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Council members rip redesign routes ‘It’s the logic of someone who throws out their medication to cure an illness’ by David Russell Associate Editor

fter receiving feedback from borough residents, the Queens delegation to the New York City Council is calling for significant changes to the MTA’s Queens bus network redesign proposal. The MTA unveiled its draft proposal to redraw bus routes throughout Queens with the agency looking to spread out stops and have fewer turns in order to increase speed and cut down on bus bunching. In a press release issued last Thursday, all 15 Council members representing the borough voiced concerns with the plan. “The MTA’s plan to increase ridership by cutting service is utter nonsense,” said Councilman Francisco Moya (D-Corona). “It’s the logic of someone who throws out their medication to cure an illness.” Councilman Danny Dromm (D-Jackson Heights) added, “The current Queens bus redesign plan is bad for Queens residents.” Some criticisms of the plan include riders being dropped off at subway stations not accessible to handicapped people and the redesign being “revenue neutral.” Then-MTA President Andy Byford faced critics of the plan in Jackson Heights earlier in the month, less than two weeks before his resignation from the position.

Queens City Council members are criticizing the MTA’s proposal for redesigning bus routes throughout the borough. The lawmakers, including Councilman Bob Holden, above, questioned the FILE PHOTO removal of stops and reroutes to train stations that are not handicapped-accessible. In the release, Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz (D-Forest Hills) said “Byford’s statement that the plan was devised within the restrictions of financial constraints dooms the plan to failure.” She added that because the borough has experienced a significant increase in population in recent decades, “any plan that does not incorporate increases to service is des-

tined for failure.” Councilman Bob Holden (D-Middle Village) said Maspeth is in “desperate need” of an express bus route but the plan reduces express routes. He said the cuts on service in the area will create longer wait times and longer walks to buses, which will impact seniors, students and people with disabilities.

“The MTA cannot meet the needs of our constituents with this redesign if there is no further investment into the agency’s budget,” Holden said. The MTA is looking to reverse a decline in ridership that has occurred in recent years. “The plan that the MTA has submitted is only going to lead to a further decline in ridership on our buses,” said Councilman Donovan Richards (D-Laurelton). “You can’t take away bus lines, shorten routes, and leave out some communities entirely, then expect commuters to want to take public transportation.” Also critical of the plan was Councilwoman Adrienne Adams (D-Jamaica). “Given the proposed service cuts in the draft Queens Bus Network Redesign, it is clear that the approach was not holistic,” she said. “The goal of public transit should be to take New Yorkers from point A to point B expeditiously. The plan in its current form would make this goal unattainable for many residents of Queens especially with commuters with limited public transit options.” Councilman Peter Koo (D-Flushing) noted the draft sends 18 bus routes to Roosevelt Avenue and Main Street while reducing service across the board, including express lines meant to alleviate overcrowding on the 7 train. “The MTA Queens bus redesign needs to go continued on page 20

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Store owners got ‘zero’ help from city No fix in sight for sign fines that stripped Jamaica Ave. of awnings by Michael Shain Editor

“Jamaica Avenue looks like crap,” said Margie Schmidt, the second-gener at ion ow ne r of S c h m i d t ’s C h o c o l a t e i n Woodhaven. The candymaker is not alone in her blunt assessment of the neighborhood’s main shopping street. Stores along Jamaica have been pulling down their awnings and signs — many of them up for decades — to avoid thousands in potential f ines from building inspectors who blitzed the neighborhood three years ago. On the facades of stores, restaurants and laundromats up and down the boulevard, signs no bigger than a car window are all there is to identify businesses. For owners, the tiny signs were all they could think of to keep from being written up. Signs less t h a n si x-feet squ a re do not require a city permit. Last week, the Woodhaven Business Improvement District, which represents 317 stores and professional offices on Jamaica Avenue, sponsored the first workshop for business owners since the city declared a moratorium on writing tickets for sign violations

Starting two years ago, store owners on Jamaica Avenue in Woodhaven replaced their signs with smaller ones to avoid violations from the Department of Buildings. A workshop last week that was supposed to clear up the eyesore PHOTO BY MICHAEL SHAIN left the owners with few answers. last February. But many of the more than 50 Woodhaven business owners who packed the tables at the Avenue Diner, where the workshop was held, said they still could not get straight answers from representatives of the city’s Department of

Buildings about how to comply with the law. “I wanted to know: How much is a permit?” said Schmidt. ‘‘‘Well,’ they said. ‘I don’t want ‘Well.’ I need the city to tell me. You mean there is no set price?’

“I asked three times,” she said When a reporter asked Pedro Woss, owner of K&P Realty Services, also on Jamaica Avenue, what information he got from the workshop, he held up two fingers in the familiar shape of a zero. “They don’t know the answers

to questions,” said Woss. “They were apologetic and said they would find out the answers for us,” he said. But, a full year after the City Council passed the moratorium law last January, “it seems clear the Buildings Department has yet to conclude what route they want to take on awnings.” Woss has gotten quotes of $18,000 to $20,000 to get the large lighted sign on his office into compliance. “This is not a $300 job,” he said. “I’d rather close the office than spend that kind of money for a sign I already paid for,” he said. “We want to be a resource for the community, and are working hard to educate proper ty and small business owners about the Temporary Business Accessory Signs Program,” said a DOB spokeswoman in an email to the Chronicle, using the formal title of the moratorium. She said teams of DOB personnel have been visiting BIDs all over Queens in January. The moratorium on sign violations, in effect until February 9, 2021, covers those erected before February 2019, said the spokesQ woman.

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Hotels in New York that rent rooms to the city to house the homeless should be required to disclose that fact, according to Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway Park). “People have a right to know,” said Pheffer Amato, who this week introduced a bill that calls for hotel operators to release publicly details of their homeless activity. The assemblywoman’s district, which includes not only the Rockaways but Howard Beach and Ozone Park as well, is home to at least six hotels that are being or have been used as homeless shelters, according to a spokesman for Pheffer Aamto. “I have hotels in my community that are at full capacity – serving essentially as additional homeless shelters, and government agency outposts,” she said in a pre-

pared statement that accompanied the announcement of her legislation. If passed, the new law would put hotel operators on the spot. “They’d have to post online: ‘This hotel is under contract with City of New York for X number of beds, for how long and how much they were getting paid,’” she explained. “If you don’t want to be on a public website, don’t go into business with the City of New York. It’s that simple,” Pheffer Amato said. Like many in Queens, residents of the Rockaways and Ozone Park have been complaining for years that the city’s Department of Homeless Services has overburdened their neighborhoods with homeless facilities. The latest is a controversial, 120-bed shelter being built inside an old warehouse on Beach 101st Avenue in Rockaway Park. The proposal “comes from my own

frustrations,” Pheffer Amato told the Chronicle. Mayor de Blasio has been saying for several years that the city would be gearing back on the number of commercial hotels it uses nightly to deal with the increasing number of displaced families. “I’m not a hot head,” said the assemblywoman. “In government, I believe you have to have some patience. But we now know the city has increased the number of hotels we’re using. This is baloney.” In 2018, the last year for which figures were available, she said, the city spent $384 million on hotels for the homeless. Actually, the number of commercial hotels used for emergency shelters last year is 83, down from 91 in 2018, according to City Limits, an online news site. But the number of homeless people staying in com mercial hotel rooms has increased by 44 percent in the last three Q years, it said.

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Ready to play bus stop bingo? Here are problem children of route redesign by Michael Shain Editor

Every year, nearly 700,000 people in Queens ride the bus. Under a new bus route redesign unveiled late last month, the daily commutes for most, if not all, of them will change. But some routes are changing more than others. The MTA is in the midst of a series of workshops around Queens to gather feedback from riders about the plan. The only workshop in South Queens, at JHS 202 in Ozone Park, was set for Wednesday night, Jan. 29. Reactions at the early workshops have ranged from confrontational at a meeting in Jackson Heights to resigned at one in Ridgewood. The biggest complaint, said Betty Braton, president of Community Board 10, is that the new routes “will make travel by bus more difficult, rather than easier.” “It’s not been well received,” said Community Board 9 President Kenichi Wilson. “I know the MTA is cutting all these lines and calling it a redesign. But it’s really just service reduction, a lot of people are telling me.” • If you ride the Q53: The redesign proposes to eliminate the Q53, a Select bus with extra seating, and retain the Q52, which covers the same route — until it reaches the Rockaways. (The plan labels all proposed

routes as QT to designate that they are temporary until the plan is adopted. Then the T will be dropped, an MTA spokeswoman said.) The Q52 would turn east heading to Far Rockaway on Rockaway Beach Boulevard as always. But the Q53, which turned west headed to Rockaway Park, would be dropped. That’s the bus students at The Scholars’ Academy, for instance, take from the neighborhoods to the north. It is also the chosen route residents of neighborhoods along Queens Boulevard — Woodside, Sunnyside, Elmhurst, Corona and the like — use to get to the beach in the summer. Riders of the Q53 would have to switch to the Q22 to reach the beaches on the western half of the peninsula under the proposal. Judging from the reaction of social media, dropping the Q53 may be the most controversial. “It’s crowded all year long,” read a typical tweet from @JimRockaway. “I’m hoping residents of Woodside, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, Woodhaven, Ozone Park, Howard Beach, Broad Channel & Rockaway Park band together to save this iconic bus. # Q53 connects us. None of us requested this change.” “Instead of expanding transportation alternatives for residents, the MTA is proposing to eliminate crucial routes in Queens,” said Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) in a prepared statement.

The Q53 is among several buses slated for elimination in South Queens PHOTO BY MICHAEL SHAIN under the MTA’s controversial route redesign plan. “Under this plan, public commuters from all parts of the borough would be subjected to significantly longer commutes and unnecessary bus transfers. “The Q53 is a major north/south mode of public transportation along the [Rockaway] Peninsula. And the proposed changes along the Q22 route would require several hundred students and others to transfer to another bus – sometimes two – to reach the same destination. “I urge Queens residents to vocalize their concerns by submitting feedback and attending the upcoming public sessions,” he said. • If you ride the Q11, Q21 or Q49: First, the three buses that connect Howard Beach to Queens Boulevard at the Queens Center mall are being

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consolidated into two lines, under the proposal. The Q11, Q21 and Q49 would become the Q83 and Q88. The routes would be drastically altered, as well. The ride from Howard Beach to Queens Boulevard will become a two-bus trip instead of the current one-seat ride. Under the new plan. the Q83 will terminate at 157th Street and Cross Bay Boulevard, at New Park Pizza. A new bus, the Q88, will replace the Q11 route in New Howard Beach and the Q21 in Old Howard Beach. “Everybody is going to have to transfer at Rockaway Boulevard and Cross Bay for the Q83 in order to get to Queens Boulevard heading north,” said Braton. Riders headed for local streets in

Old and New Howard Beach will have to switch at Rockaway Boulevard to the Q88. • If you ride the Q37: The planned new route of the Q37 caused a stir when it was first released last month. It looked as if the bus would no longer take passengers into the Resorts World Casino lot and drop them at a bus stop close to the entrance, as it does now. The bus, which connects Resorts to the Kew Gardens subway stop, is heavily used by both casino workers and patrons. On Wednesday, the MTA said it had made an error on the draft version of the route that it had been circulating to the public and media. “We will continue to serve the Q casino,” a spokeswoman said.

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The proposed redesign includes consolidating some routes, like the Q83 and Q52, and correcting others, as with the Q37. which will still go to Resorts World Casino despite an MTA map showing it MTA GRAPHICS no loner would. A brand-new route, the Q88, top center, would connect riders in other New and Old Howard Beach with buses on Cross Bay Boulevard.

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Assistant Chief Ruben Beltran, left, has replaced Chief David Barerre as commanding officer of Patrol Borough Queens South. Barerre, who held the post for six years, last week PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON took command of the Housing Bureau out of 1 Police Plaza.

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The NYPD has named a 34-year department veteran as the new commanding officer of Patrol Borough Queens South. Assistant Chief Ruben Beltran, who began his career with the city’s Housing Police before the merger in 1995, will take over for newly promoted Chief David Barerre, who received a third star with his promotion to head of the Housing Bureau. Beltran was serving as commander of the NYPD’s School Safety Division. “We keep 1.3 million city school children safe,” he said. The moves became official on Jan. 22, six years to the day that Barerre was named to head Queens South. “I’m leaving some terrific people,’ Barerre told the Chronicle, “and some terrific police officers.” Beltran is a native of Brooklyn. “But my family moved to Richmond Hill

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After fleeing from a chaotic confrontation with District 26 parents, Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza has seemingly ignored elected officials’ request for a return to continue the conversation. Uncontrollable pleas from the crowd, including from a father whose daughter was sexually abused by a classmate and a mother whose daughter was physically assaulted on camera, forced the Jan. 16 Community District Education Council meeting to shut down early. Two days later, the council released a statement clarifying that “the Chancellor chose to end the meeting abruptly due to what he felt as ‘safety concerns.’” Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing), Councilmembers Paul Vallone (Bayside), Barry Grodenchik (Oakland Gardens) and Peter Koo (D-Flushing), state Sen. John Liu (D-Flushing) and Assemblymembers Nily Rozic (D-Fresh Meadows) and Ed Braunstein (D-Bayside) had sent a letter to Carranza the day of the council meeting demanding answers on the reported sexual assault and physical violence at MS 158. Two of the victims’ parents addressed the chancellor at the meeting, but the council adjourned before their and the officials’ concerns were addressed. The seven elected officials followed the letter with another that demanded the Carranza return to District 26 and hold a public meeting to address the concerns over school safety that were excluded from his last visit. Similarly to the first, the letter has since gone unanswered and the chaotic meeting unacknowledged by Carranza. “Parents are our most important partners, and in addition to the Chancellor’s town hall last week, the Superintendent is in regular contact with schools, students, and families,” Miranda Barbot, acting Department of

Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza has yet to respond to elected officials’ request to return to District 26 to confront unanswered FILE PHOTO questions. Education press secretary, said in an email Tuesday. “We’re exploring options for additional meetings, and the incidents at Marie Curie are under investigation.” When asked whether there was any indication Carranza may fulfill the officials’ request to return, District 26 Community Education Council President Adriana Aviles said, “I am afraid there is no follow-up date as of now, and I seriously don’t think there will be one.” Not directly related to the incident in Bayside, a “Fire Carranza rally” was to have taken place outside of Murry Bergtraum High School for Business Careers in Manhattan on Wednesday, Jan. 29. Car ranza is scheduled to retur n to Queens March 2, when he’ll speak at CEC Q 24’s monthly meeting.

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t’s unanimous: Every single member of the Queens delegation to the City Council opposes the bus route redesign the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has been trying to sell residents on. And while lawmakers can all agree and yet be completely wrong (all but two of our state legislators voted for that reckless no-bail law), in this case they’re right. The plan deserves to be, well, thrown under the bus. The goals are good ones (aren’t they always?): to speed up our notoriously slow buses and keep them from getting bunched up so that more people will take them. Bus ridership has been declining for several years, while the population has only grown, meaning more private vehicles crowding the streets. Apparently, not enough people are finding taking the bus to be worth the cost. But while we’d all love to get on a bus that zips through traffic without stopping until our destination comes up, that’s not what most buses are for. They’re not all express buses, and most streets have no room for dedicated bus lanes. As far as the number of stops goes, it’s easy for activist groups largely made up of young people in good shape to complain that there are too many, but the elderly and infirm need them to be closely spaced. No doubt some could go, but

not in the kind of numbers the MTA is talking about. On 108th Street in Forest Hills, for example, it wants to cut the number of stops made by the Q23 between the Long Island Expressway and 71st Avenue from nine to two. Two stops in that 1.1-mile stretch? In a neighborhood with as many senior citizens as Forest Hills north of Queens Boulevard has? Talk about cruelty in the name of efficiency. Try again. As for those 15 City Council members representing Queens, they’re saying things like “utter nonsense” (Francisco Moya of Corona), “bad for Queens residents” (Danny Dromm of Jackson Heights) and “go back to the drawing board” (Peter Koo of Flushing). It appears that above all, the plan would reduce service. Take the Q53 from Woodside to the Rockaways, for example. It would be eliminated. Its sister bus the Q52 would remain, but without the Q53, there will be no more singleseat ride from the heart of Queens to those beaches on the western half of the peninsula. And that’s just one service cut. We hope the MTA doesn’t consider this plan a done deal and is just holding its public workshops for show. And we hope it’s ready to accept that some of the more sweeping bus route changes it plans should left back at the depot.

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Carranza the coward Dear Editor: Re “Angry D26 parents drive out Carranza,” Jan. 20, qchron.com”: If Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza felt his safety was threatened, can you imagine how the kids at that school feel? Carranza was able to walk away from the meeting by choice. These children have to go to that school on a daily basis. Mr. Carranza, you are a coward for running away from that meeting before the parents had a chance to discuss anything further with you. Try to remember that it’s the taxpayers who pay your salary and for my 10 cents, they can fire you today. Linda Sperling Forest Hills

Carranza’s unwanted agenda Dear Editor: Excellent editorial, could not have written it better myself (“The resignation letter schools chief Carranza should write,” Jan. 23). This chancellor has no business educating our children. His vision is not only not working, it is not wanted here. Instead of fixing issues such as school assaults and how the schools handle it or the low test scores in the majority of city schools, his only agenda is diversity, as if it is an all-encompassing panacea for any ill facing © Copyright 2020 by MARK I PUBLICATIONS, INC. All rights reserved. Neither this newspaper nor any part thereof may be reproduced, copied, or transmitted in any form, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, microfilming, recording or by any information retrieval system without the express written permission of the publishers. This copyright is extended to the design and text created for advertisements. Reproduction of said advertisement or any part thereof without the express written permission of MARK I PUBLICATIONS, INC. is strictly prohibited. This publication will not be responsiblefor errors in advertising beyond the cost of the space occupied by the error. Bylined articles represent the sole opinion of the writer and are not necessarily in accordance with the views of the QUEENS CHRONICLE. This Publication reserves the right to limit or refuse advertising it deems objectionable. The Queens Chronicle is published weekly by Mark I Publications, Inc.at a subscription rate of $19 per year and out of state, $25 per year. Periodicals Postage Paid (USPS0013-572) at Flushing, N.Y. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Mark I Publications, Inc., 71-19 80th St., Suite 8-201, Glendale, NY 11385.

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our schools. Diversity is not bad, it is great, but it won’t solve these issues. Most of the city’s schools are in districts that have no one or almost no one to integrate with — so how is the DOE planning on fixing those schools? Tell me that. Irene Raevsky Forest Hills

Carranza’s ‘Blackboard Jungle’ Dear Editor: Re Katherine Donlevy’s Jan. 23 article “Angry D26 parents drive out Carranza”: The chaotic situation at Bayside’s Middle School 158 underscores how Chancellor Richard Carranza has transformed our schools into a modern version of the hit 1955 film “The Blackboard Jungle.” Based on a best-selling book by an NYC schoolteacher, the movie depicted a high school terrorized by thugs who frightened students and helpless teachers. Its title became a symbol for the deterioration of

large city schools. Carranza has made our current situation far worse by refusing to suspend violent and disruptive students. Instead, he implemented a policy of “restorative justice” in which unruly students are given notes by their teachers to discuss with parents and caseworkers in order to alter bad behavior. Good luck with that. The chancellor complained that too many minority students were suspended under the old rules. But what about minority students who want to learn but can’t because their classmates raise hell? His lax policy explains why more than half of all students in grades 3 to 8 failed the state’s 2019 math and English language arts exams. It also explains why an MS 158 student was sexually assaulted, while school staffers ignored her peril. In “The Blackboard Jungle,” Glenn Ford plays a dedicated teacher who risks his life to restore classroom order. He’s helped by a brave student (Sidney Poitier), who defies teenage hoodlums to back up his teacher.

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Unfortunately, these characters are not here to turn things around. The only way to do that is by firing Carranza. Putting him in charge of the Department of Education is like hiring an arsonist to run the Fire Department. Parents, teachers, taxpayers and responsible students must demand that Mayor de Blasio remove our school system’s boss. Crazy Carranza must go, ASAP. Richard Reif Kew Gardens Hills

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Archie and Edith thank you Dear Editor: Our “All in the Family” event just passed, and I have to thank you for Michael Gannon’s article (“Oh, that ’70s show/The legacy of ‘All in the Family’ stars at the QHS,” qboro, Jan. 16). Of the small sample I asked, over 70 percent of the people at our full-house event were there because they saw your article in the paper. Thank you so much for being a part of its success. Jeran Halfpap Education and Outreach Coordinator Queens Historical Society Flushing

DOT: Dunces on traffic Dear Editor: The incorrect school zone speed limit signs that Councilman Holden is trying to correct sound too ridiculous to be true (“Holden, DOT differ on signage,” Jan. 23, multiple editions). H ow c a n t h e Depar t ment of ONLINE Tra nspor t at ion not be aware of Miss an article or a letter cited by a writer? the laws it is supWant breaking news posed to be postfrom all over Queens? i n g s i g n a g e Find the latest news, about? I believe that past reports from all over the borough and h a v i n g t h e more at qchron.com. reduced speed limit from 6 a.m. until 10 p.m. is overkill, especially since the new law extends the school zone to a full quarter-mile area. And there are cameras at the very edge of the border, like the one on 69th Place and 69th Drive. So now, the only way to make things even worse is to post incorrect signs, telling drivers that they can increase their speed when there are hidden cameras waiting to photograph them. Isn’t this plain and simple entrapment? I must admit, however, that I am not surprised. After all, this is the same city agency that put the dedicated turn lane on 80th Street and Metropolitan Avenue the wrong way — into the cemetery instead of Metropolitan’s commercial area. On Juniper Boulevard North, first the DOT put a traffic light at the wrong intersection. Then when it added another light at the correct location, it positioned the electronic control box directly over the narrow sidewalk, completely blocking it. After several months, it finally moved the box — over the crosswalk. Mistakes like this create traffic problems as well as waste taxpayer money. Lee Rottenberg Middle Village

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Dear Editor: The Department of Education and its hired consultants, WXY, are in the process of trying to de-zone NYC schools. Consider the following facts: in District 28, at two of the top-performing junior high schools, Russell Sage and Halsey, about 20 percent of the available seats are open to children not presently zoned for those schools. If there is a surplus of available seats that could be used to advance diversity, why the extravagant “diversity plan” with its meetings and workshops? The answer is found in the D15 Final Report and in the School Diversity Advisory Group’s findings: The chancellor wants each and every school to reflect the sociodemographic composition of the city. So why the subterfuge? The reason is that district community education councils must vote on changes to zoning. Since the CEC is supposed to reflect the will of the community, an elaborate “community engagement process” was initiated — one that relies on manipulation, secret meetings, and control of information flow to deliver a pre-determined outcome under the guise that it’s “community-led.” First, a “Working Group” was secretly chosen long before the public was informed a plan was in the works. Second, the DOE and WXY are holding private sessions with important influencers, like Parent Association presidents, in which activist groups “teach” about inequality, racial bias and other problems it’s hoped dezoning will redress. Third, “workshops” are carefully choreographed with “facilitators” who come from the very same activist groups. Fourth, DOE/WXY secretly canvasses “hardto-reach” groups and solicits their “opinions.” Finally, the Working Group releases its findings based on a largely one-sided viewpoint. It may be that dezoning proves a good policy that brings about the hoped-for goals. It may not. Either way, if the workshops aren’t shut down and the process re-envisioned, we won’t have an honest, community-led debate on the subject. At the heart of this matter is democracy and open government vs. stagecraft and authoritarianism. Now, it’s middle schools, next time it may be elementary schools. Perhaps, one day, each city block will be required to have residents exactly reflecting the city’s demographic composition. If this is, in fact, what the people want, then so be it. However, as it stands, this is a process manipulated, and paid for, by the top. It most certainly is not a community-led process; it’s the community that’s being led. Jason Fink Jean Hahn Queens Parents United Forest Hills and Rego Park

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LETTERS TO THE continued from previous page the already hectic and congested NYC morning commute. This caused a major traffic jam for several hours affecting hundreds of people who needed to get to work and other important destinations. There is at least one reported human injury, two major animal injuries and two animal deaths. This would have been avoided if New York City were to become a slaughter-free zone. We are deeply concerned for the wellbeing of animals such as those onboard that truck. These trucks regularly drive from out of state, and even as far as Canada, for up to 24 hours, with live animals aboard who are denied any food or water for the entire grueling trip. In this case, they experienced a traumatic crash on top of their harrowing and confusing journey, only to be forced into slaughterhouses, beaten and killed. The animals on that truck ultimately sent to slaughter included three baby cows, 12 sheep and two goats — some of the most docile animals on the planet. This is heartbreaking and it is absolutely wrong to treat any living, feeling, sentient beings in this way. They should have been rescued and sent to live their lives free from harm at a reputable sanctuary; we fully support the pending legislative pursuit announced by City Councilmembers Justin Brannan and Fernando Cabrera last week. Slaughter Free NYC launched at the start of January because slaughterhouses are bad for everybody: animals, workers and communities. Last Thursday’s horrific crash is a wakeup call that it is past due for New York City to become a slaughter-free zone. Jill Carnegie Co-organizer, Slaughter Free NYC Manhattan

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Auschwitz in America? Dear Editor: The Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by the Soviet Army 75 years ago. Within the camp over 1 million individuals were killed by brutality, starvation and gas. Their belongings and gold teeth were gathered as bounty by the Nazis. The horrors and smells remain in the minds of those who survived, their saviors and the families and children who came after. I was born in the shadow of the Holocaust. Those like me born as baby boomers to Jewish families listened to the names of loved ones who cruelly died. The lives lost, their stories, their very names became part of us. Not to believe the soul-impacting reality that is a voice heard within the recesses of my mind would simply be a lie. As Americans blessed to reside in a nation wherein the guiding principal is freedom of religion, news of new outrages and hatred seem foreign and of no immediate threat. Yet synagogues are now guarded and nightly reports of anti-Semitism are frequent. The United States has never sustained such constant televised hate speech as today attacking anyone deemed different. The fear of caravans of immigrants surging our borders, the changing of the American demographic landscape to a

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nation of white minority, the age of technology destroying blue-collar employment have many of our citizens needing to find “others” as the reason. Our national history has had episodes of prejudice, hate and fear. The Yellow Peril, Japanese internment, the KKK, the John Birch Society, McCarthyism and today, militias. Over time and the strength of leaders of morals who were committed to the ideals of American exceptionalism, sense and moderation were restored to the national discourse. In the absence of leaders today who will speak truth to power there is no reason to believe the mania that allowed the creation of Auschwitz could not happen here. Ed Horn Baldwin, LI

You go, Greta Dear Editor: Time magazine chose Greta Thunberg as Person of the Year because climate change is the most important issue facing humanity. Yet, the fact that Thunberg has Asperger’s syndrome makes Ed Konecnik say “some may possibly construe this as child abuse by Time” (“Better than Greta,” Letters, Dec. 19). Thunberg has said she considers her condition a superpower. In fact she said that before she started her climate change protests, “I had no energy, no friends and didn’t speak to anyone. I just sat alone at home, with an eating disorder. All of that is gone now, since I have found a meaning, in a world that sometimes seems shallow and meaningless to so many people.” And Time magazine honoring her is child abuse, Ed? Conservative commentator Michael Knowles called the 16-year-old activist a “mentally ill Swedish child” on Fox News. That is child abuse. Trump said she has an “anger management problem.” It is Trump who has the problem. And the root cause of his anger is that Thunberg has received an honor he has coveted for years. Fortunately for the rest of humanity, Trump will have to be satisfied with the fake 2009 Time covers showing him as person of the year that have been found hanging at several of his golf resorts. But while Konecnik is right that Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat’s nonprofit The Ocean Cleanup, which aims to rid the oceans of plastic, is a noble cause, perhaps he should be more concerned with the Trump administration’s repeal of Obama-era clean water regulations that placed limits on polluting chemicals that could be used near streams, wetlands and other bodies of water. Robert LaRosa Whitestone

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Coronavirus fears seep into Flushing Flushing Town Hall cancels Lunar New Year event in light of disease by Katherine Donlevy Associate Editor

While New York has no confirmed cases of the quickly spreading coronavirus, fears of the disease have prompted Flushing Town Hall to cancel its annual Lunar New Year Chinese Temple Bazaar. The arts and history center released a statement Tuesday, Jan. 28, that it has decided to cancel the Feb. 1 event, which was to include a dragon parade, paper lantern making and traditional Chinese delicacies, “due to concerns about the growing health risks around the Coronavirus.” “Though there have not been any reported incidents of the Coronavirus in our area, Flushing Town Hall is aware of the concerns that many people in the community have about large gatherings at this time, especially because the full risks of the virus are not yet known,” the statement said. The same day, Gov. Cuomo updated the public on the status of New York State testing for the disease, reporting that the state Department of Health has sent samples for 10 individuals to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where seven were found to be negative. The results for the other three samples are still pending. “While we continue to closely monitor the spread of this novel coronavirus, I have directed our Department of Health to continue communicating with and providing updates to our local communities, healthcare providers, colleges, universities and New York companies with locations or business interests in China,” said Cuomo. “My message to New Yorkers is: take this coronavirus seriously, take proper precautions, stay informed, but also feel confident that

our Health Department and this administration are prepared and ready.” With over 5,000 confirmed cases across the globe, including recent spreads to Germany and Japan, the coronaviruses are a family of viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, according to the World Health Organization. Time reported that five cases have been confirmed in the U.S. — one in Arizona, two in California, one in Washington state and one in Illinois. Flushing Town Hall’s executive and artistic director, Ellen Kodadeck, expressed her sadness over the decision to cancel the event. “It’s very beloved by the community, but we felt it was in the interest of caution after hearing from members of the community.” Flushing Town Hall made the decision to cancel the celebration after consulting with community leaders, its Board of Directors and Chinese Cultural Committee, elected officials and event participants. Flushing Town Hall has yet to cancel other festivities or events, but may if the disease spreads and the community’s concerns grow. “While we are saddened by the cancellation, we know that we must do what is right for our community. We greatly appreciate the community’s understanding of this decision,” the institution said. “Our Board of Directors, Staff and Artistic family recognize that the Lunar New Year is a time of joyous celebration, and while this is a difficult moment for all, we wish everyone a peaceful and healthy Lunar Q New Year.”

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‘Goodfellas’ actor pays a visit to Neir’s Queens native Christopher Serrone won the role as a young Henry Hill by David Russell Associate Editor

“To me, being a gangster was better than being president of the United States.” Those words are spoken by Ray Liotta as mobster-turned-informant Henry Hill at the beginning of the 1990 crime drama “Goodfellas.” But the face on screen is that of Christopher Serrone, who played the young Hill, looking out his window at the big shots across the street. Serrone, who grew up in Queens, was at Neir’s Tavern in Woodhaven last Friday. It was the f irst time he had been at the 190-year-old bar that served as a shooting location for the film and had just come within a hair’s breadth of closing. And the fans were thrilled to see him. “I would’ve never thought that film would’ve had that kind impact on a global level,” he said. “I’ve got fans in Belgium. I’ve got fans in places I can’t even pronounce.” As he was talking in the street a man came out the bar. “Henry Hill?” the patron asked. Serrone spoke to the man for a few minutes. One fan at the bar even had Serrone call her husband. People feel like they know the actor. “They’ve been watching me for 30 years,” Serrone said. “They saw me as a kid and with the power of social media now they can find me.” Serrone was raised in the borough, living in Corona, Forest Hills and Whitestone. He would even go to John Gotti’s July 4 parties. Fireworks were “highly illegal except on his block,” he said. “It was kind of funny to watch police set up barricades so he could do his fireworks shows.” Serrone wasn’t even an actor before “Goodfellas.” He was a child model who auditioned for the role. Out of thousands of hopefuls, Serrone was selected after an eight-month process. In fact, he was cast in Martin Scorsese’s drama before Liotta was. When Liotta was

Christopher Serrone visited Neir’s Tavern in Woodhaven last Friday. The site was a filming location for the 1990 crime drama “Goodfellas,” in which Serrone played a young Henry Hill, the PHOTO BY MICHAEL SHAIN mobster-turned-informant. chosen, Serrone had to be fitted for contacts that had been hand-painted in Italy to be an exact replica of Liotta’s blue eyes. Each lens cost $3,000. The cast consisted of heavy hitters Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, with the latter calling Serrone, “The Kid ‘Hendry.’” “I was taken under everybody’s wing,” Serrone said. “Joe Pesci gave me the nickname ‘The Kid.’ ‘There’s The Kid. Go get The Kid.’ So much to the point where when Paulie Cicero [played by Paul Sorvino] introduces me to Jimmy Conway [De Niro] he goes, ‘I’d like you to meet The Kid ‘Hendry.”’ Subconsciously he was calling me what everybody else was calling me.” Serrone also said Pesci enjoyed telling him dirty jokes. “In about five years you’re going to think I’m the funniest guy in the world,” Pesci told the 12-year-old.

Serrone was a 13-year-old freshman at Fiorello LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts when the movie was released. “To say the least, I was a little popular with the ladies,” he said. Then, with life experience, Pesci’s jokes began to make more sense to him. “My God, I got them,” Serrone said. “It was like epiphany, after epiphany, after epiphany.” Serrone saw “Goodfellas” 100 times in theaters by his estimation, with many of the viewings at the Cineplex Odeon in Fresh Meadows and the Midway in Forest Hills. “It was mind-blowing, dude. I mean, I’ve seen films but never connected to me that way,” he said. Based on Nicholas Pileggi’s 1985 book “Wiseguy,” the movie was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

Pesci won one for Best Supporting Actor. The movie has remained one of the most popular ever, being named on the American Film Institute’s “100 Years, 100 Movies” list. And it impacted Serrone’s footwear. In a scene after Hill begins making some money, he begins dressing up. “Hi, mom, what do you think? Look at my shoes. Aren’t they great?” His mom’s response: “My God. You look like a gangster.” Serrone said he has made sure to have stylish shoes for when people inevitably quote the line. Serrone said he’s now seen the movie 2,500 times but hasn’t watched it in two or three years, calling himself “my own worst critic.” He’s moved all around the country and now lives in Colorado. “Men move for two reasons in their lives: a job or a woman. I was lucky enough it was for a woman.” Still, the Queens roots run deep for Serrone. His Twitter handle is @Serrone718. And, a hardcore Mets fan, his oldest daughter is named Skyla Shea, with the middle name honoring the old ballpark. He was glad to learn that Neir’s was being kept open after owner Loycent Gordon announced it would close earlier in the month because of rising rents before the city became involved and rescued the bar. “There’s something to be said for tradition,” Serrone said. “There’s something to be said for places like this, especially places that have a connection to such a huge film like ‘Goodfellas.’ You’ll never see another ‘Goodfellas,’ ever. You walk in this place, the bar is iconic.” He said he’s often asked if being remembered for one thing bothers him. The actor says it’s better than being forgotten. “Unless you’re a guy like De Niro that can be remembered for 20 different things, if you’re an actor and you’re lucky enough to be remembered for one role, you did something,” Serrone said. “You made your Q mark.”

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A college student from Springfield Gardens was killed in May 2018 when the Lyft car she and her friends were riding in was struck broadside by a late-model Mercedes that blew through a red light in Downtown Jamaica. The driver of the Mercedes took off on foot after the crash but was caught a short while later. Both the victim and the driver were 19 years old. Last week, the driver, Alfaheed Odesanya — who lived on 101st Avenue in Ozone Park and is now 21 — was sentenced to two to six years in prison after ple a d i ng g u i lt y t o se cond- deg r e e manslaughter. “This was a horrible collision that could have easily been prevented,” said Melinda Katz, the new Queens district attorney. “The defendant in this case exceeded the speed limit and then continued through a solid red light.” The collision happened on a particularly dangerous stretch of Archer Avenue. A female pedestrian was struck and

killed on Archer Avenue last November by a 38-year-old man driving a stolen truck. The spot where both women died is parallel to the elevated LIRR tracks and visibility to cross streets is limited. Odesanya was heading north on Guy R. Brewer Boulevard through the tunnel under the tracks just after 11 p.m. on May 24, 2018, according to the District Attorney’s office. When he saw the traffic light ahead at Archer Avenue change from yellow and then to red, he went through it. Odesanya’s 2018 Mercedes struck a Lyft driver in a 2015 Hyundai with three passengers. Gabriella Deen of Springfield Gardens, a criminal justice major at Florida Gu lf Coa st Un iver sit y who’d ju st returned to Queens after her sophomore year, was killed. She’d been out with friends and called a car to take them home, her parents told the Daily News in 2018. According to the DA’s office, Odesanya said that he “was scared and didn’t know what to do, so I took off running.” Q

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‘Keep your car doors locked’ In Howard Beach, surveillance cameras caught this youngster looking for unlocked car doors — a nuisance crime that appears to be making a comeback. The photo was taken at 1:45 a.m. Wednesday outside a home on 156th Avenue, in New Howard Beach, just off the Belt Parkway. Several pictures caught four youths in all testing door handles, said Robert Costello, a retired sanitation worker who decided to

canvas his neighbors’ surveillance cameras after his wife discovered their car had been rifled the night before. “You could see them crossing the street and checking first one side of the avenue, then the other,” he said. After calling police and turning over the photos, “I told my neighbors to be aware of what’s going on. Keep your car doors locked at night,” Costello said. — Michael Shain

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Shelter could scare off day care center Proposed site on Cooper may not happen; decision expected February by David Russell Associate Editor

As the homeless shelter for 200 single men moves ahead at 78-16 Cooper Ave. in Glendale, a day care center planned for 79-40 Cooper Ave. could be pulling out. “Right now, we’re actively considering whether we want to pull out of the site altogether,” said Ted Hockenberry, CEO of Children of America, the would-be operator of the center. A decision on the future of the site will be made by the company within the next 10 days, he told the Chronicle Monday. Hockenberry, located in Florida, said he might visit the location himself or send someone from the company to check it out. Jim Perretty, chairman of the board for the company, has already been there. “It’s a great area. I’m actually surprised that they’re considering putting that type of facility in on that main road,” he said, referring to the homeless shelter. The day care center, a 15-classroom facility, would hold approximately 167 children, consisting of two infant groups, two toddler groups, seven preschool groups, a pre-K group and one school-age group. “The demographics do support having early child care solutions in the area and we think it would be a complement to the families that are in that area but we don’t want to be not successful and have families fearing going to the school, picking up, dropping off because of the proximity,” Hockenberry said. The proposed shelter, at the site of a shuttered factory, has been onagain and off-again for years. Opposed by many in the community, it would be the first in Community District 5. The developer

A homeless shelter for 200 single men slated for 78-16 Cooper Ave. could be the reason a day care center down the block might not open. Ted Hockenberry, CEO of Children of America, told the Chronicle the company may look to pull PHOTO BY DAVID RUSSELL out of the area. of the day care center was requesting a special permit from the Board of Standards and Appeals to build the center and went to Borough Hall after Community Board 5 voted 39-0 in favor of the move in April. Last August the Department of Homeless Services announced the planned shelter was on again. “That’s really prompting us as we’re coming down to the 11th hour,” Hockenberry said. The developer is in the process of finalizing permits but Hockenberry said the landlord reached out, saying it would make more sense to mutually part ways now rather than move ahead and see it not be successful. “He wants, obviously, to get his rent paid,” Hockenberry said. Landlord and developer Ken

Cayre told the Chronicle giving the day care provider the option to pull out of the lease was not a difficult decision. “We want our tenants to succeed,” he said. “If they feel it’s not going to be worthy, we will let them out.” There would be 32 accessory parking spaces behind the day care facility and 14 spaces in another lot for the self-storage building at the address, but the two would be separate and each would have its own curb cut. The one- and two-story building would have 15,212 total square feet of f loor area with 11,226 square feet for the day care center in the two-story portion and 3,986 square feet of commercial f loor area in the one-story portion. There would be a fenced-in play-

ground on the rooftop of the onestory portion. Cayre said there are some offers from medical offices and he would look for a 20,000-square-foot medical center if the day care center doesn’t happen. He ca l le d t he sit u at ion a “shame” after spending more than a year before BSA approved the zoning change. “It wasn’t happening when we signed to build it,” Cayre said of the shelter. COA operates more than 60 sites around the country, including locations in Jackson Heights and Queens Village. Cou ncil ma n Bob Holden (D-Middle Village) hopes the decision will be made to keep the day care center, citing a need in the neighborhood.

“I don’t think that’s a consideration long-term that they should worry about but again it’s up to the company,” the lawmaker said. Artistic Stitch Complex, Triumph Gymnastics, Party Sellers Entertainment and Elite Dance Academy are all nearby the site. There are also several schools in the area. Holden said he doesn’t consider the shelter a “done deal” and that there is still action ahead with the Depar tment of Buildings and BSA, as well as the possibility of a lawsuit blocking the project. He said if the shelter does come in, he wants to ensure it will be safe. Capt. Victoria Perry, commanding officer of the 104th Precinct, said at a community council meeting in November that the precinct can reach out to the commanding officer of Patrol Borough Queens North if needed and that politicians will not be shy about pressing the police for assistance if necessary. “I want the children to be safe,” she said. “I want the corridors [around the shelter] to be safe. I want the people in the shelter to be safe. I want people to feel they can come and go here safely whenever they want.” Hockenberry said his comapny hasn’t seen a similar situation with a shelter though there is different language in leases about operations that could be a detriment to child care, such as that a day care in a shopping center can’t be next to a dry cleaner without approval b e c au s e of ch e m ic a l s a fe t y concerns. The developer is in the process of finalizing permits but it could be for naught rather than being tied to a 15-year lease. “They’re getting ready to just pour the slab and everything at Q this point,” Perretty said.

Teacher removed from Maspeth HS by Michael Shain Editor

A math teacher at Maspeth High School who was implicated in an alleged grade-fixing scheme has been removed, according to reports. Daniel Sepulveda, who also coached the school’s wrestling and girl’s flag football teams, was transferred out in December, the New York Post reported this week. Sepulveda was among a group of teachers named by the Post whom students said provided answers to questions on the critical

state Regents exams. Last fall, Councilman Bob Holden (D-Middle Village), whose district includes the school, wrote to the U.S. attorneys in both Brooklyn and Manhattan, alleging “an apparent pattern of conspiracy to cover up” grade-fixing and academic fraud at the wellregarded school. Holden urged federal authorities to open an investigation into the school. Federal prosecutors have declined to comment. Last September, the Post published

charges of grade-fixing contained in a resignation letter written by a Maspeth teacher and sent to Department of Education investigators. Opened in 2011, Maspeth is among the city’s newest high schools. It has also been among its highest performing with a graduation rate of 98 percent and 90 percent Regents test pass rate. Its selective admissions policy has been unpopular in the neighborhood because it has accepted relatively few local students, Q especially from parochial schools.

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in last Saturday’s win. A key moment came in the second half with a chance to cut the lead to six. St. John’s missed a layup and Villanova hit a three to extend the lead to 11. “We had a bunch of layups that we missed, man,” Anderson said. “You can’t miss layups.” He called the misses “backbreakers” and said his squad was a half-step slow getting to where Villanova was. The winning formula was on display last Saturday against DePaul when Figueroa and Heron combined for 48 points. Figueroa hit seven three-pointers and finished with 28 points. He nearly tied Avery Patterson’s school record of hitting eight threes in one game, set in 2006. The Red Storm have been cold from the field and likely need two impressive scoring performances to win a game, in addition to forcing turnovers. “We played a good team, a good, tough defensive team that is going to win a lot of games in this league,” Villanova coach Jay

Rasheem Dunn scored 24 points on Tuesday in a 79-59 loss to Villanova at Madison Square Garden. Head coach Mike Anderson acknowledged the team “doesn’t have a whole lot of margin PHOTO COURTESY ST. JOHN’S ATHLETICS for error” after the team dropped to 2-7 in conference play. Wright said Tuesday. “I was proud of how we handled their pressure. They can get after you. They have great quickness. Their pressure is organized. It’s tough to handle.” The aggressive Red Storm lead the conference with 10.5 steals per game. But it’s still the shooting woes that have made the difference. St. John’s is ninth in the Big East in field goal percentage and ninth in threepoint shooting percentage, even after the outburst against DePaul. The Johnnies are seventh in free-throw percentage. As Anderson said, the team, which lost several key contributors from last season’s

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Four candidates who submitted petitions to run for Queens borough president were kicked off the March 25 ballot on Tuesday after election officials found various deficiencies with their petitions. Cou ncilman Jim my Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside), who recently dropped out of the race, will be on the ballot. According to information provided by the city’s Board of Elections, Danniel Maio of Forest Hills was rejected for failure to have 2,000 valid signatures, and Maio, in an email to the Chronicle, said the board ruled that he filed only 1,495 signatures. Retired Police Officer Anthony Miranda’s were disallowed for missing information on an amended cover sheet. Businessman Everly Brown also was ruled ineligible for cover sheet violations. Jusinta Jaggassar-Ernul was flagged for multiple deficiencies, including an insufficient number of signatures. The final ballot will include Councilman Donovan Richards (D-Laurelton), who is the endorsed candidate of the Queens County Democratic Party; former

Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley; Van Bramer; Councilman Costa Constantinides (D-Astoria); former prosecutor James Quinn; and Dau Yin of Bayside. In a press release issued Wednesday, Miranda’s campaign called out the law firm of Sweeney, Reich and Bolz, whose partners are leaders in the Queens Democratic Party, for attempting to disenfranchise voters of color in the borough. “The Queens machine removed an Asian American, African American and is attempting to remove the only Latino candidate to run for Queens Borough President in the past 126 yeas,” Miranda said in the statement. Michael Reich, a partner in the firm and executive director of the Queens Democratic Party, said in a phone interview that there was just one problem with that. “We didn’t raise any objections to Mr. Miranda’s petitions,” he said. “The Board of Elections did that on their own. He’s looking for a scapegoat for his own ineptitude.” The Chronicle could not reach Miranda’s attorney for comment prior to its deadQ line on Wednesday.

by Michael Shain Editor

Lisena Landscaping in Broad Channel was named Small Business of the Month by Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway Park) at a ceremony last Friday that brought out an array of local leaders. Fred Lisena, the second-generation owner of the company, and his wife, Jackie, were honored for, among other things, giving away Christmas trees during the holiday season. “Lisena Landscaping brought the most valuable asset you can bring to the holiday season to these communities and their families: joy,” Pheffer Amato said. “They are a great example of how a small business can truly become a community partner.” “Locally owned and operated small businesses, like Lisena Landscaping, are part of the fabric of our community because they live and work here and have a real stake in making our area a great place,” said Community Board 10 Chairwoman Betty Braton. “Our civic is so proud of Lisena Land-

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The six candidates for Queens borough president gathered in St. Albans last Saturday morning with eight Tuesdays to go before the special election on March 24. The function was a debate hosted by the Southeast Queens Leadership Coalition, a group of more than a dozen civic and religious organizations. The moderator was NY1 news anchor Cheryl Wills. The candidates took questions from Wills and later some chosen from among those submitted by audience members. The candidates appeared to try and cement their positions rather than break new ground. Councilman Donovan Richards (D-Laurelton) touted his experience as chairman of multiple powerful committees during his time in City Hall, and former Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley highlighted her past experience on transportation issues and criminal justice reform; Councilman Costa C o n s t a n t i n id e s ( D -A s t o r i a) stressed his environmental platform; former Senior Executive Assistant District Attorney James Quinn spotlighted his opposition to recent bail reform laws and his administrative experience; and retired police officer Anthony Miranda emphasized his outsider status as a contrast to politicians he stated repeatedly are responsible for many of the problems that the new borough president will have to deal with. Perennial office seeker Everly Brown, who runs a real estate business, also participated. There were a number of questions to which he did not respond, though he did launch a pointed broadside at the Queens County Democratic

Former Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley, left, Councilmen Costa Constantinides and Donovan Richards, former Senior Executive Assistant District Attorney James Quinn, businessman Everly Brown and retired police officer PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON Anthony Miranda make their case before hundreds of voters in St. Albans. Party leadership, which knocked him off the ballot in his last foray into politics and is challenging his petitions again this year. He said it would be “politics as usual” if Richards is elected. Richards has been endorsed by the Democratic Party. All agree that the office can and must be a bully pulpit from which the borough president has to advocate and fight for everything from transit funding to favorable land use laws and regulations. “I’m from a family of 15 children,” Crowley said. “I know what it’s like to fight for my fair share.” Miranda said he would make use of the ability to call public hearings on matters of importance. “Bring the public in,” he said. Miranda also castigated the career politicians for what hap-

Bus redesign continued from page 2 back to the drawing board,” he said. “There are simply too many questionable modifications that will put riders from every part of the borough at a significant commuting disa d v a n t a g e w it h o u t of fe r i n g v i a bl e alternatives.” Councilman Paul Vallone (D-Bayside) said his office has received dozens of complaints from area residents concerned with the plan. “In Northeast Queens, where there is no subway access and limited public transportation options for commuters, the MTA should be increasing and improving bus service, not

pened — and what didn’t — on their watch. “If you say [something] happened before you were there, what did you do to change things?” he asked, appearing to address Richards. “You may have protected your community, but you sold out the rest of Queens.” Richards, speaking of $2 billion secured for flood relief in Southeast Queens and his past or present chairmanship of committees concerning the environment, brushed off the criticism. “There are two kinds of people on this stage,” Richards said. “Flamethrowers and people with records.” He also pointed to 6,000 units of affordable housing for his district that either have been built or are in the pipeline.

creating a more desolate transportation desert,” he said. Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) said in his district the MTA proposed removing the Q53 in its entirety as well as stops along the Q22. The lawmaker said changes to the Q22 would require several hundred students and other riders to transfer to another bus to reach the same destination. “I urge Queens residents to vocalize their concerns by submitting feedback and attending the upcoming public sessions,” he said. A series of public workshops are being held around the borough for commuters to give input and suggestions in the process. MTA spokesperson Amanda Kwan defended the plan in an email to the Chronicle. “The Queens Bus Network Redesign will

On transportation, all favored expansion of the Atlantic Ticket program, which allows Queens residents to board Long Island Rail Road trains at select stations for discount rides to Atlantic Avenue. Constantinides said it is time for the boroughs to have voting members of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority board as Nassau and Suffolk counties do. “It’s a disgrace,” he said. On the Specialized High School Admissions Test controversy, Richards opposes using it at the sole means of admitting students to some of the city’s most competitive high schools. “It’s a tale of two education systems,” he said. Quinn favors the test — he is a graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School, one of the SHSAT

improve service by rebuilding the entire system from a blank canvas using public feedback and data-driven study about today’s ridership needs, putting service where it’s needed and modernizing an outdated map,” she said. “This is still a draft proposal that will change following feedback, and while there are always fiscal constraints in an organization with finite funds, budget is not a factor at this stage as we solicit feedback on a preliminary proposal.” The on-time performance of Queens bus routes decreased 12 percent from 2014 through 2018, according to MTA statistics. Average bus speeds in Queens are the second-highest of the five boroughs at 8.7 mph but that marks a 3.3 percent decrease from 2015.

schools — but wants to broaden the field of qualified students by adding things like more gifted and talented programs. Miranda would keep the test but expand the criteria for admission. “You might have had a bad test day,” he said. On criminal justice reform, Quinn was the only one saying that Rikers Island should remain in business as a jail complex, with all the changes, upgrades and reforms taking place right there. “The city is going to spend $10 billion to build jails in communities that don’t want them,” he said. “They are scheduled to be opened in 2026, and that’s if everything goes well. You could build new prisons on Rikers Island cheaper and faster. And you could start tomorrow.” Richards and Constantinides both said Rikers is irredeemable. “The Lippmann Commission called Rikers a stain on the history of New York City,” Constantinides said. Constantinides is pursuing hearings aimed at using Rikers for a clean energy and waste water treatment facility. Crowley, former chairwoman of the Council’s Committee on Fire and Criminal Justice, said she was one of the first to sound the alarm. “When I started on the Council, there were 16- and 17-year-olds on Rikers Island, she said. “ ... I called that out before it was popular.” When given the opportunity to ask a question of one opponent, Brown asked Richards why the councilman is challenging his nominating petitions. “Because I don’t believe people who sign petitions should have false addresses,” the councilman Q said.

Bus ridership in Queens fell 5.4 percent from 2014 through 2019 for average weekday rides. The agency attributes the drop to several factors, including slower bus speeds and decreased reliability. After the MTA receives feedback on the draft plan, a proposed final plan will be released, followed by another round of public outreach. The proposed final plan will also be presented to elected officials, the Borough Board, community boards and other stakeholders. The MTA will host a public hearing for the proposed final plan, followed by a presentation to the MTA board. If it receives approval, the implementation process will begin. The final plan is scheduled to be released later this Q year and implemented in 2021.

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Celebrate the Year of the Rat with a plethora of traditional celebrations by Katherine Donlevy Associate Editor

A month after most of the world celebrated the new year, traditional Asian culture is celebrating the Lunar New Year, which officially began on Jan. 25. The Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, doesn’t end until Saturday, Feb. 8. Despite it’s being halfway over, there is still plenty of time to celebrate the Year of the Rat and there is a plethora of local activities to observe the holiday the right way. The Queens Zoo in Corona is celebrating the entire first weekend of February with a number of activities. Multiple stations throughout the zoo will hold various activities, including lantern-making, a scavenger hunt and Lunar New Year story time. The New York Chinese Cultural Center will perform ribbon dancing and teach sugar painting, and hot coca and fortune cookies will be available for guests. In honor of the Year of the Rat, the zoo will display its resident rodents. For the full schedule or to reserve tickets in advance, visit queenszoo.com. Also on Feb. 1, the Flushing Library is hosting the Children’s Lunar New Year Celebration. Families with children of all ages are invited to try their hand at craft-making and bread-making from 2 to 4:30 p.m. The

Dragon walking is a popular Lunar New Year tradition — the puppet is held by multiple marchers, who sway and dance to bring the beast to life. Other celebrations include lantern-making, dancPHOTO BY WALTER KARLING ing to folk music and cooking traditional Asian cuisine. Friends of the Library will gift guests with red envelopes to honor the Chinese tradition. The Asian Students in Action at Queens College is hosting its annual Lunar New Years celebration on Monday, Feb. 3 from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. within the Student Union Ballroom. The event, not limited to only

students, includes performances by the organization as well as trivia games and free traditional Asian cuisine. For more information, contact the club through its facebook page, Asian Students in Action at Queens College - ASIA. Two weeks later on Feb. 15, the Flushing

Library is hosting another Spring Festival event — Celebrate The Year Of The Rat. The event starts with Chinese folk music and traditional opera and dance by the New York Hua Xia Arts Association, followed by traditional papercutting and Korean food preparation with Chef Soh Young Lee-Segredo. For information on both events, visit queenslibrary.org/branch/Flushing. Commonpoint Queens is calling for friends and neighbors to join in celebrating an afternoon of dance and musical performances, crafts and activities on Feb. 2 from 12 to 3 p.m. in its two locations: 67-09 108 St., Forest Hills and 58-20 Little Neck Pkwy., Little Neck. Both events are open and free to all ages, but registration is required through commonpointqueens.org. City Owlets is hosting its 4th Annual Lunar New Year FUNstival on Saturday, Feb. 1, which includes a kung-fu demonstration and a sidewalk lion dance performance from 11 to 11:30 a.m. The event at 10-42 Jackson Ave. in Long Island City will run in three 90-minute sessions at 9 a.m., 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m., and will include carnival games, prizes and raffles, story time and songs, arts and crafts, food tastings and goody bag giveaways. Space is limited to 20 children per session and tickets must be booked in Q advance at cityowlets.pike13.com.

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Public discourse on public space in LIC The arts, schools and recreation bring out ideas for a new waterfront by Michael Gannon Editor

The Plaxall Gallery was as logical a place as any for Monday night’s meeting dealing with the redevelopment of the Long Island City waterfront. The meeting was the third in recent weeks by Your LIC, a consortium of developers and major landowners tasked by the city to reimagine what the historically industrial area on and around Anable Basin could become as a new part of their community based on public input. Monday’s was geared toward the creation and use of public space, with many people saying an effort must be made to protect and nurture LIC’s arts community. The gallery houses artists exhibits and has a handful of studios, and serves as a hub for the umbrella group Long Island City Artists. It was made possible in 2016 when the Plaxall family lent space for it to begin and thrive. Plaxall along with TF Cornerstone, L&L MAG and Simon Baron Development make up Your LIC. The group was formed at the behest of the City Council after Amazon pulled out of an agreement for a massive headquarters complex in LIC last February. The information being collected will be used in guiding the rezoning for future development. Among the criticisms of opponents of major redevelopment is the one that any new luxury apartments would drive up property values, making it impossible for lower-income residents to stay or move in. But the same fear was expressed by the numerous residents who said any project

Residents sketch out their ideas for their visions of the future of the Anable Basin site on Long PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON Island City’s rapidly developing waterfront. should devote a significant amount of indoor and outdoor space to the arts. “This gallery exists because the Plaxall family donated 12,000 square feet,” Edjo Wheeler, artistic director of the gallery, told the crowd of well over 100 people. “The question is whether the arts can survive gentrification,” he said. The meeting once again was led by the Rev. Bishop Mitchell Taylor and Gail Mellow, former president of LaGuardia Community College. “What would the community need as an opportunity to help us live better?” Mellow asked the crowd to consider before all broke off into groups. As for the substance of the meeting, res-

idents held tabletop miniworkshops in groups of six to 10 to offer their opinions on how to proceed in three areas: cultural organizations and opportunities; schools and other educational facilities; and sites for health and fitness and social services. Each group had a map of existing facilities within the 28-acre area under study, and a blank map on the table where participants could brainstorm just where they wanted a new high school; a kayak launch or outdoor art site, something like the Noguchi Garden Museum. Those examining education offered requests such as a new high school or middle school, district schools as opposed to specialty sites; afterschool opportunities

and places for vocational training; entrepreneurial instruction; and training and business incubators. One of the largest and most intriguing parcels in the area is a massive building owned by the city’s Department of Education. Mellow said that despite what any residents might like to propose for the site, the DOE would have the last word. But a group of residents who oppose development on the sites and want to create parks and open space instead said they are fearful that the DOE building might be squandered. “This is a public building owned by the public,” one woman said. “I’d hate to have the city sell it to a private developer for $1.” Desired recreation opportunities included water activities ranging from a public pool to facilities for boating and kayaking and a youth sports complex. One resident suggested the public pool might be coupled with a gym and auditorium space to offset the number of schools in the area that lack one or both. Lenny Banovez, artistic director of the Titan Theater Co., echoed Wheeler’s earlier call for reasonably priced art facilities and studios. “We don’t need it to be free,” Banovez said. “But we do need it to be affordable.” One woman addressing the crowd said the consideration also should extend to youth arts programming. “We want the Arts and Cultural League to rock as much as Little League,” she said. A fourth workshop to discuss neighborhood planning is slated for an unspecified date in February, with the possibility of a fifth meeting discussed Monday night. Q

Pol wants shelters to stop charging rent Pair of operators tell the Daily News they haven’t been billing clients by David Russell For the latest news visit qchron.com

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Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi (D-Forest Hills) recently sent a letter to a dozen nonprofit homeless shelter providers, asking them to stop charging rent from clients. “While it is currently legal for your organization to charge rent and other fees, it is my belief that taking money from people that are homeless, does not further the goal of helping these individuals and families escape homelessness,” Hevesi wrote Jan. 16. A bill sponsored by Hevesi would prevent shelter providers, owners, managers and employees from taking payment, including rent or part of a workforce stipend, from residents of a state shelter. A companion measure in the state Senate is sponsored by Sen. Zell nor My r ie (D-Brooklyn). “I have also personally received allegations that include the forced signing over of

Social Security checks to caseworkers, and other forms of financial abuse and extortion under the threat of being moved to a different shelter or expelled from the system entirely,” Hevesi wrote. Last August, a new city rule required working shelter residents set aside about a one-third of their monthly income in a savings account they could access only once they found permanent housing. The program is mandatory under state law in a deal exempting the city from charging income-earning homeless rent for staying in shelters. Hevesi told the Daily News that the shelter industry in the state collects several billion dollars of taxpayer money annually and the organizations he wrote to have contracts from $200 million up through $1 billion. “I believe the public should know why some of them have been taking money from their homeless clients in addition to their taxpayer funded contracts,” he said.

A representative for Acacia Network, the city’s biggest shelter operator, told the Daily News the sites run by the group “do not charge clients any rent.” Christine Quinn, the former City Council speaker who is the president and CEO of shelter provider Win, also told the Daily News the organization doesn’t charge clients. “Win has never and will never charge rent or other fees to clients living in shelter,” she said. Hevesi asked state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli last year to audit the 12 nonprofit shelter providers and look into whether taxpayer money is being spent efficiently. Hevesi has asked Gov. Cuomo to fund Home Stability Support, a statewide rent supplement for families and individuals who are eligible for public assistance benefits and who are facing loss of housing due to eviction, domestic violence or hazardous living conditions. His bill to establish HSS has not Q passed the Legislature.

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ARTS, CULTURE & LIVING

by Mark Lord

Botanical Garden’s art of nature will warm your winter piece by Tatiana Arocha, an artist who specializes in working with a monochrome palette. Arocha’s website says that her work “serves as a reminder of the historical and continued exploitation of natural ecosystems.” Her art, she says, “is rooted in my layered relat ionship to the bio-political and vulnerable landscapes

I grew up exploring.” This is evidenced in the piece on display, a giant wishbone-shaped branch with an assortment of birds superimposed upon it. At the time the piece was created, Arocha had an exhibit on display in both the gallery and on the grounds, House explained. “The birds were outdoors, attached to trees in the Garden,” added QBG Education Manager Dina Matzner. “We had a scavenger hunt for the public to interact with the exhibit.” One of the goals of the gallery, in fact, is to engage the public as much as possible, Matzner said. Another work is the brainchild of Frank Buddingh, a tree expert who uses trees as a conductor to reconnect people with nature. According to House, Buddingh often gives tours at the Garden. continued on page 27

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Spring is still a few weeks away, but a brandnew art exhibit has sprung up at Queens Botanical Garden, where it will remain on display in the Visitor & Administration Building through March 22. More accurately, it’s a “greatest hits” collection, culled from the creative minds and hands of two dozen artists whose works have graced the QBG over the past 10 years. “Art in the Garden: Recollections: Highlights from Our Permanent Collection” is open to the public, like the Garden, from 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. every day except Mondays. Admission to both the Garden (through March) and the gallery is free. The diverse works “visualize our mission of connecting people, plants, and cultures through a multitude of media, subjects and inspirations,” a posted introduction to the exhibit indicates.

According to the Garden’s public programs manager, Dylan House, many of the artists represented are from Queens. Near the entrance is a striking three-dimensional

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“Assembly,” with works by Damien Davis, Rachel Eulena Williams and Sun You in various media, in a display inspired by the exhibit’s title, as a word and an action. Through Sat., March 21, Mrs., 60-40 56 Drive, Maspeth. Free. Info: (347) 841-6149, mrsgallery.com.

Chili Cook Off & Super Bowl Watch Party, with a cash prize for the winning dish, comedians riffing for the first half of the game and more. Sun., Feb. 2, 5:30-11:30 p.m., QED, 27-16 23 Ave., Astoria. $5; $10 to enter chili dish; $7 to judge. Info: (347) 451-3873, qedastoria.com.

“My Blue Window,” with works in various media that explore anti-blackness as it operates algorithmically within systems, focusing on predictive policing technologies intended to help dispatch officers to high-crime areas before incidents are reported. Through Sun., Feb. 16, Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park. $8 suggested; $4 seniors; free students, children. Info: (718) 592-9700, queensmuseum.org. “The Art Work of Meagan J. Meehan,” with abstract works by the artist, author and journalist who coined and defined “conscious perceptionalism” as a genre. Sat., Feb. 1 (opening reception 5:30-7 p.m.)-end of Feb., The Center at Maple Grove Cemetery, 127-15 Kew Gardens Road, Kew Gardens. Free. Info/RSVP (requested): (347) 8786614, friendsofmaplegrove.org. “A Good Beginning, Here,” honoring Lunar New Year with works by eight artists with roots in East Asia, all embodying life stories and ideas rooted in the East and evolved in the West. Through Sun., Feb. 16, Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. $5 suggested; free students, teens. Info: (718) 4637700, flushingtownhall.org. “Nicolas Moufarrege: Recognize My Sign,” with embroidered paintings created in Beirut, Paris and New York City, mixing classical and Baroque references with comic book heroes, Arabic calligraphy and more. Through Sun., Feb. 16, Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park. $8 suggested; $4 seniors; free students, children. Info: (718) 5929700, queensmuseum.org.

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“Dreamscapes by Carol Crawford,” with drawings based on photos of refugees on the move enlarged to life size; and “Life Interrupted,” with photos by 13 photographers focusing on how life is altered by unexpected changes in political, economic and familial circumstances. Both through Sun., Feb. 16, The Plaxall Gallery, 5-25 46 Ave., Long Island City. Free. Info: (347) 848-0030, licartists.org. “Signature Styles: Friendship, Album, and Fundraising Quilts,” with pieces that emphasize the quilt as a community project, to be read not only as a whole but also square by square; first in the three-part “Connecting Threads: A Year of Exceptional Quilts” series. Through Sun., June 21 (curator-led talk Wed., Feb. 5, 1 p.m.), American Folk Art Museum’s Self-Taught Genius Gallery, 47-29 32 Place, Long Island City. Free. Info: (212) 595-9533, folkartmuseum.org. “Chen Dongfan: Sanctuary,” with large-scale paintings that hope to reconcile “a calligraphic energy with the destructive potency of graffiti” and evoke the sacredness of a sanctuary; “Fevzi Yazi-

MUSIC Queens Symphony Orchestra: Gershwin Got Rhythm, with several pieces by the celebrated composer and pianist performed by the QSO to honor his legacy. Sun., Feb. 2, 3-4:30 p.m., LeFrak Concert Hall at Queens College, 153-49 Reeves Ave., Flushing. Free. Info: (718) 570-0909, (718) 544-2996, queenssymphony.org.

American Artist, above, the man behind the “My Blue Window” exhibit at the Queens Museum, will hold a discussion focused on police surveillance with Rashida Richardson of the AI Now Institute this Sunday. See Lectures/Talks. PHOTO BY KUO-HENG HUANG ci: Dark White,” with 40 works on paper by the award-winning Turkish journalist produced before and during his current incarceration in Istanbul; and “Patricia Domínguez: Planetary Tears,” a three-channel video journey through colonialism and indigenous cosmology. Through Fri., May 1 (except “Dark White,” through Sat., March 14), Dr. M.T. Geoffrey Yeh Gallery, SJU, 8000 Utopia Pkwy., Jamaica. Free. Info: (718) 990-7476, stjohns.edu. “Relative Fields in a Garden,” a multimedia collaboration between portraitist Heidi Howard and her mother, sound sculptor Liz Phillips, that combines fantastical flora with field recordings to depict three generations of women and Phillips’ garden in Sunnyside. Through Sun., Feb. 16, Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Free with admission: $8 suggested; $4 seniors; free students, kids. Info: (718) 592-9700, queensmuseum.org.

CALL FOR ART Long Island City Artists, with art in media of all types and sizes sought for upcoming exhibit reflecting on social transformation, in response to the centennial of women’s suffrage in the U.S., with a focus on feminism but inclusive of adjacent movements and concerns; deadline Mon., Feb. 10. $25. Info: (347) 848-0030, licartists.org.

THEATRE “Black Love,” a revival of the Black Spectrum Theatre’s first production, a kaleidoscope of love stories showing that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Thu., Jan. 30, 7 p.m.; Fri.-Sat., Jan. 31-Feb. 1, 8 p.m.; Sun., Feb. 2, 4 p.m., BST, Roy Wilkins Park, 177 St. and Baisley Blvd., St. Albans. $20. Info: (718) 723-1800, blackspectrum.com.

“The Meeting,” the story of a fictional meeting between the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, dealing with issues such as poverty, racism, war and black selfempowerment. Sat., Feb. 1, 2 p.m., Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, 161-04 Jamaica Ave. $5. Info: (718) 658-7400, jcal.org. COURTESY PHOTO

dies smely, the experiment in pop music with revolving members and shifting roles, this time a collaboration between Helen Chu and Emilia Wang, featuring Joe Heffernan. Tue., Feb. 4, 8-9 p.m. (doors open 7 p.m.), SculptureCenter, 44-19 Purves St., Long Island City. Free. Info: (718) 3611750, sculpture-center.org. Jazz Jam Celebrating the Legacy of Louis Armstrong, the monthly event led by saxophonist Carol Sudhalter, with all musicians and vocalists welcome to join in. Wed., Feb. 5, 7-10 p.m., Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. Free to play or sing; $10 to listen; free students, teens. Info: (718) 463-7700, flushingtownhall.org.

“Divas de España,” a comedic musical review on what it takes to be a diva, celebrating Rocio Jurado, Sara Montiel, Charo and Lola Flores. Each Fri.-Sat., 8 p.m.; each Sun., 4 p.m., Jan. 31-Feb. 14, Thalia Spanish Theatre, 41-17 Greenpoint Ave., Sunnyside. $35. Info: (718) 729-3880, thaliatheatre.org. “Appropriate,” a darkly comic tale about the queen bee of her Irish town, who always dreamed of her wedding day but then flees the reception; part of the 2020 Origin 1st Irish Festival. Daily through Feb. 2, 8 p.m., New York Irish Center, 10-40 Jackson Ave., Long Island City. $26. Info: (718) 482-0909, newyorkirishcenter.org.

Peabo Bryson With Special Guest Regina Belle, with the acclaimed vocalists who won both a Grammy and a Tony for “A Whole New World” from Disney’s “Aladdin” performing. Sat., Feb. 1, 8 p.m., Colden Auditorium, Queens College, 153-49 Reeves Ave., Flushing. $39-$74. Info: (718) 793-0923, kupferbergcenter.org. COURTESY IMAGE

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Influencing the Odyssey: Films that Inspired Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, with movies that inspired the director and co-writer of “2001: A Space Odyssey,” including “Forbidden Planet,” “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” “Metropolis” and more. Fri., Jan. 31-Sun., Feb. 2, various times, Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria. $15; $11 seniors, students; $9 kids 3-17; includes museum admission. Info: (718) 7776888, movingimage.us.

“Images of America: St. Albans” book talk and signing, with author Claire Serant and area residents speaking about the neighborhood and her new photo book on it. Thu., Jan. 30, 5:30 p.m., Black Spectrum Theatre, Roy Wilkins Park, 177 St. and Baisley Blvd., St. Albans (followed by play “Black Love”; see Theatre). Free; books available for purchase (play tickets separate). Info: (718) 723-1800, blackspectrum.com. continued on page 28

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Exploring how outer structure shapes inner structure by Jordana Landres qboro contributor

By proximity, extension and definition, the atmosphere art is created in can’t help but become part of it. Presented by SculptureCenter in Long Island City, Cuban artist Rafael Domenech’s “Model to exhaust this place” merges his sculpture with the gallery’s ground floor, the site of a former trolley repair shop. With a strong focus on how physical dimensions affect the people living in them, Domenech uses construction site materials to powerful effect, creating a stripped-down, metal-

‘Model to exhaust this place’ and ‘In Practice: Total Disbelief’ When: Through Mon., March 23 Where: SculptureCenter, 44-19 Purves St., Long Island City Entry: $10 suggested; $5 students. (718) 361-1750, sculpture-center.org

heavy atmosphere that’s somber but also welcoming. Domenech’s architectural installation is a sculpture, pavilion, meeting venue and decentered architectural model working in concert with an intact though largely unused industrial gantry system. Reflective of LIC itself, the urban setting created delivers a universal message applicable across all geographical areas: The physical specs of what we’re close to become part of who we are. Emphasizing the interplay between a repurposed industrial, early 20th-century space and its reincarnation as a gallery, Domenech uses panels of semi-iridescent framed aluminum mesh to create what he calls “space modulators,” creating different perceptual experiences with added architectural elements that SculptureCenter Director Christian Rattemeyer says, “replicate standards set by the construction industry.” Meant to showcase a book as a unit, large-scale, the panels display writing by the artist and exiled Cuban poet, novelist, essayist and critic Severo Sarduy. Quotes in bold red font printed on narrow pale wooden chairs underscore just how much the physical presentation of literary material can mod-

Rafael Domenech’s “Model to exhaust this place,” left, and the separate exhibit “In Practice: Total Disbelief,” with works including “ELG Familial Archives 2019” by Emilie PHOTO BY JORDANA LANDRES Louise Gossiaux are on display at SculptureCenter. ify the perception of it. The theme of “Model to exhaust this place” centers around how widely used measurements and metrics inform and function as the literal building blocks for people’s experiences, and understanding of the world around themm — a sort of metrics matrix. Rattemeyer confirms the observation that all people are unavoidably shaped by structures and standardized precedents.

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SculptureCenter’s other new exhibit, “In Practice: Total Disbelief,” featuring works by 13 newly commissioned artists and artist teams, shows how accepted truths and social norms are constructed and questioned as well as how they’re questioned. The exhibit delves deeply into and deconstructs the nature and structure of disbelief itself, whether the disbelief is in response to continued on page 29

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ADMINISTRATION CITATION File No. 2019-4939 SURROGATE’S COURT QUEENS COUNTY CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK By the Grace of God Free and Independent, TO Suthell A. Beaulieu, Ashely Beaulieu, Sashel Beaulieu, Queens County Public Administrator, the heirs at law, next of kin and distributees of Suthell Beaulieu 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 Blaze Randazzo of Nationstar Mortgage LLC d/b/a Champion Mortgage Company, who is domiciled at 8950 Cypress Waters Blvd., Coppell, Texas 75019 c/o Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC, 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard, Rochester, NY 14624. YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, QUEENS County, at 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Room 62, Queens County Courthouse, Jamaica, NY 11435, on March 12, 2020 at 9:30 o’clock in the forenoon of that day why a decree should not be made in the estate of Suthell Beaulieu lately domiciled at 50-13 15 Beach Channel Drive, Far Rockaway, New York 11691, in the County of Queens County, State of New York, granting Limited Letters of Administration upon the estate of the decedent to Suthell A. Beaulieu or Ashely Beaulieu or Sashel Beaulieu, distributees of the Decedent, and upon their default or failure to qualify, then to the Queens County Public Administrator, and if they are permitted to renounce, then to Deborah A. Case, Esq., the nominee of the Petitioner, or to such other person as may be entitled thereto; and That the authority of the representative under the foregoing Letters be limited as follows: To receive service of process on behalf of the Estate of Suthell Beaulieu, relative to a mortgage foreclosure action commenced in the Suffolk County Supreme Court to foreclose the mortgage dated March 24, 2008 that was recorded in the Suffolk County Clerk’s Office on April 8, 2008 in Liber M00021693 of Mortgages, page 486, relative to real property located at 17 Summer Lane, Amityville, NY 11701. HON. Peter J. Kelly, Surrogate, James Lim Becker, Chief Clerk, Dated, Attested and Sealed, January 24, 2020, Name of Attorney for Petitioner: Steven M. Palmer, Esq., of Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC, Address 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard, Rochester, NY 14624, Telephone No. (585) 295-6308. 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-at-law appear for you. #98328 Notice of Formation of EAE PLUMBING & ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/13/2020. 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: EAE PLUMBING & ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES, LLC, 104-46 200TH STREET, ST. ALBANS, NY 11412. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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Dr. Mae Jemison, in her NASA portrait and aboard the space shuttle Endeavor, is the subject of a Black History Month tribute at the Black Spectrum Theatre. FILE PHOTO, LEFT; PHOTO COURTESY NASA

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Dr. Mae Jemison’s resume is an impressive one. Before becoming a Cornell-educated physician, the Alabama native enrolled in Stanford at age 16 and graduated with degrees in chemical engineering and African-American history. She volunteered as a doctor in a Cambodian refugee camp and with the Peace Corps in Western Africa, and learned to speak four languages: English, Russian, Japanese and Swahili. And that was all before September 1992, when she became the first AfricanAmerican woman in space as a mission specialist aboard the space shut tle Endeavor. In honor of Black History Month, the Black Spectrum Theatre will pay tribute to Jemison with five performances of a biographical play written by Jacqueline Wade and directed by Valerie Donaldson. “It covers her life from her childhood to her mission as the first African-American

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woman in space,” said Carl Clay, founder of Black Spectrum. “It’s geared toward elementary school students and adults.” There are nine cast members, including actresses portraying Jemison as a girl and as the adult astronaut-to-be. Clay said a good deal of the play deals with Jemison’s struggles as a student with an interest in science, particularly her efforts to be accepted and taken seriously by teachers and others in the scientific community as a black woman. Jemison orbited Earth 126 times in her nearly eight days in space. Among the projects she worked on were a pair of bone cell experiments, another examining aspects of liquid technology and a study of how tadpoles created by artificial fertilization of eggs from female frogs developed in space. Jemison would leave NASA in 1993 to found the Jemison Group, which according to its website explores and develops stand-alone science and technology companies. According to the website IMDB, Jemison is friends with actress Nichelle Nichols of “Star Trek” fame, and appeared on “Star Trek: The Next Generation” as a “Lt. Palmer,” becoming, according to Wikipedia, the first genuine astronaut to appear on the show after cast member LeVar Burton discovered she was a fan of the series. Clay said Black Spectrum is hoping to reach out to Jemison in hopes that she might be able to make an appearance. Q

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continued from page 23 He creates artwork out of different tree parts. Now on display is a piece that looks like an acorn but is actually a seed pod from a tree, House said. One of the more unusual-looking works is by Fulbright scholar Jane Ingram Allen, who uses natural elements to create handmade paper. In fact, it is said she considers nature a partner in her work. Crafted from materials collected in the Garden, the piece consists of six square panels, arranged in two vertical rows. Matzner described it as “very textural.” Turkish artist Serkan Altinoz experiments with water and its many possibilities, fusing traditional craft and contem-

‘Art in the Garden: Recollections’ When: Through Sun., March 22 Where: Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main St., Flushing Entry: Free. (718) 886-3800, queensbotanical.org

porary art. Many of his works are devoted to the natural world. Trained from childhood in paper marbling, he went through an elaborate process to create the work on display, which looks like three yellow feathers arranged in the shape of the letter “Y.” As explained by the curators, the piece is the result of painting solvents onto the surface of a body of water and then transferring them onto a canvas. Another attraction is a photographic depiction called “Artists in Action,” which focuses on the processes involved in the

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Art drawn from nature doesn’t hibernate at QBG

Among the works on display at the Queens Botanical Garden are pieces by Manuel Macarrulla, far left, Jane Ingram Allen, Frank Buddingh and Serkan Altinoz. On the cover: QBG Education Manager Dina Matzner and Public Programs Manager Dylan House with PHOTOS BY MARK LORD works including one with an avian theme by Tatiana Arocha, top. creation of some of the exhibit’s pieces. The closing reception for “Art in the Garden: Recollections” is set for March 22 from 2 to 4 p.m., and the public is invited.

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I HAVE OFTEN WALKED

‘Maverick’ Jack Kelly began his ride in Astoria by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

The son of Irish immigrants, John Augustus Kelly Sr. was born in Lowell, Mass. on May 28, 1898. After working as the caretaker for the famous Vesper Country Club, he came to New York City and met and married Annie Walsh, who was three years his senior, in June, 1920 in Queens. Their first child arrived quickly. Nancy was born March 25, 1921. Their son, John Augustus Jr.. known as Jack, came six years later on Sept. 16, The Nancy and Jack Kelly House as it appeared in the 1927. Annie was a stage mother 1930s at 21-44 46 St. in Astoria. and pushed her children into modeling and acting as soon as they could found successful acting careers. After severwalk. John Sr., a ticket manager in the the- al movie roles, Jack was cast as James Garater business, bought the family a newly ner’s brother in the hit TV show “Maverick.” Their childhood home is worth nearly built home at 21-44 46 St. in 1930. Eight years later, the family moved west $900,000 these days, but little else seems to Q to California, where Nancy and Jack both have changed about it.

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LECTURES/TALKS American Artist and Rashida Richardson Conversation and Q&A, with the artist and the director of policy research at the AI Now Institute discussing issues of police surveillance. Sun., Feb. 2, 3-4:30 p.m., Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Free with admission: $8 suggested; $4 seniors; free students, children. Info: (718) 592-9700, queensmuseum.org.

KIDS/FAMILIES “Fables: An Original Dance Show for the Whole Family,” with timeless stories like “The Fox and the Crow” and “The Tortoise and the Hare” set to dance, inspired by the rhythmic narrative of Jean de La Fontaine’s “Fables” and performed by young dancers alongside professionals from Rioult Dance NY. Sat., Feb. 1, 3 p.m., LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, 31-10 Thomson Ave., Long Island City. $20. Info: (718) 482-5151, lpac.nyc.

CLASSES/WORKSHOPS The Vietnam War Reading and Discussion Program, with Jo-Anne Raskin of the Friends of Maple Grove moderating conversations related to books loaned by Humanities New York. Each Sat. through Feb. 29, 10-11:30 a.m., Maple Grove Cemetery Victorian Administration Building, 83-15 Kew Gardens Road, Kew Gardens. Free. Info/RSVP (requested): (347) 878-6614, friendsofmaplegrove.org. Adult Crafting with Jane Austen: Read-Aloud & Crafting Circle, with participants making Valentine’s Day crafts including their own projects brought from home while some read passages from Austen’s 1817 novel “Persuasion” aloud. Sat., Feb. 1 and 8, 12-5 p.m., King Manor Museum, 150-03 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica. Free. Info: (718) 206-0545, kingmanor.org. Building a Relationship with God, each Mon., 10-11 a.m., through May 18; The Book of Job, each Wed., 10-11 a.m., through May 20; Introduction to Judaism, each Thu., 7-8 p.m., through May 21, 2020; all taught by Rabbi Daniel Wolpe, Flushing-Fresh Meadows Jewish Center, 193-10 Peck Ave. Free. Info: (718) 357-5100.

CLUBS Israeli folk dancing, with instruction for beginners, in a fun, welcoming atmosphere. Each Mon., 7:30 p.m. (beginners’ instruction); 8:3010 p.m. (intermediate dances), Hillcrest Jewish Center, 183-02 Union Tpke, Fresh Meadows. $10. Info: (718) 380-4145, hillcrestjc.org. Knit & Crochet Club, with participants meeting up to share techniques and patterns and bringing their own supplies. Each Fri., 10:30 a.m., Howard Beach Library, 92-06 156 Ave. Free. Info: (718) 641-7086, queenslibrary.org.

SENIOR ACTIVITIES “Scrooge: The Relapse,” a new play by John McCaffrey and Jack Gwaltney, to be read by members of the Queens Center for Gay Seniors. Fri., Jan. 31, 2 p.m., Jewish Center of Jackson Heights, 37-06 77 St. Free. Info: (718) 533-6459. Pomonok Senior Center, 67-09 Kissena Blvd., is proud to offer the following programs, available to anyone 60+. Zumba for both beginners and continuing students, Tues., 9:30 a.m.; aerobics by Shape Up NYC, for anyone 18+, Fridays at 11 a.m.; Dear Abby discussion group, Thurs., 11 a.m.; movie screenings, Wed., 1 p.m. Info: (718) 591-3377, Mon.-Fri., 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Woodhaven/Richmond Hill Senior Center, with arts and crafts, knitting, Wii bowling, education and more. Mon.-Fri., 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., lunch at 12 p.m. Strength/stretching exercise class every Mon., 1 p.m.; yoga class every Thu., 10 a.m.; Zumba every Fri. 89-02 91 St., Woodhaven. Info: (718) 847-9200. SNAP of Eastern Queens Innovative Senior Center for adults 60+, 80-45 Winchester Blvd., Queens Village. Classes — Exercise every Mon.: advanced, 11 a.m.; beginners, 1 p.m. Every Tue.: magic and ABC computer class, 10 a.m. Every Wed.: armchair yoga, 9 a.m.; Zumba gold, 10 a.m. Every Thu.: creative writing, 11 a.m.; painting, 1 p.m. Every Fri.: fall prevention, 10 a.m.; women’s discussion group, 11 a.m. Info: (718) 454-2100. Young Israel Forest Hills Senior Center, with fitness classes and lunch every day, Mon.-Fri. Ping-Pong every Tue., 1 p.m.; Movie Club every Thu., 1 p.m.; Chinese Culture Club, every Mon., Wed., 1 p.m.; Beaded Jewelry Class first and third Tue. every month, 1 p.m., 68-07 Burns St. Info: (718) 520-2305, foresthillsseniorctr@nyc.rr.com.

SUPPORT GROUPS Gam-Anon, for families of someone with a gambling problem. Call hot line (212) 606-8177. Overeaters Anonymous, for anyone with an eating disorder or other problem with food or maintaining a healthy weight, in various neighborhoods. Each Tue., 6:30-8 p.m., Holy Child Jesus Outreach Center, 112-06 86 Ave., Richmond Hill. Info: (718) 564-7027 (leave message). Each Thu., 12-1:30 p.m., Howard Beach Library, 92-06 156 Ave. Info: Julie, (718) 848-4338. Each Thu., 12:15-1:40 p.m., Rego Park Library, 91-41 63 Drive. Info: (347) 4335876 (OA of Greater New York; leave message), (718) 459-5140 (library). Alcoholics Anonymous, daily meetings around Queens for those with a drinking problem. Info: (718) 520-5021, queensaa.org, nyintergroup.org. Bereavement groups for assistance dealing with loss and the process towards healing, with others experiencing similar situations. Central Queens YM & YWHA, 67-09 108 St., Forest Hills. Registration req’d. Info: (718) 268-5011, ext. 160, olderadults@cgy.org.

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ACROSS 1 Item on stage 5 Relaxation 9 ”Help!” 12 Emanation 13 Picture of health? 14 Demonic tyke 15 Dance lesson 16 Green land 17 Grazing area 18 Loafer, e.g. 19 Wrestling surface 20 Small horse 21 Tear 23 Eggs 25 Ought not 28 Plunder 32 Jellied dish 33 Flat 34 Neptune or Poseidon 36 Makes baby food, maybe 37 Id counterpart 38 Allow 39 ”Ironside” star 42 Definite article 44 ”Phooey!” 48 Past 49 Desktop symbol 50 Sheltered 51 Under the weather 52 Filly’s brother 53 Mountain goat 54 Caustic chemical 55 TV trophy 56 ”-- and the Tramp”

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11 Fix, in a sense 20 Evidence of fraud 22 Disguised, for short 24 Cost 25 ”More,” to Jose 26 Work with 27 Hot tub 29 Word implied in “been there, done that” 30 Born 31 Golfer Ernie

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continued from page 25 conflicting information that doesn’t add up, or comes from the experience of how faith can sour into suspicion when the believer is given reasons to stop believing. Jordan Strafer’s “Process Entanglement Procedure (PEP), 2019” features a video of a woman represented by a doll in a courtroom of dolls responding to a demeaning interrogation by unseen opposing counsel. The contempt in the voice, even as a nonvisual presence, calls attention to how disbelief can become an abusive force as the quest for justice can be carried out abusively and unjustly: how skepticism can protect, but also harm. An autopsy-esque treatment of memories and loss by Emilie Louise Gossiaux, “ELG

Familial Archives 2019,” features literally truncated recollections through body parts — among them the breasts, ribcage, tattooed forearms and ears of family members as well as the artist’s own. Gossiaux, who lost her vision while an art student, created the pieces from memory using foam, stoneware and paint. The forensic quality of limbs laid out on a table — Gossiaux’s arm bearing a butterfly tattoo next to her father’s branded with a crucifix — amplifies the display’s stunning power. “What artists do best is look at things a different way and through their perspective, make us look anew,” says Rattemeyer. Q No question.

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HOWARD BEACH/LINDENWOOD

HOWARD BEACH

HOWARD BEACH/ROCKWOOD PARK

HOWARD BEACH

Cape on 50x90 lot, 4 BRs, 2 full baths. 1st floor, hardwood floors, living room w/fireplace, formal dining room, kitchen, 2 BRs, full bath, access to enclosed sunroom. 2nd floor, 2 BRs, full fin. bsmt., new gas furnace & hot water heater (4 yrs old), large den. Owner Motivated! Reduced $718K

HOWARD BEACH/ROCKWOOD PARK

Mint AAA Hi-Ranch. 3 BRs/2 full bths. 3 zone radiant heat, porcelain tiles in 1st floor, gas Heat Glo fireplace, quartz countertop, top floor all GE Cafe series kitchen, SS appl., granite counter. All new kitchen and bath, tankless water heater, sec. cameras, hi-hats throughout, ductless AC, Pella sliding doors. Asking $879K

Co-ops & Condos For Sale

CONR-077104

Hi-Rise - 2 Bed, 2 Baths updated kitchen...Reduced $239K Hi-Rise - Mint AAA, 2 Bed, 2 Baths, custom kit., new baths. .......................................................................Asking $305K Garden Co-op - 3 Bed, 1 Bath, freshly painted, Hi-hats, new closet doors, w/dryer in apt, updated kit. Asking $299K One-of-a-kind Janet Ann Duplex Condo - 2 Bed, 1 1/2 baths. Renovated, granite, SS appl., washer and dryer, terrace, .......................................................................Asking $365K

Apartments For Rent OZONE PARK Updated, 2 Bed, 1 Bth. incl. parking, heat, elec. & gas. ................................................................$2,200

Waterfront, amazing views with boat slip and slip for jet skis. Large Colonial with 9 rooms, 3/4 BRs, 3 full baths, 53x100. Huge living room and dining room, 2 decks overlooking yard. Half in-ground pool on separate deck with water slide. 2 car garage, pavers in front, walk-in area leading to magnificient water view. Asking $1,098,000

Mint AAA Corner High-Ranch, 4 BRs, 2 new full baths. Large foyer, living room with fireplace. New gas furnace and hot water heater. Sliding doors to paved yard with heated in-ground pool. 45x100 lot, 2nd fl., living room, dining area, EIK, 3 BRs, new bath, PVC fencing, Andersen windows, 3yr. old roof. Shed with electric. Asking $869K

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