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A tree, which crashed onto a car in Old Howard Beach, is one among the thousands that the Parks Department received reports about throughout Tuesday. South Queens was especially hard hit by power outages due to its extensive above-ground power grid.

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Mom-and-pops in desperate need Small businesses demand gov’t aid as pandemic rolls into sixth month by Katherine Donlevy Associate Editor

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OS! Save our storefronts! Save our small businesses!” Small business owners, community leaders and elected officials gathered at the Murray Hill Long Island Rail Road station on Aug. 3 to demand government support on rent relief programs as mom-and-pop stores continue to suffer in the sixth month of the pandemic. “Through this whole time, small businesses have been suffering the most,” said state Sen. John Liu (D-Bayside). “All throughout Murray Hill and Flushing and everywhere you go in New York, so many businesses have shut down and it’s pretty certain, unfortunately, that many of them will never be able to reopen ... at the end of the day the community is only as great and strong as the small businesses, not the big businesses, not the chain stores, but the small mom and pop businesses that provide food, that provide services that communities need ... we need to do more in government.” The demonstration was organized by the Korean-American Parents Association of Greater New York to push for rent relief legislation for businesses with fewer than 26 employees across New York State. The Senate bill, S8865, would require small businesses to only pay up to 20 percent of their income or one-third of their contrac-

State Sen. John Liu, second from left, and City Councilmember Peter Koo, center, joined community members and small business owners on Aug. 3 to demand further aid and support from PHOTO BY KATHERINE DONLEVY state government on rent relief programs. tual rent, whichever is less. It would also require the Department of Financial Services to establish an interim commercial rent relief program to support those tenants and certain landlords, supported by $500,000,000 in federal government funding. Additionally, the bill would restrict courts from accepting cases for nonpayment or to recover possession of real property rented by tenants for at least 30 days following the expiration of the state of emergency.

The bill, sponsored by state Sen. Brad Hoylman (D-Buffalo), lies in the Rules Committee. An Assembly counterpart has not yet been introduced. The legislation aims to shift the burden of rent onto landlords and government rather than concentrating it on tenants, a move the small business representatives at the demonstration supported. “This legislation would give a chance to the landlords to come forward. They have a horri-

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ble reputation, now they have a chance to come forward and redeem themselves a little bit. They can share the burden, that’s it — just share the burden,” said a man choosing to be identified only as David, a storefront owner of over 20 years. The demonstration was scheduled after Mayor de Blasio signed a July 28 executive order to strengthen minority- and womenowned businesses through new programs such as government contract matching, access to pro bono business consultants and mentorship networks and business classes for noncertified businesses. The executive order aims to ensure that the small businesses are awarded opportunities during the state of emergency. Another Senate bill, S8125A, seeks to achieve a similar goal. Sponsored by state Sen. Mike Gianaris (D-Astoria), the legislation would suspend rent payments for certain residential tenants, small business commercial tenants and certain mortgage payments for 90 days following the effective date of the act. Its counterpart is sponsored by Assemblymember Yuh-Line Niou (D-Manhattan), and both versions sit in their respective Judiciary Committees. Other legislation in the pipeline that would assist mom-and-pop stores across the country includes a new federal stimulus package that could pass as early as the end of the week. The continued on page 10

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Isaias pummels Queens power grid Nearly 300,000 households lose power across city as trees topple by Max Parrott Associate Editor

When Tropical Stor m Isaias swept through New York City on Tuesday after noon, more than 49,000 Queens households lost p owe r, mor e t h a n a ny ot he r borough. T h e o u t a g e s a r e n’t b e i n g restored immediately. As of 4 p.m. Wednesday after noon, Queens still had 42,349 Con Edison customers without power. “What we said so far is that it will be a multiple-day restoration — days not hours,” said Alan Drury, spokesman for Con Ed. “The first step is assessing the damage and then coming up with a global ETR or estimated time of restoration.” As the storm tore through the borough, downing trees and power lines, Con Ed shifted its estimated time of restoration from 11 p.m. Tuesday night to 3 a.m. Wednesday to “evaluating condition.” Wednesday morning Con Ed, confirmed that winds and rain from Tropical Storm Isaias had caused 293,675 households to be without power in the second-widest power outage in the company’s history — Hurricane Sandy being the most.

A Woodhaven resident saw a man rush out of his car to escape the fallen tree on the left, which cracked and fell right on top of it at 89th Avenue between 88th and 87th streets. On the right, a Lindenwood resident gestures at the tree whose root structure pulled up a chunk of sidewalk . PHOTOS BY SALVATORE ISABELLA, LEFT, AND GREGG COHEN, RIGHT Southern Queens was especially hard hit by the outages, including thousands of customers who lost power in and around Woodhaven, South Ozone Park, South Jamaica and Laurelton, according to the Con Ed outage map.

Southern Queens was so heavily affected because of its high concentration of above-ground electrical lines, Drury said. The storm’s winds, which reached 70 miles per hour at JFK Airport, snapped trees and branches onto power lines,

bringing the equipment down. “It’s where the electrical system is overhead,” Drury said. On Wednesday morning, Con Ed announced that it had 900 of its own employees and outside personnel working on the restoration, includ-

ing tree trimmers, and promised to share its estimated time of restoration after some analysis. Richard David, a Democratic district leader in Assembly District 32, which stretches from South Ozone Park over to Rosedale and down to the Rockaways, started receiving calls from constituents who needed help with fallen trees on Tuesday afternoon. He tweeted that a South Ozone Park senior without a cell phone called him to take photos of a tree that fell in her yard and damaged her home. David spent the afternoon driving around the district documenting crushed cars and uprooted trees that the storm left in its wake. “The city does a poor job inspecting vulnerable trees. This happens every year around here,” David said. Woodhaven resident Salvatore Isabella saw a man rush out of his car to escape a tree, which cracked and fell right on top of it at 89th Avenue between 88th and 87th streets. In Briarwood, East Harlem resident Mario Siles wasn’t that lucky. A tree came crashing down on the 60-year-old in his van, pinning him Q inside and killing him.

North Channel sees illegal clamming rise Two environmentalists notice an uptick in Howard Beach area by Max Parrott

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When Howard Beach science teacher and environmentalist Arcilia Derenzo began making trips to help clean the North Channel parking lot during her summer break, she found something far more fishy going on than mere littering. Violations of the ban on shellfishing are on the rise in Jamaica Bay, she found. On a neardaily basis, dozens of people are illegally taking bags and buckets of clams from the water below the Joseph P. Addabbo Memorial Bridge, according to Derenzo’s observations. “There’s a big clam population in Jamaica Bay because it hasn’t been harvested in a hundred years. It’s been closed due to pollution,” said Don Riepe, the American Littoral Society northeast chapter director. “And that area over there is probably fairly polluted because it’s fairly close to the Jamaica Bay treatment plant.” The shellfishing ban, which has been in effect since the early ’60s, according to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, extends beyond Jamaica Bay to nearly

all the waters of New York City, in addition to various areas of Long Island, due to pollution. Along with the potential dangers of consuming shellfish from the bay, clams serve an important ecological purpose, especially in an estuary that has a history of being polluted. “Clams and mussels are filter feeders. They help clean up the water. They filter out particulate matter and actually filter out bacterias and even viruses to some degree,” Riepe said. Derenzo and Riepe say that the quantities of shellfish being taken are too large to be recreational. They suspect that the harvesters are selling it as bait or “God forbid” even as food to some unsavory seafood restaurants. The penalties for illegally harvesting shellfish in New York State ranges from a $250 to $1,000 fine, and the value of shellfish illegally taken can be added to the fine. The center of the activity is the southeast side of the North Channel parking lot along the bridge, which is regulated by the DEC. Both the U.S. Park Police and DEC Police are continued on page 4

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New leadership pairs Eid with outreach District leader endeavors to get the Census count up, COVID count down by Max Parrott Associate Editor

Ozone Park’s newly elected Democratic District Leader Mufazzal Hossain, the first South Asian member of that office, snapped into action last Friday on the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha to provide services for his community outside a mosque. Hossain saw the opportunity of Eid services as a chance to reach a group of people in one swoop to provide three much-needed services to the largely Bengali section of the neighborhood. In the Richmond Hill, South Richmond Hill and Ozone Park area of souther n Queens, where the Census response lags behind much of the rest of the borough, community leaders have had to find gathering places to sit down with hard-to-reach members of the community to make sure that they fill out their forms. When Hossain started communicating

In an effort to encourage constituents to get tested for COVID, Democratic assembly candidate Jenifer Rajkumar submitted herself for an antibodies test.

with Democratic Assembly nominee Jenifer Rajkumar, Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park), Our Neighbors of Ozone Park Civic Association President Joe Caruana and Community Board 9 Chairman Kenichi Wilson, he kept adding services to what was originally a Census outreach effort. The event ended up as a de facto assembly line leading from the Fultoli Jame Masjid mosque to antibody testing, free food distribution, voter registration and the Census station. Hossain said that his background as a South Asian representative helped him in his goal of reaching as many folks with the services as possible. “The South Asian community as a whole has been super underserved. Finally we have representatives like Mufazzal and Jenifer who are here to make a difference,” said Arvind Sooknanan, Rajkumar’s campaign manager. After filling out his Census, Ozone Park resident Mahabubur Rahman said that he was just looking for the right opportunity to take care of the survey. With his done, he said it was time to focus on making sure his neighbors did the same. “Whoever we know, we have to push each other to fill out the Census,” Rahman said. While Caruana managed the food distribution, Wilson oversaw the antibody testing. He helped connect Hossain to two RVs that functioned as mobile antibody testing sites. Waiting in line for an antibody test, Badrul Islam said that he hadn’t been planning to get one until he saw the tent at the event. But now that he had started to work again for Grubhub, he thought it would be a good idea. In an effort to help convince constituents about the virtues of testing, Rajkumar her-

Democratic District Leader Mufazzal Hossain helped organize a community event that combined antibody testing, free food distribution and Census outreach at the Fultoli Jame Masjid mosque PHOTOS BY MAX PARROTT on July 31. self decided to publicly get a test. Asked whether she was finicky about needles, she said, “I come from a family of doctors, so I’m used to it.” Despite high attendance, the event goes to show how slowgoing the process of inperson Census outreach can be. Even with large groups of men spilling through the mosque for Eid services on the hour, after two hours the Census tent had helped only 20 of the residents fill out Q the survey.

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Expedited flood study bill passes the House Howard Beach would get a carveout for Army Corps analysis of projects by Max Parrott For the latest news visit qchron.com

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Rep. Hakeem Jeffries requested a cutout for Howard Beach in a recent water resources bill, which included an expedited feasibility study for ecological restoration in the area. Residents have long complained that the Army Corps of Engineers’ plans will take too long to FILE PHOTO implement.

Howard Beach could get funding for a new flooding study as part of a recent water resources bill that passed the House of Representatives on July 29. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-Brooklyn, Queens) applauded the passage of the bill, named the Water Resources Development Act of 2020, which would provide authority for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to implement water resources development projects. Jeffries requested that the secretary of the Army expedite a feasibility study for ecosystem restoration and hurricane and storm damage risk reduction for Howard Beach, which sits at the very eastern tip of his district. “The Howard Beach community consistently faces flooding during both minor and

major storms,” said Jeffries. “Compounding the risk of f looding, the area is highly degraded with invasive plant species that pose a fire risk. I am pleased that Congress is expediting this important study to investigate ecological and coastal storm risk management measures for shoreline neighborhoods in Queens.” The issue of flood relief has been on the minds of Howard Beach residents for years, gaining far more attention after Hurricane Sandy devastated South Queens in 2012. When the Army Corps of Engineers began a project last year aimed at investigating several ambitious proposals for how to address sea level rise around New York City, the local response was generally that the neighborhood could not afford to wait until after a three-year USACE reporting process for relief. In a 2019 response to the USACE propos-

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e may end up sometime soon looking back fondly at the good old days — of May. Remember the first three weeks of the month, before Memorial Day and the murder of George Floyd? Things were actually looking up. Coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths were falling rapidly here in New York and had yet to really spike elsewhere. The absolute misery and fear of March and April had subsided a bit as the weather was warming and we were slowly reopening our economy. The stock market was rebounding. You could be forgiven for thinking that the terrible trends of skyrocketing unemployment and collapsing gross domestic product could be slowing and that the worst might actually be avoided. Well, that was then. Today things are as dire as you might have expected in the dark days of early spring. While New York has kept the virus at bay, cases jumped in states where they hadn’t before, and the national daily death toll rose again. Stocks have remained strong overall, but that just shows the divide between Wall Street and Main Street. Unemployment went from 18.1 percent citywide in May to 20.4 percent in June. In Queens it went from 19.8 to 21.8 percent. There’s little reason to believe July will be better.

Nationally, the gross domestic product fell at an annualized rate of 32.9 percent in the second quarter, a figure which, as Forbes put it, “has no historic precedence in the U.S.” That’s right, the economy did not drop so far so fast even during the Great Depression. Nor did unemployment jump as high as it has so quickly; it took years to get this bad. The age of the coronavirus is full of uncharted waters. This week we reported on the demise of three more eateries: the Avenue Diner in Woodhaven, Sushi Village in Bayside and Buddy’s Kosher Delicatessen in Oakland Gardens. We’re sure there are more we haven’t learned of yet. Protesting businesspeople in Flushing begged for government support with cries of “Save Our storefronts!” At another demonstration, against giving Main Street over to buses, one sign admonished, “Flushing needs revenue, not restrictions.” The only thing that can possibly stave off even worse circumstances is the spending power of the federal government. The city doesn’t have anything like the funds necessary to sustain the level of commerce we still have. Neither does the state, which has to balance its budget under the law. Each does have a role to play, but only Washington can inject the cash that’s needed to keep the country afloat.

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13,000 trees lost Dear Editor: As Tropical Storm Isaias raged across our area, they bent, twisted and leaned with the wind. At first, only small twigs and leaves blew off of them, but, as the storm intensified, soon, many large limbs began to snap and fall, and then many of them began to fall themselves. Unable to withstand the fury of the wind, they began to go down; small, medium and large, their sizes did not matter. They crashed to the ground: silver maples, oaks, Norway maples, locusts, balsam firs, Norway spruces, red maples, weeping willows and birches. Some of them fell onto cars and homes; some of them took down power poles and wires. One of them unfortunately killed a man as it fell. When this unwelcome visitor from the tropics finally blew past us, the toll taken on our arboricultural friends stood at 13,000, which does not include those trees on private property that fell. A very sad day indeed, because we lost 13,000 friends in the world of arboriculture. New trees planted to replace those that we lost will once again fill the parks and streets with lush foliage, but it will take some time for that to happen. Trees are our friends, our cathedrals of nature. John Amato Fresh Meadows The writer holds a degree in horticulture. © Copyright 2020 by MARK I PUBLICATIONS, INC. All rights reserved. Neither this newspaper nor any part thereof may be reproduced, copied, or transmitted in any form, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, microfilming, recording or by any information retrieval system without the express written permission of the publishers. This copyright is extended to the design and text created for advertisements. Reproduction of said advertisement or any part thereof without the express written permission of MARK I PUBLICATIONS, INC. is strictly prohibited. This publication will not be responsiblefor errors in advertising beyond the cost of the space occupied by the error. Bylined articles represent the sole opinion of the writer and are not necessarily in accordance with the views of the QUEENS CHRONICLE. This Publication reserves the right to limit or refuse advertising it deems objectionable. The Queens Chronicle is published weekly by Mark I Publications, Inc.at a subscription rate of $19 per year and out of state, $25 per year. Periodicals Postage Paid (USPS0013-572) at Flushing, N.Y. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Mark I Publications, Inc., 71-19 80th St., Suite 8-201, Glendale, NY 11385.

Democrats and Republicans must reach agreement on a new stimulus bill. Federal unemployment benefits must be restored or millions more people will be instantly impoverished. The Paycheck Protection Program must be extended to keep more people from losing their jobs and save businesses. Protections against foreclosures on those with federally backed loans must remain. And if the two parties cannot come to an accord soon, President Trump should, at the very least, extend the unemployment program by executive order. The city and state should work together to reduce commercial property taxes, especially for landlords whose tenants have not been able to pay rent for months. Albany cannot protect renters, residential or commercial, without also making property owners whole. For their part, landlords should accept lower rents from commercial tenants, which beats having vacant properties and no rental income at all. But doing that is only possible with city and state assistance. However things look from one’s individual perspective — maybe you still have your job, your supermarket is open and you were never big on eating out anyway — we are on the brink of catastrophe. Our response has to be all hands on deck to avoid a future that, so far, is difficult to even fathom.

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Help senior neighbors Dear Editor: It’s been very hot lately and it has been a challenge going back and forth from work and to the stores, especially during this COVID19 pandemic. But our elderly have it even harder still. In addition, we are in the hurricane and tropical storm season, and our elderly neighbors need our help in those situations. My suggestion is please check on your elderly neighbors who maybe don’t have family or family nearby. My wife and I are senior citizens ourselves but are a little better off than some. We have a few neighbors we know who are elderly, and have called them to see how they are doing and rang their bell and visited with them. We have given them what extra food we have, as they may not always get out. Remember, many are on fixed incomes and may not buy the food they need to stay healthy. You can also help them to get in touch

with the city’s Get Food NYC program, which delivers meals to struggling New Yorkers. So, please check on your elderly neighbors and see what you can do for them during these times. Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Glen Oaks

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Dear Editor: As one who served in our military police with FBI “Top Secret” clearance to handle security issues, I handled many good and bad officers. I was amused to read in the Chronicle that a writer wrote, “the NYPD is the finest police department in the world!” Meanwhile, on July 27, NY1 reported that a group of NYC citizens are demanding our NYPD release a secret disciplinary report concerning 4,000 civilian complaints against police. I would consider calling the NYPD the “finest on the world” is a far stretch for his compliment! Anthony G. Pilla Forest Hills

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masks, attempting to open businesses or protecting homes. Last week Democrats exploited the funeral of John Lewis as a disrespectful opportunity to politicize. Benjamin Haber claims that President Trump sent federal troops to quell violent protesters in Portland, but Oregon’s Democratic governor did nothing to stop it (“Make that Adolph Trump”). On July 12 I participated in the Blue Lives Matter march in Bayside. There were Black Lives Matter protesters also, who verbally and physically threatened us, basically overlooked by the media. The Black Lives Matter side was vocal in the opposition to police. But when they felt threatened, whom did they go to? The police. It seems their view is the police are needed only when it suits their purpose, goals and safety. Once again, the Democratic Party has proven that it is no longer that of Harry Truman, Adlai Stevenson and JFK. It has moved so far left that it actually encourages violent demonstrators while condemning those who abide by the law or aim to protect themselves, their families, homes and property. Edward Riecks Howard Beach

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school and community. I have very real empathy for Mr. Riecks’ experience. What distinguishes my experience (and Mr. Riecks’) from that of Ms. Clarke is this: I was not subjected to systemic racism as practiced, protected and even championed by laws and elected leaders across the United States — as was true for Ms. Clarke in Jim Crow South Carolina. Here, then, is the difference between experiencing bias (or prejudice) and experiencing racism. Racism is bias that is backed by institutions — a phenomenon which permits a parent to make a harmful and demeaning statement to a vulnerable child with confidence that her words (if overheard) would receive the full validation of school systems, police departments, businesses, banks and government bodies. As a nation we have made progress, and we have far to go. I am hoping that we can agree that bias can harm any of us, bias definitely cuts and it cuts both ways, but racism is an immediate problem only for those who have not yet achieved equitable representation in positions of power. Rachel Kaplan Ridgewood

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Avenue Diner in Woodhaven closes by Max Parrott

farther into the pandemic without a set date for dine-in service to come back, it has Woodhaven’s Avenue Diner, open since become increasingly clear that not every 2009, is the latest casualty in a series of strip in Queens is equally amenable to sidediner closing that pre-dates the pandemic- walk dining. Though more and more businesses on fueled economic crisis for small businesses. Paul Vasiliadis, who has not taken more Jamaica Avenue have begun to roll out street than 30 days off in 11 years of owning and seating to try and get by, Vasiliadis simply managing the restaurant, said that there did not see that strategy as a path toward were just too many obstacles stacked against remaining financially viable. The business the business to come back f rom the strip’s location, which runs under an elevated subway line, made the decision a risky pandemic. The restaurant permanently closed on proposition, he said. “I just don’t find it being a safe option for Sunday, Aug. 2, leaving a diner vacuum in all my customers because of the elevated the Woodhaven area. “Diners — restaurants — they’re built for train and the amount of dust that falls down, even with a tent or dining in,” Vasiliaumbrellas,” Vasilidis said. “Sit-in adis said. dining establishThe Forest Hills ments have taken a iners — restaurants — Di ner closed i n 70 percent hit.” they’re made for dining in.” late May, so the Though he has Avenue Diner is poured his blood, — Avenue Diner owner Paul Vasiliadis not the first of its sweat a nd tea rs k i nd to go, but into the diner since opening it, he said that it just wasn’t possible long before the strain of the pandemic, to make up for the gaping hole in his bottom Queens diners have had it tough. Southern line, especially when much of his takeout is Queens’ closures in recent years include The Waterview in Howard Beach and The Fame through delivery apps. “When you have all these online ordering in Jamaica, and many more dot the rest of companies taking the percentages that they the borough. Vasiliadis said that he takes a lot of pride take, your profit margin dwindles considerknowing that he put in all his effort to try ably,” he added. As New York’s businesses get farther and and keep it open for as long as he could, but Associate Editor

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LETTERS TO THE continued from previous page their right minds they would never express as their own. I think we have entered a Twilight Zone where it is un-American for the Census to count how many Americans are in America and Russians influencing our elections is bad but illegal aliens voting is good. Five billion dollars for border security is too expensive but $1.5 trillion for “free” health care is not. People who claim there is no so such thing as “gender” demand Joe Biden select a female candidate for vice president. There is a growing number of people who think that people who have never owned slaves should pay slavery reparations to people who have never been slaves. The great ship Titanic America has hit an iceberg. Pointing out the hypocrisy does not make anyone racist. I beseech those who hate President Trump to consider what is at stake in the next election: our history, our way of life and our future. Ed Konecnik Flushing

Trump’s illegal nonsense Dear Editor: The time has come for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to curtail Trump’s nonsensical claim the 2020 presidential election will be corrupt if people are allowed to vote by

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mail. There is not a single state secretary of state, Republican or Democrat, who will support Trump’s absurd claim. Trump’s incompetence in managing the coronavirus makes vote by mail even more important since it will reduce contact with hordes of people. It is obvious that what Trump is concerned about is not really vote by mail, but any voting. Period. Pelosi should make clear to Trump that unless he stops attacking the mail service; restores overtime pay to postal employees who will be processing a good deal more mail in an election year; ceases taking any cost-cutting that would lead to a less reliable delivery; agrees to support our mail service with additional funds; and gives support to making Election Day a national holiday, she will give thought to pursuing a second impeach ment of Tr ump. His actions amount to an illegal interference with voting, based solely upon partisan politics. Trump should have much fear about an impeachment because at this time, there may by a number of Republican senators who are fed up with him. When Trump tweets that a loss of the election will “lead to the end of our great Republican party,” he fails to understand it is he, and he alone, that leads to the end of a weakened party that his incompetence created. Benjamin M. Haber Flushing

After 11 years of business, Woodhaven’s Avenue Diner closed on Aug. 2 due to COVID-related PHOTO BY MAX PARROTT financial strain. Owner Paul Vasiliadis did not see a viable path forward. at this point he just cannot go into any more debt. He does not know what is next for him, but he said that what he will take from his experience are the relationships he’s made with his staff and community members. “I’m leaving not only with a tremendous amount of new friends, but people who I consider family,” Vasiliadis said. A devoted group of patrons, staff and community members came to the diner on

Rent relief continued from page 2 package could expand the Payroll Protection Program, which provides forgivable loans to small businesses as an incentive to keep employees on the payroll. City Councilmember Peter Koo (D-Flushing) pointed out that the need for the legislation is dire, especially in Flushing where monthly rent can average $100,000 in some spaces. One supermarket on Main Street, he said, owes $150,000 per month. “Imagine the rent if you’re closed for four months? You owe over half a million dollars already,” Koo said.

Illegal clams continued from page 4 aware of the situation, Riepe said. He and Derenzo periodically call them when they catch a large number of people out there. He said that the police have told him better signage is needed. Although the DEC has hung signs that warn against illegal shellfish gathering in multiple languages, one of them has been covered in graffiti, and the rest have not deterred the activity. Last Wednesday, Derenzo spotted 15 people hunting for clams at 10 a.m. She has even made her own signs to carry around, so that

its last day and gave speeches sharing their appreciation and some of their favorite memories of the restaurant. Vasiliadis wiped away tears as he told the crowd how much he would miss them. “Thank you and keep supporting local small businesses. The avenue has to stay alive and thriving and everyone has to do their part,” he said. Finally, Vasiliadis will be able to take a Q well-earned break. Koo referenced a New York Times story that was released just a few hours prior to the event: “One-Third of New York’s Small Businesses May Be Gone Forever.” The article, using research conducted by the Partnership for New York City, found that 80,000 momand-pop stores may never reopen. “We haven’t done enough to support our small business communities and it’s all interlinked,” said Assemblymember Ron Kim (D-Flushing). “There is no future if all these stores shut down and are replaced by chain stores. If we don’t step in now, that is the future of this district, the future of this neighborhood, and that is not good enough for Flushing, for New York and for this Q country.”

she can educate the clamdiggers about the dangers of what they’re doing. “I always want to send the message of education, and I want them to be safe. I don’t want anybody getting sick,” she said. A teacher at heart, she hopes that she might be able to help fight the problem by holding a presentation about the shellfish population and pollution in the bay. She added though that some of the people that she catches seem to know full well that they’re acting illegally. In some cases she’s seen people she warned about the shellfish in the North Channel parking lot move immediately over to the other side of the bridge to keep on clamming Q at Charles Park beach.

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Manhattan pricier than Queens, shock study says LIC, Astoria and Forest Hills make top 50 in a most expensive ZIP code list by Peter C. Mastrosimone

deals. The value increased 12 percent from the first half of 2019. The only other Queens ZIP code in the top A new survey reinforces what has been 50 was 11101, the bulk of Long Island City, known since Dutch settlers paid the native which came in 48th place with a median sale Lenape people for control of the island then price of $960,000 based on 171 sales, marking called Mannahatta — real estate on that sliver a 4 percent drop year to year. of land between the East and Hudson rivers is The study noted that the second-priciest respricier than it is on the far broader island to idential sale in Queens was $3.2 million for a the east. two-family home at 31-17 28 Ave. in the 11102 But some spots in Queens do make their ZIP code in Astoria. The area came in 92nd mark in the study, which ranks the 100 priciest place on the list. ZIP codes in New York City based on data The median sale price in Queens overall for from the first half of the year. the first half of 2020 was $710,000. “We were curious about how home sales The most expensive ZIP code in the city was evolved in New York City and which zip 10014, the West Village in Manhattan, where codes maintained, gained, or lost their ‘most the median sale price was $4,241,500, an expensive status’ compared to 2019,” the increase of 82 percent over last year, based on authors of the study, a real estate marketing 54 deals. firm called Markethink, said in its introducMarkethink partnered with Amast, an tion. “So, we ran the numbers and put together A condo at 46-30 Center Blvd. in Long Island City, right, sold for $3.4 million sometime during a list of the 100 most expensive zip codes in the first half of this year, in the most expensive residential real estate deal closed in Queens online construction marketplace, to do the study using city records for sales of conthe city for the first half of 2020. GOOGLE MAPS IMAGE through the end of June. dos, co - ops, a nd one - a nd t wo -fa m ily “As it enters the fourth phase of economic homes. It can be fou nd at amast.com / reopening, New York City still boasts some of that includes Center Boulevard from just from the first half of 2019. “With a median home sale price of $1.7 mil- these-are-the-100-most-expensive-nyc-zipthe most expensive home prices and most below 46th Avenue to 49th Avenue, where expensive zip codes in the country. Even with gleaming residential towers rise alongside lion, Queens’ 11109 zip code landed the 12th codes-of-h1-2020. Despite the economic devastation wrought everything that’s going on at the moment, landmarks such as the Pepsi-Cola sign and spot on our list, and it was also the most expenNYC is holding its ground when it comes to Gantry Plaza State Park. The neighborhood sive zip code in the borough,” the study said. by the coronavirus pandemic, the shutdowns of came in 12th in the rankings, with a median “The $3.4 million sale of [unit] PH5 at 46-30 entire facets of life launched in response to it, its real estate market.” The priciest ZIP code in Queens turned sale price of $1,748,248. That was based on Center Boulevard — which was also the #1 and increasing interest from city dwellers in out to be 11109, a section of Long Island City only three sales and marked a 17 percent drop most expensive sale in the borough — suburban real estate, the marketing firm voiced increased the median home sale price of the zip some optimism for the city’s future. “The number of residential sales have indeed code. Other sales closed here during H1 2020 dropped year-overfetched around $1.7 year, however, the million.” median sale price in The second-pricemand for housing is still the city is holding iest ZIP code in steady at $763,688. Queens was 11105, high in the Big Apple.” This indicates that the far northwestern — Markethink real estate study even with a slowsection of Astoria, d ow n i n s a l e s , running from 24th Avenue, the Grand Central Parkway and 49th demand for housing is still high in the Big and Hazen streets to the water. Encompassing Apple, and 9,305 residential deals closed during e Ditmars and Steinway, the area came in 38th the first 6 months of the year. We Com “Residential sales will slowly pick up their place, with a median sale price of $999,990. ! U O Y To The figure was derived from 39 sales and pace now that the city has finally entered the marked only a 1 percent drop from the same 4th phase of reopening. A more relaxed state after a tumultuous period will most probably time last year. Coming in third place for Queens was spark interest in ‘real estate shopping,’ and 11375, Forest Hills, which ranked 41st with a transactional activity might return to a pre Next Day Installation Available! Q median sale price of $990,000 based on 68 pandemic state.” Shop In-Store or We’ll Come To You! Editor-in-Chief

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Extended jobless benefits run out; House, Senate still $2 trillion apart by Michael Gannon Editor

Gov. Cuomo was nothing if not direct Monday when discussing the impasse in Congress over a new COVID-19 relief bill in an interview on MSNBC. “You know, every past CARES Act bill was imperfect, grossly imperfect. They always said, well, don’t worry, there’s another one, there’s another one,” he said. “This is the last one. And if they don’t make this bill right, frankly, if they don’t get it right, they shouldn’t pass it, because it will be the last bill.” Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, the $600 bonus that 1.1 million New Yorkers received on top of regular unemployment benefits, expired last week, and the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives still are about $2 billion apart. The $3 trillion Democratic House proposal, passed in late May, includes aid to states and municipalities and $3.9 billion for t he Met ropolit a n Tr a n spor t at ion Authority, but which Senate Republican leaders say also is a Democratic wish list of non-COVID-19-related items. The Senate GOP last week introduced a $1 trillion measure which Democrats say will slash aid to people who have lost their jobs and cause massive financial hardship

in cities and states. t hei r ow n Democr at ic colU.S. Sens. Chuck Schumer leagues brushed off as absurd.” (D-NY) and Kirsten Gillibrand Mayor de Blasio last week (D-NY) have spent the last severcredited the state with expandal days jousting with Majority ing unemployment eligibility for Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). up to 20 weeks. “Republicans keep stonewall“[T]hey’re doing something ing support for state, local and that will reach a lot of people,” tribal governments,” Schumer de Blasio said in a press brieftweeted Wednesday afternoon. ing. “That’s crucial for a lot of “In the early days of this crisis, families. So, anyone who qualit h e Tr u m p a d m i n i s t r a t ion fies for this, please take advanGov. Cuomo couldn’t be bothered to supply FILE PHOTO tage of this right away.” them with the necessary resourcInformation is available at es. Now. Sen. McConnell says our states labor.ny.gov. should just go bankrupt. Unacceptable.” In another economic matter, The Legal “It’s outrageous,” Gillibrand tweeted Fri- Aid Society asked Cuomo to extend the day. “The economy can’t recover if local gov- moratorium on residential evictions, which ernments fall by the wayside.” it said was set to expire Wednesday night. McConnell, in a statement on his official “Thousands of families could face likely website on Wednesday, said he’s seen this eviction and homelessness if this crucial movie before. moratorium is left to expire,” said Judith “The Speaker of the House and the Dem- Goldiner, attorney-in-charge of the Civil ocratic Leader summon President Trump’s Law Reform Unit at The Legal Aid Society representatives to the Capitol,” McConnell in a statement issued Tuesday. said. “They meet for a long while. The “New York’s neighboring states have Democrats emerge saying they’ve permit- protections in place to secure tenants in ted a few millimeters of progress, but a deal their homes during the pandemic. We call is still far off, leaving millions of Ameri- on Gover nor A nd rew Cuomo to take cans in the lurch. And they continue to push immediate action by extending the eviction their three-trillion-dollar wish-list that even freeze indefinitely.”

She said while the Tenant Safe Harbor Act protects New Yorkers who can prove a COVID-19-related financial hardship, more than 200,000 New York City households are not covered by the bill, including the 14,000 families across the city who have current warrants of eviction pending against them. Cuomo Press Secretary Caitlin Girouard said the governor is fully aware of the situation. “Anyone paying attention would know that Governor Cuomo signed into law a moratorium on residential evictions for anyone who has suffered a financial hardship, due to the pandemic, for the duration of the crisis,” she wrote in an email to the Chronicle. She added that Cuomo has made it a priority to provide assistance to struggling New Yorkers — including signing into law the Tenant Safe Harbor Act and $100 million in rental assistance to New Yorkers suffering financial hardship due to COVID-19, allowing renters to use their security deposit to make rent payments, banning late fees for missing rent payments, and extending the state’s moratorium on commercial evictions until Aug. 20. for anyone who is suffering financial hardship due to COVID-19. Girouard’s email did not address a question on the current financial status of the state’s Q unemployment funds.

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Census will stop its outreach Sept. 30 Move comes a month earlier than slated; critics blast President Trump by David Russell Associate Editor

The Census Bureau will stop outreach efforts to count the country’s population at the end of September — not the end of October as has been planned. In-person counting will wrap up Sept. 30. The original date of July 31 had been pushed back to Oct. 31 because of the coronavirus crisis. Nearly 63 percent of all households in the country have responded to the Census, according to Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham. Lawmakers and community activists in Queens were worried about an undercount in the 2020 Census even before the country was hit by the pandemic. In 2010, New York State lost two congressional seats in reapportionment after the count, and only 62 percent of city residents self-responded, compared to the national rate of 76 percent. As of Monday, Queens had just under 55 percent of residents self-responding, according to Census statistics. The Census Bureau previously asked Congress to extend the deadline for turning in data from Dec. 31 to April 30, 2021. The request passed the House but not the Senate. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing) criticized President Trump, who had released a memo-

The Census Bureau will stop its outreach efforts on Sept. 30. Rep. Grace Meng, concerned about Queens being undercounted, criticized President Trump, who has called for the exclusion FILE PHOTOS of undocumented immigrants in the count. randum July 21 calling for the exclusion of undocumented immigrants when drawing up new congressional districts based on the count. In late June, the Supreme Court had blocked a Trump executive order mandating a citizenship question on the Census. “The White House is engaged in a strategy

to erase the voices of immigrants, communities of color and undocumented immigrants,” she said. “By excluding those communities, it enhances its narrow view of who belongs — and who does not — in America.” Theo Oshiro, deputy director at Make the Road New York, also denounced the decision

to end outreach earlier, calling it a tactic by the Trump administration to undermine the accuracy of the count. “Having an accurate count means communities across New York and the country get the full amount of resources and representation we deserve,” he said. “Trump wants the opposite — he wants to erase us and further devastate communities that have been hardest-hit by COVID-19.” The Census also will determine how certain federal money is disseminated every year, funding programs such as the National Lunch Program, Highway Planning and Construction, and Medicaid, among others. The 2020 Census count marks the first time people can fill it out online or over the phone. The Census has had a toll-free number for years but had never collected data over the phone. But there are also fears from many Queens residents that information given out could makes its way into the offices of Immigration and Customs Enforcement or Homeland Security. With time running out faster than expected, the concerns for an undercount are back. “If we go down this path, we’re running toward a cliff that if we fall off of will have damaging consequences for a decade or more,” Q Meng said.

Judge denies Trump immigration policy Rule discouraging immigrants from utilizing public benefits suspended by Katherine Donlevy

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On July 29, a Manhattan federal court temporarily blocked one of the many Trump administration rulings aimed at making it more diff icult to be an immigrant in America. A change to the nationwide “public charge” rule would make it harder for immigrants to obtain citizenship if they utilized public benefits, such as food stamps, housing vouchers and Medicare. The Trump administration’s change was approved by the Supreme Court 5-4 in late January, but U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge George Daniels decided Wednesday that tightening the public charge rule was unconscionable in the time of the pandemic. “Much has significantly changed since January 27. Today, the world is in the throes of a devastating pandemic, triggered by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2,” Daniels wrote in his decision. “Thousands continue to die indiscriminately. Attempting to effectively combat this plague has immediately come in conflict with the federal government’s new ‘public charge’ policy, a policy which is intended to discourage immigrants from utilizing government benefits and penalizes them for receipt of financial and medical assistance.”

The court-issued injunction temporarily prevents the Department of Homeland Security from enforcing, applying or implementing the change to the public charge rule during the declared national health emergency. “This victory will immediately halt the Trump Administration’s discriminatory rule from continuing to hurt every person across the nation,” said Attorney General Letitia James said in a prepared statement. “For nearly five months, the Public Charge Rule has further exacerbated the public health crisis the country faces by punishing New York and other immigrant-rich states — stripping families of their ability to access basic services. Immigrants have been on the front lines fighting this pandemic from the start, and today’s injunction will ensure they are not targeted for obtaining health coverage or other vital services, as they continue to battle COVID-19. This order is vital to our national health, as every person who doesn’t get the health coverage they need today risks infecting another person with the coronavirus tomorrow.” James, as part of a coalition that includes the states of Vermont and Connecticut, filed a lawsuit against the administration after it issued the rule in August last year. After months of fighting, and even after the Supreme Court backed the ruling, James

Attorney General Letitia James, left, has been fighting a Trump administration rule that would make it harder for immigrants who use public benefits like food stamps and housing vouchers to become U.S. citizens. A federal judge sided with her July 29, suspending the policy during the NYC PHOTO / FLICKR, LEFT; U.S. PHOTO / FLICKR / JOYCE BOGHOSIAN pandemic. was given permission to take the request back to the district court, where the rule change was temporarily suspended for the duration of the COVID-19 outbreak. “This injunction on the public charge rule change is a victory for justice and the ideals America purportedly aspires to. The Trump

administration’s public charge rule is a xenophobic attempt at creating a wealth test for citizenship intended only to frighten immigrants into jettisoning life-sustaining programs,” City Councilmember Francisco Moya (D-Corona) told the Chronicle. “It was continued on page 18

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Parents question COVID protocols; Gov. Cuomo doubts overall plan by Max Parrott Associate Editor

A familiar power dynamic between New York State and the Big Apple played out this week as Gov. Cuomo criticized Mayor de Blasio’s plan for reopening schools for not being substantial enough. De Blasio announced early last month that schools will open with a hybrid model, staggering attendance for students, while giving parents the option to continue solely with remote learning. Then last Thursday, the city outlined its protocols for closing schools in response to COVID infections. In an Aug. 2 press appearance, Cuomo said that the city’s proposal was not detailed enough, and claimed it wasn’t submitted in time for its deadline last Friday. Cuomo aide and SUNY Empire State College President Jim Malatras told reporters on Sunday that the city’s 32-page proposal is more “an outline” than a real plan, according to multiple media reports. Several Queens parents have echoed the governor’s dissatisfaction with the details of the school reopening plans thus far, particularly the recent infection protocols. De Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza explained last Friday that they plan on taking a “pod-based” approach to thinking about virus transmission.

Classrooms with an infected student or teacher will close for 14 days. Entire schools will only shutter if an investigation by the city’s Test and Trace program, which worked closely with the mayor on the plan, uncovers the potential for transmission between multiple classrooms. If an investigation shows that at least two people from a school building, neither of whom have had contact with each other, test positive, the school will most likely close. School buildings will close for at least 24 hours during an investigation. However, if an investigation finds a clear link between two cases by outside circumstances, and determines no evidence of widespread transmission in the school, the affected classrooms will remain closed but the rest of the school would be allowed to reopen. Irene Raevsky, a member of Queens Parents United, told the Chronicle that she wondered how the reopening plan wouldn’t result in a lot of closed schools very quickly. Raevsky said that her daughter’s school, PS 196 in Forest Hills, has almost a thousand students. With the threshold the mayor set, she doesn’t think the school will be able to stay open very long. “That means that we’re basically not going to have school,” Raevsky said. She

said that she found the protocol too rigid, but conceded that she is more comfortable with the risks of in-person school than most parents. “Some people may disagree with this. I don’t know. It’s a tough one,” Raevsky said. In the event of a school closure, students will transition immediately to online learning. On top of those scenarios, Hizzoner said that no school will reopen unless the city infection rate remains below 3 percent, a higher standard than the 5 percent baseline set by Gov. Cuomo. The city has been under 3 percent since June 10. The proposal also calls for all Department of Education staff members to take a COVID-19 test sometime before the first day of school, which has yet to be announced, but is usually the first Thursday after Labor Day, which would be Sept. 10. For students, there is no requirement for testing. Although de Blasio said that he has been working closely with teachers unions on the plan, it received immediate pushback from the Movement of Rank and File Educators caucus of the United Federation of Teachers, as well as City Council Education Committee Chair Mark Treyger (D-Brooklyn). “This is not a plan. This is an unfunded proposal that is incomplete. There is no

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More library branches offering to-go service by David Russell Associate Editor

The Queens Public Library announced last Monday that eight more branches will open for to-go service on Monday, Aug. 10. The branches reopening are the: • Astoria Library at 14-01 Astoria Blvd.; • Cambria Heights Library at 218-13 Linden Blvd.; • Jackson Heights Library at 35-51 81 St.; • Queensboro Hill Library at 60-05 Main St. in Flushing; • Rego Park Library at 91-41 63 Dr.; • Ridgewood Library at 20-12 Madison St.; • South Ozone Park Library at 128-16 Rockaway Blvd.; and • Whitestone Library at 151-10 14 Road. The hours for to-go service will be 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, with a one-hour closure from 1 to 2 p.m. for cleaning; 1 to 5 p.m. on Tuesdays; and 12 to 7 p.m. on Thursdays with a one-hour closure from 3 to 4 p.m. for cleaning. All returned materials will be set aside or “quarantined” for 96 hours before they

are put back into circulation. All staff and visitors will be required to wear masks and practice social distancing. Hand sanitizer will be available at the open branches. There will be no on-site public programs, browsing, meeting room availability, seating, public computers or in-person reference service. To-go service allows customers to request materials in advance through the QPL app or website or by calling (718) 990-0728 and picking them up at the designated library. Seven branches started to-go service in mid-July: • Bayside Library at 214-20 Northern Blvd.; • Bellerose Library at 250-06 Hillside Ave.; • East Elmhurst Library at 95-06 Astoria Blvd.; • Kew Gardens Hills Library at 72-33 Vleigh Place; • Laurelton Library at 134-26 225 St.; • Long Island City Library at 37-44 21 St.; and • Peninsula Library at 92-25 Rockaway Q Beach Blvd.

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Man killed in car by tree in Briarwood by David Russell Associate Editor

A 60-year-old man was killed Tuesday after noon when a fallen tree struck the vehicle he was sitting in, police said. Mario Siles was sitting in a 2014 Dodge van at 143-28 84 D r ive i n Br i a r wo o d a t approximately 1 p.m. when a large tree fell onto the roof of the vehicle, causing it to be crushed downward, pinning Siles inside. Siles was a contractor renovating an apartment and was working with his son, who Mario Siles was killed in Briarwood Tuesday by a tree had gone back into the apart- during Tropical Storm Isaias. PHOTO COURTESY RHS NEWS ment with some materials as Silas waited in the van, the Daily News The tree that killed him was a 40-foot reported. oak about 3 feet in diameter that also Siles lived in Harlem and owned his smashed into several other vehicles, shatown contracting business. A dozen people tering glass, caving in trunks and pulling gathered at his apartment Tuesday night. down power lines, the Daily News report“He was very special,” his wife, Maria ed. The winds also sent a branch from Reynoso, told the Daily News. “He was another tree through an NYPD car Q my one and only. No one can replace him.” responding to the fatality.

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Homeless camp stresses corner of Elmhurst Drinking, fighting, declining help — city was to clear men out this week

Signers of a petition are trying to get the city to dismantle a homeless encampment, right, on Whitney Avenue in Elmhurst, but officials have yet to do so, despite posting a notice saying they would. Residents and merchants are concerned about their quality of life being diminished. PHOTOS BY MICHAEL SHAIN

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food and money. No one in the neighborhood seems to know who the group is. Shopping carts and broken chairs serve as At around 11 a.m. on Monday, an outreach team from the city’s Department of Homeless furniture for the encampment. Flattened cardServices pulled up on Whitney Avenue in board boxes are makeshift mattresses for those Elmhurst where a group of homeless men had napping under the canopy. The area at Whitney Avenue and Broadway set up camp. Workers from the Sanitation Department, has been a gathering place for the homeless for responding to weeks of neighborhood com- at least a year or two, said Pablo Restrepo, the plaints, were slated to come the next day and pharmacist at Hallmark Pharmacy. But the remove the makeshift village that had been numbers have been mushrooming since the built in recent months on the sidewalk between coronavirus hit the city last March. “It’s uncomfortable,” a shopping mall parking he said. “They drink and lot and the Long Island fall on the ground. They Rail Road tracks. The are urinating and defecatt wo -per son out reach e’ve offered them ing in the street. team was there to tell services but they “They keep mostly to them what was coming. themselves. But when “We always do this so refused.” they get in their moods, they can take whatever they can get violent and personal belongings they — A city outreach worker belligerent.” wanted before Sanitation “W hen it st a r ted , comes,” said one of the there were maybe five or six of them,” said team’s members. “Give them a heads up.” Sanitation never came Tuesday, as Tropical Alex Boutch, who owns Alex’s Barber Shop. “Now there are 40 or 50 and more are coming Storm Isaias slammed the city. The encampment is built around a back- every day.” The residents of Elmhurst Gardens, a co-op yard-type canopy that shades about 20 men, give or take, from the sun. The nylon shelter apartment complex at Whitney Avenue and was donated by some charity workers who Macnish Street, have spread out in the neighcome by the site every few days and hand out borhood with petitions, asking stores to help Chronicle Contributor

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Anti-immigrant policy blocked continued from page 14 a cruel policy when the White House first proposed it but to stand by the public charge now while a pandemic ravages the country in general and immigrant communities specifically is just unconscionable ... As the proud son of immigrants, a representative of a largely immigrant community and as someone who remembers we’re a nation of immigrants, I applaud Attorney General James for her work to prevent this rule from taking effect.” Moya, who sits on the City Council’s Committee on Immigration, noted that the public charge rule change is another failed attempt

by Trump to keep immigrants from the U.S. — also on July 19, an injunction was issued against a second public charge rule through the State Department as well as the President’s Healthcare Proclamation, which would require visa applicants to show proof of private health insurance within 30 days of arriving in the country or prove they have the means to pay for any foreseeable medical costs that may arise during their time in the U.S. The rule ultimately sought to deny green cards and visas to immigrants likely to utilize government assistance programs in the future, according to James.

gather signatures calling for city officials to remove the camp. “Quality of life as well as general sense of wellness in the community is compromised,” the petition reads. The barber traces the trouble back to last year, when nearby Clement Clarke Moore Homestead Park on Broadway was closed for renovations. “They are moved down to this corner and it’s been getting worse ever since,” he said. “When they start to fight, I call the cops,” said Boutch. “They tell the men to move but, two hours later, they are back.” The outreach workers said this was not their first time at the encampment. “We’ve offered them services but they refused,” said the social worker. Accepting help means going to a homeless shelter and being assigned a case worker, she explained. “They don’t want that,” she said. Legally, there is no way for the city to force the men to accept the assistance. “I lost my job because of the COVID,” said one of the men in the encampment, who did not want to give his name. “So I had to move The day before the rulings, the administration announced plans to roll back the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program by rejecting new and pending applications effective immediately. The July 28 memo by Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf noted that the program could be rescinded entirely, despite the Supreme Court’s June 18 ruling that a prior a t t e m p t t o d i s m a n t l e DAC A i s unconstitutional. Wolf said that in addition to throwing out new applications, the department would “reject all initial requests for DACA and associated applications for Employment Authorization Documents,” and “limit the period of renewed deferred action granted pursuant to

here.” The man said he’d been a day laborer, shaping up for work early in the morning at various street corners in Jackson Heights and Corona. Most of the others, he said, were occasional kitchen workers or day laborers like him. “The cops don’t arrest anybody, so it’s not so bad,” he said. The unemployment and dislocation caused by the COVID-19 crisis have been blamed for a spike in homelessness in the city and a sharp rise in the number of encampments. Most of the makeshift villages have been in Manhattan and have presented Mayor de Blasio with embarrassing comparisons to the hobo camps of the Great Depression of the 1930s. In early May, he told 1010 WINS, the allnews radio station, “For decades, encampments were tolerated in New York City. People would see them in different places and, somehow, they were allowed to exist. “I found it absolutely unacceptable, and I said to the NYPD, to Social Services, to the Sanitation Department ... if we see any encampment developed anywhere in New Q York City, we’re taking it down, period.” the DACA policy after the issuance of this memorandum to one year.” Wolf listed four concerns as the reason for the policy change, one of which was that the program encourages immigrants to take a “perilous journey” to America, “needlessly endangering” the lives of their children. “Although this rule change is part of the anti-immigrant playbook that’s been the earmark of Trump’s tenure, we can’t be fooled into forgetting that it’s also patently un-American and an affront to the notions our country has long prided itself on,” Moya said. “We’re supposed to be the land of opportunity. Lady Liberty, the Mother of Exiles, stands at our shore to guide and welcome anyone yearning Q for freedom.”

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retirement credits) mean. These terms describe your benefit amount — based on when you decide to take it. If you take your retirement benefit at FRA, you’ll receive the full PIA (amount payable for a retired worker who starts benefits at full retirement age). So, FRA is an age and PIA is an amount. Once you receive benefits, you get a COLA most years. A COLA is a Cost-ofLiving Adjustment, and that will usually mean a little extra money i n you r monthly benefit. What about DRCs? Delayed retirement credits are the incremental increases added to the PI A if you delay taking retirement benef its beyond your full retirement age. If you wait to begin benefits beyond FRA — say, at age 68 or even 70 — your benefit increases. If one of those terms or acronyms comes up in conversation, you can be the one to supply the definition using our online glossary. Sometimes learning the terminology can deepen your understanding of how Social Q Security works for you.

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Seniors’ senses of smell and taste change with age Aging comes with several sensory changes, many of which bination of the reduction of these important sensory nerves in people expect. Loss of hearing or diminishing vision are widely the nose and on the tongue, loss of smell and taste can greatly associated with aging. But one’s senses of smell and taste may affect daily life. diminish with aging as well. Changes in these senses can contribute to feelings of depresThe senses of taste and smell work in concert. The sense of sion, diminish one’s enjoyment of food and cause harmful condismell is vital to personal health, not only because inhaling pleas- tions, such as extreme weight loss from disinterest in food to ant aromas can provide comfort and stress relief through aro- problems associated with overusing salt or sugar. matherapy and help trigger important memories, but also Although aging is often to blame, loss of smell and taste also because smell enables a person to may be tied to early symptoms of Pardetect the dangers of smoke, gas, kinson’s disease or Alzheimer’s disease. spoiled food and more. The National Cancer treatments, medications, lack of iminishing vision and Institute on Aging says that, as a persaliva, colds, flu and other factors may son gets older, his or her sense of smell loss of hearing are widely contribute to sensory loss. Changing may fade, and that will also affect medications or treatments may help. associated with aging taste. The Mayo Clinic says some loss It’s important to bring up diminished of taste and smell is natural and can but one’s senses of smell flavors or smells with a doctor to rule begin as early as age 60. out something more serious and to and taste may diminish Adults have about 9,000 taste buds determine what might help restore sensing sweet, salty, sour, bitter and pleasure from smells and flavors. An with aging as well. umami flavors, or those corresponding otolaryngologist, or a doctor who speto the savory flavor of glutamates. cializes in diseases of the ears, nose Many tastes are linked to odors that begin at the nerve endings and throat, may be able to help fix the problem, though some in the lining of the nose. Medline, a medical information people may be referred to a neurologist or another specialist. resource guide, says the number of taste buds decreases as Continuing to use one’s senses of smell and taste by cooking, one ages, and that remaining taste buds may begin to shrink. gardening, trying new flavors and experimenting with different Sensitivity to the five tastes also begins to decline. This can aromas may help slow down the decline of these senses. make it more difficult to distinguish between flavors. Although age-related loss of taste and smell cannot be reversed, The National Institute on Aging says that as a person gets older P Similarly, especially after age 70, smell can diminish due to a some such cases may be treatable. his or her senses of smell and taste may fade especially after — Metro Creative Connection age 70 and contribute to feelings of depression. loss of nerve endings and less mucus in the nose. With the com-

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BLM sign adorns Jamaica Avenue by Michael Gannon Editor

Hundreds of volunteers turned up on Jamaica Avenue last Thursday morning to paint the city’s newest Black Lives Matter mural. The new work was put in place between 150th and 153rd streets with the Rufus King Manor Museum to the north. The section of road was co-named Back Lives Matter Avenue. Crews from the city’s Department of Transportation were out hours before the noon start measuring out the individual letters and outlining them with tape and narrow lines of yellow paint. Come noon they handed out paint rollers to individuals, civic groups and elected officials to get the sign rolling. Councilman Daneek Miller (D-St. Albans) put down some paint before stepping back to the sidewalk on the hot, humid day. “I’m just going to be a spectator now,” Miller said. The murals now have been painted in each borough. Miller said the signs, and the decisions of people to participate, have brought the young and old of the community together and are a reminder that there has been racial progress, and that more is needed. Councilwoman Adrienne Adams (D-Jamaica) believes moving forward with the sign in Jamaica is especially important for younger people. “It’s important that they know that black lives really do matter, that it’s not just a cliche,” she said.

Members of the Queens Chapter of the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority prepare to put down some paint PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON for the new Black Lives Matter sign on Jamaica Avenue. Mayor de Blasio also dropped by. Other public officials participating included state Sen. Leroy Comrie (D-St. Albans), Assemblyman Clyde Vanel (D-Queens Village) and Councilman Rory Lancman (D-Fresh Meadows). About 20 members of the Queens Chapter of the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority were on hand. “We’re a service organization,” chapter Vice President Wilhelmine James said. “This is part of our service.” Darrell Craig of the iRock charity said his

organization works for the benefit of youth and seniors, and has been spending much of the last few months trying to help needy residents obtain food. He believes the location of the sign was well thought-out. “There’s important symbolism,” he said. “This is right in front of the home of one of our Founding Fathers [Rufus King] who worked on our Constitution. He was an abolitionist.” Then, directly across the street, is the Queens

Family Court complex. “Family Court has been destroying black families for generations, whether people want to say it or not.” Miller used the weeklong closure of the road to set up a series of events to celebrate the mural and the community. The remaining events, weather permitting, include a Community Day celebration scheduled for 6 p.m. on Thursday hosted by Dr. Bob Lee of WBLS Radio; and Millennial Day set for 6 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 7, featuring live performances by young artists as well as a youth rally. Information on filling out the U.S. Census also will be available both days. Events earlier in the week included days for gospel music, a youth and family day, health screenings and a block party for peace. De Blasio took some heat from the Twittersphere from critics who feel he has better things to focus on than painting a mural. James Johnson, a community activist who seeks to engage the millennial population on the community and civic discourse, told the Chronicle that he thinks the mayor needs to meet with more young people. He also said things like community centers should be a higher priority, and he doesn’t count the planned refurbishment at Roy Wilkins Park. “You brought us some yellow paint; great,” Johnson said. “Southeast Queens is a community center desert. Roy Wilkins is one center. A teen shouldn’t have to get on a bus to go to a Q community center.”

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And as opposed to the $150 to $200 or more that a charter helicop helicopter pter company would charge now, fairgoers paid only 10 cents. by Mi b Michael h lG Gannon Most M t ttraces off th the W World’s ld’ FFair i were unceremoniously i l torn t down d and removed from Flushing Meadows. The helicopter “track” around the “Now look below you — the city of opportunity and greatness. Panorama has been replaced by ramps and railings with decorative glass. New York — more than 800,000 buildings, millions of stories, bold and And while the museum remains temporarily closed because of eloquent poems in concrete, glass and steel ... Look at this map, and you the COVID-19 outbreak, with a link on its website, queensmuseum.org, locate the human race ... By tomorrow, it will have changed ...” Thomas’ original recording can bring someone who went on the ride Lowell Thomas’ voice had been a familiar presence on radio for more 50 years ago back, or mesmerize those who wish that they had. than three decades when he first described the Panorama of New York Thomas points out some of the more than 3,100 colored lights, blue City that was a new and startling feature of the 1964-65 World’s Fair, or yellow ones for the 850 elementary, junior high and high schools for situated in what now is the Queens Museum in Flushing Meadows 1.1 million children; others for stations housing “the largest fire departCorona Park. Thomas (1892-1991) served as the narrator and tour guide ment in the world,” and NYPD precincts from which 12,000 dedicated for fair patrons taking a nine-minute ride around the Panorama on what police officers keep the city safe; and others for the 11 colleges and 200 looked like a small train track, but offered the view and feeling of a libraries. sightseeing helicopter some 20,000 feet over the five boroughs. continued on page 25

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Catching up on movies? Get out and drive in! by David Russell associate editor

Theaters are closed but film fans can watch some movies outside of their own homes again. It’s a blast from the past as people can go to a drive-in theater at the New York Hall of Science from Aug. 12 to Oct. 25. Rooftop Films partnered with the Hall of Science and Museum of the Moving Image to make watching movies in public a reality. The community aspect of seeing a movie has been missing since theaters closed, said Elizabeth Slagus, director of public programs for the Hall of Science. “Both the ability to go out and see movies and to see them with other people that we don’t know,” she said. “Tesla,” showing Aug. 13, sees Ethan Hawke playing inventor Nikola Tesla as he works on his electrical system. “The Last Out,” screening Aug. 14, cov-

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ers three young Cuban baseball players who leave their families and risk exile to train in Central America to chase their dreams of playing in the major leagues. The 2015 action film “Mad Max: Fury Road” was a hit with audiences and critics. Starring Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy, the movie, showing Aug. 15, sees a war captain fleeing the forces of a warlord in a post-apocalyptic desert wasteland. A children’s classic, “The Muppet Movie,” will be screened Aug. 16. The 1979 comedy sees Kermit the Frog make his way from a Florida swamp to Hollywood. Rodrigo Ruiz Pat teron’s “Summer White,” showing Aug. 20, focuses on a 13-year-old whose world revolves around his mother and how things begin to change when she brings home a new boyfriend. Documentary film fans can see “Mayor,” on Aug. 21, about Musa Hadid, the Christian mayor of Ramallah whose goal is to end the occupation of the Palestinian territories. A staple for sci-fi film buffs, Stanely Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” will be screened on Aug. 30. Each movie begins at 8:30 p.m. with access opening an hour earlier. Bicycles, motorcycles, scooters, convertibles without roofs, cars with trailer attachments, passenger vans with seven or more

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Film lovers can drive to the New York Hall of Science for outdoor screenings over the ROOFTOP FILMS next two months for some dramas, comedies and documentaries. seats, buses, RVs and long wheelbase vans are all prohibited. Taller vehicles will be parked towards the rear of the venue so as not to block the views of smaller cars. A portion of the ticket sales will be donated to Elmcor, a nonprofit organization that provides support for communities in the borough hit hardest by the pandemic. Tickets are $35 per car with up to five passengers. Two passengers per car is recommended as visibility may not be ideal in the back seats of smaller cars. Viewers are

advised to only leave their cars if they need to use the bathroom. Attendees and staff are required to wear a mask during the check-in process and whenever they are not in the vehicle. Tickets are only available online by going to rooftopfilms.com/drivein/queens. “Theaters allow people to come together to see things,” Slagus said. “You can hear other people’s laughter. I think that sense of community is a big sense of what people Q are missing.”

Take a ride back to the 1964-65 World’s Fair

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2020 dollars. It was created by architectural model ma ker s R aymond Lester and Associates, the group that updated the work in 1967, ’68 and ‘69, and in ’74. In 1992 the firm was commissioned to update the model on a full scale using maps, aerial photographs and on-site visits. More than 60,000 new buildings had been put in place by the time the Queens Museum reopened in 1994 after a two-year renovation. In 2017, the Panorama was adorned temporarily by projects proposed by worldfamous architects that never came to pass in an exhibit titled “Never Built New York.” To date the The Twin Towers have yet to be removed. Both the 1964-65 and 1939-40 Queens World’s Fairs will be the subject of a Zoom presentation from 7 to 8:15 p.m. on Aug. 10 sponsored by the Harrison, NY, Public Library. “The World’s Fairs and the Queens Museum” will feature Amy Raffel, the

People can discover or rediscover an authentic taste of the 1964-65 World’s Fair with a recording of Lowell Thomas, left, narrating a “helicopter ride” over the Panorama in the Queens Museum. On the cover: It will never be the Ed Koch Bridge. JAM HANDY ORGANIZATION PHOTO / WIKIPEDIA, LEFT; QUEENS MUSEUM PHOTOS, ABOVE, AND COVER

Queens Museum’s Andrew W. Mellon Interpretation Research Fellow, offering viewers and participants an in-depth look at the history of the museum building, which originally was built to house the New York City

Exhibit at the 19390-40 fair. Those wishing to view the presentation can register to receive the Zoom link at queensmuseum.org/events/the-worldsQ fairs-and-the-queens-museum.

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continued from page 23 Windows in skyscrapers were made with phosphorescent paint allowing them to glow at night. Unobtrusive black lighting fixtures illuminated parks and trees. He goes on to praise the city’s healthcare, social safety net and government. The Panorama, inspired by Robert Moses, the man behind the fair, is made up of 273 4-by-10-foot panels, costing more than $672,000 in 1964, or about $5 million in

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SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Index No. 702047/2020 STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF QUEENS U.S. BANK TRUST, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR LSF9 MASTER PARTICIPATION TRUST, Plaintiff, -vs- THE HEIRS AT LARGE OF LEA SANZONE, deceased, and all persons who are spouses, widows, grantees, mortgagees, lienors, heirs, devisees, distributees, successors in interest of such of them as may be dead, and their husbands and wives, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors of interest of all of whom and whose names and places are unknown to Plaintiff; ANTHONY SANZONE; LUCY CAPRANZANO; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR INDYMAC BANK, FSB; THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; PORTFOLIO RECOVERY ASSOC. LLC A/A/O CAPITAL ONE BANK; “JOHN DOE” AND “JANE DOE” said names being fictitious, it being the intention of Plaintiff to designate any and all occupants of premises being foreclosed herein, Defendants. Mortgaged Premises: 20-41 HIMROD STREET, RIDGEWOOD, NY 11385 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days of the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after service of the same is complete where service is made in any manner other than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. Your failure to appear or answer will result in a judgment against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. In the event that a deficiency balance remains from the sale proceeds, a judgment may be entered against you, unless the Defendant obtained a bankruptcy discharge and such other or further relief as may be just and equitable. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer to the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. These pleadings are being amended to include Anthony Sanzone and Lucy Capranzano, as possible heirs to the estate of Lea Sanzone. These pleadings being further amended to include Portfolio Recovery Assoc. LLC A/A/O Capital One Bank and omit Portfolio Recovery Assoc. LLC. QUEENS County is designated as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the location of the mortgaged premises. Dated: March 10, 2020 Mark K. Broyles, Esq., FEIN SUCH & CRANE, LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff, Office and P.O. Address 28 East Main Street, Suite 1800, Rochester, New York 14614 Telephone No. (585) 232-7400 BLOCK: 3379 LOT: 50 NATURE AND OBJECT OF ACTION The object of the above action is to foreclose a mortgage held by the Plaintiff recorded in the County of QUEENS, State of New York as more particularly described in the Complaint herein. TO THE DEFENDANT, the plaintiff makes no personal claim against you in this action. To the above named defendants: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of HON. TIMOTHY J. DUFFICY, Justice of the SUPREME Court of the State of New York, dated July 21, 2020 and filed along with the supporting papers in the QUEENS County Clerk’s Office. This is an action to foreclose a Mortgage. ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Second Ward of the Borough and County of Queens, City and State of New York bounded and described as follows, to wit: BEGINNING at a point on the northwesterly side of Himrod Street, distant thirty-eight (38) feet, L.S. (38.04 feet U.S.S.) southwesterly from the corner formed by the intersection of the southwesterly side of Grandview Avenue with the northwesterly side of Himrod Street; RUNNING THENCE northwesterly parallel with Grandview Avenue and part of the distance through a party wall one hundred (100) feet, L.S. (100.09 feet U.S.S.); THENCE southwesterly parallel with Himrod Street nineteen (19) feet, L.S. (19.02 feet U.S.S.); THENCE southeasterly again parallel with Grandview Avenue and part of the distance through another party wall one hundred (100) feet L.S. (100.09 feet U.S.S.) to the said northwesterly side of Himrod Street; THENCE northeasterly along the said northwesterly side of Himrod Street nineteen (19) feet, L.S. (19.02 feet U.S.S.) to the point or place of BEGINNING. Mortgaged Premises: 20-41 HIMROD STREET, RIDGEWOOD, NY 11385 Tax Map/Parcel ID No.: Block 3379 in Tax Lot 50 on the Tax Assessment map of the BOROUGH of QUEENS, NY 11385.

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Cespedes opts out by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor

Few good things have happened to the Mets in Atlanta over the last 25 years. This past weekend may have taken the cake. Getting swept by the Braves is almost par for the course so what was most newsworthy was mercurial outfielder Yoenis Cespedes going AWOL last Sunday as he failed to show up at Truist Park. The Mets sent out a press release during the game in which they indicated they had no idea where he was or the reason for his absence. General manager Brodie Van Wagenen later revealed Cespedes’ agent had informed him during the game that he had decided to opt out of his contract over COVID-19 concerns. Cespedes’ contract expires at the end of the season and it’s safe to say he has played his last game as a Met. Cespedes is 34 and his concerns about catching the coronavirus are understandable. Many other professional athletes have made similar decisions and more will continue to do so. Seeing the number of players and other team personnel who have tested positive for COVID-19 has to be unnerving to any major leaguer. The proverbial $64,000 question is obviously “Why didn’t he inform Van Wagenen, who was once his agent at CAA, before the game and allay a lot of worries such as the possibility of meeting with foul play?” Van Wagenen refused to answer that query

but beleaguered rookie Mets manager Luis Rojas admitted, “We all know how Cespedes is” in his postgame press conference. While the Mets will miss his home run power, they surely won’t miss his marching to his own drummer shtick, which doesn’t mesh well in a team sport. Hours before the Cespedes drama unfolded, Van Wagenen fortuitously made a trade with the San Francisco Giants to obtain 29-year-old speedy centerfielder Billy Hamilton who has always given the Mets fits as an opposing player. President Trump last month announced he’d throw out the first pitch before a game scheduled to take place at Yankee Stadium on Aug. 15. That was news to the Yankees since they never invited him. Trump eventually canceled his appearance. Given the status of their putrid bullpen, the Mets should consider inviting Trump to throw some pitches in a real game as a reliever. The New York Post’s Mike Puma was the only Mets beat writer to fly to Atlanta this past weekend for the series. He deserves combat pay for both traveling to a COVID-19 hot spot and for watching the Mets play in person. Yankees Spanish radio play-by-play voice Rickie Ricardo did a nice job filling in for John Sterling last week on WFAN. He displayed an easygoing conversational style as well as good chemistry with Suzyn Waldman. See the extended version of Sports Beat Q every week at qchron.com.

The NYPD and the office of Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz will host a gun buyback program from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 15, at Greater Springfield Community Church in South Jamaica. Those turning in operable handguns will receive bank cards for $200 apiece. Rifles, shotguns, pellet and air guns will be wor th $25 apiece. Guns will be accepted with no questions asked. People can bring as many guns as they like, but will only be paid for three. Active or retired law enforcement and

licensed gun dealers are ineligible to participate in the buyback. All guns must be brought to the church in a paper or plastic bag or in a box. If the resident is coming by car, the gun must be transported in the vehicle’s trunk. The bank cards will be issued once police officers on-site determine that the surrendered firearm is in working order. G reat er Spr i ng f ield Com mu n it y Church is located at 177-06 129 Ave., just off Merrick Boulevard. Further information is available by Q calling 311.

More time to sue over sex abuse Victims of child sex abuse have been granted more time to file lawsuits against those responsible under legislation Gov. Cuomo signed Monday. The bill extends the “look back window” for victims to file suit under the Child Victims Act until Aug. 14, 2021, a full year later than the original law said. Cuomo earlier had extended the time frame until Jan. 14, 2021 through an executive order. The Child Victims Act allows victims of sex abuse to sue public and private institutions up until they turn 55. The look back window gives them time to file cases that

had been barred because of the time that had passed since the abuse took place. The law also extended the statute of limitations on criminal cases until the victim turns 28. “The Child Victims Act brought a longneeded pathway to justice for people who were abused, and helps right wrongs that went unacknowledged and unpunished for far too long and we cannot let this pandemic limit the ability for survivors to have their day in court,” Cuomo said, adding that extending the look back window is the right thing to do during the coronavirus crisis. Q — Peter C. Mastrosimone

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