, said Cole When: Dec. 27 to 31; ing to bridge the generation gap,” Schneider, the artistic manager of daily at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. she said.

Handsome Little Devils, the troupe Where: Queens Theatre, Schneider took up dramatic performing in the show.

Flushing Meadows Park writing while at New York UniverPart circus, part drama, part 14 United Nations Ave. South sity’s Tisch School, but her home dance and part vaudeville comedy, base remains Colorado, where she Tickets: $32; family 4-pack the show tickled the fancy of Ray met Mike Huling. available for $99 Cullom, Queens Theatre’s execuMike and his brother Dan had (718) 760-0064 tive director, when he caught it been performing as a duo, speduring its 2010 run at Manhattan’s cializing in juggling and other cirNew Victory Theatre. cus-type acts, but were thinking “It’s like nothing I ever saw before. It’s an incredible about expanding the act. combination of spectacle — the good, old-fashioned, “The brothers were looking to transition into an ‘how-did-they-do-that’ kind — and story. It’s reminiscent ensemble show,” Schneider said. “We discussed some of an art form that has fallen away,” he said. show ideas and started playing around.” She credits Dan Among the more spectacular treats in store for audiences, with giving the current attraction its name. according to Cullom, are feats of acrobatics, people being continued on on page page 00 53 continued

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Add some Caribbean flair to your Christmas continued continued from from page page 43 00 are dedicated to spending time with family, dancing, playing card games and dominoes — and of course, cooking.

She shared her recipes for rice and gungo peas and a sorrel drink.

“That’s our culture,” she said. “In New York it’s Thanksgiving, but Christmas is our time.”

Shauna Noel, the owner of MyMommyAndMe Catering Service in St. Albans and Ozone Park, expressed similar sentiments and supplied the recipes for two staples that were on the treat table every year at her house — black cake, also known as West Indian rum cake, and sponge cake.

“Growing up in Guyana was best at Christmas time,” she said. “The aromas from my mom and grandma’s kitchen were glorious to say the least. I thought I’d share these two recipes with you in hopes that it brings cheer to your house this holiday as it still does for me.”

Jamaica resident and community activist Adjoa Gzifa, who traces her family’s roots to Guinea-Bissau, Africa, provided the recipe for her late mother’s two-layer bananacoconut cake and buttercream frosting — a favorite at her home during the holidays.

“My mother, Eva Alice Henry, used to make this cake every Thanksgiving and Christmas,” Gzifa said. “It is made from scratch, not box cake mix or artificial ingredients.”

Time moves differently in the Caribbean than it does in New York, but we hope you can find the time to make these delights from scratch too. Give it a try, and Happy Holidays!

A Caribbean Christmas wouldn’t be complete without a slice of black cake.

For the fruits: Wash fruits. Using a food processor or blender grind fruits and about three cups of rum or red wine and place in an airtight container. Rum- or wine-soaked fruits can be stored for 10 days to 1 year (Add more wine for longer storage).

Preheat oven to 315 degrees: In a large bowl combine butter and sugar. Mix until sugar is dissolved and butter is white and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, mixing thoroughly after each addition. Combine soaked fruits (and optional nuts), essence and zest and mix well. In another bowl measure flour and ground spices and salt. Combine well. Add dry ingredients to wet batter in three parts, mixing well after each application. Mix in burnt sugar or caramel and combine until uniformed color forms.

Grease two 8-inch baking pans and pour cake mixture into them evenly. Bake for approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes or until firm to the touch or a stick inserted in the center of cake comes out clear. Let cake rest for 1 hour, remove it from pan then pour 1 cup rum or red wine over it. Add more alcohol once per week or as desired.

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• 1 cup dried raisins • 1 cup dried prunes • 1 cup dried currants • 4 cups rum or red wine • 1 1/2 cups brown sugar • 1 cup butter • 1 1/2 cups flour • 10 large eggs • 3 tablespoons burnt sugar or caramel • 1/4 cup citrus zest • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon • 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg • 1 teaspoon ground cloves • 1 teaspoon mixed essence • 1/4 teaspoon salt • 1/2 cup chopped peanuts (optional)

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• 1 cup of butter (room temperature) • 2 cups of sugar • 4 eggs • 3 cups of sifted self-rising flour • 1 cup of liquid milk and coconut water • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 350 degrees: In a medium mixing bowl combine butter and sugar.

Mix until sugar is dissolved and butter is white and fluffy.

Add eggs one at a time, making sure each egg is fully incorporated in the batter before adding another. Now add essence and zest and stir. In another bowl measure flour, spices, salt and baking powder and combine.

Add dry ingredients to wet batter in three parts, making sure you mix well after each addition. Grease a 9-inch baking pan and pour cake mixture into it. Bake at 350 degrees for approximately 40 minutes or until top is golden brown and test stick inserted in center of cake comes out clear.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Grease and flour two cake pans and line them with wax paper, grease and flour the wax paper. Using a mixer, cream butter until fluffy. Add sugar and continue to cream for about 7 minutes. Add eggs one at a time. Beat well after each egg is added. Add flour and milk (alternating to creamed mixture), beginning and ending with flour. Add vanilla flavoring to mix; until just mixed. Divide batter equally into the cake pans. Bake for 25-30 minutes (depending on your oven) until done. Cool in pans for 5 to 10 minutes. Cool completely on wire racks.

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Sorrel is taken from the sorrel flower. Look for it in supermarkets with a large section of ethnic foods. Begin preparations one day ahead.

• 2 fingers of ginger, sliced • 1 cup dried sorrel petals • 1 teaspoon cloves • 1 cup water • 1 pound brown sugar • splash of dark rum (optional) Boil ginger in water. When the water is boiling add the sorrel leaves and cloves. Allow mixture to boil for 30 minutes. Cover and let steep overnight. In a separate saucepan, boil 1 cup water and the brown sugar to make a syrup. Strain the sorrel mixture. Add syrup to taste.

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• 1 cup butter (room temperature) • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract • 1 pound confectioners’ sugar • 1-3 teaspoons coconut water • bananas • grated coconut Using a mixer, cream softened butter and vanilla until smooth. Add sugar gradually, allowing butter and sugar to cream together before adding more. Assemble the cakes on cake plate. Add frosting to bottom layer covering completely. Slice bananas on the first layer cover with grated coconut.

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The CCNS Bayside Senior Center, 221-15 Horace Harding Expy., hosts free programs Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.: Mondays at 12:30 p.m., first-run movie; Mondays and Thursdays at 1 p.m., Ping Pong; Mondays at 9:15 a.m., Wednesdays and Fridays at 10:15 a.m., Exercise class; Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, bingo; Tuesdays at 9 a.m. and 10:15 a.m. and Fridays at 9 a.m., chair yoga; Wednesdays at 9:15 a.m., Wii bowling; Tuesdays at 9:15 a.m., Big Apple Strollers; Tuesdays at 9:30 a.m. and Thursdays at 10 a.m., line dancing; Tuesdays at 12:30 p.m., duplicate bridge; Tuesdays at 1 p.m., chorus; Mondays and Wednesdays, bridge instruction; Tuesdays at 1 p.m., ESL for Chinese speakers; Thursdays at 10:45 p.m., tai chi; Wednesdays and Thursdays from 1-2 p.m. and 2-3 p.m,. basic computer classes; Fridays from 1-2 p.m., advanced computer class; Fridays from 1 to 3 p.m., social dancing with DJ. Kosher and nonkosher lunch available at 11:30 a.m. with a $2 contribution. Membership is free.

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

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

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

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

An exercise class for seniors. meets Saturdays at 9 a.m. at the SNAP of Eastern Queens Senior Center, 80-45 Winchester Blvd., Bldg. 4 on the Creedmoor Community Campus, Queens Village. For more information call Kathleen at (718) 454-2100.

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

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

Meetings are held seven days a week.

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

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

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

SOCIAL ACTIVITIES The Flushing Camera Club meets at 7:30 p.m. on the first, third and fifth Wednesdays of the month in the auditorium of Flushing Hospital, 146-01 45 Ave., enter at 45th Avenue and Burling Street. Call (718) 749-0643 or visit flushingcameraclub.org for more information.

The Wednesday Night Singles Group of the SFY Adult Center, 58-20 Little Neck Parkway, Little Neck, invites you to social evenings with special guest speakers on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month from 7-9 p.m. Fee: $7 Adult Center members, $9 nonmembers.

LISTING INFORMATION Items for the Community Calendar must be sent two weeks before the date of the event. Listings should be typed, from a nonprofit organization, either free or moderately priced, and be open to the public. Keep the information to one paragraph. Because of the large number of requests for the free calendar listings, we cannot include every event submitted. Send to: Queens Chronicle, Community Calendar, P.O. Box 74-7769, Rego Park, NY 11374, fax to (718) 205-0150.

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‘Squirm Burpee’ 48 continued from page 00 Eventually, a storyline about a villain committed to the demise of circus performers with names like Lovely Little Lolo and Dashing Dave was added, melding the dramatic with the acrobatic to create a new genre.

The current troupe consists of four performers, including Lara Chamberlain, a Queens resident who appears as Lolo, a role previously played by Schneider. For the Queens engagement, Schneider will serve as stage manager.

Chamberlain, who also hails from Colorado, moved to New York in 2008. She has previously lived in both Sunnyside and Astoria and has now settled in Woodside.

She explained that she “moved to New York to be an actress and a dancer. I fell in love with what this company was doing.

And I get to work with friends.”

Performing so close to what is now her home is also attractive to Chamberlain. “I love it,” she said. “It’s right by my house.

I can’t wait to have friends who don’t get to see shows I’m in when I’m on tour come to the show.”

She is also particularly impressed with the show’s set design and said she loves “being around new set pieces and seeing how they can work.”

With performers scattered across the country, rehearsals can pose a challenge.

“We get together a few times a year in Denver and on the road a few days before we tour. And we always do brush-up rehearsals on the road,” Schneider said.

Following a sold-out engagement by another troupe around this time last year, Cullom is confident this year’s attraction will do well. Once the presents are opened, he said, people need a Q place to go.

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Mets shortstop Jose Reyes was the National League batting champion in 2011. The pending free agent did not receive a contract offer from the Mets and signed a six-year, $106 million deal with the Miami Marlins, who would go on to trade him to the Toronto Blue Jays a year later.

In 2012, Mets knuckleball pitcher RA Dickey won the Cy Young Award for being the best pitcher in the National League. Since Dickey would be a free agent after the 2013 season, the Mets decided to trade him while they could get something in return, rather than wait a year and get nothing, as with Reyes. The Jays apparently offered the Mets the best package of prospects.

One can just imagine the conversation Reyes and Dickey will have in Dunedin, Fla. when the Blue Jays open their spring training camp.

There is little doubt that the dispensing of Dickey to north of the border was done to save current and future payroll. Dickey is 38 years old, which is ancient for any traditional pitcher but not one who throws a knuckleball. On the other hand, the Mets couldn’t achieve a .500 record even with RA’s pitching heroics.

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Sandy Alderson. Of course Baseball America and other publications have long praised the well-stocked minor league systems of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Kansas City Royals — and yet those teams have stunk for the last 20 years.

St. John’s University, along with seven other Catholic colleges that don’t have football programs, announced that they would be leaving the Big East to start their own conference. There was no reason given as to why there is acrimony between Big East colleges that field football teams and those that don’t.

In a press release issued by St. John’s, university President the Rev. Donald Harrington and Athletics Director Chris Monasch both stated that the decision was not based on dissatisfaction with the economics of the Big East. They added, however, that they expect the new federation that will be created to do very well financially. I translate that as “We say that it’s not the money but in reality it’s the money!”

Former Newtown High School hoops star and current Detroit Pistons player Charlie Villanueva was back in the area last Friday night as his team took on the Nets at the Barclays Center. He expressed concern about his alma mater being targeted for closing by Mayor Bloomberg because of poor graduation rates.

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Four years later, on Dec. 5, 1933, Prohibition was repealed. Harry and Mabel immediately changed their restaurant’s name to The Boulevard, applied for a liquor license and gave floor shows every night. The Spanish stucco-walled and tile-roofed building was expanded and became a popular meeting place for private club and business conferences, as well as weddings and receptions. It could accommodate parties of five or 500, and had protected parking facilities outside.

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Harry Le Vay predeceased his wife, who died in 1966 at their estate on West Broadway in Long Beach, LI. Their heirs lost interest in the business, which was sold in 1973 and torn down. Replacing it was the stark, clinical AT&T Building, which also housed the Pinkerton Security Corp. and was renumbered as 94-03 Queens Blvd.

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NOTICE OF ACTION BEFORE THE BOARD OF MASSAGE THERAPY IN RE: The license to practice massage therapy of Yanping Zheng, L.M.T., 36-09 Main Street, 10-A, Flushing, NY 11354 & 3857 Sunset Cove Drive, Port Orange, FL 32129 CASE NO.: 2012-14141 LICENSE NO.: MA 64609 The Department of Health has filed an Administrative Complaint against you, a copy of which may be obtained by contacting, Alicia E. Adams, Assistant General Counsel, Prosecution Services Unit, 4052 Bald Cypress Way, Bin #C65, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-3265, (850) 245-4640 If no contact has been made by you concerning the above by January 24, 2013, the matter of the Administrative Complaint will be presented at an ensuing meeting of the Board of Massage Therapy in an informal proceeding.

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

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

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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To Advertise Call 718-205-8000 NOTICE OF ACTION BEFORE THE BOARD OF MASSAGE THERAPY IN RE: The license to practice massage therapy of Furong Li, L.M.T., 14212 41st Avenue, Apt. L-1, Flushing, NY 11355 & 13443 Maple Avenue, FL 2, Flushing, NY 11355 CASE NO.: 2012-12545 LICENSE NO.: MA 63348 The Department of Health has filed an Administrative Complaint against you, a copy of which may be obtained by contacting Thomas J. Morton, Assistant General Counsel, Prosecution Services Unit, 4052 Bald Cypress Way, Bin #C65, Tallahassee, Florida 323993265, (850) 245-4640 If no contact has been made by you concerning the above by January 24, 2013, 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) 245-4640, 1-800-955-877 (TDD) or 1-800-955-8770 (V), via Florida Relay Service.

Legal Notice Go Fresh Produce LLC filed Articles of Organization to be an LLC on September 25, 2012. The Secretary of State is designated as agent upon whom process may be served. The address of the LLC is 162-08 91st Street, Howard Beach, NY 11414 in Queens County.

The purpose of the LLC is wholesale produce.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: GLENDALE HOLDING LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/31/12. 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, 65-17 68th Avenue, Glendale, New York 11385.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF PROPOSED BANK MERGER Notice is hereby given that Amerasia Bank, Flushing, New York has made application to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, for its written consent to merge with Great Eastern Bank of Florida, Miami, Florida. It is contemplated that Amerasia Bank will be the surviving charter from the merger. It is further contemplated that all of the offices of the above-named institutions will continue to be operated by the surviving bank after the merger.

This notice is published pursuant to Section 18(c) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act. Any person wishing to comment on this application may file his or her comments in writing with the regional director of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation at its regional office, 350 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 101180110, not later than January 5, 2013. The non-confidential portions of the application are on file in the regional office and are available for inspection during regular business hours. Photocopies of the non-confidential portions of the application file will be made available upon request.

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Cradel Import & Export LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/16/12. Office in Queens County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Carlos M. Serrano, 79-17 Hollis Hills Terr., Oakland Gardens, NY 11364. Purpose: General.

Supreme Court, County of Queens; Matter of Mary Louise Seiler, an Alleged Incapacitated Person; Index #24443/2012; Pursuant to an Order of this Court, dated December 11, 2012, by the Hon. Lee A. Mayersohn, an application to sell premises known as 19610 91st Avenue, Hollis, NY 11423, will be made on the 23rd day of January, 2013, at 9:30 a.m., at an IAS Part 22G, at the Supreme Court, Queens County, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, NY 11435. Best offer over $210,000.00, all cash.

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SUNSHINE HVAC LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 11/19/2012.

Office in Queens Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 89-40 198 St., Hollis, NY 11423, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: NEAT AND CLEAN IS WHAT WE MEAN, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/26/2012.

Office location is Queens County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 1560 150th St., Whitestone, NY 11357. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: TRIPLE L HOLDING LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/03/12. 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, 69-11 197th Street, Fresh Meadows, New York 11365.

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Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: G&T TRANSPORT NYC LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 9/7/2012. Office location is Queens County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Gregory Conway, 120-10 Merrill Street, Jamaica, NY 11434. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service, where service of this summons is made by delivery upon you personally within this state, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner, and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.

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

Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT, AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Honorable Diccia T. Pineda-Kirwan of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, signed on October 31, 2012 and filed with supporting papers in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Queens, State of New York.

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

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

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

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

Help For Homeowners In Foreclosure.

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

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

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

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NOTICE OF ACTION BEFORE THE BOARD OF MASSAGE THERAPY IN RE: The license to practice massage therapy of Lei Guan, L.M.T 13545 Roosevelt Avenue, Apt. 10-I, Flushing, NY 11355 CASE NO.: 2012-11899 LICENSE NO.: MA 64044 The Department of Health has filed an Administrative Complaint against you, a copy of which may be obtained by contacting Candace A. Rochester, Assistant General Counsel, Prosecution Services Unit, 4052, Bald Cypress Way, Bin #C65, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-3265, (850) 245-4640.

If no contact has been made by you concerning the above by January 17, 2013, 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) 245-4640, 1-800-955877(TDD) or 1-800-955-8770 (V), via Florida Relay Service.

FRACTURED PIXELS LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 8/1/12. Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 28-04 33rd Ave., Apt. 2E, Astoria, NY 11106. General Purposes.

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff, -against- PHYLLIS BAKER, if living, or if either or all be dead, their wives, husbands, heirs-at-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, assignees, lienors and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said PHYLLIS BAKER, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, of any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, and the respective husbands, wives, widow or widowers of them, if any, all of whose names are unknown to plaintiff; JEAN SANON; NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD; NEW YORK CITY PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU; NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU; STATE OF NEW YORK; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; “JOHN DOES” and “JANE DOES”, said names being fictitious, parties intended being possible tenants or occupants of premises, and corporations, other entities or persons who claim, or may claim, a lien against the premises, Defendant(s).

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SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Index No.: 27973/2011 Date of Filing: November 23, 2012 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS

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LEGAL NOTICES To Advertise Call 718-205-8000 Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: ANDINA MULTISERVICES LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/23/2012. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 84-02 Roosevelt Ave., Suite 37, Jackson Heights, NY 11372. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: NOT JUST ANOTHER FUNNY FACE, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/14/2012.

Office location is Queens County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 175-20 Wexford Terrace, Apt. 3P, Jamaica, NY 11432. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Bldg Myrtle LLC. Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/17/03. Off. loc.: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Lawrence P. Wolf, Esq., 6 Hemlock Hills, Chappaqua, NY 10514.

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Notice of Formation of Willoughby Staffing LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 11/6/12. Office location: Queens County.

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Office location is Queens County.

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

Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: 71STTECH, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/23/2012. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to C/O United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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Packing spaghetti arms? Good luck Big, beefy and powerful come to annual arm wrestling tournament

by Andrew Benjamin Chronicle Contributor

Men and women with arms both big and small competed against one another Sunday at the 35th Annual Empire State Golden Arm Tournament of Champions, overseen by the New York Arm Wrestling Association.

Cheap Shots bar in Kew Gardens Hills was the venue of this year’s competition, where awards were given to both amateur and professional arm wrestlers in their respective weight classes, as well as left and right arm categories.

“The Empire State Golden Arm Tournament of Champions is New York City’s oldest and most prestigious, sought-after title,” said Gene Camp, president and founder of the New York Arm Wrestling Association.

The event also raised funds for the American Red Cross’s Hurricane Sandy relief efforts.

What may seem like a trivial game that friends and bros do on a whim after a night

of drinking to test their manhood was not taken lightly by the tournament’s more than 50 competitors. NYAWA even has its own rules for the competition.

Safety is taken so seriously, a picture is shown before the start of how someone can easily break a bone if practicing unsafe arm wrestling.

Some stretch out or have their arms massaged, and others have their own unique strategies they use to compete. David Milburn, 42, from Jamaica, wears sunglasses and keeps an icy poker face when coming face-to-face with his opponent before they lock up. He said he uses it as a method to “get in the zone” and to keep the opponent guessing due to the lack of eye contact.

“I call it my ‘tiger mode,’” he said.

Milburn won 1st place in the amateur Left 199+ Super Heavyweight category.

To prepare, he does mostly resistance training, but also some weight lifting and pull-ups, as well training with renowned arm wrestling champion Jason Vale.

Winner and Female Right Arm Overall MVP award winner Joyce Boone, left. David Milburn from PHOTOS BY ANDREW BENJAMIN Jamaica, photo right, turning on his “tiger mode” during a bout.

Even longtime pros still gets nervous before competing. Joyce Boone, 45, from Brooklyn, has earned the nickname the “Queen of Arms” for being undefeated with her right hand. Despite winning the Female Right Overall MVP award, she still jitters before she clasps hands.

“I do get nervous because you don’t know who you’re competing against,” she said.

Her long time upper limb rival has been

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Ana Kenah, 28, from New Jersey. Kenah won the Female Left Overall MVP award.

Kenah said there is a competitive rivalry between her and Boone that is no fun and games when they grapple.

“We’re never nice to each other on the tables,” she said.

But the competitor who stood out the most was Jason Merlo, 21, of Staten Island.

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Continued from page 62 before in any arm wrestling competition, he managed to rank 1st in the amateur class in the Right 198-and-under. He credits the technique of back pressure, which is pulling your opponents arm closer to you.

“It feels cool,” he said. “I really wasn’t expecting to win.” This won’t be Merlo’s last time going hand-to-hand in

competition. He plans to also compete in another big tournament in Manhattan, the Big Apple Grapple, next year.

While the competition is heavy, with its fair share of winners and losers, Milburn said that arm wrestling brings people together like nothing else.

“It’s all love,” he said. “Race and religion doesn’t matter here. It’s the closest Q to heaven.”

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