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Lawmakers back Cuomo’s pot push Doubts about legal marijuana go up in smoke after gov’s endorse

by Michael Shain Editor

After years of resisting the call to decriminalize marijuana here, Gov. Cuomo came out vigorously last Monday to make the use of pot by adults legal in New York State within the next few months.

And Queens legislators were fairly quick to back the governor’s call.

“As long as it doesn’t intrude on other people,” said Asssemblyman Mike Miller (D-Woodhaven), “I’m OK with it.”

“I’m leaning yes,” said state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach). “But it depends on the language.”

Like alcohol, he said, “I believe it has to be limited by age, when and where you can use it. We need to make sure we do it right.”

State Sen. Michael Gianaris (D-Astoria) said through a spokesman he too was ready to vote yes on a legalization bill.

State Sen. Toby Stavisky (D-Forest Hills) — who has one of two medical marijuana dispensaries in Queens in her district — says she “needs to see the specifics of bill before deciding” how she will vote, a spokesman said.

No matter, most Queens lawmakers predict the measure will pass the Legislature with relative ease after the election of a Democratic majority in the state Senate last

Legalizing marijuana for recreational use appears to be around the corner in New York State, perhaps as soon as next spring, lawmakers say. In Colorado, above, the drug is sold in small PHOTO COURTESY CANNABIS TOURS / WIKIPEDIA vials through licensed shops.

November removed the last few stumbling blocks.

Cuomo had long been one of those stumbling blocks himself. He had for years been unwilling to discuss decriminalizing the weed. Even when the state approved the sale

of medical marijuana — licensed dispensaries that sell the drug by prescription only to cancer patients and for certain types of pain relief — he insisted it only be sold in pill or liquid form, not leaf.

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The potential market for recreational pot is estimated at $3.1 billion a year, according to a recent report by city Comptroller Scott Stringer. He also said the state could bring in $436 million in tax revenue from sales.

If New York did not move to legalize pot, it could well lose all or part of that potential revenue to surrounding states.

The governor is also engaged in a frantic search for more money to fund the rebuilding of the city’s transit system — a figure estimated at $60 billion by a panel of lawmakers and transportation experts in a report released Tuesday.

Proposals like taxing Uber and Lyft riders and instituting a congestion pricing plan that charges drivers to come into Midtown and Lower Manhattan are politically unpopular. The steady revenue stream from a tax on marijuana may seem a painless way to raise the money by comparison.

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Electric vehicle chargers coming Community board leaders don’t want their input ignored by DOT

by David Russell Associate Editor

A plan from the Mayor’s Office to expand access to electric vehicle charging for residents was discussed at Borough Hall on Tuesday.

The office is working to minimize the city’s contributions to climate change from the waste, transportations, energy and buildings sectors.

The goal is to have 20 percent of new vehicles registered in New York to be electric by 2025. The number is currently less than 1 percent.

“We have a huge jump to get to 2025 and we have initiatives to help that happen,” said Jen Robertson, transportation policy advisor at the Mayor’s Office, adding that the main goal is the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

Transportation is the second-highest emitter in the city at around 30 percent, with most coming from vehicle exhaust.

“When I found this out I was a bit surprised,” Robertson said.

“You think with all the transit access we have here, folks are walking around as compared to a lot of major American cities, we’re in a good place for sustainability.”

The city is trying to establish 50 EV hubs citywide by 2020.

As part of the $25 million demonstration project, the Department of Transportation and NYPD will reserve access to at least 100 on-street parking spaces for electric vehicles. They will cost money to charge but that is still cheaper than gas.

ConEd and the DOT will install 120 EV charging posts on city streets. There is a three-year pilot plan as they partnered with ConEd and Flo, the company that designed the charger.

ConEd and Flo will make the money at this point as there is no revenue for the city.

There will be 20 curbside charging ports serving city EVs exclusively, but the fleet of 1,700 vehicles will utilize all 120 charging ports citywide.

The program is for on-street infrastructure so people feel more comfortable purchasing an electric vehicle because they know there are places to charge it.

The office wants to see the usage and measure the success of the program. If the pilot is successful, the program could be

DOT representative Mark Simon speaks about electric vehicle PHOTO BY DAVID RUSSELL chargers at a Borough Hall meeting. expanded to provide curbside charging throughout the city.

Officials are pointing to growing EV sales, up 46 percent in the city from 2016 to 2017. But they say access to charging remains a barrier as half of New Yorkers store their cars onstreet. They say to increase EV adoption, the city must expand its public charging network.

“There are many different kinds [of EVs] and a lot of them are hybrids where you can plug it in and it’s got about 50 miles allelectric range and then you have the full-battery electrics, and the full-battery electrics are where we’re trying to get to because they offer the guaranteed low emissions benefits and they require a lot more care in how you get them charged because there is no backup gasoline engine,” said Mark Simon, DOT director of electric vehicle policy.

The agency noted some California residents have charging at home and that while the utilities bill increases, the residents come out ahead when the price of gas is factored in.

But in New York, a lot of residents park on the street. The initiative is looking to meet the gap caused by the lack of driveway and garage access.

There is some concern among the community board district managers attending the meeting that their input will be ignored but Felicia Tunnah, from DOT intergovernmental affairs, says that the chargers will go only where they are wanted.

“We’re going to go first to neighborhoods that want us throughout the five boroughs,” Tunnah said. “And it’s going to be anywhere between two and eight charging stations on street.”

The office is doing outreach to borough boards and meeting with elected officials to determine suitable locations for the program.

The meeting was the introduction to the district managers in Queens and the agency will eventually visit with each board.

Western Queens Community Board 2 District Manager Debra Markell Kleinert noted bike lanes were installed where communities said no to them and said they had been through a lot with the DOT. “How are we taking that step back to go forward?” she asked.

CB 1 District Manager Florence Koulouris of the Astoria area said, “I want them in my district, I just don’t want them on the curbs.”

Jamaica-area CB 12 District Manager Yvonne Reddick mentioned that when the DOT introduced its Carshare pilot, she believed the list was approved before the agency spoke to the board.

Another issue raised was whether the DOT will go through the city process after saying this is just a pilot program and once the Public Design Commission approves the structure, it will also provide them with siding requirements once they determine curb sites and what will work.

Borough President Melinda Katz wonders if the DOT will have to go through the city process.

“You’re breaking ground,” she said. “You’re putting them in cement. You’re making permanent structures. Even sidewalk cafes, which are not permanent things, have to go up for renewals every few years.”

Katz added, “If you truly want to go where people want you to, you should go through a city process.”

There are three levels of EV charging. Level 1 can take place at a home garage and provide the power for 5 miles of travel per hour for at least 12 hours to get a full charge. continued on page 14

Sworn in: Justice Love to Supreme Court Longtime Rockaway figure moves up For the latest news visit qchron.com

by Michael Shain Editor

Civil Court Judge Larry Love, a lifelong Queens resident and longtime aide to former Assemblywoman Audrey Pheffer, is moving to the state Supreme Court.

Love was sworn in Monday at a special ceremony at the Queens Civil Courthouse on Sutphin Boulevard, surrounded by his family and some of the borough’s most prominent political figures.

The justice grew up and based his private law practice in Forest Hills but was a familiar figure in the Rockaways for many years as the legal counsel, first, to Pheffer, and then her successor, former Assemblyman Phil Goldfelder.

As legal counsel, he was both a main advisor to the officeholders and also a

source of the legal help for constituents grappling with service problems with the city and state goverments.

When Pheffer stepped down after 24 years in Albany, Love said he decided to run for a seat on the bench in order to stay in public life.

Pheffer, who stepped down from the Assembly in 2011 to become the Queens county clerk and commissioner of jurors, ad ministered the oath to Love, then helped him into his judge’s robes.

Also present were Rep. Joe Crowley (D-Queens, Bronx), the state court’s deputy chief administrative judge, George Silver, and Assembywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato, all of whom spoke about Love and welcomed him to his new job.

Love is a graduate of Queens College Q and Hofstra Law School.

At the swearing-in of Justice Larry Love were Democratic District Leader Frank Gulluscio, left, Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato and Queens County Clerk Audrey Pheffer.

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Suit to halt SHSAT shift in its tracks Parents turn to federal court to save old system from mayor’s plan

by Michael Shain Editor

Phillip Wong moved to the U.S, from Hong Kong with his family in 1974. That was just about the time mainland China announced it intended take back the colony from Britain when its treaty expired in 1997 The announcement set off a 20-yearlong exodus from Hong Kong to New York and elsewhere that changed the size and nature of the Asian-American community here.

This week, Wong, who lives in Elmhurst, was one of three parents who filed suit against Mayor de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza on behalf of his eighth-grade daughter.

The suit alleges that city officials are illegally holding down the number of Asian students admitted to the city’s “elite-eight” high schools in order to increase enrollment by black and Hispanic students. It is one of the most bitter issues dividing the city right now and a political line in the sand for Queens.

Wong, who works as a t ranslator, directed all questions about his role in the case to the Pacific Legal Foundation, the pro bono law firm that is handling the suit against de Blasio.

A spokesman for the firm said Wong was “one of the first people who contacted us” last October when the lawsuit was in its preliminary stages.

Wong’s daughter, indentified in court papers only as “A.W.,” attends IS 5, the Walter H. Crowley Intermediate School in Elmhurst. She like other young hopefuls took the controversial Specialized High Schools Admissions Test last October.

In March, she will hear whether she has made the cutoff for the elite schools,

Phillip Wong, father of an 8th grader enrolled at Elmhurst’s IS 8, was among the first parents to sign on as a plaintiff in a major lawsuit filed last week claiming the city’s plan to integrate its elite high schools deliberately discriminates against Asian-American students. PHOTO COURTESY PLF i nclud i ng St uy ve s a nt H ig h Scho ol, Bron x H ig h School of Science a nd Brooklyn Technical High School.

If she does not make the cut, the suit claims, it may well be because the city ch a nged t he Discover y prog r a m — aimed at getting more minority students into the top schools — to discriminate against her.

That is what the landmark lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court last Thursday by several Asian-American groups, the Parent-Teacher Organization of Christa McAuliffe High School in Brooklyn and the parents of three eighth-graders —

including Phillip Wong — is about.

Much of the Asian community has been in an uproar since de Blasio and Carranza said last year that they intend to get rid of the SHSAT as the sole determining factor for admission.

However, they need a change in state law to do that. So instead, the mayor and chancellor this year revised the longstanding Discovery program — created more than 20 years ago to help minority st udents who just m issed the cutoff scores get into the elite schools.

Five percent of the seats in the ninthgrade class used to be set aside for Dis-

covery students. For the next school year, that percentage was summarily raised to 20 percent.

The lawsuit filed last week contends that change is unconstitutional because, in effect, it takes seats away from Asian students who would have made the cutoff and gives them to black and Hispanic kids.

Under the old plan, 17 of 22 schools in Queens with a majority of Asian eighthgrade students were eligible for the second-chance Discovery program, if they were a few points shy, according to the PLF. Under the mayor’s new plane, only 11 majority-Asian schools qualify.

The most affected school in Queens is Nathaniel Hawthorne Middle School 74 in Oakland Gardens. More than 66 percent of the 417 students in eighth grade there are Asian American, the law firm says.

Last year, students there were eligible for a second chance. Now they are not, said Chris Keiser, a lawyer for PLF. “It’s a game changer,” David Lee of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance for Greater New York, one of the groups suing the mayor, said. “This is a federallevel spuit that could go to the Supreme Court. It’s going to take the veneer off what the mayor and everyone else has been doing.”

Former City Controller John Liu, who unseated state Sen. Tony Avella in the district representing Bayside and Whitestone, called the suit “one of many and varied reponses to this boondoogle.”

“The fact that this is an organic, grassroots, pop-up effort speaks volumes,” said the state senator-elect. “It’s a strong indication of just how the public feels.” Q

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by Michael Shain Editor

One of the weakest links in the Queens subway system, the J train tracks outside Jamaica Center, are being shut down completely for two weeks starting just after Christmas, the MTA said.

The shutdown will mean no train service to the Parsons Boulevard-Archer Avenue and Sutphin Boulevard-Archer Avenue stations between Dec. 28 and Jan. 6.

Shuttle bus service will carry passengers heading to and from Jamaica Center between Jamaica-Van Wyck on the E line and 121st Street on the J line.

The MTA is closing the Sutphin Boulevard-Archer Avenue and Parsons Boulevard-Archer Avenue J stations in order to winterize the outdoor section of elevated track, according to officials.

Trains on that section of track are particularly vulnerable during snowstorms.

Equipment breakdowns are not unusual in bad weather, including last month’s freak snow when passengers again reported long delays.

The track work was scheduled during a time when ridership is expected to be fairly low — the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day and the first week of January — officials said.

Riders going to Jamaica Center for the AirTrain to JFK International Airport are urged to take the E train to Sutphin Boulevard-Archer Avenue or the A train to Howard Beach.

The shutdown is scheduled to begin next Friday night at 9:30 p.m. and end just before r ush hour on Monday mor ning, Q Jan. 7.

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Albany salary hike is headed to court Plaintiffs argue salary study group plan usurps Legislature’s authority

by Michael Gannon Editor

A lawsuit filed last Friday could force state lawmakers to make a politically tricky vote to raise their own pay — after a panel created to spare them that task tied the first salary increase in 20 years to limits in outside income and reductions in financial legislative perks.

The suit was filed by attorney Cameron McDonald of the group Government Justice Center on behalf of Assemblyman Michael Fitzpatrick (R-Suffolk), Bronx resident Roxanne Delgado and Saratoga County residents Robert Arrigo and David Buchyn.

The 18-page complaint names the state and st at e Compt roller Tom Di Napoli a s defendants.

DiNapoli served on the compensation panel along with city Comptroller Scott Stringer, former city Comptroller Bill Thompson and former state Comptroller Carl McCall. State Court of Appeals Chief Judge Janet DiFiore declined to serve.

Legislators have been making $79,500 per year for what is considered under the law to be a part-time job since 1998.

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“Rather than face the voters ... members of the Legislature pushed their responsibility onto a committee that proceeded to make its own law, redefine the job of a legislator in New York and establish a professional legislative class,” it continued.

Had the panel’s recommendations gone unchallenged, incremental increases over the next three years automatically would have raised salaries to $130,000 without a state senator or assemblyman having to explain a vote to his or her constituents. Gov. Cuomo and other state officers also would receive raises.

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were tied to the “timely” passage of the state budget.

It also limited outside income to 15 percent of the salary — adopted from Congressional regulations — and eliminated most lulus, the name for bonus payments for committee chairs and ranking members of each party.

Lulus are given at the discretion of Assembly and Senate party leaders and have been criticized as a way to reward loyalists and punish opponents.

But the New York Post last Sunday reported that many members of the Legislature have lucrative outside jobs. Queens Assemblymembers David Weprin (D-Fresh Meadows), an invest ment ban ker, and Clyde Vanel (D-Queens Village), an attorney, both reported outside income of six figures on their most recent disclosure forms.

Weprin could not be reached for comment on this story.

Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, who testified before the committee, told the Chronicle prior to the lawsuit that his organization agreed with adopting the Congressional model.

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Now, in Howard Beach, NY, one doctor is helping local residents with knee pain live more active, pain-free lives.

Living with knee pain can feel like a crippling experience.

Let’s face it, your knees aren’t as young as you used to be, and playing with the kids or grandkids isn’t any easier either. Maybe your knee pain keeps you from walking short distances or playing golf like you used to.

Nothing’s worse than feeling great mentally, but physically feeling held back from life because your knees hurt and the pain just won’t go away!

My name is Dr. Robert F. Gucciardo, D.C., owner of Gucciardo Specific Chiropractic and Natural Health Center.

Since we opened seventeen years ago, I’ve seen hundreds of people with knee problems leave the office pain free.

If you’re suffering from these conditions, a new breakthrough in medical technology may completely eliminate your pain and help restore normal function to your knees.

Do You Have Any of the Following Conditions?

• Arthritis • Knee pain • Cartilage damage • ‘Bone-on-bone’ • Tendonitis • Bursitis • Crunching and popping sounds Finally, You Have an Option Other Than Drugs or Surgery

Before the FDA would clear the Class IV laser for human use, they wanted to see proof that it worked.

This lead to two landmark studies.

The first study showed that patients who had laser therapy had 53 percent better improvement than those who had a placebo. The second study showed patients who used the laser therapy had less pain and more range of motion days after treatment. If the Class IV Laser can help these patients, it can help you too.

Could This Noninvasive, Natural Treatment Be the Answer to Your Knee Pain?

For 10 days only, I’m running a very special offer where you can find out if you are a candidate for cold laser therapy.

What does this offer include? Everything I normally do in my “Knee Pain Evaluation.” Just call before December 30, 2018 and here’s what you’ll get…

• An in-depth consultation about your problem where I will listen … really listen … to the details of your case.

• A complete neuromuscular examination.

• A full set of specialized X-rays to determine if arthritis is contributing to your pain (if necessary).

(If you have films please bring them for evaluation).

• A thorough analysis of your exam and X-ray findings so we can start mapping out your plan to being pain free.

• You’ll see everything firsthand and find out if this amazing treatment will be your pain solution, as it has been for so many other patients.

Until December 30th, you can get everything I’ve listed here for only $37. The normal price for this type of evaluation including X-rays is $250, so you’re saving a considerable amount by taking me up on this offer.

Remember what it was like before you had knee problems – when you were pain free and could enjoy everything life had to offer. It can be that way again.

Don’t neglect your problem any longer – don’t wait until it’s too late.

A new treatment is helping patients with knee pain live a happier, more active lifestyle.

Here’s what to do now: Due to the expected demand for this special offer, I urge you to call our office at once. The phone number is 718-845-2323.

Call today and we can get started with your consultation, exam and X-rays (if necessary) as soon as there’s an opening in the schedule. Our office is called Gucciardo Specific Chiropractic and Natural Health Center and you can find us at 162-07 91st Street in Howard Beach. Tell the receptionist you’d like to come in for the Knee Evaluation before December 30th.

Sincerely, Dr. Robert F. Gucciardo, D.C. P.S. Now you might be wondering…

“Is this safe? Are there any side effects or dangers to this?”

The FDA cleared the first Class IV Laser in 2002.

This was after their study found 76 percent improvement in patients with severe pain. Their only warning – don’t shine it in your eyes.

Of course at our office, the laser is never anywhere near your eyes and we’ll give you a comfortable pair of goggles for safety.

Don’t wait and let your knee problems get worse, disabling you for life. Take me up on my offer and call today (718) 845-2323. For more information go to www.drgucciardo.com and click on the laser therapy tab.

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

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

Professional athletes like The New York Yankees and team members of the New England Patriots rely upon cold laser therapy to treat their sports-related injuries. These guys use the cold laser for one reason only…

It Promotes Rapid Healing of the Injured Tissues.

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P There’s a lot to like in Cuomo’s 100-day wish list

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ov. Cuomo laid out some solid priorities for the first 100 days of 2019 in his speech Monday to the New York City Bar Association. And as he pointed out, with the state Legislature now fully in Democratic control, he should be able to get most of them through.

“We have a Democratic Senate, a Democratic Assembly; now is the time to make these changes,” he said. “There are no more excuses, my friends.”

We have our own priorities among those Cuomo offered.

Reform of both the election system and government ethics and oversight are vital so that people will be better able to have their voices be heard and so that they’ll have more faith that officials, including the governor, are working in their best interests after the votes are tallied.

On the first, Cuomo said he wants automatic voter registration, early voting and a ban on corporate contributions to all candidates. Automatic voter registration is a great idea, as long as people who don’t want to register for some reason (we can’t imagine there would be many of them) are able to opt out. Early voting is an excellent way to get more people participating in elections, something New York desperately needs with its abysmal rates of voter turnout. And it’s only

fair that people who just don’t have the ability to go to the polls on a given Tuesday not be disenfranchised. A ban on corporate contributions should reduce undue influence on policy makers, though we’d expect the use of straw donors to get around the rules would increase. People who resort to that simply need to be prosecuted.

On ethics, a ban, or at least a strong limit, on lawmakers’ outside income is long overdue. Serving in the Senate or Assembly is full-time work and should be treated as such.

Lawmakers should not have other jobs. Ban those and then give elected officials the raise that has been recommended.

Cuomo’s equal rights agenda for women is comprehensive. Key among its many elements are greater supports for women in the workplace, especially in combating sexual harassment. In government, one part of that means banning the use of taxpayer funds to settle harassment cases.

When it comes to women’s health, the state should ensure full access to contraception, including on an emergency basis, and codify into law the abortion rights established by Roe v. Wade. Women need protection from any rollback of those rights that may come from the federal government.

Cuomo also called for the Child Victims Act to be passed.

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That bill would rightly raise the statute of limitations for both criminal prosecution of sex offenders and civil litigation against them. There’s no reason not to make it easier for victims of this horror to seek justice.

On guns, we back the governor on supporting a “red flag law” that would block people deemed to be dangerous, to themselves or others, from having firearms. As long as the rights of those singled out by the law are protected by letting them challenge findings in court, this is a very sensible gun safety law. We must do everything reasonable to reduce the horror of gun violence. Cuomo also wants to ban bump stocks, the accessories that turn semiautomatic rifles into virtual automatics, as in the Las Vegas massacre, but the federal government under President Trump just did that.

We’re skeptical of other ideas Cuomo cited, like eliminating cash bail and legalizing marijuana, though we see the latter as virtually a sure thing at this point. And we have yet to see a congestion pricing plan for Manhattan that wouldn’t harm Queens residents, so we remain opposed to that.

But many of the ideas the governor touted Monday would make New York a better place to live, and we hope that with his party in control, they can be enshrined in law soon.

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gy. Plastic bags cannot be composted. That is why the DSNY requires bagged yard waste to go in paper bags. As to their cost, The Home Depot and True Value hardware stores sell fivepacks of 30-gallon paper leaf collection bags for $2 and change, not a dollar a bag.

We are The City. It takes a village. Pitch in, if not for yourself, then for everyone’s children and grandchildren.

Elizabeth V. Mooney Forest Hills

Amazon’s great for LIC Dear Editor: Edward Rieck’s letter brought back memories of the “old LIC” and it was every bit as bad as he described it (“New LIC sure beats the old,” Dec. 13). I was the chairman of Community Board 2, which along with the late Walter McCaffrey, negotiated the Citicorp at Court House Square deal, which led to the “new LIC.” The critics then trotted out the same criticisms

as the current ones are using against Amazon. I actually went to the City Hall demonstration last week and there was only one LIC resident on the steps protesting it. Welcome, Amazon!

James Dillon Long Island City

Dump the Willets developer Dear Editor: Re “Rally to city: Reclaim Willets Point acres” by Ryan Brady Dec. 13, multiple editions: Not only should the city reclaim the two acres of land at Willets Point it sold to the Queens Development Group for $1, an amount that would make the infamous Boss Tweed look like a saint. QDG, a joint venture of the Related Companies and the Mets-controlled Sterling Equities, should be booted out of any development not only on the two acres, but also in any part of Willets Point. I say this because its credibility concerning Willets Point is so false it would not even be worth a bucket of warm spit.

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High-minded MTA ideas Dear Editor: Why stop at a dedicated tax on the sale of legalized pot to buyers as a funding source to pay for the MTA capital program along with road and bridge improvements? (“Weed for Rails? Whoa, man,” Editorial, Dec. 13). Why not think out of the box?

Use the free market and let the MTA NYC Transit subway, and Long Island and Metro North railroads, use off-peak, late-night, overnight and weekend excess capacity to provide consumers with other services they desire. Create the “X” line, which could run separate trains. These would provide cars for folks to light up either cigarettes, cigars or marijuana.

You could also have other cars for drinking,

gambling or adult entertainment. This could raise the MTA millions.

Next, create the “H” line using older subway cars about to be retired. They could be converted to provide overnight accommodations for homeless people, including portable showers and medical support facilities. This would afford regular transit riders more space and a safer environment.

Mayor de Blasio needs all the help he can get in dealing with the city’s growing homeless population. Many of them refuse to go to shelters, which they view as unsafe. They prefer riding the subways overnight or staying out on the street. This could save NYC millions.

Larry Penner Great Neck, LI The writer is a transportation historian, advocate and writer who previously worked 31 years for the Federal Transit Administration Region 2 NY Office.

Earmarked tax? Yeah, right Dear Editor: Now that legalization of marijuana is right around the corner I propose using the money from pot sales to fund education. Oh, wait a minute! The money from the lottery goes to fund education already. And how is that working out? My guess? About the same way that the money from pot sales would go to fund the subways.

Bill Viggiano Williston Park, LI

Give McHugh his due Dear Editor: Re your Dec. 13 editorial “Change the rule, honor McHugh”: Rivera Avenue in the Bronx isn’t the only exception to a rule of not naming public venues after live heroes.

New York City renamed the Queensboro Bridge to honor former Mayor Ed Koch in 2011, two years before he died. Shea Stadium, which opened in 1964, was named after lawyer William A. Shea, who secured the Mets’ National League franchise, 27 years before he passed. The Neil Simon and Edward Albee theaters on Broadway were named in honor of those iconic writers while they were at the peak of their careers.

World War II hero John McHugh risked his life to protect our nation. He deserves to have a street named in his honor while he still lives. The ideal day to dedicate this street is June 6, 2019 — 75 years after the D-Day invasion in which he could have made the ultimate sacrifice.

Richard Reif Kew Gardens Hills

A Trump holiday Dear Editor: Here are 11 things President Trump could use or do this Christmas and holiday season.

1) Get a very, very, very good lawyer (at his own expense).

2) Find loyalty (maybe printed on a T-shirt).

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The evidence why is overwhelming.

When the 2008 Willets Point plan was approved, Community Board 7, which has jurisdiction over the area, was assured by thenMayor Bloomberg that it would be consulted with regard to the designation of the developer.

Bloomberg ignored his promise and gave the development to the Mets-Fred Wilpon QDG. The QDG never had any intention of following the approved plan. What it really had in mind was a gambling casino, and when it became clear that would never happen, the development became dormant.

It remained dormant until the QDG came up with another plan. It wanted to build on the Willets Point land a parking lot, which would be used by vehicles that were then being parked adjacent to Citi Field by patrons going to a Mets ball game. The QDG would then have constructed, on the vacant Citi Field parking lot, a 1.4 million-square-foot mega shopping mall.

To justify this outrageous destruction of the 2008 Willets Point plan, the QDG claimed it could not afford to build what it was supposed to build. It claimed it needed the money it would earn from the mall to do the job. It ignored the fact there was speculation the mall would be a financial success and that the Citi Field parking lot was on Flushing Meadows Corona Park land and could not be alienated without state legislative approval.

To establish the latter, a lawsuit was instituted in which I was one of the several plaintiffs. The case went all the way to the New York State Court of Appeals, where the QDG was supported by an inept New York City Council. Our attorney, John Low-Beer, did an excellent job and we won. There could be no mega mall simply because the QDG and the City Council believed they could go forward with one on their own.

Apart from all of the above, a city administration should under no circumstances do business with liars. If the City Council did its job appropriately, it would have found out that QDG was one of the largest landlords in New York City, with assets close to $40 billion. That it could not afford to construct the 2008 Willets Point plan was not just nonsense but a lie, to cover up what it really had in mind. If the current mayoral administration and the City Council decide to ignore entities that lie and continue to have the QDG involved in any part of Willets Point, they should be driven out of office.

Benjamin M. Haber Flushing

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An Ozone Park man is under arrest after hitting a pedestrian — a 74-year-old woman walking a few blocks from her home — in Howard Beach Monday.

Waiching Chen was crossing 159th Avenue at Cross Bay Boulevard late Monday af ter noon, police said, when a Ford Escape turning right off the boulevard struck her in the crosswalk.

The corner is directly across the A driver was charged in the death of a pedestrian street from a firehouse.

GOOGLE EARTH PHOTO Chen lived a short way away crossing 159th Avenue. from the crash site.

Chen’s was the second pedestrian The driver of the car, Mark Dudzinski, 58, stayed at the scene until police and death in two days in Queens. Yimei Gao, 73, was killed crossing Queens Boulevard medics arrived.

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No one was charged in that incident shortly afer arriving.

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4) A good, healthy diet.

5) A book or books that explains how to take responsibility for one’s behavior and how to apologize if one has made mistakes, etc.

6) Write holiday cards to people with uplifting, positive messages (nothing to do with yourself or arrogance).

7) A book on retirement, great hobbies, fun, best places to live, volunteering, giving back to your community, Peace Corps, etc.

8) Bake tasty holiday cookies and bring them to different shelters, veteran’s hospitals, etc. without making negative comments or patting yourself on the back for a good deed.

9) Give out gift cards to random people for no reason without a racist or judgmental remark. Just because it’s nice.

10) Volunteer at a homeless shelter, serving a lunch or dinner without making a big deal about it or horrible comments.

11) As a gift to the American people, release his tax returns (are you hiding anything?). If he is, Santa may know.

Finally, to Trump: Only you know if you have been naughty or nice this year.

Happy 2019 to everyone from New York to California and around the world. Maybe it will really be a happy new year after all.

Carol Lynn Lustgarten Forest Hills

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He’s the real buffoon

Dear Editor: Views written by Krystyna Sevilla and John Amato in the Jan. 13 Letters section have motivated me to respond.

In “Enough is enough on Trump,” Sevilla said, “Our president is doing his best.” This writer is correct. Mr. 45 is doing his best to become the worst of all 45! He made enemies of many domestic and foreign leaders.

President Obama said it best: “Trump’s indicted staff could fill a football field!”

Now for Amato calling Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer “buffoons.” These two longtime congressional leaders from California and New York represent over 50 million Americans. Why should they have a “word of support” for the real buffoon, Trump? He never stopped calling Hillary crooked and saying, “Lock her up.”

Bipartisan bickering goes with the territory, Mr. Amato. I know this too well; for five years I held public office.

Anthony G. Pilla Forest Hills

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Battle lines forming on congestion pricing

by Michael Gannon Editor

Gov. Cuomo on Monday included passage of a congestion pricing traffic plan for Manhattan in a speech outlining his priorities for the first 100 days of 2019.

But civic leaders and elected officials from eastern and northeastern Queens were a day ahead of him, promising resistance to Cuomo’s plans to use the measure to fund the Met rop ol it a n Tr a n s p or t at ion Authority.

Speaking Sunday afternoon in Long Island City at the eastern end of the Ed Koch / Queensboro Bridge, Assembly ma n Dav id Wepr i n (D-Fresh Meadows) and Councilmen Barry Grodenchik (D-Oakland Gardens) and Daneek Miller (D-St. Albans) were joined by the Queens Civic Congress, the Trucking Association of New York, KeepNYCFree. com and Queens residents to oppose what they said is nothing more than a tax on outerborough residents and businesses; and a move likely to slam already hard-hit taxi medallion owners and drivers.

Most plans that have been proposed call for tolls on what are now free East River crossings and a charge for all vehicles entering

Downtown or Midtown.

“A congestion tax would be disastrous for Queens, Brooklyn and Long Island residents,” Weprin said in a statement issued by his office.

“It could cost a commuter hundreds in additional expenses each month.

It would raise the cost of doing business with the cost of congestion taxing being passed onto businesses. It would raise the cost of consumer goods, with business passing along extra costs to consumers. It would limit the competitive ability of these local small businesses; and it would impose a monetary barrier to Manhattan for outer borough residents, who often travel to the city to visit a doctor, watch a show or enjoy a night out in Manhattan.”

Grodenchik and Miller said the traffic and monetary gains also would be negligible given the potential impacts.

“Many in the outer boroughs already lack accessible and efficient transportation options and these New Yorkers will be hit hardest by this financial burden,” Grodenchik said. “ ... According to multiple studies, the effect of congestion pricing would be negligible, with findings indicating a speed increase of just 1 to 2 miles per hour.”

Miller also questioned Albany’s commitment to “dedicated” MTA funding.

“Most observers now agree that a congestion pricing scheme would not generate enough money to compensate for the MTA’s projected $1 billion revenue shortfall, and no dedicated funding stream will ever be safe from the State’s abusive practice of diversion without a lockbox to secure any new streams of revenue,“ said Miller. “My Southeast Queens community shouldn’t be forced to pay a regressive and burdensome tax when it doesn’t have a multitude of accessible transit options like those in Manhattan ...

Transportation is the great equalizer between communities, but there is no equity to be gained from congestion pricing.”

Corey Bearak of Keep NYC Congestion Tax Free said the idea is “really a regressive congestion tax, represents an ideological-driven attempt at social engineering by elites who prefer to limit access by New York City’s middle class and working families to Midtown and Downtown Manhattan.”

Cuomo on Monday included congestion pricing in the section of his speech calling for a total

Nily Rozic to chair state-fed relations

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no fan of President Trump.

The assemblywoman last year introduced a bill to ban Assembly woman Nily companies that work on Rozic (D-Fresh Meadows) Trump’s proposed southern is set to chair her chamber’s border wall from contracts Off ice of State-Federal with New York State. A difRelations. ferent piece of legislation “Working with Speaker she put forth in 2017 sought [Carl] Heastie, I look forto rename Donald J. Trump ward to advocating for poliState Park, which is in cies to help working famiWestchester and Putnam lies; make health care more affordable while protecting A s s e m b l y w o m a n N i l y cou nt ies, af ter Heat her those with pre-existing con- Rozic FILE PHOTO Heyer, a protester killed by right-wing terrorist James ditions; add ress st udent debt; invest in mass transit and infrastruc- Field at the “Unite the Right” rally in ture; and protect our immigrants, voting Charlottesville, Va. last year.

“Assemblywoman Rozic will work tirerights and environment,” Rozic said in a lessly in this position and she’ll play a critprepared statement.

She announced the appointment on ical role in determining the impact that federal initiatives will have on New York; Wednesday.

The office will be looking at the state’s information that will be crucial for future ability to influence policy and trends at legislation and policies here in our state,” the national level, as well as how the fed- Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing) said in a eral government affects people in the her own statement.

Rozic represents parts of Bayside, state.

Like many of her colleagues in the Flushing, Fresh Meadows, Oakland GarDemocrat-controlled Assembly, Rozic is dens, Kew Gardens Hills and Douglaston. Q

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Assemblyman David Weprin, at the microphone, was joined by Corey Bearak of Keep NYC Congestion Tax Free, left, Councilman Barry Grodenchik, Queens Civic Congress President Kevin Forrestal and Bob Friedrich, presiPHOTO COURTESY NYS ASSEMBLY dent of the Glen Oaks Village co-op. reorganization of the MTA. “This year we have to take the bull by the horns with the MTA,” Cuomo said in a text obtained from his website. “We have to pass a dedicated funding stream so the MTA has the funding it needs; congestion pricing is the only alternative.”

Weprin and those speaking at his

press conference on Sunday offered a number of alternatives.

Weprin last month told the Chronicle that he backs a 1 percent commuter tax. Other speakers proposed increasing the gas tax, a nonresident income tax and funding from the anticipated legalization of Q recreational marijuana.

New electric vehicle charger continued from page 4 Level 2 can take place at a home garage, on the street or in a parking field providing charging for 12 to 25 miles of travel per hour for four to six hours to get a full charge.

A “DC Fast” charge can take place at commercial locations, short stops and near highways. It can charge enough to travel 100 to 600 miles per hour and takes 30 minutes for a full charge. The DOT compared it to stopping at a gas station for a half hour.

Katz said no one has an extra half hour to spare and she doesn’t know how successful the program will be if each structure can only charge two or three cars each day.

“I would say to hit critical mass, to prove that the pilot works, you’re going to have a lot of problems doing that if the charging takes two or three hours,” she said.

There are already 500 charging stations for the city’s 1,700 EVs. The charging stations are 11 feet, 1 inch tall so as to keep the cords off the ground.

To make sure drivers are not curbside for hours while charging, there is an account with Flo so a person can activate the charger, plug it in and the driver will be notified on their phone when it’s full. The car is locked so that nobody can come by and open it. The app on the phone can unlock it.

As part of the community engagement process, 10 to 20 pilot zones will be selected with one to five charger sites per zone. They will be selected based on analysis of likely

charging demand, geographic diversity, elected and community feedback and business requests.

Step 1 of the process is outreach to elected officials, business improvement districts and borough boards.

Step 2 is launching a feedback portal where the public can provide ideas on where the city should locate chargers. Business and property owners can also submit a request for a charger.

Step 3 is community board presentations and letters. Step 4 is finalizing the locations with letters to relevant community boards and elected officials.

Katz told those at the meeting that the public needs to be informed of the developments. The DOT said it would do some marketing over the six months.

“Our point is that we’re being faced with something that’s a good thing: charging stations to make the environment cleaner for next generations and for our generation, but I think that the process is a little questionable Q on how we’re looking at it,” Katz said.

Correction The Dec. 13 story “CB 9 elects new district manager” was incorrect in two respects about candidate Jessica Douglas. She did attend the meeting, and Borough President Melinda Katz did not make phone calls on Q her behalf. We regret the errors.

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OLG Youth Choir at Radio City Music Hall They have been practicing since July, but all their hard work could finally be heard — on the stage of the famed Radio City Music Hall.

The Our Lady of Grace Youth Choir in Howard Beach performed at the Christmas Spectacular on Nov. 24, the culmination of months of auditioning and rehearsal.

The song they performed, “And the Angels Sang,” is an original composition by one of the parish music ministers, Rich D’Auria.

It was a once-in-a-lifetime moment for the 38 children, who range from first to eighth grade.

Joining the choir requires no audition. But the chance to sing — a capella— in the great

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Friends and family bought more than 350 tickets to the performance and sat in a special section just for them.

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continued from page 8 outside income.

A spokesman for Citizens Union, also speaking with the Chronicle before the suit was filed, said a significant raise for legislators — and stricter outside income controls — are necessary.

A full-time Legislature, he said, could attract “some of the best and brightest” into public service.

Speaking on Monday, both Cuomo and Stringer appeared unfazed by the lawsuit.

“We will ... increase trust in the democratic system by closing the LLC loophole ban, banning outside income, reforming our campaign finance system and take a major step by banning any corporate contributions to any political candidate, period,” Cuomo said in a speech outlining his goals for the first 100 days of 2019.

Stringer, speaking at an event in Forest Hills, wasn’t backing down.

“This pay raise is a record amount for legislators,” he told the Chronicle. “They deserve to have a pay increase for the first time in 20 years and the commission also made sure that we have important reforms: limiting outside income the way Congress does and getting away with stipends that will create a more indepenQ dent Legislature.”

David Russell contributed to this story.

OUR LADY OF GRACE CATHOLIC ACADEMY • SCHOOL SPOTLIGHT

Brunch with This past weekend, Our Lady of Grace Catholic Academy in Howard Beach had their first annual Brunch with Santa and it was a hit! Fundraising Chair Doreen DeCandia and Committee Chair Desireé Napolitano made it a magical day for the families of OLGCA. State Sen. Joseph Addabbo Jr. dressed as Santa had the kids smiling from ear to ear and cheering Santa, as he walked in with an entourage of special guests that included the Grinch — all thanks to Joe DeMarco of the Howard Beach Kiwanis.

The OLGCA is mainly a fundraising body and relies on events like this to help fund essential academic items for their students. It’s great to see so many families come to share in the spirit of Christmas.

Young or old, all enjoyed the event. OLGCA would like to show great appreciation to all the local businesses that participated in this event just to name a few: C&C Deli, Matteo’s and Alessandro’s, as well as all the families of OLGCA who attended and volunteered their time this event.

Until next year — everyone at OLGCA would like to wish all a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year!

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Woman honored for breaking up beating Comptroller commends Waleska Mendez for stepping in to help

by David Russell Associate Editor

City Comptroller Scott Stringer came to Forest Hills Tuesday to honor a volunteer at a Jewish-run soup kitchen who stopped an attack on a Bukharian teenager.

On Nov. 29, Waleska Mendez came out of Masbia on 64th Road just off 108th Street to see a teenager being attacked by a group of people.

“I just started screaming, ‘Just leave him alone.’ They don’t pay attention to me, I go back to Masbia, I just grab a broom and I just went outside,” Mendez told Stringer.

She said part of her frustration was that many people had their phones out but were using them to record the fight instead of calling the police.

Stringer commended Mendez for taking action.

“I want to come here today to honor you because you were selfless, you risked harm to yourself and you protected [a] boy who [was] being very hurt and you didn’t think about yourself and you really did the right thing,” he said. “And sometimes we take that for granted, that there are heroes everywhere we go, but that’s not always the case. A lot of people would look out the window, call the police, but very few people would go out and do what you did.”

City Comptroller Scott Stringer honors Waleska Mendez with a commendation as other Masbia employees and directors are on hand. Mendez broke up an assault by a group of people on a PHOTO BY DAVID RUSSELL Bukharian teenager near the soup kitchen where she volunteers.

Stringer and Mendez even posed for a picture with the broom she was holding when she went to stick up for the victim.

The 16 -year-old was taken to N YC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst with serious injuries but the damage could have been worse had Mendez not intervened.

Mendez told the Chronicle she didn’t

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even think about the fact that she might be putting herself in danger.

“You don’t think about that because everything happens so fast,” she said.

Alexander Rapaport, executive director of Masbia, talked about how important it is to lend a helping hand.

“More and more we kind of forget that

we’re all citizens and we’re all responsible for each other,” he told the Chronicle.

“As New Yorkers we all hustle and bustle, we all live on our own island in this big island,” Rapaport said. “We need to celebrate the people who go out of their bubble and try to stick up for a stranger.”

He acknowledged that it can be dangerous for people to become involved in a situation but it’s necessary.

“Yes, sometimes there’s a risk of putting yourself in harm’s way but that’s what society is,” Rapaport said. “As a collective, we survive. If not, it’s just a jungle life.”

The attack was part of a group of fights in the area in late November.

After a Hispanic Forest Hills High School student was beaten up, a group look ing for ret r ibution assaulted the Bukharian teenager, who had nothing to do with the prior incident, as he was leaving Munch Place restaurant. There was another anti-Semitic occurrence in early December a s Cou ncil member K a ren Koslow it z (D-Forest Hills) was sent a hate-filled letter referencing concentration camps.

Rapaport said this story has a positive.

“When a story has a good side and we can promote the good side of the story, we can remind people, this is the right way,” Q he said.

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Five-alarm fire rips through Sunnyside Fundraiser to help business owners and employees impacted by blaze

by David Russell Associate Editor

In the wake of a fire on Queens Boulevard that took down six Sunnyside businesses, the community has rallied to support the owners and employees impacted.

There was a fundraiser at Sunnyside Community Services on Monday night and a GoFundMe page has been established.

“I love my neighborhood,” Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) told the Chronicle. “I love it even more tonight. This is New York City and it’s a neighborhood where everybody knows the names of the people who work in the restaurants and that’s why so many people are here because they genuinely love the people who served their food, who cooked their food, who deliver their packages for them at the UPS store and it’s really a beautiful coming together of our neighborhood.”

Van Bramer was also impressed by how fast the fundraising has happened.

“That a group of neighbors and the Sunnyside Business Improvement District could come together and raise $100,000 in four days is absolutely mind blowing,” Van Bramer said.

Hundreds of people attended the fundraiser, so many that the organizers, led by the Long Island City Partnership, had to break up the three-hour event into a pair of 90-minute parts.

There was a line down the block at 39th Street as 10 people were let in at a time.

There were food, drinks and music during the night, as well as a raffle and a silent auction.

There were also vendors who have set up shop at pop-up markets in Sunnyside, selling items with part of the proceeds going to the cause.

“As soon as I heard about it, I was like, all right, what can I do?” asked Rehndell Masi, who sold ceramics.

She noted the GoFundMe page with its

An early-morning fire in Sunnyside on Dec. 13 engulfed six stores and firefighters evacuated six PHOTO BY STEVE MALECKI families from a neighboring building. goal of $100,000 has raised more than $90,000 already but there is still more to do.

“That’s only $1,000 per person and that might take care of a week or two of bills, which really puts everything in perspective,” Masi said. “It’s great to have everybody come out to this thing.”

Selmin Karatas, co-founder of Kazani, was selling haircare protection products.

She said she was “moved” to see how many people came out to support the cause.

“I was so hurt by the fire because I’ve been in this town since I was 1-year-old,” Karatas said.

Another vendor at the event was Jose

Alvarez. “It’s really great,” he said about the event. “It gives an opportunity to small businesses like mine to get that exposure but also to give back a little bit. It’s really great to see them come together out there.”

On the morning of Dec. 13, seven firefighters and five civilians suffered injuries, none of them life-threatening, as a result of the five-alarm fire.

The blaze begin around 2 a.m. and took down a number of businesses on Queens Boulevard at 45th Street.

Romantic Depot bur ned down, only months after opening at the site of what used to be RadioShack.

The vendors at the fundraiser in Sunnyside on Monday night included Jose Alvarez, left, Rehndell Masi and Selmin Karatas.

Other businesses hit include New York Style Eats and Zen Yai, a Vietnamese noodle and coffee shop, The UPS Store and Sidetracks, a bar and restaurant.

The FDNY said on Twitter at 8:23 a.m. that the fire had been placed under control.

Politicians commented about the devastation while thanking the firefighters who prevented it from being worse.

Van Bramer tweeted, “Thank you @ FDNY Chief Baggott and all who responded to the Queens Boulevard fire. Grateful for those who risked their lives to fight this fire. #Sunnyside is hurting today. But also appreciative of your service. We will help our neighbors in any way possible.”

State Sen. Michael Gianaris (D-Astoria) said he was “heartbroken” to learn about the fire. “I reached out to various agencies, including the American Red Cross, Office of Emergency Management, FDNY, Small Business Services, and the Small Business Administration to offer my assistance in recovery and rebuilding efforts,” he said in a statement.

Gianaris added he had the injured people on his mind.

“My thoughts are with them and their families in hopes of a speedy recovery. I thank them and the more than 200 FDNY members who responded for their bravery.”

U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley (D-Queens, Bronx) tweeted, “My thoughts & prayers are with those impacted by the fire in Sunnyside, including the 7 FDNY firefighters who were injured & community members whose businesses and livelihoods were damaged. We will do what we can to help them rebuild what they lost.”

City Comptroller Scott Stringer tweeted, “Devastated for the Sunnyside community affected by the f ire on Queens Blvd.

Thank you to @FDNY and all those who risked their lives fighting it. My thoughts are with you — we will do all we can to support rebuilding. @SunnysideShines. Q

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“My sincere thanks to Principal Lorenz, teachers, staff and parents for their dedicated efforts there,” he wrote.

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He has struck three times between Nov. 24 and Nov. 30, riding up silently behind people carrying cell phones on the streets. The thief quickly grabs the phone and rides off, police said.

The victims, two men and a woman, range in age from 24 to 36 years old.

And the thefts took place on Liberty Avenue and Lefferts Boulevard between 101st Avenue and 120th Street.

Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1 (800) 577-TIPS (8477).

Give some blood, get some Mets tickets.

The West Hamilton Beach Volunteer Fire Department is sponsoring a blood drive Saturday, Dec. 22 at its firehouse.

The holidays are a time of year when blood supplies traditionally run low.

So the fire company has arranged to give away a free pair of tickets to a Mets game next year in exchange for every pint. Donors will be given vouchers that are redeemable online for tickets.

The drive runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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Tiny finches caged in hair curlers; ‘It’s a miracle any of them survived’

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Almost six dozen tiny South American birds have been in quarantine since Dec. 8 after federal agents seized them from a carry-on bag at John F. Kennedy International Airport.

According to a spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, agriculture specialists stationed at the airport stopped a passenger on a f light from Georgetown, Guyana.

During the course of the inspection, CBP discovered 70 live finches concealed within hair rollers in a black duffel bag.

The finches were detained under quarantine and tur ned over to United States Department of Agriculture Veterinary Services. A CBP spokesman said the passenger was denied entry into the country and sent back to Guyana.

While the birds’ future is unclear at the moment, Bobby Horvath, a member of the FDNY and licensed wildlife rehabilitator, told the Chronicle that they thus far have been lucky.

“It’s a miracle any of them survived,” Horvath said. “And if they do, you don’t know what long-term damage you’ve done to them. Finches are very high-strung.

They’re very delicate birds with very high

six hours.

Horvath said most of the finches likely were wild birds unaccustomed to confinement, and almost certainly not screened for parasites or diseases. That issue ranked high among the concerns of the CBP’s Troy Miller, director of field operations for the New York Field Office, “CBP Agriculture Specialists are the first line of defense to prevent the introduction of animal diseases that have the potential to cause significant damage to the Nation’s agricultural economy,” Miller said in a statement issued by the agency.

He cited the 2015 U.S. outbreak of highly pathogenic avian inf luenza, commonly known as bird f lu, which resulted in the culling of 50 million commercial turkeys and chickens and $850 million in damages.

Horvath said people are getting more and more creative about smuggling animals into the country. He cited one recent instance of a woman trying to smuggle a small primate in her hair. He attributes much of it to greed.

“Somebody wanted those finches brought into this country,” he said. “If you want to buy an exotic animal in the United States, you have to get one that has been bred in captivity. They can cost a lot of money. But you can go to some countries and they are Q for sale in cages for $2 or $5.”

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Ex-Cook staffer sues legislator, Assembly Former aide alleges discrimination, retaliation in her 2017 termination

by Michael Gannon Editor

A former employee of state Assemblywoman Vivian Cook (D-Jamaica) is suing the legislator for discriminatory treatment, wrongful termination and retaliation for fili ng a complai nt about her work i ng conditions.

Gail Palmer, a former legislative aide, also is suing the New York State Assembly and former co-worker Reginald Chalmers, whom Palmer accuses of inappropriate behavior in the office, and whom she asserts is Cookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grandson and therefore improperly hired under the Legislatureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nepotism regulations.

Neal Brickman, Palmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attorney, told the Chronicle that the civil suit was served on Cook and Chalmers last Friday in Queens Supreme Court. Cookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office did not respond to a request for comment.

Chalmers could not be reached.

In an article published in the Dec. 16 edition of the New York Post, Cook categorically denied each of Palmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s allegations and said Chalmers is not â&#x20AC;&#x153;a blood relative.â&#x20AC;?

The 22-page complaint states that Palmer worked as a legislative aide in Cookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s district office from Jan. 1 to May 19, 2006, and again from April 30, 2010 to Dec. 31, 2016.

The suit claims Palmer initially resigned

in May 2006 â&#x20AC;&#x153;because of what she believed in the office Cook â&#x20AC;&#x153;routinely tolerated inapwas a hostile and intimidating work envi- propriate workplace behaviorâ&#x20AC;? by Chalmers, ronment created primarily by Cook.â&#x20AC;? and that he sometimes would work only two She alleges that Cook routinely berated to four hours per day while being paid a staffers in her district office â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but not in full-time salary.

Albany â&#x20AC;&#x201D; smashed items including a radio, The suit states that Palmer filed an intera Rolodex and a microwave oven nal harassment and discriminaand was â&#x20AC;&#x153;otherwise being volation complaint against Chalmers tile, violent and unpredictable.â&#x20AC;? in August 2015, but that the subShe accuses Cook of regularly sequent investigation determined usi ng racially cha rged a nd that Chalmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; actions, though derogatory comments toward her â&#x20AC;&#x153;unfortunate,â&#x20AC;? did not qualify as and other staffers. a violation of Assembly harassPalmer asserts that Cook sinment policies. gled her out for being of mixed â&#x20AC;&#x153;My client tried very hard to race, allegedly referring to her rectify the situation short of filâ&#x20AC;&#x153;mulat toâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;GeeCheeâ&#x20AC;? ing a lawsuit,â&#x20AC;? Brickman told the heritage.

Chronicle on Monday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;GeeCheeâ&#x20AC;? is slang most often Palmer claims the alleged verAssemblywoman referring to people with Creole bal harassment from Cook conVivian Cook roots in coastal regions of South FILE PHOTO tinued unabated, and that the Carolina and Georgia but it also assemblywoman refused her is a derogatory term for people of mixed race. time off to bring her then-dying husband for After Palmer resigned, the suit states that medical appointments. He passed away in Cook asked her to return in 2010.

September 2016.

She did so, saying that among other conShe asserts that she learned of her firing siderations, she needed health insurance from Cook when she showed up for work on coverage for her chronically ill husband.

Jan. 2, 2017.

She states that she was terminated on The suit, in which Palmer is seeking in Dec. 31, 2016. excess of $1.5 million, claims that: Palmer asserts that in her second tenure â&#x20AC;˘ the primary cause of her termination

was her caregiver status for her husband; â&#x20AC;˘ her termination constituted illegal retaliation for her filing a complaint under both New York State and New York City law; â&#x20AC;˘ Palmer is a victim of age discrimination; â&#x20AC;˘ she was forced to work in a hostile work environment; â&#x20AC;˘ Cook hired Chalmers illegally and was aware of â&#x20AC;&#x153;his hostile and abusive behaviorâ&#x20AC;? toward Palmer; and â&#x20AC;˘ she was subjected to intentional infliction of emotional distress by all defendants.

Brickman said the law gives the defendants 30 days to respond to such a complaint, but that extensions are not uncommon upon a proper request.

The suit is not Cookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only potential legal problem.

Back in May the Post and the Chronicle reported that the New York State Attorney General and the Inspector Generalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey were investigating the status of a piece of property in Jamaica that was purchased in 2006 with PA money by a nonprofit organization Cook founded.

The property was purchased by the nowdefunct Rockaway Boulevard Development Corp. for $560,500, which the Post reported was roughly twice its market value in 2006. continued on page 28

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A longtime institution in the Queens newspaper market is reeling under debt and its owners are looking for new financing.

Multiple published reports state that the Queens Tribune, founded in 1970 by Gary Ackerman before he began a political career that included 30 years in Congress, furloughed most of its staff on Monday.

The New York Post reported that the paper is for sale and that its print run has been cut back. The paper quoted CEO Andrew Holt as telling Media Ink that management is hopeful for a positive resolution, but that the company had more than a million dollars in debt when it was acquired earlier this year.

This past April the Tribune sold the publication to Ocean Gold Media, which in July changed the paper from its traditional tabloid style to a broadsheet with large and numerous photographs and graphics.

Ocean Gold ceased publishing the Tribune’s Southeast Queens Press in June.

In past years the paper had come under scrutiny for its former practice of accepting

Multiple publications are reporting that the 48-year-old Queens Tribune is in serious PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON financial trouble. ads for “adult services,” which critics charged were promoting prostitution.

The paper’s management also was criticized for its longtime connections with and work for the Queens County Democratic Party. Numerous Democrats employed the company’s Multi-Media political consulting business while the paper covered their Q campaigns.

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Sporting blue for Christmas ’Tis the season to say thanks to your supporters.

State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. and Assemblyman Mike Miller joined forces again this year to throw a Christmas party at the Woodhaven House on Jamaica Avenue for their constituents — as well as the cops of the 102nd Precinct, which covers both their districts.

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It was full house for a buffet supper and a bunch of Christmas cheer, more than 175 people in all, Miller said.

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Scores of residents, left, opposed to the planned men’s homeless shelter at 127-03 20 Ave. in College Point showed up to PS 29 on Monday night to voice their opposition to the project, which will house 200 single men. On the right, Department of Homeless Services First Deputy Commissioner Jackie Bray, at mic, speaks to College Point residents at the PS 29 town hall meeting PHOTOS BY RYAN BRADY Monday night.

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It was clear from the start. Department of Homeless Services officials in College Point on Monday were in for a painful night.

Hundreds had packed the auditorium at PS 29 to capacit y to hear about the 200-single men homeless shelter that will open at 127-03 20 Ave. next September.

Placards with messages like “NO ONE ASKED US!” and “SAY NO TO DRUGS AND CRIME IN COLLEGE POINT!” were all over the room.

Despite cold winds outside, a line of people waiting to get in stretched down the block. And the NYPD blocked off part of the street for dozens of anti-shelter protesters in front of the school.

“Affordable housing? Yes! Shelter?

No!” College Point-based realtor Michael Deng, one of shelter opposition leaders, shouted before the onstage panel of officials from the city and Westhab, the Westchester-based nonprofit that will be operating the 20th Avenue location.

The crowd was ad monished many times for shouting the officials down.

Critics say College Point, which has a litany of existing municipal facilities and no subway stations, is a terrible place for a shelter.

DHS First Deputy Commissioner Jackie Bray told the crowd why her agency feels differently.

“We think this neighborhood’s appropriate because it’s a neighborhood where we don’t have any shelters,” she said over shouts from the crowd. “We’re looking across the city at neighborhoods where we don’t have any shelters, where we know that we have people in our system who

come from those neighborhoods who need the opportunity to return.”

Residents asked numerous questions of the officials, voicing concerns about a range of issues like security, lack of public transportation in the area and the fact that around 3,000 students go to schools near the shelter, which will have 43 security guards and supervisors and at least 130 cameras.

One of them is the all-girl St. Agnes Academic High School. Its principal, Susan Nicoletti, said at the meeting that many of her students leave sports events from the school building around 7:30 or 8 p.m.

“Who’s going to be walking them to the bus stops? ” she asked the panel.

“Who’s going to be watching for their safety? I’d like an answer. Who’s going to be watching my girls?”

Westhab Senior Vice President of Services Jim Coughlin responded that the location “will be heavily staffed” with security outside the site and in a oneblock radius of it.”

His words apparently did not calm her concerns.

“When I look at the statistics, the radius of crime surrounding the shelters is apparent,” the principal said. “We’ve done our homework.”

Longtime College Point resident Bill Dykes brought up a Realtor.com study showing homeless shelters lower the proper t y value of nearby homes by 12.7 percent.

“We have children, people, businesses and homes that are going to be affected,” he said. “Just don’t put it right in the center of the community.”

Community Board 7 First Vice Chair-

man Chuck Apelian, speaking before the panel, pointed how the property where the shelter will be established is zoned for manufacturing, not residential usage.

“I don’t understand how you’re going to be housing homeless and just saying that that is something you’re allowed to do in a manufacturing district,” he said.

Bray responded that because the use of the property for housing is to be “transient,” it was consistent with zoning rules.

She also pointed to how the Department of Buildings had approved other “transient” shelters in manufacturing zones.

The town hall was similar to bitterly contentious ones held by city officials in neighborhoods like Maspeth and Ozone Pa rk ab out shelt e r pla n s for t hose neighborhoods.

At PS 29 on Monday, City Councilman Paul Vallone (D-Bayside) praised College Point residents for their activism fighting the shelter. He urged them to keep raising money to hire a lawyer who could sue the city in an effort to stop the plan.

The crowd also heard from shelter opponents Assemblyman Daniel Rosenthal (D-Flushing) and state Sen.-elect John Liu. Liu picked apar t the shelter plan’s financials.

The ex-city comptroller confirmed with Bray: The shelter contract is roughly $9 million annually, so the city spends about $3,750 per month on each man staying there.

Bray explained that the total contract amount includes rent, services, security and other costs.

But Liu doubts taxpayers are getting a good return on their investment.

“Somebody is making a lot of money

off of this shelter,” he said, the crowd screaming in support.

City Department of Buildings records list the owner as David Levitan of realty firm Liberty One Group, a man with a histor y of conver ting proper ties into shelters.

Levitan has been a frequent verbal target of Vallone lately, with the councilman claiming the developer is profiting at the expense of the College Point community.

“This particular developer, according to my understanding, went ahead and took a humongous risk by developing this property, supposedly without guarantees,” Liu explained. “I find that extremely hard to believe.”

The senator-elect said he will work with Vallone and Rosenthal to make sure the correct process for the shelter “was completely followed, which we don’t think it was, and what kinds of deals went into this because somebody is making a huge amount of money and this is not supposed to be a money-making venture.

This is supposed to be about providing services effectively and eff iciently to those who need them.”

“We are literally going to fight you all the way to the end.”

Videos of Liu’s speech were posted on the College Point, NY Facebook page.

A neighborhood resident using the same page also posted the handle for the personal Twitter account of Bray, the DHS official, but warned against harassing her.

“Listen everyone it’s fine to be angry and angry with her,” the user wrote. “But just remember that harassment hurts our cause. They are already trying to make us Q look like selfish, greedy, buffoons.”

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Case involves Bonnano, Gambino goons gambling-related debts and extortionate loans, often at the direction of one of the other mobsters, John Ambrosio, 74, of Huntington, LI. One of the wiseguys sentenced, 67-yearold Anthony Saladino of Glen Cove, LI, was heard saying to an undercover agent that he and Salerno are in the Mafia. He did this by pointing to a button on the Whitestone man’s shirt and saying he “has got that thing.”

Salerno was partly responsible for some of the day-to-day operations of Ambrosio’s gambling schemes, which included illegal poker games, electronic gaming machines and online sports betting.

The Whitestone man, Damelio, Anzalone, Saladino and Joseph Durso, 26, of Glen Cove, LI also distributed drugs like Xanax, marijuana and cocaine.

Authorities executed a search warrant for the case last December at a Nassau County storage facility, finding a sawed-off shotgun, two AR-15s, a .38-caliber revolver, gambling and loan sharking records, electronic gaming machines, narcotics and Q drug paraphernalia.

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Bonnano crime family soldier Frank “Frankie Boy” Salerno of Whitestone was sentenced to 60 months in prison last week for racketeering conspiracy, authorities said.

“There should be no doubt that putting a stop to the criminal activities of La Cosa Nostra continues to be a priority of this Office and our law enforcement partners,” U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Richard Donoghue said in a prepared statement.

Salerno, 43, was the last of seven men to be sentenced on a superseding indictment charging Bonnano and Gambino members of the Mafia with racketeering conspiracy, including predicate acts of drug trafficking, loan sharking, gambling and obstruction of justice.

Other Queens men in the group, Alessandro Damelio, 49, of Whitestone and Thomas Anzalone, 44, of Ozone Park, were previously sentenced.

Prosecutors said the racketeering conspiracy in the case took place between January 2014 and December 2017.

Salerno routinely collected payments for

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Whitestone wiseguy gets 5 years in prison

It’s Neir-ly winter time The snow keeps many of us indoors in the winter, but photographers know a good thing when they see it.

Check out the one-night-only photo show at historic Neir’s Tavern in Woodhaven on Dec. 22 featuring the winter work of 20 Instagrammers. The show was organized by Steve Vazquez, a civic activist and prolific Queens photographer with nearly 15,000

followers on the social media site where he is known as #Queenscapes.

He curated the show from hundreds of submissions tagged #QUCares, including the one above by Forest Hills’ Monica Marino.

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Sliwa enters race for city public advocate

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Curtis Sliwa, the Guardian Angels founder turned popular radio talk show host, is running for public advocate.

Sliwa, who was endorsed by former Republican congressman and ex-Queens County GOP chairman Bob Turner in a press release issued Tuesday afternoon, is intent on challenging Councilman Eric Ulr ich (R- Ozone Park) for enough Republican and independent votes to win a special election early next year against what could be a crowded and heavily divided Democratic field.

Public Advocate Tish James, who was elected in November to be the state’s next attorney general, will vacate the office effective Jan. 1.

“Curtis Sliwa has been a public advocate all of his life,” Turner said. “For four decades he’s fought to make our subways and streets safe and has never hesitated to speak out against the far left lunacy of the de Blasio administration. No one can doubt that Curtis Sliwa would be the most effective person to hold Mayor de Blasio accountable as public advocate. He is the clear choice for Republicans and independents to bring some sanity to City

Bob Turner, left, has endorsed Curtis Sliwa for public advocate. Sliwa founded the Guardian Angels years before becoming a popular radio talk show host. COURTESY PHOTO Hall and prevent a complete domination

by Democrats in New York next year.”

Ulrich has the GOP’s formal endorsement in Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island. Sliwa has never held elective office.

The field of more than 20 announced candidates also includes Assemblyman Ron Kim (D-Flushing) and Councilman Q Jumaane Williams (D-Brooklyn).

A piece of land purchased with Port Authority money in 2016 by a nonprofit founded by Assemblywoman Vivian Cook was being rented out to park trucks and construction FILE PHOTO equipment when the Chronicle visited the site back on May.

Former staffer sues Cook continued from page 24 Cook’s office has not responded to the Chronicle’s requests for comment on the property since 2015.

Money for t he prop e r t y, at t he intersection of Rockaway Boulevard a nd 145t h St reet i n Ja m aica , wa s pledged by the PA as part of a community benefits package negotiated in MASF-073884

connection with construction of the JFK AirTrain.

The property was being rented for the storage of trucks and commercial vehicles when the Chronicle went to the site to take pictures in May. The PA stopped funding the nonprofit in 2010. The city last year sold a tax lien it Q had on the property for $27,666.

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Toy and gift drive ends today!

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The Queens Chronicle’s 24th Annual Toy Drive, held in conjunction with the Marine Corps League’s Toys for Tots program, ends at 5 p.m. today, Dec. 20.

As always, it’s been a great success, and countless kids in Queens homeless shelters, as well as the children of members of the armed forces, will have a merrier Christmas thanks to the contributions of the people of our borough, and beyond. But the need is great and we could always use more. If you’re reading this before the close of business today, there’s still a chance to drop off a gift. Toys, clothes, accessories — all are wanted by children in need.

We’d like to thank donors Barbara Xavier of Astoria, Pat LaLande of Queens Village, Victor Sawchuk of Middle Village, Lori Hutkay of Richmond Hill, Martina O’Donnell of Middle Village, Vincent Ciccia of Flushing, Jerri Lynn Bittner of Woodhaven, the Russell family of Forest Hills, Vickie Sobel of Kew Gardens, Matt Waters of Flushing, Nick Hoefly of Astoria, Pat Connelly of Yer Man’s Irish Pub in Glendale, the management of 60 Sutton Place in Manhattan and Marcy Galatioto of Middle Village, who was one of the key forces behind the founding of the toy drive more than 20 years ago.

Getting a special shout-out for their efforts are James Seaman of Toys for Tots, Connexion I

Photo contest!

The Queens Chronicle’s 11th annual Holiday Photo Contest is underway. Have we received your submission yet?

Take pictures of lights, miniature villages, snowmen, joyous children and families — anything that reflects the season — and send them on in. Our main requirement is that the photos be taken in the borough this season. We also ask that you give us all the details you can, especially the location, the names of any people in the picture, whenever possible, and when it was taken (but don’t use time stamps!). The winner gets free passes to an off-Broadway show or other family-friendly performance in or around the city. You’ll also see your photo published.

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

Nick Hoefly of the Astoria Creatives Meetup group (which also welcomes members from elsewhere) dropped off a generous donation, boxes full of gifts at the Chronicle office Tuesday. His son, Parker, couldn’t resist giving one of them a final hug first — parting was such PHOTOS BY MICHAEL SHAIN sweet sorrow. office at 93-06 101 Ave., Ozone Park.

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Cardozo’s Naclerio wins number 800 Legendary coach earns another milestone victory in long career

by David Russell Associate Editor

Ron Naclerio won one game in his first season as head coach at Cardozo.

Fortunately, he picked up the pace and recently won number 800.

“At the rate I won my first year, I’d have to coach 800 years,” Naclerio said.

Cardozo dominated Springfield Gardens in a 78-43 win on Dec. 11 for the milestone victory. It was a team effort as four players, Errol White, Jaylen Davis, Coby Farrington and Donte Ager, scored in double-digits.

Naclerio noted that this was the rare milestone that didn’t occur on Cardozo’s home floor in Bayside.

Recently, Naclerio was locked out of his office and told by the principal that it would now house a new ROTC program.

“I was in a way happy that it was on the road,” Naclerio said. “Cardozo home is not the same home for me anymore even though I still love coaching the basketball team.”

After number 800, former players came over to his house and shared stories.

“It felt good,” Naclerio said. “It started hitting me because there’s a Mount Rushmore in New York City that people say I’m on.”

Sam Cutchin, who played for Cardozo in

Ron Naclerio, center, earned another milestone in his legendary career by winning his 800th game as head coach at Cardozo. Naclerio, seen here after setting the PSAL wins record in 2015, FILE PHOTO has been the head coach at the school since 1981. the ’80s, told the coach that he saved as many lives as he won games.

“If that’s really true that I’ve done that, that’s great because the number of games I’ve won is astronomical,” Naclerio said.

It wasn’t just his former players who called to offer congratulations. Even opponents tipped their hats.

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Keith Williams played at Bayside High School but Naclerio helped him get a college scholarship. Williams called the coach from Atlanta after the milestone.

“It made me feel good,” Naclerio said.

He also pointed out that he has won the games in shorter schedules than coaches in other states have, with some states out West

playing 38 or 40 games in a regular season as opposed to 20-something for Cardozo.

The coach remembers his milestones but admits he didn’t think about the win totals for many years.

When a principal once asked him how many victories he had, Naclerio looked through all the scorebooks he kept and realized he had 498 at the time and was on the cusp of the 500 wins milestone.

The last few years have been somewhat of a personal victory tour for Naclerio.

His team won the 2014 PSAL title. In December 2014, Cardozo beat the High School of Construction for his 700th win.

In 2015, a win over Francis Lewis was the 723rd of his career, giving him the PSAL record. And in 2016, a win over Springfield Gardens gave Naclerio 755 wins and the state public school record.

The coach said he realizes he’s one of just a few coaches who’ve amassed wins on such a scale. There’s still another icon ahead of him. The late Jack Curran is the winningest city high school basketball coach, having won 972 games at Archbishop Molloy.

Could Naclerio one day pass Curran and even reach an almost unthinkable 1,000 wins in his coaching career? “I’m taking it Q one day at a time,” he said.

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In the basement of a prewar apartment building in Astoria is a fantasy world that moves to the sounds of long, sad whistles and grumbling engines.

Members of the Queens County Model Railroad Association have been gathering there — more or less every Friday night in the basement for 60 years.

In the windowless room, they have created a section of the imagined Empire Valley rail line that runs from Allentown, Pa. through New York City, up the Hudson River to Kingston, NY, then west to Binghamton.

“It’s not every foot of track — just the high points,” said Dennis Gander, who, after joining 20 years ago, still thinks of himself as one of the newer members of the club.

The Empire Valley line is built on a chest-high platform that covers nearly all of the 1,600-square-foot, underground space that used to be the building’s coal room.

No one has calculated how many feet of track there is on the layout. But a model train, running at regulation speed, takes about 30 minutes to make one circuit.

All the active members’ names — 14 in all — are listed on a white board near the entrance. (“We lost two this year,” said Gander.) They are all men, but there was a time in the past when the club had two female members, said its resident historian, John McCluskey.

Despite the fact that model railroading as a hobby has been on the decline for decades, the trains still have a nostalgic moment every year around Christmas time. This layout, however, is not meant for holiday visitors.

First of all, it has not been completed. The layout of hills, streams, steel plants and passengers stations was started in the mid-1980s, but it still is not finished. The members say it probably never will be.

“That’s just the nature of the hobby,” said Gander.

Because the group meets only once a week in a hard-toget-into building, few outsiders get a chance to see the layout. The members kind of like it that way. When a reporter first called to ask if he could drop by and do a story on the club, the man who answered the phone replied no. “We kind of fly under the radar,” he said.

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EXHIBITS “Wall-Floor Positions,” with artists making themselves into prop sculptures, moving through various poses in relation to a room, as first done

by Bruce Nauman in 1965 California, tied to the “Disappearing Acts” exhibit of his work. Each Fri.-Sat. thru Feb. 23, each hour on the hour 1-5 p.m., MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City. Free with admission: $10; $5 students, seniors; free under 16. Info: (718) 784-2084, momaps1.org.

“Lift Him Up” gospel concert and family jubilee series, with live DJ, guest speakers, dancing, singing, games, giveaways and more. Each Sat. thru end of Dec., 4:30-6 p.m., Jamaica Market, 90-40 160 St. Free. Info: (718) 291-0282.

Winter Warm-Up, for ages 3-4 with a parent; Winter Survival, for ages 5-7; and Animal Care Club, for ages 8-12; teaching how animals survive the cold months and how to care for those living in a facility, respectively. Thu., Dec. 27, 10 a.m., Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston. $18 (Warm-Up); $24 (Survival and Care).

Info/pre-registration (required): (718) 229-4000, alleypond.com.

Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts, with works in multiple media from watercolors to sound installations, tracing “withdrawal as an art form” and compelling viewers to relinquish the safety of the familiar. Thru Mon., Feb. 25, MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City. $10; $5 students, seniors. Info: (718) 784-2084, momaps1.org.

“Elizabeth Atterbury: Night Comes In,” with sculptures that clasp at a rhythmic and repetitive nature, many made during the artist’s pregnancy with her second child, “marking a specific period of mental space during physical occupancy.” Thru Sat., Jan. 19, Mrs., 60-40 56 Drive, Maspeth. Free.

Info: (347) 841-6149, mrsgallery.com.

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ily Drop-In Activities 11 a.m.-4 p.m. each screening day, Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria. $15; $11 seniors, students; $9 kids 3-17; includes museum admission. Info: (718) 777-6888, movingimage.us.

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Winter Solstice Sunset Walk, a guided stroll welcoming the arrival of winter on the shortest day of the year and seeking winter wildlife. Fri., Dec. 21, 3 p.m., Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Center, 175-10 Cross Bay Blvd., Broad Channel. Free. Info: (718) 318-4340, nps.gov/gate/planyourvisit.

“Domingo Carrasco: Themes & Variations,” with paintings and works on paper by the Queens native that celebrate line, color and classical forms, attempting to idealize the human spirit. Thru end of Dec., QED, 27-16 23 Ave., Astoria. Free. Info: (347) 451-3873, qedastoria.com.

Adriance Farmhouse Holiday Open House, with warm fireplaces, kids’ crafts, hot mulled cider, livestock and more.

Wed.-Fri., Dec. 26-28, 12-4 p.m., Queens County Farm Museum, 73-50 Little Neck Pkwy., Floral Park. Free. Info: (718) 347-3276, queensfarm.org.

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“GingerBread Lane 2018,” the new edition of the world’s largest gingerbread village, with every single element edible, created by Queens chef Jon Lovitch. Thru Mon., Jan. 21, New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Corona. Free with admission: $16; $13 seniors, kids, students with ID (extra for related workshops on select days). Info: (718) 699-0005, nysci.org.

“Exhibition A” and “Exhibition B,” with works in various media from painting to video, by dozens of artists from Long Island City and elsewhere in New York. Thru Fri., Jan. 4, The Factory LIC, 30-30 47 Ave. Free. Info: (718) 361-7633, licartsopen.com.

“A Whole Different Ball Game: Playing Through 60 Years of Sports Video Games,” with more than 30 playable games from 1958, when the first, Tennis for Two debuted, through today, with consideration of various elements of sports gaming.

Thru Sun., March 10, Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria. $15; $11 seniors, students; $9 kids 3-17; includes full museum admission. Info: (718) 777-6888, movingimage.us.

THEATRE “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” a family-friendly musical based on the beloved 1965 animated special about the holiday’s true spirit, featuring “Christmas Time is Here,” jazz and new numbers. Thu.Sun., Dec. 20-23; Fri.-Sun., Dec. 28-30, 7:30 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., Dec. 22-23 and 29-30, 3 p.m., The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23 St., Long Island City. $18 advance; $20 at door; kids under 17 $12 advance; $14 at door.

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

MUSIC Sting International: City Country City Dance Classics, with The Thunder Sound System playing dance and house music from the 1970s to the

2000s. Sat., Dec. 22, 11 p.m.-5 a.m., Jamaica Performing Arts Center, 153-10 Jamaica Ave. $20. Info: (718) 658-7400, (917) 436-2296, bit.ly/2QOtPpJ. Piano Man: Unplugged, the life and music of Billy Joel, with Michael Chimenti performing his songs.

Sun., Dec. 23, 3 p.m., Theatre By The Bay NY, Bay Terrace Garden Jewish Center, 1300 209 St. $15.

Info: (718) 428-6363, theatrebythebayny.com.

Ornaments of the Season, a workshop with kids making decorative ornaments and hearing fun stories about winter and the holidays. Sun., Dec. 23, 1:30-4:30 p.m. (stories on the half hour), Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Free. Info: (718) 592-9700, queensmuseum.org.

Creative Construction, with kids participating in building challenges using familiar and unfamiliar materials and kits. Sat.-Sun., Dec. 22-23, 10 a.m.6 p.m., New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Corona. Free with admission: $16; $13 seniors, kids, students with ID. Info: (718) 699-0005, nysci.org.

SPECIAL EVENTS Make Music New York: Queens Second Line Swing, with singers, jazz musicians and dancers of all skill levels welcome to join in a New Orleansstyle musical parade led by vocalist Antoinette Montague and dedicated to Louis Armstrong. Fri., Dec. 21, 12 p.m., starting at Corona Plaza, Roosevelt Ave. at National, 104 Sts., ending at Louis Armstrong House Museum, 34-56 107 St. Free.

Info/RSVP (requested): (917) 779-9709, makemusicny.org/winter-parades.

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“Tales from the Shed: Holiday Tales,” an inclusive holiday theater production with puppets, music, dancing and more, letting kids age 6 and under perform and explore with their families in a playful Winter Wonderland, by London-based Chickenshed Theatre. Sun., Dec. 23, 1 and 3 p.m., Queens Theatre, 14 United Nations Ave. S., Flushing Meadows Corona Park. $14; family four-pack $48. Info: (718) 760-0064, queenstheatre.org.

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FILM “A Muppet Family Christmas,” the 1987 TV special uniting the Muppets, Fraggles and “Sesame Street” characters in a holiday reunion. Sat.-Mon., Dec. 22-24; Wed.-Thu., Dec. 26-27; Sat.-Mon., Dec. 29-31, 11 a.m.; with various Winter Recess Fam-

A Cher for All Seasons, a series of films featuring the actress and singer, including “Burlesque,” “Mermaids” and “Moonstruck.” Thru Mon., Dec. 24, various dates and times, Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria. $15; $11 seniors, students; $9 kids 3-17; includes museum admission. Info: (718) 777-6888, movingimage.us. continued on page 36

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overnight,” Atterbury told the Chronicle in an email.

The journey is intended to be part of the Reaching the Mrs. contemporary art gallery in Maspeth requires a foray through experience for visitors to Mrs., a two-yearstreets densely packed with quintessentially old gallery that is an outpost of fine art in 20th-century Queens houses, thick chunks the neighborhood. Without the opportunity of domestic shelters closing ranks like sol- to flit over to other galleries, as in Manhattan or Long Island City, collectors and art diers breaching the sidewalk.

Just when you might think there is no way enthusiasts who visit tend to soak up the this warren of homes can harbor an art gal- experience.

“They stay because they made the jourlery, a gaping cavern of light appears. This is Mrs. decked out in its “Night Comes In” ney to come out here,” Mrs. co-founder Sara exhibit, Elizabeth Atterbury’s second solo Maria Salamone said.

Repetitive rhythm speaks to us from withexhibition in the space. “’Night Comes In,’ for me evokes a shift in in some of the 21 handcrafted objects, and energy/atmosphere — an opening up — their placement around the bright, open galthough not in negative way. I think about lery punctuates it with inviting forms, some how creative processes flow differently at elemental, some contrived, and with rare night, how animals give birth at night, and bursts of dark colors.

The rolling pattern of right-angled spirals how snow storms seem to occur more often that encircle the ubiquitous blueand-white noodle bowls of Chinese restaurants — you know them, they look like primitive squared When: Through Sat., Jan. 19 wheels that probably found a way Where: Mrs., 60-40 56 Drive, Maspeth to roll — have been liberated as real Entry: Free. (347) 841-6149, mrsgallery.com wood blocks in “Long Life (Noodle Bowl),” 2018, made of maple qboro contributor

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Night shines bright in Atterbury’s show at Mrs.

The works in Elizabeth Atterbury’s “Night Comes In” exhibit stand out against the PHOTO COURTESY MRS. stark white walls of Mrs., the Maspeth gallery. wood. The necklaces of “Peach I” and “Peach III” visually tap out a “String of Pearls” rhythm with their hand-sanded peach pits, each giving the appearance of a rich, dark, rare hardwood.

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The fans’ love for this holiday favorite is no Secret

by Mark Lord

cious piano-playing child, to life, posing a particular challenge for director Joy Donze.

“I had to figure out how to introduce him The classic cartoon “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” first broadcast in 1965 and fea- into the world” of the show, she said. “It turing Charles Schulz’s beloved Peanuts was always part of our concept.”

According to Donze, the show was in characters, is back on stage in a live musical rendering at The Secret Theatre in Long rehearsal since mid-November. She expressed particular pride in the cast’s endIsland City, where it runs through Dec. 30.

It’s the third go-round for the show at the of-show choral concert, which she saw as an theater, brought back by the proverbial pop- opportunity to “showcase their voices.”

“I hope that’s really special,” she said. ular demand, according to the program.

And the music, recognizable by anyone Among those seated in the audience for the show’s opening on Dec. 14 was 3 who has ever seen the TV version, “is stun1/2-year-old Nolan Fryer, accompanied by ning ... the heartbeat of the piece,” filling it his parents, Brad and Meghan, who came with nostalgia, she said.

Richard Mazda, the theater’s artistic from their home in Manhattan just to see director, said the show is a perennial favorite, the show.

Already an experienced theatergoer, “a perfect marriage of traditional American Nolan couldn’t wait for the house lights to family values and a simple message of hope.” dim.

Charlie Brown, played in this incarnation “He’s watched ‘Charlie Brown’ on television and we wanted him to see it live — a lit- by Darren Cementina, is “the lovable selftle holiday action,” his dad said. Asked what described loser whose hapless attempts at he liked most about the cartoon, Nolan had finding a true meaning of Christmas eventually bring all his friends together,” Mazda no trouble responding: “The music.”

No wonder. The music, here as in the said. “We all can see a lot of ourselves in Schulz’s characters.” original, is by Vince And all of Charlie Guaraldi, the late Brown’s friends — American composer popular favor ites who infused his score each and every one with his acclaimed When: Thu.-Fri., Dec. 20-21; — are on hand. Matjazz style.

Fri., Dec. 28, 7:30 p.m.; thew James AnderFollowing the carSat.-Sun., Dec. 22-23 son is his blanket-tott o o n’s l e a d, t h e and 29-30, 3 and 7:30 p.m. i ng b e s t f r i e n d, music is played, live, Where: The Secret Theatre, Linus; Koyu Ogiya, in by a crackerjack trio: 44-02 23 St., Long Island City a bit of gender-bendmusical director Joe Tickets: $18; $20 at door; $12 kids, ing casting, is his Marx on piano, Ben $14 at door. (718) 392-0722, agile dog, Snoopy; Sheppard on percussecrettheatre.com Sarah Joy Kane is his sion and Noah Hadsister, Sally; and, land on bass.

An extra treat, which extends the original nearly stealing the show, Annabelle Fox, callrunning time of about 30 minutes to three ing to mind a young Kristin Chenoweth, is quarters of an hour, comes at the end, in a his foil and part-time psychiatrist, Lucy.

Rounding out the cast are Emily Brennan medley of popular Christmas tunes, sung by the performers, bringing the show to an as Frieda; Hunter Walsh as Pig Pen, Audrey Yeoman as Violet, Kevin Gonzalez as Shermy especially upbeat conclusion.

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Sarah Joy Kane as Sally, in polka dots, and Annabelle Fox as Lucy are front and center PHOTO BY REIKO YANAGI as the “Charlie Brown Christmas” cast performs a number. stock, is a rotating cast of youngsters, culled primarily from the theater’s academy, which offers weekly drama and musical theater classes for ages 6 through 16.

It’s quite likely Fox would have walked off with the whole kit and caboodle, save for a particularly effusive child of about 3, seated smack center in the front row.

He kept calling out characters’ names and responding to everything he saw, to the point that the actors began including him in their performances, often playing directly to him. The audience ate it up.

Such involvement speaks to the universal appeal of the piece. Everyone in attendance is likely to feel equally young.

Take, for instance, 15-year-old Raymond Riley of Forest Hills, who was also in the audience that evening.

“I thought it would be babyish,” he said.

He had come, after all, to accompany his two younger cousins. But after the show, he admitted, “It was better than I expected.”

Raymond’s mother, Kim, said he went to the show “under duress,” but she was pleasantly surprised by his reaction.

“The humor and silliness would appeal to really young kids. And adults have such great memories growing up watching the cartoon,” she said.

As for herself, she said, “I’ve seen the special so many times. It seemed word for word from what I remember. They got it down to the nearest movement.”

Even those who have seen the Secret’s previous renderings are likely to find some surprises. This year, the band and all the actors are new. And, according to Mazda, with a new director-choreographer, the Snoopy and Woodstock moments are all newly staged. And, he added, “There are always changes made to the lighting design.”

For the record, the design team, who contributed to a unified look and feel, included Paul T. Kennedy (lights and original scenic design), Samantha Cancellarich (scenic painter) and Cassaundra Marie (costumes).

“In a benevolently insidious way, live theater teaches us that traditional stories and messages are still relevant and important,” Mazda said. One need look no further than Q “A Charlie Brown Christmas” as proof.

Brad, Meghan and 3 1/2-year-old Nolan Fryer were among the enthusiastic audience members waiting for the show to start on opening night. Joy Donze is the director and choreograPHOTOS BY MARK LORD, LEFT AND CENTER LEFT, AND REIKO YANAGI pher. Darren Cementina, here with Fox as Lucy, plays Charlie Brown, while Matthew James Anderson, with blanket, is Linus.

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Members of the club pay $15 a month dues to cover the rent on the basement, which they say has not changed in years. The original owner of the building on 44th Street, a few blocks from the Sunnyside train yards, fancied the idea of a model railroad club operating in his basement when he was first approached about it in 1947 and charged a nominal rent. When he died, his daughter kept the rent low out of respect to her father’s wishes.

The layout is club property — altered periodically by a majority vote — but members own their own trains. Some haul them to meetings every week, oth-

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ers leave them there. And each member seems to have his own specialty.

A motorman with the Transit Authority by day, Kenny Reece is the electrician.

Miles Raife, a former teacher now working for an online curriculum company in Manhattan, is the expert on aging brand-new models so they look like the real, weather-beaten thing.

Another member, Bruce Cole, who died three years ago, specialized in creating the layout’s scener y — mountains, r o c k p i l e s , h o u s e s — a n d n eve r

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Miles Raife, above, starts to set up his trains on a side track. The club’s signature engine, PHOTOS BY MICHAEL SHAIN left. On the cover: The club’s layout is rarely seen by outsiders. touched the trains.

Of course, there is a rule book. (“All trains must get Dispatcher and Yard clearance before entering Main Line,” reads Rule No. 10.) The Empire Valley Line is a railroad, after all, no matter

how small.

And that’s pretty much why the club is still on track after all this time — the chance to run your own railroad for a couple hours a week. All aboard the Q fantasy express.

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by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

Frey’s Hotel had been an important part of roadside A mericana at the crossroads of Metropolit a n Avenue a nd 60 t h Street opposite Eliot Avenue for years.

Wear y t ravelers, by horse or buggy on their way east, would stop and stay the night before traveling on. Shown here is the building in its last days with a for sale sign on it.

The advent of the automobile killed the business. The valuable plot of land, however, would still have a pur pose in the Frey’s Hotel, southeast corner of Metropolitan Avenue and 20th cent ur y. The old 60th Street opposite Eliot Avenue in Ridgewood, in 1922. hotel was torn down and the site was used for George’s Trucking ers. Today the spot is a popular stop for chowing down in Boston Market, which as a trailer lot.

In the 1980s it became a Roy Rogers offers, for both dining in or taking home, Q fast-food eatery for the new weary travel- a fast, complete and tasty dinner.

boro continued from page 32 “Elf,” the 2003 Christmas fantasy comedy, and “Gremlins,” the 1984 Christmas horror comedy, each as part of the Naughty and Nice: Holiday Movies With a Twist series. Sat.-Sun., Dec. 22-23, 1:30 p.m. (“Elf”), 5 p.m. (“Gremlins”); Mon., Dec. 24, 1:30 p.m. (“Elf” only), Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria. $15; $11 seniors, students; $9 kids 3-17; includes museum admission. Info: (718) 777-6888, movingimage.us.

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Woodhaven/Richmond Hill Senior Center, with arts and crafts, knitting, Wii bowling, education and more. Mon.-Fri., 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., lunch at 12 p.m. Strength/stretching exercise class every Mon., 1 p.m.; yoga class every Thu., 10 a.m.; Zumba every Fri. 89-02 91 St., Woodhaven. Info: (718) 847-9200.

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Overeaters Anonymous, for anyone with an eating disorder or other problem with food or maintaining a healthy weight, in various neighborhoods. Each Tue., 7:30-9 p.m., Holy Child Jesus Outreach Center, 112-06 86 Ave., Richmond Hill. Info: (718) 564-7027 (leave message). Each Thu., 12-1:30 p.m., Howard Beach Library, 92-06 156 Ave. Info: Julie, (718) 8484338. Each Thu., 12:15-1:40 p.m., Rego Park Library, 91-41 63 Drive. Info: (347) 433-5876 (OA of Greater New York; leave message), (718) 459-5140 (library).

SOCIAL EVENTS Israeli folk dancing, with instruction for beginners, in a fun, welcoming atmosphere. Each Mon., 7:30 p.m. (beginners’ instruction); 8:3010 p.m. (intermediate dances), Hillcrest Jewish Center, 183-02 Union Tpke., Fresh Meadows. $10. Info: (718) 380-4145, hillcrestjc.org.

“Hooks & Needles” Crochet & Knit Club, with participants bringing projects, hooks, needles and yarn, or working on charity projects. Every Thu., 5-8 p.m., Big 6 Shopping Center, 60-10 Queens Blvd., Woodside (entrance inside shopping center, up one flight, down hall to left of 99-cent store). Info: Lorraine, (917) 817-4037.

Knit & Crochet Club, with participants meeting up to share techniques and patterns and bringing their own supplies. Each Fri., 10:30 a.m., Howard Beach Library, 92-06 156 Ave. Free. Info: (718) 641-7086, queenslibrary.org.

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SNAP: Services Now for Adult Persons, a full-service neighborhood center with exercise classes, line dancing, table pool, hot lunch daily, sewing, jewelry, quilting classes and more. 13333 Brookville Blvd., suite LL5, Rosedale. Info: (718) 525-8899, snapqueens.org.

Public speaking sessions, sponsored by the Jade Toastmasters Club. Each first and third Wed. of the month, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Aloha Abacus Math, 41-25 Kissena Blvd., #103, Flushing (press “0” at elevator). Free. Info: Denise Zayas, (718) 888-9215, jadetoastmasters@gmail.com.

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SENIOR ACTIVITIES Howard Beach Senior Center, with exercise classes every weekday except Thu., varying times; dances with a DJ and hot lunch every Tue., 12-3 p.m.; art classes every Thu., 9:3011:30 a.m., 12:30-2:30 p.m.; intro to sign language every Fri., 10-11:30 a.m.; karaoke every Wed., 1-3 p.m.; monthly book club; and more, 155-55 Crossbay Blvd. Info: (718) 738-8100.

Queens AARP Chorus, which sings at nursing homes and AARP events, seeks retired people to join. Meets each Fri., 11 a.m. (new people asked to come 10 a.m.), Clearview Selfhelp Center, 208-11 26 Ave., Bayside. Info: joroosume@verizon.net.

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

Bereavement groups for assistance dealing with loss and the process towards healing, with others experiencing similar situations.

Central Queens YM & YWHA, 67-09 108 St., Forest Hills. Registration req’d. Info: (718) 268-5011, ext. 160, olderadults@cgy.org.

Anxious, nervous, depressed? Recovery International can help. Meetings every Thu., 2:30 p.m., Fri., 3:30 p.m. Forest Hills Library, 108-19 71 Ave. Info: recoveryinternational.org.

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

Alcoholics Anonymous, daily meetings around Queens for those with a drinking problem. Info: (718) 520-5021, queensaa.org.

PTSD for veterans and service members: Reach out to a anonymous support group in your area. Info: 1 (800) 273-8255.

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

Contemplating suicide? The Samaritans provide 24-hour confidential emotional support for those feeling suicidal or depressed. Call: (212) 673-3000; samaritansnyc.org.

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The gallery works with a set group of artists, including Atterbury, Sarah Bedford, Genesis Belanger, Chris Bogia, Caroline Wells Chandler, Tracy Miller and Mark Mulroney.

Mrs. opened in 2016, with the intention of providing a platform for emerging and mid-career artists while also engaging the surrounding community. “This is a place for conversation,” which isn’t always the case in the art world, Salamone noted.

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QUEENS - INDEX NO.: 596/2015 – SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS. Plaintiff designates QUEENS COUNTY as the place of trial based upon the location of the premises herein described having tax map Block 9134, Lot 76, Ozone Park, NY, County of Queens – CITIMORTGAGE, INC., PLAINTIFF, -against- ALBERTO L. IMPERIAL, ALBERT A. IMPERIAL JR., DARLENE GRACE T. IMPERIAL, if they be living and if they be dead, the respective heirs-at-law, next-of-kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors and successors in interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said defendant who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or inheritance, lien or otherwise any right, title or interest in or to the real property described in the complaint, NEW YORK CITY PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU, NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD, NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, HECTOR BAEZ, ZORAIDA TORRES, LILLY TORRES, DEFENDANTS. 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 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); and in case of your failure to appear 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 against you 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. Dated: Syosset, New York, December 7, 2018. Peter T. Roach & Associates, P.C., attorney for Plaintiff, 6901 Jericho Turnpike, Suite 240, Syosset, NY 11791. Tel: 516938-3100. To the above named defendants: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Cheree Buggs, a Justice of the Supreme Court, State of New York, dated September 28, 2018 and filed with the Queens County Clerk together with the supporting papers thereon. This is an action to foreclose a mortgage held by Plaintiff on the premises known Block 9134, Lot 76, Ozone Park, NY, County of Queens as described in the complaint on file and commonly known as 78-19 PITKIN AVENUE, OZONE PARK, NY 11417. 59842

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS U.S. Bank Trust, N.A., as Trustee for LSF9 Master Participation Trust Plaintiff, -against- Norma Brown, Clarence Brown, Cecil Williams if living and if any be dead, any and all persons who are spouses, widows, grantees, mortgagees, lienors, heirs, devisees, distributees, or successors in interest of such of the above as may be dead, and their spouses, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors in interest, all of whom and whose names and places of residences are unknown to Plaintiff, New York City Environmental Control Board, New York City Parking Violations Bureau, New York City Transit Adjudication Bureau, United States of America, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Criminal Court of the City of New York, Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC, Queens Supreme Court, Cecilia Tull, Richard Tull, Clara Jones, Jeremy Reid, Mildred Reid, Shavany Reid, Ronald Reid, Margaret Jones, Defendants.

INDEX #: 709027/2017, Filed: 12/13/18, SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Plaintiff designates Queens County as the place of trial.

Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises is situated. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S): 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 attorneys for the plaintiff within twenty (20) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; or within thirty (30) days after service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York; or within sixty (60) days if it is the United States of America. 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 OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $32,941.01 and interest, recorded in the office of the clerk of the County of Queens on October 10, 2001 in Reel 6037, Page 1958 covering premises known as 107-53 142nd Street, Jamaica aka Briarwood, NY 11435.

The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above.

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.

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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. Dated: Bay Shore, New York, December 10, 2018, FRENKEL, LAMBERT, WEISS, WEISMAN & GORDON, LLP BY: Linda Manfredi, Attorneys for Plaintiff, 53 Gibson Street, Bay Shore, New York 11706, (631) 969-3100. Our File No.: 01-073877-F00

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The one bit of Vegas news for Mets fans was that their team staged a reunion with their longtime closer, Jeurys Familia, who signed a threeyear, $30 million deal.

The Mets traded him to the Oakland Athletics in late July for some prospects, the key player being reliever Bobby Wahl, who joined the Amazin’s as a September call-up, though he didn’t see much action. With the Mets long out of the playoff hunt and Familia slated to become a free agent at the end of the 2018 season, team executives were understandably motivated to move him despite holding him in high regard.

Word of the Mets reacquiring Familia came as a big surprise because there was no advance buzz about it. After the news broke, a number of Mets fans who voiced their opinions on social media seemed less than sanguine because they remember the times when Familia had trouble throwing the ball over the plate.

While he has provided more than his share of agita to the Flushing faithful over the years, this is a smart move for the Mets. More times than not he came through even if he did make you bite your fingernails. Fans can take some comfort knowing that newly acquired Edwin

Diaz will close games. Familia is being asked to be an eighth-inning setup man for him. It’s also safe to assume Mets management sees Familia as a reasonably priced insurance policy in case Diaz is unavailable for whatever reason.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Mets General Manager Brodie Van Wagenen and his Yankees counterpart, Brian Cashman, made up that three-way trade rumor in which the Mets would send pitcher Noah Syndergaard to the Yankees with the Yanks sending third baseman Miguel Andujar to the Miami Marlins and the Marlins dealing catcher JT Realmuto to the Mets.

Everyone knows the nation’s daily newspapers have been struggling and some, like the Daily News, now rarely send sportswriters on the road. Cashman and Van Wagenen surely realized floating a rumor like that would be a godsend to the tabloids and help justify their expenses in sending reporters to Las Vegas.

Most importantly it was a lot of free publicity for the Mets and Yanks during a time when football and basketball rule the sports pages.

Van Wagenen smartly veered away from giving a lot of assets up to the Marlins for Realmuto as he decided to sign talented free agent catcher Wilson Ramos instead. While he may not be as talented as Realmuto, Ramos can hit Q and handle a pitching staff just fine.

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All Brick/Low Ranch. 40x100 lot, 3 lg. BRs, 1.5 baths and lg. master BR has additional 1/2 bath. Updated kitchen and bth, full fin. bsmt. with full bth, CAC, paved pvt. dr.

Asking $ 680K

All updated 4 BR home, wooden floors on 1st floor with radiant heat, huge EIK, DR combo with S/S appl., granite countertop, built-in microwave, new windows, new baths, roof 5 years old, can use 3/4 bedrooms or use 1 BR as office.

Asking $419K

CONR-075031

HOWARD BEACH DUPLEX CONDO One-of-a-kind Janet Ann duplex condo, 2 BRs, 1 1/2 baths, renovated throughout, granite, S/S appliances, washer and dryer, terrace.

Asking $375K

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OZONE PARK/TUDOR VILLAGE Asking $649K

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HOWARD BEACH/ROCKWOOD PARK Asking $869K

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RACT

HOWARD BEACH ROCKWOOD PARK Custom Colonial with open floor plan/huge master bedroom/with luxury bath and 3 additional BRs. Premium wood floors w/custom mahogany border inlay, radiant heat, 2 CA units. Gourmet kit w/ Sub-Zero appl., security camera, alarm, IGS, central vac, 41x107, deck has c/o for enclosure.

Further Reduction $949K

HOWARD BEACH/LINDENWOOD Co-ops & Condos For Sale • Hi-Rise Co-op. 1 bed/1 bath, washer/dryer on each floor. ..................................................................................... Asking $169K • Hi-Rise Co-op. 1st floor, 2 BRs/2 baths, hardwood floors. ..................................................................................... Reduced $239K • Hi-Rise Co-op. Large unit in totally redone building. 3 BRs/ 2 baths, living room w/L-shaped dining room. ..... Asking $262K • Hi-Rise Co-op. 2 BRs/2 baths, mint cond., plus terrace. ..................................................................................... In Contract $325K • Hi-Rise Co-op. (move in cond.) 2 BRs/2 baths plus 17ft. terrace. ..................................................................................... In Contract $259K • 2 BR/2 Bth Co-op. Large terrace needs TLC. ...... Closed $249,999K • L-shaped Studio. ................................................... Closed Asking $99K

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FOREST HILLS

RICHMOND HILL

Co-op for Sale PRICE: $399,000

Mixed Use Property for Sale PRICE: $1,529,777

Contact Isabel Zenocratti for more information 917-915-5618

RICHMOND HILL Mixed Use Property for Sale PRICE: $1,799,777

Contact Ryan Singh for more information 347-257-9475

BELLMORE

JAMAICA

1 Family Home for Sale PRICE: $324,999

7 Unit Building for Sale PRICE: $2,188,777

Contact Glenda Alvarado-Ostrow for more information 917-647-7348

Contact Ryan Singh for more information 347-257-9475

Contact Chatter Singh for more information 646-354-0799

GLENDALE

WOODHAVEN

BROOKLYN

1 Family Home for Sale PRICE: $759,000

1 Family Home for Sale PRICE: $599,000

Commercial Property for Rent PRICE: $3,500/mo

Contact Milady Fernandez for more information 917-686-4595

Contact Maria Corcoran for more information 917-838-2624

Contact George Tsaropoulos for more information 917-756-2484

BROOKLYN Commercial Property for Rent PRICE: $12,500/mo

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Contact Christopher Truvillion for more information 718-864-8393

HOWARD BEACH

S. OZONE PARK

RICHMOND HILL

2 Family Home for Sale PRICE: $729,998

2 Family Home for Sale

2 Family Home for Sale PRICE: $950,000

Contact Carolyn DeFalco for more information 917-208-9176

Contact Paul Deo for more information 347-581-9863

S. OZONE PARK

OZONE PARK

1 Family Home for Sale PRICE: $620,000

2 Family Home for Sale PRICE: $649,000

Contact Natasia Pagoulatos for more information 917-335-1143

Contact Valerie Shalomoff for more information 646-533-8142

PRICE: $649,000

Contact Michael DeFreitas for more information 347-526-8049

OZONE PARK

ST. ALBANS

1 Family Home for Sale PRICE: $599,000

1 Family Home for Sale PRICE: $599,000

Contact Anthony Freeman for more information 718-551-5348

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