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Queens teens meet Parkland students School shooting survivors talk gun violence reform with boro activists by Christopher Barca Editor

un violence will forever be a part of the life of 20-year-old South Jamaica resident Jaffari Williams-Fox. He mostly grew up without his father, who is doing prison time for shooting another man. When he started falling in with the wrong crowd early in his teenage years, a number of his friends and acquaintances carried firearms around with them. To him, it seemed as if someone was getting shot in his neighborhood — where he admitted to “influencing a lot of violence” as a youth — on a daily basis. “Living in that upbringing, I didn’t feel like people could understand me,” Williams-Fox told the Chronicle on Tuesday. “I was on my own. I was rebellious. “No one had to tell me Santa Claus was fake. I already knew.” But before he could head too far down a dangerous personal path, his mother signed him up for Love Ignites Freedom through Education Camp, a South Jamaica-based antigun violence organization that helps steer youths toward productive professional and personal lives. In the six years since he joined the group, Williams-Fox said he’s not only cleaned up his act but become a mentor to teenagers enduring

Seen here with Borough President Melinda Katz, left, and LIFE Camp Director Erica Ford, prominent Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre survivors David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez met with teenage Queens anti-gun violence activists in Jamaica and Kew Gardens last SaturPHOTO COURTESY QUEENS BP day to share stories of survival and discuss reform. the same struggles he did — doing so through creating a basketball camp, giving martial arts lessons and other efforts. He’s even planning to participate in a LIFE Camp initiative that would match him with gang-affiliated youths who have been hospitalized after being shot.

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Grieving Vetrano tends garden Father honors daughter Karina at site of killing by David Russell Associate Editor

At least once a day, Phil Vetrano returns to the site where his daughter was murdered. “It’s just that I need to keep her memory and name alive,” Vetrano said. Vetrano has a garden in Spring Creek Park in Howard Beach where he found the body of his daughter, Karina, two years ago. On Aug. 2, 2016, Karina told her father that she would go jogging in the park. Vetrano told his daughter that he didn’t have a good feeling about it. Her response: “Don’t worry, Daddy. I’ll be fine.” The 30-year-old, who had gone jogging with her father two days earlier, never came home. It’s a fairly short walk from the corner of 161st Ave- the year 1986 and the symbol for infinity where 2016 nue and 78th Street into the garden, but feels longer could have been. There are also beer bottles left by her because of the high-stepping done over all the weeds in boyfriend. There is also a butterfly made out of cobblestones that the park. The area had actually been mowed two weeks prior to the murder, or else Karina would not have been Vetrano took out of the ground from the trail after it was no longer a crime scene. able to go jogging that night. Spring Creek Park is par t of the Vetrano comes back to where he National Park System, but nobody is found Karina ever y day, sometimes giving Vetrano a problem about planttwice. ’ll never let the ing on public land. “They actually There is a contradiction in seeing the asked me if I needed help,” Vetrano grieving Vetrano in such a beautiful world forget her.” said. set t i ng su r rou nded by su n f lowers. — Phil Vetrano Vetrano and his wife, Cathie, have “Basically, our lives are over,” Vetrano another daughter, Tana. “We don’t celsaid. “We’re just going through the motions. We’re waiting for this trial to start and to con- ebrate holidays anymore, we don’t celebrate birthdays, clude, and waiting to die. we don’t celebrate anything,” Phil said. “So she loses out Becau se ou r lives a re also. She loses out on our Christmases, Easters and basically over. Nothing birthdays because we don’t celebrate them.” Chanel Lewis has been charged with the murder, and will ever be the same. Vetrano is confident that Lewis, who has confessed to Not even close to it.” Vetrano has to apply the crime, will be put away. There is no start date for the bugspray before walking trial at this time, according to the District Attorney’s into the park. When he Office. “We just got to wait and make sure he gets put away walked in on Friday, there was some wi nd wh ich in a cage and he dies in that cage,” Vetrano said. Vetrano is keeping his daughter’s name alive. There is offset the humid afternoon. Over the winter, he a scholarship in her name at Molloy, where she went to brought down topsoil, and high school before going to St. John’s University like her father did. And he wants any potential jurors to rememhe planted in April. There is a stone memo- ber what happened. Phil Vetrano sits in the garden Q “I’ll never let the world forget her,” Vetrano said. rial with Karina’s name, he created for his daughter.

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Phil Vetrano looks out at the sunflowers. A memorial stone with Karina’s name on it is part of the garden. PHOTOS BY DAVID RUSSELL

New Community Council prez in 102 by David Russell Associate Editor

Simcha Waisman, right, is now president of the 102nd Precinct Community Council. TWITTER PHOTO / NYPD QUEENS SOUTH

The 102nd Precinct has a new Community Council president. Simcha Waisman has been active as the president of the One Stop Richmond Hill Community Center and president of the Richmond Hill Block Association. “My goal is simple,” Waisman said. “To bring the community to the police and the police to the community.” He’s met all sorts of people in his 38 years participating in the community. “The good,

the bad and the ugly,” Waisman said. For Waisman, the best part of the job is meeting people, and being able to help the police and the community, while “the toughest is to be the buffer between the police and the community and try to help everybody,” he said. Making the move easier is his strong working relationship with the precinct commander Capt. Courtney Nilan. Nilan has known Waisman for several years, since she was first in the precinct as a lieutenant. She also attends each meeting of the Richmond

Hill Block Association, and he has been involved in the Community Council. “Simcha’s been coming to the Community Council meetings for years and has been outspoken in helping with police community relations in the 102nd precinct, and I think it’s going to be a natural transition,” Nilan said. Waisman believes Nilan is much better at being involved with the community and responding to questions and complaints than her predecessors. “In my book, she’s one of the best captains that we’ve had,” Waisman Q said.

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Ozone Park resident’s hunger strike goes on Sam Esposito’s homeless shelter protest moves into the second week by David Russell Associate Editor

The hunger strike of an Ozone Park man unhappy about construction of a homeless shelter for over 100 mentally ill men in his neighborhood has reached its second week. “I’m not going to move until this is over,” Sam Esposito said. “Or they carry me away by ambulance.” The former Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church at 85-15 101 Ave. in Ozone Park is being converted into a homeless shelter. The last time Esposito ate was on Aug. 5, when he had a large Italian dinner at 5 p.m. He didn’t tell any of his friends or family that he was doing this until after it started, because he figured they would try to talk him out of it. “I lost 14 pounds, but I haven’t really been hungry,” he said. “I’m not craving for food. I don’t know if your body just don’t need food anymore.” Esposito, who has been sleeping in a tent, says he hasn’t cheated on his self-imposed fast. “I haven’t eaten a solid thing since I’ve been on this. No juices. I drink a lot of water. A lot of water.” He wasn’t happy when he learned from the Department of Homeless Services that those staying in the shelter don’t need to be fingerprinted, as Esposito worries that sex offenders would be able to stay close to sev-

Protester Sam Esposito next to the van he has festooned with protest signs as construction of a homeless shelter that would house 113 mentally ill men goes up in his neighborhood at the site PHOTO BY DAVID RUSSELL of a former church. eral schools. There is also a curfew for the men in the shelter. “You’re dealing with 113 mentally ill men,” Esposito said. “You mean to tell me they’re all going to look at their watch and say ‘I’ve got to be here by 10 o’clock?’ Because if that’s the logic of the situation, then you’re as mental as they are.”

Esposito added, “If they told me they were going to have a doctor here and these guys were going to be on medicine, I wouldn’t be sitting here right now wasting my summer away.” Esposito was told they would sleep in the lobby after curfew, that there wouldn’t be a

Roundabout work in Lindenwood begins by David Russell

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Drivers at the Lindenwood Triangle, where 153rd and 155th avenues meet 88th Street, will see 12 orange constr uction bar rels, as work begins to turn it into a mini roundabout. “It’s a good idea because it got too dangerous out here,” said Howard Beach resident PJ Farrell. For pedestrians, the project means shorter crossings and calmer traffic. The construction, which is near PS 232 and is timed to finish before school starts, comes after a number of car crashes and pedestrian injuries. Along with the mini roundabout, changes include additional pedestrian space, curb extensions and a parking lane stripe. All turn moveme nt s w i l l b e r elo c at e d toward the circle. The project area is in a residential area tucked between Conduit Avenue and the Belt Parkway. The Q15, Q21 and Q41 bus routes run southeast

Construction barrels where the Lindenwood Triangle will become a mini roundabout. of the project area along 155th Avenue. Yield signs will be installed at all entrances to the roundabout, while pedestrian warning signs will be installed in advance of crosswalks. In addition, the Department of Transpor tation is

st udy i ng f ive a d d it ion a l enhanced crossings in the area. The roundabout project was overwhelmingly popular with Community Board 10 and area politicians although it took some time for it to be

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doctor on-site and the security guards aren’t licensed. “There’s no doubt, I’m telling you, I promise you, within the first month of this shelter being here, someone is going to get seriously hurt,” Esposito said. While he and some of his friends are Ozone Parkers for life, some parents have told him they would leave, should the shelter come to fruition. “This community loves to help, it’s just that this shelter system is not set up for mentally ill men at all,” Esposito said. Esposito, who is serving as president of the revived Ozone Park Residents’ Block Association, says that he doesn’t want anybody to follow his lead and starve themselves, and he also tells people not to harass the workers, who are simply doing a job. According to Esposito, the 102nd Precinct has been fine with him because he doesn’t stop workers and doesn’t try to rally hundreds of people on the block, which would cause the need for a police presence. There is a lawsuit to block the shelter pending, and Esposito hopes it will delay the construction until the residents can speak to the mayor, or his replacement. Esposito says his goal isn’t necessarily to have some one-on-one with Mayor de Blasio. “It’s not that they’re going to talk to me,” Esposito said. “It’s that they’re going to Q listen that it means this much to us.”

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‘Clear Curbs’ ending Friday, five weeks early Roosevelt Ave. traffic initiative hurt small businesses, area leaders say by Christopher Barca Editor

Take a walk down Roosevelt Avenue between Broadway and 90th Street and in the windows of numerous small businesses you’ll see signs blasting “Clear Curbs” — the six-month initiative that bans parking on both sides of the busy roadway from 7 to 10 a.m. and 4 to 7 p.m. on weekdays. But those signs should soon be coming down, as the Department of Transportationadministered program is ending tomorrow, Aug. 17, five weeks earlier than planned. Along with a half-dozen other elected officials and community leaders, Councilm a n Fr a ncisco Moya ( D - Coron a) announced in a Monday press release that Clear Curbs was wrapping up at the end of the week. And in a Tuesday interview, Moya told the Chronicle that while the pilot project was “well-intentioned,” it ultimately did much more harm than good when it comes to the financial health of Jackson Heights merchants and their shops. “This is a big victory for our neighborhood and the small businesses along Roosevelt Avenue,” Moya said. “We were able to really shed some light on a program that was well-intentioned, but just did not fit in this particular community, given the high

The Department of Transportation is ending the six-month “Clear Curbs” initiative — which banned parking on both sides of Roosevelt Avenue from Broadway to 90th Street during certain morning PHOTO BY RICK MAIMAN and evening hours — on Friday, five weeks early. density of small business owners.” Launched in March, Clear Curbs was designed to limit congestion and more quickly move traffic along the commercial corridor. But in recent months, area elected officials, community leaders and business owners claimed at protests and other events that what Clear Curbs had done was hurt

stores that rely heavily on street parking. On a walking tour of Roosevelt Avenue last month, Moya and DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg heard from multiple merchants who said their bottom lines had taken a nosedive. Home Design Furniture owner Jimmy Jaber even said he wouldn’t have opened his

store on the street if he knew Clear Curbs was coming, as his business had taken a 50 percent hit. A beauty supply store owner named Itsy added she had to lay off some of her staff to make up for lost profits. On the tour, Trottenberg promised those merchants and others that the DOT would take a hard look at the program and its impacts on the area economy. This Saturday, Moya said, the agency will begin changing signage to make drivers aware that the initiative is over. “They saw what we saw,” he said of the DOT, adding it deserves credit for ending Clear Curbs early. “I don’t think this administration was trying to hurt small business owners. It was an intent to create less of a traffic jam, but the ill effects of this, they realized.” “In order for our communities and commercial corridors to truly thrive,” Community Board 4 District Manager Christian Cassagnol added in a Monday statement, “open dialogue and a general understanding of our communities’ needs must be brought to the table well in advance.” A Department of Transportation spokesperson acknowledged a Chronicle request for comment on Tuesday, but neither the DOT nor the Mayor’s Office provided one Q by press time on Wednesday.

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Councilman Bob Holden (D-Middle Village) has introduced legislation to ensure what happened across the street from PS/IS 128 in Middle Village doesn’t happen again. Intro. 1063 would require agencies such as the Department of Design and Construction to notify the City Council, area community board, civic association and school superintendent within 24 hours if it becomes aware that high levels of soil contamination were found in a city development project. The bill comes four months after Holden became aware of a massive, uncovered pile of soil contaminated with lead that had been dumped in a lot across from PS/IS 128. That dirt had been excavated from underneath 74th Street — where lead levels were found to be considerably higher than in the mound — during a $22 million sewer main project in November 2017, but the city did not notify community leaders or Holden, when he took office in January. “It was inconceivable that a city project would have no stipulations to which findings such as lead being dumped in front of a school would automatically trigger a line of communication to my office and fellow elected officials, Community Board 5 and local civics,” Holden said in a statement announcing the bill. “What happened near

PS/IS 128 should never happen again and t h is bi l l wou ld a ss u r e absolut e transparency.” According to the bill, the city must provide notice to area leaders within one day if the soil in question exceeds maximum acceptable levels of any contaminant set forth by either the federal Environmental Protection Agency, federal Department of Health and Human Services, state Department of Environmental Conservation or state Department of Health. If the contaminated dirt is located within 1,500 feet of a school, the city will have to notify its principal by phone, email or letter as well. Other steps must also be taken, per the legislation, such as posting signage with information about the contaminant within the area of concern and posting all relevant information on the website of the city agency in charge of overseeing the project. “The government and elected officials work for you, not the other way around,” Holden said. As of Monday evening, the bill’s only co-sponsor was Councilman Kalman Yeger (D-Brooklyn). After high levels of lead were measured on 74th Street, the sewer main project was halted. In late June, Holden told the Chronicle he heard it could be a year before work

Councilman Bob Holden, speaking, has introduced legislation that would force the city to notify the City Council and other area leaders within 24 hours if high levels of contamination is measured in soil during development projects. The bill comes four months after Holden heard that soil with high levels of lead had been dumped across the street from PS/IS 128 in Middle FILE PHOTO Village without community knowledge. restarts — most likely with CAC Industries continuing as the contractor — at an additional cost of up to $10 million. But a DDC spokesman said at the time June that no timeline existed. “We could not say at this time ... how

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ot only does President Trump demonize the media just about every day, he’s also hitting the press where it hurts: in the pocketbook. The issue is tariffs on newsprint, which are driving up costs for every newspaper in the country, from The New York Times to the Daily News to the Queens Chronicle. They were imposed after one American paper company complained that Canadian manufacturers were selling newsprint at artificially low prices. At first the tariffs were a whopping 22 percent, according to The Times. After publishers complained, they were capped at 16.9 percent and laid against just one company, but then the government said it would impose separate tariffs of 9.8 percent on several firms including that one, so the situation seems to be even worse than it was in the first place. And newspapers are feeling it. They’re cutting staff even more — newsroom employment already has dropped 45 percent nationwide in the last 10 years — and even going to smaller sizes of paper to save money. Both moves mean less news for people to read, and a less-informed citizenry is good for no one

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except those in power, regardless of party or belief. Take the Tampa Bay Times as an example. Its chief executive told The New York Times that annual printing costs are up $3.5 million due to the higher cost of paper, so the company had to lay off 50 people, combine sections on Sunday and make other cutbacks. Yes, Trump has imposed tariffs on a number of products and industries. But given his constant demonization of the media as “fake news” and “the enemy of the people,” it’s hard not to think he especially relishes making it more costly to print the news. And the fact is, tariffs shouldn’t even be up to Trump to enact. The Constitution clearly gives Congress the “Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises,” but as with so much else, lawmakers over time ceded that capability to one man. There’s a bill in Congress to suspend the paper tariffs while their impact is studied, but that’s not enough. Lawmakers should take back their rightful power entirely. Ignoring the Constitution is, after all, something you’d expect from a true “enemy of the people.” And even today’s government is not that.

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Cuomo should debate Dear Editor: Gov. Cuomo is following the infamous Rose Garden strategy of ignoring underdog Democratic Party challenger Cynthia Nixon by refusing to participate in a series of public debates between now and Sept.13, primary day. He prefers to hide behind his multimilliondollar weekly series of television ads. They are paid for out of his ample $32 million campaign re-election war chest raised primarily from special interest pay-for-play donors. This is supplemented by “public service announcements” run daily in heavy rotation by state agencies and independent authorities such as the Empire State Development Corp. at taxpayers’ expense. He will do the same prior to Nov. 6, Election Day, against underdog Republican challenger and Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro. Cuomo will stall until late October with the goal of agreeing to one or two last-minute debates knowing full well that his election is already preordained. He did the same in 2014 to Republican challenger and Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino. His father, Mario Cuomo, did the same to the late GOP Westchester County Executive Andrew O’Rourke when he ran against him in 1986. Like father, like son. Cuomo has no interest in providing a free forum for either Nixon or Molinaro to get their respective messages directly out to voters. All newspapers and good-government groups © Copyright 2018 by MARK I PUBLICATIONS, INC. All rights reserved. Neither this newspaper nor any part thereof may be reproduced, copied, or transmitted in any form, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, microfilming, recording or by any information retrieval system without the express written permission of the publishers. This copyright is extended to the design and text created for advertisements. Reproduction of said advertisement or any part thereof without the express written permission of MARK I PUBLICATIONS, INC. is strictly prohibited. This publication will not be responsiblefor errors in advertising beyond the cost of the space occupied by the error. Bylined articles represent the sole opinion of the writer and are not necessarily in accordance with the views of the QUEENS CHRONICLE. This Publication reserves the right to limit or refuse advertising it deems objectionable. The Queens Chronicle is published weekly by Mark I Publications, Inc. at a subscription rate of $19 per year and out of state, $25 per year. Periodicals Postage Paid (USPS0013-572) at Flushing, N.Y. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Mark I Publications, Inc., The Shops at Atlas Park, 71-19 80th St., Suite 8-201, Glendale, NY 11385.

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e can’t recall the last time a candidate for office held a town hall-style campaign event and barred the press from attending. And while Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s team gave some decent reasons why she did so last Sunday in Corona, we still think it was a bad choice and hope she doesn’t make it a habit. The Democratic nominee for Congress in the 14th District — and virtually guaranteed winner because she has no real opponent — Ocasio-Cortez held the event as part of a “listening tour” around the district she will represent. At a prior event in the Bronx, she was “mobbed” by reporters even though her campaign had told the media there would be no question-and-answer period and no one-onone interviews, her team said. Hence the barring of the press from both another event in the Bronx and the one here. Also, they wanted residents to be able to speak their minds without the distraction of reporters and cameras. But, they said, these were the first of AOC’s events the press was barred from, and that will not become the norm. We’re going to hold her to that. Ocasio-Cortez has been granting interviews to major media outlets nationwide since becoming a progressive Democratic star, and she should not forget the Queens press once elected — especially the paper that gave her run more and better coverage than any other here when she was seen as the underdog.

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should shame Cuomo into participating in open forums and debates. Cuomo should participate in a series of debates sponsored by daily newspapers and television stations. If he doesn’t show, leave an empty chair in the room with his name on it. Let us hope that enlightened newspapers such as the Queens Chronicle call for an end to all incumbents’ use of the infamous Rose Garden Strategy. Intelligent voters deserve frequent debates prior to the primary and general elections as opposed to canned TV commercials. If Cuomo refuses to participate in series of debates with either Nixon or Molinaro, he should be subject to critical newspaper editorials. He should forfeit any chance of endorsements by media outlets. Larry Penner Great Neck, LI

CB experience matters Dear Editor: I am writing in support of the position taken by Mr. Henry Euler, a member of Community Board 11, as expressed in your publi-

cation last week (“No CB term limits,” Letters, Aug. 9). Mr. Euler opposes term limits for members of the local community boards throughout the city. I concur. As a young attorney with a desire to serve my community, I became a member of CB 8 in 1976, at age 27, representing Fresh Meadows, where I resided at the time. When I subsequently moved back to my childhood neighborhood in Hollis Hills, I reapplied for an appointment to CB 11. It was my honor and privilege to serve a combined 15 consecutive years until I resigned upon my appointment as a judge. Without getting into a discussion on the merits of term limits for elected officials, who receive a salary, it must be emphasized that community board members do so voluntarily and devote a great deal of time and energy for the betterment of their communities. Although the public meetings only occur on a monthly basis, the real work is done by the many committees that meet regularly to review the issues and prepare reports for such public forums and hearings. As a lifelong resident of eastern Queens, I had the good fortune to grow up surrounded by

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At that point the issue then becomes political and the opposition of the little people is ignored. Real estate moguls run this city as well as their true constituents, the borough presidents, the City Planning Commission, the City Council and the mayor. One recent example is the City Council’s approval of the Inwood rezoning despite residents’ opposition. This follows four other zoning changes in neighborhoods that were all low-income and largely occupied by minorities. The time has come to stop the destruction of small neighborhoods in favor of huge real estate developments, notwithstanding a promise to include a small portion of so-called affordable units. These developments should also not be given any tax abatements. Indeed people who can afford to purchase and pay tens of millions of dollars for apartments in these multistoried buildings, should pay a luxury tax. The city can use that money to construct lowcost rental housing units. A change in accordance with the above will result in generations holding the current New York City Charter Revision Commission in high esteem. Benjamin M. Haber Flushing

Space Force! Dear Editor: The Trump Administration wants a Space Force. Vice President Pence is warning that Russia and China have already militarized the final frontier. They are developing technology that could attack our satellites.We need to protect the homeland from attacks from outer space. A Space Command is long overdue. Let me also mention we could face attacks from aliens unknown. Remember, today’s science fiction could be tomorrow’s reality. As stated in the “Star Trek” series, “To go where no man has gone before.” Also, our population is increasing. We now have a population from six to seven billion and by the year 2050 we could have a population of 18 billion. Therefore we need to explore others worlds like Mars for possible colonization. As such we would need a space force to protect such population. As stated in the Star Wars series, “May the force be with us.” Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Glen Oaks

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Space Farce! Dear Editor: With America being devastated by nationwide flooding, wildfires destroying California and record-setting heat waves caused by the “Chinese hoax” of global warming, people are criticizing Trump for saying he wants to start a new branch of our military: the Space Force. They are complaining that it would just be another bloated bureaucracy wasting billions. The security of our planet is paramount! Trump is not an idiot. He’s going to have the Space Force build a wall around the Earth! And he will make the Martians pay for it. “To stupidity and beyond!” Robert LaRosa Whitestone

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parks such as Alley Pond and Cunningham. I learned to ice skate on Potamogetan Pond along the Grand Central service road in Hollis Hills. These parks are our treasures and at one time I knew every square inch of them. When I became chairperson of the CB 11 Parks Committee it was the highlight of my tenure. As pointed out by Mr. Euler, each term is only for two years with no guarantee for reappointment. Most members are reappointed and some are not. Some leave voluntarily. In general, members serve out of a desire to maintain the safety and integrity of their neighborhoods. Their time is valuable and could just as easily be spent at home with their families or working on other more profitable ventures. Learning the ins and outs of ONLINE the many issues that arise, espeMiss an article or a cially in the area letter cited by a writer? of zoning laws, Want breaking news does not happen from all over Queens? overnight. Thus, Find the latest news, having seasoned past reports from all me mb e r s who over the borough and understand these more at qchron.com. intricacies and maintain an institutional and historical perspective is necessary when new members are appointed in order to teach them, so that in the future they, in turn, can teach others. To arbitrarily limit one’s voluntary service, without cause, is simply to make changes for the sake of change. In my opinion, it would defeat the whole purpose of why the community boards were created in the first place. George M. Heymann Hollis Hills The writer is a retired Housing Court judge.

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The Queens Chronicle’s 10th annual Summer in the Borough Photo Contest is underway — and you’re invited to join in! Take your best shots of children playing, workers working, lovely landscapes, birds on the bay — whatever you think best says “summertime in Queens.” The winner or winners will receive tickets to a family-friendly performance in or around the city, such as an off-Broadway show or the circus. Check out all the requirements online at bit.ly/2uLAaW1. Then send your high-resolution digital photos to peterm@qchron.com, or mail prints to Queens Chronicle Photo Contest, 71-19 80 St., suite 8-201, Glendale, NY 11385. The deadline is Tuesday, Sept. 4. Good luck!

e nt s a nd st ud e nt s a l i ke deser ve to have peace of mind that we take hazing To prevent the deaths or seriously and will have zero serious injuries of students tolerance for these abuses in during fraternity pledging New York.” ceremonies, anti-hazing legAssembly man David islation that prohibits certain Weprin (D-Fresh Meadows) physical contact or required said in his statement, “Hazphysical activity in any orgaing is reckless and dangerous nization’s initiating ceremobehavior, and we must do ny wa s sig ned i nto law everything in our power to Monday. The legislation was in Michael Deng died protect students from danger. Michael Deng’s death was a response to the 2013 hazing- from hazing injuries. related death of 19-year-old FILE PHOTO horrific and preventable tragedy, and I was proud to sponBaruch College student and Flushing resident Michael Deng, who sor this legislation to honor his memory died from a massive head injury after he and prevent future families’ heartbreak. I wa s bli nd folded , m ade to wea r a thank Governor Cuomo for signing this 30-pound backpack and was tackled and legislation to save lives and bring comfort to Michael’s family.” knocked unconscious. Those who engage in physical contact “These hazing rituals are dangerous and reckless with potentially fatal conse- or require physical activity that creates a quences, and I’m proud to sign this legis- substantial risk of physical injury and lation to protect college students across causes that injury as part of an initiation this great state,” Gov. Cuomo said in a ritual will be guilty of hazing in the first prepared statement. “As we prepare for degree, a class A misdemeanor punishQ the beginning of another school year, par- able by up to a year in jail. Associate Editor

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For example, we by Bitta Mostofi Many immigrant families have stories of were fortunate to parents and kids alike watching American partner with NYC television in order to learn English. Shows first lady Chirlane like “All in the Family,” “The Jeffersons” McCray’s Thriveand “Friends” were not only great laughs NYC initiative to but also helped make the city a little easier produce a new epito understand for our newest New Yorkers. sode tackling menBuilding off these experiences, the city tal health issues. worked with key partners including the Viewers learn how City University of New York to create “We free mental health Speak NYC.” Previously known as “We resources are available for New Yorkers Are New York,” “We Speak NYC” is a just by calling 1 (888) NYC-WELL. telenovela-style TV series with episodes Additional episodes this season focused that New York City’s two million English on workers’ rights, early childhood edulanguage learners can learn from while cation and immigration legal help, showseeing their own experiences represented. ing how New Yorkers empowered with In each episode, immigrant New Yorkers knowledge of what city government has work together to solve challenges common to offer can help address challenges many across the five boroughs. The actors, all here face, regardless of immigration status or language based in New York ability. City, speak clearly and this ultimate city slowly to help learners ur TV series teaches of Inimmigrants, New in practicing conversaYorkers speak over tions about important language and gives 200 languages from issues in our city. info on city services. across the globe — this T h is ye a r, we diversity is one of our announced our $3 million investment to promote and expand city’s greatest treasures. We work to over“We Speak NYC” with a brand-new sec- come language barriers by providing transond-season of episodes and a new interac- lated documents for popular services and tive website so New Yorkers can strengthen resources, by utilizing telephonic interpretheir language skills at their convenience, tation for many city services, as well as while learning about city services. Now, through live interpretation at events like “We Speak NYC” is another option New mayoral town halls. Making English lanYorkers can bring home with them to watch guage learning more approachable through programs like “We Speak NYC” — easily or take with them on the train. At the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant accessible through a computer or a phone Affairs, we want New Yorkers to both build — is another way we’re making NYC the confidence in their English skills and feel fairest big city in the country. So if you empowered to access city services. Each want to improve your language skills, or episode of “We Speak NYC” highlights you’re just looking for a new show to bingecity resources available to all New Yorkers, watch, check out “We Speak NYC” today Q including access to healthcare, education at NYC.gov/WeSpeakNYC. Bitta Mostofi is Commissioner of the and free and safe immigration legal Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs. services.

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Kiwanis donates for seniors The Kiwanis Club of Howard Beach recently donated $200 to the Catholic Charities Senior Center of Howard Beach. Celebrating the contribution here are Sharon Goldfarb, left, Ruth Malenka, Ronnie West, president of the Kiwanis Club of How-

ard Beach, Ellie Caroleo, Dorothy Scheriff and Wayne Scheriff, a past distinguished lieutenant governor of the Kiwanis Club. With numerous activities for all area seniors to enjoy, the center is located at 155-55 Crossbay Blvd.

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Now, in Howard Beach, NY, one doctor is helping local residents with knee pain live more active, pain-free lives. Living with knee pain can feel like a crippling experience. Let’s face it, your knees aren’t as young as you used to be, and playing with the kids or grandkids isn’t any easier either. Maybe your knee pain keeps you from walking short distances or playing golf like you used to. Nothing’s worse than feeling great mentally, but physically feeling held back from life because your knees hurt and the pain just won’t go away! My name is Dr. Robert F. Gucciardo, D.C., owner of Gucciardo Specific Chiropractic and Natural Health Center. Since we opened seventeen years ago, I’ve seen hundreds of people with knee problems leave the office pain free. If you’re suffering from these conditions, a new breakthrough in medical technology may completely eliminate your pain and help restore normal function to your knees.

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Maspeth man fights to avoid deportation The daughter of Edisson Barros says her family is being torn apart by Christopher Barca Editor

Eileen Barros says her father, Edisson, has been a perfect dad — the Maspeth man works long hours as a cab driver to provide for his family of four, of which he is the sole breadwinner. But the future of the Barros family is now up in the air, as her father, an undocumented immigrant, faces imminent deportation. Edisson Barros, 47, first moved to the United States from his native Ecuador in 1994 and obtained a work permit, eventually marrying a U.S. citizen and fathering two children, who are also citizens. According to reports citing Barros’ family, the Maspeth resident briefly went back to Ecuador in 2003 after the death of a family member, but was blocked from returning to the United States. Barros came back to the country anyway, after which the federal government issued a final order for his removal. He remained under the radar until May, when he was charged with public disorder. According to his family, Barros was walking his dog in Maspeth when it ran into the street and was nearly hit by an oncoming car. To warn the driver and prevent a collision, Barros threw his keys at the vehicle. The motorist then got into an argument with the immigrant and called the police. Barros was eventually taken into custody by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents outside Queens Criminal Courthouse on July 16 after a hearing in his public disorder case. He has been held at an ICE facility in New Jersey ever since. The father of four was originally slated to be deported last

Maspeth resident Edisson Barros, seen here with his daughter Eileen at her high school graduation, could be deported at any GOFUNDME PHOTO time. Friday — the same day Councilman Francisco Moya (D-Corona), other elected officials, dozens of activists and Barros’ family rallied outside City Hall to demand a judge hear his case first. The immigrant has not been deported yet, and Moya told the Chronicle on Tuesday it is unclear if there is a new timeline for his removal. “Right now, we’re not sure where it stands,” Moya said. “The judge has not told the family or their lawyer that she is reviewing the case.” Judge Mirlande Tadal of Elizabeth, NJ Immigration Court

has been assigned Barros’ case. Moya and Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan) have both penned letters to her in recent days, asking her to grant a stay of deportation while his application for a green card is processed. “Separating this family has had dire consequences. Mr. Barros is his family’s sole breadwinner,” Velazquez wrote. “As such, his detention has forced his U.S.-born daughter to abandon a promising academic career to return home and support her family in his absence.” A GoFundMe page has been set up by Eileen Barros, 20, who has been attending Baruch College for the last two years. On the website, she wrote that donations will go toward her college education — nearly $4,000 had been raised as of Wednesday — which her “devastated and grieving family” has little means of paying for in the absence of her father. “I feel a huge emptiness in my heart. My dad is being ripped away from our family. I’m struggling economically and emotionally, but now I have to feed my family and bring food to the table,” Barros wrote. “My dad is returning to Ecuador emptyhanded and he is starting from zero. I feel like that right now too.” Moya, who is also of Ecuadorian descent, said Barros is an “exemplary” family man and member of his community. Taking aim at what he called the “Trump regime,” the councilman added the administration’s effort to deport him represents “everything that is wrong with this country.” “This is the problem we face,” he said. “For every Edisson Barros, there’s 100 other people facing the same thing. “They’re a very strong family that is hoping for the best, as we are,” Moya added. “We want to make sure Edisson’s day in Q court will be heard.”

Immigrant dad back with his family in JH Undocumented father was cuffed at the Canadian border last month by Mark Lord

handed him over to U.S. Border Patrol agents. “There seemed to be a lot of political A Jackson Heights family is, at least temporarily, reunited after the father, a pressure,” he said. “If the authorities had 36-year-old waiter and bartender, was simply deported me back to my home detained July 16 by Immigration and Cus- country, it was very likely that my wife toms Enforcement agents during a bus trip would have found somebody to help her and raise all hell because I had been to visit his brother in Seattle. With his family at his side on Wednes- deported without a chance to see her,” day, Alfredo Flores, who came to the Unit- Flores said. “I didn’t know if I was going to ed States from Mexico 10 years ago, met get to be with my family.” The undocumented immigrant was held the press to discuss the latest developments in his ongoing legal battle to remain in the at the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility in country with his wife, Wendy Valverde, Batavia, NY until Aug. 7, when Valverde was able to put up a $10,000 bond, thanks and their three young children. With Latino Lawyers Association of largely to a public fundraising campaign. “We’re hoping you can Queens President and state stand with us,” Flores told Assembly candidate Catathe crowd. l i n a Cr u z t r a n slat i ng, A naturalized U.S. citiFlores told the crowd that zen whose relatives hail he was on his way to visit from Peru, Valverde said his brother for “a work through Cruz she wouldn’t project.” But, to his surwish her husband’s cirpr ise, the route of the cumstance on any other Greyhound bus he was on family. included driving across the “Ou r gover n ment U.S. border at Buffalo into should be looking out for Canada. us, for our families,” she He was denied entr y said. “It is unacceptable into Canada and apprethat it is our government hended by that nation’s that is the culprit of the aut hor it ie s , who t he n Alfredo Flores

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Undocumented Mexican immigrant Alfredo Flores, right, has been reunited with his family one month after he was arrested at the Canadian border. Assembly candidate Catalina Cruz translatPHOTO BY MARK LORD ed for the Jackson Heights man at a Wednesday press conference. separation of our families.” Valverde, who has been married to Flores for three years, said she only wants her husband to be given a chance “to get

status [that would] allow him to stay with us, to stay with his children.” The couple’s three children are 2, 4 and continued on page 28

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NYLCV lauds three Queens legislators Stavisky, Peralta and Rozic get top environmental grades for ’18 session by Michael Gannon Editor

S t a t e S e n s . To b y A n n Stavisky (D-Flushing) and Jose Peralta (D-East Elmhurst) and Assemblywoman Nily Rozic (DFresh Meadows) are the only members of the Queens delegation to Albany to receive perfect scores in the annual legislative report card issued by the New York League of Conservation Voters. The NYLCV each year bases its scores on a given number of environmental bills. The bills’ topics ranged from charging a fee for single-use plastic bags for groceries to the state’s transportation plan. Grades were based on how members of the Assembly and Senate voted, and whether or not they sponsored any of the bills in question. “We hope that our scorecard will be a valuable tool for voters

who want to hold their legislators accountable, but of course we recognize that it cannot tell the full story of our most effective environmental champions,” League officials said in a statement within the 24 -page document. The full report card can be found online at nylcv.org/wpc o n t e n t / u p l o a d s / 2 0 18 / 0 8 / 2018-scorecard-Final.pdf. Fol low i ng Pe r a lt a a nd St avisk y in the Senate were Sens. Tony Avella (D-Bayside), Leroy Comrie (D-St. Albans) and James Sanders Jr. (D-South Ozone Park) at 92 percent. Sens. Mike Gianaris (D-Astoria) and Joe Add abbo Jr. (D -Howa rd Beach) came in at 85 percent and 83 percent, respectively. Com r ie and Avella missed perfect scores by voting against the bag bill, while Sanders did not vote for a farmland preser-

State Sen. Jose Peralta, left, Assemblywoman Nily Rozic and Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky are the only members of the Queens delegation to the State Capitol to receive perfect scores for this year’s legislative session from the New York FILE PHOTOS League of Conservation voters.

vation initiative. Rozic, in a statement on her official website, took pride in securing a 100 percent score for the second straight year. “From access to clean water to our mass transit and economy, we are all impacted by the quality of our environment,” she said. “I remain committed to introducing and supporting environmentally conscious legislation to build a more sustainable future.” Peralta said he accepted the honor with pride in a statement from his office. “In the era of climate change, we must ensure we do everything possible to protect our environment, not only for us but for future generations to come,” he said. Stavisk y said the N Y LCV does important work in Albany. “They highlight issues that are important, like our overreliance on fossil fuels,” she said in a phone interview. “That’s especially important today with the environ ment facing a hostile federal government.” C o m i n g i n b e h i n d Roz ic (D-Flushing) in the Assembly at 92 percent were members Andrew Hevesi (D-Forest Hills), Aravella Simotas (D-Astoria) a nd Dav id Wepr i n (D -Fresh Me a d ows) . A l l t h r e e vot e d against the plastic bag bill. Assemblywoman Ari Espinal (D-Jackson Heights) scored 90 p e r c e nt , fol lowe d by Br ia n

Their votes on a fee for single-use plastic bags cost four Queens legislators 100 percent ratings from the New York League of Conservation Voters for PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON 2018. Barnwell (D-Maspeth) and Alicia Hy nd man (D -Spr ingf ield Gardens) at 85 percent. Just behind them, at 83 percent, was Vivian Cook (D-Jamaica). Assemblymembers Catherine Nolan (D-Long Island City) and Clyde Vanel (D-Queens Village) received 77 percent. Coming in with a 69 percent rating were members Stacey Pheffer A mato (D -Rockaway

Beach), Ed Braunstein (D-Baysid e) , M ich a el D e n D ek ke r (D -East Elm hu rst) and Mike Miller (D-Woodhaven). Members Ron Kim (D-Flushi n g) a n d D a n iel Ro s e n t h a l (D-Flushing) recorded marks of 67 and 62 percent, respectively. Members Jeff Aubrey (D-Corona) and Michele Titus (D-Far Rockaway) came in at 54 Q percent.

Parking meter fees go up Nov. 1 Doubling in Jamaica, Flushing; up 25 or 50% elsewhere by Michael Gannon For the latest news visit qchron.com

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Hourly parking meter fees will increase throughout Queens on Nov. 1, with the downtown corridors in Jamaica and Flushing seeing PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON the steepest hikes.

Get ready to cough up more money to park in New York City, particularly in Manhattan and the main business corridors in Jamaica and Flushing. The Department of Transportation will be increasing Muni-Meter fees in Brooklyn beginning Sept. 4 and Manhattan on Oct. 1. Queens will be hit effective Nov. 1, with the Bronx and Staten Island joining the party on Dec. 3. The increases will be the first in meter fees since 2013. DOT officials notified the City Council of their intention in April. In Downtown Flushing and Jamaica — so-called Zone 1 corridors — the rate will double, from $1 per hour to $2. Zone 2 regions will go from $1 to $1.50 an hour, with the rest of the borough’s

meters going from $1 to $1.25. “Parking meters play a critical role in providing an efficient street network, allowing for the efficient delivery of goods and services as well as providing curb turnover as a resource for customers to access storefront businesses,” the DOT said in a statement issued Aug. 9. “... The modest increases announced today bring New York City parking rates more in line with those of peer cities, as well as better reflect the market demand for parking.” The agency said payment options will remain the same, with meters continuing to accept coins and credit and debit cards, as well as payments made through the use of the ParkNYC mobile app. T hose who d r ive into Man hat t an, where there are separate — and steep — rates for commercial vehicles, will be digging especially deeper into their wallets

and coin purses. In Manhattan’s core, defined by the DOT as parts of its Lower and Midtown sections up to 59th Street, commercial meters will increase by $2, from $4, $5 and $6 for the first, second, and third hour, respectively, to $6, $7 and $8, and go up $1 per hour elsewhere below 96th Street. Passenger parking meter rates in core areas will increase from $3.50 per hour to $4.50 and from $3.50 per hour to $4.00 per hour elsewhere south of 96th Street. From 96th to 110th streets rates will increase from $1.50 to $2.50 per hour. A new “progressively priced” second hour of passenger parking will be provided for $7.50 in the Manhattan core and $6.75 in the rest of the borough below 96th Street, “to offer a little extra time for those who need it while still promoting curb Q availability.”

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Guv hopeful Molinaro campaigns in Maspeth GOP candidate blasts Cuomo over corruption, talks pot and abortion by Anthony O’Reilly

other things, would empower an independent auditor to review all state contracts, ban political contributions from individuals or entities Republican gubernatorial candidate Marc Molinaro said in Mas- pursuing government contracts and convene a commission to investipeth last Friday that Democratic voters don’t need to take his word on gate public corruption. the corruption in Albany and Gov. Cuomo’s inability to fix the MTA “I will shut down the state government to make it happen,” he said. — they just have to listen to members of their own party. Molinaro also spoke of how his daughter, Abigail, who is on the “He’s getting challenged from the left, too,” Molinaro said. “Just autism spectrum, inspired him to launch the “Think Differently” prolisten to Cynthia Nixon, she’s saying the same things.” gram in Dutchess County — an initiative that encourages supHe also urged Democrats to examine their quality of life portive environments for those with special needs and now, compared to when Cuomo first took office as improves their quality of life. governor. A woman named Elma urged Molinaro to look into “Is it any better than it was eight years ago?” he asked. turning vacant or abandoned lots into veteran housing. Molinaro’s comments came during a town hall at the “Not low-income housing,” Elma said, “just homes for Frank Kowalinski Post in Masepth, part of a series of veterans.” stops across the state. He told the Chronicle in an interThe candidate said he would consider such an idea. view he wants to listen to the people of New York, and get “No veteran should live on the street,” he said. “ideas” from voters. The candidate also said he disagrees with Mayor de Bla2018 Molinaro, during the town hall, touted his economic sucsio’s plan to open so-called safe injection sites for heroin users. cess as Dutchess County executive – he came into office with a “Instead of opening injection sites, we ought to be opening up $40 million deficit in 2012, and closed out 2013 with a $7.1 million rehab centers,” Molinaro said, adding, though, that he would look to surplus. work with de Blasio on issues such as fixing the MTA. He also blasted an alleged culture of corruption in Albany and in On marijuana, he said he supports decriminalization but not legalCuomo’s office — the governor’s ex-top adviser, Joseph Percoco, was ization. Under decriminalization, penalties for possessing small convicted of corruption charges in March. amounts of pot would be reduced or eliminated, but selling it would “If that had happened to anyone else, they would be forced to resign,” still be a crime. Molinaro also said New York has not done a good Molinaro said. “But in New York, it’s just another day in Albany.” enough job making medical marijuana legal, which he also supports. Molinaro promised at the town hall to only serve two four-year The hopeful added he would not support a proposal to allow terms as governor, if elected, and said he would advocate to limit abortions in the third trimester of pregnancy — state law now statewide officials to two four-year terms and state senators and says abortions are legal up to the 24th week, but are allowed Assembly members to six two-year terms. after that only if necessary to save the woman’s life. continued on page 40 He also touted his “Albany Accountability Act,” which, among Chronicle Contributor

Republican gubernatorial candidate Marc Molinaro rips Gov. Cuomo during a town hall in Maspeth last Friday. PHOTO BY ANTHONY O’REILLY

Ocasio-Cortez bans press from town hall Media was barred after reporters ‘mobbed’ her at an earlier event by Christopher Barca

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on Monday that stops on her “listening tour” throughout the district, like the one held a day earlier in Corona, are “intended for lively, compassionate discourse with a diversity of viewpoints.” According to the Democratic nominee in the 14th Congressional District, she and the dozens of area residents who attended the event “talked about race, immigration, healthcare, disability rights and housing.” But unless you were in the room on Sunday, you won’t know what specific community problems were mentioned or how Ocasio-Cortez planned to address them once she is sworn in. That’s because her campaign banned members of the media from attending the event, which was otherwise open to the public. In the seven weeks since she pulled off one of the most remarkable upsets in recent American political history — defeating longtime Rep. Joe Crowley (D-Queens,

Bronx) by 15 points in June’s Democratic primary — Ocasio-Cortez has become a political star. Soon after her victory came numerous profiles in high-profile publications like The New York Times and Rolling Stone, guest hosting shows on the online progressive news network The Young Turks and appearing on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. She has also traveled the country from Kansas to Hawaii in recent weeks to campaign — sometimes with U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) — for fellow progressive candidates running in their own primaries. But when Ocasio-Cortez returned to the district for a Bronx community meeting with prominent healthcare activist Ady Barkan last Tuesday, her campaign manager, Vigie Ramos Rios, later told the Chronicle, she was “mobbed” by reporters, “even though we said no Q&A and no one-on-one [interviews].” According to Ramos Rios and campaign spokesman Corbin Trent, that unwanted attention led to a press ban both for last Wednesday’s listening tour stop in the Bronx and

Sunday’s in Corona. “We wanted to help create a space where community members felt comfortable and open to express themselves without the distraction of cameras and press. These were the first set of events where the press has been excluded,” Trent said. “This is an outlier and will not be the norm. We’re still adjusting our logistics to fit Alexandria’s national profile.” The 28-year-old progressive activist will almost certainly win November’s general election against her nominal Republican opponent in the overwhelmingly Democratic district, which would make her the youngest-ever female member of Congress. Asked if it was hypocritical for Ocasio-Cortez to ban the press from an in-district community meeting after weeks of interviews with prominent publications and rallying with candidates in other states, Trent said the campaign is committed to maintaining a positive relationship with area media outlets. “After our primary victory, the campaign had what we saw as a

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez addresses a crowd of western Queens residents at a town hall last Sunday in Corona, an event that reporters were banned from PHOTO BY NICK GULOTTA / TWITTER attending. unique and limited opportunity for Alexandria to use her elevated platform to speak about issues affecting our district to the national media, and to campaign for other progressive candidates around the country,” he said. “By working to get other progressive candidates elected, Alexandria will be securing more

national voting power for the people of Queens and the Bronx.” The format of Sunday’s event — which was delayed one day while Ocasio-Cortez returned from campaigning in Hawaii for congressional candidate Kaniela Ing — saw area residents broaching issues continued on page 40

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Liu talks primary rematch with Avella Former comptroller talks SHSAT, why he thinks this year is different by Ryan Brady

the IDC was about,” he said. “This year, still, not everybody understands the IDC. But when I’m at Key Food or Stop & In terms of stated policy positions, former city comptroller Shop and mention the IDC, people are like, ‘Oh, yeah, that’s and councilman John Liu admits that he and his election foe, right.’ The difference in the understanding between 2014 and this year is by miles.” state Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside), are not exactly opposites. Liu also says other crucial variables are in his favor, like the “On most of the issues, he and I do not differ,” Liu said in a sitdown interview with the Chronicle last Friday. “He’s pro- anti-Trump fervor that has been common among Democrats since the Jamaica Estates native was elected. choice, like I am. He says he’s pro-immigrant, like I am. “There are other factors, too,” he added. “There are Pro-worker, pro-union, like I am.” younger voters that are engaging, there are also more The candidate is facing off with Avella in a Asian Americans in this district.” rematch of their 2014 Democratic primary race, One of the issues on which Liu and Avella are on which the incumbent won by a slim 568-vote marthe same page is Mayor de Blasio’s proposal to get gin. Voters for Senate District 11, which includes rid of the Specialized High School Admissions Test. most of north and northeastern Queens, will pick Many in the Asian-American community have come the winner on Sept. 13. out in force against the mayor’s idea to change the And if one asks Liu, the “crucial difference” admissions process for the eight elite schools that use between him and the senator is the latter’s member2018 it, which would require a change in state law. ship in the Republican-allied Independent Democratic According to the former comptroller, the mayor should Conference. The IDC dissolved earlier this year following months of fury directed toward it from progressive groups ener- have sought the input of the city’s Asian population before he put forth his plan for the eight specialized schools. gized and outraged by the policies of the Trump administration. “He didn’t talk to a single person in the Asian American When first asked to run against the senator this year by progressive groups like Empire State Indivisible, Liu declined. And community, as if Asian Americans were completely invisible,” when former Assemblyman John Duane announced he would said Liu who is graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, run against Avella in a primary, the former comptroller was one of the specialized high schools. His son graduated from Stuyvesant High School, another of them. supportive. The candidate said that while diversity at the specialized But Duane dropped out earlier this year. Ultimately, in early high schools is a problem, eliminating the test is the completeJuly, Liu decided on moving forward with his challenge. What, one might wonder, makes him think he has a better ly wrong approach to take. “What we need is to look at the overall segregation problem shot at toppling the senator this year? continued on page 40 “The biggest factor is that in 2014, no one understood what Associate Editor

Former City Comptroller John Liu is once again seeking to topple state Sen. Tony Avella. The incumbent eked out a 568-vote PHOTO BY DANIEL HAYNES victory over the challenger in 2014.

Liu rips Avella for not returning SICC funds Incumbent’s campaign hits back, pointing to scope of judge’s decision by Ryan Brady

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Former city comptroller and councilman John Liu’s campaign is attacking state Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside), whom he aims to unseat in a Democratic primary rematch, for not complying with a demand of state Board of Elections Chief Enforcement Counsel Risa Sugarman. “[Avella] took $103,000 of funds deemed illegal by the state Supreme Court but thinks he gets to keep it because the illegal committee he got the money from was fixed after-the-fact,” Liu spokeswoman Heather Stewart said in a prepared statement. “Every voter deserves to know that Senator Tony Avella is funding his campaign with illegal campaign money.” The senator, whose campaign staunchly pushed back against the accusations from Liu’s camp, was a member of the former Independent Democratic Conference, a Republican-allied set of rogue Democrats that dissolved earlier this year. Like others in the group, Avella accepted campaign funds — in his case, $103,000 — transferred from the Senate Independence Campaign Committee, a partnership of the IDC and the Independence Party. Much of the partnership’s funds were from charter school and real estate interests. In June, a state Supreme Court justice

ruled that the SICC arrangement and a related housekeeping account were illegal. The committee’s leadership was changed on April 24 — in expectation of the court’s decision, according to The New York Times — so it was headed by members of the Independence Party rather than the Democratic Party, as the judge ultimately decided was required. On July 20, Sugarman in a letter said the committee “raised and spent funds on behalf of IDC candidates in amounts far in excess of statutory contribution limits.” She demanded members of the former IDC return the funds given to them in excess of contribution limits by the committee. According to the Albany-based Times Union, the total sum of money ordered to be refunded in Sugarman’s letter amounts to north of $1.4 million in funds given to the campaig ns of different for mer IDC members. The enforcement counsel gave them 20 days to follow through. The deadline passed last Thursday. And Avella and the other ex-IDC members — each of whom is facing a primary challenger — have not complied with the enforcement counsel’s demand. In a statement to the Chronicle, the Avella campaign excoriated the Liu camp in response to its critique.

Former city comptroller and councilman John Liu, left, slammed primary election rival state Sen. Tony Avella for not returning funds transferred to his campaign by the Senate Independence FILE PHOTOS Campaign Committee, as a state election watchdog has demanded. “The court did not direct Independent Democratic Conference members to return any funds received from the SICC,” Avella spokesman Jeff Frediani said in a statement to the Chronicle. “It is astounding that scandal-ridden John Liu is making false accusations relating to campaign finance when he

had two campaign staffers convicted of federal corruption charges and was fined $26,000 just last year by the Board of Elections for campaign finance violations.” A federal investigation into straw donor fundraising sent two Liu aides to federal continued on page 24

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August is National Immunization Awareness Month and the National Public Health Information Coalition and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention want everyone to know that children as well as adults never outgrow their need for vaccinations. New parents can easily become overwhelmed by the number of pediatrician visits their children need. By the time a child celebrates his or her fifth birthday, he or she has seemingly been administered dozens of immunizations. But even though people get the majority of their vaccinations while they are very young, that does not necessarily mean they can’t still benefit from immunizations later in life. Although certain vaccinations may no longer be necessary, others may be necessary into adulthood. Certain vaccinations, which can safeguard individuals from longterm illness, hospitalization and even death, are now recommended for all adults. The following are some of the immunizations you may need as you age. • Influenza — According to the

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August is National Immunization Month Is your child up-to-date with vaccines? As summer vacation winds down, thoughts turn from jaunts of setting up procedures within the school while ensuring chilto the beach to readying for a new school year. To-do lists dren have what they need to excel in the classroom. All parents include many of the typical tasks that precede going back to the may want to ask doctors to provide copies of medical and classroom, including shopping for new clothes, purchasing immunization records so that schools will have the most recent school supplies and finishing summer reading assignments. copies on file. Another essential requirement parents must find time for is Parents should schedule eye examinations well in advance of completing their children’s health screenings and immunizations the first day of school so they have ample time to fill new preso youngsters can return to school. scriptions for youngsters before school Health screenings may include, but begins. This ensures kids won’t be startmay not be limited to, routine physical ing off on the wrong foot because of any schools require that exams, eye exams and dental cleanings. vision problems that could already have Each school district may have its own set been addressed. children are up-to-date of health requirements that must be met in Parents of adolescents or students on with all immunizations order for children to attend school. the verge of adolescence may want to address the subject of bodily changes Many schools require that children are before they can begin before the school year begins anew. up-to-date with all immunizations before Address which changes can be expected, they can begin a new school year. While a new school year. including the start of menstruation for the issue of vaccinations has inspired girls. This will help children better debate in recent years, parents should recognize that many schools will only exempt students from understand what is happening when they witness changes in receiving certain vaccinations due to religious reasons. For a themselves and fellow classmates and give them a chance to list of state vaccination requirements and possible exemptions receive accurate information rather than gossip from their peers. for schools in the United States, visit https://www2a.cdc.gov/ Keep in mind that health screenings conducted in advance of the nip/schoolsurv/schImmRqmt.asp. school year may not preclude students from school-sponsored Students who have specific learning disabilities or medical screenings. Schools may offer their own vision and hearing screenconditions that require classroom modification should obtain ings and may take physical measurements to ensure students are Q recent documentation from any therapists or specialists prior growing on schedules in line with normal development. to beginning a new school year. Doing so facilitates the process — Metro Creative Connection

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Miller wants a school or precinct, not shelter Glendale/Middle Village Coalition restarts and raises almost $8K by Christopher Barca Editor

As Glendale gathers for what could be a sharp, protracted battle against a 200-bed homeless shelter proposed for 78-16 Cooper Ave., Assemblyman Mike Miller (D-Woodhaven) is calling on the city to consider alternatives for the former factory. The lawmaker penned three separate letters to NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill, Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza and Department of Veterans Services Commissioner Lorree Sutton on Monday, asking each to use eminent domain to purchase the Glendale property. In his correspondance to O’Neill, Miller said the 104th Precinct’s existing Ridgewood station house “is not up to date with the demands of the community.” “I kindly ask that you consider the 78-16 Cooper Ave. building,” Miller said, “to become an upgraded police precinct instead of a homeless shelter for the benefit of the entire 104th Precinct and for our community.” When a homeless shelter was first proposed for the former factory six years ago, some community leaders suggested the site would be a perfect location for a new school — one that is desperately needed in one of the most overcrowded education districts in the five boroughs.

Assemblyman Mike Miller is asking the city to use eminent domain and build either a new police precinct, a high school or affordable housing for veterans instead of a 200-bed homeless shelter FILE PHOTO at 78-16 Cooper Ave. in Glendale. That was the justification Miller used in his letter to Carranza, saying 78-16 Cooper Ave. would be a perfect place for a new high school. “This site has been looked over by the Department of Education on numerous occasions,” the lawmaker said. “I urge you to visit the site and see for yourself that put-

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The third and final phase of the bridge deck reconstruction project at the corner of Metropolitan Avenue and Fresh Pond Road is about to begin. The Department of Transportation announced last week that effective today, Aug. 16, work will begin underneath the eastbound lane of Metropolitan Avenue east of Fresh Pond Road, resulting in a series of detours for drivers: • Left turns from Fresh Pond onto Metropolitan going east will be banned for all vehicles. Drivers will have to turn right on Eliot Avenue, left on 60th Lane and left on Metropolitan to head east; • Right turns from Metropolitan onto Fresh Pond going north will be banned for trucks and buses. Instead, those vehicles will have to make a right on 60th Place, a right on Eliot Avenue and then a left onto Fresh Pond; and • Right turns from Fresh Pond onto Metropolitan going east will be banned for trucks and buses. Motorists will have

Phase 3 of the Metropolitan-Fresh Pond project starts today, Aug. 16. PHOTO COURTESY DOT to turn right on Eliot Avenue, right onto 69th Street and then left onto Metropolitan to head east. The long-delayed project is heading into the home stretch under new contractor Beaver Construction. The DOT anticipates work will be completed by the end of November — 11 months after it was Q initially expected to finish.

ting a homeless shelter in a residential neighborhood is depriving our children of a quality education.” A third option for the property — which is actually in the 28th Assembly District, represented by Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi (D-Forest Hills) — would be affordable housing for veterans who live in the

Glendale area, according to Miller. Councilman Bob Holden (D-Middle Village) announced late last month that he had been informed by the city that there are plans in the works to convert the location into a homeless shelter. When a similar proposal was considered for the site in 2012, a group of civic associations united two years later to form the Glendale/Middle Village Coalition, which raised nearly $100,000 in order to take legal action against the city — an effort that was ultimately unsuccessful. In recent weeks, the coalition — made up of the Glendale Civic Association, the Glendale Property Owners Association, the Middle Village Property Owners and Residents Association, the Juniper Park Civic Association, the Middle Village Chamber of Commerce and the Liberty Park Homeowners Association — has reorganized, starting a new fundraising drive. Warning that the proposed shelter is in close proximity to schools, playgrounds, The Shops at Atlas Park and children’s gymnastics spaces, the GMVC says the 200-bed facility “is completely out of character with our neighborhood.” As of Wednesday, the group had raised $7,923 for potential legal action on its Q GoFundMe page.

Liu hits Avella over SICC funds continued from page 20 prison. But the former comptroller himself was never charged. Avella and Liu ran against each other in 2014 for Senate District 11, which includes most of north and northeast Queens. The incumbent won by a very narrow margin of 568 votes. Their rematch is considered one of the more competitive state Senate primary races in New York. Avella is not the only ex-IDC member from Queens. State Sen. Jose Peralta (D-East Elmhurst) was also in the conference; his campaign took $113,500 from the Senate Independence Campaign Committee. Speaking to the Chronicle, Peralta said he believes Sugarman’s demand went far beyond the scope of the court’s ruling. “The judge decided, very narrowly, that what the committee needed to do was to get the appropriate committee members and treasurer in place and follow the election law by making sure that the committee was set up properly,” he said in a phone interview. According to published reports, Lawrence Mandelker, a lawyer representing the former IDC members and the Independence Party, wrote a letter to the BOE’s enforcement division in opposition to Sugarman’s demand. “Your office must know that the relief

you obtained from the court was extraordinarily narrow,” Mandelker wrote in a July 24 letter to the BOE Division of Election Law Enforcement, according to the Times Union. The publication also reported that the attorney urged the BOE commissioners to “censure” Sugarman over what he called an “abuse of her office.” Since her position was created in 2014, Sugarman has worked as an independent investigator whose enforcement decisions are not controlled by the BOE. But her power was weakened last week. Last Wednesday, the BOE’s four commissioners — two are Democrats, the other two Republicans — voted to change the powers of Sugarman’s position, a move that had been proposed months earlier. Going forward, the person in the counsel’s position will on a case-by-case basis have to get the approval of the commissioners before issuing any subpoena. Before the decision, agency rules dictated that the counsel get permission for subpoenas for particular investigations. But after getting approval for a probe, the counsel could then issue more subpoenas without the BOE okaying them. Many leaders and advocacy groups criticized the move, which was seen as a blow to an independent check on malfeaQ sance in Albany.

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Pol, activists call for action on speed cams Avella stands with TransAlt, a group he accused of bullying last year by Ryan Brady Associate Editor

Even if a car zooms 100 miles per hour past a city school, its driver will not get a speed camera ticket in the mail. And unless Albany acts to renew the city speed camera program, that will not change. The law authorizing it expired in late July. Gov. Cuomo supports the bill to extend and expand the program; the legislation has already passed the Assembly. Cuomo has urged the Senate to reconvene for a special legislative session, though he has declined to call one himself, despite having the power to do so. Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R-Smithtown) has not ordered a special session and only supports extending — not expanding — the program. Transportation Alternatives and Families for Safe Streets joined state Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) by PS 130 in Bayside last Thursday to call on the upper chamber’s Republican leadership to have senators reconvene for a vote on speed camera legislation. “It’s just really disgraceful that we are putting people’s lives in danger over politics,” said Avella, who is one of the senators sponsoring the bill that would bring back and expand the speed camera program. “Let’s put aside politics at least once and get this done.” The senator, who is in a tough primary fight against former city comptroller John Liu, said the cameras are “getting me to slow down. I think they get everybody to slow down.” Among the crowd at the press conference was Raul Ampuero, whose 9-year-old son was killed by a driver on Northern Boulevard in Jackson Heights in April, as well as Amy Tam-Liao and Hsi-Pei Liao, whose daughter Alison died after a driver hit her while she was crossing a Flushing street with her grandmother in 2013. “This is something that must be done

Erwin Figueroa of Transportation Alternatives speaks at a rally by PS 130 in Bayside last Thursday with state Sen. Tony Avella and Families for Safe Streets to call for the Republican leadership in Albany’s upper chamber to reconvene to vote on speed cameras. PHOTO BY RYAN BRADY and it has to be done yesterday,” Ampuero said. “We can’t wait any more because if we keep waiting, we’re going to lose more kids.” “We call on Senator Flanagan, we call on Republican senators,” Transportation Alter natives senior organizer Er win Figueroa said. “The cameras have been proven to be the best known resolution to reduce speeding and save lives for kids in New York City. They’re the most vulnerable population walking on our streets.” After the remarks were given at the press conference, Avella, Figueroa and Ampuero used a Transportation Alternatives radar gun to test the speed of the cars driving by the school. However, drivers slowed down to see the men on the sidewalk using the radar gun, so they stopped using it. In response to the comments at the press conference, Senate GOP spokeswoman Candice Giove took a shot at Cuomo and Albany’s lower chamber.

“The Senate Republican Majority made clear its willingness to extend the program to ensure the cameras stay on,” she said in an emailed statement. “It is unfortunate that others continue to ignore that fact. The ball is really in the Governor and Assembly’s court.” Avella is a former member of the Independent Democratic Conference, a group of Albany Democrats who had allied with Republicans. The group rejoined the mainline Senate Democratic Conference in April after months of anti-IDC pressure from progressive activists. Liu and Avella are facing off in a rematch of their 2014 Democratic primary contest, which the senator won by just 568 votes. The challenger’s campaign issued a blistering press release last Thursday attacking the former IDC member. “Avella claims the reason he joined the IDC was to get things done. Clearly, as of July 25th, when the speed cameras were turned off, a most critical piece of legisla-

tion did not get to the floor,” the release said. “Phony Democrat Tony Avella’s alliance with the NYS Senate Republicans has put the children of District 11 directly in harm’s way.” The senator’s camp shot back, accusing Liu’s side of being misleading. “Once again, John Liu is misrepresenting the facts. Senator Avella was with the Democrats before the end of session and is a co-sponsor of this legislation. John Liu needs to stop playing politics with children’s lives and should join Senator Avella in calling on the Republican majority to return to Albany to vote on the bill.” Although one would not know it by how Avella acted at his press conference last Thursday, he has not always been a big fan of the advocacy group Transportation Alternatives. Last September, members of the group held a peaceful protest by the Alley Pond Golf Center in Douglaston, where the lawmaker had planned a press conference in opposition to the city’s plan for the Northern Boulevard bike lane. The senator tried to move his press conference to the lobby of the golf center and was trying to keep the activists outside the building. But after his effort proved futile, the press conference was moved back outside. “Transportation Alternatives, they have to bully everyone,” Avella said at the September press conference. “They do this all the time.” But the senator said nothing negative about the advocacy group when he joined it last Thursday. A Chronicle reporter asked him if he stood by his statement about Transportation Alternatives being a group that bullies people. The senator did not directly answer the question. “I’m standing here with them on this Q issue,” Avella said.

Arrest made in 2011 slay of bodega clerk by Christopher Barca Editor

It’s been more than seven years since grocery clerk Jorge Marte was murdered during a robbery gone wrong inside his Jamaica store. But last Friday, police charged the man who they believe pulled the trigger a nd k illed t he 65-yea r- old Corona resident. According to authorities, 41-year-old South Ozone Park man Dewayne Harris was charged last Friday with second-degree murder, first-degree robber y a nd second- a nd th i rd- deg ree

South Ozone Park man facing charges criminal possession of a weapon in connection with the July 8, 2011 slaying. Shortly after 10 p.m. that night, Harris allegedly walked into Melani Grocery Store at 112-44 Guy R. Brewer Blvd., with a mask over his face and a firearm in his hand. When he announced his intention to rob the bodega, a customer ran for the back door. Harris allegedly chased after the invididual and in the confusion, Marte dashed toward the front entrance.

When Harris noticed Marte was trying to escape, police said, he allegedly fired one shot at him, striking the clerk in the torso before fleeing the scene. Mar te, a native of the Dominican Re pu bl ic who h a d i m m ig r at e d t o Queens three decades earlier, stumbled toward the front door and collapsed in the doorway. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center. According to reports, Harris has an

extensive criminal history and has done jail time for assault and a parole violation since the 2011 murder. T he South Ozone Pa rk ma n was already in prison for weapons possession when he was charged with Marte’s killing last Friday. The store has a history of being victimized by violent crime, as 15 years prior to Marte’s death, bodega co-owner Santos Cesar Rubio — a 49-year-old father of three — was killed during a robbery attempt in December 1996. Melani Grocery Store has since been Q sold and the venue closed.

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Man convicted in slay of Sgt. James O’Sullivan is eligible for it in January by Ryan Brady Associate Editor

One of the men convicted over the murder of Sgt. James O’Sullivan, a 23-year NYPD veteran, will be eligible for PHOTO COURTESY MARIA ANDERSON parole in January.

On Nov. 19, 1992, retired Sgt. James O’Sullivan walked into a Radio Shack in Manhattan’s Financial District. Thugs were robbing the place. He tried to stop it. O’Sullivan said he was a cop, whipped out his badge and service revolver. But he was gunned down. According to the New York Post, he was shot six times. The men went to prison for killing the former sergeant, who served in the NYPD for 23 years and lived in Flushing. And the state will soon decide if one of them, James Davis, should get parole. He is eligible for it on Jan. 17, 2019. Flushing resident Lola O’Sullivan, the late sergeant’s widow, testified before the state Parole Board on Aug. 3 in Hempstead, LI, saying Davis should not be let go. She was joined by her daughter, Maria Anderson, and son, Christopher O’Sullivan. The Sergeants Benevolent Association came to the hearing to support the family. Davis, who pleaded guilty to seconddegree murder in the O’Sullivan case, is incarcerated at the Green Haven Correctional Facility in Dutchess County. As for why she believes the man should not be set free, Lola O’Sullivan pointed to

Armed bank robber sentenced A Queens man was sentenced to 130 months in prison last Friday for robbing a Fresh Meadows bank location at gunpoint in September, prosecutors said. Far Rockaway resident Pedro Benitez, 21, went into the Queens County Savings Bank branch on 188th Street on Sept. 20, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. At gunpoint, he told the employees and customers to get on the floor. Then, he went into the tellers’ area and stole more than $50,000 in cash from a room adjacent to it.

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Aside from the 130 months behind bars, his sentence includes three years of super vised release and $71,395 in restitution. On March 20, Benitez pleaded guilty to armed bank robbery and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime. When pleading guilty, the Far Rockaway man admitted to also participating in three armed robberies in Nassau County during the summer of 2017. Other members of his crew previously pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentencQ ing, prosecutors said.

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the pain caused by the death of her late husband. “W hy should a nother fa m ily go through that because this guy was sentenced to 25 to life and he wants to get out?” Anderson, who now lives out-ofstate, said in an interview. Even before O’Sullivan was killed, Davis was not exactly a model citizen.

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22 arrested in LIC narcotics takedown Year-long undercover operation in NYCHA’s Queensbridge Houses Twenty-two people have been arrested as a result of a year-long undercover investigation of d r ug activit y in and around the Queensbridge Houses in Long island City. Twenty people were picked up on drugrelated charges, including the sale or possession of narcotics including heroin, cocaine or marijuana. Two are facing firearms charges. Nineteen are Long Island City residents. “We are com mit ted to continue to employ aggressive and innovative tactics to track down and prosecute drug dealers and other criminals who seek to terrorize our communities,” Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said Thursday in a joint statement with NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill. “It is imperative that we stop those who would f lood our streets with drugs and lure our children into lives of crime,” he added. “To keep driving crime and disorder down past already record-lows in New York City, it is imperative that we identify and dismantle illegal narcotics organizations like this one,” O’Neill said. “The people who live and work in all of our neighborhoods deserve to be safe from drug-dealing and its associated violence. I thank the Queens District Attor ney’s Off ice, and especially com mend the NYPD cops who put themselves directly in harm’s way, for seeing this important investigation th rough to a successf ul conclusion.” The Queensbridge Houses constitute the largest public housing development in the United States. The complex consists of 96 six-story brick residential buildings with 3,142 units accommodating approximately 6,907 people and are contained within six blocks bordered by 21st Street, the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge, Vernon Boulevard and 40th Avenue. The investigation, which was conducted jointly by the NYPD’s Narcotics Borough Queens Division and District Attorney Brow n’s Narcotics I nvestigation Bureau, began in September 2017. Police

Immigrant dad continued from page 14 5 years old. All three are U.S. citizens. Cruz, who is running against Assembly woman A r i Espinal (D-Jackson Heights) in Sept. 13’s Democratic primary, said she took up Flores’ cause after learning of it in the local press. “I have been working to get Alfredo out, to get him legal services, and to bring him home to his family,” Cruz said. “When you’re a low-income working immigrant, you can’t afford both a bond and a lawyer ... It is families like these that have encouraged me to run

Undercover police officers spent a year investigating the narcotics trade in and around the Queensbridge Houses in Long Island City. Authorities said those hit with the most serious chargFILE PHOTO es face up to 12 years in prison. said the probe included extensive physical surveillance and undercover police officers posing as narcotics customers. Those arrested include: • Shalond a A nderson, 49, of LIC, charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. If convicted she faces up to one year in jail; • Nathaniel Artis, 41, of LIC, charged with third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance. If convicted, he faces up to 12 years in prison; • Julie Benjamin, 20, of LIC, charged with third-degree criminal possession of a firearm. If convicted, she faces up to four years in prison; • Xena Benjamin, 22, of LIC, charged with third-degree criminal possession of a weapon. If convicted, she faces up to and to propose policies that will make su re ou r i m m ig r a nt fa m i l ie s a re protected.” According to Cruz, the next step for Flores is to have his case transferred from Batavia to New York City. She said he will have to go back to court to fight to be able to remain with his family. His next court date is tentatively scheduled for Aug. 21. While several attendees of Wednesday’s press conference bore signs calling for the abolishment of ICE, Cruz said that is not the only solution, indicating a need at the state level to “fully fund a due process project that makes sure immigrants have access to lawyers.” Q

seven years in prison; • Priscilla Carbajal, 26, of Jackson Heights, charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. If convicted, she faces up to one year in jail; • Jondell Harley, 31, of LIC, charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. If convicted, the defendant faces up to one year in jail. • Anthony Johnson, 55, of LIC, charged with third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance. If convicted, he faces up to 12 years in prison; • D a r r e n Jo s e ph , 52 , of Ja ck s on Heights, charged with third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance. If convicted, he faces up to nine years in prison;

• Rober t Lit tle -Joh n , 20, of LIC, charged with fourth-degree sale of marijuana. If convicted, he faces up to one year in jail; • Harold Martin, 66, of LIC, charged with third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance. If convicted, he faces up to nine years in prison; • Daw n Mu h a m m a d , 53, of LIC, charged with third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance. If convicted, the defendant faces up to nine years in prison; • Na t h a n iel Newel l , 30, of LIC, charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. If convicted, he faces up to one year in jail; • Gerilyn Oden, 45, of LIC, charged with third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance. If convicted, the defendant faces up to 12 years in prison; • Kristal Olarte, 25, of LIC, charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. If convicted, she faces up to one year in jail; • Edwin Roman, 59, of LIC, charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. If convicted, he faces up to one year in jail; • Rebecca Singleton, 68, of South Ozone Park, charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. If convicted, she faces up to one year in jail; • A ntonet te Williams, 43, of LIC, charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. If convicted, she faces up to one year in jail; • Daquan Johnson, of LIC, charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. If convicted, he faces up to one year in jail; • Lionel Skinner, of LIC, charged with fourth-degree criminal sale of marijuana. If convicted, he faces up to a year in jail; • Sandra Wilson, 67, of LIC, charged with unlawful possession of marijuana; • French ie Willia m s, 28, of LIC, charged with unlawful possession of marijuana; and • Stephanie Parker, of LIC, charged with unlawful possession of marijuana. Q

Bodies turn up in Qns. waters Two dead bodies were discovered last Thursday and Friday in the water by Flushing and College Point, according to the NYPD. The first was found in the East River by 127th Street and Powells Cove Boulevard in College Point in the morning last Thursday, according to the NYPD. The cops got a 911 call about the body around 9:30 a.m. The NYPD Harbor Unit arrived, finding an unidentified man in his 40s who was unresponsive, unconscious and floating in the water. EMS pronounced the man dead after

his body was brought to the College Point Yacht Club. Around 10 a.m. last Friday, the police received a 911 call about a body in Flushing Creek by 34-16 College Point Blvd. When the Harbor Unit got to the scene, it found a woman’s corpse. Her identity and age are unknown, according to the NYPD. In both cases, police said the city medical examiner will determine the cause of death and the investigation into the cirQ cumstances is continuing. — Ryan Brady

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Exhibit of historical quilts invites you to add your own stitch In a room full of colorful quilts at the Self-Taught Genius Gallery in Long Island City, the softly pretty “Whig Rose and Swag Border Quilt” draws you in. Two Kentucky slave sisters, possibly Ellen and Margaret Morton, created it for the lady of the plantation, Mrs. Marmaduke Beckwith Morton, a free white woman who could nevertheless neither vote nor participate in politics back then. The “Whig Rose” appliquéd and embroidered quilt pattern

she wanted was popular then, a symbol of the Whig Party, which included an antislavery faction. “Many women would use it on their quilts, and covered their beds with it, as a way to undermine their husbands’ politics,” said the gallery’s assistant curator, Sarah Margolis-Pineo. As the sisters painstakingly created the red-and-green pattern on the quiet ivor y background, forming tedious stuffed trapunto pads of textured flora, what were these three women who had been given the

name of a man named Morton really trying to say? Stuff it? Stories of power, personhood and politics (with both a small “p” and a capital “P”) are charted across the decorative faces of the quilts now on display through Oct. 3 in “Handstitched Worlds: The Cartography of Quilts” at the Museum of American Folk Art’s Self-Taught Genius Gallery in Long Island City. Margolis-Pineo sees quilts as maps of the quilters’ lives. As part of the exhibit, Queens

residents are invited to add their own stitches to a quilt made from a map of the borough [see separate story]. “A stronghold of our collection is our collection of quilts,” which are popular with visitors, said MargolisPineo, who curated the exhibit. Perhaps this is because they are “tangibly familiar,” she said, allowing people to have a relationship with the works. “They tell really beautiful stories and reveal such a high level of skill,” Margolis-Pineo said. continued on page 33

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Summer Sings in Queens, with attendees singing classical works along with members of the Oratorio Society of Queens, Forest Hills Choir and Schola Sine Nomine. Thu., Aug. 16 (the Mozart Requiem) and Aug. 23 (the Brahms Requiem), 7:30-9:30 p.m. (doors open 7:15), Our Lady of Mercy, 70-01 Kessel St., Forest Hills. $15 each. Info: fhchoir.org, theforesthillschoir@gmail.com.

“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) 2047088, noguchi.org.

The Chuck Braman Quintet, performing modern jazz inspired by the famed Blue Note recordings of the 1960s; part of the Live at the Gantries music series. Tue., Aug. 21, 7-8 p.m., Gantry Plaza State Park, 4-09 47 Road, Long Island City. Free. Info: Info: (718) 544-2996, kupferbergcenter.org.

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) 699-0005, nysci.org. “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) 848-0030, 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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“Saving Jamaica Bay,” the 2016 documentary by environmentalist (and former Queens Chronicle Editor-in-Chief) Dan Hendrick, about the history of the longabused estuary and those who have fought to protect it; outdoors, with intro by Hendrick and activist Don Riepe. Sun., Aug. 19, 8 p.m., the beach at 94 St. and Shorefront Pkwy., Rockaway. Free. Info: (917) 207-8715, saving jamaicabay.com. IMAGE COURTESY DAN HENDRICK

Beethoven Firsts!, with his First Symphony and First Piano Concerto performed by the Queensboro Symphony Orchestra under Maestro Dong Hyun Kim, with pianist Noi Otomasu. Sun., Aug. 26, 6 p.m., Moakyang Presbyterian Church, 12-25 Clintonville St., Whitestone. Free-will offering. Info: (646) 353-6043, queensborosymphony.org. Whether you’re an actual sculptor, just have fond memories of Play-Doh or are somewhere in between, you’re invited to Clay Club at SculptureCenter on Aug. 18, when visitors will get to craft their own works and enjoy music, food and drinks. See Special Events. COURTESY PHOTO “Cleopatra,” the 1963 epic about the Egyptian queen trying to conquer the Roman Empire with her beauty, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Sat., Aug. 18, 1 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. “Take Me Out to the Ballgame,” the 1949 musical with Frank Sinatra, left, Gene Kelly and Esther Williams, about baseball players who also perform vaudeville; last in series of movies with ties to Astoria. Sat., Aug. 18, 1 p.m., Greater Astoria Historical Society, 35-20 Broadway, Long Island City. Free. Info: (718) 278-0700, astorialic.org. METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER

THEATRE “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. 16-18, 8 p.m.; Sun., Aug. 19, 2 p.m., St. Gregory the Great Church, 24220 88 Ave. (entrance thru glass doors), Bellerose. $18; $15 seniors, students; $8 kids under 12. Info: (718) 989-2451, sgtg.org. “Much Ado About Nothing,” the beloved Shakespeare comedy about the courtship of two very different couples, “a delicious cocktail of wit, delight and heart,” the first production by Queens-based Rude Grooms. Fri.-Sat., Aug. 17-19,

6:30 p.m., Astoria Park Great Lawn, near 19 St. and 23 Ave.; Sun., Aug. 19, 1:30 and 6:30 p.m., Plaxall Gallery, 5-25 46 Ave., Long Island City (earlier show indoors; later one outdoors). Free. Info/ reservations: rudegrooms.com. 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.

COMEDY Cat Trivia!, with self-proclaimed cat ladies Babe Parker and Chelsea White quizzing the audience in several cat-egories; with prizes. Sun., Aug. 19, 8:30-10 p.m., QED, 27-16 23 Ave., Astoria. $5. Info: (347) 451-3873, qedastoria.com.

Chalaw Basiwali, with the native Taiwanese singer-songwriter, right, and his band including Madagascan Kilema playing a fusion of exotic folk music with bossa nova rhythms. Fri., Aug. 17, 8 p.m., Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. $16; $10 students. Info: (718) 463-7700, flushingtownhall.org. COURTESY PHOTO

SPECIAL EVENTS Clay Club, the 2nd annual, with people of all ages sculpting either artist-led projects or works done completely on their own, with music and refreshments. Sat., Aug. 18, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., SculptureCenter, 44-19 Purves St., Long Island City. Free. Info: (718) 361-1750, sculpture-center.org.

Open mic, with performers chosen on a firstcome, first-served basis; order chosen by lottery; some nights open to acts other than comedy. Usually Wed.-Sun., varying times, QED, 27-16 23 Road, Astoria. Free (purchase of drink or snack suggested). Info: (347) 451-3873, qedastoria.com.

MUSIC 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.

A Better World Festival, with opportunities for young people to get involved in causes they care about, entertainment and more, in honor of Hallie Geier, left, with a friend, a brilliant and compassionate girl killed by an SUV at age 11. Sat., Aug. 18, 12-5 p.m., Bliss Plaza, 46 St. and Queens Blvd., Sunnyside. Free. Info: (718) 606-1800, sunnysideshines.org, lovehallie.org. COURTESY PHOTO continued on page 34

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“Raise your voice! Lift it up to heaven! Raise your voice! Spread it ’cross the sky!” So goes a lyric in “Sister Act,” a musical based on the motion picture of the same name, this summer’s attraction from The St. Gregory’s Theatre Group, running through Aug. 19 in Bellerose. And those words give a fair indication of what’s happening on the makeshift stage in a basement space completely transformed for the occasion. If memory serves, the show, which features music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Glenn Slater, and a book by no fewer than three collaborators, has never been performed in the borough’s community theater before. It opened last Thursday night to an enthusias-

‘Sister Act’ When: Thu.-Sat., Aug. 16-18, 8 p.m.; Sun., Aug. 19, 2 p.m. Where: St. Gregory the Great Church, 242-20 88 Ave., Bellerose Entry: (718) 989-2451, sgtg.org

tic audience, seated inches from the action. It’s the 1970s; the setting is Philadelphia; and Deloris Van Cartier (Ruperta Nelson) longs for a career as a disco diva. One not so fine day, she inadvertently witnesses a murder, and, for her safety, must go into hiding. She ends up in the last place the perpetrator, Curtis (who happens to be her gangster boyfriend), might look ... a down-on-its-luck convent where Deloris’ love of music starts to work some miracles of its own. The show builds throughout the evening, and the talented performers throw themselves into it completely. Nelson has a rich voice that she raises in song throughout, and she can deliver a pointed barb effortlessly. As Curtis, Timothy F. Smith brings a strong personality to the stage, obviously relishing his one big number, “When I Find My Baby,” complete with his own backup trio of thugs. Those three guys, in fact, nearly steal the show. Zach Russo, Thomas Laskowski and Paul Thomas, who appear in multiple disguises, have a standout number of their own in “Lady in the Long Black Dress,” allowing each more than a moment to shine. Jeremy Copeland, who seemed unsure of

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The characters played by Deanna Mayo, Ruperta Nelson and Shala Hunter hope to PHOTO BY MARK LORD make the big time in the music scene in “Sister Act.” some of his spoken lines, displayed a smooth, Barry White-like voice as Eddie Souther, who takes a shine to Deloris. As the unrelentingly dour Mother Superior, Lori Santopetro was hampered by an uncooperative mike but still performed very well.

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Stitches mark personal family histories in Queens by Victoria Zunitch qboro contributor

Growing up, the nuclear core of my large extended family was located in the small Fresh Meadows home of my maternal grandparents, “Nana and Grandpa,” also known as Madeleine and Jerome E. Gray. They met, started a Great Depression family and fought on World War II’s home front, all in Queens. When I learned that the American Folk Art Museum’s Self-Taught Genius Gallery was inviting people to help create a quilt out of a cloth map of Queens, I knew that I had to participate. I immediately invited a second cousin, Ian Schoenherr, to participate with me. His grandfather Raymond Gray was my grandfather’s brother, and we met through our shared love of family history. “Our Queens” is a rare opportunity to help create a work of art and history as part of the gallery’s quilting exhibit [see separate story]. Gallery assistant curator Sarah Margolis-Pineo sees maps, which help us locate our place in the world, as analogous to quilts, which provide maps of the quilter’s lives. Their stories, patterns and materials

Ian Schoenherr and Victoria Zunitch, both descendents of the Gray family in Queens, and Self-Taught Genius Gallery assistant curator Sarah Margolis-Pineo display the map PHOTO BY MIMI FRAUST quilt that everyone in the borough is invited to add a stitch to. draw the contours of their lives. The project is open to all, and visitors are invited to mark places in Queens that are significant to them by placing a stitch on

the cloth map. Schoenherr and I visited the gallery in Long Island City last week. My child marked our current home in Forest Hills with a

stitch, and I marked the location of my grandparents’ home in Fresh Meadows. The map is complete but not overly detailed, so there was a bit of guesswork involved. Schoenherr, an illustrator and children’s book author, marked with stitches three important locations in Woodside. One is the house he lives in now, purchased in 1920 by his great-grandparents. The second stitch was for the house previously owned by his grandparents, in which his dad, the illustrator John Schoenherr, grew up and later lived for a time with his wife, Judy, Schoenherr’s mom. The third stitch marked the location of the original Gray family home in Woodside, where both of our grandfathers grew up. “Queens — especially Woodside — has played a huge part in my family’s history since the end of the 19th century. But seeing my stitches confined to a tiny fragment of the map really puts things in perspective,” Schoenherr said. I agree. My online family tree has more than 800 people, which feels huge and significant. It is. Among multitudes. Maybe stop by soon and document places imporQ tant to your large extended family.

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A quilt is defined as three layers of textiles: a backing cloth, interior padding and a cover with a decorative design, all held together with stitches that are part of the decoration, as well. They tell personal stories that are often left out of the historical canon, stitched as they are from pieces of wedding dresses or feed sacks, Margolis-Pineo said. And they tell stories of economic conditions and trade practices, such as when quilts made of imported materials like Chinese silk appear. Dorothy Yaffe Frank of Syracuse, NY, crafted a quilt that would later serve as a profoundly intimate map of her memories.

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“Dorothy’s World” was embroidered around 1968 with themes from her life using silk, cotton and crewel embroidery. According to the quilt’s donor, and Frank’s daughter, Ellen Sugarman, it spent many years put away but was handed to Frank when she was suffering from dementia. The memories came flooding back through Frank’s nerves and muscles when she saw and touched the composition she had long ago embroidered with her own hands. Abstractions of the quilt as “power blankie” are present in works by Jean-Marcel St. Jacques and Jessie Dunahoo. St. Jacques’ 2014 “Contrary to Hearsay, He Wasn’t the Devil,” 2014, part of his postHurricane Katrina work, is made of wood, including blocks that could be seen as patchwork quilt squares, nails and antique hardware on a plywood backing. Viewing it at a distance reveals an embroidery-style cross design, as in “nailed to the cross.” Jessie Dunahoo (1932-2017) was born deaf and later went blind, using plastic bags as trail markers to help him navigate his home and neighborhood. “Untitled,” his 2009 quilt of plastic bags and yarn, hangs next to gallery’s “Exit” sign and its

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The quilt as an art form, often with deep meaning

Art consultant Aurelia Rauch, left, speaks with the curator of the quilts exhibit, Sarah Margolis-Pineo. At right is the Whig Rose and Swag Border Quilt, which carries a message. PHOTOS BY VICTORIA ZUNITCH double metallic doors. We who can see only apprehend a mundane grid of plastic, relegated to merely imagining the intricate terrain that spoke to Dunahoo’s hands. Q

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continued from page 30 Taiwan: A World of Orchids Exhibit, with flowers on display, art and sculpture, related arts activities and more. Fri.-Sun., Aug. 17-19, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. (watercolor painting workshop with Taiwanese artist Che Min Hsiao Sat., 2-4 p.m. only; arts activities Sat.-Sun. only, 12 a.m.-4 p.m.), Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main St., Flushing. Free with admission: $6; $4 seniors; $4 students, $2 kids over 3 (watercolor workshop $20 more). Info: (718) 886-3800, queensbotanical.org. Honey Harvest Festival, an “annual celebration of all things honeybees,” with honey samples, activities for all ages, garden info and more. Wed., Aug. 22, 1-3:30 p.m., Voelker Orth Museum, 14919 38 Ave., Flushing. $4; $10 a family; kids under 3 free. Info: (718) 359-6227, vomuseum.org.

WORKSHOPS Egg Roll Making, with chefs from Taiw a n showing how to make egg rolls in Ta i w a n ese, Cantonese and Vietnamese styles. Tue., Aug. 21, 6 p.m., Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. $20. Info: (718) 463-7700, flushingtownhall.org. PHOTO COURTESY FLUSHING TOWN HALL

LECTURES/TALKS Ice Cream, If You Can Get It: Lecture and Tastings, with King Manor Museum curator and food historian Kelsey Brow talking about the sweet treat’s past and present in America, with tastings. Sun., Aug. 19, 3-4:30 p.m., the museum, 150-03 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica. Free. Info/RSVP: (718) 206-0545, kingmanor.org.

TOURS/HIKES Crossing Newtown Creek: LIC to Greenpoint, a walk thru a hub of artists’ activity in old industrial buildings, across the Pulaski Bridge, to a nature trail, an area with lots of Polish cuisine and more, led by Boro Historian Jack Eichenbaum. Wed., Aug. 22, 5:30-7:30 p.m., starting outside the east exit of the E/M subway station at Court Square, Long Island City. $20. Info/registration (req’d): (718) 961-8406, geognyc.com, jaconet@aol.com.

KIDS/TEENS Autism-friendly farm program for families, with interactive tours, chances to observe livestock and optional hayride, geared toward children on the autism spectrum. Wed., Aug. 22, 9-11 a.m., Queens County Farm Museum, 73-50 Little Neck Pkwy., Floral Park. $8. Info: (718) 347-3276, queensfarm.org.

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SOCIAL EVENTS Saturday night dance, with a live DJ playing classics, oldies, Italian and Spanish music, food and more. Sat., Aug. 25 and every other Sat. all year, Italian Charities of America, 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst. $12. Info: (718) 478-3100. Yoga by New York Sports Club, with nonmembers welcome. Each Sat. thru Sept. 1, 9:30 a.m., The Shops at Atlas Park Center Green, 8000 Cooper Ave., Glendale. Free. Info: (718) 326-3300, shopatlaspark.com. Israeli folk dancing, with instruction for beginners, in a fun, welcoming atmosphere. Each Mon., 7:30 p.m. (beginners’ instruction); 8:30-10 p.m. (intermediate dances), Hillcrest Jewish Center, 183-02 Union Tpke., Fresh Meadows. $10. Info: (718) 380-4145, hillcrestjc.org.

MARKETS Outdoor flea market, with clothes, handbags, costume jewelry, toys, games, bric-abrac and more; held indoors in case of rain. Sat., Aug. 25, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Incarnation Church, 89-43 Francis Lewis Blvd., Queens Village. Info: (718) 465-8534. 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. 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.

SUPPORT GROUPS 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., 12:151:40 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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SGTG’s ‘Sister Act’ continued from page 31 personality; and daughter Hannah, as Sister Mary Robert, delivered a heartfelt musical paean to all the things she’s missed in life. Kelly Ann Connors was enthusiasm personified as yet another Sister Mary; and Deanna Mayo, who served as co-choreographer, was a standout in the ensemble, displaying particularly eye-catching moves. The entire production was under the sure directorial hand of Kathy Rollo Ferrara, who also provided the lively choreography; Musical Director Jon Riss led the small but efficient band. And then there was the set, the handiwork of Todd Wilkerson, who devised an ingeniously intricate display that opened, closed, turned and slid, sometimes seemingly on its own, providing a different look for

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nearly every location. The changes did, at times, slow the proceedings, but that will surely be rectified as the run continues. Marjorie Wilkerson and Margaret Richman provided an assortment of witty costumes, while Noah Platte’s lighting scheme found much of the playing area in relative darkness and leads who were sometimes out of the picture. Special notice must be accorded a prolonged chase that comes near the end of the evening. Thanks to revolving doors, disguises and split-second timing, it called to mind a similar scene in “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” providing countQ less surprises and plenty of laughs.

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NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 06/12/18, bearing Index Number NC-000335-18/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) ADAM (Middle) MONTIZIL (Last) HAQUE. My present name is (First) ADHAM (Middle) MONTIZIL (Last) HAQUE (infant). The city and state of my present address are Glen Oaks, NY. My place of birth is QUEENS, NY. The month and year of my birth are April 2015.

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NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 08-0718, bearing Index Number NC-000602-18/ 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) KEILY (Middle) JULISA (Last) BARAHONA. My present name is (First) KEILY (Last) GARCIA BARAHONA AKA KEILY JULISA GARCIA AKA KEILY JULISA GARCIA BARAHONA AKA KEILY JULISA ZAPATA BARAHONA AKA KEILY BARAHONA The city and state of my present address are Rego Park, NY. My place of birth HONDURAS. The month and year of my birth are December 1987.

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continued from page 20 in New York City public schools, including at the early grades, including middle school, and also look at the entire high school admissions process throughout the city,” he said. The anti-SHSAT plan is not the only area where the candidate and de Blasio diverge. Liu — who has taught at Columbia University and Baruch College in recent years — said that he would give de Blasio’s mayoralty an “F” grade, the same one he gives the presidency of Donald Trump. Many in Queens have been split over congestion pricing, a fee for driving into most of Manhattan that has been proposed to raise revenue for the MTA. Avella, who represents a large population of drivers, has been staunchly opposed to it. Liu gives the idea conditional support. “If congestion pricing is tied to significant and specific improvements in mass transit availability, particularly in northeast Queens, then I’d be for it,” he said. “It can’t just be: ‘Put the burden on drivers and bail out the MTA without giving something tangible in return.’” Avella’s campaign has called the former comptroller “scandal-ridden John Liu.” In 2013, Liu’s mayoral campaign was politically damaged by a federal investigation into straw donor fundraising that saw two of his aides go to jail. The former comptroller was wiretapped

continued from page 2 Students from Queens, Parkland, Chicago and other cities first gathered at a Starbucks in Jamaica, where they held a joint roundtable to share their opinions and personal histories with gun violence. The talk quickly delved into discussions of policy, with Gonzalez rattling off a list of reforms she would like to see — including universal background checks, banning domestic abusers from owning guns and increased funding to groups such as LIFE Camp. “Extreme risk protection orders would have actually stopped the shooting at our school,” Gonzalez said. Also attending was Borough President Melinda Katz, who told the Chronicle that she was in awe of the strength of not only the Parkland students but those from Queens who participated. “It showed our high school kids that they can make a difference,” Katz said. “In the state [the Parkland students] are from, they helped change the laws. These kids made a difference.” “What I found fascinating was how interested they were in hearing the experiences of our kids,” she added. “This wasn’t about them lecturing.” After the roundtable, the group relocated to Borough Hall in Kew Gardens for LIFE Camp’s “Unity Celebration,” which featured dance performances, shirt designing and the

creation of a mural by Change the Ref — a gun violence prevention group formed by the parents of Parkland victim Joaquin Oliver. Such “violence interruptor” events, Williams-Fox said, are critical in that they unite people — in this case, from all over the country — with similar backgrounds for a good cause. “I feel like it united us,” he said. “We need to connect more. All these different organizations and movements need to stay together.” But at the end of the day, what resonated with Katz and Williams-Fox is how daily gun violence in the nation’s urban areas doesn’t seem to resonate with the American public. They hope that will change going forward, post-Parkland. “One of the key things that’s missing in the conversation is that these experiences are happening daily,” Katz said. “They’re happening in the next neighborhood over and they’re not always mass shootings.” “We’re having the same issues, it’s just expressed differently,” Williams-Fox said of the Parkland students. “Ours is scattered, where one person gets shot a day. But their gun violence appears in the form of mass shootings. “If we were to unite, things would change. I’m very confident we’re going to Q see that soon.”

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cation advocates, like Zang, have protested the mayor’s plan outside City Hall. Molinaro said he would be back in Queens for another town hall before November’s election. Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) said New York needs a new governor to stop the tens of thousands of people moving out every year — according to recent studies, more than 1 million residents have left the Empire State since 2010, the year Cuomo became governor. “We all know people who have left the State of New York,” the councilman said. Ulrich also pointed out that New York has been ranked the highest-taxed state Q and the least-friendly for businesses.

for 18 months but never charged. According to the candidate, the real “scandal” lies not with any fundraising he and his campaign took part in. “The scandal was on what the Campaign Finance Board arbitrarily and capriciously decided in the final weeks of the election: To deny me three and a half million dollars of election funds,” he said. “The scandal was the extent to which the U.S. Attorney’s Office pursued me for years and basically ended up with nothing, putting out innuendos and insinuations in the press, dragging me through all these years of bad publicity.” In his rebuttal of the “scandal-ridden” remark, Liu pointed to how the former IDC members were ordered by state Board of Elections Chief Enforcement Counsel Risa Sugarman to return funds donated to their campaigns via a partnership between the former conference and the Senate Independence Campaign Committee. A good deal of the funds from the arrangement, the excomptroller pointed out, came from the real estate industry. Depending on the outcome of the Sept. 13 primary, either Avella or Liu will face the Republican candidate in the race. The latter line is also being contested, with Vickie Paladino of Whitestone and Douglaston resident Simon Minching vying in a primary of Q their own for the GOP ticket.

continued from page 18 Asked by Forest Hills resident Donoghui Zang if he would oppose de Blasio’s plan to scrap the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test as the sole entry criterion for the city’s specialized high schools, Molinaro simply responded, “Yes.” Critics of the SHSAT say it should be abolished because it gives an unfair advantage to white and Asian students and punishes black and Latino ones. Getting rid of the test would require a change in state law, which the candidate promised to fight if elected. Many edu-

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Ocasio-Cortez also discussed the issue on Twitter on Monday. “At yesterday’s town hall, someone asked how I, as just a human, am dealing with the hate, subconscious bias and criticism,” she wrote. “I’ve been told my whole life I’m not up to snuff. Folks always doubt my worthiness until I get it done.” Other social media users in attendance said that topics such as affordable housing, charter schools and Borough President Melinda Katz’s interest in the building of a soccer stadium were discussed. “The way we organize around electoral campaigns is the way we need to organize around issue campaigns when Congress is Q in session,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

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A future baseball strike?

by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

On April 30, 1962, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey agreed to build a $2.68 million heliport for the World’s Fair, set to take place two years later. Douglaston resident Allan Gordon Lorimer was chosen as the architect, designing four 120-foot-tall, T-shaped towers with a top deck conjoining them. It was completed and opened on Oct. 16, 1963, six months before the fair kicked off. It had two restaurants, the members-only Terrace Club and the Top of the Fair, which was open to the public, with dinners starting at only $4.95. When the Beatles came to play their historic concer t at Shea Stadium in August 1965, their helicopter landed on the roof, with the band members being whisked to the venue by armored truck. After the fair closed, the structure was wisely not demolished. And when the former fairgrounds were officially dedicated as Flushing Meadows Corona Park in 1967, the Parks Department decided to open the building as a concession.

The New York World’s Fair Port Authority Heliport, which is now the Terrace On The Park catering hall, as seen in spring 1964. Today, the site is operated as a banquet hall, Terrace On The Park, by the Crystal Ball Group, which hosts numerous affairs there each month — 20 percent of the gross receipts or $2.5 million a year, whichever is greater, is paid to the city. Three cavernous ballrooms conduct all kinds of weddings, with the grand ballroom also holding 700 people. Shea Stadium is gone, but the heliportturned-catering hall remains alive and well Q and ready to host your big event.

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Major League Baseball has enjoyed 23 consecutive years of labor peace but that streak may be in jeopardy when the current contract between the team owners and the Major League Baseball Players Association expires after the 2021 season based on the statements MLBPA executive director Tony Clark made during last month’s All-Star Game festivities. Clark, a former first baseman for both the Mets and Yankees, was understandably miffed that a good number of his rank and file who were free agents last winter did not receive what he considered to be sufficiently lucrative contract offers or in some cases any offers at all. There were so many unsigned players last February that the union had to rent out the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla. so they could stay in shape. Among the better known players who had to go this route were Jake Arrieta, Mike Moustakas, Greg Holland and Neil Walker. Granted, the free agent class of 2018 was not the most star-studded in baseball history, but all of the aforementioned players certainly merited a lot more interest than they actually received based on their recent on-field statistics. A key reason for this impediment in the baseball labor marketplace is a stipulation in the last collective bargaining agreement that allows teams that lose premium free agents to get picks

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in the next amateur draft from the teams that sign their former players. A trend in baseball that we saw at the recent trading deadline is that teams are putting a greater premium on developing talent. Another factor is that teams may use the “we don’t want to lose future talent” excuse as a way of masking their cheapness. I’ve gotten to know Tony Clark a bit over the years and he is razor sharp and a man of his word. It would behoove MLB owners to act in good faith with a very talented group of free agents this winter that includes the likes of Bryce Harper and Manny Machado. The best bargain in sports, the four-day US Open qualifying tournament at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, gets underway this Tuesday. There are always a few recognizable names whose ranking may have slid over the years and have to win in the qualifiers to gain entry to the Open, which starts the following Monday. Admission is free and many of the concessions are open. It’s always fun to see your favorite team on the road no matter what their record may be. The Mets will be in Philadelphia, just 100 miles southwest of Citi Field, to take on the surprising Phillies tonight through Saturday night. Sunday’s Mets-Phillies game will be played in Williamsport, Pa., the home of the Little League World Series. You can insert your own Q Mets joke now.

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Custom large Colonial, huge MBR w/luxury bathroom, premium floors, radiant heat and CAC unit on each floor, gourmet kitchen w/high-end appl., 3 more BRs, 3 baths, study 41x107. Reduced Asking $969K

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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Lovely Cape on 50x100, featuring 4 BRs, 2 full baths, basement, 2 driveways, garage & large yard. Asking $785K

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

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