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Crowley bill targets aircraft engine noise Silent Skies Act would replace or refit U.S. commercial planes by 2035 by Michael Gannon Editor

olitical heavyweights from throughout Queens were on hand at LaGuardia Airport last Friday as Congressman Joe Crowley (D-Bronx, Queens) announced legislation that would require airlines to stock their fleets with quieter planes. The Quiet Skies Act (HR 3650) will, if passed, give the Federal Aviation Administration until the end of 2015 to come up with regulations that would require all domestic airlines to phase in quiter aircraft, or those me et i ng t he fe de r a l St age 4 noise requirements. Speaking in the rotunda at LaGuardia’s historic Marine Air Terminal, Crowley acknowledged that traffic at both LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy International airports — as gateways to the city and country — will and must continue and increase. But under his bill, all domestic passenger airlines would have to have 25 percent of their f leets replaced or retrofitted with quieter engines every five years until 2035, when all commercial aircraft would be covered. He was joined by Queens congressional representatives Grace Meng (D-Flushing), Steve Israel (D-Queens, Long Island) and Gregory Meeks (D-Queens, Nassau), as well as a slew of state and city officials and member s of g r a ssroot s neig hborhood

Queens congressional representatives Grace Meng, left, Steve Israel and Gregory Meeks all spoke in support Friday of a measure by Congressman Joe Crowley, second from right, aimed at PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON reducing noise near airports nationwide. organizations. “Airports can never be perfect neighbors, but we can take steps to make them better neighbors,” Crowley said.

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could be required to act on existing planes. With LaGuardia and Kennedy both located within Queens, virtually the entire borough is under one flight path or another. In some instances the departure patterns from one airport overlap with the landing approaches to the other. Crowley said his constituents in the Bronx are not immune from the noise as passenger jets on final approach to LaGuardia often come in over the Bronx and Fairfield County, Conn. Israel, who began serving Northeastern Queens right up to the airport’s boundaries back in January, said the region recently scored a major victory by convincing the Port Authority, which operates both airports, to form an Airport Advisory Committee. But he also said the parts of his new district in Nassau and even Suffolk counties would benefit from the passage of Crowley’s bill. Crowley himself said that while he has not done a formal head count in the House of Representatives, he does not believe that airport noise pollution is a Democratic or Republican issue. Janet McEneany, president of Queens Quiet Skies, said resident groups also are firmly behind the congressional delegation. And she said she is tired of hearing how continued on page 31

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At public forum, residents express concerns on QueensWay, train by Aaron Maldonado Chronicle Contributor

The residents of Woodhaven came together Monday night to discuss the future of the abandoned Rockaway Beach Rail Line, which runs on the neighborhood’s eastern border right alongside some backyards. The right of way, which has been abandoned since 1962, has become a major issue of controversy, as there are such strong opinions about what should or should not be done to the line. There are two competing plans for the line: to reactivate the train, or to build a park similar to Manhattan’s High Line called the QueensWay. Ed Wendell, president of the Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association, held his own public forum on Monday night at the Emmanuel United Church of Christ. Both plans have pros and cons and the purpose of this forum was to bring the residents to some sort of common ground. Safety and money were the main points of discussion. If it were to be a train going through their neighborhood — past the residences on 98th Street, which runs alongside the Rockaway LIRR right of way — there are a lot of concerns. “I’m for ‘green,’ whether its ‘Greenway’ or

Woodhaven residents gathered for a public forum on the proposals to build a park or a railroad on the former Rockaway Beach LIRR line that runs along the eastern border of the neighborhood PHOTO BY AARON MALDONADO behind backyards on 98th Street. ‘the green the way it is,’ that’s the way I like it,” one resident said. “I think the Greenway will be clean and I don’t want a train. I really don’t want a train in my backyard.” Some have used the Manhattan High Line park as a reference for what this plan for the QueensWay proposal could be like.

“I see the Greenway in Manhattan and there’s nothing but positivity,” another resident said. “Trains will give you headaches. I don’t want no headaches.” The QueensWay presents its own issues. Residents questioned the activity that might come with this park at night so close to their

backyards. They also want to know more about the effect of the QueensWay on the community if that project does prevail. The impact either project would have on Woodhaven’s economy is one of the bigger unknown details that residents want more information about before deciding which plan to support, if either. Ivan Mrakovcic, first vice chairman of Community Board 9, said that the feasibility study being done is a 10-month process and we are only two months into it. “All those very important safety concerns are important to me as well,” he said. “Woodhaven is a wonderful village, but it’s not a village in a vacuum. It’s surrounded by many other villages; the Queensway if it comes to fruition will bring more attention and money to the area.” The feasibility study is what hopefully will help shed some light on the truth of those claims, he added. Wendell asked CB 9, where there is strong support for the QueensWay plan, to look at the existing Brooklyn-Queens greenway as ‘their lab experiment,” noting that the problems there could manifest itself on the QueensWay. continued on page 35

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Ozone Park rezoning finalized Council grants approval to plan that covers 530 blocks by Domenick Rafter Editor

Killer sought Police say a Richmond Hill man found dead in his home last week was murdered. Noel Hildago, 58, was discovered unconscious with trauma to his head inside of 108-08 Jamaica Ave. on Dec. 4 at 3:40 p.m. He was declared dead at the scene. Police have released a surveillance video of a man wanted for questioning in a hooded jacket leaving the scene on foot, pushing a bicycle. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1 (800) 577-TIPS (8477). The public can also submit tips by logging onto nypdcrimestoppers. com, or by texting 274637 (CRIMES), then entering TIP577. All tips are strictly confidential.

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commercial districts, thereby creating jobs and increasing property values.” “Out of character structures and overdevelopment has become far too common in our communities,” said Councilman Ruben Wills (D-South Jamaica). “That is why it was important that we undertook these aggressive measures to protect the integrity of our neighborhoods.” As the rezoning made its way through the final hurdles over the last two months, ground was broken on new housing developments on previously vacant land on Albert Road in the Centreville section of Ozone Park. At the Dec. 5 meeting of CB 10, Ulrich said the developments there would not be allowed under the new rezoning, but would be allowed if the foundations were poured before the Council approved the rezoning. “This important milestone, which represents the second largest rezoning initiative we have undertaken in the last 12 years, punctuates our tremendous efforts to ensure development is consistent with the character of neighborhoods, while at the same time fostering new business and housing opportunities near mass transit links,” Mayor Bloomberg added in a Q statement.

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The City Council gave its final stamp of approval to the rezoning of 530 blocks in South Queens Tuesday. The unanimous vote puts the plan into motion immediately, There was little opposition to the plan, which aimed to protect the characteristics of residential homes in the neighborhood. The rezoned area is bordered roughly by the Brooklyn border to the west, the Belt Parkway to the south, Lefferts Boulevard to the east and Atlantic and 103rd avenues to the north. The zoning area also includes one block on either side of Liberty Avenue all the way to the Van Wyck Expressway. It is the second largest — and last — rezoning of the Bloomberg administration. The main focus of the rezoning was to prevent the demolition of the unattached, semi-attached or attached one- and twofamily homes that dominate the area for larger developments, which has been a problem all across South Queens. The plan also upzoned the commercial strips on 101st Avenue from the Brooklyn border to the Van Wyck and most of Liberty Avenue along that same length to allow for bigger apartment buildings and more commercial properties. A similar upzoning is to

be done as part of the rezoning along Cross Bay Boulevard between Liberty Avenue and the Belt Parkway and Rockaway Boulevard between the Brooklyn border and Cross Bay Boulevard and again between 109th Avenue and Lefferts Boulevard to allow for more commercial development along that stretch. A small area of Lefferts Boulevard between Rockaway Boulevard and 111th Avenue was also rezoned for potential commercial development. A small section around the Lefferts Boulevard/Liberty Avenue intersection would be downzoned because original zoning regulations would have allowed buildings as high as ten stories. Both com munity boards 9 and 10 approved the rezoning in October. Borough President Helen Marshall and the City Planning Commission signed off on the plan last month. In a statement, the two Council members who represent the rezoning areas praised the plan. “The new zoning enacted into law today will protect Ozone Park from overdevelopment and help create a more livable neighborhood,” said Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park). “It will also spur new modest development, especially in the

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Man killed in hit and CB 10 says no to run in Woodhaven hotel, yes to gym Police looking for white car that fled by Domenick Rafter A Brooklyn man was killed in a hitand-run accident at one of South Queens’ deadliest intersections over the weekend. On Saturday at 3:15 a.m., police responded to a 911 call of a car accident at the intersection of Jamaica Avenue and Woodhaven Boulevard in Woodhaven. Upon arrival, officers discovered that a vehicle had struck Yunior Antonio Perez Rodriguez, 35, of Brooklyn as he crossed Woodhaven Boulevard from east to west. Perez Rodriguez sustained severe trauma and was taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. The driver of the vehicle that hit the victim fled the scene. Police say the suspect was driving a white Honda sedan. There were no immediate arrests and the investigation is ongoing. The intersection of Jamaica Avenue and Woodhaven Boulevard has a deadly track record. On Feb. 13 of this year, a 67-year-old man was killed crossing the

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Community Board 10 took up two land use issues last Thursday night, one involving a proposed hotel and another on a planned gym due to open in a new shopping strip. Revisiting the proposed variance that the board tabled last month for a hotel slated for 149th Avenue and 132nd Street — a site zoned for industrial use — CB 10 Land Use Committee Chairman John Calcagnile said he had met with the hotel’s developers and some of the issues that were brought up at the November meeting had been addressed. Those included moving the hotel’s entrance to face south into the parking lot and a guarantee from the hotel’s owner that it would never become a homeless shelter, as the former Skyway Motel, across the street from the site of the proposed hotel, did several years ago. Nevertheless, Calcagnile said the committee voted not to approve the variance because not all of its committee’s demands were met and the South Ozone Park Civic

Association had opposed the plan. He also noted another hotel nearby was not given a variance by the adjacent community board. “Before we had the meeting, there was another hotel proposed [in Community District 12] and the community board there voted against it,” he said. CB 10 voted unanimously, with one abstention, to not grant the variance. On a second issue, LA Fitness is planning to open a gym in a new shopping center that is proposed at Linden Boulevard and South Conduit Avenue in Lindenwood and needs a land use variance from the board. Joann Ariola, president of the Lindenwood Alliance, said she was in full support of the gym’s opening. CB 10 member John Fazio inquired about security issues in the parking garage during overnight hours since the gym will be open 24 hours, but Chairwoman Betty Braton said those issues would need to be addressed to the developer. The board later voted unanimously to Q grant the variance.

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Bloomberg’s record on business is mixed

erhaps nothing speaks more clearly to Mayor Bloomberg’s impact on the business community in New York better than the 11th-hour passage of the longawaited Willets Point redevelopment plan. It’s a great deal for the developers, the Mets’ Sterling Equities and real estate leader The Related Companies. They’re getting 23 acres of taxpayer-owned land for all of $1. They’re also getting more than $40 million in tax breaks, along with other public such as the new Van A mayor’s legacy benefits, Wyck Expressway ramps that will Second in a series let people access their planned retail and entertainment complex. On the losing end are the small businesses, mostly auto repair shops, that are being forced out of the place they have long called home. Also losing out are the taxpayers that are funding so much of the project, including the massive environmental remediation it entails. Across Queens and the rest of the city, Bloomberg’s policies have generally been beneficial to big business but not so much to small business, at least not directly. He’s kept taxes down, and provided tax breaks to a large number of

major corporations that might have gone elsewhere otherwise. Yes, that’s corporate welfare, but other cities and states do it, and unilateral disarmament is a losing proposition. (The difference with the Willets Point tax breaks is that something new is being created there; it’s not that an existing business has to be persuaded not to move.) Bloomberg’s regulatory regime has also been disproportionately unfair to small businesses, especially the cliche mom-and-pop shops that line so many Queens streets. Since he’s been in office, fines levied against such businesses have nearly doubled. Speak to most merchants, as we do every day, and they’ll tell you that after the still-anemic economy, the biggest threats to their livelihoods are such fines. Think of the Brooklyn grocer who photocopied the required notice about tobacco sales to minors seven times so he could post it all over the store, and was then fined $7,000, a thousand bucks for each sign, because they were in black type instead of red type as required. C’mon. On the other hand, Bloomberg’s acumen with big business — and with his self worth of $31 billion, almost no one’s bigger than him — has paid off. After the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the city’s economy could have tanked, but

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Kids’ online safety Dear Editor: Social media websites do not do enough to provide parents with the resources needed to monitor their child’s activities. Anything could happen to children on these sites, ranging from solicitation from strange individuals to cyberbullying. Many critics in the media and online blogs cannot seem to find a solution to the threats facing minors on these sites, but there are effective changes that can be made. Facebook, Twitter and Instagram need to find a way to give parents access to their child’s statuses. This would help keep parents enfranchised in what is going on in their child’s social life. Some web tools have been invented to allow parents access to their child’s status updates, like KwickLook.com, but web tools like this are relatively unknown to the public. These popular social media sites need to come up with their own solution to these problems. It is their social responsibility. Michael John Cadigan Bayside

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instead it rebounded well. And even after the downturn of 2008, New York pulled through better than most places, with jobs returning faster — though not enough yet. One reason for these successes is that Bloomberg has encouraged diversification in the economy. Wall Street is still the city’s financial backbone, but it occupies a smaller share of the economy than it once did. The entertainment industry, for one, has grown. Just look at the recent expansion of Kaufman Astoria Studios to see an example of how government and industry can work together for everyone’s benefit. Technology is another area Bloomberg has worked to expand. The Cornell University technology campus slated for Roosevelt Island will yield untold benefits once it’s up and running — in fact some say it already has, as anticipation is drawing more tech companies to Western Queens. That part of the borough is also where the real estate market is exploding with city encouragement. We’d like to see such a strong market — though not high rises — all over Queens. You can’t blame Bloomberg for the housing crisis, but there is much you can blame him for, and give him credit for, when it comes to the economy. He certainly has had a lasting impact on business of all kinds in the city.

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$99 million; and the right to construct a 1.4 million-square-foot shopping mall on the Citi Field parking lot, which is part of Flushing Meadows Corona Park without having to replace parkland and undergo a Uniform Land Use Review Procedure proceeding. Predictably, not so. In addition to all of the above, they now seek what they claim is a $43 million tax break from the city, but when added to the actual value of the Willets Point property of about $250 million; sewer construction cost of about $35 million; Van Wyck construction cost of $66 million; the total cost to the city for Willets Point will be about $400 million, a taxpayer subsidy that may well break all previous records. At a time when city poverty and homeless levels are increasing, a demand by multibillionaires for a huge tax break, is outrageous. If the Bloomberg Administration and the City Council agree to this raid on the City treasury, and if Mayor-Elect Bill de Blasio and Queens Borough President-Elect Melinda

Katz remain silent, it would be tantamount, in my opinion, to malfeasance in office. Benjamin M. Haber Flushing

Credit Rudy on crime Dear Editor: In your Dec. 5 editorial, “Bloomberg’s greatest achievement is in fighting crime,” you correctly credit Mayor Bloomberg with reducing violent crime. The problem with your editorial is you give scarcely any credit to the man primarily responsible for reducing violent crime and making New York City safe, Mayor Giuliani. In 1989, the year before Mayor Dinkins took office, there were 1,905 murders. In 1993, Mayor Dinkins’ last year, there were 1,946 murders. In Mayor Dinkins’ four years in office there were 8,340 murders, the most for any four-year period in New York City history. In 1994, Mayor Giuliani’s first year in office, murders dropped to 1,561. In Mayor Giuliani’s

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Mandela ... and America Dear Editor: The world is a little lighter today with the passing of President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela. He was easily the Martin Luther King

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Dear Editor: (An open letter to Police Commissioner Ray Kelly) On behalf of the New York Press Club, I strongly protest NYPD’s latest decision to cut off a long-standing source of information, vital to New Yorkers. The policy change to deny media access to complaint reports at the precinct level is, to us, another example of blatant hostility by NYPD toward locally based media outlets that disseminate information about neighborhood occurrences to residents of those neighborhoods. We are stumped by the question of why NYPD now requires community reporters to scurry down to the notoriously uncommunicative and uncooperative DCPI office to examine incident reports that originate locally. One inescapable conclusion about the new policy is that NYPD wishes to “edit” or otherwise obfuscate the information in question. At the very least, the policy unnecessarily complicates public access to information and data that should instead be freely available. This new restriction on openness and accessibility is, in our opinion, another disturbing example of the department’s recent, relentless slide towards non-accountability. We therefore request an explanation of the change for publication. Thank you. Larry Seary President, The New York Press Club Manhattan The writer is a resident of Queens. Editor’s note: The policy was modified Tuesday, according to The Nabe, an online media outlet.

In the right corner Re “A shot from the left,” Letters, Dec. 5: Dear Editor: Why, now that Obama has all but succeeded in transforming America into a socialist tyranny and America’s freedoms are dropping daily like stones in a pond, are liberals still so unhappy? Pope Francis may attack “the idolatry of money,” and he is disturbed by a homeless person dying of exposure, but (unlike Jesus) the pope wears pure silk white underwear, hand sewn by a team of seamstresses and his summer palace could take in quite a few homeless people. Obama lives royally, while the public is reminded daily of the joys of Obamacare. Mike Bloomberg toured the United States supporting politicians who would take guns away from law-abiding citizens, but when he leaves office he’ll take the whole contingent of police who protected him with him. What do the three have in common? They’re all wealthy and bleed publicly for the poor, but what they offer comes ONLINE not from their Miss an article or letter pockets but cited by a writer? Want everybody else’s. news from our other Illegal Mexieditions covering the rest cans, who had no of Queens? Find past voice in Mexico, r epor t s, new s f r om found their voice across the borough and in and against more at qchron.com. the U.S. Illegal Cuba ns fou nd their voice in Marco Rubio, who with the McCain and Schumer amnesty bill would make the U.S. another Cuba. The majority of Jews, who by now should have recognized a dictator when they saw one, didn’t. AfricanAmericans honored Martin Luther King, but didn’t listen to him. Instead of judging a man not by the color of his skin but the contents of his mind, they voted for Obama, who judges people not by the contents of their minds, but by the color of their skin. Redistributing wealth was tried in Russia, Cuba and Venezuela. American entertainers who love the jolly Castros go to Cuba to visit, not to live. Who wants to live in a prison? The U.S. no longer breeds entrepreneurs, it breeds ingrates. Warren Buffet supported Obama to get the XL Pipeline killed. It would have competed with his overland oil and shipping company. Hollywood supports Obama for access to foreign markets. This sounds pretty much like the pages “idolatry of money” to me. It’s incomprehensible that in this country immigrants voted for a man who will give them everything they or their parents came here to escape from. They forgot history. They’re going to repeat it. For a look into the future read “1984.” Janice Wijnen Rego Park

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last year there were 649 murders. This “remarkable” 67 percent drop in murders made New York City the safest city in America. Mayor Bloomberg continued to reduce murders to 414 last year, for a drop of 36 percent. To give more credit to Mayor Bloomberg than Mayor Giuliani is misleading. To give credit to Mayor Dinkins is insane. I do feel you have another agenda, which is to rewrite history. Misrepresenting the miracle of the Giuliani crime reduction and misinforming the citizens of New York allows for misguided views, which lead to events such as the mayoralty of Bill de Blasio during which, I fear, this great city will regress. Charlie Vavruska Maspeth

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CB 9 rejects Beverly Rd. plan DOT sought one-way conversion for Kew Gardens street by Domenick Rafter Editor

Community Board 9 unanimously rejected a plan to change a two-way street in Kew Gardens into a one-way after several residents and the local civic group spoke out in opposition. The city Department of Transportation is proposing converting Beverly Road, a two-way street between Brevoort Street and Park Lane South, into a oneway northbound. The proposal came from a request, championed by former CB 9 member Wallace Bock, for a feasibility study on making Beverly Road a one-way street that he made at a board meeting in January. Bock, who resigned from the board after last month’s meeting over a board personnel issue, also proposed eliminating parking on one side of the street to allow for two-way traffic to pass. Often cars must pull over to allow for traffic going the other way to pass. In its study, the DOT argued the street, which runs on either side of Lefferts Boulevard between Metropolitan Avenue and Austin Street, is too narrow to be two ways. Also, two curves the road makes — one between Park Lane South and Audley

Street and another between 83rd Avenue and Lefferts Boulevard — are dangerous when two cars going in opposite directions are coming at each other. Beverly Road is often used as a shortcut for drivers traveling from Lefferts Boulevard to Union Turnpike, seeking to avoid congested roads like Metropolitan Avenue and Kew Gardens Road.

“One-way streets in our area have become speedways.” — Bjorn Matz, vice president, Kew Gardens Civic Association

But the proposal was slammed by four residents who live on or near Beverly Road at Tuesday’s CB 9 meeting at Jamaica Hospital’s New Trump Pavilion. Murray Berger, executive chairman of the Kew Gardens Civic Association, said that since two cross-streets, 83rd Avenue and Audley Street, are already one way, the conversion would make the streets of Kew Gardens confusing.

“If this was a one-way street, it would create a maze-like complicated pattern,” he said. Bjorn Matz, vice president of the Kew Gardens Civic Association, said one-way streets in the neighborhood have been a problem. “One-way streets in our area have become speedways,” he explained. Another resident, Renee Levine, said the situation DOT is seeking to solve would only get worse if the street is made one-way and the conversion would make the men more dangerous. “We already have many problems with traffic in Kew Gardens,” she said. “We already have a problem with a lack of enforcement with problem intersections in the neighborhood.” Levine also called for a full review of traffic in Kew Gardens. “We can’t do this piecemeal,” she said. “We need a comprehensive study to find out what’s going on in the area.” In response, CB 9 unanimously rejected the proposal and called on the DOT to do a traffic study of the entire neighborhood, including problem areas Levine pointed out near the busy Union Turnpike-Queens Q Boulevard intersection.

CB 9 approves 78th St. bump Another speed bump was approved for a busy resident ial street in Woodhaven Tuesday night. Community Board 9 voted unanimously to move forward with plans from the city Department of Transportation to construct a speed bump on 78th Street between Rockaway Boulevard and 91st Avenue. CB 9 member Et ien ne Dav id Adorno, who lives in Woodhaven, said the route is a busy northbound t h o r o u g h f a r e u s e d b y d r i ve r s between Atlantic and Jamaica avenues and is the f irst nor thbound route for drivers heading west on A t l a n t i c Ave n u e i n n e a r l y 10 blocks. “It’s a busy street,” he explained. “And drivers often speed on it.” Speed bumps have been popping up all over Woodhaven recently. Last month, the DOT installed a speed bump on 80th Street between Ja maica Avenue a nd Pa rk La ne South and two others in the neighborhood, one on 88th Street near PS 88 and the other on 96th Street, were approved by CB 9 last year. Q — Domenick Rafter

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FEMA releases new flood maps for city Most of Howard Beach in key zone, but some blocks on higher ground by Domenick Rafter Editor

The Federal Emergency Management Agency released Preliminary Flood Insurance Rate Maps for New York City last week that ref lect the latest updates to the agency’s redrawing of the coastal flood zones. The Preliminary FIRMs replace the Preliminary Work Maps that were released in June as an interim product. Those maps, placed much of Howard Beach into a new zone, Zone A, would require residents to have flood insurance and take measures, such as raising their homes, or risk substantially higher flood insurance premiums. The new maps reflect the same coastal flood risks as the Preliminary Work Maps and have now been updated to include river flooding in the Bronx and Staten Island. When they are finalized, the maps will determine future flood insurance rates, but do not have anything to do with the recent rise in rates. Those hikes are due to a 2012 act of Congress that reformed the National Flood Insurance Program. Just as the June maps indicated, the entire Rockaway Peninsula will be in Zone AE, an area of high flood risk with a 1 percent annual chance of a catastrophic flood. The Zone AE area includes all of the old side of Howard Beach south of 157th Avenue, much of Lindenwood near Spring Creek and most of the

Rockwood Park. But several homes, many mid-block, on the Rockwood Park side are placed in Zone X, an area of only moderate flood risk with a .02 percent annual chance of a major flood. These areas include homes on 78th through 83rd streets between 159th and 160th avenues and 79th through 82nd streets between 160th and 161st avenues. One block — between 89th and 90th streets and 159th and 160th avenues, across from PS 207 — was also placed in Zone X, the easternmost block in the zone. Houses on that square block sit on terrain that is higher than the community around it. Several blocks in the northern end of the neighborhood that are on higher ground were also mapped into Zone X. About two-thirds of the stretch of Cohancy Street between 155th and 156th avenues was left out of all zones completely. The maps coincide with the level of flooding seen after Hurricane Sandy’s storm surge struck the neighborhood last year. Much of the western portion of the neighborhood, including the blocks that are in Zone X, were not as seriously flooded as the areas closer to Cross Bay Boulevard and east of Shellbank Basin, which, with Hawtree Creek, rose by almost 10 feet during the storm. The most severely damaged homes continued on page 34

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Since the United States began its global war on terror more than a decade ago, hundreds of thousands of soldiers have gone overseas — to Afghanistan, Iraq and other places — to fight and protect this nation and its ideals. Like the millions who went before them, to places like Europe, Africa, the Pacific, Korea, Vietnam and Kuwait, they served long tours far from home and in precarious situations that require a level of bravery and courage many people can only admire. They leave behind families — moms, dads, husbands, wives, siblings and children — who spend money and sometimes years worrying, praying and hoping for a safe return. One of those families is the Buonpastores of Howard Beach. Their son KristainPeter, a sergeant in the U.S. Army, has served five tours of duty since joining the military 10 years ago: three in Afghanistan and two in Iraq. On Friday, DiStefano-Buonpastore pulled up in front of Lenny’s Clam Bar on Cross Bay Boulevard. His mother, Ellen, ran into the street, grabbing her son as he stepped out of a gray Suburban. They embraced for what seemed like an hour. DiStefano-Buonpastore had been on his fifth tour overseas for more than a year. His mother said this deployment to Afghanistan was the hardest of the five for DiStefano and his family. The trip home didn’t go completely as planned. He was bumped from his original flight from Atlanta to JFK, instead flying into LaGuardia an hour and a half later than expected.

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Sgt. KristainPeter DiStefano-Buonpastore receives a hug from his mother, Ellen, as he arrives at Lenny’s Clam Bar in Howard Beach after his fifth tour of duty in 10 years. PHOTOS BY DOMENICK RAFTER

But when he finally did arrive at Lenny’s at 1:30 p.m., he was greeted as a hero. The Knights of Columbus conducted a sword ceremony as he, his mother, father Bobby and sister Arieanna walked into the restaurant. DiStefano-Buonpastore was also greeted by Monsignor Al LoPinto, pastor of St. Helen Church, the members of the Broad Channel American Legion and VFW, state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) and Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Rockaway Park). A VFW color guard was there, as was an FDNY bagpiper. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-Brooklyn, Queens) also stopped by to welcome DiStefano-Buonpastore home with a flag flown over the U.S. Capitol in his honor. “I can sleep now,” Ellen Buonpastore said after welcoming home her son. “I can finally sleep now.” She said she wanted to have a big welcome home for her son because his fifth tour overseas was the most difficult. “Those of you who know me know I always do things big,” she added. DiStefano-Buonpastore greeted family and friends in the banquet room of Lenny’s overlooking Shellbank Basin. At one point when his mother jokingly reminded her two continued on page 30

Hanukkah on Cross Bay Chabad of Howard Beach held a Hanukkah party and menorah lighting at the Old Mill Yacht Club on Dec. 1 to celebrate the Jewish Festival of Lights. The festivities included food, games and a menorah-building contest for children, top. Contest judges Phyllis Seeman, top back row third from left, Gary Parlefsky and Sharon Kleinberg stopped for a photo

with second-place winners Talya Fuld, back row left, and Farha Fuld, second-place winner Rivkaleh Richter, front row left, and first-place winners Shay Tarab, Velvel Marin-Cohen, Omer Mosker, Amir Mosker, Daniel Gregor and Mendel Richter. Earlier, Rabbi Avrohom Richter of Chabad of Howard Beach lit the menorah on Cross Bay Boulevard, above.

No soccer stadium for Queens Queens residents who love Flushing Meadows Park can breathe a sigh of relief. It looks like the soccer stadium proposed there will be built in the Bronx instead. The $400 million arena, to be used by a Major League Soccer franchise, is expected to be built south of Yankee Stadium, according to published reports. It will be located at the site of a bankrupt parking garage and adjacent property. Neither the Mayor’s Office or MLS would discuss the deal, but sources from the city’s Economic Development Corp. confirmed the plan.

The stadium will seat 28,000 with League play expected to start in 2015 at Yankee Stadium and continue there until the new facility is finished in 2018 or 2019. A loud hue and cry was heard after MLS announced in 2012 its plans for a stadium to be built over a fountain from the two World’s Fairs at Flushing Meadows. Although soccer fans were enthusiastic, the main concerns were loss of parkland to a stadium that would only be used part of the year, the environment and lack of adjaQ cent parking. — Liz Rhoades

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Mandela hailed as a hero and a healer Residents pay tribute to icon who united a nation, inspired millions by Michael Gannon Editor

Queens Congressman Gergory Meeks, right, embraces Nelson Mandela in an undated photo while Meeks attended an international conference in Africa. Meeks is in the official U.S. delegation to the former South PHOTO COURTESY U.S. CONGRESS African president’s funeral.

In life Nelson Mandela was called a rebel, a freedom fighter, a terrorist, Mr. President, a healer, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and an inspiration to millions. The world has joined South Africa this week in paying homage to Madiba — a title of respect and a tribute to his ancestral clan — who died on Dec. 5 at age 95. Tributes to Mandela poured in from elected officials in Queens, and also from people who long supported what Mandela was able to achieve after emerging from 27 years of imprisonment in 1989. John Watusi Branch, executive director of the Afrikan Poetry Theatre in Jamaica, has traveled to Africa numerous times, including with student groups. He said there need be no confusion about whether to mourn or celebrate Mandela. “In Africa, they’re doing both,” Branch said. “In the West, we tend to mourn more, and people are doing that. But at the ceremonies, you see things like people playing drums. It is a celebration of his life.” Mandela was a lawyer in racially segregated South Africa, which was governed by a white minority under apartheid policies for much of the 20th century. He became politically active as a young man. Africa, aside from its own troubles internal and external, also served as a proxy between the West and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Both Mandela, who generally was to the left politically and was arrested several times following speeches and rallies, and some groups he associated with eventually came to embrace violent resistance.

Arrested and convicted in 1962, he served 27 years in prison. But Mandela and the struggle against apartheid eventually gained the attention of the world. Countless boycotts of and protests against South Africa were organized in the United States, but were long ignored by the U.S. government. President Ronald Reagan vetoed official government economic sanctions while in office. James Baker, Reagan’s former chief of staff, said in numerous published reports last week that Reagan came to regret the decision. Carl Clay, head of Jamaica’s Black Spectrum Theatre, joined the pickets outside the South African Consulate in Manhattan beginning in the 1970s. “He was a great man,” Clay said. “I think what made him an even more iconic figure was his embrace of forgiveness, his ability to decide to move on. It was truly a unique quality that helped change the world.” A still-imprisoned Mandela’s opponents said his release could trigger waves of violence. Indeed, a national commission established in 1996 found that Mandela’s ex-wife Winnie was directly and indirectly implicated in kidnappings, torture and murder of opponents. “I think reconciliation was kind of surprising for some from a man who had spent 27 years in prison,” Branch said. “The African National Congress had engaged in a guerilla war against the government and [reconciliation] was not popular with some of the people in the movement. But for him, the conversation on reconciliation was a pan-African issue. That is why he was continued on page 26

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Public health facility to close this month City to shut down Corona Health Center on the sly, mayor asked to reconsider by Tess McRae Associate Editor

T h i s we e k , C o u n c i l m a n D a n ny D rom m ( D -Jack son Heig hts) w rote Mayor Bloomberg about the potential closure of the Corona Health Center. “I am deeply distressed to hear that you are again trying to close the Corona Health Center,” the letter reads. “Your administration has been marked by bold public health measures, so it is perplexing

why you would weaken our city’s immunization program during your last days in office. Effective immunization requires total coverage of all of our communities. Considering the nature of communicable diseases, gaps endanger all of us, here in New York and, considering the nature of global travel, everywhere else.” At the time the letter was sent, on Dec. 9, many were not aware that there was a date set for closure, only that it

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Mayor Bloomberg’s legacy on business FILE PHOTO depends on whom you ask. announced a deal with the City Council to lower fines, which includes reducing fines for the most violations by 15 to 50 percent. While Luis Amorim, owner of Gyro Grill in Rego Park, also opposed the grading system, he was please with the city’s small business task force, the New Business Acceleration Team, which he says helped “tremendously” to streamline the setup of his new business. In 2005, Bloomberg launched the NYC Business Solutions program, which John Bowles of the Center for an Urban Future said was a big help in decentralizing services to the boroughs. After the center presented a 2012 report showing the need for small businesses to integrate technology, the city soon launched a Toolkit for Small Businesses, which offers free training for online marketing. Also in 2005, the Minority and WomenOwned Business Enterprise program was created to give those businesses a chance to bid for government contracts. But, Eduardo Giraldo, the former president of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, said that the city neglected the program and fell short of its aim to increase diversity. As of a 2010 study, only 1.6 percent of contracts were handed out to those businesses. Despite the mixed results of fund initiatives, Bloomberg has more ardently created programs to support the blossoming tech community. The growing list includes the creation of .nyc, a domain name that New York-based business can exclusively use; a fiber optic challenge, which allows small businesses, of fewer than 100 employees, to compete for the chance for free fiber as LIC-based company See.Me recently achieved; and the decision to turn downtown Jamaica into a tax-free zone for tech startups. continued on page 24

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First Moreland report rips Albany politics Calls for changes to government ethics, criminal prosecution laws by Michael Gannon Editor

Gov. Cuomo’s Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption quoted a recording purported to be embattled City Councilman Dan Halloran (R-Whitestone) last week as it reported preliminary findings on the state of money and influence in New York politics. “Not about whether or will, it’s about how much, and that’s our politicians in New York, they’re all like that,” Halloran is alleged to have told an undercover investigator. “And they get like that because of the drive that the money does for everything else. You can’t get anything without the f---ing money.” T he com m issioners, empaneled by Cuomo this past summer, tended to agree, and recommended numerous changes in ethics standards and criminal law to address corruption. And in perhaps its most controversial recommendation, they call for public financing of campaigns for New York State offices. “This report is a stinging indictment of our state’s porous laws and of many of the politicians, patrons and political players who protect and benefit by them,” Kathleen Rice, Nassau County District Attorney and a commission co-chairman, said. Political reforms called for include:

• lowering the limit on campaign contri- of bounds by the executive branch. butions to politicians and so-called party The State Senate Republican Campaign housekeeping accounts; Committee initially challenged subpoenas, • stricter controls over personal use of but relented when the commission lowered its campaign funds; and number of demands. • more disclosure A call to the Albaof legislators’ outside ny office of the Demincome and its oc r at ic A ssembly sources. Committ reinforces the idea that Campaign Those of a crimitee was returned by nal nature include Michael W hyland, the foxes are guarding rev ised laws t h at spokesman for the hen house, and that ma ke it easier to Assembly Speaker charge a politician Sheldon Silver they’ll be asked to vote with bribery, reform (D-Manhattan). of immunity r ules in favor of the chickens.” W hyland said the and harsher penalties. committee already — Professor Michael Krasner, Michelle Duff y, has complied with all Queens College spokeswoman for the requests c o m m i s sio n , s a id But only the numerous investigacommittee. tions are ongoing. “There is a world of difference between a “Some are in their infancy, some are full- subpoena to a party committee, which falls fledged,” she said. Duffy said she was not at within the Moreland Commission’s mandate liberty to discuss the substance or status of to examine campaign contributions and numerous subpoenas being sought to further spending, and a subpoena that is a fishing investigate state senators and Assembly expedition if you will, aimed at legislators members. and their lawful activities unconnected to Lawyers representing individual legisla- campaign contributions,” Whyland said in a tors have attempted to quash the subpoenas, subsequent statement. calling them an overreach and an overstepping Back in November, state Sen. Tony Avella

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City approves $43 million in cuts despite outcry from comptroller by Tess McRae Associate Editor

The Industrial Development Agency, a branch of the Economic Development Corp., approved a proposal Tuesday that will grant Willets Point developers $43 million in tax breaks to raze the “Valley of Ashes” and put a mega-mall and more in its place. The $3 billion project, spearheaded by the Queens Development Group, recently bought the 23-acre site near Flushing Meadows Corona Park from the city for a dollar. The purchase was supposed to guarantee that taxpayers wouldn’t feel the brunt of the costs but with the recent allocation of tax breaks, there are fears that the burden will fall on Queens residents to pay. New York City Comptroller and Flushing resident John Liu is not impressed with the developer’s proposal and was in the minority when he voted against the tax breaks. Liu is one of 15 members of the IDA; nine of the members are appointed by Mayor Bloomberg and each borough president appoints one representative. “The EDC’s projected benefits of new jobs and tax benefits from the Willets Point retail development seem to ignore the negative impact on jobs and tax revenue from the surrounding retail areas in downtown Flushing and Corona, and the 20th Avenue retail complex in College Point,” Liu told the Chronicle during an interview Monday at the newspaper’s office. Since the beginning, developers have claimed the project is expected to create thousands of new jobs and affordable housing. Liu said he worries that a possible bait and switch may

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Another death on Queensboro ramp Electeds call for change to the sharp merge onto Queens Plaza South by Tess McRae Associate Editor

An Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge exit ramp is living up to its reputation once again as another car has driven off of it into a storefront on Queens Plaza South. On Tuesday at 2 a.m., Elissa Toro, an offduty NYPD police officer, was driving a silver 2004 Ford Focus when the car careered off the ramp, slamming into a vacant storefront and throwing her from the vehicle. Toro, a Bronx native, was not wearing a seat belt, and did not survive. For Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) and state Sen. Mike Gianaris (D-Astoria), the accident is not a surprise and has added to the growing frustration both legislators have developed. “How many people have to die before the [Department of Transportation] understands that the Queensboro Bridge exit ramp must be redesigned?” Gianaris asked in a written statement. “The city has known that this area is in dire need of traff ic safety improvements for years, and the DOT has simply not done enough. I renew my call for a complete redesign of the bridge off-ramp, and implore the city to take swift action before another tragedy occurs.” As part of a redesign of Queens Plaza, bike lanes, widened sidewalks and a park

The exit ramp from the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge requires drivers to merge sharply onto Queens Plaza South. The scaffolding and boarded-up storefront here are the result of an FILE PHOTO accident in 2011 when a car became airborne and slammed into a beauty parlor. were added to the area. It is because of those updates that the DOP changed the way cars exited the bridge, forcing them into a sharper merge on Queens Plaza South. Following the redesign, three fatal crashes have occurred at the same location since 2011 and several more have occur red

resulting in serious injuries. Van Bramer doesn’t see the redesign as an excuse. “The bike lanes have nothing to do with this exit ramp,” he said. “I support the bike lanes but I feel the exit ramp is incredibly dangerous. The same accident happens three

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Safety tips for Flushing Follow i ng recent robber ies i n Flushing and the surrounding areas, Councilman Peter Koo (D-Flushing), officers of the 109th Precinct and representatives of the Flushing BID came together last week to discuss safety precautions shoppers should take during the holiday season. Along with advising women to keep their handbags in sight, community leaders also suggested that shoppers switch parking spaces after loading their cars with newly bought merchandise. Deputy Inspector Brian Maguire, commanding officer of the 109th Precinct, stated that grand larceny makes up 42 percent of all crimes within the confines of the precinct. “While the area is safe, there are still issues we need to bring to the public’s attention. These thefts often occur in commercial locations, so we must be more vigilant of our belongings as we shop, especially around the holidays,” Maguire said. Koo said that pickpocketing and mugging are rare, “but they are still issues that we must address. District 20’s crime rate is much lower than it has been in past years, but remember that if you see something, you must Q say something.”

or more times and separate vehicles come flying into the same storefront is a problem. “The plan needs to be looked at and I realize that you can’t eliminate it completely because of the 7 train structure but we can erect more meaningful barriers where cars cannot possibly jump over. That should be done at the bare minimum.” The DOT would not respond to requests for comment as of press time. The city agency has said in the past that despite the handful of accidents that have occurred on the ramp, millions of cars pass over the bridge each day without any mishaps. Van Bramer isn’t buying that answer. “Yes, there are a lot of cars that cross over safely but the DOT fails to mention that the majority are coming over in bumper-to-bumper traffic and are moving very slowly,” he said. “The problems are occurring during night hours when people go a little faster. Of course we need to crack down on speeding but even in an instance where people do speed, the punishment shouldn’t be instant death.” Both Gianaris and Van Bramer have been pushing the DOT to improve traffic flow and pedestrian safety across Wester n Queens, something the councilman said he will continue to do so long as there are danQ gerous streets in his district.

Honors for shore protectors At the American Littoral Society’s Northeast Chapter 24th annual Holiday Fundraiser on Sunday at the American Legion Hall Post 1404 in Broad Channel, Dan Mundy Sr., left, and Dan Mundy Jr. of Jamaica Bay Ecowatchers were presented with the “Coastal Conservation” Award by Assem-

blyman Phil Goldfeder, third from left. A special thank you was also given to Chapter Director Don Riepe, right, and all of the volunteers, community members, and partners who support the American Littoral Society and help protect and conserve the coastline.

continued from page 20 According to Mackay, tax incentives for startups have already attracted businesses to the LIC area, including Songza and Shapeways. Another reason for the attraction to the area, said Jack Friedman, director of the Queens Chamber of Commerce, was his redevelopment initiative so that areas such as Flushing now have ret ail rents that r ival dow ntow n Manhattan. While Bloomberg’s health inspectors might have been a more obvious and sometimes shocking reminder of his policies, other Queens leaders look to his more subtle goals of opening up public spaces to make areas more attractive to shop at in the first place. Patricia Grayson, president of the Glendale Chamber of Com merce, remarked on the influx of former Manhattanites to Glendale, who now enjoy more green spaces, which she says the entire community supported in adding. Meanwhile, Felicia Tullah, of the Sutphin Blvd. Business Improvement District remarked on her BID’s city partnership to improve the neighborhood with the creation of open spaces. “It’s proven to be a major success to draw in people,” which is a good sign Q for business, she said.

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Two indicted on sex trafficking charges Two men, accused of forcing three teenagers to work as prostitutes, were indicted by a grand jury on sex trafficking, kidnapping, rape and other charges this week. Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said the men, Peter Gerardi, 28, of Forest Hills and Christopher Stephenbush, 30, of Richmond Hill, face 100 charges between that could send them to prison for 25 years to life. In Gerardi’s case, he allegedly met the 13-year-old victim on the street in March 2011 before he asked her to perform sex acts with other men in exchange for money. He

Allegedly forced 3 girls into prostitution allegedly gave her rules to follow, instructions on what to charge the men and to lie about her age. According to the criminal complaint, she allegedly reluctantly agreed to prostitute herself for him, but when she wanted to stop, Gerardi allegedly threatened her verbally. He is further accused of assaulting and raping her when she attempted to leave. The criminal complaint also alleges that Gerardi sent two female friends after the

victim when she did successfully leave in September of this year. The indictment also charges that Gerardi lured a 16-year-old girl he met on the street to work as a prostitute for him under the threat of physical violence. He also allegedly raped her. He is facing trial on 64 charges including 11 counts of first-degree rape, first-degree kidnapping and sex trafficking. Stephenbush is accused of luring a 15-year-old victim into his apartment while

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continued from page 16 so respected, why he was able to have the influence he did.” Mandela joined with then-South Africa President F. W. de Klerk in talks in 1994 to establish multiracial elections. His ANC won a hefty majority in the legislature, and he became president. He declined in 1999 to run for a second five-year term though the new constitution permitted it. Mandela’s life, his struggles and his triumphs have been portrayed in movies, documentaries, on stage and in art. Clay, a filmmaker by trade, says his personal favorite is “Invictus,” the 2009 movie in which Morgan Freeman’s portrayal of Mandela earned him an Oscar nomination for best actor. Directed by Clint Eastwood, the movie centers arou nd Mandela’s efforts in 1995 to rally and unify his still strife-riven country behind South Africa’s national rugby team as it competed for the sport’s World Cup. Matt Damon was nominated for best supporting actor as team captain Francois Pienaar. “Some of the documentaries have been ver y good ,” Clay said. “It showed his ability to look at life f rom a perspect ive that was not about race. It wasn’t a white rugby team — these were South Africa’s players. It was more than a game. It Q was an inspiration.”

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she was commuting to school in June of this year and would not let her leave until she agreed to work for him as a prostitute. He also allegedly raped her during a two-day period before letting her go. Later, she allegedly was forced to work as a prostitute for him two more times, and Stephenbush allegedly assaulted her after one of those incidents when she tried to leave. Stephenbush, who is being held in jail on $500,000 bail, is facing trial on 34 charges, including one count each of first-degree kidnapping and rape. He is next scheduled Q to appear in court Feb. 4.

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Homecoming for a local hero continued from page 14 children that they weren’t “at home,” he snapped back, “I am home,” with a big smile. The Buonpastores are a staunchly Catholic family proud of their ItalianAmerican heritage, and Ellen Buonpastore said she prayed two novenas — five rosaries apiece, once in the morning and once at night — for her son’s safe return. Also, in the Italian tradition, DiStefano-Buonpastore’s mother did not cut her hair for the length of time her son was overseas, as is tradition for women whose sons or husbands go to war. Hair is typically seen in Italian heritage as a sign of beauty and a soldier returning from war should see the women in their lives at their most beautiful — with their hair long. When the soldier returns home, he is tasked with cutting the woman’s hair and burning it, as a sign that his deployment is over and he is out of danger. On Friday, Buonpastore had her son cut the tip of her long ponytail and place it in a plastic bag to be burned later. “I want to thank all of you for being here to welcome me home,” said DiStefano-Buonpastore as he spoke to his friends and family. He mentioned a fellow soldier he knew in Afghanistan, Car ter You ng, who died in battle.

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continued from page 2 airports serve as an economic engine for communities. “For too long, the interests of residents here were not considered when aviation procedures were planned,” she said. “With creative problem-solving like Rep. Crowley’s legislation, the airlines will actively participate in finding answers that will protect millions of residents on the ground without sacrificing performance, jobs or safety.” As to her final point, Crowley said his office has not spoken with the engineers and scientists at companies like General

Electric and Pratt & Whitney, Americanbased firms that are among the top jetengine designers and manufacturers in the world. “What I do know is that in the past we went from Stage 2 to Stage 3,” he said. His bill contains the allocation of $10 million available to manufacturers interested in researching the next generation of quiet engines, money that would be paid back over time by the sale of successful production models. State Sen. Jose Peralta (D-East Elmhurst) raised the possibility that some noise

Christmas Story at Good Shepherd The Church of the Good Shepherd in Ozone Park will be holding a Christmas event, “One Star r y Night,” telling the story of the birth of Jesus, on Dec. 15 from 4 to 7 p.m. at the church located at 96-07 103 Ave. The event will be interactive and the church will be transfor med into Jesus’ birthplace, Bethlehem, as it was at the time of his birth. There will be acting, singing, refreshments and activities. The event is free and open to the public and all attendees will be given a framed family or individual photo and a keepsake Q ornament.

Ozone Park Santa visit Santa Claus is coming to Ozone Park! He will be at the Ozone Howard Little League Hall at 97-14 135 Drive on Saturday, Dec. 14 at 11 a.m. Children are invited to come and meet Santa and take a photo with him. His visit will be hosted by the Ozone Park Civic Association. Child ren will also receive a free gift. For more information call (646) 298-7575. Q

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control technologies developed for the military’s Stealth aircraft could be made available for civilian commercial use. Crowley did not rule out the idea down the road, saying airlines often have benefitted from advances in the military, with the understanding that nothing could be done to compromise military or intelligence prerogatives. The congressman also said that since Stage 4 is now the internationally recognized standard for noise control, he has no worries that a new law would cause financial or competitive disadvantages either for foreign airlines serving U.S. markets or domestic carriers that choose foreign-manQ ufactured models such as Airbus.

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Councilman Eric Ulrich and Assemblyman Mike Miller participated in the Tomahawk Division Merit Badge Fair on Saturday at Nativit y of the B.V.M Church in Ozone Park. Ulrich and Miller discussed the importance of good citizenship with Boy Scouts from several troops from South Queens and talked about the impor tance of scouting to boys and what it teaches them as they grow older. While at the fair, Miller, left, and Ulrich stopped for a photo with Scout Joseph Campisi Jr. of Howard Beach.

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For an instant look into how pleased clients are at Hair Spray, all you need to do is glance at Monica Cuadros’ Instagram account, Hairbymonicaa. “Beautiful,” “Love it” and “Looks so good,” read some of the compliments. At 25, the dynamic hairstylist is just one of the creative family members who have made Hair Spray a salon staple in Ozone Park for the past 10 years. Monica attributes her passion for styling to her mother, Emma Cuadros. Before 2003, Emma was simply living out her own passion for styling hair as a recreational activity at the request of enthusiastic friends. Emma originally learned from her own mother and relatives while growing up in the Dominican Republic. She then came to the United States and met Carlos, her future husband and business partner, who would help establish Hair Spray at 98-17 101 Ave. in 2003. In a testament to their growing popularity in the community, they expanded with the opening of Brush just down the road at 89-01 101 Ave. in 2010. Emma works seven days a week to ensure that every visitor gets quality care. “You’re going to be happy when you leave,” said Emma, who has more than 10 years of experience to back that claim up. Despite the standard scheduled 10 a.m. start to the day, Emma has been known to open her doors hours earlier should a wedding party be in need. In

keeping with the festive nature of the salon’s namesake, the hit Broadway musical, visitors were treated to an anniversary celebration in November, with music, treats and $20 blowouts as the salon staff worked all day for their customers. “It’s like family there,” said Carlos, recalling that although the styling stopped at 7 p.m., closing time, the party went on for two more hours, with a room packed with customers. The family largely attributes the salon’s success through the years through word-of-mouth recommendation. Their reputation has garnered clients throughout the five boroughs, as well as Upstate New York and even some from Florida, who, Monica said, often come once a month to get their hair done. For the salon, quality is the top priority for customers and each stylist will make sure to suggest the best haircut suited for a client. If it’s a shiny updo for a prom or a simple “brush” and “spray,” the stylists will make sure that every style is worth a photo share and a “love it” comment. Hair Spray offers styling options for all types of hair for men, women and children. In addition to hair styling, Brush also offers nail care. Both salons are open Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information on Hair Spray call (718) 835-6242 and for Brush call Q (718) 489-1373.

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Johnnies crush its cross-city rival St. John’s thrashes Fordham at the Garden; sets sights on Syracuse by Christopher Barca

things stand out that are really encouraging for this team as we try to make progress,” Lavin said after the game. “I thought they were aggressive, but also probing, investigating and looking for the best available shot. In transition, we looked for one another very well.” In a game where almost everyone found t hei r g roove, it was ju n ior for wa rd Sir’Dominic Pointer who shined the brightest. He scored 12 points, grabbed a careerhigh 11 assists and recorded nine rebounds, one short of giving the Detroit native a triple-double on the night. He also did not commit a turnover, as the Red Storm had just nine on the night. Senior center Orlando Sanchez also had a game to remember, as one of the newest members of the Red Storm scored a career high 19 points and snagged eight rebounds while shooting a fantastic 80 percent from the field. “This was my first time playing in Madison Square Garden,” the Dominican Republic-born big man said. “Everybody dreams to play here.” D’Angelo Harrison, the Red Storm’s best shooter, had a quiet night by his standards, as the guard scored just 13 points. With the game well in hand relatively early in the game, he only saw 21 minutes of playing time, keeping

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For the better part of the still young season, the St. John’s men’s basketball team has not looked as impressive on the court as many experts had predicted. In its first of nine home games at Madison Square Garden on Dec. 7, the Johnnies finally looked like the team that some heralded as one of the nation’s most talented. It was rival Fordham that bore the brunt of the Red Storm’s thorough assault, as the Johnnies tattooed the Rams 104-58, the most points St. John’s has scored in a single game since 1999. Eleven different players scored for the Red Storm, who move to 6-2 on the season, while five scored at least 11 points in a game where the Johnnies shot a blistering 66 percent. At one point in the first half, the Red Storm buried a remarkable 17 shots in a row on their way to a 52-point half. St. John’s nailed 22 of the 28 shots they attempted in the half, good for a shooting percentage of 79 percent, its highest mark since 2007. Fourth-year coach Steve Lavin was thrilled over his team’s offensive domination and he sees it as a possible sign of things to come. “Looking at the stat sheet, a couple of

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his point total in check. While the Queens-based home team had no problem lighting up the scoreboard, Fordham freshman and former Christ the King High School star Jon Severe struggled mightily against the Red Storm. Severe scored nine points, but he connected on just one of his 21 shot attempts while committing three turnovers. The guard came into the contest leading all college basketball freshman with 23 points per game, and despite his difficulties, the former New York Mr. Basketball-award winner has a bright future ahead of him. The Red Storm now turns its attention to arguably the biggest regular season matchup on its schedule, a Sunday afternoon tilt with Syracuse, ranked fourth in the nation. The two schools had been Big East adversaries until the Orange’s move to the Atlantic Coast Conference prior to this season. However, the universities signed a two-year contract to allow for a game this year at Madison Square Garden and one next year at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse. The Red Storm’s student section, aptly named Redzone, chanted “We want ‘Cuse”

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Kevin Lynch, a man whose home is hard to miss around the holidays, will have a bigger Christmas light budget for next year thanks to ABC’s decoration competition “The Great American Light Fight.” Lynch, who has been featured on numerous local channels, beat out three other holiday light fanatics in the series’ first episode, which aired on Monday. “They reached out to me last year around the holidays,” Lynch said. “Then they got back to me a month later, asked me to submit a tape of the outside of the house. I didn’t hear anything until the summertime when they told me I was one of 20 finalists.” Though he was honored to be recognized for his lights, Lynch almost didn’t appear on the show. “They told me I had to have it done by October 16 and there is no way to get it all done,” he said. “The producers called begging me to participate, but I told them that there was no way I can get all my lights up in time.” Finally, the producers granted Lynch an extension. He would have to have the house ready by Nov. 9, almost two weeks before he normally finishes decorating. “That was the earliest I have ever had this done,” Lynch said. “I was working on it right to the very last day. I had bought a bunch of things last year and panicked because I didn’t know where to put them.” The Whitestone resident and father of three prefers to have time to map out where to place lights. “But I still stayed up until 2 a.m. and worked

on it and built things,” he added. “Thank God the weather was so good, I could be out there without any coat on or anything.” Lynch is most proud of a virtual Santa who appears to be walking around the house, popping into windows. “It looks real,” he said. “A lot of the kids who come think Santa is actually up there.” Among others, Lynch’s biggest competitor was a homeowner in California who synchronized his lights to music. “I’m not a fan of the music stuff but he’s also in California,” he said. “Here in New York, we get weather. If I had short sleeves on all the time, I’d go much bigger.” Over the next couple of weeks, four more homes will be crowned champion, each winning $50,000 and a bulb trophy. Lynch said the producers found him after searching the internet and reading so much about his famous light display. “One of the producers came here and was most surprised that he couldn’t find any cords,” Lynch, who buries his electrical wiring underground, said. “I told him I challenged him to find a cord and he looked everywhere and couldn’t find anything.” Lynch said he plans on continuing decorating for years to come as his house has become a hotspot for people from all over the borough. “I can’t even walk out here some nights,” he said. “Sometimes you’ve got to park the car three or four blocks away. I get a good 200,000 to 300,000 people each year, easy. But it’s once a year and I like seeing the kids enjoying the lights.” He added that his grass grows back full Q and green each year.

Kevin Lynch’s 2011 Christmas display. The Whitestone resident reports having hundreds of thousands of people visiting his home at 166-04 23 Ave. and tries to have something new each FILE PHOTO year for his fans.

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Welcoming winter at garden The Queens Botanical Garden in Flushing celebrated the winter solstice with a day of programming last Sunday. Crafts were high on the list for youngsters. Brandon Lee, 6, of Little Neck, top, got some help with his project from Bowne High School intern Eric Paucar. Participants made fragrant pomanders

from oranges and cloves and created beeswax candles. Above, Ketan Modi, left, of Forest Hills and his son Tejas listen to holiday tunes from QBG employee Farah Chandu. The event included a tree lighting with sing-along, a holiday marketplace and photos with Santa Claus.

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Aside from Annie, Oliver may be the word’s most beloved little orphan, and the Queen’s Secret Theatre’s production of “Oliver! The Musical” reminds the audience why they fell in love with the mischievous little boy in the first place. Set in 19th-century London, “Oliver! The Musical” tells the story of a 13-year-old boy who lives in a home for boys but is sold to an undertaker after he asks for a second helping of gruel. Shortly after, Oliver runs away and befriends the artful Dodger who invites him to live with him and his pack of pickpocketing friends. The show is a classic, yet the Secret Theatre has made something totally new by putting a Steampunk spin on the musical based on Charles Dickens’ novel “Oliver Twist.” The cast is stellar and, surprisingly, dominated by females. Amanda Dupuy plays Oliver to perfection, down to the orphan’s eyes that are described in one song as melancholy. Though Dupuy has already graduated college, never once during the show does she appear to be anything but a little boy who just wants a place to call home. Her wonderful rendition of “Where is Love?” was tear-jerking as she brought a tinge of innocence and abandonment without being over the top. Dupuy is undeniably a powerhouse of talent and is sure to have a very promising career after she hangs up her top hat and goggles. The most surprising casting choice was that of Haley Selmon, who plays Bumble, the caretaker of the home for boys where Oliver lives.

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The poinsettias are on display at the Queens County Farm for the holiday season.

Art of Ink in America, “Gesture and Beyond,” Godwin Ternbach Museum at Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, thru Dec. 30, MondayThursday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.; Saturdays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; opening reception, Thursday, Nov. 21, 6-8 p.m. An East/West exhibition of contemporary calligraphy.

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Theatre Time Productions, “Holiday Memories,” Colonial Church of Bayside, 54-02 217 St., Friday, Dec. 13, 8 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 14, 3 p.m. Concert featuring all-time classics. Ample street parking, $17, $15 seniors 65+, $10 children under 12. Call: (347) 358-8102.

The Secret Theatre, “Oliver! The Musical!,” Thursdays-Sundays thru Dec. 21, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, Dec. 22, 3:30 p.m. $25, $15 children. 44-02 23 St., Long Island City, Contact: secrettheatre.org. Queens Secret Improv Club offers comedy every Wednesday-Saturday, approx. 7:30 p.m. $5, for the best improv in Queens. 44-02 23 St., Long Island City, Contact: secrettheatre.org.

MUSIC Queens Symphony Orchestra, “Champagne & Mistletoe,” winter benefit concert, Colden Auditorium, Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Flushing, Monday, Dec. 16, 7:30 p.m. Guest: Tony-nominated Norm Lewison. Donate children’s wrapped gifts. Reception in lobby to follow. Limited tickets available. Contact: queenssymphony.org. Sacred Music Society Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Annual Christmas Concert, Ascan Avenue & Queens Boulevard, Forest Hills, Sunday, Dec. 15, 4 p.m. $25, $10 for children under 12. Performance of Handel’s “Messiah” and Christmas favorites. Call (718) 268-6251. Oratorio Society of Queens, Queensborough Performing Arts Center, 222-05 56 Ave., Bayside, Sunday, Dec. 22, 4 p.m. Traditional Christmas favorites and Chanukah songs. $30, $25 for seniors and students. Contact: (718) 279-3006 or queensoratorio.org.

MOVIES ”Biography of Benito Mussolini“ and ”Growing Up Italian American,“ Bella Italia Mia, Christ

Rego Park Jewish Center, 97-30 Queens Blvd. Parashat & Haftarat Club, Saturday, Dec. 21, 12:30 p.m. Discuss Parashat Shemot with Rabbi Samuel Waldenbaum, Rabbi Romiel Daniel, Charles Lehat. Free. Call (718) 459-1000. Singles Social & Dance, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2-6 p.m. Ages 45+, proper attire please. $10. Call Bernice (718) 897-6255. Briarwood Action Network, canned food & diaper collection, 3rd annual drive for the Briarwood Family Residence. Collection box locations: HSBC Bank, 137-61 Queens Blvd.; Key Food, 13837 Queens Blvd., until Thursday, Jan. 2. Contact: briarwoodactionnetwork.com.

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Thalia Spanish Theatre, “Heartbeat of Latino America,” 41-17 Greenpoint Ave., Sunnyside, thru Dec. 15, Fridays & Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 4 p.m. Music and dance of 14 Latin American countries. $35, $32 (seniors and students); Fridays only, all tickets $30. Contact: (718) 7293880, thaliatheatre.org.

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FOR KIDS the King High School, 68-02 Metropolitan Ave., Middle Village, CNL Anne+Henry Paolucci Center (Door #10), 3rd fl., Sunday, Dec. 15, 12 p.m. for social time, snacks. $5 Members, $7 nonmembers. Contact: (718) 426-1240, bellaitaliamia@mail.com.

LECTURE Outside Comfort Zones: Muslim/Jewish Relations, Rabbi Marc Schneier and Imam Shamsi Ali, Forest Hills Jewish Center, 106-06 Queens Blvd., Forest Hills, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2 p.m. $15 in advance, $21 at the door, includes desserts. Contact: Central Queens YM & YWHA, (718) 268-5011, ext. 151 or cqy.org.

AUDITIONS Beari Productions, “Children of Eden,” All Saints Church, 214-35 40 Ave., Bayside, Tuesday, Dec. 17 and Thursday, Dec. 19, 7:30 p.m.; auditions for children, Saturday, Dec. 21, 1 p.m. Need males and females, singers and dancers, children ages 6-15. Call (718) 736-1263. Forest Hills Symphony Orchestra, Forest Hills Jewish Center, 106-06 Queens Blvd. Rehearsals/ auditions, Wednesdays, 7:30-10 p.m. Contact: Franklin Verbsky, (718) 374-1627, fhso.org.

CLASSES English as a Second Language Course, Latin American Cultural Center of Queens, 120-55 Queens Blvd., Room 333, Kew Gardens, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6-8 p.m., thru Dec. 19. Free. Register: (718) 261-7664, laccq@aol.com. Ballroom Dance Classes, Year ‘Round Social Dance Program, Monday & Friday evenings, Italian Charities of America, 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst. Call 718) 478-3100.

Zumba, Yoga, Kickboxing, YWCA of Queens, Mondays-Fridays thru Dec. 12, 7-9 p.m., 42-07 Parsons Blvd., Flushing, all ages, $7. Contact: (718) 353-4553, ywcaqueens.org. English as a Second Language Adult Classes, Immanuel Church, 68-10 31 Ave., Woodside, Saturdays, 10 a.m. Licensed NYC teacher. Free. Contact: (718) 335-1623, rnadar@ImmanuelChurchNY.org. Watercolor classes, National Art League, 44-21 Douglaston Pkwy. & Northern Blvd., 9:30 a.m.12:30 p.m., Wednesdays, $25/session. Instruction from award-winning artist. Call (718) 969-1128.

COMMUNITY Book Discussion Group will discuss “Little Bee” by Chris Cleave, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2 p.m. Queens Library Queens Village branch, 94-11 217 St. United Forties Civic Assoc., Annual Holiday Outreach Get-Together, St. Teresa’s Auditorium, Lower Church, 44th Street off 50th Avenue, Woodside. Members free, $10 guests. Buffet, refreshments, raffles & prizes. Donations of unwrapped toys optional. Free parking. Holiday Toy Drive for Autistic Children, bring new unwrapped toys, games, books (suitable for kids under 12) to Assemblyman David Weprin’s office, 185-06 Union Tpke., Fresh Meadows, for Lifeline Center for Child Develompent. All donations must be in by Wednesday, Dec. 18. Call (718) 454-3027. Kiwanis Queens West Division, visit to Ronald McDonald House to help feed and give holiday presents to sick children and their families, 405 E. 73 St., Manhattan, Saturday, Dec. 21, 5:30 p.m. Contact: Glendale Kiwanis, president Gerry Gonzalez, (917) 615-4886, gonzalkaezg@yahoo.com to donate cash/gifts or help this worthy cause.

Kids’ Ukulele Jam Class, Mondays thru Dec. 16, 5 p.m., Genesis Tree of Life Yoga and Wellness Center, 102-02/06 Metropolitan Ave., Forest Hills. Contact: Andrew Salamanca, andrewsalamanca@ gmail.com, (718) 544-5997. Wildlife Conservation Society’s Queens Zoo, Flushing, registration for 2013-2014 winter education programs, including teen zoo internship and meeting zoo keepers. Register: (718) 2717361, queenszoo.com/programs, qzeducation@ wcs.org. APEC Safari, Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston, Saturday, Dec. 21, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Hike the trails of Alley Pond Park and discover all kinds of wildlife. $12, 6-11 year olds only; pre-registration required. Contact: (718) 229-4000, alleypond.com

SPECIAL EVENTS Winter Solstice Star Celebration, Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston, Saturday, Dec. 14, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Join professor/astronomer Mark Freilich for an evening of star gazing and a party celebrating the winter solstice. $18, pre-registration required. Contact: (718) 229-4000, alleypond.com. Queens County Farm Holiday Open House, 73-50 Little Neck Pkwy., Floral Park, ThursdaySaturday, Dec. 26-28, 12-4 p.m. Enjoy family tours of decorated farmhouse, craft activity for kids and mulled cider. Free. Contact: queensfarm.org. Breakfast & Talking Football with Sean Landeta, Martin Luther School cafeteria, 60-02 Maspeth Ave., Maspeth, Saturday, Dec. 14, 9 a.m. $15 each, $25 for sets of two. Contact: (718) 894-4000, ext. 133 or info@martinluthernyc.org to reserve seats. Afrikan Poetry Theatre, ”Four“, a multi-media program honoring the lives of the four little girls killed on September 15, 1963. 176-03 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica, Saturday, Dec. 14, 7:30 p.m. Suggested donation $10 for fundraising.

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Black Spectrum Theatre, said the play is perfect for schools, and that he hopes to The tale of Jack and the Beanstalk dates allow groups to book performances of the back centuries in Europe. But the produc- show even after the formal run ends on tion of a show written especially for young Friday, Dec. 13. children by Jacqueline Wade is bringing He also said the theater added a few the tale to a contemsmall tweaks to give porary urban setting. the show a more In the modern local flavor. ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ tale, Jack, portrayed “It still has the lesWhen: Thursday, Dec. 12 and by Channing Jackson sons and morals of Friday, Dec. 13, 10:30 a.m. of Fresh Meadows, right and wrong, of Where: Black Spectrum Theatre and his recently widworking hard and Roy Wilkins Park, owed mother, played working together to 177th Street and by Vanessa Pringle, achieve what you Baisley Avenue, Jamaica. must sell an old van want,” said Sean Turnrather than the tradier, who portrays the Tickets: $8 tional cow. narrator in the tale. (718) 723-1800 Jack is now a The play is interacblackspectrum.com spor t s-loving high tive, with Jackson’s school student, who and Turner’s characstill makes a trade for ters calling on chilmagic beans with a smooth-talking stranger. dren in the audience to get up and sing They still are discarded and grow into a and dance, or sometimes just having their beanstalk up to the sky, leading to the characters ask the children for help or chicken that lays golden eggs, and a fate- advice. ful encounter with a giant. Jackson said the show is as much fun as Carl Clay, executive director of the it is work. Just one example of the physical editor

The cast of “Jack and the Beanstalk” ties a centuries-old fable with issues faced by childen PHOTO COURTESY BLACK SPECTRUM THEATRE in modern society. demands is the collection of leaps, tumbles and other acrobatics made during his second visit to the Giant’s castle — against a new and improved security system — in which he improvises the choreography in a “Mission: Impossible”-esque entry. “Each time is different,” he said, still

sweating after a rehearsal on Tuesday morning. Jackson said he is relatively new to children’s theater, and that he began rehearsing the role of Jack three weeks before opening. “He’s doing a great job,” said Turner, continued continued on page 43 00

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keep Henson’s name connected to his work. “I don’t just mean professionally, I He may not be the most well-known mean that my entire life would be comJim Henson Muppet — in fact, few even pletely different.” know he existed — but Emmett Otter After a few speeches and tribute vidand his friends still have every bit of eos honoring Birkenfield and Fazakas, humor, song and love that any other of “Emmett Otter’s Jugband Christmas” Henson’s creations have. was played and the audience — many of As part of the film series “Jim Hen- whom worked on the film many years son’s World,” the Museum of the Mov- ago — appeared to reminisce, giggling at ing Image will be screening the 1977 Emmett and his mother rowing down the holiday special “Emmett Otter’s Jug- river and singing about Grandma Otter’s band Christma s” unusually large and the timing bathing suit. couldn’t be more The film itself is apt. rather heartwarmR e c e n t l y, F a z ing. Emmett and his Fa zaka s — the m ot h e r a re d i r t When: Dec 21 to 23, Dec. 26 technological maspoor and with to Jan. 1, 1 p.m. termind behind Christmas just days Where: Museum of Moving Image many of the animaaway, they are wor36-01 35 Ave., LIC tronics seen in ried that each Tickets: Free with admission Muppets specials — won’t be able to movingimage.us and Diana Birkenget t he ot her a field, a long time proper gift. producer of many Unbeknownst to of Henson’s projects including “Fraggle each other, they both enter a talent conRock,” died and to celebrate their work, test where the winning act would win the museum held a memorial followed by $50, but when both Ma and Emmett a special screening of the Emmett Otter lose, they learn that Christmas is about special. much more than what you put in a gift Sprinkled throughout the audience bag or wrap in shiny paper. were those who knew both Birkenfield Though the film doesn’t hold up techand Fazakas and respected all of the nologically speaking — yet at the time, it work they put into the Muppet brand. was considered quite advanced — it does “If I didn’t get along as much as I did still tug at the heartstrings of all those with Diana during that first meeting, my who watch it. life would be completely different,” said After all, family and love, the themes in Bill Sherman, the founder of the Jim Hen- the film, are things Henson gave us time Q son Legacy, an organization that works to and time again with all of his films. qboro editor

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Oliver, glorious, Oliver! Secret production a smash hit continued continued from from page page 00 37 pickpocketing preteens. John Alden Hooper plays a delightfully She is wonderfully wicked with a voice of perfection and complements any performer deceiving Dodger. It is very clear that Lenny Banovez, the she was on stage with. Bailey Seeker, who plays Nancy, was director, didn’t rely soley on good singers another stellar addition to the fantastic cast, and dancers — though they all are perfectly good at both — but portraying the hoperequired that his cast lessly in-love young be able to act as well. woman in such a way The Steampunk that keeps the auditwist is, not surprisingence rooting for her all When: Thursdays through ly, a suitable match for t hrough t he show Sundays at 7:30 p.m. the musical. despite her association through Dec. 21. Steampunk — an with the group of Matinee performance on industrial science ficthieves and vagrants. Dec. 22 at 3:30 p.m. tion sub-genre of stoShe gives Nancy layWhere: The Secret Theatre ries that usually take ers that are often put 44-02 23 St., LIC place in an alternative aside in big musicals Tickets: $25 for adults, $15 for kids post-apocalyptic 19th such as “Oliver! The secrettheatre.com century — relies heavMusical,” a commonalily on fantasy, someity she shares with all of thing that “Oliver! her castmates. Though there were so many women The Musical” is chock-full of. It also takes place during the same standouts, that’s not to say that the men time period in which “Oliver! The Musididn’t hold their own. Richard Mazda, the founder of the Secret cal” takes place. Though a few younger audience memTheatre, does a bang-up job as the sleazy Fagin, the thief who looks after his army of bers who were avid Steampunk fans

‘Oliver! The Musical’

Bailey Seeker and company perform “It’s a Fine Life” in the Secret Theatre’s rendition of “Oliver! The Musical!” PHOTO BY CATHERINE VITALE were expecting more references to the popular sci-fi genre, Banovez did well to utilize the twist as he did. If he had pumped in any more Steampunk references, the story and the music that make “Oliver! The Musical” so spec ia l would b e s wa llowe d up into a cheesy spectacle.

But this show is anything but cheesy and is sure to entertain audiences of all ages. Though The Secret Theatre has put on plenty of good shows, if it continues to put on productions of the same quality as “Oliver! The Musical,” it will become one of the best performance venues in the Q borough.

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King Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS 1 Use the couch 4 Fidel Castro, e.g. 9 Picks out of a lineup, briefly 12 Japanese pond carp 13 Last Greek letter 14 Ultramodernist 15 Officeholder 17 Pitcher’s topper 18 Apiece 19 Merman and Mertz 21 Label founded by Clive Davis 24 Gets a gander at 25 Fellow 26 Pvt.’s superior 28 Takes five 31 Snapshots 33 Finish 35 Willy Wonka’s creator 36 Narrow cuts 38 Sleuth, for short 40 Born 41 - moss 43 Fed well, as a Biblical calf 45 Twist in pain 47 Mrs. McKinley 48 Coloration 49 Rainy, perhaps 54 Hostel 55 Surround 56 Sticky stuff 57 Encountered 58 Uses a swizzle stick 59 Rhyming praise

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who has worked on previous Black Spectrum productions. Just like many little children admit to being afraid of scary characters such as the Wicked Witch of the West and various evil characters in Disney movies, the

cast acknowledges that some children might at first be concerned with the Giant, played by Darnell Shelton in a deep, booming voice. “Especially because kids buy into the play,” Turner said. “But I think they quickly figure out what we’re doing.” Other cast members include Akil Williams in the dual roles of the Giant’s magic beat box and the stranger with the blue hat to whom Jack trades his father’s van; and Courtney McKay as the Giant’s wife. Q Bette Howard is the director.

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DOWN 1 Schuss 2 Charged particle 3 Twitch 4 Halley’s et al. 5 Resentment 6 Spelling contest 7 Actress Moorehead 8 Talk on and on 9 Nonstop 10 Transaction 11 Bribes

16 - and downs 20 Pay attention 21 Rock band’s gear 22 Bar 23 Just beginning 27 Explosive letters 29 You 30 Coaster 32 Undo a dele 34 Graffiti writer, e.g. 37 Masters, in old India

39 West Pointers 42 Doctrine 44 Scot’s chapeau 45 Caprice 46 Mysterious character 50 Vegas-based crime show 51 Swelled head 52 Agree silently 53 Part of the foot

Vanessa Pringle as Mama and Channing Jackson as Jack.

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I HAVE OFTEN WALKED

The unique Fowler house in Whitestone by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

The Fowler house in Whitestone provides an interesting story in terms of the early Queens pioneer spirit. David and Alice Fowler, immigrants from England who first moved to Canada and came to the United States in 1924 with their two daughters, built the home in 1930. David Fowler, a hotel plumber, never had a mortgage against his house but had everything else against him. Their street, 147th Place between Second and Third avenues, was the only block in Queens that had a 19th-century barn in the middle of the street. The barn was left over from the Charles Senff estate auction, and it obstructed their house in every way. When it rained the water from the roof would run onto the Fowler property, clogging all the drains. When it snowed heavily the Fowlers could not get out of their driveway because of drifts caused by the barn. For their first few years they had no gas because of the obstruction the barn caused. Their sidewalk was used as a roadway. But the Fowler house was surrounded

The Fowler house at 2-25 147 Place in Whitestone, summer of 1937. with valuable spruce trees 40 to 45 feet high that were well cared for by tree experts. Fowler created a bird sanctuary around the house, filling his birdbaths as many as three times a day sometimes. In 1934 the city’s attorneys wrote that though 147th Place was a street, the old Senff barn was protected under covenants and could not be touched. By the 1940s, however, the city had finally opened up the street entirely and eliminated the barn. Fowler died in 1968 at age 86. His house towers over all the ranches and capes that were built later. But the spruce trees are all gone and the stucco house is covered with siding today. Public records show it last Q sold for $715,000 in 2009.

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Curtis crosses the bridge by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor

It’s rare that a free agent switches from one local ballclub to another. The only one who comes to mind is relief pitcher Pedro Feliciano, who left the Mets to join the Yankees in the fall of 2010. At the time, Feliciano was upset at how the Mets overworked him and then rewarded him by refusing to make him a reasonable offer. He never threw a pitch in a Yankees uniform because of injuries, and, ironically, rejoined the Mets as a free agent last year. Feliciano now has company as a trivia answer, as recent Yankees outfielder Curtis Granderson has accepted a four-year, $60 million deal from the Mets. This is the Mets’ first marquee free-agent signing since their ill-fated deal with outfielder Jason Bay four years ago. While many Mets fans were ebullient to see their team finally make a splash in the off-season, there is understandable concern about the deal. Many fear that at 33, Grandy’s best days are behind him, and that he could turn out like Bay, both in terms of poor performance and being a fixture on the disabled list. If he were to flop, then the team would happily go back to its penny-pinching ways. The other negative is that Granderson is a strikeout-prone power hitter. Given Citi Field’s spacious dimensions, the strikeouts could well continue but the home runs would not.

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More optimistic Mets fans will point out that Granderson, unlike Bay, has proven himself as a guy who can handle the pressures of playing in New York. They also believe that Granderson can tailor his offensive game to his home ballpark. Sure, he swung for the short corner fences in Yankee Stadium, but when he played for the Tigers in Detroit’s cavernous Comerica Park, he utilized the outfield gaps for extra-base hits. David Wright is a beneficiary of Curtis joining the Mets, as he finally has a legitimate power hitter in the lineup, so pitchers can’t work around him. Wright will also get some relief in the clubhouse as the Mets’ unofficial player spokesman for the media. The personable Grandy is one of the few baseball players with a college degree in business administration and always gives thoughtful answers. Fellow newly acquired Mets outfielder Chris Young has to be relieved as well. Mets general manager Sandy Alderson inexplicably signed Young, who batted a very pedestrian .200 with a dozen homers for the A’s last season, to a oneyear $7.25 million contract. There is no doubt that fans who were tired of seeing their team not spend when it should, and vice-versa, would have booed Young mercilessly if he was Sandy’s lone free-agent signing this winter. Q See the extended version of Sports Beat every week at qchron.com.

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boro SPECIAL EVENTS Art House Astoria Community Carolers, Astoria First Presbyterian Church, Advent performance, 23-35 Broadway, Sunday, Dec. 15, 7 p.m. Caroling walks on Thursday, Dec. 19 & Saturday, Dec. 21 in the Ditmars area along Broadway/Steinway. Blue Suede Birthday - The Elvis Bash, Queensborough Performing Arts Center, 22205 56th Ave., Bayside, Saturday, Jan. 25, 8 p.m. Master performers Scot Bruce & Mike Albert deliver a superb Elvis experience. $40. Box Office: (718) 631-6311.

FLEA MARKETS Giant Indoor Holiday Flea Market, St. Thomas the Apostle Church, Mulz Hall, 87-19 88 Ave., Woodhaven, Saturday-Sunday, Dec. 14-15, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Over 75 vendors, call (718) 8471353. Indoor Flea Market, St. Nicholas of Tolentine Parish, Parsons Boulevard & Union Turnpike, Jamaica, Sundays, Dec. 15, 22, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Call (718) 591-1815. Richmond Hill Flea Market, 117-09 Lefferts Blvd., off Jamaica Ave., every Sunday, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Largest flea market in Queens, something for everyone. Christmas Craft Sale plus Polish Meat & Bake Sale, Flea Market, Sunday, Dec. 15, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Call Steve (718) 224-3052.

MEETINGS Kiwanis Club of Bayside, Bourbon Street Restaurant, 40-12 Bell Blvd., meets 1st Wednesday of every month, 1 p.m. Contact: joecorace@ aol.com. The American Legion Continental Post, 10715 Metropolitan Ave, Forest Hills. All veterans invited, enjoy comraderie and support, every first Friday of the month, 7 p.m. Call Tom Long, (718) 704-4197.

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SENIOR ACTIVITIES Bagel Brunch and Book Discussion Group, SNAP of Eastern Queens Innovative Senior Center (Creedmoor Community Campus), 80-45 Winchester Blvd., Building 4, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 10 a.m. Discussion of ”Defending Jacob“ by William Landay. Call Marian (718) 454-2100.

The CCNS Bayside Senior Center, 221-15 Horrace Harding Expy., Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Kosher/ nonkosher lunch, 11:30 a.m. $2. Bingo 3 times a week. Adults 60+. Contact (718) 225-1144. Wednesday Night Singles Group, SFY Adult Center, 58-20 Little Neck Pkwy., Little Neck, second and fourth Wednesdays of each month, 7-9 p.m. Fee: $7 Adult Center members, $9 nonmembers. Middle Village Adult Center, 69-10 75 St., offers: computer training classes, all levels, beginners to advanced, including: 21st Century Technology, teaching use of iPods, smartphones, e-readers, tablet computers, and other latest gadgets; and Microsoft Excel (separate class); fitness classes in Zumba, aerobics, line dancing, chair and mat yoga, tai chi, lower-body toning, sit and be fit; recreational activities (daily bingo, singing, watercolor painting, bus trips, daily meals and more). Call Hindy at (718) 8943441 or visit the Center. The Ridgewood Older Adult Center, 59-14 70 Ave., hour-long classes: jewelry making, Mondays at 10:30 a.m.; Richard Simmons exercise, Mondays and Thursdays at 10:30; Eldercise, Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m.; massage therapy, Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m.; manicures, Thursdays at 12:30 p.m.; yoga, Fridays at 10:30 a.m. Movies every Monday, Tuesday and Friday at 1:15 p.m. MetroCard van, 4th Thursday of month. Monthly bus trips to Yonkers. Call Karen (718) 456-2000. Selfhelp Clearview Senior Center, 208-11 26 Ave., Bayside, activities include: Qi Gong, Mondays at 10:45 a.m.; Dance Aerobics, Mondays at 10 a.m. & Tuesdays at 9 a.m.; Wii time, Mondays and Wednesdays at 12:45 p.m.; Music with Dee, Mondays at 1 p.m.; beginner’s drawing, Tuesdays at 9:30 a.m.; aerobics, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11 a.m.; drawing and painting, Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m.; yoga, Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m.; bingo, Wednesdays at 12:45 p.m.; tai chi, Wednesdays at 2 p.m.; dance fitness Fridays at 10:45 a.m.; health education class, Tuesdays at 10 a.m.; fire prevention exercises, Wednesdays at 11 a.m.; mahjong/canasta, Wednesdays at 12:45 p.m.; stay well exercises, Thursdays at 9:30 a.m.; Music, Dance & Fitness, Thursdays at 1:30 p.m., Scrabble, Thursdays at 12:45 p.m.; Sculpture, Fridays at 1 p.m; current events, card playing and more. Call (718) 224-7888.

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The Flushing AARP Chapter No. 1405, Bowne Street Community Church, 143-11 Roosevelt Ave., meets Mondays 1 p.m.

Computer class for seniors, Selfhelp Innovative Senior Center (Benjamin Rosenthal Prince Street Senior Center), 45-25 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, 8 weeks, basics/email/internet began Monday, Dec. 2, 11 a.m. Call John to register (718) 559-4329.

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St. John’s University receives big grant Given to better child bereavement services

by Tess McRae Associate Editor

St. John’s University’s Child HELP Partnership has announced receiving a two-year, $500,000 grant from the New York Life Foundation to increase the quality of childhood bereavement services and serve a greater number of bereaved children in New York City. A 2011 assessment by the foundation revealed a lack of childhood bereavement services as well as a stigma associated with death and grief counseling.

Based on those f indings, the grant announced on Dec. 6 will support outreach and increased programming as well as training and evaluation to be provided by St. John’s, The Family Center in Brooklyn, the Center for Court Innovation, Child and Adolescent Witness Support Program in the Bronx, A Caring Hand and the Billy Esposito Foundation in Manhattan. “This is an innovative, groundbreaking initiative that will help field tremendously,”

Elissa Brown, founder and executive director of the partnership and research director of the grant, said in announcing it. “It is our hope that this project will help build the sector and, more importantly, improve programs for grieving children and their families.” The Child HELP Partnership was founded in 2001 with the mission of protecting children from interpersonal violence and its emotional impact. The program uses practices in mental

Moreland continued from page 22 “There’s really nothing new in the report,” Browne concurred. Browne believes Gov. Cuomo probably has positioned himself well in terms of being sincere in his effort to clean up the process, particularly if he is at least partially interested in engaging in a power play with Silver. While some including Cuomo have questioned the efficacy of a New Yok City-style public financing system for Albany, Brown hopes parts of recommended reform to not stand in the way of an overall reform package. “Albany always seems to make the perfect the enemy of the good,” he said. Brow ne also poi nted out that Cuomo himself has proven very adept at raising money in the current system that his own commission says is broken. It could, Brown said, damage if not poison Cuomo’s relationship with the legislative Senate and Assembly. “It may be an uncomfortable winter in Albany,” he said. “The governor and the Legislature have had a good relationship for three years. That could take a turn.” Finally, many of the recommendations made by the commission would have to be voted on and passed by the legislature. “It reinforces the idea that the foxes are guarding the hen house, and that they’ll be asked to vote in favor of the chickens,” Krasner said. “It’s a catch-22 Q you always have.”

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PARCEL #1 31 EDWARD STREET LYNBROOK, NEW YORK SECTION 37, BLOCK 226, LOT 21 CAPE COD - 5 ROOMS; 2 BEDROOMS 1 BATH; DET. GARAGE “AS IS” ...MINIMUM BID $ 296,700 PARCEL #2 571 TRYSTING PLACE CEDARHURST, NEW YORK SECTION 39, BLOCK 272, LOT 20 RANCH – 5 ROOMS; 2 BEDROOMS; 1 BATH; DET. GARAGE “AS IS” ...MINIMUM BID $ 268,000

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2013 10:00 A.M. SHARP 9:00 A.M. SHARP 262 OLD COUNTRY ROAD MINEOLA, NEW YORK 11501, 3RD FLOOR COURT ROOM

PARCEL #3 80 EAST STREET HICKSVILLE, NEW YORK SECTION 12, BLOCK 246, LOTS 194 & 195 SPLIT RANCH – 8 ROOMS; 3 BEDROOMS; 2 BATHS; BLT-IN GARAGE “AS IS” ...MINIMUM BID $ 266,000

PARCEL #5 959 THIRD AVENUE FRANKLIN SQUARE, NEW YORK SECTION 35, BLOCK 173, LOT 54, LOT GROUP 54-55 2 FAMILY COLONIAL – 8 ROOMS; 4 BEDROOMS; 2 BATHS; DRIVEWAY “AS IS” ...MINIMUM BID $ 250,500

PARCEL #4 6 SHERMAN ROAD FARMINGDALE, NEW YORK SECTION 49, BLOCK B02, LOT 56 COLONIAL – 6 ROOMS; 3 BEDROOMS; 1 BATH; ATT. GARAGE “AS IS” ...MINIMUM BID $ 257,200

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5225 Grand Realty LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/6/13. Office in Queens Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 39-25 61 st #770081, Woodside, NY 11377. Purpose: General.

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BP ALLIANCE CONSTRUCTION SERVICES LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 07/18/2007. Office loc: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 179-50 Selover Rd, Jamaica, NY 11434. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: AFB LOUNGE LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/23/2013. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 3727 Hunters Point Ave., Long Island City, NY 11101. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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Index No. 5489/10 AMENDED SUMMONS Plaintiff Designates QUEENS County as the Place of trial. The basis of venue is plaintiff CARLOS INTRIAGO’s residence. Plaintiff CARLOS INTRIAGO resides at 163-09 99th Street, Howard Beach, NY 11414 County of Queens CARLOS lNTRlAGO, VIVELKA DOMINGUEZ and IVONNE lNTRIAGO, Plaintiffs, -againstFIDENCIO VASQUEZ and JOHN DOE a/k/a ANTONIO AMIGON, Defendants. YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your amended answer, or if the amended complaint is not served with this amended summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the plaintiff’s Attomey(s) within 20 days after the service of this amended summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if the amended summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded herein, DATED: Forest Hills, New York, October 12, 2011 Defendants’ Addresses: FIDENCIO VASQUEZ, 192 Crescent Street, #2R, Brooklyn, NY 11208. JOHN DOE a/k/a ANTONIO AMIGON Address unknown Yours, etc., WITTENSTEIN & WITTENSTEIN, ESQS., P.C. By: ROBERT H. BRENT, ESQ. Attomey(s) for Plaintiff(s) CARLOS INTRlAGO, VIVELKA DOMINGUEZ and IVONNE INTRlAGO, 108-18 Queens Boulevard Forest Hills, NY 11375, (718) 261-8114 Notice: The nature of this action is for severe personal injuries, sustained as a result of an accident on January 20, 2010 on Jamaica Avenue at or near the intersection of Lincoln Avenue, County of Kings, City and State of New York. The amount of damages sought exceeds the jurisdictional limits of all lower courts which would otherwise have jurisdiction. Upon your failure to appear, judgment will be taken against you by default for damages with interest from January 20, 2010, and the costs of this action.

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SQ page 52 SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS INDEX NO.: 4119-2013 DATE FILED: 12/6/2013 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS NYCTL 2012-A TRUST AND THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, AS COLLATERAL AGENT AND CUSTODIAN FOR NYCTL 2012-A TRUST, Plaintiffs, -againstLYDIA R. CARRAWAY, if she be living, if she be dead, her respective, heirs-at-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors, and successors in interest, and generally all persons having or claiming under, by, or through LYDIA R. CARRAWAY, if she be dead, whether by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, including any right, title or interest in and to the real property described in the complaint herein, all of who and whose names and places of residence are unknown to the plaintiffs; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; CITY OF NEW YORK ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD; PORTFOLIO RECOVERY ASSOCIATES, LLC; ERIN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC; ASSET ACCEPTANCE LLC,; “JOHN DOE # 1” through “JOHN DOE # 100”, the last 100 names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiffs, the persons or parties intended being the owners, tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, and if any of the aforesaid individual captioned defendants, if any, be dead, their respective heirs-at-law, next of kin, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors, and successors n interest, and generally all persons having or claiming under, by, or through any of the aforesaid individual captioned defendants, if any, if they be dead, whether by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, including any right, title or interest in and to the real property described in the complaint herein, all of who and whose names and places of residence are unknown to the plaintiffs. Defendants. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action, to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with the summons, to serve notice of appearance, on the plaintiffs’ attorney within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the date of service (or within thirty (30) days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York), and in case of failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. Plaintiffs designate Queens County as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the location of the subject property. Dated: October 22, 2013 LEVY & LEVY Attorneys for Plaintiffs, 12 Tulip Drive, Great Neck, NY 11021, (516) 487-6655 BY: JOSHUA LEVY, ESQ. File No.: 32612 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Thomas D. Raffaele, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Queens County dated Nov. 4th, 2013 and filed with the complaint and other papers in the Queens County Clerk’s Office, Jamaica, NY. The object of the action is to foreclose a tax lien and to recover the amount of the tax lien and all of the interest, penalties, additions and expenses to real property k/a Block 9591, Lot 40. Dated: Dec. 2, 2013. LEVY & LEVY, Attys. for Pltf. #83501

BTS COLLECTIVE LLC , a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 7/18/13. Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to C/O United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Ave., Ste. 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. General Purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: TRAPEZI LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/30/2013. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to Christos Charalambous, 4227 35th Ave., Long Island City, NY 11101. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

CHUIS DEVELOPMENT LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/29/2013. Office loc: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 56-15 228th St., Bayside, NY 11364. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: EPOCH PROPERTY LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/26/2013. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to Ai Mou Lin, 5117 92nd St., Elmhurst, NY 11373. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF ACTION BEFORE THE BOARD OF MASSAGE THERAPY IN RE: The license to practice massage therapy of Zhen Ji Piao, L.M.T., 3733 College Point Boulevard, Apartment C1D, Flushing, New York 11354 CASE NO.: 2012-15666 LICENSE NO.: MA 63970 The Department of Health has filed an Administrative Complaint against you, a copy of which may be obtained by contacting, Elana J. Jones, Assistant General Counsel, Prosecution Services Unit, 4052 Bald Cypress Way, Bin #C65, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-3265, (850) 245-4444. If no contact has been made by you concerning the above by January 30, 2014, the matter of the Administrative Complaint will be presented at an ensuing meeting of the Board of Massage Therapy in an informal proceeding. In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, persons needing a special accommodation to participate in this proceeding should contact the individual or agency sending this notice not later than seven days prior to the proceeding at the address given on the notice. Telephone: (850) 245-4444, 1-800-955-8771 (TDD) or 1-800-955-8770 (V), via Florida Relay Service.

SUPREME COURT - QUEENS COUNTY- MARILOU S. MARTIN and ROBERT ABAD as Sole heir of VIOLET M. ABAD vs. MARIA CARMELITA M. CASTANEDA Index No.: 25640/2004Pursuant to judgment of Partition and sale dated April 13, 2010 and Order Appointing Referee ZENITH THERESA TAYLOR, ESQ. dated March 20, 2013 auction in Courtroom #25 of Queens County Supreme Court, 88-11 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY on Friday January 17, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. prem k/a 85-09 Kendrick Place, Jamaica, NY. Said property located at the corner formed by the intersection of the northerly side of Kendrick Road, (formerly Pembroke Road) with the easterly side of Mayfield Road, (Kendrick Road being also known as Kendrick Place); northerly along the easterly side of Mayfield Road, 72.34 feet; easterly 97.42 feet to a point distant 86.91 feet northerly from the northerly side of Kendrick Road; southerly 86.91 feet to a point in the northerly side of Kendrick Road, distant 114.06 feet easterly from the point of beginning measured along said northerly side of Kendrick Road; westerly along the northerly side of Kendrick Road, 114.06 feet to the point or place of beginning, said premises known as 85-09 Kendrick Place, Jamaica, NY Sold subject to terms and conditions of filed Order and terms of sale. ZENITH THERESA TAYLOR, Referee, LAW OFFICE OF SCOT T SCHWEBER, P.C, 250 West 57th Street Suite 1216 New York, NY 10107 Attys. for Plaintiffs.

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The real estate roller coaster of the last year was a “struggle,” Rodriguez said, The Exit Realty Central office at 133- but the company made sure it had the 07 Cross Bay Blvd. is quiet at 10 a.m. on support it needed to survive. “It was the hardest time to support a rainy Monday morning. The new workkeeping the business open,” Rodriguez week has not yet kicked into full gear. said. “The income that the Exit system But it will. The staff of 55 is just starting another provides helped us through that.” Ortiz-Rodriguez said regional managebusy week in the fast-paced New York real estate market, showing housing, ment keeps in close contact with her and closing sales and helping people find the her husband to make sure they have all perfect place to live or realize their the resources they need to succeed. Her husband added that several agents dream of owning their own home. It’s been 10 years since then-newly- sit on boards of organizations like MLS weds John Rodriguez and Martiza Ortiz- that help the real estate industry and sevRodriguez opened the doors of Exit Real- eral political action com mittees that ty Central for the first time. Then they lobby politicians. Exit Realty Central doesn’t only sell had only a handful of employees, but today their staff allows them to branch homes, but also works with those who out far beyond Ozone Park, selling homes seek to rent as well. In the next decade, Rodriguez said he from Downtown Brooklyn to Suffolk hopes to move the office to a paperless County. Rodriguez said what has helped them system and bring in new talent. “Our growth is going to be helping the succeed is the model provided to them by Exit Realty, a Canada-based franchise agents that we have and bringing in new agents,” he said. “It’s getting to the point chain. “Before opening Exit, I was with small where agents are beginning to call us. mom-and-pop offices,” he said. “I was Our market share is getting higher.” The Rodriguezes are a neighborhood looking for a better system that is good for the broker, the agent and the business family. They live in Ozone Park and their three children, ages 10, 8 and 5, attend itself.” T h rough a f r iend , Rod r ig uez was St. Mary Gate of Heaven School. Ortiz-Rodriguez said the realty also introduced to Exit and its concept, in which management shares the responsi- does com mu nit y out reach, including bility for recruiting business with the workshops to help people understand the process of buying a home. agents. “We tr y to educate the buyers out “I knew this was the right place to be,” there,” she said. “It’s their dream come he said. t r u e a nd we wa nt t h i s . It m a ke s u s happy to help them realize that.” A f t e r Hu r r ica ne Sandy, Exit Realt y Central had a binder full of apartments for rent that helped dozens of fa m ilies i n devastated areas such as Howard Beach and the Rockaways find temporary housing. “We were able to help so many families on a temporary basis and helped give them a place to stay while they got their h o u s e s t o g e t h e r,” Or tiz-Rodriguez said. “We were very Maritza Oritz-Rodriguez and her husband John Rodriguez have owned happy we were able and operated Exit Realty Central at 133-07 Cross Bay Blvd, in Ozone to help dur ing that Q PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER time.” Park, for 10 years. Editor

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