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State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr., left, Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato and Assemblyman Michael Miller spoke to the Ozone Park Residents Block Association at Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church on Tuesday night. Addabbo challenger Tom Sullivan, left inset, and Pheffer Amato opponent Matt Pecorino did not attend the event. Miller is unchallenged.

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LGBT leaders talk Trump sex memo Leaked HHS document purports to tighten legal definitions on gender by Michael Gannon Editor

memo reportedly leaked from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services states that the federal government is considering a narrowing of gender identity recognition. The New York Times, which first published the story last Sunday, reported that the Trump administration could define gender as “a biological, immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth,” calling it “the most drastic move yet in a governmentwide effort to roll back recognition and protections of transgender people under federal civil rights law.” The Times reported that the changes would be instituted under Title IX, the federal civil rights law that bans sex discrimination in education programs that receive government financial assistance. Advocates for the transgender and LGBT communities in Queens told the Chronicle they fear that should the administration follow through it would roll back protections under federal programs that were ensured by a series of initiatives under President Barack Obama. Pauline Park, president of the board of directors of Queens Pride House, an LGBT community center serving the borough, said in an email to the Chronicle that while concern is warranted, members of the transgender com-

President Trump’s Department of Heath and Human Services may be considering changes to legal definitions of gender. But Pauline Park, right, and other LGBT advocates in Queens say FILE PHOTOS such attempts may be more difficult legally and politically than he anticipates. munity do not need to be in panic mode just yet. “First, Donald Trump doesn’t have the legal authority to unilaterally define or redefine ‘gender’ in federal law; all he and his political appointees can do is promulgate regulations, guidelines and executive orders that instruct executive agencies on how to handle legal

issues related to transgender identity,” she wrote. “But his successors could overturn such executive actions with executive orders or regulations of their own; and individuals and advocacy organizations can go to court to challenge any such executive actions and they have a good chance of prevailing given the growing body of

case law that recognizes various forms of transgender identity and gender transition.” Park, who believes the move may be heavily influenced by what she termed as Vice President Mike Pence’s animus toward the LGBT community, also said any federal rollback would not likely impact the many state and local protections that have been put in place in recent years. David Kilmnick, president and CEO of the LGBT Network, which has an office and services in Long Island City, believes the community cannot afford to take the memo lightly. And he thinks its potential goes far beyond linguistics. “This is another shameful attack on the transgender community by Trump and his administration,” Kilmnick said. “He seems fixated on transgender people. It would take away protections for trans students in schools. It’s an attempt to ban them from serving openly in the military and rescind Obama’s memo protecting workers in the workplace under civil rights laws.” Harkening back to darker times in history, Kilmnick compared the memo, and other actions taken by Trump’s administration, to actions of dictators in the past, to first marginalize select minority populations before persecuting them openly. Kilmnick said members of the LGBT continued on page 26

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Candidates talk at Ozone civic forum Pheffer Amato, Miller and Addabbo cover key concerns before election by Matt Waters

regarding the potential shelter on 101st Avenue. I left a note explaining how we all feel and the The Ozone Park Residents Block Associa- fact that the population is not a good fit,” Miller tion held its monthly meeting on Tuesday night said. Addabbo had also attended that meeting. Miller also presented a citation for a woman with a special candidates forum in advance of the upcoming elections on Nov. 6. The event named Tanesha Smith for her actions during took place at Nativity of the Blessed Virgin the mugging of a woman on Atlantic Avenue that occurred Oct. 1. Smith was one of the Mary Church. The participants were state Sen. Joseph Good Samaritans mentioned in reports that helped the woman when she was allegedly Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) and memattacked by Derrick Chirse, a 57-yearbers of the state Assembly Mike Miller old Brooklyn man. (D-Woodhaven) and Stacey Pheffer “Anyone who saw something, Amato (D-Rockaway). Kevin Tschthey could have just looked down, irhart, the chief of staff for Eric looked the other way. But Tanesha Ulrich (R-Ozone Park), spoke for Smith heard what was going on the councilman’s office. and took action. And I just want to Amato spoke first and was take a moment now to thank you for focused on her 9/11 bill that would what you did,” the assemblyman said. extend protections reserved for cops 2018 Smith works at Dawson Manor, and firefighters to other civil servants which provides assistance for handicapped experiencing illnesses related to the afterpeople and is basically attached to the church math of that day. “People that worked their part down at property. She helped stop the mugging with her Ground Zero, first responders, other than PD work partner when they saw it unfolding. Her partner chased the mugger down the and Fire, are not covered the same. And I have a street while Smith alerted the police. She also bill that says you must cover everyone equally.” Miller spoke next and his first comments provided aid to the woman who was being concerned the facility being built at the site of attacked. Addabbo was the last incumbent candidate the former Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church to speak for the evening. in Ozone Park at 101st Avenue and 86th Street. “Whenever I’m in this room, I think about “Today I met with the Mayor’s Office Associate Editor

Tanesha Smith holds up the citation she received from Assemblyman Mike Miller recognizing her actions to help the victim of a mugging on Atlantic Avenue earlier this month. Smith works at a facilPHOTO BY MATT WATERS ity that provides assistance for the handicapped which was near the incident. being on this stage,” he said, pointing behind him to the stage at the front of the church’s basement auditorium, “My big break here,” he said. “I was in the sixth grade. I played Joseph ... My one job to do was hold out baby Jesus ... I took it seriously,” he said, pointing out that he did not drop baby Jesus to the laughter of the

association, “Like I take elections and campaigning seriously. So I’m here to ask for your support. I take nothing for granted.” The opponents for Addabbo and Amato, who are Tom Sullivan and Matt Pecorino, respectively, did not attend the event. Miller is Q running unopposed.

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Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez and Councilman Eric Ulrich are among those calling on the mayor to institute a grace period to allow businesses to rectify technical problems they PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON might have with their awnings.

The meeting at Tropical Restaurant in Woodhaven on Tuesday evening was billed as a small business resource fair. But it wound up focusing almost entirely on the recent spate of anonymous complaints to the city’s Department of Buildings about unlicensed or improperly installed signs and awnings at businesses in the borough. U.S. Rep Nydia Velazquez (D-Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens) was joined by state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach), Assemblyman Mike Miller (D-Woodside) and Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) in calling on Mayor de Blasio to allow a moratorium on fines for signs that do not pose a danger to the public, as well as a grace period during which businesses with noncomplying signs could have a chance to rectify any technical or permitting shortcomings. “I don’t have big industry in my district,” Velazquez said. “I have small businesses.” De Blasio’s press office did not respond to an email from the Chronicle prior to the paper’s deadline on Wednesday. Theories behind a spate of anonymous complaints — more than 120 in the last few days alone, according to licensed professional sign hanger James Mauceri — about business signs and awnings were almost as numerous as the participants Tuesday night. “I’m getting more business than I’ve ever gotten,” Mauceri said. Speakers at the meeting suggested the spate of 311 calls was coming from one of the fewer than 45 licensed sign hangers in the

city. Others accused city inspectors of being behind the avalanche in an effort to collect fines and penalties that can start at $6,000. But Ken Lazar of the Department of Buildings said there is no truth to that accusation. “Someone put out fliers saying we were conducting a sweep,” Lazar said. “We’re not. We are a complaint-oriented organization.” Attorney Frank Guzman, with his office at 87-26 Jamaica Ave., has not gotten a complaint about his sign, but was angry nevertheless. “This doesn’t pass the smell test,” he said. Several people pointed out that the City Council needs to update the sign codes, some of which go back to 1961. “Under the law, all you can put on an awning is the name of your business and your address,” said Steve Forte of the Woodhaven Residents Block Association. “Queens is a borough that celebrates its diversity. But if you have a Thai restaurant, you’re not allowed to say so. An awning should be to attract people to a business.” Addabbo and Miller said a number of businesses along Jamaica Avenue already have been forced to take down their awnings either after receiving summonses or as a preventive measure. “The Christmas shopping season is coming and Jamaica Avenue looks terrible,” Addabbo said. Urich also was not counting out that business competitors or others might be abusing the 311 process for malicious purposes. He reiterated a call for the grace period for nonemergency cases. “If your sign is hanging off the building and is a threat to the Q public, sorry, you get a summons,” he said.

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Tavern Lounge in Woodhaven closed Bar where promoter killed is up for sale after losing liquor license by Matt Waters Associate Editor

The Woodhaven establishment where 35-year-old rapper and promoter Frank Snyder was shot to death around 3 a.m. on the morning of Oct. 7 has been shutdown. Snyder, who performed under the moniker Hollywood Play, was shot on the sidewalk right outside Tavern Lounge after an argument with multiple men in a black sedan. It was called McHugh’s back in October 2014 when an application for the renewal of its liquor license provoked a strong response at a Community Board 9 meeting. The late Maria Thomson made a motion to refuse renewal of the license on the grounds that there were already too many bars in the neighborhood, while board member Alexander Blenkinsopp spoke out directly against McHugh’s. “I live up that block and I can tell you, this place is a problem,” he said, according to a report in the Chronicle. Later during the Oct. 14, 2014 meeting, he, Thomson and other members of the board raised concerns about crime

occurring at the establishment. When the 102nd Precinct did not echo these concerns, Blenkinsopp was quoted as saying, “if my obser vations aren’t valid, then why am I on this board in the first place?” The board ultimately voted 29-8 to send a letter to the State Liquor Authority objecting to the renewal of McHugh’s license. The 102nd Precinct has been consistent about the 97-07 Jamaica Ave. establish ment that later became Tavern Lounge. But in com me nt s m a de du r i ng la st Wednesday’s community council meeting, Capt. Courtney Nilan, commander of the 102nd Precinct, explained the reasoning in shutting the bar down now, despite its previously being unproblematic from a policing standpoint. “Because of the severity of the shooting and the situation that night, in coordination with the State Liquor Authority, that bar is now shut down,” she said. “The Liquor Aut hor it y pu lled t he license.” In her comments alluding to the “situation,” Nilan is referencing

the argument that occurred before the shooting. The top of Tavern Lounge’s Instagram page reads, FOR SALE. SERIOUS INQUIRES ONLY! Aside from that, the page has not been updated since a post promoting the program for the night of Oct. 7. The post tags Snyder’s Hollywood Play usern a me for a n event called #BringYaFriendsSaturday. Most of the comments on the post now express condolences, though there are multiple posters who argue about the culpability of the bar in the incident. Two of those posters say that the death of Snyder was not the fault of Tavern Lounge whatsoever, while another says the opposite, even commenting that the bar should be closed. Their debate, settled by the police and the liquor authority, also begs questions about what happened that night. Was this a random act of violence at 3 a.m.? Or had Snyder been targeted? There are no official answers Q yet.

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Mayor de Blasio is a Red Sox fan. City Council Speaker Corey Johnson (D-Manhattan) is a Red Sox fan. But Councilman Bob Holden (D-Middle Village) is bleeding Dodger blue this World Series. Holden became a Dodgers fan when his dad, an Ebbets Field usher, would take him to games in Brooklyn. The councilman says his roots go back to the Dodgers losing the 1951 pennant to the Giants on Bobby Thomson’s home run, nine days before Holden was born. “I got the history of the Dodgers in me even before I was born,” he said. When the Dodgers left for Los Angeles, Holden remained a fan. In the days before 24-hour sports networks, he would pick up some of the games on the transistor radio he kept under his pillow. “I didn’t do so well in school sometimes because I’d be up the whole night with the transistor,” Holden said. As a left-handed pitcher, Holden’s favorite player was Sandy Koufax. He even batted right-handed. If he was on a Little League team that didn’t give him the number 32, Holden would go home and have his mother sew a new number on. “I wouldn’t wear my team cap for Little League, I’d wear the LA cap,” Holden said. “The coach didn’t like that many times.”

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Accused, not convicted Dear Editor: Re “Battle of the bailout has come to Queens,” Oct. 11: Queens District Attorney Richard Brown’s statement misses a key point in the battle to end cash bail and release those held for a sum of money they cannot afford. He asks why nobody says the word “victim.” I ask him why he doesn’t use the word “accused.” Those being held in Rikers subject to bail aren’t convicted. It’s quite disturbing that the DA doesn’t understand this. Alex Jacobs Brooklyn The writer is an attorney.

Cars, not bikes, at fault Dear Editor: Your Oct. 18 article “Video shows FDNY blocked from Skillman” was the latest in a series of biased coverage that has become common since the installation of vital safety improvements along Skillman and 43rd avenues in Sunnyside. The article seeks to blame the protected bike lane for congestion along the avenues, specifically citing a video of a fire truck unable to turn onto Skillman Avenue. But the video reveals clearly that the bike lane is not the problem. The problem is the illegally parked © Copyright 2018 by MARK I PUBLICATIONS, INC. All rights reserved. Neither this newspaper nor any part thereof may be reproduced, copied, or transmitted in any form, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, microfilming, recording or by any information retrieval system without the express written permission of the publishers. This copyright is extended to the design and text created for advertisements. Reproduction of said advertisement or any part thereof without the express written permission of MARK I PUBLICATIONS, INC. is strictly prohibited. This publication will not be responsiblefor errors in advertising beyond the cost of the space occupied by the error. Bylined articles represent the sole opinion of the writer and are not necessarily in accordance with the views of the QUEENS CHRONICLE. This Publication reserves the right to limit or refuse advertising it deems objectionable. The Queens Chronicle is published weekly by Mark I Publications, Inc.at a subscription rate of $19 per year and out of state, $25 per year. Periodicals Postage Paid (USPS0013-572) at Flushing, N.Y. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Mark I Publications, Inc., The Shops at Atlas Park, 71-19 80th St., Suite 8-201, Glendale, NY 11385.

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or decades, the United States has been about fulfilling its founding creed by expanding rights. Expanding them to groups that formerly lacked them, whether black people, women of all ethnic backgrounds or, more recently, members of the LGBT community. But now the Trump administration is looking to roll back the rights of transgender people, the T in that community. It’s done that in a few ways, and now a leaked document shows the government wants to remove Title IX civil rights protections from transgender people. It’s just wrong. No doubt if the administration were to go through with the idea, it would be challenged in court and probably lose. But it would be far better to just drop it. The problem is that Title IX bans discrimination on the basis of sex. Under President Obama, that word was taken to include gender, which is not exactly the same thing. It was the correct move as far as expanding people’s personal freedom and rights go, but as the Trump administration document shows, the way it was done leaves the protections fragile, possibly changeable under a different president. What’s best is for Congress to amend Title IX so it explicitly includes gender. And for President Trump to get over whatever he has against transgender people.

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cars. Michael Gannon’s article allowed Gerard Fitzgerald, president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association, to ignore that fact. And Gannon should have pointed out that the FDNY was consulted by the Department of Transportation at every step of the debate over the Skillman and 43rd bike lanes. Gannon’s article relies on anecdotes rather than evidence. One convenience store owner claimed, for example, that his business has been adversely affected by the bike lane. I’ve lived in New York City for 30 years — in four boroughs, no less! — and I cannot tell you a single time I have driven to a convenience store. So if we are going to debate public safety, let’s skip the anecdotes and stick to hard evidence: Protected bike lanes make the roadway safer for all users. Data from the Department of Transportation show that crashes resulting in injuries go down by nearly 20 percent; injuries to pedestrians drop by more than 20 percent; and the total number of cyclist injuries drops, even as cycling

volumes increase; travel times for drivers on roadways remains the same or actually improves; pedestrians get shorter crossing distances, which makes neighborhoods more walkable and inviting; speeding declines dramatically; and business activity increases. It does not decrease. I can’t believe that, after more than a decade of these improvements, these facts even need to be restated. Above all, the article should have reminded the readers of the crucial timeline for the protected bike lanes in Sunnyside: They were initially championed by Councilmember Jimmy Van Bramer and Community Board 2 Chairwoman Denise Keehan-Smith after a cyclist, Gelacio Reyes, was killed by a motorist at 43rd Avenue and 39th Street, and cyclist David Nunez was critically injured by a truck driver at the same location 10 days later. Lest we forget, the roadway is a public right of way. In a dense urban area, we should use

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Alzheimer’s a voting issue Dear Editor: A month before my 18th birthday, my mother gave me a voter registration form to complete. She instilled in me the importance of being a responsible citizen. I have been voting ever since. By 2013 my mother was no longer able to vote and by 2015 she could not feed herself. My mother was one of 5.7 million Americans living with Alzheimer’s. Most are cared for by people like me, a family member providing unpaid care while also working full time. There are over 16 million unpaid caregivers in the United States. As a constituent of the 14th Congressional District, I have listened to candidates Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Anthony Pappas but have not heard them say how they will combat Alzheimer’s and support families that are impacted by dementia. America’s population is aging. Alzheimer’s is the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States and the only disease among the top 10 continued on next page

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SUBJECT: SAUDI ARABIA There can be no ambiguity Saudi Arabia is the antithesis of a democracy. It possesses all of the elements of a dictatorship, and as such it is evident it was involved in the murder of Jamal Khadshoggi. Although I am now retired, I spent about sixty years practicing law, much of it in courtrooms before a judge and jury. Based upon the evidence outlined herein below, I believe it would not take a jury more than ten minutes to return a verdict of pre-meditated murder. Mr. Khadshoggi planned on getting married and required certain Saudi documents. He made arrangements to procure those documents from the Saudi Consulate in Turkey. The Consulate obviously notified Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of that fact, and as much as 15 Saudis were sent to the Consulate to arrive before Mr. Khadshoggi. Included in that group was a doctor specializing in autopsies who brought along a bone saw. When questions were raised about where Mr. Khadshoggi was, the Saudi government initially said he had left the Consulate alive and they did not know his whereabouts. Ultimately a film was shown allegedly claiming it was Mr. Khadshoggi leaving the Consulate, when in fact it was an impostor wearing the already killed Mr. Khadshoggi’s clothes. It took the Saudis about two weeks to withdraw that absurdity and admit Mr. Khadshoggi died while in the Consulate. They claimed there was an argument between Mr. Khadshoggi and one of the Saudis that resulted in a fist fight, during which he died. Equally absurd was the claim there was a fist fight between one man and 14 other men present. If he died during a fist fight, why was it necessary to

dismember his body with a bone saw and dispose of the body? I believe a jury would quickly fi nd Mr. Khashoggi was the subject of a well planned pre-meditated murder that in an autocracy like Saudi Arabia, could not occur without the knowledge and direction of Prince Mohammed. The credibility of an attempt to blame others without the prince’s involvement is in my opinion not worth a bucket of warm spit. As disturbing as the above is President Trump’s slippery tongue in failing to make it crystal clear he believes Prince Mohammed was involved in the murder of Mr. Khadshoggi, who at the time was a resident of the United States and an employee of the Washington Post. Mr. Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, who it is claimed have considerable fi nancial connections with Saudi Arabia, have now taken the route that by ignoring the situation, it by itself, will go away. I am sure that it will go away by some of Trump’s supporters, but not by this writer. It is yet another example of Trump’s affi nity for dictators, e.g., Russia, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, The Philippines and others where law and order is not the rule of the day. It is interesting to note Trump placed on the wall just behind and to the left of his desk, a painting of President Andrew Jackson who he considers his favorite president. That makes sense since Jackson was known to the Cherokee Native Americans as an “Indian Killer.” Jackson was said to deserve top spot on the list of worst United States presidents. I believe when all is said and done, President Trump will join that list.

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Dear Editor: Re David Russell’s Oct. 18 report: “Social Security up 2.8 percent in 2019”: Great news for Social Security recipients, but some bad news comes with it. Even though we’re getting our biggest cost of living hike in seven years, much of that increase will be devoured by the Windfall Elimi- ONLINE nation Provision, Miss an article or a which taxes letter cited by a writer? Social Security Want breaking news payments. from all over Queens? This is double Find the latest news, taxation. FICA past reports from all withholds money over the borough and from your pay more at qchron.com. w h i l e y o u ’r e work i ng. But you’re also taxed when you retire under the WEP, enacted in 1983. If your gross adjusted income exceeds $25,000 as a single person, you must pay taxes on your SS payments. Twenty-five thousand dollars was a windfall 35 years ago, but not today. It’s time for WEP to RIP. The AARP’s highly vaunted lobbying force was MIA during congressional action on the GOP’s “tax reform” bill. Seniors got screwed while hedge fund hustlers and private equity predators retained a huge tax break on their windfall earnings via the Carried Interest Rate, which candidate Trump promised to end. Democrats could end it next year if they gain control of Congress on Nov. 6. Unless AARP wages an effective lobbying campaign, its initials will really stand for Always Avoid Retirees’ Priorities. Richard Reif Kew Gardens Hills

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Trump’s the best Dear Editor: I am responding to the Oct. 11 letter “Dems got what they paid for,” by Michael F. Sturm of Richmond Hill. Mr. Sturm, your letter was a definite breath of fresh air. It was wonderful. I couldn’t have said it better. Thank you. President Trump, you are the best! Angela Brindisi-Parrino Howard Beach

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Dear Editor: I’m not surprised that Edward Riecks agrees with Michael Sturm when it comes to all things Trump /Kavanaugh /GOP (“Dems’ Kavanaugh debacle,” Letters, Oct. 11). They both support a party that has put itself above principle, honor, patriotism and the U.S.! To call the FBI inquiries into now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh an “investigation” is a disgrace. Nothing new for Republicans. The White House put strict limits on whom the FBI could talk to and what they could investigate. In fact the central figures involved were not on the witness list. Only four people were interviewed. Four! None of whom included his third accuser, or many former classmates who contradict his lies (under oath) regarding his high school (underage) or college drinking habits. When asked about his excessive drinking, Kavanaugh deflected the question and went on and on about busting his “butt” in school. How appropriate given all the talk of “boofing.” There’s your GOP Supreme Court justice. Disgusting. And now the charade with Saudi Arabia. Jamal Khashoggi was a resident of Virginia; he was tortured and executed. Trump will do nothing because he claims a $100 billion weapons deal (actually only $4 billion) with the Saudis is more important than the life of a lowly “journalist.” Thank God Trump wasn’t president

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when Hitler was exterminating 6 million Jews. He would’ve kept the United States out of the war by insisting that if we opposed Hitler it would negatively impact a billion-dollar deal with Monsanto and thousands of workers would lose their jobs producing Zyklon-B. But don’t worry Republicans, keep focusing on Hillary’s emails while Trump destroys the environment, abandons the poor, gives more and more permanent tax cuts to billionaires while throwing pennies at the middle class, cuts funding to welfare, Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security, continues to claim that global warming is a Chinese hoax while America’s coastlines are relentlessly destroyed by hurricanes that become stronger each year (due to rising ocean temperatures, which are caused by global warming), states that a “little radiation” is good for you, allows chemical companies to poison rivers and streams, enacts tariffs that help the steel industry but hurt everyone else, attacks the press and discards our allies while embracing dictators like Putin, Duterte and Erdogan. Then, “falls in love” with Kim Jong-un! Damn Hillary and her emails. Robert LaRosa Whitestone

Trump fans bullied Dear Editor: In Oct. 18 issue Benjamin M. Haber spoke of Donald Trump inciting violence against protesters and equating him to an infamous dictator (“Donald J. Hitler,” Letters). I am a Trump supporter; so is my family. Over the last two years we have had to tolerate being spat at, having lawns signs stolen, bumper stickers ripped of our cars, name calling, Make America Great Again hats snatched off my head, threats and being pushed in front of traffic. On college campuses the few brave students who are either Republicans or supporters of Mr. Trump are intimidated, bullied, shouted down or subject to physical violence. I will remind Mr. Haber that a left-wing supporter of Bernie Sanders shot Rep. Steve Scalise at a congressional baseball practice. Both Sarah Sanders and Sen. Ted Cruz were either heckled or denied entry to restaurants. And Sen. Cory Booker and Rep. Maxine Waters advocated violence against Republicans and Trump supporters in public. While I do not agree at all with the politics of either Bernie Sanders or Sen. Chuck Schumer, the former did condemn the action of his supporter while the latter lambasted Waters for her requests of violence. But other than that, there has been little condemnation of the denial of freedom of speech or access. If Mr. Haber cares to compare Donald Trump supporters to Nazis, he seems to overlook the fact that as far as left-wingers are concerned, they defend freedom of speech only so long as it is something they agree with. Edward Riecks Howard Beach

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was a decision that required a typical family to think in a conspiratorial fashion. “My wife says, ‘She’s a reporter, don’t trust “That’s what’s like the cold water hitting her,”’ the father said. you.” Although his wife interjected that she The mother of the woman who was sexually assaulted by Rob Pisani was describing wouldn’t approach an interaction with most what she feels when weighing her daughter’s reporters in such a fashion, her suspicions sentence compared to the one recently given were absolutely correct. Adams was recording too. to Pat Adams in court. “I’m going to tell you how I knew she was The publisher of The Forum Newgroup was sentenced to five months for misprision of a recording,” the father said. “We were supfelony after she was caught on tape attempting posed to meet at Starbucks and I’m inside. to intimidate the father of the woman he And she took her phone and pushed it threeassaulted. According to the father, her goal quarters to the side of the table where I was was to get the victim not to show at a hearing sitting,” he explained. The stakes could not be higher during the that would revoke bail for Pisani, a Howard 2-hour and-36 minute conversation, involving Beach businessman and Mafia associate. “She’s lived through the terror of just feel- his beloved daughter who despite being an ing scared all the time and worrying, longer adult he still calls “my baby girl.” And once than Pat will be sentenced for, and it’s not like they started talking it became increasingly clear that Adams was not only threatening his it’s going to stop,” the mother said. The Oct. 11 sentencing of Adams has not daughter, but his entire family. “What you’re asking me is what I felt after proved carthartic. When the victim’s mother and father spoke to the Chronicle last week, I sat down, thinking that this woman is talkthey described in detailed terms their anger ing to me to help my daughter, to help the situand anxiety, along with a resolute aim to claim ation, turned into the ugliest sense of fear, of ownership of their story as a family. They also rage, of confusion, and where the fu-- is this spoke on behalf of their daughter, whom they going,” the father said. “It was just ... what say has experienced damage to her psyche that was my feeling? A great sense of fear when I is ongoing and would have been unresolved realized when this was happening ... I felt violated.” even by a more palatable outcome in court. The parents frequently cited during the The Chronicle is withholding the family’s interview wanting to convey their perspective name. The father described a particular day that on Adams to the public. She had threatened to seemed to encapsulate his daughter’s difficul- use her paper to ruin their daughter’s ties in the month and year since the assault reputation. “Listening to the occur red. It also conversations she demonstrated the has, real conversaparticular experitions, like the conence of a victim of he’s lived through the versation she had sexual assault living with my husband in the same neighterror of just feeling that day, that was borhood as the perreal,” the mother son who sought to scared all the time and said. “That’s who cover it up. worrying, longer than Pat she is and what she’s Imagine running about. The rest of it, into that very perwill be sentenced for.” over here, that’s the son on an errand. persona she puts on. An errand undertak— The sex assault victim’s mother [We] just want to en as a means of open the door to coping with anxshow who the real iousness brought about incidents that may have been innocuous person is.” One particular threat Adams made about under different circumstances. Cars seem to be driving too slowly down familiar neighbor- the trial stayed with the father. “Her exact words on the tape were that Pisani’s lawyer hood streets, as if they are watching. “The day she’s rattled, she figures she’s would shred her up and spit her out like she going to go to the nail salon and she’s parking went through a Cuisinart,” he said. It is for these reasons the parents are frusher car and there’s somebody parking ... in front and she actually backs up to give that trated that Adams did not receive a harsher person more room. So she’s just getting her sentence when she pleaded guilty to a lesser stuff out of the car and she gets out and walks charge. The father called misprisionment, “a in and next thing you know, she realizes who’s 35-cent word.” The charge means someone walking through the door. She looks down, knew about a crime, didn’t report it, and she sees the ankle bracelet and she goes, ‘oh instead helped cover it up. They were perhaps even angrier that Pisani [expletive].”’ According to the father, his daughter had did not have an additional mandatory year unknowingly backed up her car as a courtesy tacked onto his loansharking and racketeering sentence for the sexual assault. Instead, the to none other than Pat Adams. The recorded conversation at Starbucks sentences run concurrently. “The one with [Pisani] and not getting the was essential to an arrest being made. And it Associate Editor

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The deli owned by Rob Pisani, where he sexually assaulted the victim on April 28, 2017. It was PHOTO BY RICK MAIMAN only the beginning of a nightmare for a Howard Beach family. mandatory year, why?” The father asked in frustration. “Because Mr. Ginsberg [Pisani’s lawyer] seen it fit that he was going to be doing time in federal court which had nothing to do with my daughter.” Pisani being registered as a sex offender, which his defense argued was punishment enough in addition to the sentence he’d already received, did not feel suitable to the father. He was hardly convinced that negative Google search results constitute a legitimate punishment for the crime committed. “My daughter was assaulted,” the mother said. “It was really hard for her to even tell us. And then when she makes that decision, which is a personal decision ... to go to the police ... she gets knocked down by everyone that should be helping her.” The father did note that the NYPD’s sex crimes unit was greatly helpful to his daughter. He said they called her one of the most courageous victims that they had encountered. But he was less enthusiastic about the District Attorney’s Office. “Why haven’t we received a call from that DA over there? We’ve put in several calls, I’ve got one call back, he says, ‘I’ll call you back tonight. I really need to explain this to you. It’s going to take an hour or so, so I can explain everything, I’m really sorry,’” the father said, describing unsatisfactory communication from one of the attorneys at DA Richard Brown’s office as the situation developed. He also noted that the phone call still has not happened after the initial conversation occurring “weeks ago.” The father also mentioned that the family had been advised not to hire an attorney by the DA’s Office. “You have a statute which was one year to levy a lawsuit and that has now expired,” the father said, though he repeatedly mentioned that money was not a significant concern of the family, especially his daughter, as it pertained to the case. He instead seemed to be attempting to describe a general lack of communication

with the office that was frustrating given the circumstances. The father mentioned that more charges were discussed pertaining to the case. But the likelihood of these being pursued has not been communicated to the family. The father was especially baffled as to why an additional charge involving text message com munication between Adams and others was not being pursued, as the evidence seemed strong when conveyed to him. But perhaps no individual tangentially involved was more a subject of anger than Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park). Ulrich was one of dozens of people who wrote letters on behalf of Pisani before his loansharking sentencing. The councilman wrote his letter in February and it was made public in Brooklyn Federal Court in June. When the Daily News questioned him about the letter, the report described him as “doubling down” by saying, “I’d write two if I could.” Pisani had sent food to the nurses station at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in 2015 when Ulrich’s daughter was recovering from an accident. In an article from June, Ulrich said to the Chronicle that he wrote the letter about the loansharking case and that it was “apples and oranges” compared to the sexual assault charges. He also said that Pisani needs to take responsibility for his crimes. But that’s not exactly satisfying to the father, who equated the councilman’s qualification to an endorsement of criminal behavior. “You’ve got an elected offical saying I don’t support the sexual assault, but I do support the loansharking,” the father said. “This is really a hard pill to swallow.” And about the restitution mentioned at Adams’ sentencing? “You tell me what it is,” said the father, who says communication about this issue has lacked clarity as well. But whatever restitution is decided, it will Q go to his daughter.

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Pecorino talks taxes, mass transit District 23 Assembly candidate challenging Pheffer Amato Nov. 6 by Matt Waters

erty taxes by 30 percent and also to make permanent the 2 percent property tax cap. And also to extend that cap to Matt Pecorino, a Republican and self-proclaimed New York City which is currently exempted.” When queried why New York City had been exempted “numbers guy” is running for the state assembly reprefrom the 2 percent property tax cap, Pecorino was sucsenting District 23. The longtime Howard Beach resident thinks an infu- cinct in his suspicions. “The cynic in me says that it’s probably because the sion of new ideas is essential in both city and state politics. And he also thinks he’s the right candidate at the properties in New York City are so valuable that the state right time. “As I look at the scene I feel that we need and city just couldn’t stand to forego that revenue. But more independent legislators, people who are not behold- there might be a deeper story to it. I’m always looking en to a party machine,” he said. “I really love this com- into that because it’s such a byzantine system.” Mass transit also has a significant role in the candimunity and I want to provide independent leadership and date’s agenda. He expressed dismay not only at the state an independent voice.” He will be opposing incumbent Stacey Pheffer Amato of the city’s transit system, but also the lack of funding (D-Rockaway). Pecorino is the current budget director coming into New York from the federal government. “The number that was shocking to me was the fact we for Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park). “Basically I help him formulate his discretionary bud- only get 15 percent of federal transportation funding even though our state is home to 40 percent of all mass get, both capital and expense,” Pecorino said. transit riders,” Pecorino said. “That’s something that is He went to college at SUNY Binghamton for a BA really inequitable that I feel has to be looked at.” in history. From there he received his law degree He argued that while New York should be from Hofstra University. “But I decided I didn’t expected to carry its funding weight, it also really want to practice law,” he said, and should not be burdened by a lack of necessary instead “hung out” gaining experience at an federal support. employment firm for what he described as a “Look, New York is a wealthy state per “few years,” before getting the budgeting capita, relatively speaking. So obviously to opportunity with Ulrich. some extent we’re going to be contributing a It was an experience while he was still at lot, perhaps more than we’re going to get Binghamton that proved critical to his aspira2018 back. But to have it be that unequal when we tions for public office. He worked for the late have a transportation system that’s falling apart ... Assemblyman Thomas Libous, who then repreI think is really an outrage,” he said, adding, “It’s also sented the 51st and later 52nd District. “I did a lot of constituent work at that time. I was pretty much on the why I’m in favor of reviving the Rockaway Beach train front lines. Helping local people with whatever problems station.” Pecorino also offered his thoughts on the contentious popped out remotely related to government.” Pecorino pinpointed challenging current property tax issue regarding the homeless shelter planned for the former Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church in Ozone Park regulations as most important on his agenda. “My number one issue is property taxes,” he said, at 101st Avenue and 86th Street. “The 113 mentally ill men is a uniquely inopportune, elaborating, “What the city can do is set by the state. It results in a situation where you have some wealthy com- inappropriate population to put at that particular locamunities paying a lot less in property taxes on more valu- tion,” he said. “And I feel that it’s wrong to just spring this on a residential community without taking their able properties than middle class communities.” input. As voters, and taxpayers, and responsible adults Pecorino then brought the issue home to Queens. “For example there are people in Park Slope, Brooklyn they should at least be consulted and I feel that wasn’t that pay less on property taxes than people in Hamilton done sufficiently.” The candidate had earlier spoken about his objective Beach or Howard Beach, and I feel that’s unfair.” The candidate threw his support behind existing oppo- to reflect the compassionate conservatism spoken about by former President Bush during his administration, and sition to the status quo. “I feel we need a top-down reform of the property tax his expanded comments on the shelter seemed to reflect system and I endorse gubernatorial candidate Marc that stance. “I think it’s also very important when opposing a Molinaro’s Empire State Freedom Plan to both cut propAssociate Editor

Matt Pecorino, budget director for Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) will be challenging Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway) in the Nov. 6 election for her seat in the state Assembly representing District 23. Pecorino is most concerned with tax and transit PHOTO BY MATT WATERS issues. homeless shelter to not disparage the homeless, and to not disparage people who are mentally disabled. Our community for the most part is a very compassionate community. I think people know that sometimes people get down on their luck, sometimes people are victims of circumstance, and sometimes people are even victims of their own bad decisions, but they are still deserving of compassion,” Pecorino said. The vote to determine who will represent District 23 in the New York State Assembly between Pecorino and Q Pheffer Amato will be Nov. 6.

Queens GOP leader won’t back Pappas by David Russell Associate Editor

Anthony Pappas is running on the Republican line against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez but he doesn’t have the backing of the Queens County GOP. When Chairwoman Joann Ariola-Shanks and Bronx County GOP Chairman Michael Rendino asked Pappas in early September how his fundraising was going, he said that an account with $1,200 was seized because of his divorce case, in which he owes $1.5 million. According to Ariola, Pappas told them there was also a 20-year order of protection against him because of accusations he beat his wife, put her in the hospital and caused facial reconstruction.

“Well, at that point we kind of had to collect ourselves and we told him that very day that we would be rescinding our support for him,” Ariola-Shanks said. “Because we could not, in good, conscience, run a candidate who was involved in a domestic violence incident and had an order of protection against him.” Pappas denied the allegations that he beat his wife. Pappas had come to the party in March seeking its endorsement and they were impressed with his resume. After Ocasio-Cortez pulled off the primary upset, the Queens County GOP asked him if he had started filing out campaign information and he told them he had not. Ariola-Shanksfelt that the race might be too big for him but says, “He was adamant about the fact that he wanted to

run, he was ready to run.” Then came the revelation about the divorce case though Pappas has remained in the race even after losing the official endorsements of the party leaders. How could the party not know about the divorce which has received attention online? “We took it at face value but we have since implemented that anybody coming to the Queens County GOP for endorsement, at their own cost, will have to pay for a background check that we supply,” Ariola said. She recommends that Republicans vote for the Conservative candidate or a write in. Ariola-Shanks added, “I will never, as long as I’m the Q chair, suffer an embarrassment like this ever again.”

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SHSAT controversy continues to divide Rally before meeting to keep the exam for specialized high schools by David Russell Associate Editor

Protesters voiced their objections to the possible repealing of the Specialized High School Admissions Test at a Community Education Council 24 meeting last Tuesday at PS 7. Mayor de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza have placed an emphasis on diversity in schools and contend that scrapping the SHSAT would help. The exam is the sole means of admissions to the city’s “Elite Eight” specialized high schools. The Asian-American community believes it’s being targeted for being successful on the exam, as Asian kids usually receive a little more than half the offers given to city students. “We’re not sacrificing one group of children for another like it’s ‘The Hunger Games,’” said Deborah Alexander, the CEC District 30 copresident who came to the meeting. Two representatives from the city Department of Education, Gabrielle Ramos-Solomon, first deputy of student enrollment, and Samuel Daunt,

associate director of high school admissions, explained the proposal to change the eligibility requirements to attend the eight specialized high schools. Over three years, the SHSAT would be phased out, with offers made to the top 7 percent of students from each public middle school in the city. In year one, the top 3 percent of students from each middle school would receive 25 percent of the offers, with students who qualify through the SHSAT getting the other 75 percent. In year two, the top 5 percent of students from each middle school would receive half, with SHSAT qualifiers receiving the other half. In year three, 90 percent of the offers would go to the top 7 percent of students from each middle school, while nonpublic students, students new to the city and any other student interested in applying with a minimum course grade average of 93 would participate in a lottery for any remaining seats. “The way that the proposal works actually doesn’t look at racial or ethnic groups, either,” Ramos-Solomon

told the assembled crowd. “It looks at the top 7 percent of kids across every single middle school in the city. So we’re not actually looking and saying you are this racial or ethnic group, therefore you get in.” According to city statistics, current students who receive offers have an average GPA of 94 and a 4.1 on state exam proficiency. If the proposal was in place, students would have a GPA of 94 and a 3.9 on state exam proficiency. “What the data is showing us is that there are students who we think can actually perform very well at these schools that are not, for whatever reason, not having access to those schools right now,” RamosSolomon said. Ramos-Solomon and Daunt said they were at the meeting to have a dialogue and receive feedback, though CEC 24 Vice President Henry Choi felt that was false. “You say you’re bringing this discussion and yet they announced these things weeks before the end of the state Assembly ... I find it disingenuous that you come out here now, months after this stuff was

Samuel Daunt, left, and Gabrielle Ramos-Solomon of the Education Department addressing the crowd at last Tuesday’s Community Education Council 24 meeting. They were interrupted several times by people complaining PHOTO BY DAVID RUSSELL about plans to scrap the SHSAT exam. announced in public. It’s been assbackwards,” Choi said. State Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky (D-Flushing) said she was notified on a Saturday morning in April, two hours prior to the mayor’s SHSAT announcement. “Unfortunately the mayor nor the chancellor

met with the parents, the CEC, local community leaders or elected officials,” Stavisky said. Stavisky, who graduated from the Bronx High School of Science and taught at Brooklyn Tech, wants to see the test remain in place with continued on page 27

Legendary coach is locked out of office Ron Naclerio’s room at Cardozo will be used for an ROTC program by David Russell

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Ron Naclerio has been the head basketball coach at Cardozo since 1981 but the two-time PSAL champion is no longer being allowed in his office, which doubles as an unofficial shrine to his FILE PHOTO legendary coaching career.

Ron Naclerio has won almost 800 games as a head basketball coach at Cardozo High School. But now he’s losing his office. The legendary coach is seeing his office, with its walls covered by newspaper clippings and letters spanning his iconic career, replaced for an ROTC program. The year has been a tough one for Naclerio. His team lost the city title game to South Shore. Hours later, one of his former players, Dwayne Brunson, was shot to death in a Kansas bar. Two weeks later, Naclerio’s mother died. Now he’s not welcome in his own office. “Is God telling me something?” asked Naclerio. “Like maybe it’s time to move on from Cardozo?” He took over as head coach in 1981 and has become a staple of high school basketball, leading the Judges to city championships in 1999 and 2014. If the basketball court is his battleground, Naclerio’s office served as his sanctuary. There were countless mementos from his coaching career, including letters from coaches and even current NBA commissioner Adam Silver. And there’s the letter the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote to Naclerio’s father, Emil, after the doctor saved his life in 1958. “In my mind, my players’ minds, my opponents, kids in the school, teachers in the school, New York City, they all say it’s a shrine,” Naclerio said. Naclerio, who shares the office with several other coaches, started decorating it with his accomplishments sometime in the ’90s. He said he doesn’t know where he would be placed but did hear from someone that he might

get a cubicle. An annex is being built so the ROTC program can move in, and the principal, Meagan Colby, told Naclerio she couldn’t ask any other employees to move. “I was at Cardozo before she was born,” Naclerio said. Naclerio, who is retired and coaches as a part-time employee, doesn’t believe he’ll be getting the office back. “I think I have a better chance of hitting Mega Millions,” Naclerio said. Colby did not return a message to speak for this article. Naclerio learned of the news when he saw custodians in his office. “They kind of ignored me and then I saw them playing with the cylinders” on the locks, Naclerio said. “Something was weird and one of them made like he didn’t even see me there because he was too embarassed.” Then he infor med the coach of the situation. “I feel like a teacher of the year that’s now demoted to a substitute teacher.” Cardozo’s opponents would take a tour of the office. Even Jay Wright, who has led Villanova to two of the last three NCAA titles, asked Naclerio what was happening in his office when he saw him last week. Naclerio will miss players becoming ecstatic at seeing their photos on the wall. “I wake up like, ‘Is this really true?’” he said. The coach said perhaps the situation will work out in the end. “Maybe in a year or two I’ll be coaching the Knicks or the Nets or St. John’s or in the D-League and I’ll look back and maybe say this was a blessing,” Naclerio said. Q

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Bank thief strikes twice in same day by Matt Waters Associate Editor

A robber hit the Capital One Bank at 115-20 Jamaica Ave in Richmond Hill last Tuesday at approximately 1:06 p.m. according to police. The cops think the same thief hit a Chase Bank located at 59-26 Woodside Ave about two hours before. At the Capital One in Richmond Hill, the suspect is alleged to have handed a note to the bank teller demanding money. The teller complied and was said to have handed over $17,000. Police say that the individual is described as a white male between 40 and 50 years old who is approximately 6 feet tall. He was last seen wearing a blue jacket, blue jeans, and white Nike sneakers after his robbery of the Capital One Bank. Cops have numerous photographs of the suspect, who may have been wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt underneath his coat. Earlier in the day, at the Chase Bank in Woodside, the thief made identical maneuvers to the robbery which he’d pull

A shot of the suspect after his robbery of PHOTO COURTESY NYPD the Capital One bank. a couple of hours later in south queens. He approached the teller with a note demanding money. Except during the first attempted robbery, one of the workers hit the alarm button, and the suspect fled the scene empty-handed, according to police. It is unknown whether the failure of the first attempted robbery motivated him to pass another note at Capital One on Jamaica Avenue, or whether the two Q had been planned for that day.

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The NYPD is seeking the public’s assistance in identifying and locating three men wanted in connection with a pair of armed robberies of taxi drivers. Both took place in Jamaica within the 103rd Precinct. According to police the first robbery took place at about 4:20 p.m. on Aug. 29 when a driver picked up the three men in the vicinity of 33rd Street and Queens Boulevard in Sunnyside. They asked to be taken to 160th Street and 108th Avenue. Once they were at that location one man took out a knife and held it to the driver’s neck while the other two men patted him down. They took the man’s wallet containing $100 and two credit cards before fleeing into the South Jamaica Houses at 10836 160 St. The second incident took place just after

midnight on Sept. 15 when a driver picked up the men near 110-30 170 St. They asked to be taken to 103-56 Roscoe St., but then told the driver to take them to 107-15 Watson Place. Once there they robbed the driver at gunpoint of his cell phone and $380 in cash. The individuals are described as black males, 19 to 20 years of age and approximately 5 feet, 8 inches tall. The video and photographs provided by the NYPD were taken following the first robbery. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1 (800) 577-TIPS (8477) or, for Spanish, 1 (888) 57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit tips by logging onto nypdcrimestoppers.com, or by texting 274637 (CRIMES), then entering TIP577. Q All tips are strictly confidential.

Hit-and-run on Rockaway A 44-year-old woman was struck by a vehicle early Thursday morning on Rockaway Boulevard and 103rd Street in South Ozone Park. The incident is being classified as a hitand-run by the police. They have yet to reveal details about the woman involved, or the car that hit her. She was rushed to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center and was listed in critical condition later that day. Pedestrian injuries and fatalities are not a new occurence on Rockaway Boulevard. On April 16, 2015, an 88-year-old greatFHOU-074849

great-grandfather named Mohamed Ali was struck while he rode his bike on 131st Street near Rockaway Boulevard. Ali was taken off life support by his family nine days later. The driver who hit him reportedly never slowed down while leaving the scene of the accident. On Dec. 12, 2015, a 73-year-old man named Ramnauth Mahabir was struck on 115th Street by a Chevrolet Silverado turning left onto the boulevard. Mahabir died of his injuries 18 days Q later and no arrests were made. — Matt Waters

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Richard Carranza’s appearance was part of College Application Week by David Russell Associate Editor

As part of College Application Week, Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza visited Queens Metropolitan High School last Tuesday morning. The school was one of 467 in the city, including 83 in the borough, participating. The schools offer college application sessions, college tours and workshops for students to help complete their Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Carranza told assembled students, parents and alumni that his parents had told him he was going to college but didn’t have such help available. “They didn’t know what a FAFSA was, they didn’t know what a college curriculum was, they didn’t know what the prerequisites were,” Carranza said. The chancellor drew some murmurs from the high school students when he said he graduated back in 1984. Unlike now, he says it was on him to find the answers he needed when applying to college. “It was like a mystery,” Carranza said. “And there was a great guidance counselor in our high school but there were 800 of us and there was one of her, so in a lot respects we had to figure it out.” Students have taken tours at Fairfield, Adelphi, Fordham, Marist, Rutgers, Barnard, Iona, Sacred Heart, Yale and the University of Pennsylvania. “We have been able to take every one of our students on college trips each year, giving them exposure, especially to those students who may not otherwise get to go to a college campus,” said Dena Freeman, one of

four college advisors at the school. Joining Carranza was state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach), who has been involved with the school and likes its college prep. “I was always impressed f rom the moment I heard about it,” Addabbo said. They sat in with school Principal Saida Rodriguez-Tabone and other school employees as they heard from students and alumni. One student addressing Carranza was Kevin Flores, who wants to pursue a degree in medicine and is looking to be the first member of his family to graduate college. Carranza told the students they don’t have to know for sure what they want to do with the rest of their lives. “You may graduate from high school and you may think this is exactly what I want to study and you may get to college and university and decide, guess what, I think it’s not what I want to study,” Carranza said. “I want you to know it’s OK. Take a breath. Because when I graduated I wanted to be an engineer.” He added, “If I can do it, you can definitely do it.” In a press release, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz said, “The college application process can be overwhelming for both students and parents alike. But the variety of resources offered during College Application Week can provide much-needed guidance and support for students and their families. More than 80 Queens schools are taking part in this week’s initiative, giving countless Queens students the help they need to find their dream school and pursue Q higher education.”

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Sunnyside resident is new LPC chair Sarah Carroll talks to the Chronicle about preserving Queens history by David Russell Associate Editor

Sunnyside resident Sarah Carroll is several weeks into her job as chairperson of the Landmarks Preservation Commission. According to LPC Director of Communications Zodet Negron there is “99.9 percent” certainty that Carroll is the first Queens resident to serve as chairperson, though the residency of the commission’s first chair is unknown. “I’m very excited to be a chair from Queens and a borough that I have a real connection to,” Carroll told the Chronicle. “And I’m very honored to have this opportunity.” Borough residents have long felt like historical structures have been overlooked in favor of Manhattan landmarks but Carroll says part of that is because the commission began in the middle of the 1960s. “It’s largely a 20th-century borough and I think unlike Manhattan and Brooklyn, which were largely 19th-century buildings, in 1966 when the commission was founded, these buildings were not that old — and I think that’s the kind of interesting thing about preservation, is that it’s an ever-evolving thing and the further you move forward in time, your perspective shifts and you look at things a different way,” Carroll said. She said while the LPC did put a lot of focus on Manhattan early on, it has prioritized

Sunnyside resident Sarah Carroll is the new chairwoman of the Landmarks Preservation Commission. She is likely the first Queens resident to serve as chairperson in the 52 years PHOTO COURTESY LPC of the LPC. looking at areas in all five boroughs. “Our earliest designations focused on early Colonial homes or brownstones and 19th-century high-style apartment buildings and commercial buildings that are very typical of Manhattan and Brooklyn,” Carroll said. “But here we are in the 21st century and we have a new perspective on the 20th century.”

One thing she finds interesting about Queens is that the borough has some of the oldest buildings in the city associated with Colonial settlements, such as King Manor in Jamaica. And there is St. James Episcopal Church in Elmhurst, the oldest remaining Church of England mission church in the city, which was recently landmarked. Carroll mentioned other notable locations in the borough. Sunnyside Gardens is one of most significant planned residential communities in the city. The Queens Plaza clock tower was considered to be the first skyscraper in the borough when it was dedicated in 1927. The Unisphere was the logo of the 1964/65 World’s Fair and celebrated the dawn of the space age. “And I think there is a lot more to do and I think this is the opportunity to do it now that we’re here in the 21st century and can look back at the 20th century with a new lens,” Carroll said. The number of applications has expanded in her 24 years at the LPC, she noted, and technology has allowed the members to review things more efficiently. Carroll was intrigued by architecture from a young age, something she believes is typical for most preservationists. “I think it’s something that you grow up with,” she said. “I had a family of designers

and so we were always raised to be kind of interested in aesthetics whether it be art or the built environment.” She earned her undergrad degree in art history from Bates College. Later, she earned a master’s of fine arts degree in historic preservation from the Savannah College of Art and Design. “I think it’s very interesting that you can be in different places and your experience is really defined by the built environment and so I think that’s why I really felt a calling and I felt that I wanted to participate in that,” Carroll said. Carroll can’t pick her favorite building. “It’s sort of like picking your favorite child,” Carroll said, laughing. “It’s very hard to pick a favorite and I think that’s because our built environment is so varied. There’s your favorite skyscraper, there’s your favorite neighborhood and even different districts have different characters that speak to you in a different way.” Marking a neighborhood as a historical district also falls under LPC jurisdiction. A few years ago, Broadway-Flushing was denied historical status. Carroll said the LPC evaluated the area a number of times over a decade and that it lacked a “historical fabric” because so many buildings had been refaced and changed. “Some of them are quite pleasant-looking but they don’t look at all like the historic continued on page 24

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‘Young and Mighty’ march rallies kids for Queens, city and world causes by Victoria Zunitch Chronicle Contributor

What do children want society to pay attention to? Choo-choos, Rohingya children in Bangladesh, the environment, and Black Lives Matter, among others, from the lighthearted to the somber. Having a message was, itself, the message last Sunday in Sunnyside, where about 200 people, many of them NYC’s littlest citizens, showed up for a “Young and Mighty” rally and march, the first event organized by Parade, a new Queens-based public arts organization. The rally was conceived by Nancy Kleaver, which she organized along with longtime friend Paddy Johnson. “I really wanted this whole thing to look like a kid takeover,” Johnson said. Despite Parade’s arts focus, she said she really didn’t see the event as art until art director Kate Marks got involved. Johnson said that in the current political climate, she noticed that adults aged 18-23 are more politically aware than other age groups, but believe less in the power of their vote. It made her want to show kids that they are powerful and that they can have an effect on the world. Donna Meredith said she asked her son, Chet Meredith, age 2, what he wanted people to know about. His answer, “More choo-

Children took their voices to the streets in Sunnyside last Sunday to bring attention to their conPHOTO BY VICTORIA ZUNITCH cerns on a variety of issues. choos,” became a sign with scribbles that resemble the subway system as depicted in a book they recently read together, she said. Manhattan participants included those with a banner from the Children’s Museum of the Arts and seven students from the Young

Ethical Explorers program of the New York Society for Ethical Culture, a nonreligious Sunday school alternative that teaches, among other things, “positive marching.” Among them was Marifer, age 8, who spoke up for the right to outdoor school recess time.

Ellis Rubin, a high school student who served as emcee, explained about peaceful protest at the start of the rally. “Our freedom of speech should not mean violence,” he said. “Please make sure not to push or bully counter-protestors,” though none were visible or expected, he noted. “We are all important, we matter and we are going to show everyone that we matter,” Rubin said. William Lohier, a Stuyvesant High School junior who has been named the 2018 Youth Poet Laureate by NYC Votes and Urban Word NYC, read his original poem, “Voting in a Black Hole.” The poem addresses voting as a lethal weapon against anti-black racism. “Because our votes can look this city in the eye and tame it. And say, you have looked at me as prey, but I am a carnivore. And I refuse to be swallowed today,” the poem concludes. Asha Mackay, an Institute for Collaborative Education student, represented Hallie’s Angels, formed by the parents of Hallie Kassandra Geier, who died at age 11 in 2004 after being struck by an SUV in Sunnyside and is dedicated to helping children advocate for causes they believe in. She told the kids they could be the kind of superhero Hallie wanted to be, ”the people you see picking up trash on your way to school.” continued on page 24

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Battling stigma with the spoken word Zucker Hillside Hospital peer counselors talk about struggles with mental illness by Ryan Brady Associate Editor

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, almost one in four Americans battles mental illness. And because of the stigma attached to psychiatric disorders, many feel like they can’t discuss dealing with them openly. But that wasn’t the case at Zucker Hillside Hospital in Glen Oaks last Thursday, when three of four brave Queens residents fought the stigma and recited poetry about their battles with mental illness and another one of them gave a motivational speech. They all live every day with a psychiatric disorder but, owing to their scrupulous adherence to therapy and medication, live successful lives. They all work as peer counselors for Zucker Hillside’s personalized recovery-oriented services program. Richmond Hill resident Rich Alexandro, 51, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at 18. He struggled with hallucinations, even the delusion that he was Jesus Christ. In the style of a slam poet, he dropped bars about his fight with the disease. “I’ma act normal, whatever that means/Playin’ fake scenes and routines ’cuz I inherited blue genes,” the Richmond Hill resident rapped. “But delusions of grandeur hit and I’m damn sure/That I’m Rakim and Whitman combined — I don’t need a cure.” His mother, Pat, is also a poet but she uses the free verse style. And she’s a bipolar disorder patient, too. Before reading her poems last Thursday, she said she hoped to show “listeners that there’s no need to be afraid of mental illness or persons who have it.” Pat Alexandro, who lives in Bellerose, spoke about getting hospitalized with post-partum depression in 1974, months after her fourth child was born. She had suffered a psychological breakdown, after months of intense stress that included a fear that her newborn baby would die. She read poems to the group, including one about her break and another about undergoing electroconvulsive therapy. To close, she finished with one she said “reflects where I am right now, what I have come to believe about myself and others:” “Take me as I am/I’m in the process/of becoming/someone really/quite spectacular/just as you are/For so it was ordained/before our birth/(A cheerful thought)/Yet for the moment/a reminder:/It takes time/So please be patient/with me now/and take me as I am/and I in turn/will take you/as you are.” Michelle Benjamin of Bayside, 50, has battled depression and schizoaffective mood disorder. She suffered a breakdown several years ago and brought herself to Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park and was treated there.

Carroll LPC continued from page 22 photographs of them,” Carroll said. In general, the designation process is now quicker and more efficient than it used to be. In the past, an item would be put on the calendar and then research would be done before a hearing and vote. “We have really front-loaded the research so by the time that we put it on a calendar, we’re pretty confident in the research and we’re able to start to draft the narrative and the findings for why something should be designated and then we’re able to share that with property owners

Rich Alexandro of Richmond Hill speaks at a spoken word event at Zucker Hillside Hospital in Glen Oaks with other folks who’ve struggled with mental illness but now work as peer PHOTO BY RYAN BRADY counselors for the medical facility. “I am here to fight stigma,” Benjamin said at the event last Thursday. Before reading her poem, she discussed how a figure from her childhood led her and others who grew up in Cambria Heights to get a distorted idea about what mental illness typically is. “There was a man who walked on the yellow lines,” the Bayside resident said. “And so, the kids used to point and laugh at him. He’d talk to himself and he’d continue walking on all the yellow lines. Cars would beep at him and the kids would continue laughing. And so that was my idea and my community’s idea of what mental illness looks like.” In her poem, “My State of Psychosis,” Benjamin takes listeners into the thought process of someone experiencing extreme psychic pain. “Feel that feeling of being watched/having done nothing wrong./Unmarked cars fielding the area/looking for

prior to the hearing,” Carroll said. Some things would be on the calendar for decades, leaving properties in limbo. There is also more transparency because owners previously had no idea what would be talked about during a hearing. Could either of President Trump’s childhood homes in Jamaica Estates be landmarked one day? Carroll said she couldn’t comment without seeing the building but, “When we evaluate properties, we evaluate them based on their architectural significance, historical significance, cultural significance. When you think about historical and cultural significance that sort of needs to be reflected in the physical fabric and Q the architecture.”

evidence of everything/and nothing at all./But I know they want me,/being that I’m seeing pixels and between them/ are messages commanding me to do everything/and nothing at all.” Another resident of Bayside, Brendan Foley, 41, spoke at Thursday’s event but didn’t read poems — he opted to give the crowd a motivational type of speech about his struggles. When he was 18, Foley was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Although he dropped out of college, he ultimately received a master’s degree in history. He brought up his various career dead-ends, which included stints as a teacher and working in politics. “I worked as a paralegal until I couldn’t really get a job in that field. I wanted to be Martin Scorsese — I’m not,” Foley said. “I wanted to be a politician. I wanted to be a lawyer. I wanted to be lots of things. “But I decided that I was bipolar and so therefore I couldn’t be any of those things and eventually it became my cross to bear,” he added. For almost five years, Foley didn’t work. He described staring “at the wall a lot” and excessively watching daytime television. “So, what was my narrative, you ask?” Foley said. “Well, my therapist kind of codified it: ‘I am a loser, I am a failure, I have nowhere to go but down.’ “How did I get better? I began to realize that I was a man before I was an illness.” Despite coming across as a natural when he was speaking, the Bayside resident told the Chronicle he doesn’t have an extensive background in public speaking other than college debate. In an interview after her performance, Benjamin said she hopes her poetry can affect the thinking of others battling psychiatric illness. “I know how I used to be and I know a lot of people still think that way,” she said. While Rich Alexandro may deliver his poetry in the slam style, he said he prefers not to think of it like that because of the poetry genre’s association with competition. “I will however, YouTube all these slam poets. They inspire me sometimes, if I’m feeling a little blocked up,” said the Richmond Hill man, who likes old-school rap. “But I don’t care who wins. ... But I really like shy away from art and competition. I don’t think they really go together.” His mother, Pat, told the Chronicle she started writing verse in 1980, four years after her psychological breakdown. She reflected on how far she’s come. “I’ve been at the lowest possible point in the world and now look at me. I’m up and about,” she said. “I mean I could have an episode at any time. But I also have an incredible Q sense of, ‘We can do this.’”

‘Young and Mighty’ march continued from page 23 Yordy, a Guatemalan immigrant, said in Spanish that he feels safer in America after his mom fled to the U.S. with her sons, leaving daughters behind, because she felt the boys would be more vulnerable to violence. Hannah, a high school student from Queens who withheld her last name, sang songs, including the jazzy tune, “Why Don’t You Do Right Like Some Other Men Do?” with musical back-up from Ean Valte, a Queens high schooler, and Ian Ackerman, a City Tech student. Rubin, Elmo and Big Bird led the march

while chanting around several square blocks of Sunnyside. Elmo’s high-adrenaline vocals are pitch-perfect for protest. He was particularly enthusiastic. “Tell me what an activist looks like. This is what an activist looks like!” Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) noted afterward that he has known many of the participants since they were tots. “We always talk about what democracy looks like, and democracy starts very, very Q young,” he told the crowd.

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by Victoria Zunitch Chronicle Contributor

Imagine LaGuardia Airport and the state-ofthe-art NYPD Police Academy in College Point under a few feet of water. Picture the College Point Shopping Center, built on spongy land, under water. Now imagine all that water contaminated by leaks from the Tallman Island Wastewater Treatment Plant in Powell’s Cove, like what happened during Hurricane Florence in the Carolinas this season. These are very real possibilities for the peninsular College Point area if sea levels rise by just 1 or 2 feet under catastrophic climate change. These dire warnings were shared at a climate change event held last Friday at the Poppenhusen Institute in College Point sponsored by the Coastal Preservation Network, New York Communities for Change and Alexandria OcasioCortez, who stunned the political establishment by toppling Queens Democratic boss Rep. Joe Crowley (D-Queens, Bronx) in a June primary for the 14th Congressional District. She is expected to easily win the general election. CPN founders Kathryn Cervino and her husband, James Cervino, spoke about the threat to College Point and its coastline in the context of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s recent warning that humanity has as little as 12 years to limit global warming to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit to prevent a climate catastrophe, including droughts, floods, fires and extreme poverty.

Coastal Preservation Network founders Kathryn and James Cervino, left, stand with congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a climate change-focused event at the Poppenhusen PHOTO BY VICTORIA ZUNITCH Institute in College Point last Friday. James Cervino noted the importance of preserving and increasing vegetation, especially older trees, noting that the larger the trunk, the more CO2 is trapped inside. “Cut down a 300 year-old tree, release 300 years of CO2,” he said. Ocasio-Cortez called climate change “an existential threat.” The candidate said America is up to the challenge, just as it succeeded against a previous existential threat, World War II. “We have been here before,” she added.

In her other remarks and in response to a question from the audience, she said national issues can be effectively addressed amid severe partisanship by focusing on the shared problems of people rather than conflicts of parties. “A flood does not care if you’re a Republican or a Democrat,” Ocasio-Cortez said. Other speakers urged local action, including getting NYC’s biggest climate polluters, which are its largest residential and commercial buildings, retrofitted for energy efficiency. Press members attending the event were

asked by Ocasio-Cortez campaign staffers to sit in Poppenhusen’s rickety back-of-room balcony, but it remained populated by a solitary smartphone videographer in an Ocasio-Cortez T-shirt. The campaign had been criticized for banning press from two town hall events and ultimately dropped the policy. Ocasio-Cortez stayed for the entire event and hung out for chats and photos with as many citizens as who asked. But reporters who asked were told by campaign staffers that they weren’t allowed to ask the candidate questions. The Chronicle was unaware of the rule and asked her what she would want to do as a member of Congress for city schools, specifically those in her district. Ocasio-Cortez began to answer, but press representative Corbin Trent and another campaign staffer took her by the arm and quickly escorted her out of the room. Twice more, while the candidate was being physically moved out of the room, she tried to answer the question, speaking over her shoulder and smiling, but the staff members who had her by the arm were moving her too quickly for her to effectively speak. At one point, she addressed Trent in a comment that couldn’t be heard. He replied that one question would become five and there wasn’t time for that. Ocasio-Cortez remained on the premises for at least another five minutes. The campaign didn’t immediately respond to a Chronicle email asking why Ocasio-Cortez was physically moved when she was speaking and if her agreement with press staff lets them Q override her wishes to answer questions.

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Forest Hills temple hosts refugees House of worship celebrates National Shabbat 2018 with Guatemalan family by Mark Lord Chronicle Contributor

National Refugee Shabbat 2018 hit very close to home in at least one area synagogue last Friday night, as the Reform Temple of Forest Hills welcomed into its m i d s t a f a m i l y of r ef u g e e s f r o m Guatemala. The designation is an opportunity for congregations, organizations and individuals around the country to create a Shabbat, or Jewish Sabbath, experience dedicated to refugees. “It’s one thing to read about families being ripped apart; it’s another thing to see the challenge of reunification,” said Barry Joseph, who heads the temple’s Task Force on Immigrants and Refugees. The group’s formation was a response to the global refugee crisis and what it calls “our nation’s current xenophobic policies and increasingly hostile anti-immigration legislation and rhetoric.” According to Joseph, the Task Force had received requests in the past to help refugee and immigrant families but didn’t have the resources to do so. Last January, the group became affiliated with the Synagogue Coalition on the Refugee and Immigration Crisis, allowing it to connect to similar citywide and national efforts. The temple’s Task Force has grown from three founding members to include dozens of congregants. And many of them were on hand to welcome the family to their special Friday night services. Juana Paulina Soch Tohom, her husband Adolfo, daughter Yoselyn and nephew Allan sat as honored guests in the front row of the sanctuary. Though understanding ver y little English and even less Hebrew, the two languages comprising the services, they seemed to feel right at home. No wonder. They had already met some temple members on prior occasions, and throughout the evening, beginning before the services, even some new friends came up to the family, offering words of wel-

A family of Guatemalan refugees, standing front and center, poses for a pic with members of the Reform Temple of Forest Hills’ cantor, rabbi and members of its Task Force on Immigrants and PHOTOS BY MARK LORD Refugees last Friday night.

come and warm embraces. Juana kissed each well wisher on the cheek. And the services were made to order, featuring music chosen specially for the o c c a s io n a n d g u e s t s p e a ke r s w h o addressed the issues at hand. While many traditional Sabbath service melodies were heard, a spotlight was shined on music by composers who were themselves refugees. Among those saluted was Kurt Weill, best known for his work, “The Threepenny Opera,” who was born in Germany and emigrated to the United States. His only liturgical piece for worship, the “Kiddush,” was sung as part of Friday’s services, as was a composition by Lazar Weiner, born in a small town in Ukraine, eventually settling in Flushing, where he passed away in 1982. Julie Schwietert Collazo and her husband Francisco, who co-founded Immigrant Families Together, a movement to help reunite detained parents and their children, spoke. It was Collazo who paid the $15,000 bond to ICE to secure Juana’s release. “We set up a caravan of volunteer drivers and brought her from Arizona to New York, where she reu nited with Yoselyn, her daughter, who had been separated from her at the border, and Adolfo, whom she had not seen for at least eight years,” Collazo explained to the congregation. “It would take more than a month, but we would Juana Palina Soch Tohom, second from right, stands with eventually help them secure her nephew Allan, daughter Yoselyn and husband Adolfo at the release of their nephew.” It was through the temple’s the Reform Temple of Forest Hills last Friday.

involvement in SCRIC that Collazo and the house of worship came together. “With deliberate, coordinated efforts, you not only welcomed this family, you gave them literal shelter,” she said. Shortly after Collazo met the family, they were evicted from the apartment they shared with several other immigrants and they had no viable options, she said. “Members of your congregation opened their home and took Juana and her family in,” she continued. Among those congregants in attendance were some who found a property manager, an immigrant herself, who, Collazo said, “took on faith that we would make good on our promise to pay the family’s rent.” While Collazo said she never found out many of the finer details of what the family’s life was like in their native country, she described photos she has seen of their home there: a concrete block square with no floor, no windows, no running water,

and no electricity. “I have a sense of why she left,” Collazo said. According to Lois Silverman, who cochairs the Task Force’s Tzedakah component, dedicated specifically to building relationships with recent immigrants and providing a supportive and welcoming environment, “We wanted to do something concrete, helping people we could get to know.” She indicated that congregants have already stepped up with offers of furniture and clothing, as well as financial help and even bi-lingual services. “Not only were we pleased to help the family, we feel great affection toward them,” she said. According to Silver man, Adolfo is employed in construction, and the two younger family members are attending a local high school. “Once they’re on their feet, we’ll let them manage on their own,” she said of the family. “But the friendship will last indefinitely.” The National Refugee Shabbat is a project of HIAS, an organization founded as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. It has expanded to assist refugees of all faiths and ethnicities and is now known simply as HIAS, a global nonprofit. “We are witnesses to one of the largest humanitarian crises in human history,” HIAS says on its website. “We must give voice to our values as Jews and as Americans and stand up for the safety and the lives of people around the world.” Joseph reflects this philosophy, saying that the temple’s Task Force affords the “opportunity to live our values. It has been upsetting to so many of us to see public policy in recent years become so hostile to people in need. The work has only just begun.” At Friday’s services, the temple’s spiritual leader, Rabbi Mark Kaiserman suggested it is “time to draw closer to each other.” He later added, “In Jewish history, we know what it is like to have to flee a country or to live among strangers seeking help. We can definitely make a huge difQ ference in one family’s life.”

Trump transgender memo continued from page 2 community and their allies’ simplest countermeasure is also its most important one. “Get out to the polls on Nov. 6 and change Congress,” he said. Melissa Sklarz, a transgender activist who challenged Assemblyman Brian Barnwell (D-Maspeth) for this year’s Democratic nomination in the 30th District, also believes it is an attack on the transgender community, but one that has questionable chances to succeed in the long term. “It’s shocking that the Trump administration is trying to undo civil rights advances

from the last 20 years,” she said. “Just when we’re celebrating equality under the law for all Americans the Trump administration has determined that not everyone qualifies.” Like Park, she believes the HHS could be facing an uphill battle. “I don’t believe [the proposed changes] will work,” she said. “I don’t believe they’d survive a court challenge.” Sklarz said the courts may not want to tackle cases that deal with eliminating people’s identity via executive order. “Gender ID appears to be too complicatQ ed,” she said.

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SJU honors Marie-Lise Gazarian, a professor of Spanish and director of the graduate program in Spanish at St. John’s University, has been honored by the government of Ecuador and the Foundation for the Integration and Development of Latin America with the Life Path to Educational Excellence Recognition Award. The award is given each year to exceptional teachers and professionals in Latin America, Spain and the United States for a lifetime of outstanding commitment to students; and for the promotion of Hispanic literature and IberoAmerican culture.

Law and ardor Queens District Attorney Richard Brown, left, on Friday presented his office’s 2018 Hispanic Heritage Award to Queens College President and former Hostos Community College President Felix V. Matos Rodriguez. “Not only is President Matos Rodríguez heralded for his work in academia — most recently for his work to improve Hostos College’s academic and financial reputations

— but he is also lauded for his work to advance and influence the lives of Hispanic Americans through his extensive public service initiatives,” Brown said. Matos Rodríguez, a native of San Juan, Puerto Rico, earned his graduate degree in Latin American Studies from Yale University and a Ph.D. in histor y from Columbia University.

continued from page 16 more emphasis on preparing students at younger ages. “The solution then is to improve K through 8, identifying youngsters at an early age and providing the resources,” Stavisky said. “It’s no quick fix.” She also mentioned that the city talks about doing this for poor students but many Asians find themselves in poverty. Protesters rallied outside the school before the meeting. Community activist Charlie Vavruska, whose daughter graduated from Brooklyn Tech, said, “Chinese parents, they believe that hard work should be rewarded and fundamentally that’s an American value. The Chinese community has really embraced the American dream and wants to keep open the schools.” William Kregler, who ran for Queens borough president last year, took aim at the mayor. “He wants to turn you into the peasants that he believes you should be,” Kregler told the protesters. Also rallying outside the school was David Lee, founder of Coalition EDU, Coalition Supporting Specialized High Schools. Lee spoke about the importance of protesting against de Blasio’s plan. “He has unlimited resources to go and spread what he wants,” Lee said. “But we don’t have that. We can do this Q though.”

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Make the most of your home improvement dollars Home improvement projects provide homeowners with a chance to put their own stamp on their homes. In addition, many such projects make homes safer and, in some instances, more eco-friendly. The opportunity to make a home more comfortable, safer and/or more eco-friendly entices many homeowners to open their wallets. In fact, the Home Improvement Research Institute estimates that the home improvement products market will grow by more than 5 percent in 2018. Homeowners might experience some sticker shock when researching home improvement projects or receiving estimates from contractors. But there are ways for budget-conscious homeowners to transform their homes and still make the most of their home improvement dollars. • Do your homework. Each year, Remodeling magazine publishes its “Cost vs. Value Report,” a comprehensive study of 21 popular remodeling projects in 149 United States markets. The report notes the value each project retains at resale in 100 markets across the country. Homeowners who want to get the strongest return on investment can access the “Cost vs. Value Report” (remodeling.how.net) to see which home improvement projects are best suited for them.

• Do some of the labor yourself. Homeowners willing to swing a hammer also can stretch their home improvement dollars. For example, the home improvement resource “This Old House” notes that homeowners willing to do their own demolition before the contractors arrive can save substantial amounts of money. A professional contractor may charge $1,000 to demo a 200-squarefoot deck, but “This Old House” estimates that homeowners who demo their own decks may spend only $450 (for the Dumpster rental and parking permit). • Hire a consultant. The DIY movement is incredibly popular, no doubt thanks to television channels such as HGTV and the DIY Network. Homeowners with DIY experience may be able to complete projects on their own with little consultation from professional contractors. Some contractors may not offer consulting services, however. The consultation route, which typically requires paying licensed contractors hourly fees to offer guidance, should only be considered by homeowners with legitimate DIY skills, for whom this option can be a great way to save money. • Schedule renovations during homeowner-friendly times of year. Summer and fall tend to be contractors’ busy seasons and

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Projects for your fall to-do list Homeowners know that maintaining a home can be a yearround job. No home is immune to wear and tear and homeowners who want to protect their real estate investments should try to stay two steps ahead to ensure their homes do not succumb to the elements or become outdated and unappealing to prospective buyers. Fall has become a season that’s synonymous with home improvement, but homeowners need not wait until the leaves begin changing colors to start planning their next projects. The following are a few items homeowners can add to their fall home improvement to-do lists. • Roof inspection. Less precipitation tends to fall during the warmer months than during the late fall and winter. As a result, homeowners may not be aware of leaky roofs until autumn has come and gone. But waiting until winter to inspect the roof can prove disastrous, as weather conditions will not be conducive to inspection and increased precipitation may result in potentially costly damage. Leaky roofs can be easily identified by looking for water stains on interior ceilings. Once you see a stain, you can climb onto the roof to identify the location of the leak and fix it before winter rains and snowfall turn the problem into something much larger. Inspect your ceilings for signs of leaking after a strong rainfall, and then address any leaks immediately. • Gutter cleaning. While some homeowners prefer to delay their gutter-cleaning projects until late fall, those whose homes are surrounded by trees may need to schedule two such projects. Gutters clogged with leaves and other debris can cause serious roof damage, and that damage can extend all the way inside a home. In addition, clogged gutters make

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They are a means of measurement and the entirety of recorded word and image; an amplification or de-escalation of sound; a structure and a void. Volumes contain multitudes. Literally, yes, but also in meaning. From its sprawling soundscape-mural of the four seasons, to its billowing blue cyanotype, some of the qualities of the biennial event, the “Queens International,” are truly voluminous. Stretching from the Queens Museum in Corona to three Queens Library branches and spanning forty-three artists and collectives with ties to fifteen Queens neighborhoods, the “Queens International 2018: Volumes” is a massive undertaking. It’s hosted throughout the entirety of the museum’s 105,000 square feet, including the 50,000 added during the 2013 renovation. A second phase of the renovation will incorporate a branch of the Queens Library into the Queens Museum in 2021. However, scale of size is perhaps the least consequential meaning contained within “Volumes.” The exhibition is the museum’s first such partnership with the Queens Library, whose Central, Flushing and LeFrak City locations will play host to events and their own art interventions — the first time the museum will host any “Queens International” exhibits off-site. The core focus of the show, born of this partnership, is the restructuring of frameworks and changing organizational principles. Distinctions are fuzzed, definitions questioned and the abstract embraced. Jackson Height’s Brian Droitcour and Astoria’s Christine Wong Yap ask visitors to directly engage with the artwork, formulate their own opinions and call into question the distinction between viewer and critic through their project, “The People’s Guide to the Queens International.” At a library, one would typically use a catalog system to navigate, while museums lend themselves to freeform movement, governed by the confines of space. Here too, the show invites visitors to tweak their experiences. Accompanying the exhibition is its own website, conceived of by Queens artist Ryan Kuo, where anyone with internet access can view and learn more about the show’s pieces.

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W H AT ’ S H A P P E N I N G EXHIBITS “Winged Jewels of the Forest,” with impactful images of birds taken in Rockefeller State Park Preserve in Pleasantville, NY, by 10 photographers who are birders. Thru Sun., Oct. 28, New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Corona. Free with admission: $16; $13 seniors, kids, students with ID. Info: (718) 699-0005, nysci.org.

Gilberto Santa Rosa, the six-time Grammy winner from Puerto Rico known as the “Caballero (Gentleman) of Salsa.” Sat., Oct. 27, 8 p.m., Colden Auditorium, Queens College, 153-49 Reeves Ave., Flushing. $42-$99. Info: (718) 793-0923, kupferbergcenter.org.

Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts, with works in multiple media from watercolors to sound installations, tracing “withdrawal as an art form” and compelling viewers to relinquish the safety of the familiar. Thru Feb. 2019, MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City. $10; $5 students, seniors; free under 16; free to all Oct. 21. Info: (718) 784-2084, momaps1.org. “From the Desert to the City: The Journey of Late Ancient Textiles,” with decorative cloths from 3rd- to 7th-century Egypt, Coptic pieces and contemporary works inspired by them. Thru Thu., Dec. 13, Godwin-Ternbach Museum, at Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing. Free. Info: (718) 997-4747, gtmuseum.org. “Complicated Territory,” with works in various media by three artists taking a contemporary look at traditionally female subjects and forms such as interiors, domesticity, florals and handicraft. Thru Sun., Dec. 16, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, 11-03 45 Ave., Long Island City. Free. Info: (718) 937-6317, dorsky.org. “A Whole Different Ball Game: Playing Through 60 Years of Sports Video Games,” with more than 30 playable games from 1958, when the first, Tennis for Two debuted, through today, with consideration of various elements of sports gaming. Thru Sun., March 10, 2019, Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria. $15; $11 seniors, students; $9 kids 3-17; includes full museum admission. Info: (718) 777-6888, movingimage.us.

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Shirathon, a concert of Jewish music featuring cantors from area synagogues. Sun., Oct. 28, 2 p.m., Flushing-Fresh Meadows Jewish Center, 19310 Peck Ave. Free. Info: (718) 357-5100.

“Domingo Carrasco: Themes & Variations,” with paintings and works on paper by the Queens native that celebrate line, color and classical forms, attempting to idealize the human spirit. Thru the end of Dec., QED, 27-16 23 Ave., Astoria. Free. Info: (347) 451-3873, qedastoria.com. “Roadside Attraction,” with marvels and oddities including trade signs, decorative art objects and more that capture the American fascination with the open road, from the 18th thru late 19th centuries. Thru Thu., Jan. 3., American Folk Art Museum’s SelfTaught Genius Gallery, 47-29 32 Place, Long Island City. Free. Info: (212) 595-9533, folkartmuseum.org.

THEATRE “The King and I,” the hit Rodgers and Hammerstein musical loosely based on the true-life relationship between a young British teacher and the king of Siam in the 1860s, by Theatre By the Bay. Sat.,

HALLOWEEN Halloween Masquerade Ball, with four-course dinner, unlimited beer, wine and soda, entertainment, dancing, prizes for best costumes and more, to benefit the Bobbi & the Strays animal rescue group. Thu., Oct. 25, 7 p.m.-12 a.m., Russo’s On The Bay, 162-45 Cross Bay Blvd., Howard Beach. $100. Info: (718) 845-0779, (917) 2139840, bobbiandthestrays.org. A doggie costume contest is just one of the many activities for kids and adults alike at Socrates Sculpture Park’s Halloween Harvest Festival, set for Saturday. See Halloween. PHOTO COURTESY SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK

Oct. 27 and Nov. 3 and 10, 8 p.m.; Sun., Oct. 28 and Nov. 4 and 11, 3 p.m., Bay Terrace Garden Jewish Center, 1300 209 St., Bayside. $22; $20 seniors over 61; kids under 13; $2 more at the door. Info: (718) 428-6363, theatrebythebayny.com. “The Babylon Line,” a drama set in 1967 Levittown, LI, about a creative writing teacher who reverse commutes on the LIRR and his adult education students, by the Douglaston Community Theatre. Fri.-Sat., Nov. 2-3, 9-10 and 16-17, 8 p.m.; Sun., Nov. 11, Sat., Nov. 17, 2 p.m., Zion Episcopal Church, Church St. off Douglaston Pkwy., 243-01 Northern Blvd. $19; $17 seniors, students. Info: (718) 4823332, dctonline.org. “Macbeth,” Shakespeare’s timeless, tragic tale of ambition, murder and madness in the pursuit of tyrannical power, by the Gingerbread Players, starring Lauren Snyder and Andrew Dinan, above. Sat., Nov. 3, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Nov. 4 and Sat.-Sun., Nov. 10-11, 2:30 p.m., St. Luke’s Church, 85 Greenway S., Forest Hills. $15; $12 each for groups of six or more. Info: (718) 268-7772, gingerbreadplayers.org.

Murder Mystery Dinner: “Murder at the World’s Fair!”, an evening of dinner, music and mystery, with the 1939-40 World’s Fair as the setting, by the Josephine Foundation Actors. Fri.-Sat., Nov. 2-3, 7 p.m., Maple Grove Cemetery Celebration Hall, 127-15 Kew Gardens Road, Kew Gardens. $35. Info: (347) 878-6614, friendsofmaplegrove.org. FringeBYOV Festival, with three plays: “Joe Charnitski: An Actual Patriot,” “Crime of the Hour” and “If It Isn’t You”; all “Bring Your Own Venue” shows for the festival. Thru Wed., Oct. 31, various dates and times, The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23 St., Long Island City. $18 each show. Info: (718) 392-0722, secrettheatre.com. “Steel Magnolias,” a radio play-style production of the comedy-drama about the lives of six strong women in the deep bayous of Louisiana, by LA Theatre Works. Sat., Oct. 27, 2 and 8 p.m.; Sun., Oct. 28, 3 p.m., Queens Theatre, 14 United Nations Ave. S., Flushing Meadows Corona Park. $20-$42. Info: (718) 760-0064, queenstheatre.org. “Reunion in Bartersville,” a comedic mystery revolving around a 50-year high school reunion gone awry. Fri.-Sat., Oct. 26-27, 8 p.m.; Sun., Oct. 28, 4 p.m., Black Spectrum Theatre, Roy Wilkins Park, 177 St. and Baisley Blvd., Jamaica. $25. Info: (718) 7231800, blackspectrum.com.

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“Seussical,” the musical based on the stories and characters of Dr. Seuss, including The Cat in the Hat and Horton the Elephant, by Royal Star Theatre. Sat., Nov. 3, Fri., Nov. 9, 8 p.m.; Sun. Nov. 4 and 11, Sat., Nov. 10, 3 p.m., Immaculate Conception Church, 179-14 Dalny Road, Jamaica Estates. $20; $17 seniors over 64, kids under 13; $2 more at door. Info: (610) 322-8498, royalstartheatre.org.

MUSIC Plan for Paradise, with smooth-grooving hip-hop, jazz, funk, soul and Afrobeat rhythms by a fivepiece band with upbeat messages, part of the Saturday Family Matinee series. Sat., Oct. 27, 2-3 p.m., Jamaica Performing Arts Center, 153-10 Jamaica Ave. $5-10. Info: (718) 658-7400, jcal.org, jamaicapac.org.

Musique Macabre, a concert of creepy and haunting music for solo violin, with music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann and more, performed by Leah Nelson. Fri., Oct. 26, 6:30-8 p.m., King Manor Museum, 150-03 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica. $15. Info: (718) 206-0545, kingmanor.org. Halloween Harvest Festival, with costume-making, face-painting, card readings, doggie costume contest, blessing of the animals and more, much inspired by Fet Gede, the Haitian Festival of the Ancestors. Sat., Oct. 27, 12-4 p.m. (certain events at certain times), Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Blvd., Long Island City. Free. Info: (718) 9561819, socratessculpturepark.org. Halloween Cartoon Magic & Fun, with animation historian Tommy Jose Stathes showing a reel of spooky cartoons from the 1920s and ’30s, including “Wot a Night,” above, preceded by mask-making, flip books and refreshments. Sun., Oct. 28, 3:30 p.m. (screening 5 p.m.), Voelker Orth Museum, 149-19 38 Ave., Flushing. $4; $10 family. Info: (718) 3596227, vomuseum.org. RKO RADIO PICTURES Spooktacular Celebration, with kids 18 months-4 years coming in costume to play games, make a craft, see live turtles and a Madagascar hissing cockroach and more, with parent participation. Wed., Oct. 31, 12:30-2 p.m., Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston. $16. Info/pre-registration (req’d): (718) 229-4000, alleypond.com. Find more Halloween events in the Oct. 18 qboro story “Queens Halloween: for the kid in all of us” at qchron.com. continued on page 36

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An organization that is dedicated to preserving history is making some of its own. The Queens Historical Society, founded in 1968 when a group of concerned citizens came together to save the historic Kingsland Homestead in Flushing from demolition, is 50 years old. The occasion will be marked by a special anniversary reception at the Queens Botanical Garden on Nov. 8, with a plethora of history-related events scheduled for the upcoming weeks. Today, the Society owns and maintains the Homestead, a late 18th-century Long Island half-house, the first structure in the borough to receive a designation — in 1965 — as a New York City landmark. By 1973, the house was extensively restored and opened to the public as a museum. The site has served as the Society’s headquarters for more than three decades. In addition to the house, located in historic Weeping Beech Park, the Society has an archive and library of primary and secondary sources of historical information for

The Queens Historical Society, led by Executive Director Branka Duknic, above, will honor preservationist Joan Kindler and Councilman Peter Koo at its Nov. 8 benefit PHOTOS COURTESY QHS gala. The group is celebrating its 50th anniversary. O’Connor and Samantha Yeung, will be recognized for organizing volunteers to help clean up Moore-Jackson Cemetery in Woodside, which the Society owns. In a recent Society publication, Duknic said, “Fifty years have gone by and we are still here, making sure that our past and

present are recorded and celebrated for future generations. We continue to honor our county’s diversity with programs that bring us together and expand our knowledge of each other.” With this in mind, the Society has already continued on page 37

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students, historians and the public. “It’s important to preserve history,” said Vice President of Operations Jason Antos. “History moves very quickly and changes so drastically from one generation to the next. The only way future generations can be aware of the past is through historical preservation.” The Nov. 8 gala, which is sold out, will honor two individuals who have been good friends to the Society. Joan Kindler, a member of Friends Meeting House, considered the oldest house of worship in New York, where Quakers still worship every Sunday, has been “very much involved in preserving historic sites of Queens, specifically Flushing,” said the Society’s Executive Director Branka Duknic. Kindler has been supportive via donations and through her preservations, Duknic added. Councilman Peter Koo (D-Flushing) will also be honored. “He has been really gracious with us,” Duknic said. Most recently, Koo set aside $100,000 in discretionary funds to assist the Society in repairing its collections, Duknic said. “And,” she added, “he’s been there for us, consistently active.” In addition, two women, Elizabeth

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While “The Producers” is one of the most iconic comedies ever made, many movie buffs aren’t even aware Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel made another movie together six years later. The Museum of the Moving Image will be showing the film, 1974’s “Rhinoceros,” next Sunday night. Karen Black, one of the biggest actresses of the early ’70s, also stars in the movie in which town residents are inexplicably turning into rhinoceroses. Wilder plays an office clerk who believes that this developement might not be the worst thing. “Rhinoceros” was originally an antifacist play written by Eugene Ionesco. It premiered at the Royal Court in London in 1960 and was directed by Orson Welles. Mostel won a Tony award for his performance in a production the following year. The movie was originally in a limited run when the American Film Theater presented two seasons of film adaptations of well-known plays. Wilder was one of the biggest movie stars at the time. “Blazing SadWhen: Sun., Nov. 4, 6:30 p.m. dles” was the highest grossing movie Where: Museum of the Moving Image, of 1974 and “Young Frankenstein” 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria was also in the top five. Black was also Tickets: $15; $11 seniors, students; one of the big stars of the era, as the $9 kids 3-17; includes museum Academy-award nominated actress admission. (718) 777-6888, starred in “Airport 1975,” another of movingimage.us the year’s top 10 grossing films. “Rhinoceros” was the only pairing

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continued from page 31 Online at queensmuseum.org/qi2018/, visitors are offered an entirely different perspective than a museum visit would afford them, navigating to “making-of” interviews with the artists, who can speak directly to their intent behind their art, and their own perspectives on the meaning of the concept of volumes. Taekeun Kim provided motion graphics support, and visitors to the website are able to visualize the artwork in the context of its space within the museum. The artists took a broad range of approaches toward the theme. Liz Phillips,

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a sound artist, and her daughter, painter Heidi Howard, collaborated on the mural for the Large Wall, titled “Relative Fields in a Garden.” The mural depicts Phillips in her Sunnyside garden, and moves left-toright from spring to winter. Meanwhile, photosensitive sensors across the wall react to varying amounts of sunlight as it rises and sets, producing at different times of the day various sounds of the cityscape. Kim Hoeckele’s photographs were made after studying Ancient Greek and Roman art, referencing their best-known conventions: vacant eyes, the female nude, their common poses. She then cut, rearranged and re-photographed the photos to create abstracted forms that reveal the contemporary art in the way we see the historic: in partial, fractured states. In doing so, she captures elements of violence against bodies, especially women. In another room, housing the 1939-40 World’s Fair New York watershed model, artist Camille Hoffman has staged the piece, “Excelsior: Ever Upward, Ever Afloat.” Based on discussions with a Lenape tribal leader and full-time water protector, Two Clouds, Hoffman meditat-

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Loew’s Theatres was originally founded in 1904 by Marcus Loew (1870-1927) who was operating penny arcades and nickelodeons showing one-reel short films for entertainment. Loew’s was the oldest theater chain in North America when it merged with AMC in 2006. Loew bought the ailing Metro Pictures Co., Goldwyn Pictures and Louis B. Mayers Productions and formed Metro Goldwyn Mayer in 1924 in order to make and show quality movies in his theaters for family entertainment. A native New Yorker, he aggressively built theaters in Queens. There were movie palaces in Astoria, Flushing, Woodside, Corona and Jamaica. He hired R. Thomas Short to build a 75-by-125-foot theater on Main Street off 41st Road. Loew’s Prospect’s formal opening took place on Aug. 20, 1928. Unfortunately Marcus Loew passed away Sept. 5, 1927 at his home in Glen Cove, LI, and never got to see its completion. Architect John J. McNamara, who had worked under famous theater archi-

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Loews Prospect movie theater, 41-10 Main St., Flushing, fall 1936. tect Thomas Lamb, made a name for himself updating and improving older theaters in Manhattan and did the same for the aging Prospect in 1954. The end was near when the operators had to slice up the theater to make three movie screens to turn a profit in the 1970s. Finally in 1987 they closed their doors forever. Today they are serving XI’ AM Famous Q Foods at the site of this theater.

Reimagine End of Life Week, with various events from workshops on preparing for end-oflife care to documentary screenings to a blessing of the animals and last rites for pets who have died, and many more. Sat., Oct. 27-Sat., Nov. 3, various locations. Most but not all events free. Info: 1 (866) 247-7828; letsreimagine.org/ new-york/schedule; (most events; search for “queens”); bit.ly/2EsjVFs (pet event only). The Amazing Maize Maze, a labyrinth of corn to make your way through while finding clues and solving puzzles too. Sat. Oct. 27, 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Queens County Farm Museum, 73-50 Little Neck Pkwy., Floral Park. $10; $5 kids 4-11; kids under 4 free. nfo: (718) 3473276, queensfarm.org.

VETERANS Jewish War Veterans Post 250 open house breakfast, seeking new members but no obligation for attendees. Sun., Oct. 28, 9 a.m., Rego Park Jewish Center, 97-30 Queens Blvd. Free. Info: Commander Sy Weber, (718) 271-6015.

SUPPORT GROUPS Bereavement groups for assistance dealing with loss and the process towards healing, with others experiencing similar situations. Central Queens YM & YWHA, 67-09 108 St., Forest Hills. Registration req’d. Info: (718) 268-5011, ext. 160, olderadults@cgy.org. Al-anon, self-help group for anyone affected by another’s drinking: St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 82 St. and 34 Ave., parish house, 1st floor, Jackson Heights, every Tue. Contact: jacksonheightsalanonon@gmail.com. Resurrection Ascension Pastoral Center basement, 85-18 61 Road, Rego Park, every Sun. 12 p.m. Alcoholics Anonymous, daily meetings around Queens for those with a drinking problem. Info: (718) 520-5021, queensaa.org. PTSD for veterans and service members: Reach out to a anonymous support group in your area. Info: 1 (800) 273-8255. Gam-Anon is a 12-step program for families of someone with a gambling problem. Call hot line (212) 606-8177.

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¡Coronate!, a cultural celebration with live music, including by the Mandingo Ambassadors, above, dance, art-making workshops, kids’ activities, crafts and more. Sat., Oct. 27, 1-6 p.m. (certain events at certain times), Corona Plaza, 40-04 National St. Free. Info: (718) 5929700, queensmuseum.org. COURTESY PHOTO Trip to Sands Casino, in Bethlehem, Pa., sponsored by the Sisterhood of Forest Park Jewish Center. Departing Mon., Nov. 5, Lindenwood Shopping Center, 84 St. and 153 Ave., 9 a.m.; also Woodhaven Blvd. at Forest Park Drive, 9:10 a.m. $45 with $20 giveback and $5 for food. Info: Sharon, (917) 292-8732; Phyllis, (917) 601-2234.

CLASSES/WORKSHOPS Defensive driving, to improve skills and reduce insurance premiums, points on a license and the number of collisions. Sat., Oct. 27, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m., St. Margaret RC Church, 66-05 79 Place, Middle Village. $45. Info: (718) 326-1911. Writing From the Heart: an eight-week workshop in creative writing, for those who want to start or improve their writing in a supportive atmosphere, with author and longtime Queens College instructor Maxine Fisher. Participants may attend any or all remaining classes. Each Sat. thru Dec. 8, 12 p.m., Maspeth Library, 69-70 Grand Ave. Free. Info: (718) 639-5228, queenslibrary.org.

Anxious, nervous, depressed? Recovery International can help. Meetings every Thu., 2:30 p.m., Fri., 3:30 p.m. Forest Hills Library, 108-19 71 Ave. Info: recoveryinternational.org. Overeaters Anonymous, for anyone with an eating disorder or other problem with food or maintaining a healthy weight, in various neighborhoods. Each Tue., 7:30-9 p.m., Holy Child Jesus Outreach Center, 112-06 86 Ave., Richmond Hill. Info: (718) 564-7027 (leave message). Each Thu., 12-1:30 p.m., Howard Beach Library, 92-06 156 Ave. Info: Julie, (718) 848-4338. Each Thu., 12:151:40 p.m., Rego Park Library, 91-41 63 Drive. Info: (347) 433-5876 (OA of Greater New York; leave message), (718) 459-5140 (library). Contemplating suicide? The Samaritans provide 24-hour confidential emotional support for those feeling suicidal or depressed. Call: (212) 673-3000; samaritansnyc.org.

SENIOR ACTIVITIES Medicare specialist consultations, by appointment, every other Wed., 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Catholic Charities Bayside Senior Center, 221-15 Horace Harding Expwy. Info: (718) 225-1144. Queens AARP Chorus, which sings at nursing homes and AARP events, seeks retired people to join. Meets each Fri., 11 a.m. (new people asked to come 10 a.m.), Clearview Selfhelp Center, 208-11 26 Ave., Bayside. Info: joroosume@verizon.net.

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sland Homestead; Voelker Orth Museum, Bird Sanctuary and Victorian Garden; African-American inventor Lewis H. Latimer’s former home; Flushing Town Hall; Friends Meeting House; and Bowne House (all of which are within walking distance of each other in Flushing) and the Louis Armstrong House Museum (in Corona). Participants may set their own pace. Each stop includes tours, activities and refreshments. Tickets: $15 in advance; $20 at the door; $5 children under 12. The Society is located at 143-35 37 Ave. in Flushing. For more information on the group or any of its activities, call (718) 9390647 or visit queenshistoricalsociety.org. Q

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continued from page 33 lined up several other special events for November and December, all of which take place at the Homestead from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., with admission of $5, $3 for students and seniors, unless otherwise noted. On Nov. 11, author James E. Haas will discuss his latest publication, “To Honor Fallen Heroes: How a Small, GermanAmerican Village In New York City Experienced the Great War.” A native of College Point, Haas based the work on a study of more than 650 men from the area who served in World War I. The following week, on Nov. 17, there will be a screening of “Between Neighborhoods,” a trans-historical documentary film by Seth Fein, who resides in Jackson Heights. Traveling between past and present, the split-screen film tells the “histories of imperialism and immigration that orbit the Unisphere in Queens since the 19641965 World’s Fair.” Dec. 2 will mark the opening of a new exhibit, “Erasures,” a reflection, through visual poetry, on the everyday lives of immigrant working-class families of Flushing. The Society’s annual Holiday Historic House Tour, including several of the borough’s prime attractions, will take place on Dec. 9 from 1 to 5 p.m. The sites are: King-

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Notice of formation: Three Trees Eco-Technology LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on August 21, 2018. Office location, Queens County. SSNY designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copies of any process served against the LLC, to 134-38 35 Ave., #5D, Flushing, New York 11354. Purpose: Any lawful purpose or activity.

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Notice of formation of WORK4LIFE LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/31/18. Office in Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 43 Columbia Gardens Cohoes, NY, 12047. Purpose: Any lawful purpose

NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 09-20-18, bearing Index Number NC-000749-18/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) DANIEL (Middle) JOSEPH (Last) FLORIO. My present name is (Last) FLORIO AKA DANIEL JOSEPH FLORIO AKA DANIEL FLORIO AKA DANIEL J. FLORIO AKA DAINEL FLORIO. The city and state of my present address are Woodhaven, NY. My place of birth is QUEENS, NY. The month and year of my birth are June 1982.

STELLINO JEWELS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 06/14/18. Office: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 2204 21st Street, #1, Astoria, NY 11105. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

TSIPOURO TAXI LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/11/2018. Office loc: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: John Giovanis, 33-21 21 Street, Astoria, NY 11106. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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Notice of Conversion of Conver Realty Co., a partnership, to Conver Realty LLC. Cert. filed with SSNY on 10/1/18. Office: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Pat Pescatore, 194-02 Northern Blvd., Ste. 215, Flushing, NY 11358. Purpose: any lawful act.

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AIM ACQUISITIONS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/21/18. Office: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Lindenwood, Thursday 10/25, Brooklyn, NY 11228, which 6:00-7:30PM, 81-06 155th Ave., also serves as the registered Rosedale, furn room, share kit & Unit 2. lg 2 BR Co-op, 1st fl. A agent address. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. bath, no smoking/pets, $200/ must see!

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NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF QUEENS HSBC BANK, USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR WFHET 2006-2, Plaintiff AGAINST JASBIR BHATIA, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated July 17, 2018 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Queens County Courthouse in Courtroom # 25, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, New York, on November 16, 2018 at 10:00AM, premises known as 94-29 109TH STREET, JAMAICA, NY 11419. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough and County of Queens, City and State of New York, BLOCK 9393, LOT 32. Approximate amount of judgment $691,633.86 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment for Index# 27843/06. HELEN P. EICHLER, ESQ., Referee ,Gross Polowy, LLC, Attorney for Plaintiff, 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100, Williamsville, NY 14221 57858

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The Mets have moved their AAA team from Las Vegas to the far closer upstate Syracuse. This will allow them to bring up players a lot quicker because they’ll only be a one-hour flight away on JetBlue. The Mets’ 25-year commitment to Syracuse is good for New York State summer tourism as Mets fans will have another reason to visit the Finger Lakes region. The National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown also is nearby. My thanks to Far Rockaway native Dan Leberfeld, the SiriusXM NFL radio host and editorin-chief of Jets Confidential, for quoting me on how Jets running back Isaiah Crowell should report the fine he received from the NFL on his tax return for pantomiming rubbing his derriere with a football after he scored a touchdown against the Cleveland Browns in week three. Crowell got an endorsement deal from Dude Wipes, a toilet paper startup, for his actions. One of the owners of Dude Products, its parent company, is Dallas Mavericks CEO Mark Cuban, who discovered it while doing ABC’s “Shark Tank.” Get ready for spring professional football. At the last week’s Neulion Sports Business Journal Sports & Media Technology Conference, former NFL QB and executive Oliver Luck (yes, father of Colts QB Andrew Luck), now the

CEO of the revived XFL, said the league will begin play in February 2020. He said it will differ markedly from the 2001 version. “Vince McMahon conceded that the quality of play on the football field left something to be desired and that it will be more family friendly,” he said. Luck said there are enough quality football players who may not be good enough to make an NFL roster but who deserve a chance to play professionally. And yes, each player will have his own surname on the back of the jersey instead of some bizarre nickname such as the fabled “He Hate Me.” There will be another spring pro football league launching even before the XFL. The eight-team Alliance of American Football will begin Feb. 9, one week after the Super Bowl. There are no teams in the Northeast with most in warm weather markets such as Orlando, San Diego, Memphis and Birmingham. Before writing off the AAF as a schlock operation it should be noted that it has signed former NFL coaches Mike Martz, Mike Singletary, Dennis Erickson and Steve Spurrier. Longtime NFL executive Bill Polian will act as de facto commissioner. The games will be televised on CBS Sports Network. My guess is that Q the AAF and XFL will eventually merge. See the extended version of Sports Beat every week at qchron.com.

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Beautiful custom Colonial. Large open concept with 23 ft. ceilings, 2 custom fireplaces, tinted UV windows. Beautiful kitchen with high-end SS appl., granite counter, FDR, den with Fplc, patio off den, custom staircase to 2nd flr. with 3 bedrm, 2 full bths, balcony off MB, total 4 BRs, 3 1/2 bths, 42x100. Asking $1.250 Mil.

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

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