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West Pond’s southern beach gets reinforced PAGE 6 The Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Park Conservancy recently broke ground on a project to build a new “living shoreline” along the southern border of the national park’s freshwater West Pond, damaged by Superstorm Sandy.

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Primary results are a head scratcher BOE publishes 135K false ballots by Katherine Donlevy

taken down from the BOE’s website after it admitted its mistake Tuesday evening, but not he city Board of Elections released an before hundreds of news stories reported that updated round of preliminary results the close battle for mayor would likely be Tuesday that included 135,000 false between Adams and Garcia. The BOE determined that the “discrepancy” “test” ballots. The inaccurate tabulations showed Eric occurred because thousands of ballot images Adams with a slim 2.2 percent lead over Kath- used for testing had not been cleared from the ryn Garcia in the Democratic primary for Election Management System. “Sadly it is impossible to be surmayor. That lead had shrunk significantprised,” Wiley said in a statement. ly from election night results, which Corrected numbers still had not had him wielding a 9.4 percent lead been issued more than 24 hours over the second-place candidate, after the wrong tallies were who had been Maya Wiley. released. According to the tainted results, “Yet again, the fundamental Garcia overtook Wiley in the 10th structural f laws of the Board of round of ranked-choice voting tabuElections are on display,” Mayor de lation with a 3,806 vote difference. 2021 Blasio said in his own statement WednesIt is unclear if the false ballots affected the Democratic race for comptroller as well, day morning, calling for a “complete structural but the BOE had narrowed it down to City rebuild of the board.” De Blasio said legislative action must be Councilmembers Brad Lander (D-Brooklyn) and Speaker Corey Johnson (D-Manhattan), taken to transform the BOE and the way voting happens in New York City. with Lander touting a 3.4 percent lead. One option he pointed to is to pass a state bill Similarly, the unofficial results showed incumbent Jumaane Williams victorious in his by Assemblymember Nily Rozic (D-Fresh bid for public advocate. He claimed 69 percent Meadows) and state Sen. Liz Krueger (D-Manof the Democratic primary votes compared to hattan) that would clarify the powers, responsiAnthony Herbert’s 20.9 percent and Theo Bruce bilities and duties for the BOE co-executive directors. The bill would hold those officials Chino Tavarez’s 8.1 percent. Those results from all three elections were accountable through processes designed to Associate Editor

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The city Board of Elections quickly took down its unofficial results Tuesday for the mayoral, comptroller and public advocate races after it realized 135,000 test ballots had been included FILE PHOTO BY MIKE SHAIN in the count. remove and appoint them. It would also establish various training and continuing education requirements for all BOE staff members at every level. De Blasio also said amending the state Constitution to allow for a new, professional board, removed of party affiliation, would be a “necessary, fundamental change.” City Councilmember Daneek Miller (D-St. Albans) pointed to his own bill to repeal ranked-choice voting, claiming the 2021 primaries were too significant to test the method on.

Miller’s legislation would give voters another chance to weigh in on the merits of rankedchoice voting during the November general election. “Today’s announcement from the NYC Board of Elections is a disappointing but wholly unsurprising update from an agency with questionable capacity to handle an election of this magnitude,” Miller said in a statement. “Both the BOE and pro-RCV advocates assured voters that this would be a seamless process, and yet, Q the opposite appears to be true.”

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‘I took the credit card to the casino’ Wilson gets on 3rd-party line in CD 32 general, relieves his campaign debt by Max Parrott

al ballot he retains use of all the matching funds he previously earned. “I did what I didn’t want to do. I took the A Board of Elections commissioners meeting in June left just one candidate credit card to the casino. I was pretty well standing of the three who were seeking to determined that I was not going to be get on the general ballot for the District 32 pushed out of this in silence,” Wilson told the Chronicle. City Council race on a third-party line. Wilson’s would-be third-party opponents Community Board 9 Chairman Kenichi Wilson, one of the two moderate Democrats include Scala and entrepreneur Rubén who were knocked off the Democratic pri- Cruz. Both have made attempts, successful and not, to run on other party lines. mary ballot, will appear in the general Though Scala was able to comelection ballot on the Community pete in the Democratic primary, First party line. he sought to give himself anothWilson finds himself back in er opportunity to compete in the the running for the Council seat general election on a third-party after he was booted from the line if he loses what looks to be primar y in state cour t by a a close battle with teacher and “kitchen sink” lawsuit lodged by activist Felicia Singh for the nomia surrogate of his opponent, How2021 nation. Based on the in-person priard Beach attorney Mike Scala. The mary night tally, Singh leads Scala by less result comes after a series of legal actions left Wilson possibly owing tens of thou- than a percentage point prior to rankedsands of dollars in matching funds back to choice tabulation. Cruz, a Richmond Hill resident who the city if he failed to make it on the ballot. His new status as a third-party candidate originally told the Chronicle he was planabsolves him from the amount of campaign ning to run as an independent, then filed as matching funds he spent on a losing court a Republican, but did not make the primary battle against Scala before the primary. ballot. The news of Wilson’s success comes Based on the city’s campaign finance rules, once Wilson was rejected from the ballot, after a litigious primary season, which he became personally liable to the city for started with a solidarity pact among several anything he spent on his campaign over the of the Democratic candidates not to chalnearly $15,000 that he raised in private lenge each other’s petition signatures to get donations. Now that he’s back on the gener- on the ballot in order to reduce the health Associate Editor

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risk of in-person campaigning during the Covid pandemic. The goal of stopping legal challenges didn’t hold up when someone associated with the Scala campaign lodged both Board of Elections objections and Supreme Court lawsuits on his behalf against Wilson and another contender for the Democratic nomination, Raimondo Graziano, and succeeded in getting both removed from the ballot. In the June BOE commissioners meeting, it was Scala on the opposite side of legal challenges. He was blocked from the ballot based on objections lodged by Graziano and an associate of the leading Republican candidate, Joann Ariola. Scala again objected to Wilson’s appearance on the general election ballot, but the BOE ruled in Wilson’s favor. In response to the sequence of events, Scala fumed that Graziano’s objections were on behalf of the Wilson campaign. “For months, Mr. Wilson claimed that petition challenges were undemocratic, but he is doing the same thing now that he railed against. His actions are the definition of hypocrisy and we look forward to seeing the court make their decision on the validity of our petitions,” Scala wrote to the Chronicle in a statement. Though Graziano has expressed his support of Wilson’s candidacy after dropping out of the race for the Democratic nomination, Wilson denied that Graziano filed the

Kenichi Wilson recently won the legal battle to make a third-party run for the District 32 COURTESY PHOTO Council seat. objections on behalf of his campaign. “He’s not working [for me]. He supported me. I considered hiring him. I couldn’t, I don’t have anyone working for my campaign because I didn’t have any money,” Q Wilson said.

Lindenwood teacher wins creativity award Cheryl Rizzo receives $25K prize, plus $10K funding for PS 232 by Max Parrott

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Cheryl Rizzo, an English teacher at the Lindenwood School, PS 232, recently won an award that recognizes passion and creativity. COURTESY PHOTO

Cheryl Rizzo, a Lindenwood resident and educator, was recently awarded a 2021 FLAG award for teaching excellence. Rizzo, a middle school English language arts teacher at the Lindenwood School, PS 232, who grew up in Middle Village, will receive a $25,000 cash prize, plus an additional $10,000 for her school. “I’m hoping that the idea of this recognition hopefully will help people to respect the profession even more to see how powerful the impact really can be. Maybe the other people will be inspired to do things like this,” Rizzo told the Chronicle. The FLAG Award for Teaching Excellence, which aims to recognize creativity and passion, goes to one educator in each of the five boroughs. Five win the prize that Rizzo received, and 10 finalists win $10,000 each, plus $2,000 for their schools. Though the prize is no small amount, Rizzo seemed even more enthusiastic about the fund-

ing that would go back to her school because she felt like “there’s no way I would have gotten this award by myself.” Her immediate thought was to help support her cookies and conversation group, a literary club she started for her students. Beyond supplying the literature for the club and some art supplies, Rizzo wants to renovate a reading garden in the front of the building where her students can take inspiration from the green space to write poetry and read. Rizzo suggested replacing the caved-in benches and partnering with a local organization to build planters and start a community garden. When she put the question to her students, they came up with the idea of designing road signs to fictional locations like Hogwarts and Narnia. Including her students in the decision-making process is an important aspect of her teaching style. Rizzo said she wants to empower her students to contribute to lesson plans by creating a student ELA advisory group, in which the kids vote for their representatives who then serve as

liaisons between her and the entire grade. “Once they share their ideas, then you don’t just have one kid in the class able to come up with something extraordinary. Once they present the idea and share it with everyone, you can have everyone now sharing in that experience,” she said. While one might expect a humanities teacher to feel limited by remote learning during the pandemic, Rizzo said that the virtual medium provided fertile space to learn new lessons. In a project in response to a book called “The House on Mango Street,” in which her students were tasked with creating a gingerbread house and explaining its symbolic significance, one student in her class created a software gingerbread building in the online game creation platform Roblox, and pulled out some impressive levels of meaning. It also gave her an opportunity to invite Karen Harrington, one of the authors of the books her class was reading, to give a Zoom talk to her students. When one of her students continued on page 12

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Shoring up the Jamaica Bay’s West Pond Conservancy breaks ground on wetland restoration project by Max Parrott Associate Editor

When Superstorm Sandy hit the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in 2012, it caused a breach of the border around the manmade freshwater West Pond, alarming bird watchers who wondered whether the internationally renowned bird migration hub would ever be the same. In June, the Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Park Conser vancy broke ground on a project aimed at permanently putting those fears to rest. Though in 2017 National Parks Service did build the border on the south side of the pond and restored the habitat for the birds, erosion has continued along the breach at a pace which alarmed environmentalists and caught the attention of the JBRPC. In May 2019, the JBRPC created its own design for the south pond border. The nonprofit was started by Mayor Bloomberg to act as a third-party steward to the 10,000 acres of public parkland controlled by the city, state and National Park Service throughout Jamaica Bay and the Rockaways. At the beginning of June, the conservancy began the new phase of development along the southern border, constructing what it calls “a living shoreline.” The project, which will close much of the West Pond loop trail through August, will build up a sandy shoreline along the southern section of the pond and reinforce it with plantings and a breakwater system made of bags of oyster shells. “This project will create acres of new habitat at the refuge while enhancing and protecting West

Pond and the beloved loop trail,” Alex Zablocki, JBRPC’s executive director wrote in a statement Last Fr id ay, the Ch ronicle stopped by the construction site to observe as dump trucks bring in load after load of the total 44,000 cubic yards of sand to create nearly nine acres of new marsh habitat. In order to reinforce the new shoreline from erosion and build more marshland for birds, the project will also add 200,000 new native plants and use other natural erosion materials like recycled trees and biodegradable logs in the construction. In addition to building up the West Pond’s southern shoreline, the restoration project will build a new outfall for the pond — a manmade water duct that the National Park Service can use to lower the level of the fresh water in the pond to create mudflats that encourage migrating birds to land there. “Think of Jamaica Bay as like a big gas station. So on the flyway they’re stopping here to get energy and continue on their journey,” Zablocki told the Chronicle. Without a closed border around the pond, it stops being a freshwater pond and loses its attraction to many migrating birds. Zablocki said that the need to reinforce the shoreline to stop it from being breached by future storms extends beyond damage from Sandy. Prior to 2012, the southern border of the pond had already seen high levels of erosion, leaving it vulnerable. Zablocki said a 1974 boundary map of the shoreline shows a large bar of sand that’s been lost in the intervening half-century. Funding for the project was made possible through private

Alex Zablocki and Elizabeth Stoehr explain that the tens of thousands of pounds of sand being shipped into Jamaica Bay’s West Pond to create a new “living shoreline” along its southern edge will extend out to the yellow turbidity curPHOTOS BY MAX PARROTT tain in the water. donations and $4 million from the city’s nitrogen settlement fund, a 2008 agreement that Bloomberg made that set aside $15 million for wetlands projects in Jamaica Bay after activists launched a lawsuit against the city for nitrogen loading in the area. After the JBRPC created its initial design for the project, environmentalists, such as Dan Mundy Jr., of the Jamaica Bay Ecowatchers, who negotiated with Bloomberg on the original nitrogen settlement agreement, stepped in and worked with elected officials to make sure that the city use the funds on the project. “Multiple bureaucratic hurdles were overcome by the direct and consistent assistance of Assemblymember [Stacey Pheffer] Amato

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A Bow Wow boogie for ‘Charlie the Cop’ Howard Beach residents honor a formative neighborhood character by Max Parrott Associate Editor

Several generations of Howard Beach got a heavy dose of nostalgia and reconnection last week after two neighbors wrangled their old aquaintances to celebrate a renowned hangout from their youth: The Big Bow Wow. “If you grew up in the ’70s – you would know that Howard Beach was known for having ‘The Big Bow Wow,’” Lynn Stancati, the reunion organizer, wrote to the Chronicle. The burger, roast beef and seafood restaurant, which spread over a block of Cross Bay Boulevard contained a game room replete with pinball machines, seated racing cars, PacMan and Super Mario Bros. It had charcoal burgers, hot dogs, pizza and french fries for the kids and hot roast beef and gravy sandwiches, chili, soups and a clam bar for the adults. It also had another neighborhood fixture, Charlie Coleman, known as “Charlie the Cop,” a security guard who would dispense coins to kids for the games. Both a stern authority figure and a sympathetic ear for the kids who were gossiping about teen drama, Coleman, now 80, played an important role in the lives of the teens who would spend as much of their waking hours as they could in the arcade, starting around the age of 12. “Whenever our parents would come looking for us, they would ask Charlie. And he would know but he would never rat us out,” said Stancati. Stancati partnered with her childhood friend Toriann Maiorino to put together the reunion, which was held at the rooftop bar of Vetro on Crossbay Boulevard, in part as a way to show their appreciation for the role

“Charlie the Cop” played in their lives. Coleman, who lives in Jamaica, came to the reunion with several family members. There have been several Bow Wow reunions over the past several decades, and Coleman said that he’s stayed in regular contact with a lot of the neighborhood kids after it closed down. “A lot of them call me and I call them,” he told the Chronicle at the reunion. In order to show her appreciation, Stancati organized a cash raffle and sold commemorative T-shirts to benefit Coleman, raising $800 that she said would go toward funding a trip for him to visit his family in Alabama. To raise awareness about the reunion, Stancati and Maiorino drove around the neighborhood like old times, knocking on doors and trying to find old friends to tell them about it, in addition to starting a Facebook event. One friend, John Americo, told the Chronicle that he proposed to his wife Lisa in front of the Bow Wow building 10 years after he met her there when he was 17. “When I met her that night I was starstruck. Since then we’ve been together,” Americo said. But the reason that he came from Long Island, where he now lives, was to celebrate Coleman. “He’s the best,” said Americo. “He was really a father figure to all of us,” said Stancati. “And he kept us all in line.” Asked if there was a standout night that defined the Bow Wow for her, Stancati said she couldn’t recall one in particular because “it was a party every night.”

Howard Beach residents reunited at a party to celebrate the role that Charlie Coleman played in their lives as the PHOTO BY MAX PARROTT security guard at the Big Bow Wow, a restaurant and arcade from a bygone era. When she turned 18, Stancati said that she started to feel too old to hang out at her teenage stomping ground, but she and her boyfriend would still stop by on some nights to give Coleman a ride home to Jamaica. “And you know about the incident that happened in 1986?” Stancati asked the Chronicle, referring to the infamous hate crime committed by several Howard Beach teens, which heightened racial tensions in the city. Stancati said that she remembered reporters and the police questioning Coleman, a black man in the predominantly white enclave, for information in the wake of the fatal attack. Sure enough, a Washington Post reporter who talked to teens at the Bow Wow after the incident wrote that Coleman refused to talk to him.

In the late ’80s, after Stancati had stopped frequenting the Bow Wow, the good times came to an end when it was destroyed by a fire. She remembered kids sitting on the burnt wood for months until it was rebuilt,

only to be sold and replaced with stores. “There was a special bond that developed in the ’70s that still exists today,” she wrote to the Chronicle Q after the reunion.

Above right, Lynn Stancati, center, and Toriann Maiorino celebrate Charlie Coleman. The duo sold shirts at a reunion for those who frequented the Big Bow Wow, top right and above left, when they PHOTOS BY MAX PARROTT, ABOVE, AND COURTESY LYNN STANCATI; FACEBOOK were growing up in Howard Beach.

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P The election mess, and avoiding more EDITORIAL

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he biggest absurdity about this week’s Board of Elections debacle is that it took the campaign of one of the Democratic mayoral candidates, leading contender Eric Adams, to notify the agency that it had added tens of thousands of votes out of the blue to the tally it initially had reported. How is it that no one at the BOE realized, before it announced those false results Tuesday, that there were about 135,000 more votes in its ranked-choice calculations than actually had been cast the week before? Never before have we seen the board announce preliminary election results — and you can’t even call them that because so many votes have not even been counted yet — and then pull them back. It’s a terrible embarrassment. When Adams first pointed out the discrepancy in vote tallies, some in the must-immediately-respond world of Twitter criticized him and even made allusions to former President Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election. Nope. Adams was absolutely right. Ironically, the “correct” results reported by the BOE later Wednesday, as this paper already was going to press, hew very closely to the false ones from the day before. Adams has an extremely slim lead over Kathryn Garcia. The others appear to be out of it after nine rounds of ranked-choice vote counting. But don’t forget: Even if “correct,” none of this is real yet. That’s

because the board has yet to even begin tallying the 125,000 absentee ballots it received. And when the difference between Adams and Garcia is less than 15,000 votes, those 125,000 could change everything. Alas, state law prevents the BOE from counting absentee ballots until later in the process. That’s why it would be better if the board refrained from announcing any results at all until all votes have been tallied. Along with that, the state should change the law to allow the BOE to start counting absentee ballots as they come in, not weeks after an election, which is how it stands now, for no good reason. The leadership of the BOE should be dismissed in its entirety and replaced by professional people who can do the job, rather than those who get their positions through patronage. The City Council should pass Southeast Queens Councilman Daneek Miller’s bill to give residents another chance to vote on RCV, now that they’ve seen it in action. It’s a convoluted mess with little to no benefit. Along with overly generous public financing, it encourages absolutely hopeless candidates to remain in races they have no business being in. And as seen Tuesday, it confuses not only the voter, but apparently also the vote counter. It’s imperative that people believe their vote counts and that the results are real. The BOE and its RCV debacle fail in that regard.

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Bike lane is our bane Dear Editor: The bike lanes set to run from Yellowstone Blvd. through Forest Hills and Kew Gardens have been a hot topic for several years and installation has now started, just as businesses are coming out of shutdown and are starting to recover from the pandemic. I fought hard to keep the bike lanes from removing 300 parking spaces. How can the installation at this time be fair for small busi-

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treet redesigns continue to divide communities, with no sign of, ahem, slowing down. The latest is on 39th Avenue in Sunnyside, which has been designated a Bike Boulevard. That means local car traffic only, with a speed limit of 5 mph. Not everyone is pleased. Nor is everyone pleased that 21st Street in Astoria will be getting busonly lanes. Parking is likely to be lost, but as a city official told residents, that’s not a priority. Safety is. Sorry. In Forest Hills, some business owners might sue to stop the long-planned bike lanes on Queens Boulevard. We sympathize, but they’ll lose. While you weren’t looking, people who know how you should live gained power, and now we have to live with the results. Do you love Big Brother?

nesses? It can only hurt recovery. The fact is that Queens Boulevard is a very dangerous place to ride your bike. As the executive director of the Forest Hills Chamber of Commerce, a lifelong resident and a former Forest Hills business owner, I know firsthand what the impact of losing parking means to all the businesses in Forest Hills. We already know that there are not enough parking spaces available to shoppers and visitors who need them. To risk jeopardizing the economy in Forest Hills for the handful of bikers who would use the bike lanes seems very unfair to thousands of others who come to Forest Hills and live here. We need an alternative to Queens Boulevard bike lanes. The unfair and biased studies made by Transportation Alternatives must be thrown out and independent researchers need to reassess bike lanes in Forest Hills. Leslie Brown Executive Director Forest Hills Chamber of Commerce Forest Hills

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Dear Editor: Fox News’ Tucker Carlson described General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as “not just a pig, he’s stupid” because the general refused to support Donald Trump’s insistence in having the military suppress the George Floyd protests. Milley made it clear it is not the function of the military to interfere in legitimate protests. Carlson had it all wrong. Should he wish to correctly face a person who is a pig and stupid, he should look in a mirror and will see the correct person. Benjamin M. Haber Flushing

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work at 8:30 a.m., then began arriving at 8 a.m. I have enough stress in my life I can’t control. I choose to control the stress I can. The subway is very noisy. I can’t control that. I wear earplugs to drown out the noise. That I can control. The subway is not always reliable. I can’t control that. I can control that the earlier I leave the less likely there will be issues and if there are issues I’ve given myself enough time to deal with them. If indeed the work on the East River Access tunnels might not be completed until 2029 (the author has not told us how he knows this and I’m sure it could always change), then maybe the LIRR commuter should consider leaving 15 or 30 minutes earlier. In a perfect world (s)he wouldn’t have to, but this is not a perfect world. Nat Weiner Bronx

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Education council turnout is divided Advocates sweep some districts, while others remain skeptical of CEC by Max Parrott Associate Editor

The city’s recent primary wasn’t the only voting opportunity in town this summer. Don’t forget about the community education councils. The results of the Department of Education-held election for the CEC members, which were released in June, saw significant turnover in districts across Queens. PLACE NYC, a group that formed in opposition to several of the mayor’s recent integration-based reforms, was successful in many districts across the city, and specifically in Queens, in its efforts to usher in candidates to the CEC. But despite the new engagement with the parent-led councils, voter turnout did not uniformly increase in Queens. In some districts, notably the ones like southeast Queens districts 27 and 29, where PLACE advocates did not get involved, the results were markedly lower than the rest of the borough. PLACE was able to boost a slate of candidates in several Queen districts. In District 24, four out of six parents they endorsed got seats on the CEC. In District 25, all three the organization endorsed won their seats. In District 26, six out of nine candidates it endorsed won their seats. The top-ranked candidates in Districts 25

and 26, both PLACE-endorsed, the fact that residents don’t see received 750 and 599 votes the CEC as having real power respectively, some of the highest under mayoral control of the tallies in the borough. public school system. Instead, he While the advocates are betand other parents in District 29 ting that the CECs will play an are planning to launch a lawsuit important role in their agenda to against the city based on Brown fight proposed diversity initiav. Board of Education. tives and changes to the city’s CECs were first formed in specialized high school admis2004, designed to roughly take sions, they’re not the only ones the place of 32 local school that are concer ned with the boards when the city’s public direction of Queens’ public schools transitioned to mayoral schools. However, in the districts control. For a parent to vote, where turnout was lowest, parthey need to have one registered ents do not believe that CEC has child in a district school. The leve r a ge t o a d d r e s s t h e i r panels are largely advisor y, problems. except for their power to disapIn contrast to the districts prove zoning changes proposed where PLACE had a prominent by the Department of Education. presence, the top-ranked candi- While opponents of the city’s proposed integration reform efforts swept Deborah Dillingham, the dates in District 29, which cov- multiple community education council districts in Queens, turnout in sev- Queens boroug h presidenters Cambria Heights, St. Albans, eral others reflects skepticism of the CEC’s power. FILE PHOTO appointed member of the Panel Laurelton, among other eastern for Educational Policy, agreed neighborhoods, only received 59 votes. what he sees as racial inequity in the quality with Dugué’s assessment of the CEC’s role “I am embarrassed that the most votes of his district’s public schools. under mayoral control. anybody got was 59. That’s not good, but I “The root of the problem is that you’re Of the Black students in SD 29, 29 percent think the glaring issue is our parents, our of fifth-graders had proficient English lan- putting all these people into these positions, community, realized that it was a sinking guage arts and math scores for 2019, based spending so much money on it, and then ship,” said Raymond Dugué, a resident who on data Dugué compiled from the DOE. they have no power,” Dillingham told the Q has recently started a campaign to address Dugué said that the poor turnout reflects Chronicle.

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continued from page 4 showed Harrington a digital rendering the child had created to illustrate a scene from the book, the author responded that it had given her a new idea for a book. Usually when she is just starting to write a book, Harrington said, she writes a diary pretending to be her characters. But for her next book she’s going to write from the perspective of a phone, inspired by the student’s use of technology. “Can you imagine being 11 years old or 12 years old and like this famous published author is telling you, ‘That’s brilliant. I

think I’m going to go with this,’” said Rizzo. She made a point to add that it would not have been possible to win the award without the support of her principal, Lisa Josephson, as well as Assistant Principal Kevin Collins. As far as what she plans to do with her share of the prize money, Rizzo hasn’t decided, but if she travels her destination will definitely incorporate a literary landmark or historical place — someplace where she can take lessons and incorporate Q them in the classroom.

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2021 Kiwanis scholars The Kiwanis Club of Howard Beach presented its yearly scholarships to deserving graduating seniors for the fifth consecutive year on June 24. Three of the four 2021 honorees were on hand at Lenny’s Clam Bar to receive their $1,000 awards. The club continues to support education by awarding its four annual scholarships to students living in the 11414 ZIP code. The funds benefit high school seniors who will be continuing their education at an accredited col-

lege or university in the fall. This year’s honorees are Patrick Connolly, of Scholars’ Academy, second from left, Alexander Eriquez, of Xavier High School, and Nilanga Gunaratna, of Scholars’ Academy. They are flanked by Kiwanis Club President Saul Belsky, left, and Committee Chair Dino Bono. The fourth honoree, Jingjie Ren, of Bayside High School, was unable to attend. The scholarships are named the August Sirgiovanni, the Paul Anthony Bono, the Stanley Merzon and Founder’s awards.

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ness but refused medical attention. An hour later on A violent Islamophobe Inwood Street near Liberattacked two different ty and 105th avenues in couples in different secJamaica, the individual tions of southern Queens again followed two peoon Sunday, insulting the ple, a 64-year-old man Muslim faith while comand 56-year-old woman, mitting the assaults — while making anti-Musand in one case fracturing lim comments. He then a victim’s nose, according punched the woman multo the NYPD. Police released video Police are looking for this anti- tiple times in the face and footage of the man they Muslim attacker. NYPD PHOTO head before running off, leaving her with small believe to be behind the attacks and are asking the public’s help in lacerations to the head and face and a broken nose. EMS responded and transidentifying him. At 9:15 p.m. Sunday, the perpetrator ported the victim to Jamaica Hospital followed a 24-year-old woman in a hijab Medical Center in stable condition. Anyone with information is asked to and a 31-year-old male companion at the intersection of Liberty Avenue and Lef- call Crime Stoppers at 1 (800) 577-TIPS (8477), or, for Spanish, 1 (888) 57-PISTA ferts Boulevard in South Richmond Hill. “Muhammad is a liar,” he said before (74782). The public can also submit tips punching the man in the back and grab- by logging onto nypdcrimestoppers.com, bing and tugging on the woman’s head or by texting 274637 (CRIMES) and then covering and punching her in the arm entering TIP577, or by going to @nypbefore fleeing, according to the police. dtips on Twitter. All tips are strictly conQ Both the victims sustained pain and red- fidential. Associate Editor

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City Council could be majority female 29 women lead the unofficial polls thanks to 21 in ’21’s advocacy by Katherine Donlevy

and 21 percent who served as essential workers during the pandemic. However, the significant work, If preliminary results can be trusted, more than half of our next Adams said, doesn’t lie in the City Council will be composed of endorsements. First 21 in ’21 assists with canvassing, door-knocking, women. After the first round of unoffi- fundraising and other campaigncial result tabulations, 29 women bolstering activities. Then, the focus were leading in the polls. The shifts to ensuring that the certified invigorating numbers surpass the women winners have supportive goal outlined by women’s advocacy staff, are supporting their staff, have group 21 in ’21 which, like its name understanding of Council proceedsuggests, has been working to get ings and more. The “on-ramps” 21 in ’21 providat least 21 women into city office ed are among the key elements that this year. “We’re definitely encouraged by led District 22 candidate Tiffany the preliminary results and the mis- Cabán to her win. “I was differently situated than sion,” said Amelia Adams, the orgafirst-time candidates, but the barnization’s executive board chairriers are real,” Cabán said, person, with an emphasis on noting that she already has “preliminary.” campaigning experience “It’s so hard to tell under her belt from her because it’s the first time running against ranked-choice election Melinda Katz for district on this large scale,” attorney. Adams continued. Cabán, a 21 in ’21 firstThe cit y Board of 2021 choice candidate, said the Elect ions expected to feminist group filled in the gaps release its second set of updates on June 28, but was delayed where candidates typically fall after 135,000 false “test” ballots behind, particularly with fundraiswere included in its mayoral tally ing. 21 in ’21 worked with candi[see separate story on page 2 or dates to find fundraising routes that online at qchron.com]. Even before recognized working-class women the “discrepancy,” the BOE did not and garnered their support. “As a Latina woman in this race, expect to certify the final results to work so hard and consistently and until July 12. But if the 29 women leaders can have others erase the work you do hold on to their first-place leads — that is a common experience,” until then, the next City Council Cabán said. 21 in ’21 helped prevent will be nearly 57 percent female, a that from continuing. Cabán said that her impending significant and history-making jump from just 14 women in the induction into the Council as a Latina, queer woman — as well as an 51-seat Council now. 21 in ’21 endorsed 68 women expected abundance of other women across 32 races to reflect ranked- who represent the limitless identities choice voting. According to the of womanhood in New York City — organization, the first-ranked choic- will be “incredibly important and es are 76 percent women of color, 76 impactful.” “That’s the cornerstone of the percent first-time candidates, 9 percent LGBTQ+, 52 percent mothers multiracial working class. You don’t Associate Editor

Preliminary unofficial results show 29 women leading their City Council races, surpassing 21 in ’21’s goal. If the tallies hold through ranked-choice voting rounds and absentee ballot counting, the next Council will be 57 percent 21 IN ’21 IMAGE female. get a monolith. You’re not just going to get one sorta type of women, but the intention is that it’s a collective of women who together can legislate and set a budget that provides access to a living wage.” Cabán is one of the few candidates to have declared victory after she took home 49.3 percent of the vote. Though she fell just below the 50 percent threshold needed to win, she claimed a 23 percent lead over her second-place competitor, Evie Hantzopoulos, who was 21 in ’21’s second choice for the position. Incumbent Selvena Brooks-Powers (D-Rockaway) also claimed victory shortly after winning 68.1 percent of the preliminary vote that was released election night. She was the only 21 in ’21-endorsed candidate in the race, despite it being an allfemale showing. Her competitors,

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the table. That our voices are there.” Be cau se of t he pa nd e m ic, Brooks-Powers hadn’t met with the full Council until the budget meeting June 30. Despite not being physically with her colleagues, she said she felt incredibly welcomed by the Women’s Caucus. The group of women talk regularly and provide support for one another so compassionately that Brooks-Powers said it feels like a sisterhood. With 15 more women to add to the mix next year, she expects it to only get better. “There’s so much work to be done. New York City is on a road to recovery from the pandemic and these new members will bring tremendous value in terms of perspective in things that impact our community,” she said. “I feel these councilmembers will bring a new level of Q energy.”

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• Fort Totten Pool, at 338 Story Ave. in Bayside; • Marie Curie Park Pool, at 211th Street and 46th Avenue in Bayside; • PS 186 Playground Pool, at Little Neck Parkway and 72nd Avenue in Glen Oaks; • Liberty Pool, at 173rd Street and 106th Avenue in Bricktown; and • Windmuller Pool, at 54th Street and 39th Road in Sunnyside Gardens. All pool patrons are required to wear a face mask to enter the pool facility, in locker rooms, bathrooms and on the pool Q deck, but not in the water.

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$98.7B agreement is the largest spending plan in city history by Michael Gannon Editor

Back in April, Mayor de Blasio’s executive budget request called for the largest budget in New York City history. The deal announced with the City council on Wednesday exceeds even that by $100 million. Spending in the $98.7 billion budget that took effect last night at midnight also exceeds the 2020-21 budget by $10.5 billion. “Today we are passing here at City Hall the Recovery Budget for New York City,” de Blasio said in a prepared statment. “This budget will take us forward. This budget will help us turn the corner. This is a Recovery Budget that will allow this city to come back strong. “I want to thank my colleagues because there was absolute focus on helping working families. In fact, this is one of the greatest investments in working families in the history of New York City. We are sending resources to the communities that need it most. This is a radical investment in working families, and that’s what we need right now to come out of this pandemic and move forward.” Unlike past years, the budget documents were not posted online on the website for the city’s Office of Management and Bud-

get. Cou ncil Speaker Corey Joh nson (D-Manhttan), in a transcript of Wednesday’s press conference, said the only reason they had not been posted was because negotiations had gone on into Tuesday night. The Mayor’s Office, in an email to the Chronicle at 2:12 p.m. Wednesday, said the documents would be appearing on city websites throughout the day, though they had not by the Chronicle’s deadline. Questioned about balancing the budget with more than $14 billion in federal stimulus money, de Blasio said he was not concerned about how the funding would be made up in two years when the money disappears. He said the city’s economy is coming back and the “revenue’s going to come back stronger and stronger as the economy grows at a very fast rate ...” There were no immediate figures for projected deficits on future years, though de Blasio said they would be released. “[H]ere’s the bottom line on our out-year gaps — they’re manageable,” the mayor said according to the transcript. Back in April the projected deficits were $3.9 billion in fiscal year 2023, $3.7 billion in 2024 and $3.9 billion in 2025 — but only if one factored in $1 billion in annual savings that de Blasio said in January would

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Mayor de Blasio and members of the City Council announce an agreement on the new city budNYC PHOTO / TWITTER get that kicked in at midnight on July 1. come from city labor unions. Less than a week later the Chronicle reported that those savings had not been agreed to. De Blasio’s office, in response to an email on Wednesday, said the $1 billion in labor savings is not in the budget just announced “but is in FY23 and out.”

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EQ civic leaders do not trust waste bill Reduction on caps for garbage is not going to help with air pollution by Naeisha Rose Associate Editor

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Councilman Daneek Miller’s (D-St. Albans) legislation to raise standards in the waste transfer industry may have advanced in the city’s Committee on Sanitation and Waste Management, but it did not advance in the minds of leaders of civic organizations in his district who think it is pure “fluff.” At a Zoom meeting with the Queens Chronicle on June 28, civic leaders raised their concerns about Miller’s legislation that would roll back the caps on the waste at commercial waste stations, but would use marine transfer stations to cut down on truck traffic. “We have a lot of concerns,” said Andrea Scarborough of Addisleigh Park. “Because of a loophole in the Waste Equity law, they are seeking to once again have that cap removed and then it would increase the waste by going through the rail system.” The intent of the Waste Equity law of 2018 was to reduce the amount of refuse going to overburdened areas like Northern Brooklyn, Southeast Queens and the South Bronx by 33 percent, but Scarborough, a vice chairwoman of the Queens Solid Waste Advisory Board and a former president of the Addisleigh Park Civic Association, says it was only reduced by approximately 9 percent. “If you are increasing the amount of waste going into the facility, then you are increasing the amount of trucks coming into the facility,” said Scarborough. “The notion that you are going to reduce truck traffic is surely not the case. It does not rectify the issue that currently exists — we have a lot of trucks coming in.” Miller’s bill says it will require the stations to export a majority of their waste by rail, that they have to enclose their depots and be monitored by the city’s Department of Sanitation for compliance. Scarborough believes the new bill will do the opposite of what it intends and create more pollution with more emissions, leachate (contaminated water) and more particulate matter. Scarborough, who is also the president of the Greater TriAngular Civic Association in Jamaica, also doesn’t trust Royal Waste Services, a commercial waste transfer station located at 187-40 Jamaica Ave., to follow environmental guidelines. In 2018, a plant at the station had a five-alarm fire and the FDNY discovered that an improperly disposed lithium ion battery was the cause. The smoke from the flames was so intense, the nearby LIRR Hillside station had to cut off service for a few hours. “I have had the opportunity to speak to a number of residents there while investigating a number of complaints,” said Michael Scot-

land, president of the A PCA. “It’s a tale of two cities ... they are not being a good partner or neighbor, but at the same time they are t r ying to spread some Oster Bryan money around to COURTESY PHOTO cover up or make ... palatable the offenses they are making in the community.” Royal Waste has a history of distributing approximately 500 turkeys around Thanksgiving and has contributed to other community events, according to Scotland. Walter Dogan, president of the Brinkerhoff Action Association in Jamaica, the civic that is closest to the Royal Waste and American Recycling Management waste transfer stations on Douglas Avenue, is also upset about Miller’s new law. “We had a walk-through right by the facilities,” said Dogan. “The facility is three-sided. They are not going with the state-of-theart buildings that they broadcast.” Miller’s bill would require the waste transfer stations to have enclosures at their depots to prevent quality-of-life issues such as stench from those types of facilities. “Three-sided is a top and two sides,” said Dogan, who has canvassed the facility. “There is so much filthy water on Douglas. We had to wear boots. We are getting a lot of fluff, but we can’t get anything. We asked for the documents.” The civic leaders want renderings of what the supposed state-of-the-art facilities would look like. “People only see outgoing trucks — those are the less trucks [Miller] is talking about,” said Dogan. “In order to increase the tonnage you have to increase the amount of ingoing trucks to bring the tonnage in.” Oster Bryan, the president of St. Albans Civic and a resident of Cambria Heights, believes the bill is to the benefit of Royal Waste and other waste transfer stations, not the people of Southeast Queens. “Anyone who works on the project, you can’t wait four years to see if it happens,” said Bryan, who is waiting to see the documents on the rendering of new facilities. “You got to check along the way. There are children on Liberty Avenue developing asthma.” In 2018, Jamaica, Far Rockaway, Southeast Queens and western Queens were areas highlighted by Public Health Solutions, an organization that does research on health for the city, for high asthma rates among Q children.

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Increased travel factors into mayor’s new initiative for coronavirus vaccines by Naeisha Rose Associate Editor

The city’s Commissioner of Health, Dr. Dave Chokshi, posted on his Twitter page on June 23 that “anyone can request a vaccination in their home.” Chokshi further elaborated during a press conference that the driving force behind the new initiative was to make sure New Yorkers going on trips out of the city were inoculated before they left the Big Apple. “The key point is that vaccination is critically important to keeping New York City safe but also is critically important anytime anyone is embarking upon travel,” said Chokshi. “Particularly because we know that travel is a risk factor for spread of the virus. So, if there are ways that New York City can further support, ensuring that people who are traveling are vaccinated, that means that all of us will be safer.” Some New Yorkers spend months out of the year living in other countries, particularly in South and Central America, according to Chokshi. “For them, you know, the clear message is if you’re a New Yorker, you know, we want you to get vaccinated,” said Chokshi. “And we will do everything in our power to extend, you know, access to vaccination for you as well. For someone who is truly living outside of the United States, I think that is a different case.

And our priority is for people dents and city employees, who are U.S. residents.” according to spokespersons Rick Cotton, the executive from the city’s Department of director of the Port Authority Health and Mental Hygiene and of New York and New Jersey, the Test & Trace Corps. the agency that manages and A free Pfizer vaccine is now maintains some transportation available for those 12 and up, networks in the aforementioned according to Health + Hospistates, said at a June 24 board tals. People can register for the meeting that while air travel is at-home vaccination service at trending upwards, passenger nyc.gov/homevaccine or call 1 volume is 44 percent down (877) 829-4692. The inoculafrom June 2019 pre-Covid-19 tion is available seven days a levels for the week of June 14 week from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. to June 20, 2021. Port Authori- The city’s Health Commis“Our efforts to bring the ty Trans-Hudson train service sioner Dr. Dave Chokshi Covid-19 vaccine to the hardis also down by two-thirds for announced that at-home est to reach communities take the same period. vaccinations are avaialble. the next step forward today “Those low levels of operaPHOTO COURTESY NYC HEALTH with the expansion of at-home tion, although they are improvvaccinations for all New Yorking, continue to impact both our operating ers,” said Dr. Ted Long, executive director of revenues and our capital capacity,” said Cot- the NYC Test & Trace Corps and the senior ton. “Our estimate of $3 billion in lost revenue vice president for Ambulatory Care and Popfrom the end of Q1 2020 to Q1 2022 remains ulation Health at NYC Health + Hospitals. valid.” “With this service, we can now bring the The mayor’s new initiative expands on his Pfizer vaccine literally to your doorstep Test & Trace Corps program, which vaccinat- seven days a week.” ed 15,000 people, according to the mayor. “Any initiative that makes the vaccine more At-home vaccinations first included only widely available is a welcome option, espethe homebound and their caretakers in May, cially in light of the unknown risk presented and later expanded to seniors, NYCHA resi- by new variants of the virus,” said Council-

man Bob Holden (D-Middle Village). “And some neighborhoods, like ours, don’t have access to much public transportation.” Holden represents City Council District 31, which encompasses parts of or all of Glendale, Middle Village, Maspeth, Ridgewood, Woodhaven, and Woodside. Vickie Paladino, a Republican and Independent candidate for District 19 (College Point, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston and Little Neck), who is running to unseat Councilman Paul Vallone (D-Bayside), believes such a push should have came much sooner. “Everyone who wants a vaccine should have access to one,” said Paladino. “Unfortunately, the city has once again neglected citizens most vulnerable to COVID — our homebound elderly and disabled — and is only now preparing a potentially life-saving program to vaccinate these people at home. It’s indicative of our overall backwards COVID response, where we made major sacrifices for minimal benefit while neglecting common-sense actions to help those most at-risk to COVID complications. At-home vaccinations for our homebound elderly and disabled should have been among the first steps in our vaccination plan, not the last.” The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons compiled research from a June continued on page 18

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MTA gets pushback on cashless booths Riders, transit union back a return to cash transactions as Covid wanes by Michael Gannon Editor

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority attempted to clarify its position from June 23 on the possibility of returning cash transactions to subway station booths in the wake of serious blowback from the public — and from the union representing booth clerks. “To be clear, no decision has been made a nd no decision was announced yesterday regarding cash returning to station booths,” said acting Chief Communications Officer Tim Minton in a press release issued June 24. “The MTA continues to review logistics and other considerations associated with accepting cash payments at subway station booths post-pandemic.” Multiple published sources quoted MTA Chief Safety Officer Pat Warren as saying that agency officials “currently do not plan to resume cash transactions in the booths.” Cash transactions were banned back in March 2020 as the city and state prepared for the worst of Covid19. Well over 100 MTA workers died of Covid during the pandemic. In a statement from Transport Workers Local 100, which represents booth clerks, union President Tony Utano pointed out that cash transactions have resumed at the TA’s commuter railroads. “Why have cash transactions resumed for suburban commuters who take Metro-North and [Long Island Rail Road] trains but not for subway riders?” Utano asked. “Does the MTA think subway riders aren’t worthy of the same level of customer service? Not having cash transactions at subway booths is an inconvenience — and an insult — to subway riders. These transactions should resume.” Rider advocacy groups backed Utano’s stance. “Governor Cuomo must let tran-

every subway station; at MetroCard Mobile Vans that travel across the city, including to areas without subway stations, and that also replace damaged MetroCards; and at 1,470 merchants and convenience stores at airports and throughout the city that do not charge a fee for new MetroCards. He said expired MetroCards can continue to be exchanged at no charge at any MetroCard vending machine for a valid new card. Since March 2020, damaged MetroCards have been replaced either by mail or by presenting them to the MetroCard Service Center located at 3 Stone Street in Lower Manhattan and that the practice will continue. U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing) was direct in a Tweet expressing Subway booth clerks at the Forest Hills-71st Avenue station in Forest Hills haven’t handled cash transactions since her opposition. “Terrible idea to end cash transacthe start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Talk by transit officials last week saying cash sales may end permanently isn’t tions at NYC subway booths,” Meng PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON sitting well with a range of critics. wrote. “Would be a big inconvesit riders pay with cash at subway Forest Hills on Monday morning uary through May, is the highest in at nience for riders & threatens public safety. Would also hurt those without booths,” said Betsy Plum, executive found they also want the MTA to least 21 years,” Utano said. Utano said agents alert the police credit cards. @MTA should be makdirector of the Riders Alliance. restore the option. “I use the booth a lot,” said Stacey on behalf of crime victims; summon ing it easier for NYers to use the sub“With one-third of New York City residents unbanked or underbanked, Miller of Jamaica. “The clerks are ambulances for injured and sick rid- way, not making it more difficult.” Aravella Simotas, a former state cash remains essential for millions very helpful.” Miller said she also has ers; report suspicious, menacing and gotten damaged MetroCards replaced. dangerous behavior; provide direc- assembly woma n f rom Astor ia of people.” whose parMarie Johnson, a former Queens t i o n s a n d “After a year of record ridership ents moved lows, the MTA should pull out all the resident visiting from North Caroli- travel inforto the Unitmation durstops to welcome riders back on na, agreed. he MTA should pull out ed States “They should keep the cash trans- i ng e me rboard,” said Jaqi Cohen, campaign when she gency serdirector for the New York Public actions,” she said. all stops to welcome was an Utano also said station agents, vice changInterest Research Group’s Straphangi n fa nt, ers Campaign. “By ending cash meanwhile, hand out masks, provide e s ; a s s i s t riders back on board.” r e pl ie d t o transactions at token booths, the transfer passes to riders during major station evac— Jaqi Cohen, Straphangers Campaign Me n g’s service disruptions, consolidate uations durauthority is doing the opposite.” Tweet. Like Plum, Cohen said many money on multiple cards onto one i n g f i r e s , “This assumes that every New low-income New Yorkers do not card when requested; and provide smoke conditions, blackouts and have access to the necessary elec- refund claim forms to riders with other situations; report abandoned Yorker feels comfortable with using and suspicious packages “in our post an automated machine,” Simotas tronic equipment for noncash pay- defective MetroCards. He also said they have had to take 9/11 world”; and provide a uniformed wrote. “And how many languages/ ments. Both also said the MetroCard vending machines in subway on greater roles in subway safety and presence to deter vandalism and dialects do your machines support? I am sure that you took under concriminal activity. stations are hardly the most reliable security Minton said riders still can use sideration that over 130 languages “That’s especially important today devices in the city. Q An informal survey of riders in as the number of felony assaults, Jan- cash at vending machines located at are spoken in Queens, right?!”

At-home shots continued from page 17 23 Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices meeting, where there were discussions on reports of 1 in 10,000 getting “rare” or “extremely rare” cases of pericarditis (heart inflammation of the sac surrounding the heart) or myocarditis (inflammation of the heart). ACIP is particularly concerned about the side effect among 12to 15-year-olds, but does not want to cause vaccine hesitancy. The AAPS asserted that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to add warnings about heart inflammation to

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DC talks $60B restaurant plan Restaurant business advocates in Queens, the city and state are fully backing a bipartisan bill in Washington that would authorize $60 billion to replenish the federal Restaurant Revitalization Fund, which was created to award grants to eateries and bars facing closure due to Covid-19. Bills are being sponsored in the House of Representatives by Reps. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.); and in the Senate by Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.). Jonathan Forgash of Queens Together told the Chronicle that the bill is essential

for the survival of countless businesses. “This was really well-engineered by Congress,” Forgash said. “It is imperative that this pass.” He hopes it will help all whom the original $28.6 billion couldn’t. In an email, Andrew Rigie, executive director of the New York City Hospitality Alliance, said the city’s restaurant and bar industry is still down 178,000 jobs from February 2020. “[A] majority of these small businesses are still on life support following 16 months of financial devastaQ tion and mounting debts,” Rigie said. — Michael Gannon

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Alber t Azaria and Ruth Altcheck were marr ied in Queens in December 1950. They decided to make their home at 98-34 64 Drive i n Rego Pa rk . Two d aug ht e r s fol lowed , Stephanie and Elise. On April 25, 1964, a son named Henry Albert, “ H a n k ,” w a s b o r n . Alber t, a successf ul The childhood home of actor Hank Azaria, Walden Terrace, at dress manufacturer with 98-34 63 Drive in Rego Park, as it appears today. GOOGLE MAPS IMAGE; INSET BY NICK ALECK VIA WIKIPEDIA brands Simon Sez and Sher wood Fa sh ion s, could afford to pay to send his son to the elite over the years. In 1996 he won film fame as Kew-Forest School, the same school future the over-the-top feminine, gay house servant to Robin Williams in “The Birdcage.” Azaria President Trump had attended. A lifelong huge fan of Jack Lemmon, claims he modeled the character after his Hank caught the acting bug at age 16. He hit grandmother. His parents retired and relocated to major success voicing characters on “The Simpsons,” the hit animated series that Miami, but Hank stayed a New Yorker and debuted in 1989. He says he has done bought an estate in Westchester, which he is between 100 and 150 voices for characters currently offering to sell for $3.25 million. Q

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Are you hosting a Fourth of July picnic and want to augment your amazing barbecue offerings? Or have you been invited to one and want to bring a side dish that will both feed and wow a lot of your fellow guests without spending much time or money? We’ve got you covered — with some Gannon family recipes that can get you in and out of the kitchen with minimal time and cost.

Drain and rinse in cold water. Chop the eggs and place them in a serving bowl with the potatoes. Add the onions, celery and parsley. Add a mixture of mayonnaise, mustard, salt and pepper. Mix well until all ingredients are coated. Refrigerate for at least a few hours and keep chilled until ready to serve. Sprinkle with paprika and add fresh parsley sprigs for garnish. Bacon bits can be used as a garnish or added to the recipe to taste.

Red potato salad with egg • 5-pound bag of red potatoes • 5 hard-boiled eggs • 1 stalk celery, thinly sliced • 1 1/2 cups mayonnaise • 1 1/2 tablespoons mustard • 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley • 1/2 medium onion chopped • 1 tablespoon salt • large pinch of ground black pepper • fresh parsley sprigs • paprika • crumpled bacon bits (optional)

Tuna macaroni salad with apple chunks • 2 boxes large macaroni shells or rotelli • 3 5-oz. cans tuna (any brand, packed in water or oil) • 1 large or two small or medium apples • 1 1/2 cups mayonnaise * 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar • 1 green bell pepper • 1 red bell pepper • 1 large or 2 small celery stalks chopped thin • 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley • 1 small carrot • 1 teaspoon salt • large pinch of ground black pepper

Cut the potatoes into cubes or chunks and boil in a pot of water with a pinch of salt; cook until chunks are firm but not hard.

Boil the macaroni in a pot with a pinch of salt until firm but not hard. Drain and rinse in cold water.

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Tasty offerings for a Fourth of July gathering or a summertime picnic need not be expensive or time-consuming to prepare. Tuna macaroni salad with apple, left, and red PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON potato salad with egg will have ’em asking for seconds. Slice three thin rings from each of the peppers; set the rings aside for later andchop up the rest of both peppers. Chop the apple into medium to small chunks and cut the celery into thin slices. Add the chopped peppers, apple chunks and celery to the pasta. Drain the tuna, add to the pasta and mix the ingredients thor-

oughly. Combine the mayonnaise, vinegar, parsley, salt and pepper. Stir and pour over the pasta. Mix well until all the macaroni is coated. Garnish with the rings from the peppers, and with shavings from the carrot, using a vegetable peeler. Refrigerate at least a few Q hours. Keep chilled until ready to serve.

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To r r e s -J u r a d o hopes to bring more people out to the refuge, especially from communities like Ozone Park, where he grew up. He referenced studies from the Trust for Public Land, which advocates for park space. During the pandemic, it found that 100 million people did not have a park within a 10-minute walk from their home. He and his co-workers share a drive to make the refuge more accessible and welcoming to all. “We’re all just trying to push for a better future and to us, I think that just means green,” said Torres-Jurado, gesturing to the lush surroundings of the South Garden. “Maybe we’d all be more focused, maybe we’d have more sense of direction, just being in nature.” Despite drops in National Park visitation overall, areas like the wildlife refuge saw increased traffic in 2020. The Gateway Recreation Area consists of the Jamaica Bay Unit, which includes Floyd Bennett Field,

Park Ranger Kevin Torres-Jurado gets ready to give a Ranger’s Choice tour at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, with its many trails and views, left. On the cover: Ranger PHOTOS BY DEIRDRE BARDOLF Audrey Bartow leads a recent event at the refuge. Fort Tilden and Jacob Riis Park, as well as the Staten Island Unit and the Sandy Hook Unit in New Jersey. Throughout the summer, a variety of other activities will be held throughout Gate-

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continued from page 19 the only wildlife refuge in the National Park Service. Stops along the tour can include visits to the ranger’s favorite spots like the observation deck or the South Garden. The West Pond Loop is closed for a shoreline restoration project that is expected to be finished in the fall but hikers can continue on to explore the East Pond on the opposite side of Cross Bay Boulevard.

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Apts. For Rent Bushwick, 6 Stanhope St, #3R. NO FEE. 1 MO FREE. 1 BR/1 bath. $1,900/mo. Beautiful renov apt. HWF, SS. Small pets OK. New construction bldg. Avail Now. Call Stellina Napolitano, 646-372-7145 Capri Jet Realty Jamaica, 3 BR/2 bath apt, 2nd fl of house. Pvt ent, HW fls, lg rooms, plenty of closets. $2,500/mo 718-650-0392 Broker: Ms. Wilson Williamsburg, 66 Powers St, #1. 2BR/1Bath. $2,850/mo. Recently Renovated Apt. Freshly Painted. Hardwood Floors. Large Living Room. EIK. Plenty of Closet Place. Hot Water included. Avail Now. Call Francesco Viglietta 718-785-6533. Capri Jet Realty

Notice of Formation of FORMULA PUNJAB LOGISTICS LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/16/2021. 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: LEGALINC CORPORATE SERVICES INC., 1967 WEHRLE DRIVE, SUITE 1 #086, BUFFALO, NY 14221. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Williamsburg, 683 Grand Street, #2. 4Br/ 1Bath. $4,750. Half MO FEE. Recently Renovated XL Pre-War Apt NYC Department of Finance-Office of the Sheriff nyc.gov/finance on a whole floor. Hardwood Floors, Full Bath, Large Kitchen w//SS. Avail Greenville Organic, LLC, Arts Notice of Formation of now. Call Francesco Belviso LUMP SUM ENTERPRISE LLC of Org filed with SSNY on 718-570-4564. Capri Jet Realty 05/21/2021. Office Location: Articles of Organization were filed Queens County, SSNY with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/12/2021. Office designated as agent of LLC location: Queens County. SSNY has upon whom process against been designated as agent of the LLC OAKLAND GARDENS/ ALLEY POND it may be served. SSNY shall upon whom process against it may Unique, parkside, pet friendly, mail a copy of process to: be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of 2nd floor apt. 2 BR, 1 bath, The LLC, 91-28 86th St, process to: LUMP SUM ENTERPRISE spacious master BR & LR. Woodhaven, NY 11421. LLC, 4154 75TH STREET APT #5C, Express bus to Manhattan. Purpose: to engage in any ELMHURST, NY 11373. Purpose: School Dist. 26. STAR lawful act. For any lawful purpose. Asking $398,000

Notice of formation: GAB JS LLC. Filed 5/24/2021. Office: Queens Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC for process & shall mail to: 128 Coles Way, Lakewood, NJ 08701 Purpose: General.

Notice of Formation of HZ LANDVILLE LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/03/2021. 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: HANG ZOU, 5420 90TH STREET 1ST FL, ELMHURST, NY 11373. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of NKB COACHING, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/26/21. Office location: Queens County. Princ. office of LLC: 1017 Jackson Ave. - 4F, Long Island City, NY 11101. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Nicola Blue at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Co-ops For Sale Howard Beach/Lindenwood, Hi-Rise 1 BR, Co-op. Asking $163,900. Howard Beach/Lindenwood, HiRise, Jr 4 rm Co-op, 2 BRs, all new fls, bldg has pvt gym/play area. Reduced $229K. Connexion Realty, 718-845-1136

Houses For Sale Howard Beach, Mint AAA Colonial, 3 BRs, 2 1/2 baths. 43x100 lot. All new construction. Lg MBR w/ensuite & walk-in closet. Convenient laundry rm on top fl. 1st fl—beautiful KIT, new cabinets, SS appli & granite countertops, LR, FDR, & den. Must see! Reduced $819K. Connexion RE, 718-845-1136

Legal Notices LEGAL NOTICE Notice of Non-Discriminatory Policy. Policy Statement of Margaret Tietz Nursing and Rehabilitation Center provides equal opportunities to all employees, applicants, and admissions, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, handicap, disability, source of sponsorship, source of payment, marital status, age, amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Notice is hereby given that an on-premises license, #TBD, has been applied for by 104 Entertainment Corp to sell beer, wine, cider and liquor at retail, in an on-premises establishment, under the ABC Law, for on-premises consumption at 39-20 104th Street, Corona, NY 11368. Notice is hereby given that a license number 1336202 for a restaurant On-Premises Liquor License has been applied for by QNS KIDS CORP. d/b/a GULA under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law for premises located at 70-17B Austin Street, Forest Hills, NY 11375, County of Queens, for on-premises consumption.

Howard Beach/Lindenwood, Garden Co-op, 2nd fl, 2 BR, 1 bath, FDR, W/D permitted. Reduced $255K. Connexion RE, Classified Ad Deadline is 12 Noon on Tuesday for Thursday’s paper. 718-845-1136

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SUMMONS SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS NYCTL 2018-A TRUST, and THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, as Collateral Agent and Custodian for the NYCTL 2018-A TRUST, Plaintiffs, - against - YUET SAU YUEN, if living, or if she be dead, her husband, heirs-at-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, assignees, lienors, creditors, successors-in-interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through YUET SAU YUEN, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise of any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, and all creditors thereof, and the respective husbands, or widowers of hers, if any, all of whose names and addresses are unknown to Plaintiffs, et al., Defendants. Index No.: 705555/2019 Date of filing: 3/29/2019 Plaintiffs designate Queens the place of trial. Venue is based upon the county in which the Premises are situated. Foreclosure of: Borough: Queens Block: 1838 Lot: 1004 TO THE ABOVENAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action within twenty days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service or within thirty days after service is completed if the summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT. The object of the above-entitled action is to foreclose the Tax Lien listed in The City of New York Tax Lien Certificate No. 4A, dated as of August 9, 2018, recorded August 23, 2018, as CRFN: 2018000284203, covering premises described as follows: COUNTY: Queens ADDRESS: 87-72 52nd Avenue, Unit 2A Elmhurst, New York 11373 BLOCK: 1838 LOT: 1004 The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the tax lien described above. This action does not involve “subprime” or “high costs” loans that were consummated between January 1, 2003 and September 1, 2009. The foregoing summons and complaint is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the HON. TIMOTHY J. DUFFICY, J.S.C. entered May 21, 2021. SEYFARTH SHAW LLP, Attorneys for Plaintiffs 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, New York 10018 (212) 218-5500

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While it is now commonplace for professional sports organizations to have a night devoted to honoring the LGBTQ community, it is a recent phenomenon. The Chicago Cubs became the first MLB team to salute the community 20 years ago when they held a “Gay Days” weekend at Wrigley Field. To say that was a controversial marketing decision in the conservative, macho sports would be a gross understatement. The Mets marked their fifth Pride Night this past Friday with a T-shirt giveaway sponsored by Citi. They honored the LGBT Network and Callen-Lorde Health Centers, which provide medical services to the LGBTQ community regardless of ability to pay. They also gave a portion of Friday’s ticket revenue to the LGBT Network. There was a surreal moment that night. Mike Janela, who engages fans between innings at Citi Field, was hosting the daily contest where a kid tries to hit home runs in a miniature replica of the Mets’ home field by using a Wiffle bat and a tee. Janela was wearing the Mets Pride T-shirt, which featured the rainbow colors in the team’s NY insignia. What made all this a bit comical was that Chick-fil-A, an organization not exactly known for tolerating alternative lifestyles, sponsored the contest. Dominic Smith, one of baseball’s most socially aware players, told me during Friday’s pre-

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Beautiful One family in upper Glendale with party driveway & 2 car gar. Spacious rooms throughout with good natural light & plenty of closet space. Featuring Formal living & dining room; an eat-in-kitchen, quarter bath & mudroom on fi rst floor. Second floor has Three BRs; the main BR is 15’x10’ & the two others are equally sized 9’x12’ unlike other homes in the area. Full fi n bsmnt with outside entrance. Home is in prime location near Forest Park; public transportation; Shopping/ Atlas Mall & highway.

Tranquil country setting with 1 car heated garage 16x30 with parking for 5-6 cars, front porch with a wrap-around deck. Open floor plan, granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, cedar bath, laundry room, large master BR, cathedral ceilings with skylight. 2 wall AC units. Waterfront beauty- a boaters dream! Astounding sunset views from the deck & master BR balcony. Walk to Gateway National Park, library, tennis courts, Express bus & A train, 15 min to JFK airport. Taxes reflect STAR Exemption.

An opportunity to own this Classic Colonial in the prime location of Woodhaven. Many details in the home to appreciate like the large formal rooms; wood detailing throughout; the built in closets; the additional office or guest space on lower level; green house; & 2 car gar with long private dvwy. A must see to appreciate. In addition, the home is Minutes away from Forest Park, the ‘J’ train and Q56 public bus; & shops on Jamaica Ave.

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Mint AAA Colonial, 3 BRs, 2½ Baths, 43x100 lot, All New Construction, Large Master BR with Ensuite & Walk in Closet, Convenient Laundry Room on Top Flr, 1st Flr Has Beautiful Kitchen, New Cabinets, S.S. Appliances & Granite Countertops, Living Room, Formal Dining Room & Den.

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