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Members of the JHS 226 community in South Ozone Park say they have had a bad experience with a school collocation in the past and now they’re facing another one, proposed for next year.

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PEP votes to close 2 boro high schools Collocations at Flushing, Newtown also approved at raucous meeting by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

he police officers and bodies in suits standing guard at the end of the auditorium aisles have become a familiar staple of late winter and early spring meetings of the Panel for Educational Policy in recent years. The policy-making arm of the city Department of Education decided the fates of dozens of city schools, including two high schools in Queens — Business, Computer Applications and Entrepreneurship; and Law, Government and Community Service — and voted on a slew of other new collocated schools, including new ones that will be placed in Flushing and Newtown high schools at a meeting Monday night at Brooklyn Technical High School. By a vote of 8-4, the PEP approved all of the changes. Seven of the votes came from mayoral appointees — the eighth member was absent — and one vote came from Staten Island representative Diane Peruggia. The two closing schools — both located at Campus Magnet Complex in Cambria Heights — will be phased out starting next year. A new high school focusing on English language learners will open in Newtown High School’s building and two new high schools, including one dedicated to Chinesespeaking students, will open in Flushing

Teachers, parents and other opponents of the Department of Education’s phaseout and collocation policy chant during the Panel for Educational Policy’s meeting in Brooklyn on Monday PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER

High School’s building next year, which will allow the DOE to decrease enrollment at Newtown and Flushing. The DOE had attempted to phase out both schools last year, but a lawsuit prevented it from moving forward with the plan. The four schools were the only ones in the

borough out of more than 50 citywide whose futures were decided Monday night. Most of the phaseouts and collocations were in Brooklyn and the Bronx. The six-and-a-half-hour meeting was calmer than many in past years, but did have a number of vociferous moments. Parents,

teachers and union officials were not coy about their frustrations and disapproval of the body’s decisions, not only those made Monday, but Mayor Bloomberg’s entire education policy. “You’ve had 12 years to fix our schools and you’ve failed!” scolded Michael Mendel, the United Federation of Teachers’ secretary. The real anger toward the board was less about its decision to close or collocate dozens of schools citywide this year specifically. Most were already resigned to that happening. At issue was the frustration with the Bloomberg administration’s policies on schools period, especially in his third term. “You don’t listen to us!” screamed one teacher repeatedly as Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott and Deputy Chancellor Marc Sternberg explained the DOE’s phaseout and collocation policies. Walcott said the department had done everything it could for the problem schools and that new collocated schools provide another option for students at failing institutions. He acknowledged there is strong opposition to the DOE’s idea, but defended it. “We know we can’t please all the people all of the time and that leads to the reaction we see in the audience tonight,” the chancellor said. Sternberg struggled to speak over the boos continued on page 33

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JHS 226 also eyed for new collocation City says South Ozone Park school can handle new influx of students by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

It won’t be closed, but JHS 226 is not happy about the city Department of Education’s plans for the building. The DOE is proposing to collocate a new school at the junior high located at 121-10 Rockaway Blvd. in South Ozone Park, and the decision is déjà-vu all over again for a school community that remembers a disastrous experience with collocations a decade ago. In 2003, a high school annex was collocated in the building, causing the student population in the facility built to handle just over 2,000 students to explode to nearly 3,000. “It was like a brush fire waiting to happen,” said JHS 226’s Parent Coordinator Claudia Bethea. “Parents don’t want to relive that incident again.” She said the situation in the school went awry during that collocation. Students were getting into fights with each other — and even teachers and the administration. Hallways were dangerously crowded. That collocation eventually ended and now the school’s population has dropped below 2,000, according to DOE records. The agency’s memo about the collocation said the number of students in the building

JHS 226 Virgil Grissom Junior High School will be home to another collocated school next year if the Panel for Educational Policy approves the city Department of Education’s plans at the March PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER 20 PEP meeting. will increase when the new school is opened in September, because enrollment in JHS 226 will not decrease. The DOE said the school will only be operating at 88 percent capacity. The building already houses a Beacon program and a District 75 school — PS Q233 — which serves 47 children with autism and other disabilities.

But the department stressed that it saw the building as “underutilized.” However, some members of the school community disagree with that assessment and say what the DOE describes as “underutilized” is actually a perfect size for the student body that is there. Bethea said she has gotten more than 600

parents to sign a petition opposing the collocation, which would bring in a new middle school, one in which admission would be through an application process administered by the Office of Student Enrollment. “We have all these great things going on,” she said, noting that the school’s principal, Rushell White, has instituted a number of programs in the school that parents and students enjoy. Bethea said the school has displayed students’ art projects on the walls to create a museum-like atmosphere and one classroom has been converted into a dance studio for dance classes. “When you take those classrooms from us, what about our children?” she said. Bethea said the city should instead spend time and money trying to reduce class sizes, especially if they are looking to move forward with collocations. Dmytro Fedkowskyj, Queens’ representative on the Panel for Educational Policy, proposed a resolution at Monday’s PEP meeting to stop collocations, as well as phaseouts. The motion failed. Bethea said she was also worried what the plan would do to the school’s reputation. The PEP will vote on the collocation, as well as a slew of others, at a meeting on March Q 20 at Brooklyn Technical High School.

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Men found dead were murdered in Brooklyn Suspect arrested, but police search for others as investigation continues by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

Police are searching for the drivers of three vehicles, above, seen on security cameras from St. Helen School near the location where two bodies were found near a brush fire in Howard Beach on March 6. PHOTOS COURTESY NYPD

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One suspect in the murders of two people whose bodies were dumped in a Howard Beach park has been arrested as the investigation into what led to their deaths is continuing in another borough where police say the killings took place. The bodies of 22-year-old Rudy Superville, of Brownsville, Brooklyn and 25-year-old Gary Lopez, of Bushwick, Brooklyn were found bound, gagged and facedown in a grassy section of Spring Creek Park near 78th Street and 159th Avenue in Howard Beach, only steps from the Belt Parkway, around 6 a.m. Wednesday, March 6, after f iref ighters and emergency crews responded to a fire in the park 90 minutes earlier. The victims were both shot and stabbed. The bodies had been placed in some kind of plastic wrapping or bags, but some of the plastic had melted due to the heat of the fire. A suspect, Rogelio Rodriguez, 34, of Bushwick was arrested Tuesday and indicted Wednesday on seconddegree murder, manslaughter, criminal possession of a weapon and tampering with evidence. He faces 25 years to life in prison if he is convicted. According to the charges from Queens District Attorney Richard Brown, Rodriguez allegedly beat and pistol-whipped the victims after they had already been shot, allegedly by someone else, in his apartment in Bushwick the day before the bodies were found. Police believe Superville and Lopez may have been in the suspect’s apartment looking for drugs when they

were killed there. Both had served time in prison for robbery. Rodriguez is also accused of dumping what police believe is the gun or guns used in the murders, as well as several other weapons, into Newtown Creek in Maspeth the day after the bodies were dumped in Howard Beach. “The defendant is accused of participating in the brutal murder of two men whose bodies were dumped and intentionally set on fire in an attempt to cover up the alleged crime,” Brown said in a statement. “This case will be pursued to ensure that justice is served.” Deputy Inspector Thomas Pascale, commanding officer of the 106th Precinct, said at last week’s Community Board 10 meeting that police were certain the murders took place in Brooklyn and the Howard Beach site was used just to dump the bodies. The fire was believed to have been started intentionally by whoever left the corpses. “They had lit the fire to try to cover up their crimes,” Pascale added. In the meantime, investigators in both boroughs are looking for at least three more suspects, the DA’s office said. They have at least one major lead. Police released a video last week of what they believe are cars that may have fled the scene or at least were in the area when the bodies were dumped. The video was taken from security camera footage from St. Helen School. It shows three vehicles — a light-colored fourdoor sedan; a dark four-door sedan; and a dark two-tone continued on page 28

CB 9 selects new leadership officers

Man gets six years for 2011 hit and run

Jim Coccovillo elected board chairman

11-year-old girl was hit getting off bus

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Community Board 9 held elections for a new leadership team Tuesday night at its March meeting in Ozone Park, including a new chairman to replace outgoing Chairwoman Andrea Crawford, who stepped down after three years as head of the board. Jim Coccovillo of Woodhaven, chairman of CB 9’s Public Safety and Consumer Affairs Committee — the panel that deals with liquor licenses — was unanimously elected the board’s new chairman and will begin his term in April. He had no opposition. “I think Jim is going to serve and represent this board with honor,” Crawford said after the vote was taken. Former chairman and current Second Vice Chairman Ivan Mrakovicic of Richmond Hill was elected first vice chairman and Crawford was elected second vice chairwoman. Raj Rampershad of Richmond Hill was elected executive secretary, replacing the outgoing Clark

Whitsett, also of Richmond Hill. The election results Tuesday night were preliminary and a f inal off icial vote will be published in the board’s March minutes. Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) also spoke at the meeting, fielding questions about redistricting, which gave his district a larger share of CB 9 than the previous lines, and rezoning. He announced that the Department of City Planning will move forward with the rezoning of Ozone Park, South Richmond Hill and South Ozone Park. “This will be the final rezoning of this administration,” he said, adding that he hopes to have the plans f inalized and voted on by the end of the year. Kate Mooney, representing Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley (D-Middle Village), announced that money had been allocated for the reconstruction of Mary Whalen Playground on Park Lane South and 79th Street in Woodhaven and she said more than 100 trees will be planted Q by the city in CB 9 next year.

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A Richmond Hill man was sentenced March 6 to six years in prison for a 2011 hit-and-run incident in which an 11-yearold girl was seriously, injured after being struck getting off a school bus. Errol Gangaram, 26, of 124th Street, was convicted last month of second-degree assault, leaving the scene of an incident without reporting it, failing to stop at a steady red signal, unsafe lane change, second-degree reckless endangerment, endangering the welfare of a child, reckless driving, third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and overtaking and passing a school bus. According to trial testimony, Gangaram was traveling west in a silver vehicle on 103rd Avenue near 125th Street in South Richmond Hill on Dec. 19, 2011 when a vehicle in front of him stopped at the intersection because a school bus had stopped and displayed its red flashing lights. Gangaram then crossed over the double yellow line to pass the car and the

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bus on the left side. Witnesses then saw 11-year-old Preeya Sahadeo hurled through the air after being struck and Gangaram fled the scene in his car, though no witness said they saw his car hit the girl. He was followed by another motorist for a number of blocks until Gangaram — who ran at least two red lights while fleeing — stopped near the intersection of 131st Street and 101st Avenue. There, he got out of his vehicle and made a call on his cellular phone. Police arrived and arrested him. Sahadeo, meanwhile, was left lying in the street. She was taken to an area hospital with a skull fracture and remained there until she was transferred to a pediatric facility in April 2012. She was released and returned home on Dec. 31, 2012, but still suffers severe neurological damage and is confined to a bed and cannot walk or speak. On top of his six-year prison term, Gangaram was also sentenced to three years’ post-release supervision and a Q $1,000 fine.

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On schools and soda, the mayor overreaches oth in the court of public opinion and in an actual court of law, the ruling this week was that Mayor Bloomberg has overreached again. It’s hardly surprising for someone who’s at the top of both the financial and political worlds, serving his third term as New York’s mayor and having about $27,000,000,000 in personal wealth. But that doesn’t mean he should be allowed to get away with it. In one case — the planned ban on soda and other sugary drinks in servings larger than 16 ounces — he won’t, at least for now. Justice Milton Tingling saw to that when he ruled that the prohibition is illegal, arbitrary and capricious (whatever your thoughts on the ban, can we all agree it’s ridiculous to impose it on a mom-and-pop corner bodega while the 7-Eleven across the street is exempt? The judge thought so, and so do we). The city of course is appealing the ruling, and what higher courts might say is anyone’s guess. But we contend that while the mayor was well-intentioned in getting the Board of Health to impose the rule, Tingling’s ruling was correct. At the same time, it’s a fact that people should stop drinking soda and other beverages that are essentially liquid

sugar, at least in mass quantities. The stuff just isn’t good for you. It has zero nutritional value. All it does is contribute heavily to the growing obesity epidemic, which is causing all kinds of societal problems and costing taxpayers dearly. To the degree that he wants to highlight the dangers of binging on soda and other such drinks, the mayor is correct. Another area where he’s correct on broad principle but wrong in execution is his ongoing effort to remake the city’s education system. Some schools are in serious trouble, and experimenting with alternative models and offering choices are great ideas. But we’re as tired of the perpetual battles over closing schools, renaming schools and collocating schools as students, teachers and parents are. These cannot be the only ways to improve education. And yet here we are again this week, with a raucous Panel for Educational Policy hearing on school closures going on until about 1 a.m. because so many people vociferously oppose Bloomberg’s plans to shutter another 50 schools citywide and establish new ones in their buildings. We suppose we should be thankful that only two schools in Queens are on the chopping block this year. Of course, students at those schools — two of the four

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Liu has no clue Dear Editor: John Liu painted himself into a corner at the mayoral primary forum on March 1: Either he was aware of his campaign’s criminality and he’s lying to keep himself in the race or he was ignorant of it. If he was ignorant of it, that doesn’t say much for his management skills, in that there was no meaningful oversight, checks or balances in his campaign. (His day job is city financial comptroller, by the way.) Putting that aside, it gets even worse: The fact that he refuses to take responsibility for the actions of his employees is appalling. Anyone with a conscience would have withdrawn from the race after his campaign treasurer was indicted, if not before. Furthermore, do we really need yet another crybaby mayor at City Hall who will stonewall, make excuses or pass the buck at every crisis, instead of simply taking the blame like any boss must? (And when is Liu going to pay the fines levied for his previous campaign’s violations?) Jerry Nutter South Ozone Park

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institutions at the Campus Magnet Complex in Cambria Heights — and their parents aren’t thankful at all. Along with the closures, the city is planning more collocations of schools. At IS 204 in Long Island City, the DOE would have college-age students in “14th grade” in the same building as 12-year-olds. That’s a terrible idea. And since the courts blocked another plan of the mayor’s last year (sound familiar?), to close Flushing and Newtown high schools, among others, his answer this year are collocations that are likely to squeeze out the existing schools. Another awful plan that’s underway is what seems like the willful dismantling of the Gifted and Talented program at PS 122 in Astoria, where the number of G&T classes is being cut from 11 to three. Of course parents of gifted students are furious. And they’re right to be: Advanced students need to be challenged or they can become disinterested in school and rapidly develop serious problems. Whether it’s schools or soda, the mayor takes good intentions too far and needs to be reined in. The results are unnecessary expenditures of the public’s energy and money without the societal improvements he sought in the first place. In other words, a waste of time.

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husband appeared to be having a heart attack. I woke up abruptly and, having a heart condition also, experienced worse symptoms. It was scary! We called 911, and within minutes the Fire Department and EMS arrived, prepared and able to handle emergencies. I had eventually recuperated, but my husband was taken to the hospital; all the time with the best care. We wish to express our thanks to these wonderful, dedicated, kind and caring people who sacrifice their time and energy for us. They certainly make the world a better place! Martha Caselli Bayside

Save Gifted & Talented Dear Editor: On March 6 the PTA of PS 122 held a massive rally that filled the school’s auditorium with concerned parents, teachers, kids, educators and legislators. The reason: the Department of Education’s proposed changes to a

Gifted and Talented Academy that has been a successful model for similar programs for the past 25 years. Instead of supporting and expanding the Academy, the DOE has proposed to eventually limit the number of seats available to gifted students. In this time of global competition in a shrinking world stage, when we are constantly told that the USA’s position is precarious and that we are falling behind in so many fields necessary to a productive future, we are throwing away a proven incubator of talented minds. Gifted individuals who will be our future leaders, like all our children, need to be encouraged and nourished, not told that they are expendable. I speak from personal experience about the G & T program because I attended 122 as a child and was, luckily, a part of the SP (Special Progress) program, which was prophetically enough, the precursor to what is today Gifted and Talented. The attention, specialized classes and camaraderie between like-minded students and teachers helped us all foster and realize goals that were to set a scholastic and

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Beware ATMs abroad Dear Editor: My husband and I recently vacationed in Aruba. Yesterday we received our bank statement. It was a rude awakening. We felt we were robbed and had no place to turn. On our first visit to an ATM in Aruba we withdrew $800 and were informed there would be a $3 fee for using the ATM. We agreed to that fee. However, our bank charged us another 4 percent fee for that withdrawal, amounting to $32. To add insult to injury, we were charged $6 for using the ATM. Therefore, we were charged $38 for withdrawing $800. Our total cost for using the ATM in Aruba amounted to over $200. I called our new congressman, Steve Israel, and spoke with his representative Alonso Lara. I suggested that notification on ATMs overseas

Let’s welcome Walmart Dear Editor: How refreshing that even President Obama recently had some kind words to say about the nation’s largest private sector retail employer — Walmart. Voters should challenge the 2013 Democratic Party mayoral candidates — Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, Comptroller John Liu, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, former Comptroller Bill Thompson and former Council Member Sal Albanese — on whether they will support the president’s enlightened views. Ditto for comptroller candidate Scott Stringer, along with other public advocate, Queens borough president and City Council candidates for 2013. Walmart would provide work for construction contractors, their employees and thousands of the 9 percent of New Yorkers currently out of work — and the 7 percent more who have just given up looking. The city would benefit from hundreds of millions of dollars in new sales, payroll and real estate tax revenue. All of this would be accomplished without any taxpayers stimulus funding from Washington. Consumers have voted with their feet all over America. Why not allow the nation’s No. 1 retailer to compete here as well? For those opposed: Don’t shop there, but do give everyone else a choice. Larry Penner Great Neck, LI

should alert the public that banks charge 4 percent for their withdrawal. I was extremely impressed with Mr. Lara’s knowledge and demeanor during his explanation as to why that cannot be done. For instance, if the person withdrawing is from Canada, there is a different fee, and some banks in the USA charge different fees. My bank informed me that a notification was recently sent informing their customers that the international fee went from 3 percent to 4 percent. I must admit I didn’t read the small print from their three-page communication. The banks and Wall Street sure do have a hold and power in Washington. I suggested that in Congressman Israel’s next mailing, he should alert his constituents to call their banks and ask what their protocol is when using an ATM internationally. Kudos to Alonso Lara for his knowledge, professionalism and pristine representation on behalf of our new congressman. It was a pleasure to talk with him. Joyce Shepard Bayside

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Letters continued from page 9 Yes, I’m still blaming Bush! I will blame Bush forever, just as history will. If you destroy my house, you will still be responsible for destroying my house 100 years from now. This man in the White House is doing a hell of a job while the Republican children in Congress cry about losing a presidential election, twice, to a black man. Robert La Rosa Whitestone

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Dear Editor: It was interesting to read that Bill Clinton was being honored at a ceremony by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation as the first former president in history to receive the Lincoln Leadership Prize for his lifetime of service. It is Ironic that it requires a Democratic president to be honored as fulfilling the legacy of the great American Republican president, Abraham Lincoln. “We are delighted to present this year’s Lincoln Leadership Prize to former President Bill Clinton, whose successful presidency and stature as an international statesman truly exemplify President Lincoln’s conscience, spirit and leadership,” said Wayne W. Whalen, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation. “His lifetime commitment to public service defines the very characteristics of President Lincoln’s legacy as one of the great leaders of our country.” It brings to mind the reality of just how far the Grand Old Party has strayed from its once honorable values. Nicholas Zizelis Bayside

Dear Editor: Now that the presidential election is in the past, perhaps it is time that we re-examine how we choose our candidates for the highest office in our country. I believe that we should consider changes in our presidential primary system. The way things are done now, the states that conduct their primaries and caucuses early get the most attention. Often the nominee is chosen by the time we reach the middle of the primary process, if not before. Those states conducting their votes at the end of the “season” often do so in vain, because a candidate nails down enough delegate votes to secure nomination before the primary process across the country is completed. In 2012, Gov. Romney was locked in as the Republican nominee even before the New York primary took place. Since the selection of presidential candidates is a nationwide matter, I believe that we should have a national presidential primary on one date, probably in the late spring of a presidential year. This way, all votes will be important throughout the country. Since the presidential contest is a federal election, the rules of who should be allowed to vote in such an election should be uniform. Now, in some states, there is an open primary. In other states, like New York, only those enrolled in a particular party are allowed to vote in that party’s primary. Also, for economic reasons, states should probably hold their other state and local primaries on the same date. In 2012, New York had three primary dates, which cost the taxpayers millions of extra dollars. Other political parties with a countrywide following should hold their own primary on a national presidential primary day as well as the Republicans and Democrats. Voters should not be limited to choosing between just two candidates from the so-called major parties. After the primary and convention process is over, and a candidate and his or her running mate is selected, we usually have a series of debates before the November election. However, those debates are almost always limited to the Democratic and Republican nominees. All candidates who are able to get on the ballot in a majority of states should take part in those debates. In 2012, Green Party candidate Jill Stein was not allowed to participate in the presidential debates despite the fact that she was on the ballot in most states. It would seem to me, as we move forward in the 21st century, that there should be reforms undertaken so that the American electorate has many choices of candidates to select from to hold the most important office in our country. We should also be making the voting process easier and more efficient to accommodate the electorate in selecting our political leaders. Henry Euler Bayside

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Dear Editor: The North Korean People’s Army Supreme Command has recently stated that it will scrap the armistice signed in 1953 with rival South Korea, and warned of the “f inal destruction” of South Korea. After North Korea was condemned by the United Nations for rocket launches, Pyongyang conducted three nuclear tests, in 2006, 2009 and 2013. The UN Security Council imposed sanctions after the first two nuclear tests and rocket launch in 2012, since all are considered part of the North Korean covert nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs. The latest sanctions resolution, adopted in January, again demanded that North Korea abandon its nuclear weapons program and cease missile launches. In 1945, we had a strong president, Harry S. Truman, who made the final decision to drop a “new weapon of unusual destructive force” on Japan. On July 26, 1945, the Potsdam Declaration issued the warning to Japan: surrender or face “prompt and utter destruction.” But on July 29, Japan rejected the Potsdam Declaration demand for unconditional surrender, since it refused to dismantle the imperial military dictatorship and relinquish its wartime conquests. The result was the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan, on Aug. 6 and 9. On Aug. 14, Japan surrendered unconditionally, bringing an end to World War II. North Korean relations with the United States have been strained for more than six decades. As no further United Nations sanc-

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Missing teen Two bystanders help fight off canines in Woodhaven found safe by Domenick Rafter

It’s a happy ending for a ner vewracked Ozone Park family. A teenager reported missing a few weeks ago after last being seen turned up at his school upstate safe and in good condition, his father told the Queens Chronicle last Thursday. Christopher Hill, 19, who lives at 88-16 102 Road, was reported missing on Feb. 22. He was last seen in front of a store located at 80-32 Jamaica Ave. in Woodhaven at 11:30 a.m. that day. Police released a missing persons report on him only a few hours after his family reported him missing. Hill’s father, Mark, said his son was found at his school in upstate New York a few days later. The young Hill, who has a form of autism, apparently had not made his family aware that he was going back. “He got back there on his own,” the elder Hill said. He said that his son was in good health when he was discovered and is doing well and his family is happy he Q is safe and sound. — Domenick Rafter

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Jonathan Hill was driving past the intersection of 89th Street and 89th Avenue in Woodhaven on his way to work around 10 a.m. on a typical Thursday morning, when he looked out the window and saw a horrific scene. Two large dogs were tearing the coat off an older woman on the sidewalk. “He ran in to help her,” his father Mark Hill said. “It was just him and an older man.” His son told him that he used equipment in the truck, including a shovel, to help get the dogs off the woman. “He hit one of the dogs in the head with the shovel,” Mark Hill explained Eventually, police arrived and witnesses say one of the dogs was shot with rubber bullets, but not killed. Hill’s father said his son wasn’t sure what had happened to the other dog. The police then took the woman to a local hospital. Hill said the woman was badly injured, but that could not be confirmed Donna Marie Caltabiano, executive director of the Forest Park Senior Center, said a senior who frequents the center whom she identified as Casey, helped the woman. “He had to go home and change his clothes; they were covered with the woman’s blood,” Caltabiano said. Casey told Caltabiano that the woman was being followed by the dogs before they attacked her. The breed of the dogs is unknown, though they have been described as either Mastiffs, pit bulls or perhaps a mix of the two. Also unknown is the identity of their owners. Caltabiano said the dogs were later taken away by either Animal Control or the ASPCA. Later in the day, signs of the dog attack could still be seen at the intersection. There was blood on the concrete and the victim’s bloody

A bloody paw print, left, and the torn bloody coat of the victim were all the evidence left behind after a savage attack on a woman by two dogs PHOTOS BY MARK HILL Thursday morning in Woodhaven. clothes were tossed in a trash can. The NYPD did not respond to a request for comment on the incident, but one neighbor, who asked to speak anonymously, said she had never seen the dogs before and could not be certain who their owner is. Ed Wendell, president of the Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association, also said the dogs were unknown to him, and he expressed concern about where the attack occurred — in the middle of the heavily residential area where people often walk. “It’s scary,” he said, noting how close the attack occurred to PS 60, Q where students were in class at the time of the incident.

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Old Glory’s persistence through the horrors of battle in a Maryland harbor 200 years ago may have inspired our national anthem, but the flag memorializing soldiers killed in action that sits atop the pole in Charles Park in Howard Beach is inspiring nothing but shame. “It is torn to shreds and has been that way for months,” said Robert Morrissey, a resident of Howard Beach. “It is a disgrace.” Like the park itself, the flag was damaged by Hurricane Sandy last fall, but was already showing it age before that. Now, it is a tattered mess, a piece of aged cloth only further damaged by the winter storms. Dominick Papa, a Lindenwood resident and local “flag man” — known for giving the stars and stripes to anyone who wants one, said there is nothing he can do about it because the flag, which sits on federal parkland, is stored behind lock and key. “Get me a key and I’ll be happy to replace it,” he said. — Domenick Rafter

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Broad Channel library reopens after Sandy Branch suffered nearly a million dollars in damage during storm by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

It’s small, but it’s important. The Broad Channel branch of the Queens Library is a kiosk compared to other, larger locations in the system, but for the people of the small, close-knit community in the middle of Jamaica Bay, it’s a piece of home. The library branch at 16-26 Cross Bay Blvd. suffered a devastating blow from Hurricane Sandy last October. It took in nearly two feet of water and suffered $940,000 in damage in the storm, including the loss of more than 16,000 books and other library items. The building required extensive interior repairs. More than three months later, the branch reopened to the public with a ribbon cutting on March 6 attended by elected officials, city commissioners and students from nearby PS/MS 47, Broad Channel’s public school. “Queens Library at Broad Channel is a pivotal resource for all ages, an information hub and a community hub,” said Queens Library CEO Thomas Galante. “We are so grateful to Commissioner David Burney and the NYC Department of Design and Construction for all their hard work in getting the library

reopened in record time. We look forward to seeing every library in Queens re-built to full capacity and serving library customers with books, job-skills training, afterschool enrichment and everything they depend on their libraries to provide.” The library branch is also home to the Broad Channel Historical Society, though Dan Mundy Sr., a member of the historical group, said much of its collection, such as pictures and artifacts, is in the historical room at St. Virgilius Church on Noel Road, which was also hit hard by Sandy. “Unfortunately, the storm did damage some of our collection,” Mundy said. “But we are in the process of drying out or copying items and the historical society is alive and well.” Joanne King, spokeswoman for the Queens Library, said the Broad Channel branch’s book drop, installed not long before Sandy, will also be replaced. Broad Channel was one of four libraries badly damaged in the storm. The other three — Arverne, Seaside and Peninsula, all in the Rockaways — are still closed or in temporary locations while renovations are being done. The Howard Beach branch on 156th Avenue also suffered minor flood damage, but

Councilman Vincent Gentile, far left in front row; Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer; Queens Library President and CEO Thomas Galante; Borough President Helen Marshall; Councilman Eric Ulrich; Community Board 14 Chairwoman Dolores Orr and Broad Channel Civic Association President Dan Mundy Jr., joined by other officials and guests, cut the ribbon at the reopening of the Queens PHOTO BY DOMINICK TOTINO Library’s Broad Channel branch on March 6. reopened a week and a half after the storm when power was restored to the community. Overall Queens Library locations suffered $7.6 million in damage, including $2.2 million

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Man killed on Jamaica Ave. One man was stabbed to death and another was injured in what is believed to have been an assault on the two men in broad daylight on a busy stretch of Jamaica Avenue in Richmond Hill on March 6. Police responded to a call of a stabbing outside 126-19 Jamaica Ave. at 3:33 p.m. and found the victim, Jose Rubio, 32, who lived at 148-48 88 Ave. in Briarwood. He was transported to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, which is only a few blocks away from the scene, but was pronounced dead on arrival. A second victim, a 17-year-old Hispanic man, had minor injuries as a result of being hit in the shoulder with a rock. He refused medical attention at the scene. Police say they believe the two were attacked by a group of men while walking along Jamaica Avenue. A motive has not yet been established. There have been no arrests and the investigation is ongoing. The stabbing oocurred less than a quarter of a mile from where a man was shot to death outside a nightclub in Q January. — Domenick Rafter

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Ozone Park resident Ed Kamperman knows the problem all too well. You’re driving down Cross Bay Boulevard, looking for the Belt Parkway, or Nassau Expressway or Conduit Boulevard, but you don’t see any warning that the roads are coming up — until they do. The result is traffic veering across a number of lanes, horns honking, tires screeching and — in the worst cases — crashing metal. The solution is simple, Kamperman said: Drivers need more warning on where to be when they reach the busy interchange where the four roads meet. The first sign directing southbound traffic to the Nassau Expressway — the main route to JFK Airport and southwestern Nassau County — comes just before the Conduit Boulevard overpass, when traffic should already be in the left turn lane to access the road. Before that, no driver who is not familiar with the area would know where the turnoff is. The sign, which is on the right side of the street, tells traffic to keep left. The next sign is at the left turn, but is located on the northbound side of Cross Bay and in the summer, is some-

times obstructed by trees. “Often you see cars cut across two or three lanes to reach the turning lane,” Kamperman explained. Sometimes vehicles will make the left turn from the lane next to the dedicated turning lane, creating a dangerous situation. The same is true for southbound traffic attempting to access the Belt Parkway. No signs warn drivers of the ramps to the parkway until one located at the ramp to the westbound Belt, and the sign The first sign informing drivers heading southbound on Cross is not visible until just a few Bay Boulevard where to turn off for the Nassau Expressway and hundred feet beforehand. Traf- JFK Airport is located less than a few hundred feet from where PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER fic often merges right at the drivers need to make the left turn. last minute and a number of accidents have occurred there. he suggested. “That will do a lot to reduce Kamperman said he would like to see the dangerous traffic on the boulevard.” the city Department of Transportation The stretch of Cross Bay Boulevard place signs farther north on Cross Bay between Liberty Avenue and the Conduit is Boulevard, closer to Liberty Avenue, iden- often congested southbound during the tifying which highways are ahead and afternoon rush hour. which lanes drivers should be in. DOT spokesman Scott Gastel said the “If you have signs farther up on Cross agency will review Kamperman’s signage Q Bay, drivers know what lane to be in earlier,” request.

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he United States Tennis Association’s proposed expansion within Flushing Meadows Corona Park began its public review hearings this week on the heels of a 32-page report blasting the nonprofit’s plan and history as a tenant in the park. By Friday, six community boards will have voted on the proposal. But as of Tuesday evening, Community Boards 4 and 9 voted against the plan in contentious hearings, while Community Board 7 approved it with little fanfare by comparison. The main points of contention, and sometimes confusion, revolve around a report titled “Double Fault,” released on Friday by the Fairness Coalition of Queens.

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To alienate or not to alienate CB 9 only covers a small piece of Flushing Meadows Corona Park — far smaller than any other community board tasked with voting on the United States Tennis Association’s plan to expand its campus by .68 acre — but it hosted arguably the most heated debate of all the boards to debate the consideration before Wednesday. The board ultimately voted against the proposal at its meeting in Ozone Park on Tuesday by a tally of 22-20, with one abstention. The hour-long debate leading up to the final vote covered everything from precedent to the process community boards use to vote. Often, exchanges grew heated. CB 9’s Land Use Committee chairwoman, Sylvia Hack, brought a motion before the board to vote on a proposal to approve the plan with certain conditions, including clarifications on the amount the USTA will pay for the land. Under the proposed contract, the USTA will not replace the .68 acre it acquires, but rather pay the city outright for it. But her resolution caused some confusion among members of the board, including Wallace Bock, a member from Kew Gardens. The lack of replacement parkland remains at the heart of opposition to the project. A number of elected officials and boro political candidates gathered at Make The Road New York’s offices on Friday, touting the “Double Fault” report and demanding the USTA include replacement land in its plans. “You must replace each inch of land,” Councilwoman Julissa Fererras (D-Corona) said. “I have always lived in an apartment, and Flushing Meadows is my backyard.” State Sen. Jose Peralta (D-East Elmhurst) and Assemblyman Francisco Moya (D-Jackson Heights) agreed the land had to be replaced. The Fairness Coalition of Queens report says the expansion will take in .94 acre, but the USTA quotes .68 acre since the .94 figure includes an old connector road that was already approved as part of a 1993 Uniform Land Use Review Procedure. In response to politicians’ call for replacement land, USTA spokesman Adam Miller said, “The plan calls for the minimum amount of additional parkland possible, just 0.68 acre, to complete the needed upgrades to the facili-

ties at the National Tennis Center. “The sliver of land in question is mostly an existing asphalt road and because it will remain parkland open to the public 11 months of the year, the city has determined that improvements to the park, which will benefit all of the surrounding communities, is a priority over seeking 0.68 acre of replacement land,” he added. In light of the back and forth over the .68 acre during the CB 9 meeting, Bock proposed amending the resolution to allow for an up-ordown vote on the plan with no conditions, which led to a debate over whether or not the conditions give the board leverage or take it away. The board’s second vice chairman, Ivan Mrakovcic, said he was worried approving the plan would lead to other instances in which developers would seek to take parkland without required mitigation, hinting at proposed plans for a Major League Soccer stadium in the park. “Setting a bad precedent is my concern,” he said. “That’s why I’ll be voting no.” Indeed, the plans for a soccer stadium — and the Willets West redevelopment project in Citi Field’s parking lot — were the elephants in the room during the meeting, with Woodhaven member Etienne David Adorno bluntly pointing that out. “MLS, the Mets, those are the concerns we should be looking at,” he argued. Joan DeCamp of Richmond Hill attempted to separate those plans from the USTA’s. “I think there are serious encroachments coming in the park, but this is not it,” she said. The vote was a shot in the arm for advocates looking to derail the USTA plans, especially after CB 7’s affirmative vote on Monday night. “I think what they did here says something,” said Geoffrey Croft of NYC Parks Advocates and Save FMCP, noting that he was impressed by the board’s impassioned debate over the proposal.

Protesters from Make The Road tried but were unable to get into the Community Board 4 public meeting on the United States Tennis Association’s plan to expand in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, which was filled to capacity. The board ultimately voted unanimously against the proposal. PHOTO BY JOSEPH OROVIC

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“Our vote is advisory,” said First Vice Chairman Chuck Apelian. “At the end of the day, none of it matters; it’s a recommendation.” The board ultimately approved the project with over a dozen stipulations, including funding and preferred access for the adjacent communities. The final tally was 30-6. One night later, Community Board 4’s discussion resolutely focused on the most effective way to tell the USTA no. It brought some level of confusion when the time came to tally votes on a motion to disapprove the USTA plans, with financial stipulations that mirrored CB 7’s as well as calls to restore the park’s trolley and other demands. The linguistic conundrum confounded board members. In order to voice their disapproval, they needed to vote yes. After about 15 minutes of confusion, the final vote came back 36-0 shooting down the plan.

The CB 9 debate echoed that of CB 7 on Monday night, with procedural questions dominating most of the discussion. The board’s Parks Committee had previously recommended approving the USTA’s plans with stipulations, including a $15 million trust fund and $300,000 annual payment towards the Park’s upkeep, straight from the USTA’s coffers. But advocates and at least one board member toyed with switching the motion to a contingency-based approval, which changes the board’s vote to a “No” if all its conditions are not met. Board member Phil Konigsberg made an impassioned plea to vote the project down outright, referencing Monty Hall and “Let’s Make a Deal.” “We’re talking about giving away parkland,” he said. The yes-to-no switch language was ultimately met with resistance by the board’s leadership and other members.

Much like the community boards, elected off icials could not agree on whether the USTA’s expansion proposal should be shut out completely or not. The report “Double Fault” issued by the Fairness Coalition of Queens, a group that opposes development in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, claims that the tennis stadiums and the proposed projects do not help the residents of the borough. According to the report, the median income for a tennis fan is $150,000, while a Queens resident’s median household income is about a third at $56,406. The report also says 80 percent of tennis fans are white while Queens’ makeup is only 50 percent white. The report also makes note of the advertisers at the event that seems to say it caters to the rich: Mercedes-Benz, Ralph Lauren, Evian, Grey Goose and Emirates.

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“I’ve never heard of any one from the church going to the tennis open,” said Father Darrell Dacosta of St. Paul the Apostle Parish in Corona at the report’s launch last Friday. “I don’t think they can afford it.” The USTA calls the report misleading. In an email, a spokesman said it hosts 100,000participant programs with a large portion of those people from Queens. “The USTA donates thousands of hours of free tennis programming to the local community each year and also refurbishes local tennis courts throughout other community parks.” As for advertising, the USTA said its accounts were in line with stadiums nationwide, citing New Orleans’s Mercedes-Benz Superdome. The opposition group also said the proposal will remove 400 trees, install a dirty power plant and create more traff ic. The USTA allegedly does not pay its employees fairly, according to the report. It cited the tennis nonprofit’s own draft environmental impact statement as well as an ongoing lawsuit with some US Open umpires and line judges, as well as other source documents, mostly provided or filed by the USTA. The organization refuted all such claims in a release following the press conference. But the lawmakers were split on whether or not the project can be made palatable. Most echoed past calls for unionized labor, a fund dedicated to the park and replacement land. But Councilman Danny Dromm (D-Jackson Heights) said he doesn’t like the proposal at all. “I have a problem with giving away the parkland in general,” Dromm said. Two weeks ago the city finalized a project to purchase one acre of parkland from the Garden School in Jackson Heights. “It was a huge battle to get that one acre and now they want to just give away this Q land?” Dromm asked.

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through outreach and comprehensive casework to identify and transition them to more suitable temporary or long-term housing. Meals, telephone calls and other incidental charges are not covered, and applicants are responsible for any lodging costs above the authorized allowance. The program does not reimburse previously incurred hotel expenses. FEMA is calling applicants eligible for the extension to notify them of the new checkout date. FEMA spokeswoman Debra Young said that as of March 8 there were still 570 households in New York State taking part in the program, but that’s down from about 1,100 as of Feb. 12 and more than 2,300 at the peak in early January. Put in place immediately after Sandy, the program was extended multiple time spast its original expiration date of Nov. 16, 2012. The deadline to apply for FEMA benefits was also extended another month to Q March 29.

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date for mayor this year, said. According to the report, Queens has the second-highest number of applicants per seat, with only Manhattan recording higher numbers, but by a very small amount. Half of all kids registered in school-based pre-K in Queens are in full day programs De Blasio’s report said three districts in Queens — District 24, which includes neighborhoods from Corona to Ridgewood; District 25, based in Flushing; and District 26, centered in Bayside and eastern Queens — have the highest number of applicants per seat in the borough. District 24 is also the most overcrowded school district in the city. Of the 68,000 children eligible for fullday pre-K in New York City, only 20,000 receive it, the report says. De Blasio has proposed funding universal pre-K for all city children through an income tax increase on New Yorkers earning $500,000 or more. Pre-K admissions for 2013 opened on Q Monday.

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Quinn’s quest for Queens’ support Speaker tours Forest Hills to mingle and kick off campaign for mayor by Tess McRae Reporter

Along 71st Avenue, in front of the HSBC Forest Hills bank branch, a gaggle of people gathered to hear City Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D-Manhattan) announce her candidacy for mayor on Sunday. The group, mostly consisting of the Uniformed Fire Officers Association and campaign volunteers, held signs reading “Quinn for Mayor” and intermittently cheered “Quinn to win,” as they waited for the speaker to arrive. At about 1:30 p.m., Quinn paraded down 71st Avenue with a wall of people behind her, including her wife, Kim Catullo, and her father, Larry. She took her time strolling down the street, smiling and shaking hands with vendors and passersby. When she made it in front of the bank, a crowd circled her to hear what many had been expecting for months. “I am so happy to be stopping in Queens to announce my candidacy for mayor,” she said. Quinn didn’t get to say much else, as an angry resident demanded that she answer his question on term limits. “Why did you push Bloomberg for a third term?” Herbert Goldman yelled over the crowd. “You understand we voted twice for

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn speaks with reporters and Queens residents to announce her PHOTO BY TESS MCRAE mayoral candidacy in front of HSBC bank on 71st Avenue in Forest Hills. term limits, so do our votes not count?” Quinn acknowledged Goldman’s question and told him she understood that her vote to grant Mayor Bloomberg a third term may cost her some voters but she stood by her decision. Still, Goldman, 71 and a retired electrical engineer, was not satisfied, vowing that he

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The NY Straphangers Campaign second annual “State of the Station Platforms” survey revealed that most conditions at subway stations improved, while others were lacking cleanliness and repairs. “We applaud transit managers and workers for improving conditions at many stations,” said Jason Chin-Fatt, the Straphangers Campaign field organizer who oversaw the survey. “But there’s still room for further progress. There’s no reason, for example, that riders should have a one in 10 chance of seeing a rat while waiting for any train.” The group said it couldn’t provide survey information about the condition of Queens subway platforms in particular, or those in other boroughs, only the overall findings. The Straphangers examined 12 subway platform conditions, including the presence of overflowing garbage cans, large garbage bags on platforms, rats and graffiti, and the shape of lighting, handrails and staircases. The survey found that most conditions the group rated were better, such as staircases in disrepair, exposed wiring, floor cracks and lighting. Based on the table comparing the 2011 and 2012 survey results, the presence of garbage cans on platforms stayed at nearly the same level. The only two platform situations that grew worse were substantial water

damage, at a high of 78 percent, and substantial graffiti, at 27 percent. MTA New York City Transit performs its own study, the Passenger Environment Survey, for an entire subway station, while the NY Straphangers Campaign survey rates station platforms only. The Straphangers Campaign said NYC Transit’s observations cannot be directly compared with its own, but that some comparisons can be made. For example, during the first half of 2012, the NYC Transit PES found 100 percent of the stations had no graffiti or only “light” graffiti conditions. The Straphangers Campaign survey found substantial graffiti at 27 percent of all the platforms observed in the summer of 2012, which was worse than 2011’s 20 percent. Thirteen interns and staff did observations of all 251 station platforms at 120 randomly selected subway stations between May 28 and Aug. 10, 2012, the Straphangers Campaign said — representing 28 percent of those in the system. Trained surveyors conducted observations during the weekdays between morning and evening rush-hour periods. The survey sought to catalogue conditions for which transit officials could fairly be held accountable and were not overly time- or weather-sensitive, the Straphangers Q Campaign said.

would never vote for Quinn. Despite Goldman’s criticism, many onlookers stood by Quinn and lobbed statements of reassurance and support. “Forest Hills loves you,” a couple screamed. “We want Quinn for three terms!” After speaking with the press, Quinn toured the area, stopping first to pick up an

iced coffee with cream at Gotta Getta Bagel, the nearby bagel shop on 71st Avenue. She mingled with patrons, most of whom seemed happy to shake the speaker’s hand, save one man who asked Quinn to kindly leave so he could finish his breakfast without being surrounded by cameras. The walk-through was short and mostly uneventful as Quinn told reporters her agenda for the city. “Job creation,” she said was one of her top priorities. “I want to get our unemployment rate down. Not just down to where it was a few years ago, I want it even lower.” As she continued down Austin Street, Quinn popped into more shops including a nail salon and pizzeria but just before the event wrapped up, a 12-year-old girl and her mother weaved through the photographers and gently tapped the speaker on the shoulder. “Hi, I wanted to ask you a question,” Bayla Blackstock said in a low voice. Her question was barely audible over the car horns and shouting supporters but it involved the city’s approach to education for special-needs children. Bayla’s mom, Mindy, quickly f illed in Quinn that her daughter was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome and dyslexia. continued on page 34

UNEMPLOYMENT WATCH

Queens, NYC jobless rates inched up again by Peter C. Mastrosimone Editor-in-Chief

The unemployment rate in Queens jumped more than a full percentage point from December to January — but that’s to be expected, according to the state Labor Department, which released its figures for the first month of the year this week. Employment always drops off between December and January, Labor Department economist James Brown pointed out, due to seasonal factors. “Every January the economy sees significant cutbacks due to post-Christmas layoffs in trade and leisure and hospitality, weather-related job losses in construction and transportation, as well as layoffs of food service workers at colleges and universities because of inter-semester breaks,” Brown explained in an email message. To get an accurate picture of unemployment, he said, one must compare January 2013 to January 2012. That comparison shows that joblessness in Queens was up slightly, 9 percent this January when it had been 8.8 percent in January 2012.

The ratios were similar for the city and state as a whole. Citywide the rate was 9.9 percent this year, a tenth of a point higher than the year before; while statewide it was 9.4 percent, up three-tenths of a point. Only nationally was there a January-toJanuary improvement, as the unemployment rate dropped from 8.8 to 8.5 percent. The Labor Department noted, however, that 29,600 jobs were added to New York State’s economy in January, for a record 17 months of increases. The state’s monthly jobs reports and other Q data are available at labor.ny.gov.

Unemployment rates Location

Queens NYC NYS U.S.

Jan. 2012 Dec. 2012

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7.9% 8.8% 8.2% 7.6%

Jan. 2013

9.0% 9.9% 9.4% 8.5%

Source: NYS Department of Labor

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Could face life in prison for plans to commit ‘grotesque crimes’ by Michael Gannon Editor

A federal jury on Tuesday convicted the so-called “Cannibal Cop” of all charges in a scheme to abduct, kill and cook women, plans he chatted about online with multiple people. Gilberto Valle, 28, of Forest Hills, was convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit kidnapping, and one count of intentionally and knowingly accessing a computer without authorization. He could receive a maximum sentence of life in prison when sentenced by U.S. District Judge Paul Gardephe on June 19. “Today a unanimous jury found that Gilberto Valle’s detailed and specific plans to abduct women for the purpose of committing grotesque crimes were very real, and that he was guilty as charged,” Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said on Tuesday in a statement issued by his office. “The Internet is a forum for the free exchange of ideas,” Bharara added. “But it does not confer immunity for plotting crimes and taking steps to carry out those crimes.” The jury had been deliberating since March 7, and Bharara thanked its members for their diligence and their willingness to serve on a case of this nature. Valle worked in the NYPD’s 26th Precinct in Manhattan. He was accused of scheming online to kidnap, rape and kill women, including his wife and some female acquaintances. Valle’s wife was the f irst one to alert authorities to his activities after discovering computer files in which she and some of their female friends were mentioned and pictured. In the statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Off ice, the government contended that Valle had a series of communications with

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a co-conspirator and discussed how to kidnap, murder and cannibalize one woman. The communications included instructions on how to make chloroform. A f ile on Valle’s computer contained detailed personal information on the victim, including her age, ethnicity, height, weight and bra size. There also was an accompanying list of materials that would be needed to subdue her. Valle subsequently met the intended victim for brunch and communicated with his co-conspirator that she “looked absolutely mouthwatering.” He also had online conversations with another person in which he agreed to kidnap a second woman and deliver her “bound, gagged and alive” to him in return for $5,000. He admitted to the FBI that he had been on the block where the woman’s apartment building is located, and previous published reports said the bureau was able to pinpoint him there by cell phone records. The intended victim told the FBI that she does not know Valle well and never invited him to her home. Valle also was convicted of unlawfully accessing the National Crime Information Center database, which is routinely used by law enforcement agencies around the country to assist in investigations and crime prevention. He used the database to gather information on a woman whose name matched that of a woman for whom he had created an individual file. Valle had no authorization to conduct such a search, and had no valid reason for obtaining the information that he did. The defense argued from the time of Valle’s arrest last fall that the online entries were strictly fetish fantasies on which he had no Q intention of ever acting.

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S 273 in Richmond Hill is partnering with GenerationOn, an organization that donates money to schools for doing approved community services, and teachers Larissa Cole and Renee Palermo developed schoolwide projects to promote student community outreach. These projects include: delivering canned goods to the neighboring food pantry, planting fruits and vegetables around the school perimeter to beautify the community and working with Bobbi and The Strays no-kill shelter to create animal hammocks out of cloths and to make dog treats from peanut butter and oatmeal. Roberta “Bobbi” Giordano spoke to students from pre-kindergaten to grade two about responsibility for the care of animals by walking, feeding and bathing them.

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Construction is killing the trees Ridgewood Reservoir work will result in dozens dying if nothing is done by Tess McRae Reporter

Construction at the Ridgewood Reservoir in Highland Park is harming 150-year-old trees there. Along Vermont Place, construction for the “Ridgewood Reservoir Project,” which will provide new pathways, more handicap accessibility and lighting, as part of Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC is underway, but with tools, machines and debris weighing on the ground, civic leaders and tree experts are worried what the arboreal effect will be. “When soil gets compacted by machinery or heavy piles of material or even extreme foot traffic, it loses its structure,” said Morgan Potter, a horticulturalist with the Queens Botanical Garden. “Not only are the roots being squished, but they are losing the environment necessary for regrowth.” As the work goes on, dozens of London plane trees are surrounded by a chain-link fence which sits directly on top of many of their root systems. Compacted soil prevents a tree’s roots from accessing nutrients from water and soil. But trees can take years to show signs of stress because they are such large organisms. That causes a major problem with construction projects because once building is finished the trees may appear normal. “I can say with certainty that these trees

The construction site on Vermont Place at the Ridgewood Reservoir. . will be negatively affected by this project,” Potter said. “Whether they succumb to the damage depends on their vigor and any measures taken to remedy the problems after the project is over.” “The consequences may not be seen for years down the line,” local tree expert Carsten Glaeser said. “Trees are the largest

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organisms on the planet and I’ve seen this happen time after time. Whether it’s because of building developers constructing a building or a situation like this, it’s always the same and the tree eventually dies.” The Parks Department responded by saying it is working on the issue and hopes it will be resolved soon.

“NYC Parks is currently working on a course of action at the Ridgewood Reservoir site involving tree protection, adding additional wood chips, pruning to the existing trees along the roadway, and decompaction within the construction area,” Phil Abrasmson, a Parks Department spokesman, said. “In order to build a required ramp, the contractor piled fill near trees along Vermont Place due to the tightness of the space, and we are processing a change order to decompact around those trees.” The Parks Department could not say when those changes will go into effect. Glaeser said that though the Parks Department is not always right, all city agencies get it wrong when it comes to tree care. He also says that the solution does not involve programs such as MillionTreesNYC, the city initiative to plant and care for one million trees across the five boroughs over the next decade. “We need to protect the trees we have have rather than planting new trees,” he said. Bob Holden, president of the Juniper Park Civic Association, agrees. “Trees in the reservoir are a natural resource,” Holden said. “You can’t replace a 60- or 70-year-old tree. With pollution and air quality in recent years, the trees won’t Q even get that large.”

Meeks leads USA’s group at Chavez rites Venezuelan leader clashed with DC by Michael Gannon

between out two nations.” Chavez was accused of suppressing U.S. Congressman Gregory Meeks (D- political opposition and opposition media at Jamaica) led the United States delegation to home, while supporters said he was a chamthe state funeral of the late Venezuelan Presi- pion of the nation’s poor. In the United States he worked with a dent Hugo Chavez on March 8. group run by former CongressMeeks, the senior member of man Joe Kennedy to supply the House Foreign Relations free home heating oil from his Committee, was part of an petroleum-rich nation to loweclectic gathering at the funeral income homes. that included civil rights activist He also was a focal point of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Acadeanti-U.S. sentiment in Latin my Award-winning actor Sean America. Penn and Iranian President “The Venezuelans elected Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. him, and I happened to be an Prior to leaving, Meeks said observer of some of those elecon a conference call that he was tions,” Meeks said during a proud to be a part of the delega- Rep. Gregory Meeks FILE PHOTO question-and-answer session. tion representing the United “I certainly don’t agree with States. Chavez died on March 5 some of his policies, or with some of the following a prolonged bout with cancer. Meeks extended his condolences to statements he has made about the United Chavez’s family and the Venezuelan people. States,” Meeks said. “And I still think it is “Venezuela is an important nation to the important to try and make sure we have Western Hemisphere,” he said. “I remain good relationships with the government of Q committed to building the relationship Venezuela.”

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Thanks, guys! St. John’s University honored New York City’s first responders last Saturday during halftime at Madison Square Garden in the Red Storm’s season-ending contest against Marquette University. Taking to center court were Deputy Inspector Thomas Burns of the NYPD, left, St. John’s

Director of Athletics Chris Monasch, Office of Emergency Management Commissioner Joseph Bruno, Department of Sanitation Borough Chief Myron Priester, St. John’s Executive Vice President, COO and Treasurer Martha Hirst, and FDNY Commissioner Salvatore Cassano. Members of all departments were present.

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Association, said at the March 7 Community Board 10 meeting. The clarif ication comes as Resorts World is early in its second full year in business. The casino announced last week that its gaming revenues of $59.1 million in January and $57.1 million in February, more than 11 percent higher than last year’s numbers. Those numbers compare to casino revenues that fell last year in Pennsylvania, Connecticut and New Jersey. The latter dropped partially due to the effect Hurricane Sandy had on Atlantic City. The casino is also planning on opening its connection to the A subway line within the next few months. Work on Resorts World property is nearly complete, but work on the Aqueduct Racetrack station coninues. Resorts World’s parent company, Genting, is working on two new locations in the United States — one in Miami and another in Las Vegas. Aqueduct Race Track was the Malaysian company’s first Q casino in the Untied States.

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Jack’s Gift of Love T

o know Jack Marotta was to truly love him. Whatever your connection or relationship to Jack was, you knew the minute he was in your presence. Things always seemed a lot brighter when he was around. Jack just had a way of making people feel good and loved. This was his “Gift of Love.” Those of us, the luckiest of all, called him Dad, Grandpa, Uncle, Friend & Husband.

We will miss his bright presence, radiant smile, wonderful sparkling blue-green eyes and his way of making us laugh without even knowing it. Jack would always listen to you, he always wanted to help everyone. At the moment he was with you, you were the most important person to him.

Jack was active with the Queens Democratic Club, Lindenwood Alliance, Teamsters Local 707 Retirees, Sons of Italy The Fiorello La Guardia Lodge 2867, Howard Beach Columbus Day Parade. Blue Lane Car 128. Until we meet again – Love, xoxo – Marie

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Perhaps it seems that life had been too short, but he loved, laughed, and was blessed with many friends and a wonderful family, so his life was full. Many people go through life without experiencing the Gift of Love, so lets be grateful for the time we did have with him.

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Reps, co-ops and condos welcome funds, want recognition as homes by Joseph Orovic Assistant Managing/Online Editor

The recent announcement of a grant meant to help co-op and condo owners affected by Hurricane Sandy has been met with gratitude and caution. It’s needed help, but there’s still work left to be done. The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development will give Community Development Block Grants Disaster Recovery funding to co-ops and condos affected by the storm. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was among those who gladly greeted the HUD grants. “We have finally cleared a bureaucratic hurdle that prevented thousands of homeowners in New York City and Long Island from getting the help they needed,” said Schumer in a statement. “We have always said that condos and co-ops should be eligible for the same assistance as single-family homes, and now they are.” The offer came after the homeowner collectives of Northeast Queens, joined by elected officials, decried the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s refusal to provide recovery grants to co-ops and condos affected by Hurricane Sandy — the same kind that has been offered to individual homeowners. “It’s kind of a bandage approach,” said Warren Schrieber, co-president of the Presidents Co-op & Condo Council. “They’re saying, ‘we’ll throw them a bone so they’ll be quiet. “We’re not going to be quiet. This wasn’t the solution we were looking for.” The guidelines behind who does and doesn’t get FEMA aid are dictated by the Stafford Act, which does not contain specific provisions for co-ops and condos. As a result, FEMA

Workers at Glen Oaks Village clearing Hurricane Sandy damage PHOTO BY JOSEPH OROVIC in January. considers them commercial entities, leaving them ineligible for grants aimed at helping homeowners get back on their feet. FEMA cites co-ops and condos as carrying a “master policy,” essentially equating them with businesses. This misconception can be traced back to the relatively unique stature of co-ops and condos as something as New York as hot dog stands and yellow cabs. The HUD grant becomes available to communities in need of resources following a presidentially-declared disaster. Unlike FEMA funding, it is competitive. It is not, however, a suitable substitute, some said. “It’s a good first step, but until we get FEMA to define

co-ops the same way they define any other residence, it’s not a complete solution,” said Rep. Steve Israel (D-Queens, LI). The congressman said he spent a good portion of his Presidential Inauguration luncheon discussing the problem with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. Lawmakers at the local level also welcomed the HUD grants, but hoped it’s not the end of the federal aid. “We’re happy that a grant is out there,” said Councilman Mark Weprin (D-Oakland Gardens, who founded the City Council’s Co-ops and Condos Caucus. “We don’t want to take our eye off the prize though, which is to make sure that FEMA changes their rules on whether co-ops should be counted as housing.” Schumer focused on ensuring funding for the HUD grant program when the Sandy Relief Bill was navigating Congress. New York State and City are eligible for approximately $3.5 billion of an initial $5.4 billion. “Co-op and condo owners deserved the same relief that private homeowners received, and this decision helps accomplish that basic fairness,” Schumer said, later adding “This funding, which was created by congress, is a lifeline for countless co-op and condo owners who were hammered by Superstorm Sandy, but had nowhere to turn to for help due to poorly crafted FEMA rules. I will continue to press FEMA at every turn to change their disaster relief rules so that co-op and condo owners get access to aid they need and deserve.” The senator and congressman both promised to continue the fight for FEMA funding. “We’re going to continue putting maximum pressure on FEMA to support new legislation that would change the definition of co-ops and allow disaster assistance,” Israel said. Q

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Ice Jewelry: where the owners can relate to their clients

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In addition to buying gold, silver, diamonds, watches and coins, Ice Jewelry Buying also offers instant cash loans for jewelry and eBay selling services.

Recently, a woman and her boyfriend went into an unassuming gold buying and cash loan shop on Queens Boulevard. She had a $35 offer on Their cash loans program is straightforward her ring from another area shop, but was looking and simple. “It’s a perfect solution for someone to get a better deal. In what may be viewed who has a bill due and a check on the way,” as poor business acumen, she told her new Goldberg said. “But we make sure they have a prospective buyer what her previous offer was. game plan to buy their jewelry back before the Still, after examining her piece, he offered her end of the term. Sometimes these are people’s $1,600. He did so, as he says, “...because that’s heirlooms we’re talking about and we respect what it was worth.” that.” The plight of the worker who’s hard-up for cash For those who are less Internet-savvy or in today’s economy is something that Arthur Elias just don’t have the time, Ice Jewelry Buying and Edward Goldberg can relate to firsthand, offers a convenient eBay sales service. If what having been laid off from their jobs in jewelry a customer has isn’t an item that Ice Jewelry manufacturing. They understand that people get Buying would purchase, like a handbag or antique into situations where they just need a little cash furniture, they can help find a buyer on their eBay fast to make the bills and Ice Jewelry Buying store. Elias consults with the customer to find a Service hopes to help out in the most honest way target price and let the Internet they can. auctioneers handle the rest. STORE HOURS “For this, I like to think we’re doing the community a service,” For anyone who has ever MON.-FRI. 11am - 7pm Elias said. “We’re in the business dealt with the hassle of selling SAT. 10am 5pm of helping people who are in a and shipping an item on eBay SUN. by Appointment tough spot. They can come to — all the forms involved in our store and know that we can setting up a user and paypal educate them on what they have and we’ll give account, the 10-15 percent fee that Ice Jewelry them what their items are worth. When that Buying charges to do all the work is really a woman told me her previous offer, it made me bargain deal. wonder how many times this happens — how “At the end of the day, I just want people to many people who really need that money get feel comfortable doing business with us. People taken advantage of?” have this conception of gold buying stores as Elias opened his Rego Park shop with Goldberg these slimy places with slimy people, and they’re less than a year ago, and already they’re seeing typically right. But we want to be different. I don’t a lot of repeat customers and referrals. This is think it’s cool to see someone buy a ring for a sign to them that they’re doing something right $200 and put it in their counter for $800. We — the pawn business typically deals in one-time don’t do that.” transactions but Elias is determined to break that Ice Jewelry Buying Service is located at mold, building a reputation on trust. 98-30 Queens Blvd. in Rego Park. Hours of “Everyone around here is buying gold these operation are Monday-Friday from 11 am to 7:00 days; you can go into the barber shop down the pm and Saturday 10 am to 5 pm; Sunday– private road and sell your jewelry. The problem with all appoinments are available. Call for more these places is they treat everything like it’s a Q information (718) 830-0030. one-shot deal and we don’t do that,” Elias said. - ADVERTORIAL -

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Two Ozone Park men have been convicted of attempted murder and numerous other charges in connection with a one-hour crime spree in 2010 during which one of them tried to shoot two New York City police officers. Urban Fermin, 33 was convicted on March 4, and Darius Lowery, 25, on March 6, according to a statement released by the office of Queens District Attorney Richard Brown. The spree began with a stolen car in St. Albans, included a home invasion robbery and concluded with shots fired on and just off of Sutphin Boulevard in South Jamaica. “In less than an hour, the two defendants committed more than a dozen serious felonies, including the attempted murder of two police officers who put their lives and safety at risk as they braved gunfire in an effort to bring the defendants’ crime spree to a halt,” Brown said. Testimony at their trial stated that the spree began at about 7:35 a.m. on Feb. 10, 2010, when a man in St. Albans left his white 2000 Ford Focus running outside his home to warm up, only to find it gone when he returned. About 35 minutes later, a 72-year-old South Ozone Park woman opened her front door and was confronted by two masked men who forced their way inside her home and announced a robbery. The woman and her 40-year-old daughter were held at gunpoint as the men took cash, a camera, jewelry, a Wii gaming system and a flat-screen television before fleeing. Moments later an Ozone Park woman walking along 128th Street was robbed of her purse, cell phone, money and credit cards by an armed, masked man who got away in a white vehicle being driven by a second man. Brown’s office said NYPD officers Shawn Phillips and Steven Betts observed Fermin and Lowery in the Ford Focus at the intersection of 130th Street and Foch Boulevard about 20 sec-

onds after the street robbery. As they approached the vehicle Fermin, who was identified as the driver, took the officers on a high-speed chase through three different precincts — at times traveling the wrong way down one-way streets — until they arrived on Sutphin Boulevard and began heading south. At that point Lowery leaned out the window of the moving car and fired at least eight shots at the officers. They ended up jumping out of the moving car on 153rd Street between 118th and 119th avenues. Lowery was seen reaching into his waistband, leading the officers to open fire, though he was not hit. The car crashed at the end of the block with the items taken in the burglary and robbery recovered inside. “This case once again underscores the serious and dangerous nature of police work and the sacrifices that our police officers make in serving our community from the likes of these two defendants,” the district attorney said in his statement. Fermin was arrested near the site of the crash, while Lowery escaped but was arrested at his home about 12 hours later. The detective squad from the 106th Precinct in Ozone Park took the lead in the investigation. Fermin and Lowery had been held without bail since their arrests. They were convicted following a five-week trial of first- and second-degree attempted murder, first-degree reckless endangerment, f irst-degree attempted assault, attempted aggravated assault on a police officer, firstdegree burglary, first- and second-degree robbery, second-degree criminal possession of a weapon fourth-degree grand larceny, fourthand f ifth-degree criminal possession of stolen property, first-degree unauthorized use of a vehicle and third-degree unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle. They face 25 years to life in prison when Q sentenced later this month.

Easter bake sale in Nativity’s church Luigi, formerly of Seviroli, is holding a big Easter sale in Nativity’s church hall at 101-41 91 St. in Ozone Park throughout March. Luigi will be selling assorted pastries, including St. Joseph pastries, cheesecakes, Easter assortments, fig cookies, honey balls, meat and grain pies, cannoli and sfogliatelle on Sunday, March 17 during the flea market, on Tuesday, March 19 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., Sunday, March 24 from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., Friday, March 29 from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday, March 30 from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday, March 31 from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Twenty percent of all donations go to the church. There will be free coffee each day Q except March 17.

Woodhaven Cultural & Historical Society meeting The Woodhaven Cultural & Historical Society will meet on Wednesday, March 27 at 1 p.m. at the Emanuel United Church of Christ, located at 91st Avenue and Woodhaven Boulevard. The guest speaker will be Viktoria Sema Ballavoski, psychic and Q author of “Lilith’s Awakening.”

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continued from page 2 the 1990s and replaced with four schools. “If phaseouts were such a success, why and hisses and chants of “Liar!” and “Fraud!” from the crowd when he outlined are we here discussing closing two of the steps the city took toward saving failing four schools located there?” he asked. The PEP also debated a resolution draftschools. At times seemingly affected personally by the catcalls from the crowd, ed by Queens member Dmytro Fedkowskyj Sternberg said closing schools is a “last that would place a moratorium on school closures and collocations, but discussions resort” and he wasn’t happy to be doing it. “There is no joy for me or my colleagues about the proposal turned to criticism of mayoral control, which in having to bring allows the mayor to appoint these proposals to you a majority of the members this evening,” he said. of the PEP. “But we have a respon“In 10 years, no one’s sibility to act.” raised a hand against the James Eterno, UFT mayor, because you know chapter leader at you’ll get fired if you do,” Jamaica High School Patrick Sullivan, Manhattan — which was representative on the PEP, approved for phaseout said to the members appointin 2011 — said the ed by the mayor. He accused city did nothing to them of not being involved help Jamaica in the in policy discussion, amidst years before the DOE chants of “Puppets!” from decided to close it and members of the audience. has done nothing for “Did it ever occur to you the school since. He that we’re here because we also questioned the believe in what’s being policy of collocations done?” responded Judy and phaseouts, noting Bergtraum, one of the situation at the Campus Magnet — James Eterno, UFT chapter leader at Bloomberg’s appointees. Fedkowskyj responded formerly Andrew Jack- Jamaica High School, was one of the son High School — speakers from Queens at Monday’s by suggesting the DOE have gotten which was closed in PEP meeting. PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER should

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PS 122 parents may seek legal action A proposal to subtract Gifted & Talented seats angers District 30 by Josey Bartlett Editor

Parents from PS 122 are eyeing legal action against the Department of Education’s recent proposal to downsize the institution’s Gifted & Talented program. The latest in a slew of G&T plans for District 30 — which covers Astoria, Long Island City, Sunnyside and Woodside — would cut the highly ranked Academy at PS 122 from 11 to three classes, or about 60 seats, by 2019. DOE representatives said at a District 30 Community Education Council meeting earlier this month that the pairing down of the classes is in response to the schools chancellor’s regulations that say PS 122’s elementary students have the right to stay for middle school. Taking away G&T classes would make room for general education, the DOE said. As is, the school accommodates elementary students for general education and middle- school students only if they test into the Academy. Parents and CEC 30 panel members have said it’s known that PS 122 is not a kindergarten through eighth-grade school and that parents don’t expect their children to stay in the school unless they participate in G&T classes. The DOE disagrees. “We believe they are capriciously, arbitrarily and incorrectly applying the chancellor’s regulation to this school,” said Deborah Alexander, who has a son who would automatically transfer into the Academy in the sixth grade. A concern is that by offering general education through the eighth grade the school would lose its arts and science rooms, growing from 102 to 129 percent building occupancy in 2019. “The proposal would almost certainly make the school more crowded,” CEC 30 co-President Isaac Carmignani said. Parents will work with Advocates for Justice, the law firm

In November parents rallied to increase middle-school gifted FILE PHOTO and talented seats in School District 30. that successfully blocked the city from putting Success Academy Charter School at Brownsville Academy High School last month. “They say the chancellor’s regulation is implemented because of equity,” said attorney Laura Barbieri, of counsel at Advocates for Justice. “This ‘equity’ word is problematic for us. “First of all what does it mean?” she asked. “Why is it applied now? Why applied to a school where the gifted and talented program is number one in the state?” Barbieri added that the proposal reduces G&T classes in the

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On March 5, Parks Department Commissioner Veronica White and Queens Parks Commissioner Dorothy Lewandowski announced the city would hire 81 new park enforcement patrol officers citywide. “You can have all the rules in the world but unless they are enforced they become irrelevant,” Community Board 1 Parks Chairman Richard Khuzami said. Currently there are 86 PEP officers citywide. Bloomberg’s fiscal year 2014 budget includes the additional PEP officers as well as 207 more city parks workers; 96 new maintenance and trades workers, technicians and analysts to maintain play equipment, boilers, fences and lighting systems; and 30 more climbers and pruners, according to Parks spokesman Phil Abramson. “Since the beginning of the Bloomberg administration, the city has committed almost $4 billion to [parks],” Abramson said. “As a result of the fiscal crisis, over the past several years Parks’ workforce has not kept pace with its growing capital infra-

structure.” The 2014 budget addresses the gap. Where the officers will go has not been decided, but advocates and Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D-Astoria) are campaigning for equal distribution. Historically Queens’ parks have been understaffed. Some parks, such as Central Park, hired private security, while Queens parks have the bare minimum,Vallone said. This past summer one PEP officer was assigned to patrol Queens parks, according to Vallone, while the rest were sent to beaches and pools. The announcement of more PEP officers, given at a recent Astoria Civic Association meeting, comes on the heels of an 8 percent increase in park crimes. Citywide crime has risen 4 percent. “Crime is rising in our parks, and a handful of officers to keep an entire borough of parkland safe just won’t cut it,” Vallone said. “I’m glad the city has finally decided to hire more PEP officers, but we have to make sure Queens gets enough of Q them to keep people safe.”

district, which is in odds with a stated DOE objective to expand the program. “These are all viable reasons why there might be a successful action against the DOE,” she said. Parents are gathering plaintiffs and will hold a conference call with Barbieri on Friday, when they will decide whether to file a petition with New York State Education Commissioner John King or a preliminary injunction against the DOE or a combination of the two. Parent Teacher Association co-President Claudia LietoMcKenna, who has a child in general education at PS 122, believes the G&T proposal is an effort by the DOE to empty IS 141, which is the middle school PS 122 elementary school students matriculate to. The open classrooms would leave space for a new school. “I think they have their eye on 141,” Lieto-McKenna said. Former City Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz, who runs Success Academy Charter Schools, has put in two bids for charter schools in the Astoria area, Lieto-McKenna said. Success Academy Charter Schools did not return phone calls by print time. Last Tuesday, Alexander, along with a few other parents, spoke at the Panel for Education Policy meeting in Brooklyn in the hopes to speak directly Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott. The chancellor refused to address the speakers directly while on the panel, which is protocol. In the past he has met with the parents. Alexander hopes he will work with them again, adding that legal action is a last resort. Parents and the CEC have held many meetings including a 600-person rally on March 6. Tomorrow about 150 individuals will ride in a school bus to Tweed Courthouse in Manhattan to Q voice their opposition to the DOE proposal.

Quinn’s campaign for mayor continued from page 22 “She’s always wanted to meet you,” Blackstock said as her daughter shook Quinn’s hand. “You know, I’m glad you brought this up,” Quinn said. “The Council has created funds for after-school programs for children with autism but we also need to make it so that we don’t have this conflict between the school system and parents.” Bayla, who appeared to be overwhelmed by the cameras and tape recorders surrounding her, nodded shyly at Quinn’s response. “You know what?” Quinn asked. “I’d like to have you and your mom tell me what you think we should do about this, but maybe it’d be better to do it in a more private setting. These cameras and all of these people are pretty intimidating.” Quinn handed Bayla her business card and encouraged her to call anytime. As Quinn continued down the street, Bayla and her mom said they were thrilled with how the speaker handled the conversation. “I love Christine Quinn,” Mindy said. “We both think she’s amazing and I am hopeful and optimistic for the future. If she asks me to visit, I absolutely will.” Mindy said running into Quinn was entirely coincidental. “We had no idea she’d be here,” Mindy said. “We were out and I had to get her

some books for school and then I got her a hot chocolate and we just saw her walking down the street.” Mindy went on to say that having a child with special needs is difficult when it comes to issues with bullying. Bayla agreed, saying that being tall is probably the hardest to deal with. “It’s just hard sometimes to have people judge me by my size and not my age,” she said. Quinn’s visit to Forest Hills was one stop in her five-borough tour for her candidacy announcement and the first step in her pledge to visit every neighborhood in or part of the city before the Democratic Primary. Many who attended her tour of Forest Hills praised her for being open and willing to speak with residents. “It’s way different from Bloomberg,” one man said. “It’s better.” Quinn, who has been cited as a clear front-runner by members of the Democratic Party will be running against Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, former City Comptroller Bill Thompson and ex-councilmember Sal Albanese for the Democratic nomination. Current comptroller John Liu is expected to throw his hat in the ring in coming weeks as well. If Quinn does win, she will be the city’s Q first female and openly gay mayor.

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Dirty Gems will rep Queens in finals And then there was one. On March 1 seven Queens bands competed to represent the borough in the ultimate Battle of the Boroughs, an event on June 21 hosted by public radio WNYC and WQXR. Two bands were eliminated that Friday two weeks ago, with the remaining five competing for votes online until last Monday when The Dirty Gems were crowned the borough’s star. Frontwoman Raycee Jones led the group through a tearjerking ballad. She had a strong look with flashy purple hair to match her sparkly The six-person band, The Dirty Gems, including guitarist Gary eye makeup and dagger-like Heimbauer and vocalist Raycee Jones, wins the Queens Battle of FILE PHOTO heals. And although the three the Bands on March 1. judges seemed to like the instrumental band Sean Nowell and The the ultimate battle against Queens, Bronx, Kung-Fu Masters the best, they also gave Manhattan and Staten Island-based bands. The Dirty Gems originally formed in 2007 The Dirty Gems big pats on the back. As for the audience, The Dirty Gems as a three-person jazz combo for a course at appeared to be the favorite at the live perfor- Hoftstra University. They picked up three more artists after graduation to round out the mance. “We’re over the moon to be representing group taking the new ensemble to the 2011 Queens this summer,” drummer Jack Goode Hofstra University Battle of the Bands. They won, landing a gig playing with Big said in an email after the voting. “We did very well last year, but we faced some seri- Boi, Minus The Bear and The London Souls. ously fierce competition. The band that beat The Dirty Gems went on to play all over the us last year went on to win the whole Battle, city, winning the 2012 Upper East Side Music Festival. so we didn’t feel that bad about losing!” In the months leading up to June’s ultiIn 2012 the soul group competed in the Brooklyn battle — because they have mem- mate battle, the sextet will be finishing up bers repping equal parts Queens and Marty their second record, “Vuja De,” and on June Markowitz’s borough. They lost to The Brown 21 the group will perform the same ballad, Rice Family, a rasta-rap band that made every- “Automatic Heart,” that stole the show two Q one stand up and dance, and went on to win weeks ago.

Woodhaven Dev. continued from page 20 letter, enclosing a self-addressed envelope to Howard Beach Apartments, LLC, c/o POP Management, 191 Joralemon St., 8th floor, Brooklyn New York 11201. You can download an application at ccbq.org/ howardbeachapts. All applications will be placed in a lottery process and have to be received by Monday, April 22. Remember to shop locally on your Woodhaven’s Jamaica Avenue, your “Everything Avenue.” Please mark your calendars for our Woodhaven Business Improvement District Easter bunny will be visiting on Saturday, PETD-060737

March 23, with free pictures and distributing goodies between 1 and 4 p.m. in our Forest Parkway Plaza area off Jamaica Avenue (weather permitting) with other attractions. The next Greater Woodhaven Development Corporation meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, April 23 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Thomas the Apostle 88th Street cafeteria with very interesting guests. Also, Friday, June 7 will be our “Happiness is Spring” dinner dance. Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all of our Irish neighbors and friends and those Irish for the day. Erin Go Bragh. May God bless our leaders, may God bless our armed forces and coalition Q forces and may God bless America.

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ARTS, CULTURE & LIVING

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BACKGROUND FRONT and CENTER Last Saturday night Richard Garet performed at Mandragoras Art Space in Long Island City. As he dimmed and brightened two lightbulbs, photosensitive sensors turned that electricity into sound.

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Garet’s artworks in the show “Extraneous to the Message” investigate “the background noise established by mass media culture of everyday life,” according to a writeup by Julian Navarro, who brought the exhibition to the art space. Garet says the works address the background noise that we typically try to ignore every day, such as that from mass media, but also all the tidbits of sound that float around us daily. “Inspired by information theory, where what defines noise is the understanding of anything that is intrusive to the communication process — all the noise that exists or that enters the channels of communication,” Garet said. Continued page continued onon page 44

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Artist Richard Garet’s performance and exhibit experiment with sound

“I have nothing to say and I am going to say it.” If you put your ear close to the lone guitar in the stark white room at Mandragoras Art Space, a collective of young entrepreneurs experimenting with new approaches to performance art, you can hear these words. From farther back it sounds like the instrument, which sits on a long mirror hooked to an amplifier, is being strummed by some invisible hand. Magically, to those unversed in the workings of sonic fields (like me), that phrase spoken by American avant garde composer and music theorist John Cage creates vibrations that move the guitar strings and create the sound. “It is a process of translating, interpreting and sonifying John Cage’s voice,” artist Richard Garet said.

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Human Growth Foundation, a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to help children and adults with disorders of growth and growth hormone, will host its first annual 4.8K Step Up and Walk on Sunday, April 21 from 7 a.m. to noon at Flushing Meadows Corona Park, 113-01 Roosevelt Ave, Flushing. Individual and team registration is now open online at hgfound.org/stepupandwalk_event_registration.html

A new exhibition at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, Re-Forming the Image in the Dutch Golden Age, on view through March 23, results from a student seminar. The works on display include paintings, prints, sculpture and historical artifacts form 16th and 18th century Europe and colonial New York. Museum hours are Monday-Thursday, 11a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Queens County Bird Club will hold an evening presentation on Wednesday, March 20 at 8 p.m. at Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston. For more information call (516) 965-2282.

Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, celebrates its 75th anniversary and its Art Center celebrates its 25th anniversary with a gallery exhibit “25/75: The Silver and Diamond Jubilees/ Then and Now,” through March 22. This exhibition shows work by 25 artists, one from each season since the Art Center’s 1988 inauguration and selected by its three curators.

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The JCC-Chabad of LIC holds a seder on Monday, March 25 at 10-31 Jackson Ave. Also, Passover necessities will be delivered to homebound seniors and financially challenged residents in West Queens. Visit JewishLIC.com or contact (718) 609-0066.

A barnyard Easter egg hunt will take place on Saturday, March 30 at the Queens County Farm Museum. PHOTO COURTESY GOOGLE IMAGES

Marathon Little Theatre Group presents “The Pajama Game” on Saturday, March 16 at 8:30 p.m. and Sunday, March 17 at 3 p.m. $18 for adults and $16 for seniors and children under 13 at 247-37 60 Ave., Douglaston. Call (718) 229-4644 for more information. Maggie’s Little Theater performs “Godspell” on Friday and Saturday, March 15 and 16 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, March 17 at 2:30 p.m. in St. Margaret’s Parish Hall, 79th Place between Metropolitan Avenue and Juniper Valley Road in Middle Village. $15 for adults, $13 for seniors and $10 for children. Visit maggieslittletheater.org to reserve tickets or call (917) 579-5389. Theatre By The Bay produces “The Wizard of Oz” on Saturday, March 16 at 8:30 p.m. and on Sunday, March 17 at 3 p.m. at Bay Terrace Jewish Center, 13-00 209 St., Bayside. $20 for adults and $18 for seniors, 62 and older and children 12 and under. For more information or to make reservations visit theatrebythebayny.com or call (718) 428-6363.

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DANCE Thalia Spanish Theatre, 41-17 Greenpoint Ave., Sunnyside, performs “Afro Tango” through March 17 on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 4 p.m. Tickets are $35; students and seniors $32; Fridays only $30. For information and tickets call (718) 729-3880 or visit thaliatheatre.org.

FILM Green Film Series: “Flow” about the world water crisis will be held at Astoria Library, 14-01 Astoria Blvd. on Thursday, March 21 at 5:30 p.m. Call (718) 278-2220 for more information. Free. A film screening and fundraiser for the independent movie “Street Choices” by George Cox of Jamaica will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. on Sunday, March 17 at Antun’s, 96-43 Springfield Blvd., Queens Village. Tickets are $50 in advance, $55 at the door. Coffee and dessert will be served. Call (917) 602-6535 for tickets or more information.

View the premiere of the short film “Product of My Environment” on Saturday, March 16 at 3 and 8 p.m. at Black Spectrum Theatre, 119-07 Merrick Blvd, Jamaica. $15. Call (718) 790-9000 for more information.

MUSIC The Hollis Presbyterian Church Ministry of Music presents “Evensong” on Sunday, March 17 at 4 p.m. at Hollis Presbyterian Church, 100-50 196 St., Hollis. Free. Queens College Chamber Music Live concert series continues in the QC Opera Studio, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, with the Kashkashian-Artymiw Duo on Friday, March 15 at 10 a.m. Call the Aaron Copland School of Music at (718) 997-3800 or email Jane.Cho@qc.cuny.edu for information.

FLEA MARKETS There will be a flea market on Saturday, March 16 at the Ridgewood Older Adult Center, 59-14 70 Ave., Ridgewood. Call (718) 456-2000 for hours. Italian Charities of America, 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst, hosts a flea market on Saturday, March 16 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Call (718) 478-3100 for more information.

MEETINGS Flushing Camera Club meets at 7:30 p.m. in Flushing Hospital, 146-01 45 Ave.; enter at 45th Avenue and Burling Street, 5th floor, on the first, third and fifth Wednesdays of the month. For more information call (718) 749-0643 or visit flushingcameraclub.org.

CLASSES Watercolor classes at the National Art League, 4421 Douglaston Pkwy., Douglaston. All techniques, beginners to advanced. Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. $25 per session. Call (718) 969-1128.

The JCC-Chabad of Long Island City/Astoria, 10-31 Jackson Blvd., hosts Torah Tuesdays at 8:30 p.m.; Taam Shabbat, Mommy and me, on Thursdays from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.; Carlbach Shabbat service and LeChaim on Fridays at 6 p.m.; Shabbat morning service and kiddush on Saturdays at 9:30 a.m..Call or visit (718) 6090066 or jewishlic.com for more information. Italian Charities of America, 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst, hosts dance with instructions every Monday and Friday from 7:15 to 8 p.m. and a social dance from 8 to 11 p.m. Call (718) 478-3100. $10. The Central Queens YM & YWHA 67-09 108 St., Forest Hills, announces the return of PERC, a club for retirees. Come meet and speak with others about what concerns you Tuesday mornings from 10-11:30 a.m. Free for members of the CQY. Nonmembers free for first session, then $2 per session. Call the Adult and Senior Department at (718) 268-5011 ext. 160 or 622 for more information.

SPECIAL EVENTS The 12th annual Eva and Lou Friedman Model Passover Seder will be held on Monday, March 18 from noon to 2:30 p.m. at Machane Chodosh, 67-29 108 St., Forest Hills. $15 for Central Queens YM&YWHA members/ $18 nonmembers. Payment required in advance. Call the Adult Department at (718) 268-5011 ext. 160. Family board game day at Bay Terrace Library, 1836 Bell Blvd., on Friday, March 29 at 3:30 p.m. Call (718) 423-7004 for more information. Free. Afternoon Composting: Weekly Food Waste DropOff at the Broadway Library, 40-20 Broadway in Long Island City on Saturdays at 1 p.m. Call (718) 721-2462. A communal first seder will be held on Monday, March 25 at 7 p.m. at the Jewish Center of Kew Gardens Hills, 71-25 Main St., Flushing. $75 per adult; discounts for children and members. RSVP to (718) 2636500 by Monday, March 18.

On Saturday, March 23 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main St., Flushing, hosts MARCH for the Earth. Open the spring season with a day of volunteering followed by a march to the Flushing Meadows Corona Park Unisphere. Advanced registration is required. Email Regina Forlenza at rforlenza@queensbotanical.org. Professor Mary Fulbrook will discuss a book on a family friend who turned out to be a Nazi functionary at the Central Queens Y, 67-09 108 St., Forest Hills, on Thursday, March 28 at 1:30 p.m. More information at (718) 268-5011 ext. 151 or pkurtz@cqy.org. A barnyard Easter egg hunt will be held at the Queens County Farm Museum, 73-50 Little Neck Parkway, Floral Park, on Saturday, March 30 from noon to 4 p.m. $5 per person. A blood drive will be held on Wednesday, March 27 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Christ the King HS gym, 68-02 Metropolitan Ave., Middle Village. For more information, call Alice Wenz at (718) 366-7400 ext. 244. The congregation of Emanuel United Church of Christ at Woodhaven Boulevard and 91st Avenue, Woodhaven, hosts Palm Sunday service on March 24 at 10:45 a.m.; Maundy Thursday Communion service on March 28 at 7:30 p.m.; Good Friday service on March 29 at 1 p.m.; and Easter Sunday service on March 31 at 10:45 a.m. The Glendale Chamber of Commerce will be hosting Fun with the Easter Bunny on Saturday, March 23 from 2-4 p.m. at 69th Street and Myrtle Avenue in Glendale. Parents should bring their children and their cameras for photos with and a gift from the bunny, face painting, a coloring table and fun for everyone. Free. The Samuel Field Y has two weekday programs for preschool children ages 3-5 with developmental disabilities and their families. On Mondays from 3 to 4:30 p.m. there is Monday Magic: Learn and Play at the Bay Terrace Center, 212-00 23 Ave., Bayside. On Wednesdays from 3-4:30 there is Gym and Creative Exploration at the Little Neck Site, 58-20 Little Neck Pkwy. Contact Amanda at (718) 225-6750 ext. 262 or email asmith@sfy.org for more information.

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Romance and a paycheck set to music hit tunes keep coming nonstop. While over two dozen performers are kept busy all “The Pajama Game,” a musical comedy that opened on night, singing, dancing and making merry, two perforBroadway in 1954 and is being presented in Queens by the mances stand out. Marathon Little Theatre Group in Douglaston, is surprisingly Frank Auriemma as Hines, the time-study expert who relevant, because who today cannot identify with the need “can time anything,” is a song-and-dance man in the style for a fatter paycheck? of an Eddie Foy, Jr. (who created the role on Broadway) or, to With a terrific batch of songs by Richard Adler and Jerry use a more current reference, a Joel Grey. With expressive Ross, whose burgeoning career as collaborators was cut short saucer-size eyes and a bag of tricks for milking the crowd, he by Ross’ untimely death at the age is a pleasure from start to finish. of 29, the show is set primarily in a And the other standout perforpajama factory, where the new mance was by Bob Alpert in the superintendent tries to keep things nonsinging role of the no-nonWhen: March 16 at 8:30 p.m., on track. He is soon smitten by the sense company president. March 17 at 3 p.m. female head of the union’s GrievGary Ducoing, as the superinWhere: Marathon Jewish Community Center ance Committee, but politics intertendent, possesses a lovely 245-37 60 Ave., Douglaston fere in the romance as the workers singing voice and is always pleasTickets: $18; $16 for seniors and children demand a pay hike — to the tune ant to listen to, but he is a miscast (718) 428-1580 of “7 1/2 cents” an hour. A major leading man, lacking the physical plot development revolves around and vocal heft required by the a threatened strike by the workers, and there’s also more role. As his love interest, Heather Bilczic sings well and, than a little hanky-panky going on in the workplace, all very together, they make a believable pair. innocent, of course. As Gladys, the president’s secretary, Tanya Fiebert has lots Because this is an old-fashioned musical in the best possi- of energy and gets to display her powerhouse voice. Austin ble sense, in the end, things work out for everyone. Auriemma shows conviction as the union president. Sue In shows like this, it’s generally the songs that bring back Fiebert, a secretary named Mabel, has her moment in the memories and create the longest-lasting impressions, and spotlight in “I’ll Never Be Jealous Again,” a duet she and with titles that include “Hernando’s Hideaway,” “Hey Auriemma handle with aplomb. The show’s producer, Sandi There” and “Steam Heat,” not to mention “7 1/2 cents” the Plotkin, takes full advantage of her time on stage as well.

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Following the opening of several musical classics on local community theater stages (see last week’s Queens Chronicle for Part I of this article), the second half of the spring theatrical season seems destined to be remembered for something completely different, as producers take chances on an array of unusual projects — including one by this writer. In a stark departure from its usual fare, Theatre Time Productions will present “Once More, With Feeling,” billed as a musical concert, beginning April 13. Producer Judy Vincent promises that the show, which will feature music from the worlds of opera and Broadway, along with standards and maybe even a little Beyonce, “will be something for everyone to enjoy, young and old.” A doz en voc al i s ts will per f or m as soloists, duets and in groups. Some will accompany themselves. The production is to be directed by Kevin Vincent. Performances at the Colonial Church of Bayside at 54-02 217 St. are on April 13, 20, 26 and 27 at 8 p.m. and April 14, 21 and 28 at 3 p.m. Tickets cost $18; $16 for students and seniors. For more information (call) 347-358-8102. Beari Productions is also trying something new with its upcoming production of “Camelot — The Concert Version.” With minimal sets, suggestions of period

costumes and limited staging, the show will be directed by Debbie Bendana, with musical direction by Frank Auriemma. According to producer Rene Bendana, all the Lerner and Loewe songs will be included, among them “If Ever I Would Leave You” and the title tune, with connecting narrative to help tell the tale of a king, his queen and the man who comes between them. Jimmy O’Neill will sing the role of King Arthur, Candis Alek will be Queen Guinevere, and John Kimick will appear as Lancelot, the most famous of the Knights of the Round Table. Performances at All Saints Episcopal Church at 214-35 40 Ave. in Bayside are on April 26 and 27 at 8 p.m., April 28 at 2 p.m., May 3 and 4 at 8 p.m. and May 5 at 2 p.m. Tickets cost $18; $16 for seniors; $14 for students and groups of 10 or more. For more information, call (718) 736-1263. Those who prefer their theatrical fare with less music should look forward to Douglaston Community Theatre’s presentation of “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” a dramatization by Tim Kelly based on the classic story of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Brian Payne heads the cast as that wellknown detective, Sherlock Holmes, with Joe Pepe bringing to life his admiring sidekick, Dr. Watson. Also featured prominently is Dan Bubbeo as Sir Henry Baskerville, a natural target as heir to a fortune. continued on page 00 46

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Emotions Anonymous, an emotional support group, will be held on Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. at Victoria Congregational Church, 148th Street and 87th Avenue, Briarwood. Call (718) 938-8869 or (917) 312-7150. Nar-Anon is a self-help support group for anyone affected by a loved one’s use/abuse of drugs. The group meets every Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in the basement lounge at The-Church-In-The-Gardens, 50 Ascan Ave., Forest Hills. For information, call 1(800) 984-0066, or go to nar-anon.org. Free caregiver support groups at Queens Community House, Kew Gardens Community Center, 80-02 Kew Gardens Road. Call (718) 226-5960 Ext. 226 for details. Drug problem? Call Narcotics Anonymous Helpline at (718) 962-6244 or visit westernqueensna.com. Meetings are held seven days a week.

SENIOR ACTIVITIES Jamaica Service Program for Older Adults, 92-47 165 St., details its safety program about rent, IT 214 tax form, Medicaid and food stamps. Call for an appointment at (718) 657-6500. Free. Rego Park Jewish Center, 97-30 Queens Blvd., will show “The Frisco Kid” on Sunday, March 17 at 2:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served after the film. $5. Call (718) 459-1000.

The Innovative SNAP of Eastern Queens Senior Center, 80-45 Winchester Blvd., Queens Village, offers a wide array of programs and services including: healthy lunches, current events, diabetes self-management classes, yoga and the Reminiscence Groups. Receive information on benefits and entitlements or share your life story in a safe, private setting. For more information on classes and transportation call Kathleen at (718) 454-2100 or visit snapqueens.org.’ Ridgewood Older Adult Center, 59-14 70 Ave, will hold a march for meals fundraiser on Wednesday, March 27 from 3-5 p.m. Tickets are $8 in advance, $9 at the door.

The Selfhelp Clearview Senior Center, 208-11 26 Ave., Bayside, hosts: Qi Gong, Mondays at 10:45 a.m.; Wii time, Mondays and Thursdays at 12:45 p.m.; Music with Dee, Mondays at 1 p.m.; beginners drawing, Tuesdays at 9:30 a.m.; health education, Tuesdays at 10 a.m.; aerobics, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11 a.m.; yoga, Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m.; mind, body and soul, Wednesdays at 11 a.m.; bingo, Wednesdays at 12:45 p.m.; jewelry making, Wednesdays at 1 p.m.; stay well exercises, Thursdays at 9:30 a.m.; reminiscing group, Thursdays at 10:45 a.m.; Scrabble, Thursdays at 12:45 p.m.; dance fitness, Fridays at 10:45 a.m. and AARP chorus, Fridays at 1 p.m.., shopping trips, computer classes, lunches and more. Call (718) 224-7888 for further information.

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The Selfhelp Latimer Gardens Senior Center, 34-30 137 St., Flushing, offers ballroom dancing, Mondays, Wednesdays through Fridays at 10:30 a.m. to noon; tai chi, Tuesdays at 10 a.m. to noon; English as a second language, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 10 a.m. to noon; Ping Pong, exercise and mahjong, Mondays though Fridays; Special workshops: on Friday, March 15 at 10 a.m., Falls Prevention; Wednesday, March 20 at 11 a.m., Diabetic foot care; and Wednesday, March 27, Preventing strokes. (718) 961-3660.

The Ridgewood Older Adult Center, 59-14 70 Ave., has a food pantry Tuesdays-Thursdays from 13 p.m. Next bus trip to Yonkers and AARP Defensive Driving class both on Monday, March 18. The MetroCard van is at the Center on the fourth Thursday of every month. Movies are held every Monday or Tuesday at 1:15 p.m. Art classes are held every Monday at 12:30 p.m. Call Karen at (718) 4562000 for more information. The Brooks Senior Center, 143-22 109 Ave., Jamaica, hosts a healthy lunch from noon to 1 p.m., activities such as Wii sports, bowling, bingo, laptop classes, exercise, ceramics, cards and board games, blood pressure checks, trips, monthly nutrition presentations and monthly birthday celebrations and theme parties. Suggested contribution is $1.25. For more information call (718) 291-3935.

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A leisure group meets every Wednesday at 11 a.m. at the Hillcrest Jewish Center, Prince Room, 183-02 Union Turnpike, Flushing. Cost is $6 for lunch. The program includes yoga instruction, discussion groups, card games, bingo, birthday celebrations, guest speakers and holiday celebrations. For info., call Dr. Roz Gold at (718) 229-7511.

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The cast of 10 will be directed by Eric Leeb, who said this tale of suspense has been adapted to a modern setting. Performances at Zion Episcopal Church Parish Hall on 44th Ave. off Douglaston Parkway. in Douglaston, are on May 3, 4, 10, 11, 17 and 18 at 8 p.m. and May 5 and 11 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $17; $15 for seniors and students (with ID) For more information, call (718) 482-3332. Billed as “an original multi-media musical in tribute to the history and people of the borough of Queens,” a new work entitled “Let’s Hear It for Queens” will be the spring attraction at FSF Community Theatre Group. Written and directed by this writer, the play features a cast of nearly three dozen, headed by Kieran Larkin. He appears as Antiquous, a man who has lived some 400 years, long enough to see the borough develop from its primitive past to the multicultural wonder it is today. In a segment devoted to luminaries with direct ties to Queens, Jean Ann Kump will appear as Ethel Merman, DeJun Jenkins will portray Louis Armstrong and Andrew Anton will perform as Tony Bennett. Interwoven will be personal accounts of

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HRA program helps nurse remodel, and pay off her car “Wow, is this the same bathroom? ” friends of Patricia Keanes-Douglas ask when they visit her Brooklyn home. “Who did it? It’s beautiful!” Maybe it’s the shimmering Carrera White tiling on both the floor and walls that catches their eye. Maybe it’s the modern chromefinish Kohler fixtures and deepsoak drop-in bathtub. Or it might be the marble sink and clean white solid wood vanity below it. Then there’s the threebulb lighting fixture that lends such a crystal- clear glow to the whole room. More likely than not, it’s all these things, because everywhere you look, Keanes-Douglas’ new bathroom exhibits a refined elegance and style that looks modern but also will stand the test of time. “It’s very posh-looking,” she says. “It’s really light and airy, and it makes you want to stay in the bathroom. Even though the bathroom is small, it’s the kind of bathroom you see in a magazine. It’s beautiful.” Best of all, turning the bathroom from dated and drab to light and livable cost a lot less than you might think, thanks to the Housing Rehabilitation Assistance program, which specializes in helping homeowners do all kinds of remodeling while at the same time saving thousands of dollars. Keanes-Douglas, a nurse, and her daughter, Patricia, had been wanting to redo the bathroom in

their home on a quiet block near the Brooklyn Terminal Market for years, but the time never seemed quite right. Until, that is, they received an advertisement for the HRA and saw all the services its attentive staff offers. “My daughter is always looking to upgrade things,” KeanesDouglas explained. “She’s wanted to do the bathroom for a long time. I said, well, we’ve been here over 10 years, and we’ve done some things around the house. I hated that old bathroom. This seemed to be the right time to do it.” But the Keanes-Douglases didn’t want to call just any old contractor to do the job, which is where HRA comes in. The first step was to call the group’s toll-free number and set up an appointment with a representative who came by to explain all the benefits of the program, which include securing assistance and screening contractors to make sure only the best are brought in to do the work. Keanes-Douglas, like so many HRA clients, is thrilled with the results. Not only did she get a new bathroom for herself and her daughter, the refinancing allowed her to pay off her car loan, do some more work on the dining room and still come out ahead. I t was H R A r ep r es ent a tive Carlos Fontanez who first came to her home to detail the program. “When Carlos came he

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Brooklyn nurse Patricia Keanes-Douglas was tired of her bathroom’s outdated design, but had been putting off renovations — until the Housing Rehabilitation Assistance program put remodeling within reach. explained the whole thing to me,” said Keanes-Douglas, a native of Grenada who’s lived in the United States most of the last 42 years. “I don’t like to rush things. He took a lot of time explaining everything to me. Then I spoke to his supervisor, and he was really very thorough and informative. Once I got all the information and

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“Not a pin was out of place. I would totally recommend them.” And the workers did a lot more than is visible to the eye, also redoing the bathroom’s plumbing and electrical systems. They even found the time, and the means within her budget, to do some much-needed work in the dining room attached to the back of her house, putting in new hardwood flooring, electricity and — for the first time — baseboard heating. All the work went smoothly. “There were no unexpected problems,” Keanes-Douglas said. “I had no complaints at all.” And she just can’t get over that new bathroom. “I love it,” she said. “The colors attract so much light. In the evening, with the light coming in, the bathroom is like a big ball of light.” To find out if you qualify for the Housing Rehabilitation Assistance program, just call HRA tollfree at 866-791-6302. Tell them you read about the great job they did for the Keanes-Douglases, and they’ll be sure to give you the same level of excellent service. HOUR-060444

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Patricia Keanes-Douglas can’t help but smile as she shows her HRA representative, Carlos Fontanez, what a great job her program-approved contractors did on her bathroom. A drop-in deep-soak tub with custom-tiled apron brings style, comfort and even tax savings, all thanks to the Housing Rehabilitation Assistance program.

read it over, I was very comfortable with the program.” The next step was to meet with the HRA-approved contractor w ho’d b e doing t he wor k. The program is very particular about who can do the jobs it’s involved with, requiring companies to demonstrate that they are licensed, bonded and insured for at least $100,000 per incident; registered with the Better Business Bureau, with a rating of an A or higher; on file with Consumer Affairs; and in business for at least 10 years with no name changes in their filings. The HRA’s standards ensure that only the best, most reputable home improvement firms are hired — and the program’s rules stipulate that they don’t even get paid until a client certifies the job has been done to his or her complete satisfaction. The selective process paid off for Keanes-Douglas, as it does for each HRA client, with the whole job done in about a week without any problems, and her house left spotless every day. “They cleaned up as they went along,” Keanes-Douglas said.

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One of the few notes of discord coming out of the Mets’ spring training base of Port St. Lucie, Fla. is that Mets general manager Sandy Alderson is unhappy that John Santana did not report to camp in what the GM considers suitable pitching shape. Alderson, who is known for his no-nonsense and realistic assessments, must have been delusional if he expected the onetime Mets ace, who missed the entire 2011 season with arm problems and then suffered from fatigue right after tossing the first no-hitter in Mets’ history last June 1 — when he threw an amazing 135 pitches in the effort — to be the Johan Santana of old. The odds are Santana will be on the disabled list when the Mets’ season opens April 1, and you can bet anything Alderson says will be less than sanguine. Mets owner Fred Wilpon will certainly not be breaking into any smiles when he signs Santana’s paychecks, since he will be earning $25.5 million dollars this year. The good news for the Mets accounting department is that Johan is in the last year of his contract. Alderson will be praying that his expensive southpaw will pitch decently enough by the July 31 trading deadline so that he can deal him to a contending team for inexpensive prospects that he can claim will one day be

impact players in Flushing. Aside from the obvious reasons, Alderson will want to trade Santana because he is the last of former general manager Omar Minaya’s big free-agent signings still on the Mets roster. As is usually the case in corporate America, new management likes to bring in its own guys and get rid of those from the old regime. If you’re champing at the bit to get to Citi Field and can’t wait for Opening Day, catch the inaugural Metropolitan Lacrosse Classic this Sunday. It’ll feature a collegiate powerhouse doubleheader as Holy Cross will meet Navy at noon while Colgate and Michigan will battle it out at 3. Expect more offense from these four teams in one afternoon than you’ll get out of the Mets outfield this entire season. Congratulations to the Christ the King boys basketball team for winning the CHSAA championship last Sunday. Rafael Nadal, who had to withdraw from the 2012 US Open because he was recovering from knee surgery, looked like his old self at last Monday’s BNP Paribas Showdown, held at Madison Square Garden. He lost in straight sets to Juan Del Potro, but he moved with alacrity and did not appear to be suffering any discomfort. Barring any other injury between now and late August, Nadal should be back at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center the Q last Monday in August.

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The New York Yankees had just swept the Saint Louis Cardinals four games to none in the 1928 World Series. Babe Ruth had batted a hefty .625 — with an amazing three home runs in the final game. After the postseason was over, Ruth, fellow legend Lou Gehrig and other Yanks enjoyed going on tour Babe Ruth promoting the World Series Rodeo on Oct. around the country. Ruth’s barn- 12, 1928 at the old ballpark at Dexter Park in storming team was called the Bustin’ Woodhaven, with Lou Gehrig next to him. Babes, while Gehrig led the rival Larrupin’ Lous. On Columbus Day, Oct. 12, Babe that day, before a crowd of almost 1928, they visited the semiprofessional ball- 20,000 people. Ruth was no stranger to Queens, freclub called the Brooklyn Bushwicks, who played in Dexter Park. Now gone, the park quenting the borough’s many golf courses. sat on Jamaica Avenue in Woodhaven, just He loved golf so much he rented a house in off the Brooklyn line. Team owner Max Ros- the summertime at 114-07 175 St. in St. Albans so he could walk out the door to the ner lived on Curzon Road in Kew Gardens. The Sultan of Swat and The Iron Horse golf course just down the block. When arrived in grand style, decked out in western World War II broke out, the golf course was regalia, as they also were promoting Madi- sold and became a naval hospital. The Yanks may have been the world son Square Garden’s World Series Rodeo. The Bushwicks’ 6-foot-4-inch pitcher Bill champions in 1928, but the Bushwicks beat Q Hockenberry managed to strike out The ’em that day in Queens, 10-6.

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