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The rezoning of 530 blocks, including nearly all of Ozone Park, commenced this week with Community Boards 9 and 10 taking a look at the city’s plan to protect the housing stock of the neighborhood and prevent development the Department of City Planning says is “out of character.”

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Outer Borough Taxi Plan back on track Court of Appeals rules in favor of Bloomberg livery car proposals by Michael Gannon Editor

he New York State Court of Appeals has cleared the way for implementation of Mayor Bloomberg’s Outer Borough Taxi Plan. The ruling, issued by the court on June 6, paves the way for livery car operators to get licenses that will allow them to accept street hails with the exception of Midtown and Downtown Manhattan and the city’s two airports. The 23-page ruling will allow the city to sell 18,000 special hail licenses in the next three years, as well as 2,000 new medallions for yellow cabs that must be handicapped-accessible. “With this decision, we can finally bring safe, reliable taxi service to the four and a half boroughs that don’t currently have it,” Bloomberg said following the decision. The mayor said the plan was drawn up to allow livery drivers to service riders in places yellow cabs have traditionally opted to leave alone in favor of the more lucrative runs from Manhattan’s business district, and LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy International airports. The yellow cab industry fought the plan, which taxi medallion owners say deprives them of the exclusive street hail rights throughout the city. By law livery car drivers right now are forbidden to take street hails. Those buying the new licenses must paint their cars a Grannysmith apple green in color. Back in August a lower court judge threw out the taxi plan, saying the mayor violated home rule regulations by having the plan passed by the state legislature rather than the City Council. Bloomberg did so after reaching an impasse in the Coun-

Residents of Queens will no longer be totally reliant on yellow cabs following a ruling by the state’s highest court on Mayor PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON Bloomberg’s Outer Borough Taxi Plan. cil. Speaker Christine Quinn (D-Manhattan) was accused of refusing to allow the plan to come up for a vote. Quinn, seeking the Democratic nomination for mayor, also has received tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from the yellow taxi industry. The Court of Appeals ruled last week that the state possesses “a substantial interest” in taxi service in the city, thus giving the legislature purview over “a substantial state concern.”

Assemblyman William Scarborough (D-Jamaica) said he is pleased by the ruling. “Absolutely,” he said. “We have suffered for decades from a lack of yellow cab service in my district. The only time most cab drivers seem to come to Southeast Queens is when they are passing through to get to the airport.” Scarborough said the ruling also would make it easier for livery car drivers and owners who choose to apply for the permits to make a better living. But City Councilman Donovan Richards (D-Laurelton) is taking a more guarded approach. “We have drivers here who are already taking illegal hails in livery cars and in what we call the ‘dollar vans,’” Richards said. “And if that continues, they will still be eating into the income of legal yellow taxi owners in my district.” And Richards said some things may not change with any law, no matter how many yellow taxis operate in a given area. “Particularly for men of color,” he said. “I still have difficulty getting a cab in Manhattan.” State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) said he has many livery car operators in his district, but still is unsure of what the ripple effects of the outer borough plan will be. “In general, any plan that increases transportation options is one worthy of discussion,” he said. But Addabbo, like Richards, said he is taking a wait-andsee approach. In a statement issued by her office, Quinn acknowledged that the ruling “will mean improved taxi service for the boroughs outside Manhattan, 2,000 additional accessible taxis and $300 million in the upcoming budget that will pay for police officers, teachers, libraries and other critical services Q that are important to New Yorkers.”

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Ozone Park rezoning plan moving forward Community Board 10 gets peek at project that includes 530 blocks by Domenick Rafter Editor

The long-awaited rezoning of Ozone Park is in motion. More than 500 blocks of southern Queens, including almost all of Ozone Park and parts of Richmond Hill, South Ozone Park and Woodhaven, will be rezoned this year in what is likely to be the last major zoning project of the Bloomberg administration, and one of the largest. The plan, which was presented to Community Board 10 last Thursday by Tom Smith, a city planner, is still in a very early draft. It covers an area generally bordered by 103rd Avenue to the north, Lefferts Boulevard and 123rd Street to the east, North Conduit Avenue to the south and the Brooklyn border to the west. A section between the borough border and Woodhaven Boulevard extends to 91st Avenue to the north and an area between 107th and 103rd avenues runs to the Van Wyck Expressway to the east. The rezoning will also include an upgrading in the commercial zoning

The Ozone Park rezoning plan proposed by the Department of City Planning would upzone commercial strips along 101st, PHOTOS BY DOMENICK RAFTER left, and Liberty avenues to allow for more commercial and residential development there. along 101st and Liberty avenues, as well as Cross Bay Boulevard between Liberty Avenue and Conduit Boulevard to allow for greater commercial development along those strips. The rezoning along 101st and Liberty avenues runs from the Brooklyn border to the Van Wyck Expressway — a span of nearly

60 blocks. “It’s massive,” Smith said. “It ties for the second-largest rezoning project of the Bloomberg administration.” Two-thirds of the rezoning area is in the CB 10 area, while another third is in CB 9’s. Much of its area was rezoned in the past decade, most recently sections of Wood-

haven and Richmond Hill, whose rezoning was approved last summer by the City Council after a nearly two-year debate. Howard Beach and Lindenwood are not included in the rezoning and much of South Richmond Hill and South Ozone Park east of Lefferts Boulevard was removed from the original proposal, which was for over 800 blocks.

“We pared it down to the areas most at risk and that need the most attention,” Smith said. The area was last rezoned in 1961, along with the entire city. Smith said the zones enacted then did not protect the type of homes in the neighborhood. “When the zoning was put in place, they were very broad,” he said. “They were based mainly on floor area of the building, not the characteristics of the buildings themselves.” The result has been demolition of some of the detached and semidetached homes typical of the neighborhood and construction of two- to three-story condominium-style buildings, which is what the new zoning plan seeks to prevent. At least nine new zoning categories will be created for the neighborhood to fit the diverse housing stock in Ozone Park, which ranges from detached two-family homes to row houses. The largest zoning strictly for residential use will be for R4-1 continued on page 23

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Longtime CB 9 leader takes on revolt, wins Mary Ann Carey faced removal over criticism from some board members by Domenick Rafter Editor

one of the two assistants who works in CB 9’s Borough Hall office and has worked with Carey as her assistant for 15 years. “It made me really uncomfortable,” Gomes said. The rare executive session was closed to the public. For nearly an hour and a half, members debated Carey’s future behind closed doors before inviting the public back into the hall for a final vote. The motion to remove Carey was withdrawn during the session and never voted on. Instead, board member Ralph Gonzalez offered a motion to give Carey a six-month probationary period after which her performance will be evaluated and if need be, another executive session will be called to discuss further options. The motion passed with only four dissenting votes — Kuzsai, Maria Thomson, Regina Santoro and Richard Davis. Another vocal critic of Carey, Alexander Blenkinsopp of Woodhaven, said he had decided to vote in favor of a probationary period only after hearing some of CB 9’s longest serving members argue in favor of Carey. “We had a frank, open, good discussion,” he said. “It was really helpful to hear what they had to say.” Blenkinsopp said he supported the probationary period after he took into consideration a

Former Community Board 9 Chairman Paul Sapienza asks the board to retain District Manager Mary Ann Carey, seated, at Tuesday’s meeting in which her future with the board was debated. PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER

suggestion that the process was not fair to Carey and that a probationary period would put her and the entire board on the same page. “My feeling is we’ve come 30 years with continued on page 50

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Community Board 9 adjourned for the summer Tuesday night, but not until after a two-hour, high-drama debate over the future of its longtime district manager, Mary Ann Carey. Responding to complaints from some board members over her efficiency as district manager, CB 9’s Executive Committee put forward a motion to remove Carey from her position, which she has held for 30 years — the longest serving district manager among Queens’ 14 community boards. The motion sent CB 9 into a rarely called executive session at Tuesday night’s meeting at the Majestic Marquee in Ozone Park. At least a dozen people came to the meeting’s public forum to express their support for Carey, including City Council candidate John Torodash and former CB 9 chairman Paul Sapienza. “The amount of institutional knowledge Mary Ann has is irreplaceable,” Sapienza, who led the board from 2001 to 2004, said. “In the 10 years I worked with Mary Ann, she was a tireless worker.” He praised Carey for the work she did with him while he was chairman on zoning and other community issues.

“Mary Ann has experience in many areas of city government,” said Nancy Di Croce, a former member of adjacent Community Board 10 and a longtime friend of Carey. “To ask for her retirement is a disservice to the community.” Critics of Carey’s performance, such as Woodhaven member Joel Kuzsai, said that she had offered to retire, but reneged on that agreement. He also gave her everyday work a low grade. Carey denies that she ever decided to retire and said she pondered the possibility after speaking with then-Chairwoman Andrea Crawford and Vice Chairman Rabbi Daniel Pollock last September. Ultimately, she decided against retiring. “It came as a shock,” Carey said. “I told them I’d think about it. In the end, I decided I’m not going to let anyone put me out.” Carey’s Howard Beach home was badly damaged in Hurricane Sandy last October. But Carey’s retirement came up again after Jim Cocovillo took over from Crawford as the board’s chairman in March. Carey said she was told by Cocovillo a few weeks ago that she would be let go and that set Tuesday’s events into motion. Talk of the potential ousting of Carey created an awkward environment for Lisa Gomes,

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Work begins at End Zone industrial site Cleanup of TCE in Ozone Park starts as community remains concerned by Domenick Rafter Editor

Work started this week on the controversial project to remove toxic chemicals from a former industrial site in Ozone Park. The work along 100th Street between 101st and 103rd avenues will clean eight bays under the former Ozone Park LIRR station that were once used for storage by Ozone Industries, an aircraft parts manufacturer that operated out of an adjacent factory until the late 1990s. Ozone Industries placed drums in the ground below the bays that contained a chemical called trichloroethylene, or TCE, a substance linked to some forms of cancer and problems of the central nervous system. The chemical is used in aircraft manufacturing. For the past decade, End Zone, the successor company to Ozone Industries, has been working with the city and the state to remediate TCE contamination. The eight bays where the work will be done has been labeled a state Superfund site. John Durnin, a representative from the New York State Department of Environmental Conserva-

tion, spoke to Community Board 9 about the status of the project that had been scheduled to begin last month. Durnin did not say what caused the delay, but did detail what kind of work will be done. He said the concrete floor of the bays will be removed and the soil will be excavated. “The contamination is in the soil,” Durnin explained. “It will be trucked away in sealed trucks.” Air monitors will be placed around the site and workers will be assigned to shifts to make sure no dangerous level of the chemical is recorded. “The work is going to be done inside the closed bays,” Durnin said. “There will be no outside work done. The contaminated soil will not be exposed.” Some of the contamination will be vented into the air, but only trace amounts that the DEC says is not dangerous. The work began on Monday and will continue through September, Durnin said. “The actual construction work is going to be four or five months,” he said. “But all this work with soil

excavation and concrete work is going to happen in roughly the next six weeks.” Durnin said seven of the eight bays will be given back to the city to lease out and one bay will be kept for equipment to deal with any residual work that may need to be done. Some residents and business owners expressed concern that the contamination may not be limited to the eight bays and may have spread through groundwater to areas south of the site. Laura Boehm, who owns a consulting business adjacent to the site, has repeatedly expressed her concern over the potential that the contamination is a lot larger than just in those eight bays. ` “We wanted to know the true extent of this problem,” she said in April. “How big is it? Why just these eight bays?” Boehm was at Tuesday’s CB 9 meeting and spoke to Durnin after. Durnin said the DEC was aware of readings showing TCE as far south as Liberty Avenue in the early 2000s, but that no readings south of 103rd Avenue were taken once End Zone took over testing after 2004.

100th Street in Ozone Park is the epicenter of the TCE remediation work under the former Ozone Park LIRR station that began Monday and will continue PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER through the summer. The area south of 103rd Avenue is part of Community Board 10. CB 9 member Etienne David Adorno asked Durnin to clarify that the DEC stopped taking readings around the middle of the last decade and any readings taken thereafter were End Zone’s responsibility.

“What you’re saying is no readings outside of these bays were taken by End Zone once they took over the testing?” Adorno asked him. Durnin nodded. “That’s all I wanted to know,” Q Adorno said.

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Pass Cuomo’s plan to fight corruption ere’s the latest disgrace out of Albany: Ex-Assemblyman Vito Lopez, who had to resign after it was revealed that he just couldn’t keep his hands off the pretty young things he liked to hire, has been fined $330,000 by the state Legislative Ethics Commission for his harassment of one young woman after another. “Disgrace?” you ask. “What disgrace? Sounds like justice to me.” Sure, until you learn that he won’t have to pay the money himself. He can just use his campaign funds to do that. Yes, people who believed in Lopez, or thought they could get something out of him by contributing to his campaign, will now see their money go to the state. Or maybe some of it will go to two of the young women, who have sued Lopez and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver for covering up his malfeasance by paying off the first two women who complained. Or maybe they’ll just get taxpayer money, like the first two did. What a system. But once again, as he did a couple years ago, Gov. Cuomo is trying to institute reform. His initial round of reforms were partly effective and partly ineffective, and we hope this

round will prove stronger. It appears it will, if enacted. First off, the governor would ban the use of campaign contributions for personal use, whether it’s to pay fines or, as in the case of officials such as (indicted) state Sen. Malcolm Smith of Jamaica, to lead a more lavish lifestyle than one’s actual income would allow. To combat another problem, Cuomo’s reform package would also require disclosure of who is behind all campaign materials. In many races, such as the one last year between state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. of Howard Beach and City Councilman Eric Ulrich of Ozone Park, outside groups sent out mailings without saying who was funding them. Shedding sunlight on those organizations is another necessary reform. The governor also wants to lower the limits on contributions to political parties, which some wealthy donors, including our own Mayor Bloomberg, use to skirt limits on funds going directly to candidates themselves. Among the other most notable reforms is Cuomo’s proposal to force people convicted of defrauding the government to pay back three times the amount of money they stole, rather than just the actual amount. That means that when a Shirley Huntley steals $88,000 while the state sena-

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tor from Jamaica, she’d have to pay back nearly $270,000. Sounds like a good deterrent to bad behavior. And people such as Huntley, and the long list of other Queens officials convicted of corruption, would be banned from ever serving in public office or doing business with the state. One more reason to keep your hands out of the cookie jar. There is one naive element in the governor’s plan that should be nixed. He would create a public financing system for state elections like the one in the city, which gives candidates $6 for every eligible $1 they raise from contributors. But that just invites more corruption, as seen in the conviction of one employee of, and one contributor to, the John Liu mayoral campaign. The lure of matching funds may also have been an element in Smith’s alleged lawbreaking in his own aborted race for mayor. There are several other reforms in the package Cuomo outlined this week. The plan is being hailed by groups such as Citizens Union and the Brennan Center for Justice — the latter of which years ago correctly labeled New York’s Legislature as the worst in the country. If most of these proposals become law, we should at least make 49th place, and who knows, maybe we’ll be ranked even better than that one day.

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more generally. Your editorial mischaracterizes our June 4 forum as “a one-sided event” attacking Israel. Raising questions about a government’s policy is not “attacking a country”; if it were, Chronicle editorials criticizing Bush administration policy would constitute an attack on the United States. If you would like to know what happens when voices are silenced and views suppressed, you need only look at the deba- ONLINE cle that the LGBT CommuMiss the editorial nity Center in that’s got ever yone Manhattan talking? Want news from brought on itself our other editions that when, in March cover stories all over 2011, it banned Queens? Find all that the Siege Busters and more at qchron.com. Working Group, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid, and all discussion of Israel/Palestine, ultimately lifting the ban in February 2013 after an enormous uproar in the city’s LGBT community. Even LGBT supporters of Israel denounced the Center’s ban on

Sarah Schulman as an outrageous suppression of free speech. In contrast, Queens Pride House is committed to providing a safe space for all members of the community as well as public forums for the discussion of issues of importance to our community and our borough — including controversial issues such as this one. Pauline Park President of the Board of Directors, Acting Executive Director Queens Pride House Jackson Heights

Islamophobia in the U.S. Dear Editor: I was disappointed to read your editorial attacking Queens Pride House for holding a forum that was critical of Israeli occupation and apartheid. There is a wave of Islamophobia sweeping across the United States and anyone who doesn’t share that ugly prejudice risks being labeled ‘un-American’; in my view, that goes against the very values that makes this country so great, including freedom of speech.

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Dear Editor: In response to Frederick Bedell’s letter in the June 6 edition, “Stop, frisk, save lives,” whereby he actually recommends an increase in stop and frisk of citizens, this discriminatory NYPD policy has been clearly shown to unfairly harass black and Latino youth, who are verbally abused by police, pushed up against walls, made to stand spreadeagled, and forced to empty their pockets — all for doing nothing wrong and while passersby watch, with a minimal number of actual arrests, primarily for possession of marijuana. The New York Civil Liberties Union has released a new report on stop and frisk, which finds extreme racial disparities and ineffectiveness in the program. In 2012, the NYPD stopped people 532,911 times. Nine out of 10 of those people were neither arrested nor ticketed and 87 percent were Black or Latino. White people were only 10 percent of stops. NYCLU’s Donna Lieberman says that “With a 90-percent failure rate, the NYPD’s stop-andfrisk program remains a tremendous waste of resources, sows mistrust between police and the communities of color and routinely violates fundamental rights.” Though frisks can be legally conducted only when an officer reasonably suspects the person has a weapon that might endanger officer safety, 55.8 percent of those stopped in 2012 were frisked. Of those frisked, a weapon was found only 2 percent of the time. City Hall claims that stop and frisk has contributed to the city’s declining murder rate. Yet a closer look reveals that the number of murders each year had already begun to decline during the latter half of the 1990s, prior to the dramatic increase in police stops. Meanwhile, many other cities have experienced large declines in their murder rates without stop and frisk, using methods in which community members help highlight trouble spots and troublemakers — not by assuming everyone in a neighborhood is part of the problem. According to their own data, the NYPD stops more than 1,800 New Yorkers a day. A New York Times analysis recently determined that more than 20 percent of those stops involve the use of force. And these are only the numbers that the Department records. In a widely seen video, a young man describes his experience of a stop, and NYPD off icers explain the damage stop-and-frisk has done to their profession and their relationship to the communities served. Check out: thenation.com/article/170413/stopped-andfrisked-being-fking-mutt-video. The stop-and-frisk tactic is clearly discriminatory, often humiliating, a waste of police resources and totally ineffective. It must be abolished. Robert Keilbach Flushing

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Boycott Israel? No thanks. Dear Editor: So these hatemongers want to boycott Israel (“Pride House forum slams Israel policies,” June 6). If that’s the case, forget about getting any good healthcare — so much of the stuff doctors use today comes from Israel. If that’s the case, close down your business, because a lot of the stuff offices use comes from Israel. Turn your cell phone in as well, because most of the things used in cell phones comes from Israel. Go ahead, boycott Israel — if you don’t mind living in the stone age! Joseph Levy Forest Hills

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Israeli apartheid Dear Editor: Regarding your editorial: Gay rights in Israel, such as they are, were won by the hard work of activists, not conferred by some mystically enlightened government. Regardless of whatever rights Israel allows LGBT people, it massively, daily and illegally violates the human rights of millions of Palestinians inside Israel and in Palestine, which it occupies. We are beyond tired of hearing (most often from straight pro-Israel voices) about how wonderful Israel is for queers, and how that means that we as queers should not protest Israel’s racism. Palestinian LGBT groups have called for us to support them with one demand: end Israeli apartheid. The Israeli movement for BDS, “Boycott from Within”, is disproportionately queer, as are many human rights movements around the world. As queers, as people, we call for an end to Israeli apartheid, and to the antiArab, anti-Muslim forces in the US who fuel it. When basic human rights are not recognized, demands for queer human rights are impossible. Please, finally, stop trying to pit queers against Arabs and Muslims. We wouldn’t enjoy a delicious meal in a segregated restaurant, and we’re not interested in gay rights in an apartheid state. What’s more, we wouldn’t dare tell anyone not to criticize a state — the Israel, the US or any other — just because it grants some rights to some of us. You should not dare either. Emmaia Gelman Brad Taylor John Francis Mulligan NYC Queers Against Israeli Apartheid Manhattan

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It’s true that gay Muslims may face persecution in some countries because of their orientation; but those who flee to the US often face discrimination and harassment because of their religious beliefs. What Pauline Park did in organizing the June 4 forum was to provide an opportunity to examine the situation in Israel/Palestine at an event that was not dominated by those with a bias against Muslims and Arabs, and that was a real service to the borough and especially its LGBT community. Gary Hill Flushing

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Letters continued from page 9 fewer students, it will not be long before there will no longer be any Catholic schools left. It really is very sad, because all of those teachers who gave so many dedicated years of service in those schools have lost and will continue to lose their jobs. In the diocese of Brooklyn, which includes Queens, teachers who have lost their jobs as a result of closings and consolidations are put on a so-called priority list that is sent out to all principals. What a joke! Most of these teachers do not find employment in another school. The Diocese does absolutely nothing to help them secure re-employment in the Catholic school system. These teachers are on their own. This is the thanks they receive from the diocese for all of their years of service and dedication to their students. The diocese should be ashamed of the way that its teachers and administrators are treated due to these closings and consolidations. John Amato Fresh Meadows

The solar solution Dear Editor: The answer to our energy needs is simple — solar energy. But the major oil corporations pay billions to lobbyists to stop advancements in alternative energy. Why? Because once you have installed your solar panels, the sun is free! Well, at least for now. I’m sure the GOP is working on that “flaw of capitalism.” Robert La Rosa Whitestone

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No late-term abortions Dear Editor: I am profoundly distressed and saddened over the introduction of a bill in New York that would ease restrictions in state law on late-term abortions and expand abortion access at all stages of gestation. To perform an abortion all the way to birth, in my view, is an egregious and nefarious act against the unborn. As a Catholic and as a grand knight in the Knights of Columbus, I am opposed to this portion of the bill. I firmly believe in the sanctity of human life, which I believe extends from conception to birth. Therefore I ask our New York State legislators to amend this portion of the bill that is purely barbaric. Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Glen Oaks

State Senate shame Dear Editor: When the USTA was initially given parkland in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, it promised it would not seek more parkland. This promise was as worthless as a dead tennis ball because the USTA thereafter sought and was given additional land in FMCP, almost doubling the size of its presence in the park. It now seeks yet more land, concededly slightly less than an acre, so as to be able to drastically increase the size of its structures in the park — another eyesore abomination that does not belong in an urban park. Alienation of parkland requires the approval of the State Legislature. The Queens

Chronicle in its June 6 edition (“USTA bill in Albany, care of ‘Senator Rules’”) reports a USTA alienation bill was introduced in the Senate, presumably at the behest of New York City Emperor Michael Bloomberg, by an unnamed senator. Any senator who hides his or her identity in sponsoring a bill is intellectually bankrupt and unfit to hold public office. A state Senate that has a rule allowing the sponsor to remain anonymous, which is the case with the New York State Senate, is also intellectually bankrupt and requires a thorough housecleaning. The USTA proposes to replace the parkland it will now take, with FMCP land it has already taken, but reserving the right to retain its use from time to time, an arrangement that qualifies it for admission to the Chutzpah Hall of Shame. State Sen. Jose Peralta (D -East Elmhurst), while believing parkland must be replaced, dilutes his belief when he also believes the USTA’s plan to replace parkland with FMCP land is reasonable. Another example of intellectual paucity. None of the above should come as a surprise, given how The Brennan Center For Justice, a public interest Law Center at NYU School of Law, rated the New York State Legislature the worst in the nation. Benjamin M. Haber Flushing

Preserve the park Dear Editor: I read with great interest your May 23 editorial, “Build the soccer stadium in the Bronx,” regarding Mayor Bloomberg’s push to take parkland away from the low income and immigrant people who inhabit Corona, Elmhurst, Flushing and other neighboring communities and turn it over to the foreign “fat cats” who now have the New York Yankees as their poster child for the project. Bloomberg has been a terrible custodian of the people’s parkland; just look at the fiasco in Highland Park. Then wherever he can he turns it over to the very rich. Frankly, I thought that Bloomberg would have restored the New York State Pavilion, now known as the”Rusting Relic” to its opening-day quality and appeal. Protecting our heritage would look much better for Bloomberg than alienating parkland to provide playgrounds for the rich. And, as you point out, quite correctly, City Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras is a key player because that section of the park is in her district. Indeed, she should be on her feet screaming, “No soccer stadium in Corona Park!” But the only politician who always stands up for the people is Tony Avella. He understands neighborhoods and people and he never takes money from special interest groups, who look to profit off the taxpayer. I applaud the Chronicle’s quest to help save Corona Flushing Meadow Park for the people. The park is the third-largest in New York City, but gets no respect when it comes to doing the “Budget Dance” at City Hall. Ed Kampermann Howard Beach

Correction The June 6 article “Pride House forum slams Israeli policies” misnamed one of the event’s sponsoring organizations. It is New York City Queers Against Israeli Apartheid. We regret the error.

Cuomo casino plan still leaves city out New proposal allows for full gaming on Long Island and in Westchester by Domenick Rafter

amount of time. In the Senate’s proposal, sponsored by state Sen. John Bonacic (RIf Gov. Cuomo’s latest casino proposal Orange County), that moratorium would be comes to pass, Resorts World Casino New five years, more than the year and a half ban York City may never have table games, but on city casinos being pushed by state Sen. potential casinos just over the border on Long Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach), but acceptable to him. Island may. “Five years is certainly better than never,” Under a bill proposed by the governor last week, downstate will be shut out of casinos Addabbo said. “Certainly any proposal withwith table games for five years to allow three out including the possibility of full table gamcasinos to be built upstate. Then, Long Island ing at Resorts World, which has been proof of the positive ecoand the Lower nomic impact of Hudson Valley casinos — I can’t will be open for t lends to no rational thought accept that.” full gaming faciliAddabbo added ties, but still not or formula to divide the state that the governor’s New York City. proposal risks unCuomo has into regions when the whole necessarily dividsaid he wanted to ing the state. focus on upstate state should benefit.” “It lends to no casinos because — State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) rational thought or he believed they formula to divide would bring jobs and tourism dollars to the economically the state into regions when the whole state depressed areas there and felt a casino in should benef it,” he said. “By excluding New York City with table games would take Resorts World, which has brought in hundreds of millions of dollars to the state, the whole business away from upstate. Four regions would be eyed for a casino, state will not benefit.” Addabbo even said that leaving out Resorts but for five years, essentially anywhere in the state south of Poughkeepsie would not be World could mean the state may be “better allowed to have table games, including off ” without table games. He noted that he is optimistic the governor’s Resorts World. Legislators who represent the communities proposal would not be the final one. “This has the potential of possibly changing around Resorts World still want to see it even further,” he said. included in any expansion of gambling. However, time is running out on negotia“I think the governor’s proposal is a good starting point on enhancing gaming in New tions. The session ends on June 20 and any bill York State, but if we don’t strongly consider that isn’t drafted by Monday will not be voted Queens, we’re leaving out the jobs and bene- on this session, unless Cuomo opts to keep the fits to the community,” said Assemblyman Phil Legislature past that date. Legislation would have to be passed this Goldfeder (D-Rockaway Park). The Senate and the Assembly have their session in order for a referendum authorizing own competing bills, both of which would table games to be put before voters on the Q allow a casino in the city after a certain November general election ballot. Editor

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The driver of the car who hit the officers was identified as 20-year-old Nandaram Persaud of 105th Street. He allegedly fled the scene and was captured two blocks away from the accident scene at 106th Street and 107th Avenue a short time later and arrested. Persaud was charged with vehicular assault, obstr uction of gover nmental administration, driving while intoxicated, leaving the scene of an accident and operating a vehicle under the influence of alcoQ hol while being under the age of 21. — Domenick Rafter

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Charles Park on list for cleanup work Volunteers in new federal program to focus on site over the summer by Domenick Rafter Editor

Two key Howard Beach parks will be part of a federal program to clean up greenspace in Gateway National Recreation Area that was badly affected by Hurricane Sandy. Last week, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced that the federal agency has established a youth corps and volunteer program aimed at repair and maintenance work in Gateway parkland in New York and New Jersey, which is operated by the National Park Service, a subset of the U.S. Department of the Interior.

The National Parks of New York Harbor Conservation and Resiliency Corps, a partnership between the federal and city governments and the Student Conservation Association, a youth corps program that focuses on environmental needs, began work in Gateway this month. All summer long, the cor ps, funded with $975,000 of Sandy aid money and private sponsors, including American Eagle Outf itters, will help clean up and maintain the park. Daphne Yun, a spokeswomen for Gateway, said Charles Park and Hamilton Park — on the Jamaica Bay shoreline of Hamil-

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ton Beach — will both be part of the project. Both parks are part of Gateway and under the domain of the NPS. “They will be removing debris from the shorelines of both Frank Charles Park and Hamilton Park,” she said in an email. “Additional work at Frank Charles Park includes painting over graffiti and doing pruning and planting on the grounds.” The situation at Charles Park was bad even before the hurricane. Many residents of the area have long complained about the condition of the park. “You can’t even play baseball on the fields,” one resident said. “The grass is up past your ankles.” Last Thursday, NPS workers were on site clearing the baseball fields and trimming some of the overgrowth near the playground and tennis courts. But residents say there is still much more work to be done. “Over the weekend, some of the baseball players came to play with their own rakes to clean the field,” said another resident who lives near the park, who noted that in the

Some residents have complained recently about overgrowth along the paths in the park. The National Park Service said maintenance will be done on the PHOTOS BY DOMENICK RAFTER park this summer. past, players have complained about dog feces being left on the grass there by people who bring pets onto the fields. On the west side of the park, a

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City has new plan for 156th Avenue Lindenwood street was site of ’10 project that never materialized by Domenick Rafter

said the plans aim to normalize the street and to increase parking in the neighborhood. “The people who live in this area have difSomething is out of joint on the stretch of 156th Avenue between 77th and 78th streets ficulty parking,” he said. “Because this block in Lindenwood. The street here is twice the is so wide, it can accommodate something different.” width it is on adjacent blocks. As part of the plan, a wide painted median The odd layout has existed for more than three decades, since this part of the will be placed in the center of the road, along neighborhood was developed. It has led to with white bollards, moving westbound trafresidents parking in the middle of the fic to directly in front of the homes on the street, sometimes with two cars next to north side. In the new median, 15 angled parking each other, in what many say is an unsafe spots will be built, to be accessed from the traffic condition. The travel lanes of 156th Avenue are regu- north side of the median. Westbound traffic would back into lated to the souththe angled spots. ern half of the “Residents curblock, with the ecause this block is so rently park in the entire northern middle of the half serving westwide, it can accomodate roadway,” Silbound traffic. But vestri said. typically it is just something different.” “Nobody knows used for parking. — Al Silvestri, NYC Department of Transportation exactly where The strange street they can park, design does conwhat’s legal and fuse drivers. In 2010, Community Board 10 approved a what’s illegal. We’re looking to correct plan designed by the city Department of that.” The street will narrow in both adjacent Transportation to normalize the road. Then, the plan was to put a concrete median in the blocks, but Silversti said enough signage center of the street and allow parallel parking and striping will be placed in the area to guide traffic. on either side of the median. Though there was no opposition to the plan But the DOT never went ahead with that plan because they want to implement it as from members of CB 10 from Lindenwood, part of the larger Jewel Streets infrastructure some offered suggestions to change it. “That parking area, you’re right across the project aimed at alleviating flooding in Lindenwood, which was previewed at CB 10 last street from people who have driveways coming out,” said CB 10 member John month. So instead the agency has come up with Calcagnile. “I would have flipped it. I would a temporary fix until permanent ones are put the angled parking on the south side of 156th Avenue, where there are no houses.” made during the Jewel Streets work. Silvestri said the DOT would consider DOT representative Al Silvestri, who preQ sented the proposal to CB 10 last Thursday, that suggestion. Editor

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FEMA preliminary flood maps are out Most of Howard Beach will be in key zone; LIC, Willets Point as well by Domenick Rafter Editor

he Federal Emergency Management Agency released its preliminary flood maps Monday which include much of coastal Queens that was flooded in Hurricane Sandy. The new maps, the first change in New York City’s flood zones in 30 years, put nearly all of the Rockaway Peninsula, Broad Channel and Howard Beach into high-risk areas that will force residents to purchase flood insurance and follow new guidelines for home construction. Much of Hunters Point in Long Island City, and some places as far in from the East River as 11th Street are included in the new flood maps, as well as sections of Hallets Cove in Astoria, Willets Point and Rosedale and Brookville in Southeast Queens. The key areas in Queens are in Zone AE, identified by the yellow in the maps. These areas are locations that have a 1 percent chance of having a devastating flood in any given year. This area includes nearly the entire Rockaway Peninsula, Broad Channel, Old Howard Beach, Hamilton Beach, much of the Rockwood Park section of the neighborhood closest to Cross Bay Boulevard, extreme western parts of Lindenwood, the southern section of Rosedale, Hunters Point and Dutch Kills in Long Island City, Hallets Cove in Astoria and Willets Point.

Homeowners there will be required to purchase flood insurance and new construction will be required, and current buildings are suggested to adopt new flood zone construction requirements, including building at the base-flood level, which in most of Howard Beach is 10 feet and is 11 feet in parts of Astoria, Long Island City and Willets Point and 9 feet in Rosedale and Brookville. The area in gray, Zone X, which includes a good portion of Lindenwood, and parts of interior Long Island City, Astoria and Springfield Gardens, have a 0.2 percent annual chance of a devastating flood. Homeowners there are not required to purchase flood insurance or retrofit their homes and buildings, but are encouraged to do so by FEMA. The maps are not the final ones. FEMA will soon release preliminary rate maps for flood insurance to coincide with these lines. Residents will have the opportunity to appeal to the city within 90 days after their release. After any appeals, FEMA will then release final maps which will be adopted after six months. That process may take several years. According to the maps, however, there are properties in the Rockwood Park section of Howard Beach, Lindenwood, Rosedale and Long Island City where the border between Zone AE and Zone X cut right through the property.

Nearly all of Howard Beach is included in the preliminary FEMA flood maps, but some blocks in Rockwood Park are in a lower zone that would not require residents to purchase flood insurance. MAPS COURTESY FEMA

FEMA spokesman Don Caetano said properties that span the zone boundaries will be classified in the more severe zone. For example, a home straddling the border between Zone AE and Zone X will be classified under Zone X, while a building on the edge of Zone X, but partially not in a flood zone, will be placed in X. Nearly all of Willets Point is placed in Zone AE, meaning any development there will have to meet federal flood standards. But the potential developers there say that will not be an issue. “All buildings constructed in Willets Point will account for the latest FEMA flood maps and requirements,” read a statement from Queens Development Group, the company spearheading the Willets Point project. For high rises, such as those along the riverfront in Long Island City and future development in Hunters Point South, Caetano said the building management would purchase flood

The new flood maps from FEMA also place parts of Long Island City, left, Southeast Queens, top, Willets Point and the Hallets Cove section of Astoria in flood zones that require residents to buy flood insurance and build new structures according to strict flood codes.

insurance for the building and spread the cost their own way. Many of the skyscrapers being built on the riverfront have taken the possibility of a flood into consideration. Many of the high rises in Long Island City weathered Sandy well, although most lost power and those closest to the river suffered lobby damage. But new construction there takes the flood risk into consideration and important equipment for the building’s operations are moved well above flood levels. The release of maps came as Mayor Bloomberg previewed a $20 billion, 250-point plan to protect the city from future flooding events, including building flood barriers, stronger infrastructure and higher dunes along the beaches in the Rockaways. “This plan is incredibly ambitious, and much of the work will extend far beyond the next 203 days. But we refuse to pass responsibility for creating a plan into the next administration,” Bloomberg said Tuesday Councilman Donovan Richards (D-Laurelton) said the city should focus on helping homeowners in the flood zones. Sections of his district, like Far Rockaway, Rosedale and Brookville, are now in the more serious Zone AE. He noted that areas like Rosedale and Brookville have long had flooding problems. “For years, these were areas that were vulnerable and now that nightmare has become a reality,” Richards said. “Homeowners are already stretched thin because of the recovery costs. I want to see what the city is going to do to aid these homeowners who now have to elevate their homes or pay more in flood insurance premiums.” Richards suggested the city should use Sandy relief funds to subsidize the cost of retrofitting homes or for increased flood insurance premiums. “We already have a foreclosure crisis in Southeast Queens, a lot of families are living on the brink,” he said. “You’re going to force them to go back to into their pocketbooks and wallets and worry about how they're going to pay for Q that. It adds another whole dimension.”

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The Landmarks Preservation Commission held a hearing on Tuesday on the proposed landmarking of the Forest Park Carousel, an important step in the process to landmark the century-old attraction. At the hearing, Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley (D-Middle Village) urged the commission to adopt landmark status. “Preserving our history strengthens and enriches the character of our communities,” said Crowley. “The significance of the Muller horses, which were carved more than 100 years ago, is without question, and the carousel has been a centerpiece of Forest Park for 40 years. I strongly believe that landmarking the carousel will increase visitors and ensure it remains preserved and operational for future generations.” LPC spokeswoman Lisi de Bourbon said four people testified: Crowley and representatives from the Historic Districts Council, the Parks Department and the Society for the Architecture of the City. All were in favor of landmarking.

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JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL SPOTLIGHT Two John Adams students, 16 other NYC teens prepare to study media, peacebuilding in Bosnia group of 18 New York City public high school students, including Pharaoh Lewis and Tiffeni Crawford from John Adams High School, Ozone Park, will travel to Bosnia and Herzegovina to explore media and society in collaboration with Bosnian peers, from June 26-July 19. The students are participating in Global Kids, an award-winning, nonprofit educational organization that promotes global learning and youth development. It works to ensure that urban youth have the knowledge, skills, experiences and values they need to succeed in school, participate effectively in the democratic process and achieve leadership in their communities and on the global stage. Amidst the cultural heritage of the capital Sarajevo, the group will meet local leaders, activists and artists. They will also see the progress that has been made in rebuilding the divided city of Mostar. The bulk of the time will be spent in Sanski Most, living with families and engaging in dialogue and community projects alongside Bosnian peers. “I can’t wait. It’s really exciting. I’ve always wanted to go to Europe, but I never expected to go to Bosnia,” stated Tiffeni Crawford. Tiffeni, who will be exploring a range of issues in collaboration with Bosnian peers, said she hopes to give the young people there

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The John Adams H.S. Asian Cultural Festival took place on Friday, April 19, in the school auditorium. The festival was held in celebration of West Indian, Bengali, Indian and Pakistani cultures. Some highlights of the show included film excerpts representing those cultures, Indian songs and beautiful

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McClinton, back in NY, Ferry expansion under charged with murder 2 review for Rockaways Faces life in D’aja Robinson killing Kevin McClinton of Rosedale was another affair when she boarded a Q6 bus arraigned on June 5 on a charge of second- on Sutphin Boulevard near Baisley Pond degree murder for the May 18 shooting Park blocks from her home. She was struck once in the head as a death of 14-year-old D’aja Robinson. McClinton, 21, who appeared before gunman fired at least nine bullets into the side of the bus. Queens Criminal Court Judge The high school freshman Ernest Hart after being returned was rushed to Jamaica Hospital from South Carolina on a fugiMedical Center, where she was tive warrant, also was charged pronounced dead. with first-degree reckless endanNYPD Commissioner Ray germent and second-degree Kelly has said Robinson is not criminal possession of a weapon. believed to have been the He faces 25 years to life in shooter’s intended target. prison if convicted on all Police are investigating the charges. possibility that the shooting A statement issued by the Kevin McClinton was gang-related. One theory office of Queens District AttorFILE PHOTO attributed to investigators by ney Richard Brown said McClinpublished reports is that ton is being held without bail, McClinton, connected with the Snow street and is due in court again on June 19. McClinton was arrested in Cayce, just gang, was trying to hit someone else on the outside of Columbia, SC, on June 4 by a bus who is associated with the EBK gang. team comprising U.S. Marshals and mem- One report said the target, another girl, later got a text message saying “You’re next.” bers of the NYPD. D’aja is not believed to be connected D’aja, of South Jamaica, had just left a Q sweet 16 party and was on her way to with gang activity.

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It took Hurricane Sandy and the destruction of the Broad Channel rail bridge last October — and the ensuing seven-month disruption of direct A train subway service — to return ferry service between the Rockaways and Manhattan. Now, with public officials hoping to make the ferry permanent, the city’s Economic Development Corporation plans to study the feasibility of adding a second Rockaway site to the one already at Beach Channel Drive and Beach 108th Street. And elected officials who represent the peninsula in City Hall and in Albany want to do all they can to encourage the EDC. Assemblyman Phillip Goldfeder (DRockaway Beach) said any investment in transportation for the peninsula is welcome. “I started a petition for people who want to make ferry service permanent,” Goldfeder said. “Within three days I had 2,000 signatures, and now we’re up to 3,000.” While acknowledging that a study is no guarantee of expanded service, State Sen.

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Education the key for Bill de Blasio Mayoral candidate says his vision, experience make him ideal choice by Michael Gannon

“It’s partly about a vision for the future of the city and in part it’s the work I’ve done,” he said. “I don’t think you Public Advocate Bill de Blasio minces no words when can be a good mayor without both. Great experience asked why he is running for mayor and why he feels he is without vision gets you nowhere. Great vision without experience gets you nowhere.” the best choice for the Democratic nomination. The cornerstone of de Blasio’s campaign is his early edu“I am fundamentally dissatisf ied with things in the city,” he said last week at a meeting with the editorial cation package which includes mandatory pre-kindergarten, as well as greatly expanded after-school programs for board of the Queens Chronicle. middle schoolers whose parents choose to take advan“I appreciate what is good ... and deeply tage of them. appreciate that it has become safer in recent He would pay for it with a tax increase on the years, and some of the strengths we’ve seen city’s highest income earners. in the economy,” he said. “But I am deeply De Blasio also believes he would be the first dissatisfied with ... how the city treats the mayor elected with children in the city’s public outer boroughs, and what’s happening to schools. the middle class, which I feel is in deep “That sounds shocking, but there is a long decline in the city.” 2013 unfortunate history of elected officials making deciDe Blasio, a self-proclaimed Brooklyn guy, sions about schools they would never send their own said he sees disparities in education, policing and code enforcement between Manhattan and the rest of the children to,” he said. “The only way to fix schools is to start addressing the city, laying much of the blame at the feet of Mayor early childhood education needs,” he said. “It allows kids Bloomberg. “It’s obviously very Manhattan-centric,” he said of the to succeed in school and helps people prepare for the kind of learning that is needed in a modern economy. But administration. He asserted that his years in city government as public it’s also a great equalizer in a system plagued by great advocate, a member of the City Council and as a member of disparity. It gives kids without advantages a chance to Mayor David Dinkins’ staff have given him keen insight into catch up.” After-school programs, he said, not only help children how the Mayor’s Office works. “The four years I spent on David Dinkins’ staff were four who might need the extra attention with their schoolwork, very tough years in the city’s history,” he said. “I learned how but serve] as a public safety measure as well. “It keeps kids safe,” he said. “It also keeps them away from things work, but most important, I learned how the office functioned, the pace, the kind of intensity that goes with it. continued on page 33 Editor

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it, the community boards must hold public hearings and approve or reject the proposal. It then goes to the borough president for approval within 30 days. City Planning then gives it one more thumbs up and after 60 days to review it, the City Council will vote on it. Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park), who has been pushing for the rezoning for years, says he would like to have the rezoning plan move through the process later this year. “I’m hopeful we can complete most of the work and enact the new zoning laws if not by the end of this year, then very early next year,” he said. Ulrich noted many of the civic leaders have already seen the plan and have been in

meetings with City Planning for almost two years. That, he argued, should cut down on the number of issues neighborhood leaders have with the proposals. “In this instance, we can move rather quickly because we’ve been working together,” Ulrich said. “But the community will have a direct say and comment on the zones and suggest changes.” It could be another half century before Ozone Park’s zones get looked at again, Ulrich stressed. “This is our one shot to get this right; we will not rezone Ozone Park for 50 years,” he said. “Ten years from now, we will look back Q and say ‘this is nice, this is wonderful.’”

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houses, which are one-to two-family detached or semidetached homes common in places like Tudor Village in Ozone Park and the Wakefield section of South Ozone Park. That zone will cover more than a third of the area, or 215 blocks. The R4A zone is the second largest of the planned categories, covering 150 blocks, mainly in Ozone Park within a few blocks of Liberty Avenue. Unlike the R4-1 zone, the R4A is focused solely on detached one- and two-family homes. Other zoning categories include R3A, which will cover 50 blocks, mainly in the Centreville section of Ozone Park, South Richmond Hill and South Ozone Park. That zone will protect one- and two-family detached homes on a minimum 25-foot wide lot and require at least a 10-foot front yard. Many of these houses have been demolished over the years to make way for more boxy structures. The R3X zone will cover 54 blocks, including much of South Richmond Hill and South Ozone Park, and will allow for the same criteria as the R3A, but with a 35-foot wide lot allowance. All or part of 31 blocks will be rezoned R4B, which includes all housing types, but with a 5-foot front yard. Many of the houses in these areas are attached homes, such as those along 80th Street between Liberty and 101st avenues or 110th Street between 107th and 109th avenues. Row houses, such as those seen along 104th Street just north of Liberty Avenue, or 103rd Avenue between 93rd and 94th streets, will be rezoned R5B, which will allow higher construction and a minimum 10-foot front yard. The R6B zone will also cover 215 blocks, but will be focused along 101st and Liberty avenues, which will allow for storefronts and apartments overhead, similar to what already exists along most of those corridors. Buildings would be limited to 50 feet tall. “We hope that will create a cohesiveness in all of these areas,” Smith said. “This could really make some sizeable change.” Eight blocks along Rockaway and Cross Bay boulevards will be rezoned R5D to allow for mixed-used buildings, at a maximum height of 40 feet, that will have stores on the ground floor and community space or offices on higher floors. “I don’t know we’ll see that much change down there,” Smith said. “Maybe one or two of these at the most.” He said the commercial area around the busy Lefferts Boulevard-Liberty Avenue intersection will be downzoned because the

original zoning allowed for buildings as high as 13 stories in the area. “Originally, city planners saw this as a downtown-type location. Fortunately, no one has sought to build a building that size,” he said. “If they had, it would just tower over the community.” The new zoning regulations for that area will be R6A, which will reduce the maximum height of a structure there to 70 feet, down from nearly 100 feet previously. “This is by no means finalized,” he said. “This is just what we’re looking at to date.” The next step is for City Planning to file an application for rezoning, likely to be done later this summer. Within 60 days of receiving

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Cop kills wife, self at St. Albans home Domestic violence history before woman shot fleeing couple’s house by Michael Gannon Editor

A 33-year-old NYPD officer with a reported history of domestic violence shot and killed his wife as she ran from their St. Albans home on June 5 before killing himself. Police are calling the incident a murder-suicide. A neighbor, who asked that his name not be used, said his daughter saw Sherlon Smikle, an eight-year veteran of the department, chase Lana Morris, 46, a school safety officer, out of their house at 183-60 Camden Ave. and shoot her repeatedly with a shotgun. “Then he went back into the house and she heard one more shot,” he said. Police in the 103rd Precinct said the shootings took place at about 7:45 p.m. The couple lived with their 8-year-old daughter, who was not home at the time. Other neighbors on Thursday afternoon either said they did not know the family or declined to comment. A man showing up at the residence briefly identified himself only as a workman. “But now there is nothing to work on,” he said. A representative from the union that represents school safety officers was at the house briefly on Thursday, but said he could not comment on the matter. Representatives from the city Administration of Children’s Services could not be reached to determine if the couple’s child is in city custody or with relatives.

Morris was a school safety officer in the 105th Precinct, and was in uniform when she was shot. Police said she was taken to Queens Hospital Center, where she was pronounced dead on arrival. Smikle, 33, was found inside the house, where he was pronounced dead. The Daily News is reporting that Smikle worked in Brooklyn, and that he was forced to surrender his badge, along with his service weapon and a second 9 mm pistol, to the department following a domestic violence incident for which he received a “do not harass” order from the courts. Any such order also would have required him to surrender all other firearms in his possession. The appearance of the house the day following the killings was a study in contrasts. The street — only a few blocks from the Long Island Rail Road and the Liberty Avenue industrial corridor — looks like a photograph from a real estate catalogue. Like most of the homes on Camden Avenue, 18360 boasts intricate landscaping and a meticulously manicured lawn. Standing out conspicuously on Thursday were remnants of crime scene tape, and glass from a shattered screen door strewn on the front stoop. Fluorescent green NYPD stickers on the screen and front doors sealed the home, which was still being treated as a crime scene last Friday. “This is a wonderful street to live on,” the neighbor said. “Why would you shoot somebody with a Q gun? When will it end?”

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Bringing marshland back to Jamaica Bay Last weekend, 185 volunteers were ferried out by boats to Ruler’s Bar marsh in Jamaica Bay to plant plugs of saltmarsh cordgrass. Organized by the American Littoral Society and Jamaica Bay Ecowatchers, this was the first-ever community-led marsh restoration in a national park.

After months of planning, over 20,000 plugs were planted by the volunteers, seen above with the Lower Manhattan skyline behind them. Broad Channel residents Dan Mundy Jr. and Don Riepe, as well as Jackie Scanlon, Mike Tubridy, JP Mott, Eugene O'Reilly and Mike Stewart took time out to bring the volunteers from Broad Channel to the marsh

island in the middle of the bay. “Our volunteer force was incredible” said Elizabeth Stoehr, program director for the American Littoral Society. “The group spent long hours in the hot sun planting thousands of Spartina plugs to help restore the salt marsh, which is the lifeblood of Jamaica Bay.”

A 31-year-old Astoria man committed suicide by jumping in front of an oncoming N train at the elevated Broadway and 31st Street subway station on Tuesday, an officer at the scene said. The incident happened at 4:30 p.m. scattering his body parts below. His ex-girlfriend, Maria Fitzsimons, who lived near his apartment on Crescent Street and 31st Avenue, described him as a bit of a loner, but a very sweet and loving person. “He was always there for me,” said Fitzsimons, who dated him for a year between 2006 and 2007. He was a hard worker, consumed by his work at times, as a web designer, but it paid off. Shortly after college he was working on big projects. He was an only child from Chicopee, Mass., who attended Northeastern University. He loved computers — technology in general, getting on Twitter before most — and politics. He was a very big guy, but had a sense of humor about it, she said. He didn’t have a large social circle and liked to be alone, Fitzsimons said, but added she was shocked when she Q heard the news. — Josey Bartlett

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continued from page 12 around the park. On the east side, the fences surrounding the tennis court are badly damaged. Workers from The Doe Fund conducted a cleanup of Charles Park and Hamilton Park in April and a tattered American flag that billowed over the park was replaced in March. Charles Park was eyed by the city as a site for concessions, such as food, bike

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rentals or boat launches earlier this year, but the city Parks Department backed off the idea after strong opposition from Community Board 10 and instead focused on other locations around the park, such as Canarsie Pier and Jacob Riis Park. CB 10 told a representative from the Parks Department at its April meeting that it wanted to see the park cleaned and maintained before City Hall thought about Q bringing concessions there.

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to understand the by Javier Valdes of There’s no doubt that shopping locally importance has a positive impact on the community. responsible ecoNot only does shopping locally give nomic development. Every phase of small business owners a chance to thrive, but New Yorkers support mom-and-pop the development shops and those who employ their work- process is crucial, ers because they represent us, our neigh- and community leaders, developers borhoods and our values. A major reason why we don’t have and elected officials many big-box retailers in Queens and the can ensure it is done rest of our highly populated city is responsibly. Take the Kingsbridge Armory because they provide a lot of rhetoric but development in the Bronx, for example. In 2009, a national developer proposed little substantial action. Many of these corporations pledge to provide quality, liv- opening shops that would’ve brought able jobs during the development process 1,200 jobs to the area. Labor, community but fail to deliver on promises once the and clergy allies, along with Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., made store opens its doors for business. The value of a good job is far more demands for guarantees of so-called “livimportant than having discounted goods ing wage” pay that the developer would — especially when those savings come at have to get from all the retailers. “The notion that any job is better than the expense of workers, their health and no job no longer applies,” said Diaz. In safety, and our communities. When malls and other shopping centers April, after years of contentious debate, try to make their way into our neighbor- KNIC Partners, LLC agreed to bring the hoods, there is hesitation and resistance world’s largest indoor ice skating facility to the Kingsbridge because large Armory — along shopping malls with 260 permaoften look to ompanies with a history nent jobs and nearmega-retailers as ly 900 construcanchor tenants, of irresponsible labor tion jobs. After without regard to negotiations with the impact they conditions should not local elected offiwill have on comhave a place in Queens or cials and commumunity and job leaders, the standards. Before anywhere else in the city. nity developer signed a signing off on historic communibringing more bigbox stores and low-wage jobs into our ty benefits agreement promising to pay a area, it is important to ensure the types of living wage to workers, hire staff locally, jobs created will support families and and provide 50,000 square feet of community space. products sold are of high quality. This is the type of relationship that As of late, many companies like Walmart and fast-food chains are being spot- should exist when developers and retailers lighted for their poor treatment of workers want to enter our communities — one in and unsavory working conditions that put which businesses, workers and residents many lives at risk. Companies with a his- benefit. Downtown Jamaica is currently home tory of irresponsible labor conditions should not have a place in Queens or any- to a development project that will be turned into a retail strip. Now more than where else in the city. Small business-friendly districts pros- ever, we must count on our leaders to per and our communities thrive when jobs ensure that new developments will include created provide opportunities for workers decisions that benefit us all. That means local hiring, bringing in and their families to succeed. Therefore, it is imperative for residents and politicians companies that pay their workers a sustainable wage and treat them with respect, and leasing to retailers that value the impact their stores have on neighborhoods. Anything that doesn’t keep our communities front and center should not be considered for this new retail development in Q downtown Jamaica. Javier Valdes is co-Executive Director of Saving money doesn’t mean living better Make the Road New York, an advocacy when low-wage jobs are the real price we pay. group.

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Take your camp skills to school Millions of parents choose camp for their child or teen because of the immense benefits of the experience. Not only does camp foster making new friends and learning 21st century life skills like independence, problem-solving, and teamwork, but it’s also fun. When the summer fades and children return to school, ACA chief executive officer, Peg Smith, reminds parents to pack a few extra items from camp in the school backpack: • Conf idence — All through the camp experience, children and youth have tried new activities and been successful; they feel empowered. • Curiosity — Camp has given children and youth the chance to explore, study, and observe in an experiential learning environment. • Character — Camp has challenged children and youth to develop character — through fostering respect for each other, a sense of community, and the ability to solve problems. How can parents help transfer these skills into the classroom? ACA suggests the following tips: • Remember to remind —When campers come home, they often keep the spirit of camp alive for a week or two, and then things trail off. Use positive reinforce-

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ment to remind campers that you appreciate the positive attitude and willingness to help that they developed at camp. • Become camp-like — Families can set the example by demonstrating a willingness to change something at home in order to sustain some of the changes campers have made. Bob Ditter, a clinical social worker and psychotherapist, suggests: “Parents have to make a decision. Are they willing to change something in their practice at home in order to sustain some of the changes their kids have made, such as having a job wheel that you put up on the wall outlining chores?” • Everyone gets a say — At camp, children help determine how their day is spent. Their advice is actively sought, and they feel like equal players. Emulating this environment at home allows them to continue to stand up for themselves and feel like a contributing member of the household. • Avoid the negative compliment — Don’t inadvertently sabotage efforts by pointing out differences in behavior. Instead of saying, “you never did this before,” praise the behaviors in a genuine way. For example, “I noticed how patient you were with your little brother.” “Above all else, let your child know that

When children return to school after summer camp, they will bring along camp-spun good character traits, life skills and memories. PHOTO COURTESY AMERICAN CAMP ASSOCIATION what they learned at camp is going to serve them well when they go to school this fall,” Smith said. The American Camp Association works to preserve, promote and enhance the camp experience for children and adults. ACA-Accredited camp programs ensure that children are

provided with a diversity of educational and developmentally challenging learning opportunities. There are over 2,400 ACAaccredited camps that meet up to 300 health and safety standards. For more information, Q visit acacamps.org. — American Camp Association

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Statistics indicate that around 30 million American kids attend summer camp each year. There are many benefits to summer camp. Camp enables children to stay engaged during the summer when there may be limited interaction with school friends. It also gives parents both a safe and viable daycare solution during the summer. Summer camp pulls together children from different neighborhoods, social classes and backgrounds, which can make it a good place to meet new people — some of whom may become lifelong friends. Camps also provide a variety of activities that can challenge children to try new things that go beyond their comfort zones. Some children are very receptive to the idea of attending summer camp. Others need a little coaxing. But summer camp should never be forced on a child who does not want to go. In such instances, consider local daytime programs that may fill the void instead of programs that require being away from home. Once the decision for summer camp is made, there are some questions to answer. • What are your finances like? Do you have a budget for summer camp? • What size camp do you desire? • Should the camp be co-ed or single sex? • How far do you want your child to travel for summer camp? What are the options in your area?

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Council seeks FMCP fixes, finds problems by Joseph Orovic Assistant Managing/Online Editor

Incredulity and perplexity reigned last Friday during a City Council hearing regarding the state of Flushing Meadows Corona Park, with Parks Department staff enduring the brunt of questioning at the hands of a Parks Committee largely made up of Queens lawmakers. The questioning surrounded the current state of a park accustomed to a fraction of the attention left over from its more famous brethren. Dollar and staffing figures revealed a dearth of resources in the face of escalating need. To the untrained ear, the takeaway of the hearing was the borough’s flagship park continues its existence as a lower-priority public space. What else is new, right? But according to some, the same lawmakers seeking answers should question themselves. “Having spent my whole life in and around Flushing Meadows, I can attest to the fact that it has not received the attention and resources a park of its size and high utilization deserves,” said Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras (D-East Elmhurst), who convened the hearing at the behest of the Fairness Coalition of Queens, a collective of community groups opposing three projects seeking a home in FMCP. Those proposals were verboten at the hearing, hanging over the day’s proceedings but remaining largely unacknowledged.

A City Council Parks Committee hearing regarding Flushing Meadows Corona Park hoped to FILE PHOTO address persistent problems such as flooding, but came up short. The committee questioned Queens Parks Commissioner Dorothy Lewandowski about the state of the park, after agency head Veronica White was a no-show. But the exchange occurred in the tight confines of the “no future projects” dictum. Staffing, funds and upkeep at FMCP were all on the table; but for all intents and purposes, a 25,000-seat Major League Soccer stadium, 1.4-million-square-foot shopping mall next

to Citi Field and expansion of the United States Tennis Association’s National Tennis Center were not up for discussion. “The City Council will hold public hearings in accordance with the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, or ULURP, at the appropriate time for each project,” Ferreras said during her opening statement. “As we look at these projects holistically and consider their impact on FMCP, I will work with

my colleagues in government to find ways to protect this irreplaceable park.” The resulting hearing offered the strange cognitive dissonance that can only result from a conversation that dances around a issue. “The entire hearing was supposed to be about the conditions and needs for Flushing Meadows,” said New York City Park Advocates’ Geoffrey Croft. “But every single one of the electeds was trying to talk about everyone else’s responsibilities.” Still, Lewandowski and FMCP Administrator Janice Melnick offered up some fresh figures. Flushing Meadows hosts a total of 22 concessions, some year-round such as Terrace on the Park, and others seasonal. A chunk of the revenue generated by those entities goes back to the city, essentially mainlined into the general fund that the mayor and Council allocate during the annual budget dance. Cumulatively they generated $3.4 million in the fiscal year ending January 2012. But parsing the figures showed that Terrace on the Park’s $2.5 million infusion into the general fund last year was nearly identical to the $2.6 million in rent paid by the USTA and Mets — combined. The revelation of the figures prompted Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) to say, “There’s something f ishy in those numbers.” continued on page 34

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U.S. schools chief visits Aviation HS Secretary of Education Arne Duncan speaks to students, staff about CTE by Domenick Rafter Editor

In town to speak to graduates at Hostos Community College in the Bronx, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan made a pit stop in Queens to visit with students and business leaders at Aviation High School and talk about the rising focus on career and technical education. Noting that CTE schools are of special interest to his boss, President Obama, Duncan said he wanted to learn more about how they are working in the city. Aviation is the third such school he’s visited in New York City, and the first in Queens. “I think New York is doing remarkable things in the area of career and technical education,” he said. “And I want to shine a spotlight on that. This is how I learn. I don’t learn by sitting at my desk in Washington. I learn by going out there and talking to students and faculty.” Aviation, one of the oldest CTE schools in the city, hosted Duncan for a roundtable discussion with students, staff and representatives from the business world to talk about how to connect students to careers even before college. Deno Charalambous, principal of Aviation High School, said the school has partnered with companies like JetBlue to offer internships and training. Earlier this year, students from Aviation were able to visit an aircraft exposition in Florida courtesy of the Long Island Citybased airline. “We want to find the best way to connect our students to their futures,” he said. “Here we learn real skills,” added student Cristian Alvarado. “We get to work with real airplanes, get intern-

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, center right, speaks to students during a roundtable discussion in Aviation High School’s hangar in Sunnyside last Friday. Joining him was UFT President PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER Michael Mulgrew, center left. ships, certifications and college credit.” He also took the opportunity to promote the Obama administration’s $300 million budget proposal to fund grants for CTE education programs nationwide.

“We need to make these opportunities the norm,” he said. “There are far too many children out there in the country who don’t have these opportunities and we want to figure out how we can do a lot more of it.” Duncan said he saw something special at Aviation that he has seen at other CTE schools. “There’s a family environment here,” he said. “Kids who come to this school know they’re cared about and know they’re going to get a good education and there are jobs in the aviation industry 10 minutes from here. It’s one thing to read about these things, it’s another to spend time here and get a sense of the flavor.” Duncan said a partnership between public schools and private companies is a must for the CTE model to work. “In everything we do, we have to have public-private partnerships,” he said. “And let me be clear, if what we’re doing isn’t leading to students getting real jobs, then we’re actually doing them a disservice. So if you don’t have public-private partnerships, this thing is simply not going to work. It’s not about industry writing a check, it’s about internships, helping to shape the curriculum and having folks come back and teach. There have been partnerships at multiple levels.” While at Aviation, Duncan was asked about the new teacher evaluation deal that state Education Commissioner John King will implement for New York City this September. Admitting he had not yet seen the details of the plan, Duncan said he was glad an evaluation system will be put in place. “Great! It’s done and now we need to move forward Q and make it work,” he said.

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Anthony Weiner, the newest candidate to enter the mayoral race, has had a controversial political past. His most recent sexting scandal notwithstanding, Weiner has been known to ruffle feathers as a congressman and Forest Hills resident. When some of his old constituents were asked how Weiner was as a neighbor, the results were mixed. “I used to see him every once in a while when he lived in Forest Hills and he wasn’t super friendly but he also didn’t come off as rude,” Blythe Hendricks, a Forest Hills resident, said. “I just assumed he wanted to be left alone, and who can blame him?” While many other residents spoke similarly, claiming he kept to himself in public, those who interacted with him on a political level felt much differently. “Previously, he was very helpful to the West Side Tennis Stadium in 2010 when a group of us

tried to acquire landmark status, said. “He said that the citizens but he was not as helpful when it don’t want this ugly statue on came to keeping the Civic Virtue Queens Boulevard, and as rumor statue,” said Michael Perlman, a has it, he put it up for sale on Forest Hills resident and commu- Craigslist. He was very shortnity activist. “He was not very sighted and not acting on behalf of his constituency at all.” helpful.” Statue aside, Weiner’s cam“The Triumph of Civic Virtue paign tactics when he ran Statue,” sculpted by Frederfor the City Council in ick MacMonnies, was Brooklyn and then for publicly criticized by Congressman in Weiner on a number Queens, have been of occasions, as he called unethical by claimed it was sexist. many. “He held a very “A lot of people cite ostentatious press con2013 his progressive agenda but ference about the statue and was the prime ruler in why he had a more questionable we lost it,” City Council candi- agenda in the City Council,” date and longtime supporter of Torodash said. “There was cited the Civic Virtue statue Jon Toro- racial tension.” In 1992, when he ran for the dash said. The statue depicts civic virtue largely white 48th Council Disas a male figure standing atop trict seat in Brooklyn, he blantwin sirens of vice and corruption keted mailboxes with leaflets — both of which are shown as playing on the voters’ fears and racial hostility in the aftermath women. “He completely misinterpreted of the Crown Heights race riots. Greek mythology and only acted When he ran for Congress in on behalf of himself,” Perlman 1998, he often implied that

opponent Melinda Katz was a closeted lesbian. So with this rocky past, can Weiner gain back his constituents’ trust? “I don’t know if I could vote for him, to be honest,” Marie Langton, a Forest Hills resident said. “I just remember what he did in his other campaigns. I don’t even care about the stupid Twitter thing but when he was our representative, he wasn’t a nice guy.” Fellow Forest Hills resident Hank Batchel feels differently. “He was young and stupid and looking for votes,” he said. “I’ve read some of the stuff he wants to do with our city and I like it. I like him way better than the other candidates. I’m voting yes for Weiner.” Torodash reluctantly agreed. “I prefer Weiner to Quinn but I think people need to judge him very carefully,” he said. “I wouldn’t vote for him again,” Perlman said. “In terms of what I hear from others, I’m not Q very happy with him.”

Jet hit by birds diverts to JFK A Florida-bound plane was forced to land at JFK Airport Thursday morning after being struck by two birds. JetBlue Flight 1205 to Fort Myers, Fla. took off from Westchester County Airport in White Plains around 8 a.m. and was struck by the birds over the Long Island Sound. JetBlue said the plane was diverted to JFK out of an abundance of caution and the 68 passengers were placed on another plane and taken to Florida. Multiple media outlets have reported that the plane was hit by two starlings. At least four other planes have suffered bird strikes in the past 18 months in the New York area — one last April was also at Westchester County Airport, while the other three were all at JFK. Bird strikes have been in the news since US Airways Flight 154 was crippled after being hit by a flock of geese in January, 2009 and made an emergency landing in the Hudson River. Last summer, the U.S. Department of Agriculture instituted a culling of the non-native Canada geese population around JFK that they said posed a threat Q to aircraft. — Domenick Rafter

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continued from page 22 bad influences.” He applauds Bloomberg for gaining mayoral control, and would retain it, though he believes what he calls the mayor’s absolutism has soured the public’s perception. On public safety, de Blasio has vowed that NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly will go; that he will appoint an inspector general to oversee his new commissioner; and that the practice of stop and frisk will end. “It has a boomerang effect,” de Blasio said of the latter. “It has poisoned the relationship between the police and the community.” He believes that it takes time away from higher priorities, and disrupts the flow of information from the community to police. The next mayor will inherit expired contracts with every municipal union in the city, a condition de Blasio called unconscionable. “This is the residue of having a billionaire mayor,” he said. “No normal person would have gotten away with this. The result is a manmade fiscal crisis.” De Blasio said settling the contracts will take hard negotiations, and will have to work itself out over many years as the mayor is required to have a balanced budget. “The unions helped the city back in the 1970s, when they were in a much tougher situation,” he said, adding that the negotiations, though tough, also must be respectful. “Show me the result of Bloomberg attacking the [United Federation of Teachers] incessantly,” he said. “Show me the cost savings. Show me the productivity.” The public advocate has savaged Bloomberg for the large and still growing increase in the number of fines levied on small businesses for code violations — particularly outside of Manhattan. He said Bloomberg has issued more summonses to bolster city revenue rather than to make the city safer. “Day one, just call off the dogs,” he said. “Any violation that is not an immediate threat to health and safety, give them a chance to correct it.” On more Queens-specific issues, de Blasio said he is dubious that a soccer stadium could work in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, but that if it did, the city must get at

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Flushing Meadows hearing continued from page 30 The Fairness Coalition staged a protest in the monsoon-like weather outside before the hearing, demanding equitable treatment and rejuvenation of the park, especially considering some of its highprofile tenants. With occupants and businesses operating in the park, some advocates and elected officials have pushed for the creation of a new conservancy that can capture some funds generated within the park and direct them towards the restoration and upkeep of Flushing Meadows. The park’s existing conservancy has only $5,000 on hand for park improvements. The proposal for a new one is geared at adding to the upkeep of FMCP, which cost the Parks Department $11.6 million dollars last year. That figure does not represent money directed expressly towards the upkeep of green space since it includes the upkeep of entities like the Queens County Farm Museum and World’s Fair Marina. “The private entities that are housed in the park — the US Tennis Association and the New York Mets, for example — don’t contribute a dime toward park upkeep,” said Holly Leicht, executive director of New Yorkers for Parks, which has been a proponent of a public-private partnership to help fund the upkeep of the park. “Clearly, for the park to be maintained at an acceptable level, the massive discrepan-

cy between what this park is generating for the city and for private beneficiaries and the level of resources being put back into the park must change.” Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D-Astoria) announced his plan to give the publicprivate alliance model a distinct Robin Hood-esque touch. He plans to introduce a bill that would take 20 percent of funds from park conservancies with over $5 million and guide them towards parks that received a grade of “unsatisfactory” for two consecutive years. Such a model would be blatantly illegal, according to Croft. “He’s trying to legislate where people’s donations go. You can’t. It’s against the law,” he said. There was also discussion of diverting concession-generated city funds directly back into the park, a practice at the heart of a recent lawsuit filed by New York City Park Advocates against the Parks Department. In essence, the advocacy group argues the City Charter expressly prohibits the diversion of funds destined for municipal coffers. If successful, it would render the Central Park Conservancy’s current contract with the city moot, since it gives the nonprofit a slice of all city-bound concession revenue over $6 million. Such a model would be wrong-headed for Flushing Meadows, according to Croft. “It’s the wrong solution to a big probQ lem,” he said.

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BP, City Planning spark CB turf war Board 3 distraught at diminished status at Willets Point hearing by Joseph Orovic

discussions,” wrote an exasperated CB 3 member Ed Westley in an email exchange. He has been a vocal opponent of the mall A recent Land Use hearing hosted by Borough President Helen Marshall regarding the project and pushed to get the board’s vote redevelopment of Willets Point did not pass included in the ULURP process. “CBs 3, 4 and 7 were involved in the 2008 last Thursday without fanfare and a bit of a turf war, as the specter of a second community vote approving the Special Willets Point Disboard’s involvement was not enough to sway trict but this time around only CB 7 was an adamant Marshall, who repeatedly noted involved,” he added. “The question is was this legal for the City Planning Council to arbitrarithe dilapidated state of the Iron Triangle. “The fact is Willets Point is a mess and has ly exclude them?” Marshall contends been one since I took it was. City Planoffice,” Marshall said ning’s determination at one point during the proceedings. he fact is Willets Point is that the proposal only falls within the At the heart of the a mess and has been on bounds of CB 7 nixes kerfuffle rests Comthe chances there will munity Board 3, since I took office.” be a full Borough which was granted Board hearing. permission by the city — Borough President Helen Marshall “The borough presto weigh in on the ident will take the proposal to create a 1.4-million-square-foot mall in what is cur- views of all interested parties into account rently Citi Field’s parking lot, as well as a mix before making her recommendation regarding of retail, hotel, and affordable housing. The the Willets Point application,” wrote BP board ultimately voted against the plan 33-1, spokesman Dan Andrews in an emailed stateand submitted its recommendations during the ment. “The proposed Willets West shopping mall, although located within CB3’s district, Land Use hearing. But the Department of City Planning, as can be built ‘as of right’ and is not formally well as the developer and city’s Economic part of the Willets Point ULURP application Development Corporation, have contended the now before the borough president.” During the hearing, Marshall had trouportion of the Willets Point redevelopment that falls into CB3 territory — the mall — is an as- ble acknowledging CB 3’s full stake in the of-right project, meaning it does not require proceedings. “I would love to have Board 3 involved in public input. City Planning allowed CB3 to this,” she said, even after Westley had reiteratweigh in due to its proximity to the project. But its vote is not enough to induce a Bor- ed the result of the board’s vote, going so far as ough Board meeting, where the project would to combine it with CB 7’s vote to assert the have faced further scrutiny and another vote. final tally of all community board members Community Boards 3 and 4 have both found who voted on the Willets Point plan was 48-23 themselves confused at not having a place at against. The proposal will now move on to Marthe table. “CB’s 3 and 4 have been disenfranchised shall’s desk before moving on to the City PlanQ from the continuing special Willets Point ning Commission. Assistant Managing/Online Editor

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Queens woman to lead CCRB Tracy Catapano-Fox of Howard Beach has been appointed the new executive director of the Civilian Complaint Review Board. Her appointment is the culmination of a national search, begun in September 2012, during which the board received over 200 applications and conducted three rounds of interviews, said Daniel Chu, the CCRB’s chairman. She will assume her post on June 20. Catapano-Fox was previously chief clerk in the Queens County Supreme Court’s civil term, where she was the highest-ranking non-judicial officer and assisted Administra-

tive Judge Jeremy Weinstein in supervising the day-to-day operations of the court. A graduate of Boston College Law School, she was also an assistant district attorney in Queens, a senior litigation associate at a private firm, a court attorney and a law clerk in Queens Supreme Court. “My goals are to keep the CCRB on its current course of integrity and independence in its investigations, to support the professionalism and strength of its new prosecution unit and to explore ways of doing even more to fulfill the CCRB’s mandate,” CatapanoQ Fox said.

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In 2009 Free Style Arts, a Long Island City arts group, created a colorful hands-on project for kids, above, at the Live at the Gantries concert series. This year the group will help guests at the Queens Council on the Arts Block Party create large works with fishing poles and remote-control cars that are connected to markers and crayons.

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lock parties in New York City turn exactly what we do,” Krakauer said, “betraffic-clogged streets into a pecause not everyone knows.” destrian paradise made for lazy One segment of QCA’s mission to be weekends, elephant ear consumption and on display is the Queens Art Express, a sunburns. The Queens Council on the program in which it follows five artists Arts will continue the tradition on June 22 from the borough — a poet, a butoh by Josey Bartlett with a celebratory feel and a quirky touch. dancer and performance artist, a South The arts nonprofit recently moved into the Kaufman AsIndian string instrument musician, a modern dancer and toria Studios complex from its former home in Forest Park. composer and a college student studying animation — on At the Saturday event it will officially cut the ribbon on the its updated blog. These artists will perform at the party. new space. “The Queens Council on the Arts has embraced my or”We are going to bring the footprint of emerging artists ganization in Queens ever since we moved here in 2005,” to this interesting art scene,” Executive Director Hoong Yee Queens Art Express artist Valerie Green, founder of the Lee Krakauer said, citing QCA’s many arts-focused new Dance Entropy modern dance company, said. “It’s great to neighbors, such as the Frank Sinatra High School and the be a selected artist and be a part of this event.” film studio it shares the block with. Green and her troupe will present “Splash.” The original “One of the goals of the block party is to show people Continued page continued onon page 39

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only. Preregistration required: (718) 229-4000. Information: tom0153@hotmail.com or facebook.com/ APEC.Hikers.

Queens Historical Society art exhibit — Practicing Equality: Quakers in Queens. 2:30-4:30 p.m., Tuesdays, Saturdays and Sundays. $5 adults; $3 students, seniors; free for members. Reception: 2 p.m., Sunday, June 23. RSVP by June 14. Kingsland Homestead, 143-35 37 Ave., Flushing. Information: (718) 939-0647, ext. 17.

The Vietnam Veterans of America Post 32 holds their monthly meeting on Friday, June 28 at 8 p.m. at 19-12 149 St., Whitestone.

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“Gravity of the Sculpture: Part II” will remain on display at The Dorsky Gallery, 11-03 45 Ave., Long Island City, through July 3. Call (718) 937-6317, email david@dorsky.org or visit dorsky.org.

Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston, hosts: Be an animal care trainee on Saturday, June 15 from 10 a.m. to noon, for ages 8-12, $21 per person; June star safari on Saturday, June 15 from 8-10 p.m. for ages 7 and older; $12, $7 for children ages 7-12.; Perfect Ponds on Saturday, June 15 from 1:30-3:30 p.m., for ages 3 and 4. $21. Explore our ponds and creatures that live there, snacks, live animals, a craft and a nature walk. Participants must be toilet trained. Class for 5- and 6-yearolds is June 22. Preregistration required for all programs. Call (718) 229-4000 or visit alleypond.com.

“Bridging the Gap”—Long Island City Artists will be on display at Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd., from Thursday, June 27-Sunday, July 14, with an opening reception on Thursday, June 27 from 4-7 p.m. Gallery hours are Saturdays and Sundays, noon to 5 p.m. $5, members, students and Long Island City artists free. Visit flushingtownhall.org.

THEATRE Thalia Spanish Theatre, 41-17 Greenpoint Ave., Sunnyside, presents “secret weapons of FAT DESTRUCTION,” a bilingual, hilarious, provocative comedy through June 23. Performances in English: Fridays at 8 p.m. and Saturdays at 3 p.m. Performances in Spanish: Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 4 p.m. $25, $22 students and seniors. Information: (718) 729-3880, thaliatheatre.org.

DANCE Jamaica Drum Jam presents a West African Drum and Dance Circle at Queens Library-Central Library, 89-11 Merrick Blvd., Jamaica, on Saturday, June 15 from 2-3 p.m. Free and open to all ages. Call (917) 608-6805 or visit jamaicadrumjam.org.

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Museum of Moving Image opens the June schedule of its film series See It Big! with a screening of “Ran,” an adaptation of “King Lear,” featuring an appearance by the film’s star Tatsuya Nakadai, on Saturday, June 15 at 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria. The series will also include: Roberto Rossellini’s “Voyage to Italy,” Nicholas Ray’s “Bigger than Life,” Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life,” David Lynch’s “Lost Highway” and “Mulholland Drive.” Free with museum admission ($12, $9 seniors and students). Call (718) 777-6877 or visit movingimage.us.

On Monday, June 17 at 7 p.m. Rego Park Jewish Center’s sisterhood will show the film “The Origin of the Israeli Philharmonic” starring Zubin Mehta, at 97-30 Queens Blvd. Free. Call (718) 459-1000.

MUSIC Quintet of the Americas Memory Project concert premieres three multi-media works inspired by interviews with seniors in Jackson Heights, Corona and Bayside. Carl MaultsBy’s “Abuelas, Nanas and Grandmamas Unsung,” Lembit Beecher’s “Music for Bayside” and Lev “Ljova” Zhurbin’s “Dancing

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Lullaby,” with a performance by students using handmade instruments. Also works by Louis Armstrong and John Williams, and Colombian dances. Friday, June 14 at 4:30 p.m. at Langston Hughes Library and Cultural Center, 100-01 Northern Blvd., Corona. Free. Information: (718) 203-5189, quintet@rcn.com, quintet.org.

Jamaica Hospital Medical Center is sponsoring the Kew Gardens spring flea market on Saturday, June 15 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., rain date June 22, with Heavenly Angels Animal Rescue offering dogs and cats for adoption from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the LIRR North Parking Lot, 82-60 Austin St. All vendor fees benefit JHMC pediatrics department. Call (718) 359-0541.

Forest Park Rock Fest will be held on Saturday, June 15 from 1-5 p.m. at George Seuffert Bandshell on Forest Park Drive in Woodhaven. Free. Call (917) 689-9555.

A one-day-only, summer treasure, bake and book sale will be held on Saturday, June 22 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Church of the Resurrection, 85-09 118 St., Kew Gardens. Call (718) 847-2649.

Quintet of the Americas, with the Latin American Cultural Center of Queens, Concert: “The stuff of Comets” by Dylan Glatthorn (Astoria), “Wind Quintet” by Beata Moon (Forest Hills), “Quintet No. 2 for Winds” by James Cohn (Douglaston), “Sincerita” by Christopher Caliendo (grew up in Jackson Heights), music from the “Harry Potter” film by John Williams (born in Flushing), and a Salute to our historical composers with music by Louis Armstrong, Scott Joplin, Soong Fu-Yuan and Morton Gould. Sunday, June 16 at 2 p.m. Queens Botanical Garden, 4350 Main St., Flushing. Free with Garden admission ($4, $3 seniors, $2 kids).

The Ridgewood Library, 20-12 Madison St., Ridgewood, hosts an outdoor flea market and fun day on Saturday, June 22 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Call (718) 821-4770.

Rego Park Jewish Center, 97-30 Queens Blvd., will host a concert starring the Avram Pengas Duo on Sunday, June 23 at 2:30 p.m. featuring Mediterranean and Middle Eastern music. $10, $12 at the door. Call (718) 459-1000. The Aaron Copland School of Music Guerrilla Arts Ensemble will perform at Flushing Town Hall, 13735 Northern Blvd., on Sunday, June 23 at 2 p.m. $5. Call (718) 463-7700 or visit flushingtownhall.org.

FLEA MARKETS Richmond Hill flea market is held on Sundays from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 117-09 Hillside Ave. Call (347) 709-7661 or visit richmondhillfleamarket.com.

MEETINGS AARP Chapter 2889 meets on the first and third Wednesdays of each month at noon at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 69-60 Grand Ave., Maspeth.

There will be Queens Public Hearings on allocation of federal funding to combat poverty and support community-based programs, held at Elmhurst Hospital, 79-01 Broadway, on Saturday, June 15 from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Call (212) 676-8208. Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston hosts: Queens County Bird Club meeting: Wildflowers of Queens and the North Shore. Ecologist Andrew Greller will show wildflowers that bloom in parks and preserves on the North Shore of Long Island, from Queens to Suffolk County. See how geology, topography, soil and microclimate combine to provide habitats. Wednesday, June 19, 8-9 p.m Information: ariegilbert@optonline.net, b1birder@netscape.net; APEC Hiking Club and Trail Crew meeting, Monday, June 17 at 7 p.m. Explore local areas suited for easy to moderate hikes, discuss plans for upcoming hikes and other opportunities. Adults

The Big Apple Circus — Hilarious clowns, magnificent horses, playful pooches, soaring aerialists, flawless jugglers, astounding acrobats and more. Thursday, June 13: 6:30 p.m.; Friday, June 14: 11 a.m., 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, June 15: 12:30 p.m., 4:30 p.m.; Sunday, June 16: 11 a.m., 3 p.m. Cunningham Park, Fresh Meadows. $20-$60. Information, tickets: 1 (800) 922-3772, (212) 268-2500, bigapplecircus.org. Little Makers: In Stitches on Sunday, June 23, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Introduction to the patterns and practices of sewing, for ages 18 months and older. Wear clothing that can get dirty. $8 per family, plus NYSCI admission ($5 per family for members). Little Makers is a series in which families with young children can tinker, design and create together. At the New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Preregistration, information: (718) 699-0005, nysci.org.

There will be a family workshop with sun printing at Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd., on Saturday, June 29 at 2 p.m. $20 per parent and one child, $10 each additional child. All proceeds to Long Island City Artists. Visit flushingtownhall.org.

CLASSES Introduction to computers: Learn the basics of using a computer at the Hillcrest Library, 187-05 Union Tpk., Flushing, Friday, June 14, 11 a.m.-noon. Preregistration, information: (718) 454-2786. Watercolor classes at the National Art League, 4421 Douglaston Pkwy., Douglaston. All techniques, beginners to advanced. Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. $25 per session. Call (718) 969-1128. There will be coed mixed-level line dancing for adults at Cambria Heights Community Church, 11602 220 St., Cambria Heights, on Saturdays, June 15 and July 6 and 20 at 9:30 a.m. to 10:40 a.m. $10 per session. Call (646) 229-0242. Italian Charities of America, 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst, hosts dance with instructions every Monday and Friday from 7:15 to 8 p.m. and a social dance from 8 to 11 p.m. Call (718) 478-3100. Cost is $10.

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Qns. Symphony gives prelude to July 4 concerts for the community. Katz later officially founded the group in 1953. For going on 31 years thousands of New “Katz hoped that his passion would evenYorkers have flooded Astoria Park for the tually allow Queens residents to experience annual pre-Independence Day fireworks classical music without crossing a bridge or show and concert. This year the Queens tunnel into Manhattan,” its website boasts. Symphony Orchestra — a 47-member crew Katz always put an emphasis on the that is embarking on its 60th year — is borough and on youth. This focus remains ecstatic to be today. warming up the After Katz’s crowd for the passing conductor June 24 Central Arthur Fagen Astoria Local assumed the post Development of music director. When: Monday, June 24, concert at Coalition’s IndeIn 2006 Constan7:30 p.m. and fireworks at 9:15 p.m. pendence Day tine Kitsopoulos Where: Astoria Park, 21 Hoyt Ave. Celebration. took over the Tickets: Free, queenssymphony.org “We do it a litposition, where tle before because he continues to not everything can be done on the Fourth,” lead the historic symphony. said Teresa Raimondo with the CALDC. Although the orchestra plays three out“We are super excited,” said the orches- door concerts a year this is the first show at tra’s interim Executive Director Andrew Astoria Park for about a decade. The other Frank. “It’s going to be a great time.” two outdoor performances this summer take The orchestra started as an affiliate of the place on July 30 at St. John’s University and American Symphony Orchestra League, on Aug. 4 at the Forest Park Bandshell. practicing in conductor David Katz’s Forest “At the outdoor concerts we get a little Hills basement and presenting free chamber bigger crowd,” Frank said. “We play a little

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Welcome the start of summer with music of over 500 festivals around the world that usher in the summer with a day of music. You won’t need to get out your favorite The goal is to “eventually expand to the MGM film to see people singing and danc- point where, as with Halloween, New ing on the streets this summer. Yorkers will organize themselves largely The annual Make Music New York festi- without prompting,” its website says. val which welcomes in summer with scores Sunnyside Shines Business Improvement of free musical performances scattered District will host concerts at two pedestrian throughout the plazas under the No. streets and parks, is 7 train. The plaza at coming to dozens of 40th street and locations in Queens. Queens Boulevard When: Friday, June 21 On June 21 thouwill showcase saxo10 a.m. to 10 p.m. sands of musicians, phonist Forbidden Where: Various locations professional and Donut between 2 Tickets: Free, makemusicny.org amateur alike, will and 4 p.m. At 3 p.m, spend the longest a two-piece band day of the year percalled History will performing almost every genre imaginable form music that combines blues, gospel, throughout the city. rock and soul at 46th Street and Queens “From 10 in the morning to 10 at night, Boulevard, followed by indie rock duo The musicians of all ages, creeds, and musical Occident at 5 p.m. and the all-male a cappersuasions — from hip-hop to opera, pella group Ten and Change at 6:30 p.m. Latin jazz to punk rock — perform on Started in 2000, Ten and Change has 12 streets, sidewalks, stoops, plazas, cemeter- members but boasts an alumni list of over ies, parks and gardens,” MMNY boasts on 50. They have performed in places all over its website. the city, including Shea Stadium and at last Now in its seventh year, MMNY is one year’s MMNY festival.

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Play stoop ball and paint with fishin’ lines continued continued from from page page 35 00 Attenborough Naftel, who will create an piece, first created for an empty pool, fea- oversized stoop to play stoop ball. Nonprofit Materials from the Arts will tures swimsuit-clad dancers dancing set up an arts and crafts table filled with a around and in colorful buckets of water. “A perfect summertime crowd pleaser,” sampling of the organization’s huge warehouse of art supplies to create trinkets out Green said. The Express quintet also contributed to of tiles and buttons. Nearby, students in QCA’s “moveable QCA’s High School to feast” series — a Art School program, group of about 15 a 24-week workshop videos created by aimed at bolstering Queens artists about high schoolers’ art their favorite littleportfolios for college, When: Saturday, June 22, 1 to 6 p.m. known neighborwill draw 60-second hood restaurants. Where: 37th Street between 34th portraits. All will be Yelp, the website and 35th avenues matted and gifted where patrons can Tickets: Free, queensartexpress.com/ for free. publicly review block-party-2013 Guests will also shops and restaumaneuver remoterants, will be on control cars armed with hand Saturday to judge the contributions and award a prize markers to zoom around a large canvas, that’s still a surprise, Krakauer said. All the leaving a brightly colored trail, in an event submissions can be viewed on YouTube and produced by Long Island City-based Free Style Arts. Another artwork will be transon the QCA website. Other party agenda items are lots of formed similarly, but its artists will be armed food, a henna tattoo artist from Jackson with fishing poles that dangle crayons like Heights and the Sunnyside artist duo worms to create the piece, not cars.

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On Monday, June 17 at 1 p.m. Central Queens YM & YWHA, 67-09 108 St., Forest Hills, will host a film, “The Territory,” about Soviet Jews as West Bank settlers, with a talk by the director. $6 donation. Call (718) 268-5011 ext. 151 or visit cqy.org. St. Michael’s World Apostolate holds its 43rd Anniversary celebration on Saturday, June 15 at 7 p.m. at Flushing Meadows Corona Park with prayers for peace in the world and a candlelight ceremony. On Sunday, June 16 the celebration continues with a $50 banquet at LaGuardia Marriott at noon. Call (718) 359-3908 or visit smwa.org/43rd.

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Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston, hosts a knitting circle on Monday, June 17 from 6-8 p.m. for adults only. $5. Pre-registration required. Call (718) 229-4000. Community Board 8 third annual health fair, at Cunningham Park, Union Turnpike and 196th Place, 2-6 p.m., Thursday, June 27. Free health screenings, healthy refreshments, fun physical activities, music and freebies. Information: District Manager Marie Adam-Ovide, (718) 264-7895, qn08@nyc.gov.

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The Latin American Cultural Center presents the Career in the Visual Arts Program closing ceremony including an art exhibition and reception on Saturday, June 15 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Arrow Park and Community Center, 35-30 35 St., Astoria. Free. RSVP to (718) 261-7664 or laccq@aol.com. A wellness fair will take place on Saturday, June 15 from 1-5 p.m. at Resurrection Lutheran Church, 11426 Mexico St., St. Albans. $5 donation for those 12 and older. Call (917) 837-1139. All Saints Episcopal Church in Sunnyside has its annual Strawberry Fair on Saturday, June 15 between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. on 46th Street between Queens Boulevard and 43rd Avenue. Call (718) 784-8031. St. Gregory the Great School, 244-44 87 Ave., Bellerose, hosts its annual Gregorian summer festival from June 20-30. Free. Call (718) 347-3707. The Jackson Heights car, truck and motorcycle show will take place on Sunday, June 23 from 9 a.m to 4 p.m. at 33-50 69 St. Call (917) 682-5362 or visit eccatoysfortots.org. Free.

There will be a 5K walk/run health forum, sponsored by Sickle Cell Awareness Foundation, starting from Queens Faith Temple Church, 217-03 Merrick Blvd., Jamaica at 8 a.m. on Sunday June 23 ending at Roy Wilkins Park at 2:30 p.m. Call (917) 373-8434, (347) 233-1069, (917) 5683624 or (347) 463-8793.

SENIOR ACTIVITIES The Selfhelp Clearview Senior Center, 208-11 26 Ave., Bayside, hosts: Qi Gong, Mondays at 10:45 a.m.; topical club, Mondays through Fridays at 12:30 p.m.; Wii time, Mondays and Thursdays at 12:45 p.m.; Music with Dee, Mondays at 1 p.m.; beginner’s drawing, Tuesdays at 9:30 a.m.; aerobics, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11 a.m.; drawing and painting, Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m.; yoga, Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m.; bingo, Wednesdays at 12:45 p.m.; tai chi, Wednesdays at 2 p.m.; dance fitness and “You Be the Judge,” Fridays at 10:45 a.m. Plus music appreciation, current events discussions, card playing and more. Movies, Fridays at 12:45 in June: “Les Miserables,” June 21. Open house, June 19, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Call (718) 224-7888. Coed mixed-level line dance sessions geared to the mature adult at least 60 years of age are being held at Robert Couche Adult Center, 137-57 Farmers Blvd., Springfield Gardens, with the current session ending July 9. Each session is on a Tuesday from 1:40-2:50 p.m. $20 for the series. Call (718) 978-8352.

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Make Music NY 35 continued from page 00 In a city where the price of show tickets can be sky-high, the accessibility of MMNY is a welcome change. “I hope that we really activate the space under the 7 train for a day,” Sunnyside Shines Director Rachel Thieme said. “We really want people to come out and enjoy the music in Sunnyside, and we hope that it activates the commercial district.” Other venues include the Queens Library at Broadway in Astoria, Athens Square Park in Astoria, McKinley’s Children’s Garden in Jamaica and the Post Office in Jackson Heights. Musician Roberto Buscarsi is scheduled to perform in seven different spaces, starting at 10 a.m. in McKinley’s Children’s Garden. He will then travel to Astoria, Elmhurst and finally Sunnyside, where he will perform under the No. 7 train and at Cafe Marlene. Performances in Ridgewood include musicians from Joe Fuoco’s Music Center playing from 4 to 8 p.m. at the 71st Avenue Triangle and a show at Venditti Square that will welcome bluegrass, folk, indie, gypsy, blues and gospel musicians starting at 2 p.m. In addition to the registered performances, the festival’s program called

Mass Appeal gives people the opportunity to join one of 22 mass musical groups. These groups are open to musicians with any and all experience, and range from attempting to have 100 saxophonists play at the same time, to bands consisting only of gongs, harps or double-reed instruments. More information on how to join these mass groups, as well as a complete list of all the festival’s performances organized by location and genre, can be found at Q makemusicny.org.

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“Well, if you are going to lose, you might as well lose fast,” is what I remarked to personable Mets catcher Josh Thole following yet another listless loss last year. Thole, who was traded to the Toronto Blue Jays in the RA Dickey trade over the winter, quickly replied with a smile “You got that right!” I was thinking of that exchange with Josh after watching the Mets lose 2-1 in 20 innings to the Miami Marlins last Saturday at Citi Field. The extraordinary length of the game was not the main story. The galling headlines were that the Mets went 0 for 19 with runners in scoring position and struck out 19 times against pitchers who were not exactly the second coming of Sandy Koufax, Juan Marichal and Bob Gibson. The Miami Marlins have the worst record in the majors but now hold an 8-3 mark against the Mets this year. It’s like one of those old Charles Atlas ads except here the Marlins are the baseball bullies kicking sand in the faces of the weakling Mets. Mets general manager Sandy Alderson sent down struggling first baseman Ike Davis, reliever Robert Carson and backup outfielder Mike Baxter to their Las Vegas farm team following yet another Mets lost weekend. Baxter, a Whitestone native, has played only sporadically this year for reasons known only to

by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

Herman Weber was born in Munich, Germany in 1896, one of 13 brothers and sisters. With post-World War I Germany suffering greatly — setting the stage for World War II — Weber left for America and landed in Ridgewood in 1925 to be with other Germans who spoke his language. Having the skills of both a tailor and a carpenter, he decided to be a tailor and opened up a shop at 55-03 Metropolitan Ave. in Maspeth with his wife, Frances. They had one son, Andrew, and two daughters, Francia and Rosemary, who lived in the back of the store. He was such a skilled craftsman he made custom suits even at the height of the Depression and never went hungry. A wise man, he used the money he saved on rent to buy properties in Maspeth, Ridgewood and Sayville, LI. Weber always had a new Buick and was proud that he had the distinction of having the first television set on his block in 1948 and was host to all the neighbors when “The Milton Berle Show” came on the air.

Weber’s, a tailor and more, at 55-03 Metropolitan Ave. in Maspeth, summer 1944. In 1957 he sold his business to Kent Cleaners, a large chain which was the largest cleaners of its kind in the 1950s. Not content to retire, Weber opened up a dry cleaning store in Hicksville, LI and moved to Massapequa, LI. The thrifty, wise and hardworking Weber passed away in December 1984 at the age of 88. His tailor shop story exemplifies the successes of the thousands of German Americans who came here early in the 20th century and helped build the Maspeth-Ridgewood area into the great Q place it is today.

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manager Terry Collins since his outfield is a vast wasteland, to borrow the phrase that Federal Communications Commissioner Newton Minow used to describe television in 1961. Alderson is fond of talking about accountability. Perhaps it’s time to evaluate him. Let’s assume for the time being that Mets CEO Fred Wilpon hired Alderson in 2010 on his own and not because he was forced to by Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig. The word on Alderson was that he was the perfect guy to run the financially strapped Mets because he knew how to get the Oakland Athletics into the playoffs despite their very limited economic resources. Billy Beane, not Alderson, was the mastermind behind “Moneyball.” It was Beane who picked out low-salaried players who could perform well. Alderson has only shown that he can put together a team of low-salaried players who are just that for a very good reason. Instead of “Moneyball,” Mets fans have had to endure “Punyball.” Granted, Alderson has not had the open wallet that his predecessor, Omar Minaya, enjoyed, but when he had a rare opportunity to lavish big dollars on a free agent, it was for the underwhelming and perennially hurt relief pitcher Frank Francisco. Fred Wilpon should start thinking about a Q shakeup in the executive ranks.

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Ozone Park, Sat 6/15, 9-3, 135-16 97 St. Something for everyone! Ozone Park, Sat 6/15, 10-4, 95-11 81 St, boxes of VHS movies, something for everyone. Ozone Park, Sat 6/15, 9-2, 137-29/30 94 St. Multi-family yard sale, lots of new items! Woodhaven, Fri 6/14 & Sat 6/15, 9:30, 87-69 96 St, brand name clothing, bedding & household items.

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Notice of Registration of WHISPER PARTNERS, L.P., Cert of Limited Partnership filed with the SSNY on 04/17/2013. Office loc: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 8206 34th Ave., #12G, Jackson Heights, NY 11372. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Latest date upon which LP is to dissolve: 04-15-2113.

Notice of Formation of HCT REALTY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/21/13. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 135-11 Roosevelt Avenue, Flushing, NY 11354. Purpose: any lawful activity.

HOLLYWOOD EAST, LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 4/25/03. Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, c/o Ramesh Sarva CPA PC, 109-17 72nd Rd., #6R, Forest Hills, NY 11375. General Purposes.

Notice of Formation of 3236 48TH LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/22/13. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Neophytos Evagora, 31-16 30th Ave., Ste. 304, Astoria, NY 11102. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: RINGADINGLE LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/22/2013. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Michele Buchholz, 25-21 23rd Street, Apartment 15, Astoria, NY 11102. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

S T U DF I NDE R HOM E INSPECTION LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 2/27/13. Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Roberta Raeburn, Manager Member, 22615 77th Ave., Oakland Gardens, NY 11364. General Purposes.

Notice of Formation of 2715 24TH Ave Realty LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/24/13. Office: Queens. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to 20-09 46TH St., Astoria, NY 11105. Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: ON TRACK DRIVING SCHOOL LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/03/2013. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 5911 Madison Street, #2A, Ridgewood, NY 11385. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: L’ESPRESSO IMPORT GROUP, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/29/13. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 56-75 49th Street, Maspeth, New York, NY 11378. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

CITARELLA FILM LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 2/19/13. Office in Queens Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1716 Gates Ave., Ridgewood, NY 11385. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

AYBAR ( NY ) LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/07/2013. Office loc: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Ben Rasabi, 145-11 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica, NY 11435. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

4701 35TH ST. LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 5/8/13. Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Frank Debono, 500 E. 83rd St., NY, NY 100287208. General Purposes.

WHL REALTY LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/06/2013. Office loc: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Hui Zhen Li; Fong Keng Wong, 51-12 71st St., Woodside, NY 11377. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of Arcade Affiliates, LLC. Notice of Conversion of Arcade Affiliates, a partnership, to Arcade Affiliates, LLC. Certificate filed with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/26/13. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 136-48 39th Ave., Flushing, NY 11354. Purpose: any lawful activities.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 7125 Fresh Pond Road LLC. Articles of organization filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/3/2013. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process served against the LLC to the LLC at 7322 Juniper Valley Road, Middle Village, NY 11379. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Notice is hereby given that a License, number 1271141 for a Restaurant Wine (including Beer) License has been applied for by THAI SUKI INC, to sell Wine and Beer at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 6015 Woodside Avenue, Woodside, NY 11377 for On-Premises consumption.

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Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: Samara Consulting Group, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 3/16/2011. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 6844A 136th Street, Flushing, NY 11367. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

G.I.L. Northern Enterprise, LLC Arts of Org filed with NY Sec of State (SSNY) on 5/4/05. Office: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Peter H. Kim, 150-17 Northern Blvd, 2nd Fl, Flushing, NY 11354. General Purposes.

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To Advertise Call 718-205-8000 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS SUMMONS WITH NOTICE ACTION FOR A DIVORCE Shao, Jin Qiang, Plaintiff -against Zhang, Lihua, Defendant Index No.: 16250/2012 Date Summons filed: 08/03/12 Plaintiff designates Queens County as the place of trial. The basis of venue is Plaintiff’s residence. Plaintiff resides at 131-56 41st Avenue, Flushing, NY 11355 To the above named Defendant: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorney(s) within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within thirty (30) days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); and in case of your failure to appear, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the notice set forth below. Attorney(s) for Plaintiff: Florina Getman, Esq., Zhang and Associates, P.C., 305 Broadway, Suite 1000, New York, NY 10007, Phone No.: (212) 267-0608. NOTICE: The nature of this action is to dissolve the marriage between the parties, on the grounds: **DRL § 170 subd(7) - Irretrievable breakdown in relationship The relief sought is a judgment of absolute divorce in favor of the Plaintiff dissolving the marriage between the parties in this action. The nature of any ancillary or additional relief requested is: NONE - I am not requesting any ancillary relief; AND any other relief the court deems fit and proper. Notice of Automatic Order. Pursuant to domestic relations law section 236 part b. sec. 2, the parties are bound by certain automatic orders which shall remain in full force and effect during the pendency of the action. For further details you should contact the clerk of the matrimonial part, Queens Supreme Court, matrimonial office (Room 140), 88-11 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, Tel (718-298-1012) DRL 255. Notice. Please be advised that once the judgment of divorce is signed in this action, both parties must be aware that he or she will no longer be covered by the other party’s health insurance plan and that each party shall be responsible for his or her own health insurance coverage, and may be entitled to purchase health insurance on his or her own through COBRA option, if available.

Hudson County Surrogate’s Court In the Matter of the Estate of John A. Carotti, Deceased Notice of Probate of Will Docket No.306937 To: Brain Teetz Please Take Notice that the Last Will & Testament of John A. Carbotti was probated by Donald W. De Leo, Surrogate of The County of Hudson, State of New Jersy, on the 31st day of May, 2013. The undersigned Executor will furnish you with a copy of the said Will upon request. Executor: The Rev. Gus Vinajeras 2514 Summit Ave. #3 Union City, NJ 07087

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: RNS CL AIMS CONSULTANTS LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/08/2013. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, P.O. Box 604699, Bayside, Queens, NY 11360. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Smart Global IT LLC Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 5/20/2013. Off. Loc.: Queens Cnty. SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o the LLC, 55-17 137th Street, Flushing, NY, 11355. Purpose: all lawful activities. NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: TICKLE THE DRAGON LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/24/2013. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to C/O UNITED STATES CORPORATION AGENTS, INC., 7014 13TH AVENUE, SUITE 202, BROOKLYN, NY 11228. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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QUICK Queens loses out on new teacher awards Mayor Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott honored 11 teachers from around the city this week as winners of the first “Big Apple Awards” to recognize excellence in education, but none from Queens made the cut. Each winner will receive a $3,500 grant for use in the classroom and will serve as a “Big Apple Ambassador,” advising the city Department of Education. The winners were selected from among nearly 1,500 nominees, by a panel of judges from the DOE, along with the United Federation of Teachers, the New York City Charter School Center, Columbia University, Lincoln Center, which sponsored one of the awards, and The New Teacher Project, a nonprofit group. There were four winners from schools in Manhattan, five from Brooklyn and two Q from the Bronx.

Mayor vetoes paid sick leave mandate As expected, Mayor Bloomberg vetoed the paid sick leave bill last Friday, saying it would have negative impacts on businesses and nonprofit organizations. The measure passed the City Council 45-3 in May. That’s far more votes than needed to override the veto, and the bill’s main sponsor, Councilwoman Gale Brewer (D-Manhattan), said she looks forward to doing just that. The bill would require all companies with at least 20 employees to provide five paid sick days a year, starting next April, and would be extended to all firms with at least 15 workers in October 2015. A provision would allow the requirement to be suspended if the city’s econQ omy is not performing well.

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CB 9 Carey continued from page 5 Mary Ann,” he said. “We can go another six months.” One longtime member, who did not want to be identified, said she was taken by surprise by the move against Carey. “I didn’t think it would go this far,” she said, noting that she was conflicted on how to vote. “I’m not sure I could’ve voted to remove her this way. She deserves a more dignified exit. I do agree, however, that new leadership is a good thing.” The board member noted that CB 9 has term limits on its chairpersons.

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