Queens Chronicle South Edition 09-29-22

SOUTH QUEENS EDITION

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Commission rejects new Council map

Roadblock in effort to set new district lines means public meetings this week

by Sean Okula Associate Editor

It’s back to the drawing board in the City Council’s redistricting process.

The Districting Commission rejected its own revised map last Thursday that, upon approval, would have been sent to the Council for its consideration as the new district lines. The commission will now revise the map further before voting again to submit it to the Council.

A spokesperson for the commission told THE CITY earlier this month that the idea of a new map not being voted through was “not even a prospect.”

Concerns among the commissioners persisted over changing District 8, split between Manhattan and the Bronx, from a predominantly Bronx-based district to a predominantly Manhattan-based one and the addition of 16,000 Brooklynites to what had previously been, even in the commission’s preliminary proposal, an entirely Staten Islandbased District 50.

District 26, which the commission had proposed to split between western Queens, Roosevelt Island and a portion of the Upper East Side of Manhattan in its preliminary map, was to now be contained entirely with-

in Queens. District 28 would have contained all of Rochdale Village, though the New York Immigrant Coalition points out the pro-

posed lines would have continued to split South Asian communities in Richmond Hill and South Ozone Park and other parts of Southeast Queens.

Councilman James Gennaro (D-Hillcrest), who represents District 24, claims the commission did not fulfill its obligation to keep communities of interest together in his district.

“The lines voted down today were a vicious slap in the face to the Orthodox Jewish community, unconscionably cutting that vibrant community in two despite that community’s fervent plea to the commission to preserve it,” he said in a statement. “The racially and ethnically diverse communities of downtown Jamaica and Jamaica Hill were cut up like jigsaw puzzles without explanation.”

Gennaro also took issue with the new map’s extension of the district’s western

boundary to include part of Rego Park, a move he says violates the commission’s obligation to “respect natural boundaries.” The Van Wyck Expressway, part of Flushing Meadows Corona Park and the Grand Central Parkway all lie between what would have been the Rego Park portion of District 24 and the rest of it.

Council Speaker Adrienne Adams (D-Jamaica) slammed the commission’s initial move to not share the revised map with the public.

“I am disappointed that the Council and public will not have the formal opportunity to review the new maps that the Districting Commission proposed and rejected,” she said in a statement last Friday. “The public engaged in the redistricting process at record levels over the last several months, providing input and testimony regarding safety measures and protections for historically marginalized communities of color and communities of interest, as mandated by the Voting Rights Act and New York City Charter. The commission appeared to have taken this seriously in its revisions, with new maps deemed to be in compliance with the Voting Rights Act. Yet, the public has not been able to access these newly proposed maps.”

Some time after that statement, the map

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Army Corps plan for coastal storm risks

by Deirdre Bardolf Associate Editor

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released a report over the weekend that included a tentatively selected $52.6 billion plan to install a series of coastal storm risk management measures throughout New York and New Jersey.

The plan includes storm surge barriers in Jamaica Bay, Newtown Creek, Flushing Creek and Old Howard Beach.

Navigable gates would be installed at the entrance to Jamaica Bay, and Hawtree and Shellbank basins in Howard Beach and where Flushing Creek lets out into Flushing Bay, among other locations. A series of levees, floodwalls and reinforced dunes would be built around the Rockaway Peninsula.

Other measures would include elevated promenades, raised roads and “living shorelines,” similar to what was recently introduced at Jamaica Bay’s West Pond.

The plan comes after years of delay following Hurricane Sandy and federal funding cuts.

Alternative 3B was selected from a range of five options that were part of the New York and New Jersey Harbor and Tributaries Focus Area Feasibility Study. Construction would start in 2030 and wrap up in 2044.

The Army Corps is now holding a public comment period for the public to weigh in.

“USACE hopes that the description and

details of Alternative 3B that will be contained in the Draft Report and the rationale for its tentative selection will serve as a good framework for further plan refinements leading to ultimately a broadly supportable, economically justified, and environmentally acceptable plan for addressing coastal storm risk for this highly urbanized and nationally important study area,” the agency stated on its website, noting the

“uncertainties associated with future climate change.”

It continued, “Ultimately, the ONLY alternative that USACE will NOT recommend is Alternative 1 — the “No Action” alternative. The existing and future coastal storm risk facing this vital study area is too serious and concerning to do nothing more.”

The plan will improve coastal flood risks

in the project area, according to the USACE, but not totally eliminate them. The gates are not intended to protect against sea level rise, for example.

Roger Gendron, president of the New Hamilton Beach Civic Association and longtime advocate for flooding issues in the area, said he got emotional when he first read the news.

“It’s a very important thing for any coastal community to know that they’re going to be protected from storms,” he said. “We need to be assured that we are going to be protected from storms. But this is not a home run ... This is very preliminary.”

He is planning to hold community meetings on the subject and hopes to get USACE representatives to attend and explain the project. In the meantime, he is preparing for the public comment period, drafting a letter for community members to sign on to, and making sense of the 569-page report.

State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) came out in support of the tentative plan, noting the significance as the 10th anniversary of Sandy approaches.

“This $52.6 billion plan has been worked on and advocated for by community leaders over the years ... I look forward to seeing the next steps of this plan to protect our neighborhoods from damages caused by storms and hurricanes,” he said in a statement.

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Four shot in Ozone Park playground

Said to be innocent bystanders, the victims included two teenagers

by Deirdre Bardolf Associate Editor

Four individuals, two of whom are teenagers, were shot Tuesday night in London Planetree Park in Ozone Park.

Police responded to a call at Atlantic Avenue and 88th Street where the four males, ages 15, 16, 20 and 32, were shot inside the park’s handball court, according to authorities.

The two teens were transported to Long Island Jewish Medical Center and the other two to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center.

All were in stable condition.

There were no arrests by press time and the investigation is ongoing, say police.

The suspects likely fled westbound on 95th Avenue in a black Mercedes Benz or BMW with no front license plate, according to the Citizen app, where one user captured a victim being wheeled out of the park on a stretcher as a crowd observed.

Citizen also stated that there were three

men in the getaway vehicle.

Some reports claim that the four people shot were innocent bystanders and that at least 20 shots were fired in total.

Sam Esposito, president of the Ozone Park Residents Block Association, heard a commotion from his home on 87th Street.

“I came out of my house, and all of a sudden, all these people are running, like, for their lives,” said Esposito.

“And I’m like, ‘What the hell is going on?’ The kids were crying and the parents were crying. I didn’t know what happened.”

He said he raced to the park and saw the four victims.

“It’s heartbreaking cause it’s in a park,” Esposito added.

He said the civic will be calling for cameras to be installed around the park now.

The block association held a press conference back in May following two shootings in the course of nine days in the area,

Four men were shot at London Planetree Park in Ozone Park Tuesday night. One Citizen user filmed one of the victims being wheeled out on a stretcher.

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one of which left a mother shot dead in the doorway of her home on 109th Avenue. Esposito then called on action from elected leaders and the NYPD.

The Army Corps of Engineers released a tentative plan to implement coastal storm risk management measures throughout the area, including Howard Beach and Flushing Bay. USACE IMAGES

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Smaller storm still brings flood of woe

Sept. 13 squall wasn’t as strong as Hurricane Ida, but also caused damage

by Michael Gannon Senior News Editor

The storm that doused Queens Sept. 13 was, meteorologically, not the equal of Hurricane Ida’s remnants on Sept. 1 of last year.

But that is cold comfort for those whose homes were flooded again, and who lost even more.

Dan Wisotsky, a retired Marine, lives near the Cooper Avenue underpass in Glendale.

“The worst part was last Sept. 1 in Hurricane Ida,” Wisotsky said in an interview last week. “The underpass flooded all the way up to the train trestle ... When it backs up to that point, everything comes back up through the sewer lines of the residents in the area. I had two and a half feet of sewage in my basement. I lost mostly everything [in the basement]. It was in shambles for a couple of months.”

This past Sept. 13 wasn’t quite that bad.

“Just a couple of inches of water backing up through the sewer system,” he said. But it was just enough to cause problems.”

He referred to drainage improvements made when the underpass structure and roadway were redone in 2012 to 2013. He’s at a loss for answers.

“I’ve owned my house since February 2004,” he said. “Prior to this there has never been an issue. Nothing has ever happened, not even during Superstorm Sandy. Nothing like this started

Neir’s birthday bash this Sat.

Celebrate the road to 200 years of Neir’s at a block party birthday bash this weekend.

The historic tavern turns 193 this year and festivities will include the whole family. They take place on Saturday from noon to 6 p.m. at 88th Avenue between 77th and 78th streets.

There will be a bounce house, a steeplechase contest, a DJ, dancing, face painting, and food and refreshments including hot dogs, cotton candy and cake. At 3 p.m., there will be an awards ceremony for the Neir’s Ambassadors, which will be attended by Councilman Bob Holden (D-Maspeth), Assemblywoman Jenifer Rajkumar (D-Woodhaven), Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, Queens Chamber of Commerce CEO Tom Grech and others.

The Kiwanis Club of Ozone ParkWoodhaven is a partner for the event, which is also made possible with the help of over 200 volunteers and ambassadors.

The watering hole is one of the oldest and most historic continuously operating taverns in the city that has been in the same location for its entire history.

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until last year.” He also does not recall seeing city Department of Environmental Protection trucks cleaning storm drains in the last few years.

Later that day, Maryann Maragioglio of Woodside said she had recently found letters from the city to her parents after their home flooded in the 1970s or 1980s.

But during the decades between then and Ida, there were no problems.

Maryann Maragioglio shows her parents’ wedding album, right, and a family Bible, damaged by flooding.

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“My 13-year-old dog died from Ida,” Maragioglio told the Chronicle. “Not from the storm, but from licking the mold that formed on the floors. I had 14 feet of water in my house. My whole house had to be gutted. [The Federal Emergency Management Agency] gave me some money, but they only pay for structural damage. I had to buy a new furnace, new gas meters, new floors and walls, everything else.”

She now has a new dog, a Labrador retriever. But much of what was not destroyed in her basement last year was destroyed in her garage this past Sept. 13.

“It was raining and we heard a big clap of thunder,” she said. “My dog went bananas. I looked out the window and saw a manhole cover shaking and before you knew it water was coming up from the main. I looked in my basement

and it was already coming up from everywhere.”

Many items that were either salvaged from Ida or given to her afterward were damaged in her garage this month.

Speaking with DEP workers recently she was told that there was a major blockage in the area that the agency is trying to find; and that her neighborhood is called “the bowl” for its location between high areas, and for the runoff from the Brooklyn Queens Expressway.

In an email, DEP spokesman Edward Timbers said the Sept. 13 storm caused widespread flooding. He said the Cooper Avenue Underpass both is a topological low point and that water tends to carry litter and debris that clog drainage systems.

He said with more and stronger storms expected because of climate change that can overtax the capacity of the sewer system, the city is focusing on creating a multilayered system of defense that will combine the use of green infrastructure and traditional sewers to better manage these storms.

In a letter to DEP Commissioner Rohit Aggarwala dated Sept. 13, Councilman Bob Holden (D-Maspeth) pointed out that city flood maps do not include areas that suffer repeated flooding; and that existing — and expensive — green infrastructure does not seem to be as effective as promised.

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was posted to the commission’s website. Originally, a commission spokesperson had told City & State that the map would not be shared.

The commission’s press office did not respond to questions on why there was a delay in the sharing of the map.

The proposal was leaked to some media publications, including The New York Times, last week, a move bemoaned by Commissioner Marc Wurzel.

’62 Mets: bad. 62 guns: good.

Sixty-two guns were turned in during a buyback event the authorities held Sept. 24, according to the office of Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz.

cer of the 106th Precinct.

“I cannot let this opportunity pass and not express my profound disappointment that confidential maps were shared with media outlets before they were adopted or even subjected to a vote by the commissioners,” he said during the meeting.

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— Deirdre Bardolf

Joining Katz, center, to display some of the weapons turned in for money were Community Board 10 Chairwoman Betty Braton, left, Queens Patrol Borough South Deputy Chief Joseph Campbell — who himself was nearly killed when he was shot while busting up a robbery in progress in 1988 — Assemblywoman Jenifer Rajkumar and Capt. Jerome Bacchi, the commanding offi-

“Each of the 62 guns recovered today is a potential life saved and a potential tragedy averted,” Katz said in a prepared statement.

The event, also sponsored by Assemblyman David Weprin and state Attorney General Letitia James, was held at Calvary Assembly of God church in Ozone Park.

The number 62 in Queens previously has been associated with the year of the Mets’ debut, 1962, when they were awful.

— Peter C. Mastrosimone

“I do not know who thought it was a good idea to share these intimate and confidential details of the maps hours, minutes after the mapping process concluded,” he added.

The commission will meet twice this week to discuss further changes to the map, both broadcast to the public. The first meeting will take place on Thursday, from 5 to 8 p.m., and the second meeting will take place on Friday, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Streams of both will be available on YouTube.

DSNY aims to catch dumpers in the act

Perpetrator fined $4,000 in Hollis; D31 leader concerned about ‘Snake Road’

by Sean Okula Associate Editor

The city Department of Sanitation says it’s stepping up its efforts to stop those defacing Southeast Queens.

Earlier this month, the DSNY shared a post to Twitter documenting the summonsing and impounding of a dumper in Hollis. According to a spokesperson for the agency, the perpetrator was caught using in-person surveillance by sanitation officers, and was dumping at a spot frequented by those looking for easy means of getting rid of their trash.

The spokesperson said fines for dumpers start at $4,000 and include cleaning costs, and any vehicle used is automatically impounded.

“All New Yorkers have a legal and moral responsibility to properly dispose of their trash,” the spokesperson said in a statement. “But too often, as in this case, building contractors dump construction and demolition material on the sides of residential and industrial streets — and in vacant lots — throughout the five boroughs. This is a theft of public space by private entities.”

The specific instance in Hollis took place on a grassy area on 99th Avenue, between 205th Place and Francis Lewis Boulevard. The spokesperson said officers were stationed there, looking to catch dumpers in the act.

The agency has also utilized cameras to

catch those dumping when officers are not around. Fay Hill, a Democratic district leader in District 31 and a member of Community Board 13, says those determined to dump will circumvent the preventative measures.

“They installed some [cameras] this past month over on Snake Road, and to me, it’s a joke,” she said.

“You can go to some parts of Snake Road, and there’s no camera, and that’s where the

dumping is going on again. So they need more cameras on both sides of Snake Road,” she added.

Hill says “Snake Road,” the portion of Brookville Boulevard starting at Rockaway Boulevard and stretching north through the marshland near Hook Creek Park, has been the target of dumping since she moved into the area 45 years ago.

North Conduit Avenue is another dumping

Woman brutally beat at Howard Beach stop

by Deirdre Bardolf Associate Editor

A woman was brutally beat last Tuesday at the Howard Beach-JFK Airport station after she ignored a man trying to talk to her.

Know him?

Police are seeking this man in connection to the murder of 46-year-old Jason Brady.

On June 29, Brady was found unresponsive under a couch in his apartment in Woodhaven with stab wounds.

Just this week, police released a photo of a male wanted for questioning.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1 (800) 577-TIPS (8477), or, for Spanish, 1 (888) 57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit tips by logging onto nypdcrimestoppers.com, or by texting 274637 (CRIMES) and then entering TIP577, or by going to @nypdtips on Twitter. All tips are strictly confidential.

hot spot, according to Hill, and had been the target of some beautification measures in the past, with little staying power. Last year, Assemblyman Khaleel Anderson (D-Far Rockaway) and Councilwoman Selvena BrooksPowers (D-Laurelton) co-sponsored a cleanup of the roadside.

“It was beautiful and so-forth,” Hill said. “Then they started again.”

Brooks-Powers says she has made responding to complaints of dumping a priority. In a statement, she said she has allocated more than half a million dollars to preventative measures like cameras and response to sites like Snake Road.

She did not specify which measures can be taken to stop dumping before it happens. Cameras and clean-up efforts either catch dumpers in the act or rectify messes they had already made.

The spokesperson for the DSNY hopes the fear factor will be enough.

“Contractors are aware of their responsibilities to dump materials legally,” he said. “Our enforcement efforts — and increasing reports of them in traditional and social media — are reminders that the consequences for illegal dumping are steep.

“Illegal dumpers are on notice that we will catch them, either with surveillance cameras or with traditional in-person surveillance. It’s not a question of if, but a question of when.” Q

NYCHA plans cleaner trash

The New York City Housing Authority is planning a pilot program to make the streets a little cleaner by putting residents’ garbage in large, enclosed containers, Streetsblog reported Tuesday.

Police received a call around 5:15 a.m. of an assault near 159th Ave. and Coleman Square. A 33-year-old woman was on a northbound A train when Waheed Foster, 41, attempted to engage her in conversation, according to police.

She got off at the next subway stop and he followed her, shoving her down and kicking, stomping and punching her repeatedly.

Surveillance footage posted to Twitter by the page Crime in NYC shows a bystander, in red, attempting to help but having second thoughts as Foster approaches him.

Foster, who authorities is was homeless, was arrested after a canvas of the area and charged with assault.

The New York Post reported that his rap sheet includes killing his own grandmother at age 14, as well as stabbing a woman in the face at a mental institution, assaulting a woman with a screwdriver, criminal mischief, robbery and larceny.

The Post also reported that the victim,

A man assaulted a woman getting off the subway in Howard Beach.

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Elizabeth Gomes, is a security guard at John F. Kennedy Airport and was headed to work the morning she was attacked.

Gomes’ husband told the outlet that she could lose vision in her right eye as a result.

Gomes questioned why there were not police officers present in the station.

“Every day is an incident in the subway,” she said in an interview with ABC7.

“What happened to all these police officers they said they will have there to protect us? There’s like nobody to be found. I don’t understand.”

NYCHA on Sept. 23 issued a request for proposals for “mechanically collected waste equipment and support services.” The plan, called “Clean Curbs for All,” will move the agency closer to its goal of getting its properties “visibly clean and free of pests by 2025,” according to Streetsblog, a nonprofit news service dedicated to transportation advocacy.

The RFP says NYCHA believes that using sealed, hoist-lifted containers for refuse would “significantly reduce the amount of curbside trash and recyclables, eliminate opportunities for pests to access the garbage, and significantly reduce the amount of time NYCHA staff must devote to moving trash among the Developments, freeing up time for other job functions,” Streetsblog reported. It quoted a Sanitation Department spokesperson as saying his agency looks forward to working with NYCHA on the project.

— Peter C. Mastrosimone

Despite the city Department of Sanitation’s best efforts, dumping persists on “Snake Road,” a portion of Brookville Boulevard near Hook Creek Park.

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Paul Russo remembered

Late crossing guard Elliot honored Late crossing guard Elliot honored

School crossing guard Lorraine Elliot was fatally struck by a car when the driver was reportedly blinded by the sun reflecting off snow at the corner of Rockaway and Lefferts boulevards in January 1980.

The mother of three instinctively pushed children near the intersection away and took the brunt of the Cadillac’s force, according to

an online petition started by her eldest daughter, Donna Schultz. Elliot was in a coma for 28 days and died on Feb. 5, 1980.

Last Friday, the fateful corner was conamed in honor of Elliot. Police from Patrol Borough Queens South and the 106th Precinct joined her family and friends for the ceremony.

The corner of Tahoe Street and Eckford Avenue in Ozone Park is now dedicated to a beloved member of the South Queens community gone too soon.

— Deirdre Bardolf

The street has been co-named for Paul Russo, son of Villa Russo owner George Russo, above center, who died in 2018 at 33 years old after battling cancer.

Russo is remembered for his deep faith

and devotion to his community.

Friends and family gathered last Saturday for the ceremony and guest speakers included former Councilman Eric Ulrich, left, and Councilwoman Joann Ariola, right. They joined the Paul’s parents, Antha and George, center, and his siblings, George, Giovana, Nicolette and Arianna.

— Deirdre Bardolf

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We need all the cops we have

Where were the cops? That’s one thing JFK Airport security guard and mother of five Elizabeth Gomes has wondered since she was savagely beaten, kicked again and again, by some degenerate at the Howard Beach A train station last week. She may end up losing her vision in one eye as a result of the savagery.

Well, a lot of the cops have retired or switched to other departments. The NYPD has gone from its peak of 40,700 officers in late 2001 to about 36,000 today. And some of those who remained were put on leave or fired, because they refused to get their Covid-19 shots. On Tuesday the city finally agreed to stop defying a court order and threatening more with the same fate. It also should take back any who were put on leave without pay or fired over vaccine refusal, because we just don’t have enough experienced cops out there right now.

The feeling of lawlessness is pervasive. There’s the case of Gomes, allegedly beaten senseless by a man with a long criminal record who killed his foster grandmother at age 14. On Tuesday, four

males were shot in Ozone Park. Last week, four were shot in Elmhurst, one fatally. And on it goes.

Meanwhile we continue to face complete lunacy in some quarters. Western Queens City Councilwoman Tiffany Cabán and Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani are distributing a document to small businesses advising them how to handle various problems. While it contains a few worthy ideas and lists some good hotline numbers, most of it is dangerous nonsense. And it’s explicitly meant to be a resource in lieu of calling the police.

Instead it advises putting civilians in harm’s way. When encountering an escalating conflict, it says, one might intervene by doing things like saying, “No,” “Stop” or “That is not OK”; or saying the same (annoying) thing to someone threatening, such as “Have a good day!” — over and over again. The document avoids words such as crime and victim in favor of ones such as harm and survivor.

Such things might work sometimes, but they also put untrained people at risk. Often you just need the police. Let’s get them all back on the job.

Keep it Columbus Day

There should be an Indigenous Peoples Day in New York State. It just shouldn’t be on Columbus Day.

Yet the push to replace the holiday that honors the explorer and celebrates both Italian-American heritage and Western civilization itself with one honoring native Americans is back. Some state lawmakers are promoting new legislation to make the change. Sadly, Queens’ own Sen. Jessica Ramos is among them.

The new push originates with a Democratic Socialist assemblywoman, Marcela Mitaynes of Brooklyn. But while some hardleft lawmakers think they can take extremist positions such as erasing Columbus Day without repercus-

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E-bike batteries kill

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Dear Editor:

It’s happened again. Last Wednesday morning, Sept. 21, outside a private home in Corona, a group of “e-bikes” and batteries were observed locked to a gate. One battery, however, remained inside the structure. Predictably an explosion occurred, and now two civilians and a firefighter are injured.

By mid-August the FDNY had reported 126 fires involving lithium-ion batteries within the City of New York. Who’s to blame for the unacceptable death toll (at least 11) and devastating injuries to numerous individuals since the start of 2022 alone?

Some of the most zealous advocates for these killer devices were and are Queens County elected officials. Why are they, who once praised them as “jobs-creating” tools, now silent?

We can’t ask 8-year-old Stefanie Villa Torres. Around 7:30 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 17, she became yet another victim of the villainous tyranny of terror that e-bikes have strewn citywide. The official FDNY Twitter feed characterized the all-hands fire that killed her as “... accidental caused by a lithium ion battery from an e-mobility device.”

More than three years ago the NYC Department of Investigation warned the New York City Housing Authority of the clear and present danger posed by e-bikes. Only this year has the

City Council taken up the issue, with consideration of proposed legislation mandating residents’ eviction commencing Oct. 15, if e-bikes are kept within NYCHA properties.

Greed drove the e-bike charge. Now for the general welfare, health and safety of all, the brakes must be applied.

Presently there is no federal requirement that e-bike batteries meet any particular standard. Some combination of local legislation restricting the sale of noncertified batteries, prohibiting unsafe charging and storage, and a total prohibition on the sale of second-use or refurbished batteries must be passed short of a total and complete ban on e-bikes, electric scooters and motorbikes.

F.E. Scanlon Flushing

Dems’ Covid ballot deceit

Dear Editor:

An “October surprise” is how journalists describe unexpected twists in election races. Millions of New York voters, including me and my neighbors, got a September surprise when we received unrequested absentee ballot applications for the Nov. 8 election. They were mailed by the NY State Democratic Committee in a “NY State Voter Assistance Program.” Each application was filled in with the voter’s name, address and “Covid-19 concern” checked as the reason for voting remotely, though Gov. Hochul declared an end to NY’s Covid emergency. “It is the height of dishonesty and hypocrisy that Democrats are using the guise of Covid while we gather at concerts,” GOP State

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Chair Nick Langworthy told the New York Post (“Team Hochul plays dirty,” Sept. 13). He accused Democrats of employing “deceitful schemes” to win a tightening race.

The ballot applications were aimed at NY State’s 6.4 million registered Democrats, said the Post, which noted that it is legal for political parties to use publicly available registration records to fill in absentee ballot applications and ask voters to sign and return them to their county board of elections. But using materials that mimic forms used by actual state and local election officials crosses an ethical line. What really angers me is that Democrats want me to sign a sworn statement claiming I have Covid19 concern, which I don’t, in order to get an absentee ballot.

I have voted for Democratic candidates in every election since 1960, but may not do so any more. If my party of choice wants me to risk committing perjury, it doesn’t deserve my vote or a victory on Nov. 8.

Richard Reif Kew Gardens Hills

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Dear Editor:

I would like to thank the Queens Chronicle for its excellent coverage of local news. I enjoy reading many of the articles and all the letters to the editor with varying points of view, which often include my own.

Unfortunately, many other local newspapers are now part of a large conglomerate that has transformed them into advertising vehicles rather than papers with actual news. It is, therefore, refreshing to read a real community newspaper like the Chronicle.

Thanks and keep up the good work.

Linda Imhauser Whitestone

Paying their fair share

Dear Editor:

In her Sept. 22 letter, “IRS needs new hires,” Linda Imhauser wrote that corporations and the rich don’t pay their fair share of taxes.

In 2019, which is the latest year data is available, the top 1 percent of taxpayers made 20.1 percent of all the adjusted gross income reported but paid 38.8 percent of all the individual income taxes paid while the bottom 50 percent of taxpayers made 11.5 percent of reported income but paid only 3.5 percent of all individual taxes paid.

One could argue that the rich could pay more but it is a lie to say they don’t pay their fair share.

The reason corporations may pay little or no taxes is due to several factors. First, corporations do not pay taxers paid by foreign subsidiaries until the money is sent to the United States. Second, in order to encourage increased economic activity the tax code allows things like accelerated depreciation on capital items and a research and development credit.

So if you want corporations to pay more in taxes you have to realize that there will be certain unintended consequences to the economy.

One does not need tens of thousands of new auditors to go after corporations and the rich. There are not enough of them to justify the additional auditors and they have smart profes-

sionals doing their tax returns so more auditors will not necessarily bring in more income unless they go after more moderate businesses.

I write this as a retired CPA with over 40 years’ experience. Don’t believe everything the politicians are saying. Most of them have no clue when it comes to economic policy.

Lenny Rodin Forest Hills

What is today’s GOP?

Dear Editor:

One major issue of the midterm and future elections is the duality of the Republican Party: Is it the party of Trump or not? Is it the party that denigrates the truthfulness of our electoral processes or not? Is it the party that disparages the integrity of our Department of Justice and federal law enforcement or not? Is it the party that disregards the importance of leadership character or not?

Is it the party that ignores the fundamental principles and procedures of our democracy or not? Is it the party that befriends autocratic leaders and disparages our relationship with NATO or not? Is it the party that responds to serious challenges and critical threats by dismissing those decisive issues as a “witch hunt” or “hoax” or not?

Until this duality is resolved, many traditional Republican voters should feel as though they will be likely victims of a bait-andswitch scam.

Glenn Hayes Kew Gardens

Border security vital

Dear Editor:

With the welcome mat thrown out by President Biden, millions of illegals are penetrating our country through the southern border. We don’t know who they are and what track records they have. They are continuing to be flown and bused all over the country — for instance, to Manhattan in the sanctuary city of New York. Upon the arrival of buses coming from Texas, Mayor Adams is giving individuals a welcome package that includes clothing, food and money. He also decided to temporarily house these people in fancy hotels that provide rooms costing more than $400 per night.

Isn’t this an open door for the countries that hate us to send their criminals and terrorists into our country? For instance, Iran and al Qaeda are likely to seek vengeance for President Trump’s killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, as well as President Biden’s elimination of al Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri. Remember, Iranian political analyst Emad Abshenas recently made the following remark: Iran is entitled to kill socalled terrorists Mike Pompeo, our former secretary of state, and John Bolton, our former national security advisor.

Does anybody know how many individual terrorist cells presently exist in our country? Do we have to wait for another 9/11 disaster before we take any action?

I think we are playing with fire!

Heinz Mayer Garden City,

Homecare workers rally at Ung’s office

Councilmember’s lack of support for 24-hr. shift ban strikes a chord

by Sophie Krichevsky Associate Editor

Flushing-based homecare workers demonstrated outside the office of Councilmember Sandra Ung (D-Flushing) last Thursday morning in response to her opposition to Int. 175, the City Council bill that would outlaw 24-hour shifts for homecare workers.

The bill is the latest attempt by homecare employees — many of whom are Flushingbased Asian women who work for the ChineseAmerican Planning Council and its homecare affiliate — to organize against 24-hour shifts and to advocate that they be paid for 24 hours of work, rather than for 13.

As it stands, state law says homecare workers on 24-hour shifts must be allowed eight hours of sleep (five of which need to be uninterrupted) and three hours of uninterrupted meal time. If any of that time is disrupted, employers must pay homecare workers the full 24 hours’ worth of wages.

Many allege that they have not been paid for 24 hours in instances the law states they must be compensated; the Ain’t I A Woman Campaign estimates that CPC alone owes $90 million in wages to its homecare employees. When an arbitrator awarded $30 million to 100,000 homecare aides represented by 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East back in February, workers, organizers and Assemblymember Ron

Kim (D-Flushing) were far from satisfied.

Aside from Councilmember Christopher Marte (D-Manhattan), its primary sponsor, the bill has 26 co-sponsors, four of whom are Republicans. Those four, who account for 80 percent of the Council’s Republicans, include both of the party’s Queens members, Councilmember Vickie Paladino (R-Whitestone) and Councilwoman Joann Ariola (R-Ozone Park).

Ung opposes the bill.

“The exploitive practices of 24-hour shifts are an absolutely abhorrent breach of worker’s rights, and I stand with home health care workers in calling on the state to allocate funds to ensure home health care workers have living wages and dignity in the workplace,” Ung said in a statement. “Splitting shifts as the legislation currently mandates would require an additional $655 million annually in Medicaid funding, which must come from Albany,” she continued. “Without this commitment from Albany, some of our most vulnerable seniors will lose coverage or be forced into nursing homes, undermining the

ability of older adults to age gracefully in their homes.” She proceeded to call on state lawmakers to allocate additional Medicaid funding and pass the necessary legislation.

Though a source familiar with the matter noted that Ung is not the only councilmember not co-sponsoring the legislation, Sarah Ahn, an organizer for the Flushing Workers Center,

Liu calls for HS admissions fix

Senator joins ranks calling for end to lottery system

by Deirdre Bardolf Associate Editor

The battle to revert the high school admissions process back to what it was before the pandemic, before a lottery system was implemented, has gained another soldier.

“The Department of Education would be wise to scrap its unpopular and ineffective lottery-based high school admissions process and return to an admissions system that allows high schools to consider academic performance so as not to penalize the students who have pursued excellence under previous long-standing admissions criteria,” state Sen. John Liu (D-Flushing), chairperson of the Senate Committee on NYC Education, wrote in a letter to Schools Chancellor David Banks last Friday.

Liu said families are “deeply upset” with the results of the current policy, which land students in schools not aligned to their interests and abilities and often far from home.

He called Banks out for saying in March of 2022 that there was a need to update the high school admissions process but that, six months later, the DOE has not implemented any real changes.

Asian families, he said, feel that the lottery system “further marginalized” their

overlooked community and that DOE statistics show students from that community fared the worst in the city with only 70 percent securing one of their top five high school picks.

“The high school admissions process has

been rife with uncertainty and confusion under the current system causing outrage during an already stressful time in families’ lives,” Liu said in a prepared statement.

“The DOE must abandon this lottery as a relic of the pandemic, and reinstate an admissions system that values diligence and achievement.”

Liu joins the ranks of advocates calling on a return to merit-based admissions.

Earlier this month, nine City Council members signed on to a letter with bipartisan support calling on Banks to “reinstate a fair admission process” for middle and high schoolers.

“Coming out of the pandemic, lotterybased admissions do not address learning loss or help improve proficiencies of students who are academically behind,” it stated.

An open letter to Banks from the group PLACE NYC calling for a return to screened admissions garnered around 4,000 signatures.

“We had a full year of in-person school which included annual state tests and regular report card grades. It is now possible to make a full return to admissions standards for screened schools,” it read.

An announcement on the issue is expected to come from the DOE soon.

said the number of homecare workers in the councilmember’s district sets her apart. That, Ahn said, was a driving factor for last week’s demonstration.

“We have a lot of support from City Council members. I think it just came back to: Why isn’t our councilmember supporting this?” Ahn said. “Representing Flushing, being an Asian woman herself — people see in the newspaper when she ran saying that she will be good for Chinese, she will be good for Asians because she is also Asian. So just the hypocrisy and all of that — people were very angry.”

The support is not limited to the Council; in addition to his extensive work on the issue in Albany, Kim, too, expressed his support for the city legislation at the Committee on Civil Service and Labor’s Sept. 6 hearing. Asked for comment on Ung’s opposition to the bill, Kim said in a statement to the Chronicle, “Our constituents feel strongly that the 24-hour work shifts are unfairly targeted at predominantly immigrant women workers, particularly from Asian and Hispanic back-

Weigh in on tree planting

Queens Borough President Donovan Richards is seeking input from the public on where the city should plant more trees.

The trees are part of the city’s Million More Trees campaign, which, as the name might suggest, aims to plant one million more trees throughout the city by 2030. Richards allocated $100,000 in funding for the program this fiscal year.

“Trees cool us, beautify our neighborhoods, and cleanse our environment by absorbing carbon and rainwater,” Richards said in a statement. “Your help is vital in determining the best places to plant them. Your valuable suggestions will help inform process as we bring much-needed, life sustaining trees to communities across our borough.”

Residents are invited to weigh in through a survey, accessible at bit.ly/queenstrees by Oct. 18. Suggestions will be reviewed by the Borough President’s Office along with the Department of Parks and Recreation.

Sites that will be considered include city-owned empty lots and unpaved areas. Underserved neighborhoods that lack shade will be given preference.

Roughly 100 people gathered outside Councilmember Sandra Ung’s office last week in protest of her opposition to a bill that would ban 24-hour shifts for homecare workers.

PHOTO COURTESY FLUSHING WORKERS CENTER

State Sen. John Liu has joined the ranks of peole calling for the high school admissions process to be amended.

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All fun and games with Liu

State Sen. John Liu held a senior social mixer at the Glow Community Center in Flushing on Tuesday afternoon. Roughly 200 people attended, some of whom are shown at center.

The festivities included food and giveaways, but the carnival games were the highlight of the afternoon. Above, community members had the chance to shoot their shot in a game of cup pong — no beer

included. Others used the afternoon as an opportunity to dress up their lawmaker through a game of “Pin the Tie on Senator Liu,” at top.

The event is one of two the senator is hosting this week in honor of Senior Appreciation Month. The second will be a pizza party, which is scheduled for today at 2 p.m. at Commonpoint Queens Bay Terrace Center & Pool Club.

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Chronicle mourns longtime salesman

by Deirdre Bardolf Associate Editor

In an office full of storytellers, one, who specialized in sales, stood out among the rest.

David Abramowitz is remembered by family, friends and colleagues for his elaborate storytelling and one-of-a-kind personality.

Abramowitz, born on May 23, 1943, passed away last Thursday at the age of 79 ultimately from pneumonia but after a yearslong battle with Parkinson’s, heart disease, advancing Alzheimer’s and dementia.

The 32-year resident of Ozone Park leaves behind his only child, Jessica Heinrich, wife Jenny Hu, granddaughter Juniper Max and brothers Robert and Michael.

“I know everyone who’s ever met my father would wholeheartedly agree that one of his most defining traits was his flair for storytelling, and for being the life of the party, always delivering the most interesting anecdotes, and even performing magic tricks that always left you stupefied,” Heinrich said in her eulogy at her father’s funeral last Friday.

“A corny joke he used to do all the time was asking someone if they wanted to see a picture of his pride and joy. Everyone would assume he’d be pulling out a picture of me, but he’d pull out a picture of literal Pride and Joy cleaning detergent bottles,” she shared.

Abramowitz, who was raised on Long Island by parents Jack and Helen Abramowitz, had an impressive career path.

After proudly serving in the Army, he worked as a stereo salesman at Friendly Frost, where he would say the loud speakers contributed to his hearing loss, said his daughter. He also worked as a wedding videographer and helped run a candy and collectibles store.

other areas, Dave was the lead salesperson in all new territories,” said Chronicle president and publisher Mark Weidler.

“Over time, he became the sales manager and then major accounts representative.”

Weidler recalled the salesman, who walked 101st and Jamaica avenues, always having a story to share, adding, “I’ve missed seeing him every day at work since he retired nine years ago and am now so sad to hear about his passing.”

Former co-worker Al Rowe, who worked with Abramowitz from 1999 until 2013, recalled his friend’s helpful nature.

“He was always willing to help.”

His favorite and final career path, said his daughter, was the nearly 30 years that he worked at the Chronicle.

Abramowitz is credited for tremendous growth in the paper through the ’80s and ’90s.

“As we expanded from South Queens to

“From his experience as a salesperson, he would pass on any tips he had, any suggestions as to how we could be more efficient or more productive,” said Rowe.

“He was always willing to help,” he added.

Abramowitz kept a Post-it note on his desk at the Chronicle, a Henry Ford quote that read, “The man who stops advertising to save money is like a man who stops a clock to save time.”

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grounds. It’s up to electeds to end this brutal practice. It’s easy to outsource our duty to deliver public service to contract agencies and hope no one will hold us accountable. It’s harder and politically confusing to right the wrongs and start centering solutions around our most vulnerable.”

Ahn also said that, prior to mobilizing roughly 100 people — most of whom were homecare workers — for last week’s rally, Ung had refused to meet with the Flushing Workers Center on the issue.

Asked for confirmation, a spokesperson for

the councilmember said that Ung met with members of the group in May; when they asked for another meeting in August, Ung’s chief of staff, Alexander Hart, who also oversees her legislative affairs, offered to meet with them. The group declined.

Asked for clarification, Ahn said that while both were true, Ung’s May meeting with Flushing Workers Center was on an unrelated topic; homecare workers were briefly mentioned at the end of the meeting.

Ahn also confirmed Hart had offered to discuss 24-hour shifts with them; that was insufficient to homecare workers. Flushing

And it was not just sales tips he could offer, recalled another co-worker, Beverly Espinoza.

“Dave loved the spice of life, always giving advice on Bloody Marys and peppers,” she said. “In heaven, he’s bartending.”

Abramowitz was somewhat of an expert on said peppers, which were just one category of collectible he gathered over the years.

His wife, Jenny Hu, knew that better than most because she had to finally make some order of his collections of knives, coins, watches, hot sauce and moon rocks.

She eventually filled six glass display cases with his treasures.

“The home is like a museum,” Hu said. “He lived a colorful life,” she added.

Some of that color came from their four trips abroad to Hu’s native country of China, memories that she cherishes.

“They treated him like a king,” she recalled.

Heinrich credits Hu with keeping her father well over the years.

“When his health started to majorly decline, Jenny became his sole caretaker, proving strengths she didn’t even know she had. She worked round the clock like a nurse,

Workers Center proceeded to send Ung an open letter last Monday, asking her to support the bill. At the rally last Thursday, some organizers unsuccessfully tried to meet with the councilmember about the bill.

Ung is not alone in her opposition. As the Chronicle previously reported, numerous state lawmakers, including state Sen. Gustavo Rivera (D-Bronx) and Assemblymember Richard Gottfried (D-Manhattan), said at the Sept. 6 hearing that the city lacks the power to control state Medicaid regulations, and feared splitting shifts could lead to a loss of care.

Asked about those concerns, Ahn said split shifts are not a new practice; some families already opt for such an arrangement. As for jurisdiction, she said, “The same individuals

physical therapist, anything you can think of,” she said.

“Dad was the first one to say, ‘If it weren’t for Jenny, I would’ve been dead 10 years ago.’”

Heinrich credits her love of films and collections of DVDs and VHS tapes, movie and Broadway memorabilia — as well as her love for all things spicy — to her father.

“I’m honored to use the phrase ‘I am my father’s daughter,’” she said in her tribute.

She recalled tales that were sometimes hard to determine fact or fiction, from Army exploits, to an array of “true” ghost stories to “real life ‘connections’ with John Gotti,” but that in the end, it did not really matter, because listeners were already drawn in.

“He truly captivated every audience with his concentrated and purposeful delivery, the dramatic pauses, the eyes bulging out at key moments ... you were just immediately pulled in, drawn to and on the edge of your seat with every sentence.”

One such audience was the Chronicle staff, who still shares his tales and carry on his memory.

Abramowitz was laid to rest at Maple Grove Cemetery in Kew Gardens. Q

who are saying that this can only be done on a state level, and that’s what the problem with the city bill is, are also the people who had five other reasons why they couldn’t support the state bill.”

Kim was not concerned, either. “These are local contract agencies legally mandated to comply with local and state laws. If someone commits a crime at CPC, will they wait around for the state police to help or rely on the NYPD to protect them? Municipalities have every right to protect their citizens from abuse,” he said in a statement. “Moreover, if the City of NY bans the inhumane 24 hour work shifts for home care attendants, the state will not be suing to keep 24 hour shifts, claiming it’s the state’s jurisdiction.”

David Abramowitz gave 29 years to the paper and lived a storied life

David Abramowitz led a long and illustrious life in addition to multiple career paths, recalls daughter Jessica Heinrich, center, and wife Jenny Hu. PHOTOS COURTESY JESSICA HEINRICH, LEFT; AND BY DOMENICK RAFTER / FILE

— Former co-worker Al Rowe

Maspeth Federal looks forward at 75

Rudzewick: The vision hasn’t changed, even if customers can bank from home

by Michael Gannon Senior News Editor

Maspeth Federal Savings has been doing a lot in the community to mark its 75th anniversary, including a car giveaway, volunteer and charity work.

But add those to dozens of regular community functions, like sponsorships of parades, concerts, movie nights and the annual 9/11 memorial ceremony — 19 firefighters assigned to the station around the corner from its main office gave their lives in the South Tower — and bank President and CEO Thomas Rudzewick hopes people see one thing .

“It’s about the community,” he said in an interview last week.

Maspeth in 1947 wasn’t quite New York City as it exists today, and certainly wasn’t the suburbs either.

But the people living there knew it was a unique kind of neighborhood.

“They were unsure of how to help growth,” said Rudzewick. “You had farmland surrounding Maspeth. [The neighborhood] was growing by leaps and bounds.”

Young GIs had come home from World War II and wanted to put down roots with their families. Alexander Frontera, a high-profile political and financial figure in the city, wanted to start a neighborhood bank — with an emphasis on “neighborhood.”

“Al reached out to the community leaders, the Lions Club, Kiwanis and gathered them together ... They pooled some money and applied for a charter for a savings and loan association. They began taking deposits.”

The bank was born of and grew with the community and its families. It now has $2.2 billion in assets.

“I’m glad and proud to say our mission has never changed,” Rudzewick said. “The difference between us and others is that we are a mutual bank, owned by our depositors. If you want a loan to buy a car, or to send your child to college, we don’t do that.”

But he did say the bank often can work with a homeowner and examine things like equity to refinance an existing loan in such a way that the money could be more easily available to a prospective borrower.

Of course, he acknowledges, even the head of a community bank has to pay attention to the same things as people such as Chase CEO Jamie Dimon in terms of the economy and actions by the White House, Congress, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department.

“I go to Washington three times a year to meet with our Congressional delegation,”

BP giving out compost bins

With weekly compost collection fast approaching, Borough President Donovan Richards’ office is hosting a brown bin giveaway on Saturday.

The event will take place at Archie Spigner Park in Jamaica from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Those who cannot make it to the event in person can order a free bin before Oct. 1 at www1.nyc.gov/assets/dsny/site/contact/ curbside-composting-queens.

All buildings with more than 10 units will automatically receive a brown bin. The boroughwide program starts on Oct. 3.

Brown bins are not, however, required to

participate in the newly expanded composting program. According to the city Department of Sanitation, any bin (up to 55 gallons) is eligible for the program, so long as it’s labeled with a composting bin decal, available for order at this address: nyc.gov/ CompostingBinDecal.

Containers holding food scraps are required to have a secure lid. Leaf and yard waste can be stored in a labeled bin or a bag separate from regular trash.

Composting pickup will take place on the same day as one’s recycling pickup.

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Rudzewick said. And he echoed concerns about things like cryptocurrency that he watched Dimon speak with Congress about the day before.

It’s unlikely, however, that Dimon regularly is responsible for a community carnival — like the first Smile on Maspeth Day in three years — that drew a massive crowd on Sept. 18.

“We had a waiting list of volunteers,” Rudzewick said of bank personnel, revisiting the community and family themes.

His own father, Kenneth, spent his career at the bank, working his way up from teller to president and CEO, serving in the latter post from 1999 to 2016. Thomas didn’t join until 2020, and was chosen to take his father’s place.

Rudzewick said service has been has family’s calling since his grandparents came to Maspeth from Brooklyn. He added that community banking, for aforementioned reasons and others, still is a service profession in its own right.

“I love banking,” he said. “My uniform is different. I wear a suit and a tie. My grandfather wore a fireman’s helmet and coat. So did my brother. Everyone in my family are firefighters, cops and nurses.”

When speaking of the bank’s assets earlier

in the interview, Rudzewick mentioned some $700 million in capital.

“Our rainy day fund,” he said.

The rain came with a biblical vengeance on March 22, 2020.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo put all nonessential activity throughout the state on pause with the Covid-19 epidemic. The bank now was in uncharted waters. But three days earlier, the board had crafted a forbearance program.

“We were ready to respond,” Rudzewick said. “Somebody would call and say, ‘I know it’s the 15th and my payment is due, but I have to go to the hospital with my husband or grandfather or one of my children.’ We told them, ‘Go to the hospital.’” Some 1,000 clients were able to arrange to adjust or temporarily defer their payments until the storm passed.

Even with the technology, the apps and ability to deposit checks from one’s living room, Rudzweick points to a sign that the founders of Maspeth Federal still would recognize banking today.

“I think they would have made the same decisions we did.” And he sees the founders’ vision every day.

“What I see from my desk, when I look out the window, I see Grand Avenue,” he said. “I see the history of this community, the special things that we still have. I see shoppers. I see everything this community represents.”

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Maspeth Federal Savings’ months-long 75th anniversary celebration included a number of community events and sponsorships, as well as a car giveaway, above left. And, of course, what anniversary celebration is complete without being surrounded by family and a nice cake?

PHOTOS COURTESY MASPETH FEDERAL SAVINGS

Young FoHi author tackles big topics

Kristina Raevsky’s second book takes on socialism in USSR, present-day U.S.

by Michael Gannon Senior News Editor

Lots of students have interesting stories every September about how they spend their summer vacations. Kristina Raevsky of Forest Hills is probably one of very few who spent hers finishing her second book.

“A Sheep’s Tale: A Young Patriot’s Guide to Saving America” is a two-part, 210-page historic novel in which Raevsky, 12, delves into the history of the United States and the USSR, politics, folklore and current events.

The first part of the book is told through the eyes of Svetlana, a young girl who in 1928 — 11 years into the Russian Revolution — is turned into a sheep by a gypsy at the behest of a conniving boy whom she and her best friend, Katya, go to school with.

Katya is able to escape and the two rejoin, with Svetlana being able to speak with her friend. Unable to return home, both are taken in by a friendly farm family whose members have no love for Russia’s new order.

Their journey to America, decades earlier than those of the author’s parents, leads the characters through the Great Depression and Midwest Dust Bowl days of the 1930s; World War II and the Civil Rights Era.

That leads to the second part of the book, titled “All You Need is Courage,” about Stephanie, a young woman in Memphis who

sees her city heading in what she believes to be the wrong direction, and decides to do something about it with an unlikely but inspired campaign for mayor.

Kristina’s first book, “Fly Me to the Moon and Other Stories,” was published in 2021. “A Sheep’s Tale” is available on Amazon for $9.99 in paperback.

Her mother, Irene, grew up in Ukraine. He father, Artak, came from Russia but was born in Armenia. A recurring theme in both parts of the book is how Kristina sees the problems of socialism seeping into the public discourse of the United States, particularly with education.

It took her about two years to write. The “All You Need is Courage” segment had its genesis in a school assignment.

“I was working on it on and off, between schoolwork and everything,” Kristina said in an interview this week. She said of “All You Need is Courage,” “I had to write a story about someone who was a hero, somebody who was courageous. So I wrote a story about this girl who runs for mayor because that’s how I kind of see myself in the future, because I want to run for political office.”

“A Sheep’s Tale” had been started about two years ago, and was inspired by “Heart of a Dog,” a 1925 Russian novel by Mikhail Bulgakov.

happening now in the United States.”

The first two chapters had been written, but she had her first book to finish, schoolwork and other activities and obligations.

“It was set aside until I had this school assignment,” she said.

The book contains both footnotes and a glossary of Russian language words and phrases that are used. The gypsy character, Kristina said, is from Russian history, in that gypsies lived in great number there; and in folklore.

“I know the way [Svetlana] would be transformed to a sheep would be magical,” she said. “I thought ‘gypsies, magic.’”

She also wanted Svetlana’s and Katya’s trip to the United States to have some of the aspects shared by her parents.

Kristina said she knew beforehand how she wanted part one, with Svetlana and Katya, to conclude. As for Stephanie’s journey, “I wrote until I got to the end.”

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Kristina Raevsky, 12, of Forest Hills delves into more than a century of Russian and American history and politics, plus current events in her second book.

“In this book, there was an animal-tohuman transformation,” Kristina said. “And it also mentions how socialism negatively impacted the daily life of society as a whole. So it gave me the idea to write about a human-to-animal transformation and how socialism in the USSR is similar to what is

Kristina said she and her parents regularly discuss current events, including politics. A vocal supporter of high standards in education, she has been speaking out actively against a lottery system as an admission device for the city’s advanced public high schools. This week she appeared on WPIX to address the issue, in her second on-air interview.

Sen. Comrie found out from news that migrant woman killed herself in Hollis CB 12, pols looking for shelter answers

by Sean Okula Associate Editor

Community Board 12 members and area politicians alike shared their thirst for information related to the city’s migrant housing crisis during last Wednesday’s meeting.

State Sen. Leroy Comrie (D-St. Albans) shared with those assembled on Zoom for the meeting that he had found out just that morning that a migrant woman who had ended her own life while living in one of the city’s shelters was housed in Hollis. He shared the news with Councilwoman Nantasha Williams (D-St. Albans), who was also unaware that the woman was being housed within the confines of Community District 12 and near the border of her District 27.

Comrie had found out about the location of the woman not from the Mayor’s Office or the Department of Homeless Services, but from doing his morning news reading.

“We’re going to have to work with the city and state to let us know where these folks are so we can give them available support so they can have an opportunity to be viable working people in this city and state,” he said during the meeting.

The Rev. Carlene Thorbs, chair of Community Board 12, shared a similar sentiment, calling on elected officials to keep the community board informed as to the arrival of

migrants in the area.

“Let me just make this note to all the elected officials that are on, and to those that have representatives here: Please let us know, the community board, when you get notification that these asylum seekers are in the district,” she said.

“I wasn’t even aware they had the asylum seekers there,” District Manager Yvonne Reddick, speaking of the shelter at which the

woman committed suicide, said.

Williams, who earlier in the meeting shared news of a new family shelter in her district, said even her office is having a hard time keeping up with the tally of shelters in the area.

“The Mayor’s Office has been struggling to inform even elected officials, to be quite honest,” she said.

“We need to circle back to the Mayor’s

Office to make sure they’re also sharing the information with the community board,” she added.

Thorbs’ concern is for making sure those seeking asylum in the area have the supplies they need.

“We need to know,” she said. “We should know. We’re going to have to work together to get coats to these people, books to these kids, socks, the whole nine yards.”

When asked about the flow of information from the Mayor’s Office, its liason to the community board deferred to the Department of Homeless Services.

“Oftentimes, I’m not told about a lot of these shelters until right before you find out about them as well,” he told the community board. “I don’t say that to absolve DHS of anything, or to apologize for what they’re doing, because it’s completely unacceptable that you aren’t hearing about these from them.”

Reddick shared concerns about where the previous inhabitants of the shelter at which the woman ended her life were being housed. DHS did not respond in time for comment on whether or not the agency is keeping community boards informed of the happenings related to shelters popping up in board’s respective areas and how those displaced by the migrant housing are being accommodated.

The Rev. Carlene Thorbs, chair of Community Board 12, wants board members to know about the opening of migrant shelters in the area so they can help with supplies.

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New prez at Holy Cross

Flushing’s Holy Cross High School officially installed its new president, Mark Mongelluzzo, at the school’s annual Mass of the Holy Spirit last Friday.

Mongelluzzo, above and at top with his wife, Jill, and their children, Christopher and Danielle, is a 1992 graduate of Holy Cross and previously worked at Manhattan’s Xavier High School in a variety of leadership roles. He was pleased to have the support of his family, classmates and school faculty who attended the event.

“It was a reminder of the importance of

Holy Cross in our lives. The best part was that our students were able to see firsthand how much we all love this school and the impact it has had upon all of us,” he told the Chronicle in a statement. “Now the work begins of moving Holy Cross into the future and I couldn’t be more excited to be here.”

At center, Bishop Robert Brennan of the Diocese of Brooklyn leads the school community in the ceremony, during which attendees ask for the blessing of guidance and wisdom during the new school year.

— Sophie Krichevsky

ARCHBISHOP MOLLOY HIGH SCHOOL

83-53 Manton St., Briarwood

Website: molloyhs.org

admissions@molloyhs.org

(718) 441-2100, ext. 3

Sun., Oct. 16, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL

350 East 56 St., Manhattan

Website: cathedralhs.org jcastex@cathedralhs.org (212) 688-1545

Sun., Oct. 16, 12 to 2:30 p.m.; Wed., Oct. 26, 6 to 7:30 p.m. Pre-registration is required.

OPEN HOUSES

CATHEDRAL PREPARATORY SCHOOL 56-25 92 St., Elmhurst

Website: cathedralprep.org admissions@cathedralprep.org

(718) 592-6800, ext. 137 or 150 Sat., Oct. 1, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Sun., Oct. 30, 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

CHRIST THE KING REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

68-02 Metropolitan Ave., Middle Village (718) 366-7400, ext. 240 Website: ctkny.org

Sat., Oct. 1, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wed., Oct. 26, 6 to 8 p.m.

DOMINICAN ACADEMY

44 East 68 St., Manhattan Website: dominicanacademy.org admissions@dominicanacademy.org (212) 744-0195

Sat., Oct. 1, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Wed., Oct. 26, 5 to 7 p.m.

Pre-registration is required.

HOLY CROSS HIGH SCHOOL 26-20 Francis Lewis Blvd., Flushing Website: holycrosshs.org admissions@holycrosshs.org (718) 886-7250, ext. 524 Sat., Oct. 15, 12 to 4 p.m.

MONSIGNOR MCCLANCY

MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL

71-06 31 Ave., East Elmhurst Website: msgrmcclancy.org admissions@msgrmcclancy.info (718) 898-3800, ext. 10

Sat., Oct. 8, 9 a.m.- 12 p.m., 1 to 4 p.m.

Pre-registration is required.

ST. EDMUND PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL 2474 Ocean Ave., Brooklyn Website: stedmundprep.org admissions@stedmundprep.org (718) 743-6100, ext. 5043

Sat., Oct. 15, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Tue., Oct. 25, 7:00 p.m.

ST. FRANCIS PREPARATORY SCHOOL 6100 Francis Lewis Blvd., Fresh Meadows Website: sfponline.org admissions@SFPonline.org (718) 423-8810, ext. 229

Sat., Oct. 15, 12 to 4 p.m. Pre-registration is required.

ST. JOHN'S PREPARATORY SCHOOL 21-21 Crescent St., Astoria Website: stjohnsprepschool.org admissions@stjohnsprepschool.org (718) 721-7200

Sat., Oct. 15, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

THE MARY LOUIS ACADEMY 176-21 Wexford Terrace, Jamaica Estates Website: tmla.org ; admissions@tmla.org (718) 297-2120, ext. 233

Sun., Oct. 16, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Why choose a Catholic high school?

As parents, you want the best for your children. It is because you wish them success in all of life’s challenges that Catholic schools are the right choice. Catholic schools provide an educational program based on religious beliefs and values, enabling your children to grow in their understanding of themselves, their relationship with God and their relationship with others.

Catholic schools promote the education of young people to their full potential; their teachers respect and encourage real learning experiences. Your children acquire knowledge and

develop the skills necessary for success in higher educational pursuits and a wide range of careers.

Catholic schools offer a community environment in which your children can discuss and live out the values upon which their education is based.

They are encouraged to contribute to society and to assume leadership roles in shaping public attitudes and programs. In Catholic schools, young people learn to question, to establish confidence in their own good choices in life

and to experience the sense of accomplishment stemming from individual achievement and responsibility. Take this opportunity to learn about Catholic schools in Queens.

Whichever school you choose, you can be assured that your child will receive a strong academic education in an environment structured to have a lasting value.

Catholic high schools :

• build character;

• foster community service;

• encourage involvement;

• develop real-world skills;

• shape leaders;

• reward achievement;

• reinforce values;

• allow for spiritual growth;

• embrace differences;

• raise standards;

• empower each student; and

• celebrate school spirit. Q

— diocese of brooklyn.org/high school

2022-23 TACHS Calendar of Events

Now to November 5 Enter your HS choices at www.tachsinfo.com You may update your choices until the deadline on Nov. 5 at 11:59 p.m.

(must be registered to enter HS choices)

Failure to complete this information by Nov. 5 will result in scores being unavailable to your high school choices.

October 7 Deadline for submitting request and supporting documentation to diocese for extended testing time accommodation.

(Do not submit the request to the TACHS Exam Office. It will be returned).

October 27 11:59 p.m. deadline for internet and telephone registration. Do not miss the deadline!

November 2 Receive an email with your test session date/time/code. Students will be assigned randomly to a session at 8:30 a.m. or 10 a.m. on their diocese aligned test date (no time preference accepted).

You may also access your test session date/time/code at www.tachsinfo.com. No paper notifications will be sent.

November 2–4 Call 1 (866) 61TACHS, 1 (866) 618-2247, if you are not able to obtain your test session code.

November 5 Deadline for entering your high school choices on tachsinfo.com.

SAT., NOVEMBER 5 TACHS ADMINISTRATION for Diocese of Brooklyn/Queens

December 14 Paper TACHS Applicant Records due to students’ three high school choices. (See Student Handbook for more information.)

January 11, 2023 Earliest release of admission notices by high schools; delivery via email, mail, or phone.

January 20, 2023 (5 p.m.) Access your TACHS results / Home report online at tachsinfo.com

February 2023 Response Cards due back to high schools. Q

— info courtesy tachsinfo.com

Selecting your Catholic High School

THE PROCESS

• You should choose three high schools to which you want to apply.

• Your three high school choices will receive your TACHS scores.

• Choosing which high school to attend is very important; you should consider your options carefully.

• The high schools’ websites, along with open house information, will be available through tachsinfo.com. This information also is available in the Student Handbook.

• Parents/guardians should accompany students to high school open houses and read school literature before selecting three high school options.

• Discuss your options with your teacher, guidance counselor or principal to determine which schools will be the best match for you.

• Be realistic in your choices.

• Make sure you are eligible for the schools to which you apply.

• Determine daily travel times from your home to the schools, and be sure you are willing to travel the distance involved.

• Admission and scholarship decisions are the responsibility of the individual high schools.

• After registering for the TACHS, you may enter your high school choices on tachsinfo.com.

• Enter your high school choices by clicking on the “Select your (3) high school choices” link.

• Enter your TACHS ID provided at the time of registration and your email address.

• Use the pull-down menu to see a complete list of all high schools; it is not necessary to know a school’s three-digit code.

• Enter your three high school choices and save.

• If you need to change your high school choices, you may follow the same steps.

• You may change your choices until November 5, 2022, at 11:59 p.m. EST.

• No changes or corrections will be made after November 5, 2022.

• Failure to complete this process will result in your scores not being provided to any schools. Q

— info courtes y tachsinfo.com

MONSIGNOR McCLANCY MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL

DOMINICAN IDENTITY:

Since 1897, D.A. has consistently represented the best in all-girls Catholic education in New York City. Sponsored by the Dominican Sisters of Peace, D.A. provides young women of exceptional intellect with an environment that is both nurturing and challenging. Our students strive for excellence in all things, guided by the Dominican pillars of Study, Community, Service, and Prayer. D.A. is located in Manhattan on East 68th Street and Park Avenue.

ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE:

D.A. stands alone as the only all-honors high school for girls in New York State. All classes are either Honors or Advanced Placement (AP) level. Our curriculum provides a full college preparatory education-from the humanities to STEM. All students take two years minimum of both Latin and either French, Mandarin, or Spanish. A Service Learning Program is woven into our four-year Theology curriculum.

COLLEGE SUCCESS:

D.A. graduates attend prestigious institutions in the U.S. and abroad. Each year, 100% of our graduates attend four-year colleges and universities. Graduates from the Class of 2022 are attending schools such as Boston College, Carnegie Mellon University, the College of the Holy Cross, Cornell University, Fordham University, Georgetown University, Harvard University, New York University, and the University of Notre Dame, among others.

EXTRACURRICULARS:

There are over 40 clubs at D.A., plus Intramural Tennis and the following Varsity sports: Basketball, Cross Country, Soccer, Softball, Swimming, Indoor and Outdoor Track, and Volleyball. Our studentathletes compete as members of the CHSAA. Some of our student-run clubs for 2022-23 include Astrology Club, Fashion Club, Film and Animation Club, the PreMed Society, Social Action Service Club, Students of Color Alliance, and Women’s Empowerment.

VISIT www.DominicanAcademy.org or contact our Admissions team via email at Admissions@dominicanacademy.org or by phone at 212-744-0195.

Incarnation Catholic Academy

Incarnation Catholic Academy in Queens Village prepares students from nursery to grade eight for high school, college and beyond. The school educates the whole child in a safe, friendly, family environment, and strives to prepare its students, not only academically, but also spiritually, to serve others, as Jesus did.

A Brand-New Academy for 21st Century Scholars to t hCa c i a

Students learn and practice their Catholic faith every day. They go to church monthly and work on monthly service projects.

Incarnation Catholic Academy seeks to educate students in a warm, loving climate. The goal is to develop a student’s spirit and intelligence, and encourage his/her own Catholic identity. It teaches respect for self and others, as exemplified by Jesus in the Gospels.

Family involvement is encouraged and benefits the entire Academy.

3K for All and UPK for All are also offered. Under the guidance of a dedicated faculty, students thrive intellectually, socially, spiritually, in a safe, caring environment.

The elementary grades offer a balanced curriculum of rigorous academics using the standards set forth by New York State and Diocese of Brooklyn, paired with the teachings of Roman Catholicism. The school accommodates the needs of the learner, and differentiates instruction, so that every student’s abilities can be addressed. Every individual is unique, and so a different type of instruction addresses each learning style.

In addition to the core academic subjects of religion, ELA, math, social studies and science, the Academy offers instruction in Spanish, art, music, and physical education on all grade levels.

For information on registration, call 718-465-5066 and schedule a tour or take a virtual tour by visiting www.incarnationqv.org and check us out on Facebook Incarnation Catholic Academy Queens Village @IncarnationAcademy.

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ARTS, CULTURE & LIVING

The way we were The way we were

Find your house on site that’s like a Street View

by Google from 1940

by Michael Gannon

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to walk through Queens or any other part of New York City in 1940?

Let Julian Boilen be your tour guide with the interactive map he has created titled “Street View of 1940s New York.”

It can be found online at bit.ly/3BMHeEl.

Visually, the site looks just like an old city property map — Boilen worked with several during the creative process — with black dots placed on property lots. Each dot, when clicked, brings up a building photographed by the city on that spot between 1939 and 1941.

In the corner of each picture, Boilen has added a link to show what the property looked like in the 1980s.

“I don’t know that I’m a history buff, but I like culture history,” he said. “I listen to a lot of old-time radio. I like flipping through old newspapers and the TimesMachine of the New York Times. This was sort of inside that idea. I just wanted to look around 1940s New York.”

Boilen, who turned 30 this week, is a software engineer and native of the Washington, DC, area who studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology and works for a firm in the Financial District. He said the city’s Department of Records piqued his interest

“They digitized all these photos from the 1940s taken as part of a property tax project so they could use them for records,” Boilen said. “When they were put online I said, ‘Oh, this is really cool!’”

The pictures include rows of houses along with businesses that are long gone and others that endure today.

His project, begun in 2018, took about two years of working on it on weekends or when he just had some time to devote to it.

“I try to find the time to do something creative out of work,” he said.

King Crossword Puzzle

I HAVE OFTEN WALKED

W.C. Fields juggled film and leisure time in Bayside

by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

William Claude Dukenfield was born in Pennsylvania on Jan. 29, 1880. His education did not go beyond grade school. He was a difficult child who ran away from home at times. He eventually found his calling as a juggler and was known as the silent juggler. He was concealing a stutter.

He joined vaudeville in 1898 and changed his name to W.C. Fields to fit on the marquee. He added mutter and sarcastic remarks to his act and became known as the world’s greatest juggler. He worked in The Ziegfeld Follies from 1915 to 1922. His breakout role that made him famous was in 1923 as a con man in the play “Poppy.” He was hired to make movies at Kaufman Astoria Studios for Paramount.

To unwind, he rented a bungalow at 35-25 223 St. in Bayside built in 1901 on a large 106-by-145-foot property overlooking Little Neck Bay. When movies were still made on the East Coast many actors found Bayside to

be a great summer home resort area. The property he rented was owned by Harry “Sherry” Sheridan Baketel Jr., an insurance executive who also lived in Bayside, on 221st Street. When Paramount went exclusively to the West Coast, W.C. Fields went too.

He passed away on Christmas Day in 1946, a holiday he always said he hated. The original house has long since been rebuilt. Last sold in 1996 for $400,000, it is worth well in excess of $1.5 million today. Q

The summer home of W.C. Fields at 35-25 223 St. in Bayside, as it looked in its original condition in the 1920s when he stayed there. INSET PHOTO BY CBS RADIO VIA WIKIPEDIA

Have some more ‘Oliver!,’ with a Secret twist

by Mark Lord qboro contributor

Lionel Bart’s “Oliver!” is, by now, a wellknown musical classic, but leave it to the intrepid folks over at The Secret Theatre in Woodside to come up with innovative ways to give it a fresh spin.

The results will be unveiled in 10 performances beginning Sept. 29.

For starters, the show’s director, Richard Mazda, suggested in a recent telephone interview that his rendering incorporates a steampunk twist, giving a look to the show that combines the old and the new.

“It’s a stylistic thing we’re adding on,” he said, “a Victorian tableau with modern details.” Tweaking the physical production in such a way, he added, serves to update the show, giving it “more of an edge.”

“Oliver!” is the latest production from The Secret Theatre Academy, an offshoot of the theater company that has grown exponentially since its maiden season in 2012, from a staff of two to six, with a student enrollment that currently runs around 60, Mazda said.

“It’s a really important part of what we do,” he said. And now, he added, thanks to the company’s new location (following a long stay in Long Island City), “We have a dedicated facility where we can teach.”

“Oliver!” has always been a haven for actors of various generations, but in this regard, the upcoming production veers slightly. Nearly the entire cast is comprised of teens and tweens from the academy, save for four adults who have been cast in important roles.

Those include Mazda himself, as the central figure, Fagin, that rascal who teaches his

young charges how to pick a pocket or two, all for his personal benefit.

“It’s very important to be convincing,” Mazda said. “When you do ‘Oliver’ it’s ridiculous to use age makeup” for those characters who must obviously appear older.

Casting the adults, he added, was done “for the integrity of the show.”

But he quickly made it clear that he is

“very proud of all the kids.”

And, he pointed out, this is no “junior” version; it’s the real deal.

One of the older “kids,” at the age of 16, is Mia Jacquez, already an eight-year veteran of the academy, entrusted with the demanding role of Nancy, who sings a fair share of the celebrated score, including the heartbreaking “As Long as He Needs Me.”

It is a scene involving her character that marks another bold move by the director.

“We’re not going to underplay Nancy’s death at the end,” Mazda said. In fact, he suggested, it comes in an unusually violent way, one of the reasons the production is not recommended for children under the age of 7.

The scene is quite challenging for Jacquez. “It’s very difficult, very dramatic,” she said. And, she added, it’s “very tiring. It demands a lot of energy and focus. It takes a toll.”

Still, she said, Nancy is a “fun character to play,” particularly when she is called upon to sing what she called the “high-energy songs,” of which there are quite a few.

Performances of “Oliver!” at The Secret Theatre, at 38-02 61 St., are on Sept. 29 and 30 and Oct. 1, 2, 5, 6, 7 and 8 at 7:30 p.m., and Oct. 1 and 8 at 3 p.m. Tickets are $25, or $15 for children. For more, call (718) 4339030 or visit secrettheatre.com. Q

A tour of 1940s New York is just a click away

He said the city website was difficult to use at first, requiring him to look up each photo by block and lot number, requiring a city tax map by his side for reference.

“I just asked myself, ‘Can I just put these on a map so I can just browse around freely?’” Boilen said. “That’s what this project is. You can see it like a map. And you can look around and see just about every building from around 1939 to 1940.”

And the city, Boilen said, “did the really hard part, which is to tag the photos they digitized. They scanned them going back to the original negatives, and they were pretty good scans.”

Next, he said, each original photo was set up to have a sign with the block and lot number in the shot, sometimes with a city employee in a business suit, complete with a fedora or some other suitable hat, holding it.

“Those numbers correspond to the property lots, so [the Department of Records] just typed those in,” Boilen said. “And they must have looked at an old map because they put in the address on each of the photos.”

That, Boilen said, assisted him in setting latitude and longitude for each of the buildings depicted, which he could then put on a map. After adding some coding, he was able to run his data through a number of systems to geocode each photo with the help of an existing tax map.

“Which I downloaded in a giant Excel file,” he said. “Most of the photos are there, though some are missing.”

Bit by bit, the site was completed in 2020. Glance through Queens and click on

any dot.

He still enjoys looking around.

“It’s really fun,” he said. “I get sucked into it. I like just browsing around when I get bored.”

And the feedback, Boilen said, has been tremendous.

“I was living In Park Slope and when I looked at the building I was living in there was a bunch of guys standing out front,” he said. “I showed it to my landlord and he said, “Oh! Those are my uncles!”

Boilen said he wishes he had included a

comment section, and says he still may.

“There’s a lot of people who send me their stories,” he said. “They say, ‘This is where I grew up,’ or ‘This is where I went to school.’ It’s really cool to get those.”

Nearly all the performers in The Secret Theatre’s production of “Oliver!” are youngsters from the company’s student academy.

PHOTO BY REIKO YANAGI

The recently closed T-Bone Diner in its heyday in Forest Hills, along with the subway entrance as compiled by Julian Boilen, left. On the cover: the iconic Jahn’s ice cream parlor in Richmond Hill.

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SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF QUEENS, REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC Plaintiff, vs. RAY CECELIA JOSEPHS AKA RAY JOSEPH BARR, ET AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to an Order Confirming Referee Report and Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered on June 29, 2022, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction on the outside steps of the Queens County Supreme Court, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, NY on October 7, 2022 at 11:15 am, premises known as 13041 225th Street, Laurelton, NY 11413. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Queens, County of Queens, City and State of New York, Section 54, Block 12903 and Lot 16. Approximate amount of judgment is $395,063.29 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 718347/2018. The Referee shall comply with the Eleventh Judicial District’s COVID-19 policies concerning public auctions of foreclosed properties. These policies, along with the Queens County Foreclosure’s Auction Rules, can be found on the Queens Supreme Court - Civil Term website. Gary Malcolm Darche, Esq., Referee, Greenspoon Marder, 590 Madison Avenue, Suite 1800, New York, NY 10022, Attorneys for Plaintiff

Notice of Formation of SAETIA LLC

Articles of Organization were fi led with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/01/2022. Offi ce location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: COLIN BARTOLDUS, 34-43 82ND ST., APT 21, JACKSON HEIGHTS, NY 11372. Purpose: For any lawful purpose

Notice of Formation of SEA MOSS MOM, LLC Articles of Organization were fi led with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/02/2022. Offi ce location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: USHA DEODAT-KANHAI, 120-04 135TH STREET, JAMAICA, NY 11420. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF QUEENS WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS CERTIFICATE TRUSTEE OF BOSCO CREDIT II TRUST SERIES 2010-1 Plaintiff, Against PRADIP SAHA, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, duly entered 05/23/2022, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction, on the Courthouse steps of the Queens Supreme Court located at 8811 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY, on 10/12/2022 at 12:40 PM, premises known as 90-34 191st Street Hollis, NY 11423 and described as follows; ALL that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Queens, City and State of New York. Block 10446 Lot 29. The approximate amount of the current Judgment lien is $266,249.74 plus interest and costs. The Premises will be sold subject to provisions of the aforesaid Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale; Index # 719792/2021. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. Gerald Chiariello, Esq., Referee. Leopold & Associates, PLLC, 80 Business Park Drive, Suite 110, Armonk, NY 10504 Dated: 10/12/1022 File Number: 6957747 PCO

Notice of Formation of SENTINEL BIOTECH LLC Articles of Organization were fi led with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/05/2022. Offi ce location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: SHERIN KANNOLY, 6530 KISSENA BLVD., D343 BIOLOGY DPT, QUEENS, NY 11367. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 65-03 MYRTLE AVE GLENDALE LLC Articles of Organization were fi led with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/25/2022. Offi ce location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: THE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, 105-55 62 DR, APT 6J, FOREST HILLS, NY 11375. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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Court Square Property LLC, Arts of Org. fi led with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 8/3/2022. Cty: Queens. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Jiashu Xu, 112-15 Northern Blvd., #2, Corona, NY 11368. General Purpose

Melody & Son LLC, Arts of Org. fi led with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 4/23/2021. Cty: Queens. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 34-21 21st St., apt. 5E, Long Island City, NY 11106. General Purpose

CITIVIEW GARAGE, LLC, Arts. of Org. fi led with the SSNY on 09/09/2022. Offi ce loc: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 112-15 Northern Blvd #2, Corona, NY 11368. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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Notice of Formation of BRAVO CHARLIE COMPANY LLC Articles of Organization were fi led with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/03/2022. Offi ce location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: THE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, 10814 72ND AVE., 2ND FLOOR, FOREST HILLS, NY 11375. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

MPA INVESTIGATIONS, LLC. Arts. of Org. fi led with the SSNY on 07/06/22. Offi ce: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 72-11 Austin Street, Box #101, Forest Hills, NY 11375. Purpose: Any lawful purpose

OLIMAZI, LLC, Arts. of Org. fi led with the SSNY on 09/13/2022. Offi ce loc: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 13-22 141st Street, Whitestone, NY 11357. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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NOTICE OF SALE

SUPREME COURT QUEENS COUNTY, MOREQUITY, INC., Plaintiff against CENTENNIAL INSURANCE COMPANY, et al Defendant(s) Attorney for Plaintiff(s) Knuckles, Komosinski & Manfro, LLP, 565 Taxter Road, Suite 590, Elmsford, NY 10523.Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered January 29, 2018, I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder at steps of Queens County Supreme Court, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, NY 11435 on October 14, 2022 at 12:45 PM. Premises known as 158-11 96th Street, Howard Beach, NY 11414. Block 14166 Lot 55. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough and County of Queens, City and State of New York. Approximate Amount of Judgment is $356,888.84 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No 12717/2009. Cash will not be accepted at the sale. The foreclosure sale will be conducted in accordance with 11th Judicial District’s Covid-19 Policies and foreclosure auction rules. The Referee shall enforce any rules in place regarding facial coverings and social distancing. Referee will only accept a certified bank check made payable to the referee.

Autrey Johnson, Esq., Referee 2296-002975

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK – COUNTY OF QUEENS INDEX # 718885/2020 FILED: 10/16/2020 SUMMONS Mortgaged Premises: 94-27 80th Street, Ozone Park, NY 11416. BCMB1 TRUST, Plaintiff, against THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF GERALDO P. LOPES, INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE – UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION & FINANCE, CITY OF NEW YORK ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD, and “JOHN DOE No. 1 through JOHN DOE No. 99”, said names being fictitious, parties intended being possible tenants or occupants of premises, and corporations, other entities or persons who claim, or may claim, a lien against the premises, Defendants. TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS(S): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear by serving an answer to the annexed Complaint upon Plaintiff’s attorney, at the address stated below, within twenty (20) days after service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within thirty (30) days after the service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); and in the case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint, together with the costs of this action. The Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Ronald J. McDonald, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, and filed in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Queens on 7/12/2022.

NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF

(MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Richland & Falkowski, PLLC. Attorneys for the Plaintiff, 28-07 Jackson Avenue, 5th Fl, Long Island City, NY 11101. Our File LOPES

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS, INDEX NO. 718662/2019, BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A. AS TRUSTEE FOR MORTGAGE ASSETS MANAGEMENT SERIES I TRUST, Plaintiff, vs. UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DISTRIBUTEES OF THE ESTATE OF ALAND R. WHITLEY, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; RITA WHITLEY, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF ALAND R. WHITLEY; ALANDA WHITLEY, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF ALAND R. WHITLEY; SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD; NEW YORK CITY PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU; NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU; “JOHN DOE” AS “JOHN DOE #1”; “JOHN DOE” AS “JOHN DOE #2”; “JANE DOE” AS “JOHN DOE #3”, “JOHN DOE #4” through “JOHN DOE #12,” the last nine names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants.

Plaintiff designates QUEENS as the place of trial situs of the real property SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Mortgaged Premises: 11224 168TH STREET, JAMAICA, NY 11433, Block: 12323, Lot: 20. To the above named Defendants. YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days of the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after service of the same is complete where service is made in any manner other than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service. Your failure to appear or to answer will result in a judgment against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. In the event that a deficiency balance remains from the sale proceeds, a judgment may be entered against you. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT, THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $544,185.00 and interest, recorded on November 29, 2006, at CFRN 2006000659350, of the Public Records of QUEENS County, New York., covering premises known as 112-24 168TH STREET, JAMAICA, NY 11433. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. QUEENS County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated:September 6, 2022. ROBERTSON, ANSCHUTZ, SCHNEID, CRANE & PARTNERS, PLLC, Attorney for Plaintiff, Matthew Rothstein, Esq., 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, NY 11590, 516-280-7675

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Britt Baker drills down

by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor

All Elite Wrestling, the nation’s second-largest professional wrestling promotion behind World Wrestling Entertainment, returned to Arthur Ashe Stadium last Wednesday. More than 20,000 fans came out for its “Grand Slam” card.

AEW has established itself as a worthy rival to the WWE because its grapplers are superb athletes and are equally skillful with a microphone. The late Jackson Heights native and legendary insult comic Don Rickles would be envious of the quips AEW talent, especially Plainview native Maxwell Jacob Friedman, conjure.

Some of its wrestlers lead intriguing dual lives. Dr. Brittany Baker is an Orlando dentist who is also one of the most popular “heels” (wrestling parlance for villains) in AEW. I spoke with her on the phone the week before the AEW card at Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

Dr. Baker grew up in Punxsutawney, Penn. I joked with her that the groundhog is now the second-most famous celebrity associated with that western Pennsylvania burg. “A lot of people think the Bill Murray movie ‘Groundhog Day,’ was filmed in my hometown but it was actually shot outside of Chicago,” she informed me.

Pittsburgh is the closest large city to Punxsutawney. It has been the home to such wrestling legends as Bruno Sammartino, Kurt Angle and Larry Zbyszko. I asked Dr. Baker if her parents

were fans because those wrestlers were western Pennsylvania’s movie stars. “No, they neve r watched wrestling. In fact, they were horrified I started wrestling school during my first year o f dental school at the University of Pittsburgh. They now come to all my matches and cheer.”

Dr. Baker has worked on the teeth of her ring opponents, but HIPAA requirements forbid her from revealing their identities. Although her ring name his Britt Baker, DMD, she is determined not to use dentistry as a plot device for character. She is aware of how Sir Laurence Oliver scared film audiences as a sadistic dentist in the 1976 Dustin Hoffman film “Marathon Man.” “My fans know that wouldn’t ring true,” she said.

She takes oral care very seriously, stressing the importance of flossing to keep gums healthy. “Far more people lose their teeth because of gum issues than from untreated cavities. That is a statistic which surprises a lot of people.”

Dr. Baker admitted she does not always practice what she preaches to patients. “I don’t use a mouthguard when I am wrestling. I really should. I have chipped my teeth in the ring.”

Dr. Baker returns to the Big Apple next week when she will be signing autographs at New York Comic Con at the Javits Center. She will be joined by fellow AEW performer Jack “Jungle Boy” Perry and WWE great Mick Foley. Q

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