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C Community i Board B d 9 Ch Chairman i Jim Ji Cocovillo, C ill left, l f quarrels l with ih b board d member b Sam S Esposito, E i who may be facing expulsion from the board allegedly for making bigoted remarks about two other members. Esposito suggested he was being targeted for his unwavering support for embattled District Manager Mary Ann Carey, whom the board considered firing back in June.

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Willets Point plan approved by council Next ‘great neighborhood’ a go; affordable housing still problematic by Liz Rhoades Managing Editor

n a vote of 42 for, 3 against and 1 abstention, the City Council Wednesday afternoon approved the massive $3 billion mixed-use development to transform the auto repair shops of Willets Point into a destination for eating and shopping and the Citi Field parking lot into a mall. City Councilwoman Juleesa Ferreras (D-East Elmhurst), who had originally opposed the plan because of inadequate housing in the plan, said Wednesday: “After taking the needs of my constituents into consideration, I think this proposal will be a win for my constituents, a win for Willets Point and a win for the city of New York.” Voting against the plan were Democrats Charles Barron of Brooklyn and Danny Dromm of Jackson Heights and Republican Dan Halloran of Whitestone, while Peter Vallone Jr. of Astoria abstained. The proposal was first announced in 2008 by Mayor Bloomberg, who called the 62-acre Willets Point “the next great neighborhood.” It was immediately opposed by Willets Point business and property owners. Delays, lawsuits and finding a developer held up the city until last year, when the mayor revealed changes to the plan, the largest of which was the addition of the Willets

A rendering of how 126th Street will look with Citi Field on the left and a revitalized Willets Point on the right. Work is expected to begin next year to clean up the contamination. RENDERING COURTESY EDC West mall. He also announced that the codevelopers selected were The Related Companies and Sterling Equities, the real estate firm controlled by the owners of the Mets. Phase 1 of the plan as approved is expected to take at least 15 years to complete. First, the city will spend $100 million to clean up contamination on the first 23 acres starting next year with an estimated 2015 completion date. Then developers will transform 126th Street, across from Citi Field, into an area

with a 200-room hotel, 30,000 square feet of retail space and restaurants and an interim 20-acre surface parking area that can be converted to recreational use when the Mets are not playing at home. The completion date is scheduled for 2016. Then the developers will build Willets West and turn the Citi Field parking lot into a million-square-foot retail and entertainment center with more than 200 stores, movie theaters, restaurants, a parking structure and surface space for 2,500 cars.

Scheduled completion date is 2018. Still in question is the legality of using public parkland for private gain. The city is relying on a 1961 statute regarding the Mets, but legal experts say it does not allow such a mall. Also, the city still needs to get state approval for the land giveaway. Once the mall is completed, the city will go ahead with the federally approved construction of new Van Wyck Expressway access ramps. Phase 1 work will conclude with constructing more retail space, offices, 2,500 housing units with 875 of them affordable and a 280-room hotel in Willets Point. The starting date for the residential units is 2025. But groups like the Queens Housing Coalition, which wants the residential area built sooner, are concerned that they will not be built at all. Members have held several rallies and meetings in Corona. No timetable has been set for later work, which calls for erecting a small convention center, additional housing and a park. The major opponents of the project are members of Willets Point United, who do not want to move their businesses. Although the city has agreements with 95 percent of the landowners, plans for the others remain in the air. The city said it would not use Q eminent domain to get them out.

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Sam Esposito says he’s targeted due to his support for embattled DM by Domenick Rafter Editor

The drama engulfing Community Board 9 continued at its October meeting Tuesday night in Richmond Hill, as an attempt to send the board into the personnel-related second executive session in four months was thwarted in part by the very member they may be seeking to remove. Longtime board member Sam Esposito is accused of making bigoted remarks to two board members. The situation led to the board’s Executive Committee to call for an executive session — a closed-door meeting of the board — allegedly to propose removing Esposito from the board. The session was scheduled for the end of the meeting after the board dealt with its regular business, including liquor license hearings, votes on the Ozone Park rezoning plan and City Line pedestrian plazas and a hearing on the proposal to turn the Richmond Hill Republican Club include a catering hall. CB 9 Chairman Jim Cocovillo would not confirm Tuesday night’s executive session concerned Esposito after Esposito sought to make a motion to not go into executive session when the item came up on the agenda, saying only that he would not know what the discussion would be about. “I urge the board to vote no on going into

executive session,” Esposito said. “It’s about me and removing me from the board.” His comment was the first public admission that the “personnel issue” CB 9 had been dealing with for the past month was about Esposito, who said he was being targeted because of his unequivocal support for embattled District Manager Mary Ann Carey, whom the board attempted to fire in June. “Maybe they want to get rid of me because they want to fire [Carey],” Esposito said on Wednesday. “I am going to protect Mary Ann. I mean, there’s a woman’s life at stake here. Mary Ann has done so much for the community and she doesn’t get the recognition she deserves.” At least two CB 9 sources say Esposito’s potential removal is due to an accusation that he made anti-Semitic remarks about two unidentified members of the board. Esposito did not address the allegations. At Tuesday’s meeting, board member Nick Comaianni motioned to table the discussion until the November meeting — and put it earlier on the agenda — because it was nearly 11 p.m. when the executive session would have been called. “I don’t want to be here past midnight,” he said. The board approved his motion and will hold an executive session after the public

Community Board 9 member Sam Esposito may be expelled by the board next month. PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER

hearings at the November meeting. Earlier in the evening, Esposito and Cocovillo butted heads for the second meeting in a row on board procedure. Last month, Esposito sought to introduce discussion on Carey’s probationary status. This month, he sought to open discussion on issues Cocovillo ruled were unrelated to the topics on the agenda. Both cases ended with shouting matches between Esposito and the board’s chairman. Esposito said the board has not been this divided since it fought over a planned con-

version of 87th Street in Woodhaven from two ways to one way in 2000. That debate, which lasted almost three years, caused a rift on the board. Supporters say the street, which is narrow, was accident prone, while opponents argued it would affect the FDNY, who have an engine house on the block. The supporters won, but the debate got personal, according to a former board member. Esposito expressed certainty that the board would not remove him nor would they fire Carey, suggesting the support for ousting both him and Carey came from only a dozen board members. “She’s going to stay district manager. She is going to retire on her own terms.” Esposito said. “You can take it to the bank.” Recently, regular arguments and debates that get carried away at monthly meetings have become staples of the board itself. Some board members expressed frustration at the constant bickering that goes on during meetings. “It’s becoming a free for all at every meeting,” said one CB 9 member who did not want to be identified. “It really makes us look completely dysfunctional.” Sylvia Hack, chairwoman of the board’s Land Use Committee, suggested the board should consider meeting earlier since meetQ ings tend to run so late.

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Addabbo Family Health Center still not open Issues with city leave Ozone Park clinic shut one year after ribbon cut by Domenick Rafter Editor

The Ozone Park facility of the Joseph P. Addabbo Family Health Center remains closed nearly a year after its ribbon cutting due PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER to issues with the city. dards are unbelievable,” he explained. “We’re not used to this.” Normally, the center builds its own facility or takes over an existing one, as it did with Mary Immaculate’s St. Dominic’s center in Jamaica and Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn. But Fliegal said the group was unable to find a location in Ozone Park to construct a new facility, so it decided to rent a storefront on Rockaway Boulevard. City Department of Buildings records show at least three violations issued at the site in the past four years, including the most recent one concerning sprinklers in the basement of the office. An open violation exists dealing with failure to file a 2011 boiler inspection. But Fleigal said they are all landlord issues, stemming from problems in adjacent storefronts. Currently, the owner is dealing with violations from a former restaurant several doors down.

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It was nearly 12 months ago — only two days before Hurricane Sandy — that the Joseph P. Addabbo Health Center cut the ribbon on its new Ozone Park health clinic at 105-34 Rockaway Blvd. At the time, the clinic — named for former Rep. Joe Addabbo, who represented southern Queens in Congress from 1961 until his death in 1986 — was prepping to open the Ozone Park location, its seventh, in December. The new location, which would join six others in Jamaica, Rockaway and Brooklyn, is to offer general medical care, dental, OB/GYN and pediatric services. The center also is planning to partner with Fidelis Care at the site to serve uninsured and underinsured patients. But nearly a year after the ribbon was cut on the center, it still remains closed; the front doorway boarded up and the sign advertising its coming hanging haphazardly, clinging to hope that 10 months after it was due to start accepting patients, it will very soon. “The site has been done since December, and we have been struggling to get certificates of occupancy from the city,” said Robert Fliegel, interim executive director of the Addabbo Health Center System, which is expected to see 216,000 patients this year. The site is a mixed-use building with residential units above the main offices. Fliegal said the location is not typical for an Addabbo Center. “Because there are tenants 24 hours a day, the safety stan-

He said renting a storefront was an experience the center wouldn’t try again. Two of the center’s six clinics — it’s flagship location in the Rockaways and one in Red Hook, Brooklyn — were affected by Hurricane Sandy. “I think that’s slowed up the process unfortunately,” said state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach), the son of the center’s namesake. Fliegal said the Arverne office has reopened and is operating at capacity and the Red Hook facility is being completely rebuilt, and there have been issues with the city concerning that site too. Since the ribbon cutting, the Addabbo Center also fired its executive director, Dr. Peter Nelson, due to rifts between him and the board of directors. Fliegal was appointed to serve as the interim director. As a federally qualified health center, the Addabbo Center opens locations in areas that are underserved by healthcare facilities. Ozone Park, which is only served locally by one major hospital — Jamaica Hospital Medical Center — is one of those areas. Many southern Queens residents travel even farther — to Long Island Jewish or North Shore Hospital in Nassau County — for care. Fliegal said the issues at the Ozone Park facility have frustrated him because he sees the need for care in the neighborhood. “The healthcare world is burning outside my window and we want to get in there,” he said. Fliegal hopes to have the facility open in about four weeks. Q

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Rockaway line may be on MTA’s radar Abandoned right of way makes agency’s 20-year assessment plan by Domenick Rafter Editor

If you pay for it, they may just build it. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s 20-year Capital Assessment released last week includes a nod to the proposal for reactivating the Rockaway Beach Long Island Rail Road line. The line is only mentioned once in the 150-page plan as a right of way that could potentially be used for transit. Beyond that, there are no specif ics about any potential plan, which would reconstruct the rail route that begins at the LIRR’s Main Line in Rego Park and runs parallel to Woodhaven and Cross Bay boulevards through Forest Hills, Glendale, Wood haven, Ozone Park and Howard Beach to the Rockaways. The document only mentions neighborhoods along the line between the Rockaway Peninsula and Woodhaven and doesn’t make any reference to whether it would be a LIRR line or a subway route, or even go all the way to Rego Park. The line is mentioned in the assessment along with the freight-only Long Island Rail Road spur to Bay Ridge, which cuts through Central Brooklyn and comes into Queens at Ridgewood, then runs through Middle Village, Maspeth and Woodside before meeting the Northeast Corridor

Amtrak line in Astoria. There have been proposals by transportation advocates to utilize that right of way as an interborough subway line. In the assessment, the MTA says, “A possible option is the utilization of abandoned or underutilized rights of way such as the LIRR Bay Ridge Branch (linking southern and eastern Brooklyn with Central and northern Queens) or the abandoned Rockaway Beach Branch (linking Howard Beach and Ozone Park with Woodhaven) as transverse routes linking radial subway lines. Conversion of existing ROWs, where a solution to an identified travel need can be defined, could help reduce land acquisition and construction costs, and facilitate construction time in densely developed areas.” M TA s p oke s m a n A a ron D onova n acknowledged the agency’s inclusion of the right of way in its assessment plan, but said there are no immediate plans for exploring restoring train service. In March, the proposal got the support of two South Queens federal representatives, Reps. Greg Meeks (D-Jamaica) and Hakeem Jeffries (D-Brooklyn, Queens). The duo announced they would pledge federal funds toward studying restoration of service. Reactivation of the rail line is one of two

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Dime-a-bag bill doesn’t look promising

e all know where roads that are paved with good intentions lead. At least all of us who are not members of the New York City Council do. Exhibit A on the list of well-intentioned bills the Council is considering is the one that would force retailers to charge 10 cents for every bag — paper or plastic, grocery, clothes or hardware — that customers use to take home their purchases. The goal of course is laudable: to reduce the use of those annoying plastic bags that too often end up sailing around our streets, getting caught up in tree branches, clogging sewers and remaining wherever they land forever if not picked up, because they’re hardly biodegradable. Paper bags are included in the proposal just so that people don’t switch to those instead. What the bill’s sponsors really want is for more people to utilize reusable bags. That’s something more and more shoppers are doing anyway, and there’d be nothing wrong with the city going on an educational campaign to further encourage their use. But instead we’re getting a bill that will add to the high cost of living here even more, at a time when most people who don’t earn a City Council salary of $112,500 are still struggling. And how on Earth would the measure be enforced if it’s enacted? Let’s say you’re getting rung up at the supermarket. Is the cashier

supposed to estimate how many bags you’ll need? If you’re shopping for a family for a week or two, you might need 15 or 20 bags, easily. How can the worker tell which it will be? Is he or she not supposed to ring up the next customer until all your purchases are packed up? That would just be another case of the government thwarting efficiencies the private sector created — in this case the nonstop action of busy supermarket checkout lines, where one customer gets rung up before the last one is even done bagging. And how would the bill address another modern efficiency, the self-checkout lane? Let’s say you pick up some tools at The Home Depot and ring them up yourself. You can do that because everything is bar-coded. Not so plastic bags. And what if one of those sharp tools puts a hole in the bag before you’ve left the store? If you go back and take another one, would that be stealing? Lastly, shop owners don’t want to add to their customers’ costs. They may figure out ways to pay the dime themselves, and if they don’t, they’ll just be driving more people toward online shopping. This bill is clearly well-intentioned and aimed at environmental problems worth addressing. But the devil’s in the details, and no one’s addressing those. If it moves forward, the Council must hold hearings and invite consumer and retail advocates to point out all the holes in it, and either repair them or take another approach.

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is not feasible or fair. I say this for it would be burdensome to our small business owners and costly to our shoppers. This is a lose-lose proposition, to fix a problem that can be solved by setting up recycling bins in supermarkets as “drop-off ” points for used plastic bags. In this way there would be no costs involved to the sellers or buyers. The bins can be maintained as any other part of store operations. Our consumers and our store owners don’t need another expense to cope with in this difficult economy. Maria A. Thomson Executive Director Greater Woodhaven Development Corporation Woodhaven Business Improvement District Woodhaven

Help the depressed Dear Editor: It was sad to read about the Connecticut dental hygienist Miriam Carey, who was killed by police trying to ram her car into a White House barrier with her 1-year-old girl in the car. She reportedly had suffered from depression for many years. There are thousands of men and women nationwide who suf-

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he City Council on Wednesday approved a redevelopment plan for Willets Point. Too bad it’s not the one presented back in 2008. Instead of affordable housing, we’re getting another mall, with the possibility of apartments more than a decade down the road. And the developers probably will never build them at all, since they can skip that part of the project by paying a $35 million fine, which is quite affordable in their league. The public lost out when the city pulled its bait and switch by moving part of the project onto public land by Citi Field and dropping the housing requirement. Let’s at least hold the developers’ feet to the fire on the housing and hope that part actually gets built one day. Hope is all we can do.

fer from this insidious mental disease. It must be addressed and studied more for all concerned. My wife is one of those who has suffered for many years from this disease. And at one point she had severe suicidal thoughts. Yet through medication and treatment her condition has become manageable. But there are many who are not being treated or whose practitioners do not follow up with their patients, and in some cases drop patients whose condition they deem to be too severe. This I find quite troubling. More must be done for those who suffer from mental depression and can cause harm to themselves and to others, or more will surely die. Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Glen Oaks Village

Dock their pay too Dear Editor: If federal civil servants are now furloughed, so too should be White House employees, members of Congress and their staff. Everyone should have been allowed to use yearly earned annual leave against any payless furlough days. Remember they have

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Obama’s damage Dear Editor: Re Anthony Pilla’s “Passing Medicare Part D,” Letters, Oct. 3: Anthony Pilla took issue with me on my comment that Obama’s MO was to bypass

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Congress, bunch a lot of bills together and on Friday nights and holidays ram them through before anyone even reads them (Obamacare is now 2,800-plus pages long and nobody’s read it all, but who’s counting?). He was good enough to point out that Bush’s Medicare Part D prescription drug bill was passed the same way ... between 3 and 7 in the morning. A modus operandi is the way a person operates, and for Bush it was unusual. For Obama, it’s been the way he operates since he beca me presid e nt . It’s h is ONLINE M O. P u s h i n g Miss an article or letter l aw s t h r o u g h cited by a writer? Want against the will news from our other of the people is editions covering the rest t y r a n n y, a n d of Queens? Find past because it is a r epor t s, new s f r om policy somebody across the borough and happens to more at qchron.com. b e l i e ve i n i t doesn’t make it right. By the time Bush left office, he was despised by Democrats and conservatives alike. (Can Mr. Pilla and I be on the same side here?) Bush’s high-handedness was also unappreciated. Obama became president running against Bush and things his supporters seem to have forgotten ... his promises of a transparent government and shovel-ready jobs. Both promises were repeated endlessly because he knew that was what the people wanted to hear. And every time he makes another promise, his supporters forget about the ones he made before. The U.S. used to be a country governed by the rule of law. We’re destroying that. Many times Obama has overridden the law for what he thinks is right, but where you have no law, you have anarchy. Anarchy benefits no one. And there’s not one dictatorship that didn’t start out with a messiah promising hordes of people things they wouldn’t be able to get by their own efforts. Socialism doesn’t move money from the rich to the poor. Socialism moves money from all the people to those in power. When you control a people’s health, you control their lives. There will be no benefits, Medicare or otherwise, for the people in Obamacare, and they will never be free again. We are living in a country that was the greatest in the world. We still have freedoms other people only dream about, which once gone will never return. Nobody starves here; the problem here is obesity. The secret of happiness is to be satisfied with what you have and not to envy those who have what you can’t. I’d like to have Barbra Streisand’s voice, but I don’t. Why would I deprive her of it? Janice Wijnen Rego Park

already gone three years without any salary increase. Payless furlough days are essentially a salary cut. Both the president and Congress should have worked together over the past year. They should have put our fiscal house in order to end future threats of both sequestering and furloughs. They should have returned to the time when Congress held budget hearings for each department during the summer instead of taking a five-week vacation. They should have developed a budget agency by agency to be adopted during an open process. Members of Congress, federal employees, the public, watchdog groups and media should have been afforded sufficient time to understand the full contents prior to adoption. Our fiscal year 2014 full federal budget should have been adopted on time prior to the start of the new federal fiscal year on Oct. 1. Hardworking civil servants pay taxes just like everyone else. The White House and Congress should be held accountable for their actions or in this case inactions, just as employees are at end of the year in personnel evaluations. The president, members of Congress and their respective employees should be docked one full day’s pay for each day the FY 2014 budget is not adopted. They need to perform this most basic requirement of their jobs, which is passing a budget on time, just like federal civil servants do on a daily basis. Larry Penner Great Neck, LI

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Community boards OK rezoning plan New zones cover hundreds of blocks in Ozone Park, South Richmond Hill by Domenick Rafter

There were few issues with the rezoning on CB 10 except for one resident, Carl Perrera, who owns a home on Centreville Street, The two community boards that cover expressing concern the rezoning, coupled with South Queens gave their stamp of approval the planned widening of the street as part of to the planned rezoning of Ozone Park and the Albert Road sewer project, would hinder parts of South Ozone Park, South Richmond his ability to conduct renovations he wished to Hill and Woodhaven, the first in more than do on his property after the sewer project is half a century. done. Community Board 10, which the vast “It would cause me great economic hardmajority of the rezoning includes, unaniship to have my block rezoned,” he explained. mously approved the plan last Thursday “It would become unfeasible for me to build a while Community Board 9, which includes decent-sized two-family house.” all of South Queens north of 103rd Avenue, Michael Casillo, owner of SOS Auto voted in favor of the rezoning on Tuesday Body Shop on 98th Street in Ozone Park, night. said the zoning was good for his business A total of 530 blocks bordered roughly by because he would be able to expand the Brooklyn border to the west, the Belt operations. Parkway to the south, Lefferts Boulevard to “We would have more workspace and be the east and Atlantic and 103rd avenues to able to move our office onto the roof of the the north are part of the rezoning. The zonbuilding,” he said. ing area also includes one block on either At CB 9, the only concern that came up is side of Liberty Avenue all the way to the Van street parking. Wyck. It is the second largest — and last — Sandra Datnarain, a member from Ozone rezoning of the Bloomberg administration. Park, said she was concerned increased denThe acclamations from the community boards came after short debates by both. City Planner Tom Smith presents the Ozone Park rezoning plan to Community Board 9 on Tues- sity along 101st and Liberty avenues would lead to bigger parking troubles, already a big Board members saw the plans last month and day night in Richmond Hill as District Manager Mary Ann Carey follows along. earlier drafts last spring. PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER issue in the neighborhood. “Does this plan also provide for parking?” The new zoning aims to protect the she asked City Planner Tom Smith. detached and semi-detached one- and two-family homes in ten stories. Smith said it would be the homeowner’s responsibility to the neighborhood as well as the few blocks of row houses CB 10 Chairwoman Betty Braton called on each civic that exist in the community. It includes the subcommunities leader affected by the rezoning to give their approval to the provide the necessary parking according to the regulations. The boards’ approval was met with praise from Councilof Wakefield and Locust Grove in South Ozone Park and man Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) who made the rezoning of Centreville, Tudor Village and Liberty Heights in Ozone the neighborhood a top priority during his term in office. Park. hat you have done tonight will “What you’ve done tonight will impact and benefit the resiA second goal of the rezoning plan is to upzone the comdents and businesses of Ozone Park for the next 50 years,” mercial strips on 101st Avenue from the Brooklyn border to impact and benefit the residents Ulrich said at last week’s CB 10 meeting after the board’s the Van Wyck Expressway and most of Liberty Avenue affirmative vote. “You will see five or 10 years from now along that same length to allow for bigger apartment buildand businesses of Ozone Park for good, responsible development in this community and you ings and more commercial properties. A similar upzoning is the next 50 years .” will be able to prevent the type of development we don’t want to be don as part of the rezoning along Cross Bay Boulevard in the future.” between Liberty Avenue and the Belt Parkway and Rocka— Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) to CB 10 after With the community boards’ approval, the rezoning plan way Boulevard between the Brooklyn border and Cross Bay their affirmative vote. now goes to the Queens Borough Board, which is expected to Boulevard and again between 109th Avenue and Lefferts vote on the plan on Oct. 21, then back to the City’s Planning Boulevard to allow for more commercial development along that stretch. A small area of Lefferts Boulevard between plans at last Thursday’s meeting. The Department of City Commission and the City Council for the final votes. It is expected to be finalized by the end of the year. Rockaway Boulevard and 111th Avenue was also rezoned for Planning had been working with the various civic leaders for three years on the rezoning and the plan has been The Ozone Park rezoning comes just a little more than a potential commercial development. A small section around the Lefferts Boulevard/Liberty tweaked several times. Students from Ozone Park’s High year after the rezoning of Richmond Hill and Woodhaven Avenue intersection would be downzoned because original School for Construction Trades, Engineering and Architec- was completed. The City Council approved that plan in Q zoning regulations would have allowed buildings as high as ture served as interns, assisting the DCP during the process. July 2012. Editor

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Queens-bound traffic altered for repairs by Jaleesa Baulkman Chronicle Contributor

The Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge lanes will be partially closed to facilitate repairs on the structure this weekend. The city Department of Transportation will be installing two 26-foot-long, 1.5-ton custom steel replacement beams following the Aug. 16 truck fire that damaged the bridge, requiring partial closure of lanes in both directions for the duration of the project from midnight Saturday, Oct. 12 to 5 a.m. Monday, Oct. 14. Three Queens-bound and two Manhat-

DOT replacing beams from August fire tan-bound lanes will be maintained while the beams damaged in the f ire are replaced. A 40-foot tractor trailer, carrying wooden, plastic and metal clothes hangers, burst into flames on the outbound lower level of the bridge around 11 a.m on Aug. 16. The fire was extinguished about an hour later, police said. According to the DOT, the truck fire produced temperatures hot enough to melt

steel, warping the beams. While all but one lane reopened in less than 48 hours, work continued to produce the steel beams and associated damaged parts in DOT’s Iron Shop in Brooklyn. According to the agency, two upper and two lower Queens-bound lanes will remain closed for the duration of the project as the replacement beams are installed. To facilitate Queens-bound traffic, the two Manhattan-bound lanes on the span’s lower

level will be temporarily reversed to Queens. The single lane of the south outer roadway will be available for Queens-bound traffic. The temporar y traff ic patter n will include posted and electronic message signs along streets and highways as well as NYPD traffic agents stationed at the span’s approaches to guide traffic. For more information about the temporary closure or for more information about the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge, visit nyc. Q gov/dot.

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CB 9 gives nod to City Line plazas Proposed malls will be on Drew Street, 101st Avenue by Domenick Rafter Editor

Community Board 9 approved a proposed pedestrian plaza in City Line on Tuesday night. The malls are planned for the south side of 101st Avenue between Drew and 78th streets and the small section of Drew Street between 101st and Liberty avenues. The city Department of Transportation presented its plans for the pedestrian malls at last month’s meeting, but the board tabled a vote on the project until October and asked the DOT to provide evidence of support from 101st Avenue merchants and Drew Street residents. The plazas were proposed by the Bangladeshi-American Community Development and Youth Service, an organization representing the Bangladeshi community in City Line. Proponents of the plazas say it would be a gathering place for neighborhood residents and would beautify the community that had in the past been plagued by high crime and urban blight. The DOT came to Tuesday’s meeting with letters of support from a handful of businesses near the proposed plazas and from residents on Drew Street. The plazas also have the support of

Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park). “I support this,” Ulrich told CB 9 at its meeting in Richmond Hill Tuesday night. “I think this is going to have a very positive impact on the community.” He praised BACDYS for taking the initiative to approach the city about the plazas. “It shows they are seeking to be positive and productive members of the community,” he said, “and that’s a good thing.” Bill Brzozowski, a resident of Ozone Park, said he was opposed to the plazas and felt there was not enough notice that the malls were being planned. “Myself and many of my neighbors only found out about this recently through newspaper articles,” he explained to the board. Brzozowski suggested that the city and BACDYS should focus on fixing up a park at Elderts Lane on the Brooklyn side of the border just two blocks from the site of the proposed plazas, including refurbishing a World War II memorial there. Darma Diaz, president of BACDYS, said later in the meeting that her group is dedicated to fixing up the Elderts Lane space and restoring the memorial and would hold an “It’s My Park Day” event on

Oct. 19 there where volunteers will rake leaves and clear the lawn area. The leadership of CB 9, meanwhile, appeared to be convinced the plazas were a plus for the community. “I’m totally for it,” said Jim Cococillo. “I think the board can see the positives it would have for the area. It would make the board area a better place.” Andrea Crawford, CB 9’s transportation committee chairwoman, said the plazas would bring a positive presence to City Line. “We’re very excited they’ve crossed over to Queens to propose this,” she said. DOT representative Emily Weidenhof, said the plazas are built to be temporary and could be removed if it proves to be a problem. Cocovillo added that the board’s primary concern, safety, was eased when earlier in the meeting, Deputy Inspector Hank Sautner, commanding officer of the 102nd Precinct, said his command wouldn’t be affected by the plazas. “I don’t see anything there that would drain our resources,” Sautner said earlier. Weidenhof said the plazas would be built starting next week and could be comQ pleted by the end of the month.

Excavation at Endzone done Endzone Industries has completed phase one of the cleanup project at the former Ozone Industries site in Ozone Park. The stage included the removal and off-site disposal of impacted soil with the completion of an on-site air-monitoring program under the direct supervision of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. It began in May. “We have reached a significant milestone in this project by completing the excavation process,” said Ted Coyle of Endzone Industries. Endzone financed the removal of soil contaminated with trichloroethylene, or TCE, a substance linked to some forms of cancer and problems of the central nervous system, from 8 bays below the for mer Rockaway LIR R viaduct between 99th and 100th streets and 101st and 103rd avenues. The bays were used to store aircraft parts. The next phase includes installation of a subsurface remediation system, reconstructing the interior of the bays, including the installation of the DEC-approved soil ventilation system with air controls. Q That work begins this month. — Domenick Rafter

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The lights are still out in Forest Park Dark conditions lead to concerns after two sex attacks this year by Domenick Rafter

took note of signs that showed it was not a had been on during the day and off at night, new issue. which is the problem along Freedom Drive “I saw someone jogging with a flashlight and the section of Myrtle Avenue to the and I thought ‘this is not new, people are west. coming prepared for this,’” he said. “I’ve reached out to 311, elected officials Lighting in Forest Park has been a con- and the police,” Wendell said. “It seems to cern for Wendell and other civic leaders all be a timing problem.” summer, especially after a woman was He couldn’t tell if the street lights were on raped on Aug. 26 very close to where Wen- along Forest Park Drive, the road that transdell filmed — the second attack on a woman verses the park from east to west which is in the park this year. Along the same stretch closed to traffic between Woodhaven Bouleof Myrtle Avenue where Wendell saw the vard and Myrtle Avenue and used by bicylights out last Saturclists and pedestrians. day, his car was broIn 2008, a signifiken i nto over the cant portion of the f all the things the city summer. stretch between Methas to take care of, The problem was ropolitan Avenue and worse earlier in the Freedom Drive was keeping the lights on sum mer and has dark at night for sevbeen fixed somewhat eral months, leading should be the simplest a f t e r a s e n s e of to rampant drug use urgency in the wake and sex in that area thing.” of the August rape, of t he pa rk . T he — Ed Wendell, president of the e ve n t h o u g h t h e lights were fixed by Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association attack happened durthe end of the sumi ng t he d ay. T he mer that year, both lights are back on along Myrtle Avenue along Forest Park Drive and along some between Freedom Drive and Park Lane trails connecting Forest Park Drive to Park South, where they had been out for months. Lane South. Issues with lighting west of Woodhaven The city Department of Transportation Boulevard near the carousel and the Seuffert did not respond to requests for comment. Bandshell have been fixed. Previously, they Wendell was baffled at the city’s tepid

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Last weekend, Ed Wendell, president of the Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association, and his wife went to Forest Park for one of their daily early morning walks. But as the days grow shorter, their walks have featured less and less daylight. Now, when they get to the park before dawn, the sun has not yet risen. Typically that wouldn’t be a problem, since the park is equipped with ample street lighting — unless they don’t work, which is the case in one part of the park. Wendell filmed himself driving along Myrtle Avenue and Freedom Drive before dawn on Saturday and the resulting video looked more like a spooky rural road in Upstate New York than a major Queens thoroughfare. The streetlights along Myrtle Avenue between Woodhaven Boulevard and Freedom Drive were out, as was every streetlight along Freedom Drive, which cuts a winding route through the deep, wooded park between Myrtle Avenue and Park Lane South. To reinforce his point about the darkness, Wendell posted the video online over the audio to the trailer of the sci-fi movie ‘Gravity,” featuring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney stranded in space. Wendell said while he was filming, he

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Wanted! The NYPD is seeking the public’s assistance in locating the suspect wanted in an Ozone Park bank robbery. On Sept. 14 at 11:20 a.m., the suspect entered the Valley National Bank at 107-01 Liberty Ave. and passed a note demanding money. No weapon was displayed. He fled on foot, heading west on Liberty Avenue with an undetermined amount of cash. The suspect is described as a black man, 6 feet, 2 inches tall and weighing 190 pounds with short hair. He was wearing a dark blue Yankees baseball cap, a blue T-shirt, blue jeans and black sneakers. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1 (800) 577-TIPS (8477). The public can also submit tips by logging onto nypdcrimestoppers.com, or by texting 274637 (CRIMES), then entering TIP577. All tips are strictly confidential.

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The Petco store at 157-20 Cross Bay Blvd. in Howard Beach sustained minor damage due to a small smoky fire that occurred overnight between last Thursday and Friday. The damage was isolated to one part of the store and there were no injuries to any employees, said a Petco spokesperson. One guinea pig was lost and two fish tanks collapsed in the fire, but all other store animals were safely evacuated, checked by the store veterinarian and were cer tif ied as healthy, according to the spokesperson. The FDNY said an electrical incident caused the smoke condition inside the store. T h e s t or e i s cu r r e nt ly closed but expected to re-open within a few weeks according The entrance to the Petco store on Cross Bay Boulevard to Petco. PHOTO BY CHERYL GEFFON The store suffered extensive the day after the fire.

3-year-old dies of injuries A 3-year-old Flushing girl died after being hit by an SUV late Sunday afternoon at the intersection of Main Street and Cherry Avenue. Police report that Allison Liao, who lived on 77th Road, was fatally struck at 5:30 p.m. while crossing the street eastbound on Cherry Street with her grandmother. Eyewitnesses say the child darted out, breaking free of her grandmother. Rick Hall, 34, an Army veteran who was shopping nearby, tried to revive Allison with CPR, according to published reports, but she was unconscious and unresponsive with severe body trauma. The child was transported to nearby New York Hospital Queens, where she was pronounced dead on arrival. The driver of the 2000 black Nissan Murano was making a left turn with a green light onto Main Street when he hit her. The driver remained on the scene and was given a Breathalyzer test. No criminal charges were filed, but the investigation is ongoing. Published reports say the grandmother was inconsolable and that the driver of the SUV was extremely upset Q and crying.

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Boys & Girls Club fundraises Center needs more money to finish its expansion by Domenick Rafter Editor

As work continues on the 35,000-square-foot expansion of the Boys & Girls Club of Metro Queens, the organization is engaging in fundraising to ensure it has the finances to complete the new wing and furnish it. The center is still $600,000 short of the funds it needs to complete the $10 million expansion, even as the steel frame of the new wing rises next to the Boys and Girls Club building at 110-04 Atlantic Avenue. Nancy Dicroce, a member of the Jamaica Hospit al A mbulator y Care Center Board of Directors, is helping with the fundraising and has reached out to doctors at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center and merchants along Liberty Avenue. Letters from Dicroce and Carol Simon, the executive director of the Boys & Girls Club of Metro Queens, went out to the doctors and merchants on Sept. 13. The Boys & Girls Club of Metro Queens serves youths in South Queens, Jamaica, Glendale and even parts of Brooklyn close to the Queens border. Many of the kids who take part in club activities are from poor families and single-parent households. More than 1,200 children are served by the center, which offers free after

The new expansion at the Boys & Girls Club of Metro Queens rises on Atlantic Avenue in Richmond Hill. The project is expected to be completed this winter, but the organization is still $600,000 short of its financial goals. FILE PHOTO

school homework, tutoring and job-training services, as well as athletic programs and fine arts. “This is a great resource for the community,” Dicroce said. “I really feel that the children are the future and we need to

make sure they have all the tools they need to succeed.” She added that she hoped each doctor at Jamaica Hospital would pitch in. “If each doctor gave me $30, that would raise $12,000,” she noted. The organization is offering to have plaques placed in the new building dedicated to donors who give $1,000 and bricks for those donating at least $100. Also, donors who give $5,000 for more will have naming rights to a new room in the center. The club has received $250,000 from the New York Mets and $50,000 from JC Pen ney, but that isn’t included in the $600,000 it needs. The expansion, due to be completed in February, 2014, will have a full-size gymnasium, a learning center, a preteen center, teen cafe, a fitness room, a technology center and an outdoor play area. New executive offices will also be housed in the new structure. Ground broke on the structure in 2011. Prospective donors may contact Simon at (718) 441-6058. Dicroce also praised Simon for her leadership through the expansion. “She has done real great work there and Q continues to,” she said.

Doing laps for Sandy relief A world-famous swimmer is putting her arms in action to raise money for Hur ricane Sandy victims this week. Diana Nyad, who made news when she completed a roughly 100-mile swim from Cuba to Key West, Fla. on Aug. 31, jumped into a 40-yard pool Tuesday mor ning in Herald Square. She is expected to continue s w i m m i n g l a p s u nt i l T hu r s d ay morning. During her swim, people are able to contribute to Sandy relief on the web at NYADSwimforRelief.com. Nyad, a native New Yorker, was to be joined by fellow swimmer and Olympic gold medalist Ryan Lochte, fitness celebrity Richard Simmons and a dog named Roscoe, who survived Sandy’s floodwaters by swimming to his own rescue. “I finished the Cuba swim exactly five weeks ago today,” Nyad told the Hu f f i ng t on Post Mond ay. “Ju st enough time to recuperate, gain all my strength back. I’m feeling strong, motivated, and ready to step up for my fellow New Yorkers and New Jersey Q cousins who still need us.”

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The owners of the landmarked Richmond Hill Republican Club presented their plans for the century-old building to Community Board 9 Tuesday night, and the board is now tasked with deciding if a desired renovation of the landmark structure is worth approving a license many community boards loathe to support. The owners, a group called Siberian Ice, want to use the building at 86-15 Lefferts Blvd., between Jamaica and Hillside avenues, as a catering hall, but they also plan to put another facility in the basement of the structure that will require them to get a cabaret license. Some community boards opt to never give out cabaret licenses and most, including CB 9, require more extensive information than usual in order to approve one. Siberian Ice is seeking a change in usage according to section 74-711 of the city’s zoning regulations, which would allow them to restore the building to close to what it was, while using it as a catering hall. “One of the uses they are proposing for this building is not permitted for this zoning district,” said Sylvia Hack, chairwoman of CB 9’s land use committee. “So they

will need to come back and get a special license from the city to allow a cabaret in the basement.” Hack said CB 9 favors a “better” rather than a “mediocre” restoration of the building, which has been vacant for two decades, and that may require the board to approve the cabaret license at a later date.

“They are not prepared to do this higher restoration unless they do get approval for the cabaret license.” — Sylvia Hack, CB 9 Land Use Committee Chairman

While Siberian Ice is not required to apply for a 74-711, it is willing to, but only if the cabaret license is approved. Because only the façade of the building is landmarked, Siberian Ice is only required to maintain the front and not the entire building. “They are not prepared to do this higher

restoration unless they do get approval for the cabaret license,” Hack added. CB 9 Chairman Jim Cocovillo said the cabaret license issue puts the board in a bind because, while most members want the building to have the best restoration possible, many may have reservations about a dancing license. “It’s a Catch-22 because they said one had nothing to do with the other,” said Jim Cocovillo, alluding to the board’s conundrum of having to approve a cabaret license in order to get a desired restoration. Nevertheless, the board voted with only two members opposed to support the “best” restoration of the club building, though that doesn’t necessarily mean the cabaret license will be approved. Board members also expressed a number of concerns about the plans, including parking concerns. Siberian Ice has been working for nearly seven years to refurbish the building, which had the façade landmarked in 2002. The building used to house the neighborhood Republican Party and featured speakers including several former presidents from Theodore Roosevelt to Q Ronald Reagan.

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Bump OK’d for 114th Street Community Board 9 unanimously approved a speed bump for a busy Richmond Hill street near the neighborhood’s high school Tuesday night. The Rev. Jonnel Doris and his wife, Aisha, pastors at Full Gospel Assembly Church on 114th Street, had proposed the bump to be placed on the block between 89th and Atlantic avenues. In a letter to the city Department of Transportation, the Rev. Doris said the traffic on the street poses a danger to teenagers coming to and from Richmond Hill High School, located directly across 114th Street from the church. “They felt it to be a very dangerous situation,” said Andrea Crawford, CB 9’s transportation committee chairwoman, at Tuesday’s CB 9 meeting. Sixteen residents of the block signed a letter in favor of the bump and the DOT said the street does meet the requirements for one. The board heard no objections to the bump from attendees and took a quick vote in favor of it. Q Installation is pending. — Domenick Rafter

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QUICK De Blasio holds a massive lead over Lhota in new poll Public Advocate Bill de Blasio’s pending landslide victory is picking up speed in the mayoral race and threatens to bury Republican Joseph Lhota 71 to 21 percent among likely voters, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Oct. 3. Independence Party candidate Adolfo Carrion had 2 percent. There was a small gender gap and a larger racial gap: White voters support de Blasio 55 to 40 percent while black voters back the Democrat 90 to 6 percent, with Hispanic support at 79 to 10 percent, the poll found. By a 69 to 19 percent margin, New York City voters had a favorable opinion of de Blasio. Lhota had a negative 26 to 36 percent favorability, with 33 percent who hadn’t heard enough about him to form an opinion. For Carrion, 73 percent didn’t have an opinion. “These numbers say Public Advocate Bill de Blasio’s kids can start arguing over who gets the best bedroom in Gracie Mansion,” said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. “The flurry of negative headlines about name changes, the Sandanista visit, the Cuban honeymoon don’t seem to have any effect.” Carroll added, “It’s a new city demographically and de Blasio captures it. His primaryelection coalition, with huge support among black and Hispanic voters, holds in this poll taken after primary-day opinions had time to settle in.” Q Election Day is Nov. 5.

State lets trains in Queens stink: civics Queens civic leaders say they’ve discovered why “trash trains” running through the borough still reek all the time despite official assurances that odors are unusual. The reason is the relaxation of a state rule that resulted in “putrescible” garbage — trash subject to organic decay — being mixed in with construction and demolition debris, according to Mary

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Qns. people arrested in immigration protest A member of Congress who represents parts of Western Queens and a civic activist based here were among the roughly 200 people arrested for civil disobedience at a rally held Tuesday in front of the U.S. Capitol to demand that illegal immigrants be given a chance to stay in the country legally. Rep. Joe Crowley (D-Bronx, Queens) and Jorim Rhee, an activist with the Flushing-based MinKwon Center for Community Action, were arrested during the rally, along with several other members of Congress from elsewhere in the country and three other protesters from New York. The four New York activists are all members of the New York Immigration Coalition. They say the Republican House leadership is blocking immigration reform that would enable undocumented people to live in the United States legally and openly. “They are lagging; they are not voting on an immigration bill,” the NYIC quoted Rhee as saying. “They are watching millions and tens of millions of undocumented people, their families, and family members waiting to be togethQ er again suffer.”

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Numerous questions surround the City Council proposal to levy a 10-cent fee on each plastic or paper bag shoppers use to take food and other retail purchases home. Designed to reduce plastic bag use to protect the environment, the bill was introduced by Councilman Brad Lander (D-Brooklyn) and is co-sponsored by several Council members. It is before the Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management. Lander and the bill’s backers say it will enhance the environmental conditions of New York and save consumers and the city money. “It can be easy to forget the impact we each have on the environment — an impact that really adds up when you have a city of eight million people,” Lander said. “The truth is: There are a lot of times that we don’t really need a plastic bag. This common-sense legislation will help New York cut plastic bag waste, both saving money and reducing litter, without affecting small businesses.” But how the measure would be enforced is an open question, and it contains numerous exemptions: for restaurants, street vendors that sell food similar to the items at stores covered by the fee, meat and produce products and individuals who make purchases via food stamps. According to Lander, the exemptions for “in-store” bags that hold produce, meat and bulk food are there to protect food from contamination. That was a point supported by Councilwoman Gale Brewer (D-Manhattan), a co-sponsor. “When you wrap up chicken or meat or something, it’s a small little bag and I think they don’t want it to leak into the bag that you might bring from home,” Brewer said. The councilwoman also defended some of the bill’s other exemptions, saying that it will exempt restaurants and take-out food due to the limited alternatives available.

But unanswered are questions about the measure’s implementation, when people can use self-checkout lanes at stores and may take extra bags after ringing up their purchases. Brewer said enforcement may vary from store to store, particularly between big stores and small ones, and that she was not sure if the enforcement would be adequate. Enforcement concerns are among the reasons for opposition to the bill by Brad Gertsman of the New York Association of Grocery Stores. “If there is no way of enforcing it, that means some supermarkets will do it and some supermarkets will not do it,” said Gertsman. Gertsman said that will lead to issues involving store-to-store competition, with greater sales for the stores that have lax or nonexistent enforcement of rule. But his greatest concern about the bill is the cost to consumers. “First of all, we don’t believe in taxing our customers,” he said about the group’s philosophy, adding that consumers should not have to deal with extra costs in an anemic economy. “Groceries are expensive enough,” said Gertsman. City residents “need to spend very carefully and by doing so they don’t need to have extra taxes on money they spend on the grocery store for essentials.” Regarding people wanting extra bags after they’ve been rung up and the cashier has moved on to the next customer, Brewer had no specific answer but stated the research done on the bill shows that it will not metastasize into a major issue. “I don’t think it has been a big problem in other cities,” she said. Supporters of the bill insist it will save people money. “I want people to realize, in the long run, it’s a cost saving,” said Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley (D-Middle Village), a cosponsor. “Many of these bags get into our storm drains, and cause flooding or problems within our sewer system,” and it costs money continued on page 40

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Frustration grows as government standoff enters second week by Christopher Barca Reporter

The lengthy government shutdown isn’t just wreaking havoc in the halls of Congress; it is also the root cause of much angst and confusion among citizens across the country, including Queens. Unfortunately, borough residents of all ages already have begun feeling the impacts from the latest episode of Washington gridlock. While politicians battle on Capitol Hill as the shutdown enters its second week, many Queens residents have been left wondering how the federal chaos will affect them. Furloughed federal employees face uncertain short-term futures and lighter wallets, as a House bill to provide them with back pay has stalled in the Senate. National parks and museums are closed. The delivery of Hurricane Sandy relief funds could be delayed. The distribution of Social Security benefits will continue, but services like issuing new Social Security cards have ceased. “I just came in here to see if mailing a disability questionnaire late will affect my son’s benefits,” an 81-year-old Howard Beach woman said as she left the Rego Park Social Security office. “All the supervisor told me was that he doesn’t know, that he couldn’t help me.”

For some, that frustration has turned into anger. “It was a bad experience in there,” the woman added. “One man was so mad, he nearly punched the worker through the glass window.” It isn’t just the borough’s elderly and disabled who have come face to face with the shutdown; some Queens students are feeling the impacts as well. After a two-year legal battle, the Immaculate Conception School’s Aquinas Honor Society in Jamaica Estates was recently given permission to hang a plaque on the Joseph Addabbo Social Security building in Jamaica, honoring George Washington’s single night’s stay in the neighborhood in 1790. The plaque unveiling ceremony was to be held at the school on Oct. 8, but it has been postponed indefinitely because furloughed General Service Administration representatives could not be present to accept the plaque on behalf of the federal government. “It did not dawn on me that my students would be directly involved with the government shutdown,” Aquinas Honor Society moderator Carl Ballenas said. “When I announced to them that it was cancelled, there was real shock on their faces. The shutdown had affected them directly and they were stunned.”

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Columbus, New York and Italian Americans Explorer is a part of the culture, just like great food and a strong work ethic by Mark Lord Chronicle Contributor

Little could good ol’ Chris have known when he set out on that now-famous journey so many years ago that someday he’d have countries and cities, rivers and universities, at least one federal district and a national holiday named after him ... not to mention all the annual parades that commemorate his varied contributions to the world. Columbus was born in 1451, though the exact date remains in doubt, in what was then known as the Republic of Genoa, today part of northwestern Italy. He became a maritime explorer, navigator and colonizer and had an undeniable impact on the development of the modern western world. Each year as Columbus Day is celebrated — this year on Oct. 14 — the surge in Italian pride, as witnessed in the ref lections of some local residents, becomes palpable. Rosemary Ciulla-Frisone, founder and president of the Fiorello LaGuardia Lodge of the Sons of Italy in America, may have been obvious in explaining her admiration of Columbus when she said, “He discovered America,” but her feelings go much deeper. “When he came he worked hard and our ancestors did the same thing,” she said. “My family came from Sicily and did very well for themselves. Columbus Day is very special. America is the land of opportunity. He gave us the opportunity to come here.” A 32-year civil servant residing in Howard Beach, Ciulla-Frisone added, “I’m proud to be born here and still keep our culture. It is important to educate our children about our culture.” To keep the traditions alive, she said “We do Christmas and Easter; that’s very important to us. We do the baking of homemade pastries. All the families get together.” Such gatherings seem to be at the center of the lives of most Italians, along with food ... always food. For Bayside native Grace GuidottiMatranga and her family, the jarring of homemade tomato sauce was “a whole event.

Every August, we would go to the farm, order our tomatoes in advance. Some were left to can whole. Then you added fresh basil ... a little salt.” The finished product would be kept in the basement “for the rest of the year,” she said. “Oh, my God, it was so amazing ... so fresh and delicious.” Guidotti-Matranga said the tradition lasted until about five years ago, when the complexities of life began to interfere, but, she added, “My uncle still makes homemade mozzarella, wine and prosciutto.” According to Bayside resident Cathy Bandin Chimenti, who, along with her husband, Michael, founded the performance organization, Chimenti Productions, in 2005, “The food is what brings people together. Sunday dinner is special.” Typically, it consists of pasta accompanied by meatballs, followed by a main course, generally pork roast or a roast beef or chicken, with potatoes and vegetable. And then, in Italian tradition, comes the salad. A third-generation American, Bandin Chimenti said, “I guess if it were not for Columbus, we would think the world is flat. It took an Italian to be stupid enough to sail off the end of the Earth. He was so determined to prove his theory.” Fresh Meadows resident Joe Floria finds his penchant for good Italian food is somewhat in conflict with his career choice. As owner and head coach of CrossFit Great Neck, Floria admitted, “Owning a gym and eating healthy does get hard. My weakness is easily penne a la vodka.” But the 26-year-old remains proud of his heritage. “My grandfather fought in World War II and lived to tell his stories. They set the foundations for my family here in America.” Steve Morisi of South Ozone Park shares similar feelings. “I’m proud to know that my ancestors carved out their own way in America,” he said. His paternal grandparents were from northern Italy and arrived in America in the mid-1920s. “They came over by boat. Pretty much everyone lived from 30th to 40th

angelo to Ol’ Blue Eyes.” As for Columbus, he said, “It’s because of his courage that North America was found and made available to the rest of the world. Without his discovery, the world as we know it would not exist. The rise of democracy in the world may not have happened.” New Hyde Park resident Angela Del Vecchio Miraglia said her mother was born in Naples, her father in Abruzzi and “carrying on their traditions is important to me ... all of their teachings. Everything they brought from Italy we carry on here.” The parent coordinator at Robert F. Kennedy Community High School added, “I love hearing the stories. Mom came at five by ship. It reminded me of the Titanic ... the third-class accommodations.” Her own sons, now 15 and Christopher Columbus, in a posthumous 1519 portrait by 16, “can jar homemade sauce Sebastiano del Piombo. PHOTO COURTESY WIKIPEDIA better than I can,” she said, thanks to grandma’s teachings. As the city gears up for this year’s Streets and Third to Fourth avenues” in Columbus Day festivities, Joseph DeCandia Brooklyn, he said. “The men got work at the docks or in con- of Howard Beach recalled that for years his struction,” Morisi said. “I saw my family family’s landmark restaurant, Lenny’s helping each other. It was very important Clam Bar on Cross Bay Blvd., and the orgathat you stand by family. There was a work nization for which he serves as president, ethic that I saw. And there was also the opin- the International Society of SS Cosma and ion that you could better yourself if you Damiano, entered floats in the local parade. “The Italians have done a lot of good persevered.” “Many of my father’s relatives that came things for the country and for New York,” off the boat worked hard and were success- DeCandia said. Columbus would likely be pleased to see ful. My daughter has a challenging job and now my son is getting a master’s degree,” he himself these many years later immortalized on postage stamps, as well as in works of litadded. His son, Paul, 29, who serves as the coor- erature, on television and the musical stage, dinator of Adolescent and Young Adult Min- in motion pictures and cartoons and even in istry for the Diocese of Brooklyn, has picked video games. And as an explorer who spent his life pushing the frontier, he’d probably up on his father’s pride. “Italians have a great history of world take particular pleasure in knowing that one leaders,” the younger Morisi said. “Also, space rock, Asteroid 327 Columbia, was also Q there have been many artists ... from Michel- named in his honor.

Italian traditions still thrive across Queens by Domenick Rafter Editor

Peak immigration from Italy to the United States died down three-quarters of a century ago, but generations later their influence is still obvious in America, especially in southern Queens. Try buying fish from Brothers in Howard Beach in the days before Christmas Eve, when many Italian-Americans still practice the old-world tradition of serving seven fishes on the night Jesus was born. Attend a banquet at Russo’s on the Bay or Villa Russo in Richmond Hill, whose Il Palazzo banquet hall is a throwback to a town square in any rural village in Italy. Look around during the World Cup tournaments every

four years and see the green, white and red displayed in windows and on front stoops. Italian Americans are still a force in the borough, even many generations after their families arrived here, but protecting their cultures and traditions are still key. “Our strength is in numbers and we need to strengthen our culture,” said Rosemary Ciulla-Frisone, president of the Sons of Italy’s Fiorello LaGuardia Lodge #2867, which is made up of Italian Americans from South Queens. “The younger generations today, many of them really have no interest in joining organizations. It’s really hard to go out and try to get membership.” Ciulla-Frisone said culture comes first and foremost in

home and the community; in the food cooked in the kitchen, the music playing in the living room and the stores that line the neighborhood commercial strip. “Growing up in Ozone Park, there were always the Italian bakeries, restaurants and cafes,” she said. “Those were all the trademarks of the community.” And those trademarks can still be seen today along Cross Bay Boulevard and even on Liberty and 101st avenues, where changing demographics has not made the canoli or baked ziti extinct. “Pizza, pasta, they’re now as American as they are Italian,” noted Rosa Morabito, an Italian American who grew Q up in Ozone Park.

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Surfers are still plying the waves in the Rockaways nearly a year after Hurricane Sandy. But one of their favorite stores, the Breezy Point Surf Shop, is struggling to avoid a wipeout. Almost a year ago, Hurricane Sandy destroyed the store. Owner Donald Ritter watched the stor m wash away $80,000 worth of merchandise and his life savings. He did not have any flood insurance. Breezy Point had extensive st or m d a m age a nd endured a large f ire that destroyed more than 100 houses. The neighborhood is Donald Ritter, owner of the Breezy Point Surf Shop, stands outlocated on the tip of the side his temporary building. COURTESY PHOTO western end of the Rockaway Peninsula. Its location is one of the pri- mer president of the Breezy Point Co-op. mary reasons that the area is lagging in Although the percentage is high, the Federal Emergency Management Agency states that recovery. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a self-contained community. It was in most cases 43 percent of businesses built as a summer community and never impacted by a disaster do not reopen. Ritter said he experienced a 6 to 10 percent was prepared to deal with this type of devastation,â&#x20AC;? said John Lepore, president of the growth in sales each year from 2005 to 2010. Rockaway Chamber of Commerce. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That He had hoped to open up sooner. However, works against them when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to his lack of profitability in 2011 due to Hurricane Irene was the reason he was unable to bring in heavy equipment to fix the area.â&#x20AC;? The lack of preparedness for Hurricane qualify for any federal loans or grants. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There was a small business loan that I Sandy is part of the reason many small businesses in Breezy Point have yet to come back. inquired about, but I did not qualify. It was a Citywide, Hurricane Sandy affected near- $25,000 loan with a $10,000 grant which I ly 23,000 businesses, according to the city would have loved,â&#x20AC;? Ritter said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t profitable enough so I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get it.â&#x20AC;? Department of Small Business Services. There are numerous federal grant proThe storm knocked Ritter out of business for eight months. He reopened in a tempo- grams to help small businesses get back on rary trailer less than 100 yards from his track, according to Meredith Weber, a store. He said the storm ruined everything spokesperson for the city Department of Small Business Services. inside the shop. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We still have loan and grant money,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had paddle boards that were broken. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re $800 to $1,000 a piece,â&#x20AC;? Ritter said. Weber said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are occasions where â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had $6,800 wholesale of sunglasses that some small businesses just wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t qualify.â&#x20AC;? In order to reopen, Ritter had to take out were submerged â&#x20AC;Ś even water shoes got moldy right away. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re made for the a private bank loan. He said it costs about $48,000. That doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t include the $30,000 in ocean.â&#x20AC;? Ritterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s store is emblematic of the prob- purchased merchandise. His sales were down 90 percent in May lems occurring in Breezy Point. Walking around itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impossible not to see the empty and he projects they will be down 65 to 70 storefronts, smudges on the windows and percent for the entire summer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I do probably 70 percent of my business gutted floors of closed businesses. The Bay House and Sugar Bowl, both stain the summer,â&#x20AC;? Ritter said. There were 2,837 single-family homes ple bars in Breezy Point, also opened up this summer in temporary locations. Yet, the before Hurricane Sandy. Today, Greenberg vibe is not the same. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s much quieter than estimates that there are around 900. However, Ritter is getting a break. In the usual in Breezy. More than 20 percent of businesses in the past, he was given 30 days to pay back area are closed or have not made a full clothing manufacturers such as Oakley and continued on page 40 comeback, said Steven Greenberg, the for-

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Autumn may be upon us, but Howard Beach children are already preparing for the springtime. On Sunday, Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder joined with Girl Scouts Troop #4286 and Troop #4165 to beautify the entrance to the neighborhood by planting over a hundred daffodil bulbs at the welcome sign on Cross

Bay Boulevard and the Belt Parkway. The bulbs will bloom once the winter ends and add some floral aesthetics to the sign that welcomes people traveling south on Cross Bay Boulevard to Howard Beach. The event was organized by some of the Scouts’ parents. Starbucks also chipped in to provided free fertilizer for the bulbs.

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Council votes in favor of 5 Pointz complex Graffitied ‘living art’ exhibit will soon become residential complex with park by Tess McRae Associate Editor

The City Council unanimously voted in favor of a land-use variance to transform a warehouse adorned with aerosol art, known as 5 Pointz, into a mixed-use residential complex with artist studios, commercial businesses and a park on Wednesday. The final decision is no doubt a disappointment to the artists and art enthusiasts for the graffitied 5 Pointz building who gathered on Oct. 3, along with their opponents, in a drastically different setting from the spray-painted walls of the warehouse in Long Island City: the City Council chamber. “We are in the midst of a great and positive change in Long Island City and taking down these tired industrial buildings is helping to add to this transition,” developer David Wolkoff, whose family owns the building, said at the hearing. G & M Realty, which owns the property with the Wolkoff family, is confident that a new complex complete with 500 bike spaces, 1,100 residential units, art galleries and 12,000 square feet of designated walls where aerosol artists may continue to paint will be a win-win for everyone. Supporters of the graffiti and street art haven disagree. “I do not believe this special permit is more beneficial to the community than what is currently standing,” Rebecca Kennedy, one of doz-

The variance proposal that the owners of the empty warehouse known as 5 Pointz submitted was PHOTO BY TESS MCRAE approved to create a mixed-use complex. ens of speakers, said. “We all remember Sept. 11 at 5 Pointz. Each year they do a tribute and anyone who passes by is allowed to participate.” Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside), who represents the area and worked to create a proposal that would allow G & M Realty to develop without sacrificing the wants

and needs of the artists and his constituents, said the changes the Wolkoff family and G & M Realty made to their original proposal are a good compromise for the community. “There is a commitment to the arts in this building,” Van Bramer said before the council voted. “G & M Realty has agreed to increase the amount of artists studio and gallery space

to 12,000 square feet. “Furthermore, this space will be available to local artists at reasonable rents. G & M Realty has also agreed to offer Johnathan Cohen (Meres) from 5 Pointz the opportunity to curate the nearly 10,000 square feet of art panels and walls in the building. It was important for me to honor the history of the building over the last 20 years and to recognize what it had become to the graffiti and aerosol art world. There will be significant amenities to the community as well. The applicant will build a public park that is over 32,000 square feet that will create desperately needed green space.” But even with the jobs, green spaces and art galleries that the Wolkoff family promises will be included, 5 Pointz supporters say demolishing the crumbling building is disrespectful to the art, the artists and the hundreds of people who take in the painted walls each year. “Artists are very selfless, and at this point, bigger isn’t always better,” Marie Cecile Flango said. “I am very concerned that the soul of Long Island City is going to be lost and while we appreciate David and Jerry for trying to provide wall space on the new building, I’m afraid it will just remind people of what we lost.” Jerry Wolkoff firmly assured that while he respects the artists and all they have done, the building would come down regardless of what continued on page 38

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Official helps residents find work by Jaleesa Baulkman Chronicle Contributor

State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) will host a job fair at Glendale’s The Shops at Atlas Park on Oct. 18. More than 100 potential employers representing a variety of sectors are expected to participate in the event. Addabbo said he hosts a job fair at least once a year for the public because he believes a lot of people are willing to work, able to work but can’t find work. “I believe elected officials have a unique opportunity to help their constituents,” he said. “I wanted to try finding work for my people.” The workshops scheduled for the event include a 10:30 a.m discussion by Audrey Lewis titled “Elevator Speech/Selling Yourself at the Interview,” that will be followed by an 11:30 a.m. forum on “Effective Interview Strategies” hosted by Bruce Hurwitz and a 12:30 p.m. workshop titled “You Think You Know the ABCs, Think Again” by Judith Graham. “Job fairs offer a venue where people

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Apt. construction upsets residents They worry Forest Hills bldg. will strain area, as developer calls it â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;beautifulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; by Christopher Barca Reporter

The construction of a new apartment building in Forest Hills has some residents and local employees worried about how the project will impact life in the neighborhood both now and in the future. The 17-story Forest Hills 389, being built by Cord Meyer Development on Queens Boulevard between 71st Avenue and 71st Road, is expected to be completed next October. The development will house a CVS Pharmacy on the first floor, while the remaining floors will hold 102 residential units. Although the scheduled completion date may seem far away, a construction worker named Alex noted that the exterior of the building should be finished much sooner. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re up to the 13th floor right now and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be topped off at the 17th floor by the end of the month,â&#x20AC;? Alex said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The crane should be down by the end of the month as well.â&#x20AC;? Daisha Caristo, 19, of Corona works across the street from the site, and she believes that the disruptive nature of the project is an unwelcome addition to the neighborhood. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so obnoxious, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all talking about it,â&#x20AC;? Caristo said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;How many 17-story buildings are there in the middle of Forest Hills? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s noisy and impractical.â&#x20AC;? Fellow employee Joanne Dieudonne agrees with her colleague, remarking on what used to

The Forest Hills 389 building under construction on Queens Boulevard, as seen on Tuesday, is PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA; RENDERING COURTESY CORD MEYER due to open next October, inset. be a fulfilling view from her office. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I went to Queens College and I used to be able to see the school out of my window,â&#x20AC;? Dieudonne said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like the fact that it has ruined my view.â&#x20AC;? The inconvenience brought by the noise around the site is only temporary, according to Cord Meyerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Vice President of Operations and

Construction Peter Galletta. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have been very vigilant about keeping up with city noise regulations,â&#x20AC;? Galletta said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Within a week or two, the window wall of the building will be in place and that will lower the noise level significantly. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be a beautiful building when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s finished.â&#x20AC;? Other residents are concerned about how

the area will be able to handle the added burden on the infrastructure with so many new residents. Forest Hills resident and community activist Michael Perlman is worried about the strain that a new building would bring, among other issues. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The long-term condo frenzy concerns me greatly as a resident,â&#x20AC;? Perlman said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our sewers are not being upgraded and our schools are overcrowded as is, so condo development does not necessarily give back to the community.â&#x20AC;? Perlman also believes that the essence of the community may be threatened in time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m worried that the building will take away from the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s originality and that it wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t contribute to Forest Hillsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; sense of place,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want the character of the area to be compromised. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want Forest Hills to be talked about in the past tense one day.â&#x20AC;? Galletta believes that, while he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to see anybody unhappy, Cord Meyer has taken great care in making sure that the community is considered every step of the way. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We went through all of the community board hearings and were approved by the community board. We had to be approved by them before being approved by the city,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure there are disgruntled people and not everyone would be for this project, but we have a right to develop properties and we kept the community informed every step of the way.â&#x20AC;? Q

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continued from page 6 ways, but also the entire borough because it would connect southern Queens residents to transfer points in areas such as Astoria, Flushing and Bayside. “We’re very excited that the MTA would support any reactivating of the old line,” he said. “The quality of life in Queens would be so much better if you can get across the borough easier.” No trains have run along the Rockaway Beach corridor since 1962, but supporters of reactivation, mainly from southern Queens and the Rockaways, say it’s an opportunity to spur growth on the peninsula and in southern Queens. The old line had stations at Glendale, Woodhaven and Ozone Park. The right of way south of Rockaway Boulevard is now used by the A subway, but the old LIRR tracks still exist as far south as Howard Beach between the subway rails. Advocates for the QueensWay say the MTA’s mention of the line is not going to change the feasibility of the plan. “Let’s be honest about what the study actually said,” Andrea Crawford, an advocate of QueensWay and former chairwoman of Community Board 9, said. “It doesn’t say reactivation. It merely mentions that the right of way exists. We all acknowledge it exists. The question is what is its best use and its most feasible use.” Crawford also acknowledged the need

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for better transportation in southern Queens and suggested Rockaway could benefit better by fighting for permanent ferry service, better express service on the A line or select bus routes along Woodhaven Boulevard. Residents in Woodhaven, Forest Hills and Rego Park, whose homes abut the right of way, have made clear their opposition to either a park or rail reactivation. Neil Gianelli, a Woodhaven resident who heads a group called No Way QueensWay, is among those who oppose both plans. Gianelli lives on 98th Street, and his backyard abuts the old line. He has attended a number of Community Board 9 meetings to express his opposition to both a park and the rail restoration. Recently, Gianelli noted a 2003 study that claims property values of homes and businesses within 200 feet of a bike path in Portland, Ore. plummeted 6 percent after its construction and said a similar issue could befall him and his neighbors if QueensWay, or a rail line, is built. McManus also acknowledges public opposition to the plan would have those effects on residents on the northern end of the line, but said that has to be weighed with the potential positive aspects. “You do everything you can to mitigate that,” he said. “But you have to balQ ance that with opening access.”

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If it wanted to, the House Republican majority could immediately end the government shutdown it has caused. While Americans wait, over 800,000 federal employees have been furloughed; millions more are working without pay; vital services, programs, facilities, parks and monuments have been suspended or closed; intelligence and law enforcement agencies are understaffed; communities where federal facilities are located and the tens of thousands of small businesses with federal contracts and the hundreds of thousands of workers they collectively employ are being hurt. Some of these businesses may not recover. Constituents ask: How much longer is the shutdown going to affect me? Why did things come to this and who’s responsible for this mess? What needs to be done to reopen the government? We’ve reached this impasse because of the total war Tea Party Republicans in Congress are waging on the Affordable Care Act. Frankly, it’s hard to tell whether it’s just that they don’t like the ACA or all things Obama. Republicans are a 234-201 majority in the House. Democrats are a 54-46 majority in the Senate. The 49 members of the House Tea Party Caucus account for only 20 percent of all House Republicans. The five members of the Senate Tea Party Caucus make up just 10 percent of Republican senators. Nonetheless, these minorities have cowed their GOP colleagues into going on the impossible mission of undoing the historic healthcare reform that Congress and President Obama enacted three years ago; that already has three years of implementation under its belt; that the Supreme Court ruled constitutional 16 months ago; and that voters affirmed 11 months ago by re-electing President Obama by five million votes and a 332-206 landslide victory in the Electoral College against a Republican who pledged to repeal “Obamacare.” Yet, the Tea Party still wants repeal of the law that is finally making affordable, quality healthcare insurance accessible to tens of millions of Americans regardless of pre-existing conditions, age or employment status. During my 15 years in Congress, members, whether Democrat or Republican, addressed a law they didn’t like by fulfilling their legislative oversight responsibility to monitor that law’s impact or by seeking to negotiate adjustments they thought would improve the law. Not so with Congressional Tea Party Republicans. They’ve bullied the House Republican leadership and bulldozed a majority of the Republican conference into incorporating their ideological objections to Obamacare into the continuing resolution that would otherwise simply fund the government for a period of time while

the House and Senate, Congress and the White House, Democrats and Republicans, work out their differences on the budget for the 2014 fiscal year. Again and again, the president said he is willing to discuss any Republican proposal designed to improve the Affordable Care Act. The fact is the ACA itself is an example of what can happen when both sides listen to each other. It is modeled after the Massachusetts healthcare program proposed by a Republican governor and authored by a Republican think tank. The ACA includes over 160 proposals Republicans made in committee. If the president and Congressional Democrats give in to the hostage taking and extortion tactics of Tea Party Republicans in this instance there is absolutely no doubt that they would use the debt limit negotiations a week from now or next year’s budget process to dismantle other laws and programs they don’t like, namely Social Security and Medicare. We cannot allow a small faction of our government to wreak such havoc on our nation. The long-term ramifications of this kind of brinksmanship are grave. We have already had a taste of the consequences. So, here we are. The shame of it is that there are enough votes in the House to pass a CR with no conditions attached. Until the Obama presidency, enacting clean CRs was the norm. Congress has done so 45 times since Ronald Reagan was president. John Boehner has voted for a clean CR numerous times. The federal government had been operating under a clean CR all year long. Last week, 200 House Democrats sent Speaker Boehner a letter calling for floor vote on a clean CR. Over 20 House Republicans have said they would vote yes. Together these are enough votes for passage. Given the majority Democratic Senate, Congress could quickly enact it and the president just as quickly sign it into law. The government could be fully reopened. All federal employees could return to work with all agencies, services, programs, national parks and monuments resuming operation. Plus, a bipartisan predicate will have been laid for raising the debt limit and preventing a default without another deliberately engineered crisis. I hope House leadership will soon put our country’s economic stability above its party politics; that’s what I’m fighting for until this is Q resolved. We should all be. Gregory Meeks is U.S. Congressman for the 5th District, in Southeast Queens and southwestern Nassau County.

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Ice Jewelry Buying Service is located on Queens Boulevard in Rego Park. they treat everything like it’s a one-shot deal and we don’t do that,” Elias said. In addition to buying gold, silver, diamonds, watches Recently, a woman and her boyfriend went into and coins, Ice Jewelry Buying also offers instant cash an unassuming gold buying and cash loan shop on loans for jewelry and eBay selling services. Queens Boulevard. She had a $35 offer on her ring Their cash loans program is straightforward and from another area shop, but was looking to get a simple. “It’s a perfect solution for someone who better deal. In what may be viewed as poor business has a bill due and a check on the way,” Goldberg acumen, she told her new prospective buyer what said. “But we make sure they have a game plan to her previous offer was. Still, after examining her buy their jewelry back before the end of the term. piece, he 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 cash For those who are less Internet-savvy or just don’t in today’s economy is something that Arthur Elias have the time, Ice Jewelry Buying offers a convenient and Edward Goldberg can relate to firsthand, eBay sales service. If what a customer has isn’t an having been laid off from their jobs in jewelry item that Ice Jewelry Buying would purchase, like manufacturing. They understand that people get a handbag or antique furniture, they can help find into situations where they just need a little cash fast a buyer on their eBay store. Elias consults with the to make the bills and Ice Jewelry Buying Service customer to find a target price hopes to help out in the most and let the Internet auctioneers honest way they can. STORE HOURS handle the rest. MON.-FRI. 11am - 7pm “For this, I like to think we’re SAT. 10am - 6pm For anyone who has ever doing the community a service,” SUN. by Appointment dealt with the hassle of selling Elias said. “We’re in the business of helping people who are in a tough icejewelrybuyingservice.com and shipping an item on eBay — all the forms involved in setting spot. They can come to our store up a user and paypal account, the 10-15 percent fee and know that we can educate them on what they that Ice Jewelry Buying charges to do all the work is have and we’ll give them what their items are worth. really a bargain deal. When that woman told me her previous offer, it made “At the end of the day, I just want people to feel me wonder how many times this happens — how comfortable doing business with us. People have many people who really need that money get taken this conception of gold buying stores as these slimy advantage of?” places with slimy people, and they’re typically right. Elias opened his Rego Park shop with Goldberg But we want to be different. I don’t think it’s cool to in 2009, and already they’re seeing a lot of repeat see someone buy a ring for $200 and put it in their customers and referrals. This is a sign to them that counter for $800. We don’t do that.” they’re doing something right — the pawn business Ice Jewelr y Buying Ser vice is located at typically deals in one-time transactions but Elias is 98-30 Queens Blvd. in Rego Park. Hours of operation determined to break that mold, building a reputation are Monday-Friday from 11 am to 7:00 pm and on trust. Sat urday 10 am to 6 pm; Sunday – pri vate “Everyone around here is buying gold these days; appoinments are available. Call for more information you can go into the barber shop down the road and Q (718) 830-0030. sell your jewelry. The problem with all these places is

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5 Pointz continued from page 30 the City Council decision was as G & M can build 620 units as of right “Not too many people respect aerosol artists as much as I do,” he said. “Unfortunately, we’re taking the building down no matter what and if we don’t rebuild, we wouldn’t have the walls to bring the art back. I keep trying to explain that the people that do the aerosol art are welcome back.” The hearing continued on and on with the Wolkoff family insisting the art will be brought back and may even be better than ever, while the artists continued to argue

all hail from Woodhaven. This year again our Special Feature will be “The Malaysian Lion Dancers” of Chinese New Year’s celebration fame. Also appearing is our veteran Shorinjiryu Kenryukan karate with instructor Myron Lubitsch, who has appeared in our street fairs for over 25 years. These thrilling musicians, dancers and demonstrations who were so great in past years will also be part of our entertainment program. The Woodhaven Business Improvement District and the GWDC are calling for the building located at 78-19 Jamaica Ave., next to the Volunteer Ambulance Corps and Woodhaven Senior Citizen Center to be condemned and demolished. This building owner has accumulated 42 violations over the years, which they have never been cleared. The owner has proved not to be interested in our safety or the well-being of our community. The collapse of this building could have been deadly. We know that we will be joined by our elected officials and other organizations to support its demolition. Again, please have some good thoughts for sun for Oct. 20. Reminder: The last day to register to vote is Friday, Oct. 11. Call our office at (718) 8050202 and pick up a registration form today. May God bless our Armed Forces, our disabled veterans and may God bless America. Q that losing 5 Pointz will kill a special part of the city. “There is nothing like the building that is 5 Pointz in Dublin, where I’m from, or in the world,” Paul Joice, an artist, said. “The building welcomes everyone to come there and be creative, and the loss of 5 Pointz would be a blow to the worldwide art community.” “We do not plan on forgetting what 5 Pointz was,” David Wolkoff said. “We’re planning to have a rotating exhibit of 250,000 images to continue a retrospective of those pieces that have adorned the walls. Our artist space will first and foremost go to local artists, and we plan on partnering with Q local arts organizations in the area.”

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Zoning and Land Use Committee objects to liquor license request by Christopher Barca Reporter

Community Board 5’s Zoning and Land Use Review Committee voted unanimously Tuesday against the embattled Knockdown Center’s latest request for a 600-person liquor license that could knock out the center’s chances of attaining one. The committee rallied around the fact that the 110-year-old former door factory at 52-19 Flushing Ave. in Maspeth, which has recently hosted events ranging from concerts and art happenings to weddings, does not have a certificate of occupancy. Also, the Knockdown Center had previously been denied a 5,000-person liquor license. The organizers had been given temporary permits to host such artistic events, but they have reached the city’s limit of four temporary permits per 12 contiguous months. They say that they eventually hope to have a venue that competes with the Roseland Ballroom for world-class musicians and other arts happenings, but the lack of a certificate of occupancy may disrupt that plan. “We believe that it is premature to consider issuing a liquor license when a property does not have a certificate of occupancy for this particular use,” decreed the Zoning and Land Use Review Committee at the conclusion of the 50-minute discussion. This latest objection joins a long list of

negative remarks from area politicians to house other, more critical businesses, regarding the center’s ability to serve alco- they said. But the main area of dissent was hol. State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D- Howard the Knockdown Center’s lack of a certifiBeach) and Assemblywoman Cathy Nolan cate of occupancy, which Myers claimed (D-Sunnyside) have already expressed their was not needed at the time of approval for a concerns in letters to the State Liquor liquor license. Authority in September. The issue goes to “We can get a liquor license approved the full community board at a meeting that while waiting for a certificate of occupancy, was scheduled for but the liquor license Wed nesd ay n ig ht. will not be given to Since it is only an us until we receive here is a big concern advisor y vote, the the cer t if icate of SLA will make the o c c u p a n c y,” t h e when that many people final decision. Knockdown Center’s Making the pitch manager said. get served alcohol. It is for the Knockdown Myers and Sklar an overwhelmingly Center was manager attempted to quell Ty l e r Mye r s a n d the reservations of residential area nearby. owner David Sklar, the com mit tee by who both insisted explai n i ng how The last thing we that the area had sufbuilding improveneed is mayhem.” ficient parking, secuments, security at rity and temporary the venue and park— Gary Giordano, Community Board 5 permits allowing the ing would be mandistrict manager center to smoothly aged once they get a operate thei r past certificate of occuevents, which occasionally featured alcohol. pancy, but the concerns of the committee The board members countered with con- were too great. After the vote, Myers and cerns regarding the disruption of the resi- Sklar left dejected, with Sklar, whose family dential streets adjacent to the Knockdown has owned the former factory for decades, Center as well as the prime plot of industrial saying, “I’m going to go hit my head against land the building sits on, which can be used a wall.”

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CB 5 District Manager Gary Giordano believes that Myers and Sklar create an “unnerving” problem for the community. “They seemed like good guys when I met them, but if I lived there, I would be very concerned,” Giordano said. “There is a big concern when that many people get served alcohol. It is an overwhelmingly residential area nearby. The last thing we need is mayhem.” The Knockdown Center has drawn criticism from area leaders as well. Nolan stated her concern over the discrepancies between the center’s past 5,000-person application and the new 600-person application, saying “If a business has room to house 5,000 people, why would we believe that only 600 will be served alcohol on a given night?” State Sen. Michael Gianaris (D-Astoria) also expressed his views to the SLA, noting the combination of alcohol and the lack of suff icient public transpor tation to the Knockdown Center can be dangerous. “The area is underserved by public transportation, leading most patrons to drive to this location,” Gianaris said. “This creates the serious problem of drunk-driving incidents on neighborhood streets.” Supporting the Knockdown Center is City Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley (D-Middle Village), who believes that it will Q bring jobs to the area.

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Bag fee bill continued from page 24 to clean them up. Crowley said she, in partnership with a nonprofit organization, would hand out free reusable shopping bags to constituents. Fellow Queens Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) heavily extolled the amount of money the city would save in cleanup costs and the environmental impact related with the implementation of the bill. “Each year the City of New York spends $10 million transporting 100,000 tons of plastic bags which are harmful to our environment,” Van Bramer said. “Many of these plastic bags get caught in trees, stuck in storm drains, exacerbating flooding and sewage discharge into New York City waterways. I believe it is important to protect our environment and through the introduction of this bill we have begun a conversation about how we as individuals can have a positive impact on the world we live in.” Crowley agrees with Van Bramer’s sentiments and believes that opposition to the bill will eventually fade away. “People didn’t like recycling at first in this city but then they got used to it,” she said. “I think people who are resistant to this cost for plastic bags will get used to bringing canvas bags to shop Q with them.”

Fire guts home in South Ozone Park One firefighter received minor injuries by Andrew Johnson Chronicle Contributor

foot house is under investigation. The Red Cross also responded to the situation and met with one family who lived in the house. The family said they did not need housing assistance, since they knew relatives Q who had space to accommodate them.

It took less than 20 minutes to put out a fire on the second floor of a private house at 135-20 120 St. in South Ozone Park last Thursday afternoon, the FDNY said. Fire units responded in less than five minutes, according to a department spokesman. The call came in at 4:42 p.m. and the fire was under control by 5:01 p.m. In total, 12 units and 20 firefighters fought the blaze. The fire led to the minor injury of one firefighter, who was treated at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center. But the damage to the house was extensive. It was not known how many occupants were in the house and how they escaped. Nobody who lived in the house was injured. The cause of the fire in the A firefighter examines the scene of a fire at a South PHOTO BY DARRYL MADISON two-story, two-unit, 20-by-40- Ozone Park house.

Surf shop continued from page 28 Rip Curl. Now, these companies are giving him between two and four months to pay. Ritter has dealt with hard times before. Less than a decade ago, his partner embezzled money from their food business. Ritter lost his home and life savings. “I was extremely depressed,“ Ritter said. “Thank God my surf shop was a separate entity, otherwise I would have lost that too.” The Breezy Point Surf Shop is his only source of income, he says. His wife works as a speech pathologist, but Ritter says he needs to sell more merchandise in order to provide for his spouse and newborn child. “I have to make this work. I’ve invested too many years,” he said. “People have said leave and star t somewhere else. I have 22 years invested in this business. But for me to walk away with nothing, I would be a fool.” Ritter works seven days a week. He acknowledges that the shop has an uphill battle to return to the sale numbers of previous years, but he doesn’t think that’s out of the question. “Did I lose what took years to save? Yeah,” Ritter asked. “But I’m going to Q get it back better than it was.”

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Just some off th the many occupants t of the Maria Rose International Doll Museum and Cultural Center in St. Albans, where the focus is on educating children about the world. Among them is a saluting John F. Kennedy Jr.

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“This museum is an extension of classroom education,” said Shirley Phipps, its manager. “And we’re trying to introduce kids to traveling. Some kids never leave their block other than going to school.” During a “world tour,” Njoku gives participants individual maps and puts on a presentation about each continent and the dolls that represent it. Many of the dolls have a name and back story. Some are recognizable and iconic figures such as John F. Kennedy Jr., in the blue coat and shorts he wore to his father’s funeral, Barack and Michelle Obama and Britain’s Princess Diana, Prince William and Princess Kate. Fictional characters such as Hansel and Gretel are also on display. The museum is the result of a hobby that began in Njoku’s youth. She was given her first doll for collection when she was 14 by one of her closest friends. It was a sweet-faced 8-inch Ginny Dutch doll dressed in a klompen dancer costume and carved wooden clogs. What set the doll apart from the others she used to play with as a child was its appearance. Continuedononpage page continued 48

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journey around the world begins with a single step into the Maria Rose International Doll Museum and Cultural Center, according to founder and curator Naida Njoku. A walk through the crowded six-year-old museum on Linden Boulevard in St. Albans reveals a large and diverse collection of figurines dressed in intricate designs to represent cultures from around the world — more than 500 figurines Njoku has collected. Njoku said her objective is to introduce people to other cultures and to preserve history. The dolls represent — and are meant to encourage — world travel. “I want to educate our youth so that one day, they will travel to various continents of the world that are presented in this doll collection,” she said. Reinforcing that goal, a sculpture of Saint Raphael, the patron saint of travelers, is posted in the museum’s hallway. The exhibits are arranged by continent, and the dolls within each by the nations they originate from or represent. Many were acquired from different countries, ranging from Ireland to Eritrea. Stuffed penguins are used to represent Antarctica.

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sion. Instruction from award-winning ar tist. Call (718) 969-1128.

Dorsky Gallery,“Artists’ Walks: The Persistence of Peripateticism, 11-05 45 Ave., Long Island City, Thursday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., thru Nov. 17. Contact (718) 937-6317, or go to www.dorsky.org.

About Boating Safety class, qualified instructors from Flotilla 12-01 of U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, Fort Totten, Totten Avenue and Cross Island Parkway, Bayside, Sunday, Oct. 20, 8:30 a.m. $65. Must pre-register: Mike Kaff (917) 952-7014, Ralph Traub (347) 336-5866.

THEATER STAR - Senior Theater Acting Repertory presents drama/comedy scenes and musical numbers, Wednesdays: Glen Oaks Library, 256-04 Union Tpke., (718) 831-8636, Oct. 23, 2 p.m.; Cross Island YMCA, 238-10 Hillside Ave., Bellerose, (718) 4790505 Nov. 13, 12:30 p.m. Free.

FLEA MARKETS Redeemer Lutheran Church Rummage Sale, old/new Items, Thursday, Oct. 17, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Friday, Oct. 18, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Saturday, Oct. 19, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., 69-07 Cooper Ave., Glendale. Call (718) 456-5292.

AUDITIONS Forest Hills Symphony Orchestra, Forest Hills Jewish Center, 106-06 Queens Blvd. Rehearsals/ auditions, Wednesdays, 7:30-10 p.m. Contact: Franklin Verbsky, (718) 374-1627, fhso.org

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The Queens Botanical Garden’s Harvest Fest and Pumpkin Patch is back on October 20th from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. COURTESY PHOTO

Rego Park Jewish Center’s Sunday at the Movies series, “Kuni Lemel in Cairo,” Sunday, Oct. 27, 2:30 p.m. All welcome, $5 includes cake and coffee after the film. 97-30 Queens Blvd., Rego Park. Call (718) 459-1000.

Meet Sunday, Oct. 27, 9:45 a.m., E, F, R or M train to Continental/71st Ave. station, north side of Queens Blvd. at Sterling Bank, Forest Hills. $3-4 to enter Queens Botanical Garden. Contact: Rachel Donner, shorrd@yahoo.com.

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St. Agnes Academic HS Reunion, Homecoming 2013, all years especially ending in 3s or 8s, Saturday, Nov. 23, 1-5 p.m. Contact: (718) 353-6276, denise.fetonte@stagneshs.org.

Queens Library,“The Rhythm Is Going To Get You,” Latin and jazz concert, Queens Village branch, Friday, Oct. 11, 5 p.m., 94-11 217 St., call (718) 776-6800; Bay Terrace branch, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 1:30 p.m., 18-36 Bell Blvd., Bayside, call (718) 423-7004. Free. Visit queenslibrary.org. The Afrikan Poetry Theatre, “Blaze Craze/ Open Mic Series,” Friday, Oct. 11, 7:30 p.m., 176-03 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica. Open mic/ networking, $10 at door. Dedicated to victims of oppression/violence. Contact: afrikapoe trytheatre.org, (718) 523-3312 ext. 10. For the latest news visit qchron.com

United Methodist Church Rummage Sale, Friday-Saturday, Oct. 18-19, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., 112-14 107 Ave., Richmond Hill. Call (718) 846-3925.

Queens College’s “Year of Brazil,” Friday, Oct. 11, 10 a.m., LeFrak Concert Hall, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, Brazilian Jazz Ensemble concert, “Quarteto Moderno,” led by Richard Boukas, QC graduate and renowned musician, performing samba, bossa nova and other Brazilian genres. Free, open to public. Contact: Maria Matteo, maria.terrone@ qc.cuny.edu, (718)-997-5593.

MEETINGS Hike three lakes, three parks in Queens, 6 miles, Forest Hills to Flushing, through Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens Botanical Garden, Kissena Corridor and Kissena Park. Optional dim sum meal $10-$12 at end. Bring snack/water.

The Flushing AARP Chapter No. 1405, Bowne Street Community Church, 143-11 Roosevelt Ave., meets Mondays 1 p.m. AARP Chapter 2889, American Legion Hall, 66-28 Grand Ave., Maspeth, meets 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month, noon. Call (718) 672-9890. Parashat & Haftarat Club, Rego Park Jewish Center, Saturday, Oct. 12, 12:30 p.m., 97-30 Queens Blvd. Discuss Lech Lecha with Rabbi Weidenbaum. Lite bite. All welcome. Free. Call (718) 459-1000.

FOR KIDS Kids’ Ukulele Jam Class, Mondays thru Dec. 16, 5 p.m., Genesis Tree of Life Yoga and Wellness Center, 102-02/06 Metropolitan Ave., Forest Hills. Contact: Andrew Salamanca, andrewsalamanca@gmail.com, (718) 544-5997. Wildlife Conservation Society’s Queens Zoo, Flushing, registration for 2013-2014 fall and winter education programs, including teen zoo internship and meeting zoo keepers. Register: (718) 271-7361, queenszoo.com/programs, qzeducation@wcs.org.

CLASSES Zumba, Yoga, Kickboxing, YWCA of Queens, Mondays-Fridays thru Dec. 12, 7-9 p.m., 42-07 Parsons Blvd., Flushing, all ages, $7. Contact: ywcaqueens.org, (718) 353-4553. Shop Pink For Health: Create Your Own Herbal Tea Bag! Sunday, Oct. 13, 2-4 p.m., Shops at SkyView Center, 40-24 College Point Blvd., Flushing. Contact: Erin Lagasse, elagasse@quinnandco. com, (212) 868-1900, shopskyviewcenter.com.

Sacred Heart School, Fabulous Fall White Sale, Saturday-Sunday, Oct. 19-20, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., 84-05 78 Ave., Glendale, bargains galore. St. Josaphat’s Church, Flea Market & Ethnic Polish Bake Sale, Sunday, Oct. 13, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 35th Ave. & 210th St., Bayside. Free parking. Autumn Treasure, Bake & Book Sale, Church of the Resurrection, Saturday, Oct. 12, 9:30 a.m.3:30 p.m.; Sunday, Oct. 13, 11:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., 85-09 118 St., Kew Gardens. Preview Sale Friday, Oct. 11, 6-9 p.m., fee: $5.

COMMUNITY

LaGuardia Community College, open houses on The Affordable Care Act for Small Business Owners, Tuesdays, Oct. 15, 29, 9:30-10:30 a.m., LaGuardia’s B-building at the Small Business Development Center, room B-A02, 30-20 Thompson Ave., Long Island City. RSVP: (718) 4825439, business_services@lagcc.cuny.edu.

Greater Ridgewood Historical Society Annual Harvest Festival, Sunday, Oct. 13, 12-4 p.m., Onderdonk House, 1820 Flushing Ave., Ridgewood. Food, games, entertainment. First 500 children receive pumpkin to decorate and keep. Call (718) 821-9127.

Defensive Driving Course, All Saints’ Church, 214-35 40 Ave., Bayside, Saturday, Oct. 19, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., $50 fee includes course, breakfast & lunch. Call (718) 229-4631.

Sacred Heart School, 84-05 78 Ave., Glendale, collecting for Annual White Elephant Fundraiser in Oct.; donations at 84th St. entrance to school, TuesdayFriday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Call (718) 456-6636.

Defensive Driving Course, American Martyrs R.C. Church of Bayside, sponsored by National Safety Council, Saturday, Oct. 12, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m., 79-43 Bell Blvd. Fee $45. Call (718) 464-4582.

Fundraiser for Leukemia and Lymphoma, Saturday, Oct. 19, 7 p.m., Ben’s, 211-37 26 Ave., Bayside. Dinner and comedy show. $50 donation. Call to reserve: (718) 229-2367.

English as a Second Language Course, Latin American Cultural Center of Queens, 120-55 Queens Blvd., Room 333, Kew Gardens, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6-8 p.m., thru Dec. 19. Free. Register: (718) 261-7664, laccq@aol.com. Watercolor classes, National Ar t League, 44-21 Douglaston Pk w y. & Nor thern Blvd., 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Wednesdays, $25/ses-

SPECIAL EVENTS Fertile Ground, new works showcase for emerging and established artists, Sunday, Oct. 20, 7 p.m., Green Space, 37-24 24 St., Suite #301, LIC, $10. Contact: Judi Huck, judi@greenspacestudio.org, greenspacestudio.org.

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The 43-year-old Black Spectrum Theaatre was conceived to stimulate social aand cultural awareness through theater aand film, so it would only make sense that the African Diaspora International Film Festival — showcasing cinema that gives voice to people of color all over the world — would choose the venue for its 21st annual event. “Co m p a r at i ve l y, t h e r e a r e O T O H YP OURTES C many more films being made r e Bake about abou and by people of color than are Josephin being shown,” said Diarah N’Daw-Spech, the h co-founder and co-director of the festival. “If you look at the percentage of films of people of color, the percentage isn’t equivalent to the number of people When: Oct. 19, Nov. 30, Dec. 7 and 14 in the city and in the world who are of 8 p.m. color. There are still many more stories that don’t get out there.” Where: Black Spectrum Theatre N’Daw-Spech and her husband, Reinal177 St. & Baisley Blvd., Jamaica do Spech, founded the ADIFF in 1993. Tickets: $12 per evening/nyadiff.org Films from the United States, Senegal,

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in a White Man’s World” followed by “Melvin & Jane, an American Story.” “African Americans abroad is a reality that many people don’t necessarily know about,” N’Daw-Spech said. “The Josephine Baker film is very revealing because it’s not a superficial portrayal of her life and doesn’t look at her as just a woman posing naked. Her voice really comes out through the film and it goes deeper into why things were the way they were.” “Melvin & Jane, an American Story” tells the true story of Melvin and Jean McNair, a couple involved with the Black Panthers who hijacked a plane from Detroit to Algeria in 1972 with their two children on board in an act of political resistance. As a result of the hijack, Melvin and Jean have lived in Paris for 40 years, unable to return to the United States. While the festival may center on the African-American experience, N’Daw-Spech said that everyone is encouraged to attend. “We’re trying to appeal to all people,” she said. “I think this gives people a real opportunity in Queens, where you don’t necessarily get exposed to that kind of cinema. It’s an interesting way to mingle and socialize with one another and I don’t think there are many arts spaces where that can happen in Queens other than the Q Black Spectrum Theatre.”

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Dolls of the world, unite — in St. Albans continued from page page 00 41 continued from “I didn’t want to play with [the Ginny dolls], I wanted to look at them and take in their culture,” Njoku said about the rosycheeked figurines that prompted her to collect dolls for more than 60 years. Adding dolls from various cultures became a priority. It also caused a bit of a ruckus at home. “I had all of these dolls and my husband was saying that our house is not a museum,” she said. “The dolls were in the dining room and they spilled over to the living room.” She decided to open the museum in 2007. And she realized her collection could be used as an educational tool when she found herself showing one of her grandchildren her dolls in an ef for t to spark interest in socia l s tudies and geography. When: Wednesday-Saturday, “I wanted to 12:30-4:30 p.m. make them Where: 187-11 Linden Blvd., St. Albans A display devoted to England includes miniatures of Big Ben and interested in difthe Globe Theatre, where Shakespeare’s plays were performed. Tickets: $5 adults; $2.50 children ferent countries PHOTO BY JALEESA BAULKMAN (718) 276-3454 / mariarose.biz and places,” she as it evolved, I saw doll-making discussions, teaches children tea said. “I opened party etiquette and hosts special events in it originally for the beauty of the dolls, it as a teaching tool.” In addition to tours, the museum holds recognition of Black History Month and to tell you the truth — then gradually,

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Andrew Peters, 44, of Kew Gardens, who writes in the queer fiction genre, read an excerpt from his novelette series “Werecat: The Rearing.” He also has a novel called “The Seventh Pleiade” coming out in November. It was his first time reading at Boundless Tales and he enjoyed the enthusiasm that his friends, family and the audience handed toward his work. Michelle-Leona Godin, who also goes by the name Dr. ML Godin, 40, from Astoria, had a unique way of performing. Being blind, she used a PAC Mate Pocket PC with earbuds to hear her words and then read them to the audience. Originally from California, she has produced two shows, “The Star of Happiness: Helen Keller on Vaudeville?!” and “The Spectator & the Blind Man: Stories of Seeing & Not-Seeing.” She read an excerpt from the latter on Louis Braille. “It’s in my neighborhood and I adore them as people doing this literature thing in Astoria,” Godin said. Boundless Tales also attracts writers from outside the borough, such as 36-year-old Thomas Fucanello. The

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Staten Island native performed monologues including a really personal, uplifting one about going from his cocaine addiction to attending The New School’s Master of Fine Arts program. “It’s pretty incredible to have a community within a community,” he said about Boundless Tales. “It’s an exciting reading. I heard an essay, short story, poetry. You go to a lot of readings, they’re geared toward one.” The next reading is set for 7:30 p.m. Oct. 17 at the Waltz-Astoria, and the Q theme will be “departures.”

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HOUSE ON FIRE LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 5/14/13. 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, 30-11 30th St., #1R, Astoria, NY 11102. General Purposes.

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Notice of Formation of Ridgewood Realty Group LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/17/2013. Office location: Queens County. Princ. bus. addr.: 451 Seneca Ave., Queens, NY 11385. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. Term: until 12/31/2099. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of FSE Corona Realty, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 07/23/2004. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 48-02 48-04 108th St., Corona, NY 11368. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of MJB BRONX RIVER LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/23/13. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 39-12 Corporal Stone Street, Apt. 3C, PO Box 610519, Bayside, NY 11361. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of 42-11 REALTY, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/05/13. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Abmari, LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 9/6/13. 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, 38-05 Crescent St., 3H, Astoria, NY 11101. General Purposes.

Notice of Formation of VERNON 4640, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/23/13. Office location: Queens County. Princ. office of LLC: 600 3rd Ave., Ste. 1500, NY, NY 10016. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Stephen P. Long at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: 6743 CENTRAL AVE, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/09/13. 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, 84-25 109th Street, Richmond Hill, New York 11418. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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LEGAL NOTICES To Advertise Call 718-205-8000 August 23, 2013 THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FAMILY COURT PLAINTIFF: ANIKA HARRIS VS. DEFENDANT: JORGE HAMILTON LINO CASE NUMBER: 2013 DRB 001820 By Order of the Chief Judge, you are hereby officially notified that a Default was entered in the above captioned case by the Clerk’s office. The case has been scheduled for a Default/Exparte Hearing on 11/01/2013 at 9:30 am in Courtroom JM3, before Judicial Officer: PETER A KRAUTHAMER at the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, Courtroom JM-3, 500 Indiana Aye, NW, WASHINGTON, DC, 20001. WARNING: Please note that the hearing will proceed on the date noted above. In the absence of the defendant or respondent, a judgment or order may be entered against the defendant or respondent.

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS COMMERCIAL MORTGAGE FORCLOSURE Index No. 10944/12 Block 9187 Lot 35 Property Address: 102-51 Jamaica Avenue, Richmond Hill, NY 11418 Date Purchased 5/23/12 PLAINTIFF DESIGNATES QUEENS COUNTY AS PLACE OF TRIAL Plaintiff’s Address: c/o Harry Zubli, 1010 Northern Blvd, Suite 310, Great Neck, New York 11021 FLUSHING SAVINGS BANK, FSB, Plaintiffs, -againstHAIMNATH RAMSAROOP, IF HE BE LIVING, AND IF HE BE DEAD, HIS EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, HEIRS AT LAW, NEXT OF KIN, DISTRIBUTEES, LEGATEES, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, ASSIGNEES, JUDGMENT CREDITORS, RECEIVERS, TRUSTEES IN BANKRUPTCY, TRUSTEES, COMMITTEES, LIENORS AND SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST AND HIS HUSBANDS, WIVES OR WIDOWS, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, HEIRS AT LAW, NEXT OF KIN, DISTRIBUTEES, LEGATEES, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, ASSIGNEES, JUDGMENT CREDITORS, RECEIVERS, TRUSTEES IN BANKRUPTCY, TRUSTEES, COMMITTEES, LIENORS AND SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST, IF ANY, AND ALL PERSONS CLAIMING BY, THROUGH OR UNDER ANY OF THEM, ALL OF WHOM AND WHOSE NAMES ARE UNKNOWN TO PLAINTIFF, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, KHEAIRA RAMSAROOP, STATE OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD, ROYAL CUTZ BARBERSHOP, Defendants. TO EACH OF THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANT(S): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the verified complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the plaintiff’s attorneys within twenty days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within thirty days after service is complete of this summons if not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); and in case of your failure to appear, or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default, for the relief demanded in the verified complaint. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof Dated: September 30, 2013, Great Neck, New York Harry Zubli Esq., Attorney for Plaintiff, 1010 Northern Blvd., Suite 310, Great Neck, NY 11021, Telephone: (516) 487-5777, Facsimile: (516) 487-4834 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: the foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Augustus C. Agate, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Queens County, dated September 12, 2013 and filed with the complaint and other papers in Queens County Clerk’s Office, Queens, NY. The object of the action is to foreclose a mortgage recorded in the NYC Registers Office, Queens County, on the 28th day of February, 2005, as CRFN 2005000118235 covering prem. k/a 102-51 Jamaica Avenue, Richmond Hill, NY 11418. Dated: September 30, 2013. Harry Zubli, Esq., Atty for Pltf.

Notice of Formation of Denton Farm LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/29/13. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Ganfer & Shore, LLP, 360 Lexington Howard Beach/Lindenwood, 1 BR Ave., 14th Fl., NY, NY 10017. w/ new kit & bath, stainless steel Purpose: any lawful purpose. appl, no smoking/pets, use of pvt

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: EAST 80TH REALTY LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 9/3/2013. 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, 40-28 College Point Boulevard, Apt. 1615, Flushing, NY 11354. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Better Realty NYC, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/6/13. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 45-43 193rd Street, Flushing, NY 11358. Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: CUSTOM BROTHERS LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 6/28/13. 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 C/O United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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Back in the day, horse racing in Queens wasn’t just about the Big A. Thoroughbreds also ran around the popular Jamaica Race Track just a couple miles away on Baisley Boulevard, between 165th and 169th streets. Officially called the Metropolitan Racetrack, the oval opened on April 27, 1903. It was improved and Jamaica Race Track in its last moments, on Sept. 13, enlarged in 1920. Favored by sprinters due to its 1960. Demolition was by Newtown Iron and Steel. wide turns and short homestretch, Jamaica’s distance was 1 mile, compared to dale Village housing cooperative. Among the horses who ran at Jamaica Belmont’s 1 1/2 and Aqueduct’s 1 1/4. The track’s four main races were the was perhaps the greatest of them all: Man o’ Youthful Stakes, for 2-year-old horses; the War, who, among his many victories, won Wood Memorial Stakes for 3-year-olds; and the Youthful Stakes there as a two-year-old the Excelsior Handicap and Grey Lag Hand- in 1919, with a 1:06 time, and the Stuyvesant Handicap in 1920. The legendary horse died icap, for 3-year-olds and up. Jamaica was never a Belmont, Churchill of an apparent heart attack in 1947. The track died in 1960. A number of its Downs or Saratoga, but was a favorite of area residents. But in 1959, the precursor of workers moved on to Aqueduct and Belthe New York Racing Association decided mont, but for many, their hearts remained Q to tear it down. It was replaced by the Roch- attached to Jamaica.

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