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Dems set to win state Senate as GOP falters Addabbo fends off Ulrich by a wide margin; party safe across Queens by Peter C. Mastrosimone Editor-in-Chief

emocrats appeared to retake control of the state Senate Tuesday, as Republicans failed to win a Queens race they had poured resources into and may have lost several other tight contests around New York. The likely changeover from GOP control would be one more victory for the party that saw President Obama re-elected and solidified its control of the U.S. Senate even as it lost a few more seats in the House of Representatives. State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) won re-election to the 15th Senate District seat by roughly 10,000 votes over his Republican challenger, City Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park), in what had been one of the most hotly contested state legislative races in the country. There were days voters in the district, which covers South, southwestern and much of central Queens, were inundated with three or four mailers backing one candidate or trashing the other, from state party organizations, unions and political action committees. Addabbo won 38,011 votes, or 57 percent of the total, compared to Ulrich’s 28,358, or 43 percent, according to preliminary Board of Elections results reported by NY 1. Another closely watched Queens race was even more decisive. State Assemblywoman Grace Meng (D-Flushing) defeated Council-

man Dan Halloran (R-Whitestone) 68 percent to 31 in the race for the newly redrawn 6th Congressional District, in northern and central Queens. That race did not alter the balance of power in the House, which Republicans rule, as Meng will succeed Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-Queens, Nassau), who is retiring at the end of the year. But Addabbo’s victory over Ulrich, along with those of other Democratic state senators in Queens, served as a political firewall as the party seemed to win enough other seats around the state to take control of Albany’s upper chamber when the new session begins in January. According to published reports, including one in the Daily News that cited state Sen. Mike Gianaris (D-Astoria), chairman of the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, the party appears poised to win a 32-31 majority. But several races across the state remained too close to call Wednesday morning, the reports said, and the Republicans were not willing to concede either those races or control of the chamber. The GOP now holds 33 seats and the Democrats 29 in the 62-member Senate, which is being expanded to 63 districts in January. The Republican majority added the new seat during this year’s redistricting process, in a move critics said was designed to help ensure the party’s control — which it has held for decades aside

from the 2009-10 session, when Democrats had a stint in the lead. In the state Assembly, Democrats hold a commanding majority and will again next year. Several state lawmakers in Queens ran unopposed for re-election. In those races that were contested: • Democrat Nily Rozic beat Republican Abe Fuchs for the 25th Assembly District seat, in eastern Queens, by a 67 to 25 percent margin; • Assemblywoman Marge Markey (DMaspeth) beat Republican Tony Nunziato 68 to 32 percent in the 30th District; • Assemblywoman Barbara Clark (D-Queens Village) trounced independent Clyde Vanel, 89 to 11 percent, in the 33rd District; • Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas (DAstoria) did the same to Republican Julia Haich, 84 to 16 percent, in the 36th District; • Assemblywoman Cathy Nolan (D-Ridgewood) ran roughshod over GOPer John Wilson, winning 88 to 12 percent in the 37th District; • Democrat Ron Kim defeated Republican Phil Gim 67 to 33 percent for the open seat in Flushing’s 40th Assembly District; • state Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) won reelection by a 73 to 27 percent margin over Republican Joe Concannon; • Gianaris, the state senator from Astoria, overwhelmed the GOP’s Tony Arcabascio with 86 percent of the vote to the latter’s 13 percent; • state Sen. Toby Stavisky (D-Flushing) took

down Republican JD Kim 76 to 23 percent; • Rep. Joe Crowley (D-Queens, Bronx) sent GOPer William Gibbons packing with 83 percent of the vote to the challenger’s 15 percent; • Rep. Steve Israel (D-Nassau, Suffolk), an incumbent whose district will include northeastern Queens in January, beat Republican Stephen Labate 58 to 42 percent; • Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-Jamaica) beat GOP nominee Allan Jennings 90 to 10 percent; • Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan) crushed Conservative James Murray 94 to 6 percent; and • Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries (D-Brooklyn) routed Republican Alan Bellone by a margin of 90 to 9 percent for the new 8th Congressional District, in South Queens and Brooklyn. Statewide, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (DNY) beat Republican Wendy Long 72 to 27 percent statewide for her first full term in office. Obama beat Republican challenger Mitt Romney with at least 303 of the country’s 538 electoral votes. On Wednesday morning, Florida, with 29 electoral votes, was still too close to call, according to the national media. The final result will be either 303 or 332 electoral votes for Obama to either 206 or 235 for Romney. Democrats reportedly won some new seats in the 100-member U.S. Senate, where they already lead, while Republicans added to their strong majority in the 435-member House. Q

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Addabbo defeats Ulrich with ease Incumbent holds on to seat by unexpectedly large margin by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

Councilman Eric Ulrich speaks to his supporters in Middle Village on Tuesday night. He conceded the election to Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. Wednesday morning. PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON

For months it had been characterized as the closest, most expensive state legislative race in the country. The two-term Democratic state senator faced a challenge from a popular Republican city councilman in a newly redrawn district that is far more perilous for a Democrat. These two men shared the same political base and both served the same community in City Hall and in many cases, had the same supporters. But in the end, the incumbent came out on top — and it was not even close. State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (DHoward Beach) declared victory Tuesday night and less than 12 hours later, Ulrich called him to concede. Addabbo will represent the 15th state Senate District for a third term in Albany next year. “This morning I called Joe Addabbo to congratulate him on a decisive victory and pledged to

work with him to unite our community,” Ulrich said on Twitter Wednesday morning. “This was a hard-fought campaign and while I truly appreciate the strong support I received on Election Day, it’s time to get back to work.” Speaking to supporters at Woodhaven House in Middle Village Tuesday night, Addabbo, dressed down after spending the day helping in hurricane-ravaged parts of the district, made reference to his opponent’s money advantage. “It’s not about the money. It’s not about the billboards, it’s not about the commercials, it’s not about the mailers,” he said. “It’s about heart. There’s a lot of heart in this room.” According to unofficial results reported by NY1 on Wednesday, Addabbo was ahead of Ulrich 57 percent to 43 percent — a margin of just under 10,000 votes — with 100 percent of precincts reporting. Addabbo had been slightly

favored in the closing days of the race, especially after Hurricane Sandy devastated the southern portion of the district, which is strongly Republican and was a base of support for Ulrich. But a 10,000-vote margin would have been hard to make up, even if there had been a bigger turnout in GOP strongholds in Rockaway. Hurricane Sandy made voting difficult for residents in the Rockaways and Howard Beach, all considered bases of support for Ulrich. Before the election, the Ulrich campaign accused Democrats of trying to suppress the vote by moving polling locations in hardest hit areas to sites that Ulrich claimed were difficult to get to for some of his supporters, specifically Orthodox Jews in Far Rockaway. In response, Gov. Cuomo issued an executive order allowing displaced voters to vote anywhere in the state. Addabbo was first elected in 2008, defeating Republican

incumbent Serphin Maltese and held on to the seat in 2010 against former Councilman Anthony Como. Redistricting earlier this year added some heavily Republican areas to the district, including the western Rockaway Peninsula, neighborhoods of Belle Harbor and Breezy Point and Orthodox Jewish areas in Kew Gardens and Far Rockaway. Republicans and outside-interest groups poured millions of dollars into the race for Ulrich, while Addabbo was strongly supported by New York State United Teachers and received endorsements from Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and former Mayor Ed Koch. The 15th District is the most Republican in the borough and besides the Rockaways and Kew Garden Hills, it includes Forest Hills, Rego Park, Middle Village, Maspeth, Glendale, Woodhaven, Ozone Park and Howard Beach. Q

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One week later, ‘normal’ is elusive Rockaways, Howard Beach adjust to life in Hurricane Sandy’s aftermath by Sebastien Malo & Francesca Trianni Chronicle Contributors

A resident in the Rockaways cleans up his family’s home on a side street off Rockaway Beach Boulevard after Hurricane Sandy. PHOTO BY FRANCESCA TRIANNI

But like many storm victims, Motta said that she wandered for a long time before discovering the site. “Someone on 80th Street told me about it; we would have never known otherwise,” said Motta. Across all three neighborhoods, disaster victims said that, cut off from phone lines and without access to the Internet, they had come to rely on word of mouth to obtain relief information. “When we leave from here, we speak to those who are coming our way and we tell them where to go,” said Augustin Urbina, 55, as he rummaged through donated clothes. Urbina said he walked for an hour to reach this site –— the closest one to his damaged

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Disaster-struck residents of Queens struggled to bring their life back on track amid a heartfelt but chaotic relief response a week after Hurricane Sandy flooded their neighborhoods. Throughout the battered borough streets, distressed families spent much of the week cleaning up their homes and walking miles in search of food and comfort. In the Rockaways, Howard Beach and Broad Channel — the hardest hit neighborhoods in Queens — stunned residents could often be heard describing what they saw as a “war zone” or a scene from the “developing world.” Exactly one week after the storm, the National Guard worked side by side with the Urban Search and Rescue Task Force at a wide-scale emergency aid distribution center set in a shopping center parking lot on the corner of Beach Channel Drive and 115th Street. Steps away, families wandered around piles of donated clothes and shoes in the cold air, in search of warm clothes. “Blankets, food, water,” read a makeshift sign on the boulevard as guardsmen in camouflage attires signaled for cars to roll toward the site. About 40,800 residents of Queens still lacked power Monday, according to figures by Con Edison, with prospects of a full restoration of electricity still up in the air. More than 19,000 were out of power in the Rockaways, which is served by the Long Island Power Authority. A long-time Rockaway resident, 51-year-old Veronica Motta, pushed a trolley packed with water bottles and children’s winter jackets. “I’ve been taking water and supplies back and forth to my area,” she said.

home on Beach 67th Street. On the ground, relief distribution personnel worked around the clock on Monday to hand out supplies such as water bottles, blankets, ready-to-eat meals and orange ponchos originally intended for the New York City marathon. Echoing the comments of victims, relief workers on-site also said that they did not know whether the local population had been informed of their presence. “I’m not really sure how they found out [about the relief effort],” said First Sgt. Robert Davis, deployed in the peninsula since Wednesday. “I understand the city sent something out electronically, but am not sure how that would help.” Carter Greenhoward, 41, a salesman living in Arverne, expressed frustration at the feeling that residents of his neighborhood — known as the “60s” — were not provided critical information to access relief efforts. “They say information is power, but it’s during these times that you realize it’s true,” he said. Greenhoward and his wife Yadira, who had no heat or power, said they only found out about the relief center Sunday, five days after the storm hit. “If I had had a little bit of information throughout this week, it would have made my life a lot better,” Greenhoward said. The couple saw in the lack of guidance given to their predominantly African-American neighborhood a repeat of the discrimination reported after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans in 2005. “We were Zone A for the storm, the storm came and destroyed everything, now we’re Z for the help.” “I never thought I could feel these feelings; all the racial things I heard about Katrina, it’s true,” said Greenhoward. In a half dozen interviews, residents repeated similar continued on page 31

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Trucks on way to devastated fire companies Depts. from Penn., Miss. and boro to help replace lost emergency vehicles by Michael Gannon Editor

As a f iref ighter for nearly 20 years, and chief of the Gulf States Fire Department in Ocean Springs, Miss., David Peto knows what it is like to be hit by a disaster, and to wait for help that you pray is coming. That, and the spirit of brotherhood among firefighters everywhere, will result in an old but serviceable fire engine coming to the West Hamilton Beach Volunteer Fire Department directly from the Magnolia State. “After Hurricane Katrina, we lost one station that had 11 feet of water in it,” Peto said in a telephone interview on Tuesday. “We had another station with three feet of water. All the trucks were either lost or damaged ... Unfortunately, we know firsthand what they’re going through.” And after a few phone calls and a vote of the Gulf States board of directors, a 1988 E-1 Hurricane pumper is headed to West Hamilton Beach, which lost six vehicles to flooding during Hurricane Sandy last week. Mitch Udowitch, a longtime official with the WHBFD, said the truck will match a pumper that

already has been donated by the Hooversville VFD from the outskirts of Pittsburgh, Pa. “One of our captains posted our needs on Facebook,” Udowitch said Tuesday. “The folks in Mississippi reached out and told us they had a pumper. Their board voted last night.” Udowitch and Richard Lohr, director of Emergency Services for Somerset County, Pa., said the Mack pumper from Pennsylvania has a place in United States history —it was one of the first units to respond to the wreck site of United Airlines Flight 93 which was hijacked by terrorists on 9/11. The plane crashed into a field in Shanksville, Penn., when passengers on the flight, hearing of other airplane attacks on New York City and the Pentagon on cell phones, turned on the hijackers and attempted to regain control of the aircraft. Eleven years later, when Hurricane sandy hit, “We were sitting back here grateful that we had missed that storm,” Lohr said. “Then last Wednesday night, my satellite provider began running news stations in New York for two days, just so we

could see what was going on.” Lohr and others saw the devastation, and heard reports that several f ire companies, including West Hamilton Beach, had lost everything. They immediately began to investigate how to get their surplus truck to a department in New York or New Jersey that would desperately need it. First there was an email to Pennsylvania State Fire Commissioner Ed Mann. Almost simultaneously a friend of a friend, Steve Reis, contacted Lohr. “He’s a cardiologist in Pittsburgh now, but when he was going to school in New York he rode with West Hamilton Beach,” Lohr said. Like Peto in Mississippi, Hooversville had lost almost all its gear and much of its equipment in 1996, when the nearby river flooded after a freak snowstorm and warming period. “In saving all our trucks, we lost most of everything else,” he said. “And the creek hadn’t begun to fall yet when other departments were coming to us and asking what we needed and how they could help.” By the time Udowitch arrived in Hooversville on Saturday, the depart-

Fire departments from Mississippi and Pennsylvania have rallied to the side of their brethren in West Hamilton Beach. They have donated surplus fire engines to replace those like this one, pictured in 2011, that were destroyed FILE PHOTO by Hurricane Sandy. ment’s active members had filled the truck with food, bottled water, blankets and other necessities for South Queens. He, like Peto, credited much of the effort to the bond among firefighters. “It’s a brotherhood,” he said. Peto said the donation is a truck they themselves received from a fire department in Virginia in the aftermath of Katrina in 2005. “We got help from California, Kansas, and even got a truck delivered from Alaska,” he said. The

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Help those who help us, every day he singer Lady Gaga just pledged $1 million to the Red Cross to aid the victims of Hurricane Sandy, so many of whom saw their lives torn apart by the powerful storm. Some of her fellow entertainers held a concert Friday night, the Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together Telethon, which raised $23 million, also to go to the Red Cross. The Red Cross is a fine, longstanding institution — though it has rightly come under fire for being slow to respond to the hurricane. And in the past its financial practices have been questioned. More importantly, once the immediate crisis is over, the Red Cross will depart from Howard Beach, Broad Channel and the Rockaways and be on its way. Sticking around, however, will be the volunteer emergency assistance organizations that have always been here, always serving us — the volunteer ambulance corps and, especially in South Queens, fire departments, that rely on the community for support. These are the groups that answer the call on everything from medical emergencies to fires, supplementing the work of the FDNY. But some of them, such as the Broad Channel and West Hamilton Beach volunteer fire departments, were all but wiped out by the wrath of Hurricane Sandy. Headquarters were flooded. Trucks were demolished by the ris-

ing waters and, in the case of the BCVFD, one was lost to fire. That’s why on its website the organization is saying it needs public assistance more than ever. Even those groups that did not suffer such catastrophic losses have been paying a big price for helping protect the people of Queens. Their budgets, already strained, are hitting the breaking point. Many had been funded in part by state allocations secured by area lawmakers, and those are getting harder to come by as Gov. Cuomo tightens the reins on spending. The WHBVFD is getting two used fire trucks from out-of-state fire departments that have made their own upgrades and no longer need them. But no such pledges have yet been made to the BCVFD. And volunteer forces from all over Queens that helped out in the storm and since then — including Forest Hills and Jamaica Estates — need help to keep doing what they do. You’ll find two stories in most editions of this week’s Queens Chronicle, or at qchron.com, about the plight of our volunteer emergency groups — one focused on the donated rigs and the other on the financial need all the groups are facing. The latter story contains information on contributing to them so they can continue to serve. We urge area residents to donate to these selfless groups so they can keep up the crucial work they do.

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Readers on the storm Dear Editor: I want to update you and everyone in Queens about how Queens Library has responded to community needs following the recent devastating storm, and what our plans are to serve the affected communities in the immediate future. More than 50 libraries opened for public service right after the storm. They provided important information, places to recharge personal cell phones and laptops, as well as a community space for people to

Can we talk? ow that President Obama has been re-elected, we hope the two parties can come together and at last tackle the serious crises facing the country, starting with the so-called “fiscal cliff ” we’ll all jump off at the end of the year if automatic spending cuts are not averted by the seemingly lost art of compromise. We’re not encouraged, however, by the first post-election press conference held by Republican House Speaker John Boehner, who stuck to the right-wing, Tea Party, hard line position that there will be no tax increases on anyone ever. The president must lead, and the GOP must negotiate with him. It’s that simple. Obama earned a new mandate. He, and we, deserve better than what we got on Wednesday from Boehner. Ronald Reagan compromised. Why can’t those who adore him so follow his lead?

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Dear Editor: As the tristate area continues the long and diff icult task of cleaning up and begins the very long job of rebuilding, it is very important for the federal government to work with our state and local governments on how our very vulnerable coastline can be better protected against potential future storms. We can no longer act as if this issue is not a priority; it most certainly must be. The awesome images of floodwaters surging into the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, the South Ferry subway station, and the streets of Lower Manhattan certainly reinforce this. Tropical Storm Irene was the dress rehearsal; Hurricane Sandy was the real show. Now it is time for the powers that be to work on some type of flood control system that can protect lower Manhattan, its subway and traffic tunnels, Staten Island, Coney Island, the Rockaway Peninsula and the Jersey Shore from devastating flooding as a result of storm tides and surges. We know that this type of flood control system could take years to develop but the pace must be quickened. There will still be damage from hurricanes and nor’easters, but at least the damage from the ocean can and must be lessened. John Amato Fresh Meadows

height of the storm, or “go to a liquor store” or “report to work” when bridges, tunnels, highways and subways are closed, you let us down. I think you should come to visit us in Howard Beach: major damage to property, no lights, no power (Con Ed says maybe next Friday?), severe flooding, no gasoline, no food, no phone, no help and now that the National Guard is gone, looting. Since you are unable to protect the citizenry, I believe you should resign together with all the incompetents you have appointed. Nicholas A. Neuhaus Howard Beach

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power, then were glad to have an emergency generator to provide some computer and online access for people who need it. The libraries at Seaside, Ar ver ne, Peninsula and Broad Channel need extensive repair. They were flooded with several feet of water. Perhaps more damaging, the wind got in through broken glass and blew the books and library materials into the water and sand, and they are a total loss. The library is exploring several options for providing temporary service while we rebuild. Libraries in Far Rockaway and Howard Beach will have expanded hours after re-opening so users in neighboring communities will have easier access to everything their community library provides. We will be starting repairs as quickly as possible. Staff will be relocated to temporary library spaces. But more than 100,000 library books, magazines and movies will have to be replaced. You can help. Please go to www.queenslibraryfoundation.org or phone (718) 480-4273 to find out how you can make a real impact. Thomas W. Galante President and CEO, Queens Library Jamaica

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Tony Laino was riding out Hurricane Sandy where most of Queens did outside the evacuation zone — at home. He died there. A huge tree crashed into his bedroom at 47-34 166 St. near Kissena Park, killing him. Laino was the first fatality reported in New York City during Sandy. Across town at roughly the same time, Lauren Abraham, 23, stepped out of her home at 105-05 134 St. in South Richmond Hill to take pictures of the storm. She stepped on a live power line that had been snapped by Sandy's winds and was electrocuted. They were the f irst two identif ied Queens victims of the storm, which police say killed eight more people in the borough. Six people have been found dead in the Rockaways so far, all of their deaths attributed to the storm. Four of the victims were found in their flooded-out homes. Rick Gold, 67, and Henry Sullivan, 57, were found in the basements of their homes

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on Beach 133rd and 136th streets respectively. Police say the victims drowned in the storm surge. On Saturday, 90-year-old George Stathis was found dead in his home at 154 Beach 121 St. The fourth identified victim in the Rockaways, Ed Toussaint, 58, was also found in the basement of his home, at 420 Beach 69 St. Two other elderly victims, a 72-year-old woman and an 84-year-old woman, were also found dead in the Rockaways, but police have not released their names. On Tuesday night, William McKeon, 78, died at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center more than a week after being found in a basement stairwell at 106-20 Shore Front Parkway covered in sand. The tenth victim, 85-year-old Rose Faggiano was found dead in her home at 16425 98 St. in Old Howard Beach. Neighbors said they heard her screaming for help and had tried to save her as the storm surge flooded her home. At least 41 people have died in New York City due to Sandy, the most in Staten Q Island.. might have those freedoms we enjoy today. We also need to salute our brave men and women who are now ser ving in Afghanistan and who have served in Iraq as well as other parts of the world.

This Veterans Day I f ind myself thinking about what it means to be an American. The answer is crystal clear, and that is the pride to live in a country that allows us our personal freedom to express ourselves and to speak our minds. Let us not forget the freedom to vote for our future leaders without fear. Our system may not be perfect, but still is the greatest in the world. But these freedoms do not come without a price. They come with great personal sacrif ice from those who leave family, friends and jobs to serve the greater good. I hope this Veterans Day there will be many flags flying in support of our brave men and women who have served and who are still serving this great nation of ours. Remember the words of our first commander-in-chief, George Washington, who said, “The willingness with which our young people will f ight in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional as to how they perceive the veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their country.” That was so true back then and is so true now. I ask all who read this letter to call a veteran you might know and say thank you for a job well done. May God bless these brave Americans and may God bless America on the day we call Veterans Day. Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Glen Oaks

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“Summer is a big time for the Rockaways, and there are large portions of the boardwalk that have been obliterated,” he said. Associate Editor The city’s finances will take a big hit due to Hurricane Sandy, “And there are so many homes destroyed that the economy is going take a hit.” Comptroller John Liu warned this week. He also noted that many tourists have been forced to cancel The loss of economic output during and after the storm, combined with the cost of the cleanup and reconstruction — as well plans to visit the city in the storm’s wake, and said many of them will not come back. as lost revenue from tourism and lost Even though Hurricane Sandy hit in productivity — will cost the city hunOctober, not a major time for tourism dreds of millions of dollars. The city lost 20 percent of its ecohere’s no budget contingency like the holidays or summer, Liu said it does not make a difference what time of nomic output due to the storm, he for this kind of storm, but I’m the year the disaster occurred. said. Lost productivity that could cost “Any time is a bad time for this,” he the city $100 to $200 million. Neverconfident that the city overall said. theless, the comptroller said the city Liu stressed that the effect on would recoup most of those losses. can weather it.” tourism is not a major concern for his “At least 10 to 20 percent of that — Comptroller John Liu office or the city as the recovery from lost economic output is gone permathe storm continues. nently,” he said. “The rest the city “Right now, getting citizens back on will make up over time.” Liu said $90 million has been earmarked for the city’s recovery, their feet is first and foremost,” he said. “Tourism is not a top priority.” Even though the city has weathered huge, costly disasters mainly for cleanup and reconstruction of broken infrastructure. “On this front, we are hoping FEMA will be reimbursing a before — such as the 2010 and 11 blizzards and the 9/11 attacks share of it,” Liu said, noting the agency will typically cover 75 — Hurricane Sandy may rank worse because of the wide swath percent of the cost, but he hopes Gov. Cuomo can push it to of destruction left behind, Liu explained. “The blizzard did not result in permanent damage like Sandy reimburse the city for more, perhaps as much as 100 percent. He added that President Obama’s emergency declaration or 9/11,” he said. “And even though the human toll was worse, the 9/11 attacks were localized. Basically, the entire southern before the storm could help in that regard. Liu also commented on the potential effect Hurricane Sandy border of the city was devastated by Sandy. There’s no budget could have on the city’s tourism industry, especially in the Rock- contingency for this kind of storm, but I’m confident that the Q city overall can weather it.” aways, which may not be recovered by next summer.

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Schools hit by Sandy relocate Rockaway and Howard Beach students move temporarily to LIC by Maria Fitzsimons Chronicle Editor

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, a number of schools in the Rockaways and Howard Beach have relocated due to destruction at school buildings and power outages. One Rockaway public school hard-hit by the storm has been relocated by the city Department of Education to Long Island City, where damage paled in comparison to other areas in the borough. IS 126/Albert Shanker School for Visual and Performing Arts will be housing Q333/Goldie Maple Academy, an impacted school from Far Rockaway that sustained structural damage and loss of power from last week’s superstorm, as of Wednesday. Teachers from Q333 are scheduled to report to the new school as well. “We’re going to give them space in the building,” said IS 126 Principal Alexander Angueira, who wasn’t involved in the selection process for becoming a new school for displaced students; his school was assigned by the DOE. “We want to help people. It doesn’t matter, we’ll make room,” Angueira added, unconcerned with overcrowding as this point in the process. “The teachers here — they’re good,” said Zoreen Arnold, a mother of an eighth grade daughter at IS 126 on Wednesday morning, when classes resumed after Election Day. She went on to speak highly of the school administration’s security measures for students and how she’s seen a change in the last few years. “I’m glad I’m able to provide the kids a warm meal and a warm setting for them … I’m happy we’re available,” Angueira said. While the bulk of the city’s public schools resumed classes Monday following a week of cancellations, many students in the hardest hit areas of the region were still affected. Q333, which was slated as an Election Day polling site, had to also be reassigned by the Board of Elections as well and has not been open to students since Oct. 26. “We are planning to relocate all students assigned to [str ucturally damaged schools] tomor row,” Mayor Bloomberg said at a press conference from the Blue Room inside City Hall Tuesday afternoon. “I’m happy to say we’ve reduced that number from 57 [schools] to 47; the other 10 will join the group of schools that open tomorrow and students will go to their regular schools,” Bloomberg added. School buses are scheduled to pick up students outside the impacted school building at 7 a.m. to transport them to their new location, according to the DOE’s website. Buses will then return students to the same building at the end of

Two students from IS 126 pose outside their school as they arrive on Wednesday. They will be joined by displaced students PHOTO BY MARIA FITZSIMONS from the Rockaways. the school day. Additionally, if families of students pre-K through grade 8 choose to drop-off or pick-up their children at their new school location, they are eligible for travel reimbursement, with the criteria outlined on the DOE’s website. “I understand the significant impact this storm has had on your lives,” NYC Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said in a letter to families this week. “We are committed to working around the clock to help your children make a smooth transition back to school,” he added. Outlined on the school relocation information section of the DOE’s website, disabled or special-need students with Individualized Education Program required transportation will continue to be picked up at their homes, even in impacted areas. This information also states that if students have IEPmandated transportation with a sibling assigned to the same new school, they too can ride on the bus if room is available. Here is a list of schools that were relocated by the DOE: • PS 42 in Far Rockaway has been relocated to IS 59, located at 13255 Ridgedale Street in St. Albans.

Sandy flashlight vigil Friday The Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association will host a flashlight vigil this Friday for the victims of Hurricane Sandy. After the vigil, members will donate the flashlights to the survivors. The vigil will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 9 at Jamaica Avenue and Forest Parkway, where the neighborhood’s iconic evergreen tree stood until it was destroyed in the hurricane last week. “It’s just like a candlelight vigil, only you’ll bring flashlights with fresh batteries,” WRBA President Ed Wendell said in an email to association members. “After the

vigil you will leave your flashlights with us to take to the people who need them.” The WRBA, has been collecting clothing and supplies for the survivors of the storm in the Rockaways since last week. They are continuing to collect donations, but are no longer accepting clothing, because there’s no need anymore. The association will still be collecting supplies at its office at 84-20 Jamaica Ave. on Friday, Nov. 9 from 4 pm until 8 pm, and all day Saturday, Nov. 10 from 9 am Q until 5 pm. — Domenick Rafter

• PS 43 in Far Rockaway from pre-K through 4th grade is going to IS 226 in Forest Hills while grades 5 through 8 are in IS 292 Brooklyn. • PS 47 in Broad Channel is temporarily relocated to PS 181 in Laurelton. • PS 105 in Arverne students from grades Pre-K through 3 will be sent to PS 40 in Jamaica, while grades 4-8 will go to JHS 72 in Rochdale. • PS 106 in Far Rockaway students will be relocated to PS 223 in South Jamaica • Students from PS 114 in Belle Harbor will be relocated to three different schools depending on the grade. Kindergarten through second grade will go to IS 77 in Ridgewood, grades 3 and 4 will go to IS 119 in Glendale and grades 5 through 8 will go to IS 93 in Ridgewood. • Students from PS 183 in Arverne will go to IS 171 in Brooklyn. • PS 207 in Howard Beach is closed and students from pre-K through second grade will go to the Metropolitan Avenue Educational Campus in Forest Hills, while grades 3 through 8 will be relocated to IS 204 in Long Island City. • PS 356 is sending its students to a number of different schools; grades K through 2 to IS 77 in Ridgewood, grades 3 and 4 to IS 119 in Glendale, grades 5 through 8 to IS 91 in Ridgewood and the school’s special education students will go to either PS 273, PS 208, or PS 721, Occupational Training Center, all in Brooklyn. • The Channel View for Research has been located to Franklin K. Lane High School in Woodhaven. • The Waterside School for Leadership and Children’s Studio School are relocated temporarily to August Martin High School in South Jamaica. • Scholars Academy is sending students from sixth through eighth grades to PS 13 and grades 9 through 12 to William Maxwell CTE High School, both in Brooklyn. • The Rockaway Park High School for Environmental Sustainability is temporarily relocated to Maspeth High School. • Students from the Golden Maple Academy are being taught at IS 126 in Astoria. • Challenge Preparatory Charter School students are relocated to PS 190 in Brooklyn. • Rockaway Collegiate High School will attend the Far Rockaway High School campus. • Students from Beach Channel High School are attending classes at Franklin K. Lane High School. • PS 78 in LIC, which suffered damage from the East River storm surge, is temporarily relocated to PS 76, a few Q blocks away. — Domenick Rafter contributed to this story

Officials host aid drives The offices of Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz (D-Forest Hills) and Assemblywoman Margaret Markey (D-Maspeth) are functioning as collection points for donations of food and disaster relief items bound for the victims of Hurricane Sandy. Koslowitz is asking that people bring nonperishable food items, bottled water, batteries, sightly used clothing, blankets and winter coats. They can be dropped between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. from Monday through Friday at 118-35 Queens Blvd, 17th Floor, in Forest Hills.

Two businesses in Koslowitz’s district, Urban Creation and Blue Elephant, have pledged 100 pairs of shoes as well as other supplies to the cause. Markey, whose district office is at 5519 69th St. in Maspeth, is coordinating her efforts with Maspeth Federal Savings and local emergency service organizations. Her office is seeking blankets, coats, baby clothing and supplies, batteries, flashlights, cleaning supplies, gloves, bottled water and nonperishable food items. All clothing, coats and blankets must Q be clean and in good condition.

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any drivers who paid a toll with E-ZPasses before Cuomoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s order will be credited with refunds. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The people of the Rockaways suffered tremendously from Hurricane Sandy, and with the loss of A train service, there is no easy way for many of them to get back and forth to the rest of New York,â&#x20AC;? Cuomo said. in a statement released by his office. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are taking action to suspend these tolls to make the recovery easier for both Rockaways residents and the people helping them. In a statement issued Monday, the MTA said it is planning to bring 20 subway cars by truck to the peninsula in order to run shuttle service from Beach 116th Street to Mott Avenue. From there, shuttle buses will carry passengers to the Howard Beach station to pick up the A line. The statement said no timetable has been set for instituting the shuttle-bus service. Lhota said on Friday that they have already restored approximately 80 percent of the system. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are in uncharted territory here in bringing the system back,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very different from what we had in [Hurricane] Irene because of the amount of damage and saltwater in our system.â&#x20AC;? He said that L train service still required detours and alternate service because of flooding in the tunnel it takes into Manhattan. He said it is a deep tunnel and one of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oldest. He said the 108-year-old subway system sometimes has challenges because of the age. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And we have switches and equipment Q that break without hurricanes,â&#x20AC;? he said.

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Crowley, Shops at Atlas Park team up for Hurricane Sandy relief effort Word only started going out on Thursday afternoon, but by Friday, the Hurricane Sandy relief collection at The Shops at Atlas Park organized by the office of Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley (DMiddle Village) was operating as if it had been planned for months. Scores of volunteers assembled through social media and word of mouth gathered in the old Borders bookstore over the three days, going through mountains of bags and stacks of boxes containing clothing, food, cleaning supplies and bottled water. The space was donated by Macerich Co., owner of The Shops at Atlas Park and Queens Center mall, and will continue this Thursday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. A Crowley spokesman said they were able to send just over 100 carloads of supplies in private Q vehicles.

Above, Anna Marie Tramposch of Middle Village, left, and Paulita Rivas Meditz of Glendale behind her sort donated clothing by size and gender in preparation for packing and shipment to Breezy Point and the rest of the Rockaways in hurricaneravaged southern Queens. At right, Steve McSweeney of Woodside unloads the 200 shipping boxes that he purchased and donated to the cause.

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No. 2 to the media). But Mayor Bloomberg, ever loath to admit an error (think CityTime), continued to insist the marathon could have been held without using up precious electrical and public safety resources. Those massive electrical generators set up to keep the race plugged in couldn’t have been used to power homes in Howard Beach and the Rockaways, one is left to presume, nor could the marathon’s police detail have been redeployed to prevent looting in areas ravaged by Hurricane Sandy. But how could that be true when at the same time, the mayor was blasting the Long Island Power Authority for not restoring electricity to the Rockaways fast enough, and the National Guard was helping keep order on the peninsula? Not to mention that the U.S. Marines landed there last week — though the Corps’ job is more about cleanup than law and order. Still, would-be miscreants tend to become hesitant when the USMC is around. Among those who had called on the administration to cancel the marathon were Halloran and fellow Queens city councilmen Peter Vallone Jr. (D-Astoria) and Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside). Some in the New York Road Runners organization, however, blamed the media for getting the race canceled with coverage critical of the administration. Yep. Exactly.

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Revenue before repairs? Speaking of city priorities, a pair of Transportation Department workers were out in front of the Chronicle office in Rego Park Wednesday morning installing the first piece of one of the Muni-Meters that are coming to Woodhaven Boulevard. We’re glad to know there’s no need for those two men in the Rockaways either. The helpers helping the helpers One thing there is in the Rockaways, and the rest of South Queens, is a deep sense of community and getting through the crisis together, among people in all walks of life. State Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (DRockaway) was out there cleaning up the streets with everyone else, even though his home and office were both destroyed by the storm. Tuesday was the first day Goldfeder worked on his own house. As he was going through the debris, a dozen guys just walking by offered to help, and started “pulling out five years worth of stuff ” from the home, Goldfeder said. Then a truck came by and the guys on board gave the lawmaker’s new friends some snacks. “The helpers are helping the helpers,” the assemblyman said. “It makes me want to Q cry. It’s truly amazing.”

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Politics as usual indeed. Tuesday’s elections conf irmed what everyone already knew: people cheat. Even when they don’t need to. A case of election fraud occurred in Flushing when a Korean-American translator helping voters at PS 20 was caught directing them to vote for Democratic candidates. A volunteer poll watcher confirmed the incident. The translator, Sang Soo Park, was expelled from the polling place for breaking the law by telling at least three voters to choose the Democratic slate, according to the observer, attorney Daniel Baek. Baek is a certified poll watcher appointed by the Dan Halloran campaign who was charged with overseeing nine polling places including PS 20. He was called to the school after a Board of Elections site monitor overheard Park telling a voter whom to choose for the second time. Baek then observed Park doing the same thing with another voter. “He basically stated something to the effect of, ‘You are Korean and therefore you want to vote for Obama, and you know what? Go down the list for all Democrats,’” Baek said. The electioneering was not a criminal violation, said the attorney, who practices employment discrimination, criminal defense and breach of contract law in Bayside. But it is a serious matter. “This was not only a violation of Election Law, but it’s a violation of Board of Elections policy and the interpreter’s commitment and oath to be neutral,” Baek said. Halloran, the Republican city councilman based in Whitestone, was running for the 6th Congressional District seat against Assemblywoman Grace Meng, a Flushing Democrat. Meng’s decisive 68 to 31 percent victory demonstrates that there was no need for anyone to cheat on her behalf — not to mention the other Democratic candidates on the ballot in the area: state Sen. Toby Stavisky, who won with 76 percent of the vote; U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who won with 72 percent; and President Obama, for whom New York was colored blue the day he first won the nomination in 2008.

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Post-Sandy: long gas lines, short tempers Power outages, supply problems lead to shortages and long waits by Michael Gannon Editor

Michael Watt was bemused on Monday when he read a quote in the news attributed to an official of the Long Island Power Authority, in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, saying the agency does not make restoring electricity to gas stations a priority. “It’s amazing,” said Watt, executive director of the Long Island Gasoline Retailers Association. “The lifeblood of any region is gasoline. And most of my members have been in business 20, 30 or in some cases 40 years, and have never been without power for more than a day-and-a half. Now it’s been a week that we have been without it.” Watt predicted correctly that gas lines would begin to ease by week’s end as more stations got electricity back, and as suppliers became more able to regularly restock those who never went out. But long lines and short tempers were becoming par for the course in the days following the Oct. 2930 hurricane.

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Lisa LiCausi of Ozone Park said last Friday that she saw what should have been a hopeful detail on her way to work. “There was a gas station on Cross Bay Boulevard with a sign that said they were getting a delivery of gas,” LiCausi said. “But that sign was there Thursday, too.” Still the three nearest lanes of traffic were jammed up with people turning into the station, leaving little room for through-traffic. Christopher McBride, community transportation specialist for AAA New York, predicted that things would ease this week, and said AAA had advocated conservation in the early days of the shortage. He too said more power and a reinvigorated supply chain — and patience — were key to getting through the crisis days. “There’s been a panic situation that should subside.” McBride said he passed one gas line on his way into AAA’s Garden City, LI offices last week that that stretched about three-quarters of a mile.

Watt said the problem was exacerbated on Thursday, Nov. 1 when the Coast Guard kept gasoline tankers out of port for an extra day. McBride said things began easing up as New Jersey ports reopened, though it was not enough to deal with the initial backlog. Police on Friday were forced to shut down a Shell station at 74th Street and Grand Avenue in Maspeth late Friday morning because of reported unrest and threats of violence breaking out. In Astoria, a St. Albans man has been arrested for allegedly pulling a gun to cut into the line. LiCausi, a Queens Chronicle employee, said the situation in Ozone Park was causing problems for firefighters and EMS personnel in her neighborhood in the vicinity of a Hess station on Cross Bay Boulevard Thursday afternoon. “You had three lanes with people trying to get gas, leaving one for traffic to go through,” LiCausi said. “And it was backed up for at least three blocks.” She said a fire engine trapped on a cross street could not get through,

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An emotional Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Far Rockaway), who represents Hamilton Beach, said he was touched by the response from his current and future colleagues. “I literally cried,” he said, fighting back tears. “They took time to organize each other, reach out to restaurants and not just to drop off food — they gave people compassion and warmth. I could not have been prouder to be a member of the Assembly. Q They didn’t have to do this.”

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Meanwhile Assembly staff and other volunteers shuttled food and clothing from Assemblyman Mike Miller’s (D-Woodhaven) office to the hardest-hit areas. On the other side of Howard Beach, local eateries were making sausage and peppers and other favorites in a mobile food cart outside of St. Helen School on 84th Street and 157th Avenue, bringing the aroma of Italian food to the neighborhood that previously smelled of oil, gas, burning rubber and stagnant seawater.

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At Nativity, a choice between ‘our boys’ For one Ozone Park parish, picking a state Senator was tough and personal by Sebastien Malo & Francesca Trianni Chronicle Contributors

Long before Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park), ran to unseat Democratic incumbent state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach), received nearly $900,000 in campaign contributions, before Addabbo was endorsed by Gov. Cuomo, and before their district was devastated by Hurricane Sandy, Addabbo and Ulrich were just Eric and Joe, two parishioners at Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Roman Catholic Church in Ozone Park. Addabbo and Ulrich faced off Tuesday in what has been described as “the most closely watched and possibly most expensive state legislative race in the country,” for the 15th State Senate District which includes this neighborhood. That tension is evident at the church, where Ulrich once served as an altar boy and where Addabbo and his wife, Dawn, married in 1998, in a ceremony held on Valentine’s Day. “There were balloons shaped as hearts,” recalls Luisa D’Ambrosio, 92, a longtime parishioner. Now, Ulrich is often seen reading the Scriptures at the church while Addabbo is known for working as an usher. Ulrich usually sits in the middle of the right column of pews with his wife, Yadira, while Addabbo and his family sit in the back. The church, which accommodates about 1,000 churchgoers every Sunday over three different services, has been the place of worship of the two candidates for the past two decades, and their parents before them. D’Ambrosio, who has been coming to Nativity since 1928, says she lives across the street from Addabbo, and has known Ulrich since he was a young boy in the church choir. For her, and many others in this community, the election for the state Senate seat is a personal affair. “When you see both of them grow up, it’s a tough decision,” she said. It’s especially hard for parishioners who remember voting for Addabbo’s father, who represented the community in Congress for over 20 years. “We voted the name Addabbo for our entire life!” said retiree John McCormack. Father Paul Palmiotto, 60, who has been pastor of the church since 2008, says this election puts the community into a quandary: “It’s like having two children. Which one are you going to pick?” Monsignor Robert Thelen, who was a pastor at the congregation for 12 years during the 1990s, spoke of the candidates as prominent members of the parish. “Both men were more than simply parishioners who came on Sunday; we’re talking about people who were both part and parcel of the community,” said Thelen, who is now rector of the Cathedral Seminary in Douglaston. “I have known Eric since he was a young man, and I celebrated Addabbo’s wedding and baptized one of his daughters.” Residents of the neighborhood have elected both candidates to represent them. They voted three times to elect Addabbo to the City Council, and twice to make him a state senator, in 2008 and 2010. They voted for Ulrich when he ran to replace Addabbo in the City Council four years ago and re-elected him in 2009. Though both candidates attend the same church, their dif-

Both candidates in the 15th state Senate District worship at Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Roman Catholic church in Ozone Park, making Tuesday’s election a hard choice for their PHOTO BY FRANCESCA TRIANNI fellow parishoners. ferent positions on social issues may sway parishioners’ votes. Addabbo has been under fire for his vote in favor of gay marriage; Ulrich has been criticized for his firm stance against abortion. Father Palmiotto, who was assigned to the parish in 2008, had reminded people to do their civic duty and vote. “I usually say something to encourage people to vote, and vote based on their values,” he said. But voting based on values, he adds, can prove difficult. Addabbo was one of the eight Democrats who voted against a same-sex marriage bill in 2009, which didn’t pass. But when the Senate was asked to reconsider the measure in 2011, Addabbo changed his vote to support it. That vote has caused problems for Addabbo, who otherwise benef its from his incumbency and the name recognition that comes from his father. Joe Addabbo Sr. is still remembered by parishioners as a “great man who went to Mass every morning,” said D’Ambrosio. Now, Joe Jr. has to defend his voting record on gay marriage with his fellow parishioners. “I won’t forget that he voted like that,” said Rubin Martinez, 55. “In the past, I voted for Addabbo, and I also voted for Ulrich. But after that [vote], the church is divided. I feel horrible that one of them has to lose, because they both have done, and will do, well for this community,” he said. Louise Hobbes, a 70-year-old member of the parish, said the congregation made calls to Addabbo’s office before the vote against gay marriage. “I called his office, and my mother called, and my cousin and my next-door neighbor called. We all did. But he voted for the party line,” she said. “I don’t think he followed what the community would have wanted.” When asked to comment, Addabbo said: “I think people understand. And the issue has never come up, because there are more serious issues people are concerned about. This election is about jobs, healthcare, transportation.” But the issue did come up in debates held the last few weeks

before the election, and Addabbo had to justify his decision in front of voters. “It was one of the hardest things I ever had to do,” he said, about the vote in favor of same-sex marriage, he said at a debate in mid-October in Middle Village. “My vote was not the deciding vote,” he added. “Even if I did vote no, it still passes. So, I’m not the deciding vote and you have marriage equality because of [Republican Senate Leader] Dean Skelos and the four Republicans” who voted for it, Capital New York reported. But Ulrich has also been under fire, for his firm pro-life stance. Negative mailers sent by third-party groups have depicted Ulrich as “waging a war against women.” “Even as a Catholic, I believe that women have the right to choose for themselves,” said Irene Rigal, a retiree who received all her sacraments at Nativity. Yet, she plans to vote for Ulrich because she “likes that he stands up for the community.” The candidates are aware of how divisive the election has been for Nativity. “There’s no question that people in the community are really torn between voting between the two of us,” Ulrich said in an interview. “We have many of the same friends and backers, we worship in the same church, people are uneasy because they know the both of us. But the district is large.” Said Addabbo: “I think it’s going to come down to who do they trust, who do they call upon? I go with my record, I’ve been there for the community, people know I’m their voice and [I] put myself on the line.” But some voters, though they voted for Addabbo in the past, were undecided until late in the game. McCormack, who remembers the senator’s father, was one. “I almost don’t want to vote in fear of offending one of them,” he said. The 15th District, which includes Ozone Park and nearby neighborhoods like Howard Beach, Woodhaven and Glendale, was recently subject to redistricting that added areas of the Rockaways, an area that is considered more conservative. The redistricting made the district more Republican and Addabbo has attracted Democratic heavyweights like U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and New York State United Teachers, the largest teachers’ union in the state, to his cause. Ulrich has at least one national conservative group in his corner. But this race still feels like a community affair at Nativity BVM Church. “Both guys are in the community, people know them. Who knows Romney or shook Obama’s hand? But here we see them, we know their family. It’s a different concept,” said Father Palmiotto. As members of the congregation gathered at a fundraiser last Sunday, McCormack and Martinez shared memories of the two candidates and insisted the choice would be tough for all of them. It’s not just about politics, or values, or policies. This election is about “our boys,” they say. “I bet each of us has Joe’s and Eric’s cell phone numbers in their phone,” said Martinez. They pulled out their phones to check. Q Indeed, they did.

FEMA website fights rumors The Federal Emergency Management Agency is fighting off rumors about its policies to help aid the recovery from Hurricane Sandy with a new website. The site, which aims to confirm or deny rumors and explain the truth in detail, comes after erroneous information on how FEMA funds storm recovery and what the application process and qualifications are to apply for aid. In southern Queens, some have been told by neighbors and friends that there is an income limit on households FEMA will cover. Though the site does not dispel that rumor, a spokeswoman for FEMA said that was not the case. The agency, which has been visiting residents in Howard Beach, Broad Channel and the Rockaways, has been fighting to control a number of other rumors, including that FEMA has been handing out food stamps or cash cards to survivors and has been hiring workers to help with the cleanup from the storm. Q The website can be found at fema.gov/hurricane-sandy-rumor-control. It is regularly updated.

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Twin brothers from Jamaica are accused of stealing a U-Haul truck and using it to bust through the front of a Queens Village motorcycle shop in a failed attempt to rob the place in the chaos following Hurricane Sandy. Queens District Attorney’s Office alleges that: Sean Martin was contacted by an individual known as Chino on Oct. 30, who asked him if he wanted to make some money. Afterwards, Sean and his brother, Anthony, waited outside a U-Haul facility on Merrick Boulevard with several other men until it closed at around 7 p.m. After someone cut the gate, at least one of the other men, who have not been

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vehicle lodged itself inside the building, damaging the gate, the building and several motorcycles. The two defendants, as well as the unapprehended males, are then seen entering the motorcycle shop before fleeing. The brothers, both 24, of 177th Place, were arrested approximately an hour later when the vehicle Anthony Martin was driving was stopped by police at the intersection of Hempstead Avenue and 217th Lane for failing to signal before making a turn. Anthony and Sean Martin are charged

with third-degree burglary, second-degree criminal mischief, third- and fourth-degree grand larceny and possession of burglar’s tools. Each faces up to seven years in prison, if convicted. “As the city and many of its residents continue to recover from Hurricane Sandy, there were others who allegedly used the storm and the chaos that followed as cover to commit crimes,” Queens DA Richard Brown said in a prepared statement. “What they have learned is that my office and other public and law enforcement officials have a zero tolerance policy for those who would exploit a natural Q disaster for their own gain.”

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Less than a month ago we were enjoying a sunny, 70-degree day at our annual Wonderful Woodhaven street festival, then Sandy came to us with a vengeance. What a difference a few weeks can make. She hit us with strong winds and rain, leveled our trees, stirred the ocean and the bays with water rushing into homes and businesses, weakening walls and foundations and then came the horrendous fires all bringing destruction and death to our Queens neighbors in Breezy Point, Hamilton Beach, Beach Channel and the Rockaways. The devastation was city-wide and affected many parts of our five boroughs, but Staten Island and our Queens areas took the hardest hit. In the midst of all the destruction we mobilized to help. In Woodhaven, it was Assemblyman Mike Miller’s office and the Woodhaven Residents Block Association that contacted Woodhavenites to drop off clothing and canned food for our neighbors who are so destitute. It always has been said that when in need angels are sent to help and they responded. People were lined up dropping off clothing, blankets and canned goods. The generosity continued with volunteers sorting, packing and transporting the collected items to the needy locations. Our Jamaica Avenue stores and businesses got involved and were very magnanimous. It was contagious. Those who could not give clothing or groceries gave money.

The generosity of our little Woodhaven community was great and continues to be amazing. The WRBA still needs volunteers, for they are now going to concentrate on food distribution which the Greater Woodhaven Development Corporation and the Woodhaven Business Improvement District will be assisting. The police department has set up a collection location at the Racino at Aqueduct, so you can drop clothing there and also volunteer to assist in sorting and transporting. Our fire department and police are doing a great job. The 102nd Precinct has a new commanding officer, Captain Henry Sautner, and a new executive officer, Captain Craig Adelman. We look forward to working with him and his executive officer. Our great previous commanding officer Deputy Inspector Armando Deleon has been transferred. We thank him for his professional assistance and support during these past three years and wish him well in his new assignment. The telephone number for the 102nd Precinct is (718) 805-3200; Community Affairs, (718) 805-3215. Other important numbers are: FEMA, (800) 621 FEMA (3362) for assistance with claims and veterans matters; the lost pets hotline number, (347) 573-1561. Petsmart is offering free veterinarian care through Nov.11. It’s so good to see Jamaica Avenue stores and businesses open and taking care of BIDness. Q May God bless America.

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investigators, claiming she was intoxicated during the conversation. Her lawyers tried reaching Chang, 59, on Former St. John’s University Dean Cecilia Chang, who faced accusations of stealing Tuesday morning. They turned to her son after more than $1 million from the school and several failed tries, who contacted authorities. Officers entered the home around enslaving foreign scholarship 7:30 a.m. to reportedly discover students, was found dead of Chang tried committing suicide apparent suicide in her by slashing her wrists and using Jamaica Estates home, accordgas from a fireplace before finally ing to reports. hanging herself. The disgraced ex-dean Chang also reportedly left a reportedly took her own life a note in Chinese, which was still day after taking the stand, being translated as of writing. essentially admitting to allegaBrooklyn federal judge Sterling tions she used her position to Johnson declared a mistrial as a recruit foreign students and result of the discovery, calling her demanded they do chores death a “Shakespearean tragedy.” around her house under the The suicide compounds what threat of expulsion. She tried Cecilia Chang to also explain away accusaFILE PHOTO was a burgeoning and bizarre tale. The Daily News reported tions of funneling over $1 million from the school, claiming personal finan- earlier in the week that Chang was a prime suspect in the murder of her first husband, cial losses during the fundraising process. Q She also admitted to lying to federal Ruey Fung Tsai. Chronicle Contributor

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Dreamers canvass for the election Illegal residents ask Latinos in Corona, E. Elm, Rego Park to vote by Nell Gluckman Chronicle Contributor

Three days before Election Day, Isabel Valencia rang a doorbell on Roosevelt Avenue in Corona. When there was no answer, she glanced at her partner, Fausto Gara, and rang again. After a minute, Roger Davila answered the door. In Spanish, Valencia immediately launched into an introduction that she had made hundreds of times since Sept. 8: she works for a faith-based organization; she hopes you will vote on Nov. 6; and please join thousands of others in telling Congress to pass the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, which would grant deportation deferral and temporary work permits to qualif iying illegal residents. By 2:30 p.m., Valencia and Gara had already visited the homes of nearly 50 people urging them to get to the polls. But on Election Day, neither would be able to take their own advice. As an undocumented immigrant, Valencia cannot vote. However, she has found a way to make her voice heard. With help from 12 other volunteers that she and her co-worker Lucy Muy have recruited and trained, she has made hundreds of phone calls and home visits urging registered voters in Corona, East Elmhurst and Rego Park

Isabel Valencia and Fausto Gara review their list of potential voters, who they hope will vote even PHOTO BY NELL GLUCKMAN though they themselves cannot. to make it to the polling station on Nov. 6. “I’m doing this to motivate my Latino community to support us,” Valencia said. By recruiting through church groups, the nonprofit Queens Congregations United for Action hired Valencia and Muy as organizers for 15 hours a week and equipped them with a subscription to the Voter Action Net-

work, a database of registered voters that is geared towards helping Democratic campaigns and progressive causes. Using the database, Valencia and her team find Latino voters who have voted in previous elections. They also help voters find their polling place and before the deadline passed on Oct. 12, they registered voters.

QCUA is a member of the faith-based nonprofit PICO National Network, which trains congregations to be advocates and community organizers. PICO is supporting similar initiatives in communities across the United States. In Queens County, 65 percent of the almost 1.2 million registered voters are registered Democrats, according to the N ew Yo r k S t a t e B o a r d o f E l e c t i o n s . Though the race will likely be a landslide in this district, Joseph McKeller, the executive director of QCUA, says that what’s at stake is that elected off icials see that Latino voters are paying attention. “It doesn’t look good to politicians when only 20 percent of registered Latinos are voting,” McKeller says. “It doesn’t help in making the case that families in the communities need more resources or need economic investment.” In 2008, 640,137 out of more than two million Queens residents — 3.5 percent — voted in the general election, according to the BOE. The DREAM Act failed in 2009 and was reintroduced in 2011, but no legislative action has been taken since then. Then on June 15, President Obama took the issue into his own hands and issued a continued on page 34

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It was an easy victory for Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-Jamaica) and Assemblywoman Barbara Clark (D-Queens Village), both of whom are retaining their respective seats after Tuesday’s election. Meeks claimed 146,278 votes or 89.7 of the ballots, according to unofficial results by NY1. Republican challenger Allan Jennings came in a distant second with 15,640 or 9.59 percent, followed by Libertarian contender Catherine Wark with 1,161 or 0.7 percent. “We take every election very seriously, no matter who the challenger,” Candace Sandy, a spokeswoman for Meeks said Wednesday. In a conference call with reporters that same day, Meeks said election night was good for the Democrats, citing the re-election of President Obama and noting that Dems hold the majority in the Senate and picked up eight to 10 seats in the House. Meeks was also happy to have gained an eighth term in office. “I’m thrilled that the people in the 5th Congressional District are confident in the work I’m doing and that they have given me this resounding victory,” he said. “I don’t take that lightly. It’s a lot of responsibility, especially with the devastation of Hurricane Sandy.” Looking ahead to his new term in office, Meeks said he would focus on job creation, improvements to education, foreclosure pre-

Assemblywoman Barbara Clark, left, and Rep. Gregory Meeks will both hang on to their seats. PHOTOS BY ANNMARIE COSTELLA

vention and providing disaster recovery assistance to those impacted by the storm. Clark triumphed over challenger Clyde Vanel taking 31,718 or 89.37 percent of the vote, according to unoff icial results, to Vanel’s 3,771 or 10.63 percent. The incumbent slammed her opponent Monday, though she did not mention him by name, stating that he had coaxed constituents, particularly the elderly to bombard her office with post-Sandy complaint calls, something that did not happen to her colleague City Councilman Mark Weprin (D-Oakland Gardens), who represents part of the same district, she said. “It’s a tactic designed to excite a whole slew of people,” Clark said. “I don’t know

anything that annoys me more than people taking advantage of people and getting them riled up for political gain.” Vanel denied the accusation. “That’s absolutely false,” Vanel said Wednesday. “It’s unfortunate that the Assemblywoman would think that. Why would I do that? I try to help where I can. My office got a lot of phone calls too.” Vanel vowed to remain active in the district and spoke about how his campaign office was coordinating efforts to help Hurricane Sandy victims and also acts as a community center. “I congratulate Clark on a great win. She got nearly 90 percent of the vote,” Vanel said. “It’s difficult to beat an incumbent on the Democratic line in New York City. I still think I ran a good campaign.” Without a challenger, City Councilman James Sanders Jr. (D-Laurelton) secured his presumptive win of the 10th Senate District seat against incumbent state Sen. Shirley Huntley (D-Jamaica). In the September primary, Sanders claimed 57.1 percent of the votes, while Huntley came in second with 39.9 percent and activist Gian Jones was in last place with 3 percent. A special election to fill Sanders’ council seat will be held in March. It is a three-way race between his chief of staff, Donovan Richards and lawyers Jaques Leandre and Q Ernest Flowers.

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Re-opening after the storm Even though Hurricane Sandy destroyed his business, Bagel Cafe owner Joseph Anzalone has re-opened his Howard Beach shop. Although it was just five months ago since his first opening, Anzalone felt like he had to re-open to have a normalcy restored back into people’s lives as well as his own. “It was exciting and sad at the same time,” he said. With the help of a generator and his staff, he was able to provide service to the community as well as the construction workers, who are trying to rebuild. “We gave free coffee and chips, whatever

you wanted take it,” he said about the first couple of repairing days. “It’s not about the money, we need to stick together.” Though it did come at a high price to re-open the store, Anzalone believed that it is all replaceable, but “we can’t replace people.” The cafe is open for business and is serving their usual products, which Anzalone said is soon to include a complete menu. “We [are] sharing their pain and losses,” he said. “We have to stay positive and help the community.” — Trevina Nicholson

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SE Queens area is still recovering from Sandy Power outages, trees down, Sanders mad at LIPA, Meeks wants disaster relief center by AnnMarie Costella Assistant Editor

Hurricane Sandy may be over, but Southeast Queens is still feeling the effects of the storm that blasted the borough last week, leading to power outages, downed trees, flooding and a gasoline shortage that has left motorists furious and even prompted at least two crimes in the area [see separate story]. “This was a high-magnitude storm,” Assemblyman Bill Scarborough (D-Jamaica) said Tuesday. “Things are getting better but there are still disruptions, with trees down and no power in some places. It’s a really trying time. People feel frustrated.” Scarborough said that he and other area elected officials have been participating in daily conference calls with representatives from Con Edison to get updates on when power is, or will be, restored, and where. “There are some sites that will be without power into the weekend,” Scarborough said. “That’s just not acceptable. People have been devastated by this storm.” He has also been speaking with the Mayor’s Office and the forestry division of the Parks Department to find out when fallen trees will be removed. Scarborough, like most elected officials, is coordinating donation efforts to help those impacted by the storm. The Far Rockaway branch of Queens Library is accepting donations and looking for volunteers to help with the relief effort on the peninsula. St. Albans Congregational Church and St. Albans Presbyterian Church are collecting donations for evacuees at Hillcrest High School in Briarwood and York College in Jamaica. “We are trying to direct people to these venues that are set up with operations willing to assist,” Scarborough said. City Councilman Leroy Comrie (D-St. Albans) said Wednesday that his district is still struggling with power outages and

Hurricane Sandy rips out a massive tree by its roots in St. PHOTO BY ANNMARIE COSTELLA Albans. fallen trees, which in some areas block streets. The lawmaker said St. Albans, Hollis and Queens Village were particularly hard hit. “It’s getting better, but it’s still difficult,” Comrie said. “There are a lot of singular trees down. The electricity is out of service in some places, but there is a presence by Con Ed, and they are working to address the backlog.” Meanwhile City Councilman James Sanders Jr. (D-Laurelton) is not waiting for the Long Island Power Authority to fix the outages in the Rockaways, which have lasted more than a week. He has given its CEO Michael Hervey until Monday to fix at least part of the power or the lawmaker is going to call for his resignation.

“What we are seeing here is a crisis on par with any I’ve seen in my lifetime,” Sanders said in a prepared statement. “I hate to think that it’s at least in part an artificial crisis, born out of indifference and neglect of the poorest, hardest hit communities in the city. This needs to change. Power needs to be restored. And if the leaders of these agencies cannot do the job, they need to make room for those who can.” Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-Jamaica) is also concerned about the Rockaways and said Wednesday that he and Rep. Michael Grimm (R-Staten Island) have written a letter to President Obama asking him to tour the most devastated parts of their respective districts. Meeks is also working on bringing a disaster relief center to the Rockaways, which he hopes to locate at Peninsula Hospital. It would be “one-stop shopping,” he said, for stormrelated services. In Community Board 13’s district, some progress is being made, according to District Manager Larry McClean. Last Tuesday, he and CB 13 chairman Bryan Block toured all the neighborhoods overseen by the board, taking note of the location of fallen trees and providing a three-page list to the Mayor’s Office, and the city’s departments of transportation and parks. McClean said by Nov. 2, many had been cleared away. For those who have experienced flooding, which occurred primarily in Rosedale, McClean said, the board is referring residents to Meeks’ office, where they will be directed on how to fill out FEMA claims for reimbursement. There were power outages in Laurelton, Rosedale, Bellerose, Queens Village, Cambria Heights and the Royal Ranch section of Glen Oaks, McClean said. Many had their Q service restored by Nov. 2, but some outages persist.

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JOHN ADAMS HS SCHOOL SPOTLIGHT John Adams’ family displays lots of spirit tudents and faculty members at John Adams High School in South Ozone Park showed plenty of enthusiasm, creativity and, most importantly, school spirit during the “Homecoming Spirit Week” celebration that took place from October 15th - 20th. On Monday, “Twin Day,” Oma Lachhman and Fareeza Khan practically looked identical, and adding a little more to the mix were “triplets” Jennifer Estevez, Justin Cotto and Saudia Shariff, who were all sporting NY Knicks shirts. Ms. Mejia stepped out of her teacher’s shoes to play the role of a studious student equipped with a pencil in her ear and a copy of “The Hunger Games” in her hands during “Nerd Day” on Tuesday. Rashawn Williams gave a “thumbs up” to his geeky side, and Tazz Thomas, Lezeny Nunez and Alicia Persaud were “fashionably” nerdy. During Wednesday’s “Spartan Spirit Day,” there was a lot of…spirit! Students Tecia Medurie and Nyeka Bonner, and Mr. Dwyer, our school’s college advisor, wore shirts that represented pride and support for three of our sports teams. Thursday marked “Vintage Day,” and accessories, such as brand name canvas sneakers, headbands and bowties, along with “old school” outfits, were a blast from the past. Ms. Garvey went back in time to be a hippie from the ’60s. What was this flower child singing? “Give Peace a Chance.” The week ended with “Formal Friday,” and many came to school looking professional, sophisticated and stylish. Kyle Harrington’s smile was as bright as his bowtie, and Rosa Moore and Seema Seepersaud defined “classy.” The festivities continued on Saturday, as the John Adams Varsity Football Spartans battled it out against Campus Magnet here at home. The game was well-played by both teams, and the score remained tied at 12-12 going into the fourth quarter. Campus Magnet’s offense, however, was able to put more points on the scoreboard towards the end to capture a 24-12 victory. Following the game was a homecoming dance that took place in the late afternoon. The theme for the dance was “Return of the Spartans.” According to Ms. Panzer, whose student government class sponsored the entire week’s school activities, the theme was chosen to reflect the fact that, despite the mayor’s plans to close and reopen many public high schools under new names, John Adams High School remains up and running under the same school name — “and stronger than ever.” Student Raydell Sanders, who attended the dance, said that many of the students who also went “thought it was ‘live.’” “It was a great success — a wonderful turnout,” stated Ms. Panzer. “And there was a lot of spirit demonstrated at the game.”

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Across the bay, in Howard Beach, though instances of flooding weren’t as widespread, throngs of families continued to deal with the aftermath of the storm. Over the weekend, lines up to 50-cars long formed as locals waited to fill up their tanks. Gas shortages, caused by delivery interruptions during and after the hurricane, complicated their return to a daily routine. Noel Madina, 36, was first in line Saturday at a Hess gas station between Cross Bay and Linden boulevards. Standing outside in the cold with a fuel tank in his hand, the electrical worker said that he had been

really start construction until we have gas stabilization.” Back in Howard Beach, police officer Edwin Perez, 33, gazed at the ashes of what used to be his neighbor’s house, devoured by flames caused by an electrical fire the night of the storm. His own house was flooded. Yet, Perez considered himself a lucky man. The house he bought as a newlywed is insured and a representative from FEMA, the government’s agency that provides financial assistance in cases of natural disaster, has already stopped by his home to assess damages. “I want to rebuild here. This is our first home; I’ll rebuild it from the ground up,” Q he said.

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waiting 12 hours for gas. “I’m in line for my children’s mother’s car, otherwise she can’t get to work,” he said. “So Mister Daddy had to wait in line all night.” Across Queens, meeting immediate needs took priority. Yet, communities throughout the afflicted areas spoke of the same longterm goal: reconstruction. In Broad Channel, brothers Mason and Frank Porretto, who co-own a construction business, were fielding dozens of phone calls from neighbors eager to begin the rebuilding process. But each time, the brothers bore bad news. “You can have it done in a couple of weeks,” said 34-year-old Mason Porretto. “But we have no power, and we can’t

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Grace-ful ending for 6th CD contest by Joseph Orovic Chronicle Contributor

Assemblywoman Grace Meng (D-Flushing) defeated Councilman Dan Halloran (RWhitestone) for the newly drawn 6th Congressional seat, becoming the first Asian American to represent New York in Congress. The second-term Assemblywoman won by nearly 54,000 votes, defeating Halloran by a 36-point margin with all but one of the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 409 election precincts reporting. Flanked by members of the Queensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Democratic Partyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rank-and-file late Tuesday night, Meng called her victory an opportunity to set aside divisive politics and focusing on common goals. Halloran, who had yet to call it a loss, would eventually concede hours later. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People ask me if Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m excited, if Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m happy,â&#x20AC;? Meng said in an interview the next morning. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am. But we have a lot of work to do.â&#x20AC;? The Congresswoman-elect took pains to thank her husband Wayne Kye and two sons, Tyler and Brandon. (Her doting hubbie developed a seemingly trademark cult following among campaign workers, with a reputation for exuberance.) Halloran spent the day after his defeat back at work as a councilman, juggling continuing power outages in his district with preparing for a norâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;easter bearing down on the region. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m tired,â&#x20AC;? Halloran said, adding there was no break from work regardless of Election Dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s outcome. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how this works.

Assemblywoman Grace Meng addresses a crowd of supporters gathering for her victory rally on election night, with her husband Wayne Kye, left, and members of the Queens Democratic Party in PHOTO BY RICK MAIMAN tow. Either way, we go back to the business of being a councilman for this district.â&#x20AC;? Halloran said Hurricane Sandyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s devastation pulled him away from the campaign for over a week, as well as shut down three of his fundraisers at a time when he was gaining momentum. It also gave President Obama a boost, which trickled down the ballot. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[Sandy] had an impact on the race,â&#x20AC;? he

said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how great of an impact, but it did a lot of things.â&#x20AC;? Those problems were coupled with reportedly rampant issues with voting machines and ineptitude at polling sites. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what to make of the Board of Elections,â&#x20AC;? Halloran said. Election Day had been filled with allegations of rule-breaking electioneering, with Halloranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campaign claiming a translator

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like it’s a one-shot deal and we don’t do that,” Elias said. In addition to buying gold, silver, diamonds, Recently, a woman and her boyfriend went watches and coins, Ice Jewelry Buying also into an unassuming gold buying and cash loan offers instant cash loans for jewelry and eBay shop on Queens Boulevard. She had a $35 selling services. offer on her ring from another area shop, but Their cash loans program is straightforward and was looking to get a better deal. In what may simple. “It’s a perfect solution for someone who be viewed as poor business acumen, she told has a bill due and a check on the way,” Goldberg her new prospective buyer what her previous said. “But we make sure they have a game plan to offer was. Still, after examining her piece, he buy their jewelry back before the end of the term. offered her $1,600. He did so, as he says, Sometimes these are people’s heirlooms we’re “...because that’s what it was worth.” talking about and we respect that.” The plight of the worker who’s hard-up for For those who are less Internet-savvy or cash in today’s economy is something that just don’t have the time, Ice Jewelry Buying Arthur Elias and Edward Goldberg can relate to offers a convenient eBay sales service. If what first-hand, having been laid off from their jobs a customer has isn’t an item that Ice Jewelry in jewelry manufacturing. They understand Buying would purchase, like a handbag or that people get into situations where they just antique furniture, they can help find a buyer need a little cash fast to make the bills and Ice on their eBay store. Elias consults with the Jewelry Buying Service hopes to help out in customer to find a target the most honest way they can. price and let the internet STORE HOURS “For this, I like to think we’re auctioneers handle the rest. doing the community a service,” MON.-FRI. 11am - 7pm For anyone who has Elias said. “We’re in the business SAT. 10am - 5pm ever dealt with the hassle of helping people who are in a SUN. by Appointment of selling and shipping tough spot. They can come to an item on eBay — all the our store and know that we can forms involved in setting up a user and paypal educate them on what they have and we’ll give account, the 10-15 percent fee that Ice them what their items are worth. When that Jewelry Buying charges to do all the work is woman told me her previous offer, it made me really a bargain deal. wonder how many times this happens — how “At the end of the day, I just want people many people who really need that money get to feel comfortable doing business with us. taken advantage of?” People have this conception of gold buying Elias opened his Rego Park shop with stores as these slimy places with slimy Goldberg less than a year ago, and already people, and they’re typically right. But we they’re seeing a lot of repeat customers and want to be different. I don’t think it’s cool to referrals. This is a sign to them that they’re see someone buy a ring for $200 and put it in doing something right — the pawn business their counter for $800. We don’t do that.” typically deals in one-time transactions but Ice Jewelry Buying Services is located at Elias is determined to break that mold, 98-30 Queens Blvd. in Rego Park. Hours of building a reputation on trust. operation are Monday-Friday from 11am to “Everyone around here is buying gold these 7:00pm and Saturday 10am to 5pm; Sunday days; you can go into the barber shop down private appoinments are available. Call for the road and sell your jewelry. The problem Q more information (718) 830-0030. with all these places is they treat everything

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LIPA didn’t tell borough president it would take 7 weeks to restore power by Peter C. Mastrosimone Editor-in-Chief

Queens Borough President Helen Marshall misspoke when she said LIPA told her it would take seven weeks to restore electricity to the Rockaways, her spokesman, Dan Andrews, said Tuesday. But exactly how long she was told the repairs would take is unconfirmed. Either way, Marshall’s misstatement caused at least one other elected official to get dozens of phone calls and emails from concerned residents — within an hour. The borough president made the comment on Saturday in an interview with 1010 WINS radio. Marshall said the reason she was given was that a transformer had blown. The 1010 WINS interviewer pointed out that the Long Island Power Authority has said that its customers still without electricity would get it back within days, and asked Marshall to clarify her answer. She repeated that LIPA said it would be seven weeks before the peninsula has power again. That is a far longer time than any official in any area hit by Hurricane Sandy has said it would take for power to be restored anywhere. “It should have been ‘several weeks,’” Andrews explained. “I think it came out as ‘seven weeks,’ but it should have been ‘several weeks.’” State Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-

Borough President Helen Marshall pauses between conversations she had Saturday with residents of Beach 130th Street in Belle Harbor to reflect on the death and destruction there. COURTESY PHOTO Rockaway) said he had heard the interview, and that within an hour, his office had received more than 50 phone calls and emails asking him if the time frame was true. Goldfeder called LIPA and, he said, was told the real answer was “several days.”

The assemblyman declined to criticize Marshall for alarming their constituents. “It happens,” he said. “When you have all this information coming at you, sometimes you misspeak. I would like to thank the borough president for her tremendous public

service on behalf of all the communities in Queens.” LIPA backs Goldfeder’s recollection. The utility, which mostly serves Nassau and Suffolk counties, but also the Rockaway Peninsula, expects all power transmission to be online by the end of this week, spokeswoman Lois Bentivegna and operations representative Bob Kascsak said in a joint interview Tuesday. The utility has four substations in the Rockaways, and all were damaged by Hurricane Sandy, they said — one beyond repair. But they said the three will be fixed and the one replaced within days, if they haven’t been done already. But that doesn’t mean every homeowner will be able to draw electricity, however, though that’s a matter beyond the utility’s control. “LIPA should be in pretty good shape by the end of the week,” Bentivegna said. “We’ll be able to energize the Rockaways, but not all homes and businesses will be able to receive the electricity.” That’s because home and business owners must get city certification that it’s safe to run electricity into structures damaged by the hurricane. That is done either by licensed electricians or city inspectors, not by LIPA. That could take “several weeks” for a given home. Bentivegna also stressed that safety must come f irst for everyone dealing with the Q restoration of power.

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York College opens doors to evacuees Classes are canceled to make room for 800 Hurricane Sandy refugees by Trevina Nicholson Chronicle Contributor

Eight hundred evacuees have sought refuge at York College in Jamaica during the past week after the damage brought by Hurricane Sandy caused them to leave their homes and precious assets. Along the Guy R. Brewer Blvd. entrance of the school, anyone who walks in is automatically greeted by the abundance of people lying down or walking around. Mothers cradle their infants and chat, while children play on the floors of the school halls, as if they had no worries. “We have lost a lot of food. We have no hot water,” said Anne Michalskio, 56, of Howard Beach, who is at the shelter with her 77-year-old mother Irene Nucci. They lost electricity and heat at their home, leaving them with no other choice but to evacuate. “When you’re disabled it’s hard,” Nucci said. “But [York] is a blessing. It’s not like your own home, [but] it’s nice.” “A lot of people don’t have what we have,” she added about the help she is receiving at York. “The volunteers are nice. I’ve met a lot of beautiful young girls here who are smart and sweet, just like my grandchildren.” Downstairs and across the hall, in the lower level of the building, sat three teens watching a video on one of the computers.

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students that have paid for their education for this semester, and it’s getting cut short,” he added.” “But the well-being of those in need comes first, so as long as these people have a place to stay I don’t mind coming to work.” Many students of the college are also giving a helping hand by volunteering their time giving out clothes, food or even just a warm welcome. But there is a downside for the students. “Honestly we only have a month left of school,” said a senior at York College who choose not to have her name in the paper. “So, now everything is going to be rushed so everything can be taught in a shorter period of time.” The only people allowed on campus now are the administration and staff. In an e-mail blast sent out to students on Nov. 5, college President Marcia Keisz said school will resume the following week. One employee, custodial worker Jovelle Bell, has been working since the first night of the hurricane. “I think the FEMA administration was better, or should I say more caring, to the situation,” he said. “I mean it’s tough coming to work for eight hours seeing all these people suffer like that. It’s depressing.” Brunilda Almodovar, director of scholarship programs, is one of the many staff members who had to report to work this week. “I came back on Thursday,” she said. “It was very sad to see everyone waiting around. It was hard to work without the students. I mean we all had work to do in our offices, but it was hard to concentrate with the situation the way it is.” Almodovar also said that it seems as if the York community and the OEM volunteers have been doing a good job at making the evacuees feel comfortable. A lecture hall was turned into a movie theatre, where they are showing movies all day. They also provide video games for the children. “Please know that my thoughts are with you during this difficult time,” said Keisz in a letter posted on the school’s website. “We want to extend special thanks to everyone in the college community for your support, contributions and understanding during this Q unexpected period of adversity.”

Teen charged with dog neglect Crystal Lashley, 18, of Jamaica was busted for allegedly neglecting her 6year-old dog, a female German shepherd mix named Briana. The ASPCA found the battered pooch tethered to a tree on Foch Boulevard on Aug. 21, according to agency spokesman Joseph Pentangelo. Briana was wearing a nylon collar so tight and for such an extended period of time that her skin had grown over it. “The collar was more than two inches smaller in circumference than the dog’s neck,” Pentangelo said. “It is clear that

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USTA reveals plans for FMCP growth by Joseph Orovic Chronicle Contributor

The United States Tennis Association has begun a push to garner public support for the planned expansion of its current home in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. The increase in space would require the relinquishing of just over half an acre of parkland and has been met with some consternation by members of the community. The National Tennis Center’s upgrade, nominally dubbed a “Strategic Vision,” calls for a relocation of the current Grandstand stadium, a renovation of Louis Armstrong stadium, as well as additional courts and parking facilities. The nonprof it claims the plan would alienate a total of .68 acres of what is currently parkland along its facility’s eastern edge. The difference between undertaking the plan and letting it go by is the possible loss of tennis stars to the USTA’s marquis event, the US Open, according to the organization’s Managing Director Daniel Zausner. The demand for more seating and premium luxury boxes has grown alongside the sports popularity. “While we’re not competing for events, we have to ensure ourselves that our facilities keep up,” he said. Zausner pointed to concerns in Melbourne that bold-faced names will skip the annual Australian Open for bigger paydays in emerging Asian hubs such as Shanghai.

A rendering of the United States Tennis Association’s planned expansion at Flushing Meadows Corona Park includes a new Grandstand, bottom left, a renovated Louis Armstrong Stadium, top COURTESY PHOTO right, and additional courts. “It’s not inconceivable that some players will be selective about what tournaments they’ll play,” he said. The plan has emerged alongside Major League Soccer’s proposed 25,000-seat stadium in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, a proposal that would cost the park up to 13 acres of land. Local groups have emerged in opposition to both plans wholesale, lumping the two together in what has been deemed a sneaky machination that would not be considered in

more prestigious parks in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Some members of the resulting Fairness Coalition of Queens has taken to calling the USTA’s plan an “incremental landgrab,” positing the nonprofit will continue to ask for small chunks of land in the coming decades. It should be noted the USTA’s original footprint in the park started at 22 acres in 1978, growing to its present 42 acres in the mid1990s. Zausner emphasized the USTA has no

intention of expanding in the future, pointing to the physical limitations of the land it currently occupies. It is flanked by roads at every side. “The Grand Central, Unisphere, and barriers all around,” he said. “We have nowhere to go.” The resulting additions to the facilities will add 10,000 more daily grounds passes during the US Open, a new 8,000-seat Grandstand and an entirely new 15,000-seat Louis Armstrong stadium. A modification to the area’s current parking structures will increase onsite parking capacity from 300 to 700 spots. The parking issue has been a perpetual rallying cry for FMCP’s protectors, who claim the USTA’s marquis event leads to green areas torn apart by makeshift parking lots placed on grass fields. Zausner acknowledged the continual concerns, but said USTA does not control where the Police Department sends cars in an effort to keep the park’s roads clear. The plans must go through the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, facing a public vetting process and vote before the City Council. Zausner is confident the plan will be approved. “We want what’s in the best interest of the community,” he said, adding he anticipates the process to be completed by the fall of 2013. The subsequent work will be done incrementally, around the US Open, with a compleQ tion date within seven to ten years.

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Jaqueline Califano greeted Tuesday morning sans electricity with a mammoth, century-old tree sitting atop her Auburndale home. She called 311, reported the problem and got assurances from the Parks Department that the issue will be addressed â&#x20AC;&#x201D; eventually. Ditto Con Edison, which knew the downed tree took power lines with it, leaving several poles precariously leaning at three homes on Jordan Street between 33rd and 34th avenues. Califano found herself among many residents of Northeast Queens, hundreds of whom still lacked power a week after Hurricane Sandy tore through the borough. The end, according to Con Ed, may be in sight. On Halloween, another city agency greeted her: the Department of Buildings. The damage caused by the tree on top of her house? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a violation. The agency also cited the owners of two other homes the tree is currently using as an ottoman. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They were very nice. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t

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know if theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just covering themselves,â&#x20AC;? Califano said, adding that the inspectors said to keep them in the loop if the treeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s status gets worse. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At this point, the houses are habitable. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll do pretty much anything out here to get the tree removed.â&#x20AC;? The violation did not bring a fine with it, only the promise to make sure the situation was addressed in the future. The violation also didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bring the promise of an expedited tree removal. The Chronicle was unable to reach the DOB for comment. The continuing lack of power for Califano and many others in Auburndale, Flushing and Bayside can be attributed to the ferocity of the storm and the overhead delivery system used by the area, according to Con Edison spokesman Alan Drury. Nearly 400 residents of Queensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; northeast quadrant still lacked power as of this writing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The biggest diff iculty is the sheer magnitude of the storm,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is the biggest storm in company history.â&#x20AC;? The neighborhoodsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; tree-lined

streets create an obstacle for Con Ed crews looking to eff iciently return power to the largest amount of people. But a big detriment remains in the form of hulking trees blocking crews from accessing downed power lines and transformers, Drury said. Once the initial stage of returning power to 90 percent of customers is achieved, the arduous task of piecemeal power restoration begins. But Drury estimates full service to all customers could happen by the end of this weekend. Califano and her neighborsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; situation drew the ire of State Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside). Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beginning to wonder if the Bloomberg administration and Con Edisonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s map of New York only depicts Manhattan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just insane. Imagine a homeowner just had a tree land on their home, no power and now a city agency is knocking on their door and handing them a violation?â&#x20AC;? Avella asked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t these people dealing with enough?â&#x20AC;? The DOB told Avella the violation is a means of tracking the stormâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impact, and a way for the

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‘Ragtime the Musical’ actors two-step, harmonize and put on a show despite Sandy‘s interference by Josey Bartlett

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Because of the devastating storm the group couldn’t rehearse as much as it would have liked. Nov. 4, the opening performance, was in fact the first time the set designer had the lights up and running. But as they say in the biz — “The show must go on.” And go on it did. Pierce gave a disclaimer saying although the cast is “phenomenal” there may be some glitches. I counted maybe two — if that. The lights didn’t shine on Sarah played by Amanda-Camille Isaac when she started her monologue and Booker T. Washington played by Kenee Lee stumbled over his lines, but his booming, commanding voice made up for any waiver. “Ragtime the Musical” is based on of the 1975 continued on page 45 novel by Terrence McNally.

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The Free Synagogue of Flushing Community Theatre Group belts out the opening number of “Ragtime the Musical,” left; Bryce Klatsky as Father, the head of the household who is stuck in the past and unsuccessfully attempts to travel to the North Pole; Rodney Singleton as Coalhouse, the ragtime musician from Harlem, at the piano; and Jenna Kantor as Evelyn Nesbit, the oh-so-popular model and entertainer.

unday’s performance of “Ragtime the Musical” by the Free Synagogue of Flushing Community Theatre Group was inspiring. There were the same number of people in the audience as there were on stage — 60 in each— and you could tell everyone was there because of love of theater and love of family — on the part of the actors’ many family members were there for support. Community theater is unique because these aren’t paid actors, but people who work other jobs yet scrape together enough energy at the end of the day to practice the art they love. Hurricane Sandy only magnified the actors’ passion for theater. Many live in Manhattan and had to trudge to Flushing using spotty transit. Even more inspiring was the actor from the Rockaways who still made it to opening night and the set designer who resides in Coney Island, director Maryellen Pierce said.

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Join the Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston for a knitting circle on Monday, Nov. 19 from 6 to 8 p.m. There are meetings for adults who know how to knit. For more information call Liz at (718) 229-4000, ext. 214. Fee is $5.

Queens Historical Society presents “Permanent Residence: Uncovering the Cemeteries of Queens” through April at the Kingsland Homestead, 143-35 37 Ave. in Flushing. Call (718) 939-0647, ext. 17 or email info@queenshistoricalsociety.org

A schizophrenics anonymous self-help support group will be held on Sundays from 10 to 11 a.m. at L.I. Consultation Center, 97-29 64 Rd., Rego Park. Call (718) 896-3400 for more information. The group is free.

Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, 11-03 45 Ave., Long Island City, announces the continuation of its program of independently-curated exhibitions: “Contested Territories,” that will remain on view through Jan. 6, 2013. Contested Territories is an exhibition that explores the interaction of the city and society in an age of conflict. Gallery hours are Thursday through Monday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and by appointment. The New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Flushing Meadows/Corona, presents ReGeneration now through Jan 13. Ten artists will present their interpretations of cultural sustainability. For over 450 exhibits as well as featured events and programs,visit nysci.org/visit “Three Generations” features the works of three generations of the Aguilera family — artists Raphael, Florencio and Chencho. Their paintings and drawings capture the history of Ayamonte, Spain from 1903 to the present day. The exhibit is on display at the Queensborough Community College Art Gallery, 225-05 56 Ave. in Bayside and will continue through Jan. 5. For more information visit the website at QCCArtGallery@qcc.cuny.edu or call (718) 631-6396.

AUDITIONS STAR is looking for actors to audition for established senior repertory company. Call (718) 7760529. The AARP Queens Chorus performs at Queens nursing homes and rehab/senior centers. If interested in joining call (718) 523-1330 for audition dates.

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The Gingerbread Players presents Moliere’s scintillating comedy “The Learned Ladies,” Sunday Nov. 11 from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. at St. Luke’s Church, 85 Greenway South, between Ascan Avenue and Harrow Street, Forest Hills. Cost is $12 ($10 for groups of six or more). Go to gingerbreadplayers.org for more information. Douglaston Community Theatre presents a heartfelt comedy about friendship, “The Dixie Swim Club,” at 8 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 9 and Saturday, Nov. 10 at Zion Episcopal Church Parish Hall, Church Avenue, entrance off Douglaston Parkway. Cost is $15 for adults, $13 for seniors and students with ID. Call (718) 482-3332 to reserve. Theatre By The Bay presents “Hello, Dolly!” on Saturdays, Nov. 10 and 17 at 8 p.m. and Sundays, Nov. 11 and 18 at 3 p.m. at Bay Terrace Jewish Center, 1300 209 St., Bayside. Tickets cost $20 for adults and $18 for seniors and children 12 and under. For more information or to make reservations visit the website at theatrebythebayny.com or call (718) 428-6363.

A leisure group meets every Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. at the Hillcrest Jewish Center, Prince Room, 183-02 Union Turnpike, Flushing. Cost is $7 for lunch. The program includes yoga instruction, discussion groups, card games, bingo, birthday celebrations, guest speakers and holiday celebrations. For info., call Dr. Roz Gold at (718) 229-7511.

FOR KIDS Spanish songstress Lara Bello will be one of the performers at Flushing Town Hall’s world musical series “From Morocco To Veracruz — Root and Branches of Latin Music” on Saturday, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. PHOTO COURTESY FLUSHING TOWN HALL

DANCE The Thalia Spanish Theatre, 41-17 Greenpoint Ave., Sunnyside, presents Colombia de fiesta with Mestizo Dance Company and Harold Gutierrez and his Band from Nov. 9 through Dec. 9 on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 4 p.m. Tickets are $30, students and seniors are $27. Friday tickets are $25. Call (718) 729-3880.

MUSIC “From Morocco to Veracruz — Root and Branches of Latin Music” at Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. on Saturday, Nov. 10, at 7 p.m. Performing will be Layali El Andalus, one of the leading exponents of Moroccan, Andalusian, Arab and Jewish Sephardic music; Spanish songstress Lara Bello, a new voice from Granada, who echoes Spain’s Islamic past and Mexican roots ensemble Jarana Beat, who combine elements of Mexico’s African and Amerindian traditions with other Latin American rhythms. Tickets are $20, $15 for members and students with I.D. For tickets call the box office at (718) 463-7700, ext. 222. The Forest Hills Symphony Orchestra presents the opening concert of its 49th the season on Sunday, Nov. 18 at 2 p.m. at the Forest Hills Jewish Center, 106-06 Queens Blvd, Forest Hills. Tickets are $5 for adults, $3 for seniors and students. Tickets are available by calling (718) 374-1627. Group rates are available by calling (516) 785-2532.

FLEA MARKETS There will be a fair and flea market at Emanuel Church located on Woodhaven boulevard at 91st Avenue in Woodhaven on Saturday, Nov. 10 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Refreshments and lunch available. Free admission. All Saints Episcopal Church, 43-12 46 St., Sunnyside will hold a rummage sale on Saturday, Nov. 10 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information call (718) 784-8031.

There will be a craft/vendor fair on Saturday, Nov. 10 at St. Fedelis School, 124-06 14 Ave., College Point, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. St. Josaphat’s R.C. Church of Bayside will hold a flea market plus ethnic Polish bake sale on Sunday, Nov. 18 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Parish Hall, located at 35th Avenue and 210th Street. For more information call Steve at (718) 224-3052. St. Nicholas of Tolentine Parish continues to run its outdoor flea market every Saturday and Sunday through Nov. 25 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. It is located at the intersection of Parsons Boulevard and Union Turnpike in Jamaica.

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The Long Island Consultation Center, 97-29 64 Road, Rego Park, hosts a free workshop, “Ways To Repair Your Relationships After Addiction,” led by Sherry Amatenstein, author and TV commentator on Wednesday, Nov. 14 at 7 p.m. To reserve space, call (718) 896-3400.

MEETINGS Kenneth Braswell, award-winning community activist, author and executive director of Fathers Incorporated has teamed up with the country’s leading experts on mental health and depression to host Code Blue: A Call for Community Healing on Friday, Nov. 16 from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at St. Paul Community Baptist Church, located at 859 Hendrix St., in Brooklyn. Free. The Rego Park Jewish Center, 97-30 Queens Blvd., will hold a meeting on The Global Day of Learning on Sunday, Nov. 18 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Rabbi Romiel Daniel will speak about “One People — Culturally So Different.” Rabbi Samuel Waidenbaum will discuss “The Gifts of Faith.” Hosted by Mark Hochberg. All welcome. Free. You must reserve in advance by Thursday, Nov. 15. Call (718) 459-1000. The Flushing AARP Chapter No. 1405 will meet on Monday, Nov. 19, at 1 p.m. at the Bowne Street Community Church, 143-11 Roosevelt Ave., Flushing. The guest speaker from the Fogarty Funeral Home will discuss identity fraud.

Children ages 8 to 12 are invited to Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston on Saturday, Nov. 10 at 10 a.m. to learn about the interesting job of an animal caretaker. Children will have hand-on experience in feeding, brushing, cleaning and learning all about the needs of APEC’s animals. Animal care trainee certificate included. Limited to eight participants. Call (718) 229-4000 to register. Cost is $21. All children between the ages of 3-4 are invited to join in the fun at the Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston on Saturday, Nov. 10 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. and get a close up look at live insects and the animals who eat them. Participants will do a craft and a bug sorting game that teaches kids how to identify true insects. Participants must be toilet trained. Limited to 12 participants. Registration is limited. Call (718) 2294000 to register. Cost is $22.

CLASSES Adult education classes will be held at the Rego Park Jewish Center, 97-30 Queens Blvd., Rego Park. Rabbi Waidenbaum will be teaching several adult education classes. No charge. Call for more information, (718) 459-1000. On Mondays at 10 a.m. there will be an ongoing discussion titled “In the News” at the Clearview Selfhelp Senior Center, 208-11 26 Ave., Bayside. Other classes held at the center include: QiGong on Mondays, at 10:45 a.m., dance aerobics on Tuesdays at 9 a.m., aerobics at 11 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, Wii Time on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 12:45 p.m., Bingo on Wednesdays at 12:45 p.m., Staywell exercises on Thursdays at 9:30 a.m. and dance fitness on Fridays at 10:45 a.m. Call (718) 224-7888 for more details. Central YM & YWHA, 67-09 108 St. in Forest Hills is now offering a ballet fitness fusion class which will combine the fundamentals of ballet barre work with traditional fitness training. This Wednesday class is designed to strengthen, tone and shape the lower body. Classes will run through Wednesday, Dec. 19. Free for members of the CQY; nonmembers can purchase a 10-class card at $150. One can start classes anytime.

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Cleaned-up plaza offers cultural programs by David Noriega Chronicle Contributor

Sounds of bolero music filled Corona Plaza on Oct. 22 as members of nearby senior centers danced in the sun. Throughout the afternoon, crowds gathered along the edges of the plaza to watch, some stopping midway up the stairs to the elevated subway platform on Roosevelt Avenue. The event, inspired by the traditional uses of plazas in Latin American cities, was part of a larger effort by the Queens Museum of Art to turn the spot into a center of community activity in Corona. In concert with various neighborhood groups, the museum is organizing an ambitious series of public programs in the recently opened pedestrian area. Most of these events are geared towards Corona’s immigrant residents. Some are cultural, such as dance and music performances, while others will focus on civic and political issues affecting

the community, museum organizers say. The museum is planning a festival with music, dance and art workshops for Saturday, Nov. 10, during which it will also collect donations to help the Rockaways recover from Hurricane Sandy.

Corona Plaza events When: Saturday, Nov. 10, noon to 4 p.m. Where: Corona Plaza on Roosevelt Ave. btwn.104th and National streets Tickets: (718) 592 9700 queensmuseum.org Corona Plaza used to be split by a service road connecting National and 104th streets just south of Roosevelt Avenue. The roadway was plagued by trash, parked trucks and traffic. But in

late August, the city Department of Transportation closed it to cars, paved it with gravel and brought in chairs and tables. Meanwhile, Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras (D-Corona) allocated $17,000 to the Queens Museum for public programming. At the Oct. 22 event, some 50 seniors attended the afternoon of bolero dancing, which was followed by a potluck meal and evening screenings of short films narrating immigrant experiences. “I’ve been in Corona since ‘62, and this is the first time I’ve seen something nice and decent happen here,” Cristobalina Céspedes, one of the seniors, said in Spanish, while sitting at a table to take a break from dancing. Pointing to a mauve sweater she wore under a black velvet blazer, Céspedes said this was the first day she was wearing color out of the house since her son died in a car accident a year ago. The scene reminded Alberto

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and Esther Olivera, a couple who married 46 years ago, of the plazas in their native Lima, Peru, where people gathered to play guitars and dance.

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CLASSES The Sunnyside Community Senior Center, 43-31 39 St., Sunnyside, offers free classes in Argentine tango every Thursday from 10 to 11 a.m. Beginning tai chi classes are Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. with the intermediate level on Thursdays at 11 a.m. Creative writing classes are at 1 p.m. on Thursdays. For more information call (718) 784-6173 ext. 411 or email jmonterroso@scsny.org. Ongoing watercolor class every Wednesday from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the National Art League, 44-21 Douglaston Pkwy., Douglaston. Instructor is Diane Leiberman. Fee is $25 per class. Call (718) 969-1128. Italian Charities of America, 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst, will host a dance with instructions every Monday and Friday from 7:15-8 p.m. From 8-11 p.m. there will be a social dance. Call (718) 478-3100 for more information. Cost is $10 per person or you can buy a series card. The YWCA of Queens, 42-07 Parsons Blvd., Flushing, has expanded its GED preparation program to include free adult classes. Tracks vary in length from 10 to 20 weeks depending upon entrance test results. Contact the YW and sign up for the next placement examination. Call Stacy McKelvey at (718) 353-4553 for more information or to reserve your placement exam seat.

SOCIAL ACTIVITIES The Flushing Camera Club meets at 7:30 p.m. on the first, third and fifth Wednesdays of the month in the auditorium of Flushing Hospital, 146-01 45 Ave., enter at 45th Avenue and Burling Street. Call (718) 749-0643 or visit flushingcameraclub.org for more information. The Wednesday Night Singles Group of the SFY Adult Center, 58-20 Little Neck Parkway, Little Neck, invites you to social evenings with special guest speakers on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month from 7-9 p.m. Fee: $7 Adult Center members, $9 nonmembers.

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Tenor Daniel Rodriguez will perform at a gala fundraiser at Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. on Thursday, Nov. 8 at 7 p.m. The fundraiser will benefit United Adult Ministries, D/B/A Flushing House, the nonprofit retirement residence based in Flushing. For more information call (718) 463-7700. Sunnyside is holding a 10-day international flag festival through Nov. 10. Each participating business along Skillman Avenue, from 46th Street to 52nd Street, will hang the flag of a different nation, with restaurants and bars offering food specialties, drinks, music and culture from its chosen country. Other businesses will hand out flags and offer discounts for the duration of the festival. Call (718) 424-2005 for more information. St. Anastasia Knights of Columbus Council No. 5911 is holding its annual blood drive on Sunday, Nov. 11 from 8:45 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. in Father Smith Hall, 45-14 245 St., Douglaston. For more information and to make a reservation, call Martin Aversa at (718) 225-7027 or Joseph Stock at (718) 428-5228.

Join the Parashat and Haftarat Club on Saturday, Nov. 17 at 12:30 p.m. following Shabbat services at the Rego Park Jewish Center, 97-30 Queens Blvd. Discuss the Torah portion Vayetze with Rabbi Samuel Waidenbaum, Rabbi Romiel Daniel and Charles Lehat. Light refreshments served. Free. Call (718) 459-1000. Immaculate Conception Church, 86-45 Edgerton Blvd., Jamaica Estates will hold its annual Christmas/Holiday Fair on Friday, Nov. 16 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday, Nov. 17 from 12 noon to 8 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 18 from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. There will be a sit-down restaurant and something for everyone including jewelry, housewares, religious items and Irish goods. Handicap accessibility and parking. Italian Charities of America will hold a Saturday night dance on Nov. 17 from 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. at 8320 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst. Call (718) 478-3100. The Samuel Field Y has two weekday programs for preschool children ages 3-5 with developmental disabilities and their families. On Mondays from 3 to 4:30 p.m. there is Monday Magic: Learn and Play at the Bay Terrace Center: 212-00 23 Ave., Bayside. On Wednesdays from 3-4:30 there is Gym and Creative Exploration at the Little Neck Site, 58-20 Little Neck Pkwy. Contact Amanda at (718) 225-6750 ext. 262 or email asmith@sfy.org for more information. All aboard for hands-on history on Saturday, Nov. 17 from 12 to 3 p.m. at King Manor Museum, located at Jamaica Avenue and 153rd Street. Learn about Rufus King’s son John who was president of the railroad. Enjoy train-related stories, crafts and more. A farmers market will be held every Friday until Nov. 16 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Dalia Avenue off Main Street, near the Queens Botanical Garden. City View Pharmacy, 23-07 Astoria Blvd., Astoria, (between 23rd and Crescent Street), is sponsoring its 7th Annual Thanksgiving Food Drive to benefit City Harvest now through Wednesday, Nov. 21. Canned food items and other nonperishable foods may be dropped off at City View Pharmacy. The most needed food items are nonperishable that do not need power to prepare such as peanut butter, canned fruit or family-size boxes of cereal. No glass jars, except for baby foods. The Latin American Cultural Center of Queens celebrates Thanksgiving on Sunday, Nov. 25 from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. at El Paraiso Tropical, 102-11 42 Ave., in Corona. There will be dancing and Latin American music with an artistic presentation by Francisco Cantilo. Free. Refreshments will be served. Space is limited. Call (718) 261-7664 to make a reservation. Join Hands-on History: Decorate the Manor on Saturday, Dec. 15 from 12 noon to 3 p.m. at King Manor Museum, 150-03 Jamaica Ave. Learn about and make historic winter decorations for your home. For more information call (718) 206-0545.

SUPPORT GROUPS The Foundation of Religion and Mental Health announces a free men’s support group on Thursday, Nov. 8, from 7-8 p.m. at 43-43 Bowne St., Flushing, first floor. This group may involve Flushing and Jackson Heights residents and other nearby communities to deal with developing healthy relationship skills. Call (917) 304-2036. A women’s anxiety support group will be held every other week from noon to 1 p.m. at 71-41 159 St., Flushing. Most insurance accepted. Sponsored by Kissena Jewish Community Council. For additional information contact Keri-Ann or Maribel at (718) 461-6393.

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Corona Plaza continued from page 43 00 out to multiple community groups throughout Corona and neighboring areas about planning their own events and activities, according to Jose SerranoMcClain, the museum’s full-time community organizer. These include New Immigrant Community Empowerment, the Corona Youth Music Project and Drogadictos Anónimos, an Elmhurst-based drug recovery center. In addition to encouraging these groups to use the plaza, the museum is offering to help them navigate the city’s permitting process, which can be burdensome and costly, said Prerana Reddy, director of public events for the museum. Serrano-McClain hopes the plaza will be a salve for some of Corona’s problems. For instance, in a neighborhood composed mostly of immigrants, many of whom are undocumented, integration into community life can be difficult. “You’re just not sure what the trust networks are yet, especially if you’re recently arrived,” said Serrano-McClain. Public events can help create “the kinds of environments that signal that you’re a little bit closer to home than you think.” The museum’s programming has been well-received by residents. Martha Gualotuna,

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an immigrant from Ecuador who lives in Corona, agreed that the museum could help the community at large. She said she wants to see more events for the neighborhood’s children, since many of their parents work long hours and have little time to spend with them. Perhaps a youth talent show, she suggested. “I have a 15-year-old daughter, and she has a beautiful voice,” Gualotuna said. For now, the museum is testing out the space and trying to make residents comfortable with using it for more than the Q occasional sit-down.

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Legal Notices NOTICE OF ACTION BEFORE THE BOARD OF MASSAGE THERAPY IN RE: The license to practice massage therapy of Xinyan Li, L.M.T, 41-45 Main Street, Apt. 81, Flushing, NY 11355 CASE NO.: 2012-12647 LICENSE NO.: MA 64580 The Department of Health has filed an Administrative Complaint against you, a copy of which may be obtained by contacting Candace A. Rochester, Assistant General Counsel, Prosecution Services Unit, 4052 Bald Cypress Way, Bin #C65, Tallahassee Florida 32399-3265, (850) 2454640 If no contact has been made by you concerning the above by December 20, 2012, the matter of the Administrative Complaint will be presented at an ensuing meeting of the Board of Massage Therapy in an informal proceeding. In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, persons needing a special accommodation to participate in this proceeding should contact the individual or agency sending this notice not later than seven days prior to the proceeding at the address given on the notice. Telephone: (850) 245-4640, 1-800-955-8771 (TDD) or 1-800-955-8770 (V), via Florida Relay Service.

Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: PADAUK YEIK, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/12/2012. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 90-20 63rd Avenue, Rego Park, NY 11374. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: BAO DI 99 LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/28/2012. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 51-32 GOLDSMITH ST., ELMHURST, NY 11373. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

ALEX & JEM STABLE & RACING LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 9/19/12. Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 90-10 Pitkin Ave., Ozone Park, NY 11417. General Purposes.

NAMSI REALTY LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/4/05. Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 31 Lafayette Ave., Sea Cliff, NY 11579. General Purposes.

Notice of formation of Service Partners of Glendale LLC. Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 10/3/2012. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC, 70-23 73rd Street, Glendale, NY 11385. Purpose: Investment/Real Estate 718.415.4454

Notice of Formation Piotisoft LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 9/7/12. Office loc: Queens. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 14430 Sanford Ave, #6E, Flushing, NY 11355. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company. Name: Prince 35NY LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/24/2012. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 134-04 35 Avenue, Flushing, NY 11354. Purpose: for any lawful purpose.

1917 Equity, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/3/12. Office in Queens County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Raymond Dipaoli, 14003 58th Rd., Flushing, NY 11355. Purpose: General.

Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: PopImpressKA Journal LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/27/2012. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to OLGA PAPKOVITCH, 135 Beach 19th Street, Apt. SN, Far Rockaway, NY 11691-3729. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice is hereby given that an on-premises license, #TBA, has been applied for by Air India Ltd d/b/a Maharajah Lounge to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on-premises establishment. For onpremises consumption under the ABC Law at JFK Airport, Terminal 4, Jamaica, NY 11430

NOTICE is hereby given that a license, number 1266918 for Restaurant Wine & Beer, has been applied for by the GAG POCHA, Inc. to sell wine & beer at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 158-14 Northern Blvd., Unit #LL1, Flushing, NY 11358 for onpremises consumption.

Nima & Velona LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/29/12. Office in Queens County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 35-15 84th St., 2H, Jackson Heights, NY 11372. Purpose: General.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: 182nd ST FM REALTY LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/06/12. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 58-33 182nd Street, Fresh Meadows, New York, 11365. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Alta Loma Productions LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/13/12. Office in Queens County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Ave., Ste. 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: General.

Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: DCT, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/19/2012. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 36-14 11th Street, Long Island City, NY 11106. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: DONG QING & YAQUIN LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/19/2012. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 5515 39th Avenue, Woodside, NY 11377. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of LYNDSAY SKEEGAN DESIGNS LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) 7/23/12. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to 30-50 21 St., #4F, Astoria, NY 11102. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Cab4All LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/12/11. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Michael Levine, 25-11 B 41st Ave., Long Island City, NY 11101. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1266407, for restaurant wine and beer has been applied for by the 4110 Hama Corporation to sell wine & beer at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 41-10 149th Place, Flushing, NY 11355 for onpremises consumption.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: BROOKVILLE JFK RESTAURANT LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/10/12. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 420 Great Neck Road, Great Neck, New York 11021. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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Long lines at the pump slow down in-home care for needy patients by Mark Lord

week,” she added. “All our patients are accounted for. We know where our patients They’re young. They’re vulnerable. And, are. Many have been displaced. We have perhaps more than anyone else, they’ve accommodated them to the best of our ability.” been hurt by Sandy. According to Borough President Helen Among the millions who have been affect- Marshall’s spokesman Dan Andrews, “St. ed by the storm that ravaged the East Coast Mary’s put in an urgent request to the boris a group of approximately 1,000 children ough president’s office for gas supplies to who, under the best of circumstances, must enable the home care workers to get to the fight on a daily basis to survive. homebound children. Bayside was not They are among the 4,000 patients affected by the storm. But the children are served each day throughout the five bor- not in Bayside. oughs as well as Nassau, Suffolk and “The difficulty is the workers have no Westchester counties by St. Mary’s Health- fuel to get to the patients. We would like to care System for Children in Bayside. see a special shipment of gasoline to St. Many of those Mary’s.” most severely in need He spoke of one 9will require ongoing year-old patient who specialized care and lives in Far Rockrehabilitation away with three sibhe difficulty is workers throughout their lings and their mothlives, the result of er as among those have no fuel to get to injur y, illness or most in jeopardy the patients. We would complications of prebecause of cur rent mature birth. conditions. like to see a special Due to Sandy, givThe boy’s family, shipment of gasoline ing them the care in fact, lost ever ythey need has thing, according to for St. Mary’s.” become extremely Johnson. “They had difficult. eight feet of water in — Dan Andrews, spokesman for “The stor m has their home. He doesBorough President Helen Marshall really impacted them n’t have his feeding tremendously,” said tube, his hearing aid, Leslie Johnson, the his special bed,” she hospital’s director of communications and said. marketing. “They rely on us in the best of Andrews said the hospital is “being cretimes and certainly now in the worst of ative, resourceful,” in its efforts to provide times. the needed services. “Our organization is finding it a chal“Everyone has a story,” Johnson said. lenge for staff to get out there. They come “It’s very sad.” back with stories of devastation.” She added for many of the families “on a Although the hospital’s home base in good day it’s a challenge. Our staff is doing Bayside was “unscathed,” Johnson pointed an incredible job of f inding them and out that the vast majority of its patients, reconnecting them to the essentials.” who suffer from highly complex medical Many of the patients still f ind themissues, are spread throughout the five bor- selves in homes without power, including oughs and Long Island. one 18-year-old who relies on an electric Patients with cerebral palsy, autism, and wheelchair to get around. genetic abnormalities, among other health Several patients’ homes were rendered challenges, rely on medical care and super- completely uninhabitable, she said, forcing vision, explained Hope Mavaro Iliceto, the them into shelters. hospital’s chief administrative officer. Extreme circumstances found some of They’re “pretty homebound,” she said, the patients having to temporarily leave the making visits by staff members a necessity. state. “We were very concerned about one Hospital employees had to “venture out patient,” Johnson said. “She called the in the storm to access the families to supply agency indicating her safety. She didn’t medical support,” she said. With phones want us to worry.” down and a shortage of gas, the workers Now St. Mary’s, the largest post-acute became “very challenged. Nurses and ther- care provider of its kind in New York, is apists are waiting on gas lines,” Iliceto asking the public to help by contributing to said. a special needs fund. Information is availQ “The sickest have received services this able at www.stmaryskids.org. Chronicle Contributor

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Common sense wins race Living in Rockaway has always been tough

by Lloyd Carroll

Chronicle Contributor

What was obvious to most of us, except Mayor Bloomberg, was that it would be tasteless to have a major event going through the streets of New York while many of our citizens were without electrical power, forced to relocate shelters, and even worse, many had lost their homes altogether from a calamity that had occurred less than a week earlier. Leaving the emotionalism out of the issue, police and sanitation resources would be diverted from far more important work. Many of those who sought emergency shelter in hotels would find themselves being booted out because of runners from outside of New York who had made room reservations well in advance. A caller to WFAN may have articulated the most important economic reason for the ING NYC Marathon to be canceled. He reasoned that if the race had gone on as scheduled, potential individual and corporate donors to Hurricane Sandy relief efforts might have passed on making contributions. “Hey, it can’t be that bad, otherwise they would not have been able to run the New York City Marathon,” would have been the understandable mindset of many who don’t live around here, he said. It was unfortunate that New York Road Runners CEO Mary Wittenberg was vilified

by a lot of folks in the press. The marathon is crucial for funding the coffers of her organization, and you can’t blame her for advocating for both the NYRR and the number of runners who had been in training for all of 2012 for this race, particularly those who came in from out of town on their own dime to run in it. Many of the runners raise money for a variety of charities. I have little doubt that Wittenberg truly thought that the marathon would lift New Yorkers spirits as well as raise money for the Sandy relief effort. The NYC Marathon has traditionally had a $300 million positive impact on our city’s economy and that certainly was on Mayor Mike’s mind from the get-go. While out-of-town runners were disappointed with the race cancellation, a group of runners from a Sioux reservation in South Dakota I met Friday were quite empathetic with the plight of many in our area. “We know firsthand what it’s like to live without electricity and even running water in your home,” one of the Dakotans told me. The Philadelphia Marathon will take place on Nov. 18. Perhaps the New York Road Runners can pull some strings to get those who wanted to run last Sunday an opportunity to put their rigorous training to use in the City Q of Brotherly Love.

The Holland Pier, Rockaway Beach.

PHOTO FROM ‘THE ROCKAWAYS,’ BY EMIL R. LUCEV SR.

by Peter C. Mastrosimone Editor-in-Chief

Hurricane Sandy struck with unprecedented force, but the Rockaway Peninsula, as a barrier beach, is no stranger to the harshest weather conditions you can find in New York City. In 1893, a hurricane destroyed Hog Island, a resort off the peninsula. The 1938 Long Island Express hurricane caused the ocean to meet the bay, just as Sandy did.

And even normal weather has always been harsher there. The above photo, taken on the bay end of Beach 92nd Street, shows the Holland Pier, which would rise and fall as winter ice advanced and retreated, according to the book “The Rockaways,” by Emil R. Lucev Sr. You’ve got to be tough to live in Rockaway. It ain’t Forest Hills, even on a good day. The Chronicle’s best wishes go out to Q everyone there in this difficult time.

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