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Postpone property taxes until death Senior homeowners will get to defer tax bite, awaiting mayor’s OK

by Michael Shain Editor

W

ithout fanfare or much opposition, the City Council last week passed a new bill that allows low-income, senior homeowners to put off paying property taxes for the rest of their lives.

The bill, now awaiting Mayor de Blasio’s signature, represents a sweeping change for city homeowners — for the first time, allowing qualified owners full tax deferral essentially until death.

The new bill will permit homeowners over 65 years old and earning less than $58,400 a year to apply for a property tax deferment. The deferral would allow them to pay just some — or even none — of their property taxes until they die or the house is sold.

The city then would collect the accumulated tax debt — without interest — when the house changes hands.

“It’s something the city has never done before,” said an aide to Councilman Daniel Dromm (D-Jackson Heights), who sponsored the bill.

The new tax deferral could be available to an estimated 17,000 homeowners in Queens, a spokesman for the City Council said.

As well, the new bill would allow lowincome homeowners — regardless of age

As property-tax assessments zoom up, senior homeowners with limited incomes are being squeezed. To keep people in their homes, the City Council last week passed a groundbreaking new law that allows them to stop paying their taxes until the house is sold. PHOTO BY MICHAEL SHAIN — to come up with tax payment plans based on their income for both current and past-due taxes.

The city already has an installment plan for people who are in tax arrears, Dromm pointed out during hearings on the bill “But, the amount of each installment is

calculated without regard to income or ability to pay,” he said. “As a result, many property owners cannot actually afford the payments and end up defaulting.”

Dromm cited statistics from the city that show nearly half of the people in installment agreements end up defaulting anyway.

The bill would change the system of tax payment for low-income homeowners by allowing them to pay based on a percentage of their incomes rather than the assessed value of their property.

Seniors would have the option of deferring some or all of their taxes. Low-income homeowners would have the choice of paying between 2 and 8 percent of their incomes toward current or past-due taxes.

The mayor has not said yet if he will sign the groundbreaking new bill into law but a City Hall spokeswoman, in an email to the Chronicle, indicated he is supportive.

“This bill recognizes that hardships exist for vulnerable New Yorkers and offers a path for them to stay in the neighborhoods they call home,” she said.

The new program, if it becomes law, will be rolled out by the Department of Finance sometime this spring, Dromm said.

Generallly the city can place a tax lien on a homeowner who is more than $1,000 in arrears for more than three years.

The debt is auctioned off to the highest bidder at the annual lien sale, usually in May. The new debt owner then has the right to collect the back taxes — with interest and fees tacked on. Eventually, the debt holder can go to court and foreclose on the homeQ owner for failure to pay.

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Last-minue change of heart on shelter City nixes Ozone Park facility as shelter for mental patients only

by Michael Shain Editor

In a suprise, last-minute move, the city this week said it is dropping plans to put 113 men with mental problems into a shelter in Ozone Park next month.

“We won,” read a post on the Ozone Park Residents Block Association’s Facebook page last Tuesday night. “It is a small win. But a win nevertheless.”

The excitement was over a repor t issued late Tuesday afternoon disclosing that the shelter would house a large group of men, but that it would no longer be designated as a residential home for those with histories of mental disorders.

Instead, the building on 101st Avenue, a former church bought two years ago and converted into a shelter late last year, will be used as “temporary” housing for “single adults.”

In the parlance of the Department of Homeless Services, that includes men who are simply homeless and seeking permanent housing.

“We fought against the mentally ill men being placed on 10st Avenue and we won that battle,” said the OPRBA’s post.

“We realize that we still could be faced with some problems with 113 men, but it is a far cry from the challenges we were facing,” it read.

The residents association last summr sued to stop the shelter but lost in court recently.

The group’s president, Sam Esposito,

The red-brick building on 101st Avenue at 86th Street is ready to open late next month, but the Department of Homeless Services disclosed this week it has changed its mind about using it PHOTO BY MICHAEL SHAIN solely to house men with histories of mental problems. said last week that he was looking at ways to go after the city in court again in concert with other neighborhoods where shelters are planned.

“I believe they backed down to avoid another lawsuit,” Esposito told the Chronicle Tuesday night.

Not everyone was ready to call the

city’s change of heart a victory.

State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach), who represents Ozone Park, asked the mayor and Department of Homeless Services at Gracie Mansion last week to reconsider the plan for the shelter.

DHS Commissioner Steven Banks told him then that the shelter would be designated for “single adults” when it opened, Addabbo said.

“I advocated for them to please choose another population [for the shelter] — women, families, vets,” he said. “And I said 113 is way too many for a residential neighborhood like that.” The senator said he suggested 75 might be more managable.

But when DHS issued its report last Tuesday — a legally required notice to Community Board 9 and other city officials it intends to open the new facility in 30 days — Addabbo said he was disappointed that the population was not reduced or changed to something other than single men.

“Housing single adult men near a school is a recipe for disaster and threatens the safety of our children,” Councilman Eric Ulrich (D-Ozone Park) said.

“The proposed changes aren’t helpful and they may even make it worse.

“The homeless population in New York has only increased under Mayor de Blasio’s watch, and his only response is to destroy our neighborhoods and threaten the safety of our children. We need real solutions, not Q de Blasio’s reckless agenda.”

Gun control bills pass in legislature Sen. Gianaris introduced one to extend time for background checks

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A package of gun control bills passed the New York State Legislature on Tuesday.

The wide-ranging measures include requiring out-of-state applicants for gun permits to allow New York permitting authorities to review out-of-state mental health records; the prohibition of bump stocks that accelerate the rate of fire from a semiautomatic rifle; and preventing K-12 schools from authorizing anyone other than a security officer, school resource officer or law enforcement officer to carry a firearm on school grounds.

Bump stocks were recently banned by the federal government.

State Sen. Michael Gianaris (D-Astoria) introduced a bill to establish an extension of time up to 30 days for background checks, which was also passed.

“Common sense gun safety reform will

save lives, period,” he said in a statement.

“Stronger background checks will keep guns away from dangerous people. I am proud to have written some of America’s toughest gun safety laws and to be part of the new New York Senate, which will keep our families and schools safe.”

Another piece of approved legislation allows law enforcement officials, family and household members and certain school officials to seek a court order requiring a person likely to harm themselves or others to relinquish any firearms in their possession.

“Every loss of life and injury from gun violence is a devastating reminder of our shared responsibility to get firearms out of the wrong hands,” state Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement. “Today, by strengthening our already tough gun control laws, New York has taken another step to push back on this ever-present threat. But we

cannot stop with this victory, we must continue to fight against the scourge of gun violence. My office is committed to prosecuting those who continue seeking profit from the business of death and to sustaining a proactive approach that will continue taking lethal weapons off of our streets.”

Another measure that passed would create a municipal gun buyback program.

“It seems like every day we wake up to headlines of another mass shooting, another horrific gun crime,” said Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins. “The madness has to stop. It is our responsibility to protect our communities, our schools, and to keep all of New Yorkers safe. Following years of inaction on common sense gun safety legislation, we are finally going to lead the way and serve as an example to the nation on smart gun laws.”

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Sen. Michael Gianaris saw his gun control bill to establish up to 30 days for backFILE PHOTO ground checks approved.

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Two choices: hell or high water Howard Beachers rally for smaller floodgates to save neighborhoods

by Michael Shain Editor

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he people who live in Old Howard Beach and Hamilton Beach say they are up to their knees in water and double talk.

Nearly 200 of them crowded into the auditorium of Our Lady of Grace Church, a stone’s throw from the canals that separate the two neighborhoods from each other and New Howard Beach — reminders of the reality of life on the edge of a steadily rising ocean.

The “Protect Our Community” rally last Saturday was the latest attempt to urge the federal government to build floodgates at the mouths of the two canals. If built the gates could be closed before storms and prevent much of the street f looding that increasingly plagues the neighborhoods.

“It’s time for the federal government to step up to the plate.

Otherwise this is going to be a ghost town,” Councilman Eric Ulrich (D-Ozone Park) starkly told the rally.

“I’m sick and tired of hearing about studies,” he said. “We know what will work to protect our homes and businesses.”

It was a theme that echoed throughout the hour-long rally.

The Army Corps of Engineers, which did an extensive study after Superstorm Sandy on protecting the city’s coastal areas from a repeat, is proposing a $5 billion bar rier stretching across New York Harbor from Sandy Hook, NJ to Breezy Point on the Rockaway Penninsula.

But residents — as well as a long line of elected officials who spoke, including Borough President Melinda Katz, state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) a nd A ssembly wom a n St acey

Phfeffer Amato (D-Rockaway Park) — insist that a smaller, quicker solution is at hand.

New Hamilton Beach Civic Association President Roger Gendron, who organized the rally, unearthed a proposal by the Army Corps of Engineers prepared in 1965, approved by Congress and signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson authorizing the construction of floodgates at Hawtree Creek and Shellbank Basin. But Congress never funded the project and the plans were left on the shelf for more than 50 years.

“If it was good enough for 1965, it’s good enough for today,” Gendron told the Chronicle.

“I have been preaching this for six, eight months now,” he said.

“They figured this out already. So let’s do away with this massive project they are trying to ram down people’s throats.”

Estimates for the smaller floodgates are around $114 million, according to a 2014 Nature Conservancy report.

But the Corps last year said building smaller f loodgates in Howard Beach and Hamilton Beach did not meet its “cost-benefit analysis.”

Persistent tidal flooding in the neighborhoods that border the canals threatens to undo the work of the city’s $2.2 billion program called Build it Back to fix homes destroyed by Sandy, said Betty Braton, the longtime chairwoman of Community Board 10.

“All that money is going to go to waste,” Braton said. “They can’t seem to get it into their heads in Washington.

“If we can stop the water at the mouths of these canals,” she said, there will be no need to fund another Build it Back program after the next big storm.

Hamilton Beach and Howard Beach residents rallied to get the Army Corps of Engineers to finally build two floodgates that would stop the persistent flooding like last October, above, that threatens the area. Roger Gendron of the PHOTO BY KELLI BEAUMONT BUTLER / FACEBOOK New Hamilton Beach Civic Association, below, delivered a dire warning.

Without some form of f lood control, the sword hanging over the heads of 6,200 homeowners south of the Belt Parkway is the threat that federally backed flood insurance will jump from around $1,400 a year to nearly $10,000.

Mortgageholders are required to carry flood insurance in areas, like those in Howard Beach and Hamilton Beach, that are prone to flooding. But federal subsidies for the flood insurance program are due to expire in two years.

With floodgates in place, says Gendron, a flood-prone neighborhoods is no longer classified as a “special hazard dist r ict ” and insurance rates drop accordingly.

Without the gates, as Ulrich put it, Hamilton Beach and parts of Howard Beach could “become the foreclosure capital of the world.” Q

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NYS lawmakers pass Child Victims Act Cuomo expected to sign it; Cruz gives moving speech on Assembly floor

by Ryan Brady Editor

New York is finally set to make the Child Victims Act law.

The legislation was passed by the state Legislature on Monday and is expected to soon be signed by Gov. Cuomo, who included the bill in his fiscal year 2020 budget proposal.

The Child Victims Act would extend the statute of limitations for victims to bring civil legal actions against sexual abusers and organizations thought to have allowed the abuse to occur, giving victims until they turn 55 years old to bring a case.

The bill also seeks to extend the statute for prosecutors to bring criminal charges. Those would be brought until the victim of the abuse turns 28 years old in felony cases; for misdemeanors, it would be 23 years old.

Additionally, the legislation would create a one-year “lookback window” during which civil actions could be started over abuse cases with expired statutes of limitations.

It aims also to change the law so civil claims against public institutions over sexual abuse do not require a 90-day notice of claim.

Many Capitol observers were moved by the remarks of four female legislators, including Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz (D-Jackson Heights), who spoke on the floors of their chambers about sexual abuse

they’d personally experienced.

“I know all too well the everyday pain, the trauma and the despair of survivors,” Cruz said.

The assemblywoman spoke of being sexually abused as a child by a family member, something she said she’d never publicly discussed before.

She extolled the Child Victims Act as one measure to help victims achieve justice.

“This is about the safety of little boys and little girls everywhere,” Cruz added. “Our job is to protect them, not to protect an institution or any institution that has frankly done too little, too late.”

The legislation, first pushed by former Queens Assemblywoman Marge Markey, passed the Assembly 130-3 and the Senate 63-0.

Both bodies are controlled by Democrats.

In past years, a previous version of the bill would get killed by the Republicans who then held sway in the state Senate. The GOP was sympathetic to the concerns of the state Catholic Conference, which represents bishops in New York State. The group had felt the bill unfairly made only private organizations, like the Church, liable for the new lawsuits that the bill would allow.

But the bill was changed to treat both public and private institutions equally. The Catholic Conference dropped its opposition.

“The legislation now recognizes that child

Gov. Cuomo is expected to sign the Child VicFLICKR PHOTO / NYS tims Act into law. the process is in many ways more about healing from trauma than financial compensation.

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sexual abuse is an evil not just limited to one institution, but a tragic societal ill that must be addressed in every place where it exists,” the group said in a prepared statement on the bill.

In Albany on Monday, Cuomo joined survivors of child sexual abuse who had long advocated for the Child Victims Act. He criticized the bishops for their longtime opposition to the bill, implying that their stance had been at odds with Pope Francis’ position that the Church must punish abusive priests and do right by their victims.

“The only sin, I believe, greater than abusing a child, would be protecting those who abuse a child,” said Cuomo, who is a Catholic. “That’s my view of Catholicism and truth and justice.”

Laura Ahearn, an attorney who has represented hundreds of people sexually abused by priests across the state, told the Chronicle that the Child Victims Act “is going to give an opportunity for adult victims of sexual abuse to finally have justice.”

Clients she has represented include victims in Queens abused by priests from the Diocese of Brooklyn, which covers both boroughs.

“The Brooklyn Diocese, along with the rest of the dioceses, had sexual predators that were in positions of trust where they had unfettered access” to children, Ahearn explained.

For many victims who file claims against people who abused them as children, she added,

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An alarming rash of automobile tire and rim thefts has hit Howard Beach in the last month or so.

Officials report seven late night incidents since starting in late December in locations all over the neighborhood.

The cars are usually left resting on makeshift blocks for the distraught owners to find the next morning.

The thieves, who usually work in teams, are targeting late-model cars, police said.

Honda Accords, Nissan Maximas, a Toyota Camry and an Audi are among the cars that have been stripped, they said.

The crime is among the most common in Howard Beach because the area has so little traffic at night — meaning no witnesses — and is located near a highway for easy getaway.

But in recent weeks there appears to be a sudden uptick.

Photos of cars left on the ground without wheels and rims have been popping

Phagwah, the colorful Hindu parade through Richmond Hill that has become one of the biggest public celebrations in Queens, is moving again.

The parade this year will be held March 31, it was announced this week.

Phagwah, also called Holi, is the traditional spring holiday celebrated by Hindus around the world. It is often called the Festival of Color because celebrants shower each other in colored powder.

Here in Queens, the celebration has been something of a movable feast in recent years.

In 2017, the day of the parade, traditionally held in March, was bitter cold, leaving the event’s performers clad in gossamer, Indian costumes exposed to freezing temperatures.

Last year, the organizers moved the date to late April to ensure warmer weather. But holding the festival more than a month after the rest of the Hindu

Cops say there does not appear to be a pattern to a recent rash of wheel thefts in NYPD PHOTO / TWITTER Howard Beach. up on social media sites for Howard Beach residents, raising an alarm.

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Richmond Hill’s colorful Phagwah parade is moving back to a traditional date. FILE PHOTO world celebrated the holiday was not popular with traditionalists.

So this year’s parade is being moved back to March.

Several years ago, the parade had to be canceled because two Hindu groups from Richmond Hill, both claiming to be the rightful organizers, could not agree on a date. The following year, differences were smoothed over and the Q parade went off without a hitch.

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hich will get built first, the border wall President Trump wants along our frontier with Mexico, or the seawall the Army Corps of Engineers proposes across New York Harbor?

Both are estimated to cost about $5 billion.

One, the president’s, would be an addition to existing barriers but has generated fierce opposition and would be blocked in the courts if moved forward without congressional approval. The other, the seawall that would extend from New Jersey to Breezy Point, would be built from scratch but faces no such opposition.

It does, however, face criticism, here in Queens, from residents of Howard Beach and Hamilton Beach who need more immediate protection from constant flooding, not to mention what would be produced by another storm like Hurricane Sandy. Long before any harbor seawall with gates goes up, South Queens needs two floodgates, at the entrances to Shellbank and Hawtree basins, the canals that divide Old and

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Plans for the floodgates, along with stone barriers, were drawn up by the Army Corps of Engineers way back in 1965. Fifty-four years later, still no barriers, but plenty of flooding. Six and a half years after Sandy, still no barriers, but plenty of flooding. The persistent deluge threatens to undo all the post-Sandy progress made under the city’s $2.2 billion Build it Back program, according to longtime Community Board 10 Chairwoman Betty Braton.

The floodgates were estimated by the Nature Conservancy in 2014 to cost around $114 million.

Let’s say the price today is $130 million; that would still be only a little more than one-fortieth of the cost of the seawall. And you know they could be built far more quickly than something stretching all the way across New York Harbor.

About 200 residents rallied for the floodgates last Saturday. They know what’s needed to protect area homes. So should the federal government, including the barrier-obsessed president.

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inally, after years and years of obstruction from Republicans in the state Senate, the Child Victims Act is about to become law.

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The bill, which Gov. Cuomo will soon sign into law, will allow countless victims who have carried their trauma into adulthood to finally seek justice. Not only will they be able to help put their abusers behind bars where they belong and possibly win some compensation for their pain and suffering, they’ll also finally be able to open up to someone about what

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Amazon’s liar fliers Dear Editor: Re David Russell’s Jan. 17 report: “Amazon sends fliers touting company”: I got one of those fliers as a resident of Kew Gardens Hills, several miles from Long Island City. Why? Because Amazon’s lobbying team is casting a wider net to gain public support for their package of lies.

One fact not mentioned in the flier is that Google recently announced it will build a $1 billion campus in Manhattan and create 14,000 jobs without tax incentives. Why must New York pay Jeff Bezos a $3 billion bribe to set up shop in Queens? (Well, he may need the money to pay for his divorce settlement.)

Amazon promises many goodies to LIC residents, but what they may really need is a new homeless shelter. That’s where many Seattle residents now live after Amazon’s HQ there sent housing prices soaring. If philanthropy is any guide, don’t place much hope in Bezos’ promises. The New York Post reports that he and his wife gave less than 1 percent of their $160 billion fortune to charity since Amazon began (Jan. 26). “That makes them takers, not givers,” says Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, whose district includes LIC. Don’t let them take anything from us.

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Dump the developer Dear Editor: Chalk up another win for the myopic politicians who misrule this city for the benefit of billionaire real estate moguls and private forprofit sports entities, as the little people who should be their constituents are ignored.

In this case it’s the blatant blindness to the 2008 Willets Point plan. Continuing to allow the Queens Development Group, an entity that has consistently operated with a lack of transparency, a role at Willets Point is unacceptable.

Equally unacceptable are the failures to hire a legitimate developer and, with slight modifications, do the approved 2008 plan.

Ryan Brady, in his Jan. 24 Queens Chronicle article “EDC releases two Willets Pt. ‘scenarios,’” made mention of the fact that an item under consideration is a soccer stadium. That

happened to them, a vital part of the healing so many need, as pointed out by attorney Laura Ahearn, who has represented hundreds of victims.

Credit the Democrats’ winning of the state Senate with getting the bill passed. Under the GOP, it wouldn’t even be brought up for a vote. Yet on Monday senators voted for it 63-0.

What a system. Even in dysfunctional Washington, a measure with the support of the entire Senate would come to the floor. In the state Assembly, which has passed it before, the margin this time around was 130-3.

And credit former Assemblywoman Marge Markey, who first brought up the bill and faced harsh criticism from her own Catholic Church for it.

She hung in and even went to Albany to see it pass. That too is just.

over 100 small businesses important to the less wealthy — businesses that employed hundreds of people who in turn supported many more people — were and are to be replaced for a soccer stadium that operates on a part-time basis is a good example of the ineptitude of elected officials who should be replaced. Hopefully by persons who recognize their most important duty is not to ignore the little people.

Benjamin M. Haber Flushing

‘Transit equity’ a mess Dear Editor: “Stringer, Queens pols rally for transit equity” (by Ryan Brady, Jan. 24) left unanswered questions.

New York City Comptroller and 2021 mayoral wannabe Scott Stringer proposes a $2.75 fare

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for NYC residents boarding the Our sorry state Long Island Rail Road. There are still unreDear Editor: solved financial and peak-service capacity Coming to New York City can be an experiissues. This conflicts with upcoming MTA fare ence.

The leader in abortions, free needles and increases to cover operating deficits of several hundred million dollars. The capital side short- a place to use them. Soon to come, a joint to smoke, while you watch porn or sports bet. If fall is in the billions.

No regular LIRR customer in Queens pays after all of this you had enough, assisted sui$10.25 at rush hour. The cost is less using cide. All of this from Pinocchio’s Stromboli and weekly or monthly tickets. Why no cost reduc- his Pleasure Island donkey followers in Albany.

Joseph T. Klonowski tion for NYC Transit or MTA Express Bus SerMiddle Village vice from $6.50 to $2.75?

Is Stringer aware what happens due to equipment malfunctions, inclement weather or Trump the terrorist switching or crossing gate problems on the LIRR? There are increases in the frequency of Dear Editor: When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told service disruptions due to storm and signal President Trump that he would not be able to problems in the East River tunnels. Others occur between the tunnel portals and Harold give the State of the Union address until the Interlocking west of Woodside. All result in government shutdown was over, he immediatecanceled and combined trains. People stand in ly “set her straight” by saying he would not the aisles. Conductors can’t check tickets. give the address until the government shutdown Train trips take longer with more boarding was over. Huh? And Edward Riecks (“Amazon, race and the time needed. Exiting trains at Penn Station takes longer. Imagine the chaos with thou- Dems,” Letters, Jan. 24) must have missed Trump saying to Sen. Chuck Schumer, “I am sands of additional riders?

There is no room to run additional trains. proud to shut down the government” and “I’m Three of four tunnels running inbound during not going to blame you for it.” Now is not the time for Democrats to comprothe a.m. and outbound during the mise with Trump. It never has p.m. rush hours have tight spac- ONLINE been, and I doubt it ever will be. ing between trains. One tunnel is For two years Republicans conshared by the LIRR, New Jersey Miss an article or a trolled the House and Senate and Transit and Amtrak for reverse letter cited by a writer? wouldn’t fund his wall. Why? train movements with tight spacWant breaking news Because they knew it was an idiing. There is no platform space to from all over Queens? otic idea. accommodate additional trains, Find the latest news, The American people are as Penn Station operates at 100 past reports from all tired, tired of a stubborn, infanover the borough and percent capacity. When one of tile, uncaring, treasonous semmore at qchron.com. the four tunnels is unavailable, blance of a man who puts his the results are delays and cancelown vain political stunt above lation of trains. the suffering of almost 1 million people who The few NYC LIRR stations with parking worked for over a month without a paycheck. lots are full. Some have feeder bus service.

And Trump says he can relate to these people?

Unless they live within walking distance, His Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said he many have to park blocks away, creating condoesn’t understand why unpaid workers are flicts with local residents. going to homeless shelters to get food. He’s Stringer’s offering new LIRR riders a free right. Why don’t these struggling federal worktransfer to the NYC Transit subway conflicts ers just sell one of their paintings? Perhaps the with existing lines that are already operating Monet, Picasso or a Jackson Pollock? Even our at capacity. Thousands of NYC residents Coast Guard, part of the greatest military on already riding the LIRR would want the same the planet, wasn’t paid. That’s disgraceful. free transfer.

The House passed six spending bills yet Sen. Stringer’s $70 million estimated cost could Mitch McConnell refused to allow a vote in the end up at $100 to $200 million in fare box reveSenate because he knew Republicans would nue losses for LIRR and NYC Transit. The $32 pass them, Trump would veto them and his veto billion MTA 2015-19 Five Year Capital Prowould be overridden. Is this what Mr. Riecks is gram includes no funding for this proposal. The worried about? Trump being embarrassed by MTA has no surplus operating dollars to cover the Democrats? Trump doesn’t need any help to costs. Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio’s curbe embarrassed. The man has no shame. rent and upcoming budgets include no funding.

The damage being done to our economy and There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch or our nation by this clown (no offense to the cirtransit equity. Someone has to pay for it. cus community) is an embarrassment to the Larry Penner world. Trump is a terrorist holding America Great Neck, LI hostage. And you don’t deal with people like The writer is a transportation historian, advohim. Those who still support him need to ask cate and writer who previously worked 31 years themselves: Do they stand with the FBI or with for the U.S. Department of Transportation FedTrump? Do they stand for “rule of law” or for eral Transit Administration Region 2 NY Office.

Trump? Do they stand for the basic principles our country was founded on or do they kneel before Trump?

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And isn’t it time for “Repugnantcans” to Letters should be no longer than 400 bring up Benghazi and Hillary’s emails? words and may be edited. They may be Robert LaRosa emailed to letters@qchron.com.

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Battle lines drawn on city e-bike bills Backers say city can legalize scooters; DOT says wait on new Cuomo initiative

by Michael Gannon Editor

Last year, when the city reapproved the legality of some electric bicycles, many believed the legislation did not go far enough, as it did not include so-called “throttle-assist” scooters capable of high speeds.

While commuters, food delivery personnel, messengers and everyone else now can use “pedal-assist” bicycles that have batteries, the scooters remained banned in the city, with the state refusing to register them as motor vehicles because of their lack of vehicle identification numbers.

No registration, no approval to travel the streets in the Big Apple.

A n d C o u n c i l m a n R a f a el E s pi n a l (D-Brooklyn) kicked off a small storm last week when he included the scooters in a package of bills aimed at increasing New Yorkers’ access to new alternatives for personal transportation.

“We believe the city has the authority to legalize the scooters,” a spokesman for Espinal told the Chronicle last week.

Supporters of the bill, Intro. 1264, believe among other things that the ban is discriminatory, as many employed in food and other delivery businesses are minorities or immigrants. They say the existing fines, up to $500, can be a week’s pay for some workers.

This food delivery man in Forest Hills is using a battery-assisted bike that has been legal in the city since last year. A bill in the City Council would legalize “throttle-assist” electric scooters.

The city’s Department of Transportation says state action is needed first. PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON Espinal’s bill would set up a pilot program under the city’s Department of Transportation, and would both allow for caps in speed and provide a fund to help those who already own the vehicles to convert them to

If three’s a crowd, what do you call 10?

Public advocate debate finalized

by Michael Shain Ten candidates have qualified for matching city funds — and also to appear at a televised debate next Wednesday — in the crowded election campaign for public advocate.

The ballot for the special election scheduled for Feb. 26 will carry the names of 17 candidates in all for the job that fell vacant this month after the inauguration of Letitia James as state Attorney General.

Only 10 candidates, however, have raised at least $57,000 in campaign contributions to qualify for the city’s generous, 8-1 matching system.

Under the complicated law governing citywide special elections, it also means those 10 will be invited to the first of two, televised debates.

The 10 candidates are: • Michael Blake • Rafael Espinal Jr • Ron Kim • Nomiki Konsi

• Melissa Mark-Vivertito • Daniel O’Donnell • Ydanis Rodriguez • Dawn Smalls • Eric Ulrich • Jumaane Williams.

The debate will air Feb. 6 at 7 p.m. on NY1, the local news cable channel.

A second debate of so-called “leading contenders” will air on Feb. 20, the week before the election, also on NY1.

To qualify for that debate, a candidate must have raised a total of $171,000 and have the endorsement of an elected official or a civic group with more than 250 members.

This is the first special election for a citywide off ice since the Campaign Finance Board was established 30 years ago as a watchdog over the city’s publicly financed campaign system.

The city Board of Elections this week certified 17 names to appear on the ballot, though one, Assemblywoman Latrice Walker (D-Brooklyn), has said she has Q decided to drop out.

Joining U.S. The City University of New York is holding a free citizenship clinic in Far Rockaway this weekend.

CUNY clinics are open to people who have been permanent residents of the U.S. for at least five years.

The events are staffed with experienced immigration lawyers and professionals who volunteer to help greencard holders clear the hurdles to citizenship — in other words, seriously expensive legal help free of charge.

The clinic is to be held Feb. 2 at the Far Rockaway Educational Campus at 8-21 Bay 25 St. from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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Mayor de Blasio and Council Speaker Corey Joh n son ( D -Ma n h at t a n) h ave expressed reservations. Testifying last week at a public hearing, city Department of Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg echoed those sentiments.

“The City’s concern with these throttle e-bikes has always been their unregulated, illegal nature and particularly their speeds and irresponsible use by some,” Trottenberg said in a text of her testimony provided by the DOT. “Should state action provide the ability for localities to authorize these devices, we would be open to a conversation with the Council about whether to allow them here in New York City as proposed in Intro. 1264,” the commissioner added. “But first and foremost in that conversation would be addressing safety issues.”

C o u n c i l wo m a n A d r i e n n e A d a m s (D-Jamaica) is in Espinal’s corner.

“Every day New Yorkers commute on a failing transit system that is slow and unreliable,” Adams said in a statement from her office. “Legalizing the use of e-scooters and e-bikes would expand affordable transit options for New Yorkers especially in transportation deserts like Eastern and Southeast Queens. It is time to open our minds and update our laws to include alternate means of transportation.”

Gov. Cuomo, in his budget message earlier this month, proposed measures that would allow municipalities greater freedom to regulate — and permit — the scooters Among the details on the table with the governor’s proposal are capping speeds at 20 miles per hour and limiting their use to streets with speed limits of 30 miles per hour or less.

That would greatly increase access in New York City, where most nonhighways are capped at 25 mph.

Marco Conner, deputy director for the group Transportation Alternatives, said the organization supports Espinal on legalizing the scooters.

But he also has issues with Cuomo’s proposal, not only because of some of its regulations, but that as part of the state budget negotiations, it could well sit idle for nearly two months before the state’s budget deadline on April 1.

“The city’s hiding behind the state proposal,” Conner added. “The Council has the authority to legalize scooters without state action.

“The city has the authority to regulate the use of its own streets,” Conner said. “They did that last year when they made pedalassist bikes legal again.”

Conner also said his group takes issue with proposals to mandate helmets and require that the vehicles be painted in bright colors.

He said while the organization supports helmet use, it believes mandating them actually would drive down the use of the scooters. He said requiring “bright colors” would subject operators to “selective Q enforcement by the NYPD.”

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Close down Rikers, Katz says On eve of DA campaign, borough president jumps into heated prison debate

by Michael Shain

input in not lost on the boroughs,” she told nearly 800 people at orough President Melinda LaGuardia Community College, Katz last Friday backed including a large group of current Mayor de Blasio’s plan to and former officials. “Certainly not close the jails at Rikers — but came here in Queens.”

She called for the city to “start up short of endorsing the construction of a new 30-story lockup on anew” and come up with a better plan.

Queens Boulevard to replace it.

“There’s still plenty of time to do Katz, who announced last month that she is running for Queens dis- it the right way,” she said.

Coming out in favor of replacing trict attorney, chose what may be her final State of the Borough Rikers sets her apart from the curaddress to call for an end to the cur- rent DA, Richard Brown, who, at age 86, has said he will not seek rerent jail system.

“Let me be clear,” she said for election this fall. Brown has come emphasis. “I have been, and I out in favor of rebuilding Rikers, remain, a strong supporter of clos- rather than constructing a system of borough-based jails. ing Rikers Island.

The State of the Borough address “It is a moral imperative that we overhaul our city’s jail system ... is traditionally a guided tour of And closing Rikers is an intergral i mprovements, or prom ised improvement, to schools, parks and part of that.

However, the borough president housing around the borough. This said, she was “deeply disturbed” year’s 45-minute-plus speech did that people in Kew Gardens, where not disappoint.

Perhaps the biggest applause a new jail is slated to be built, have not had “meaningful community lines of the morning came when Katz said she is pressing the Port engagement and input.”

The highly controversial plan to Authority and others at JFK Airerect a 1.9-million-square-foot jail port to hire more residents from the surrounding behind the Crimneighborhoods inal Court buildin Southeast ing big enough to t is a moral Queens. hold 1,500 “In order to be inmates is a hotimperative that successf ul, we button issue in need to hire the upcoming we overhaul our local, have a path DA’s race. city’s jail system.” to union apprenCom munity ticeship progroups in Queens — Borough President grams and have as well as the Melinda Katz ample opportuniother boroughs t y for secondfear City Hall is preparing to ride roughshod over chance employment,” she said.

“Ideally, we want every single them in the next few weeks when the plans for new jails here, in Man- good-paying job created at our airhattan and the Bronx come up for ports filled by Queens residents.”

As well, Katz led an emotional approval by the City Planning tribute to the borough’s Vietnam vetCommission.

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At LaGuardia Community College, Borough President Melinda Katz delivered her annual State of the Borough address — a speech that is part pep talk, part victory lap, part wish list. To Queens’ movers and shakers, the event is PHOTOS BY MICHAEL SHAIN like a family wedding, a chance to catch up with long-absent friends, to see and be seen. saw her break ground last month on a monument in Elmhurst. The memorial will carry the names of more tha n 350 sold iers f rom Queens who were killed in the fighting there.

“I remember witnessing the betrayal and despair that you and your brothers felt coming home to what felt like an ungrateful nation,” she told a group of about 20 men from the Vietnam Veterans of America, whom she’d asked to stand. “Welcome home.”

She also pledged to boycott any questions on the 2020 Census form pertaining to citizenship. She called the plan to include such a question, now in the courts, “unnecessary.”

“I will refuse to answer that question,” she said. “Times like these compel courage by those with Q the privilege to do so.”

Councilmembers Adrienne Adams, left, Donovan Richards and state Sen. Leroy Comrie; Peter Vallone Sr., the former City Council speaker, with his son, Councilman Paul Vallone, center; members of Vietnam Veterans of America, who were honored during the speech, make their way into their seats; and former Borough President Claire Shulman, above right, makes a point.

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A guide to Lunar New Year events in Queens Fun at Flushing Town Hall, libraries, botanical garden and more planned

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he spectacular Lunar New Year Parade in Downtown Flushing will start at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 9 at the corner of 37th Avenue and Union Street.

But there are a lot of other events for the holiday at venues throughout the borough. No matter what corner of Queens you’re in, traveling far won’t be necessary to catch some upcoming Year of the Pig fun.

Here’s a look at what’s planned.

Flushing Town Hall The 137-35 Nor ther n Blvd. venue is celebrating the holiday with an array of performances.

Starting on Friday, Feb. 1 at 5:30 p.m., the exhibition “Tradition Meets Modern Beauty: Wonju Seo’s Contemporary Interpretation of Korean Pojagi” starts. Pojagi is an ancient Korean wrapping cloth used to make art.

On Saturday, Feb. 9, there will be a workshop held by Seo at 2 p.m. called “Make Korean Paper Pojagi.” Folks who attend will be taught how to use five colors to create a one-layer paper Pojagi.

Xun Ye, a Master flour dough artist, will lead flour dough sculpture-making workshops at the Northern Boulevard venue at 1 and 3 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 3. The Chinese craft’s history dates back centuries. Those who head to the events will get to create animal and flower sculptures.

Families will love David Gonzalez’s one-man show “Sleeping Beauty,” which will be at Flushing Town Hall on Saturday, Feb. 16 at 2:15 p.m. The multimedia performance, which will have Chinese subtitles, offers a unique, rhymed-verse version of the fairy tale as well as image projections and live music.

The Chinese New Year Temple Bazaar show will come to the venue on Sunday, Feb. 17 at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. People of all ages will find shows to enjoy at the event, which will have food to celebrate the Lunar New Year and flower decoration, along with artand lantern-making.

There will also be hand puppets, Sichuan style face-changing, Chinese music from groups like the RuDance Center and the New York Chinese Cultural Center, as well as jugglers’ acts like Chinese yo-yo dance and plate spinning.

On Friday, March 1 at 8 p.m., Noreum Machi will perform at the venue. The acclaimed South Korean group plays the complex percussion music genre Samul-nori.

Prices vary for each show. To

learn more or order tickets, call (718) 463-7700 x 222 or go online to flushingtownhall.org.

MoMA PS1 The Long Island City art institution is having its third annual Lunar New Year celebration on Friday, Feb. 1 from 8 p.m. to midnight. Dance par t y g roup BUBBLE_T organized the event with MoMA PS1; the celebration will have cocktails, live performances, DJs, snacks and interactive installations.

The arts center is located at 22-25 Thomson Ave. To order tickets for the party, which are $15, head to momaps1.org.

Queens Botanical Garden The 43-50 Main St. green space is inviting people to stop by on Saturday, Feb. 2 from noon to 1 p.m. to work on the Year of the Pig Community Art Project. Participants in the free workshop can help make collaborative sculptures.

On Feb. 9, the QBG is hosting its Lunar New Year Celebration. The community art project will be displayed at the event, which is free.

Other family-fun stuff that will be on-hand includes crafts, performances, activities and workshops with a Lunar New Year theme.

There will be a $10 parking fee at the QBG during the celebration.

Queens Library locations A wide variety of free Lunar New Year-themed events are scheduled at library branches throughout the borough.

Floral artist Anna Kao will teach people about the fine art of flower arranging at the Auburndale Library at 25-55 Francis Lewis Blvd. at 3:30 p.m. on Jan. 31 and the Windsor Park Library at 79-50 Bell Blvd. at 12:30 p.m. on Feb. 2.

Over in Forest Hills at its 108-19 71 Ave. neighborhood library on Jan. 31 at 4 p.m., kids can make crafts celebrating the Year of the Pig. It’s for ages 6 and up. Pre-registration is required, and spaces will be allotted on a first-come, first-serve basis.

At 89-11 Merrick Blvd. in Jamaica at the Central Library’s Children’s Library Discovery Center, a fun and educational Lunar New Year celebration is scheduled for Feb. 1 at 4 p.m.

There will be music, crafts and a “parade around the library.” Children up to age 12 are welcome.

Lunar New Year craft making will be at the McGoldrick Library in Flushing at 155-06 Roosevelt Ave. at 11 a.m. on Feb. 2 and 3:30 p.m. on Feb. 5.

All throughout Queens, Lunar New Year fun for all ages is planned at different events in the coming days.

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Three hours after that in the Flushing Library at 41-17 Main St., youths can celebrate the upcoming Year of the Pig with craft workshops.

Youngsters between 3 and 12 years old with a parent or caregiver can make a keepsake bearded zipperpull. Teens ages 13 and up will make lantern crafts with LED lights. All of the event’s materials will be doled out on a first-come, first-served basis while supplies last.

Whitestone is getting in on the Lunar New Year fun, too. In the neighborhood library at 151-10 14 Road on Feb. 4 and 5 at 2 p.m., kids 4 and up will be able to make puppet dragons.

Adults who want to make crafts for the holiday have the chance to on Feb. 4 at 6 p.m. in the Woodhaven Library at 85-41 Forest Pkwy.

Children 5 to 12 years old are invited to the Lunar New Year Celebration on Feb. 5 at 4 p.m. in the Broadway Library at 40-20 Broadway in Long Island City.

At the same date and time, the Poppenhusen Library at 121-23 14 Ave. in College Point is celebrating the holiday. Guests will be able to learn about pigs, hear stories about them and make a craft. The event is for all ages, though kids under 8 years old must be accompanied by an adult.

Pig origami will be made in the Douglaston-Little Neck Library at 249-01 Northern Blvd. on Feb. 6 at 3 p.m.

One hour after that in the Rochdale Village Library at 169-09 137 Ave., the Year of the Pig will be celebrated with a puppet show based on the “Elephant and Piggie” books by Mo Willems.

Red envelopes — which are used for exchanging gifts during the Chinese celebration — will be made at a workshop in the Douglaston-Little Neck branch at 3 p.m. on Feb. 7.

Lanterns, origami and other crafts will be made at a workshop in Central Library on Feb. 8 at 4 p.m.

Those who go to the Auburndale Library on Feb. 9 at 10:30 a.m. will get to hear stories about the Lunar New Year and learn to make crafts.

Stories will also be told at the Flushing Library at 11:15 a.m. on the same day.

That library branch will also have a Lunar New Year concert on Feb. 9 at 1 p.m. with Chinese music and dance, presented by the CBA Culture and Arts Center.

Additionally, there will be a “Lantern Festival Event” at the library on Feb. 10 at 2 p.m. aimed at educating kids about Chinese customs and culture.

Lastly, there will be a Year of the Pig celebration in the Flushing Library on Feb. 24 at 12:30 p.m. with Korean food, dance, arts and music.

Queens Museum The Flushing Meadows Corona Park arts center is having its fifth annual Lunar New Year celebration on Feb. 3 from 1 to 4:30 p.m. There will be traditional arts and crafts, as well as folk dances. The New York Chinese Cultural Center’s School of the Arts will have an hour-long performance along with an hour-long v isu al a r t s work shop a nd demonstration.

From 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. during that event, the Queens Museum will have a drop-in workshop where guests will make paper lanterns.

The Bowne House The Flushing landmark at 37-01 Bowne St. is hosting a historical video and book presentation by Sinovision and Xinye Qiu on Feb. 16 from 1 to 4 p.m.

Guests will get to learn about John Bowne, the historical settler who once lived in the house, and his family. They’ll also hear of the Flushing Remonstrance, the groundbreaking 1657 document written in opposition to Gov. Peter Stuyvesant’s prohibition of Quaker meetings.

There will also be crafts for kids, and those who go will be able to write a “remonstrance” on waxsealed antique paper.

Tickets are $5 for adults, and it costs $5 for kids under 12 to make Q paper crafts at the event.

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The Chinese holiday’s myriad traditions include far more than dazzling parades Editor

The annual Lunar New Year parade is one of the biggest, most well-attended events in Queens. And on Saturday, Feb. 9, thousands will march in Downtown Flushing’s parade to celebrate the Year of the Pig. But folks outside of the Chinese community may not be familiar with the meaning of ancient Lunar New Year traditions. In the United States it’s celebrated by more than two million Chinese people annually. Many of them live in Flushing and other parts of the borough.

The festival rings in a new lunar calendar in the 12-year cycle. Feb. 5 is the official start of the Year of the Pig and the beginning of the Lunar New Year holiday, which ends on Feb. 19.

Each year has its own Chinese zodiac animal — the dog is about to end — with a unique mythical meaning. Aside from the dog and pig, there is the rabbit, snake, dragon, ox, rooster, monkey, goat, horse, rat and tiger.

Legend has it that the Jade Emperor — a figure in Chinese mythology — determined how the order of the zodiac would be set by the order of animals showing up to his party.

And because the pig arrived last, the animal’s year is the calendar’s last one.

Years of the Pig also go through their own cycles for the five different elements — this year’s is earth.

For one of the holiday’s myriad traditions, family members and friends exchange a money-filled red envelope known as a “hongbao” in Mandarin and a “lai see” in Cantonese.

According to ancient Chinese folklore, there was a demon named Sui whom children could scare off using the red envelopes.

It’s common for families to symbolically clean up their houses during the Lunar New Year holiday. And in neighborhoods where many are celebrating, the color red is all over the place.

On the eve of the holiday, Feb. 4 this year, many people celebrate with large meals at family reunion dinners.

The festival also has a special relationship with certain foods, like dumplings. The dish is widely made by Chinese families celebrating the New Year.

Some desserts, like osmanthus jelly and nian gao, are also a favorite for households during the festival.

Fireworks are also a major part of the tradition, but setting them off without permits is illegal in New York and may upset neighbors.

Feb. 5, the first day of Lunar New Year, is known as the Spring Festival. Legend has it that folks should not clean at all on this day,

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The last part of the celebration, which takes place on day 15 of the new calendar, (Feb. 19 this year), is the Lantern Festival.

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Considered the peak of the entire Lunar New Year celebration, it lasts five days.

Many celebrate it by eating tangyuan, a dessert dish, and unleashing flying paper lanterns into the air.

Want to greet folks who are celebrating the holiday? “Happy New Year” in Cantonese is “Gong hei fat choy.” In Mandarin, it’s “Gong Q xi fa cai.”

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Bills introduced for roadway safety Holden aims to prevent problems from cement-mixing and tow trucks

by David Russell Associate Editor

Councilman Bob Holden (D-Middle Village) has been bothered for years by gravel and mounds of concrete spilled on roadways as well as speeding tow trucks.

Now he’s got a series of bills to do something about it.

Int. 1354 would require cement-mixing trucks to install certain spillage prevention equipment to avoid materials falling into the roadways. Holden says without the spillage bags, materials like cement and gravel can fall out of trucks and make for dangerous mounds and hazardous conditions.

“When driving around the city, it is common to find mounds of cement or piles of gravel and sand that can be hazardous to drivers, bicyclists and pedestrians alike,” Holden said in a statement. “Before these mounds cause any more accidents, damage to tires, fenders or other parts of a car or bike, or a trip-and-fall incident, requiring spillage bags on all trucks is a simple and easy solution.”

He noted that at a steep location like on Eliot Avenue it’s a hazard.

The bill is co-sponsored by Councilmembers Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park), Peter Koo (D-Flushing), Paul Vallone (D-Bayside), Kalman Yeger (D-Brooklyn), Joseph

Councilman Bob Holden introduced three bills in the City Council that aim to prevent problems PHOTO COURTESY NYC COUNCIL caused by cement-mixing and tow trucks.

Borelli (R-Staten Island), Chaim Deutsch (D-Brooklyn) and Keith Powers (D-Manhattan) and has been referred to the Council’s Transportation Committee.

Int. 1355 would require police officers to inform and educate car accident victims a b out t he cit y’s D i r e c t e d Ac cid e nt Response Program upon arriving at the

scene of a crash. The DARP allows licensed tow companies to tow vehicles from public streets that cannot be safely driven after an accident without the prior consent or authorization of the vehicle’s owner. The bill would also allow for police to file a report and investigate any specific incident of tow tr uck chasing and potentially issue a

summons.

The bill is co-sponsored by Councilman Mark Gjonaj (D-Bronx), Ulrich, Yeger and Deutsch and has been referred to the Committee on Public Safety.

Int. 1356 would create a 311 function on the app, website and telephone service that would allow for individuals to specifically report an illegal towing incident with video evidence. The evidence would then be sent to the NYPD for adjudication.

The bill is co-sponsored by Ulrich, Yeger, Gjonaj, Deutsch and Powers and has be en refer red t o t he Com m it t e e on Technology.

“Although DARP was created to crack down on the towing industry, the dangerous practice of racing to the scene of an accident is still a major problem,” Holden said in the statement. “I have personally been nearly run off the road by a reckless towtruck driver more than once. These bills will help drivers understand DARP regulations and encourage them to report bad actors.”

Holden told the Chronicle, “It’s the last thing they’re thinking of when they go to a scene but it’s a very important step to try to get these companies penalized, fined or arrested because they’re obviously blowing lights to get there first.” continued on page 20

Shutdown aftermath unclear at LaGuardia City Harvest helps TSA employees; nothing yet certain after Feb. 15

by Michael Gannon

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Thomas Schoregge looked over the parking lot at the old Courtyard Hotel across from LaGuardia Airport on Tuesday with feelings of both gratitude and disgust.

Four days after President Trump announced a deal to reopen the government until at least Feb. 15, City Harvest was distributing free bags of produce and groceries to TSA agents on Ditmars Boulevard, just across the Grand Central Parkway from LaGuardia Airport.

Schoregge is vice president of Local 2222 of the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents Transportation Security Administration agents who were forced to work for 35 days without pay once the federal government shutdown kicked in on Dec. 22.

“They’re scheduled to do another one on Friday at Kennedy Airport,” Schoregge said, referring to the food donations. “It helps. The shutdown may be over, but we still haven’t been paid.”

City Harvest collects good, edible food that otherwise might go to waste nightly from restaurants,

stores, catering halls and other places to distribute it to the needy in the five boroughs. Jenny Murphy said the decision to help TSA workers was right in line with the group’s mission.

“The bags contain potatoes, spaghetti squash and oranges,” she said.

Other bags included canned goods, particularly meat and beans that are high in protein, and pasta. TSA agents received 8,000 pounds of food to tide themselves and their families over until the next check comes.

LaGuardia temporarily ceased operations last Friday morning, just h o u r s b e fo r e t h e d e a l w a s announced. The Federal Aviation Administration said the move, along with massive delays at nearby Newark-Liberty and Philadelphia airports, was caused by an increase in sick calls at two unspecified sites that led to a shortage of air traffic controllers that morning.

“I can’t speak for the air traffic controllers, but our people showed for work [during the shutdown],” Schoregge said. “I can tell you that our sick call rate was the same as in September. TSA agents showed up for work.”

At issue is President Trump’s demand for $5.7 billion for more sections of wall along the U.S. border with Mexico. The funding was not secured in the agreement to reopen the government, as Schoregge is well aware as his membership looks ahead to Feb. 15.

“I hope there’s not another shutdown,” he said.

There has been much speculation as to whether having air traffic controllers and TSA working without pay — and adding financial concerns to two already stressful jobs — constituted a safety risk in air travel.

Two longtime aviation safety professionals contacted by the Chronicle this week had differing views.

Jim Hall served as chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board from 1994 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. Christopher Hart held the same post under President Barack Obama in an acting and official capacity from 2014 to 2017.

“It would be difficult to tell,” Hart said. “Might it have affected some individuals? Maybe. But I don’t think you can make a concrete statement.”

Hall, on the other hand, believes it

A City Harvest worker, second from left, gathers produce and groceries for Transportation Security Administration workers from LaGuardia Airport who went without pay for 35 days. Another giveaway for Kennedy Airport agents PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON is scheduled for Friday. almost certainly was an issue.

“Imagine if you weren’t paid,” he said. “I have been in public service most of my life in state and federal government and the military. I think it is insulting to treat workers the

way federal government workers are treated during a shutdown.”

Hall had a pair of shutdowns under Clinton — the TSA did not yet exist — but found what he continued on page 20

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SCHOOL SPOTLIGHT

Major World ordered to pay north of $3M Attorney for LIC dealership says it will appeal OATH judge’s decision

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Supporting immigrant families and community members with taxes On January 10, Multicultural High School, at the Brooklyn-Queens border in City Line, provided their families and members of the local community with a Financial Literacy Workshop presented by the Cypress Hill Local Development Corporation. Families welcomed the information and were eager to learn about the importance of filing taxes regardless of status, where one can go to for help in filing their taxes for free, follow-up services and how to manage a household budget. Roger Pichardo, the school’s Parent Coordinator shared “Our community needs access to information and more opportunities to be empowered and to grow as community leaders. This workshop provided an opportunity for them to build on their financial knowledge, to make informed decisions with their money, and for some of the attendees, understand that documenting information like the filing of income can be helpful in future immigration proceedings.”

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Major World is getting driven to the cleaners.

An Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings judge found that the Long Island City used auto dealership must pay more than $3 million in a case brought against it by the city Department of Consumer Affairs.

The agency, which sued Major World in 2017, announced the decision last Friday.

The judge found Major World was guilty of illegally profiting from immigrant and lowincome buyers by using deceptive practices.

According to the DCA, the legal and code violations numbered in “the tens of thousands.”

The agency said the malfeasance included hiding the financial terms of deals from consumers; falsely advertising the deals’ financial terms; not providing Spanish-speaking customers with deal documents in their language; deceiving buyers about their rights and the quality, condition and history of the cars they purchased; and “falsifying consumers’ income and/or monthly rent obligations on credit applications.”

Last year, the DCA and Major World made an agreement for consumer restitution. Under its terms, almost $142,000 was paid directly to the buyers, along with around $68,000 in reimbursements for outstanding loans consumers took out as a result of the company’s conduct.

Income taxes that would have to be paid on the awards were factored into the amounts, according to the DCA. The company also agreed to give refunds to car buyers who had to pay out-of-pocket for repairs to the vehicles they bought from Major World.

The DCA said it’s happy with last

week’s decision.

“While we believe Major World’s actions warranted license revocation — or at least suspension — and that a consumer restitution fund would ensure the many other consumers harmed by their practices could be made whole, the decision puts Major World and other used car dealerships on alert: DCA will not tolerate this conduct,” agency Commissioner Lorelei Salas said in a prepared statement.

Major World plans to appeal the decision.

Steven Harfenist, an attorney who represents the dealership, told the Chronicle in an email that “the findings that constitute the vast majority of the fines are based upon an incorrect interpretation of the law.” He also pointed to how many of the allegations made by the DCA were squashed in court.

“We strongly believe that the findings (which represent a fraction of the original charges filed years ago) are totally unjustified,” he said. “In fact, after a large campaign seeking complaints, the consumer related charges were based upon less than one-tenth of one percent of the customers served by Major World during the relevant period.”

Harfenist added that in “the past few years we have taken several significant actions that remove any future concerns about our business practices. We are a family run business built on serving all our customers with care and total dedication for over 30 years.”

Last July, two former Major World executives pleaded guilty in federal court to filing a false corporate tax return.

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Long Island City used car dealership Major World was ordered by a judge to pay more than $3 million in a lawsuit brought by the city Department of Consumer Affairs. Via an attorney, the FILE PHOTO company said it will fight the decision.

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Lancman talks bid for district attorney He vows to consider immigration status in cases and end cash bail policy

by Ryan Brady

and workplace rights violations, Lancman discussed his candidacy in a sitdown interThe Queens District Attorney’s Office isn’t view with the Chronicle last Friday.

“If you get the right district attorney who exactly known as a bastion of criminal justice has the commitment and the will to make reform.

City Councilman Rory Lancman (D-Fresh fundamental criminal justice reform changes, you can radically transform the criminal jusMeadows) wants to change that.

The lawmaker is one of several candidates tice system in your jurisdiction,” he said.

Ending cash bail and expanding superrunning in a Democratic primary to replace District Attorney Richard Brown, who’s held vised release are two major policy changes that he pledges to introduce if elected. the office since 1991 and will step down like rival candidates, he pledges A this year. s v n o e tesAnd, e to create a conviction integrity unit.

Lancman, who chairs the Comu Q Queens is the only borough without mittee on the Justice System, has one. been one of the prosecutor’s most In recent years, Lancman has vocal critics. He has also locked become a prominent advocate for horns with NYPD commissioners closing the Rikers Island jail comat Council hearings and is now plex and replacing it with smaller, suing the police for allegedly with201 9 borough-based facilities. Last summer, olding fare evasion arrest data it is required to release thanks to his bill that he and Senior Executive Assistant District Attorney James Quinn sparred at a heated passed in 2017.

His criminal justice reform bona fides debate about the issue in Kew Gardens Hills.

Lancman has called for the old Queens earned him a slew of endorsements from African-American leaders and activists, House of Detention in Kew Gardens to be the including Gwen Carr and Valerie Bell, replacement jail site in this borough. That’s respectively the mothers of Eric Garner and what the city plans to do, though large Sean Bell, two black men killed by city cops swathes of area residents have come out against the proposal. under highly controversial circumstances.

He has excoriated Brown’s office for A former litigator who worked for 15 years on cases involving wage theft, discrimination requesting cash bail for people accused of Editor

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continued from page 18 Regarding the DARP, Holden said, “I remember when I was younger they instituted these programs because so many people would die or big accidents would happen when these tow trucks were rushing to accident scenes. So these programs were supposed to stop it but obviously we still have some tow companies that are still chasing.”

He added the tow-truck issue was a “pet peeve” of his and one he highlighted as president of the Juniper Park Civic.

Holden recalled one incident when he

was in his Mini Cooper and a tow truck going the wrong way nearly hit him.

“If it was half a second earlier I wou ld’ve been toast,” he told the Chronicle.

The problem is the trucks are trying to beat the competition.

“That’s why they’re rushing through the streets,” he said. “This is a public safety issue.”

Holden has even asked the 104th Precinct to set up a phony accident by putting out a call over the radio and then having an unmarked cop car see who shows up. “And if it’s not the tow company that’s supposed to show up, then they Q fine them,” he said.

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City Councilman Rory Lancman discusses his candidacy for district attorney at the Chronicle’s PHOTO BY RYAN BRADY office last week. low-level offenses, a practice he says helps fill Rikers up with inmates who are there because they can’t pay the money to leave.

On other fronts, the councilman pledges a major break with the status quo in Queens.

One example: His office would consider a defendant’s immigration status.

Critics often label criminal justice reformers as “soft on crime,” but Lancman says many offenses would get a tougher treatment under him.

He says there are a litany of white-collar offenses that are “rampant” but not getting enough attention from the Queens DA’s office: wage theft, deed fraud, mortgage fraud, workplace safety violations, discrimination and landlords trying to illegally get rent-stabilized tenants to move.

“The office has become merely the processor of the cases that police bring to them,” he said in a sitdown interview with the Chronicle last Friday. “And the cases that police bring

are your general run-of-the-mill street crime, some of which is serious, but a lot of it is not.

So, we want to change all of that.”

Lancman also pointed to how murder and rapes went up in Queens last year, despite going down in the city as a whole.

“How much of that is attributed to the lack of resources that we are devoting to closing cases, which has been a huge problem across New York City, including homicide cases?” he said. “How much of that is because we’re spending time cycling kids through the criminal justice system for low-level offenses that aren’t really hurting anybody?”

As a legislator, one of his proudest accomplishments is successfully pushing the Council bill that outlawed “revenge porn,” a phrase that refers to releasing intimate images of a person, often an ex, without his or her consent.

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continued from page 18 considered a workable solution that left nothing to chance on his turf.

“I declared every employee critical,” he said. “ ... I am insulted that actions were taken to damage safety infrastructure that thousands of people including me have worked for years to create.”

Hall claims no knowledge as to how much the LaGuardia shutdown may have led to a deal — one source told the Chronicle he suspects this weekend’s Super Bowl in Atlanta may have been a deciding factor — but he thinks moving quickly after the flight shutdown was critical.

“That could have had a ripple effect across the country and the entire transQ portation system,” he said.

The Jan. 24 stor y “Tow n hall called to block Queens jail” misstated wh ich agency a gover n ment spokesman represents and mischaracterized his off ice’s position on public engagement. It is the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, where the spokesman said off icials are continuing their engagement with residents “ to develop a smaller, safer and fairer justice system.”

The Jan. 24 stor y “Katz talks Queens topics at gathering” misstated which agency Borough President Melinda Katz said has helped seal certain conviction records. It is The Legal Aid Society.

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It seems like Patrick Ewing usually gets the better of Chris Mullin at Madison Square Garden.

That’s because as iconic as their rivalry has been in the annals of Big East history, it’s been one-sided when they meet in Manhattan.

When they played against each other in the early 1980s at The World’s Most Famous Arena in college, Ewing’s Hoyas took six out of seven meetings against Mullin’s Redmen. (Mullin’s Johnnies did upset the Hoyas twice on the road.)

Now Ewing is in his second season as Hoyas head coach and has won both meetings against Mullin’s Red Storm at MSG with Georgetown’s 89-78 victory on Saturday afternoon.

“Quite frankly, I thought Georgetown played a hell of a game,” Mullin said.

St. John’s nearly erased a nine point deficit in the final minutes of the game but the rally fell short.

It looked like it could be a repeat of what happened several weeks ago when St. John’s

came back from four points down with 18 seconds remaining to force overtime and stun Georgetown in the extra session.

This time, Georgetown stood its ground.

“This game, even though we knew the intensity that they were gonna come with, how athletic they were in terms of creating steals and turnovers ... I thought that when they did that tonight we didn’t put our heads down,” Ewing said. “We just kept fighting.”

As for the Red Storm, what once was shaping up to be the best season in nearly a decade is suddenly in danger of slipping away.

“I feel like as a team we’ve parted ways,” junior guard Shamorie Ponds said after the game. “We’re not together like we were in the beginning.”

Justin Simon and Marvin Clark II shot a combined five for 26 from the field in Saturday’s loss.

The most memorable sequence of the game came when LJ Figueroa missed a three that would’ve given St. John’s the lead, followed by three missed tip-ins by the Red

Chris Mullin, left, was dealt a tough loss at the Madison Square Garden as the Hoyas led by old rival Patrick Ewing came away with a hard-fought win. St. John’s dropped to 3-5 in Big East play PHOTOS BY DAVID RUSSELL with the defeat.

Storm and Georgetown running the other way for an easy basket to put the game away in front of a stunned crowd.

“At the end of the day, it doesn’t come down to one possession,” said guard Mustapha Heron. “We came out in the first half and we had some spurts where we were just going through the motions. We put ourselves in that position so that one possession is what it is. It could’ve gone either way.”

St. John’s began 12-0 in nonconference play and after taking two of the first three games in Big East play, found themselves ranked in the top 25.

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Mullin faces Ewing as long rivalry continues

But they’ve lost four of five since and have a tough road schedule coming up.

Mullin, who is now 15-47 in conference play as head coach, looks forward to some of the opportunities in the coming week in battles with Creighton and Marquette with a trip to Duke in the middle.

“What else would you rather do in life?

Seriously,” Mullin said of the opportunity for some crucial road wins. “I mean, if you’re not excited about that, geez. Every day’s an opportunity.”

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Holiday photo contest!

The winner of the Queens Chronicle’s 11th annual Holiday Photo Contest is F.E. Scanlon of Flushing, who took the great shot of dusk in Sunnyside at the top right, on the last weekend before Christmas. As the winner, Scanlon will get the chance to see an off-Broadway show courtesy of the Chronicle.

And as always we had plenty of other worthwhile entries. At top left are decorations on a property at the corner of Union Turnpike and

232nd Street in Queens Village, taken by nearby resident Linda Silverman.

In the center row are: Skillman Avenue ready for the holidays, by Trisha Luongo of Middle Village; merry cookies made by sisters Justine and Olivia Balog with help from their mother, Maria, and aunt, Ron Fisher, shot by Chronicle contributor Steve Fisher of Middle Village; a panda selfie by Mary Wecera of Broad Channel, who delighted children for years when she worked

for Entertain-O-Grams; a happy family at Green Acres mall in Valley Stream, LI, by Jyoti Katta; Howard Beach pup Comet in November’s snow, taken by her companion Abigail Piotrowski and sent by Abigail’s grandmother MaryAnn Kellen; and wreaths at a monument in All Faiths Cemetery in Middle Village shot by Kayla Luongo.

Above are the late Shadow, who sat for this portrait around Christmas 2000 and though gone since 2015 is not at all forgotten by his

friend Bill Higgins of Glendale; a Chanukah menorah and Christmas tree outside the Flushing Library by Scanlon, who referred to the spot as the “cultural crosswalk of Queens”; and holiday singers by Richard Melnick of Astoria, who noted how much he and his lady, Donna, enjoy entering our photo contests.

We enjoy seeing all the entries! And don’t miss our Summer in the Borough Photo Contest.

— Peter C. Mastrosimone

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ARTS, CULTURE & LIVING

by Michael Gannon History is replete with the contributions to culture and d society from the likes of Abraham Lincoln, Thomas homas Edison, Edison on, n, Mickey Mantle and Elvis; yet there are few if any mentions mentio ons of Dave Hill.

Hill, along with collaborators Jim Biederman man and d Jodi Jod odi Lennon, has begun setting the historical record ord straight stra raightt in in a series of performances at QED, the Astoria ria club club and and cafe, titled “You Had to Be There.”

In an email to the Chronicle, Hill, a native ve of CleveCleve veland, said Biederman once had the idea of using usin ing Hill’ss skills for improvisation and BS to turn him into to o a sort of Zelig character through various points in history. ory.

“Zelig” is a 1983 “mockumentary” by Woody oody Allen, Al en, in which his character is firsthand witness to hist history. tory.

“And then we used a piece I had written ritt t en for McSweeney’s a few years ago about my ttime ime as a im member of the Eagles as a jumping off point nt for our first show,” he said.

Another recent performance dealt with th Hill’s ls contributions and experiences at CBGB’s, a legenddary East Village music club from 1973 to 2006.

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The group also draws comparisons to o “The he 2,000-Year-Old Man” created decades ago by Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner, which also followed ed aan n interview format.

The trio relies on no sets, props or costumes. es.

“Jim and Jodi ask me questions throughout ut the show and we also take a few questions from m the he audience,” Hill said. “Aside from the notes Jim uses to give accurate historical context for or whatever we’re talking about on a particular ular ar night, the show is entirely improvised. There are no props aside from beer. And as for costumes, es, s we all just agree to wear the cleanest outfits fits we can find that day, though it wouldn’t kill Jim to try a little harder in this department.”

Biederman serves as the moderator. Hee and Lennon question Hill “incessantly” aboutt whatever topic has been chosen for thee evening.

“The first show was inspired by the McSweeney’s piece but the shows are entirely improvised,” Hill said. “I can’t speak for Jim or Jodi regarding prep, but I spend a few minutes reading Wikipedia before each show to remind myself of all the incredible things I’ve done over the years. The show is sort of my victory lap, I guess.” continued on page 27

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W H AT ’ S H A P P E N I N G EXHIBITS

TOURS/HIKES

Nikon Small World 2018,” with winning images from the photomicrography competition, such as a peacock feather section, amino acid crystals and butterfly wing scales. Through Sun., Feb. 24, New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Corona. Free with admission: $16; $13 seniors, kids, students with ID. Info: (718) 699-0005, nysci.org.

The Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tour, with a museum educator leading a dynamic experience exploring the puppeteer and filmmaker’s work on “Sesame Street,” “The Muppet Show,” “Fraggle Rock” and more. Each Sat. through June 29, 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria. $20; $16 seniors, students; $14 kids 3-17; includes museum admission. Info: (718) 777-6888, movingimage.us.

“Gluteus Maximus,” with works by Omari Douglin that contemplate the female posterior with outlines of its shape in caulk lines that provide a thematic take on figuration and double as stick figures at play. Thu., Jan. 31 (opening reception 5-8 p.m.)-Sat., March 30, Mrs., 60-40 56 Drive, Maspeth. Free. Info: (347) 841-6149, mrsgallery.com.

SPECIAL EVENTS Sunnyside Litter Cleanup, focused on bike lanes, sidewalks and tree pits in industrial areas, co-hosted

by Sunnyside Family Fun Bike Ride and Transportation Alternatives/Queens. Sat., Feb. 2, meeting at 10 a.m., Lou Lodati Playground, Skillman Ave. (near Sunnyside Greenmarket, 41st Street). Info: Alan Baglia, (917) 749-9395, alanbaglia@gmail.com.

“Jon Brogie: Studies from Rome,” with drawings and paintings of Rome’s most iconic masterworks that the 2017 Alma Schapiro Prize winner created during a stay at the American Academy there.

Through Fri., Feb. 22, by appointment, Eleventh Street Arts, 46-06 11 St., Long Island City. Free. Info: eleventhstreetarts.com.

Paintings by Eileen Coyne, with works mostly featuring people and dogs, by the Long Island City artist largely inspired by European Expressionists. Through June, QED, 27-16 23 Ave., Astoria. Free. Info: (347) 451-3873, qedastoria.com.

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“Wall-Floor Positions,” with artists making themselves into prop sculptures, moving through various poses in relation to a room, as first done by Bruce Nauman in 1965 California, tied to the “Disappearing Acts” exhibit of his work. Each Fri.-Sat. through Feb. 23, each hour on the hour 1-5 p.m., MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City. Free with admission: $10; $5 students, seniors; free under 16.

Info: (718) 784-2084, momaps1.org.

“Double Indemnity,” the 1944 film noir crime drama starring Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck, above, as well as Edward G. Robinson, is among the movies being screened at the Museum of the Moving Image to highlight the work of costume designer Edith Head, who won eight Academy Awards out of 35 nominations. See Film.

PARAMOUNT PICTURES Jazz Jam, the monthly event led by saxophonist Carol Sudhalter, with all musicians and vocalists welcome to join in. Wed., Feb. 6 (each first Wed. of the month), 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, qchron.com/qboro/stories.

ics calling him out. Fri., Feb. 1, 7:30 p.m.; every other Wed., Feb. 6-March 27, 9 p.m. (except Feb. 20, 7:30 p.m.), QED, 27-16 23 Ave., Astoria. $10.

Info: (347) 451-3873, qedastoria.com.

THEATRE

Queens College Choral Society, with both students and any resident of any age of Queens, Manhattan, Nassau and Suffolk welcome for the spring season, featuring Mozart’s Mass in C minor and Brahms’ “Schicksalslied” (“Song of Fate”). Wed., Feb. 6, 6-7:15 p.m. (rehearsals each Wed. 7:30-9:45), Music Building, room 246, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing. Info: James John, (718) 997-3818, jmsjhn@ aol.com, qcchoralsociety.org.

“Banu Cennetoglu,” with objects, images, texts and more that contemplate the individual’s place within today’s geopolitics, and “In Practice: Other Objects,” with works by 11 artists and teams probing the interplay between objecthood and personhood. Through Mon., Mar. 25, SculptureCenter, 44-19 Purves St., Long Island City. $10 suggested; $5 students. Info: (718) 361-1750, sculpture-center.org.

“Queen,” the story of two female scientists studying vanishing bee populations who discover an error in their research that could ruin their careers, but they could look the other way to save the bees, by the Astoria Performing Arts Center. Through Feb. 16, each Thu. and Fri., 8 p.m.; each Sat., 2 and 8 p.m., Variety Boys & Girls Club of Queens, 21-12 30 Road, entrance on 21 St. $25; $20 students, seniors. Info: (718) 706-5750, apacny.org.

MUSIC

DANCE

Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks, with the group that won a Grammy for its “Boardwalk Empire” soundtrack performing hot jazz and swing dance music of the ’20s and ’30s. Fri., Feb. 1, 8 p.m., Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. $25; $20 students; free teens. Info/RSVP: (718) 4637700, flushingtownhall.org.

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“Viva Momix,” with the troupe’s “illusionist dancers” performing their most iconic works and new routines. Sat., Feb. 9, 2 and 8 p.m.; Sun., Feb. 10, 3 p.m., Queens Theatre, 14 United Nations Ave. S., Flushing Meadows Corona Park. $20-$42. Info: (718) 760-0064, queenstheatre.org.

COMEDY “You Had To Be There,” with comedian Dave Hill of “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” and other shows giving his “first-person” accounts of historical events he did not witness and two other com-

AUDITIONS

FILM Black History Month Celebration, with multiple films including a world premiere and two discussions. Each Fri., Feb. 1-22, 7:30 p.m., 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.

See It Big! Costumes by Edith Head, with a series of films the designer worked on in Hollywood’s Golden Age, such as “The Uninvited,” “Double Indemnity,” “Roman Holiday” and “To Catch a Thief.” Sat., Feb. 2-Sun., March 10, various dates and times, Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria. $15; $11 seniors, students; $9 kids 3-17; includes museum admission. Info: (718) 777-6888, movingimage.us.

Didi Gregorius meet and greet, with the Yankees shortstop on hand during an open house at a branch of his team’s official fitness center. Sat., Feb. 2, 10-11 a.m. (open house all day), Retro Fitness, 89-89 Union Tpke., Forest Hills. Free. Info: (718) 878-6161, retrofitness.com/foresthillsny.

A Heart’s Desire: Wine, Cheese and Chocolate, an early Valentine’s Day celebration pairing rare Italian wines with cheese and chocolate from Forever Cheese,

by Edible Queens. Thu., Feb. 7, 7-8:30 p.m., The Wine Room of Forest Hills, 96-09 69 Ave. $40. Info: (7189) 520-1777, ediblequeens.ediblecommunities.com.

Midcentury Stereopanorama, with people looking at photos of all kinds from the 1950s that appear 3-D because they were taken with the Stereo Realist camera system, a largely forgotten technology.

Sat., Feb. 9, 12-2 p.m., QED, 27-16 23 Ave., Astoria. $15. Info/registration (required): (347) 451-3873, qedastoria.com.

COURTESY PHOTO Rinkworm: a popup roller-skating rink, with various theme nights, lounge, arcade, snack bar and skate rental available, by Springboard Collective.

Mon. Feb. 11-Sun., Feb. 17, varying times, Flux Factory, 39-31 29 St., Long Island City. Free; rentals by donation. Info: (347) 669-1406, fluxfactory.org.

Free Dental Day, with any preventative procedure that can be done in one day offered, including cleanings, exams, x-rays and more. Fri., Feb. 22, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Steinway Family Dental Center, 32-50 Steinway St., Astoria. Info/appointments: (718) 728-3314, alldentalneeds.com. continued on page 28

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Nature is his muse and the world of dance the beneficiary.

Moses Pendleton was born and raised on a dairy farm in Vermont. When he grew up, he became a choreographer and eventually founded his own dance troupe, naming it after the milk supplement that he would feed the family’s veal calves: Momix.

The world-renowned company will return to Queens Theatre for three performances only on Feb. 9 and 10. The first will include an audience talk-back session afterward.

Speaking by telephone from his home in Connecticut, Pendleton displayed the sense

‘Viva Momix’ When: Sat., Feb. 9, 2 and 8 p.m.; Sun., Feb. 10, 3 p.m.

Where: Queens Theatre, 14 United Nations Ave. South, Flushing Meadows Corona Park Tickets: $20-$42. (718) 760-0064, queenstheatre.org

of humor that permeates many of his dance routines. He refers, for instance, to the time he spent on the farm as the “Cro-Magnon days.”

About to turn 70 years young, Pendleton displays few if any signs of slowing down.

While his dancers take the stage for this latest booking, he’ll be in Italy on business.

There was some disappointment in his voice as he told of the conflict: He enjoys attending as many performances as he can.

For their Queens engagement, the performers, whose “dancer illusionists” appellation seems apt in view of the logic-defying magic they create on stage, will offer “Viva Momix,” a compilation of the most iconic pieces from the company’s repertoire, along with several new works.

According to Pendleton, much of the creative process happens at his home, a large, old Victorian house surrounded by lush greenery that provides a lot of his inspiration. He revels in “long country walks right in my own backyard.”

From those walks ideas seem to flow.

But, he cautioned, “You gotta know how to do it. I’ve been practicing” a long time.

“I take an environmental, psychological

The dancer illusionists of Momix will perform something of a greatest hits repertoire PHOTO BY EDDY FERNANDEZ / COURTESY MOMIX at Queens Theatre, along with new routines. approach to creativity,” he explained.

“Nature does nurture. It offers mystery.”

And, he said, he never tires of the magic he finds in it and how it connects to humans.

Pendleton, himself, seems to enjoy interacting with people, encouraging his dancers to collaborate in the creation of

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Ask any of the girls Victoria has the privilege of teaching at Steps Ahead Dance Studio, about the kind of teacher Ms. Victoria is and what she represents to them. They may tell you, “she’s the best teacher ever!” which may come from a 9-year-old little girl who is truly smitten and inspired by this talented performer and teacher. Or my 14-year-old daughter who will tell you, “She inspires me to work harder and to have more confidence in my dancing.” The world can be a tiny room closing in on you when you are a teenage girl who feels inadequate and that whatever you do is just not good enough. Ms. Victoria has helped change that in my daughter and other girls at this dance studio. She makes them feel good about themselves, their insecurities and about loving dance once again as some of them did when they were carefree at 3 years old.

So you see, her “extraordinariness” comes from not just the ballerina I’ve seen on stage expressing undying love for dance, but off the dance floor, where she helps little girls find love and respect for each other through dance.

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As you watch her on stage where her moves appear as if you’re watching a CGI movie, as surely she couldn’t do that many turns on pointe, you can only imagine the hard work it takes to be this good and wonder how any human body can do the things that she is able to do. But this is not what makes her extraordinary, not by far. Could it be in the way she takes your breath away when you see the talent pour out of such a petite inspiring young women?

Or in the manner she forces your own emotions to rise to the surface as she bears all her soul and passion for what she loves to do on any stage? Maybe it’s through the fluid motions of her arms when it appears she is addressing you through the joy, pain and/or excitement of her dance pieces. No, this is what I call inspiring perfection!

But what makes Victoria extraordinary is much more than just the beauty in her feet when she dances.

It is in the love and passion she pours into helping young girls find themselves through dance.

In her spare time, Victoria lends her talents by teaching ballet and modern at a dance studio in Ozone Park, Queens, in New York City.

Victoria has left a lasting impact on the many, many girls she works with from ages 9 to 16.

The added pressures of today’s era, the internet, school, new fads, pressure to be on top, creates a sort of pressure vessel in these young tween and teenage girls, where they can easily lose their way due to some of these everyday factors. Victoria has been able to change that for some of these girls. The

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Karyn Parsons to introduce her movie at MoMI

by David Russell Associate Editor

Think of Karyn Parsons and the first thing that jumps to mind is her performance as Will Smith’s ditzy cousin Hilary Banks on “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.” In reality, Parsons is not like her most memorable character at all.

She created Sweet Blackberry, which produces animated stories for children about little-known inspirational historical figures in African-American history.

The first was about Henry “Box” Brown, a slave who found freedom by arranging to have himself mailed in a wooden crate to Philadelphia.

‘Flying Free: The Bessie Coleman Story’ with Karyn Parsons live When: Fri., Feb. 8, 7:30 p.m.

Where: Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria Tickets: $15; $11 seniors, students; $9 kids 3-17; includes museum admission. (718) 777-6888, movingimage.us

Her mother is a retired librarian who would teach Parsons about unsung black heroes throughout history.

The latest story from Sweet Blackberry is about Bessie Coleman, the first black female aviator. Aviation schools in the United States wouldn’t teach her to fly so she taught herself French, moved to France and earned her license from the renowned Caudron B rot h e r s’ S c h o o l of Aviation.

Parsons played Coleman in a theater produc- Karyn Parsons will speak at the Museum of the Moving Image about her new film “Flying Free: The tion around 20 years ago Bessie Coleman Story.”

MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE and became interested in her story. She’ll discuss it Feb. 8 at the was and what a fierce woman she was and said. “These are stories for all of us to get what you’re capable of when you’re up excited about and be inspired by and not Museum of the Moving Image.

“I was reluctant to do her story at first against incredible odds,” Parsons said. “You just some niche little history just for black because there’s a lot of stuff out there,” can still do amazing things and I think she’s people to know about and think is great. It’s Parsons said. “But I love her story so much such a great poster child for that.”

American history. It’s all of ours.”

The short film is narrated by Laurence and who she is so much.”

Parsons also has a children’s book coming Many people Parsons spoke to never Fishburne. Chris Rock, Queen Latifah and out in March. “How High the Moon” tells Alfre Woodard have narrated others. heard of Coleman. the story of a biracial girl growing up in the Q “These are American stories,” Parsons Jim Crow South in 1944.

“I really wanted kids to know who she

Outdoor works that sing a song of Africa

by Mark Lord

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The African Divas are in place, adorning the iron gate that surrounds the front lawn of the Jamaica Performing Arts Center on Jamaica Avenue, representatives of changing times shouldered with the support and grace of ancestral Africa.

That’s how the artist behind the creations, Margaret Rose Vendryes, explained the significance of the seven figures officially unveiled during a brief ceremony on Jan. 17.

The exhibition, entitled “Standing Ovation: The African Diva Project,” is part of Vendryes’ larger ongoing series, The African Diva Project, which she created to reconnect black art, music and performance to their

‘Standing Ovation: The African Diva Project’ When: Through March Where: Jamaica Performing Arts Center, 153-10 Jamaica Ave. Entry: Free. (718) 658-7400, jcal.org

African roots. She began the project in 2005.

The seven famous African-American soloists, culled from a total of 45 in Vendryes’ collection, will be on view through March.

Among those represented are legendary vocalists Aretha Franklin, Lena Horne and Thelma Houston.

Presented jointly by the Queens Council on the Arts and the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, the project is under the umbrella of ArtSite, the Council’s first public art commissioning program, which aims to empower artists to engage on a local level, understanding that they can be catalysts for change.

Just prior to the ceremony, Vendryes, an award-winning art historian and curator who chairs the Department of Performing and Fine Arts at York College, said she believes the exhibit will serve as a reminder that “black is beautiful,” an idea that, for some, “is not that easily swallowed.”

Referring to the works about to be displayed, she said, “These things belong here.

These voices are important to our people.”

The life-size figures are enlargements of Vendryes’ renowned paintings, which merge commercial images of popular black singers

Artist Margaret Rose Vendryes with her figure of singer Macy Gray outside the Jamaica Performing Arts Center. PHOTO BY MARK LORD with African masks that are reminiscent of those that were originally carved for men to wear during rites of passage and other formal ceremonies.

Addressing the small crowd that gathered on the sidewalk for the unveiling, Vendryes said, “Paintings are meant to be out to change lives,” not hanging in a museum

where they get limited exposure. “All of this is warming my heart.”

And unlike those hired to protect museum pieces, Vendryes invited those in attendance to take selfies alongside her creations.

“I am happy to be doing something public,” she said, obviously pleased with the idea that passersby will be able to understand the pleasure she gets from her work. “It’s amazing to me that it’s happening,” she said.

Vendryes, who was born in Jamaica, West Indies and raised in Cambria Heights, said she has visited Africa three times and taught herself about its art. She chose JPAC as the site for the exhibit because of the center’s cultural significance in Jamaica and its role as a central space for the community. When the exhibit ends, she will auction off each figure as a fundraiser for the center.

Hoong Yee Krakauer, executive director of the Council, who was among the dignitaries on hand for the unveiling, said the group is “thrilled to be part of this project. “ The executive director of JCAL, Cathy Hung, was pleased that such presentations offer residents of Southeast Queens the opportunity to express their work “in a new way, outside the gallery in an open space.” Q

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“It’s kind of like ‘My Dinner with Andre’ only Andre has a head injury,” Hill added.

In a separate press release, Hill points out that his achievements are even more amazing that one might at first believe.

“It’s an incredible feeling to have been right there in the eye of the storm of ever y culturally significant event throughout histor y despite many of them taking place before I was born,” Hill said.

Hill said Chris Gersbeck, who produces a number of comedy shows at the venue and produces and records “You

‘You Had to Be There’ When: Fri., Feb. 1, 7:30 p.m.; every other Wed., Feb. 6-March 27, 9 p.m. (Feb. 20, 7:30 p.m.)

Where: QED, 27-16 23 Ave., Astoria Entry: $10. (347) 451-3873. qedastoria.com

Had to Be There,” as well as Hill’s podcast titled “Dave Hill’s Podcasting Incident,” suggested bringing the historical retrospective to the Astoria club.

“But I’ve been performing at QED since it opened and I absolutely love the place,” Hill said. “It’s a great space, the staff is great, the vibe is great, there is a bar, they sell cookies, and perhaps best of all, there is a bathroom located right next to the stage in case anything really crazy happens.

“And it’s in Queens, which is heaven on earth,”he said.

Some of Hill’s other credits include “The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee,” “The Jim Gaffigan Show” and “This American Life.”

Biederman has done executive producer work on “The Howard Stern Show,” “The Kids in the Hall,” “The Jamie Kennedy Experiment,” “The Whitest Kids U Know,” “The Onion News Hour,” and “Would You Rather ... with Graham Norton.”

Lennon, a veteran of Chicago’s legendary Second City comedy troupe, has

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worked with Amy and David Sedaris, is known from “Exit 57” and is a member of The Annoyance Theater. “‘You Had to Be There’ recreates the experience of a barfly telling you stories

that sound just believable enough, even though they’re clearly works of fiction,” Biederman said in a press release for the show, with answers that often go off on Q strange, ridiculous tangents.

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LECTURES/TALKS Filming Survivance: A Conversation with Diane Fraher, with the Osage/Cherokee filmmaker discussing her work and depictions of Native Americans in film, and screening clips from her movies “The Reawakening” and “The Heart Stays.” Thu., Feb. 7, 5 p.m., Kupferberg Holocaust Center, Queensborough Community College, 222-05 56 Ave., Bayside. Free. Info/registration (required): (718) 281-5770, khc.qcc.cuny.edu.

KIDS/FAMILIES Tabletop Gardening, with participants learning how to grow plants in winter and take some home; best for ages 4 to 10; must be accompanied by an adult. Sat., Feb. 2, 11 a.m.-12 p.m., Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main St., Flushing. $12 per child. Info: (718) 886-3800, queensbotanical.org.

PXHERE.COM Think Tank: Seeing Sound, with kids 7-10 testing the properties of sound waves as they dig into the science of vibrations. Sat., Feb. 2, 1-2:30 p.m., Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston. $24. Info/ pre-registration (required): (718) 229-4000, alleypond.com.

Little Makers: Cornstarch Chemistry, a dropin program with kids exploring cornstarch “to create radical reactions” with it and getting messy; best for ages 18 months to 7 years. Sun., Feb. 3, 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m., New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Corona. $5 per child plus admission: $16; $13 seniors, kids, students with ID. Info: (718) 699-0005, nysci.org.

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SPORTS

How Many Zombies Are Too Many Zombies?, an educational game with up to 25 players taking on the role of scientists helping the “Center for Calamity Control” handle a zombie outbreak and learning mathematical modeling. Through Fri., Feb. 15, New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Corona. Free with admission: $16; $13 seniors, kids, students with ID. Info: (718) 6990005, nysci.org.

Toddler Storytime: Dutch colonial edition, an interactive program for kids 2 to 4 and their parents to explore Dutch colonial culture. Sat., Feb. 9, 10-11:30 a.m., Onderdonk House, 1820 Flushing Ave., Ridgewood. $5; kids free. Info/registration (required): (718) 456-1776, onderdonkhouse.org, ridgewoodhistoricalsociety@gmail.com.

CLASSES/WORKSHOPS Music Production, with DJ and producer PlayPlay teaching how to make music for free on a

laptop with a web-based program, along with the basics of production. Sat., Feb. 2, 2-4 p.m., Flux Factory, 39-31 29 St., Long Island City. Free.

Info: (347) 669-1406, fluxfactory.org; RSVP: jadilday@gmail.com.

Intro to Embroidery, with participants learning some basic stitches from Art Strong NYC and making a piece of wall art to hang up; all supplies included. Sun., Feb. 10, 12-1:30 p.m., QED, 27-16 23 Ave., Astoria. $35. Info: (347) 451-3873, qedastoria.com.

Writing From the Heart: an eight-week workshop in creative writing, for those who want to start or improve their writing in a supportive atmosphere, with author and longtime Queens College instructor Maxine Fisher; and participants attending any or all classes. Each Sat., Feb. 9-March 30, 12 p.m., Maspeth Library, 69-70 Grand Ave. Free. Info: (718) 639-5228, queenslibrary.org.

SENIOR ACTIVITIES SNAP: Services Now for Adult Persons, a full-service neighborhood center with exercise classes, line dancing, table pool, hot lunch daily, sewing, jewelry, quilting classes and more. 13333 Brookville Blvd., suite LL5, Rosedale. Info: (718) 525-8899, snapqueens.org.

Howard Beach Senior Center, with exercise classes every weekday except Thu., varying times; dances with a DJ and hot lunch every Tue., 12-3 p.m.; art classes every Thu., 9:3011:30 a.m., 12:30-2:30 p.m.; intro to sign language every Fri., 10-11:30 a.m.; karaoke every Wed., 1-3 p.m.; monthly book club; and more, 155-55 Crossbay Blvd. Info: (718) 738-8100.

SUPPORT GROUPS Gam-Anon is a 12-step program for families of someone with a gambling problem. Call hot line (212) 606-8177.

Monthly bereavement group, for dealing with the loss of a loved one, with handouts, light refreshments and more. Wed., Feb. 13 and every 2nd Wed. of the month after that, 2:30-4 p.m., Maspeth Town Hall, 53-37 72 St. Free. Info: (718) 335-6049, maspethtownhall.org.

Al-anon, self-help group for anyone affected by another’s drinking: St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 82 St. and 34 Ave., parish house, 1st floor, Jackson Heights, every Tue. Contact: jacksonheightsalanonon@gmail.com. Resurrection Ascension Pastoral Center basement, 85-18 61 Road, Rego Park, every Sun. 12 p.m.

Anxious, nervous, depressed? Recovery International can help. Meetings every Thu., 2:30 p.m., Fri., 3:30 p.m. Forest Hills Library, 108-19 71 Ave. Info: recoveryinternational.org.

Contemplating suicide? The Samaritans provide 24-hour confidential emotional support for those feeling suicidal or depressed. Call: (212) 673-3000; samaritansnyc.org.

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Sports and the shutdown

by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor

It was somewhat ironic that air controllers walking off the job and affecting LaGuardia Airport Friday was what forced President Trump, a native of Jamaica Estates, to blink and agree to end the 35-day shutdown of the federal government even though he did not secure the funds for the Mexican border wall that he demanded. I have a feeling that Trump was not thinking warm thoughts about his home borough last week.

The air controllers and Transportation Safety Administration screeners had the most leverage of all federal employees who were not receiving paychecks. Even if LaGuardia remained operational it would not have been surprising if air controllers stayed away from Atlanta’s Hartsfield Airport this week. Atlanta is hosting Super Bowl LIII. A lot of corporate events and other commerce will take place there.

U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), who almost always votes in lockstep with Trump’s wishes, voted with Democrats on a bill to reopen the government without wall funds.

Isakson was clearly feeling heat from his state’s business community. I’m sure he made his feelings known to Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ken.) if not Trump himself.

The current budget agreement expires on

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CBS executives have to be thrilled about the Super Bowl LIII matchup featuring the Los Angeles Rams and New England Patriots. The Rams represent the nation’s second-largest television market (behind New York) while the Patriots are led by QB Tom Brady and head coach Bill Belichick. They are either immensely loved or loathed by football fans. Either way they generate a lot of viewers.

The pressure will be immense on former Dallas Cowboys quarterback and current lead CBS NFL analyst Tony Romo since he has rightfully earned a reputation for having playcalling ESP. Football fans won’t have to worry about withdrawal symptoms following the Super Bowl. Next Saturday, cable’s CBS Sports Network will cover the maiden season of a spring pro football league. The Alliance of American Football has eight teams in small markets such Q as San Antonio, Memphis and San Diego.

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Frederich Max Richter was born in Leipzig, Germany on Feb. 10, 1882. He landed in New York City in 1903 on a sh ip f rom Ha mbu rg a nd became a naturalized American citizen in November 1914.

He and his wife, Louise, started a flower nursery business on 47th Avenue off Francis Lewis Boulevard. The barren acres of land were transformed into a complex series of flower nurseries. His The Richter Florist and Nursery Fields, 45-28 Francis fresh flowers supplied a large Lewis Blvd., Bayside. An aerial view, summer 1930. number of florists in Manhattan and Brooklyn, as well as funeral condition, on a block with a number of homes. Their two daughters, Helen and fairly large homes.

As development headed east, the RichKathleen, helped grow the business.

U.S. Census records show Fred and ters slowly started selling off acres of Louise had only an eighth- and fourth- land as its value skyrocketed. Upon Fredgrade education, respectively, but that did erick’s death in March 1949, at age 67, the not hold them back. They bought a big remaining acres were liquidated, leaving house at 40-26 204 St. in Bayside, which his wife and two daughters very comfortQ today still stands largely in its original able for the rest of their lives.

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“It still stresses me out,” Chicheportice admitted of the demanding routine. “If I miss one spot, I don’t know where I am.”

Williams will perform the acrobatically strenuous “Table Talk,” which tells the story of a man and his unique relationship with the title object, as he eventually becomes one with it.

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“The dancers contribute [to a new routine] and I direct it.”

Among the performers headed to Queens Theatre are two longtime Momix members, Jennifer Chicheportice and Jason Williams, who joined the company in 2007 and 2011, respectively.

Chicheportice, a native of France, first saw a performance by Momix in Italy, where she was a member of a contemporary ballet company. “I was very impressed,” she recalled, though she thought the routines were probably too acrobatic for a person with her classical training.

Several years later, she found herself in New York, where she happened upon a group of people wearing Momix show jackets. After speaking with her, they encouraged her to audition for the troupe.

For Williams, it was a much more immediate matchup. While in college in Miami, he recalled, “A guest choreographer came through.” He happened to know Pendleton.

When Williams came to New York, he auditioned and found “it was a perfect fit.”

Among the highlights of the upcoming show will be solos by the two performers.

Chicheportice will, once again, take on the challenges of “Aqua Flora,” a mystical dance

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS, INDEX NO. 713085/2018, Plaintiff designates QUEENS as the place of trial situs of the real property, SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS, Mortgaged Premises: 24-44 97TH STREET, EAST ELMHURST, NY 11369, Block: 1107 Lot: 28, NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC D/B/A MR. COOPER, Plaintiff, vs. ALEX NELSON A/K/A ALEXANDER NELSON, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF HERDLEY NELSON; JODIE NELSON, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF HERDLEY NELSON; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DISTRIBUTEES OF THE ESTATE OF HERDLEY NELSON; any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #12,” the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants. To the above-named Defendants: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT, THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $175,000.00 and interest, recorded on December 20, 2004, at Instrument number CRFN 2004000780441, in the Office of the City Register of the City of New York in the County of QUEENS, New York, covering premises known as 24-44 97TH STREET, EAST ELMHURST, NY 11369. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. QUEENS County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county. NOTICE: YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME. If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. RAS BORISKIN, LLC, Attorney for Plaintiff, BY: DYZIO J. GUZIEROWICZ, ESQ., 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, NY 11590, 516-280-7675

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS, CitiMortgage, Inc., Plaintiff, - against - Sophia Hwang a/k/a Sophia Su Hwang if living and if she be dead, any and all persons who are spouses, widows, grantees, mortgagees, lienor, heirs, devisees, distributees, or successors in interest of such of the above as may be dead, and their spouses, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors in interest, all of whom and whose names and places of residences are unknown to Plaintiff, Commissioner of Social Services of the City of New York Social Services District, Board of Managers of Woodside Condominium, New York City Environmental Control Board, New York City Parking Violations Bureau, New York City Transit Adjudication Bureau, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, United States of America-Internal Revenue Service, Defendants.

SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Index No. 709629/2018, Filed: 1/14/2019. Plaintiff designates Queens County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the Mortgage premises is situated.

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your Answer or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance on the attorneys for the plaintiff within twenty (20) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within thirty (30) days after service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $85,000.00 and interest, recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County of QUEENS on April 22, 2008, in CRFN 2008000160482, covering premises known as 58-59 44th Avenue, Unit 3-A, Woodside, NY 11377.

The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above.

NOTICE: YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this Summons and Complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the Mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

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YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: Bayshore, New York, January 9, 2019 By: Linda P. Manfredi, Esq., Frenkel, Lambert, Weiss, Weisman & Gordon, LLP, Attorneys for Plaintiff 53 Gibson Street, Bay Shore, New York 11706 (631) 969-3100. Our File No.:01-088009-F00

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NEW! PUMPKIN CREAM CHEESE

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• CHEESE PLATTERS • HUMMUS PLATTERS • MINI PANINI PLATTERS • VEGETABLE PLATTERS

FIELD GOAL

Feeds 10-12

3-FOOT HERO (American, Italian or Grilled Chicken)

1/2 TRAY BUFFALO WINGS

Includes Celery, Carrots & Blue Cheese, Potato & Macaroni Salad

$99.95 +Tax $19.95 Each Add’l Foot Cannot be combined with any other offer. No substitutions.

162-54 CROSSBAY BLVD., HOWARD BEACH • 718-843-5700 W W W . H B B AG E LCA F E . C O M

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