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Exotic bird stolen from outside Bayside florist

Violent storm takes down trees Fallen limbs strewn about NE Queens, creating chaos and knocking out power

BY NATHAN DUKE

BY NATHAN DUKE A Bayside Juliet has been left lonely after her Romeo was snatched last week in front of a floral shop on Bell Boulevard.

Greg Amentas, owner of Bayside Florist at 39-19 Bell Blvd., said he was hoping police would find Romeo, a five-year-old Sun Conure parrot, after the bird was stolen from his cage in front of his flower shop June 22.

The thief left Juliet, a cockatiel, by herself in the cage.

A 10-minute storm last Thursday left days worth of cleanup for Little Neck and Douglaston residents with streets covered in branches, broken trees and tele-

phone poles.

The storm, which began mid-afternoon and lasted a mere 10 minutes, knocked down trees onto homes and streets and left branches strewn throughout northeast Queens. Service on the

Port Washington line of the Long Island Rail Road was halted east of Bayside because of downed trees on the tracks and service was interrupted along the length of the route into Penn Station.

Residents along roadways

such as Westmoreland Street in Little Neck and Manor Road in Douglaston were still dealing with the storm’s aftermath Friday afternoon, while other streets had not yet been completely cleaned Continued on Page 17

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Showfung (l.) and Tiender Liao of Bayside enjoy an evening of “Dancing Under the Stars” in Little Bay Park. Dancing is scheduled to be held at Little Bay from Photo by Christina Santucci 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. every Wednesday through July 28.

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Braunstein to fight for locals Carrozza seat candidate’s campaign focuses on seniors, Albany reform

Bayside history gets showcased virtually

BY NATHAN DUKE

BY NATHAN DUKE Bayside’s Edward Braunstein said his seven years of work at state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s (D-Manhattan) office has given him insight into how Albany operates that would benefit him if he is elected to replace Assemblywoman Ann-Margaret Carrozza (D-Bayside) this fall.

Braunstein, 29, who has served on Community Board 11 for more than one year, has worked at Silver’s district office in Manhattan since 2003 and currently acts as a legislative assistant.

“I’m a lifelong Bayside resident and I want to be involved in local issues,” he said. “Northeast Queens is a special place. I’ve worked with the Assembly for a number of years. I see the problems that confront the state and I understand what needs to be fixed.”

Braunstein will face off against three Democrats in the September primary, including Bayside attorney Steve Behar, who ran for former City Councilman Tony Avella’s seat last year; John Duane, a former assemblyman in the district and brother of state Sen. John Duane (D-Manhattan); and Whitestone attorney Elio Forcina.

Two Republicans are also vying for Carrozza’s seat: Vince Tabone, who

Edward Braunstein is running for state Assemblyman Ann-Margaret Carrozza’s seat in the Democratic primary this September.

Photo by Nathan Duke

works as an attorney for John Catsimitidis’ Manhattan-based Red Apple Group, and Rob Speranza, a former city police officer who challenged the assemblywoman in 2008.

Braunstein has been endorsed by the Queens County Democratic Party, while Tabone has already been picked by the Queens County Republican Party.

Carrozza announced earlier this year she would not run for re-election.

Braunstein said he

would work in a bipartisan manner with members of both parties in his district, which covers Bayside, Little Neck, Whitestone and Douglaston.

“I think everyone needs to get together to push for reform,” he said.

“People are stealing money and there are all sorts of ethics problems. I think there are people who think when they get to Albany they should shout and scream. But they won’t change history in a day.”

His top campaign issues would be Albany

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reform, education, quality-of-life issues, fighting overdevelopment and services for seniors.

Braunstein said he believed Albany’s out-ofcontrol spending could be curtailed by eliminating state agencies and public authorities through governmental consolidation as well as fighting Medicaid fraud.

Improvements to city School Districts 25 and 26, which are considered among the city’s best, would be a local priority.

“Our schools are operating at 140 percent,” he said. “They keep putting trailers in school yards and kids are having lunch at 10 a.m. It’s ridiculous.”

He also believes quality-of-life issues are often overlooked in the district, especially the upkeep of sites such as Crocheron Park, and vows to be vigilant in preventing northeast Queens from being overdeveloped.

But while Braunstein said Albany needs to reduce its spending, there are certain items he believes should not be cut from the budget.

“One area that’s off the table for me is seniors,” he said. “With budget cuts, there are always threats to senior centers and Meals on Wheels programs.”

Reach reporter Nathan Duke by e-mail at nduke@ cnglocal.com or by phone at 718-260-4566.

The Bayside Historical Society introduced a new virtual exhibit on its Web site this week that presents visitors with an overview of the community’s history spanning more than 350 years.

“Take a Cruise Through the History of Bayside” is an interactive online exhibit with text and photos on the historical society’s Web site at baysidehistorical.org.

The timeline begins in 1639 with the Dutch West India Co.’s acquisition of the locale that is now known as Bayside from the Matinecock tribe. It ends in 2000 with the formation of the nationally acclaimed rock group Bayside Band.

“Visitors can find out about a murder at the yacht club and how in 1904 the community fought the telephone company about putting up poles,” said Jen-

Heavyweight boxing champion James J. Corbett is featured in one of the Bayside Historical Society’s recent online exhibits.

Photo courtesy Bayside Historical Society

nifer Dullahan, a spokeswoman for the society.

Some of the other items on the timeline include a section of Bayside known as The Alley becoming the first commercial center in the region in the mid-1700s, the purchase of the Bell Farm in 1824, the creation of the Bayside Yacht Club in 1902, the historical society’s debut in 1964 and Fort Totten’s designation as a landmark in 1999.

The exhibit was designed by Alison McKay, who is the archivist and exhibit coordinator at the society. The group is based in Fort Totten, where it has its own museum that regularly mounts exhibits.

But the timeline is only featured online, complementing the artifacts and items at the museum but not directly linked to an exhibit.

It will remain on the society’s Web site indefinitely, but it will not be updated at any point, Dullahan said.

The exhibit was created through public funds provided by the city Cultural Affairs Department and state Sen. Frank Padavan (R-Bellerose).

The society is also currently featuring an online exhibit on heavyweight champion boxer James John Corbett, who was also known as “Gentleman Jim.” Corbett was born in San Francisco but settled in Bayside in 1903 and lived there until his death in 1933.

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Peruvian couple shocked but thrilled to learn two girls, one boy were on their way into the world When Flushing resident Paola Silva-Chambilla went to get a checkup early in her pregnancy, she and her husband, Roberto Chambilla, were more than a little surprised by a question posed to them by the sonogramist. “She asked us if we knew how many babies we were having,� Silva-Chambilla, 37, said. “And we said, ‘Babies? What do you mean “babies�?’ Then we found out we were going to have triplets.�

Silva-Chambilla, 37, had those three babies June 6 at Queens Hospital Center in Jamaica: daughters Fernanda and Alexandra and son Alberto. The infants went home from the hospital last week. “We were crying when we heard we were going to

have triplets,� said Chambilla, a dietary aide at a nursing home in Jamaica. “They’re amazing.�

The Queens Hospital Center staff who has worked with the Chambilla family, Flushing residents originally from Peru, during the pregnancy were also ecstatic when the two girls and one boy were born. Fernanda, Alexandra and Alberto are their first children — and, chuckled Silva-Chambilla, their last.

Both parents have twins in their families. “She’s such a great mom,� said Soraya Rankin, a QHC social worker. “She’s so gung-ho about breastfeeding, which we really promote at the hospital.

And she has great family support.�

Silva-Chambilla’s parents, Luisa and Augusto Silva, traveled from their

Paola Silva-Chambilla (l.) and her husband Robert Chambilla hold their newly born triplets at Queens Hospital Center.

Photo by Anna Gustafson

hometown of Lima, Peru to help their daughter take care of the infants who were born about six weeks premature. The rest of Silva-Chambilla’s family, including her sister and two brothers, celebrated in

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Luisa Silva, a nutritionist in Peru, immediately warmed to the hospital staff and crocheted them little bibs that said the names of her new grandchildren. “I was very surprised about the attention we got in this hospital,� Luisa Silva said. “Everyone was so caring.�

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Queens says goodbye to subways, buses MTA’s doomsday budget measures take effect, eliminating V and W trains, slashing eight bus routes

BY NATHAN DUKE, ANNA GUSTAFSON AND IVAN PEREIRA Queens residents and elected officials complained of longer waits for subways and buses following MTA service cuts that went into effect last weekend.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s cuts eliminated two subway lines to Queens and eight bus lines, while several other routes have been reduced. The city’s discontinued lines saved the agency $93 million of an $800 million budgetary shortfall in 2010.

But Queens straphangers said they faced longer waits at the borough’s subway stations after the MTA cut the W train, which ran from Astoria’s Ditmars Boulevard to Manhattan’s Whitehall Street/South Ferry stop, and the V train, which took passengers from Forest Hills to Manhattan, Friday.

“I did take the V a lot, so it’s a big pain that the MTA got rid of it,” said Scott German, 34, of Forest Hills. “It’s like the MTA has some kind of vendetta against Queens.”

The M train has been extended into Middle Village and out to Forest Hills as a replacement for the V train, which made stops at 23rd Street in Long Island City, Queens Plaza, Steinway Street in Astoria, 63rd Drive in Rego Park and Grand Avenue in Elmhurst.

Bridget DeMaouy of Astoria said the elimination of the W had not affected her commute too greatly since the MTA extended the Q train into her neighborhood.

“So far, I’ve only done this for a day and there’s not too much of a change,” she said Tuesday. “Because the Q is running, it’s not been too bad for me. Though, I’d love it if they added more

Western Queens residents will be forced to wait for N trains after the Metropolitan Transportation Photo by Christina Santucci Authority cut Astoria’s W train last weekend.

Changes to Queens subway service

Amalgamated Transit Union President Daneek Miller protests the MTA cuts to buses at the bus depot on Archer Avenue in Jamaica.

Photo by Ivan Pereira

trains.”

But while the Q train now runs from Astoria to Brooklyn, it does not go to a number of key sites in Manhattan that were on the W line, such as City Hall or the World Trade Center stop. Some stops were also eliminated along the G and N lines.

In a statement, the MTA said it had several thousand stops to get in order as part of the route changes.

“We acknowledge some confusion among customers as would be expected

in a change of this magnitude,” the statement said.

“There are still some software upgrades that need to be made on new technology trains so that automated announcements, strip maps and video screens reflect the changes.”

City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D-Astoria) joined a large group of commuters from Astoria Friday to hold a mock funeral on 31st Street, where they mourned the “death” of the V and W trains.

“They are eliminating trains from one of the most

vibrant neighborhoods in the city,” Vallone said. “Astoria is one of the fastestgrowing neighborhoods.

This is incompetence.”

Queens elected officials and community leaders also took the MTA to task for cutting eight bus lines in the borough, including the Q14, Q42, Q74, Q75, Q79, Q89, QM22 and QM23.

“These buses provide a lifeline to seniors, working families, students and small businesses,” state Assemblyman David Weprin (D-Little Neck) said.

“It’s bad for everyone in Queens, not just bus riders.

Yet, instead of cutting bureaucratic waste, the MTA is abandoning us completely. It’s cruel and unacceptable.”

The Q79 runs along Little Neck Parkway through Glen Oaks, Bellerose and Floral Park, while the Q75 makes stops between Oakland Gardens and the Jamaica terminal.

The Q14 runs between Whitestone and the Flushing terminal, while the Q42 also runs between Addisleigh Park and the Jamaica terminal and the Q74 goes to Queens College and Main Street, both of which are in Flushing, and Forest Hills.

The MTA is also reducing service on the Q24, Q30, Q31, Q76, X32 and X51.

All bus cuts went into effect Monday morning.

Glen Oaks Village President Bob Friedrich rallied with northeast Queens residents along Little Neck Parkway Sunday to protest the cuts.

“Make no mistake

about it that the loss of this route is a failure of our elected officials,” he said of the Q79’s elimination.

“Just as they would have taken credit for saving the service, they must now be held accountable for its demise. This is not Manhattan where subways and buses provide redundancy for riders. We pay the same taxes and we should be demanding and getting the same services.”

One member of the Amalgamated Transportation Union Local 1056 protested outside the Parsons/ Archer subway station in downtown Jamaica, calling on the MTA to reverse its cuts.

“The bottom line is public transportation cannot be viewed as just a private sector, market-driven service,” said Daneek Miller, president of the union.

“It provides the economic and social hub of our society and the lifeline of all our citizens. No reasonable person or entity can support these harmful service cuts.”

City budget restores cuts to boro’s FDNY Queens residents can breathe a sigh of relief along with the rest of the city now that the city’s budget was expected to restore many of the most feared cuts Mayor Michael Bloomberg included in his proposed budget.

A deal struck between Bloomberg and the City Council late last Thursday night included $37.4 million in funding to keep 20 FDNY companies slated for closure under Bloomberg’s proposal and $38 million to avoid closing libraries.

No pools will close and borough district attorneys’ offices funding was also addressed.

“We’ve managed to get restorations for the firehouses, we’ve managed to get restorations for the libraries so there will be fiveday-a-week operation in Queens,” Councilman Dan Halloran (R-Whitestone) said. “All the city pools will stay open all summer.

All the district attorneys, their funding will pretty much be restored and we’re working on addressing the disparities between the offices.”

Funding for district attorneys’ offices has long been distributed unevenly among the boroughs, with the Queens office traditionally getting less than its fair share, Halloran said.

The Council plans to close

that gap.

Some fiscal hawks have criticized the budget because it includes more spending on “pork barrel” discretionary spending projects than it did last year, despite the weak economic climate.

The Council increased discretionary spending from $363.5 million last year to $396 million this year — a jump of 9 percent, according to the New York Post.

The Council Finance Committee planned to meet Tuesday afternoon to finalize the budget as agreed upon and accompanied by a handshake between Bloomberg and Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D-Manhattan) last Thursday.

The Council then was scheduled to vote on the budget Tuesday evening and Halloran expected it to make it through easily as the budgetary process went smoothly between Republicans and Democrats, both of whom were satisfied with the final deal, as was Bloomberg.

“We’ve now agreed on where the cuts have to be, both the mayor’s side and the City Council side, and what will be formally presented is the agreement between the mayor and the City Council,” Halloran said. “What happened this Continued on Page 41

Mayor Michael Bloomberg, (center l.) City Council Speaker Christine Quinn (center r.) and the City Council announce an agreement for an on-time, balanced budget for fiscal year 2011, which begins on July 1.

Photo courtesy Mayor’s Office

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BY CONNOR ADAMS SHEETS

Dems blast Paterson vetoes

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BY ANNA GUSTAFSON AND HOWARD KOPLOWITZ Queens Democrats criticized Gov. David Paterson’s decision to veto much of the budget passed nearly three months after it was due by the state Legislature Monday, saying it could be a particularly bad blow for borough schools.

But state Sen. Frank Padavan (R-Bellerose) slammed the Democrats’ budget, calling it a “mess.”

Paterson vetoed the legislators’ decision to restore more than $600 million in school aid because he said the lawmakers’ $136 billion budget was $400 million to $1.5 billion out of balance, but borough Democrats said bills they expected to pass by Thursday would raise $950 million in revenue through various taxes and fees.

The state Assembly overwhelmingly passed the budget Monday, and it made it through the state Senate by a narrow margin. The budget had been due April 1, but lawmakers and the governor have been wran-

Gov. David Paterson (l. to r.), Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, and Assembly Minority Leader Brian AP Photo/Mike Groll Kolb arrive for a legislative leaders budget meeting in Albany in June. gling for months over how to address a gaping budget hole. Paterson told legislators Friday he would begin implementing his own budget if lawmakers did not pass a budget by Monday.

“The governor’s posture is it’s his way or the highway,” Assemblyman Rory Lancman (D-Fresh

Meadows) said. “We still consider educating our kids, whether it’s elementary school, high school or college a priority and it’s regrettable the governor could not meet us even halfway.”

Paterson is expected to veto thousands of additions legislators made to his orig-

inal budget. The governor has already vetoed the restoration of more than $600 million to the governor’s $1.3 billion cut to education aid, a restoration of $56 million to community colleges and a measure reducing Paterson’s cut to city school aid from $467 million to Continued on Page 41

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BY ANNA GUSTAFSON AND IVAN PEREIRA As the final bell for the school year sounded at schools across the borough Monday, students and teachers at the three Queens high schools slated for closure in January said they were starting the summer with tremendous concern over the future of their campuses.

Although a lawsuit saved Jamaica High School, Beach Channel High and the Business Computer Applications and Entrepreneurship Magnet High in Cambria Heights from being phased out starting

in the fall, the city Department of Education is still fighting to have an appellate court reinstate its decision.

While the battle over the schools’ future goes on, prospective students were alerted during the application process during the spring that the school they chose may not be open for freshmen come September and that has created low enrollment numbers for next year’s freshman class, according to teachers at Jamaica HS. “They’ve been undermining us, and it’s just wrong,” said Jamaica High social studies teacher

Only 22 students have enrolled as freshmen at Jamaica HS. James Eterno.

At Jamaica High, next year’s freshman class will consist of 22 students, according to Eterno.

Twenty union members are expected to be removed from Jamaica High School because there may be no freshman class, and they will go into the city’s

teacher reserve pool, Eterno said.

School supporters, such as community activist Kevin Forrestal, said students were frightened by a March letter from the DOE that Eterno said dissuaded pupils from applying to schools like Jamaica High because it stated the schools had been slated for closure, which the letter stated could still happen if the appellate court rules in their favor.

“The Department of Education is trying to discourage people from going and their ultimate objective is to close the school Continued on Page 41

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Queensborough Community College President Eduardo Marti has been named vice chancellor for the city’s community colleges, the City University of New York’s board of trustees announced this week.

Marti, who has served as Queensborough’s leader for a decade, was appointed to the newly created position Tuesday.

“Marti brings to the new position a quarter of a century of exemplary leadership at a time when the national administration is focused on the expansion of community college education and CUNY is in the forefront of community college reform,” said Matthew Goldstein, chancellor of CUNY. There had been speculation that Marti would leave Queensborough to serve in a higher position within CUNY’s system, but his appointment was made official this week.

“As someone who witnessed the empowerment of so many through the establishment of financial aid as Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as someone

who has witnessed the growth and maturing of our sector of higher education, as someone who is proud of being part of the educational renaissance of CUNY, I am delighted and honored to serve on Chancellor Goldstein’s team at this important time for the CUNY community colleges,” Marti said.

Marti fled Fidel Castro’s Cuba in 1960 and began his teaching career in 1966.

He served as the president of the State University of New York’s Corning Community College as well as at Tompkins-Cortland Community College before coming to Queensborough in 2000.

The CUNY system has 23 schools across the five boroughs. Its community colleges include Queensborough and LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City. Two of its senior colleges, Flushing’s Queens College and Jamaica’s York College, are also in the borough.

Reach reporter Nathan Duke by e-mail at nduke@cnglocal.com or by phone at 718260-4566.

Gianaris, Peralta propose bedbug disclosure legislation

BY NATHAN DUKE State legislators representing western Queens are pushing legislation that would require landlords and city schools to disclose whether their buildings have ever been plagued by bedbugs.

State Sen. Jose Peralta (D-Jackson Heights) sponsored a bill that would force landlords to provide information to potential tenants on whether the pesky bugs had ever infiltrated the buildings they own. The Senate passed the bill last week.

The bill follows Assemblyman Michael Gianaris’ (D-Astoria) legislation that would require schools to provide notification to parents if bedbugs were found on their sites. The bill has passed in both of the state’s legislative houses.

Astoria and other western Queens neighborhoods have been hit especially hard by bedbugs in recent years.

“Bedbugs have become an insidious nuisance for renters throughout the state because landlords often times do not disclose infestations,” Peralta said.

“Tenants have the right to know if the apartment or house they are renting was previously occupied by bedbugs.”

The state Senate has also passed a bill that would prevent used bedding to be transported, sold or stored with new bedding unless it has been approved by the city Department of Health.

The elusive insect feeds primarily on the blood of humans or other warm-blooded animals.

Its name derives from the bug’s preferred habitat in

beds or other areas where people sleep.

Bedbugs are mainly active at night and are able to feed unnoticed on their hosts.

They can live up to one year without feeding, so infested apartments are often difficult to detect.

“Parents need to be notified when their children are exposed to these irritating and harmful parasites,” Gianaris said of his bill. “It’s high time we take the strides to prevent the spread of these nasty creatures that have plagued thousands of New Yorkers.”

The bill now goes before Gov. David Paterson for approval.

If a bedbug is discovered in a school, only the family of an affected child is currently notified.

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Job Description: The Downtown Flushing Transit Hub Business Improvement District (BID) is seeking an Executive Director to serve as the principal ofďŹ cer of the BID. The executive director is responsible for the overall administration, ďŹ nancial management, and day-to-day activities of the BID. The Executive Director will report to the Board of Directors and work with the Board to establish and implement programs and services that enhance the commercial district of Downtown Flushing.

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At minimum a Bachelor’s degree is required.

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Bellerose man burgled Teen physically, verbally house of neighbor: DA assaults bus driver: DA BELLEROSE — A Bellerose man was charged with burglary after he allegedly broke into a neighbor’s house, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said.

William Mason, 46, of 84-21 246th St. in Bellerose, was allegedly found in the bathroom of a house at 84-13 246th St. between 2 p.m. and 3:41 p.m. June 14 after his neighbor heard a noise, according to the criminal complaint.

The neighbor escorted Mason out of the house through the front door when the neighbor allegedly saw Mason walk back to the side of the house and take a chair from underneath the bathroom window and put the chair back in the backyard of the neighbor’s home, the complaint said.

Mason was arraigned on burglary charges June 15 before Queens Criminal Court Judge Ira Margulis, who set bail at $7,500, a spokeswoman for Brown said.

FOREST HILLS — A Woodhaven teen was charged with attempted assault and harassment after he allegedly punched a bus driver who picked him up in Forest Hills, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said.

Isuf Aruci, 19, of 83-15 98th St. in Woodhaven, allegedly walked onto the Q67 bus at around 9:40 a.m. June 14 at the southeast intersection of 67th Road and 108th Street in Forest Hills when he punched the driver in the right shoulder, according to the criminal complaint.

Aruci was arraigned June 14 before Queens Criminal Court Judge Mary O’Donoghue on attempted assault and harassment charges and released on his own recognizance, a DA spokeswoman said.

His next court date was scheduled for Thursday.

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Two teen thieves injured cop in arrest attempt: DA FOREST HILLS — A Maspeth teen and another from Ridgewood were charged with burglary, petit larceny, criminal possession of stolen property and resisting arrest after they allegedly broke into a Forest Hills home, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said.

A police officer said he saw Jonathan Lopez, 17, of 62-55 60th Drive in Maspeth, and Kevin Perez, 16, of 18-31 George St. in Ridgewood, enter the backyard of 95-02 72nd Ave. in Forest Hills between 1:25 p.m. and

1:32 p.m. June 14, according to the criminal complaint.

The officer said he heard a commotion from inside the home and other officers saw Perez attempt to exit out a second floor window, the complaint said.

The officer said he saw both teens carrying backpacks and wearing gloves and that he observed damage to the back door of the home, the complaint said.

Officers allegedly found jewelry in the backpacks, according to the complaint.

When officers tried to arrest the teens, they allegedly flailed their arms to avoid being handcuffed and an officer injured his shoulder trying to apprehend them, the complaint said.

Lopez and Perez were arraigned on charges of burglary, petit larceny, criminal possession of stolen property and resisting arrest June 15 before Queens Criminal Court Judge Barry Kron, who set bail at $15,000, a spokeswoman for Brown said.

Football fever grips United Nations of Queens

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Borough’s immigrants flock to ethnic hangouts to root for their homeland teams in 2010 World Cup World Cup fever has taken over Queens as the international soccer championship held in South Africa had residents both cheering and holding their heads in their hands after the United States lost in the knockout stage and teams from their home countries advanced.

At C.J. Sullivan’s on Bell Boulevard at Bayside, six large screens inside the bar had fans captivated as they saw the United States lose to Ghana Saturday in the Round of 16. Bayside resident Fitz Ventura went on an emotional roller coaster as the United States fell behind Ghana 1-0 early in the match Sunday.

U.S. midfielder Landon Donavan scored an equalizing penalty kick in the second half as patrons high-fived each other and chanted “U-S-A.” But the Americans’ hopes were dashed when Ghana went ahead 2-1 in extra time, eliminating the United States.

“It’s unfortunate that the U.S. always has to play from behind as oppose to taking the lead early,” Ventura said.

Jose Lujambio, a New Hyde Park, L.I., resident who was raised in Uruguay, was rooting for both the United States and the South American nation, which won its first knockout stage match against South Korea to advance to the quarterfinals.

Lujambio, who was wearing a baby blue Uruguay jersey, said he wanted the United States to win because they would have faced Uruguay and he would have been happy with whoever was victorious. Nevertheless, he was hedging his bets with $100 on Brazil in the event it defeated Uruguay later in the week.

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Algerian soccer fans Billal Boulbene (l.) and Hilal Aissani watch the United States-Algeria World Cup match at Cafe Borbone in Astoria.

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the San Antonio Bakery in Astoria were disappointed as Chile fell behind Spain 2-0 in the first half of their World Cup game Friday.

“It’s a big surprise,” said manager Erika Santana.

The bakery, at 36-20 Astoria Blvd., serves primarily Chilean goods. It had Chile’s match playing on its single television.

This was the bakery’s first chance to show one of Chile’s World Cup games.

The first game was on a Monday, when the bakery was closed and the second game was held too early in the day to be shown.

Santana acknowledged the welcoming environment as the reason for why the Chilean fans chose to watch the game at the bak-

ery.

“They just feel at home,” she said.

Jeanette Morales, a resident of Elmont, L.I., shared that sentiment and said she will keep coming back.

“I feel comfortable,” she said. “I love it when everyone is here. And I love the sandwiches.”

Mary Morgado, a Chil-

ean immigrant who lives in Astoria, was at the bakery with her children. She was delighted to be surrounded by her countrymen during the game.

“It feels good because not too many people from my country live here,” said Morgado. “It’s good to celebrate together. Everybody here loves football.”

Their love of soccer

and their country was evident as the fans sported their team’s jerseys and waved their nation’s flag.

And when Chile scored its first goal — and what would turn out to be its only goal of the game — the room exploded with excitement.

It was so exciting that Horaceo Silva, Jeanette Morales’ boyfriend, could Continued on Page 41

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CB 7 DESERVES A ‘WELL DONE’ This newspaper exists to report on events and issues important to Queens residents and through letters to the editor to give readers a sounding board to express their opinions.

We value these letters and learn from them. In recent issues, Community Board 7 has taken a beating in the letters column. Unfortunately, the criticisms have not always been objective or fair. Although we have not always agreed with CB 7 and said so, we have respect for the members of this board and its leaders.

The city’s community boards play an important role in matters of importance to the communities they represent, including zoning questions, budget issues, the delivery of city services, traffic problems, housing and new development. Although they cannot order the mayor or city agencies to do anything, they serve as advocates for the neighborhoods they represent.

CB 7, which covers the communities of northeast Queens, is one of the most active community boards in the city. The area is rapidly changing. It has a population of 325,000, according to the most recent census, more than half of whom are Asian Americans. The area has undergone or will undergo dramatic change, including the redevelopment of the industrial park in College Point, the planned redevelopment of Willets Point and the development of Flushing Commons. In these projects, CB 7 has played a key role in the approval and planning process.

Anyone who has attended the frequent meetings at CB 7 knows how contentious each can become. The board is constantly presented with the challenge of balancing the character of existing neighborhoods with the borough’s need to change and grow.

We have been impressed by the dedication and professionalism of Chairman Eugene Kelty, Vice Chairman Chuck Apelian and District Manager Marilyn Bitterman.

They understand northeast Queens history, city laws and the unique problems of each community. They oversee a board of volunteers that reflects the area’s ethnic diversity.

The board has shown it is unafraid to take on powerful interests when it comes to giving an opinion on land use or zoning. We have never found reason to question the integrity or dedication of CB 7.

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MTA shouldn’t balance budget on backs of riders An open letter to Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Jay Walder: am writing to express my concerns with the MTA’s latest plan to balance its budget on the backs of my constituents. I am not surprised the MTA is facing another crisis — given the history of fiscal incompetency, fare hikes and services cuts this agency has imposed on riders.

Rather than addressing the real problem, which is the MTA’s long history of mismanagement and overspending, you are once again expecting the public to pay the price for your mistakes. Common sense dictates you cannot cut an entire subway line or slash express service like the latest No. 7 train cut proposal and not ex-

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pect these measures to negatively affect New Yorkers. You do not cut services to a borough like Queens, where the population is growing.

The MTA is once again facing an astounding budget deficit. The MTA deficit will continue to grow unless the systemic problems that have plagued this agency, including mismanagement, overspending and duplication of services, are finally addressed. And while the state Senate is working to restore public transportation cuts, the MTA has chosen to distort this fact in an effort to conceal its own budgetary failures. This is deceptive and counterproductive in seeking a solution to the growing deficit.

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in already underserved areas and reducing subway lines are unacceptable measures. My constituents depend on public transportation to travel to work, get their children to school or transport their elderly parents to senior centers. They depend on safe, clean and adequate public transportation.

I am again asking the MTA to open its books and develop a rational, longterm financial plan that will ensure New Yorkers receive reliable and affordable public transportation.

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age its budget.

Over the last several months, my office has received many complaints regarding the decision to discontinue the X51 bus route from Flushing to midtown Manhattan. As you are aware, this express bus is the only one that goes through Flushing and provides an alternative to the heavily used No. 7 train and local buses. Completely eliminating this route will

increase travel times and cause transportation hardships for the hardworking men and women of my district.

To add insult to injury, the MTA now has the audacity to reduce No. 7 line service after informing riders of the X51 that this line should be used as an alternative to the express bus.

The No. 7 train is already overcrowded and numerous delays already frustrate

passengers. I cannot understand why the MTA would simultaneously cut express bus and train service.

As I stated in my previous correspondence, if representatives from the MTA visited Flushing and observed our transportation needs, they would understand that the current service is inadequate and service cuts should be restored.

Reducing essential

bus and train service, adding travel time to commuters’ schedules and causing additional overcrowding conditions will further exacerbate our transportation problems. I do not understand how the MTA believes that eliminating bus service, adding more riders and cutting train service to an already overburdened No. 7 line is the answer.

The phrase “penny

wise and pound foolish” can best describe the illadvised and shortsighted decision to terminate X51 service and reduce No. 7 line service. Budget gaps should be closed by reducing waste and not on the backs of hardworking New Yorkers.

Peter Koo City Councilman Flushing

Co-ops, condo boards need America needs help and fast state agency to fight abuses W

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ecently, Bob Friedrich, president of Glen Oaks Village, wrote a letter concerning state Senate bill S7958 (“Albany bill would cause problems for co-op and condo boards,” June 17). I can understand why he opposes it. After all, as president of the board he would prefer not having any government agency looking over his shoulder should shareholders question his board’s decisions.

But on the other hand, I am a shareholder in the cooperative community he mentioned: North Shore Towers. Just last week at our annual shareholders meeting our attorney, Errol Brett, was asked about a policy to enforce the requirement for residency of our board members, which is stated clearly in our bylaws.

He replied that we do not have any policy in place. Obviously, then, this bylaw is not enforced. We have no way of knowing if any other rules or bylaws have no policy for enforcement. Our property management firm, Charles A. Greenthal Management, was fined several thou-

sands of dollars because it was not properly licensed by the state.

Several years ago, in an election in which nearly 5 million shares were voted on, I lost by 806 shares and was told by the board I had to go to court to sue for a recount. Ultimately, the judge

If shareholders have an issue, in many cases the only available avenue is litigation. agreed I was entitled to the ballots in order to have a recount. I paid my attorney $5,000 in legal fees and our board paid somewhere between $50,000 and $80,000.

No one can get an accurate answer to the question of the amount of the fee and why it was so high.

If there was an agency we as shareholders and condominium owners could go to, this kind of abuse would not exist. We are not even told how our energy bills are computed. I could go on, but I think the point

has been made. There is not a single agency, with the exception of the state Department of State in licensing issues, that will help us. If shareholders have an issue, in many cases the only avenue available is litigation, which involves high costs so, as a result, most boards do as they please.

The cost of funding this ombudsman agency is $6 per unit — a small price to pay for the opportunity to have somewhere to go with legitimate complaints.

Friedrich wrote that passage of this law will imperil the tight budgets of co-ops and condos. Quite the contrary. It will make boards more aware of what should and should not be done and how to protect the rights of residents.

By the way, Friedrich claims there are many agencies that have this kind of oversight. I have been in the real estate business for almost 40 years and do not know the agencies he refers to. I hope he can enlighten all of us and let us know to where we can bring our complaints.

Dianne Stromfeld North Shore Towers

ell, 2010 is six months old and still the economic outlook, while improving ever so slightly, is far from where it should be.

There are thousands of people still unemployed throughout the country, people continue to lose their health insurance when they lose their jobs,

prices on everything from clothes to food to gas and mortgages and credit card payments continue to soar, the Gulf of Mexico is awash in millions of gallons of oil thanks to the negligence of BP and people are generally dissatisfied with the state of our government and the overall economy.

And let’s not forget the situation with education

and teachers. There could be more then 150,000 teachers losing their jobs across the country due to the abysmal state of the economy.

Heaven help us — we need plenty of help in this nation.

John Amato Fresh Meadows

Columnist wins reader’s admiration An open letter to TimesLedger Newspapers columnist Alex Berger: had to write and tell you I absolutely loved your column on Father’s Day (“Pop made taking care of family his life’s main goal,” June 17).

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I believe my wife and I met you on one of our singing jobs in New Jersey. We are the husband-wife singing team who do the Steve & Edie-type singing act. I believe we met you at a gig in Marlboro. Am I right?

CORRECTIONS An article about the Cardozo HS basketball reunion in the June 24-30 editions contained an error. Ron Naclerio won one city championship as coach in 1999. Al Matican coached the 1978 team to the city title.

In the June 24-30 Astoria Times story “Leaders disagree where to store LIC millstones,” Dutch Kills Civic Association President Gerald Walsh’s quote should have read, “We don’t want holes to be drilled in the stones in order to move them.”

I just wanted you to know I read your column regularly and enjoy every installment. Congratulations on your success. Keep up the good work.

Michael Chimenti Oakland Gardens

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An open letter to Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Jay Walder: am outraged after reading about the MTA’s latest reductions in services. These transportation cuts will have a dramatic and adverse impact here in Flushing and for Queens straphangers. The MTA continues to punish its customers because of its failure to efficiently man-

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Signers of the Declaration all paid heavy prices for freedom

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here are those ... who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. ... It is the American Dream. — Archibald McLeish On Sunday, America is 234 years old. Thanks to the Declaration of Independence, every citizen of this nation is given rights not granted in other countries.

But many Americans overlook the meaning of the Fourth of July.

They no longer observe Washington’s and Lincoln’s birthdays on their true birthdays. Their commemorations have morphed into three-day weekends so people can spend more time watching TV, shopping at malls or making quick getaways. July 4 is no exception. Is patriotism becom-

ing extinct?

Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. — Abraham Lincoln But because patriotism is subjective, it is impossible to say whether it has truly vanished since it cannot be measured by opinion polls. Most of us take patriotism for granted and as if it were not needed when it is. At its best it creates a sense of belonging that binds us together and inspires Americans to give their lives defending their country. But many Americans have forsaken the Declaration of Independence, thus destroying its importance and power.

America’s emphasis on individual “rights,” opportunity and economic gain has always been somewhat at odds with patriotism. What is incontestable is that patriotism no longer seems worth worrying about and Americans consider it largely irrelevant to today’s problems.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave. — Thomas Jefferson

Patriotism should flourish when the nation is threatened but, although the present scope of terrorism is apparent, real and imagined differences pull us apart. The politics of group identity — race, sex and ethnicity — subsist on differences. Longtime citizens and newly arrived immigrants who feel drawn between their native countries and adopted homeland need a common thread to unite both groups. Patriotism provides the counterweight to these and other divisions.

We live in the most prosperous land in the world. The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of Independence and the 56 men who signed it at great risk. Why? Read and find out what happened to these patriots.

Many signers of the Declaration were captured by the British as traitors, tortured and executed.

Many died from battle wounds.

Many lost their sons fighting in the Revolutionary army. Many had their homes burned. And all lost their fortunes.

Who were these men who

pledged their honor, money and lives in the fight for freedom?

Twenty-four were lawyers, 11 were merchants, nine were plantation owners and 12 were farmers. All were educated and signed the Declaration of Independence knowing the penalty would be death to themselves should they be captured.

Carter Braxton, a wealthy trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British navy. He sold his properties to pay his debts and died in rags. Thomas McKeam, who served in Congress without pay, was so hounded by the British that he and his family were constantly on the run.

And British soldiers and vandals looted the family and business properties of the others, including Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge and Middleton. Poverty was their reward.

The U.S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. — Benjamin Franklin At the Battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson Jr. noted that British Gen. Charles Cornwal-

lis had taken over his home. He urged then-Gen. George Washington to open fire and destroy it. Nelson died bankrupt. Francis Lewis had his home and properties burned and his wife jailed.

She died within a few months.

John Hart was driven from his wife’s bedside as she was dying.

His fields and gristmill were destroyed and their 13 children fled for their lives. Living in forests and caves, Hart finally returned home, only to find his wife dead and his children missing. John Hancock’s claim to fame was his bold signature. It signified his optimism in America’s ability to survive British onslaught and points toward a bright future.

So take a few minutes this Fourth of July to remember these patriots and the price they paid to make America. And do not forget those patriots who fought and died defending the Declaration of Independence through the years.

Freedom was and is never free.

Contact Alex Berger at timesledgernews@cnglocal.com.

K of C raises $10K for a boro Memorial Day parade Dee Richard

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une 26 was the day of the birth of a new Queens tradition to be known as “Whitestone Family Appreciation Day.” It was a day of great fun in the sun with camaraderie involved among the many diverse groups participating in the event.

The origin’s founders are Monsignor Francis J. Dillon of Council No. 5872 of the Knights of Columbus, the Greater Whitestone Taxpayers Civic Association and the North Queens United Group.

The event was held in Francis Lewis Park on 3rd Avenue both next to and un-

der the Whitestone Bridge.

Weather-wise it was a lovely, warm summer day. It lasted from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.

We arrived there around 1:30 p.m. and left around 4:30 p.m. By the time we left, everything was still going strong. Everyone was having so much fun it seemed as though they wanted to stretch the fun out to the last minute.

There was so much to see and do it was difficult to decide where to start.

There was a live, four-piece band that played all day to the delight of those who got up and danced — including our state Sen. Frank Padavan. For the children there were pony rides, face painting, basketball and several types of inflatable entertainment games, rides and slides. For the adults there were all-day bocce tournaments conducted on the two new bocci courts that had

just been installed.

There were free hot dogs supplied by the Knights of Columbus, bottles of Poland Spring water courtesy of Elio Forcina and Albert Maimone, free Ralph’s Italian Ices and free pizza from the original Cascarino’s in College Point. All the tables had 5-gallon empty water bottles so you could make a donation — in fact, $10,000 was raised. The proceeds from the raffles and donations for the food and rides will go to the Whitestone Veterans Memorial Association, earmarked to help fund its annual Memorial Day parade. It was a winwin for everyone.

Of course, a public event would not be complete without the presence of our local politicians — both elected and those wanting to be elected. The two elected officials present while we were there were Pada-

van and City Councilman Dan Halloran. The posse of wannabes were Republicans Rob Speranza and Vinny Tabone, who are running for state Assemblywoman Ann-Margaret Carrozza’s seat and on the Democratic side of the aisle those running for the same seat are Forcina and Steve Behar. Behar informed me that while his dad is Jewish, his mom is Italian, so he believes he should also be considered as part of the large number of Italian candidates running in the district. Ed Braunstein is a third Democrat running for Carrozza’s seat, but while we were there, he was not present.

Candidates for the 16th Senate District seat, held by Sen. Toby Stavisky, were present. Those present were Bob Schwartz and John Messer. The third Democratic challenger, Isaac

Sasson, was not available since he was observing the sabbath.

All the opposition candidates believe the current public attitude is antiincumbent. The results of a number of recent elections seem to substantiate that belief. Thus they feel Stavisky is vulnerable. If the race were Stavisky pitted against one opponent, it would seem they have a point. But when it’s three against one it seems they would divide the vote, thereby making it easier for Stavisky to win, as there are no Republicans running in the 16th Senate seat race. I guess whoever wins the September primary will be the November winner.

I just had a conversation with Schwartz and he said he is running on the Conservative line. If that is true, there will be a candi-

date running against her in the general election. Does this change the equation?

We also understand Anthony Como has entered the race against Sen. Joseph Addabbo. The only problem is it’s rather late in the game. Is there enough time to orchestrate a creditable and winning race?

I guess it all boils down to how much money you can raise and how strong a sizable support team you can muster up. Under the right circumstances anything is doable but requires connecting all the dots.

That’s it for this week.

I look forward to hearing from you with information on people, parties and politics or gossip.

I like receiving your voice mails at 718-767-6484, faxes at 718-746-0066 and emails at deerrichard@aol. com.

Till next week, Dee.

Ackerman faces biggest GOP challenge yet for seat William Lewis Political Action

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n the Fifth Congressional District in northeast Queens and northwest Nassau County, there are intense political activities developing to challenge U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-Bayside). This year started out with a Tea Party affiliate demonstrating twice in front of Ackerman’s Bayside district office on Northern Boulevard. Its main grievance was the national medical insurance plan Ackerman supports.

There have been few candidates who have emerged from Republican ranks to challenge Acker-

ning a primary against Milano. Berney ran unsuccessfully two years ago against Ackerman. This year, she has the support of Republican Nassau County Chairman Joe Mondello and the Nassau Republican Executive Committee.

Most of the registered voters in the congressional district live in the Queens section, which would seem to favor Milano, but Berney has been preparing for a run since she lost last time.

Primary elections can be more difficult to predict than general elections, although like all elections it will depend on which candidate is better organized and raises the most money.

It also depends on which candidate can get his or her supporters out on Election Day since most primary elections usually have light turnouts.

This year, the primary election is being held Sept.

14, so we will have a long primary campaign. In the meantime, Ackerman, who has both the Democratic and Independence parties’ endorsements, will not have to worry about a 100 percent effort against him until after the primary — unless there are successful petition challenges that eliminate one of the two Republican candidates. Ackerman has been successful in winning all of his congressional campaigns up to this point. This year brings on different circumstances, as there seems to be a strong anti-incumbency attitude among the electorate.

In the New York gubernatorial race, state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is strongly entrenched as the Democratic candidate with Indepen-

dence Party endorsement.

A primary, however, might result between the Republican-designated candidate, Rick Lazio, and upstate businessman Carl Paladino, who needs to obtain at least 15,000 valid petition signatures to get on the ballot statewide.

At the Republican convention several weeks ago, the main confrontation was between Lazio and Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy. Lazio started his quest for the Republican gubernatorial nomination last year and obtained significant support from Republican State Committee members early on before Levy got into the race this year. During the three-day convention — especially on the second day, when the governor’s nomination was decided — the delegates supporting Levy were en-

thusiastic, but the Lazio delegates and supporters seemed well-organized.

Just as the voting for the gubernatorial candidate was about to begin, a motion was made to have all four candidates address the convention. This motion was supported by the Levy forces and was also supported by two other candidates: Paladino and businessman Myers Mermel.

The Lazio forces opposed it. State Chairman Ed Cox called for a voice vote on this motion. It was defeated by the Lazio supporters.

This procedural vote indicated the Lazio delegates would control the governor’s nominating vote, which they did by a decisive margin. Soon we will see if that convention has led to a Republican primary for governor between Lazio and Paladino.

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illiam “Bill” Rafferty, born in Queens June 17, 1944, had an interesting résumé before his success as a comedian and game show host on television. Rafferty was a New York cab driver, butcher in California and military police officer in the U.S. Army.

His first exposure on national television was one episode on “Laugh-In” in the 1970s. Two years later he broke into the big time as a roving reporter for the NBC reality series “Real People,” which ran from 1979-84. He hosted three talk shows: “Every Second Counts” (1984), “Card Sharks” (1986) and “Blockbusters” (1987). Starting in

the fall of 1986 and ending in the fall of 1987, he was the host of “Card Sharks,” which aired in syndication. He was in the movies “Above the Rim” (1994) and “Mad City” (1997) and the television show “Nash Bridges” (1999).

During his game show hosting stints, Rafferty coined several expressions, such as “dual implication” — either contestant can win the game or match with the next correct answer — and “the land of parting gifts” — meaning that the person who lost the game wins whatever prizes are mentioned by the announcer in the closing plug.

Rafferty is currently the host of a television show called “Retired and

On June 15, 1913, victims of a fire were memorialized in Middle Village.

The bells of the local Lutheran church tolled Sunday afternoon while a gathering of more than 2,000 people attended memorial services commemorating the ninth anniversary of the burning of the excursion boat General Slocum, which occurred June 15, 1904.

When the boat caught fire on the East River, more than 1,100 people died within a few hundred yards of the shores of North Brother Island. It was the largest civilian disaster in New York City before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. As would be the case with the Triangle Shirtwaist fire in 1911, the burning of the Slocum spurred an investigation into fire safety conditions. A major improvement in steamboat safety

and maritime regulations would be the result of the tragedy.

The news caused the papers to look back at previous infernos. The last “big fire” took place July 21, 1893, when St. Mary’s Church was burned. Old timers referred to that conflagration as the greatest thing in the way of fires that ever happened in Queens. Not only was the church burned, but also the rectory, parochial church and a dozen or two other buildings.

That neighborhood was then one of the finest in Long Island City. Across 49th Avenue were private residences and new flats that were considered posh back then. The local firemen were criticized for allowing the fire to spread to the other side of 5th Street.

Brooklyn fire companies aided in preventing the fire from eating up a few more blocks of property.

For more information, call the Greater Astoria Historical Society at 718-2780700 or visit astorialic.org.

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man in past years, but this year no less than six candidates indicated a desire to run against him. All of them sought Republican endorsement and the support of the Tea Party.

After a lengthy screening process, Dr. James Milano of Nassau County received the endorsement of the Queens Republican Party and the Conservative parties of Queens and Nassau. The local Tea Party affiliate seems to be supporting Milano as well. Milano has spoken out against the new national health care plan. He has also called for greater border control to stop the influx of illegal immigrants.

Before Milano faces Ackerman in the fall general election, one of the other five Republican candidates, attorney Elizabeth Berney, has indicated she is run-

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BY IVAN PEREIRA Port Authority administrators said no one believed them when they promised four months ago that they would be able to complete the crux of the bay runway renovation at Kennedy Airport on schedule, but with hard work and careful planning they were able to meet their goal with time to spare.

Flights began taking off from the 14,572-foot runway Monday night after it was shut down for the upgrade, which Port Authority Executive Director Chris Ward said would make flights run more efficiently with fewer delays.

The nearly $350 million construction, which began in March and ended three days ahead of schedule, widened the runway and installed new technology to handle the increased load of planes that come into the

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“It’s replacing the largest runway at Kennedy, so it was vital to replace first,” Ward said.

The runway, which handles a third of the airport’s flights, now has an increased width of 50 feet and is made out of concrete instead of asphalt. The changes will allow larger

aircraft to land, taxi and take off from JFK, which in turn will enable more passengers to fly into New York without having additional traffic, according to Ward.

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“By reducing that amount of waiting, customers ... are hitting the runway faster,” he said.

The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey said it received a lot of complaints from the airlines and passengers about the

project prior to its start, but the authority spent three years of planning to make sure no one was inconvenienced. The PA worked with the airlines to plan the construction during its off-peak flight times and created a new software system to direct flights in a methodical manner.

Although the runway is expected to bring in up to 35 percent more traffic, the Federal Aviation Administration said flight delays of 15 minutes or more were down 6 percent from the same time last year.

“That doesn’t happen without people doing a lot of work,” FAA Regional Administrator Carmine Gallo said.

Ward also praised his construction teams for their swift work, especially since a lot of the initial groundwork was being done during rough weather at the end of winter.

The runaway, which handles a third of the airport’s flights, now has an increased width of 50 feet and is made out of concrete instead of asphalt.

“The public is so skeptical of public agencies being on time,” he said. “The Port Authority did it on time and on budget.”

Reach reporter Ivan Pereira by e-mail at ipereira@cnglocal.com or by phone at 718-260-4546.

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A St. Albans man who went on an alleged drag race in his friend’s car and crashed into a minivan was indicted last week on charges of seriously injuring the 60-year-old driver in the other vehicle, the Queens district attorney said.

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Mohammed was driving on the median of the street, which is not allowed, around 11 p.m. when he crashed into a blue Dodge Caravan that was traveling at an intersection at 233rd Street, the DA said. Both vehicles lost control, suffered severe damage and

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Baker has since been released from the hospital but needs a cane to walk and has to wear a neck brace, according to the DA. He is currently receiving outpatient care, Brown said.

If convicted of these crimes, Mohammed faces up to seven years in prison, the DA said.

His indictment came more than a week after two teens were arraigned for having a suspected drag race near St. Francis Prep High School, the DA said.

Matthew Ramatuar, of 220th Street in Queens Village, and William I. Karl, of Forest Road in Little Neck, both 17, were charged June 10 with several counts, including reckless driving in the incident that took place that day.

Both teens were talking at a red light at the intersection of Horace Harding Expressway and Francis Lewis Boulevard while revving their engines, Brown said. When the light turned green, they allegedly traveled up Francis Lewis Boulevard at speeds of up to 80 miles per hour, according to the DA. Although no one was hurt in that incident, Brown said the teens risked their lives and endangered other motorists.

“While the days where neighborhoods near streets like Francis Lewis Boulevard in Bayside and the South Conduit in South Jamaica had to endure organized NASCAR-like noise and danger are behind us, there are still renegades of all ages who persist in engaging in high-risk behavior behind the wheel of oftentimes souped-up vehicles,” he said.

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Storm Continued from Page 1 Monday. Some of them had lost power during the downpour, leaving them with no air conditioning during the soaring 90-degree temperatures.

“It looks like a war zone,” said Mark Siver, a resident of Manor Road, Friday. “There are trees down on every block. You know the city. It could take them a year to clean up.”

Cleanup crews removed large tree limbs from residential neighborhoods across Little Neck, while several Douglaston residents were meeting with insurance adjusters Friday morning. A number of streets had been blocked as Con Edison trucks restored power or damaged trees were taken down.

Several homes in the neighborhoods appeared to have been extremely damaged after large trees landed on their roofs, vehicles or doorsteps.

The Little Neck Parkway was temporarily closed last Thursday following the storm, while more than 2,000 Con Ed customers lost power in the borough.

One Douglaston resident said he had a close call while riding his bicycle home during the storm.

“I was riding home when a tree and some pow-

er lines fell down in front of me,” said Thomas Flannigan of Douglaston.

Another resident from the neighborhood who did not want to be named said her home’s siding, roof and front stoop needed to be fixed after a large tree crashed onto her property.

“I have no idea how long it will take to clean up,” she said. “When I called the [city] Parks Department, they just took a report.”

Siver said Douglaston residents have long been calling on the city to remove some of the community’s trees, which are primarily silver maples that date back to the 1920s.

“We have been trying to get the city to take them down because many are hollowed out,” he said.

“Somebody is going to die if they do not do their jobs.

These trees have been falling down since the 1970s.

The city tells us as long as they have leaves, they are alive.”

City Councilman Dan Halloran (R-Whitestone) said the city Parks Department had brought in private contractors to clean up badly damaged sections of his district, such as 40th Avenue in Douglaston.

“They’ve cleared all the trees so they are not blocking streets,” he said Tuesday. “But they have to be chipped and carted away.”

He said he hoped the

cleanup would be complete by the week’s end. The city set up a command post at Westmoreland Street and 40th Avenue, where a number of trees came crashing down.

Susan Macinick, chief of Community Board 11’s CERT team, wrote a letter to the board saying she was disappointed that CERT was not called upon to assist in the cleanup. But Halloran said the city contended that it did not need the CERT team’s help.

Jerry Iannece, CB 11’s chairman, said Douglaston received the brunt of last week’s storm because the neighborhood’s old trees could not withstand its 60to 100-mile-per-hour winds.

“The city did a fairly good job of clearing everything,” he said. “It was one of those acts of God where the elements overtook the trees. If the ground is saturated, the trees will come down with a big burst of wind.”

The LIRR provided school buses for riders traveling east beyond Bayside last Thursday evening, but the trips took hours in some cases as the drivers dodged downed power lines and trees in eastern Queens and Nassau.

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On Oct. 26, an armed man entered the Radio Shack along the shopping strip and took an estimated $400 worth of Blue Tooth headsets, while a Rite Aid pharmacy chain store near Northern Boulevard was burglarized in early November. Thieves made off with $20,000 from the pharmacy’s safe.

A Mandee chain store on Bell Boulevard near 42nd Avenue was robbed Dec. 28. During that incident, the suspect displayed a gun and stole $3,000 in cash.

No arrests have been made in any of the incidents.

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Douglaston streets were covered in broken trees after a massive storm blew briefly through the Photo by Nathan Duke neighborhood last week.

“The whole neighborhood is upset,” Amentas said. “Everyone is used to stopping by and talking to the bird. People have been coming by and saying, ‘Oh, my God, what happened to him?’”

Amentas said the bird was taken from the cage around 1 p.m. A man loading a truck across the street from the florist ran into the store and told Amentas the thief had reached into the cage, removed Romeo and fled down Bell Boulevard before turning onto 40th Avenue.

The suspect was described as a Hispanic man of an indeterminate age who was wearing a gray hat and stood about 5 feet 7 inches.

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son,” Amentas said. “He just opened the cage and put his hand inside. I don’t know how he didn’t get bitten. Maybe he had a glove on.”

Romeo is orange and yellow with green stripes on his wing. Sun Conures, which can cost up to $800 at a pet store, are native to northeastern South America.

The bird shared a cage with Juliet, who is green and yellow, in front of the store amid a selection of plants and flowers.

“It’s summer, so they like the heat,” Amentas said of the birds.

Maria Amentas, Greg Amentas’ daughter, said she was shocked Romeo was stolen and that such thefts were uncommon in the community.

“We just want him returned,” she said. “He’s our family’s bird.”

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The upscale market, which is replacing Waldbaum’s at 242-02 61st Ave. in Douglaston, was originally scheduled to open earlier this year and was then pushed back to November after its plans stalled with the city’s Board of Standards and Appeals.

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Fairway is a high-end supermarket chain. The stores prepare their own food, such as roast their own coffee, bake their own bread and keep a large inventory of cheeses as well as have on-site butchers, both kosher and non-kosher.

Councilman Dan Halloran (R-Whitestone) said he was led to believe that technical issues had slowed down the renovations.

Fairway’s attorneys could not be reached for comment to provide an update for the project.

But Jeffrey Chester, an attorney for the store, had said Fairway would need six months to perform renovations. Once it opens, the market will operate from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m.

The store will provide welcome relief for the community’s seniors, who are often forced to walk up to one mile to Stop & Shop, which is the closest market to the Fairway site, or take a cab. “It’s really bad in the immediate area,� said Elliot Socci, president of the Douglaston Civic Association. “Depending on the type of store they want to go to, seniors have to travel.

It’s a long way if you don’t drive.�

He said the community has been overwhelmingly in favor of the market opening in the neighborhood. It will create 300 new union jobs in Douglaston.

Reach reporter Nathan Duke by e-mail at nduke@ cnglocal.com or by phone at 718-260-4566.

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Chairman Rupert Murdoch and a number of other mayors and business leaders joined forces last week to push for immigration reform, including creating a path to legalization for the millions of undocumented immigrants in the United States.

A longtime proponent of national immigration reform, Bloomberg was joined by a bevy of highprofile officials to launch the “Partnership for a New American Economy,” a coalition of mayors and heads of corporations that will emphasize the economic boost immigrants give to the country.

The organization will push the federal government to establish a path to legal status for undocumented individuals living in the United States, better securing the borders using more enforcement and new technology and increasing opportunities for immigrants to enter the country workforce and for foreign students to remain in the United States to work.

“Immigrants have always been an essential part of America’s strength,” Bloomberg said. “This coalition was formed to change our current immigration policy, which is undermining our economy and threatening our status as the world’s leading power. Too many innovative new companies, and the jobs they create, are being formed overseas because entrepreneurs can’t get a green card to start them here.”

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Among those in the coalition are Mayors Phil Gordon of Phoenix, Michael Nutter of Philadelphia, Julian Castro of San Antonio and Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles and CEOs of Hewlett-Packard, the Walt Disney Co., Marriott International and Boeing.

“We couldn’t operate our hotels in the U.S. without workers from other countries,” said J.W. Marriott Jr., chairman and CEO of Marriott International. “In some of our hotels, we have upwards of 50 languages spoken and that diversity represents our customers who travel from around the world to visit our great country.

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More than 50 percent of Queens is made up of immigrants and borough leaders have long called for a massive overhaul of the country’s immigration system.

City Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras (D-Jackson Heights) and Make the Road New York Executive Director Ana Maria Archila, among many others, have repeatedly called on President Barack Obama to enact swift immigration legislation.

“While we are glad that President Obama used his considerable rhetorical abilities to condemn this legislation before the governor signed it into law, we want to remind him that if he hopes to count on continued Latino electoral support, he needs to move beyond words and bring his considerable political abilities to the project of passing a just and comprehensive national immigration reform,” Archila said in reference to the recent legislation passed in Arizona that allows law officials to ask anyone for proof of citizenship.

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Bodhi meditation was named after its founder, Master JinBodhi, and originated in China. He created this new form of meditation in order to incorporate traditional meditation practices with modern-day approaches. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He is one of the greatest meditation masters alive,â&#x20AC;? said Dr. Francina Liu, a senior instructor in New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bodhi Meditation Center, at 45-55 162nd St. in Flushing, who has taught more than 1,000 students in the metropolitan area.

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Genting New York, LLC, Penn National and a group comprised of SL Green, Hard Rock Entertainment and Clairvest Group all produced bids by the deadline, the agency said.

SL Green, which was originally partnered with Hard Rock, and Clairvest, a Toronto-based merchant bank, initially planned to make separate bids.

Buffalo-based Delaware North, which showed preliminary interest in the project, withdrew from consideration.

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The VLT contract had been awarded to Delaware North in 2007, but the deal fell through after the company could not come up with the $370 million upfront payment it promised the state.

Meanwhile, the head of the Jamaica branch of the NAACP and other south-

east Queens leaders called on the Lottery to scratch the bidding process during a protest in front of Aqueduct last week.

Leroy Gadsden, president of the Jamaica NAACP, said the bidding process is flawed because it excludes southeast Queens community boards from sitting on an advisory board and contended the contract does not go far enough to promote more involvement from minority- and womenowned businesses.

Gov. David Paterson and state legislators have proposed establishing the advisory board, which would include some members of Community Board 10 — which covers Ozone Park, South Ozone Park, Howard Beach and Broad Channel. But the Legislature must approve the body.

“We’ve been shut out of the entire process,” Gadsden said of southeast Queens. “This bidding process is flawed and exclusive.”

The process for evaluating bids for the VLT contract is done using a points system, with up to five points based on a bidder’s plan to include minorityand women-owned businesses in the project.

“Five percentage points is not enough,” Gadsden said, suggesting that between 20 and 25 points should be allocated for Minority Women Business Enterprise initiatives.

Lottery spokeswoman Jennifer Givner said although the agency will be evaluating bids for the contract, it was Paterson and state legislators who drafted the bidding process.

She said the process “follows most standard protocols” for state bidding contracts and is consistent with other projects.

“The process was intentionally structured to include the Lottery’s most

aggressive MWBE employment targets ever. The extra scoring opportunity for high levels of MWBE participation by bidders and the inclusion of community members in the public bidders’ conference are evidence of the Lottery’s strong commitment to MWBE businesses, minority employment and conducting a transparent and fair bid process,” Givner said.

The Rev. Charles Norris, of the Bethesda Missionary Baptist Church in Jamaica, said southeast Queens would be subject to noise, violent crime, gambling addiction, prostitution and illegal guns as a result of the project.

“It seems ludicrous to expect this venture to positively serve our needs,” he said.

The Rev. Larry Davidson, of the Resurrection Celebration Church in Jamaica, said there should be an assurance that blacks will get a significant amount of the construction and permanent jobs from the VLT operation and invoked slavery.

“After 400 years of free labor in America, I don’t understand why African Americans have to beg for jobs in their communities,” he said.

The VLT contract had been awarded to Aqueduct Entertainment Group last year, but was rescinded after the Lottery found the consortium to be unlicensable.

Among Aqueduct Entertainment Group’s investors was influential southeast Queens minister the Rev. Floyd Flake, who had a 0.06 percent interest in the group.

Questions about Flake’s involvement in AEG were raised after the former southeast Queens congressman met with Paterson three days after the contract was awarded.

In Woodhaven, cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oldest bar reopens its doors

BY HOWARD KOPLOWITZ

The four partners who own Neirâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (l. to r.) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Andy Bigan, Loycent Gorden, David Eng and Alex Ewen â&#x20AC;&#x201D; enjoy the reopening party at the oldest bar in the city.

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part of his film â&#x20AC;&#x153;Goodfellasâ&#x20AC;? at the bar.

The Neir family sold the bar at 78th Street and 88th Avenue in 1967 and it was then renamed the Union Course Tavern. The establishment closed in 2009.

But David Eng, who bought the building that included Neirâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and converted an adjoining the-

ater into a recording studio, decided to keep a piece of Woodhaven history and bring the bar back.

Although the grand re-opening was held last Thursday, Neirâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s officially reopened in the beginning of the year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My feeling was it was such a beautiful place,â&#x20AC;? said one of the

thing like this back in the neighborhood again.â&#x20AC;?

Bayside resident and musician Aeric Lee, 24, said he started coming to Neirâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s earlier this year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They have the coldest beer in Queens, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why I come here,â&#x20AC;? Lee said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You walk in here and you feel the history. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great for the community.â&#x20AC;?

The owners, who also own the recording studio adjacent to the bar, also hold open jams Wednesdays at Neirâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.

Woodhaven resident Maureen Biglin, 69, said she grew up in a high chair at the back of the bar and remembered the days when women were not allowed to sit at the bar and instead had to sit near the back. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They have the best beer in town,â&#x20AC;? she said.

Reach reporter Howard Koplowitz by e-mail at hkoplowitz@ cnglocal.com or by phone at 718260-4573.

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The owners of what they contend is the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oldest bar held the grand reopening of Neirâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in Woodhaven last week, which featured a Mae West impersonator and longtime patrons reminiscing about the watering hole that opened in 1829.

The real West used to perform at a theater next to the bar and entertainer W.C. Fields would go there for a drink, the owners said.

It was founded in 1829 as The Old Blue Pump House by Cadwaller R. Coldon, who was also the manager of the Union Course horse racing track across the street and was a cousin of Mayor Cadwaller D. Coldon.

In 1835, the barâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name was changed to the Old Abbey and again in 1898 to Neirâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Social Hall after it was bought by Louis Neir.

During Prohibition, the bar was a speakeasy and rooms above it were converted into a bordello.

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barâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part owners, Alex Ewen, 52. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even though it was a dump, it was beautiful. We couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let it become a bodega.â&#x20AC;?

Ewen said the barâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s original gas fixtures are intact and the mahogany bar is the same one used 150 years ago. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of the stuff is original,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Carol Miller, 49, who said she has come to Neirâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for the last 25 years, said she was excited the bar was making a comeback. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love the renovations,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love the fact they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t change what they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to.

The new owners are fabulous.

They listen to what you have to say.â&#x20AC;?

Cesar Araujo, a former Woodhaven resident who was visiting from Portugal, said unlike some other bars in the neighborhood, Neirâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s does not blast loud music and does not have unfriendly bartenders. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what a neighborhood bar really ought to be,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just glad that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s some-

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Assembly OKs bill to reform city Water Board

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State Assemblyman David Weprin’s (D-Little Neck) bill to reform the city Water Board was passed by the Assembly last week.

The bill, which still needs to gain approval from the state Senate and Gov. David Paterson, would remove full control from the mayor to appoint the sevenperson board and allow the City Council to make three appointments, the mayor three appointments and the city comptroller one appointment. Currently, the mayor is able to make all seven appointments.

“If we have a restructured water

board, we believe it would be more independent and responsive to the public,” Weprin said.

The assemblyman noted many businesses and community groups argued against the 12.9 percent rate hike that went into effect July 1.

“High water rates can impact affordability for homeowners, condo and co-op owners, businesses, tenants and their landlords,” Weprin said. “Effectively a rate hike acts as a tax hike imposed without a legislative vote.”

— Anna Gustafson

OBITUARY Joseph B. Hellmann, 70 Joseph B. Hellmann, a longtime Queens community activist, died May 28 at New York University Hospital Center in Manhattan of lung cancer. He was 70.

Hellmann was a 1958 graduate of Bishop Loughlin High School and Sts. Joachim and Anne School in Queen Village. He earned his bachelor’s in civil engi-

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He was active in professional societies and was awarded two patents and published in professional journals. Hellmann successfully worked on many issues facing communities of northeast Queens. He was a member of Community Board 11 for 12 years; secretary of the Douglaston Civic Association and a member of its board of

directors for more than 25 years; trustee of the Queens Historical Society; and member of the Queens Preservation Council.

Hellmann was a founding director of the citywide Four Borough Neighborhood Preservation Alliance. In 2004, Hellmann was awarded the Van Zandt Award for Community Service by the Zion Episcopal Church of Douglaston.

He is survived by his daughter, sister, three nieces and three grandchildren. A memorial service is planned for the fall.

Volunteer ambulance service seeks new members The Glen Oaks Volunteer Ambulance Corps is looking for members of the Glen Oaks; Floral Park; Bellerose; Oakland Gardens; New Hyde Park, L.I.; and North Shore Towers communities to join its volunteer team.

It will provide the necessary training and participants will have access to opportunities for further training and participation.

If you are over 14 and want to help your community, please call 718-347-1637 or visit the corps headquarters at 257-02 Union Tnpk. in Floral Park, across from the Glen Oaks Shopping Center.

Members are available after 7 p.m. Sunday to Friday and 9 a.m. to 12 a.m. on Saturday for inquiries and to provide membership applications.

New traffic pattern at Throgs Neck Bridge One lane of the Cross Island Parkway southbound ramp on the Throgs Neck Bridge will be closed through the start of the summer to accommodate ongoing deck reconstruction.

Motorists need to stay in the right lane for access to the CIP southbound.

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Clearview Expressway via the center and left lanes heading Queens- and Long Island-bound off the bridge.

As with any change in traffic pattern, motorists should expect a period of adjustment or use the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge as an alternate route to Queens.

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Afzal Hossein’s “Stealing Mangoes.”

Jackson Heights painter lives the American Dream as Bangladeshi artist’s cafe becomes cultural crossroads

BY ALLISON PLITT Tucked between 77th Street and 37th Avenue in Jackson Heights, there is a neighborhood café called Espresso 77 that serves a variety of beverages, sandwiches and soups. However, it’s not what’s on the menu that’s impressive — it’s what one sees on the walls. Owner Afzal has adorned the café with

paintings that would make any viewer take a second look.

While his older brother Anowar, who also displays some of his work in the café, is a fulltime artist who has shown his work in exhibits and galleries worldwide, Afzal Hossein has a treasure trove of paintings about to be discovered. Painting in vibrant hues, Afzal says much of his work is reminiscent

Hossein’s cafe in Jackson Heights also serves as a showcase for his Photo by Allison Plitt artwork.

of his childhood in Bangladesh.

He observed, “Where I grew up in Bangladesh, there were so many rich, different colors. In the Indian movies I saw vibrant, solid color. Each piece of my artwork has some of that memory.”

Afzal Hossain is an admirer of master painters such as Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall, who all used color as a means of

expressing themselves in their works. Explaining that his art should provide viewers with a sense of happiness, he said, “If people want to see my art, they should put it in their house and think about how beautiful it is, use their imagination. I like to use form and reality.”

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Cuzco Peru: Take culinary trip to the Andes in Rego Park

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BY SUZANNE PARKER Peruvian cuisine is poised on the cusp of becoming one of those ethnic cuisines that you find in every neighborhood, just like Chinese, Thai or Mexican (and dare we point out that even pizza was once an ethnic specialty). Pollo a la brasa (rotisserie chicken) and Jalea (battered fried seafood) are universal in their appeal, even to fussy kids, and the more exotic fare is easy to love. When we spotted Cuzco Peru on Queens Boulevard in Rego Park, it confirmed our belief in the inevitability of Peruvian joining the ranks of omnipresent ethnic dining.

Cuzco Peru is small, but cute and inviting. The walls are painted with Incan-inspired designs. The tables sport crisp white linens. The food is mostly representative of the cuisine of the central coast of Peru.

Potatoes and jumbo corn turn up in almost everything. Seafood dishes are plentiful, along with chicken.

Beef, while not absent from the menu, is something of an also-ran.

We were drawn to this restaurant by a friend’s rave about their Anticuchos— marinated grilled beef kebabs, a popular Peruvian street/snack food. Alas, there were none to be had, either on our initial visit or when we returned. We contented ourself instead with Papas a la Huancaina and Ceviche de Mariscos. The papas Huancaina is made of boiled potatoes served on a bet of lettuce in a slightly spicy cheese sauce with an olive and hard boiled egg.

It’s a pleasant unassuming vegetarian starter that is a gentle introduction to traditional Peruvian fare.

Interestingly, even if the name indicates that it is from Huancayo, it is actu-

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Jalea, a Peruvian-style fried seafood platter, is both ample and dePhoto by Suzanne Parker licious at Cuzco Peru. ally from Chosica, in Lima, made by a “Huancaina” (a person from Huancayo). Go know.

The seafood ceviche was workman-like, embellished with a section of jumbo corn as well as a scattering of cancho (roasted jumbo corn kernals) and flying a flag of fried plaintain. In the manner of Peruvian ceviche (as opposed

Mexican style) there were no tomatoes—only seafood, thinly slice onions, herbs, and lime juice. The seafood selection was heavily weighted towards squid, with the occasional shrimp.

A few scallops or octopus would have been welcome, but the clean, bright flavor with just enough zip went a fair way towards making up for the monotony of the

seafood.

The Jalea—batterfried assorted seafood and fish—was a study in abundance, ample enough for two or more diners. Ever present squid joined with fish filets, crab claws (in the shell), mussels (also fried in the shell), shrimp (mercifully shelled) and fried yucca. This dish is easily distinguishable from regulation fish and chips by the characteristic flavor imparted by the lime marinated red onion strewn over the seafood and the ever present cancho.

The succulent, tender chicken a la brasa, when ordered as one of the various combos, is a great way to feed a family. The timid can stick to salad and French fries, while the more adventurous can experiment with sweet or green plantains, beans and rice, or Salchipapas (fried pigs in the blanket).

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The parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Outdoor Cinema series, which is marking its 12th year, will host four screenings of movies from around the world this month as well as several more in August at dates yet to be determined. Each film will be accompanied by a musical performance and food from the movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s country of origin. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the only one of its kind because of its international programming,â&#x20AC;? said Shaun Leonardo, the parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s special events coordinator. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the best way for

Among Socrates Sculpture Parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s international film selections this summer will be the Irish animated surprise hit â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Secret of Kellsâ&#x20AC;? July 14.

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filmed near Socrates. It follows four musicians who build boats out of junk and embark on a voyage down the Hudson River.

The art film relies heavily on music and concert sequences, so the band Dark Dark Dark will provide a live musical score for the movie during its screening.

Food at the event will be provided

by Brooklynâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Soule Restaurant, which serves home-cooked Southern and Caribbean food.

On July 14, Socrates will

screen â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Secret of Kells,â&#x20AC;? an Irish film that was nominated for Best Animation Film at this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Academy Awards. The picture follows the adventures of a 12-year-old boy on a mission to complete a magical illuminated manuscript.

The movie is almost completely hand-drawn in the style of medieval art. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t imagine it being hand-drawn because it is so gorgeous,â&#x20AC;? Leonardo said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We try to

show animated films each year because they look amazing on the big screen in the park.

Food at the event will be catered by Mad Donkey, a new Irish cuisine restaurant, and accompanied by Jamesonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Revenge, a traditional five-piece Irish band.

Rooftop Films will present the third screening, which will feature award-winning short films from Sweden, on July 21. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The subject matter of all of them is very wild,â&#x20AC;? Leonardo said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s everything from magicians skewering their assistants to bank robberies going awry and trains falling off their tracks.â&#x20AC;?

Among the films will be â&#x20AC;&#x153;Instead of Abracadabra,â&#x20AC;? which was nominated this year at the Oscars for Best Short Film.

The event will include food from the West Villageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Smorgas Chef and music by Detektiv Byran, a band that Socrates has flown in from Sweden for the screening.

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The series is programmed by the sculpture park, Astoriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Museum of the Moving Image and, for the first time this year, Brooklynâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rooftop Films.

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Queens subway conductor eats his way to fame

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BY RAPHAEL SUGARMAN When he is not eating 30 Nathan’s hot dogs in 12 minutes or 120 chicken wings, Eric “Badlands” Booker insists he likes to eat slowly and savor his food.

“I can actually separate what I do in the eating contests and what I do day-to-day,” said Booker, a Queens native, who has been a subway conductor on the No. 7 line since January 1992. “I can turn it on for the contests. I am pretty much a grazer when I eat day-to-day. I like to enjoy my food.”

Booker is ranked 12th worldwide in the burgeoning field of competitive eating. His formidable 400-pound belly is a veritable United Nations of ingestion. He has scarfed down 15 burritos in eight minutes; 50 Hamentaschen (a cookie associated with

the Jewish holiday of Purim) in six minutes; and 21 baseball-sized matzo balls in five minutes and 25 seconds.

On the savory side, he has devoured four pounds of corned beef hash in just less than two minutes;

FROM THE FOOTLIGHTS three Maui onions in one minute; and 9 1/2 one-pound bowls of peas in 12 minutes.

In sweeter competitions, he wolfed down two pounds of chocolate bars in six minutes; 49 glazed doughnuts in eight minutes; and nearly five pumpkin pies in 12 minutes.

Booker is known as “the people’s champion,” an apt moniker it becomes clear only minutes after first meeting the jovial gas-

Eric “Badlands” Booker parlayed a childhood of hearty eating in Springfield Gardens into a career as a competitive eater, including a regular appearance at the Nathan’s Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest. tronomic superstar.

“I am pretty much the last competitor to leave an event,” said Booker, 41. “I will always stick around to sign an autograph, shake a hand or take a picture. I appreciate the fact that so many fans turn out to attend these events. I just show the love back to them.”

Booker is as candid and unassuming about his own love of food as he is about why he ultimately turned to the world of competitive eating.

He has fond memories of large meals with lots of visiting relatives at the family’s home in Springfield Gardens as a boy.

Among the members of his immediate family, however, Booker said he was the only big eater. “I was the one that hit the dinner pot for seconds and if there was any left, maybe thirds,” he said with a chuckle.

The tradition of generous culinary spreads has continued in Booker’s own

home on Long Island, especially on Sundays, when the family has a big dinner. His wife Regina “can cook, really, really well,” he boasted.

But Booker insisted that he eats “pretty much healthy” between contests. “I don’t cook with salt and we eat very few fried foods,” he said. He listed some of his favorite items on Regina’s cooking repertoire as baked fish, baked chicken and spaghetti.

Booker’s decision in 1997 to enter a local qualifying contest for Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs was based less on a dream of earning a spot in the prestigious Coney Island contest than the other part of the prize. “I wanted to win the 50 pounds of hot dogs they were giving away,” Booker said unabashedly.

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Exhibition of Neuronal Drawings â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The LaGuardia Gallery of Fine Arts is presenting an exhibition of neuronal drawings by Dr. Audrius Plioplys, a neurologist, neuroscientist and internationally know graphic artist specializing in paintings and digital prints that reďŹ&#x201A;ect the brainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inner workings.

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Cityscape: Surveying the Urban Biotope â&#x20AC;&#x201D; This exhibition will feature eleven artists who are exploring both the cultivated and invasive presence of nature in our built urban environment.

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Dining Out Continued from Page 34 We had a few disappointments along with the successes here. Tallarín verde is a Peruvian pasta dish using a sauce which is a creamier version of pesto sauce incorporating cream cheese and spinach along with the basil.

It comes with slices of marinated beef or chicken perched on top of the pasta—we chose the beef. Our beef, while well flavored, was dry and tough.

The pasta below must have been left sitting sauced so that it had absorbed it all, turning it into dry, mealy green pasta with only slightly perceptible traces of sauce. The arroz chaufa with chicken, a Peru-

Afzal Hossein with his painting “Girl and Fish” at Espresso 77.

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and shops, Espresso 77 serves as a gathering place for the artistic community of Jackson Heights. Hossain displays paintings from other artists, invites musicians to perform at the café and has a story hour for children. “This space is for anybody. It’s a community,” he said. “If anybody needs something, I’ll be there. Artists should be helping out other artists.

You have to help each other, otherwise you’re never going to go anywhere.”

Always looking beyond the horizon, Hossain next wants to set up a communal work space for artists in Queens. “I really want to create an artists’ space where people go and pay money and work by the hour,” he said. “It would

Afzal Hossein’s “To The River.” be a common space with a printing machine. Artists need that. If I had some money, maybe I could buy a warehouse. I have a plan, I just have to do it. As one person, I don’t know how far I can go, but I want to

vian version of Chinese fried rice was no better. The rice was stodgey and the chicken, while abundant, was dry and stringy. The best part was the spicy green sauce that came with it.

The Bottom Line Cuzco Peru is another arrow in your quiver when seeking a solution to the problem of what to eat when you don’t feel like cooking, are tired of the usual casual dining/take out options and don’t want to take a big hit in the wallet. The food is tasty and interesting, portions are prodigious, and the prices are modest. They also offer some traditional Peruvian beverages including a killer sangria. A half pitcher is adequate to be shared between all but the thirstiest of souls.

try to give something to the community.”

For more information about Afzal Hossain, his artwork and BANG Architecture/Design, you can visit his website at www. afzalhossaindesign.com.

Reel Queens Continued from Page 35 sies,” an eccentric Czech New Wave film from 1966 about two young women who play a series of pranks as acts of societal rebellion.

That screening will include food from Astoria’s Zlata Praha and music by Ondrej Pivec, a Czech trio that plays a mixture of jazz, soul and funk.

Socrates has not yet released its schedule of films for August, but Leonardo said two selections could be from Italy and India.

“We are still unsure as to how many dates

we’ll play due to budget reasons,” he said. “There will be August dates, but we just don’t know how many yet.”

He said funding has become increasingly difficult for the arts amid the current economy and that the park has a new program called Cinema Stars. Visitors can choose to give $25 donations and have their names projected on the screen before the films begin.

The donations can be made at the screenings or online at the park’s Web site socratesculpturepark.org.

Continued from Page 36 earned both the coveted hot dogs (he kept half and gave half away to friends and family), and the right to compete at Coney Island on July Fourth, less then a month away.

The Nathan’s Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest was already world famous when Eric Booker competed in his first contest that summer of ’97. The event, which according to legend was first held in 1916 between four immigrants, regularly attracts at least 30,000 spectators and a television audience of 1.5 million households.

But many, including Booker, contend that the world of competitive eating didn’t really explode until 2001, when Takeru Kobayashi, a slender Japanese first-time competitor at the Nathan’s event, nearly doubled the existing record, gulping down 50 hot dogs in 12 minutes.

“I was eating right beside him that day and I remember that some of the other competitors were so amazed that they stopped right in the middle of the contest just to watch him,” recalled Booker.

However admired, Kobayashi’s removal of Nathan’s prized “Mustard Belt” from American soil on July Fourth was seen as a national catastrophe by some, only rectified when California native Joey Chestnut recaptured the belt in 2007, eating 66 dogs in 12 minutes, three more than Kobayashi.

In the past several years, the number of competitive eating contests around the world, but particularly in the United States, has exploded.

Under the auspices of a company called Ma-

jor League Eating, run by brothers George and Richard Shea and partner David Baer, there are now more than 80 competitive eating events held each year. The swift of palate can test their appetites on oysters, pizza, catfish, jalapenos, grits, fried asparagus, and 7-Eleven Slurpees, to name just a few of the choice foods.

“This year alone we were in Singapore, Australia, Greece and Canada,” said George Shea, the genial host of the Nathan’s event, known for the straw boating hat he wears to the event each year. “It’s not just an American thing.”

Although he has participated in several other contests, Booker said that Nathan’s is still the most challenging — and thrilling.

“Hot dogs are the hardest because you have to deal with the meat and the bread,” he said. “Nathan’s hot dogs are very rich but very delicious. One year I would like to win that contest.”

And what does Booker make of the huge increase in competitive eating contests in the past few years?

“I just think it’s because Americans love to eat,” he said. “In Japan, the contests are stretched out over longer periods of time like a half hour or an hour. Here in America, large quantities of food are eaten over a short period of time. That’s what appeals to people.”

The Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest will take place at the Nathan’s at the corner of Surf and Stillwell avenues in Brooklyn. A stage show for the event will begin at 10 a.m. and the contest will begin at noon.

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American dream through hard work and inventiveness. Hossain, his mother and seven older siblings have all moved from Bangladesh to Jackson Heights and live within walking distance of each other. Discussing his close-knit family, Hossain said, “When I was 4 years old, my father passed away. My mother and brothers and sisters were always helping each other by holding hands. I try to help my family as much as I can now because we live near each other.”

At 34 Hossain has created an impressive resumé of achievements. With a bachelor of architecture degree from Pratt Institue, he worked at Robert A.M. Stern Architects as a designer where he met his wife, Julie Nymann. To devote more time to his painting, Hossain left the firm to open Espresso 77 where he has been able to display his artwork. In addition to their 2-year-old daughter, he and Nymann’s other joint venture is BANG Architecture/Design, a company they formed to work on residential and commercial design projects.

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State budget Continued from Page 5 avoidant conduct that has characterized fiscal management in this state for far too long.”

Padavan also criticized the budget and said the Senate Democrats “don’t know what the hell they’re doing.”

“All in all, [the budget is] a mess, which is why I voted against it and why the governor vetoed it,” he said.

Padavan said the state could have saved money if

High school closings Continued from Page 5 regardless of what a judge or anyone does,” Forrestal said.

A spokesman for the DOE said it is still waiting for the appellate court to rule over the United Federation of Teacher’s lawsuit that stopped the closings in March. The spokesman would not discuss ongoing litigation, but said the letter mailed to students was done to ensure they had all the information before they made their decision.

Susan Sutera, a physical education teacher at Jamaica High for 25 years,

said she was disheartened by the low number of freshman applicants because the school community has worked hard to save the school.

“No matter what we do, there are just things out of our control,” she said.

Students, however, are not taking no for an answer.

Nearly 300 students from the 19 schools have formed a student alliance group to fight the DOE’s plans. Racheal Ali, a graduating Jamaica High senior who serves as vice president of the grassroots group, said they have been going to

serve,” Lancman said.

Legislators, including Lancman and Sen. Joseph Addabbo (D-Howard Beach), said the Assembly has the votes to override Paterson’s vetoes, but said it is doubtful the Senate will be able to come up with the two-thirds support it needs for an override.

“We never got to discuss the budget,” Addabbo said. “It was what the governor wanted. The process has to change. This is a bad course that Albany once again is going down.”

Addabbo said the Senate’s revenue package includes the year-long sus-

pension of the state sales tax exemption on clothing under $100, which is projected to generate $300 million for the state’s coffers.

He added there will be no soda or mortgage tax.

State Assemblyman David Weprin (D-Little Neck) said the legislature’s budget was preferable to approving Paterson’s budget carte blanche.

“If the Senate and Assembly can agree on a budget that’s balanced and reflected the priorities of the legislature, we thought that was preferable to taking the governor’s budget,” Weprin said.

State Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi (D-Forest Hills) too said he agreed NE with their budget.

“Throughout this challenging budget process, I have fought to protect our children’s schools, keep SUNY and CUNY affordable and promote better public health,” Hevesi said.

“While we have substantially achieved these goals, the tough times are not over yet and I will continue to fight for our community in Albany.”

community boards, elected officials, media and alumni to rally their support and show that Jamaica HS is worth keeping open.

Working with teachers, the students have opened a Facebook page, blog and done events such as a community barbecue to promote school spirit.

“I’m a little worried, but I think we’re strong and we can win over the Department of Ed again,” she said.

The outpouring of support and activism has already gone far for the Queens high schools.

In January, the city voted to phase out 14 high schools in the five bor-

oughs, including Jamaica, Beach Channel and the Campus Magnet school, due to low graduation numbers and unsatisfactory grades.

The schools were not to admit freshman students and smaller institutions would be set up inside the buildings of the current schools.

Students and teachers at the high schools said they were being unnecessarily criticized because their low grades were a result of budget cuts and a reduction in educational resources.

Beach Channel teens too slammed the city for its proposal to shutter the institution they said had well prepared them for life after high school.

“There are wonderful teachers here who really care about us passing,” said Tierra Munion, a Far Rockaway resident and Beach Channel graduate.

Daniel Malcaus, Beach Channel’s valedictorian from Far Rockaway, too praised the school and said it needed more support from the city, not less.

“I don’t think they need to do close it, they just need to change it a little bit,” he said. “It’s a really good school.”

A teacher at Beach Channel HS, who asked not to be named, concurred.

“We need real resources put into the public schools that we already

have. Why are they giving up on a school that works so hard for its students?” the teacher asked.

Other instructors stressed that the only way to show improvement is to give students a secure place to learn and that limiting the number of students sends the wrong message.

“It’ll be open in the fall, but the way I look at it is that it will be limping along like a sorry version of itself,” Jamaica High special education teacher Joan Bessette said.

World Cup Continued from Page 9 not sit still.

“He gets so nervous,” said his girlfriend.

Silva wasn’t the only one who was on edge. Even as the other fans enjoyed their food and the company of their fellow Chileans, they still anxiously watched the game, hoping their team could come from behind for a miraculous victory.

Despite the loss to Spain, Chile advanced but was knocked out by Brazil Monday.

The Algerian soccer team didn’t fair as well.

At Cafe Borbone in Astoria, dozens of fans — some draped in Algerian flags

— were disappointed when their team lost to the United States, 1-0, last week.

“I feel sorry for them,” said the cafe’s owner, Lorenzo Palazzolo, who is of Italian descent.

However, the loss wasn’t enough to keep Algerians from holding an impromtu dance party along Steinway Street complete with a darbuka drum — even as U.S. fans from the Egyptian Coffee Shop celebrated next door.

“So we lost, that’s fine.

For next World Cup, we hope so,” said Algerian fan Amine Shakur, who wore both his country’s flag and a team jersey.

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$258 million.

“New York state does not have a budget because for the last three months the Legislature has refused to act on my proposals,” Paterson said. “When they were finally confronted with reality, rather than act in the interest of the people of New York state they have engaged in legislation that is in their self-interest and have presented us with a series of bills with the same gimmicks, chicanery and

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it had reduced Medicaid spending, which accounts for $52 billion of the state budget.

“The entire budget scenario is a disgrace and an outrage,” Padavan said.

Legislators said Paterson’s rejection of their budget could result in teacher layoffs in the city and a loss of school programs.

“The money has to come from somewhere, and we’ll see it in Queens in the form of larger class sizes, less programming for students and missing an opportunity for another generation of students to get the education they de-

Reach reporter Anna Gustafson by e-mail at agustafson@ cnglocal.com

Reach reporter Ivan Pereira by e-mail at ipereira@cnglocal.com or by phone at 718-260-4546.

City budget Continued from Page 5 time was we had to make the cuts and we couldn’t raise taxes. So we made cuts in a way that was fiscally responsible and trimmed the city’s budget in a way that kept the services we needed without compromising public safety.”

One remaining question loomed over the budgetary process but will not affect the agreement between the Council and Bloomberg.

That sticking point is

what amount of state and federal funding the city will receive. Most of the money goes to state-run programs, but there would still be a need to do some budget modifications if the state ends up approving less funding in its final budget than the city is currently banking on.

Reach reporter Connor Adams Sheets by e-mail at csheets@cnglocal.com or by phone at 718-260-4538.

Contact the newsroom: At the Egyptian Coffe Shop in Astoria, fans including Abdul Samndy (front) cheer on the United States.

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BY REBECCA HENELY After catching a movie at the Cleveland International Film Festival about a girl’s search for the right man to take her virginity, Sean Wickens, 34, now of Sunnyside, ended up making himself an unusual dare.

“At an after-party for the screening I asked a few strangers how they lost [their virginity] and was amazed how candid everyone was,” Wickens said in an e-mail.

Afterward, he set himself up for what he called an “unattainable” goal: to interview more than 1,000 people about their first time. Three years of interviewing and three years of editing later, he had a book, “How to Lose Your Virginity (... And How Not To),” which is now on sale.

The stories in the book run the gamut from sweet to strange. The excerpts on Wickens’ website include a

Sunnyside resident Shawn Wickens, 34, recently published a book, “How to Lose Your Virginity,” made up of stories from 10,000 interviews with people across the United States and Canada about Courtesy of Patrick J. Shields. their first time. man from Florida who lost it watching “As Good As it Gets” in a movie theater,

another who lost it to a porn star he met on his paper route in Japan and another

man who lost it in a squat in London, only to meet up with a former classmate the next morning who had also lost her virginity that night in the house.

To get those and many other interviews, Wickens traveled to 34 cities across the United States plus Montreal. He said the interview process took so long because Wickens — who moved from Cleveland to New York in 2004 and now currently works as a window-washer in Manhattan and a stand-up comedian — had to raise the money himself.

“I had thought about asking friends and family for donations or applying for grants but determined energy spent on fund-raising would be best channeled into the project itself,” Wickens said. “I also worked at a place that would let you work extra hours in exchange for vacation time, so I did a lot of that.”

Wickens said he picked

many of the cities — Montreal; Nashville; Roswell, N.M.; Austin; and New Orleans — because he had wanted to see them in the past or, had family in areas like Wichita, Kan. and Tulsa, Okla. Other times he went to a place because it coincided with a major event, like visiting Boston for the 2004 Democratic National Convention.

“It was a lot of fun driving around and interviewing people,” Wickens said.

“And collecting stories for the book gave me a drive and a purpose on these trips that in a way made them more enjoyable than if I were aimlessly driving around America.”

Wickens said his favorite story was about a girl from Tennessee who lost her virginity working on a salmon boat.

“She ends up having her first experience with the boat’s cook, but she told her story with such nostalgia and epic detail I was

speechless when she was done telling it,” he said.

There are some funny ones he liked as well.

“A guy stole his brother’s car for a date and while the two were fumbling around in the passenger seat his foot snagged an A/C hose, covering him in freezing water,” Wickens said.

Wickens laid out the book himself and a photographer, Emily Bryan, took some pictures for it. “[Bryan] told me she keeps it on her coffee table and finds that friends she brings over, without fail, gravitate toward the book and start flipping through and reading random stories,” Wickens said.

The book is available on Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com and Wickens’ website, lossofvirginitybook.com. Wickens is donating 10 percent of the proceeds to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network.

Feds charge boro residents in mortgage fraud cases

BY REBECCA HENELY A total of 38 people, a number of whom live in Queens, were charged with participating in various mortgage fraud scams as part of “Operation Stolen Dreams,” the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York said last week.

“Mortgage fraudsters can be clever as chameleons — adapting their schemes to stay one step ahead of law enforcement,” Preet Bharara, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a release.

“But today we have caught up with them.”

Eight cases are involved in the sweep by federal and state law enforcement officials. Two of those cases involved Queens residents.

In the first of these, 17 individuals were charged

with defrauding homeowners of more than $15 million with fake pay stubs, W-2 forms and tax returns.

A tax preparer working out of Corona allegedly sold fake documents to various mortgage brokers, real estate agents and more and said buyers used them to support fraudulent mortgage loan applications, the U.S. attorney’s office said.

The tax preparer later became an informant for the FBI, allowing the agency to record or tape his transactions with clients who bought the fraudulent documents.

Those who live in Queens who allegedly purchased false documents for mortgage loan applications include Nida Campos, 41, of Jamaica; Romana Galezo, 58, of Astoria; and Galo Huaycochea, 61, of Astoria, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced “Operation Stolen Dreams” targeting of mortgage fraud by law enforcement that has charged 38 individuals in the New York City area -- eight of whom AP Photo/John Bazemore reside or work in Queens.

Those who work in Queens charged with purchasing documents for fraudulent loans included Jose Rosario, 47, and Patricia Gonzalez, 39, of the mortgage brokerage firm

Jet Funding in Bayside; Mohammed Islam, 42, of the real estate agency Rising Realty in Jackson Heights; and Edwin Barrera, 35, of mortgage brokerage Northpoint Mortgage in Jamaica,

the U.S. attorney’s office said.

Moises Vargas, 46, a Jackson Heights loan officer with Gotham City Mortgage, is also charged with paying the informant for false employment information to give to a lender on behalf of one of Vargas’ relatives, the office said.

All the defendants face up to 30 years in prison, a fine of $1 million or twice the gross gain or loss and restitution for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and wire fraud, the office said.

In the second case, Orit Tuil, 39, of Queens; Darlene Ritter, 45, of Brooklyn; and Joan Powell, 46, of Elmont, L.I., are accused of pretending to be real estate agents. They allegedly recruited straw purchasers to buy properties using another person not currently charged with any crime as a mortgage broker and sub-

mitted loan applications to inflate the creditworthiness in an attempt to obtain more than $1.6 million in loans for three properties in Brooklyn and Queens, the U.S. attorney’s office said.

Tuil and his co-conspirators are charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and face up to 30 years in prison, a fine of $1 million or twice the gross gain of loss and restitution if convicted, the attorney’s office said.

“Mortgage fraud ruins lives, destroys families and devastates whole communities, so attacking the problem from every possible direction is vital,” U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in a press release.

Reach reporter Rebecca Henely by e-mail at rhenely@cnglocal.com or by phone at 718-260-4564.

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On April 24, the St. Agnes Blue Angel cheerleaders made their mark in Agnes history by winning first place in the CHSAA Junior Varsity Cheerleading League. The team is from St. Agnes High School in College Point. St. Agnes had not had a competitive cheerleading team in years.

Members from the Whitestone Hebrew Centre participate in the annual Salute to Israel Parade by marching up Fifth Avenue in At a recent meeting of the Sacred Heart Senior Group in Bayside, the group celebrated at an “honor the 90s” party.

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The Hillcrest Jewish Center in Fresh Meadows held its annual Carole and Arthur Anderman and Myra Feder Lecture.

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The U14 Auburndale Firestorm won first place in the Massapequa Memorial Day Tournament 2010. The team entered the tournament as the underdog, undermanned and knowing it would face more experienced teams.

The St. Anastasia Knights of Columbus Council No. 5911 in Douglaston held its annual St. Patrick’s Day party March 13. Pictured are Kevin Samet (r. to l.), Grand Knight Neal Fenton, Fred Bedell, William P. Fitzgerald, Michael Proto and Martin Aversa.

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New York Supreme Court Judge Saliann Scarpulla ruled June 4 that the MTA had violated Public Authorities Law No. 1205 by carrying out layoffs without public hearings.

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BY NATHAN DUKE 5 Napkin Burger, one of Manhattan’s most popular burger joints, has made its way into Queens after opening its first chain restaurant in the borough last week near Astoria’s Museum of the Moving Image.

The chain introduced its Astoria site, at 35-01 36th Ave., June 16 after its owners, Robert Guarino, Simon Oren and chef Andy D’Amico, decided to branch out of Manhattan. 5 Napkin Burger, founded two years ago, also has sites in Hell’s Kitchen and on the Upper East Side.

“We fell in love with Astoria because we felt it was the type of place where we’d have success,” Guarino said. “Hell’s Kitchen is like Astoria — it’s an influential area with a great food culture.”

The eatery has 140 seats and 20 bar stools inside the building and it will add 70 seats outside the building once its permits are ap-

main draw,” Guarino said. “But we see it as a great neighborhood restaurant at its core. Everyone has a 5 Napkin Burger on their first visit, but then they will see the other items on the menu and

Everyone has a 5 Napkin Burger on their first visit, but then they will see the other items on the menu and want to come back.

5 Napkin Burger set its sights on Astoria for its first location outside of Manhattan because the owners said they admired its food culture.

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proved.

5 Napkin Burger is known for its juicy namesake and features a variety of burgers, including nonbeef varieties like turkey, veggie

and lamb. But the restaurant also has a full menu that includes fish and chips, entree salads, steak frites and sushi.

“Our burger section is the

Independent Business Women’s Circle — The IBWC is a social networking group that aims to bring together entrepreneurial women.

Please call to reserve a spot.

When: Second Tuesday of every month, 12:30 p.m.

Cost: Members free, nonmembers $20; includes lunch Where: Atria Cutter Mill, 96 Cuttermill Road, Great Neck

Contact: Stella Shieh (e-mail) or Karen Bomzer (phone) tshieh@optonline. net, 631-754-6640 Web site: ibwc.org Elite Synergy Network — A local chapter of BNI is seeking new members.

When: Thursdays, 7-8:30 a.m.

Where: Scobee Diner, 252-29 Northern Blvd., Little Neck Contact: Linda Santelli at (917) 854-7560 or lindajoys@ aol.com Powerful You! Women’s Network — A new Queens chapter of the national organization that empowers and supports women in their business, personal and spiritual lives.

When: Third Tuesday each

month, noon to 2 p.m.

Cost: Members and first-time attendees $30, nonmembers $40; includes lunch Where: Giardino, 4437 Douglaston Pkwy., Douglaston Contact: Gayle Naftaly, gnaftaly@accessoffice.net, 718-217-0009 Web site: www.powerfulyou. com Power Networking Group — Led by Harvey G. Beringer When: Every Wednesday, 7 a.m.

Cost: $10 for breakfast Where: Jackson Hole Diner, 35-01 Bell Blvd., Bayside Contact: Harvey G. Beringer at HGBCPA@aol.com or 718423-0427

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BUSINESS CALENDAR LICBDC Annual Luncheon B2B Expo — More than 3,000 attendees and 150 exhibitors expected.

When: Nov. 17, 9 a.m.

Where: Terrace on the Park, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Flushing Contact: Indra Smith 718786-5300 x. 21 Web site: www.licbdc.org

want to come back.”

It also offers a full list of desserts, such as American cheesecake, apple pie, espresso brownie sundae and thin layer chocolate cake.

The eatery will be open from 11:30 a.m. to midnight and will include free valet parking after 6 p.m.

5 Napkin has a full bar that features 80 types of beers, both foreign and domestic, as well as mixed drinks, 35 bourbon selections and cocktails.

“We have five drafts and 80 selections by bottle and a full liquor license,” Guarino said.

“But we’re not a bar, we’re a restaurant. We’re first and foremost about food.”

The restaurant is close to the Museum of the Moving Image, Kaufman Astoria Studios and the United Artists Kaufman Astoria 14 movie theater.

Guarino said he expects the eatery’s clientele to be a mixture of families, young professionals in the neighborhood and tourists.

The restaurant’s full menu can be viewed at www.5napkinburger.com, but prices at its Astoria site could be slightly different than at its Manhattan locales.

BNI T.N.T. (The Networking Titans) Weekly Meeting — BNI is a business and professional networking organization that allows only one person per professional classification or specialty to join a chapter. BNI provides positive, supportive and structured environment to further business through word of mouth marketing.

Contact chapter president Martin Koos to arrange a visit.

When: Thursdays, 7 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.

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Thrift Shop — Used clothing, household items, books, jewelry and more.

When: July 6, 9 a.m.

Where: The Jewish Center of Kew Gardens Hills, 71-25 Main St., Flushing Contact: 718-263-6500 Outdoor Flea Market — Ten-foot Spots Cost $30 and $40 10-foot spot with table.

When: July 11, 9 a.m.

Where: St. Raphael’s Church, 35-20 Greenpoint Ave., Long Island City Contact: Susana Rivadeneira straphaelrectory@yahoo.com 718729-8957 6th Annual Alzheimer’s Awareness Day — The New York Mets play the St. Louis Cardinals at Citi Field. The Mets will rebate a portion of each ticket sold through the Mets Group Ticket Window to the Alzheimer’s Association, New York City Chapter.

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Where: Citi Field, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Flushing Contact: Christina Andrews candrews@nymets.com 718-559-3069 Web site: www.mets.com/alzheimers Wine Tasting with Bella Italia Mia — Dinner, dancing, wine tasting.

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Former Xaverian quarterback Najee Tyer, seen playing at last year’s Outback Steakhouse Empire Challenge, landed at Youngstown Photo by Damion Reid State after leaving Purdue.

Tyler transfers to Youngstown State

BY JOSEPH STASZEWSKI Najee Tyler couldn’t help but like what he saw.

The former Xaverian quarterback had recently gotten his release from Purdue, a Big Ten school with a rich football history. He got the feeling he would have a similar experience at Yo u n g s t o w n State, a Football Championship Subdivision (I-AA) program.

“Everyone there just lives and dies for Youngstown State football,” Tyler said of his June visit to the Ohio school. “It’s a smaller school, but when it comes to their fan support, it’s just like playing at a bigtime program. We were going around town, the players were introducing me to a lot of people. You could just tell it was a real football town. Everything in the town said Youngstown football.”

So will Tyler’s jersey

next season.

The 6-foot-5, 235-pound redshirt freshman chose the school over Hampton, UMass, Appalachian State and Texas State. Tyler said when he left Purdue, after being asked to make a position change, Xaverian Coach Joe DeSiena and others started contacting coaches and word spread that he was available. When Youngstown State came calling, Tyler did some quick research on the Internet.

Tyler found out current Ohio State Coach Jim Tressel had won four national titles there in the 1990s. The Penguins went 6-5 last season and 4-4 in the Missouri Valley conference. They play their home games at Stambaugh Stadium, which has a capacity of 20,630, one of the largest in the championship subdivision.

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Holy Cross wide receiver Devon Cajuste has verbally committed to the Stanford Cardinals.

BY DYLAN BUTLER Devon Cajuste had offers from a bevy of big-time college football programs, teams that regularly play in the biggest bowl games and are always on national television.

There was Notre Dame, Penn State, West Virginia and Boston College as well as Rutgers, Connecticut, Purdue, Maryland and Syracuse.

But the Holy Cross wide receiver wanted more than just high-level college football. As important, if not more so, was a school equally known for its academics, which is why Harvard was also in play. He found the perfect fit at Stan-

ford University and on June 22 he verbally committed to attend the “Harvard of the West.”

“I’m still grasping the whole thing, soaking it all in,” Cajuste said. “I think I made the best decision in my life actually. I think it will pay off. I wear the stuff around a lot. I’m proud.”

The 6-foot-4, 211-pound rising senior, the No. 58-ranked wide receiver in the country by Scout.com, received a scholarship offer from Stanford “about three or four months ago,” Cajuste said. He started doing his homework, reading up about the school online.

“I actually didn’t know anything about Stanford,” Cajuste said. “It was the

FOOTBALL

They said wide receiver and that’s what I prefer. That sealed the deal.

Devon Cajuste Holy Cross HS only school I really did a lot of research on. So from liking it just from that, I went wanting to see if I would commit or not.”

Cajuste flew out to Palo Alto last week and im-

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mediately fell in love with the scenic campus.

“It was different than the other campuses I’ve been on — BC, Harvard, Notre Dame,” Cajuste said. “It has more of this constant positive enlightenment feeling, everyone was always positive. The campus is very large and diverse. It was an honor to walk on their field, on that campus. That was huge for me.”

Cajuste met with Stanford Coach Jim Harbaugh, a 13-year NFL veteran quarterback who played for Chicago, Indianapolis, Baltimore, San Diego and Carolina, who offered almost immediately after watchContinued on Page 56

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Lewis’ Bobea pitched into MLB draft; Adams’ Beyer helmed strong run

John Adams’ Glenn Beyer is the All-Queens baseball coach of the Year.

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Francis Lewis ace Jonathan Bobea is the All-Queens baseball Player of the Year.

BY ZACH BRAZILLER AND DYLAN BUTLER Expectations were high for Queens, but the results didn’t quite match as the quarterfinals lacked any ‘A’ program from the borough.

Francis Lewis ace Jonathan Bobea was drafted by the Anaheim Angels, but the Patriots were eliminated in the second round of the PSAL Class A playoffs for the third straight year. Queens A Mid-West champion John Adams came within a single strike of upsetting Brooklyn powerhouse Madison in the second round and Queens A East champion Cardozo was upset by Brooklyn Tech in its playoff opener.

In the CHSAA, St. Francis Prep was highly touted before the season, but the Terriers battled in-

juries and had some untimely defensive breakdowns in the postseason. St. John’s Prep again had a successful season in the CHSAA Class B playoffs, advancing to the title game again, but the Red Storm failed to make it three championships in a row, losing to Monsignor Scanlan.

All-Queens baseball Player of the Year: Jonathan Bobea, Francis Lewis His final start for the Patriots said it all about the tenacious right-hander: scary-good with little support. Bobea lost 1-0 to highly touted George Washington, but he impressed the handful of Major League scouts in attendance, striking out 11, walking one and allowing only one unearned run.

Two weeks later, the Anaheim Angels took the 6-foot Bobea and his heavy

low 90’s mph fastball in the 19th round of the First-Year Player Draft, making him the first Patriot drafted since 1966. Bobea came a long way in four years at the Fresh Meadows school,

BASEBALL becoming the face of the program and leading it to two consecutive Queens A East crowns before a second-place finish this spring. His numbers this season were freakish: 81 strikeouts in 42 1/3 innings, a 7-2 record and two earned runs allowed.

All-Queens baseball Coach of the Year: Glenn Beyer, John Adams Every year, his roster numbers drop, but the results stay the same: the Spartans are near the top of their division. The humble Beyer will say he didn’t

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deserve this recognition — it’s always about his players — but he didn’t have any studs who have marked his successful teams of the past. Sure, Long Island University-bound Rafael Guerrero is talented, and infielder Rudy Burdier is versatile and productive, but John Adams was far from a stacked club. It still went 15-1 in Queens A MidWest and came within one strike of the PSAL Class A quarterfinals.

All-Queens First Team P Lebro Burnette, St. Francis Prep The ace of the Terriers staff, the senior left-hander was dominant early and late, but he was shelved during the middle of the season because of a pulled muscle under his rib cage. The Adelphi-bound Burnette, a three-year varsity starting

pitcher, wasn’t a one-trick pony, though. He was also one of Prep’s top hitters.

P John Duggan, Archbishop Molloy He wasn’t the hardest thrower, but there were few better pitchers around than Duggan. While others throw, the senior righthander pitches, using his smarts. The Stanners ace often had control of several pitches and was most dangerous when working ahead in the count. Duggan was also the only Queens pitcher in the CHSAA to toss a no-hitter. He’ll play at Division I New York Tech next year.

OF/P Chris Dunn, Aviation Want to know how Aviation reached the PSAL Class A playoffs after a twoyear layoff? Look no further than the emergence of the multi-talented Dunn, the Flyers’ top hitter and hard-throwing ace. A participant in the first Mayor’s Cup PSAL-CHSAA all-star game, he picked up four wins on the mound, striking out 55 batters in 34 innings and also had 17 RBIs and scored 16 runs.

P Rafael Guerrero, John Adams Guerrero owns the distinction as the best player Coach Glenn Beyer ever cut. That was four years ago, as a freshman; now

he’s a Division I-bound pitcher headed to Long Island University who also was of the Spartans’ top run producers. The 6-foot3 right-hander did his best work on the mound, going 8-0 with a 0.47 ERA and 91 strikeouts in 51 2/3 innings pitched.

2B Stephen Lopez, Archbishop Molloy Along with Phil Loprete and Duggan, Lopez was part of a strong senior class at Archbishop Molloy.

A great contact hitter with good speed, Lopez was the prototypical leadoff hitter and the second baseman for one of the best defensive infielders in the city, a vacuum up the middle.

3B Phil Loprete, Archbishop Molloy A two-year starter at Archbishop Molloy, Loprete was one of the best hitters in Queens. The senior third baseman, a line drive hitter, hit for power and average as the Stanners’ cleanup batter. A strong leader with a solid arm and deceiving speed, Loprete will play at Division I C.W. Post next season, just down the road from Duggan, a close friend and longtime teammate.

P/OF Alex Miden, Monsignor McClancy Three years ago, McClancy Coach Nick Melito couldn’t entertain the Continued on Page 56

All-Queens softball team honors

BY MARC RAIMONDI AND JOSEPH STASZEWSKI Queens might not have been as strong at the top as Staten Island, but there wasn’t a borough deeper.

In the CHSAA, Archbishop Molloy won Brooklyn/Queens and was the state finalist, St. Francis Prep and Mary Louis greatly exceeded expectations and Christ the King had perhaps its best season ever. Cardozo, Francis Lewis, Bayside and Construction were all among the best teams in the PSAL this season.

All-Queens softball Player of the Year: Maria Palmeri, Archbishop Molloy

SOFTBALL There was no sophomore slump for Palmeri; instead it was a super season.

She was one of the city’s more dominant pitchers.

She struck out 78 batters, including 14 against St. Francis Prep in a regularseason game, while earning a 9-3 record. Palmeri tossed a shutout in the Stanners’ CHSAA Brooklyn/Queens championship clincher.

But what made her special was her versatility and potent bat as Molloy was a hit away from its firstever CHSAA state crown.

Palmeri played multiple positions, including third, short and right field. She showed tremendous power at the plate with a number of long home runs while collecting a .478 average hitting cleanup. The scary part is Palmeri has two more seasons to improve on the solid foundation already laid.

All-Queens softball Coach of the Year: Frank Florio, Christ the King The excitement in Florio’s voice grew with each win and so did his team’s confidence. The 10th-year coach experienced his, and

Archbishop Molloy’s Maria Palmeri is the All-Queens softball Player of the Year. the school’s, finest season with a veteran group he helped bring along. His stars Olivia Auman and Melanie Suarez had career years, but Florio got plenty out of his role players, too.

The Royals boasted a 9-6 record, had their first win over St. Francis Prep in nine years and nearly unseated SFP for second place in the division. CK’s season

ended with its first-ever trip to the CHSAA Brooklyn/Queens semifinals.

First Team P Amanda Annicaro, Cardozo There wasn’t a better story than Annicaro this season. The courageous senior returned from illness, which initially was believed to be cancer, to pitch Cardozo to the semifi-

nals for the second straight season. The senior won 10 straight games after coming back and was brilliant in all.

P Olivia Auman, Christ the King Auman saved her finest season for her last. The three-year starter was absolutely dominant in the circle and a run-producer with the bat. She shut out

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St. Francis Prep and was four-for-four with three RBIs in the Royals’ first win over the Terriers in nine seasons.

P Katie Derby, St. Francis Prep The junior handled the role of staff ace brilliantly and was magnificent in the postseason. Her superb movement allowed her to strike out 54 and pitch to a

2.49 ERA. Derby led SFP in doubles with six and was second on the team with a .420 batting average CF Briana Franceschini, St. Francis Prep The senior was one of the city’s most clutch hitters. Even her outs were hit hard, especially in the playoffs. She batted .498 with 16 RBIs and had three all-important home runs, including two against Archbishop Molloy. Her two-run double helped send SFP back to the Brooklyn/Queens final.

P Victoria Goldbach, Archbishop Molloy The crafty sophomore proved herself time after time in the postseason. She shut out St. Francis Prep in Game 1 of the Brooklyn/ Queens final, striking out 14 and threw both games for the Stanners in the CHSAA state playoffs. In the final, Goldbach allowed just one earned run in a loss to St. Joseph by the Sea. 1B Anna LaBoccetta, Cardozo Her left-handed bat was a problem in the middle of the order. The Briarcliffebound slugger was perhaps Cardozo’s best power hitter in the Judges’ run to a PSAL Queens A title and a second straight semis appearance.

CF Cheska Mauban, Bayside Bayside’s lineup was potent, but it wouldn’t have been nearly as scary if not for Mauban’s spark from the leadoff spot. She caused havoc for pitchers with her speed and power and was the Commodores’ emotional leader — no one was more energetic.

P Sheila San Andres, Construction The senior never played softball before coming to Construction, but made a huge impact while there. After pitching the Red Hawks to the PSAL Class B title in 2009, San Andres led them to an unContinued on Page 56

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Tyler seeks big-time Continued from Page 53 with senior Brandon Summers graduating. Tyler, a Fresh Meadows native, will compete for the starting job with junior Marc Kanetsky and redshirt freshman Kurt Hess. The chance

to play right away and not sit a year kept him from pursuing opportunities at Division I-A programs Virginia, Temple, UTEP, Florida International and Pittsburgh.

“I’m glad that I am going somewhere where I can

All Queens softball Continued from Page 55 defeated league record in the ‘A’ league this season.

3B Melanie Suarez, Christ the King The senior was the Royals’ most consistent and clutch hitter. She hit a three-run, walk-off homer with two outs in the seventh against St. Edmund.

It was her second straight four-for-four and multiple RBI day. Her slick fielding at third was a major reason CK had its best season in recent memory.

SS Sandy Tomasik, Cardozo

Impossible to get out consistently, Tomasik was a thorn in opposing pitchers’ sides in the leadoff spot. The senior was also good for at least one big RBI hit in a big game and was smooth and slick in the field.

Honorable Mention RF Kristen Brosnan, Bryant SS Allison Donovan, Townsend Harris LF Krystal Gonzalez, Mary Louis C ToniAnn Groth, St. Francis Prep P Priscilla Lallave,

All Queens baseball Continued from Page 54 thought of Miden as the Crusaders’ ace, but that’s just what he became this season after junior Joe Gangi went down with a season-ending injury early on.

Miden’s best outing might have come against Queens rival St. Francis Prep when he tossed a complete-game, four-hit shutout. He was also a dangerous hitter, creating a great one-two punch with Perez, who he’ll join at Nassau Community College next year.

OF Andrew Nunez, Cardozo The sparkling center fielder and team captain enjoyed an unforgettable senior season, leading the Judges to their first Queens A East crown in three years.

Labeled a six-tool player by Coach Ron Gorecki because of his superb work in the classroom, Nunez stole 24 bases, scored 28 runs, batted .575 and had 10 extrabase hits.

OF Lou Perez, Monsignor McClancy Opposing pitchers aren’t the only ones happy Perez is graduating. So, too, are the residents of East Elmhurst who were terrorized by the power-hitting right fielder’s massive home runs. Perez, a threeway winner of the Home Run Derby at the inaugural Mayor’s Cup PSAL-CHSAA all-star game, will take his bat to Nassau Community College next year.

P Jeremy Rodriguez, Francis Lewis The Patriots’ most consistent dual threat, Rodriguez excelled as a fireballing co-ace and No. 3 hitter. Most impressively, he was unselfish at the plate, taking his walks but also producing runs, either by scoring or driving them in.

Francis Lewis’ run to the second round of the PSAL Class A playoffs wouldn’t have been possible without this 6-foot-3 standout with

compete,” Tyler said. “I just can’t wait for camp to start.”

Getting him on the field was something Purdue was going to do, but just not at quarterback. The Boilermakers, who also have sophomore quarterback Robert Marve, who started 11 games at the University of Miami in 2008, wanted

Francis Lewis SS Julia Lipovac, Archbishop Molloy C Kailan Luciano, Construction 2B Jennifer McCormick, Cardozo 1B Dana Moss, Archbishop Molloy C Sam Mersten, Cardozo 3B Shannon Minihane, Mary Louis C Nichola Nichols, Bayside SS Kim Velez, Christ the King SS Julie Wagner, Bayside CF Jill Zic, Mary Louis

immense potential.

All-Queens Honorable Mention 3B Chris Brudie, St. Francis Prep 2B Rudy Burdier, John Adams P Joe Cavanaugh, Christ the King P Chris Estrada, Cardozo 1B John Paul Koulotouros, Bayside SS/P Lerone Lashley, Queens HS of Teaching 1B Joe Lentino, St. Francis Prep SS Alex Middlemiss, St. Francis Prep P/1B Matt Mullin, St. John’s Prep P Jorge Perez, Newtown OF Jason Perrone, St. Francis Prep OF Jonathan Ramon, Archbishop Molloy 2B Dan Restrepo, Monsignor McClancy 3B Edwin Saez, Long Island City SS/P Dennis Strawsacker, William Bryant

Tyler to play halfback or tight end. Tyler threw for 2,300 yards and 23 touchdowns as a senior at Xaverian.

“With them having a kid with experience and me coming in, I lack experience as far as game time,” he said “They were just looking for a better fit for their team. They thought I could

help them out at another position. When it came to me, I felt like quarterback is what I want to play.”

Tyler said he holds no ill will toward the Purdue coaching staff and thanked them for the opportunity to experience what it is like to be part of an important program. Moving forward he hopes to enjoy a simi-

Cajuste Continued from Page 53 ing his highlight tape.

“It wasn’t even like he was the head coach,” Cajuste said. “He was down-toearth and was very cool.”

A day later, Cajuste gave his verbal commitment to play for the rising Pac-10 program. A year ago, the Cardinals went 8-5, finishing tied for second in the division, beating top25 programs Washington, Oregon and USC before losing to Oklahoma in the Sun Bowl.

“Stanford just stood

out, not even close to the other schools,” he said. “I was going to wait, see what else comes into play, but when I got there I knew I wanted to be there.”

Another thing that stood out for Cajuste is that Stanford was interested in him as a wide receiver, not as a tight end like several other Division I-A programs.

“They said wide receiver and that’s what I prefer,” he said. “That kind of really sealed the deal.”

Cajuste burst onto the

lar football-centric atmosphere, just on a smaller scale.

“Everywhere we went you just saw Youngstown football,” he said. “It was a football town, something I was used to at Purdue. It just felt like a right fit. They made me feel like I was family there.”

national recruiting map last year when he had 40 receptions for a CHSFLbest 921 yards, helping lead Holy Cross to the CHSFL Class AAA semifinals and earning All-Queens and All-City honors by the Post.

He is the first Holy Cross football player to head to Stanford.

“He’s the best athlete I’ve ever coached,” longtime Holy Cross Coach Tom Pugh said. “He swims, he runs, he jumps, everything he does, he’s the best. He’s got a tremendous body and coordination. He’s just one of those exceptional athletes.”

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Notice of formation of Fulton All Star Jewelers, LLC, a limited liability company.

Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/01/2010. Office loca$99k tion: Queens. SSNY has Deborah PA. Lic. RE been designated for ser570-350-0335 vice of process.

SSNY shall mail a copy of any process served against the ➤LOTS AND LLC to The LLC c/o Arthur ACREAGE G. Eliav, Esq., 108-25 65 Ave, Forest Hills, NY PUBLIC NOTICE. 47.17 11375. Purpose: any lawful AC/ STREAM 1400 FT purpose.

PAVED STATE RD. WAS $159,900 NOW $ 116,251. NOTICE OF FORMATION of limited liability company Two large flat Name: HE & ridges, large hardwoods, (LLC). easy access to town. Must TANG’S REALTY LLC. ArSell.

Call owner ticles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of 1-877-526-3764, x 885 w w w . m o u n t a i n t i m b e r - New York (SSNY) on 06/02/2010. Office location: land.com Queens County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process ➤LEGAL against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of 413 IS GR8, LLC a domes- process to: THE LLC 41-28 STREET, #5 tic Limited Liability Compa- MAIN ny (LLC), filed with the Sec FLUSHING, NY 11355. of State of NY on 4/1/10. Purpose: any lawful purNY Office location: Queens pose.

County. SSNY is designat- NOTICE OF FORMATION ed as agent upon whom OF LIMITED LIABILITY process against the LLC COMPANY. NAME: ELAN may be served.

SSNY REALTY 38 LLC. Articles shall mail a copy of any of Organization were filed process against the LLC with the Secretary of State served upon him/her to of New York (SSNY) on The LLC, 70-25 Yellow- 03/22/10. Office location: stone Blvd., Apt. 23M, For- Queens County. SSNY has est Hills, NY 11375. Gener- been designated as agent al Purposes. of the LLC upon whom pro58 Elm LLC. Arts. of Org. cess against it may be filed with Secy. of State of served. SSNY shall mail a NY (SSNY) on 4/23/10. Ofc copy of process to the LLC, in Queens Cty. SSNY des- c/o Mark Toporek, 121 Uniignated agent of LLC upon versity Place, New York, whom process against it New York 10003. Purpose: may be served. SSNY shall For any lawful purpose. mail process to 76-23 58th NOTICE OF FORMATION Rd, Middle Village, NY of limited liability company 11379. Purpose any lawful (LLC). Name: HOOVER purpose.

ANN REALTY, LLC. ArtiJOSEPH SALVIO ENTER- cles of Organization filed PRISES LLC a domestic with Secretary of State of Limited Liability Company New York (SSNY) on (LLC), filed with the Sec of 06/16/2010. Office location: County.

SSNY State of NY on 4/29/10. NY Queens Office location: Queens designated as agent of LLC upon whom process County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom against it may be served. process against the LLC SSNY shall mail copy of may be served.

SSNY process to: PETER BIRshall mail a copy of any ZON & ASSOCIATES 400 TURNPIKE process against the LLC JERICHO served upon him/her to SUITE 100 JERICHO, NY The LLC, 43-09 23rd Ave., 11753. Purpose: any lawful Astoria, NY 11105. Gener- purpose. al Purposes.

NOTICE OF FORMATION Mango Froyo, LLC. Arts. of of limited liability company Org. filed with Secy. of (LLC). Name: Diya Flowers State of NY (SSNY) on by Shanta LLC. Articles of 2/17/10. Ofc in Queens Organization filed with SecCty. SSNY designated retary of State of New York agent of LLC upon whom (SSNY) on March 18th, process against it may be 2010. Office location: Kings served. SSNY shall mail County. SSNY designated process to 212-75 16th as agent of LLC upon Ave Unit 179, Bayside, NY whom process against it 11360. Purpose any lawful may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: purpose.

THE LLC 130-14 Liberty Notice of Formation of EB Avenue South Richmond 2010 LLC. Arts. of Org. Hill, NY 11419. Purpose: filed with Secy. of State of any lawful purpose.

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Office location: Queens NOTICE OF FORMATION County. SSNY designated of limited liability company as agent of LLC upon (LLC).

Name: RIVER whom process against it PARK VIEW, LLC. Articles may be served. SSNY shall of Organization filed with mail process to the LLC, Secretary of State of New c/o Bronstein Properties York (SSNY) on LLC, 108-18 Queens Blvd., 05/18/2010. Office location: Ste. 302, Forest Hills, NY Queen County. SSNY des11375. Purpose: Any lawful ignated as agent of LLC activity. upon whom process With covered porch, near lake, in-door & out-door pool, golf & casino. Freshly painted and new carpet.

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Purpose: any lawful purpose.

designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 84-40 121st St., Kew Garden, NY 11415. Purpose: any lawful activity.

fendant is extended until August 16, 2010.

ENTER: HON. SIDNEY F. STRAUSS YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to serve a notice of appearance on Plaintiff’s Attorneys within (20 days) after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within thiry (30) days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); and in case of your failure to appear, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the notice set forth below.

Dated: September 3, 2009 YoHan Choi Law Offices of YoHan Choi, Attorneys for Plaintiff, 350 Fifth Avenue, Suite# 5322, New York, New York 10118 212-760-0111

KUM JA SIMYOON and BO H. SHIM dated the 18th day of January, 2006, to secure the sum of $507,200.00, and recorded at Instrument No. 2006000110948 in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Queens, on the 27th day of February, 2006; which mortgage was duly assigned by assignment dated the 17th day of November, 2009, and sent for recording in the Office of the Clerk of Queens County; The property in question is described as follows: 152-11 33RD AVENUE, FLUSHING, NY 11354 SEE FOLLOWING DESCRIPTION EXHIBIT “A” ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land situate lying and being in the Borough and County of Queens; City and State to New York, bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at a point on the Northerly side of 33rd Avenue (Mitchell Avenue), distant 75 feet Westerly from the corner formed by the Westerly side of 153rd street (13th Street), with the Northerly side of 33rd Avenue; RUNNING THENCE Westerly, along the Northerly side of 33rd Avenue, 37.50 feet; THENCE Northerly at right angles to the Northerly side of 33rd Avenue; 1 04.58 feet; THENCE Easterly; parallel with the Northerly side of 33rd Avenue. 12.50 feet; THENCE Southerly at right angles to the Northerly side of 33rd Avenue; 4.58 feet; THENCE Easterly parallel with the Northerly side of 33:rd Avenue, 25 feet; THENCE Southerly at right angles to the Northerly side of 33rd Avenue 100 feet to the Northerly side of 33rd Al1enueJ at the point or place or BEGINNING. HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE NEW YORK STATE LAW REQUIRES THAT WE SEND YOU THIS NOTICE ABOUT THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY. SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME. IF YOU FAIL TO RESPOND TO THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT IN THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION, YOU MAY LOSE YOUR HOME. PLEASE READ THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT CAREFULLY. YOU SHOULD IMMEDIATELY CONTACT AN ATTORNEY OR YOUR LOCAL LEGAL AID OFFICE TO OBTAIN ADVICE ON HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF. SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE The state encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid office, there are government agencies and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free hel-

pline maintained by the New York State Banking Department at 1-877B A N K - N Y S (1-877-226-5697) or visit the department’s website at WWW.BANKI N G . S TAT E . N Y. U S <http://www.banking.state.ny.us/> . FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS Be careful of people who approach you with offers to “save” your home.

There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner’s distress.

You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services. § 1303 NOTICE NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. DATED: June 14, 2010 Steven J. Baum, P.C., Attorney(s) For Plaintiff(s), 220 Northpointe Parkway Suite G, Amherst, NY 14228 The law firm of Steven J. Baum, P.C. and the attorneys whom it employs are debt collectors who are attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained by them will be used for that purpose.

unknown and cannot be ascertained after due diligence. P.A. of the County of Queens A petition having been duly filed by HELEN KASE, who is domiciled at 67-56 Springfield Blvd., Bayside, NY 11364.

YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before Surrogate’s Court, Queens County, at 88-11 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, New York on July 8, 2010, at 9:30 o’clock in the Fore noon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of Walter A. Tratch, aka Walter Tratch, lately domiciled at 82-60 116th Street, Apt. B1, Kew Gardens, New York 11418, United States admitting to probate a Will dated February 7, 1997 (and Codicil(s), if any, dated, a copy of which is attached, as the Will of Walter A. Tratch deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that: Letters Testamentary issue to Helen Kase. Dated, Attested and Sealed, 25th Day of May, 2010 Hon. ROBERT L NAHMAN , Surrogate Margaret M. Gribbon Chief Clerk. Name of Attorney Donald T. Kiley, Jr. Kiley, Kiley & Kiley PLLC, 107 Northern Blvd.

Suite 304, Great Neck, New York 11021 Tel. No.: 516-466-7900.

(NOTE: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear in person. If you fail to appear it will be assumed that you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you.)

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: EP TAXI TRANSPORT LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/27/10. Office location: Queens County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 1106 Broadway, Astoria, New York 11106. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

LEGAL NOTICE New Glen Oaks Nursing Home a participant in the Medicare and Medicaid programs does not discriminate in its’ policies regarding admissions, employment or the provision of services because of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, handicap, source of payment, religion, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, age, genetic predisposition or carrier status or any other protected classifications under local, state and federal Notice of Formation of laws.

MMT REALTY ASSOCIATES LLC. Arts. of Org. At an Ex-Parte Motion Part filed with Secy. of State of of the Supreme Court of N.Y. (SSNY) on 3/26/10. the State of New York, held Office location: Queens in and for the County of County. SSNY designated New York at the Courtas agent of LLC upon house, 88-11 Sutphin whom process against it Blvd., Borough of Queens, may be served. SSNY shall City and State of New mail process to: The LLC, York, on the 9th day of 188-07 Northern Boule- June, 2010. vard, Flushing, NY 11358. SUPREME COURT OF Purpose: any lawful ac- THE STATE OF NEW tivity.

YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS HON. SIDNEY F. Notice of Formation of STRAUSS MOSHEL EQUITIES, LLC, Index No. 24421/09 a domestic Limited Liability PRINCESS ALDEA DICompany. Articles of Or- MAG, Plaintiff, -againstganization filed with the DODGIE T HORARIO, DeSecretary of State of New fendant.

York (“SSNY”) on Upon reading and filing the 06/16/10.

NY location: summons with notice upon Queens County. SSNY is the affirmation of Yohan designated agency upon Choi, dated on the 25th whom process against the day of January, 2010, and LLC may be served. upon the pleadings and SSNY shall mail a copy of proceedings had herein, any process to the LLC, c/o now on motion of YoHan Turman & Eimer LLP, 1980 Choi, Esq., and in the interBroadcast Plaza, Merrick, est of justice and for good NY 11566. Purpose: any cause shown, and the lawful purpose. court being satisfied that Notice of formation of the defendant cannot be PlanAmp, LLC. Articles of served by any other preOrganization filed with the scribed method, it is Secretary of State of New ORDERED, that the sumYork (SSNY) on 1/29/2010. mon with notice be served Office located in Queens on the Defendant, DODGIE County. SSNY has been T HORARIO, by publishing designated for service of the same together with noprocess. SSNY shall mail tice to the defendant, and a copy of any process served brief statement of the naagainst the LLC at 45-30 ture of the action, pursuant 41st Street, Flr 2 Sunny- to section 316, C.P.L.R., in side, NY 11104. Purpose: one newspaper, FLUSHING TIMES, such newspaany lawful purpose. per being most likely to Notice of formation of give notice to said DefenRHIO WELLNESS LCSW, dant, once a week for three successive weeks, the first PLLC. Articles of Or- publication to be made ganization filed with the within thirty (30) days after order is granted, and it Secretary of the State of this is further New York (SSNY) on April ORDERED, that it appear01, 2010. Office located ing that the Plaintiff cannot a place where in Queens. SSNY has ascertain the Defendant would probbeen designated for ser- ably receive matter transvice of process. SSNY mitted through the United Post Office, the shall mail copy of any States mailing pursuant to Section process served against 316, C.P.L.R., is hereby the PLLC at 5835 Utopia dispensed with, and it is Pkwy Ste 1C, Fresh further ORDERED, that the sumMeadows 11365. Pur- mons and complaint, or summons with notice, the pose: any lawful purpose order and papers which Notice of Formation of TST this order is based shall be PROPERTY, LLC. Arts. of filed on or before the first Org. filed with Secy. of day of publication.

State of NY (SSNY) on ORDERED, that the period 1/28/10. Office location: of time for service of the Queens County.

SSNY summon with notice to De-

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