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Council passes cap on ride hail licenses One-year freeze to give TLC time to study citywide impact of app-cars by Michael Gannon Editor

he City Council, by a 39-6 margin, passed a package of bills on Wednesday that will cap the number of ride hail licenses for services like Uber and Lyft for one year while the Taxi & Limousine Commission studies how the influx of such vehicles affects the city. It also approved a minimum wage scale for app-based drivers. Mayor de Blasio, in a statement immediately following the vote, praised the Council’s decision. “Our city is directly confronting a crisis that is driving working New Yorkers into poverty and our streets into gridlock,” de Blasio said. “The unchecked growth of app-based for-hire vehicle companies has demanded action — and now we have it.” There were about 15,000 ride hail vehicles on city streets three years ago when another cap effort failed. There are more than 80,000 today. Prices for taxi medallions have plummeted from over $1 million a few years ago to below $200,000 in some cases. De Blasio vowed to sign the bills into law. Councilman Bob Holden (D-Middle Village) explained his support in a tweet right after the vote.

The City Council has voted to cap licenses for ride hail cars for companies such as Uber, right, and Lyft for one year as the Taxi & Limousine studies the effect an influx of the cars has had on FILE PHOTOS the city as a whole, and the yellow taxi industry in particular. “I voted yes on today’s For-Hire vehicle package of bills in the @NYCCouncil because the e-hail market has remained unchecked for far too long,” he said. “We have too many vehicles contributing to congestion and pollution, and it is time the City leads the nation in alleviating these issues.” Voting in opposition was Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park).

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In a statement, Ulrich said cap legislation is like saying, “We’re going to put a cap on Netflix subscriptions because we’re worried about Blockbuster closing.” The Independent Drivers Guild was ecstatic. “More than 65,000 working families will be getting a desperately needed raise because of today’s vote,” said IDG founder Jim Conigliaro, Jr. “We hope this is the start of a more

fair industry not only here in New York City, but all over the world.” Hector Figueroa, president of 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union, also applauded the vote in a statement. “By approving this historic legislation package, New York’s City Council has taken an important step to benefit the drivers who keep New Yorkers moving, as well as riders who need these services to be accessible, affordable and available,” he said. “The bills address the economic crisis hurting all drivers while making sure more New Yorkers, including those who rely on app-based cars for hire, have access to the transportation they need.” Joseph Okpaku, Lyft’s vice president of public policy, had a decidedly different view. “These sweeping cuts to transportation will bring New Yorkers back to an era of struggling to get a ride, particularly for communities of color and in the outer boroughs,” he said. “We will never stop working to ensure New Yorkers have access to reliable and affordable transportation in every borough.” Supporters and opponents of the bills staged rallies outside City Hall into Wednesday afternoon. Uber and Lyft in recent days offered to set up a $100 million fund that would give financial assistance to city taxi drivers if the CounQ cil agreed to drop the bills.

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Pedestrian hit on Woodhaven Blvd. Miller calls on the DOT to improve safety; some upgrades underway by Anna Sackel Associate Editor

On Thursday, Aug. 2, an 83-year-old woman was hit by a car while she was crossing the street on Woodhaven Boulevard and Jamaica Avenue. The woman was brought to the hospital in critical condition and no arrests were made at the time of the accident. This latest crash caused an uproar in the community, with many people criticizing the Department of Transportation for failing to keep pedestrians and drivers safe.

The woman hit on Woodhaven Boulevard was brought to the hospital in critical condition.

“Since the Select Bus Service implementation in November 2017, there have been countless vehicle accidents along Woodhaven Boulevard. My constituents cross the boulevard every day,” said Assemblyman Mike Miller (D-Woodhaven) in a letter sent to Mayor de Blasio. “I am requesting that Woodhaven Boulevard have dedicated crossing times for pedestrians, a study for better synchronized traffic lights ... and a study to see if Vision Zero can be implemented along the corridor.” Woodhaven Boulevard, especially its intersections with Jamaica Avenue, Park Lane South and Myrtle Avenue, is known as very busy and accident-prone. “I lived there my whole life and I’ve seen it change over time,” said state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Ozone Park). “It’s always been a dangerous situation with not enough time to cross and a lot of traffic.” Addabbo says he is meeting with the DOT next week to discuss the issue and see what can be done to improve safety and overall cleanliness at the SBS stops. The DOT says it is working on improvements for both the beautification at the SBS stops, and the overall safety in these areas. “DOT has prioritized implementing pedestrian safety improvements on this Vision Zero

An 83-year-old woman was hit by a car while crossing the street at the intersection of Woodhaven Boulevard and Jamaica Avenue. The accident sparked Assemblyman Mike Miller to write a PHOTOS BY ROBERT STRIDIRON letter to the DOT, calling for safety improvements along Woodhaven. Priority Corridor as a part of the Woodhaven SBS project, including pedestrian refuge islands, widened medians, and left-turn relocations. At Woodhaven Boulevard and Jamaica Avenue, medians were widened to accommodate median bus stops, and all pedestrian refuge islands were reconstructed,” said a spokesperson for the DOT. “Additionally, a future capital project will further

add pedestrian safety elements.” Addabbo and Miller both hope to see major improvements made in terms of safety. “You don’t want to react to a fatality or a serious accident or injury, you want to prevent it,” said Addabbo. “The DOT has shown recently they have the capability to listen to us and improve and be preventative Q and not reactionary.”

Community leader starts hunger strike Sam Esposito vows he will not eat until the mayor agrees to a meeting by Anna Sackel

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Since Monday morning, longtime Ozone Park resident and community leader Sam Esposito is on a hunger strike. Esposito, who has previously served on Community Board 9, has come out of retirement after he heard of the city’s plans to put a homeless shelter for 113 mentally ill adult men in his neighborhood. “We cannot allow Ozone Park to be dramatically impacted by the crime and disturbance, along with the disruption of our lives this will cause in our community,” an Ozone Park Residents’ Block Association press release says. “Therefore, starting tomorrow and indefinitely, Sam Esposito will hold muster in front of the location 24/7, and will go on a hunger strike until the City of NY finally agrees to sit down with us.” The site is a former church at 85-15 101 Ave. Esposito is serving as the president of the newly rebooted

Sam Esposito, longtime Ozone Park resident and community leader, is holding a hunger strike in front of the proposed homeless shelter for 113 mentally ill adult men in Ozone Park. He has vowed to not eat until the PHOTO BY ANNA SACKEL mayor speaks with him. OZ PR BA, accord i ng to t he group’s Facebook page. The Mayor’s Office did not respond to the hunger strike or Esposito’s requests. Instead, in a

statement, it reiterated the purpose for the shelter. “There are New Yorkers experiencing homelessness in every community, which is why every com-

munity has to be part of the solution. Our plan distributes resources and responsibility in a fair way for the first time in our city’s history,” according to a statement sent from the Mayor’s Office. “Homelessness is a decades-old challenge that wasn’t created overnight and it won’t be solved overnight, but we’re headed in the right direction.” Esposito announced on July 19 at a town hall meeting that he had hired a lawyer to represent the people of Ozone Park, and would be filing a lawsuit against the city to block the shelter. The official filing of the suit was announced on Tuesday, Aug. 7 during a noon press conference. Esposito hired the same lawyer who, a few years ago, represented the residents of Glendale in a similar case and is asking for people to donate money since the cost of the law yer is expected to reach $100,000 throughout the lawsuit. So far, the fundraising page, gof u n d m e.c o m / s t o p - o z o n e -

park-homeless-shelter, has raised more than $19,000. The lawsuit states the plaintiffs as Esposito, along with 10 other Ozone Park residents who, according to the filing, all live within 400 feet of the proposed shelter site. “Each of the petitioner-plaintiffs would suffer specific particular harm by the development of the premises as a homeless shelter without the required environmental review,” according to the lawsuit. “As a result of their close proximity, the harm and impact on these petitioners is different and/ or greater than the impact on the general population of the City of New York.” At press time the city had not responded to the filing of the lawsuit. As of Wednesday afternoon, Esposito has remained without food for 66 hours. “I’ll stay here as long as I have to,” said Esposito. “I don’t care if I end up in the hospital, the Mayor Q needs to hear us.”

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Legal Aid offers help for second chances Teaming with Katz to help those who might qualify for sealed, clean records by Michael Gannon Editor

In some cases, past criminal convictions can legally prevent someone from getting certain types of jobs in New York City and New York State. But in some cases, there are avenues by which people can get long-passed criminal records sealed or cleaned up, and show that they have made demonstrable changes to their lives. This week, and over the next few months, The Legal Aid Society and the office of Queens Borough President Melinda Katz will be encouraging people with records to see if they are eligible. Katz and Legal Aid attorneys spoke to just under two dozen people Monday night at the office of Life Camp, the organization founded by Erica Ford to combat violence and crime in and around Jamaica. “You don’t know? Don’t eliminate yourself until you’re sure,” said Legal Aid attorney Emma Goodman, who specializes in helping people seal their records. “The hardest problem about this program is nobody knows about it,” she added. “Queens is about second chances,” Katz told the group in a small meeting room before all broke up to have private meetings with attorneys.

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JFK worker took gifts to aid Qataris: NYS by Anna Sackel

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John F. Kennedy Airport worker Marlene Mizzi, 54, has been charged with receiving a reward for official misconduct, a felony, and multiple misdemeanor counts of receiving unlawful gratuities and official misconduct. According to state Attorney General Barbara Underwood, the defendant faces a maximum sentence of up to four years if convicted on the top count. The indictments stem from a joint investigation conducted by the Office of the Attorney General and the Port Authority Inspector General’s Office. “The defendant used her position at the Port Authority for personal gain, accepting gifts and benefits from individuals working for foreign governments in exchange for special treatment,” said Underwood in a press release. “We’ll continue to work with our partners in government to hold accountable those who jeopardize the integrity of our government agencies.” According to court documents, Mizzi allowed aircraft from certain foreign

countries, most notably Qatar, to stay longer than allowed. She allegedly let Qatari planes stay overnight at JFK, without getting proper authorization from the Port Authority, in exchange for gifts such as free meals, car rides and a watch. “The defendant is alleged to have violated her position of public trust and used her position for personal gain,” said Michael Nestor, inspector general for the Port Authority. “In this case, the defendant chose to enrich herself and tarnish the reputation of the agency by allegedly accepting cash, travel, meals and other things of value from representatives of foreign governments.” Joseph Jourieh, 58, who is the East Coast concierge for the Permanent Mission of Qatar to the United Nations, allegedly arranged these deals with Mizzi. Jourieh is charged with two counts of rewarding official misconduct and also faces up to four years imprisonment. Mizzi has been an employee of the Port Authority for 35 years as an assistant airport duty supervisor. She was suspended from her job, Q indefinitely, in June.

can be denied a job on the sole grounds of one or more criminal convictions or guilty pleas. “And there are still some hoops they have to go through,” Ader said. And Goodman assured those in attendance beforehand that anything mentioned in the one-on-one information sessions with attorneys is protected legally.

“We are a law firm,” she said. “Everything is confidential.” Similar meetings were held Tuesday in Long Island City and Wednesday in Queens Village. Others are taking place tonight, Aug. 9, at 6:30 p.m. at 43-15 Beach Channel Drive in Far Rockaway, and Friday afternoon beginning at 4:30 p.m. at the Jackson Heights Library at 25-81 81st Street. The borough president’s theme for what she is calling Know Your Rights Week is “Opening Doors and Closing Cases.” There are some strings attached — an individual may only seal up to two misdemeanors or a misdemeanor and a low-level, nonviolent felony. Hugh Jensen of Life Camp said hosting the meeting is directly aligned with the group’s mission. “If it means helping people find work, it’s improving the community,” he said. “It’s what we do.” The attorneys also counseled visitors on changing incorrect information in their criminal records; obtaining certificates of good conduct and other programs that in some cases can mean even multiple felonies can be dealt with. An aide to Katz said her office is preparing similar workshops for as yet unspecified Q dates in September and October.

Three people struck by lightning in Queens Folks hit in Flushing Meadows, Jamaica Three men were struck by lighting on two separate occasions in Queens during the storm on Tuesday night, the National Weather Service said. Two men were hit at Flushing Meadows Corona Park and another was hit in Jamaica near the intersection of Baisley Boulevard and 155th Street. Accordi ng to published repor ts, Giovanny Astudillo, 30, and Segundo Cuji, 42, were playing in a 12-person game of soccer at the park when they were struck. The men were both brought to NYC Health + Hospitals /Elmhurst. Astudillo was transferred to NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi in the Bronx, NBC New York reported. On Wednesday morning, the outlet said Cuji was stable but Astudillo was in critical condition. Gothamist repor ted that the man str uck by lightning in Jamaica was brought to NYC Health + Hospitals / Queens and treated for minor injuries there. The National Weather Service also

A photo taken from Manhattan shows a thunder bolt during the storm that hit the five boroughs on Tuesday. TWITTER PHOTO / BKCORY said that at 63rd Drive and Queens Boulevard in Rego Park, there was “flowing water up to car tires.” Just days before the storm on Tuesday, parts of College Point and Whitestone were hit by a tornado with 85 mile per hour winds. Last Thursday night, that storm felled trees and did other forms of damage to Q the neighborhoods. — Ryan Brady

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P Bereavement leave bill has to die so business can live EDITORIAL

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ohnny’s a good worker. Never calls in sick, rarely complains, has good ideas for how the sandwich shop could run better. And where cost savings might be found, which seems more and more vital as Queens gets harder and harder to do business in. But now Johnny’s grandmother has died, and he’s told the boss he needs to take some time off. They were close, and though she lived a full life to 90, he’s a bit upset that her time has finally come. Sure, the shop owner is thinking, we can manage without Johnny for a few days. He’s gotta fly up to Albany, get picked up by his parents, help them make the arrangements and make sure all her friends know — there’s a lot to do beyond just mourning. Then Johnny tells the boss he wants three months off. What? That’s insane, the veteran sandwich man thinks. In all his years running this place, he’s never heard of such a thing. He’d think Johnny is kidding, but he can tell he’s not. He wants to tell him he’s crazy. But he can’t, because of the law. He has to let Johnny go on this virtual sabbatical, and pay him half of his usual wages the whole time he’s gone. And make sure his job is waiting for him when he gets back, which means jacking up

everyone else’s hours in the interim and hiring someone just for three months. This is the scenario that could play out at countless businesses if Gov. Cuomo signs S8380A, “An Act to amend the workers’ compensation law, in relation to paid family leave and bereavement.” This bill takes compassion into the stratosphere. Recklessness too. It would apply to all businesses in the state, however large or small. For many, it would be simply unaffordable. As Queens Chamber of Commerce President Tom Grech told the New York Post, “For a small business, I don’t know how anybody could survive with anything like that. At the end of the day, New York City and New York State are among the most expensive places to do business in the country. This just puts another burden on small businesses.” Companies operating here face so many challenges as it is. Rents just keep going up with no end in sight. Both city and state keep passing costly new regulations. Demographics are always shifting, forcing many mom-and-pop shops in particular to watch as their customer base dwindles. The new Republican tax law severely limits the amount of personal deductions business owners can take, especially if, for

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Uber is up-Lyft-ing Dear Editor: The City Council’s proposal to impose a cap on ridesharing would have a negative impact on Queens. Most of the cabs have an $8 minimum, no matter how local you are traveling. Apps like Uber and Lyft help a lot of people who cannot afford the prices of regular taxis. Plus, if I’m headed to any of my doctors’ offices, these apps allow me to see a real estimated arrival, ensuring I make it there on time. I also know a lot of people who sometimes use ridesharing when the trains and buses are running extremely poorly (which happens very often). Many times others and I have been late for work or school waiting for a train, so the next best option is obviously a rideshare due to the price and timing. Before worrying about Lyft or cabs, maybe the City Council should focus on the means of public transportation that often push people to rely on these apps. Saarah Ali South Ozone Park

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example they own a house in the suburbs and pay those monstrous property taxes. And soon every worker in the state could have the right to three months’ partially paid leave to mourn the loss of a spouse or domestic partner, child, parent, parent-in-law, grandparent or grandchild. A week or two we could see. But three months? Come on. Yet your state senator and your member of the Assembly voted for this. Not one lawmaker from Queens said no. In fact, in the Senate, the vote was 61-1. In the Assembly, it was 111-32. The amount workers would be paid while away from the job would vary, depending on how much they make. The weekly pay would start at 50 percent of wages and then rise to 67 percent as the law is phased in, but it would be capped at the statewide average. Right now that’s $1,357 a week, according to the Post, citing the Department of Labor, so the maximum to start would be just under $680 a week. Cuomo must veto this bill. Businesses are not bottomless pits of cash. Many operate on very tight profit margins. Like a sandwich shop in Queens. If this were to become law, Johnny might not have a job to come back to. Instead there’d be another vacant storefront bringing us all down.

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have been held, giving the people a chance to give their opinions on governmental matters that need to be changed or improved. The commission will then issue a report that will discuss findings and recommendations to change the City Charter. These changes will be brought before the voters for their approval or disapproval in the general election. With regard to community boards, there have been proposals that members should be term-limited. I disagree with that stance. I have served on my community board for several years and have seen firsthand the importance of experience on my board. The institutional knowledge that our seasoned members possess assists with decision-making with frequent regularity. Many of the experienced people on my board have lived in their communities for long periods of time and understand the needs and workings of those communities. This year, six new members joined my board. Last year, six other new members joined as well. We still have six vacancies. I believe that we

have an excellent mix in terms of diversity, age and viewpoints. My board is changing naturally, with longtime members gradually leaving and those positions being replaced by new people every year. There is no need to remove from the board knowledgeable unpaid volunteers who have served with distinction and integrity over the course of several years to better their communities. I believe that this is the case for many of the boards across the city. Term-limiting will result in weaker boards, in my opinion, because of the loss of experienced members. All board members must renew their membership every two years. The local City Council member and the borough president decide whether to reappoint a board member or not. If there are issues with a member, that member may not be reappointed. So serving on a board is not a lifetime appointment. It is important that all community voices are heard on our community boards. Even though boards are only advisory in nature, all sectors of the community merit representation on them.

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that in March Trump imposed a tariff of up to 30 percent on Canadian uncoated paper. That raised the price of newsprint, making it difficult for cash-strapped newspapers to circulate their work. As if limiting economic freedom weren’t enough, Trump is undermining Americans’ freedom of expression with this needless tax on journalism. Freedom of the press is in Trump’s crossRIP, newspapers hairs. Why? When local newspapers aren’t there to hold governments accountable, corrupDear Editor: Re your July 26 editorial, “Do your part to tion, scandals and costs increase due to a lack of scrutiny. Truth, facts, reality? All offensive save the Daily News”: The Monday morning massacre at New to Trump supporters. But that’s not all Trump is up to. He wants to York’s “hometown newspaper” cast a shadow on local journalism’s future. How can a skeleton lower fuel standards imposed on automakers by staff cover vital news for a city of over eight Obama, increasing pollution while decreasing million people? New York now has three daily miles per gallon. And this fool says it will save lives. How? He claims that if newspapers: The Times, Wall consumers have to pay more for Street Journal and the Post. The ONLINE gas they will travel less, thus first two are national publications decreasing their chances of being that abandoned local coverage. Miss an article or a The Post doesn’t adequately letter cited by a writer? involved in an auto accident. cover the outer boroughs, nor Want breaking news Brilliant. Once again Trump supdoes Newsday, which focuses on from all over Queens? ports Big Oil over Americans. All Americans will benefit Long Island. Find the latest news, Local week lies like the past reports from all from a greater choice of lowChronicle help fill the gap, but over the borough and emission vehicles. And our children and their children will benenot entirely. Broadcast and cable more at qchron.com. fit from the less polluted, more news channels largely ignore sustainable planet we leave Queens, except for NY1. Digital outlets do a dismal job. Social media platforms behind. Not to mention the jobs and economic like Twitter and Facebook provide affirmation, development that go hand-in-hand with an innonot information, by reinforcing users’ biases vative, technologically advanced auto industry. Want more? At a meeting of the World and beliefs, shoving their audiences into information bubbles. I’ll keep reading the Daily Health Assembly back in May, U.S. delegates News and the Post, hoping that they can con- appointed by the Trump administration opposed an international resolution that supstructively compete. But as a retired McGraw-Hill staff writer, I ported breast-feeding. The resolution was going fear for journalism’s dark future. The Daily to be introduced by Ecuador but it dropped its News disaster is part of a disturbing national support after the U.S. threatened to unleash trend. The Pew Research Center reports that punishing trade measures and withdraw crucial journalism jobs in all media declined by 23 per- military aid. All this to stop the promotion of cent from 2008 to 2017. Newspapers bore the breast-feeding? Why? Because the U.S. delegabiggest loss, a 45 percent decline, caused partly tion (Trump) is embracing the interests of by the growth of digital media. But corporate infant formula manufacturers. Translation: mismanagement and greed are also to blame. Corporate profits are more important than the Tronc, the Daily News’ parent company, gave health of infants. And let’s not forget the new outgoing chairman Michael Ferro a $15 million proposed tax cuts for billionaires. As for the poor people being devastated by severance package while axing nearly 100 NYC newspaper staffers. He gets a platinum wildfires in California, they needn’t worry. parachute while all ex-Daily News employees Trump is on his way with truckloads of paper towels to throw into the flames. get an umbrella with a hole in it. And to any Trump supporters who are worNew York was print journalism paradise when I grew up in the 1950s. Along with the ried about the disappearance of newspapers, Times, Post and Daily News, we had the Herald fret not. You’ll still be able to keep up with the Tribune, Daily Mirror, Journal American, plus current racists supporting Trump and spreadthe World Telegram & Sun. All of them cov- ing the garbage they refer to as (Fox) news on ered the entire city. Queens had two dailies — Facebook. Robert LaRosa The Long Island Press and Long Island Star Whitestone Journal — while residents in our neighboring borough read the Brooklyn Eagle. Now only three newspapers remain. I hope Pols: Leave the church they can rise to the challenge. An informed public is our city’s best hope. Dear Editor: Richard Reif During the Vietnam War dissenters would Kew Gardens Hills burn their draft cards and run to Canada. Catholic politicians who disagree with church dogma should show their displeasure by burnTrump vs. news (and more) ing their baptismal certificates. Of course it may be tough when St. Peter Dear Editor: Letter writer Larry Penner is absolutely right says, “Let me see your papers,” and there is only when he says it’s important to support newspa- one other place left to go and it isn’t Canada. Joseph T. Klonowski pers, especially local papers (“Read the newsMiddle Village papers,” Aug. 2). But I wonder if he’s aware

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A major makeover City issues RFP for for Sunset Cove James Court project The 15 acres in Broad Channel will be worked on until 2019 or 2020 by Anna Sackel Associate Editor

Constuction at Sunset Cove in Broad Channel has begun. The project entails two phases of work. The first will create an elevated walking trail, maritime forest, restored wetlands and wetlands creek. The second phase will create a boardwalk out over the wetlands constructed out of the salvaged Rockaway Boardwalk lumber. The boardwalk will lead to a covered viewing and outdoor classroom area. “This project, at the southern end of Broad Channel, will provide access and views that do not exist anywhere in the city. The area will also host an Eco dock for local school children to visit and conduct studies,” Dan Mundy Jr., longtime Broad Channel resident and environmental activist, said in an email. “Big thanks to Borough President Melinda Katz, Dan Brown, Assemblywoman Amato, Senator Addabbo, and Councilman Ulrich for all of your support on this project and to [Mayor de Blassio] for the commitment of the additional and crucial funds of 7 million dollars.”

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The 106th Precinct held its National Night Out event Tuesday at Police Officer Edward Byrne Park in Howard Beach. Maria Asaro, a member of the Howard Beach-Lindenwood Civic Association, and other area residents were presented with

The project will cost about $17 million and will not be completed for more than a year. Phase one is expected to be finished by next June while phase two won’t be completed until at least the fall of 2019 and possibly the start of 2020. Although the project will take some time and a lot of money, Mundy says the benefits it will bring to the environment and the community are worth it. “It’s going to give people an amazing view and the section of the boardwalk will serve as a place for people to really get up close and personal with the wetlands, something that you normally can’t do,” said Mundy. “I find that kids don’t get out as much and we’re losing future environmentalists, so once the kids come out here and get their hands dirty the questions and curiosity starts so it generates additional interest from students.” The project is being paid for by a combination of city and state funding, and multiQ ple grants and environmental groups.

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proclamations for their ser vice to the community. Asaro, who is the NYPD liason for the civic association, was honored as an NYPD Community Partner during the event, which was cut short by the rain.

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Years after the request to rehabilitate James Court was made, a request for proposals was finally issued by the city on July 31. According to a city document the project, which entails roadway resurfacing and construction of the bulkhead on James Court, Hawtree Basin, will cost between $1 million and $2.5 million. Fixing James Court, which is prone to f loods even during light rainfalls and slight changes in the tides, has been in the works for more than a decade. The purpose of the bulkhead is to reduce flooding and erosion of the street. While it will not completely fix the problem, it should significantly improve it. State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) first started allocating money for the upgrade when he was a city councilman. The effort was continued by Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park), who has also set aside tens of thousands of dollars for the project. “This is something I started funding like eight to 10 years ago now. It’s long

Bulkhead construction to protect against erosion is set to start at James Court in FILE PHOTO Hamilton Beach this fall. overdue,” said Addabbo. “It shouldn’t have taken this long, the wait has only made it more expensive. I’m glad it’s finally coming to fruition.” The final proposal should be completed by Aug. 22, with construction set to begin soon after that. “This is a project that is very welcomed, the community has given a lot of input,” said Addabbo. “It’s not going to solve the problem completely but it helps Q protect the roads.”

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The Sunset Cove project has begun and is expected to take a year and a half to complete.

Sunset Cove is currently undergoing major construction and beautification.

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DEP: Doesn’t Excel at Parking This car from the city’s Department of Environmental Protection had no trouble finding a parking space outside Borough Hall on Union Turnpike in Kew Gardens on Aug. 2. The Chronicle paid a visit to the area around Borough Hall and the Queens Criminal Court house, as well as the neighborhood of Briarwood to check on illegal parking and city employee placard abuse, the

subject of a three-part series last year. Since then a new city parking lot has been completed behind Borough Hall and Mayor de Blasio has pledged steep increases in money and manpower for a crackdown on employee parking abuse. The DEP vehicle, blocking a fire hydrant with no driver inside, was the only example of improper parking discovered in an area of about eight square blocks.

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Victory Field in Forest Park was filled with residents of Kew Gardens, Richmond Hill and Woodhaven on Tuesday for the 102nd Precinct’s National Night Out Against Crime. At top: Mayor Bill de Blasio shaking hands with Queens District Attorney Richard Brown before he addresses the crowd of more than 100 people. Center left: A rock climbing wall was one of the main attractions. Manned by police officers, the wall was in the middle of the park for anyone to try and climb to the top. Above: Children were able to play cop as they sat in a squad car, played with the sirens and

spoke on the loud speaker. A police dog was also at the event and happy to meet the kids he serves. Top right: Police officers took a new meaning to the “serve” part of their motto “protect and serve”, cooking food for the crowd. Center right: The police color guard stands at attention before the national anthem is sung. Right: Face painting was a favorite for many of the kids at the event, with rainbows being one of the most common works of art. Police Commissioner James O’Neill arrived with de Blasio and, despite the rain, greeted the crowd and thanked them for coming.

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Holden, Banks, CoJo meet on Glendale plan MidVille councilman says a family shelter is being eyed for Ridgewood by Christopher Barca

However, property owner Michael Wilner and Cooper Avenue Group LLC submitted on Monday an amendment to the A possible meeting with Mayor de Blasio ended up not hap- filing that originally called for 85 units — that number of pening, but Councilman Bob Holden (D-Middle Village) did dwellings has since been removed from the original document. On Tuesday, Holden said he made it clear to Banks that score a face-to-face discussion with Human Resources Adminstration Commissioner Steve Banks last Friday to discuss the Glendale residents will never back down from a fight over the possible use of the site as a shelter. proposed homeless shelter in Glendale. “It sticks out like a sore thumb and I Unfortunately for the councilman, said it will never be accepted and you their talk regarding the plan to renoguys have to be sensitive to that,” Holdvate the former factory at 78-16 Cooen said. per Ave. and turn it into a homeless Also in attendance at the meeting shelter for up to 200 men wasn’t all said I know we have to with Banks was City Council Speaker that productive. Corey Johnson (D-Manhattan). “It started off going back and forth, do our fair share, but Holden said he repeatedly said with the commissioner saying he has a 78-16 Cooper Ave. is Council members need to be involved mandate [to house homeless people],” during the homeless shelter process, Holden told the Chronicle on Tuesday. the wrong location.” to which Banks said no. “I said I know we have to do our fair “I said I should have a seat at the share, but 78-16 Cooper Ave. is the — Councilman Bob Holden table during procurement and he wrong location.” didn’t want any part of that,” Holden Two weeks ago, Holden announced said. “Even the speaker agrees that that Banks had told him the city was deep in negotiations with an unnamed social service provider Council members should have more of a say. He knows that if to turn the manufacturing site into a shelter — a plan that was you look at this neighborhood, this thing sticks out.” The meeting may have resulted in a stalemate when it first brought up in 2012 but was shelved after intense commucomes to the Glendale shelter plan, but Holden said one nity opposition. Plans approved by the Department of Buildings in 2015 potentially giant piece of news came out regarding a proposal show the site was to be renovated into an office building, and for a site in Ridgewood. The lawmaker said he had found out the city potentially the document was amended at an undetermined time to include the construction of 85 residential units there. A partial work had interest in housing homeless families at 16-19 Decatur continued on next page permit was issued two weeks ago. Editor

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New bill shines light St. John’s gets $1M for on Down syndrome a maternity, labor ward by Anna Sackel

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Gov. Cuomo signed a bill on Monday that will allow the creation of special Down syndrome license plates. The piece of legislation was introduced by state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Ozone Park) and Assemblyman Mike Miller (D-Woodhaven). After easily passing both the Assembly and the Senate last month, the bill was sent to Cuomo for a final approval, which he gave. According to a press release, the new bill “allows residents of New York to purchase distinctive plates bearing the words ‘Down’s Syndrome Awareness’ with all of the proceeds going to a special fund called, ‘The Down’s Syndrome Research Fund.’ This special account will be a joint fund managed by the commissioner of Taxation and Finance and the NYS Comptroller.” Addabbo and Miller introduced the bill after a mutual constituent, Anthony Como, came to them. “This law came about because a constituent of mine named Anthony Como whose son, Joseph, has Down’s Syndrome asked me to bring public awareness for Down’s Syndrome,” said Miller. “This law is for Anthony Como’s son and everyone in New

Joseph Como, the boy who inspired the new PHOTO COURTESY ANTHONY COMO bill. York State who has Down’s Syndrome.” The plates will be available next spring. “These distinctive license plates will shine a light on this chromosomal disorder which affects about 6,000 children each year, and I eagerly anticipate seeing their design and the details of the funding proQ gram,” said Addabbo.

City Councilman Donovan Richards (D-Laurelton) last Friday announced more than $1 million in city funding to build a new labor and maternity ward at St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway. St. John’s is the only hospital on a peninsula with 110,000 residents. Richards, in a statement issued by his office, cited a 2016 report by the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene that said the Rockaways had a 5.2 infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births in 2015, as opposed to 4.3 citywide. The city has reported a maternal mortality rate of 22 per 100,000 births from 2013 to 2015. The study also found what Richards termed blatant racial inequities within the five boroughs, with black women being three times more likely to experience a severe event in childbirth than white women. “To address these devastating disparities, the state and city must invest more in our local hospitals to improve the health and safety of mothers and infants, especially in communities of color,”

Richards said. Rates for severe and even fatal complications also were higher among Puerto Rican and other Latina women compared to white patients. “While we seek to add more health care options on the peninsula, we also have to vastly improve the conditions in our current health facilities,” the councilman added. “It is an honor to secure this critical funding for St. John’s and all of the mothers and babies who will benefit from this new state-of-the-art labor and maternity ward.” Richards also said Council Speaker Corey Johnson (D-Manhattan) was a key supporter of the appropriation. “Our city is facing a maternal mortality crisis, so now more than ever it is imperative New York mothers receive the best medical services,” Johnson said. “The Council’s $1.025 million investment in St. John’s Hospital’s labor and maternity ward ensures that the female and infant residents of Far Rockaway will be treated with the utmost care and attention in the only hospital that provides materniQ ty health care in the area.”

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continued from page 14 St., just outside of his district — something Banks confirmed to him. According to city records, Wilner is also the listed owner of that building, a one-story warehouse that is slated for demolition. “Banks knew about it, which is kind of interesting, that before the old building is demolished, they have plans already,” Holden said. “I don’t know when they were going to tell me.” The site in question is in the district of Councilman Antonio Reynoso (D-Brooklyn, Ridgewood), just two blocks from the

border with Holden’s jurisdiction. A spokeswoman for Reynoso told the Chronicle in a Wednesday email that the lawmaker’s office is aware of the shelter proposal but she declined to comment further. “Our office has the same amount of information as Bob’s, so I don’t think there is anything else for us to say,” the spokeswoman said. “I did mention to Banks that if you’re going to look at Decatur Street,” Holden added, “you don’t need to look at 78-16 Cooper Ave.” The Middle Village councilman also blasted Wilner and his business associates

Daniel Rabinowitz and David Levitan — the latter of whom operates homeless shelters across the city. “These guys are not going to be immune from scrutiny,” he said. “I did tell Commissioner Banks that you have some shady characters that are in this homeless business. It’s become an industry that needs to be examined by the City Council.” When reached by the Chronicle last week and asked repeatedly about plans for 78-16 Cooper Ave., Rabinowitz declined to comment A Department of Homeless Services spokesman told the Chronicle last week the agency cannot comment on proposed shelter plans that have not been finalized.

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Queens now has 961 sidewalk sheds up Safety from falling debris comes at a price for residents and merchants by Derrell J. Bouknight Chronicle Contributor

or years, residents of the city have been looking at levels of large metal-and-wood structures obstructing their views and detracting from the architecture of their workplaces. Some forms of the composition remain standing for a few weeks, while others become multiyear props that stir controversy among community members. Often referred to as “sidewalk sheds,” the structures are erected over sidewalks to shield pedestrians from falling debris caused by building construction. According to the city Department of Buildings, the sheds are temporary structures meant to keep sidewalks open for pedestrians while structures undergo renovations. Residents of Queens are quite familiar with them. According to an interactive online map released in April by the DOB, the borough has 961 active sheds that stretch over 240,000 linear feet. As of Monday, it was noted that each shed is up for an average of 371 days. But many remain in place for several years. Some note that they’re unattractive. Others cite the purpose they serve. “You have to be able to protect pedestrians,” said Beverly McDermott, president of the Kissena Park Civic Association. “It’s [the building owner’s] right to protect and inspect. Whoever is doing the work has the right to put these up.” McDermott, who has lived in her Community Board 7 neighborhood for the majority of her 74 years, said she understands the frustrations of both the building owners and residents about the scaffolding. Tenants can’t assume that landlords know everything, she said, and landlords don’t often take initiative to prevent problems. “I think sometimes contractors sign on to as many contracts as they can, and then they have to do them piecemeal because they don’t have construction crews to finish ever ything,” McDer mott said. “Financially, they have to buy supplies. Then, they can’t get the supplies they need and they don’t have backup.” According to CB 5 Chairman Vincent Arcuri, building owners pay two-thirds of the total cost up front to have the sheds put up. Monthly rental fees account for the penultimate payments, with the final third coming once the scaffolding is taken down.

This sidewalk shed at the corner of 71st-Continental Avenue and Queens Boulevard in Forest Hills is one of the 96 occupying the Community Board 6 area, 13 of which are around buildings classified as having unsafe facades. PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON

Arcuri, who worked construction for four decades, said the biggest complaints he has heard from residents about the sheds relate to safety. Some are worried about the poor lighting and getting robbed. Others think problematic issues require immediate fixing, regardless of potential safety concerns. “The plus part of having sheds up is protecting the public during construction,” Arcuri said. “The negative part for the local businesses on the ground f loor is that they’re losing their visibility.” The problem that Arcuri alluded to regarding businesses that occupy spaces on street level is how many parts of the low-hanging structures cover store names and block entryways, resulting in customers havi ng t r ou ble f i nd i ng c e r t a i n businesses. Tom Grech, president and CEO of the Queens Chamber of Commerce, said most of the concerns he has heard don’t pertain to businesses, but rather the length of time the sheds stay up and how long they take to come down once construction finishes. Despite the few complaints Grech has received, he reiterated that residents should stand behind the city’s efforts to rectify the issues with the structures. “With nearly 1,000 of these sheds in Queens County, it’s imperative that we support the efforts from the Department of Buildings to facilitate their installation and removal as quickly as possible,” Grech said. “Again, like many things in New York City, it’s

important to focus on enforcement of current rules and regulations regarding these sheds.” Building owners across the city must comply with Local Law 11, which requires inspections of building exteriors that are over six stories tall, 60 percent of which are in Manhattan. Once design professionals complete inspections, a building’s condition is placed into one of three categories: safe with no problems, safe with a repair and maintenance program or unsafe with problems that threaten public safety. Buildings determined to have unsafe facades require sidewalk sheds. SWARMP designations require repairs within one to five years to prevent potentially unsafe conditions. The area that Arcuri oversees has 52 reported sidewalk shed locations. Twenty of them are associated with large-scale construction projects or alterations, while 30 buildings are experiencing maintenance activity. The other two are categorized as SWARMP. “A lot of the people who own these buildings do not act responsibly and they don’t start repairs before problems start,” McDermott said, citing why many buildings have severe damage. Nearly two years ago, City Councilman Ben Kallos (D-Manhattan) introduced a bill that would require sheds to be taken down when construction is inactive. Councilman Bob Holden (D-Middle Village) has sponsored the bill, which was reintroduced this year

af ter a new section was implemented. The bill proposes that all unsafe conditions are corrected within 90 days of a critical examination report being filed. A commissioner may grant a 90-day extension upon review of the building’s progress. “This is a safety issue, by and large,” Holden told the Chronicle. “We aren’t saying remove sidewalks sheds where buildings are unsafe, so there are exemptions of the law. There’s a balance.” Holden said that he is confident that the bill will pass. Kallos, he said, is thorough in his thoughts and what he wants to see come of the proposal. He also said that he is a proponent of the bill and signed it because Holden himself proposed a bill similar to Kallos’. This one seems to be more active, as Holden said it “would probably pass.” Holden also said that it’s important to look at parts of the city outside of Queens and problems they are having. “We have a number of sites that have sidewalk sheds,” he said. “We have to take into account other boroughs. In Manhattan, they’re left without work being done.” One he pointed out, on Chambers Street near Tweed Courthouse, has a shed that has caused traffic jams, especially with nobody working there. “The shed is good as long as construction is going on,” Holden said. “It becomes a problem when it ceases.” Over 8,000 sheds totaling more than 300 miles line the streets of the

city. Close to 4,000 are in Manhattan due to the borough’s abundance of skyscrapers. They are listed at https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/buildings/html/sidewalk-shed-map.html. As of now, Holden said, the bill is likely having its nuances discussed in the Committee on Housing and Buildings, which has jurisdiction over the DOB and Department of Housing Preservation and Development. “Sidewalk sheds are like the once welcomed house guest that never leaves,” Kallos said when the bill was reintroduced. “While we need them for safety during construction, that construction must happen immediately, and then it’s time for that sidewalk shed to come down.” For civic leaders such as McDermott, the conf licting views deal more with safety than anything else. Above all, she said, that should be the top priority when determining whether or not sidewalk sheds are necessary. The Rev. Ed McKay, the vice chairman of Community Board 12 in Southeast Queens, said that he has heard of a number of incidents in which residents feared for their safety. Poor lighting and blocked exits, he said, are just some of the complaints he has received. “People are walking under tunnels and are not being able to get out because they are cornered,” McKay said of muggings. “The seniors are especially concerned.” McKay said that the general consensus in the area is that the sheds are useful in protecting pedestrians during construction. While he agrees with the bill’s proposal of having equipment removed if there is no activity for seven consecutive days, McKay said that it’s better to remove the scaffolding as soon as possible. “They have more drawbacks than they have positives, in my opinion,” he said. “Don’t let it be an eyesore. Do what you have to do and take it down.” For now, or until or unless the legislation Holden supports wins approval, the ever growing controversy the city struggles with will leave leaders at a crossroads. “It’s a very complex problem, and I think safety has to be taken into account,” McDermott said. “Anybody that’s ever been in an accident from debris falling has had their lives interrupted. They have lives, but they have trouble living with their legs in a cast or Q their neck in a brace.”

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No convictions handed down to building manager or poster ripper by Derrell J. Bouknight Chronicle Contributor

When police officers showed up to Jeff Orlick’s Jackson Heights apartment two days after the New Year, he was confused. He wondered what he had done and why he was being led toward squad cars in handcuffs. But as officers thanked him and called him a hero, Orlick turned to one with a question. “Is this about the Nazi thing?” he asked. The officer confirmed that it was. Months earlier on Aug. 28, Orlick made his way into a building at 47-55 39 Place in Sunnyside. He walked through a lobby display that featured posters of former U.S. presidents, the American flag, Martin Luther King Jr. and Uncle Sam. A poster of Adolf Hitler featuring a swastika — the despised emblem commonly used by the German Nazi Party — hung above two nearby doors, part of a display featuring the major belligerents of World War II. Orlick then went to one of the adjacent apartments and asked whoever answered if the poster bothered them. “They looked very scared and didn’t want to talk about it,” he said. “I took that as an OK.” Orlick needed no further affirmation. He was upset of hearing of building manager Neal Milano’s antics on the news. He believed that residents should have taken more action against what he believed were intimidation tactics

Jackson Heights man Jeff Orlick was arrested months after he tore down the Adolf Hitler poster in this display of World War II belligerents, but the charges will be dropped. PHOTO BY STEVE MALECKI Milano used to spy on and threaten his tenants. So, he took action, tearing down the poster and throwing it in the trash. “He knows it’s controversial” Orlick said of Milano. “He knows he can intimidate people ... I felt that it needed outside interference. I was afraid of bullies when I was in high school, but I can’t tolerate this for myself or anyone else.” Orlick said that while he is as big of an advocate for freedom of speech and expression as anyone else, a swastika in a shared space crosses the line. Orlick was arrested, interrogated and fingerprinted. He didn’t find out what he was being

charged with until his fourth appearance in court. Orlick, who said he was in front of a judge for a grand total of 45 seconds over multiple days in court, was going to be charged with trespassing and petty larceny, both misdemeanors in New York. Ultimately, the judge offered him an adjournment in contemplation of dismissal, meaning Orlick’s charges will be dropped after six months if he avoids any further legal trouble. “They offered me that because the courts are lenient,” Orlick said. “I don’t have a history of doing bad stuff. If we were to go to court, it would be long and drawn out and a waste of

time.” Milano believes there was nothing wrong with the displays. After reviewing security footage, Milano discovered that Orlick had torn down the poster while he was on vacation. “It’s history. You can’t change history,” Milano told reporters earlier this summer, according to the New York Post. “There was a picture of Hitler and the Nazi flag next to a bigger picture of [Winston] Churchill and the British flag. It’s history. It’s World War II.” Milano, 71, had been charged with seven counts of stalking, harassment and attempted assault. He was accused of harassing a tenant on multiple occasions from September 2016 to July 2017, of grabbing her and issuing a threat that he was “going to burn the building down.” Jacob Laufer, a board attorney for Milano, did not respond to the Chronicle’s multiple attempts for an interview. In June, Judge David Kirschner found Milano not guilty on all counts. According to Orlick, witnesses never showed up to Milano’s hearings, a possible reason for the acquittal. In February, the building’s board of managers reached a settlement with the Commission on Human Rights to have Milano and two other board members step down. The condo board removed the posters and replaced them with signs informing residents of their rights. continued on page 19

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Mosquitoes prowling in Old Howard Beach Wife of 2015 West Nile victim says the insects are now out of control by Michael Gannon Editor

Janice Ryan this week told the Chronicle that people in Old Howard Beach are bei ng eaten alive t h is su m mer by mosquitoes. Her contention was confirmed by three other Howard Beach residents, though Ryan is more than just an interested observer —her husband, William, contracted West Nile Virus in 2015. Ryan said that to her knowledge, the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has not yet sent trucks to her neighborhood to spray for the insects. A check of the spraying schedule on the DOHMH website that began in June and ran through Wednesday, Aug. 8, showed that spraying has been scheduled near and around Howard Beach — Glendale, Middle Village, Ridgewood, Woodhaven — but not in the neighborhood itself. Old Howard Beach is the area bordered by Shellbank Basin to the west and John F. Kennedy International Airport to the east. Ryan said her husband, who is recovering from a stroke suffered a few weeks ago, hasn’t been able to fully shake off the West Nile aftereffects. “He still has symptoms,” she said, referring to things like fatigue, weakness and MRSA, a virulent staff infection that causes painful infected lesions on the skin. The infection can travel through the bloodstream. Many strains are resistant to antibiotics and other drug treatment. While such serious illnesses are rare, Ryan said the misery is still plentiful, and not limited to adults. “My granddaughters can’t go outside,” she said. “My youngest granddaughter came into the house the other day with 32

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bites on her legs. They can’t play in the yard. They can’t go to Charles Park.” A DOHMH spokesperson, in an email to the Chronicle, said the city has specific regulations governing spraying. “The Health Department sprays only when it is necessary and only when a spray event can reduce the disease transmission risk,” she wrote. “Our spraying criteria must be met before we spray pesticide in an certain area or neighborhood. That criteria includes mosquito density and distribution, mosquito species, persistence of West Nile virus activity, weather, time of year, and proximity to human populations [which] are all carefully considered in determining the necessity for adult mosquito control in a particular area.” The DOH website lists a number of recommendations for mosquito protection on its website at https://www1.nyc.gov/ site/doh/health/health-topics/mosquitoes. Q page.

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New York State is hoping to enlist swimming pool owners to check their pool’s filters regularly during the month of August in its effort to better track Asian longhorned beetles. The invasive insects devastate trees, and even whole sections of forests. They burrow into hardwood trees such as maples, birches and willows. A spokesperson for the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation told the Chronicle the insects’ bodies sometimes can become caught in pool filters. Owners who find them and send the state either digital photos or the insects themselves for identification can help the state pinpoint where infestations might be taking place. DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos, in a statement from his office, said residents’ participation in the survey can help his inspectors catch breakouts early, thus saving trees and tax dollars. “Pool monitoring offers a simple, economical approach to surveying for Asian Longhorned Beetles and gives the public a chance to take an active role in protecting the trees in their yards and communities,” Seggos said. The DEC is requesting that people with swimming pools periodically check their filters for any insects that resemble ALBs and either email photos to foresthealth@dec.ny. gov or mail the specimens themselves to the DEC for identification. They shoud be sent to the DEC Forest Health Diagnostics Lab: Attn: Jessica Cancelliere, 108 Game Farm Road, Delmar, NY 12054. People without pools can also help by

The state’s DEC commissioner says people don’t need an entomology degree to protect trees from Asian longhorned beetles. FILE PHOTO learning how to recognize the beetle, as well as the signs it leaves behind: • ALB are about 1.5 inches long, black with white spots and have long, black and white antennae. • They leave perfectly round exit holes, about the size of a dime, in branches and tree trunks. • Sawdust-like material called frass will collect on branches and around the base of an infected tree. All of western Queens is included in a quarantine zone established for this year by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. That means firewood from all hardwood species, as well as green lumber and other material living, dead, cut or fallen — including nursery stock, logs, stumps, roots, branches,and debris of half an inch or more in diameter — of maple, horse chestnut, mimosa, birch, katsura, ash, golden rain tree, sycamore, poplar, willow, mountain ash and elm must be collected by the city and not taken out of the area. Eastern and southern Queens do not fall into the quarantine area this year. Q

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continued from page 17 Queens City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) reiterated the thoughts of many residents in the building, saying that he asked the NYPD to investigate Milano’s actions as hate crimes. Despite talking with Van Bramer’s office regarding his case, Orlick said that representatives never followed up with him and eventually said they did not want to get involved in an ongoing court case. Laufer said earlier this year that the board approved the images displayed in the lobby as patriotic representations of Ameri-

can history and WWII. “If you take one picture out of context, then perhaps you might have a misimpression,” Laufer said to PIX 11. “But if you look at the murals in totality, they venerate America’s victory in World War II. It’s just a matter of judgment and taste and how one reacts.” An exception for hate speech — which many residents believed was displayed by Milano’s posters — is not present under the umbrella of the First Amendment. It’s protected, and as noted by the Supreme Court last year, it is one of the freedoms that the amendment constitutionally defends.

assist in an upcoming camp. Orlick doesn’t believe Milano is a racist or against others. He stated that had Milano not allegedly gone to measures to intimidate his residents, Orlick would have reconsidered going into the building to remove the poster in the first place. “I don’t think that he hates Jews,” Orlick said. “I just think he’s an a--hole,” He has no regrets, and neither does Milano. But after firsthand experiences with bullying and hatred in high school, Orlick said that he, like Milano, stood up for what he thought was right. “It’s OK to get in trouble sometimes,” Orlick said. “Getting in trouble is not the worst Q thing in the world.”

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That reasoning relates to why Milano was arrested for alleged stalking and harassment against the resident, not for the displays he felt were clear and appropriate expressions of history. Asked if he would have gone about the situation in a different way, Orlick said no. He added that the only change he would have made was finding a way to organize the residents to take the Nazi sign down themselves. Following his arrest, Orlick created a GoFundMe page to help pay legal fees. He was $54 short of his $2,000 goal. “I will not make one cent from this gofundme,” he wrote. Orlick recently added some money of his own and donated it to the Hebrew Academy for Special Children, funds to

OPINION

Keep the SHSAT and build Halt long-term solitary confinement; it’s torture more elite high schools by Mike Persaud The bill to fix the lack of diversity in New York City’s specialized high schools has been put on hold. When it comes up in the next session, the Legislature should reject it. It is a horrible bill that seeks to remedy a socioeconomic problem — but at the expense of destroying an iconic institution that has long been considered the pride of New York City. The bill would abolish the Standardized High School Admissions Test and replace it with a new system that would admit students from among “the top 25 percent of eighth-graders citywide.” City officials say this new system is guaranteed to draw students from each of 600 middle schools and the new student body will closely reflect the ethnic breakdown of the general population. What is wrong with this system? It is guaranteed to produce lower performance standards of students and simultaneously deny admission of large numbers of the “best and brightest” who would normally have scored in the top percentiles on the SHSAT. Seats to deserving students would be pulled and be given to less deserving students who would be ill-prepared for the rigor of the specialized high schools. This is precisely what makes Mayor de Blasio’s reform plan a zero-sum solution — and it doesn’t have to be this way. Just build more specialized high schools. Don’t dumb down the educational system even as America strives to be a knowledge-based society and even as presidents of top universities complain regularly of not being able to recruit from a pool of high school graduates prepared for the rigor of advanced learning. Watering down educational standards at any level is never a solution to any problem. I propose the following solution: 1. Expand capacity for specialized high schools from the current 16,000 (only eight schools) by an additional 48,000. Build 32 new ones, one in each of 32 school districts, with enrollment at 1,500 each; applicants should reside in the district. So much for equal distribution and availability of a firstclass high school in each district citywide. 2. Admission: Currently students with performance in the first-, second- and thirdhighest percentile scores on the SHSAT go to Stuyvesant, Bronx Science and Brooklyn Tech. Students scoring within a band of the next highest percentile would be admitted to the specialized high school in their district. 3. The current top eight specialized high schools would remain untouched. As reforms take hold in each of 600 middle schools in the city and as the culture undergoes changes for the better, it is fully expected that the underrepresented “majorities” (blacks and Hispanics) will begin to reach proportional representation in the top eight. It is not true that Asians and whites are inherently smarter

than blacks and Hispanics. Habits of culture and discipline are not inherited traits of intelligence. 4. In each of the proposed 32 new s p e cia l i z e d h ig h schools, blacks and Hispanics would be expected to show proportionate representation, if not at the beginning, then within three years as reforms take hold. After all, the students are drawn from within majority black and Hispanic districts. De Blasio has proposed a zero-sum solution to what is essentially a socioeconomic and cultural problem. He seeks to solve this problem with a sledgehammer within three years. Unfortunately, socioeconomic problems require better strategy and patience. I am now retired from the Department of Education, but I taught at Bushwick, New Utrecht, John Adams and Queens Vocational high schools over the last 20 years — and in every one of them I saw so many black and Hispanic students who were bright and disciplined, paid attention and did homework. I would always ask: Did they take the SHSAT to get into a specialized high school? Invariably the answer was that they were not given the opportunity to take the test. These students literally languished among others who had not yet experienced a level of self-realization and love of reading and learning. Such bored students often became disruptive, resulting in lost time. And, who suffered the most? Those very bright black and Hispanic students who should have been in one of the specialized high schools, studying and competing among peers in a more stimulating, conducive environment. It is OK for de Blasio and his policy makers to bemoan the lack of diversity in specialized high schools; it is not OK to propose solutions without first understanding what led to the problem. “Mainstreaming” was an educational strategy pushed to its extreme and became standard — albeit disastrous — educational policy for more than 30-years. Result: It drastically lowered performance standards at all levels citywide. I’ll end this essay by writing this note. Dear Mayor de Blasio: Please expand specialized high schools’ capacity to accommodate 48,000 more very able and bright students. All of them barely miss the cutoff point on the SHSAT. Throw them a lifeline, rescue them from what invariably is a system of low-performing high schools. Give them a seat in a first-class high school so that they may have an opportunity to develQ op their potential to the fullest. Mike Persaud is a retired New York City high school teacher from Richmond Hill.

lation is permitted, by James Sanders Jr. The late Nelson Mandela, the first black and some people president of South Africa and the first presi- have reported being dent after the end of apartheid, would have beaten by staff there. turned 100 years old last month. He spent 27 This is outrageous. We must rehabiliyears of his life in prison, where he did hard labor and experienced long periods of soli- tate people so that tary confinement. Of the latter, he wrote in they can become his autobiography, “I found solitary confine- productive members ment the most forbidding aspect of prison of society and less life. There is no end and no beginning; there likely to com mit is only one’s mind, which can begin to play future crimes. Solitary confinement can tricks. Was that a dream or did it really hap- cause physical, emotional and psychological damage. More importantly, it fails to pen? One begins to question everything.” The United Nations, under what are address and treat the underlying cause of an known as the Mandela Rules, has con- offender’s behavior. The practice of solitary confinement demned confinement beyond 15 days except in extreme circumstances. New York does dates back to the 1820s in America when not have such a limit. Currently there are people thought that isolation for inmates thousands of people in solitary confinement was a good thing and that it would help with in New York, a rate far above the national rehabilitation, but today we know better. average, according to the New York Cam- Solitary confinement can cause human beings to become paign for Alternatives to depressed or even suicidIsolated Confinement. Imagine being locked e can be tough on al. Some studies have shown that more than 30 inside a 6-by-8-foot cell crime and protect percent of prison suicides for 22 to 24 hours a day occu r in solitar y for months, years, even prison personnel confinement. decades without any Sen. John McCain, meaningful human conwithout isolating who was a prisoner of tact — and your only people so cruelly. war in Vietnam for five amenities are a bed and a and a half years and was toilet. It would be torture, yet that is what we continue to do to subjected to brutal beatings and starvation, people in prisons and jails every day in New has said solitary confinement was the worst York by housing them in long-term solitary of what he experienced because it “crushes your spirit.” confinement. It is wrong and it must stop. Every year, hundreds of people who have However, let me be clear, we can still be tough on crime and protect corrections offi- been sealed off from the world in these cers and prison personnel. I also believe that parking space-sized cages are released back we need to take into account how we punish into the community as tortured, damaged people with no education, no way of coping, youth and those with mental illnesses. In 2015, New York City banned solitary no tools to help them adjust to life outside of confinement for young people age 21 or prison. Under those conditions, they are far younger. However, now it appears that the more likely to commit crimes in order to NYC Department of Correction is working survive the only way they know how. Long-term solitary confinement serves around local Board of Correction rules by transferring youth to jails in locations out- no legitimate purpose; therefore, I am proud side the city to places like Albany where iso- to be a co-sponsor of the HALT Solitary Confinement Act, which will implement restrictions on who can be confined and for how long. It will also create more humane and effective alternatives to such confinement. I call upon my colleagues in government and all people of good will to join me in supporting HALT. As former President Barack Obama so eloquently stated: “How can we subject prisoners to unnecessary solitary confinement, knowing its effects, and then expect them to return to our communities as whole people? It doesn’t make us safer. It’s an affront to our Q common humanity.” James Sanders Jr. is New York State Senator for the 10th District, in Southeast Queens and Rockaway.

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A Department of Environmental Protection manager has been arrested for allegedly taking a picture up a woman’s skirt as she shopped in Rego Park late last month. As seen on video surveillance from inside the Burlington Coat Factory at 96-05 Queens Blvd., the 26-year-old victim was browsing a clothing rack next to 42-year-old Forest Hills resident Eduardo Pinzon on July 31. When she stopped to pick up a shirt off the rack, that’s when Pinzon allegedly bent down, pointed his cell phone camera up her skirt and took a photo. The woman confronted him, but he was able to escape. The DEP employee was arrested last Thursday — according to reports, a colleague recognized him and called the police after seeing the security camera footage — and charged with one count of unlawful surveillance. Reports also stated that Pinzon has since been fired from his position as a project manager and administrative engineer with the agency, a job that pays Q $127,000 a year.

No participatory budgeting in D30 There’s a long list of projects that need cash: Holden by Christopher Barca Editor

The 2018-19 participatory budgeting cycle is getting underway, as announced by City Council Speaker Corey Johnson (D-Manhattan). But unlike past years, Council District 30 will not be participating in the process. Former Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley first brought PB to the district in 2015, allowing residents of Middle Village, Maspeth, Glendale and parts of Ridgewood, Woodside and Woodhaven to brainstorm potential projects and vote on which ones deserve up to $1 million in city funding. But her successor, Councilman Bob Holden (D-Middle Village), said he didn’t see the need to participate this year, telling the Chronicle there simply isn’t a free $1 million in his $5 million budget to set aside for participatory budgeting. “I have such a laundry list of capital projects, there was no room,” Holden said Tuesday. “It was out of the question.” Normally, the projects that have most often won funding through participatory budgeting in Crowley’s district and others include upgrades to district schools in the form of physical renovations or the pur-

Councilman Bob Holden says participatory budgeting will not happen in Council District FILE PHOTO 30 this year. chase of new technology. But Holden said he didn’t view the process as necessary, at least this year, as he has already visited every school in the dis-

trict to meet with principals and discuss their needs. “As a first-year Council member who knows the community like the back of my hand and in going to all the schools, there was just no room financially,” he said. “I could have blown the whole budget on PS 87 and still not have scratched the surface there.” If he gets additional city funding to allocate in future budgets, the lawmaker said he would reconsider bringing back participatory budgeting, adding that he initially thought it was a good idea “until I examined it.” In fact, Holden told the Chronicle in 2015 that he would “certainly trust” district residents to decide where money is allocated instead of Crowley. But in addition to there not being enough extra money in his budget, the councilman believed the participatory budgeting process inherently runs the risk of forcing communities or neighborhood factions to fight for city funding. “I think participatory budgeting in some districts may work,” Holden said. “But I didn’t want to pit one community against Q another in some sort of competition.”

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Fun, food, music and so much more! Old Lady of Grace Catholic Academy celebrates its 40th Annual Family Festival

ur Lady of Grace Catholic Academy in Howard Beach celebrated its 40th Annual Family Festival starting last Wednesday, Aug. 1. The event, run by Doreen DeCandia, Mike Campanella, Chris Johnson and a group of volunteers, saw thousands of

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There’s nothing quite like open-air live theater, where the unexpected, more often than not, provides much of the pleasure. Witness this season’s July 26 performance by Hip to Hip Theatre Co., the kickoff to its annual Free Shakespeare in the Parks tour, which includes multiple stops in Queens, for alternating streamlined renditions of “King Lear” and “All’s Well That Ends Well.” The site was the newly renovated plaza at LeFrak City in Corona; the audience, which blanketed the huge circular space, was made up primarily of families with youngsters who had not yet reached double digits in age. The playing area, on ground level and designated by a rope wrapped around pegs at each corner, was inches away. In the middle of a dramatic scene in “Lear” (actually, all scenes in this most tragic of all tragedies are dramatic!), an unsupervised toddler decided to step right into the action. Without missing a beat, and fully in character, one of the

actors picked the child up and placed him on the other side of the footlights. And then there were the plastic swords — seemingly thousands of them — which had been distributed to the youngsters prior to the show. At any given moment, impromptu swordplay would break out among the spectators. The children were having a great time, to be sure, even if their attention was not always on the main stage. Their lack of focus is excusable. “Lear,” with its dense plot and difficult dialect, is probably not the ideal vehicle for a young person’s introduction to theater. But, thanks to an enlightening preshow workshop with the children (they take place a half hour prior to curtain time at every performance), and a smart trimming to a neat intermissionless 90 minutes, the proceedings held many enraptured. Indeed, when one of the “good” guys killed one of the “bad” guys, many of those youngsters, totally getting it, applauded like mad. In fact, Jason Marr, the troupe’s co-founder, said after the performance, “The season is particularly apt for kids. Kids understand big emotion. Shakespeare is all about big emotion.” continued on page 27 Continued on page

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“Miya Ando: Clouds,” with two site-specific glass sculptures inspired by a Zen phrase. Thru Sun., Aug. 19, Noguchi Museum, 9-01 33 Road, Long Island City. $10; $5 seniors, students; NYC HS students, kids under 12 free. Info: (718) 204-7088, noguchi.org.

Queensboro Dance Festival, with six companies performing as part of ongoing tour and activities like T-shirt printing (bring one). Sat., Aug. 11, 2-3:30 p.m., Fort Totten Park parade grounds, Totten Ave. and 15 Road, Bayside. Free. Info/RSVP (requested): (929) 282-0620, queensborodancefestival.com.

Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year, with award-winning images of celestial phenomena of all kinds from all over the world, from a contest held by Britain’s National Maritime Museum. Thru Fri., Aug. 31, New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Corona. Free with admission: $16; $13 seniors, kids, students with ID. Info: (718) 6990005, nysci.org.

Norte Maar’s Dance, with works by resident choreographers and Sarah Louise Kristiansen. Sat., Aug. 11, 4-5:30 p.m., Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Blvd., Long Island City. Free. Info: (718) 9561819, socratessculpturepark.org.

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“Nothing Gold Can Stay,” paintings by Ard Berge that often mix pastoral beauty with imagery of the present, revealing social and other pressures underlying change. Thru Fri., Sept. 7, QCC Art Gallery, Queensborough Community College, 22205 56 Ave., Bayside. Free. Info: (718) 631-6396, qcc.cuny.edu/artgallery. “El Dorado/The New 49ers,” with 100 outdoor sculptures of infants (“guaguas”), 49 of them painted gold in tribute to the 49 percent of NYC households that speak a language other than English. Thru Sun., Oct. 14, Lewis H. Latimer House Museum, 34-41 137 St., Flushing. Free. Info: (718) 961-8585, latimernow.org. “Tony Vaccaro: ‘Orphan to Photographer,’” the world-renowned lensman’s first exhibit near his home in Long Island City after more than 275 international shows over 50 years, with images available for sale. LiC-A @ The Plaxall Gallery, 5-25 46 Ave., Long Island City. Free. Info: (347) 8480030, licartists.org. “Domingo Carrasco: Themes & Variations,” with paintings and works on paper by the Queens native that celebrate line, color and classical forms, attempting to idealize the human spirit. Thru the end of Dec., QED, 27-16 23 Road, Astoria. Free. Info: (347) 451-3873, qedastoria.com.

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MUSIC Hot Jazz / Cool Garden: Bria Skonberg, with the NYbased Canadian singer, trumpeter and songwriter wrapping up the summertime series, with food and drink for guests. Sat., Aug. 11, 2-5 p.m., Louis Armstrong House Museum, 34-56 107 St., Corona. $20. Info: (718) 478-8274, louisarmstronghouse.org.

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Kew Gardens Festival of Cinema, with films of all kinds, screened in Forest Hills and Flushing Meadows, and other special events elsewhere. Thru Sun., Aug. 12, varying times and locations. Mostly $10-$15 per block of films. Info: (929) 278-KGFC (5432), kewgardensfestivalofcinema.com. Jazz trumpeter Joey Morant, the South Carolina native who’s performed with musical greats from Sir Paul McCartney to Ray Charles and James Brown, brings his ode to Louis Armstrong back to Socrates Sculpture Park today, Aug. 9, in a free show. See Music. COURTESY PHOTO String Noise, the violin duo of Conrad and Pauline Kim Harris, blurring the lines of classical and avant-garde, as part of the Bang on a Can music series. Sun., Aug. 12, 3 p.m., Noguchi Museum, 9-01 33 Road, Long Island City. Free with admission (seating first-come, first-served): $10; $5 seniors, students; NYC HS students, kids under 12 free. Info: (718) 204-7088, noguchi.org. Jazz saxophonist Roman Filiu, with the bandleader and composer delivering “a summer evening of AfroCuban passion and heat.” Thu., Aug. 9, 6-7:30 p.m., Central Library, 89-11 Merrick Blvd., Jamaica. Free. Info/ tickets (req’d): (718) 990-0778, queenslibrary.org. Joey Morant’s Ode to Louis Armstrong, with the master trupeter and singer performing in homage to the jazz legend. Thu., Aug. 9, 6:30-8 p.m., Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Blvd., Long Island City. Free. Info: (718) 956-1819, socratessculpturepark.org.

THEATRE “Legally Blonde,” the musical based on the comedy novel and film about a sorority girl who goes to Harvard Law School to win back her ex-boyfriend, by the JC Players. Sat., Aug. 11, 8 p.m.; Sun., Aug. 12, 3 p.m., Community United Methodist Church, 75-27 Metropolitan Ave., Middle Village. $20; $15 seniors, kids. Info: (631) 843-2773, jcplayers.com. “42nd Street,” the backstage show biz musical about a dictatorial Broadway director and his cast, including an ingenue who becomes a star, by the HJC Teen Drama Group. Thu., Aug. 9, 7 p.m.; Fri.-Sat., Aug. 10-11, 8 p.m.; Sun., Aug. 12, 3 p.m., Church of the Holy Child Jesus Msgr. Murray Auditorium, 111-02 86 Ave., Richmond Hill. $12; $10 seniors, kids. Info: (718) 847-1860, hcjteendrama@gmail.com.

Music in the Garden: Women’s Raga Massive, with improvised pieces, original works and raga-inspired tributes to female heroes, using Indian classical as a framework. Sun., Aug. 12, 4-5:30 p.m., Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main St., Flushing. Free with admission: $6; $4 seniors; $4 students, $2 children over 3. Info: (718) 886-3800, queensbotanical.org.

“Sister Act,” the musical comedy based on the 1992 film about a singer-turned-murder witness forced to hide out in a convent, by St. Gregory’s Theatre Group. Thu.-Sat., Aug. 9-11; Wed.-Sat., Aug. 15-18, 8 p.m.; Sun., Aug. 12 and 19, 2 p.m., St. Gregory the Great Church, 242-20 88 Ave. (entrance thru glass doors), Bellerose. $18; $15 seniors, students; $8 kids under 12. Info: (718) 989-2451, sgtg.org.

LA Blacksmith & Jazz Plus, with the saxophonist, flutist and vocalist performing a tribute to Herbie Hancock and Grover Washington, part of the Forest Hills Chamber of Commerce’s Jazz Thursdays series. Thu., Aug. 16, 7 p.m., 70th Road between Austin St. and Queens Blvd. Free. Info: (646) 569-3600, foresthillschamberofcommerce.org.

Shakespeare in the Parks, with “All’s Well That Ends Well,” the comedy-tragedy about love, conquest and betrayal; and “King Lear,” the tragedy about a monarch’s descent into madness. Alternating days through Sat., Aug. 25, various outdoor locations, most in Queens. Free. Info: (718) 7298567, hiptohip.org.

“West Side Story,” the acclaimed 1961 musical retelling of the Romeo and Juliet tale in 1950s NYC, starring Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer; winner of 10 Academy Awards; part of the “See It Big! 70 mm” series. Fri., Aug. 10, 7 p.m.; Sat., Aug. 11, 3 p.m.; Sun., Aug. 12, 6:30 p.m., Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria. $15; $11 seniors, students; $9 kids 3-17; includes museum admission. Info: (718) 777-6888, movingimage.us.

“Casablanca,” the 1942 wartime romantic drama starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, about Europeans fleeing the Nazi advance and the relationships among a jaded nightclub owner, his old flame and her husband; often ranked among Hollywood’s greatest. Mon., Aug. 13, 8:30 p.m., Astoria Park Great Lawn. Free. Info: (718) 728-7820, centralastoria.nyc. WARNER BROS. PICTURES

KIDS/TEENS Free Build: Legos and Zoobs; Dowels and Rubber Bands; PVC Pipes, with kids (all ages welcome) creating their own structures using those objects. Each Sat.-Sun., 10:30 a.m.-5:45 p.m., thru Aug. 26, New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Corona. Free with admission: $16; $13 seniors, kids, students with ID. Info: (718) 699-0005, nysci.org. continued on page 28

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A celebration of humanity and a sense of jubilation is the background theme for all of artist Domingo Carrasco’s work, he says. This spirit springs from the canvas of the works in his newest show, “Themes & Variations,” on display now through the end of December at the arts and performance space QED on 23rd Avenue in Astoria. Warmth and positivity bloom on filled-out faces that caress the swirling lines and rounded-off color fields of “Horizons,” an acrylic on canvas. Carrasco says he started the work while participating in a street fair, first taping off a border and then working with colors and their relationships to each other. He then drew a figure 8 and “started

‘Domingo Carrasco: Themes & Variations’ When: Through the end of December Where: QED, 27-16 23 Ave., Astoria Entry: Free. (347) 451-3873, qedastoria.com

exploring the spaces in between” the lines. “There is a certain language of color that I am drawn to. The sensibility of this language lends itself to feelings of peace and calm. Lately, the color pink functions to activate other colors in my work — evoking this feeling of peace and calm in me. There is a balance of color and line that I strive to express with each painting that I create,” he said. A rapid glance at Carrasco’s works demands comparison to one of his favorite artists, Picasso. But a lingering gaze reveals the influence of two more favorites: the less abstract Henri Matisse and color whisperer Milton Avery. “This kind of work that I do, it’s walking a line between figurative art and abstract art. I’m trying to have it both ways as an artist,” Carrasco said. His narrative elements tell stories and his color play indulges the abstract. The work is grounded by another influence: “I like to look at Classical Roman imagery and, mostly, sculpture.” “Vase in Blue,” an acrylic on canvas, places a face on a well-proportioned dark black vase, all in a field of blue. A left-side handle is balanced by one on the right. Upward- arched eyebrows answer sinking

Domingo Carrasco’s “Horizons,” left, evolved from color play, through exploration of shapes, into a painting, while his interest in classical Roman imagery and sculpture is PHOTOS BY VICTORIA ZUNITCH evident in the balance and proportions of “Vase in Blue.” curves on the eyelids. The artist’s father, Domingo Carrasco Sr., who attended the QED opening on a recent Sunday, sees a story in “Species,” a drawing in ink and watercolor on paper. A woman’s face of uncertain expression remains at the far upper-right corner of a dense field of nat-

ural elements. “It sort of questions something,” Carrasco Sr. said. “It made me think about a lady who’s a little insecure about her surroundings, and yet she’s confident. She seems to be thinking, ‘I think I’ll be okay,’” he said. continued on page 29

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Elle Woods (Sara Svezia), in pink top, and several classmates come face-to-face with PHOTO BY MARK LORD dirty-minded Professor Callahan (Mark York).

“Legally Blonde,” a musical adaptation of the popular film of the same name, is the current attraction from The JC Players, providing a light summertime diversion. It runs one more weekend, at Community United Methodist Church in Middle Village. The show focuses on the very blonde Elle Woods, a sorority sister with plans to marry one Warner Huntington III, who, moments after the story begins to unfold, breaks up with her. She spends the next couple of hours singing, looking chic and plotting how to win him back. It’s all pretty brainless, but fun, and there are lively musical numbers galore to keep things rolling along. Sara Svezia, making an auspicious debut with this troupe in the demanding central role, is, as they used to say, quite a looker, reminiscent at times of a young Loni Anderson. And she delivers a dozen or so songs in a clear, pleasant voice. She is surrounded by a bunch of game performers, some more vocally gifted than others, who, as a whole, provide all the energy needed to deliver the goods here. A couple of individuals make particularly strong impressions every time they appear. One is Donna Falzon as Elle’s hairdresser, who provides a near showstopper, “Ireland.” The other is Anthony Faubion, a definite presence who, with relatively little stage time, takes on a couple of roles and turns each into a memorable oversized character.

On occasion, a member of a show’s ensemble manages to stand out. Here it is Jen Silverman as one of Elle’s sorority sisters, who sings and dances with abandon. Alicia Brosky makes an energetic fitness goddess; Mark York is a stuffy professor with a disturbing secret; Navin Das’ Warner is not as suave as one might expect of someone with his background; and Thom Harmon fills the shoes of the rather bland Emmett, who plays an increasingly important role in Elle’s life. Director Barbara Auriemma keeps the action flowing, blending one scene into another almost without interruption. She utilizes the minimal set (consisting primarily of a three-tiered set of bleachers that serves multiple purposes) most effectively. And her touches are everywhere, such as the clever way the ensemble of eight spells out the nine-letter name of the leading character. Music Director Frank Auriemma is an effective one-man band. Choreographers Christine Hinz and Jessica Helton keep the cast in almost constant motion. Costumes (by Amy Ellis) are appropriately colorful Q and varied.

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continued from page 23 Marr was pleased with the crowd’s response. “Our mission is to take theater into public spaces to build and sustain the audiences of tomorrow,” he said. The performance itself, fully staged and costumed, was meticulously directed by Marr and acted with conviction by a company of dedicated players, many of them Hip to Hip regulars. As the central figure, Joel Leffert delivered a nuanced portrayal, depicting Lear’s evolution and ultimate descent into madness. Totally drained by the role’s demands, he admitted afterward that the just-concluded performance was “a challenge,” saying, “These guys aren’t used to us. They

were a little noisier than we’d like to see.” But none of that seemed to matter. He was given strong support by every member of the company, including Joy Marr, Kathleen Denecke and Taylor Harris-Butler as Lear’s three daughters; Kurt Kingsley as his friend, the Earl of Kent; Tristan Land and Brian Demar Jones as his sonsin-law; Colin Wulff as Edgar, the loyal son of one of Lear’s noblemen; and, in a reversal of Shakespearean tradition, three of the women playing male roles, Sofia Dobrushin (Lear’s attendant Fool), Elisabeth S. Rodgers (the Earl of Gloucester), and Natalia Cuevas (Gloucester’s treacherous illegitimate younger son, Edmund). Many of the same actors will appear in “All’s Well,” under the direction of Owen Thompson. A much lighter piece, it focuses on heroine Helena (Joy Marr), who is driven to achieve seemingly impossible goals — a feminist ahead of her time, some might say. When: Various dates and times Remaining performances in Queens through Sat., Aug. 25 of “Lear” are on Aug. 9, 11, 16, 17 and Where: Various parks, mostly in Queens 19; and of “All’s Well” on Aug. 12, 18 Entry: Free. (718)729-8567, hiptohip.org and 23. All are free and include the children’s workshop one half hour prior

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In 1909, farmer Louis Sahner, who owned a little over two acres in the vicinity of what is now 81st Street and Myrtle Avenue, leased a building to be used as a saloon for the golfers using the Forest Park Golf Course. It closed down in 1919, the year before Prohibition took effect. In 1936, three years after the dry era ended, Henry “Happy” Miller gave up being an iceman after being phased out with the invention of the refrigerator and opened up Happy’s Restaurant in the building, at 81-01 Myrtle Ave. Victor Koenig took over Miller’s lease in 1942. In 1944 he sold the business to one of his waiters — Heinz Durow, born Dec. 26, 1914 in Wesermunde, Germany, who came over on the SS General Von Steuben in September 1934. Durow’s, as the restaurant would be called for decades, was born. The new owner married an American, Martha Benson, in 1940. In 1946, the heirs of Sahner sold him the building. Durow’s fine cuisine was due to master chef Fritz Schmidtke. Events, parties and

Happy’s Restaurant, the pre-Durow’s tenant, 81-01 Myrtle Ave., Glendale, circa 1942. weddings always had Durow’s solidly booked. Sadly, Durow and Benson divorced in Dade County (present-day Miami-Dade County), Fla. in 1952. Finally, in 1958 he sold the business to William Steinbeck. Steinbeck wisely kept the name on the building and Schmidtke in the kitchen. After selling the restaurant, Durow legally changed his first name to Carl. He died in 1976 at age 61. Martha passed in 1977 in New Jersey at the same age. Schmidtke died in Broward County, Fla. in 1987 at age 86. In 1989 Bridie Keane, then-owner of Bridie’s bar on Woodhaven Boulevard, bought the business and kept its name. But by 2005, mounting costs from taxes, insurance and keeping the old building up to code caused Q its demise and demolition.

continued from page 24 Jamaica Bay Creative Workshop: Plastic Bird Bellies, with kids painting birds with a mosaic of garbage in their stomachs to remind others of trash’s impact on ecosystems. Sat., Aug. 11, 2 p.m. (Aug. 18: kids create campaign slogans for animals and vote on which is president of Jamaica Bay; Aug. 25: kids make shorebirds out of paper, wire, tape and paint), Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Center, 175-10 Cross Bay Blvd., Broad Channel. Free. Info: (718) 318-4340, nps.gov/gate/planyourvisit. Global Mashup for Kids: Asia Meets Latin America, with Elena Moon Park and Sonia de los Santos performing folk music and children’s songs of East Asia and Latin America and attendees singing and dancing along. Sun., Aug. 12, 1 p.m., Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. $14; $8 kids. Info: (718) 4637700, flushingtownhall.org.

TOURS/HIKES Maple Grove Cemetery, with attendees exploring its Victorian sections, learning about interesting and historical people buried there and more, led by Jo-Anne Raskin. Sat., Aug. 11, 2-3:30 p.m., meeting at Victorian Administration Building, Kew Gardens Road and Lefferts Blvd. $15. Info: (347) 878-6614, friendsofmaplegrove.org.

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Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival, the 28th annual, with more than 200 teams racing, entertainment, folk art, food, arts and crafts and more, celebrating the Asian Year of the Dog. Sat.-Sun., Aug. 11-12, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Meadow Lake, Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Free. Info: (718) 7671776, hkdbf-ny.org. PHOTO BY BOB DEA

MARKETS Richmond Hill, 117-09 Hillside Ave., every Sun., 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Largest flea market in Queens. Info: (347) 709-7661, richmondhillfleamarket.com.

Arbitration Rock: Battle of the Boroughs, a family-friendly field day event with tug-of-war, pie-eating contest, trivia, prizes, kids’ activities, beer, food, music and more. Sat., Aug. 11, 12-6 p.m., Onderdonk House, 1820 Flushing Ave., Ridgewood. $5 suggested. Info: (718) 456-1776, bit.ly/2vH8p1b.

St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church outdoor flea market, with 160 vendors. Each Sat.-Sun., 9 a.m.-3 p.m., thru end of November, Union Tpke. and Parsons Blvd., Jamaica. Info: (718) 969-3226.

Summer Slam Car Show, with classic rides, trophies, 50/50, Joe Fuoco’s live band, DJ Ray and more, by the East Coast Car Assn., to benefit St. Mary’s Healthcare System for Children. Sun., Aug. 12, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Maspeth Federal Savings parking lot, 69 St. off Grand Ave., Maspeth. Free; $20 to show a car. Info: (917) 385-2322, (917) 682-5362, eccatoysfortots.org.

Overeaters Anonymous, for anyone with an eating disorder or other problem with food or maintaining a healthy weight, in various neighborhoods. Each Tue., 7:30-9 p.m., Holy Child Jesus Outreach Center, 112-06 86 Ave., Richmond Hill. Info: (718) 564-7027 (leave message). Each Thu., 12-1:30 p.m., Howard Beach Library, 92-06 156 Ave. Info: Julie, (718) 848-4338. Each Thu., 12:15-1:40 p.m., Rego Park Library, 91-41 63 Drive. Info: (347) 433-5876 (OA of Greater New York; leave message), (718) 459-5140 (library).

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Carrasco at QED continued from page 25 The particular elements of nature chosen for this piece support this reassuring interpretation: flowers, butterflies and, importantly, birds. “Birds are a very common theme in my work,” representing freedom and peace, the artist said. The linear nature of the images in Carrasco’s figurative paintings leads some artists to refer to them as a t ype of “‘drawing’ painting,” he said. Carrasco said he often

starts a piece by “blindly drawing on a piece of paper with the intention of seeing what these shapes can give back to me.” At age 40, Carrasco, a full-time public school art teacher who only began to sell his work a few years ago, opened “Themes and Variations” at QED just as his show “Figurations,” at Communities in Long Island City, was closing. “A few years from now, will I still be painting like this?” Carrasco mused. If so, he wonders, will that be a good thing? “I don’t know.” For now, Carrasco said, he likes how he feels when he’s doing the work and he likes Q how it’s being received.

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Domingo Carrasco, top, and above holding niece Liv at QED, where friends and family gathered for his exhibit opening. COURTESY PHOTO, TOP, AND PHOTO BY VICTORIA ZUNITCH

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Notice of formation of TECC DESIGNS AND SOLUTIONS LLC. Articles of Organization Filed with the Secretary of State of New York SSNY on 05/10/2018. Office located in Queens. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC to ARSEN ZAVLYANOV, 139-12 Coolidge Ave., Briarwood, NY 11435 Purpose: any lawful purpose.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 07-17-2018, bearing Index Number NC-00063618/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) BARTOSZ (Last) FRACZEK. My present name is (First) BARTOSZ (Last) SYPYTKOWSKI (infant). The city and state of my present address are Middle Village, NY. My place of birth is NEW YORK, NY. The month and year of my birth are June 2008.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 08-03-2018, bearing Index Number NC-000583-18/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) GEORGE (Last) ROMAN. My present name is (First) GEAOGE (Last) ROMAN AKA GEORGE ROMAN, AKA GEORGE ROMAN SR. The city and state of my present address are Maspeth, NY. My place of birth is BROOKLYN, NY. The month and year of my birth are February 1955.

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RIDGEWOOD 2 family in the heart of Ridgewood, newly remodeled first floor, new windows, new front door, new hot water heater, 2 blocks from Fresh Pond Rd. Asking $1.2 mil

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Beautifully renovated, new kitchen wood cabinets, wood floors. 2 bedrooms on second floor with new bath. 1st floor family room, new full bath. 30x106. Asking $729K

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Mint High Ranch, 4 BRs, 2 full baths. Stucco exterior, granite countertop, pavers front and back, triple driveway, new fencing. Asking $1.050 Mil.

Large Brookfield (26x52) on 40x100 lot. Total 5 BRs, 3 full baths. Top floor has 3 BRs, 2 full bths, large living room, formal dining room, EIK and walk-in large living room, 2 bedrooms, dining area, kit, full bth, updated windows, Asking $ 859K 4-year-old roof.

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"Totally Redone Colonial 2018 mint large chef's kitchen. SS appl., 2 full baths, 3 bedrooms upstairs with walkin closet, master bedroom has large full bath with Jacuzzi & separate shower, 1st floor has living room, dining room & bedroom or den. All new hardwood floors with radiant heat on 1st & second floors. New electric, windows & door. Asking $898K

OZONE PARK

(TUDOR VILLAGE) Mint "All Brick Colonial" redone 4 years ago. 3 BRs, new full bath upstairs, new half bath being put in on 1st fl. Lg LR, large formal DR, new kit w/SS appl., with quartz countertop, new windows, heated floors 1st fl. and upstairs bth. New heating, instant hot water, new CAC, hi-hats, det. brick garage, 9' ceilings 1st & 2nd flrs. Asking $649K

HOWARD BEACH/ROCKWOOD PARK MINT UNIQUE home in great location. Large 4 level split home, featuring 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, large master bedroom with large dressing room and 2 walk-in closets. Beautiful kit & baths, finished basement, and many extras. Reduced Asking $889K

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D SE CLO •G Greentree t condo. 3rd fl. vaulted ceiling, kitchen w/ skylight, 3BR, 2 baths, 2 terraces, park & garage. Asking $379K

Colonial. Being sold "As Is." Renovated after Sandy, 3 BRs, 1 bath. Reduced $485K

Brookfield-style Hi-Ranch. Updated interior featuring a generous size family room with woodburning fireplace overlooking spacious yard. 4 BRs, 3 full baths, oversized kitchen and formal dining room. New heat and CAC. 1 car garage. Asking $849K

• 1 Car garage for sale. ...........................$29K • Hi-rise, 2BR, 1 bath & terrace Co-op, move-in cond., 1st fl., parquet wood fls. ............ Asking $229K • Hi-rise, 1st floor Co-op, 2 BR/2 baths, HW fls. ........... Asking $249K • 2 BR/2 baths and terrace. ........... Asking $249K • Hard to find Hi-rise, 3BR, 2 full baths Co-op, totally redone building. ........ Reduced $264K

RENTALS • Mint 3 BR apt with parking spot, new wood fls & appl., heat & hot water, cathedral ceilings. .................. $2,300/Mo. • Mint 2 BR duplex with yard. .................. $2,300/Mo. • Mint 2 BR duplex with washer/dryer, garage & driveway. $2,300/Mo. or same apt. adding in full basement for storage, .................. $2,700/Mo. • 3 BR duplex and terrace. .................. $2,500/Mo.

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Beautiful custom Colonial. Open concept with 23 ft. ceilings, 2 custom fireplaces, tinted UV windows. Beautiful kitchen with high-end SS appl. with wine refrigerator. FDR with den with fireplace, patio off den, granite countertop and 1/2 bth, custom staircase to 2nd flr. with 3 BRs, 3 full bths. Balcony in master bedroom. Also 3 more rooms, laundry area. Asking $1.250 Mil.

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Exclusive listing Lovely corner Colonial, 4 BRs, 2 full baths, 40x100, MB w/balcony, family room w/ woodburning fireplace. Reduced Asking $790K

HOWARD BEACH ROCKWOOD PARK

HOWARD BEACH Mint extended Cape. Updated brick & stucco, 3/4 BRs, Andersen windows, Pella doors, 1st fl den, tile fls, full bth, kitchen, W/D, 2nd fl, lg LR, FDR. Lg master BR, 2 walk-in closets, HW fls, new EIK w/SS appl. (kit with radiant heat floors). Top floor 2 bed/deck off, DR w/Trex decking, paved double driveway, 1 car garage. Heated in-ground pool. Asking $829K

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