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‘A GREAT DAY FOR JUSTICE’ • Vetrano murder suspect caught • A sigh of relief in Howard Beach PHOTO BY ANTHONY O’REILLY, LEFT; FILE PHOTO

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For six months and two days, the murder of Karina Vetrano was one of the most high-profi le unsolved crimes in New York City. On Feb. 4, cops arrested Chanel Lewis, the man they believe committed the heinous act.

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Unsolicited realty offers irk Queens Tony Avella continues his fight to get cease-and-desist zone established by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

ongtime Woodhaven resident Joy Freiberger didn’t notice the unsolicited realty offers coming to her home that much when she was working — but in retirement, it’s hard not to notice the constant pitches made by real estate agents. “Their calls are nonstop and the pitching is nonstop,” Freiberger told the Queens Chronicle. “It just doesn’t feel real. You don’t know who’s coming to your home.” Freiberger is not alone in experiencing this. The Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association receives numerous complaints of offers landing in homeowners’ mailboxes and some getting an agent walking straight up to their door. “You can have some that are as often as four, five times a day,” said Martin Colberg, president of the WRBA. The offers all have the same theme — agents can sell your home for cash, a lot of it. Some of the pamphlets, copies of which were provided to the Chronicle, show comparative sales in the neighborhood. One such ad, given to the WRBA on Jan. 18, said the realtor had closed 15 deals in five months in Woodhaven and surrounding neighborhoods.

Unsolicited real estate offers, such as this one, are becoming a more common sight in Woodhaven residents’ mailboxes. Homeowners there are looking to have a cease-and-desist zone estabFLIER COURTESY WRBA lished to block the offers. It also reads, “Your house will be next,” seemingly assuming the sale. Another was simply a white piece of paper with the words “I am interested in buying your house ALL CASH,” with the agent’s name and phone number on it. Colberg said nobody that he’s heard of has

decided to sell a house because of a pamphlet found in the mailbox. “Not a single one,” he said. It’s unclear how many offers come to Woodhaven residents’ doorsteps every day — the WRBA depends on residents’ sending them copies to keep track of it, but not

everyone does so. Assemblyman Mike Miller (D-Woodhaven) said he only hears of the issue at the civic’s meetings. “I don’t really hear about it anywhere else,” he said, adding no other parts of the district seem to be having problems with it. The issue is nothing new and goes back to at least the 1970s when realtors would engage in blockbusting — persuading homeowners to sell property for little money and reselling it at a higher price. Many would prey on people’s racial fears, telling them another race or social class was moving into the neighborhood. While race may not be the driving factor for realtors these days, many believe they’re still trying to make a quick buck off the backs of homeowners. “It’s people looking to make a quick buck,” said civic activist Vance Barbour, a member of the WRBA’s executive board. “They’re trying to push people out of their homes to make a quick buck.” Such unsolicited offers were once barred in Queens, as homeowners could list their homes as properties where solicitation was not allowed. That ended in 2014 and realtors were once again free to solicit whomever they wanted. continued on page 10

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Changes coming to Lindenwood triangle But advocates say DOT needs to do more at the dangerous intersection by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

The Department of Transportation is looking to implement changes at a Lindenwood traffic triangle that has been the site of major crashes and pedestrian injuries — but the agency’s plans for the site are not quite what community leaders are looking for. “It needs to be completely reconfigured,” said Joann Ariola, president of the Howard Beach-Lindenwood Civic Association. “We need a change in the traffic pattern in that area.” Ariola has been looking for changes at the triangle — where 153rd and 155th avenues meet 88th Street — since 2011 when she was the head of the Lindenwood Alliance, which merged with the Howard Beach Civic Association in 2014. Many near-misses and crashes have taken place there and most recently, a pedestrian was injured in a hit-and-run incident in late July 2015. The DOT has promised improvements and last Friday told the Queens Chronicle it plans to change the No Parking regulation on the west and south curbs of 88th Street and 153rd Avenue to No Standing Anytime. “It is worth noting the new No Standing Anytime regulation will help improve visibility at this intersection while providing appropriate lane clearance,” an agency spokeswoman said in an email. That change is expected to take place by the end of the month and the DOT is looking to implement further safety measures. “We also anticipate returning to the community in the near future with a proposal for additional improvements,” the spokeswoman said. Ariola doesn’t believe the planned change will do much for the intersection. The issue was brought to the attention of Queens Borough DOT Commissioner Nicole Garcia, who has toured the site in previous years, by former Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder. Although the corner’s design is not a state issue, Goldfeder became a leading advocate in demanding the

Changes are coming to the Lindenwood traffic triangle, which has been the site of many near-misses and pedestrian injuries. But community leaders say much more has to be done there to ensure the safety of motorists and pedestrians. PHOTO BY ANTHONY O’REILLY agency make significant changes to the intersection. “It should not have to take an accident or, God forbid, someone to die for the city to address something that quite frankly could have been avoided,” he said in a 2015 interview after the hit-and-run incident. Goldfeder’s successor, Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway Park), promised during her campaign to continue his fight, saying it’s an issue she was familiar with before taking office. “I took my children to PS 232, which is right by there,” Pheffer Amato said in an interview last Thursday. “I think

we need to make it safe so that children can get to school without fear of getting hit.” The assemblywoman also called for a complete reconfiguration of the triangle. Ariola has recommended any such changes mirror that of the nearby traffic circle in the community, which underwent changes shortly before the hit-and-run at the triangle. There, the DOT lifted the curb at the circle to stop buses from running onto it. Pheffer Amato said her office is planning to discuss the Q triangle issue with the agency in the coming weeks.

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Jamaica Avenue may get a little brighter thanks to city funding, which could bring LED lights FILE PHOTO to the corridor.

Maria Thomson, executive director of the Woodhaven Business Improvement District, has been pleased with the placement of LED l ig ht s a lo n g Ja m a ic a Ave nu e i n h e r community. “I love them,” Thomson said. And now, the rest of the corridor may be getting a little brighter. Kenichi Wilson, chairman of Community Board 9’s Transportation Committee, said the city is considering placing the brighter, more energy-efficient bulbs in the Richmond Hill sections of the corridor. “It will stretch from Forest Park Drive to about Lefferts Boulevard,” Wilson told the Queens Chronicle. More details about the possible placement

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Some relief comes to Howard Beach Residents say they’re more at ease with Vetrano’s alleged killer in cuffs by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

Very few times in its history has Howard Beach been shaken to the core the way it was on Aug. 2 when one of its own, Karina Vetrano, was found brutally raped and strangled to death in Spring Creek Park. In the immediate days after, many in the community were on edge. “We’re thinking of packing up and leaving for a bit,” resident Steve Monti said the day after her murder. Much of that uneasiness lingered in the area for six months and two days, until a suspect was arrested. Now, many are heaving a sigh of relief. “If this is the right guy, that’s great,” said one resident who wished not to be named. Robert LaBay moved to Howard Beach last year and was scared for his wife and niece’s safety following Vetrano’s murder. “Now, I feel much more safe,” LaBay said as he took cover from the rain on Cross Bay Boulevard Tuesday. “I hope they caught the right guy.” As Isaac Maya walked his dog on 92nd Street, he called the arrest of 20-year-old East New York resident Chanel Lewis — who allegedly killed Karina Vetrano — “great.” “I know my wife is definitely more relieved,” Maya said.

A white ribbon, put up in honor of Karina Vetrano, is tied on a stop sign at the beginning of the slain jogger’s block. While those on the block were unwilling to speak, many in the community PHOTO BY ANTHONY O’REILLY feel relief her alleged killer has been caught. Barbara Granickas said she feels a sense of relief because this is a case where the cops had to be sure they got the right guy. “This is a high-profile case,” Granickas said. “They had to cross all their T’s and dot all their I’s,” she said. But that doesn’t mean she’s ready to venture into the park — commonly known as “the weeds” — just yet.

“Unless you have police to patrol it, you’re not going to be safe,” she said. “You don’t have proper patrol in there. By the time something happens, the person’s already gone.” Neighbors living on 84th Street between 164th and 165th avenues, where the Vetrano family lives, were unwilling to speak to a Chronicle reporter about their reaction to the arrest of Lewis, who faces 25 years to life in

prison. Outside his home Sunday, Phil Vetrano, who found his daughter’s body, told reporters, “I am not going to say it’s good, but we can move forward now. We are in a place we were never at, we know who did this,” according to a live stream. Some believe Lewis is innocent — claiming he was framed or the DNA evidence is fraudulent. LaBay doesn’t buy that. “If the DNA evidence said he did it, then I don’t know how they can say he’s innocent,” he said. State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach), who said many in the community have expressed relief to him, also believes the cops did the job correctly. “With every piece of information that comes out, it furthers my amoration for those in law enforcement,” Addabbo said. “It fortifies and solidifies my respect for them and the job they do.” The senator also praised those who alerted the authorities of Lewis’ presence in the park weeks before the murder, including whoever placed the May 911 call naming him “suspicious,” which ultimately led to this arrest. The cops also had high praise for the residents of the South Queens community. continued on page 14

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Before his face and name were plastered on the front page of New York City tabloids over the weekend, Chanel Lewis was merely a 20-year-old East New York resident who was no st ranger to Spring Creek Park. The young man, who made his way to Howard Beach through the marshy parts of the federal parkland, had been issued summonses by police for a variety of reasons, police said, including one for urination. Lewis paid a visit to the park in May and a Howard Beach resident called 911, the NYPD said, reporting him as a “suspicious person.” And according to cops, he paid at least one more visit to the park — on Aug. 2 when he allegedly raped and strangled Howard Beach jogger Karina Vetrano. It was the 911 call that put an end to the case that riveted South Queens, and all of New York City, for six months and two days. “This is a great day for justice in New York Cit y,” Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said at a

Sunday press conference at the 106th Precinct. Boyce and Mayor de Blasio have hailed the cop who helped crack the case as a hero. Lt. John Russo, who lives in Howard Beach, found the May 911 call and began a “deep dive,” Boyce said, which led to them interviewing Lewis on Feb. 2 — the six month anniversar y of Vetrano’s death. “It’s been reported we had him for months — we did not,” Boyce said. Lewis submitted to a DNA test, the chief said, which came back as a match to strands found under Vetrano’s fingernails and on her body. She reportedly scratched at and tried to push her attacker off her. “Karina helped us identify this person,” Boyce said. In addition to the DNA match, the chief added, Lewis made “detailed incriminating statements and admissions” when talking to police officers. He said Monday all the evidence points to one person having committed the act and they believe

it was a “chance encounter” and that the two did not know each other. Lewis faces 25 years to life in prison if convicted of the murder. He is being held at Rikers Island without bail and is due back in court Feb. 21. “This is truly a very sad case in which a beautiful and talented young woman senselessly lost her life,” Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said in a Sunday statement. “Thanks, however, to the persistence of the hard-working detectives of the NYPD, assisted by members of my staff, the person allegedly responsible for her brutal murder finally has been brought to justice.” According to Brown, additional cha rges — i nclud i ng sexu al assault — may be pressed against him before the case comes before a jury. Lewis’ family told reporters outside their East New York home they don’t believe the young man committed the heinous crime. “He has never done anything, nothing in his whole life,” said his fat he r, R ich a rd L ew i s. “ He

Chanel Lewis is walked out in handcuffs after being questioned in the 107th PHOTO BY ANTHONY O’REILLY Precinct, home of Patrol Borough Queens South. wouldn’t have done it because we live in an area where these people do a lot of things, a lot of hurt, and try to push it on other people and he wouldn’t have.” It’s been reported that Lewis

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he arrest of a suspect in the brutal slaying of Howard Beach resident Karina Vetrano brings a much-deserved sense of relief to a community where many residents had lived in fear for six months of the unknown psychopath living within reach of them. The alleged perpetrator is of course innocent until proven guilty, but police say they have a rock-solid case, matching his DNA with that found under her fingernails and getting him to confess, admitting details that only her killer could know. They are to be applauded, especially Lt. John Russo, himself a Howard Beach resident, whose sharp intellect and dogged determination to catch Vetrano’s killer led him to the defendant, and Det. Barry Brown, who got the alleged confession. We look forward to the defendant getting a fair trial and, if found guilty, a sentence that will protect society from the evil within him for as long as he lives. But beyond Howard Beach and the horror of Vetrano’s murder, people across Queens, and the rest of the city, have good reason to also feel a sense of relief. Not just about the arrest of the alleged killer, but about how much more rare murder and every other major crime

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Dear Editor: Thank you to the Queens Chronicle for continuing to diligently cover the very important issue of airplane noise and pollution in “Queens pols backing plane mitigation act” (Feb 2, multiple editions). As civic leader Warren Schreiber pointed out, this issue should be bipartisan. The health impacts of aviation are not unique to political party. As stated in the Noise Control Act of 1972, “The Congress declares that it is the policy of the United States to promote an environment for all Americans free from noise that jeopardizes their health or welfare.” The current Congress should re-read this legislation, which was signed into law by President Richard Nixon, a Republican. President Trump, in addition to being a native of Queens, battled Palm Beach County for decades because of airplane noise and pollution over his Mar-a-Lago resort. He should understand the seriousness of this problem better than most. He should also push the FAA to use NextGen technology to its fullest capabilities, which would include lessening the noise and pollution burden on communities, in addition to increasing the operational efficiency of airports. To this date, the FAA has only focused on the latter. Both of these objectives can be met, if the FAA is willing to make the effort. The tax© Copyright 2017 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.

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he city’s need for affordable housing is great, and as more and more parts of Queens become gentrified, more and more people here find it nearly impossible to make the rent. It’s just too damn high! But so are the numbers of students in our classrooms; many Queens schools are operating over capacity, some of them way over capacity. So are subway lines like the 7, which often sees trains leave a station without everyone on the platform being able to get on board. And so are our streets, where traffic often crawls along and will only get worse as the city continues removing travel lanes for buses and bicycles (the latter of which is something we definitely don’t have too many of). And now the city is taking a major step to address the lack of affordable housing by planning to add even more people to the borough. It would do that by having someone build a whole new neighborhood above the Sunnyside Yards railroad facility. The city is eyeing between 14,000 and 24,000 units of housing. Talk about a catch-22. To make Queens more livable, the city would make Queens less livable. Any chance that infrastructure, from schools to subways, from streets to sewers, can be addressed before these new units are built? We’ll see.

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Don’t tar Howard Beach Dear Editor: Why is it that any and every time anything happens in Howard Beach everything becomes a race issue? The sad reality is Howard Beach for all of these years is being punished for that incident in the freakin’ ’80s. For years we were labeled as racists and every complaint we make about people coming to rob us, destroy our property, hurt us and kill us means nothing because of something that happened 31 years ago.

Maybe the Mafia was around and Howard Beach was a different place in the ’80s (and say what you want, but if the Mafia was still really around this awful crime would not have happened) but this is 2017! Howard Beach, which is not just Italian anymore, is a place for working families and yes, many of us work two or three jobs just to give our families a better life or home. Why are we penalized for that? No matter what happens it’s like the world and the media always have to revert back to an incident that happened before many of us were born or when we were just children. Every single time anyone brings up or questions a person or persons roaming residential streets in the middle of the night we are pegged as racists. Every day there are cars broken into, cars stolen, rims missing,

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property destroyed, etc. People have brought up on various social media posts suspicious people and they are ripped apart and called racists. There was even a post a month before this terrible tragedy describing perhaps the very same individual, telling everyone that he looked suspicious. The poster may as well have been nailed to a cross and crucified. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure people are rethinking the harsh words they used toward her now. How can the media and other communities think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s OK to look down upon Howard Beach for our strength? We are all New Yorkers, we all went through the tragedy of 9/11 and the destruction of Hurricane Sandy. Events like those bring communities together and are a true test of strength. Howard Beach came together after these and many more. I have had enough, enough of being categorized as a racist simply because of my ZIP code. This was an awful murder. It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter if the victim or the monster who did this was black, white, pink or purple. A precious life is a precious life and no one has any right to take that precious life away. Jennifer Fulgieri Howard Beach

Lock him up, for life Dear Editor: Now that the police have a suspect in the brutal murder of Katrina Vetrano, this animal should rot in prison for the rest of his life for what he did to that poor, innocent young woman. It is a very sad day indeed when a person cannot even go out for jog in what is considered a relatively safe neighborhood without the fear of being mugged, raped or murdered by some deranged maniac. Society has really broken down, and the regard for respecting life is sinking faster than the Titanic. Hopefully, this young womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family can finally have some closure, now that this lowlife has been arrested by the police who worked so hard for months to solve this case. John Amato Fresh Meadows

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ment? Is the project included within the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council local New York State Metropolitan Planning Organization Five Year Short Range and Twenty Year Long Range Plan for capital transportation projects? The cost was estimated to be only $200 million and grew to $600 million last year before reaching $1 billion today. The MTA has to come up with a minimum of $600 million. These dollars are needed to leverage $400 million more in potential federal New Starts funding under any United States Department of Transportation Full Funding Grant Agreement necessary for financing the full project cost. De Blasio and city Department of Transportation Commissioner Trottenberg have already committed to the Woodhaven-Cross Bay Boulevard Select Bus Service plan. This needs $100 million or more from the same federal funding pot. That project doubled in cost from $200 to $400 million. Who is to say the same will not occur with restoration of LIRR service on the abandoned Rockaway Line as well? Why would anyone fund two major transportation improvement projects on the same corridor serving similar riders? Based upon study recommendations due later this year, the next step would be initiation of the environmental review process followed by design and engineering. Opportunity for consideration of additional funding to support restoration of LIRR service on the old Rockaway Beach branch may not occur until the upcoming 2020-24 MTA Five Year Capital Plan. Larry Penner Great Neck, LI The writer worked for 31 years in federal transit funding.

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Dear Editor: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pheffer Amato calls for RBL to JFK Airportâ&#x20AC;? (Anthony Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Reilly, Feb. 2, multiple editions) may be difficult to deliver. Former MTA Chairman Tom Prendergast, Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, LIRR President Thomas Nowakowski, Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio have yet to program any significant funding for restoration of the old Rockaway Beach Long Island Rail Road branch, which could also provide service to Kennedy Airport. There also are no additional dollars in the existing MTA $27 billion 2015-19 Five Year Capital Plan or the Port Authority of New York & New Jerseyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proposed new $32 billion 10-year capital plan. There is only a previously funded $1 million dollar planning feasibility study. This leaves you a minimum of $999 million short toward the $1 billion or more estimated total cost. Is the project included within the MTA Five Year or Twenty Year Capital Needs Assess-

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Unsolicited realty irks Queens continued from page 2 Now, such cease-and-desist zones can only be established for certain neighborhoods that show it’s a prevalent issue. Miller said Woodhaven residents would have to provide his office with “thousands” of pieces of mail to get that done. State Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) has been pushing for his district to become such a zone and held hearings on the matter last year. He’s awaiting word from the New York Department of State on whether it will be granted and he encouraged Woodhaven to take similar action. “I’m hoping the state will make a decision in the next month or so,” Avella said. The senator called the offers “a serious issue,” saying he was once approached by an agent offering to sell his house while he was taking out the garbage. “One agent admitted she does 20,000 mailings a month every month and basically to the same people,” he added. According to Avella, there are more than 11,000 real estate agents in Queens. Richard Hellenbrecht, executive vice president of the Queens Civic Congress and Land Use Committee Chairman of Community Board 13, said while such solicitation was most prevalent in the ’70s, “it continues to be a problem in terms of the mailings and the postings.” “It’s really scary for some people,” he

Letters continued from previous page amongst communities, and government and the people. The Center for Migration Studies has wa r ned t hat pu r su i ng i m m ig r at ion enforcement on this large scale would directly impact 6.6 million U.S.-born citizens, including 5.7 million of whom are children living with someone who is undocumented, and at least 3.3 million mixed-status households (those with undocumented and citizen residents). Moreover, deporting undocumented residents would devastate millions of U.S. citizen children, bringing in its wake numerous psychological, developmental and other health issues. The U.S. would carry a financial burden of $118 billion to raise just one-third of the citizen children remaining in the country after their parents were deported, and the median income for mixed-status families would decrease by 50 percent to $20,000. Millions would be pushed into poverty. The gross domestic product would decrease by 1.4 percent in the first year after implementing mass deportation, and over 10 years GDP reduction would total $4.7 trillion, and the entire U.S. housing market would be at risk since many undocumented immigrants live in households with mortgages. Our nation’s labor force includes 7.6 million undocumented residents. Many are heroes and patriots who have fought and died for our country. Moreover, prioritizing children for deportation proceedings means that they will be among the first deported despite their vulnerabilities and need for protection. Your presidency, and “the greatest nations will be defined by how they treat their weakest inhabitants” (Jorge Ramos). Mr. President, it is time to do the right thing. Charity begins at home! Albert Baldeo Richmond Hill

later added. “It really makes you wonder ‘Is this the kind of place I’d like to stay in?’” Within CB 13’s jurisdiction, the issue is present in Bellerose, Floral Park, Glen Oaks and parts of Queens Village. “That’s where I’ve heard most people talk about it,” Hellenbrecht said. He called the cease-and-desist zone, “something that was certainly helpful and it worked.” But for Barbour, it shouldn’t take official action to get realtors off people’s backs. “A piece of mail is not going to be the one thing to make people say ‘Oh I’m going to sell my home,’” he said. “They should respect whether or not a person needs to sell the house.” Barbour and Freiberger accused realtors of specifically targeting longtime residents of the neighborhood. “It’s very disturbing that residents are harassed to sell their homes,” Barbour said. “You need to make sure that there are longtime residents in a community,” Freiberger said. “It can’t just be all new people.” The Chronicle reached out to the Long Island Board of Realtors — which represents agents in Queens — for comment on this story but a spokeswoman did not Q return phone messages and emails.

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Dear Editor: Herr Drumpf — Trump — in his executive order banned all Syrian refugees (mostly Muslim), an entire people of national origin, from resettlement in the United States indefinitely. Although, under international law, countries are not required to resettle refugees within their sovereign territories, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, a treaty of 1976, prohibits discriminatory laws — such as resettlement limits — on the basis of religion or national origin. Further, it is illegal to deport refugees back to an oppressive country. Antonio Guterres, secretary general of the United Nations, said that Trump’s visa bans “violate our basic principles … and these measures should be removed sooner rather than later.” Singer-songwriter and actor Paul Anka’s father was Syrian American and his mother was Canadian Lebanese. Amos Muzyad Yakhoob Kairouz, Danny Thomas, who founded the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, was the son of Lebanese-Arab immigrants as well.

Interestingly, present Germany, formerly a Nazi country, 1933-1945, accepted one million-plus Syrian refugees from the war zone. These bad omens of Trump, as exemplified with his extortion of neighboring Mexico vis-a-vis the building of a Mexican wall, suggest that the only one who should be deported is Trump. Let’s build a time machine and send him back to the Third Reich in 1933. Joseph N. Manago Flushing

The truth on Obamacare Dear Editor: I am amazed that in his Feb 2 letter, “GOP vs. Obamacare,” Robert LaRosa stated that Obamacare causing millions to not be able to get a full-time job or to have their insurance canceled and preONLINE miums rising 22 percent is Miss an editorial or a not a disaster. letter cited by a writer? He missed the Want breaking news point of my from all over Queens? Jan. 26 letter, Find the latest news, “Redo Obampast reports from all acare togethover the borough and er,” that all of more at qchron.com. this was avoidable. He also seems to have forgotten that when I wrote in 2009 that Obamacare would not pay for itself, he wrote a letter ridiculing me for disagreeing with the Congressional Budget Office. He did not realize that the CBO had to use the assumptions they were given, which was all the new taxes would not be repealed/delayed in the future. It turns out I was right. In answer to some of his current points, one proposal to help those with pre-existing conditions (other than Obamacare) would be to have a separate governmentrun pool to cover only those people. The advantage of that is that the added cost would be absorbed by all, not solely by people who obtain individual coverage. No more 22 percent increases! Mr. LaRosa asked why Congress has a better plan than we do. When it was brought up that Congress should have the same plan as those who are on Obamacare, the Democrats rejected it! They knew a bad deal when they saw it. Finally, to support his charge that Republicans did not want to work with President Obama, Mr. LaRosa quoted Mitch McConnell’s 2010 statement “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.” Why did Mr. LaRosa exclude the rest of McConnell’s statement? It was “If he’s willing to meet us halfway on some of his biggest issues, it’s not inappropriate for us to do business with him. I don’t want the president to fail: I want him to change. So, we’ll see. The next move is going to be up to him.” Is misleading readers Mr. Rosa’s version of fake news/alternate facts? It would not be the first time. Mr. LaRosa continues to be the poster boy for bad fact checking. Lenny Rodin Forest Hills

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The push for familial DNA will continue Advocates to testify at Friday hearing; Three Queens sens. voice opposition by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

Familial DNA testing is a term not a lot of people in Queens probably heard before last Thanksgiving. That changed late November when Phil Vetrano and Queens District Attorney Richard Brown began pushing for it to be used in New York, as it is in 10 other states. Their reasoning at the time was that it could be used to find Karina Vetrano’s killer. Although a suspect for that crime is now in custody, advocates for the investigative tool will not rest in their quest to make New York the tenth state to authorize it. That could allow the authorities to find criminal suspects if they have a close relative whose DNA is already on file. “It will no doubt capture violent criminals in New York State,” state Sen. Phil Boyle (R-Suffolk), who sponsored legislation in the higher chamber to bring the test to the Empire State, said in an interview Mond ay. “It’s com mon-sen se legislation.” Boyle’s bill, which would mandate

the state to allow the method, passed the Senate 47-10 Monday afternoon. His bill, carried in the lower chamber by Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway Park), may become unnecessary if the state Commission on Forensic Science votes to authorize its use. The commission has a special hearing on the test Feb. 10. But in a press conference pushing for familial DNA held on the sixmonth anniversary of Karina Vetrano’s death, two days before her alleged killer was arrested, Boyle said he’s read comments by the commission’s members and believes at least one will object to it and delay a vote on the practice. He declined to say which member that is. The method is a type of DNA screening in which investigators take a strand from a crime scene and look for a match in criminal databases to determine if it matches that of anyone’s close male relative — the search tests the Y chromosome, passed down by the father. Investigators can use that information to interview more people and create a lead

to the actual perpetrator. It’s used in nine states, as well as the United Kingdom and France. An Assembly spokeswoman did not return inquiries on when, if at all, the body will take a vote on Pheffer Amato’s bill. In a Monday statement, the assemblywoman said the arrest of Chanel Lewis — Vetrano’s alleged killer — does not negate the need for the investigative method. “Though there is nothing bigger for the family than seeing justice for the tragedy that befell their daughter, Phil and Cathie, along with my office and Senator Addabbo’s, have a vitally important mission we intend to see through,” she said. “The least we can do to honor them all is to use every tool already at our disposal, so the process of justice can move swiftly and fairly from here on out.” Boyle’s bill was co-sponsored by state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) and state Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside), in addition to Republican senators from across the state. “I think it’s long overdue,” Addabbo said Tuesday. “Don’t forget, while we’re talking about this there are

Two days before Chanel Lewis was arrested for the murder of his daughter, Phil Vetrano, center, pushed for the state to approve familial DNA testing. At the time, he and others believed it could have been the key to cracking PHOTO BY ANTHONY O’REILLY the case. murderers and rapists still out there.” He said lawmakers owe it to investigators and grieving families to authorize the test. “For the sake of law enforcement, for the sake of investigators, for the sake of family members who are grieving, how, how can we look them in the eye and say we are not going to

Scholarship in Vetrano’s honor? More than $290,000 raised on GoFundMe page by Anthony O’Reilly

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With police having arrested a suspect in connection with Karina Vetrano’s murder, her father is now looking for ways to use more than $290,000 raised via GoFundMe to honor his daughter’s memory. “Now we can use all this money that you very generous people have donated,” Phil Vetrano said in a post on the fundraiser’s page. “I mentioned in the beginning that we would use this money for charities that Karina would want.” The money was originally raised to entice someone with information on the crime to come forward. Phil Vetrano is now looking for input on how it should be spent, since nobody came forward with any vital information. “You all donated and you should have a say,” he said. Some options are St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals — Phil Vetrano said those are charities Karina “would want” the money to go to. Another option, he said, would be creating a scholarship for students attending Archbishop Molloy High School, where he and his daughter graduated from — him in 1974 and her in 2004. Starting Aug. 9, the GoFundMe page

Phil Vetrano is now looking to use close to $300,000 raised online to honor his slain daughter. He posted on GoFundMe that it might be used to establish a scholarship at Archbishop Molloy FILE PHOTO High School, the alma mater of the father and daughter. received thousands of donations in an effort to get information on the case. It grew to $100,000 in hours and doubled that figure a few days later. At press time, there was $290,665 donated by 4,553 people in the six months since

it went live. People have been donating even after the arrest of Chanel Lewis, Karina’s alleged killer. “I’m glad there is justice for Karina. Great work by the NYPD and everyone who Q helped,” donor Robert Tomo said.

do familial DNA?” the senator asked during the Feb. 2 press conference. Phil Vetrano did not return a request for comment for this story but said in a December interview with the Chronicle, “Even if my daughter’s killer is caught this afternoon, I’m going to continue fighting for this. continued on page 19

Shooting hoax hits PS 146 A student at PS 146 in Howard Beach was suspended for an unknown period of time after he “joked” last Thursday about “shooting up” the school, police sources said. “It was a hoax,” an NYPD spokesman told the Chornicle. Nobody at the 98-01 159 Ave. school was injured, or in any danger, and the building was never on lockdown, the police said. The school, whose motto is “Respect for All,” serves grades K-8. The student — whose name was not released because he’s a minor — went on the social media app Snapchat and made the threat early Feb. 2. State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) got his first complaint from a parent at the school just after 8 a.m. and received several others shortly after. “In this day and age you can’t take something like that lightly,” he said. His office was in contact with the school and cops during the school day Thursday. The senator added the student was previously disciplined after he hacked into a computer at the school. The student was not criminally Q charged, according to cops. — Anthony O’Reilly

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Immigration advocates on Friday organized a Muslim prayer vigil outside Terminal 4 at Kennedy Airport. Speakers and supporters called on the Trump administration to reverse its recent ban on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim nations.

Members of the MinKwon Center for Community Action, a Flushing advocacy group for KoreanAmerican residents, were out in force last Friday to protest President Trump’s travel ban. The PHOTOS BY MICHAEL GANNON executive order has been stayed by a federal judge.

Prayer vigil, rally for immigrants at JFK Federal judge in Seattle last Friday banned enforcement of Trump order by Michael Gannon Editor

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Hours after hundreds of people gathered outside Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Friday for a Muslim prayer service and protest, a federal judge in Seattle issued a temporary restraining order to bar federal employees from enforcing President Trump’s executive order banning travel to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries. The rally was organized by the New York Interfaith Coalition, exactly one week after the president issued his executive order, which is now before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Mu z na A nsar, im mig ration policy manager for the NYIC, served as the moderator for the rally. She, like other speakers accused Trump of a policy of immigrant discrimination “in the guise of national security. “Immigrants do not threaten the fabric

of society,” she said. “They strengthen it.” Imam Al-Hajj Tali ’Abdur-Rashid of the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood led about 200 faithful in the Jummah, or Friday prayer. He said all major religions command their followers to strive for justice. “It is a com mon aspi rat ion for a beloved community,” he said, invoking the Rev. Martin Luther King. But he also said that history, going back to the days of the prophet Mohammed in the eighth cent ur y, has been fraught with those who will try and push back at such attempts. He accused Trump and his close followers of doing just that when they talked during the presidential campaign about “taking back America.” “What they meant was taking it backwards,” he said, to the days before the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts of the 1960s. “America does not need to be made great again,” he said. “America is a work

Some relief in Howard Beach continued from page 6 In the immediate days after Vetrano’s murder, several visited investigators with food, water and words of encouragement — in addition to offering any tips that might be able to solve the crime. Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said during a press conference at the 106th Precinct Sunday that Howard Beach residents were “nothing but supportive in our efforts and we will never forget that.” Joann Ariola, president of the Howard Beach-Lindenwood Civic Association, thanked Boyce for that shoutout.

“The Howard Beach community did come together for each other and the Police Department,” Ariola said. “We thank him for recognizing that.” Following the murder, police sent additional resources into the community to provide residents with a sense of safety. That will continue, as six additional officers have been allocated for the 106th Precinct for the day and nighttime tours. While Ariola is happy about the additional NYPD support, she said U.S. Park Police must better patrol Spring Creek Park to avoid any future tragedies.

in progress, still developing into a perfection of its greatness.” Speakers included Suzanne Loebl, a 91-year-old Holocaust su r vivor f rom Hanover, Germany whose family fled to Belgium ahead of the Nazis. “I was 8 years old when Hitler came to power,” she said. “I was 12 when we fled to Belgium; 15 when Germany invaded Belgium, and 17 when I went into hiding. I was 21 when I came to America ... I feel for the Syrian immigrants I see — they looked just like us, carrying all of their belongings with them.” She said her family tried to get into France before the outbreak of the war but were not welcome. “At that time France was the promised land,” she said. “They wouldn’t let us in. They said we didn’t have the right papers ...” “Four families hid us from the Gestapo,” she said. “I did not know them. They were just doing it because it was right.” Among those coming out in support “There is not enough federal protection up,” she said. The civic is against a plan to further open the park to the public as the state Department of Environmental Conservation looks to clean parts of the marsh. “We are against it being used by individuals because there’s a safety issue,” she said. “Unless you can properly police the area, it has to be closed down.” The civic president, speaking on the investigation, also sided with the cops’ findings. “DNA does not lie,” she said. “It was a match to Chanel Lewis. That is irrefutable.” Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) issued a statement on the case Sunday saying, “With the arrest of Chanel Lewis, a suspect in

were members of the MinKwon Center for Community Action, a Flushing-based advocacy group for Korean-American residents. Sussan Lee, an immigration attorney with the organization, said it was important to show solidarity in the wake of President Trump’s order. “There was a time in this countr y when Asians were singled out because they were considered to be a threat,” she said, referring to the forced internment of more than 100,000 U.S. residents of Japanese heritage during World War II. She also believes Trump’s order, aside from being wrong, also may be illegal. “They have received injunctions from several [federal] district courts, but they are continuing to enforce it,” Lee said. Inside Terminal 4, a handful of people held signs in multiple languages directing arriving passengers in need to people nearby offering free legal service to those Q with immigration questions. custody in connection with the gruesome murder of Karina Vetrano, hopefully the Vetrano family can begin to have closure and the entire community can breath a sigh of relief. I commend the NYPD officers who worked the case and the office of the Queens District Attorney for their tireless efforts identifying and arresting this individual. Justice will be served.” Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway Park) said in a statement, “We are glad to hear that the Vetrano family may finally get some semblance of justice. It’s been six long months, but the NYPD worked incredibly hard and should be commended for the caring, relentless and creative pursuit that Q led them to arrest a suspect.”

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Baggage claim: City, Albany fight over fee Senate, Assembly seek to delay a 5¢ surcharge on paper and plastic by Michael Gannon Editor

In a 36-hour period beginning last Friday, the state Senate and Assembly agreed on bills that would delay implementation of the 5-cent New York City grocery bag fee until at least next January; with green groups and politicians countering at a rally on the steps of City Hall slamming Albany’s actions on both environmental and home-rule grounds. And where it stops before Feb. 15, perhaps only Gov. Cuomo knows. The new companion bills are S.4158, whose co-sponsors include Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside); and A.4883, with four co-sponsors from Queens, including Vivian Cook (D-Jamaica), Mike Miller (D-Woodhaven), Michael Simanowitz (D-Flushing) and David Weprin (D-Fresh Meadows). If there is agreement in Albany on a final measure, the City Council would have to pass a new surcharge bill after the start of a new session in January 2018, as the Council elections in November will usher in some new members and new leadership with Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito (D-Manhattan, Bronx) leaving office because of term limits. The law, signed by Mayor de Blasio last July, was originally supposed to go into effect last October, but the city decided to put it off until this month in an effort to find some common ground with the state. It is not known whether Cuomo will sign the nullification into law. “As of now we are examining the bills,” a Cuomo spokeswoman told the Chronicle on Monday morning. Marcia Bystryn, president of the New York League of Conservation Voters, slammed the legislative proposal within an hour of its being reported Friday evening. She was not letting up on Sunday morning, calling on Cuomo to keep his veto pen at the ready at the City Hall rally. “Albany is aiming for yet another delay, this time until after a new City Council is seated in 2018,” she said in a statement issued by the NYLCV. “The Legislature’s new bill prevents this Council from amending or reauthorizing their own law, clearly hoping that the next Council will not have the political will to stand up to Albany’s bullying.” She said the move is bad for the environment and the city’s budget, citing the estimated $12 million per year needed to truck up to 10 billion bags to landfills, as well as those littering streets. She also said it singles out New York City. Suffolk County has a law that will go into effect next January, while the City of Long Beach, LI, has enacted a similar measure. But the bills being debated at the Capitol specifically targets municipalities of 1 million people or more — with New York City being the only place in the state coming under that designation.

Councilman Donovan Richards, center, spoke out on the steps of City Hall Sunday morning to defend the city’s planned 5-cent fee on most paper or plastic grocery bags. The measure, which was delayed once for four months, is under attack in Albany. PHOTO COURTESY JORDAN LEVINE /NYCLV

The office of Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx) told the Chronicle two weeks ago members were attempting to work out concerns over language with the Council. Jordan Christensen, a program coordinator with Citizens Campaign for the Environment, said Monday her group particularly objects to Albany changing tack from a pre-emptive measure to what amounts to a complete moratorium. Bystryn on Friday said the reason for the initial delay was to avoid just the situation that may be developing the next six days. “The State Legislature has had seven months to work on changes and now, when New York City has purchased 400,000 reusable bags and is putting the final touches on implementation, the Senate and Assembly are moving to change the goal post again in the 11th hour,” she said. Councilmen Brad Lander (D-Brooklyn), the primary spon-

Chanel Lewis faces life in prison continued from page 6 his half-sister Theresa Forbes told The New York Times, “He loves girls. He has nieces, sisters, his mom.” Lewis attended Martin De Porres High School in Far Rockaway, which according to its website tends to children who “struggle with internal and external factors beyond their control that have contributed to a failure to thrive in school.” He did not address reporters on his way out of the 107th Precinct, the headquarters for Patrol Borough Queens South, Sunday afternoon.

Boyce has declined to comment on the suspect’s mental condition. Lewis is being represented by attorneys with Legal Aid Society, which urged everyone to assume he’s innocent until proven guilty. “We have a full defense team working on this case, including our DNA unit dedicated to scrutinizing the evidence collected by local authorities,” the group said in a statement. “We are spending this critical time getting to know our client and his family, and reviewing all the facts associated with this case. We caution everyone

sor of the law, and Donovan Richards (D-Laurelton), a strong proponent, both spoke at Sunday’s rally. Richards said the stakes are far higher than just another Albany-City Hall spitting match. “With the prospect of more and more executive orders stripping America of its environmental protections, New York must be the centerpiece of combating climate change for the next four years,” Richards said. “Blocking the bag fee is a step in the wrong direction for our city and state, especially with solid evidence from other municipalities showing that this policy truly will work to decrease our dependence on plastic bags.” He said the Rockaways, Southern Brooklyn and Staten Island suffered the severe impacts of bad weather not too long ago with Superstorm Sandy, making it more important that Q people react on environmental issues quickly.

— including the media — not to rush to immediate judgment. As our judicial system affords, Mr. Lewis is entitled to fairness and due process.” When it comes to DNA evidence, Boyce is confident they’ve got the right guy. “There is molecular DNA, there is mitochondrial DNA — strong profiles, we have a strong profile on him,” the chief said when asked about it by a reporter at an unrelated press conference Monday. “In your statement that it is not always accurate, it is accurate when it comes to that. OK. And that’s what we have.” He later added, “We only have one DNA profile from that case and it’s him. So yes, we have a singular attack and I’d say we

have detail and incriminating statements.” Hundreds of DNA strands were tested during the investigation and Lewis’ was the only one that came back with a match, according to cops. Lewis was arraigned on the murder charge at Queens County Supreme Court with his family and the Vetranos watching. Cathie Vetrano, Karina’s mother, yelled at his family in court saying, “Now your nightmare begins.” Phil Vet rano said in a post on a GoFundMe page dedicated to his daughter’s memory, “As you all know by now we have caught this piece of s--t. As we expected he is a loner loser. He will pay Q for this crime.”

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Five CMs earn top grades from NYLCV Queens delegation gets second-lowest score among all five boros by Michael Gannon

expanding benchmarking to electric vehicle charging.” According to the group, the grades are comFive members of the Queens delegation to the City Council last week received perfect piled in consultation with more than 30 envigrades on the annual Environmental Score- ronmental, public health, transportation, parks card published by the New York League of and environmental justice organizations. Some selections were made as a reward for Conservation Voters. Costa Constantinides (D-Astoria), Eliza- positive votes on significant environmental beth Crowley (D-Glendale), Danny Dromm legislation of the previous year. The remainder of their priority (D-Jackson Heights), bills require Council Donovan Richards members to take a (D -Lau relton) and public position on a Jimmy Van Bramer he good news is — number of NYLCV (D-Sunnyside) all taldespite a few stragglers priorities by co-sponlied marks of 100 persoring bills judged to cent based on their — we have strong allies be good policy with a sponsorship of or suprealistic chance of port for environmenin the City Council.” becoming law the tally friendly legislanext year. tion and projects. — Marcia Bystryn, president, New York Queens as a bor“Given the obvious League of Conservation Voters ou g h ave r a ge d a challenges for advancscore of 82 percent, ing bold environmental policy at the federal level, cities and states ranking only ahead of Staten Island at 43 perare going to need to step up,” Marcia Bystryn, cent. Manhattan members averaged scores of president of the NYLCV, said in the 89 percent. Among the low scorers from the World’s announcement. “The good news is — despite a few stragglers — we have strong allies in Borough were Daneek Miller (D-St. Albans) the City Council who have advanced a num- at 60 percent; Barry Grodenchik (D-Oakland ber of significant pieces of legislation in the Gardens), serving his first term, at 40; and past year from the Carryout Bag Bill to Ruben Wills (D-Jamaica) at 31 percent. Editor

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City Council members receiving perfect grades from the New York League of Conservation Voters last week include, clockwise from left, Costa Constantinides, Elizabeth Crowley, Danny Dromm, FILE PHOTOS Jimmy Van Bramer and Donovan Richards. Scores for the rest of the Queens contingent include Julissa Ferreras-Copeland (D-East Elmhurst) and Peter Koo (D-Flushing) with 93 percent; Karen Koslowitz (D-Forest Hills) and Paul Vallone (D-Bayside) at 87; plus Rory Lancman (D-Fresh Meadows) and Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) at 80 percent. Constantinides, Crowley, Richards and Van Bramer all have been rated at 100 percent since 2014. Priority issues taken into account in this year’s scorecard included the grocery bag bill [see related story in this edition], which Grodenchik, Koslowitz, Lancman and Ulrich opposed. Wills was unable to vote because of

a medical absence. All but Ulrich supported legislation requiring the use of cleaner heating oil, while Wills, Miller and Grodenchik received unsatisfactory grades on controlling water pollution. All Council members from Queens were praised for their support of green building legislation, with Richards and Constantinides singled out. Constantinides was lauded for his bills on clean heating oil and preventing the release of sewage into waterways; while Richards was singled out for his bill to establish a solar ombudsman within the city’s Department of Buildings. The full report is available online at Q nylcv.org.

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New York City food carts are the subject of new legislation calling for Health Department letter grades to be displayed on their carts, just like restaurants. The bill, introduced by Karen Koslowitz (D-Forest Hills) on Feb. 1, would require mobile food vendors to post their given grade, either A, B or C, received for sanitary inspections. According to Koslowitz, the purpose of this legislation is to protect consumers and to instill confidence in the public to trust what they are eating. “It allows people to be aware that when they’re having lunch they can see where the cart is health-wise and have sanitary conditions,” Koslowitz said in an interview last Thursday. Along with Koslowitz, Queens Councilmembers Barry Grodenchik (D-Oakland Gardens) and Rory Lancman (D-Fresh Meadows) believe this is a necessary bill and a good opportunity for carts to increase business. “I think that the most important thing is to uncover any problems that might exist, it’s not to hurt anybody,” Grodenchik said in an interview last Thursday. “That the people consuming the food are safe, at least, and if they are going to sell something they all need to undergo food training. We want people to be safe.”

A halal food cart in Jamaica. The Health Department will assess the food carts unannounced to ensure that sanitary conditions are always upheld. If a cart receives a grade lower than an A, it can later receive an A by simply keeping the cart clean and improving all sanitary aspects of it. The goal is not to put food vendors out of business, according to Lancman, but to make sure food is being handled correctly. “If anyone is cutting corners financially

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then a low grade will hurt them, but those conscientious [vendors] putting out safe food will benefit,” Lancman said in a Monday interview. “I think it would give people more confidence and if you know something’s been inspected more people are going to eat there,” Grodenchik added. According to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, as of July 2011, 69 percent of restaurants had A grades. When initially receiving grades, 57 percent

of restaurants got As on the first inspection. If a restaurant does not receive an A, the Health Department does not post a lower grade quite yet. After one month inspectors return to assess again, in hopes the restaurant is then up to par to be given an A. The Street Vendor Project, part of the Urban Justice Center, posted on its Facebook page its support of the bill: “We have long supported letter grading for food carts. Right now, vendors get all the bad (frequent health inspections, heavy fines) with none of the good (the chance to put up an A grade for the world to see). Thanks to Council Member Koslowitz for putting forth this pro-vendor legislation!” “I eat street food everyday. That A, B, C is really important,” Sean Basinski, director of the Street Vendor Project, said. “We still hear from a lot of people who’d never dream of eating from off the street. We’re changing a lot of people’s minds.” Basinski’s main concern is the treatment of food carts by the city. “We want them to be treated well, especially since the vast majority of restaurants are getting As.” Koslowitz said she has spoken to multiple people about the bill and is happy with their reactions saying, “I think it would bring more business. People said to me yesterday, ‘That’s great, I love it. Now I can eat from a cart withQ out worrying.’”

C M SQ page 19 Y K between a forensic DNA sample and a DNA profile held in a databank,” the civil rights group said. “By definition, then, these techniques introduce imprecision, and the potential for error, in the analysis of forensic DNA and in the criminal investigation based upon this analysis error.” David Loftis, an attorney in Legal Aid’s post-conviction and forensic litigation units, said during an interview it also goes beyond the purpose of DNA databanks. “We’re going to use it for a different population,” Loftis said. “That population is going to be folks who are related to someone who’s committed a crime.” He also called it “concerning” that a scien-

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A 28-year-old Ozone Park man was killed Saturday, Feb. 4 in a bizarre hitand-run accident on the Grand Central Parkway. According to police reports, Hassan Jones was involved in an accident and assault that left him laying on the parkway. The NYPD’s Highway District’s Collision Investigation Squad found that Jones was the passenger in a car that got into a minor accident traveling eastbound on the Grand Central Parkway near 49th Avenue in Corona. Jones, along with the drivers of both cars, got into a fight, which resulted in Jones being assaulted and laying on the road. A third vehicle, a white Acura operated by a 19-year-old-male, struck Jones as he lay on the road. On arrival around 4:20 a.m., EMS pronounced Jones deceased at the scene. The 19-year-old, Starlyn-Antonio Colon-Burgos of LeFrak City, abandoned his vehicle and fled on foot, police said. They said Colon-Burgos subsequently was arrested and charged with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death. The operators of the initial two vehicles had not been found by press time. The investigation by the NYPD’s Collision Q Investigation Squad is still ongoing.

continued from page 12 This has to be passed, this has to get done.” He and his wife, Cathie, joined Boyle, Pheffer Amato, Addabbo and other lawmakers at the Feb. 2 press conference urging the state’s approval of the test. “Her last moment alive was fighting this evil savage,” Cathie Vetrano said, noting Karina Vetrano reportedly scratched at and attempted to push her attacker off her. “We cannot let her efforts go in vain.” But familial DNA’s potential use in New York is not without its detractors. The New York Civil Liberties Union and the Legal Aid Society plan on testifying at the forensic science commission’s hearing and opposing its use. Most opponents of the screening say it violates protections guaranteed by the Constitution against unlawful searches and has a disparate impact on minority communities. “Because the database disproportionately holds the genetic profiles of people of color, the suspects generated will be disproportionately people of color,” Legal Aid said in comments submitted to the commission, which were provided to the Chronicle. “Therefore, when there are false positives, when the family members of convicted offenders are wrongly targeted, those innocent targets of police action will be disproportionately people of color.” NYCLU, in its comments, questioned the science behind the test. “Familial DNA searching and partial match DNA analysis use fewer genetic markers than are commonly used to determine a match

to Brown during a legislative breakfast two weeks ago, he said. Peralta said in an emailed statement Tuesday, “Familial DNA is intrusive, infringing upon one’s civil rights and raising many questions regarding privacy matters, as well as concerns regarding fair criminal procedure. As a progressive, I voted against this bill, and several of my Queens colleagues voted the same way.” A spokeswoman for Gianaris did not respond to requests for comment on why the senator cast a nay vote. During the press conference, Phil Vetrano had a message for those against familial DNA. “I call them losers,” he said, later calling its opponents “unintelligent.” “This is going to go our way,” he later Q added.

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tific commission is being asked to answer questions on social issues. Addabbo, who said he understood those concerns, remained confident that those issues will be worked out as the commission establishes parameters on how the test will be carried out in the state — should it be approved. But some of his colleagues are not so sure. Three state senators in Queens voted against the Senate bill — state Sens. Michael Gianaris (D-Astoria), Jose Peralta (D-East Elmhurst) and Leroy Comrie (D-St. Albans). Comrie’s concerns echoed those of the NYCLU and Legal Aid — that it’s unconstitutional and mostly impacts minorities. “I think we need to work out a lot of the problems with it first,” he said in a Tuesday interview. The senator expressed his problems with it

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Q. Village GOP hosts columnist Mac Donald Author of ‘The War on Cops’ pulls no punches with mayor, Obama by Michael Gannon Editor

Author Heather Mac Donald, a widely read commentator on conservative issues — particularly police and policing — was the guest speaker Feb. 2 at the monthly meeting of the Queens Village Republican Club. Mac Donald also signed copies of her newest book, “The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe.” Mac Donald, who has her share of critics, said crime statistics in some major cities, particularly in regard to attacks on police officers, can be largely attributed to what she characterized as anti-cop rhetoric embraced by former President Barack Obama, Mayor de Blasio and others. Phil Orenstein, president of the club, said members first reached out to Mac Donald through her publisher and the Manhattan Institute. It took about three months to find a mutually agreeable date. Mac Donald said just a few hours before the ambush last summer that killed five police officers and wounded nine other people in Dallas, Obama quoted inaccurate statistics purportedly identifying the likelihood for a black male to be killed by a police officer in the United States. The gunman, Micah Johnson, was a veteran

Author Heather Mac Donald has her share of critics for her writing on police and policing in America, but she was well received at a recent meeting of the Queens Village RepubliPHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON can Club. who had expressed anger over the shooting deaths of two black men by police in the previous week. Johnson was killed hours later when police ended a standoff with a bomb delivered by a robot.

Mac Donald said there are obvious cases in which officers have been justifiably charged with crimes, such as Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke now facing a murder charge for shooting Laquan McDonald 16 times in 2014; and Officer Michael Slager in South Carolina, whose murder trial last year ended in a mistrial after the jury could not reach a verdict, despite a video depicting him shooting a fleeing Walter Scott in the back in 2015. She also was critical of Obama and others for being too quick to embrace the “Hands up, don’t shoot” story in the 2014 death of 18-yearold Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. In that case, Brown, who matched the description of a suspect in a nearby robbery, was shot to death. Some witnesses initially told investigators that Brown, who was unarmed at the time, had surrendered. Subsequent probes by the local district attorney and Justice Department cleared the officer. While Mac Donald may not have coined “the Ferguson Effect,” it did enter the lexicon when she included it in one of her columns. The phrase is used — and disputed — for the idea that police officers in some municipalities have pulled back from all but 911-level policing for fear that they will wind up on a cell phone video. She said even Chicago Mayor Rham Emanual, a former official in both the Clinton and

Obama administrations, recently accused his police epartment of “going fetal” on all but the most serious crimes in some neighborhoods. Taking questions from the audience, Mac Donald said she is not, however, as pessimistic as some others when it comes to keeping New York City safe. “Two words: Rudy Giuliani,” she said. Mac Donald said Giuliani’s embrace of CompStat, broken windows policing and other measures established a bar for safety and public order that citizens now know they can demand from their public officials. “Back in early 2015, crime and shootings [in New York City] were up,” she said. “De Blasio and [NYPD Commissioner Bill] Bratton were sweating bullets; de Blasio knew he couldn’t get re-elected.” Bratton, with the mayor’s blessing, implemented a normal summer anti-crime strategy a month early. “De Blasio had to rein in his anti-cop instincts, which are considerable,” Mac Donald asserted “[Bratton] flooded the troubled areas with cops, and solved the problem by sheer command presence.” She concluded by telling a decidedly proPresident Trump crowd she does not think he shares his predecessor’s views on the subject. “People want assertive and respectful policQ ing,” she said.

Towing operation frees up parking Cops target Flushing Avenue auto body shops and take 14 vehicles by Christopher Barca

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The auto repair shops along Flushing Avenue near 60th Street in Maspeth have been a thorn in the side of the 104th Precinct for years, and 2017 isn’t starting off any different. The Ridgewood-based command towed 11 derelict cars and three tow trucks from the area last Thursday, according to Det. Thomas Bell, also issuing 15 summonses for illegal parking and vehicles not being registered. One of the area’s biggest offenders, American Collison, saw one of its tow trucks given a boot by police. “We go over there every now and then to keep them honest,” Bell said Wednesday of the shops. Instead of parking vehicles under repair on the premises, American Collision sometimes leaves them on Flushing Avenue, taking up precious parking spaces. The shop was the subject of a large towing operation in June 2015, with the precinct hauling away 15 vehicles, an unlicensed

tow truck and a stretch limousine. Bell said ever since then, the precinct has received numerous complaints from area residents about illegal parking — “many” of which are in regards to American Collison. “We started to receive quite a few complaints from the community and the local elected officials,” he said. “We warned them and told them repeatedly we’re not just going to summons the cars, we’re going to tow them.” In 2015, Deputy Inspector Mark Wachter, commanding officer of the 104th Precinct, told the Chronicle that his cops would be keeping a close eye on the company. Bell said they’ve been doing so ever since. “That’s part of our job. We have to go back,” he said. “We hear the complaints and we respond. “We do talk to them,” he continued, “and let them know they have too many cars on the street or unregistered, smashed up cars just sitting there.” He noted the towing operations normally take place at night to avoid employees quickly moving cars as police arrive. Bell also said

The 104th Precinct tows away a derelict vehicle from the intersection of Flushing Avenue and 60th Street in Maspeth last Thursday. The squad received numerous community complaints about auto body shops taking up neighborhood TWITTER PHOTO / 104TH PRECINCT parking spaces. the companies up and down Flushing Avenue oftentimes say the derelict cars on the street belong to their nearby competitors. “Sometimes when you go to one, they say those aren’t their vehicles, that they belong to the company down the street,” he said. “Sometimes they acknowledge [their cars] and sometimes they come up with

all kinds of excuses.” Community Board 5 District Manager Gary Giordano said in a Wednesday interview that the advisory panel had not received any complaints recently. However, it has been a subject of calls from area residents to the office over the past few years. “We have gotten a bunch, but not

recently,” Giordano said. “Whatever’s been going on there has been going on for a very long time. From what I know, it’s been happening for years now.” When reached by phone on Wednesday, an American Collision employee named Tony said the precinct only towed one of its vehicles before quickly ending the call. Q

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Gotti grandson pleads guilty to selling drugs Mob namesake to forfeit $259,996 John Gotti, 23, the grandson of late mob boss John Gotti, has pleaded guilty to selling oxycodone in Howard Beach and Ozone Park, accepting eight years in prison and forfeiting $259,996 in seized drug proceeds, according to Queens District Attorney Richard Brown. Gotti pleaded guilty Wednesday to second-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance and conspiracy to commit an A felony from charges stemming from his Aug. 4, 2016. Gotti also pleaded guilty to thirddegree criminal possession of a controlled substance from his June 30, 2016 arrest. He is expected to be sentenced to eight years in prison and five years’ postrelease supervision, in addition to four concurrent years in prison and two years’ post-release supervision stemming from his June arrest on March 2. He is being held in jail in lieu of $2 million bail. Gotti primarily sold oxycodone pills for between $21 to $30 per pill and dealt

more than 4,200 pills per month. Un d e r c ove r of f ic e r s p u r ch a s e d $46,080 worth of oxycodone from Gotti during 11 undercover buys, Brown said in a statement between last April and last July. Out of the 11 undercover buys, 10 were recorded on both video and audio. From his June 30 arrest in Howard Beach, police recovered a Gucci bag containing more than 200 oxycodone pills. The bag also contained a bottle of testosterone (steroids) and an assortment of Xanax, methadone pills and marijuana from the vehicle. Police also recovered $5,600 in cash from the vehicle and $2,271 in cash from Gotti’s pants pocket. On Aug. 4, a search warrant was executed and police found approximately 480 oxycodone pills and $52,000 in Gotti’s bedroom, at the Gotti family home on 85th Street. Police also seized $200,000 and a ledger that contained Gotti’s drug records from a safe in an associate’s apartment. Q

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Guiding future reporters Queens Chronicle Associate Editor Anthony O’Reilly, seen here, visited St. Mary Gate of Heaven Catholic Academy to talk about his work as a reporter at the school’s annual career day last Friday. O’Reilly, seen here giving students a glimpse of the Chronicle’s website, spoke about how he got into the industry, the ups

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Ancient Greek pottery PS 63Q art instructor Ms. Maria Panotopoulou recently visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art with her fifth grade students. While at the museum, the students examined elements of various styles of art. Different techniques such as drawing, collage, papermache, sculpting and painting were used to depict Ancient Greece. Students used recycled materials such as plastic cups and cardboard to create Ancient Greek pots. Many of the pieces of work made by the fifth-graders are now on display in the school’s lobby.

The message behind PS 63 College Awareness Day is simple: college is attainable! With hard work and perseverance, that is. On Wednesday, Jan. 11, students participated in an event to strengthen their college readiness and to encourage them that college is possible for anyone. To highlight the importance of learning about college options, students and teachers wore college apparel, and classroom doors were decorated with college memorabilia from across the nation. Students also participated in classroom discussions relating to colleges, majors and campus life, and also had the chance to participate in a question-and-answer session with teachers.

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Despite it being just over one month into the year, 2017 crime rates have dropped compared to those from 2016, allowing multiple categories to reach historic lows for January, according to statistics released by the NYPD on Monday. There were 7,992 “index crimes” reported compared to 8,011 in 2016, a reduction of 19 crimes. “We’ve begun this year building on the historic successes of last year by continuing to reduce violent crime through the proven strategies of precision and neighborhood policing,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio. Rates of murders, robberies, felonious assaults and shooting incidents all dropped, while rape and grand larcenies went up and burglaries remained the same. Murders dropped 9.1 percent, going from 22 to 20 cases. Robberies dropped 7.5 percent by 100 crimes, felonious assaults dropped 5.4 percent by 91 crimes and shooting incidents dropped 1.7 percent by one shooting, 59 to 58. Rape, however, went up 8.9 percent from 101 to 110 and grand larcenies went up 4.7 percent from 470 to 480. The number of burglaries remained the same at 1,081.

“Amidst the encouraging signs we’re seeing to start 2017, we’re also investing more to keep our officers safe on the beat and revamping training facilities to ensure our officers have the training to meet the complex challenges they face every day,” the mayor said. “Equipped with the tools and training they need to do their jobs effectively, and provided the protection they deserve, the NYPD will continue to root out crime and keep New York City the safest big city in the nation.” When it comes to the Transit Bureau, crimes were reduced by three, 212 to 209. In the Housing Bureau there was a drop of eight crimes, from 413 to 405. NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill said, “2017 is picking up where 2016 left off, reducing violence and driving crime down further.” “I am extremely proud the members of the Department are maintaining their focus, ensuring the safety of all New Yorkers while targeting the relative few responsible for the majority of violence,” O’Neill said. “We will continue to strengthen the collective bond between our communities and the police who protect them through neighborhood policing, our crime fighting model that is now in more than half the

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Plans change for Austin St. development The urgent care clinic planned for the vacant lot at 71-53 Austin St. in Forest Hills is now up in the air. According to city records, property owner Austin Prop LLC has reversed course and filed plans with the Department of Buildings on Jan. 24 to construct a seven-story, 21-unit mixed-use building at the site. The filing was first reported by real estate website New York YIMBY. According to the application, 21,000 square feet of space in the 70-foot-tall building’s top six f loors will be set aside for residential use, with 6,000 square feet on the ground floor being used commercially. Austin Prop LLC originally purchased the site from A&H Acquisitions for $8.7 million last February and a banner for ProHealth Urgent Care was quickly placed on the sidewalk shed facing Austin Street. The original plan for the site was a 12,000-square-foot medical facility — half the size of the proposed mixed-use building. It is unclear whether a health Q clinic will occupy the first floor.

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A happy ending for boro bookworms? Former Barnes & Noble employees’ bookstore dream is nearly a reality by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

The idea was fresh in their heads just over a year ago. With Barnes & Noble in Forest Hills closing up shop, why not try to open their own independent bookstore in central Queens? “Honestly when we started the conversation, we all cerebrally figured we’d get here,” said Holly Nikodem in a phone interview last Thursday. “But when you’re actually standing here with the paperwork in front of you, it’s kind of crazy.” After 13 months of fundraising and negotiations, Nikodem said she and former Barnes & Noble colleagues Natalie Noboa of Queens Village and Vina Castillo of Richmond Hill — the founders of the Queens Bookshop Initiative — are just a few months away from hopefully realizing their dream. While “nothing is set in stone just yet,” the Massapequa, LI resident said the trio is in lease negotiations with a landlord to open their own independent bookstore in Kew Gardens sometime in the spring. “If everything goes to plan,” she said, when asked if the group hoped to be open for business come springtime. “Right now it’s all the quiet handwork behind the scenes that we’re doing.”

Queens Bookshop Initiative founders Vina Castillo, left, Natalie Noboa and Holly Nikodem, all former Forest Hills Barnes & Noble employees, are just a few months from realizing their dream PHOTO COURTESY HOLLY NIKODEM of opening up their own independent bookstore in Kew Gardens. Last April, the women looked to the community for financial help, creating a page on the fundraising website Kickstarter. The effort proved incredibly popular, as within two months, they passed their goal of $70,000. Once they closed down the page, Nikodem said, they had raised more than

$72,000 from 831 people. “Subtracting some of the Kickstarter fees, we walked away with about $65,000,” she said. “It was exactly how we hoped it would go.” In the eight months since the fundraiser closed, the group has been busy promoting itself by attending outdoor markets, opening

popup locations in Forest Hills and taking part in a reading series at Queens College, with dates set for three straight Tuesdays beginning Feb. 28. Nikodem said she’s also been hearing frequently from central Queens residents who are eager for updates about the initiative. “A lot of people have been checking back in from time to time,” she said. “We’ve spoken to a lot of banks too.” When it comes to stocking their future store with inventory, the Long Island resident said that’s the next hurdle to jump over, once her group signs its lease. “We have a little bit of inventory right now that we’ve acquired through our markets,” she said. “We still have to purchase the majority of it. “Originally we were going to be a new bookstore only,” she added. “But we’ve been entertaining used books now.” The group looked at about 15 storefronts, with most of them either too small or too expensive for their liking. But Nikodem said she believes they may have finally found that “Goldilocks” space, one where the size and price are just right. All along, we wanted something that was within our price range but also as accessible as possible for as many people as possible,” Q she said. “Hopefully this is it.”

Queens is hopping and popping: Katz Speech to Chamber of Commerce hits on all things LaGuardia transit by Christopher Barca

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The political turmoil across America has countless citizens worried about the future of the nation, but according to Borough President Melinda Katz, Queens might be entering a golden age of opportunity and possibility. “Folks seem to appreciate that we are popping here in Queens,” Katz said at Tuesday’s annual Queens Chamber of Commerce breakfast inside East Elmhurst’s LaGuardia Plaza Hotel. “We are hopping, popping and exploding in the borough of Queens. We’re making amazing strides.” While the borough president touched on a multitude of development projects across Queens, t he p ot e nt ia l at a nd a rou nd LaGuardia Air port, across the street from the ballroom where she spoke, seemed to excite her the most. The facility is in the midst of an extensive, $4 billion overhaul, which includes the razing of Terminal B and replacing it with a single, unified terminal featuring

two state-of-the-art concourses. Another aspect of the project is an air train between the airport and Willets Point, where it would connect with the Long Island Rail Road and the No. 7 train, a plan Katz said she wholly supports. “It has to be a path that is least intrusive to our neighborhoods and to our communities,” she said. “So we’ll be working with the governor’s office as that moves forward. Stay tuned.” She also noted the MTA also plans to eventually operate the LIRR station full-time instead of just for large events in or near Flushing Meadows Corona Park, meaning people from points east and west could easily access LaGuardia via the air train. “That is a good thing for the community,” she said. “It is a good thing for the neighborhood and it is a good thing for folks coming to and from LaGuardia.” While the prospective air train would run to the airport’s east, Katz opined that another future transit project to the west of LaGuardia could also serve as a

shuttle for passengers. “We also have the BQX, which I call the QBX,” she said of the proposed Brooklyn-Queens streetcar that would run just inland f rom the East R iver bet ween Astoria and Sunset Park. “If we’re going to do this, why don’t we look at connecting it to LaGuardia Airport? “I think you would make it a lot more useful to people in Queens,” she added, “and helpful to the folks in Brooklyn.” The proposed 16-mile route’s northern terminus would be near the southern end of Astoria Park, a few miles from LaGuardia. Katz said once city officials finalize the exact route of the BQX, Queens community boards and residents should get another chance to weigh in on the project. The borough president also weighed in on another proposal that has sparked intense debate between park and rail advocates, the QueensWay in Forest Hills and Rego Park. While she didn’t take sides, Katz noted she has issues with

Borough President Melinda Katz gives a speech to the Queens Chamber of Commerce at the group’s annual breakfast on Tuesday. PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA

both the 3.5-mile elevated park plan and the potential reactivation of the Rockaway Beach Rail Line — citing safety with the former

and cost with the latter. “We are looking forward to the expertise that comes out of these Q studies,” she said.

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St. John’s protests the executive order Students rally against travel ban by Isabella Bruni Chronicle Contributor

“No hate, no fear, immigrants are welcome here” was one of the chants heard throughout the St. John’s University campus on Feb. 6 as students walked the majority of the school’s area to protest President Trump’s travel ban. The “March Against the Ban” aimed to show “support for all immigrants, celebrate our cultural diversity, and create a sense of solidarity.” A flier posted all over the campus made clear that the event would be a peaceful demonstration and encouraged those interested to make signs, recite poetry or speak to the crowd. The organizer of the march, junior Morgan Popek, said, “We wanted to make a statement that we do not support the president’s order. I went to [school] administration and they were very helpful, we connected with other organizations and asked them to spread the word.” Despite the ban being temporarily halted, Popek believed it was still important to come out and march. “It has been temporarily halted, but that’s not good enough,” junior Kenneth Shelton, the first student to speak in a series of speeches, said of the executive order outside of the school’s D’Angelo Center.

Trump issued an executive order on Jan. 27 temporarily banning immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries: Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Yemen, Syria, Libya and Somalia. This has sparked a large outcry in protests across the nation, including college campuses. St. John’s was a politically active campus throughout the election season and many students have expressed dissatisfaction with the president of 20 days. This is not the first Trump-driven protest held at the university; it held a “Peace and Love” march in November. “We talk about allies, we talk about solidarity, we talk about diversity, but what does that mean?” Shelton asked the crowd. “I still have faith in America,” said freshman Johnny Wiley in his speech. He explained his fear for his Muslim family and how he is tired of seeing xenophobia in this country. “We must grab the torch and keep running with eyes to the future and fire in our hearts.” “Basically we have to fight against policy and the ban because it’s the right thing to do. We’ve had bigger foes and will be victorious,” Wiley said before his speech. The main speakers of the event were cousins, and heads of the Muslim Student Association, Seid and Ibrahim Mulic.

St. John’s students standing behind a banner that reads “St. John’s Welcomes Immigrants & PHOTO BY GINA PALERMO Refugees,” which many of them signed. The sophomores gave their family’s background on being Bosnian as well as Muslim in Europe and America. Their fathers, who are brothers, were held in a concentration camp in Belgrade, Serbia for being Muslim, and when they escaped in the early 1990s found refuge in America. “If it wasn’t for America’s open arms we wouldn’t be here today,” said Ibrahim. “All these people coming to march for my religion, I thank you.” “In America it’s strong, especially with

Trump,” Ibrahim said of Islamophobia. He admitted that he and his cousin do not experience direct discrimination because of their light skin tone saying, “How can a white man be Muslim?” Seid added, “How can this religion, founded by peace, have anything to do with terrorism?” Following their speech, the Mulic duo led the rest of the students in the actual march, along with chants “No ban, no wall” and Q “This is what democracy looks like.”

‘Everyone is welcome’ at the library: Walcott CEO hosts open house in Jamaica to welcome, celebrate immigrants by Michael Gannon

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Queen Library President and CEO Dennis Walcott asserts that one of the largest immigrant communities in the world has been good for his institution. Last Friday, he sought to return the favor. With others taking to the streets last week to protest President Trump’s since-enjoined executive order barring entry to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim nations, Walcott decided on an action more in-house. The library hosted an open house on Friday, promoting services for immigrants from English Language instruction to education and job preparation, all to show support for immigrants. “We also have the New York Civil Liberties Union, the Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Affairs,” Walcott said. “It’s important, especially with what is happening now at JFK [Airport]. “Everyone is welcome here.” Visitors, including numerous employees from library branches throughout the borough, availed themselves of literature in multiple languages for topics that included knowing one’s legal rights on immigration and citizenship issues. Five of Walcot t’s ow n employees addressed the crowd about how their jobs

Floridalma Melogar, left, a native of Guatemala, chats with Julie Kim of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs at the Queens Library in Jamaica. The library promoted services it has for PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON immigrants, and hosted a number of city and private agencies. with the library stemmed from all the programs that are available despite cultural and language barriers. Nagat Almatare, who emigrated from

Yemen in 2010, gravitated to the library as an English as second language student. She felt so welcome she began to volunteer. “Now I work full-time at the Langston

Hughes Library [in Corona],” she said, pointing out that it is an opportunity that would not generally have been accorded to her or other women in her native country. Attendees also heard from Jagadeesh Shetty, who began his journey in India, as well as Mashyat Tomroy from Bangladesh and Jessica Santos from El Salvador. Ivy Van, originally from China, also first went to deal with the language barrier. “You could not choose where you worked or who you wanted to marry,” Van said of life in her homeland. She came to appreciate even the little things that many U.S. residents take for granted at their libraries. “I was paying for English lessons,” she said. “Then I learned it was free at the library.” Van said her mother, who was present, also has been taking lessons. Van works at the Flushing Librar y, though she announced to the room — and her boss, Walcott — that she does not intend to stay for the very long-term. She used the materials and volunteers to research just what she needs to do to open a coffee shop, learning everything from financing to forming and implementing a business plan. “And I have a name for my coffee shop,” she said. Q “Freedom!”

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RM WARNING by Christopher Barca

Butler and Xavier. So again, for those of you who have only seen brief clips of St. John’s on Sportscenter, you’re missing out on a quietly solid year. And you picked a great time to jump back into the basketball fray, as St. John’s has a relatively favorable final three weeks of the year leading into the Big East Tournament. First on deck is a home contest against cross river rival Seton Hall on Sunday, who’s lost five of its last seven games after starting the season a mightily impressive 12-3. But one of those two wins in that most recent stretch came against St. John’s in Newark, as star forward Angel Delgado single handedly dominated the Red Storm to the tune of 21 points and 20 rebounds. Delgado’s Pirates teammates have been inconsistent for most of the season, leading to some lopsided losses in recent weeks. Consider this game very winnable. After Seton Hall comes a pair of road games against Butler and Marquette, the first matchup being a tasty rematch of December’s 76-73 St. John’s upset victory in Queens.

At 19-5 overall and 11-2 at home, Butler will likely come out on top in round two against the Johnnies, but the Storm should knock off Marquette once again, following their 86-72 win at MSG just nine days ago. A home tilt against the once-dominant Georgetown follows on Feb. 25, another eminently winnable contest for the Johnnies, as the Hoyas are a meager 4-8 in conference play. The final road game of the year will see St. John’s head to Nebraska to take on 20-win Creighton, a true Final Four contender. Chalk that one up as an L. The regular season finale will feature the Providence Friars at the Garden, yet another matchup against a program on a bit of a downswing and a game the Johnnies should win. Add it all up, and you have St. John’s finishing with a record of 15-16 — an impressive seven-win improvement from last year — and a 9-9 record in Big East play, most likely good enough for a first-round bye in the conference tournament. I know Mullin and the rest of SJU nation would have signed up for that in a heartbeat at the start of the year.

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Finally, it’s college basketball season in America. Yeah, the season might be drawing to a close in two months time. But with the Super Bowl officially in the rearview mirror and baseball’s regular season still eight weeks away, this is when many fans start paying much closer attention to the NCAA hoops world. So for those of you who’ve been too focused on the NFL (and celebrating a fifth Super Bowl for my Patriots!) to catch more than just a box score or a highlight, let me fill you in on what you missed and what’s still to come for the St. John’s Red Storm. The Johnnies enter the final stretch of the season in good shape at 11-14, despite a handful of ugly losses, including Sunday’s 92-79 defeat on the road against fourth-ranked Villanova. Freshman guard Shamorie Ponds has lit the world on fire, scoring 17.2 points per game in one of the finest rookie campaigns in all of college basketball. Fellow guard Marcus LoVett, another first year player, has also ripped it up at times, also averaging 17.2 points per contest and often wowing the crowd with his impressive passing and ball handling ability. Bashir Ahmed, Tariq Owens and Malik Ellison have also been solid role players, with all three turning into indispensable pieces for head coach Chris Mullin. All in all, the Johnnies find themselves in a better position entering the season’s final few weeks than many think they’re in. Their 5-7 record in Big East play is good for sixth in the conference, an impressive mark considering they’ve played six games against top teams like Villanova, Creighton,

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Flushing’s finest day

A spectacular Lunar New Year parade hit Flushing last Saturday, honoring the Year of the Rooster. Top left, elected officials and community leaders march together in the massive parade, which drew thousands to the Queens neighborhood. The event featured a dazzling array of floats and costumes, as well as music to celebrate the East Asian holiday. In the third photo from the left in the second row from the top, Andrea Bender

and Jade, 3, of Woodside are waiting for the dragons. In the second row’s far right photo is Brenda Nardella of Flushing, who said, “I love a parade.” Although the Lunar New Year became a holiday in New York City schools in 2015, the date fell on a weekend this year. Along with another one in Manhattan’s Chinatown, Flushing’s parade is widely known as a major display of East Asian heritage.

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Dick Franzese Passed on at age Ninety Six in South Carolina, January 20, 2017

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The ranks of the center’s congregation has significantly dwindled in recent decades.

Born on June 4, 1920 in Brooklyn, NY. His beloved wife Lucille Franzese and his granddaughter Christine Sullivan proceeded him in passing. Survived by his lovely children, Bunny Garone, Richard Franzese and Susan Caldwell. Seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The Maspeth Jewish Center will be transforming into a religious school come September, according to a neighborhood civic. FILE PHOTOS The Maspeth Jewish Center opened in 1926 and at one point, served hundreds of residents. It was an Orthodox congregation according to its bylaws, but all kinds of worshipers were welcome. However, its ranks have dramatically dwindled in recent decades, endangering the center’s existence. Juniper Park Civic Association President Bob Holden told the Chronicle last year that he lives a quarter-mile from the center but rarely sees any activity there. “I can’t tell you the last time I saw people going in and out of there,” Holden said. “I would say for the last 10 years or so, I haven’t seen much activity at all.” Neither the center nor Rabbi Herbert Richtman responded to phone calls from the Q Chronicle by press time.

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Eco-friendly home improvements can save you money If you’re planning to make some home improvements this year, you’re probably thinking about energy-efficient options, knowing they can save you money in the long run. However, many eco-friendly home improvements that help lower your energy bills can also pay off right away in the form of rebates and tax credits. Whether you’re considering installing an energy-efficient tankless water heater, putting solar panels on your house or adding a skylight, chances are you can find a program that will put cash back in your pocket for improving your home’s energy efficiency. Here is where to look for rebates, tax credits and rewards for your energy-efficient home improvements: Qualifying improvements When you think of energy efficiency, insulation and appliances probably come to mind. But a number of improvements can help reduce your home’s energy consumption, and many of them qualify for tax credits, rebates and incentives from a variety of sources. The kind of improvements that can make your home more efficient and get you some cash back typically include: • solar energy systems (such as solar panels) • tankless water heaters; • solar-powered appliances; • energy-efficient windows and doors; • skylights and solar-powered blinds; • wood or wood-pellet stoves; and • home wind turbines. Manufacturer rebates and incentives Makers of energy-efficient products and appliances often offer their own rebates to homeowners for making eco-friendly upgrades. If you’re considering an energy-efficient upgrade such

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Remodeling season is coming up, and with so many projects on the to-do list, which should you tackle first? While some projects provide great long-term return on investment, a few simple ones can provide instant savings. Here are the top home spring projects to help you save money: • Caulk around windows and doors — Stop air leaks around your home by sealing existing gaps and cracks. Use caulking or weather stripping arou nd doors and windows. Installing a door sweep is also a good idea. • I n s u l at e you r home — Use insulation with a high R-value, such as Roxul Comfortbatt, which can be used to top up insulation in your attic. Aim for an R-value of 50 or a depth of 16 inches. For whole-home efficiency, ensure other areas of your home, such as crawl spaces, basement headers, walls and ceilings, are well insulated. It will keep your house cool in the warm weather and take the stress off your airconditioning unit.

• Clean your AC unit — Come spring, it’s not uncommon to find an air-conditioner’s condenser and compressor blocked up with dirt and debris. This can result in greater stress on the unit, causing it to work harder. Giving it a thorough cleaning is easy and can help maximize your AC unit’s service life while minimizing your energy bill. • Plant trees — Direct sunlight can heat up surfaces and building materials, as well as the interior temperature of your home. C o n sid e r pl a n t i n g trees in strategic locations to provide shade a n d r e d u c e c o ol i n g costs. • Install a rain barrel — Water is an impor tant, but costly resource. Installing a rain barrel is an easy and affordable measure to reduce your water consumption, while keeping your lawn and garden looking great. These simple home maintenance tasks can be well worth the effort, potentially providing hundreds of dolQ lars in annual savings. — Metro Creative Connection

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On executive order’s anniversary, exhibit highlights Noguchi’s time in U.S. prison camp “I willfully became part of humanity uprooted,” he later wrote. The exhibition had been planned many months in advance of current affairs to coincide with the 75th anniversary of Executive Order 9066 on Feb. 19, which will be recognized at the museum with a Community Day, during which admission will be free.

That day at 3 p.m., Kimi Maeda, the daughter of an Asian-art historian who studied Noguchi, will perform her piece “Bend,” which blends sand drawings with projections of archival footage to tell the story of both men’s detention while considering how the internment camps will be remembered. Continued onpage page38 continued on

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“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” The philosopher George Santayana’s words are oft repeated, and perhaps especially relevant at this point in American history, when President Trump’s executive order openly targeted and initially detained legal permanent residents of the United States originating from several primarily Muslim countries. The chaos and uncertainty surrounding these individuals’ lives recall a dark chapter in the country’s history, when Executive Order 9066 upended Japanese-American citizens’ and Japanese immigrants’ lives, forcing them to live in internment camps. The recently opened exhibition “Self-Interned, 1942” at the Noguchi Museum in Long Island City offers a pointed look at a unique experience within these detention camps, through the work and personal correspondence of its namesake, Isamu Noguchi. Under EO 9066, more than 110,000 mainland Japanese Americans were relocated from the West Coast, forced to give up their jobs and scramble to sell their possessions and their homes, often at great financial loss. Noguchi, then residing in New York and thus not subject to the detention process, chose to go to the Poston War Relocation Center in Arizona of his own accord, believing that he would be able to improve the conditions there.

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MUSIC Percussia: world premieres by Queens composers, with the modern classical ensemble performing “Immigrant Dreams” by Carlo Nicolau and “International Express” by Quentin Chiappetta, both of Jackson Heights. Sat., Feb. 11, 2-3:30 p.m., Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Free with admission: suggested $8; $4 seniors; free students, children. Info: (718) 592-9700, queensmuseum.org.

“Disarming Geometries,” works using geometric abstraction to address social and political issues and to grapple with the uncertainties of contemporary life. Thru Sun., March 26, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, 11-03 45 Ave., Long Island City. Free. Info/RSVP for tour: (718) 937-6317, dorsky.org.

The Beatles’ music on violin and piano, a “concert of classics” from the Fab Four by Olga Turkina and Philipp Petkov; with food drive. Sat., Feb. 11, 3 p.m., St. Michael’s Cemetery, 72-02 Astoria Blvd., East Elmhurst. Free; attendees asked to bring canned food for drive by Councilman Costa Constantinides. Info: (718) 278-3240.

Congolese Plantation Workers Art League (Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise), with sculptures mostly made of cacao by workers in the African nation, many self-representations, highlighting their low wages. Thru Mon., March 27, SculptureCenter, 44-19 Purves St., Long Island City. $5 suggested; $3 students; free for LIC residents. Info: (718) 361-1750, sculpture-center.org.

French jazz, a romantic night of new arrangements of classical works by Bizet, Debussy, Ravel and Satie and gypsy jazz favorites, by Gavroche Jazz Band: Sunny Knable and Valentine Biollay; hosted by Musica Reginae. Sat., Feb. 11, 7:30 p.m., The Church-in-the-Gardens, 50 Ascan Ave., Forest Hills. $20; $10 students 13-30; free kids under 13 with adult. Info: (718) 894-2178, musicareginae.org. COURTESY PHOTOS Five Borough Songbook Volume II, the Queens premiere of 20 new songs celebrating NYC by 20 composers, with four singers, two pianists, one cellist. Sun., Feb. 12, 3 p.m. (2 p.m. preconcert chat with some composers), Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. $25; $10 student; free teens 13-19 with ID. Info/RSVP: (718) 463-7700, flushingtownhall.org.

DANCE Flamenco Vivo, the NYbased dance co. drawing from Arabic, gypsy and Sephardic Jewish influences for an invigorating performance. Sat., Feb. 11, 2 and 8 p.m.; Sun., Feb. 12, 3 p.m., Queens Theatre, 14 United Nations Ave. S., Flushing Meadows Corona Park. $25-$42. Info: (718) 760-0064, queenstheatre.org. PHOTO BY ANGELICA ESCOTO

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“Chance Encounters: cubism, dada and surrealism,” with 69 works by 23 artists including Georges Braque, Paul Klee, René Magritte and Max Ernst. Thru Sat., March 18 (opening reception Wed., Feb. 8, 6 p.m.), Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing. Free. Info: (718) 997-4747, gtmuseum.org.

EXHIBITS “Lorna Simpson: ‘Hypothetical?,’” a sound installation including text, photographs and mouthpieces from wind instruments, inspired in part by the constraints of spoken language. Thru Aug. 7, Fisher Landau Center for Art, 38-27 30 St., Long Island City. Free. Info: (718) 937-0727, flcart.org. “Temporary Walls,” an installation and performance work considering interior space as a stage and dislocating assumptions about function and form, by Lauren Bakst and Yuri Masnyj. Sat., Feb. 11, 3 p.m., SculptureCenter, 44-19 Purves St., Long Island City. $5 suggested; $3 students. Info: (718) 361-1750, sculpture-center.org. “Waterscapes,” photographs by Rosalie Frost focusing on Jamaica Bay, using range of older and newer cameras and techniques. Thru midApril (opening reception with Frost: Sat., Feb. 11, 2-4 p.m.), Jamaica Bay

“Found and Funky,” mixed-media works made of found objects and paying homage to the jazz term for an art piece achieving its highest form. Thru Sat., April 8, Materials for the Arts, 33-00 Northern Blvd., 3rd floor, Long Island City. Free. Info: (718) 729-2007, mfta.org. “Martin Scorsese,” on the iconic New Yorker and director’s intertwined career and life, with production material, childhood artifacts, behind-the-scenes images, film retrospective and more. Thru Sun., Apr. 23; Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria. $15; $11 seniors, students; $7 kids 3-17. Info: (718) 777-6888, movingimage.us.

You can see Stanislava Ivanova and Orlin Goranov star in the Teatro Lirico D’Europa production of “La Traviata,” one of the world’s most beloved operas, Feb. 26 at the Queensborough Performing Arts Center — if you act quickly, as tickets are going fast. PHOTO COURTESY TEATRO LIRICO D’EUROPA Wildlife Refuge visitors’ center, 175-10 Cross Bay Blvd., Broad Channel. Free. Info: (718) 318-4340, nps.gov/gate/planyourvisit/index. “Maintenance Art,” with sculptures, photos and more, celebrating the everyday task of keeping things clean, by the Sanitation Dept.’s only artist-in-residence ever, Mierle Laderman Ukeles. Thru Sun., Feb. 19, Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Suggested $8 admission; $4 seniors; free students, children, certain city employees. Info: (718) 592-9700, queensmuseum.org. “Self-Interned, 1942: Noguchi in Poston War Relocation Center,” works by Isamu Noguchi focusing on his time voluntarily spent in a WWII camp for Japanese-Americans ordered there by the U.S. Thru Sun., Jan. 7, 2018; with related performance by Kimi Maeda, Sun., Feb. 19, 3-4 p.m. (75th anniversary of the order; free admission that day), Noguchi Museum, 9-01 33 Road, Long Island City. $10; $5 seniors, students; NYC HS students, kids under 12 free. Info: (718) 204-7088, noguchi.org. “East of East River,” photos of Astoria and Long Island City showing their changing landscapes from 2004-15, by area resident Vikram Dogra. Thru Feb. 26, Tue.-Sun., 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main St., Flushing. Free with admission: $6; $4 seniors; $4 students, $2 children over 3. Info: (718) 886-3800, info@queensbotanical.org. “Nikon Small World 2016,” with winning images from the photomicrography competition, such as a zebra fish embryo’s developing face, a butterfly proboscis, a polished slab of agate and dozens more. Thru Sun., Feb. 26, New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Corona. Free with admission: $15; $12 students, seniors, kids. Info: (718) 699-0005, nysci.org.

“Science Fiction, Science Future,” on how science-fiction ideas might become science fact tomorrow, with hands-on exhibits incorporating robots, holograms, augmented reality. Thru Sun., April 30, New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Corona. Free with admission: $16; $13 seniors, kids, college students with ID. Info: (718) 699-0005, nysci.org.

KIDS/TEENS Karaoke at the Movies: “Tangled,” the 2010 animated Disney film about a charming bandit captured by a princess, based on the fairy tale “Rapunzel,” screened with words so the audience can sing and dance along. Dressing as Disney characters encouraged. Sat., Feb. 11, 6:30 p.m., Queensborough Performing Arts Center, 222-05 56 Ave., Bayside. $5. Info: (718) 631-6311, visitqpac.org. WALT DISNEY PICTURES

SPECIAL EVENTS Pancake breakfast fundraiser, with pancakes, sausage, fruit, coffee and tea, to benefit Boy Scout Troop 96. Sun., Feb. 12, 8:30-11 a.m.; 12-1 p.m., The Church-in-the-Gardens, 50 Ascan Ave., Forest Hills. $10; $5 kids under 12. Info: (718) 268-6704.

THEATRE “Cabaret,” an “intimate, immersive” production of the hit musical set in a seedy Berlin nightclub during the Nazis’ rise to power. Sun., Feb. 12, Wed.-Sun.,15-19, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Feb. 12, 19, 2:30 p.m., The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23 St., Long Island City. $20. Info/tickets: (718) 3920722, secrettheatre.com. continued on page 40

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An enchanting evening of “Romantic” music will fill The Church-in-the-Gardens, only five days after Valentine’s Day. The Con Brio Ensemble, consisting of a violinist, pianist, cellist and baritone, will present their Twilight Concert with works from Romantic era composers Brahms, Mahler and Dvorak. Celebrating its 38th season, the Forest Hills-based ensemble performs in various locations all over Queens and Manhattan. Diana Mittler-Battipaglia, piano, Paul Roczek, violin, Hamilton Berry, cello, and Darian Worrell, baritone, are happy to give to the community classical music at a fair price. The Romantic-era composers whose

‘Twilight Concert’ When: Sunday, Feb. 19, 4:30 p.m. Where: The Church-in-the-Gardens, 50 Ascan Ave., Forest Hills Tickets: $12; $10 students, seniors (718)459-2247, conbrioensemble.com

works the group will play date from the late 19th century, when music was evolving to be more emotional and encompassing philosophical themes. Other famous composers from this era include Tchaikovsky, Johann Strauss II and Wagner. The ensemble will perform Dvorak’s “Silent Woods,” “Rondo for cello” and “Trio in Bb Major, opus 21,” Brahms’ “Violin Sonata in A Major, opus 100” and Mahler’s “Songs of a Wayfarer.” MittlerBattipaglia is especially fond of the Dvorak pieces and described his works as “touching and dramatic.” The pianist, and co-founder of the ensemble, grew up in a musical household with her mother as her first teacher. She went on to study at the Juilliard School of Music and taught at multiple Queens high schools before she was invited to teach at Lehman College, where she still is today. She has played in the New York Philharmonic, the New Haven Symphony and the National Orchestral Association, among others in the area. Despite Mittler-Battipaglia’s impressive musical resume, what inspires her to play to the Queens community is her parents’

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Paul Roczek, above, Diana Mittler-Battipaglia, Darian Worrell and Hamilton PHOTOS COURTESY DIANA MITTLER-BATTIPAGLIA Berry will perform Sunday. journey as refugees from Vienna, Austria to the United States in the 1930s. “This country saved my parents lives, and to give something great pleasure I think it’s important to enrich the community,” she said. Cellist Berry said of the Dvorak piece, “‘Silent Woods’ is a very lyrical, peaceful

piece, and I think meant to evoke the landscape of the woods.” Originally from Nashville, Tenn., Berry came to New York to study in a ColumbiaJuilliard exchange program and got involved with the Con Brio Ensemble three years ago. continued on page 38

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Senior Curator Dakin Hart acknowledges the exhibition’s relevance to themes in the national consciousness, noting that “what we planned unfortunately came to have this extra resonance,” but also that Noguchi’s experience “should not be confused with a summation of the Japanese experience in the concentration camps — Noguchi made a choice.” Indeed, Noguchi headed to the Arizona desert with idealistic plans to foster a community that would become a beacon of patriotism in the fight against fascism. Spurred on by an equally idealistic friend in President Roosevelt’s administration, Indian Affairs Commissioner John Collier, Noguchi had notions that Poston staff and federal officials would support him in creating baseball fields, swimming pools, mini-golf courses and more. No such support ever came, and after two months Noguchi began calling in favors to leave the camp. He would be detained seven months. His blueprints for what the camp could have been hang in the exhibition.

While at the camp, Noguchi would walk the desert, write despairingly to friends and work on personal projects. He finished carving a bust of Ginger Rogers in pink marble while detained at Poston (now in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery) — a far cry from where he had begun the plaster model for the project while living at her house in the Hollywood Hills. His work took on characteristics during this pivotal time in his life that would stay with him for years, and the show moves from work created just prior to Poston to the years just after and beyond. Bitter themes of aggression and violence arise in work created in the few years after internment, such as “This Tortured Earth,” whose surface bears resemblance to ruptured and lacerated skin. “Yellow Landscape” is an abstract reference to the “toxic anti-Asian stereotyping” that followed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and its components appear to require a complex balancing act to remain stable. Some of the wartime works reflect softer moments, such as “Mother and Child” and “Noodle,” and others, made of wood, are byproducts of the war effort,

Isamu Noguchi’s “Yellow Landscape,” top, makes abstract reference to the position of Asian Americans during the war against Japan, when more than 110,000 were imprisoned by the U.S. government. Other works on display include “Remembrance,” left; clockwise from top left in the center, “Root and Stem,” “Double Red Mountain,” “Petroglyph” and two unfinished works; and, right, “Pointing Model for the Sun Element of ‘Sunken Garden for Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library’ and Casting Model for ‘[Iron] Sun.’” Far right, Noguchi with a model of his Contoured Playground, c. 1946. On the cover: “Mother and Child” and Noguchi in 1968. PHOTOS BY NEIL CHIRAGDIN EXCEPT NOGUCHI, COURTESY NOGUCHI FOUNDATION AND GARDEN MUSEUM, NEW YORK / ARS

Con Brio Ensemble continued from page 37 “‘Rondo’ is a more up-tempo piece and that one is heavily influenced by folk music,” he explained. “Dvorak in general had a lot of inspiration from folk Czech Republic and America as well, so you have this interesting hybrid of African-American spiritual traditions here as well as his native folk music.” In his teenage years, violinist Roczek began his musical career with the Vienna Philharmonic, along with the Vienna Soloists in Austria. He has been a professor at the

when other raw resources such as metal and stone might be scarce. Later pieces draw from features of the environment, such as “Double Red Mountain,” “Cactus Wind” and a number of unfinished works on display. These pieces work together to form a general landscape in the second room of the exhibition. Also among these latter works are a series of gateways and portals, which may reflect a desire for escapism, but also advance a general theme in Noguchi’s work: transport of one’s state of mind. It is difficult to know what to make of Noguchi’s experience at Poston, but it is inapt to write him off as naïve. His personal correspondence offers some illumination. He wrote to his friend, the photographer Man Ray, “Here time has stopped and nothing is of any consequence, nothing of any value, neither our time or our skill.” But also in his time at Poston he wrote a revelatory unpublished essay, “I Become a Nisei,” in part an exaltation of the power of art to uphold democratic values (Nisei being second-generation Japanese Americans). Surely, his initial enthusiasm had been dampened, but the experience galvanized the political activist within him and marked his art in major and Q minor ways for decades.

Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria since 1969 and has taught master classes all over Europe, Asia, Australia and North America. According to conbrioensemble.com, his mission as the president of the Austrian National Youth competition is to “nurture the next generation of Austrian musicians.” Baritone Worrell, a native of Barbados, is one of the most sought-after young baritones in New England, now bringing his talents from the Longy School of Music in Massachusetts to Lehman College. His deep vibrato is bound to intensify the power of the music played by his fellow ensemble members. “It’s a lot of fun playing with Diana and Professor Roczek, we always have a good time playing together and I’m sure

‘Self-Interned, 1942’ When: Through Sun., Jan. 7, 2018 (special event Sun., Feb. 19) Where: Noguchi Museum, 9-01 33 Road, Long Island City Entry: $10; $5 students, seniors; free Feb. 19. (718) 204-7088, noguchi.org

that’ll be the case this time around,” said Berry. Mittler-Battipaglia added, “What I think makes me the happiest about doing it is that we can bring fine artists and music and make it accessible to the community.” The Con Brio Ensemble will also perform this Romantic set Feb. 25 at 4 p.m. at the Tenri Cultural Institute in Manhattan and Feb. 26 at 2 p.m. at the Lehman College-CUNY Recital Hall in the Bronx. Their next Queens show, which will feature a different lineup of performers, is set for March 12 at the Voelker-Orth Museum in Flushing. Support from the Queens Council on the Arts, city Department of Cultural Affairs and Q City Council makes the concerts possible.

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Think ‘Cabaret’ is wild? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet! by Mark Lord

the latest in a string of lovers, “I say, am I shocking you?” If asked the same question about the proNo matter how many times you may have seen the classic musical “Cabaret,” chances duction, it’s probable that more than a few are you’ve never seen it as it’s being done at spectators would answer in the affirmative. It might be because the Emcee, made The Secret Theatre in Long Island City famous by impish Joel Grey during the through Feb. 19. Prudes and purists are hereby warned: show’s original Broadway run in the midThis is likely not your grandmother’s cup of 1960s, is here played by a hefty, over-thetea. Everyone else should find this rendition top African American (Larry Owens), who could be the offspring of Richard Simmons surprising and enthralling. Under the innovative co-direction of and Sarah Vaughan. Or perhaps because nearly naked perHunter Bird and Chloe Treat, the show here calls to mind, on multiple occasions, the formers, many of them seemingly fresh out words of heroine Sally Bowles (Natalie of the gym, parade inches away from the Walker), when she asks Cliff (Jesse Weil), ticket buyers. Or because of the presence of a lifesized blow-up doll that nearly becomes a leading player. Or maybe because when the German When: Thu.-Sun., Feb. 9-12; landlady appears she’s in the figure of a Wed.-Sun., Feb. 15-19, 7:30 p.m.; fine actress who is clearly of Asian Sun., Feb. 12, 19, 2:30 p.m. descent (Sue Lynn Yu). One could go on Where: The Secret Theatre, and on. 44-02 23 St., Long Island City Based on a play by John van Druten Tickets: $20. (718) 392-0722, and stories by Christopher Isherwood, secrettheatre.com with a magnificent score by John Kander and Fred Ebb and equally brilliant book qboro contributor

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CLASSES/WORKSHOPS English and civics, offered by the Flushing Jewish Community Council. English/civics: Thu., Feb. 9-June, 6-8 p.m., Temple Beth Sholom, 171-39 Northern Blvd. Intermediate English: Mon., Feb. 13-June, 1-3 p.m., Korean Community Services Center, 42-15 166 St. Both free. Info: (718) 4630434, flushingjcc.net. Defensive driving, for better skills, insurance and point reduction. Sat., Feb. 18, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m., American Martyrs Church of Bayside, 79-43 Bell Blvd. $45. Info/registration: (631) 360-9720.

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TOURS Onderdonk House candlelight tours, examining the city’s oldest Dutch Colonial stone house, with live music, mulled cider and treats. Sat., Feb. 11, 5-8 p.m., 1820 Flushing Ave., Ridgewood. $5; kids free. Info: (718) 456-1776, onderdonkhouse.org.

SOCIAL EVENTS Israeli folk dancing, with instruction for beginners, in a fun, welcoming atmosphere. Each Mon., 7:30 p.m. (beginners’ instruction); 8:3010 p.m. (intermediate dances), Hillcrest Jewish Center, 183-02 Union Tpke, Fresh Meadows. $10. Info: (718) 380-4145, hillcrestjc.org.

CLUBS Flushing Camera Club, with photos from Africa and mentoring program on smartphone photography and editing; all skill levels welcome; bring smartphone. Wed., Feb. 15, 7:15-9 p.m., Flushing Hospital Medical Center auditorium, 5th floor, 146-01 45 Ave.; free parking in Burling St. lot. Info: (718) 358-1103, flushingcameraclub.org. “Hooks & Needles” Crochet & Knit Club, with participants bringing projects, hooks, needles and yarn, or working on charity projects. Every Thu., 6:30-9 p.m., Big 6 Shopping Center, 60-10 Queens Blvd., Woodside (entrance inside shopping center, up one flight, down hall to left of 99-cent store). Info: Lorraine, (917) 817-4037.

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Treasures in the Attic, with King Manor curator Kelsey Brow discussing drinks of the 1700s-1800s and the vessels that held them, with artifacts not on public display and a drink of the time at the end. Sun., Feb. 12, 3:30-4:30 p.m., King Manor Museum, 150-03 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica. Free. Info: (718) 206-0545, kingmanor.org.

Queens AARP chorus, seeking retired people to sing at nursing homes and for AARP chapters. Meet each Fri., 1 p.m. started Jan. 27; anyone interested should come 12:30 p.m. that day, Clearview SelfHelp Center, 208-11 26 Ave., Bayside. Info: joroosume@verizon.net.

South Africa Safari, with birder Donna Schulman presenting photos and video of her 2014 trip from Capetown to Kruger National Park and the birds, mammals and other creatures she saw there, by the Queens County Bird Club. Wed., Feb. 15, 8 p.m., Alley Pond Environmental Center, 22806 Northern Blvd., Douglaston. Free. Info: (718) 229-4000, qcbirdclub.org.

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

Alligator in the Sewer Day, with Manhattan Boro Historian Michael Miscione, on the urban legend (?) that such reptiles dwell below, with Queens trivia quiz by Forgotten NY founder Kevin Walsh. Thu., Feb. 9, 7 p.m., Greater Astoria Historical Society, 35-20 Broadway, Long Island City. $5. Info: (718) 278-0700, astorialic.org.

Knitting and crocheting class, to learn a new skill or share an idea for a craft project, by Jamaica Senior Program for Older Adults. Each Thu., 10:30-11:30 a.m., T. Jackson Adult Center, 92-47 165 St. Info: (718) 657-6500, jspoa.org.

How We Create and How We Cope: Intersections of Art and Mental Health, panel discussion, Q&A and performance led by poet/curator Audrey Dimola, on mental illness and the creative

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continued from page 39 fit to include catchphrases from such modern day pop figures as Wendy Williams and a costume scheme that includes a Guns ‘n’ Roses T-shirt. The unfortunate result is a muddling of the time sequence. From the start, the audience is immersed in the seedy atmosphere of the Kit Kat Klub, with seemingly tons of tinsel and flashing lights helping set the scene. The show takes environmental theater to new heights, as actors sit alongside spectators and members of the fantastic band (under music director Dan Garmon) surround the audience. Owens’ finest moment comes when, in a brief display of underplaying (despite donning a fluffy pink gown), he delivers a haunting “I Don’t Care Much,” a song not included in the original production but interpolated into the score in subsequent revivals. While Sally is understood to be, at best, a third-rate nightclub singer, Walker’s vocals are surprisingly weak, inspiring members of the ensemble to offer backup in songs generally delivered as solos. But she makes up for it in the acting department, creating a Sally who is truly pitiable. Opposite her, in a totally natural performance, Weil brings surprising depth to Cliff, who often comes across as one-dimensional. They share more than one powerful scene together.

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PROBATE CITATION, File #2017-3/A. SURROGATE’S COURTSARATOGA COUNTY CITATION. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God Free and Independent. TO: JOHN DOE and any and all unknown persons whose names or parts of whose names and whose place or places of residence are unknown and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained, distributees, heirs-at-law, and next-of-kin of said Edith P. Rosen, deceased, and if any of the said above distributees named specifically or as a class be dead, their legal representatives, their husbands, or wives, if any, distributees and successors in interest whose names and/or places of residence and post office addresses are unknown and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained; CHRISTOPHER C. SHAMBO, ESQ., Guardian ad Litem on behalf of unknown distributees; NEW YORK STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL. A petition having been duly filed by Larry Rosen, who is domiciled at 52 Holmes Dale, Albany, NY 12203-2023. YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Saratoga County, 30 McMaster Street, Building 3, Ballston Spa, NY, on Tuesday, March 28, 2017 at 10:00 o’clock in the forenoon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of Edith P. Rosen, lately domiciled at Malta, New York, County of Saratoga, admitting to probate a Will dated September 25, 2013, a copy of which is attached, as the Will of Edith P. Rosen, deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that [X ] Letters Testamentary issue to: Larry Rosen. Dated, Attested and Sealed, February 6th, 2017 (Seal). Attorney for Petitioner: David Brickman, Esq., Telephone #(518) 464-6464. Address of Attorney: 1664 Western Avenue, Albany, NY 12203. HON. RICHARD A. KUPFERMAN, Surrogate. [sig] Catharine A. Ruggles, Chief Clerk. [Note: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. lf you fail to appear it will be assumed you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you.]

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On Feb. 8, 1943 Edward Menzynski — who had recently turned 20 and was working as a stock clerk — eagerly enlisted in the U.S. Army to fight in World War II. He eventually became a corporal in the 1199 t h M i l it a r y Police Company. By Sept. 7, 1945 — with the war over — his parents, The Menzynski house, 54-23 69 St., Maspeth, on Sept. 7, 1945, left, B e n j a m i n a n d and the same house today in pristine condition. M ich a l i n a Me nzynski, had colorfully decorated their wasn’t sent home and discharged until three-family brick home at 54-23 69 St. Nov. 24, 1945. Eddie Menzynski passed away a few in Maspeth in anxious anticipation of weeks after his 60th birthday in 1983. his return. Captions on the back of the above left The house today is valued at $973,000 photo said they are staying up until he and is owned by one Diana Sutowski, Q comes home. They had a long wait as he according to public records.

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Super Bowl weekend tends to obscure personnel moves made by MLB teams, so you may have missed Mets general manager Sandy Alderson re-signing free agent relievers Jerry Blevins and Fernando Salas, as well as inking veteran pitcher Tom Gorzelanny to a minor league deal. W hile most fan and press attention focused on what the Mets were going to do with their crowded outfield — specifically the future of Jay Bruce — the bullpen was an even bigger concern. Commissioner Rob Manfred has dragged his feet on this, but it’s almost a certainty that Mets closer Jeurys Familia will be suspended for at least some part of the 2017 season after his domestic violence arrest last October, even though charges were later dropped. With proven veterans Blevins and Salas joining Addison Reed in the Mets’ bullpen, the Mets should be able to withstand a possible 30-game suspension for Familia — assuming they all stay healthy. That is what Aroldis Chapman received for what appeared to be a worse situation, so I can’t imagine that Familia’s punishment will exceed that. There may even be a silver lining for Mets fans in that Familia may be fresher for the postseason, if the Mets are fortunate to get www.howardbeachrealty.com

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