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More city schools failing — state 104 boro schools placed on list, DOE refutes numbers

by Anna Gustafson Senior Editor

ff icials sounded a warning cry about the state of education in New York last week, when they said an “unprecedented” number of schools were designated as “in need of improvement” under the federal No Child Left Behind program, including 104 sites in Queens.

About one-third of city schools are not performing as they should be, according to a report released by the state last week. The report’s results were vehemently disputed by city officials, who argued the assessment was too limited in scope.

Many of the schools cited for improvement by the state had recently been given As or Bs on progress reports handed out by the city. The designation of “in need of improvement” indicates that a school for two years has not met federal requirements for sufficient graduation rates or students reaching proficiency on English and/or math standardized tests. States have had to track schools’ progress on standardized tests and report it to the federal government as part of the No Child Left Behind program.

Schools that land on the state list may be forced to provide additional resources for students, such as tutoring, and could ultimately be pegged for closure.

“This is just further evidence, as if we needed any, that we must move forward to reform our schools and change what is happening in our classrooms,” state Board of

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Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch said.

“Our goal is to ensure every student graduates from high school college, and career, ready. These numbers show that too many schools are moving in the opposite direction.”

But city officials disagreed, saying that its progress reports, which painted a much rosier picture than the state, are a better tool to analyze schools’ progress because they take into account other measures other than absolute performance, such as parental involvement.

“We support strong accountability measures, but those that look at absolute proficiency alone penalize schools that are making progress,” city schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said in an emailed statement.

In Queens, every district was labeled as “in need of improvement” except for District 26, which includes schools in the borough’s northern neighborhoods, including Bayside, Flushing, Whitestone and Douglaston. There were, however, schools in District 26 that were designated as “in need of improvement.”

A total of 1,325 schools and 123 districts in the state were cited for improvement.

Last year, 102 schools and four school districts were placed on the same list, and that number skyrocketed to 847 schools and 89 districts this year.

The discrepancies between the city and state numbers didn’t surprise some parents, and Community Education Council 24 President Nick Comaianni slammed Mayor

Bloomberg’s administration for what he said was a manipulation of school data.

“The city has been grading their schools to make themselves look good,” Comaianni said. “They don’t want to show that under mayoral control nothing has changed.”

Kathryn Thome, a former member of Community Education Council 28 whose child attends school in Forest Hills, said the numbers thrown about by the city and state leave parents a bit bewildered.

“The city says we’re doing fine, but the state says we’re in need of improvement and haven’t made enough advances — I’m not sure why there’s a difference,” Thome said. “If there’s a standard, they should be the same.”

Vishnu Mahadeo, president of the Richmond Hill Economic Development Council, said he agrees with the state that Richmond Hill High School, where his child goes, needs improvement.

He emphasized that more parental involvement is needed at the school and said teachers of different backgrounds, including Caribbean and Punjabi — two groups that make up a large percentage of the institution — should be hired.

“The PTA is lucky to have 10 or 15 parents at the meetings even though the school has an attendance of over 3,500 students,” Mahadeo said. “There’s no Punjabi teacher for a school that has the highest concentration of Punjabi students in the city. And, only 49 percent of our kids are graduating. We need to make a conscious

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Partnership will boost St. Helen — officials School works with St. Francis to provide students more resources

by Anna Gustafson

know, and our teachers will talk to St. Francis professors about what’s important for Amidst a sea of rambunctious children incoming teachers to know. We’ve discussed thrilled to be out of the classroom and in the the possibility of our students going to St. warm autumn air, officials from St. Helen Francis to do some of their work, which is School in Howard Beach and St. Francis very exciting.”

The agreement between the two schools is College in Brooklyn launched a partnership this week that they said will give teachers one of several that St. Francis has with variand pupils access to far more resources than ous institutions, public and private, around the city, including Scholars Academy in the they have had.

“I’m very excited about this,” St. Helen Rockaways. Essentially, it connects the two Principal Kathleen Bollinger said outside of schools so that students in St. Francis’ educathe school on Monday. “Our teachers can tion department can student teach at St. now take advantage of what their professors Helen, and will include faculty development for the Howard Beach instructors, education for parents and programs for the students, including sports and music.

“We want to make sure you are properly prepared to enter the world so you can bring with you the Catholic values that are instilled in you at St. Helen so we can build a future of peace and a future of justice,” said Msgr.

Alfred LoPinto, vicar for human services at the Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens.

St. Francis President Brendan Dugan emphasized that St. Helen students and teachers will also be able to attend the college’s wide variety of academic events.

“We’ll be able to expose them St. Helen students indulge their imaginations and pretend to to writers, artists and many other play instruments as the real band strikes a tune. public figures,” Dugan said. “We Senior Editor

U.S. Rep. Bob Turner hams it up for students at St. Helen School in Howard Beach as the instituPHOTOS BY ANNA GUSTAFSON tion’s principal, Kathleen Bollinger, looks on. have all these scientific and cultural events that they can be a part of.”

U.S. Rep. Bob Turner (R-Queens and Brooklyn), who also attended the partnership’s launch, said the program will help to strengthen Catholic education.

“As a graduate of a private grammar school, I continue to be a proponent of

Catholic education,” said Turner, who attended St. Thomas the Apostle in Woodhaven.

“I’m looking to see if the government can help out those paying for this kind of education.”

Turner said he is supporting a number of bills that would give tax credits to individuals financing their child’s private education. Q

Sheehan’s sentence is ‘horrifying’ — attorney Howard Beach mom receives five years in prison, free pending appeal

by Anna Gustafson Senior Editor

Though Barbara Sheehan was sentenced to five years in prison last week after being acquitted of murdering her husband but found guilty on a weapons charge, her attorney is fighting to make sure the Howard Beach mother never sees the inside of a cell again.

“I am appalled,” Sheehan’s attorney, Michael Dowd, said after Queens Supreme Court Judge Barry Kron sentenced the 50-year-old woman to five years in prison, followed by two and a half years of post-release supervision. “But I’m not surprised in Queens County.”

Last month, a jury found Sheehan not guilty of murdering her ex-cop husband, Raymond Sheehan, after she shot him 11 times in what she said was self-defense on Feb. 18, 2008 in their Howard Beach home.

The incident occurred after, Sheehan said, her husband had pointed a gun at her and told her he was going to kill her that day, and followed nearly two decades of alleged physical and emotional

abuse. According to Sheehan, her husband would routinely threaten to kill her and smashed her head against a cinder block wall while they were on vacation, punched her in the face and threw boiling spaghetti sauce on her. Her children, Jennifer, 25, and Raymond, 21, testified during the trial about the abuse and said they heard their father threaten to kill their mother on a weekly basis for most of their lives.

Sheehan first shot her husband f ive times with a revolver and another six times with a semiautomatic. She was found guilty of using the .9mm pistol, which carried with it a minimum sentence of three-and-a-half years and a maximum of 15 years.

“I’m sorry for what this has done to my family,” Sheehan said in court.

Dowd is appealing the conviction, and Sheehan is free pending the appeal, which the attorney said “we expect to win.”

As one of the appeal’s main arguments, Dowd said the court should have allowed expert testimony from a psychiatrist who would have argued to jurors that it was the

nearly two decades of abuse that had caused her to shoot 11 times Sheehan’s attorney said the five-year sentence sent a “horrifying message for battered women.”

“What did Raymond Sheehan get away with for 17 years?”

Dowd said outside the courthouse on Thursday. “He spit on her, he punched her, he put a gun in her mouth. It is appalling that conduct gets sanctioned.”

Kron said his sentencing was in no way a comment on the larger societal issue of domestic violence.

“I’m not going to second guess the jury verdict,” Kron said before he announced the sentence. “Raymond Sheehan was not the person on trial.”

The judge added that he was “confident this will be Barbara Sheehan’s only lifetime contact with the criminal justice system.”

Kron also noted he had received about 80 letters from family members and friends in support of Sheehan.

“I read every one, and they were very heartfelt,” Kron said.

Before the judge delivered the sentence, Linda Sheehan, the wife

Barbara Sheehan, center, stands outside the Queens Supreme Courthouse with her attorney, Michael Dowd, right, family members and friends after she PHOTO BY RIYAD HASAN was sentenced to five years in prison of Raymond Sheehan’s twin brother, Vincent, read a victim’s impact statement in court.

“You’ve devastated many people,” Linda Sheehan said. “You’ve ruined a family of brothers … Do you know how we celebrate Christmas now? Instead of a tra-

ditional Christmas dinner, we visit Raymond at the cemetery.”

Also prior to the judge’s sentencing, Assistant District Attorney Debra Pomodore, who prosecuted the case, called on the judge to remember Raymond Sheehan. continued on page 40

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Wife killer sentenced A former Woodhaven resident who killed and dismembered his wife, discarding some of her body parts in Forest Park, was sentenced to 20 years in prison last week, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said.

Edwin Fuentes, 44, admitted last month that he murdered his wife, Reina De Los Santos Reyes, 42, by choking her in June 2007, according to the DA. The former butcher then dismembered the mother of his child and packed some of her body parts in a suitcase that was found in 2008 by a group of teenagers in Forest Park, near the home he had shared with her in Woodhaven.

The sentence “is a measure of justice for the victim and her family,” Brown said in a prepared statement. “It ensures that her husband will be punished for his actions, and it spares the couple’s 13-year-old daughter from having to testify against her father for viciously killing her mother.”

Witnesses reported hearing Fuentes threaten to kill his wife in April 2007, and he had been observed choking the victim and threatening to murder her in May 2007 if she ever left him, according to Brown.

When asked by police if he thought he was going to get away with murder, the district attorney added that Fuentes said, “I sure as hell am going to try.” Q

Ragtime employees save the day Help mother after 2-year-old is locked in her car

by Anna Gustafson Senior Editor

When Diana Lombardo rushed into Ragtime Gourmet Marketplace in Howard Beach last week with tears streaming down her cheeks, the store’s employees ran to her side.

Her 2-year-old son, Lombardo told them, had been accidentally locked in her minivan.

“I was so scared and crying, and when I went inside, they all helped me,” said Lombardo, of Howard Beach. “They were so great. I will not forget this.”

A regular at Ragtime, Lombardo frequents the shop on Crossbay Boulevard near 157th Avenue almost daily to purchase poultry and lunch goods after dropping her daughter off at school. The employees know her as a woman with a cute son, Jack David, who often comes to the store with a yellow toy truck in tow as he trails his mother.

But last Monday, Lombardo and the employees came to know each as other as more than acquaintances. The mother said their support was a godsend as she panicked after realizing the doors to her van had locked, with her keys sitting on the driver’s seat.

“We’d had problems with our van’s side doors before, and this time I opened the door, put the baby in his seat and put the keys on my chair,” Lombardo said. “I closed the door, and when I went to open my door, everything was locked. It was awful.”

While waiting for 45 minutes for emergency officials who never appeared, save for one police officer who didn’t have the tools needed to break into the vehicle, Judy Strelnick, a cashier, and Joe Williams, Ragtime’s manager, comforted Lombardo, giving her water and keeping her calm.

Upon realizing that the fire and police departments were probably not going to arrive anytime soon, Lombardo said she began to try to get Jack David to open the car door.

“He was just in the car, playing with his lollipop, looking like everything was fine,” Lombardo said. “I started mimicking what he should do to open the door.”

After about 20 minutes of many hand gestures and words of

Judy Strelnick, bottom left, and Joe Williams, top center, came to the aid of Diana Lombardo, right, when her 2-year-old son, Jack David, got PHOTO BY ANNA GUSTAFSON locked into a minivan outside of Ragtime. encouragement, the 2-year-old managed to maneuver out of his seat, got to the driver’s seat and unlocked the door.

“Everybody started clapping when he did that,” Williams said.

“We really didn’t do anything; it was the little guy who was the real hero.”

Despite Williams’ modesty, Lombardo said he and the other employees reminded her that sometimes, we really do have to rely on the kindness of strangers — or, at least, acquaintances.

“They gave me all the support I needed,” she said. “They were Q great. No, they were the best.”

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Harboring criminal aliens ueens is the heart of immigration in America today. Nowhere else can one enjoy such a cosmopolitan lifestyle, a rich cultural blend that even Manhattan can’t match, not by a long shot.

Everyone knows that among the immigrants in our borough are many who came here illegally.

Nationwide, there are believed to be 12 million undocumented aliens. We support integrating them into society somehow, over time and with penalties; deporting them all would be madness.

But some should be sent back to their home countries: criminals. So we’re dismayed by the bill passed last week by the City Council that will end New York’s cooperation with the federal government in trying to root out dangerous illegal immigrants and deport them. The mayor plans to sign the measure. We wish he’d reconsider, but the vote in the council was so overwhelming that any veto would be overridden anyway.

We don’t buy the majority’s argument that too many of those facing deportation don’t deserve it.

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Or the red herring about how deplorable conditions in some federal immigration jails are.

Maybe they are, but so is trying to cross the Mojave Desert with the aid of a human smuggler, yet illegal aliens do it every day.

Nor do we agree with the assertion made by Councilman Danny Dromm and other supporters that the NYPD shouldn’t be enforcing federal immigration law. That’s not what it’s been doing.

Rather, it’s been helping the feds enforce the law.

Remember how 9/11 taught us that inter-agency cooperation is a good thing?

We agree instead with dissenting councilmen like Eric Ulrich of Howard Beach and Peter Vallone Jr. of Astoria, who said the bill is one of the most dangerous the council has ever passed.

All over the country there are cases of illegal immigrants charged with crimes and then released to commit even worse crimes. Now that type of person will know that New York City is one of the places where you can get away with it.

The city is making a terrible mistake.

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Earlier each year Dear Editor: In the hopes of not sounding too misanthropic or cynical, and not wanting to be like Scrooge or a party pooper, I fail to see the urgency for something I observed even before Halloween: these folks of all ages, ringing bells with a red bucket next to their clanging and wishing me a happy holiday as I exit a supermarket.

I’m seeing these kind-hearted, friendly souls constantly. No, they are not begging like the derelicts outside some stores asking for money for coffee. But Christmas and other holidays celebrated around the same time by different religions are more than a month away.

Can’t these “Have a nice holiday” greetings wait until at least Black Friday after Thanksgiving — or is this a Thanksgiving greeting I’m getting? It seems a bit early for Christmas wreaths on the outside walls of stores but they are there, and decorations on many streets went up Nov. 1.

Preparations for other holidays and events also take place well in advance.

Back-to-school ads seem to appear before summer vacation and tanning and sunscreen items are set up on displays, for the beach bums and bumettes, while March is still roaring like a lion.

I love the holidays but I’m sorry if I feel these “traditions” can wait until the holiday season, which is coming soon enough. Am I sounding like Andy Rooney? On that note, bah humbug and have a Happy Thanksgiving.

Mark Lane Little Neck

OWS: just a mob Dear Editor: It is not clear why and what the OWS occupiers are protesting but their anger is directed at the wrong people.

Only the government has the power to levy and collect taxes, regulate banks and commerce, print money and to employ force to implement the edicts that annoy them. Since the government is the only institution allowed to steal lawfully, citizens

Liu must tell what he knows am saddened by what I read today,” city Comptroller John Liu said on Wednesday in a prepared statement, referring to the news that one of his fundraisers for his planned 2013 mayoral campaign was arrested by federal agents for allegedly funneling thousands of dollars in contributions through straw donors.

So are we. Very much so. We were also saddened by the way Liu is still trying to weasel out of paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines he owes for his last campaign.

And by the recent New York Times piece alleged misdoings in his 2013 campaign. And the fact that the comptroller, whose job is to oversee city finances, seems to either have had no idea what was going on

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have formed collectives to manipulate the system for their own ends. Politicians increasingly ignore the Constitution and use their influence to reward groups that will keep them in power. The state is no longer a protector of individual rights but a facilitator of mob rule.

To wit, tax laws enable the rich like Warren Buffett to have a lower tax rate than his secretary. The rich also benefit as a result of governmental licensing requirements, tariffs, taxes and regulations designed to stifle competition and protect their wealth and status.

On the other hand, proponents of the welfare state want to increase taxes on the rich in the name of “fairness” and “social justice” even though almost 50 percent of citizens pay no income tax and 30 percent of those receive welfare in the form of the Earned Income Tax Credit. The poor complain about the rich, the rich complain about the poor and both complain about the government … and everybody hates capitalism.

The misguided and uninformed protestors are railing against the wrong “ism” since government bailouts, regulation and investments in businesses are not capitalism. What we have is the antithesis of capitalism and individualism. Under a system of individualism,

financially in his own campaign or, worse, to have been complicit in it.

We’ve supported Liu in the past, proud of the former Flushing councilman’s success, proud to endorse him for comptroller two years ago.

But it’s hard to believe that he didn’t know Xing Wu “Oliver” Pan, one of his key fundraisers, was allegedly taking illegal donations and splitting them up among fake donors to evade the law. The allegations are similar to those for which former City Councilman Sheldon Leffler was convicted eight years ago, nearly ending up in jail.

It’s time to ask that infamous question: What did the comptroller know and when did he know it? Liu owes it to the city to come clean immediately.

each man has the same rights whether he is alone or has a million others with him. Under collectivism whoever has the biggest gang at the moment holds all rights. It is not against an individual that man needs protection, but from a group and mob rule.

The occupiers are just another mob with a claim on other peoples’ property.

Ed Konecnik Flushing

Secret bank accounts Dear Editor: The public awareness that Occupy Wall Street brings is a positive effect in today’s democracy; however, it is like pushing the wrong button.

For better balance of trade, exports are great, but exporting capital in the trillions is a direct disaster to a nation’s economy. Those who do so covertly are not just selfish unpatriotic brats, but insensitive criminals. From India and Egypt to the great United States, the caddies of politicians have secret Swiss accounts. The effect is recession, recession, recession — never ending recession! Imagine, on the other hand, what might happen if

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Dear Editor: On Sunday Nov. 13 a new law went into effect that bans smoking in outdoor areas of ticketing, boarding or platforms on stations operated by MTA. This law was passed by the state Legislature with bipartisan support and signed into law by Gov. Cuomo in August.

Everyone has the right to breathe clean air and this legislation is good public health policy that protects New Yorkers from secondhand smoke. The North Shore LIJ Health System, Queens Smoke Free Partnership, Senator Toby Stavisky and Senator Lanza applaud this initiative.

There is no safe level of secondhand smoke exposure. Just 30 minutes of exposure to secondhand smoke can increase the risk of blood clots and lead to more frequent asthma attacks in children. Secondhand smoke contains more than 250 chemicals known to be toxic or carcinogenic. Nonsmokers who are exposed to secondhand smoke are inhaling many of the same cancer-causing substances and poisons as smokers. Secondhand smoke causes premature death and disease in children and in adults who do not smoke.

Now that the law is in full effect, we would like to encourage Queens and Staten Island residents to quit smoking. Did you know that the Rockaways have the highest percentage of smokers (22 percent) followed closely by Northwest Queens (20 percent), Northeast Queens (18 percent) and Central Queens (17 percent)? Staten Island residents have a smoking a rate of 17 percent while the overall New York City resident rate is 14 percent.

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Many will return home to no jobs.

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I urge your readers to contact their New York congressional delegation and ask them to vote for this very important bill. This is the least we could do for our heroes.

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Obama exploits vets Dear Editor: Re “Obama Sees tax cuts for hiring vets,” Nov. 10: I would like to thank you for writing about the high unemployment rate among America’s veterans. We are less than 1 percent of the population and have an unemployment rate of 12 percent. Your efforts in reporting this condition are to be commended.

However, I must clarify a few points.

First, I’m 46 years old and could not possibly have served in Vietnam. I did, however, serve in combat in Iraq during Operation Desert Storm.

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profits from the suckers who are throwing their money away and getting nothing in return. Talk about exporting jobs to China and India. New Yorkers are exporting their money to faraway places.

After the poorly dressed who wait in the rain to get rid of their money lose it, they can run to Zuccotti Park and protest and wonder why they are part of the 99 Percent.

The millions that the state gets come out of someone’s pocket. The people whose pockets are picked get nothing in return.

You can be sure, however and nevertheless, when parking meters cost an additional 25 cents or transit fares go up, the elected officials who exploited the “There’s a sucker born every minute” mentality with their constituents will complain that their middleclass voters are being taken advantage of.

Kenneth Lloyd Brown Forest Hills The writer adds that he is a 1 Percenter.

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Dear members of Occupy Wall Street: For fixing the world’s economy, go and shut down the Swiss banks first and then Wall Street. You will have an earthquake of 10.0 on the Richter scale in your brain if you get the list of Swiss account holders from the U.S. and how much they have invested.

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fellow Americans are unwilling to provide.

Finally, it’s the president who is impeding job creation with his take it or leave it, all or nothing approach to democracy. He has deceitfully tied veterans’ employment to his nation-killing agenda to play on the public’s sympathy and guilt. As a veteran I admonish the Congress not to vote for anything tied to the president’s agenda. No matter how good a portion of it may sound to us as individuals, it would disenfranchise us from our collective oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies both foreign and domestic.

If the president had any respect for veterans and the profession of arms at all, he would give us a standalone jobs bill. His attempt to use us as a political football, in order to smear a Republican House of Representatives that has vigorously defended the Constitution from his attacks, is despicable. The only bold action needed is to protect our federal republic by removing Barrack Hussein Obama from office.

Marvin R. Jeffcoat Sergeant First Class, U.S. Army (retired) Woodside

Be strong, Rick Dear Editor: Memo to Rick Per ry: The “oops moment” apology should have never happened. It makes you look weak, unprepared, not ready for prime time.

When you’re running for off ice — especially high office — you don’t admit

ignorance, you don’t say “I’m sorry,” you don’t let the opposition or, in this case, the “liberal” media define you. As a candidate, you have to define yourself.

The lapse was perfectly human; the comeback was lacking. You gave the interviewer, John Harwood, the opportunity to plunge in his sword, then twist it. Experienced people like Newt, Mitt and Herman would not have done that.

With righteous indignaton, you should bellow to the partisan throng, “The people and I are mad as hell and we are not going to take it anymore.” Then you are the people’s champion, their highly qualified and inspired leader. They want to carry you out on their shoulders in triumph.

Only when you become president does confusion and uncertainty set in. Then, it is between your best informed judgment, conscience and God to humbly fulfill the oath of office.

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Corrections •Due to a production er ror, the writer’s title for the Nov. 10 letter “Stop Creedmoor plan” was incomplete.

Patricia Dolan was president of the Queens Civic Congress when she wrote her letter. On Tuesday night, however, Dolan was struck by a car and died.

•The Nov. 10 article “Obama sees tax cuts for hiring vets” misstated when retired Army Sgt. Marvin Jeffcoat served in combat. It was during the Persian Gulf War. Q We regret the errors.

Rotary honors Tony Modica South West Queens Rotary Club recently presented a certificate of appreciation to Tony Modica at La Bella Vita in Ozone Park.

Modica, who owns La Bella Vita, is a large presence in the civic world and routinely holds events at which he gives out free pizza to the community in an effort to bring people together.

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The accident occurred around 7:30 p.m. on Hillside Avenue near 198th Street when Dolan was crossing the street and was struck by a Nissan sedan that was traveling eastbound.

She was taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead. The motorist remained Pat Dolan, left, with state Sen. Toby Stavisky and Borough President Helen Marshall at the Kew Gardens at the scene.

Dolan was on her way to a CB 8 Hills Library after her civic group donated $4,000 to PHOTO BY JIM JAFFE Transportation Committee meeting at purchase books last spring. the district office. Member Jim Gallagher of Fresh Meadows was the first to citizens, parks, children, transportation report the accident, not realizing Dolan was safety and every other issue that affects all of us.” the victim.

Marshall recalled that Dolan had met “I didn’t find out until Wednesday that it was Pat,” Gallagher said. “What a shock. with her office and library officials recentHer community meant everything to her ly to try to move up the timeline to comand she knew every nook and cranny of it. plete the remodeled Kew Gardens Hills Library.

Her death is a tremendous loss.”

City Comptroller John Liu of Flushing Gallagher said he was parking his car across the street when he heard a screech said that Queens lost “a favorite daughter,” and saw a body. He called 911 and some- calling her “a tireless advocate” for the borone else pulled a fire alarm box. “I only ough and the city, and one who was “fearsaw her feet, but someone said the victim less about speaking her mind.”

Richard Hellenbrecht, of Bellerose, didn’t seem to have a pulse,” he said.

“Later, we wondered why Pat wasn’t at executive vice president of the Queens the meeting as she had several things on Civic Congress, said the group is trying to the agenda,” Gallagher said, adding that it decide how to proceed. “Everyone is devaswas a dark and misty night and the driver tated,” Hellenbrecht said. “The QCC was her baby and it’s hard to pick up now. It’s may not have seen Dolan.

She was recently called “one of the just so shocking.”

Paul Graziano, a zoning expert and conunsung heroes” by former Borough President Claire Shulman for her tireless work sultant who has worked on downzoning throughout Queens. In June, the Queens many neighborhoods in Queens, said that Chronicle selected her as one of the “Won- Dolan was “a role model who taught me the ropes.” Graziano noted that she was the der “Women of Queens.”

Born in Brooklyn, Dolan moved to first person to do a large-scale contextual Queens with her parents as a toddler and rezoning in 1992 that involved 23 blocks in lived in the family home the rest of her life. Kew Gardens Hills.

“She was a very important person to me She was president of the Kew Gardens Hills Civic Association and the Queens personally and enormously important to Civic Congress, an umbrella group with Queens because she was involved in every aspect of civic life,” the Flushing resident more than 100 community organizations.

She was a founder and president of the said, adding that Dolan was “incredibly Flushing Meadows Corona Park Conser- kind, a very decent person, even though she vancy, a founding member of the 1,000 had a gruff exterior.”

Councilman Jim Gennaro (D-Fresh Friends of NYC Parks and served on the Borough Traffic Safety Board. Dolan was Meadows) issued a statement praising also an active member of CB 8 for 20 Dolan’s work. He called her death an “unspeakably tragic loss of the most pasyears, serving on several of its committees.

The civic leader had worked for the sionate, committed and effective civic Queens Community House since 1991, leader in Queens.

“It is simply impossible to conceive of serving as its director of Queens Connection, a transportation system for seniors. Queens civic affairs without her,” Gennaro Naomi Altman, associate executive director continued. “... Knowing Pat, she’s probably of QCH, said Dolan will be “tremendously already at work devising plans to make missed. We always counted on her for heaven a better place.”

Alfred Klein, secretary of the KGHCA, information.”

When news of her death spread on called Dolan “a dynamo” and an expert in Wednesday, the outpouring of emotions many areas. “We relied on her greatly to was evident. Borough President Helen lead us,” Klein said.

A memorial service will be held on Marshall called Dolan’s commitment “inspiring” and said that Queens lost “a ter- Tuesday, Nov. 29 at 7 p.m. at the Schwartz rific and tireless leader who fought with Brothers Forest Park Chapel at 114-03 Q knowledge and passion for libraries, senior Queens Blvd. in Forest Hills.

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Darden joined Angel Rosa’s daughter, Noel Rosa-Skaggs, of Long Island; his sister, Rosemarie Rosa, of the Bronx; and other relatives to honor the memory of his uncle, a world traveler with a penchant for learning — particularly about all things math and science, at Saturday morning’s memorial service commemorating the 10th anniversary of the plane crash.

Under a crystal blue sky, the event was held at the Flight 587 memorial on Beach 116 Street in Belle Harbor, the neighborhood where the American Airlines flight bound for the Dominican Republic crashed on Nov. 12, 2001, killing all 260 people on board and five individuals on the ground. The airplane had taken off from JFK International Airport, and most of the plan’s fuselage fell around Beach 131 Street and Newport Avenue.

The disaster, the second deadliest plane accident on U.S. soil, happened just two months after the Sept. 11 World Trade Center attacks, leading many to originally fear that it had been another terrorist attack. Terrorism, however, was ruled out, and it was determined that pilot error caused the crash.

Jon Darden, left, of Elmhurst, Julianne Rosa and Rosemarie Rosa remember their uncle and brother, Angel Luis Rosa, at Saturday’s memorial service commemorating the tenth anniversary of the PHOTOS BY ANNA GUSTAFSON Flight 587 crash in Belle Harbor.

“Ten years have gone by, but as you know all too well, every day in the wake of tragedy is a day of remembrance, a time to honor, an occasion for finding strength,” Mayor Bloomberg said at the service. “But every day, we also know that the presence of those we have loved and lost is always with us.”

The tragedy rocked New York’s Dominican community, many of whom had routinely flown on Flight 587 to the DR — a trip that residents said had garnered almost a cult status because so many people had taken it.

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Alarms sound over sex offender Lindenwood Alliance discusses his proximity to school

by Anna Gustafson

The conviction means Lee could have committed either sexual intercourse or A Level 3 sex offender whose victim was aggravated sexual conduct, according to the an 8-year-old girl, according to the state, the state Division of Criminal Justice Serhas moved less than a block away from PS vices.

Parents recently received a letter from the 232, alarming parents who said at this week’s Lindenwood Alliance meeting that they are school informing them that Lee had moved frightened for the safety of neighborhood close to PS 232 which legally he is allowed to do. children.

“I wish there was some kind of a system “Somebody like that should not be living that close to a school,” said Lindenwood resi- where other parents of young children were notified about sex offenders,” Greco said. “I dent Tammy Greco.

Jermaine Lee, 39, lives in an apartment have a 1-year-old, so I only found out near 153rd Avenue and 84th Street — about because someone posted a notice in our 473 feet away from PS 232. According to the building.”

Off icer Kenny Zorn, the community state’s sex offender registry, Lee was convicted in June of 1997 of first-degree sexual affairs representative for the 106th Precinct, said the police are aware of where sex conduct against an 8-year-old girl. offenders are located.

“If there’s an incident, we’ll look into it,” Zorn said.

Community Board 10 Chairwoman Betty Braton urged residents to check the state’s sex offender registry to find out more information.

In other meeting news, Margaret Finnerty, president of the Richmond Hill South Civic Association, asked residents to bring in coupons, which she is collecting for a U.S. Army program that uses them to purchase food and supplies Margaret Finnerty, right, asks at the Lindenwood Alliance for military men and women. that residents donate coupons to benefit soldiers living “I’m up to $700,000 worth of PHOTO BY ANNA GUSTAFSON coupons, and my goal is to have a abroad.

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million dollar party,” Finnerty said.

Residents can bring in cut coupons, which can be no more than three months expired, to the Lindenwood Alliance, Assemblyman Mike Miller’s office at 83-91 Woodhaven Blvd., Councilman Eric Ulrich’s office at 9306 101 Ave., or the Howard Beach Senior Center at 156-45 85 St. Swami Durga Das, the executive director of the River Fund New York, which provides food and other services to residents in need, urged individuals at the alliance’s meeting to donate food items to the group, located at 89-11 Lefferts Blvd. in Richmond Hill.

“Unfortunately food pantries and soup kitchens are really hurting,” said Das, whose organization has so far served 114,000 families this year. “Our pantry’s been very bare.”

Das encouraged residents to donate items like canned goods. Joanne Ariola, a cofounder of the Lindenwood Alliance, said residents can bring canned goods to the group’s next meeting at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 12 at the Rockwood Park Jewish Center.

State Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (DOzone Park) said at the meeting that he has begun an online petition to eliminate the toll on the Cross Bay Bridge.

“This toll has to go, period,” Goldfeder said. “I hope each and every resident in my district will sign the petition and together we will deliver a strong message to the MTA.” The new assemblyman plans to deliver the petition to Gov. Andrew Cuomo. To sign it, Q go to assembly.state.ny.us/Goldfeder.

Man charged in lawyer slay A man who lived in the same house in Woodhaven as an immigration attorney who was stabbed to death has been charged in her murder, according to police.

Cops arrested Mustafa Omran, 53, in the South Bronx, on Saturday and charged him with second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon in the Oct. 23 killing of Yasmeen Rabbani, 54, police said.

He entered no plea, is being held without bail and is expected to return to court on Friday.

Rabbani, a mother of two, was discovered by her son, who found her lying near the kitchen in the 91st Avenue home that she had lived in for about three years, according to a source close to the victim.

Omran lived on the second floor of the house, and Rabbani lived on the first, according to police.

She was the president of Can-Am, an organization that helps immigrants secure jobs in the United States and Canada.

Her son resides in central Queens, and her daughter lives in London.

“She was so pleasant, which is why it was such a shock,” one neighbor said. “ … Never in a million years would you think someone would want to cause her Q any harm.”

—Anna Gustafson

Learning to prevent crime at 106th fair Police team up with residents and offer programs to reduce car theft

by Stephen Geffon Chronicle Contributor

The chilling and gusty winds did not stop more than 100 hearty community residents from turning out last Friday afternoon for the 106th Precinct’s crime prevention fair.

Located at the PS 232 playground in Lindenwood, the event featured free automobile vehicle identification number, or VIN, etching by the police. Residents were also able to register their vehicles in a number of police programs and their bicycles with the precinct, all free initiatives meant as a deterrent to thieves.

Residents whose cars are etched are eligible for discounts on their insurance.

Etching the VIN on all the windows of a vehicle makes it a less attractive option for criminals because the number cannot be removed or altered without damaging the window — making life more difficult for the thieves who often want to sell the auto parts.

Authorities noted that thieves are most interested in vehicles that are a few years old because they can be easily dismantled for parts. Spare parts for older cars can be harder to find and therefore are more valuable to thieves.

Vehicle theft is the number one property crime in the country, costing Americans nearly $5.2 billion in 2009, according to the Insurance Information Institute. The Federal Bureau of Investigation reported that a car is stolen in the United States every 40 seconds.

Members from the 106th Precinct Community Affairs Unit, Crime Prevention Unit, Auxiliary Unit, Domestic Violence Unit and Youth/School Unit were at the event to provide crime prevention tips.

Youngsters had their faces painted and were offered free drinks, cotton candy and snacks.

Parents were also given the opportunity to participate in the NYPD’s child fingerprinting and photo program, which gives parents important identification documents in case their child ever goes missing.

According to the New York State Division of Criminal Justice, statistics show that 34 percent of parents in the country do not know their child’s exact height, weight and eye color.

And, when a child is reported missing, time can be the greatest adversary. Possessing up-to-date photographs and detailed information about a child are important measures that greatly assist law enforcement

106th Precinct Auxiliary Police Coordinator Frank Reina, center, and Christina Gold, second from right, co-president of the Lindenwood Alliance, pose with other attendees of the crime prevention PHOTO BY STEPHEN GEFFON fair last week. to quickly respond to a child’s disappearance, police said.

Lindenwood resident Irene Hanna said she thought it was great to have the police at the fair fingerprinting and photographing the children.

“I think that it’s a wonderful thing,” she said.

Christina Gold, co-president of the Lindenwood Alliance, agreed that the fair benefitted the community and said it should be held every year.

Residents could also participate in the Combat Auto Theft Program, in which individuals sign a waiver authorizing police to stop the car if it is spotted being driven on the road between 1 and 5 a.m.

The Commuter-CAT program allows police to stop a car if it is being driven dur-

ing work hours, at which time the owner typically would have parked it.

Residents over the age of 40 who know no one under 25 years old will drive their car could participate in the Help End Auto Theft program which allows police to stop a car if they spot a younger driver at the wheel.

106th Precinct Crime Prevention Officer Harriet Smyer-Young said the crime prevention fair helps the police work with the community offering them many programs they may not be aware of.

“I think that it’s a big help to the community,” she said.

She added that the fair builds a positive image for the police in the neighborhood.

“We’ve only gotten positive feedback Q from the residents,” Smyer-Young said.

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106th cops nab alleged gunman Honored at precinct’s council meeting for arrest

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Police Officers Kevin Desormeau, David Marconi and Frank Calafiore were honored last week with the 106th Precinct’s Community Council Cop of the Month Award for their arrest of a man who allegedly robbed two neighborhood store owners at gunpoint.

According to Capt. Thomas Pascale, commanding officer of the 106th Precinct, the action began on Thursday, Oct. 13 at

approximately 6:45 p.m., when a lone gunman allegedly robbed a bodega at 106th Street and 101st Avenue in Ozone Park, which is within the confines of the adjacent 102nd Precinct.

Since it was an armed robbery of a commercial establishment, a “level one” mobilization was called by police — which brought additional officers into the area to apprehend the perpetrator.

Because the location of the crime was close to the 106th Precinct border, precinct

Officers Kevin Desormeau, second from left, David Marconi and Frank Calafiore are honored by 106th Council President Frank Dardani, left; Capt. Thomas Pascale, second from right; and Lt. Eric PHOTO BY STEPHEN GEFFON Campbell, right, last week.

officers were also on the lookout for the suspect, according to Pascale.

The captain said that while officers were searching for the suspect, another report was broadcast over the police radio at 7:40 p.m. about an alleged armed robbery of an electronics store at 111th Street and 101st Avenue in South Richmond Hill. During that incident, police said an armed perpetrator allegedly took a Dell laptop computer.

Pascale said the suspect was being pursued by the two store owners along 112th Street between 101st Avenue and 103rd Avenue.

The captain said that during the chase, the alleged gunman stopped, turned toward the pursuers and fired one shot up in the air. No one was hurt.

Unbeknown to the police at the time, the suspect was making his way toward the A train station at 111th Street and Liberty Avenue.

At the same time, an incorrect report of a robbery at 111th Street and Liberty Avenue was broadcast over the police radio.

Believing that the incorrect report was now the third robbery in the area, Desormeau, Marconi and Calafiore responded to the 111th Street train station, apprehended the alleged perpetrator and recovered his firearm.

Pascale said the two store owners identified the suspect as the one who had robbed them. He added that the alleged robber is Q being held on $200,000 bail.

Keep fire away on Turkey Day Thanksgiving is a time to gather with friends and family, enjoy a delicious meal and reflect on the many blessings in our lives. But it is also the peak time of year for home cooking fires, according to the National Fire Protection Association.

In 2009, the number of these types of Turkey Day blazes was three times the national daily average, according to the NFPA. But the group says there are several ways to prevent your banquet from becoming a bonfire.

To reduce the risk of a blaze, keep flammable items such as oven mitts, wooden utensils, food packaging, towels or curtains away from the stovetop.

Also remain alert and attentive while frying, grilling, or broiling food and turn off the stove if you have to leave the kitchen, even for a short while.

When leaving items simmering, baking, roasting, or boiling, check them regularly and use a cooking timer as a reminder.

“Thanksgiving can be a whirlwind of cooking and entertaining guests,” Lorraine Carli, a spokeswoman for the NFPA, said in a prepared statement.

“With so much multitasking taking place, fire hazards around the oven or stovetop can easily be overlooked.

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The turkeys have yet to be put in the oven and basted, but it’s not a minute too soon to participate in the Queens Chronicle’s 17th annual holiday toy drive for needy youngsters.

With Thanksgiving less than a week away, while shopping for those sweet potatoes and pumpkin pies, take a little time to purchase toys for the hundreds of children who have little to look forward to this year from Santa.

Youngsters who live in the city-run Metro Family Shelter in Elmhurst and the Briarwood Family Shelter and those in programs with the River Fund New York in Richmond Hill will benefit from your generosity.

We can always count on our readers to come through with lots of presents. We hope this year will be no different.

The need is great. There are 150 children living at the Metro, 153 at Briarwood and about 800 involved in the River Fund organization, which among other things works with homeless families.

For those children living away from home in shelters for an average of four months, holiday time can be bleak. Let’s make their Christmas special this year with a new toy or an age-appropriate gift for the teenagers.

Queens Chronicle Publisher Mark Weidler, the father of two young children, said now more than ever people need to give holiday presents for the needy. “In these tough economic times, we have to remember those less fortunate than us,” Weidler said.

Noemi Castro, case manager at Metro, said there are several newborns there and

she hopes readers will not forget them.

Susan Suarez, a staff member at Briarwood, is looking forward to receiving lots of gifts for the younger residents at that shelter. Maureen Almirez, donations coordinator at the River Fund, is thrilled the Chronicle is including her organization in the toy drive.

Popular gift choices for the younger set are dolls, stuffed toys, infant toys, trucks, robots, picture and story books, games, puzzles and coloring books. Teens prefer jewelry, accessories such as gloves and scarves, sports items, cologne and cosmetics.

Please do not donate used toys or clothing. Only new, unwrapped gifts will be accepted. Presents will be given out before the holiday.

The toy drive ends Dec. 20 to give the facilities time to organize and distribute the gifts. Donations may be dropped off at the Chronicle office at 62-33 Woodhaven Blvd. in Rego Park from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Monday through Friday. We are located one-quarter mile from the Long Island Expressway. For information, call (718) 205-8000.

Also accepting gifts for the toy drive is the Ozone Park district office of Councilman Eric Ulrich at 93-06 101 Ave. For afterhours or on weekends, presents may be left next door from the Chronicle at Barosa’s restaurant, 62-29 Woodhaven Blvd. or Barosa To Go at 62-37 Woodhaven Blvd.

The sooner we get your gifts, the faster they can be sorted for holiday distribution.

Let’s not disappoint the children. Christmas is a little over five weeks away.

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Thefts top talk at 106th meeting Captain also updates residents on casino crimes

by Stephen Geffon Chronicle Contributor

“This didn’t have to happen,” Capt.

Thomas Pascale, the 106th Precinct’s commander, said as he discussed recent crimes in the area that he said could have been prevented.

Pascale told the attendees of the 106th Precinct Community Council at their meeting last week in Ozone Park that several cars have been stolen because people left their keys in the ignition.

While colder weather seems to encourage residents to leave their cars running while jumping out to purchase a snack, Pascale urged people to do otherwise, as many cars have been stolen that way.

“Besides ruining your day, the car could wind up being used in some pretty violent crimes,” he said.

With the holiday season upon us, the captain urged shoppers not to leave their wrapped holiday gifts in the backseat of their car. He suggested putting the packages in the trunk or under the seat.

Pascale told the audience that smartphones are targets for robbers, especially when they are in the hands of young children. He asked parents to tell their children and grandchildren to be discreet when they are using the phones in public.

The captain said that last week three individuals stole a 10-year-old’s smartphone as he was walking in the Tudor Village area.

Several residents at the council meeting expressed their own concerns to Pascale.

Miller targets gold thieves Assemblyman Mike Miller (DWoodhaven) has written a bill designed to make thieves think twice before taking gold jewelry from a home, parked car or person.

The bill would require all businesses that buy gold, silver and other precious metals to take a photograph of the person holding the item that he has brought in for sale and to keep it on record.

“That shouldn’t be a problem for someone who doesn’t have to worry about the police getting involved,” Miller said.

The assemblyman spoke of the bill, which has not yet been assigned a number in the lower house, at a meeting of the Glendale Community Observation Patrol right after representatives of the 104th Precinct spoke of recent spikes in grand larceny, particularly unattended valuables being taken from cars. He did not say if there was a companion bill in the Senate.

“The economy is bad and times are hard,” Miller said. “A lot of businesses are posting ‘We buy gold’ signs in their windows.”

Miller said the gold and precious metal trade already is regulated under some existing consumer and criminal law, but that a photograph at the point of sale could serve as a disincentive for people thinking of turning to theft to Q make a little money.

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Judith Loli of Ozone Park complained about several trailer trucks that had recently double parked for hours on Rockaway Boulevard and 113th Street in South Ozone Park, slowing the flow of traffic on the street.

She also said that trucks loading and unloading on Rockaway Boulevard and 97th Street were causing traffic to divert to Liberty Avenue. Loli asked police to look into the situation at both locations.

Pascale said that trucks are permitted to actively load and unload their merchandise.

However, he told Loli that “we’ll take a look at it.”

Ozone Park resident Anna Simulinas told Pascale that her neighbors are putting out orange traffic cones in front of their homes on 88th Street between 107th Avenue and Sutter Avenue to save parking spaces.

Frank Dardani, president of the 106th Precinct Community Council, noted that this situation has been a problem in the past.

Marilyn, a resident of 106th Street in Ozone Park who did not want to give her last name, said she also has the same problem with her neighbors putting out traffic cones and garbage cans to save parking spots.

“How should I handle it?” she asked.

“Don’t,” he responded. “Let us handle it.”

Richmond Hill South Civic Association president Margaret Finnerty asked Pascale about crime numbers at the Resorts World Casino in South Ozone Park.

Pascale said that to date there was one car stolen from the property and one grand larceny inside the casino. He told Finnerty that

the biggest issue is auto accidents on the casino property. He added that there have been requests for city ambulances for people in need of medical attention in and around the casino.

Several residents expressed their concerns about cars racing late in the afternoon in the vicinity of Rockaway Boulevard and 135th Street near the Van Wyck Expressway in South Ozone Park.

Pascale assured them that he would look into the matter.

Leo, who did not give his last name, said that for the past several months an individual around 125th Street and Sutter Avenue in South Ozone Park was parking cars on the street with “For Sale” signs. Leo said that some of the cars remained in the same location for weeks and added that the plates also appear to be switched from New York to New Jersey tags.

Pascale said if a car is in the same location for weeks he would be able to address that.

He told the resident to call 311 and said an officer would respond to the location and mark the tires of a given vehicle.

The officer would return in eight days, and action would be taken if the car had not been moved.

Ozone Park resident Joe Reuter asked the captain if people are allowed to put covers over their cars if they are parked on the street.

“No, absolutely not,” said Pascale, noting that using covers is a violation of city law. Q

Pol pleads to misdemeanor City Councilman Ruben Wills (DJamaica) pleaded guilty in Manhattan Criminal Court last Thursday to misdemeanor criminal mischief, in a case more than a decade old.

The lawmaker was accused of stealing a fan and track lighting from a client of his former construction company back in 1996. He was ordered to perform three days of community service and pay a $2,500 fine to the plaintiff, a Chinatownbased company called Inner Circle Communications, according to his spokeswoman Lupe Todd.

Wills, who ran unopposed in the Nov. 8 election to retain his seat with 100 percent of the vote, according to unofficial results from the Board of Elections, came under fire when the unresolved charges were revealed by the Daily News earlier this year, raising questions about why he had not resolved them sooner.

“Ruben Wills accepted responsibility today in his guilty plea for conduct that happened over 14 years ago,” his attorney, Marjorie Peerce, said. “What should happen now is his life should be looked at the way he leads it today and the way he devotes an extraordinary amount of time and energy helpQ ing his community.”

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Federal probe into Liu’s fundraising Alleged irregularities investigated

by Liz Rhoades Managing Editor

A federal grand jury has issued subpoenas for information from Comptroller John Liu’s campaign office and his alleged supporters in a probe of possible fundraising irregularities.

The New York Times reported the investigation Monday after running an in-depth story last month detailing potentially problematic campaign contributions made to Liu when the thenFlushing councilman ran for comptroller in 2009.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan and the FBI are handling the investigation. One of the companies under scrutiny is Dynasty Stainless Steel in Maspeth. The Times said it appeared that the president, Ming Kun Lee, provided $800 donations each in the names of nine employees.

The newspaper said that four did not work for the firm and two indicated they did not give money to Liu’s campaign. The Times cited Peter Zhang as a Dynasty spokesman who denied the charges, saying the company has only three workers.

But in a telephone call to Dynasty on Tuesday by the

Queens Chronicle, a spokeswoman said nobody named Zhang works there. She referred all questions regarding the Liu contributions to the firm’s attorney, Steve Zissou, who did not return calls by press time.

Also on Tuesday, Liu issued the following statement through his campaign advisor, Chung Sito: “We intend to cooperate fully with the investigation. I am confident that my fundraising efforts were proper at all times.”

He is expected to hire Paul Shechtman, a well-known criminal defense lawyer.

Liu, who is expected to run for mayor in two years and has already amassed a war chest of more than $1 million this year, served as a city councilman from 2001 to 2009.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D-Manhattan), also considered a likely mayoral candidate in the next election, did not respond to questions about the federal probe on Liu’s campaign fundraising methods.

Despite the negative publicity, Liu remains a point of pride to the Asian community and his photograph can be seen in many stores and other businesses in downtown Flushing.

Comptroller John Liu Fred Fu, who heads the Flushing Development Center and is former president of the Flushing Chinese Business Association, said on Tuesday that Liu remains respected in the business community.

He blames the comptroller’s campaign staff if there were any irregularities. “Fundraising is always a gray area and the person who collected money is responsible,” Fu said.

His position was supported by others in the political world. One

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Flushing activist who asked not to be named said in an off icial investigation into wrongdoing like this, it is difficult to connect the line to Liu. “It’s a stretch because the work was probably done by campaign workers,” he said.

Fu, who said he has known Liu for a long time and spoke to him recently, went on to praise his character. “I think he’s very honest and he fights for principles,” Q Fu added.

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Rodriguez was arrested Tuesday in Connecticut by members of the Regional Fugitive Task Force one month after Gibbons, 37, died in an early-morning head-on crash.

Authorities allege that Rodriguez was driving the wrong way on the eastbound service road to the Long Island Expressway.

He is being held without bail.

“A local business owner tragically lost his life in a hit-and-run crash that also injured two other individuals,” said Queens District Attorney Richard Brown in a statement issued by his office. “It is alleged that the defendant, instead of staying and assisting in any way he could, fled the scene.”

Rodriguez also was charged with second- and third-degree assault, criminally negligent homicide and leaving the scene of an accident without reporting it.

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“Initially, we were dreading the 15th as the one-month anniversary,” said Bernadette Gibbons, George’s youngest sibling on Tuesday. “Then police notified my brother, Brendan, this afternoon.”

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The City Council overwhelmingly passed a bill last Thursday that will mostly end the city’s cooperation in a federal program that aims to deport incarcerated undocumented immigrants. Mayor Bloomberg plans to sign it into law.

Prior to the legislation, the Department of Correction voluntarily gave U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement access to information regarding the citizenship status of its inmates as part of the Criminal Alien Program.

The purpose is to prevent dangerous inmates here illegally from being released.

They are turned over to ICE prior to the completion of their prison sentences, when possible, and then the agency holds them at a federal detention facility until it decides whether they should be deported.

ICE files a request called a civil immigration detainer with the law enforcement agency and that allows for a 48-hour hold, from the time they would have been released, so that the feds can assume custody of them.

Under the new legislation that process will not be honored any longer, if the inmates are innocent and have had their charges dismissed, according to City Councilman Danny Dromm, the chairman of the Committee on Immigration and a supporter of the bill, which he called “fair and just.”

“The New York City Police Department should not be enforcing federal immigration laws,” Dromm said.

In 2009, the DOC found that 12,710

inmates were born in foreign countries and ICE detained 3,506 of those individuals, the bill says. About 23 percent had past felony convictions and about 21 percent had been found guilty of a misdemeanor, according to the council. But more than 50 percent of those held by the feds had no prior criminal history at all. Statistics from 2010 show similar results.

“Even though some aliens may be arrested on minor criminal charges, they may also have more serious criminal backgrounds which disguise their true danger to society,” Lou Martinez, a spokesman for ICE, said in an email. “Historically, some criminal aliens with ICE detainers, who have been mistakenly released to the streets rather than being turned over to ICE custody and placed in deportation proceedings, have subsequently committed more serious crimes.”

City Councilman Peter Vallone (D-Astoria), who chairs the Public Safety Committee and voted against the bill, said the numbers of those with no criminal history are misleading because sometimes people are deported prior to their trials, which ICE confirmed, but Dromm claimed is not true.

Further, Vallone added, people can be arrested multiple times, for crimes such as shoplifting, for example, before they are convicted. He believes the already overburdened legal system should not be further crowded with people who aren’t supposed to be in this country in the first place.

Dromm took issue with Vallone’s view, but said that the immigration system is unjust and in need of comprehensive reform.

There are also concerns, according to an Oct. 3 report by the City Council’s Committee on Immigration, that undocumented city residents who are transferred to immigration jails in Texas, Louisiana and Alabama are kept in “deplorable conditions without adequate access to counsel, medical care, family, witnesses and evidence necessary to defend themselves against deportation orders.”

Vallone illustrated the need he sees for such immigration holds by citing the case of Milan Rysa, a 30-year-old, bodybuilder from Astoria who allegedly killed his dog by throwing it out of his third-floor apartment window.

Rysa is an illegal immigrant, according to information Vallone said he obtained from law enforcement sources. He is a native of the former Czechoslovakia and is being held at a correctional facility in the Bronx on an immigration detainer, according to both ICE and the DOC. In general, ICE cannot reveal specific information about a person’s case unless the individual signs a privacy waiver and will not make public the time or location of a scheduled deportation so as not to endanger the security of its officers, an agency official said.

Rysa is charged with animal cruelty and second-degree reckless endangerment because the dog nearly struck two women before hitting the pavement. He could face two years in prison if convicted. He is due in court Dec. 1.

The Queens District Attorney’s Office said it could not provide information about Rysa’s immigration status. A spokesman for the NYPD said it does not collect such informa-

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Alleged dog killer Milan Rysa is an illegal immigrant who should be deported, according FILE PHOTO to one Queens lawmaker. tion because it does not want to deter potential victims or witnesses from reporting crimes for fear that they will be deported.

Vallone said he believes the alleged dog killer should be deported. Dromm would not comment on the case because Rysa has not been convicted. He would only say, “In America, everyone is innocent until proven guilty.”

Rysa’s lawyer, Ryan Schwarz, did not return calls requesting comment.

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Regents support illegal students Undocumented immigrants would be eligible for state financial aid

by Paula Neudorf Associate Editor

On Monday, the New York State Board of Regents voted to support legislation that would give undocumented immigrants the chance to receive state financial aid for higher education.

“It’s monumental. It’s unprecedented in New York,” said Natalia Aristizabal, a representative for Make the Road New York, an organization that advocates for immigrant rights.

Some 345,000 K-12 public school students in New York State are in the country illegally, according to an estimate by the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a proimmigrant nonprofit that has frequently testified before Congress on immigration issues. And while undocumented students nationwide can be admitted into colleges and universities, they are usually barred from receiving any federal or state financial aid.

As Queens is the city’s most diverse borough, with its highest concentrations of foreign-born immigrants, the law the Regents are proposing could potentially impact thousands of Queens students.

If it is passed, New York would join just three other states that offer public financial aid to undocumented students: Texas, California and New Mexico, according to Make the Road.

New York is already one of 11 states that allows undocumented students to qualify for in-state tuition, a 2011 study by the National Immigration Law Center reported.

According to the admissions office at Queens College, a CUNY school, for example, undocumented students can qualify for in-state tuition if they prove they have attended a New York high school for four years and sign a document that pledges they are seeking legal residency.

Yet ironically, in the current system, it is virtually impossible for many undocumented students to ever gain legal status.

The Regents’ proposed law would dramatically alter the

If the bill the Board of Regents is proposing passed, undocumented students could attend CUNY schools like Queens College, above, FILE PHOTO with state financial aid. circumstances of those undocumented students who struggle to afford higher education, even if granted in-state tuition fees.

Tania Mattos, a member of the New York State Youth Leadership Council, which was recently highlighted by Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer’s office for its pro-immigration work, said she was brought illegally into the country when she was 4.

Like many, she has pinned her hopes on the DREAM Act. Several versions of the federal bill, which would give undocumented high school and college students who entered the country before they were 16 a path to citizenship, have been

proposed since 2001, but none have passed.

“We feel it’s really close,” Mattos said of the bill’s passage.

“If you’re in college now, by the time you graduate, the likelihood of [the bill’s] passing is really high.”

But, as the Board of Regents’ move might indicate, the state government seems increasingly willing to do its part to provide some of the same benefits as the DREAM Act, regardless of that bill’s fate.

In addition to the Regents’ financial aid bill — called the Education Equity for DREAMers Act — the board also announced it is backing the New York State DREAM Act, a state version of the federally proposed bill.

Tim Dunn, a spokesman for the New York State Education Department, said the Regents would push hard to get the Education Equity Act passed in the next session of the New York State Legislature, and had already garnered significant support.

Mattos said her organization was now focusing as much on the passage of these state bills as on the federal DREAM Act. Even if the New York DREAM Act were passed, however, it could not provide undocumented students a path out of illegality towards legal residency and ultimately, citizenship, as that power lies with the federal government alone. Instead, the state DREAM Act would allow undocumented young people in good standing to obtain driver’s licenses, New York State health insurance and jobs in the state government, among other benefits.

And while the ability to get state funding to go to college would be a huge step for New York’s undocumented students, the fact remains that as long as they’re illegal, they cannot be legally employed. Questions of legality are particularly at issue with jobs that would necessitate a college or university degree in the first place.

“That’s the sad reality. There are people that graduate and Q they can’t do anything with their degrees,” Mattos said.

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Cops, FAA hunting MTA pilot program LaGuardia lasers to speed repairs Six planes targeted in two-day period while on final approach

by Michael Gannon Associate Editor

Police are looking for the person or persons who aimed green laser pointers at six aircraft that were on final approach to land at LaGuardia Airport on Nov. 4 and 5.

The laser pointers, which can appear harmless, can cause temporary blindness in pilots and the flight crew should the beam penetrate into a plane’s cockpit.

All the planes’ crews reported that the lights came from areas south or southwest of the airport. There have been 2,795 reported laser strikes in the U.S. through October this year, as opposed to 2,836 all of last year, and 1,527 in all of 2009.

According to information released by the Federal Aviation Administration, four of the planes were struck by lasers on Friday, Nov. 4.

They included a Continental Express flight which was at 2,500 feet when pilots saw a laser five miles from the airport; a Trans States flight that reported a sighting three miles south of LaGuardia at 1,600 feet; plus a USAirways plane and an American Eagle flight that both reported seeing lasers five miles southwest of the airport while at 2,500 feet.

On Saturday, Nov. 5, the crews of a Continental Express flight and a United Airlines crew on a Boeing 757 both reported seeing lasers while approaching Runway 4, which the FAA said would place them southwest of LaGuardia.

Pointing a laser at an aircraft is a federal offense, and the FAA said it carries a maximum fine of $11,000 per incident.

In a statement issued last month, FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt said aiming a laser at an aircraft is not a joke, and will not be taken as one.

“As a former commercial airline pilot, I can tell you that the shining of a laser into the cockpit of an aircraft is a serious safety risk,” Babbitt said. “Lasers can distract or temporarily blind pilots ... and could compromise the safety of hundreds of passengers.”

James Ray, a spokesman for the US Airline Pilots Association, said laser strikes are a growing concern.

“They’re a danger for pilots, and once you realize what’s happening it’s generally too late,” Ray said. “We tell our members that if you’re lucky enough to see the light ahead of time to put your head down if you can. And you hope if it gets into the cockpit Q it only gets on one side.”

Agency touting overnight subway closings for faster return of service The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is testing a new procedure for large maintenance projects in an effort to save time and money and increase worker safety.

MTA New York City Transit President Tom Prendergast said the trial programs will shut down whole sections of given subway lines on consecutive nights until a project is done, rather than the current practice of scheduling work around peak travel hours.

“We are one of the few transit systems that operate around the clock, so it’s always a challenge to find time to do work on the tracks, especially with ridership up on weekends and overnight,” Prendergast said in a statement issued Monday.

“Closing segments of lines so that we can get in and get the work done quickly benefits everyone,” he said. “It’s safer for workers, less disruptive for riders and gets projects done more quickly for everyone.”

The line segment closure program would shut portions of subway lines overnight for consecutive nights so that workers can go in and perform tasks without having to periodically stop while trains pass through the worksite.

Performing work in this manner is expected to shorten the overall duration of projects, minimize customer inconvenience and maximize worker safety. Such closures would be employed only where alternate service is available.

The initial pilot is planned for the week of Jan. 9, 2012 on the Lexington Avenue line in Manhattan.

Similar closures are planned for capital track work. This would mean closing a track segment on a continuous basis, rather than performing work in a piecemeal fashion over a longer period of time.

Using the example of a track replacement project, MTA officials said Wednesday that nine continuous nights of shutdowns would lessen inconvenience and save $1.3 million over the current routine, which would take eight weekend and 20 weeknight shutdowns for a total of 36 days of work.

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Chairman-designate Joseph Lhota joined operations under Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on where he oversaw day-to-day management Monday as executive director, a role he will and supervised city agencies. He also served as fill until his confirmation by the state Senate. budget director under Giuliani, where he manLhota, who is Gov. Cuomo’s aged the City’s $36 billion operatnominee to ser ve as the ing budget and $45 billion capital MTA’s chair man and chief budget, cut costs, led agency reorexecutive officer, will immeganizations and consolidations, diately take over the agency’s and implemented performanceoperations. Acting Chairman based strategic planning.

Andrew Saul will fulf ill the Lhota also served as the duties of the Chairman pendCommissioner of Finance and ing Senate conf irmation of has been a board member of Lhota’s nomination. the MTA. “The MTA is the engine that He was serving as an execudrives our economy and makes tive vice president for The our way of life possible here in Madison Square Garden ComNew York, and we have a pany when appointed by Joseph Lhota responsibility to operate our Cuomo.

PHOTO COURTESY MTA service as efficiently and effecHe has an MBA from Hartively as possible,” Lhota said. vard Business School and graduated cum Acknowledging the numerous f iscal laude from Georgetown University. He was challenges he faces now and in the coming born in the Bronx, raised on Long Island years, Lhota said his focus over the next and lives in Brooklyn. few months will be on understanding the Public service runs in the family; Lhota organization “from top-to-bottom.” is the son of a retired New York Police He will replace Jay Walder, who left to Department lieutenant and the grandson of run the transit system in Hong Kong. a New York City Fire Department firefightQ Lhota ser ved as deputy mayor for er and a New York City taxi driver.

One for the home crowd U.S. Rep. Bob Turner (R-Queens) retook his oath of office on Saturday before his constituents at Queens Metropolitan High School.

“I had a lot of catching up to do when I was elected in September so I had to leave abruptly,” Turner said. “But I have lived in this area my entire life, so it was very important for me to come home and enjoy this moment with the people of the 9th District.”

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Turner took his original oath in Washington in September after winning a special election.

The event featured former Mayor Ed Koch and U.S. Rep. Peter King (R-Long Island), who served as master of ceremonies. One protester was ejected.

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While there, he played the sport he loves against Russian players, and taught others in the country about the sport as well. In addition to baseball, Jordyn also had the opportunity to tour parts of Russia and learn about the culture.

“He was selected because of his commitment to community service,” said his baseball coach, Mr. Beyer.

“I knew that he would represent John Adams High School and the PSAL in a positive light because he is a quality young man.”

eet the staff of the John Adams High School journalism class. Besides reporting, interviewing, creating, revising, editing, surveying and discussing, the students in Mr. Trotta’s class are also informing. Thanks to the enormous generosity of Mark Weidler, President and Publisher of the Queens Chronicle, the John Adams High School newspaper, the Campus, continues to exist and flourish.

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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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It was truly wonderful to see that Veterans Day this year so greatly acknowledged. In the last few years the parade in Manhattan and the display of gratitude to these fine men and women of our Armed Services was mostly low key with a low crowd turn out.

This year was different with more floats and cars carrying our World War II, Korean and Vietnam vets as well as those from the wars of Desert Storm, Iraq and Afghanistan and Congressional Medal of Honor awardees.

This year for the first time our Franklin K. Lane High School ROTC marching band and rifle team did not participate in the parade instead they and our elected officials held a ceremony at Cypress Hills Cemetery for community veterans who are buried there.

Veterans deserve every honor we can bestow upon them. So fly our American flag and if you know of a veterans or you see any men or women in uniform tell them thank you.

Last year I spoke about the activity at the Forest Park carousel with the filming of “The Sitter.” It was sad to see the carousel and its regal horses for the first time in two years unshuttered, knowing after the filming the gates will come down and go unused. It is time for New York City Parks and Recreation to treat the carousel as the treasure it is.

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lived in Manhattan’s Washington Heights, home to the largest concentration of Dominicans in the country.

“It doesn’t feel like it happened 10 years ago,” said Rosalba Perreaux, a Bronx resident whose uncle was on the plane. “It’s still the same, it’s something that won’t go away. He was a beautiful man, father and uncle.”

Belkis Lora, of Ozone Park, came with a large group of family members to pay homage to her brother, Jose Lora, who was flying home to the DR after celebrating his nephew’s birthday.

“No matter how many years have

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Development Corp. has been stating for the past 15 years. The Woodhaven Residents Block Association is selling Forest Park carousel T-shirts available at their office.

If you attend a 102nd Precinct meeting, you can pick up a free whistle. Their whistle program will assist you in bringing attention to any unsafe situation. You can also call the GWDC or Woodhaven Business Improvement District at (718) 805-0202 to pick one up.

Call our office for information on how to humanely keep away racoon. Remember if you see something, say something.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

The WBID-sponsored Christmas lights are up along the 25 blocks of Jamaica Avenue. Soon the music will be heard along our district adding spring to the step of our shoppers.

With the newly-painted Jamaica Avenue elevated lines now complete and our J line named the best MTA line in the city, the lights will glow brighter than ever before. Our WBID-sponsored “Holidays in Woodhaven Weekend” will arrive on Friday, Dec. 2, at 6:30 p.m. with the Christmas tree and Menorah lighting ceremony at the Forest Parkway Plaza area. On Saturday, Dec. 3, the “Welcome Santa to Woodhaven” parade kicks off at noon from 100th Street, marching down Jamaica Avenue to Dexter Court, where Santa and Mrs. Santa Claus will greet the children.

The WBID will take free pictures with Santa Claus and friends at our Forest Parkway Plaza area on two Saturdays, Dec. 10 and December 17 from 1 to 4 p.m. (weather permitting).

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passed, they will always be in our hearts,” Lora said of her brother and the other victims.

As the hundreds of people made their way through the crowd to place red and yellow roses by the names inscribed in the memorial wall, many stopped to looked at the words written in the memorial’s archway that looks out on the ocean — “Afterwards I want only peace.”

Nana Abreu, whose niece’s husband, Luis Arturo Pichardo, died, placed her hands on the wall, looking at the words, and cried softly. Her cries gave way to singing, and as her song grew louder, others came to join her, linking their arms together, looking out at the ocean waves gently hitting the shore that Saturday Q morning.

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Hispanic Society leader: the FDNY is not racist Group said no to Vulcan Society’s bias lawsuit against the department Assistant Editor

FDNY Lt. George Ricco Diaz, president of the FDNY Hispanic Society, attributes the day he decided to join the department to “divine intervention.”

In 1981, he was working as a data entry technician for the Social Security Administration, when he got into an argument with his boss who scolded him for bypassing red tape in order to help clients more quickly.

“He told me I had too much energy for the job,” Diaz recalled. “He said I should look for another job.”

Later that day he saw an FDNY recruitment ad in The Chief newspaper and took the test the following year. He said he scored 99 percent on the written test and 100 percent on the physical exam, joining the department in 1984.

Diaz, of Tower Ladder 50 in the Bronx, said he was in the same probationary class as Paul Washington, former president of the Vulcan Society, the group of African-American f iref ighters who have consistently lamented diversity in the FDNY and along with the Justice Department launched the bias lawsuit challenging the way candidates are hired.

The Hispanic Society decided not to join the litigation, because, Diaz said, the group does not agree with the VulcanÕs view that the entrance exams are inherently biased because the number of white candidates who pass far outnumbers that of minorities.

“The FDNY is not racist,” Diaz said.

“There is favoritism. There is tradition. People who do well and show initiative are rewarded. For every negative, you can find a positive.”

However, Diaz does not attribute the problem to discrimination on the part of the department. He said there are plenty of other issues that have led to a lack of minority applicants and he thinks that the lawsuit is only serving to show the FDNY in a negative light and deter more people from signing up.

“Yes, diversity is a problem,” Diaz said.

“Kudos to the Vulcan Society for bringing this issue to light after its been overlooked for so long. Shame on the FDNY for not addressing it sooner.”

In January 2010, U.S. District Court Judge Nicholas Garaufis ruled that written exams administered to FDNY applicants in 1999 and 2002 are invalid due to racial bias, as evidenced by the few minorities who passed.

“That’s crazy,” Diaz said. “I don’t understand how they can say that when there are so many contributing factors, such as education and desire, to take into account.”

In August 2010, Garaufis also ruled that the 2007 test is biased, and ordered a hiring freeze, unless the city followed certain hiring procedures that he had outlined, which many people believed were just glorified hiring quotas.

Diaz said that intimating the exam has to be “dumbed down or watered down” in order for minorities to pass is an “insult.”

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Diaz said part of the problem is recruitment, which he believes is the key to maintaining a level playing field. It’s not sufficient for the FDNY to give out more applications and reach out to more people, he said.

The recruiters themselves must be passionate in order to yield good results. Diaz likened it to farmers planting seeds. If they are not placed in the right soil and nurtured, then crops are not going to grow.

Some 14,122 blacks have applied for next year’s exam, according to the department, compared to 5,628 in 2007, and 14,110 Hispanics, compared to 5,590 for that same year. More than three times as many women applied this year as did in 2007 — 4,261 compared to 1,401, according to the FDNY. Another problem, according to Diaz, is checking the validity of the residency credit.

Applicants who live in New York City are given five extra points on the entrance exam, but Diaz said, the FDNY does not have the

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renovated it when it got flooded for the first time, with initial repairs costing $112,000. She also has a hotel bill from when Amrita Ghagwandin of Hollis has nightmares about ris- she and her family had to evacuate during Hurricane Irene. ing water — and with good reason. On three occasions in Mark Lanaghan, assistant commissioner of intergovern2007, she says her house on 90th Avenue filled with 12 mental relations for the city Department of Environmental feet of water going from the basement and rising into the Protection was the only agency official who attended the first floor and she added that she has sustained consistent meeting and he presented two possible ideas to reduce flooding problems since that time. flooding which didn’t go over very well with the crowd.

“I have lost my sanity. ... I have continued stress,” One idea is to change the elevation of a weir, a small dam Ghagwandin said at a town hallwhich Lanaghan described as a gate, style meeting held last week to disat the south end of Baisley Pond. That cuss flooding. “I have the Weather would modify the water level, drawf I had to turn on 30 Channel on my favorites at work. I ing more groundwater out through check all day long. As soon as I see the streams that empty into it. wells tomorrow or my a thunderstorm, I ask my neighbors The short-term plan would not “Could you go put out my sandrequire much effort or funding, head was going to be bags?’ ... When I know there is according to Lanaghan, but the chopped off, I don’t know agency would need the permission going to be a huge storm, I have to board up the house and leave.” of the state Department of Environwhich wells would be And the distraught resident isn’t mental Conser vation and city the only one.

Department of Parks and Recreturned on ... and nobody About 100 people packed the ation to do it. does as this point.”

Robert Ross Johnson Center in St. He said lowering the weir by one Albans last Thursday, many with foot should drop the water by about — Mark Lanaghan, DEP similar experiences, all of them hopthe same amount and positively ing to get answers from the city on impact 10 to 20 square blocks north what it plans to do to solve the persistent flooding prob- of Baisley Pond. Some expressed concern that the plan lem affecting Southeast Queens. would actually elevate the aquifer by pulling more water The dilemma is two-fold. First, the area does not have a south, but the DEP doesn’t think that will happen, because fully constructed storm sewer system and oftentimes it the south end of Baisley Pond flows into a storm sewer can’t handle an intense amount of rainfall. Second, the that empties into Jamaica Bay. city’s decision to stop pumping area wells for drinking Sometime between now and the end of the year, water has caused the groundwater table to rise by about 30 Lanaghan believes the agency will be making some pilot feet over the last 25 years. proposals on adjusting the weir to the Parks Department Ghagwandin said she had just purchased her home and and DEC to suppress the water level. The U.S. Geological Assistant Editor

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“Every single time it’s rained hard since 1996, we’ve had flooding. Are they gathering this information to tell us that our houses are going to be worthless? That nobody is going to buy them? What are they gathering the information for?” asked Crystal Flowers of Springfield Gardens.

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Boulevard is going to take water out of everybody’s basement in the community?”

Between 2007 and 2008, the DEP lowered the weir by about six inches and observed about a six inch decrease in the water table at a couple of its monitoring wells, However, Lanaghan noted, that each year is different depending on the amounts of precipitation and recharge, the movement of water deeper into the ground.

R.W. Hall, a resident of Jamaica and the owner of a contracting company, asked Lanaghan if moving the weir one foot would lower the water by the same amount, why not decrease it by five feet to get rid of even more?

“You would probably have a more dramatic drop in the elevation of the water table,” Lanaghan said. “One of the things we want USGS to model for us is what would be the optimum choice. If you are willing to live with a dry lake bed at Baisley Pond, which would be unattractive and unappealing, maybe it would make a hugely dramatic difference.”

Councilman Ruben Wills (D-Jamaica) said Hall had a valid idea, but warned that reducing the water in the pond too much might do more harm than good.

“If all the streams come towards our area — what if too much water comes down at one time?” he asked. “You think we have flooding now. We might have another Katrina here, if we have a huge storm. We don’t want that either.”

Another plan is to install reverse seepage basins, or French drains, which involves sinking a pipe or chamber into the aquifer to draw it out and dispense it into the storm drains.

Lanaghan said the agency would have to consult the USGS to determine how many would have to be installed, where, and how much of an effect they would have. He added that the plan would not work for those who do not live near a storm sewer.

Lanaghan also told attendees that building out the storm sewers in community boards 12 and 13 is a high priority for the agency, with $250 million allocated to such projects over the next four to 10 years.

When Jamaica Water Supply served Southeast Queens it pumped millions of gallons of water out of the ground daily. But when the DEP took over the company in 1996 it stopped utilizing area wells, instead transporting water through tunnels from upstate. That change caused the groundwater level to rise to an alarming degree.

“We were not monitoring the groundwater elevation,” Lanaghan said. “We did not expect the groundwater elevation to respond like this and we were not prepared.”

The city’s drinking water now comes from three upstate tunnels, one of which the Delaware Aqueduct, carries roughly 50 percent of the supply but is leaking. The DEP has proposed building a bypass tunnel in 2018 and 2019, while it makes repairs.

During that time, the agency intends to extract 60 million gallons of water from wells located throughout the borough to offset losses during construction, thus reducing the groundwater table temporarily.

But several lawmakers and residents who attended the meeting called the time frame “unacceptable,” and they want the city to start using the wells in the near future. However, Lanaghan said, it’s not that simple.

others at the meeting noted. Starting in 2001, as part of the Brooklyn-Queens Aquifer Feasibility Study by the DEC, Station 6 in Jamaica used old wells from JWS to extract groundwater and repurpose it for drinking or industrial uses, but it was shut down in 2006 because it became to expensive.

Fritz Edwards of 165th Street in Jamaica said he has had a consistent flooding problem and has two pumps running nonstop. When it rains, he said, he uses four pumps to get rid of the water. He added that the borough has enough drinking water so he doesn’t believe the DEP should pump the wells for that purpose and therefore should not be as concerned with its quality.

“Get some PVC line and take it out to Jamaica Bay,” Edwards suggested. “Put it Q in the sea. We don’t need that water.”

Amrita Ghagwandin of Hollis said her house has sustained massive damage from flooding.

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“If I had to turn on 30 wells tomorrow or my head was going to be chopped off, I don’t know which wells would be turned on, which would make most sense, and nobody does at this point,” Lanaghan said.

“We have some guesses.”

The DEP also doesn’t have the resources to advance the project right now, he said, but at some point will review the status of each well, and plans to consult the USGS to determine what measures make sense.

“If the wells worked before, why can’t they work now?” asked the Rev. Charles Norris of the Bethesda Missionary Baptist Church in Jamaica. “And if they need fixing, somebody has got to find the money to fix it.”

When JWS was in operation, the quality of the water was not very good, Assemblyman Bill Scarborough (D-Jamaica) and

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ARTS, CULTURE & LIVING

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iplines that zoom people and goods from one rooftop to the next. Smokestacks transformed into neo-lighthouses, telegraphing information far and wide about the city’s

by Paula Neudorf consumption levels. A walkway that skirts power plant giants to offer residents the modest joy of dipping their feet in the water.

These are some of the ideas on display at the Noguchi Museum’s latest exhibit, “Civic Action: A Vision for Long Island City,” a joint effort with Socrates Sculpture Park. Four teams, each led by one artist working with architects and urban designers, were commissioned by the museum to come up with plans for the eight-mile stretch Clockwise from the top, design ideas from the Noguchi Museum’s between Newtown Creek and Bowlatest exhibit: a map of artist Mary Miss’s proposed “innovation district”; Broadway transformed into a “GreenWay” by Rirkrit ery Bay, which spans Long Island City, Ravenswood and Astoria.

Tiravanija; and a model of a rooftop farm by Natalie Jeremijenko.

This is the semi-industrial, semi-residential neighborhood that both the Noguchi and Socrates Sculpture Park call home, and where, significantly, the waterfront remains largely out of sight or reach. It’s this shoreline that Mayor Bloomberg’s $3.3 billion, threeyear waterfront plan, unveiled last March, leaves completely untouched.

The exhibit at the Noguchi — less an “exhibit” in the traditional sense and more a collection of models, nascent blueprints and drawings — is just one facet of a multipronged effort to engage the neighborhood.

In addition to a panel discussion with artists in the exhibit and waterfront experts, held last Sunday, the Noguchi is hosting two more events: one on Sunday, Dec. 11, in which visitors can tour the exhibit with its guest curator, Amy Smith-Stewart; and the second, on Sunday, Jan. 8, during which the public will have a chance to address the artists in what the museum is calling an “Artists Town Hall.” continued continued on on page page 00 47

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EXHIBITS Turkish and North American artists collaborate on an exhibition at Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. that explores ceramics and mixed media. The group show, “Ceramic Material and Material Culture: Contemporary Ceramic Art,” is presented by Queens College and Flushing Town Hall from Nov. 19 through Jan. 19, 2012. Opening reception Saturday, Nov. 19 from 5-7 p.m. Gallery hours Saturday and Sunday, noon-5 p.m.

The Flushing AARP Chapter 1405 holds its meetings at the Bowne Street Community Church, 14311 Roosevelt Ave., Flushing, on Mondays at 1 p.m.

The next meeting will be held on Nov. 21.

North Flushing AARP Chapter 4158 meets on Tuesday, Dec. 13 at noon at Church on the Hill, 167-07 35 Ave., Flushing. New members welcome.

“Long Island City Works,” a photo exhibit by students, will run Nov. 17-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 9 p.m. and on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. A reception will be held on Thursday, Nov. 17 at 6 p.m.

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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Fall Members’ Exhibition runs now to Dec. 3 at National Art League, 44-21 Douglaston Parkway, Douglaston. Gallery hours are: Monday through Thursday and Saturday from 1:30-4:30 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.

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.

THEATRE “Forbidden Broadway” will roast iconic musical theatre shows, including “South Pacific,” “Gypsy” and “Grease,” at Queensborough’s Performing Arts Center in Bayside on Sunday, Nov. 20 at 3 p.m. Tickets are $35. Contact the QPAC box office at (718) 631-6311; tickets are also available online at visitqpac.org.

The Greek Cultural Center, 26-80 30 St., Astoria, begins its winter season with an original play titled: “With Over Two Pieces of Luggage,” written and directed by, and starring, Alexandros Malaos, from now-Dec. 11 on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 4 p.m. Tickets are $20 and $15 for seniors and children. Call (718) 726-7329 The next scheduled performances of the Cill Cais Players, one-act comedies — “Uncle Pat” and “The Pot of Broth,” is Nov. 27 at 3 p.m. at Our Lady of Blessed Sacrament, 35 Avenue and 203 Street, Bayside. Tickets range from $20-$25.

“A Hard Wall at High Speed,” a new play, will be presented now-Nov. 19, Thursdays, Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. at Good Shepherd United Methodist Church, 30-44 Crescent St.,

Cathedral #2, by Eliza Au, part of an exhibition at Flushing Town Hall entitled “Ceramic Material and Material Culture: Contemporary Ceramic Art.” PHOTO COURTESY QUEENS COLLEGE Astoria. Tickets are $18 general, and $12 seniors and students. To purchase tickets visit apacny.org or call (866) 811- 4111.

Tickets are now available for the Theatre by the Bay production of the musical “Annie Get Your Gun,” to presented on Saturday, Nov. 19 at 8 p.m. and on Sundayß, Nov. 20 at 3 p.m. at the Bay Terrace Jewish Center, 13-00 209 St., Bayside. Tickets are $20 for adults and $18 for seniors (62 and older) and children 12 and under. For reservations call (718) 4286363, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Thursday.

MUSIC The Quintet of the Americas will perform a free concert on Thursday, Nov. 17 at 7:30 p.m. at the Salvation Army Center of Jackson Heights, 86-07 35 Ave. NEA Jazz Masters Concert: Armstrong and Beyond will be presented at Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd., on Friday, Nov. 18 at 8 p.m. NEA Jazz Masters Jimmy Heath, saxophone; Barry Harris, piano; and Frank Wess, saxophone and flute, perform together with special guest Jeremy Pelt, a young master trumpeter. Tickets are $40. Call (718) 463-7700 ext. 222.

Queens College Baroque Ensemble will perform on Friday, Nov. 18 at 6 p.m. at King Manor Museum, 150-03 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica. Tickets are $25.

Call (718) 206-0545.

Simple Gifts, made up of two musicians and 10 instruments, will perform on Saturday, Nov. 19 at 1 p.m. at St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, 10-08 49 Ave., Long Island City. Donations will be accepted.

Blood Sweat and Tears will perform at Queensborough Performing Arts Center, Queensborough Community College, 222-05 56 Ave., Bayside, on Satur-

day, Nov. 19 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $35. Call the box office at (718) 631-6311.

The Forest Hills Symphony Orchestra will hold a concert on Sunday, Nov. 20 at 2 p.m. at the Forest Hills Jewish Center, 106-06 Queens Blvd. The concert will feature Beethoven Leonore Overture #3 Op. 72a, Clementi Symphony #1 Op. 18, Grieg Norwegian Dances Op. 35, Chabrier Habanera and Brahms Hungarian Dance #2. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for senior citizens and students. Tickets are available by calling (718) 374-1627.

FLEA MARKETS Annual treasure sale at Holy Family at Utopia Partway and 75 Avenue, Flushing, on Saturday, Nov. 19 from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 20 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Giant indoor flea market at Nativity Church Hall, 101-41 91 St., Ozone Park, on Sunday, Nov. 20 from 9 a.m. -4 p.m.

LECTURES Join the Queens Historical Society, 143-35 37 Ave., Flushing, for a lecture by author Willie Cooper on black soldiers in the Civil War on Thursday, Nov. 17 at 6:30 p.m. The cost is $8.

HEALTH A blood drive sponsored by Assemblyman Michael Miller will be held at Knights of Columbus, Monsignor Sherman Council building, 79-03 Myrtle Ave., Glendale, on Saturday, Nov. 19 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free flu shots for blood donors.

MEETINGS Sisterhood of the Bayside Jewish Center, 203-05 32

Kids of all ages are invited to join the Urban Park Rangers for a fall scavenger hunt in Kissena Park at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 19. Meet at Rose and Oak avenues.

FOR KIDS Hands-on History: Apples, Apples, Apples, a free drop-in Saturday program on Nov. 19 at noon. Stories, fun activities and crafts at King Manor Museum, 150-03 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica.

CLASSES A defensive driving course for insurance and point reduction will be given at Holy Family Church, 17520 74 Ave., Flushing, on Saturday, Nov. 19 from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. For information and registration call (631) 360-9720. The cost is $45.

A bee-keeping course will begin on Wednesday, Nov. 19 from 7-9 p.m. and continue on the third Wednesdays through June 2012 at the Voelker Orth Museum, 149-19 38 Ave., Flushing. The course covers the basics of bee care, establishing a bee colony and harvesting honey, for both the aspiring and experienced bee-keeper. The course fee, including a textbook, is $90 and $75 for Voelker Orth members. New students accepted through December. Call (718) 359-6227.

The United States Coast Guard Auxiliary, Flotilla 12-01, will give an eight hour “About Boating Safely” class from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 20 in their classroom at Fort Totten in Bayside. Safe Boating Certificate and membership in Boat US for all students who pass the written exam. Pre-registration is required. Cost is $75.

Directions, registration and information from Mike Kaff at 12-01@verizon.net.

AARP offers a free one-day driver’s safety course for veterans and spouses of veterans at the Pomonok Senior Center, 67-09 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, on Tuesday, Nov. 22 from 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

For more information contact Jennifer Buljan at (718) 591-3377.

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

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Right at home yet unfamiliar

by Paula Neudorf Associate Editor

At a gallery opening last Saturday in Long Island City, visitors were treated to an unusual experience: after walking past a set of arresting portraits of an old man and woman, either glimpsed in the midst of seemingly everyday activities or looking directly at the camera, the viewer was confronted with the old man and woman themselves — in three dimensions — hanging out in the back of the gallery next to a wall of pictures of, well, themselves.

This somewhat surreal moment wasn’t the product of any high-art hijinks, though. Rather, Justine Reyes, “Cairns, Australia,” one of 17 photographs on view at the Homefront PHOTO BY JUSTINE REYES Gallery.

‘Home, Away from Home’ When: Through Jan. 8, 2012.

Thurs. to Sat., noon to 6 p.m. and by appointment Where: The Homefront Gallery 26-23 Jackson Ave., Long Island City Info: (347) 827-0553 thehomefrontgallery.com

the photographer behind the show, called “Home, Away from Home” and showing at the Homefront Gallery, plucked her subjects from real life, and more specifically, her own home.

The old man and woman featured in the photographs are Al Bertolino and Vincenza Reyes, Justine Reyes’ uncle and mother. The Jackson Heights native has been taking pictures of them for the last seven years,

The artist and her muses: Justine Reyes at the opening of her LIC solo show with her uncle, Al Bertolini, and mother, PHOTO BY PAULA NEUDORF Vincenza Reyes.

and the pair couldn’t be more pleased.

“We love the photos,” said Vincenza Reyes.

“They’re like my collaborators,” Justine Reyes added.

Among the 17 photographs in the exhibit are images the photographer shot in Australia, Spain, on a Bermuda cruise, at the Jersey shore and at her mother’s and uncle’s Jackson Heights home, where she also lived for a time

immediately after graduating from the San Francisco Art Institute with a Master of Fine Arts degree.

In the images themselves, however, there’s no hint of the exotic locales where they were taken. The settings are all indoors: bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchens and living rooms. It’s hard to tell the hotel rooms apart, though not all that difficult to pinpoint the photos continued on page 00 49

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But while Hollywood isn’t taking advantage of the most diverse borough, independent filmmakers not constrained by a studio looking over their shoulder are. “Sour Milk,” a short film, and the feature length film “Mr. Bricks: A Heavy Metal Murder Musical,” are two recent films that were shot in Queens.

“Sour Milk” is a 20-minute film directed by Julie Yun, who co-wrote and co-produced it with Irish comedian and filmmaker Mel Hamill. The film is a sad, expertly written and directed story about a young A poster for the film “Mr. Bricks,” which was Korean student who becomes mostly filmed around Long Island City. obsessed with her one-nightPHOTO COURTESY MRBRICKSMOVIE.COM stand. Queens played an important part in not only the locations directed by Travis Campbell. It’s a wild ride but in the story as well, Hamill explained. of violence, heavy metal and old-fashioned “When [we] wrote the story, we knew revenge in which an ex-con tries to find the lead character lived in Queens and we the whereabouts of h i s g i r l f r i e n d . built the story around it,” he said.

LIC-based film studio Troma is distributing “It was our only choice. Queens is the flick. where new beginnings of many lives Some of the challenges guerrilla filmfrom all over the world start in New makers have to overcome include police York.” Hamill himself lived in Flushing shutting down sets due to complaints and and then Astoria. lack of permits. Campbell, who said he In one of the most striking scenes, the moved to Queens because of its friendlimain character, Soohee, visits a church, ness to filmmakers, noted he didn’t have to which was filmed in Long Island City’s deal with that when shooting in Queens.

New York Presbyterian Church. The “Even when the cops would drive by, church is very familiar to those who travel they wouldn’t hassle us,” he said. “In westbound on the LIRR, as the building is Manhattan we get stopped all the time.” marked with the large, guilt-inducing He also said that while shooting in quote “Is it nothing to you, all you who Manhattan, pedestrians would carelessly pass by?” Hamill said the church helped walk through shots, ruining them. add a cold tone to the pivotal scene.

He shot the film mostly around LIC, “Many people recognized the big and used the 39th Street Bridge, which church which is modern and cold as crosses the Sunnyside Rail Yards, in the opposed to warm and embracing,” he finale. said. “It overpowers [the main character], “I liked filming in Queens,” he said. making her even smaller and lonelier.”

“You can really fake some stuff. I think it’s Hamill says that Queens, as opposed to a world of possibility for filmmakers.”

Manhattan, has a distinctiveness that For any new time filmmakers who adds something to the story, and that might not know where to start, Campbell filmmakers should take note. had some simple advice.

“Every street corner in Queens has a “Get a good story together and get unique flare to it which adds lively, realis- some money. Be prepared and go out and Q tic, colorful depths to the story,” he said. do it.”

“You can stop anyone in the street and To learn more about how to see “Sour it’s a movie.”

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Finally, in the spring, large-scale models of the four teams’ designs will be on view at Socrates Sculpture Park.

“This can and should be the beginning of something,” said Carter Craft at Sunday’s panel discussion. Craft, who served as the panel moderator, is a waterfront veteran: he co-founded the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance, which now represents over 500 organizations with a stake in New York’s waterways, and was instrumental in the construction of an oyster nursery and dock at Governor’s Island.

In a later phone conversation, Craft explained why he thought Western Queens had been almost entirely ignored in the city’s waterfront plan, including the

“Study Area of Long Island City,” a 2010 model created by WXY’s 2010 fall studio at the Parsons School of Constructed Environments, on view at the Noguchi Museum.

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$360 million it has earmarked for public access to the water alone.

“It’s complicated from a planning perspective, from a regulatory perspective,” he said. Because of the existing industry on the waterfront in the area, including the TransCanada Ravenswood power station and the Con Edison transformer station, creating public access wouldn’t be easy. “Water-heavy industrial buildings are precluded from having to provide public access,” he said. In fact, there

are regulations in place that bar construction in close proximity to these buildings.

That didn’t stop artist George Trakas, however, from putting together his design, one of the most beguiling in the museum’s exhibit. The idea is simple: a walkway built with existing but long-disused pieces of boardwalk and bulkhead that would wrap around Con Edison and TransCanada, connecting the shoreline from 36th Avenue to Socrates Sculpture Park.

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Trakas is in conversations with Con Edison and TransCanada about the feasibility of the design.

“The coastline here is ready,” he said during the panel discussion.

Despite the logistical difficulties of many of the artists’ ideas, Craft is hopeful.

“It’s all a matter of who pays attention,” he said. As an example, he cited the Friends of the High Line, who championed the cause of the disused freight line in Chelsea, at one point slated for destruction, beginning in 1999. Over a decade later, the $100 million project, which ultimately gained the mayor’s approval, is by and large considered a major success and evidence of how civic action can work.

Artist Natalie Jeremijenko, whose imaginative designs in the exhibit include creating a “salamander superhighway” and habitats for frogs, encouraged people present at the panel to think both small and big.

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The cost is $45.

A Saturday dance will be held on Nov. 19 at Italian Charities of America, 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst.

Cost is $10.

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.

Calling all aspiring musicians. Are you interested in learning a new instrument? New People’s Church of New York, 46-04 162 St., Flushing, is offering four free beginner lessons on drums, guitar, bass guitar, and vocals for children between the ages of 8-15. Enrollment will be limited and provided on first come, first served basis. Classes held from 11 a.m. to noon on the first and third Saturdays in November and December, finishing with a final performance on Sunday, Dec. 25, a total of five dates.

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

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 for adults are $75 for four sessions, $65 for children for eight sessions. Membership available. For information, call Rob at (718) 454-0813.

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Tango class, no partner necessary, at 7-8 p.m. and tango magic dance 8 p.m. on Wednesdays through April at Buenos Aires Tango Steakhouse, 111-08 Queens Blvd., Forest Hills. Cost is $15 a class. For information call (347) 642-4705.

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.

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SPECIAL EVENTS Glendale Kiwanis presents its annual Turkey Shoot, Wheel of Fortune on Friday, Nov. 18 at 6:30 p.m. at Glendale Memorial Building, 72-02 Myrtle Ave. Admission $5.

TOURS Shore Walkers will sponsor a walk of several parks in Queens, six miles, Forest Hills to Flushing, with three lakes, through Flushing Meadows Park, Queens Botanical Garden, Kissena Corridor and Kissena Park. Optional dim sum meal. Cost is $10$12 at end. Bring snack and water. Meet on Saturday, Nov. 19 at 9:45 a.m. at the North side of Queens Boulevard in front of Sterling Bank. Fee of $3-$4 to enter the Queens Botanical Garden.

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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.

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

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.

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actually shot in a real home, which it seems, is part of the point.

All the portraits feel staged, as Bertolino and Vincenza Reyes never look fully at ease — whether it’s a shot of Reyes in the bathroom with a black eye and scuffed knee (the result of a fall, Justine Reyes explained), or an image of the pair sitting next to each other on a bed.

While Bertolino and Reyes’ gazes are never “confrontational,” gallery owner and Flushing native Crystal Kui said, there’s still something not a little disturbing in the images, and also, familiar. The result is haunting, and as Kui succinctly noted, a combination of both “the ordinary and the out of the ordinary.”

This quality is emphasized by a certain formal rigor to the images — most are bathed in a calm, blue lighting, with careful framing and clean focus. They all have the feel of still lifes, with a slew of details — the objects on a kitchen table, the contents of a medicine bag — meticulously rendered.

Initially, Justine Reyes found the

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portraits she was taking were so personal that they were “extremely hard to share.” She began the series after the move back into her family home, when another uncle, Vinnie, died. The artist said the tragedy led her to think about her mother and surviving uncle’s fragility.

There’s “a sadness in these pictures,” she said, that’s about grappling with “mortality and what that Q means.”

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INTERIOR-EXTERIOR

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EST. 1985

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Member of the Better Business Bureau

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Professional Services INSTALLATION • SANDING • Repairs • Staining • Refinishing • Bleaching FREE ESTIMATES ALL WORK GUARANTEED 49 Lic./Ins.

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Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: VALPRECHT, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/29/2011. Office location is Queens County.

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Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: DYEVO LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/22/2011. 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 Johnny Chang, 5 Michaels Lane, Glen Head, NY 11545. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

247 S Conduit Ave LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/28/11. Office in Queens County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 247-22 S Conduit Ave, Rosedale, NY 11422. Purpose: General.

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Notice of Formation of Young Adult, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/5/2011. Office location: Queens County.

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SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 58-15 202nd Street, Oakland Gardens, NY 11364. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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Off. Loc.: Queens Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to the LLC, 46-02 Broadway, Astoria, NY 11103. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

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ORDER OF PUBLICATION Case No.: JJ023316-04-00 City of Danville, Commonwealth of Virginia VA. CODE § 8.01-316 Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Commonwealth of Virginia, in re JAMEKIA ALLIAH HARRIS, DEBRA DEAN HARRIS V. JAHJAH D. BERRYMAN The object of this suit is to: DETERMINE LEGAL AND PHYSICAL CUSTODY OF MINOR CHILD JAMEKIA ALLIAH HARRIS, DATE OF BIRTH 11/15/94 It is ORDERED that the defendant appear at the above-named Court and protect his or her interests on or before 12/15/2011, 2:00PM. Donna C. Hyler, Clerk 09/22/2011

Glamsmash LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/21/11. Office in Queens County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 19-20 Ditmars Blvd., Astoria, NY 11105. Purpose: General.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: 183 DUANE, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/18/11. 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, 23-01 Borden Avenue, Long Island City, New York 11101.

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Notice of Qualification of Chenega Security & Support Solutions, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/17/11. Office location: Queens County. LLC formed in Alaska (AK) on 1/10/11. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., 875 Ave. of the Americas, Ste. 501, NY, NY 10001. Address to be maintained in AK: 3000 C St., Ste. 301, Anchorage, AK 99503, also the principal office address. Arts of Org. filed with the AK Commissioner of Commerce, Community & Economic Development of the State of AK, 333 W. Willoughby Ave., 9th Fl., Juneau, AK 99801. Purpose: any lawful activities.

SHUSTER 5-21 LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 7/28/2011. Office in Queens Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to c/o Law Offices of Arthur J. Israel, 250 Madison Ave., 17th Fl., NY, NY 10016.

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Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: HELPERCORNER LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/24/2011.

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SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC C/O UNITED STATES CORPORATION AGENTS, INC., 7014 13TH AVENUE, SUITE 202, BROOKLYN, NY 11228. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Nuchas TSQ LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/21/11. Office in Queens County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 30-58 34th St., #4D, Astoria, NY 11103. Purpose: General.

File No: 2010/4393/A CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK BY THE GRACE OF GOD, FREE AND INDEPENDENT To: Boshulav Heza, Jiri Heza, Kinetic Concepts, Inc., ACB American, Inc., For Kinetic Concepts, Inc., Attorney General of the State of New York. The unknown distributees, legatees, devisees, heirs at law and assignees of EDWARD HEZA, 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 EDWARD HEZA, deceased, who at the time of death was a resident of 251-38 43 Avenue, Little Neck, NY 11363, 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 Administration of the Estate of EDWARD HEZA, 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 15th day of December, 2011 at 9:30 o’clock in the forenoon, why the Account of Proceedings of the Public Administrator of Queens County, as Administration 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 $27,993.14 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 Kinetic Concepts, Inc. in the amount of $2,970.00 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, 27th day of October, 2011. GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ. (718) 459-9000 95-25 Queens Boulevard Floor Rego Park, New York 11374. HON. PETER J. KELLY, Surrogate, Queen County, Margaret M. Gribbon, Clerk of the Surrogate’s Court 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

Notice of Formation of RW 1715 BEDFORD, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/29/11. Office location: Queens County. Princ. office of LLC: 95-25 Queens Blvd., 10th Fl., Rego Park, NY 11374. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Laundry Capital Co., LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 7/12/11, bearing Index Number NC-000521-11/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, New York, in Record Room 357, grants me the right to assume the name of Mike Moshos Kalogiannis.

My present name is Moshos Mike Kalogiannis aka Mike Kalogiannis.

My present address is 240-11 52 Avenue, Douglaston, NY 11362. My place of birth is Queens, NY. My date of birth is August 2, 1979.

Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: NEW YORK FOREIGN STUDENT SERVICES LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/24/2011. 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, 136-18 39th Avenue, 5th Floor, Flushing, NY 11354. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

CARROLL PLACE GMC LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC), filed with the Sec of State of NY on 9/22/11.

NY Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to the LLC, 1835 130th St., College Point, NY 11356. General Purposes.

Notice of Formation of 262-276 ATLANTIC AVE., LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/25/11. Office location: Queens County. Princ. office of LLC: 95-25 Queens Blvd., 10th Fl., Rego Park, NY 11374.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Laundry Capital Co., LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS SUMMONS AND NOTICE Index No. 13509/2011 Date Filed: 6/6/2011 US Bank National Association, as Trustee, successor-in-interest to Bank of America, National Association, as Trustee, successor by merger to LaSalle Bank National Association as Trustee for Morgan Stanley Loan Trust 2006-12XS, Plaintiff, against April Domino, Administratrix of Estate of Eva L. Prince a/k/a Eva L. Prince-Hodges a/k/a Eva Prince a/k/a Eva Louise Prince a/k/a Eva A. Prince; Fredrick D. Hodges; Walter Prince; Warren Prince; Boro Fuel Oil Company, Inc.; State of New York; any unknown heirs, devisees, distributees or successors in interest of the late Eva L. Prince a/k/a Eva L. Prince-Hodges a/k/a Eva Prince a/k/a Eva Louise Prince a/k/a Eva A. Prince, if they be living or, if they be dead, their spouses, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors in interest, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to the Plaintiff, and “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #10”, the last ten names being fictitious and unknown to the Plaintiff, the person or parties intended being the person or parties, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the mortgaged premises described in the complaint, Defendant(s).

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 135-09 229th Street, Laurelton, NY 11413 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or a notice of appearance on the attorneys for the Plaintiff within thirty (30) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT: THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $272,000.00 and interest, recorded in the Queens County Clerk’s Office of the City Register on 7/31/2006 in CRFN 2006000430759 covering premises known as 135-09 229th Street, Laurelton, NY 11413. 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. Plaintiff designates Queens County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises is situated.

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. Dated: June 3, 2011 Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorneys for Plaintiff 250 Mile Crossing Boulevard, Suite One, Rochester, NY 14624 (585) 247-9000 Our File No. 10-005511 Premises known as 135-09 229th Street, Laurelton, NY 11413. All that certain property situate, lying and being in the Borough and County of Queens, City and State of New York, Block: 10894 Lot: 40

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Planning to replace their cabinets, family gets a whole new kitchen and bathroom installed, thanks to the HRA program Denorval and Brenda Parks had been thinking about remodeling their kitchen and bathroom for years. The rooms were outdated and lacked the shine that marked so much of the rest of their home in St. Albans: the polished plank floors greeting visitors in the living room, the bright orange walls of the dining room, the mirror that gives the impression that room is twice its size.

Next to those rooms the kitchen and bath seemed dreary. Ever since Denorval retired from the Transit Authority in 2001, he and Brenda, a teacher’s assistant, had wanted to do them over. But the time never seemed right — until Brenda spotted a testimonial to the Housing Rehabilitation Assistance program in the Queens Chronicle.

Now they couldn’t be happier. Not only do they get to enjoy their modern kitchen and bathroom — which feature some design elements of their own but came out even better than they had hoped — but the project was overseen from start to finish by HRA, so they knew everything would be handled right.

“I called them and made an appointment to talk to their representative,” Brenda said.

“He came here and explained the process.

We had meetings, and over the course of the meetings we got the financing and he introduced us to the contractor.”

“Overall with HRA, I found in every aspect, from the start of getting the loan to the end, they were there with you,” Denorval said.

The HRA program helps participants get loans and grants for two types of projects: capital improvements that increase the value of a home, and weatherization

The colors and design of the Parks’ gleaming new bathroom reflect those used in the kitchen, helping tie the home together. The mosaic wall in the shower was something Denorval especially wanted.

that saves on heating bills. Of course many remodelings involve both. At the Parks’ house, the newly redone rooms are now insulated, which they weren’t before.

But it’s the look and the convenience of their new rooms that have the couple and the rest of their household most excited.

The kitchen not only has new surfaces, cabinets and lighting, it’s also been been rearranged and opened up. The entire wall between the dining room and kitchen was taken down, turning what had been a doorway about three feet wide into an open, inviting space that helps make the two rooms together the center for family gatherings. A shorter wall near the steps to the basement was also removed.

When the Parks first had the kitchen done years ago a contractor had told them they couldn’t open up the wall between the kitchen and dining room. They were glad to find out he was wrong. And to see a project they first thought would just involve updating the cabinets turn into so much more.

“We were just thinking of replacing the cabinets and keeping everything the same,” Brenda said. “We didn’t realize we were going to change everything around, but we’re pleased with it. It’s beautiful. It’s fantastic.”

The newly open space between the rooms also made room for their new kitchen island, something they didn’t think they had the space to accommodate. But the contractor made blueprints for several different options, and they saw how much space could be created by moving things around — namely the refrigerator, which went across the room to the corner nook in the L-shaped kitchen.

“We didn’t think there would be enough room there for the refrigerator, but he knew what he was talking about,” Brenda said.

“The island presented a problem for me in the beginning, because I couldn’t picture there being enough room, but once they did the work I saw that there was,” Denorval said. “I think we stand there and talk more with the island there.”

The kitchen gleams from floor to ceiling. Underfoot are high-quality slate tiles in beige, complementing the granite countertops. The cabinets are maplewood — not a veneer but solid wood — with finely crafted crown moldings at the top and stainless steel pulls that Brenda picked out. The backsplash, which Denorval picked out with the help of the couple’s nieces, is a mosaic of different colored glass — a design repeated on the opposite wall behind the island, where the mosaic stretches to the ceiling. There are lovely hanging lamps over the island and recessed lighting in the ceiling.

The sink was moved from the wall facing a neighbor’s house to the one facing the rear of the Parks’ property, where it sits right in front of one of the kitchen’s three windows.

“They told us we should look in our own backyard, not someone else’s,” Brenda said.

Among the most beautiful and practical elements is the new pantry, another component that turned out to be much more than the Parks dreamed it could be when they first met with the contractor. It takes up an entire wall, providing great storage space and making everything easily accessible with the sliding drawers that fill much of it.

Above the backsplash, the walls are a nice

medium green, an inviting color that goes well with the orange in the dining room without ove r p owe r i n g it. “The green was my choice,” Brenda said, also crediting her daughter, “who loves g reen,” with picking the final shade. “The dining room is so bright, so having bright green wo u l d h ave been too much,” she said. “This Denorval Parks shows how wide the doorway into his kitchen was before his complements it HRA-approved contractor took down the wall, creating a lovely new entry to well.” the remodeled room. Below, he and his wife, Brenda, in front of their new The kitchen maplewood pantry. windows were replaced with ones containing argon gas for better efficiency. Denorval asked that the moldings be made extra wide, to go better with the cabinetry. The molding is made of the same wood, adding to the room’s warm, rich feel.

He also got the contractor to install five electric sockets; there had been only three.

The quality of the work is obvious to anyone who comes in, including one of the Parks’ neighbors, who is now thinking about working with HRA on a similar project, and even the Con Edison meter reader.

“He saw the kitchen before the job, during and when it was finished,” Denorval said.

“And he told me of all the houses he’d been in, this was the best kitchen he saw.”

An older daughter who’s out of the house now agrees — she’s been coming over more often so she can cook in the new kitchen, demonstrating how remodeling can help bring together more than just the physical left the house and they were here by themselves, and we were comfortable with them components of a home.

The Parks’ new bathroom is just as lovely being here.”

“They clean up every day, and every day as the kitchen. The beige tile floor reflects the one in the kitchen, as does the tall mosaic you get a call from the contractor to check of glass and stone on the wall of the shower, in,” Denorval added.

That kind of service is all part of the HRA a design element Denorval requested.

“That was something I always wanted,” program.

“The services offered by the HRA extend the homeowner said. “The contractor said, ‘I’ll surprise you with something nice.’ It’s beyond just financial assistance for home improvement projects,” HRA representative bigger than I thought it would be.”

Since everyone in the family takes show- Jesse Friedman said. “We have implemented ers rather than baths, the couple decided to numerous processes to ensure that projects remove the tub, making for a luxuriously completed by HRA-approved contractors are spacious shower with a bench seat built into done so to the homeowner’s satisfaction.”

That was certainly the case for the Parks, one wall. Crystal clear sliding glass doors give the bathroom an airy feel and make it who are thrilled with their renovations, which gave them not only a more beautiful seem even larger than it is.

Everything is new and everything gleams, and more valuable home, but peace of mind.

“I was looking to refinance, but with from the sink, mirrored vanity and mapleHRA’s help and the government grants, I wood cabinet to the lighting and commode.

“The contractor did the same thing here thought that was the way to go,” Denorval as in the kitchen,” Denorval said. “He came said. “We’re getting up in age, and I think it’s good that everything is straight, that we in and gave us a whole new design.”

The work inevitably disrupted the Parks’ don’t have anything to worry about with the lives for awhile, but didn’t drag on extra kitchen and bathroom done.”

For more information about Housing long, and the family liked the crew that came Rehabilitiation Assistance, or to see if you to their home every day.

“The workers were very pleasant and qualify for its programs, please call HRA polite,” Brenda said. “There were times we toll-free at 866-791-6302.

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Flushing native, St. Francis Prep alum and longtime Astoria resident Dave Buscema has turned his passion for his beloved NFL team into the cleverly titled “100 Things Giants Should Know & Do Before They Die” (Triumph Books). Buscema covers all the Giants’ highlights, of course, but he doesn’t shy away from Big Blue’s bluest fan moments, such as the Joe Pisarcik fumble against the Eagles 33 years ago this week when all he had to do was take a knee for the win; and last year’s debacle against the Eagles when the Giants blew a very large lead in the fourth quarter. In a gutsy move, considering his audience, Dave writes a rather sympathetic profile of retired running back and occasional broadcaster Tiki Barber.

Jamaica High School alum and longtime New York Times sports columnist George Vecsey has written the definitive biography of arguably the most underrated baseball great of the 20th century, “Stan Musial: An American Life” (ESPN Books).

Stan the Man began his major league career just before World War II and finished it a month before JFK’s assassination. He was as skilled a businessman as he was a hitter and even played a good harmonica. On integrating baseball, Musial was not prejudiced but was far from a leader in the Cardinals clubhouse.

He clearly did not want to offend his many old school Southern teammates, Vecsey says.

For the second consecutive year, Yankee Stadium hosted a regular season college foot-

ball game, as Rutgers defeated Army 27-12 score in front of roughly 30,000. Last May Mets CEO Fred Wilpon told Sports Illustrated his team could lose $70 million in 2011. He did not say how he came up with that figure but it’s safe to say that these are not good times for his organization. My question then is: Why don’t the Mets rent out Citi Field for a college football game the way the Yankees, who have no trouble earning profits, do?

Uncle Mo, the thoroughbred owned by Middle Village native Mike Repole, was picked by many handicappers at the start of the year as a potential Triple Crown winner. A funny thing happened, however, on the way to being in the same league as Secretariat, Affirmed and Seattle Slew. Uncle Mo finished sixth in the Wood Memorial, did not run at the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes due to a mysterious illness, and last week finished 10th at the Breeders Cup. Uncle Mo is the Bode Miller of racehorses.

ESPN Magazine’s Bill Simmons spoke at Sports Business Journal’s Sports & Media Technology conference last week. Addressing the NBA lockout, Simmons said the players have a deep animus toward Commissioner David Stern that goes beyond the usual labor negotiation issues: a number of them feel that Stern acts like a belittling high school principal in telling them how to dress and behave.

The Joe Frazier-Muhammad Ali ring battles truly established the boxing pay-per-view market. Today’s ring PPV events can’t hold a canQ dle to them. Rest in peace, Joe.

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Of all the homes in Forest Hills Gardens, one stands out for having a colorful cast of owners you’d expect to find in a book of fiction.

Maurice Connolly, who was the youngest Queens borough president of Queens ever to take office (he was 29 or 30 at the time) and the longest serving, had 25 Greenway South built to order in 1924. Connolly was later exposed as a Strikers outside 25 Greenway South — the player in a major sewer construction boss’ house — on Aug. 7, 1940. The sign reads scandal, in which manholes and their “We are on strike. Mr. McAuliffe resides here covers were installed but weren’t actual- and believes in long hours and small wages.” ly hooked up to anything.

After leaving office in disgrace in 1928, called the worst strike in Queens history.) he was sentenced to one year under house Karma hit McAuliffe in 1954, when his arrest in his luxury home — an unusual business was condemned to make way for sentence at the time. And the multimillion- the Long Island Expressway.

Next was James J. Kriegsmann, who dollar home was hardly a prison.

Connolly sold the house to John E. emigrated to the U.S. in 1946 from GerMcAuliffe of Kew Gardens, owner of the many and didn’t know the stories of the home’s prior owners. A famous photograTriangle Conduit and Cable Company.

McAuliffe was known by his workers as pher who specialized in portraits of black a tyrant and stingy with a buck. In August entertainers and burlesque strippers, 1940 his workers went on strke, “occupy- Kriegsmann was never under house arrest ing” the sidewalk outside his home rather or picketed. He broke the jinx. He passed than picketing outside the company. (In away in 1994 at age 85.

Public records show the storied house is September they rioted outside the compaQ ny, in what the district attorney at the time now owned by Bank Indonesia.

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Forest Hills High School graduate Indira Avila has qualified to represent Queens College in the NCAA Division II Women’s Cross Country Championships.

The meet will be held in Spokane, Wash., on Nov. 19.

Avila earned the berth with her 5th-place finish in the NCAA Eastern Regional Women’s Championship on Nov. 6 in Boston’s Franklin Park.

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overlooking those who live in “bad neighborhoods,” and failing to conduct interviews there. He hopes the appointment of special master, Mary Jo White, will help correct some of those problems.

One person who is against what he has called “forced diversity” is Paul Mannix, an FDNY deputy chief with Division 6 in the Bronx and the founder of Merit Matters, an advocacy group “dedicated to preserving merit in the FDNY testing, hiring and promotion process.”

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Although the new exam is being designed with the help of the Vulcan Society and others, some fear that if it does not produce enough passing minority applicants, Garauf is will scrap the exam as he has done in the past and the process will start all over again.

If that were to happen, Diaz said it would amount to reverse discrimination and prove the judge has an agenda, “to get more blacks on the job, by any means Q necessary.”

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