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After Covid derailed the timeline for the JFK Airport redevelopment plan, Mayor de Blasio said that he would be extending the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s lease. He also announced a community beneﬁts package that involves at least 30 percent workers of color and apprenticeship programs for South Queens that he worked on with U.S. Rep. Greg Meeks, right, and Borough President Donovan Richards.

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Showtime: Movies reopening in city Limited capacity starting March 5; new nursing home visit guidelines by David Russell Associate Editor

et the popcorn ready. Movie theaters in the city can open at 25 percent capacity with up to 50 people starting March 5, Gov. Cuomo announced Monday. Moviegoers must wear masks, socially distance and sit in assigned seats. Cinemart Cinemas on Metropolitan Avenue in Forest Hills anticipates reopening April 1. “Being shut down for one year it takes time to get back our staff, training for cinema safe protocols,” a post on the theater’s Facebook page said Tuesday. The post also said the theater wants Hollywood to move up some good movies earlier on its release schedule. Adam Aron, CEO and president of AMC Entertainment, announced all 13 AMC theaters in the city will reopen March 5. He said since reopening its first theaters in August, nearly 10 million moviegoers nationwide have been welcomed without a single reported Covid case. “We look forward to welcoming back our New York City guests to the big seats, big sounds and big screens that are only possible at a movie theater,” he said. Showcase Cinemas announced Tuesday its College Point and Jamaica locations will

Almost a year after being shuttered, movie theaters including the Cinemart in Forest Hills, PHOTO BY DAVID RUSSELL above, will be allowed to open at 25 percent capacity on March 5. reopen March 5. Kew Gardens Cinemas posted Wednesday on Facebook that a reopening date will be announced soon. Regal Cinemas, which suspended operations in October, did not announce reopening plans. On Jan 5, Regal tweeted, “Big movies are made for the big screen and we plan to open our theaters once NYC and LA allow — we hope this happens by March.”

New York City was second to Los Angeles in box office revenue in 2019. “New York City is a major market for moviegoing in the U.S., reopening there gives confidence to film distributors in setting and holding their theatrical release dates,” the National Association of Theatre Owners said in a statement. Theaters closed in the state last March. Cuomo allowed them to reopen on Long

Island in October. Movie theaters received a boost when the Save Our Stages Act, providing grants for arts and entertainment venues, joined the Covid-19 relief bill. Some theaters, including Cinemart Cinemas and Kew Gardens Cinemas, thanked Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) with messages on their marquees. Cuomo also announced expanded guidelines for nursing home visitations Monday. For counties with Covid positivity rates between 5 and 10 percent on a seven-day rolling average, the state will require visitors to get a rapid test 72 hours in advance. For counties with Covid positivity rates below 5 percent, no testing is required but it is still encouraged. If an area if over 10 percent, visitors are not allowed except for compassionate care visits. In all counties, if a guest has had both Covid vaccine shots within 90 days, a test is not required. Elder care facilities must be Covid-free for 14 days in order to accept visitors. Last Wednesday, Cuomo announced indoor family entertainment centers, such as arcades, trampoline parks and laser tag facilities, can reopen March 26 at 25 percent capacity. Outdoor amusement parks can return in April and Q summer camps can resume in June.

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City announces JFK construction deal Mayor says plan will focus on minority, area hiring in construction jobs by Max Parrott Associate Editor

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a set of executive orders on Monday that will extend the city’s lease with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, allowing a 20,000-job development project at the airport to proceed. With $10-to-15 billion of private investment going to the airport’s new infrastructure, de Blasio said the deal would support the city’s recovery from the Covid pandemic and would give residents of South and Southeast Queens a taste of the economic benefits. The executive orders would extend the PA’s lease on JFK Airport from 2050 to 2060 without having to apply through the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure. The PA has said that it would not be possible to attract those billions of dollars of private investment unless the investors have sufficient time after the new airport facilities open to recoup their contributions. The old lease term with the city at JFK did not permit this, it said. “The emergency extension of the airport lease provides the Port Authority the flexibility to restructure the deal terms with the private

A rendering of the proposed JFK redevelopment plan shows the new terminal construction that is expected to generate billions of private investment in FILE IMAGE the airport. partners on an urgent basis and, if successful, achieve closing and the start of construction in the second half of this year,” a spokesperson for the PA said. I n ret u r n for t he la nd-u se requirement shortcut, de Blasio said the Port Authority would continue to adhere to a community benefits agreement created in partnership with Southeast Queens residents and leaders in 2018. De Blasio described the agreement as the

result of a collaboration between U. S . R e p . G r e g o r y M e e k s (D-Queens, Nassau) and Queens Bor ou g h P r e sid e nt D o nova n Richards. The various agreements include hiring people of color for at least 30 percent of construction jobs, ensuring at least 30 percent of the contractors are minority- and womenowned businesses, establishing new apprenticeship and scholarship programs within the area and

requiring the new building to meet environmental standards. “Getting this right meant driving a hard bargain and making sure that the needs of the people came first — public benefits front and center,” said de Blasio in his press event on Monday. In addition to the minority hiring requirement, the agreement requires 7 percent women hires across all construction trades. It also requires “best efforts” practices to hire from ZIP codes around the air por t followed by all of Queens, fund new pre-apprenticeship programs prioritizing area residents, expand Council for Airport Opportunity in Downtown Jamaica and Far Rockaway to facilitate long-term local hiring, and a commitment to fund an Office of Second Chance Employment to connect formerly incarcerated residents with jobs at the airport. “ To d a y ’s l e a s e e x t e n s i o n announcement will allow for deal restructuring which will ensure the long term sustainability of JFK’s redevelopment and allow us on the federal level to continue our work to address the Port’s 3 billion dollar shortfall with the Biden Administration in the upcoming Covid-19

relief bill, a real threat to job growth in New York,” said Meeks. Education programs will include scholarships for local high school students; funding for an aviationfocused STEM program at York College for local middle school students; continuation and expansion of a summer minicamp in collaboration with the Eastern Queens Alliance to educate middle school students on environmental stewardship and sustainability; participation in multiple high school career fairs annually and a local internship program. In September, the JFK Airport Committee, a community group, said the benef its it wants are health studies, including those related to air quality and the noise under the f light paths. Though t h e r e wa s a n e nv i r on me nt a l review done for the JFK Redevelopment Program, which included multiple opportunities for public engagement, the PA did not conduct any additional studies following the group’s request. The environmental standards that will be applied to the redevelopment program involve practices like minimum LEED Silver and low-emisQ sions service equipment.

District 32 candidates get matching funds Four Democrats receive cash in lead-up to summer primary by Max Parrott

$15,000 in loans for his campaign, with the highest fundraising total between private and Out of the 10 candidates who have regis- public funds. Alamarie has raised a combined $201,017, tered with the New York City Campaign Finance Board to run for City Council District minus the loans he gave himself, and spent 32, two have maxed out their public matching $29,744 so far. He released a video two weeks ago that focused on growing up in the district, funds in the latest round of filing. his bona fides as a planner for the city and In the CFB’s massive $18 million public the economic devastation of the panfund payment to 2021 candidates for demic. His average donation size city office, city planner Kaled Amawas $50. larie, high school teacher and Singh has raised $197,697 activist Felicia Singh, Howard between private and public funds, Beach attorney Mike Scala and but only spent $9,757, less than Community Board 9 Chairman Alamarie, and has an average conKenichi Wilson — all Democrats tribution size of $58. — qualified for public funds with 2021 Scala, who received around 33 perthe primary approaching in June. cent of the vote when he ran against As of the public fund infusion Singh and Alamarie have both received the maxi- incumbent Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone mum amount of public funding at $160,444. Park) in 2017, received $112,716 total in public Though Singh, who has up until now main- funds. In total he has raised $133,567 with an tained a fundraising advantage in the race, has average donation of $99. Wilson received $77,725 in matching funds the most cash on hand going forward, the new deposit shows Alamarie, who has taken out with an average donation of $69, leaving him

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Kaled Alamarie, left, Felicia Singh, Mike Scala and Kenichi Wilson all qualified for public matchFILE PHOTOS ing funds from the Campaign Finance Board. with $89,935 cash on hand. It remains to be seen how the recent entrance of Queens County Republican Party Chairwoman Joann Ariola into the race will shake up the field. Ariola has not made any campaign finance filings with the CFB as of yet, but her presence will impact the race for one of the most conservative districts in the borough.

Of the four candidates who did not qualify for public funds, paralegal Shaeleigh Severino has raised a total of $28,610, former teacher Helal Sheikh has raised $12,625, filmmaker and community arts advocate Ruben Cruz has raised $3,410, community organizer and student Raimondo Graziano has raised $3,115 and nonprofit founder Bella Mattias has Q raised $671.

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Kim demands answers and justice from gov. Nursing home advocates rally for ‘truth’ of undisclosed death toll by Katherine Donlevy Associate Editor

One week after revealing he was threatened by the governor, Assemblymember Ron Kim (D-Flushing) rallied in front of City Hall to round off a list of demands for the Cuomo administration. “Cuomo is a coward who has abused his powers. His pattern of abuse and harassment toward his aides, journalists, lawmakers and critics is despicable. As a lawmaker, I have the duty to hold him accountable. I will not stand down,” Kim said Feb. 24, referring to the sexual harassment alleged by Manhattan borough president candidate and former state aide Lindsay Boylan. Boylan and several other government officials have stepped forward in the week since Kim claimed Cuomo berated him over the phone for speaking out against the nursing home death toll cover-up. They also claim he has been abusive. Mayor de Blasio stood by Kim, adding that the bullying is “classic Andrew Cuomo.” Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, City Cou ncilmembers Jim my Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) and Brad Lander (D-Brooklyn) and state Sen. Jessica Ramos joined Kim at the Wednesday rally, as well as Voices for Seniors, an advocacy group created during the pandemic.

Assemblymember Ron Kim, at podium, other elected officials and senior citizen advocates rallied outside City Hall Wednesday to make multiple demands from the Cuomo administration NYS ASSEMBLY IMAGE focused on nursing home justice. The leaders called for a Congressional oversight hearing to uncover the truth behind the “suppression of life-and-death data,” discovered by a state attorney general investigation. According to AG Letitia James, the Department of Health hadn’t been including the number of nursing home deaths that took place after residents were transferred to hospitals from the homes. The true death toll

was 50 percent higher than what the state had revealed, according to the investigation. Cuomo defended the accuracy of the data, claiming that the low numbers were what the state had access to at the time. It took officials time to fulfill information requests pertaining to where a nursing home resident died if it had not been inside the facility, he said last week.

Kim rattled off other demands at his City Hall rally: that immunity be repealed for nursing home corporate executives because it incentivizes profit over residents, that the governor return all his campaign donations made by the Greater New York Hospital Association and that he tur n over all GNYHA lobbyist communications. On Feb. 16, Kim introduced a bill that would strip Cuomo’s emergency powers that were granted due to the Covid crisis, claiming he’s abused them in a way that has cost thousands of lives. A week later, Kim called for Cuomo’s impeachment in the name of accountability and integrity in a Newsday Op-Ed. De Blasio said Monday that the city would benefit if Cuomo’s reins were loosened. “Look, New York City should be able to make its own decisions,” he said at a press briefing. “This city proved it could lead the fight against Covid, and yet our hands are constantly being tied. We’re not able to do the things that we know would allow us to vaccinate more people ... So, give the control to New York City. We can make the decisions for our people best, and if I had the same governance that we used to have for years and years and years, I guarantee you we can be vaccinating more people Q more quickly in this city.”

Eateries allowed an increase in seating Cuomo eases up on beset sector by Peter C. Mastrosimone

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Restaurants in New York City will be allowed to fill 35 percent of their seats tomorrow, Feb. 26. The new rule, announced by Gov. Cuomo last Friday, marks a 40 percent jump in capacity over the 25 percent limit in place until now. An eatery with 50 seats, for example, has been able to serve 12 patrons at a time, but as of Friday will be able to serve 17. Cuomo pointed out in mak ing the announcement that New Jersey allows indoor dining at 35 percent. “What’s happening now is people in New York City, Staten Island, Manhattan, are going to New Jersey, to those restaurants, so it’s not really accomplishing a purpose,” he said. “So New York City restaurants will go to 35 percent next Friday; that will be consistent with New Jersey.” Although he acknowledged that restaurants in other parts of New York State, including Long Island, are open to 50 percent capacity, he did not address whether Queens residents might go to Nassau County to eat the way Manhattanites go to New Jersey. The Queens Chamber of Commerce lauded the move, as it has any relaxation of restrictions on business activity imposed by Cuomo to thwart the spread of Covid-19.

“The pandemic has been hard on business owners, especially those in the restaurant industry,” chamber President Tom Grech said in a prepared statement. “The return of indoor dining at 25 percent capacity has been a help to these struggling businesses, and we welcome the increase to 35 percent starting next Friday. But we must do more. We encourage Governor Cuomo to bring New York City in line with the rest of the State and allow for indoor dining at 50 percent capacity by March 1, with the goal of returning to 100 percent capacity by St. Patrick’s Day.” Grech also reiterated his plea that Congress pass an aid package literally named for eateries, the Real Economic Support That Acknowledges Unique Restaurant Assistance Needed To Survive Act. The bill has not come up for a vote in either house of Congress since being introduced in June. “Our federal officials must do their part to help too, and pass The RESTAURANTS Act immediately,” Grech said. “We ask that all New Yorkers continue to support their favorite neighborhood restaurants at this difficult time.” The NYC Hospitality Alliance, a restaurant trade association, also is glad to fill more seats. “We appreciate that the Governor is following the data, listening to our voices, increasing occupancy, and we hope to continue this path and increase to at least 50% occupancy safe-

Using his emergency powers to fight Covid-19, Gov. Cuomo retains the ability to decide how PHOTO BY PHOTO BY HARSHLIGHT / FLICKR many seats in a restaurant may be occupied at one time. ly as soon as possible,” Executive Director Andrew Rigie said in a statement. Cuomo is able to singlehandedly decide how many people may be in a restaurant at one time under the emergency powers he was granted by the Legislature last year to combat the novel coronavirus, which has killed approximately 46,000 people in New York State. Now that Cuomo is under fire for allegedly withholding data on nursing home deaths from state lawmakers, federal investigators and the public, legislators led by members of the state

Senate are looking to reduce his power to act unilaterally. State governments in the United States are made up of three branches, executive, legislative and judicial, each with limited powers and each meant to act as a check against the others. Cuomo, as governor, heads the executive branch. Asked why restaurants were forced to wait a week after the governor’s announcement to serve more people instead of being allowed to do so that day, Cuomo’s press office did not Q immediately respond.

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City announces G&T admissions model Test to be replaced by teacher evaluations, lottery for this year by Max Parrott Associate Editor

In lieu of the contentious Gifted and Talented exam for this coming school year, the city announced last week that it will move to a model in which preschool educators identify students to be entered into a randomized lottery for seats. In January, Mayor de Blasio announced that he would be changing the admission model of the city’s G&T programs, which are determined by a high-stakes exam administered to children as young as 4. Starting March 8, families will be able to submit a form expressing interest in enrolling their child in kindergarten G&T programs. Then preschool teachers will complete a questionnaire that will determine whether each student will be eligible for the randomized lottery that will ultimately determine admission. Siblings of students in schools with G&T programs will have priority for admission, as has been true in the past. For families who are not yet enrolled in a prekindergarten program, the Department of Education suggested that interested families should sign up for a seat in a program now in order to complete the assessment. If families are not interested in doing that, then they can still apply for a slot by holding a virtual inter-

view with the DOE’s Early Childhood team. The announcement concludes several weeks of uncertainty about how the city would admit kindergarteners into the program in the final year of its current iteration. Every year on average, there are a combined 2,500 G&T kindergarten seats for around 15,000 applicants, according to the DOE. The mayor’s plan to administer the exam one last time before overhauling the G&T programs was disrupted by the Panel for Educational Policy, a mayor- and borough president-appointed body, which voted against the city’s test contract with Pearson education service. De Blasio has said through the spring and summer, parents, elected officials and city stakeholders will hold an “intensive public engagement process” that will determine the future of the program. He and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza stressed that they intend to create programming that is more inclusive, focused on enrichment opportunities and incorporates the new technology that has become a central part of public schooling during the pandemic. The mayor’s move away from the G&T exam model follows the recommendations of the Schools Diversity Advisory Group, which released a 2019 report detailing racial disparities in the programs and recommending the

The city announced that it would be replacing the G&T exam with an evaluation and lottery FILE PHOTO BY MICHAEL SHAIN system this year. exam’s eventual removal. The question over what an alternative to the programs would look like remains largely open-ended. But the process won’t go forward without resistance.

Fundraising for McManus family Howard Beach resident remembered for zest for life by Max Parrott

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Friends of Tracie McManus, the 54-yearold Howard Beach mother who was killed by an alleged drunk driver at an Ozone Park car wash Feb. 15, have stepped in to support her family. Sunnyside resident Ellenia Keane-Lyons created a fundraiser to help provide for McManus’ three children, Megan, Caitlin and Brian McManus. McManus’ husband, Brian, died in 2012. “Tracie was someone who came from a large family, and was loved by so many. She enjoyed spending time with her family and friends, whether it was over coffee, a sports game, or being the last to leave a gathering because she was so wrapped up in conversation. Tracie had an incredible sense of humor and always had a way of telling things as it is, but always with best intentions at heart,” wrote Keane-Lyons on the GoFundMe page. The car wash worker who struck McManus as he was pulling out of the wash bay allegedly had a blood alcohol reading far above the legal limit and now faces charges of vehicular manslaughter and DWI. McManus and one of her daughters were waiting for their car from the wash when

Tracie McManus, center left, who was remembered for her humor and immense love of her family, was the victim of an alleged drunk driver at an Ozone Park car wash on Feb. 15. A fundraiser GOFUNDME PHOTO is being held to benefit her three children, above. the accident occurred, according to the Daily News. McManus, k nown affectionately as “Tray” and “Trace,” was born Oct. 11, 1966 to parents Lillian and Thomas Cavanaugh and grew up in Ozone Park, where she worked in the plumbing industry.

“Family was ever y thing to Tracie, through thick and thin she always said ‘blood is thicker than water,’” said the obituary on her funeral page. As of Wednesday, the GoFundMe had raised nearly $20,000 of its $100,00 goal. Q To donate, visit bit.ly/3s9bORZ.

Community Education Council for District 24, which passed a resolution demanding that the PEP conduct a revote on the test contract, held a meeting with its superintendent, Madelene Chan, asking for more details on the process. Phil Wong, the CEC chairman, said that Chan could not provide additional details about what the evaluation for a child who was not enrolled in public preschool would entail. CEC 26, another council that expressed its support for holding the test this year, according to Chairwoman Adriana Aviles, will address the issue at its meeting today Feb. 25. Other pro-G&T expansion advocates have already mobilized against the DOE’s announcement over the admission standards. “The subjective evaluation system is more likely to disproportionately exclude lowincome, minority and immigrant students while increasing the likelihood of mismatching students with schools that can meet their academic needs,” read a statement by PLACE NYC, a group that has advocated maintaining academic screens across the public school system. Parents who are interested in applying for the G&T programs next year can find out more information about submitting a form of interest at schools.nyc.gov/enrollment/ enroll-grade-by-grade/gifted-and-talented. Q

Name Women of Distinction Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway Park) is seeking nominations for the 2021 Women of Distinction Awards to recognize and honor local women who are making a difference in the community and the lives of others. Awards will be given for work in various fields, including healthcare, business, volunteerism, education and military service. Winners will be honored at an awards ceremony at 6 p.m. March 26 over Zoom. “This last year has been challenging. However, countless women have stepped up to meet the needs of our community in really meaningful ways,” said Pheffer Amato. “In honor of Women’s History Month, I’m hosting my annual Women of Distinction Awards to highlight those who inspire others and are a positive force for change. We can never show enough thanks to these Women of Distinction, but to honor them with a special award ceremony is one step to show our gratitude.” Nomination forms can be requested by emailing amatos@nyassembly. gov or by calling (718) 945-9550. Nominations should be submitted by Q March 12.

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Now, in Howard Beach, NY, one doctor is helping local residents with knee pain live more active, pain-free lives. Living with knee pain can feel like a crippling experience. Let’s face it, your knees aren’t as young as you used to be, and playing with the kids or grandkids isn’t any easier either. Maybe your knee pain keeps you from walking short distances or playing golf like you used to. Nothing’s worse than feeling great mentally, but physically feeling held back from life because your knees hurt and the pain just won’t go away! My name is Dr. Robert F. Gucciardo, D.C., owner of Gucciardo Specific Chiropractic and Natural Health Center. Since we opened seventeen years ago, I’ve seen hundreds of people with knee problems leave the office pain free. If you’re suffering from these conditions, a new breakthrough in medical technology may completely eliminate your pain and help restore normal function to your knees.

Do You Have Any of the Following Conditions? • Arthritis • Knee pain • Cartilage damage • ‘Bone-on-bone’ • Tendonitis • Bursitis • Crunching and popping sounds Finally, You Have an Option Other Than Drugs or Surgery

Before the FDA would clear the Class IV laser for human use, they wanted to see proof that it worked. This lead to two landmark studies. The first study showed that patients who had laser therapy had 53 percent better improvement than those who had a placebo. The second study showed patients who used the laser therapy had less pain and more range of motion days after treatment. If the Class IV Laser can help these patients, it can help you too.

Could This Noninvasive, Natural Treatment Be the Answer to Your Knee Pain? For 10 days only, I’m running a very special offer where you can find out if you are a candidate for cold laser therapy. What does this offer include? Everything I normally do in my “Knee Pain Evaluation.” Just call before March 14, 2021 and here’s what you’ll get… • An in-depth consultation about your problem where I will listen … really listen … to the details of your case. • A complete neuromuscular examination. • A full set of specialized X-rays to determine if arthritis is contributing to your pain (if necessary). (If you have films please bring them for evaluation). • A thorough analysis of your exam and X-ray findings so we can start mapping out your plan to being pain free. • You’ll see everything firsthand and find out if this amazing treatment will be your pain solution, as it has been for so many other patients. Until March 14th, you can get everything I’ve listed here for only $37. The normal price for this type of evaluation including X-rays is $250, so you’re saving a considerable amount by taking me up on this offer. Remember what it was like before you had knee problems – when you were pain free and could enjoy everything life had to offer. It can be that way again. Don’t neglect your problem any longer – don’t wait until it’s too late.

A new treatment is helping patients with knee pain live a happier, more active lifestyle. Here’s what to do now: Due to the expected demand for this special offer, I urge you to call our office at once. The phone number is 718-845-2323. Call today and we can get started with your consultation, exam and X-rays (if necessary) as soon as there’s an opening in the schedule. Our office is called Gucciardo Specific Chiropractic and Natural Health Center and you can find us at 162-07 91st Street in Howard Beach. Tell the receptionist you’d like to come in for the Knee Evaluation before March 14th. Sincerely, Dr. Robert F. Gucciardo, D.C. P.S. Now you might be wondering…

“Is this safe? Are there any side effects or dangers to this?” The FDA cleared the first Class IV Laser in 2002. This was after their study found 76 percent improvement in patients with severe pain. Their only warning – don’t shine it in your eyes. Of course at our office, the laser is never anywhere near your eyes and we’ll give you a comfortable pair of goggles for safety. Don’t wait and let your knee problems get worse, disabling you for life. Take me up on my offer and call today (718) 845-2323. For more information go to www.drgucciardo.com and click on the laser therapy tab.

Federal and Medicare restrictions apply. Dr. Robert F. Gucciardo Upper, Cervical Chiropractor, Master Clinician in Nutrition Response Testing 162-07 91st Street, Howard Beach, NY 11414 • (718) 845-2323

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New research in a treatment called Class IV Laser Therapy is having a profound effect on patients suffering with knee pain. Unlike the cutting type of laser seen in movies and used in medical procedures, the Class IV therapeutic laser penetrates the surface of the skin with no heating effect or damage. Laser Therapy has been tested for 40 years, had over 2000 papers published on it, and has been shown to aid in damaged tissue regeneration, decrease inflammation, relieve pain and boost the immune system. This means that there is a good chance cold laser therapy could be your knee pain solution, allowing you to live a more active lifestyle. Professional athletes like The New York Yankees and team members of the New England Patriots rely upon cold laser therapy to treat their sports-related injuries. These guys use the cold laser for one reason only…

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P Put this plan on a shelf EDITORIAL

hen Mayor de Blasio opposes something that would centralize planning, create reams of paperwork and require the hiring of more people to produce it, all in the name of addressing community needs and historical racial disparities, you know it’s problematic. And that’s the case with City Council Speaker Corey Johnson’s new comprehensive land-use bill, Intro. 2186-2020, and its accompanying report, Planning Together. It’s the kind of thing you’d expect the mayor to call “transformational,” something that would create “new realities” to repair past injustices in land-use policy. But what he instead has to say about it is that it’s too expensive. And he’s right. It would cost $500 million over 10 years to do the nearly 180 neighborhood planning studies the bill calls for, a city official testified Tuesday before the City Council — and that’s today’s estimate. You know darn well the cost would balloon well beyond that. It always does. And, accord-

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ing to the official, City Planning Director Marisa Lago, the effort it would take to implement the proposal is “almost inconceivable.” The concern here in Queens is that the plan would take away what little land-use authority our community boards have. One board after another has been voting it down, often unanimously. They don’t want the city to draft a “comprehensive long-term plan” for land use, to create a new Office of Long-Term Planning or to “help correct neighborhood disparities and decades of disinvestment in communities of color” by upzoning. They don’t want to replace more houses with apartment blocks and they don’t want Manhattan bossing Queens around any more than it already does. Credit goes to urban planner and political activist Paul Graziano for making the rounds of community boards to inform them about the proposal. It got panned here, it got panned at Tuesday’s hearing, it’s unaffordable and it should be dropped. Back to the drawing board.

et’s go to the movies! That favorite cry of teens and families and just about anyone else looking for some easy entertainment has been silenced in the city for nearly a year, but it’s about to be heard again, as theaters can begin reopening March 5. You know you want to go. However great your big TV is, however much you like watching things up close on your phone, there’s nothing like going to the movies. As AMC Entertainment President Adam Aron, put it in announcing that his theaters will reopen right away, “We look forward to welcoming back our New York City guests to the big seats, big sounds and big screens that are only possible at a movie theater.” Importantly, Aron also said that with nearly 10 million people having returned to AMC theaters since August,

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Dear Editor: In that Feb. 22 press conference led by Queens Borough President Donovan Richards and joined by elected officials and community leaders to reject recent anti-Asian and antiSemitic hate crimes, Richards dances around the issue like everyone else when he blames anti-Asian violence on anti-China political rhetoric made by then-President Trump (“Queens officials vow to crack down on ‘plague of prejudice,’” Feb. 22, qchron.com). Does City Councilmember Peter Koo imagine, with Richards, that the three men who followed him into his apartment lobby, hit him on the back of the head and attempted to rob him were inspired by Trump’s inartful and vulgar language in plausibly blaming Covid on the leaders of the People’s Republic of China? Was that man in Flushing who aggressively pushed an older Asian woman to the ground wearing a MAGA hat? Evidently not; otherwise we may suppose much hay would be made of it. Same with the swastika found scrawled on the Rego Park Jewish Center’s exterior. If there were any way to blame white supremacists, we’d have heard it. As we initially heard from Bill de Blasio back in 2019, loudly condemning white supremacists for anti-Semitic incidents until videos emerged showing black teenagers beating up Hasidic Jews in Williamsburg and the kosher supermarket killings in Jer© Copyright 2021 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 responsiblefor 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., 71-19 80th St., Suite 8-201, Glendale, NY 11385.

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sey City by self-described Black Hebrew Israelites. De Blasio instantly fell largely silent about anti-Semitism. Same here. Richards’s press conference was replete with vague references to “violence,” taking easy shots at Trump’s political carcass while letting and abetting the real problems to continue to fester. Edwin Eppich Glendale

David my vax Goliath Dear Editor: I have been a dedicated patient of Dr. Brian Collet, my ophthalmologist, for 21 years. Recently, Dr. Collet has had his 20-year-old son, David, assisting in the office with clerical work and helping the patients. I’m a 73-year“young” senior citizen with several health dis-

not one case of Covid-19 has been reported. That only makes sense — theaters are large, well-ventilated spaces with lots of room when capacity is limited. In the city, it will be 25 percent. We hope theaters here also follow the lead of many outside the city and screen not just new flicks but favorites from the past. Everything from “Raiders of the Lost Ark” to “Do the Right Thing,” “Groundhog Day” and “The Notebook” is being shown today. We’d go even further into the Hollywood vault: Let’s get films like “Casablanca,” “Rear Window” and “The Wizard of Oz” on screen. The classic choices are endless. Whatever your taste, break out the popcorn and take one giant leap back to the world we’ve been missing. A twohour break from the realities of today could be just what you need. Let’s go!

abilities and sadly, I’m not computer-savvy. David spent several hours of his own personal time online trying to obtain an appointment for me to obtain the Covid injection. What a gift! Within a few days, David phoned me with the blessed news — on Valentine’s Day he arranged my appointment at Walgreens. My second one will be next month. I went to Walgreens feeling confident. I also wanted to buy David a “thank you” gratuity, to which he said to me, “Please don’t; I enjoy helping people.” These words touched my heart deeply. In this chaotic world we are all enduring with the pandemic, wouldn’t it be nice if we all had David’s kind and compassionate attitude to help each other? We can all learn a lesson of humanity from David! Linda Tomasello Howard Beach

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Rein in the godfather Dear Editor: Re your Feb. 18 editorial “Cuomo must own up to Covid error”: Albany legislators must investigate Gov. Cuomo’s mistake and immediately revoke the emergency powers they gave him when Covid struck last March, which are set to expire on April 30. Fourteen Democratic state senators and nine Assembly Democrats now want to strip him of those powers. Democrats have a veto-proof majority in the Senate and Assembly, but Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie will decide if any power-stripping bills can be voted on. Stewart-Cousins is reluctant to do that and Heastie wants to extend those powers beyond April 30, noted the New York Post (Feb. 22). Cuomo revealed his true nature by hiding the true nursing home Covid death toll, as his top aide disclosed, and then threatening Assemblyman Ron Kim (D-Flushing). He acts like Don Corleone Cuomo, the Godfather of Albany, who rules with an iron fist. Legislators relinquished their role as a coequal branch of state government by handing Cuomo sweeping pandemic powers. They must now take them back. Any legislators who refuse to do so are as derelict in their duty to constituents as the GOP senators in Congress who voted to acquit Donald Trump twice. There is no middle ground on this moral issue. Our legislators must grow a pair or lose their jobs. Richard Reif Kew Gardens Hills

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Planning power grab Dear Editor: (An open letter to City Council Speaker Corey Johnson) At the Feb. 1, 2021 Queens Community Board 11 meeting the board examined and discussed the Planning Together report that you recently published. Prior to that meeting our office made sure to invite either you or a member of your staff to attend the meeting multiple times to explain this proposal and the potential impact on our community. Unfortunately, you declined to send representation, and so we were

left to interpret the materials for ourselves. CB 11 voted overwhelmingly by a margin of 39 in favor, none opposed, and two abstentions to oppose the Planning Together report and the accompanying bill, Intro. 2186-2020, for reasons that include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) If passed, this bill would remove, not enhance, input from neighborhoods, community boards and elected officials in land use decisions. 2) Mandatory upzonings would be required every decade in each community board area to increase high-density housing development and create a new housing quota system. 3) Due to the tone of the proposal document and examples provided within, the potential elimination of single-family zoning and offstreet parking requirements in the entirety of the City of New York. In addition, we are greatly disappointed in the lack of communication from you and your staff to our community boards, the institutions closest to the general public, when this report was released and bill introduced, as its potential impact cannot be overstated. Michael Budabin Chairperson, Community Board 11 Little Neck

End for-profit utilities Dear Editor: After seeing the disaster that is happening in Texas, I can say without a doubt we need to transition away from the for-profit model of utilities. I therefore urge Gov. Cuomo and members of the Legislature to support Senate Bill S3032 to provide the New York Power Authority with the right of first offer and refusal and ban nonstate run energy services companies. NYPA has proven itself efficient, reliable and more than capable. On the other hand, Con Ed has proven that it is either inept or just completely profit-hungry. Prices continue to skyrocket while quality of service and renewable generation goes nowhere. Meanwhile the deregulation that created ESCOs, energy service companies, is a disaster for this state and will lead to a situation such as in Texas, where people are getting bills for hundreds of dollars per day. New York can show the country how to be a force for good and lead in renewable energy, climate policy and economic justice. Caleb Ross Kew Gardens Hills

Prep for the next war Dear Editor: America has continually increased its defense spending, which is already multiple times that of China. The nation boasts that we have the best jets, the best ships, the best bombers and the best tanks, as though anticipating 20th century-style warfare. This military advantage might deter our adversaries from contesting us in a traditional war, but not from menacing us with other types of attack. One of the lessons which should have been learned from World War II is the Germans’ early victories using the blitzkrieg strategy, a quick offensive surge with modernized equipcontinued on next page

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Dear Editor: Joseph N. Manago considers it self-evident that “the learner and instructor, or source, being separated by distance and/or time” has an adverse impact on educational quality (“An F for remote learning,” Letters, Feb. 11). Yet as cyberneticist Stafford Beer noted in his 1974 book, “Designing Freedom,” “because of the cultural myths that all technology is dehumanizing ... we shall prefer to sit a hundred pupils uncomfortably in front of a human teacher who hopes he understands relativity, and who roughed out some notes last night, rather than to give the individual pupil access to videotape recordings, which he can replay to his hearts content, of Albert Einstein — who could be as lucid as the day.” Joel Schlosberg Bayside

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Unmasking the creativity Public health, but make it fashion. The Howard Beach Lindenwood Civic announced the winners of a homemade mask contest Tuesday. First place went to AnnaMaria Iannone for her mask, top, along with a $50 gift card from state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr.

Second place went to the Lew family for its mask, left, with a $25 gift card from Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato. Third place went to Sofia Freyre with a $25 gift card from Councilmember Eric Ulrich. — Max Parrott

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LETTERS TO THE continued from previous page ment that overwhelmed nations that still relied on WWI armaments and defenses. Similarly, the pandemic and recent cyberattacks have exposed this nation’s serious vulnerabilities. Recently, America’s coordinated defenses against biological and cyber events have proven to be seriously lacking; thus, we might see future adversarial probes in these areas. To be forewarned is to be forearmed. If America is serious about national security, it must shift more of its defense spending from traditional armaments to resources and infrastructure needed to offset future biological and cyber attacks. To effectively refocus this nation’s national security efforts will require effective leadership, timely intelligence, coordinated national response and the cooperative will of the people. Glenn Hayes Kew Gardens

Deep in Dems’ heart Dear Editor: The devastation in Texas is horrific. Thank goodness a congresswoman has raised millions of dollars in relief: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat. Another former rep got busy organizing help for senior citizens: Beto O’Rourke, Democrat. Two other politicians helped raise money

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for food and water to give to suffering Texans: Julian and Joaquin Castro, Democrats. And what did Texas scum Ted Cruz do? Send a postcard from Cancun to freezing, dying Texans. Of course Republicans are blaming the devastation on AOC and her green policies. Policies that haven’t even been enacted yet? Maybe they should change their tactics and follow the lead of far-right maniacs who have been espousing the obviously false allegations that the snow in Texas was fake and somehow engineered by President Biden and that Bill Gates “blocking the sun” caused the bizarre weather. Makes sense, no? After all it can’t have anything to do with the real cause of the devastation: Republicans promoting deregulation and allowing energy companies to skimp on federal safety measures that would have prevented pipes from freezing. As well as being able to receive energy assistance from other states. You see, there are three electrical grids in the Lower 48 states: the Eastern Interconnection, the Western Interconnection — and Texas. More blood on the hands of Republicans. But on a lighter note, Republicans wanted President Biden to lower the nation’s flags to half-staff in “honor” of Rush Limbaugh. Seriously. Now, that’s hilarious. Robert LaRosa Whitestone

The new Covid-19 vaccination site at York College in Jamaica has no shortage of people seeking appointments when it opened Wednesday morning. State officials are aiming to vaccinate up to PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON 1,500 people per day.

Cuomo opens York College vaccine site State targets 1,500 Covid-19 shots per day at Jamaica CUNY campus by Michael Gannon Editor

Gov. Cuomo was on hand Wednesday morning to officially open a new Covid-19 vaccination site at York College in Jamaica. And early returns indicate the folks coming out for their shots were pleased with the addition. Brian and Megan Augustine of Jamaica said the sign-up process was the easiest they had to date. “We’ve been rejected everywhere — the state website, the city website,” Brian Augustine said. Mario Ortiz wasn’t getting his shot, but he said he was able to get his parents registered relatively quickly after registration opened up. “And the line is moving well, too,” he said. Even Councilman Daneek Miller (D-St. Albans) has not been able to avoid some of the pitfalls of the sign-up system, arriving Wednesday to get vaccinated with his wife, Pier Williams-Miller. He thinks it might have helped if his younger, more technologically savvy office staffers, who have been helping constituents sign up for shots, had been on hand to help. “When registration opened, we signed up for 9 a.m.,” Miller said. “Then it got backed up to 10:45, then to noon. By that time, someone had canceled and 9 a.m. was open again.” One couple from Bellerose, who declined to give their names, came not realizing that an appointment was necessary, and that residents outside of the Jamaica-area ZIP codes were not being accepted at the site until

Saturday. They have been unsuccessful thus far at registering at the Martin Van Buren High School vaccine site in Bellerose. “We live about eight blocks from Martin Van Buren,” the man said. “We both have comorbidities. I’m disappointed. She waited on line 30 minutes, and it took me 40 to park the car.” The York site also is open until Saturday for ZIP codes covering all or parts of South Richmond Hill, Springfield Gardens, Laurelton, St. Albans, Rosedale, Queens Village, South Ozone Park, Cambria Heights, Richmond Hill, Hollis, Far Rockaway and Arverne. After that, it is open to all who are eligible. Cuomo, in a video posted on his website, said York and a second site at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, are the largest sites yet in the state, “This site is going to save lives,” Cuomo said. “... This facility, Medgar Evers in Brooklyn, 21,000 vaccines per week. The largest in the state. And this is the first in the state that says we’re going to bring the vaccine to the community that needs it most, and we’re going to give that community priority to get the vaccine.” Miller’s office has asked that people check on family members, friends and neighbors who might need assistance in setting up their own appointments. Residents can call 1 (833) 697-4829 or go online to bit.ly/2ZJG0qR. People also can call Miller’s office for assistance to raise questions and concerns at (718) 776-3700. Q

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The Covid pandemic and racism epidemic Leaders speak out against rising prejudice-charged hate crimes by Katherine Donlevy Associate Editor

On Feb. 9, a man verbally accosted an Asian woman in Astoria, following her and repeatedly asking why Chinese people eat dogs. A week later, a man in Flushing aggressively pushed an older Asian woman to the ground. She required stitches to close the gash on her forehead. Hate crimes against Asian-Americans are on the rise in New York City. Racially charged incidents against the community rose by 33 percent between 2019 and 2020. Elected officials and community leaders gathered at Borough Hall Feb. 22 to reject the racism that began mounting at the beginning of the pandemic. Queens Borough President Donovan Richards partially blamed then-President Trump for his anti-Asian rhetoric — by referring to the virus as the “Wuhan virus” and “Kung Flu,” Trump was effectively blaming Asians for infecting Americans, resulting in the surge of targeted violence. “A virus that has been in our midst long

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz and Borough President Donovan Richards rejected racism at a Feb. 22 rally following recent crimes targeting Asians, such as the Flushing attack that sent PHOTO BY KATHERINE DONLEVY, LEFT; OLIVIA MUNN PHOTO / TWITTER a 52-year-old woman to the hospital. before Covid-19 came to town — that virus is called hate ... This plague of prejudice is running much too rampant, just like it’s been for generations,” Richards said. The Flushing attack gained national attention after actress Olivia Munn shared a video of the assault on social media. One witness claimed the assailant threw a box of spoons at her and yelled slurs before he shoved her to the ground in a seemingly unprovoked attack. The 52-year-old was taken to the hospital and her alleged assaulter, identified as 47-year-old Patrick Mateo, was charged with assault and harassment.

City Councilmember Peter Koo (D-Flushing), who lives just a few blocks away from the latter incident, recalled his own attack last April. Three men followed him into his apartment lobby, hit him on the back of the head and attempted to rob him. Koo said he didn’t suspect it was a hate crime at the time, but was forced to reconsider the perpetrators’ motivations in light of growing Anti-Asian hate. In response to the rising attacks, the NYPD created the Asian Hate Crime Task Force in August. “Hate is not tolerated. Violence is not tolerated. The days our Asian-American neighbors

take [this hate] — those days are over. New York City will hold you accountable,” Deputy Inspector Stewart Loo, the task force’s commanding officer, said at the Monday morning conference. Anti-Jewish hate has been profound as well, Richards pointed out. Last Thursday, a swastika was found scrawled on the Rego Park Jewish Center’s exterior. The three racially motivated incidents are just the tip of the iceberg — District Attorney Melinda Katz revealed that her office is investigating 30 cases of alleged hate crimes, all from the past year. “I want to be clear that any violence against any person is condemned in the County of Queens, but when it is motivated by hate, when it’s motivated by where folks come from, when it’s motivated by the language that you speak, when it’s motivated by anything like that in categories, it is particularly [reprehensible],” Katz said on the steps of Borough Hall. “When it occurs to one of us, it happens to all of us.” In response to rising hate crimes motivated by Covid-19 anger, the NYPD revised its bias motivation data to include a new section: “other Corona.” A spokesperson for the Police Department told the Chronicle that 25 of the 275 reported hate crimes in 2020 were filed under the new category, and that all but one the incidents targeted Asians. According to Hate Crime Task Force data, continued on page 16

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A Glen Oaks GOP leader was arrested Monday for participating in the Capitol insurrection. Philip Grillo, a 46-year-old District 24 Assembly leader and former City Council District 24 special election candidate, was picked up by police at his girlfriend’s house for his attempts to obstruct President Biden’s win last month. Two tipsters watching the Jan. 6 coverage called the FBI to identify Grillo as one of the participants, according to an investigator’s statement of the facts. One witness provided screen grabs of CNN coverage to back up the claims. One tipster, who claimed to know Grillo from attending the same schools in their youth, identified him through a distinctive Knights of Columbus St. Anne’s Council #2429 jacket he was wearing at the time of the riot, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District Public Information Officer John Marzulli said. The FBI confirmed that Grillo is a member of the chapter. The GOP leader, who calls himself the “Republican Messiah” on Facebook, made headlines in early December for running in the District 24 special election, despite not living in the district, in order to hand his place over

to another candidate. After submitting his petitions in November, Grillo filed paperwork to substitute his spot on the ballot for Leo Jacobs, a Bukharian Jewish attorney. Grillo’s petitions were short 50 valid signatures anyway, kicking him off the ballot, and Jacobs dropped out of the race. The court document refers to several videos captured during the riot, one of which depicts an individual matching Grillo’s description and clothing climbing into the Capitol through a broken window at about 2:20 p.m. with a crowd of Trump supporters. Other video captures Grillo inside the Rotunda, and joining groups at odds with Capitol police. In one instance, Grillo allegedly participated in “physical confrontation” with uniformed officers until his group was driven back when the police employed a chemical irritant. Court documents included 12 video stills placing Grillo at the scene of the crime. Investigators confirmed that Grillo’s license plate had been detected departing New York City the night of Jan. 5 and returning just before midnight Jan. 7. Also, a Secret Service camera in Washington, DC, scanned his plate at 2:10 a.m. the day of the insurrection. Additionally, investigators obtained cell phone records that place Grillo’s cell phone in the DC region during the riot. While registered

GOP District 24 Assembly leader and former District 24 City Council candidate Philip Grillo was arrested Monday in Glen Oaks for allegedly participating in the Capitol insurrection. He was USEDNY PHOTOS identified by his unique Knights of Columbus jacket. to his mother, the number is listed as Grillo’s. He appeared in U.S. court Feb. 23 and was charged with a felony for knowingly entering a restricted building without permission and knowingly attempting to disrupt government business. He was released on $100,000 bond.

The FBI also arrested retired NYPD officer Thomas Webster Monday morning for his alleged participation in the riot. The former cop had previously worked as uniformed security at City Hall and Gracie Mansion before his Q retirement in 2011.

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Bet on a better Resorts by Stacey Pheffer Amato As the wife of a small business owner in Queens, I’ve seen firsthand how this pandemic has affected businesses like my husband’s throughout the borough. But hardworking local business owners like him and his brother keep doing it because they love their craft (pizza!) and their loyal customers at Elegante Restaurant and Pizzeria. Frank’s place and other locally owned and operated small businesses like Lisena Landscaping, Rockaway Beach Broadcasting Company or the Sincede Hair Salon understand that without the support of the community, they wouldn’t be where they are. They understand what it takes to be a community partner and how important it is to connect with your neighborhood. And we are fortunate to have a true community partner and economic anchor in another one of our neighbors: Resorts World New York City. In the close to 10 years that it’s been open, Resorts World has become part of the fabric of the community, supporting those in need and empowering others to make a difference through a new initiative known as the “Good Neighbor Network.” The Good Neighbor Network serves to inspire, empower and advocate for social and economic good in Queens and throughout New York State. In Albany, I’m known as an outspoken advocate for our hardworking families, many of whom have been hit hard over the last year. Many are out of work or struggling to get by. I’m also a member of the Women’s Issues Task Force, because I understand the need to empower women in our communities. The majority of single parents are mothers, who have lost more jobs than men or were forced to quit during the pandemic because they didn’t know how else to handle child care. How can we help these people so they don’t lose their homes, their children or what little savings they may have? One of Gov. Cuomo’s budget proposals — awarding new full casino licenses — would help New Yorkers, especially communities of color, recover economically.

R e s o r t s Wo r l d exemplifies the type of casino operator that should receive the full license. Resorts World is uniquely positioned to grow jobs in the im mediate shor tterm, generate muchneeded revenue for New York State and further support the local small businesses in the community. New York cannot wait five years to spark this growth. We need it now. Take education for example. As a participant in the National Early Learning Fellowship with the National Conference of State Legislatures, and as the parent of students in Queens, I know firsthand the importance of improving the outcomes for all children across the state and how this makes the future better for all New Yorkers. Over the last 10 years, Resorts World has generated $3 billion for New York’s public schools and with a full gaming license, that contribution would increase significantly. Again, during a time when resources for schools are scarce, Resorts World is uniquely positioned to elevate its support. Let’s empower them to do exactly that. As an assemblywoman, it is my job to advocate for a better future for the people of Queens. They’re a resilient and diverse group of hardworking people. They rebuilt after Hurricane Sandy and now, almost nine years later, they’re building back again after a different sort of disaster. But we all know, you can’t just rebuild — we need to make sure we are building back better and in a way that is inclusive. Allowing Resorts World to convert to a full casino is a critical step toward a brighter future for everyone in Queens: from the first-grader to the high school graduate, to the parents, to the small business owner and Q beyond. Stacey Pheffer Amato is New York State Assemblywoman for the 23rd District, in southern Queens and the Rockaways.

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Small businesses call on community Owners say support from customers more important now than ever before by Michael Gannon Editor

A gathering of Queens businesses owners in Floral Park last Saturday was billed as a celebration of Black History Month. But it also was intended as a clarion call for small businesses and the community to pull together in challenging times that still could be far from over. The Chronicle teamed up w it h t he Nat ional Small Business Chamber of Com merce for the event, which went out on Zoom, with Todd Miranda and Erik Swensen of the NSBCC and Queens Loycent Gordon, owner of Neir’s Tavern, speaks of the bond Chronicle Account Exec- between small businesses and the community on a Zoom meeting utive Ree Brinn serving hosted by the National Small Business Chamber of Commerce last as hosts. PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON Saturday. Queens Borough President Donovan Richards gave the welcoming embarrassed when his teacher asked him to address. write his unusual first name on the board Queens businesses represented included for his classmates. the iconic Antun’s catering hall in Queens “They realized I could not read or write,” Village and Neir’s Tavern in Woodhaven; Gordon said. “But everyone in the school Jam Hut 2, a Jamaican restaurant in Down- community, the teachers, the janitors, town Jamaica; Joe’s Music Center of St. everyone worked to teach me.” That same Albans; and Chocolat Loft, a private event community, he said, soon would applaud venue in Jamaica. him “when I walked across the stage as Mickey King, the second-generation valedictorian. And I became the first black owner of Antun’s, has served generations of HazMat lieutenant in the Fire Department, Queens residents. He said small businessed or one of the first.” need their loyal customers now more than “When I bought Nier’s, I knew nothing ever in the time of Covid-19. about the restaurant business,” he said. “I “It’s been 11 months,” King said of state- wanted to repay the community that had imposed closures and reduced capacity. “We helped me.” want our customers to come back, and they It has been on the verge of closing a few want to come back ... We normally employ times, most recently last year, when a friend more than 100 people.” told a friend who told a friend. Among the King said even some people who want to results was a grant from the city for small come back are canceling or delaying businesses. because of restrictions on things like danc“And we were saved,” he said. “Mayor de ing at wedding receptions. He said people Blasio was in my bar.” can help by pushing their elected represenLike King, Gordon said small businesses tatives to seek more reasonable conditions. will be relying on the community much as he “We’ve known from the beginning it wasn’t has had to overcome obstacles that bigger restaurants causing the spread,” he said. “Res- businesses don’t have or can afford to weathtaurants know how to do this safely. We’ve er. He referred to both a maga-monolith resbeen keeping our customers safe for 45 years. taurant, and Charles and Patricia Rogers, off We take safety courses. It’s what we do.” to his left, who opened Chocolat Loft less Loycent Gordon, owner of Neir’s Tavern than two years ago. for 12 of its 191-year existence and a lieu“We can’t do two burgers for $3 like tenant with the FDNY, told the Zoom audi- McDonald’s,” Gordon said. “But McDonald’s ence that he has learned to have faith in the can’t buy the relationship we have with our idea of community. community ... I’m looking forward to our “How many of you remember your first bicentennial. I don’t know if we’ll get there. day in fourth grade?” Gordon asked, refer- But we also need to see how we can help ring to his first day in school after his fami- Chocolat Loft get there, how to make them a Q ly im migrated f rom Jamaica. He was generational business.”

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A party for the ex-prez A group of Howard Beach residents met at Prima Pasta Monday night to congratulate former President Trump on not being convicted of violating the U.S. constitution in his second impeachment trial. “It’s not easy to have this event. But we are doing something good. We love Former President Donald J. Trump and we hope this celebration will open everyone’s eyes,” wrote organizer Grace D’Agostino, left.

“We now know that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will occupy the White House for the next four years.” Other celebrants included Irma Roman, right, Sal D’Agostino, Rosalie Prisco, Erica Rice, Nancy Stabile, Angela Nocerino, Angie Vale, Josephine Colletti, Josephine Catania, Rosemary Kulick, Jeffry Rodrguez, Andrew McGee and Jorge Roman. — Max Parrott

Leaders reject racial hate continued from page 14 there were four other recorded Anti-Asian incidents unrelated to the virus in 2020. Overall hate crimes dropped about 35 percent from 2019 to 2020, with anti-black and anti-Semitic incidents decreasing 3 and 49 percent, respectively. Anti-Asian crime increased 33 percent. “Our community has been fighting two viruses: Covid and discrimination,” said Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing) at a Feb. 18 press conference. “It is crucially important that we stand with each other and other communities to support each other. We can-

not let people divide us.” The House passed Meng’s resolution condemning all forms of anti-Asian sentiment as related to Covid–19 in September. President Biden incorporated some of Meng’s language into a December memorandum to combat bias incidents toward Asian-Americans, which Meng called an “important initial step.” “We have to inform people on how to report a crime,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) agreed, adding that police intervention and protection are necessary. “We want to document the hate crimes.” Q

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Outstanding loans puts Ozone Park Council candidate’s home in jeopardy by Max Parrott Associate Editor

As New York City’s taxi drivers’ fight for debt relief from the city’s taxi medallion crisis wages on, recent events have brought the issue home for Felicia Singh, an Ozone Park resident running for City Council in District 32. Earlier this month, the candidate came home to a “for sale” sign on her family’s house as a result of the inability of her taxi driver father, Dalip Singh, to keep up with fees on a medallion loan. Though Dalip filed for bankruptcy in 2019, the family was not aware the house was up for sale until a broker the bankruptcy court hired knocked on their door. Singh and her father, both of whom are active with the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, were aware of the large number of taxi drivers who have had to file for bankruptcy as a result of the medallion market’s reckless lending practices and the rise of rideshare apps, but she said the looming repossession of her house took her by surprise. When she called to find out what was happening to the home, bank trustees told her the family would need to come up with a settlement amount of over $100,000 by early May or they would no longer own the house. It’s been two years since a New York

Times investigation shone a light on the lending process that led over 950 taxi medallion owners, many of them immigrants like Dalip, to file for bankruptcy. Though for Dalip and many others, their bottom line has been driven down by ride-sharing apps from before the medallion bubble burst in 2014, the pandemic has only driven down ridership compounding the level of financial hardship for cabbies. The New York Taxi Workers Alliance has proposed a debt relief plan that would reduce loans to $125,000 and restructure monthly repayments to about $750. The city also proposed a bailout of potentially hundreds of millions for the thousands of taxi drivers trapped in medallion debt. Last January, Rep. Greg Meeks (D-Jamaica) proposed a t a x exempt ion on med allion debt forgiveness. But despite the different proposals, in the interim period little has been done to offer material relief for the cabbies. Two week s ago Si ng h called i nto WNYC’s “Brian Lehrer Show” during the “Ask the Mayor” segment and attempted to get hizzoner to commit to offering city support for the medallion owners. De Blasio started off by saying that the proposed plans to provide relief at a city level “were far beyond what [it] could do,”

Dalip Singh, left, the father of District 32 City Council Candidate Felicia Singh, recently discovered that the bank is planning to sell his house as a result of his inability to pay a taxi PHOTO COURTESY FELICIA SINGH medallion loan. but that he thought that if the city were to get stimulus aid in the round that Congressional Democrats are currently trying to pass, he could direct some of it toward taxi drivers. “Absolutely, we get stimulus dollars, we’re going to be able to do something to help taxi drivers. The specific plan – I need to give you an answer, whether we think that plan is the right approach or a different one.

But we will do that quickly,” he said referring to the New York Taxi Workers Alliance’s proposal, released at the end of September. Meanwhile, Singh said that it remains to be seen how the debt relief will affect families like hers who have already entered into bankruptcy court proceedings. “No one has the answer or the experience on how to work for the bankruptcy court in particular via the medallion crisis,” Singh told the Chronicle. “My privilege as a candidate is that I have a platform to amplify the issues and I have the connections to identify people who could possibly help. But even those folks can’t.” For 20 years her family has been living in the house, which it was initially able to make a down payment on through a fundraiser organized by Singh’s school after her sister was diagnosed with leukemia at age 8. The threat of homelessness and their attachment to the house have caused her parents a great share of grief, she said. All that she can do in the present is continue to push for the city to accept responsibility for the fate of the indebted taxi drivers. “This is a city issue. This is about regulation. The city neglected to regulate predatory lending and two corporations Lyft and Q Uber,” Singh said.

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DCP attacks land-use bill as costly, nonviable City hall, community members lob conflicting attacks at legislation by Max Parrott

2025, all of which would have to identify housing and infrastructure needs. Lago argued that to conduct After weeks of rising opposition almost 177 neighborhood studies, among the Queens community which she estimated could cost $2.5 boards to Council Speaker Corey million a pop, adding up to around Johnson’s (D-Manhattan) proposal $500 million over the next decade, to create a universal system for city would be far too expensive. And she development, the bill received called the level of effort it would another blow at a Council hearing take to undertake the endeavor Tuesday — this time from the de “almost inconceivable.” Blasio administration. Johnson questioned whether she Throughout the near-seven hour was inf lating her estimate and hearing, Director of the Department asserted that creating a universal of City Planning Marisa Lago neighborhood study for the city panned the bill, saying that it would would save the city money by avoidbe prohibitively expensive and creing redundant planning reports. ate bureaucratic obstacles to landJohnson and several other of the use actions. bill’s 13 co-sponsors demanded that The hearing exposed the bill to a broad range of attacks, many of The Department of City Planning delivered a forceful critique of Coun- the DCP put forth an alternative to them for different and sometimes cil Speaker Corey Johnson’s comprehensive planning bill at a hearing correct the “toxic” dysfunction of conflicting reasons. Many preserva- on Tuesday. NYC COUNCIL PHOTO / FLICKR the city’s land-use system. C ou n c i l m a n Br a d L a n d e r tionists and community boards have been saying that it’s too top-down and autocrat- shared goals, that it would make it more diffi- (D-Brooklyn) described the city as a “frog that ic, while the DCP came out in the hearing to cult not easier to build affordable housing or to is boiling in a pot” under the pressure of the say it would actually weaken the city’s power to site essential city facilities if these priority proj- housing crisis and climate change, and demandact on redevelopment, in a time when it desper- ects were subject to this additional layer of ed that the DCP suggest an alternative plan to reform the land-use system if it’s going to attack ately needs to build housing stock as a means of bureaucracy,” Lago said. fighting the housing crisis. Johnson’s plan would require each of the the one at stake, which he conceded was “We’re concerned that the ultimate impact of city’s 59 community districts to create three “imperfect.” Lago continued to criticize the legislation by that time and money would be counter to our different land-use plans to choose from by pointing out that it would not spur rezonings. “The speaker himself noted that this proposal would not require any rezonings and there may be many communities who would anticipate having no growth and this bill does nothing to change that,” Lago said. Lago’s remarks run counter to the concerns of the Queens community boards, which have opposed it over the last month. The man leading the community board lobbying effort in Queens, urban planner Paul Graziano, has said that he fears that although the bill technically does not require rezonings, the district-specific studies would make it harder for community boards to oppose development if it agreed with the housing priorities set out in those. As a result of that logic, Graziano has claimed that it would be a de facto tool to upzone single-family zonings out of existence. Johnson specifically said in his presentation Associate Editor

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Post-Valentine’s delivery Last week Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. and his staff dropped off the food collected from the community for his Valentine’s Day Food Drive to the food pantries at Our Lady of Grace in Howard Beach and Sacred Heart in Glendale. Addabbo said he would like to thank any-

one who donated food to the drive. He chose the holiday because it falls between traditional charitable holiday seasons. Here Senate staffer Anthony Giudice, right, is joined OLG pantry director Bill Rouvolo. — Max Parrott

during the hearing that the bill does not propose or support that and his office has maintained that it does not favor upzonings over downzonings or contextual zonings but does aim to stop the uneven application of those tools. Southeast Queens Community Board 13 Chairman Bryan Block criticized the bill as taking a top-down approach toward planning. In a statement explaining why his board passed a resolution against the bill, Block said that it needed more time to be vetted and that he believed it would impose limits on grassroots community input. That is another aspect of the legislation that Johnson contended against in his presentation at the hearing, insisting that it does not amend or eliminate community boards’ role in future rezoning processes, all of which would remain subject to the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure. The speaker insisted that the many public meetings that would be a part of the plan directly inform the long-term plan. Councilwoman Adrienne Adams (D-Jamaica), whose district intersects with boards 8, 9 and 12, which all have voted to oppose the bill, said that their views of the legislation would inform her vote. “The community board is everything to me. So if we don’t have the voice of the people behind this legislation — as you all noticed who is sponsoring this legislation, I think there’s only one co-sponsor from Queens,” Q she said.

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NEW VISIONS CHARTER HIGH SCHOOLS The Special Flushing Waterfront District development was approved by the City Council in December, but a coalition of activists is continuing its lawsuit against the city and project develFWRA RENDERING opers for not requiring an environmental impact statement.

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A coalition of activists sued the Department of City Planning in June in an effort to halt the Special Flushing Waterfront District development, but the plan was approved by the City Council in December anyway. Now, the activists are adding the Council to its lawsuit. “Elected officials of City Council, especially Peter Koo of District 20 and members of the Land Use Committee, should have worked in the best interests of their communities when it became obvious how SFWD failed to meet basic standards of public input and environmental review,” said John Park, the executive director at the MinKwon Center, one of the leading opposers of the 29-acre Downtown Flushing development plan. “Instead, they operated with the same lack of accountability as the developers who rammed through their lucrative proposal during a global pandemic and one of the worst recessions our City has seen in decades. We will not accept or normalize a City government that has prioritized an illegal playground for the wealthy over the extreme hardship of our communities.” The suit was filed against Mayor de Blasio and the DCP in June for allowing the private developers FWRA LLC, to proceed through the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure without conducting an environmental impact statement. FWRA instead opted for a less-thorough environmental assessment, which the coalition described as “slight-of-hand.” The Article 78 lawsuit alleges that without an EIS, the City Council was unable to understand the effects the development

would inflict on the environment and community. Project adversaries argue that the plan will add about 4,000 new residents to the congested area without addressing its effects on already overcrowded school, hospital and transit systems, issues the EIS would shine a light on. The omission, the suit argues, renders the 39-5 Council vote illegitimate. “Flushing is a neighborhood under siege,” the Feb. 12 amended petition begins. It was filed by TakeRoot Justice, a nonprofit legal services provider that supports grassroots groups, on behalf of MinKwon, the Chhaya Community Development Corporation and the Greater Flushing Chamber of Commerce, organizations which also make up the Flushing for Equitable Development and Urban Planning coalition, as well as local activist Robert LoScalzo. “The Mayor and City Council not only pushed through a defective luxury development that will exacerbate displacement in our working-class immigrant community, but intentionally violated City and State law by denying our community a comprehensive environmental review,” said John Choe, executive director of the Greater Flushing Chamber of Commerce. A construction timeline for the development, which would lie between 40th Road to the south, College Point Boulevard to the east, 36th Avenue to the north and Flushing Creek to the west, has not yet been established, a FWRA spokesperon told the Chronicle. The FW R A and Koo could not be reached for comment. City Council Zoning and Franchises Subcommittee Chairperson Francisco Moya (D-Corona), who oversaw Q the application, declined to comment.

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Brooks-Powers leads Osina in 31st District Absentee ballots, ranked-choice eliminations to begin on March 10 by Michael Gannon

in a press release. “I am truly humbled by the support we Two Rockaway residents ran away from have received, and we’re confident that once the field on Tuesday in the special election in every vote has been counted, I will be the next Councilwoman,” she said. “I want to the City Council’s 31st District. In unofficial results from the city’s Board thank all those who voted today and particiof Elections on Wednesday afternoon, Selve- pated in our democracy, and I want to thank na Brooks-Powers was leading, with 2,613 all of my supporters who made this possible.” Osina narrowly lost a special election votes and 38.07 percent of the vote with for the seat in 2013 to now-Queens 97.78 percent of the votes counted. Borough President Donovan RichShe was 207 ahead of Pesach ards. The seat has been vacant Osina, who had 2,406 and just since Richards was sworn in as over 35 percent. BP in December. Of the remaining seven candi“Ranked choice voting is the date, only Manny Silva, with 694 process whereby voters of Queens’ votes, broke the 10 percent barrier 31st Council District were given the or even came near it at this point in 2021 opportunity to select up to five candithe process. dates to represent them in the New York The Board of Elections will begin counting absentee ballots and assigning ranked- City Council,” Osina said in a statement issued by his campaign Wednesday. “We choice votes on March 10. Under ranked-choice voting, in which vot- await the final results of this newly impleers can select up to five candidates in pre- mented electoral process as the ranked choice ferred order, the lowest-ranking candidates votes on every ballot are tabulated and certiare knocked off the ballot one by one and fied by the New York City Board of Elections. their votes are reassigned according to the We will continue to monitor the results of this individual voters’ preference until one candi- election, until every vote is counted, and a final winner is declared.” date secures more than 50 percent of the vote. The remaining totals, as per the BOE, Brooks-Powers, who was supported by the leadership of the Queens Democratic Party, included Latoya Benjamin with 340 votes and was sounding like she was claiming victory 4.95 percent of the vote; the Rev. Sherwyn Editor

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Selvena Brooks-Powers, left, and Pesach Osina crushed the field in Tuesday’s special election FILE PHOTOS for the 31st Council District. Ranked-choice selections will determine the winner. James with 301 (4.39 percent); Shawn Rux with 188 (2.74 percent); Nancy Martinez with 144 (2.10 percent); Latanya Collins with 95 (1.38 percent); and Nicole Lee with 63 (0.92 percent). There also were 19 write-in votes. Whoever is declared the winner will not have much time to settle into the office before running again to defend the seat.

Richards was coming up against term limits in the Council, and would have been ineligible to run for re-election in the district this year. Whoever is declared the winner in the special election will need to run again in the general election this coming Nov. 2 — and possiQ bly a Democratic Party primary in June.

Gennaro back in City Council seat District 24 representative sworn in after 4K voters picked him first by Katherine Donlevy

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Jim Gennaro was sworn in as District 24’s city councilmember Feb. 18 after he took home 60 percent of the vote. The Board of Elections certified the win two weeks after the Feb. 2 election to allow absentee ballots to arrive. The special election was the first to utilize ranked-choice voting, and though Gennaro was poised to win based on election night results, he didn’t claim victory until the win was certified. “We were in a good position to win but I wanted to respect the process,” he told the Chronicle. “It didn’t feel right declaring victory.” Activist Moumita Ahmed came in second place, but received about 3,000 fewer votes than Gennaro’s 4,078. The other candidates — Soma Syed, Deepti Shamra, Dilip Nath, Neeta Jain, Mujib Rahman and Michael Brown — collectively accounted for 25 percent of the votes. Donald Trump received two write-in votes. Gennaro was sworn into office in the comfort of his home with his wife, Wendy, by his side last Thursday. City Clerk Michael McSweeney administered the Oath of Office via Zoom. The Democrat held the position for three terms from 2002 to 2013. He then served as deputy commissioner for New York City Sus-

Jim Gennaro, with his wife, Wendy, by his side, was virtually sworn in as District 24’s city councilCOURTESY NYC COUNCIL member Feb. 18 after taking home 60 percent of the votes. tainability and Resiliency at the state Department of Environmental Conservation, a role he was appointed to by Gov. Cuomo in 2014 to prepare New York City’s resiliency against climate change challenges.

“My primary job is my district and No. 1 I have to take care of them in the budget process,” Gennaro said, noting that he’s worked through 25 budget cycles already as a city councilmember and staffer. Gennaro’s campaign

largely hinged on his budget experience and his confidence in leading through the deficit caused by the pandemic. “I know how to protect this district when it comes to budgets.” “Job No. 2 is making sure that we recover from Covid,” he continued, specifically pointing to small business relief and ramping up vaccination distribution. Gennaro said he would support legislation crafted by City Councilmember Stephen Levin (D-Brooklyn) that would replicate the federal Paycheck Protection Program on a city level. The newly elected representative said it might be a hard bill to pass, but is necessary to economic recovery. “I fear that if we don’t pass this before the budget there won’t be any way to get it done,” Gennaro said. Though the pandemic is pressing, Gennaro hopes to continue his legacy as an environmental crusader, such as ensuring his 2005 Local Law 97 stays on track to reduce building-based emissions by 40 percent before the end of 2030. He also plans to advocate for storm surge barriers to protect communities from another Hurricane Sandy, which he sees as inevitable, and to reduce the city’s pollutant emissions by reducing CO2. Gennaro will finish the special term Dec. 31, but is running in the June primary to hang on to Q the seat for another two years.

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When head coach Mike Anderson was asked about St. John’s chances of making the NCAA Tournament last week after a win over Xavier, he said, “I think you have got to take care of homecourt.” But the Johnnies followed that up with a loss to perennial cellar-dweller DePaul, a frustrating 88-83 defeat last Saturday. So what was missing? “Our toughness, that is what it comes down to,” sophomore Julian Champagnie said. “There is no real explanation for it. They came out and they played harder, they wanted it more.” The size and speed of the Blue Demons troubled St. John’s, outscoring the Johnnies 58-18 in the paint. “I thought they just attacked us and we didn’t move our feet,” Anderson said. “We always talk about building a wall and even when we attacked them, they built a wall in there with their defense and that is why [they] ended up getting charges.” Champagnie admitted the defense was simply not good enough.

“No, not at all. We let up 88 points, so no it’s not. The defense was not up to par today, obviously,” he said. It didn’t help that Rasheem Dunn missed nine of 10 shots and turned the ball over six times. Or that Posh Alexander, the frontrunner for Big East Freshman of the Year, missed seven of his nine shots. DePaul has had double-digit losses in Big East play in each of the last 14 seasons as they have become increasingly irrelevant. Anderson was asked if increased attention to St. John’s following the Johnnies’ hot stretch contributed to the defeat. “There is a lot of stuff that can contribute to that, but I just know that my job as a coach is to tr y and keep them in the moment,” he said. An 81-58 loss to Villanova on the road Tuesday night made the tournament hopes even more remote. St. John’s missed 20 of 23 three-point attempts. Champagnie led the team with 16 points but missed his first eight shots. “On the road if you don’t shoot the ball well, the chances

Losses to DePaul and Villanova mean the Red Storm will likely need a deep run in the Big East PHOTO COURTESY ST. JOHN’S ATHLETICS Tournament to qualify for the NCAA Tournament. of winning are pretty slim to none,” Anderson said. “You have got to do some extraordinary things to overcome that. We didn’t shoot the ball well and I thought our defense suffered at the same time.” The Johnnies looked like the team that struggled through a 1-5 start to the Big East season and not the team that just won six consecutive games. St. John’s is 8-9 in Big East play with two home games remaining, against Providence and Seton Hall. A pair of wins would see the Red Storm finishing over .500 in conference for the first time since 2015.

“We just have to regroup and hopefully we can get to playing the winning basketball that we have been playing over the last three or four weeks,” Anderson said. St. John’s will likely need to go on a run to the Big East Championship game in the conference tourney in order to make the NCAA Tournament. If they miss out, there will be a few games to look back on, including overtime losses on the road at Georgetown and Butler. But losing to DePaul at home is the toughest pill to swallow. And it’s the one that probably means the Johnnies will be Q watching March Madness at home.

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Theater groups await the next act Some perform online as all hope for a return to the stage, but when is a mystery

Royal Star Theatre is staging an online set of skits, left, with actors including Peter Sullivan, Ken Klein, Lauren Snyder and John Baratta. Other community theater leaders working their way through COURTESY PHOTOS, LEFT; FILE PHOTOS the Covid crisis include Louise Guinther of The Gingerbread Players, in hat, Jim Gillespie of Maggie’s Little Theater and Lydia Pastori of St. Gregory’s Theatre Group.

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Call it the longest intermission in history. It was almost a year ago that community theaters were shut down because of the Covid-19 pandemic. But now, theater companies across the borough are trying to figure out ways to raise their curtains once again. The obstacles are many and vary from group to group, some having higher hurdles to clear than others. But uncertainty reigns across the board, owing primarily to the unpredictability of the virus. While hopes are high in several corners, it will likely be a long time before things get completely back to normal ... if ever. But show business folks have long been recognized for their ingenuity and perseverance. And many of the groups involved plan to pick up where they left off last year, hoping to bring to fruition productions that were already underway. Louise Guinther, the longtime driving force behind The Gingerbread Players, a mainstay at St. Luke’s Church in Forest Hills, believes live performances could resume by this fall, despite the “very stringent rules” imposed by the powers that oversee the church. It would be a particularly celebratory event, coinciding with the group’s 50th anniversary season. Whenever live performances ultimately resume, hopes within the group are already rising for a highlyanticipated project, a production of the musical, “Babes In Toyland,” which was shut down when the pandemic struck. “A lot of work already went into it,” Guinther said. She would love to see the show mounted in front of a live audience in the spring of 2022. Being away from the theater hasn’t stopped the group f rom having what Guinther called “kind

But a burning desire to get back on of a full season.” Its on-line endeavors included a a real stage is propelling progress in presentation of the comedy classic, mounting a live production in “You Can’t Take It With You,” which, November of Stephen Sondheim’s according to Guinther, consisted of musical “Into the Woods,” which was “talking heads with a little bit of cos- abruptly canceled last year by the tuming.” While the actors were read- pandemic. “We’re cautiously optimistic,” ing from scripts, “everyone related to Kurtzman said, pinning some of her the camera very well,” she said. There was also a more ambitious hopes on the Covid-19 vaccines, on-line production of Shakespeare’s which, she said, seem to be “trending “Henry V,” with Guinther in the title in a good direction.” As with The Gingerbread Players, role. “It brought a large number of us back together,” she said, if only via RST performs in a church, which, the computer screen. The project Kurtzman said, “gets the final say” incorporated backdrops to depict as to when the group may resume live performances. “Safety is paramount,” appropriate locales. “It has been interesting, with ups she said. “If need be, we’ll postpone” and downs, and no audience to relate the show again. The Parkside Players, which operto,” Guinther added. She sees a silver lining underneath ates out of Grace Lutheran Church in this cloud, indicating that the group Forest Hills, has “a lot of things to plans to continue with on-line Zoom take into consideration” before reopening to the presentations into public, according to the future, even after the group’s presil i ve p e r fo r m i n g e’re in a dent, Glenn Rivano. resumes. and foremost, “It allows the cast pickle here.” First “We need this virus and the audience to to be completely shut be expanded beyond — Andrew Koslosky of down. We still have our usual geographic Broadway Blockbusters to see when we can range,” she said. get dow n to the Like The Gingerbread Players, Royal Star Theatre, church,” Rivano said. He’s optimistic that the group’s located in Jamaica, has put its artistic talents to work on virtual presenta- aborted production of the comedy tions. Representing the group, Alison “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” Kurtzman said, “We’ve been trying will be able to resume rehearsals to come up with new and innovative soon, aiming toward a fall opening. The show had already been cast ways to stay connected with the when the pandemic struck. Rivano community.” Toward that goal, the group has hopes the entire team, including been keeping busy with an assort- actors and backstage personnel, will ment of on-line performances. Its lat- be available when things get back est, “No Strings Attached,” a compi- underway. That can only happen “when the lation of four short comedy pieces featuring humans and puppets, will church feels safe to let people in and be offered on March 7. “It’s our big- following the rules of the state,” gest virtual attempt yet,” Kurtzman Rivano said. He said it would also be necessary said. Further information on the show (free with a suggested donation of to take into account the expenses involved in mounting a production. $10) is posted at royalstartheatre.org.

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He estimated that filling 50 percent of the seats in his theater “may be OK,” allowing for social distancing, should it still be required. Maggie’s Little Theater in Middle Village was at the final dress rehearsal stage of an original revue of Academy Award songs, “The Envelope, Please,” when all theater activities halted last year. Group President Jim Gillespie remains hopeful if not overly optimistic that “maybe some version” of the show will happen yet. According to Gillespie, Maggie’s prospects for reopening face particular limitations imposed by lack of its usual space, at least temporarily taken over by student classrooms. The group is considering starting rehearsals on line. “When we’re ready to get back into the space, Boom! Go!” he said. But, he cautioned, “We’re not doing anything at least until summer.” And while not out to make a financial killing on their shows, the group must deal with tough financial considerations. “We sketched out social distancing” that suggested a maximum of 60 or 70 attendees at any one performance, Gillespie said. That’s far fewer than the crowds that have generally filled the auditorium. “Do we want to do that? I don’t know,” Gillespie said. “We want enough money to keep us going to entertain people.” Also under consideration is an ambitious production of the classic musical “Kiss Me, Kate,” which was to have been the group’s big summer show in 2020. “I’m sure we’ll put something on,” Gillespie said. “It’s who we are.” Prospects remain sketchy at several other companies. St. Gregory’s Theatre Group in Bellerose, according to producer Lydia Pastori, has “nothing concrete” planned as of yet. One interesting possibility is some kind of outdoor

performance, though not necessarily a conventional show. It could be a “heal the community” event, Pastori said. Discussions with the church’s new pastor are necessary. “I think he’ll be open to an idea of something to allow people to come together,” she said. “It’s a lot of ‘wait and see.’” Broadway Blockbusters, which performs at the Immaculate Conception Center in Douglaston, is known for its sumptuous summer productions, but, producer/director Andrew Koslosky said, while “it’s our full intention to come back,” doing a large-scale musical would be difficult this year. A smaller production, most likely a comedy, “might be a good way to break the ice,” he said. He sees a need to “give people confidence” to return to live theater. “A lot of older folks will be afraid to come back. We’re in a pickle here.” Michael Wolf, president of Douglaston Community Theatre, which operates out of Zion Church Parish Hall in Douglaston, indicated that the group is in the process of choosing a play and director for a possible online production. As for a return to live performances, he said, “It’s up to the reverend and the board.” Theatre By The Bay NY, the resident troupe at Bay Terrace Garden Jewish Center in Bayside, would like to reopen its doors in the fall but, according to its artistic director, Cathy Chimenti, “I’m getting some pushback and I’m a little concerned.” Producer Eli Koenig says the group is currently in a “state of suspension. We’re in limbo. The building is not open and there’s no end in sight [to the pandemic]. We’re not sure where we are.” While it figures out its future path, the group is preparing a virtual cabaret, “The Show Must Go On Line,” a celebration of Jewish-American songwriters, set for March 6. Details will be available soon at the group’s website, theatrebythebayny.com. Q

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Have you ever wondered what used to sit on n the site of your school ool or neighborhood shopping center? Ever wanted to find a photo of the e longdisappeared restaurant staurant or movie theater er where you and your spouse went on your first rst date? Did you everr want to share interesting ng family photographs or enjoy checking out the he Queens neighborhood where your parents or grandparents andparents grew up? Check out urbanarchive. rbanarchive. nyc, where you can do that and so much more. ore The online platform began collating photographic collections from cultural institutions and even a few government agencies four years ago, so far partnering with more than 40 in an effort to cover the five boroughs as completely as possible. “We work with the New York Public Library, the Metropolitan Museum, even the [city] Department of Environmental Protection, trying to get all the collections together on one platform,” Sam Addeo, Urban Archive’s director of community and development, said in a telephone interview. “We have almost 100,000 photos plus information on about 50,000 sites. New York City has 850,000 buildings, so we have a way to go. But we’re moving along.” “We’re like a Google map for history,” she added. The Queens Public Library is one of the organizations on the platform. The website encourages what it calls historical scavenger hunts. Click anywhere on the site’s interactive map and you will be linked to any photos or stories that are available. Click on any photo and you are placed on the map. A story about the kidnapping of John Russell, 8, in Brooklyn in 1932 leads readers on a site-by-site trail of the streets and buildings where events took place. Entries for Queens range from Aurora Gareiss’ threedecade fight to preserve and protect Udall’s Cove marsh to a trip a Bayside native took as a little girl with her family “to the city” to visit Radio City Music Hall.

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Kwamé Holland was born in Queens on March 28, 1973. Kwamé means born on Saturday; however, his mother choose the name in honor of the first prime minister of Ghana, Kwamé Nkrumah. His father, Tahir, and mother, Carol Drew, fostered a love of music in him and introduced him at a young age to Stevie Wonder and Lionel Hampton. While living in his parents’ Home of rapper and producer Kwamé Holland at 155-54 115 house at 115-54 115 Drive in Drive in Jamaica. He lived there from 1989 to 2008. GOOGLE MAPS IMAGE; INSET BY LUIGI NOVI VIA WIKIPEDIA Jamaica he released his first albu m, “Kwa mé t he Boy 1992, saw him drop the polka dot clothing and Genius: Featuring a New Beginning.” His playful intellectual persona clicked. switch to more sexual content. Changing his His polka dot clothing was his trademark in formula hurt him as only the title track was a music videos and became a hip-hop fashion minor hit. His fourth album failed to chart. He got an apartment on Edgecombe Avetrend. In 1990 his second album, “A Day in the nue in Manhattan to be near Def-Jam Studios Life,” about a high school student, spawned and became a music producer. He formed Make Noise Recordings and is married to two hit singles. Q His third album, “Nastee,” released in Tameika Flowers.

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The first big news to come out of the Mets’ spring training home, Port St. Lucie, Fla., was Tim Tebow announcing he was giving up on his dreams of making it to the majors. At age 33 Tebow conceded he’d never be suiting up for a game at Citi Field. While he never enjoyed the on-field success in baseball that he had in his college and pro football career, you have to give him credit for giving it a try and staying with it from the time the Mets signed him in 2016 until now. The minor league life is not an easy one and, to his credit, Tebow rode the same buses and stayed in the same motels as his teammates did without complaint. He was also responsible for selling out every ballpark in which he played much the way Michael Jordan did during his mid-1990s sabbatical from the NBA. It might be a smart idea for every MLB team to have a designated minor league roster spot for a celebrity. Tebow may have had trouble hitting professional pitching but he has nothing to be embarrassed about. The Mets signed 28 year-old free agent righthanded pitcher Taijuan Walker. Walker and Joey Lucchesi, who was signed earlier in the winter, are back of the rotation guys. These aren’t the sort of signings that create exciting backpage headlines but they’re frequently the difference

between a team making or not making the playoffs. This pair should be better than Rick Porcello and Michael Wacha were in those roles last year, but then again that’s a pretty low bar. It’s safe to assume Mets outfielder Michael Conforto, who is seeking a lengthy and lucrative contract, was ecstatic to learn the San Diego Padres signed their 22-year-old shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr. to a 14-year, $340 million contract. Michael Schwimer, who pitched for the Phillies from 2011 to 2013, was certainly popping champagne bottles when Tatis inked his deal. Schwimer, whom I got to chat with quite a bit during his brief playing career, is far better in the world of finance (he studied statistics at the University of Virginia) than he was at pitching. Schwimer spent a lot of time in the minors and endured the paltry wages on which minor leagues have to survive. In 2016 he started Big League Advance, which emulated the economic model of the recording industry. Big League Advance fronts cash to minor league players who have a decent shot at making the majors. In exchange, players agree to yield a percentage of all future earnings to Schwimer’s company. If they don’t make it to “The Show” then they don’t have to repay the advance. Big League is expected to garner $30 million over the life of Q Tatis’ new contract. See the extended version of Sports Beat every week at qchron.com.

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Nearing the end of a winter marked by heavier than usual snowfall, the deadliest pandemic in a century, rising crime and political chaos, seeing some flowers poke their happy faces above the ground may be just what some folks need. And the Queens Botanical Garden is here to serve up some blooms with its next walking tour, set for 2 to 3 p.m. March 6. Due to Covid restrictions, the first 12 people who register, at a cost of $10 for most, will get to go on the excursion. Led by Gennadyi Gurman, the garden’s head of interpretation, the tour will focus on early spring bulbs and ephemerals that should be blooming, such as daffodils, snowdrops, crocuses, forget-me-nots, edgeworthias and pansies. Gurman personally likes to see the garden’s witch hazel shrubs in bloom, as they are now, and may or may not still be when the walk takes place. “It’s really nice when you see them because it’s sort of a reminder things are coming back,” he said. “And then once the snowdrops and the edgeworthias start flowering, you know there’s no coming back to winter.” If the witch hazels are done by the time of the tour, it’s possible the forsythia will be

starting; at least they’ll be on the cusp. But those on the walk should be able to see some magnolia buds “cracking and popping,” and maybe even flowering, depending on the weather between now and then. Gurman really hopes for some more nice days, and with his 16th anniversary at the garden coming up the day before the tour, he knows how its warm microclimate can see flowers open up earlier than one might expect. Even if some more snow comes down between now and then, as long as it remains safe to walk about, the tour will go ahead and there will be flora to enjoy. “We’re really hoping that this provides a safe, socially distant opportunity for people to get together and enjoy, really, one of the jewels of the cultural institutions of Queens together,” Gurman said.

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Participants in the next Queens Botanical Garden monthly walking tour can expect to PHOTOS BY JOSH FEINBERG AND, LEFT, JESS BREY see blooms including snowdrops, left. It will be the third walk of the year, following ones that focused on winter animals, in January, and spotting signs of spring in winter, in February. Each was sold out. People who miss the March walk can of course stroll the garden in search of flowering plants on their own. Admission even remains free until April 1. The next walk, set for April 17, will focus on things that appear in Queens’ official

seal: tulips, roses and even wampum, since the garden lies upon an old stream bed, and shells like those that Native Americans fashioned beads from have been found there. The event is a look at the botanical heritage of Queens, including its native, Dutch and English elements. Further information about the walks and other garden programs, for both children and adults, is posted at Q queensbotanical.org.

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After examining Fisher’s photos, Urban Archive contacted him about writing a story to go with them. In “Paradise Found” Fisher intertwines his family’s history with that of Maspeth, where his grandfather, David, a 14-year-old Russian Jewish immigrant, settled with his parents and siblings in 1919. David’s father, Jacob, that year started Fisher’s, a men’s clothing store, that became a neighborhood fixture at 66-66 Grand Ave., right next to Frankel’s soda and candy shop. Jacob also taught Hebrew classes, and he would eventually introduce David to one of his students, Sarah “Sadie” Wenig. Their first-born child was Steve Fisher’s father, Norman. There is even a photo of Fisher himself as a child as construction on the Long Island Expressway passed oh, so close to the clothing store, but did not shut it down. “I’m not a museum or a historical society, so they placed my story in the Community section.” Fisher said. “It’s a very robust database. I’m really impressed by what they have been able to do with the technology.” Fisher also submitted a story on Manhat-

Maspeth resident Steve Fisher watches construction of the Long Island Expressway near the Grand Avenue. On the cover: Shirley Boxer and Norman Fisher of Maspeth; the Steinway piano factory in Astoria; Niederstein’s, a hotel and German restaurant in PHOTO COURTESY STEVE FISHER; Middle Village; and RKO Keith’s Theater in Flushing. COVER: QUEENS PUBLIC LIBRARY, TOP; IRMA AND PAUL MILSTEIN DIVISION OF UNITED STATES HISTORY, LOCAL HISTORY AND GENEOLOGY, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY; AND COURTESY STEVE FISHER

tan’s historic Harvard Club, a late 19th-century building he got to know while working on separate projects years apart at two dif-

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continued from page 23 Steve Fisher, a retired architect and freelance photographer for the Chronicle, has been published twice on the site in its Community section. He learned about it through the Museum at Eldridge Street, which is based at a famed Manhattan synagogue. “They told me this website was looking for photos from people from across the five boroughs,” Fisher said. “I have a lot of family photographs.”

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Notice of Formation of NYCTCO LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/21/2020. 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: NYCTCO LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, 5026 46TH STREET, WOODSIDE, NY 11377. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Docket No. SU20D1412DR Suffolk Probate and Family Court 24 New Chardon Street Boston, MA 02114 (617)788-8300 Aheisha Rhone vs. Aubrey Glenn Tomlinson Upon motion of plaintiff for an order directing the defendant, to appear, plead, or answer, in accordance with Mass.R.Civ.P/ Mass.R.Dom. Rel.P.Rule 4, it appearing to the court that this is an action for Divorce 1B. Pursuant to Supplemental Probate Court Rule 411, an Automatic Restraining Order has been entered against the above named parties. Defendant cannot be found within the Commonwealth and his/her present whereabouts are unknown. Personal service on defendant is therefore not practicable, and defendant has not voluntarily appeared in this action. It is Ordered that defendant is directed to appear, plead, answer, or otherwise move with respect to the complaint herein on or before April 22, 2021. If you fail to do so this Court will proceed to a hearing and adjudication of this matter. It is further Ordered that the accompanying Summons be published once in the Newspaper of General Circulation a newspaper published in: South Richmond Hill, New York 11419 the publication to be 20 days at least before said return day. It is further Ordered that a copy of the summons be mailed to the defendant at his/her last known address by registered or certified mail. Date February 04, 2021 Hon. Megan H. Christopher, Justice of Probate and Family Court.

Notice of Formation of CAMI’S CAMERA LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/30/2020. 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: MARIA C BRANGO FERNANDEZ, 61-26 164TH STREET APT 3B, FRESH MEADOWS, NY 11365. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Banuma Construction LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/21/2021. 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: DINA UDDIN, 85-05 167 STREET, JAMAICA, NY 11432. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

DHAMRAIT LLC filed Arts. of Org. with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/1/2020. Office: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: The LLC, 24415 85th Rd, Bellerose, NY 11426. Purpose: any lawful act.

Notice of Formation of LLAMBDAAH LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/15/2021. 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: LLAMBDAAH LLC, 119 09 231ST STREET, CAMBRIA HEIGHTS, NY 11411. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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Elmhurst 4520, LLC, Arts of Org filed with SSNY on 01/12/21. Off. Loc.: Queens County, SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: The LLC, 41-28 Haight St #1A, Flushing, NY 11355. Purpose: to engage in any lawful act.

Notice of Formation of Luis Lopez & Properties, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/27/2021. 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: RICARDO LOPEZ, 9123 120TH ST., RICHMOND HILL, NY 11418. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of formation of Lex and Motherhood Boutique LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York SSNY on November 10th, 2020. Office located in Queens. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC 21404 42nd Avenue, Bayside NY 11361. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

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Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/22/20. Office: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 39-19 47th Street, Sunnyside, NY 11104.

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Legal Notices Notice of Formation of Akidis Realty LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/04/2021. 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: AKIDIS REALTY LLC, 3543 84TH STREET, APT #524, JACKSON HEIGHTS, NY 11372. Purpose: For any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of Almighty Daycare LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/05/2021. 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: AMANDA L. MIGHTY, 111-27 158TH STREET, JAMAICA, NY 11433. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of ANGELIC MOVING & DELIVERY LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/05/2020. 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: LATANYA BARBER, 3811 DITMARS BLVD #1046, ASTORIA, NY 11105. Purpose: For any lawful purpose. CLASSIFIED ADS AND SERVICE DIRECTORY ARE NOW SEARCHABLE

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HEARING NOTICE The New York City Board of Standards and Appeals has scheduled a virtual public hearing on the following application on March 8th or 9th, 2021: BSA Cal. No. 2020-29-BZ Premises: 146-65 Springfield Boulevard, Queens, Block 13363, Lot(s) 6 Applicant: Eric Palatnik, PC. Variance (§7221) to permit the enlargement of a UG 16 & 6 warehouse and office building previously before the Board contrary to ZR 22-00. R3-1 and R3-2 zoning districts. An agenda listing the specific session (including the final date and time) with call-in details will be posted as an announcement on the front page of the Board’s website (www. nyc.gov/bsa) the Friday before. The virtual public hearing will be livestreamed on the Board’s website and on YouTube. Interested persons or associations may watch online and call in to present testimony during the public hearing. They may also submit a written statement by email to submit@bsa.nyc. gov. For any communication, please include BSA Calendar No. 2020-29-BZ and the property address: 146-65 Springfield Boulevard, Queens The Board’s physical office is currently closed, but please direct questions to (212) 386-0009.

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e at Connexion Real Estate are shattered by his loss. There was no bigger personality in the room. His generosity and love will be missed by all those he left behind.

One Bedroom Cooperative Being Sold “As Is”. Great Opportunity To Custom Design Your Own Space. Monthly Maintenance Includes Heat, Hot Water, Cooking Gas, Electric, Cable And Real Estate Taxes. Laundry Room On Lobby Level. Intercom & Buzzer Vestibule Entrance. Park Benches And Play Ground On Common Grounds. Conveniently Located Near Shopping Center; Park; And Public Bus; And Express Bus To Midtown NY. Base Maint: $566.84, Energy: $46.00, AC: $14.00, Security: $10.00= $636.84. 230 shares, $30/share fl ip tax.

Funeral Mass will be held at: St. Helen RC Church in Howard Beach Friday, February 26th at 9:45 AM

Connexion REAL ESTATE

161-14A Crossbay Blvd., Howard Beach

SOLD!

(Brother’s Shopping Ctr.)

ARLENE PACCHIANO Broker/Owner

718-845-1136 FREE MARKET EVALUATION

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Reduced $798K Owner Mortgage

MIDDLE VILLAGE

Mint Det Colonial, pvt dvwy & 2 car gar, 3 BRs, 2 full baths, completely renovated throughout within 7 years, windows, roof, gas boiler, hotwater heater, stoop, wood doors, porcelain tiles on 1st flr, hardwood flrs upstairs, lg living rm, lg formal dining rm. lg kit with cherry cabinets, S.S. appl, island, Beautiful.

Asking $938K

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• Lindenwood • 2 bedroom 2 bath Co-op selling “as is”. Needs TLC but is priced accordingly for a great opportunity to create your own space. Intercom & buzzer vestibule entrance. Ideally located near shopping center, public transportation, express bus to Midtown, airport & major highways. 540 shares, $20 fl ip tax. Monthly Maint.: $856.90; Security $30.00; electric: $31.98; appliances; $27.00; assessment $73.55 until June/2022 total: $1,019.43 includes heat, hot water, cooking gas, real estate taxes & electric (fluctuates by usage)

NORTH MASSAPEQUA

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Sat., Feb. 27th 2pm-3:30pm 107-68 111th Street

Sun., Feb. 28th 11am-3pm 250 N. Poplar Street

Lovely Colonial in heart of Richmond Hill South. Updated Kitchen, 3 BRs, 2 full baths, full finished basement, garage. Reduced $565K

All new, unique, Colonial 7 BRs, 3 full baths, (permit for mother/daughter) w/ full finished basement on 75x100. Asking $925K

CO-OP FOR SALE Hi-Rise 1 BR Unit Converted from a Studio, Low Maint, Updated Kit & Bath, Top Floor

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Large 2 Family on oversized lot (84’x121’) Ideal for contractor or to park multiple trucks 7+, with 2 car det. garage, house in (22’x50’), full bsmnt. House sold as is. Needs updating, 6 BR, 3 full baths, Great Price Asking $798K

HOWARD BEACH

APARTMENTS FOR RENT

COMMERCIAL SPACE FOR RENT

IN HOWARD BEACH

Cross Bay Blvd., 2nd Floor, 350 sq. ft., Plus Heat & Electric, All New Tiles & New Bathroom

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$1,500/mo

OZONE PARK 1 TO 3 BEDROOM APARTMENTS

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Commercial Building (101st Ave.) 2 blocks off Cross Bay Blvd./25x100 lot, 25x46 building/ 2nd flr., Dental Office $2,200 per mo./ 1st floor gutted to studs & vacant / basement clean with new furnace / zoning R6B / building K2

Check out this spacious condo in Howard Beach. This unit features 1020 sq ft of living space with an updated kitchen with large pantry and stainless steel appliances. Spacious living room and dining room, 2 large BRs, 2 full baths and ample closets for storage. Extra large terrace, perfect for relaxing in your own private space. Laundry room, storage room and bike room located in lobby. Common charges: Base: $778.34 which includes water, sewer, cooking gas, heat and common area maint. Parking available to all owners for additional $25/month. Conveniently located near shopping, stores, schools, highways, Q41, Q21 and express bus to Midtown. Property taxes after condo abatement is applied is $3,533 a year.

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