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The former Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church in Ozone Park at 101st Avenue and 86th Street will be turned into a homeless shelter.

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Gov. Cuomo backs congestion pricing Revenue stream needed for $37B MTA plan; Nixon says not enough by Michael Gannon

“The question becomes, how do you finance the $19 billion?” Cuomo said on ov. Cuomo is embracing NYC Tran- May 31. “We know that the city has already sit President Andy Byford’s rescue said publicly that they won’t fund it. We plan for the city’s subways and bus also know that this is the New York City system, as well as some form of a traffic Transit Authority, that is owned by the city. congestion pricing system as a means of Legally the city has the responsibility to fund it. But we know the city doesn’t want to paying for it. Speaking on Long Island last week, fund it. ... I also think it’s counterproductive to the city, because C u o m o a c k n owl the subway system is edged there still are the lifeblood. But the my r iad f u nding remaining question details to be worked is what is the best out. long-ter m f unding But he also disfor that plan? I have missed out of hand said I believe it’s calls for a millioncongestion pricing.” aire’s tax being profThe new state fered by C y nt h ia bud get d id n’t Nixon, his opponent in the Democratic Cynthia Nixon and Gov. Cuomo can’t even include congestion gubernatorial prima- agree to disagree over the issue of congestion pricing — extra fees ry in Sept. 13, and pricing. FILE PHOTOS fo r d r i v i n g i n t o Downtown and MidMayor de Blasio Byford wants to spend an estimated $37 town Manhattan — but does add surcharges billion over 10 years to install modern sub- on taxi and app-based for-hire vehicles. “Some people support the millionaire’s way signals, purchase hundreds of new subway cars and thousands of new buses; and tax,” Cuomo continued in a transcript of the redraw bus routes where necessary. He press conference. “The millionaire’s tax has wants to front-load $19 billion in the first been raised 800 times over the past few years. The Legislature has refused to pass five years. Editor

Taxis and other for-hire vehicles are unlikely to be the only ones facing increased costs to enter Manhattan, as both Democrats running for governor are embracing varying degrees of congesFILE PHOTO tion pricing to raise money to fund the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. the millionaire’s tax. Both houses have said that they don’t support the millionaire’s tax. So that is not a feasible alternative and straphangers deserve a real plan and a real

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Improvements to be made at JFK LaHood holds press conference to share findings on airport problems by Anna Sackel Associate Editor

Ray LaHood, former secretary for the U.S. Department of Transportation, held a press conference on May 31 to discuss his recommendations to improve operations at the John F. Kennedy International Airport. Following a troublesome winter for JFK, LaHood led an independant investigation to “first, understand the various problems that arose during Winter Storm Grayson,” he said at the press conference. “And secondly, to prevent them from occurring again.” The result of the investigation was a detailed report that named 50 recommendations, most notibly the improvement of the JFK Emergency Operations Center which launched immediately after the storm. The purpose of the EOC is to serve as a command and control center that can b e u s e d i n a ny a nd a l l e me rge ncy situations. LaHood worked alongside Port Authority Director Rick Cotton and Aviation Director Huntley Lawrence to create a plan for the airport “We are here today to provide an update on the comprehensive plan we embarked on four months ago,” said Cotton, at Thursday’s press conference, “to ensure the traveling public that the breakdowns that occurred at JFK Airport during Winter Storm Grayson last January will never happen again.” The breakdowns Cotton was referring to were the loss of luggage, failure of equipment, the cancellation of thousands of flights, planes being diverted to other air-

Ray LaHood, former secretary for the U.S. Department of Transportation, speaks at JFK’s Emergency Operations Center on May 31, flanked by Port Authority Aviation Director Huntley LawPHOTO COURTESY PORT AUTHORITY rence, left, and Port Authority Director Rick Cotton. ports, a pipe bursting and a brief power outage in one of the terminals. LaHood has been investigating the airport’s functions for the past four months and has come up with an extensive list of ways for JFK to improve its crisis control and day-to-day operations. The focus of LaHood’s investigation c e nt e r e d a rou nd t he EO C a nd how improvements there would fix many large issues in terms of air traffic control. However, many people, including U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), believe the problems are due to communication, or lack

thereof, between foreign airlines and airport personnel. “Some of the blame squarely lands on lack of communication between foreign airlines that flooded JFK with flights and the entities that manage the airport,” Schumer said in a statement early January. “It was this lack of communication that helped to create the chaos at Kennedy and it is only through improving this system that we will prevent this from happening again.” To combat this issue LaHood recommended that JFK implement an Airport Operations Center which would, as the

report states, allow JFK management to have a “constant finger on the pulse of the Airport’s full operations.” Other notible suggestions are centered around traffic control at the gates and on the runway. An addition of a gate management system could potentially lessen wait times for incoming planes to get to a gate. That system would be able to track all flights and predict any possible conflicts. LaHood also suggested that JFK look into getting hardstands, new areas where planes could be parked. They would allow for workers to unload passangers even if all gates are occupied. Additionally, according to the report, “Port Authority should consider building a remote offloading gate area at JFK for airlines that miss their arrival windows.” That would not only minimize buildup from incoming flights that are on time, but it would also encourage airlines to make their arrival windows. At multiple times during the press conference LaHood referenced Los Angeles International Airport. He said many of his ideas have already been put in place at LAX and have been extremely successful. While JFK and the Port Authority have said that there is no timeline yet for the implementation of LaHood’s recommendations, some changes have already been made and they expect to see improvements very soon. “The recommendations in this report ... will help JFK operate more effectively on a day-to-day basis, which is good for everyone who travels here.” said LaHood. “We look forward to watching the progress Q unfold.”

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Ozone Park will be home to 113 homeless men come wintertime by Anna Sackel Associate Editor

The Department of Homesless Services will be opening a shelter in Ozone Park this coming winter as part of Mayor de Blasio’s “Turning the Tide on Homelessness on New York City” program. In an email obtained by the Queens Chronicle, Amanda Nasar of the DHS outlined details of the shelter. “DHS notified the electeds and [Community Board] ... that we’re opening a new shelter at 85-15 101st Avenue, Ozone Park, for 113 single adult males with mental illness,” said Nasar. “We anticipate this shelter opening in late winter.” The site for the shelter is the location of the former Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church. De Blasio’s plan includes creating around 90 new homeless shelters and renovating and expanding 30 existing shelters to combat the closing down of more than 350 “cluster sites.” State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) says he

believes that it is extremely important to help the issue of homelessness, but does not agree with the mayor’s plan. “The plan is not working. Don’t throw out cluster apartments, they’re real and they work,” said Addabbo. “My main concern is the quality of life for both the people in my community and for the homeless that need these shelters and homes.” The DHS says that there are 272 individuals who come from the area that Community Board 9 covers in homeless shelters throughout the city, but only 126 of them are housed within CB 9. While the DHS did say who will be housed at this new shelter, Addabbo said there is still a lot of information missing. “There are just so many questions. Right now the level of trust with the DHS needs to improve,” he said. “We need to sit down with everyone, the councilman, the community board, residents and the DHS and get all the unknown questions out of the way.” continued on page 32

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City Hall wants to ax elite eight’s SHSAT De Blasio announces new plan to make specialized high schools more diverse by Ryan Brady Associate Editor

All students applying to the city’s “elite eight” specialized high schools take the same admissions exam. But if City Hall has its way, the test will be history. Mayor de Blasio last weekend revealed a plan to make the prestigious institutions, which have few black and Latino students, more diverse. He and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza propose completely getting rid of the specialized high school admissions exam over a three-year-period, a move that would require a change in state law. According to the Mayor’s Office, the specialized schools would have seats reserved for the highest-performing kids at every public middle school in the city by the end of the threeyear period. The second component of the mayor’s plan is a $550,000 per year expansion of the Discovery program, an initiative that helps admit students from disadvantaged schools who score slightly below the test’s cutoff. The program would, starting autumn next year, change so it covers 20 percent of spots at the schools. The number is around 5 percent now, according to the New York Post. Additionally, the eligibility rules for the program would change, so only kids in high-poverty schools at or exceeding 60 percent of the city’s Economic Need Index are offered it. The program was created by the 1971 law mandating that the SHSAT be required for the elite institutions. Under the new plan, it would be eliminated when the exam is. Advocates have long maintained the entry process has to be changed, owing to how few blacks and Latinos are admitted to the elite eight. Nearly 70 percent of the city’s total public school student body is black or Latino. But this year, just 4.1 percent of admissions offers went to blacks, despite the demographic accounting for 20.2 percent of total SHSAT takers. Similarly, 22.9 percent of those who took the exam were Latinos, a group that got just 6.3 percent of the offers in 2018. Asian and white kids — respectively getting 51.7 and 26.5 percent of this year’s offers — have fared much better under the existing system. “When this plan is in place, we project 45 percent of all seats in our specialized high schools will go to African Americans and Latinos,” the mayor said Sunday at Bethel Gospel Assembly, a Harlem church. He called their low share of seats in the schools “an injustice” and said repeatedly that the SHSAT “has to go.” Assemblyman Charles Barron (D-Brooklyn), who supports de Blasio’s diversity plan, is carrying a bill in Albany to get rid

In an effort to make the city’s specialized high schools more diverse, Mayor de Blasio is pushing a new plan that seeks to eliminate the admissions exam that the institutions use. Many FILE PHOTOS say that’s the wrong approach. of the SHSAT. The measure passed the Education Committee 16-13 Wednesday. “I am disappointed that the Education Committee voted to pass this measure,” Assemblyman Ron Kim (D-Flushing) said after the vote. “I voted no on A.10427A because this last minute politicization of the very serious issue of segregation and diversity in our public schools is merely political theatrics to distract from the truth: Under mayoral control, the quality of our K-8 public schools have failed to improve, something that is essential to achieving racial equity in our system.” He is not the only official representing Queens in Albany that opposes City Hall’s new idea. “The solution is not to forgo the test, but to recognize gifted and talented children at an early age, ensure gifted and talented programs in all districts and prepare students for excellence at an early age,” state Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky (D-Flushing) said in a prepared statement after the mayor announced his plan. A graduate of Bronx High School of Science, Stavisky has taught at another one of the elite eight institutions, Brooklyn Technical High School, and is on the Senate’s Committee on Education. The senator has introduced a bill that would require the city to screen all kids in the city for the Gifted and Talented programs, which she says would help more black and Hispanic students get into the specialized schools.

State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) also disagrees with the mayor’s new plan for the schools. “I’m really not crazy about scrapping the test completely,” Addabbo said, but he added that he would support other factors in conjunction with the exam being used in the admissions process. The senator also said he doubts the bill will pass in Albany before the legislative session wraps up later this month. Gov. Cuomo, also speaking before the Assembly Education Committee vote, said he does not believe there is much appetite in Albany to drop the SHSAT. Maspeth resident David Lee, a graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School, sits on the board of directors for the Coalition EDU advocacy group, which supports using the test for admissions. He blasted de Blasio’s plan. “The law he’s proposed, he’s backing will just destroy the specialized high schools,” Lee said. “It will shift the students that go to these schools from the highest 1 or 2 percent in the city to just above-average students.” Alumni groups for Stuyvesant High School and Brooklyn Tech have said they’re opposed to the mayor’s plan. City Councilman Peter Koo (D-Flushing) issued a statement criticizing it. “If the city were truly concerned about diversifying these schools, it would do more to provide opportunities for robust testing prep in underrepresented schools,” he said. Korean American Parents Association of Greater New York Co-president Christine Colligan says the proposal is a “clear sign of discrimination against the Asian students and parents.” “This is like communism, you equalize everything,” she said, adding that the mayor’s idea would “punish” Asians in the city. “So many Asian parents are calling me and saying this is ridiculous,” she said. Passed in 1971, the Hecht-Calandra Act classified three of the schools — Brooklyn Tech, Stuyvesant High School and the Bronx High School of Science — as “specialized” and dictated the single-test entrance criterion. The five other specialized schools — including the Queens High School for the Sciences at York College — came into existence after the law was passed. But the act says any other schools designated the same way as the original three are also subject to its requirements. Some have said that regardless of that, de Blasio is legally able to change the classification of the five schools so they wouldn’t require the tests because of when they were established. He’s insisted that such a move would not be in his legal power but earlier this year said his counsel would take another Q look at the issue. Peter C. Mastrosimone contributed to

Numbers rising of gifted and talented by Anna Sackel Associate Editor

Offer letters for the Gifted and Talented programs were sent out to families this past Friday, June 1. Students in kindergarten and first grade who took the exam were notified of their eligability to apply to a program in mid-April. Overall, throughout all five boroughs, the number of students who received offers has decreased slightly since last year, but the families who were offered spots at their top choices has gone up. For the Queens school districts, on average more kindergarteners who were eligable for a Gifted and Talented program were offered spots, 70 percent compared to 63

percent last year. For first graders it’s the opposite. Last year 43 percent of first graders who were eligable were given offers from a school, but this year the number dropped to 36percent. The top districts in the borough, in terms of acceptance rate, are 24 and 26. District 24, which covers Glendale, Richmond, Middle Village and Maspeth, had the highest percentage of eligable students in kindergarten and first grade to get an offer from a program. District 26, which covers Bellrose, Douglaston, Oakland Gardens and Glen Oaks, had the highest percentage of students to take the exam also receive an offer to a program. Starting this year new classes were added for third-

graders in three districts. Families of incoming third-graders in Districts 23 and 29 will receive offers to the new class later in June. The city has also seen improvements with it’s Diversity in Admissions pilot program, which give Gifted and Talented programs a target number of minority students to give offers to. “By expanding Diversity in Admissions and third grade classes,” said DOE spokesperson Doug Cohen, “we are working to make Gifted and Talented programs more accessible for students and families accross the city.” This year five of the six programs reached their target, and all six programs gave priority in their admissions Q process to underrepresented students.

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P Defeat de Blasio’s plot against the ‘elite eight’

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ayor de Blasio’s plan to lower admissions standards to the city’s “elite eight” specialized high schools would certainly diversify their student bodies. It also would ruin the schools. The goal, of course, is noble: to make the schools better reflect the city’s population. The numbers are striking: Of those offered admission to the schools in 2018, 51.7 percent were Asian, 26.5 percent were white, 8.3 percent were “unknown,” 6.3 percent were Latino, 4.1 percent were black and 0.6 percent were Native American. Those figures do not at all reflect the city’s demographic breakdown. White children are underrepresented, blacks and Latinos extremely underrepresented and Asians wildly overrepresented. What’s going on here? Is the Department of Education discriminating against certain minorities? Are parents buying their kids’ way into the schools through political influence or bribes? What subjective criteria are being used to create student bodies so out of sync with the real New York? The answer is none whatsoever. Admission to each of the eight schools is determined by one factor alone: an eighthgrader’s score on the Specialized High School Admissions Test. And that’s what de Blasio and Schools Chancellor

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Bike lane flip-flop Dear Editor: I read with interest your article about the redesigning of the part of Queens Boulevard that would impact Forest Hills (“DOT unveils new Qns. Blvd. phase to CB 6,” May 31, multiple editions). But what really got me is that Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz is not in agreement with these bike lanes. Is this the same woman who took a trip to California to see how their bike lanes worked and came back and said they were “wonderful”? Is this the same woman who said to the Department of Transportation to go ahead and give the bike lanes to Rego Park and take away 198 parking spaces? Then when she saw and heard from the people in Rego Park complain about driving around looking for parking spaces and businesses losing business, as they do to this day, she had an awakening and told herself, “I cannot let this happen in Forest Hills, so I have to oppose it.” Well, Councilwoman and Community Board 6, “What goes around, comes around.” Welcome to it! I will agree with her on one thing, that no one rides in these bike lanes. Kathleen Schatz Rego Park

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out of the Assembly Education Committee Wednesday, but it’s unlikely to become law, even according to Gov. Cuomo. De Blasio may just be doing this just to rally his base. That would be insidious, as the controversy he’s created is scaring families who have been working hard under the system’s existing rules to achieve excellence — and is stoking racial tensions. Carranza actually said on Tuesday, “I just don’t buy into the narrative that any one ethnic group owns admission to these schools.” No, none does. Asians are succeeding at higher rates than others on their merits. His comment prompted U.S. Rep Grace Meng of Flushing, a Stuyvesant grad, to say in a prepared statement, “I am insulted, and these comments are false. Asian Americans aren’t trying to own admission to these schools.” The city should do all it can to improve K-8 education for all children, especially the minority students so underrepresented at the elite eight. It can offer free SHSAT prep and help children prepare for the exam — and the curriculum — in any way possible. It should not water down the education these world-renowned schools provide and change their very nature. They must remain meritocracies. They’re producing many of our nation’s future leaders at this very moment.

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Dear Editor: Re your article about the fourth phase of bike lanes on Queens Boulevard: People should realize that statistics can be used to “prove a point,” favorable or unfavorable. I cite the comment that the DOT states that bike lane usage in Rego Park has improved 127 percent year to year. That sounds great; however, realize that the prior year usage was 101 rides per day, and now it’s 127. That pales in comparison with the over 40,000 vehicles driving along segments of Queens Boulevard on any single day and the over two million residents in the borough. Needless to say, these projects create jobs for the DOT, at the expense of taxpayers and drivers and businesses along the strip. The truck loading zones are not used; rather they double-park, which blocks any on-coming

traffic in the single lane, forcing cars to navigate the bicycle lane in between the pylons that were installed to further restrict traffic. How many people are going to bike from Forest Hills into Manhattan? Karen Koslowitz has finally seen the light, and opposes any future expansion. John Ngai Rego Park

DOT’s goal: Impede traffic Dear Editor: The last sentence of the story says it all. “The DOT will present the project before Community Board 6 at its June 13 meeting, with implementation slated to begin in July.” Even if all members of the community board vote against the plan, it will be implemented. Perhaps the best argument is put forth by “cycling advocate Peter Beadle” when he says, according to the story, that even if the

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Fund our food pantry Dear Editor: At the Jamaica Seventh Day Adventist Food Pantry, we serve as a lifeline to those unsure of how to make it through the next day. We are located in the heart of Jamaica, but our reach extends to food insecure New Yorkers throughout the five boroughs. Every single dollar contributed to funding our food services and programs is not only a blessing — it’s essential to our work of feeding hungry New Yorkers. We rely on a program called EFAP (the Emergency Food Assistance Program) to keep our pantry shelves stocked, so our clients can access the resources they need. Unfortunately, the recent city budget proposed by Mayor de Blasio would prevent us from doing this important work by cutting $7.2 million from EFAP. These cuts would reduce the resources food pantries like ours receive, which is why de Blasio must increase EFAP funding to $22 million. That’s the best way to ensure we can continue to serve as a lifeline for New Yorkers in need. Sylvia Robinson Jamaica Seventh Day Adventist Food Pantry Jamaica

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Dear Editor: There is legislation before the state Legislature that would eliminate the cap on something called the floor area ratio for new construction. What does that mean? Each zoning classification has a floor area ratio number assigned to it. Many of the zones in northeastern Queens have an FAR of 0.5. This means essentially that if you have a 40-by-100 lot (4,000 square feet), you can build a house or building that contains an FAR of 0.5, or 2,000 square feet. The highest FAR in New York City is 12. That applies to high-rises in densely populated areas of Manhattan, Brooklyn and western Queens. Many in the real estate industry would like to see that cap eliminated, so that bulkier and taller buildings could be con-

structed. FARs would go above 12 if the cap were eliminated. Many people object to this proposal. They feel that light and air will be further cut from existing low-density buildings that lie in those areas mentioned above. It would also lead to more congestion and stress the existing infrastructure in these areas. Many people also feel that if the FAR cap gets raised above 12, then a precedent will be set and the city may try to raise the FAR in other zoning designations as well. The supposed goal is to create more affordable housing. However, many experts believe that the so-called affordable housing that could be created would in large part still be unaffordable by most working-class families. Raising the cap of the FAR would only encourage overdevelopment and inappropriate development and could eventually affect all areas of our city. Please call your state senator and state assemblyperson and tell them to vote against eliminating the state cap on the floor area ratio. Raising the limit of the FAR cap would remove any limit on the size of residential buildings in zones with a current FAR of 12, and invite the possibility of higher FARs throughout the city. Henry Euler Bayside

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bike lanes are unused, they’re working. That goes to the heart of the matter. The lanes will be implemented by the Department of non-Transportation as a further effort to impede traffic. Of course there will be neither fatalities nor injuries if traffic does not move. If our district attorney were fair, he would have locked up NYC DOT management. But anyone who has served on a Queens County grand jury knows how Judge Brown runs his office. Eugene Falik Far Rockaway

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Letters continued from previous page I can just see it now. Someone commits a bank robber y and the police department issues the following call: “Be on the lookout. Bank robbed at 123 Anyplace St. Suspect wearing white shirt, black pants and red shoes. Armed and dangerous. Suspect is an “X.” And just one more thing. If the so-called “X” doesn’t like being an “X” can s/he try something else or is this a one-time deal? Oh, it’s great living in la la land. Bill Viggiano Williston Park, LI

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Dear Editor: For those disenfranchised and left Dear Editor: behind by both political parties over two We have a president who is a pathologi- decades, Trump provided the hope to level cal liar. A president who thinks he is above the playground. Hillary and the Democrats the law. A president who says he can par- had no attraction, as their promise was to don himself. A president who, every day, continue the status quo. wants to undermine our democracy, attackHillary and her staffers rejected what ing the press as the enemy of the people. their eyes told them when viewing the ferA president who is a billionaire and has vent Trump supporters. Those voters were surrounded himself with billionaires. A as alien as Trump and his rampaging mespresident who gave huge tax breaks to the sages of hate and destruction. Rather than wealthiest Americans and then brings for- questioning the reasons for Trump’s supward a budget that cuts Medicaid by $1 tril- port they were classified as “deplorable.” lion, cuts Medicare by $500 The Democrats and those billion, cuts nutrition pro- ONLINE truly sick of Trump may be grams for hungry kids and expecting a “blue wave” in cuts Social Security disabiliNovember. Their hopes may Miss an editorial or a ty. A president who told the letter cited by a writer? not be realized in the absence American people that he was Want breaking news of a message to the disaffectgoing to provide “cheaper and from all over Queens? ed that they deserve the right better” healthcare for everyFind the latest news, to regain power. body and then supports legisThe Democrats cannot past reports from all lation to cut the healthcare of over the borough and depend upon anti-Trump votover 32 million people! ers to turn the Congress. more at qchron.com. And now Trump is in an Theirs must be a local and uproar over Samantha Bee calling Ivanka national platform that makes realistic and the “C” word? Yet Ted Nugent calls Hillary comprehensible promises for which they a “toxic C word” and Trump invites him to must be measured and held accountable. the Oval Office. Just stating Dems have a “large tent” is We have a president who yearns to be a not going to work. Neither is attacking the dictator. And here are 10 things that define wealthy who have been enriched by Trump a dictator. 1. You are a narcissist who likes and the Republicans. The Democrats must putting his face and name on buildings. 2. stand as Winston Churchill, to tell the truth. You appoint family members to positions Many in our nation have been left of power. 3. Your political rallies are fright- behind by politicians pandering to special ening. 4. You hate the press. 5. You want to interest groups. Technology has destroyed hold missile parades. 6. You use your office blue-collar jobs and they will not return. for your own financial gain. 7. You align For the devastated Rust Belt and poorly with dictators and strongmen. 8. You claim educated among us, realistic federal prominorities are the cause of the country’s grams must be created, funded and run problems. 9. You lie freely. long-term to lift low-skill workers into the Trump does all of these things. The 10th 21st century. thing? You dress in a military costume. Not Tell the truth, state it will be hard and yet, people. Just give it time. costly and forgo playing to select interest Robert LaRosa groups that may be relied upon for votes Whitestone but cannot alter the future for those who found Trump a false prophet. Ed Horn The would-be king Baldwin, LI Dear Editor: This past Monday, the president proBanish Giuliani claimed the right to pardon himself. This declaration resembles a king asserting his Dear Editor: “divine right” to rule over the people. Please, Mr. 45, appoint Rudy Giuliani That so many in Congress agree with the ambassador to Outer Mongolia. Keep him president’s position speaks to how far off as far away as possible. He sounds like an the rails our representative government idiot barking up the wrong tree! finds itself. Anthony G. Pilla It’s not a game the president is playing. Forest Hills

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‘There was a huge change in their tone’ More optimism than ever that the Lefferts bridge will live, leaders say by Christopher Barca Editor

The battle to save the Lefferts Boulevard bridge — and the handful of small businesses atop it — has been raging for more than a year now. But at no point in that fight has Assemblyman Daniel Rosenthal (D-Flushing) been more optimistic that Kew Gardens residents and leaders alike will win in the end. “Their attitude has changed to, ‘How can we save the bridge?’” Rosenthal said of the MTA. “There are a lot of obstacles ahead, but things are looking up.” His optimism stems from a May 24 Borough Hall meeting hosted by Borough President Melinda Katz and attended by a laundry list of officials, including new Long Island Rail Road President Phillip Eng, state Sens. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) and Leroy Comrie (D-St. Albans), Rosenthal, aides to Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz (D-Forest Hills), Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi (D-Forest Hills) and Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing), MTA State Legislative Affairs Director Tim Ellis, Community Board 9 Chairman J. Richard Smith and a handful of Kew Gardens civic activists. At the gathering, Eng expressed a willingness — even a desire — to save the bridge that no one else at the MTA or LIRR had done with similar vigor, according to multiple attendees who spoke with the Chronicle this week. “We’re all on the same page. We all want to save the bridge,” Addabbo said. “We’re starting from common ground.” According to Kew Gardens Improvement Association President Sylvia Hack, Eng told the crowd that he will take about four weeks to look over internal engineering reports before coming back to the community with a more informed opinion about how, or if, the br idge can be salvaged. When it comes to the $1 million feasibility study on saving the span that many in the neighborhood have pushed for — with Koslowitz even allocating half the money

Area lawmakers and civic leaders are more hopeful than ever that the Lefferts Boulevard bridge — and the businesses on it — in Kew Gardens will be saved after a positive meeting last month PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA with new Long Island Rail Road President Phillip Eng. for it — Eng also said he would much rather put that money directly toward a potential restoration project. While remaining skeptical the MTA will push hard to save the bridge, Hack said she was “very happy” to hear Eng make such a statement. “I don’t mean to be righteous, but this is the right thing to do,” she said. “We’re not asking for something that can’t be done.” The MTA originally had told Koslowitz and the business owners with shops on the bridge last May that the century-old span had decayed to such a point that it would have to be torn down come 2020 — the year the entrepreneurs’ collective lease expires. In the year since, the community has rallied around those storeowners, as more than 6,000 residents have signed a petition to save the bridge.

Imam killer gets life, no parole Oscar Morel, 37, was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murder of two men in Ozone Park. Imam Mualana Akonjee and Thara Udin were walking home from prayers at the Al-Furqan Jame Masjid mosque on Aug. 13, 2016, when Morel approached them from behind and shot them in the head in broad daylight on Liberty Avenue. A video showed him getting out of a nearby SUV, running toward the victims, who were off camera, and then fleeing the area.

“The defendent in this case showed not an ounce of sympathy or respect for human life when he gunned down the beloved spiritual leader and his associate moments after the two men left left a nearby mosque,” said Queens District Attorney Richard Brown. “A jury weighed all the evidence and found the defendant guilty. Today the Court imposed the maximun penalty permitted by law. It is my hope that today’s conclusion to this case brings some closure and comfort to the many family and Q friends of the victims.” — Anna Sackel

Meanwhile, Rosenthal and Comrie introduced legislation in their respective chambers this spring that would force the MTA to conduct the aforementioned feasibility study. Rosenthal’s bill passed the Assembly 110-4 on Tuesday, while Comrie’s passed the state Senate 61-0 on Wednesday. In recent months, those lawmakers and others had criticized the MTA for not listening hard enough to what those in Kew Gardens had to say. But Addabbo said it was refreshing to see an official as high up in the agency as Eng not only willing to meet with area leaders, but interested in finding a positive solution to the issue. “At one time, we had a statement from the MTA saying the bridge had to come down,” he said. But now, they’re saying, ‘Give us a few weeks and let us figure out a way to save the bridge, if possible.’”

Rosenthal concurred, saying he “absolutely” felt the community had a real chance of winning and that it’s been the efforts of angry Kew Gardens residents that has helped bring the MTA to the negotiating table. “We have a partner now that’s more with us than against us, but there’s more hurdles in the way,” the assemblyman said. “I think they’ve seen how the community has united and brought awareness to the issue and they realized their original plan wasn’t going over well.” According to Hack, the one key government entity that hasn’t shown nearly enough support, however, is the office of Gov. Cuomo. Comrie and Rosenthal have both said in recent months that the governor’s staff has shown little interest in getting involved. And while a community liaison for Cuomo has stayed in communication with area leaders, Hack said, it’s about time the Queens native steps up to the plate — something she said his father, the late former Gov. Mario Cuomo, certainly would have done. “Time is of the essence. We want the governor to come out and say, ‘Yes, this historic community is worthy of being saved and we’re going to ask the MTA to do so,’” she said. “We need someone who’s high up in the Governor’s Office to call the MTA and make the right call. We don’t even need the governor himself.” Hack also blasted the transportation agency for pouring billions of dollars into projects such as the Second Avenue Subway and the creation of the 34th StreetHudson Yards No. 7 train station — saying that sometimes it feels as if Kew Gardens residents are somehow less important than those living in Manhattan. “Don’t we rate at least as high as people who live off the Second Avenue Subway or the billionaires occupying Hudson Yards?” she asked. “We’re probably one of the more diverse neighborhoods in the city. What is the message to this 100-year-old, historic community?” Representatives from the MTA will once again meet with lawmakers and Kew GarQ dens civic leaders on June 27.

Van driver killed in Cambria The NYPD is investigating a fatal shooting that took place in Cambria Heights early Sunday morning. Police said a 26-year-old man, whom they had not yet publicly identified, was found at 4:38 a.m. by officers from the 105th Precinct who were responding to a 911 call report of a man being shot. The victim was found slumped behind the wheel of a so-called dollar van parked near 120-07 230 St. He had been shot three times in his torso. NBC Channel 4 in New York quoted a police source as saying six shots

were fired. EMS personnel transported him to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. Police said no arrests have been made, and that the cr i me remai ns u nder investigation. Anyone with information on the crime is being asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1 (800) 577-TIPS (8477). The public also can submit tips by logging onto nypdcrimestoppers.com or by texting 274637 (CRIMES), then entering TIP577. All Q tips are strictly confidential.

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Carsharing comes to Jamaica, Jackson Hts. City hopes to reduce cars, traffic, pollution in two-year pilot project by Michael Gannon Editor

Jackson Heights, Jamaica and the Rockaways have been included in a two-year pilot program aimed at encouraging carsharing. Mayor de Blasio and New York City Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg made the formal announcement last week. Under an agreement, the city has set aside 309 parking spots on public streets, in cityowned parking facilities and New York City Housing Authority parking lots for Enterprise and Zipcar to set up vehicles that can be used by enrolled members for a per hour or per day fee. The program began on June 4. The city’s hope is that it might encourage those who are only occasional drivers to get rid of or not purchase cars as a means to reduce the cost of ownership. In return, the city is expecting less traffic congestion, less pollution from auto emissions and, eventually, more parking spaces available for those electing to keep their cars. “For the first time ever, the City is setting aside dedicated parking spots to expand access to carshare programs,” de Blasio said in a transcript provided by his office. “For every vehicle in a carshare program, up to twenty households can forgo the need to own a car, fighting congestion and making our air cleaner. We’re also bringing more carshare

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Scholar wins Milken award Corona resident Jossely n Nava s was recently awarded a $10,000 college scholarship from the Milkens Scholars Program. Navas is currently a senior at Milkens award winTownsend Harris ner Josselyn Navas High School, in COURTESY PHOTO Flushing, and will be attending college at the University of Chicago in the fall, where she will major in economics in pursuit of a career in public policy. Navas is one of six students in the New York City area to receive the scholarship, which also comes with a lifelong mentor and support system to assist in her postundergraduate career. She has also received a QuestBridge National College Match Scholarship and the University of Chicago’s Odyssey Scholarship. Navas is a member of the National Honors Society and is a National Hispanic Scholar. She has also recieved honors for her perfect score on the National Latin Q Exam.

options to NYCHA residents to help them get around, so we can continue building the fairest big city in America.” Trottenberg said they have targeted two types of neighborhoods. “First, in transit-rich neighborhoods where cars are only driven occasionally, we think inexpensive and convenient carshare could encourage owners to sell their car or not buy a new one, thereby freeing up more parking for drivers who need it,” she said. “And in less-transit-dense neighborhoods, carshare could add a travel option for car-free households or those who may now find car ownership unaffordable. Either way, we encourage New Yorkers to give carshare a try and let us know what they think.” Zipcar will service all the sites in Queens. The sites in Jamaica, with nine two-car spots, and Jackson Heights, with four, will have signs marking the spots. Five of the Jamaica sites will be just south of Hillside Avenue at 170th Street, 175th Street, 180th Street, 184th Place and 187th Street. Other sites will be on 181st Street; 106th Avenue at Merrick Boulevard; and Linden Boulevard near 180th Street. Jackson Heights locations are on 86th and 90th streets at 34th Avenue; 36th Avenue at 77th Street; and 89th Street at 37th Avenue. The Rockaways will have two spaces on

Nameoke Street at Comaga Avenue, plus one spot in a municipal lot on Mott Avenue. “The New York City Department of Transportation is driving New Yorkers in the right direction with the launch of its Carshare Pilot,” state Sen. James Sanders Jr. (D-South Ozone Park) said in a quote provided with de Blasio’s remarks. “Carsharing is the future, and this program will help protect our environment by lessening our carbon footprint on the road to happier, healthy lives for all.” Councilman Donovan Richards (D-Laurelton) was particularly pleased with the Rockaways’ inclusion. “The Rockaway Peninsula needs as many transportation options as we can get, including innovative programs such as carsharing,” he said. “While we wait for better A train service, this pilot will open up options for residents who rely on public transportation to reach jobs, health care and other essential services throughout the city.” Carshare companies are required to serve parts of the city where it is not yet available. They must also provide a vehicle with professionally installed hand controls to any carshare member within 48 hours of that member’s request. Parking spaces will have new curb regulation signage to clearly designate spaces for a specific carshare company in addition to

Howard Beach man has the magic touch by Anna Sackel Associate Editor

Howard Beach native Jonathan Grassi recently placed third in the World Massage Championship. The competition, which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark on May 19 and 20, featured more than 100 certified massage therapists from around the world competing in various categories. According to a press release, Grassi graduated from the Finger Lakes School of Massage in upstate New York before completing his advanced training at the Massage Therapy Institute of Colorado. He is a 2002 graduate of Townsend Harris High School in Flushing. Grassi owns Bodywork for Liberation, a massage therapy treatment center in Lafayette, Colo., where he sees dozens of clients every week. Grassi also now uses his years of education in various massage techniques to teach and mentor newer therapists looking to develop their skills. In 2016 Grassi took his talents to Nepal, where he provided free treatment to people who had been affected by the 2015 Gorkha earthquake. Grassi, along with two others,

Jonathan Grassi, bronze metal winner of the World Massage Championship. COURTESY PHOTO provided relief and medical care to more than 1,000 victims of the disaster. He gave massages and also taught many people selfhealing techniques so that they could help themselves even after his trip. Grassi believes touch is the most powerful tool that people have. As he says on his website, “whether you have physical pain, the need for restoration, or the desire to transform your fundamental experience of Q life, massage has so much to offer.”

Carsharing is coming to Queens as part of a two-year pilot program. PHOTO COURTESY NYC DOT pedestrian-level signs to provide information. Following standard enforcement procedures, NYPD is authorized to ticket and tow any non-carshare vehicle illegally parked. More information is available online at Q nycdotcarshare.info.

A look into school safety State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli announced on Monday the start of his school safety audits. He is looking into the State Education Department and the New York City Department of Education to, according to a press release, “ensure schools have adequate and up-todate safety plans in the event of a school shooting or major emergency.” DiNapoli will be looking to see if schools are in compliance with the Safe School Against Violence in Education, or SAVE, Act. W hile the DOE did not speak directly about the SAV E Act, it assures that safety is one of their biggest concerns and priorities. “We take the safety of all students and staff seriously, and have a robust system, protocals and training in place that ensure all schools are secure,” said DOE spokeswoman Miranda Barbot. “Schools work with their school safety committees to create a safety plan for their building and conduct four lockdown drills and eight evacuation drills throughout Q the year.” — Anna Sackel

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Taking questions after his executive budget address on April 26, Mayor de Blasio promised “a big update” when asked about the status of the Brooklyn Queens Connector streetcar project. “I’m excited about what is happening and we’re going to have a big update for you, we just did not include it in this budget right now,” he said. But it’s doubtful that by “big” de Blasio meant the reported $7 million price tag on a pair of overdue financial and engineering feasibility studies that will deter mine if the project can even go ahead. The figure was first published by the New York Post last week. City Hall was neither confirming nor denying the accuracy of the report as of the Chronicle’s deadline on Wednesday, declining to respond to a pair of emails to the mayor’s press off ice on June 1 and 4 seeking comment on the dollar amount and an ETA on the feasibility studies. The engineering firm WSP and the accounting and auditing firm KPMG are investigating the proposal to build a 16-mile streetcar route along or near the Queens-Brooklyn waterfront between

City officials are not commenting on a published report stating that overdue feasibility studies connected to the proposed Brooklyn Queens Connector have cost the city $7 million. FILE IMAGE Astoria and Sunset Park. Both are international firms with offices in New York City. De Blasio first f loated the idea of a streetcar line back in Febr uar y 2016. Construction would begin in 2019 and the first passengers would board in 2024.

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Veterans honored at reopening Samaritan Daytop Village held a ceremony on May 31, just after Memorial Day, to recognize and honor military veterans who are recovering from addiction. SDV is an organizarion that specializes in treatment services for veterans with substance abuse issues, PTSD and more, all across New York. The ceremony opened up the newly renovated Ed Thompson Veterans’ Program, a

project funded by the state Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services. Celebrating above are Bernard Kaplan, left, chairman of the SDV Board; Harry Scott, assistant vice president for residential services for SDV; Anthony Turner, downstate maintenance super visor for SDV; James McFarlane, program director for the Ed Thompson Veterans Program; Arlene González-Sánchez, commissioner of OASAS;

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that it could be completely paid for by value capture, meaning the increased property tax revenue that could be anticipated from increasing property values along the line. But in April 2017 a memo to Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen was leaked to the press. The memo cited “serious challenges” in completing the project. One was that value capture might not collect the required money to fully fund the line. It also said the cost of relocating underground infrastructure could “make the project u nafford able a nd render implementation time lines unfeasible.” Then on April 6 of this year, de Blasio appearing on The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC Radio, said federal money would be needed to complete the project — but he also said that did not represent a change in policy. The deadline for the feasibility studies has had similar elasticity. In a July 28, 2016 meeting with the Chronicle’s editorial board, Ya-Ting Liu, then-executive director of the g roup Friends of the BQX, said studies would be completed “between late 2016 and early 2017.” By the time BQX supporters made a presentation on Nov. 17, 2016 to the Old Astoria Neighborhood Association, the timeline had been pushed back to “next spring [of 2017],” a contention reiterated by an EDC spokeswoman in March of last year. By the time the Transpor t Workers Union Local 100 — which hopes to organize BQX workers — endorsed the project on June 12, 2017, a spokesperson for Friends of the BQX declined to comment o n ju s t wh e n t h e r e p o r t c ou ld b e expected. Just over two weeks later, a source familiar with the study told the Chronicle it would be released by the end of 2017. Then in January of this year a spokesman for the EDC said the agency did not have an updated time estimate for the release of the studies. “The BQX would be a multibillion dollar investment bringing a modern and efficient transit option to communities along the waterfront,” Anthony Hogrebe, senior vice president for public affairs at the EDC told the Chronicle at that time. “We’re willing to take the time necessary for a thorough analysis to make sure it gets done right.” The Post last week got a similar statement from the EDC’s Stephanie Baez. “The BQX is a multibillion-dollar, t ra nsfor mat ional project that wou ld improve transit needs, create jobs and introduce a brand new green transportation system to growing Brooklyn and Queens neighborhoods,” the paper quoted Baez as saying. “That’s why we are taking the time necessary to make sure that everything is done right, including finalQ izing block-by-block analysis.”

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Jamaica lacrosse team does it again A year after a surprise playoff berth, team has some postseason success by Michael Gannon Editor

In 2017, the boys’ lacrosse team at the Jamaica High School Campus gained attention as upstarts who scored some impressive victories and forced their way into the playoffs against perennial powers in just their fourth season back after more than a dozenyear hiatus out of Public School Athletic League competition. This year Coach Tom Grimaldi’s team had the same bad weather as last year, got off to an 0-3 start and filled their roster as best they could — “We were pulling players out of the hallway,” Grimaldi said — to go 7-4 in league play, and notch Jamaica’s first playoff win in about two decades. “We earned some more respect this year,” Grimaldi said last Friday. The coach knew his team had lost key players and leaders to graduation. And, unlike last year, the Beavers would not be sneaking up on anyone. But he also sensed that his returning players were hungry after their first-round playoff loss. He realized quickly that he was right. “We had a clinic on Sundays over the winter,” Grimaldi said. “All the guys showed up.” Grimaldi was still facing a numbers game with 11 positions on the field and

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“I’m on the swimming team,” he said. “My friends Eric [Khaimov] and Josh [Miranda] told me I should try.” Brutal March weather cut into their earlyseason schedule for the second year in a row. But while a three-game winning streak last year turned the season around after an 0-4

start, the 2018 squad responded even better. “We won seven in a row,” Grimaldi said. Segarra said the team began to get more recognition, sometimes being allowed to wear their jerseys to school on game days. “People will wish us luck,” he said. The coach said they now are getting a few more students in the stands for home games. “We’d like to get more,” he added. One big in-season team activity was a trip up the street to St. John’s University when t he D iv ision I Red St or m defeat ed Dartmouth. The opening round of the playoffs saw them pitted against James Madison in Brooklyn, the school that drubbed the Beavers 7-1 on opening day. “We beat them 5-4,” Grimaldi said. “It was nice to go to their field and get some revenge.” The clock struck midnight three days later with a 7-1 loss to Christopher Columbus in the Bronx. The city championship went to Midwood High School from Brooklyn. “They beat us by one goal in the regular season,” Segarra said. Khaimov, an attackman, garnered allleague honors, as did goalkeeper Joban Preet, midfielder Damien Singh and attackQ man Gurwander Singh.

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The spirit of innovation is alive and well at PS 62Q, The Magnet School of Computer Science and Innovation in Richmond Hill. On Wednesday, May 23, the school hosted almost 1,000 people at its third Annual Maker Faire. A maker faire is an event to “celebrate arts, crafts, engineering, science projects and the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset.” It was a family-friendly festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness for all-ages. Story and photos courtesy of PS 62Q.

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Jackson Heights welcomed revelers from far and wide Sunday for its annual Gay Pride Parade. At top left, members of the Sirens Motorcycle Club dropped by for the ride. Next to them, both spectators and marchers were enjoying the dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s festivities. At top right, Patricia Dunlea, center, Richard Reynolds and Larry Lombardi pay tribute to Julio Rivera, a gay man who was killed in a hate crime in Jackson Heights in 1990. Dunlea is his cousin. In the second row, the Mendez family, left, was in the gallery, and probably saw the Fogo Azul Brazilian All Women Drumline. Next to them, Joanne Norris shows her colors, while at

far right marchers showed up in elegant gowns. Every parade needs drums, and the Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corps did not disappoint. In the center of the row, drummer Kristen Rucki made the acquaintance of Aliyah Jones, though Connie Vien and Gladys Berrocal have been a couple for 41 years. At far right, some of the marchersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; attire was somewhat less reserved. At right, Queens Library President Dennis Walcott, left, was greeted by Councilman Danny Dromm, Elizabeth van Bramer and her son, Councilman Jimmy van Bramer. At far right, Symoan Greillis and her spouse, Hil Greillis, enjoy the parade from the sidelines.

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PS 66 QUEENS’ 120-YEAR CELEBRATION On Wednesday, May 23, PS 66 Queens, The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School, celebrated 120 years of service to the Richmond Hill community. Over 2,000 community members joined in the celebration including former students even as far back as 1954. Representatives from Assemblymember Mike Miller and City Councilmember Eric Ulrich’s office attended and presented Principal Helen DeSario with citations. Also present was CSA Executive Vice President Henry Rubio. Several neighboring principals and assistant principals came to support. The FDNY (Engine 294 and Ladder 143) and NYPD School Safety Uniformed Task Force Division brought fire trucks and a police van to allow our students to have an interactive experience! Each class created projects for a museum walk to focus on PS 66Q in different ways. Kindergarten made dioramas and pop-up birthday cards. First Grade and Fifth Grade focused on the history of PS 66 and memorable events. Second Grade predicted what PS 66 would look like 120 years into the future. Third and fourth grades reflected on their memories of PS 66. Videos highlighting the school were played throughout the evening in addition to face painting, a dance party, and carnival treats! A fourth-grade student, Jason Ramnarine, said, “Thank you PS 66 for all the great teachers and for the best learning experiences I’ve ever had.” Story and photos courtesy of PS66Q.

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Pardon me, Mr. President Baldeo calls on Trump to consider him for clemency “Baldeo never pled guilty to his alleged crimes, while steadfastly mantaining his innoAfter President Trump pardoned conserva- cence,” said Gouden, “was tried in Manhattan tive political commentator and author Dinesh for ‘major crimes’ committed in Queens, and D’Souza, who pleaded guilty for campaign was punished far more harshly.” Although Baldeo said he has not sent in an finance fraud in 2014, political activist and former City Council candidate Albert Baldeo official request for a presidential pardon he believes he has enough supporters behind him is asking Trump to consider the same for him. to warrant considerBaldeo was conation f rom the victed of witness president. tampering during in ’m not the only one who “My suppor ters a case alleging campaign fraud back in was treated unfairly by the are fighting for me because they know 2014. Since his concriminal justice system, that I was treated viction, many of his unfair from the jussuppor ter s have and many of these people tice system,” said come out saying they Ba lde o du r i ng a b el ieve d he wa s are disadvantaged.” phone i nt e r v iew. wrongfully commit— Albert Baldeo “This has all driven ted a nd a re now me to fight for peodemanding justice. A recent editorial published in the Daily ple who have been wronged like me.” When asked why he believed he should be News spotlights Baldeo and others with similar cases who mirror D’Souza’s but have not pardoned by the president, Baldeo gave a multitude of reasons. Baldeo says his case came received a presidential pardon. CaribbeanLifeNews.com also published an before D’Souza’s and he was convicted of a editorial entitled “We Demand Justice for lesser crime. While he was charged with using Albert Baldeo.” The author of the article, Kris straw donors in the campaign, he was not conGounden, who works for the Liberty Justice victed of the crime, as there was no proof that Center, a civil and human rights organization he accepted money illegally, he said. Preet Bharara, U.S. attorney for the Southin Ozone Park, argues that Baldeo’s case was ern District of New York at the time, said his more compelling than D’Souza’s.

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Councilman Francisco Moya rescued this FACEBOOK PHOTO COURTESY FRANCISCO MOYA cat. cat some food before taking him to the Animal Care Centers of New York City in Rego Park. Big Boy was later adopted by the Brooklyn Cat Cafe. “I got to check in on Big Boy last night. Happy to report that he is doing great,” Moya said on Facebook May 30. “He’s been neutered and is recovering well! He is still in Q quarantine until he’s fully vaccinated.”

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A new twist in the LeFrak City saga Complex’s library to serve as a poll site; Crowley, Felder trade barbs by Christopher Barca

Appellate Division are set to begin in September. “The appeal is being done ... to make certain t’s been 10 months since the city Board of Elections announced it would be relocating that when courts engage in the process of the polling place for five election districts reviewing the election system,” he said, “that out of LeFrak City — angering tenants and they do so properly and only after a full fact sparking litigation. But it appears that saga finding mission.” But with an election just a few weeks away, could be coming to an end. BOE Executive Director Michael Ryan told Ryan said it was imperative that the BOE make the Chronicle last Friday that three of the five a decision as soon as possible as it relates to the election districts will remain in LeFrak City’s future of the Continental Room’s five election Continental Room, while the other two will be districts. “The reason we picked the library was twohoused at the complex’s Queens Library branch. The change takes effect immediately, and fold. One, it’s the closest location on the both polling places will be operational for the grounds of LeFrak for those voters,” he said. June 26 congressional Democratic primary “Two, the board disagreed with the court’s between Rep. Joe Crowley (D-Queens, Bronx) determination that four election districts can be accommodated in the Continental Room. and challenger Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “It remains our position that putting four “The board has worked closely with Joe Crowley and his staff, as well as the executive EDs there is in violation of the Americans with staff at LeFrak City to secure additional space Disabilities Act.” Starting with the June 26 congressional primary, both the LeFrak City Continental Room and He added that Edwards’ court order only library will be used as polling places. It is just the latest twist in the confusing case of where, if on the grounds of LeFrak City in the library,” Ryan said. “The 15th, 16th and 25th districts pertained to last November’s election, saying at all, voters can cast ballots at the Corona housing complex. PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA will remain in the Continental Room, while the that the BOE was “permitted to exercise discretion” in where it locates polling sites and that However, Ethan Felder, an attorney repre- understanding of what’s happened over the last 17th and 18th districts will go to the library.” senting the LeFrak City Tenants Association, year and this is how voter suppression is maniLast summer, the BOE announced that all last week’s move does not violate that order. The executive director also credited Crowley blasted the move, saying he doesn’t believe the festing itself a few weeks before a congressiofive districts would be relocated out of the Connal primary.” tinental Room to area schools more than a half- with helping come up with a “good solution,” BOE is acting in good faith. while promising the polling places will never “The claim that this will be the last time When pressed by the Chronicle, Felder said mile away. the poll sites are moved, when two were just his criticisms of Crowley stem from his role as The city said the poll site had to be moved be moved again. “We believe we have a long-lasting solution. relocated, does not look like good faith to an attorney, not as a supporter of the lawmakbecause it was not accessible under the Amerime,” Feld e r s a id . er’s challenger. cans with Disabilities Act due to the slope of a This should be the end “This looks like a “My perspective comes from supporting the ramp from the sidewalk, according to a 2016 of poll site moves for f u r ther at tempt to tenants for the last year and having seen the study by Evan Terry Associates, and that it was LeFrak,” Ryan said. think there’s a loss of “We want the voters to confuse, discourage leadership, or the lack of leadership, from the not big enough to host five election districts. However, a number of residents said the be serviced well at trust between the voters and make it harder for so-called political establishment,” he said. people to vote.” A Crowley spokesperson responded by sayContinental Room was plenty large enough to LeFrak and we’ve and the BOE ...” A s k e d i f h e ing the official was proud to work with the house them, while others said there were little come to a solution that believed the BOE’s BOE to come up with a solution. to no issues with its accessibility for the elderly should serve the peo— Ethan Felder, attorney for the ple of LeFrak City intention to never “Today is a victory for both voting rights and disabled. LeFrak City Tenants Association move the poll sites and the women and men who live in LeFrak. Later in the summer, the LeFrak City Ten- very well.” In a statement last again, Felder — who Congressman Crowley was proud to be part of ants Association sued the BOE. In October, two weeks before the general Thursday, Crowley said the decision sends a is also a long-standing volunteer for Ocasio- the movement to find a solution,” the spokeselection, New York County Supreme Court message to both the complex’s residents and the Cortez’s campaign — said trusting the board person said. “It’s unfortunate that any personal would be a mistake. gripe Mr. Felder has against those involved, Justice Erika Edwards ruled that four of the city that “their voices matter.” “LeFrak City residents and all of us fighting “I think that there’s a loss of trust between including Rep. Crowley, is clouding his percepfive election districts be returned to the original location and labeled the BOE’s relocation of to expand access to the ballot box won an the voters and BOE in terms of what their tion of the situation.” While Felder worried that yet another pollthe polling site for more than 6,000 voters as important victory today,” Crowley said. “These intentions are and what they’ll do going forpolling sites should have never been at risk and ward,” he said. ing place relocation — the third in less than a “irrational, arbitrary and capricious.” After the BOE initially moved the polling year — could be a tactic to drive down turnout, The BOE is appealing the decision on “pro- I’m glad these Queens residents will be able to cedural grounds,” according to Ryan, and oral participate in our Democratic system easily place, the attorney said, the tenants asked the LeFrak City Tenants Association President organization to consider relocating it to the Malikah Shabazz told the Chronicle on Friday arguments before the state Supreme Court’s and unobstructed.” library. But that request was “met with a tin ear that she doesn’t think there will be a dip in by the BOE.” voter participation. Ryan fired back at Felder, calling his criti“The BOE sent out notices already. We’re cism “antithetical” to the lawyer’s effort to having a general tenants meeting. We’re postkeep the polling sites at LeFrak City. ing it on the bulletin boards,” Shabazz said. “Now planning to put poll sites back into “There really shouldn’t be confusion if people LeFrak would be somehow less of a service are paying attention.” than if we left things alone?” he asked. “I really Asked if she found the BOE’s plan satisfacdon’t understand the nature of the criticism.” tory, she said yes, calling it “suitable.” Felder also ripped Crowley for calling the But she followed up by demanding it drop its move a victory, saying he didn’t do enough to appeal of Edwards’ ruling and that it deliver to take on the BOE’s “illegal” actions and isn’t the tenants in writing its promise to never relointerested in fighting side-by-side with resi- cate the polling places again — something neidents who want all five election districts moved ther she nor Felder put much faith in. back to the Continental Room. “We’ll be staying on top of the issue because “A victory won by Joe Crowley for the ten- what they say is one thing but what they do is Rep. Joe Crowley, right, heralded the BOE’s move as a win for the voters of LeFrak City. But ants? I could not see this as any further from another,” Shabazz said. “If this is what they’re Ethan Felder, a lawyer representing the LeFrak City Tenants Association, and a backer of Crow- the truth in terms of how the BOE has con- coming up with, they should give us this promQ ducted itself,” he said. “It’s a tremendous mis- ise in writing.” FILE PHOTOS ley’s opponent, said the lawmaker is only aiding in supressing the vote there. Editor

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At the age of 93, George Moscatello had seemingly done it all ... but not quite. As of last Thursday, he became, for the first time in his life, a married man! At a small, simple ceremony, held in his memento-laden Woodside apartment, he and his bride were celebrated by a small team from Hospice of New York, who, for the past couple of months, have been seeing to his every need. As remarkable as the event itself were the circumstances that brought Moscatello and his longtime companion, Milady Uceta, together some 35 years ago. “We met on the 7 train,” Uceta said prior to the nuptials. “It was the most beautiful thing.” It was 1983, she recalled, and she had just arrived from her native Dominican Republic. “I was pushed onto the train,” she said, and, as fate would have it, she bumped into a kind stranger. Speaking no English, she tried to apologize, but none seemed necessary. The gentleman said, “No, senorita. Are you Dominican?” she recalled. He then invited her and her friends over for a dinner of cold cuts that evening. “We communicated by pointing to words in a Spanish-English dictionary,” Uceta explained. These days Moscatello’s health is not what it once was and Uceta, 67, also never previously married, said she does everything to make his life happy.

Milady Uceta and George Moscatello married last week. Hospice of New York chaplain Patricia Crupi, top center, conducted the cerePHOTOS BY MARK LORD mony, joined by music therapist Lillie Klein. And what a life it’s been. Moscatello, whose handshake remains unusually firm, didn’t miss a beat when asked to talk about his celebrated career in the military. He volunteered for service at the age of 16, he said. As a member of the Army Air Corps in World War II, he was sent to Europe where he remained “for the whole war until the Germans surrendered. Four years in combat and no one ever gave me one day off.” Later joining the Naval Reserves, he was assigned to Florida, flying PBYs, a type of amphibious aircraft.

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continued from page 2 tax, and accused him of convenient timing. “[A]fter Byford announced his plan, Cuomo initially refused to commit to funding the plan or even to broadly support its recommendations,” she said. “Then, an entire week later, he finally caved and said he supported congestion pricing and Byford’s plan.” Nixon said a comprehensive congestion pricing plan should not only include for-hire vehicles, but a $5.76 fee on all vehicles entering or leaving dedicated parts of Manhattan, with trucks paying more based on the MTA’s existing peraxle metric, raising $1 billion per year, according to the Fix NYC report. Nixon also wants to charge an unspecified polluter fee; plus establish a true transit lockbox. “Revenue streams that were created to pay for transit should be required to pay for transit,” the statement said. Lis Smith, a spokeswoman for Cuomo’s re-election campaign, wasn’t impressed. “After basing her entire campaign on attacking the MTA and Governor Cuomo, Cynthia Nixon endorsed the MTA’s own plan to fix the subways and the Governor’s FIXNYC congestion pricing mechanism,” Smith wrote in an email to the Chronicle. “The only daylight between Nixon and the Governor is her support for Bill de Blasio’s vintage and dead-on-arrival millionQ aire’s tax.”

continued from page 4 City Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) is on the same side as Addabbo and disagrees with the mayor’s plan. “Instead of addressing the root causes of poverty and a lack of affordable housing, the Administration is frantically trying to construct shelters in residential neighborhoods,” Ulrich said in statement on Wednesday. “This strategy is neither helpful to those who have fallen on hard times, nor is it in the best interest of the local community.” Ulrich also says the placement of the shelter is “completely inappropriate.” The Lutheran church being changed into the shelter and is located only a couple of blocks away from an elementary school. President of the Howard Beach-Lindenwood Civic Association Joann Ariola has the same concern. “The Mayor continues to place the safety of families in Ozone Park, and the Borough of Queens, in jeopardy by opening shelters in residential communities with a population that could possibly place the community at risk. It needs to stop!” she said in an email. The DHS said that a Community Advisory Board will be put in place for each new shelter that is opening and residents are encouraged to join. “Our goal is to guarantee that our facilities are seamlessly integrated into each community, that our shelters are good neighbors and that our clients receive a warm welcome,” the agency Q said.

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High holy gaze

New photo book shows the beauty inside the city’s synagogues

by Mark Lord

which he has strong family ties. Through a program called “Connect2: Friendly Visiting for Holocaust Survivors,” he would meet during the course of a year a total of 24 survivors, ranging in age from 74 to 105. During his travels

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For two years, Michael Weinstein pursued a personal journey of discovery that took him through Orthodox synagogues across the five boroughs. He captured images that depict both the similarities and the remarkable diversity among the houses of worship that he visited — small and large, old and new, simple and ornate. The photographs have been compiled in a coffee table-sized volume called “Ten Times Chai: 180 Orthodox Synagogues of New York City,” published last year by Brown Books Publishing Group and available on Amazon. com and at select Judaica stores in the New York area. On June 10 at 11 a.m., Weinstein will discuss his journey at the Rego Park Jewish Center. Signed copies of the book will be sold. Admission to the event is free. Born in Queens in 1963, Weinstein said he “wanted somehow to give back to the Jewish community.” So, he decided to Google two words: “Mitzvah” (or meritorious or charitable act) and “Brooklyn,” a place to

through their neighborhoods, he began visiting their synagogues. “I called myself ‘The Wandering Jew,’“ Weinstein said. And then the idea struck: Had there been any books strictly dedicated to still-active Orthodox synagogues in New York City? In the book’s preface, Weinstein indicates that he “wanted to see each synagogue up close and personal rather than read about its history,” often pausing to pray with the congregations. This personal approach is reflected in the publication, which includes a total of 613 photographs. The number is significant in Judaism, representing the number of mit zvot, or commandments, of Judaism in the Torah. The book’s numerical title comes with a story all its own: One Sabbath while attending a fundraising drive on Long Island, where he now lives, Weinstein heard an elderly man pledge 10 times chai. The Hebrew word “chai,” which means “life,” is made up of two Hebrew letters which have numerical values of eight and 10. Thus, the book contains photos of exactly 180 synagogues.

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able for purchase. Sun., June 10, 11 a.m., Rego Park Jewish Center, 97-30 Queens Blvd. Free. Info: (718) 459-1000, rpjc.org.

“Miya Ando: Clouds,” with two site-specific glass sculptures inspired by a Zen phrase. Thru Sun., Aug. 19, 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.

SPECIAL EVENTS Yoga at Grover, with snacks, refreshments; free yoga mats for the first 150 participants. Sat., June 9, 10 a.m., Grover Cleveland Playground volleyball court, Stanhope St. and Grandview Ave., Ridgewood. Free. Info/RSVP: Boris Santos (718) 9633141, bsantos@council.nyc.gov.

“Wilder LIC,” with works in various media that highlight wild nature to encourage new ideas about ecological and cultural diversity, plus performances, artist talks and other special events, by the Flux Factory. Thru Sun., June 17 (closing reception 6 p.m.), Windmill Community Garden, 39-22 29 St., Long Island City. Free. Info: (347) 669-1406, fluxfactory.org. “Dense bodies bend solid ground,” with works by four artists in multiple media examining human, earthly and political bodies, thru evidence of their edges, seen as flexible and porous. Thru Fri., June 29, Radiator Gallery, 10-61 Jackson Ave., Long Island City. Free. Info: (347) 677-3418, radiatorarts.com. “Holding Space: The Museum Collects,” with more than 40 works of folk art from the 18th to 21st centuries, including paintings, drawings, sculpture and more. Thru Thu., July 5, American Folk Art Museum’s Self-Taught Genius Gallery, 47-29 32 Place, Long Island City. Free. Info: (212) 595-9533, folkartmuseum.org. “Wake,” with works by six artists in various media, examining water: its power to sustain and destroy life, what’s left in its wake and the changing environment. Thru Sun., July 15, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, 11-03 45 Ave., Long Island City. Free. Info: (718) 937-6317, dorsky.org. “El Dorado/The New 49ers,” with 100 outdoor sculptures of infants (“guaguas”), 49 of them painted gold in tribute to the 49 percent of NYC households that speak a language other than English. Thru Oct. 14, Lewis H. Latimer House Museum, 34-41 137 St., Flushing. Free. Info: (718) 9618585, latimernow.org.

Celebrate Historic Jackson Heights, with slide lecture, exhibit and tours of the first planned garden and co-op apt. community in America. Sat.Sun., June 9-10, various events at various times, at or starting at Community Church, 81-10 35 Ave. Lecture, exhibit free; tours $10 each or both for $15. Info: jhbg.org. Vissi Dance Theater will perform this week’s installment of the Jamaica Dance Festival, in a free show set for Saturday at Rufus King Park. See Dance. COURTESY PHOTO Afro Peruvian Band, and then a jam of both, with open dance floor. Fri., June 15, 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. “Tango & Flamenco fusion,” a world premiere production blending the “two most important Hispanic manifestations in music, song and dance from Spain and Latin America.” Every Fri.-Sat., 8 p.m.; every Sun., 4 p.m., thru July 1, Thalia Spanish Theatre, 41-17 Greenpoint Ave., Sunnyside. $40 advance; $45 at door; $37 students and seniors; $40 at door. Info: (718) 729-3880, thaliatheatre.org.

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THEATRE “Finding Uncle Alfio,” a one-woman play by retired Judge Gloria Coco, the first Italian-American female jurist in Chicago, about her search for an uncle who died as a boy; followed by Q-and-A and reception with her. Sat., June 16, 3 p.m., The Center at Maple Grove Cemetery, 127-15 Kew Gardens Road, Kew Gardens. Free. Info: (347) 878-6614, friendsofmaplegrove.org.

Father’s Day Classic Car Show, with dozens of cars from around the region on a closed-down Shore Blvd., trophies, music, food, kids’ activities and more, by the Astoria Park Alliance. Sun., June 17, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., alongside Astoria Park. Free; $15 to enter a show car. Info: (713) 818-9622, miriam.dalaei@gmail.com; to show a car, email: getinvolved@astoriaparkalliance.org.

“The Exonerated,” a play that combines first-person narrative with legal records to tell the stories of six wrongfully convicted inmates and their paths to freedom. Thu.-Sat., June 7-9, 7:30 p.m.; Sat., June 9, 3 p.m., The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23 St., Long Island City. $18 advance; $20 at door; $15 students. Info: (718) 392-0722, secrettheatre.com.

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completely gone, with filmmaker Vivienne Roumani presenting it herself. Sun., June 10, 3-5 p.m., Sephardic Jewish Center of Forest Hills, 67-67 108 St. $5 suggested. Info/RSVP: (718) 268-2100.

Twist and Sprout, a family-friendly event about healthy living, with medical experts, cooking demonstrations, herb planting, bounce houses, crafts and more, by NewYork Presbyterian/Queens hospital. Picnicking encouraged. Sun., June 10, 12-4 p.m., Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main St., Flushing. Free. Info: (718) 886-3800, info@queensbotanical.org.

Carol Sudhalter’s Astoria Big Band, with the saxophonist and her group joined by vocalist Marti Mabin, performing “Women Composers of Popular Music.” Sat., June 9, 7 p.m., Sunnyside Reformed Church, 48-03 Skillman Ave. Free. Info: sudhalter.com.

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Queens Symphony Orchestra Family Concert, with Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade,” telling the tales of “One Thousand and One Nights.” Sun., June 17, 3 p.m., LeFrak Concert Hall at Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing. Free (reservations recommended). Info: (718) 544-2996, (718) 5700909, kupferbergcenter.org, queenssymphony.org.

Drive-In Movie Night: “Grease,” the popular 1978 John Travolta-Olivia Newton-John musical comedy about high school romance, on an outdoor screen (seating available for those without a car). Fri., June 15, starts at sunset (“doors” open 6 p.m.), Astoria Park parking lot, Hoyt Ave. and 19 St. Free; first-come, first-served. Info: (718) 728-7820, centralastoria.nyc. PARAMOUNT PICTURES

Global Mashup #5: Texas meets Peru, with music of each style played by separate bands, Bryan Clayton and the Green River Band and the Corina Bartra

“The Last Jews of Libya,” a re-edited version of the acclaimed 2007 film narrated by Isabella Rossellini, about a centuries-old community now

Vissi Dance Theater, with the urban contemporary troupe combining drama and dance while exploring social issues, part of the Jamaica Dance Festival series. Sat., June 9, 7:30 p.m., Rufus King Park near King Manor Museum, 150-03 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica. Free. Info: (718) 657-2605, thejamaicadancefestival.com.

LECTURES/TALKS Book talk: “Ten Times Chai: 180 Orthodox Synagogues of New York City,” with author Michael Weinstein on his book of hundreds of photos of Jewish centers in all boroughs; signed copies avail-

Vietnam Monument 50th Anniversary Services, a tribute to those who served in the war, at the first Queens monument erected in their honor. Sat., June 9, 11 a.m., junction of Sunrise Hwy./South Conduit Ave. and Francis Lewis Blvd., Rosedale. Info: (718) 341-1395, cornocopiasearvices.org, eagle323@yahoo.com. U.S. AIR FORCE / WIKIPEDIA

CLASSES/WORKSHOPS Sculpture in Motion, with participants using stop-motion animation to explore the possibilities of moving sculptures, led by The Little Animation Studio. Sat., June 9, 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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Inside a small unassuming theater in Sunnyside, you can find a festive and flavorful performance of a new twist on traditional Spanish and Latino song and dance. Tango and Flamenco Fusion is running thorugh July 1 at the Thalia Theatre and features award-winning and world-famous Latin performers. Led by Diego Amador, pianist and singer, and Raul Juarena, composer and bandoneon master, the hour-and-a-half-long show is a lively combination of music, singing, and dancing.

‘Tango & Flamenco Fusion’ When: Each Fri.-Sat., 8 p.m.; each Sun., 4 p.m., through July 1 Where: Thalia Spanish Theatre, 41-17 Greenpoint Ave., Sunnyside Tickets: $40; $37 students, seniors; slightly more at the door. (718) 729-3880, thaliatheatre.org

Amador and Juarena are joined by four other band members who go in and out of the show for various songs. These include Ali Bello, a brilliant violinist, and percussionist and son of Amador, Diego Amador Junior. There are also three double bass players who rotate for the various shows throughout the week, Edward Perez, Yunior Terry and Carlos Mena, and two vibraphone players, Felipe Fournier and Juan Diego Villalobos, who do the same. Early in the show flamenco dancer Glenda Sol Koeraus, also known as Sol “La Argentinita,” gives a passionate performance. Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sol is one of the top flamenco dancers, choreographers and teachers in New York. Tango duo Yaisuri Salamanca and John Hernan Raigoza got the audience excited with their sultry and trick-filled routines. The pair are an award-winning Argentine tango couple, placing third at the 2008 Tango World Championship in Buenos Aires in the stage tango category. “They were looking for tango perform-

Award-winning tango couple Yaisuri Salamanca and John Hernan Raigoza dancing in front of singer Marga Mitchell and show composers and directors Raul Juarena, right, PHOTO COURTESY THE THALIA THEATRE and Diego Amador, left. ers and we were one of the lucky ones and we absolutely love it here,” said Salamanca on how they ended up at the Thalia Theatre. “We’re touring around the world now and New York is one of our stops.”

One of the stars of the show is singer Marga Mitchell, who is married to the violinist. She has been singing tango for more than 30 years, and her experience continued on page 39

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Sculpting with a little lightness at Noguchi real standard form to the Akari, and by their very nature they are Floating and spinning, they radi- meant to be changeable, modular, ate warmth and light. Clustered adaptable and open to novel together, they form nebulae — but employment. As Senior Curator these are no heavenly bodies. Here Dakin Hart notes in the exhibition there are no craggy surfaces or program, “Natural variation offers, gouged earth, nor the glossy sheen in Noguchi’s words, ‘a foil to our of polished exteriors, but the crin- harsh, mechanized existence’ ... a little poetry.” kle and taper of paper. Unbound by the constraints of A yearlong exhibition at the Noguchi Museum in Long Island harsh lines and defined curves, the City explores the Akari Light Sculp- Akari offer the possibility of sculptures, a series of paper lantern- ture with movable walls — and in type creations of the artist Isamu some cases, true walls. With an Noguchi. Perhaps best known for inherently hollow construction, his abstract and dramatic heavy why focus solely on the exterior stone works and architectural and not the interior? One of the design, the Akari were an approach most breathtaking examples of this of Noguchi’s toward a different Akari quasi-space is Noguchi’s format of sculpture — a challenge “PL2,” a 2-meter diameter box to the idea of what sculpture is, filled with and emanating light. Though visitors may not enter, the and what it can be. Akari are housed on a metal physicality and presence of the frame and crafted from bamboo structure brings to mind Brancusi’s assertion, that r ib b ing a n d “architecture washi paper, is inha bited which is made sculpture.” from the fibers Here, what of several trees When: Through Jan. 27, 2019 might be deniindigenous to grated as an Japan and is Where: The Noguchi Museum, overgrown generally 9-01 33rd Road, lamp is an tougher than Long Island City standard Entry: $10; $5 seniors, students. environment unto itself, and paper made (718) 204-7088, more than from wood noguchi.org that. As with pulp. They many of the contain a light fixture or several, and many of the smaller Akari, “PL2” not only fills models within the exhibition are lit the room with its grand size, but during exhibition hours. They are also stretches further, allowing its sometimes spherical but sometimes light to shape the mood of the boxy; occasionally tightly bound, space around it. Other uses of the but sometimes free-hanging and Akari’s special nature include: clusflowing in the breeze. There is no tering them in all sorts of shapes

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Isamu Noguchi’s “Akari Cloud” is composed of many variant sizes and spherical models of Akari, and is meant to evoke the expanse of the cosmos, or the perspective of an ant among a dandelion field. Below are Akari “V87,” left; a YMER&MALTA work that pays homage to Akari by channeling their principles into different materials and forms; Akari of various shapes; and Noguchi’s “PL2,” which defies the PHOTOS BY NEIL CHIRAGDIN boundaries of sculpture and space unto itself. and sizes to create moods varying from cosmic to whimsical; directing fans at or around them to provoke motion; and folding them up and displaying them as such on a wall. First designed in 1951, the Akari left their impressions on lighting design for decades to come. They were popular since their inception, and one need only to locate the nearest IKEA-outfitted apartment to find paper lamps that resemble Akari in form if not in spirit. The mass production aspect of the lamps led to some minor controversy when Noguchi — who had

by all accounts been warned against it by his peers — included in his U.S. entry for the 1986 Venice Biennale one 32-ton marble slide, two sculptures made from untouched rocks, four slabs of quarry refuse and 34 Akari lanterns. The artist created 13 new Akari designs specifically for his pavilion at the Biennale, and titled the exhibition “What is Sculpture?” Alanna Heiss, then president and executive director of PS 1, which organized the exhibition, said at the time, “This exhibition is the most ambitious ever undertak-

en by the U.S. at the Biennale. It communicates America’s high standards in the arts, one of our greatest natural resources.” A portion of the exhibition has been given over to design firm YMER&MALTA’s collection of Akari-inspired works, titled “Akari Unfolded.” These lamps employ different materials, designs and forms from the Noguchi Akari, but each manages to embody some aspect of the artist’s work. The contrast provides a good basis for thinking more deeply about what Q makes an Akari the way it is.

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These include 35 in Queens, as well as five in the Bronx, 100 in Brooklyn, 35 in Manhattan and five in Staten Island. Each borough is given its own chapter. Brief identifications of each synagogue include their names and English translations and the dates they were founded. The book is dedicated “to the memory of the more than six million victims of the Holocaust, as well as the survivors,” par ticularly those Weinstein encountered on his travels throughout the boroughs. Weinstein said in a recent telephone inter view that he hoped the book would prove of interest to both Jews

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and non-Jews alike. He wanted to “show people places they’re just not familiar with,” to allow people “to see how other people pray ... so they can appreciate each other’s cultures.” As his personal favorite photograph taken in his native borough, Weinstein selected that of Congregation Bet-El, Sephardic Center of Jamaica Estates, founded in 2007. A two-page spread highlight s for the reader the synagogue’s simple wooden bimah, surrounded by maroon cushioned seats, and contrasted with a majestic black and gold ark, detailed stained glass windows and a magnificent cr ystal chandelier. O n e of t h e o l de s t s yna gog u e s depicted in the book is Congregation Tifereth Israel of Corona, founded 100 years earlier, and designated a landmark by the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission in 20 08. A two-stor y-high golden ark, topped by a multi-colored stained glass Star of David, dominates this house of worship. A s Weins tein indic ates, t he

Author Michael Weinstein, inset, and his book of photographs of synagogues. On the COURTESY PHOTOS cover: Inside the Shaare Tova Synagogue in Kew Gardens. book is not meant a s a definitive guide. Nor does he offer architectural histories or stories about the congregation members. In accordance with Weinstein’s hope, the photographs

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KIDS/TEENS Queens Youth Music Festival, the 3rd annual, with 40 young performers in various genres, including Casey Simpson of Nickelodeon’s “Nicky, Ricky, Dicky and Dawn,” games and more. Sat., June 9, 12-5 p.m., St. John’s University, 8000 Utopia Pkwy., Jamaica. $25-$60. Info: qymfest.com. Storytime!, every Thu., 11-11:30 a.m., Astoria Bookshop, 31-29 31 St. Free. Info: (718) 2782665, astoriabookshop.com.

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Thalia Theatre continued from page 35 shows in her exceptional, Broadway-worthy performance. “I love this theater because they’ve been presenting some tango performance for 29 years,” said Mitchell. “It’s a wonderful thing especially this year with the combination of the flamenco and two excellent stars of tango.” During the last few songs all the performers come together for a big fusion tango and flamenco song and dance. All three dancers perform a number together and all five musicians get a solo

break where they showcase their skills in a performance that gives new meaning to the term grand finale. If live music and dance is your cup of tea, or if you’re a fan of all things Spanish and Latin, you will love this show. “We love the audience,” said Mitchell. “People are coming from different nationalities and we are very proud of it.” Aside from the Tango and Flamenco show, every Sunday this month, the Thalia Theatre is holding it’s 24th Annual Free Outdoors Festival, where you can learn new dances and see special performances from 1 to 2 p.m. at the Thomson Hill Park Noonan Playground down the street from Q the theater.

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CAFE MOXY LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/11/2018. Office in Queens Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 3520 9th St., Long Island City, NY 11106. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Dear: Owner/Tenant of Community Board No.: 14Q. This letter is to advise you that your neighbor, located at 129-18 Newport Avenue, has an application with the Board of Standards and Appeals (“BSA”) and is scheduled for a Public Hearing Tuesday, June 19, 2018, at the 1:00 P.M. session of the BSA, in *Spector Hall, 22 Reade Street, Manhattan. You are invited to attend the public hearing, where you will be given an opportunity to testify, if you wish. The property is referenced by the following BSA Calendar number: 2017-267-BZ. The owner of 129-18 Newport Avenue, seeks the following modification(s) to the land use regulations: Variance (§72-21) to permit the legalization of a three-story mix-used development consisting of a restaurant (UG 6) and two residential units (UG 2) contrary to ZR §5241 (Increase in nonconformance); ZR §23-44 (obstruction not permit in front yard); ZR §23-45 (minimum required front yard); ZR §54-31 (expansion of a non-conforming use creates new noncompliance) and ZR §23-14 (floor area and open space ratio). R2 zoning district. You may complete the enclosed Form for Objection and Consent. It must be notarized and the consenter/ objector must identify the address of his or her residence. Forms may be filed in person (by scheduling an appointment with BSA), emailed to Submit@bsa.nyc.gov, or mailed to the New York City Board of Standards and Appeals, 250 Broadway, 29th Floor, New York, New York 10007. The form should be received at the BSA office at least five (5) days prior to the public hearing. The referenced application may be reviewed by appointment at the BSA’s office, Monday through Friday, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. To schedule an appointment or to obtain subsequent information regarding additional hearing dates, please call 212-386-0009 and reference BSA Calendar Number: 2017-267-BZ. A copy of the application is also available for review at your local Community Board office. If this notice is received by the business office of a cooperative or condominium, please notify all tenants of the cooperative or condominium in the office’s customary manner and post the hearing notice in the common areas. This notice is published by the applicant in accordance with the BSA’s Rules of Practice and Procedure. Applicant: Law Offices of Vincent L. Petraro, PLLC. Property Owner: Harbor Lights Enterprises, Inc. Dated: May 21,2018 Vincent L. Petraro, PLLC, Applicant. * Please confirm hearing location by visiting www.nyc.gov/bsa or contact 212-386-0078. The BZ calendar will immediately follow the SOC and A calendars. Please note that subsequent hearings for this application might be scheduled at 10:00AM.

Notice of Formation of CHAHAL CONSULTING GROUP, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/22/2018. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: CHAHAL CONSULTING GROUP 24516 81st Ave., Bellerose, NY 11426. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

E-COMPARTNERS NYC LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/9/18. Off. Loc.:Queens Co. SSNY desig. as agt. upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 2928 41st Ave #806, LIC, NY 11101. General Purposes.

ERGA3113 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/18/18. 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, 6-10 158th Street, Whitestone, NY 11357. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of COHEN FASHION OPTICAL STORE NO. 311, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/14/18. Office location: Queens County. Princ. office of LLC: 163-34 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica, NY 11432. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Susan Goldberg, c/o Cohen Fashion Optical, 100 Quentin Roosevelt Blvd., Ste. 400, Garden City, NY 11530. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

ERGA2151 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/18/18. 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, 6-10 158th Street, Whitestone, NY 11357. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

F61 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/09/18. 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, 2265 23rd Street, Astoria, NY with woodburning fireplace. Classified Ad Special. Pay for 3 11105. Purpose: Any lawful room Asking $839K. Connexion I RE, weeks and the 4th week is FREE! purpose. Call 718-205-8000 718-845-1136

AVIEL 26 REALTY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/27/18. 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 Saman Arasheben, 14423 68th Avenue, Flushing, NY 11367. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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After keeping Ponds, SJU gets Heron Red Storm are primed to be one of Big East’s best by Christopher Barca Editor

It took just 48 hours for this offseason to go from nerve-racking to euphoric for St. John’s men’s basketball fans. Last Thursday, Auburn University transfer Mustapha Heron posted to Twitter a photo of himself wearing a St. John’s jersey i n sid e C a r n e s e c c a A r e n a , announcing he was taking his talents to 8000 Utopia Pkwy. “Welcome to the city that never sleeps,” he wrote. The announcement came just two days after St. John’s star and Big East leading scorer Shamorie Ponds said he was withdrawing his name from NBA Draft consideration — something he had been strongly considering for months — and returning to school for his junior season. A highly recruited top prospect coming out of Sacred Heart High School in his native Waterbury, Conn., Heron initially chose Auburn over St. John’s and the Universit y of Connecticut. And over his last two years

Former Auburn University star Mustapha Heron posted this picture to Twitter last Thursday announcing his transfer to St. John’s, giving the TWITTER PHOTO / MUSTAPHA HERON Red Storm a major talent boost. with the Tigers, the 6-foot, 5-inch slasher proved to be one of the best underclassmen in all of college basketball. The shooting guard’s stock really surged this past season, as he averaged 16.4 points and 5.3 rebounds per game — leading Aubur n to the Southeaster n Con ference reg u la r season

championship and a trip to the NCAA Tournament’s Round of 32. “He comes with tremendous experience and has a history of success against top-level competition, so we look forward to the impact he can make on our basketball program,” St. John’s head coach Chris Mullin said in a

statement. “Mustapha has all the tools to f lourish within our system.” Heron t ra nsfer red to St. John’s in order to be closer to his ailing mother, who still lives in Connecticut. He will also apply to the NCAA for a medical hardship waiver. If approved, he would be eligible to play immediately, instead of being forced to sit out of competition for one year, per NCAA transfer rules. The pairing of Ponds and Heron should give St. John’s the best backcourt in the Big East and one of the best in the nation — while key role players Justin Simon and Marvin Clark II will also return for another year, one that’s expected to result in an NCAA Tournament appearance. “I’m excited for the opportunity to play for such a storied program,” Heron said in a Monday statement. “This has been a st ressf u l la st yea r, so I’m ex t r e m ely ble s s e d fo r t h e chance to play on the big stage in New York City and for Coach Q Mullin.”

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For the second straight year, the St. John’s University baseball team made it to the NCAA Tournament. And for the second straight year, the Red Storm failed to make it out of the first round. After the Johnnies’ bats were silenced in last Friday’s 2-0 loss to Vanderbilt, they needed to beat Clemson on Sunday to stave off elimination. It looked like they were in a good position to do so after jumping out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning, but the Tigers rallied late with eight runs over the game’s final four frames to go ahead 9-4. The Red Storm mounted a furious comeback in the bottom of the ninth, however, as Mike Antico and Anthony Brocato hit solo and three-run home runs with one out, respectively. But that’s where the rally — and season — ended, as the next two Johnnies hitters flew out to the warning track. St. John’s ended the season with 40 wins. Of the 10 times in team history the Red Storm have racked up at least 40 victories, nine of those seasons have come under storied coach Ed Blankmeyer. Q — Christopher Barca

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Yanks on Mets’ minds by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor

Anyone who has ever seen the film “Bull Durham” will recall the scene where Kevin Costner’s character, Crash Davis, recites timehonored baseball cliches with the top one being, “You play one game at a time.” The latest installment of the Subway Series begins tomorrow night at Citi Field, but Mets players were ignoring the axiom about not looking ahead when I spoke to some of them last Friday before their game with the Cubs. In fact, they did not hide their excitement. “The atmosphere is exactly like a playoff game,” said outfielder Michael Conforto, who played well in the 2015 World Series. Conforto’s neighbor in both the outfield and the clubhouse is Brandon Nimmo, who has been one of the few bright spots for the team this season. Nimmo proved last year that he is a tough out for opposing pitchers, but this goround, he has also shown unexpected power. Nimmo has become a fan favorite not just because of his on-field production, but also for his unfailingly sunny disposition. “Who wouldn’t be excited to play against a very good team that plays in our city?” he told me with his typically broad smile. Closer Jeurys Familia, like every other Mets relief pitcher this season, has struggled mightily. But his troubles have really stood out

by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

In 1886 a number of Lutheran congregations in New York City formed the Bethlehem Or phan and Half Orphan Asylum to take care of the children whose parents were lost to the influenza outbreak in parts of New York City. In May of 1888 they opened a home in College Point on Second Avenue The Bethlehem Orphan Asylum, Second Avenue, College and dedicated it to educat- Point, Summer 1907. ing children to prepare them to be working members of society. In 1944 the name changed to BethleThe home had 130 beds for temporary hem Lutheran Children’s Home. Its and permanent accommodations for presence in the community made others children ranging in age from 3 to 14. aware of child welfare needs. OthersThe benevolent home was run by the groups consolidated with the home. Evangelical Lutheran Church. By 1920 Today it is known as Lutheran Social the beds had increased to 150. The over- Services of New York. crowding eventually forced the home to Thanks to the internet many people move to Staten Island, where it was able are connecting with their roots of famito accommodate children from other ly members who had lived at the ColQ ethnic backgrounds, as well. lege Point home a century ago.

because of his important role out of the bullpen. Familia concurred with my assessment that a good series with the Yankees could atone for a lot of sins and hopefully jump start his team. He also acknowledged that blown saves against the Yankees would be very demoralizing to the fan base and could be a harbinger of a very rough rest of the 2018 season. First baseman Adrian Gonzalez played a number of years for Southern California’s two National League teams, the San Diego Padres and Los Angeles Dodgers. I asked him if he looked forward to games against the Angels, the area American League rival to both clubs. “You definitely feed off of the energy of the fans in those games,” he said. “On a personal level, I enjoyed playing the Angels in Anaheim because even though it was a road game I got to sleep in my own bed afterwards.” Injuries have once again been a key reason for the Mets underperforming. They entered the Cubs series missing lineups mainstays Wilmer Flores, Todd Frazier and their big bopper, Yoenis Cespedes. Manager Mickey Callaway said at his Friday pregame press conference that he expects them all to return to action very shortly. When I pressed him about if they’d be back in time to face the Yankees, he hedged a bit, Q saying he expected at least one to be. See the extended version of Sports Beat every week at qchron.com.

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