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Old Howard and Hamilton Beach residents woke up on Monday to see their streets covered with 6 inches to a foot of water, caused by a winter storm increasing the high tide surges to unanticipated levels.

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Katz talks Queens’ pros and cons to Chamber Move over Manhattan, the borough to the east is growing fast: BP by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

here may be so much more to accomplish over the second half of her first term as borough president, but Melinda Katz told the Queens Chamber of Commerce at its annual breakfast Tuesday that the borough is “moving and shaking” like never before. “Folks want to come here, they want to live here, they want to build here and God knows they want to make their money here,” Katz said. “And that’s a great thing because we have folks here that have invested their life in making sure that we develop, making sure that we have housing, making sure that when New York City builds and thrives, that Queens is on the map.” In discussing the borough’s future, she said the inf lux of both immigrants and young entrepreneurs alike means it’s time for the city to recognize that Manhattan’s time as its main cash cow in terms of tourism and business is over. “I have to tell you, it’s not true anymore,” she said to rousing applause from the crowd of around 150 business and community leaders. “It is now Queens that tourists are seeing. “So when we sit at a table and we fight for educational dollars, for senior money, for cul-

Borough President Melinda Katz discusses the county’s successes over the last two years at the Queens Chamber of Commerce during the group’s annual breakfast at the LaGuardia Marriot in PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA East Elmhurst on Tuesday. tural dollars, it’s an easier fight,” Katz continued. “It’s an easier fight for us to say we’re bringing money in too, so now let’s talk.” Tou r ism was the con nective tissue behind her address to the group, with the borough president calling on the city to find a balance between drawing crowds and capital and sufficiently supporting those who call the borough home when it comes to

possible music festivals in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Last month, the Parks Department denied three multiday events planned for the summer, with a permit for one single-day festival still on the table. When it comes to the expansive redesign of LaGuardia Airport, Katz said the borough needs “a first-class airport,” to avoid “people

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Opening March 17: ‘Saving Jamaica Bay’ Dan Hendrick ready to ‘graduate’ and debut his environmental movie by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

It’s been close to five years since Dan Hendrick first started working on his full-length documentary about Jamaica Bay — he’s often joked that it’s been like getting a college degree. “It took just about as long and it cost just as much,” Hendrick, a former Queens Chronicle reporter and editor-in-chief, said. Now, Hendrick is preparing for some pomp and circumstance as he prepares to “graduate” from that journey and bring his film into the real world. The film, “Saving Jamaica Bay,” has been given a release date and debut venue: March 17 at the Museum of the Moving Image, located at 36-01 35 Ave. in Astoria. The debut will be a part of the Queens World Film Festival. “I’m really thrilled to have a date on the calendar,” Hendrick said. “It’s very exciting to see it all come together.” The film is the first-ever documentary about the South Queens estuary, the wildlife there, the effects Superstorm Sandy had on it and the people who live around the bay. “It’s high time Jamaica Bay gets a little love,” Hendrick said. Some of the film’s subjects will be at the first screening, where movie-goers can meet

Dan Hendrick, right, examines the wildlife of Jamaica Bay with Don Riepe, president of the American Littoral Society’s northeast chapter, during the filming of the soon-to-debut documentary PHOTO COURTESY DAN HENDRICK “Saving Jamaica Bay.” them as well as the filmmakers. The film has been going through some finishing touches, such as editing and sound touch-ups, in the past few months. Hendrick called putting the film together, “a little complicated. “You have hundreds of hours of footage,” he

said. “You’re thinking, what’s the right tone for the music? Did I leave out a certain species of bird that should’ve been in there.” About halfway through the production, Superstorm Sandy struck Jamaica Bay and the surrounding area. “The one thing we struggled with was

Key Food sells for $12.6M Buyer or seller of Cross Bay Boulevard site unknown by Anthony O’Reilly

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The Cross Bay Boulevard Key Food that opened with fanfare from the Howard Beach community in 2014 has been sold in an allcash deal valued at $12.6 million, according to real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield. A sale on the building, located at 163-30 Cross Bay Blvd., has not yet been registered on ACRIS — the city website where real estate transactions are logged — and a spokeswoman for the broker of the deal declined to identify the buyer or seller of the property. The recorded owner is an LLC. The deal was handled by Bob Knakal, chairman of New York Investment Sales at Cushman & Wakefield, along with Jonathan Hageman and Brian Sarath, the firm said in a Monday statement. “Retail properties throughout the outer boroughs have experienced tremendous demand given local retail rent growth. The leases here made the upside more challenging to derive but, nonetheless, we were very pleased with the reception this property received,” Knakal said in the press release. A Duane Reade had operated at the site of the Key Food but closed after it sustained major damage from Superstorm Sandy.

The Cross Bay Boulevard Key Food has been sold for $12.6 million, but who bought it is FILE PHOTO unknown. Frankie Almonte, the owner of the Howard Beach Key Food, spent several months bringing the building up to code and opened its doors to the community in September 2014. It was hailed as an alternative shopping destination for Howard Beach residents who complained of spoiled meat and dirty conditions at the former Waldbaum’s located down the street at 156-01 Cross Bay Blvd., now a Stop & Shop.

No construction or demolition plans for the Key Food had been filed with the Department of Buildings, as of press time. The site is being leased to Duane Reade through October 2028, though the pharmacy giant is sub-leasing the space to the supermarket conglomerate. The sale marks the second notable real estate transaction in Howard Beach in the past two months. In December, as first reported by the Queens Chronicle, the Pan-Bay Center was sold by the Panzarella family to Urban Edge Properties for $27 million — the biggest deal in the community’s reported history. The new owners have vowed to keep many of the longtime tenants at that site in place. The center includes 156-10 to 156-40 Cross Bay Blvd. and houses some notable Howard Beach hot spots such as Sugar Bun Bake Shop and Danny’s Szechuan Garden. It was also the home of the Howard Beach Billiard Club, which closed in 1995. Urban Edge plans on making some renovations to the center, according to broker Alex Catalano, as well as attracting a still-toQ be-determined national tenant.

Sandy,” Hendrick said, explaining that he grappled with deciding how much he wanted to focus on the storm without taking away from the message of the film. Long before Sandy, Jamaica Bay had environmental struggles, ranging from pollution and habitat loss to a once-proposed expansion of JFK Airport into Broad Channel. But just as in any creative process, he added, the artist needs to put an end to the project. “At some point, you kind of have to put your pencil down,” Hendrick said. The filmmaker said he’s now seen a finished version of the movie, which he is ecstatic to show to the public next month. “It’s been an incredible journey,” he said. Following his graduation, Hendrick plans on going straight into the workforce with his production — bringing it to film festivals around the country. When asked what he hopes borough residents take from the film, Hendrick would like to see more people express interest in the body of water and its surrounding ecosystems. “We really want to get people involved with the bay,” he said. For more information, or to view the documentary’s trailer, visit the movie’s official website, savingjamaicabay.com. To buy tickets to the premiere, visit Q movingimage.us.

Speed humps OK’d by CB 9 Community Board 9 on Tuesday unanimously approved placing two speed humps — the broader version of speed bumps — along the Woodhaven Boulevard service road between Forest Park Drive and Park Lane South to curb speeding. The first hump, if implemented by the Department of Transportation, will be placed between Park Lane South to 98th Street and the second from 98th Street to Forest Park Drive. The DOT has already determined it’s feasible to place the humps there. There was little discussion from the board on the vote but one Forest Park Co-op resident — which sits along the service road — spoke at the beginning of the meeting to urge members to approve them. His reason, which has been brought up by other residents over the years, is that motorists use the stretch as a way to circumvent backed-up traffic along the main stretch of the corridor during the morning rush hour. CB 9 also approved humps on 97th Street from 101st to 103rd avenues, 76th Street from Jamaica to 88th avenues and Park Lane Q South from 104th to 107th streets. — Anthony O’Reilly

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DSNY gives some answers on Jonas CB 9 says Sanitation needs to fix plow tracker system for future storms by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

Kevin O’Leary points out the dark LIRR underpass in Richmond Hill, which remains dim during PHOTOS BY ANTHONY O’REILLY the nighttime.

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Kevin O’Leary has walked through the underpass at the out-of-commission Richmond Hill LIRR station many times over the past five years and has been irked over the neglected state of it. “It just frustrates me,” O’Leary, a longtime Kew Gardens resident and Community Board 9 member, said. “Something has to be done about this.” For one, the path has not been illuminated for pedestrians in that time span. “It just seems like the perfect opportunity for a crime,” O’Leary noted. “Who knows

Filthy conditions such as carelessly thrown out the site throughout the year.

who could be hiding there?” There are also the filthy conditions of the underpass, such as carelessly tossed garbage around the site — at the corner of Hillside Avenue and Babbage Street, near the Richmond Hill branch of the Queens Library. O’Leary has been trying for years to improve the underpass to no avail. “Nobody wants to take responsibility for it,” he said. “It’s ridiculous.” The Queens Chronicle reached out to the LIRR and the Department of Transportation regarding the status of the area, asking if either will take up the cleaning of it. The DOT’s press team referred all questions to the MTA. An LIRR spokesman said illuminating the path is the DOT’s responsibility — which the DOT did not respond to — and said Sanitation has to clean the sidewalks and streets. A Sa n it ation spokeswoma n, responding to that remark, put the onus back on the LIRR, but added that personnel will sweep around the area and clean bird droppings. O’Leary said that kind of back-and-forth has been going on for years. The Richmond Hill station was one of the stops on the Montauk line of the intercounty transportation system until 1998, when it was closed due to low ridership — it had one rider per day at that time. It served as the station trash plague between Jamaica and Hunters Q Point.

Two weeks after much of the district represented by Community Board 9 waited close to three days to have their streets plowed of a record amount of snowfall, panel members told Sanitation personnel there needs to be changes made before the next winter storm. For example, Kew Gardens resident Andrea Crawford pointed out that the PlowNYC program was faulty at times in showing which streets had been cleared. “It told me there had been a plow through one street when that was simply not true,” Crawford said. Fellow member Jan Fenster agreed. “You need to fix the problem where the computer says it was cleaned, but reality says no,” Fenster told the DSNY personnel there. Fenster did praise the city’s initiative to pay “actual people” to shovel street corners, but did point out she saw some of them slacking off on the job. And board member Silvia Hack noted how her car was apparently scratched by a Sanitation plow that came down her narrow block. Henry Ehrhardt, director of customer service, and Iggy Terranova, public affairs representative, fielded questions from the CB 9 members on Tuesday. Ehrhardt touted the city’s response to the storm, which in some areas dumped close to 3 feet of snow on the ground. In Western Queens and in CB 9’s area, residents found themselves waiting for days to have their side streets plowed, primarily

in Woodhaven and Ozone Park. Ehrhardt, responding to members concern’s over why it took so long, pointed to some residents who ignored a travel ban ordered by Gov. Cuomo as a contributing factor to the problem — saying more than 100 vehicles in Queens were towed in the hours following the ban, while other boroughs only saw close to 30. Responding to a question from a member, he also said residents tossing snow off their car and into the street helped exasperate the problem, again saying those incidents were found more in Queens than anywhere else. He also said Sanitation is not responsible for the entire cleanup, pointing out how MTA is responsible for cleaning out its areas and some nonprofits clean up sidewalks and streets corners. When asked about sectoring — the practice of identifying roads as critical and sector, rather than the traditional three-tiered approach — Ehrhardt said the system worked well in other boroughs. “Obviously, we’re looking at some refinements here in Queens based off what we saw,” he added. Alex Blenkinsopp, a Woodhaven resident and communications director for the Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association, asked why other streets were passed by two or three times before his was plowed once. Ehrhardt said plows are supposed to go through streets several times and Blenkinsopp should have seen the same near him, if plows didn’t get stuck on there way — which some did. He also said some DSNY resources had Q to be pulled to free stuck ambulances.

Why did it take so long for some Queens residents to see a snow plow during the historic storm last month? Sanitation personnel tried to answer that question during an appearance at FILE PHOTO Community Board 9’s meeting Tuesday.

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Stop beating a dead horse

f you can read this editorial, thank a Teamster. No, not for the ability to read. For that we all know you thank a teacher (or parent, grandparent, guardian, whomever). But you can thank a Teamster for the ability to read this editorial: one celebrating the latest failure of Mayor de Blasio’s illconceived crusade to kill the carriage horse industry to placate his donors and the most radical of animalrights groups, and advocating that he finally give up on his crusade to ruin everyone’s fun. The carriage horse trade employs a couple hundred people, many of them from Queens. It provides joy to thousands of visitors who love that romantic ride around Central Park. But it’s in the way of wealthy interests who want to push the horses out of their West Side stables so they can be redeveloped. The Teamsters, however, last week killed a “compromise plan” the mayor was pushing to hobble the industry without killing it altogether — for now. At this point, it’s hard not to believe the mayor’s real goal is to empty out those stables and also pay back his pals at NYCLASS, the animal rights group

that was vital in his winning the Democratic primary in 2013 and therefore the election. Though of course some accidents happen, it’s very rare that one of the horses gets hurt or hurts anyone else when pulling a carriage. And the compromise plan that the Teamsters nixed would have made injuries more likely, as the number of horses would have been cut in half with no change in demand for their services — or maybe an increase. Then there’s the mayor’s audacity in trying to put new stables in Central Park. As Queens well knows, parkland is not to be given away to private interests. The horses are judged healthy and well-cared for by nearly every credible person who inspects them. More health screenings would be great. But to hear NYCLASS tell it, they’re being driven around by a bunch of Cosmo Kramers feeding them “Beefarino” to further nefarious goals. Those claims don’t pass the smell test any better than what that horse on “Seinfeld” left behind on the streets, and neither did the mayor’s latest plan. Drop it already, move on and let these horses remain happy, working and safe.

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Muslims vs. music Dear Editor: Throughout history, music has played an important role in human development and is a primary element in nearly all of man’s diverse cultures. Scientists are discovering that in addition to the positive effects on human health, music enhances intelligence. Research shows that music is to the brain what physical exercise is to the human body. In 1989, the National Commission on Music Education reported that students taking music courses scored an average of 20 to 40 points higher on both verbal and math portions of the SATs. Recent research concluded that “music training produced long-term changes in the wiring of the brain and improved spatial-temporal IQ scores important for some types of mathematical reasoning.” In spite of the research and evidence, music education is usually the first subject to be eliminated in any budgetary crisis. More troubling are recent reports from Kuwait, Mali, Syria and Muslim communities in many countries that reveal a religious antipathy to music. Muslim parents in Kuwait demanded a ban on government-funded music classes, stating, “Music is not part of our tradition and religion and we totally reject it.” In Somalia, a Muslim leader threatened to file an Islamic lawsuit if all the radio stations did not stop playing music. The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, ISIS, in Syria banned music in cars, at parties, in shops © Copyright 2016 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.

Say it ain’t so, Sanders

ere we go again: Yet another elected official from Queens in hot water for allegedly playing fast and loose with taxpayer money. This time it’s state Sen. James Sanders Jr. of South Ozone Park. Sanders denies the new claims made against him, that as a city councilman he told two people running a nonprofit that he could provide them with $1.7 million as long as they gave him a $250,000 kickback. There are many questions about their story — such as why it took them more than three years to come forward, and how they expected to get any funds when their group does not have the requisite 501(c) 3 status. Could their sudden allegations have anything to do with Sanders’ recent announcement that he’s running for Congress against Rep. Gregory Meeks, a fellow Democrat? Regardless, a source close to Sanders confirms that he was interviewed recently by the FBI about the lawmaker’s distribution of discretionary funding when he was a city councilman. Whether Sanders has done anything wrong or not, this system that allows a single Council member to dole out large amounts of money has got to go. It’s allowed far too much corruption. Maybe now that the job of Council member has been declared to be full-time, all these allocations can be made in the open, during public meetings, with the whole body having to vote on each grant. Reform of some kind is needed.

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and in public. An official statement reads “Songs and music are forbidden in Islam, as they prevent one from the remembrance of God and the Koran and are a temptation and corruption of the heart” and claims the proclamation is based on the guidelines set by the Prophet Mohammed, who said, “On the day of Resurrection, Allah will pour molten lead into the ears of whoever sits listening to a songstress.” Middle Eastern Muslims had access to Greek musical theory but rejected it, unlike Christian Europeans who embraced it. The growth and evolution of polyphonic music in monasteries and cathedrals by Palestrina and Bach led to the monumental opuses of Beethoven and Brahms. There was no Mozart in the Islamic world. Plato postulated, “Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.” Ed Konecnik Flushing

Fueling flood fears Dear Editor: I read Anthony O’Reilly’s article “Coastal floods slam Howard Beach” (Feb. 8, qchron. com) with the same trepidation that hits me with every storm that occurs during a new moon cycle. There was indeed flooding in Broad Channel and the Rockaways as well. A Coastal Flood Advisory continues through today (Monday). I know there has been flooding in past times, but with global warming, storms now are more intense. So we all live with a more intense level of fear as well. What bothers me is the lack of interest in climate change in our neighborhoods. Why aren’t more voices being heard demanding a shift away from fossil fuels that contribute to sea level rise and moving towards renewable energy? Offshore wind is certainly a real possibility for us, as is putting a price on carbon. What will it take to get more people to stand up and let their members of Congress know about

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these concerns? More politicians are acknowledging the effects of climate change and the need for solutions. Without adding our voices, however, we’ll just be sitting here waiting for the next big storm to hit. Carol Capper Rockaway Park

No idle threat Dear Editor: Have you ever noticed the many unattended, idling vehicles spewing out their toxins? Despite environmental laws, these toxic fumes flow unabated. Why? The current law is not enforceable. The police, environmental or traffic agents cannot ticket unattended vehicles left with the engine idling for extended periods of time. The City Council needs to make prolonged engine idling of an unattended vehicle a parking violation in addition to the current environmental violation. This would give both police and traffic agents the power to ticket these polluting vehicles. (The fine should be substantial and double for diesel trucks.) Facts: • The law now limits vehicle idling to no more than one minute near to a school, public or private. Anywhere else, three minutes. • Fines are $350 or more for violation of the anti-idling law. • New York City has one of the highest asthma rates among children in the country. Children breathe 50 percent more air per pound than adults. Children’s asthma symptoms increase as a result of vehicle exhaust. In the interest of cleaner air and helping to mitigate the breathing problems of folks who have lung conditions, could we not begin to address this threat to our health? Gasping in Kew Gardens, William Herbert Kew Gardens

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Old white Democrats Dear Editor: I keep hearing that the Republican Party lacks diversity. However, of 11 GOP candidates who ran in the Iowa Caucus, Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Marco Rubio and Dr. Ben Carson, all minorities, garnered 60 percent of the votes. On the other hand the Democrats fielded an almost 69-year-old white Hillary Clinton and a 74-year-old white Bernie Sanders for a 50-50 tie. They may be against age discrimination, but that’s what the Democrats call diversity? Bill Viggiano Williston Park, LI

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Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Rockaway Park) is calling on the city Department of Environmental Protection to forego water and sewage charges for Superstorm Sandy victims still trying to rebuild their homes. “For a family still displaced after Sandy, every day out of their home means mounting bills and growing stress. Charging families for basic services that they can’t receive is simply adding insult to injury to those who have already suffered so much,” Goldfeder said in a Monday statement. According to Goldfeder, dislocated resi-

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found itself under water, as did some parts of Cross Bay Boulevard. The same situation Checking the tide charts is a common could be found in Broad Channel and parts part of many South Queens residents’ daily of the Rockaways. Many called the water levels the highest routines. Monday’s numbers forecast a higher tide than most days because the new they’ve seen since Superstorm Sandy. Most of the complaints came from people moon part of the lunar cycle had begun — but many residents were still taken by sur- whose cars were damaged as a result of the high water, though prise when they saw many in the more lowa ny where f rom 6 lying areas reported inches to a foot of t was just the untimely water com i ng i nto water surging through their basements. their streets. combination ... Since “There have been “I was not expectSandy, this was the so ma ny ca rs that ing this,” Roger Genhave been damaged,” dron, president of the highest water level Assembly ma n Ph il New Hamilton Beach Goldfeder (D-RockaCiv ic A ssociat ion , we’ve seen.” way Park) said. said. “I didn’t expect it — Nelson Vaz, meteorologist with the Coastal flooding is to come up as quickly National Weather Service not a n u ncom mon and as high as it did.” occurrence in these T h e u n ex p e c t e d rush of water caused a soggy commute for areas; that’s why many will check the tide some and the f looding of many cars charts. Some communities are more susceptible throughout Old Howard Beach and Hamilthan others. ton Beach. So how come the damage was much more The new side of Howard Beach and Lindenwood had little to no cases of flooding in widespread this time around? As Nelson Vaz, a meteorologist with the that two-day time span. Monday’s high tide hit just after 8 a.m. National Weather Service, explained, a winand very soon after that the community ter storm was to blame. Associate Editor

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First Street in Hamilton Beach saw several inches of water surge through the entire block Monday and Tuesday morning. The flooding came into some people’s homes and damaged many vehicles PHOTO BY COLLEEN CESARSKY during the two-day span. “It stayed far enough away so that we didn’t get a lot of snow but we did have strong winds,” Vaz said. “It was over a large portion of the oceans and was pushing the water toward the coast.” The winter storm was estimated to bring close to 6 inches of the white stuff to

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As the flood waters rushed through Hamilton Beach and Old Howard Beach, residents took to social media to express their frustrations with the onslaught of water. Many residents found their basements flooded or their vehicles destroyed. These are just some of the scenes that could be found throughout South Queens Monday to Tuesday as the high tides rushed ashore. Thanks to our readers for sending us their Q photos and allowing us to use them. — Anthony O’Reilly

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Danny Dromm, right, was one of 40 City Council members to vote in favor of pay raises for elected officials and other reforms in the legislative body last Friday. Paul Vallone, left, Elizabeth Crowley and Eric Ulrich were three of the seven members who opposed the measures. FILE PHOTOS

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cutting of the ribbon on the restaurant with owner Billy Ng, third from right, and Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing), right. Above, Addabbo poses with the Ng family. HaNa offers popular Asian culinary options, including an extensive list of sushi rolls, Thai food and more. To place an order, you can call (718) 835-6888 or head to hanaasianbistrony. com to look at the menu.

FDNY: Woman rescued from ice An unidentified woman is warming up at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center after she fell through the ice and into Lawrence Strack Memorial Pond in the Woodhaven section of Forest Park on Tuesday evening, the FDNY said. According to the Fire Department, the woman walked onto the ice and fell through during the mid-afternoon. Witnesses said the woman appeared to be a young adult. During the rescue, there were dozens of emergency vehicles lined up on Woodhaven Boulevard and helicopters f lew

overhead until the woman was pulled out shortly after NYPD and FDNY personnel arrived at the scene. She was treated near the pond and was later transferred to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center for further evaluation. An FDNY spokesman said Tuesday afternoon they originally did not know if the woman was the only victim in the pond. Police are still investigating how the woman got onto the ice and how she fell Q through. — Anthony O’Reilly

Crowley, Vallone and Ulrich voted against the pay hike for electeds by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

The personal coffers of City Council members and other elected officials will be filling faster than ever thanks to a series of measures approved by the body last Friday. The legislative body voted 40-7 to bump the salaries of its members from $112,500 to $148,500 — a 32 percent pay hike — over $10,000 more than was recommended by the New York City Quadrennial Commission late last year, which called for increasing a Council person’s salary to $138,315. The vote count was 40-7, with Queens r e p r e s e n t a t i ve s E l i z a b e t h C r ow l e y (D-Glendale), Paul Vallone (D-Bayside) and Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) among those opposing the measure. The package of bills also eliminates bonuses called “lulus” given to Council committee chairs, makes the role of Council person a full-time job and imposes limits on income made outside one’s position as a city lawmaker. Sponsored by City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito (D-Man hattan, Bronx) and Brad Lander (D-Brooklyn), Resolution 0971 allows only for income made from investments, pensions, Social Security, copyright royalties, speaking engagements, artistic performances, teaching and “minimal earned income from activity involving only a limited time commitment” that does not interfere with lawmaking duties. The legislation will not kick in until 2018 for Council members who inform Mark-Viverito by March 1 of the outside income they are receiving. Other elected officials including Mayor

de Blasio and each borough’s district attorney and president will also see their pay increased, although the mayor said he would not accept the raise unless re-elected to a second term in 2017. The exact salaries after the raises will be: • $258,750 for the mayor; • $212,800 for district attorneys; • $209,050 for the comptroller; • $184,800 for the public advocate; • $179,200 for borough presidents; and • $164,500 for the Council speaker. Speaking to Community Board 4 on Tuesday night, Councilman Danny Dromm (D-Jackson Heights) said the body’s cracking down on outside income is partially in response to recent corruption scandals in the state Legislature, something he believes the bills may prevent on a city level. “In the long run, I voted for it because I believe that we must pay people well and we must limit their outside income in order to have good government,” Dromm said. “I view this as more of being a good government practice that I think, in the long run, will benefit our communities in ways never seen before.” When it comes to voting for a raise more than $10,000 over what the commission called for, Dromm said its recommendation didn’t consider the significant loss of outside income for colleagues like Peter Koo (D-Flushing), the owner of a successful pharmacy chain, or Vallone, a lawyer. “The commission didn’t really take that into account,” he said. “They did a cost of living increase.” In a Monday statement, Vallone said he voted against the bill because he didn’t believe good government reforms should continued on page 18

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Feds investigating Sanders complaint Source was interviewed by the FBI; Rockaway couple alleges shakedown by Michael Gannon and Anthony O’Reilly Editor / Associate Editor

A source close to state Sen. James Sanders Jr. (D-South Ozone Park) has confirmed that he was interviewed by the FBI in recent weeks regarding the senator’s allocation of discretionary city funding when he was a councilman. The information comes as Sanders is vehemently denying allegations by two Rockaway gardeners in Sunday’s New York Post that he sought a kickback in order to secure discretionary funding for their community agricultural organization in September 2012. The Chronicle’s source said he was interviewed by federal agents in recent weeks in regard to an investigation of how Sanders allocated city discretionary funds to community nonprofit groups. Sanders was a councilman from 2002 to 2013. The Post reported the existence of that investigation, citing former Sanders staffer Michael Duvalle and other unnamed sources on Sunday. But its larger story was based on allegations by Malisa Rivera and Marion Moses that Sanders in 2012 offered to fund their group to the tune of $1.7 million, allegedly in return for a kickback of $250,000.

Moses in January is reported to have filed a complaint with the office of Preet Bharara, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. He and Rivera are the founders of Culinary Kids, Culinary Arts Initiatives, which operates community gardens and strives to teach children the importance of agriculture and of fresh, nutritious produce as part of a healthy diet. A spokesman for Bharara on Monday would neither confirm nor deny the existence of any investigation into the senator. Neither Rivera nor Moses responded to requests for interviews made by telephone and email. They reportedly claim to have met with then-Councilman Sanders on Sept. 25, 2012 in his Far Rockaway office to discuss getting funding for their various agriculturerelated projects. They allege that now-Councilman Donovan Richards (D-Laurelton) was in the office that day and that a second staffer was in the room for the beginning of the conversation with Sanders. Richards subsequently was elected to take Sanders’ place on the Council after Sanders defeated legally challenged state Sen. Shirley Huntley in a Democratic primary, which would have taken place the

same month as the incident alleged in the complaint. Moses and R ivera repor tedly have accused Sanders and Richards of blacklisting them with funding agencies. Sanders, who has filed paperwork to challenge U.S. Rep. G regor y Meeks (D-Queens, Nassau), said he had built his career on being a reformer, and that the allegations are being directed at him because of his challenge to Meeks. “This is a politically motivated, slanderous hit piece,” Sanders said in his statement, noting that the charges are more than three years old. A ranking Queens Democrat, who asked not to be identified, believes the allegations are “definitely a hit at Sanders’ run for Congress,” where Meeks still reportedly has party backing, particularly among leaders in Southeast Queens. The senator said that he has had only brief conversations with Moses and Rivera, and that none of them were about financing. He said the allegations would not go unanswered. A spokeswoman for Sanders on Monday declined to comment beyond Sunday’s statement, but a source later said that the senator did make good on his stated intention to visit Bharara’s office. All such complaints are sworn out under

State Sen. James Sanders Jr. said that allegations accusing him of corruption are motivated by FILE PHOTO his intention to run for Congress. oath, and in his statement Sanders offered to take a polygraph, or lie detector, test. “These specious allegations cannot go unanswered,” Sanders said. “There are laws afoot, and one of them is called perjury. We are calling on U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara to enforce the law on perjury, the law on giving a false statement.” continued on page 21

Coastal floods slam S. Queens

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continued from page 12 new moon tides, created the above-average water levels — in other words, if the storm didn’t exist, most blocks wouldn’t have been flooded the way they were. “It was just the untimely combination. The combination of the two resulted in more widespread coastal flooding than areas in southern Queens and Brooklyn are used to,” the meteorologist said. “Since Sandy, this was the highest water level we’ve seen.” When asked how likely it was that a new moon tide would be perfectly timed with a storm, Vaz couldn’t provide an exact response. “It’s not that it can’t happen, but this is kind of an infrequent event,” he said. Goldfeder almost wishes there was someone or something tangible to blame for the f looding, rather than having it caused by Mother Nature. “It’s frustrating for most people when the answer is, well that’s just the way it happens,” he said. “The amount of water just inundated the system.” And there was a lot of anger from Howard Beach and Hamilton Beach residents, most of it voiced on social media. “I’ve never heard so many people saying ‘I’m getting tired of this’ as I’m hearing right now,” Gendron said of Hamilton Beach residents. “Never.” He noted the coastal flooding, when it

continued from page 16 unfairly delineate which money-making professions a lawmaker can and can’t get involved in; that a fair, across-the-board cap would be a better solution. “I voted against the bill because I oppose a raise above the commission’s recommendation and wanted an across the board cap of 15 percent on all outside income with no exceptions,” Vallone said. “Tr ue good gover n ment reforms do not prohibit income from certain professions while per mitting other forms of income. A simple and fair cap on all income with no exceptions at 15 percent would have achieved this balance.” In a joint statement issued Monday, the City Council’s Republican delegation — made up of Ulrich, Steven Matteo (RStaten Island) and Joe Borelli (R-Staten Island) — objected to the vote. “There is a critically important reason the city charter requires any changes to salaries for elected officials be evaluated and ultimately recommended by an independent body: because there is an inherent and obvious conf lict of interest in having to vote oneself a pay raise,” they said. “We felt the salary recommendations made by the Quadrennial Commission were the starting point of a public conversation about our jobs and our compensation.

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does reach homes, is “without a doubt” getting worse every time it happens. So what, if anything, can be done about future flooding? Not much, according to Goldfeder. “At the end of the day, I don’t think there is anything we can do or build that can prevent it from happening. We just have to be vigilant to be prepared for when it happens again,” he said. Gendron did propose some ideas for capital projects that could protect areas such as his, including the placement of a flood wall and berms surround the affectQ ed communities.

“However, once it became clear that the proposed legislation by the Council would go beyond those recommendations,” the lawmakers continued, “it precluded any potential support from our delegation.” In a Monday statement, Councilman Ror y Lancman (D -Fresh Meadows) agreed with Dromm, saying the legislation may cut down on financial malfeasance in city government. “The raise appropriately provides council members with a professional salary comparable to members of the executive and judicial branches of government,” Lancman said. “The pros of eliminating outside employment (no potential conf licts of interests) outweighed the cons (further narrowing the professional backgrounds of members). “And the same was true of lulus,” he continued, “limiting a future speaker’s ability to reward or punish members with taxpayer money outweighs the loss of extra income for members with extra responsibility.” Crowley could not be reached for comment by press time, while a spokesperson for District Attorney Richard Brown did not return a Chronicle email about the pay raises. Borough President Melinda Katz was in favor of the pay raises, according to Q spokeswoman Sharon Lee.

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Put Neno Morris in a large, institutional kitchen, and the retired staff sergeant is in his element. Last Thursday, the group Furthering Fathering, Inc. brought him to one of the culinar y ar ts classrooms at Jamaica’s August Martin High School. His charges this time were not green soldiers in the New Jersey Army National Guard, but men from Queens with an interest in Morris’ view of meal preparation as a loving act of fatherhood. “A father preparing a meal for his children creates quality family time,” Morris said. I’m not talking about going out to eat every night or heating up TV dinners. I want to teach cooking — the love of cooking — for a family.” Morris said that can be particularly important for single fathers. The program is part of the Healing the 100 initiative, cosponsored by Furthering Fathering and the office of City Councilman Ruben Wills (D-Jamaica). Jeremy Maynard, the CEO and cofounder of Furthering Fathering, said the group has been teaming with Wills’ office and staff to strengthen fatherhood in the community and to create a cycle of generational responsibility. They have hosted a series of workshops on subjects from fathering tips to legal and financial counseling. Maynard said Morris is a member who approached him at a recent seminar. “He said he wanted to do some cooking

classes,” Maynard said. Morris said his own father left when he was 6, and that in time he came to be a single father with two children. “I didn’t have a role model to teach me how to be a man, how to be a father,” he said. He eventually was forced out of the National Guard on disability after 24 years of service after being wounded in the Middle East. Some of the men present were from community organizations interested in the presentation. Others were fathers wanting to take advantage of the program. “All I can cook is eggs,” one said. “Not a problem,” Morris assured him. “I like eggs!” Morris said good, balanced, nutritious meals need not be overly elaborate or timeconsuming to prepare. Thursday’s menu was intended to be spaghetti and meatballs with sauce made from scratch. Time constraints forced the group to use sauce from a jar and brown the ground beef to make a traditional meat sauce. But Morris guided the class through the meal from supermarket — “If you see a dented can, don’t buy it ... Check expiration dates. If something is expired, don’t put it back on the shelf. Bring it to the store manager” — to the dinner plate. The men donned improvised aprons and discussed seasonings, how to properly chop bell peppers safely and how to tell when sauteed onions are just right to come off the heat. Morris also talked about many aspects of continued on page 21

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continued from page 18 Sanders also said that the aide allegedly in the room for part of the conversation already had left his staff by the date in question. He added that Culinary Kids does not have a 501(c)3 certificate, and therefore is not recognized as a nonprofit by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. He said this means “the group could not have received discretionary funding in the first place.” Sanders’ statement also said that: • city capital money, with all the restrictions attached to it, is the hardest to distribute and “would be the most difficult money to do any skullduggery with”; and • the city’s budget had already been finalized on July 1, more than two months before the reported meeting date. “There is no way I could have given them any money,” he added. R ich a r d s , c o nt a c t e d Mo nd ay, declined to comment other than to confirm that the lack of 501(c) 3 status made Council funding impossible. Emails obtained by the Chronicle, which are public records, purport to show that Richards’ office and Parks Department officials were in contact with the organization as late as this Q past Nov. 12.

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While Community Board 4 has yet to be presented with the Department of Transportation’s plans for bike lanes on Queens Boulevard, members of the public have spoke out vehemently both for and against them at the board’s last few meetings. But Cou ncil ma n Da n ny D rom m (D-Jackson Heights) is urging board members to have an open mind when it comes to the proposal, saying western sections of Queens Boulevard within the district of Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) have benefited from the installation of bike lanes. “I want you to keep an open mind as we all should,” Dromm said. “From what I understand in Councilman Van Bramer’s district, the safety implementations have really helped an awful lot and have helped to make that area of Queens Boulevard much safer.” On a lighter note, a board member asked the city to hold off on the bike lane proposal until after Donald Trump wins the presi-

Councilman Danny Dromm, left, discusses the possibility of bike lanes on Queens Boulevard within Community Board 4’s PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA jurisdiction. dential election in order to get his input. Dromm chuckled as he declared he is not supporting the Republican candidate before seriously addressing the uncanny question. “I don’t mean to confront you on this but Donald Trump is a racist and he violates everything we stand for,” Dromm said. Q “And I won’t tolerate it.”

Cooking continued from page 20 health, from cleaning as you go in the kitchen to reading ingredient labels carefully, especially for sodium and various types of sugar, all of which he said can contribute to hypertension, diabetes and other health problems; and kitchen safety, an essential concern, he said, when dealing with things like sharp knives, open cans — “Push the lids in so no one cuts themselves” — and gas stoves. He said even the original plan for sauce and meatballs from scratch would have taken no more than about 90 minutes for family fare. Maynard said he would like the cooking unit to become a regular or at least semi-regular offering for the group, provided it can have kitchen facilities available. No new date is set, but he said men who did not attend the first class will be more than welcome to come to future lessons, and can get further information either by calling Wills’ district or legislative offices, or by contacting Furthering Fatherhood either by phone at 1 (888) 380-3370 or email at info@furtheringfathering.org. Morris, taking an optimistic view, is looking forward to it. “Next time,” he said, ”we’re making Q chicken!”

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Queens may be pulling in tourists, young entrepreneurs and businesses at a remarkable rate, according to Borough President Melinda Katz, but Brooklyn and Manhattan are still on top when it comes to Mayor de Blasio’s $82 billion preliminary budget. On Monday, the Borough Board unanimously approved a 97-page draft of expense and capital priorities compiled by Katz’s staff, with a sizable bump in funding requested for a myriad of services Queens officials say are vital to the growth of the borough. With a smirk on her face, Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley (D-Glendale) said the continued lower level of funding for Queens compared to the other four boroughs is getting too frustrating. “In each and every category, Queens is getting less,” Crowley said. “We should protest this budget, all the Council members from Queens, until we get our fair share. We’ve been growing so quickly.” In addition to calling for the creation of a 116th Precinct and an increase in officers for the 106th Precinct, Katz’s office is asking de Blasio to allow for the addition of 20 employees on her staff as well as a raise in funding for the borough’s community boards.

Richard Lee, Borough President Melinda Katz’s budget director, explains where Queens lacks in terms of funding in Mayor de Blasio’s preliminary Fiscal Year 2017 budget during a meeting of PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA the Borough Board on Monday. “The 14 community boards in Queens serve an increasingly multiethnic and multilingual community. Yet, the Fiscal Year 2017 preliminary budget estimates that Queens’ community boards receive the lowest per capita support out of the five boroughs,” Katz’s report, compiled by Queens budget director Richard Lee and his staff, reads. “In addition, the community boards

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continued from page 22 new residents, workers and visitors to the area requires the proportional increase in services. “The more than 75-year-old building that houses the 110th Precinct faces significant structural deficiencies,” the report continues. “There is chronic flooding, loose bricks and the lack of parking facilities.” The allocation of funds for services rendered to both the elderly and young children is severely lacking, according to Borough Hall, as only 22 percent of

senior center sites in the city are located in Queens despite the county having over 300,000 residents over 65. According to Katz’s report, the borough is home to only 52 of the city’s 237 senior centers, while the Bronx — which has a 50 percent smaller elderly population — has 44 facilities. When it comes to EarlyLearn sites for toddlers, there are just 46 in Queens to serve the 59,070 children under 5 years old living below 200 percent of the federal poverty line. To compare, there are 109 sites in the Bronx for 65,899 kids and 96 locations in Manhattan for its 28,599 children eligible Q for EarlyLearn services.

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The commanding officer of the NYPD’s 103rd Precinct said all possible resources are being used to identify and catch perpetrators in three recent shootings in Jamaica. “Nobody was hurt, but that’s still three too many,” Inspector John Cappelmann said Tuesday night at the regular monthly meeting of the 103rd Precinct Community Council. Cappelmann said a shooting on 185th Street took place the night of the Super Bowl. “We found a car with 12 to 15 shots in it,” he said. “That’s troubling.” While no one was believed to have been

CO says three cases under investigation wounded in the incident, Cappelmann also said the intended victim “didn’t stick around to talk to us.” On a lighter note, the CO received thanks from James Dean of the New York City chapter of the ASPCA for the role his officers played in rescuing a goat and a young bull that recently escaped unpleasant fates when they fled a slaughter house. With the goat, officers from the 103rd pooled money to purchase the animal, who is now living out his remaining days peacefully.

A few days later, Cappelmann was on his way back from the State of the Borough Address at Queens College when radio chatter mentioned the bull. “We thought it was a joke,” he said. But he arrived at the scene and saw the animal trot past a small shopping mall and into a nearby parking garage, where cops were able to keep him contained until proper personnel came by to lasso the beast. A man from New Jersey rescued the bull Q the next day.

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The proposed TWA Flight Center Hotel has been cleared for takeoff by the Borough Board. The panel voted unanimously on Monday to support the renovation of the long-unused building at Kennedy Air por t into a 505-guestroom hotel with 40,000 feet of conference and meeting room space, six to eight eateries and a 10,000-squarefoot observation deck T h e $ 265 m i l l io n p r oje c t i s expected to break ground this summer and create 3,700 construction and permanent jobs, with the hotel opening for business by 2020. According to Hardy Adasko, the senior vice president of the New York City Economic Development Corp., a job fair and an advertising campaign will be held in the near future to make Queens residents aware of the thousands of employment opportunities presented by the c o m p l e x ’s c o n s t r u c t i o n a n d opening. “The intention is to start immediately after the completion of the public review process,” Ad asko Q said. — Christopher Barca

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CB 6 panel skeptical over Alderton changes Don’t move forward with the one-way proposal just yet: Dereszewski by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

Speeding drivers aren’t the only ones Community Board 6’s Transportation Committee wants to slow down on Alderton Street in Rego Park. They want the Department of Transportation to put the proverbial car in park too. After a lengthy discussion last Wednesday about the pros and cons of possibly converting the narrow two-way street into a one-way operation going east and then south along a part of or the entire roadway, the panel decided to revisit the project only if other traffic-calming measures like speed bumps, lights or parking restrictions were studied first. According to committee chairman John Dereszewski, a number of proposals for the roadway have been floated, including making Alderton a one-way its entire length, doing so only between Woodhaven Boulevard and Fleet Street, leaving it alone or keeping it a two-way operation but limiting parking to just one side of the road. Dereszewski said the number of motorists driving east and then south towards Yellowstone Boulevard barely outnumbers the ones heading toward Woodhaven Boulevard, which begs one huge question. “When the DOT said there’s only slightly

Community Board 6 Transportation Committee Chairman John Dereszewski, center, discusses a handful of proposals regarding the restructuring of Alderton Street in Rego Park with board PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA members and DOT planner Vikram Sinha, top left. more traffic going south, the question here is what happens to traffic going in the opposite direction?” Dereszewski said. “Where would the northbound traffic be if you’re going to do that? You’ll have to go to Woodhaven.” Alderton Street resident Steve Goldberg, the board’s planning and zoning committee chair, said taking away parking on one side

of the street would be “a major headache” to the hundreds of people living on the block. Fellow board member Peter Beadle touched on complaints of speeding on the block, saying the removal of northbound traffic could only increase the problem. “A one-way that becomes a much wider lane of travel may cause people, without thinking, to go faster,” Beadle said.

Dereszewski agreed, saying it could “wind up making a much bigger problem.” Richard West, an Alderton Street resident attending the meeting, said he thought making the road a one-way along with the installation of speed bumps and daylighting at problematic intersections such as 63rd Drive would make it safer for drivers and pedestrians alike. “It may not be dangerous from a crash perspective,” West said of the street, “but it certainly feels dangerous.” In an email to the Chronicle on Saturday, a Forest Hills resident who drives along Alderton Street frequently said he’s also in favor of the one-way proposal. “I’ve had several near misses maneuvering up Alderton,” the resident said. “When I first arrived in Queens in the mid 1980s, I was amazed at not only Alderton but all the nar row two-way streets. In Brooklyn, streets that narrow are and always were one way.” DOT borough planner Vikram Sinha said the agency would only move the plan forward with the approval of the board, but Dereszewski said such an agreement is a long way off at this point. “Look at traff ic calming and better enforcement as a remedy first and then we’ll Q go beyond that.”

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What a relief. It took 12 years and some prodding from community leaders, but Little Bay Park has its long-awaited comfort station. The modern-looking facility, complete with heated bathrooms, opened to the public Thursday. Among those in attendance to help unveil it was state Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside), who secured money for the project back in 2004 when he was a City Council member. “If I have one word to describe this, it’s ‘finally,’” Avella said. Residents expressed similar feelings, frustrated after years of delays due to construction and design issues. Many have long complained about the lack of restroom facilities at the park, which is located on the waterfront, near the border of Bayside and Whitestone. “It was almost like waiting for a baby, for somebody to give birth,” said Warren Schreiber, a member of Community Board 7 and president of the Bay Terrace Community Alliance. “And it’s finally happened.” The comfort station was built as part of a larger, $6.7 million project that included expanding the parking lot at Little Bay Park. Avella and then-Congressman Gary Ackerman secured millions of dollars for the project in 2004, but construction was ham-

pered by a series of issues, including concerns over possible archaeological finds. In the meantime, park-goers were asked to use three portable toilets. Workers broke ground on the comfort station in 2013 but completion was delayed again, this time by extreme weather. The Parks Department said the project also involved removing more dirt than originally anticipated. “It’s no secret this has been a long-awaited project,” Queens Park Commissioner Dorothy Lewandowski said Thursday. Avella, who has been critical of the Parks Department’s handling of the project, joked they had been delaying so they could name it the “Tony Avella Memorial Comfort Station.” But the senator said it has been a worthwhile wait. The parking lot, which was completed in May 2015, features more than 200 spaces. And the 800-foot comfort station, with ventilation and heat, will be open year-round. It is also handicapped accessible. “These additional amenities were something the community really wanted and I trust the park’s popularity will only increase this spring and summer as a result,” he said, while thanking park-goers for their “triedand-true patience.” Little Bay Park sits near the entrance to

Community Board 7 member Warren Schreiber speaks last Thursday at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the comfort station in Little Bay Park as state Sen. Tony Avella, next to him, CB 7 Chairman PHOTO BY MATTHEW BULTMAN Gene Kelty, second from right, and area activists look on. historic Fort Totten, which has become a popular site for events. City Councilman Paul Vallone (D-Bayside) called the comfort station the “last piece of a puzzle that every-

one really needed.” “This is going to be a tremendous asset to the entire community, everybody that comes Q to park,” Schreiber added.

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Developers thinking big in Jamaica JFK Airport, rail hub attracting real estate investment by Michael Gannon Editor

Borough President Melinda Katz is fond of saying that the world comes to Queens. And real estate developers apparently are trying to get ahead of the rush, with The Real Deal, a real estate news website, reporting that the two largest projects filed in December in the city were in Jamaica. The Chronicle reported in January that Artimus Construction of Manhattan is betting on Jamaica’s future in the housing market at 14720 94 Ave., where it plans to build a 26-story, 247-foot apartment building with 380 residential units. The site right now has a two-story building with an attached one-story structure, and houses a businesses called Food Depot. The Real Deal is reporting that Chartwell Hospitality, a hotel management company based in Franklin, Tenn., is planning to open two new hotels at 144-02 135 Ave. The property now is the home of a Hilton Hotel. Chartwell reportedly is looking to construct an 11-story hotel with 362 rooms and a 12-story structure with 183 rooms on the site. Neither Chartwell nor Artimus officials responded to messages left by the Chronicle in the last week, but geography and the marketplace likely are playing huge roles in both decisions. The Artimus project is a two-block walk from the Long Island Rail Road’s Sutphin Boulevard station, leaving residents less than 30 minutes from Midtown Manhattan. The

hub also offers one-stop access to the JFK AirTrain, three subway lines and numerous city bus routes. The Chartwell project is just north of the airport, separated from JFK by only by the Belt Parkway and Conduit Avenue. It also is one of several hotel projects either under construction or in the paperwork stage in Jamaica, with developers looking to be near JFK or the AirTrain in order to tap into the market of more than 50 million visitors who visit New York City each year. Just around the corner from the Artimus lot and across Sutphin Boulevard from the LIRR center is the site of a 24-story, 200-room hotel being planned by Long Island-based Able Management Group. At the airport itself, most civic leaders and elected officials support a proposal to turn the iconic but long-empty TWA terminal at JFK into a hotel with restaurants and a museum. At a public hearing back in December, Barbara Brown of the Eastern Queens Alliance asked if any new hotels were necessary with five already existing near the airport. Tyler Morse, the CEO of MCR Development, said his company would not be committing more than $65 million without having done its homework, which he said included a months-long marketing study during which he said all five hotels mentioned by Brown were operating at full capacity. “There’s a need in the marketplace,” he said. “That’s why we’re comfortable making this investment.” MCR Management wants to bring 500 hotel rooms in two buildings to the airport property itself while renovating and Q preserving the Eero Saarinen-designed terminal.

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Top five home projects to help you save money 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 caul k i ng or weather stripping around doors and windows. Installing a door sweep is also a good idea. • I nsu late 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 air-conditioning unit.

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Fourth time’s the charm. City Comptroller Scott Stringer has signed off on the 30-month, $23.8 million deal between the Department of Homeless Services and Samaritan Village to operate the Boulevard Family Residence at 79-00 Queens Blvd. in Elmhurst as a permanent family shelter. The pact, which had been rejected three times in 2015, was made off icial last Friday. “The Department of Homeless Services has provided the Comptroller’s office with the required documentation that health and safety violations have been cured or that there are plans in place to address those violations at the family shelter located at the Pan American Hotel,” said Stringer spokesman Eric Sumberg in a statement. “As a result, today, the Comptroller’s Office registered the DHS contract with Samaritan Daytop Village for a family shelter at this site.” Filed last month, the contract is retroactive to Dec. 6, 2014. City records show the proposed deal would expire on June 30, 2017. “Samaritan Village has shown to DHS that they plan to cure the health and safety violations at the site,” a source with close knowledge of the situation told the Chronicle

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last Friday. “They have a corrective action plan. They have shown timelines and specific plans.” Unlike this deal, the previous proposed pact between the two entities to operate the 216-unit facility out of the former Pan American Hotel was for five years and $42 million. But a source said only $15 million of the $23.8 million agreement has been registered through June 30. The remaining funds will be registered when the two entities come back to Stringer and prove they have rectified or are in the process of curing any violations at the site. The facility, operated by Samaritan Village, has received numerous violations from the city and dozens of complaints from area residents for a myriad of issues since it opened in June 2014, infuriating neighborhood civic members and elected officials. Stringer first rejected the contract in May, citing unsanitary rodent and insect infestations in the building as well as the improper disposal of garbage. He rejected the proposed deal twice more over the summer, citing unrectified Depa r t ment of Bu ild i ngs v iolat ions regarding work without permits and the structure’s cracking facade high above continued on page 37

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While Queens Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Tom Grech says he doesn’t make political statements, it would seem unlikely that he’d “feel the Bern,” as supporters of democratic socialist Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential run like to say. “I’m a capitalist,” Grech said without reservation during a recent interview. “I want people who join the Queens Chamber of Commerce, whether it’s at the introductory level, the corporate, or the major corporate, to feel that they’re getting their money’s worth — and that’s why I’m so adamant about them being able to reap the benefits of being a chamber member.” And he’s ecstatic about the job he took last July, leading the nearly 1,000-member chamber. “It’s the best job I’ve ever had,” he said. “I love every minute of it.” Just as Borough President Melinda Katz has her mantra “If it’s good for families, it’s good for Queens,” Grech says, “If it’s good for businesses in Queens, it’s good for the Queens Chamber of Commerce.” One way he’s working to make sure members get the best bang for their buck is focusing on the chamber’s committees, such as those for energy, real estate, manufacturing, education and restaurants and hospitality that zero in on one sector of the economy. Among the new panels being established now are ones for the nonprofit sector and healthcare and wellness, and the Information Technology Committee

will be renamed and refocused. “I think the committees are a great way to engage people,” Grech said. Grech is an Astoria native — his parents were introduced at the 16th birthday party of future City Council Speaker Peter Vallone Sr. — and now lives in Malverne, LI. He comes from the energy sector, most recently handling business development for CCI Energy Solutions, a firm that helps building owners and managers convert from heavy heating oil to cleaner alternatives including natural gas. Regarding energy production, Grech said he likes the use of geothermal heating, which uses buried water pipes to draw heat from below ground, and that in 30 years or so technology will allow solar and wind power to be more competitive with fossil fuels. He thinks that “over the course of time” New York State should allow hydrofracking for natural gas in certain areas upstate, a position opposed by most city officials fearful of water contamination; and that the Indian Point nuclear power station should not be shut down until another source is online to provide 25 percent of the city’s electricity, as the plant does. Energy of another kind is something Grech exudes, with his rapid speech and quick answers to every question posed to him during the interview with the Queens Chronicle editorial board. Asked about the new city law barring supermarkets that buy out competitors from firing any employees for 90 days, Grech said continued on page 37

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continued from page 34 the sidewalk. The lack of kitchen units in each dwel l i ng v iolat e s New York Cit y Administrative Code, but the sources told the Chronicle that Samaritan Village has pledged to convert the Boulevard Family Residence into a compliant Tier II shelter, complete with kitchen units, a daycare center, a playground and outdoor recreation activities. While the structure still violates city law, the Briarwood-based human service agency’s detailed plan to rectify the issues in short order meant Stringer’s office could not reject the deal based on the present lack of kitchen units. Councilman Danny Dromm (D-Jackson Heights) told the Chronicle Tuesday night he was not informed of Samaritan Village’s plan to do so and that he questions how viable the plan for kitchen units is. But Stringer’s approval was something he’s been expecting for a while now. “ I k n ew t h i s wa s goi n g t o b e approved in the end. I have moved away from that issue. They’re my constituents. I need to take care of them,”

Dromm said. “It may not be the greatest of accommodations in the world but we don’t have another place to put them.” Accord i ng t o Re p. G r ace Meng (D-Flushing), a meeting of elected officials to discuss the shelter was held earlier this week, but Dromm said he was not invited to it. In a Monday statement, state Sen. Toby Stavisky (D-Flushing), who represents that part of Elmhurst, said she was “ d i s m a y e d ” a t t h e c o n t r a c t ’s registration. “While I still have concerns — there are hundreds of children being sent to School District 24, the most overcrowded district in the city, and the building has been hit with a number of violations — I understand the comptroller has exercised all of his options and I thank him for his commitment,” Stavisky said. The hotel was converted into a homeless shelter in June 2014 with little to no notif ication being given to the surrounding community or area elected officials. The controversy sparked multiple protests outside the facility, with one drawing more than 1,000 people to that stretch of Queens Boulevard. The DHS did not respond to an inquiry for comment by press time Wednesday. Q

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mom-and-pop merchants and other entrepreneurs firsthand. “It would behoove anybody that’s involved with setting policy in the City of New York to go out and understand the true need of the business people, the people who own businesses, who put their life savings at risk to go do the things they do,” he said. On one issue always controversial in Queens, Grech said he does not believe the borough is overdeveloped, “as it stands now.” But he said infrastructure such as the subway system does need to be improved as more large buildings go up. Asked about Katz’s touting of Jamaica as a place ripe for revitalization — and the concern that the area has been called the next big thing in the past, without seeing the promised turnaround — he said her focus on it will make the difference. “I’m a big fan, a big believer in what Borough President Katz is trying to do,” he said. “I think she’s dead-on right and focused on getting Jamaica developed.” One thing he’s not a big fan of is the influx to New York of Connecticut officials “with bags full of money to cover relocation expenses” trying to get businesses here to move there. And “the funny part,” he added, is that the Constitution State runs radio ads trying to lure businesses by saying they’ll be near to New York. “My perspective is, why leave Q in the first place?”

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The year of victory for Asian Americans Schools being closed on Lunar New Year was a cause for celebration by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

As a public school student, Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing) couldn’t understand why she had to be in class on the Lunar New Year. As an assemblywoman in 2009, she was laughed at when she introduced legislation that would make it a public school holiday. She never thought a day like Monday would happen — when all city public schools were closed for the Asian new year. “As a parent, I spent the day with my kids,” Meng said in a phone interview. “I was very, very happy to have them be off.” For Christopher Kui, executive director of Asian Americans for Equality, Feb. 8 was not just a day for Asian Americans to celebrate the long fought for accomplishment, but for people of all ethnicities to come together and learn about the tradition. “Although Lunar New Year is popular, a lot of people still don’t know what it’s about,” Kui said. The Lunar New Year, primarily celebrated in China, marks the start of a new calendar based on the cycle of the moon. According to that count, we are in the year 4714 — a Year of the Monkey. For families, the night before the new year is a time for gathering and festivities. “We all get together and eat food and celebrate,” Meng said. “It’s almost like a Christmas Eve-type celebration.” During years the holiday fell on a weekday, Asian-American parents faced the dilemma of continuing the celebration — in China it can go on for the whole week, or even a month — or sending their children to school, as Meng’s family did. “We would celebrate until late in the evening so I was often tired at school,” she said. The same was true for Mitchell Wu,

It was a very happy new year for the Asian community in Queens and the other boroughs, as public schools were closed on Monday in observance of Lunar New Year. The accomplishment was FILE PHOTO celebrated in the days leading up to the holiday. program manager for the Coalition for Asian American Children & Families. “My parents would send me to school because you didn’t want to miss a test or an important lesson,” Wu said. Now Wu will no longer face that decision as a public school parent. “It’s very exciting,” he said. But, as Public Advocate Letitia James pointed out at a press conference last Friday, that didn’t happen overnight.

Meng was one of the first to propose such legislation. “People told me I was crazy for even introducing it,” she said. Slowly, but surely, the idea was backed by fellow legislators who pushed for its passing. The bill was reintroduced by her succ e s s o r i n t h e A s s e mbly, Ro n K i m (D-Flushing). Meng always hoped the measure would prove to be unnecessary.

“I always publicly stated I thought the best way to do it was through the mayor and the chancellor,” she said. “I was very, very happy, unexpectedly, when Mayor de Blasio announced it last year.” It was in Flushing, at PS 20, where de Blasio made that announcement last year. That school would see close to 75 percent of its students absent if Lunar New Year fell on a weekday. There was jubilation among those present at that press conference, unlike the disappointment they felt in March when de Blasio announced students would be off for the two Muslim Eid holidays, but not for the Lunar New Year. Meng said she was happy to see the Eid days marked as days off in the school calendar, but “surprised” it didn’t include the day she had pushed so hard for. “It had often been a parallel discussion,” she said of getting all three days off. To accommodate the holiday, the public school system turned two half days on the school calendar into a full day, keeping the state-required 180 days of instruction intact. At James’ press conference last week, hosted at the Flushing Library on Main Street, she thanked all the ethnic groups that pushed for the holiday — she, too, was a supporter of the idea. “Today, we celebrate the commitment and advocacy of all those who made this historic moment possible for our city,” she said. The next group to face a challenge in getting a school holiday are Hindus, who have been fighting to have their children off during Diwali. Meng, along with many Asian and ethnic advocates, have indicated their support for having Diwali as a public school Q holiday.

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The Queens Borough Board confirmed one of the worst-kept secrets in the city on Tuesday when it advocated for the creation of a new 116th Precinct to serve areas such as Laurelton, Rosedale and surrounding areas. The 105th Precinct right now covers Eastern Queens along the border with Nassau County from the Grand Central Parkway down to John F. Kennedy International Airport. The Borough Board’s preliminary budget request states, as it has for years, that there is just too much area to be covered by a single precinct. The new precinct would be carved out of the southern end of the 105th. “The 105th Precinct has the largest land area in New York City,” the report states on page 84. “Police vehicles travel more than

1,000 miles per week currently as a result of the distance within precinct boundaries.” A satellite station in Rosedale houses the Queens South Task Force Headquarters, but the report says, as residents and officials have for years, that it does not offer the same service as a full precinct “Funding is required to create the 116th Precinct (the precinct number has already been reserved) to reduce response times and increase personnel in Southeast Queens,” the entry concluded. The conventional wisdom among residents, civic and elected leaders is that a new precinct will go nowhere without the full approval of both the Mayor’s Office and the NYPD. Councilman Donovan Richards (D-Laurelton) less than two weeks ago wrote a letter to Mayor de Blasio urging him to make a Q new precinct a priority.

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The Flushing YMCA has reaffirmed its intention to be part of Flushing Commons, downplaying any suggestion that it might be wavering on the project. The YMCA has been long considered to be a prominent part of the 1.8 million-square-foot mixed-use development. But some questions were raised recently when its members began receiving questionnaires asking if the move would be a good idea. In an interview last week, Paul Custer, the senior vice president of government relations for the YMCA of Greater New York, said the nonprofit still intends to be part of Flushing Commons. The study was part of the nonprofit’s efforts to create the best plan for the project, he said. “We wanted to have as much input as possible while we’re still in the conceptual design phase,” he said. Flushing Commons has been touted as a welcome addition to Downtown, delivering about 600 residential units, office condos and retail. The five-acre complex on former Municipal Parking Lot 1, which broke ground in mid-2014, will also include green space and underground parking when it is complete. Part of the developers’ deal with the city required the project have a community use facility. It has long been planned the YMCA would fill that role, running a 62,000-squarefoot center with indoor swimming pool, basketball courts and fitness centers. The facility is to be part of the second phase of construction, which could begin late next year. “The possible new Flushing YMCA ... will contain all of the features and programs of a state-of-the-art, modern-era YMCA community center,” read the group’s mailer, which asked members whether the move would be a great idea, good idea or bad idea. It also asked, among other things, whether the move would be convenient for members and if they would visit the new YMCA more often than the current facility, which is inside an aging building on Northern Boulevard, not far from the Flushing Commons site. Michael Meyer, president of F&T Group,

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Only a dozen yards from the foot of a waterfall, a foreboding desert bears few signs of life. But, with a few flicks of the wrist, a stand of cacti takes root. The “Connected Worlds” permanent exhibit at the New York Hall of Science in Corona puts the science of sustainability into an interactive animated display. The exhibit is projected onto six 14-foottall screens and the floor space between them. A seventh screen, rising 40 feet high, commands the room. Tying them together is a network of computers connected to Microsoft Kinects — infrared sensors intended for use with the Xbox gaming consoles, which are used for location tracking and gesture sensing. The screens show several environs — the desert, wetlands, rainforest, mountain valley, reservoir and grasslands. The towering screen displays a waterfall, which plays a pivotal role in the exhibit, as the main source of water for the entire “world.” With the use of “logs” in the form of photo-reflective padded cylinders, guests are meant to divert the flow of the water into streams that flow over the main floor into the various habitats, paying attention to which locales need it most. Meanwhile, other patrons are conjuring seeds for various plants by holding their palms upturned to the sky and sowing them by letting them “fall” to the ground. The success of their labor depends on whether the soil is hydrated enough, as well as other factors. The flora in this artificial world scales up in complexity. From small ferns to menacing brambles, polymorphic trees to walking reeds, they all depend on one another to survive. As the plant life diversifies, so too do the creatures. They begin small and simple but grow to enormous sizes, and even migrate to different biomes if multiple systems are stable. Anteater-like animals teeter on two legs, traveling in herds. Hummingbirds become airborne transports for ever-needed water.

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W H AT ’ S H A P P E N I N G EXHIBITS Art in the Garden — “Portraits of Tall Friends”: A valentine in sculpture and photography, inspired by the amazing, abstract beauty of trees. Tues., Feb. 16 thru Thurs., March 31. Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main St., Flushing. Free with admission: $4; $3 seniors; $2 students. Contact: Anne Tan-Detchkov (718)886-3800, info@queensbotanical.org. “Connected Worlds,” interactive exhibit exploring the interconnectedness of different environments — jungle, desert, wetlands, mountain valley, reservoir, and plains — and the impact individual and collective actions have. New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Corona. Weekdays, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m., weekends, 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Last session starts 1/2 hour before closing. Free with admission: $15; $12 children/ students/seniors. Info: (718) 699-0005, nysci.org. “Essence of Queens,” photography by Carlos Esguerra. Feb. 13-May 8, Tues., Sat. and Sun., 1-4 p.m. only. Voelker Orth Museum, 149-19 38 Ave., Flushing. Artists reception, Sat., Feb. 13, 2-4 p.m. Info: (718) 359-6227, vomuseum.org. Black History Month “WEUSI.com,” Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, works by WEUSI Artist Collective members, reminiscent of the Black Arts Movement and highlighting the relevance of AfricanAmerican imagery in a contemporary context. 16104 Jamaica Ave. Thru Mar. 24. Opening reception: Fri., Feb. 19, 6-8 p.m. Free. Contact: Roseann Evans (718) 658-7400, revans@jcal.org. The Reanimation Library; Artist and librarian Andrew Beccone answers questions about this functioning research library and interactive exhibit highlighting visual information. Every Sat. thru Feb. 27, 12-5:30 p.m. Queens Museum, Studio 5, NYC Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Info: (718) 592-9700, queensmuseum.org.

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“Catalyst,” new projects by Meredith James, Kameelah Janan Rasheed and Casey Tang. Looks at how personal and cultural forces form narratives. Thru Feb. 28. Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Suggested $8 adults, $4 students, free under 12. Info: queensmuseum.org. “Hotter Than That — 90 Years of Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five” celebrates the jazz great’s landmark 1925 recordings — the first records created under Armstrong’s name. Thru Oct. Louis Armstrong House Museum, 34-56 107 St., Corona. $10 adults, $7 seniors, students and children, free to LAHM members and kids under 4. Info: (718) 478-8274, LouisArmstrongHouse.org. “The World of Anomalisa,” screening and display of puppets and sets from Golden Globe-nominated film. Thru Mar. 27. “Walkers: Hollywood Afterlives in Art and Artifact,” exploring Hollywood movies as contemporary art. Thru Apr. 10. Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria. $12 adults, $9 seniors and students, $3 kids 3-12. Info: movingimage.us.

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“Hoyeon,” paintings by 15 immigrant Korean member artists of the Hoyeon Art Association of New York. Thru March 12. Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College, Klapper Hall, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing. Mon.-Thurs., 11 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Info: GTMuseum.org.

Valentine’s Day celebration, Sat., Feb. 13, 2 p.m. The Center at Maple Grove, 127-15 Kew Gardens Road, Kew Gardens. Music, food and stories. $5, free for members. Info/RSVP: (347) 878-6614, friendsofmaplegrove.org. Valentine’s Day dance, Sat., Feb. 13, 8 p.m. Italian Charities of America, 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst, $20, includes buffet dinner. RSVP: (718) 478-3100.

THEATRE “Pirate Pete’s Parrot: A High-Seas Adventure for Kids and Adults (without the scurvy).” The Secret Children’s Theatre promises music, mischief and a boatload of laughs; watch as Pirate Pete, a lovable rogue, and his crew embark on a song-filled journey to find his runaway parrot. Sat., Feb. 13 and every other Sat., 2 p.m. The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23 St., Long Island City. $10 children, $15 adults, $40 family 4-pack. Info: (718) 392-0722, secrettheatre.com.

Valentine’s Day Music, Chocolates & Cordials, a musical romance with singer Andrea Wolper. Sun., Feb. 14, 2 p.m. Voelker Orth Museum, 149-19 38 Ave., Flushing. $12; $10 members and students. Info: (718) 3596227, vomuseum.org.

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“Fences,” by August Wilson, Pulitzer Prizewinning exploration of the black experience in 20th-century America, focused on Troy Mason, a garbage man and former star of the Negro baseball leagues. Thurs.-Sat., Feb. 18-20, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Feb. 21, 3 p.m. Jamaica Performing Arts Center, 153-10 Jamaica Singer-songwriter Andrea Wolper will warm up Valentine’s Day Ave. $15, JCAL member $10. Tickets/Info: at the Voelker Orth Museum’s Music, Chocolates & Cordials PHOTO COURTESY VOELKER ORTH MUSEUM celebration. (718) 658-7400 ext. 2300, jcal.org.

MUSIC Twilight concert, Con Brio Ensemble performs works by Romantic composers. Sun., Feb. 14, 4:30 p.m., The Church-in-the-Gardens, 50 Ascan Ave., Forest Hills. $12 pp, $10 students and seniors. Info: (718) 459-1277.

Mack of “Live at Gotham” and more. Wed., Feb. 24, 8-9:30 p.m., The Creek and The Cave, 10-93 Jackson Ave. Long Island City. Free, 18 and over only. Contact: Gideon Hambright, (347) 675-7467, gideon-hambright@hotmail.com.

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The Irish Comedy Tour, featuring Celtic tunes and humor with Derek Richards, Mike McCarthy, Damon Leibert and Derrick Keane. Fri., Feb. 19, 8 p.m. Queensborough Performing Arts Center, 222-05 56 Ave., Bayside. Tickets: (718) 631-6311, visitqpac.org.

“Pinky”: 1949 race drama about a light-skinned African-American woman passing for white, starring Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore and Ethel Waters. Thurs., Feb. 18, 2 p.m., Queens Central Library, 89-11 Merrick Blvd., Jamaica. Free. Info: (718) 990-0700.

Sofia Papazoglou, with Academy of Hellenic Paideia Children’s Chorus, musicians, in “a musical journey from Smyrna to America,” by the Greek Cultural Center. Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, 35-12 35 Ave., Astoria. Tickets: $35, $50, $65. Info: (718) 7267329, info@greekculturalcenter.org.

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DANCE Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Sat., Feb. 13 at 2, 8 p.m.; Sun., Feb. 14, 3 p.m. Queens Theatre, Flushing Meadows Corona Park. $25-42. Info: (718) 760-0064, queenstheatre.org.

COMEDY Jackknife Comedy: Standup with Sam Norton of Snubfest, Aaron Glaser of “Tosh.0,” Mary

Community Singers of Queens is looking for new members for Spring Concert. Rehersals every Mon., 7:30 p.m. Messiah Lutheran Church, 42-15 165 St., Flushing. Contact: Ruth Amsterdam (718) 658-1021.

LECTURES Gendercide: Inclusivity in the Study of Gender, Mass Violence and Genocide, by Professor Adam Jones of University of British Columbia. Relating how gender-selective mass killings historically target noncombatant men. Wed., Feb. 17, 12:10 p.m. Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center and Archives, Queensborough Community College, 22205 56 Ave., Bayside. Free. Info: (718) 281-5770, khra@qcc.cuny.edu, qcc.libguides.com/colloquia.

Star Searchers — Exploring the Night Sky: Interactive astronomy program led by seasoned astronomer Mark Freilich. Q-and-A session, fun and games, outdoor viewing using a professional telescope. Participants may bring their own telescopes and binoculars. Sat., Feb. 20, 7-9 p.m. Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston. Adults, kids ages 9 and up. $15. Info/preregistration: (718) 229-4000, alleypond.com.

Modern Dance at Green Space, by Valerie Green and the principles of body/mind fitness. Thru May 31. Green Space Studio, 37-24 24 St. #301, Long Island City. Prices vary. Info: (718) 956-3037, g reenspacestudio.org. Poetry writing workshop group: Explore the craft of poetry writing, free enrollment, open to all. Every Tues. 1:30-3 p.m., Kew Gardens Community Center, 80-02 Kew Gardens Road. Sponsored by Queens Community House. Info: (718) 268-5960, queenscommunityhouse.org.

SPECIAL EVENTS Mamas summer countdown: Family fun and planning with information on camps, vacation destinations, entertainment, activities, services and specialists available to children this summer. Sun., Feb. 21, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Corona. Free with admission: $15 adults, $12 children, students, seniors; under 2 free. Includes activities, crafts, all-day access to exhibits. Info: themamasexpo.com, events@themamasnetwork.com.

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A rarely performed drama, a rock ’n’ roll musical and a classic comedy are among the anticipated attractions of the borough’s upcoming winter theatrical season, one of the most diverse in recent memory. First out of the gate is the Parkside Players’

production of Tennessee Williams’ timehonored “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” which tells the story of a Southern family in crisis and touches upon such frequent Williams issues as alcoholism, deceit, sexual doubts and impending death. Under the direction of Kevin Schwab, the ensemble cast features Rita Calviel, Cameron

Clarke, Will Frenzel, Melissa Gabriel, Alison Kondel, Dan Lerner, Roger McIlvane, Nick Radu and Lori Santopetro. Performances at Grace Lutheran Church (103-15 Union Tpke. in Forest Hills) are on Feb. 20, 26, and 27 and March 4 and 5 at 8 p.m. and Feb. 21 and 28 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $17, or $15 for seniors.

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Church of the Resurrection, winter treasure bake & book sale. Sat., Feb. 13, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.; Sun. Feb. 14, 11:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. 85-09 118 St. Richmond Hill/Kew Gardens. Used clothing, books, household items, one-of-akind-items, homemade baked goods, snacks and lunch available. Info: (718) 847-2649. Richmond Hill, 117-09 Hillside Ave., every Sun., 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Largest flea market in Queens. Info: (347) 709-7661, richmondhillfleamarket.com. LEES-068859

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MEETINGS AARP: Open to the public. Chapter 1405, Flushing, Bowne St. Community Church, 143-11

Roosevelt Ave., 1st and 3rd Mon. each month, 1 p.m; Chapter 2889, Maspeth, American Legion Hall, 66-28 Grand Ave., 1st and 3rd Wed. each month, noon; contact: (718) 672-9890. Chapter 4163, Ozone Park, Living Word Christian Fellowship Church, 132-05 Cross Bay Blvd., last Tues. each month, noon. Flushing West development public discussion with city officials on affordable housing, jobs, economic opportunities. Today, Feb. 11, 6-8 p.m., Flushing YMCA, 138-46 Northern Blvd. Spanish, Mandarin and Korean interpretation available. Info: (718) 520-2100, flushingwest@planning.nyc.gov. Queens Stamp Club: meets every second, fourth and fifth Thurs. each month. Forest Hills Library, 108-19 71 Ave. All welcome. Info: David Cap (718) 441-1519.

SENIOR ACTIVITIES The Gold Senior Center at Hillcrest Jewish Center, 183-02 Union Tpke., Flushing, every Wed., 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Cultural and recreational programs, socialization. $3 suggested contribution. Contact: Gloria Davidson (201) 264-9515. Howard Beach Senior Center, 155-55 Cross Bay Blvd., across from Stop & Shop. Seminar for help with property taxes, veterans exemptions, SCRIE and DRIE, conducted by the Department of Finance, Thurs., Feb. 18, 10:30 a.m. Basic beginner computer classes every Fri., 10:30 a.m. New craft class, every Fri., 10-11:30 a.m. Art class with certified teacher, every Thurs., 9:30-11:30 a.m. and 12:30-2:30 p.m. Open 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Lunch served at 12 p.m. Info: (718) 738-8100. Bayside Senior Center, 221-Horace Harding Expwy. Trained Medicare specialist available every Wed., 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., must call for app’t. Other activities incude: chair yoga, Tues. and Fri., 9 a.m.; senior singalong, Tues., 12:30 p.m. Open 8 a.m.-4 p.m. English and Chinese spoken. Info: (718) 225-1144. Computer basics for seniors, both in English and Chinese. New semester in English, every Mon., 10 a.m., eight weeks thru Feb. 22. Selfhelp Innovative Senior Center, 45-25 Kissena Blvd., Flushing. Contact: John (718) 559-4329.

SUPPORT GROUPS Gam-Anon is a 12-step program for families of someone with a gambling problem. Call hot line (212) 606-8177. Alcoholics Anonymous, daily meetings around Queens for those with a drinking problem. Info: (718) 520-5021, queensaa.org. GRASP (Grief Recovery After Substance Passing): Find peer-lead grief support for those who have lost a loved one to substance abuse. Meetings held once a month. Info on date, times and location: nycmetrograsp@gmail.com.

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Community theater continued from page 43 world-famous singer to perform his mostrenowned role at the gala season opener, the play has been praised for its rare ability to juxtapose high art with low comedy. The cast includes Shana Aborn, Monica Barczak, Lisa Bondi, Bernard Bosio, Don Gormanly, Joe Paciullo, Alan Perkins and Dolores Voyer, with Erik Neilssen directing. Performances at St. Margaret Parish Hall (66-05 79 Pl. in Middle Village) are on Feb. 27 and March 4 and 12 at 8 p.m. and Feb. 28 and March 6 and 13 at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $18, or $15 for seniors and $12 for children under 11. For more, call (917) 579-5389. A musical that got lots of attention when it opened on Broadway in 2005, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” makes a rare return to the local boards, courtesy of the Marathon Little Theatre Group. With music and lyrics by William Finn and a clever book by Rachel Sheinkin, the show takes place during a fictional middle school spelling bee in which a group of quirky adolescents compete. During the course of the event, real audience members are called upon to get involved. Headlining the cast are Joey Hellmann as William Morris Barfee, Michelle Meditz as Olive Ostrovsky, Elizabeth Shapiro as Rona

Lisa Peretti and Mark York as Vice Principal Douglas Panch. The show is directed by Barbara Auriemma. Musical direction is by Rhea Arkin. Choreography is provided by Jessica Helton. Performances at the Marathon Jewish Community Center (245-37 60 Ave. in Douglaston) are on March 5, 12 and 19 at 8:30 p.m. and March 6, 13 and 20 at 3 p.m. Tickets are $20, or $18 for seniors and children under 12. For more, call (917) Q 647-7526. See Part II of our community theater preview in next week’s qboro.

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FUTURA BROTHERS LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 1/5/16. Office in Queens Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC, 116-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11434. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION of 215-03 REALTY LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/6/15. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 21503 Jamaica Ave., Queens Village, NY 11428. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

BASILE II LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/30/15. Office: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 89-20 130th Street, Richmond Hill, NY 11418. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Getaway Attache, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/9/15. Off. Loc.: Queens Co. SSNY desig. as agt. upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 5-09 48th Ave #6E, LIC, NY, 11101. General Purposes.

Notice of formation of JINGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S REALTY LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/8/16. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to: 39-49 48th Ave., Fl. 3, Sunnyside, NY 11104. Purpose: any lawful act.

Sherpa Partners LLC Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/14/15. Office: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be ser ved. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Sherpa Partners LLC, 5035 41st Street, Sunnyside, NY 11104. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILIT Y COMPANY. NAME: DAMES HOCKEY LLC. Articles of Organization (DOM LLC) were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/23/2015. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to THE LLC, 28-44 35th STREET, APT. B4, ASTORIA, NY 11103. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

GIVAN2 LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/27/16. Office: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 104-20 Queens Boulevard, Apartment 17V, Forest Hills, NY 11375. Purpose : Any law ful purpose.

JOSO REALTY-STILLWATER, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 08/18/15. Office: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 18-60 Corporal Kennedy Street, Bayside, NY 11360. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

TFSE HOLDINGS LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 10/9/15. Office in Queens Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC 25-32 168 St Ste. 4 Flushing, NY 11358. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Elizabeth Road By The Sea LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/11/15. Office in Queens Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served & shall mail process to Glenn Diresto, 173 Schooner St, Arverne, NY 11692. Purpose: General.

Hoverla Trucking LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/14/15. Office in Queens Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served & shall mail process to C/O United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Av Ste 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: General.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 02/03/16, bearing Index Number NC-000993-15/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) KERI (Last) JI. My present name is (First) KERI (Last) BUSBY, AKA KERI ANN BUSBY, AKA KERI A. BUSBY. My present address is 40-19 190th Street, Flushing, NY 11358-2816. My place of birth is KOREA. My date of birth is June 14, 1983.

TINAANDREW LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 07/03/14. Office: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 138 Sussex Drive, Manhasset, NY 11030. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Legal Notices NOTICE OF FORMATION OF TJPS CONSULTING LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/07/2015. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The Limited Liability Company, 39-27 220th St., Bayside, NY 11361. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF FORM ATION OF LIMITED LIABILIT Y COMPANY. N A M E : T R E N DY KO N C E P T S BOU T IQUE L LC. Ar ticles of Organization (DOM. LLC) were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/06/2015. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to Yolanda Johnson, 94-08 23rd Avenue, East Elmhurst, NY 11369. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Unit C5 LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 12/9/15. Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, c/o Wang, Two Bay Club, Apt. 18W, Bayside, NY 11360. General purpose.

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UNITAX CONSULTING LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 6/8/15. Office in Queens Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC 136-11 38th Ave Ste. 2A Flushing, NY 11354. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of formation of Wochen Engineering, PLLC filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/21/2015. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designed as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 69-09 108th St., #508, Forest Hills, NY 11375 Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Knicks fire Fisher by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor

It wasn’t a super Monday for Knicks management as team President Phil Jackson dismissed his handpicked head coach, Derek Fisher, less than two years after he was hired. Jackson cited the fact that the Knicks had lost nine of their previous 10 games as the key factor. Knicks owner James Dolan had to take notice when Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov fired his head coach, Lionel Hollins, right after New Year’s. Hollins had a far more respected coaching resume than the novice Fisher had. And the Nets have bupkis in terms of NBA-caliber talent save for center Brook Lopez and now-injured point guard Jarrett Jack. The Knicks, in comparison, feature perennial superstar Carmelo Anthony, one of the league’s top rookies in Kristaps Porzingis, veteran center Robin Lopez and sharpshooter Arron Afflalo. Fisher also suffered a number of self-inflicted wounds. He did not make anyone in the Garden hierarchy happy last week when he tried to minimize the importance of the Knicks making it into the playoffs this season. I think that it’s safe to say that Dolan was incensed when Fisher wound up on TMZ and other gossip shows when he started dating the estranged wife of a former teammate, Matt Barnes, who understandably wasn’t happy about being part of a triangle that had nothing to do with Jackson’s

favored offensive schemes. Mets outfielder Yoenis Cespedes spoke to the press at Citi Field last Wednesday to discuss his new contract with the team that pays him $25 million per year for three years. Cespedes has the right to opt out of his contract after the end of this coming season, but he did not even entertain that possibility with the media as he emphasized that he expects to play in Queens for the next three years. I asked Yoenis about how the marketplace treated him as a free agent. I pointed out that his outfield peers, Jason Heyward and Justin Upton, both signed more lucrative and longerterm contracts. He claimed that he wasn’t upset about how things turned out for him. Obviously no one should be upset at making $25 million per year, but athletes are a competitive lot. Cespedes’ agent, Brodie Van Wagenen, told me that the present value of his client’s contract ranks favorably with what Heyward and Upton received. If you look at it on a per-year basis, as opposed to contractual length, he has a point. As soon as Super Bowl 50 ended the Mets sent out a press release touting that Beyoncé, who performed at the halftime show in Santa Clara, will be playing Citi Field on June 7. Maybe her appearance in Queens will mean Q that the Mets will put a ring on it in 2016. See the extended version of Sports Beat every week at qchron.com.

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Old Homestead Hotel still serves seniors today by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

In January 1928 builders Martin M. and Harry Wohl opened a 272by-90-foot hotel on Grenfell Street in Kew Gardens and named it the Homestead. It competed with the nearby Kew Gardens Inn on Kew Gardens Road, built in 1921. The Wohl Brothers had previously opened similar hotels in Flushing and Jamaica. What made their The Homestead Hotel, at 82-45 Grenfell St. in Kew buildings unique was that you had Gardens, from a 1934 painting. the choice of a long-term lease or their home for over 20 years. One of the tenjust staying overnight. The Homestead was fireproof and hand- ants was paying $40 a month. After the landmark closed, a rumor swept somely regal and contained 100 rooms. Daniel Whitman was the manager for many through the neighborhood that a halfway years. In 1952 the building was leased by house for narcotics addicts was taking over Abe Sonnenstein with partners Mrs. Martin the building. People were still reeling from Hollander and Martin Fleishman. Business the Kitty Genovese murder around the corner less than a year earlier. Eventually it was remained brisk into the early ’60s. Suddenly in February 1965 Sonenstein suggested that it be turned into a women’s shut it down. He said the building of hotels nursing home. That plan won out. Public near LaGuardia and JFK had hurt the busi- records show the building is owned by Chesy ness. The partners also had six rent-con- Realty LLC today, and it remains The New Q trolled tenants who had made the Homestead Homestead retirement home.

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I have to give credit to graduate students Durand Johnson and Ron Mvouika and senior Felix Balamou, all of whom have stayed so positive this year. I can’t imagine how brutal the last two months have been for them. Not only has it been two months since St. John’s last won on Dec. 13, the Red Storm have obliterated a dubious record in 2016, the longest losing streak in program history. Coming into this season, the Johnnies had never lost more than seven consecutive games. But the current 15-game skid St. John’s finds itself on is more than double that. They’ve dropped all seven true road games this year. They were outscored 181122 in their last two games, last Saturday’s 89-56 home loss against Butler and Monday’s 92-67 defeat at Georgetown. It’s safe to say that this is one of the worst two-month periods in the program’s history, and finishing last in the Big East seems inevitable. But Johnnies fans should know more than most people that tough times don’t necessarily last, and you don’t necessarily have to look that far in the rear view mirror to see proof. In 2009, the Red Storm were brutal. Not 2016 brutal, but brutal nonetheless. One year later, they were in the NCA A Tournament. The Johnnies stunk in 2011 and 2012, but the 2014-15 season was one of the most successful campaigns in recent memory, resulting in another NCAA Tournament berth. I’m not saying St. John’s is bracketbound in 2017, but they’ll certainly be better. Possibly far better, too, considering the reinforcements that are on the way. In terms of players already at the Jamaica school, freshman point guard Marcus LoVett Jr. will be eligible to play after being banned from game action this year by the NCAA. Tariq Owens, a transfer from Tennessee, can suit up. Talented players like guard Federico Mussini and center Yankuba Sima will be back for their sophomore seasons, too.

So internally, the Red Storm are set up. But they’ll be getting a great deal of help from outside the university, as well. Last week, St. John’s landed prized German recruit Richard Freudenberg, who some college basketball analysts said had the talent to play at legendary programs like Kentucky or Duke. Junior college superstar Bashir Ahmed, who others say is the best player on that circuit, will also be in a Red Storm uniform this fall. But who I’m most excited about seeing in Queens is Shamorie Ponds, the uber talented senior guard at Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn. I had the pleasure of watching Ponds torch Catholic school powerhouse Christ the King on Saturday, and let me tell you, this cat can ball. He went for 29 points, including a layup that tied the game with 20 seconds left and two free throws with four ticks left to seal Jefferson’s win over the Royals. Every shot he hit was more impressive than the last, as he buried threes, hit layups in traffic and nailed fadeaway jumpers in the faces of good defenders. He can shoot. He can pass. He can get up and down the court quickly. His defense is getting better. And he knows he’s the guy who will hit the big shot at the end of the game. “I’ll say yes,” Ponds told me with a massive grin on his face when I asked if he could be the closer for the Red Storm. When another reporter asked about what St. John’s fans tell him on social media and on the street, he said everyone seems to be pumped, much like he is to play with his new teammates. “They say they can’t wait for me to come next year,” he said. “They made some good additions and I feel like we’ll have a good shot next year.” Famed former coach and college basketball analyst Dick Vitale, better known as Dickie V, agrees, telling his 761,000 followers on Twitter last week that the immediate future is bright in Jamaica. “Tough times at St. John’s but trust me,” Vitale wrote, “Chris Mullin will get the last laugh in two years.” Can’t say I disagree. St. John’s could be Q awesome, baby.

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HOWARD BEACH LINDENWOOD

Great Location, in the heart of Ridgewood, walk to Fresh Pond Road train, brick S/D, 2 family, 6 over 5, renovated throughout, full finished basement.

4 BRs, 2.5 baths, 1 BR on first level with large living room, dining room, 1 bath, 2nd floor has 3 BRs & 1 bath. Finished bsmnt. with ½ bath & pvt. dvwy., 1 car gar. 30x100 Asking $549K

All up-dated Brick/Stucco split level on 40x100, paved driveway for 2 cars, Large 3 BRs, 2 f/baths. Large den with sliding doors accessing rear tiled patio. Only $719K

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RIDGEWOOD

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HOWARD BEACH ROCKWOOD PARK

Reduced $299K

WAKEFIELD OZONE PARK

HOWARD BEACH/ROCKWOOD PARK All New Mint Ranch, 3 BRs, 2 full baths on 46.5 x 100 lot, new kitchen, baths/appliances/windows, New Heating System, new CAC, French drains, 200 Amp electric, fin bsmnt with porcelain tiles, new pavers, new stoop/roof/skylight, custom awning on side of house. . Only $719K

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LINDENWOOD

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Sugar

5 ct.

26 oz.

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199

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