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Candidates spar over mosque ad Campaign attacks intensify in race for Anthony Weiner’s seat in Congress by Anna Gustafson Editor

hile “jobs, jobs, jobs” seems to be the mantra of many a race — say, the one underway for Audrey Pheffer’s old Assembly seat — the candidates vying for the 9th Congressional District have adopted more of an attack, attack, attack approach. Following a Siena Poll released last week that showed state Assemblyman David Weprin (D-Little Neck), a Democrat, leading Bob Turner, a Republican, by six percentage points, both candidates have issued a flurry of campaign literature touting endorsements — U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for Weprin and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani for Turner — and, of course, denouncing the other. The two are running against each other in the Sept. 13 special election. Turner, who ran against Anthony Weiner for the same seat in 2010, released a controversial television advertisement last week that shows an image of the Twin Towers burning on Sept. 11, 2001. While the image of the terror attack remains on the screen, a voiceover says, “It’s been 10 short years. Everyone remembers. Some, though,

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want to commemorate the tragedy by building a mosque on Ground Zero. President Obama thinks it’s a good idea. And so does Congressional candidate David Weprin.” The mosque to which Turner refers is the Park51 project that has been proposed to be built two blocks from Ground Zero. As planned, it would be an Islamic cultural center that includes restaurants, a library, a mosque and other community facilities. A clip of Weprin saying “I support the right of the mosque to build” is played in the commercial, which landed Turner press coverage across the country, from The New York Times to the Los Angeles Times. A source close to Weprin pointed out that the clip cuts off Weprin’s next line, which was that he would like to see the project moved further from Ground Zero. A year ago, when the Park51 project was being heavily debated, numerous city legislators took the same stance as Weprin — that the developers should be able to build a religious institution wherever zoning permitted it but would like to see the institution further from Ground Zero. Mayor Bloomberg repeatedly voiced his support for the developers’ right to build the mosque. The ad drew heavy criticism from Weprin, as well the Uniformed Fire Officers Association. “As we approach the 10th anniversary of 9/11, it’s shameful that Bob Turner is trying

Democrat David Weprin, left, and Republican Bob Turner are running against each other to fill the FILE PHOTOS Congressional seat vacated by Anthony Weiner. to use the tragedy for his own political gain,” Weprin said in a statement. “I knew people who lost their lives that day, and Bob Turner dishonors their memory by politicizing the attacks on New York.” Capt. Alexander Hagan, president of the UFOA, called the television spot “very insensitive.” “We object to anyone exploiting the pain of thousands of families who lost loved ones on 9/11 to score political points,” Hagan said in a statement. Following Weprin’s response, Turner’s

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camp issued a statement calling the Republican’s opponent “deluded.” “If David Weprin can’t recognize the placement of this mosque as an insult, then he needs to snap out of it,” said William O’Reilly, a spokesman for Turner. Turner, who focused heavily on the mosque issue when running against Weiner and held a rally at Forest Park last year against the proposal for the center, has channeled much of his energy in this campaign blasting Obama on what he argues is continued on page 28

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In a neighborhood’s darkest hours, a light Richmond Hill man plans to reignite civilian patrol group in 102nd Pct. by Anna Gustafson Editor

ithin seconds of remembering what was in his wallet, Simcha Waisman retrieved a small piece of paper — well worn, slightly faded and yellowed, but still intact. He held it up to the light and smiled. “I’ve had this since it all started in the 1970s,” Waisman said. Holding the card gently between his thumb and forefinger, Waisman said the creased paper is a tangible reminder of how he came to be one of Richmond Hill’s biggest watchdogs decades ago. Issued to him by the NYPD in the 1970s, the paper identified him as a “block watcher” in Richmond Hill — a police initiative implemented citywide that aimed to curb crime by connecting cops with residents who knew their neighborhood’s troubled spots. Being a member of the team was Waisman’s first foray into civic activism in Queens, and he found himself wanting to remain there — in a place that drew him to stake out spots riddled with illegal activity in the early morning hours, a place where he connected with people who, like him, didn’t mind sleeping only a couple hours before patrolling the streets from midnight to dawn. “You do it because it brings up the quality of life in the community,” said Waisman, who moved from Israel to Richmond Hill in the 1970s and is now president of the One Stop Richmond Hill Community Center. After his stint in the block watch group, Waisman formed a civilian patrol in the 102nd Precinct 15 years ago. The organization dissolved about two years ago due to what Waisman said were problems with an “uncoopera-

tive” officer, who has since left, but, with the blessing of precinct leaders, he is now trying to revive the group that he, and many others in the community, credit with deterring crime in Richmond Hill. “It’s important,” Waisman said. “We can stake out a place for an entire night, which the cops can’t do. We’re the eyes and ears of the police department.” So far, Waisman has about eight other people who’ve said they’d like to be a part of the group — which still needs the final stamp of approval from One Police Plaza. Once Waisman gets that, police will train the group members and they’ll be set once again to scour the streets, predominantly in Richmond Hill, for criminals from midnight to about 5 a.m. every Friday and Saturday. Officials from police headquarters did not respond to a request for comment, though a spokesman from the 102nd said the civilian patrol “really helps to get us information.” “I really commend Simcha for starting up the civilian patrol, and I look forward to working with them and even going out on a patrol with them,” said Assemblyman Mike Miller (DWoodhaven), a member of the Glendale civilian patrol — a group that has about 100 members and was responsible for about 200 graffiti arrests in 2008, according to Miller. Maria Thomson, president of the 102nd Precinct Community Council, also praised Waisman for reigniting the patrol. “They really help their community, as well as the precinct, because the 102nd Precinct covers a very big area,” Thomson said. “It’s a big, big stretch with a lot of schools and facilities, and putting more cars out on the streets is a good thing.” Waisman said on Friday and Saturday nights there are about three police cars that patrol the 102nd Precinct,

Simcha Waisman is tr ying to revive the civilian patrol in PHOTO BY ANNA GUSTAFSON Richmond Hill. which covers Kew Gardens, Richmond Hill, Woodhaven and parts of Ozone Park, though the spokesman from the 102nd said there are between five and seven marked cars. continued on page 36

Assembly candidates ramp up campaigning Schumer endorses Goldfeder as Deacy pledges to battle taxes by Anna Gustafson Editor

Handshakes seem to be as commonplace as air, adorable children are coralled into photos, and food is everywhere — welcome to campaign season. The two candidates running for the 23rd Assembly District seat previously held by Audrey Pheffer continued to crisscross the district this week in an effort to woo voters, with Democrat Phil Goldfeder touting an endorsement by political heavyweight U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in Lindenwood and Republican Jane Deacy pledging in front of a Howard Beach home that she would never vote for a tax increase in Albany. And both spent many of their daily waking hours — which, according to the two, amounts to nearly 24 these days — knocking on doors and encouraging people in Howard Beach, Ozone Park and the Rockaways to vote in the special election on Sept. 13. On Monday, Schumer drew Democratic fans from throughout Queens — including Pheffer and state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) — to La Villa Pizzeria in Lindenwood, where he gave his stamp of approval to Goldfeder, his former employee. “I know this district, and I know Phil,” Schumer said of Goldfeder, who worked as Schumer’s director of intergovernmental affairs for three years before recently taking a leave of absence to run for the

U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, far left, endorsed Democrat Phil Goldfeder’s Assembly bid this week. Republican candidate Jane Deacy, far right, promised not to vote for any tax increase. She was joined PHOTOS BY ANNA GUSTAFSON by Councilman Eric Ulrich, top left in right photo, and the Biordi family. Assembly seat that Pheffer resigned from in May to become Queens County clerk. “The two are a perfect match.” Amidst waiters wielding steaming hot pies and patrons peering to see why there were so many reporters crammed into their restaurant, Goldfeder, joined by his wife, Esther, and two small children, said he was “incredibly honored” by Schumer’s endorsement. In a speech following Schumer’s

announcement, Goldfeder outlined three “key investments” he wants to make — in infrastructure, small businesses and job creation. He said his first piece of legislation in Albany would call for the elimination of the toll on Cross Bay Bridge. “This is a noose around the necks of small businesses,” Goldfeder said. Pheffer, who supports Goldfeder, said she hoped he would continue her work

securing money for area seniors. “I’d like to see him continue to make sure programs for seniors are intact,” said Pheffer, who held the seat for 24 years. “I hope he continues the personal contacts I always worked so hard on.” On Tuesday, Deacy signed a “taxpayer protection pledge,” and said she would not approve any tax hike if she is elected. “I’m tired of the state balancing the budget on my dime,” Deacy said. “Spending grows and grows. We’ve had enough.” The GOP candidate made the promise outside a Howard Beach house where the Biordi family lives. Husband and wife Benny and Patricia Biordi, who have four young children, said their property taxes have increased from $1,800 when they f irst moved there 15 years ago to about $6,500 now. “We’ve discussed leaving the state because of it,” Patricia Biordi said. Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) also joined Deacy at the event. “There’s tremendous pressure when you’re in the minority to raise the tax burden on middle class families,” Ulrich said. “It takes guts to say, ‘I won’t vote to raise taxes.’” Like Goldfeder, Deacy slammed the Cross Bay Bridge toll and said “we must eliminate” it. “If we’re going to grow the local economy, we cannot penalize people who want to bring their business into our community,” Q Deacy said.

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Howard Beach seniors showcase their talent More than 200 people pack into senior center for annual program by Stephen Geffon

Master of ceremonies Sandy Gussin, with Bunny Gelfand on the piano, introThe performers on the “America's Got duced Lindenwood resident and selfTalent” television show have nothing on described “Roaring 20s Girl” Tessie the accomplished members of the Howard Costa, 90, who belted out three songs of Beach Senior Center who put on their own the era, “Ain't She Sweet,” “Has Anybody version of the program Monday afternoon. Seen My Gal,” and “Baby Face.” Singer Jimmy DiNapoli and center More than 200 center members watched in delight as 22 seniors sang, danced and director Mark Frey performed a guitar told stories and jokes as par t of the duet for the appreciative group, which was “Howard Beach Seniors Have Talent” followed by jokes by Anthony Pionegro that had the crowd in stitches. show — a play on the NBC reality show. The center’s tai chi class’ performance had the audience spellbound. Nicholette Martorano treated the audience to her rendition of the Mills Brothers 1944 classic “Til Then.” Rita Aroesty then donned a Groucho Marx nose and glasses disguise for her lip sync performance with Max Stern. Leila Haime, Oscar Mel Albert and Christine Titone read some of their original poetry. Carl Vecchio, in his Hawaiian shir t, sang Jer r y Vales’ “Mala Femmina.” The annual event wasn’t all singing — Anita Lombardo wowed the seniors with her belly dancing performance. Rita Aroesty and Max Stern delight the audience. Harriet Koske followed LomChronicle Contributor

Jimmy DiNapoli, left, and Howard Beach Senior Center Director Mark Frey, right, perform at the PHOTOS BY STEPHEN GEFFON center’s annual talent show on Monday. bardo and delighted the audience with the 1920s classic “It Had To Be You.” DiNapoli, backed on the guitar by Frey, were on stage again as they performed the 1950s songs “Earth Angel,” “Donna,” and “You Cheated, You Lied”. Muriel Stemmann, nursing a broken arm, recited poetic verses and told stories to the group. Nancy Thompson treated the audience to “The Wonder of You,” followed by Al Jolson fan and impressionist Harold Goldfarb. continued on page 36

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No countdown clocks for drivers ountdown clocks on the parkways leading into the city that tell drivers how long it will take to get to the next major interchange? A fine idea. Countdown clocks in the subways that tell you when the next train is due to arrive? An excellent idea. Countdown clocks on the boulevards that tell pedestrians how many seconds they have left to get across the street safely? A superb idea. Countdown clocks that tell drivers when the traffic signal they’re approaching will turn red? A lousy idea. Which is probably the reason they don’t exist. But some residents think they should — specifically the members of Community Board 8’s Transportation Committee. Their concern is driven by understandable frustration with the administration’s use of red light cameras at some of the city’s most dangerous intersections. The reasoning behind the cameras is of course twofold: to make driving safer and to raise revenue for the cash-strapped city. But the problem is that too many drivers stop short to avoid getting tickets, often skidding into crosswalks and getting hit from behind by drivers who were going to go through the light, whether yellow or red. That’s what’s bothering the CB 8 panel, understandably. As

member Mark Lefkof said when the central Queens group met last Thursday, he knows, for example, that there’s a camera at the corner of Queens Boulevard and Ascan Avenue, in the heart of Forest Hills. So when he’s approaching the corner and sees the pedestrians’ Don’t Walk sign come on, he knows the traffic signal is about to turn yellow. So he stops. But the driver behind him may not know there’s a camera, so he’s ready to go through the intersection. The result — bam! An unhappy meeting on the boulevard. That’s why Lefkof and the other Transportation Committee members want an additional device on the traffic signal saying how soon the light will change. But here’s the thing: a countdown-to-red timer already exists on every traffic signal in the city. That’s what the yellow light is. We have no doubt the red light cameras cause some accidents. There’s one right in front of the Queens Chronicle’s office, and drivers slam the brakes to avoid tickets here all the time. But there are already enough lights and signals to pay attention to on the streets. The real answer is to slow down and make the right call when approaching an intersection. It’s just what they taught you in drivers’ ed: If you can stop as a light changes to red, do it. If not, don’t.

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A 9/11 insult Dear Editor: Hey, did you hear the news that the first responders to he tragedy of 9/11 are being shunted aside for the day of the memorial so that our mostly useless politicians can attend the tribute? Did anyone see a politician roll up his sleeves and work the “pile” looking for remains of our loved ones for days, weeks, months after? Even wonderful rescue dogs were there for weeks on end and sadly some have also paid the ultimate price for their bravery. Whose idea was it to exclude the f irst responders? This is a most disgraceful decision and a true slap in the face to all those brave men and women who have themselves put their lives in harm’s way. Patricia Whalen Richmond Hill

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No to MS choice Dear Editor: I and many of the parents on my executive board and in our school, as well as the PTA and parents of our neighboring schools are opposed to middle school choice. PS/MS 146 and PS/MS 207 have joined forces to alert our entire community of this issue and the possible effects implementing middle school choice can bring. On Tuesday, Aug. 23 at 6 p.m. we are holding a rally and petition signing at Loring Field, located at 149th Avenue and North Conduit Avenue, to come together against this. We would like to create a massive petition to prevent the Middle School Initative from being passed on Sept. 19. We know that you have been covering this very important issue in your paper (“Council 27 postpones vote on school choice,” Aug. 11, South Queens edition) and we would like to invite you to the rally. Theresa Fonal President, PS/MS 146 PTA and the PTA executive board Howard Beach

Perry’s dangerous words hatever actual policies he may run on, Texas governor and GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry is sounding like a very dangerous individual. He doesn’t appear to have much regard for the separation between church and state. He’s floated the idea of secession, something that cost 600,000 American lives the last time it was attempted. Now he says the actions of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke may border on treason. And that down in Texas, they’d deal with him in a “pretty ugly” manner. Understand two things: though extremely rare in our history, treason is punishable by death in the United States. And Texas is far and away the state that puts the most people to death for murder. Perry’s statement is frightening and revolting and should make any potential supporter of his campaign think twice.

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A better boulevard Dear Editor: Re “Woodhaven Blvd. study moves along,” Aug. 11, multiple editions: Make the center of Woodhaven a planted median. Adjacent to the median would be physically protected bus lanes. At every major intersection, the median would become a bus stop. This would speed bus travel and get more people to use public transit on the weekends. It would also beautify the street and calm traffic. Alex T. Barclay Astoria

42,” Aug. 11, multiple editions). The Democrats in Cong ress voted to cut Medicare spending by $500 billion in order to pay for ObamaCare. They tell us they would eliminate waste and ineff iciencies. I would like to ask Mr. Weprin to tell us in detail how the Democrats will do that and if he cannot then how he can support a program that would add that amount to the deficit. Before Mr. Weprin attacks Bob Turner on his position, he should explain his own party’s vote on Medicare cuts. Lenny Rodin Forest Hills

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Dear Editor: I found it quite amusing when I read David Weprin’s campaign spokeswoman Elizabeth Kerr state “New Yorkers know they can tr ust (Weprin) to protect Medicare” (“Siena Poll puts Weprin up 48-

Dear Editor: So the straw poll in Iowa is over and Mrs. Bachmann won. I couldn’t help but recall the last time I was so impressed with “straw.” It was in the classic f ilm “The Wizard of Oz,” with Ray Bolger as the

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Scarecrow. His lament-aceous song was. “If I only Had a Brain.” That sentiment encapsulates the Iowa Republican bruhaha. Bachmann won. Now, if she “only had a brain.” Nicholas Zizelis Amagansett The writer also lives in Bayside.

sent the country. There were no poor players on that stage, all have significant personal money. But there were tales told by fools, it did deliver on the sound and fury. Too bad it signified Nothing! Donald Deane Flushing

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Fine story on the Finest Dear Editor: Shakespeare in Macbeth said that life was a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fur y, signifying nothing. Sounds like he was talking about the Iowa Straw Poll. It had 8 people on stage with lots of tales to tell, plenty of sound and fury, but most of all, it signified nothing. And you thought the famous Ames Iowa Straw Poll was some kind of honest accurate barometer of how voters in Iowa feel about the f irst Republicans announcing their presidential aspirations didn’t you? Gee, so did I ... for years. Well, it’s not. Sorry to burst the bubble, but the Ames Iowa Straw Poll is only a well-touted Republican fundraiser where voters have to fork over a $30 fee in order to get in to vote. It’s a carnival, complete with barkers and sideshows. Candidates often wave the $30 entry fee, and provide food, drink, and music in order to bribe people to vote for them. Some candidates even pay to bus in voters from far away regions in Iowa to guarantee votes. Michelle Bachmann had country singer Randy Travis; Pawlenty served Famous Dave’s barbeque and sundry dairy products; Mike Huckabee, not a candidate, played bass guitar for both Tim Pawlenty and pizzaman, Herman Cain. Cain even joined in on vocals to support himself. Rick Santorum brought homemade peach jelly to entice voters his way. The telecast debate made several things clear. All candidates would not raise taxes even on the rich to help this country out of it’s dire f inancial mess. There were no Republican moderates on stage, most were extreme right of center. All candidates had beefs with other candidates, and big-time with Obama, who was the focus of attention, even though he wasn’t there. Michelle Bachman even said that she believed raising the debt ceiling was the wrong thing to do. She somehow believes that it would be OK for the U.S. to default and accept the consequences come what may. How can you possibly take this fundraising circus seriously? The media makes a big deal out of it, even predicting winners and losers like the vote really measures something. Are you kidding? Candidates often drop out of the race based on how they fared on straw poll day. Take Pawlenty for example; he dropped before his barbeque was all gone; Santorum took his jelly and went home. And to top it all off, Michele Bachman is out there telling the country that the Iowa Straw Poll voters liked her best, and that means that she represents the views of America. Many Iowans even consider the whole Ames Straw Poll event a charade, with meaningless results because they know the voting can be stacked and manipulated. They also know that Iowa does not repre-

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Gov.’s push for table games cheered in Qns. Constitutional amendment would be needed to legalize full casinos by Stephen Geffon

permit table games and has scheduled hearings on the subject for this fall. When the racino at Aqueduct Race Track Current law only authorizes the Aquein South Ozone Park opens this fall, it will duct casino to have VLTs, and a constituhave video lottery terminals for its patrons tional amendment would be required for to play — but table games could eventually table games. be available as well. State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Gov. Cuomo said at a news conference in Beach), whose district includes the casino, Albany last week he is considering legaliz- favors expanded gaming there. He said ing commercial, nonCuomo’s support Indian casinos in would add “serious New York. Aquemomentum” to the duct’s Resorts World effort. think it will give a boost New York City racino Addabbo said he is already legal supports full-fledged to the neighborhood.” because it has elecgaming because it tronic slot machines would create jobs and — Linda Wilkens, of Ozone Park but not the more boost revenue for the lucrative table games. state lottery system, Cuomo noted that which subsidizes New Yorkers also will gamble in other public education. states, such as New Jersey. Assemblyman Mike Miller (D-Wood“It’s happening,” he said of gaming com- haven) agreed, calling it a “win-win” situation. ing here. Miller said it would be “a boon to our Cuomo’s support will almost certainly community” and said he would definitely bolster lobbying efforts by Genting — the support table games. group that will run the Aqueduct casino — Noting that Genting had promised that 1 to get state legislators to permit table percent of their net profits will go back to games at its facility, scheduled to open in the community, Miller said, “any way that October. According to media reports, we can increase that net profit for them Genting is spending $1 million a year with would also help the organizations within lobbyists in Albany on this effort. our local community.” The dtate Senate Racing, Gaming and Ozone Park resident Linda Wilkens, who Wagering Committee is considering a pro- lives near Aqueduct, said she is in favor of posal for a constitutional amendment to the addition of table games to the slots at Chronicle Contributor

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Gov. Cuomo is pushing for table games to become legal in New York, which would benefit places FILE RENDERING like the incoming casino at Aqueduct. the casino because they would bring more jobs to the community and more revenue to the state. “I’m for it,” she said. “I think that it will give a boost to the neighborhood.” Wilkens added that she plans to go to the casino when it opens. Leila Haime of Lindenwood acknowl-

edged the positives of having table games at Aqueduct but is concerned about an influx of visitors to the neighborhood and increased traffic congestion. Resorts World New York City officials said they would welcome table games but are focused on opening the racino. continued on page 35

Pigeon poop pushes Peninsula employees back casino opening work to save hospital More asbestos at site than expected

MediSys leaving as institution’s sponsor

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ber, though there is no set date yet. “I was in that building a number of Watch where you step. years ago — pigeon droppings are a very A storm of pigeon waste, as well as the big reality,” said Community Board 10 need to remove lead paint and asbestos, Chairwoman Betty Braton. “That’s a has caused the opentongue-in-cheek way ing of the casino at of saying it’s an old the Aqueduct Race building.” Track in South However, more Ozone Park to be problematic than the pushed back to Octopigeon waste was the ber, according to an asbestos, Braton and official with knowlthe official said. edge of the situation. “They ran into “The lead paint, considerable additionasbestos and bird al asbestos removal,” poop were in a state Braton said. we weren’t anticipat- The opening date of the casino at Once it opens, the ing,” the official said. Aqueduct Race Track has been pushed casino will include Originally, Resorts back in part because of pigeon droppings. 2,500 video lottery World New York FILE PHOTO terminals — about City, the group that 900 more than the will run the city’s first casino at Aqueduct, company had originally anticipated. Ultihad expected to open the entertainment mately, the casino will include about facility in the spring. That was moved 4,525 VLTs, fine dining restaurants and a back to the end of summer, and, after bar with views of the facility’s entertainGenting spent more than $15 million to ment space. remove lead paint, asbestos and bird dropIt is expected to generate $300 million pings, the company is expected to open in annual state revenue and will employ Q the doors to the casino sometime in Octo- about 1,300 people full time.

Legislators and healthcare workers are making a last-ditch effort to keep Far Rockaway’s Peninsula Hospital open after MediSys, the institution’s parent company, told the board of directors that it no longer wants to be involved with the hospital, according to several officials affiliated with the facility. MediSys told the board it will no longer be Peninsula’s sole corporate member as of Aug. 22 — a decision made after MediSys officials allegedly were angered by the hospital board of directors’ recent vote to rescind their parent company’s letter of closure to the state, according to Mary Burke, a registered nurse at Peninsula since 1981. A state official said Peninsula Hospital has until Friday to submit a plan to keep the 104-year-old institution open for 30 more days. “We are trying everything in our power to save it,” Burke said, noting individuals discuss possible ways to keep the 173-bed hospital afloat on a nightly radio program at myrockawaysmedia.com. Another rally for the hospital will be held Monday night from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

at the St. Francis De Sales schoolyard in Belle Harbor. The hospital, which could close as early as September, has already shuttered non-acute care sections of the hospital, including the hospice unit, but the emergency room is still open and accepting patients. “On the weekend, all our critical care beds were filled,” Burke said. If the hospital closes, St. John’s Episcopal will be the only hospital left in the Rockaways, which has a growing and aging population of about 100,000 residents, many of whom live in the area’s six senior citizen housing developments and numerous nursing home facilities. “If there’s an emergency on the beach, where would people go?” asked Barbara Larkin, past president of the Belle Harbor Property Association. Borough President Helen Marshall said her off ice is working with the state Department of Health with the intent of saving the hospital. If the hospital does close, Marshall spokesman Dan Andrews said “there has to be a medical presence on that campus.” “People have to be able to access quick Q medical care,” Andrews said.

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marking the golden anniversary next year. Pictured from left to right are Kiwanis Club members Gene Greco, a past president, and Dino Bono, Councilman Eric Ulrich, Lenny’s owners Andrew Mastkangelo and Joseph Gervone, and Kiwanis Club President Steve Sirgiovanni. Kiwanis members said they were appreciative of the fact that the restaurant’s owners had done so much for Howard Beach and its residents.

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Building trade unions were out in force Tuesday in support of proposed toll increases requested by the Port Authority. And while outraged residents and motorists turned out at several public hearings throughout the region on Tuesday, the one at John F. Kennedy International Airport was a decidedly union crowd. The workers said the tolls, which would fund a 10-year, $33 billion capital improvement plan, would produce infrastructure and safety that are crucial, and provide 167,000 jobs necessary to help turn the nation’s moribund economy around.

Members of Construction and General Building Laborers Local 79 wore their views on more than their sleeves on Tuesday.

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The PA is requesting toll hikes of between 50 and 67 percent this year, raising the cost of a Hudson River crossing from $6 to $10 for EZ-Pass customers and $8 to $15 for those paying cash. Truck prices would increase even more sharply, and PATH train fares between New York and New Jersey would increase 56 percent. Projects would include replacing support cables on the 80-year-old George Washington Bridge and airport safety and security upgrades. The Port Authority, which held nine public hearings around New York and New Jersey, also said it must pay for the $11 billion reconstruction of the World Trade Center site, and a $6 billion tab for security, which has tripled since 9/11. The PA board is expected to vote on the fare increase Friday. Govs. Cuomo of New York and/or Christie of New Jersey can veto any hikes. In a hearing at John F. Kennedy International Airport, James Conway of Local 14

Woodside resident Michael Halpin of the INternational Union of Elevator Constructors Local 1 throws his support behind Port Authority toll hikes and accompanying construction jobs at a public PHOTOS BY MICHAEL GANNON hearing Tuesday at John F. Kennedy International Airport. of the Operating Engineers, or heavy equipment operators, said unemployment in the construction trades is at about 30 percent in and around New York City. “The recession has hit this region hard,” said Bernard Callegari of Whitestone, a member of and organizer for Laborers Local 79. “This will help bring good jobs back to the city.” The lone dissenting voice among 18

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Put on your dancing shoes Residents can celebrate the last bit of summer at a free outdoor swing concert in Howard Beach on Thursday, Aug. 25. State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) and the elder law firm Brady & Marshak will co-sponsor the annual Arnie Mig Memorial Concert at PS 232 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. The school is located on 84th Street between 149th and 151st avenues. If it rains, the event will move indoors to the school auditorium.

Back this year, Frank Pedulla will lead the Music Staff Swing Orchestra in a concert that will honor Arnie Mig, who for more than two decades brought big band music to the area. “I am grateful to have been given the opportunity to co-sponsor this concert each year to remember Arnie for all that he did for his community,” Addabbo said. For more information, call Addabbo’s office in Howard Beach at (718) 738-1111.

Republican Bob Turner and Democrat David Weprin both went on the offensive last week, calling each other’s policies either troublesome or downright dangerous for small businesses in the 9th Congressional District. Speaking before 40 supporters and small business owners at the Manor Oktoberfest Restaurant in Forest Hills, Turner said the regulations and policies of Washington Democrats leave small business owners too much uncertainty in the coming years. “There’s Obamacare, there’s taxes and then there’s that nightmare known as Dodd-Frank,” Turner said, referring to the financial reform law enacted last year. Turner said small businesses will be the engine that pulls the country’s economy out if its tailspin. But he said last year’s healthcare legislation, which kicks in fully in 2014, has business owners holding off on hiring and expanding until they know the full costs. He said Dodd-Frank, vernacular for the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, created burdensome and costly regulations, though did he not cite specifics. “Government’s job should be to get out of the way,” Turner said.

Elizabeth Kerr, communications director for the Weprin campaign, said the same businesses Turner is attempting to court cannot afford for him to get elected. “He wants to repeal tax cuts for small businesses that provide health insurance coverage for their employees, and would rather protect tax breaks for big corporations that ship jobs overseas than lower tax rates for small businesses,” Kerr said. She also said Turner favors policies that would devastate Medicare and Social Security, “the only retirement plan many small business owners have.” A statement issued by Weprin’s campaign said he favors closing tax loopholes for corporations and using the revenue to offset small business taxes. The statement also said he would work to ease the credit crunch, increasing the availability of capital needed need to start a new business or grow an existing one. Weprin and Turner are competing in a special election on Sept. 13 to fill the seat vacated Q in June by Democrat Anthony Weiner.

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A trash facility being built in College Point continues to raise safety concerns for nearby LaGuardia Airport and, more recently, questions regarding the Federal Aviation Administration’s decision to shrink a safety zone in the area to make way for the structure. The North Shore Marine Transfer Station, which is now under construction at 120-15 31 Ave., has raised concerns from politicians and advocacy groups regarding the possibility that it will attract birds, which can be hazardous to planes, obstruct visibility for arriving aircraft due to its height and cause more delays at the already congested airport. The FAA recently lowered the protection zone, a safety buffer that must be kept clear of aviation hazards, around LaGuardia from 2,500 feet. to 1,700 feet, which allowed for the transfer station to be built just outside the boundary, as reported by the New York Post. The FAA, however, denied reducing the buffer zone, according to CNN. The advocacy group Friends of LaGuardia Airport has filed four lawsuits, including two that are now in the state Court of Appeals regarding the study, which the group claims is arbitrary, conducted by the FAA on the effects of birds on the transfer station and the approval of a grant by the FAA for the project. According to the group’s president, Kenneth Paskar, who has worked in aviation for more than 30 years, the agreement between the FAA and the city, which is the owner of the airport, violated the rules of the grant approval program, which is where the money for the project came from. The other suits are complaints filed in the state Supreme Court against both the Department of Environmental Conservation, which was supposed to prepare a wildlife hazard report, but failed to, Paskar alleged, and the FAA for its administrative procedure. The group says it is confident that the suits will stop

Seagulls like these, shown flying near the station’s construction site, are the main safety concern for advocacy groups and PHOTO BY PJ SMITH politicians. construction of the facility. Another opponent of the project, Jim Hall, the former National Transportation Safety Board chairman, has been working with Congressmen Joe Crowley (D-Queens, the Bronx) and Gary Ackerman (D-Queens, Nassau) to halt construction of the facility, and has openly expressed doubts that the FAA is doing the right thing when it comes to the safety of passengers and residents of the surrounding area. “This was done strictly because of political pressures,” Hall said of the FAA’s decision, adding, “I think it’s a horrible idea establishing a safety hazard at a place where one previously did not exist.” Hall’s and others’ main objection to the facility is the likelihood it will attract garbage-and-rodent-seeking birds. As was shown by US Airways Flight 1549, which miraculously landed

safely on the Hudson River after striking a flock of birds in 2009, there is the potential for danger when the two are combined. The flight’s captain, Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, has recently spoken out against the project. The FAA assures the public that the necessary precautions are being taken, one of which is that the design calls for a completely enclosed structure that is supposed to keep out all unwanted critters. Still, the FAA normally does not allow even enclosed facilities that are known to attract birds, within 10,000 feet of an airport, according to Hall. As of now, the structure is being built 2,200 feet from one of LaGuardia’s runways. In response to the Post’s story alleging the change in the safety zone, Ackerman and Crowley wrote to Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood requesting an explanation and assurance that there will be no threat from the facility. “The residents of Queens, as well as the American flying public, deserve to know that every possible effort has been made to guarantee their safety,” the lawmakers wrote. “We cannot allow questions about the safety of this facility to linger.” According to the letter, both lawmakers have expressed concern for years about the possible safety issues revolving around the station, which were further amplified by Flight 1549’s “Miracle on the Hudson” landing. The FAA says it plans on taking “mitigating measures,” such as the use of pyrotechnics, to keep the birds at bay, but the precautions may not help, according to Paskar. The pyrotechnics used to scare the geese will most likely make them fly away, causing them to get closer to the path of departing and arriving planes, he said. Aside from flying dangers, there is also concern that the possible delays the facility could cause will bring less people into the city, and affect the economy. “Each person represents a dollar amount for the city,” Paskar said. “If there are more delays into and out of the airport then that means less people traveling and less people in the city.” Q

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EXPECT DELAYS: BIG ROAD Kew Gardens work aims to improve safety and traffic flow, by AnnMarie Costella

over the connection between the Grand Central, Van Wyck and merge bridge. “The Kew Gardens Interchange project is much needed and will ease congestion and make our roads safer,” City Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz (D-Forest Hills) said in an email. “The project will finally allow motorists to have easier access to the roadways that take you to different parts of Queens. This is a long-term project that will take time and patience.”

current standards. However, Nyman, added that even lacking he city Department of Design these improvements, the bridges and Construction will be are safe. repaving Queens Boulevard In the southbound direction from 78th Avenue to 80th Road, as one of the issues is that as one well as Kew Gardens Road from gets off of the viaduct, heading Union Turnpike to 80th Road, in a south, there is a very short disproject expected to last two weeks. tance to merge with traffic comWork will be done from 9 p.m. to ing from the GCP before drivers 5:30 a.m. beginning on Monday, are locked into a three-lane conAug. 22 and ending on Labor Day. f iguration. The engineers are However, one lane of traffic will adding a fourth lane as part of remain open at all times. Contract 1, so traffic will flow While some motorists may more smoothly through that loath the delays it may cause, area, but as part of Contract it’s nothing compared to a 2B, they will be working on t is important to bring larger project which is schedf ixing the southbound uled to begin in a few months. viaducts as well. the roadways — the “Is there going to be suffiSecond phase set for February slopes and and grades of cient signage so that trucks In February, the second will know not to go on the the hills and the turning phase of the Kew Gardens Grand Central?” asked CB 8 Interchange project will get member Mark Lefkof. radii from the ramps — up board underway. It is a massive Nyman said there are signs reconstruction and renovation there currently that state that, to standards.” plan affecting a complex web but the engineers are seeking — Robert Sinclair Jr., spokesman AAA of thoroughfares — the Van to make more signage Wyck Expressway, Grand improvements to eliminate Central Parkway, Queens confusion. The interchange project is driven Boulevard and Union Turnpike — by several factors, including geoThere will be some overlap which are used by half a million metrics — improving the shape of between the end of Contract 1 vehicles each day. the bridges, shoulder widths and and the start of Contract 2A, but The first phase of the four-part number of lanes, according to that was done intentionally to project, which aims to correct William Nyman, an associate with condense the schedule of the structural problems and operational Hardesty and Hanover. At the work, according to Nyman. deficiencies, is already in progress. “One of the reasons we’ve southern end of the interchange The engineers overseeing the where traffic splits between the Van split the contact up is to get project from the Manhattan-based Wyck and the GCP, longer dis- competitive bidding on the firm of Hardesty and Hanover gave tances are needed so that cars can project,” Nyman explained. “If The Kew Gardens Interchange project area. a presentation about the status of get into the appropriate lanes. we bid it all as one big conthe project at a Community Board tract we wouldn’t get as many will be utilized during the next 8 meeting last Thursday. bidders and we wouldn’t get the phase of the plan. More trees will High accident rates a concern It will include the ramp to the Another reason for the project is good prices. It also allows us to be planted later in the project. northbound Van Wyck, originating to improve stopping distances and get the f irst contract going and An MTA-DOT arterial maintefrom the eastbound Union Turnpike other factors that are correlated underway while we f inalize the nance yard at the northwest corner and eastbound Jackie Robinson with traffic accidents and high vol- second contract.” of the interchange, adjacent to the Parkway; replacing the northbound ume. It also aims to improve the Contract 2A will include multi- subway yard, which has an access Van Wyck viaduct, and construction condition of viaducts, which were ple improvements. There will be a road will be realigned to slightly on the eastbound Union Turnpike built in the 1960s and are not up to new northbound Van Wyck viaduct reduce viaducts on the northbound structure, which will be expanded Van Wyck. from two to three lanes upon com“It’s in an area that the public pletion of Contract 2B. They will really doesn’t see, but it’s necessary also be replacing the ramp that to make the project work,” Nyman directs westbound traffic from the said. Jackie Robinson and Union TurnThe building itself, to the west pike to the northbound Van Wyck. under the viaducts, will be There will be a deck replace- replaced. A new two-story structure ment on Union Turnpike over the is being proposed to house city and Van Wyck-GCP connector. The state DOT maintenance groups. westbound Union Turnpike ramp to In developing the plan and trythe westbound GCP will be ing to highlight problem areas, the realigned. Substantial water and engineers surveyed accident locasewer replacements will take place tions by comparing the number that throughout the interchange as well occur relative to the statewide averas landscape restoration. ages, per vehicle million miles, for a similar facility. 600 trees will have to go For example the northbound Van The new construction will Wyck viaduct has four times more require the removal of approxi- accidents than state figures and the mately 600 trees — 300 small south approach is twice as high as diameter or less than 6 inches and the state numbers. The highest rate 225 medium diameter or 6 to 12 occurs at the north approach of the inches. Only about 80 will be southbound Van Wyck, which was A view of the existing Van Wyck Expressway crossing over Union Turnpike, replaced during Contract 2A almost six times the state average. PHOTO COURTESY NYS DOT looking northeast. because the rest occupy areas that Though the engineers are Assistant Editor

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convinced that the project will be worth the time and effort for the long-term improvements it will make, not everyone is pleased with the plan. Community board skepticism “The one thing we have been complaining about and we have been complaining about it forever is the traffic backups from the airport, but there is nothing we can do about that,” Mary Ann Carey, district manager of CB 9 said Monday. “I don’t think the project will affect us positively because it will just cause delays, and it has been causing delays.” Lefkof and other members of CB 8’s Transportation Committee were also concerned about the lengthy duration of the entire interchange project. Contract 2A will cost over $100 million and take 54 months or approximately four and a half years to complete. It consists of five main stages and 17 substages. “It sounds pretty complicated, but the problem with a project like this is that you do need to maintain traff ic and every time you do a piece of work, you have to get traff ic shifted somewhere else,” Nyman explained.

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but disruptions around interchange are a major concern Throughout the duration of the construction, two lanes will be maintained on the Van Wyck viaduct as well as three lanes on the adjoining sections of highway, just as it already exists. Pedestrian traffic will be maintained along the eastbound and westbound Union Turnpike. But there will also be a series of delays.

one full weekend in the fall 2015. Also, 132nd Street will be closed to the eastbound Union Turnpike service road. It will be reduced to two lanes for two months and will infringe upon 36 parking spaces used by the courthouse in Kew Gardens.

Infrastructure needs updating Robert Sinclair Jr., a spokesman for AAA New York said Monday that while he had hoped the project would don’t think the project have been closer to completion by now, he said the plan will affect us positively is necessary in order to prebecause it will just vent roadways from becomobsolete. cause delays, and it has ing“Itfunctionally is important to bring roadways — the slopes and been causing delays.” grades of the hills and the turn radii from the ramps — Mary Ann Carey, CB 9 district manager — up to standards,” SinThere will be a temporary clair said. “A large part of New York overnight detour implemented while City’s road infrastructure predates a temporary barrier is placed along a modern transportation engineering.” two-lane section of the northbound Sinclair also noted that the interVan Wyck; and during the temporary change is an important link to John and permanent construction of a F. Kennedy International Airport, ramp connection from the eastbound providing a route for passengers, Union Turnpike to the northbound cabs and trucks to connect from the Van Wyck. It will also be used for southern part of the city to the rest

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of the region. City Councilman James Gennaro (D-Fresh Meadows) also favors the plan, calling it a necessary project to maintain roadways and improve traffic flow. “Of course it is a big dislocation, levying a short-term burden in the community with noise and the rerouting of street traffic,” Gennaro said. “Our best hope is that the state DOT will fully engage and inform the community, which they have done, of any potential problems that will arise from such a large construction project.” CB 8’s Transportation Committee had asked the engineers to examine expanding the exit of the Van Wyck at 72nd Avenue, but to realign the exit would infringe upon parkland and take substantial justification such as proof of a high accident rate or serious congestion or operational problems, according to Jim Romanovsky, a consultant supervisor with the state DOT. Another suggestion the board made was to have the exit go right up to Jewel Avenue, but that is even more problematic, Romanovsky said. It would interfere with a path of

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Gillibrand promotes her minority jobs bill Senator appears with area pols at Jackson Heights nonprofit group by Paula Neudorf Associate Editor

As Republicans in Congress become increasingly hostile toward any new spending measures, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (DNY) answered questions about her proposed Urban Jobs Act in Jackson Heights on Tuesday. The bill would pump $20 million in the first year and $10 million a year for four years after into nonprof it organizations offering jobs programs to urban minority youth nationwide. The act, targeting young people of color between the ages of 18 and 24, seeks to address some of the startling statistics about this group in New York City and elsewhere. Some 39 percent of blacks and 36 percent of Hispanics nationwide are unemployed, according to Gillibrand’s office, compared with a nationwide average unemployment rate of 9.1 percent as of July. Like Mayor Bloomberg’s Young Men’s Initiative, which was announced earlier this month and would invest $127 million into similar programs in New York City specifically, the Urban Jobs Act promotes job training and hones in on the group of peo-

ple most likely to drop out of high school, commit crimes and live in poverty. “It’s not a Democrat idea, it’s not a Republican idea, it’s just common sense,” Gillibrand said of the measure. New York’s teen unemployment rate is the highest among the 50 most populous cities in the country, according to Bloomberg’s office. Given the enormity of the problem — which spans such issues as poverty, racism and the economy — Gillibrand acknowledged that $20 million was not a huge sum to invest. But before asking for more money, Gillibrand said she wanted “to show that the program can work.” “That’s the best way to get resources,” she added. When asked during an interview why the Senator thought New York’s teen unemployment numbers were particularly high, she noted that the statistics vary borough to borough, with the Bronx faring worse than Queens, for example. She also said that because the financial services industry is based in the city, New York may have been hit harder across the board than other urban areas when the economy collapsed.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) talks about her proposed Urban Jobs Act, with state Sen. Jose Peralta (D-East Elmhurst), left, Assemblyman Francisco Moya (D-Corona) and Daniel Puerto, of Make PHOTO BY PAULA NEUDORF the Road NY, on Tuesday in Jackson Heights. One of the biggest questions the Urban Jobs Act raises is whether investing in jobs training can make a difference when jobs are scarce to begin with. But Gillibrand was conf ident that by training young people in growing trades, like the high-tech industry, the jobs could be there. The goal is to “train our kids for the jobs that are actually growing,” she said. On the hostility toward President Obama’s performance on jobs and his various economy-boosting strategies, including spending more on public works, Gillibrand cited a plan the president had proposed over a year ago that offered more of a

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Are there just under 6,600 Afghans living in Queens, or somewhere closer to 20,000? This is the question Afghan advocates and scholars in Queens are asking as they await the 2010 Census figures on the community, underscoring what may be both a historic and systemic problem with the government data. Last week, when Mayor Bloomberg formally challenged the U.S. Census Bureau for allegedly undercounting several neighborhoods in New York, including Astoria and Jackson Heights, by reporting housing units as vacant that actually aren’t, there was no mention of immigrant populations. But Councilman Danny Dromm (D-Jackson Heights), certainly believes that immigrant undercounting may have had a part in the alleged 2010 Census flubs, at least in Jackson Heights. “All you have to do is walk down Roosevelt Avenue to know that that’s impossible,” Dromm said, addressing the Census’ finding that Jackson Heights’ population has decreased since the last survey in 2000. The data, he said, “wasn’t collected in a culturally sensitive way.” Dromm cited instances he’d heard about in which English-speaking Census workers were sent to Spanish-speaking residences. He also said that sometimes a Census worker would knock on a door just once or twice before determining no one lived in a

Mayor Bloomberg during the 2010 Census campaign. He is now formally challenging the bureau’s FILE PHOTO findings. given building. Beyond any error on the bureau’s part, many immigrants simply fear giving information to the government, he said. That is certainly the case with one of Queens’ most vulnerable immigrant communities — the Afghan population — according to Suzanne Strickland, an assis-

tant professor of sociology at Queens College, who has been working on a study on Afghan assimilation in Queens. “They’re terrif ied,” Strickland said. “They have no trust in the government.” Many Afghans speak only Farsi and may not be able to read or write, even in their native language, exacerbating the issue.

While 2010 figures are not yet available for the Afghan community — the bureau releases the data incrementally — the Census has provided an estimate of what these f igures might be, called the American Community Survey. According to the 2005-2009 ACS estimate, there are about 6,600 Afghan immigrants in Queens, a number Strickland contests. Her project, which involves mapping Afghan welfare cases brought to the Human Resources Administration against the estimates provided by the ACS, is already proving there have been major undercounts, she said. Strickland’s study will be released in the next few months. What makes the issue more than an academic one is that numbers dictate how much money a given district can receive from the government. As the United States pulls out of Afghanistan, Strickland predicts more Afghan refugees will be coming to Queens since the situation will most likely worsen there. Shirin Shokouhi, a board member and volunteer at the Women for Afghan Women center in Flushing, which also runs shelters in Afghanistan, echoed Strickland’s fears for the country’s future post-drawdown. The work they do there, she said, “is really in jeopardy.” Numbers are also likely to increase because of a new refugee category, the continued on page 38

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Forgive Queens District Attorney Richard Brown should he boast to his fellow city DAs about the Glendale Civilian Observation Patrol in the 104th Precinct. “I can’t think of a single group that has been more effective,” Brown said. The group consists of civilian volunteers who commit to three-hour patrols each month, acting as extra eyes and ears for the 104th. They’ve been patrolling since 1976, armed only with radios, a sense of civic duty and an occasional NYPD gasoline voucher. More than 40 members of the group were on hand last Thursday night as Brown swore in the 11 members of GCOP’s board of directors. Volunteers must be at least 18 years old and live within the 104th Precinct. They must have clean records and will undergo police background checks. “Let me know if anyone needs his picture taken,” said President Frank Kotnik Jr., referring to the identification process. The rest of the regular meeting entailed discussion of a recent string of car break-ins, the theft of automobile tire rims and even looking for ways to better enforce the city’s dog litter cleanup laws. There also is talk of reviving their so-called “Breakfast Club,” which concentrates early morning patrols in hot spots where members have been alerted to high numbers of nuisance complaints and criminal activity. Kotnik also believes that it is not just the police who should keep an eye open with Sept. 11 rolling around. “It’s the 10th anniversary,” he said. “I think they might want to try something.” Brown said the city can take great pride in the strides it has taken against crime in the last 20 years, starting with the NYPD and including his and other district attorneys’ offices. But he also was led to repeat himself when speaking of the civilians, both individually and in groups such as GCOP. “I can’t think of a single [civilian] group

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CB 8 panel wants traffic signal timers Say red light cameras cause crashes by AnnMarie Costella Assistant Editor

Community Board 8’s Transportation Committee would like the city to place countdown timers on traffic signals or pedestrian crossing signs where red light cameras are located in its district because, members said, drivers seeking to avoid traffic tickets cause crashes. “It’s a device that would increase motorist safety and prevent accidents,” said Committee Chairman Jesse Rosenbaum. “It’s something to think about.” According to the committee, which met last Thursday, drivers who are familiar with where the cameras are located stop short when the light turns yellow to avoid getting nabbed and often cause other drivers to slam into them. “I notice a red light camera on Queens Boulevard and Ascan. So if I see the walkdon’t walk sign is flashing and I know the light is going to turn yellow, I’m going to stop,” member Mark Lefkof said. “The guy behind me doesn’t know and I get rear ended.” Lefkof asked Department of Transportation Borough Planner Feliz Okolo if the agency could do a safety study of corners with cameras in District 8 and he agreed to discuss the idea with other DOT officials. “But the signal engineers would have to look into it because there are potential ramifications as to why it’s not being done,” Okolo

said of installing timers. He also said if the board could highlight where accidents occur it would provide impetus for further examination. But the agency said no Wednesday. “This is not something that currently exists,” said Scott Gastel, a spokesman for the DOT. “It’s not something we are considering.” Lefkof and Rosenbaum said they believe the countdown clocks haven’t already been installed because the red light cameras generate a lot of money in fines. “You have the one on the westbound service road of the Long Island Expressway by Willets Point Boulevard ... some guy got a ticket and put four bullet holes into the back of it,” Lefkof said. Okolo noted that there are 100 cameras throughout the city, with locations where the devices are actively being rotated, a statement the committee found hard to believe. “So sometimes you have an empty box there?” Lefkof asked. “I’m not talking about the dummy ones that they put up that you could tell it’s a dummy. I’m talking about the one that are really fixed with the locks on the back of them.” Okolo asked if the committee could provide an example of a countdown clock location in the city and Lefkof noted one on a pedestrian crossing sign at the corner of Queens BouleQ vard and Continental / 71st Avenue.

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the president’s hostility towards Israel. Former Mayor Ed Koch, a Democrat, crossed party lines to endorse Turner, which he said he was doing to “send a message” to Obama on Israel. To further court Jewish voters, Turner recently traveled to the town of Woodridge in upstate Sullivan County, where members of Queens’ Orthodox Jewish community vacation in the picturesque Catskills. On Monday, another former mayor — Giuliani, a Republican — gave his stamp of approval to Turner. “Congress is in dire need of business leaders like Bob Turner, not another career politician,” Giuliani said in a prepared statement. “This country needs to start creating jobs again and Bob Turner has the national and international business know-how to help move us in that direction.” Weprin landed his own high profile endorsement on Tuesday — Schumer, a fellow Democrat. “It is vital we preserve Medicare and Social Security, and the only candidate for Congress who will do that is David Weprin,” said Schumer, who represented the 9th Congressional District for 18 years, from 1980 through 1998. “David Weprin is someone we can count on to stand up for middle class Brooklyn and Queens families. He will fight against the reckless, extreme right-wing Republican policies that seek to reduce the deficit on the backs of working families and seniors, while protecting tax subsi-

dies for big oil companies.” Most recently, state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, a Democrat, endorsed Weprin on Wednesday morning. “With our nation facing some of the greatest fiscal challenges in a generation, we need David Weprin’s financial and budgeting experience in Congress,” DiNapoli said in a prepared statement. “ … He is ready to make the tough decisions it will take to keep our fiscal house in order while protecting critical programs like Medicare.” The Weprin campaign has issued a number of statements slamming Turner on Medicare. “Whether or not he’s going to tell it, the voters in the 9th Congressional District deserve to know the truth about where Bob Turner stands on Medicare,” a release issued by Weprin’s campaign stated. “When talking to seniors, Turner says he won’t cut the program, but his own writing indicates otherwise.” The Weprin campaign then referred to an editorial Turner wrote on June 8 for the National Review Online, in which he says he wants to “dramatically cut the budget by 30 or 35 percent.” Turner has said he supports maintaining Medicare for seniors. During the event at which Koch endorsed Turner, the Republican candidate said he agreed with the former mayor’s stance supporting Medicare. Koch said Turner was “against his own party’s positions on the three entitlement programs of Social Q Security, Medicare and Medicaid.”

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ust when you refuse to accept the fact that summer is almost over and that school will be starting soon, Maspeth and Middle Village have come to the rescue with some great last minute summer fun. The two seemingly sleepy, mostly middle-class neighborhoods are actually bustling centers of activity with a solid sense of civic pride. Once considered “the boondocks” by Manhattanites and mostly comprised of farmland years ago, they both have active civic groups, social clubs and school organizations that help keep the areas clean, safe and secure. And many of these same groups are also responsible for staging a great deal of interesting community events that draw visitors from all over. To begin, one cannot speak about Maspeth or Middle Village without giving credit to Community Board 5, a dedicated group of people led by District Manager Gary Giordano. CB 5 serves both Maspeth and Middle Village and is responsive to the residents it serves. CB 5 can be reached by calling (718) 366-1834 or by emailing them at qnscb5@nyc.rr.com. When you visit Maspeth, travel northbound on 69th Street or westbound on the LIE and you can’t help but notice the huge, in-your-face American flag and bald eagle mural on the side of Maspeth Federal Savings Bank’s main office. It is located on the corner of Grand Avenue and 69th Street. Bursting with civic pride, the mural says it all with its motto: Maspeth is America. Maspeth Savings Bank is not only the centerpiece of Maspeth, it is also a major financial supporter of numerous community improvement projects and the host of free outdoor summer concerts held in its parking lot. The next free concert will be a Polish Night featuring Jimmy Sturr with Carol Golis and the Polonaise Dancersm on Aug. 24 at 7:30 p.m. Bring your beach chair and tap your feet to this lively performance. The Maspeth Kiwanis Summer Flea Market will be held in the same location on Oct. 16 (rain date Oct. 23) from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. This is a popular event where you can find many bargains and treasures both

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State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. is hosting his third annual veteran’s barbeque for all area veterans and their families on Saturday, Aug. 20. The event will take place outside his Howard Beach office at 160th Avenue and 102nd Street from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. Those who plan on attending must reserve a spot by calling Addabbo’s office at (718) Q 738-1111 no later than Aug. 18.

Woodhaven town hall this Saturday The Woodhaven Residents' Block Association will hold its monthly town hall meeting this Saturday, Aug. 20 at 1 p.m. at the Volunteer Ambulance Corps building at 78-15 Jamaica Ave. There will be reports on the recent sexual assault in Woodhaven and the car break-ins near the Forest Park co-ops. The association will be asking residents for ideas regarding security cameras and patrols. There will be reports from Community Board 9 District Manager Mary Ann Carey Q and elected officials.

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Woodhaven street festival returns The Greater Woodhaven Development Corp. will hold its 31st annual Wonderful Woodhaven Street Festival on Sunday, Oct. 16 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The event will be located on Jamaica Avenue from 80th Street to Woodhaven Boulevard. There will be pony rides, games, food and a variety of vendors. Woodhaven stores and restaurants will feature their goods and treats. Q For more information, contact the GWDC at (718) 805-0202.

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Supporters press state for funding for a park on part of church lot by Michael Gannon Associate Editor

What do you do when you want to purchase the remainder of the old St. Saviour’s Church property in Maspeth but the present owner is putting up buildings and money for the purchase is tied up in Albany? You proceed on faith. The remnants of the wood-frame 1847 church now sits disassembled in trailers at All Faiths Cemetery in Middle Village, while civic leaders and elected officials try to free up money that the state formerly said was available to buy about one acre of property that has not yet been developed by Maspeth Development Corp., the property’s owner. “They’re starting to build warehouses and we’re waiting for the money to be released,” said Robert Holden, president of the Juniper Park Civic Association. Proponents are believed to be looking to raise up to $2 million to make up the difference between what the city is willing to pay for parkland and what is being asked for the parcel at 57th Road and 58th Street. State Sen. Joseph Addabbo (D-Howard Beach), leading the charge at the state level, calls himself guardedly optimistic.

“But I’m sharing people’s frustration,” he said Tuesday. “Earlier in the summer, in April or May, the city Parks Department and the [state] Department of Environmental Conservation said the money was there. It’s my opinion that the money is still there.” Addabbo reiterated that they only would be able to purchase the land where construction has not started. “Needless to say the owners are not going to tear down existing structures or sell what they’re using,” he said. “The remainder is about an acre and we are in negotiations for a much needed park. And they need a park. This area is greatly underserved with green space. It would be a great public benefit and would be utilized.” The Queens Chronicle could not reach the owner for comment. Christina Wilkinson a vocal supporter of a park, is faulting elected city officials for not finding money that would allow the city to begin its Uniform Land Use Review Procedure while negotiations go on with the state DEC and the owners. “I wouldn’t think $50,000 in a $66 billion budget would be hard to find,” she Q said.

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Frances De Gaetano and Abe Rosen cut up the rug with a merengue demonstration. Max Stern, 96, showed his many talents by telling a few jokes before picking up his ukulele and leading the assembled seniors in a sing-a-long. Tom Riviello delighted the crowd with “When I Fall In Love” as did Gil Yablon who sang “Too Young”. DiNapoli, who has been performing since 1963 and has been with the TBirds and the Jimmy and the Misfits bands, closed the show with his original “Howard Beach Song.” There were no winners or losers in

Jamaica Avenue — this guy who was getting into a car that we knew he was stealing,” Waisman said. “I radioed the police car, who came and found the guy hiding under the dashboard.” While he’s someone who thrives under pressure, Waisman will also speak in detail about the calm that comes in those early morning hours in the community he loves. “The nights are interesting,” he said. “You learn where you live at night.” And even when there has been action, when he has reported someone breaking into a bodega or watched people stumbling drunk out of bars try to steal from cars, the morning always arrives, the sun spreading out over the once dark streets. “You’re sitting there and then you hear the birds chirping,” Waisman said. Q “Then you see the sun coming up.”

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like it’s a one-shot deal and we don’t do that,” Elias said. In addition to buying gold, silver, diamonds, Recently, a woman and her boyfriend went into an unassuming gold buying and cash loan watches and coins, Ice Jewelry Buying also shop on Queens Boulevard. She had a $35 offers instant cash loans for jewelry and eBay offer on her ring from another area shop, but selling services. Their cash loans program is straightforward and was looking to get a better deal. In what may be viewed as poor business acumen, she told simple. “It’s a perfect solution for someone who her new prospective buyer what her previous has a bill due and a check on the way,” Goldberg offer was. Still, after examining her piece, he said. “But we make sure they have a game plan to offered her $1,600. He did so, as he says, buy their jewelry back before the end of the term. Sometimes these are people’s heirlooms we’re “...because that’s what it was worth.” The plight of the worker who’s hard-up for talking about and we respect that.” For those who are less Internet-savvy or cash in today’s economy is something that Arthur Elias and Edward Goldberg can relate to just don’t have the time, Ice Jewelry Buying first-hand, having been laid off from their jobs offers a convenient eBay sales service. If what in jewelry manufacturing. They understand a customer has isn’t an item that Ice Jewelry that people get into situations where they just Buying would purchase, like a handbag or need a little cash fast to make the bills and Ice antique furniture, they can help find a buyer Jewelry Buying Service hopes to help out in on their eBay store. Elias consults with the customer to find a target the most honest way they can. price and let the internet STORE HOURS “For this, I like to think we’re handle the rest. doing the community a service,” MON.-FRI. 11am - 7pm auctioneers For anyone who has Elias said. “We’re in the business SAT. 10am - 5pm ever dealt with the hassle of helping people who are in a SUN. by Appointment of selling and shipping tough spot. They can come to an item on eBay — all the our store and know that we can educate them on what they have and we’ll give forms involved in setting up a user and paypal them what their items are worth. When that account, the 10-15 percent fee that Ice woman told me her previous offer, it made me Jewelry Buying charges to do all the work is wonder how many times this happens — how really a bargain deal. “At the end of the day, I just want people many people who really need that money get to feel comfortable doing business with us. taken advantage of?” Elias opened his Rego Park shop with People have this conception of gold buying Goldberg less than a year ago, and already stores as these slimy places with slimy they’re seeing a lot of repeat customers and people, and they’re typically right. But we referrals. This is a sign to them that they’re want to be different. I don’t think it’s cool to doing something right — the pawn business see someone buy a ring for $200 and put it in typically deals in one-time transactions but their counter for $800. We don’t do that.” Ice Jewelry Buying Services is located at Elias is determined to break that mold, 98-30 Queens Blvd. in Rego Park. Hours of building a reputation on trust. “Everyone around here is buying gold these operation are Monday-Friday from 11am to days; you can go into the barber shop down 7:00pm and Saturday 10am to 5pm; Sunday the road and sell your jewelry. The problem private appoinments are available. Call for Q with all these places is they treat everything more information (718) 830-0030.

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There have been several waves of immigration, she explained, with many Afghans arriving in the 70s and 80s, when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, and another, smaller wave arriving during the last decade’s war in the country. Most Afghans fleeing the country have landed in Pakistan, India and Iran, according to Strickland. Still, while she would not give a f igure, Strickland agreed with Bahram that the numbers of Afghans in Queens are signif icantly higher than the 6,600 estimate. What must change, Strickland argued, is greater outreach to immigrant communities on the part of the Census bureau. Otherwise, Queens will continue to be undercounted, and its residents will continue to get less than they Q should.

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“Special Immigrant Visa,” which makes it easier for Afghans — and Iraqis — who helped U.S. forces in those countries to come to the United States, according to Lisa Raffonelli, a representative of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ Off ice of Refugee Resettlement. Just how incorrect the ACS estimates are remains unknown. Naheed Bahram, a leader and case manager at Women for Afghan Women, estimated there might be some 20,000 Afghans in New York, most of them living in Flushing, based on her own experiences with the community.

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Metropolitan Opera military uniforms and a dress from a 1986 Off-Broadway production of "Evita" are among the Theatre Development Fund's 75,000 costumes.

tephen Cabral, the director of the Theatre Development Fund’s Costume Collection, navigated down one of the 13 aisles of a cavernous warehouse space on West 26th Street in Manhattan. Pausing at a particular spot in front of a rack where hundreds of costumes hung, beneath yet another rack of the same, he instantly reached out for the one he was looking for. He displayed it proudly, a shimmering toga meticulously crafted by sewing together several individual pieces of fabric, with blue and silver detailing. “I call this Egyptian disco,” he said. The costume appeared in the original 1998 Atlanta production of Elton John’s musical “Elaborate Lives,” which went on to be called “Aida” when it appeared on Broadway. At the Costume Collection, where some 75,000 outfits donated from theater productions are housed, there are no computers or digital records. The only demarcations amongst the thousands of hangers are small handwritten signs noting either a type of costume — “peasant skirts,” “hoop” or “bustle” — or a time period. Which makes Cabral, who has worked for the nonprofit for 18 years, in many ways as valuable a resource as the Collection itself. He is a walking trove of theater history, a central database of sorts, and he will, like the collection he sentinels, be making the move to Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens this October, where the Theatre Development Fund continued page 42 has signed a new lease. Continuedonon page

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tinsmithing and broommaking demonstrations and on Saturday, Aug. 20 from 1-5 p.m. see decoy carving, banbox making, spinning/felting and blacksmithing demonstrations. This event is rain or shine.

“My Lovely Ladies: The Dried Floral Art of Natalie Carbone,” will be on view now through Aug. 21 at the Voelker Orth Museum, 149-19 38 Ave., Flushing. Gallery hours are Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday from 1-4 p.m.

The St. Sylvester Council No. 6194 of the Knights of Columbus will host a food drive from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 20 at 101-18 101 Ave., in Ozone Park. Goods collected at the drive will go to St. Sylvester’s Church food pantry. Canned and boxed goods and non-perishable food will be accepted.

Crossing Art Gallery, 136-17 39th Ave., ground floor, Flushing, presents Going Green Exhibition now through Sept. 11. For information contact Jennifer Junkermier at jennifer@crossingart.com, (212) 359-4333 or visit crossingart.com. Free. Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd., presents Within the Emperor’s Garden — The Ten Thousand Springs Pavilion exhibit, now through Sept. 30. Suggested donation is $5, free for members. Gallery hours are Saturday and Sunday noon-5 p.m. The Maria Rose International Doll Museum, 187-11 Linden Blvd., St. Albans, exhibits are open Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 12:30-4:30 p.m. Cost is $5 for adults, $2.50 for children.

AUDITIONS Senior Theatre Acting Repertory holds acting rehearsals on Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. at Hollis Public Library, 202-05 Hillside Ave. and on Fridays at 10:30 a.m. at Queens Village Library, 94-11 217th St. For information, call the director’s assistant at (718) 776-0529.

Free carnival on Saturday, Aug. 20 from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at Colonial Church of Bayside, 216th Street and Luke Place. Face painting, games, crafts, snacks and more.

The Baby Soda Jazz Band will perform at the Louis Armstrong House Museum on Saturday in PHOTO COURTESY BABY SODA JAZZ BAND Corona. Movies under the bridge at Little Bay Park on Tuesdays, Aug. 23 and 30 at 8 p.m. Enjoy free family movies overlooking Long Island Sound. Bring low chairs or blanket. (Movies TBD)

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The Louis Armstrong House Museum, 34-56 107 St., Corona, will host the monthly hot jazz/cool garden outdoor concert series with Baby Soda Jazz Band on Saturday, Aug. 20 at 2 p.m. Admission is $10 for adults and $7 for seniors over 65, students and children. All ticket prices include a guided tour of the museum that can be taken before or after the concert.

Hip to Hip Theatre Company, celebrating its fifth season of Shakespeare in the park in Queens, will be offering “Much Ado About Nothing” on Aug. 18 at 7:30 p.m. at Flushing Meadows Park, Ederele Terrace. This 90-minute production is free. Bring blankets or low chairs.

Polish Night with Jimmy Sturr and his orchestra with Carol Golis and the Polonaise Dancers will be held on Wednesday, Aug. 24 at 7:30 p.m. at Maspeth Federal Savings Bank at the main office parking lot on 69th Street and Grand Avenue in Maspeth.

Queens Theatre in the Park presents the comedy “A Jew Grows in Brooklyn” now through Aug. 21 in Flushing Meadows Park. Tickets are $49.50-$39.50, QTP subscribers are $41 and are available at the box office, by phone (718) 760-0064 or online at queenstheatre.org.

Forest Hills Chamber presents free jazz concerts featuring MioSotia, Latin jazz, on Thursday, Aug. 18 and Bruce Wayne and the Soul Messengers, jazz, soul and r&b, on Thursday, Aug. 25. Both shows will be held from 7-9:30 p.m. at 70th Road between Queens Boulevard and Austin Street. Admission is free. Seating will be available.

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The Greek Cultural Center, 26-80 30 St., Astoria, invites the public to its annual free Summer Film Festival which opens now through Sept. 4. This year they celebrate Greek actor/director Thanasis Veggos and Greek American actor/director/writer and two-time Academy Award winner, Elia Kazan. All films are in Greek, and will be shown every Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 6 p.m.

St. Raphael’s Church outdoor flea market will be held on Sunday, Aug. 21 at 35-20 Greenpoint Ave., Long Island City from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. For information, call (718) 729-8957.

St. Joseph Catholic Church, 43-19 30 Ave., Astoria will hold weekly movie nights on Fridays through Sept. 2. On Aug. 19 “Of Gods and Men,” Aug. 26 “True Grit” and Sept. 2 “Invictus” in the school yard. Bring chairs. Come at 7 p.m. for a free barbecue dinner. Movies follow at sundown.

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Free movie in Cunningham Park at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 18 “Grown Ups.” The movies will take place near the bocce courts. Enter the park through the parking lot on Union Turnpike at 196th Place. Bring your own chairs.

Faith Mission’s summer flea market will be held every Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. now through Oct. 1 at 114-40 Van Wyck Expressway, South Ozone Park.

Oklahoma City Thunder team member and Hollis native Royal Ivey will hold his fourth annual free Royal Skills Clinic at Hollis Playground, Hollis Avenue between 204th Street and the corner of Run DMC and JMJ Way from Aug. 25-27 from 4-7 p.m. on Thursday and Friday and 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturday.

CLASSES Line Dancing will be taught on Saturday, Aug. 20 from 9:15-10:30 a.m. at Idlewild Cricket Field, 223rd Street and 148th Avenue, Springfield Gardens. Learn some fun line dances such as the electric and cha cha slides with instructor Barbara Fraser. No prior experience necessary. Southeast Queens Camera Club presents “Introduction to Digital Photography,” free photography classes on Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. at Roy Wilkins Park, Administration Building, second floor, Baisley Boulevard and Merrick Road, Jamaica now through Aug. 23. Call (718) 723-6849 or (516) 328-3776. The Center for the Women of New York in Kew Gardens offers various classes in family day care — health and safety course, medical office assistant’s course, horticulture and home health aide class. For costs and information, call (718) 793-0672 A one-hour auto clinic for women is held the third Saturday of every month at 3:30 p.m. at Great Bear Auto Repair Shop, 164-16 Sanford Ave., Flushing. Call to reserve at (718) 762-6212. Dance with instructions at Italian Charities of America, 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst, every Monday and Friday, 7:15-8 p.m. From 8-11 p.m. will be a dance social. Music by Sal Escott. Admission is $10. Yoga classes are now being held at the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, 76-11 37 Ave., Room 204, Jackson Heights. All levels are welcomed. Classes are held Saturdays, from 10-11 a.m. and Sundays, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Classes held during the week include, meditation, ayurvedic, yoga philosophy and Sanskrit language instruction. Minimum donation is $5. For information, call Rashid at (646) 912-1885 or Shree at (646) 417-2252. Hillcrest Jewish Center, 183-02 Union Turnpike, Flushing, offers Israeli folk dancing on Mondays from 7:15-9:45 p.m. Cost is $10 for nonmembers, $9 for members.

SPECIAL EVENTS You can see historic craft demonstrations for free at King Manor Museum, 150-03 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica on Friday, Aug. 19 from 1-5 p.m. Come see quilting,

The Ridgewood Youth Farm Market will be held at Ridgewood Memorial Triangle between Cypress and Myrtle avenues every Saturday now through Oct. 29 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. for local produce, flower and plants from local farms sold by local teens.

SOCIAL ACTIVITIES Italian Charities of America, 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst will hold Saturday dances on Aug. 20. Music by Jean and Joe from 8 p.m.-midnight. Cost is $10. The Singles Center of the Samuel Field Y, 58-20 Little Neck Parkway, Little Neck, presents Wednesday Nite Rap for singles 45+ on Aug. 10 at 7:30 p.m. Cost is $9.

LECTURE Chaya CDC, 37-43 77 St., second floor, Jackson Heights, is a free HUD approved nonprofit that offers a basics of homeownership and bi-monthly foreclosure prevention workshops. They give information and resources to homeowners who are trying to decide on the right home, the truth about homeownership, understanding equity and resources for down payment assistance, those interested in loan modification, refinancing, or other housing options. The basics of homeownership orientation will be held Saturday, Aug. 20 at 2:30 p.m. at Elmhurst Library, 86-01 Broadway. The foreclosure prevention workshop begins on Wednesday, Aug. 24 at 5 p.m.

HEALTH A blood drive will be held at the Bay Terrace Shopping Center in Bayside on Thursday, Aug. 25 from 4-8:30 p.m. Donors receive free Mets tickets. Humanity Service Incorp., a nonprofit that helps the needy, has a free clinic of mental and medical health services from 6-8 p.m. every Friday. There is also a food pantry that is open during this time. These services are located at 92-17 101 Ave., Ozone Park. For more information, call (718) 8451901. Join the Walkers for Wellness Club at New Hope Lutheran Church of Jamaica. Under the guidance of a walking leader, you will walk two to three times each week at a comfortable pace. The club is open to walkers of all ages and abilities. The walking schedule is Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7 p.m. and Saturdays at 8 a.m. Weather permitting, meet at the church, located at 167-24 118 Ave.

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Much like Long Island City, the neighborhood it calls home, the Creek and the Cave, open since 2006, has been undergoing a kind of makeover. The neighborhood institution, offering a menu of “Cal-Mex” standards and a serviceable bar, would probably have remained just that, if things hadn't taken a seriously funny turn. That's because 18 months ago, owner Rebecca Trent decided she would make her venue a comedy club, transforming the local spot into one of the few in the borough dedicated to making you laugh. “I had never served a plate of food or a beer before in my life,” Trent said

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of her start five years ago. “I was a new business owner.” She likened the experience at the Creek and the Cave when she first took over — it had been previously been a restaurant called Willow Creek Fresh Grill and Cantina — to a “frat house.” “I'm the least fratty person I know,” Comedy happens every night of the week at the Creek and the Cave, a bar and restaurant in LIC. Audience members laugh during a comedy routine at the she added. PHOTO BY PAULA NEUDORF PHOTO BY TAL SHPANTZER LIC venue. After three and a half years of booking live music at the spot, and the world. The venue hosts a comedy go on in addition to the regular comeattendant complaints from neighbors event every night of the week in the dy schedule. The need, it seems, was — the space is not soundproofed — basement lounge area, and most are out there — the venue, on a recent Trent decided it was time for a change. recurring shows. The spot is also home Monday night, was as chock-full as the “I had to choose the people that I to a studio where comedian Marcus calendar. enjoyed the most,” Trent said of who Parks produces eight weekly comedy Among the many comedians who to feature at her bar. With a back- podcasts, featuring an array of differ- have performed at the Creek and the ground in theater and a set of con- ent comedians. Soon that roster of Cave are “30 Rock” star Judah Friedtacts in the comedy scene, the choice eight shows will increase to 12. A lander and stand-up comedian TJ newly launched website, cavecome- Miller, who has appeared on TBS's was easy. dyradio.com, showcases these pod- “Conan” as well as “The Late Show Who doesn't want to lighten up? Since then, the Creek and the Cave casts — they're also available on with David Letterman.” has moved full throttle into the comedy iTunes — while various special events continued on page 00 46

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What started out in a room that could only fit 20 people in Woodside has grown into a Queens Museum of Art space that seats more than twice that many. It’s Cinemarosa’s Queer Film Series, screening different LGBT movies at the museum every third Sunday of the month. This Sunday, Aug. 21, catch “The Boys of Summer,” a program that includes five short films from France and one from Denmark. “It wasn’t quite set up for a screening,” said Prerana Reddy, the QMA’s public events director, of the community center where Cinemarosa began. For the last seven years, the museum has been Cinemarosa’s home. In “Pauline,” screening on Sunday at the Queens Museum of Art and directed by Celine PHOTO COURTESY CINEMAROSA Sciamma, a young woman tells the camera her story.

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"This has been definitely one of the most longstanding and successful partnerships that we've had," Reddy said, emphasizing that Hector Canonge, the series’ founder and curator, is the main force behind the event. For Canonge, a filmmaker and digital artist who was born in Argentina and raised in Astoria, Cinemarosa is an opportunity to foster community.

Gay organizations that might relate to a given film’s theme, for example, are often invited to speak at screenings, as are filmmakers, artists and others. “It’s a very nice discussion that we have sometimes,” Canonge said. The short films screening on Aug. 21 were all commissioned by either the French or Danish governments in an effort to combat homophobia in those countries.

The French series, “Young and Gay in the Eyes of Others,” came about when the French government put out a call for young filmmakers to submit scripts about homophobia in France. The winners were paired with professional directors. Highlights include the fictional short “Pauline,” directed by Celine Sciamma, in which a young woman tells her coming out story, directly to the camera. “You can’t take your eyes from her,” Canonge said. In the Danish film “XY Anatomy of a Boy,” directed by Mette Carla Albrechtsen, six young gay men are interviewed in a locker room. The film is a “fictional documentary, it blurs that line,” Canonge explained. The young men in the film are all real people, not actors. Documentary and short films are often the focus of the series, Reddy said, though bigger and more mainstream films and comedies are shown as well. But, because of the very nature of Cinemarosa’s focus and the continued lack of LGBT representation in mainstream cinema, the series “tends to be independent,” she said. Despite the lack of mainstream recognition, Reddy noted the community of LGBT filmmakers is particularly vibrant. “I'm not surprised that we haven't run out of things to show in seven years,” Q she said.

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In 1976, when the Collection first moved into its current Manhattan home — whose ground floor originally accommodated a railroad — the massive former manufacturing space seemed ideal. Now, with neighbors like Hugo Boss and Martha Stewart, the building has become prime fashion real estate. When the Collection’s lease recently went up, it found it could no longer afford the rent. “We’re sort of the odd man out,” Cabral said.

Thirteen aisles of racks stacked on top of each other means a lot of costumes.

He believes that will change in Queens at Kaufman Astoria, the film and television studio. A 16,000-square-foot space with 23-foot-high ceilings will become the Collection’s new home. There, surrounded by film and TV productions, and just next door to the Astoria Performing Arts Center, the Museum of the Moving Image and the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts High School, Cabral thinks the Collection’s treasure trove might find its perfect fit. “I think of it as a synergy that works both ways,” said Stephen Powers, an associate at Denham Wolf, the realty firm that helped the Collection find the Kaufman location. While the Collection focuses on renting its costumes as cheaply as possible, on a sliding scale, to nonprofits and groups in need — whether it be a high school in Idaho looking for “Grease” costumes or a small theater company in the city — the Fund has started opening up its coffers to film and television productions as well. But before any “synergizing” can take place, the Kaufman space must be completely gutted and renovated. A dropped ceiling that Lifetime, the lot’s former tenant, had installed has already been removed, Cabral said. In addition, a set of “massive” computer servers were ripped out, according to Powers. As for

A costume from “Elaborate Lives” at the Theatre Development Fund’s Costume Collection, PHOTOS BY PAULA NEUDORF which is moving from Manhattan to Astoria. moving the actual costumes themselves, Cabral said the process would take a week or two at least. Once the move has taken place, sometime in October, according to Cabral, Queens will have the distinction of being home to what is probably the last major costume collection of its kind. While many different companies used to provide a similar service, many have disappeared or gone out of business, he said. “We’re really one of the few that are set up to do what we do,” he said. There are a few boutique collections that rent

out specific genres — such as Helen Uffner’s in Long Island City, which offers mostly 1930s and 40s vintage pieces — or large places that serve the film industry and are thus hard for smaller productions to rent from, such as Western Costume in Los Angeles. Yet even the Costume Collection can only preserve so much. Under the best circumstances, an ensemble’s shelf-life is limited, Cabral explained. Actors, who perform night after night in the same outfit, are pretty hard on fabric and seams. Eventually, a given piece just gives out. continued on page 46

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VOLUNTEERS The Central Queens YM & YWHA, 67-09 108 St., Forest Hills, will hold a volunteer fair on Thursday, Aug. 25 from 1-3 p.m. To register or for more information, contact the adult department at (718) 268-5011, ext. 160 or email olderadults@centralqueensy.org. The Wildlife Conservation Society’s Queens Zoo, 53-51 111 St. in Flushing Meadows Park, is accepting applications for volunteers. Program participants will have the opportunity to teach visitors of all ages about animals through guided tours, assisting with special programs and events, speaking at narrated feedings and leading arts and crafts activities. Deadline for applications is Wednesday, Aug. 31. Candidates must be at least 18 years of age and available for a multi-week training program. For more information visit queenszoo.com or call (718) 271-1500. New York Cares Day, the city’s largest volunteer day for public schools, will take place on Saturday, Oct. 15. New York Cares is looking for 7,000 volunteers to revitalize more than 100 public schools across the five boroughs. Volunteers will paint murals and classrooms, reorganize libraries and store rooms, fix up gardens and playgrounds and more, to give NYC students and teachers brighter, cleaner places to learn. New Yorkers can register to volunteer at newyorkcaresday.org from now until Oct. 14. There is a $20 registration fee per volunteer, and the event is open to volunteers ages 12 and up (volunteers under 18 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian). Bridge instructor needed for refresher course and guided supervised play. Contact Wendy or Rochelle at SNAP Bell Park Senior Center in Queens Village at (718) 740-3905. Hospice Care Network, one of the largest hospice organizations in New York State that serves more than 400 patients and their families daily in Nassau, Suffolk and Queens counties, is looking for volunteer licensed massage therapists. Contact Eva Pendleton, director of Complementary Therapy for Hospice Care Network at ependleton@hospicecarenetwork.org.

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Mondays at the Creek are improv nights; Tuesdays, stand-up; Wednesdays feature “Monsters,” a show hosted by comedian Nick Turner; Thursdays, open-mic nights; and Fridays, “The Show,” at midnight, with Chris Laker, “one of my favorites,” Trent said. There are two special events this weekend: Matt McCarthy, of Front Page Films, a company that works with Comedy Central and College Humor among others, will be performing standup on Friday, Aug. 19. The next night, Pat Dixon presents “Nearly Naked Lady Hour,” an “irreverent burlesque” show according to Trent. Trent relishes the ability to give comedians a space to let loose. She mentioned how TJ Miller performed an hour every night at the Creek before taping an episode of “Comedy Central Presents.” But even as her venue has transformed, Trent isn't sure how she feels about the changes taking place in Long Island City around her. “The fact that a Dunkin' Donuts is moving into my neighborhood makes me want to punch a baby,” she joked. Reflecting on her business, Trent considered herself lucky. “I feel like I've gotten away with murQ der,” she said.

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For this reason, Cabral keeps a small rack of his favorites out of the fray. An Anna Nicole Smith outfit from the 1994 film “Hudsucker Proxy,” for example, hangs on this special rack, along with the unassuming gray jacket Jude Law wore in “Hamlet” on Broadway. Even with the regular stock, Cabral said it can sometimes be hard for him to watch a costume “go out.” But luckily for the theater community both nationwide and in New York, this shepherd of sorts cares as much about keeping the theater alive as he does Q keeping it well-dressed.

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As late as the 1940s there were still old wooden schoolhouses scattered throughout the city, though few were used for teaching by then, most having been converted to other purposes like maintenance storage. The oldest school still in use was not made of clapboard but genuine rare old hewn granite. Astoria’s PS 9, once the original Long Island City High School, was located at 27-27 2 St. (formerly Fulton Avenue, off Munson and Astoria avenues). It had been erected in 1840 as the home of Stephen A. Halsey, the mayor of LIC before the 1898 consolidation of the f ive boroughs into greater New York. In 1949 former Mayor Halsey was honored again with the erection of Halsey Junior High School, JHS 157, at 64th Avenue and 102nd Street in Rego Park. His connection to Rego Park is still unclear to many historians. Perhaps he had vacationed in the area, or owned land here. In 1948 it had been announced that Halsey’s old mansion, a schoolhouse for over half a century, would be torn down. Two years Astoria’s PS 9 on Sept. 13, 1948, soon to be torn down.

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100sq. ft.

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INTERIOR-EXTERIOR

J.S.V. ELECTRIC Inc. LICENSED ELECTRICIANS 24 HR. EMERGENCY SERVICE • • • • •

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Family Owned For Over 35 Years

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★

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Est. 1938

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sq. ft.

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• • • •

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• • • •

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Lic. # 0859173 38

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• • • • • • • • • •

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FREE ESTIMATES 33 LICENSED & INSURED

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Only

We Do All The Loading & Cleanups Commercial • Residential Interior • Exterior • Demolition Cleanouts - All Kinds Boiler & Oil Tanks Removed Lawn Maintenance Fully Insured and Certified 45

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199

Capping Available

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22500

per 100 Sq. Ft.

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• Roofing

Give Us A Call To Spruce Up Your Property For Spring. Weekly Maintenance Available 37

Same Day Service

• Window

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SQ page 49

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Licensed & Insured

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NCE & TV REPAIR PPLIA WE REPAIR:

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Help Wanted

PART-TIME TELLER POSITIONS AVAILABLE Maspeth Federal Savings is currently seeking individuals for parttime tellers. Applicants must have a good aptitude for figures, good communication skills and enjoy working with the public. New employees must be available for 3 consecutive weeks for a full-time paid training program. Cashier, customer service and computer skills a plus. Positions are available at our Main Office, Forest Hills, Fresh Meadows and New Hyde Park Branches.

For an online application visit

www.maspethfederal.com or call Maspeth Federal Savings, Monday to Friday 9:00am - 4:30pm

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Fax Resume: 718-848-1114 or Email: Queensline@aol.com or Call 718-848-9100 Ext. 8

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EXPERIENCED, LICENSED SALES AGENTS WANTED

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Notice of Formation of SOLO REAL ESTATE MGMT. LLC, a domestic LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 06/22/2011. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: Antonio Di Saverio, 41-63 71 St., Woodside, NY 11377. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. OB HOMES LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC), filed with the Sec of State of NY on 5/13/11. NY Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to the LLC, 67-58 Austin St., Forest Hills, NY 11375. General Purposes.

Notice of Formation of 24-36 27TH STREET, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/01/11. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 151 Valley View Ave., Ridgewood, NJ 07450. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company. Name: The Allman Dunbar Brokerage LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/29/2011. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 118-42 Marsden Street, Queens, NY 11434. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 150-31 14TH AVENUE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/27/11. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Gloria LoSchiavo, 138-22 11th Ave., Whitestone, NY 11357. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of 148 EAST 123RD STREET LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/27/11. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Gloria LoSchiavo, 138-22 11th Ave., Whitestone, NY 11357. Purpose: any lawful activity. NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: GREENPOINT CITYVIEW, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/11/11. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, c/o Law Offices of William Cafaro, 19 West 44th Street, Suite 1500, New York, New York 10036. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: 208 GREAT NECK REALTY LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/13/11. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 289 Fulton Street, Farmingdale, New York 11735. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of Wang Chen Dental Care PLLC. Art. of Org.filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/05/2011. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 39-15 Main St., Ste. 505, Flushing, NY 11354. Purpose: practice the profession of dentistry.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: ERICA PAPATHOMAS DPM, PLLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/15/11. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the PLLC, 24-59 24th Street, Astoria, New York 11102. Purpose: For the practice of the profession of Podiatry.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: H.B. LANG REALTY LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/21/11. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, c/o Denise R. Langweber L.L.P., 3332 Sunrise Highway, Wantagh, New York 11793. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

139-48 QUEENS BLVD. LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 9/17/2010. Office in Queens Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 676 W. Merrick Rd., Valley Stream, NY 11580. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Principal business location: 139-48 Queens Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435.

RLLCCYCR LLC, a domestic LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/31/2011. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Jun Xu, 17-19 Putnam Ave., Suite 3L, Ridgewood, NY 11385. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE Index No. 17573/11 At an IAS Part 17 of the Supreme Court, of the State of New York, held in and for the County of Queens, at the Courthouse located at 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, New York on the 26th day of July, 2011. Present: Hon. Orin R. Kitles, Justice Rayman Hoosein, Petitioner -againstWAHID HOOSEIN and MINGLE #1, INC., Respondent Upon reading and filing the verified petition and affidavit of RAYMAN HOOSEIN, a 50% shareholder in MINGLE #1, INC., both duly sworn to on July 25, 2011, Let WAHID HOOSEIN and MINGLE #1, INC., the State Tax Commission, the Attorney General and all interested persons, Show Cause at an IAS Part 17, Room thereof, to be held at the Courthouse located at 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, New York 11435, on the 28th day of September, 2011 at 9:30 A.M., in the forenoon of that day, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard, why the corporation should not be dissolved and why; and it is further Ordered, that a copy of this order shall be published in The Queens Chronicle once in each of the 3 weeks before the time appointed for the hearing thereon; and it is further Ordered that a copy of this order and the documents on which it is based shall be served upon the corporation, each person named in the petition who is not a petitioner, the State Tax Commission, the Attorney General, and all other interested parties, in the manner prescribed in New York Business Corporations Law Section 1106. Enter #80156 J.S.C

42 BERRIAN LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC), filed with the Sec of State of NY on 5/5/11. NY Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to Della Mura & Ciacci LLP, 981 Allerton Ave., Bronx, NY 10469. General Purposes.

JAMESON PLAZA LLC, a domestic LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 7/18/2011. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 4128 College Point Blvd., Flushing, NY 11355. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: CRITERION HOLDINGS LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/19/11. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 35-11 36th Street, Astoria, New York 11106. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company. Name: Alina & Sofia’s Jewelry LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/20/2011. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Eduard Lalaiants, 84-10 34 Ave., Apt. 4L, Jackson Heights, NY 11372. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Segadey L.L.C., a domestic or foreign Limited Liability Company (LLC). Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State on June 2, 2011. NY Office location: Queens County. Secretary of State is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC service upon him/her to C/O 119-16 204th Street, St. Albans, NY 11412. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company. Name: BENAIR HVAC-R LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/19/2011. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: Ben Avishai Yarkoni, 150-14 Grand Central Parkway, Jamaica, NY 11432. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company. Name: A W Family LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/05/2011. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 84-11 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica, NY 11421. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation: FEDERAL ENVIRONMENT, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/14/2011. Office loc: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: FEDERAL ENVIRONMENT, LLC., 63 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11205. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Vernon Real Estate Holding Company, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/19/2011. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Kenneth Abrahami, 33-18 57th Street, Woodside, NY 11377. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of 5505 ASSOCIATES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/25/11. Office location: Queens County. Princ. office of LLC: 139-10 28th Rd., Apt. 5B, Flushing, NY 11354. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of WAVECREST MANAGEMENT GROUP LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/25/11. Office location: Queens County. Princ. office of LLC: c/o Susan Camerata, 87-14 116th St., Richmond Hill, NY 11418. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company. Name: Q & A CONSULTING LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/08/2011. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 11 Soundview Drive, Bayville, NY 11709. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

CITATION File No.: 2010-5050 SURROGATE’S COURT, QUEENS COUNTY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, BY THE GRACE OF GOD, FREE AND INDEPENDENT To: ROBERT S. ENGEL, JOAN HERMAN COLEMAN, ARLENE HERMAN BROWN, HELENE RICH, GRAHAM STRAUSS, LORRAINE STRAUSS SESSA, THE QUEENS COUNTY PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK AND RUTH STRAUSS, IF LIVING AND IF DEAD, TO HER HEIRS AT LAW, NEXT OF KIN AND DISTRIBUTEES, WHOSE NAMES AND PLACES OF RESIDENCE ARE UNKNOWN AND IF SHE DIED SUBSEQUENT TO THE DECEDENT HEREIN, TO HER EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, LEGATEES, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES AND SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST WHOSE NAME AND PLACES OF RESIDENCE ARE UNKNOWN AND TO ALL OTHER HEIRS AT LAW, NEXT OF KIN AND DISTRIBUTEES OF ZELDA FREDERICS, THE DECEDENT HEREIN, WHOSE NAMES AND PLACES OF RESIDENCE ARE UNKNOWN AND CANNOT AFTER DILIGENT INQUIRY BE ASCERTAINED. A petition having been duly filed by MICHAEL SPIEGEL, who is domiciled at 38-15 Bowne Street, Flushing, New York 11354, USA. You are hereby cited to show cause before the Surrogate’s Court, Queens County, at 88-11 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, New York, on September 29, 2011, at 9:30 o’clock in the forenoon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of ZELDA FREDERICS, lately domiciled at 38-15 Bowne Street, #3G, Flushing, New York 11354, United States, admitting a to probate a Will dated July 7, 2009, a copy of which is attached, as the Will of ZELDA FREDERICS, deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that: Letters Testamentary issue to Michael Spiegel. Dated, Attested and Sealed, July 29, 2011 HON. PETER KELLY, Surrogate MARGARET M. GRIBBON, CHIEF CLERK MICHAEL M. LIPPMAN, Esq., Attorney at law, (914) 478-8400, 135 Southside Avenue, Hastings-On-Hudson, New York 10706. 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 you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you.

Notice of Formation of WANG HOLDINGS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secretary of State of NY (“SSNY”) on 7/19/2011. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 143-13 Beech Ave., Flushing, NY 11355. Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 8/8/2011, bearing Index Number NC000664/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me the right to assume the name of Gurjant Singh. My present name is Baljit Singh. My present address is 94-31 53rd Ave., Bsmt., Elmhurst, NY 11373. My place of birth is India. My date of birth is June 11, 1965.

CS CONDO LLC, a domestic LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 6/21/2011. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 39-60 65th St., Woodside, NY 11377. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company. Name: FTW Consulting LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/14/2011. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 29-15 36th Ave., #4EA, Astoria, NY 11106. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 8/4/11, bearing Index Number NC-000643-11/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me the right to assume the name of Ilan Levi Pinkhasov. My present name is Ephraim Pinkhasov. My present address is 176-44 Kildare Road, Jamaica, NY 11432. My place of birth is Nassau, NY. My date of birth is October 19, 2010.

In accordance with PPB Rules, Section 4-04, Renewals, this is Intent to Award (RENEWAL) for photography services for the Queens Borough President’s Office to Dominick Totino Photography, Inc. The contract shall run from September 1, 2011 to August 31, 2012 (third of three renewals) and may not exceed $55,000. If you have any questions/comments, please feel free to contact the Agency Chief Contracting Officer, Carol Ricci at 718-286-2660 or email her at cricci@queensbp.org

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Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company. Name: SANDY SUN LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/01/2010. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 135-11 40th Road, Suite 4C, Flushing, NY 11354. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company. Name: FULL HOUSE PARKING LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 9/3/2008. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 135-11 40th Road, Suite 4C, Flushing, NY 11354. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose. NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 7/18/11, bearing Index Number NC000590-11/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me the right to assume the name of Stefanny Lopez. My present name is Stefanny Lopez Ospina aka Stefanny Lopez. My present address is 51-97 Codwise Place, Elmhurst, NY 11373. My place of birth is Colombia. My date of birth is March 29, 1990.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 7/29/11, bearing Index Number NC-000621-11/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me the right to assume the name of Raheeq Abdullah. My present name is Tauseef Abdullah. My present address is 8622 Dongan Ave., Apt. 3H, Elmhurst, NY 11373. My place of birth is Elmhurst, NY. My date of birth is July 28, 2010.

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GHALE CONCIERGE & SECURITY SERVICE LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC), filed with the Sec of State of NY on 4/15/11. NY Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to The LLC, 411 Onderdonk Ave., Ridgewood, NY 11385. General Purposes.

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THE NEW YORK FAMILY OFFICE LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC), filed with the Sec of State of NY on 7/8/11. NY Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to The LLC, c/o Heiko Meyenschein, 90 Park Ave., Ste. 1710, NY, NY 10016. General Purposes

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Golf glory for an SJU alum by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor

St. John’s University has always been known for its baseball and basketball programs, but I would bet most of it students and alumni were unaware it had a golf team. That’s quickly changed after Keegan Bradley’s PGA Championship victory at the Atlanta Athletic Club last Sunday. Bradley, who grew up in Vermont and could have been a professional skier, was a member of SJU’s Class of 2008. Bradley was an unknown on the PGA Tour until last Sunday, and his victory could not have come at a better time for the association. Its next big tournament, The Barclays, is the only time you can see the world’s best golfers in the New York metro area, and it begins next Thursday. Tiger Woods did not qualify, and his absence always means less interest. Bradley should help bring out some folks who normally wouldn’t attend a golf tourney. The PGA Senior Tour, now the Champions Tour, makes its lone area appearance starting today, Aug. 18, at the Westchester Country Club for the Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship. Among the familiar names competing are Tom Watson, Fred Couples, Mark O’Meara and Craig Stadler. The U.S. Open gets underway at Flushing Meadows National Tennis Center on Aug. 29 but a number of excellent tennis players will be competing there next week for the handful of wild card slots. This is arguably the best value in sports because it’s free to watch these talented players compete for their chance to be tennis’s answer to Keegan Bradley.

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Mets utility player Mike Baxter has gotten a lot of local press because he was born in Whitestone and graduated from Archbishop Molloy High School. What isn’t well known, however, is that he had a chance to be a college hero here. “I spent my freshman year at Columbia but I transferred after to Vanderbilt. It was a baseball decision. My parents, though, were not happy at the time,” Baxter told me with a smile the day he was brought up to the Mets from the Buffalo Bisons. As per tradition, the Mets have endured another year of injuries that kept key players either off the field for long periods or not playing their best due to pain. But there’s finally good news on the health front. Knuckleballer R.A. Dickey says his plantar fasciitis has dissipated. For months Dickey had a hard time putting pressure on his right heel. David Wright was forced to play shortstop a couple weeks ago when Jose Reyes’ hamstring acted up again. He did not make an error. When I saw him last week I said to him, “Hey shortstop, you did not embarrass yourself out there!” “Not like when I play third base!” Wright replied with a hearty laugh. New Jersey Nets forward Kris Humphries has gotten far more attention for being the fiancee of Kim Kardashian than for anything he’s accomplished in his NBA career. The couple is getting married on Saturday, and you can bet the event will rival William and Kate as a media circus. Kris won’t have to worry about the NBA lockout as he’ll be earning big bucks as a reality star on cable’s E!, the netQ work that handles all things Kardashian.

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• L-Shaped Studio, MIC ..... $75K • Hi-Rise 1 BR co-op ......... $99K • Hi-Rise, 1 BR, 1 Bath Move-in Condition..........$103K • 1 BR Garden, 1st Fl ........$115K HOWARD BEACH/OLD SIDE HOWARD BEACH/ROCKWOOD PARK • JR4, Hi-Rise ...................$135K One of A Kind Spacious Luxury Home, Beautiful 55x100, Corner 5 Level Split • 2 BR, Garden w/DR ........$145K Waterfront property, 5 BRs, Colonial, 3 BRs, 2½ Baths, Den, 19.7x23.6 • 2 BR, 2 Bath Hi-Rise ......$148K 5 full-baths, full-fin bsmnt, custom kit with Fireplace, Patio off Den/Basement, w/granite, viking stove, master bath • Courtyard Garden 1 BR, Central Vac, Oak Flr in LR, Parquet Flr tiles, cutom clifornia closets. in Den, New Roof, HW Heater, Sprinkler Pet friendly, Mint............$155K w/slateJust too Much to say!!! System, 1½ Car Garage. Asking $699K • Mint 3 BRs, 1 Bath, Garden, ! ! Dogs OK ..........................$169K ED ED UC UC • Mint AAA, 2 Brs, 2 Baths, D D RE RE New Kit/Baths ................$195K • Mint-AAA, Lobby Flr, 2 BRs, 2 Baths, 1100 sq ft, 10' Ceilings, New Kitchen/Bath ...........$189K • Mint 3 BRs, 2 Baths w/Terrace, HOWARD BEACH/ROCKWOOD PARK Parking available .......... $248K HOWARD BEACH/ROCKWOOD PARK Totally redone low ranch on 50x100, R

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HOWARD BEACH/ROCKWOOD PARK OZONE PARK/CENTERVILLE HOWARD BEACH/ROCKWOOD PARK Raised ranch on 50x100, 3 BRs, 2½ baths, private drwy., corner lot, CAC, large living room, very large kitchen. A must see!! Asking $589

PARK VILLAGE CONDOS • Mint AAA, 2 BRs/2 Baths Duplex with Terrace, Separate Deeded Parking

Designer 3 BR ranch w/open floor plan, kitchen island, 2 baths, fireplace and skylights on main floor. Great room, 1 large bedroom with attached bath on lower level. Unique features throughout.

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