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C M SQ page 1 Y K SOUTH QUEENS EDITION Serving Howard Beach, Ozone Park, Woodhaven, Richmond Hill, South Ozone Park, City Line and JFK Airport

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Parents, CEC request more G&T programs in South Queens PHOTO BY ANTHONY O’REILLY; ILLUSTRATION BY JAN SCHULMAN

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Most of the smartest children in School District 27 are left unchallenged because of a lack of Gifted and Talented programs in the area. Parents and Community Education Council 27 are asking the city to change that.

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ueens activists expressed concern and, at times, frustration over the recent announcement that tens of thousands more teachers and school administrators will be able to take advantage of special parking near schools. “If they have these permits, that’s going to create chaos,” said Angie Augugliaro of the Bellerose-based Queens Colony Civic Association. “Now you’re increasing the number of people who are going to need parking spaces. It has the potential to be total chaos.” The United Federation of Teachers announced May 10 all school employees with a car would receive Department of Education-issued parking permits, effective today, Thursday, May 18. Despite the massive increase in permits being issued by the DOE, the number of spots available near schools will not increase and will be available on a first-come, firstserved basis. The permits also apply to members of the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators and District Council 37. The move, approved by City Hall, reverses a decision by former Mayor Bloomberg to cut the number of permits from 63,000 to 11,000 in 2008 — the CSA that year sued the

More teachers and school administrators will be able to take advantage of parking near schools, such as on this block near John Adams High School in Ozone Park. Queens activists were not PHOTO BY ANTHONY O’REILLY thrilled with the increase in permits. city, claiming the permit reduction violated the group’s labor contract. The recent change is in part a result of the CSA winning the lawsuit. “It has been easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for the city to sort out this leftover injustice from the Bloom-

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The calls are coming from inside the hotel Few complaints from outside the Ozone Park shelters, 106 CO says by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

Residents neighboring the two Ozone Park hotels being used as homeless shelters have not been calling the Police Department with many complaints since the city moved people in there, Capt. Brian Bohannon said last Wednesday. “We’re not getting those calls,” Bohannon, commanding officer of the 106th Precinct, said at the command’s community council meeting. “I monitor every call that comes in. You may be seeing it, but you’re not calling it in.” That doesn’t mean cops aren’t at the Comfort Inn and Days Inn, located next door to each other on Redding Street. “I have had calls from inside the hotel,” Bohannon said. “We have domestic issues, a husband violating an order of protection.” The captain was addressing a crowd of people who showed up to the council meeting because a false rumor on social media stated the cops would be having a special meeting on the shelters, which started housing homeless people earlier this year. They were moved in there by the city, which did not notify the community or elected officials beforehand. Seven 911 calls have come from area residents reporting disorderly conduct and other complaints around the hotel, Bohannon said. But that’s about it. One woman, who attended the council meet-

The Comfort Inn on Redding Street, which is being used as a homeless shelter, was one of the main topics of conversation at the 106th Precinct’s Community Council meeting last WednesFILE PHOTO day. Residents showed up to the meeting believing it was just about the shelters. ing and identified herself as a Howard Beach resident, called the homeless problem in South Queens “out of control,” before displaying a Queens Chronicle article about homeless people loitering in the parking lot of the Stop & Shop on Cross Bay Boulevard.

The woman said, “It’s not just there, it’s everywhere,” adding that she’s seen homeless people sleeping on the street near the Redding Street hotels. Responding to complaints of panhandling, Bohannon said there’s little cops can do

because the activity is not illegal until someone becomes aggressive. “That we can enforce,” he said of aggressive panhandling. But asking the homeless to get off the streets is a little trickier. “We can’t force them to go somewhere,” he said. “They’re human beings.” The precinct did add the officers are trying to prevent loitering near MS 202, saying they removed a homeless man from the nearby park earlier that day. The residents who went to the meeting, under the belief it was a special gathering for the hotel issue, were told to discuss their gripes with the representatives of city and state elected officials there. On another issue, Capt. Mike Edmunds, the precinct’s executive officer, said the command as of last Wednesday had seen no pedestrian or driver fatalities so far this year — at this time in 2016, there had been about five. That changed on May 16, as Robert Falk, the 89-year-old man who was hit by a car while crossing Cross Bay Boulevard May 7, died of his injuries. Edmunds, speaking at the council meeting, said Falk was expected to survive. Pedestrian injuries are down, with 38 occurring as of the council meeting compared to 59 at the same point last year. continued on page 19

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Councilman Eric Ulrich, second from right, reads a book to PS 316 first-graders. They’re joined by Queens Library Chief Librarian Nick Buron, left, Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato, BorPHOTO BY ANTHONY O’REILLY ough President Melinda Katz and state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr.

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State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) has many libraries in his district, but the Ozone Park branch is especially significant for him. “My father brought me here to get my first library card,” the senator said at the 92-24 Rockaway Blvd. location last Friday. A nd for C ou nci l m a n Er ic U l r ich (R-Ozone Park), it’s where he took out his first book, “The House on 88th Street” — he used to live on 88th Street — which, to this day, has not been returned. “I have to confess, I never returned it,” the councilman said. And while the lawmakers have fond memories of the branch, both have wanted to use their positions to better the place for their constituents. “It made me feel really embarrassed that they had to have the same experience I had, which was really outdated,” Ulrich said. That’s no longer the case, as the Ozone Park community on May 12 celebrated the reopening of the branch following a yearlong renovation to bring it to the 21st century. The site closed last April to make way for the upgrades, forcing staff to work out of a

mobile unit parked on Rockaway Boulevard. “For the past year, the staff has been living on a bus,” said branch manager Jerome Williams. Two hours into its reopening, patrons of all ages were using the computers and checking out books. The modernized space, which opened its doors at 10 a.m., has a new cyber center, separate area for teens and children, new fur niture and shelving, new computer equipment and an automated check-in / checkout machine. The work was funded through the State Education Department, former Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder, Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (R-Rockaway Park), Addabbo and Ulrich. The late former Borough President Helen Marshall had also allocated money toward the branch, as has her successor, Melinda Katz, for future work. “They are investing in our community, they are investing in our young people and the graceful aging of our older population,” Katz said of those who allocated money. Before the ceremonial ribbon cutting, elected and library officials joined firstgraders from PS 316 in the redesigned meeting room to read them “Be Who You Are!,” Q with a little help from the students.

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CEC: Give the kids a chance to excel Panel says district needs more G&T programs; only has one right now by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

Richmond Hill resident Beili Wang’s son is a smart student, one of the smartest. But the young pupil feels “bored” in the classroom, his mother said. “He’s not challenged to his level,” Wang said. “His reading and math levels are above the average so he kind of gets bored in the classroom.” The second-grader has the ability to attend a Gifted and Talented program in the city’s public school, having tested high enough to enter into the initiative that puts students who score high on a special test through a more rigid and accelerated curriculum than their peers. But because of where he lives, he doesn’t have that opportunity. School District 27 is one of two in Queens that only has one G&T program, the other being District 29. All others in the borough have at least four and District 25 in northeastern Queens has seven, according to Department of Education statistics. Wang has led a charge that’s been picked up by Community Education Council 27 to petition the DOE to put additional G&T programs in the district, citing a number of children eligible for it but unable to be sat in the one school that has it — PS 108, the Capt. Vincent Fowler School in South Ozone Park. The overcrowded school is already operat-

Highly intelligent students across the city have the opportunity to attend Gifted and Talented programs at different schools — but in School District 27, there’s only one such place offering those classes, limiting the number of students eligible to it. ing above 100 percent capacity. “High-achieving students need a set of specialized programs,” said Dr. Harold Paez, president of CEC 27. The CEC sent a letter to Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña on May 10, along with a petition with dozens of signatures collected by Wang, requesting an additional G&T program in the district — which encompasses all of Rockaway, Howard Beach, Ozone Park, South

Ozone Park, Woodhaven and Richmond Hill. “We believe that this program will begin to rectify the gap in educational opportunities and resources available for students testing into Gifted and Talented programming,” the CEC’s letter, provided to the Chronicle, stated. District 27 once had more than one G&T program, but the others were taken away years ago due to declining test scores in the area. Now, 48 kindergarten students have tested into

G&T but must compete for the 25 seats at PS 108. And the number of children eligible for the more rigorous education could be much higher than that. “Some parents won’t even test their children because they know there’s no point,” Paez said. “They know they won’t be able to send their children to it.” Part of the reason for that is parents in Rockaway or Richmond Hill are unwilling to send their children to the South Ozone Park school, should they be admitted. “I totally understand that,” said Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway Park), a former education activist and DOE paraprofessional. Paez believes more parents will have their children tested if there are more opportunities. “It’s a case of if you build it, they will come,” the CEC president said. District 27 Superintendent Mary Barton said she will discuss the issue with DOE leadership and Pheffer Amato will bring it to Fariña’s attention. The assemblywoman said the CEC deserves to be “commended for bringing this issue to the forefront.” “Why don’t they deserve the opportunity?” the assemblywoman asked of the district’s smarter students. continued on page 19

Beroff’s widow seeks school name change by Anthony O’Reilly

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The widow of Art Beroff asked Community Education Council 27 Monday to name the school under construction in Centreville in his honor, saying her late husband was dedicated to serving the children of the community even as he battled a terminal illness. “Nothing would make him happier than to see a beautiful new building, which would be filled with great leadership, educators, students and parents,” said Carole Beroff at the CEC’s monthly meeting. “And nothing would make us happier than to have it named in his honor.” Art Beroff was a longtime Community Board 10 member and served as a member of School Board 27 under the now-defunct Board of Education. During his time as a community activist, he pushed for improvements at South Queens schools such as bringing Gifted & Talented programs to them. The John Adams High School graduate also worked to provide free tutoring to students and provide summer trips to them. He also fought to make PS 207 in Howard Beach a K-8 school so students could attend classes in the community they lived in. Art Beroff died of cancer in 2004. “Art fought for these accomplishments and, as many of you know, this takes hard work, lots of time and lots of energy,” Carole Beroff said. Art’s advocacy was also praised by Democratic District Leader Lew Simon.

Carole Beroff, right, the widow of Art Beroff, asks Community Education Council 27 to name a PHOTO BY ANTHONY O’REILLY school under construction in Centreville after her late husband. “He lived for the kids and parents of District 27,” Simon said. “He was married to the job. He didn’t miss one meeting, even during his treatment.” The education advocate’s wife said he often “showed up very ill to a lot of meetings when I told him not to show up.” Naming the school after Beroff was one of the conditions CB 10 had when it approved the construction of the building, which will first open to kindergarten students in September. But, as reported by the Chronicle in

March, some CEC members are hesitant to do so – due to several concerns, including a 2002 allegation he violated securities regulations by providing shares of stocks to his parents that he paid for, which were later allegedly sold as part of an “illegal unregistered distribution,” according to a complaint from the Securities and Exchange Commissions. Art Beroff, an investment banker and financial advisor, without admitting or denying the allegations, paid a $50,000 civil penalty.

Carole Beroff, addressing the allegation, said they were made at the same time of his cancer diagnosis and the implications made in the story “were very hurtful and serve only to smear a really great guy.” Art Beroff settled with the SEC, his widow said, to save his energy for his fight with cancer. “If settling this case helped give us that extra time with him, it was worth it,” Carole Beroff said. “Any other time, any other year, any other situation, he would’ve fought the allegations and almost certainly won. If he were healthy, you would’ve never heard of this.” Furthermore, she said, similar allegations are made against many other people in the financial industry. “It’s almost a given that allegations are made sometime during your career,” Carole Beroff said. “That’s just the way it is. There are literally thousands of rules that must be adhered to.” Asked to respond to Mrs. Beroff’s comments, CEC President Dr. Harold Paez only said the process for naming a school after someone is lengthy and there will be more opportunities for the public to weigh in on the matter. “Certainly, we will be hearing more from the community on what they feel is a good choice for the school name,” he said. Carole Beroff told the CEC, “I will tell you that there are many, many people who Q can speak up for Art.”

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as the MTA finally seen the light? Does it now realize that what the subway and commuter rail systems need more than trophy items like countdown clocks, as nice as those are, is basic maintenance? Maybe so, now that the systems’ deterioration, a result of decades of deferred maintenance, appears to be accelerating faster than an LIRR train leaving a station way out east. At least the agency has come out with a plan that promises, among other things, to expedite the delivery of 750 new subway cars; revamp maintenance procedures; create rapid response maintenance teams and deploy them where they’re most likely to be needed; and double how often it tests tracks using ultrasound. Meanwhile, however, a bill by state Sen. Jose Peralta and Assemblyman Michael Den Dekker, both of Queens, is advancing in Albany that would have the MTA study the feasibility of installing sliding doors on subway platforms to keep people from falling or get-

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ting pushed onto the tracks. Yes, it’s terrible every time someone is killed by a train. But it happens about 45 times a year, out of 1.8 billion rides: That’s a rate of .0000025 percent. And back in 2013, such doors were estimated to cost at least $1 million per station, which would mean $472 million without inflation. You can bet it would be a lot more than that today. That money needs to go toward keeping the trains running. Once the MTA does that, then let’s talk about sliding safety doors. Other agencies, specifically Amtrak and the Port Authority Trans-Hudson system, also need to get back to basics. Amtrak must get Penn Station working better again. PATH has to do better than it did with the awful, extravagantly priced Oculus rail hub, which is a year old and already has a leaking roof and broken escalators. Failures on either of these lines often affects Queens commuters as well. Our rail transit systems are rundown. We must spend what it takes to fix them, now.

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Dear Editor: After witnessing Rego Park and Forest Hills residents demand and choose a safer Queens Boulevard at Wednesday’s community board meeting, I was saddened to see your May 11 editorial “The price of bike lanes,” which read like a tearful obituary for lost parking, nostalgic for the street’s fading reputation as the “Boulevard of Death.” It is frustrating to find such summary dismissal for a plan that would remake the gradelevel highway that bisects these two communities into a neighborhood street that serves its residents, workers, students and shoppers, not only its drivers. Fortunately, “skeptical” board members recognized this opportunity, approving the plan by a vote of 35-4. The editorial board believes that making Queens Boulevard safer to cross, less frustrating to bike and more enjoyable to linger on will turn the area into a ghost town through parking gridlock; as the saying goes, “nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded.” Increased space for pedestrians and cyclists — as in Times Square or on Prospect Park West — has led to a surge in their numbers because there is great, unmet demand for safer, human-scale streets all over our city. As Department of Transportation representatives noted before the vote, there is no reason to believe that bike lanes have reduced revenues for local businesses in Woodside and Elmhurst, and studies on © Copyright 2017 by MARK I PUBLICATIONS, INC. All rights reserved. Neither this newspaper nor any part thereof may be reproduced, copied, or transmitted in any form, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, microfilming, recording or by any information retrieval system without the express written permission of the publishers. This copyright is extended to the design and text created for advertisements. Reproduction of said advertisement or any part thereof without the express written permission of MARK I PUBLICATIONS, INC. is strictly prohibited. This publication will not be responsible for errors in advertising beyond the cost of the space occupied by the error. Bylined articles represent the sole opinion of the writer and are not necessarily in accordance with the views of the QUEENS CHRONICLE. This Publication reserves the right to limit or refuse advertising it deems objectionable. The Queens Chronicle is published weekly by Mark I Publications, Inc. at a subscription rate of $19 per year and out of state, $25 per year. Periodicals Postage Paid (USPS0013-572) at Flushing, N.Y. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Mark I Publications, Inc., 62-33 Woodhaven Boulevard, Rego Park, N.Y. 11374-7769.

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the topic have found either little to no impact or a modest increase in sales. Perhaps this is why 126 local businesses signed letters in support of the plan. We in the Safe Streets movement mourn each fatality on our city’s streets — 229 in 2016 — but the editorial board is entitled to grieve in its own peculiar way: instead lamenting the loss of parking spaces. It notes the 198 spaces to be removed this year and the 88 removed in 2016 with such precision, while neglecting to mention the 458 injuries from 2010-14 (38 of them serious or fatal) on this short section of Queens Boulevard alone, so as to a make a mockery of the suffering caused by traffic violence. It is clear that the editorial board’s sole concern is that the safety plan, “will be a real hassle for … drivers,” but it might want to consider, if only for a moment, what a hassle it is to get killed crossing the street. Brian Howald Brooklyn

the Senate leadership knows who is and who is not a committee chairperson. But Senate lawyers say it’s legal, an “internal administrative prerogative.” And they wonder why many people dislike lawyers. In Queens, only one senator is benefiting from this, IDC member Jose Peralta. The borough’s other indy Democrat, Tony Avella, refuses the money. Peralta, who’s been besieged by protesters over joining the IDC this year, has defended the move by touting the increased funding he’s brought to the district as a result. There’s been no word on his defending the increased funding he’s brought to himself. Are things really so bad that the public doesn’t care if lawmakers lie on forms to maintain power and help enrich their colleagues on our dime?

I bike. You’re welcome. Dear Editor: (An open letter to my Queens neighbors) When do I use my bike? To shop at Trader Joe’s (you can thank me for not competing with parking later), to shop at Best Buy and the Queens Center mall (you can thank me for not competing for parking later), for going to the movies in Forest Hills (you can thank me for not competing for parking later), for going to community board meetings on Metropolitan Avenue and Kew Gardens Road (you can thank me for not competing for parking later), for going to meetings at Borough Hall (you can thank me for not competing for parking later), for going to Sunnyside, LIC, Astoria and Uptown Manhattan (you can thank me for not adding to the car traffic on the road and at the bridge later), for going to Flushing Meadows Corona Park and the US Open, the Queens Museum of Art, Citi Field, Flushing Bay, and for that matter, Jamaica, Rockaway, Flushing,

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Baseball, for everyone Dear Editor: Local author and historian Mr. Philip Ross’ presentation on the history of Negro League Baseball sponsored by the Friends of the Douglaston-Little Neck Library on Monday, May 1 was great. It also reminded me of Major League Baseball’s April 15 honoring of the 70th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s integrating the sport. We could learn a great deal from the history of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Ebbets Field and Hank Greenberg. It was a time working- and middle-class men and women of all ages, classes, races and religions commingled in the stands rooting for Robinson and his teammates regardless of ethnic origin, game after game. Ordinary Brooklyn natives could ride the bus, trolley or subway to Ebbets Field to see their beloved Dodgers. Everyone could afford a bleacher, general admission, reserve or box seat. Hot dogs, beer, other refreshments and souvenirs were reasonably priced. Just as Robinson fought racism in the 1950s, the Detroit Tigers’ Hank Greenberg had to do the same with anti-Semitism in his time. Robinson and Greenberg both document the long-lasting relationship between African American players and Jewish fans standing together for decades in support of each other. Larry Penner Great Neck, LI

Our shores, for everyone Dear Editor: The public debate over the development of the Edgestone site in Whitestone recognizes that whatever happens with this location, it will impact Queens in a variety of ways beyond traffic congestion, utilities, and local schools. The past decade has seen dozens of new waterfront parks opening in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan. In contrast, the north shore of Queens is largely inaccessible to the public, from the power plant in Astoria to LaGuardia Airport; and from College Point to Beechhurst are mostly private docks and backyards, enjoyed by owners of recently built waterfront mansions. There are the Flushing Bay Promenade, Hermon MacNeil Park, Powells Cove Park, Francis Lewis Park and Little Bay Park, but unlike Manhattan’s shoreline parks, these Queens waterfront spaces are not connected to each other. Certainly mansions built on the water’s edge pay higher property taxes as a result of their values, but wouldn’t it be more equitable to have the shoreline open to the public instead? In Brooklyn, luxury condo towers along the East River have waterfront sitting areas open to the public, created as part of the deal that enabled them to be built on formerly industrial lands. If such agreements are good enough for the other boroughs, why not for Queens? Sergey Kadinsky Fresh Meadows

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Dear Editor: Regarding Community Board 6’s approval of the Department of Transportation’s latest Queens Boulevard Plan, it is amazing that so many can be fooled by the agency’s portrayal of failure as a success. Just as it is doing with Select Bus Service, the DOT is only giving one side of the story, as well as being misleading. The westbound service road between Queens Center and Broadway has become a parking lot for those making right turns onto Broadway, which the DOT calls “traffic calming.” I drive on the main road and pass over 100 cars virtually standing still waiting to make that right turn. At least five minutes has been added to their trips. The DOT claims the new, barely used bicycle lane and never-used jogging path and center pedestrian malls are a huge benefit that have made the boulevard safer and need to be expanded. How could they have increased safety when now in order to exit the main roadway, you need a passenger to tell you if the road is clear because of the angle your car must now be in to exit? The fact that increased cycling on major thoroughfares has led to increases in the numbers of bicycle fatalities and injuries is conveniently ignored. Regarding SBS, the DOT has also used misleading statistics to falsely portray success. Lower ridership on the B44 was touted as a 10 percent increase in SBS ridership. A two-minute savings in travel time on the M86 became a 10 percent reduction in travel time, omitting the fact that anyone now missing the bus because of having to prepay the fare has a longer trip. When I was in school you needed a 65 percent to pass. Using MTA and DOT methodology, if everyone rates a service at 60 percent, that means 100 percent are satisfied. So every SBS route has a near 100 percent satisfaction rating. And when local riders who have lost service due to SBS say they are unsatisfied, those results are not released. Will it be any wonder when the Woodhaven Boulevard SBS is touted as a “success” one year from now, when gridlock will be attributed to factors unrelated to SBS, considered minor, or just ignored, and travel time savings will be greatly exaggerated? Increased safety, which everyone wants, should not be used as an excuse for every change the DOT wants to make, while drivers are portrayed as the villains because they do not want to lose parking spaces. People need to wake up and not be taken for a ride. Allan Rosen Brooklyn The writer is a former director of MTA New York City Transit bus planning.

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the Botanic Garden, Belmont race track (you can thank me for not competing for parking later). Really, it’s easier to list the trips I don’t take by bike. So, how can you show your thanks, you ask? By supporting the DOT plan for a bike lane on Queens Boulevard and by doing everything humanly possible to keep me safe while you are operating dangerous machinery on public roads. Jessame Hannus Rego Park

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James Court work to finally start ... ... sometime next year, boro DOT chief says; Addabbo says just get it done by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) has heard enough about the rehabilitation project on James Court in Hamilton Beach. “That’s my City Council money that’s sitting there, and I haven’t been in the City Council for eight years,” Addabbo said. “That is absolutely ridiculous ... it’s not a big project. It’s not the picture of efficiency.” And while there was some good news on the project last Thursday, the senator still won’t see his Council money put to good use for at least another year. Nicole Garcia, Queens commissioner for the Department of Transportation, told the New Hamilton Beach Civic Association May 11 the agency will go ahead with a plan requested by residents — but it won’t start until next year. “We got to move quicker,” Addabbo said in a May 12 interview. The plan involves the milling and paving James Court and constructing a bulkhead at the end of the block to stop the deterioration there. Garcia said a design for the work is being drawn up and is expected to be shared with residents sometime later this year. Much of the work revolves around

A project to stop the deterioration of James Court in Hamilton Beach is expected to start sometime next year, irking state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. who said the proposed work has dragged on FILE PHOTO long enough. designing a bulkhead that will do its intended purpose but not interfere with wetlands or private proper ty at the end of the roadway. Fixing James Court, which is prone to floods even during light rainfalls and slight

changes in the tides, has been in the works for more than 15 years. Addabbo first started allocating money for fixes there when he was a city councilman. His successor, Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park), has also set aside tens of

thousands of dollars for the work, but nothing has been done and the price tag for the project has climbed in recent years. “I don’t want them to come to me again and say ‘Oh, we can’t do this project because it’s too expensive,’” the senator said. “The longer you wait, the more materials and labor is going to go up. I don’t want them to come to me and say.” The community has seen delay after delay, including ones due to the agency’s trying to pitch a “Shared Streets” idea for the block, saying it could better prevent flooding and stop the end of the roadway from deteriorating. But homeowners on the block have said many times, most recently through an April letter by civic president Roger Gendron, that they’re against the proposal — which would remove the curbs and make the sidewalks flush with the roadway. Shared Streets has been implemented in Broad Channel. Despite that, they’ve gone back to the civic several times trying to push the idea but stopped last month when Gendron sent the letter. “The residents have made it perfectly clear that they do not support the Shared Street Project, which was proposed to them Q several times,” the missive read.

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The Department of City Planning gave the details on its proposed citywide flood resilience text amendment and planned rezonings of Hamilton Beach and Broad Channel at Borough Board on Monday. “We would like to look into how zoning can be used to potentially promote new resilient development and proactive retrofitting to a higher resiliency standard,” Melissa Herlitz, a waterfront and open space resiliency planner at the DCP, said during her presentation. The de Blasio administration is seeking input from community boards and civic associations on their resiliency proposals, which officials hope to enter in the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure next year. And Queens’ waterfront, which makes up 31 percent of New York City’s, is not up to the resiliency codes adopted by the city government after Hurricane Sandy, according to Herlitz. “In total, we’re looking at less than 2,000 buildings out of the 71,500 buildings in the floodplain meeting any full resiliency standards,” the planner said. Because of the cost of dry floodproofing, according to Herlitz, many homeowners are reluctant to do it. She suggests creating better incentives in the zoning, an initiative that the DCP’s text amendment would address, as a way to make floodproofing more popular. “Dry floodproofing is really the preferred alternative to keep an active streetscape and keep an active commercial corridor in the floodplain,” she said. “That’s really important, but we really don’t see that there are enough incentives in zoning today to make up for the high cost and investment that’s required to dry floodproof your ground floor, so we want to look at other incentives that could encourage that behavior.”

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Moreover, Herlitz said that the loss of subterranean space at homes in the floodplain area is another reason that homeowners might be opposed to retrofitting their properties for flood resiliency. She suggested a solution involving compensating them for the lost space. “We think we could possibly modify the existing provisions to allow more height flexibility,” the DCP official said. “Gener-

ally, this could mean that a building would gain an extra story to accommodate for that lost cellar or basement space.” Out of all Queens areas, Hamilton Beach and Broad Channel have two of the highest risks for serious damage in the event of a major climate event. Hurricane Sandy devastated both locations, and City Hall is hoping that rezonings of them could mitigate future damage from catastrophic storms. Hamilton Beach and Broad Channel each would be designated a special coastal risk district by the rezoning. The district designation, with new rules that vary with both areas, “would signify that there is a high flood risk in these areas and that they are vulnerable to projected future types of flooding,” Herlitz said. Broad Channel, she explained, has been zoned R3-2 — a designation that “allows all residential building types” — since 1961. According to the planner, the island’s zoning is in some ways flawed. “The 40-foot minimum lot width in place under R3-2 zoning is problematic because most lots in Broad Channel are only 25 feet wide,” she said. The de Blasio administration wants the island’s residential zoning to be R3-A, a designation for detached homes. The DCP aims to mitigate economic damage from future storms with the zoning classification that it wants to give one portion of Broad Channel. “We are proposing a zoning change from R3-2 to C3-A — C3-A is a water dependent use district, which reflects the existing marinas and boat storage facilities that are on Channel Road today,” Herlitz said. The C3-A designation, she added, “would allow those uses to rebuild following a storm, whereas they could not under the existing R3-2 zoning.” Hamilton Beach’s density would be similarly affected by continued on page 44

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New, old faces want to challenge Ulrich by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

At least three Democrats are hoping to have the opportunity to unseat the borough’s lone Republican lawmaker — Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) in November. Broad Channel resident Dan Guarino and Howard Beach resident Mike Scala have both announced their intention to run for the seat. And a familiar face will, most likely, be joining them. Approached by a Chronicle reporter on Monday, Democratic District Leader and perennial candidate Lew Simon — who unsuccessfully challenged Ulrich in 2009 and 2013, and had sought office before that too — said he will make an announcement on May 22 but to “expect the expected.” “You can say I came close last time,” he told the reporter. In 2013, Simon won 47 percent of the vote and Ulrich got 53, the closest Council race that year. More Democrats may enter the race in the coming days and weeks. This will be Guarino’s first foray into politics. He’s been involved in a number of community groups over the years, including heading the Rockaway Artists Alliance, and has worked as a reporter on the peninsula. He joined The Wave newspaper and the artist alliance shortly after Superstorm Sandy and worked to rebuild them following the devastating act of God. Right now, he’s working with a startup

Democrats Dan Guarino, left, Mike Scala and Lew Simon are all hoping to unseat Republican COURTESY PHOTO, LEFT; FILE PHOTOS Councilman Eric Ulrich later this year. newspaper on the north shore of Staten Island. The longtime Broad Channel resident, who has written two books on the community’s history, touted his ability to work closely with other people. “I want to take it to the next level,” he said Tuesday. He declined to comment on Ulrich’s performance. “What I’m looking at is not so much what the other guy doesn’t have, but what can I bring to the table,” Guarino said.

Should he win the Democratic primary and beat Ulrich, he’d like to work on issues ranging from getting the city to fill potholes to improving transportation throughout the district. He’d also look to help put new businesses where vacant storefronts exist now and provide merchants with the tools to make it through their first year. Ultimately, he added, he wants to listen to every community’s unique concerns. “What is it that they need and what is it that they don’t need?” he asked.

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Scala, an attorney and first vice president of the Queens Public Transit Committee advocacy group, touted his work in state government as a legal counsel and legislative director. “I got the record and the background to do the job effectively,” he said. “I know how to get it done.” Scala has been considering a run for the Council since last year and said he would do it if Ulrich decided to run against Mayor de Blasio instead of going for another term. But the attorney was irked at recent comments Ulrich made, reported by the Chronicle, on the Select Bus Service project for Woodhaven and Cross Bay boulevards. “I’m on your side, but I’m also brutally honest ... It’s coming,” the councilman said at the Howard Beach-Lindenwood Civic Association’s April meeting. “The battle is lost.” Ulrich also said the reactivation of the Rockaway Beach Rail Line will not happen “in my lifetime or yours” and the right-of-way would instead be transformed into a 3.5-mile stretch of parkland known as the QueensWay. “That angered a lot of transportation advocates,” Scala said. “I realized this was when I wanted to jump into the race.” He was also upset Ulrich decided to run for a third term, despite having previously blasted the law that allows him to do so. Ulrich, who has represented the 32nd Council District since 2009, is eligible for a third term because he entered office before a 2010 continued on page 25

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recently arrested in Woodhaven for mail fishing and the precinct is working with the Deputy Inspector Deodat Ur prasad, U.S. Postal Inspector to secure mailboxes commanding officer of the 102nd Precinct, around the command. Speaking on crime overall, it’s down 19 warned the precinct community council Tuesday not to fall prey to phone scams percent year to date. With the exception of rape, of which and to immediately hang up the phone if they believe they believe the person on the there have been seven so far this year comother line is trying to get money out of pared to five at the same point in 2016, every category is them. down. The biggest “If it’s someone decrease came in t r y i ng to solicit felo ny a s s a u lt s , money for a charity, f it’s someone trying to wh ich a re at 61 hang it up,” Urprasad solicit money for a charity, compared to 88. said. “If it’s someone Robberies are at f r o m yo u r c r e d it hang it up.” 43, there were 57 card, check the back this time last year, of you r c a rd a nd — Deputy Inspector Deodat Urprasad, burglaries dropped make su re it’s the commanding officer of the 102nd Precinct f r o m 55 t o 49, right number.” g r a n d l a r c e n ie s The deputy inspector said the latest scam involves from 119 to 107 and grand larceny autos crooks claiming people’s family members from 52 to 37. Murders are even at one. Before Urprasad gave his report, he are in danger of being depor ted, and named two of his officers Cops of the demanding money through gift cards. “Once you give them the number on the Month for stopping an alleged robber who back of the card, that’s it, it’s gone,” he said. stole money from three Jamaica Avenue Another issue he warned residents of is storefronts at knifepoint. “This g uy has done some hor r ible mail fishing — where criminals use a bottle or other object covered in adhesive to steal things,” the commanding officer said. Police of f icers R icha rd Ba r r y a nd checks from mailboxes and alter them. Urprasad said two Bronx residents were A nt hony M isu r aca were assig ned to Associate Editor

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Police officers Richard Barry and Anthony Misuraca, second and third from right, respectively, were honored as the Cops of the Month at the 102nd Precinct Community Council’s meeting Tuesday. They’re joined here by precinct community council Vice President Ranjit Singh, left, Secretary J. Richard Smith, Sergeant-at-Arms Harbani Dhilon, President Latchman Budhai and PHOTO BY ANTHONY O’REILLY Commanding Officer Deodat Urprasad. Jamaica Avenue about three weeks ago when they got a call of a robbery in progress, according to Ur prasad. The two patrolled the avenue on foot and soon caught a suspect who matched the physical description provided by one of the

victims. The case is now in front of a grand jury, Urprasad said. In other news, the precinct’s National Night Out Against Crime will take place at Q Victory Field on Aug. 1 starting 5 p.m.

The NYPD on May 10 remembered more than 30 police officers and NYPD personnel from the Patrol Borough Queens South command who have died in the line of duty since 1922. The Line of Duty Memorial, begun in 2014, is a Catholic Mass celebrated at Immaculate Conception Church in Jamaica. Families of many of the officers being honored were in attendance. Honorees include an officer killed chasing bootleggers during Prohibition in the 1920s, several who died in car accidents, one killed by friendly fire during a burglary arrest in 1972, and Lorraine Elliott, a crossing guard killed in 1980 when she was struck by a driver who did not see her because of early-morning conditions. Others succumbed to cancer and

other illnesses after having “worked the pile” following the World Trade Center attack in 2001. They also included Anthony Graffia, killed in 1968, and Kenneth Nugent, in 1971, both of whom broke up robberies in progress though outnumbered; both returned fire though mortally wounded. Nugent killed one of three gunmen, freeing a hostage unharmed. Edward Byrne was murdered in Jamaica in 1988 protecting a witness in a major narcotics case, while Nicholas DeMutiis was on his way to work in 1994 when he tried to block a fleeing suspect with his own car during a chase in progress. Brian Moore was killed two years ago this month as he and his partner approached a man they believed had a gun.

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Dear Parents and Students, I am writing to clear up some misinformation that was disseminated by the administrations of Christ The King Catholic High School and Middle Village Preparatory Charter School. Letters sent home to students and parents indicated that the Diocese of Brooklyn is ordering the closure of Middle Village Prep. This is a misrepresentation of the truth and we at the diocese feel it is our obligation to clarify the facts. The Diocese of Brooklyn believes in education, both parochial and public. Multiple charter schools currently utilize or share space in Catholic high school and parish buildings throughout the Diocese with the full support of the Church. We wish to see all of these schools, including Middle Village Prep, continue to thrive. But the power to keep Middle Village Prep open lies with Christ the King High School. In recent years Christ the King has refused to re-affirm and honor its long-standing covenant with the Diocese of Brooklyn—a covenant that is honored by all other Catholic regional high schools in the Diocese. This covenant requires that these high schools operate in consultation with the Diocese when conducting enterprises unrelated to their function as Catholic schools. After years of unsuccessful efforts to work in cooperation with Christ the King High School, the Diocese of Brooklyn was left with no other recourse but to file a lawsuit. In March of 2017, and after several years of litigation, the Supreme Court ruled that use of the premises for the operation of a charter school is a breach of Christ the King’s agreement with the Diocese. The court ordered Christ the King to discontinue the use of the premises for a charter school without the permission of the Diocese, effective at the end of the current academic year. The diocese has made it clear to Christ the King that it will permit use of the property for a charter school, hence allowing Middle Village Prep to remain open. The diocese’s sole requirement is that Christ the King adhere to the same conditions accepted by all other Catholic regional high schools and parishes in the diocese. It is the Diocese of Brooklyn’s fervent hope and prayer that Christ the King will forever continue to serve the young men and women of the Diocese and that the property will continue to serve the most worthy cause of education.

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The grand opening of the QueensWay’s first phase could come as soon as 2020. That’s according to the two groups behind the proposed elevated park that would connect Rego Park and Forest Hills to Ozone Park via the abandoned Rockaway Beach Rail Line, who said in a press release on Monday that their work is progressing at a quick clip. “The Trust for Public Land and Friends of the QueensWay today finished the schematic design for the first half-mile of the proposed 3.5-mile linear park and trail,” the release reads. “Construction-ready working drawings will be produced over the next year, which will provide the community with additional details on new features of the proposed park.” The plan has been a controversial one, as a number of community leaders and residents alike have instead called for the rail line’s reactivation, saying it represents the quick ride toward Manhattan that South Queens has been missing for years. Others, some of whom don’t necessarily support the rail reactivation plan, have

brought up safety concerns with the park proposal, referring to the track’s close proximity to homes in Forest Hills. To quell those worries, Friends of the QueensWay spokeswoman Maggie McKeon said in a Tuesday email that the group is in the process of finalizing a contract for a security consultant. “They will be tasked to assess the project as a whole and make recommendations for how best to implement safety and security measures into the design and operation of the QueensWay,” McKeon said, “specifically geared towards the safety of park-users and adjacent homes and businesses.” The group added that phase one — known as the “Metropolitan Hub” running from Metropolitan Avenue south to Union Turnpike — will provide learning gardens and outdoor classrooms for the over 2,000 students in the three schools comprising the Metropolitan Education Campus in Forest Hills. T he f i r st ph a se wa s desig ned by DLANDstudio Architecture. The Trust for Public Land has acquired more than $2 million to date in private donations and state grants to move the Q QueensWay project along.

HB pedestrian dies of injuries The Howard Beach man who got hit by a car on Cross Bay Boulevard May 7 has died of his injuries, the NYPD reported Tuesday morning. Robert Falk, 89, of 162nd Avenue, was hit by a car as he was crossing the boulevard at 160th Avenue at about 1:15 p.m. The motorist, who has not been criminally charged, was making a left turn onto Cross Bay when he hit Falk, the NYPD said. He stayed at the scene. The victim was rushed to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, police said, with critical head trauma.

Nor thbound traff ic on Cross Bay stopped for a short time after the incident. Capt. Mike Edmunds, executive officer of the 106th Precinct, had told the precinct community council on May 10 Falk was expected to survive. “I’ve been talking with his daughter,” Edmunds said. “They remain in high hopes.” At the time of the council meeting, he said, there had been no pedestrian fatalities in the command this year. At this Q point last year, there had been five. — Anthony O’Reilly

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Bishop Thomas Daily, who oversaw Queens Roman Catholic churches as the head of the Diocese of Brooklyn from 1990 to 2003, died at the Immaculate Conception Center’s Bishop Mugavero Residence in Douglaston. He was 89. “Bishop Daily was a man who personified the Second Vatican Council’s call for a preferential option for the poor,” said Daily’s successor, Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio. “He ministered to indigenous people amidst poverty in Peru, women in crisis pregnancies, as well as new and often poor immigrants living in Brooklyn. He never acted out of malice or to further his own self-interest. At heart he was a missionary. I suspect he wished he could have remained in the missions his entire life.” Daily was born on Sept. 23, 1927 in Massachusetts and was ordained a priest in the Archdiocese of Boston in 1952. His first assignment was with a church in Quincy, Mass. As a young priest, Daily went on mission trips to Peru working with the poor there. The bishop was fluent in Spanish. In 1975, he served as an auxiliary bishop in Boston before becoming the first bishop

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of the Diocese of Palm Beach, Fla. in 1984. In 1990, he came to Brooklyn. During his time as the bishop here, Daily hosted St. Pope John Paul II for a Mass at Aqueduct Race Track in South Ozone Park, on Oct. 6, 1995. From 1987 to 2003, Daily also served as Supreme Chaplain of the Knights of Columbus. His resignation as a bishop was accepted by St. Pope John Paul II in 2003, but he still served as a member of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America and National Catholic Office for Persons Q with Disabilities until his death.

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Commissioner David Hansell of the city’s Administration for Children’s Services last week reinstated Child-Stat hearings as a means of reviewing ACS cases and procedures that deal with children considered at risk in their family situations. Hansell will head the now-weekly meetings that are based on the NYPD’s CompStat program, which uses data and constant review to focus police attention where crime is taking place. The commissioner vowed to relaunch the program when he took over the embattled agency back in February. It had fallen out of favor with his predecessor, Gladys Carrion. Carrion was forced to resign under pressure after four children whose families were in ACS files — including 5-year-old Michael Guzman of Jamaica — died between last September and this past January. Her reign also came under withering attack in reports by the city’s Department of Investigation and the state’s Office of Children and Family Services. A fifth, 1-month-old Nichelle Waring of Brooklyn, died last June, her death ruled a

homicide in February just days before Hansell accepted the appointment from Mayor de Blasio. “The Child-Stat model is vital to improving the functioning of ACS, and fine-tuning our policies and practices,” Hansell said in a statement issued by the Mayor’s Office. “As we re-launch ChildStat, we will continue to modify and improve it as needed to ensure accountability and high-performance throughout our system. We will be rigorous and thorough in using data to improve our performance, with the goal of substantive reform.” Three of the deaths have thus far resulted in criminal charges. The cause of Michael Guzman’s death and Nichelle Waring’s case remain under investigation. The Mayor’s Office conspicuously pointed out that NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce attended the May 10 meeting in Downtown Manhattan. The city, under orders from Gov. Cuomo, in February hired Kroll Associates, an investigative firm based in Manhattan, as an outside monitor charged with reviewing ACS’s practices, policies and Q procedures.

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Tracks of their tears: MTA, Penn plans set Railroad honchos focus on upgrades as infrastructure fails, delays mount by Michael Gannon Editor

Over several weeks that have been rough on major transportation entities in the country, it seems that only United Airlines has had a rougher time than New York City’s subway system and Amtrak, which operates Penn Station. Both have had a handful of lengthy maintenance-related delays since the start of the year. And with Gov. Cuomo the de facto head of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and both Cuomo and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie calling for a private takeover of Penn Station, both agencies are promising major and costly efforts to turn things around. In a statement issued Monday, the MTA said it will: • expedite the delivery of 300 new R179 model subway cars between September and the end of 2018. It also will accelerate the delivery of the first of 450 R211s, a modern design with open ends that allow riders to move from car to car more quickly, comfortable and safely; • conduct a top-to-bottom revamping of its maintenance procedures; • double ultrasonic testing of tracks from once a month to twice; • create rapid response maintenance

Multiple track and equipment problems that had delays rippling through the entire system have the MTA pledging organizational and operational changes in the foreseeable future. Amtrak, PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON which operates Penn Station, will redouble maintenance efforts. teams and deploy them near the busiest stations; • mitigate delays caused by sick passengers or police activity; • target sections of track that lend them-

selves to bottlenecks; and • experiment with systems that would direct waiting passengers to less-crowded cars on incoming trains. Interim MTA Director Ronnie Hakim

said in a statement that much of the problem is due to decades of underfunding maintenance for a 100-year-old system. “Increasing delays are simply unacceptable which is why we have to commit to addressing the immediate problems with all the tools at our disposal,” Hakim said. “We a re i mple me nt i ng long-t e r m capit a l improvements. But we also need a comprehensive approach that focuses on reducing the system’s failures while our capital investment is underway. We know riders are frustrated — we are too — which is why we are embracing this new plan.” John Raskin, executive director of the Riders Alliance, a commuter advocacy group, said the plan is an important first step, particularly as it acknowledges rider dissatisfaction. Speaking to the Chronicle on Monday morning, hours before the MTA announcement came out, Raskin said he is not surprised that both rail systems have had incidents starting to pile up. “It’s a result of years of underfunding infrastructure,” he said in a phone conversation. “Any one incident can be explained. Examined in the aggregate, it clearly shows train systems starting to fail — and that will need the immediate attention of Gov. Cuomo.” continued on page 44

Move your feet and offer a seat to riders MTA launches new pilot campaign to make system more accessible by Levar Alonzo

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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority launched a new awareness button pilot project on Mother’s Day, May 14, to encourage customers to move their feet and offer a seat to pregnant riders, seniors and those with a disability. The program, which will run through Labor Day, looks to examine ways to encourage courtesy by helping riders easily identify fellow customers with specialized needs who are seeking a seat. Pregnant customers can choose from a “Baby on Board” or “Please offer me a seat” courtesy button, the latter of which seniors and those with disabilities can also wear. The MTA said the buttons are free and no documentation is required to obtain one. “Pregnant riders, seniors and those with disabilities often need seats more than others but their condition may not always be visible,” Ronnie Hakim, MTA interim executive director, said in a press release. “We hope this campaign will help their fellow riders to be more willing to offer them a seat without having to ask a personal question first.” The MTA did not disclose how much the program will cost. Hakim noted that the awareness campaign is a part of broader efforts to make the system more accessible.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority launched a new awareness button pilot on Mother’s Day, May 14, to encourage customers to offer a seat to pregnant riders, seniors and those with a PHOTOS COURTESY MTA disability. “The MTA is committed to promoting access to our system for people with disabilities,” she continued. “Over the coming years, this will involve spending billions to make more of our system ADA-accessible through the addition of elevators at stations and focusing on ways we can improve the availability of

our existing elevators.” Of 472 stations in the subway system, 117 are ADA accessible, with funding approved for 25 more in the coming years. The button initiative will be integrated into existing courtesy campaigns via transit system ads and social media.

“There’s no question that this campaign will help pregnant women, disabled passengers and seniors who use public transit,” Dr. Howard Zucker, commissioner of New York State Department of Health, said in the release. The MTA already provides disabled customers priority seating on buses and trains. Riders are required to relinquish those seats under federal regulations and MTA rules of conduct. The campaign also encourages customers, as a matter of courtesy, to give up any seat, not just reserved priority areas, to those wearing an MTA-issued button. “While we continue to designate ‘priority seating’ for riders with disabilities, this is another way to expand the availability of seating for those who need it most,” Hakim said. Health officials and advocates for transportation and those with disabilities praised the initiative as a positive way to help disabled riders and spread awareness that not all physical conditions are clearly visible. “The MTA has the ability to change norms around what it means to accommodate and support families on public transit in the United States,” said Christine Serdjenian Yearwood, an Astoria resident and founder and CEO of UP-stand, a pregnancy advocacy group that supports the use of the courtesy Q buttons.

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continued from page 4 In other traffic news, Edmunds said the 106th, State Police and federal Parks Police — which patrols Spring Creek Park in Howard Beach — will be meeting to discuss ways to crack down on speeding motorcyclists on Cross Bay Boulevard during the warmer months. And on the Nassau Expressway, the commanding officer said, the NYPD’s Highway Unit on May 5 wrote 78 summonses for a variety of offenses. The motorway has been the source of several complaints and operations as motorists will often park on the ser-

vice road waiting to pick people up from John F. Kennedy International Airport. On crime, Bohannon cited statistics saying it is again down in most categories. Year to date, the command has seen 400 index crimes — down from 444 at this time last year. Felony assaults, grand larcenies and grand larceny autos are all down — 58 to 69, 151 to 185 and 29 to 37, respectively. Robberies and burglaries have seen a slight uptick in 2017 compared to 2016 — 69 to 64 and 89 to 82, respectively. Murders are even at two and rapes are down by two, three to five.

Bohannon also reported the 106th has the second-most arrests for possession of illegal firearms in Patrol Borough Queens South, with 38 individuals charged so far this year — the command had 22 at this time in 2016. The 113th Precinct in Southeast Queens is the only command to have more gun arrests. South Queens, the captain said, does have a problem with thieves breaking into commercial vehicles and construction sites in an effort to steal high-end tools. Another problem is the theft of tires and rims off newer model Honda Accords, which Bohannon said is a borough-wide problem. The 106th Precinct has seen 20 such incidents so far this year, the captain told the council, far fewer than the 70 reported to the

Flushing-based 107th Precinct in northern Queens. Responding to a resident’s complaint of car break-ins around Sutter Avenue and 130th Street, Bohannon said the precinct is looking to add more lighting near the area. “That is an intersection we’re very aware of,” he said. On the nightlife scene, Bohannon is preparing to meet with club and bar owners to discuss issues such as ensuring their security guards are licensed and more. “We have about a handful that don’t play by the rules,” he said. And in personnel news, Community Affairs Officer Mark Competello recently Q passed the sergeant’s exam.

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Keller Williams Realty Liberty, located at 96-10 101 Ave., continued its annual tradition of giving back to the South Queens community last Thursday by sprucing up parts of Frank Charles Memorial Park in Howard Beach. The team, at top, pulled weeds, teamed up with the Charles Park Conservation Society and painted more than 30 benches,

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The Vietnam Veterans memorial planned for Elmhurst Park is set to go before Community Board 4 for approval in June. Fully funded by allocations designated by Borough President Melinda Katz, the memorial will sit in the northwestern corner of the park. It will be the only boroughwide monument to the 420 members of the military from Queens killed in the war. While it was first proposed in 2006, and some funds for it were set aside in 2008 by Katz when she was a city councilwoman, the project has been on track since she set aside the rest of the $2 million cost last year.

“This latest allocation is a step toward the fulfillment of a promise made years ago,” Katz said at the time. “More veterans call Queens home than any other borough, and the Queens Vietnam Veterans Memorial will be a fitting and dignified tribute to those who served.” A source familiar with the project noted that CB 4 would be voting on it next month after state Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island, Brooklyn) decried how long it has been since it was proposed Q in comments at the site last week. — Peter C. Mastrosimone

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Should the boro get the ‘Barnes Dance’? DOT to study using four-way red lights to let pedestrians cross more safely by Ryan Brady Associate Editor

Maspeth’s intersection of 69th Street and Grand Avenue is a dangerous zone for pedestrians, civic activist Bob Holden says. “Your back is turned to turning cars,” Holden, the president of the Juniper Park Civic Association, told the Chronicle. “You don’t even see them coming.” Traffic, he added, is high in all directions at the spot. And the Middle Village resident says the danger is especially acute to the area’s many seniors. According to Holden, the crossroads would be a prudent place for pedestrian-only signal phases — a traffic measure known as the “Barnes Dance,” during which cars in all four directions stop so the intersection is totally open to pedestrians, who can even cross diagonally. And because cars cannot turn when the signal is in effect, they cannot hit pedestrians. Other civic leaders and officials across Queens have their own ideas where it should be implemented, now that the City Council unanimously passed a bill on May 10 requiring the DOT to analyze high-crash intersections throughout the entire city for a pedestrian-exclusive signal phase. Though the danger is particularly acute at the specific Maspeth location, Holden said the Barnes measure would profit pedestrians at several other spots in the area: Eliot Avenue’s intersections with 69th, 71st and 80th streets and where 80th Street meets Metropolitan Avenue and Dry Harbor Road. First doing so years ago, his civic association has requested the Department of Transportation to make safety-minded changes at Grand Avenue and 69th Street, such as a curb extension. But none have come to fruition. A spokesman for the agency said that although the review of the intersection, which includes a consideration of its signals, is not related to the Barnes Dance legislation, it could not be ruled out that the DOT would not see it fit to implement the measure there. Named after John Barnes, a city transportation czar, the signal phase — which is also known as the pedestrian scramble — became unpopular when street engineers started placing more importance on drivers during the 1960s. Internationally, other major cities use the scramble at busy spots for walkers and in New York City, it exists at a number of high-pedestrian traffic zones already. According to a 2015 DOT study of pedestrian fatalities in Queens, deaths were most concentrated in Downtown Flushing, Southeast Queens’ Hillside Avenue Corridor and the Jackson Heights-Corona area. But borough leaders have many more locations in mind for the Barnes Dance than just those areas. Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz (D-Forest Hills) already has a Rego Park crossroads in mind for implementing the traffic measure: where Queens Boulevard meets 63rd Road and 63rd Drive. “It’s a pretty dangerous crossing,” she said. Broadway-bound drivers in Astoria often skip the red light at 31st Avenue and 14th Street, neighborhood activist Kathleen Springer said. Though she thinks the Barners Dance would be good for the location, she postulated a bad side effect: “This would cause a lot of traffic.” Because much of the eastern Queens district that Councilman Rory Lancman (D-Fresh Meadows) represents is suburban in character, none of its corners seem to him to be in dire need of the pedestrian safety measure. “Conceivably, maybe, possibly where Homelawn [Street] meets Hillside Avenue,” said Lancman. “Maybe, maybe Sutphin Boulevard and 89th [Avenue], where you have the courthouse.” Pedestrian traffic at neither intersection comes close to the intensity of Manhattan’s busiest thoroughfares. The councilman and other area leaders have singled out the crossroads of Utopia Parkway and Union Turnpike by St. John’s University as a dangerous zone, but doubts that the site’s problems are ones that the Barnes Dance is equipped to address. “I’m not even sure [pedestrian traffic is] the issue at Union and Utopia, so much as it is cars go very fast

The Maspeth intersection of 69th Street in Grand Avenue, according to Juniper Park Civic Association President Bob Holden, is dangerous for pedestrians, whose safety the activist said would be improved by using a pedestrian-exclusive signal phase at the PHOTO BY RYAN BRADY location. and you have a lot of students hovering about,” he said. In response to the pedestrian-exclusive signal phase bill’s passage, Councilman Paul Vallone (D-Bayside) — whose district is among the borough’s least dense — will accept recommendations from Community Boards 7 and 11 for locations where the city should implement the Barnes Dance, according to a spokesman. Acknowledging that much of low-density northeast Queens is not ideal for the Barnes Dance, Community Board 7 member Phil Konigsberg suggested that the DOT look at the intersection of Bell and Northern boulevards in Bayside. “There’s a lot of people there,” he said, adding that many shop at the intersection. In its analyses, the Bay Terrace activist said, the DOT should consider the effect on traffic that the pedestrianexclusive signal phase would create. Retired federal transportation official Larry Penner, a resident of Great Neck, LI who frequently visits Little Neck, said that the Barnes Dance would not be apropos in most Queens neighborhoods, given their comparatively low density to the busiest Manhattan thoroughfares. But he said the measure might be great for the often-gridlocked carfax of Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue in Downtown Flushing. “It’s very congested there, especially with the reconstruction,” he said, referring to work on Main Street that the DOT is undergoing. Safety for walkers in sections of Jamaica, according to area activist Joseph Morretti, would be greatly improved by the Barnes Dance. With its congestion compounded by buses, dollar vans, delivery cabs and taxis, he said, the neighborhood’s downtown section is “notorious for accidents just waiting to happen between pedestrians and cars.” Morretti added that the pedestrian-focused measure would be judicious at “almost every intersection with Hillside Avenue in Jamaica.” Danger to walkers is particularly acute, he added, where Hillside meets Merrick Avenue and 169th Street. A hit-and-run motorcyclist hit a 77-year-old man — a diabetic who lost a leg in the accident and died months later — at Rose Avenue and Parsons Boulevard in Flushing in November 2015. And, according to Beverly McDermott of the Kissena Park Civic Association, the location is a dangerous pedestrian zone. The Flushing activist said her civic association had requested that DOT place a light at the intersection after the crash. But, for the T-shaped crossroads, the agency did not

determine that a light was appropriate. Installing the Barnes measure at the intersection would entail installing two lights. According to McDermott, the signal phase would enhance safety at the spot. “That would be a real step forward towards safety,” she said. State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) said that some Howard Beach seniors have told him that they are afraid of crossing Cross Bay Boulevard where it meets 156th Street, an intersection where a senior center is. According to the lawmaker, that corner might be a good place for the city to analyze for the pedestrian-exclusive signal phase. “The countdown clock there helps,” Addabbo said. “But Q crossing there is almost like an Olympic sport.”

Ruben Wills’ trial set — again City Councilman Ruben Wills (D-Jamaica) has received yet another trial date on corruption charges. The councilman now is scheduled to begin proceedings on June 15, according to a spokesman for the office of New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. The case was the subject of a status conference on May 11 at the Queens County criminal courthouse in Kew Gardens. Wills, 48, was arrested in May 2014 on allegations that he misappropriated campaign money for personal use. He subsequently was charged with taking more than $30,000 from a nonprofit charity that he directed. That money came from a grant from then-state Sen. Shirley Huntley, for whom Wills once served as chief of staff. Huntley served 10 months of a 366-day federal prison sentence after pleading guilty to a corruption charge in 2013. Wills, originally set to go to trial last November, was in the news most recently in March when he failed to show up before Queens Supreme Court Justice Ira Margulis. The judge drafted but did not issue an arrest warrant. Wills’ attorney claimed he forgot to notify Wills of the Q March 1 date.

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Remove existing track structure on tracks I and 2 through crossing and 80 feet each side of crossing. Reconstruct track structure utilizing concrete ties and 136 # CWR. All material supplied by railroad. Install 200TN of ballast supplied by railroad. Furnish and install thermite welds - 8 Raise, align and surface track - 390 TF Install 40' wide concrete road crossing on tracks 1 and 2. Crossing to be supplied by contractor as per furnished specification. • Finish approaches and area between tracks with blacktop properly rolled to grade • Install a temporary crossing 25 feet in width if necessary using millings on crossing and approaches. • Crossing will be installed approximately 100' west of existing crossing.

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Skeptical crowd questions light rail Crowley seeks to create passenger service line from Jamaica to LIC by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

Cou ncilwom a n Eli zabet h Crowley (D-Glendale) has been working on a proposal to restore passenger train service to the Long Island Rail Road’s Lower Montauk branch for the better part of a year, and Tuesday’s information session and workshop in Glendale represented the first real chance for the public to weigh in. As expected, the approximately 100 area residents in attendance offered mixed reactions to the plan after Crowley, the Department of Transportation and engineering firm AECOM gave their presentation. “This would literally be in my backyard,” Glendale resident Greg Guarino said. “When you say we would be facing more freight service, it’s not the same thing as having six, eight or 10 trains an hour going right behind my house.” Tuesday’s event saw DOT Director of Transit Policy Aaron Sugiura present the agency’s preliminary findings in the midst of

its comprehensive $500,000 study of just how feasible running passenger service on the 8.5-mile stretch of track from Jamaica to Long Island City — used only a handful of freight trains each day — would be. According to the study, the line is not electrified or signalized as other passenger tracks are, while there is only one strip of track in western Queens instead of two, meaning trains traveling in opposite directions will have to take turns moving across it. There are also 11 at-grade crossings that may have to be reconfigured, while in some sections, the tracks are mere feet from industrial buildings. Passenger service cannot interfere with the nighttime freight service as well — unless they both use the same kind of trains — meaning the former could not run continuously. The DOT has yet to tabulate final numbers on anticipated ridership or operating, capital or maintenance costs. Those statistics will be revealed when the agency releases its final report in early fall.

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Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley discusses her proposal to establish passenger rail service on the Lower Montauk line at Tuesday’s information session. PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA Exactly what role the Federal Railroad Administration will play in the service’s development is also being studied. Officials fleshing out the plan did make one recommendation, however, noting that diesel multiple unit trains would be the most logical and cost-effective choice. The DMUs, Sugiura said, would be similar to the ones used on the River Line in southern New Jersey. “There’s no need for a locomotive in this case,” he said. “There’s also no need for electrification.” The Lower Montauk branch is no stranger to passenger service, as commuter trains ran

on the line for the vast majority of the 20th century. It wasn’t until 1998 when extremely low ridership and rising costs forced the MTA to eliminate the service. According to a 1998 New York Times report, citing LIRR statistics, only three customers per day used the Haberman station, two people used the Glendale stop and just one rider got on the train at Penny Bridge on an average day. But times have changed, Crowley noted, saying that her district can no longer sustain being a transportation desert. continued on page 32

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was a political ploy on the part of de Blasio, Queens College political science professor Michael Kranser said in an email, “I’m afraid I don’t have an opinion on this weighty topic.” Comaianni, though, said it could be just that and used it as an example of how mayoral control of schools, of which he’s a vocal opponent, makes everything “very easy to politicize. “It’s always going to be political because it’s so easy to politicize,” he said. The CEC president would rather see decisions like parking permits for teachers, which he said he has not heard “one peep” about at meetings, be made at the district level. Echoing Ariola’s concerns, other Queens activists worried the permits might be abused elsewhere in the city — despite the city’s promise to crack down on teachers who attempt to do so. “How do you ensure that the system is not abused, which it is?” said Dr. Harold Paez, president of CEC 27. Beadle noted there are social media accounts dedicated to documenting abuse of placards across the city. “No one can have that faith because we see that abuse every day,” he said. “There’s always going to be somebody who thinks, ‘Oh this will work, maybe I’ll do it.’ You’re giving some collection of your employees Q the chance to flaunt the rules.”

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Excitement abounds for KG cinema festival Podcasts, comedy shows, industry panels and other events planned by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

There truly will be something for everyone at this summer’s inaugural Kew Gardens Festival of Cinema. Glendale filmmaker and event founder Jayson Simba was the keynote speaker at the Kew Gardens Civic Association’s annual meeting last Thursday, and it took him more than 10 minutes to gleefully run down every aspect about the 10-day event. “We’re really, really excited about this,” Simba said. Announced late last year, the festival will feature around 130 films for attendees to watch at the Kew Gardens Cinemas at 81-05 Lefferts Blvd., the host of the event, from Aug. 4 to 13. Simba said he received more than 400 submissions — some of which came from as far away as Iceland, France and Australia — and his fellow organizers are in the process of screening the entries, with the final decision on which films will be shown being made sometime in June. But in addition to movie viewings, the Glendale resident announced a plethora of other programming in the planning process for in and around the theater, including: • after each film, a 20-minute questionand-answer segment with either the director or participating actors;

Kew Gardens Festival of Cinema founder Jayson Simba runs down his event’s packed itinerary at PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA last Thursday’s Kew Gardens Civic Association meeting. • free and open to the public panel discussions featuring theater industry experts at Maple Grove Cemetery; • an additional 25 film screenings and “intimate” question-and-answer segments with celebrities and others at the Queens Museum in Flushing Meadows Corona Park; • daily podcasts, featuring interviews and commentary, recorded live at Ateaz Cafe, which is offering 10 percent discounts to festival ticket holders;

• a plaque dedication ceremony at Austin’s Ale House in honor of the late Rodney Dangerfield, a legendary comedian and actor who grew up in Kew Gardens (Dangerfield’s widow, Joan, and other celebrities have been invited to the event); • movie trivia nights at Shake Shack in Forest Hills; and • a comedy show at Forest Hills restaurant The Other Place, hosted by Comedy Central comic and Queens native Eliot Chang.

Additionally, the winners of the festival’s logo and poster design contest — which was open exclusively to Kew Gardens residents — will be announced June 11 at the Forest Hills Festival of the Arts street fair. “One of the most important goals we had in developing the festival was making it about the community,” he said. “And we couldn’t be more grateful for the overwhelming support we’ve received.” Festival tickets will be put on sale on June 1 and can be purchased on the event’s website at kewgardensfestivalofcinema.com. Specific information about the films to be screened will be posted on the website in July, about a month before the festival. Civic president Dominick Pistone said the event was something everyone in the community should attend. “I would encourage you to come,” Pistone told the crowd. “I find it fascinating.” Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz (D-Forest Hills) also said she can’t wait for Aug. 4 to come around. “I’ve never gone to a film festival,” Koslowitz said, “but I’m certainly going to this one.” Films will be screened from Aug. 5 to 12, with the first and last days of the festival being set aside for a neighborhood mixer open to the public and an awards gala at Q Terrace on the Park, respectively.

Parents push for a PS 99 play street Proposal calls for 83rd Drive in Kew Gardens to be closed to vehicles by Christopher Barca

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The sound of laughter filled the air last Friday outside PS 99’s annex at the corner of Lefferts Boulevard and Kew Gardens Road in Kew Gardens, as dozens of children enjoyed the morning’s warm weather. While children will make the best out of any situation, the space they have to frolic in is quite small, limited to a small sliver of property only a few feet wide along Kew Gardens Road, with only a few small pieces of playground equipment. In fact, the space is so small that groups of elementary school students have to take turns outside, as not everyone can fit on the playground at one time. Meanwhile, the pre-kindergarten center inside The Classic, a mixed-use building immediately next door, has no outdoor play space at all. Those students spend all their time inside, even on beautiful days like last Friday. Kew Gardens resident Lauren Feldman Hay, whose daughter goes to PS 99, said she and dozens of other area parents have a solution to the space problem, however. She’s calling on 83rd Drive between Kew Gardens Road and Talbot Street, which separates the school from the pre-K center, to be turned into a “play street,” an asphalt play-

Parents of PS 99 students are proposing that 83rd Drive in Kew Gardens, located next door to both PS 99’s annex and a pre-kindergarten center, be converted to a play street, giving area PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA youngsters a place to play. ground off limits to vehicular traffic. “We want to have more play space in this area of Kew Gardens, especially for the kids in school and after school,” Hay said in an interview with the Chronicle. “This would give these kids a real chance to get outside and enjoy themselves.”

An initiative championed by activist group Transportation Alternatives, a play street harks back to the days when groups of children would play stickball in the road or frolic in the streams of an open fire hydrant during steamy summer afternoons. “Play streets are exactly what they sound

like,” the group says on its website, “streets where youth play and socialize.” Should 83rd Drive make the conversion, it would become the second play street in Queens after 78th Street between Northern Boulevard and 34th Avenue in Jackson Heights. In 2008, that one-block stretch was closed to traffic only during summer Sundays, before eventually becoming a permanent fixture. It is unclear whether 83rd Drive would be a play street continuously or only for a certain amount of time. Hay said over 50 parents have signed onto a petition calling for the conversion, adding she is considering taking her plan before Community Board 9 to get their input and possible approval in the near future. “Hopefully we’ll get community support for it,” she said. “We would allow the school to use it during school hours and the community would be able to use it after. “If parents don’t have time to take their children to the Overlook,” she added, referring to the Kew Gardens portion of Forest Park a 15-minute walk away, “they can come right here.” Neither the departments of Transportation nor Education provided answers to questions emailed by the Chronicle by press time on Q Wednesday.

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Queens on the front lines of opioid battle by Michael Gannon Editor

The words “opioid epidemic” are more than just an abstract phrase in New York City. The numbers are stark — out of an estimated 1,300 overdose deaths in the city in 2016, about 1,075 are attributed to opioid pills, fentanyl or heroin. There were 753 in 2015. According to the Mayor’s Office, the numbers have increased for the fifth straight year. Queens District Attorney Richard Brown, in a statement issued by his office on May 12, said there have been 57 fatal overdoses in the last four months and more than 65 nonfatal overdoses in Queens this year. “Far exceeding the number of homicides and vehicular deaths that have occurred in the borough so far this year,” he said. City, state and federal efforts are aiming to stem the tide through medical and law enforcement channels devoting hundreds of millions of dollars. Dr. James Giglio, director of Emergency Medicine at Flushing Hospital Medical Center, said his personnel and those in emergency rooms across the city are on the front lines. He said emergency medical personnel were among the first to see that a tidal wave was coming. “We did, but I think we were probably more aware at first of the rise in heroin use and the related illness and death than we were attuned to prescription drug misuse,” Giglio said. “But we certainly were aware of the epidemic before it caught people’s attention.” He said the opioid epidemic has roots going back decades, into the 1980s and ’90s, when HIV was on the rise and heroin use declined significantly. In the early 1990s, drugs such as Vicodin, Percocet and others were promoted for use as the medical community embraced

The medical community, all levels of government and law enforcement have been mobilized in the ongoing fight against the opioid PHOTO COURTESY US CDC addiction crisis. more effective methods of pain management. “It started out as well-intentioned,” Giglio said, with physicians and hospitals using opioid-based pain medications — “They’re effective, and there aren’t a lot of alternatives,” — for people recovering from major injuries or surgery. It would be common, he said, for someone leaving a hospital to have a bottle of 70 or 80 pills or tablets between 1990 and 2010. Many pills, left unused, sat in medicine cabinets. “Opioids have the potential for addiction and psychological dependence,” he said. “A percentage of people became addicted over time, but in addition there was diversion to non-patients. ... We estimate that about 70 percent of the tablets that are abused are not prescribed directly by doc-

tors, but obtained from family or friends.” Dr. Beena Joseph, an attending physician in the detoxification program at FHMC, and Melissa McCormick, manager of its Chemical Dependence Unit, said those in their field were the first to notice changes from the demographics of patients from the crack epidemic of 15 to 20 years ago. They were younger, though there also were teachers, grandmothers and others one would not typically expect to see in their units. “Heroin has always been a problem in cities,” said Dr. Ira Frankel, FHMC’s director of psychiatric and addiction services. “When patients began coming from the suburbs, the politicians and the people who elected them took notice. You never had a governor like Chris Christie going on TV saying what they were going to do for opioid addiction.” Then there were, of course, unscrupulous physicians, clinics and what Giglio called pill mills. Then the city, state and law enforcement stepped up. Gov. Cuomo last June signed legislation limiting opioid prescriptions to seven days. The former limit was 30. The laws also funded 270 new beds and more than 2,300 treatment slots for substance abuse, and eased access to programs. The New York State Department of Health said in an email that it initiated 158 investigations in 2016 based in inappropriate prescribing for drugs of all kinds. A total of 106 doctors were sanctioned by the Office of Professional Medical Conduct. In New York, Mayor de Blasio is proposing $38 million in next year’s budget for treatment assistance. The city also has increased the availability of naloxone, also commercially known as Narcan, a substance that is injected in a person suspected of having overdosed on opioids or heroin. continued on page 29

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Tips to reduce your healthcare expenses Healthcare costs are in the news all the time. You hear about them at work and when you’re with friends and family. The comments are always the same. Healthcare is getting more and more expensive and it seems to be outpacing the money you make. Fortunately you’re not helpless when it comes to controlling your Healthcare costs. While some treatments simply have to be done in order to support your health, there are other things you can do to protect yourself and your loved ones while looking out for your pocketbook at the same time. Employ these five tips today and you’ll enjoy the care you need without breaking your budget. • Focus on your health first. When it comes to controlling your Healthcare expenses, you actually have more control than you think — a lot more. The decisions you make every day — what to eat, whether or not to smoke, how much to exercise — all play a dramatic role in your overall health. So take charge, dine on fruits and vegetables, take a run and kick that nicotine habit for good. Each of these little decisions will benefit your health and your budget. • Be decisive with your deductible. Your insurance deductible is a fixed cost and one you’ll pay every single year before receiving network coverage support. But once it’s paid, you’ll enjoy the full coverage of your plan.

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While Healthcare facilities across the country are all capable of delivering compassionate, quality care, they are not all priced the same. According to a Blue Cross Blue Shield, The Health of America Report, 29.8 percent of emergency room visits were for conditions that could have been treated in retail clinics. The same research also found consumers saved

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continued from page 28 Members of the NYPD and FDNY now carry the drug on duty and are trained in its use. Inspector John Cappelmann, commanding officer of the 105th Precinct, said his officers alone have treated and saved multiple patients in only the last year. “I wouldn’t say [the epidemic] has changed our workday,” Cappelmann said, “but we are fully engaged.” The NYPD said officers have saved more than 140 people since the program started in 2014. FDNY spokesman Frank Dwyer staid in an email that combined FDNY personnel had administered naloxone to 1,672 patients this year as of May 3. Paramedics administered naloxone to 3,454 patients in 2015 and 4,369 in 2016. Firefighters and EMTs combined for 997 uses in 2015 and 2,067 in 2016. In some cases paramedics had to administer shots to patients already treated by a firefighter or an EMT. The numbers do not reflect the patient’s ultimate outcome. Giglio said New York was one of the first municipalities in the country to lead a coordinated information campaign with most hospitals in the city on board. Doctors at Flushing Hospital, like those elsewhere, now exercise more discretion in prescribing opioid painkillers. “We may only send someone home with a two- or three-day supply,” he said. “They might only need five or 10 tablets

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ZUMBA & PILATES with MARIA (Meet at Seuffert Bandshell) One hour of Zumba with Latin and international music. Fun exercise to get yourself going! Pilates and muscle toning too!

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Regular exercise can help women protect their bones and reduce their risk for osteoporosis.

Are you at risk for developing osteoporosis? Osteoporosis is a disease of the bones that occurs when a person loses too much bone, produces too little bone or both and can affect both men and women. But while millions of men suffer from osteoporosis, the vast majority of people with this potentially painful condition are women. According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation, roughly 80 percent of the 10 million Americans with osteoporosis are women. But age is not the only factor that influences a woman’s risk for developing osteoporosis. Caucasian women are most at risk for osteoporosis, and the NOF estimates that 20 percent of Caucasian women age 50 and older have the condition, and more than half of Caucasian women age 50 and over have low bone mass. That means that the bones of more than 50 percent of Caucasian women over age 50 are weakening, potentially paving the way for osteoporosis in the future. Asian-American women are also at considerable risk of developing osteoporosis, which affects about the 20 percent of such women age 50 and older. Low bone density is a concern for Asian-American women, more than half of whom have the condition. The outlook for African-American women is not as bleak, as just 5 percent of such women age 50 and older have osteoporosis. And while 35 percent of AfricanAmerican women have low bone mass, recent research indicates that few African-American women, even those who have risk factors for the disease, are screened for osteoporosis. Insisting on osteoporosis screening can help

African-American women determine their true risk for the disease. While gender and aging are beyond women’s control, there are other risk factors that increase the chances women may develop low bone density or experience fractures and falls down the road: • if either parent has had a hip fracture; • having had a prior fracture with minimal trauma; • long-term (more than three months) use of glucocorticoid therapy, such as prednisone; • rheumatoid arthritis; • current smoker; • history of falls in the previous 12 months; • vertebral fracture apparent on X-ray; • high alcohol intake (three or more drinks per day); and • weight loss greater than 10 percent since age 25. Despite the abundance of risk factors, the two most prominent of which are beyond women’s control, women are not helpless against osteoporosis. Among the many things women can do to protect their bones are to exercise regularly and to eat a wellbalanced diet that includes enough calcium and vitamin D as well as plenty of fruits and vegetables. In addition, avoiding or quitting smoking and limiting alcohol consumption to no more than two to three drinks per day can protect bones and make them less vulnerable to breaks and the onset of osteoporosis. Women can learn more about osteoporosis Q at nof.org. — Metro Creative Connection

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The city has fined Queens County Public Administrator Lois Rosenblatt $3,000 for hiring her son’s lover. In a Conflict of Interests Board settlement announced last Wednesday, the official, who handles certain estates of the deceased, admitted to hiring her son’s then-girlfriend as a decedent property agent in September 2014. The couple was engaged a month later. Rosenblatt supervised her son’s fiancee until last June, when her former underling resigned after the administrator learned of the conflict of interests law violation. During the same month, her former underling moved out of her son’s home in Queens. The COIB said it considered two other factors — the lack of evidence that she treated her son’s lover different from other employees and her position of chief of the Public Administrator’s Office — in its decision. For her settlement, Rosenblatt admitted to giving the former employee a raise

Queens County Public Administrator Lois Rosenblatt, whose office is at the Queens Supreme Courthouse, has been $3,000 for PHOTO COURTESY DCAS nepotism. from $38,000 to $40,000 an nually, though she pointed out that it was in line with the salary increases that staff of the office get. But she conceded that the nepotistic hiring and raise, both of which her son indirectly gained from, violated the City Charter. Rosenblatt’s office handles estates that would otherwise not be administered. Q

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Istmo Trio Sunday, May 21, 2017 at 2 PM Featuring Mexican singer Magos Herrera, Brazilian accordionist Vitor Gonçalves, and Brazilian percussionist Rogério Boccato, the newly formed Istmo Trio draws on rhythms and repertoire from diverse corners of the Americas.

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continued from page 24 “My mother has a home on the line,” Crowley said. “I wouldn’t push this idea if I didn’t think it would benefit everybody.” “Queens does not have its fair share of public transportation, and because of that, there are far too many cars on our streets,” she continued. “I believe that this will make our borough healthier.” Community boards 2, 5, 6 and 9 have all come out in support of the plan over the last year. While many of the questions asked were technical ones about the infrastructure itself, others quizzed officials on the possible fare one would have to pay to ride the train, noise impacts and parking issues in the area around future stations. After pointing out his home’s proximity to the line, Guarino said he actually thinks southwest Queens’ status as an area with little public transportation is a good thing. “It’s important to realize that being a transportation desert is part of what makes these neighborhoods what they are,” one man said. “Transit-rich areas are also more congested. The fact that we have a quiet, uncongested neighborhood is partly because it’s a transportation desert.” In terms of the potential fare, AECOM representative Bill Kroll said it would most likely be in line with the cost of the subway and not the Long Island Rail Road. The number of potential stops and

their locations have yet to be determined. When asked about possible parking issues around those stations, Kroll said there will be no designated lots for people driving there, as the vast majority of those expected to utilize the service live a short distance away. “Our thinking right now is there will be no parking at the station,” he said. “This is not going to be like Long Island with the big garages.” In her introductory speech to the crowd, Crowley opined the train cars used for Lower Montauk passenger service could be identical or similar to the ones used for the AirTrain to John F. Kennedy International Airport. That would create an opportunity to extend the proposed light rail system beyond Jamaica to the airport, helping create the “one seat ride” to JFK, as desired by Gov. Cuomo and others. “I believe this could provide that opportunity,” she said. “The current AirTrain was built to have the same type of track as the Long Island Rail Road.” While not impossible, K roll said attempting to run the AirTrain on the Lower Montauk line would represent a whole host of new challenges. “That vehicle could be brought onto the corridor,” he said, “but it raises a lot more issues in terms of the infrastructure you Q would have to build.”

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S unnysliders From burgers to exotic delights, Taste of Sunnyside has it all

Nestled on 43rd Street between the hustle and bustle of Queens Boulevard and the peace and quiet of 43rd Avenue in Sunnyside is the cozy Lowery Bar & Kitchen, where a handful of folks spent Monday evening enjoying cocktails and plates of cheese curds. Open just eight months, the modern pub is doing well for itself, but owner Ann Muldoon said her establishment is still somewhat of an unknown in the community. “I hope we can introduce ourselves to some new people,” Muldoon said. “We have customers who live just on the other side of the boulevard who said they’ve never

heard of us.” The restaurateur has a prime opportunity to make that introduction this Tuesday, as Lower y and 26 other area establishments will showcase the best of their menus at the Taste of Sunnyside, hosted by the Sunnyside Shines Business Improvement District. Muldoon said she’s gone many times as an at tendee to the gathering — which takes place at Queens Boulevard and 46th Avenue below the No. 7 train tracks — but this will be her first time presenting her food at the event. “I’ve always had great experiences there. And now that we’re a part of the community, we’re really excited to take part,” she said. “I tr y new food and find new restaurants

there, so I hope other people find us.” Par ticipating restaurant s will be on-site s er ving b ite -size d m ea ls one c a n c a r r y throughout the evening, while seven breweries — three of which are from Queens — will be there to serve some of their most delectable adult beverages. At Monday’s media preview, Muldoon said she plans on ser ving shor t rib and brisket burger sliders at the Taste of Sunnyside, which she hopes will be enough to have customers wanting to tr y the juicy 8-ounce version topped with caramelized onions — a bite that will transpor t your ta stebuds to a Texa s barbecue joint — at her restaurant. continued on page 37

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EXHIBITS “Scenes from the Legendary Steinway Piano Factory,” with photos of the musical instruments’ construction by Carolina Velez from her tour last year with the Greater Astoria Historical Society. Sun., May 21, 3 p.m., GAHS, 35-20 Broadway, Long Island City. Free. Info: (718) 278-0700, astorialic.org.

“Over There!,” a cabaret event with live pop songs of the World War I era, period food and drink, marking the 100th anniversary of U.S. entry into the conflict. Sat., May 20, 7 p.m.; Sun., May 21, 2:30 p.m., St. Luke’s Church, 85 Greenway S., Forest Hills. $25 (includes “generous” food, drink). Info/reservations: (718) 268-7772, gingerbreadplayers.org.

“Rewoven: Innovative Fiber Art,” with painted, woven, assembled and installed works by Taiwanese artists exploring innovation, social justice and art history, in two locations. Thru Fri., May 26, GodwinTernbach Museum, Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing. Thru Sat., June 10, QCC Art Gallery, 222-05 56 Ave., Bayside. Free. Info: (718) 997-4747, gtmuseum.org; (718) 631-6396, qcc.cuny.edu. “Elements of Nature: Paintings by Denise P. Levine,” works meant to reflect nature and “provide a calming, restorative and healing message.” Thru end of June, Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Center, 175-10 Cross Bay Blvd., Broad Channel. Free. Info: (718) 318-4340, nps.gov/gate/planyourvisit. “A Body in Places: Queens Edition,” photos from visits artist Eiko Otake and photographer William Johnston made to the Indian Point nuclear energy center, left, and irradiated areas in Fukushima, Japan. Thru Sun., May 28, Topaz Arts, 55-03 39 Ave., Woodside. Free. Info: (718) 505-0440, topazarts.org. “Self Portrait,” with 27 contemporary realists celebrating a practice dating to the Renaissance, helping keep the legacy of great Western art alive in a world of shifting artistic values. Thru Tue., June 20, by appointment, Eleventh Street Arts, 46-06 11 St., Long Island City. Free. Info: eleventhstreetarts.com. “Resistance and Memory in Belgium, 1940-1945: Multiple Narratives,” with wartime and recent photos and testimonies of those who resisted the Nazi occupation, by professor Anne Griffin of The Cooper Union. Thru Fri., May 26, Queens College Art Center, Rosenthal Library, 6th floor, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing. Free. Info: (718) 997-4803, kupferbergcenter.org.

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Nations Ave. S., Flushing Meadows Corona Park. $25-$42. Info: (718) 760-0064, queenstheatre.org.

“Self-Interned, 1942: Noguchi in Poston War Relocation Center,” works by Isamu Noguchi focusing on his time voluntarily spent in a WWII camp for Japanese-Americans ordered there by the U.S. Thru Sun., Jan. 7, 2018, Noguchi Museum, 9-01 33 Road, Long Island City. $10; $5 seniors, students; NYC HS students, kids under 12 free. Info: (718) 204-7088, noguchi.org. “Marinella Senatore: Piazza Universale/Social Stages,” multimedia works by the Italian artist that refer public spaces where different communities meet and an ideal space where the future can be envisioned collaboratively. Thru Sun., July 30, Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Suggested $8; $4 seniors; free students, children. Info: (718) 592-9700, queensmuseum.org. “Charlotte Prodger: Subtotal,” with sound, video, works on paper and more linking disparate topics

The LIC One Act Festival, a competition among various plays with the audience voting for winners of cash prizes. Wed., May 24-Sun., June 4, various times, The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23 St., Long Island City. $14-$42. Info: (718) 392-0722, secrettheatre.com.

SPECIAL EVENTS The first monthly LIC Art Stroll is Saturday, taking you through the SculptureCenter, where Sam Anderson’s “Kids,” above, is among the works on display, and MoMA PS1, which is also showing several new exhibits. See Tours/Hikes. PHOTO BY NEIL CHIRAGDIN and sites; “Teresa Burga: Mano Mal Dibujada,” with drawings and sculptures by the Peruvian feminist artist; and “Sam Anderson: The Park,” with sculptures and videos that capture particular characters in mid-gesture, all as part of a larger network. Thru Mon., July 31, SculptureCenter, 44-19 Purves St., Long Island City. $5 suggested; $3 students. Info: (718) 361-1750, sculpture-center.org. “Toys & Games from the Attic and Beyond,” with more than 150 items including Queens-born Mr. Machine, Hess trucks, Lionel trains, Beanie Babies and more, with panels on their histories. Tue., Sat., Sun., 2:30-4:30 p.m. or by appointment, thru June, Queens Historical Society, 143-35 37 Ave., Flushing. $5; $3 seniors, students; under 12 free. Info: (718) 9390647, queenshistoricalsociety.org, bit.ly/2nBaJ8M.

Guthrie and more, by the Oratorio Society of Queens and Orchestral Arts Ensemble of Queens. Sun., May 21, 4 p.m., Queensborough Performing Arts Center, 222-05 56 Ave., Bayside. Tickets: $35 ($40 day of show); $30 seniors, students; $10 kids under 13. Info: (718) 631-6311, visitqpac.org.

A Tribute to Scott Joplin, honoring the King of Ragtime 100 years after his death, with concert by the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, ceremony at his gravesite, BBQ and more. Sat., May 27, 2 p.m., St. Michael’s Cemetery, 72-02 Astoria Blvd., East Elmhurst. Free. Info: (718) 2783240, stmichaelscemetery.com. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

Spring Concert, with Beethoven’s 9th Symphony finale, “Ode to Joy,” works by Mozart, Copland,

Traditions Festival, with food, artists, performers and more reflecting cultures from the 1700s to now. Sat., May 20, 12-4 p.m., King Manor Museum, 150-03 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica. Free. Info: (718) 206-0545, kingmanor.org.

Global Mashup #5: Thailand Meets Tahiti, with music of each played by separate performers and then a jam of both, and open dance floor. Fri., May 19, 8 p.m. (dance lessons 7 p.m.), Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. $16; $10 students; free teens 13-19 with ID. Info/RSVP: (718) 463-7700, flushingtownhall.org.

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Japanese Calligraphy and Kyoto Culture, with performance of the decorative writing technique, music and kimono and handicraft display, all deriving from the ancient city. Sun., May 21, 1-4:30 p.m., Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Free with admission: suggested; $4 seniors; free students, kids. Info: (718) 592-9700, queensmuseum.org.

MUSIC Spring Concert & Lawn Tea, with the flute, piano, double bass and vocal ensemble Eart’Acte performing a variety of genres amidst spring flowers, with tea and treats afterward. Sun., May 21, 2 p.m., Voelker Orth Museum, 149-19 38 Ave., Flushing. $25; $20 students. Info: (718) 359-6227, vomuseum.org.

Paint Night Wine & Cheese, a creative, fun night with friends at the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning. Fri., May 19, 7-10 p.m., 161-04 Jamaica Ave. Tickets: $60; 2 for $110. Info/RSVP: (718) 658-7400, rsvp@jcal.org.

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The Caan Film Festival, with 12 movies celebrating Sunnyside-raised actor James Caan, including “Honeymoon in Vegas,” above, “Brian’s Song” and “Misery.” Fri., May 19-Sun., May 28, varying dates and times, Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria. $15; $11 seniors, students; $7 kids 3-17. Info: (718) 777-6888, movingimage.us.

Community Health and Educational Resources Fair, the 4th annual at IS 59, with free mammograms and breast cancer, HIV/AIDS, dental and other screenings; mental health info, library card signup, giveaways, games and more. Sat., May 20, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m., 132-55 Ridgedale St., Springfield Gardens. Free. Info: (718) 527-3501, sleverett@schools.nyc.gov.

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THEATRE “The Miracle Worker,” the powerful true story of blind and deaf Helen Keller and the teacher who reached her, Annie Sullivan. Thu., May 18; Sat.-Sun., May 20-21; varying times, Queens Theatre, 14 United

Wildfest, celebrating outdoor adventure and folklore, with lessons on orienteering, primitive skills such as flint-knapping and bow drill-making, native American cultural presentation and performance and more. Sat., May 20, 12-3 p.m., Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Blvd., Long Island City. Free. Info: (718) 956-1819, socratessculpturepark.org. continued on page 38

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The story told in “The Miracle Worker,” William Gibson’s award-winning play being given a rare and sterling mounting at Queens Theatre through May 21, is, in fact, so miraculous it epitomizes the adage that fact is sometimes stranger than fiction. Based upon the relationship between Helen Keller, who overcame multiple disabilities to emerge as a world-renowned author, political activist and lecturer, and her teacher, Annie Sullivan, who unlocked doors for her pupil when others had long since given up hope, the play is as grip-

‘The Miracle Worker’ When: Thu., May 18, 2 p.m.; Sat, May 20, 2 and 8 p.m.; Sun., May 21, 3 p.m. Where: Queens Theatre, 14 United Nations Ave. S., Flushing Meadows Corona Park Tickets: $25 -$42. (718) 760-0064, queenstheatre.org

ping, emotional and relevant as it must have been at its first Broadway performance more than 50 years ago. The play should prove par ticularly meaningful for residents of Queens, where both women resided for two decades in a house located at the site of what is now the Reform Temple of Forest Hills. As described in the current production’s promotional material, “Helen Keller lives in a prison of silence and darkness. As Annie struggles to reach Helen, she must also confront the obstacles in Helen’s family: a domineering father, a heartbroken mother and a resentful brother.” It is a difficult play to cast, particularly when it comes to the role of Helen, who is 7 years old, remains on stage almost constantly and speaks hardly a word. The actress playing her must convey a multitude of emotions through nothing but her physical being. In Ayla Schwartz, who makes her professional theater debut in the demanding role, the production has struck gold. Her focus and credibility as a blind and deaf child are commendable, and she is riveting from start to final bow.

Mike Boland and Holly Ann Butler as the Kellers, Betsy Hogg as Annie Sullivan and PHOTO BY DOMINICK TOTINO Ayla Schwartz as Helen Keller in “The Miracle Worker.” She shares many of the play’s dramatic moments with Betsy Hogg, a Broadway veteran who masks Annie’s fear of failure with an air of brash self-confidence. Holly Ann Butler makes for an ideal Kate Keller, Helen’s mother, a woman torn between loving her daughter — perhaps

too much — and doing what is best for her. As Captain Keller, Helen’s stubborn and oftentimes overly demanding father, Mike Boland proves powerful at times, though on opening night last Friday he occasionally delivered his lines hesitatingly. continued on page 00 39

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Long Island City’s art scene is open to everyone “It’s the anti-Soho, anti-Chelsea group arts show,” said artist and airbrush painter As artists continue their fight to stay in Jason Artigas. “It caters more to the peoLong Island City, as rents and new develop- ple than a type of people, where you can ments continue to go up, the community just relax.” Greenberg, who draws his inspiration will again celebrate the group that put the from the VHS covers of 1980s B-movies, neighborhood on the map. The seventh annual LIC Arts Open, which said the Manhattan art events often attract started Wednesday and runs to Sunday, “avant garde yuppies,” something you offers art lovers an eclectic choice of medi- won’t see in western Queens. “You see pretty much the last vestiges of ums to enjoy during the five-day festival. “I always have this sort of feeling that I’ve the melting pot of New York at the LIC Arts seen everything,” said artist Kenny Green- Open,” he said. But it’s something that’s not seen quite as berg, who is participating in the open. “But widely as it was a I’m always amazed few years ago — to see either a very possibly due to the new idea, or even an artists themselves. o l d i d ea l ike a n When: Through Sun., May 21 “The arts make a incredibly executed various times place seem desirpainting. That alone Where: Various locations able, which then is a draw.” Entry: Free. (718) 392-0722 becomes desirable Artists and studios licartsopen.org to people in real are opening their estate,” said phodoors to the public tographer and longfor free throughout the festival, in different parts of the commu- time LIC resident Ray Normandeau, who is nity, offering them a unique chance to see displaying his and his wife’s photos on the works up close with their creators, who PhotosNYC.com. “That’s a big problem might be working on a different piece as vis- around here.” The decreasing affordability of LIC, as itors drop by. A number of special events will also take place throughout the five days. more developments are built in the area,

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The neon signs created by Kenny Greenberg are among the countless works that can PHOTO COURTESY KENNY GREENBERG be seen during the LIC Arts Open. has been a topic of discussion at most meetings in the neighborhood, including at a mayoral town hall earlier this month. “It’s certainly an ongoing dialogue,” said Greenberg, a member of Community Board 1. “There’s an understanding that there’s something very special about this environment.” But while the artists are able to stay in the area, events like the LIC Arts Open offer them the opportunity to gain more exposure.

“The LIC Arts Open has always been more of a community thing than anything else,” Artigas said. Echoing Ar tiga s’ point, Greenberg cheered the ability to interact with artists and get inside their head. “It tends to be more relaxed,” he said. “That part I think is amazing. It’s a well-knit community here.” Normandeau pointed out art admirers will also have the ability to purchase art at Q the festival for “an affordable price.”

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Geeks and nerds of Queens who can’t wait for New York Comic Con in October will be happy to know they can get their convention fixings early right here in the neighborhood — as the debuting BoroughCon will be held at St. John’s University May 26 to 29 and is expected to get as many as 20,000 attendees. Convention goers will have the opportunity to meet celebrities, show off their cool costumes in a cosplay contest, win money in a video game tournament and mingle with other like-minded fans of heroic stories, manga and more. Located in Jamaica, St. John’s was the perfect place to have the event, said BoroughCon CEO Matthew Goodison-Orr. “Surprisingly, New York City and the sur-

BoroughCon When: Fri.-Mon., May 26-29 Where: St. John’s University, 8000 Utopia Pkwy., Jamaica Tickets: $17-$100. boroughcon.com

rounding area runs short of adequate event space, despite the world-class sports and concert venues,” Goodison-Orr said. “None of the hotels have anywhere enough meeting space for a convention of BoroughCon’s size, and the Javits Center is already home to New York Comic Con, with which we have no desire to invite comparison. “So my partners and I chose to focus on the four boroughs, and St. John’s became the clear choice.” He continued that BoroughCon can become something in Queens, rather than competing in Manhattan. “Queens has roughly the same population as Houston, and Brooklyn is almost the size of Chicago,” he said. “Both those middle-American cities host multiple ‘cons’ annually. So why would we want to be the second-biggest by a mile in Manhattan when we can build something new and different here?” Among the guests announced for BoroughCon are “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Goonies” actor Sean Astin, renowned video game voice actor Stephen Blum and “The Walking Dead” actor Khary Patton. Getting top-tier guests for a first-time

year cons,” he said. “They were willing to take a gamble on us.” A full list of the gues t s, and much more, is posted on BoroughCon’s website. Freedman said attendees will get to have their cosplay judged by professional cosplay artists Monika Lee and Riddle. There will also be a gaming tournament with a $2,000 pot to find out Sean Astin, left, of “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Goonies” who is the best “Super and Khary Patton of “The Walking Dead” are among the stars Smash Melee” Player on the Wii. COURTESY PHOTOS expected to appear at BoroughCon. Freedman hopes convention is incredibly rare. William Freed- the attendees have a good time and come man, programming director for the con, back when BoroughCon returns next year. credits Goodison-Orr and CFO Victor Lai “We want the attendees, the vendors, for building relationships from their previous the artists and the performers to all say, ‘I convention they ran in Florida, Knightrokon. can’t wait to come back to BoroughCon “The talent agencies don’t want to float next year,’” he said. “We are really eager to their big names to first-year cons because a put on the best event we can for the Q lot of first year-cons never become second- attendees.”

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‘Taste of Sunnyside’ When: Tues., May 23, 5:30 (VIP) or 6:30-8:30 p.m. Where: Queens Blvd. and 46th Ave., below the No. 7 train tracks Tickets: $40-$70. (718) 606-1800, tasteofsunnyside.com

If you’re looking for food with a little kick, Luis Munoz, the owner of Arriba A r r i b a a t 4 0 -15 Queens Blvd. and connoisseur of Mexican cuisine, has you covered. M u n oz i s a l s o undecided on what he’ll be serving at the taste, but said a strong contender for inclusion is his popular dish called esquites — made up of corn kernels, cotija Turkish kebab meat from Mangel Kebab, along with American short rib burgers and Mexican tlacoyos, served c h e e s e, M ex i c a n by Arriba Arriba owner Luis Munoz, left, are sure to be a big hit at the annual Taste of Sunnyside on Tuesday. mayo, chili powder On the cover: Lowery Bar & Kitchen owner Ann Muldoon cuts open a burger for members of the media at and jalapeño pep- Monday’s preview. PHOTOS BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA pers cooked in chick“It’s very popular in Mexico,” he said. found at street fairs in southern Mexico, en stock and served in a small cone. “Everywhere you go, you’ll find these on where Munoz hails from — made up of “Everybody loves it.” The Taste of Sunnyside begins at 5:30 the street,” Munoz said. “People try it and chicken and steak served on a bean-stuffed corn tortilla and smothered in queso fresco, p.m. for those who purchase $70 VIP tickthey’ll keep coming back.” Also under consideration are plates of sour cream and either a chile diablo or ets and 6:30 p.m. for attendees who buy Q $40 general admission tickets. bite-sized tlacoyos — another dish often tomateo sauce.

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continued continued from from page page 33 00 For diners who want to experience the best of Sunnyside’s international flare, food served by popular Turkish restaurant Mangel Kebab’s new owner Engin Yasmun is sure to be a big hit. Yasmun, a native of Turkey who was raised in Thailand, said he isn’t sure what he’ll be serving at the Taste of Sunnyside yet, but he hopes his presence there will result in the sale of even more gyros, kebabs and authentic Turkish tea at the 46-20 Queens Blvd. eatery he purchased late last year. “I want to give everyone a taste of what we have. I want people to know about us and learn about us,” Yasmun said. “They have to learn about our taste.”

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by Ryan Howell is one of the finest to be seen on the theater’s stage in recent memory. Costume designer Lizzie Donelan has done a fine job with the wardrobe. Also deserving kudos are Alicia Rodis, the fight choreographer who devised plenty of action while seemingly keeping the actors safe, and Kevin Semancik for the evocative sound design. Helen Keller, who died in 1968 at the age of 87, stands as proof that people with disabilities can accomplish much in their lives. “The Miracle Worker” similarly provides evidence that a good, solid play can stand up a half century after it Q was created.

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Index No.: 710068/2016. Date Filed: 5-1-17. SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS. Plaintiff designates Queens County as the Place of Trial. Designation of Venue is based upon the situs of the Subject Property. Subject Property: 109-16 207th Street, Queens Village, New York 11429. SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK: COUNTY OF QUEENS DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE FOR GSAMP TRUST 2006-FM3, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-FM3, Plaintiff, -against- BARBARA ARRINGTON A/K/A BARBARA P. 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TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the attorneys for the Plaintiff within 20 days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE MORTGAGE COMPANY WHO FILED THIS FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT, A DEFAULT JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED AND YOU CAN LOSE YOUR HOME. SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY OR GO TO THE COURT WHERE YOUR CASE IS PENDING FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON HOW TO ANSWER THE SUMMONS AND PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY. SENDING A PAYMENT TO YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY WILL NOT STOP THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. THE OBJECT of the above captioned is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $290,000.00 and interest, recorded in the Office of the Clerk of QUEENS on September 7, 2006, in CRFN number 2006000506397, covering premises known as 109-16 207th Street, Queens Village, New York 11429 – BL #: 10913 -12. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. The Plaintiff also seeks a deficiency judgment against the Defendant and for any debt secured by said Mortgage which is not satisfied by the proceeds of the sale of said premises. TO the Defendant Barbara Arrington a/k/a Barbara P. Arrington, the foregoing Supplemental Summons with Notice is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Salvatore J. Modica of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of Queens, dated March 20, 2017. Dated: April 28, 2017 Melville, NY, MCCABE, WEISBERG & CONWAY, P.C. /s/_________________ Donna Akinrele, Esquire Attorneys for Plaintiff 145 Huguenot Street, Suite 210 New Rochelle, NY 10801 p. 914-6368900 File # 16-300501 HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE NEW YORK STATE LAW REQUIRES THAT WE SEND YOU THIS NOTICE ABOUT THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY. SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME. IF YOU FAIL TO RESPOND TO THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT IN THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION, YOU MAY LOSE YOUR HOME. PLEASE READ THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT CAREFULLY. YOU SHOULD IMMEDIATELY CONTACT AN ATTORNEY OR YOUR LOCAL LEGAL AID OFFICE TO OBTAIN ADVICE ON HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF. SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE. The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid office, there are government agencies and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Banking Department at 1-877-BANKNYS (1-877-226-5697) or visit the department’s website at WWW.BANKING.STATE.NY.US. RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO LEAVE YOUR HOME AT THIS TIME. 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NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 05/02/17, bearing Index Number NC-000092-17/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) JONNAYE (Middle) ANNETTE (Last) ARCHIE. My present name is (First) JONNAY (Middle) ANNETTE (Last) ARCHIE AKA JONNAYE ANNETTE ARCHIE AKA JONNAY A. ARCHIE. My present address is 102-35 184th Street, Hollis, NY 11423-3103. My place of birth is QUEENS, NY. My date of birth is February 17, 1979.

A xos Global Group, LLC. Filed 10 / 21/16. Office: Queens Co. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: Cheyenne Moseley C / O L egalzoom.com, Inc., 9900 Spectrum Dr, Austin, TX 78717. Purpose: General.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 05/02/17, bearing Index Number NC-000108-17/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) SEORAJNI (Last) MANGAL. My present name is (First) SEORAJNI (Last) PERSAUD AKA SEORAJNI P. PERSAUD. My present address is 115-32 155th Street, Apt. #1, Jamaica, NY 114341029. My place of birth is GUYANA. My date of birth is October 10, 1966.

Brian&BigJ, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/21/2017. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: c/o United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228 Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

On March 27, 2017, the State Board of Nursing revoked the license of Jacqueline Jasmine Brown, a/k/a Ann T. Scott, PA license no. RN622328, of Hollis, New York based on disciplinary actions taken by another state, failure to report same to the Board and committing fraud or deceit in securing her admission to practice.

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Mang Heem Films LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/16/2016. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: Mang Heem Films LLC, 45-16 49th Street, Apt. 01H, Woodside, NY 11377. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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Clearstream Real Estate Investors LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/23/17. Cty: Queens. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 95-60 Queens Blvd., #210, Rego Park, NY 11374. General Purpose.

SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF QUEENS. HSBC BANK USA, N.A., Plaintiff against AEHUI S. KIM A/K/A SHIA AEHUI KIM, DOKYUN KIM, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on March 27, 2017. I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Queens County Supreme Courthouse, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Court Room # 25, Jamaica, N.Y. on the 16th day of June, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. premises described as follows: All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough and County of Queens, City and State of New York. Said premises known as 58-26 85th Street, Elmhurst, N.Y. 11373. (Block: 2897, Lot: 17), Approximate amount of lien $ 733,045.19 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale. Index No. 4609-2010. Matthew S. Vishnick, Esq., Referee. Fein, Such & Crane, LLP, Attorneys for Plaintiff, 28 East Main Street, Suite 1800, Rochester, N.Y. 14614, (585) 232-7400

AHLUWALIA REAL ESTATE LLC. Arts of Org. filed with the SSNY on 3/27/17. Office: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Inderpaul Ahluwalia & Manjeet Ahluwalia, 84-30 124th Street, Kew Gardens, NY 11415. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

CSM Restaurants LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/03/2017. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: Empire Tax & Business Services 21 Central Park Ave., Yonkers, NY 10705 Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of GANZOS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/24/17. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o CaneLaw LLP, 200 Park Ave., 17th Fl., NY, NY 10166. Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE is hereby given that a license number pending for liquor, wine and beer has been applied for by the undersigned* to sell liquor, wine, beer and cider at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 222-02 Union Turnpike, Bayside, Queens County, for on-premises consumption. *Wild Farm Hospitality Inc. dba Anthony’s

Eagle’s Nest II, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/10/2013. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: The LLC, 50-05 213th Street, Bayside, NY 11364 Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

J & K WORLD CLASSIC STONES LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/2/2017. Office in Queens Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 3831 9th St., Long Island City, NY 11101, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

R/S BRIARWOOD, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/27/2017. Office in Queens Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 36-35 Bell Blvd., Bayside, NY 11361, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Howard Beach, Hi-Rise Co-op, 5 rms, 2 BR, 2 new baths, FDR, track lighting. Howard Beach Realty, 718-641-6800

Houses For Sale Howard Beach, All new mint AAA, Waterfront Home, colonial, 3 BR, 2 baths, huge kit & LR, New granite countertops, custom center island, new cabinets & SS appli, 2 new baths/Jacuzzi, tiled fls. $849K Connexion I RE, 718-845-1136

Howard Beach/Rockwood Park, beautiful 4 BR, 2 1/2 bath, Colonial, gourmet kit, in-ground pool, 40x110. $899K, Connexion I REAL ESTATE Attorney. Buy/Sell/ RE, 718-845-1136 Mortgage Problems. Attorney & Real Estate Bkr, PROBATE/CRIMINAL/BUSINESS-Richard H. Lovell, P.C., 107- 48 Cross Bay Blvd, Ozone Howard Beach, Greentree Condo, Park, NY 11417, 718-835-9300, Sun 5/21, 3-5PM, 151-25 78 St. Bell #2. Connexion I RE, 718-845-1136 LovellLawnewyork@gmail.com

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Shanghai Media LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/27/17. Cty: Queens. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 8825 69 Rd., Forest Hills, NY 11375. General Purpose.

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C M SQ page 44 Y K New Affordable Brownstones for Sale New Affordable Brownstones for Sale at Louis T. Wright HDFC at Louis T. Wright HDFC Louis T. Wright HDFC, is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for 3 affordable renovated th brownstones now under construction at 455 Convent Avenue, 457 Convent Avenue and 524 West 150 Street in the Sugar Hill area of Manhattan. These brownstones are being constructed through the Neighborhood Homes Program of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development. The amenities will include hardwood floors and appliances Each brownstone has 1 (2) bedroom unit and 2 (1) bedroom units The sales prices, and income requirements are as follows

Neighborhood Houses Program not exceeding 165% of Area Medium Income

Home Address

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Total Annual Income Minimum**

Total Annual Income Maximum**

Estimated Subsidized Sale Price***

455 Convent Avenue

$82,500

$104,775

$625,033

$94,250

$119,625

$106,000

$134,640

$117,780

$149,490

$82,500

$104,775

$94,250

$119,625

$106,000

$134,640

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$149,490

$82,500

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$106,000

$134,640

$117,780

$149,490

457 Convent Avenue

524 West 150 Street

continued from page 10 becoming a coastal risk district, the DCP official explained. The zoning would “limit future residential development to single-family detached houses except in the case of lots that are over 40 feet wide — two-family detached houses would be allowed.” Community facilities in both Broad Channel and Howard Beach would no longer be allowed to receive overnight accommodations if the rezonings were implemented. Aside from the zoning changes to the

two high-risk sections of South Queens, Herlitz discussed changes to the citywide f loodplain resiliency rules that are of import to all building owners on the borough waterfront. “Basements would not be allowed in new buildings in the f loodplain,” the DCP official said. She added that any area below the design flood elevation “is restricted for only parking storage and access, so you can’t have any living space in that area ... Also, mechanical systems must be elevatQ ed above the flood elevation.”

$625,033

$640,000

The Department of City Planning used the house rendered above, compliant with the Department of Buildings’ standards for New York City’s floodplain, as an example of a PHOTO BY RYAN BRADY flood-resilient residential building.

Tracking troubles at MTA, Penn

* Subject to occupancy criteria * Household size includes everyone who will live with you. including parents and children. Subject to occupancy criteria. ** Income guidelines subject to change. *** Estimated subsidized sale prices may be subject to change. Home buyer secures mortgage from private lender Eligible buyers should have minimum of 10% of the purchase price available for down payment. Buyers must occupy the brownstone as their primary residence. Please note that the quoted sales prices, maximum household income, amenities etc., are estimated and are subject to change. To request an application: th REQUEST BY MAIL: Louis T. Wright HDFC. C/O 443 West 125 Street New York, N.Y. 10027 Include a self-addressed and stamped envelope. Informational sessions will be held on: th May 3, 2017 and June 9, 2017 at 6 P.M. at 439 West 125 Street Community Room Location Seminar attendance is not mandatory to purchase a home.

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DCP’s flood resiliency planning

Qualified applicants will be required to meet income guidelines and additional selection criteria. Completed applications must be returned by regular mail only (no priority, certified, registered, express, oversized, or overnight mail will be accepted) to a post office box number that will be listed on the application, and must be postmarked by JUNE 19, 2017 the deadline date. All applications postmarked after the deadline date will be set aside for possible future consideration. Applications will be selected by a lottery; applicants who submit more than one application may be disqualified. General preference will be given to New York City residents. 5% of the units are set aside for mobility-impaired applicants. 2% of the units are set aside for visual or hearing impaired applicants. Preference for a percentage of units goes to: Residents of Manhattan Community Board 9 (50%) and Municipal employees (5%). EACH BUYER MUST OCCUPY THE HOME AS HIS PRIMARY RESIDENCE. Therefore, any approved applicant will need to terminate any lease to any other residences prior to closing. Any prospective applicant who currently owns or previously has purchased a residential property is ineligible. No Broker’s Fee. No Application Fee. Owner Occupancy Required.

Bill Blasio, Bill dede Blasio, MayorMayor The York Department of TheNew New York CityCity Department of Housing and Development Housing Preservation Preservation and Development Maria -Springer, Commissioner MariaTorres Torres -Springer, Commissioner www.nyc.gov/hpd www.nyc.gov/hpd

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continued from page 18 Raskin said it is hard to place a dollar amount on a single major subway outage. “I don’t know if there is a specific algorithm, but the human cost of any delay is significant,” he said. “If people are struggling to get into or around town, the cost is huge. All businesses that call New York City home are dependent on the subways.” As for Penn Station, a series of incidents in April, including a derailment, caused massive delays. Then last week, on May 10, signal problems in an East River tunnel followed by a disabled train led to more than 80 Long Island Rail Road trains being canceled in the evening rush hour. While Amtrak has only 8 percent of the traffic at Penn Station — compared to a combined 92 percent for the LIRR and New Jersey Transit — it still is in charge of all station operations and maintenance. The next day, Amtrak President Wick Moorman, who has been on the job since September, had a very poorly received appearance before the state Assembly’s Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions. Amtrak already was planning two major maintenance efforts this summer, from July 7 to 27 and from August 4 through 28 before last week’s meltdown.

Fresh man U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Suffolk, Nassau, Queens) told the Chronicle on Monday evening that he was planning to say nothing publicly before May 10. “I was going to stay out of it,” he said. Like Raskin, the congressman sees direct ties to the subway problems. “We’re dealing with infrastructure that is very complex and needs a lot of attention,” he said. “With the confluence of events, it seems that people are paying attention; and they’d better.” But Suozzi said he also is satisfied for now following subsequent conversations with Moorman and LIRR President Patrick Nowakowski. “Both guys are real train guys, professionals,” Suozzi said. “But they’re also engineers, and sometimes engineers are not the best at communicating in terms of the work that needs to be done.” Amtrak, for example, has said it intends to shut down up to 25 percent of normal service during the two summer work efforts. “I think they can get that down to 10 percent,” Suozzi said. He also discounts some media reports that Amtrak does not have the capital funding to accomplish all that needs to be done. “Congress gave them $1.5 billion,” he Q said.

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One family corner property in Centreville area of Ozone Park with plenty of room and plenty of parking for five+ cars. One block from "A" train Cross Bay Blvd/ Rockaway Blvd Station; one block to express bus to Manhattan; one block to Woodhaven Blvd bus to Queens Center Mall; supermarket directly across street; perfect for a buyer who needs lots of parking. Call agent Natalie 347-935-7064

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Car sales on Hillside in Jamaica since 1938 by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

On the southwest cor ner of Hillside Ave nue a nd 161st St reet i n Ja m aica was the showplace home of real estate b r oke r A lex a nd e r Miller in the 1920s. Because the f ront d o o r f a c e d 161s t Street it was num- The southwest corner of Hillside Avenue and 161st Street in March bered and known as 1938. Used cars still are being sold on the property. 88-02 161 St. Miller passed away untimely in 1929 used car lot called Central Auto Sales, which sold older high-end cars. at an untimely 45. Miller died young too, at age 53, His wife, Lydia Miller, was born in Baden, Germany. She had only a seventh- in1941. The property went through a succesgrade education, had always been a housewife and was now in trouble. She sion of owners. Eventually Doroc Realty, rented out rooms to her niece and two which had bought it, tore down the oncelodgers to survive. Her large 72-by-110 beautiful mansion in favor of putting foot property was zoned commercial and more cars there. Public records show it is appraised at the high value of $40,000 by now owned by Joseph Padalon. The propthe city. She gave up her beautiful front erty is still a lot for used cars for sale and Q lawn and gardens and rented it out as a now is called Car Citi.

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2017 Sports Emmys by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor

The 2017 Sports Emmy Awards, like it always does, attracted the A-listers in the sports broadcasting industry. Alex Rodriguez, who now does occasional work for Fox Sports, was a presenter. He will continue to work on select baseball telecasts but one gets the feeling that he wants to emulate Michael Strahan’s career, which has a big nonsports component. A good example of that was A-Rod’s surprise appearance as a co-host on a recent episode of ABC’s “The View.” “My mom and my sister love that show. It’s not every day that they ask ugly guys like me from the sports world to come on,” he said with self-deprecating humor. “I had a great time but I have to admit that I got nervous and tried to stay clear of all political discussions!” he added with a smile. Brent Musburger, who retired from broadcasting earlier in the year, received the Lifetime Achievement Emmy. It’s safe to say that Musburger and his colleagues at the time, Phyllis George, Irv Cross and Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder, put NFL studio shows on the map. “People ask me about that show every day. The key to our success was Phyllis George who was a recent Miss America. She brought a huge female following to the show and she could handle herself with the guys,” Musburger said.

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