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VOLLIE BALL West Hamilton firefighters hold anniversary gala

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SUPERMARKET STALLED Howard Beach Key Food opening delayed

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Queens Museum raises environmental alarm through an artistic lens

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State busts cockfighting ring that allegedly held brawls in Woodhaven PAGE 5 PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced the takedown of a cockfighting ring that was holding fights in a Jamaica Avenue basement, leading to the arrests of nine men and the rescue of thousands of roosters there, in a pet store in Brooklyn and a farm upstate.

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Suit: Citi Field mall violates state law Plaintiffs say parkland project never got appropriate approval by Tess McRae Associate Editor

n another attempt to put a wrench in the behemoth development plan for Willets Point, state Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) and others filed a lawsuit on Monday claiming the shopping mall portion proposed for the Citi Field parking lot in Flushing Meadows Corona Park is illegal under state law. The plan, submitted by the Queens Development Group — a partnership between Sterling Equities and The Related Companies — was given approval by the City Council last October. Under the proposal, a 1.4 million-squarefoot mall would be built on a 34.7-acre site on the north end of the park. “There are a number of aspects to the suit but the one that concerns me the most is the fact that the city is violating state law in park alienation,” said Avella, who has criticized the Willets Point plan since it was first proposed. “This has been a big issue for me.” The suit was f iled in state Supreme Court in Manhattan and asks the court to declare the mall project illegal and to prevent further steps toward its construction. It also seeks to nullify city approval of a new parking lot to be built in Willets Point to replace the one in Citi Field. “Is this a big piece of land? Not particu-

The plot developers are looking to transform into a shopping mall is on designated parkland and the plaintiffs of a new lawsuit say even though the plot is a parking lot, it cannot be used as a PHOTO BY TESS MCRAE mall. larly,” Avella said. “And yes, it is a parking lot but the point is, we can’t give away park land. If we continue giving it away, we’ll have no space left in any of our parks.” The Queens Development Group and the city said the plan is legal under a piece of legislation from 1961 that allowed the construction of Shea Stadium, which used to sit where the parking lot is now. The law states “prior to or after the expira-

tion or termination of duration of any contracts ... may from time to time enter into amended, new, additional or further contracts ... the same or any other person or persons for any purpose or purposes referred to ...” John Low-Beer, one of the plaintiffs’ attorneys, said the legislation does not apply to a shopping center. “The 1961 law was intended to allow a stadium and uses directly related to a stadi-

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um, such as parking, concessions, and other commercial activity typically incidental to a professional sports arena,” Low-Beer said in a prepared statement. However, the Queens Development Group pointed to a portion of the legislation that allows a rental agreement, contract or other authorization “for any purpose or purposes which is of such a nature as to furnish to, or foster ... benefit of, the people of the city ... improvement of trade and commerce...” Even so, the plaintiffs maintain that the law does not apply to a new shopping mall and therefore is in violation of state law. Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras (D-East Elmhurst), a major champion of the project, did not comment on the lawsuit and, according to Avella, would not return calls to his office when the senator asked to have a conversation about business relocation. “It’s sad that the city makes it sound so rosy but I’m not afraid of taking on the powers that be,” Avella said. “I was elected to represent the people, not the elected officials or businesses.” New Mayor de Blasio has not publicly commented on any part of the Willets Point plan or the lawsuit but Avella said he hopes the mayor will revisit the plan and “step in on some of these issues.” “Maybe he’ll do the right thing,” he said. Q

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State police raid event in Jamaica Avenue basement Saturday night by Domenick Rafter Editor

An alleged cockfighting ring that was holding the bloody f ights in a Woodhaven basement was busted this past weekend, Attor ney General Eric Schneiderman said Sunday. The takedown, termed “Operation Angry Birds,” after the popular game, stretched from a Woodhaven storefront to a farm upstate. It led to the rescue of thousands of roosters — the largest of fighting chickens in New York’s history, and among the largest in the United States, according to Schneiderman. Seventy people initially were detained after state police and other law enforcement raided a cockfighting event Saturday night at 74-26 Jamaica Ave. — one block from the Brooklyn border and across the street from Franklin K. Lane High School. Sixty-five birds were rescued from the basement and given over to the ASPCA. At the same time, a pet store in Bushwick, Brooklyn called Pet NV was also raided by state police. There, they found 50 roosters in poor condition, having been kept inside individual metal cages and exhibiting all the physical hallmarks of having been bred, trained, and altered for fighting. Cockfighting contraband and implements were found, including artificial spurs, candle wax, medical adhesive tape, syringes used to inject performance-enhancing drugs to strengthen the roosters’ fighting ability and other cockfighting implements and paraphernalia, the authorities said. “No animal should be forced to fight to the death for human entertainment and profit, and we are proud to play a leading role in removing and caring for these victimized birds, as well as offering expert legal assistance in this case,” ASPCA President and CEO Matthew Bershadker said in a statement.

An ASPCA worker rescues a rooster from the basement where alleged cockfights were being held PHOTO COURTESY ASPCA at 74-26 Jamaica Ave. in Woodhaven. On Sunday morning, officials from the Attorney General’s Office assisted by local and state police raided a 90-acre farm in Plattekill, NY in Ulster County. There, as many as 3,000 birds were recovered. The farm was previously registered as a commercial farm under the name CMC Plattikil, Inc., but has been unregistered since 2010. It had operated for years under the guise of a live poultry farm, and its owners allegedly hid thousands of makeshift cages within the center of the property to avoid detection by neighbors and law enforcement. The roosters in the farm were also kept in deplorable conditions, according to Schneiderman. The owners allegedly charged rent to board, feed, and care for roosters that were bred and trained for fighting, with blood sport enthusiasts and rooster

owners from the city, Long Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Massachusetts boarding, training and sometimes fighting their roosters there. For years, roosters bred and trained at this farm were allegedly transported to Woodhaven and to the Brooklyn pet shop that was raided as well. T he roosters were alleged ly bred , trained, plied with performance-enhancing drugs, had razor-sharp gaffs attached in place of their natural talons and were locked in a small pen to be wagered upon. The ASPCA established a temporary shelter at an undisclosed location to house and care for the animals. At cockfighting events, which are illegal in all 50 states, spectators were charged an admission fee and an additional fee for

a seat at the secret basement location that housed the all-night fights, Schneiderman said. This ring allegedly had security personnel who frisked attendees, counter-surveillance within the neighborhood, security cameras and a paid referee. Owners and spectators allegedly placed bets on the outcomes of the fights, with individual wagers reaching $10,000. The fights, which began in the evening and lasted into the early morning hours, allegedly pitted dozens of roosters against one another to fight to the death. In total, nine arrests were made on felony charges of animal fighting; six people in Woodhaven: Elisandy Gonzales, Orlando Bautista, Noel Castillo, Francisco Suriel, Samuel Rodriguez and Edward Medina; the pet store owner, Jeremy Nieves; and two men upstate, farm manager Manuel Cruz and farmhand Jesus Cruz. At least two residents who live near the site of the alleged cockfights and did not want to be identified said the events were “an open secret” among neighbors. “Everyone knew it was going on, but no one wanted to get involved,” one of the neighbors said. “There were rumors that there were drug dealers and gangs involved and nobody wanted to mess with that. I’m glad someone did something about it.” A source close to the investigation said there have not yet been any links to drug dealing or gangs found in this cockfighting ring, but Schneiderman noted that there are often weapons, drugs or gang-related activity present at these events. Also, alcohol was allegedly sold without a permit at the Woodhaven location and it is alleged that drugs were used openly. If convicted, the nine suspects face a maximum penalty of four years in jail and a Q fine of $25,000 each.

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Key Food stymied by zoning, parking issues by Domenick Rafter Editor

The proposed Key Food supermarket planned for Cross Bay Boulevard has been delayed due to issues with its parking lot, a gate and questions over the zoning of the site — and some say it may not open at all. The supermarket was announced last summer and is slated to open at 163-20 Cross Bay Blvd. in the building formerly occupied by Duane Reade, which closed permanently after Hurricane Sandy. The building was badly flooded in the storm. The store was due to be open

already, but several sources say ongoing problems with renovations, questions over zoning, its parking lot and a gate separating the lot from one for Staples, which is next door, have ground progress to a halt. The site of the proposed Key Food was once an amusement park, and the owners of that park applied for special zoning variances for their entire property, which now includes a number of different businesses. When the amusement park closed in the early 1990s, new buildings went up, including the one that houses Staples — formerly a laser

tag venue — as well as buildings now housing other businesses. The site of the Key Food was first a diner, then later the Duane Reade. The sources say the sites have been sold off by the previous owner and the variances cannot, thus, be transferred to a supermarket, which operates under different rules than other stores. One of those problems, according to one source, is that the city has requested the parking lot between Key Food and Staples be opened up to provide for a second exit onto 164th Avenue, but that has caused issues with the Staples because of

concerns that a supermarket would bring more traffic to the lot than Duane Reade did. Neither the diner nor Duane Reade was forced to open the gate between the lots. “The supermarket will bring in a lot more cars that would park by Staples,” the source said. “That’s been a problem. If they can’t work it out, they won’t open at all.” A spokeswoman for Key Food decli ned to com ment on the situation. A second source close to the situation says the company has told area officials it expects to open in

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Let there be peace at Community Board 9 Battling chairman, district manager say they’ve put aside their differences by Domenick Rafter Editor

Community Board 9’s leadership is letting bygones be bygones. Chairman Jim Coccovillo and District Manager Mary Ann Carey both offered olive branches to each other at Tuesday night’s meeting after months of quarreling that often led the board’s monthly meetings to descend into uncontrolled chaos. The feud, which has been ongoing since Coccovillo took office as chairman last April, began over the attempts to fire Carey due to poor performance. Though the board decided to retain her on a probationary status, the issue led to other problems with personnel on the board that nearly led to the expulsion of one member and subsequent resignation of three others. Last month Carey blasted Coccovillo, who was absent at that meeting, accusing the chairman of harassment. Coccovillo later said he was shocked by her accusations. But the two sat next to each other at Tuesday’s meeting in Kew Gardens and declared a truce. “Mary Ann and I have agreed

to put all past issues behind us,” Coccovillo announced during his report. Carey apologized to Coccovillo for her remarks last month “I sincerely apologize if my comments offended you or your family,” she told the chairman, suggesting that some of her accusations may have been untrue. The peace offering comes only a month before the board is scheduled to hold elections that could decide if Coccovillo retains the gavel. Several members have suggested he may have a tough fight on his hands. “I’m not happy with how he’s handled things,” said one member who did not want to be identified and said he was undecided. “I’ll have to see who runs against him.” Another member said she hoped next month’s election would finally settle the nearly one-year-long internal fight. Several members have expressed displeasure over the issue concerning longtime member Sam Espositio, who was nearly fired of an email sent to three Jewish members of the board —Wallace Bock, Evelyn

Baron and Jan Fenster — which they claimed was anti-Semetic. Esposito was not removed, and Bock, Baron and Fenster all subsequently resigned from the board. Esposito has said the attempt to fire him was due to his strong support of Carey, who herself was nearly removed last June. Borough President Melinda Katz is scheduled to attend next month’s meeting, which will be held in Ozone Park, according to a representative from her office who was at the meeting. In the meantime, theboard also discussed the impending installation of six cameras in and around Forest Park, which were paid for by allocations from Assemblyman Mike Miller (D-Woodhaven) and s t at e Se n . Jo e Ad d a bb o Jr. (D-Howard Beach). The cameras became a priority for officials, civil leaders and police after two sex attacks occurred in the park last year. A representative from Miller’s office said the cameras will be installed at locations around the park: at the sharp turn on Forest Park Drive between Oak Ridge and

Community Board 9 District Manager Mary Ann Carey and Chairman Jim Coccovillo made peace with each other at Tuesday night’s meeting in Kew PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER Gardens. the Jackie Robinson Parkway; near the entrance to the golf course; at the Seuffert Bandshell; at Woodhaven Boulevard and Myrtle Avenue; at Freedom Drive and Myrtle Avenue and at the Buddy Monument. The cameras should be installed in the new few months. In the meantime, the board had a relatively routine meeting on

Tuesday night. Members unanimously approved this year’s Wonderful Woodhaven Street Fair slated for Oct. 19. The festival is held every year along Jamaica Avenue between Woodhaven Boulevard and Forest Parkway. The board also approved a half dozen liquor licenses, none of Q which were controversial.

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To preserve the State Pavilion

he New York State Pavilion is now 50 years old, and for far too many of those years the iconic Tent of Tomorrow and Observation Towers from the 1964-65 World’s Fair have been left to pretty much just rot away. But with the fair’s anniversary around the corner, the push has been on to restore the landmark buildings, and last week that push got verbal support from a key player, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz. We sincerely hope Katz follows through on her promise to do all she can to save these buildings, which should be the pride of Queens but need major restoration. Imagine if they once again became attractions, bringing in revenue that could help maintain and upgrade their home, Flushing Meadows Corona Park. It’s a dream many have had, but maybe Katz is just the one who can pull it off. She’s smart, she’s tough, she’s got connections and she can sell her ideas to people — witness her landslide election victory. It would cost tens of millions of dollars to restore and repurpose the pavilion. Katz says it’s worth it, and we agree — though of course the devil’s in the details. We need a plan. We also think it would be a brilliant move for her politically. Probably the biggest criticism of our new borough

president is that as a councilwoman, she was too close to developers and too disdainful of historic preservation. If she could save the pavilion, it would be such a victory for Queens that it would blunt any past anti-preservation actions as an issue. As one longtime critic said, if she got it done, “I would take back everything bad I ever said about her.” The only feasible way to pay for restoring the pavilion would be to get private interests to cover most or all of the cost, with the promise of future profits from whatever attractions are established there. Given its location and promise, that should be possible. We just need a plan. To our friends who say the park should not be commercialized, who bravely stood with us against last year’s awful, ultimately defeated soccer stadium proposal, we say the difference at the pavilion is that the structures are already there. We’re not advocating building but restoring and preserving — just what Queens needs more of. Let’s do it. Lastly, this editorial would not be complete without us extending our deepest condolences to the family and friends of Christian Doran of Maspeth, one of the biggest backers of preserving the pavilion. Doran died Saturday at age 28 of an asthma attack, and he will be missed by many, including us.

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No Crossbay toll (An open letter to Gov. Cuomo) Dear Editor: As the Democratic district leader of the 23rd Assembly District and chairman of the Rockaway-Broad Channel Bridge Toll Committee, I have been on record as requesting that the Crossbay Veterans Memorial Bridge toll should be free for all Queens residents. This is the only place in New York City where there is a toll to move from one part of a community to another. We share a community board, school district, Council district, Assembly district, state Senate district, police precinct and ZIP code, but our guests and potential visitors must pay this toll or be deterred from coming to our community. We have been blessed with a body of water called Jamaica Bay and our roadway runs from Rockaway through Broad Channel. You have been gracious enough to maintain the Crossbay Bridge toll rebate program. Now we are asking that you do the right thing for other Queens residents and the delivery trucks that regularly serve our community. Rockaway residents pay more for goods and services because the cost of bridge tolls is passed on to the consumer. The toll serves as a deterrent to the revitalization of local business that we are all trying to help. When the bridge was built and then when it was rebuilt, we were told that all tolls would be ended when the construction costs were © Copyright 2014 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.

Crystal Windows’ growth

ell, the story wasn’t quite the way the New York Post reported it — surprise, surprise. Crystal Windows and Doors, a major manufacturing success story based in College Point, is not expanding to Westchester County simply because it faces too many government regulations here in the city. At least not for the most part. The firm, the city’s largest manufacturer of windows and doors, does need to expand but says it probably cannot find all the space it needs in Queens. So it may open a facility in Westchester — as it already has in California, Illinois and Missouri. The Post story framed the issue as one of overregulation driving a business from the city. It fits the narrative — which to some degree is true — that the new administration’s opinion of entrepreneurship is worrisome. But the story was way overblown. Crystal’s CEO, Steve Chen, said so in a press release issued in response to it. Chen acknowledged that the city “presents unique challenges to doing business,” but no more than that. We do hope no new challenges are added.

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paid. Now is the time to move toward redeeming that promise. We love New York and especially Rockaway. We want other Queens residents to be able to spend a hot day at our beaches and walk on our rebuilt boardwalk. We are confident that you will find a way to help all of us. Lew M. Simon Rockaway Park

Yes to charter schools Dear Editor: It is not surprising that ideologues like the writer defaming Charter Schools put union desires and left-wing political correctness ahead of student needs (“No charter schools,” Letters, Feb. 6). Contrary to his view, over 27,000 minority parents struggled this year to get their children into charter schools for the very same reasons that should concern us all. Charter schools provide a better education. Aren’t minority parents deserving of the same opportunities afforded to

others? Is the writer so racist in his views that he would deny minority children the right to seek educational success? Not until the power of the UFT is forever broken, and worthless principals like that benighted woman at PS 106 in Far Rockaway are fired for gross incompetence, will public schools be fit places for learning. David Rivkin Jamaica

A tobacco-free future Dear Editor: “Enough is Enough,” said the acting U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Boris Lushniak when he recently released his office’s report, The Health Consequences of Smoking. “We need to eliminate the use of cigarettes and create a tobaccofree generation.” While we’ve made great strides in reducing smoking rates, much more needs to be done to fight the tobacco epidemic and prevent our youth from smoking. Since 1964, more than 20 million Ameri-

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Dear Editor: Well, here I go reminiscing again! So many years ago, it seems, we attended baseball games, and as Brooklynites, we just had to root for the Brooklyn Dodgers! We were loyal to the “bums”! Today, it is entirely another ball game. We hear about players involved in scandalous behaviors, along with concerns about terrorist threats to the Olympic contests! Sometimes, I think, how nice it would be to “go back” in time, and truly enjoy all the pleasurable events we once upon a time were involved with, without having to be concerned about all the negatives occurring in today’s world?!

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A taxing process (An open letter to the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance) Dear Editor: I am publishing my letter in the newspaper, because I have been unable to actually speak with anyone at the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance regarding an adjustment they made to the Earned Income Credit (EIC) on my 2012 income tax. A little history: First, I tried to respond online at http://www.tax.ny.gov/, but the Document Locator Number they provided didn’t work. Then, I called their office, but the line is always ‘fast busy.’ So, then I mailed them a copy of my EIC worksheet and a letter explaining how I filled it out. Five months later, I got a written response. However, they don’t seem to understand the situation, which doesn’t surprise me considering that I had the same exact problem with NYS on my 2009 taxes. And I couldn’t contact them back then, either! But state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. had someone from the department call me. After a lot of obfuscation on their part, they finally admitted an error in calculating my 2009 EIC. Now, it is possible I’ve made a mistake on my 2012 EIC; however, it’s unlikely as I used FreeFile to do my federal forms and the IRS had no quibble with it. Call me crazy, but, it really shouldn’t be this difficult to contact the tax department and I think it’d be a lot easier for all concerned if the state tax people actually knew how to fill out the federal worksheets. Jerry Nutter South Ozone Park

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WOODHAVEN EVELOPMENTS The snow can’t keep Jamaica Ave. closed! by Maria A. Thomson Executive Director GWDC

Last year we were very happy that we did not have very much snow and it was quite a mild winter. Well, I wish I could say the same for this winter. Since December we have had snowstorms, which have gotten more severe. It seems more like Juneau, Alaska than New York City. It has been frigid cold with snow and ice. This weather has really been hard on everyone of all ages, the old and the young suffering the most. The ice is especially dangerous. So, please be careful walking and if there are any problem areas on Jamaica Avenue, please call our Greater Woodhaven Development Corporation office at (718) 805-0202 and we will address the location. As all Woodhavenites we have to keep on getting down to Jamaica Avenue. In spite of the continued bad weather, the stores are open. If you can’t get to our Avenue, there are many restaurants and businesses that deliver. Being so preoccupied by this brutal weather, we almost forgot our day for “lovers,” St. Valentine’s Day is this Friday. There are still many gifts and tokens of love available on our “Everything Avenue.” In our many stores, you can buy cards with loving sentiments, and any “heartfelt” gifts you may need. Most of our stores are family-owner operated, who offer personalized warm attention to their shoppers. So buy that perfume, a

gift certificate jewelry, special outfit and especially the homemade delicious box of chocolates for that loving lady in your life. And for that special guy buy him a shirt, a special manly cologne and if you really want to show your love, let him have some of your valentine chocolates. Please always shop locally, especially now in these difficult times, keep your money in Woodhaven. I hope that you have a very loving day with many appreciated gifts. Remember, Woodhaven store owners and business owners care about Woodhaven for they contribute toward your WBID to fund keeping your Jamaica Avenue vital. Hopefully, we will have clearing of these snowstorms by Friday, so even if your Valentine’s gift is late, please buy it in one of Jamaica Avenue’s stores. Important information: Remember our children are safe in New York because of our District Attorney Richard Brown, who is prosecuting all child abuse cases to the fullest extent of the law. If you suspect child abuse call (800) 342-3720, you may remain anonymous. Sadly we lost an excellent professional respected photographer recently, Ira Cohen of the Queens Tribune. Ira was a veteran of the Vietnam War. In addition to being so talented, because of his service he was also a hero, and will be missed. May God bless our Armed Forces, our disabled veterans and may God bless America. Q

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DEC highlights plan for Spring Creek Park Community Board 10 inquires about construction, public access to space by Domenick Rafter Editor

Community Board 10 got its first briefing last Thursday on Gov. Cuomo’s plan to reconstruct Spring Creek Park in Howard Beach to create a better flood barrier and a more user-friendly greenspace, and members had a laundry list of questions for representatives from the state Department of Environmental Conservation for what it would mean on the quality of life in the neighborhood. The parkland, which frames the western and southern parts of the “new side” of Howard Beach, is underutilized, unkempt and inadequate as flood protection, according to the DEC and reconstruction work, which will be funded by Sandy relief money, would reconstruct it to allow for better f lood protection and make it a more usable space for parkgoers. Venetia Lannon, regional director for the DEC’s New York City office, said the $50 million park reconstruction project would be “the first-in-the-nation nature-based infrastructure for storm resilience.” The idea of the project is to use natural barriers, such as marshland, to reduce future storm surges in the neighborhood. Lannon said studies have shown marsh grass can reduce wave height by 95 percent. “Since Sandy, the search for measures and strategies to protect us from future storms has gone into overdrive on all levels,” said Steve Zahn, DEC’s regional natural resources supervisor, said at last Thursday’s CB 10 meeting. He said that when the federal government, through the Federal Emergency Management Agency, announced it was offering grants for f lood mitigation projects, the DEC jumped on it. “We saw a real opportunity to do that here at Spring Creek,” Zahn explained. “We at DEC felt we are uniquely positioned to explore these nature-based opportunities.” At the same time, the project will also repair the ecological issues with the park, where there has been an overgrowth of phragmites, and provide a better greenspace for the community to use. The phragmites, Zahn said, often fuel 0brush fires, which have been a common pr0oblem in Spring Creek Park for decades. Key features of the project include lowand high-level vegetated salt marshes, dune complexes, grasslands and maritime forests at increasing elevations, which will protect against storm surges like those experienced during Sandy and provide an additional level of resiliency against sea level rise. The project will restore over 150 acres of valuable maritime habitats including almost 87 acres of upland buffers, such as dunes and forests, 49 acres of low marsh, 10 acres of

Steve Zahn, regional natural resources supervisor for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and Venetia Lannon, DEC’s New York City regional director, speak to Community Board 10 last Thursday. PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER

high marsh and 6 acres of tidal creek. The project also allows for the introduction of shellfish reefs, which lessen storm surges and will interact with ongoing efforts to restore marshes to ultimately establish multiple barriers of protection for Howard Beach and other neighborhoods around the bay. CB 10 seemed welcoming of the project, but expressed a few notable concerns about construction, the amount of flood mitigation it would provide and what increased public access would mean to residents, some of whom live directly across the street from the park. Joann Ariola, CB 10 member and president of the Howard Beach-Lindenwood Civic Association, said she was concerned about the possibility of construction vehicles on neighborhood streets. “It certainly will have an impact on the homes along 165th Avenue,” Ariola said. Lannon responded that DEC’s preferred method of transporting construction materials is by barge via Jamaica Bay rather than by trucks, and it would use that option as often as possible. “The project wants to use barges; it’s cheaper than a gazillion trucks,” she said. Ariola also expressed concern about opening the park up to more public access, specifically what it could mean for parking in the surrounding community. “Who would have jurisdiction on policing continued on page 26

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The other suspect is a black woman, The New York City Police Department is asking the public’s assistance identify- 20-25 years old with a thin build. Anyone with information is asked to ing the two suspects wanted for a robbery in South Ozone Park earlier this call Crime Stoppers at 1 (800) 577-TIPS (8477). The public can also submit tips month. On Feb. 4, at 4:10 a.m., the victim, a by logging onto nypdcrimestoppers. 25-year-old man, picked up the suspects com, or by texting 274637 (CRIMES), in his livery cab at the intersection of then entering TIP577. All tips are strictQ Marcus Garvey Boulevard and Fulton ly confidential. Street in Brooklyn. The suspects requested to go to 133rd Street and Linden Boulevard in South Ozone Park. When they reached the destination and the victim was making change for the suspects, the male suspect reached into the victim’s pocket, removed an u ndet e r m i ned a mou nt of money and the two suspects fled the taxi. The male suspect is described as a light-skinned black man, 20 to 25 years Police are searching for these two people wanted for old, wearing a red hooded the robbery of a cab diver in South Ozone Park last sweatshirt and a black jacket. week. PHOTO COURTESY NYPD

Drug bust in Woodhaven The NYPD announced last Thursday that it had busted what it believes is a hub for drug dealing in Woodhaven last month. According to police sources, on Jan. 15 the NYPD’s Major Case Unit of Narcotics Borough Brooklyn North executed a sea rch wa r ra nt at a mechanic auto shop at 80-09 Atlantic Ave., five blocks west of the Brooklyn border. Cops say an employee of the mechanic shop was selling cocaine out of the location. They have not named the suspect. Police on both sides of the borough believe the suspect has been responsible for major drugs deals in both Brooklyn and Queens. The 102nd Precinct, which covers Woodhaven, has been dealing with drug issues for the last few years, i nclud i ng i n Ozone Pa rk where police say illegal drugs were being sold out of a bodega and an abandoned home where several arrests were made last year. Residents have also complained at several precinct community council meetings, of illegal drug use and dealing in Ozone Q Park and Woodhaven. — Domenick Rafter

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Fifty years later, they’re still Fab Celebrating a half century since The Beatles invaded America via Queens by Domenick Rafter

ing the event at the TWA Flight Center, the only major terminal left that existed on that he United States was a very different day. The Beatles actually arrived at the Pan place 50 years ago. Phones had cords, Am terminal, which is in the process of televisions had just a handful of chan- being demolished. Among the guests present were the Lord nels, a computer was the size of a room and the Winter Olympics, which had just Mayor of Liverpool, Gary Millar, and a numwrapped up in Austria, had 34 events, a frac- ber of Pan Am flight attendants who worked for the airline in 1964, including Jill Kellogg, tion of the number underway in Russia. But if there is one thing that hasn’t who was on Pan Am Flight 101 with The changed in 50 years, it’s the popularity of Beatles that day. Kellogg, who now lives in Montauk, LI, four boys from Liverpool, England — John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison said she didn’t know who The Beatles were at the time and only realand Ringo Starr — who ized they were a big deal first exploded on the world when she saw the crowd scene back then singing waiting for them at JFK. nicely about their desire to “I never did see a crowd hold hands with a girl and of people that large in my the Fab Four first stepped life,” she told reporters last foot on A mer ican soil Friday. right here in Queens. Throngs of fans, some as It was five decades ago young as 8 years old, were — Feb. 7, 1964 — that also present last Friday, The Beatles landed at the singing along to Beatles recently rena med J FK cover band Liverpool, as A i r por t on a Pa n A m were some who were there f light f rom London to in 1964 when John, Paul, appear on “The Ed SulliGeorge and Ringo landed. van Show,” and play conA mong t hem were cer ts in New York and Washington D.C. Their A fan poses for a picture with a Howard Beach resident a r r ival at t he ai r por t sign making no secret of his Community Board 6 Dist r ict Ma nager Fr a n k brought out thousands of favorite Beatle. Gulluscio, whose mother die-hard fans and is one of the most iconic images of the Rock And worked for Pan Am at the time. “I was here when they ca me i n,” Roll Era and of the 1960s. Their arrival was celebrated last Friday, Gulluscio said after posing for pictures with 50 years to the day, with a special tribute Pan Am stewardesses who were working and an unveiling of a plaque commemorat- for the airline in the early 1960s. “It was a Editor

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The Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Gary Millar, unveils a plaque which will be placed at JFK Airport to commemorate the arrival there of The Beatles for their appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show” PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER and a brief concert tour of the states 50 years ago. pretty incredible thing to experience it.” Lennon’s half-sister, Julia Baird, was on hand for the event. “We are absolutely overwhelmed and thrilled to be in New York,” Baird said, noting Lennon loved the city where he lived for much of his professional life and where he lost his life. Patrick Foye, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, noted that when The Beatles arrived in America, they were coming to a country that had been through, and was still experiencing, traumatic events. It had only been 10 weeks earlier that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. The battle for civil rights was raging in the South, hor rifying Americans who watched blacks get hosed down with firehoses or chased down by dogs on the nightly news. The war in Vietnam was heating up and there was the ever-present risk of Russian nuclear annihilation. For a jittery nation, The Beatles offered a much-needed escape. When they landed at

JFK Airport, they held the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 with “I Want To Hold Your Hand.” That song was knocked off by their second chart topper, “She Loves You,” followed by “Can’t Buy Me Love.” By the end of the year, three more songs by the band had topped the American charts. That year they won the Best New Artist Grammy Award. The Fab Four would go on to have 20 No. 1 hits in the United States in six years, more than any other artists and more than they had in their native Britain. Each would later have successful solo careers. Only two Beatles are still surviving. Lennon was shot dead outside his Manhattan apartment in 1980 and Harrison passed away from cancer in November, 2001. Neither McCartney nor Starr were at Friday’s event, but organizers said both were aware of it and were excited about the plaque. McCartney had flown out of JFK on Thursday back to London, landing in the British capital on a flight from JFK almost 50 years to the minute he left for New York Q the first time.

Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Executive Director Patrick Foye stands with Pan Am stewardesses who were working for the airline in 1964, including Jill Kellogg, far right, who flew with The Beatles on their flight from London to New York 50 years ago.

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De Blasio makes inequality a priority Vows to ‘lift up the floor’ in State of the City Address, held in Queens by Tess McRae Associate Editor

Mayor de Blasio, who for most of his campaign criticized the severe economic inequality in the five boroughs, addressed how he plans to make the “Tale of Two Cities” into one of strength and unity. “In past decades, working people built our city, and for their hard work they were rewarded, not always with great wealth, but with a fundamental assurance … the knowledge that hard work could pull them from modest means into a growing middle class” de Blasio said before a packed crowd of government officials and community members at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City on Monday. “Today, that assurance is missing … that sense of economic justice is gone. And that’s what we aim to address.” The speech was the first State of the City Address made by a Democrat in more than two decades and de Blasio made it very clear that his agenda will be an intentionally liberal one. “There are some who have taken issue with our commitment to this cause — who say that income inequality is just a fact of life, and that attempts to remedy it are simply sowing the seeds of class welfare,” he said. “But we know better. We understand that allowing the income gap to stretch further isn’t simply a threat to those at the bottom but to every New Yorker. And we also know this: New Yorker’s personal commitment to tackling inequality knows no boundaries of geography or income.” Former Mayor Fiorello La Guardia’s granddaughter Katherine, who introduced the new mayor, said in the past “many have wanted to be compared to La Guardia but De Blasio plans to work at it.”

Mayor de Blasio delivering his State of the City address at PHOTO BY TESS MCRAE LaGuardia Community College. Many of de Blasio’s ideas, including universal prekindergarten, his Vision Zero traffic safety initiative and paid sick leave, were met with uproarious applause. He vowed to support immigrants both with and without legal status by introducing municipal identification cards. These cards will allow undocumented

immigrants to open bank accounts, receive medical care at a clinic and utilize other private and public services. “To all of my fellow New Yorkers who are undocumented, I say, ‘New York City is your home too, and we will not force any of our residents to live their lives in the shadows,’” de Blasio said. He has already gained the support of City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito (D-Manhattan) and Immigration Committee Chairman Carlos Menchaca (D-Brooklyn) for the cards measure. De Blasio reiterated his call for Albany to grant the city permission to increase taxes on its high-income residents, something he has spoken about for much of his campaign. “Raising taxes on the rich makes our commitment to our kids more than just words,” he said. “It makes that commitment real. It makes that commitment fair. And it offers a promise to our kids that they can count on.” Though he has already taken steps on his campaign promise to amend parts of the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk tactic, de Blasio did not spend much time speaking about it in his address. Instead, he concluded that his term will mostly be about “lifting the floor” for all New Yorkers so that everyone, regardless of socioeconomic background, will have a fighting chance at a successful future. “We find ourselves at a fork in the road,” de Blasio said. “We can look down the path that we’ve been on for far too long. We can see it as the easier trail to traverse, and fool ourselves into thinking it’s our only option. Or we can take the other road … the path to closing the inequality gap … that very New York option of taking on big challenges and Q getting results.”

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Mayor de Blasio delivered his first preliminary budget on Wednesday with few surprises but far more detail than before on how he expects to pair his governing agenda with challenges that include uncertain state and federal economies and more than 150 unsettled municipal labor contracts. “This is a progressive administration,” he said “Our budget will be a progressive budget, one that will put us on the road to giving hardworking New Yorkers a fair shot. There’s nothing mutually exclusive about being both fiscally responsible and economically progressive.” The mayor said his executive budget in April is expected to come in at about $75 billion; the current one, crafted by former Mayor Bloomberg, is just u nder $70 billion. The total includes $530 million that de Blasio is counting on in tax increases on wealthy residents to pay for his signature universal pre-K and afterschool programs. He called education the centerpiece of his budget, saying it is needed to meet the future social and economic needs of the city and its residents. The f irst step, he said, is restoring money to avoid what he called Bloomberg’s “annual Kabuki dance” that involved cut-

ting things like 20 fire companies and borough presidents’ budgets. “ T he s e t h i ngs we r e m i r a cu lou sly restored at the end of the process,” he said. “We’re not playing that game anymore.” He and staffers said the city is estimating more than $890 million in revenue than was forecast back in November. But they also said that the balanced budgets of the last two years have come with more than $1 billion in carryover money from previous surpluses. He will cancel payments of more than $50 million from the New York City Housing Authority to the NYPD, but said the police will be made whole from other unspecified sources. De Blasio said there would be “no new, broad-based cuts,” but declined to say yet where new money would come from. He did say that between now and his executive budget in April, they will have a better picture of state and federal economic aid; and a better feel on how labor negotiations are going with the city’s 153 unions — all of whom are working without contracts. “We will need savings and efficiencies — I’ve been open about this,” he said. De Blasio did not directly answer what he would do if the state fails to approve the pre-K tax increase, saying the program is

Mayor de Blasio proffered his preliminary budget for Fiscal Year 2015 on Tuesday, with education — specifically his universal pre-K program — being its expected centerpiece. His executive PHOTO COURTESY NYC budget will be presented in April. necessary and this his plan is the best one to get it going. He dismissed a Quinnipiac poll that found Gov. Cuomo’s state-funded pre-K program to be more popular than his own. “The Quinnipiac Poll was phrased in a way like asking people if they want a free

bowl of candy — everyone’s going to say yes,” he said. “But the fact is you have to pay for it.” The budget also includes money for the new NYPD inspector general, more money for NYCHA repairs and upgrades, and Q enforcement of the paid sick leave act.

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He’s been in the spotlight since 1960 and has not stopped making people laugh through his storytelling-esque comedy and social com mentar y and when he stepped on stage at York College with friend and businessman Frank Savage, it was clear: Bill Cosby’s still got it. Cosby was promoting his new book “I Didn’t Ask to be Born: But I’m Glad I Was,” and Savage discussed his f irst book “The Savage Way.” “My wife is a ver y wise woman,” Cosby said when asked where he got the title of his book f rom. “I heard one daughter come downstairs and say to my wife, ‘I’m bored’ and my wife said ‘That’s because you’re boring,’ and it didn’t take any time. But one day, my daughter shouted out ‘I didn’t ask to be born’ and that’s where the title comes from. I thought of three things to say to her but I didn’t say them to her because I felt I would not get into heaven.” Aside from the occasional joke, Cosby’s message was clear: Education is the most important thing in the world. “When I got my diploma, my mother knocked over a man and ran over to me to sit in my lap and give me a kiss,” he said. “You see, mothers have this strange belief that, that piece of paper means something. For whatever reason, they think that.” He expressed the important roles public schools like York College in Jamaica serve in areas inhabited primarily by minorities. “This school’s president is a Jamaican,” he said. “Look around you, look at

all the people here. There is so much opportunity right here.” The program was sponsored by the LI N KS, a com mu nit y ser vice g roup made up of African-American women. “Listen to those who are older than you,” Cosby said. “These women, the LINKS, they do good because they want to. Older people just want to tell you what they know. No matter how low we are, could be the slowest junkie ever or be like Frank dealing with billions of dollars, you will always remember what one of those old people said to you.” Cosby told a story about his grandmother who was not college educated and the point she brought up when he told her what his philosophy class was discussing. “I told her ‘we debated about the glass being half empty or half full,’ and my grandmother, who did not really understand anything about philosophy,” he said. “She looked at me and said ‘Well, it depends if you’re pouring or if you’re sipping.’ I couldn’t wait to go back to class after hearing that.” All jokes aside, Cosby said he would not be the man he is today without his degree from Temple University. “I was in remedial English, deservedly so,” he said. “I wouldn’t have my comedy without that class. You’ve got to hang out with bright people. You have to read and write and expose yourself to people who are smarter than you so you can absorb what they teach you.” The audience gave Cosby, who dressed causally in a pair of sweatpants and a hoodie that said “Hello Friend,” a standQ ing ovation when he finished.

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[Insert your own witty weather headline here] Snow way we can write another one! by Peter C. Mastrosimone Editor-in-Chief

Maybe alternate-side parking rules will come back into effect before the daffodils start blooming. Maybe not. By the time you read this, Queens and the region are likely to have several more inches of snow on the ground than before the Chronicle went to press Wednesday night. Forecasters were predicting that the latest storm, set to begin overnight and last through Thursday afternoon, would produce 6 to 10 inches of the white stuff here, a bit less on Long Island and a bit more in the nearby northern suburbs. The totals depend on how the system tracks along the coast, how quickly it moves and where that crucial line dividing rain from snow ends up. The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning for 12 a.m. Thursday to 6 a.m. Friday, ominously saying in its ellipsesladen style: “Snowfall will make travel treacherous. In addition ... heavy ... wet snow may cause some weak ... flat roof structures to collapse and trees will be susceptible to falling.” The snow is expected to mix with sleet or freezing rain in areas near the coast, including

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The Rev. Thomas Joyce, 73, former pastor at Immaculate Conception Parish in Jamaica Estates, died last Friday due to complications from Parkinson’s disease. Joyce died at the Immaculate Conception Monastery, also in Jamaica Estates. A native of Pittsburgh, Joyce was ordained a priest in 1969. He first served as director of students in various seminaries on the East Coast. The priest came to Immaculate Conception in 1983, where he remained pastor for 25 years. He resigned his post in 2007, becoming pastor emeritus, due to the disease. The funeral Mass was held on Wednesday.

At least someone’s putting a happy face on the weather. A slew of these smileys greeted passersby Tuesday morning from the front lawns of two adjoining houses on 62nd Drive in Rego Park. PHOTO BY PETER C. MASTROSIMONE

the season, according to NYC Area Weather, a forecasting and blogging site. In a poll on its main page, 26 percent of respondents predicted as of Wednesday morning that Thursday’s snowfall would total 6 to 9 inches. Twenty-one percent predicted 3 to 6 inches and another 21 percent foresaw 9 to 12. Twenty-four percent thought it would be even more than that, while 8 percent predicted 3 inches or less. Once the snow comes down, residents can track the progress of plows at the PlowNYC website, available via nyc.gov/severeweather. Power outages and estimated repair times can be seen at coned.com and, in the Rockaways, psegliny.com. Bus and train riders can get information on

the transit situation at mta.info. Air travelers can check out conditions at the airports at panynj.gov and, whenever the weather is poor, are encouraged to contact their airlines before heading out to Kennedy or LaGuardia airports. As reported by the Queens Chronicle’s Domenick Rafter, a meteorological maven, this winter has been a snowy one in New York because the jet stream is pushing storms eastward across the southern United States toward the ocean, where they redevelop as coastal systems. He was glad to report on Tuesday that the pattern is expected to change relatively soon. Hey, you’re a lot better off listening to RafQ ter than some groundhog.

106th Pct implements anti-car break-in plan by Stephen Geffon Chronicle Contributor

In an effort to reduce car break-ins in the 106th Precinct community, the precinct commanding officer, Deputy Inspector Jeffrey Schiff, recently launched a new program meant to alert car owners about the risks they take when giving thieves an easy view of their valuables. Called “Spot It to Secure It,” the preemptive measure targets areas in the precinct where car break-ins have been prominent. A team of four officers patrol on foot looking into parked cars to see if the owners have left valuables in plain sight. The officers snap pictures and mail the photos to them, reminding them not to leave belongings in their cars. Cops have also placed fliers informing residents of the program on car windshields. Schiff said that he wants the car owners to know that if the cops spot something, so could a potential thief. The prog ram’s f irst area was Ozone Park, between the Conduit and Liberty Avenue and 78th Street to Cross Bay Boulevard. According to precinct sources, since the patrols started on Jan. 29, officers have

spotted 25 cars with valuables left inside. Schiff initiated the program last year as commanding officer of the 76th Precinct in Brooklyn. He said it reduced car break-ins there by 49 percent. Schiff said the additional benefit of the program is that many cops will be patrolling individual blocks deterring crime. “We have cops walking up and down your block,” he said. “Who’s going to complain about a cop walking on your block?” Frank Dardani, president of the 106th Precinct Community Council, said he feels that it is very important for people to be part of the solution to fighting this problem because most of it is fueled by people being neglectful. “If we want to be part of the solution then we have to take some responsibility,” said Dardani. Rita Pristina of Howard Beach, whose car has been broken into three times, called the program “a wonderful thing.” However, she said that she would also like to see it done at dusk and overnight because this is the time she has seen suspicious individuals peering into cars. Q

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Queens, Brooklyn and eastern Long Island, while areas north and west of the city may get pure snow, a foot or more of it north of Route 287 in Westchester. Alternate-side parking rules were still suspended Tuesday for snow removal from the last storm, and would have been regardless on Wednesday, for Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. If history is a guide, it’s likely they’ll be suspended Thursday and possibly again Friday. With temperatures not expected to rise above 30 on Thursday, pedestrians will continue to face slippery, uneven mounds of snow, ice and frozen muck along curbs, and on sidewalks in front of homes and businesses whose owners do not follow the law on snow removal. (You know who you are. Go pick up a shovel before someone gets hurt, and then maybe gets a lawyer.) Drivers will continue to find fewer parking spaces as snow piles occupy many, and will have to keep leaving their cars atop sloping tables of ice that make it hard to not park askew. Potholes will plague the streets and highways though crews continue to fill them in. It’s a winter’s winter in New York. The storm will be the ninth snow event of

JFK arrest Port Authority police last week arrested a Long Island man for the alleged theft of a freight trailer from a lot outside of Kennedy Airport on Jan. 28. The PAPD said Jaidatt Mangar, 28, of Elmont, was charged with third-degree grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property on Feb. 5. The trailer, valued at about $25,000, was empty at the time it was taken. Police said the trailer allegedly was found in Brooklyn attached to a truck owned by Mangar, who is a former employee of the trailer’s owner. Police allege that the company’s name and the trailer’s vehicle identification number had been removed.

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Airport workers make gains — at JFK, LGA Port Authority, Delta on board with raises; 3 noncommittal, NJ says no by Michael Gannon Editor

Persistence is beginning to pay off for contract workers at LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy International airports, with the Port Authority and Delta Air Lines agreeing to grant pay increases. The workers are employed by companies who contract out services such as security, maintenance and custodial and cleaning services for the PA and individual airlines. Workers, supported by clergy and some City Council members, recently rallied outside LaGuardia, a rally that resulted in 32 arrests for acts of civil disobedience. But three other airlines, through their national trade association, issued a statement that raised numerous possible legal issues should PA Executive Director Patrick Foye follow through on a threat to ban them f rom the f ut u re Cent ral Ter minal at LaGuardia if they do not accede to the demands of the workers and the union that is attempting to organize them into a bargaining unit. Foye on Jan. 27 called on airlines to give workers making less than $9 per hour an immediate $1 raise; receive the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday as a paid holiday; and work toward some kind of pay and benefit package for those who work at airports. “As current users of the [Central Terminal

Building] you should know that the new CTB lease provisions the developers and airlines ... will be required to sign will mandate those worker protection provisions not only for the CTB but also for each terminal each CTB airline uses at both of the NYC airports,” Foye wrote in a letter dated Feb. 10 to airline CEOs David Barger of Queensbased JetBlue, W. Douglas Parker of American Airlines, and Jeff Smisek of United Airlines. Foye wrote that improved wage and benefit packages cannot wait.

“By taking this action, we will together treat these workers justly, reduce turnover, enhance service levels and place all airlines at the New York City Port Authority airports on a level taxiway, so to speak,” Foye wrote. Delta agreed to the conditions on Jan. 29. In a statement from his office on Tuesday, Councilman Daneek Miller (D-St. Albans), a former transit union leader, congratulated the workers and applauded Delta. “I urge the three remaining airlines at

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Delta Air Lines as of Wednesday was the only major domestic airline to agree to hike the pay for contract workers at LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy International airports. PHOTO BY STEVE MALECKI

John F. Kennedy and LaGuardia airports to follow suit,” Miller said. “This issue strikes at the heart of the ‘two cities’ that New York has become.” Miller is chairman of the Council’s Civil Service and Labor Committee And while Foye was appointed to the PA by Gov. Cuomo, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey has effectively quashed any such raises at Newark-Liberty Airport, which also is operated by the PA. A call to JetBlue on Tuesday resulted in a referral to Airlines for America, which raised the aforementioned legal issues in a statement emailed to the Chronicle. “No company — in any industry — dictates to its vendors what their employees should be paid,” AFA said. “The legislature, not the Port Authority, is the appropriate vehicle through which to make changes to the minimum wage, which would appropriately affect all workers, rather than just those from one industry.” AFA also pointed out that airlines negotiate individually with their vendors and contractors to obtain goods and services. “It would raise antitrust law concerns for the airlines to share with each other the details of their agreements or to discuss their plans regarding the terms of their agreements with their contractors,” the Q statement concluded.

Borough President Melinda Katz appointed Deborah Dillingham of Forest Hills to be Queens’ representative on the Panel for Educational Policy Tuesday. Dillingham was the Queens borough appointee to the Community Education Council in District 28, which includes Forest Hills, Rego Park, Kew Gardens, Briarwood, Jamaica and South Jamaica, where she served as president. She also served on the Queens Borough President’s Parent Advisory Committee, the District 28 Leadership Team and the Chancellor’s Parent Advisory Committee and has been president of the Parent’s Association of PS 101. “Through her extensive work with our city’s school system, Deborah has shown she has the knowledge, savvy and commitment necessary to be an outstanding member of the Panel for Educational Policy,” Katz said in an announcement of the appointment. “She cares deeply about our children and the schooling they receive

and has a track record of making sure our kids get the best education possible. I know she will be a great asset to the PEP.” Dillingham worked in the field of consumer products marketing from 1990 to 2000. Before that, she was a program compliance officer for the Massachusetts Board of Regents from 1987 to 1990. She also served as a board member of the Forest Hills Gardens Corporation. “Deborah is an excellent choice to serve as the Queens rep on the Panel For Educational Policy,” said her predecessor, Dmytro Fedkowskyj. “Our borough president selected a winner and I’m confident our school communities will be well represented and supported.” Dillingham, who holds a masters in psychology from Harvard University, has three children in the city’s public school system. Chandler, 14, attends Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts; Harrison, 14, is a student at the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts; and Abigail, 12, attends the ProfesQ sional Performing Arts School.

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Though its walls have been painted over, the legacy of 5Pointz lives on as it was announced that George Tsypin, a production designer, created the Sochi Olympics Opening Ceremony in a studio space inside the graffiti mecca. “In terms of design, we produced a lot of things right here,” Tsypin told NBC’s Meredith Viera. Though no graffiti displays were a part, the millions of people watching the TV segment got to see the building before it was whitewashed over by owner Jerry Wolkcoff. The building will soon be razed to make room for luxury apartment buildings, commercial tenants and green space. “I’ve done big shows, but this is 5Pointz FILE PHOTO something else,” Tsypin said. The artist, who has also worked on work was done in the Long Island City the Broadway show “Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark,” designed the ceremony by building, he acknowledged the ceremony using small cutouts on a mini-version of was a collaboration with other artists Q the arena, and while he said most of the around the world.

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The Olympic spirit in Howard Beach 4,000 miles from Sochi, Russia, students take part in their own games by Domenick Rafter Editor

Howard Beach may not be a Russian seaside resort town, but it definitely felt more like winter there than in Sochi, Russia. And the 50 or so children who are students at the Special Kids Intervention Program and Toddler-Infant Program for Special Education brought the Olympic spirit home to their Howard Beach school on Tuesday and Wednesday, holding their own games. Beginning with an opening ceremony in which the school’s five classes — each representing one of the Olympic rings — marched in with torches and flags of various nations. Then each student took part in a series of events, from marshmallow toss, to balance beam and making snowmen out of shaving cream. The games were organized by two of the school’s instructors, Toni-Ann Fata and Liz Cipolla, who was in charge of the decorations. Parents of some of the students also came out to watch. On Wednesday, medals were handed out to the kids. It isn’t the first time the two schools, which serve students from 2 to 5 years old, held their own Olympics. They did a similar event in 2008 during the Summer Olympic Games in London, which featured a number of outdoor Q events.

Marshmallow toss was one of the Olympic events. Each of the five classes at the Special Kids Intervention Program and Toddler-Infant Program for Special Education marches into the opening ceremony representing a different Olympic ring. PHOTOS BY DOMENICK RAFTER

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The games opened with a torch lighting ceremony in which the students placed a “torch” in the “cauldron.”

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The future of the TWA terminal Port Authority to announce plans for iconic building by Domenick Rafter Editor

Por t Author it y Executive Director Pat Foye announced Friday that the agency would be reopening the landmarked TWA Flight Center building at JFK Airport to the public. But he’s not yet ready to say what for. At an event celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ arrival in New York held inside the structure, Foye said the Port Authority would be announcing soon that the building will be open to the public. Its f ut u re pu r pose will be revealed in the next few months. “Port Authority employees have painstakingly worked to renovate this building and we are excited to say it will be open again soon,” Foye said. The terminal, built in 1962 and designed by Finnish architect Eero Saarinen — who also designed the Gateway Arch in St. Louis — served Trans World Airlines for nearly 40 years and for the last quarter century, was mainly used for the airline’s

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey plans to reopen the TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport, a landmarked building that has been PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER closed to the public since 2001. inter national f lights. It was la nd ma rked i n 1994. T WA Flight 800 departed from the terminal on its ill-fated flight to Paris on July 17, 1996. The terminal has not been used since October 2001, when TWA ceased operations. It sat vacant for almost a decade before the Port Authority renovated it. The agency said the

building cannot be used as an airline terminal because it is ob s ole t e. Je t Blu e bu i lt a n e n t i r e l y n e w Te r m i n a l 5 behind the Saarinen building. The passenger tubes that formerly connected the building to the flight gates now connect it to the new JetBlue terminal. The airline used the Saarinen building in its logo promoting

it s n ew J F K hu b wh e n it opened in 2008. In October 2011 — tens years after closing — the newly renovated terminal reopened to the public for a one-day event to celebrate its then-upcoming 50th anniversary. At the time, the Port Authority said it was considering constructing a hotel around the building and using the space as a public hall for shopping and dining. But the agency said any hotel project would have to include a structure that did not obstruct views of the Saarinen building from any angle. The 52-year-old building has fared better than other historical terminals at JFK. At Friday’s event, several former f light attendants for Pan Am expressed their sadness that their airline’s ter minal, the Worldport, later called Terminal 3, had been demolished at the airport. Another notable termin a l, I.M. Pei’s Su nd rome, known as Terminal 6, adjacent to the TWA Flight Center, was Q demolished in 2012.

Spring Creek continued from page 10 that area and what would be the guidelines?” she asked. Lannon said the DEC has envisioned a nature-walk type of park similar to the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. “We think public access is a good thing, but maybe it’s not a good thing,” she said. “Maybe you want to limit public access. Let’s have that conversation.” John Calcagnile, CB 10’s Land Use Committee chairman, also noted that much of the floodwater that inundated the neighborhood in Hurricane Sandy came from Shellbank Basin or from Lindenwood, and not through Spring Creek Park. “That is the essence of our problem,” he said. Lannon said the Spring Creek Park project is just the beginning of flood mitigation measures and ideas for the canals and sea walls on the eastern side of the neighborhood will be explored. “There is no silver bullet,” Lannon said. “We know we need tide gates, we know that we need flood barriers, we know that we need protection in the inlets.” The project is in its early planning stages and no timeline has been set. Lannon said the DEC would meet with the community board and officials in the near future to lay out a schedule. Q

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For the first time in more than five years, there is movement regarding the site of the former Parkway Hospital. The abandoned structure at 70-35 113 St. in Forest Hills was quietly put on the auction block on Jan. 10, with the winning $22 million bid submitted by 70-35 113th Street LLC, according to published reports. The limited liability company that placed the winning offer has not yet registered with the Division of Corporations of the New York State Depar tment of State as of Wednesday, and the Borough President’s Off ice a nd com mu n it y leaders were unaware of the auction until Monday. Michael Scholl, the spokesman for Borough President Melinda Katz, confirmed that the auction occurred, but that the sale is not final and no filings have been submitted by the new owners yet. “We actually just got a call today about it,” Scholl said on Monday. “We can confirm, however, that the building did go up for auction on Jan. 10. “The sale has not closed yet, the new owners still have 30 days to close,” Scholl said. “There have been no filings yet and as of now, we’re just waiting to see what the new owners have planned.” The former hospital is located in a R1-2A zoning district, allowing for strictly residential development. The new owners and how the building will be used in the future are unknown. The hospital’s appearance has degraded significantly since it closed its doors in 2008. Community Board 6 District Manager Frank Gulluscio called the building an “eyesore” last week and expressed frustration over the apparent lack of progress at the site. “It’s unsightly,” he said. “I’m just as upset

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Katz pledges to help save the aging pavilion A task force will be formed to study remedial and restoration options by Christopher Barca Reporter

The movement to save and preserve the New York State Pavilion just got its biggest backer yet. With the Tent of Tomorrow and Observation Towers, the two rusting icons of the 1964-1965 World’s Fair, behind her, Borough President Melinda Katz officially called for the preservation of the structures on Thursday, just months before the 50th anniversary of the global gathering the pavilion was built for. Joined by Assembly members Marge Markey (D-Maspeth) and Michael Simanowitz (D-Flushing), Deputy Borough President Leroy Comrie, Councilman Rory Lancman (D-Fresh Meadows), Parks Department representatives, various community board leaders from across the borough and the three-man People for the Pavilion preservation group, Katz emphatically declared her wish to see the pavilion saved while on a walking tour of the site. “My hope in being here today with everyone, and for causing some notice for this, is to try and bring these groups together and I felt like

there needed to be a push in getting folks in a direction,” Katz said. “I th i n k we all k now the r ight direction. “The right direction is to preserve [the pavilion] and save this for generations to come,” she continued, “to make it a useful part of the park and to make sure it doesn’t fall down on people around it.” In addition to just voicing her support for the movement, Katz also said that a task force ded icated to brainstorming ideas and uses for the site will be created within the next month. The group will meet either once a month, “or at least quarterly,” at Borough Hall, according to Katz. The task force will include Katz, community board leaders, the Parks Department, elected officials, historical groups and People for the Pavilion, although founding member Christian Doran said his group had yet to receive a formal offer to join. [Doran, tragically, died two days after the tour. See separate story in

some editions or at qchron.com.] “Preserving the history of Queens is really important to me and we’ve got a lot of partners,” Katz said. “One of the things that we need to do is to make sure we’re taking everyone’s opinions into account. “This is a Queens project from my perspective, and it’s really a New York City project from my perspective too,” she added, “because anything that helps Queens helps the entire city.” According to a Parks Department presentation made at three different listening sessions two weeks ago, any project involving the pavilion is expected to be pricey, even demolition. The estimated cost of demolishing the Tent of Tomorrow alone is a little over $10 million, while the pr ice tag for demolishing the entire pavilion is estimated around $14 million. Stabilizing the structures alone, without allowing public access, would cost $43 million. Restoring the pavilion to its 1964 status has

Borough President Melinda Katz, second from left, tours the Pavilion with Flushing Meadows Corona Park administrator Janice Melnick, left, Councilman Rory Lancman, center, Assemblywoman Marge Markey, Tent of Tomorrow volunteer painter John Piro and others during a tour of the New York State PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA Pavilion on Thursday. an estimated cost of $52 million. A complete remodeling and restoration project may cost upwards of $72.6 million. The expensive nature of any action regarding the structures has been a topic of discussion for months, but Katz believes that the cost of restoring the site should be viewed in a different

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People for the Pavilion, the preservation group aiming to save the icons of the 19641965 World’s Fair, announced on Sunday that Christian Doran, one of its founding members, passed away on Saturday night. He was only 28 years old. According to fellow group members Salmaan Khan and Matthew Silva, Doran, a Maspeth resident and audio engineer at the Queens Theatre, suffered from asthma and died of an asthma attack. “Over the past months, we have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity to become friends and partners with Christian Doran,” Khan and Silva said in a statement the group posted on its Facebook page. “If you had the opportunity to speak with him, you knew he was special. “He was someone who could share his passion in a way that could excite absolutely anyone,” the statement continued, “and he had a knack for comfortably engaging those around him.” Even though they only met in September, Khan remembers Doran as a man who was full of life and energy. “I remember the first time we met at the Queens Theatre. He was super friendly and I just got good vibes from him,” Khan said over the phone on Monday. “He cared a lot.

Christian Doran, who died at 28 of an asthma attack on Saturday, plays the drums with his nephew. Doran worked at the Queens Theatre and helped found People for the Pavilion, a FACEBOOK PHOTO preservation group dedicated to saving the rusting New York State Pavilion. No matter what happens [with the pavilion], he’s a part of it.” Khan said he and Silva will “take the next few weeks” to remember their friend and re-evaluate where People for the Pavilion stands, but they will continue their push to preserve the iconic structures as the 50th anniversary of the global gathering approaches.

Silva, speaking in a somber tone, said he was always amazed at how his friend and colleague was able to touch the lives of everyone around him. “It’s incredible how in such a short amount of time, he’s meant so much to so many people. He certainly has left a legacy,” he said. “He was very dedicated and he was really looking for [the pavilion] to be

something he could dedicate the rest of his life to.” Bor ou g h P r e sid e nt Mel i nd a K a t z released a statement on Monday lamenting Doran’s death, calling for his efforts to save the pavilion to continue. “I will work diligently to fulfill Mr. Doran’s wish that the pavilion never be torn down,” Katz said. “I spoke with Mr. Doran just last Thursday ... and was very impressed with his dedication to making sure that this iconic structure is preserved for future generations to enjoy.” A tribute page dedicated to the late activist, called the Christian Doran Tribute Page, was created on Facebook late Sunday night. By 11 a.m. on Wednesday, the group already had a remarkable 950 members. “Christian always had something funny to say, which made working in sometimes difficult situations a little easier,” one mourner said on the page. “One thing I always noticed about him was that he was able to light up the room and grab everyone’s attention who was in it,” another message read. Doran’s wake was held at Gleason’s Funeral Home in Flushing on Tuesday and Wednesday. The late activist’s funeral was to take place Thursday morning at St. Gregory the Q Great church in Bellerose.

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State Senate Co-Leader Dean Skelos (R-Nassau) said he won’t allow a vote on Mayor de Blasio’s request to permit New York City to raise its taxes on residents with incomes over $500,000 a year to fund universal pre-kindergarten in the city. “This isn’t just a home-rule issue,” Skelos told reporters Monday. “It infected the entire state in terms of revenues, in terms of the finance industry. The last thing we need to see is high earners leave New York State.” Gov. Cuomo, who has rolled out his own plan for pre-K statewide without any tax increases, has been cold to the mayor’s proposal. De Blasio has said Cuomo’s plan is not good enough, in part because the city would be fighting for funds with the rest of the state and it would take longer to implement than his own. De Blasio wants to start pre-K in the city this year while Cuomo’s could take several years to roll out. Skelos’ co-leader, state Sen. Jeff Klein (D-Bronx), supports de Blasio’s plan. Skelos and Klein share power in a coalition between the minority Republican Caucus and the Independent Democratic Caucus — a group of four breakaway Democrats. Neither leader has the ability to bring legislation to the f loor without the other’s approval. Klein has said he would consider holding up the state budget if it didn’t include de Blasio’s request, but reneged on that Tuesday. “Mayor de Blasio’s plan is the only one that provides New York City with the funding it needs to achieve that goal,” Klein said Monday. “Senate Republicans comprise a minority in this chamber. They want more support for business tax cuts and we want more support for our kids. Only by working together can we achieve a balance that works for everyone.”

The Senate’s makeup is complicated. Two seats are vacant: one on Long Island where a Republican senator recently resigned; the other, the former seat of Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams. With the two vacancies, Democrats hold a nominal 31-30 majority when including the four Independent Democrats and state Sens. Malcolm Smith (D-Hollis) and John Sampson (D-Brooklyn), who were both expelled from their caucuses due to their arrests on corruption charges. Several Democratic sources say the votes exist in the Senate to pass de Blasio’s plan and that Skelos keeping a floor vote from happening is a sign he knows it would pass. “All the Democrats and Independent Democrats are on board,” said one highplaced Democratic source. “There is even a couple of Republicans who say they would consider backing it on the basis of homerule, which they have supported in the past.” The state has given authority to counties to raise sales taxes, for example. But Skelos noted that rejecting de Blasio’s request would not be out of character, as there are more than 160 home-rule requests the Legislature has not acted on. De Blasio hasn’t thrown in the towel on his proposal, which has the support of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan). Democratic sources say the mayor’s plan has enough support in the Assembly to pass and possibly even override any veto by Cuomo. “To deny a vote on something as urgently-needed and as widely-supported as funding universal pre-kindergarten is just plain wrong,” the mayor said in a statement. “Politicians in Albany have failed to meet their commitment to pay for universal pre-K time and time again, which is exactly why New York City must chart its own destiny. It’s time for Albany to give New York the home-rule right to ask the wealthiest to pay Q just a little more in taxes.”

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Ralph Kiner, Mets and MLB icon, dies at 91 Hall of Fame slugger part of club’s broadcast team since ’62 expansion by Michael Gannon Editor

Ralph Kiner, who broadcast Mets games from their inception in 1962, after a 10-year career as a Hall of Fame slugger, died Thursday. He was 91. “Ralph Kiner was one of the most beloved people in Mets history — an original Met and extraordinary gentleman,” said Mets owner Fred Wilpon in a statement released by the team. “After a Hall of Fame playing career, Ralph became a treasured broadcasting icon for more than half a century,” Wilpon said. “His knowledge of the game, wit and charm entertained generations of Mets fans. Like his stories, he was one of a kind. We send our deepest condolences to Ralph’s five children and 12 grandchildren. Our sport and society today lost one of the all-time greats.” Kiner was one of the original Mets broadcasters, along with Lindsey Nelson and Bob Murphy, both of whom eventually would be voted into baseball’s Hall of Fame for their work behind the microphone. Kiner, however, was elected in 1975 for his abbreviated 10-year major league career, spent mostly with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He holds the all-time record for leading or tying for the National League in home runs his first seven seasons in the majors.

Ralph Kiner, second from right, and Mets legend and fellow Hall of Famer Tom Seaver shown in August 2011 with Army Staff Sgt. Neil Percifull, left, and Lt. Col. Richard Davis, right, at a Citi FILE PHOTO Field tribute to Afghanistan veterans. He was tutored as a young player by the aging future Hall-of-Famer Hank Greenberg. Fans who sat in the left field seats at Pittsburgh’s old Forbes Field nicknamed the area near the foul pole as “Greenberg’s Gardens” in honor of the former Detroit Tigers icon. When Kiner took his mentor’s place and

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Push to save pavilion grows continued from page 28 appreciate and enjoy. Markey wholeheartedly agrees with Katz and, while the time between now and any structural work on the pavilion should be measured in years, she is hopeful that whatever project should occur at the site will be completed well before the pavilion’s 60th anniversary in 2024. “People come from JFK Airport and it’s one of the first things you see to let you know you’re in Queens,” Markey said. “It’s going to take maybe five to seven years, but it will be money well spent. “I’d like it to be a community space where people can go to concerts,” she added. “There are so many concepts for the space.” Doran, the late activist, couldn’t have been happier at the outpouring of support from elected officials on both the city and state levels. “We are more than excited that all of this is going on. It’s moving along so much faster than anticipated,” Doran said. “We’ve got nothing but positive feedback along the way. It speaks to the effect and the promise the building has.” Like Katz’s soon-to-be-created task force, People for the Pavilion is planning future information sessions, but no dates have been finalized as of yet. Community Board 4 District Manager Christian Cassagnol was a member of

Katz’s contingent as well, joining Frank Gulluscio, his Community Board 6 counterpart, Community Board 7 Chairman Gene Kelty and various other board leaders in Queens. Cassagnol says he is eager to join Katz’s task force and that he believes it will lead to real movement at the Pavilion, which has sat dormant for decades. “Nobody is here for his or her personal gain, everyone is here because they just want to see it brought back,” Cassagnol said. “To take it down would be a disservice to the community. It’s not so much the pillar of Corona, it’s the pillar of Queens.” Flushing Meadows Corona Park Administrator Janice Melnick reiterated that the structures are not in danger of collapsing despite the menacing nature of the rust and corrosion coating them. She also expressed optimism over the proper funds being allocated to preserve and reuse the pavilion. “There’s been overwhelming support to preserve it and the first trick will be getting the money,” Melnick said. “If you look at the whole psalm, it looks like a lot of money. But if you look at it over 10 years, it’s really not that bad, it’s not that daunting. I think it’s something we can make happen.” The all-important question of how the borough and the city could allocate over $70 million in funding for the site’s preserQ vation remains to be seen.

became just as popular with Bucs fans, they renamed it “Kiner’s Korner.” The title would follow him decades later to Casey Stengel’s hapless expansion Mets, where it became the name of a long-running post-game interview show on Channel 9 popular with both fans and players.

Even members of the opposing team would drop by in uniform to discuss the game following a Mets loss. Kiner’s numbers as a player are more remarkable considering the years he might have had but were lost at both ends of his career. Signed by the Pirates as a teenager, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. “Though I was never shot at,” Kiner said in August 2011 at a Citi Field function honoring veterans of the war in Afghanistan. His service did delay his major league debut until 1946. A back injury hampered his swing in his last three years, spent with the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians. He was forced into retirement at age 32 following a career that saw him hit 369 home runs and make six All-Star teams. Kiner, Nelson and Murphy formed the Mets’ television and radio team for 17 years. Kiner delivered spot-on color commentary, flavored with stories about his career and the stars he played with and against, often peppered with malaprops and self-deprecating humor. He blended effortlessly with Murphy’s crisp play-by-play, and Nelson’s easy-going Tennessee drawl and trademark Q outlandish sports jackets.

Conviction in 2010 robberies, shootings Livery driver, restaurant worker wounded A former North Carolina resident is facing more than 25 years in prison following his conviction for a six-month robbery spree in 2010 that included the shooting of a cab driver and a restaurant employee. Shawn Peace, 25, who also once lived on 118th Avenue in Jamaica, was convicted last Thursday of second-degree attempted murder, first-degree assault, first-degree robbery and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon following a three-week trial. Queens District Attorney Richard Brown, in a statement issued by his office, said Peace is scheduled to be sentenced on March 26. “He has proven himself to be a menace to others and deserves the maximum sentence allowed by law,” Brown said. Peace was convicted of shooting livery cab driver Trevor Bell four times on Dec. 3, 2010, after engaging the livery car driver to take him to an address that turned out to be a dead end street in South Ozone Park.

Brown said Bell was shot as he struggled with Peace in the front seat of the cab. He was found slumped over in his car at the corner of 122nd Street and Sutter Avenue. Brown said Bell, hit in the neck and both legs, to this day suffers the effects of two strokes that occurred as a direct result of his wounds. The five other robberies for which Peace was convicted all took place at fast -food restaurants. They include one on Aug. 19, 2010 at Popeye’s Fried Chicken at 245-01 Francis Lewis Blvd. in Rosedale during which an employee was shot in the hand while trying to apprehend him. Brown said other robberies included one on July 15 at McDonald’s at 256-01 Union Tpke. in Glen Oaks; a Wendy’s restaurant at 222-06 Northern Blvd. in Bayside on Aug. 8; a Burger King at 92-02 Atlantic Ave. in Ozone Park on Nov. 19; and another McDonald’s at 166-05 Rockaway Blvd. in Jamaica on Q Nov. 21.

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St. John’s takes down 12th-ranked Creighton as March Madness nears by Christopher Barca Reporter

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70 65 CHARACTER VISITS AT THE COLISEUM! in scoring with 18 points-per-game, finished with 19 points while center Chris Obekpa finished with 11 points and six rebounds. Rysheed Jordan, who was named the Big East Rookie of the Week after scoring 18 points against Providence on Feb. 4, finished with five points, five rebounds and seven assists. But it was the defensive prowess of the Johnnies that fueled the upset of Creighton, at least Doug McDermott thought so. “They did a great job of taking me away,” McDermott said. “They were really disciplined a lot more down the stretch, so you’ve got to give them credit.” Red Storm coach Steve Lavin, who two months ago was the subject of whispers regarding a potential coaching change in the near future, has firmly reattached himself to his position as coach for right now. If he leads the Johnnies to an NCAA Tournament berth that many experts before the season believed would feature the Red Storm, his job is more than safe. “I think this group is developing at a nice rate,” Lavin said. “The hardship we faced earlier in the season seems to have forged a certain strength. We haven’t achieved anything of significance, but tonight’s win is another hurdle that has been cleared and an indication that this team is improving.” The Red Storm were set to cross the Hudson River to visit Seton Hall on Thursday, followed up with duels against Georgetown and Butler at Madison Square Garden on Sunday and Tuesday respectively. The Johnnies’ struggles began in earnest during their loss to Georgetown on Jan. 4, as St. John’s found themselves down by more than 30 in the second half of that game. If the Red Storm can upset Georgetown, Queens has a real shot of being represented in the NCAA TournaQ ment this year.

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It may be too little, too late for the Red Storm to find themselves in the field of 68 NCAA Tournament teams come March, but they aren’t going down without a fight. In typical St. John’s fashion, the Red Storm took down one of the best teams in college basketball on Sunday at Madison Square Garden, defeating the 12th-ranked Creighton Bluejays 70-65, pushing the Johnnies’ record to 15-9 and 5-6 in Big East conference play. It seems like the Johnnies defeat a top ranked team at least once every season despite being underdogs, and the Red Storm couldn’t have picked a better time to pull the annual upset. With seven games left on the schedule, including four at home and two within two hours of New York City, the Red Storm need to come away with at least five wins to find themselves on the tournament bubble. Twenty wins is known as the unofficial benchmark for being considered a strong contender for the NCAA Tournament, and anything less than five victories will most likely leave the Johnnies on the outside looking in. On Sunday, the Red Storm certainly looked like a team that belonged in the tournament, a miraculous turnaround from their Januar y str uggles in which they dropped five straight contests. Creighton’s Doug McDermott is, without question, the best player in the Big East and is arguably the best player in college basketball. He torched St. John’s on his way to 39 points two weeks ago. He leads the conference in scoring. Despite McDermott’s freakish ability to move without the ball, get open and score, the Red Storm were able to hold him scoreless for the final eight crucial minutes of the contest. The Johnnies switched on screens and pressured him so much that McDermott wasn’t even able to attempt a shot during those final minutes. After the Creighton star made a layup for his 24th and 25th points with 8:40 to go to give the Bluejays a 59-57 lead, the Red Storm’s offense kicked into a fifth gear. Junior guard D’Angelo Harrison, the Johnnies’ best offensive weapon, scored 10 points in the final eight minutes, with two of his baskets either tying the game or giving the Red Storm the lead. His three-pointer with two minutes left gave St. John’s a 65-63 advantage they would never relinquish. Harrison, who sits third in the Big East

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Animal lover Marie Forrester dies at 66 She brightened up her corner of Rego Park by Peter C. Mastrosimone Editor-in-Chief

There’s a concrete courtyard between a nondescript apartment building and some low-slung garages in Central Queens. Just like a million other spots in the borough. Squirrels and birds in the trees behind the garages, cats wandering through: They’re the only signs of life in the nondescript, paved-over spot. Except for the garden. A narrow strip, about 3 by 20 feet, it sits along one brick wall, in a tough spot, facing north. The ground is bare now, where it’s not covered by snow. But the decorations are there. Twin wind chimes hanging from the f ire escape, adorned with colorful little tin cats and fish. A piece of wall art on the brick facade that says “Garden.” Other outdoor knickknacks with an animal motif: a snail, a frog, a butterfly, a dragonfly. This is the garden outside the apartment of Marie Forrester, a mother, grandmother and greatgrandmother. A livery car driver. A friend to everyone and an animal rescuer. But now the garden suffers an emptiness beyond winter’s. Forrester

died Jan. 30 at age 66, after suffering a brain hemorrhage. Her loss is a blow to her family, coworkers and friends, of both the two-legged and four-legged variety. “We all love and miss her,” said her son, Vincent Forrester. “She’s very important to us. Now that she’s gone, we’re going to work to keep our family close. She was the keystone.” Marie Ann Forrester was born on Dec. 31, 1947, to Thomas and Angelina Licata of Brooklyn, who predeceased her. She is survived by Vincent Forrester and his sister, Florence; their mother’s siblings Margie Licata and Guy Licata; her grandchildren Richard and Christopher; and her great-grandchildren Kaylee Rose, Mia Angelina and Christopher Vincent; as well as several nieces and nephews. Forrester reared her children in Richmond Hill and moved to Rego Park about 10 years ago. She loved to cook and to read, her son said, including making dishes for her coworkers at Four Ones Car Service in Forest Hills, just a little ways down Woodhaven Boulevard. Her coworkers at Four Ones, where she worked for about 25 years,

are among those mourning her loss. “She became like the mother of all the drivers; she knew everything about everybody,” operations manager Rocky Collazo said. “She had a heart of gold. She was well-liked by her coworkers as well as the customers. Breaking down as he spoke, Collazo continued, “She will be dearly missed. I loved her a lot. She made a family here, and her family here is going to miss her.” Owner Paul Colletti, an avid Yankees fan who often makes baseball analogies, added, “If all the drivers here had numbers, we’d retire her number.” Coworker Ron List recalled how sweet Forrester was but also how tough she could be. “Through the years that I’ve known her, I knew her to be very direct and forceful at times,” List said. “She’d challenge people, sometimes in ways I wouldn’t. She was a forceful personality.” It was the same in her neighborhood, where even those who didn’t know Forrester well knew her as the woman who walked her little white dog, Tinky, up and down Wood-

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Forrester came in shortly afterward with a bouquet of flowers and a card to thank her. “We laughed together and we cried together,” neighborhood friend Jenny Baptiste said. “She would leave herself behind and take care of other people first, and she would take in the stray cats no one wanted. I’m going to miss her badly.” A wake for Forrester was held at Cassese Funeral Home in Ozone Park, and her remains were cremated. There’s no life above ground in her garden right now, but underneath the surface are the perennial roots that will sprout anew come springtime. Q

Sarah Walko’s piece “Supersymmetry and Superpartners” is one of several works meant to highlight the ongoing changes to the environment.

The newly revamped Queens Museum has made a point of curating thoughtprovoking pieces by artists from around the world, and its latest exhibit, “Raising the Temperature,” has proven to be eyecatching, frightening and beautiful without the preachy undertones many other climate change exhibits possess. The museum’s new curator, Luchia Meihua Lee, has done a wonderful job collecting pieces from nine artists. She has split the exhibit into two trajectories in order to better organize discussion. The first strand is concerned with technological changes in our society that reinforce behaviors contributing to the “environmental crisis.” Artists include Hai Zhang, a former architect whose latest collection, “Don’t follow me, I’m lost,” features photos that focus on the urbanization of China. The shots are striking and effectively demonstrate the stark differences between the modern buildings that have built up much of China’s skyline and the plots filled with trash, barren land and shacks. The second strand is less rigid than Zhang’s work and takes a more romantic approach to the environment and the role humans play in climate change. Long Island City resident Marlene Tseng Yu’s “Forest Fire” and “Black + White — Cracking Ice” are beautiful triptychs that demonstrate the evolution of natural forest fires and glaciers breaking apart. They are appropriately chaotic, especially “Forest Fire,” and Yu’s paint strokes show movement in all the right places. Lee seemed deeply devoted to putting together an exhibit that not only informs but also moves. “In art and life, no one is external to the social and cultural framework in which we live,” she wrote. “Each of us has assisted in Earth’s degeneration. Continued onpage page37 continued on

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boro EXHIBITS Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria. 25 Years of Madden NFL video game exhibition. Five versions of the groudbreaking game on view and available to play now thru Sunday, Feb. 23. Indie Essentials: 25 Must-Play Video Games, Exhibition of 25 playable, independently produced games, through March 2. Museum hours: Wednesdays-Thursdays, 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m.; Fridays, 10:30 a.m.-8 p.m.; Saturdays-Sundays, 11:30 a.m.-7 p.m. $12 adults, $9 seniors over 65 and students with ID, $6 children 3-12, under 3 free.

SPECIAL EVENTS

“Insects in Focus,” a lecture by Seth Ausubel, Queens County Bird Club, Feb. 19 at the Alley Pond Environmental Center.

Hands-on History: Tiny Valentine, King Manor Museum, 150-03 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica, Saturday, Feb. 15, 12-3 p.m. Create miniature 19th-centuryinspired valentines. Call (718) 206-0545. Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main St., Flushing, Great Backyard Bird Count, Saturday, Feb. 15, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. 17th annual event. Free. Call: Shari Romar (718) 886-3800; register: sromar@ queensbotanical.org.

“Raising the Temperature: Art in Environmental Reactions,” Queens Museum, New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona park, runs thru March 2. Contact (718) 592-9700, queensmuseum.org.

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“Twelfth Night,” Queens Theatre with Aquila Theatre, 14 United Nations Ave. South, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Friday, Feb. 14, 2 p.m.; Saturday, Feb. 15, 2 & 8 p.m.; Sunday, Feb. 16, 3 p.m. $42 (Fri.) $49 (Sat. & Sun.), $25 rear seating (all performances). Tickets: (718) 760-0064, queenstheatre.org/shakespeares-twelfth-night.

Tango Dance Workshop, Thalia Spanish Theatre, 41-17 Greepoint Ave., Sunnyside, Fridays & Saturdays, 5-6 p.m., now-March 22. Taught by Yaisuri Salamanca & John Hernan Raigosa, for men/ women, no experience needed. $150 for 15 classes, $100 for 5 classes, $25 per class. Contact: (718) 729-3880, thaliatheatre.org.

St. Gregory Theatre Group’s 35th Anniversary, Oak Room of St. Gregory the Great Church, 24220 88 Ave., Bellerose, Friday-Saturday, Feb. 21-22, 8 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 23, 2 p.m. A musical review/ cabaret of songs of past SGTG shows. $18 adults, $15 seniors, $7 kids (under 12). For tickets call: (718) 989-2451 or email tickets@sgtg.org.

Dance with Instruction, Italian Charities of America, 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst, every Monday and Friday night, 7:15-8 p.m., social dance follows at 8 p.m. $10. Call: (718) 478-3100.

Queens Secret Improv Club, comedy every Wednesday-Saturday, approx. 7:30 p.m. $7, for the best improv in Queens. 44-02 23 St., Long Island City. Contact: secrettheatre.org.

Volunteer youth baseball/football coaches, LP Fam Youth Organization, baseball ages 5-14, football ages 9-12, teams play in spring, summer and fall, 2014. Contact: Derik Braswell (917) 692-4775 or Paul Cox (917) 607-2421.

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“LOVE,” A Vocal Concert, Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, Tony Bennett Concert hall, 35-12 35 Ave., Astoria, Thursday, Feb. 13, 7 p.m. Vocal concert by the students. $15 general, $10 students. Contact: Andre Vazquez: (718) 361-9920, andre.fssa@gmail. com, franksinatraschoolofthearts.org/show-calendar.

DANCE Valerie Green/Dance Entropy New York City Season, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, Little Theater, 31-10 Thomson Ave., Long Island City, Saturday, Feb. 22, 8 p.m.; Sunday, Feb. 23, 2:30 p.m. $15 in advance, $20 at the door, $10 for students. Contact: Marisa Martin (718) 956-3037, marisa@ greenspacestudio.org. “A Night with Dancers,” Queens Council on the Arts, 3-11 35 Ave., entrance on 37th St., Astoria, Friday, Feb. 21, 7-9 p.m. $5. Contact: Lauren, drosa@queenscouncilarts.org.

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Register for February Cycle Youth Job Training & GED Program, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, 161-04 Jamaica Ave., 3rd Floor. Contact: Evelyn Ortiz (212) 630-9727, eortiz@obtjobs.org, ymcanyc.org/yroads. Rego Park Jewish Center, 97-30 Queens Blvd., Sunday at the Movies, “Arranged,” Sunday, Feb. 23, 2 p.m., cake & coffee served after the film, $5 per person. Afternoon Bingo, every Tuesday in Feb., early game, 2 p.m., doors open at 1:30 p.m., everyone 18 & over. Call (718) 459-1000. Volunteer youth baseball/football coaches, LP Fam Youth Organization, baseball ages 5-14, football ages 9-12, teams play in spring, summer and fall, 2014. Contact: Derik Braswell (917) 692-4775 or Paul Cox (917) 607-2421. Wednesday Night Singles Group, SFY Adult Center, 58-20 Little Neck Pkwy., Little Neck, second and fourth Wednesdays of each month, 7-9 p.m. Fee: $7 Adult Center members, $9 nonmembers.

Yoga classes, Central Queens YM & YWHA, 67-09 108 St., Forest Hills, registration ongoing for winter series (14 classes), Mondays (intermediate/ open), 10:20-11:20 a.m.; Wednesdays (beginners/seniors), 10:10-11:10 a.m.; Fridays (intermediate/advanced), 11:30 a.m.-12:40 p.m. $168 CQY members, $210 general public; seniors, $66 CQY members, $119 general public. Register: (718) 268-5011, cgy.org.

KIDS/TEENS High School to Art School Interview Day for Winter/Spring Program, Queens Council on the Arts, 37-11 35 Ave. (enter on 37th St.), 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 15. Training for HS juniors/ seniors with art skills: mentorships, college application, financial planning. Contact: Daliana, drosa@ queenscouncilarts.org. Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main St., Flushing, NYC Compost Project, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 3-4:30 p.m. Introduces kids (5 and up, with an adult) to the life of indoor composting worms. $5 per person. Contact: Marguerite Manela (718) 539-5296, compost@queensbotanical.org. Black History Month: George Washington Carver Workshop, Thursday, Feb. 20, 1:30-3 p.m. Carver's achievements in botany. $6 per child. Contact: Rebecca Wolf (718) 886-3880, education@queensbotanical.org. Arts & Crafts Class, Ridgewood YMCA, 69-02 64 St., Wednesdays, thru Feb. 23, 6-7 p.m., ages 5-12. $65 Members, $75 nonmembers. Contact: Sarah Feldman (212) 912-2180, labohemianartist@ gmail.com. Baseball 2014 registration, Dunton Presbyterian Church, 109-29 135 St., South Ozone Park, Saturdays, now-Apr. 19, 12-3 p.m. Boys/girls, ages 5-14. Proof of age (birth certificate, passport, school record). $100 registration includes uniform, insurance, weekly training, games, trophies. Contact: Derik Braswell (917) 692-4775, Ted Jones (917) 375-6185 or Paul Cox (718) 835-8416.

Indiecade’s East Coast Edition of the Premier Independent Video Game Festival, Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria, Friday, Feb. 14-Sunday, Feb. 16. Museum hours: Friday, 10:30 a.m.-8 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 11:30 a.m.-7 p.m. $12 adults, $9 seniors over 65 and students with ID, $6 children 3-12, under 3 free. Contact: (718) 777-6888, movingimage.us. Winter Blood Drive, Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2-8 p.m. Free babysitting available. Contact: (718) 229-4000, ext. 214, or emcglinchey@alleypond.com.

FLEA MARKETS Richmond Hill Flea Market, 117-09 Lefferts Blvd., off Jamaica Ave., every Sunday, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Largest flea market in Queens. Italian Charities of America Flea Market, 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst, Saturday, Feb. 15, 9 a.m-4 p.m. Call (718) 478-3100. White Elephant Sale, Queens Historical Society, Kingsland Homestead, 143-35 37 Ave., Flushing, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2:30-4:30 p.m. Contact: Karyn Mooney, (718) 939-0647, kmooney@queenshistoricalsociety.org; queenshistoricalsociety.org.

MEETINGS Queens County Bird Club meeting, Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 8 p.m. “Insects in Focus,” a lecture by Seth Ausubel. Contact: qcbirdclub.org. Amber Charter School Community meeting, school library, 220 East 106 St., Manhattan, Tuesday, February 18th, 5 p.m. To receive feedback on their proposal for the replication of Amber Charter School in CSD 6 and/or CSD28. The public is invited to come to the open meeting and provide feedback regarding application for replication by completing survey at surveymonkey.com/s/amberfeedback. Business Card Exchange & Networking Meeting, Glendale Chamber of Commerce, Thursday, Feb. 27, 7 p.m., Zum Stammtisch Restaurant, 69-46 Myrtle Ave. Contact: President Patt Gatt (516) 8351433, pattig213@aol.com.

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Chery Manniello handles the choreography. Performances at the Bay Terrace Jewish Center, 13-00 209 St., Bayside, are on March 1 and 8 at 8 p.m. and March 2, 9 and 16 at 3 p.m. Tickets: $20; $18 for seniors 62 and up and children under 12. More: (718) 428-6363. Opening the same night is Marathon Little Theatre Group’s production of the more recent “Hairspray,” which was a hit both on Broadway and the silver screen.

With a sunny, and mostly musical, community theater spring season in the forecast, and more than half a dozen shows scheduled to open between now and late April, it’s time to sing the winter blues away! First up is the Parkside Players’ production of “The Uninvited,” a good old-fashioned ghost story which begins thrilling audiences Friday night. The play, by Tim Kelly, is directed by Bill Logan and features a cast headed by Laura Cetti and Nick Radu. Performances at Grace Lutheran Church, Union Turnpike and 71 Road in Forest Hills, are on Feb. 15, 21, 22 and 28 and March 1 at 8 p.m. and Feb. 16 and 23 at 2 p.m. Tickets: $17; $15 for seniors; $10 for children. More: (718) 353-7388. St. Gregor y’s Theatre Group, celebrating its 35th year, presents a commemorative musical retrospective featuring many of the group’s familiar performers from across the years. Performances in the Oak Room of St. Gregory the Great Church, 242-80 88 Ave. in Bellerose, are on Feb. 21 and 22 at 8 p.m. and Feb. 23 at 2 p.m. Tickets: $18; $15 for seniors; $7 for children under 12.

Set in the racially divided Baltimore of 1962, the show is a paean to the TV dance programs of the era, with love winning out in the end. Tanya Fiebert stars as Tracy, a star-struck teenager with an abundance of joie de vivre. Her mother, Edna, is traditionally played by a male, and here the plum role is handled by Frank Auriemma. Mark York offers support as Edna’s understanding husband, Wilbur. The intergenerational cast of three dozen is under the direction of Barbara Auriemma. Musical direction is by Rhea Arkin. Choreography is by Jenifer Badamo. Performances at the Marathon Jewish Center, 245-67 60 Ave. in Douglaston, are on March 1 and 8 at 8:30 p.m. and March 2, 9 and 16 at 3 p.m. Tickets: $18; $16 for seniors and children under 13. More: (718) 229-4644. The following week marks the opening of Beari Productions’ “Children of Eden,” with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz of “Wicked” and “Pippin” fame. Directed and choreographed by David Arzberger, with musical direction by Gia Jiayang, the show is based on the Book continued continued on page 39 00 of Genesis.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Edward Lui Architect PLLC. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/27/13. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: THE PLLC, 58-43 256th St., 1st Fl., Little Neck, NY 11362. Purpose: practice the profession of architecture.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: 1826 WOODBINE STREET LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/30/13. 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, 69-21 60th Road, Maspeth, New York 11378. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: FANTASIA GLOBAL ALLIANCE LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/13/2014. 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, 5044 230th Street, Oakland Gardens, NY 11364. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: JAMI HARRELSON LLC. Arts of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/25/13. Off. Loc.: Queens Co. SSNY desig. as agt. upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 489 Fairview Ave., Apt. 2, Flushing, NY 11385. General Purpose:

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Notice is hereby given that a license (number to be assigned) for a liquor, wine and beer license has been applied for by the undersigned* to sell liquor, wine, and beer at retail in a full service restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 92-10 59th Avenue, Elmhurst, NY 11373 for on premises consumption. *N and D Restaurants, Inc. d/b/a The Olive Garden Italian Restaurant #4443

Notice of Formation of SECURITY SERVICES ONE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/30/13. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: 31 11 12 LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/05/2014. 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, 31-11 12th Street, Long Island City, NY 11106. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF HIPPSH.COM, LLC, a domestic LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/27/13. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: The LLC, 167-41 147th Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11434. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LYZC LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/17/13. Office in Queens Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 39-01 Main St., Ste. 501, Flushing, NY 11354. Purpose: General.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: JCJ PROPERTIES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Sec. of State (SSNY) on 11/20/13. Office: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy to: 153-02A Northern Blvd., 2FL., Flushing, NY 11354. General Purposes.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: Pop Up Ventures LLC. Arts of Org. filed NY Secy of State (SSNY) 9/4/13. Office: Queens Co. SSNY design. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy to 3450 28th St., #4J, New York, NY 11106. Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: JEREZ RESTOR ATION GROUP, Limited Liability Company Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/26/13. Office in Queens Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 41-39 54th St., Ste #3, Woodside, NY 11377. Purpose: General.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: MO’ MOVERS LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/18/13. 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, 628 Beach 8th Street, Far Rockaway, NY 11691. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Proper Care, L.L.C. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/13/13. 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, 107-14 Watson Place Jamaica, NY 11433. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF KOTAKE ZEIMU LLC. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/17/13. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 140-30 Ash Avenue, #5L, Flushing, NY 11355. Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: MUJIBUR LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/06/14. 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 Mujibur Rahman, 80-26 166th Street, Jamaica, NY 11432. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF S&L REALT Y MANAGEMENT, LLC. Arts. of Org. was filed with SSNY on 1/15/14. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process against may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 64-10 77th Place, Middle Village, NY 11379. Purpose: all lawful activities.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: 139 PARKING LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 08/16/13. 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, 91 Broadhollow Rd., Melville, NY 11747. General Purpose.

LEGAL NOTICE FAMILY COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, COUNTY OF QUEENS: File #46586, Dkt.V-07071-13 Custody/Visitation Proceeding, Richard Thomas, Petitioner, Marcia Ruth-Ann Syrine Hernandez, Respondent; To: Marcia Ruth-Ann Syrine Hernandez, 699 Ralph Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11212, a petition under Article 6 of the Family Court Act having been filed with this Court, you are summoned to appear before this Court on March 17, 2014 at 151-20 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica, NY 11432, Part 44, Room 240, to answer the petition and to be dealt with in accordance with Article 6 of the Family Court Act. On your failure to appear as herein directed, a warrant may be issued for your arrest. The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of Margaret M. Mulrooney Esq., Referee of the Family Court, Queens County, dated and filed with the petition and other papers in the Office of the Clerk of the Family Court, Queens County. Petition for Custody: Petitioner, Richard Thomas v. Respondent Marcia Ruth-Ann Syrine Hernandez. Subject child: Marcus Marli Hernandez, dob 8/13/1999; resides with petitioner at 119-14 143rd St., Jamaica, NY 11436. The father of the subject child has been legally established. P-19083/11-O/Fil. A custody or visitation proceeding concerning the same child is not pending in NY. Petitioner obtained custody of the child at birth and the subject child is not a Native American child subject to the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978. No previous application has been made. Petitioner requests an order awarding custody of the child for such other and further relief as the Court may determine.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: 91ST AVENUE LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 09/27/13. Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The Law Office of Sestino Barone, 228 Park Ave. S., Ste. 9164, NY, NY 100031502. General Purpose.

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SQ page 44 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK – COUNTY OF QUEENS - INDEX# 17472/2012 FILED: 8/21/2012 SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE - Plaintiff designates Queens County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgage premise is situated. BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., Plaintiff against CARMEN MANZANO A/K/A CARMEN T. MANZANO, CARMEN ARBOLEDA, if she be living and if she be dead, the respective heirs-at-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors and successors in interest, and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said defendant who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or inheritance, any right, title or interest in or to the real property described in the complaint, LUIS R. PULGARON, if he be living and if he be dead, if, the respective heirs-at-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors and successors in interest, and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said defendant who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or inheritance, any right, title or interest in or to the real property described in the complaint, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR COUNTRYWIDE BANK, FSB, NYC ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD, NYC CRIMINAL COURT and “JOHN DOE” and “JANE DOE,” the last two names being fictitious and said parties intended being tenants, or occupants, if any, having or claiming an interest in, or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Defendant(s) TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEYS FOR THE MORTGAGE COMPANY WHO FILED THIS FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT, A DEFAULT JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED AND YOU CAN LOSE YOUR HOME. SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY OR GO TO THE COURT WHERE YOUR CASE IS PENDING FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON HOW TO ANSWER THE SUMMONS AND PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY. SENDING A PAYMENT TO YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY WILL NOT STOP THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not serviced with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); The United States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action, may appear within (60) days of service thereof and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT: THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose on a mortgage that was recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Queens on April 13, 2010 in Liber Document No. 2010000122267. Plaintiff is the holder and the owner of the aforesaid NOTE and MORTGAGE, covering premises known as 8625 91st Street, Woodhaven, NY 11421. (Block 8871 Lot 1). The relief sought within the action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt described above. To the above named Defendants: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Hon. Bernice D. Siegal, J.S.C. , a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, filed along with the supporting papers in the office of the Clerk of the County of QUEENS on 12/30/2013. This is an action to foreclose on a mortgage. ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough and County of Queens and City and State of New York (Block 8871 Lot 1). Said premises known as 8625 91st Street, Woodhaven, NY 11421. YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. By reason of the default in the payment of the monthly installment of principal and interest, among other things, as hereinafter set forth, Plaintiff, the holder and owner of the aforementioned note and mortgage, or their agents have elected and hereby accelerate the mortgage and declare the entire mortgage indebtedness immediately due and payable. The following amounts are now due and owing on said mortgage, no part of any of which has been paid although duly demanded: By virtue thereof, plaintiff has heretofore elected and by these presents hereby elects to accelerate the entire unpaid principal balance of $360,000.00 to be immediately due and payable under the mortgage herein foreclosed, with accrued interest at 7% per annum from August 1, 2009. Plaintiff is also entitled to a reasonable attorneys’ fee in the amount of $1,300.00, plus costs and disbursements, for which demand is hereby made UNLESS YOU DISPUTE THE VALIDITY OF THE DEBT, OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, WITHIN THIRTY (30) DAYS AFTER YOUR RECEIPT HEREOF THAT THE DEBT, OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, IS DISPUTED, THE DEBTOR JUDGMENT AGAINST YOU AND A COPY OF SUCH VERIFICATION OR JUDGMENT WILL BE MAILED TO YOU BY THE HEREIN DEBT COLLECTOR. IF APPLICABLE, UPON YOUR WRITTEN REQUEST, WITHIN SAID THIRTY (30) DAY PERIOD, THE HEREIN DEBT COLLECTOR WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED A DISCHARGE FROM THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT, YOU ARE NOT PERSONALLY LIABLE FOR THE UNDERLYING INDEBTEDNESS OWED TO PLAINTIFF/CREDITOR AND THIS NOTICE/DISCLOSURE IS FOR COMPLIANCE AND INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE New York State requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process. Please read it carefully. SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT You are in danger of losing your home. If you fail to respond to the summons and complaint in this foreclosure action, you may lose your home. Please read the summons and complaint carefully. You should immediately contact an attorney or your local legal aid office to obtain advice on how to protect yourself. SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid, there are government agencies, and nonprofit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by New York state Banking Department at 1-877-Bank-NYS or visit the Department’s website at www.banking.state.ny.us. FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS Be careful of people who approach you with offers to “save” your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner’s distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services. Section 1303 NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving the copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you may lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING AN ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Kozeny, McCubbin & Katz, LLP. Attorneys for the Plaintiff, 395 N. Service Road, Suite 401, Melville, NY 11747 Our File 19364

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF SMARTCCT, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York SSNY on 11/07/13. Office located in Queens. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC 3235 154th Street, Flushing, NY, 11354. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: SYNDICATE 3 LLC. Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 11/20/13. Office in Queens Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the The LLC, 6-18 159th St., Whitestone, NY 11357. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: TIMES CAPITAL LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/18/13. 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 Gui Yang Wang, 133-38 Sanford Avenue, Unit 5B, Flushing, NY 11355. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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Shea Stadium nearing completion by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

New Yorkers over the age of 65 still remember how much we were starved for National League baseball when the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants moved to California. The only game in town was the American League’s Yankees, and when they went on the road, you had nothing. A horrible thought for a baseball addict. Attorney William Shea headed up a committee to make arrangements to expand the National League from eight to 10 teams. Abraham Beame, later to be our mayor, was the city’s budget director and comptroller in 1960. He backed a stadium in Corona. All members of the old Board of Estimate voted for it, except the two from the Bronx. The building of the stadium for the new Mets was a joint venture of the P.J. Carlin and Thomas Crimmins companies. In 1962 the team temporarily played in the old Polo Grounds in Manhattan, drawing almost a million people their first season. The principal owner of the Mets was Joan Whitney Payson, a former stockholder of the New York Giants, who voted against their

Shea Stadium nearing completion for opening day in February 1964. move to California. Soon after they moved she sold all her shares of Giants stock and hoped to take revenge one day for what they had done to New York baseball. She got to. Shea Stadium was projected to have been complete by October 1963 but they were still scrambling in February 1964 to open on time for Opening Day. The new stadium only had a seating capacity of 55,300, compared to the aging Yankee Stadium’s 67,000. It was named in honor of Shea for bringing National League baseball back to New York. Shea passed away in 1991. The 50th anniversary of the opening is April 17, but of course Shea was torn down Q and replaced several years ago.

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Remembering Ralph by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor

Ralph Kiner’s passing brought out an emotional response from Mets fans that has understandably been missing since the team moved into Citi Field five years ago. I can vouch for the general consensus that he was a gracious and classy man. Ralph was always receptive to talking baseball and he did not check to see if you were a sportswriter from a big outlet to decide whether a conversation was worth his time. Trust me, that’s not how it is with a lot of broadcasters and sportswriters these days. Barry Lyons, a third-string catcher on the 1986 Mets, told me one of his greatest thrills as a player was to be a guest on the Mets’ longrunning postgame show, “Kiner’s Korner.” When any substitute player got a chance to be the hero of the game, and thus merit an appearance on the show, it was like being inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame for a day. “Kiner’s Korner” had cheesy production values but it was the one place where fans could hear the thoughts of players right after the game ended. It was also a rare chance for fans to see Mount Rushmore-levelplayers such as Sandy Koufax, Willie Mays, Roberto Clemente and Hank Aaron engage in conversation. Ralph was guilty of many malapropisms, such as referring to the late Mets catcher Gary Carter as Gary Cooper, the legendary actor.

Those errors only enhanced Kiner’s charm and made it more fun to watch Mets telecasts. Hardly anyone brought up the fact that Kiner, along with the late Yankees pitcher Allie Reynolds, helped establish the Major League Baseball Players Association. The duo was able to get the first pension plan for ballplayers. The media also shied away from the fact that Kiner had little use for Branch Rickey — the same Branch Rickey who signed Jackie Robinson, ensuring the integration of MLB. In 1950 Rickey left the Brooklyn Dodgers to become general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, whose only player worth watching was a young homer-hitting outfielder named Ralph Kiner. The idea of free agency was a pipe dream for major league players during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations as baseball owners held firm to the reserve clause, which limited a ballplayer to one team even if a contract expired. Even though Kiner was the marquee attraction, Rickey took advantage of his lack of leverage by shortchanging him during every contract negotiation. On more than one Mets telecast, Kiner let the world know that Rickey was fond of telling him, “We finished last with you and we can finish last without you!” as a way of justifying the Q Pirates’ stinginess. See the extended version of Sports Beat every week at qchron.com.

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