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Plan to expand JFK runways into Jamaica Bay NOT cleared for takeoff with area officials PAGE 2 A tentative plan to enlarge Kennedy Airport by adding landfill to Jamaica Bay has come under fire from Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder and state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr., who pointed out that it would take an act of Congress to allow expansion into the federal wildlife preserve.

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JFK not expanding into bay, boro yet Regional Plan Assn. says ’11 study is preliminary; bay protected by law by Michael Gannon Associate Editor

state assemblyman last week rekindled the debate over when, how and even if the Port Authority should alter or expand Kennedy Airport to deal with a projected increase in the city’s air traffic over the next 20 years. Of four options released in January 2011 by the Regional Plan Association and considered viable, three would require filling in a large section of Jamaica Bay, obtaining land outside the airport or both to accommodate new or extended runways. The fourth would reconfigure runways on the existing airport footprint but would require redirecting traffic over sections of Queens. Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Rockaway Beach), in a statement last week and in an interview with the Chronicle, said he is not in favor of any of the options on the table, particularly filling in any portion of Jamaica Bay. He also said he is opposed to expanding outward into Queens, and to capping JFK’s capacity. “I don’t agree with this idea that we need to destroy a crown jewel of the community to accommodate airplanes,” Goldfeder said. “I understand the need for the Port Authority to deal with an increase in traffic and to increase capacity. I get that. But it’s not just about destroying Jamaica Bay ... Someone is going to be adversely affected. I don’t

want Queens residents to bear the brunt. I want to start a conversation and to put it out in the community.” Richard Barone of the RPA said the 160page report was designed to do just that. “This study was designed to get that conversation started,” Barone said. “This is just the first pass. The Port Authority is conducting a more in-depth study. So much more has to happen before any concept gets turned into action.” Barone said they undertook the study based on ever-increasing delays at Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark Liberty airports that became twice the national average in 2007. He said delays continue to this day even with a cap imposed by the Federal Aviation Administration. The study said the region’s economy in the next 20 years will rely heavily on dealing with delays and airport capacity issues in the long term. Among the other options are improving highway and mass transit service to the airports, and expanding Newark Liberty Airport. LaGuardia Airport is considered a poor choice for expansion given its surrounding development. The report also points out, in a footnote on page 120, that as Jamaica Bay is considered a national park and wildlife refuge, a federal law governing airport expansion specifically forbids JFK expansion into its waters and marshes. “[N]othing in this section shall authorize

the expansion of airport runways into Jamaica Bay or air facilities at Floyd Bennet Field,” it states. “That would take an act of Congress to change,” Barone said. “This has years ahead, with an intensive environmental review process, the FAA and public input batting around different ideas.” Don Riepe of Broad Channel, who serves as Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge guardian amd is northeast chapter director of the Littoral Society, said the airport already has done tremendous damage to the bay over decades, and that the federal government continues to spend tens of millions of dollars to replenish it. “We’re not happy with any proposal to fill any part of the bay,” Riepe said. “The area is not pristine — no area in the bay is pristine. We are in restoration mode.” He said more than 330 species of birds have been recorded in the region, whether as permanent or seasonal residents, or just passing through on their migratory routes. He also said there are at least 88 species of fish there and could be more than 100. State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) believes the federal law is the best protection Queens residents have right now. Addabbo is as opposed as Goldfeder to expanding JFK either into the water or into Queens through eminent domain. “If you fill in a section of the bay, you get flooding problems in an area that already has them,” Addabbo said. “And I

think the idea of moving planes closer to a bird preserve is a bad combination. Fill in 400 acres and you have all kinds of issues.” The senator is not afraid to continue with the FAA cap on traffic. “At some point, you’re going to maximize your capacity,” he said. “In my opinion we are getting very close to that if we’re not there already.” Barone pointed out that the study includes expansion of Newark Liberty. “But eventually they run out of capacity too,” Barone said, reiterating the importance of the airports to jobs and the economy of the New York City region. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the airports, is undertaking its own study of capacity issues. Its board members are appointed by the states’ governors. In a statement issued last week a spokesman said they will take the RPA study into account. “The Port Authority will review this proposal and will be sure to take [Goldfeder’s] concerns into consideration as it conducts an aviation capacity study to seek ways to meet the region’s growing long-term passenger needs at our airports,” the PA said in a statement “The bi-state agency understands JFK’s proximity to Jamaica Bay and the wildlife it supports, and we recognize the importance of continuing to serve as a good environmental steward,” the Q spokesman said.

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John Adams students say mayor failed them Slam Bloomberg’s proposal to close school and reopen it with new staff by Anna Gustafson Senior Editor

Scowling at a lengthy document from the city detailing its proposal to close John Adams High School in Ozone Park, and reopen it with about half the teachers replaced next fall, student Symone Simon gives the packet of papers a dismissive flick of her wrist and issues a harsh verdict of Mayor Bloomberg — he has failed her and her classmates, who want their instructors to remain put. “The mayor says 50 percent of the staff that works here is not doing their job, but there has been a 17 percent increase in graduation rates to 64 percent over the last three years,” said Simon, a senior and one of the editors at John Adams’ school newspaper. “I’ve seen people grow so much here — that’s what our teachers do for us. They’re like our other parents.” John Adams High School is one of 33 that the mayor wants to close in the city, including eight in Queens. First proposed in his State of the City address in January, the plan to close the schools will be voted on April 26 by the city Panel for Educational Policy — often known as a rubber stamp for all the mayor’s schools plans because it has never rejected anything Bloomberg proposed. Queens Borough President Helen Marshall’s appointee to the PEP, Dmytro Fedkowskyj, has repeatedly voiced his opposition to the school closures, as have other borough presidents’ appointees. Fedkowskyj and the other borough president designees, however, make up a minority of the PEP, with the mayor’s appointees making up the majority. According to the Department of Education’s educational impact statement, which the city is legally required to issue for any school it proposes to shutter, all John Adams teachers would be forced to reapply for their jobs and about half of them

would be replaced by the beginning of the 2012-13 school year. John Adams would also likely be renamed. What the city has labeled for now as the “new school” would “put in place a process aimed at hiring the best possible staff, thus immediately improving teacher quality and, by extension, improving the quality of learning,” according to the EIS. Students scoffed at this statement, slamming both the city’s plan to rename the school and its criticism of current teachers. “They’re wiping away a history with a new name,” senior Dion Pierre, also an editor of the school newspaper, said of the school that was built during the Great Depression. It was one of five high schools in the city, including Bayside and Grover Cleveland, to be built from the same blueprint in an effort to save money during the that era. Brandon Garcia, a sophomore, said he dreads having to attend a school where many of his teachers may be gone. “I’ve grown to have really good relationships with my teachers,” Garcia said. “The next two years will be a whole different world for me. People are nervous. It’s like being a freshman all over again.” Cassandra Jagroop, a senior and president of the student government, also emphasized the bonds students and teachers have formed. “We have at least one teacher we consider a friend,” Jagroop said. The students emphasized that their school has made significant strides in recent years, which they attribute in part to the creation of small learning communities — specialized programs every student is a part of that allow them to study subjects like media and communication, business, environmental issues, health and sports careers, and law and international relations. Simon said the SLCs have inspired students, and she noted

John Adams High School students are criticizing the city’s plan to shutter their school and reopen it with about half the staff replaced, a proposal detailed in the city’s educational impact statement, held here by senior Symone Simon. PHOTO BY ANNA GUSTAFSON that about one in five John Adams seniors is a member of the National Honors Society. Should the school end up closing, Simon added that she “can guarantee our graduation rate will decrease drastically” because students will feel as if they’ve lost mentors. Teachers, who did not want to be named, said the proposed closure has been “demoralizing” for educators and students. “It’s depressing because we’ve developed a rapport over the years,” a teacher said. “It’s especially worrisome for the juniors; Q who will write their college recommendations?”

Mother of two slain in S. Ozone Woman remembered as ‘fun-loving and energetic’ by Anna Gustafson

Sandra Bajnath, right, poses with her husband, Anthony Tika, and son, T.J., in a photo that now sits in front of the South Ozone Park home where police say she was murdered on Sunday morning. PHOTOS BY ANNA GUSTAFSON her, appeared especially angry over the incident. “It’s like they got so mad over nothing,” said a neighbor who did not want to be named. “They were so mad at her when all she did was accidentally brush into this lady? You take someone’s life over that? What sense does that make?” After the three left the bar, they made their way back to Bajnath’s house in South Ozone Park, where they were sitting

when a group of men approached the front porch and fired numerous shots, police said. Other published reports said the gunmen fired at least 20 times. Bajnath was shot in the torso, and Seepaul was shot in the stomach, police said. The mother was pronounced dead at the scene, and Seepaul was taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in critical condition, according to police. No arrests have been made. Q

On the brink of closure? After hundreds of layoffs at Peninsula Hospital in Far Rockaway, as well as the closing of the institution’s clinical lab, it remains unclear as to whether the site will completely shut down. The hospital laid off at least 100 workers last week, and another 200 were let go earlier this month, according to an insider familiar with the situation. It is also axing its physician residency program. Hospital officials did not respond to a request for comment. The former spokeswoman, Liz Sulik, no longer works at Peninsula, though it is unclear if she was laid off or resigned. Last month, the state Health Department ordered Peninsula to temporarily close its clinical lab because officials found “serious deficiencies” with it. Patients were transferred, and no surgeries are being permitted. “We’re in desperate need for a hospital that can handle the amount of patients that the Rockaways and Southern Queens produces,” state Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Rockaway) said. Goldfeder said he is not pleased with the managers, Revival Home Health Care. “They have made a lot of mistakes and thus far failed the community that has put their trust in them. I’m very hopeful that this group can get their act Q together.”

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visitors came into and out of the house where he had shared his Senior Editor Standing on the stoop in life with Bajnath, 39, who police South Ozone Park where his say died after being shot in the wife, Sandra Bajnath, was torso at her home on 135th gunned down in a hail of bul- Street in South Ozone Park after lets early Sunday morning, an alleged bar dispute. “She was amazing,” Tika said Anthony Tika looked at a photo positioned behind a sea of of the mother of their two boys. flickering candles of a woman “She was fun-loving and enerflashing a brilliant smile, her getic. She was always helpful.” Bajnath had been on materarm around some of those she loved most — her husband and nity leave from her job as a customer service representaone of her young sons. He studied the photo for a tive at Verizon when she died, moment as a stream of endless Tika said. Their son T.J. is 6 and a half years old, and their baby, Ravin, is 9 months old. According to police, she was with her husband and a friend, Sean Seepaul, 26, at the Food Hut Restaurant and Bar on Rockaway Boulevard in South Ozone Park when family members said Bajnath accidentally bumped into a woman early in the morning on Sunday. Friends said the three left soon thereafter to avoid an argument because the woman, who Family members and friends have placed has not been identified, a sea of candles at Bajnath’s home. and a group of men with

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For those used to tripping, relief Ulrich, city team up to repair tree-damaged sidewalks Senior Editor

Hundreds of homeowners who have complained to the city about trees damaging sidewalks, making it easy for residents to trip over uneven pavement, are getting some relief, Councilman Eric Ulrich (ROzone Park) and Parks Department officials said last week. Ulrich, Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe and Queens Parks Commissioner Dorothy Lewandowski gathered on 86th Street in Ozone Park last Thursday to announce that the councilman has given

City officials plan to fix this sidewalk at 86th Street near 133rd Avenue in Ozone Park as part of the Parks Department program.

$1.1 million in city funds to the Parks Department so it can repair sidewalks damaged by trees outside 317 homes in the 32nd Council District. The homeowners, who were able to get on the list for repairs by calling 311, live throughout Ulrich’s district, including in Ozone Park, Howard Beach, Woodhaven and Richmond Hill. The repairs began March 12 and are expected to wrap up within the next six weeks. “Hopefully, by this summer we won’t have any more tripping hazards,” Ulrich said. “It’s good for Councilman Eric Ulrich, left, Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe safety, good for kids and and Queens Parks Commissioner Dorothy Lewandowski said last week that the city will repair sidewalks damaged by trees at 317 good for senior citizens.” PHOTOS BY ANNA GUSTAFSON The work, which spots around South Queens. includes smoothing out the sidewalks while retaining the often these individuals, but with this funding, we large trees causing the problems, is being can get to anyone who scored 65 percent or conducted at sites that landed a score of 65 higher.” “This is a city full of walkers,” Benepe or higher from the city. The city ranks the level of damage a tree has done to an area said. “They walk to their church, to their on a scale of 0 to 100, with 100 being the synagogue. We want people to be able to walk safely on the sidewalks.” worst. Noting that Queens is “known as the “People have told my office that they’ve been on this list for a very long time,” borough of trees,” Lewandowski emphaUlrich said. “It would’ve taken the Parks sized that residents call 311 to register for Q Department a long time to get to some of the city’s tree repair program.

Vernell McCallum, 71, of Jamaica is missing and the NYPD is seeking the public’s help in locating him. He was last seen on March 15 at around 5:30 p.m. inside of the Resorts World Casino at 110-00 Rockaway Blvd. in South Ozone Park. He is described as being 5 feet 7 inches tall with brown eyes and black hair and was wearing black corduroy pants and walking with a cane. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS (8477). The public can also submit tips by logging onto nypdcrimestoppers.com, or by texting 274637 (CRIMES), then entering TIP577. All tips are strictly confidential.

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A salute to Rep. Gary Ackerman ong before he went to Capitol Hill, Gary Ackerman made change and made history. And he did it for the middle-class working man. A junior high school teacher in the city schools, Ackerman saw his first child born in 1969. He wanted to take time off to be with the baby girl, but the Board of Education said no. Only women were allowed such leave. But the 26-year-old teacher wasn’t willing to take no for an answer. He sued the board, and won — in a landmark case that established the right of either parent to take unpaid leave for child care. Twenty-four years later, Congressman Ackerman signed the House-Senate Conference Committee report on the Family and Medical Leave Act, which gave parents nationwide the same right. All those years in between, and all the years since, Ackerman has been a strong supporter of common-sense legislation to benefit every American, as well as one of Israel’s staunchest allies in the U.S. government. Last week the 15-term congressman from northeastern Queens announced that he will retire from the House at the end of the year. Ackerman has made many contributions to

the United States during his time in office, and we salute his record of service. Among his most important — and, at the time, challenging — achievements is the Baby AIDS Law, which requires newborns to be tested for HIV. Before the law was passed, 45 states, including New York, were testing babies for HIV — without telling their mothers the results. The idea was simply to track the disease. To Ackerman, the practice was as disgusting as it would sound to just about anyone today. His law, which in the end garnered massive bipartisan support, not only required testing and disclosure to the mother everywhere, it also prevented insurance companies from dropping people who are tested for AIDS, regardless of the result. The law therefore helped stem the spread of the disease, and protected those who were unfortunate enough to contract it. Also on the domestic health front, Ackerman worked to stop the sale of downed animals — those too sick to stand — from being sold for food, warning of the potential for mad cow disease. That legislation went nowhere, but then in December 2003, the first mad cow case in the United States appeared — and the Bush administration quickly enacted a regulatory ban, just like the one Ackerman had proposed

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Cuomo sells out Dear Editor: After months of threatening to veto the incumbent-protected, gerrymandered legislative lines, the governor punted and sold us out. Former Mayor Ed Koch, good government groups, and numerous civic organizations like Eastern Queens United called on the governor to veto the legislative lines that are drawn every 10 years after the Census. Hundreds of civic activists including myself attended public hearings asking that communities be kept together and not divided. These public hearings were nothing more than a well-orchestrated dog and pony show conducted by legislators whose contempt and disdain for the civics was manifested by their brazenly community-busting gerrymandered district lines. The governor was afforded an opportunity to veto these lines and up until the last moment threatened to do so. That is until the three men in a room (Shelly Silver, Dean Skelos and the governor) crafted their secret deal. They called the governor’s bluff and he caved in. Gov. Cuomo is now spinning this agreement on district lines as a permanent fix. The so-called “fix,” which is scheduled to take place 10 years from now after the next Census, simply replaces one panel of politicians with another panel of political appointees. Allowing the same folks that created this mess to appoint a panel of political cronies to draw up new lines is not reform but politics as usual! And if the Legislature doesn’t like the lines drawn by its own commission, members can simply vote no and draw the lines themselves. This is a sham and a slap in the face to every civic organization that advocated for a process that would serve the needs of the communities rather than the interests of the politicians. The governor could have refused to buckle and veto these community-busting lines, setting up a truly independent judicial panel to draw non-partisan lines. Instead, he chose the path of political expediency. He sold us out and will now count on the short memory span of voters. Bob Friedrich Glen Oaks

through legislation. The congressman has also been strong on foreign policy, especially as it regards support for Israel, the only real democracy and genuine U.S. ally in the Middle East. He has worked tirelessly toward the difficult goal of peace in the region, often meeting with Israeli and Arab heads of state to further that goal. While true peace remains elusive, Ackerman’s efforts to reach it, under presidents of both parties, have been and continue to be front and center. Recently the congressman combined foreign policy and constituent service in the most meaningful way possible, helping retrieve Hollis Hills law student Ilan Grapel from Egypt, which had charged him with spying for Israel. You can’t do more for the people you represent than helping bring their loved ones home from hostile places. Between his time as a teacher and his election to Congress in 1983, Ackerman also founded the Queens Tribune, a newspaper that competes directly with this one. Despite his continuing affiliation with the Trib, he’s always returned our calls. We appreciate that — but even more we appreciate his service to the people of Queens, New York and the United States. His successor will have big shoes to fill.

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Pity that some are so short sighted that they would rather rank on the president than root for the country. Cutting our dependence on fossil fuel should be of greater importance than petty political partisanship. Depressing. Fortunately this dispiriting letter was preceded by one from Ms. Shana Rhodes relating her recent visit to Michigan, where she found the people with hope and even enthusiasm despite the dire economic situation in their state (“Auto bailouts worked”). It was due to the incredible success of their auto industry brought about by President Obama’s loan to bring them back from certain dissolution to the point where General Motors is once again proudly, the biggest auto manufacturer in the world. To a person they attribute the success to President Obama and his brilliant foresight. Encouraging. Edward Roth Whitestone

Dear Editor: In your Feb. 23 issue, There was a letter by Mr. Lenny Rodin sneering at raising the tax break for the Chevy electric volt from $7,500 to $10,000 (“Volt subsidy shocks me”). He equates a middle-class consumer getting a $2,500 additional tax break while helping the planet with the wealthy paying less than their share of taxes while helping themselves.

Dear Editor: Few, if any, would disagree with the proposition that New York City and the surrounding towns, villages, and counties constitute the heart of the national and global economy. Fewer seem to recognize or appreciate,

‘Conservatives’ vs. women Dear Editor: Barry Goldwater, the father of American conservatism, said that government does not belong in your bedroom or your doctor. He was against the intrusion of government in your life. Basic conservative principle — but today’s conservatives are proposing the intrusion of government into a woman’s uterus. This attack on women’s rights and the intrusion of government is what we will get if Bob Turner gets elected to the Senate. Women — be careful ... be very careful. Stewart J. Frimer Forest Hills The writer is a licensed clinical social worker.

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Dear Editor: Re “Tuition relief for parents, says Turner,” March 8: Payroll taxes, sales taxes, motor vehicle taxes, restaurant taxes. This issue of tax credits for private schools is not about double taxation, as Bob Turner says. It is about undermining the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment’s separation of church and state and further driving a wedge between the “middle class” and poor working class. And it’s about an issue that too many white parents in private schools wish not to discuss: race. My guess is Turner really isn’t interested in healing our communities and embracing diversity but rather grabbing onto an issue and pandering to a minority of people who are finding it difficult to do all the things they wish to do — in an economy that favors the Bob Turners sending their children to private schools. The public school system was fought for and won by labor, immigrants who came to America seeking a better life and progressive movements of the time; it is a cornerstone of our democracy. After the Revolution, an emphasis was put on education, which rapidly established public schools. By the year 1870, all states had free elementary schools. The U.S. population had one of the highest literacy rates at the time, according to the 1911 “A cyclopedia of education.” Turner admits in the article that the bill doesn’t have much of a chance passing the U.S. Senate with its present Democratic majority. I can only hope he is right in this case. I should point out that it is very disconcerting to know that a Democrat is also pushing for a similar bill. Assemblyman Rory Lancman “applauded the Congressman’s efforts”. I have the same sentiments for Lancman as I have just expressed for Turner. Steve Allen once said back in the ‘70s that the mainstream media was dumbing down America. At the time Mr. Allen uttered those words, the Internet was not a household word. I’m sure if he were alive today he would embrace it for the opportunities it holds out for building bridges between communities and exposing opportunism. Gabriel Falsetta Glendale

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Dear Editor: In today’s economic climate, it is all too easy to think of Medicaid only in terms of the financial costs. But in light of Medicaid Matters Month, we must also consider the human benefits: five million New Yorkers directly rely on Medicaid — including three million in New York City. Through our twelve clinics — including the Queens Health Center, Family Health Center in Jamaica, and Long Island City Health Center — we serve more than 75,000 patients every year. We test for chronic diseases like STDs, HIV and diabetes, and treat them before complications lead to runaway costs. We also provide primary care, mental health, and social services for everyone. None of this would be possible without Medicaid. Not only do half our patients come from the Medicaid population, but Medicaid funds equipment, staff, and services that benefit all our patients. It is crucial for legislators in Albany to protect Medicaid. Should there be any hesitation, we can remind them that there are at least five million good reasons to do so. Catherine Abate President and CEO, Community Healthcare Network Manhattan

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however, that our robust transit system is the lifeblood that sustains that heart. We, the executive board of the Long Island City Alliance, a civic group advocating for issues affecting western Queens, were dismayed to hear that the majority Republicans in the state Senate have proposed to zero out the MTA’s capital funding in the upcoming budget. In particular, Sen. John DeFrancisco was quoted as saying that the MTA’s problems were none of his, saying that “we don’t have too many MTA trains going to Syracuse.” The Senate majority’s claim that this potentially crippling blow to the region’s transit system will “control spending and create jobs” is laughable at best. The MTA is currently working on two major projects, East Side Access and the Second Avenue Subway, that will greatly improve connectivity and commute times within the metropolitan area. Both projects would likely be shut down if the Senate majority’s proposal passes, wasting tens of millions of taxpayer dollars invested in building a better, more-connected city. This will also have the effect of terminating the thousands of construction and support jobs currently active on both projects. Finally, while no “MTA trains” go to Syracuse, plenty of MTA dollars do, as our buses and trains are built by people from Syracuse, Plattsburgh, Hornell, and dozens of other upstate towns and cities. What will Sen. DeFrancisco’s own Liverpool constituents, some of whom are engaged in making bus sealant and tape, say when their own representative jeopardizes their livelihoods? We at the Long Island City Alliance urge the state Senate to reconsider this misguided and counterproductive decision and restore the MTA’s capital funding to the budget. The Long Island City Alliance Steven Beard, President Costa Constantinides, Executive Vice President Nicholas Widzowski, Secretary-Treasurer Brian Beard, Board Member Maureen Neary, Board Member Long Island City

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After Community Board 9 crowned the wrong person as chairwoman at its election last week, the woman who was first awarded the seat has asked city officials to investigate the election with the hopes there may be a do-over. At the board’s March 14 meeting in Woodhaven, CB 9 officials said members voted 18-17 to elect Joan DeCamp as the new chairwoman. However, they recounted the ballots the next day and discovered that the vote was actually 18-17 in favor of the sitting chairwoman, Andrea Crawford. “I’ve put in an objection to the way the election was sponsored,” said DeCamp, who served as the board’s chairwoman in the early 1990s. “A new election would be my request.” DeCamp said she believes the board did not follow the city’s parliamentary guidelines for community boards. “In my reading of the guidelines, if paper ballots are used, they have to be signed, which ours weren’t,” DeCamp said. “Second, everybody has a right to vote or abstain, but the total number of votes were not the same as other votes

taken that night.” DeCamp submitted her formal objection to Queens Borough Hall. Dan Andrews, the spokesman for Queens Borough President Helen Marshall, said officials referred the matter to the city’s top attorney. “It was decided that we should have the city’s corporation counsel make the determination on these concerns, not our office, which is supposed to provide guidance to the community boards,” Andrews said. Crawford said the board will implement tighter controls on future elections. “The way it happened, it can be chaos sometimes,” Crawford said. “Everyone’s talking, the staff is running around to collect the votes.” Crawford, who is entering her sixth year as chairwoman, said she hopes to spend this year as the group’s leader pressuring the city Department of Buildings to better enforce zoning. Additionally, Crawford said she wanted to focus on making the old LIRR Rockaway line into a greenway. “There’s a lot of interest in the greenway from elected off icials and City Hall,” Q Crawford said.

We recruited volunteers for the necessary survey of structures in our ZIP code, one of whom, Richard Smith, then proceeded to complete the survey on his own. After that, the plan was formulated. The goal was to preserve the zoning of the residential areas and to allow the upzoning of the commercial properties along Jamaica Avenue, thus increasing our property values throughout Woodhaven. In this way our large Victorian homes would be saved from being demolished and replaced by small apartment buildings, while building would be allowed above commercial properties. This plan was a balanced one and would for the first time in 50 years revise and positively stabilize the zoning here in Woodhaven for the next 50 years. As I have stated before, the reason people have stayed or moved to Woodhaven is because we appreciate our homes, large or small, and the open space between and around us, as well as our vital shopping strip. The unanimous yes vote from CB 9 was the first hurdle for the rezoning plan. This was a momentous vote, and Woodhaven thanks CB 9 for its support. Woodhaven and Richmond Hill (which is also part of the zoning change) are now on the path to secure our present character for perpetuity. This is an important first victory for all of our Woodhaven community. Maria A. Thomson Executive Director Greater Woodhaven Development Corp. and Woodhaven Business Improvement District Woodhaven

Government fraud Dear Editor: It is disconcerting to think of our government as an embezzler cooking the books. The government is less likely a bank robber with a ski mask and pistol than an eloquent, mild-mannered enforcer of elitist paternalistic benevolence claiming to have our best interest at heart. Originally the dollar was more than just a piece of paper with a picture of a president. It represented a fixed amount of a precious metal for which you would receive gold or silver upon demand. In 1913, the government created the Federal Reserve System and ceded its Constitutional power to “coin money and regulate the value thereof ” to private bankers who are unaccountable to Congress. The result of their policies is unsustainable debt and the devaluation of the dollar; to wit, two Mercury silver dimes will still buy a gallon of gasoline. The rise in inflation, debt, taxes, unemployment, crony capitalism and corruption has occurred slowly and incrementally, making the fleecing process almost imperceptible. Many view this as general moral deterioration of our society, yet their analyses are dismissed as crazy conspiratorial rants. We have become acclimated to our government conniving and defrauding its citizens. We accept it, take it for granted, don’t get riled up any more than sheep get indignant about being sheared. Few things have changed since Aesop observed, “We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” Ed Konecnik Flushing

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DA’s year-long program gives nonviolent defendants an alternative to prison by AnnMarie Costella Assistant Editor

It was a proud day for Queens District Attorney Richard Brown as he bore witness to the fruits of his labor and the first group of graduates who had successfully completed the Veterans Court program he created — and there will be more throughout the year. Brown set up the Veterans Court in 2010 with the goal of helping servicemen and women who have committed nonviolent crimes and need alcohol, substance abuse or mental health services get treatment as an alternative to incarceration. “Our returning veterans deserve not only our gratitude and our praise, but our support, as well,” Brown said in a prepared statement. “Many of them have witnessed firsthand the horror and devastation that war brings — and some have, unfortunately, brought back with them deep emotional and psychological scars as a result of their experiences.” Steve Epps, a Vietnam veteran, former police officer and community service officer at the Proctor-Hopson VFW Post in Jamaica, praised the program for getting servicemen and women the help they need rather than leaving them at the mercy of the prison system. “Without a doubt, I think it’s a good thing,” Epps said “Some vets come back confused and they have nowhere to turn — no family — they’re disturbed and they do things that they shouldn’t do. “These are people who served our country and come back emotionally, mentally and physically displaced, and those are issues that need to be addressed,” he continued. On March 12, the first five veterans who successfully completed the year-long program’s requirements graduated and will have a second chance to become productive members of society and not repeat offenders. They had been convicted of crimes such assault, DWI

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Boro pols slam new district lines Accuse Gov. Cuomo of retreating on promise to veto by Anna Gustafson Senior Editor

Queens legislators and some good government groups are lashing out at an agreement reached in Albany during a session that ran into the early hours last Thursday morning on a number of unrelated issues, including redistricting, pension reform and casino gambling, saying it was a “dirty” back-door deal that kicks the public in the gut. “Everything about last night was bad,” state Sen. Michael Gianaris (D-Astoria) said last Thursday. “The lateness of the hour, the substance of the redistricting bill and the substance of the other bills. It was as bad an episode as I’ve ever seen in Albany.” Gov. Cuomo and legislators also reached a deal on statewide teacher evaluations and an expansion of the state’s criminal DNA database at the same time. “There was a dirty deal done that got a whole bunch of issues roped in together,” Gianaris said. “The Legislature had minutes to contemplate bills that were as long as 80 pages because nobody wanted to give us time to debate them.” Because of that, most of the Senate Democrats walked out and refused to vote on redistricting and the other issues — which they’ve said did not give Republicans the quorum needed to vote. Republicans said they had a quorum. Redistricting happens once a decade, after the federal Census numbers are published. A group of legislators, led by party leaders, redraws the lines for Assembly and state Sen-

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Donations sought for Passover distributions Due to the increasing demand from the community for Passover packages, the Queens Jewish Community Council is reaching out for donations to help defer the rising cost of “Kosher for Pesach” products. The group is collecting food products (Kosher, nonperishable) or monetary contributions through March 25. The office is located at 119-45 Union Turnpike in Forest Hills. Credit card donations can also be made online at qjcc.org. For information, call the QJCC Q at (718) 544-9033.

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ate districts. They are also tasked with redrawing the Congressional lines, but this year failed to do so and a panel of three federal judges just passed the new lines this week. After saying in recent months that he may veto the proposed political lines if he believed them to be gerrymandered, Cuomo ultimately supported the redistricting deal because it includes a constitutional amendment and legal statute that establishes an independent redistricting commission to preside over the redrawing of Assembly, state Senate and Congressional lines the next time it happens, 10 years from now. “This agreement will permanently reform the redistricting process in New York to once and for all end self-interested and partisan gerrymandering,” Cuomo said in a prepared statement. “With the Legislature agreeing to pass this historic constitutional amendment twice by a specified date, and passing a tough statute that mirrors the amendment, we have taken a major step toward f inally reforming the state’s broken redistricting process.” While some good government groups, including Citizens Union and the League of Women Voters, have praised Cuomo’s compromise, saying it was essential to create a much needed independent redistricting commission, others criticized the governor for going back on his word. “Unfortunately, last week, in an ugly dead-of-the-night session, marked by last minute bills and secret negotiations, the Leg-

islature adopted a set of horribly gerrymandered state district maps,” Common Cause New York said in a prepared statement. “The new senate map, in particular, set a new low standard for putting political self-interest ahead of the public interest. Even more disappointing, Gov. Cuomo broke his promise to vet gerrymandered maps and signed these bad maps into law.” Originally, the group tasked with redrawing the lines — the Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment — proposed moving the block where Gianaris lives into the district represented by state Sen. Jose Peralta (D-Jackson Heights), which would have forced him to run against Peralta in a Democratic primary. The lines that were passed no longer would pit Gianaris against Peralta. Still, the Astoria legislator said the districts for Queens, and the state in general, are “terrible” and a “horrible product.” Other Senate Democrats agree with their colleague, and they filed a lawsuit last Thursday that challenges the creation of a 63rd Senate district upstate, which is likely to help Republicans in the upcoming election because the area typically votes conservative. “In a time when people are calling for a more efficient, smaller government, we’re expanding the Senate for obviously political reasons in an election year?” state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) asked. Addabbo also criticized the final lines — which could be changed depending on what happens with the lawsuit. Additionally, the

Democrats and some good government groups have criticized the new state Senate district IMAGE COURTESY LATFOR lines. U.S. Department of Justice has 60 days to review the lines to ensure they comply with the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which was passed to ensure minority communities were not disenfranchised. “They split up communities,” Addabbo added. “Ridgewood, Woodhaven and Ozone Park have been split up, and it’s wrong.” State Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) also issued harsh words about the new lines. Under the new districts, Avella is moved into the district represented by state Sen. Toby Stavisky (D-Whitestone) to make way for an Asian-majority district. “The fact is, we didn’t even get to fully debate the redistricting bill, which is horrendous,” Avella said. “The people’s elected representatives were denied the ability to debate continued on page 31

Turner in GOP Senate primary Slips through convention by narrow margin by Michael Gannon Associate Editor

He made it by the narrowest of margins, but Congressman Bob Turner (RQueens and Brooklyn) will be on the June 26 ballot for the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate. Turner garnered just over the 25 percent of the vote necessary at the Republican State Convention last Friday. Wendy Long, a Manhattan attorney and conservative activist, won more than 47 percent of the vote, while George Maragos, the comptroller of Nassau County, won just over 27 percent. Long, who once clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, subsequently won the endorsement of the state’s Conservative Party, which Turner also had sought. The winner in June gets to take on freshman U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) in November on the Republican line. In a statement issued on Saturday, Turner said he was delighted with the results, especially given his late entry into the fray. “This was an amazing victory for a campaign that began just 72 hours ago,” Turner said Saturday. “I am enormously grateful for all the support I received at the convention and I am energized to deliver my message of job growth and fiscal responsibility in every corner of this state.” Tur ner said Gillibrand “does not deserve re-election.” “She has defrauded the voters of this

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state with promises that she would act as a moderate,” Turner said. “Instead she has governed from the far left, and is now ranked the most liberal senator in America. That is a firing offense.” Turner said he will be going around the state to make his views known to the electorate. In a telephone interview on Tuesday, Turner campaign spokeswoman Jessica Proud said the Gillibrand campaign’s attacks on him have tipped the senator’s hand. “She began her attacks the moment

Bob Turner announced his candidacy,” Proud said. “Bob Turner is the candidate Kirsten Gillibrand is most worried about facing.” Gillibrand spokesman Glen Caplin said his boss has no preference for an opponent. “Regardless of which candidate wins the three-way primary, the Republicans will have a far right nominee far out of step with New York values,” he said. “Senator Gillibrand looks forward to contrasting her vision of how to grow the economy for middle class families and her record of accomplishments reforming Washington and standing up for f irst responders, servicemembers and veterans against whomever is the nominee.” Turner, a retired television executive, announced his candidacy last week when it became clear he would be rezoned out of his current 9th District. He scored an upset win last September in a special election to fill the 9th District House seat vacated by the resignation of Democrat Anthony Weiner. Gillibrand was an upstate congresswoman who was appointed in 2009 by then-Gov. David Patterson to fill out the unexpired term of then-Sen. Hillary Clinton, who was appointed secretary of state by President Obama. Gillibrand won a special election to retain the seat until the term expires at the end of the year. Calls to the Queens County and New York State Republican committees seekQ ing comment were not returned.

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Cite concerns over programming, morale and potential dropouts by Anna Gustafson Senior Editor

Waving signs that said Mayor Bloomberg is holding the eight Queens schools he proposes to close “hostage,” Queens City Council members and parent leaders gathered last week to protest the plan to shutter the large institutions and said the move has already resulted in poorer programming and could lead to a spike in student dropouts. “This is the time of year when teachers and students are focusing on final exams, and the last thing they need is to worry about the future of their schools,” Councilman Leroy Comrie (D-St. Albans) said at the protest, held last Thursday in Forest Hills. “The sudden announcement of eight schools closing in Queens has created a great deal of confusion between parents and administrators alike.” The mayor proposed closing 33 schools in his State of the City address in January, including Newtown High School in Elmhurst, Grover Cleveland High School in Ridgewood, Flushing High School, August Martin High School in Jamaica, Richmond Hill High School, John Adams High School in Ozone Park, Long Island City High School and Bryant High School in Astoria. City officials said they plan to close the schools because of low graduation rates and test scores, though legislators, teachers and parents have all said that the institutions have improved since entering a federal improvement program at the beginning

Parent leaders protest Mayor Bloomberg’s proposal to close eight schools in Queens at a rally in PHOTO BY ANNA GUSTAFSON Forest Hills last week. of the school year. The schools would be closed and reopened next school year with about half the teachers replaced and potentially with new names. The city Panel for Educational Policy, which is made up primarily of mayoral appointees and has never rejected any of Bloomberg’s proposals that came before it, is expected to vote on the school closures at its April 26 meeting.

After the mayor announced the closures, council members and parents said the schools have lost programs, including those that help seniors apply for college. “We had a mentorship program that helped our kids that has been taken away, and it made a big difference for the kids,” said Jose Ferruzola, the Parent Teacher Association president at August Martin High School. “It really affects them.” Council members said they are especial-

ly concerned about students who could drop out of the schools pegged for closure, especially considering that a recent report from the Urban Youth Collaborative showed that of the 33,000 students in 21 high schools closed between 2000 and 2009, 5,162 dropped out. Parent leaders and legislators say morale has plummeted at the schools slated for closure, which they said could contribute to students leaving the system. “The common denominator to the eight schools slated to be closed is that they all service high rates of English Language Learners and special needs children,” Councilwoman Diana Reyna (D-Ridgewood) said. “By turning his back to students with the highest need, Mayor Bloomberg is abandoning the principle of equal opportunity for all children regardless of race or disability. This mayor claims to be known as the ‘education mayor,’ but I think a more accurate title is the ‘highest school dropout mayor.’” While the mayor seems focused on closing the schools, legislators said they believe they might be able to persuade him to drop at least one from his list before the PEP vote. “We are going to be having hearings at all the schools about the closures, and ostensibly we have an opportunity to make a case to keep them open,” Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) said. “We hope they’ll be taken off the list before the PEP Q vote. If they’re not, we’re in trouble.”

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Blaring music and fast cars top talk at 106th Police say they have a plan of attack to deal with noise problems by Stephen Geffon Chronicle Contributor

Residents packed last week’s meeting of the 106th Precinct Community Council in Ozone Park to voice their complaints about loud music, illegally overcrowded houses and cars racing through stop signs. Before addressing the complaints, Capt. Thomas Pascale, the precinct’s commanding officer, advised parents who bring their children to school, or drop them off at daycare centers, not to leave their car keys and purses in their vehicle. He said there have been reports of individuals stealing credit cards from purses. Pascale also warned residents to be on the lookout for scammers renting phantom apartments. He said the swindler will post signs stating that he or she has apartments for rent and listing a phone number. Pascale said the con artist will show the apartment and ask for a deposit. However, once the deposit has been received, Pascale said the prospective renter will not receive the keys and phone calls to the so-called broker will not be returned. “If you are going to rent an apartment, please make sure you are dealing with a legitimate real estate broker,” Pascale said. Several residents at the council meeting expressed their own concerns to Pascale. Community Board 10 Chairwoman Betty Braton said that noise complaints have been going up since the end of last summer and asked about the precinct’s

Capt. Thomas Pascale, commanding officer of the 106th Precinct, speaks about noise complaints PHOTO BY STEPHEN GEFFON at the 106th Precinct Community Council meeting last week. noise plan for the year. “What is the plan of attack so that we can get this under control once again?” Braton asked. Precinct Community Affairs Officer Ken Zorn said the plan was to first send out letters to the owners of problem locations and then to target the sites with a zero tolerance

policy if noise complaints were received. Zorn also noted that One Police Plaza has been providing additional resources to deal with noise complaints on weekends. He added that during the summer months the precinct will also have officers patrolling from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays to specif ically deal with

noise complaints. Precinct Special Operations Lt. Eric Campbell said that other officers will be addressing noise complaints as late as 4 a.m. Angel Vazquez, of Ozone Park, complained about loud music emanating from cars parked on Gemini Field at Conduit Avenue and Linden Boulevard every Saturday and Sunday. “I’m probably about a half a mile away from that location, and I can hear it from my backyard,” Vazquez said. Zorn told Vazquez that the police are aware of the loud music at the location since Frank Dardani, president of the community council, who also lives near the field, has made them aware of it. Zorn added that precinct officers have also issued summonses to those blaring music at the field. Sinita Kishun complained about loud tunes coming from passing cars on Liberty Avenue near her office at 110th Street in South Richmond Hill. She added that the music is so loud that, when the cars pass by, her front window vibrates. The precinct conditions unit sergeant told Kishun that members of the unit issue summonses for that violation every day. South Richmond Hill resident Fazal Khan complained that a neighbor on his block in the vicinity of 103rd Avenue and 110th Street was also playing loud music day and continued on page 32

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Queens Quartet Brings Bach to School Classical music performance takes center stage by Maria Fitzsimons Chronicle Contributor

tudents from PS 128 in Middle Village, filed into the auditorium last Friday morning with their bookbags and packed lunches in hand, amid a rush of voices and woodwind instruments being tuned. Excitement was stirring among the children as the special musical performance “Bach to School” was about to begin. Through the program, Maxine Fisher, an English professor at Queens College and coordinator for “Bach to School,” along with the support of Prof. Edward Smaldone, director of Aaron Copland School of Music, brings free classical music miniconcerts with demonstrations, directly to elementary students. The initiative is to encourage children from a young age to learn about and hopefully appreciate classical music. “I go to a lot of classical concerts and I don’t see a lot of kids present in them, which is what gave me the idea,” Fisher said. “Kids were not being exposed, to at least live classical music.” Four saxophonists make up the Queens Quartet, founded in 2009 at the ACSM at Queens College, where the members study. Their classical musical performance at the elementary school was a gift from their college. The musicians performed a piece by Johann Sebastian Bach, along with some contemporary and jazz numbers for the students to experience. The four members also played a quick solo for the children to show how the instrumnents in the quartet — though comprised of only soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxapohones look and sound different. Thomas Lee, who’s pursuing an M.A. in classical saxophone performance, is the manager and a founding member of the quartet. His participation with the organization, along with the other members, resonates with their group’s ideology. “It’s so rare that an ensemble has the opportunity to interact with their audience in a way we are able to with these students,” Lee said. “We liked that we were able to break some of the music down and make it more accessible as well as expose these students to this lesser known, but upand-coming genre, saxophone quartet.” With a degree in music education, Lee finds the demonstration to students engaging in a practical way for them to relate to instantly. It takes his favorite parts of teaching, illustrating musical points, away from what is just on paper, to something the students can actually hear. “[With “Bach to School”] they are getting an opportunity to see musicians that are actively studying performance and all of the elements involved with that,” Lee said. The students were attentive and engaged over the course of the assembly, where one youngster was even overheard yelling “bravo” with a smile. They took part in a lively question and answer session following the quartet’s performance, asking engaged and thorough questions to the student musicians.

Queens Quartet members John Kelly, left, Thomas Lee, Anthony Izzo and Ryan Oberlin after their performance as part of ‘Bach to School’ at P.S. 128 PHOTOS BY MARIA FITZSIMONS in Middle Village. The quartet, below, is made up of four different saxophones: tenor, baritone, alto, and soprano. Anthony Izzo, the quartet’s alto saxophone player, demonstrated how important posture is for breathing while playing an instrument, by showing f irsthand to the children what not to do. This question was asked by the school’s music teacher in a teachable moment for the kids to see for themselves. This particular instance is what makes the program so special: the students get a front row seat to the practicality of classical music instruction. “Bach to School” is funded until June, which includes four more Queens public school concerts in this series for the academic year. “I hope it will continue,” Fisher said. “The feedback we originally got back from our f irst concert [Dec. 2011] were kids saying, ‘I think I’d like to play an instrument’ and, ‘I didn’t think I liked classical Q music, but I did like this.’ ”

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Flamboyant Ackerman says time to move on He’s retiring at end of 15th term in Congress to pursue a new career by Liz Rhoades

Known for his trademark white carnation boutonniere, Ackerman, Congressman Gary Ackerman 69, said last week that it was time (D-Queens, Nassau) announced to move on and hopes to spend his bombshell decision Thursday more time with his family and night not to seek re-election, and perhaps have another career. In a media conference call Tuesday, he the fallout continues. There are already three said he had no job in mind but announced Democratic candi- “I’m still energetic and if I’m dates, while the county Republi- going to do something, this is the cans are looking at their options. time to do it.” He is a strong supporter of But the reality is that Queens is losing one of its most colorful Israel and a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, having elected officials. taken an active role in trying to pursue peace in the Middle East. Ackerman denied that his decision to retire was based on redistricting. Two weeks ago he announced he was running for the new seat, in the 6th District, which has a slightly smaller Asian population than his current district, the 5th. The veteran politician was even set to run unopposed, when he convinced potential candidate Assemblyman Rory Lancman (D-Fresh Congressman Gary Ackerman on his houseboat, Meadows) not to force a primary. the Unsinkable II in Washington, DC. “It was just time,” he COURTESY PHOTO Managing Editor

said. “Moving [within the district] wasn’t a reason, but I am tired of flying back and forth to Washington.” Two hours before Ackerman announced his retirement, Lancman issued a statement stating, “Gary Ackerman is a solid progressive who is, if the Democrats take back the House, poised to assume important leadership roles in protecting the integrity of our financial system and strengthening the U.S.-Israel relationship as a senior member of the House Financial Services and Foreign Affairs committees. I have enjoyed a great relationship with Gary over the years, from interning in his off ice when I was a high school student to having his support in all of my campaigns for public office, and I’ll be supporting Gary this year in the new Sixth Congressional District.” Lancman made an abrupt aboutface and declared his candidacy Friday morning. Meanwhile, on Monday, the county Democrats endorsed Assemblywoman Grace Meng of Flushing for the congressional seat. Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley of Middle Village also said she will run. Ackerman called Lancman “talented and ambitious” and

Congressman Gary Ackerman, at the podium, after escorting Ilan Grapel, right, home from Israel in November. They spoke to reporters at JFK Airport. Grapel was jailed by the Egyptians for almost five months and the congressman helped get PHOTO BY JORDAN GOLDES him released. noted that he gave him a hint about his impending decision, but that he had not completely made up his mind then. He called Meng “filled with Grace,” but had no comment on Crowley. His endorsement, he said, would come later as a private citizen. Ackerman added, however, that growing up there were no Jewish political role models for him in New York, but that times have changed. “I can’t imagine what it

will be like for the Asian community if they have a cong resswoman of their own,” Ackerman said. “It’s uplifting, empowering and encourages people to register and to vote.” The congressman’s decision seemed to have caught everyone off guard, even the Queens Democratic Party, which met with potential candidates over the weekend. Mayor Bloomberg continued on page 32

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Three Queens elected officials are looking to replace Congressman Gary Ackerman, who announced last week he will not seek re-election. Running in the June 26 primary will be the Queens Democratic Party’s choice, Assemblywoman Grace Meng of Flushing. She will be challenged by Assemblyman Rory Lancman of Fresh Meadows and Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley of Middle Village.

Assemblyman Rory Lancman and supporters on Monday in Flushing. With him are daughters, Gail, left, and Laura, and wife, PHOTO BY LIZ RHOADES Morgan. Not shown is son Jonathan.

Meng, 36, a lawyer, was selected Monday by the county party, headed by Congressman Joe Crowley. Later that day, his cousin, Elizabeth Crowley, 34, declared her candidacy via her press spokesman, Eric Yun: “Born and raised in Queens, Elizabeth Crowley is running for Congress as an independent advocate for our neighborhoods and our communities. She has been a staunch advocate for women and children, for working families and for our seniors. While the county organization as a whole may not want to endorse a family member of its chairman, Elizabeth Crowley’s campaign will demonstrate that she is the best candidate to represent all of the communities in the new congressional district.” Meng, who has been in the Assembly since 2008, thanked the party for selecting her, adding: “Our campaign for Congress to continue Gary Ackerman’s legacy will be run the same way we tackle these problems, how leaders like Congressman Crowley tackle problems — together.” She said her campaign “will resist any efforts to divide our communities. We will not tolerate any attempt, overt or coded, to play one community off another.” In a later interview with the Chronicle, Meng said if elected, she will be proud to be the first Asian American in Congress from New York. “I believe in building bridges between different communities,” Meng said, “and we need more women in Congress.” Regarding her primary opponents, Meng said she respects both of them a lot and that they are good friends. “I am focusing on my stronger position and reaching out to all the communities,” she said. Meng wants to take care of the concerns of her constituents. “‘Everyone wants a good quality of life,” she said. “I hope to bring home federal resources to help people who are struggling.” Meanwhile, Lancman met with supporters at Plaut Park in Flushing on Monday afternoon, where he stressed the importance of building a strong economy. “New Yorkers are tired

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of an economic deck that is stacked against them and tired of a Congress that isn’t doing anything about it,” he said. “I’m running for Congress because middle-class and working people in Queens need someone who will fight for them.” He noted that a child born today to middle-class parents is more likely to move down the economic ladder as an adult: “That’s not the America I grew up in and that’s not the America we want our kids to grow up in.” Like Meng, Lancman is an attorney. He has served as an assemblyman since 2006. Crowley, 34, was elected to the City Council in 2008. She previously worked for the Consortium for Worker Education, an arm of the NYC Central Labor Council. During a telephone interview on Tuesday, Crowley said she is moving ahead to get petitions signed to be put on the primary ballot. “They are due in three weeks and we need 900-plus names, but I’ll have 10 times as many as I need. I’m used to that,” she said. “The same goes for fundraising; I continued on page 26

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Disabled women discuss abuse Queens College conference tackles issue not often out in the open by Josey Bartlett Chronicle Contributor

About 100 women gathered at Queens College on Friday to learn about the obstacles facing abused disabled women and to listen to one woman’s triumph over adversity. “I was raised in a house that considered domestic violence a part of a relationship,” said Mirian Detres-Hickey at an event sponsored by Women and Work and the White Ribbon Campaign, two programs that combat abuse against women. Detres-Hickey, now director of the Office of Special Services at Queens College, overcame violence. She grew up in a Bronx home where she saw her father beat her mother and saw her neighbors beat their spouses. When she married, the trend of spousal abuse did not change. One battering landed her in the hospital and killed her unborn second child. Her husband visited her in the hospital with his girlfriend. That was a turning point and she decided to leave him. However, more obstacles were still ahead. Detres-Hickey has acute dyslexia. She reads numbers and letters backwards and when nervous, will write and speak backwards without recognition. She is also hard of hearing. Although a graduate of the city school system, she could not read in part because of these disabilities: a large obstacle when looking for employment. After leaving her husband, she turned to drugs. Broke and now the sole provider for her five children, she squatted in an abandoned house. The stress mounted and she ended up in a mental hospital. Two years later, on Mother’s Day, her attitude changed and she decided to reshape her life. Detres-Hickey regained custody of her children, taught herself how to read, went to school and worked at night.

Nicolyn Plummer, left, a deaf social worker, and Mirian Detres-Hickey, director of the Office of Special Services at Queens College, discussed abuse of disabled women at a conference Friday on the PHOTO BY JOSIE BARTLETT Flushing campus. She now has a PhD in special education. “My motivation was my children, but you don’t need to have children to get out of a bad situation,” she said. “It’s better to be poor than to live with a man who beats the crap out of you.” Living on one’s own is difficult, said Nicolyn Plummer, a deaf violence social worker at Barrier Free Living’s nonresidential domestic violence program. Many deaf women in an abusive relationship fear what others in the deaf community will say, in what she calls

“the deaf grapevine.” This applies to women with other disabilities, or no disabilities, as well. Plummer said abused women also fear being isolated and losing their children, caretakers and home. Many women see the lack of shelter and possible discrimination in the criminal justice system as further hurdles to leaving. As a result, 70 to 85 percent of abuse cases against women with disabilities go unreported, according to Plummer. These are some of the roadblocks that programs like Women and Work and the White Ribbon Campaign try to eliminate. The White Ribbon Campaign distributes petitions and calls for government to take action. The campaign relies on others for donations and to promote it. For more information visit saynotoviolence.org. Women and Work also strives to end violence. The program offers free empowerment and job training classes to low- income women in the city. These programs illuminate domestic abuse with the hope that if more people talk about these issues, domestic violence will decrease and one day possibly stop. “There is hope,” Detres-Hickey said. Women and Work is a Queens College 15-week program that helps women, many whose lives have been tainted by abuse, gain job and life skills training. Classes include computer training, math skills, literacy skills, writing for business, ESL, resume writing, interviewing skills and others. There is on-site counseling, health and wellness training and referrals are made. To apply, women must have a GED or high school diploma, have working knowledge of English and be legally able to work in the United States. Go to qc.cuny.edu/womQ enandwork or call (212) 642-2070 or (718) 997-4899.

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Organization calls for NYPD to step up ticketing traffic speeders by Janne Louise Andersen Chronicle Contributor

Since the Department of Transportation stepped up its efforts to ensure traffic safety there is a bigger chance this year that New Yorkers will be fined for texting while driving, drunk-driving or for driving with tinted windows. The chance of getting ticketed for speeding though is much lower. The local nonprofit organization Transportation Alternatives reports that last year more than half of New York’s police precincts issued fewer than two speeding tickets a week. That statistic doesn’t mean New York drivers have become exemplary. According to the organization there are not enough police on the streets to give summonses. And this is essential, because of all traffic violations, speeding is the number one killer in the five boroughs. TA has analyzed the most recent report from the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles, which lists crashes and their causes. In the last decade 1,745 pedestrians and bicyclists were killed and 142,485 injured on New York City roads. The main cause is speeding. Still, according to the organization, the NYPD last year gave out more tickets for tinted windows than for speeding: 16,300 New Yorkers received speeding tickets as compared to 65,900 tinted windows tickets. In Queens, the 103rd Precinct wrote 71 speeding tickets and 6,704 tinted windows tickets. “People are dying because of unexamined

priorities,” Juan Martinez, general counsel of TA, told the City Council Committees on Public Safety and Traffic in a public hearing on March 15. He called for more funds to the NYPD’s Transportation Bureau, which has been hit in recent budget cuts, and requested that the bureau prioritize its resources for issuing speeding tickets, primarily on neighborhood streets where the majority of speeding-related fatalities happen. Last year 79 percent of the speeding tickets issued by the NYPD were written on limited access highways by the Police Department’s Highway Unit. The finding come after the Mayor’s Office earlier this year announced that 2011 saw a record low for traffic fatalities – 241 fatalities, which represents the lowest total since records were first kept in 1910, and a 39 percent decline since 2001, when there were 393. Mayor Bloomberg said that the Department of Transportation and the NYPD have taken several steps to improve traffic safety and mentioned better safety engineering and improved road design. The department has installed more speed bumps and flashing lights in residential areas and more red light speed cameras across the state. In terms of enforcing traffic safety rules, he pointed out that the NYPD has been clamping down on motorists driving while texting or while drunk. But TA says these efforts could be optimized. It cites drunk driving as only the fourth largest contributing factor in fatal

crashes, and that priorities should be put on fighting speeding. “Safer street designs have made the biggest impact on safety. But street designs can only go so far, and that’s why we need the NYPD to finally adopt a zero tolerance policy for dangerous driving,” said spokesperson Michael Murphy. Reducing accidents is of interest to the city since the accidents cost billions of dollars in hospital costs, lost wages and tax revenues. The NYPD took some more beating at the hearing, which was attended by Deputy Chief John Cassidy of the NYPD’s Transportation Bureau. Cyclists and pedestrians who have been hurt by drivers said police didn’t adequately investigate the accidents. Only accidents in which the driver is proven to be drunk or distracted, or the accident victim dies or is likely to die, are deployed by the Highway District and the Accident Investigation Squad, which after substantial cuts are down to 19 employees. “As long as the default NYPD response to a motor vehicle crash is ‘accidents happen,’ New Yorkers will continue to be killed and injured by dangerous driving,” Martinez said at the hearing. Chairman of the Public Safety Committee Peter Vallone Jr. (D-Astoria) has since submitted a resolution to lawmakers in Albany calling to pass legislation that gives police officers authority to issue summonses, even if the officer was not present at the time of the

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An alleged mosque firebomber indicted Qns. Village man faces 20 to life on slew of state and federal charges by AnnMarie Costella Assistant Editor

A Queens Village man has been indicted on state and federal charges for allegedly firebombing five buildings, two of them houses of worship, in Queens on New Year’s Day. Ray Lazier Lengend, 40, also known as Suraj Poonai, allegedly told police that his plan was “to inflict as much damage as possible and take out as many Muslims and Arabs as possible,” according to the Queens District Attorney’s Office. Lengend is facing 36 state charges including arson as a hate crime, grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property, reckless endangerment, criminal mischief, criminal possession of a weapon and endangering the welfare of a child. If convicted of the most serious count, first-degree arson as a hate crime, Lengend faces 25 years to life in prison. “Hate crimes — whether they be motivated by religion, color, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender — will not be tolerated here in Queens, the country’s most diverse county,” Queens DA Richard Brown said in a prepared statement. “When they do, regrettably, occur they will be condemned swiftly and those responsible will be brought to justice.” The U.S. Attorney’s Office, in an indictment announced on the same day, Monday, charged Lengend with a hate crime through use of fire and explosives; a hate crime through damaging religious property; causing damage by fire and explosives; and using fire and explosives to commit a felony — all for the alleged attack on the mosque. He is also being charged with a hate crime through the use of fire and explosives, using fire and explosives to commit a felony and causing damage by fire and explosives for the alleged attack on the Hindu temple. If convicted of all charges, Lengend faces an additional 20 years to life in prison. “Violence directed against individuals or groups because of their demographic identity is an affront to the Constitution and a crime,” FBI Assistant Director in Charge Jan Fedarcyk said in a prepared statement. “The FBI is committed to protecting

The Imam Al-Khoei Islamic Center in Jamaica is just one of five locations that were allegedly firebombed by Ray Lazier Lengend PHOTO BY ANNMARIE COSTELLA on New Year’s Day. and preserving the rights of all Americans, including the free exercise of one’s chosen religion.” The DA alleges that: Lengend drove a stolen silver Buick Regal with Virginia license plates to a gas station where he bought five glass coffee bottles and later filled them with gasoline. Lengend then drove to a deli at 179th Street and Hillside Avenue in Jamaica, and once inside, threw a Molotov cocktail. When the bottle hit the floor, gas spilled out and immediately

ignited. Lengend then fled the scene in the Buick. An employee there, who put out the fire, recognized Lengend as the same man he had seen a week earlier trying to steal a bottle of Starbucks Frappacino and a bottle of milk from the store. Next, Lengend tossed another firebomb through the front bedroom window of a house located at 146-62 107 Ave. in Jamaica. Some of the windows were blown out and there was fire damage to both the inside and outside of the residence. In a third incident, Lengend threw a flaming glass bottle at the exterior wall of the Imam Al-Khoei Islamic Center at 89-89 Van Wyck Expressway in Jamaica, causing a fire on the front steps. “We forgive him because everyone makes mistakes, but the law still has to apply to them, so in the future they don’t do it again,” Maan Al Sahlani, an imam at the mosque said Monday. “If the court doesn’t do anything, then next time they could be a danger to someone else, not only a mosque, but a church or other places where people worship.” Al Sahlani was pleased to hear of the indictment. “I think this result will show others that they can’t do anything wrong that they want to a place of worship in America,” he said. “That’s the right decision for that man.” Lengend also allegedly threw a glass bottle containing gasoline at a house that was also used as a Hindu Temple at 88-20 170th St. in Jamaica, causing a fire on the lawn, and targeted a house at 111-11 43 Ave. in Corona. Assemblyman Rory Lancman (D-Fresh Meadows) introduced a bill last month that would increase penalties for anyone vandalizing or stealing from a house of worship. Eric Walker, a spokesman for the lawmaker, decried the Queens bombings this week. “It is very important that people have a safe place to worship as a community of faith,” he said Tuesday. “The horrifying murder of four people at a Yeshiva in France on Monday serves to highlight the need for a safe place to worship and Q learn for people in our city and across the world.”

Astoria dog killer pleads guilty Bodybuilder Milan Rysa faces nearly a year in prison by AnnMarie Costella Assistant Editor

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Milan Rysa, the Astoria bodybuilder who threw his dog out a third-floor window to its death, pleaded guilty to second-degree reckless endangerment on March 15 in Queens Criminal Court. It was the most serious charge against him, and in exchange the animal cruelty charge was dropped, according to Kevin Ryan, a spokesman for the Queens District Attorney’s Office. Rysa, age 30 at the time of his arrest, tossed his 50-pound shar-pei, Brooklyn, out

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of his apartment window on Steinway Street at around 8:30 p.m. on Sept. 12. The canine nearly struck two women before hitting the pavement. Based on his plea, the illegal immigrant from the former Czechoslovakia faces 364 days in prison when he is sentenced on April 18 and will be barred from owning any animal for three years, Ryan said. Rysa’s lawyer, Ryan Schwarz, did not return calls requesting comment. Rysa is being held at a correctional facility in the Bronx on an immigration detainer, according to both Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the city Department of Correction. An ICE spokesman would not comment on Rysa’s specific case. But in general, after completing their prison sentence, those with an ICE detainer are turned over by the local authorities to the agency, which then begins removal proceedings. An immigration judge with the Department of Justice makes the final determination as to whether deportation is warranted. “Because of the seriousness of the crime, there is a chance that he will be deported,” said Manhattan immigration lawyer Patrick Klauss. “But depending on personal circumstances, the immigration judge would have to determine if there is any eligibility of relief from removal.” Lori Carpino of the nonprofit Heavenly Angels Animal Rescue group in Ozone Park said Tuesday that she believes Rysa deserves a harsher sentence.

“Honestly, I don’t think the punishment fits the crime at all,” she said. “Besides being deported, he deserves more than a year in jail. He’s already served seven months, so in five months, he’ll be peacefully escorted back to his country, and who is going to make sure he doesn’t own an animal there?” Bobbi Giordano, owner of Bobbi and the Strays, another no kill animal rescue organization, with an adoption center in Glendale and a shelter on Long Island, expressed similar sentiments. “It’s not enough time,” she said. “He should have gotten five years or more. It was horrible. I hope he is deported. People do these things all the time because they think they can get away with it. There needs to be tougher laws. It’s murder. To me, it’s as bad as killing a person.” City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (DAstoria) said Tuesday that he believes Rysa should be deported and added that he will be contacting his sources at the Department at Homeland Security to try and get the dog killer’s name at the top of the list. “I think there are a lot of animal lovers that believe he should serve more time,” Vallone said. “A lot of people on my Facebook page said they think he should have been thrown out a window like he did to his dog.” But Vallone believes the DA’s decision not to let the case go to trial was based on an assessment of resources and because it would be a hard case to prove, so it’s not something Vallone thinks should be secondQ guessed at this point.

Correction cop shot at diner A prison guard was allegedly shot and wounded by her ex-boyfriend after the two got into an argument outside a diner in Laurelton on Tuesday night. Police would confirm few details, but the New York Post reported that the victim, 29, an off-duty correction officer at Rikers Island, was shot once in the stomach in front of the USA Diner on Merrick Boulevard in Laurelton while sitting in her red Ford Expedition at around 10:50 p.m. The cause of the f ight is still unclear, but according to witnesses interviewed by the paper, the victim told officers when they arrived at the scene that she had been shot by her ex-boyfriend. The alleged assailant was not immediately apprehended and the victim, whose name has not been released, was taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where she underwent surgery and is in stable condition, police said. The city Department of Correction could not immediately be reached for comment, but the victim reportedly has been an employee with the agency since August 2011. Murders in the 105th Precinct have increased for the year to date through March 11, according to the latest CompStat report, with three this year Q compared to none last year.

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independent and I’m running for it. If someone wants to run, they should have the right.” The newly drawn 6th District extends from Flushing, Fresh Meadows and Bayside to Maspeth, Middle Village and Glendale. The district is 37 percent Asian and there is a large Jewish population as well. Meng is seen to have an edge in fundraising as well as the party’s support, while Lancman has the Jewish vote. The two candidates come from adjoining geographic areas, while Crowley represents a somewhat different location. The Queens Republican Party has not endorsed a candidate yet, but Councilman Dan Halloran of Whitestone and attorney Juan Reyes of Forest Hills have indicated Q interest.

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have plenty of experience.” The councilwoman says she represents more constituents in the congressional district than her rivals, and that people know her. “They know I work hard,” she added. Crowley’s main issues are the same ones she is fighting for locally: education, safety, healthcare and jobs. “I’ve been a union member my entire working career and it’s so important that Congress understands about jobs and working with small businesses,” she added. As to the lack of support from her cousin, Crowley said she can handle it. “I respect Joe and it’s mutual,” she said. “I’m SAIM-057109

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CSEA halts political contributions, endorsements over Tier VI outcome by Michael Gannon Associate Editor

The state’s largest public employees’ union has struck back against Albany legislators in the wake of new pension rules adopted last week, and Senate Democrats— who left the chamber long before a vote was taken — are examining options of their own. The so-called Tier VI plan, championed by Gov. Cuomo, will reduce some benefits and increase costs for future hires. All current employees will keep their current benefits. He said it will save the state and municipalities $80 billion over the next 30 years. But Danny Donohue, president of the Civil Service Employees Association, or CSEA, said Monday that his organization, with about 300,000 members statewide, would immediately suspend all political activity in the state, including campaign contributions and candidate endorsements. “This unprecedented action is a direct result of the political deal between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state legislative leadership, Senate Republicans and Assembly Democrats, trading the future retirement security of working New Yorkers for legislative redistricting lines,” Donohue said, adding that the CSEA and other unions now will look to hold elected officials accountable. Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Cuomo are praising a deal reached in the early morning hours of March 15 as a way to rein in public employee pension costs. Cuomo signed the measure into law

last Friday. contribution rate for future hires. It also “For years, local governments have raises the retirement age for most public struggled to cope with soaring retirement employees from 62 to 63. costs, driving up taxes on New York famiIt also adjusts so-called pension multilies and small businesses,” Cuomo said in a pliers; cuts the number of unused sick and statement issued by his office. “This bold leave days that can count toward a pension and transformational pension plan is a his- from 200 to 100; and limits pension benetoric win for New York taxpayers and fits for those earning an amount higher municipalities that will save more than $80 than the governor’s salary of $179,000. billion over the next Most Senate 30 years while preDemocrats, however, serving retirement did not vote on the security for public plan, having bolted workers.” from the chamber en here was no reason Cuomo said the masse late on the this had to be rushed cost of pensions has night of March 14 in increased 650 perprotest of a measure to the floor for a vote cent since 2002, and that cut short the that failure to debate on the new in the early morning.” address the matter redistricting lines for would have led to Senate and Assembly — State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. layoffs of employees districts as mandated as well as tax by the results of the increases. 2010 federal Census. Bloomberg called Tier VI a huge victory The vote on redistricting — and ultimately for the city and the state. pensions — proceeded without them. “Skyrocketing pension costs have caused “They marked us absent,” said a livid fiscal crises in many cities and counties Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky (D-Flushing). around New York, cutting into local govThe vote was taken with 37 members in ernments’ ability to deliver core services,” the chamber. Democrats claimed the pension Bloomberg said in a press release. “That’s plan was a budget bill that needed 38, or why mayors and county executives — two-thirds of the membership, for a quorum. from both parties, and from every region of The measure was passed as a programs bill. the state — came together to support Gov. Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr., a member of Civil Cuomo’s plan.” Service and Pensions Committee, as well The law establishes a higher pension as the Labor Committee, took a dim view

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of the bill and GOP tactics. “There was no reason this had to be rushed to the floor for a vote in the early morning,” Addabbo said Tuesday. “It could have been done this week or next week or when we do the budget.” The Senate vote took place after 1 a.m. on Thursday. The Assembly took up the measure six hours later before ending its marathon session. Addabbo said he had been talking to labor leaders in recent weeks, telling them they needed to come up with recommendations of their own if they did not like Tier VI; recommendations, he said, that could have been the basis for negotiations. “Considering pensions is a worthy discussion that has to take place,” he said. “But I don’t think Tier VI in its current form helps demonstrably, not for many years, and we need relief now.” As to whether or not the Senate had a legal quorum at the time of the pension vote, a state labor official told the Chronicle that the unions might not have the legal standing to challenge the vote in court. But Michael Roberts, a spokesman for Senate Minority Leader John Sampson (DBrooklyn), said Monday that Democrats are not yet conceding the matter. “We are looking at all of the options out there,” Roberts said in a telephone interview on Monday. “We are looking into the legal questions about how this was handled. We are in the middle of looking at everyQ thing on the table.”

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LaGuardia Community College will present a free concert on Wednesday, March 28, organized and produced by some 450 students across disciplines, the culmination of a one-year project initiated in part by Steinway & Sons, the Astoria piano company. The concert, which seeks to tell the story of Steinway going back to 1853, when the company was first founded in New York, will feature five different musical works and some 15 students on stage, either performing or presenting. And especially for the show, Steinway is loaning the school a concert-level, ninefoot grand piano, directly from its “cream of the crop” stash of 300 at Steinway Hall, according to Anthony Gilroy, director of marketing and communications at Steinway. “That’s like the same piano you’ll find in Carnegie Hall,” Gilroy said. The concert illustrates how LaGuardia College has increasingly sought to partner with businesses in the community. It was born when Ron Losby, president of Steinway & Sons Americas, visited business students over a year ago to check out work they had done as part of an ongoing Steinway research project, according to Rajendra Bhika, a business and technology professor at the college who spearheaded the concert effort. Losby’s comments on students’ work at the time, which compared Steinway’s

Students stream past one of the buildings at LaGuardia Community College, located in Long Island City, where 450 students from departments including business and the performing arts have PHOTO BY PAULA NEUDORF teamed up to create a concert promoting Astoria’s Steinway & Sons. financial documents from the past to those of the present using the Steinway archives housed at LaGuardia, prompted Bhika and his department to conceive of something on a grander scale. Losby “was thinking about the next 20 years of Steinway in terms of how we reach a more global population,” Bhika said. “LaGuardia has the population he’s looking to market the brand to.” The enterprising and enthusiastic profes-

sor, who is himself originally from Guyana, noted that students at the Long Island Citybased college — almost 19,000 were enrolled full-time last year — come from 160 different countries. “The challenge is getting Steinway out there to a younger audience, ” Gilroy said. “One of our major challenges is connecting,” he added, referring to the message Losby had given LaGuardia’s business students.

So Bhika and the business and technology department decided to help. They conceived of the concert as not only a learning tool for students when it comes to marketing, accounting, communications and the performing arts, but as a means of introducing Steinway to the very population the company is hoping to reach: young people. So while management and urban studies students researched the history of Steinway to come up with the concert’s content, communications and English students edited their PowerPoint presentations and speeches, which would be read during the show, according to Andrea Francis, a business and technology associate professor who worked closely with Bhika. Music students were enlisted to actually perform the pieces at the event, while accounting students analyzed how concerts are run from a financial standpoint. Marketing, communications and photography students worked on promotion, which included developing a website for the show. And even the college’s Web radio station got involved, by broadcasting a commercial for the event. There are also plans to simulcast the show. While analyzing the Steinway archives housed at LaGuardia college was something the institution has done for three years, with the concert Bhika took “an existing program and made it wonderful,”

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said Gail Mellow, president of the college. Mellow said the partnership between Steinway and LaGuardia’s students on display with the event is part of a broader strategy. “We want students to really be able to go out and work well in those businesses, and we also want to think about them as a system, an economic system that we want to promote,” she said. “We leverage learning, so that students learn in the context of real work, but we also give something back to the community that supports us.” LaGuardia’s relationship with Steinway & Sons is just one facet of that strategy. The college has already partnered with Goldman Sachs to offer job training to small businesses, for example, and recently graduated Transportation and Security Administration officers who work at JFK and LaGuardia airports from a three-course program. As far as Bhika is concerned, the Steinway project offered not only realworld experience for the students involved, but a chance to illustrate how business and the arts are not as far apart as they may seem. “Students don’t normally see the connection,” he noted. “Someone majoring in English, they may not see business as relevant to their progression or their growth.” But through participation in the concert, Bhika said he hoped he had instilled “the value of creating budgets,

the ability to manage costs, the ability to break even” across disciplines. Much of the project, Francis added, was about “the accounting behind the art.” And for the students at LaGuardia, many of them immigrants, the story of Steinway & Sons — a company founded by German immigrants, whose workers through the 1800s to the present were often representative of the successive waves of immigrants to New York as a whole, whether German, Italian, Haitian or Guyanese — is compelling. “They can see themselves in the story,” Bhika said. The results of the students’ work got the thumbs up from Gilroy. “They had a mailer that they showed me,” Gilroy said of a group of students who visited him at the Astoria factory recently. He said the work had been Q done “very elegantly.” The Steinway concert will take place from 2:15 to 3:15 p.m. on Wednesday, March 28, in the Little Theater, located in LaGuardia’s M building at 31-10 Thomson Ave. It will feature “Hard Times Come Again No More” by Stephen Foster, representing the early days of Steinway (from the 1850s to 1860s); Scott Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Rag” (representing the 1870s to 1880s); Louis Armstrong’s “St. Louis Blues” (representing the 1920s); John Lennon’s “Imagine” (representing the 1970s); and Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” (representing the present and future).

Beat her in her sleep with baseball bat by Paula Neudorf Associate Editor

Jordan Hawes, an Astoria resident, pleaded guilty to killing his wife, Tara Hawes, and was sentenced to 25 years in prison, the Queens District Attorney’s Office announced on Friday. Jordan Hawes, 32, admitted that on the night of Jan. 31 he beat his wife repeatedly in the head with a baseball bat while she was asleep in bed, according to the DA’s office. Days later on Feb. 2, police responded to 911 calls and found Tara Hawes, 33, still in her bed, in the couple’s home at 26-80 30 St. Her head and body showed signs of blunt force trauma, according to the DA, and EMS pronounced her dead at the scene. A warrant was issued for her husband the next day, the DA’s office said. Jordan Hawes was apprehended on Feb. 4 in Connecticut, after state police there observed Tara Hawes’ car in the parking lot of a McDonald’s off I-95 in Bridgeport, according to the DA’s office. He surrendered to police in the parking lot, telling them, “I did something wrong. I surrender myself,” the DA said.

A note found in the couple’s Astoria home with what appeared to be blood stains on it started, “Where to begin. My life has been great most of the time. I was raised perfectly by my mom and dad,” the DA’s office quoted. The note continued, “I don’t know what ... happened last night, but my life is destroyed. I killed my best friend.” After his arrest, Hawes was charged with second-degree murder, and various counts of grand larceny and possession of stolen property in both Connecticut and Queens, and was returned to Queens after waiving extradition, according to the DA’s office. Jordan Hawes worked as a chef in Manhattan, while Tara Hawes was a special needs teacher at Manhattan’s Aaron School and was working on a master’s in literacy at Hunter College at the time of her death. Her husband’s “swift guilty plea” in addition to his 25-year sentence “are a measure of justice for the victim’s family,” District Attorney Richard Brown said. “Her family will not have to sit through a trial and listen to the details Q of her suffering,” Brown added.

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Legislators will also have to vote on the matter again next year. That would allow traditional casino games like blackjack and craps to be played at Resorts World New York, the racino at Aqueduct Race Track. Legislators also signed off on a new teacher evaluation system that sets up annual assessments based on students’ test scores and classroom performance. Meanwhile, the Congressional lines approved by a panel of three federal judges who said they were forced to adopt the districts following an “unwelcome failure of government” would eliminate U.S. Rep. Bob Turner’s (R-Queens, Brooklyn) district, as well as a district upstate that is being vacated by a retiring Democrat. Turner, who originally said he would run in whatever district he was placed in — which would have meant challenging U.S. Rep. Greg Meeks (D-Jamaica) in a minority-heavy area — has instead opted to vie for the seat represented by U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY). The judges’ lines also place the house of U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-Queens, Nassau) in the 3rd Congressional District, represented by U.S. Rep. Steve Israel (DSuffolk). Ackerman has opted against running again. Instead, Assemblywoman Grace Meng (D-Flushing), Assemblyman Rory Lancman (D-Fresh Meadows) and Councilwoman Liz Crowley (D-Middle Village) are running for the new 6th Congressional District that is now left without Q an incumbent candidate.

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Pascale said he would direct the precinct’s traffic officer to look into the stop sign violations. Haf iz Baksh complained about a large number of livery cars crowding the intersection of Liberty Avenue and Lefferts Boulevard in South Richmond Hill every day trying to pick up fares, making for a dangerous traffic condition for both cars and pedestrians. Pascale said the intersection was a target zone in the precinct, and he has assigned additional resources to the area. The next meeting of the 106th Precinct Community Council will be held on Wednesday, April 11 at 8 p.m. at the precinct station house, at 103-53 101 Q St. in Ozone Park.

Ackerman was elected to the state Senate. He ran for Congress in 1983 in a special election and won. He has been there ever since, and while in Washington, DC, he lives on a houseboat named the Unsinkable II, which he says he will now sell. “My family never lived in Washington and I didn’t want to own any property so I got the houseboat,” he said. Ackerman and his wife, Rita, live in Roslyn Heights, after having resided in Jamaica Estates for many years. The couple has three children and four grandchildren. The congressman has sponsored many successful bills in the Capitol, including Baby AIDS Law that requires mandatory HIV testing of newborns and disclosing the results to the mother. He was also successful in requiring banks and financial institutions to notify consumers when negative information is placed on their credit reports and authored the law that prohibits accounting firms from consulting for the companies they audit. He also got Medicare to cover testing for prostate cancer and had a measure passed that prevents war criminals and human rights abusers who have perpetrated genocide, torture, terrorism or other atrocities from entering the United States and deports those who have gotten in. With nine months left in his term, Ackerman said he wants to continue to help others. Looking back on his career in Washington, he added, “I’ve tried to make things better and I’ve loved very Q excruciating minute of it.”

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Mike D. moves on by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor

At a meeting with reporters in early February, then-Knicks head coach Mike D’Antoni was asked if he worried about his star players getting enough “touches” — hoops parlance for chances to shoot the ball. D’Antoni replied that he was only concerned with players taking the best shot they could and claimed that he didn’t sweat it if his star players’ stats were not as high as they’d like them to be. I followed up D’Antoni’s statement by asking if there are any NBA coaches preoccupied with assuaging the egos of their star players at the expense of the overall good of the team. “Duh! Yeah!” he replied sarcastically. I responded, “Of course a lot of fans and reporters feel that way but it’s surprising to hear an NBA coach say that about his peers.” Mike quickly retorted, “In the end, though, those coaches always get fired.” Whenever he was asked about his job security since he was in the last year of his contract, D’Antoni always had the same answer, “I am 60 years old and I am not going to worry about my job.” The implication was that he could retire comfortably if he wanted to and that he felt confident he could get another NBA head coaching job if he wanted that. Perhaps it’s not shocking then that D’Antoni fired the Knicks last week. He was clearly upset about the team’s six-game losing streak, punctuated by a dreary performance in Chicago, where the Bulls grabbed 20 more rebounds than the Knicks. Mike was probably

also weary of dealing with Carmelo Anthony, a superstar who can score at will but has never shown an inclination to play defense. Assistant coach and a former Knicks player Mike Woodson was quickly named interim head coach. While it’s too early to gauge if he’ll succeed, the Knicks certainly played well in his first four games. Last Friday, Knicks players swarmed over any Indiana Pacers player who had the ball. The tenacious defense led to a lot of turnovers and quick baskets for the Knicks, and certainly energized the crowd. Even Anthony got caught up in the spirit as he was called for a flagrant foul trying to stop a Pacers two-on-one fast break. While the St. John’s men’s basketball team did not earn any NCAA Tournament berths, the women’s team, led by forward Da’Shena Stevens, qualified. President Obama picked them to make it to the Final Four. Queens certainly has its share of broadcasters calling the March Madness action on CBS and TNT. Ian Eagle, Kenny Smith and Len Elmore grew up in Forest Hills, LeFrak City, and Woodside respectively. The Mets did a smart thing last week when they announced that $10 student rush tickets for high school and college students will be available for purchase the day of a game. The only blacked out dates will be Opening Day and the annual Subway Series. Expect a large number of younger Phillies fans who can’t get tickets at home, to come up to Queens when their team plays here. Ten bucks is cheaper Q than going to the movies these days.

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by Richard Antone with Clark Terry, Regina Carter lmhurst resident and pianist and Terri Lyne Carrington. Helen Sung has followed her Now Sung has an upcoming muse and it has paid off. show at Dizzy’s Club at Jazz Her parents wanted her to attend at Lincoln Center on Monday, medical school, but she had other March 26, as well as a perforplans. Musical ones. She originally mance tonight, March 22, at Elmhurst jazz artist Helen Sung to appear at Lincoln Center studied to be a classical musician, the Brooklyn Museum. From her but her exposure to pianist Tommy Flanagan and pianist-vocalist Harry Elmhurst home, she spoke of her training, mentors and inspirations. Connick Jr. led to “Aha!” moments that inspired her to take up jazz as a Happy in her adopted borough, she noted that famed jazz saxophonist career. “Jimmy Heath is not far from me [in Corona]. A lot of the younger generation After earning bachelor and graduate degrees in classical piano at the Uni- are in LIC and Astoria, but I think there are a few coming to Elmhurst.” versity of Texas at Austin, she studied at the Thelonius Monk Institute for Sung added that when she moved here, “I didn’t know anybody in New Jazz Performance, then located at Boston’s New England Conservatory of York. Someone I knew a long time ago from Texas happened to have a room Music. The Houston, Tex. native went on to win the prestigious Kennedy available in her apartment. I like it. It’s a really diverse neighborhood.” continued on page 39 Center’s Mary Lou Williams Jazz Piano Competition and has collaborated

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Gloria Swanson will be the subject of Tom Newby’s talk at a meeting of Horizons, a club for those 55 and over, on Thursday, March 29 at 12:30 p.m. at the Reform Temple of Forest Hills, 71-11 112 St. Attendees are invited to bring lunch. A charge of $3 will include coffee and cake.

An art exhibition with the Mardi Gras theme will run through March 31 at the National Art League, 44-21 Douglaston Pkwy., Douglaston. Gallery hours: Monday through Thursday and Saturday 1-4 p.m. Admission is free.

Queens Best Toastmakers Club meets the first, third and fifth Saturdays of the month from 10 a.m. to noon at the Elmhurst Hospital Center, Conference Room, 79-01 Broadway.

The artwork of local artists, Patricia Gatt’s “Moments in Time” and Frank Cassese’s “Art Escapes,” will be on view at the Salvatore LaRussa Dance Theatre Gallery, 66-85 73 Place in Middle Village on Saturday, March 24 from 5-9 p.m. and Sunday, March 25 from 1-5 p.m. Admission is free.

You Gotta Believe, a community-based older child adoption agency, is looking for families who would be willing to provide love and nurturing to a child in the foster care system. To learn more join the agency every Sunday at 4 p.m. at Little Flower Children’s Services, 89-12 162 St., Jamaica.

An exhibit titled “Interwoven Worlds: Exploring Domestic and Nomadic Life in Turkey,” organized by Queens College’s Godwin-Ternbach Museum, will be on view at Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. through April 30. Exhibit hours are Wednesday to Friday, noon to 5 p.m. Ralph Weiss Photographs are on view through April 22 at the Voelker Orth Museum, 149-19 38 Ave., Flushing. Gallery hours: Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday from 1-4 p.m. Reception: Saturday, March 24 from 2-4 p.m. Continuing through April 24 the second of a twopart exhibition on the evolution of art will be on view at the Queens College Art Center, Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library, Level Six, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing. Gallery hours are: Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Free and open to the public. Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main St., Flushing, will exhibit the photography of documentary photographer Audrey Gottlieb now through May 19. “Vignettes from the Queens Project” is a photo collection that celebrates the diversity of the Queens community. Joseph LoGuirato’s sketched collection of historic structures around the city will run through June 30 at the Poppenhusen Institute, 114-04 14 Rd., College Point. Call for hours: (718) 358-0067.

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The AARP Queens Chorus performs at Queens nursing homes and rehab/senior centers. If interested in joining call (718) 523-1330 for audition dates. The Forest Hills Symphony Orchestra has openings in oboe, bassoon, violin, viola, cello and bass sections. Auditions will be held during the regular rehearsals of the orchestra on Wednesday from 7:30-10 p.m. at the Forest Hills Jewish Center, 106-06 Queens Blvd. Interested players should contact the conductor, Franklin Verbsky at (718) 374-1627 or (516) 785-2532.

THEATRE Marathon Jewish Center, 245-37 60 Ave., Douglaston, presents the musical “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” March 24 at 8:30 p.m. and March 25 at 3 p.m. Tickets are $18 for adults and $16 for seniors and children under 13. For tickets, call (718) 229-4644.

DANCE The Moscow Festival Ballet will present Cinderella on Sunday, March 25 at 3 p.m. at Queensborough

CLASSES The Moscow Festival Ballet will present Cinderella on Sunday, March 25th at the Queensborough Performing Arts Center in Bayside. COURTESY PHOTO Performing Arts Center on the QCC Campus, 222-05 56 Ave. in Bayside. Tickets are $39-$42. Call box office at (718) 631-6311.

FILM Beginning at 9 a.m. on Saturday, March 24 and continuing for 24 hours until 9 a.m. on Sunday, March 25, the Museum of Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria, will present a non-stop screening of Mary Ellen Carroll’s “Federal.” The 24-hour twin-screen movie was made by shooting the north and south facades of the Federal Building in Los Angeles for an entire day in 2003. Tickets are free with museum admission from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday, March 24. (Doors open at 8:45 a.m. Museum galleries will open at 9:30 a.m.) From 7 p.m. until 9 a.m. the next day, admission is free (museum galleries will be closed). Admission is $12 for adults, $9 for seniors and students and $6 for children.

MUSIC The Friends of Maple Grove Cemetery announce that on Saturday, March 31 at 8 p.m., the Lhevinne Classical Concert Series featuring the Lautreamont String Quintet returns to The Center at Maple Grove, 127-15 Kew Gardens Road, Kew Gardens. Free parking is on premises. A pre-concert wine and cheese reception is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. There is limited seating; tickets are $25, $20 for seniors and $15 for members. For information call (718) 523-1876. The Con Brio Ensemble returns as a trio to the Voelker Orth parlor, 149-19 38 Ave., Flushing, Saturday, March 24 at 2 p.m. Admission is $12 and $10 for members. Call (718) 359-6227 for information. Queens Theatre in the Park in Flushing Meadows Park presents Tom Wopat in a special concert as part of its Celebrity Concert series on Saturday, March 24 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Tickets are priced at $44 or $60. The box office number is (718) 760-0064. The Harlem Quartet, a string quartet, will perform on Sunday, March 25, at 2 p.m. at Lefrak Concert Hall on the Queens College Campus, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., in Flushing. Tickets are $34-$36. Call (718) 793-8080.

FLEA MARKET A giant indoor flea market will be held at Nativity Church Hall, 101-41 91 St., Ozone Park, on Sunday, March 25 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Family Spring Fair will be held on Saturday, March 24 from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Queens, 147-54 Ash Ave., Flushing. Church of the Resurrection spring treasure bake and book sale will be held at 85-09 118 St., Richmond Hill, on Saturday, March 24 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and Sunday, March 25 from 11:30 to 3:30 p.m. A spring flea market will be held in the downstairs hall of Emanuel Church located on Woodhaven Boulevard and 91st Avenue in Woodhaven, on Saturday, March 24 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

LECTURES Allison Stagg will discuss “Remembering the War of 1812” in American caricature on Thursday, March 22 at 5 p.m. at St. John’s University, 8000 Utopia Pkwy., St. John’s Hall, Room 306 in Jamaica. It’s sponsored by King Manor Museum. Reservations requested. Email programs@kingmanor.org or call (718) 206-0545 x 13. Join Megan Elias for a look at the evolution of the role of women in culinary history on Sunday, March 25 at 2:30 p.m. at the Queens Historical Society, 143-35 37 Ave., Flushing. Cost is $5 members/$8 nonmembers. Tickets available at the door.

HEALTH Flushing Hospital Medical Center will participate in Diabetes Alert Day by hosting an event in the main lobby from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at 45th Avenue, on Tuesday, March 27.

MEETINGS A comparison of the screen and stage versions of the musical “Sunset Boulevard” and the career of

A beginner’s Hebrew class is held on Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. through March 29 at the Free Synagogue of Flushing, 41-60 Kissena Blvd. Registration required. Cost for nonmembers is $5 per session. Free onsite parking. For more information call (718) 961-0030 or freesynagogue.org. The Selfhelp Benjamin Rosenthal-Prince Street Senior Center at 45-25 Kissena Blvd. in Flushing offers a series of computer classes geared towards seniors. Whether you are a beginner or more advanced computer user, there is a class for you. Sign up now for winter classes. For information call John at (718) 559-4329. The Flushing Camera Club meets at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of Flushing Hospital, enter at 45th Avenue and Burling Street on the first, third and fifth Wednesday of the month. For information, visit flushingcameraclub.org. A defensive driving course for insurance and point reduction will be given at Holy Family Church, 17520 74 Ave. in Flushing, on Saturday, March 24 from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. For information and registration call (631) 360-9720. The cost is $45. Ongoing drawing class every Wednesday 1-4 p.m. at the National Art League, 44-21 Douglaston Pkwy, Douglaston. Instructor, Marc Jasloff. Call (516) 2237659. Fee: $25 per class. Italian Charities of America at 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst, offers Italian classes for adults and children. Adult classes are on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 7-9 p.m. Children’s classes are on Saturdays from 10 a.m.-noon. The course is for 14 weeks. Price: adult — $80, children — $75 for first child, $50 for second and third child. Call (718) 478-3100. Dance with instructions at the Italian Charities of America, 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst, every Monday and Friday, 7:15 to 8 p.m., followed by a dance social. Music by Sal Escott. Admission $10. A defensive driving course will be held at All Saints’ Church, 214-35 40 Ave., Bayside, on Saturday, March 24 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Cost is $50 which includes the driving course, breakfast and lunch. Call church to reserve: (718) 229-5631. A one-hour auto clinic for women is held the third saturday of every month at 3:30 p.m. at Great Bear Auto Repair Shop, 164-16 Sanford Ave., Flushing. Call to reserve at (718) 762-6212.’

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A literary giant in the room, interpreted by Paula Neudorf Associate Editor

Director Daniel Fish is taking on one of contemporary American literature’s most revered authors in a new piece premiering today at the Chocolate Factory Theater in Long Island City, called “A (Radically Condensed and Expanded) Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again (After David Foster Wallace).” That mouthful of a title points to some of the challenges in reading the works of the author the play pays homage to: David Foster Wallace. Renowned for his exuberant, careening sentences and “maximalist” style, Wallace, a native of Ithaca, NY who battled depression for most of his life, killed himself in 2008 at the age of 46.

David Foster Wallace tribute and performance When: March 22-April 7 Wed.-Sat. at 8 p.m. except April 6, at 7 p.m. Where: The Chocolate Factory 5-49 49 Ave., Long Island City Tickets:$15. (212) 352-3101/ chocolatefactorytheater.org

“Reading the work is demanding, it’s kind of a workout,” Fish said of Wallace’s oeuvre — anyone who has ever picked up his most famous work, the 1,000-page novel “Infinite Jest,” will understand what Fish means. This sentence, from the title essay of the collection “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again,” about a cruise ship journey Wallace undertook, is also a fine example: “I have acquired and nurtured a potentially lifelong grudge against the ship’s Hotel Manager — whose name was Mr. Dermatis and whom I now and henceforth christen Mr. Dermatitis — ... and a searing crush on the cabin steward for my part of Deck 10’s port hallway, Petra, she of the dimples and broad candid brow, who always wore a nurse’s starched and rustling whites and smelled of the cedary Norwegian disinfectant she swabbed bathrooms down with, and who cleaned my cabin within a cm of its life at least 10 times a day but could never be caught in the actual act of cleaning — a figure of magical and abiding charm, and well worth a postcard all her own.” Fish described his own piece, developed at the University of Rochester and during a residency at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, as “the theatrical equivalent to that.” The play/performance, clocking in at

Efthalia Papacosta, an actor in Daniel Fish’s new show based on the words of David PHOTO BY DANIEL FISH Foster Wallace. two-and-a-half hours, features the work of five actors who channel Wallace by listening to the author himself reading his works or speaking in interviews — what the actors hear through headphones, however, the audience won’t. “There’s this sense of the presence or absence of Wallace in the room, this person who’s no longer here,” Fish explained. For the actors, interpreting Wallace’s words in real-time is no easy task.

“First of all, he speaks very quickly at times, and the recordings aren’t paused. What [the actors are] really doing is listening and speaking,“ Fish explained. “For the actor it becomes a physical experience, because they get so lost in the language.” Actors hear excerpts from a variety of materials, not just “A Supposedly Fun Thing,” but also an essay or two (the script changes from performance to performance) from “Brief Interviews with Hideous Men,” another collection of Wallace’s writings, as well as interviews he did with PBS’ Charlie Rose and others. Fish, a New Jersey native, has worked around the country and internationally, initially focusing on Shakespeare — as an assistant director with Washington, DC’s The Shakespeare Theatre Company, for example — before creating or directing a variety of pieces based on movies, records and other sources. This is his first time staging a show at the Chocolate Factory, though he has known Brian Rogers, the theater’s artistic director, for a long time. “We’ve been talking about this project for years now,” Fish explained. “I kind of just got hooked on the writing.” The show features performers John Amir, Efthalia Papacosta, Therese Plaehn, Mary Rasmussen and Jenny Seastone Q Stern, and will run through April 7.

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Color and texture at home in LIC by Paula Neudorf Associate Editor

Two solo shows opened at Long Island City’s Jeffrey Leder Gallery last Sunday, March 18: “painterly” works by artists Ellen Schneiderman and Brandon Friend, who occupy one floor each of the gallery, a brownstone on 45th Road. The works are “painterly” because they aren’t strictly paintings per se, as gallery owner Jeffrey Leder explained. “They’re really collages,” Leder said. “But the sense of them is that they’re paintings.” Both artists’ works have a textural quality to them, the result of different approaches to applying layers of paint or other materials to thick panels as opposed to canvas. But while Schneiderman’s pieces are largely abstract — though they do sometimes conjure caves or other rock formations — Friend’s are firmly rooted in the figural. His works, on the gallery’s second floor, are almost entirely focused on a single figure, a police officer in riot gear he calls the “Defender.” Friend reproduces this figure again and again, standing alone in pieces of varying sizes, using a technique he calls “imprinting.”

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Combining printmaking and image transferring, the process involves taking materials such as newspaper clippings, digital photos and pieces of carton, pressing them down on a panel covered in clear acrylic, and removing them to leave an imprint behind. Friend’s mastery of the process is evident, as is his command of color. Each piece in the Jeffrey Leder show has a Seurat-like effect — the individual color blocks in varying pastels, produced from the layers of imprinting, meld to create distinct figures and scenes. At the opening, Friend explained that he started making the Defender series immediately after the BP oil spill in

Ellen Schneiderman with her work “Cleft” PHOTOS BY PAULA NEUDORF (2011) at the gallery.

the spring of 2010, and was further inspired by the Greek riots that spring and summer. With the Occupy protests and further Greek riots since, the riot police are “figures that have come into the public eye,” Friend explained, and through the media have “sort of become the villains.” But Friend said he wasn’t trying to present a didactically negative view of them, as evidenced in his piece “Precipice,” which seemingly depicts a protest, though it’s not entirely clear which figures in the scene are the police and which are the protesters. “It’s more for viewers to have a dialogue with,” Friend said of his works. continued on page 00 41

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“Precipice” (2011, imprinted acrylic and mixed media on panel) by Brandon Friend, on view at Jeffrey Leder Gallery.

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Finding the blues and jazz in Elmhurst I was taught to follow so carefully by my teachers.’ “It was a visceral response, “ she added. “I wanted to jump out of my seat.” Even though she went on to finish graduate work in classical piano, she had “this uneasy feeling my life was planned out for me.” A jazz professor at the University of Texas had given her a Tommy Flanagan recording of Charlie Parker’s classic “Confirmation.” After hearing it, Sung said, she thought to herself, “I want to be able to sound like that.” The Monk Institute for Jazz Performance provided her with the opportunity she needed to learn how.

Helen Sung When: March 22 at 7 p.m. March 26 at 9:30 p.m. Where: March 22: Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy. March 26: Jazz at Lincoln Center, Broadway at 60th Street, Manhattan Where: brooklynmuseum.org/jalc.org

“I’m looking at these people who were on my CDs and they’re standing in front of me,” she said of her time there. Sung appreciated the apprentice relationship she took on with jazz masters, even if it came with criticism at times. “I remember Jon Faddis saying, ‘Helen, you don’t have the blues in your playing. You need to find out about the blues,’” she said. She did. As anyone might glean from her five albums to date, especially on such tracks as “One Step Forward, Two Steps Back” and Duke Ellington’s “C Jam Blues.” At the Monk Institute, the visiting faculty included Ron Carter, Clark Terry, Jimmy Heath, Jackie McLean, Wynton Marsalis, Sir Roland Hanna, Barry Harris and Bennie Maupin, Sung recalled. Soon, stars were happy to have her on the ivories on stage. “We toured with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock,” she said. “It was a complete thrill. I was so used to seeing them on record covers and magazines. It was just awesome.”

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at the White House.” Marsalis put her on his 2011 top 10 list of jazz musicians to watch. Through it all she remains enthusiastic about playing in Queens venues like Flushing Town Hall, where she was 2010’s composer-in-residence. “I loved that space,” she said. “I was very fortunate to be Q able to work there.”

Sung has been to Taiwan with Mingus Dynasty and played the Clifford Brown Jazz Festival, Tanglewood and other fests in Detroit, Monterey and Seattle. She’s also appeared on the National Public Radio shows “JazzSet” and “Piano Jazz,” as well as XM Satellite Radio’s “In the Swing Seat with Wynton Marsalis” and PBS’ “In Performance

Though she now lives in a place renowned for its contributions to jazz — when Heath moved to Corona, Louis Armstrong had already been there for 20 years — Sung’s musical taste was born in Texas. “A friend of mine had invited me to a Harry Connick Jr. concert [in Austin],” she recalled. “This was near the end of my undergraduate studies. He came into town with his big band. I remember enjoying the big band, but he sat down in the middle of the concert and played a couple of solo piano pieces. I remember being so blown away because I felt, ‘This guy’s breaking all the rules

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Breakfast with the Easter Bunny on Saturday, March 24 from 8:30-10:30 a.m. at California Pizza Kitchen at Atlas Park, 80-01 Cooper Ave., Glendale. Cost is $8, children 3 and under are free. Some proceeds will go to the Glendale Kiwanis Club. Reserve at (718) 894-9400.

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On March 31, Peter Rabbit makes an early visit to Immaculate Conception Parish, 21-63 29 St., Astoria, as a special guest for breakfast. The event, starting at 10 a.m. and ending at 2 p.m., will take place in Lyons Hall, Immaculate Conception School. The cost is: children ages 3-13 years old, $5, 14 years to adult, $9 and children under two are free. Admission includes buffet breakfast, arts and crafts and a photo opportunity with Peter Rabbit. Tickets will be sold on Sunday, March 25 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the school hall. To RSVP contact Dewey Hopkins at (347) 215-0154 or ahop537123@aol.com

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The Wednesday Night Singles Group of the SFY Adult Center, 58-20 Little Neck Parkway, Little Neck, invites you to social evenings with special guest speakers on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month from 7-9 p.m. Fee: $7 Adult Center members, $9 nonmembers.

SPECIAL EVENTS An interactive and educational program using live hawks, falcons and owls will be held at Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston, on Sunday, March 25 at 2 p.m. Cost is $10 per person. Pre-register by calling (718)229-4000. In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, join Bayside Historical Society at Fort Totten for a performance of traditional Irish dance by members of the Petri School and taste the fare of Ireland. Donation: $10/$5 for BHS members.

Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie of Nigeria will discuss her works on Tuesday, March 27 at 7 p.m. during the Queens College Evening Readings at the LeFrak Concert Hall on the Flushing Campus, 65-30 Kissena Blvd. Tickets are $20 at the door.

A greening, educational and networking conference will be held on Saturday, March 24 from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Al Oerter Recreational Center, 131-40 Fowler Ave., Flushing. Free admission. Pre-reg ister at goinggreeninqueens2012.eventbrite.com.

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Celebrate the first day of spring — historical Earth Day — by joining the Queens Botanical Garden groups for a day of volunteering and unity Sunday, March 25 from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at QBG, 43-50 Main St., Flushing, then at the Flushing Meadows Park Unisphere. For information or to participate, email rfolenza@queensbotanical.org.

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A pancake breakfast will be held on Saturday, March 24 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Redeemer Lutheran Church school cafeteria, 69-26 Cooper Ave., Glendale. Cost is: adults $6 and children $3, under six years free.

Senior Yoga is coming to Bayside Jewish Center, 203-05 32 Ave., conducted by Flo Meyers. There will be a series of 10 weekly sessions at $5 per session. First session, Monday, March 26 from 1011 a.m., will be free. Bring your own mat or beach towel.

Join Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston, for a evening of dancing with square dance caller Jim Emory on Saturday, March 24 at 7 p.m. Partners are not required. The cost is $12 for members, $15 for nonmembers and $8 for children, 7-12. Pre-registration required by calling (718) 229-4000.

Thu. APR. 5 ( 7:00 PM Fri. APR. 6 ( 1:00 & 7:00 PM Sat. APR. 7 ( 12 NOON, 3:30 & 7:00 PM Sun. APR. 8 ( 1:00 & 5:00 PM Mon. APR. 9 ( 12 NOON & 3:30 PM Tue. APR. 10 ( 12 NOON & 3:30 PM

Join Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston, on Sunday, March 25 at 11 a.m. to learn about one of the most familiar insects in the world — the honeybee. Learn the life cycle of a honeybee and how honey is harvested from a hive. Pre-registration is required. Cost is $8 for nonmembers. Call (718) 229-4000 to register.

The Mary Louis Academy Parents Club will hold its annual Night of Chance on Friday, March 23 at 7 p.m. in the school cafeteria, 176-21 Wexford Terrace, Jamaica Estates. This year’s theme is Casino Royale. The cost is $25, which includes food, drink and dessert. The event will feature live auctions, silent auctions and raffles. For more information phone (718) 297-2120.

Join the Queens County Chapter of the International Association of Administrative Professionals on Saturday, March 24 at noon at Marbella restaurant in the Ramada Inn, 220-33 Northern Blvd., Bayside, for its annual luncheon and fashion show. There will be food, music and fashions all for the cost of $40. For information call Irene at (516) 437-7038 (evening). Nativity BVM/St. Stan’s Parish presents a night of comedy on Saturday, March 24 at 8 p.m. at Nativity Church Hall, 101-41 91 St., Ozone Park. Tickets are $20. For information call Steve Jasiak (718) 551-2333. The Community House, 15 Borage Place, Forest Hills, will hold its annual casino night, adults only, on Saturday, March 24, casino and buffet, 7-11 p.m. Admission: $10 CH member, $20 non-CH member. Reservations recommended by March 15. Call (718) 268-7710. The Queens Alliance Baseball League and the Queens Kiwanis Baseball League have combined to provide recreational baseball, as well as tournaments in the RBI, Pony, Federation and Greater N.Y. Sandlot. Any teams or players looking to play baseball in a local competitive league can call (718) 3667717 or (718) 821-4487 for more information.

SUPPORT GROUPS Problem with cocaine or other mind-altering substances? For local Cocaine Anonymous meetings call: 1-(212) COCAINE. The Queens Counseling Services of the Foundation for Religion and Mental Health announces a free Women’s Support Group on alternate Thursday mornings at 10 a.m. at the Kissena Jewish Center, 43-43 Bowne St., Flushing. If you are experiencing anxiety, fear or stress and are searching for a venue that can provide understanding, compassion and respect, call to register at (718) 461-6393. Drug problem? Call Narcotics Anonymous Helpline at (718) 962-6244 or visit westernqueensna.com. Meetings are held seven days a week.

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(2011), for example, is revealed to be the product of tiny circles drawn in ink. All of Schneiderman’s works on display involve a combination of graphite, ink, watercolor, acrylic or gouache. Schneiderman and Friend once shared a studio together in Long Island City, and Schneiderman said she considers their dual show a success. “I like the way our work is talking to each other,” she said. The crowd seemed to agree: several of Schneiderman’s pieces had already sold before the closing. “I can buy new art supplies,” she said laughing. Leder said his goal with previous dual solo shows and this one is to feature art at affordable prices, in the $1,000 to $2,000 range, by honing in on emerging artists whose work can offer a “great Q value.”

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Brandon Friend with one of the larger pieces on view, “Defender” (2012). PHOTO BY PAULA NEUDORF

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At the SURROGATE’S COURT of the County of QUEENS on the 15th day of February, 2012 Order for Publication File No. 2012/123 HON. PETER J. KELLY, Surrogate In the Matter of the Probate Proceeding, Will of CLARETTA FREEMAN KING a/k/a CLARETTA KING, Deceased A citation having been issued or to be issued in the above entitled proceeding, and the petitioner having produced proof to the satisfaction of the Surrogate that the heirs at law, next of kin, and distributees of CLARETTA FREEMAN KING, a/k/a CLARETTA KING, deceased, if living, and if any of them be dead to their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, legatees, executors, administrators, assignees and successors in interest whose names are unknown and cannot be ascertained after due diligence are persons required to be cited upon the above entitled proceeding of said deceased, and that the case is one of those specified in Section 307 of the Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act, and that personal service of the citation cannot with due diligence be made upon him/her/them within the State, it is ORDERED that the service of the Citation herein upon said heirs at law, next of kin, and distributees of CLARETTA FREEMAN KING, a/k/a CLARETTA KING, deceased, if living, and if any of them be dead to their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, legatees, administrators, assignees and successors in interest whose names are unknown and cannot be ascertained after due diligence be made by publication thereof in one newspaper, to wit: The Queens Chronicle, being a newspaper published and/or circulated in the County of Queens, State of New York, once in each of four successive weeks, which is the time the Surrogate deems reasonable. HON. PETER J. KELLY, Surrogate Affidavit of service with copy of publication to be filed with the clerk of the court at least 48 hours prior to the return date.

Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company. Name: COUTIQUE LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/03/2011. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 11 Soundview Drive, Bayville, NY 11709. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF OTX NEW YORK LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/10/12. Off. loc.: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Harald Oechsner, 90 SW 3rd St., Unit 3604, Miami, FL 33130. Purpose: any lawful activity.

JAMAICA REDEMPTION CENTER LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 1/6/12. Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, c/o Mitchell Mund, Esq., 100-15 Queens Blvd., Ste. #1, Forest Hills, NY 11375. General Purposes.

Notice of Formation of Prime Development 194 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/12/11. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 25-77 Francis Lewis Blvd., Flushing, NY 11358. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of IBON GROUP LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/06/2012. Office Location: NASSAU County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 25 TOWNSEND RD., GLEN COVE, NY 11542. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: TIAN NIAN HEALTH MANAGEMENT, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/09/11. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 41-61 Kissena Boulevard, Concourse Level, Suite 35, Flushing, New York 11355. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: LITTLE TREASURES-PETITS TRESORS, SLP & PSYCHOLOGY, PLLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/22/2012. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 21207 102nd Ave., Ste. B-4, Queens Village, NY 11429. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: JR ACCOUNTING, TAXES & SMALL BUSINESS SOLUTIONS, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/01/2012. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 229-22 LINDED BLVD., CAMBRIA HEIGHTS, NY 11411. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

PROBATE CITATION File No.2011-4538 SURROGATE’S COURT QUEENS COUNTY CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO: Public Administrator of Queens County, Frances Cutrona, Pasquale D’Andrea as alternate executor, Rose Joy D’Andrea and Deborah Summer who have equal rights to letters of administration C.T.A., and the heirs at law, next of kin, and distributees of Carolyn Barnewall, deceased, if living, and if any of them be dead to their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, legatees, executors, administrators, assignees and successors in interest whose names are unknown and cannot be ascertained after due diligence. A petition having been duly filed by Christine Rodriguez, who is domiciled at 53655 Annie Oakley Road, Pioneertown, California 92268 YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Queens County, at 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, New York, on 26th day of April, 2012 at 9:30 A.M. of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of Carolyn Barnewall lately domiciled at 196-51 45th Road, Flushing, New York admitting to probate a Will dated November 6, 2000, a copy of which is attached, as the Will of Carolyn Barnewall, deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that Letters of Administration C.T.A. issue to: Christine Rodriguez March 12, 2012 Hon. Peter J. Kelly, Surrogate Margaret M. Gribbon, Chief Clerk Angelo A. Giordano, (718) 2662700, Attorney for Petitioner, 64 Avenue U, Brooklyn, New York 11223 Note: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you.

25-05 24TH AVENUE REALTY LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 1/24/2012. Office in Queens Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 25-05 24th Ave., Long Island City, NY 11102, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Soukkary Realty LLC filed Articles of Organizatgion to be an LLC on November 17, 2011. The Secretary of State is designated as agent upon whom process may be served. The address of the LLC in NY is 108-16 63rd Road, Forest Hills, NY 11375 in Queens County. The purpose of the LLC is real estate investment and management.

RNG ENTERPRISES, LLC, a domestic LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 9/14/11. Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 4721 41st St., Apt. 1D, Sunnyside, NY 11104. General Purposes.

BBIC LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 1/19/12. Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Diamond District Corneal, 60 Old Court House Rd., New Hyde Park, NY 11040. General Purposes.

Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: VESNA D LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/16/2011. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to C/O UNITED STATES CORPORATION AGENTS, INC., 7014 13TH AVENUE, SUITE 302, BROOKLYN, NY 11228. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Linda L Huang DDS MD, PLLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 1/10/12. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 6820 Selfridge St., #5D, Forest Hills, NY 11375. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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LEGAL SERVICES DIRECTORY

What an anniversary present!

Happy couple is remodeling their home and saving money too, thanks to the HRA program Iris Escobar is a coupon clipper, proud to be frugal. But you don’t usually clip coupons for home improvement, so when she and her husband, Victor, decided to remodel their home, she had to find another way to save. But Iris didn’t have to look far. The answer arrived in her mailbox one day last summer: a card advertising the Housing Rehabilitation Assistance program. Thanks to the HRA, the Escobars are getting a world-class makeover to their kitchen, dining room and downstairs bathroom, along with a new roof and energy-efficient windows — all without spending a dime in cash, and without increasing their mortgage payments a penny. Taking advantage of the program is letting them save thousands of dollars on a project that would have cost $103,000, and thanks to refinancing, they’re making the same monthly payments they were before on their Baldwin home — but now $200 each month is going toward the principal. They couldn’t be happier — not about the savings, not about the work that’s being done, and especially not about the full range of services HRA is providing as their home is transformed. “It’s been a great ride,” Victor said. “I can’t say enough about the HRA program. I can’t say enough about everybody involved with the program.” His wife agrees. “I’m excited, I’m very excited,” she said. “I’m glad I met this team; they’re great!” Speaking to Carlos Fontanez, the couple’s HRA representative, she added, “I told my sister about you, I told my coworkers about you — I tell everyone about you.” What Iris is telling everyone is how the HRA guides clients through every step of the home remodeling process, from helping

decide what work should be done to how it will be financed, from securing financial assistance to overseeing the work and making sure the contractors are not paid until the homeowner is satisfied. A fan of “The People’s Court,” where she sees a lot of irresponsible contractors sued over jobs that weren’t done correctly, Iris said she was especially glad that the HRA holds clients’ money in escrow until they certify that they’re satisfied. Ca r l os d e s cr i b e d h ow h e starts a project with clients like the Escobars: “I explain to them what HRA does and show them the different options for how we can accomplish what they want to do to reach their goals, help them get financing and a reduced interest rate on their mortgage.” “Af ter the first 10 minutes speaking to him, I was sold on the program,” Victor said. “All through this, he’s been great.” An HRA administrator explained the program’s basic approach: “The ser vices of fered by the HRA extend beyond just financial assistance for home improvement projects. We have implemented numerous processes to ensure that projects completed by HRAapproved contractors are done to the homeowner’s satisfaction.” Just take a look at some of the program’s requirements for contractors. They all must be: • licensed, bonded and insured for at least $100,000 per incident; • registered with the Better Business Bureau, with a rating of an A or higher; • in business for at least 10 years; • able to provide the names and addresses of eight clients they have done home improvement projects for in the past year; and • able to perform four test proj-

ects for the HRA prior to working for any clients. With that kind of screening, it’s no surprise that only the best contractors get to do HRA-sponsored jobs. At the Escobars’ house, it’s a big job that’s underway. First the roof and windows were replaced, and new gut ters and leaders installed. The couple is thrilled with the result. There’s a stunning new bay window in the dining room that measures about 8 feet wide by 5 feet high. The kitchen features a garden window, an especially deep one with a glass shelf so their plants can be surrounded by light from all sides. Next the interior of the kitchen and bathroom were completely gutted, with everything from new gas lines and plumbing to new Sheetrock and insulation going in. The door to the basement was moved from one wall to another to make room for all the cabinetry surrounding the garden window. The new kitchen is going to feature only the best equipment and materials, including a six-burner stove with a pot-filler faucet, double sink with pullout faucet, beautiful real-wood cabinets, granite countertops and floor tiles. A new two-level peninsula with a granite top will serve as a bar, or just another place for family and friends to gather. There will even be a tilt-out drawer for sponges and brushes in front of the sinks. “ I ’m a h oa rd e r,” I r is s a i d. “They’re giving me lots of drawers and shelves to put away my stuff.” Even more of her and her husband’s “stuff” will go in the new pantries that will be built in an area just off the kitchen. Those will be done in the same deep finish as the kitchen cabinets, and feature modern conveniences like pullout drawers behind the doors.

Iris Escobar shows off the new tiling that will be going in her bathroom. The bathroom also will be allnew. The shower will feature a bench and a modern rain shower head. The tile walls will be accented by a mosaic design running around the whole room. The hardware will be bronze, and the contractor even found a toilet in Mexican sand, a cream-like color, that will complement the decor perfectly. In the front of the house, the contractor replaced all the windows in the foyer and added insulation. Not only will the Escobars earn tax credits for energy efficiency, but Iris says she felt the difference immediately. Drafty for years, the foyer is now cozy, she said. After all the interior work is

done, the project will go back outside, as a new deck and patio get installed. Iris likes to entertain, but for the last three years hadn’t bothered because she wasn’t happy with how the house was looking. But now she’s looking forward to holding a big bash in June, to show off the renovations made possible by the HRA program and to celebrate the couple’s 10th anniversary. The timing couldn’t have worked out better. To find out if you qualify for the Housing Rehabilitation Assistance program, just call the HRA tollfree at 866-791-6302. Tell them you read about the Escobars’ job, and they’ll give you the same level of excellent service.

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Iris and Victor Escobar are getting rich wood cabinetry in the kitchen and bathroom, and got to see how various colors would look on their walls before choosing. The bathroom will get a carved stone sink. Carlos Fontanez, the couple’s HRA representative, has become a friend as well — they’ve invited him to a party they’re planning to celebrate their 10th anniversary — and their newly remodeled home. — ADVERTISEMENT —

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