Back To School Fall Guide 2019 08-29-19

C M BTS page 1 Y K

✔ Applying to high school ✔ New schools, new seats ✔ Not enough gym time ✔ Your school calendar

is season h t e g a t s ✔ On e park s h t n i s t r o ✔ Sp g spots n i p e e p f a ✔ Le re ... and mo

Queens’ Largest Weekly Community Newspaper paper Group

Back to School & Fall Guide 2019

QUEENS

QUEENS CHRONICLE, Thursday, August 29, 2019 Page 2

C M BTS page 2 Y K SAINT DEMETRIOS GREEK AMERICAN SCHOOL Ever to Excel

“Discover why we are leaders in learning�

High School 30-03 30th Street Astoria, NY 11102 (718) 728-1754

Middle School 30-03 30th Drive Astoria, NY 11102 (718) 726-6620

Elementary School 22-30 33rd Street Astoria, NY 11105 (718) 728-1100

SAINT DEMETRIOS GREEK AMERICAN y SCHOOL The best return on investment for any school in the area. You can afford private school! • 20:1 Student/ Teacher Ratio • CertiďŹ ed Staff • Extended Day • Family Environment

• Free Lunch • Full Size Gym • Half/Full Days Available for Early Childhood

• • • • •

High School Open Enrollment Pre-K to 8th grade Science Lab State of the Art Facilities

• STEM Lab • Tuition Assistance/ Financial Aid Available • Universal Pre-K

Apply today: sdprep.org Call to visit: (718) 728-1754

VISIT US AT sdprep.org *Saint Demetrios admits students anyrace, sex,color, race, color,creed, religion, creed, national origin to all theprograms rights and programs andoractivities * Saint DemetriosPreparatory Preparatory admits students of anyofsex, religion, national and ethnic originand to allethnic the rights and privileges, and privileges, activities generally accorded made available to all students of theavailable school. Saint Preparatory does notSaint discriminate on the Preparatory basis of sex, race, color, creed, oron national and ethnic origin in thecolor, administration its generally accorded or made to Demetrios all students of the school.

Demetrios does notreligion, discriminate the basis of sex, race, religion,ofcreed, HGXFDWLRQDO SROLFLHV DGPLVVLRQV SROLFLHV ÂżQDQFLDO DLG SURJUDPV DQG DWKOHWLF RU RWKHU DGPLQLVWHUHG SURJUDPV or national and ethnic origin in the administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, financial aid programs, and athletic or other administered programs.

O P E N E N R O L L L M E N T SAID-076475

CONTENTS

BACK TO SCHOOL • City simpliďŹ es HS application process. . . . . . . . 4 • Eva Moskowitz on Success Academy . . . . . . . . 6 • Getting more school seats in Queens . . . . . . . . 7 • The ongoing debate over the SHSAT. . . . . . . . . 8 • Children still lack enough gym time . . . . . . . . . . 9 • Teaching what hate symbols mean . . . . . . . . . 10 • Your 2019-20 school calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

FALL GUIDE • Live stage shows to see in Queens . . . . . . . . . 14 • Museum exhibitions and events . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

ST. AGNES ACADEMIC HIGH SCHOOL

• Sports in parks for young and old . . . . . . . . . . 20

OPEN HOUSE

SCHOLARSHIPS & FINANCIAL AID AVAILABLE

• See what’s new on TV this season . . . . . . . . . 18 • Head north for leaf-peeping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019 10:00 am - 1:00 pm

100%

of St. Agnes grads attend college

WHY ALL GIRLS?

Back to School & Fall Guide 2019

• Set higher goals • Higher achievements • Leadership opportunities

MEDICAL HEALTH LAB • CPR, AED, & First Aid FHUWLƓFDWLRQ • One of a kind in Brooklyn Diocese Founded by the Sisters of St. Dominic, St. Agnes is SURXG WR EH DIƓOLDWHG ZLWK Molloy College

13-20 124 Street

Supplement editor: Peter C. Mastrosimone Editorial layout: Terry Nusspickel Cover and section design by Jan Schulman

College Point, NY 11356 718.353.6276

•

www.stagneshs.org STAG-076457

C M BTS page 3 Y K

6R ZH FKHULVK WKH PRPHQWV ZKHQ OLWWOH JLJJOHV ÀOO WKH URRP LPDJLQDWLRQV WDNH XV RQ JUHDW DGYHQWXUHV DQG ZKHQ LW VHHPV RXU KHDUWV FRXOG EXUVW ZLWK SULGH DQG ORYH +HUH DQG QRZ ZH·G VWRS WLPH LI ZH FRXOG %HFDXVH ZKHQ NLGV DUH EHLQJ NLGV ZH DOO IHHO EHWWHU

/HW·V JHW HYHU\ FKLOG FRYHUHG ,I \RXU FKLOG QHHGV KHDOWK LQVXUDQFH )LGHOLV &DUH LV MXVW D FDOO FOLFN RU YLVLW DZD\

Page 3 QUEENS CHRONICLE, Thursday, August 29, 2019

Happy. Healthy. Loved. These are the dreams we have for our children.

Call: 1-888-FIDELIS &OLFN ÀGHOLVFDUH RUJ HYHU\FKLOGFRYHUHG 9LVLW $ )LGHOLV &DUH FRPPXQLW\ RIÀFH QHDU \RX 6HDUFK IRU ORFDWLRQV DW ÀGHOLVFDUH RUJ RIÀFHV

(1-888-343-3547)

TTY: 711

To learn more about applying for health insurance, including Medicaid, Child Health Plus, Essential Plan, and Qualified Health Plans through NY State of Health, The Official Health Plan Marketplace, visit www.nystateofhealth.ny.gov or call 1-855-355-5777.

Back to School & Fall Guide 2019

-0+,30: ‹ ÄKLSPZJHYL VYN

QUEENS CHRONICLE, Thursday, August 29, 2019 Page 4

C M BTS page 4 Y K

Getting into a good high school

by Michael Shain

high schools will be up for grabs.

New York City’s application system is That rite-of-passage for New York City unusual in that it allows students a wide teenagers — the nerve-racking experience range of schools to choose from.

The Department of Education rolled out of applying to high schools — has been a new on li ne en roll ment system, unchanged for years.

The kids star ting eighth grade next MySchool, last year to make it easier.

But the system proved diff icult for month weren’t even born when today’s k not t y system of algor ith ms, ran ked many to navigate and the city had to choice and travel hardship was introduced. extend the deadline for applying to high Earlier this month, the city announced a school by two weeks into mid-December.

Some aspects of the new, simplified significant overhaul of the high-school admissions system, the first since they application program have still not been worked out by the DOE. But here’s what started putting cameras in cell phones.

The new high-school admissions pro- we know so far: • W ha t’s different about the ne w cess comes when the entire system of admissions process? school assignment is in A student who is not question, largely due to matched with his or her de facto segregation, but first choice will be placed the changes do not on a waiting list with a directly add ress those number. Students will be concerns. informed of their rank on However, they do show the waiting list, according how intent Mayor de Blato Schools Cha ncellor sio has been in taking Questions about Richard Carranza, and be over the reins of the eduable to follow online what cation system since the new admissions? numbers are being Legislature renewed mayoffered admission. o r a l c o n t r o l of c i t y I f a s t u d e nt i s not schools last spring. matched until his or her Put it this way, de Blasio, who has been traveling around the fourth-ranked school, for instance, his or country in recent months in a bid for the her name will be added to the waiting lists Democratic nomination for president, of the top three ranked schools and the arranged to be in the city to announce the ranking posted online.

“You’ll know your spot and if the seats changes himself at an Aug. 15 news conference at a middle school in the Kensing- do open up, you get an offer — it’s that simple,” Carranza said. ton section of Brooklyn.

In the past, if none of the 12 preferred “There will be one application round and one deadline to make everyone’s lives schools offered a student a spot, he or she could apply to 12 others in a second round. easier,” the mayor said.

That second round has been eliminated The changes will go into effect immediately. Parents will be able to tell by early from the application process.

Now, if none of the 12 schools listed next year if the overhaul does indeed make the selection process as simple as the offers admission, the DOE will make the assignment, something it started doing on mayor and schools chancellor promised.

In Queens, 18,000 seats at 80 district a limited basis last year.

Back to School & Fall Guide 2019

Schools

Mayor de Blasio came back from the campaign trail to make the announcement about the PHOTO COURTESY MAYOR’S OFFICE changes in the way students apply for high school.

The knotty system of applying to high school and middle school is changing this year, effective PHOTO BY MICHAEL SHAIN for the 2020-21 school year. It’ll be simpler but will it be fairer?

The DOE suggests that will be a rare occurrence. Some 97 percent of students get into one of the 12 schools they apply to, according to the department’s official admissions guidebook.

Parents and students can appeal their assignments at one of Queens’ four Family Welcome Centers around the borough.

• What will stay the same?

The algorithms each school uses to select students will remain unchanged, officials said. Grades, state test scores and attendance records are the main criteria.

T he schedu le for the process also remains the same. Students can obtain applications from their guidance counselors in October and submit them by the Dec. 3, 2019 deadline.

On March 1 or so, schools will inform s t u d e nt s i f t hey h ave b e e n of fe r e d admission.

• Who will manage the waiting lists to ensure they are honest?

Waiting lists are not new to New York City schools. That admissions system has been used for kindergarten assignments for years.

But making sure a school follows its own rules is not always easy.

“Anyone who tells you they follow a strict queue is lying — either to you, or to themselves,” Alina Adams, a columnist for the education website New York School Talk, wrote last week.

“Working the waitlist is a thing,” she said. “If it happens at the elementar y school level, it will happen at the middle school and high school level.”

“Schools will manage the process, as our elementary schools who already manage waitlists do,” said a spokesman for the DOE. “There will be DOE oversight.

“Schools will only be able to enter an offer for the next student on their waitlist

into our online system,” the spokesman said.

• Can students be assigned to schools they did not list?

Yes. That was always the case.

It used to be that students were assigned if they could not get a match after the second round.

Last year, the DOE began assigning students who did not get a match after the first round, but permitted them to try elsewhere in round two.

Now, if a student is matched to a school not on his or her list after the first round, the only recourse is to appeal.

• Can you still appeal?

Yes. Sort of.

St udents have always been able to appeal school assignments based on hardship. Too much travel time, medical reasons, disabilities and safety concerns are the most common grounds for appeal.

Under the old system, a student was allowed to appeal to only three of the 12 schools she or he had ranked.

Because there is no longer a secondchance round, parents would like to have the option of appealing to all 12 ranked schools.

That decision has not been made yet.

• Will there be any diversity criteria applied to the new waitlists to make sure there is a racial or gender balance?

Not exactly.

The new application itself, said a DOE spokeswoman, is intended to increase at least the chance for more diversity.

“We’ve launched several initiatives to increase diversity in admissions,” said the spokeswoman.

“These changes are focused on making the process easier for families — only one application round and deadline,” she said Q in an email.

C M BTS page 5 Y K Page 5 QUEENS CHRONICLE, Thursday, August 29, 2019

Notebook

Smile?

We accept Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, Delta Dental,DentaQuest HealthFirst, DentaQuest Fidelis, Emblem Health, Guardian, Healthplex (including Amidacare, Metroplus and Wellcare), MetLife and United Healthcare.

We offer Cleanings, Crowns, Fillings, three types of sedation including Laughing Gas and General Anesthesia,

CALL NOW!!

( ) ! "

MASQ-076433

Sealants, X-Rays.

Back to School & Fall Guide 2019

Science in our skills, Magic in our hands!

Back to School & Fall Guide 2019

QUEENS CHRONICLE, Thursday, August 29, 2019 Page 6

C M BTS page 6 Y K

Success Academy CEO talks shop

by Ryan Brady

funded and privately operated network now has 45 schools with approximately 17,000 stuThe political winds are not exactly at Suc- dents. Four of the elementary schools and one cess Academy founder and CEO Eva Mos- of the middle schools are in Queens. Moskowitz admitted that the city reaching the cap kowitz’s back.

Her charter school network took a huge will limit long-term growth but said she has political loss when Republicans lost control of “enough charters in the short term.”

“Right now, we are depending on Albany the state Senate last year, with Democrats achieving complete control of Albany. In to fix that problem. But there’s a second probMarch, the city reached 235 charters, the lem, which is that even if you have the charter, if you don’t have the maximum allowed under real estate, the charter’s not state law. Then, despite going to do you any good.” calls to do so by a longtime The Success head says charter ally, Gov. Cuomo, the de Blasio administrathe Legislature this year tion is delaying following did not raise that cap. up on an agreement to proMoskowitz is confident, vide her charter network though. Elected officials with space to establish a will get the message from One-on-one with second middle school in Success parents, she said Queens. in an Aug. 8 sitdown interEva Moskowitz Demand for Moskowitz’s view with the Queens charters is high in SouthChronicle. east Queens. The schools “You’re going to see our are regularly praised for parents,” the former Upper East Side city councilwoman said. “If you’re exceptionally high state test scores, far above an elected official, you’re going to see them their counterparts at nearby district schools. as part of your religious community. You’re According to Success, its two schools in the going to see them in the grocery store. And borough with testing grades last year ranked our parents have an enormous amount of fer- in the top 2 percent in both math and reading in the entire state. vor for the quality of education.”

How do they do it?

Since its founding in 2006, the publicly

Schools

Success Academy Founder and CEO Eva Moskowitz speaks to the Queens Chronicle during an PHOTO BY RYAN BRADY Aug. 8 sitdown interview.

“One of the simple answers is just the level of rigor,” Moskowitz said. In district schools, the “curriculum has been dumbed down. Everything has been sort of reduced and we don’t do that. We actually think 5-year-olds are pretty capable and that you can teach fractions in kindergarten.”

She also cited what she described as Suc-

cess’ emphasis on making sure that students — known as “scholars” within the network — aren’t bored at school.

“We have the investment we make in what are called ‘specials’ — the art, the music, the dance, the sports. I think they can be undervalued. Kids have to love comcontinued on page 12 ing to school.”

C M BTS page 7 Y K

by Victoria Zunitch

and additions,” the chairman of Community Board 9 in South Queens, Kenichi Wilson, said when discussing his priorities Queens school districts are wagon-full of new school seats upon taking his post last April. “We hear all the time from for the 2019-20 school year, though, even more than in the parents who say lots of classrooms are overcrowded. I just other boroughs, they could probably use a complete truckload. don’t feel we have the solution to overcrowding yet in our dis“Since 2014, we’ve created more than 17,700 seats (includ- tricts.” Those are SDs 27 and 28.

Ortiz provided the breakdown of this year’s additional ing pre-K) in Queens. For the start of the 2019-2020 school year, we’ll be adding more than 1,600 additional seats in school seats for Queens, the bulk of which are at the elementaQueens,” said Kevin Ortiz, manager of communications and ry level. In Forest Hills, 484 new seats are available in an addition to PS 303, The Academy for Excellence through the external affairs for the city’s School Construction Authority.

Arts, and 590 new seats are part of an extension to PS 144, the But there’s plenty of student body growth to keep up with.

Col. Jeromus Remsen School.

“Many districts in Queens are still seeIn Richmond Hill, room for 124 students ing increased enrollment,” said Leonie is included in an addition to PS 66, the JacHaimson, founder and executive director of queline Kennedy Onassis School. the nonprofit Class Size Matters, which And Queens is getting one entirely does national advocacy work for smaller brand-new school in Jackson Heights that class sizes. will education 476 children. PS 398 will While the city overall has seen noticeopen on the western end of the neighborable outmigration of existing residents, its abut ting the Brookly n- Queens total population has continued to increase Expansions to cope hood Expressway, on the site of the former White due to a larger number of births than deaths. As of summer 2018, the City Planwith overcrowding Castle headquarters at 34th Avenue and 69th Street. ning Department said that the population Both PS 303 and PS 144 are in District has grown 2.2 percent on a year-over-year 28, which includes Forest Hills, Rego Park, basis. Each of those births must be counted Jamaica, Richmond Hill, Kew Gardens, Brias at least a potential Universal Pre-Kindergarten student four years from now, or a potential kindergar- arwood and part of South Ozone Park. The district’s elementary schools have been overcrowded for at least a decade; that’s tener in five years. And they need their space.

“Generally speaking, Queens is tied with Staten Island for when one of its schools, PS 101, began the 2010-11 school year with one teacher and 31 kindergarten students in a single largest class sizes in elementary schools,” Haimson said.

The issue has long been a focus of area officials and civic classroom.

Both PS 303 and PS 144 have added their new wings by leaders. “Lots of other districts seem to be getting new schools

Schools

The new PS 398 in Jackson Heights.

Page 7 QUEENS CHRONICLE, Thursday, August 29, 2019

Addition, no subtraction, of seats PHOTO BY VICTORIA ZUNITCH

building into their previously capacious, and still-ample, playgrounds. With the new space, traditionally K-3 PS 303 will begin a transition to include students in grades 4 and 5. However, under a new policy, admission priority is being reserved for the affluent surrounding community of students who are zoned for the overcrowded PS 196, a school with some of the highest test scores in the city.

An extension at PS 144 was originally approved in 2015, partly in response to years of housing some classrooms in trailers. The four-story addition was designed to include 24 classrooms, a cafeteria and both office and medical-office space. The project was designed to be compliant with the continued on page 12

PUZZLE BREAK ESCAPE ROOM

NOW OPEN IN REGO PARK! • OUR SPECIALTY! • • • Friend Groups • Corporate Events •

Girl Scouts Boy Scouts Private Events Field Trips

917.722.8155 • 62-33 Woodhaven Blvd., Rego Park, NY 11374

BIRTHDAY PARTY DISCOUNT

SAVE $5 PER PLAYER!

10% OFF

CODE: QUEENSOPEN Expires 10/15/2019 May not be combined with other discounts.

Not valid on catered events.

ALL BIRTHDAY PARTY PACKAGES! Call & Mention CODE: QCBDAY19 Expires 10/15/2019 May not be combined with other offers.

Valid on Basic Escape Party Package Only.

Support@PuzzleBreakNY.com • PuzzleBreakNY.com

Back to School & Fall Guide 2019

• Birthday Parties

GRAND OPENING DISCOUNT

QUEENS CHRONICLE, Thursday, August 29, 2019 Page 8

C M BTS page 8 Y K

SHSAT: Who has the answers?

by Michael Shain

tem in which the top 7 percent of students in each middle school would be offered spots.

“This issue has been raging not for years A year ago, Mayor de Blasio published an op ed piece on Chalkbeat.com, the website but for decades,” said state Sen. John Liu which covers the city school system, and the (D-Bayside), chairman of the Senate Comdebris is still raining down from the explo- mittee on New York City Education and himself a Bronx Science graduate. sion it set off.

“The main thing that is different this time “The Specialized High School Admissions Test isn’t just flawed — it’s a road- is that it is so divisive along racial lines.”

Between April and June, state Sen. John block to justice, progress and academic Liu (D-Bayside) conducted half a dozen excellence,” the mayor wrote.

“If we want this to be the fairest big city hearings around the city to hear what parin America, we need to scrap the SHSAT ents and educators had to say about the onetest system. and start over.”

Despite having taken control of city Those turned out to be fighting words to at least one community in the city whose schools, one area the mayor and schools clout and stature are on the upswing, Asian chancellor have no say over is the exclusivit y of t he SHSAT for Americans. admission.

Nothing in recent memUnder the state’s Hechtory has galvanized the Calandra Act, passed in Asian community in New 1971, the city is required York City quite like the to use the test as the sole proposal by de Blasio and criterion to evaluate stucity Schools Chancellor dents for admission — a Richard Carranza to elimElite high school that was origiinate the one-test system test still a third rail restriction nally intended to keep the in order to bring more city from imposing some black and Hispanic stuform of racial balance on dents into the top ranks of Bronx Science, then the the cit y’s high school most selective high school structure. in the country. The law, as Next month, more than 25,000 eighth- and ninth-grade students will written, has come to cover all eight specialsit for the SHSAT, the annual test that is the ized high schools.

That makes Liu, a former city comptrolsole determinant of who will get to attend one of the city’s eight, top-tier high schools ler, a key figure in the fight over the test’s future. the following year.

Any change to Hecht-Calandra will have The eight schools — Bronx High School of Science; Stuyvesant High School; Brook- to go through Liu before it gets to Gov. lyn Technical High School; High School for Cuomo, who has so far steered clear of the Mathematics, Science and Engineering at hot-potato debate.

The state Assembly’s Education CommitCity College of New York; High School of American Studies at Lehman College; tee, headed by Assemblyman Michael BeneQueens High School for the Sciences at detto (D-Bronx), held a hearing last May on York College; Staten Island Technical High the SHSAT. But it has not yet stepped up with a plan.

School; and Brooklyn Latin School — are Liu has been treading the thin line that called the city school system’s “Ivy League.” separates Asians — many low-income for Only about 5,000 will be offered a seat.

De Blasio is proposing to substitute a sys- whom the elite high-school system offers

Back to School & Fall Guide 2019

Schools

Admission to Stuyvesant High School or any of the other seven elite city secondary schools is WIKIPEDIA PHOTO / POINTS OF NO RETURN viewed by many as a golden ticket to a student’s future.

Mayor de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza are restricted by a state law from PHOTO BY MICHAEL SHAIN revamping the one-test system of specialized high school admissions. the most accessible path to climbing the social ladder — and blacks and Hispanics — who make up two-thirds of the general school population but only about 10 percent of the enrollment at the eight specialized high schools.

Liu calls the admissions problem “very emotional, very divisive.”

“I don’t have the million-dollar answer yet,” he told the Chronicle last week.

The hearings, however. produced one, undeniable idea, he said.

“Only seven African American students made the cut” for the incoming freshman class at Stuyvesant High School this fall, said Liu. “Nobody thinks that’s an acceptable result.

“There is a large group of people out there saying: ‘Since, the results are unacceptable, the test itself is invalid,’” he said.

“I’m not so sure.”

Limited in what steps they can take to remake the admissions system, Carranza and the mayor are, nonetheless, actively working to influence it any way they can.

Last year, they expanded a little-known program called Discovery — created more than 20 years ago to help minority students who just missed the cutoff scores to get into an elite school.

Five percent of the seats in the ninthgrade class used to be set aside for Discovery students. Last spring, that percentage was raised to 20 percent.

A federal lawsuit filed last December claims the mayor and the chancellor changed the criterion to reduce the number of eligible students from majority Asian middle schools.

The suit was filed by several AsianAmerican groups, the Parent-Teacher Organization of Christa McAuliffe High School in Brooklyn and the parents of three eighth-graders.

Chris Keiser of the Pacific Legal Foundation, the pro bono law firm that is handling

the suit against de Blasio, said the parents group lost its motion for a preliminary injunction against the new rules going into effect last spring.

They are appealing in hopes of stopping it from being used again this school year, Keiser said.

“There is no question that the city instituted the Discovery set-aside to benefit black and Hispanic students,” the parents group said in an appeals brief filed last week, arguing that the new plan was intentionally discriminatory. “It repeatedly says so.”

Also, after several years of pilot programs, the way the SHSAT is given is being altered.

On Oct. 30, a school day, the test will be administered for the first time at more than 55 middle schools around the city.

Traditionally, the SHSAT was scheduled for a only a few locations and always on a Saturday or Sunday.

The new arrangement is expected to increase the number of eighth- and ninthgraders taking the exam, the Department of Education said, though it can’t predict by how many.

(The test will still be given under the old format on Oct. 26 and 27, a Saturday and Sunday, at select sites.)

Meanwhile, back in Albany, Liu is preparing to issue a report in late September or early October summarizing the proposals from parents that came out of the three months of committee hearings, including background on how select-admissions high schools elsewhere around the country and the world do it.

“I’m not discussing my own opinions” at least until the Legislature goes back into session next January, Liu said.

Don’t look for clues to what lawmakers may do in the report either, he added. “The report will not have a definitive proposal,” Q he said.

C M BTS page 9 Y K

by David Russell

gym. “Inevitably that ball hits the ceiling and the light fixture goes out,” the Times Councilman Danny Dromm (D-Jackson Union reported her telling state Education Heights) is not only on the Council’s Educa- Commissioner MaryEllen Elia.

A sse mbly wom a n A l icia Hy nd m a n tion Committee, for which he served as chairman from 2014 to 2017, but was a fourth-grade (D-Springfield Gardens) told Elia that her daughter would have to move desks to the teacher at PS 199 in Sunnyside for 25 years.

He remembers how there was one gym side, then exercise to a video for the “Move teacher who taught 25 periods of physical to Improve” program. “It was like a sweatbox,” Hyndman said. education but there were D rom m h a s s p oke n 44 classes in the school. about the importance of So t he r e m a i n i ng 19 physical education classes didn’t get gym classes for years. Though he last with a gym teacher but taught 10 years ago, he instead had phys ed in a said he still hears stories regular classroom. about children not having Dromm and the students enough time for gym and would push the desks and chairs outside though the Need for space in in some instances they end up watching a workouts were limited to physical education simply movie in the auditorium. jumping jacks, pushups “The gym issue itself is and situps because of the related to school overcrowdlimited space. ing and class size,” he said.

“It’s just not the same as Mayor de Blasio announced the planned creif you have a real teacher and program,” he said. “It was a real difficulty for us to provide ation of 57,000 new seats in a capital plan he released in 2017. But Dromm doesn’t believe gym for kids.”

Other politicians shared horror stories. that will be enough to ease overcrowding.

He notes analysis from Class Size MatAssemblywoman Cathy Nolan (D-Long Island City) spoke in Albany last year say- ters, a group advocating for smaller classes, ing how her child played basketball in an saying that the number of seats needed is all-purpose room because there wasn’t a likely more in the 100,000 range.

Schools

Page 9 QUEENS CHRONICLE, Thursday, August 29, 2019

Not enough fun and games in gym

The latest report from the city comptroller’s office shows about 21 percent of Queens students are receiving less than the required amount of gym time. Here, students from PS 90 participate FILE PHOTO in a floor hockey program sponsored by the Islanders.

“Unless you build new schools you won’t be able to meet the need,” Dromm said, noting that some physical education classes could take place in the classroom. “And it’s not the same as being in the gymnasium or out on the field.”

In 2016, a city Department of Education report showed that 74,621 Queens elementa-

ry school students — just under 70 percent — did not receive enough gym time to meet the state standards.

A report released by city Comptroller Scott Stringer in 2015 found that nearly onethird of city schools didn’t have a full-time certified PE teacher. That included 17 percent continued on page 12

$169 million in scholarships.

Imagine what your child can do.

OPEN HOUSE Registration recommended.

“High School is four years; St. Francis Prep is Forever.”

ST. FRANCIS PREPARATORY SCHOOL 6100 Francis Lewis Blvd. Fresh Meadows, NY 11365

(718) 423-8810 www.sfponline.org STFR-076415

Back to School & Fall Guide 2019

Saturday, October 19th 12:00 Noon - 4:00 PM

QUEENS CHRONICLE, Thursday, August 29, 2019 Page 10

C M BTS page 10 Y K

Pol: Teach hate symbols’ meaning

by Anthony O’Reilly

said in a statement. “Education is key in the fight for unity.”

According to the bill, the state Board of In February, three juveniles were charged with drawing dozens of swastikas in chalk on Regents would be required to design a plan on the playground of PS 139 in Rego Park. Police how to incorporate lessons on both symbols and elected officials defined the incident as a into existing school curricula. If passed by the hate crime. “There is no way around it,” Capt. state Senate and Assembly, and signed by Jonathan Cermeli, commanding officer of the Gov. Cuomo, it would be become effective 112th Precinct, told the Chronicle then. “That Sept. 1, 2020.

Kaminsky proposed the bill after seven is a hate crime.”

But Robert Dicker, practicing child and swastikas were found on a pavilion at Theoadolescent psychiatry doctor at Northwell dore Roosevelt Memorial Park in Oyster Bay, LI. In addition to the ones Health, was not as quick to found at PS 139 earlier this define it as an act of hatred. year, Queens has seen sevHe told the Chronicle at the eral swastikas drawn or time that the teens may not etched on private and pubhave known the meaning lic proper t y in recent behind the symbol, used by months (see sidebar). the German Nazis before The incidents are part of and during World War II. an increase in anti-Semitic “They see that symbol, they Do kids know what cases reported across the see it in the news and have country, according to the no idea what it’s associated a noose means?

Anti-Defamation League, a with,” he said. “Needless to Jewish advocacy group. say, it’s in the news fairly The group said there were often. I don’t know how 1,879 cases of verbal and suggestible they are.”

Soon, though, they and millions of other physical violence, vandalism and more against students may be required to learn the hateful Jews nationwide in 2018. Of those cases, 774 nature of the swastika. State Sen. Todd were vandalism (in 2017, there were 952).

And in May, the New York City Police Kaminsky (D-Nassau County) recently proposed a state bill that would mandate that pub- Department said the first quarter of 2019 saw lic and private school students in grades six to 82 percent more anti-Semitic crimes than the 12 be educated on the meaning of swastikas first four months of 2018.

Nooses, used to evoke lynchings, have been and nooses, two symbols of hate used against found in more hate crimes across the country.

Jews and blacks, respectively.

“Sadly, many young perpetrators do not The Southern Poverty Law Center, which really know the pain and bigotry these sym- tracks reports of hate crimes, said there were bols convey,” Kaminsky, who represents large nearly 1,800 such cases nationwide from the Jewish communities on Nassau’s South Shore, election of President Trump to February 2017.

Schools

Back to School & Fall Guide 2019

The history of swastikas and nooses as hate symbols For centuries, the swastika was used in Hinduism, Buddhism and other religions throughout Asia and was associated with good fortune. Its origins as a hate symbol date back to the early 20th century, when right-wing German nationalists adopted it as their symbol. Adolf Hitler then used it as the primary symbol for the Nazi Party in 1920, and it has since been associated with anti-Semitism and white supremacy.

The swastika was emblazoned on the Nazi flag as it ruled over Germany, and was on the uniforms of Nazi soldiers who fought in battle and carried out the murders of millions of Jews during the Holocaust.

Its display is prohibited in Germany, and Kaminsky has proposed another bill that would do the same in New York.

“Since 1945, the swastika has served as the most significant and notorious of hate

sy mbols, a nt i-Sem itism a nd wh ite supremacy for most of the world outside of Asia,” the ADL states on its website.

What the swastika is for Jews, the hangman’s noose is for blacks. Many blacks were hanged in the South following the Civil War, and the noose quickly beca me associated with the wh ite supremacist group the Ku Klux Klan.

Those who opposed desegregation also used it to kill and oppress protesters during the Civil Rights Movement.

Since then, blacks and other minorities have been targeted with nooses left outside their homes, shops or on public property in largely African-American communities. In 2017, two nooses were found on Smithsonian property in Washington, DC, including one at the National Museum of African American History and Q Culture.

— Anthony O’Reilly

In many of those cases, the SPLC said, a noose was found on private or public property.

Several Queens state and city representatives said they support Kaminsky’s proposal to mandate education about the hate symbols. Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz (D-Forest Hills), who has a large Jewish constituency, supports the measure but would like to see even more done, according to her spokesman Michael Cohen.

“She does question, however, why the bill addresses only two hate symbols and does not include other hate symbols, such as white supremacist symbols,” Cohen said in an email. White supremacist symbols can include, but are not limited to, the Confed- This Nazi German eagle and swastika were drawn erate flag, the Blood Drop Cross (a cross at PS 139 in Rego Park earlier this year. FILE PHOTO with a blood drop in the center) and 14 Words (a reference to the white supremacist slogan: “We must secure the existence of our that it’s not OK to hate people based on their people and a future for white children”). religion.”

Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard (D-Rockaway Park), who represents large Jew- Beach), a member of the Education Commitish communities in Rockaway, commended tee, said he plans on voting for the bill when it Kaminsky for introducing the legislation. comes before the panel and the entire state “Education is key in our efforts as a state to Senate. “I can’t see how anyone would have a prevent hate crimes.” problem with this bill,” Addabbo said. “It’s a Pheffer Amato was not the only one to say common sense bill that could be enacted that education about the symbols could poten- administratively without legislation.” tially prevent future cases. “I absolutely Addabbo, too, compared it to a bill he’s probelieve it could,” Assemposed – one that would blyman David Weprin require a moment of (D-Fresh Meadows), who silence in public school is Jewish, told the Chronclassrooms on Sept. 11 icle. “There are many to mourn those lost in people who are perhaps the terrorist attacks. unaware of what the That bill passed the meaning of swastikas is.”

Senate and Assembly, Weprin, whose district and is awaiting Gov. has seen many antiCuomo’s signature.

Semitic acts, likened the “There are only a proposal to one of his handful of Holocaust bill’s that Cuomo recently survivors left, and so the signed into law, which only way people will bars workplace discrimiknow about the horrible nation on the basis of acts of those times are STATE SEN. TODD KAMINSKY religious attire or facial through the classroom,” hair. “We have Sikhs he said. “Similarly, who wear beards, Jews who wear yarmulkes many of our schoolchildren weren’t even born and other religious people who have their own on Sept. 11 so it’s important to teach them why Q garb,” Weprin said. “We need to teach people that day’s important.”

“

Sadly, many young perpetrators do not really know the pain and bigotry these symbols convey.

”

Recent cases of swastikas found in Qns. February 2019: Three juveniles allegedly drew dozens of swastikas, including one that had an eagle perched atop it, the symbol of the Nazi party, on the playground at PS 139 at Rego Park. The Soviet hammer and sickle were also allegedly drawn by the youth. Police said at the time they were approaching it as a hate crime.

November 2018: Posters at the 67th Avenue subway station in Forest Hills were defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti that included a swastika and praise for Hitler.

November 2018: A swastika was found in a bathroom stall in the boys’ restroom of an unidentified Long Island City school.

October 2018: A swastika was drawn on a doorpost in a subway station.

August 2018: A swastika was found on the Flushing Business Improvement District’s booth at Main Street and Kissena Boulevard.

April 2018: The 107th Precinct discovered a swastika drawn on the abandoned Q Holliswood Hospital site. A similar incident occurred there in June 2017.

Source: Anti-Defamation League

C M BTS page 11 Y K Page 11 QUEENS CHRONICLE, Thursday, August 29, 2019

2019-20 PUBLIC SCHOOL YEAR CALENDAR SCHOOL SESSIONS BEGIN FOR ALL STUDENTS. Parent-teacher conferences elementary schools and K-8 schools (evening).* Parent-teacher conferences middle schools (evening).* Parent-teacher conferences high schools, K-12 and 6-12 (evening).* Rosh Hashanah (Schools closed).

Yom Kippur (Schools closed).

Columbus Day (Schools closed).

Election Day/Chancellor’s Conference Day for Staff (students do not attend school).

Parent-teacher conferences middle schools (evening and afternoon).* Veterans Day (schools closed).

Parent-teacher conferences elementary and K–8 (evening and afternoon).* Parent-teacher conferences high schools, K-12 and 6-12 (evening and afternoon).* Thanksgiving recess (schools closed) Winter recess (schools closed). Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020 school resumes.

Sept. 5,2019 Sept. 12 Sept. 19 Sept. 26 Sept. 30-Oct. 1 Oct. 9 Oct. 14 Nov. 5 Nov. 6-7 Nov. 11 Nov. 13-14 Nov. 21-22 Nov. 28-29 Dec. 24-Jan.1

Thursday Thursday Thursday Thursday Monday and Tuesday Wednesday Monday Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday Monday Wednesday and Thursday Thursday and Friday Thursday and Friday Tuesday through following Wednesday

Jan. 20, 2020 Jan. 27 Jan. 28 Feb. 17-21 March 4-5 March 12-13 March 19-20 April 9-17 May 7 May 14 May 21 May 25 June 4 June 9 June 26

Monday Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day (schools closed).

Monday Clerical Day upper grades only (high school/6–12 students do not attend).

Tuesday Spring term begins.

Monday through Friday Midwinter recess (schools closed).

Wednesday and Thursday Parent Teacher conferences elementary schools and K–8 (evening and afternoon).* Thursday and Friday Parent-teacher conferences middle schools (evening and afternoon).* Thursday and Friday Parent-teacher conferences high schools, K-12 and 6-12 (evening and afternoon).* Thursday through following Friday Spring recess (schools closed).

Thursday Parent-teacher conferences elementary schools and K-8 schools (evening).* Thursday Parent-teacher conferences middle schools (evening).* Thursday Parent-teacher conferences high schools, K-12 an 6-12 (evening).* Monday Memorial Day (schools closed).

Thursday Anniversary Day/Chancellor’s Conference Day for staff (students do not attend).

Tuesday Clerical Day lower grades only (elementary/middle school students do not attend).

Friday LAST DAY OF SCHOOL FOR ALL STUDENTS (early dismissal).

*These parent teacher conference dates are citywide. However, schools may decide to hold conferences on alternative dates, with approval.

Please check with your school for details. For testing dates and other events, visit schools.nyc.gov/calendar.

Courtesy NYC DOE website: schools.nyc.gov

DISCOVER ST. JOHN’S PREP AT OUR OPEN HOUSE Saturday, October 19th 11am – 3pm St. John’s Preparatory School is a highly selective college preparatory high school located in the heart of Astoria, minutes from Manhattan. For nearly 150 years, St. John’s Prep has helped its students unlock their intellectual, creative and physical gifts by fostering innovative thinking and leadership. Built on a strong academic foundation centered on “Tradition, Scholarship and Service,� St. John’s Prep prepares students to be thoughtful, well-rounded, critical thinkers who are prepared to make a difference in the world.

Explore SJP’s beautiful campus, engage with our community and discover why so many students choose St. John’s Prep as their foundation for success.

Register on-line @ www.stjohnsprepschool.org St. John’s Preparatory School 21-21 Crescent Street, Astoria, NY Contact Our Admissions Team 718 721-7200 STJO-076447

Back to School & Fall Guide 2019

s %XCLUSIVE "ACCALAUREATE 0ROGRAM WITH 3T *OHN S 5NIVERSITY s /UTSTANDING ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES WITH NUMEROUS !0 #OURSES #OLLEGE %XTENSION #LASSES AND RIGOROUS (ONORS 34%!- 0ROGRAM s $YNAMIC AND CREATIVE 6ISUAL 0ERFORMING !RTS 0ROGRAM s (IGHLY #OMPETITIVE #O ED )NTERSCHOLASTIC !THLETIC 0ROGRAM

QUEENS CHRONICLE, Thursday, August 29, 2019 Page 12

C M BTS page 12 Y K

Eva Moskowitz on Success continued from page 6 Another key factor in the success of Success has been the network’s relationships with students’ parents, Moskowitz said.

“For example, we have an open door policy,” she explained. “Any parent, without an appointment, can walk into any classroom and spend 30 minutes. Not just their child’s classroom, any classroom.”

Not ever yone is loving Success, though. Detractors charge that it focuses on testing to the exclusion of other important parts of a child’s education. Moskowitz denies that, saying that test scores are “an important metric” for students but not the only one.

Critics also say the charter network forces out students deemed problematic and discriminates against ones with disabilities.

A federal judge in August 2018 ruled that a lawsuit against the charter network, alleging discrimination against students with disabilities, can go forward. Five of the plaintiffs are parents of students whose names were on a “Got to Go” list of students reportedly targeted to be forced out, which was created by the principal of a Success school in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

Moskowitz has said the list was an isolated incident, not a systemwide policy.

The principal got demoted and took a teaching job at a different Success school.

Addressing school overcrowding

The charter network founder dismissed the claim that Success discriminates against kids with disabilities or cherrypicks them in the charter network’s lottery-based admission process.

“I would just say it’s false,” she said.

“We have 17 percent of students with special needs in our schools.”

According to its website, the city Department of Education’s overall percentage is 19 percent — not significantly higher.

Suspensions for young students have also generated controversy for the charter network.

In her sitdown interview, Moskowitz said the suspensions are not intended to be “punitive,” but rather to maintain a classroom environment where students can learn.

“I think it’s hard to imagine that a 5-year-old could throw a chair across the room but it does happen. Children these days can use highly inappropriate language in a classroom, either cursing or even sexualized language.”

Critics have also noted the charter network’s high staff turnover rate. According to Moskowitz, about 30 percent of teachers are gone after their first year.

“We get poached by the other charters constantly,” she said. “We’re like their farm team. We just have very high stanQ dards for teachers.”

Established In 1973

PRIVATE TUTORING AT OUR CENTER OR YOUR HOME Weekdays or Saturday Reasonable Rates - NYC Licensed Teachers ADULTS - CHILDREN Computer Instruction

AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM Reading, Mathematics, English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Accounting, Business, Calculus, Physics, Writing, Trigonometry, Chemistry, US History, Biology, Global History, Earth Science, Algebra, Geometry, Living Environment, Cursive Writing

PREPARATION FOR :

114-64 MERRICK BLVD., JAMAICA

718-291-0922

©2017 M1P •UNLT-072289

Back to School & Fall Guide 2019

3:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Mon. - Fri. SUBJECTS OFFERED - ELEMENTARY THRU COLLEGE

A.C.D.

includes some or all of the communities of Woodhaven, Ozone Park, South Ozone Park, Howard Beach and the Rockaways.

In all, four new DOE pre-K and 3-K centers are being added in the district this fall to make room for 500 early childhood students.

Looking ahead, 5,400 new high school seats are planned to become available for Queens by 2023, Ortiz said.

A brand-new high school planned for Northern Boulevard is now going through the site selection process, he said. The Chronicle reported earlier this summer that a required environmental impact statement revealed that the site under consideration is the former Sports Authority property at Northern Boulevard and Broadway, where Jackson Heights, Sunnyside and Woodside meet. The planned sixstory building would educate more than 3,000 students.

Also in the pipeline for high schoolers, Ortiz said, are 969 additional seats planned to open at the Academy for American Studies in Long Island City — nearly doubling that school’s capacity — as well as a 555-seat annex at Francis Lewis High School in Flushing, with planned occupancy in 2021.

Also on the agenda is an annex to Benjamin Cardozo High School in Bayside that would provide an additional 797 Q seats by 2022.

Giving students space for gym

UNLIMITED TUTORING INC.

• Regents Examinations • PSAT, SAT, ACT, and SSAT • Catholic High School Entrance Exam • N.Y.C. Specialized High School Exam • N.Y. State Math Test and ELA Exams • Common Core • GRE • USMLE • TOEFL Vouchers • ASVAB Accepted • GED • CUNY

continued from page 7 Americans with Disabilities Act in both the new addition and throughout the pre-existing school building — something that most of the city’s old school buildings can’t say about their facilities.

This fall’s new 124 seats in District 27’s PS 66 in Richmond Hill will be in a new wing that includes six new classrooms as well as a new cafeteria, an exercise room a n d a n of f i c e s u i t e f o r s c h o o l administrators.

In District 30’s Jackson Heights, PS 398’s 476 kindergarten through fifth-grade seats are spread over five stories. The school has planned a grand opening for its families on Tuesday, Sept. 3, including a family breakfast at 9 a.m., remarks by new Principal Erica Ureña Thus and District 30 Superintendent Dr. Phillip A. Composto at 9:30, and a school tour from 10:30 to 11.

Based on the growing population and the school system’s starting point of overcrowding, it stands to reason that the borough still needs more seats.

“The biggest need in Queens is for elementary and high school seats but there are a couple of projects for middle schools in the pipeline as well,” Ortiz said. The middle school projects are planned for Districts 24 and 30, he said.

This summer, the Chronicle visited a new UPK for 45 children in District 27. In addition to Richmond Hill, the district

continued from page 9 of middle schools, 8 percent of high schools and 59 percent of elementary schools.

Then-Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley introduced a law mandating a DOE report on how many children were being given adequate gym time.

“Studies show physical education improves not only health but discipline and better focus in school,” she said in 2016. “Healthy lifestyle habits are developed at a young age and we have a responsibility to ensure our children are given the resources they need for a successful education and future.”

So where do things stand now?

The latest report with data from 201718, shows that 220 schools, about 14 percent, lack a full-time licensed PE teacher.

Citywide, approximately 26 percent of students are receiving less than the required amount of physical education instruction. That includes about 39 percent of all elementary students, 16 percent of all middle school students and 13 percent of high school students.

About 21 percent of Queens students are receiving less than the requirement.

State law sets physical education requirements for all students K-12.

Those in kindergarten through sixth grade must have PE for at least 120 minutes per week. Students in kindergarten through third grade must have PE every

day. Students in fourth through sixth grade must have PE at least three times per week. Middle school students must have PE every semester. The PE time requirement depends on the students’ grade level. Sixth-grade students in a K-6, K-8 or K-12 school follow the elementary school requirements. In a 6-8 or 6-12 school they must have PE for at least 90 minutes per week. Seventh- and eighth-grade students in all schools must have PE for at least 90 minutes per week.

All students in the ninth through 12th grades must have PE in high school. Students must have PE for at least 180 minutes per week for seven semesters, or 90 minutes per week for eight semesters. All high school students must earn the equivalent of four PE credits in order to graduate.

Two years ago, de Blasio said, “The lack of physical education in our schools has been a concern of mine for over 20 years.” At the time he announced a Universal Physical Education initiative with the goal to ensure every public school in the city would have adequate PE space by 2021. The announcement was made at PS 81 in Ridgewood, where students used the auditorium for physical education.

The plan focused on about 200 schools that didn’t have a gym, with the first phase focused on 76 schools that had no PE space at all. Of the 76, 16 were located Q in Queens.

C M BTS page 13 Y K SAME NAME SAME OWNER

SPECIALIZING IN: ALL TYPES OF VINYL SIDING CUSTOM VINYL WINDOWS GARAGE DOORS ANDERSEN WINDOWS ROOFING JAMES HARDIE SIDING DOORS GU UT T TE TER RS S GUTTERS FULLY INSULATED SIDING

FULLY LICEN SED, IN SU R ED & G

Satisfying Customers for Over 38 Years

UARANT E

ED

Page 13 QUEENS CHRONICLE, Thursday, August 29, 2019

The Original Since 1981

CERTIFIED

SENIOR DISCOUNTS!

Authorized GAF Roofer Installer

Visit Ourat: Sh ow room

1-800-599-1150

NYC LIC. #2011058 L.I. LIC. #H18D2240000

87-10 101ST AVE., OZONE PARK, NY 11416

©2019 M1P • JBHI-076452

W W W.JBHOM EIM PROV EM ENTSINC.COM

Each depositor insured to at least $250,000

Back to School & Fall Guide 2019

MASF-075930

QUEENS CHRONICLE, Thursday, August 29, 2019 Page 14

C M BTS page 14 Y K

Lots of song and dance on stage

by Mark Lord

ture an all-female cast.

Performances run from Oct. 11 to 27, with With the arrival of fall comes the raising of various dates and times. All seats are $20.

Titan closes out the year with a return of its curtains and the tuning of instruments that signify the start of the new professional perform- annual tradition, “A Christmas Carol,” with a run from Dec. 6 to 22. All seats are $25. ing arts season in Queens.

Queens Theatre is located at 14 United To mark the occasion this year, Queens Theatre, one of the premier venues in the borough, Nations Ave. South in Flushing Meadows recently announced a new membership policy. Corona Park in Flushing.

More: queenstheatre.org or (718) 760-0064.

A $50 annual fee brings a 20 percent discount Another jam-packed season is on tap at on most tickets, the waiving of all box office fees, four drink tickets for use at the lobby con- Queensborough Performing Arts Center, kicking off with Zalmen Mlotek’s Magical World of cession stand and invitations to special events.

“We kick off the season with a bang,” Yiddish Song, on Sept. 22 at 3 p.m. Tickets are said Executive Director Taryn Sacramone. $50 and $45.

This will be followed on Oct. 13 at 2 p.m. by “The always thrilling, inter nationally renowned Parsons Dance Company returns Neil Berg’s 50 Years of Rock & Roll, with a cast from the worlds of Broadway and rock. after many years.”

Known for their athletic movement and use Expect tributes to the likes of Elvis, Little of special effects, the troupe will perform on Richard, Ray Charles, Carole King and others.

Tickets are $48 and $42.

Sept. 21 at 2 and 8 p.m. and Lucie Arnaz brings her on Sept. 22 at 3 p.m. Tickshow, “I Got the Job!,” a ets are $42; or $38 for t r ibute to her musical seniors and students; or past, to QPAC on Oct. 27 $34 for members. Side at 3 p.m. Arnaz will not view seats are available for only sing but also share $25 and $20. anecdotes about her many The Queensboro Dance co-stars. Tickets are $50 Festival’s culminating perProfessional and $45. formances will take place Note: As renovations on Oct. 5 at 8 p.m. and Oct. performances continue at QPAC’s home 6 at 5 p.m., with more than base, performances will take 30 Queens-based compaplace at various venues at St. nies performing, representJohn’s University (8000 Utoing the borough’s many culpia Pkwy. in Jamaica). tures. All tickets are $20.

More: visitqpac.org or (718) 631-6311.

Neil Simon’s much-loved comedy “Barefoot The Kupferberg Center for the Arts at in the Park” will take over the main stage from Nov. 15 to 24, with varying days and times. Queens College kicks off its season on Oct. 19 Tickets are $40; or $36 for seniors and stu- at 8 p.m. at Colden Auditorium with Grupo dents; or $32 for members. Side view seats are Niche, known as the “Salsa Experience.” The program will feature uptempo dance music as $25 and $20.

Titan Theatre Co., the resident troupe, well as slower-paced romantic numbers. Tickbegins its 11th season (and sixth at the theater) ets are $39 to $89.

The Summit, a meeting of The Manhatwith Moliere’s “Tartuffe,” the title character being a hypocritical scoundrel taking advan- tan Transfer and Take 6, is the attraction on tage of the gullible. This production will fea- Nov. 9 at 8 p.m., also at Colden Auditorium.

Back to School & Fall Guide 2019

Season

A cast from the worlds of Broadway and rock ’n’ roll will perform Neil Berg’s 50 Years of Rock & PHOTO COURTESY QPAC Roll show at Queensborough Performing Arts Center.

A traditional Indian performance will be just one element of the Queensboro Dance Festival’s PHOTO COURTESY QUEENSBORO DANCE FESTIVAL final shows of the season, at Queens Theatre.

With these two iconic groups, one might reasonably expect harmonies of epic proportions.

Tickets are $35 to $65.

Clarinetist David Krakauer and his Acoustic Klezmer Quartet take over the college’s Lefrak Concert Hall on Nov. 2 at 8 p.m., highlighting diverse influences from the worlds of jazz, funk and hip-hop. Tickets are $40 to $50.

Queens College is located at 65-30 Kissena Blvd. in Flushing.

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

It will be an unusually busy season at Black Spectrum Theatre, which offers a wide variety of attractions. Running Oct. 11-27 is “Sassy Mamas,” which finds five older black women trying to find “the right one,” finally taking matters in their own hands by becoming cougars and going after younger men.

Performances are on Friday and Saturday nights at 8 p.m. and Sunday afternoons at 4 p.m.

All seats are $25.

A couple of holiday laugh-filled nights are in store, part of a holiday concert series.

On Nov. 22 at 8 p.m., the women take center stage in Talent’s LOLL (Laugh Out Loud Ladies) Comedy Jam! Tickets are $40 in advance or $50 at the door.

The next night, Nov. 23, brings Talent’s Old School vs. New School Comedy Jam!, also at 8 p.m. Tickets are $40 in advance or $50 at the door.

A holiday comedy, “’Twas the Night Before Kwanzaa,” by the theater’s founder, Carl Clay, finds Santa Claus diverted to Africa to learn about the holiday of the title.

Performances are on Nov. 30 and Dec. 7 at 2 and 8 p.m., Dec. 6 at 8 p.m., and Dec. 1 and 8 at 4 p.m.

Tickets are $30 or $15 for youth.

Black Spectrum Theatre is located at 177 St. and Baisley Blvd. in Jamaica. More: blackspectrum.net or (718) 723-1800.

Flushing Town Hall presents a variety of musical attractions, including a once-in-a-life-

time concert by six NEA Jazz Masters, the nation’s highest honor for living jazz musicians.

The performance, featuring Candido Camero, Jimmy Heath, Barry Harris, Jimmy Owens, Jimmy Cobb and Reggie Workman, will take place on Nov. 8 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $45 or $20 for students. Teens are free.

Other upcoming events include, on Sept. 20 at 8 p.m. (with a dance lesson beginning at 7 p.m.), soprano saxophonist and flutist Jane Bunnett and her all-female sextet Maqueque, who will bring the soul of Cuba to our borough. Cuban-style food and drinks will be available to purchase. Tickets are $16 or $10 for students. Teens are free.

Diwali Dance Party takes place on Nov. 2 at 1 p.m., featuring Kathak classical dancer Abha Roy and Basement Bhangra’s DJ Rekha. Learn the dance moves, then hit the floor! Tickets are $20 or $10 for students and children. Teens are free.

Flushing Town Hall is located at 137-35 Northern Blvd. in Flushing. More: flushing townhall.org or (718) 463-7700.

The Thalia Spanish Theatre presents the play, “La Golondrina,” which was inspired by the 2016 massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando and questions what it is that best defines humanity. The title is a reference to a song that takes on special significance within the play’s context.

Performances, running Sept. 27 to Oct. 13, on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 4 p.m., are in Spanish, with English supertitles.

The Thalia is located at 41-17 Greenpoint Ave. in Sunnyside. All seats are $25. More: thaliatheatre.org or (718) 729-3880.

The Secret Theatre in Long Island City will stage “Annie Jr.” Sept. 5 to 8; “Princess Particular” Sept. 14; “Rent” Sept. 19 to Oct. 6; and “Pirate Pete’s Parrot” Sept. 28. Ticket prices vary.

More: The Secret Theatre is located at 44-02 23 St. More: secrettheatre.com or (718) Q 392-0722.

C M BTS page 15 Y K

MANR-076406

Our company is a family-owned and operated company not affiliated with any other company.

We stand by all our work and strive to give you the job your hard-earned money has paid for.

All our work is backed by warranties and your satisfaction is guaranteed.

Page 15 QUEENS CHRONICLE, Thursday, August 29, 2019

Manhattan Roofing All Types of Roofs ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖

Roofing & Waterproofing Repair on Flat Roofs Brick Pointing & Repair Rubber Roof Installation Leak Detection & Repair Thorocoat Waterproof Coating Silicone Roofing Systems Installation Installation & Repair of Shingle Roofs Repair & Roof Coating of all Types Skylight & Hatch Replacement

10% OFF

WITH THIS AD

Call for Free Estimates Today!

Licensed / Bonded / Insured

NYC HIC Lic. #2034648

MANHATTANROOFS.COM

718-489-4044 800-590-1309

Back to School & Fall Guide 2019

447 Broadway, 2nd FL #264 New York, NY 10013

QUEENS CHRONICLE, Thursday, August 29, 2019 Page 16

C M BTS page 16 Y K

Exhibits of all kinds await you

by Mark Lord

Finally, “American Artist: My Blue Window,” also on display through Feb. 16, is a multimedia installation that focuses on PreArt. Film. Science. History. Food.

If any of these topics appeal to you, the pol, a predictive policing technology that approaching fall season provides the ideal sends officers to high-risk crime zones time to visit some of the borough’s countless before incidents are even reported.

And there are the old standbys. The “jewel cultural institutions that are devoted to them.

For those who prefer to stay local, there’s in the crown” of the museum’s collections is no need to travel to Manhattan — or beyond the Panorama of the City of New York, creat— anymore, when you can enjoy places of ed through the efforts of more than 100 peointerest right in your own backyard. And over ple for the 1964 World’s Fair. Also on permathe next few months, a slew of special events nent display is the World’s Fair Visible Storwill be providing an extra incentive to explore. age, including some 900 objects from both The US Open tennis tournament may be the 1939-40 and 1964-65 fairs.

The Queens Museum’s hours are Wednesmaking the headlines these days, but it’s hardly the only attraction in Flushing Meadows day through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Corona Park. For one, there’s The Queens Suggested contributions are $8 for adults Museum, located in the park’s historic New and $4 for seniors. It’s free for those 18 and York City Building, which offers both tempo- under. More: queensmuseum.org or (718) 592-9700. rary and permanent exhibitions.

Things are bubbling at the New York Hall Beginning Oct. 6, four brand-new ones of Science, which includes among its attracwill be unveiled at the museum.

“Nicolas Moufarrege: Recognize My Sign,” tions approximately 450 interactive permais the late artist’s first solo museum exhibition, nent and temporary exhibits that explore science and help to demystify tracing the development of the world. his work from small-scale On Oct. 20, Chemistry tapestries in the early 1970s Day will take place from to his final works in the 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. An annuearly 1980s. Although his al event, it showcases career lasted just over a chemistry principles using decade, Moufarrege, who demonstrations performed died in 1985, created a by local college students unique body of embroiDays and nights and volunteers from local dered works, some of which at the museums i ndust r ies. It’s recomwill be on display through mended for ages 4 and up.

Feb. 16.

(Free with admission.)

Also arriving Oct. 6 is Two holiday attractions “The Art of Rube Goldare on their way. berg,” a celebration of the One, “Dead or Alive: Special Effects,” work of one of the most influential comic illustrators of the 20th century, who had a arrives in time for Halloween, on Oct. 26 and 27 from noon until 4 p.m. each day. It 72-year career. It runs through Feb. 9.

Joining them will be “Pia Camil: Fade Into explores the “science of the creepy,” includBlack (2018)” featuring a massive curtain-like ing how to use household materials to make installation made with hundreds of second- fake blood and prosthetic wounds. Prizes hand T-shirts that have been recycled, altered will be awarded to those who arrive in costume. (Free with admission.) and sewn together. It closes Feb. 16.

Back to School & Fall Guide 2019

Season

The New York Hall of Science, where exhibits are always interactive so the children get directly involved, will host “Dead or Alive: The Science of Special Effects” just before Halloween. Prizes PHOTO BY ANDREW KELLY / NYSCI will go to those who arrive in costume.

“The Jim Henson Exhibition,” paying homage to and offering a wealth of insights about the MupPHOTO BY THANASSI KARAGEORGIOU pets creator, is a key draw at the Museum of the Moving Image.

Returning will be the popular “GingerBread Lane” exhibit, on view from Nov. 23 through Jan. 12. Created by chef Jon Lovitch over the course of an entire year, the presentation consists of houses made entirely of edible gingerbread, royal icing and candy. (Free with admission.)

Already running, through Nov. 3, is “Imaging Women in the Space Age,” a photo exhibition that includes vintage and current images of women as aviators and astronauts, including Sally Ride, America’s first woman in space, and Mae Jemison, the nations’s first African-American female astronaut. (Free with admission.)

Also up, through Jan. 21, is “Apollo 11: First Steps Edition,” a film shown daily at 3 p.m. to coincide with the 50th anniversary of NASA’s celebrated mission. It showcases reallife moments of the first lunar landing, with never-before-seen footage. It runs 20 minutes.

(Tickets are $6 for adults, $5 for children, students and seniors, plus admission.)

The New York Hall of Science is located at 47-01 111 St. in Corona. Hours are Monday through Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Admission is $16 for adults and $13 for children 2 to 17, seniors and college students with ID. Free admission is offered on Fridays from 2 to 5 p.m. and Sundays from 10 to 11 a.m.

More: nysci.org or (718) 699-0005.

The Museum of the Moving Image offers a brand-new exhibit, “Creatures from the Land of Thra: Character Design for The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance,” opening on Sept. 11 and running through Feb. 23. It explores the process of designing the fantastical characters from the popular Netflix series, a prequel to the 1982 film “The Dark Crystal.”

An ongoing attraction, “The Jim Henson Exhibition,” which opened in 2017, pays tribute to the creator of The Muppets and his transformative impact on culture.

MOMI is located at 36-01 35 Ave. in Astoria. Hours are Wednesday through Sunday starting at 10:30 a.m., with varying closing times. Admission is $15 for adults, or $11 for

seniors, students 18 and over, or $9 for ages 3 to 17 — and tickets to film screenings, almost always at those same prices, include museum admission. Free admission is offered on Fridays from 4 to 8 p.m. More: movingimage.us or (718) 777-6888.

The Noguchi Museum, dedicated to its namesake sculptor, Isamu Noguchi, has several exhibits up and running, including, through Feb. 2, “Models for Spaces,” a selection of models that reflect Noguchi’s belief that sculpture is a manipulation of our experiences of space; and, through May 3, “Noguchi: BodySpace Devices,” a study of the artist’s strategies for connecting the body to space.

The museum is located at 9-01 33 Road in Long Island City, and is open Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is $10, or $5 for seniors 65 and older and students with ID. Free admission is offered the first Friday of every month.

More: noguchi.org or (718) 204-7088.

Outdoor exhibits are always on tap at Socrates Sculpture Park, open 365 days a year, 9 a.m. to sunset. Through Dec. 31, visit “Folly/ Function,” an annual architectural and design competition that investigates the intersection between sculpture and architecture. Running Oct. 5 through March 8 is “The Socrates Annual,” an exhibition by multiple artists of new commissions that engage the park’s unique history, landscape and surrounding community.

The park is located at 32-01 Vernon Blvd. in Long Island City. Admission is always free.

More: info@socratessculpturepark.org or (718) 956-1819.

And if your favorite way to bring summer to a close is through your palate, you might want to check out Endless Summer, a collaboration between Edible Queens and the Rockaway Business Alliance. It’s a food festival that will feature global flavors and live performances. It takes place on Sept. 14 from noon to 5 p.m. at 51-15 Beach Channel Drive, located at Beach 50th Street and Rockaway Beach Boulevard in Rockaway. More: ediblequeens. ediblecommunities.com or (917) 837-2738. Q

C M BTS page 17 Y K Page 17 QUEENS CHRONICLE, Thursday, August 29, 2019

Established 1852

St. Mary’s Community Mausoleum

$

500 Off 00

This is a Pre-Construction Certificate of Savings of $500.00 per space in the soon to be completed St. Mary’s Mausoleum.

Discount may be discontinued without prior notice.

St. Mary’s Community Mausoleum

MARG-076348

STMC-067222

Back to School & Fall Guide 2019

72-02 Astoria Boulevard East Elmhurst, NY 11370 718 278- 3240

QUEENS CHRONICLE, Thursday, August 29, 2019 Page 18

C M BTS page 18 Y K

What’s on tonight? Find out here

by Lloyd Carroll In a world where there are more home entertainment options than ever, there is still something special about the coming of fall when the various television networks introduce their lineup of new programs. Here is a look at what they have in store for us.

CBS

from comedy producer extraordinaire Chuck Lorre (“Two And A Half Men,” “Mom,” “Mike & Molly,” “How I Met Your Mother” and “The Big Bang Theory”) titled “Bob Hearts Abishola,” starring Billy Gardell (the Mike of “Mike & Molly’) and Nigerian actress Folake Olowofoyeku. While the pilot portended an unlikely romance between the two lead characters, it is a risky proposition because “Bob Hearts Abishola” is not a chuckle-a-minute proposition for which the Lorre brand is renowned. This is more Norman Lear than Chuck Lorre.

Lorre told journalists at the 2019 Television Critics Association Summer Tour at the Beverly Hilton last month that he is more interested in discussing the contributions of immigrants to the USA. Lorre noted that nearly every one of us descended from immigrants and that he is disgusted with President Trump’s nasty tone towards them. “Immigrants make America great” is what he told the press and he handed out yellow “IMAG” hats as a way of sticking it to Trump.

CBS has long been the most-watched television network and that didn’t change in spite of the well-publicized brouhaha a year ago when its charismatic CEO, Les Moonves, was removed in a MeToo scandal.

It has been almost 50 years since moviegoers were scared witless by “The Exorcist” and the devil is back with a vengeance. This time he is taking on the Big Apple and some tough detectives from the NYPD in “EVIL.” Katja Herbers, Mike Cotler, Aasif Mandvi and Michael Emerson are the leads.

“All Rise” is a look at the criminal justice system in Los Angeles and it stars Simone MisNBC sick as a judge who knows when to be tough The Peacock Network has recovered its ratand when to be tender.

The Tiffany Network has long been home to ings mojo thanks to the success of such dramas adult comedies and that’s certainly the case this as “This Is Us” and the Manhattan-based hospital drama, “New Amsterdam.” season.

NBC is turning to an old Patricia Heaton, who friend, Jimmy Smits, who starred in both “Everybody appeared in “LA Law” from Loves Raymond” and “The 1986 to 1994, to return to his Middle,” returns as a 50legal acting roots with a year-old medical school change in locale to Memphis graduate working in a hosin the deliberately similar pital in “Carol’s Second sounding “Bluff City Law.” Chance.” Kyle MacLachlan Smits’ character has a deep co-stars as a curmudgeonly New TV shows Tennessee drawl while his mentor. daughter in the family law Baby boomers will fondto try this fall f ir m played by Caitlin ly remember “The CourtMcGee has no distinguishship of Eddie’s Father” that able accent. The show’s prostarred Bill Bixby as a ducers promise that unlike young widower with a son.

“The Unicorn” has Walton Goggins in the Perry Mason, Smits’ team will not always preBixby role with three daughters. It’s lighter in vail victorious in court.

Queens has long been the setting for situatone than “Courtship” as it centers around the lead character’s reluctance to get back into the tion comedies, as exemplified by “All In The dating scene and the humorous encouragement Family,” The King Of Queens,” “The Nanny” of his three friends’ (comic vets Michaela Wat- and “Dear John.” We can now add “Sunnyside,” kins, Rob Corddry and Omar Miller) to get him starring Kal Penn, to that list.

Penn plays a former City Council member to start living his life again.

The CBS show that will generate the most who loses his job because of a drunken ragebuzz and scrutiny will be the latest offering filled night that is caught on camera. With no other discernable skills, he becomes a tutor to a cast of neighborhood characters who are seeking to become US citizens.

Executive producers Matt Murray and Michael Schur claim that the political fall from grace story angle was based on Anthony Weiner but without “the creepy stuff,” in their words. Penn said that he had spoken with Sunnyside City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer and that he spent a lot of time in the neighborhood even though the show is being shot in LA. It’s hard to not to root for “SunnyNBC’s new show “Sunnyside” stars Kal Penn, center, and side,” which not only seems funny but features the slogan “Welcome to Queens. Home of the whose slogan is “Welcome to Queens.

PHOTO BY COLLEEN HAYES / NBC Home of the American dream.”

American dream.”

Back to School & Fall Guide 2019

Season

Top comedy producer Chuck Lorre is behind the new CBS show “Bob Hearts Abishola,” starring Billy Gardell and Folake Olowofoyeku as a businessman and the nurse he falls for, despite the SCREENSHOT COURTESY CBS vast differences in their backgrounds.

Another comedy, “Perfect Harmony,” which stars Bradley Whitford as a depressed college music professor who takes the reins of a vocally challenged church choir doesn’t appear to be worth the time investment.

ABC Colbie Smulders, who was one of the engaging stars of the aforementioned hit comedy “How I Met Your Mother,” is starring in a new show that is a 180-degree turn from her signature role as news anchor Robin Scherbatsky.

This time she plays a former Marine who is now a hard-boiled Portland, Ore. private investigator. Think of a female version of Clint Eastwood’s “Dirty” Harry Callahan or Stacy Keach’s Mike Hammer from that 1980s CBS series based on the novels of the late Mickey Spillane. This one looks like fun.

The same can be said for a prequel to ABC’s hit series “black-ish” called “mixed-ish,” which stars Mark-Paul Gosselaaer, Gary Cole and Tika Sumpter. The show is set in 1985 and it appears that the producers are taking this period piece seriously judging from the news headlines and great ’80s tunes that filled the pilot episode.

Tiffany Haddish, who has had tremendous success as a standup comedienne and actress, now tackles a new role — being the 2019 version of the late Art Linkletter — as she will be hosting a new Sunday night family show, a revival of “Kids Say the Darndest Things,” which is slated to air Sunday nights. Haddish is likely to become as ubiquitous as Steve Harvey and Ryan Seacrest.

FOX The “new” Fox Broadcasting Corporation no longer has the assets of 20th Century-Fox behind it as its parent company, News Corporation, sold the legendary studio and other assets to Disney for $71 billion.

Fox still has attitude, however, as it will be debuting what may be the season’s most controversial program, “Almost Family,” which centers around a fertility doctor, Leon Beckley (Timothy Hutton), who used his own sperm in the early

1990s (well before DNA testing become commonplace and inexpensive) on donor eggs. Brittany Snow plays his daughter Julia, who is shocked to discover that she has plenty of new half-siblings.

“Prodical Son” owes a great debt to the 1990 film “Silence of the Lambs.” A psychologist played by Tom Payne is forced to team up with his brilliant father and incarcerated serial killer (veteran British actor Michael Sheen), who is serving a life sentence, in order to help the NYPD solve murders.

Two TV vets, Kim Cattrall and Gerald McRaney, star in “Filthy Rich,” which looks at the sordid life of a televangelist who has established a billion dollar empire and isn’t quite a man of the cloth when away from his television pulpit.

Fox is also introducing two new Sunday night animated comedies, “Bless the Harts” and “Duncanville,” with Ike Barinholtz and Amy Poehler providing the lead character voices in the respective series.

There is no word yet as to whether the “BH 90210,” which stars the original cast members of the iconic “Beverly Hills 90210” playing exaggerated versions of their real lives and spoofing both the show and their tabloid images, will return later this year after garnering a lot of attention this summer.

CW “We know who we are!” said CW Television president Mark Pedowitz at the 2019 Television Critics Association Summer Tour. He’s absolutely right and that is a key reason why he is the longest tenured broadcast network president. Pedowitz has long made the CW a destination for teens and young adults and that tradition continues this fall.

Every TV generation deserves its own “Nancy Drew” series and this year the CW will launch “Nancy Drew” with Kennedy McMann playing the iconic teen detective who solves mysteries. Based on the clip that I saw, the mysteries are far darker and more R-rated than anything Pamela Sue Martin had to deal with in the 1970s on ABC. continued on page 21

C M BTS page 19 Y K Page 19 QUEENS CHRONICLE, Thursday, August 29, 2019

25 Years Experience

FULLY LICENSED

• New Roofs of all Types

Roofing Repairs Chimney Caps Waterproofing Basement Waterproofing

SPECIAL

10% OFF FIND US ON

Call Today For A Free Full Roof Inspection & Estimate!

– Ser ving All Of Queens –

917-407-1141 718-713-8020

Senior Discount HIC Lic. #1443031 ©2019 M1P • JJSR-076413

Back to School & Fall Guide 2019

• • • •

QUEENS CHRONICLE, Thursday, August 29, 2019 Page 20

C M BTS page 20 Y K

Getting physical in the fall

by Michael Gannon

and new and returning players who are 9 and older.

Senior fitness programs for fall 2019 run With the weather soon set to be turning cooler, there still are plenty of opportunities from Sept. 16 to Oct. 25. The free offerings for Queens residents of all ages to stay are open to those 60 and over, and include active in programs being offered by the City tennis lessons and yoga. They take place twice a week and all equipment is provided.

Parks Foundation.

Now celebrating its 30th anniversary, the Yoga instruction will take place in Queens foundation’s mission is to transform city at Cunningham Park in Fresh Meadows at 10 a.m. on Mondays and parks into dynamic centers Wednesdays at the tennis of activity through sports, courts at Union Turnpike ar ts, recreation and and 193rd St reet; and education.

Tuesdays and Thursdays Registration and other at 10 a.m. at the Roy information on all proWilkins Park Recreation grams is available online Center in St. Albans. at cityparksfundation.org.

Tennis lessons will be According to the CPF’s Fun and of fe red Mond ays a nd website, the organization fitness Wednesdays at 10 a.m. at is launching a pilot prothe tennis courts in Astogram to help youth ages 7 ria Park at 21st Street and to 17 learn golf and life Hoyt Avenue; Tuesdays skills in cooperation with and Thursdays at 9 a.m. at First Tee of Metropolitan NY at the Junior Annex Golf Center in the tennis courts at Cunningham Park in Fresh Meadows; Mondays and Wednesdays Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

The free program runs between Sept. 14 at 10 a.m. at Flushing Meadows Corona and Oct. 27 and aims to use golf and golf Park at the Meridian Road tennis courts; instruction as tools to help children build and Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11:30 a.m. at Roy Wilkins Park at the tennis courts at character and make smart life choices.

There are separate programs for new and Baisley Boulevard and 177th Street.

Registration and other information is returning players who are 7 and 8 years old;

Season

Children from Queens ages 8-14 can sign up for weekend track and field instruction this fall at PHOTO BY NAIXIN XU / CITY PARKS FOUNDATION Forest Park in Woodhaven. available at sports@cityparksfoundation.org or by calling (718) 760-6999.

The track and field program for children ages 8 to 14 takes place weekends between Sept. 21 and Oct. 26. It is free but open only to children who are city residents.

The Queens program will take place from 10 a.m. to noon on Sundays at Forest Park Victory Field in Woodhaven near the intersection of Myrtle Avenue and Woodhaven

Boulevard. Equipment is provided but participants do need appropriate footwear such as sneakers or running shoes.

Children will receive instr uction in sprinting and long-distance running techniques; field events from the javelin throw to the long jump; and get tips for hurdling and race walking.

Registration information is available on the CPF website at cityparksfundationorg. Q

MAIN STREET

RADIOLOGY IS COMING TO

GLENDALE, QUEENS

www.mainstreetradiology.com • (718) 428-1500

SERVING QUEENS SINCE 1966

Back to School & Fall Guide 2019

Modern radiology care provided by sub-specialized, board certified radiologists.

Comprehensive Imaging Facilities State-of-the-art medical imaging offering open MRI

OPENING SOON Our Other Locations In

83-14 Cooper Ave. Glendale, NY 11385 Fax: (718) 224-0978 MAIS-076092

Bayside 32nd Ave.

Bayside 44th Ave.

Downtown Flushing

32-25 Francis Lewis Blvd. 44-01 Francis Lewis Blvd. 136-25 37th Ave. Bayside, NY 11358 Bayside, NY 11361 Flushing, NY 11354 Fax: (718) 224-0978 Fax: (718) 352-0292 Fax: (718) 661-1305

Western Queens 72-06 Northern Blvd.

Jackson Hts., NY 11372 Fax: (718) 907-2384

C M BTS page 21 Y K Page 21 QUEENS CHRONICLE, Thursday, August 29, 2019

What’s new on TV this season continued from page 18 The CW has had tremendous success with “Riverdale” so it is turning to a somewhat lesser known member of the Archie Comics series, Katy Keene. Lucy Hale plays the aspiring fashion designer who moves to New York and quickly acquires a group of offbeat friends. “Katy Keene” will be shot in New York and the showrunners promise that unlike a past CW hit, “Gossip Girl,” Queens will be featured in the show.

DC Comics has long been a staple of CW programming. While “Arrow” is finishing up its run this year, a new twist on the Caped Crusader, “Batwoman,” is debuting. Executive producer Caroline Dries sternly told me that Batwoman is a totally different character from Batgirl. Baby boomers will fondly remember the late Yvonne Craig in that role on the delightfully campy “Batman” series that starred Adam West in the last 1960s.

Australian actress Ruby Rose is the woman behind the cowl in “Batwoman.” Her character is supposed to be both Jewish and a lesbian. The CW is certainly inclusionary!

Cable and streaming

RATED

EXP. 10/31/19

RATED #1 ON

#2 OF 589 RESTAURANTS IN FLUSHING, QUEENS

BY TRIPADVISOR

Private Parties up to 70 People

Flushing’s Hidden Gem • Reasonably Priced

Complimentary Homemade Dessert Join us at

35-25 FARRINGTON STREET

BY MARCO HOTEL 718-445-3300 Includes: Soup of the Day - Breast of Chicken

$

12:00 to 3:30 pm

24 99

* 10% Off

Now Accepting Reservations for Corporate Events and Holiday Parties.

francese dipped in eggwash and pan fried, then finished in white wine sauce

and fresh lemon juice.

- Tenderloin Fillet of pork scaloppine, with mushrooms in Marsala wine sauce.

- Capellini Primavera Angel hair pasta with a julienne of fresh mixed vegetables

and a touch

of tomato sauce. Available also white.

Ask Your Server About the Other Lunch Specials Available!

MAGNA BREAKFAST SPECIALS Hot or Cold Buffet includes:

$

16 95

Scrambled Eggs, French Toast, Bacon Strips, Sausage Links, Hash Brown Potatoes, Assorted Cereals, Oatmeal, Hard-Boiled Eggs, Assorted Pastries, Bagels, White & Whole Wheat Bread, Plain Yogurt, Granola Topping, Fresh Fruit, Coffee, Tea, Milk, Orange & Cranberry Juice SALAD BAR: Includes, Salad, Tomatoes, Cheese, Fresh Cut Fruit, Soup & Pasta of the day.

1 Block from Main Street off Northern Blvd.

FREE Parking after 5:00 pm Dining Hours 6:30 am-10:00 pm Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner CLOSED Monday for Lunch and Dinner

718-445-3352 magnarestaurant.com

All School a Hospital n Workers Employees d *ID Required

Back to School & Fall Guide 2019

– LUNCH SPECIALS –

©2019 M1P • MAGN-076431

BESP-074854

FX has moved from Fox to Disney as part of that big 2018 Hollywood business transaction. That may be a key reason why the basic cable network which most closely resembles premium cable networks such as HBO, Showtime and Epix, is only launching one new series, “Breeders.” The program stars

Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard as stressed parents who deal with the joys and the many aggravations of parenting young kids. “Breeders” is already popular in Great Britain where it’s taped.

“Pose,” “Mayans M.C.,” “Mr. Inbetween” and “Snowfall” are all coming back for another season on FX. If the aforementioned English actress Daisy Haggard doesn’t become a household name in the US this year it won’t be for lack of trying. She is doing TV double duty as she plays a woman who returns to her hometown after spending 20 years in prison on a murder charge in Showtime’s “Back To Life.”

Another new Showtime series is “Work in Prog ress,” star r ing newcomer Abby McEnaney as a wry Chicago millennial whose humor is reminiscent of that of deadpan comic Steven Wright.

Showtime’s big fall entry is “On Becoming a God in Central Florida,” which stars Kirsten Dunst in a ’90s period satire of network marketing businesses. Any similarities to Amway and the DeVos family are not coincidental.

Pop TV is also saluting the Sunshine State with a millennial comedy, “Florida Girls.” It will also be bringing back the revival of Norman Lear’s “One Day at a Time” which was canceled after three seasons by Netflix. And yes, Emmy-nominated “Schitt’s Creek” will be returning.

Q Happy viewing!

QUEENS CHRONICLE, Thursday, August 29, 2019 Page 22

C M BTS page 22 Y K

A short ride to fall foliage splendor

by Michael Gannon

dow seat to enjoy scenic views as the train makes its way up the Hudson River.”

Once in Beacon visitors can walk over to The leaves already have started turning to the Hudson’s Long Dock Park to look out show their vivid fall colors.

And whether one is interested in organized across the river; or hop a scenic boat trip to or self-guided leaf-watching tours, or as a Bannerman Castle on Pollepel Island for backdrop for any number of fall activities, another vantage point, complete with a Scotnumerous places and activities are a short tish-style castle, within Hudson Highlands distance from Queens; and in some cases, State Park.

Main Street Beacon also offers opportuniyou don’t even need a car. ties for shopping, dining and sipping at some local craft beverage spots, while hikers who Dutchess County The website for Dutchess Tourism, Inc. want a challenge can head up Mount Beacon, offers a multitude of day trip getaways for “a steep but rewarding climb offering sweeping views of Beacon, the Hudson River and Queens residents.

The Poughkeepsie-Hyde Park region offers surrounding region.”

Head to the Rhinebeck region for one of Walkway Over the Hudson for a flat, nonthe best vantage points strenuous stroll over the offering panoramic views world’s longest elevated of the Hudson Valley in pedestrian bridge.

Ferncliff Forest. The short “The bridge offers fanhike ends with a climb up tastic views of the foliage the fire tower, offering along the Hudson River some of the best sights, shorelines,” according to especially during the fall the office. season.

The leaves also offer Fall foliage More infor mation is scenic backdrops for the day trips available online at Va n d e r b i l t M a n s i o n d u t c h e s s t o u r i s m .c o m / National Historic Site, Statop-ten-lists/?list=15. atsburgh State Historic Site or trips to any number Rockland County of restaurants and attracSitting 30 miles from the city on the westtions.

Dine at waterfront restaurants like Shadows on the Hudson to continue to take in ern bank of the Hudson River, fall foliage in Rockland County serves as the backdrop for riverfront views.

Driving enthusiasts might prefer the 32,000 acres of parkland, 200 miles of trails Taconic State Parkway. It was opened in 1931 and parks and scenic views of the river valley, for Sunday drivers to enjoy the scenery, while according to Rockland County Tourism.

All the parks, descriptions of which can be the Todd Hill rest area, just one mile south of Route 55, features food and beverage prod- found online at explorerocklandny.com, are ucts made by producers in Dutchess and open from dawn to dusk.

Among the nearly two dozen parks, peracross the state.

Dutchess County’s Innisfree Garden in haps the best-known attraction in the county Millbrook allows visitors to immerse them- is Bear Mountain State Park, which also feaselves in the foliage and other features of a tures myriad options for active and passive 150-acre Chinese-style garden with streams, recreation.

Blauvelt State Park offers hiking trails and terraces, plants, walking paths and gorgeous views of the Hudson Valley on its mostly scenery.

Rather take the train? The Beacon-Fishkill undeveloped forestland. Kakiat State Park in region is served by MetroNorth. Passengers Montebello offers picnic areas and horseback riding to Beacon are invited to “grab a win- riding under the foliage.

Back to School & Fall Guide 2019

Season

The Ferncliff Forest panorama overlooking the Hudson River Valley.

PHOTO BY MICHAEL COLUCCIO

The Vanderbilt Mansion property in Dutchess County has a backdrop that no amount of wealth PHOTOS COURTESY DUTCHESS TOURISM could create on its own.

Mountainview Nature Park in Central Nyack is described as a “mountainous tract, heavily wooded with numerous nature trails for hiking ...”

Sean Hunter Ryan Memorial Park in West Nyack boasts trails over 15 acres that feature red oak, aspen, black birch, hemlock and American ash.

South Mountain Park in Garnerville overlooks the town of Haverstraw and the Hudson River. Its trees include red, white and black oak, dogwood and aspen.

Orange County The website orangetourism.org lists a number of fall foliage attractions just a short drive north of the city.

Elks-Brox Park, reached from Exit 1 on I-84 and through the Delaware River city of Port Jervis, overlooks the valley and the confluence of the Delaware and Neversink rivers.

The nearby Upper Delaware Scenic Byway is on Route 97. The winding Hawk’s Nest Highway, which hugs the mountain, is a popular drive.

Head back to Port Jervis by Route 6 “as it wends its way over the mountain and into val-

leys covered with the gorgeous colors of fall.”

Port Jervis will host its annual Fall Foliage Festival from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sept. 22.

The celebration located on the river features continuous live entertainment, as well as food, antiques, crafts, antique cars and fire trucks and much more. Port Jervis is accessible by train, as the last stop on the MetroNorth Port Jervis Line departing from Penn Station in Manhattan. Further information is available on li ne at por tjer visny.org / slider/2019-fall-foliage-festival/.

Newburgh’s waterfront district has not only views of foliage along the Hudson River, but foliage cruise tours. Information is availa bl e a t p r i d e of t h e h u d s o n .c o m a n d riverrosecruises.com.

Foliage also can be seen during the daily tours at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

New York State New York State will begin issuing its regular fall foliage schedule in mid-September online at iloveny.com/things-to-do/fall/foliage-report/. The site iloveny.com also has Q more general tourism information.

Staatsburgh Historic Site has appeal for foliage lovers as well as history buffs.

C M BTS page 23 Y K Page 23 QUEENS CHRONICLE, Thursday, August 29, 2019

ALL ROADS LEAD TO JAMAICA HOSPITAL

JAMH-061144

Learn More About our Many Quality Services Including Emergency Medicine • Cardiology • Pulmonary Medicine • Ambulatory Care Advanced Radiology Services • Sleep Center • Obstetrics and Gynecology • Pediatrics

By Calling us at 718-206-6000 or Visit our Website at www.jamaicahospital.org

Back to School & Fall Guide 2019

The many roads that make up our community are the same roads that lead to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center.

As your neighbor, our wide variety of clinical services are always available to you and your family.

QUEENS CHRONICLE, Thursday, August 29, 2019 Page 24

C M BTS page 24 Y K

+

30

languages spoken at home

70

+

nationalities represented on campus

+

20

interscholastic athletic teams

.

+

15

clubs, including signature programs in Mock Trial and Model UN

14

average class size

82

%

Back to School & Fall Guide 2019

faculty holding advanced degrees

Attend an

Open House PRESCHOOL – GRADE 12

Thursday, September 26 at 8:15am Saturday, October 19 at 1:00pm Wednesday, November 20 at 8:15am Saturday, December 14 at 1:00pm RSVP at kewforest.org/OpenHouse

Established in 1918, The Kew-Forest School is the oldest independent, co-ed, college preparatory school in Queens. Our school provides a safe, nurturing, and intellectually vigorous environment.

For more information, contact Brad Walters, Director of Admission admission@kewforest.org

Celebrating years

100 119 -17 U N I O N T U R N P I K E F O R E S T H I L L S , N Y 1137 5 718 . 2 6 8 . 4 6 6 7

of

inspired education

W W W . K E W F O R E S T. O R G

KEWF-076343