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NOTICIAS De La Semana
del 8 al 14 de octubre del 2010
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Esta semana: Cupones, Anuncios, Cuestiones, Importantes, Insertar Publicidad, Personas Importantes y los temas de la semana. Cada Articulo en cinco Lineas.
Protesta Contra los politicos en Boro Hall en Queens Blvd. BY SHANE MILLER Stange things are going on at 4002 167th Street in Auburndale, and neighbors want somebody to get to the bottom of it. About four years ago, the stately exploracion con house with the enormous yard was el telefono half-demolished, and a large addicelular para tion was added in the rear. Huge old continuar ver trees were chopped down, and a video
large portion of the yard was paved over. In addition, an imposing steel and cement fence standing nearly ten feet tall in some spots was erected, creating a fortress-like atmosphere. But all of that isn’t the strange part. In fact, in these days of rampant overdevelopment , such large-scale projects are becoming
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ACONTECIMIENTOS DE ACTUALIDAD ...... BARRIO ...... Brooklyn Cop Multi-family $2,500 Scholarships Offered Assemblywoman Pheffer Offering Applications Assemblywoman Audrey I. Pheffer (D-Queens) has been notified by the GreenPoint, an affiliate of GreenPoint Bank, that they will be awarding 100 $2,500 scholarships (which are renewable for three years, amounting to a total of $10,000) to high school seniors who reside in the five boroughs of New York, Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester counties.
Honored BY STEPHEN GEFFON Police Officer Jeff Fisher, a 19-year veteran of the NYPD who patrols the Kew Gardens community, was recently honored by the 102nd Precinct Community Council for the arrest of an individual in the act of selling drugs in the area. It turns out that the alleged drug dealer was also wanted by police in connection with a home invasion in Brooklyn, and was also sought by New Jersey authorities in connection with an assault and for being an unregis-
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Developments Worry Ozone Park Board BY STEPHEN GEFFON It looked like it was going to be a long night for the members of Community Board 10 last week, as their March 2004 meeting agenda listed what promised to be a busy evening. The first item on the agenda was an Informational Public Hearing regarding CDC Builders, LLC, the developers selected by the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development
PTA Prez Under Investigation The former president of the Public School 63 ParentTeachers Association (PTA), Brenda L. Battaglia, 35, of Ozone Park, is suspected of stealing $5,638 from the organization’s bank account and using the money to pay for personal beauty care including hair, nail and tanning treatments. She has been charged with third-degree grand larceny, and could face up to seven years in prison if convicted. Queens prosecutors allege that between September 6, 2002, and May 30, 2003, Battaglia had sole control and possession of the
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Domo Arigato Noguchi! BY REED JACKSON As a high-profile museum prepares to move out of its Long Island City space, another institution proudly opened its doors last week. Though a little lower on the radar than Manhattan-bound MoMa, The Noguchi Museum may mean more for its chosen neighborhood, as was amply evidenced at the recent ribbon-cutting celebration. Besides formally opening the museum’s spacious new quarters on Vernon Boulevard, within spitting distance of a Costco, the lavish event marked the beginning of the summer arts season in the LIC. Held on a brilliantly sunny day, the opening day festivities, which included
a number of tours and special events of the area’s cultural heavyweights, The American Museum of the Moving Image and P.S. 1 among them, also featured a large number of “open studios.” Over sixty local artists opened their working spaces to the public, the maps and promotional flyers drawing attention to the large number and incredible diversity of local artists calling Long Island City home. Fashionable hipsters prowled the streets, mingling with older types traveling in groups, as artists set up handmade signs outside slightly worn lofts and warehouses, small busts of color among faded company names and peeling
paint. Socrates Sculpture Park, only a block north of the new Noguchi headquarters, teemed with trendy art fans checking out the fantastic exhibit “Field”, smiling families taking part in sculpture workshops, and strolling couples enjoying the park’s peculiar mix of quiet waterfront and abandoned industry.
Even with all the bustle outside, the Noguchi served as the day’s epicenter. “The spirit of Noguchi is clearly all around us,” declared museum director Jenny D Dixon, just before the cutting of the ribbon. Dixon’s statement was both literal and figurative, as hundreds of Noguchi sculptures, furniture items and objects
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ACONTECIMIENTOS DE ACTUALIDAD ...... NOTICIAS NACIONAL ...... “BUILD” Defends Ratner Lifespire Problemas
Yellowstone Facilidad Debil
B Y M ARLENE P ERALTA Several workers of a citywide care agency for adults with developmental disabilities bashed its employer, Lifespire, for not letting them form a union in Richmond Hill last week. Employees claim they are exposed to poor working conditions, and that the company opposition to a union shows they refuse to improve. “I am trying to get a union, respect, to have a voice, better wages, better benefits,” said Ajani Williams, 31, who is a developmental aide at a Bellerose facility. Williams claims he has been suspended twice, all part
Assemblywoman Joan Millman suggested, “The scale of residential development needs to be reduced.” She pointed out that a 30story building being planned for the park is too high for pier 6, where it is supposed to be built. Millman suggested that the BBPDC explore the possibility of using existing structures as residences instead, to pay the cost of maintaining the park. Community members who said they preferred the original 2000 plan said the new they preferred entrances that are more welcoming and have a safer design than the new design, which they said looks more like the entrance
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Funding BY EMILY KELLER We found the smoking gun, Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn (DDDB) said in an email announcing a September 29 City Hall press conference. But they couldn’t say what it was until an investigative Daily News article by Juan Gonzalez hit the stands that morning. Gonzalez obtained the IRS forms for the newly formed organization Brooklyn United for Innovative Local Development (BUILD), which has offered unwavering support for Forest City Ratner Companies (FCR) arena-and-more plan for Downtown Brooklyn that DDDB opposes. BUILD also helped rally support in the community as an independent organization, and was instrumental in the creation and signing of a Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) between FRC and several community groups. But BUILD’s independence is now being drawn into question as the IRS forms say the organization expected to receive about $5 million from FCR over this year and last. “How can you represent a community when you are partnering with a developer?” asked Reverend Mark V.C. Taylor of Church of the Open Door in Farragut, and a member of the Downtown Brooklyn Leadership Coalition (DBLC). “I suspected that someone was getting paid but I didn’t think it was that much.” Taylor first became a public opposition figure when he gathered with other black min-
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isters and members of the DBLC for an August press conference to try to dispel the notion that community division over the Ratner plan is based on race - with African Americans in support and Caucasians against it. Opponents say BUILD and FCR have contributed to spreading this idea as part of a divide and conquer tactic. In August, Taylor’s primary criticism of the CBA was an opt out clause on page 14 that says if FCR fails to fulfill its obligations, such as the creation of a specified number of affordable housing units and local jobs for minorities, it can absolve itself by paying $500,000 to BUILD. “{The CBA} is so full of
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LO MEJOR DE QUEENS Y BROOKLYN BEST PLACES TO GRAB A COOL REFRESHING DRINK as compiled by Nick D'Arienzo (ndarienzo@queensledger.com) So it's not really that hot yet - but why not get started early and let you all know where to cool off this Spring. Well, folks, get your Spring drink now - even if it just makes you think about the Summer. Hey, the Met's and the Yankees have started so Summer is rught around the corner. Here are a couple of establishments you might want to patronize with regards to your next cold liquid beverage purchase.
Coffee Soda
MANHATTAN SPECIAL 342 Manhattan Avenue Brooklyn A throwback to the good old days, "when soda bottles were in wooden boxes and people traveled by horse and buggy," MANHATTAN SPECIAL Espresso Coffee Soda has been brewed by the Passaro Family, on Williamsburg's Manhattan Avenue, for more than a hundred years now. Still adhering to a secret family recipe, brother and sister Louis and Aurora have managed to retain the popular soda's unique flavor, while at the same time expanding their product line to adapt to a changing marketplace. Flavors now include Hazelnut, Cappuccino, Mocha, and French Vanilla, and there is even a Diet version. As for the original, true Brooklyn-Queens cognoscenti know exactly where to pick up their bottles, still a bargain at just over a buck - at establishments where it moves quickly, and doesn't sit on the shelf too long. Establishments like Iavarone Bros. in Maspeth, at 69-00 Grand Avenue, or San Marco Pizza in Williamsburg, at 577 Lorimer Street. Better yet, for an even fresher batch, pick yourself up a case at the factory, still in its original location. For more on the company, and a little bit on their history, please visit their delightful website at www.ManhattanSpecial.com. (NOTE: As for recent competitors who've just arrived on the market, most notably Java Pop, MANHATTAN SPECIAL ought not even blink. On the one hand, do we really need our coffee soda to be organic, earth-friendly, and Fair Trade certified? (Seems to me, that's just a lot of Billyburg-style hooey.) And on the other hand, the Java Pop Espresso Coffee Soda, for whatever reasons, tastes exactly like prune juice, and that's not a good thing. Not at all...)
Blueberries & Creme Frappuccino Blended Creme
Rockstar Pomegranate Juiced
HOW CONVENIENT
STARBUCKS 89-89 Union Turnpike Glendale
72-05 Grand Avenue - Maspeth Seriously, could there be a better name for this establishment?! Located just around the bend near the School of Heroes in Maspeth, HOW CONVENIENT has a couple of things going for it. One, you can usually find a parking spot somewhat away from the hustle and bustle more traditionally associated with proximity to 69th Street. Two, Charlie, the friendly owner who's been running the place for more than five years at this point, always does a nice job of keeping the place cool - which, trust me, is a big deal when it's 90-plus outside and you've got your sights set on a cool beverage. At least upon entering, you feel like you've stumbled into the right place! As for energy drinks, HOW CONVENIENT's got 'em all - RED BULL, ARIZONA, SNAPPLE, vitaminwater - but where they really come through is with those somewhat more difficult to find brands, like the NESTEA enviga cans that come out somewhere between a tea and an energy drink (Berry and Peach being the best). HOWEVER! our absolute favorite pick-me-up here (and trust us, we do a lot of same, expecially on a Tuesday) is the ROCKSTAR Pomegranate Juiced Energy Drink, the closest thing you're going to find to Kickapoo Joy Juice. A recent survey says that energy drinks don't really contain much more caffeine than the average cup of coffee, but you sure could've fooled us.
(Not only that, but it tastes pretty darn good, too!)
Iced Tea/Lemonade
MIKE & MARIA'S 62-04 68th Avenue Ridgewood Can't decide between Iced Tea and Lemonade? Well, MIKE & MARIA's in Ridgewood is one of the few places around you'll actually be able to find the delightfully decorative ARIZONA Arnold Palmer 20 oz. can, that historic blend of 50% Iced Tea and 50% Lemonade. Which is not to say that this is the only place - but that it is simply the best place! Perhaps even more refreshing, MIKE & MARIA's is the kind of old-world deli you're used to seeing in the movies, with tons of local kids from the neighborhood craning their necks to peek over the counter, doling out pennies to friendly brother-and-sister proprietors Mike and Maria Ferrulli, and then heading out on their bikes to the ballfield - until they're thirsty again.
Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden in Astoria
Yeah, yeah, I know, STARBUCKS - but you know what, if you feel like going to one, this gem nestled inside the STOP & SHOP mini-mall on Union Turnpike and Woodhaven is probably the best one. Friendly service, a quiet and out-of-theway atmosphere, and a refreshingly wellmaintained bathroom. (C'mon, these are all important things when we're hot and cranky!) As for the drink, the only bad thing about it is how quickly you're likely to ingest it (okay, so order two!). You'll definitely want to opt for whipped cream, and with such a relaxing and cozy hideaway ambience to this particular STARBUCKS, this is the perfect drink to be sipping on while taking a bit of a break from shopping inside a mini-mall that we feel is still highly under-rated.
Soda Pop
JOHNNY ROCKETS The Shops At Atlas Park Glendale Again, yes, there are other JOHNNY ROCKETS, too, but their newest one, perched atop The Shops At Atlas Park, right near the REGAL CINEMAS, is stateof-the-art. With an appealing use of space, and just about the friendliest service you're likely to find in these parts, JOHNNY ROCKETS is a throwback to the glory days of the fifties when all was good in America - okay, when most things were good. With either a deliciously refreshing tall soda-jerk glass of Mr. Pibb or one of their unbelievable malts, you'll already find yourself in beverage heaven, but wait till the all-decked-in-white waitresses break out in song and dance while you're still sipping. You don't believe me? Hey, go check it out for yourself.
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