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Willets center back on point: Marshall State of Boro speech celebrates residents, progress and heroes

by Michael Gannon Associate Editor

orough President Helen Marshall’s State of the Borough speech contained goals made and those yet to be achieved in areas of education, healthcare and a score of quality of life issues — and a 180-degree reversal from the previous week on the viability of a convention center at Willets Point.

Speaking before several hundred people on Tuesday at Colden Auditorium at Queens College, Marshall talked at length about massive housing projects, healthcare facilities, roads and other infrastructure that she said will benefit Queens for generations.

“And let me be clear about the convention center at Willets Point,” Marshall said.

“It is meant to complement the Javits Convention Center. And now it can complement the convention center at Aqueduct.”

Five days earlier, when Gov. Cuomo appeared in Flushing to tout, among other things, his proposal for the country’s largest convention center at Aqueduct, Marshall told the Queens Chronicle there will be “no convention center at Willets Point for sure.”

Following Tuesday’s speech, Marshall spokesman Dan Andrews said the views she expressed in the State of the Borough are those she is standing by. He believes that Marshall’s comments last week were preliminary, and made right after Cuomo’s address, when, he said, many people felt the Aqueduct project would cancel the

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Borough President Helen Marshall honors NYPD detectives Charles LoPresti, center, and Richard Johnson for their quick apprehension of a multiple firebombing suspect in December. LoPresti also was honored for his actions last summer in finding and saving a woman who had swallowed a botPHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON tle of pills. center at Willets Point.

“She did and still does support a convention center at Willets Point,” he said.

“Willets Point was never meant to be ‘the largest convention center in the nation.’ It is

planned for a mid-sized convention center, and a mid-sized one makes sense. It is accessible by ferry, plane, train, car and three major highways.”

Elsewhere in her address, Marshall paid

tribute once again to the ethnic and cultural mosaic that Queens has become.

“As I always say ‘Visit Queens and see the world,’” she said.

Marshall was perhaps most critical when discussing education.

“It’s no secret that many of our schools like PS 19 in Corona and PS 96 in Ozone Park are severely overcrowded, and School District 24 continues to hold the dubious distinction of being the most crowded in the entire city,” she said.

She said officials are making progress — but not enough — with 10 schools and 6,000 seats planned to come on line in the next two years.

“Not acceptable — and so the battle continues,” she said.

On healthcare Marshall cited as good news the rescue of Peninsula Hospital; the opening of North Shore-LIJ’s Katz Women’s Hospital and plans for Mount Sinai to expand in Astoria; as well as other smaller programs and services.

Economic development touted by the borough president included growth of Long Island City’s central business district, the proposed rezoning of the Flushing waterfront, economic assistance in Jamaica and progress on the Hunter’s Point South development, which is planned as part of the largest infusion of affordable housing in the city ever.

Highlights on the environment included new studies on the cleanup of Newtown continued on page 26

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Guv pushes reform at Queens College talk Returning to roots, Cuomo urges support for convention center

by Anna Gustafson Senior Editor

Gov. Cuomo speaks with reporters following his address at PHOTO BY ANNA GUSTAFSON Queens College last week.

Introduced by Borough President Helen Marshall as the “King of Queens,” Gov. Cuomo played up his roots when he came to the borough on Thursday to push his agenda that includes building the nation’s largest convention center at Aqueduct and overhauling the state’s education system.

“I am a Queens boy, through and through,” Cuomo, who grew up in Holliswood, told the packed auditorium in Queens College’s LeFrak Concert Hall in Flushing. “My first apartment was in Sunnyside. Queens is everything in one borough, all flavors; the entire mosaic of this country is in Queens.”

But Queens is more than just Cuomo’s home borough — it’s playing a pivotal role in the governor’s plan for the next year as the potential home for a massive $4 billion convention center that would be built next to the Aqueduct Racetrack in South Ozone Park. Genting, the Malaysian-based company that operates the casino at Aqueduct, would build and run the convention center — which has landed the governor some heavy criticism. Some legislators, including Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi (D-Forest Hills), have questioned why the state did not issue a request for proposals for the project, to which Cuomo has said Genting already owns much of the land needed for construction, though not all, and is willing to entirely fund the center’s $4 billion price tag.

“The state wouldn’t put in a dollar, and we wouldn’t have to pick up a shovel,” Cuomo said to reporters after the speech he gave at the college last Thursday morning.

When questioned if there could also be a convention center at Willets Point — for which Mayor Bloomberg has been a vocal proponent — Cuomo essentially evaded the question, saying “This is a separate proposal from that.”

While the city has not said a center at the Iron Triangle is a moot point now that the country’s largest convention site could be built a few short miles away, Marshall said in an interview with this paper after Cuomo’s address that there will be “no convention center in Willets Point for sure.” However, she soon backtracked, announcing in her State of the Borough speech this week that two convention centers in Queens are possible.

Marshall also said that while she supports a center at Aqueduct, she’s “worried if they do half of it, it’ll take years to get the second half.”

According to preliminary plans, the center would be broken into two construction phases, the first of which would include about 1,000 hotel rooms, theater and entertainment components, approximately three million feet of convention and exhibition space, the expansion of video lottery terminal gaming space and a parking facility. Construction on the first phase could wrap up as early as the end of 2014.

Once complete, the convention center could have as many as 3,000 hotel rooms.

Cuomo also pushed his proposal for the state to amend its constitution and legalize casino gaming.

“The state constitution prohibits the state from opening casinos, and the state has gone into the racino business,” Cuomo said. “What is a racino? It’s a casino with an ‘R.’ They use electronic machines, but these machines do everything you can do in a casino. We have tribal casinos, and we have racino facilities all over the state. We have 29,000 electronic gaming machines — more than Atlantic City. We’re in the gaming business, so we should do it right.”

Reforming the state’s education system is also one of the continued on page 50

Residents to NYPD: Add cops to 106th Say officers are taken from other areas to patrol around the casino

by Anna Gustafson Senior Editor

While petty crime has jumped in the 106th Precinct since the casino opened in South Ozone Park, legislators and civic leaders say they don’t blame the gambling site but instead are pointing their fingers at a lack of police presence and are calling on NYPD brass to ship out more officers to the area.

“We’ve been asking and asking and asking for more police for a long time,” said 106th Precinct Community Council President Frank Dardani. “We needed more police before the casino opened, and we def initely need more police now.”

Because visitors have been flooding into the Resorts World Casino New York City — nine million people are expected to have passed through the precinct solely to go to the facility by the end of next year — legislators said police have been pulled to cover the area around the gambling facility, leaving other parts of the neighborhood vulnerable to crime.

“The spike in crime within the boundaries of the 106th is logical since the area around the casino may not have seen an increase, but the [police] detail is emphasizing the area around the casino and isn’t

in other areas that have seen an increase,” state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) said.

According to numbers published by the New York Post this week and confirmed by the NYPD, petit larcenies jumped just after the casino opened at the end of October, increasing from 60 in November 2010 to 92 in November 2011. The same report stated that there were 41 misdemeanor assaults in November 2011, which represented a 57.7 percent increase over the 26 in November 2010.

A police spokeswoman said there were 163 petit larcenies from the time the casino opened to the end of the year, seven of which were “casino related.” During the same time period, there were 82 misdemeanor assaults, four of which were related to the gambling establishment, the spokeswoman said.

The spokeswoman also emphasized that while the 106th Precinct has not received any additional permanent officers, the NYPD does often deploy cops to the area.

Residents said they would be remiss to say that the casino directly caused the increase in crime.

“If there’s any correlation, it’s very minimal,” Addabbo said of a relationship between any increase

in crime and the casino’s opening.

“We’ve had waves of crime before the casino got there. We need more officers, and we’ll continue to fight for them because we’re far below the levels we should be at. Over the years, we’ve seen an elimination of our beat and community officers.

My constituents want a police officer on every corner.”

Stefan Friedman, a spokesman for Resorts World, said company heads have worked hard with the community to keep crime at a minimum.

“The safety of our patrons is priority number one, and our commitment to keeping criminal activity out of our project has resulted in extremely few incidents on and around the casino property since our opening,” Friedman said.

Still, Councilman Eric Ulrich’s (R-Ozone Park) chief of staff, Bart Haggerty, said the issue is not crime on the casino grounds but in the neighboring streets.

“The question is what’s happening in the surrounding community,” Haggerty said. “We needed more police anyway, and now we have a facility where thousands of people are coming every day.”

Dardani said there are about 125 officers in the precinct, though he said that number isn’t representa-

Residents in the 106th Precinct say the area needs more police, especially considering the millions of visitors expected to come to South Ozone Park for FILE PHOTO the casino each year. tive of the number of cops actually on the streets.

“You have officers that are actually retired but are still on the books, or officers on light duty,” Dardani said. “All these people are counted on a daily basis, but they’re not actually here.”

While Dardani said he’s not sure how many officers are hitting the pavement in the 106th, he did say that the community council had anticipated receiving about 50

additional off icers from the NYPD’s most recent graduating class. Instead, the 106th received none.

About 75 percent of the graduates went to “impact precincts,” or areas where the city has said there’s an especially high demand for a police presence, such as the 103rd Precinct that covers much of Jamaica and Hollis. The other 25 percent went to transit districts, continued on page 11

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The state of South Queens From senior housing to sewers, big plans for area center at Aqueduct to senior housing in Howard Beach and a sewer project that has been in the works in Ozone Park for decades, there are numerous major projects in the works for South Queens that could forever alter the area’s landscape.

“We would like to see the future developments at the Aqueduct casino move forward in a process that incorporates community viewpoints to ensure that all possible impacts

Senior Editor

While recent State of the State and State of the Borough addresses have been clogging the airwaves, the plans, and sometimes just hopes, of civic leaders and legislators can be pieced together to create a very def initive state of South Queens.

From ensuring the community has a voice in the plans for the nation’s largest convention

The Howard Beach Senior Apartments will include 96 units of affordable FILE PHOTO housing for seniors and disabled residents.

are properly assessed and mitigated,” Community Board 10 Chairwoman Betty Braton said of the convention center in South Ozone Park that Gov. Cuomo proposed in his State of the State speech earlier this month.

State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) said in light of the $4 billion center, entirely f inanced by Genting, which operates the casino, South Queens will need to undergo serious construction to be ready.

“We need to improve our infrastructure,” Addabbo said.

“We don’t want to see a parking lot of cars on Rockaway or Conduit when this convention center comes.”

Braton also emphasized that the state of the area will be vastly improved when the affordable senior housing complex run by Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens opens at the former Bernard Fineson Disabilities Center in Howard Beach at 15555 Crossbay Blvd.

One of the biggest projects that has been in the works for decades, and which Braton said could finally come to fruition this year, is the bureaucratically named HWQ411B sewer project.

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A Howard Beach construction worker was sentenced to 18 years in prison last week after a jury convicted him of attacking an off-duty police officer following a traffic dispute in Long Island City, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said.

Joseph Meyer, 26, and several unapprehended individuals, punched and kicked off-duty Police Officer Damien Bartels multiple times in the head in the early hours of Aug. 30, 2009, causing the cop to suffer a shattered nose, two broken eye sockets, a broken jaw and shifted teeth, according to the DA. The assault came after Bartels was waiting for a traffic light to change in Long Island City, the DA said. When it did, a group of people who were standing outside their vehicles did not move.

After the officer hollered for them to get out of the road, words were exchanged and the individuals attacked Bartels, Brown said.

“The crimes for which he was justly convicted are serious ones and, under the circumstances, the lengthy prison sentence imposed is warranted,” Brown said.

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“You can definitely add that to the list of things we’d finally like to see,” Braton chuckled.

“It’s getting close to construction stages.”

For about three decades, the city has been promising to execute the project, which would replace several water mains and sanitary sewers in the area, as well as add new storm drains — which Ozone Park Civic Association President Howie Kamph said would be a huge relief for a neighborhood that has had a longtime problem with flooding. The project has most recently been held up because the city has had to use eminent domain to gain access to about 90 private properties. No one has to leave their home, but the city has to use pieces of yards, for example, to do construction.

“We’re in desperate need of curbs and sidewalks and street repairs, but the city won’t do any major renovation work until the sewer project is complete,” Kamph said. “On 96th Place, we have areas with no curbs; on 97th Street there’s places without curbs. That’s been the case for 20 years, but they won’t do anything about it because of this Q project.”

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ADA compliance is long overdue, MTA ou might like riding the subways; you might not like riding the subways. But imagine you literally couldn’t take the train — because you literally couldn’t get down to the tracks. You certainly wouldn’t like that.

But that’s how it is for an untold number of New Yorkers — the physically disabled residents who cannot use the world’s largest subway system to reach the far corners of the world’s greatest city, because the trains are not reachable for those who rely on wheelchairs or other assistive devices to get around. There are 468 stations in the system, and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to make 100 of them fully accessible in the future.

That’s a little better than one in five. And it’s been 20 years since the Americans with Disabilities Act became law, requiring new privately owned buildings that serve the public to be handicapped-accessible.

But not government-owned infrastructure; no, of course not.

One of the stations the MTA just started working on is the one at 71st Avenue in Forest Hills, on the Queens Boulevard line. It will cost nearly $25 million to finally install elevators that go from the street to the train platforms. Politicians, as is their wont, tout the project as a step forward. It is, but the bigger picture is the MTA’s failure to do better than hope that a little more than 20 percent of its stations will be able to serve the public — all the public — in the foreseeable future.

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The price the disabled pay for this failure is tremendous. Take the case of Laina, who asked that we withhold her last name, a 32-yearold Brooklyn artist who is paralyzed from the waist down because a little more than 10 years ago, she was on a balcony when it collapsed.

Laina moved to New York from San Francisco a short time after the accident. She was appalled at the lack of handicapped-accessible public transportation, and after one bus ride and one attempt to take the train, she gave up. San Francisco’s system was much better for the disabled, she notes — and as New Yorkers we don’t like to hear that San Fran is superior to the Big Apple in any way. But here, it is.

Laina drives a car with hand controls for the gas and brakes. If the subway system were more accessible for her when she first moved here, she would have utilized it. But it wasn’t then and it isn’t now.

“It’s funny — I think about it a lot,” she said Tuesday, “how I’d like to say, take the subway, but can’t.”

That means she might spend $20 on gas and tolls for a trip that costs her friends who take the train $5. It means she can’t have a drink with them at the bar after a show. It means more burning of fossil fuels.

The lack of accessibility for all at subway stations is a case of the government saying to do what it says, not what it does. Upgrading them for citizens like Laina should be top priority — and not just 100 of them, but all 468. It’s called equal rights, people.

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A party hijacked Dear Editor: First let me say, the Queens Chronicle has one of the best Letters to the Editor section of any of our local papers. The letters published are diverse, plentiful, unedited and within reason not limited in length. The Letters section has become an important part of the papers. It is interesting to read the thoughts of our neighbors and how those thoughts were formulated. Some of our other local papers could learn from the Chronicle’s generous venue set aside for letters.

In the Jan. 5 paper there was a letter by a Mr. Anthony G. Pilla. In it he decries the lamentable juncture of today’s Republican Party. His first sentence sums up the tactics of our present Republican Congress: “delay, obstruct, block or kill every Obama proposal.” Their simple mantra is echoed by the delusional wannabe 1 Percent: that for any plan set forth by President Obama, “Just say no!” Say no, even if it is a plan previously proposed by Republicans themselves.

What ever happened to the party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Eisenhower; with politicians such as Javits, Rockfeller and Lindsay — intelligent men of stature and quality? They have been replaced with the likes of Mitch (Top Priority) McConnell and John (No Compromise) Boehner, and the rest of Congress taking marching orders from an insignif icant Grover (Under No Circumstance) Norquist; not to mention the sorrowful parade of candidates vying to be on the Republican Presidential ticket in 2012.

The Grand Old Party has been kidnapped by radicals such as the Tea Party who cry that they want to take their country back. Take it back indeed; back to what we were prior to finally developing a solid “United” States of America, back to packing a pistol anytime anywhere, back before civil rights, back to flying the confederate flag over civic buildings and even seceding from the Union (Hmm).

On the following week, Jan. 12, I read a defensive letter in the Chronicle (“Who’s Immoral?”), futilely refuting everything stated

by Mr. Pilla. In it the writer states, “I am not a Republican.” Whenever someone volunteers, “I am not a ...” in defending his rant, you know, the “gentleman protesteth too much.”

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elephant, sounds like an elephant and smells like an elephant ... it’s an elephant. Right on, Mr. Pilla, write on.

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Shovel the snow Dear Editor: Again it snows here in Maspeth. Again the sidewalk next door to me is not shoveled from my house to the corner of 59th Place.

The sidewalk from 59-48 60th to the corner of 60th Street is not shoveled either. Neither are the 60th Street bridge and the Andrews Avenue bridge.

I have a bad heart, but my sidewalk is clean. I can’t understand why these sidewalks are never cleaned after it snows and nothing is done about it.

Do you think this fair?

Charlene Stubbs Maspeth The writer is former president of the Maspeth West End Block Association.

FDNY double standards Dear Editor: Re “Reverse Discrimination forced on FDNY,” Editorial, and “Special recruitment

Of age to wage tate Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. of Howard Beach is introducing an important bill we urge all our readers and lawmakers to support: a hike in the minimum gambling age from 18 to 21.

The new Aqueduct racino is raking in the money, which is great for the state. But like Addabbo, we worry about young gamblers who can get hooked without appreciating the consequences of problem betting. Just think about how close the casino is to John Adams High School to appreciate the concern.

The age to gamble in Atlantic City and Las Vegas is 21. Our drinking age is 21 (and casinos are known to push drinks). With gambling on the rise, New York should raise the age to wage now too.

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for black FDNY candidates,” Jan. 12: I am appalled, outraged, bewildered and everything in between that grown men could not keep track of their calendars and realize that they had to do something that could impact their lives by a certain date. Did they need larger, easier to read calendars? Maybe they needed to highlight the date?

My son and his friends are 18 years old and knew that they had to file and pay for the test by the required date. And what was that date, everyone? Sept. 15, 2011. Then it was extended to Sept. 19. Simple, right? Not simple enough for others; they needed an extension because they didn’t have calendars with the month of September included in them.

Now my son and everyone else has to have their dreams and hopes postponed because other people cannot follow guidelines and deadlines.

If this group of people can’t even show responsibility in applying for a job in a timely fashion, what makes them candidates for saving someone’s life? If they are hesitating on just completing an application, will they hesitate going into a burning building?

I agree with David Rivkin’s letter “What FDNY bias?” in the Jan. 19 edition: Make full public knowledge of the so-called discriminatory questions on the tests. It is hearsay at this point because one group is crying foul. If the same test is given to the

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City lies on taxes Dear Editor: During his recent State of the City address, Mayor Bloomberg made a statement which cannot go unchallenged.

The mayor said, “We said we’d ... hold the line on taxes. And in partnership with Speaker Christine Quinn and the City Council — we did.” This is patently false.

The mayor raised property taxes again, and the speaker and City Council rubberstamped the hikes again. Specifically, I own a single family home in Queens, and my tax rate went from 17.364 percent to 18.205 percent of assessed value. While that might not sound like much, it translates into a 9.68 percent increase in property tax, or a whopping $575.24 a year.

Since Bloomberg has been mayor, he has proposed raising property taxes every single year (and in 2010, actually two times) and like clockwork, the City Council has approved all of them. In fact, my property tax has been raised about 150 percent, which works out to an increase of around $3,800. Other homeowners in this city have had to suffer through similar astronomical increases.

For the past three years, Mayor Bloomberg has publicly stated that he has balanced the city’s budget without raising taxes. Not true. He has raised property taxes.

On Speaker Quinn’s website, she states that she has not raised taxes since she has been speaker, which has been since 2006. This is also not true. We must remember this when she runs for mayor in 2013.

Apparently, both the mayor and the speaker subscribe to a new and unique economic theory — that property taxes are not taxes.

They both have been, or will be, the cause of more and more middle class homeowners fleeing this city.

Jayson Levitz Hollis Hills

Obama must fight Dear Editor: In the State of the Union address the president served notice that henceforth he has f inally accepted that working with the Republicans in Congress is a non-starter. For three years the Republicans have waged war upon Obama. His response until recently was to try to breach the partisanship that stymied the administration.

The onslaught by the Republican contenders for the nomination consists of never ending attacks upon Obama. There is a racial overtone to their attacks by rhetorically asking the crowds what country the President is representing. The retort by audience members was “Kenya!”

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Romney paints those who seek tax fairness as “envious.” The Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street both detest unfairness from rather different angles.

Regardless of their obvious contradictions many of their supporters will find Romney’s description as hard to swallow when the tax rate most are subject to is double his.

The presidential campaign promises to be as mean as any has been. With political action committees spending millions without control by the candidates or transparency, the public should expect a TV blitz that will be nauseating.

Obama is in a street fight without rules.

For the velvet gloved president this means to say what he stands for while changing from a community leader to a warrior.

Edward Horn Baldwin, LI

Dem lousy lies Dear Editor: I had to laugh when I read the juvenile attempt at portraying Republicans as heartless monsters for resisting the president’s stimulus spending, healthcare boondoggle and pervasive entitlement schemes (“GOP immorality redux,” Letters, Jan. 19). These parrot opinions have always been lodged at libertarians who oppose government-as-charity. Republicans often don’t, but should, reject socialist programs like Social Security, which assumes that government can redistribute wealth from working families to the more-affluent retired class.

Putting people on food stamps is not generous, it is very dangerous.

At least one in six Americans are on government assistance because collectivist schemes have put them there and our longterm economic stability is increasingly at risk.

The only way anyone in Washington can help the unemployed is by protecting property rights, keeping taxes low, and otherwise standing clear of the creative forces that built America. If there is anything at all to be done by government, it must be local. Let the states experiment in aid to the chronically poor.

Though it is often derided and usually misunderstood, capitalism is the only thing that can raise an entire nation’s standard of living. No other system can better provoke enterprising individuals to generate real wealth and spread it around. So, in fact, if anyone’s morality is to be brought into question, it would be those who wish for the federal government to do more. Such meddling do-gooders keep the poor struggling and dependent while middle-class families are gradually pushed to join their ranks. It is time we stop judging statist policy-makers by their good intentions and start taking heed of their bad results.

The day the welfare system made it more desirable to stay on the dole than to marry, work and achieve something, was the day the Democrats declared war on America’s poor.

Genuine conservatives like Ron Paul who embrace the principles of free markets and private property and limited government are the real champions of relief for 50 million poverty-stricken Americans. If Republicans get serious about nominating a candidate as unlike Obama as possible, we can be sure the American people will make him a one-term president and the weakest among us will have a chance at prosperity once again.

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Praise Cuomo for plan to reinstate residents’ discount Senior Editor

Rockaway and Broad Channel residents will once again be able to traverse the Cross Bay Bridge without losing the toll money they have to fork over for good, if Gov. Cuomo and a bevy of legislators from southern Queens have their way.

Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Ozone Park), Assemblywoman Michele Titus (D-Far Rockaway), state Sen. Malcolm Smith (D-Jamaica) and area civic leaders gathered in Rockaway Beach on Sunday to voice their support for Cuomo’s proposal to reinstate the toll discount program for residents of

Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder, at podium, joined other elected officials and civic leaders on Sunday to praise the governor’s plan to reinstate a PHOTO COURTESY NYC COUNCIL toll discount.

the Rockaways and Broad Channel.

“We have been working relentlessly to end the unfair toll on the Cross Bay Bridge,” Goldfeder said.

The assemblyman credited the thousands of people who signed his petition to end the toll with prompting Cuomo’s proposal, which the governor announced in his State of the State address.

“Our voices were heard, and we are one step closer to successfully eliminating this toll entirely, lifting a considerable financial burden off the shoulders of the many hardworking families and small businesses in our community.”

The Cross Bay Bridge toll is the only intra-borough bridge toll in the city.

Residents with an E-ZPass currently pay $1.19 each time they cross the bridge for up to two treks a day, while additional trips are free.

Those who do not live in the Rockaways or Beach Channel pay $3.25 each time they cross.

Titus echoed Goldfeder’s statements, with the assemblywoman calling the toll “burdensome” and “unfair.”

“Residents on the Rockaway peninsula should not be charged for doing ordinary responsibilities, such as going grocery shopping or attending community events,” Smith said.

Lew Simon, a Democratic district leader from the Rockaways, said he has worked for more than three decades to see the toll eliminated.

“Now we have to make sure that the legislation gets passed in order to make this rebate permanent,” said Simon, who joined the legislators last weekend.

The state Legislature must approve the governor’s proposal before it would go into effect.

U.S. Rep. Bob Turner (RQueens and Brooklyn), who also attended Sunday’s event, urged legislators to pass Cuomo’s plan.

“This is a perfect example of the bi-partisan collaborative working relationship elected officials should have on issues of importance to our communities,” Turner said. “I am proud to stand with Assemblyman Goldfeder on behalf of residents of the Rockaways and Broad Chanel, who should not have to pay a toll to travel through their Q borough.”

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“We’ve always been told that we’re not a destination, that Manhattan’s a destination,” Dardani said of the explanation city officials would give when the 106th did not receive additional cops in past years. “We’re not a destination? With JFK and Aqueduct, we’re not a destination? We’re a destination now. People are coming for football on the big screen; they’re coming to gamble. They’re coming here.”

Police and residents have noted that temporary additional officers from a detail of one lieutenant, two sergeants and 20 officers will help to patrol the precinct, though not all the time.

The jump in visitors, petty crime and traffic has taxed the community, including the police, leaders said.

Capt. Thomas Pascale, the commanding officer of the 106th Precinct, “has worked extremely hard with the community and casino and has done everything he can with what he has,” Dardani said.

While residents aren’t rushing to sell their homes, that has more to do with the sour economy than a desire to stay in the area, Dardani said.

“If sales were good, you’d probably see that,” he said of residents scrambling to leave the area around the casino. “People don’t go out at night, or they won’t take a walk after work and get their exercise because they’re Q fearful.”

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Among the activities are dragon and lion dances, Chinese opera performances, folk art and magic shows. Resorts World will also host a float in the annual Chinatown Lunar New Year Parade this Sunday, Jan. 29.

Relay for Life to hold meeting The Howard Beach chapter of the 2012 American Cancer Society Relay for Life will hold its first meeting of the year on Thursday, Jan. 26 at 7:30 p.m.

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There will be a number of other prizes as well.

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City DEP to finish construction on Howard Beach site within weeks

by Stephen Geffon

The DEP has acquired part of Starbuck’s parking lot at 157-41 Crossbay Blvd., on the Say goodbye to those noxious odors that west shoreline of Shellbank Basin, upon which had been coming from Shellbank Basin and it has built the permanent destratification facilwafting through the Howard Beach community ity. The temporary facility was located at Capduring the summer months. tain Mike’s Marina parking lot, at 158-35 Within the next few weeks, the city Depart- Crossbay Blvd. ment of Environmental Protection is expected The permanent Shellbank Basin Destratifito wrap up construction of a $3.5 million cation Facility consists of two electric-powered destratification facility on the edge of the basin air compressors, one in operation and one on to eliminate the odors and oxygenate the area’s standby, in a sound-insulated 380-square-foot, waters, keeping the 15-foot high building. crab and fish populaThere are two 1-inch diftions healthy. fuser lines that together opefully the periodic extend approximately For years, residents have complained about 2,000 feet longitudinally dead fish and odor the stench wafting on the basin floor. from the basin. The Shellbank Basin is a problems will be no odors occur when a long, narrow tributary of sudden drop in temperJamaica Bay and, as more. All our noses ature allows the basin’s such, does not get a sufwill appreciate that.” ficient tidal flow coming deep water to rise to the surface. Without in from the bay. When — CB 10 Chairwoman Betty Braton natural mixing, the the tide goes in and out, water separates into the top layer of water layers, with the sun-heated water at the top and moves while the bottom water remains in the coolest at the bottom — the phenomenon the same area. known as stratification.

In the summer the water’s temperature difThe DEP has for the past 10 years been test- ference gets extreme, and the oxygen level at ing a technique called destratif ication to the bottom dips so low that marine life can’t reverse this process. live or breathe there. When the meteorologiDestratification has been used effectively cal conditions are conducive, the bottom in lakes and reservoirs to vertically mix the water comes to the top and the area smells water and prevent undesirable conditions like rotten eggs. from occurring.

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The destratification facility in Howard Beach is expected to eliminate the dead fish odors that had PHOTO BY STEPHEN GEFFON plagued residents for years.

Demonstration Destratification Project in Shellbank Basin in May 2000.

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A compressor pushes the air through two diffuser lines, each measuring 1,000 feet long.

The idea is to keep the water mixing to allow oxygen to reach every depth.

The facility generally runs from June through the end of August.

The DEP has termed the pilot project a success, and it stated that no odor complaints were received from residents living on or near Shellbank Basin during the period of operation.

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Residents to police: Squatters must go Individuals at 102nd meeting say dwellers are often drunk and noisy

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Drunk and noisy squatters residing in a house on Park Lane South in Richmond Hill have got to go, residents told police at the 102nd Precinct Community Council meeting last week.

Residents living near the problem house flocked to the meeting at Moose Hall in Richmond Hill to ask the police for help.

Resident Dan Seaman said squatters have illegally staked a claim on the house after it was foreclosed by HSBC Bank in 2009.

Seaman said he found out about the squatters last month, when he saw two police cars in front of the home.

He said police officers told him that a fight broke out when the squatters on the first floor tried to evict the squatters on the top floor.

Seaman said the squatters frequently yell, scream and have loud arguments in the middle of the night, disturbing the neighbors’ sleep. The resident alleged that some of the occupants are intoxicated and use drugs.

He contacted the city Buildings Department and called 311 about the squatters.

Receiving no response from the agencies, Seaman brought several of his neighbors with him to express their frustrations at the council meeting.

“It’s a very serious issue,” Seaman said.

Other neighbors said there were days when they could smell the odor of marijuana coming from the house.

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Dan Seaman, of Richmond Hill, said at the 102nd Community Council meeting that he is fed up PHOTO BY STEPHEN GEFFON with squatters living in a house on Park Lane South. executive off icer, told Seaman that he would refer his drug complaint to the precinct’s narcotics unit for investigation.

However, he said that he could take no police action on the trespass complaint since he would need the property owner to press charges against the squatters for the violation.

Neither the owner of the property nor any representative has come forward, Briffa said.

“We’ll try our best within the law,” said Briffa. “We’re here to help.”

102nd cops honored for nabbing thieves Career criminals have 13 prior arrests

by Stephen Geffon

He’s on the job — for charity The Howard Beach Kiwanis Club recently inducted its newest member, Edwin Perez, with hand raised, whose resume brings a unique blend of experience to the 50-yearold community service organization. Perez is both a New York City police officer and a reverend with the Assembly of God Church in Howard Beach.

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and Vencak were on routine patrol in plainclothes when they spotted two indiPolice Officers Kevin Warmhold and viduals acting suspiciously at Atlantic Kenneth Vencak, of the 102nd Precinct, Avenue and 102nd Street in Ozone Park were honored with the Cop of the Month on Jan. 3 at 11 p.m.

A short while later, the officers saw the award at last week’s community council meeting for the arrest of two career crimi- same two individuals allegedly removing nals who police said were caught stealing a license plate from a Ford Econoline van, Briff said. a van.

Warmhold and Vencak reported seeing According to Capt. Martin Briffa, executive officer of the precinct, Warmhold the suspects put the stolen license plate on another van they had allegedly just stolen, according to Briffa.

After a short pursuit, the cops nabbed the alleged perpetrators.

Upon further questioning, the suspects admitted to five previous auto thefts, with some of the stolen vehicles winding up in illegal chop shops to be dismantled for their parts, the captain said.

Briffa said that a check of their past criminal records indicated that the duo had 13 Officers Kevin Warmhold, left, and Kenneth Vencak, far prior arrests for stealing cars. right, receive Cop of the Month awards from 102nd Briffa commended both Community Council President Maria Thomson and Capt. officers on the arrest for doing Q PHOTO BY STEPHEN GEFFON a “great job.”

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Kate Mooney, a representative of Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley (D-Middle Village), and this reporter also contacted the mortgage holder’s representative requesting further information about the legal status of the occupants.

Paul Koches, executive vice president of Ocwen Financial, the firm which represented HSBC Bank in the foreclosure proceedings, said in an email to the Queens Chronicle that the property went through a foreclosure process ending in March of 2010.

“We have been attempting to evict the occupants so the property can be sold, but that process is still working its way through a protracted judicial proceeding,” said Koches. He added that, “we are checking with our property management vendor and want to provide all relevant information so that we can rectify any problems.”

In other meeting news, Kew Gardens resident Sylvia Hack, a member of Community Board 9, complained that she and her neighbors are having their cars ticketed and towed for violating alternate side of the street parking rules. Hack told Briffa that she cannot understand how alternate-side

street cleaning rules can be in effect on 82nd Road between Kew Gardens Road and Austin Street when the block was under construction.

“There’s gotta be some relief from what is going on because it is not right,” Hack said.

Briffa told Hack that precinct officers did not issue any summonses for alternate side of the street violations last year.

He suggested that she and her neighbors check the bottom of the summonses to see which agency is issuing the tickets.

Murray Berger, of the Kew Gardens Civic Association, asked if police had nabbed the perpetrators responsible for three burglaries that had taken place on 127th Street during Christmas week, and a garage break-in on 82nd Avenue, from which a mountain bike was stolen.

Briffa said that although he was aware of the burglaries, he did not know if the criminals had been caught. He noted that the incidents are under investigation.

The captain said that police do not believe the burglaries to be part of a pattern.

While praising the precinct for doing an excellent job with dwindling resources, Richmond Hill Block Association President Simcha Waisman urged members of the audience to write to Mayor Bloomberg, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and their representatives to demand that more police officers be assigned to the 102nd Precinct.

Community Council President Maria Thomson said the precinct did not receive any officers from the police class that graduated last month.

“Because of the fact that we are doing so well with [crime] statistics, we are being penalized,” said Thomson.

Community Board 9 Public Safety Committee co-Chairman Jim Coccovillo reported that the board voted to oppose the state liquor license renewal application of Moka Lounge in Richmond Hill based on input from the precinct community council and other agencies.

The license is due to expire on April 30, but the community board’s decision is nonQ binding.

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It’s a big year for the Howard Beach club, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary with a gala dinner dance at Russo’s on the Bay on Friday, April 20.

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So as long as they are considering amending the state Constitution, Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) has a gambit of his own.

Addabbo wants the state to start talking now about raising the legal gambling age from 18 to 21 years of age.

“That would bring us in line with New Jersey and Connecticut,” Addabbo said, referring to neighboring states that have had large scale casinos for years.

“I haven’t counted votes yet; it’s way too early in the process,” the senator told the Chronicle on Tuesday. “Right now I just wanted to get the conversation started.”

The governor’s proposed convention center would be operating by Genting Americas, which currently operates the new — and highly profitable — casino at Aqueduct.

Right now it has slot machines, video poker and other electronic games of

chance, but is banned by state law from having dealer-run table games such as blackjack and roulette.

Cuomo’s office did not return calls seeking comment on Addabbo’s effort, but the governor has said allowing casino gambling would simply acknowledge the reality of the existence of gambling in the state.

That said, Addabbo believes his measure will address the reality of gambling addictions in young adults.

He said high school and college age adults are more likely to develop an obsession similar to alcohol abuse.

“Making the gambling age 21 would ensure that there is a smaller likelihood that the youths in the state develop gambling addictions,” he said.

Addabbo pointed out that the Genting site has been very successful — but also is located near John Adams High School.

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Bills pass with unanimous vote in Council; mayor expected to veto

by Kevin Korber Chronicle Contributor

Parking in the city is going to get a lot less stressful after the City Council passed a series of bills backed by Queens councilmembers that could drastically change parking regulations.

One bill, which was sponsored by Councilman Jim Gennaro (D-Fresh Meadows), allows drivers to have parking tickets electronically cancelled if they purchase parking time from a meter within five minutes of receiving a ticket.

Previously, a ticket received under those circumstances would have to be argued in court.

“This legislation is about not having to be afraid of getting a ticket for obeying the law,” Gennaro said. “These are law-abiding citizens who will benefit from this bill.

“This is something that should have been addressed when the muni-meter program was instituted, but it wasn’t,” he said. “Now, it has been addressed in a way that helps drivers.”

Another bill, which was sponsored by Councilman James Sanders (D-Laurelton), would expand the amount of time a driver has before being charged late fees for an unpaid ticket. Previously, late fees would go into effect 30 days after receiving the ticket, even if the recipient is arguing the ticket in court. Now, late fees go into effect 30 days after any appeal action is determined. The provision is intended to protect drivers in case they decide to fight a ticket.

“This bill is based on an American concept called ‘innocent until proven guilty.’ The current way that these fees are charged is unfair to citizens, especially those who are appealing their cases,” Sanders said.

This particular bill comes at the right time for some city drivers: the Department of Finance is planning to end a program that allows drivers to settle tickets for a reduced fee if they promise not to challenge the ticket in court.

A spokesperson for the DOF said that the program was being closed down because “the City cannot afford to keep a costly program that benefits only those who park illegally at the expense of other vital services.”

Sanders, who opposes the DOF’s actions on this matter, said that “plea bargains work in other parts of our legal system, and they’ve worked here for a while. Removing this program would slow down the process of government, and it wouldn’t be cost effective.”

The third bill bans the Department of Sanitation from placing stickers on cars that are suspected of violating alternate side rules. The stickers are normally placed on the driver’s side window of offending cars.

In a statement issued to the press, Councilman David Greenfield (D-Brooklyn) said that the sticker program “serves no purpose other than to punish motorists for an offense for which they have yet to be convicted.”

The three bills have received a mixed reaction from Mayor Bloomberg. Mark LaVorgna, a spokesman for the mayor, said that while the mayor did support Sanders’ bill, he was likely to veto Gennaro’s bill.

LaVorgna also said that the mayor was reviewing the effectiveness of ending the alternate side sticker program, saying that there are some concerns about what would happen if the program stopped.

“If people don’t move their cars in accordance with alternate side rules, streets can’t get cleaned,” LaVorgna said.

“The sticker program has been around since the 1980s, and our numbers show that it has been effective.”

Other members of the City Council felt differently.

“There’s no reason to inconvenience drivers and humiliate them over an offense that they have not been found guilty of,” Sanders said. “The job of government isn’t to humiliate its citizens, but to work together and create a continued on page 29

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Cleveland HS crowd trashes ‘turnaround’ DOE officials catch heat from angry parents, students and teachers

by Michael Gannon Associate Editor

Grover Cleveland High School Principal Denise Vittor was impressing on parents and students the importance of preparing for the upcoming Regents exams last Monday.

“It is important that you show up, and that you succeed,” she said. “Because everyone is watching.”

Back in the fall, Vittor was installed as principal at the struggling school, which was newly categorized as a “restart” school, with three years to begin turning student performance around.

Veteran teacher Russell Nitchman believes the moves at Cleveland and other schools are an attack on the teachers’ union.

Four months later the Department of Education has reclassified the school and others as “turnaround” institutions, meaning half the teachers will be reassigned or terminated and a new school or collection of smaller schools will be created for the 2012-13 year.

At the meeting on Monday, in the school’s library, parents, teachers and students accused the city and DOE officials of sacrificing the school in a money grab.

They accused the Bloomberg administration of deliberately walking away from negotiations with the United Federation of Teachers in order to get the impasse needed to have Gov. Cuomo threaten to cut off more than $50 million in federal aid for failing schools.

The aid is contingent on the city and the union agreeing on a review and evaluation process to weed out poor and underperforming teachers.

DOE officials Charles Amundsen, Rosemary Stuart and Vivian Selenikas, who have worked with the school, told the crowd of more than 100 that “turnaround” is the only option for keeping the school open.

“The money isn’t available for a restart school,” Stuart said.

They said a board comprised of DOE appointees, UFT representatives and members of the school community would meet to draft guidelines for the design of a new school which may or may not retain the Grover Cleveland name.

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Distraught by young children crossing dangerous intersections to get to school, education leaders in Queens are calling on the city to change the way they handle transportation.

From January 2010 to September 2011, the city approved just 5 percent of public school variances — or requests for elementary school students in third grade and higher to be able to take the yellow school bus instead of walking or using other public transportation, as is now mandated by the Department of Education. The city provides yellow school buses for pupils in kindergarten through second grade, which parents said often leave school buses half full and young children maneuvering dangerous roadways to get to class.

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trict could create a committee that would include Community Education Council members, city officials and others.

“Our parents have no idea how the DOE evaluates a hazard variance, or what they look at to determine whether to grant or deny the variance,” Fedkowskyj said.

Fedkowskyj added that the city makes a decision on the variance without properly justifying it to the parent.

“The spirit of the law that governs mayoral control wasn’t meant for the DOE to take a one-size-fits-all approach, which lacks transparency, and apply it citywide.”

The resolution has landed the support of parents throughout the borough, and CEC 30 in western Queens and CEC 24, which includes Maspeth, Ridgewood, Glendale and Middle Village, have recently voted to throw their support behind it.

Tom Haggerty, whose son attends PS 229 in Woodside, supports the resolution because his child has to cross a five-point intersection to get to school.

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Queens air gets a poor EPA grade Federal study says Queens has worst air quality in New York City

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A study by the federal Environmental Protection Agency on toxic emissions across the country gave Queens less than stellar marks. The report, which tracks the amount of chemicals released into the land, air and water, listed Queens as the worst-performing borough in the city in terms of controlling toxic emissions.

The study cites Queens businesses for emitting over 116,000 pounds of toxins into the environment mostly through the air. In comparison, Manhattan businesses were found to have created a little over 50,000 pounds of toxins in the same time period.

Two of the worst offenders found were the now-closed Charles Poletti Power Plant in Astoria and the Airgas Refrigerants facility in Long Island City. Airgas Refrigerants did not respond to a request for comment.

The study cites locations across Queens as offenders, but most are located in Astoria and Long Island City. When asked about this, Dan Hendrick, spokesman for the New York League of Conservation Voters, was not surprised.

“That part of Queens has always been home to power plants, which release a lot of waste into the air,” Hendrick said.

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“Between the power plants, the highways, and LaGuardia Airport, air quality is a major issue for the people of northwestern Queens,” the councilman said.

Vallone also said that the burden that Queens has in supplying the city’s power is unfair: “Mayor Bloomberg says that each borough must carry its fair share in regards to waste management, but the mayor’s office helped the state approve a new power station in a part of the city that has far too many of them.”

Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas (DAstoria) also felt that air pollution has consistently been an issue in the community. She did say that progress has been made, citing the closure of the Charles Poletti Power Plant as an example.

“At the state level, we can and need to make sure that all of the state’s power

plants are following environmental guidelines and reducing emissions,” the assemblywoman said.

State Sen. Michael Gianaris (D-Astoria) declined to comment on this story.

The borough’s statistically poor air quality also raises health concerns, especially with children. A 2008 study by the New York City Department of Health showed that child asthma rates remained steady from 2000 to 2008. In comparison, child asthma rates in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Staten Island decreased over the same period of time.

“Providing proper healthcare to these areas is also important,” Simotas said. “As long as air quality is a problem that people in western Queens face, we need to do everything in our power to help those most affected by it.”

The issue of power plants in the area is unlikely to go away any time soon; Long Island City has become a hot area for new residential developments, which bring higher demands for energy use. Studies predict that energy usage in the city is going to increase by up to 10 percent over the next 10 years.

On top of that, the energy burden of Queens could increase depending on the future of the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, which provides New York City with up to 30 percent of its energy, particularly in the summer months. Both houses of the state legislature have been considering requests for the plant to close

The now-closed Charles Poletti Power Plant in Astoria was listed by the EPA as one of the worst FILE PHOTO air pollution offenders in Queens. for safety concerns.

Simotas admitted that, in the wake of the nuclear disaster in Japan, safety concerns about Indian Point were legitimate.

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Attorneys say he has lost neutrality and should be removed from case

by AnnMarie Costella Assistant Editor

The city filed an appeal last week contesting U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis’ finding that officials have intentionally discriminated against minorities trying to join New York’s Bravest and his appointment of a monitor to oversee all aspects of hiring for the next 10 years at least to remedy what he believes is systematic racial bias within the Fire Department.

Claiming that Garaufis has lost his objectivity, city attorneys want him removed from the case, his decisions reversed and a neutral arbitrator assigned to take over. The judge has ruled that the last three FDNY exams are biased, and blocked the city from hiring applicants who passed those tests.

In a 139-page document submitted on Jan. 18 to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, city attorney Michael Cardozo, accuses Garaufis of ignoring critical evidence, getting swept up in media coverage of the case and becoming an advocate for the Vulcan Society, the group of black firefighters who joined the suit against the city filed by the U.S. Justice Department.

“It is an understatement to say that this judge has expressed firm views on the city’s ostensible intent to discriminate, as well as the supposed need for close judicial oversight of systemic relief,” the city’s court briefing said. “To any reasonable observer, the vehemence of those beliefs would raise substantial doubt that he could fairly reevaluate the evidence on either issue.”

Garaufis concluded the tests given in 1999, 2002 and 2007 were biased because of the small number of minorities who passed. He appointed former federal prosecutor Mark Cohen as the court monitor charged with overseeing the FDNY’s hiring practices for the next decade.

Cohen decided on Dec. 27 to allow Vulcan recruiters to conduct follow-up visits with black candidates who had not properly completed their applications — four months after the filing deadline and several weeks after the FDNY had stopped making outreach phone calls to members of other groups, which critics say amounts to special treatment.

In its appeal, the city claims that what began as a lawsuit to challenge the objectivity of two entrance exams turned into “a vehicle for an unjustif ied judicial takeover of a municipal public-safety agency’s hiring structure.”

City attorneys further allege that the court excluded key evidence, ignored established principles and conducted impermissible factfinding to conclude that the FDNY intentionally discriminates against minority candidates.

“As a result of that erroneous ruling, the District Court views the city as a “fiefdom” rife with deliberate race discrimination, whose decision-makers ostensibly conspired to keep the FDNY a ‘bastion of white male privilege’ by purposely using civil-service exams to screen out black applicants,” the briefing says.

Firefighter Paul Washington, immediate

past president of the Vulcans, said Monday that he is not concerned about the city’s appeal and added that the group has made significant strides outside of the lawsuit, like getting the city to rework the entrance exam, but would not elaborate as to what the other accomplishments were.

“There is very little chance that anything will happen,” Washington said of the city’s appeal. “Just because the city makes a ridiculous claim does not mean they are going to get what they want.”

He also slammed the mayor and the administration for not working with the Vulcans sooner to diversify the ranks of the FDNY, leaving them no other choice than to pursue legal action.

“The mayor has wasted tens of millions of dollars in fighting this case when none of this had to be,” Washington said. “We were willing, for years, to sit down and work this out without filing a lawsuit.”

Washington believes that Bloomberg is vigorously fighting the case because “he wants to say that he stood against special treatment for blacks or hiring quotas and have that be a part of his legacy.”

Leroy Gadsden, president of the Jamaica branch of the NAACP, criticized the mayor, who he said “is like the George Wallace of New York City,” for being “stubborn” and taking the judge on instead of trying to work on a plan that includes more minorities and women.

“The mayor does not want to bring about change in the Fire Department,” Gadsden

said. “He has no desire to do anything. He’s all about, this is the way we do things and that’s just the way it is.”

One group that has consistently spoken out against the Vulcans’ lawsuit and Garaufis’ ruling is Merit Matters, an organization that opposes race-based hiring in the FDNY. It is headed by Deputy Chief Paul Mannix, who has been with the department for 23 years.

Merit Matters filed an amicus curiae, or friend of the court, brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Tuesday, which would allow it to submit facts and figures not otherwise entered into evidence even through the organization is not a party to the case.

Mannix believes Garauf is should be removed. He also invites any member of the FDNY who has a substantiated claim of racism to come to his group for help. “Contact Merit Matters, and we will stand up for you,” Mannix said.

Another one of the group’s members, Andy Rasavongseuk, who is of Laotian descent and works with Squad 270, a special f iref ighting unit in Richmond Hill, also agrees that Garaufis should get booted from the case.

“I don’t know where he lost his impartiality or how, but he needs to be removed,” Rasavongseuk said. “The talk around the firehouse is that we want people to get the job because they earned it, not because they pulled some idiot off the street.”

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RHHS students strike a pose at the RHHS Fashion and Talent Show.

RHHS seniors Bheshan Persaud and Ryan Dinanauth work the sound systems at the RHHS Fashion and Talent Show.

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RHHS Student Honored by NYC Arts Connection

RHHS Vegetarians Students in the RHHS Leadership class tr y out some new vegetarian dishes in the RHHS cafeteria.

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RHHS’s Arts program continues to produce award winning artists. Three Richmond Hill High School students were among only 16 NYC students who were honored by the NYC Arts Connection and whose works will be on display at an exhibition in Manhattan. Work was submitted by schools throughout NYC, so this is indeed a great honor.

Among the three award-winning students from RHHS were Amanda Mulvaney and Sierra Neale.

Both students are in Ms. Marti-Munoz’s class. The third student who was honored was Alenthea Jaggernath, a tenth grader who is in Ms. Vine’s computer graphics class.

The exhibition will be at the offices of Soroban Capital Partners, 444 Madison Ave, 12th floor, NYC, in midtown Manhattan. The opening reception was on Thursday December 15th, 2011, and the students attended with their families and teachers.

The students will have their work on display through the winter and also received gift certificates for art supplies to Pearl Paint. The entire staff The award winning ar twork of RHHS student Alenthea is extremely proud of all three students and their Jaggernath. She created this illustration in her computer art teachers for this amazing accomplishment. graphics class.

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Councilman switches to help all immigrants achieve American Dream

by Liz Rhoades Managing Editor

Dozens of Democrats welcomed now-former Republican Councilman Peter Koo of Flushing into the fold on Monday as he officially changed party affiliation.

It was a Democratic love fest as Congressman Joe Crowley (DQueens and the Bronx), who is also Queens Democratic Party chairman, was joined by a host of area elected officials at the Board of Elections office in Kew Gardens.

In 2009, Koo became the first Republican in 100 years to win the 20th District seat, besting his Democratic opponent by 5 percent of the vote. He replaced John Liu, now city comptroller, who took part in Monday’s festivities.

Liu noted Monday was Lunar New Year, adding to the celebratory mood. “What a great day for this to be happening,” he said. “Peter never forgot about the community of Flushing and he always gave back. His issues are in line with the Queens delegation.”

For months, there has been talk that Koo, 58, was dissatisfied with the Queens Republican Party because of the infighting and lack of support for him. But the coun-

cilman downplayed the issue Monday, saying that was just a small part of his decision.

“I am an independent thinker, who believes in the support of principles which best sustain and improve the overall quality of life in our communities,” Koo said.

“This has led me to cross party lines to support candidates who are best qualified for the job.”

In addition, he noted that as an Asian immigrant, he wants to do more to help new arrivals of all ethnic origins “to participate in the political process and achieve the American dream.”

He favors such Democratic initiatives as the DREAM Act, to allow illegal immigrant students to pursue higher education, and in stopping the practice of Rikers Island officials reporting immigrant detainees to the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

But most importantly, Koo said, he wants to do more for the community he represents. “I want to continue to fight for needed capital projects, save important programs and improve the overall quality of life,” he said.

As one of only five Republicans in the City Council, Koo heads no committees, and as a

Democrat he may see that change as well as getting more discretionary funds. That idea was not discounted by Crowley, who noted that majority party members are more likely to be rewarded.

Crowley added that Koo “feels comfortable” with the Democrats, but that it takes a lot to change parties. “It comes with a risk; I hope he is rewarded for it,” the congressman said.

Koo said he is a longtime supporter of Liu, Assemblywoman Grace Meng (D-Flushing) and Gov. Cuomo. “I’m a Democrat at heart and more in tune with Democratic issues,” he said.

The councilman is up for reelection next year and he was asked if changing parties was to make it easier to get re-elected.

Crowley answered that there are many Democrats who may want to run for the Flushing seat, but, “they may rethink running now that Peter is a Democrat and it could make for a smaller primary for him.”

A political insider who asked not to be identified said that one reason Koo switched parties was because he wanted a solidif ied party behind him for his next election. “He can be a fiscal con-

Councilman Peter Koo, right front, officially changes parties Monday at the Board of Elections office in Kew Gardens. Certifying the change is Chief Clerk Barbara Conacchio, left front, and witnessing it are Queens Democratic Party PHOTO BY LIZ RHOADES leaders. servative, but still be a Democrat,” the person added, noting that Koo has been toying with the change for a year.

Meng said she was not surprised by the move. “It’s a good thing. We get along and he’s a moderate, but as a small business owner, he’s still conservative.”

Reached by phone, Robert Hornak, spokesman for the Queens Republican Party, said he thinks highly of Koo: “We’ve had a good relationship in the past and hopefully in the future.”

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Ambulance fees to jump 37% FDNY ride to hospital would go to $704; hearing is Feb. 6

by Alexander Hotz The New York World

At a price of $515 for a simple trip to the hospital emergency room, not counting mileage, a ride in a New York City ambulance isn’t cheap. But the Fire Department now seeks to increase the price of a ride to $704 — a nearly 37 percent increase over the current rate. The fees previously saw a hike three years ago.

“We periodically revisit our rates for our services,” FDNY spokesman Frank Dwyer wrote in an email to The New York World.

“This is being done to help defray the costs for the services we provide — the best pre-hospital care in the world.”

The city spends approximately $380 million per year to provide ambulance services through the Fire Department and currently anticipates recouping $189 million in payments this fiscal year from insurance companies and patients. Last year, the FDNY collected a total of $176.5 million.

Once the fees increase, the Fire Department projects, ambulance rides will generate about $205 million for the city each year. The rate jumps are part of the department’s plan to close its budget gap, adding projected revenue of nearly $50 million over the next five years.

But the city’s gain promises to add to healthcare consumers’ pocketbook pain. About half of the FDNY’s ambulance revenue last year came from Medicaid and Medicare. The federal government caps those insurance programs’ base ambulance payments to the city at $243.57 a trip, well

A hearing on the city’s plan to hike ambulance ride fees 36.7 percent will be held Feb. 6. below the proposed $704 rate.

Private insurers typically pay more. As a result, they are likely to bear the brunt of the fee increase, said Ellen Melchionni, president of the New York Insurance Association, a trade group.

“Given New York’s budget

problems, I’m not surprised the FDNY is looking to increase rates,” said Melchionni. “It’s premature to determine future provider rates, but this increase certainly doesn’t help.”

The burden of payment has already shifted from public insur-

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ance to private plans, figures from the city’s Independent Budget Off ice show. In 2009, private insurers and their patients accounted for a little less than one-third of ambulance revenues and Medicaid and Medicare for nearly two-thirds. Following the

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Creek, and a call on the state to continue its moratorium on hydrofracking for natural gas in areas that could affect the city’s water supply.

Marshall also honored a handful of local heroes, including Arno Heller of Rego Park, a volunteer in her office.

Heller, who fled Germany in the 1930s, fought for the United States in World War II. This week he will receive a Bronze Star he earned more than 55 years ago in North Africa and Italy.

“A lot of guys did more than I did,” Heller said. “I was lucky. A lot of my friends didn’t come home.”

Also honored was FDNY Firef ighter Ronald Daly, a member of Rescue Company

4 in Woodside who responded with his company in November to a fatal fire.

Daly kept the toll from going higher, entering the house upon hearing people were still trapped inside, pulling out a 63year-old man and his dog after first pulling security bars off a rear window.

Next were NYPD detectives Charles LoPresti and Richard Johnson.

Investigating a series of firebombings in Queens in December, the two partners followed a lead and conducted surveillance on a marathon tour of duty to bring in a suspect in less than 48 hours.

LoPresti had been honored last summer

by Marshall for locating and saving the life of a woman who had swallowed a bottle of pills, with nothing to go on initially other

basis, and find the first one, “GOP wants new Senate seat,” in the archives at qchron.com.

The New York World is published by Columbia Journalism School, and named for school founder Joseph Pulitzer’s groundbreaking newspaper of the same name. Reporters are graduates of the Journalism School, on year-long post-graduate appointments. Their work is published online at TheNewYorkWorld.com.

than an intersection in Kew Gardens and a mother’s desperate phone call from Hawaii.

Typical of the city’s emergency personnel, Daly and LoPresti accepted their honors on behalf of their colleagues, while Johnson merely said “Thank you.”

And representing New York’s Strongest were Sanitation workers Joseph Maneggio and Seni Nkozi, who were honored for rescuing a woman and her five children from a Far Rockaway fire in December.

The men called to the mother to have her children jump into their arms before she jumped herself.

As Marshall was presenting both men with awards, Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty and Mr. Met appeared on stage, bringing the two men new catcher’s mitts, which will be autographed at Citi Field this spring when the Mets return from Q Florida.

last rate hike, the share of revenue coming via patients holding private insurance shot up to 47 percent of the total.

Increased ambulance rates put upward pressure on health insurance premiums — costs that are passed on to employers and to workers who depend on them for coverage. And some insurance plans do not pay the entire bill.

When an insurer does not cover the full cost of an ambulance ride, the FDNY bills patients directly and seeks to collect payment.

More advanced levels of care will also see price hikes under the proposed changes, bringing the top rate up to $1,290 for a ride with two paramedics. The cost for each mile traveled will jump nearly 60 percent, to $12 a mile, up from $7.

Once the planned rate increases are in place — the published announcement notes an unspecified date in February — the price of a basic ambulance trip in New York City will have doubled in a decade. The cost of advanced support will have nearly tripled.

In contrast, between 2002 and 2010, the Consumer Price Index increased 20 percent and U.S. personal healthcare costs per capita rose nearly 50 percent.

The Fire Department will hold a public hearing on the proposed increases on Feb. 6 in the auditorium at its headquarters, located at 9 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn NY 11291-3857.

Written comments addressed to the Counsel to the Department may be mailed to that address until Feb. 6, or submitted online at Q nyc.gov/nycrules.

Borough President Helen Marshall reads a proclamation for Arno Heller of Rego Park, who soon will receive a Bronze Star he earned in PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON World War II.

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Flushing nurses set strike Will go out Feb. 7 if issues are not resolved

by Liz Rhoades Managing Editor

The 420 registered nurses at Flushing Hospital, represented by the New York State Nurses Association, are set to go on strike Feb. 7 if their demands are not met.

Negotiations between the nurses and MediSys Health Network, which operates

Flushing Hospital, broke off Monday.

NYSNA spokesman Mark Genovese said no future bargaining sessions are set.

The nurses’ contract expired on Dec. 31, but negotiations have been going on for over a year, according to Genovese. The RNs voted overwhelmingly last Friday to authorize a strike and a federally required

Flushing Hospital nurses joined a picket line earlier this month to rally for better healthcare benePHOTO COURTESY NYSNA fits and pension coverage. They may go out on strike Feb. 7.

10-day notice of intent to strike was filed Monday night with the National Labor Relations Board.

About 100 nurses, dressed in red for solidarity, picketed the Flushing facility on Jan. 5 and were joined by state Sen. Toby Stavisky (D-Flushing) who supports their demands.

“We’re not asking for anything out of the ordinary,”said Theresa McGorty, an RN at Flushing Hospital and co-chairperson of the bargaining team. “We just need to be able to recruit and retain professional registered nurses by keeping us in line with other facilities.”

The major bones of contention are health insurance, whose costs to the nurses would increase by $4,800 a year, and a lower-level pension plan, amounting to $150,000 less in retirement income.

“The nurses don’t take going out on strike lightly,” Genovese said. “They just want to protect their quality of life.”

Michael Hinck, spokesman for Flushing Hospital, released the following statement: “Flushing Hospital Medical Center will resume its negotiations with NYSNA next week. Flushing Hospital seeks to reach a fair agreement with its staff who are members of NYSNA.” Genovese responded with: “The goal is to win a fair contract.

We hope to resolve it at the table.”

Nurses at the hospital threatened to strike in 2006 and held informational pickets, but the hospital eventually came to terms, also Q over health and pension benefits.

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Flushing area. An avowed workaholic, he moved to the United States from Hong Kong in 1971 and held low-paying jobs to put himself through pharmacy school.

Koo moved to New York in 1981 from New Mexico, worked at New York Hospital Queens and bought his first pharmacy in 1991. A philanthropist, Koo makes numerous donations to hospitals and senior centers, endowing a scholarship fund in memory of his father at LaGuardia Community College and donating his $112,500 City Council salary to area Q nonprofit groups.

Councilman Peter Koo is welcomed into the Democratic Party by county Chairman PHOTO BY LIZ RHOADES Joe Crowley.

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Gennaro agreed, saying “drivers who violate alternate-side rules are punished with a ticket. The stickers serve no purpose but to deface people’s cars. It’s a waste of the Sanitation Department’s resources.”

Both Sanders and Gennaro expressed regret about the mayor’s opposition to the proposed parking regulations. “The mayor should follow the path of common sense. I urge him to reconsider his position on this matter,” Sanders said.

Gennaro also urged Bloomberg to rethink his position, adding that he felt that the mayor was a reasonable man who “is being poorly served by the people who advise him.”

Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside), who sits on the council’s Transportation Committee, said “These are common sense approaches to these problems that make parking easier and eliminate unnecessary punitive processes. I sincerely hope that the mayor will come around on this issue and sign these bills into law.”

All three bills passed a council vote by a margin of 47-0. When asked about the possibility of overriding a mayoral veto, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D-Manhattan) said that if enough Council members supported the measures that an override Q was likely.

WOODHAVEN

DEVELOPMENTS

‘Walkability’ and Bronx memories

by Maria A. Thomson Executive Director GWDC

Remember last year — the snow, rain, sleet, cold and ice. But being New Yorkers we can tolerate 100 degree summer days to 8 degree winter nights. So, at this time of winter with the early darkness of our evenings Woodhaven’s Jamaica Avenue is still bright because of our special street lights which are unique and turn toward the sidewalk instead of the street. These brighter lights are so evident as you enter and leave our Woodhaven. Also along our Jamaica Avenue our American flags fly proudly in the day and are lighted in the glow of our street lights at night.

These lights are also a deterrent to crime and allow those returning home from work an opportunity to do a little shopping and pick up some “take out” or “eat in” before going home. For safety reasons, leave your porch lights on all night. The cost is very little and they make a huge difference to those returning home at night.

Some important information. Did you know that there is an “Amber Alert” for pets? Findtoto.com tracks your lost pets for a charge. For any lost pet (dogs, cats, birds — even a wallaby or a goat) there is an automated call made for $175 for 1,275 people in the surrounding blocks.

They can also call 250 homes for $70 and $875 for 10,000 homes. They have a 70 percent success rate.

Also last year I advised you of the fact that “walkability” can increase your proper ty values? Although in the winter

“walkability” is diff icult, you can still walk to and shop our Jamaica Avenue.

In metropolitan areas the neighborhoods that have stores and businesses within walking distance increase the value of the housing in the area up to $34,000.

This is why it is important that our Woodhaven’s Jamaica Avenue remains viable for current homeowners and potential buyers.

This was very evident through the worst weather conditions — as in last year’s record snowstorms when you could not drive. Hearty Woodhavenites bundled up and walked to their avenue. These are some of the positive contributing factors that make Woodhaven such a strong community in which to live, work and shop.

Last week I attended the “State of the City” address by Mayor Michael Bloomberg. His speech was very uplifting with great aspirations for 2012. It was a strong statement of his commitment and dedication to further improving the greatest city in the world.

A very important component of this speech were the plans for our educational system. As I sat in the beautiful historically landmarked Morris High School auditorium, I remembered what an excellent education I received here for I graduated from this high school so many years ago.

I share the honor of being in the good company of a fellow alumnus — Queens Borough President Helen Marshall.

Please remember to fly the American flag above all others. May God bless our leaders, may God bless our armed forces Q and may God bless America.

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percent,” she said.

Student President Diana Rodriguez asked how a shakeup of dedicated teachers would change conditions in the school district like language barriers and poverty.

“Twenty-three percent of the students here are ESL (English as a Second Language) students,” she said.

“How do you change that?”

Stuart said it would be up to the new board to take that into consideration when forming the new school.

Parent Iliza Dabkowski said the turnaround model has failed in the Chicago school system.

“Why do you want to start a system that has already failed somewhere else?” she asked.

Teacher Tony Cipolla said the teachers are not the problem, and that the staff is dedicated to the students.

“I’ve been here for nine years, and I want to stay for another 29,” he said.

Biology teacher Russell Nitchman asked where the city thinks it is going to get an influx of qualified new math and science teachers, which are in short supply in much of the country.

Nitchman considers the move a direct attack by the Bloomberg administration on the teachers’ union.

“Last year the mayor and his people and his money went up to the governor and tried to block tenure,” he said.

“They want to get rid of expensive, senior teachers because they can hire two new teachers for what they pay a Q senior teacher.”

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The cosmetic center offers safe and affordable Botox® and Juvéderm® treatments to help clients get rid of the pesky wrinkles, folds and fine lines that are instrumental in making a person look older.

“If you are interested in enhancing your appearance, it’s one of the best options available,” said owner John Corona. “You could either look in the mirror and say ‘I look like this and I’m not going to make a change with what’s medically available’ or you are going to step out of your house, make a few phone calls, do some research, get some consultations and make a change in your appearance if your heart desires to do so.”

The medication is administered by nurse Jennifer DiLandro under the supervision of a medical physician. DiLandro has been a nurse for 10 years and is certified in the administration of Botox and dermal fillers.

“I talk to the patient. I really want to know what they want, what they want to achieve, what they want to accomplish with the injections,” DiLandro said. “I give them my input. I am conservative when it comes to these procedures. I want you to look natural.”

When clients come in, the procedure for their desired treatment is explained

Nurse Jennifer DiLandro administers Botox treatments to many clients each day. to them. Corona says that 80 percent of clients who come in for a Botox® or Juvéderm® consultation decide to get the treatment the same day.

After the consult ation, a “before” picture is taken. The treatment is performed and the client is given after care instructions and told to return in one week when the results of the procedure will be evaluated and an “after” photo is taken. Although Corona says that it can take up two weeks

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“These particular products don’t offer a facelift with a small price tag,” Corona said.

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The goal of Velvet Effects Lasers is to guarantee the greatest results without prolonging the sessions so as to make their clients’ overall experience an enjoyable one.

Botox® and Juvdérm® treatments are a lot cheaper than plastic surgery and can be administered slowly for a gradual change or quickly more a more dramatic look.

Velvet Effects charges $12 per unit for Botox, but sometimes offers special promotions like 20 units for $150. The cost of dermal fillers such as Juvedérm®, Restylane® and Radiesse® vary and it is best to call for the most accurate pricing.

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Catholic Schools Week starts Jan. 29

by Biship Nicholas DiMarzio This year, Catholic Schools Week is observed from Jan. 29 to Feb. 5 with the theme, “Catholic Schools — Faith, Academics, Service.” The logo is a triangle with the words “Catholic Schools” written in red across the bottom of the triangle. The “T” in the word “Catholic” is a purple cross that has an unfurling green banner with words in white letters proclaiming the theme, “Faith, Academics, Service.”

How important it is for us to recognize the unique role that Catholic schools play in the evangelization efforts of the Church.

We must always maintain the Catholic identity of our schools.

I am happy to report that the Diocese of Brooklyn has made tremendous progress in capturing the already existing Catholic nature of our schools and encouraging some of our schools to become more Catholic and concrete in their identity.

This has been one of the goals of “Preserving the Vision,” which as you may know began three years ago and continues today to be an instrument of strategic planning for the future of our Catholic schools here in Brooklyn and Queens.

Today, the Diocese boasts 97 Catholic Schools and Academies with a N-8 enrollment of 30,755. The number is down from our past history. However, our Catholic schools are stronger than ever before.

With the establishment of eight new academies in September 2012, joining the already existing 17 academies formed since 2009, we have a proven mechanism for maintaining the viability and insuring

the Catholic identity of our schools. All of this is due to the tremendous effort on the part of our Catholic Schools Office under the direction of the Superintendent for Catholic Schools Support Services, Thomas Chadzutko, Ed.D., and with the daily supervision and collaboration of Sister Angela Gannon, C.S.J., Secretary for Catholic Education and Formation, and our Vicar General, Bishop Frank Caggiano.

All in our Catholic Schools Office, the Boards of Directors of our academies and the many volunteers who work on our SECTION School Advisory Boards must be commended for the countless hours given to the cause of preserving and developing the network of Catholic schools here in Brooklyn and Queens.

Catholic Schools Week gives us an opportunity to focus our attention on our Catholic schools, their administrators, our teachers and our students. A tremendous effort is being made by the pastors of our Diocese, both those whose parishes continue to sponsor parochial schools and those who serve as Members of a regional Catholic academy. Their efforts must not be forgotten. If it were not for the dedication, cooperation and support of our pastors, our Catholic schools would long ago have ceased to exist.

During Catholic Schools Week, I cannot forget to mention our parents who make great sacrifices to send their children to our schools so that they may receive a quality Catholic education. Catholic schools are always a joint venture between parents and educators. Catholic teaching reminds us that the responsibility for education relies primarily on the parents, and others assist them in fulfilling their responsibility.

For me, one of the highlights of Catholic Schools Week is when I visit several of the Catholic Schools in our diocese. The Catholic atmosphere is palpable during these visits, at which I like to play a game with the students that I call, “Stump the Bishop.” The students are able to ask me any question they wish.

After a number of years of playing this game, however, I now try to specify that the questions should be about religion, because two years ago I was stumped when one of the students asked me a question about the new math. Unfortunately, I do not know what the new math is about! But usually I can answer any question regarding religion.

At times, there are amazing insights which come out of the mouths of our Catholic school children, especially the

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younger ones who as we know always spontaneously say what is on their minds.

Many times their comments to me contain deep insights regarding our faith.

I remember several years ago when one young boy asked me a question that I thought was, “Do you have any pets?”

But, since I did not hear his question clearly, I asked him to repeat what he said.

When he did, the young boy said, “Do you give pep talks to the priests?”

Truly, this was an incredible insight from a fourth grader. We all need pep talks; priests, deacons, men and women religious, principals, teachers, students and, yes, even bishops. Catholic Schools Week gives an opportunity for all those involved in our Catholic schools to receive a pep talk, reminding them of the great work that is accomplished even under great difficulties.

The whole effort of establishing Catholic schools and keeping them in existence has been an exercise in putting out into the deep, from the very beginnings of Catholic education two centuries ago until today. Sometimes we seem to be rowing against the tide, but at the same time we are making progress.

All the efforts made for our Catholic Schools are well worth that effort. We will continue as a Diocese here in Brooklyn and Queens to do our best to support Catholic Q education in our Catholic Schools.

Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio is Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn.

The above was first published in The Tablet, the diocese newspaper.

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by Robert Knox Kennedy You want the best possible education for RELIGIOUS your child. The local SCHOOLS school district is reaSECTION sonably good but is facing some drastic budget cuts next year and, as far as you can tell, probably for many years after that. You don’t want to sacrif ice your child’s educational opportunities neither do you want to spend money needlessly on other options, such as private school or homeschooling.

Private school makes sense on so many levels because everything’s there. The facilities, the staff, the activities, the academics — the lot. Homeschooling is certainly doable, but the onus is on you to track everything and make sure all the paperwork is completed, submitted and approved.

So, what about some of those rumors you have heard about private school?

Well, those rumors are indeed true.

Private schools offer all kinds of educational philosophies. Public schools are required to teach a state-mandated curriculum. Furthermore they are required to test their students at various points using state-approved tests. As a result, a large part of the teaching is focused on preparing for those tests. And there are certain subjects which may not be taught, depending on the local jurisdiction’s philosophy and politics.

Private schools, on the other hand, can teach anything they want, any way they want. So, for example, if you want a religious component to your child’s education, you will be able to have that in a private school. Each private school is unique with only a couple of exceptions. Private schools are unique and individual in their approaches to the curriculum and how they teach it. That uniqueness is just part of private schools’ DNA.

Sports programs and extracurricular activities don’t get cut. The problem with public school budgets is that the so-called extras or nonessential programs are the first to be deleted from the budget. Unfortunately sports and extracurricular activities fall into the broad categor y of nonessential programs.

Private schools offer generous financial aid. I have saved the best rumor for the last. Over the past decade in particular one school after another has stepped up to the plate and put substantial amounts of money on the line for financial aid. They

want a diverse student body. They know that if they just leave the doors open to only those who can afford, then their applicant pool will be limited.

The financial aid programs vary widely, so you will have to ask for particulars.

If a school has an income-blind financial aid program, as many do, it will advertise that fact where everybody can see it on its splash pages. You will have to submit tax returns and other financial data. But even that is done discreetly through a special organization which handles private school f inancial aid requests for hundreds of schools.

Now that you see that the rumors are true, why not do a bit of exploring and see

if private school isn’t the right option for Q your child? Good luck!

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Private school academic courses cover a lot of ground. Guilty as charged.

Of course, it’s not quite that simple. But essentially private schools, because they have fewer students per class, can move through the academic material much more quickly than is possible when you have a class size of 25-30 children. Very little valuable teaching time is spent dealing with discipline or bureaucracy. Private school teachers get to teach. And the students they are teaching want to learn. As a result, you can cover a lot of academic ground under those circumstances.

As you begin to explore and evaluate private schools, you will have to decide which approach and which academic curriculum works best for your child. There are a host of variables to sift through. The end result is that you should with any luck be able to find a school which satisfies most of your requirements and gives your child that educational foundation he or she so richly deserves.

Private schools take the view that sports, extracurriculars and academics are essential to developing a balanced approach to education. Playing on an intramural team or even a varsity team sharpens young people. The same thing with singing in a chorus or being in a play. These are formative experiences which your child you look back on with great affection and gratitude.

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Religious Elementary Schools American Martyrs School, 216-15 Peck Ave., Bayside, NY 11364 Ave Maria Catholic Academy, 158-20 101st Street, Howard Beach NY 11414 Bayside Lutheran School, 35-10 156th Street, Flushing, NY 11354 The Brandeis School, 25 Frost Lane, Lawrence, NY 11559 Chapel of the Redeemer, 220-16 Union Turnpike, Bayside NY 11364 Christ Lutheran School, 248-01 Francis Lewis Boulevard, Rosedale NY 11422 Corpus Christi School, 31-29 60th Street, Woodside NY 11377 Divine Mercy Catholic Academy, 101-60 92nd Street, Ozone Park, NY 11416 Divine Wisdom Catholic Academy, 45-11 245th Street, Douglaston NY 11362 Grace Lutheran Day School, 100-05 Springfield Boulevard, Queens Village NY 11429 Holy Child Jesus School, 111-02 86th Avenue, Richmond Hill NY 11418 Holy Family School, 74-15 175th Street, Fresh Meadows NY 11366 Holy Trinity School, 14-45 143rd Street, Whitestone NY 11357 Immaculate Conception School, 21-63 29th Street, Astoria NY 11105 Immaculate Conception School, 179-14 Dalny Road, Jamaica NY 11432 Incarnation School, 89-15 Francis Lewis Boulevard, Queens Village NY 11427 The Kew-Forest School, 119-17 Union Turnpike, Forest Hills, NY 11375 LaSalle School at St. Gabriel School, 97th Street and Astoria Boulevard, East Elmhurst NY 11369 Lawrence Woodmere Academy, 336 Woodmere Boulevard, Woodmere, NY 11598 Lutheran School of Flushing and Bayside, 36-01 Bell Boulevard, Bayside NY 11361

Most Holy Redeemer Catholic School, 146- Sacred Heart School, 216-01 38th Avenue, 28 Jasmine Avenue, Flushing, NY 11355 Bayside NY 11361 Most Precious Blood School, 32-52 37th Sacred Heart School, 84-05 78th Avenue, Glendale NY 11385 Street, Long Island City NY 11106 Notre Dame Catholic Academy of Ridgewood, Sacred Heart School, 115-50 221st Street, Cambria Heights NY 11411 62-22 61st Street, Ridgewood NY 11385 Our Lady of Fatima School, 25-38 80th St. Adalbert School, 52-17 83rd Street, Elmhurst NY 11373 Street, Jackson Heights NY 11370 Our Lady of Hope School, 61-21 71st Street, St. Andrew Avellino School, 35-50 158th Street, Flushing NY 11358 Middle Village NY 11379 St. Bartholomew School, 44-15 Judge Street, Our Lady of Lourdes School, 92-80 220th Elmhurst NY 11373 Street, Queens Village NY 11428 St. Brigid’s R.C. School, 438 Grove Street, Our Lady of Mercy School, 70-25 Brooklyn, NY 11237 Kessel Street, Forest Hills NY St. Camillus School, 185 Beach 11375 99th Street, Rockaway Beach Our Lady of Perpetual NY 11694 RELIGIOUS Help School, 111-10 St. Clare School, 137-25 SCHOOLS 115th Street, S. Ozone Brookville Boulevard, SECTION Rosedale NY 11422 Park NY 11420 St. Elizabeth Catholic AcadeOur Lady of Sorrows my, 94-01 85th Street, Ozone Park School, 35-34 105th Street, NY 11416 Corona NY 11368 Our Lady of the Angelus School, 98-05 63rd St. Fidelis School, 124-06 14th Avenue, College Point NY 11356 Drive, Rego Park NY 11374 Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, 34-45 St. Francis de Sales School, 219 Beach 129th Street, Belle Harbor NY 11694 202nd Street, Bayside NY 11361 Our Lady of the Snows School, 79-33 St. Francis of Assisi School, 21-18 46th Street, Astoria NY 11105 258th Street, Floral Park NY 11004 Our Lady Queen of Martyrs School, 72-55 St. Gregory the Great School, 244-44 87th Avenue, Bellerose NY 11426 Austin Street, Forest Hills NY 11375 Our Lady’s Catholic Academy, 125-18 St. Helen School, 83-09 157th Avenue, Rockaway Boulevard, South Ozone Park, 11420 Howard Beach NY 11414 Our Saviour Lutheran School, 64-33 Wood- St. Joan of Arc School, 35-27 82nd Street, Jackson Heights NY 11372 haven Boulevard, Rego Park NY 11374 Queens Lutheran School, 31-20 21st St. John’s Lutheran School, 123-07 22nd Avenue, College Point NY 11356 Avenue, Astoria, NY 11105 Redeemer Lutheran School, 69-26 Cooper St. John’s Lutheran School, 88-24 Myrtle Avenue, Glendale NY 11385 Avenue, Glendale NY 11385 Resurrection Ascension School, 85-25 61st St. John’s Lutheran School, 86-20 114th Street, Richmond Hill, NY 11418 Road, Rego Park NY 11374

St. Joseph School, 28-46 44th Street, Long Island City NY 11103 St. Kevin School, 45-50 195th Street, Flushing NY 11358 St. Leo School, 104-19 49th Avenue, Corona NY 11368 St. Luke’s School, 16-01 150th Place, Whitestone NY 11357 St. Margaret School, 66-10 80th Street, Middle Village NY 11379 St. Mary Gate of Heaven School, 104-06 101st Avenue, Ozone Park NY 11416 St. Mary Star of the Sea School, 595 Beach 19th Street, Far Rockaway NY 11691 St. Matthias School, 5825 Catalpa Avenue, Ridgewood NY 11385 St. Mel School, 154-24 26th Street, Flushing NY 11354 St. Michael School, 136-58 41st Avenue, Flushing NY 11355 St. Nicholas of Tolentine School, 80-22 Parsons Boulevard, Jamaica NY 11432 St. Pancras School, 68-20 Myrtle Avenue, Glendale NY 11385 St. Raphael’s School, 48-25 37th Street, Long Island City NY 11101 St. Robert Bellarmine School, 56-10 214th Street, Bayside NY 11364 St. Rose of Lima School, 154 Beach 84th Street, Rockaway Beach NY 11693 St. Sebastian School, 39-76 58th Street, Woodside NY 11377 St. Stanislaus Kostka School, 61-17 Grand Avenue, Maspeth NY 11378 St. Teresa of Avila School, 109-55 128th Street, S. Ozone Park NY 11420 St. Thomas The Apostle School, 87-49 87th Street, Woodhaven NY 11421 Sts. Joachim & Anne School, 218-19 105th Avenue, Queens Village NY 11429

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New immigration office in Queens USCIS director hails opening of the first office in the boros, in LIC Associate Editor

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency which oversees legal immigration to the United States, held the official opening of its first full-service office in the outer boroughs on Friday in Long Island City.

The off ice, located at 27-35 Jackson Ave., was touted by USCIS officials as an effort to bring immigration services closer to immigrant communities. As the most diverse county in the country, Queens was

Mayorkas said the USCIS wanted “the community to be inspired by the opening of this office.”

Òthe most natural choice” for a new office, USCIS New York District Director Andrea Quarantillo noted.

In Queens, more than a million people — nearly half the borough’s population — were born in a foreign country. Of these immigrants, only half are U.S. citizens, according to Census data.

Last year, the USCIS processed more than 100,000 immigration applications from New York City alone, while nationwide, that f igure was an astonishing 67 million, according to USCIS officials.

“I would like the move into the community ... to be emblematic of the very important message that we are here for you,” said USCIS Director Alejandro Mayorkas of the move to Queens. Mayorkas said he hoped the office will help provide a “smooth and easy path” to help “realize immigrants’ dreams.”

Residents of Queens and Brooklyn applying for permanent residency or to become U.S. citizens will be routed to the Long Island City office. Previously, they would have had to go to offices either on Long Island or in downtown Manhattan.

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ARTS, CULTURE & LIVING

by Mark Lord

Sci-fi play ‘Advance Man’ opens six-month series at the Secret Theatre

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s movies ranging from “2001: A Space Odyssey” to “Alien” to “The Astronaut’s Wife” have proven: going to space is not always a good thing.

This point gets driven anew in “Advance Man” at the Secret Theatre.

The play kicks off a six-month series of works by three companies who have banded together to form the BFG collective.

The theater’s artistic director, Richard Mazda, calls it “a completely unique arrangement,” one that he expects could become a “signpost for other theaters.”

Actors David Rosenblatt, left, and Sean Williams in “Advance Man,” running through Jan. 29.

The three companies, Boomerang Theatre Company, Flux Theatre Ensemble and Gideon Productions, will offer works by established playwrights as well as brand new plays from several emerging writers.

“Advance Man,” which runs through Jan. 29, comes courtesy of Gideon and is the first part of “The Honeycomb Trilogy,” three related plays

by Mac Rogers, which will all hit the Secret Theatre’s stage. “Advance Man” has generated considerable buzz playing to sold-out houses.

It centers on the family of an astronaut, Bill Cooke (Sean Williams), continued on page 39

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W H AT ’ S H A P P E N I N G

EXHIBITS

Lefferts Blvd., South Richmond Hill, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Stay for one class or all day. For a schedule of classes call (718) 529-2153 or go to teachyoga.org.

The exhibit, “Jim Henson’s Fantastic World,” has been extended through March 4 at the Museum of Moving Image at 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria. The work of the internationally renowned puppeteer, filmmaker and television pioneer is explored in this Smithsonian traveling exhibition which features more than 120 artifacts, including drawings, storyboards, props, video material and 15 iconic original puppets of such characters as Kermit the Frog, Rowlf, Bert and Ernie. Hours are Tuesday-Thursday, 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m., Friday to 8 p.m. and weekends to 7 p.m.

Admission is $12 for adults, $9 for seniors and students, $6 for children 3-18.

A free job training program for women is offered by Queens College. You can apply at an open house on Wednesday, Feb. 1 at 10 a.m. at 25 West 43 St., Room 1008, Manhattan. Classes begin on Feb. 7.

Call (212) 642-2070 or (718) 997-4899.

A class on how to look at modern art will run Tuesdays from 12:15-1:15 p.m. through March 6 at the Central Queens YM&YWHA, 67-09 108 St., Forest Hills. The cost is $45.50 members, $56 nonmembers. Call (718) 268-5011, ext. 151.

Tai Chi classes sponsored by the Arthritis Foundation of NYC will run through Feb. 24, for people with arthritis or limited mobility, Fridays from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. Cost is $25. Register at (718) 463- 7700 x222 or flushingtownhall.org.

Enchanted Earth 2.0 Photo Exhibit by Barbara E. Leven now through Jan. 31 at the Queens Botanical Garden, Visitor & Administration Building Gallery, 43-50 Main St., Flushing.

Joseph LoGuirato’s sketched collection of historic structures around the city will run through June 30 at the Poppenhusen Institute, 114-04 14 Rd., College Point. Call for hours: (718) 358-0067.

Dorsky Gallery, 11-03 45 Ave., Long Island City, announces that “Video<>Object,” will remain on view through March 18. It explores the relationships between video-art and narcissism. Gallery hours are Thursday through Monday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. (closed Tuesday and Wednesday), and by appointment. For further information contact David Dorsky at (718) 937-6317 or via email: david@dorsky.org.

“Long Island City Works,” a photo exhibit by students, will run now through Feb. 29 at the LaGuardia Community College Gallery of Photographic Arts, in the college’s B-building, 3rd floor at 30-20 Thompson Ave., Long Island City. Viewing hours are Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. and on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

“Duality,” an exhibit of stoneware and bronze, continues at Queensborough Community College’s art gallery in Bayside through Feb. 3. Hours are Tuesday and Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Wednesday and Thursday, 10 a.m.-7p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, noon-5 p.m.

THEATRE The LaGuardia Performing Arts Center in February is presenting Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard,” in two versions — classical and experimental — at the Mainstage Theater, 31-10 Thomson Ave., Long Island City, on Feb. 2 at 7:30 p.m.; Feb. 3 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.; Feb. 4 at 7:30 p.m.; Feb. 8 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. and Feb. 9 at 7:30 p.m. for the classical version. The experimental version will be presented on Feb. 8 - 9 at 6 p.m.; Feb. 10 - 11 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $5 for one performance and $8 for two performances held on marathon days, Feb. 8 and 9. To purchase tickets contact the ticket box office at (718) 482-5151 or visit laguardiaperformingarts.org.

“Advance Man,” episode one of The Honeycomb Trilogy, now through Jan. 29 at The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23 St., Long Island City. Tickets are $18 general admission, $15 students and seniors. Call (718) 392-0722.

“Jackson Heights 3 AM” will be presented at Queens Theatre in the Park in Flushing Meadows Park Jan. 27Feb. 5, Fridays at 7:30 p.m., Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m. Tickets are $20. Call (718) 760-0064.

Dance with instructions at the Italian Charities of America, 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst, every Monday and Friday, 7:15 to 8 p.m., followed by a dance social. Music by Sal Escott. Admission $10.

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Sunny Kim will perform at Flushing Town Hall on Friday, Jan. 27.

“Tango 5 Senses” will be presented on Jan. 27 through March 18 at Thalia Spanish Theatre, 41-17 Greenpoint Ave., Sunnyside. Hours are Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 4 p.m. Tickets are $30, students and seniors $27, Fridays only $25. Call (718) 729-3880 or visit thaliatheatre.org.

AUDITIONS The Forest Hills Symphony Orchestra has openings in oboe, bassoon, violin, viola, cello and bass sections. Auditions will be held during the regular rehearsals of the orchestra on Wednesday from 7:30-10 p.m. at the Forest Hills Jewish Center, 10606 Queens Blvd. Interested players should contact the conductor, Franklin Verbsky at (718) 374-1627 or (516) 785-2532.

FILMS Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave. in Astoria, presents a retrospective of David Cronenberg’s films, including all his features, plus some rarely screened short films and a conversation with the director, through Feb. 12. Call for details. (718) 777-6800. Costs $12 for adults.

MUSIC Sunny Kim will perform jazz on Friday, Jan. 27 at 8 p.m. at Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd.

Cost is $10.

Teatro Lirico D’Europa will present the opera “Rigoletto” on Saturday, Feb. 4 at 8 p.m. at the Queensborough Performing Arts Center, 222-05 56 Ave., Bayside.

Tickets range from $35-$42. Call (718) 631-6311 or reserve online at visitqpac.org.

Community Council, 43-43 Bowne St. in Flushing, every Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

LECTURES A free lecture on “Insights and Experiences of an Israeli Diplomat Representing the State of Israel in Countries Throughout the World,” will be given on Sunday, Jan. 29 at 7:30 p.m. by Shahar Azani, Israeli consul for media affairs, at Congregation Machane Chodosh, 67-29 108 St., Forest Hills.

HEALTH No-cost digital mammograms and clinical breast exams at a mobile van at 35-24 83 St., Jackson Heights on Thursday, Feb. 2. An appointment is necessary. Call 1 (877) 628-9090. Coordinated by American Italian Cancer Foundation and the Catherine Sheridan Senior Center.

MEETINGS Ozone Park AARP Chapter 4163 meets the last Tuesday of the month at noon at Christ Lutheran Community Center, 85-15 101 Ave., Ozone Park. The next meeting will be on Jan. 31. New members are welcome.

AARP Chapter 2889 will meet on Wednesday, Feb. 1 at noon at the Elks Lodge, 82-20 Queens Blvd.

New members are welcome.

You Gotta Believe, a community-based older child adoption agency, is looking for families who would be willing to provide love and nurturing to a child in the foster care system. To learn more join the agency every Sunday at 4 p.m. at Little Flower Children’s Services, 89-12 162 St., Jamaica.

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The Kissena Jewish Community Council is offering a weekly flea market at the Kissena Jewish

Free yoga, meditation and relaxation classes on Saturday, Jan. 28 at the Yogashaki Yoga Center, 114-41

The Jackson Heights Art Club offers art classes, all mediums. Daytime and evening adult classes are offered Monday-Friday; daytime children’s classes are offered during the weekend. Classes are held at St. Mark’s Church, 82nd Street and 34th Avenue.

Cost: $75 for adults, for four sessions, $75 for children for eight sessions. Membership available. For information, call Geraldine at (718) 446-4709.

The Greek Cultural Center, 26-80 30 St., Astoria, offers classes in Greek folk dance for adults and teens every Saturday from 10:30 a.m.-noon. The fee is $20 monthly or $150 for the whole year. Bouzouki lessons are also available every Saturday from 12:30-2 p.m. Registration is open to beginners as well as advanced players of all ages. Students are recommended to bring their own instruments to class. The fee is $40 to enroll and $60 monthly. For more information, call (718) 726-7329.

Italian Charities of America at 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst, offers Italian classes for adults and children beginning this month. Adult classes are on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 7-9 p.m. Children’s classes are on Saturdays from 10 a.m.-noon.

The course is for 14 weeks. Price: adult — $80, children — $75 for first child, $50 for second and third child. Call (718) 478-3100.

Yoga with Lorain at the Forest Hills Jewish Center, 106-06 Queens Blvd. Drop in and start anytime. Six week series $60 members/ $80 nonmembers. Single class $15 members/ $20 nonmembers. Classes are held on Wednesdays, one at 6 p.m. and one at 8 p.m. The first class will be complimentary. Call (718) 263-7000 ext. 200.

Ongoing drawing class every Wednesday 1-4 p.m. at the National Art League, 44-21 Douglaston Pkwy, Douglaston. Instructor, Marc Jasloff. Call (516) 223-7659. Fee: $25 per class.

The Flushing Camera Club meets at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of Flushing Hospital, enter at 45th Avenue and Burling Street on the first, third and fifth Wednesday of the month. For information, visit flushingcameraclub.org.

To submit a theater, music, art or entertainment item to What’s Happening, email artslistingqchron@gmail.com

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A little bit of Europe, right here in Astoria

by Paula Neudorf Associate Editor

It all started nine years ago, Silas Huff explained. The professionally trained musician and Texas native had just moved to Astoria after a year and a half in Berlin, in part because, he said, “it reminded me of Europe.”

“I got off the N Train, and there were all these sidewalk cafes and everyone was speaking a different language,” he explained. For Huff, there was just one downside to the neighborhood: “There wasn’t much of a classical music scene.”

Huff, who earned a master’s degree in music composition from the University of California in Los Angeles but found his true calling as a conductor, was then teaching music at a private school in Manhattan. He began forming a network of musicians in Astoria, which led to the founding of the Astoria Music Society.

‘The English Baroque’

What started as a group of volunteer musicians staging small, informal concerts has since grown into a full-blown, paid symphony orchestra with regular programming. A choir and the Lost Dog New Music Ensemble are also part of AMS. Midway through its ninth season, the group is ringing in the new year this February and March with three new shows: “The English Baroque,” a smaller affair featuring two Astoria Symphony regulars; “New York Pastoral,” which Huff described as “a crazy good program” put on by the symphony orchestra; and

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When: Feb. 9 at 8 p.m.

Where: Waltz-Astoria Cafe 23-14 Ditmars Blvd., Astoria Tickets: Free (917) 300-8695 astoriamusic.org

The Astoria Symphony Orchestra often performs at the Frank Sinatra High School of the PHOTO BY ALEX LAUREN Arts.

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“Shakespeare and Song,” an afternoon featuring choral music inspired by the Bard.

Claire Smith, the Astoria Symphony Orchestra’s concertmaster, said “The English Baroque” is further evidence of AMS’s expansion.

“They have a major orchestra, they’ve got the choir, they have the contemporary music ensemble,” she said of the organization, “[and] now they’re going to have an early music program.”

Smith and fellow orchestra member Marina Fragoulis, principal second violin,

put the show together based on a mutual love of historical music.

They will perform the program, featuring 17th- and 18th-century works by composers with ties to England, on Feb. 9 at the Waltz-Astoria Cafe in Queens and on Feb. 11 at the Tenri Cultural Institute in Manhattan. Cellist Anneke Schaul-Yoder and harpsichordist Aya Hamada will join them.

Smith said she and Fragoulis want to “recreate these historical sounds that came from centuries ago.” To that end, the will play historical violins with with real gut strings and differently shaped bows.

Both musicians have performed in the Astoria Symphony Orchestra for several years.

For Fragoulis, being a part of the orchestra has helped “develop relationships with people,” she said. “You become like a big family.

The Astoria Music Society represents the fruition of a goal Huff set for himself while studying conducting in Germany.

“They’re so musical there, they really value music in society,” Huff said, recalling that he told himself: “‘When I get back to America and start my career as a conductor, I’m going Q to make music this important.”

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Arlene Chico-Lugo as Adela and Rajesh Bose as Devaj in a new play about the people you PHOTO BY JOEL WEBER can find in Jackson Heights called “Jackson Heights, 3 a.m.”

Late-nite Jackson Hts. subject of new play

by Kevin Korber Chronicle Contributor

From the minute it opens, “Jackson Heights, 3 a.m.” bombards the senses: the lights go pink and dance music blares as the audience is taken inside one of Roosevelt Avenue’s drag clubs. Once the music dies down, we witness a secret meeting between two lovers who are plotting to escape together into the night. In that moment, “Jackson Heights, 3 a.m.” becomes reminiscent of “West Side Story,” yet still feels unmistakably grounded in today’s reality.

One of the play’s most unique elements is how it was written: Director Ari Laura Kreith took works by seven different playwrights — Jenny Lyn Bader, J. Stephen Brantley, Ed Cardona, Les Hunter, Tom Miller, Melisa Tien and Joy Tamasko — and arranged them so their plots would intersect over the course of a single late night in Jackson Heights.

In one arc, Lindi (Flor De Liz Perez), one half of the couple preparing to leave, sits at her window and teaches Adela (Arlene Chico-Lugo) English. Adela hopes to connect with Devaj (Rajesh Bose), a Pakistani cab driver she’s fallen in love with, though they don’t speak the same language.

These are just some of the characters who form the story’s tapestry, along with cops, drag queens, drug addicts, deli owners, doctors and ordinary folks.

Kreith, a California native who moved to Jackson Heights, said the play is the final part of a trilogy she has directed about the neighborhood.

“The first play, ‘167 Languages,’ explored Jackson Heights by day and how all of the cultures that are a part of this neighborhood interact. The second play,

‘You Are Now the Owner of This Suitcase,’ was a sort of ‘magical-realistic’ look at the area in which our writers told folktales and stories,” Kreith said. “What makes ‘3 a.m.’ so different, though, is that it explores the notion that Jackson Heights becomes another world after hours.”

Asked about the process of working with multiple writers, Kreith said, “It takes a very specific writer to work in this kind of process. I’m very fortunate that I found a group of talented writers who are so in sync with each other.”

Despite the various plots in “Jackson Heights, 3 a.m.,” the audience is given ample time to get to know the characters, and the cast is truly impressive.

Special mention must be given to Andrew Ramacharan Guilarte as Salim, a sage-like bodega owner who doles out advice while taking potshots at Manhattan tourists, as well as J. Stephen Brantley’s Leo, a meth addict who is at once hilarious and terrifying.

“Jackson Heights, 3 a.m.” was initially scheduled for a four-week run at PS 69, which was shortened when Queens Theatre took notice of the play. It will run at the Flushing Meadows venue from Jan. 27 Q through Feb. 5.

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Where: Queens Theatre Flushing Meadows Park Tickets: $18 (718) 760-0064 queenstheatre.org

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Sci-fi hits stage in ‘Honeycomb Trilogy’ Part of a new program at the Secret Theatre

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of alien occupation and will run from March 29 to April who led the first manned mission to Mars. Cooke is back 15. The conclusion, “Sovereign,” about how the human home after three years, harboring secrets and illicit cargo race slowly rebuilds, runs from June 14 to July 1.

Rogers said he is happy Gideon is part of the Secret that could forever alter humanity.

“I decided to make the first part the story of a family, Theatre’s BFG Collective.

“Richard Mazda is on a mission to leading up to the events that changed make his part of Queens a vibrant the world,” Rogers said. The next arts scene. It’s a really interesting installment, “Blast Radius,” focuses endeavor,” said Rogers. The Secret on “life inside the house under the When: Multiple plays through July 1, Theatre first opened its doors in changed world,” while the final play, including “The Honeycomb 2007, in a space formerly occupied “Sovereign,” relates the final conTrilogy,” “Deinde” and by a coffee-roasting warehouse. frontation that will shape the future.

“The Real Thing.”

August Schulenburg, artistic According to Rogers, 38, each play Where: The Secret Theatre director of Flux, another BFG stands on its own, but he added there 44-02 23 St., Long Island City member, which has had several is a is a “level of emotional fulfillment” Tickets: (718) 392-0722 home bases since its inception in that comes from seeing all three. secrettheatre.com 2006, said he’s energized by Long “I wrote them carefully so that Island City. anyone can have a full night’s experi“It’s a generous, open-hearted place,” Schulenburg ence” without having seen the other two parts, he said. said. “There is so much talent, you bump into each other “I’m still tweaking parts two and three,” he admitted.

Though the work has a science fiction bent, Rogers on the sidewalk.”

Schulenburg’s play, “Deinde,” will run at the Secret Thesaid, “You might be surprised how relatable it is. It is not atre from April 28 to May 12, and like “The Honeycomb like an episode of ‘Star Trek.’

“I grew up a big sci-fi fan, reading, watching TV. I got Trilogy,” has a sci-fi plot. It examines what happens when, into theater and put that interest aside. Then I had ideas in the not-too-distant future, pressure to cure a global pandemic spurs the invention of a device that allows a team of on how to do science fiction on stage.

“There is no point in competing with movies and TV. scientists to think directly into a powerful computer.

“It’s exciting stuff,” said Schulenburg, 35, who wrote the Onstage, you explore the ideas of science fiction.”

The trilogy’s second installment, “Blast Radius,” deals play in 2010 in what he called “a pretty quick process.”

“It came out pretty close to right,” he added. with the radical changes that have taken place after years

BFG Collective

Mars-scarred astronaut Bill Cooke (Sean Williams) talks to his wife Amelia (Kristin Vaughan) in “Advance Man,” the first installment of a trilogy being staged at the Secret PHOTO BY DEBORAH ALEXANDER Theatre.

Though he bears the title within his own theater company, “I don’t have the powers that most artistic directors have,” he said. “Everyone wears a lot of different hats.”

Boomerang, the collective’s third member, which annually presents free outdoor Shakespeare, will be offering three distinct works at the Secret Theatre, including “Much Ado About Nothing,” one of the Bard’s paeans to romantic shenanigans, from March 1 to 18, and Tom Stoppard’s romantic “dramedy,” “The Real Thing,” from March 3 to 24.

As if doing two plays in repertory weren’t enough of a test, Boomerang will also present a new play by Melissa Gawlowski, “Spring Tides,” from March 9 to 25, about a newly-pregnant woman who finds a hidden world behind Q a closet door.

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Call to reserve at (718) 762-6212.

Upcoming free defensive driving class on Saturday, Feb. 4 for Melrose Credit Union members, $20 nonmembers at Melrose Credit Union, 139-30 Queens Blvd., Briarwood, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. To pre-register, call Donnece at (718) 523-1300.

United Hindu Senior Center, 118-09 Sutter Ave., South Ozone Park, offers free vegetarian lunch, health promotion, nutrition education, cards and games, mammograms and blood pressure screenings. In addition, we provide transportation for many seniors via bus. For more information, call (718) 323-8900.

SOCIAL ACTIVITIES

A leisure group meets every Wednesday at 11 a.m. at the Hillcrest Jewish Center, 183-02 Union Turnpike, Flushing, for area seniors.

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

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

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

In addition to buying gold, silver, diamonds, Recently, a woman and her boyfriend went into an unassuming gold buying and cash loan watches and coins, Ice Jewelry Buying also shop on Queens Boulevard. She had a $35 offers instant cash loans for jewelry and eBay offer on her ring from another area shop, but selling services.

Their cash loans program is straightforward and was looking to get a better deal. In what may be viewed as poor business acumen, she told simple. “It’s a perfect solution for someone who her new prospective buyer what her previous has a bill due and a check on the way,” Goldberg offer was. Still, after examining her piece, he said. “But we make sure they have a game plan to offered her $1,600. He did so, as he says, buy their jewelry back before the end of the term.

Sometimes these are people’s heirlooms we’re “...because that’s what it was worth.”

The plight of the worker who’s hard-up for talking about and we respect that.”

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

“At the end of the day, I just want people many people who really need that money get to feel comfortable doing business with us. taken advantage of?”

Elias opened his Rego Park shop with People have this conception of gold buying Goldberg less than a year ago, and already stores as these slimy places with slimy they’re seeing a lot of repeat customers and people, and they’re typically right. But we referrals. This is a sign to them that they’re want to be different. I don’t think it’s cool to doing something right — the pawn business see someone buy a ring for $200 and put it in typically deals in one-time transactions but their counter for $800. We don’t do that.”

Ice Jewelry Buying Services is located at Elias is determined to break that mold, 98-30 Queens Blvd. in Rego Park. Hours of building a reputation on trust.

“Everyone around here is buying gold these operation are Monday-Friday from 11am to days; you can go into the barber shop down 7:00pm and Saturday 10am to 5pm; Sunday the road and sell your jewelry. The problem private appoinments are available. Call for Q with all these places is they treat everything more information (718) 830-0030.

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

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

Meetings are held seven days a week.

Co-dependents Anonymous (women only) meets every Friday at 10 a.m. at Resurrection Ascension Pastoral Center, 85-18 61st Road, Rego Park.

The Queens Counseling Services of the Foundation for Religion and Mental Health announces a free Women’s Support Group on alternate Thursday mornings at 10 a.m. at the Kissena Jewish Center, 43-43 Bowne St., Flushing. If you are experiencing anxiety, fear or stress and are searching for a venue that can provide understanding, compassion and respect, call to register at (718) 461-6393.

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

Schizophrenics Anonymous meets on Sundays at 10 a.m. at L.I. Consultation Center, 97-29 64th Road, Rego Park.

SENIOR ACTIVITIES The Woodhaven Senior Center, 78-15 Jamaica Ave., announces free exercise classes at the center. Stay Well on Monday includes stress reduction; yoga on Thursday includes meditation time. The center is open five days a week from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The Ridgewood Older Adult Center, 59-14 70 Ave., is open Monday-Friday from 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. The center offers a variety of activities and exercise classes including Wii sports, billiards, bingo, computer classes and monthly bus trips. For information, call Karen at (718) 456-2000.

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

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

The Samuel Field YWHA, 58-20 Little Neck Pkwy., Little Neck, is seeking individuals who would like to volunteer their time to teach a class in the older adult services or computer department. Applicants should have some experience either teaching or working in their field of interest, but those with a specific hobby they would like to share are welcome to apply. To volunteer, call (718) 225-6750, ext. 233.

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

The Peter Cardella Senior Citizen Center, 68-52 Fresh Pond Road, Ridgewood, offers a full Monday through Friday schedule from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Activities include hot lunches served daily to seniors 60 and over at noon, monthly theme parties, health nutrition and education classes, blood pressure screening, chair yoga and group dancing to live music twice a week.

VOLUNTEERS The Louis Armstrong House, the longtime home of the great musician Louis Armstrong, is a national historic landmark located on 107 St. in Corona. It is open to the public as a historic house museum and needs volunteers to assist in the Welcome Center.

For information, contact Deslyn Dyer at (718) 4788274 or on the web: satchmo.net.

LISTING INFORMATION Items for the Community Calendar must be sent two weeks before the date of the event. Listings should be typed, from a nonprofit organization, either free or moderately priced, and be open to the public. Keep the information to one paragraph. Because of the large number of requests for the free calendar listings, we cannot include every event submitted.

Send to: Queens Chronicle, Community Calendar, P.O. Box 74-7769, Rego Park, NY 11374, fax to (718) 205-0150.

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La Bottega: Fine dining and a pickup counter too

by Daniel Scarpati qboro Contributor

For a gourmet Italian eatery that opened this past July, La Bottega has quickly made a home in Howard Beach.

Travel down Cross Bay Boulevard — there’s no doubt any Queens visitor or resident has a lot of dining choices.

If you’re not just looking for fine food, but an overall gratifying experience, La Bottega is the place for you.

This attractive storefront eatery, which is “half lunch pickup counter” and “half villa-like restaurant,” is actually part of a chain, but not in the large corporate sense. There are 20 La Bottega locations, most of them on Long Island.

There’s one other Queens location, in Bayside, but each is privately owned and different in unique ways.

La Bottega restaurants are most famous for their paninis and salads, so those are menu items that remain the same at every location. What makes the Howard Beach location stand out are its larger selections of entrees, a new dinner menu every week and fresh homemade gelato and sangria. In fact, just about everything on the menu at this location is made right in the kitchen.

The three brothers who own this location, Sal Jr., Gabriel and Sergio Casella, are very proud of the establishment. “I grew up in Howard Beach, and my parents live here,” Sal Jr. said. “A lot of the La Bottegas are known for lunch, but we wanted to bring in dinner and invite people in then.” Along with their mother, Antonella Casella, the brothers take turns running the restaurant and doing everything from restocking the gelato showcase to preparing savory and sweet crepes.

The first item to arrive at the table is a bread basket, but be sure not to eat it all at once. This basket of freshly

La Bottega on Cross Bay Boulevard.

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baked and sliced Italian bread will serve as a major complement to any appetizer or entree that one orders. Whether it is the ultra-thin Mozzarella di Bufala e’ Prosciutto di Parma, which ages 600 days before serving, or the hot and cold Calamari Arabbiata, the bread soaks up all the fine juices and flavor left behind on the plate. These sorts of combinations only enhance one’s dining experience.

As for entrees, they all come with roasted potatoes and herbs and sauteed broccoli. Pollo Cleopatra is a chicken breast sauteed with wild mushrooms and served with a plentiful amount of white mushroom sauce. My friend sampled the Red Snapper Livornese, which is a filet served in white wine and marinara sauces. Snapper can be either

too salty or not salty enough, but here we found the perfect harmony of sweet and salty taste.

Throughout our meal, my friend and I were enjoying our glasses of sangria, a sweet dessert wine commonly served in the summer. “Although it is a summer drink, people love it. So we make it in the back and serve it all the time,” Sal Jr. said.

As for dessert, we sampled two of the most well-known and desired items: the fresh gelato and a Nutella Sweet Crepe with chopped bananas. The gelato is of the perfect consistency: light, yet creamy, and packed with flavor. As for the Nutella crepe, it is the definitive dessert available at La Bottega in this critic’s opinion. Nutella is a hazelnut version of peanut butter. Putting it between two warm crepe layers with skinny banana slices, topped off with powdered sugar and homemade whipped cream makes one delectable treat that is big enough to share amongst a family of three to four. Another dessert item that’s very popular is the mini-cone. It’s a small frozen cone with gelato inside.

What makes it a regular favorite is that it’s perfect for younger children to hold so there’s no mess.

Put all of the fine dining and drinking into a moderately sized “villa-like” space and that makes one fine restaurant.

If one does choose to sit down for dinner, be sure to ask for Favio; he was our server. Not only does he know the menu by heart, but he’ll kindly add or subtract anything to a meal upon request.

It’s clear that La Bottega has quickly become a favorite of Queens residents. It’s open from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. all other days.

Drop in to pick up takeout lunch or call (718) 529-0100 for Q reservations and a warm, homey welcome.

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Queens Council on the Arts, founded in 1966, is moving from its home in Forest Park to a new, 1,700-square-foot space at 37-11 35 Ave. in Long Island City, which the nonprofit is leasing from Kaufman Astoria Studios.

The organization, which supports Queens-based artists across all disciplines — fine arts, dance, music and more — administers grants with monies it receives from the city and private and corporate donations.

Last year, QCA awarded a quarter of a million dollars through nearly 100 grants, according to Executive Director Hoong Yee Lee Krakauer.

But the facility in Forest Park is “a golf house,” Krakauer said. It was chosen in part, she said, to facilitate programming in parks.

The new location was found after a long process that included a failed attempt in 2008 to move into LIC and a survey of Queens artists.

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Coach: Knicks in ‘crisis’

by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor

The Knicks went into this week with a sixgame losing streak. Suddenly, instead of leading the NBA’s Atlantic Division, the Knicks have to worry about falling behind such perennial standings bottom-feeders as the New Jersey Nets and the Washington Wizards.

Following the team’s dispiriting loss to the Phoenix Suns last Wednesday, head coach Mike D’Antoni used the word “crisis” to describe the state of affairs. When I asked if that might be a tad too dramatic, given the fact that more than 50 games were still to be played this season, he corrected himself: “Crisis may be overstating things. Right now I just feel like I’m on a ledge.”

D’Antoni feels like he is on a precipice because the Knicks’ big trio of Amar’e Stoudemire, Carmelo Anthony and Tyson Chandler have forgotten how to put the ball in the basket.

Knicks forward Landry Fields admitted that the team has been fortunate to have endured a slump while the Giants have been distracting area sports fans with their Super Bowl run.

Fields did not mention that the Knicks started to go off the rails as soon as Cablevision, owner of Madison Square Garden and the MSG Network, took their games off Time Warner Cable, the leading TV provider in the city. I guess it’s safe to say that Knicks fans are not tying up TWC’s phones begging them to cut a deal with Cablevision at any cost.

My guess is that Cablevision and TWC will

reach a pact as soon as area politicians start threatening to institute a la carte pricing for cable channels because that’s something that would adversely affect the bottom line of both telecommunications giants.

While this city will understandably be obsessed with the Giants-Patriots Super Bowl rematch in two weeks, another sport will try to carve out a little attention this week. The Track & Field U.S. Open will be held at the Garden this Saturday, as the best in the world gather to compete in such events as the pole vault, shot put, high hurdles and distance running.

Since this is a Summer Olympics year, there will be more attention paid to track & field by both the media and athletic apparel companies. New Balance launched its British Miler line of running shoes by bringing in five top distance runners from the United Kingdom, who hope to represent their country at the London Olympiad, to meet with the media in New York last week.

I spoke with British runner James Brewer and told him how his countryman, retired tennis star Tim Henman, hated playing at Wimbledon because he felt the pressure of representing the hopes of an entire nation on his shoulders. “I can understand how he felt since he had to do that every year. This is a once in a lifetime experience for me, so I am in a different situation,” Brewer replied.

Benjamin Cardozo High School will field one of four boys’ basketball teams competing at the SNY Invitational Friday and Saturday at Long Island University’s Brooklyn campus. Q

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NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS

BY PUBLICATION STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF UNION IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE DISTRICT COURT DIVISION FILE NO.:11 CVD 3094 CHRISTINE ANN FUSCO, Plaintiff, vs. VINCENT MATTHEW FUSCO, Defendant.

TO: VINCENT MATTHEW FUSCO, Defendant, 90-38 214th Street, Queens Village, NY 11428 TAKE NOTICE that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above-entitled action. The nature of the relief being sought is as follows: Plaintiff is seeking an absolute divorce.

You are required to make defense to such pleading not later than the 21st day of February, 2012, said date being forty (40) days from the first publication of this notice, and upon your failure to do so, the party seeking service against you will apply to the Court for the relief sought.

This 9th day of January, 2012.

Stephen M. Bennett, Attorney for Plaintiff CALDWELL HELDER HELMS & ROBISON, P.A., P.O. Drawer 99, Monroe, North Carolina 28111-0099, Telephone: (704) 289-4577

Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: NYUS GROUP A, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/10/2011. Office location is Queens County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 39-15 Main Street, Suite 301, Flushing, NY 11354. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: 75 Street LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/14/2011. Office location is Queens County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 90-10 75 Street, Woodhaven, NY 11424. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

FOR LEGAL NOTICE RATES & INFORMATION CALL 718-205-8000

The Gohar Family LLC filed Articles of Organization to be an LLC on September 23, 2011. On October 20, 2011, the Articles were amended to change the name to Seven Starr Realty I LLC. The Secretary of State is designated as agent upon whom process may be served. The address of the LLC is 175 Ascan Ave., Forest Hills, NY 11375 in Queens County. The purpose of the LLC is real estate investment and management.

File No.: 2011-185/B CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

BY THE GRACE OF GOD, FREE AND INDEPENDENT To: Bradford Benjamin, Robert Benjamin, Taffy Benjamin, Miriam Price, Barbara Gordon, Judith Buchalter, Patricia Freeman, Michael Brooks, Audrey Guttin, Richard Brooks, Marjorie Brooks, Attorney General of the State of New York, the unknown distributees, legatees, devisees, heirs at law and assignees of ADRIENNE BROOKS, deceased, or their estates, if any there be, whose names, places of residence and post office addresses are unknown to the petitioner and cannot with due diligence be ascertained. Being the persons interested as creditors, legatees, distributees or otherwise in the Estate of ADRIENNE BROOKS, deceased, who at the time of death was a resident of 119-19 Graham Court, Flushing, in the County of Queens, State of New York.

SEND GREETING: Upon the petition of LOIS M. ROSENBLATT, Public Administrator of Queens County, who maintains her office at 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, Queens County, New York 11435, as Administrator of the Estate of ADRIENNE BROOKS, deceased, you and each of you are hereby cited to show cause before the Surrogate at the Surrogate’s Court of the County of Queens, to be held at the Queens General Courthouse, 6th Floor, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, City and State of New York, on the 23rd day of February, 2012 at 9:30 o’clock in the forenoon, why the Account of Proceedings of the Public Administrator of Queens County, as administrator of the Estate of said deceased, a copy of which is attached, should not be judicially settled, and why the Surrogate should not fix and allow a reasonable amount of compensation to GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ., for legal services rendered to petitioner herein in the amount of $26,905.59 and that the Court fix the fair and reasonable additional fee for any services to be rendered by GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ., hereafter in connection with proceedings on kinship, claims etc., prior to entry of a final Decree on this accounting in the amount of 5.5% of assets or income collected after the date of the within accounting; and why the Surrogate should not fix and allow an amount equal to one percent on said Schedules of the total assets on Schedules A, A1, and A2 plus any additional monies received subsequent to the date of this account, as the fair and reasonable amount payable to the Office of the Public Administrator for the expenses of said office pursuant to S.C.P.A. §1106(4); and why the claim from Bradford Benjamin in the amount of $9,295.00 should not be rejected; and why each of you claiming to be a distributee of the decedent should not establish proof of your kinship; and why the balance of said funds should not be paid to said alleged distributees upon proof of kinship, or deposited with the Commissioner of Finance of the City of New York should said alleged distributees default herein, or fail to establish proof of kinship, Dated, Attested and Sealed 23rd day of December, 2011, HON. PETER J. KELLY, Surrogate, Queens County; Margaret M. Gribbon, Clerk of the Surrogate’s Court; GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ., (718) 459-9000, 95-25 Queens Boulevard, 11th Floor, Rego Park, New York 11374. This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not obliged to appear in person.

If you fail to appear it will be assumed that you do not object to the relief requested unless you file formal legal, verified objections. You have a right to have an attorney-at-law appear for you. Accounting Citation

Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: ROTANA LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/16/2011. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Rowshan A. Taufique, 148-52 87th Road, Jamaica, NY 11435. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

GILDAN MEDIA, LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/13/11. Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 66-31 Wetherole St., Rego Park, NY 11374. General Purposes.

Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: 8305 3RD AVE LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/30/2011. Office location is Queens County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 23-15 24th Ave., Astoria, NY 11102. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: GID INDUSTRIES, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/29/2011. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Trevor Desmond, 5828A 47th Avenue, Woodside, NY 11377. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

AJF PROPERTIES LLC, a domestic LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/09/2010. Office location: Queens County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 51-46 65 St., Woodside, NY 11377. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: 85-22 JAMAICA AVE LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/30/2011. Office location is Queens County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 23-15 24th Ave., Astoria, NY 11102. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: PURVIS FUNDING LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/14/11. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, c/o Criterion Group LLC, 35-11 36th Street, Astoria, New York 11106.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of THE WARRIORS PEST MANAGEMENT L.L.C., a domestic or foreign Limited Liability Company (LLC). Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State on AUGUST 30, 2011.

NY Office location: Queens County.

Secretary of State is designated as agent upon who process against the LLC may be served. Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC service upon him/her to C/O 215-14 46th Avenue, Bayside, NY 11361.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of 25 HAMPTON LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/13/11. Office location: Queens County. Princ. office of LLC: 108-18 Queens Blvd., Ste. 907, Forest Hills, NY 11375. Latest date on which the LLC may dissolve is 12/31/2099.

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

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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SQ page 48 CITATION File No.: 2009-3873/D THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

BY THE GRACE OF GOD, FREE AND INDEPENDENT To: Barbara Prunchak, Robert Prunchak, Barry S. Seidel, NYC Human Resources Administration Department of Social Services, Attorney General of the State of New York, The unknown distributees, legatees, devisees, heirs at law and assignees of ANNA KRUK, deceased, or their estates, if any there be, whose names, places of residence and post office addresses are unknown to the petitioner and cannot with due diligence be ascertained.

Being the persons interested as creditors, legatees, distributees or otherwise in the Estate of ANNA KRUK, deceased, who at the time of death was a resident of 101-55 97 Street, Ozone Park, in the County of Queens, State of New York.

SEND GREETING: Upon the petition of LOIS M. ROSENBLATT, Public Administrator of Queens County, who maintains her office at 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, Queens County, New York 11435, as Administrator of the Estate of ANNA KRUK, deceased, you and each of you are hereby cited to show cause before the Surrogate at the Surrogate’s Court of the County of Queens, to be held at the Queens General Courthouse, 6th Floor, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, City and State of New York, on the 8th day of March, 2012 at 9:30 o’clock in the forenoon, why the Account of Proceedings of the Public Administrator of Queens County, as Administrator of the Estate of said deceased, a copy of which is attached, should not be judicially settled, and why the Surrogate should not fix and allow a reasonable amount of compensation to GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ., for legal services rendered to petitioner herein in the amount of $9,918.45 and that the Court fix the fair and reasonable additional fee for any services to be rendered by GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ., hereafter in connection with proceedings on kinship, claims etc., prior to entry of a final Decree on this accounting in the amount of 6% of assets or income collected after the date of the within accounting; and why the Surrogate should not fix and allow an amount equal to one percent on said Schedules of the total assets on Schedules A, A1, and A2 plus any additional monies received subsequent to the date of this account, as the fair and reasonable amount payable to the Office of the Public Administrator for the expenses of said office pursuant to S.C.P.A. §1106(4); and why the claim from Barry S. Seidel for services as Guardian ad Litem should not be paid in an amount to be determined by the court; and why the claim from NYC Human Resources Administration Department of Social Services in the amount of $310,298.21 should not be paid to the extent of the net residuary estate, Dated, Attested and Sealed 10th day of January, 2012 HON. PETER J. KELLY, Surrogate, Queens County Margaret M. Gribbon, Clerk of the Surrogate’s Court GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ., (718) 459-9000, 95-25 Queens Boulevard, 11th Floor, Rego Park, New York 11374 This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not obliged to appear in person. If you fail to appear it will be assumed that you do not object to the relief requested unless you file formal legal, verified objections. You have a right to have an attorney-at-law appear for you.

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File No.: 2010-4680/A CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

BY THE GRACE OF GOD, FREE AND INDEPENDENT To: Gyula Andor Fendt, Attorney General of the State of New York, The unknown distributees, legatees, devisees, heirs at law and assignees of JULIUS LISKA, deceased, or their estates, if any there be, whose names, places of residence and post office addresses are unknown to the petitioner and cannot with due diligence be ascertained. Being the persons interested as creditors, legatees, distributees or otherwise in the Estate of JULIUS LISKA, deceased, who at the time of death was a resident of 82-45 Grenfell Street, Kew Gardens, in the County of Queens, State of New York.

SEND GREETING: Upon the petition of LOIS M. ROSENBLATT, Public Administrator of Queens County, who maintains her office at 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, Queens County, New York 11435, as Administrator of the Estate of JULIUS LISKA, deceased, you and each of you are hereby cited to show cause before the Surrogate at the Surrogate’s Court of the County of Queens, to be held at the Queens General Courthouse, 6th Floor, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, City and State of New York, on the 1 day of March, 2012 at 9:30 o’clock in the forenoon, why the Account of Proceedings of the Public Administrator of Queens County, as Administrator of the Estate of said deceased, a copy of which is attached, should not be judicially settled, and why the Surrogate should not fix and allow a reasonable amount of compensation to GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ., for legal services rendered to petitioner herein in the amount of $8,101.65 and that the Court fix the fair and reasonable additional fee for any services to be rendered by GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ., hereafter in connection with proceedings on kinship, claims etc., prior to entry of a final Decree on this accounting in the amount of 6% of assets or income collected after the date of the within accounting; and why the Surrogate should not fix and allow an amount equal to one percent on said Schedules of the total assets on Schedules A, A1, and A2 plus any additional monies received subsequent to the date of this account, as the fair and reasonable amount payable to the Office of the Public Administrator for the expenses of said office pursuant to S.C.P.A. §1106(4); and why each of you claiming to be a distributee of the decedent should not establish proof of your kinship; and why the balance of said funds should not be paid to said alleged distributees upon proof of kinship, or deposited with the Commissioner of Finance of the City of New York should said alleged distributees default herein, or fail to establish proof of kinship, Dated, Attested and Sealed 3rd day of January, 2012, HON. PETER J. KELLY, Surrogate, Queens County; Margaret M. Gribbon, Clerk of the Surrogate’s Court; GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ., (718) 459-9000, 95-25 Queens Boulevard, 11th Floor, Rego Park, New York 11374. This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not obliged to appear in person. If you fail to appear it will be assumed that you do not object to the relief requested unless you file formal legal, verified objections. You have a right to have an attorney-atlaw appear for you. Accounting Citation

PROBATE CITATION File No. 2011-619 SURROGATE’S COURT, QUEENS COUNTY CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO: To the Heirs at law, next of kin, and distributees of Martha McDaniels a/k/a Marti McDaniels, deceased, if living, and if any of them be dead to their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, legatees, executors, administrators, assignees and successors in interest whose names are unknown and cannot be ascertained after due diligence, and to Carl Baden, Karol Buchanen, Nicole Kaler and the Public Administrator of Queens County A petition having been duly filed by Regina Mercedes Walker, Executor, who is domiciled at 203 Dupont Ave., Hopatcong, NJ 07843 (Mailing address: PO Box 563, Hopatcong, NJ 07843.

YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Queens County, at 88-11 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, New York, on the 2nd day of February, 2012, at 9:30 A.M. of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of Martha McDaniels, lately domiciled at 39-35 51st St., #3B, Woodside, NY 11377, admitting to probate a Will dated July 19, 2007, a copy of which is attached, as the Will of Martha McDaniels, deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that Letters Testamentary issue to Regina Mercedes Walker.

Dated, Attested and Sealed, November 30, 2011 Hon. Peter J. Kelly, Surrogate; Margaret M. Gribbon, Chief Clerk; Erica Bell, ESQ., Attorney for Petitioner, 212-967-5710 11 Park Place, Suite 606, New York, NY 10007 NOTE This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you.

PROBATE CITATION File No. 2011-4345 SURROGATE’S COURT – QUEENS COUNTY AMENDED SUPPLEMENTAL CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO: The heirs at law, next of kin, and distributees of BEATRICE HERRERA, deceased, if living, and if any of them be dead, to their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, legatees, executors, administrators, assignees and successors in interest whose names are unknown and cannot be ascertained after due diligence.

A petition having been duly filed by HILDA ALEGRE who is domiciled at 162-04 87th STREET, HOWARD BEACH, NY 11414.

YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Queens County, at 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, New York, on 8th day of MARCH, 2012 at 9:30 A.M. of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of BEATRICE HERRERA lately domiciled at 162-28 87th ST., HOWARD BEACH, NY 11414 admitting to probate a Will dated JANUARY 8, 2010, a copy of which is attached, as the Will of BEATRICE HERRERA deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that Letters Testamentary issue to: HILDA ALEGRE. January 25, 2012 (Seal).

HON. PETER J. KELLY, Surrogate.

MARGARET M. GRIBBON, Chief Clerk.

THOMAS J. WHITE, Attorney for Petitioner 69-34 GRAND AVE., MASPETH, N.Y. 11378, (718) 639-1100 (Note: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you.)

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK-COUNTY OF QUEENS INDEX# 11772/2011 FILED: 5/13/2011 SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE Plaintiff designates Queens County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgage premise is situated.

DUETSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE OF THE INDYMAC INDX MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2005-AR5, MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-AR5 UNDER THE POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT DATES MARCH 1, 2005, Plaintiff, against MAURICIO ZAPATA, CARMEN M. RODRIGUEZ, if she be living and if she 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 otherwise, any right, title or interest in or to the real property described in the complaint herein, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR QUICKEN LOANS, INC., UNITED STATES INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, HERITAGE ASSET MANAGEMENT, EQUITABLE ASCENT FINANCIAL, LLC, WORKERS COMPENSATION BOARD OF NEW YORK STATE, CAPITAL ONE BANK, NYS DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE, CRIMINAL COURT OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, NYC PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU, NYC ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD, NYC TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU and “JOHN DOE” and “JANE DOE”, the last two names being fictitious, said parties intended being tenants or occupants, if any, having or claiming an interest in, or lien upon the premises described in the complaint, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, defendants. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to serve upon plaintiff’s attorneys an answer to the Complaint in this action within twenty (20) days after the service of the summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within (30) days after service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may appear within (60) days of service hereof. In case of failure to 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, recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Queens on 10/1/2004 in CRFN: 2004000615862 covering premises known as 89-15 86th St., Woodhaven, NY 11421. 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. To the above named defendants: the foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Hon. David Elliot, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, filed 5/13/2011 and filed along with the supporting papers in the Queens County Clerk’s Office. This is an action to foreclose a mortgage. ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough and County of Queens, City and State of New York. Block: 8968 Lot: 50 said premises known as 89-15 86th St., Woodhaven, NY 11421. YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. THERE IS DUE AND OWING TO PLAINTIFF THE SUM OF $267,862.72 WITH INTEREST THEREON AT 2.652% PER ANNUM FROM 7/1/2010, WHICH DOES NOT INCLUDE INTEREST, LATE CHARGES, ATTORNEYS’ FEES, ESCROW ADVANCES, ETC. UNLESS YOU DISPUTE THE VALIDITY OF THE DEBT, OR ANY PORTION THEREOF IS DISPUTED, THE DEBTOR JUDGMENT AGAINST YOU AND A COPY OF SUCH VERIFICATION OR JUDGMENT WILL BE MAILED TO YOU BY THE HEREIN DEBT COLLECTOR. IF APPLICABLE, UPON YOUR WRITTEN REQUEST, WITHIN SAID THIRTY (30) DAY PERIOD. THE HEREIN DEBT COLLECTOR WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR IF DEFFERENT FROM THE CURRENT CREDITOR. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED A DISCHARGE FROM THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT, YOU ARE NOT PERSONALLY LIABLE FOR THE UNDERLYING INDEBTEDNESS OWED TO PLAINTIFF/CREDITOR AND THIS NOTICE/DISCLOUSE IS FOR COMPLIANCE AND INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE New York State Law requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process. Please read it carefully. SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT You are in danger of losing your home. If you fail to respond to the summons and complaint in this foreclosure action, you may lose your home. Please read the summons and complaint carefully. You should immediately contact an attorney or your local legal aid office to obtain advice on how to protect yourself. SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid office, there are government agencies, and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during the process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Banking Department at 1-877 Bank-NYS or visit the Department’s website at www. banking.state.ny.us FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS Be careful of people who approach you with offers to “save” your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner’s distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they completed all such promised services. Section 1303 NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME. If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. The Law Offices Of Jordan S. Katz, P.C., Attorneys for the Plaintiff, 395 N. Service Rd., Suite 401, Melville, NY 11747 (631)454-8059 Our file #: JSK 15102.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: BELAIR PARK 5 LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/06/12. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 166-07 Hillside Avenue, Jamaica, New York 11432.

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Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: 29 NORMAN AVE. REALTY LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/5/2012.

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Cuomo at Queens College

Parkway Village was a home to all the world

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The Colonial-style community situated on 37 acres northwest of where Main Street leaps over the Grand Central Parkway was conceived and built in 1947 to house employees of the new United Nations. The housing was carefully planned and a factor in basing the UN here in New York City. It was called Parkway Village.

The atmosphere of diversity and acceptance at the complex reflects the values that have been a trademark of the borough since the 1657 declaration of religious freedom known as the Flushing Remonstrance.

Four 4.5-room apartments were altered and made into a Children at the mock post office, October 1951. school building as an experiment By the 1960s, as the UNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s staff grew by in international education living. Seventy students were enrolled. In the geography leaps and bounds, many chose LeFrak City class a mock post office was set up, helping and other locations for subsidized living. the children learn the globe and the costs of Parkway Village went private co-op in sending mail around the world. Each year a 1983. Stamps are no longer the 3 cents new experimental class and program was they were in 1947, just going up to 45 added to the school. It was hailed as a suc- cents for a first-class letter in an attempt to Q help save the U.S. Postal Service. cess by the UN.

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governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top priorities, and he emphasized on Thursday that he plans to tie aid from Albany to school districts with implementing new teacher evaluations that have drawn ire from unions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of the important lessons I learned in my first year as governor is everyone in Albany has a lobbyist,â&#x20AC;?

Cuomo said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I learned school superintendents have a lobbyist; principals have a lobbyist; teachers have lobbyists. You know the only group that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have lobbyists? Students. This year, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to take a second job. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to be the governor of New York, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to be the studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lobbyist.â&#x20AC;?

Saying that â&#x20AC;&#x153;education has become more about business interests than studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; interests,â&#x20AC;? Cuomo said he would withhold a portion of state aid to school districts that do not implement teacher evaluation systems that focus heavily on â&#x20AC;&#x153;results,â&#x20AC;? such as test scores. The governor noted that the state is in danger of losing $700 million in federal education aid that it received in 2010 with the condition that teacher evaluations be implemented throughout New York. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Still to this day, there are no teacher evaluations,â&#x20AC;? Cuomo said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The bureaucracy doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to implement the evaluations. The federal government has said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;We want our money back because you havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t done the evaluations.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

While there were no protests outside the college for Cuomoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s visit, he did encounter at least one dissenter during his trip.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mic check, mic check,â&#x20AC;? said Queens College professor Grace Davie, interrupting Cuomoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s speech. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want the government to do even more for the 99 percent.â&#x20AC;?

After Davie, who teaches African history and the history of non-violent movements, told Cuomo sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be â&#x20AC;&#x153;very brief,â&#x20AC;? an irked looking governor responded with, â&#x20AC;&#x153;so will I.â&#x20AC;?

Another major tenet of Cuomoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plan for the coming year is repairing bridges and roadways. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to do more infrastructure repair than has been done in modern political history,â&#x20AC;? Cuomo said of his plan to work on as many as 100 bridges and 2,000 miles of roadway in the state.

He added that the state plans to finance upgrades to JFK International and LaGuardia airports.

When speaking with reporters, Cuomo also noted that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s calling in his budget proposal to reinstate the toll rebate for residents of Broad Channel and the Rockaways.

College students at the address said they hope the governor reduces tuition at public universities. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My mom got laid off, my dadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s working part-time and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really difficult for students to find jobs with flexible schedules, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really hard to pay for my education,â&#x20AC;? said Emily December, of Woodhaven. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As a full-time student, I pay $2,500 each semester, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to go up $300 every year beginning this year. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot, and I feel itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pushing Q away students.â&#x20AC;?

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The officer had responded to a call with his partner regarding a car that been broken into on 211th Street near 85th Avenue. According to witnesses cited in published reports, the policeman stopped interviewing the crime victim to take a personal call on his cell phone.

The NY Post revealed Monday that the officer was Terence Dean of Medford, LI. based on an interview with his alleged girlfriend, who said she was trying to prevent him from shooting himself.

According to the reports, the officer had a heated argument with his girlfriend and then took his gun and shot himself in the mouth. His partner, who had been in a house at the time, rushed out and transported the officer to Long Island Jewish Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 11 p.m.

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Jackson entered the apartment at midnight by breaking the fire escape window with a brick, cops said. He allegedly then grabbed a cleaver from the kitchen and threatened to kill his ex and her son.

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