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UL-MOST South Queens councilman bid for public advocate falls short

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Eric Ulrich, with daughter Lilly and Queens Republican Chairwoman Joann Ariola Shanks, conceded Tuesday’s special election to fellow Councilman Jumaane Williams, inset — but was encouraged by a strong, second-place ﬁnish.

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Williams wins big special election Did runner-up Ulrich have strong enough showing to run for mayor? by Michael Shain

cable channel NY1 flashed an early result showing him in the lead. As returns from Brooklyn and Manhattan In what was considered something of a dry run for the next mayoral election in 2021, came into the Board of Elections, the tide Jumaane Williams, a city councilman from quickly turned in Williams’ favor. Assemblyman Ron Kim (D-Flushing) Brooklyn, won a woolly special election Tuesbarely made a dent in the field, gathering less day to become city’s new public advocate. With a 33 percent plurality of the vote, he than 3 percent. Williams, 42, is filling out the term left by beat 15 other candidates for the job, includLetitia James, who was elected state ing Eric Ulrich, the 34-year-old counens vote attorney general last year. Her win a cilman from Ozone Park, who e s triggered Tuesdays’s special vote. came in second place. Qu Williams, whose parents immiUlrich, who will reach his grated to New York from Grenada, term limit in the City Council in ran as a progressive with deep cretwo years, would have been the dentials as a defender of disenfranfirst person from Queens to win chised communities. citywide office in more than 20 201 9 “We cannot wait, we cannot stand years. The last was Paul Vallone Sr., still, because the challenges in our city are who was last elected speaker of the City too great,” Williams told his supporters at a Council in 1998. Ulrich was a surprise runner-up to Wil- victory celebration. “But the opportunity to liams with 19 percent of the vote — beating create change is even greater.” Only about 400,000 ballots were cast in the rivals with greater name recognition such as Melissa Mark-Viverito, the former City Coun- election, less than 10 percent of the registered cil majority leader, and Assemblyman voters in the city. Ulrich, one of only three Republican Michael Blake of the Bronx. In fact, for the first half-hour or so after the officeholders in the city, pinned his hopes for polls closed, Ulrich was leading the crowded the special election on the same type of low field. A crowd of about 250 supporters at turnout that helped Rep. Alexandria OcasioUlrich’s campaign party at Russo’s On The Cortez (D-Bronx, Queens) upset Joe Crowley Bay in Howard Beach cheered every time the in last year’s congressional primary. Editor

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TWA Hotel starts heavy hiring push Combing neighborhoods around JFK for staff, set to open in May by Michael Shain and Michael Gannon Editors

Who needs Amazon? The new TWA Hotel at JFK International Airport has begun hiring nearly 800 people — from sous chefs to night managers to housekeepers — to begin work as soon as May 15, the day the hotel officially opens. A website for the hotel (twahotel.com/ careers) recently began posting a handful of job openings — most of them managerial — that the operators are looking to fill. The ambitious, $ 265-m illion lu xu r y hotel project, wh ich includes the renovation of the famed TWA Terminal and construction of two towers with 505 room s beh i nd it , is finally nearing completion after two years. Now attention is turning to staffing the hotel. Representatives from the hotel are, for instance, appearing at community boards in Howard Beach and Jamaica, both next door to the airport, to talk about an upcoming job fair at Borough Hall March 12. Queens residents will get preference in

hiring, Irene Ajagbe, the hotel’s human resources director, told Community Board 13 this week. The array of positions includes catering and banquet service personnel, kitchen staff, bartenders, front desk managers, health club attendants, landscapers, bookkeepers and stewards, according to a flier to be handed out at sites around the airport starting this week. The hotel was conceived as a step back in time to the beginning of the jet age, when the TWA Terminal — one of the masterpieces of mid-century American design — was opened. “We’re re-creating 1962 — without the cigarettes,” the project’s developer, Tyler Morse, said last year at a media briefing. Morse specializes in c r e at i ng d e st i n at ion hotels with distinctive histories and unusual locations. His firm, MCR, operates the High Line Hotel and the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan. Bringing the distinctive TWA Terminal back to life as a hotel — the building was closed nearly 20 years when jets got too big for it — is

The TWA Terminal, above, built by Howard Hughes and designed by architect Eero Saarinen, is getting a second life as a hotel, the only one on the grounds of JFK Airport. Job fairs and a webIMAGES COURTESY MCR site for hiring managerial and hourly workers are starting. among the first projects slated for completion in Gov. Cuomo’s full-scale renovation of JFK. The planners believe the hotel, with several bars and high-end restaurants, will become a social center for travelers on layovers, as well as a place to stay overnight.

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Mayor’s signature ed plan flunks final Program for struggling schools — including 12 in Queens — is ended by Michael Shain

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After spending nearly $800 million to save the lowest-performing schools in the city from being closed, Mayor de Blasio is defending his decision this week to kill the program. De Blasio established the initiative, called the Renewal Program, in 2014 as an alternative to an earlier strategy, pioneered by former Mayor Bloomberg, of closing chronically underperforming schools. “The previous policy was destructive,” de Blasio told reporters during a visit to Queens on Tuesday. “It was a policy of close first and ask questions later.” De Blasio ran for mayor in 2013, with the strong backing of the teachers union, in part on a promise to end school closings —which included the wholesale replacement of administrators and teachers at failing schools. The Renewal Program, which went into effect during his first year in office, funneled millions of dollars in extra aid to 93 of the worst-performing schools in the city. Twelve schools in Queens are on the list as

During a visit to Civic Leadership Academy in Corona on Tuesday, Mayor de Blasio sat in with an Advanced Placement English class. PHOTO BY MICHAEL SHAIN the program ends, a Department of Education spokeswoman said this week. Designating a school as part of the Renewal Program backfired, in a sense, the mayor admitted this week.

Once a school was on the list, parents were reluctant to enroll their kids there. Smaller class enrollments meant less money from the state and a self-defeating cycle was triggered, he explained.

“I would argue that some schools have gotten to the point that, even with substantial investment, they could not be turned around,” he told reporters at Civic Leadership Academy in Corona during a visit to see another one of his school initiatives, AP for All, at work. The trick of rescuing failing schools has confounded school administrators all over the country, insisted Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza. “Anyone tells you they have found a silver bullet, they’re going to sell you the Brooklyn Bridge next,” he told reporters. To call Renewal a failure was unfair, the mayor insisted. Of the original 93 schools, more than 70 had shown improvement and “45,000 students in real time were benefited.” From now on, he said, the administration of school support programs will be handled at the district level. “I am convinced it was the right road to go down” in 2014, de Blasio said. “And I am convinced we have the right structure now to take Q the lessons we learned and act on them.”

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Curtain falls on Build it Back After the flood, Sandy houses got $2.2B fix-up. What happens now? by Michael Shain Editor

Sometime in April, if things go as planned, a city worker will hand a set of keys to the owner of a house in Howard Beach. The homeowner will be the last of more than 3,500 in Queens to see his or her house rebuilt after Superstorm Sandy by the city’s oftmaligned Build it Back program. At that handover, after six long years and $2.2 billion, Build it Back — one of the most complicated, expensive and emotionally fraught projects ever undertaken in New York — will come to an end. Sort of. The question “So what happens next?” is not academic to about 100 families in South Queens who, according to the official count, are not yet back in their homes. On 164th Road in Hamilton Beach — where a woman drowned the night Sandy hit in 2012 and nearly every home suffered serious damage — four houses are still being elevated with funds provided by Build it Back. They are along the last in the neighborhood to be lifted. On the dividing line between old Howard Beach and Hamilton Beach, half a dozen houses sit on la nd the cit y now considers unbuildable because it is too close to the water. The doors and windows are covered by steel plates. When the city can get around to it, the houses will be torn down and the land turned over either to the city Parks Department or auctioned off as “side yards” to neighboring homeowners. The empty lots will come with deeds that forever prohibit building anything more permanent there than a swing set. “The end is going to be longer than anyone thinks it’s going to be,” Assemblywoman Stacey Pheifer

A mato ( D -Rock away Beach) predicted. One in every three families who applied for Build it Back aid in the five boroughs came from her district, according to a study issued earlier this month by the City University of New York and the Mayor’s Office. Pheffer Amato was not in office when Sandy struck six years ago, but the bulk of her constituent time since being elected in 2016 has been spent pushing the rebuilds and repairs to completion. She tells of one woman from her district who “has been waiting to unpack for a year and a half” as the final stages of work are completed. “There is a whole group of people who were lost,” she said, referring to families who must deal with sloping floors, uneven stoops and dead electrical boxes. “The job is not finished,” Pheffer Amato said. “People are living in their houses but they are not mentally home.” By April, all work except what Build it Back calls “the most complex projects” is slated to be done, says a spokesman. Homeowners who have had substantial work done by city-paid contractors — 2,350 homes mostly in Howard Beach and the Rockaways — have a one-year warranty on the work performed. Until then, the Build it Back field office on Cross Bay Boulevard, which has been Ground Zero for the operation, will remain open, said the spokesman. Pheffer Amato says she is eager to see a comprehensive investigation of Build it Back. “I would like to see how the federal money got processed,” she said. “Did we get what we paid for? I don’t want to be in this position again.”

One of the most ambitious and complicated projects ever undertaken by the city — rebuilding thousands of one-family homes wrecked by Superstorm Sandy — is winding down. A grounded boat in Hamilton Beach, above, is a remindPHOTOS BY MICHAEL SHAIN er. On 164th Road, below, one of the last elevation projects is still unfinished. Once the books are closed, the program’s staff will transition into a new agency to be called the Mayor’s Office of Recovery Preparedness, whose job will be to plan for the next Sandy-like storm. “Disaster recovery can’t be pulled off a shelf and put into operation,” Amy Peterson, director of the city Housing Recovery Office and Build it Back, said recently in a Daily News opinion piece. “It must be continuously planned and coordinated. “An office dedicated to recovery preparedness will ensure the City stands ready to respond to largescale disasters. New York City learned the hard way during the early days of Build it Back that you can’t rely on outsiders to manage a Q recovery operation.”

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P New MTA plan has its problems EDITORIAL

ant to be a savior of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority? All you have to do is drive into Manhattan and smoke marijuana. Just don’t do these things at the same time. Yes, Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio have a new plan to save the beleaguered transit agency, and key to providing it even more funding than it already gets are congestion pricing and taxes from sales of legalized marijuana. The two chief execs didn’t talk dollar figures in announcing this, but the MTA board did Wednesday when it voted on new fare and toll structures. The base subway and bus fare won’t go up at all, though the cost of long-term MetroCards will modestly, and riders will lose the bonuses given when they spend $5.50 or more. Drivers will help cover the lack of a real fare hike by paying $1 more on MTA crossings, or just 36 cents more when using E-ZPass. But that’s only the beginning. Wait until congestion pricing kicks in — the possible fees that have been thrown around in past proposals have been more than $10 for drivers going into most of Manhattan, far more for commercial vehicles. Sorry Queens, we fought valiantly, including on this

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page, but it looks like we’ll be losing the congestion pricing battle at last. We’re not happy that driver subsidies for subway riders are increasing, and will go up far more, while many straphangers won’t pay more at all. We would hope that at least officials could give a break to those who live in “transit deserts” such as much of northeastern and southeastern Queens, where there are no subways and many people don’t live anywhere near the Long Island Rail Road. There’s already a program giving some southeastern Queens residents a discount on LIRR tickets because there’s no subway there. When congestion pricing is implemented, a fair approach would allow drivers in certain areas to get a rebate, as Rockaway residents do when they pay the toll to go over the Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge. Cuomo and de Blasio also promise some structural reforms at the MTA to streamline management and reduce costs, but we’ll believe it when we see it. Nowhere is the cost of labor addressed, and that’s one of the biggest reasons the agency is always cash-strapped. We hope at least their plan works out better for Queens than the last thing they agreed upon: Amazon.

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esidents of northeastern Queens are concerned, rightly, about what will happen on the site of the Bay Terrace Country Club, which is about to be auctioned off. They fear overdevelopment, and have every reason to do so. Whitestone’s Alfredo Centola proposes that the city buy the land and turn it into an active-recreation park with sports fields. It’s a fine idea. But no one should count on it. The city is great at missing such opportunities and letting Queens get built up. It’s one thing to do that in Long Island City, which continues its transformation into Manhattan East. But take the case of the empty field next to the shuttered Our Lady of the Angelus Catholic Academy in Rego Park. It’s just about an acre of grass. Soon the 63rd Road site will be a construction project, as another residential tower will be going up there. Bye, bye, open space. There are a couple playgrounds nearby, but imagine what could have been if the city had thought to buy the parcel. Perhaps a passive park with trees, walking trails, native plants — maybe even a pond. What a boon to the residents of the adjacent apartment towers, to the kids at the preschool a block away, to anyone who loves nature it could have been! Well, not this time. But maybe some of Queens’ open spaces can still be saved. If we try.

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as we have been, standing still on the tracks when we see the train headlights coming! Miriam Kessler Kew Gardens

Working-class heroes Dear Editor: Working families owe Cou ncilman Jimmy Van Bramer and community activists a debt of gratitude. They sided with the working class against the out-of-control, concentrated, obscene wealth in this city and country. To give one of the richest men in the country whose company’s worth in the stock market is through the roof any money, whether or not givebacks were in the deal, should never have been offered. And now we have a governor who does nothing for the working poor unless pushed by us, attacking those who are going to the

root of income inequality. Gov. Cuomo, as usual, along with Mayor de Blasio, went ahead, made a deal and expected it to fly without any community involvement. Well, I am very happy to say working families rejected the deal. And as more and more information comes out about the deal working families will see this rejection as a victory against obscene wealth and power. Several articles in The New York Times and other sources say that the tech industry is alive and well here in the city in spite of Amazon going home. Google is adding jobs to its workforce and Apple and Facebook are very happy here with the resources the city has to offer. In fact, Amazon is adding jobs here in spite of the backtracking of the company. When is enough enough? The wealth created by companies like Amazon depends on us. The conveyor belts that meander around their warehouses carrying the packages into the hands of the sorters and stackers; the truck

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drivers who deliver the packages. Who developed and built the conveyer belts? Where did the steel come from? Who delivered the steel to the factories that constructed the conveyer system? These are the questions working families need to ask themselves. Van Bramer, state Sen. Michael Gianaris and all the community activists and unions who saw the bigger picture deserve our full and total support as wealth, along with the governor, comes down on them and tries to discredit them. What these champions of the working class are addressing is the growing homeless population, the abysmal wages and working conditions and the growing divide between the 1 percent and the rest of us. Are we ready to stand with them? Gabriel Falsetta Forest Hills

Amazon moves on; we lose

AOC’s unpopular views Dear Editor: Following up on Edward Konecnik’s Feb. 21 letter to the editor (“Alexandria not so great”), I offer additional evidence that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez does not have widespread support for her socialist views. She won the primary election by only 4,018 votes. Given the 141,204 voters in the general election, fewer than 3 percent of the voters in the district determined the results of the election. AOC, Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer and state Sen. Michael Gianaris denied the city the benefits of bringing Amazon to Long Island City, going against the polls that showed the majority of New Yorkers favored Amazon.

Nationwide, AOC’s Justice Democrats only won 26 out of 79 primary races in 2018. Will we repeat the 1972 presidential campaign when there were 15 Democratic candidates running in the primaries and progressive George McGovern emerged as the nominee? He only received 17 electoral votes out of 538. AOC’s Justice Democrats may be loud and visible, but this fraction does not represent the majority of the party. David Soukup Sunnyside

No papers, no license Dear Editor: Re your Feb. 21 report: “Immig advocates call for new license policy”: Allowing illegal immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses is a dumb idea, ONLINE which is why 38 states refuse to Miss an article or a letter cited by a writer? do it. If New Want breaking news York does, its from all over Queens? m e s s a g e i s : Find the latest news, “Thank you for past reports from all b r e a k i n g t h e over the borough and l a w . ” T h a t explains the more at qchron.com. f ierce out r age faced by t hen Gov. Eliot Spitzer (aka Client No. 9) when he tried to do this by executive order in 2007. Gov. Cuomo will face a similar firestorm of protest by backing a legislative attempt this year. The proposed law he supports threatens public safety. Since many illegal immigrants don’t know English, how can they understand and obey road signs and traffic directions? City Comptroller Scott Stringer joins this law’s cheerleaders to gain ethnic votes for his expected 2021 mayoral run. But he lost my vote by putting political correctness ahead of common sense. Richard Reif Kew Gardens Hills

The church has acted Dear Editor: As a child of Holocaust survivors, I have often written in these pages against anti-Semitism. Now, as someone who has been a Catholic since 2010, I feel I must help set the record straight regarding the sex abuse crisis within the Catholic Church. No one can deny that in the past, the church totally mishandled the problem. The problem was not just the actions of predator priests but the cover-up by clergy in authority. There is no excuse for this. What is missing in the conversation is what the church is doing about it. In 2002, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops passed the Charter for Protection of Children and Young People, which set up procedures to help prevent future abuses. Every member of the clergy, lay employee and volunteer who has contact with children is required to undergo a background check as well as participate in a training program on abuse prevention. Since then, there have been only two credible allegations against continued on next page

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Dear Editor: I do not understand our reactions to the Amazon situation. Instead of blaming Amazon, our anger should be redirected to those who brokered the deal. Our two highest leaders, Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio, were the ones who negotiated with Amazon in secret, creating an agreement that excluded any input from the City Council or community boards. Were they wrong? Of course. (Yet we keep re-electing them.) All Amazon did was accept their offer. By the way, Amazon was in the process of meeting with community groups. And the vast majority of New Yorkers were in favor of the company opening up in Long Island City. At the ceremony when Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was sworn into office, she said Amazon backing out is “their problem, not ours.” Huh? Amazon will not suffer at all. There are many states that would love to have the firm. It will not lose a penny. On the other hand, New York will lose 25,000 to 40,000 jobs, vocational training for local residents, new technology programs in our schools, etc. Not to mention the $27 billion in tax revenue, improved infrastructure and mass transit, construction jobs building the facility, small-shop benefits from having many more customers, etc. Please remember, when Jack went up the beanstalk, he killed the giant and not the goose that laid the golden eggs. Lee Rottenberg Middle Village

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LETTERS TO THE continued from previous page the Brooklyn Diocese (which includes Queens and Brooklyn). Other dioceses have had similar results. Can public school systems throughout the country match such results? Also, the Feb. 21 Chronicle article (“Queens priests on sex allegations list”) stated that in 2017 the Brooklyn Diocese opened its Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Program to assist the victims of abuse. I do think it was unfair of the Chronicle to have a victims’ attorney question the motives of this program without allowing the diocese to comment on her remarks. Through my many volunteer activities within the church, I have had the privilege of working closely with a number of priests. They are among the finest people I have ever met. Knowing these men and knowing the steps they are taking to protect children are two of the reasons why I am proud to call myself a Catholic. Lenny Rodin Forest Hills

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Dear Editor: I am appalled at the chorus of lockstep members of my party to rush to insist Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia resign. People I voted for, contributed to their campaigns, are a disgrace in their demands. Sens. Cory Booker, who hypocritically supported an actor who alleged an assault “until proven guilty,” Bernie Sanders and Kirsten Gillibrand (to whom I donated some funds) and scores of others, taking a trivial episode (impersonating a big star) and a dubious photo on the governor’s medical yearbook page, deem resignation is just. They are ignoring his military service and distinguished medical and political careers of four decades. I found a long list of the names of these “progressive” people who are a regressive group under the cloak of “political correctness.” They will not get my vote. The only fair comment was from former Sen. Joe Lieberman. He called for getting the facts first. He should be the judge of this kangaroo court. B.K. Brumberg Howard Beach

One lousy mayor Dear Editor: Well, our illustrious and ignorant mayor is at it again — going to Iowa to apparently look to get people there to support his possible candidacy for the presidency. What a joke! This idiot cannot even run our city efficiently, but he wants to run the country? We need a mayor who cares about the needs and concerns of the people of New York City, not a jet setter who is hardly ever around, who continues to gallivant all over the country at the taxpayers’ expense. He should resign immediately, if he is so fixated on furthering his political career. Mr. Mayor, you cannot have it both ways.

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Either you are the mayor full-time, taking care of this wonderful city, or you are a potential presidential candidate. Who would vote for someone who cannot even come to his own staff meetings on time? Mayor de Blasio certainly would not make a good president. He does not know how to deal with any serious issues of government at all. John Amato Fresh Meadows

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Nearly half of city’s new immig cases from last few years have been in Queens by Ryan Brady

It could have been Biden Dear Editor: OK! OK! I get it! The editorial board, as well as a good percentage of the weekly letter writers to this publication, dislike the president with a passion, and have made their voices clear about it over the last two years. From the get go, I never believed Donald Trump could ever gain the nomination, against a distinguished field of 16 Republicans in the primary, let alone win the election, and yet it happened, to the chagrin of every expert analyst in the field of politics. Upon further consideration, I also concluded that Trump did not actually win so much as the Democrat nominee lost, and lost big time. How could the party have made such a blunder, in selecting such a seriously flawed candidate as Hillary Clinton? Although it is some 20 months until the next election, a recent 2020 prognostication on TV shows a wall mural of 30 or more interesting faces from every level of government, from vice president to both chambers of Congress, and on to states and municipalities, all vying for recognition to be heard. Of course, that number will pare down considerably, but the obvious question arises: Where was at least one name from this cross section of Democrats to make a challenge in 2016? Most notably, then-Vice President Joe Biden. In most of our previous elections the mantle would have been passed on as a foregone conclusion, along with the blessings of the outgoing commander in chief. No one had earned more respect, through an unflinching loyalty, than Biden. President Obama made no endorsement, as would have been expected, as an acknowledgement of a job well done. Biden may well have been president today. Why did he dismiss such a challenge, by offering as one of his reasons his being possibly too old? A reconsideration is taking place for 2020, but at that time, he will be four years older. Will Democrats ever learn why not one incumbent at the time saw the fallibility of a candidate qualified solely through her name recognition of being Mrs. Bill Clinton? In essence, she was never merit worthy, in matching the charisma, or possessing the administrative skills, of the 42nd president, or in knowing how to gain the confidence of the populace. Despite his shortcomings on other unrelated matters, Bill Clinton has successfully become an effective elder statesman for his party, and the country at large. Ask the Bush family! Robert W. Rice Woodhaven

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In its aggressive crackdown on undocumented immigrants in the city, the Trump administration is setting records. Deportations of unauthorized New York City immigrants without criminal convictions skyrocketed by 256 percent between the last fiscal year of the Obama administration and the first full one under the Jamaica Estates native, new data f rom Cit y Compt roller Scot t Stringer’s office shows. The number was 1,114 compared to 313, which Stringer termed an unprecedented increase for any U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office. Additionally, fiscal year 2018 The Trump administration has radically increased deporsaw the number of new immigra- tations in New York City, according to a new report from tion cases in the city climb to City Comptroller Scott Stringer. FILE PHOTO 19,750, a new record. The figure up 10 percent of the overall number, the wa s a mor e - t h a n -30 p e r c e nt second-highest share for an ethnic group. increase over the fiscal year 2016 statistic. Stringer’s report quoted anonymous Stringer joined immigration advocates and lawmakers last Thursday to announce immigrants about life under the Trump the result of a new report from his office, administration. “When I hear the things the new adminis“The Demographics of Detention: Immigratration says about immigrants, I feel a lot of tion Enforcement in NYC Under Trump.” “Let’s be clear: undocumented New sadness and indignation because it’s not Yorkers are part of the fabric of our city. But fair,” a Queens resident from Venezuela said. even in a sanctuary city like New York, the “The majority of immigrants come here to escalation of ICE raids, arrests, and intimi- work very hard. New York is a city that has dation is terrorizing the everyday life of our been made by immigrants and we come here neighbors and forcing undocumented New to work and give the best that we can give Yorkers into the shadows,” the financial and help the most people we can help. They are not treating us like human beings, but watchdog said in a prepared statement. He urges the city to “eliminate the carve- like objects.” ICE has been heavily criticized in Queens out” that prevents immigrants with certain criminal convictions from getting city-fund- and across the city for deporting immied legal counsel when facing deportation. grants, many of them parents who have Stringer also called on the state to totally spent most of their lives in the United States, without criminal records. ban ICE from courthouses. Queens Village Republican Club PresiFederal agents have arrested immigrants outside courthouses in Queens and other dent Phil Orenstein told the Chronicle he’s glad about the radical increase in deportaparts of the city. Forty-eight percent of the immigration tions across the five boroughs. He opposes cases in the city, or 24,394, launched by fed- the de Blasio administration’s “sanctuary eral authorities from October 2016 through city” policies. “It’s treasonous,” he said, adding that September 2018 have been in Queens, Stringer’s analysis found. Coming in second place Americans are made safer when more “criminal aliens” are deported. was Brooklyn, with 29 percent, or 14,593. Democratic lawmakers and activists conOverall, ICE deportations in the city shot up by 150 percent between President dem ned the Tr ump ad minist ration in Obama’s last fiscal year and Trump’s first response to Stringer’s report. “We must institute safeguards to protect complete one. The study also found that 21 percent of our immigrants friends, neighbors, and conimmigration cases launched in the city in stituents against the unconstitutional and disthe last th ree years, or 10,804, were honorable tactics of the federal government,” against Chinese immigrants, the comptrol- Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz (D-Jackson le r’s re p or t fou nd . T he 5,172 ca se s Heights) said in a statement. She is the firstlaunched against Indian immigrants made ever former Dreamer elected in the state. Q

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Getting Cuomo to play ball on betting Sports wagering could plug hole in leaky budget: Addabbo’s big idea by Michael Shain Editor

By the start of the NFL season this fall, betting on games on your mobile phone may not be a far-fetched possibility. People in New Jersey can do it already. And Pennsylvania is just a couple clicks away. But in New York, sports betting has been tossed around like a ball during infield practice. This week may decide whether New York will join the big leagues. State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach), sponsor of a bill legalizing mobile and online betting, sees gambling as the great green hope for New York’s struggling state budget. With state officials predicting a $5 billion gap in the budget, $3 billion in expected deficits plus another $2 billion shortfall in tax revenue, “Now more than ever, it makes sense to legalize sports betting,” he said. Addabbo was named chairman of the Racing, Gaming and Wagering Committee last month after the Democrats took control of the state Senate. Gov. Cuomo killed a similar proposal last year that would have legalized online poker and other table games as well as sports betting. But in this year’s budget message, Cuomo indicated he might back giving sports gambling a slow rollout, allowing it on premises at four upstate casinos. The projected tax revenues would be about $4 million in the first years, the governor’s office anticpates. Addabbo’s projections of online revenues,

Legalized betting on basketball, football, soccer and other sports by phone could bring in $60 million a year in tax revenue, state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. suggests. So why is New York standing PHOTO BY MICHAEL SHAIN by while New Jersey does it and not us, he asks. based on what neighboring states have brought in, are $60 million from sports betting and another $110 million from poker. As well, Cuomo’s favored method of raising $300 million in tax revenue next year — legalizing and taxing recreational marijuana sales — is suddenly in jeopardy. Assembly Spea ker Ca rl Heast ie (D-Bronx) said last week that he is no longer in favor of putting a new pot law on the fast track for approval next month. He’s looking for more time to consider the idea. This week, Addabbo is set to begin talks with Robert Williams, the acting executive director of the State Gaming Commission

and Cuomo’s longtime right-hand man on gambling issues. The talks are aimed at persuading the governor that sports betting “across the state, from end to end” makes more sense — and is a “valid, credible” way to raise money if the marijuana legalization is stalled. “Without mobile [gaming], we are going to fall far short of all the revenue that could be raised,” the Howard Beach lawmaker told the Chronicle. “I need the Governor’s Office to see things the way I see it.” So far, the Governor’s Office position has been that online betting requires a change in the state Constitution, a process that can

take up to three years. “We’re surrounded by sports betting,” said Addabbo, “and Jersey has online gambling too.” Waiting for a constitutional amendment — which needs passage by the Legislature two years in a row, then goes on the ballot for voter approval — makes little sense when the state needs the money now, he said. “It means three years of losing all that potential revenue,” the lawmaker said. Big-time gambling interests make no secret of their interest in bringing online gaming here. Since the U.S, Supreme Court ruled last year that states other than Nevada had the right to make sports betting legal, seven other states have approved it. New Jersey allowed its casinos to start taking action in last year, and Pennsylvania is about to do so. In New York, casinos have already started “strategic alliances” with companies that have online gambling experience. Substantial investments are being made. Bet365, a British f ir m, agreed last November to invest $50 million in Empire Resorts, owners of the casino at Aqueduct Race track in South Ozone Park as well another casino upstate. The deal would let the two companies split profits 50-50. “They’re drooling over New York getting into the business,” Addabbo said. A spokesman for Cuomo said the state could see sports gaming upstate this year. “The governor has been saying, ‘Let’s start there, almost like a pilot program, and Q see how it goes,’” the spokesman said.

Mayor gives Council placard counteroffer De Blasio favors new technology, less strict enforcement, penalties by Michael Gannon

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Less than a week after the City Council introduced a series of bills aimed at the abuse of city employee parking placards, Mayor de Blasio submitted his own pan, albeit one that appears to be much less strict about enforcement. The mayor’s new plan calls for t he g r adu al replacement of approximately 150,000 employee placards with windshield stickers, to be followed in the future by license plate-specific technology that would scan tags to determine if vehicles in placard-only parking zones are there legally. He also said the city intends to lease space or buy parking lots near police stations to help reduce the number of officers who park their personal vehicles on neighborhood streets — and sometimes

sidewalks and other places — while on duty. But at a press conference, de Blasio said he has no intention of reducing the number of placards in circulation. He also repeatedly skirted questions about the practice of city employees using items of clothing or union cards to park illegally outside of marked placard spaces, and the ongoing failure of the NYPD and traffic enforcement agents to ticket those vehicles. “In 2017 we started this crackdown and the tool we had then was summonses — traditional parking summonses,” de Blasio said in a transcript of the Feb. 21 press conference. “I want to thank all my colleagues involved in this effort, because they nearly doubled the number of illegal parking summonses. We never saw this level of activity previously and it

sent a very powerful message that people who did the wrong thing, were going to suffer consequences.” De Blasio said the new system will go a lot further and eliminate the large laminated placards entirely by 2021. “With a push of a button, traffic agents will know if a car is violating the parking rules, and they’ll know what consequences can bring to bear,” he said. “So, we’re going to let technology do the work here, and this will put an end to the use of fake placards once and for all.” But he added that under most circumstances it would take at least three strikes for offenders to lose their parking privileges. When asked about a half dozen times about how police officers continued on page 20

A city employee with a placard but no ticket blocks a handicapped sidewalk apron near Borough Hall in 2017. Mayor de Blasio has countered bills in the City Council aimed at stopping placard abuse with his own proposal, which would allow three strikes and rely on technology that only would work in FILE PHOTO parking spaces set aside for placards.

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Insurgents eye party changes, post-Crowley Noninsiders feel shut out as power to pick next boss lies with district leaders by Ryan Brady Editor

Some called him the “King of Queens.” Among Democratic county leaders in the city, Joe Crowley held remarkable sway over his borough. He could make or break careers. Allies got judgeships and Board of Elections jobs while candidates running without his approval were often kicked off the ballot. Comparisons were often made to Tammany-era machine bosses. But when now-Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Bronx, Queens) toppled the 10-term congressman in their June primary, his influence never recovered. Though district leaders re-elected Crowley as Queens County Democratic Party chairman at a September party breakfast, he resigned from the post last Tuesday upon taking a lobbyist job at law firm Squire Patton Boggs. The Washington, DC-based firm represents a clientele that includes major firms in the private prison and fossil fuel industries. Those interests are not exactly the most popular with the Democratic Party’s left wing. And with Crowley’s exit ending an era in borough politics, nonestablishment activists and leaders are calling for the party to be more transparent, bottom-up and driven by the rank and file. “We’re trying to lead the party into a much more progressive place so ensuring that people are participating in a small d-democratic process, I think, is paramount right now,” said state Sen. Jessica Ramos (D-East Elmhurst), who supports amending party bylaws “to ensure everybody’s voice is being heard.” Last year, Ramos handily won a primary against Jose Peralta, the late state senator who was in the Republican-allied Independent Democratic Conference. Crowley backed him, along with lawmaker Tony Avella, who was also in the IDC, in each’s primary. Now-Sen. John Liu (D-Bayside) unseated Avella. The interim Democratic organization chairwoman is Hollis-based District Leader June Bunch. She did not return a Chronicle inquiry before deadline. According to The Wall Street Journal, the next chairperson will be elected in the summer of 2020 by the party’s executive committee, which is composed of district leaders. Among them are lawmakers current and former, lobbyists and community board members. And they can order the election to be held sooner should they choose. Mentioned as possible candidates are Reps. Gregory Meeks (D-Queens, Nassau) and Grace Meng (D-Flushing), as well as Liu. A Meeks spokesman did not return inquiries. Party bylaws keep Meng from becoming chairwoman because she is not a district leader. A Liu spokeswoman said he is not seeking the post. Neither is Ramos. But that doesn’t mean the former district leader, whom a machine-sponsored challenge denied a third term in 2014, won’t be paying close attention. She wants others to do the same, too. “I think our job, as the people, is to ensure that all our representatives — in this case, our district leaders — are representing what we want,” she said.

Democratic county committee member Nina Kulkarni feels the same way “Once the party leaders realize people are paying attention it kind of forces them to be accountable,” said the Kew Gardens resident, who co-founded the grassroots advocacy group One Queens Indivisible and volunteered for Ocasio-Cortez and Ramos. She was disappointed upon realizing “that we really don’t do anything” at county committee, discovering that much more significant influence in the party lies with the district leaders who elect the chairperson. Ramos believes strengthening the county committee’s role could help give noninsiders a meaningful role in shaping the party. But unless changes like that are made, county committee members who feel like Kulkarni will remain frustrated. Her feelings didn’t improve when, without a public process involving nonparty leaders, the Democratic organization endorsed Borough President Melinda Katz With Joe Crowley stepping down as Queens County Democratic Organization chairman last week, in the June 26 district attorney primary. FILE PHOTO insurgent forces in the party are hoping to play a larger role in shaping it. “It’s not clear if they met the other candidates at all,” Kulkarni said, adding that “there Kang says Queens DSA members are playing The assemblyman also dismissed the notion should’ve been some kind of forum” where the the long game. that the former party chairman had a “tophopefuls discussed their platforms. “I think that some people are going to try to down” leadership style, pointing to how he The Katz endorsement set up a rift between make the county machinery more democratic would frequently consult district leaders when the Democratic machine and left-wing progres- by running more grassroots district leaders in making decisions like nominating judges. sive groups that reflects the conflict playing out 2020,” she said. Similar comments were made by former in the party on a national level. In the meantime, Kang says, Crowley’s exit Southeast Queens city councilman Archie Earlier this month, the New York City chap- probably changes little with the party’s day-to- Spigner. He’s dealt with his share of chairmen, ter of the Democratic Socialists of America day operations. She pointed to how three Nas- having first been elected district leader in 1968. voted to back public defender Tiffany Caban in sau County lawyers — Gerard Sweeney, party His wife and cousin have the same position, too. the district attorney race. Endorsements for her executive director Michael Reich and party law Should Meeks pursue the chairmanship, by One Queens Indivisible and the New Queens chairman Frank Bolz — continue their roles Spigner said he would be happy to vote for him. Democrats groups followed weeks after. With activists calling for major reforms, the with the Queens probate court. According to a DSA volu nteers Gothamist report by ex-councilman said he didn’t think they were played a big role in Ross Barkan, Swee- necessary, but that it might be a good idea to Ocasio-Cortez’s victoney has received $30 have “classes” to teach district leaders in the ry. And many of them million since 2006 for borough about what their positions entail. are k nocking on “I don’t have any complaints,” he said. “I legal services to the doors, gathering petic o u n t y p u b l i c guess it’s tough being a county leader.” tion signatures and It’s natural in politics for more-established administrator. raising small donaT h e d e s i r e fo r figures to resist the demands of insurgents. tions for Caban. But they do so at their peril, according to c h a n g e m ig h t b e Also vying for disJesse Rose, treasurer of the reform-minded New palpable. trict attorney are City But that doesn’t Queens Democrats group founded in 2016. “At some point, they have to realize that they mean the old guard Cou ncil man Ror y can either change or change will come and it wants it. Lancman (D-Fresh “The truth of the will leave them behind,” he said. “And we don’t Meadows), for mer matter is the Queens want that. We understand that they have valuCivilian Complaint organization is one of able insights. They have valuable institutional Review Board head M i n a M a l i k , ex- Susan Kang of the Democratic Socialists of the few political orga- knowledge.” His group wants the party to change the judge Greg Lasak, America’s Queens chapter says members of nizations in the city for mer prosecutor her group may run for district leader posts in and state that have “county structure so that there is more input from rank-and-file members and not just the Jose Nieves and law- 2020. PHOTO BY RYAN BRADY some discipline,” said Assemblyman David insiders who have been made district leaders.” yer Betty Lugo. The election will take place in June rather Weprin (D-Fresh Meadows), a district leader The New Queens Democrats say the process of than September because of a new law consoli- since 1994. “They have internal squabbles and selecting a new chairperson, or of endorsing in fights but generally come together, and I’ve any primary, should be a transparent one with a dating state and federal primaries. John Jay College of Criminal Justice political found that we can accomplish more being cohe- public debate and that district leaders should science professor Susan Kang is a Queens DSA sive and being together than we can with every- explain their votes to their constituents. Cynics might disagree with him. But Rose member who sits on the group’s citywide lead- body going in separate directions.” He praised how Crowley appointed district said he does sincerely believe that Queens party ership committee. She says the June date is advantageous to “those who are most institu- leaders at-large from underrepresented minority leaders will embrace change. “I think that they’ve seen the effect that orgagroups in Queens, like the Bangladeshi and tionally connected and resource rich.” nizers can have,” he said, pointing to the insurCaban, a first-time candidate who pledged to Indian communities. Additionally, Weprin said he doesn’t think gent victories of Ocasio-Cortez, Ramos, not take corporate or real estate industry donathe three Long Island lawyers make major deci- Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz (D-Jackson tions, may not fall under that umbrella. Q Heights) and Liu last year. But whoever wins the district attorney race, sions that significantly impact the party.

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Malik talks bid for district attorney Candidate touts experience as why she’s the best person for the job by David Russell Associate Editor

Mina Malik might not be a household name in Queens but the candidate for district attorney is no stranger to the office, where she prosecuted special victims crimes such as child homicides, child physical and sexual abuse, sex trafficking and adult sex crimes from 1999 to 2014. She told the Chronicle last Thursday that her experience separates her from her opponents. “I’m the only person who has looked into the eyes of a rape victim, and looked into the eyes of a child who was abused and looked into the eyes of a person who was wrongfully convicted and promised them, all of them, that I would get them justice,” the former assistant DA said. Malik is also pushing for diversity. “As an immigrant and as a woman of color who grew up in a basement apartment in Corona, Queens, I recognized and I saw from an early age that a lot of the people in law enforcement didn’t look like me or my husband ... I thought that was pretty odd, that the people in law enforcement who were policing the communities in which I lived, Corona and Elmhurst, didn’t look like us. The judges didn’t look like us, prosecutors didn’t look like us and certainly the people in policy- making decisions didn’t look like us so I decided to change

it,” she said. that communities are kept safe but that families Malik later added, “I think they can do bet- are also intact and that people’s families are ter on diversity, particularly at the top.” kept whole, and that you’re not breaking apart Her mother is Filipino Spaniard and her families simply because a person is incarceratfather was born in India and raised in Pakistan. ed and they can’t afford to pay bail,” she said. Her husband, a civil rights attorney and former Malik added, “I think the goal right now is public defender, is African American and to ensure that a 21st-century prosecutor’s Native American. vision is implemented in the office,” saying she “We are the face of Queens,” Malik said. does not want to criminalize poverty, subShe said she would like to implement a con- stance abuse and mental health. viction review unit like the one in Brooklyn, She recalled the story of Jerome Murdough, where there was one person on the unit a homeless Marine veteran who was s v n when she came in to work with DA Ken sleeping in the stairwell of a f o e t es found ue Thompson before it was developed. public housing building and arrestQ “It would entail staffing it with ed. He couldn’t make bail and was people who are really interested in kept at Rikers Island, where he the work and really interested in died because of a heating malfunclooking at these decades-old cases, tion in his room. or maybe more recent cases, where Speaking of Rikers Island, Malik people have claims of wrongful convicbelieves it should be closed and those 201 9 tions and really having somebody there in custody should be in “humane who is dedicated to look at these cases from a conditions.” fresh perspective with an objective eye,” Malik “Rikers Island is certainly not a place where said. I would want to be, or any of my family memShe also worked for the DC Public Defender bers to be,” she said. “It is a very violent place, Service as a criminal investigator, focusing on the conditions are atrocious and it certainly crimes in which poor people were accused and shouldn’t be a place where any human being couldn’t afford attorneys. should be.” Malik wants to end cash bail for low-level Malik noted the difficulty for family and offenses, noting that DC abolished it in 1992. friends of the incarcerated to even make it to “The whole idea behind that is to make sure the island and pointed to studies showing less

Mina Malik speaks to the Chronicle about her background and her campaign for Queens disPHOTO BY DAVID RUSSELL trict attorney. recidivism among those who are closer to their network and support system. She also wouldn’t want to prosecute lowlevel marijuana users, though she clarified that possession with intent to distribute is different from minor possession for personal consumption. continued on page 19

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Activists: Drop cop-death murder count Protest outside DA’s office by Michael Shain Editor

A community group from Southeast Queens is challenging the decision to charge two men allegedly involved in the robbery that led to the friendly fire death of a veteran detective with murder. In a blustery wind, about a dozen people picketed outside the Queens District Attorney’s Office in Kew Gardens last Monday with posters that read “Drop Murder Charges” and “Don’t Shift the Blame. Convict Who Aimed.” The young daughter of Jagger Freeman, indicted last week as the alleged lookout in the robbery, clutched a sign that said “Have Mercy on My Father.” N Y PD D e t e c t ive B r i a n Simonsen was killed Feb. 12 in Richmond Hill responding to a police call about a robbery in progress. Simonsen was shot by other police officers at the scene firing at a suspect, Christopher Ransom, who was allegedly wielding what turned out to be a fake gun.

Ransom and Freeman have both been charged with felony murder as well as the robbery and are being held without bail. Felony murder law stipulates that any death during the commission of a felony is firstdegree murder, and that all participants in the crime can be charged with murder whether or not they caused the homicide directly. “I know this is not a popular thing to do,” said Kenny Carter of the group called FAITH — for Fathers Alive in the Hood — which called the protest. “But people have to make a stand. This is not right.” Four police cars from the 102nd Precinct, where Simonsen worked for his entire 19-year career, were stationed a comfortable distance away from the protesters. Carter noted that a new DA will likely be in office by the time the case comes to trial some time next year. The current prosecutor, Richard Brown, is set to step down this year. Carter said he hoped a new

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This young girl, identified as Kaysi Freeman, daughter of Jagger Freeman, the accused lookout in the T-Mobile robbery, stood outside the Queens DA Office with her mother during a small protest this week. PHOTO BY MICHAEL SHAIN

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MTA sets new fares; shakeups promised Congestion pricing central to plan backed by de Blasio and Cuomo by Michael Gannon Editor

Things at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority have been moving faster than any of its bus or rail lines since Monday afternoon. The MTA Board on Wednesday voted to keep the base fare for a MetroCard at $2.75 as part of a budget plan that will go into effect beginning next month. Parat ransit r ides also will remain at $2.75, but MetroCard users will lose the bonus that now kicks in with purchases of $5.50 or more. The price of a weekly unlimited card will increase to $33, with a monthly card increasing to $127. Both hikes will go into effect on April 21. Drivers using the Throgs Neck and Whitestone bridges, the Queens Midtown Tunnel and other MTA crossings will begin paying $9.50 for a one-way trip or $6.12 for those with an E-ZPass effective March 31. The vote came one day af ter Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio released a 10-point plan that at least on paper will reorganize the MTA internally from top to bottom in order to reduce costs. The plan also calls for implementing congestion pricing on vehicles entering

SIngle fares on buses and trains will remain at $2.75, but weekly and monthly MetroCard users PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON — and drivers — will be digging a little deeper this spring. Midtown or Downtown Manhattan and using tax money anticipated from legalized marijuana, internet sales taxes and other streams to add vital revenue to the MTA’s coffers. MTA Acting Chairman Fernando Ferrer,

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Mayor offers placard plan continued from page 12 and traffic agents would be forced to write tickets in circumstances where scanners would not come into play, such as an employe using a vest, baseball cap or union card in the dashboard to avoid a ticket when parked illegally outside of a placard enforcement zone, de Blasio and city officials at the press conference mostly restated the case for stickers and scanners. Last week, however, Council Speaker Corey Johnson (D-Manhattan) called placard abuse “corruption, plain and simple” in supporting five bills aimed at the problem. One by Councilman Bob Holden (D-Middle Village) would require law enforcement to call for a tow truck any time a vehicle is blocking a sidewalk, fire hydrant, crosswalk, bike lane or bus lane. Legislation from Councilman Peter Koo (D-Flushing) would establish a plan for the provision and use of placards, including criteria for their distribution and retention; an assessment of how many are necessary; and steps to curb unnecessary distribution. Other bills would: • require at least 50 targeted enforcement sweeps per week, monitored by the city Department of Investigation, with locations determined by 311 complaints; enforcement actions would

have to be photographed; • prohibit city vehicles from blocking a fire hydrant, crosswalk, sidewalk or bike lane unless it is an emergency; • require 311 to accept complaints and photographs of placard abuse; and • increase the maximum penalty for use of an unauthorized or fraudulent placard from the existing $250 to $1,250, along with no more than 30 days in jail or both. Johnson, in an email from his office on Monday, welcomed the mayor’s interest in changes, if not his specific plan. “The Council is thrilled the Mayor has seen the light on placard abuse and we are very much looking forward to working with him to remove this scourge from our streets once and for all,” he said. “We urge him to support our two packages of bills addressing this issue that together make up the strongest and most comprehensive attempt to rein in placard abuse Q in city history.”

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in a statement issued by the agency on Wednesday, said the new fare structure and tolls are expected to bring in $366 million in additional revenue. “This additional funding is critically i mpor t a nt to the M TA but it is not enough to allow us to fund our capital plan or close our operating deficit,” Ferre r sa id . “ We’ve se e n d r a m at ica l ly improved perfor mance of our system recently and in order to keep that up we are making major internal reforms, seeking additional recurring revenues from our state and city partners, and urging the legislature to pass the gover nor’s congestion pricing proposal.” H ig h l ig h t s of t h e 10 - p oi n t pl a n include: • combining many redundant operations of the NYC Transit Authority, Long Island Rail Road, MetroNorth, MTA Bus and Staten Island Railway to streamline middle management and reduce costs; • adopting congestion pricing and placing the funds into what is promised to be the legendary lockbox dedicated to MTA capital needs; • moving to “design-build” contracts on major construction work; • strengthening internal reviews in the contracting and procurement process; and • fast-tracking the 10-year Subway Improvement Plan. T he MTA also will t r y st r uct u ral design changes to reduce fare-beating — which the agency says costs it $215 million per yea r — but it will not be criminalized. De Blasio, in a statement from his office on Tuesday, said the city and state do not have a moment to lose. “T he proposal we’re a n nou nci ng today add resses concer ns I’ve raised related to a lockbox for transit, fairness to the outer boroughs and accommodating hardships,” he said. “I still believe a

Millionaires Tax provides the best, most sustainable revenue source for the transit improvements our city needs. But the time to act is running out, and among all alternatives, congestion pricing has the g reatest prospect s for i m med iate success.” Assemblyman David Weprin (D-Fresh Meadows) on Tuesday remained less than enthused about congestion pricing. “I am happy to see that the Governor’s and Mayor’s new agreement for funding the MTA includes two additional new revenue st reams but still oppose the imposition of congestion pricing as it eliminates a 100 year plus alternative for middle class drivers and small business to get into Manhattan without paying a fee,” Weprin said in an email. He also is wary of a plan to cede all f ut u re toll set ting to the Tr iborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority. “As such, I cannot support a plan that asks New Yorkers to hand over an even larger percentage of their paychecks to the MTA and plan to continue to oppose this rehashed congestion pricing proposal,” Weprin said. John Raskin, executive director of the Riders Alliance, said in an email that he is pleased with the increased momentum for better transit funding. He said the Legislature now must get on board. “The agreement ref lects a growing recognition that congestion pricing alone won’t solve the transit crisis, but that it is the single largest source of revenue on the table and should be the cornerstone of a bigger funding package,” Raskin said. “The transit crisis is urgent and it won’t go away without billions of dollars to upgrade equipment and modernize the transit system. The gover nor and the mayor are on board; transit riders are looking to our representatives in the state legislature to do their part.” The Citizens Budget Commission, in a statement n Tuesday, called the Cuomode Blasio agreement positive progress, though it expressed concern that legalized marijuana and an internet sales tax are not yet codified into law. The CBC statement also said labor costs must be addressed in addressing cost containment. “Critical to those efforts will be the participation of labor and increased prod u c t i v i t y b y a l l s e g m e n t s of t h e workforce.” The MTA said Wednesday it plans to slash vendors’ and contractors’ hourly r at es by 10 percent , t houg h by t he Ch ronicle’s deadline on Wed nesd ay, C uomo’s of f ic e wou ld not d i r e c tly address repeated questions about possible savings that could be found in internal labor costs, such as bargaining with unions, beyond references to the streamlining of middle management and the increased oversight of contracting and Q procurement.

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The first time St. John’s and Seton Hall met this season, the Pirates hit a buzzer beater after a controversial call by the referees gave them another chance. The Red Storm didn’t want it to come down to that again, jumping out to a stunning 28-5 lead in a 78-70 win on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden. “It was definitely payback,” said Shamorie Ponds, who scored 27 points. “We always kept in the back of our mind what they did at the end of the game to us so we just wanted to put our foot on their neck early.” “The crowd’s been phenomenal for us,” said head coach Chris Mullin. “And it’s been, for me, exciting for the players. They made that happen as they’ve gotten better.” It was the 20th win of the season for the Johnnies as they look bound for the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2015. That was Steve Lavin’s final season as head coach before Mullin came back to Utopia Parkway, where he had thrilled fans in the 1980s and became the greatest player in the history of the school.

Virtually every contributing player on the 2015 team graduated or left school, leading to an 8-24 record in Mullin’s first season on the sidelines. Then came a 14-19 season. Last season, the team started 11-2 before losing 11 straight and staggering to a 16-17 record. But now comes a 20-win season. “It’s all about progress,” Mullin said. “Nobody pitches a perfect game in basketball. I think we’ve made steady progress, even within this game. That’s the beauty about sports.” The crowds at Madison Square Garden haven’t been this excited for several years and the last few home games have drawn at least 18,500 fans. “I’ve always preached to them about the history and tradition of St. John’s and they take that very serious,” Mullin said. “It’s nice to see as we progressed the crowds have progressed. That’s a tribute to the players.” One of the difference makers over the last two seasons is Marvin Clark II. The forward spent two seasons at Michigan State,

Shamorie Ponds, left, and Marvin Clark II talk to the media after the Red Storm defeated Seton Hall 78-70 at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night. It’s the fourth time this decade St. PHOTO BY DAVID RUSSELL John’s has won 20 games in a season. even playing in the 2015 Final Four with the Spartans but came to Queens in the hopes of more playing time. In his final home game at MSG, he scored 18 points and hauled in six rebounds. “I think what I’m going to take away from it most is just the fan base, Red Storm Nation, my teammates, my coaching staff,” Clark said. “Those are the three things that I’m going to take away from this the most. Really the fan base though. “Since I’ve come to this university, you know I didn’t come here as a freshman, I transferred in, so I was already an outsider and

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I felt like my coaching staff, teammates and the fan base has done an amazing job in making this a second home for me. For that, I am truly grateful and I can never thank everyone enough.” Ponds said the team wanted to make sure Clark would go out a winner as the home schedule at MSG ended. “Basically, it was his last game at the Garden,” Ponds said. “We just wanted to give it our all for Marvin. We appreciate everything he did for us. That was the main factor. Not going out on a bad note in his last game at the Q Garden.”

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Rikers, cash bail topics of DA forum Six candidates make their case to replace Richard Brown next year by David Russell Associate Editor

All of the candidates at Monday night’s forum in Jackson Heights hoping to replace Queens District Attorney Richard Brown are for the closing of Rikers Island. But they have different plans for what comes after that. Tiffany Caban said the mayor’s timeline of closing it in 2027 and replacing it with four borough-based jails, including one in Kew Gardens, is too long. She said there is a need to battle against the “prison industrial complex.” “When we build new cages, we fill them,” Caban said. She said the focus should be on a system of transitional housing, and the majority of the current Rikers population are people in pretrial detention for nonviolent offenses or are serving sentences of three months or less for misdemeanors and removing them would bring the incarceration numbers down by 60 to 70 percent. Councilman Rory Lancman (D-Fresh Meadows) said he was proud to be an early supporter of the campaign to close Rikers, saying it’s one of the most important criminal justice issues in the city. He called Rikers “irredeemably violent” and “dystopian” Tiffany Caban, left, Borough President Melinda Katz, Councilman Rory Lancman, Betty Lugo, Mina Malik and Jose Nieves make and supports the borough- based jail plan, adding that it their cases to be the next Queens district attorney at a forum for the candidates on Monday in Jackson Heights. PHOTO BY DAVID RUSSELL should’ve been in all five boroughs. said. “Yes, they may happen on school grounds but they are Betty Lugo wants to close Rikers but would split it into where authorities could find him or her. Malik noted that Washington, DC got rid of bail in 1992 crimes that are happening within a school that people “10 or so” buildings on the island, with some for nonviolent and that a recent study found 94 percent of defendants were expect to be protected.” offenders and others for violent offenders. She added that legally leaving cases to the Department “What would be so difficult to keep it on Rikers Island released and 88 percent returned to every court appearand just split up the buildings? Do not bring them back into ance. Malik also said people should be released with the of Education is a bad idea, “because they can barely educate our youth. So they’re also going to prosecute crimes?” least amount of restrictions necessary. the community,” Lugo said. “Absolutely not.” Malik said the issue falls strictly within juvenile justice “Sometimes people fail to appear in court because of Mina Malik called Rikers an “abomination” that should be closed. She recommended the crowd look at the Nordic their life circumstances,” she said. “Simply because they reform. “I firmly believe children should be treated like chilmodel of jails used in Sweden. She wouldn’t answer if Kew forget because they have so much going on, whether it’s Gardens was a good spot, saying only that there needs to because of their jobs, whether it’s because they have child- dren,” she said. care issues. People have lives and people get busy.” Malik said that studies show the brain is not fully be more community input on the issue. She also mentioned Uptrust, a text messaging service developed until a person is 25 years old and children are Jose Nieves said he’s in favor of closing it because he more likely to take risks and not think of consequences. walked the tiers of its facilities when he worked in the New that works with attorneys, allowing them to reach clients. Nieves would end bail for misdemeanors and nonviolent She added that she worked on antitruancy programs in York City Department of Correction. Washington, DC to make sure that students were going “It’s an atmosphere of violence,” he said, adding that felonies. “I will end cash bail because I think it’s wrong for an to school. many people there should be diverted into programs for individual to sit in jail simply because they cannot buy Nieves said when he walks into Franklin K. Lane High drug issues, mental illness and helping youth. School in Brooklyn, it feels like Rikers Island because of However, he doesn’t think a new building that’s three their freedom,” he said. Nieves said there are other methods to ensuring all the blue uniforms and metal detectors. times the size of the old Kew Gardens facility is needreturn including bonds. “It stopped being a school and became an institution,” he said. ed, saying that the existing structure could be used Caban said, “How you do it matters because said as district attorney, he also wouldn’t proseonce it’s revamped and reinstituted as a lockup. s v n o tes when you end cash bail you create a system of cuteNieves ee low-level offenses by children, saying it has a negative Borough President Melinda Katz arrived u Q what we call demand and release.” effect on the kids. after much of the discussion. Candidate Greg She said changes can end up increasing the “We need to stop criminalizing our youth,” he said. Lasak didn’t appear. jail population, observing that some candiCaban said students should be diverted from the crimiOn the subject of bail, Lancman was direct. dates only want bail for some crimes but tak- nal justice system and that violent behavior in youths “We are not going to ask for cash bail,” he ing a package from a building is burglary in should be treated as a public health issue. said. “Ever. Period. End of story.” the second degree, and someone who does that “By putting them in the criminal justice system, you’re He said the policy would benefit people being 201 9 should not need bail either. Caban added that disrupting their education,” she said. held who cannot pay bail. communities of color have been negatively impacted Caban said there should be tools to support students and “Every person sitting on Rikers Island because they cannot come up with $500 or $5,000, they’re sitting and that once someone is out help should be given in sup- that communities can invest in art programs, extra teacher plying them with cell phones and MetroCards. aides and afterschool programs. there because they’re poor,” Lancman said. When it comes to school safety, Lancman said he wants Katz said she worked with programs pertaining to vioExpanding supervised release would be an alternative to make sure people show up to their court dates, according to to break the “school to prison pipeline.” The 1987 graduate lence intervention in communities. of Hillcrest High School recalled going back five years “It does need guidance counselors,” she said. “It needs Lancman. “There’s a real divide in this race that you need to pay later to teach a class and seeing metal detectors and cops, people who have made it out, who have made good, who attention to,” he said. “If you really commit to eliminating making him feel like he was going to a prison. He called it have gotten out of jail and are earning a living and areearning a living and supporting their families, to come back cash bail, it can’t just be misdemeanors and nonviolent fel- a “shocking experience.” “We are not going to prosecute school fights, school into our schools to show that there are other choices.” onies. It needs to be eliminating cash bail across the vandalism and relatively minor offenses that happen in the She also wants to show teenagers that they can feel as board.” safe not picking up a gun as they could picking up a gun. Lugo said low-level offenses have to be reviewed with school setting,” Lancman said. Lugo said there shouldn’t be police officers in schools “I can’t think of anything more horrible than living in a each case being looked at individually. but there should be school safety officers. She recalled community and not feeling safe,” Katz said. “And going to “Everyone has to be treated exactly the same,” she said. Lugo recommended getting the community involved, guys turning out the lights in music class and chasing girls a school and not feeling safe.” The Democratic primary will be held on June 25. such as having a priest or family member sign for a person around and feeling them up, as well as other incidents in District Attorney Richard Brown took office in 1991. He when he or she is released. If the person doesn’t return, the which students beat up teachers. Q “Those are crimes that have to be prosecuted,” Lugo announced that he will not be seeking re-election. one who signed would pay a fine or give information on

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MoMI tours take you behind the scenes with

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Jim Henson’s creations

and “The Muppet Show.” The shape and composition of his head, Garcia said, were chosen deliberately by Henson in the early days as it allowed him to give Kermit the facial expressions for which he would become so beloved. Garcia said Henson and his wife, St. Albans native Jane Ann Nebel Henson, were constantly experimenting in order to improve their puppets and puppetry in general, appearing on talk shows and variety shows like “The Jimmy Dean Show” and “The Steve Allen Show,” as well as commercials. continued on page 27

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A large-screen video montage in Astoria’s Museum of the Moving Image succeeds in doing what might be considered impossible — accurately summarizing the life’s work of Muppet creator Jim Henson in a fast-paced 2 minutes, 42 seconds. Walk beyond the screen into the permanent exhibit and one can breeze through or linger over old friends like Kermit the Frog and the Fraggles along with old commercials and talk show appearances. But people can also take a guided tour on Saturdays, with MoMI personnel giving details and history that might otherwise elude a museum goer. And the best part is that learning how Henson and his army of puppeteers, actors, writers and technicians pulled off their tricks doesn’t make the exhibition any less magical. The price of the ticket includes standard admission to the entire museum. Any tour of the Henson exhibit takes someone who is a storyteller. Devin Garcia, who has worked at MoMI for more than a year and in museums for eight, recently took a group of nine friends from as close as Queens and as far away as Phoenix. One of the first exhibits is that of a green puppet in a blonde wig on a TV variety show from the 1950s. “Look familiar?” Garcia asks, pointing to an early incarnation of what would morph into Kermit the Frog, whom Henson admitted was very much an alter ego. Later photos of Kermit show him without the green collar he eventually had on “Sesame Street” (“That’s filmed right next door,” Garcia said)

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W H AT ’ S H A P P E N I N G EXHIBITS

The Purple Xperience, a Prince cover band from his hometown of Minneapolis performing hits by the musical icon like “Little Red Corvette,” “When Doves Cry,” “Purple Rain” and more. Sat., March 2, 8 p.m., Colden Auditorium, Queens College, 153-49 Reeves Ave., Flushing. $20-$39 ($15 with discount code TOURISM). Info: (718) 793-0923, kupferbergcenter.org.

“Progression,” with works by 18 artists showing how street art has developed from exterior walls to inside art galleries. Through Fri., March 15, The Factory LIC, 30-30 47 Ave., Long Island City. Free. Info: (718) 392-0722, tessa@licartsopen.org, gallery@licartsopen.org.

Mwenso & The Shakes, with the troupe of global artists melding jazz and blues expression through African and Afro-American music. Sat., March 2, 7 p.m. (dance and groove workshop), 8 p.m. (concert), Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. $16; $10 students; free teens. Info: (718) 4637700, flushingtownhall.org.

“Bionic Me,” a multifaceted, interactive exhibit that lets participants fly a virtual jetpack, use the mind to move a ball, use gestures to control a robot arm, look through an infrared camera and more, all exploring technologies that “enhance the human experience.” Through Sun., May 5, New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Corona. Free with admission: $16; $13 seniors, kids, students with ID. Info: (718) 699-0005, nysci.org. “Conspiracy of Goodness: How French Protestants Saved Thousands of Jews During World War II,” about an isolated community, Le Chambon, that saved 3,500 Jews from Nazi Germany and Vichy France. Through Fri., May 24, Kupferberg Holocaust Center, Queensborough Community College, 222-05 56 Ave., Bayside. Free. Info: (718) 281-5770, qcc.cuny.edu/khrca. “Pairings,” with works that share a common thread; “L.I.Centric,” with portraits of figures in the community; “Towards Light & Color,” with works by painter Cecilia Andre; and “Fuxico,” with fabric flowers made in the Brazilian tradition. All through Sun., March 3, The Plaxall Gallery, 5-25 46 Ave., Long Island City. Free. Info: (347) 848-0030, licartists.org.

Let’s go crazy and party like it’s 1999! Prince cover band The Purple Xperience, led by Marshall Charloff as The Purple One himself, will rock Colden Auditorium Saturday night (we guess that makes it all right). See Music. COURTESY PHOTO

THEATRE “Lost in Yonkers,” Neil Simon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coming-of-age comic drama about teen brothers and the characters in their family, by Theatre By The Bay. Sat., March 2, 9 and 16, 8:30 p.m. (preshow entertainment 8 p.m.); Sun. March 3, 10 and 17, 3 p.m., Bay Terrace Garden Jewish Center, 1300 209 St. $23; $21 seniors 62 and over, kids 12 and under. Info: (718) 428-6363, theatrebythebayny.com.

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“Drawing the Line,” a retrospective on New York City graffiti from the ’80s to today’s street art culture. Every Mon. and Wed. 12-2 p.m. or by appointment, through Mon., March 11, Queens College Art Center, Rosenthal Library, 6th floor, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing. Free. Info: (718) 997-4803, artdept.qc.cuny.edu. “Distance,” with works on paper by dozens of alumni of the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture related to physical or metaphysical distance, including Nat Meade’s “Cry Drops.” Through Sun., Apr. 7, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, 11-03 45 Ave., Long Island City. Free. Info: (718) 937-6317, dorsky.org. “Gluteus Maximus,” with works by Omari Douglin that contemplate the female posterior with outlines of its shape in caulk lines that provide a thematic take on figuration and double as stick figures at play. Through Sat., March 30, Mrs., 60-40 56 Drive, Maspeth. Free. Info: (347) 841-6149, mrsgallery.com. “Banu Cennetoglu,” with objects, images, texts and more that contemplate the individual’s place within today’s geopolitics, and “In Practice: Other Objects,” with works by 11 artists and teams probing the interplay between objecthood and personhood. Through Mon., Mar. 25, SculptureCenter, 44-19 Purves St., Long Island City. $10 suggested; $5 students. Info: (718) 361-1750, sculpture-center.org.

Sat., March 9, 2 p.m., Forest Hills Library, 108-19 71 Ave. Free. Info: (631) 898-4205, (718) 268-7934. “The Congresswomen,” a tragicomic exploration about women wielding power and whether utopias can exist in the real world, drawn from Aristophanes’ “The Assemblywomen” of 391 BC, by the Queens College Drama, Theatre & Dance Dept. students. Thu.-Sun., Feb. 28-March 3 and March 7-10, varying times, The Performance Space, M11 at Rathaus Hall, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing. $18; $11 seniors, QC students. Info: (718) 544-2996, kupferbergcenter.org.

MUSIC

“It’s Only a Play,” a satirical behind-the-scenes look at members of a theater troupe awaiting their opening night reviews, by The Parkside Players, including Rich Feldman, left, and James Patrick Curran. Fri.-Sat., March 1-2, 8 p.m., Grace Lutheran Church, 103-15 Union Tpke., Forest Hills. $18; $15 seniors, students. Info: (718) 353-7388, parksideplayers.com.

Michela Musolino’s Metalli Sonanti, a performance weaving together ancient and modern melodies inspired by the ancestral sounds of Grecian, Roman, Byzantine and Arabian Sicily, with special guest Lynn Bechtold. Mon., March 4, 8-9 p.m., LIC Bar, 45-58 Vernon Blvd., Long Island City. Free (no cover). Info: (718) 786-5400, michelamusolino.com.

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“Spring Awakening,” an exploration of the teenage psyche examining morality and sexual politics, set in 1890s Germany. Thu.-Sun., March 7-10, 8 p.m.; Wed.Sun., March 20-24, 8 p.m.; Sun., March 10 and 24, 2 p.m., The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23 St., Long Island City. $22. Info: (718) 392-0722, secrettheatre.com. Rare early 20th-century one-act Broadway comedies, with Clare Beecher Kummer’s “The Robbery” and “The Choir Rehearsal,” and Irving Dale’s “Too Much Salt,” “Tickets Please!” and “The Way of a Woman,” all suitable for families, by the Woodside Players.

Jazz Jam, the monthly event led by saxophonist Carol Sudhalter, with all musicians and vocalists welcome to join in. Wed., March 6 (and each first Wed. of the month), 7-10 p.m., Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. Free to play or sing; $10 to listen; free students and teens. Info: (718) 463-7700, flushingtownhall.org. Global Mashup 1: Bollywood Meets Global Roots Blues, with Indian vocalist Falu’s quartet and multigenre band Hazmat Modine each performing separately and then together as the crowd dances. Sat., March 9, 7 p.m. (dance lessons), 8 p.m. (concert), Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. $16; $10 students; free teens. Info: (718) 463-7700, flushingtownhall.org.

DANCE “Latinx Homages” (“Homenajes Latinos”), a dance and music celebration of six of the best Latin singers, including Celia Cruz, Selena and Tito Puente, by Colombian dance company Cali Salsa Pal’ Mundo. Each Fri. and Sat., 8 p.m.; each Sun., 4 p.m., through March 10, Thalia Spanish Theatre, 41-17 Greenpoint Ave., Sunnyside. $45 advance; $48 at door; $42 advance, $40 at door seniors and students; $40 advance Fri. only; $37 students, seniors. Info: (718) 729-3880, thaliatheatre.org. Ballet Nepantla: “Sin Fronteras,” (“Without Borders”), an exploration of “the in-betweenness of cultures,” blending Mexican traditions, contemporary and classic ballet and West African dance; with live music. Sat., March 2, 8 p.m., Queens Theatre, 14 United Nations Ave. S., Flushing Meadows Corona Park. $20-$30. Info: (718) 760-0064, queenstheatre.org.

FILM Nefesh Mountain: bluegrass with timeless Jewish themes, with Alan Grubner, left, Doni Zasloff, Eric Lindberg and Tim Kiah performing their family-friendly blend of old-time American music and Jewish heritage. Sun., March 10, 12:30 p.m., Forest Hills Jewish Center, 106-06 Queens Blvd. (entrance on 69 Road). $10; $25 a family with kids under 18. Info: Zhanna, (718) 263-7000, ext. 200, fhjc.org, nefeshmountain.com. COURTESY PHOTO

Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures, a series celebrating the screenwriter’s work with five films each showing once, including “Notorious” and “Twentieth Century.” Fri.-Sun., March 1-3, various times, Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria. $15; $11 seniors, students; $9 kids 3-17; includes museum admission. Info: (718) 777-6888, movingimage.us. continued on page 28

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Walking into Emmett Wigglesworth’s new exhibit at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, you get hit with a burst of color, lights and music that makes you think of a festival, with bright shades of blue, green, pink, red with sunset orange and undertones of yellow. The exhibit features two large murallike paintings on opposite sides of the room with standing sculptures in front of them. Around the room are several portrait paintings that Wigglesworth says display people from around the world. The standing artworks are in the shape of musicians as they play instruments ranging from saxophones and trumpets on one side of the room to a conga drum on the

other side. The exhibit, titled “Music ... To Make You See” is incorporated with the music and lights. The works are illuminated and rotate to music transitioning from jazz to R&B (if they are not moving when a visitor comes to JCAL, a staffer will turn them on). Wigglesworth said some notable artists’ music like that of Freddie King, Packrat’s Smokehouse and Marvin Gaye is featured. “The whole idea is that the arts are the key,” Wigglesworth said about the reasoning behing his exhibit. “Everything you see is part of the arts. If we don’t present the arts to our kids, then they are not allowed to release their creative energies and they become programmable by the society that wants to make them whatever it deems they should be.” Wigglesworth is hoping to use his new exhibit at the JCAL as another tool for his activism. The two large murals seemed to take over the entire exhibit but the smaller portraits have larger significance representing social issues. For example, a portrait painting titled “A stranger in need ... They

‘Music ... To Make You See’ When: Through Tue., April 30 Where: Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, 161-04 Jamaica Ave. Entry: Free. (718) 658-7400, jcal.org

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Artist and civil rights activist Emmett Wigglesworth with some of his large, colorful PHOTO BY ANGEL ADEGBESAN works that are now illuminated and rotate to music. passed him by ... Running ... Why? except for one ... The last did try ... did I? ... Did you” is a representation of the homeless living on the street. “I watch people, and I’m guilty myself sometimes, walk by people out on the street sitting there, and it’s not that I expect everybody to try to help,” Wigglesworth

said. “But the point that I’m making is that even if you can’t, if they don’t accept the help directly, there are things that you can do within the society. There are agencies that take care of people and you’ve got to ensure that they do it properly because that’s what (the homeless) need.” continued on page 29

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Funny things happen on the way to the finale by Mark Lord qboro contributor

Ready to laugh? You’re in luck, as the community theater spring season gets underway, with more than a fair share of comedies promised over the next few weeks, along with a couple of musical entertainments that are sure to add to the lighthearted atmosphere. Already on the boards is the Parkside Players’ rendering of Terrence McNally’s “It’s Only a Play,” a satirical behind-the-scenes look at a Broadway opening night, as a producer, director, playwright and other eccentric characters eagerly await the reviews. The ensemble cast, under the direction of Bernard Bosio, consists of Rich Feldman, Tim Reifschneider, Faith Elliott, James Patrick Curran, Virginia Harmon, Dean Schildkraut and Matt Frenzel. (For a review of the show, see last week’s Queens Chronicle or visit qchron.com.) Remaining performances at Grace Lutheran Church (103-15 Union Tpke., Forest Hills) are on March 1 and 2 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $18; $15 seniors, students. More: Visit parksideplayers.com or call (718) 353-7388. Closing night of “It’s Only a Play” also marks the opening of “Lost in Yonkers,” Neil Simon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning hit coming to Theatre By The Bay in Bayside. The play, set in 1942, in which circumstances force two teenage boys to move in with their strict grandmother in the title

town, offers a serious and often touching look at a dysfunctional extended family, while Simon’s signature sense of humor is on ample display. Heading the cast, under the direction of Patty Valenti, are Rosemary Kurtz as nononsense Grandma Kurnitz; Heidi Weinrich as the boys’ mentally slow aunt, Bella, who longs for a family of her own; and Michael Beaury as Bella’s brother Louie, a henchman for gangsters. The ensemble also features Michael McBride, Useemit Channan, Michael Chimenti and Patrice Valenti. Performances at Bay Terrace Garden Jewish Center (1300 209 St.) are on March 2, 9 and 16 at 8:30 p.m. and March 3, 10 and 17 at 3 p.m. Free pre-show 1940s-style entertainment (with period treats) begins each Saturday night at 8 p.m. Tickets: $22; $20 seniors (62 and up), children (12 and under). More: Visit theatrebythebayny.com or call (718) 428-6363. Two weeks later, beginning on March 16, Maggie’s Little Theater takes a look at life onstage and backstage as it presents “Noises Off,” British playwright Michael Frayn’s slapstick comedy. Hilarity is sure to ensue as actors deal with poorly timed entrances, missed cues and bothersome props, including several plates of sardines. Erik Neilssen directs a cast of nine: Lisa Bondi, Miriam Denu, Gary Ducoing, Danielle

The cast of “Noises Off” — Danielle Fleming, left, Paul Mastrella, Mark York, Stephanie Sands, Thom Harmon, Angus McLean, Miriam Denu, Lisa Bondi and, on the floor, Gary Ducoing — stays true to the slapstick nature of the show, being staged by Maggie’s Little Theater, at a recent rehearsal.

The Gingerbread Players’ “Shrek: The Musical” features Zachary Mercado in the title role PHOTOS BY MARK LORD and James Chamberlain as his faithful sidekick, Donkey. Fleming, Thom Harmon, Paul Mastrella, Angus McLean, Stephanie Sands and Mark York. Performances at St. Margaret Parish Hall (66-05 79 Place, Middle Village) are on March 16, 23, and 29 at 8 p.m. and March 17, 24 and 31 at 2: 30 p.m. Tickets: $20; $18 seniors, children (11 and under) More: Visit maggieslittletheater.org or call (917) 579-5389. The first musical of the spring season, “Shrek: The Musical,” featuring music by Jeanine Tesori and book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire, arrives on March 30, courtesy of The Gingerbread Players of Forest Hills. All the popular characters from the animated film come to life on stage, as Shrek, the shockingly green hero, an ogre with abandonment issues (to be played by Zachary Mercado), and his loyal steed Donkey (James Chamberlain) set off on a quest to rescue the beautiful Princess Fiona (Kellie Gordon) from her tower. Also sure to be on hand are the vertically challenged Lord Farquaad (Ronan Finley) and a love-sick dragon (Terri Bonica-Matassov). Direction is by Jean Tessier. Musical director is Lulu Chen, with choreography provided by Bonica-Matassov. Performances at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church (85 Greenway South, Forest Hills) are on March 30 and April 5 at 7:30 p.m. and March 30 and 31 and April 6 and 7 at 2:30 p.m. Tickets: $15; $12 each for groups of six or more. More: Visit gingerbreadplayers.org or call

(718) 268-7772. Beginning May 10, Douglaston Community Theatre offers the rarely performed “Catch Me If You Can,” a comic mystery not to be confused with the film of the same name. Written by Jack Weinstock, Willie Gilbert and Robert Thomas, the play concerns the sudden disappearance of a new bride and a couple of murders at an isolated lodge. The production, directed by Bernard Bosio, features Terri Bonica-Matassov, Frank Freeman, Roger Gonzalez, George Greenfield, Jef Lawrence, Chris Murtha and Jillian Smith. Performances at Zion Church Parish Hall (243-01 Northern Blvd., Douglaston) are on May 10, 11, 17 and 18 at 8 p.m. and May 11 and 19 at 2 p.m. Tickets: $19, $17 seniors and students. More: visit dctonline.org or call (718) 482-3332. Arriving the same weekend, for two shows only, is a Disney musical revue called “Beyond a Dream Come True,” the latest offering from Royal Star Theatre of ICC. An intergenerational cast will perform this original concept piece that explores the labels we put on each other and ourselves. Expect lots of pixie dust! Direction is by Anne Marie Cahill; musical direction is by Paul Johnson; and choreography is by Gabriella Marchese. Performances will take place at Immaculate Conception Parish Hall (86-45 Edgerton Blvd., Jamaica) on May 10 at 8 p.m. and May 11 at 2 p.m. Tickets: $15 More: Visit royalstartheatre. Q org or call (516) 521-5500.

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continued from page 23 “Rowlf the Dog was originally the spokesman for Purina Dog Chow,” he said. Under a nearby glass case is Delbert, the good-natured dragon who pitched La Choy Chinese food in the 1960s. The talk shows and commercials gained the Muppet brand more exposure and popularity. “And also made money,” Garcia said. “But Jim Henson also worked very closely with the writers on the shows to improve his own comedy writing. He was always looking to improve.” And while everyone thinks they know their favorite Muppets, most of the stars were not alike. One exhibit features the

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Cookie Monster, whose arms and mouth are operated by two puppeteers with their hands and arms inside. Next to him is the smaller Elmo, whose arms are operated from outside by metal rods by the puppet master working his mouth. “Then there is Big Bird,” Garcia said pointing to the left of the case, to the Muppet that actually was an elaborate costume worn by actor Carroll Spinney for 49 years. But at the very right is Prairie Dawn, a small girl in a dress, one of the “Anything Muppets” that could be created and recreated as another character quickly. “As the movies got more elaborate, they needed characters to appear in the background who would never be seen again,” Garcia said. “They needed extras, just like the movies.” The tour, which takes about 45 minutes, also touches on some of the experimental film work Henson did. Attention to the tiniest detail and ever-increasing sophistication in technology are on display throughout, particularly with the exhibits for “The Dark Crystal” in 1982 and “Labyrinth” in 1986.

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Muppets both complex and at their simplest at the Jim Henson Exhibiton. On the cover: Kermit and Jim Henson with his beloved Fraggles. PHOTOS BY THANASSI KARAGEORGIOU / MOMI; EXCEPT COVER INSET, COURTESY THE JIM HENSON CO. / MOMI

“They say ‘The Dark Crystal’ was a multimillion dollar rehearsal for ‘Labyrinth,’” Garcia said. A film shown after the tour shows how one character in “Labyrinth” requires 18 motors in the head alone to move eyes and create facial expressions, an actress inside the costume and four puppeteers off camera working remote control devices.

And while many movie directors create scale models to help them plot out scenes, Garcia pointed to the one on display for Kermit’s nuptials to Miss Piggy in 1984’s “The Muppets Take Manhattan.” The church pews lay out where each character would be sitting —and below the floor, where each puppeteer would be Q standing.

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I HAVE OFTEN WALKED

He protected babies but now faces a murder rap by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

In the early 1930s, baby accidents and deaths were more commonplace in America. Laws did not protect children like they do now. But that didn’t stop inventors Alfred E. Puls and Edward Swenson of Cleveland, Ohio from leading where others had not. From 1935 to 1954, they filed and were granted 10 different patents for folding chairs and tables to keep babies and toddlers safe. Originally called Metropolis Bending Co., their firm was renamed “Babee Tenda” in 1943 when they invented a safety feeding table that was tumble-proof, square and solidly balanced. After World War II, with the baby boom in full swing, they entered the Queens market on a 44-by-99-foot lot at 84-14 Queens Blvd. in Elmhurst. By 1951 the company had sold 500,000 units nationwide. Their No. 1 salesman, David Jungerman, eventually bought the company and amassed a $33 million fortune. In 2017, Jungerman made front-page news when he was charged with murder for allegedly shooting to death Missouri

Babee Tenda, 84-14 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst, August 1950. attorney Thomas Pickert. Pickert had won a $5.75 million judgement against Jungerman on behalf of a homeless man shot by the millionaire, who suspected him of stealing copper. Babee Tenda shut down last year. Its website says the company sold more than 10 million safety feeding table units. Paperwork was filed with the city last year to put a seven-story, 19-unit building at the business’ former Queens location. Jungerman helped keep babies safe, but Q his future doesn’t look too safe.

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KIDS/FAMILIES West African Rhythms Drop-in Workshop, with dancing, the making of masquerade masks for Mardi Gras and storytelling; recommended for ages 4 and up. Sun., March 3, 1:30-4:30 p.m. (storytelling on the half-hour), Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Free. Info: (718) 592-9700, queensmuseum.org. Hands-on History: Make (and Eat!) 19thcentury waffles, with participants making them the old-fashioned way; recommended for ages 3 and up but adults welcome too. Sat., March 2, 1-4 p.m., King Manor Museum, 150-03 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica. Free. Info: (718) 206-0545, kingmanor.org.

CLASSES/WORKSHOPS Writing From the Heart: an eight-week workshop in creative writing, for those who want to start or improve their writing in a supportive atmosphere, with author and longtime Queens College instructor Maxine Fisher; and participants attending any or all remaining classes. Each Sat., through March 30, 12 p.m., Maspeth Library, 69-70 Grand Ave. Free. Info: (718) 6395228, queenslibrary.org. French for beginners, a 10-week group learning experience using Transparent Language Online; Queens Library card and computer, tablet or smartphone required. Each Sat., March 2-May 11 (except April 20), 11 a.m.-12 p.m., Cambria Heights Library, 218-13 Linden Blvd. Free. Info/registration (required): (718) 528-3535. PHOTO BY TRISTAN NITOT / WIKIPEDIA

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SPECIAL EVENTS 12th Annual Panorama Challenge, a trivia game with teams of players being quizzed on all things New York City, centered on the Panorama model, with food and beverages available for purchase. Fri., March 1, 6-9 p.m., Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park. $15 advance; $20 at door. Info: (718) 592-9700, queensmuseum.org. Ladies Clothing Swap, with women giving and taking gently used clothes, bags, accessories and jewelry and unused beauty products. Sun., March 3, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., QED, 27-16 23 Ave., Astoria. Free (food, beverage purchases encouraged). Info: (347) 451-3873, qedastoria.com.

SOCIAL EVENTS Mardi Gras Masquerade, the fun of New Orleans, with DJ, dancing, hot buffet, soft drinks, dessert included with admission (21plus BYOB). Sat., Mar. 2, 7-11 p.m., Msgr. Finnerty Parish Center, 195 St. and 45 Ave., Flushing. $35. Info: (718) 357-8888, stkevinflushing.org. Israeli folk dancing, with instruction for beginners, in a fun, welcoming atmosphere. Each Mon., 7:30 p.m. (beginners’ instruction); 8:30-10 p.m. (intermediate dances), Hillcrest Jewish Center, 183-02 Union Tpke., Fresh Meadows. $10. Info: (718) 380-4145, hillcrestjc.org.

MARKETS Richmond Hill, 117-09 Hillside Ave., every Sun., 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Largest flea market in Queens. Info: (347) 709-7661, richmondhillfleamarket.com.

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

Onderdonk House Candlelight Tours, with Duo Brasiliero, Richard Boukas and Gustavo Amarante, performing on guitar and bass as visitors walk through the home that dates to 1709; with light refreshments available. Sat., March 2, 6-9 p.m., 1820 Flushing Ave., Ridgewood. $5 adults. Info: (718) 456-1776, onderdonkhouse.org.

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

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African-American community. “I don’t really know if people will come in and see those things,” said Wigglesworth solemnly. “What I’m attempting to do is to expose certain things to people in such a way that they don’t feel repulsed by the reality of it and they look at it long enough to maybe ask a question and/or answer questions.” The exhibit is on display through April 30. From 7 to 9 p.m. on March 8, Wigglesworth will give a reading on his experiences traveling around a world — not the world, he specifies, because the writings are personal and about how the trip affected him, and how he tuned in to others’ thinking. Q

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee, on behalf of the registered holders of GSAMP Trust 2005-AHL, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-AHL, Plaintiff, -against- Scott Gordon, Esq., as Limited Administrator of the Estate of Larry Powell, Loretta Powell, as Heir to the Estate of Larry Powell, LaTiffany Powell, as Heir to the Estate of Larry Powell if living and if any be dead, any and all persons who are spouses, widows, grantees, mortgagees, lienor, heirs, devisees, distributees, or successors in interest of such of the above as may be dead, and their spouses, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors in interest, all of whom and whose names and places of residences are unknown to Plaintiff, LaTeria Powell, as Heir to the Estate of Larry Powell, LaCriesha Powell, as Heir to the Estate of Larry Powell, Keon Powell, as Heir to the Estate of Larry Powell and Larry Powell’s respective heirs-at-law, next-ofkin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors, and successors in interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said defendant who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, any right, title or interest in the real property described in the complaint herein, Mervis J. Gaboton a/k/a Mervis J. Gillispie, Jean B. Gaboton, US Bank National Association, as Trustee for the Structured Asset Securities Corporation Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Series 2005-S3, United States of America, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Criminal Court of the City of New York, New York City Environmental Control Board, New York City Parking Violations Bureau, New York City Transit Adjudication Bureau, Defendants. Index No.: 706573/2018, Filed: 2/14/2019. SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS. Plaintiff designates Queens County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises is situated. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your Answer or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance on the attorneys for the plaintiff within twenty (20) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; or within thirty (30) days after service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York; or within sixty (60) days if it is the United States of America. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $320,000.00 and interest, recorded in the office of the clerk of the County of Queens on March 21, 2005 in CRFN 2005000163943, covering premises known as 135-27 Brookville Boulevard, Rosedale, NY 11422. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: Bay Shore, New York, September 17, 2018, Frenkel, Lambert, Weiss, Weisman & Gordon, LLP, BY: Linda P. Manfredi, Attorneys for Plaintiff, 53 Gibson Street, Bay Shore, New York 11706, (631) 969-3100, Our File No.: 01-044330-F02

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continued from page 25 Wigglesworth, 84, is a muralist, painter, sculptor, fabric designer and poet who has been creating art for over 60 years. He began his activism for the civil rights movement around 1960, working with the Congress of Racial Equality Freedom School in Selma, Ala., and also taught art. He has lived in Jamaica for more than 20 years. Wigglesworth said his smaller paintings represent different things happening in the world that we, as a community, need to be more aware of. He wants his artwork to help educate the viewers about the social and economic problems society faces, especially in the

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS T. A., an infant by his father and natural guardian, KHAIRUL AMIN and KHAIRUL AMIN individually, Plaintiffs, -against- AHMED KUTUB, Defendants. Index No. 11104/2014 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE At an IAS Part 4 of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of Queens, located at 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, New York, on the 6th day of February, 2019. UPON the Affirmation of DONALD W. SWEENEY, ESQ. dated, January 17th, 2019 and the annexed exhibits, LET the Plaintiffs T. A., an infant by his father and natural guardian, KHAIRUL AMIN and KHAIRUL AMIN individually, or their attorney, show cause before this Court to be held at the courthouse thereof IAS Part 4 located at 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, NY, on March 12th, 2019, at 10AM in the forenoon of that day or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard, why an order shall not be entered pursuant to CPLR 1021, dismissing the complaint of the plaintiff, and for such other and further relief as may be just and proper. LET service of a copy of this order, together with the papers upon which it is based, by personal service upon the attorneys for the Plaintiffs, T. A., an infant by his father and natural guardian, KHAIRUL AMIN and KHAIRUL AMIN individually: HARMON, LINDER & ROGOWSKY, ESQS., and upon the Public Administrator of Queens County, on or before February 22nd, 2019 and upon the Estate of Ahmed Kutub by publication in two newspapers by March 1st, 2019, be deemed good and sufficient service. February 6th, 2019 Hon. Marguerite A. Grays For information call Donald W. Sweeney, Esq. at 516-877-5706

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PROBATE CITATION, SURROGATE’S COURT, QUEENS COUNTY, FILE: 2019-150, THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, by the Grace of God Free and Independent. To John Kelly, if living and if dead, to his heirs at law, next of kin and distributees whose names and places of residence are unknown and if he died subsequent to the decedent herein, to his executors, administrators, legatees, devisees, assignees and successors in interest whose name and places of residence are unknown and to all other heirs at law, next of kin, and distributees of Eugene Kelly, the decedent herein, whose names and places of residence are unknown and cannot be ascertained after due diligence. Rita Solomon, Guardian Ad Litem. A petition having been duly filed by Cornelius J. Kelly, residing at 32 Maple Avenue Ext., Bethel, Connecticut 06801. YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court of Queens County, at 88-11 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, New York, on April 11th, 2019, at 9:30 o’clock in the fore noon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of Eugene Kelly, a/k/a Gene Kelly and Eugene Francis Kelly lately domiciled at 143-10 20th Avenue, Whitestone, New York 11357, admitting to probate a Will dated March 5, 2013, a copy of which is attached, as the will of Eugene Kelly deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that Letters Testamentary issue to Cornelius J. Kelly. Hon. Peter J. Kelly, Surrogate, James Becker, Chief Clerk, Dated, Attested and Sealed February 6, 2019. Theresa E. Crowley, Attorney for Petitioner, 718-428-9180, 42-24 235th Street, Douglaston, New York 11363. Note: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you.

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Notice of Formation of MW GLOBAL MERCHANT LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/06/2018. 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: Michael A. Willis, 15723 129th Ave., Jamaica, NY 11434 Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

PARSONS HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/23/13. Latest date to dissolve: 12/31/2100. 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, c/o Harry Raptakis, Esq., P.O Box 504, Franklin Square, NY 11010. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 01-08-19, bearing Index Number NC-001133-18/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) ANGELICA (Middle) MAY (Last) CRISOSTOMO. My present name is (First) ANGELICA (Middle) MAY (Last) BUGGY AKA ANGELICA MAY CRISOSTOMO AKA ANGELICA CRISOSTOMO. The city and state of my present address are FLUSHING, NY. My place of birth is NORTH HEMPSTEAD, NY. The month and year of my birth are January 2000.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 01-28-19, bearing Index Number NC-001277-18/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) IRA (Middle) LEMARII (Last) STERNBURG (Seniority) I. My present name is (First) IRA (Last) HEASTON AKA IRA MICHEAL HEASTON AKA IRA M HEASTON AKA IRA HEASTON-STERNBERG. The city and state of my present address are Springfield Gardens, NY. My place of birth is SOUTHFIELD, MICHIGAN. The month and year of my birth are November 1986.

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS, Index No.: 7595/2018, Date Summons Filed: October 3, 2018. SUMMONS WITH NOTICE. Plaintiff designates Queens County as the place of trial. The basis of venue is Plaintiff’s residence. ANNIE M. KNIGHT, Plaintiff, against DONALD R. KNIGHT, Defendant. ACTION FOR DIVORCE. To the above named Defendant: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorneys within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within thirty (30) days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); and in case of your failure to appear, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the notice set forth below, Dated: October 3, 2018 Annie Ma, Esq., Fine, Olin & Anderman, LLP, Attorneys for Plaintiff, 39 Broadway, Suite 1910, New York, NY 10006, Tel: (646) 253-4772. NOTICE: The nature of this action is to dissolve the marriage between the parties, on the grounds: DRL Section 170 subd. (7) - the relationship between the Plaintiff and Defendant has broken down irretrievably for a period of at least six months. The relief sought is a judgment of absolute divorce in favor of the Plaintiff dissolving the marriage between the parties in this action. The nature of any ancillary or additional relief demanded is: That the parties do not require maintenance and no claim will be made by either party for maintenance. The Plaintiff is not seeking maintenance as payee as described in the Notice of Guideline Maintenance. That the parties do not require payment of counsel and experts’ fees and expenses. That the Plaintiff may resume the use of her maiden name, DELOATCH, or any other prior surname. That the Court grant such other and further relief as the Court may deem fit and proper. The parties have divided up the marital property, and no claim will be made by either party under equitable distribution. NOTICE OF AUTOMATIC ORDERS-PURSUANT TO DOMESTIC RELATIONS LAW Sec. 236, Part B, Section 2, THE PARTIES ARE BOUND BY CERTAIN AUTOMATIC ORDERS WHICH SHALL REMAIN IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT DURING THE PENDENCY OF THE ACTION. DRL 255 NOTICE CONCERNING HEALTH CARE COVERAGE-Please be advised that once a judgment of divorce is signed in this action, both parties must be aware that he or she will no longer be covered by the other party’s health insurance plan and that each party shall be responsible for his or her own health insurance coverage, and may be entitled to purchase health insurance on his or her own through a COBRA option, if available. NOTICE OF GUIDELINE MAINTENANCE – You are hereby given notice that under the Maintenance Guidelines Law (Chapter 269, Laws of 2015), there is an obligation to award the guideline amount of maintenance on income up to $184,000 to be paid by the party with the higher income (the maintenance payor) to the party with the lower income (the maintenance payee) according to a formula, unless the parties agree otherwise or waive this right. Depending on the incomes of the parties, the obligation might fall on either the Plaintiff or the Defendant in the action. FOR FURTHER DETAILS ON THESE NOTICES, YOU SHOULD CONTACT THE CLERK OF THE MATRIMONIAL PART, SUPREME COURT, QUEENS COUNTY, 88-11 Sutphin Blvd, Jamaica, NY 11435, Tel: (718) 298-0950. Notice of formation of GEN AND FAMILY LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York SSNY on 11/19/2018. Office location: QUEENS COUNTY. SSNY is designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC to NETWORK SOLUTION & Tax Consulting Inc., 105-16 JAMAICA AVE. RICHMOND HILL, NY 11418.

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