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BACK TO SCHOOL • The latest in planning for school . . . . . . . . . 4 • Catholic schools eager to start . . . . . . . . . . . 6 • Another Brown v. Board needed? . . . . . . . . 8 • The plans on college campuses . . . . . . . . . . 9 • Covid delays school construction . . . . . . . 10 • Your 2021-22 city school calendar . . . . . . 10

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School return hinges on vaccine

by Max Parrott

one dose of the Covid vaccine by Sept. 27.

At least 63 percent of DOE employees In just over two weeks, New York City’s were vaccinated as of Monday, according to public school system is planning a full in-per- Schools Chancellor Meisha Ross Porter.

The rate for all children under 18 is 18 person reopening for its nearly 1.1 million students for the first time since it went remote cent in New York City, given that the vaccine is still unavailable for children under 12. As before the pandemic.

Mayor de Blasio, who has touted the school of last week, around 300,000 12- to-17-yearsystem’s low transmission rate during its olds have gotten at least one dose, around half hybrid reopening last year and called the New York City’s population in that age range.

The city has been rolling Department of Education’s out pop-up vaccination Covid response the “gold sites at public schools parstandard of health and ticipating in Summer Rissafet y measu res,” has ing, the city’s summer maintained that the school program, in an reopening will go accordattempt to boost those rates ing to plan. In spite of the in the remaining time mayor’s insistence, the Questions remain before school.

Delta variant’s surge in As an added incentive, cases has become cause for on reopening last week the DOE added a concern for some parents requirement that public and educators as schools school athletes will need a near the first day. vaccine to play several The school system will high-risk school sports — a continue with many of the Covid safety protocols in place that kept the policy that will affect roughly 20,000 students rate of infection down like ventilation, clean- and staff participating in athletics including football and volleyball in the fall and more in ing and mandatory mask wearing.

While the city has been rolling out school- the winter and spring. related announcements, there remain several Social distancing large policy details that the administration Though a majority of schools will have no will have to address in the following weeks regarding the testing of students and staff and trouble abiding by the CDC’s guidance to how those who test positive will have to maintain at least 3 feet of guidance, reports from electeds and union officials indicate quarantine. that some will st r uggle to meet that standard.

Vaccinations While the CDC guidelines for opening When announcing that schools would fully return in May, de Blasio said that the city’s K-12 schools make a 3-foot-distancing sugvaccination efforts played a central role in the gestion, they stop short of making it a decision. Since then he has continued to insist requirement, emphasizing that a safe return to that a high vaccination rate among staff and in-person learning takes priority over all individual cases. eligible students is critical for the return.

As in last year’s reopening principals will Though de Blasio said as recently as Monday that making vaccination mandatory for have to work with each school’s unique spaall students is not on the table, he did make it tial constraints to create a plan that works for a requirement for all DOE staff, ranging from them. The DOE said it has continued to work teachers and principals to custodians and with principals to develop workarounds like food service workers, to have received at least making cafeteria and meal service flexible in Associate Editor

The school reopening has triggered all school administrators to create individualized plans to FILE PHOTO maintain social distancing in their buildings.

The Department of Education has rolled out vaccination sites aimed at students over the summer but inoculations remain unavailable for those under 12. order to make the space available at various triggers a class- or schoolwide quarantine and points during the day or utilizing outdoor how students participate when they’re at home. space. United Federation of Teachers PresiDe Blasio has responded by saying that dent Michael Mulgrew has said that the DOE closures are going to be much less widespread has reported it was able to meet the 3-foot than in the previous year because of the rate guidance for all but 50 schools citywide, but of vaccination, but has yet to make many added that he was skeptical of that figure. details clear. What we do know is that fully In Queens, which has the largest share of vaccinated students and staff will not have to overcrowded schools in the city, the challenge quarantine unless they test positive for the of finding creative virus or begin to solutions is especialexhibit symptoms if ly difficult. Comsomeone in their munity Education classroom tests posiCouncil 26 Presitive for Covid when dent Adriana Aviles schools reopen in said she doesn’t the fall. k now how Fresh Rego Park parent Meadows’ Francis a nd head of t he Lewis High School, Queens Parents one of the city’s United group Jean most overcrowded Hahn found the proschools, is going to tocol rega rd i ng orga n ize its f ull school closu res return. overly conservative Forest Hills parlast year. She said COUNCILMAN MARK TREYGER ent and Community that she is worried Board 6 Education Committee Chairwoman that a randomized, mandatory testing regiHeather Beers-Dimitriadis said that she’s men like the DOE imposed last year could been hearing that cafeteria constraints are lead to widespread closures that would disforcing schools to get creative. She told the rupt learning.

Chronicle that one of her daughters who is As parents anxiously await the city’s going to Frank Sinatra School of the Arts guidance on Covid outbreaks, remote learnHigh School, has the flexibility of eating on ing has stayed a hot topic. Though de Blasio the roof of the relatively new building. Her has consistently ruled out a remote option, other daughter, who is going to a smaller some parent groups demanded that he school in Manhattan, has been given the change course on the issue. City Council option to go buy her lunch off school premis- E d u c a t io n C h a i r m a n M a r k Tr eyge r es and bring it back inside.

(D-Brooklyn) wrote a letter urging Porter to consider a remote learning option for stuQuarantine concerns dents who are immunocompromised or too Some of the biggest remaining questions of young to be vaccinated.

“If kids have to quarantine for 10 days, what the reopening will look like revolve around protocols over testing and quarantin- then what will meaningful instruction look ing. Last school year, classroom and building like and who is responsible?” wrote Treyger closures became highly contentious, when two in the Aug. 19 letter, which was signed by 28 unrelated positive cases could result in closed councilmembers. Some educators, on the other hand, have questioned how a remote schools.

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Catholic schools ‘joyous’ to return

by Katherine Donlevy

missed it.. We’re looking forward to them to bring life back into the Everyone at Catholic schools is building.”

The Centers for Disease Control returning to in-person learning this year and it’s hard to tell who is more and Prevention reduced social disexcited: the students, the parents or tancing guidelines from 6 feet to 3 feet last March, which allows Cathothe teachers.

“I think that everyone’s looking lic schools like Christ the King to forward to it. I didn’t have anyone pack more students into classrooms, ask otherwise,” said Veronica Arbi- cafeterias and gymnasiums again.

When the rules changed, Holy tello, the assistant principal at Christ Cross High School in Flushing the King High School.

The Middle Village school had seized the opportunity to bring its offered students the chance to students back to finish out the choose whether they wanted to come school year with one another. The into class some days of the week or exiting class even was able to have a to stay at home for the last academic graduation on the school’s football year. Many students and teachers field, though it was split into two chose the latter option out of an sessions.

Mike Truesdell, the school’s presabundance of caution, but with many vaccinated and Covid regula- ident, sees the approaching school tions loosening, just about everyone year as a continuation of last year.

“It’s so much better for the stuis eager to return to the school.

Arbitello said Christ the King dents. When they’re not with their fr iends, they a d m i n ist r a t or s could continue to had planned to do their work, but return to in-pert h ey lo s e t h e son learning even social aspect,” b efore a l l t he said Truesdell. “I Catholic schools think the families th roughout the appreciate that borough collecthere’s a routine.” tively decided to D e s p it e t h e forgo the hybrid More students in changing nature and remote a welcome routine of the pandemic, options. If Covid the Holy Cross takes a turn in the s t u d e n t s p e rwrong direction, formed strongly, however, t he schools can lean back on the at- Truesdell said: Their Regents scores home practices they perfected last reflected those of “normal” years, and the teachers made extra efforts year.

“We have always operated under to be available, whether remote or the idea that this would be the best in-person.

In what Truesdell said was a testithing for the students,” Arbitello said of returning to fully in-person monial to Holy Cross’ success last learning. The classroom not only year, the school will be welcoming offers direct access to teachers, but its largest freshmen class ever. provides the teenagers a much-need- About 207 young students will be ed chance to socialize. “Last year joining the Holy Cross family next [was] kind of sad because the build- month.

Increasing enrollment rates is a ing was super quiet ... We’ll welcome the noise in the hallway. We common theme among Catholic Associate Editor

St. Francis Preparatory School freshmen celebrated their Spirit Day in June. The walk-a-thon and day of ice-breakers kicked off their high school experience, which they can expect to be fully in-person, unlike the two grades that came ST. FRANCIS PREP PHOTO / FLICKR before them. schools across Queens, especially in primary schools, many of which spent the entirety of last year operating fully in-person.

Many of those new students came from public schools. City-run institutions flip-flopped several times last school year between remote learning and the hybrid option, often at a moment’s notice, which may have led many parents to seek out the stability Catholic schools were offering, some principals theorize.

JoAnn Heppt, the principal at Resurrection Ascension Catholic Academy, said 10 public school families transferred to the Rego Park primary school last year. Nine of those families are staying for the new year.

“They are happy to be in-person, and in school,” Heppt said. “It’s the same protocols as last year; we have a layered approach. They’ll be distanced and they’re wearing masks.

They wipe their desks when they eat and after. We have cleaning every night.”

The Ss. Joachim and Anne School in Queens Village is welcoming about 25 new students this September, a number Principal Linda Freebes wouldn’t be surprised to see jump.

The primary school offered both in-person and hybrid lessons last year, but Freebes noticed a joy from parents and students on the opportunity to return full time.

“All our families are very happy about it because most are poor and don’t have sitters and can’t stay home. It’s a difficult situation to be in when they depend on us from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.,” Freebes said.

Strict CDC and Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens guidelines prevented Freebes from hosting before- and afterschool programs, which put a strain on some families.

Holy Cross High School, left, and Christ the King High School students will be returning to the classrooms full time this September, though mask and 3-feet HOLY CROSS HIGH SCHOOL, LEFT / INSTAGRAM; CHRIST THE KING HIGH SCHOOL / INSTAGRAM social distancing guidelines will be in effect.

This year, the principal is elated to offer 3K and 4K classes in addition to K-8.

Not every Catholic school, whether primary or secondary, is offering clubs, sports and other afterschool programs just yet, but others are making them a priority.

Such activities are included in St. Fra ncis P repa rator y School’s reopening plan, Principal Patrick McLaughlin said.

“It was difficult last year trying to get sports off the ground because of t he m a ny r ig id g u idel i nes,” McLaughlin said.

However, with the help of the school’s athletic director, the Fresh Meadows high school was able to come up with a plan that allowed students to safely get back on the field and get back to some sense of normalcy. For Prep and other schools in the league, it meant hosting its football season in the spring instead of the fall, and finding other creative avenues.

Finding a way to give the students what they need to succeed has been St. Francis Prep’s mission throughout the entire pandemic, McLaughlin said. Returning to the classroom full time is an opportunity for the staff to reignite that promise to its massive student body.

“When they found out we were going back there was a joyous scream that went out,” the principal said. “The word for us is to recommit to everything we’ve been doing over the years. ... This is going to be another challenging year. We made it work last year. We’ll make it work Q this year.”

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Students deserve better

by Naeisha Rose

51 percent were passing English and 49 percent were passing math for the Regents exam.

In June, the pair held a rally in Hollis outThe Student Improvement Association, led by community activists Raymond Dugué and side PS 35.

“We are charging the DOE with the misedMichael Duncan, is prepared to sue the city and state education departments for their ucation of our children, and brothers and sisalleged failure in providing quality education ters, we are ready to go to court,” said Duncan to students in School District 29 some time at the rally.

The city DOE said it is working to improve later this year.

Duncan and Dugué held several rallies over schools.

“We’re supporting our District 29 families, the summer and have started a petition that they hope will get 20,000 signatures to raise teachers, and staff and firmly commit to awareness about the city schools in Southeast expanding on the improvements we’ve seen so and Eastern Queens, which have students every child and family has a positive, rigorous struggling to pass mathematics and English and high-quality experience,” said Sarah Casanovas, a DOE spokeswoman to the Chronicle language arts state exams.

“The strategy is to piggyback off of Brown via email earlier this year.

Over the summer, the city offered the Sumv. Education,” said Dugué in a Zoom meeting.

The landmark U.S. Supreme Court decisions mer Rising program, a free K-to-12 academic, in 1954 and 1955 in Brown v. Board of Educa- arts and recreation initiative, which was open tion of Topeka, which also included Briggs v. to over 200,000 kids, added Casanovas on an Elliot, Davis v. Board of Education of Prince email on Aug. 23. The city schools will continEdward County (Va.), Bolling v. Sharpe, and ue to partner with community-based organizaGebhart v. Ethel, declared that segregation in tions for fall afterschool programs.

During additional rallies throughout Eastern public schools was unconstitutional and later said that all states had to create ways to deseg- Queens in July, Duncan collected over 1,000 signatures. regate their public schools, The lead attorney on the according uscourts.gov. case against the city and It was Chief Justice Earl state’s education departWarren who pushed for the ments will be Courtney other justices to make a Smith, a trial attorney. unanimous decision on the “We want Black students case. to have an education that “‘We conclude that in the will allow them to compete field of public education the with kids in other communiDream Chasers doctrine of ‘separate but ties,” said Smith. “I forget equal’ has no place. Sepaprogram how many specialized high rate educational facilities schools are in New York, but are inherently unequal,’” it is as if our kids are not said Warren in 1954. And in given the opportunities to 1955, he asked for states to submit their desegregation plans with “‘all get into these schools.”

There are eight specialized high schools, deliberate speed.’”

The case was argued before the Supreme considered among the best in the city, with Court by Thurgood Marshall, who would later performance on one test used for admissions. become an associate justice in 1967, with the Black and Latino students are wildly unreprehelp of the National Association for the sented in these schools.

This year eight Black students were admitAdvancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Education Fund. The case went ted to Stuyvesant High School, there is one stuto the Supreme Court in 1952 after a three- dent in the Staten Island Technical High judge panel ruled in favor of the school boards School, 12 at the High School for Mathematics, prompting an appeal. In 1953, War ren Science, and Engineering at City College, 14 at replaced Chief Justice Fred Vinson who had the High School of American Studies at Lehman College, 64 at Brooklyn Technical High died earlier that year.

Queens activists argue that predominantly School, 21 at Bronx High School of Science, 23 Black schools dramatically underperform at The Brooklyn Latin School and 10 at the compared to schools that are predominantly Queens High School for the Sciences at York College, according to data from the city non-Black.

“Every state is required to provide an educa- Department of Education. The 153 offers to tion to its citizens,” said Dugué. “The state is Black students accounted for 3.6 percent of going to argue that it did provide an education. admissions.

“Black parents are not told about this,” said I don’t think anyone can look at the results and Smith. “I had a neighbor who came from India tell us that there was an attempt to educate.”

In a community forum on May 19, the pair who already knew how to get their kids into the presented information virtually to parents in specialized high schools,” said Smith.

Smith believes that Black students are being Laurelton, Rosedale and Springfield Gardens, which depicted only 37 percent of Black ele- ushered into a school-to-prison pipeline.

“When you look at the prison population, mentary and middle school students being proficient in ELA and 28 being proficient in math you hear that 70 percent of the people on Rikbased on 2019 data. During the meeting, ers Island cannot read above a sixth-grade Dugué said that high schools were not faring reading level and that some inmates are funcbetter as 65 was considered passing, but only tionally illiterate,” said the trial attorney.

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Raymond Dugué at a rally in Hollis outside PS 35.

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“When you look at the numbers that show an City Council in District 27.

“It’s tragic that where a child’s ZIP code is overwhelming majority of inmates in New York State prison system come from New York can be the sole determinant to a child’s sucCity with poor reading scores and poor math cess,” said Clark. “If we are committed to scores, it seems they are here to feed the prison make a difference, if we are committed to making sure they have a real shot, we have to system.”

Education is the best cure for crime, added do a better job to make sure they have access to programs, access to classes and access to Smith.

“We are going to have to show an example enrichment that they are entitled to.”

In 2017, Clark put his money where his of a curriculum and a system where 70 percent of the kids can read and write and are doing mouth is by co-founding Dream Chasers, an great,” said Smith. “There may be some afterschool program that offers free tutoring requirement that where we present this to the and mentorship on Fridays and Saturdays for DOE and show them what can work, what has more than 300 hours over the course of the worked, present it to them, give them the year.

The program is geared toward getting preopportunity to implement it, but if they don’t we have the right to take them to federal court.” dominantly Black and other minority children In a Correctional Association of New York into specialized high schools and other top2019 report, data from the state’s Department notch schools in New York City, and one of the partners is the SUNY of Corrections and ComQ u e e n s E d u c a t io n a l m u n i t y S u p e r v i s io n Opportunity Center. depicted that prisoners “We match the kids were 97 percent male and with mentors who were 49.5 percent Black, and able to be successful and 48.5 percent came from that look like them so that the Big Apple among an the they can see that and overall prison population do the same to achieve of 48,000 in 54 facilities. their dreams,” said Clark.

Nearly 85 percent of In its initial year one juveniles in the cour t of the 10 Dream Chasers system a re illiterate, students was accepted at according to Stuyvesant High School, literacynewyork.org. which is considered the “The numbers say that top specialized h ig h if you can’t read by the — JASON CLARK, ESQ. school of the elite eight. fourth grade, you can’t be “This year only 21 students were accepted saved,” said Smith. “I’m amazed as a trial attorney how many defendants I get who can’t in Bronx Science; two of those students came read if you put them on a witness stand who are from our program,” said Clark of his current from the city public education system. They 25 students. “Our students also got into will be destroyed by a prosecutor with the Eng- Brooklyn Tech, Townsend Harris and other great schools.” lish language.”

To learn more about Dream Chasers visit Volunteering on the case is lawyer Jason Q Clark, one of a dozen candidates who ran for dreamchasersnyc.com.

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to the inside-mask rule are a fully vaccinated person alone in an enclosed space; a vaccinatColleges in Queens are striving to get ed professor who is teaching and maintaining themselves and their students back to some- appropriate distance; and someone eating and thing resembling normal while still dealing drinking while maintaining appropriate with Covid’s Delta variant and a laundry list distance.

All CUNY students taking in-person or of concerns and regulations.

And all schools are stressing the need for hybrid classes in the fall semester will be required to provide proof of vaccination by maximum flexibility.

The City University of New York’s fall Tuesday, Sept. 14, unless they have been term began Aug. 25; in Queens that includes granted a medical or religious exemption.

The Queens College Queens College in Flushwebsite said all unvaccinating, York College in Jamaied students who have onca, Queensborough Comcampus classes through munity College in Bayside Sept. 14 must show proof of and LaGuardia Communia negative Covid test taken ty College in Long Island no more than seven days City. before, and must participate In a letter on Queensin CUNY’s on-campus testboro CC’s website, CUNY ing program. The website Chancellor Felix Matos Covid protocols says only CUNY on-site Rodriguez said this fall on campus testing will be accepted as will mark “a limited return proof. to all CUNY campuses.”

At St. John’s University Everyone, regardless of in Jamaica, the school’s vaccination status, must wear a mask indoors on all CUNY campuses, website says it is working with state and city health officials and will constantly be assessincluding students taking in-person classes.

Masks must be worn outside when some- ing its Covid protocols throughout the semesone is unable to maintain physical distance ter. Classes are scheduled to begin on Sept. 1.

The website stressed that offices and from others. Anyone not vaccinated must wear a mask at all times. The only exceptions research labs will operate at full density; uniEditor

versity travel is no longer restricted, and dining services and the fitness center will be open.

All students at all levels must present proof of vaccination in order to attend in-person classes or other campus activities. All full- and parttime employees are expected to be vaccinated prior to the start of the semester.

Students who have been granted medical or religious exemptions must report for regular testing, wear masks on all university property and comply with other protocols for those not vaccinated.

Students arriving from interna- Queens College and other institutions of higher learning tional destinations have additional are gearing up to start another year with Covid-19 st e ps i nclud i ng a seve n- d ay restrictions.

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All lab courses will require in-person attenUnvaccinated employees are responsible for being tested at least once a week on their dance. The residence hall will be open.

“We are currently reviewing our travel and own during their off hours.

Classes at Vaughn College in East Elm- health assessment, as well as rules concerning hurst, which caters to students pursuing masking and social distancing and will issue careers in the aviation and aeronautics indus- more detailed guidance before the start of the tries, begin Sept. 2. According to its website, semester,” Vaughn President Sharon Devivo the school is expanding its on-campus offer- wrote in a letter on the school’s website.

But she also “strongly” encouraged everyings for the fall.

With some exceptions, students will have one who can to get vaccinated as “the best the option of taking in-person or remote possible option for a return to normal and the Q safety of the Vaughn community.” classes via Zoom.

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Covid delays school construction

by Max Parrott

tember with a total of 792 seats.

The new Queens school opening this fall is After a year when school space shot up to located at the “Parcel F” development at 1-35 being one of parents’ top educational priori- 57 Ave. in Long Island City. The 612-seat lowties, Queens came up short on new seats for rise building, located in the middle of a 58-story residential skyscraper complex at students.

Hunters Point South, will serve prekindergarIn addition to making space for social disten to fifth-graders. tancing both a puzzle and a dire safety concern Though construction at the 57th Avenue site for the Department of Education, the pandemhad come to a halt through ic also stopped the School last August, the city was Construction Authority able to finish work accordfrom moving forward on a ing to its original schedule, majority of its citywide giving neighborhood parconstruction projects that ents a sigh of relief. Last were set to open in the fall summer parents had of 2021. become worried that it was Citywide the SCA had not going to open on time, planned to deliver 7,866 Seats needed the Sunnyside Post reportseats in September 2021, on Queens ed. They were concerned but delayed a majority of the delay of the school, those projects. Based on the which was slated to take the pandemic-based stop-work student body of PS 384, order, work at nine of 17 could cause overcrowding schools citywide expected to open a total of 4,408 seats this September problems, the Post reported, since the school’s was delayed. The pause on construction work temporary site would not have been big enough to accommodate the expected influx lasted anywhere from a couple of weeks to six of students. months depending on the project.

The borough’s other new project, an addiFive of those — expected to provide 2,804 tion to PS 2 at 75-10 21 Ave. in Astoria seats — were in Queens.

Instead one new school and one addition in Heights, will house an additional 180.

For years, Queen has remained the most Queens School District 30 will open in SepAssociate Editor

educationally overcrowded borough in the city, with nearly 60 percent of its schools surpassing the city’s utilization threshold, according to the city’s own 2019 Space Overutilization report.

Though social distancing guidance has put overcrowding concerns in the foreground of the reopening this coming fall, class size advocate Leonie Haimson maintains that school construction alone was never going to provide panacea for the pandemic’s space concerns.

“There’s no way you can build schools fast enough to provide the social distancing that you need,” she told the Chronicle.

The building Haimson said that in her expe- tember. rience school projects have a much better chance of coming to fruition when elected officials and parents get organized.

This year, however, though she has heard parents with concerns over delays in construction because of the pandemic, Haimson said that a lot of parent organizing has been devoted to other more immediate safety concerns rather than tackling construction directly.

SCA spokesperson Kevin Ortiz maintained that the agency is on target to add 57,000 seats citywide as part of its current

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The pandemic provided additional work for the SCA beyond school projects like ventilation and social distancing expansion this year, although Ortiz maintained that it did not impact the SCA’s construction schedule. The agency reported that it changed ventilation systems in around 1,500 school buildings in preparation for school reopening. It also helped identify more than 110 sites for the Q expansion of school capacity.

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2021-22 PUBLIC SCHOOL YEAR CALENDAR SEPT. 13, 2021 MONDAY FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL FOR ALL STUDENTS. Sept. 16 Thursday Yom Kippur (schools closed) Oct. 11 Monday Italian Heritage Day / Indigenous People’s Day (schools closed) Nov. 2 Tuesday Election Day (fully remote, asynchronous instructional day) Nov. 3 Wednesday Parent-teacher conferences elementary schools and K-8 schools (evening)* Nov. 4 Thursday Parent-teacher conferences elementary schools and K-8 schools (afternoon)* Nov. 10 Wednesday Parent-teacher conferences high schools, K-12 and 6-12 (evening)* Nov. 11 Thursday Veterans Day (schools closed) Nov. 12 Friday Parent-teacher conferences high schools, K-12 and 6-12 (afternoon)* Nov. 17 Wednesday Parent-teacher conferences middle schools and District 75 schools (evening)* Nov. 18 Thursday Parent-teacher conferences middle schools and District 75 schools (afternoon)* Nov. 25-26 Thursday and Friday Thanksgiving recess (schools closed) Dec. 24-Dec. 31 Friday through following Friday Winter recess (schools closed). Monday, Jan. 3, 2022 school resumes Jan. 17, 2022 Monday Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day (schools closed) Jan. 31 Monday Professional Development for 9–12 & 6–12 schools (students in these schools do not attend) Feb. 1 Tuesday Lunar New Year (schools closed) Feb. 2 Wednesday Spring term begins (semester based schools) Feb. 21-25 Monday through Friday Midwinter recess (schools closed).

March 2 Wednesday Parent-teacher conferences elementary schools and K-8 schools (evening)* Parent-teacher conferences elementary schools and K-8 schools (afternoon)* March 3 Thursday March 9 Wednesday Parent-teacher conferences middle schools and District 75 schools (evening)* March 10 Thursday Parent-teacher conferences middle schools and District 75 schools (afternoon)* March 16 Wednesday Parent-teacher conferences high schools, K-12 and 6-12 (evening)* March 18 Friday Parent-teacher conferences high schools, K-12 and 6-12 (afternoon)* April 15-22 Friday through following Friday Spring recess (schools closed - includes Good Friday and Passover) May 2 Monday Eid al-Fitr (schools closed) May 30 Monday Memorial Day (schools closed) Clerical Day for K–5, K–6, 6–8, and K–12 schools and D75 (students do not attend) June 7 Tuesday Anniversary Day/Chancellor’s Conference Day for staff (students do not attend) June 9 Thursday June 20 Monday Juneteenth - observed (schools closed) JUNE 27, 2022 MONDAY LAST DAY OF SCHOOL FOR ALL STUDENTS!

*Parent teacher conference dates are citywide; however, please check with your school for changes. For testing dates and other events, visit schools.nyc.gov/calendar.

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Queens performers are ready

by Mark Lord

Chronicle Contributor

In venues large and small, indoors and under the skies, the borough’s professional theaters are slowly but steadily beginning to welcome back live audiences following 18 months of closure brought about by the Covid19 pandemic.

Over the next few weeks, a wide variety of performances — theater, dance, music and more, of both the mainstream and eclectic varieties, including some with free admission — will remind theatergoers, if, in fact, they need to be reminded, of the joys that can be had in the sharing of such experiences.

Tana Sirois, performing arts director of Culture Lab LIC at The Plaxall Gallery in Long Island City, which is off and running with a jam-packed lineup, appreciates the rebirth.

“Art, especially live performances, has always provided opportunities for people to get together and experience culture,” Sirois said. “We have been deprived of that so long.”

But no longer!

For the time being, Culture Lab’s shows take place outdoors in the gallery’s parking lot every Thursday and Friday beginning at 7 p.m. and every Saturday and Sunday beginning at 5 p.m. All are free.

New York-based soul/funk group Bombzr performs on Aug. 26. A jam session featuring tenor/soprano saxophonist Stacy Dillard happens on Aug. 27. City Billies, a band dedicated to reggae and bluegrass, takes center stage on Aug. 28, sharing the bill with Splash! Dance Performance, Shelley Nicole’s blaKbushe (a celebration of Black-on-Black love), and the Nice One Comedy Show. Aug. 29 belongs to Israeli musician/vocalist Roni and Jennah Vox, a homegrown singer/songwriter.

The festivities continue into September, with performances ranging from a sevenpiece hip-hop group and a jazz orchestra to a Bee Gees cover band and a contemporary ballet dance company.

At each performance, Rockaway Brewery beer, burgers, hot dogs and ice cream will be available for purchase from the Culture Lab’s food truck.

Bassam Abou Diab, a Lebanese contemporary dance artist, will perform at Green Space as part of a collaboration with Valerie Green/ Dance Entropy. PHOTO COURTESY BASSAM ABOU DIAB

The Plaxall Gallery is located at 5-25 46 Ave., Long Island City. Just show up, grab a chair (provided) and enjoy! For further information, visit culturelablic.org or call (347) 848-0030.

The music plays on in another parking lot in another part of town, courtesy of the Queensborough Performing Arts Center, which is offering live concerts at the Bay Terrace Shopping Center in Bayside.

With a nod to the drive-in movies of a bygone era, attendees may enjoy the entertainment while remaining in the comfort of their cars — or they may bring along chairs to set up alongside them.

Beginning at 7 p.m. on Aug. 29, the crowd will be treated to the sounds of The Kings of Disco, a musical group featuring former members of the Village People, who will likely bring back plenty of memories with hits such as “YMCA” and “Macho Man.” And on Sept.

17, also at 7 p.m., a Beatles tribute group, Here Comes the Sun, performs the hits of John, Paul, George and Ringo.

Remaining tickets for both shows, which must be purchased in advance, are $100 per car for full-car occupancy. The shopping center is located at 212-45 26 Ave., Bayside.

More: Visit qcc.cuny.edu/qpac or call (718) 631-6311.

The Alley Pond Environmental Center presents a “Welcome Autumn Concert,” featuring the family-friendly Long Island-based folk music band Gathering Time.

A fundraiser for the nonprofit APEC, the concert takes place on Sept. 18 at 5 p.m. Bring a lawn chair or blanket. Free parking is available. It takes place in the shady grove just north of the center’s home at 224-65 76 Ave. in Oakland Gardens.

Tickets: adults: $25 (concert only) or $35 (concert and box lunch); children 12 and under, $5 less. More: Visit alleypond.org or call (718) 229-4000.

W hile in-person perfor mances have resumed at historic Flushing Town Hall, its current attraction is a watch-on-demand concert taped live at the venue in July: “Proud Mary — Rock and Roll Ladies,” featuring The Emilie Surtees Experience Band. It’s billed as a “highly energetic concert” that will “excite any music lover who’s ever been caught belting out songs like Tina Turner’s “What’s Love Got to Do with It?” or Stevie Nicks’ “Go Your Own Way.” It is available to watch any time between ticket purchase ($7) and Aug. 30 at midnight.

More: Visit flushingtownhall.org.

The Chocolate Factory Theater is up and running with several in-person events already on the schedule, including “The Nosebleed,” written and directed by Japanese-American Aya Ogawa, an autobiographical piece that explores Ogawa’s fractured relationship with the playwright’s long-deceased father.

Running Oct. 1 to 10, the play will be performed at Japan Society (333 E. 47 St., Manhattan). Tickets are $30.

The theater will be presenting the following attractions at its home base: A free event, described as a “three-way collaborative performance adventure,” will take

A Beatles tribute group, Here Comes the Sun, will play the hits of the Fab Four in a QueensborPHOTO COURTESY QPAC ough Performing Arts Center show at the Bay Terrace Shopping Center. place on Oct. 3. “AUNTS — Triple Threat” to help bring people back. It’s been a terrifyfeatures multiple performers in a work that is ing time for everybody. People are ready for it. “multi-disciplinary, finished, unfinished, We can start to have the experience of life again.” experimental, a dance party and more.”

The Chocolate Factory is located at 38-33 Another piece, with a title that surely ranks among the longest in the English-speaking 24 St., Long Island City. More: Visit chocoworld, “The Securely Conferred, Vouchsafed latefactorytheater.org or call (718) 482-7069.

Green Space, billed as the “Incubator of Keepsakes of Maery S.,” is a hybrid experimental digital theatrical miniseries that, dance in Queens,” continues its monthly according to advance word, “reinvents as curated series “Take Root,” which supports many versions of the ‘Frankenstein’ author dance makers by providing an opportunity to present a paired evening of Mary Shelley as there are works. Live performances definitions of the word resume in September.

‘Gothic.’”

On offering includes the This event, described by fifth phase of “Home,” an the theater’s Executive international collaboration Director Sheila Lewanbetween Valerie Green / dowski as “an immersive Dance Entropy and chorevideo and sonic experiographers from diverse ence,” will be screened in Shows traditional countries including Swefront of a live audience at and avant garde den, India and Colombia, the theater on Halloween, marking the culmination of Oct. 31, at 8 p.m. It will a residency with visiting then be released online. choreog rapher Bassa m Featuring intricate handAbou Diab, a Lebanese cut collages, digital and analogue animation and illustration, dramatic contemporary dance artist. In the piece, each presentations and songs, among other diver- artist examines the concept of home from his sions, the piece was created by playwright or her own unique perspective.

Diab has explained that “my view of Sibyl Kempson and is performed by her ‘home’ as an artist coming to the United troupe, 7 Daughters of Eve Thtr & Perf. Co. Running Nov. 10-13 is “Puro Teatro — a States is linked to accepting religious, ethnic spell for utopia,” conceived and directed by and cultural differences to generate a feeling luciana achugar, who is also part of the cast. of safety and belonging.”

Also, Diab will present his solo work, The work is said to consider the possibility of the theater inherent in the intimacy of our own “Eternal,” which raises questions about the experience within the spaces of our bodies, role of the dancing body in facing the despotic political regimes in Arab countries. Live our homes and our communities.

Lewandowski describes herself as being music will be provided by Richard Khuzami “incredibly emotional” about the idea of on percussion and Maurice Chedid on oud, the predecessor of the European lute. Performancresuming live performances.

“Culture is life,” she said. “To be able to go es are on Sept. 24 and 25 at 8 p.m. continued on page 22 back into a theatre and feel safe to me is going

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Art of all kinds is on full display

by Deirdre Bardolf Chronicle Contributor

Exhibits on view around Queens shine a light on local talent and commemorate the culture and history of The World’s Borough. An upcoming exhibit at the Kupferberg Holocaust Center will be the largest ever held there and a revered public art installation honoring those lost on 9/11 will get a permanent home at the GodwinTernbach Museum this year. From the 1964 New York World’s Fair to classic illustrations from a Flushing native, visitors can explore the rich offerings of Queens in exhibits across the borough, in person and online.

“My home borough of Queens is home to an amazingly diverse and vibrant collection of communities, and that is reflected in the extraordinary cultural organizations that are rooted here,” city Cultural Affairs Commissioner Gonzalo Casals told the Chronicle via email through a spokesperson.

The range of cultural programming here reflects the way art “knits us together as New Yorkers, engages and uplifts audiences, and makes our communities strong,” he said.

Mary Treacy and Rachel Davison spent a recent afternoon enjoying the tranquil gardens of The Noguchi Museum in Long Island City for the first time.

“Friendship brought us out, but a love of Japan brought us here,” said Treacy, a Brooklyn native. They have friends in Japan and traveled there in the past and visiting the museum was always on their list. It was created by sculptor Isamu Noguchi, who spent his childhood in Japan, and contains examples of his life’s work.

Currently exhibited in the museum’s sculpture garden is Christian Boltanski’s “Animitas,” consisting of 180 small bells on steel stems with ref lective plastic lures, capturing sound and light. The installation was one of the last by Boltanski before his

The artist Elisa Insua at the exhibit of her work at the Materials for the PHOTO COURTESY MFTA Arts gallery.

unexpected death in July and will only be up until Sept. 5. “It is like a portal to Japan,” said Amelia Grohman, communications and design director at the museum.

“Noguchi: Useless Architecture” is an exhibition of about 50 pieces from the museum’s collection highlighting his desire to create sculptures that deviate from the “responsibilities of architecture.”

“We’ve done a playful installation of those works, looking at Noguchi’s relationship with architecture,” said Grohman. It will be up until May 2022.

The museum is also hosting an open call for emerging Queens-based Asian American and Pacific Islander artists to submit designs for the venue’s outdoor welcome banners.

While exploring visual art in Long Island City, another stop is Socrates Sculpture Park, where Guadalupe Maravilla’s “Planeta Abuelx” will be up through Labor Day weekend, to be followed in October by “The 2021 Socrates Annual: Sanctuary,” which offered an open call to artists addressing the meaning of “sanctuary.” Socrates provides artists with financial support, materials, equipment and space to create works on-site.

Materials for the Arts, a program from the Department of Cultural Affairs, also supplies artists, collecting over 1.5 million pounds of reusable items a year. Now on view at the Materials for the Arts gallery in LIC is “The Path of Least Resistance,” a solo exhibition of recycled materials

by Argentinian artist Elisa Insua, which will be up through Oct. 12.

The center also hosts artist residency programs, events and workshops.

Before summer ends, outdoor art can also be enjoyed at the Queens Botanical Garden in Flushing, where a collaboration with the AnkhLave Arts Alliance, the AnkhLave Garden Project, is on view until Sept. 12. The annual fellowship produces “site specific art installations within the grounds of QBG,” by Queens-based BIPOC, or Black, indigenous and people of color, artists. On Sept. 17, a new exhibit, “Spirit Sees Red,” will feature art from M.E. Guadalupe Rubi, a New York-based fiber artist.

Another museum nestled in lush gardens is the Queens Historical Society, which operates out of Kingsland Homestead, surrounded by Flushing’s Weeping Beech Park. The museum is currently offering a portrait of the past with an exhibit celebrating two prominent Queens photographers, Percy Loomis Sperr and Frederick J. Weber, who captured the changing borough during industrialization.

“Noguchi: Useless Architecture,” above, is on display at the sculptor’s eponymous museum in Long Island City, PHOTOS BY DEIRDRE BARDOLF recently visited by friends Rachel Davison, inset left, and Mary Treacy.

Also at the Queens Historical by the museum’s “crown jewel” and Society is “Charles Dana Gibson: longstanding “Panorama of the City The American Trendsetter.” Gibson, of New York,” a model that was crewho grew up in Flushing, was an ated for the World’s Fair and given illustrator who created the “Gibson upgrades over the years. “It’s an Girl,” which set a standard for beauty interesting item,” said Her y te and fashion, and his drawings poked Tequame, assistant director of comfun at the upper class. Gibson was the munications and digital projects. highest-paid illustrator in America at “There are still the Twin Towers but t he re a re new the time, working things like the Citi for Life magazine Field stadium,” a n d C o l l i e r ’s she said. weekly.

T h e Wo r l d The Queens Trade Center will Historical Society be commemorathas two books of ed permanently at Gibson’s art that the Godwin-Ternare “exceedingly Exhibits at major bach Museum in rare these days,” honor of the 20th said Jeran Halfand minor venues anniversary of its pap, coordinator collapse. Six at the societ y. months after the People would tear at tacks, t wo illustrated pages out of the books to frame or paper beams of light, known as the “Tribute in Light,” rose from Ground Zero, their walls back in the day.

“I love the style and the humor becoming a public art installation that’s in a lot of them,” Halfpap said illuminated every year on Sept. 11. of the drawings. But Halfpap, a coin Photographs of the tribute, by artists collector, is excited for what will Julian LaVerdiere and Paul Myoda, replace the Gibson exhibition later were donated to the Godwin-Ternthis fall. A collection of silver will be bach Museum and will become part on display, including tableware, deco- of the permanent collection. The rative objects and coins, exploring museum, part of the Kupferberg Cenhow the metal was used as a status ter, is located on the Queens College campus in Flushing. symbol and currency.

Last year, the Kupferberg HoloThe Queens Museum in Flushing Meadows Corona Park is also high- caust Center launched an online verlighting Queens history with “Ambi- sion of the largest exhibition it had tious Slogans and Colorful Promises: ever done on concentration camps, The 1964-65 New York World’s “The Concentration Camps: Inside Fair.” It will be on view through Jan- the Nazi System of Incarceration and uary and new items are added every Genocide.” Now, the center, at the month. The exhibit is complemented Queensborough Community College

campus in Bayside, is in the process of creating an in-person installation.

The opening has not been announced but the exhibit will be up for several years and, in the meantime, the website includes every aspect of the exhibition, including images and testimonials from local Holocaust survivors.

The physical installation will feature wood, brick and iron gates. “It will absolutely transform our space,” said Dr. Laura B. Cohen, executive director of the Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center.

She said that the point of the exhibition is twofold: to understand the system of incarceration as well as the different groups that were persecuted, including Jehovah’s Witnesses, the LGBTQ+ community, political prisoners and people with disabilities.

“We’re really excited about this exhibition. We’ve never had one nearly as extensive online and in, what will ultimately be, a physical component,” said Cohen. “We are always looking for ways to connect the past to the present.”

For the month of September, museum-goers can visit the Garage Art Center, a nonprofit community space in Bayside, to see Amy Supton’s “Wildflowers: An Exhibit of Clay & Fiber,” celebrating female identity, and take her workshop to create a textile ornament. For cinephiles, the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria will have “Envisioning 2001: Stanley Kubrick’s Space Odyssey” through September, “An Act of Seeing: Barry Jenkins’s The Gaze” until October and the ongoing Jim Henson exhibit, an Q attraction for all ages.

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Library has something for all

by Katherine Donlevy

to let the parents know we’re there for them virtually.”

Buron pointed to BrainFuse as a spectacuThough nearly all of its locations have reopened to the public, the Queens Public lar resource for students. The program offers Library will continue offering its program- live online tutoring in math, science, reading, writing, social studies and more. Tutors are ming online only.

But there could be a silver lining to virtual available for kids aged 6 to 14 weekdays from services: Cardholders can visit as many pro- 3 to 5:30 p.m.

“Every year, we are trying to invest more grams as they’d like.

“A person who goes in-person to a library in college readiness,” Buron said, adding that might have the opportunity to go to one pro- librarians are available to guide parents and gram; [now] all our customers can go to high schoolers through the tedious, and often more,” said Nick Buron, the QPL’s chief confusing, process of applying to higher education. “We’re making sure everyone knows librarian and senior vice president.

As of Aug. 25, 60 of the QPL’s 66 loca- the step-by-step process.”

This year, the library is offering College tions are open for in-person services — the few that are closed are undergoing renova- Corners and College Readiness courses.

College Corners is a full tions or are being used as collection of test prep and vaccination centers. At the college readiness books as open locations, cardholdwell as other important ers can enjoy unlimited resources such as calenbrowsing, open seating dars, pamphlets and inforand full access to computm at ion f rom t he cit y ers, though masks are Department of Education, required at each location.

College Board and others.

The QPL offers proThe QPL has links to pracgramming for cardholders Virtual fun for tice SAT, ACT and other of every age, from babies every age standardized tests, as well to seniors, all of which as information on how to will be conducted comapply for financial aid. pletely virtually for the The College Readiness unforeseen future. Even the library’s afterschool program, STACKS, program is similar, but is broken down into workshops. Experts work with families to will be hosted online this year.

The QPL publishes a Back to School guide develop the skills needed to prepare for coleach year, but Buron said the 2021-22 guide lege, and inform them on college and scholaris “really special” because it outlines how ship application schedules.

One of the most important resources the families can access all resources, virtual or library offers its cardholders is the technoloin the library.

“We really understand that parents and gy itself, Buron said. Patrons are invited to caregivers need more support than in years use computers, laptops and other tools inside past. It’s a big deal for kids to be going back the libraries during regular hours, though to school this year,” Buron said. “People usage is limited to just one hour.

Luckily, students can take some technoloassociate us with books, and those are clearly a very important part of what we do, but gy home with them. Samsung tablets are there are so many other resources ... We want available for one-month withdrawals, though Associate Editor

Queens public libraries are open to the public for browsing and computer usage, but all proFILE PHOTO BY KATHERINE DONLEVY gramming will remain online indefinitely. cardholders can renew the tablet for up to three consecutive months. These tablets can be taken home and to school, as well as used inside the library with connection to each branch’s free 24/7 Wi-Fi. “What we learned during the pandemic is that people need to use laptops, tablets,” said Buron. “We want to make sure people know we are a tech-hub too.”

The QPL is focusing on getting library cards into students’ hands so they can have full access to the resources. The agency has launched several initiatives to entice new cardholders, one of which is a backpack giveaway: Kids who sign up for a library card or check out a book could win one of 5,000 the QPL is distributing.

“It’s been a hard year,” Buron said. “A good, strong backpack is going to save some of our families some money to provide for the kids.”

The QPL, in conjunction with NYC Health

The QPL’s virtual programming offers courses for every age, from babies to seniors, all of which can be accessed from the comfort of one’s home.

A great portion of the online offerings are educational and are part of the library’s Back to School program. Physical books can still be checked PHOTOS COURTESY QUEENS PUBLIC LIBRARY out from nearly every QPL location.

+ Hospitals/Elmhurst, launched the “QPL Baby Card” earlier this month to further deliver literacy and a love of learning as early on in a child’s life as possible. The library offers educational programming for kids aged 0 to 5, such as Mother Goose storytimes and “Kick-Off to Kindergarten.”

The QPL branches that are open for inperson services will also be open for virtual classroom visits. Field trips of the past will not yet be possible, but the QPL librarians want the neighborhood students to know what they have at their disposal.

“It’s very important to bring it down to the local level, to know the staff on a personal level and the teachers as well,” Buron said.

At these library visits, classes can learn how to navigate the computer catalog and various databases.

The QPL’s educational programming is not limited to children and teenagers. For older adults, the library offers the National External Diploma Program for those over the age of 21 aiming to earn a high school diploma.

There are also online lessons that help learners practice new languages, whether it’s English as a second language, or English speakers looking to pick up another language.

For seniors, the QPL offers Creative Aging courses. The virtual lessons renew older adults’ relationship with the library through drawing, watercolor, collage, quilting, sewing, acrylic painting, memoir writing and more. Similarly, Recreational Clubs offer seniors the chance to create new relationships with their peers through mahjong and knitting and crocheting.

The QPL’s virtual Fitness Classes and Health Lectures transcend any age limitations. The online lessons encourage everyone to get moving with tai chi and Zumba, and to consider their health in their everyday lives.

Buron said the QPL is working on putting together a comprehensive calendar of the agency’s virtual programming for the year.

For now, families and students can access the QPL’s programs at queenslibrary.org and the Back to School guide at bit.ly/3zbCJ3n. Q

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by Lloyd Carroll

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For years, summer was a time for reruns or limited replacement variety series or reality shows, while the fall remained the time networks broke out their best shows.

These days networks are paying less attention to the calendar as new shows are being rolled out throughout the year. Yet there is still something special about the arrival of autumn for the television industry.

Covid-19, however, despite the vaccines, is still bogging down a lot of production, especially for shows that want to have an audience, and for those that require a lot of shooting on indoor stages. The good news is the situation is less dire than it was a year ago.

With those factors in play, here is a quick look at what’s in store for us this fall. Since broadcast networks still draw the biggest audiences, let’s start with them.

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CBS The Tiffany Network practically invented the concept of spinoff programming, in which one successful program helps launch another. CBS Entertainment CEO Kelly Kahl is making a huge bet on spinoffs this fall. “FBI,” which debuted two years ago, and is filmed in New York, will now have the company of “FBI International.” The NCIS franchise is expanding to another location, the Aloha State, with “NCIS Hawaii,” starring Vanessa Lachey as the lead agent. In a move smacking of “back to the future,” the original “CSI” is coming back, with William Petersen returning as the forensic physician in “CSI Vegas.”

One “original” effort is “Ghosts,” in which a millennial, Samantha (Rose McIver), buys a dilapidated country estate with plans to turn it into a bed-and-breakfast. She discovers, however, the place is haunted with the ghosts of hipsters. Classic television fans can think of this as “Newhart” meets “Topper.”

Fox’s “The Big Leap” looks to mix reality and comedy with a fictional dance show focusing on down-on-their-luck Detrioters. PHOTO COURTESY FOX

NBC The Peacock Network is joining CBS in going the spinoff route. If you thought they couldn’t come up with yet another “Law & Order” series, you’d be wrong. Last winter L&O veteran Christopher Meloni returned to the franchise with “Law & Order: Organized Crime,” which will return. Joining it will be the new “Law & Order: For The Defendant.”

In sci-fi fare, “La Brea” looks at how a sinkhole plunges unlucky Los Angelenos back into prehistoric times. “Ordinary Joe” stars the underrated James Wolk (he was terrific in Paramount Plus’ “Tell Me a Story”) as a man who each week gets to see how his life would have turned out if he had made a different decision at a particular time. This simple concept is relatable, as we’ve all had these forks in the road.

ABC The Alphabet Network, to use Variety lingo, has two intriguing new shows that are worth sampling.

Comedienne and actress Quinta Brunson grew up in North Philadelphia and uses her hometown as the setting for “Abbott Elementary.” Brunson and her colleagues must tackle myriad obstacles — parsimonious budgets, angry parents, the endless bureaucracy of the School District of Philadelphia — in their daily lives as they attempt do right by their students.

Few TV shows were as universally beloved as “The Wonder Years,” which ran on ABC from 1988 through 1993. It looked at the world from the perspective of junior high school student Kevin Arnold and was set in 1960s Long Island. In recent years, “The Goldbergs” has borrowed liberally from “The Wonder Years,” with the key differences being the 1980s were the decade being lionized and the show is set in the Main Line Philadelphia suburbs.

Given the success of both shows, it’s not a surprise ABC has decided to reboot “The Wonder Years.” The show is still set in the late 1960s but in Alabama, with the Arnolds now being an African-American family and Dule Hill serving as the patriarch. Don Cheadle takes over Daniel Stern’s narration duties. Expect a great musical soundtrack to accompany each episode.

Fox When it comes to singing competition series, Fox is the king. It launched the craze 20 years ago with “American Idol.” Three years ago, it hit big again with “The Masked Singer,” in which celebrities donned bizarre costumes as they crooned. It was a modern twist on the classic “What’s My Line?” Fox is trying to achieve those successes again this fall with “Alter Ego,” in which singers from all walks of life compete by singing as avatars instead of appearing in the flesh.

“Our Kind of People” has an intriguing premise. It’s a “Dynasty”-like soap opera about the upscale African-American community on Martha’s Vineyard. The topic was broached in the 1994 film “The Inkwell,” which starred Larenz Tate.

One of the most promising new fall shows based on the pilot I saw is “The Big Leap.”

The show takes place in Detroit and the stor-

ABC’s reboot of “The Wonder Years” is still set in the late 1960s, but now has the Arnold family in Alabama with Dulé Hill, left, as the patriarch and Elisha Williams playing young Kevin, with PHOTO COURTESY WALT DISNEY TELEVISION Don Cheadle handling the latter-day voice-over role.

For those who enjoy watching serious drama, AMC will be debuting “61st Street,” in which a talented high school athlete is arrested erroneously and must fight for his freedom through the Chicago judicial system. It stars Courtney B. Vance. Michael Keaton and Peter Sarsgaard star in Hulu’s “Dopesick,” a fictionalized account of how America developed a painCW The CW has quietly been a bastion of stabili- killer pandemic.

The 2001 anthrax scare, which now seems ty in the television world with its many superhero shows as well as teen-oriented programs. quaint in this Covid-19 era, is the subject of In recent years the CW has tried to expand its National Geographic Channel’s “Hot Zone.”

For those who like their homicide mysteries demographics into more adult fare. A good to have some laughs, Hulu example is “In the Dark,” was able to sign Steve Marstarring Perry Mattfeld as a tin and Martin Short for blind woman who inadver“Only Murders in the Buildtently witnesses a murder. ing” in which Selena Gomez The network is continuco-stars. FX treads in simiing to try to broaden its lar territory with “Retreat,” appeal to an older audience in which those in attendance with “T he 4400.” T he must try to solve a murder of show’s title refers to the Spinoffs, reboots one of the participants. number of people who disand some originals Self-help gurus, such as appeared around 25 years Werner Erhard, are spoofed ago and suddenly resurface in Hulu’s “Nine Perfect in 2021. If this sounds like Strangers,” which has Nicole the storyline from NBC’s Kidman starring as the one recently canceled “Manifest,” that’s correct, although it should be noted who knows the path to enlightenment, and it appears to be a rather twisted one. that the latter show had a substantial following.

The history of popular culture has been a The CW is leaping into the world of competitive-team reality with “Legends of the Hidden weekend ratings bonanza for CNN, which has Temple” with host Cristela Alonzo. The show looked at the history of television and films by has four teams competing to fight the obstacles the decade. Its success has not gone unnoticed of the temple, find the treasure and escape. by other networks.

A&E will launch a 10-part series, “Secrets of Think of popular films such as “Romancing the Stone” and the “Indiana Jones” series for its Playboy,” which takes an unflinching look at inspiration The first incarnation of this show the empire the late Hugh Hefner created. Several former Playboy bunnies and Hefner parran on Nickelodeon from 1993 through 1995. amours are interviewed although the producers told me Barbi Benton, Hefner’s best-known ex, Cable and streaming services If you ask baby boomers what the biggest refused to take part. While the emphasis will be difference is between TV when they were on centerfolds and bunnies, the producers told growing up and today, the most likely answer me they will devote attention to some of the would be the advent of cable television. If you magazine’s great writers such as George Plimpask millennials, it would be the arrival of ton, Anson Mount and Robert Christgau.

Discovery Networks’ steaming service, Disstreaming services. Here is a look at some of the fall highlights from both cable networks and covery Plus, will devote time to the male equivcontinued on page 22 streaming services. yline concerns down-on-their-luck citizens of the Motor City who see being part of a fictional dance competition weekly show as an answer to their personal problems. The best-known actor in the cast is Scott Foley, who is hysterical as a cynical television producer.

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ready for Climb It can go to TotSpot, specially designed for children under age 4.

“One of the things we saw with Covid was About seven miles east of the Queens border, children can climb through a three- that so many kids were inside where physical dimensional maze; don firefighters’ gear; and activity was limited in a lot of cases,” Mangan see an airplane owned by Charles Lindbergh, said. “They really, desperately wanted physias well as the Long Island-built aircraft and cal activity, so Climb It has been a huge, huge machines that took men to war and to the hit.”

And she said no one comes to the museum moon and brought them back safely.

The place is Museum Row in Garden City, without stopping by the Bubbles exhibit. “It’s LI, home of the Long Island Children’s Muse- one of those galleries where kids can see their um, the Nassau County Firefighters Museum parents play and realize that ‘Oh! Mom and and Education Center and the Cradle of Avia- dad were kids once too!’”

The museum will be closed between Sept. tion Museum.

They make for a great day trip. All are 9 and 23 for its annual fall fix-up, when it does within walking distance of each other off necessary repairs, painting and maintenance.

Charles Lindbergh Boulevard, and the tickets It will reopen Sept. 24 Tickets are $14 general admission or $13 combined are less than one would spend on for seniors 65 and over. No adults are permitthree museums or possibly two in Manhattan.

“Family-friendly and family-friendly pric- ted without children. Hours and tickets are es,” said Maureen Mangan, director of com- available online at licm.org.

A short stroll to the east brings people to munication for the Children’s Museum. the Firefighters MuseThe LICM is a recipient of um, where Executive the National Medal for MuseDirector Alana Petrocelum and Library Services. li said fun can be a vital Mangan said it is fully open tool in passing on the and both the staff and their very serious message of visitors are longing to get back fire safety. with each other.

“It’s fun and kids can “The Children’s Museum is Family-friendly learn,” Petrocelli said. really designed to allow every“We’re all about fire body in the family to have Museum Row safety and everything in fun,” Mangan said. “And the the museum is interacexhibits are designed with tive. So while they’re multiple ages in mind so that playing they’re learning children can naturally grow about fire safety. through the museum. What “We have trucks for the kids to sit in. We they might have done as a 3-year-old toddler they can still enjoy when they’re 7 or when have gear for them to put on. We have plenty of kids who just want to do that all day, and they’re 10 or when they’re 12.”

The museum’s most popular exhibit is that’s just fine with us.”

One interactive display allows children to “Climb It,” a maze of curved, wavy platforms suspended by wires that allows children inside pretend to be firefighters putting out a blaze.

“So it’s a fun place, and we hope children to choose multiple paths to multiple levels. walk away with something that could save They must be as least 42 inches tall.

“It’s amazing as you watch kids navigate their lives someday,” Petrocelli said. And, she through it,” Mangan said. “They have choices reiterated, children are the biggest advocates to make in terms of which way to go. But it’s for the museum’s mission of fire safety.

“Parents, unfortunately, are busy and can also one of those things where children learn ‘I can do this.’ You watch them as they help forget,” she said. “It gets put on the back burneach other during the process.” Those not yet er. The kids are the ones who are going to go home and say, ‘Hey, mom, I saw this at the museum. Do we have an escape plan? What’s the escape plan? Do we have a meeting place?

What’s the meeting place?’

“These are the things you need to know, and the kids are the ones who carry the message home,” she said. “They’re going to say ‘Mom, did we change the smoke detector batteries? Hey, dad, do we have smoke detectors in all our bedrooms?’”

Tickets are $5. Further information on the museum can be found on its website at ncf iremuseum.org or by calling (516) 572-4177.

While the Wright Brothers may have been from Ohio and launched their first fight in North Carolina, the Cradle of Aviation Museum, located next door, is appropriately named Climb It, a multilevel maze, is one of the pop- for an institution on Long Island, according to ular activities at the Long Island Children’s museum President Andrew Parton.

“We have 75 planes and spacecraft, cockPHOTO COURTESY LI CHILDREN’S MUSEUM Museum.

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The Nassau County Firefighters Museum and Education Center offers interactive — and fun — PHOTO COURTESY NASSAU COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM lessons on fire safety. pits for kids to crawl into, and there’s a lot to see,” Parton said. “And the thing is it’s all connected to the region. Everything here is from Long Island and the Metropolitan region. We don’t have a single aircraft that wasn’t either built here or where there wasn’t some sort of milestone here. Everything has a connection.”

The crown jewel, he said, is an actual lunar module from NASA’s Apollo moon landing program. All were built at Grumman in Bethpage, LI. “We have one of the three that were built to go to the moon that didn’t because the program was cut after Apollo 17,” Parton said.

“We have Apollo 18 here, and it’s fully loaded and on display, the only one of its kind. The other two [lunar modules] are at the Kennedy Space center and the Smithsonian ... And a lot of our docents who work as guides in our galleries, especially our space gallery, you might actually meet someone who worked in that program.”

The museum also owns an LI-built Curtiss Jenny World War I biplane, the first plane owned by Charles Lindbergh. And while the Smithsonian has the Spirit of St. Louis, in which Lindbergh became the first person to fly nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean — taking off not far to the east of the present-day Roosevelt Field mall — the Cradle of Aviation does have one of two sister ships built at the same time.

“Ours was used in the movie starring Jimmy Stewart,” Parton said, referencing the 1957 film “The Spirit of St. Louis.”

The museum’s World War II gallery features the carrier-based Grumman Wildcat fighter plane as well as its replacement, the Hellcat. There also is a Grumman Avenger torpedo bomber and a P-47 Thunderbolt fighter built by Republic in Suffolk County.

Referring back to the space gallery, Parton said an entire section is dedicated to “The Future is Now,” inspired by the present and future plans to head to the moon and Mars; and recent successes in civilian travel involving Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin and SpaceX. “We’ve built a Mars landscape where you

can use augmented reality, an app you can download on your smartphone and drive a rover across our landscape. And ,when you get home you can take your Mars rover that’s in your smartphone and drive it in your living room if you want.”

The museum’s newest exhibit is an arcade of the old stand-up video games — no quarters necessary — that one would play before they could be played on phones and TV sets.

“It’s an exhibit as opposed to an arcade in that the original was created on Long Island at the Brookhaven Labs,” Parton said. “The game Pong was originally created as an Air Force project. They were working with radar and fell into creating this silly video game.”

Admission is $16 for adults and $14 for seniors age 62 and over and children between 2 and 12. There also is a theater and planetarium where one can attend shows for $10 without admission to the museum galleries, or for an additional $5 on a combination ticket with the galleries.

The arcade exhibit is a separate $10 charge, but does not require one to pay for gallery visits. More information is available Q online at cradleofaviation.org.

Apollo 18 never went to the moon. But its lunar module is at the Cradle of Aviation Museum. PHOTO COURTESY CRADLE OF AVIATION MUSEUM

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A fall preview of live shows across Queens continued from page 12 Next up, on Oct. 15 and 16 at 8 p.m., will be “Who Knows the Show,” a journey from East to West and beyond, from rural Japan to New York City, directed and choreographed by Aya Jane Saotome. The bill will also include Nattie Trogdon and Hollis Bartlett, in “a collaged duet performance” called “O Fallen Angel,” expressed through a patchwork of images, rigorous repetition, stillness and deep formalism.

Tickets for each performance: $17 presale; $20 at door; $22 credit card. Green Space is located at 37-24 24 St., #211, Long Island City. More: Visit greenspacestudio.org or call (718) 956-3037.

Black Spectrum Theatre celebrates its 50th anniversary, one year late thanks to the pandemic, with a special outdoor event on the lawn outside the theater on Oct. 3 at 4 p.m. Of the milestone, the theater’s founder, Carl Clay, said, “It’s an amazing feeling, the idea that something we conceived 50 years ago is still in operation and growing.”

The event, which will continue with an indoor performance, will include a reception, awards ceremony and greetings from Dionne Warwick and Kool of Kool and the Gang.

“Black Love,” the company’s first production, will be brought back (revised for the 21st century, per Clay) for the first time in 30 years from Oct. 13 to 31, to be followed by “Mamalogues,” a new play about all the dimensions of motherhood, both poignant and comic. It runs Nov. 10 to 19. And on Nov. 20, members of the popular “Martin” TV series will reunite for an evening of comedy.

The theater is located at 177-01 Baisley Blvd., Jamaica.

For ticket and other information, visit blackspectrum.com or call (718) 723-1800.

The Kupferberg Center for the Arts, located on the campus of Queens College, has several events, both in-person

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Eddie Palmieri will lead his Latin Jazz Band at LeFrak Concert PHOTO COURTESY KUPFERBERG CENTER FOR THE ARTS Hall.

Jennah Fox, above, and New York-based soul/funk group Bombzr, right, will both perform at Culture Lab. COURTESY PHOTO, ABOVE; PHOTO BY LISA CHARLES, RIGHT and online, coming up in the near future.

A virtual theatrical event, “Musicophilia,” tells of a famous neurologist who meets a woman suffering from a rare form of musically triggered seizures. Their friendship deepens and they eventually unravel the events in her past that led to her unusual malady. A live artist talkback takes place after the performance.

Two top names in music are on their way to the campus: Popular salsa performer Victor Manuelle is in concert at Colden Auditorium on Nov. 13 at 8 p.m., while the Eddie Palmieri Latin Jazz Band fuses rhythms from Palmieri’s native Puerto Rico with the complexities of jazz for two shows at LeFrak Concert Hall on Nov. 20 at 7 and 9 p.m.

The venues are located at 153-49 Reeves Ave., Flushing.

More: kupferbergcenter.org or call (718) 793-8080.

The Secret Theatre, which folded under the strain of the pandemic, has found a new home in Woodside, its exact location still, yes, a secret! The first production to play there will be “Into the Woods Jr.,” performed by members of the theater’s in-house academy, youngsters 18 years of age and under. The new 60-seat theater will open in September. Visit secrettheatre.com for details as they become available.

Another offering highlighting talented youngsters comes via the Astoria Performing Arts Center, which presents, for two performances only on Aug. 28 at 4 and 6 p.m., “Summer Stars,” the culmination of a community-based program for youth ages 8 to 15.

The center is also offering “Lucky 88 (in concert),” a bilingual musical set in a fictional food court in Flushing, focusing on three food stalls and the people who work there.

The free virtual performance is available at Fiveohm.TV and

New TV, streaming shows continued from page 18 alent of Playboy bunnies with “Curse of the Chippendales,” which looks at the rise and fall of the popular male exotic dance troupe from the 1980s and early ’90s.

The upcoming 20th anniversary of 9/11 will spawn many hours of documentaries, with the National Geographic Channel kicking things off with “9/11: One Day in America.” Vice TV is keying in on an interesting niche with “Too Soon,” which looks at how comedy was affected by the al Qaeda attack on us.

Many of us remember when “Saturday

Night Live” impresario Lorne Michaels asked Mayor Rudy Giuliani in October 2001, “Can we be funny?” Giuliani dryly replied, “Why start now?”

AXS TV has become the go-to cable network for anything pop music-related these days. “Rock My Collection” will examine offbeat collectibles from rock luminaries such as Brian Wilson’s driver’s license, Tom Petty’s motor scooter and Jimi Hendrix’s autographed map of Italy.

“Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman” has the film star with arguably the most recognizable voice in Hollywood hosting

the center’s YouTube channel.

A fully staged production of “Man of La Mancha,” the classic musical, is in the works, postponed from last year because of the virus.

The center is located at 44-02 23 St., Long Island City, the former home to The Secret Theatre. More: apacny.org or (718) 706-5750.

For a change of pace, a visit to Thalia Spanish Theatre might be in order. From Oct. 1 to 24, it presents “El Veneno del Teatro” (“A Thrilling Theater Game”), by Rodolf Sirera, and starring Soledad Lopez and Roberto Diaz Gomar.

Directed by Angel Gio Orrios, it will be performed in Spanish with English supertitles.

It will be followed by the popular-demand return of “Añoranza de Colombia,” or “Nostalgia from Colombia,” a nearly wordless dance musical tribute to that country. It will run from Nov. 12 to Dec. 12.

The theater is located at 41-17 Greenpoint Ave., Sunnyside. More: Visit thaliatheatre.org or call (718) 729-3880.

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a series about the prison breaks that have most captured the public’s imagination. It will air on the History Channel.

Netflix, the king of streaming services, will have a pair of offerings about those on the wrong side of the law, with an international touch. “Lupin” details the life of a clever French thief while “La Casa de Papel” (in English renamed “Money Heist”) details how a Bank of Spain robbery went terribly wrong for a gang of crooks.

Lifetime will be relaunching “Highway to Heaven,” which starred the late Forest Hills native Michael Landon in the 1980s. Actress and singer Jill Scott is assuming Landon’s angelic role.

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