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Families and groups from throughout Queens participated in the annual Woodhaven Christmas parade, including, clockwise from top right, Santa and Mrs. Claus, St. Luke’s nursery school, the Deneille Dance Studio, Franklin K. Lane HS band, legislators and civic leaders.

SHOT TO DEATH

QUEENS’ HIGH LINE?

Residents call for more lighting, police after Howard Beach man is murdered

Residents push for greenway along abandoned tracks

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Tempers flare over USPS job-cut plan Over 1,000 workers in Whitestone could be displaced, mail slowed down

by AnnMarie Costella Assistant Editor

bout 200 people, many of them postal workers and union representatives, packed the auditorium at Bayside High School on Friday outraged over the possible consolidation or closure of the Queens Processing and Distribution Center in Whitestone, which would result in the displacement of hundreds of workers.

Tensions ran high right from the beginning of the meeting, which was part of the U.S. Postal Service’s public outreach and comment period regarding the

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USPS Triboro District Manager Frank Calabrese, took heavy fire from the crowd, as he spoke on behalf of the agency’s cost-cutting measures.

proposal. Not one speaker thought the agency’s latest cost-saving idea is a good one.

First-class mail is processed between midnight and 6 a.m. to allow for next day delivery. But under the Postal Service’s plan, processing would be done from midnight to noon the next day, allowing far fewer facilities to do much more work.

Queens mail would be transported 12 miles to be sorted at a plant in Brooklyn, producing an estimated annual savings of nearly $30.8 million, but cutting at least 700 jobs here. The deadline to submit public comments is Dec. 19, and Morris Walker, who works at the Whitestone plant slated for consolidation, was the USPS is expected to complete outraged over the plan, stating that the facility handles a high volume of mail.

PHOTOS BY ANNMARIE COSTELLA the study underlying its proposal in about three months.

“We know this is an aggressive cutting service. “They already call going to do with 700 people? Do plan,” USPS Triboro District Man- us snail mail,” he said. “What are you know? Do you care?” ager Frank Calabrese said in Bay- they going to call us now?”

There are approximately 450 side, asserting that it is necessary If the Queens facility is “consol- unfilled letter carrier positions in to keep the agency afloat. idated,” as a USPS study recom- the Triboro area, according to CalThe plan is based on the idea of mends, 702 workers would be dis- abrese, to which some Queens changing the one-day standard of placed, but if it is closed, which workers could be transferred. Othdelivery for first-class mail to two Calabrese said is a possibility, then ers who are approaching retirement to three days, something that has more than 1,000 workers would age would be “encouraged” to do not been approved yet. need to look for a new home. so, Calabrese said, without elaboPaul Hogrogian, president of the “What are you going to do with rating as to how.

National Postal Mail Handlers my people?” asked Robert YaccariAlthough it has never had to fire Union Local 300, said the plan no, president of the Flushing employees in the past, reducing its would just perpetuate a vicious branch of the American Postal workforce mainly through attrition, cycle of losing mail volume and Workers Union. “What are you that may now become a reality as

the USPS is seeking the authority to do so, according to Calabrese, a statement which drew moans and groans from attendees.

“You have people who gave you 30, 40, years of their lives and you stand here and treat them like they’re garbage,” Yaccarino said.

“It’s time for the Postal Service to respect these people, to show them something. If it wasn’t for these people, the Postal Service would have been in deep crap a long time ago. They are the only people who care about moving the mail. Management doesn’t care.”

The volume of mail that the USPS processes annually has fallen by 42 billion pieces in the past f ive years and will continue to decline, Calabrese said. As a result the mail processing network is much larger than the agency can afford.

“Prior to 2006 our operational goal was to stay ahead of the growth curve ... now our operational goal is to to stay ahead of the cost curve to make sure we have just enough capacity to meet local volumes,” Calabrese said of the financially strapped agency.

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After a murder, calls for lighting Howard Beach residents also say more cops needed

by Anna Gustafson Senior Editor

After a 29-year-old man was gunned down while driving near his home in Howard Beach early Saturday morning, frightened neighbors are calling on the city to install additional lighting to deter crime in the area that they said is far too common.

Ronny Valdez, who lived in a basement apartment at 155-40 Lahn St., was shot multiple times while driving a white Acura with New Jersey plates around 4:40 a.m. on Saturday, police said. After being shot, residents said, he lost control of the car and slammed into two parked cars near the intersection of 155th Avenue and Huron Street. The shooters, who had allegedly fired at Valdez from their Lexus, then approached him on foot and shot the 29year-old several more times, according to residents.

Emergency workers rushed Valdez to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, but he was pronounced dead there.

Police have not made any arrests in the murder and said the investigation is ongoing.

Numerous neighbors said they were worried the incident may be associated with illicit activities that they said frequently

happens in the area, such as drug dealing.

Residents believe “all kinds of crime” happen around the area because it is close to the highway, and because there is little lighting along 155th Avenue.

“This is the second time in seven years that someone’s been murdered around here,” said a resident who lives near the scene of the crime. “You can go several blocks without lighting, and by then you’re on the highway. It’s a perfect spot for shady things to happen because there are no lights, and because it’s so easy to get away. ” Five other residents living near the site of the murder agreed, and several said they wished there was a greater police presence around the area, particularly, they said, to deter drug dealing.

“People come and park on 155th and do God knows what at all hours of the night,” one woman said.

Residents said they’ve been incredibly unnerved by the situation, and all would not give their names when speaking about it because they fear retaliation.

One individual, who had been describing what the gunshots sounded like from his bedroom,

A 29-year-old Howard Beach man was shot multiple times and killed while driving around his neighborhood early Saturday morning, police said.

PHOTO BY NICK BENEDUCE

was abruptly cut off by another person in his house, who told him not to speak with the press. Many people living in this middle-class neighborhood, dominated by twostory homes on tree-lined streets, seemed on edge.

Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Ozone Park) said he plans on working with other area legislators regarding residents’ concerns.

“I’ll work with my colleagues in the city to ask appropriate agencies to address any concerns that would put the safety of resi-

dents at risk,” Goldfeder said.

Many residents said they heard the gunshots but did not see the incident because it occurred so early in the morning.

“As soon as she heard the shots, my daughter went right to the ground,” one woman said.

“It’s crazy.”

Another resident said there “were a lot of bullets.”

“It sounded like an automatic weapon,” he said.

“I think he died with his foot on the pedal,” another man said.

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Framed rape victim sues city A Far Rockaway woman who was raped by her ex-boyfriend and then framed by him for a series of robberies she didn’t commit, for which she spent seven months in prison, is suing the city, Nassau County and a number of police detectives.

Seemona Sumasar filed her lawsuit in Brooklyn federal court last week. According to the complaint, she said her ex-boyfriend, Jerry Ramrattan, 39, also of Far Rockaway, was able to get away with implicating her in an elaborate scheme after police allegedly ignored his criminal history because he was working for them as an informant.

Sumasar and her daughter are seeking an unspecified amount of money in damages.

Earlier this month, a jury found Ramrattan guilty of raping and framing Sumasar.

Following his arrest on rape charges in March 2009, Ramrattan worked with three others to implicate Sumasar in false robbery allegations in Jamaica and Inwood, Long Island, the Queens DA said.

Nassau County Attorney John Ciampoli said the case could hinge on whether the defendants could prove they had probable cause to arrest Sumasar.

“We’re prepared to defend the county,” he said.

City officials were not available for Q comment.

Rails-to-trails push on old LIRR tracks Idle since ’62, Rockaway Beach Branch targeted as a greenway

by Michael Gannon

signatures in an attempt to compel action on the plan, feels the benefits would be myriad.

A group of residents and community leaders are trying Crawford says the group envisions a public park where once again to create an elevated greenway along a 3.5 mile people could walk, hike, bike or relax along a path roughly stretch of long-abandoned railroad tracks in Queens. parallel to Woodhaven Boulevard.

The old Rockaway Beach Branch of the Long Island She also said the city and MTA have repeatedly stated that Rail Road last carried a train during the Kennedy Adminis- they have no intention of ever restoring the line to service. tration, being dropped from service by the “It’s not like it is a viable track anymore,” she LIRR in 1962. said. “There are some places where the tracks Its trestles and platforms still are in place, as don’t exist anymore. It’s not like tomorrow you are most of the tracks and a few towers, now could flip a switch and there would be a viable long overgrown with trees, shrubs and vines. railroad. It would be a multi-billion dollar proAny and all manner of trash and junk have been ject.” dumped and accumulated on the right of way.

The city’s Parks Department did not comment But Andrea Crawford, president of Communion the plan. But even if the city were to give its ty Board 9 and one of the leaders of the Rockfull blessing, the appeal of a high-line park was away Beach Branch Greenway Committee, sees not universal in 2007 during the last serious effort an opportunity to link Rego Park and Ozone to get approval.

Park by turning the roadbed into a high-line park, Back then, members of Community Board 6 Andrea Crawford as the tracks are owned by the city.

PHOTO BY ANNA GUSTAFSON voted down a feasibility study of the project, 14-9.

“Rail-to-trail programs are popular all over the Opponents cited the possibility of increased noise, country,” Crawford said. “There is a big move to open areas litter, crime and other consequences that would impact on that can be used as greenways ... We’re really interested in quality of life and property values. giving green space to places that don’t have a lot of it.”

Michael Perlman, chairman of the Rego-Forest PreservaThe stretch runs roughly from 63rd Street in Rego Park tion Council, said his group has not reached a formal consendown to Rockaway Boulevard, ending not far from the sus on the idea. But he personally would like to see some sort Jamaica Bay preserve. of trail concept gain traction.

Some is at ground level, much is elevated and some areas “It would be a huge benefit to the communities if that have been overtaken by industry, ballfields and other devel- were transformed into a park,” Perlman said. “It would conopment. But the Greenway Committee, which is gathering nect communities and offer a welcoming atmosphere.”

Associate Editor

A trestle carries the same railroad tracks across Fleet Street in Forest Hills as it did 49 years ago, when the Long Island Rail Road abandoned the Rockaway Beach Branch line. A Queens group is looking to turn a 3.5-mile stretch of the old line into a PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON public greenway.

Perlman said there is American as well as local history in evidence as well, with plaques on some of the trestles showing them built by the now 111-year-old American Bridge Company in 1908.

Q “That’s part of industrial history,” he said.

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Preserving a lifetime of memories in Forest Pk. Lyricist hopes to raise awareness of carousel through his music

by Anna Gustafson Senior Editor

It was 1939, the country was trying to emerge from the Great Depression, the globe was exploding into a second world war — and, in Queens, an 8-yearold Ridgewood boy named Robert Conti was about to have a birthday.

“The World’s Fair was going on, but we were on welfare and we couldn’t afford to go,” said Conti, who now lives in Fresh Meadows. “So my family took me to Forest Park, and we had 30 to 40 people come to a picnic there. It was the first time I saw the carousel, and that was a real treat for me.”

Running around with his 10 brothers and sisters, among many other family members and friends, Conti launched a lifelong love affair with the carousel that day — a jour ney that once included shining shoes for countless hours to make the five cents needed for a spin on the merrygo-round. Now that the carousel is facing an uncertain future — the city has been trying, and failing, to find an operator for the structure for several years — Conti said he would be devastated if the str ucture would no

longer run and is encouraging the community to think outside the box when it comes to fighting for the merry-go-round.

A versatile lyricist who can easily break into renditions of West Side Story’s “Maria” and Christmas ballads, Conti, along with his son, musician Patrick Conti, has issued a CD of carousel music. The two also wrote and performed the official song for the historic Nunley carousel in Garden City, Long Island a couple years ago, after it moved there from Baldwin.

The song was also recorded by an elementary school class from Nassau County — which Conti suggested could be done in Queens by, say, children from PS 86, which he attended, to raise awareness and funds for the Forest Park carousel.

“What people did with the Nunley was individuals would adopt one of the carousel’s animals and be responsible for taking care of it,” Conti added. “That’s another idea for Forest Park.”

One of only five carousels in the city, the Forest Park ride was operated by New York One until 2008, when the company let its contract lapse. The city has since issued three requests for propos-

als, with the final one going out in mid-April.

No one submitted proposals for the city’s first two RFPs, but off icials said they did receive answers to applications after the most recent one. Still, the city said it found no “suitable” companies to run the merry-go-round.

Parks spokeswoman Trish Bertuccio said last month that the department intends to re-release an RFP and will “conduct extensive outreach to find a suitable proposer,” and a Woodhavenbased nonprof it, Independence Residences Inc., has expressed interest in operating the carousel.

While the city hasn’t said no to IRI running the merry-go-round, it also told the group that it would need to raise about $150,000 before Parks would consider approving the group.

Whoever operates it, Conti said he hopes they’ll keep in mind that the carousel is representative of many residents’ childhoods — a time before brothers, like his, went off to fight in World War II, and, in any era, life becomes a little trickier than waiting with baited breath for a day at the park.

Conti followed his brothers’ footsteps and joined the Army in

Robert Conti, a self-described lifelong lover of the Forest Park merry-go-round, shows a picture of himself with his son, Patrick Conti, far right, at Long Island’s Nunley carousel, for which they wrote and performed the official song.

PHOTO BY ANNA GUSTAFSON

1948 and served as an instructor at Fort Dix in New Jersey during the Korean War, afterward working as a cargo supervisor for the airline industry for 35 years.

“I’ve been to Hawaii twice,

I’ve been all over Europe and I’ve seen many, many carousels,” said Conti, a member of the Queens chapter of the Disabled American Veterans. “Forest Park’s is the Q best.”

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City crushes hope at Jamaica HS hatever gains the city has made in education under mayoral control and its emphasis on smaller schools and charters are nullified by its callous disregard for those students still stuck in schools the Department of Education has deemed beyond repair.

Take Jamaica High School, the storied institution the city has decided to eliminate and replace with four awkwardly named boutique schools. Small classes, new computers, Smart boards — students lucky enough to be attending the new schools are getting all these and more, while others under the same roof are getting the shaft.

No honors classes. No advanced placement classes. One guidance counselor for 600 students. Outdated computers always on the fritz.

That’s what the students who are stuck in Jamaica High School are coping with as the city phases it out over the next few years. The DOE claims they’re getting the resources they need to succeed, but to be blunt, that’s a lie. No more or less. A lie. Great lesson for the kids.

What do you think a college admissions officer will think when he reviews an application from a student who took two years of honors courses and then ... stopped. Drugs, maybe? Problems at home? Probably not that such classes simply disappeared overnight. But they did.

Imagine your kid trying to explain the situation to the powers that be at, say, Georgetown or Howard university. They’ll probably just say no and look to the next applicant whose record appears consistent.

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And all that talk about trying to get more girls interested in math and science? You know, the kind of road-to-gender-equality stuff you read about in The Times’ op-ed pages every other week? Not at JHS. “I feel like I should be given the opportunity to take classes in chemistry and physics; I love science,” female student Jahan Ferdous told Chronicle Senior Editor Anna Gustafson on Monday. We agree.

And we note that Jahan is an immigrant who said her family came to the United States largely so she could get a good education. How often do you hear Mayor Bloomberg touting New York as the city of opportunity for immigrants? All the time. Here’s another case of hypocrisy.

What’s going on at Jamaica High School is simply a travesty. These children are being denied the state constitution’s guarantee of a quality education. They’re being denied equal protection under the law.

Since the majority are minorities, the city’s neglect even carries the appearance of racial discrimination. That’s almost certainly not what’s driving its approach, but you know some people will think it is.

It’s been a year of debacles for the DOE, with the scheduling disasters at Long Island City and Metropolitan high schools, the insistence on replacing yellow buses with MetroCards for some kids as young as 10 and the revelation that the city that pushes healthy food to fight obesity is building elementary schools without gyms. All absurd, but none tops the reckless destruction of futures at Jamaica High School.

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No fracking way Dear Editor: (An open letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo) The sneaky ways the big oil companies are using to promote the drilling technique known as hydrofracturing is enough to arouse grave suspicions that the procedure is as dangerous as the environmental scientists say it is. Many questions arise. Why are there such large financial contributions by energy companies to certain congressional campaigns? Why is there such secrecy about the toxic chemical mix that is injected into the shale bedrock, and why is it further cloaked under a heading of “proprietary protection”? Why are there only four public hearings in all of New York, and only one hearing in all of New York City when this is such an important issue? Why are no emails or letters accepted as testimony? Why do interested parties have to sign up well in advance, and only then be allowed to testify in person at the public hearings? Why the unseemly rush to approve such a frightening and apparently irreversible action?

Many of us saw the 60 Minutes segment where tap water on a Pennsylvania farm burst into flames when a match was lit near it. The gas was methane, one of the strong pollutants involved in global warming. From what we know so far, the risks of hydrofracturing far outweigh the potential benefits of this potential environmental disaster.

Please put a total ban on hydrofracturing.

Save us from big oil.

Marjorie Ferrigno Flushing

John Liu is the best Dear Editor: What’s the matter with Liu? Not a thing! We have in city Comptroller John Liu an outstanding people’s representative who has not shied away from criticizing the Bloomberg administration when necessary. That’s what’s the matter with John Liu. I would challenge any auditor, or FBI informant for that matter, to delve into the financial backers of those running for office and find a clean “dot every i” financial report(s).

The wrongheaded decision by his fundraiser Mr. Pan has been denied by Liu. As he expressed earlier, “If it is true then the conduct

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was clearly wrong and my campaign was not told the truth.” And in The New York Times, Liu said, “We cannot accept these contributions, nor do we need them.”

What is uncommon is the razor point attack on Liu. The reason is obvious to me and should be to anyone else who has followed Liu’s exemplary career and work as a representative of ordinary working families, or his bold attempt to level the playing field for racial equality.

When Mayor Bloomberg made his deal with Speaker Christine Quinn and others on the City Council to overturn term limits so he could run for a third term, he then proceeded to spend $110 million of his own money on the campaign, defeating William Thompson Jr. 51 percent to 46 percent – a difference of less then 51,000 votes while outspending Thompson tenfold plus!

Perhaps we should be looking at the larger picture; election finance reform. Let the candidates rise or fall on the merits of their accomplishments serving the people, not on the depth of their pockets.

I appreciate the work John Liu has done on the City Council and now as comptroller; such as helping to expose outright extortion through city contracts this administration has given to private firms (the infamous City Time scandal). He saved and will continue to

Gun violence our people dead, two seriously wounded, cops fired upon, panic gripping a city bus full of passengers. That’s the collective result of four days of violence in Queens that began Friday, with gunfire taking lives in Jamaica, Howard Beach and Astoria.

It’s likely nothing could have prevented these incidents, except maybe for the reduced availability of guns on the street and increased visibility of cops on the beat.

Tell your federal lawmakers to support closing the gun show loopholes that allow so many illegal weapons to get here. And tell your City Council member to make sure the NYPD, which is down to about 34,000 officers from a peak of around 40,000, is cut no further.

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save millions of our tax dollars.

As a true progressive, Liu has the backing of many city unions and a cross section of this great city, and would make a superior mayor.

Maßy I suggest that this is the major reason for the attack on the people’s representative.

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Help us help them Dear Editor: The hardest thing to do is explain to a hungry family that Catholic Charities simply does not have enough food to give them during a crisis. That is what happened this Thanksgiving as hundreds of families lined up for emergency food baskets at our network of 21 pantries throughout Brooklyn and Queens.

Budget cuts have reduced our resources by more than 40 percent despite the fact that we have a 70 percent increase in need. This reality severely impacts our ability to feed the hungry.

I recently met a 48-year-old aspiring fashion designer who lost her job as an administrative assistant and came to Catholic Charities during her time of need. Trying to make ends meet as she searched for employment, Catholic Charities provided her with much-needed food from our pantry until she was able to find a new job.

We are helping more and more working fami-

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More cops, fewer scofflaws Dear Editor: I pass by 80th Street and Cooper Avenue several times a day, and each time, without fail, not one, but two or more cars run through the red lights in either direction. At 5 o’clock it’s a free for all. It’s literally an accident, or death(s) waiting to happen.

Perhaps the police could look into this issue before it’s too late. I find it difficult to believe that this hasn’t been addressed yet.

Some police presence would surely make drivers think twice.

Please help us, 104th Precinct.

Dan Giangiobbe Middle Village

McCain insults us all Dear Editor: Sen. John McCain recently dissed Long Island by saying, “Last I checked, Long Island was a part — albeit sometimes regrettably — part of the United States of America.” I guess the senator thought this was a joke. I believe not everyone thinks so. Those of us from Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk, which together comprise Long Island, don’t think this was funny but an insult.

There is a long list of accomplishments from Long Island, including our many veterans who fought for us from the world wars to our present conflicts and worked here and settled and built homes here. Let’s not forget that engineers here built the lunar module and that scientists in Cold Spring Harbor Lab deciphered the code for DNA. I would like to applaud our Sen. Charles Schumer, who came to our defense and said, “All America saw how heroic Long Islanders were on 9/11. Long Island deserves an apol-

NYC better than MTA? Dear Editor: The statements “Russianoff also said accepting automatic hikes does not encourage the MTA to become more efficient ‘because they are guaranteed to have a fare hike built in,’” along with “And the only ones who get to vote on it are the members of the MTA Board of Directors; not elected officials. Officials can rant and rave, but they can’t stop it,’”

by Gene Russianoff of the Straphangers Campaign, which appeared in “Lhota backs MTA fare hike schedule” (Nov. 24), missed other options.

Virtually everyone has forgotten that in 1953, the old New York City Board of Transportation passed on control of the municipal subway system, including all its assets, under a master lease and operating agreement to the newly created New York City Transit Authority. Under late Gov. Nelson Rockefeller in the ’60s, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority was created. The governor appointed four board members. So did the mayor, and the rest were named by suburban county executives.

No single elected official controlled a majority of the votes. As a result, elected officials have historically taken credit when the MTA or any operating subsidiary, such as NYC Transit, does a good job. When operational problems occurred or fare increases were needed, everyone could put up their hands and say “Don’t blame me, I’m only a minority within the board.”

Decade after decade, New York City mayors, comptrollers, public advocates, City Council presidents, borough presidents and City Council members would all play the same sad song — if only we had majority control of the board, things would be different. All have long forgotten that buried within the 1953 master agreement between the city and NYC Transit is an escape clause. The city has the legal right at any time to take back control of its assets, which include the subway and most of the bus system as well.

Actions speak louder than words. If municipal elected officials and others feel they could do a better job running the nation’s largest subway and bus system, including avoiding periodic fare hikes, why not step up to the plate now and regain control of your destiny?

Larry Penner Great Neck, LI

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Paying for the undercount Dear Editor: Do we need a better example of the longterm implications for failing to complete the U.S. Census of 2010 than today’s overcrowded schools in Corona?

The U.S. Constitution (Article I, Sec. 2) mandates a decennial Census that in turn has a direct connection to the distribution of government funding for public education. All parents who refused to complete the Census now have the painful pleasure of experiencing the outcome of their decision as it’ll play out in the coming decade in their children’s lives. Unfortunately those residents fulfilling the Constitutional requirement also have to suffer the consequences. Will this lesson be remembered for the 2020 Census?

Peter T. Johnson Long Island City

ogy.” Let me also mention all those who came to aid in the aftermath of Sept. 11 and are now sick and dying.

How dare Sen. McCain say that Long Island is regrettably part of the United States.

Well, being that he is a former member of the United States Navy, like myself, I’ll remind him of the slogan, “Loose lips sink ships.”

Shame, shame on you, McCain, for dissing those who gave life and limb for God and country.

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lies with food so that they can stretch their limited budgets. This year, Catholic Charities has already provided over four million meals to our hungry neighbors. It is not enough.

I am asking you to join Catholic Charities in helping our neighbors this holiday season by dropping off nonperishable food items to a local food pantry, volunteering at one of our food pantries or simply making a donation through our website: ccbq.org. Together, we can preserve the dignity of our neighbors.

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At final hearing, pols urge state not to drill Queens reps worry about impact it would have on environment, health

by Anna Gustafson Senior Editor

Queens legislators are sounding the alarm over the state’s proposal to allow companies to use a controversial method of drilling for natural gas known as high-volume hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, citing environmental and health concerns.

The state Department of Environmental Conservation held its final public hearing last week in Manhattan on its proposal to lift a three-year temporary ban on hydrofracking, a process that entails injecting water laced with chemicals into the ground at high pressure to break rock and extract natural gas. About 1,900 people attended the hearing, most of whom spoke out against the technology.

The state is looking to lift the ban, which it had implemented while the DEC studied the impact of the technology. Officials said, however, that it would not allow the drilling to happen within 4,000 feet of the watershed that provides drinking water for millions of city residents, as well as individuals in Westchester and Syracuse.

“Unless the process is addressed in a way where our water supply is, with absolute certainty, not susceptible to contamination, that our land is free from toxic chemicals, and our quality of life is not disrupted from frivolous neglectful actions, I then wholeheartedly urge the state to proceed with caution,” state

Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) said.

“I believe that if any doubt as to the safety of the hydrofracking process exists, we should not proceed to issue any permits.”

While many legislators have come out against hydrofracking, including Councilman Jim Gennaro (D-Fresh Meadows), state Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) and Mayor Bloomberg, the opposition is not unanimous among the downstate politicians. U.S. Rep. Bob Turner (R-Queens, Brooklyn), for example, has said that he believes hydrofracking would bring needed jobs to the state, especially in the upstate areas that have been hard hit by the economic downturn.

According to a recently released report, producing natural gas from shale — in other words, hydrofracking — will support 870,000 jobs across the country and contribute $57 billion in federal, state and local taxes by 2035. The report was issued by IHS Global Insight, an organization commissioned by the Washington-based industry group America’s Natural Gas Alliance.

A report prepared by Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer last year stated that seven states in the country have reported “serious incidents” of water contamination and explosions near sites where companies have used hydraulic fracturing A 2008 report from the U.S. Land Management Bureau said groundwater in Sublette County, Wyo., which has one of the

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“We’re facing a budget deficit of three and a half billion dollars, and there’s no question that there has to be cuts,” Goldfeder said. “But we have to keep in mind that the cuts have to be responsible and appropriate, and we shouldn’t be balancing the budget on the backs of seniors.”

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“We have been truly humbled by the World Casino New York City’s opening, the company that runs the site in South response of New Yorkers and tourists Ozone Park announced it will unveil its alike, and we thank them for their ongoing support and patronage,” Resorts World full facility on Dec. 16.

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sent a letter to Cuomo this week, asking that he not cut the Title XX discretionary funding that goes to many centers across the city. Cuomo had proposed to completely eliminate discretionary funding for the centers, which senior advocates said would have had a devastating impact on older residents, many of whom rely on the institutions for food and social interaction.

The Council of Senior Centers and Services recently launched a letter writing campaign in support of funding for the centers, and more than 15,000 letters were sent to Cuomo in support of the institutions. Jellinek said this “sends a strong message about how important senior centers are in the lives of older New Yorkers.”

“Cutting these funds would devastate the senior center network assisting older New Yorkers for 40 years,” Jellinek said of the elimination of Title XX money. “There would be 2.5 million less meals provided annually. This would also leave thousands of older new Yorkers socially isolated, which could accelerate physical and mental deterioration.”

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Spreading holiday cheer in Woodhaven

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undreds of people, from Santa to a sea of children donning red and white fuzzy hats, cheered the unofficial arrival of the holiday season at the lightings of the menorah and Christmas tree in Woodhaven last week.

During Friday’s hour-long lighting ceremony near the intersection of Jamaica Avenue and Forest Parkway, residents, civic leaders, police and legislators sang holiday carols and listened to a version of “The Night Before Christmas.” Residents cheered as the menorah and 75-foot tree were lit, and the Christmas mouse, Shrek, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman all made an appearance and mingled with delighted children.

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The Christmas mouse waves to everyone in attendance.

The 75-foot tree is lit up nightly at the intersection of Jamaica Avenue and Forest Parkway in Woodhaven.

Students made many of the ornaments that dangle from Jonathan Cervantes, 4, front left, Qhanna Gooden, 9, and Brianna this year’s tree.

Glasgow, 7, were excited to see Santa.

Children cheer as Santa Claus makes his initial appearance.

Assemblyman Mike Miller, center back, joins members of the Franklin K. Lane High School ROTC for the national anthem.

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Q58 is slowest bus in Queens Ridgewood-Flushing route ‘wins’ another Pokey Award

by Kasey Schefflin-Emrich Chronicle Contributor

Buses roll down Archer Avenue in Jamaica.

PHOTO BY THEODORE PARISIENNE

The Q58 may have been ranked the slowest bus route in Queens for the second year in the row, but it’s a relative Ferrarri compared to the 2011 winner of the Straphangers Campaign’s annual Pokey Award.

The public transport advocacy group named Manhattan’s M50 the slowest local bus route in New York City, as it runs crosstown on 49th and 50th Streets between First and 12th avenues at 3.5 mph, just under the average human walking speed of 3.6 mph. Comparatively, the Q58 averages 7.2

mph between Ridgewood and Flushing’s Main Street.

“You can push a lawnmower faster crosstown than it takes the M50 to go from First to 12th Avenue,” said Gene Russianoff, attorney for the New York Public Interest Research Group’s Straphangers Campaign, noting that a human-powered mower can go 4 mph.

Other buses in Queens among the 35 routes across the city that the campaign included, based on ridership and past performance, are the Q44 limited, which travels from Jamaica to the Bronx, and the Q27,

which travels from Flushing and Cambria Heights. The Q44 limited service bus had an average speed of 9.1 mph, while the Q27 outpaced it at 9.7 mph.

The Straphangers Campaign also awarded its sixth-annual Schleppie to the city’s least reliable bus. That title went to the M101/M102/M103, which runs on Third and Lexington Avenues between upper and lower Manhattan. More than one in four buses arrived with big gaps in service or bunched together in the first half of 2011, the advocates found, determining the route to be 27.3 percent unreliable. And the M101/M102/103 is no stranger to the Schleppie, also receiving one in 2008.

No route in Queens qualified for a Schleppie award because none was reported to have at least 20 percent of its buses bunched together or have big enough gaps between planned arrival times and and actual times.

“No Queens bus was irregular enough to win a Schleppie,” Russianoff said.

The city and the MTA have implemented two Select Bus Service routes in an attempt to provide faster service by collecting fares before boarding and providing buses with three doors and lower floors to speed up the process. But neither is in Queens.

The two routes, the M15, which runs on First and Second Avenues between lower Manhattan and Harlem, and the Bx12, which runs on Pelham Parkway and Fordham Road between Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx and upper Manhattan, have shown great potential, the agency says. The SBS on the M15 increased bus speeds by nearly 43 percent, while the SBS on the Bx12 raised them by more than 51 percent over the Bx12 local. Q

Sons of Italy seeking new members The Order Sons of Italy in America, Fiorello LaGuardia Lodge, is looking to expand its members in the Howard Beach, Ozone Park, Richmond Hill and Woodhaven areas, though residents from any neighborhood are welcome to attend.

The Sons of Italy is the largest organization for men and women of Italian heritage in the country. Its mission includes the encouragement and study of Italian language and culture in schools and universities, preserving Italian American traditions and culture, and promoting closer cultural relations between the United States and Italy.

The Fiorello LaGuardia Lodge meets on the third Thursday of each month at Our Lady of Grace Convent in Howard Beach.

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The unemployment rate in Queens rose from 7.6 percent in September to 8.0 percent in October, according to the latest figures from the state Department of Labor, released late last month.

But that rate was the same as it was a year before, and year-to-year comparisons are the most important because of seasonal factors, department analysts say.

Citywide, the picture was similar. The rate across all five boroughs was 9 percent in October, the same as it was a year before,

but three percentage points higher than it was in September.

The state and nation as a whole saw some improvement, however.

Across the Empire State, the jobless rate fell from 8 percent in October 2010 to 7.7 percent this October. That also marked an improvement of one-tenth of a point over September.

The biggest improvement came nationally, where the rate fell to 8.5 percent in October, half a point better than the year before and threetenths of a point better than it was in September.

One good sign for the jobless rate in Queens was that more people are working.

Often the statistics can be misleading because they simply don’t count unemployed people who have given up and dropped out of the workforce. But that was not the case this fall, according to the state figures.

They show that 1,049,300 people in Queens were working in October, compared to 1,047,900 in September and 1,043,600 in October 2010. Improvements of similar proportion were reported in all five boroughs.

Citywide, 3,643,200 people had jobs in October, compared to 3,623,300 in October 2010.

The monthly state jobs report and other Q data are available at labor.ny.gov.

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Christopher Beaubrun, 4, of Rosedale goes for a ride on a merry-go-round.

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Letters for Santa from needy kids Homeless shelter youngsters in Queens ask for toys for Christmas

by Liz Rhoades Managing Editor

Letters. We get letters. We get stacks and stacks of letters from youngsters living in Queens family homeless shelters hoping to get a toy or two from Santa Claus.

This year, for the Queens Chronicle’s 17th annual toy drive, three institutions will benefit from your generous contributions. They are two city homeless shelters, the Metro in Elmhurst and the Briarwood, and the River Fund New York, an organization that assists 800 children in the borough.

Octavia, 7, says in her letter that she’s been very good this year and would like Legos, science books for children and a paint set. “I love painting and started an art class in school,” Octavia said. “All my toys are in storage and I can’t get them for awhile.”

She also wrote for her 2-year-old sister, who wants a big doll, a toy phone and a tea set.

Amelia, the mother of three young children, said her son, who is 2 1/2, loves cars, while her 5-year-old daughter would like a new doll Katie Byrnes, 9, of Floral Park and a kitchen set, and brought in toys because she wants the youngest loves other children to enjoy the holiday books and toys with PHOTO BY PAULA NEUDORF lights. .

Kyle, 5, asks for a racing car and a truck, while his sister, Melanie, 3, wants a Dora the Explorer doll and a Baby Alive doll.

Kathy says she is a well-mannered child and does well in school. She asks for a Monopoly game and a Barbie doll. Another girl, Kelly, would like a Little Mommy Shopping Cart.

The mother of Peter, 19 months, requests an Elmo doll, a Fisher-Price toy and a learning toy, while Jaden, 5, wants some dolls, a doll stroller, a play medical kit and fashion accessories.

Speaking of accessories, don’t forget the teenagers, who tend to like jewelry, makeup, scarves, cologne and music. Edna writes that she’d like a set of Japanese cherry blossom body wash and lotion, while Sharon wants some body spray in a watermelon or body musk scent.

Another mother writes for her infant son, Jason, asking for baby blocks and a toy phone.

It’s hard not to be moved by these letters from people who have so little and are not asking for much.

We also want to thank those who have already brought in gifts, including Gayle Schwartz of Maspeth, Linda and James Dobson of Middle Village, Brian Kacher of Maspeth, Mr. and Mrs. Sal Lumia of Middle Village, Joseph and Patricia Paton of Holbrook, LI and the members of the Richmond Hill South Civic Association, who brought 13 bags of toys to Councilman Eric Ulrich’s Ozone Park office, one of our satellite dropoff locations. It’s the 14th year the civic has participated.

A special thanks also goes to Katie Byrnes, 9, of Floral Park, who brought in toys with her grandmother. Katie said she always has a wonderful Christmas and wanted other less

Councilman Eric Ulrich with members of the Richmond Hill South Civic Association, who donated 13 bags of gifts to the Queens Chronicle toy drive. They are Terri Saporita, left, Margaret Finnerty PHOTO COURTESY NYC COUNCIL and Terry Haflich. fortunate youngsters to have the same experience.

Please don’t wait to deliver your new, unwrapped toys to the Chronicle office, 62-33 Woodhaven Blvd., Rego Park, Monday through Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. until Dec. 20.

Please leave your name, organization if that applies, and address with the front desk so we can thank you in upcoming editions.

Ulrich’s office is located at 93-06 101 Ave. Toys can also be left after-hours and on weekends next door to the Chronicle office at Barosa’s restaurant, 62-29 Woodhaven Blvd. or Q Barosa To Go at 62-37 Woodhaven Blvd.

No holiday street decor due to city light repairs Jamaica BID nixes outdoor adornment

by AnnMarie Costella Assistant Editor

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The Queens Chronicle’s fourth annual Holiday Photo Contest is under way! We want your best pictures of lights, miniature villages, menorahs, joyous children and families, snowy landscapes if snow comes — anything that reflects the season.

Take them in Queens, tell us the location and any further details you can, and be creative. The winner will get free passes to a family-friendly performance in or near the city, and

a one-year subscription to the Chronicle’s Queenswide edition. You’ll also see your photo in all nine of our editions and on qchron.com.

We’ll announce the winner in early January.

E-mail your high-resolution digital photos to peterm@qchron.com. Or snail-mail prints to Queens Chronicle Photo Contest, 62-33 Woodhaven Blvd., Rego Park NY 11374.

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The Jamaica Avenue Business Improvement District, which typically decorates the bustling business corridor for the holiday season, has been forced to skip the outdoor service this year due to a city construction project.

“Due to the ongoing streetlight improvement project along Jamaica Avenue, we were reluctantly forced to suspend our holiday lights program for this holiday season,” Laurel Brown, executive director of the BID, said in an email.

The city Department of Transportation will be replacing lights along Jamaica Avenue from Sutphin Boulevard to 169th Street and also on Union Hall Street between Jamaica and Archer avenues, according to Scott Gastel, a spokesman for the agency.

The previous modular pole streetlights, which are over 20 years old, are being replaced with decorative fixtures.

The $1.8 million project began in March and is expected to take 18 months, Gastel said. It was paid for through funds allocated by the administration and

elected officials.

Jamaica Avenue will not be without decorative holiday cheer, however. The BID has hired an experienced visual merchandiser to create festive window displays along the corridor, according to Brown, who added that the group is already getting positive feedback regarding the seasonal designs from shoppers and merchants alike. Asked if the BID members are upset over the lack of street decorations this year, Brown did not Q respond.

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Mets fans to ex-SS Reyes: Go’way, Jose!

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Brancazio said. “And it’s why free agency is ruining baseball.”

As for the team’s future, Jack Soulier of Flushing pointed out that the Mets’ ownership has money problems and the team already has trouble filling Citi Field.

“And it’s going to get worse,” he said.

In the food court at Queens Center mall, a Mets fan named Pat from Middle Village said he was upset that Reyes left, particularly for another team within the National League East.

Pat said he would not have given six years to a player of Reyes’ age (29 in June), whose game is so dependent on his speed and legs.

“I hear he’s hurt already,” chimed in Pat’s friend, Tom McGrath of Middle Village, a Yankees fan, giving a Bronx cheer to Reyes and taking a dig at his history of injuries.

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After more than a year of speculation, the four-time AllStar signed a sixyear, $106 million contract with the division rival Marlins.

“It’s a great loss, but the team has a lot of spirit and will pull together,” said Connie DeMartino Jose Reyes of Flushing. “I hope FILE PHOTO he is happy wherever he goes.” Her husband, Lou DeMartino, said he was disappointed. “I know money talks, but he has plenty of dough now,” he said. “It’s like leaving your wife after 40 years.”

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Students donate ornaments The ornaments are now hung on the community Christmas tree at the intersection of Jamaica Avenue and Forest Parkway in Woodhaven.

Forest Park School students also marched in the annual Woodhaven holiday parade along Jamaica Avenue on Saturday.

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Avella, a state senator, said during last week’s public hearing that the state should not allow the technology.

“We simply cannot create a situation where we put our citizens at great risk from an environmental disaster by rushing to find an expedient solution to the high cost of oil and the economic hardships f aced by our state,” said Avella, who is sponsoring a bill that would prohibit hydrofracking in the state. “The risk of catastrophic danger to the environment, the health of New York state residents and adverse economic impacts that result from hydraulic fracturing far outweigh the potential for job creation and promotion of a natural gas Q alternative to oil.”

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Mark Ruffalo, an actor who starred in “The Kids Are All Right” and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” also slammed hydrofracking, and specifically Pennsylvania for allowing it.

“Water is a universal necessity and a right,” said Ruffalo, who has founded a group called WaterDefense.org. “It’s downright shameful that the state agency that is supposed to protect the health and well-being of citizens would instead protect the corporation that caused this devastation.”

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Forest Park School students Erica Ponce, left, and Tiffany Dayaram donate studentmade ornaments to Woodhaven Business Improvement Executive Director Maria Thomson, center, last week.

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Ragusa meets with Gingrich Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich met with Queens Republican Chairman Phil Ragusa on Saturday in Manhattan to discuss Gingrich’s campaign plans.

Recent polls have catapulted Gingrich to the top of the Republican pack. Pundits credit this to Gingrich’s consistently strong performance in debates.

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What Washington must do to solve our economic crisis

by Bob Turner We all know As I have made clear from day one, the that small busimain reason I got into politics is out of nesses are concern for the future of our great nation. unquestionably As a grandfather of 13 grandchildren, my the economic priority is to improve our economy by engine of the helping foster an environment where busi- U.S. economy. nesses can create lasting jobs and to The startup or address our national debt crisis so that all small business of of our children and grandchildren can today is the prosper in this country. These are the two Apple or Facefundamental issues that are keeping our book of tomorrow. The best thing the goveconomy from getting back on track. No ernment can do to grow the economy is to other option will work until these two create an environment that allows Ameriimportant factors are addressed. There can businesses and entrepreneurs to create have been a couple of opportunities real, lasting jobs for Americans. The House missed, but there are still options available of Representatives has already passed more to us if we get serious about our situation than 25 bipartisan bills that focus on cutand commit to taking action. ting regulations and increasing capital for One critical component to getting our businesses to get started and grow. One spending under control is requiring the fed- such bill was the 3 percent Withholding eral government to do what many of you Repeal and Job Creation Act, which do every month, balance the checkbook. waived the 3 percent withholding imposed Unfortunately, we missed an opportunity to on government contractors. This bill keeps put that requirement in place when the money in the pockets of business owners House was unable to pass the balanced so they can take on more opportunities and budget amendment, which fell short of the create jobs. It is a step in the right direction two thirds vote needed to pass. Our nation- but there is still much to do. al debt crisis is bringing our country to the We must also create an environment that brink of catastrophe. We now have a feder- allows startup businesses to acquire capital al debt that has surpassed $15 trillion and by more creative means. One bill I voted rising. We have another potential credit for that addresses this is HR 2930, the downgrade on the horizon and a growing Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act. This deficit of consumer confidence. bill will help startup businesses raise capiThe resolution of a balanced budget to tal by eliminating constraints and provide a address our government crowd funding exempspending problem is tion that will enable paramount. I believe a them to collect up to e cannot continue balanced budget $5 million in donations amendment is an borrowing 40 cents from an unlimited important first step to amount of investors. on every dollar. getting our economy This strategy will allow back on track and will businesses to acquire keep it strong for the long haul. Though we capital from other recourses during this were unable to make the balanced budget time when lending restrictions prevent amendment a reality during this session of entrepreneurs from taking out traditional Congress, I plan to continue pushing for it loans. This sort of out-of-the-box approach as long as I am in Washington. can be found in other bills still stalled in Another unfortunate opportunity was the Senate. lost when the Super Committee was unable It is time we acknowledge that quick-fix to agree on how to cut $1.2 trillion in stimulus spending at taxpayer expense only spending over 10 years in order to cut the digs America deeper in the hole and kicks federal deficit. Our government is current- the can forward for the next generation. ly borrowing 40 cents for every dollar we Raising taxes on Americans without spend and there is no end in sight. Some addressing our out-of-control spending or believe that the best way to fix this issue is current business environment is not a susto increase taxes and ignore the out-of-con- tainable plan for growth. Every elected trol spending that our country is accus- representative who has the pleasure to tomed to. However, this strategy has taken serve his or her constituents must start our deficit to $15 trillion and has kept our making the tough decisions necessary to unemployment rate above 8 percent for the better our economy. last 34 months. It is a short term band-aid A $15 billion dollar def icit and 34 for very deep wound in our economy. We straight months of high unemployment are must find common sense solutions that unacceptable. Unless significant reductions increase tax revenue in our country by to our federal spending are made and our increasing productivity and creating jobs. businesses have the best opportunity to We are kidding ourselves by believing rais- compete and grow, we risk every safety net ing taxes before cutting our spending or and will leave future generations with a getting Americans back to work will get tremendous burden. We must stop worryour country out of the hole. We will be ing about what is politically advantageous revisiting this issue in Congress over the at the moment and start focusing on what next several months, and I can assure you I is right for our children and our children’s Q will do all that I can to ensure that our gov- children. We must take action now. ernment focuses on scaling back its frivoBob Turner is congressman for the 9th lous spending.

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American Eagle Republican Club draws interest from residents, party

by Michael Gannon Associate Editor

Glance at a political map and Forest Hills is traditionally one of the bluest blue areas in Queens.

But Republican leaders in the borough are pointing to a bright red spot that appeared on that map a few weeks ago, and are confident that it will spread.

The American Eagle Republican Club met for the first time on Nov. 15 at the Forest Hills Jewish Center. And Juan Reyes, the founder, was excited to talk about the new group last week.

“We had about 45 or 50 people,” Reyes said. “I’m originally from Forest Hills and came back here four or five years ago. A

lot of my old friends knew people who wanted to get involved. I’m really excited at what this looks like it’s going to be.”

Robert Hornak, executive director of the Queens County Republicans, said there are about 15 active GOP clubs in the borough.

Hornak said party leaders were delighted when Reyes approached them.

“We’ve been looking to make inroads several places, and Forest Hills was one of them,” Hornak said. “Then Bob Turner won in September and we decided to push ahead.”

Now-Rep. Turner won a special election

to take the 9th District seat that had been Democratic since Calvin Coolidge was in the White House and Yankee Stadium was brand new.

Hornak said Reyes was an ideal fit to start a club, with a long and distinguished list of credentials, whether it be working for the party in general or on specific campaigns.

“He was on a short list of people looking to get an endorsement from the committee,” Hornak said.

Now a real estate attorney, Reyes also has worked in the public sector for some

national Republican heavyweights, including former Senate Majority Leader and GOP Presidential nominee Bob Dole (RKansas) in Washington, DC; and as general counsel for a few city agencies under former Mayor Rudy Giuliani here.

“I just like working with people who are doing positive things,” Reyes said. He also eschewed the idea that he is trying to succeed in enemy territory.

“Who is the enemy?” he asked. “I’ve been hearing from Democrats. One is a friend of mine who told me he’s switching Q party affiliation.”

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Ramsaran heads Indian group

MTA seeks Fresh Meadows man selected by global organization ‘app’roval

by Jason Pafundi Chronicle Contributor

Fresh Meadows resident Ashook Ramsaran was unanimously elected president of the Global Organization of People of Indian Origin in a vote held at the group’s convention in New Jersey on Nov. 19.

Ramsaran, who was born in Guyana and moved to the United States in 1968, succeeds Lord Diljit Rana of the United Kingdom. He will serve a two-year term.

“I look forward to working closely and collaboratively with everyone to expand GOPIO’s outreach and address more critical issues of interest and concern to the global Indian community,” Ramsaran said.

He spent the first 20 years of his life in Guyana, and though he has an accent, he said he only speaks English. Guyana is in South

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America, bordered by Venezuela to the west and Suriname to the east, and English is its official language.

“I don’t speak any of the Indian languages at all,” Ramsaran said. “In school, it was all English, and at work and at home.” GOPIO, which was formed in 1989, works extensively on issues affecting persons of Indian origin globally. There are chapters in 26 countries where Indians live, and Ramsaran said the organization “represents the interests and concerns of these people — approximately 25 million — without any religious or political affiliation.

“My vision is to look at the whole Indian diaspora and see if we can connect more of those people together under a single platform with shared aspirations, benefits, mutual concerns and interests,” he said.

In Queens, Ramsaran said one of the biggest issues facing people of Indian origin is health and well-being. He said that Indians have a high rate of diabetes and high blood pressure, so education is important.

“We have a GOPIO health council that holds seminars, symposiums and educational conferences that filter down to the local level where chapters can hold meetings and educate their members on wellness, nutrition and living a healthy life,” he said.

Locally, GOPIO also networks with young people to discuss issues facing them. The group also helps seniors.

“How do we give seniors some form of connectivity with their peers?” Ramsaran asked. “At any age, when you come into a

new country or place, it is very traumatic.

“The kids cope better than the parents,” he continued. “Coping in many aspects like social, cultural and economical takes its toll for the first 10, 12 years.”

Ramsaran said the growing Indian population in Queens, most of which comes from Guyana, is spread throughout the borough, from Richmond Hill, Ozone Park, Rosedale and Woodhaven to Queens Village, Bayside, Jamaica and Jackson Heights.

He said the majority are well-educated and are working as teachers, engineers, administrators and in civil service. But regardless of their success, Ramsaran said, there are still stereotypes his community has to deal with.

“When you see an Indian guy with a little shop on the street corner or in the subway, you say ‘This is a low-level job,’ but actually he may be a college graduate who decided to do that because of the economic benefit,” he said. “They make a lot of money or else these guys wouldn’t do it.”

After moving to Flushing in 1968, Ramsaran attended Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, where he earned degrees in electrical engineering. He worked for an international communications company before starting his own electronics firm.

Ramsaran is married with two sons and is on the advisory board of St. John’s University’s Center on Caribbean and Latin American Studies. He is also on the board of the Fresh Meadows Homeowners Civic Q Association.

The MTA is looking for the most popular transit app around, and is seeking the public’s assistance and opinions.

Through Jan. 11, the public is invited to comment and vote on 42 phone and computer programs that were submitted to MTA App Quest, a competition in which app developers are vying for cash prizes.

The MTA will regularly feature the submitted apps on its homepage. Each day the agency’s Twitter feed, @MTAInsider, and its Facebook page, will link to one of the apps entered in the contest.

The votes from the transit-riding public will dictate the outcome of the competition’s two Popular Choice awards. The winner of the Popular Choice Award Grand Prize will receive $2,000 and a package of MTA-licensed products valued at $170. The winner of the Popular Choice Award Second Prize will receive $1,000 and a package of MTA-licensed products valued at $84.

Overall winners will be selected by a panel of nine official judges.

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Says DOE has left school with lack of needed classes, including honors

by Anna Gustafson

teachers and students — who rallied outside the school on Monday — said the city has Under the shadow of the imposing instead slashed the number of teachers by Jamaica High School building, the afternoon about half this year, completely eliminated sunlight bouncing off massive arched doors all honors and advanced placement courses, that once welcomed students to one of the and left the entire school with one guidance city’s most highly reputable educational insti- counselor. Teachers have to buy basic suptutions, pupils, teachers and legislators this plies like chalk and paper with their own week slammed the mayor and chancellor for money, many of the computers are out of brushing them what they said amounted to date — some don’t turn on or connect to the educational “crumbs” while giving others Internet — and the library is “basically empty,” according to social studies teacher fine dining.

While city officials promised resources James Eterno.

“This is a disgrace by the mayor and chanand support for Jamaica High School as it phases out the institution over the next sever- cellor,” Avella, who organized the rally, said al years, state Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside), of Bloomberg and schools chief Dennis Walcott. “It’s like these students are a lost generation the city doesn’t care about.”

A spokesman for the city Department of Education said students will be able to take classes required for graduation. Officials conceded that schools declining in enrollment receive less funding per pupil, but noted that Jamaica was also given grant money for technology.

“Every student at Jamaica High School will have the courses needed for graduation,” said Thomas Francis, a DOE spokesman. “In addition, we work to support all of our schools, including Social Studies teacher James Eterno, left, student those in phaseout, and Jamaica received Kymberley Walcott and Avella denounce the city for $50,000 in additional grant money to slashing courses at Jamaica High School. help fund their technology needs.”

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State Sen. Tony Avella, at the podium, joined students and teachers at a rally on Monday, when he PHOTOS BY ANNA GUSTAFSON said the city has turned its back on Jamaica High School.

The city Panel for Educational Policy Jamaica Gateway to the Sciences, all of voted to phase out 119-year-old Jamaica which students and teachers said receive far High School last February, and the school more resources than Jamaica High. is expected to be completely closed by “I go to Gateway, but I think what they’re 2014. The city Department of Education doing to Jamaica is really wrong,” said Galen has said it is closing Williams, a senior Jamaica because of Check out more SEE who attended JHS the school’s low pictures of the through his junior graduation rates and rally at Jamaica MORE year. “At Gateway, test scores — data High School at PHOTOS we have so much which has been paper to waste, and qchron.com.

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Homeless? Prove it, says city, or no shelter City Council and CFH sue to prevent new policy from being implemented

by AnnMarie Costella Assistant Editor

The City Council is hopping mad over a proposed city policy that would require single adults seeking to enter a homeless shelter to prove that they have nowhere else to go.

And now it’s suing to prevent it from being implemented. “The recession has had a real effect on unemployment and on people’s ability to stay in their homes — our charge is to find ways to help these people — not to send them into the streets with nowhere to turn to for help,�

Speaker Christine Quinn said in a prepared statement.

The proposal was put forward by the Department of Homeless Services in order to preserve resources for the truly needy and those already occupying city shelters, according to Heather Janik, a spokeswoman for the agency. DHS believes that those who have an alternative housing option, perhaps staying with friends, should do that rather than enter a shelter.

The agency will request some basic information and a housing history from prospective clients to determine if they have any alternatives available to them in the community. But safeguards will remain in place for those with mental illness, Janik said.

Quinn, however, said the entire plan has to go. “This policy is cruel, risky, unacceptable, and will not reduce homelessness in the city of New York,� Quinn said. “Denying people

shelter because they have found another option for some period of time is punishing people for trying to do the right thing.�

The City Council voted on Nov. 29 to sue the city and is being represented by the Legal Aid Society. The administration will reportedly hold off on enacting the new rule pending the outcome of the litigation.

The Coalition for the Homeless has also filed an injunction to block the policy, which Patrick Markee, a spokesman for the group, called “incredibly dangerous and misguided.�

Markee said that at a recent City Council

hearing, DHS Commissioner Seth Diamond testified that the agency could deny people shelter if they have a relative they could stay with, even if that person refuses to house them, or if they cannot document everywhere they’ve lived for the past year. “Nobody is going to choose to stay at a homeless shelter if they have somewhere else to go,� Markee said. “It’s absurd.�

Janik said the idea was prompted after the agency noticed that the shelter population had shifted significantly over the past five years. Presently, over 60 percent of single

A homeless man sleeps on a dirty mattress in a vacant lot in Jamaica.

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adults entering shelters come from community living centers, such as those that house the disabled, while less than 15 percent were living on the street, according to Janik. Five years ago, nearly one-third came from the streets and only 39 percent were former residents of community living facilities. “We believe it is unfortunate that the City Council is criticizing Homeless Services for asking people about their housing history as they come to the door of our system,� Janik said in an email. “Our proposed policy, which is lawful, would require those with options in the community to use them and allow us to invest in better services for those in the system.�

Adjoa Gzifa, the three-term immediate former chairwoman of Community Board 12 in Jamaica, known for opposing additional homeless shelters in the district, which has more than any other in the borough, called DHS’s proposal a “terrible policy.� “They would be forcing family members to house people, and that’s not right,� Gzifa said. “What if you don’t get along, or what if you can’t afford to support them? It creates a sticky situation in which a family member becomes responsible for another family member, who they should not be responsible for taking care of.�

Gzifa also noted that some homeless people are without a permanent residence because they have substance abuse or mental problems, potentially making co-habitation with a family member or friend dangerous. Q

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Gunfire in the middle of the afternoon on The 9-mm pistol was loaded with one Friday left two people dead and one wound- round of ammunition in the chamber and ed in a spree that started in an apartment and three rounds in the magazine. Another magaended on a Jamaica bus, sending frightened zine containing nine rounds was also found commuters fleeing into the streets. on Burton, the complaint said.

Damel Burton, recently released from Burton allegedly said he shot Gilkes and prison after serving seven years for armed Lipsey because they were staring at him, robbery, reportedly told cops he had “to set- according to published reports. Anthony Rattle a beef,” when toballi, Burton’s he allegedly shot court-appointed his girlfriend’s 18attorney, plans year-old son, to ask that his iolence such as this will not Keith Murrell, in client undergo the apartment on be tolerated, especially aboard psychological Foch Boulevard and psychiatric public transportation.” where they lived exams to deter— Queens DA Richard Brown together. mine whether he Sometime is f it to stand between 3:40 and trial.

4:10 p.m. Burton, 34, opened fire on MurThe tests would determine whether Burrell, striking him once in the chest, according ton understands the charges against him and to the complaint filed with the Queens Dis- is able to assist in his own defense — not trict Attorney’s Office by Det. Isaac Wright whether he might plead guilty by reason of of the 103rd Precinct. insanity, which requires a different test, RatMurrel ran to his room, closed the door, toballi said. and jumped out of his window, landing in the The attorney added that in Burton’s stategrass below. A nearby witness heard a gun ment to the police, he said he thought the shot and then a loud thump. victims of the robbery for which he had That person helped Murrell cross the served prison time had been following him street, where he collapsed and lost con- for quite a while. He also told cops that Mursciousness, the complaint said. He was taken rell had stabbed him in January. to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where “I don’t believe people were following he was pronounced dead at 5 p.m. him and neither does his family,” Rattoballi After Burton left the apartment, he said, adding, “The family is very distraught boarded a Q111 bus, and while on it, and remorseful about what happened to his allegedly shot another man, Marvin Gilkes, stepson and the people on the bus.”

36, in the back of the head, according to the Burton is charged with two counts of Queens DA. Gilkes was pronounced dead second-degree murder, one count of secat the scene by emergency medical service ond-degree attempted murder, one count of personnel. first-degree assault and two counts of secBurton then allegedly shot a third victim, ond-degree criminal possession of a Jojuan Lipsey, 29. He was taken to Jamaica weapon. He faces up to 25 years to life in Hospital, where he underwent surgery for a prison if convicted. bullet wound to his mouth and face.

“These shootings are particularly disturbAfter the shootings, Burton told the bus ing for having exploded during an otherwise driver to stop the bus and let him out, accord- routine afternoon bus ride filled with shoping to Wright. The ride ended near the inter- pers, students and ordinary people returning section of Parsons Boulevard and Archer from work,” District Attorney Richard Avenue in Jamaica.

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Detention facility questioned New York lawmakers are calling on the Department of Justice to investigate immigration detention centers run by GEO Group, Inc., a private company.

GEO runs several facilities in New York, one of them in Jamaica at 182-22 150 Ave. Since as early as 2006, officials have decried alleged abuses at the center.

Private companies control nearly half of all immigration detention beds in the country, according to a recent report in the New York Times.

Councilman Danny Dromm (D-Jackson Heights), one of the officials who signed a letter to the Department of Justice, said that “denial of access to attorneys” and

“charges of physical abuse” were among the allegations against the facility.

Dromm will be holding a hearing on Dec. 13 to probe the issue. He said the problem with a privately run facility is that it lacks accountability.

“We don’t really know what’s going on [inside],” Dromm said, noting that immigrants being deported are usually civil, not criminal, offenders.

A spokesman for GEO Group declined to comment on the issue, and added that the facility does not hold immigrants, but federal offenders who are in the custody of Q the U.S. Marshals Service.

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Landscape designer creates St. Mel’s wonderland to benefit Make-A-Wish

by Liz Rhoades

The village will be open to the public this Saturday and Sunday and next weekend, Dec. Small evergreen bushes twinkle with 17 and 18 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. The cost for holiday lights as miniature trains traverse a adults is $10 and for children 2 to 12 it’s $5.

All donations will go to the Make-Amagical village created entirely of natural products in Flushing. It is something out of Wish Foundation, which grants wishes to a dream that will help ill youngsters see ill children such as giving them trips to Disney World, meeting a special celebrity their wishes come true.

The wonderland is the gift of Flushing or fulfilling a dream such as helping to fly landscape designer Danny Naimoli, who a plane.

From Monday, Dec. 12 to Friday, Dec. 16 created the holiday scene at St. Mel’s special tours for private groups and schools Church at 154-24 26 Ave. will be held. To reserve, call (646) 515-2015.

Naimoli, 46, who has no children, said the undertaking is his way to give back to the community and help sick children. He raised more than $5,000 last year.

The buildings are designed and built by him and he has been assisted in setting up the display by Juan Puli and Tony Cacciatore, who volunteer their time.

Many of the structures were made for last year’s show at the Queens Garden Nursery, but there are plenty of new additions includVolunteers Tony Cacciatore, left, and Juan Puli helped put togeth- ing a replica of the “green” er the miniature village and train show for the holidays.

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Danny Naimoli, who created the winter wonderland in St. Mel’s Church, at his replica of the PHOTOS BY LIZ RHOADES Queens Botanical Garden.

St. Mel’s Church, the Brooklyn Bridge, Nonni’s Pizzeria and new buildings at the World Trade Center.

Naimoli used wood, bark, berries, twigs, hemp, pine cones and spices such as cinnamon and pepper. It took him two months to create the new buildings and almost two weeks to set up the display, which includes g-scale trains.

There are also waterfalls and ponds and lots of red poinsettias, decorative cabbage and greenery.

Naimoli decided to add Nonni’s to the village this year because the restaurant is donating pizza for the shows. Pacific Lights

and Holiday Decorating and the Queens Garden Nursery provided the lights and landscaping material, respectively. Many other businesses also made contributions.

The creative artist likes the new location because it’s weatherproof and big enough to handle crowds.

Father Gerard Sauer of St. Mel’s called the display “amazing.” The church is providing two large rooms in the basement for the refreshment area and the village.

And of course a holiday event would not be complete without Santa Claus, who will be on hand to greet youngsters and hear Q their toy wishes.

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Four with ties to Huntley indicted Accused of member item money theft

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Lighting up the night Howard Beach children and adults watched with glee as a Christmas tree’s lights were turned on during a ceremony outside St. Helen School on Saturday.

The Howard Beach Columbus Day Foundation sponsored the annual tree-lighting ceremony, which, for many neighborhood

residents, marks the beginning of the holiday season’s festivities.

The tree, decorated with strands of multicolored lights and a countless number of ornaments, is located at 83-09 157 Ave. The tree will be lighting up the night throughout the Christmas season.

Four individuals with close ties to state Sen. Shirley Huntley (D-Jamaica) were indicted Wednesday in a joint investigation by state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli for allegedly pocketing member item money meant for a charity the lawmaker reportedly founded before taking office.

Huntley’s aide, Patricia Savage, president of the nonprofit Parent Workshop, Inc. and its treasurer Lynn Smith, who lives at Huntley’s residence, are accused of stealing approximately $29,950 meant to allow the charity to hold workshops and conduct outreach to parents on the workings of the city’s public schools.

According to the indictment, the women never intended to hold the events and repeatedly lied to the Department of State, telling the agency that the Parent Workshop would do so from April 2008 through March 2009.

They allegedly submitted a fraudulent contract and five fake vouchers to illegally obtain the money. Both women are charged with 11 counts of third-degree grand larceny and first-degree offering a false instrument for filing.

“This personal profit-making scheme defrauded taxpayers, all the while depriving communities of much-needed funds. Now it’s time to hold those behind it accountable,”

Schneiderman said in a prepared statement.

“The charges announced today send a strong message that those who abuse their positions to rip off taxpayers will be prosecuted.”

Two additional defendants were charged with creating fraudulent paperwork to cover up the theft once the investigation began, according to the indictment.

David Gantt allegedly falsified records claiming that he was paid in cash for conducting workshops as a consultant, when he never did any such thing, according to the indictment. Gantt is being charged with four counts of first-degree falsification of business records.

Roger Scotland, president of the Southern Queens Park Association, another borough nonprofit, also allegedly created a false record in an attempt to conceal the theft from investigators. He is charged with first-degree falsification of business records, tampering with physical evidence and conspiracy to engage in those crimes.

“Taking money intended for families in need is unconscionable,” DiNapoli said in a prepared statement. “Abuse and fraud will not be tolerated.”

Huntley has not been charged, but the investigation is continuing, according to Schneiderman’s office. The senator could not Q immediately be reached for comment.

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Now the Postal Service is studying 252 more of its 487 plants nationwide for potential consolidation, an evaluation which should take about three months.

Each location houses anywhere between 50 and 2,000 employees.

Morris Walker, who has worked as a mail handler at the Queens plant for 18 years, said the facility processes so much mail that employees are often asked to work overtime. He suggested that the USPS shift 702 of its higher-ranking management officials rather than dumping the burden on the “99 percent.”

“We came here to find out what was going to be the outcome,” Walker said.

“Right now you are just telling us the same stuff that the plant manager in our building told us. So, we just came here for nothing, and now I have to go to work in an hour to move your mail, and do my job.”

John Dirizius, Northeast regional coordinator for the APWU, and many others believe the Postal Service’s financial problems could be solved if Congress did not force the agency to pre-fund 75 years worth of retirees’ health benefits 10 years in advance, putting the agency $5.5 billion dollars in debt.

“You don’t get out of that by cutting service,” Dirizius said. “You don’t get out

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You get out of it by having Congress fix it, so we don’t have to go to all of these meetings.”

Several elected officials or their representatives at the meeting, also blasted the USPS stating that the plan would adversely affect both postal employees and customers.

They took issue with the meeting being held a little more than two weeks before the deadline for input and said it was unfair to ask people to opine about a study that hasn’t been completed and is predicated on a standard of mail delivery that has not been approved.

“I understand how the Postal Service is suffering from faxes and emails, but the way you cure the system is not to close facilities and close branches,” said state Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside).

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Bill Dykes, corporate secretary of St. Michael’s World Apostolate in Bayside, which sends 50,000 pieces of bulk-rate mail and 30,00 pieces of first-class mail a year, said closing the facility would force the religious group to go to the Internet.

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Brown said Williams approached Georgio from behind and repeatedly struck him on the head and body with a metal bar.

The two had been involved in a verbal argument a few days earlier, Brown said, and Williams had been notified on the day

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Georgio sustained multiple head lacerations, a broken rib and two fractures to his spinal vertebrae.

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In an audit announced last Thursday, Comptroller Tom DiNapoli said the department allows major code violations “that could pose immediate and severe threats to life and safety” to remain unaddressed for months.

Of just two examples cited in his announcement, one was in Queens: a partial roof collapse the comptroller said remained unfixed for four months after an inspection.

The other example was a building in Manhattan where an air conditioner blocked a fire escape for at least six months.

“The Department of Buildings is responsible for ensuring the safety of nearly one million properties throughout New York City by enforcing the city’s Building Code, but when it falls down on the job, it jeopardizes the safety of New Yorkers,” DiNapoli said in a prepared statement. “The depart-

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Because the department does nothing in such instances but leave a form asking the violator to schedule a reinspection, major problems are left unfixed, DiNapoli found.

The comptroller’s office also found that of 50 Class 1 violations it randomly selected from the 57,338 for which summonses were issued between July 2008 and August 2010, 66 percent were still unresolved when auditors reviewed them. Four were open for more than 700 days.

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The wildlife conservation society’s Queens Zoo is hosting an educational camp for children ages 6 to 10 on Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 28 and 29.

The Queens Zoo is all outdoors and is a particularly senic place for kids ot learn about animals and nature. Games, crafts and other activities will introduce kids to the world of animals and the environment.

No zoo camp would be complete without a meet-and-greet with the animal residents. Participants will learn how animals native to North and South America adapt to winter weather at animal presentations in the zoo’s education classroom.

Winter camp will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Members:$125; nonmembers: $150.

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they met with contractors whom they knew and trusted and came up with an extensive database of projects that the average homeowner might need or want done — installing a ceiling fan, washing carpets, painting rooms, and repairing boilers and heaters, just to name a few. Those same contractors helped them average out the prices of those projects, brought those rates back to the service providers they recruited and kept only the providers who agreed to these prices.

As Zikry is quick to point out, however, the more important agreement is the one made with the customer, and the Click and

Improve site was designed to ensure that any customer can navigate through it easily.

Using the example of purchasing a fix for a leaky faucet, Zikry explains the basic steps: A customer searches for “leaky faucet” on the front page of the site, receives a list of solutions that match their query, picks the closest match and purchases directly from the site. The customer then receives a call within the hour to choose a time and date that suits their schedule for one of Click and Improve’s pre-screened providers to complete the solution. Click and Improve’s customer service representatives stay in contact with the customer from the purchase of the job until seven days after completion.

The seven-day gap is something Zikry equates to a test drive: Post job completion, the customer is given seven days to make sure the solution was done completely to their satisfaction before the company releases the customer’s funds to the service provider who completed the job. They also boast a money-back guarantee on any misdiagnosed job. Zikry concluded, “We’ve taken the power from the contractor … and given it to the consumer, as it is in every other industry.”

Based in Long Island City, the service is available in all five boroughs, Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester. Soon it will expand to northern New Jersey. To learn more, visit them at www.clickandimprove.com or call Click and Improve toll-free at 1 (800) Q 308-0354.

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When it comes to choosing a contractor to fix your home, it all boils down to trust. Can you trust them to do the job right? Can you trust their workers alone in your home? Can you trust that the contractor will stick to their word, even if something goes wrong? Can you even trust your own instincts when screening prospective contractors?

Unless you know the industry, these are tough questions. Word of mouth is helpful, up to a point, but certainly doesn’t make up for likely discrepancies between your opinion and that of the person making the recommendation. And it doesn’t address the issue of getting a fair price at all.

“One of the fundamental problems with the home improvement industry is the need for a seamless and uniform business model, one where prices and fixes to problems don’t vary based on how good the salesperson is or how uninformed the homeowner is.” This is the opinion of Avi Zikry, a co-founder of Click and Improve, a full-service online home improvement company, along with partners Jesse Friedman and Alex Ushyarov.

Having already started a successful construction company, New York Construction Co., Zikry and his partners are now looking to bring the home improvement industry fully online.

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Chronicle Contributor 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.”

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The March family, clockwise from left: Talia Marie Aull as Meg, Dana Musgrove as Jo, Morgan Billings as Amy, Em Laudeman as Beth and Thesa Loving, center, as Marmee.

A production of Broadway’s 2005 musical “Little Women” is premiering at The Secret Theatre in Long Island City tonight.

The musical adapts Louisa May Alcott’s beloved and best-selling novel of the same name, published in the late 1860s. It tells the story of four sisters — Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March — as they grow up in Massachusetts during and after the Civil War. Jo, a tomboy who dreams of being a writer, carries the musical as its main character. Alcott, who incorporated many autobiographical elements into the story, wrote herself into the figure of Jo, but focused as much on Jo’s three sisters, modeled after Alcott’s own.

While not as much as Jo, the other three sisters struggle throughout the book with the constraints placed against them as women.

At the time, “physicians advised women that ‘brain work’ would destroy a woman’s health,” said Jan Turnquist, the executive director of the Orchard House, where Alcott lived and wrote “Little Women,” and which is now a museum. For a woman, being a serious writer or artist “just wasn’t seemly,” Turnquist said.

Jo must overcome these barriers to achieve her dreams, a major theme in the musical.

“She cannot be happy just living a life that’s planned for her,” Dana Musgrove, an Actor’s Equity Association performer who plays Jo in the Secret Theatre production, said of her character.

“She’s poor, she’s young: it’s a time when women don’t have a lot of opportunity.”

The role, originally performed by Tony-Award winner Sutton Foster, is a challenging one — Jo is in almost every scene of the two-hour, two-act musical, and Musgrove must belt out a total of 13 songs, including the hit, “Astonishing.”

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Joseph LoGuirato’s sketched collection of historic structures around the city will run through June 30 at the Poppenhusen Institute, 114-04 14 Rd., College Point. Hours are Monday and Friday, noon-6 p.m., Wednesday, noon-4 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Holiday Choral Concert: “Joyful Sounds of Winter” by the Community Singers of Queens at Church on the Hill, 167-07 35 Ave., Flushing on Saturday, Dec. 17 at 8 p.m. $10 admission at the door.

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

FLEA MARKETS A giant holiday fair-flea market will be held on Saturday, Dec. 10, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. at Flushing House, 38-20 Bowne St., Flushing.

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Holiday art exhibition runs now-Jan. 7 of paintings by members of the National Art League, 44-21 Douglaston Parkway. Gallery Hours: Monday through Thursday and Saturday, 1-4 p.m.

Free screening mammograms for eligible women hosted by Assemblyman Michael Miller at 83-91 Woodhaven Blvd., Woodhaven, on Sunday, Dec. 11, starting at 9 a.m. for women 40 and older who have not had a mammogram in the past year. An appointment is necessary. Call 1(800) 564-6868.

“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.

The Oratorio Society of Queens holds its annual holiday concert on Sunday, Dec. 18.

AUDITIONS Open auditions for the Parkside Players production of Kaufman and Hart’s “The Man Who Came To Dinner” will be held on Sunday, Dec. 11 at 2 p.m. and Monday, Dec. 12 at 8 p.m. Callbacks, if necessary, will be announced at the auditions. They will be held at the Grace Lutheran Church located at 71st Road and Union Turnpike in Forest Hills. The performance dates are Feb. 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, March 2 and 3. For further information contact Glenn Rivano at (516) 520-9474.

Auditions for “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown (The Revival)” will be held on Sunday, Dec. 11 from 7-9 p.m. at Oak Room of St. Gregory Church, 242-20 88 Ave., Bellerose. Bring a headshot and resume, or list of previous experience.

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.

DANCE Flamenco and Lorca, a program of Flamenco music and dance, will be performed Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 9, 10, and 11 at the Thalia Spanish Theatre, 41-17 Greenpoint Ave., Sunnyside. Tickets are $30. Reserve online at thaliatheatre.org/pages/ home.cfm or call (718) 729 3880.

“The Nutcracker” will be presented by the Brighton Ballet Theater Company on Sunday, Dec. 18 at Colden Auditorium, Queens College at 3 p.m. Tickets are $18/$12 children 12 and under. Call (718)793-8080.

“The Nutcracker” will be presented on Sunday, Dec. 11, at 1:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. at Flushing Town Hall,

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137-35 Northern Blvd. Tchaikovsky’s classic music comes to life as ballet for young audiences introduces children to the story. Tickets are $16. Call (718) 463-7700 ext. 222.

THEATRE Maggie’s Little Theater at St. Margaret Parish presents: “The Claus Family Christmas Spectacular,” an original, family-oriented musical revue. Performances are Saturday, Dec. 10, at 8 p.m.; Friday, Dec. 9, at 8 p.m.; Sunday, Dec. 11, at 2:30 p.m.; at 66-05 79 Place, Middle Village. Ticket prices: Adults: $15, seniors: $13, children under 12: $10. To reserve tickets visit maggieslittletheater.org, or call (917) 579-5389.

The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23 St., Long Island City, presents the one-woman play “Full Disclosure,” now through Sunday, Dec. 18. Performances are Tuesdays-Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 2 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased online at goingtotahitiproductions.com, by calling (866) 811-4111 or at the door.

Secret Theatre Musicals, 44-02 23 St., Long Island City, announces a rare revival of the Tony Award nominated musical “Little Women.” Performances will begin Thursday, Dec. 8 and continue through Saturday, Dec. 17. Evening shows are at 7:30 p.m., with matinees at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $18. For tickets visit secrettheatre.com.

The Greek Cultural Center, 26-80 30 St., Astoria, presents an original play titled: “With Over Two Pieces of Luggage,” written and directed by, and starring, Alexandros Malaos, from Dec. 9-11 on Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 4 p.m.

Tickets are $20 and $15 for seniors and children. Call (718) 726-7329 “Anon(ymous),” a play based on Homer’s Odyssey, will be presented at Shadowbox Theatre, Z-Building, Queensborough Community College, 222-09 56 Ave., Bayside on Friday, Dec. 9 at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, Dec. 10 at 7:30 p.m.; Thursday, Dec. 8 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets $10 adults, $5 seniors and students. For

information/reservations call (718) 631-6311 or email Amika Giokas at s@qcc.cuny.edu.

MUSIC Oratorio Society of Queens annual holiday concert on Sunday, Dec. 18 at 4 p.m. at Queensborough Performing Arts Center, 222-05 56 Ave., Bayside. Tickets: $30; $25 seniors (62+) and students with ID; children, 12 and under, accompanied by an adult, free. Call (718) 279-3006 to reserve.

Bucky Pizzarelli Guitar Trio, featuring Ron Jackson and Ed Laub will perform on Friday, Dec. 16 at 8 p.m. at Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd.

Tickets are $25/$20 members, $10 students with ID.

A concert featuring Cantors Magda Fishman and Randy Herman accompanied by a band of four musicians will perform an eclectic mix of music: pop, rock, jazz, Israeli, cantorial and musical theatre, on Thursday, Dec. 8 at 7:45 p.m. at the Forest Hills Jewish Center, 106-06 Queens Blvd. Tickets are $18, children and students with ID are free.

Queens College Orchestra in Concert at LeFrak Concert Hall in Flushing on Saturday, Dec. 17 at 7:30 p.m. Mozart Symphonia Concertante: Ansel Eklund, violin; Shauna Smith, viola, Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique. Tickets are $20.

QC Choral Society Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus, Saturday, Dec. 10 at 7:30 p.m. at Colden Auditorium, Queens College, Flushing. Tickets are $20/$18 seniors, QCID, alumni, students/$5 for students with valid QCID at box office only.

The Queens Symphonic Band will be celebrating its 40th year concert at Queensborough Community College, 222-09 56 Ave., in Bayside on Saturday, Dec. 10 at 8 p.m. in “A Salute to New York Composers.”

The program will include compositions by Leonard

MEETINGS 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.

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.

CLASSES Join in celebrating autumn’s last full moon with a class on astronomy on Saturday, Dec. 10 from 7-9 p.m. at Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston. The cost is $12 members, $14 nonmembers, $8 children (ages 12 and under).

Pre-register by calling (718) 229-4000.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Seven strings, six decades, one legend “I just keep a bag and a guitar and I go anywhere I have to go,” said Pizzarelli, who is still actively and After more than 60 years of concerts, recording ses- happily touring. He looks back fondly on his many sions and TV appearances, jazz guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli musical achievements, but is proudest of his three will roll into Flushing Town Hall on Dec. 16. musical children.

A self-taught seven-string guitarist inspired by Django “We have a lot of fun when we’re all together,” he Reinhardt and George Van Eps, Pizzarelli has collaborat- said. “This past spring we played at Mary’s college, at St. ed with Tony Bennett, Benny Goodman, Stephane Grap- Michael’s in Vermont. She performed three or four numpelli, Lionel Hampton, Etta Jones, bers with us.”

Bud Freeman, Wes Montgomery, At the Flushing concert, he’ll Zoot Sims and Frank Sinatra, to be performing a few pieces by name a few. He’s played everysongwriters he’s been playing thing from jazz sessions to rock colsince he first joined Vaughn Monlaborations with artists like Del When: Friday, Dec. 16 at roe’s famed big band orchestra in Shannon (on “Runaway”) and Dion 1943. His went on to perform in 8 p.m. (on “Ruby Baby.”). the famous NBC Orchestra on Where: Flushing Town Hall So when the guitarist, now 85, “The Tonight Show Starring 137-35 Northern Blvd. said during a recent interview that he Johnny Carson” when it taped in Tickets: $10-$25 has played with “mostly everybody,” New York City under musical (718) 463-7700 it was hardly an exaggeration. directors Skitch Henderson, Milflushingtownhall.org This year, Pizzarelli released two ton DeLugg and Doc Severinson, albums, “Family Fugue,” with his the guitarist recalled. son, guitarist-vocalist John Pizzarelli Jr., and “Chalice in There were “big stars on the show — Duke Ellington, Wonderland,” a tribute to Bill Chalice, the respected Benny Goodman, they all played with our band. That arranger for trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke. He’s also was a great band, [with] Clark Terry, Snooky Young and worked with his other son, bassist Martin Pizzarelli, and Al Klink ... I was working with Benny Goodman when I daughter, guitarist Mary Pizzarelli, but at Flushing was on staff. I went to Europe with him for six weeks,” Town Hall he’ll perform as the leader of his guitar trio, he said. with Ed Laub and Ron Jackson, doing standards from Today, Pizzarelli is widely considered one of the greatthe Great American Songbook. est rhythm accompanists as well as a master of improvisFrom his home in New Jersey, Pizzarelli talked about ing and soloing using chords. his long career and the upcoming concert.

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Classical music finds a home in church foot pedals. The physiciality of organ playing — Muro’s hands and feet seemed to On Saturday night, Bach and dance around the instrument — was vividMendelssohn reverberated throughout St. ly on display.

Josaphat’s in Bayside, during a concert put Organ music and singing are often assoon as part of the church’s new classical ciated with the Roman Catholic Church, music series. Pews filled up for the free and are not surprisingly the focus of the performance, the second of four planned series — the first concert in November feathrough March, tured madrigal singers funded in part by a and the next, in Jangrant from parishuary, will present a ioners Barbara and choir. After the show, Maureen Jobo.

Muro noted that as “We wanted to When: Jan. 8 at 11 a.m. and an organist she often have a steady flow March 10 at 6:15 p.m. plays in churches, of concerts,” Barsimply because that’s Where: St. Josaphat’s RC Church bara Jobo explained where the instrument 34-32 210 St., Bayside on Saturday. The is most likely to be Tickets: Free night’s concert, feafound.

(718) 229-1663 turing four pieces But that didn’t stjosaphatbayside.org performed by limit her selection of accomplished organpieces, an eclectic mix ist Deanna Muro, is just the beginning, of the ecclesiastical and the secular.

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The first was Bach’s beautiful choral Muro played an organ in a loft hoisted prelude, “Wachet auf, ruft uns die behind the pews, but the church found an Stimme” (“Sleepers Awake”) BWV 645. innovative way to let listeners see her, by The movement comes from one of Bach’s streaming a live video feed from the loft 200 cantatas, vocal pieces the composer to a screen in the nave. expressly wrote for performance in church.

That way viewers could appreciate the Hearing one of Bach’s most famed complexity of playing an instrument with vocal works transcribed for the organ was multiple keyboards and note-producing a unique experience. But it was a different

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At an organ concert at St. Josaphat’s on Saturday, a screen helped viewers see organist Deanna Muro. piece, Edward Elgar’s “Chanson de nuit” Op. 15, composed for the piano in the 19th century and transcribed for the organ by A. Herbert Brewer, that really put the instrument’s capabilities on display. Deep bass notes filled the lofty space, and the sound’s profound volume was awe-inducing — before electric amplifiers made this kind of volume

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“We were extremely lucky to find her,” director Taryn Turney said of Musgrove. “She walked in for our initial audition and was it for us.”

Playing alongside Musgrove is Em Laudeman as Beth, who is sweet and even-tempered where Jo is fiery and passionate. Laudeman said she can see herself not only in Beth, but in all four sisters.

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Laudeman could relate — she just graduated from Elon University in North Carolina and moved to New York in October. Within a week, she was in her first audition, for “Little Women.” Like Musgrove and other cast members, she has been working full-time while rehearsing nights.

Alcott, the real-life Jo, didn’t visit New York until after she had written “Little Women,” Turnquist said. At that point, Alcott was already famous.

In her lifetime, she made enough money to buy her own house, in Boston’s Beacon Hill, and to help support her family.

In the book and life, Alcott’s sisters pursued their own dreams — including marrying and having chidlren — goals that Alcott seems to have valued as much as her own artistic ambitions.

The musical stays true to Alcott’s life, and the novel’s spirit, by emphasizing that, as Turnquist noted, “real strength and freedom” comes from Q being “authentically yourself.”

Em Laudeman, left, as Beth, and Dana Musgrove as her sister, Jo, during rehearsals for PHOTO BY ORESTES GONZALEZ the Secret Theatre’s production of “Little Women.”

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TOURS The house that Louis Armstrong called home at 34-56 107 Ave., Corona, since 1943 is offering special guided holiday tours now - Dec. 30. The museum is open Tuesday - Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday/Sunday from noon-5 p.m. Guided 40-minute house tours start every hour on the hour. Admission is $10.

SOCIAL ACTIVITIES Queens Community for Cultural Judaism presents a gala Chanukah Party on Dec. 17 at 2 p.m. at 149th Street, corner Ash Avenue, Flushing, in the U.U.C.Q. building, downstairs. Telephone (718) 380-5360 for more information. Visitors $5 suggested donation.

New York Metropolitan Country Music Association will hold a Christmas dance with a visit from Santa on Saturday, Dec. 10 at 8 p.m. at the Glendale Memorial Building, 72-02 Myrtle Ave. Gunsmoke will perform. Cost is $12.

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SPECIAL EVENTS Holiday Fair and Cake Sale on Sunday, Dec. 11, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament Auditorium, 203rd Street and 35th Avenue, Bayside.

St. Josaphat’s R.C. Church of Bayside will hold a Christmas craft sale plus ethnic bake sale on Saturday, Dec. 10 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 11 from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. in the Parish Hall, 35th Avenue and 210th Street, Bayside. Call Steve at (718) 224-3052 for information.

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weather the Great Depression, and both closed after trying to make a go of it.

In 1935, two years after the repeal of The Linden Bar & Grill was a hoppin’ Ozone Park landmark that stood on the Prohibition, Otto Bock, his wife and their east side of Crossbay Boulevard just off son turned the building into the Linden the corner of Linden Boulevard for more Bar and Grill. The joint rocked, becoming very popular for several reasons. It feathan 35 years.

There were two sets of doors and two tured dancing, and ladies were openly weldifferent addresses on the building. On come, making the Linden unlike the typithe left, 134-15 originally belonged to cal “closed” men’s bar of the day. They Otto Habicht and his son Paul, who ran a cooked great German food and featured R butcher shop there. On the right, 134-17 and H Staten Island beer and Beverwyck was one of the early self-service Bohack brews out of Albany on draught.

By the early 1960s, many of the cusSupermarkets. But neither store could tomers had passed or moved away, and business fell off. The Linden became an “old man’s” drinking bar.

However, the large plot of land became very valuable. The little bar and the billboards on the site were demolished and the property was purchased by gasoline giant Merit, which put up a 24-hours gas staThe famous Linden Bar & Grill at 134-15-17 Crossbay Blvd. in tion. Today it is a Hess Q Ozone Park, on Aug. 26, 1938. A Hess gas station sits there now. station.

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Queens native and former Mets General Manager Omar Minaya was hired last week by the San Diego Padres as senior vice president of baseball operations. Minaya, who grew up in Corona and attended PS 19, IS 61 and Newtown High School, was the Mets GM for six years, until he was fired along with Manager Jerry Manuel in September 2010.

Sure, Omar made mistakes, such as signing Oliver Perez to a three-year, $36 million contract, and trading relief pitcher Heath Bell to the Padres, ironically enough, for little in return. But the Mets were a far more interesting team to cover with him running the show than they are now. Every big-name free agent had the Mets on his radar during his tenure.

While his successor, Sandy Alderson, is a capable executive, he keeps his cards close to the vest and conversations with the press to a minimum. Omar was a terrific schmoozer who made it a point to know every sportswriter’s name and act as if each were the most important person covering his team. It will be nice to see him around big league parks again.

The announcement of Minaya’s return to baseball followed ex-Mets manager Bobby Valentine’s hiring by the Boston Red Sox as their skipper. It’s hard to believe that eight years have passed since Bobby V spent his last day in the dugout at Shea Stadium.

Valentine is one of the brightest men that I have ever met. He always enjoyed the give and take with the press after a game, win or lose,

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and he treated reporters from weekly papers with the same respect as the high and mighty BBWAA writers from the dailies. Too many baseball executives and PR types love to enforce a media caste system.

This week I feel like the headline writer from the Chicago Tribune who posted “Dewey Beats Truman” in bold type because I always felt that Jose Reyes would be wearing his #7 uniform for the Mets come spring.

Jose had said many times that he wanted to remain a Met. His agents, Peter Greenberg and Chris Leible, were very close to the Wilpons.

But the biggest reason I believed Reyes would be back in Flushing was that the only other buyer seemed to be the Miami Marlins, whose owner, personable New York art dealer Jeffrey Loria, is not known for breaking out the checkbook for free agents.

Loria has always reminded me of someone who makes the first bid at an auction and then hopes someone will bid a dollar higher to get him off the hook. My inkling was that he hoped to attract season ticket-holders to his new stadium in Miami, on the site of the old Orange Bowl, by merely giving the impression that he’s willing to spend on talent. Alas for Mets fans, that was not the case here. For once in his life Loria stepped up and delivered.

You can’t blame Reyes for taking the best deal on the table. The fact that there is no state income tax in Florida certainly was a consideration as well. Good luck, Jose.

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As people work themselves to the bone on his plantation, and the poor conditions make many of them sick, Scrudge only concerns himself with how to become even richer. Until he’s visited by three “Duppies,” or spirits — in the Dickens novel, these are the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future — who make him see the error of his selfish ways, just in time for the holiday season.

Black Spectrum Theatre is located at Roy Wilkins Park in Jamaica, on 177th Street and Baisley Boulevard.

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• • • •

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ALL WORK GUARANTEED

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1

MOVECO

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3

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– SINCE 1995 –

• • • • • • • • • •

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LEAKS • LEAKS 48

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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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Beauty queen reads to kids in pediatric ward Miss Teen USA promotes youth literacy at Queens Hospital Center

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pediatricians and provides children with free, new books every time they come in for a Holding an oversized copy of the chil- checkup. Over the last year, Queens Hospital dren’s book, “Five Little Monkeys Jumping Center’s Ambulatory Pediatrics Department on the Bed,” Miss Teen USA 2011, Danielle distributed close to 6,000 books to youngsters Doty, donning her jewel-encrusted crown who visited its clinic.

“The most important thing for a child’s and flashing a perfectly white smile, prepared to read the story to children at a pedi- education is the parent’s support,” said QHC atric waiting room at Queens Hospital Cen- Executive Director Julius Wool, a former teacher. “And the most important thing a ter in Jamaica on Thursday.

“I am so excited to be here to read to you parent can do to support their child is to read guys,” Doty told the children. “I remember my to them.”

Reading aloud to children as young as 6 parents always reading to me.”

It was all part of Reach Out and Read, a months old is one of the best ways to prepare school-readiness program that partners with them for school, according to ROAR, and helps build stronger vocabularies and language skills.

About 20 children sat in tiny chairs as they listened to Doty, a blonde-haired, green-eyed Texan, read aloud to them in a sweet and soft voice. After the first book, she read another titled “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie,” then posed for photos and signed autographs for the attendees.

The children, who ranged from infants to kindergartners, each received a free book to take home.

Whether they were outgoing, shy, or in some cases crying, Doty, 18, interacted with them in a very motherly way, letting them sit on her lap Danielle Doty reads to Jahnyla Mejia, 3, of Jamaica. and even try on her crown.

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Miss Teen USA was all smiles after reading to children at Queens Hospital Center during an event PHOTOS BY ANNMARIE COSTELLA to promote youth literacy.

“It was an incredible experience just to she likes to have stories read to her,” Flowers read to them and see their faces light up, and said. “I’m very proud of her.” to see their reacAliane Rosemond of tions,” she said with a St. Albans, who Check out more SEE slight southern brought her daughter, accent. “I even had a pictures of Miss MORE Jenila-Ann, to the little helper flipping Teen USA reading event, said the 4-yearthe pages and saying to the children at PHOTOS old greatly enjoyed it, qchron.com. the words with me.” and added that she has ONLINE Doty’s young assisa lot of books at home. tant was Jahnyla Mejia, 3, of Jamaica. Her “All the time before she goes to sleep she mother, Pauline Flowers, said she thought the says ‘Mommy, read a story to me,”’ Roseevent was a wonderful idea, adding that her mond said. “I have to read a story to her Q daughter reads often. “She like to read and every night.”

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“I would have liked to take honors and AP classes, but Jamaica doesn’t offer those anymore,” said Raymond Almonte, a JHS senior. “Our teachers don’t have enough paper, enough chalk.

To graduate from high school, you need art or music. I would’ve loved to take music, but there’s no music anymore … They are phasing out our school and throwing us out. And we’re not gonna take it.”

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“The other schools are given meals, and we at Jamaica are given crumbs,” she said. “They treat us like we don’t matter, and we do matter.”

Jahan Ferdous said her parents brought her family to the United States in part because they wanted her to receive a better education — which she said is impossible at Jamaica.

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