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Christmas lights make a comeback on Cross Bay PAGE 4 Howard Beach hasn’t had a holiday display in the business district in years. That’s why residents were surprised and delighted this week to see lights being strung across the boulevard, getting ready for the yuletide season.

SHELTER RESIDENT SKIPS BAIL

SAFETY RALLY

POWER STRIP

Outrage over no-show in sex assault

Police coverage complaints in Ozone Park

High drama dominates in show-biz musical ‘Gypsy’

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State Pavilion Project breaks ground Work to restore Tent of Tomorrow and towers enters its next phase by Katherine Donlevy Associate Editor

ymbolic ground has finally been broken on the preservation project for the New York State Pavilion in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, a plan that has been in the works since September 2015. “This is an important structure in this park, and it’s an important part of our history in New York City,” said Community Board 7 Parks Chairwoman Kim Ohanian. “We need to remember that structures like this belong here and should be taken care of.” The Pavilion was created for the 19641965 World’s Fair and includes the “Tent of Tomorrow,” and three observation towers, as well as the “Theaterama,” now the Queens Theatre. “This pavilion was erected to embody the architecture essense of Space Age futurism,” said NYC Parks Department Commissioner Mitchell Silver, who attended the 1964 World’s Fair as a 4-year old. The edifice has since sat mostly unused and has been deteriorating for years. Petitions from the community and nonprofit organizations, such as People for the Pavilion, rallied to turn the towers into a community space. Backing from Queens Borough President Melinda Katz saved the landmark. “I knew that this could be an unbelievably

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A large crowd including Borough President Melinda Katz, City Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver and Community Board 7 Parks Chair Kim Ohanian symbolically break ground on the longPHOTO BY KATHERINE DONLEVY awaited New York State Pavilion restoration project. spectacular tourist attraction for people from throughout the world,” said Katz, who has been a champion for the project since taking office in 2014. On Nov. 5, Katz was elected

Queens district attorney and shared her excitement at breaking ground at the Pavilion in her last weeks as borough president. “This is a great way to end this week for me.”

Katz cites her father as inspiration for the project. “Every time we would pass Flushing Meadows Corona Park, my father would take a look at the New York State Pavilion and say, ‘Isn’t that a shame?’ And I grew up thinking, ‘Isn’t that a shame?’” Katz has contributed the majority of the $24 million funding. Mayor de Blasio and Councilman Francisco Moya (D-Corona) have also contributed to the project, which is in its third and final stage with a projected completeion date of March 2021. Silver outlined the project’s goals, which include “significant structural steel and concrete repairs, a waterproof plaza and basement, electrical upgrades, stair replacement and color architectual lighting.” City Parks Department Queens Borough Commisioner Michael Dockett was among the crowd to join Katz, Ohanian and Silver to break ground. The parents of Christian Doran, co-founder of People for the Pavilion, were also invited to participate in place of their son, who tragically passed in 2014. Before breaking ground, Katz said she had never thought she would see the project come into fruition, but is excited to see that has changed. “The Queens Museum is lit up, the Unisphere is lit up, and now the New York State Pavilion will also be lit up and taken out Q of the darkness.”

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Accused child sex attacker skips out Warrant issued for homeless shelter resident freed on bail by Michael Shain Editor

The homeless man charged in the sexual assault of a 3-year-old boy in Woodhaven last month failed to show up for a court appearance last Friday and is being sought for bail jumping. Luis Olivo, 63, posted $2,000 bail on Nov. 4 with the help of a nonprofit charity called the Bronx Freedom Fund, according to court records. He was due back in court last Friday, Nov. 8, but failed to appear, according to a spokeswoman for the Queens district attorney. Queens Criminal Court Judge Karina Alomar issued a bench warrant for his arrest. Olivo, a resident of the controversial homeless shelter on 101st Avenue in Ozone Park that opened early this year, is alleged to have grabbed the boy in a laundromat on Jamaica Avenue. Surveillance video shows the man pulling the boy onto his body under a table in the laundromat, according to the arrest report. He was charged only with a misdemeanor, endangering the welfare of a child, after his arrest on Oct. 22. The judge set bail at just $2,000. Because he was homeless, “they told us they thought no one was going to bail him out,” said the mother of the 3-year-old, whose identity is being withheld by the

The homeless shelter on 101st Avenue in Ozone Park that opened last winter is authorized to house up to 113 men. A 63-year-old resident charged last month with sexually assaulting a PHOTO BY MICHAEL SHAIN three-year-old boy in Woodhaven has re-ignited neighborhood concerns. Chronicle due to the nature of the crime. “He could be anywhere,” she said. After he spent two weeks on Rikers Island, the Bronx Freedom Fund agreed to post Olivo’s bail on the advice of his Legal Aid lawyer.

The fund is the same nonprofit that posted bail for Randy Santos, the homeless man charged with bludgeoning to death four other homeless men in Manhattan’s Chinatown in early October. The director of the fund, Elena Weiss-

mann, told the Chronicle that the group came to Olivo’s aid because he could not receive adequate psychiatric help in jail. “Individuals like Mr. Olivo who struggle with mental health and homelessness need support, not incarceration,” Weissmann said in an email. “For someone in his situation to be denied treatment while their case is pending, because they are too poor to afford their bail, not only harms them, but also impacts communities when they are released after further deterioration of their mental health in jail.” A call to Olivo’s Legal Aid attorney was not returned yesterday. Meanwhile, the boy’s mother says she is fearful at the news he was released and angry that he’d not been charged with a more serious felony that would have required the judge to set a higher bail. “I’m going to fight to my last breath for my children,” she said. “I don’t want to think about this guy being free.” Officials of the Ozone Park Residents Block Association, longtime opponents of the 101st Avenue shelter, promised this week to aid the mother. “They dropped the ball on this one,” said Sam Esposito, president of the block association. “We’re bringing the family in to see the DA next week so that they can be more at Q ease about what is being done,” he said.

Lights going up on Cross Bay again After long absence, decorations return to Howard Beach boulevard by Michael Shain

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For the first time in at least 14 years, Christmas lights are going up on Cross Bay Boulevard in Howard Beach. Workers started last weekend hanging displays across the boulevard from 156th to 165th avenues last weekend. The displays will not be lit until sometime during the week of Thanksgiving, said Doreen DeCandia, one of the four women who organized the street decorations on behalf of Our Lady of Grace Catholic Academy. The display is being financed by a number of backers, including city funds from Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park), the Queens Chamber of Commerce, the Howard Beach Kiwanis, local businesses and private donors. “Most financial contributions ranged from $100 to $1,100,” DeCan-

dia said in an email. “Some gave more; others gave less. But we were thrilled with the response, regardless of the amount donated.” The last time Cross Bay had holiday lights was 2005, when they were sponsored by the Columbus Day Foundation, the longtime civic group behind the community’s annual Italian heritage parade, DeCandia said. Four Howard Beach women — Kelly Sinisgalli, Camille Adamo, Mary Griffith and DeCandia — got the ball rolling on bringing lights back to the boulevard. “Other neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens mark the holiday season with community decorations, and we thought Howard Beach should be no different,” DeCandia said. “It’s a wonderful way to make the holiday season a little brighter and bring some cheer to the fantastic neighborhood we call home.” Elaborate Christmas light displays

are not exactly a rarity in Howard Beach. Private homeowners go all out during the holiday season to decorate their homes, even attracting comments from airline passengers who can catch a glimpse of the elaborate light show as their night flights take off and arrive at JFK International Airport. The organizers made note that the lights did not serve as a fundraiser for Our Lady of Grace Catholic Academy. It is a community event,” said DeCandia. “Our Lady of Grace Catholic Academy has been an integral part of the Howard Beach community for more than 95 years. “We value our strong ties to the neighborhood and are committed to working with local residents and businesses to enhance the quality of life for all who live, work and visit Q our wonderful neighborhood.”

Workmen began mounting holiday lights last weekend. But they won’t be PHOTO BY MICHAEL SHAIN turned on until Thanksgiving week.

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Demanding better police protection Angered at subway attack, Ozone Park Bangladeshis call out cops by Michael Shain Editor

More than 150 people braved a cold snap last Friday to rally in Ozone Park for better police coverage in a corner of the neighborhood they claim is neglected by cops. “How many more murders, robberies and assaults is it going to take before you notice us?” Anwar Kahn, a protest organizer, said in the opening moments of the “Rally for Safety” on 101st Avenue and Drew Street. The rally was hastily called after two neighborhood men on their way to work were viciously attacked on an A train subway platform by a group of teens. One of the victims who appeared at the rally said the teens had retaliated because the men refused to open an exit gate for them. Harrowing photos of the bruised and bleeding men circulated on social media after the Nov. 1 incident, escalating fears in the section of Ozone Park where Bangladeshi immigrants make up a substantial part of the neighborhood. “It’s only on one set of people who are being attacked here — Bangladeshis,” Richmond Hill activist Albert Baldeo, a former

City Council candidate and lawyer, told the crowd. “We are not second-class citizens.” It was unusual to see the top echelon of the NYPD in South Queens — including the Assistant Chief David Barrere, the highest ranking commander in that part of the borough, and the commanding officers of the two precincts, the 102nd and 106th, that cover the neighborhood — attending the rally as speaker after speaker called out the cops for what they claimed are woeful response times. Organizers, mindful of a controversial antipolice protest last week where hundreds of people marched through Downtown Brooklyn, invited police officials to address the rally. “My commitment to this community is that I will work with you; I will meet with anyone, anytime, anywhere to ensure your safet y,” B a r r e r e t ol d t h e gathering. Capt. John Costello, the new commanding officer of the 106th Precinct, later told the Chronicle that call logs indicate cops were at the scene of the Nov. 1 subway attack within five and a half minutes. “But I understand that if someone believes

A week after two Bangladeshi men were beaten and stabbed at a station on Liberty Avenue, community leaders staged a rally to get the attention of the NYPD brass. South Queens’ top cop, Assistant Chief David Barrere, left, told the gathering he was ready to talk. PHOTOS BY MICHAEL SHAIN something is going on, then it’s going on,” he said. “I saw what they were saying: ‘We’re frightened, we need help.’ “I have no issue with deploying resources there.” Still, Costello said he has made no promises to community leaders about assigning

more cops permanently to the area that borders on Brooklyn. “When you look at the stats, it doesn’t warrant a full-court press,” he said. Lighting has been increased near the 80th Street station and auxiliary police patrols Q have been upped, said Costello.

Newlywed killed by husband South Ozone Park murder latest domestic violence case by Michael Shain

The murder of Donne Dojoy in South Ozone Park struck a nerve in the Indo-Caribbean FACEBOOK PHOTO / DONNE DOJOY community.

The murder last Friday of a 27-year-old newlywed by her husband of just five months in South Ozone Park has devastated two families — and reopened concerns about how to deal with domestic violence in South Queens. Donne Dojoy, a bartender at Gemini’s Ultra Lounge on Liberty Avenue, was found stabbed to death after her husband texted family members Friday night and confessed to the murder. The husband, Dinhwar Budhidat, 33, told the family members they could find a key to the home at 109-19 132 St. under a planter on the porch, police said. Shortly after, the husband was found dead, hanged from a tree in Spring Creek Park in Howard Beach, an apparent suicide. The couple were married last July, according to posts on Dojoy’s Facebook account that showed photos of the ceremony. The senseless mu rder-suicide was remarkably similar to the Richmond Hill murder of Stacy Singh, a 26-year-old mother of two, who was stabbed to death in January 2018 by her husband, who then took his own life in a nearby park. Domestic violence has been a topic of concern in the Indo-Caribbean community in South Queens for some time now — and

news of the murder traveled quickly through the neighborhood. Dianne Madray, a mental health counselor and women’s advocate who hosts a weekly internet talk show called “Let the Women Speak,” aimed at Caribbean women, said the murder dominated the talk on Saturday. “In Guyana, there are 20 to 30 cases a year of domestic violence murder,” she said. “I’ve studied it. The irony is that we still encounter it when people come here. “We have started to talk about it to see what we can do,” she said. Budhidat was arrested last August and charged with strangling Dojoy, police said. Dojoy moved out and obtained an order of protection against her husband in September, according to news reports. She was persuaded to return to the house last Friday, reportedly to share dinner and watch a movie. “Women are not looking for red flags,” Mandray said. “She probably didn’t think, ‘He is going to hurt me. It’s not going to get to the point where he could kill me.’ “But it takes an instant for a partner to snap.” A wake for Dojoy was held Tuesday night at the Bergen Funeral Home on 101st Avenue. Burial will be in Guyana, her family Q said.

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Principal dies Denise Vittor, the former principal of Grover Cleveland High School in Ridgewood who was credited with saving the historic school from closure during the Mayor Bloomberg era, has died. Queens Technical High School in Long Island City, where she had also been principal, announced her passing on its Facebook page. The cause of death was cancer, it said. Vittor, 68, who retired last year, headed Grover Cleveland during a tumultuous period when city officials recommended closing low-performing schools. Twice, she is said to have saved the school from the chopping block. — Michael Shain

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Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) is hosting a free Thanksgiving Day dinner again this year for those who may not have anywhere else to go on the holiday. The dinner is scheduled to start at 2 p.m. at Villa Russo restaurant, 101-12 Lefferts Blvd. in Ozone Park. Ulrich’s office can even arrange for transportation to the dinner, according to an announcement released last week. “ No one shou ld b e a lone on Thanksgiving,” the open invitation reads. Ulrich started the dinner last year in what he hopes will become a neighborhood tradition. He made special note that the dinner is set for the holiday itself, Nov. 28, rather than the weekend before or after. No one will be turned away from the holiday meal, regardless of whether he or she made reservations or live the district, he said. However, the councilman’s office “strongly encourages” those who would like to attend to call (718) 738-1083 to RSVP. His office is also looking for volunteers to help serve on Thanksgiving Q Day.

At Forest Park School, it’s read all over When the fifth-grade class at PS 97 began learning how to read and write journalism this fall, they called in the experts. An editor from the Chronicle walked the class — actually three classes — through the latest edition of the newspaper at an assembly last Friday. The students were brimming with ques-

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mong all the bad policies Mayor de Blasio has directed, encouraged or allowed during his mixedbag tenure, one of the most egregious has to be his treatment of the children enrolled in the Success Academy charter school network. In the past, de Blasio has tried to get Success Academy secondary schools shut down. Luckily for the mostly minority students who attend them, he failed. Unlike the mayor, the students at those schools hardly seem to know what failure is. The 114 seniors at the Success Academy High School of the Liberal Arts in Manhattan learned their SAT scores last week, and they’re phenomenal. The students earned an average score of 1268, with 10 percent of them scoring over 1400. Their average score is 200 points higher than the national average of 1068. Keep in mind that most of the students at Success Academy High School of the Liberal Arts are the children of immigrants, black or Hispanic. Yet their scores topped the national average for white students, 1123; as well as the average for black students, 946; and that for Hispanic students, 990. Ethnicity is not destiny at Success Academy. These students — “scholars” in Success parlance — work

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hard, are eager to learn and have the support at home that they need to do as well as they have. Most of them will be the first in their families to attend college. Yet if de Blasio had his way, many of these kids would be stuck in the same underperforming traditional high schools that graduate students completely unprepared for college or, often, the rigors demanded by trades that require further education, albeit it not a bachelor’s degree. And to this day de Blasio and his minions at the Department of Education, led by divisive and dismissive Chancellor Richard Carranza, are standing in the way of younger Success Academy students right here in Queens who want to reach for the stars themselves. They’re doing that by denying them space for a new middle school, something the city is required to provide under state law. And the clock is ticking: If de Blasio and the DOE don’t reverse course soon, it will be too late to get such a school open for the next academic year, which would throw 227 fourth-graders in Southeast Queens and the Rockaways into the area’s traditional ones, where only one in three students can read or do math at grade level. That would be an abomination. These are students like Elijah Gilkes, who goes to Suc-

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cess Academy Rosedale. Elijah is a chess player and likes to work on algorithms in math class. He was among the students who recently stood outside City Hall to rally for a new school, and watched the mayor walk right by them without even looking at them. Even Nixon engaged with antiwar protesters directly. But not de Blasio. Not even when the protesters are children. “It’s not nice that the mayor is ignoring us,” Elijah said, in one of the personal stories Success has been telling about the students whose future is in danger. “Maybe he forgets that he went to a good school to become the mayor. He shouldn’t take away other people’s chances to become mayor!” The city has been worrying these kids and their parents for 33 months now, claiming it will eventually provide the space they need but never actually doing it. If their education is interrupted, their future endangered, by the likes of de Blasio and Carranza — even though the space is clearly available in existing area schools — it would be a tragedy. The mayor, the chancellor and all the like-minded educrats in the DOE have to get past their animosity toward Success Academy, comply with state law and get these kids the school space they need, immediately.

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Keep the cap on carts Dear Editor: I am writing to you in regards to the Nov. 7 “Ramos looks to get rid of cap on carts” article. I believe that this is a very poor decision on the part of state Sen. Jessica Ramos. This proposed increase of food carts on NYC sidewalks would only further encumber pedestrians on the already-overcrowded sidewalks and would also hurt the small businesses occupying the brickand-mortar stores. Terence Clayton Bayside Hills

Vendor cap vs. progress Dear Editor: If it is “incredibly unfair to brick-and-mortar stores” to allow street vendors to compete with them (“Limit the vendors,” Editorial, Nov. 7), then home video was just as “unfair” to movie theaters; the Motion Picture Association of America’s Jack Valenti famously warned that “the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.” The arguments against the VCR’s modernday successors likewise ignore the economic benefits of more efficient distribution methods — and undersell how “third places” apart from home and work can thrive by offering social value apart from the mere provision of goods. Joel Schlosberg Bayside

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Dear Editor: My name is Ananya and I am a Girl Scout in Troop 04281. I am in elementary school (public) here in Queens. I think our community should have a law that if a student wants to create a club, he or she can. This is regarding certain guidelines. Last year in my elementary school some friends and I created a club consisting of selling lanyards and other crafts. We all sold these items for small prices, unaware that our school policy was that we cannot sell anything. My teacher, who was thinking we were selling outside of school, didn’t stop us. Then one day, she told me she found out we were selling in school and we needed to stop before we got into serious trouble. My successful business stopped, but I realized that selling my crafts benefited others. It inspired other students to do more lanyards, and it embraced the creativity in other students. I would really hope for laws that allow students who want to practice becoming successful entrepreneurs one day to create clubs and small businesses. That is considering the following guidelines: 1. Students must have a certain population in their club. 2. Students must have permission to create their club from the principal.

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Dear Editor: In the She Built NYC initiative to honor women of historical significance, it should be known that Roman Catholic religious sisters have had a significant impact upon the life of New York City for over 200 years, beginning with St. Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, foundress of the Sisters of Charity. They have pioneered parochial schools, orphanages, hospitals and colleges, which have served immigrant poor women and children at a time when there was no government social welfare network for either individuals or families. A prime example is the St. Joseph’s Female Orphan Asylum (St. Joseph’s Home) in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, where my orphaned mother, Marie, and her three sisters were domiciled in the 1930s and ’40s due to family misfortune. Without the acts of charity and mercy of the Sisters of Charity toward my mother — once a 7-year-old girl — I may not be here today as a result of her survival and her beautiful Catholic home she gave me in my youth. And then, look at the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, who were my parochial school teachers at St. Patrick’s School in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, and how they gave such an excellent intellectual, moral and spiritual education to immigrants, particularly amongst the Irish and Italians. The Pallottine Sisters in Clinton Hill served the community with the St. Thomas the Apostle day nursery school (before the city’s pre-K initiative) and in catechesis for the city’s PS 157 (my father, Joseph, was one of their pupils). And the list goes on . . . Who built NYC? The Roman Catholic Church. And this was before Chirlane McCray was even born! Period. Joseph N. Manago Briarwood

3. The club must be appropriate and serve a purpose. I hope my letter was effective and I hope a new law will be passed. Ananya K. Girl Scout Troop 04281 Forest Hills The writer is a fifth-grader whose letter helped her earn the Girl Scouts’ Inside Government Badge, as are all the authors of the letters that follow.

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skip the straws. Most of your readers know about the campaign against plastic straws, but did you know that plastic straws count for only a small percentage of the world’s trash? Also, there is no sustainable replacement for plastic straws that is sanitary. Plastic bags are a much bigger problem. There is an eco-friendly way to stop this. People could bring reusable bags. If they have none, stores can use the money they spend on plastic bags to buy a stock of cloth bags for shoppers with none. Microplastics are also a problem. They are found in our bodies, air, food and drinks and often end up in the food chain. I would like you to educate people about them. The public deserves to know about and take action on plastics. Lilly E. Girl Scout Troop 04281 Forest Hills

Grow a garden Dear Editor: People should think about what is going to happen after you use a resource. For example, people use flowers to make medicine but they don’t grow more of that flower, which harms the environment. They also use living creatures such as bees to make products but they kill them, which is bad because you can’t replace them. People should gather together in every community to grow a community garden. This will create more resources for the people to use. Even if they harm the plants, they grew it themselves so that didn’t waste anybody else’s hard work without their permission. People could make these plants extinct if they don’t save them. This is why people should think before hey kill that resource. What will happen if you kill it? Kylie, Maya B. and Bella Girl Scout Troop 04281 Forest Hills

Don’t kill for décor Dear Editor: I think it is cruel to kill animals for no reason. What I am saying is that people should not make animals into rugs or hang their heads on the wall. Imagine if an animal came up to you and killed you and hung your head on the wall or turned you into a rug! It’s OK to eat animals for food but you can just buy a rug or wall décor, not use animals for decoration. Also, you are an animal so you are basically killing your own kind. There is just no point. There should be a law that you should not kill animals for wall décor or rugs. Maya Girl Scout Troop 04281 Forest Hills

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Dear Editor: My friends and I walk and cross the streets every single day and we noticed that there aren’t enough crossing guards and cross lights. Truly, that is not very safe. Adding more of the crossing guards and lights will decrease the amount of injuries per year. Also, cars will know when to stop with a stoplight and a crossing guard. Another thing is that these things will lower the amount of sound pollution also known as honking or yelling out your window. Overall, I believe that my idea of adding more crossing guards and lights is very smart and reasonable. PS: Thanks for your time! Layla S. Girl Scout Troop 04281 Forest Hills

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Cop: Enforcement up on Queens Blvd. Capt. Cermeli discusses cyclists, vehicles and summonses in 2019 by David Russell Associate Editor

A video of a cyclist being hit by a vehicle that ran a stop sign on Queens Boulevard has been viewed more than 34,000 times on Twitter since being posted last Friday. The poster, Jessica, said her husband was struck and that the responding officer failed to issue a summons, saying that he didn’t witness the incident. The crash took place at 68th Road. “Ultimately, he’s okay, for which I am incredibly grateful,” she tweeted. “But there are zero consequences for this driver, who not only recklessly failed to stop, but then, after slowing and honking at him, accelerated into him VERY INTENTIONALLY.” She later tweeted that a summons was eventually issued. Capt. Jonathan Cermeli, commanding officer of the 112th Precinct, told the Chronicle Wednesday that the summons, for failure to yield, was issued a day or two after the incident. “It was a training issue with a brand-new rookie officer who was a little bit unaware of that and when it was brought to my attention ... we handled it immediately,” Cermeli said. He said almost all summonses have to be for incidents that are witnessed but an officer can use his or her judgement if a witness is stating what happened and the “totality of

Video captured the moments before a cyclist was hit at 68th Road on Queens Boulevard. The video has been viewed on Twitter more than 34,000 times. The driver was given a summons a day or two after the incident, initially avoiding one. Capt. Jonathan Cermeli, commanding officer of the 112th TWITTER SCREENSHOT / THUND3R_H4WK Precinct, said enforcement has increased in 2019. circumstances” indicate what took place. Cermeli added, “the right of way would go to the pedestrian or cyclist.” He said he viewed the video and spoke to the high number of views it garnered. “Obviously the cyclists have a big following now and that’s part of the city we live

in,” Cermeli said. “It’s scary on both ends. Being a cyclist, being a pedestrian, being a motorist. But when you’re a pedestrian or a cyclist you have no protection. Not only do the drivers have to be alert but the cyclists have to be vigilant as well.” The commanding officer said there’s

been a “big push” in enforcing failure to yield violations and that enforcement in those categories has increased significantly within the precinct as compared to 2018. There has been enforcement this week all over the boulevard corridor, he said, mainly from 71st Avenue to the Long Island Expressway. There are the Citywide Traffic Task Force, the 112th Precinct Traffic Safety Team and patrol sectors out there. A multiple command post has been located at 63rd Drive and Queens Boulevard all week. “People could lose their lives,” Cermeli said. “We take that as seriously as people getting shot or stabbed. A lost life is a lost life.” He also said the precinct has seen a significant increase in both DWIs and unlicensed operator arrests from last year. Cermeli said the enforcement is “not just on the day shifts when the pedestrians are out but on the night shifts when everyone’s sleeping and some people decide to drink and drive.” Last Saturday, Matt Travis was killed in East Harlem, making him the 28th cyclist killed in the city this year. There were 10 fatalities in 2018. Four of this year’s fatalities took place in Queens. None were on Queens Boulevard, which used to have the moniker “Boulevard Q of Death.”

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Meng talks Trump, Hill, Dems and more Says de Blasio has good intentions but needs more community outreach by David Russell

There is an organizing corps in seven battleground states, with outreach meant to help residents, not just serve as a lastRep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing) came ditch effort to have people vote for a canout in support of an inquiry into Presididate, according to Meng. dent Trump’s impeachment shortly after As vice chairwoman of the Democrathearing former special counsel Robert ic National Committee since 2017, Meng Mueller testify to the House Judiciary will not endorse anyone in the party’s Committee, saying that Trump basically primary for president but did say that accepting contributions for a political candidates can become too involved in campaign from a foreign entity was nuance. Meng often says, “It’s not about “most alarming” to her. what you do for someone, it’s about how “I do believe, however, that this is not you make them feel.” And it’s her opinthe only thing that Congress needs to ion that insurgent candidates who won focus on,” she said during a wide-rangduring the 2018 midterm election weren’t ing sit-down interview with the Chronifocused on nuance. cle editorial staff last Thursday. “There “What was effective was the potential are a lot of issues, bread-and-butter of [voters] losing their healthcare or not issues, that the majority of American having options available to take care of people care about, whether they support their families,” Meng said. impeachment or not.” When asked, Meng also addressed the With nearly two dozen members of resignation of former Rep. Katie Hill Congress announcing they will not seek (D-Calif.), who stepped away after allere-election in 2020, Meng was asked if gations of an affair with a staffer were that stems from fallout from more divimade, including the publication of leaked sive politics since Trump became president. Rep. Grace Meng spoke about a variety of topics in a sitdown inter- nude pictures. Meng said being in a relationship “This was even before the Trump view with the Chronicle editorial staff. PHOTO BY KATHERINE DONLEVY with a staffer is unethical but Hill age; I always felt like there was about who I am and they won’t remember me, but my would have been afforded a hearing process had to be a generational shift,” she said. But, Meng added, “I will stand by my belief job is to make government more accessible and she not resigned. “I think there is a huge sense, especially that there is still so much bipartisanship going more productive for people in this country.” Meng said she’s seen more civic engagement among some of us younger and newer memon. I know it’s not popular to talk about for since Trump’s victory, with communities feel- bers, that she might have been held to a differDemocrats or Republicans right now.” She said conversations with Republicans are ing neglected and abandoned before the ent standard because she was a woman,” she said. less frequent since Democrats became the election. “Democrats can complain about President Acknowledging “it’s a little bit comparing majority because of added meetings and Trump all we want but part of the reason why apples to oranges,” Meng noted that Rep. discussions. “It’s harder to govern than to protest,” Meng he won is because Democrats didn’t do a good Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) is still in office job and haven’t sustained the [outreach] efforts despite investigations into his alleged impropsaid. According to Meng, the last Republican that might have been in place decades ago,” she er use of campaign funds for a number of affairs. Congressman she had a substantial conversa- said. “What is that going to do in terms of what Meng added, “We call ourselves a big tion with was Texas’ Michael Burgess. He supported her effort to lower the voting age to 16. tent but we haven’t traditionally done a good kind of signals do these send to a young woman Her bill didn’t pass but she is hoping to bring it job at reaching out to all the different who might run for office?” Meng said. Turning her attention from national to city communities.” back. She said the key is not only to get people politics when asked to, Meng said Mayor de Asked about any political benefit, she said Blasio has “good intentions” but that partner“there is no guarantee” most of the younger vot- engaged but to keep them engaged. “You can’t just be here because you don’t ships need to be strengthened with the ers would be voting Democrat “but I know that like the president,” Meng said. “It can’t end community. we need to give them more of a voice. One example is the debate over the Special“Twenty years later, most people won’t know there, whether it’s 2020 or 2024.” Associate Editor

ized High School Admissions Test. De Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza stated their intentions to get rid of the test. De Blasio recently said his plan to eliminate the test “didn’t work” but Carranza hasn’t backtracked. “This is a process that yet again shows their inability to reach out and collaborate with stakeholders,” Meng said. Meng, a graduate of Stuyvesant High School, has looked to preserve the test. Many Asian constituents have fought to keep the test in place. Meng called the lack of diversity in the eight specialized high schools “horrendous” but said it’s not OK to target a few of the schools and act as if it is a “sincere overhaul” of the educational system. Would she be willing to work with Carranza on a solution? “He has a lot of ground to make up for but I’m very willing to work with him,” Meng said. Other topics she believes need more input are bike lanes and homeless shelters, noting that the people have worked and lived in communities for decades. She said the problem is “For them to wake up one day and suddenly be told that there’s a certain change in their community without any real advance warning and even effort to work together.” In contrast, Meng said, she had ideas in the past she thought were “great” but scratched them after approaching people on the ground who differed in opinion. Last year, Meng had no primary opponent, but there are three people who will run against her in the 2020 primary. “I think it’s good to have primaries,” she said, adding “I’m definitely not going to tell anyone not to primary an incumbent.” Meng recalled when she was the insurgent candidate, defeating Ellen Young in the Democratic primary for Assembly in 2008. That was after Meng was taken off the ballot two years earlier when Young challenged her residency status. In 2012, she defeated Assemblyman Rory Lancman and Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley to win the race for Congress. “I will continue to stand on my record,” Q Meng said.

Cuomo threatens to drop National Grid by Michael Shain Editor

Gov. Cuomo has issued an ultimatum to National Grid — start hooking up customers to gas lines within two weeks or lose its license to operate in New York City and on Long Island. “I’m not going to allow New Yorkers to be extorted,” Cuomo told NY1 Tuesday. “They’re not the only utility in the world, and a lot of companies would like to have this franchise,” he said. It is the latest chapter in an increasingly harsh conflict between the utility and

the governor that started last spring. In a letter Tuesday to National Grid CEO John Pettigrew and President John Bruckner, Cuomo criticized the company for its “mishandling of the gas supply system” in the southern part of the state. He gave the utility 14 days to come up with a plan to service to all applicants. National Grid declared a moratorium on new accounts — which included existing homes and businesses that had temporarily suspended service — last May after New York State environmental authorities refused to approve construc-

tion of an expanded pipeline across New York Harbor from New Jersey. Without the pipelines, the company said, it did not have suf f icient f uel to supply new customers. “National Grid is in receipt of the letter from Gov. Cuomo and will review and respond accordingly within the timeframe outlined in the letter,” the company said in a prepared statement. “We continue to work with all parties on these critical natural gas supply issues on behalf of all our customers in downQ state New York.”

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These men served our country Four World War II veterans and one who served in Vietnam were honored at the Frank Kowalinski Post 4 luncheon on Nov. 10. Dominick Alessi, left, was a recipient of a Bronze Star for his ser vice with the 315/79th Infantry Division in campaigns throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Steven Marrone was a gunner’s mate on the aircraft carrier the USS Essex and received a Purple Heart for wounds sustained in the Pacific Theater. Fred Gundel, commander of Post 4, served in Vietnam

with the 120th Assault Helicopter Company from 1970 through 1972 and is the recipient of the Vietnam Service/Campaign medals while at Bien Hoa. August Lovinkaitis was in the Navy and served as a firefighter in several naval air stations stateside. He received the World War II service medal. James Desio served with the U.S. Army in the 88th Infantry Division/337 Field Artillery throughout the campaigns in Italy, culminating with the Battle of Monte Casino.

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It took two weeks but weeds, trees, shrubbery and soil have been removed from next to the Forest Hills Volunteer Ambulance Corps on Metropolitan Avenue. So what happens next? “Honestly, I don’t know,” said FHVAC President Jacek Mystkowski. “I don’t have a plan.” He said he doesn’t know if the land, next to the city-owned, abandoned Rockaway Rail Line, will be replanted, covered with concrete or left the way it is because it’s not FHVAC property. Mystkowski noted that trees have fallen on the building and the Corps’ trucks in the past. He added that he wasn’t concerned about removing the shrubbery despite not knowing who owns the property. “No one took responsibility when it fell

on top of my building,” Mystkowski said. “We couldn’t find anyone who was responsible for it. And no one seems to be maintaining it so I figured we’ll just take the responsibility of maintaining it next to our piece of property.” He also said the area is a hangout spot with bottles, shopping carts, tires and even an air conditioner being left there. Mystkowski hopes the removal of the shrubbery will cut down on the number of people who loiter at the spot. In the final days of 2017, a large tree branch crushed an ambulance, one that had replaced the one lost in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, FHVAC member Ron Cohen noted. The branch came down on the back of the ambulance, breaking apart its roof, shattering windows and destroying its Q red, white and blue lights.

Held hostage by two school yard bulls, the Governor and National Grid, I am a 79-year-old male, my wife is 74 diagnosed with dementia. We are married 58 years and live in an all-electric home in Howard Beach. Because of her condition, I have put safety measures in place to keep her safe, such as a stair climber, medical tub, medical bed, induction stove, hand railings, etc. There is the real threat of a power outage. I have contracted to buy an automatic emergency generator from Laurelton Electric almost a year ago. (Key words emergency generator), which needs gas to operate. National Grid refused to run a 30-foot gas line from the street to my home. When contacted, they told me they will not run any new gas lines until they get a permit from the governor to run their new gas line, which they claim they need. What if there is a power failure and she walks out the door, disappears or falls down the steps or gets injured, or worse, she dies? Who is responsible? Can I press charges for murder or manslaughter? What if it were one of their family members? What would they do? In short, they are holding my wife, new construction, banks and laborers hostage and in fact terrorizing Queens residents until some numbnut jackass gets paid off. In short, all I want is to keep my wife safe. Can I ask all NY City residents to call the Governor’s Office and National Grid for support? Respectfully, Andrew Sampino –ADVERTORIAL–

Shrubbery behind this truck at the Forest Hills Volunteer Ambulance Corps has been cleaned out PHOTO BY DAVID RUSSELL because no one was taking responsibility for the site.

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Organizations throughout borough are looking to assist the needy Chronicle Contributor

It’s that time of year again. Thanksgiving is fast approaching and organizations across the borough continue to accept food donations to offer to those less fortunate. If you are looking to donate your nonperishable goods, there are countless ways of doing so. Queens Library will host one of the largest food drives in the borough. Partnered with Food Bank for NYC, all 63 Queens Library branches will participate and accept canned goods from Nov. 18 through Dec. 7. This is the second year in a row that Queens Library is partnered with the Food Bank. Their goal is to raise 6,000 pounds of food. To find the location nearest you, go to visitqueenslibrary.org/about-us/locations. In the Long Island City area, Hour Children serves the community. Located at 36-11 12 St., Hour Children hosts a food pantry Mondays from 2 to 4 p.m., Tuesdays from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 a.m. and Thursdays from 3 to 5 p.m. Food may be donated Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Foods that are sought after include dried and canned beans, canned fish and chicken, canned fruit and

vegetables, brown rice and cereal. and perishable food can be donated by According to the Hour Children website, arrangement when the pantry is open. the program fed more than 9,400 people over Common foods to donate include cereal, the last year. For additional information, Hour rice, tuna, beans and pasta. For more informaChildren’s Food Pantry and Outreach Coordi- tion, Maria Finley can be reached at mlcfinnator, Nina Strazzulla may be contacted at ley@hotmail.com. (718) 482-8226 or by emailing nstrazzulla@ In Jamaica, St. Benedict the Moor Parish hourchildren.org operates a food pantry with Queens Catholic Also located in Long Island City at 35-20 Charities on the first and fourth Tuesdays of Greenpoint Ave. is the Catholic Parish of St. each month from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Raphael. The church hosts a food pantry on The church welcomes donations of canned Thursdays from 10:30 and packaged nonperto noon and on Saturishable foods and is days from 1:30 to 3 located at 171-17 110 f your house of worship or Ave. just off Merrick p.m. T he chu rch welBoulevard. community group is not comes donations of St. Bened ict t he non-perishable foods as listed here, give it a call. Moor may be reached well as volunteers to at (718) 526-4018. help run the pantry. In Middle Village, Those interested in making a donation may St. Margaret Parish hosts the St. Vincent de contact the rectory office at (718) 729-8957 for Paul Food Pantry every Wednesday and Satmore information. urday from 10 a.m. to noon. In the Whitestone area, Grace Episcopal The church is currently seeking holiday Church is an option. The church, located at donations such as coffee, tea, apple juice, 14-15 Clintonville St., hosts a food pantry on stuffing mix, canned yams, gravy and cookMondays from 5 to 6 p.m. and Fridays from ing oil. 10 to 11 a.m., serving approximately 35-40 The pantry is located at 66-25 79 Place and people per week. those interested may reach out to Terry at Nonperishable food can be donated to the (718) 326-0188. church’s kitchen anytime the church is open Also in Middle Village, Our Lady of Hope

Catholic Church has set up donation boxes in the church vestibule to collect canned and other nonperishable goods until Nov. 24. The church is located at 61-27 71 St. Our Lady of Hope may be reached at (718) 429-5438. In Rego Park, Our Lady of the Angelus Church hosts a food pantry on the first Saturday of the month from 10 to 11:30 a.m. The church asks to drop off nonperishable food items to the church’s rectory office at 63-63 98 St. Our Lady of the Angelus may be reached at (718) 897-4444. Lastly, the Queens County Farm Museum will begin accepting food donations throughout the month of December. Their food drive is designed to support the Queens College food pantry this holiday season. The farm encourages visitors and the general public to drop off nonperishable food in the farm store. The farm is located at 73-50 Little Neck Pkwy. in Floral Park and may be reached at (718) 347-3276. If you plan on making a donation to any of these churches or organizations, please check all items to make sure that they are not open and that they are not past their expiration date. This is not a comprehensive list. Contact your house of worship or community organiQ zation to learn if they are having a drive.

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Career Development. The online engagement will run from Nov. 19 through 23, and the workshop will be at 6 p.m. on Nov. 21 at the Jacob Riis Settlement. Leading up to the start of the online engagement, the team will be piloting the tool with members of the community. Visit YourLIC.nyc for more about the workshop and conversation. “Creating a vision for a great community starts with shared goals. We’re excited to bring LIC together to start talking,” said Mellow, the community and workforce development advisor for Your LIC. “This is an opportunity for all of Long Island City. We want to engage everyone in the community. Since many people cannot attend a workshop in person, our online activities are designed to engage the broadest group of residents possible.” “This is an inclusive, community-led process that puts Long Island City resident needs front and center,” said Taylor, cofounder of Urban Upbound. “It’s important for everyone in Long Island City to get involved and have their voices heard, either online or at one of our public workshops.” Q

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Your LIC last week announced the launch of its public engagement process to inform planning for 28 acres along the Long Island City waterfront. Your LIC is a communitydriven, open and collaborative process supported by landowners TF Cornerstone, Simon Baron Development and L&L MAG, which were brought together by the City Council to plan comprehensively and collaboratively across their properties. Over the next few months, Your LIC will convene four public workshops and online engagements to hear about the community’s priorities for waterfront development: Economic Empowerment and Career Development; Community Resources, including schools, recreation and culture; Resiliency and Public Open Space; and Comprehensive Neighborhood Planning, including infrastructure, housing and mobility. Your LIC will use online activities to encourage meaningful engagement from as many people as possible in addition to the workshops. Facilitated by Gail Mellow and Bishop Mitchell Taylor, the first conversation will be on Economic Empowerment and

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Hunger is a local fight in Ridgewood Ridgewood Older Adult Center helps more than seniors in a time of need by Michael Gannon Editor

The main reception office of the Ridgewood Older Adult Center was stocked with grocery bags last Tuesday, each one containing a bag of oranges, one of apples, a loaf of bread, bell peppers and some frozen pork chops. In all but the first week of each month, Tuesdays see the building turn from a senior center into a community center when the subject is fighting hunger. “We ask for ID, and that you live in the district,” said Elena Costea, executive director of the center. “We don’t screen for income. If you’re coming to a food pantry, we assume you need the food.” The Chronicle, in a continuing series, has been examining the issue of hunger in Queens, whom it impacts and what people are doing to remedy the problem. Organizations like City Harvest and Citymeals on Wheels have taken up the daunting mantle of hunger on a citywide basis. Food pantries such as the one at the Ridgewood Older Adult Center are fighting the battle in the close quarters of neighborhoods. The Ridgewood center every weekday provides hot lu nch, activities and socialization for as many as 75 or 80 in return for a suggested donation. Years ago, officials decided the need turned out to be far greater and began se n ior a nd com mu n it y food pantries. “Except for the first week of the month, we have a public food pantry every Tuesday and Thursday from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.,” Costea said in her office. “On Wednesdays we have one for our members.” The center is funded by the

city’s Department for the Aging. The pantry, Costea said, is suppor ted by a tot ally sepa rate source of funding. And she, like others from the front lines the Chronicle has asked, said there is no one face of hunger, even in the relatively small area that they serve. “We see every kind of person here,” she said. “Every age. Every race. Every ethnicity. Individuals. Parents with children. I think what would surprise people is the number of people in New York w h o n e e d t o r ely o n fo o d pantries.” And some who genuinely need help sometimes are dealing with a sense of pride before asking for assistance that is essential, and is available for the asking. Les Marx, who coordinates the center’s pantry giveaways, said their clients don’t f it any one stereotype. “Many of these people own their own homes,” Mark said. “They have jobs. They just need feed pantries help them make ends meet and stretch their food budgets.” The organization Food Bank for New York City is the main benefactor. “ We g ive t h e m o u r l i s t , depending on what they have,” she said. On delivery and pantry days, people like Gabriel Lopez and Sam Ankiah can be found in the storeroom organizing everything from donated cans of soup and boxes of cereal to cases of tuna, peanut butter and can ned vegetables. But they also get donations f rom places like Stop & Shop, other stores and private donors. “We take donations of just about anything as long as we can

Elena Costea and Les Marx show the bags containing meat, produce, bread and other items that the Ridgewood PHOTOS BY MICHAEL GANNON Older Adult Center prepares for the neighborhood’s needy. store it,” Costea said. “As long as people call us and let us know what they’re bringing. Canned goods, prepackaged things that we can give out to people who need them are great. For frozen food, other things that need special storage, it depends on what we can keep.” Even then, she said, no food they receive goes to waste. “Recently someone cal led wanting to bring us produce,” she said. “They brought us cases of apples, grapes and oranges.” While certainly welcome and given out generously to their beneficiaries, there was more than they could hold onto. “I called the Salvation Army, which in nearby,” Costea said. “We gave some to another food pantry here in Ridgewood. We all Q help each other out.”

Queens gets pro soccer team The United Soccer League is coming to the borough as Queensboro FC will play at a new stadium at York College, that will seat around 7,500 fans, according to reports. The club will also play select home matches at Citi Field. An investment group including Spain World Cup winner David Villa was granted the franchise. “Bringing professional football to Queens’ diverse community is an exciting and unique opportunity,” Villa said in a statement to ESPN. “The beautiful game already lives here, thanks to the

melting pot of cultures who are so passionate about the sport. I can’t think of a better place for QBFC to grow.” Citi Field has seen its share of soccer. Ecuador and Greece played an exhibition in 2011 in front of nearly 40,000 fans. The 2011 World Football Challenge saw Juventus defeat Club América 1-0. Most recently, NYCFC lost in the playoffs in October to Toronto FC. The game was moved from Yankee Stadium to avoid conflict with the playoff baseball schedQ ule. The Mets missed the playoffs. — David Russell

Gabriel Lopez and Sam Ankiah keep the groceries in order and flowing in the right combinations to the needy of Ridgewood.

Health and Wellness run-walk The inaugural Atlas Park Health and Wellness 5K Run-Walk presented by Main Street Radiology will take place Sunday morning. Registration is at 8 a.m. and the event starts one hour later at The Shops at Atlas Park at 80-00 Cooper Ave. in Glendale. There will be snacks, activities and live music as well as cancer information provided. Participants will travel from the mall to Forest Park and back. Awards for fastest runners and top fundraisers will also be presented imme-

diately following the run. Some features include hearing testing from Miracle Ear, puppy therapy from Bobby & The Strays, kickboxing from NY Sports Club and health information from New York Presbyterian Queens. Registration is $20 through Nov. 16 and $25 on the day of the event. A complimentary T-shirt and medal w i l l b e g i ve n t o a l l r e g i s t e r e d participants. Visit m ai n.acsevent s.org /atla s parkhealthandwellness5k to register Q online.

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Pols, residents call for co-op relief Bills to fix unintended consequences of new housing reforms due in Jan. by Ruth Montesa Chronicle Contributor

Passage of the state’s Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act back in June was intended to protect tenants in traditional tenantlandlord relationships. But it also had the unintended consequence of harming tenantshareholders of co-operative units, who are uniquely both tenants and landlords of their own homes. A pair of bills aimed at tweaking the law to mitigate the harm will be introduced by members of the Queens delegation to Albany when the new legislative session begins in January. On Nov. 7, numerous elected officials and co-op/condominium owner advocates gathered in Bay Terrace to rally support for passage of the Co-op Clarification Bill (S6770 / A8718). “The Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019 was probably never intended to apply to co-ops but rather to commercial rental properties where there is a classic landlord-tenant relationship,” said Bob Friedrich, president

Warren Schreiber, co-president of the Co-op and Condo Council, lobbies for support of measures that would exempt his members from the more onerous PHOTO BY RUTH MONTESA effects of new state laws. of Glen Oaks Village. “Unfortunately, the legislation was poorly drafted and does not distinguish between profit-generating commercial entities and nonprofit residential co-ops.” He said the law need to be amended to make it less difficult

for seniors seeking to downsize and young families with limited finances to buy a co-op apartment. In cooperatives people buy shares in an apartment corporation. Ownership entitles the purchaser to a long-term proprietary lease to an apa r t ment. O w ners a re of ten

referred to as “tenant-shareholders” and are, in essence, simultaneously tenants and their own landlords. “There became this bit of ambiguity and our bill really here is to clarify the point that co-op owners and co-op boards and management are not part of the Tenant Protection laws that we currently passed,” said state Sen. John Liu (D-Bayside). “We were even fearful that maybe some of the provisions in the Tenant Protection laws would endure in the long-run, actually weaken the finances of the very con st it uent s t h at we seek t o protect.” Assemblyman Ed Braunstein (D-Bayside) said some aspects of the Tenant Protection Act could potentially limit security deposits and the amount of money that a co-op could charge to do an effective background check He said some provisions meant to restore equity in landlord/tenant relationships conflict with proprietary leases and potentially increase the costs of co-op management. A s s e m b l y wo m a n A r a ve l l a Simotas (D-Astoria) said the bills

are merely “ a small clarification.” Assemblyman Daniel Rosenthal (D-Flushing) also supports the bills. Warren Schreiber, co-president of the Co-op & Condo Council along with Friedrich, said that in Queens, co-ops and condominiums are a matter of affordable housing for middle-income families “One of the problems with this (Tenant Law) is there will be some people who will no longer qualify for co-operative housing,” Schreiber said. “Sometimes when we have applicants who might be on the borderline of meeting our financial security, what we will do is to guarantee we would get our money, we would take six months’ of maintenance and put it into an escrow account. Then as long as everything is good and as long as all the payments have been made on time, after six months, that m o n e y w i l l go b a c k t o t h e shareholder.” Without the Co-op Clarification Bill, he said, a co-op board would be prevented from offering such a solution to a prospective co-op owner. Q

Senior run over by school bus and killed City DOT says it will re-evaluate the location following the fatal crash by David Russell

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An 83-year-old man was killed when he was hit by a school bus while walking with his wife last Wednesday morning in Middle Village, according to police. Bing Nuan Chen was hit at the intersection of 67th Drive and 73rd Place at approximately 8:35 a.m. The yellow school bus had been traveling southbound on 73rd Place when it made a left turn onto 67th Drive and struck him as he crossed north to south at the corner of 67th Drive. Responding officers discovered Chen, who lived on 74th Street in Middle Village, unconscious and unresponsive with trauma to the body. EMS responded and transported him to NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst, where he was pronounced dead. The 56-year-old female bus driver remained at the scene. There have been no arrests made and the investigation is ongoing by the New York City Police Department’s Highway Patrol Collision Investigation Squad. “The bus driver came in and struck him and crushed his head,” the Daily News quoted witness Sokol Kara as saying. “There was blood all over. He was under the back [tires] ... I think he was decapitated. [His] wife was crying with a napkin in her hand. She couldn’t do anything.” The Daily News also spoke to Michael

Patano, who said the victim, “was like part of the block. He helped my neighbor grow tomatoes. He was the ultimate sweet man. He didn’t deserve to die like that.” Councilman Bob Holden (D-Middle Village) visited the scene of the crash. “I’ve been calling for a traffic study of 73 Place and the surrounding area for more than a year and the [Department of Transportation] has not come up with any solutions yet,” Holden said in a Facebook post. “We don’t even have traffic markings on the road or a crosswalk at this particular intersection. A full investigation is underway but it seems that simple traffic safety measures could have been performed there for quite some time.” The DOT has studied the location and surrounding intersections for speed humps, stop signs and traffic signals multiple times over the years and didn’t find them feasible, according to a spokesman. “We currently have an active request for a stop sign at 73rd Place and 68th Road, and we will re-evaluate 67th Drive and 73rd Place for any feasible safety enhancements — as we do following any fatality,” the spokesman told the Chronicle in an email. Holden said the victim was a business owner. “Just a heartbreaking situation all around and I send my condolences to the family durQ ing this difficult time,” he posted.

Councilman Bob Holden surveys the area where Bing Nuan Chen, 83, was killed when he was hit by a school bus last Wednesday morning in Middle Village. The lawmaker called on the DepartNYC COUNCIL PHOTO / FACEBOOK ment of Transportation to make the area safer.

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First baseman is Rookie of the Year; ace pitcher wins another Cy Young by David Russell

Even Tom Seaver, who won the award three times, never won it in back-to-back seasons. Other Mets to win the award are Dwight Gooden and R.A. Dickey. DeGrom finshed 11-8 with a 2.43 ERA and a league-leading 255 strikeouts. He beat out the two other finalists, Los Angeles Dodgers southpaw Hyun-Jin Ryu and Washington Nationals ace Max Scherzer, a three-time Cy Young winner, who was runner-up to deGrom in 2018. He finished with an astonishing 1.70 ERA in 2018, though he finished 10-9 because of lousy run support. A week before the season began, he signed a five-year, $137.5 million contract extension. Mets general manager Brodie Van Wagenen was previously deGrom’s agent. DeGrom’s 2019 season got off to a rocky start as he was 3-5 with a 3.98 ERA in midMay. But over his final 23 starts of the season, the 30-year-old deGrom went 8-3 with a 1.89 ERA. In September, with the Mets still fighting for a playoff spot, deGrom went 3-0 and lowered his ERA from 2.66 to 2.43. He is one of six pitchers with 250 strikeouts and an ERA below 2.50 in consecutive seasons. The other five — Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez, Bob Gibson, Jim Bunning and Sandy Koufax — are in the Hall of Fame. Q

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The baseball season is over but it was a winning week for the Mets, who saw two players win major awards. First, Pete Alonso was named Rookie of the Year on Monday, receiving 29 of 30 first-place votes. The first baseman hit 53 home runs, setting a Mets record as well as the rookie record. Alonso was the first rookie to set his franchise’s single-season home run record in more than 80 years. The other two finalists were Atlanta Braves pitcher Mike Soroka and San Diego Padres shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr. Alonso hit .260 and also drove in 120 runs, good for third in the league. He also won the home run derby the night before the All-Star Game. The 24-year-old joined an impressive company. Other Mets to win the award are Tom Seaver, Jon Matlack, Darryl Strawberry, Dwight Gooden and Jacob deGrom. “Thank you to everyone who helped me turn dreams into reality,” Alonso tweeted. “I’d like to thank every single one of my teammates. You guys are the damn best! Also, a big thank you to the fans! Your passion for this team is invigorating and it is a blast playing for you guys every day.” On Wednesday night, deGrom was named

Mets first baseman Pete Alonso, left, was named National League Rookie of the Year after hitting 53 home runs, setting the rookie record, as well as the team record. Jacob deGrom won the league’s Cy Young Award for the second straight season, finishing 11-8 with a 2.43 ERA and a FLICKR PHOTOS / SLGCKGC league-high 255 strikeouts. the National League Cy Young winner. The right-handed ace became the 11th pitcher in history to win the award in consecutive seasons. Like last year, deGrom received 29 of 30 first-place votes.

“Words can’t express it,” he said on MLB Network after the announcement. “I said it was a dream to win one, but to win back-toback, honestly I’m kind of speechless right now.”

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C M SQ page 26 Y K SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS, U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE FOR GREENPOINT MORTGAGE FUNDING TRUST MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2007AR3, V. MOHANIE BISHU, ET. AL. NOTICE OF SALE. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated April 12, 2018, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Queens, wherein U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE FOR GREENPOINT MORTGAGE FUNDING TRUST MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2007-AR3 is the Plaintiff and MOHANIE BISHU, ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the QUEENS COUNT Y COURTHOUSE, COURTROOM #25, 88-11 SUTPHIN BLVD., JAMAICA NY 11435, on December 13, 2019 at 10:30 AM, premises known as 92-24 175TH STREET, JAMAICA, NY 11433: Block 10214, Lot 17: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE 4TH WARD, BOROUGH AND COUNTY OF QUEENS, CITY AND STATE OF NEW YORK. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 705689/2016. David H. Sloan, Esq. - Referee. RAS Boriskin, LLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff.

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS OCWEN LOAN SERVICING, LLC, V. GANIYU AGBOSASA; ET. AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated March 01, 2019, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Queens, wherein OCWEN LOAN SERVICING, LLC is the Plaintiff and GANIYU AGBOSASA; ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the QUEENS COUNTY COURTHOUSE 88-11 SUTPHIN BLVD., COURTROOM #25, JAMAICA, NY 11435, on November 22, 2019 at 10:30 am, premises known as 111-41 147TH STREET, JAMAICA, NY 11435: Block 11964, Lot 285: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND SITUATE LYING AND BEING IN THE BOROUGH AND COUNTY OF QUEENS, CITY AND STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 704087/2018. NESTOR DIAZ, Esq. - Referee. RAS Boriskin, LLC, 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff.

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS Index No.: 707112/2019 Filed: 04/22/2019 ROUNDPOINT MORTGAGE SERVICING CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. UNKNOWN HEIRS-AT-LAW OF THE ESTATE OF MARGARET RUCKER, DECEASED; JACQUELINE RUCKER, HEIR-AT-LAW OF MARGARET RUCKER; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA O/B/O INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICES; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD; JOHN DOE (said name being fictitious to represent unknown tenants/occupants of the subject property and any other party or entity of any kind, if any, having or claiming an interest or lien upon the mortgaged property), Defendants. SUMMONS AND NOTICE. TO THE ABOVENAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above captioned action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action may answer to appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this Summons and Complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered, and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the Summons and protect your property. Sending payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. To the above-named defendants: The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Hon. Cheree Buggs, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of N.Y., dated October 7, 2019 and filed along with the supporting papers in the Queens County Clerk’s Office. This is an action to foreclose a mortgage on the property 239-11 147th Road, Rosedale a/k/a Jamaica, NY 11422 also known as Section: 13738 Lot: 118 Queens County is designated as the place of trial based upon the location of the property being foreclosed. Attorneys for Plaintiff: Stern & Eisenberg, PC, 485 B Route 1 South, Suite 330, Iselin, NJ 08830, T: (516) 630-0288.

NYC Concept 2019 LLC Arts. of Org. filed w/ SSNY 9/13/19. Off. in Queens Co. SSNY desig. as agt. of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 10-40 45th Ave, 3rd Fl, LIC, NY 11101. Purpose: any lawful activity.

KG 6011 DEVELOPMENT LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/16/19. 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, 132-01 34th Ave, Flushing, NY 11354. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of TIGER’S NEST LOGISTICS LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/08/2019. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: TIGER’S NEST LOGISTICS LLC, 41-14 MAIN STREET, I-16, FLUSHING, NY 11355. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of ULU CAB LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/31/2019. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: SUAT ULUSOY, 29-14 23RD STREET, APT 1R, ASTORIA, NY 11105. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Peace Luke Acupuncture PLLC Arts of Org filed with NY Sec of State (SSNY) on 8/30/19. Office: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 171-13 Northern Blvd., Flushing, NY 11358. Purpose: Acupuncture.

Notice of Formation of Line Venture Group LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/11/2019. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: KAB Y. BANG, 28-23 208TH STREET, BAYSIDE, NY 11360. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Try Fat Orange LLC amended to Fat Orange LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/24/19. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 106-18 49th Ave, Corona, NY 11368. Purpose: any lawful activity.

WOODSIDE 32 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/20/19. 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, 53-19 32nd Avenue, Woodside, NY 11377. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS Index No.: 707260/2019 Filed: 04/24/2019 SPECIALIZED LOAN SERVICING LLC, Plaintiff, v. UNKNOWN HEIRS OF THE ESTATE OF ERNEST MURPHY; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA O/B/O INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICES; NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; JOHN DOE (said name being fictitious to represent unknown tenants/occupants of the subject property and any other party or entity of any kind, if any, having or claiming an interest or lien upon the mortgaged property), Defendants. SUMMONS AND NOTICE. TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above captioned action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action may answer to appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this Summons and Complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered, and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the Summons and protect your property. Sending payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. To the above-named defendants: The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Hon. Cheree A. Buggs, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of N.Y., dated October 9, 2019 and filed along with the supporting papers in the Queens County Clerk’s Office. This is an action to foreclose a mortgage on the property 197-14 120th Avenue, St. Albans, NY 11412 also known as Block: 12683 Lot: 4 Queens County is designated as the place of trial based upon the location of the property being foreclosed. Attorneys for Plaintiff: Stern & Eisenberg, PC, 485 B Route 1 South, Suite 330, Iselin, NJ 08830, T: (516) 630-0288.

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It’s not often that the highlights of a musical are its dramatic scenes, but such is the case in the production of “Gypsy” being presented by Theatre By The Bay NY in Bayside through Nov. 24. That is not to say that its musical numbers were not effective — they were! But the book by Arthur Laurents is unusually powerful and the portrayals by the three leading actors, as seen at a dress rehearsal several days prior to opening night, wring a great deal of emotion out of his words. Based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, who gained renown as the world’s most famous striptease artist, the show focuses on the efforts of her mother, Rose, to make stars out of her two daughters. Under the direction of Cathy Chimenti, several scenes stand out. There’s a beautifully played one, set at a railroad station, during which Rose (Mary Ellin Kurtz) discovers that her younger and more talented daughter, June, has eloped, abandoning the family’s vaudeville-style act. After a prolonged silence, Rose gathers her thoughts and, more determined than ever, proclaims, “There’s no stopping us this time,” launching into what is, in reality, a musical monologue, “Everything’s Coming Up Roses.” Rose and her would-be fourth husband, Herbie (Gary Tifeld) share a heartbreaking moment in their final confrontation before he makes a decision on their possible future together. And, near play’s end, Rose and Gypsy (Jacklyn Lisi) come to an emotionally laden understanding in yet another well-played scene. Of course, the score by Jule Styne (music) and Stephen Sondheim (lyrics) is one of the greats of musical theater, and it does not disappoint here. Kurtz, who, at times is reminiscent of Tyne Daly, one of many actresses who have played the role, sells her opening number, “Some People,” and tops herself in her finale, “Rose’s Turn,” a tour-de-force as dramatic as any spoken dialogue could be. Kurtz, Tifeld and Lisi have a lot of fun as they make a pact to be “Together Wherever We Go,” and Lisi offers a crystalline rendition of the reflective “Little Lamb.” continued on page 31

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W H AT ’ S H A P P E N I N G EXHIBITS

“Marguerite,” a musical tale of love, inclusion and living life without walls based on the life of Canada’s first female saint, Marguerite Bourgeoys, by the Astoria Performing Arts Center. Through Sat., Nov. 23, various dates and times, Church of the Redeemer, 30-14 Crescent St., Astoria. $25; $20 seniors, students. Info: (718) 706-5750, apacny.org.

“Outs & Ins,” with works by Sarah Palmer exploring human and environmental vulnerability with recontextualized nudes, portraits, catalog images and more. Sat., Nov. 16 (opening reception 6-9 p.m.)Sat., Jan. 11, 2020, Mrs., 60-40 56 Drive, Maspeth. Free. Info: (347) 841-6149, mrsgallery.com.

“Barefoot in the Park,” the Neil Simon comedy about newlyweds of very different temperaments living in a fifth-floor walkup that could use some work. Fri., Nov. 15-Sun., Nov. 24, various dates and times, Queens Theatre, 14 United Nations Ave. S., Flushing Meadows Corona Park. $25-40. Info: (718) 760-0064, queenstheatre.org.

“At Sea,” with works by multiple artists in various media using sea imagery to address the idea of being adrift in the face of fraught events, natural and manmade, global and personal. Through Sun., Dec. 8, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, 11-03 45 Ave., Long Island City. Free. Info: (718) 937-6317, dorsky.org. “Diplomacy,” with works by 11 international artists responding to the architecture and Cold War history of Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall, along with photos, plans and other ephemera related to it. Through Fri., Nov. 22, Dr. M.T. Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery, Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall, St. John’s University, 8000 Utopia Pkwy., Jamaica. Free. Info: (718) 990-7476, stjohns.edu.

“Painted Alice — The Musical,” an adaptation of “Alice in Wonderland” for adults, about an artist who falls through her canvas into a dark and comical world. Through Sun., Dec. 1, various dates and times, The Plaxall Gallery, 5-25 46 Ave., Long Island City. $25-$45. Info: (347) 848-0030, licartists.org. “The Selfish Giant,” a play about a giant who builds a wall around his garden but thereby plunges it into endless winter, brings an Oscar Wilde tale to life for the entire family, for one show only on Saturday. See Kids/Families. PHOTO BY ANGELA CARDENAS

“Honoring Your Vision,” with about 30 paintings and photos by nine artists on what is in front of us but may be overlooked, including “Then and Now” images of historical area architecture by Cheryl Cuddeback. Through Fri., Nov. 29, Red Pipe Café, 71-60 Austin St., Forest Hills. Free. Info: (718) 224-8359.

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“Survivance and Sovereignty on Turtle Island: Engaging with Contemporary Native American Art,” with works by 16 artists from across North America, called Turtle Island by some indigenous peoples. Through Thu., May 21, 2020, Kupferberg Holocaust Center, Queensborough Community College, 222-05 56 Ave., Bayside. Free. Info: (718) 281-5770, khc.qcc.cuny.edu.

“Arte Cubano,” with works by more than 25 Cuban artists reflecting on the quotidian, social and political realities of the island and the world, including “Hybrid of Chrysler” by Esterio Segura, above. Through Thu., Feb. 20, 2020, Godwin-Ternbach Museum, at Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing. Free. Info: (718) 997-4747, gtmuseum.org. COURTESY PHOTO

MUSIC Still I Rise, a program of works by female composers of color including Florence Price, Modesta Bor, Zenobia Powell Perry and more, by the Astoria Music Project. Sun., Nov. 17, 6 p.m., The Church of the Redeemer, 30-14 Crescent St., Astoria. $20 suggested; $15 seniors, students Info: (718) 2788093, facebook.com/theastoriamusicproject.

DDAT: Native American Hip-Hop Jazz Fusion, with the group combining several genres with an original southwestern feel. Sat., Nov. 16, 2:15 p.m. (1 p.m. discussion on music as medicine), Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. $14; $8 kids; free teens (talk free with RSVP). Info: (718) 463-7700, flushingtownhall.org. COURTESY PHOTO

“A Chinese Lady,” a work in progress piece for two challenging the grandiose presentation typical of Chinese classical dance and returning to the poetry of body movement. Thu., Nov. 14, 7 p.m., Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. Free. Info: (718) 463-7700, flushingtownhall.org.

Democratic Debate Watch Party, with preshow comedy and Mystery Science Theater 3000-style commentary during the event, hosted by “TV’s Frank” Conniff. Wed., Nov. 20, 7:30-11 p.m., QED, 27-16 23 Ave., Astoria. $10. Info: (347) 451-3873, qedastoria.com.

Dancing with the LIC Stars, the 2nd annual, with Queens dance teams in competition, buffet dinner, open bar, raffles and more, all supporting The Floating Hospital and Queensboro Dance Festival. Fri., Nov. 15, 6-9 p.m., The Plaxall Gallery, 5-25 46 Ave., Long Island City. $60; $10 kids. Info: (347) 8480030, facebook.com/supercommunityLIC.

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Baroque and Beyond: Songs of Love and Loss, with music spanning four centuries that chronicles the human condition from both male and female composers’ views, from cantata to cabaret, by Musica Reginae. Sat., Nov. 16, 2 p.m., The Church-in-the-Gardens, 50 Ascan Ave., Forest Hills. $20; $10 students; free kids under 12. Info: (718) 894-2178, musicareginae.org.

“Deathtrap,” the comedy-thriller about a playwright apparently willing to kill to have a hit, by Douglaston Community Theatre. Fri.-Sat., Nov. 15-16 and 22-23, 8 p.m.; Sun., Nov. 17, 2:30 p.m.; and Sat., Nov. 23, 2 p.m., Zion Episcopal Church, Church Street off Douglaston Pkwy., 243-01 Northern Blvd. $19; $17 seniors, students. Info: (718) 482-3332, dctonline.org.

Forest Hills Symphony Orchestra, with works by Weber, Beethoven, Borodin and Strauss Jr.. Sun., Nov. 17, 2 p.m., Forest Hills Jewish Center, 106-06 Queens Blvd. $5; $3 seniors. Info: (718) 374-1627, fhso.org.

“Gypsy,” the musical based on the memoirs of striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee, focusing on her mother, Rose, known as the ultimate show biz mother, by Theatre By The Bay. Sat., Nov. 16 and 23, 8 p.m.; Sun., Nov. 17 and 24, 3 p.m., Bay Terrace Garden Jewish Center, 1300 209 St. $25; $22 seniors 62 and over, kids 12 and under; $2 more at door. Info: (718) 428-6363, theatrebythebayny.com.

DANCE Take Root, with Kelly Donovan & Dancers and Maya Orchin. Fri.-Sat., Nov. 15-16, 8 p.m. $17; $20 cash at door; $22 credit card. Fertile Ground, featuring multiple dance troupes and post-performance discussion with wine, moderated by Valerie Green. Sun., Nov. 17, 7 p.m. $15. Both part of monthly series at Green Space, 37-24 24 St., Long Island City. Info: (718) 956-3037, greenspacestudio.org.

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“Getting Married,” the George Bernard Shaw comedy about wedded life, with all its ups and downs, by The Gingerbread Players. Sat., Nov. 16, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Nov. 17, 2:30 p.m., St. Luke’s Church, 85 Greenway S., Forest Hills. $15; $12 each in groups of six or more. Info: (718) 268-7772, gingerbreadplayers.org. stlukesforesthills.org.

The Queens Ministry Flea Market and Fall Festival, with household items and more for sale and fun for the whole family. Sat., Nov. 16, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., 220-20 94 Drive, Queens Village. Info: (718) 305-1329.

LECTURES/TALKS Community Conversation on Democracy, with a reading from Humanities NY and a discussion led by Jo-Anne Raskin. Sat., Nov. 23, 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m., Maple Grove Cemetery Victorian Administration Building, 127-15 Kew Gardens Road, Kew Gardens. Free. Info/RSVP (requested): (347) 878-6614, friendsofmaplegrove.org. Book talk — “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom,” with historian David W. Blight discussing his 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning work on the abolitionist, right, including his help fighting to free George Latimer, father of Flushing inventor Lewis H. Latimer. Sat., Nov. 16, 2 p.m., Flushing Library, 41-17 Main St. Free. Info: (718) 661-1200, queenslibrary.org. NATIONAL ARCHIVES VIA WIKIPEDIA continued on page 32

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creator Rockne S. O’Bannon will be all present. “Farscape” was a show on the Sci-Fi channel (later SyFy) that had one of the first internet campaigns to bring it back when it got canceled. “There are a lot of cons that have a lot of guests. I’ve always found it cool when you deal with the cast. A lot of these people haven’t seen each other in 20 years ... it’s more fun when you have the actual cast. That’s what it’s all about,” said Frank Patz, the president of Wintercon. Along with “Farscape,” the con will also have reunions of actors from the 1979 classic “Alien,” the ’70s sci-fi show “Battlestar Galactica” and the fantasy film “The Neverending Story.” Patz said he tries to get guests from media that he grew up as a fan of, citing “Alien” and “Battlestar Galactica” as two of his favorites. “The adults today, we are the ones who grew up on these shows,” he said. One of the comic guests is artist Russ Braun. He has been a comic artist for over 30 years and also worked with Walt Disney Animation. Originally from Richmond Hill, now living in Astoria, this is his first time

Wintercon is famous for its cosplay contests, and the competition is fierce. attending Wintercon. “I’ve only recently been doing more conventions and at conventions this year a common question for me was, ‘Are you going to be at Wintercon?’” Braun said. “So I looked into it, being an Astoria resident, and thought it was about time I did a

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ical ideas wrapped up in that wit.” The cast of the current production includes, in addition to Guinther, several other Gingerbread favorites, among them James Chamberlain, Andrew Dinan, Debbie Smith, David Friedman and Joanna Friedman, as well as some new faces. One of the greatest challenges facing Logan was getting the actors used to the language, he said. “There’s a certain rhythm they need to adopt. They have fallen into it very easily. They are all quite adept,” he said. The language isn’t the only thing that will be authentic in this production. The costume designer, Joanna Friedman, is “stitching her fingers to the bone,” said Guinther, selecting colors and styles to appropriately represent each character. The Gingerbread Players must be commended for consistently daring to present plays that other theater groups tend to shy away from. “People think of older plays as scholarly but not fun,” Guinther said. “We find them fun and want to share them with the Q world.”

‘Getting Married’ When: Sat., Nov. 16, 7:30 p.m., Sun., Nov. 17, 2:30 p.m. Where: St. Luke’s Church, 85 Greenway South, Forest Hills Tickets: $15; $12 each for groups of six or more. (718) 268-7772, gingerbreadplayers.org

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Mama Rose: the mother of all stage mothers continued from page 27 A standout number is “All I Need Is the Girl,” thanks to the lithe Brendan Bitler, whose body is rhythm incarnate from head to toe. Somewhat of a letdown is “You Gotta Get a Gimmick,” performed by a trio of strippers as they demonstrate their respective approaches to the art. Ordinarily a show-stopper, it proved merely satisfactory at the Tuesday rehearsal. Perhaps with a full audience in attendance, its effect will be enhanced. Memorable cameos are provided by Kristin Robles, in a comical turn as a theatrical producer’s secretary with an atti-

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tude, and by Michael Chimenti, the director’s real-life husband, playing a shorttempered theater manager. With several days to go before opening, the show was in fine shape, with transitions between scenes handled with aplomb, making the evening flow, despite the many changes in locale required by the story. The set design by Colin O’Leary is efficacious, easily adapting to each of those places, indicated by placards on an easel, as was done in vaudevillian days. Thea Sieban provided a wide, colorful array of

Louise, aka Gypsy (Jacklyn Lisi), dances with Rose (Mary Ellin Kurtz) and Herbie (Gary Tifeld) PHOTOS BY MARK LORD and, at left, Tulsa (Brendan Bitler). On the cover: Gypsy performs. costumes, not all of them as flattering as one might hope. Glenn Rivano’s lighting design is evocative. The seven-piece band plays enchant-

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NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 09-09-19, bearing Index Number NC-000645-19/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) PUJIATI (Last) ALARCON. My present name is (First) PUJIATI (Last) NO NAME GIVEN AKA PIJIATI ALARCON AKA PUJIATI. The city and state of my present address are Long Island City, NY. My place of birth is INDONESIA. The month and year of my birth are April 1979.

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NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 10-18-19, bearing Index Number NC-000921-19/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) ANTHONY (Middle) ABRAHAM (Last) BURGOS. My present name is (First) ANTHONI (Middle) ABRAHAN (Last) BURGOS AKA ANTHONY A BURGOS. The city and state of my present address are Sunnyside, NY. My place of birth is MANHATTAN, NY. The month and year of my birth are October 1993.

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JAB DENTAL SERVICES, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/09/19. 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 LLC, Jason Bastida 40-14 82nd Street, Elmhurst, NY 11373. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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The Jets beat their MetLife Stadium co-tenants, the Giants, 34-27 last Sunday in what was a surprisingly entertaining game given all the understandable negativity coming from both media and fans over the teams’ poor records. The Jets have been besieged by injuries at the cornerback position so late last week they activated their sixth-round 2019 draft choice, Springfield Gardens native and Campus Magnet High School alum Blessuan “Bless” Austin. Austin had the unenviable job of covering the Giants’ very talented receivers, Darius Slayton and Golden Tate. While Tate did beat him for a third-quarter touchdown, Austin won the battle when it most counted, as neither Giants receiver could do much in the fourth. Austin said he wasn’t nervous appearing in his first NFL game. I asked him if growing up in Queens gave him the confidence to play in front of over 70,000 people. “Absolutely. It gives you a tough skin. I am able to handle the insults that come my way,” he said. I then asked if the insults were coming from fans or opposing players. “Both!” he replied with a laugh. It’s too soon to know how good a quarterback Sam Darnold will be for the Jets, but there is little doubt that he has mastered NFL postgame cliches like a true veteran. “You had to realize that your performance today would be

especially scrutinized given the fact that your counterpart would be [Giants rookie and firstround draft pick] Daniel Jones. Was that a motivator for you?” I asked Darnold at the podium in the Jets locker room. “No, it wasn’t. I just wanted our team to win,” Darnold answered unconvincingly. Incidentally, Jones had a fine day as he threw four touchdown passes in spite of relentless pressure from Jets linebackers and All-Pro safety Jamal Adams. Flushing native, Queens College alum and former NFL senior vice president of events Frank Supovitz has authored a book about crisis management, “What To Do When Things Go Wrong” (McGraw-Hill). Supovitz writes in great detail about his career, especially the Super Bowl in New Orleans in 2013, which had to be stopped in the third quarter because of a power outage at the Superdome. Fortunately, he prepares for all contingencies and that was one. “While there may be only a 20 percent chance of rain in the forecast there is a 100 percent chance that you will get wet if you don’t carry an umbrella,” has always been his philosophy, and it helps explains why he is in high demand for his services from corporate America with his new company, Fast Traffic Events. The book is available in hardcover, on Kindle and was just released as an audio book. Q See the extended version of Sports Beat every week at qchron.com.

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HOWARD BEACH/LINDENWOOD Hi-Rise - 1 Bed Co-op, low maint., G & E and taxes incl. Asking $149K Hi-Rise - 2 Bed, 2 Baths updated kitchen. Asking $247K Hi-Rise - Mint AAA, 2 Bed, 2 Baths, custom kit., new baths. Asking $310K Garden Co-op - 3 Bed, 1 Bath, freshly painted, Hi-hats, new closet doors, w/dryer in apt, updated kit. Asking $299K

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Cape on 50x90 lot, 4 BRs, 2 full baths. 1st floor, hardwood floors, living room w/fireplace, formal dining room, kitchen, 2 BRs, full bath, access to enclosed sunroom. 2nd floor, 2 BRs, full fin. bsmt., new gas furnace & hot water heater (4 yrs old), large den. Owner Motivated! Asking $769K

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One-of-a-kind Janet Ann Duplex Condo, 2 BRs, 1 1/2 bths. Renovated, granite, SS appl., washer and dryer, terrace. Reduced $365K

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Howard Beach - Cross Bay Blvd, commercial space for rent, 2nd fl, 850 sq. ft., all new tiled office w/bath, $2,750/mo., plus electric.

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3 Beds, 2 Bths, 2nd fl., incl. gas, heat and electric and water. $2,950 per mo. OZONE PARK

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