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Howard Beach, hit hard by Hurricane Sandy’s storm surge, will likely be added to FEMA’s flood regulation zone, according to new tentative advisory maps. That would require residents to get flood insurance and could force owners to retrofit their homes to protect against future floods. Above is 99th Street in Howard Beach on Oct. 30, a day after Hurricane Sandy.

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Small biz tug of war over MLS proposal Vague signs for and against give murky picture of stores’ stance by Josey Bartlett Editor

he battle continues for small business support for a Major League Soccer stadium in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Signs pasted on storefront windows alluding to the proposal are vague, and although some individuals are clearly in favor or not of building a 25,000-seat stadium in the park, other business owners’ sentiments seem to come with as much commitment and knowledge as they might give to putting a flier up for a car wash or yoga classes. Navy blue signs put out by MLS say at the top in bright green letters “Our Business Supports,” followed by “Let’s bring pro soccer to Queens.” At the bottom the signs say “Our jobs, our team,” as well as listing a website and how to follow MLS’s efforts on social media. The sign makes no mention of where the stadium would be. MLS President Mark Abbott told the Queens Chronicle that the proposed location in place of the Pool of Industry is the only site the league is looking at in New York City. Similarly, the Fairness Coalition of Queens, a group of 14 grassroots organizations opposed to stadium construction

A blue sign, left, with green writing hung in the front window of Unisex salon on 40th Road in Jackson Heights says “Our Business Supports” and “Let’s bring pro soccer to Queens.” A sign pasted on the front door of a pet shop on Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights says “Save our park.” PHOTOS BY JOSEY BARTLETT, LEFT, AND COURTESY FCQ

in the park, has created a sign to also engage small businesses. The sign reads “Save our park” at the top and “Save Flushing Meadows Corona Park” in the middle and ends by asking people to call 311 to tell Mayor Bloomberg “Our park is not for sale. Invest in our park. Don’t destroy it.” The sign does not mention the MLS

proposal or anything else specific. Additionally, Queens Development Group plans to revamp a nearby 23-acre plot on the north side of Citi Field called Willets Point and the parking lot on the south side of the stadium called Willets Point West. Proposals call for hotels, a million-square-foot mall, shops, exits off the Van Wyck expressway and housing.

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Construction of 2,500 units, 875 of them denoted as affordable, would be the last step although activists say that housing should be a top priority. During the last few weeks canvassers for the FCQ have gone door to door, just like MLS did more than a month ago, asking businesses to display their respective signs in their storefront’s windows. So far, activists said, they have visited 299 businesses on Roosevelt and 37th avenues in Jackson Heights. Of those 238 agreed to hang the “Save our park” sign. The Queens Chronicle conducted an unscientific sampling of the 1,000 businesses that MLS says support the stadium proposal by calling 21 of the establishments. Four businesses’ numbers were disconnected. Of the remaining 17, six were willing to speak on behalf of their companies. Three of those businesses supported the proposal as laid out by MLS. “We support it to encourage the youth to do sports and to stay here and play sports in their own borough instead of going out of the city,” Francisco Arnez, the owner of Mexico City Sport Corporation in Jackson Heights, said in Spanish translated into English by a co-worker. “We are big soccer fans here,” Angelo continued on page 40

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New flood zone to include Howard Beach FEMA says maps are only advisory, and do not carry regulations — yet by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

It may not come as a surprise to residents of Howard Beach who endured the rising floodwaters associated with Hur ricane Sandy’s storm surge in October, but new maps released by the Federal Emergency Management Agency say that most of the neighborhood is a flood zone. Under maps released by FEMA last week, the entire neighborhood south of the Belt Parkway and a section of Lindenwood west of 84th Street are now considered flood hazard zones. Previous flood maps had included Hamilton Beach and small sections of Howard Beach near Coleman Square, but the vast majority of the neighborhood was left out. The new flood maps double the number of homes and buildings in the danger zone citywide and include neighborhoods like Canarsie and Gravesend in Brooklyn, and New Dorp in Staten Island, which were previously not considered flood zones. The flood map for the city had not been updated since the 1980s. Hannah Vick, a spokeswoman for FEMA, said the maps are merely “advisory” right now; and regulatory maps — which the agency had been working on well before Hurricane Sandy — will come out later this spring.

She explained that rather than wait until the regulatory maps were made, FEMA decided to take what it already knew and release what Vick described as “precursor” maps that would help guide residents as they clean up from the storm. “Adopting flood maps takes one to two years and we were working on the maps for the New York area anyway,” Vick said. “We had this scientific data; we didn’t want to just sit on it.” Under the new maps, Broad Channel is classified as a “V” location, which means flooding is not the only concern there, but also waves. With the exception of a couple of blocks on the far northeastern side of the neighborhood, all of Howard Beach south of the Belt Parkway and Lindenwood west of 84th Street is an “A” neighborhood. That means flooding is the primary concern in those areas. However, most of the neighborhood, from 92nd Street — one block west of Cross Bay Boulevard — across Shellbank Basin and including all of Hamilton Beach and Old Howard Beach south of 157th Avenue, is at risk for moderate wave action in the worst storms. The only exception is a six-block section between 97th and 99th streets and 157th and 160th avenues, where the elevation is slightly higher. That section includes PS 146, which was spared severe

flood damage due to its higher location. Small waves were observed crashing along Cross Bay Boulevard between 164th and 165th avenues and in parts of Old Howard Beach near Charles Park during the storm. The maps identify altitudes in which the flood risks are strong. For most of the neighborhood, there is 1 percent annual risk for a flood up to altitudes of 10 or 11 feet above sea level. That 1 percent risk is equal to what FEMA had termed a “100-year flood,” lingo Vick said the agency is dropping because of misconceptions. “It’s possible to get a 100-year flood every year,” she said. For the southern portion of the neighborhood, there is a .25 percent risk of a devastating flood at 15 feet above sea level, which would be the equivalent of a “500-year flood.” North of 159th Avenue and in Lindenwood, the .25 percent annual risk is at 12 feet. FEMA also looked at the rest of Lindenwood and a small section of Old Howard Beach between 156th and 155th avenues, and Cohancy and 100th streets, and determined them to not be flood areas. The maps do not carry the regulations the final maps will, including requiring residents to buy flood insurance or to make structural adaptations to withstand floods, but Vick

noted that residents could use the maps to plan reconstruction and reinforcing efforts and buy flood insurance, so that they are prepared when f inal regulatory maps are approved and new rules take effect. Vick expects the final maps to look similar to the advisory ones and said factors that have not been taken into account yet, such as new residential or commercial developments, that could have altered the flood plain may force some changes from the advisory map. She noted that there was a situation in Chicago where a new housing development caused flooding in an adjacent neighborhood that had never experienced flooding before. When the f inal regulatory maps are released, they would need to be approved by the City Council. FEMA will hold public hearings and there will be a comment period before the Council votes. There is also an appeals process that could hold up f inal approval for months. If they are approved, every resident living in the zone would need to purchase flood insurance, but Vick suggests all residents get it anyway, and take precautions based on the map, including considering raising homes higher than the 10-to-15 feet altitude outlined in the zone map. continued on page 63

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Coastal residents can rebuild or move out Mayor eases building codes while Cuomo offers buyout of properties by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

Residents who live in homes on the coastline, like this one in the Rockaways, have to adjust to a new reality after Hurricane Sandy, and proposals by Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Cuomo aim FILE PHOTO to help residents rebuild, or move out. it would be changing zoning regulations in areas added to the advisory maps, but that process could take many months and FEMA’s advisory maps could change by the time the agency releases final regulatory maps, expected in the next year. Flood-proofing requirements have been in place since

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The new advisory maps from the Federal Emergency Management Agency placed in flood zones tens of thousands of people who, before Hurricane Sandy may have seen storm surges as a problem exclusive to tropical coastlines. Now, faced with a new reality on the city’s shorefronts, Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Cuomo are taking steps to make it easier for coastal dwellers to rebuild stronger — or leave altogether. Bloomberg issued an executive order last Thursday that will exempt homes and other buildings being reconstructed in flood zones — including those areas in the new advisory maps — from city zoning codes in order to comply with FEMA’s suggestions to build higher. At the same time, the mayor said the city would be updating regulations to fit the new standards to safeguard coastal communities from a storm surge like Sandy’s. “As a coastal city, our geography has required us to take extra precautions to protect homes and businesses from the risks that come with being close to the ocean, and climate change is increasing and accelerating those risks,” Bloomberg said. “We are beginning the process of updating our building code and zoning regulations so that new construction meets standards that reflect the best available data about flood and climate risks. This is particularly important for homes and businesses damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Sandy — and the rules we are putting in place today will enable them to rebuild and reopen safely.” In the meantime, the Department of City Planning announced

FEMA’s last flood zone maps were released in 1983, but Sandy’s storm surge struck parts of the city — including Howard Beach — that had not previously been mapped as a flood zone. The entire Rockaway Peninsula, Broad Channel, Howard Beach, western portions of Lindenwood and parts of southern Rosedale are all considered flood areas under FEMA’s new advisory maps. The agency said it will be releasing maps that will include northern neighborhoods like Long Island City, Astoria and College Point later this month. Meanwhile Gov. Cuomo announced he is allocating $400 million of the $50 billion in Sandy aid money approved by Congress last month toward buying out properties along the coast that owners want to sell, including Queens neighborhoods, such as the Rockaways. Cuomo announced the idea in his State of the State address last month, but did not specifically put a price tag on the plan until this past week. At least 10,000 homes citywide could qualify for the buyout. Joseph Martens, commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation, said Monday that the land “would be held as open space” by the state and could be converted into wetlands or dunes to serve both as parkland and shoreline protection. The governor’s plan would need approval from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development — the agency Cuomo headed from 1997 to 2001. HUD’s current Secretary Shaun Donovan was appointed by President Obama to Q head the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force.

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Man’s best friends took shelter at store Animal Pantry took care of pets displaced by Hurricane Sandy by Domenick Rafter

couldn’t turn down customers in need. “We knew we had to step in and help the community,” In the chaotic, confusing days after Hurricane Sandy last Bart said. Christine agreed, emphasizing that her family wants their fall, Bart and Christine Scibilia did what they do every day. customers and anyone else in the neighborhood to know they They opened up their pet store. The power was out, but Animal Pantry at 137-20 Cross are always there to help. “We just want the community to know we’re here to serve Bay Blvd. in Ozone Park — just steps from the Belt Parkway — escaped the destruction and devastation that riddled them,” she said. Bart said Animal Pantry played host to 15 to 20 fish evacthe boulevard’s commercial strip a half-mile south. There was no flooding or serious wind damage. For the first week after uated from Howard Beach, some of which are still being housed in the Scibilia’s display tanks the storm, the Scibilias, who live only in the back room. A customer’s baby a few blocks away from the store, tortoises are still taking shelter at the opened the doors to customers looking store, as is the parakeet. to buy food and other items for their e knew we had to The store’s staff of 12 helped care pets. step in and help for the pets. Bart fed the animals “We were without power for eight with his store’s food supply, even as days,” Christine said. “But we were the community.” their owners, who would come often able to open and serve customers.” to visit their refugee friends, offered But as things churned back to nor— Bart Scibilia, co-owner of Animal Pantry to pay. mal at Animal Pantry, the Scibilias He did admit that the store took a were taken by surprise by a different small hit from opening its doors to evacuees because of the kind of customer in need coming to their door. With the power back on, a number of Howard Beach resi- cost of food and use of the tanks for evacuated animals dents drove out of dark, damaged neighborhoods, looking for instead of holding fish for sale, but shrugged it off. The Scibilias even assisted customers with transporting a temporary home for their pets. “As soon as they saw the lights, they came running,” Bart their pets to Dr. Steven Weinstein, an area veterinarian, who opened a makeshift practice at JFK Airport after his offices said. Fish, reptiles, cats and even a parakeet arrived, their own- were flooded on Cross Bay Boulevard in Howard Beach. The Scibilias have only owned the pet store for about a ers begging for a warm place to keep them while they fixed year, taking it over from the previous owner who had their damaged homes and waited for power to be restored. Bart admitted that he was initially leery about taking in employed their daughter Chantal, for nearly a decade. Chanthe four-legged, feathered and finned refugees, but said he tal, the Scibilias said, is the “brains of the operation.” Associate Editor

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The sign outside Animal Pantry on Cross Bay Boulevard in Ozone Park advertises it as a pet store, but in the months since Hurricane Sandy, the establishment has doubled as a shelter for pets who, unlike their owners, are unable to endure the cold, dark and PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER damp homes in Howard Beach. But the family has become a typical example of momand-pop store owners. Customers in the store know them on a f irst-name basis. Many of their customers were unaware of their double duty as a pet shelter after Hurricane Sandy. “I didn’t know they did that, but I’m not surprised.” said one customer, who regularly buys dog food and other items Q for her dog at the store. “They’re good people.”

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Ed Koch, a great mayor of New York o one’s perfect, not even Edward Irving Koch, the 105th mayor of New York City, despite the naturally laudatory tone of most press coverage since his death last Friday at age 88. But he came pretty damn close, at least in his role as mayor. New York needs bold, brash, outspoken and visionary leaders, and Koch was certainly all those things. He led the city out of the financial morass Mayor John Lindsay had led it into and Mayor Abe Beame, Koch’s immediate predecessor, failed to get it out of. In so doing he not only helped the city enjoy its first economic boom in years, he restored the pride without which it wouldn’t be New York. Among his key moves was an infrastructure reconstruction effort to make up for years of neglect, especially of the city’s bridges, which made everyone safer. It’s also what led to the recent renaming of the Queensboro Bridge in his honor — a move this page opposed, suggesting the Manhattan Bridge instead, because that borough is where he lived. Koch also helped restore honor and strength to a Police Department hit hard by both scandal and budget problems prior to his taking office. He wasn’t able to actually reduce crime during his tenure, but given the crack epidemic’s

explosion of violence, it’s possible no one could have, and that things would have been even worse with someone else at the helm. Violent crime did begin to fall just a few years after Koch left office, largely due to a joint venture of Mayor David Dinkins and Council Speaker Peter Vallone Sr., but it’s likely history will credit Koch with setting the stage. Long before becoming mayor, even though he was a congressman who represented Manhattan and had grown up in New Jersey and the Bronx, Koch did right by Queens. Most notably, he was known for leading the fight to stop a boneheaded plan of Lindsay’s to build a public housing complex for 3,000 people in the middle of Forest Hills, something that would have drastically changed the community forever. Koch famously said what he meant and meant what he said. It was around the time of the housing plan debacle that he started describing himself as “a liberal with sanity,” and it was in large part his middle-of-the-road, law-and-order approach to governance that made him so successful. In 1977 he won the mayoralty after a difficult primary against Beame, Rep. Bella Abzug and future Gov. Mario Cuomo. By the time he sought re-election in 1981, he was so popular he ran on both the Democratic and Republican

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Protect our park Dear Editor: If you believe in the tooth fairy, this soccer stadium is for you. You had mentioned Har rison, NJ in your Jan. 31 article “MLS to Queens? Visit Harrison, NJ f irst.” Why are you even looking over there? We have our own Harrison, NJ right here: It’s called Shea Stadium, now Citi Field. We have had Major League Baseball in this very location for approximately 50 years with absolutely no spinoff benefit to the neighborhood at all. You can also throw in the United States Tennis Association Arthur Ashe tennis complex for good measure — still no development in the surrounding neighborhoods. This is just a giveaway of public parklands to someone who will take the money and run. If this is such a great idea, try Central Park, Prospect Park, even Pelham Bay Park, or buy land and put it wherever you can. Why should the taxpayers have to finance it if it is such a great money-making deal? This stadium would ruin Flushing Meadows and turn the rest of it into a parking lot, just as we see with the tennis open in the summer. No more of this beautiful park should be given away, no more! Robert E. Hartling Flushing © Copyright 2013 by MARK I PUBLICATIONS, INC. All rights reserved. Neither this newspaper nor any part thereof may be reproduced, copied, or transmitted in any form, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, microfilming, recording or by any information retrieval system without the express written permission of the publishers. This copyright is extended to the design and text created for advertisements. Reproduction of said advertisement or any part thereof without the express written permission of MARK I PUBLICATIONS, INC. is strictly prohibited. This publication will not be responsible for errors in advertising beyond the cost of the space occupied by the error. Bylined articles represent the sole opinion of the writer and are not necessarily in accordance with the views of the QUEENS CHRONICLE. This Publication reserves the right to limit or refuse advertising it deems objectionable. The Queens Chronicle is published weekly by Mark I Publications, Inc. at a subscription rate of $19 per year and out of state, $25 per year. Periodicals Postage Paid (USPS0013-572) at Flushing, N.Y. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Mark I Publications, Inc., 62-33 Woodhaven Boulevard, Rego Park, N.Y. 11374-7769.

lines, winning 75 percent of the vote. Then in 1985 he won a third term with an amazing 78 percent of the vote, despite not getting the Republican nod that time around. Alas, though he did so much for the city, even Koch fell victim to the third-term albatross that plagues so many chief executives in one way or another (including, we dare say, the current occupant of Gracie Mansion). In his case many of his allies were revealed to be corrupt, including of course Queens Borough President Donald Manes, who eventually killed himself; and it was discovered that his administration had become another patronage mill, despite his promises to the contrary. Koch was never directly implicated in any wrongdoing, but when he sought a fourth term, he lost. But he never lost his desire to improve the world or taste for the spotlight. He remained a political force in the city to the end, one whose endorsement was eagerly sought by many running for office. He remained the city’s biggest cheerleader and an equally strong booster of Israel. He remained a reformer who even helped clean up Albany just a couple years ago. He remained Koch, a mayor whose administration could not possibly be confused with any other. We join the rest of the city in bidding him a fond farewell.

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Just say no to the stadium Dear Editor: (An Open Letter to City Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras) Over 100 years ago Frederick Law Olmstead, the genius who created Central and Prospect parks in this city and many other parks elsewhere, said, “The f irst duty of our park trustees is to hand down from one generation to the next the treasure of scenery which the city has placed in their care.” That requirement rests squarely upon the shoulders of all elected officials in this state and city, and, with due respect, it includes you. While Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens is the second most-used park in our city, primarily by the poor and middle class, it is also the most abused, littered with all sorts of illegitimate nonpark structures that would not and should not be allowed in Central, Bronx, Prospect or Clove Lake parks. This has occur red over decades

through the malfeasance of many elected officials, primarily in Queens, who viewed their constituency as real estate moguls and businesses and not the little people who are the users of the park. The claim that FMCP is different from other parks is nonsense and a ploy to justify the constant attempts to trespass on it. There is nothing in the City Charter that designates FMCP as being different than any other park. And the abuse is not justified for economic reasons. Apart from how the claimed economic benefits are, in terms of the city’s gross economy, paltry and of little or no significance, a civilized society does not sell or barter public parkland. In the depths of the Great Depression of the 1930s, this city did not sell or barter parkland. Indeed, if you believe parks should be for sale, you should state publicly you would support what has occurred in FMCP happening in Central Park. Of course you would not, and the time has come for you to insist on similar treatment for FMCP.

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Ed Koch: Mr. New York Dear Editor: I am writing to express my heartfelt sympathies over the departure of former Mayor Edward Koch (1924-2013), Mr. New York. The time was 1924 when Mr. New York was born in the Bronx, when “the smell of the Bronx is perfume to me” (Rodgers & Hart, “I Gotta Get Back to New York”) and “as black as onyx, we’ll f ind the Bron-nix Park Express” (Rodgers & Hart, “Manhattan”). Mr. New York graduated from New

Make it Ed Koch Way Dear Editor: Some time ago, my letter on the renaming of the Queensboro Bridge to the Edward I. Koch Bridge was published by your newspaper [the final selected name is Ed Koch-Queensboro Bridge]. And I thank you for this. I am still opposed with the renaming of bridges and tunnels after politicians; the original names of these magnificent structures serve their respective function just fine. Mr. Koch was a great man, politician and New Yorker. He cared so much for our great city and saved it when we were down and out. And he did this with “chutzpah” and charisma. Therefore, I believe that he is a true American hero. Heroes, represented by our U.S. soldiers, police officers, firefighters, etc., who have sacrificed so much for our freedom, have had streets named after them so we can continued on page 10

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Dear Editor: We write this letter in response to an article written by Pat Adams that was the cover story of the Forum newspaper on Jan. 24 (“Parents balk over school’s open-door policy”). The article was about the safety of PS/MS 146 in Howard Beach. We are very upset and angered by this article, and we feel that Pat Adams is targeting PS/MS 146 for no reason other than to gain notoriety and create sensationalism for herself and her local newspaper. Our school’s principal, James McKeon, has always done his best to ensure the safety of all the students and staff in the building at all times. He has been working on our current safety issues for weeks now. His concerns did not just come about due to her article, as we believe she wants to think. He has always had the children’s best interests at heart. Our PTA has been in touch with our local politicians and together with our school we are working to resolve this issue. Pat Adams did no more than unnecessarily thrust our school into the spotlight for her own personal gain. TinaMarie Priore, Patricia Mastronardi, Sally Ann Sinisgalli, Jennifer Romeo, Dania Sugranes, Jessica Barillaro, Marissa P. Giglio, Melissa Kaye, Mary Hansen, A. Oddo, Diane Saravo, Jennifer Langert, Roseanna Craine, Niki Thomas and TinaMarie Priore Howard Beach

York University Law School and settled in “Greenwich, where modern men itch to be free” (“Manhattan”) to play his guitar back in 1956 and become involved in the mire of politics with the Village Independent Democrats to defeat the Tammany Hall political machine in 1963 on his journey to City Hall as mayor for three terms (1978-1989). Upon Mr. New York’s election as mayor, I sent him a letter telling him, “You grew up ridin’ the subways, runnin’ with people, up in Harlem, down on Broadway. You’re the heart and soul of New York City” (Odyssey, “Native New Yorker”). A couple years later, I questioned him about his support of Medicaidsponsored abortions in New York City at a Richmond Hill High School town hall meeting. Being a pragmatist, Mr. New York unfortunately scratched out the lyrical line, “Our future babies, we’ll take to Abie’s Irish Rose. I hope they’ll live to see it close” (“Manhattan”). Despite the corruption scandal at the Parking Violations Bureau in 1985, Mr. New York was not tarnished by the fall of some of his closest political allies: “And in the station house we’ll end, but Civic Virtue cannot destroy the dreams of a girl and boy” (“Manhattan”). But what is most memorable about Mr. New York is having seen him, a Jew, attending Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral during the time of the late John Cardinal O’Connor, and learning of Mr. New York’s burial in the Trinity Church cemetery in Washington Heights. His words in a 2009 interview were, “I believe in the afterlife. I believe in God. I believe in reward and punishment. And I hope to be rewarded.” “New York is New York, that’s all you can say. It gets in your blood and it’s in there to stay” (“I Gotta Get Back to New York”). There are many televisions, but there is only one Mr. Television, Milton Berle. There are many native New Yorkers, myself included, but there is only one Mr. New York: Ed Koch. May he rest in eternal peace. Joseph N. Manago Briarwood

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Your attention is directed to the Queens Chronicle Jan. 31 edition and its comprehensive, well-thought out editorial opposing Major League Soccer’s attempt to construct a stadium in FMCP (“Flushing Meadows soccer stadium must be stopped”). It is clear there is no justification for yet another assault on the integrity on FMCP, and the proposed stadium must be rejected. Like most private for-profit businesses, MLS is free to purchase property on the open market. Enough is enough, and the desecration of FMCP must stop. In using your good offices to reject the stadium you will be making it clear you understand the importance of parkland not just for current residents, but for generations as yet unborn. Let right be done, oppose the MLS stadium in our park and earn an important legacy as a public official. Benjamin M. Haber Flushing

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continued from page 9 remember and honor them. I propose that we rename Broadway in Manhattan to “Ed Koch Way” to remember and honor Mr. Koch in all the glory and greatness he brought back to our city. I am sure that he would approve. Thank you. David E. Amsterdam Flushing

Stars cheer Howard Beach I Dear Editor: I had been seeing these stars on the poles and trees in my neighborhood of Old Howard Beach for about a week now, and until I read your article (“Sandy’s young survivors let stars shine,” Jan. 24, multiple editions), I had no idea where they came from. What a wonderful thing for Stars of Hope and PS 207 to do for the flood victims. I now find myself looking for those stars and their inspirational messages that do give me hope and make me smile. Thank You. Carmella Cerar Howard Beach

Stars cheer Howard Beach II Dear Editor: I would just like to say thank you to PS 207 for the Stars of Support on the street poles. It’s a beautiful gesture and very much appreciated. Mildred Muller Howard Beach

Dear Editor: In his Jan. 24 letter, “Republicans are ridiculous,” Robert La Rosa stated that “Republicans are still claiming Obama has yet to appoint women and minorities to top cabinet positions.” Yes, some Republicans had some fun pointing out that the new cabinet appointees are all men after the Democrats made an issue about a so-called Republican “war on women.” However, if Mr. LaRosa would Google “Obama lack of women,” he would find that the main criticism of Obama’s choices came from the far left and feminist groups like NOW. The head of NOW, Terry O’Neill, stated that she was “disappointed so far” by the president’s selections. To imply that Republicans were in the lead of criticizing the president is just plain incorrect. Then, in his Jan. 31 letter, “Benghazi blame game,” Mr. La Rosa accused the Republicans of hypocrisy for wanting to cut the budget for embassy security while criticizing Hillary Clinton of not doing enough to prevent the Benghazi attack. It is obvious that Mr. La Rosa is not aware that Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Charlene Lamb testified under oath that the State Department felt that it had the “correct number of assets” on the ground and that budgetary concerns played no part in the decision-making process regarding Benghazi security. Benghazi happened because of incompetency in the State Department. If Mr. La Rosa wants to claim that the Republicans are stupid and hypocrites, it would help if he actually had his facts right. Lenny Rodin Forest Hills

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Maybe the lawmakers were too distracted by the death of former Mayor Ed Koch and their tributes to his tenure and tenacity that followed. Maybe the activists are too tired of the game. Maybe they’re all just confident that a lame-duck mayor won’t be able to get done things he’s tried and failed to get done year after year. Whatever the reason, the remarkable thing is that so far, the dogs have done nearly nothing in the nighttime when it comes to Mayor Bloomberg’s budget plan for the next fiscal year, which he released last week. As always, the mayor boasted that he’s keeping controllable spending in check without raising taxes, and blamed the nonetheless continuing rise in expenditures on items and programs the city is forced to fund by either other levels of government or prior contractual obligations — public employee pensions and health coverage, Medicaid and the like. Controllable spending would drop 1.1 percent under the mayor’s $70.1 billion plan, while the uncontrollables would go up 6.8 percent. And, as always, that drop in controllable spending would come down to cuts in employees and services, particularly at the Department of Education, where up to 1,800 jobs would be lost through attrition and after-school programs would be slashed. And the mayor is making one last attempt to achieve his annual failed goal of closing 20 fire companies throughout the city. The usual game over the last few years is that the mayor proposes these cuts; the people who would bear the brunt of the reductions, such as teachers and firefighters, decry them; their allies on the City Council and in the nonprofit and activist worlds go apoplectic, claiming Bloomberg is endangering citizens’ safety and the children’s future; they all get together to host pro-status quo rallies that draw media coverage like bug lights draw moths; the money to keep things as they are is magically found somewhere as budget talks go on; the lawmakers send out self-congratulatory press releases on “restoring the funding”; and the mayor waits a couple months until he can order other mid-year cuts not subject to City Council approval. Most if not all the programs keep their funding, all the fire companies stay open and the city’s obligations toward pensions and benefits continue to rise as a share of the budget, keeping the squeeze on discretionary spending and ensuring the battle never ends. But now Bloomberg has proposed his final budget plan, and aside from a few of his most reliable critics — such as City Comptroller and mayoral hopeful John Liu, who sent out the obligatory press release saying the mayor could balance the books

by cutting consultants’ contracts — we’re not seeing the usual stir yet. No “Save the fire company” or “Save the Beacon afterschool program” rally press advisories have appeared in our in boxes to date. OK, activists, our pencils are sharpened and cameras charged. We’re waiting. Weprin: End mayoral school control Meanwhile, back in Albany, one Queens politico has had enough of the other constant battles foisted on the city by the mayor, those deriving from his control of the school system and his efforts — whether they’re productive or not — to improve education. Assemblyman David Weprin (D-Fresh Meadows) has introduced a bill that would end mayoral control of the schools, which Bloomberg won 11 years ago, claiming that revoking it would lead to more accountability, transparency and input on policy from parents and education experts. Whether it would lead to better education Weprin does not say. The bill, A.00792, is mirrored in the state Senate as S.01406 by Sen. Velmanette Montgomery (D-Brooklyn) and co-sponsored there by Sens. Bill Perkins (D-Manhattan), Kevin Parker (D-Brooklyn) and Martin Dilan (D-Brooklyn). It has no co-sponsors in the Assembly yet. The measure would cut the mayor’s appointments to the 13-member Panel for Educational Policy (which Weprin refers to as the Board of Education) from eight to four, thus ending his guaranteed majority on issues that require a vote, such as school closures. The City Council would instead appoint four members, one of whom would represent a college or university, one of whom would be a member of a parent organization and one of whom would be a member of a Community Education Council. The borough presidents would continue to each make one appointment, making for 13 members all told. The bill would also have the board, rather than the mayor, appoint the schools chancellor. Another bill by Weprin, A.00872, which has no Senate version, would allow the mayor to keep naming the chancellor, but only with the approval of the City Council, following a public hearing. Weprin had introduced both bills in the Legislature’s last session, but they went nowhere. The new versions he put on the table this session have been referred to the Assembly Education Committee, and Montgomery’s companion bill has gone to the Senate Education Committee. The original mayoral control law, approved by the Legislature in 2002, sunset in 2009. The policy was then renewed through 2015. Efforts by some legislators to Q nix it last year failed.

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Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder swears in the new leadership of the department: EMS Captain Nick Spinelli, left, EMS Lt. Andrew Reiner, Lt. Tyronne Finholt and Capt. Ronald Corchado. PHOTOS BY DOMENICK RAFTER

State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr., far right, presented certificates for service to the community during Hurricane Sandy, in which these members were involved in the rescue of two women trapped in their house. The honorees Deputy Chief Andy Zych, left, Corporation Vice President Daniel Amorim, Capt. Ronald Corchado, Firefighter Ruben Martinez, Corporation President Carol Scheper and EMS Capt. Nick Spinelli. Joining them is Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder, far left.

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Despite losing all of their vehicles in the 10-foot storm surge created by Hurricane Sandy, members of the West Hamilton Beach Volunteer Fire Department didn’t leave their community high and dry. The members who were at the firehouse that night were honored along with vollies who assisted with responding to a car crash on the Belt Parkway earlier in 2012, at the department’s 85th Anniversary celebration dinner last Thursday at Russo’s On the Bay. The department also honored politicians both past and present who have helped the department over the years. WHBVFD Treasurer Mitch Udowitch thanked all those who assisted the department in the wake of Sandy, including those who helped set up a staging area for residents in need of food and other supplies at the firehouse during the ensuing blackout. They also paid tribute to other volunteer fire departments across the country that sent Q West Hamilton Beach new vehicles.

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Chief Jonah Cohen and former assemblywoman, now Queens County Clerk, Audrey Pheffer and former state Sen. Serphin Maltese, both honored for supporting the department during their time in Albany.

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On Aug. 16, 2011, DeLuca passed away after a long illness, and when he died, For years, Frank DeLuca sat in the bleach- SMGH still had only the one scoreboard. After his death, his family and friends ers in the gymnasium at St. Mary Gate of Heaven School in Ozone Park, watching held a fundraiser in his honor to raise money children, including the ones he coached, play for a second scoreboard in the gym. With the their hearts out. When a basket was made, help of fellow parishioners who knew and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d look up at the scoreboard and watch the loved DeLuca, they raised $10,000 for the score change, then would bemoan that not scoreboard. Now, nearly 18 months after his passing, everyone in the bleachers could see it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d say â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;We have the best gym in the more than 100 SMGH parishioners includdiocese, but not everyone could see the ing DeLucaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family and friends, dedicated their new scoreboard on the north side of scoreboard,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? his wife Donna recollected. The location of the scoreboard in SMGHâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the gym on Saturday before its first game gym was not viewable from a few locations in use. Under it, his face looks down over in the bleachers, and often those sections the basketball court. The scoreboard was lit were empty during games. All those years up with DeLucaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s number 4, and no matter DeLuca, who sent his two daughters, Jen- where you sat in the stands, you could see nifer and Christine, to SMGH and was heavi- one or the other â&#x20AC;&#x201D; just as DeLuca had ly involved in the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s athletic associa- intended. At the dedication ceremony, his wife tion, would tell anyone who would listen, whether at basketball games, in church or thanked the parish for its support of her famfrom his perch behind the grill at the annual ily and for the new scoreboard. She expandparish bazaarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s food booth â&#x20AC;&#x201D; this gym needs ed on the words of SMGHâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pastor Father Gerald Fitzsimmons, who noted the scorea second scoreboard. board means DeLuca â&#x20AC;&#x153;is not in the past, but also in the future.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kids in the future who never met Frank will know him through the stories theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re told when they look up and ask â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Who is that man?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? she said. Fitzsimmons ag reed, noting that the scoreboard keeps DeLucaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s memory and legacy alive. Frank DeLucaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daughter Jennifer, left, his widow Donna and Marie â&#x20AC;&#x153;We know somewhere, Elrose, secretary of the SMGH Athletic Association, at Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Frank is still keeping Q dedication ceremony. score,â&#x20AC;? he said. Associate Editor

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Developer group first bet on Willets casino by Joseph Orovic Assistant Managing/Online Editor

A gaming company, an Indian tribe and three developers walk into Willets Point … The collective, including the Mets’ parent company Sterling Equities, bet in 2011 the city would approve a casino as part of the proposed redevelopment of Willets Point. They lost and were sent back to the drawing board by the city’s Economic Development Corporation. But groups opposing the mayor’s plan for the Iron Triangle suspect gaming may re-emerge in subsequent portions of Willets Point’s multi-phase rejuvenation. The Bloomberg administration has made clear it does not intend to put a casino in Willets Point. But although it’s not even an option at the moment, the door may open for subsequent mayors, well after Bloomberg’s term ends this year. The problem lies in a growing list of variables, leaving the odds of a Willets Point casino largely unknown. Gov. Cuomo has made clear it he intends to push for up to seven more casinos across the state, four specifically upstate. That may mean up to three new casinos at downstate locations. Casino-style gambling’s future in the state is still uncertain and needs to pass a statewide referendum, which could be years away — when Bloomberg’s successor is at the city’s helm. The uncertainty was exacerbated when Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan), in a Jan. 24 appearance on NY1’s “Road To City Hall,” pointed to Willets Point as a viable location for a casino. That statement, combined with the city’s history of changing direction at Willets Point, has opponents claiming the first casino proposal was a precursor to the possible future of the redevelopment. Related Companies, Sterling Equities, Triple M Development, gaming firm Gateway and the Shinnecock Indian Nation in September 2011 responded to the city’s request for proposals for

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Willets Point with a plan that included a 1.8 million-square-foot mall, 900,000-square-foot casino and 30-story hotel while converting most of the Iron Triangle into a parking lot. They offered $100 million for the entirety of its 62 acres. The plan notably lacked a full-bore remediation of the area and affordable housing, two key components of the project. The EDC said no dice. “The submission that included a gaming use was quickly dismissed as unviable and out of step with the goals the city and EDC had outlined,” said an EDC spokesman. But that limitation only applies to the first phase of the Willets Point redevelopment: a mall; a hotel and 2,500 housing units. The EDC accepted the bid from the Queens Development Group, made up of Related and Sterling Equities, for Phase 1 of the redevelopment. The casino proposal was gained via a Freedom of Information Law request filed by opposition groups Willets Point United and NYC Park Advocates.

An ensuing brouhaha saw the city and developers going through pains to deny a casino was in the works. “There is no casino being built at Willets Point, period,” said EDC spokesman Nick Kelly. The Queens Development Group also copped to proposing a casino, but has since walked away from the idea. “An initial concept submitted two years ago floated the possibility of Indian gaming and was dismissed by the city,” said spokesman Kyle Sklerov. “Our plans for Willets Point do not include an Indian or commercial casino, which is illegal. Even if it were legal, it would not be allowed under the environmental process we are undertaking and our agreement with the city prohibits this use.” Building a casino on parkland, which Citi Field and its parking lot occupy, is technically illegal and fraught with all manner of hurdles at the federal level. “It’s hard to think of a more morally corrupt project than putting a casino on public parkland in the middle of a low-income community,” said NYC Park Advocates’ Geoffrey Croft. The RFPs for subsequent phases are years away from happening. In the meantime, WPU has no faith that Phase 1, as presented, will ever come to fruition, saying the first casino plan “underscores that the Willets Point development is merely a pretext for the owners of the Mets to consolidate property surrounding the stadium, and exploit it for their maximum profit.” The group also decried the EDC’s lackluster response to another FOIL request for the Queens Development Group’s submission. “There appears to be nothing about the environmental review documents for the current project that precludes the possibility of a casino being the developers’ actual objective, even now,” WPU said. “Those environmental documents refer vaguely to an ‘entertainment center’ — which opens the door to the developers later saying that a casino is a type of entertainment, and therefore falls Q under the approvals they’re seeking now.”

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As Gov. Cuomo mulls plans to open new casinos in New York State and eyes full gambling — including table games — two Queens legislators are renewing their call to have the gambling age raised to 21 for all of the state’s casinos. State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) and Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Far Rockaway) are reintroducing legislation in their respective houses that would raise the gambling age to 21 from 18. The two legislators, who represent districts that include Resorts World Casino New York City at Aqueduct Racetrack, introduced the same bill last year, but it never came up for a vote. They hope it will be considered this year with gambling high on Cuomo’s agenda. The governor said during his State of the State speech last month he wanted four new casinos to be constructed upstate, Last week, he announced the first casino could be built in Niagara Falls as part of his proposal to bring full gambling

to the state. That would need to be approved by voters in a statewide referendum, but Addabbo said the bill needs to be passed regardless of whether voters approve full gambling. “Even if the state never gets full gaming, the gambling age needs to be raised to 21,” Addabbo said. “We can’t have kids as young as 18 gambling away their money.” Some of those patronizing Resorts World are under 21, which is concerning many. The casino is four blocks from John Adams High School, where some seniors meet the age requirement to gamble at the casino. Margaret Finnerty, president of the Richmond Hill South Civic Association said her group has been urging lawmarkers to raise the age after witnessing high schoolers gambling at Resorts World. Genting New York, the parent company of Resorts World, has not taken a position on the issue. Many casino operators like the idea because it eliminates the need for cocktail waitresses to ask for identification on the casino floor when selling drinks, as Q is currently done at Resorts World.

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Queens remembers Mayor Ed Koch Witty, blunt, irascible face of New York City served for three terms by Michael Gannon

It was during the f iscal crisis and the aftermath of the Son of Sam murders that ributes poured in last Friday for Ed Koch in 1977 entered a primary against Koch, the three-term mayor who per- embattled Democratic Mayor Abe Beame. sonif ied New York City from 1978 He defeated Beame and Congresswoman through 1989, and who died early that morn- Bella Abzug, and later beat future governor Mario Cuomo in a runoff. ing at age 88. “If you agree with me on nine out of 12 They came unsolicited from elected officials across the city, and were echoed on the issues, vote for me,” Koch once said. “If you agree with me on 12 out of 12 issues, see a psystreet by the people of Queens. “He was a great mayor; I thought the chiatrist.” The self-styled “liberal with sanity” world of him,” said Fred Barlow of Elmhurst. Koch inherited a city on the brink of fiscal became a pragmatic centrist in many ways, collapse and was voted out a dozen years particularly when it came to budget cuts and later in a city boiling over with racial ten- hard-line stances in negotiation with city unions. In 1981 he won re-election running sions and political corruption. He was the candid, often charming, face cross-endorsed on the Republican party line. On the negative side, racial tensions were of New York who went to the Brooklyn Bridge and subway stations to cheer on com- high throughout Koch’s tenure, with several muters during a transit strike. He loved the high-profile incidents in which young black spotlight, and relished verbal combat with men were killed, garnering him distrust in the African-American community. his opponents and critics. After saying he never wanted to be anyHe regularly would leave City Hall or Gracie Mansion to greet people in the streets thing but mayor of the city he entered the and at subway stations with his customary 1982 Democratic gubernatorial primary in a rematch against Cuomo. He lost, and Cuomo inquiry “How’m I doing?” “Earlier today, New York City lost an irre- went on to serve three terms. Koch’s final term was marred by corruppressible icon, our most charismatic cheerleader and champion,” Mayor Bloomberg tion scandals, many centering around the old said. “He was a great mayor, a great man and Parking Violations Bureau. While none of a great friend. In elected office and as a pri- the graft, kickbacks and other crimes were ever tied to Koch, vate citizen, he was some of his close our most tireless, fearallies went to prison. less and guileless civic Queens Borough crusader. Through his f you agree with me on President Donald tough, determined Manes in 1986 comleadership and responnine out of 12 issues, mitted suicide in his sible f iscal stewardvote for me. If you agree Jamaica Estates home ship, Ed helped lift the as federal prosecutors city out of its darkest with me on 12 out of 12 began closing in. days and set it on He lost his re-eleccourse for an incrediissues, see a psychiatrist.” tion bid in 1989 to ble comeback.” — Edward Irving Koch (1924 - 2013) David Dinkins, who Henry Huber of would go on to Elmhurst once met the become the city’s mayor at a street fair first African-American mayor. on the Lower East Side. Perhaps it was the DeSapio race early in his “He was always positive, upbeat,” Huber career that later gave Koch an affinity for said. “He was always with the people.” “He was great for New York,” said Vincent James Gennaro (D-Fresh Meadows), a former Cucchiara of Middle Village, a 40-year city low-level staffer in the Koch administration, in the midst of Gennaro’s improbable first camresident. “He gave the city a flavor.” Edward Irving Koch was born in the Bronx paign for the City Council, 12 years after he in 1924, and served in the U.S. Army infantry had served Koch. “I was running a Democratic primary ... as in World War II, rising to the rank of sergeant. The Greenwich Village lawyer was a self- an insurgent candidate, meaning that I was described liberal, and joined with a group of running against the candidate that was supported by the Queens Democratic Organizareform-minded Democrats. He made his first mark in 1963, challenging tion,” Gennaro wrote. “Of course, as I was running as an insurand beating Carmine DeSapio, the last leader from the old Tammany Hall Democratic gent candidate, nobody from the Democratic machine, for district leader. He was elected to political establishment in New York City the City Council in 1966 and Congress in 1968. would give me the time of day, let alone any The future mayor made a name for him- support,” he said. “No one except Mayor Koch, that is.” self in Queens in the early 1970s, when he Gennaro said Koch did not even know opposed Mayor John Lindsay’s attempt to construct a massive affordable housing pro- who he was when he made his first and only ject in Forest Hills to support more than presentation to the mayor in his final year in 4,000 people. Congressman Koch played a office. “But he knew that presentation was a big key role in reducing the size of the complex moment for me, and he made me feel at ease to the shock of some of his liberal allies. Editor

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Ed Koch in 2011 striking a familiar pose — all smiles before cameras and microphones on another successful Election Night. The irrepressible Koch, who served three terms, died early Friday mornPHOTO BY STEVE MALECKI ing at age 88. and commended me for a job well done,” the councilman wrote. Shortly after arriving in New York City, then-Archbishop John O’Connor sought advice on his job performance from an expert sitting in the front pew at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. “Mr. Mayor — how’m I doing?” Though the two clashed on a number of issues, such as gay rights and the death penalty, they became great friends. They collaborated on the 1989 book “His Eminence and Hizzoner.” In his post-mayoral life, Koch would be an author, lawyer, actor, political commentator and movie reviewer for local media. He also did a stint as the judge on the syndicated “People’s Court” television show. In 2011 the City Council voted to rename the Queensboro Bridge in Koch’s honor, a move opposed by many in the Queens delegation, with Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (DAstoria) being the most outspoken. They argued the change would rob Queens of part of its identity. Vallone unsuccessfully tried to pass a bill banning the naming of public structures for those still living. Koch remained an uncompromising defender of Israel. In 2011, he crossed party lines by endorsing Queens Republican Bob Turner in a special congressional election. Koch said it was to send President Obama a message over national policy toward Israel. Turner defeated Democratic state Assemblyman David Weprin (D-Fresh Meadows), an Orthodox Jew. Turner acknowledged on Friday that Koch’s support proved the critical element, and called him a great New Yorker. “He was never shy to speak his mind and stand up for what he believed to be in the best interest of New Yorkers and all Americans,” Turner said. “I am proud to have called him my friend.”

More recently Koch led an effort to take redistricting mandated by the 2010 U.S. Census away from the state Legislature and put it in the hands of an independent comission. Koch secured nearly 140 pledges from legislators, and excoriated those who later reneged. Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Mario’s son, also drew Koch’s ire for going back on a pledge to veto districts that were not independently drawn. Officials past and present issued statements honoring Koch and his legacy. “He loved the city fiercely, and it loved him back,” said Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D-Manhattan). “Mayor Koch was larger than life ... his sense of humor and tenacious spirit personified this town.” Quinn said she had received Koch’s support having never met or spoken with him, getting a phone call from out of the blue when she was championing an anti-violence project. “He told me ‘You’re doing the right thing. Don’t back down, and call me if I can do anything,’” she said. Several officials cited Koch’s trademark love of the city. “I’m grateful that I had a few more times to be with him on Tuesday and again last night, before he finally left New York for someplace better,” said Police Commissioner Ray Kelly in a statement issued by his office, “although he’d probably argue that’s not possible.” “He never forgot the common folk, even as he transcended to greatness and became a legend ... and managed to foster a sense of smalltown Americana in our big city,” Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of the Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens said. Public Advocate Bill de Blasio said Koch’s “How’m I doing?” was both a boast and an act of humility. continued on page 42

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Learning from the past, rebuilding for our future by Phillip Goldfeder As we slowly recover and begin to rebuild our neighborhood, businesses and homes from the devastation caused by Hur ricane Sandy, we’re constantly reminded of the strength and resiliency of our community and neighbors. I want to acknowledge and thank the NYPD, FDNY, the National Guard and all of our first responders, from the bottom of my heart for their heroic actions and all that they have done for our community. In addition, the volunteers who have spent months in the community, giving everything and asking for nothing, are a true example of what makes our state and country great. It’s been three months since Hurricane Sandy decimated our homes, and while there has been remarkable progress, the reality is that thousands of small businesses and families in southern Queens and Rockaway are still in need of relief and guidance. There are enormous challenges ahead of us, but if we work together and stay strong, our community will be back stronger than ever. We have been through so much and yet we must stay focused on the future and our opportunity to investigate and explore the last few months in an effort to develop a better plan and stronger infrastructure. We must also hold agencies accountable for their delayed and slow assistance and create entities and organizations that are efficient, organized and work for the people. In the year head, I will be relentlessly working to accomplish these goals and continue to assist in the recovery for southern Queens and Rockaway: Accountability for utilities: Presently, LIPA still has thousands of residents without power in their homes and this is simply unacceptable. Going forward, working together with the governor and the Moreland Commission, I will ensure this company no longer practices any business in Rockaway and that our community is provided with affordable, reliable utilities. Accountability for insurance companies: I have sponsored legislation that would create the Homeowner’s Bill of Rights (A.2287) to protect families who were affected by the storm from the unconscionable deeds taken by insurance companies. This bill of rights would require insurers to provide property owners with an easy-to-understand disclosure notice detailing their coverage in the event of a catastrophic occurrence; how and when to file a claim; their rights if a claim is denied or a settlement offer is insufficient; and where and how to obtain coverage for catastrophic events. In addition, other legislation introduced would require

insurance companies to promptly process claims resulting from storm damage and tighten the timeframe requirements for insurers to respond to claims resulting from disasters and emergencies. Small businesses need help: Small businesses are the backbone of our community and are still struggling to survive and rebuild. Last month, I urged NYC Small Business Commissioner Robert Walsh to assist with recovery and relief efforts and provide additional financial support. I’m proud to announce in response to my concerns he immediately toured store fronts that were devastated by Sandy in southern Queens and Rockaway and announced additional available grant funding. Much more must be done and I will continue to work with every economic agency to provide the tools our businesses need. Beaches need attention: Almost 1 million cubic yards of sand were displaced from our beaches during Hur ricane Sandy, and while the Parks Department has done an outstanding job working with community partners, we must make immediate investments and think about long-term solutions or our efforts will have been wasted. Our eroding beaches were a concern prior to Sandy and now that call must be amplified. I will continue to advocate and work with the Parks Department and the Army of Corps of Engineers to provide long-term solutions to rebuilding our beaches and boardwalk, while preserving Rockaway’s history and protecting our communities. Reliable transportation alternatives: I have been a staunch advocate for the restoration of the abandoned Rockaway Beach Rail Line and reinstating of the Rockaway Ferry Service long before Hurricane Sandy. The past few months have only further illustrated the need to provide real public transit options not only to protect local residents but also to encourage growth and recovery. There is a lot of work to be done and the time to act is now! While we still face many challenges in recovery, I’m proud to say that we are moving in the right direction and my office will continue to work around the clock until every family has completely recovered from the storm and is safe and secure back in their own Q home. Phillip Goldfeder is New York State Assemblyman for the 23rd District in South Queens.

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Bloomberg budget hits schools hard Teachers, after-school programs, even pencils eyed in spending cuts by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

Mayor Bloomberg’s final budget proposal may leave city students scrounging for pencils and paper. Blaming in par t the loss of $250 million in state aid, the mayor proposed a 4.3 percent decrease in school funding in his Fiscal Year 2014 budget and warned as many as 1,800 teacher positions could be eliminated and 700,000 hours of after-school programs could be cut. The reductions would also cause cuts in school supplies such as pencils, pens and textbooks. In the budget proposal, the Mayor’s Off ice focused on the $250 million that the city lost in state aid after the Department of Education and United Federation of Teachers failed to reach an agreement on a teacher evaluations plan last month. The proposal also warns of further withheld aid if a deal isn’t struck soon. “New York City will lose an additional $224 million without an agreement on teacher evaluations by Sept. 1, for a total loss of $724 million in FY 2013 and FY 2014

Mayor Bloomberg is proposing drastic cuts to the Department of Education in his FY 2014 budget. FILE PHOTO

together,” Mark Page, director of the mayor’s Office of Management and Budget, said in the city’s 2013-2017 Financial Plan Summary, released on Jan. 29. “There is a further $1 billion of additional Education Aid from the state and the federal government which is at-risk without an agreement on

teacher evaluations.” To compensate specifically for the loss in state aid tied to the evaluations deal failure, the city will have to cut 700 teacher positions through attrition, reduce substitute per diems and school aides’ schedules by 30 minutes; as well as cut some art and music programs, counseling services, extracurricular student activities, and f ield trips, Bloomberg’s office said. Further, the DOE will restrict hiring and eliminate vacancies for positions for administration, professional development, human resources, budget, and help desk and reduce nonpersonnel costs by 90 percent. The department will also have to reduce Youth Development, Professional Development and information technology contracts for conflict resolution and bullying, after-school programming, professional development and delayed IT maintenance and repair. Dmytro Fedkowskyj, Queens’ representative on the Panel for Educational Policy, called on the mayor to find savings elsewhere. “I want the best possible learning environment for our children,

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a time when more students are entering the school system. “Eliminating teacher positions, even through attrition, when student enrollments continue to grow is an awful decision,” he said. “We must demand that our students and teachers come first.” Because of how funding is dispersed, the cuts would hit schools that are high performing, while low-performing and Title-I schools — those located in poorer neighborhoods — would be less affected because they qualify for extra funds. That is bad news for schools in the borough. “Queens has a number of highperforming, non-Title-I schools, which means they will be hardest hit by the mayor’s proposed budget cuts,” Fedkowskyj said. Though the $250 million lost after the failure of the evaluations deal negotiations is gone, the city can still receive up to $200 million in grant money from the state if the UFT and city come to an agreement on teacher evaluations by Feb. 18. But Bloomberg harshly criticized continued on page 43

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Take some really intense photos of Hurricane Sandy? They may end up in a museum. The Museum of the City of New York said Monday that it will showcase iconic images from Sandy — including preparations to acts of heroism and resiliency and rebuilding of communities in the greater New York area — and is calling for submissions from the public. The museum invites both novice and professional photographers to submit images depicting the stages of preparation, destruction and rebuilding for a juried exhibition that will open in April, to coincide with the six-month anniversary of the storm. Consideration will particularly be paid to before-and-after images of the same subject, highlighting the dramatic effect of the storm. Selections will be made by a jury comprised of photography curators and journalists. The exhibit will be curated by Sean Corcoran, the curator of prints and photographs for the museum. The deadline for entries is 11:59 p.m., Sunday, March 3. For more infor mation detailing submission requirements, visit: mcny.org/sidebars/sandy-photographyQ submissions.html.

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Feds promise billions to repair, protect infrastructure by Michael Gannon Editor

The Federal Transit Administration has earmarked $2 billion from the recently approved Hurricane Sandy relief package for repairs and upgrades to mass transit systems in the New York area. Congresswoman Grace Meng (DFlushing) said Tuesday that the money will be used to protect, repair, reconstruct and replace transit facilities and equipment that were damaged or destroyed by the storm. It is the first installment of a planned $10.9 billion that will be awarded by the FTA. “Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc upon our public transit system, and much of it continues to be in need of repairs and new equipment,” Meng said Tuesday in a statement released by her office. “These critical funds are crucial to getting our transit infrastructure back to where it was before the storm struck,” she added. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority shut down all mass transit the evening of Sunday, Oct. 28 in anticipation of the storm, which hit with its full fury on Monday night.

Subway and car tunnels were flooded. Some NYC Transit bus routes were up within 24 hours but others remained out for days. Subways did not begin returning to normal until late Wednesday night and into early Thursday morning. Some subway stations and equipment in Lower Manhattan were out of commission for weeks. And the North Channel rail bridge, which connects the Rockaways to mainland Queens via the A train, remains out of service while whole stretches are repaired or replaced, a process that could continue into spring and beyond. Meng said the new federal money would come in the form of grants which municipalities that operate mass transit will need to apply for. In the case of the MTA, which is a state agency, the application will have to come from officials in Albany. “We’re working with Gov. Cuomo’s off ice and the U.S. Depar tment of Transportation to secure the necessary funds to rebuild our system and build it back stronger,” said Aaron Donovan, a spokesman for the MTA, on Tuesday. Calls to Cuomo’s Manhattan press office were not returned by the ChroniQ cle’s deadline on Wednesday.

The A line station at Broad Channel days after Hurricane Sandy, which put it under 4 feet of water. Damage to the station and the virtual destruction of the nearby rail bridge could take several more months to repair. FILE PHOTO

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JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL SPOTLIGHT All wear red in support of fight against heart disease any students and faculty members at John Adams High School, Ozone Park, wore red on Friday, Feb. 1 in recognition of the 10th Annual National Wear Red Day. The tradition represents unity in the fight against women’s number one cause of death – heart disease. Ms. Thomas, the school’s parent coordinator, promoted the event. “On Friday, we showed that John Adams is aware and supports heart disease awareness,” stated Ms. Thomas. “I thank everyone who supported the cause, and I hope to see more students and faculty participate next year.” On that day, students learned that heart disease kills more women than men, at an

average rate of one death per minute. It kills more women than all kinds of cancer combined. PHOTOS COURTESY JOHN ADAMS HS

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helping the team “to improve in many aspects of the game, from serving, to passing and spiking and occasionally blocking.” The team eventually made it to the Elite 8, and captured playoff victories against Julia Richman Educational Center and HS for Health Professions and Human Services. The John Adams’ team’s journey came to an end when they lost to the eventual NYC champion (which has happened 3 of the last 4 years), super-power Fort Hamilton. Mr. McMahon noted that Fort Hamilton had very skilled players, and many of them stood at over sixfeet tall. Still, despite coming up short of winning the title, the coach had nothing but complimentary things to say about his team. The “emotional leader” of the John Adams’ team was Kendall Kanhoye, who was one of the outside spikers, along with newcomer Franchesca Rosario. Coach McMahon referred to Franchesca as “probably the best and

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The 2012-2013 girls varsity volleyball season started out with a lot of questions for John Adams HS. First, all six girls who started during last year’s playoff run to the Elite 8 of NYC’s B Division had graduated. In addition, the weaker teams in the division were sent to another division, and a strong Metropolitan High School team was added. The Lady Spartans played Metropolitan in the first game of the season, and were trailing 9-1 when the team settled down and came back with a 25-21 win, followed by a 2514 victory to win the match. The John Adams’ squad, led by Coach McMahon, improved every game, and went on to win the next 8 matches to produce a 9-0 perfect season for its fourth consecutive year. “We had no superstars, but seven quality players who became interchangeable as the season progressed,” stated the coach. Mr. McMahon credited Assistant Coach Ms. Panzer for her role in

consistent spiker the team has had in 13 years.” The setters for the team were Captain Caroline Fana, who “improved immensely from a year ago,” and super-sophomore Alexis

Olivares, who “could be the best player I’ve ever coached if she works hard and keeps improving over the next two years,” declared Mr. McMahon. “Lastly, we had two great athletes

who did everything well,” he added. “Captain Khadijah Lyons played great defense and was one of the best servers in all of NYC. The other athlete was Joy Poroye, who ran down every ball and played with a fierce desire that was contagious to the whole team.” Coach McMahon also acknowledged the efforts of “Super sub” Oumaima Houasse: “She was always ready to fill in, and she played the game of her life for our biggest game against rival Richmond Hill, which she helped win for us!” While the coach did point out some of the individual talents of his players, he is also well aware that it is a team sport, and credited the chemistry of his team and their commitment as the two biggest reasons for their success over the last four years; the girls, for example, practiced six days a week to prepare for their competition. Congratulations to Coach McMahon and his girls, for another excellent season!

A collaborative work of art This January, the newly-painted logo for the Media and Communication Arts Small Learning Community was unveiled. Art teacher Mr. Moro-Wey painted the logo, which was designed by members of student government. It is located on a third-floor hallway wall near Room 318. Pictured in the left photo are Mr. Moro-Wey and MCA SLC director, Ms. Rufo. In the photo at the right are some of the teachers from the MCA SLC. PHOTOS BY KIMBERLY PERRIERA AND R. TROTTA

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Sniffing out crime before it arrives A look at the canines who catch the contraband at Kennedy Airport by Stephen Geffon Chronicle Contributor

The keen nose of JFK Customs and Border Protection Canine Shelma, a 3-year-old German Shepherd trained to detect illicit substances, can’t be fooled no matter where smugglers hide their contraband as they enter the United States - as two Bronx women recently found out. Michelle Blassingale and Priscilla Pena of the Bronx allegedly tried to smuggle mor than six kilos of cocaine, with a street value of $350,000, in adult diapers they were wearing. as they were returning on a JetBlue flight from the Dominican Republic on Jan. 26. According to CBP officials, Pena was selected for examination when Shelma alerted officers to the presence of contraband on her body. Although a search of Pena’s luggage found no illegal drugs, a pat-down and consented-to strip search revealed a black girdle, which resembled a diaper, and a silver plastic wrapper. A Homeland Security special agent said in the criminal complaint that the girdle contained pellets and the wrapper contained a white powdery substance, both of which fieldtested positive for cocaine. Pena stated that she was traveling with Blassingale, who was also searched. The complaint also stated that CBP off icers found that Blassingale was wearing the same “cocaine diaper” as Pena. The pair was arrested and face federal narcotics smuggling charges. Blassingale was held in custody in Brooklyn and Pena was released on a $150,000 bond. This isn't the first time a JFK CBP drug-sniffing canine has correctly alerted to the presence of contraband: In August 2010, Canine Ramchez alerted his handlers to

Shelma, one of the canines tasked with sniffing out smuggled drugs at JFK Airport. PHOTO COURTESY US CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION a shipping container containing narcotics at the TNT Cargo Facility at JFK. The shipment arrived from Ghaziabad, India and was destined for Detroit and was marked as “garment samples personal.” Upon examining the contents, CBP officers found several wooden hangers. The hangers were examined and found to contain a white powdery substance which tested positive for heroin. A total of over three pounds of heroin was seized with a street value of

almost $56,000. In 2008, Canine Tery located 7.9 pounds of heroin in a cargo shipment from Ecuador concealed in the outer walls of a large water cooler and, after a search of the cargo hold area of a flight from the Dominican Republic, she alerted her handler to a duffle bag which contained twelve bricks of heroin weighing 29.10 lbs and eight bricks of cocaine weighing 19.51 lbs. Among Canine Tobi's narcotics finds were: 24 pounds of heroin hidden in artifacts arriving on a flight from Africa, 25 pounds of cocaine hidden in a Tote bag on a flight from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and 5 pounds of heroin concealed in a freight container on a flight arriving at JFK from India. In March 2009, Fenja, a CBP German Shepherd, alerted off icers to a duffel bag that arrived on a flight from Georgetown, Guyana last September, which contained16 bricks of a white powdery substance which field tested positive for cocaine. Canine Cara’s biggest drug seizure was 50 pounds of cocaine hidden in mail bags. “The canine program has been instrumental in assisting officers to identify cargo and luggage containing contraband quickly and with little effort since the early 1970s when the program was established,” said Gary Walck, Deputy Chief, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Canine Enforcement Unit, Anti-Terrorism Contraband Enforcement Team, JFK International Airport, adding, “Detector dogs are an integral part of CBP’s anti-terrorism and enforcement efforts. The canine unit serves as a valuable tool to officers in the field as they carry out the agency’s Q mission.”

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QCC professor touts fossil program Dr. Rituparna Bose says numbers help classification by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

Dr. Rituparna Bose, a scientist and professor at Queensborough Community College, uses numbers to better classify fossils and help improve biodiversity studies. PHOTO COURTESY RITUPARNA BOSE

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Cook denies ties to Huntley fraud scheme Says she didn’t steal charity money by AnnMarie Costella Assistant Editor

State Assemblywoman Vivian Cook (D-Jamaica) on Monday denied allegations that she is in any way connected to a fraud scheme perpetrated by disgraced lawmaker Shirley Huntley, who pleaded guilty last week to embezzling nearly $90,000 in taxpayer money. “It’s a bunch of crap,” Cook said, speaking exclusively to the Queens Chronicle about the accusations. “It’s nonsense.” Court papers make reference to a “New York State public official” who on multiple occasions took steps to ensure that Huntley’s bogus nonprofit, the Parents Information Network, repeatedly received state funds. And that official is reportedly Cook. “I’m not going to conf irm, deny or comment on that,” said Robert Nardoza, the spokesman for the prosecutor, U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch of New York’s Eastern District. During her appearance in Brooklyn Federal Court, Huntley told Judge Jack Weinstein

that she had an agreement with a member of the state Assembly guaranteeing a steady flow of taxpayer money in the form of member items went to PIN and that she and that person used the money for personal shopping, according to a report in the New York Post. But Huntley did not cite Cook by name.

“It’s a bunch of crap. It’s nonsense” — Assemblywoman Vivian Cook

“I am disturbed and very hurt by it,” Cook said. She added that she spoke to Huntley following her cour t appearance and questioned why she would make such claims, but Cook said Huntley would not give her an answer. “Stealing money from taxpayers or from anyone else is not

something I would ever do,” Cook said f irmly. “It doesn’t make any sense.” PIN received public funds under the guise that it was going to help educate parents about the city public school system. Instead, Huntley used the money for her own personal gain. Cook said she gave $10,000 annually to PIN from 2001 to 2005, but only because she witnessed the work it was doing at functions at PS 30 and PS 80, both in Jamaica, and thought it was “a wor thwhile organization.” It was between 2005 and 2008 that Huntley allegedly stole the money, according to court papers. Huntley, 74, of Jamaica, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud, admitting that she embezzled $87,700 from PIN. She has agreed to pay back the money she stole to the state Department of Education, as part of her plea deal with the government. When sentenced, Huntley faces up to five years in prison and a fine of $250,000.

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If your holdings are above, or close to, the $1 million threshold, it is advisable that you consult with an elder law/estate planning attorney so he or she can best advise you on what methods to employ to ensure that when you pass away, your assets pass to your intended beneficiaries, minimizing estate taxes to the extent possible. This goal may be accomplished through trust planning, with different types of trusts being appropriate for different family circumstances, lifetime gift giving, and other methods. Please note that with planning, married couples can pass up to twice the exemption amount ($2 million at the state level for New Yorkers; up to $10.5 million at the federal level). Therefore, it is obvious that, for married couples, proper planning to be sure each spouse’s exemption is fully utilized is key to result in maximum tax savings. Please note, even if your total assets do not approach the $1 million threshold, there is still significant advanced planning that can be useful to your life circumstances. A consultation with an elder law/estate planning attorney will ensure that you have the proper forms in place should you become incapacitated (such as a Health Care Proxy, Living Will, or Power of Attorney), that your assets will pass on according to your wishes upon your death (utilizing Last Will and Testament and, in certain circumstances, Trusts) and, with proper planning, that those assets should pass without a costly probate proceeding. Finally, you and your attorney could also formulate a long-term care plan to protect your assets should you need long-term medical assistance in the future. The attorneys can be reached at (718) Q 945-777 or (718) 738-8500.

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Senior sex continued from page 35 Judy Ascherman, assistant director of the Howard Beach Senior Center, said she does not feel comfortable distributing condoms to its clients, and so she refuses the free ones This PSA poster is just one way an elder advocacy that are offered to the center by the DOH. group is spreading its message. Still, the message of protecting oneself from IMAGE COURTESY SAFERSEX4SENIORS.ORG STDs is making its way to older adults. SaferSex4Seniors.org, a website created by a grant-funded department with staffers who an independent collective of professional sexu- come to the location to talk about safe sex and ality educators, researchers, authors, trainers the spread of AIDS. “I’ve never had an issue with and counselors to teach elders about protected seniors having sex at the center, but the spread intercourse, has raised some eyebrows with a of disease is still a concern,” Bishop said. risque public service announcement campaign, Betty DeBaptiste, 75, a retired nurse and an which includes a commercial and print posters HIV coordinator with JSPOA, periodically gives depicting seniors in various sexual positions fol- classes on safe sex. They include the screening lowed by the slogan — “There are many ways of a film in which elder adults discuss the topic to do it. There is only one way to do it safely. as well as demonstrating how to use both male Use a condom.” and female condoms. As people age, their immune systems tend to “I see nothing wrong with it, as long as they weaken, and other health problems make them practice safe sex,” DeBaptiste said of active more prone to infection. Medications for heart seniors. “I always tell them while I’m doing the disease, hypertension and diabetes also cause demonstrations that if they feel uncomfortable seniors to be more susceptible to STDs, the they can leave the room, but only one or two AARP says. And because STDs often have no have ever done that. They want to see.” symptoms at first, they frequently go untreated And DeBaptiste is not the only one who is and are easy to unknowingly transmit. open when it comes to sexuality. Her then-98Pat Bishop, the executive director at the year-old mother once had an HIV test, when free Rockaway Boulevard Senior Center in South ones were offered at her church, even though, Ozone Park, said that the DOH does not send her according to DeBaptiste, she was not sexually facility condoms, but that its parent group active. “She just likes to be involved in everyP [Jamaica Service Program for Older Adults] has thing,” DeBaptiste explained.

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On the Road Again: Cartagena, Colombia A resort on the rise — the Cartagena Hilton by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributors

The most dangerous aspects of my recent trip to Cartagena were the uneven and broken sidewalks — aside from the aggressive drivers who think they’re competing in the Grand Prix. Located on the northernmost part of South America, and virtually on the same longitude as New York City, Cartagena, Colombia’s fifth-largest city, is just over a four-hour flight on JetBlue from JFK, which means that it takes you two hours less to get there than to California. In addition you don’t have to worry about jet lag since Cartagena is also on Eastern Standard Time. The most recognizable landmark in Cartagena is the Castillo de San Felipe. The 17th-century structure was never a castle per se, but rather a very elevated fort used by the Spaniards as a way of fending off (further) foreign invasions. You have to be in good shape to climb to the top of San Felipe since you can only get there via trekking up steep stone ramps. Anyone who has been to Israel will think of Masada, though getting to the summit is a lot easier here. About a mile from Castillo de San Felipe is Cartagena’s main tourist district, El Centro, which is reminiscent of Puerto Rico’s Old San Juan because of its narrow streets, plazas and a wall

that reminds one of El Morro. There are three museums worth catching here. The Caribbean Naval Museum recounts the numerous sea battles between England and Spain in the area. The Museum of Gold holds a terrific collection of artifacts from the Zenu tribes who lived in Colombia before the arrival of the Spaniards in the 16th century. You need a strong stomach to tolerate the third museum, the Palace of the Inquisition, which unflinchingly looks at the wide array of torture devices the Spanish military used on the local people to get them to submit to their rule. As Jews and Moors learned in the 15th century, the rulers of Spain did not value diversity of beliefs and values, and that lack of tolerance was carried over to the New World. There are some modern touches to the old city, such as the high-end boutique hotel The Charleston, and the Hard Rock Café, which is one of the few places in town where you can enjoy a hamburger and hear American pop music. Getting around Cartagena is fairly easy. Cabs are inexpensive but I recommend taking the local buses, which cost 1,500 pesos (approximately 85 cents). Most of the hotels are located three miles away from the old city, in the Bocagrande and Laguito sections. While there is no shortage of hotels here, there is a dearth of traditional American lodging

brand names, though Hyatt is building a property in Bocagrande that will open next year. Today, the Cartagena Hilton is the most recognizable property here and is highly recommended for numerous reasons. Cartagena is not yet Cancun. Not much English is spoken here, and I relied on my Spanish more than I ever have before. But everyone working in customer service at the Hilton is bilingual. The property is immaculate and modern and lives up to Hilton standards, and when you are not in the United States you need that reassur- The Cartagena Hilton offers guests gardens and ance. The rates are quite reasonable compared tropical decor. COURTESY PHOTO with what you would pay for a top-tier hotel in, say, Miami Beach. In addition there are several rarely see a cloud here and the rays are fierce. Queens’ own JetBlue has three flights a week to packages that include their gourmet breakfast buffet, which features lox, an omelet station, juices Cartagena from JFK and certainly more will be added from locally grown fruit, American and Colombian as the word gets out about this very charming resort hot and cold favorites, as well as access to their town. As is the case with all of JetBlue’s international 10th-floor executive lounge where snacks, soft flights, the on-board movies are free. You can now leave your car at the Parking drinks, and fruits are available all day. There is no charge for Wi-Fi and there are plenty of computer Spot lot which took over the Avistar location on Conduit Boulevard near JFK. It will probably cost terminals that are free of charge. The Cartagena Hilton has numerous swimming you less than taking a taxi back and forth and the pools and jacuzzis. You can enjoy a dip in the shuttle van will pick up and drop you off at the JetBlue terminal. For discount coupons, log on to Caribbean Sea at the hotel beach as well. Be sure to bring a quality SPF sunblock such as theparkingspot.com. P See more photos online at qchron.com. those from Coppertone or Dr. Brandt’s because you

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The Jan. 31 story “Post-Sandy housing market remains in flux,” included this photo of a home for sale in Howard Beach. Use of the photo was not meant to imply that the house was damaged in the storm surge created by Hurricane Sandy. The owner of the home says it experienced no flooding in the storm.

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tated parts of the city as their own families and properties were hit hard. “We want to help them for all they do for us,” Parness said. The assistance could consist of a monetary donation or volunteers to do repair and construction work. Parness founded the organization in November 2003 after his then-5-year-old son, Evan, said he wanted to give his old toys to children in California who lost their homes in wildfires. Within four days he had more than 100 volunteers and donors who helped fill a rented truck for people in the San Diego suburb of Harbison Canyon. First responders who would like to apply for assistance or anyone wishing to volunteer or make financial contributions can receive more information on the foundation’s website at newyorksaysthankyou.org, or on the group’s Facebook page. Checks also can be sent to New York Says Thank You Foundation, 2576 Broadway #174, New York, NY 10025. Please write Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund on the Q memo line of the check.

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Queens remembers Ed Koch continued from page 22 “I often disagreed with Ed,” he said. “But I also got to know and learn from this great man, with a heart and mind as big as the city he loved.” State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) first came to know Koch through his relationship with his father, Congressman Joe Addabbo Sr. He said he was honored by Koch’s support in his own campaigns. The city, Addabbo said, has lost an icon. “Ed dedicated most of his life to public service and helping others,” Addabbo said. “Ed kept his focus on the people’s interest

and needs.” Congressman Joe Crowley (D-Queens, Bronx) called Koch a proud public servant and a true champion for the people of New York. Congresswoman Grace Meng (D-Flushing) called him colorful, tough and warm, and said his death “has left a void in our city.” State Sen. Malcolm Smith (D-Jamaica) is a former Koch aide in City Hall. “It was truly a pleasure to work for one of the greatest mayors that this city has ever seen,” he said. U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), in recalling their last meeting, said that he was

as unique to the city as the Empire State Building in recalling their final meeting. “Our conversation went from Middle East policy to the best Chinese food in New York City to movies, as only Ed Koch could,” she said. “Ed Koch so vividly reflected the city that is now diminished by his passing,” said Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer. State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Comptroller John Liu, GOP mayoral candidate Tom Allon and Queens Borough President Helen Marshall offered Koch their praise and his loved ones their condolences. Councilman Dan Halloran (R-Whitestone) wrote fondly of the man he knew from his father’s days as a deputy commis-

sioner in the Koch administration, and state Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) mourned the loss of a man he called his friend and mentor, having worked as Koch’s liaison to the borough. “There was no problem too small or too big for him to address on behalf of his constituents throughout the city,” Avella said. “If it was important to them, it was important to Mayor Koch.” “We will miss him dearly,” Bloomberg said. “But his good works — and his wit and wisdom — will forever be a part of the city he loved so much.” “Thank you, Mr. Mayor,” Gennaro wrote, “and on behalf of a grateful city, goodbye. Q May God bless you always.”

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Bill proposes new Board of Education by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

Assemblyman David Weprin (D-Fresh Meadows) has introduced a bill in Albany that would take control of the city’s schools out of the hands of Mayor Bloomberg and place it in a new Board of Education. The bill’s main focus would be to change the structure of the Panel for Educational Policy, which would become the new Board of Education. Currently, the panel is made up of eight members appointed by the mayor and one from each borough, appointed by the respective borough presidents. That effectively gives the mayor an outright majority. The PEP was created when mayoral control was implemented a decade ago and is the policy-making arm of the Department of Education. Last year, in the vote to close two dozen city schools — including seven Queens high schools — all eight of the mayoral appointees voted for the plan that was axed by an arbitrator after the United Federation of Teachers sued the city. Four of the five borough members objected.

Weprin’s legislation, carried in the state Senate by Sen. Velmanette Montgomery (D-Brooklyn), would change the eight mayoral appointments on the PEP so that four members would be appointed by the mayor and four by the City Council. The five borough members would continue to be appointed by the borough presidents. Of the four members appointed by the City Council, one would be a representative of a college or university; one would have to be a member of a parent’s organization; one a member of a Community Educational Council and one at large. At least one mayoral appointee would need to be a parent of a public school student. The new PEP would also appoint the chancellor. A recent Quinnipiac poll showed only 18 percent of New Yorkers approved of mayoral control of the schools, but only 13 percent wanted the city’s schools to be taken out of the mayor’s hands completely. The vast majority — 63 percent — of those polled wanted the mayor and an indeQ pendent body to share control.

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School budget continued from page 26 the teachers union for the failed negotiations, even going so far as to bluntly say the lost aid wasn’t worth agreeing to what the unions want. “We’d be better off finding a way without the money from the state and not compromising on an evaluation system that was a fraud,” he said last week. Among the sticking points for the mayor is a proposed two-year sunset for the evaluation plans. Sunset provisions were agreed to in every other school district in the state that came up with a plan

by the deadline, but Bloomberg asserts a two-year sunset would make it impossible to get rid of problem teachers. He has called the other districts’ plans “shams.” Fedkowskyj backed up the UFT’s claim that it was Bloomberg who walked away from a deal that was agreed to by the unions and DOE officials. “Blaming everyone else for budget cuts is unacceptable,” he said. “A deal was presented and the mayor turned it down, now our school communities shouldn’t have suffer on account of his decision.” The city’s new fiscal year begins on July 1 and a budget needs to be agreed Q upon by the end of June.

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City Council district maps continued from page 12 and 154th streets, through the heart of North Flushing and Broadway-Flushing. In response, four civic associations — North Flushing, Greater Whitestone Taxpayers, Broadway-Flushing and Auburndale — urged District Commission member Frank Padavan, who formerly represented much of the area in the State Senate, to make a motion for a last minute change in the lines. The new maps underpopulate the 19th District and overpopulate the 20th, Grazino said, and the moves could easily be done. Despite prodding from the Asian-American community, Oakland Gardens and Bayside were not united into one district, but a section of Bayside Hills was moved from the 19th District into the 23rd District, represented by Mark Weprin (D-Oakland Gardens). Padavan had opposed uniting the two neighborhoods, even though many Oakland Gardens residents consider the community a spur of Bayside. Meanwhile, in South Queens, the curious gerrymander of JFK Airport remains, drawing the runways into the 31st District, centered in Far Rockaway and Rosedale, while the terminals and access roads are in Ruben Wills’ (D-South Jamaica) 28th District. When those lines first appeared in December, a Districting Commission spokeswoman said they were drawn because the access roads all originate in

Wills’ district. The entire airport had been located in the 31st. The border between the 28th District and the 32nd District, represented by Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park), shifted 17 blocks west to 103rd Street in Ozone Park, uniting the South Richmond Hill IndoCaribbean community into a district that also includes black neighborhoods like Rochdale Village. Woodhaven remains split between the 30th and 32nd districts in the new map, despite attempts by neighborhood leaders to unite it. “A majority of residents are going to be represented by a council member who never represented them before,” said Ed Wendell, president of the Woodhaven Residents Block Association, who fought to have the neighborhood united, as it was in the first draft of the maps released last fall. “It’s disappointing, but not surprising. Our case was very simple. We’re looking at it as a community point of view whereas there are other people who have other interests that they are protecting.” He placed most of the blame on the way the maps are drawn rather than on who is drawing them. “I think the problem is the process, which guarantees that you’ll have more people unhappy than happy,” he said. “I don’t know what the answer is, but it doesn’t take Q an idiot to know this isn’t it.”

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Auburndale homes, in the hopes the Department of Buildings will condemn the houses. “This is clearly one of the worst abandoned properties in all of Queens,” Avella said. “It has been an eyesore in this Auburndale community for seven years now and these conditions are simply unacceptable, especially for those residents who live right next to these properties.” Members of the community joined Avella at a press conference on Jan. 31 to decry the buildings. “Unfortunately, the problems have not been resolved to the community’s satisfaction and benefit,” said Henry Euler, first vice president of the Auburndale Improvement Association, adding, “The Department of Buildings should condemn these structures. The structures should be torn down and new legal structures should be constructed if the owner wishes to build again. “All f ines must be paid. All garbage must be removed from the site immediately and kept off in the future. Weeds must be trimmed, and the front sidewalk should be repaired. The owners must take responsibility for their property.” Avella added the appearance of blight has the ripple effect of hitting neighbors in their wallets. “A dilapidated lot like this creates a financial disaster for neighbors, who gradually see their property values decrease,” he said. “Neighbors of these abandoned properties also suffer from serious health and safety hazards created by the owner’s lack of maintenance. The deteriorating condition of these proper ties must be Q addressed .”

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* * * Okamoto Ice Sculpture Studio is housed in an unassuming warehouse space under the elevated subway tracks on 31st Street in Astoria. Last Thursday the heavy metal garage door was rolled up to the top and a red and white Japanese-

motif fabric flag fought against the icy gusts steamrolling down the streets. Inside, the left wall is lined with light boxes and Plexiglas for ice sculpture installations. Farther into the large concrete warehouse space sit two walk-in freezers, one for their in-house-made, crystal-clear ice blocks and the other filled with completed works. On Thursday the freezer housed an ice football helmet — soon to be carted out to Long Island for a Super Bowl party, mini skiis and snowshoes to be used by a catering hall to serve bits of this and that and a 2-foot-tall sculpture of a downhill skier. The team of about five artists has created a variety of works — about 12 a week — from installations for high-end fashion shows, Porsche replicas for product launches, a giant heart constructed out of dozens of ice blocks in a collaboration with a team of architects in

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by Josey Bartlett There’s the stereotypical movie scene where a woman dressed in a slinky ball gown glides down the red-velvet carpeted stairs towards a table with a flowing champagne fountain and a swan ice sculpture. That is the sort of stock design artists at Okamoto Ice Sculpture Studio try to lead customers away from. “Many people’s knowledge of ice sculptures are limited to catering halls and cruise ships,” the studio’s co-founder, Shintaro Okamoto, said. “It’s sort of a joke in the office that we don’t do hearts and doves.” “Sometimes someone will come in asking for a swan,” he said, ”but when we ask why, they aren’t sure.” They typically decide on something else, something that uniquely represents the celebration they commissioned the work for.

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The new Queens Artists’ Alliance will be hosting an Emerging Artists Show and reception at GEAR Gallery, 61-08 Myrtle Ave., Glendale, on Friday, Feb. 8 from 6-9 p.m. and on Saturday, Feb. 9 from 1-6 p.m. Admission is free and refreshments will be served. All Queens artists are encouraged to attend and to bring photos of their work with contact info on the back to leave with the alliance for possible inclusion in upcoming shows in Queens. For more information, email pattig213@aol.com.

Montgomery Wilkinson, an architectural technologist and member of the firm responsible for completing the Freedom Tower at One World Trade Center, will lecture on Architecture, Community and Us on Wednesday, Feb. 13 from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in Rosenthal Library, Room 230, at Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing. Call (718) 997-5593 for more information. State Assemblyman Jeffrion Aubry will explore the Significance of Obama’s Re-election on Thursday, Feb. 14 at 6:30 p.m. in Rosenthal Library, Room 230, at Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing. Call (718) 997-5593 for more information.

Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria, hosts a month-long series which includes 36 independent feature and short films by black filmmakers beginning in the 1970s, with personal appearances by director Haile Gerima and series curator Jacqueline Stewart through Sunday, Feb. 24. Admission is $12. Visit movingimage.us for hours. An African American art exhibition by Khalil Koromantee and His Young Black Artists will be on display on Thursday, Feb. 21 at 6:30 p.m. in the Rosenthal Library, Room 230, at Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing.

AUDITIONS FSF Community Theater Group presents open auditions for “Let’s Hear It for Queens,” an original musical about the history and people of the borough of Queens, on Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 12 and 13 at 7:30 p.m. at Free Synagogue of Flushing, 41-60 Kissena Blvd. Performances are on May 4, 5, 11 and 12. Seeking actors, dancers, singers and vocal impressionists. Email lordflibbit@aol.com for further information. Douglaston Community Theatre will hold auditions for “The Hound of the Baskervilles” by Tim Kelly at Zion Church Parish Hall on Church Street (formerly 44 Ave.) 2 blocks east of Douglaston Parkway, on Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 11 and 12 at 7:30 p.m. For more information contact Eric Leeb at ELeeb66866@aol.com or (917) 378-0192.

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Maggie’s Little Theater, 66-05 79 Place, Middle Village, is holding open auditions for adults, teens and children for their July production of “Fiddler on the Roof” on Friday, Feb. 8 at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 9 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 10 at 2 p.m. with possible callbacks on Monday, Feb. 11 at 7:30 p.m. Bring sheet music for pianist. Broadway songs preferred.

Participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count at Queens Botanical Garden in Flushing on Feb. 15.

DANCE Green Space’s resident company Valerie Green/ Dance Entropy presents Skimming the Surface, an evening of dance in celebration of their 15th anniversary season at their home studio theater, Green Space, 37-24 24 St., Suite 301, Long Island City, on Feb. 21-23 at 8 p.m. and Feb. 24 at 5 p.m. Tickets are $15 in advance online at DanceEntropy.org and $20 at the door.

FILM The 1931 film “Little Ceasar,” starring Edward G. Robinson, will be presented on Feb. 9 at 1 p.m. at Greater Astoria Historical Society, 35-20 Broadway, 4th floor, Long Island City. It tells the story of a hoodlum who ascends the ranks of organized crime, and his inevitable downfall. This film is free. Call (718) 278-0700 for more information.

MUSIC The Eddie Allen Quintet pays tribute to legendary trumpeters on Saturday, Feb. 9 at 3:30 p.m. with “Music from the Mind of the Trumpet” at Queens Library at Langston Hughes, 100-01 Northern Blvd., Corona. Call (718) 651-1100 for more information.

See “Langston Hughes in Harlem,” a dramatic rendition of his poety and stories featuring David Mills, on Wednesday, Feb. 13 at 2 p.m. at Flushing Library, 41-17 Main St.

Art House Astoria Conservatory for Music and Art, 23-35 Broadway, hosts its first concert and art exhibition of the year on Saturday, Feb. 9 at 7:30 p.m. An RSVP is required due to limited seating. Recommended for ages 12 and over due to possible mature content. Call (347) 738-4148 or email info@arthouseastoria.com

In honor of Valentine’s Day, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center will present “Survey,” a one-act play, on Friday, Feb. 8 at 8 p.m. LaGuardia Community College is located at 31-10 Thomson Ave., Long Island City. Admission is free. For more information call (718) 482-5151 or visit lagcc.usny.edu/lpac or see the preview article in this Qboro.

International Afrikan Ministries Unhuntu (IAMU) a Pan Afrikan ministry presents “Traditional Forms of Music in Ghana” with Nana Kimati Dinizulu, director of the Dinizulu Center for Afrikan Culture and Research at Aims of Modzawe, on Sunday, Feb. 10 at 1:30 p.m. at 176-03 Jamaica Ave, Jamaica. Free admission.

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A “Salute to Israel” concert will be held on Sunday, Feb. 10 at 7 p.m. at LeFrak Concert Hall at Queens College on Reeves Avenue and 150th Street. For tickets call (718) 776-3500. Tickets cost between $50 and $75. Members of the Con Brio Ensemble will perform works by Schumann, Frank and Franz Mittler at a twilight concert at the Church-in-the-Gardens, 50 Ascan Ave., Forest Hills, on Sunday, Feb. 10 at 4:30 p.m. Tickets are $12 ($10 for students and senior citizens). TDF vouchers are accepted. Call (718) 459-1277 or email dianamittler@aol.com for more information. Dino Rosi, international recording artist, sings in five languages on Friday, Feb. 8 at 2 p.m. at Middle Village Library, 72-31 Metropolitan Ave. Call (718) 3261390 for more information. A musical show, The Ghetto Chronicles, by writerdirector Duane DWhit Witley will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 27 at 6 p.m. in Goldstein Theatre at Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing. The show is free.

FLEA MARKETS St. Josaphat’s R.C. Church of Bayside, 34-32 210 St., will hold a flea market plus ethnic Polish bake sale on Sunday, Feb. 10 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Parish Hall on 35th Avenue and 210th Street. Call Steve at (718) 224-3052 for more information. Free parking. Astoria Market will hold a Pre-Valentine’s day shopping event on Sunday, Feb. 10 at the Main Hall at Bohemian Hall Beer Garden, 29-19 24 Ave., Astoria, from noon to 6 p.m.

A free Lunch and Learn Workshop sponsored by Woman-to-Woman, a community service organization of Macedonia AME Church and the Paul Quinn Federal Credit Union, will be given on Sunday, Feb. 10 at 1 p.m. at Macedonia AME Church, 37-22 Union St., Flushing. Call the church office at (718) 3535870 for more information. A Haitian Students Association update on Haiti: three years after the quake will take place on Thursday, Feb. 28 at 8 p.m. in the Student Union, 4th floor, at Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing.

MEETINGS AARP Chapter 2889 meets on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month at noon at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 69-60 Grand Ave., Maspeth. New members are welcome. The next meeting is on Feb. 20. Queens Borough Democratic Club has monthly general meetings. They will discuss upcoming citywide elections and recent immigration reform legislation and firearm legislation at Tropical Restaurant, 88-19 Jamaica Ave. Woodhaven, 2nd Floor, on Thursday, Feb. 21 at 7-8:15 p.m.

CLASSES JCC-Chabad of Long Island City, 10-31 Jackson Ave., hosts Taam Shabbat — Mommy and Me on Thursdays from 3:30-4:30 p.m.; Hebrew Reading crash course for adults on Mondays from 8-9 p.m.; Torah Hour for adults on Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday night kids from 6:307:30 p.m.; belly dancing and Loaves of Love for women the first Thursday of every month; Carlbach Shabbat and L’Chaim every Friday night at 6 p.m.; a Shabbat dinner on Friday, Feb. 15; and a Hebrew school once a week. Call (718) 609-0066 for more information.

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A meeting of the Parashat and Haftarat Club of Rego Park Jewish Center, 97-30 Queens Blvd., will take place on Saturday, Feb. 16 at 12:30 p.m. following Shabbat services. Discuss Torah portion Teruma with Rabbi Samuel Waidenbaum, Rabbi Romiel Daniel and Charles Lehat. Lite bite will be served. No charge.

Chinese New Year will be celebrated in Forest Hills with a talk on traditional Chinese culture and the place of tradition in contemporary China on Monday, Feb. 11 at 1:30 p.m. by Dr. Wenyi Wang at the Central Queens

A free workshop for future homebuyers will be held on Monday, Feb. 11 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Queens Library-Jackson Heights, 35-15 81 St. Call (718) 478-3848 for more information.

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Get ready to welcome the Year of the Snake by Joseph Orovic Assistant Managing/Online Editor

Get ready for the Lion Dance, as Flushing prepares to welcome the Year of the Snake. The Flushing Chinese Business Association has taken the lead in prepping for the neighborhood’s 17th annual Lunar New Year festivities, with two main events book ending a week of festivities in Flushing, from Feb. 10 to 16. The celebrations kick off at noon on Feb. 10 at the Queens Crossing mall. Stop by the second floor to check out Chinese and Korean folk dance and singing, as well as nods to non-Asian cultures. This year’s festivities are bringing in a new level of

‘Flushing’s Lunar New Year Parade’ When: Sunday, Feb. 10, noon, and Saturday, Feb. 16, 11 a.m. Where: 136-17 39 Ave. on Feb. 10 37-05 Union St. on Feb 16 Tickets: Free

inclusivity throughout. The main event, of course, is the parade on Saturday, Feb. 16., which will start in front of the 109th Precinct at 11 a.m. and snake its way (pun intended) to Franklin Avenue and Main Street. The Korean program will lead the parade, followed by the Chinese contingent. It will be followed by a fireworks display at 12:30 p.m. Korea’s Village Open Center, at 150-24 Northern Blvd., will offer food, games, dancing, martial arts, music and a karaoke contest after the parade. Cultural institutions in the neighborhood will also host celebrations: Flushing Town Hall, 37-35 Northern Blvd., will have a Lunar New Year Dance Sampler, featuring performances by Chinese, Korean, Taiwanese, Indian, Egyptian, Colombian and American groups, starting at 1 p.m on Feb 10. The Flushing Library, at 41-17 Main St., hosts a crafts workshop for families on Feb. 19 at 2:30 p.m., celebrating the Year of the Snake. It will be followed on Feb. 23 with a celebration showcasing Chinese and Korean music, arts and dance, starting at 10 a.m. The event features a Korean cooking

The Lion Dance will be part of the usual fare at this year’s Lunar New Year parade in FILE PHOTO Flushing on Feb. 16. class, floral arranging, a wind ensemble performance and Korean dance and opera. Be sure to check out Flushing’s eateries after the parade, where many know the real party begins, with many restaurants offering specials and unique menu items. Bear in mind, the No. 7 train will have

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Queens’ Dutch heritage seen through art by Alessandra Malito Chronicle Contributor

Paintings of peasants and an old Dutch cocoa can at the GodwinTernbach Museum at Queens College are just a few of the pieces of art at an exhibit showing how important Queens’ background is to the history of New York, as well as the country. “Queens is a crucible of history,” Godwin-Ternbach Museum Director Amy Winter said, “not only of New York but of America.” For all of February and March, Queens College will be hosting the “Re-Forming the Image in Northern Europe in the Dutch Golden Age,”

curated by art history students and their professor, Christopher Atkins. “We love where we’re from,” Atkins said. “We tried to see a different angle of what we see every day.” The students placed the works in a specific way to show how the focus of Dutch art changed through time, starting first with traditional origins and religion to modern society and still-life portraits of everyday life. In the pieces they chose, the rise of science, democracy and the middle class are seen, as well as places that were impacted by the revolutions people experienced.

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Visitors walk through the Godwin-Ternbach Museum where Dutch works show how these immigrants to Queens transformed their focus from traditional topics to science and democracy. PHOTO BY MELISSA RAUCH “There’s an education, therefore, a preservation,” Winter said. “As the exhibit shows, art isn’t just something pretty to look at, but it’s filled with history and history that is important to us today.” Etches and prints represent how the Dutch transformed their focus of art and made their way to a

modern society, and did so from Flushing’s back yard, where the college is located. The exhibit is also a way to show off pieces of the collection the school already had, such as a glass with raspberry prunts, which are pieces of glass that look decorative but also serve to give a better grip.

A picture next to the glass shows it in use in that era. One piece of particular interest and importance is by Rembrandt van Rijn, the 17th-century master. Another is a striking colonial map of the borough. A family and children workshop on April 3 at 1 p.m. continued on page 53 00

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sculptors work — slicing off chunks of ice to reveal masterpieces, works that lose their details after about six hours and melt completely away in four days. “These are once in a lifetime events — bar mitzvahs, weddings — and we hope the ice sculptures help individuals appreciate these moments more,” Okamoto said. “These sculptures only last for the event as well. It’s what makes ice emotional.”

Time Square, and specialty ice cubes that melt slowly and have no air bubbles to compliment the perfect cocktail at top-notch bars like Momofuku in Manhattan. This weekend the team will craft a Thomas the Tank Engine sculpture in Times Square for the kickoff of the annual American International Toy Fair. In the back of the warehouse there’s a bevy of chainsaws and heavy machinery that would rival any lumberjack’s collection. (The artists use chainsaws for the majority of their chiseling.) On the right wall are the ice makers. The machines freeze the perfectly seethrough, 300-pound blocks Okamoto Studio creates sculptures for product from the bottom up to crelaunches, top, and for a couple years has cultivated ate flawless, air bubbleless a specialty ice cube business for top bars. cubes. PHOTOS COURTESY OKATMOTO STUDIO In the center is where the

*** Okamoto founded the studio in 2003 with his father, who passed away last April. His father learned the art of ice sculpting in Japan, where he trained as a sushi chef. When he moved the family to Anchorage, Alaska, he started a restaurant as well as a side ice sculpture company that used frozen

Joe Hunt prepares an ice block for sculpting at Okamoto Studio. PHOTO BY JOSEY BARTLETT

fragments of a nearby lake. “I like to preface this — not everyone in Alaska plays with ice,” Okamoto said. “But I did.” The naturally artistic Okamoto would help design the pieces his father carved and when he grew up he left Alaska to go to Brown University and get his masters in fine arts at Hunters College.

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SPECIAL EVENTS An all-day, free celebration of the famed Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes will be held at Langston Hughes Library, 100-01 Northern Blvd., Corona, on Saturday, Feb. 9 starting at 11 a.m. The Center for Culture, The Afrikan Poetry Theatre, presents Blaze Craze 10, open mic, at 176-03 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica. Time limit 3-5 minutes. Light refreshments, music and drumming on Friday, Feb. 8 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 at the door. For further information call Ja-Man at (646) 571-5589. Redeemer Lutheran Church, 69-07 Cooper Ave., Glendale (use Parish Hall Entrance on Cooper Ave.), hosts a Shrove Tuesday pancake dinner on Feb. 12 from 5-7 p.m. Tickets are $7 for adults and $4 for children, under 3 years are free. For more information contact Maryann Schnell at (718) 456-5292. Edison Place restaurant, 71-28 Cooper Ave., Glendale, will be hosting Murder Mystery Show and 3course dinner on Friday, Feb. 15 to benefit the Excalibur Reading Program. Tickets are $49.95 and may be obtained by calling (718) 821-8401. On Saturday, Feb. 15 at 10:30 a.m., Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main St., Flushing, will participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count, a census of birds conducted every year by bird-lovers at sites across the country. This event is free but registration is required. For more information or to register call (718) 886-3800 ext. 213, email sromar@queesnbotanical.org, or visit birdsource.org/gbbc.

The Glendale Kiwanis Club will host a Valentine’s Day luncheon on Thursday, Feb. 14 at 12:30 p.m. at Edison Place Restaurant, 71-28 Cooper Ave, Glendale. Lunch is $16. Bring your sweetheart and enjoy great food and good people. For more information, call Pat at (516) 835-1433 or email Pattig213@aol.com Italian Charities of America, 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst, will host Saturday night dances on Feb. 9 and 23 and March 9 and 23 from 8 p.m. to midnight. Call (718) 478-3100 for more information. St. Pancras School, 68-20 Myrtle Ave., Glendale, will host its annual St. Patrick’s Day fundraising dance on Saturday, March 9 from 7-11 p.m. Proceeds will go to smartboards for the school. The Boston Burglars will play Irish hits and a buffet will be served. Tickets are $50. Call (718) 821-6721 or (347) 853-9348. Human Growth Foundation, a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to help children and adults with disorders of growth and growth hormone, will host its first annual 4.8K Step Up and Walk on Sunday, April 21 from 7 a.m. to noon at Flushing Meadows Corona Park, 113-01 Roosevelt Ave, Flushing. Individual and team registration is now open online at hgfound.org/stepupandwalk_event_registration.html The Catholic Daughters of Americas Court Mary’s Nativity #2347 will hold a Rock ‘n’ Roll Festival with the band “the Satellites” featuring music of the ’50s and ’60s on Saturday, Feb. 16 from 6-10 p.m. at the Father Rooney Parish Center at Jasmine Avenue and Parsons Boulevard, Flushing. A $35 donation includes a hot buffet dinner, wine and beer and dessert. Parking available. Call Irene at (718) 849-6900 ext. 11 for tickets or email idachtera@verizon.net. The Maria Rose Doll Museum will host a Black History Month event for the community, with presentations on: 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation; 50 years of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech of 1963; and the 44th president of the United States, on Sunday, Feb. 17 from 3 to 6 p.m. at 187-11 Linden Blvd., St. Albans. Refreshments will be served. Donations of $7 requested. Call (718) 276-3454.

SUPPORT GROUPS The Lupus Alliance of Long Island and Queens meets once a month on Tuesdays from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in Flushing. To attend and for more information, Alliance members can register by calling Paula Goldstein at (516) 802-3142. Anyone with Lupus and family members are invited to attend Education Days on March 23 and June 1 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Registration is required in advance. A fee of $10 per person for members and $15 for nonmembers includes a light breakfast, handouts and lunch. Call (516)826-2058 for more information.

LISTING INFORMATION Items for the Community Calendar must be sent two weeks before the date of the event. Listings should be typed, from a nonprofit organization, either free or moderately priced, and be open to the public. Keep the information to one paragraph. Because of the large number of requests for the free calendar listings, we cannot include every event submitted. Send to: Queens Chronicle, Community Calendar, P.O. Box 74-7769, Rego Park, NY 11374, fax to (718) 205-0150.

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This week marks the 44th anniversary of the infamous Feb. 9-10, 1969 snowstorm. It was a storm that created a political crisis forever etched in the annals of municipal politics and a lesson to all future politicians in the politics of snow removal. Forty-two people died, of which half were from Queens, and 288 were injured. Mayor John Lindsay had been keeping the sanitation budget tight, resulting in poorly maintained, defective equipment that was left outdoors and had to be dug out itself just to get started. There also was talk of sabotage as the sanitation workers, who had struck in 1968, were still bitter. The paralysis was so bad the New York Stock Exchange was closed, but the outer boroughs were especially neglected, many areas not seeing plows for days. The mayor traveled to Rego Park, Kew Gardens Hills and Fresh Meadows, only to be constantly mocked and heckled by the residents. That fall he lost the Republican nomination for re-election but won the race as a third-party candidate. In 1971 he switched to the

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executives figured they had the leverage to threaten to move the Knicks to Long Island and the Rangers to New Jersey. In retrospect it was a bluff, but Koch knew that the departure of a pair of highly visible sports franchises would be devastating to the image of a city that was coming back. Although he was not a sports fan the way his successors David Dinkins and Rudy Giuliani were, Koch was well aware of how the departure of the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants for California was always going to be part of Mayor Robert Wagner’s legacy, and he did not want the same thing to happen to him. Now that Super Bowl XLVII is behind us, the attention will turn to our area since MetLife Stadium will be hosting the game next year. You can start counting the “Snowmageddon” headlines. Nobody gets worked up if the NFC or AFC championship games, which take place two weeks before the Super Bowl, are played in Arctic conditions, so why all of the obsessive talk about a Super Bowl being played in cold weather? Speaking of bowls, the Pro Bowl has become a subject of ridicule because the players don’t go all out. OK, so what? I think that it’s cool that the NFL’s best get together in Honolulu after the end of a tough season and participate in an event that reminds us of the pickQ up games we played in our schoolyards.

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HUI FAMILY COMPANY, LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/5/12. Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: Mr. Hor Ken Hui, 80-84 Kent St., Jamaica Estates, NY 11432. General Purposes.

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ARIS DIAGNOSTIC MEDICAL, PLLC, a domestic PLLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 9/24/12. Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the PLLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Simon Ryoo, 88-09 101 Avenue, Ozone Park, NY 11416. Purpose: Medicine. LIMAH FUNDING LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/30/12. Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 3601 43rd Ave., Long Island City, NY 11001. General Purposes.

31ST DRIVE LLC 1, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/14/2012. Office loc: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Philip Loria, 37-20 Broadway, 2nd FL, Astoria, NY 11103. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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To Advertise Call 718-205-8000 Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company. Name: 333 Lenox Associates LLC (“LLC”). Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (“SSNY”) on December 17, 2012. NY office location: Queens County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to 333 Lenox Associates LLC, 140-16 45th Avenue, Flushing, NY 11355. Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity.

117-13 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/21/12. Office in Queens County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 102-10 Metropolitan Ave., Ste. 2000, Forest Hills, NY 11375. Purpose: General.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: MINIPAT, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/07/12. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 111-16 101 Avenue, Richmond Hill, New York 11419. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: STARTING NOW LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/20/2012. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 3420 79th Street, #6D, Jackson Heights, NY 11372. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of NEW YORK GOLDWATER FUND I, L.P. Certificate of Limited Partnership filed with the Secy. of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/4/2012. Office located Queens County. Princ. office of L.P. is 5002 97th Place, Corona, NY 11368. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the L.P. may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the L.P. to the Partnership, 5002 97th Place, Corona, NY 11368. Name and business address of each general partner are available from the SSNY. Latest date upon which the L.P. is to dissolve is 10/31/2032. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: ALEXANDRIA REAL ESTATE HOLDINGS LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/27/2012. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 420 West 144th Street, New York, NY 10031-5201. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: ROCK ANGEL PUBLICATIONS LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/06/2012. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to UNITED STATES CORPORATION AGENTS, INC., 7014 13TH AVENUE, SUITE 202, BROOKLYN, NY 11228. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

HELLOPMG, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/19/2012. Office loc: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 93-20A Roosevelt Ave., Suite 3D-I, Jackson Heights, NY 11372. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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Aldo Calore, above, was only 16 years old when he first flipped pizza dough in the air. Six years later he opened up his first pizzeria, where he still works. Aldo’s Pizza celebrated its 50th anniversary in business last year. In celebration of the milestone, as well as for its contributions to the Ozone Park community over the last half

century, including after Hurricane Sandy, Councilman Eric Ulrich presented Calore with a Council proclamation, above right. After Sandy hit, Aldo’s, which got back in business at its Cross Bay Boulevard location fairly quickly, sent pizzas to Broad Channel, whose residents spent nearly two weeks without power or heat.

Aldo’s Pizza was established at 76-17 101 Ave. in City Line in 1962 and opened its second location at 137-01 Cross Bay Blvd. a few decades later. The original location closed a few years ago and Calore merged the two pizzerias into the one on Cross Bay, where he has both a pizzeria and full sit-down restaurant. — Domenick Rafter

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After years of mounting debt and scrambling to compete with email, the United States Postal Service is cutting Saturday delivery in an effort to save money, it announced this week. The elimination of the extra day of service is estimated to save the USPS about $2 billion annually, once the plan is fully implemented in August. Packages will continue to be delivered six days per week. Mail addressed to PO boxes will continue to be delivered on Saturdays, and postal branches open on that day will remain open. Research has indicated nearly seven out of 10 Americans supported the switch to five-day delivery, the USPS says. “The Postal Service is advancing an important new approach to delivery that reflects the strong growth of our package business and responds to the financial realities resulting from America’s changing mailing habits,” Postmaster General and CEO Patrick Donahoe said in a prepared statement.“We developed this approach by working with our customers to understand their delivery needs and by identifying creative ways to generate significant cost Q savings.”

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continued from page 5 A number of newer homes in Howard Beach are raised, often as high as 15 feet above sea level. The maps also make significant changes to the Rockaways. Previously, higher areas of the Rockaway Peninsula, such as Belle Harbor and Seaside, were left out of the flood zone. The new maps include the entire peninsula in the flood zone. Also, a section of Rosedale south of 147th Avenue is added to the zones. Advisory maps for the northern part of the borough — including potential new flood zones in Long Island FEMA has released advisory maps, declaring all of Howard City, Astoria and Col- Beach and portions of Lindenwood flood zones, and warning of lege Point — are due the possibility of wave-induced damage in a part of Old Howard ILLUSTRATION COURTESY FEMA Beach, seen here in orange. out next month. The new maps will not affect the city’s evacuation zone in a Category 1 hurricane like Sandy. maps, but those also could be changed. After the storm, some residents wonHoward Beach was listed as Zone B — dered if the city should have evacuated Q an area typically not ordered to evacuate the area.

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