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Vol. 42, No. 6 Feb. 9-15, 2012

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Redistricting:

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Queens groups come together at Borough Hall during a public hearing to denounce State Senate and Assembly proposals for new district maps.

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Residents Call For Changes To Lines Tribune Photo by Ira Cohen

By DOMENICK RAFTER Room 213 of Queens Borough Hall was not nearly big enough to contain the welcome the New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapport ionment (LATFOR) received when they came to Queens Tue sday afternoon. The room was reduced to standing room only 15 minutes before the Queens town hall meeting discussing L ATFOR’s proposed redistricting lines was scheduled to begin.

The welcome was not ver y warm, however. More than 100 people piled into the room with something to say — “our neighborhoods are being divided,” “the system is corrupt,” “we demand better,” “we have no faith in you.”

Before the hearing began, members of the Jamaica branch of the NA ACP stood outside Borough Hall holding signs calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to veto the district lines.

LATFOR’s chairmen, Assemblyman John McEneny (D-Albany) and State Sen. Mike Nozzolio (R-Seneca Falls), were far from their Upstate homes, and were facing an angry mob of Queens residents who felt their needs were not listened to. Now was their chance to make them listen.

From the moment the meeting was called to order, t he frustrat ion in the room began boi li ng over. McEneny announced t hat elected officials would open the meeting with their testimony, an announcement that was met with immediate reaction. Bob Freidrich, President of the Glen Oaks Village furiously shouted down McEneny “This is a public hearing, the public should be allowed to speak first,” he demanded to chants of “Public First, Public First.”

Freidreich and more than a dozen members of Eastern Queens United wearing matching shirts, at tended the meet ing, asking to unite the neighborhoods of Bellerose, Floral Park, Glen Oaks, New Hyde Park and Queens Village into one district. Under

Members of the Jamaica branch of the NAACP gathered outside Queens Borough Hall before the hearing on redistric ting to protest the proposed lines.

L ATFOR’s maps, the neighborhoods are united in a Senate district, but split between three Assembly districts. State Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside), who at tended wearing an Eastern Queens United sh irt, called out Nozzolio, accusing him of not paying attention to his testimony.

“I’ve always said that’s it’s the Democrats and Republicans, but in this case, it is the Republicans who are acting disgraceful,” Avella said.

Nozzolio skirmished with Avella during his te st imony, asking him for written te st imony and proof of his claims that Senate Republicans have disenfranchised minority votes in Queens.

The basis of LATFOR’s defense was that the new districts were drawn to strengthen minority representation. Nozzolio said the creation of the Asian-majority 16th district nece ssitated the gerr ymandered map that was released last week.

But State Sen. Michael Gianaris (DAstoria), an outspoken opponent of LATFOR’s maps - and existence - took issue with that argument, pointing out that mi-

nority areas outside the city like Hempstead in Nassau County and New Rochelle in Westchester County were split up into districts that were a majority of whites and Republicans. “ To d ay y o u a re b e i n g c a l l e d o u t , ” Gianaris said to LATFOR’s members.

He also refused to yield to any explanation that his criticism was created out of anger for being drawn into the same district as State Sen. Jose Peralta (D-East Elmhurst) “I will not sit here and plead to the panel to change its mind and keep my home in the district I represent,” Gianaris said. “I’m less concerned about myself and more concerned about the community I represent and the people in this room” Councilman Ruben Wills (D-South Jamaica) took issue with the new 10th Senate district, which includes most of Jamaica, Richmond Hill, South Ozone Park and JFK Air port, but then crosses Jamaica Bay and includes Far Rockaway - with no direct connection through the district.

McEneny said the strange district lines were meant to include minority communi-

ties of the same demographic together, even if they are on opposite sides of the county.

“The Federal Voting Rights Act require s us to wander around and gather minority communitie s,” he said. “People don’t live in square boxes” James Hong, a spokesman for The Asian American Community Coalition on Redistricting and Democracy - a group pushing for greater Asian-American representation in redistricting - said that while his group appreciates the drawing of an Asian-American Senate district, his community “resents” being labeled an excuse for the gerr ymandering elsewhere in the borough. He said an Asian-American majority could be drawn in Flushing and communities to the East, rather than a meandering district that includes Rego Park, Elmhurst and Woodside.

“The current map divides the neighborhood of Flushing,” Hong said. “The dilution of the Asian vote between senate districts is unacceptable.”

Hong also took issue with the 24th Assembly district, which stretches from Bellerose to Richmond Hill. The district has a growing and influential South Asian population, which is promising, Hong said, but the district also tears neighborhoods apar t.

“This district splits off many voters from their own neighborhoods,” he said.

Representatives from neighborhood civics across the Borough spoke, including some from Astoria and Woodhaven, whose neighborhoods were divided in the new maps. The fier y comments cont inued past sunset. At tempting to quell the near revolt in the room, Nozzolio, sounding almost defeated, reminded the crowd that the maps they saw were not the final product.

“The lines that were put out were meant for your review,” he said. “No plan is perfect.”

Reach Reporter Domenick Rafter at drafter@queenstribune.com or (718) 3577400 Ext. 125.

NY Economic Chief Touts Cuomo’s Budget tate, and information technology.”

Cuomo’s budget outlines two ways to close the $2 billion deficit; freezing state agency spending and lower the increased aid to local government from 3.9 percent to 2.6 percent. Both options would save the $2 billion and close the deficit with any spending cuts, new taxes or borrowing.

As for next year, the Cuomo administration is projecting a budget gap of $715 million, the smallest year-out budget gap projection in two decades. The four-year gap is project to be cut by more than half.

The budget needs to be approved by the state legislature, which is in the middle of a fight over redistricting, which would also need to be approved in the next few months.

Reaction from legislators has been minimal so far, as many get their first look at it.

Assemblyman Mike Miller (D-Woodhaven) praised the budget, but noted he had reservations about the governor’s planned Tier VI pension reforms.

“Since this year’s budget deficit will be closed by a freeze in the increase of several state agencies, we will not see the dramatic cuts that we have seen in previous years.

State agencies will be able to operate with business as usual,” Miller said. “This will increase the effectiveness of our government while taking away from its overbearing cost.”

Reach Reporter Domenick Rafter at drafter@queenstribune.com or (718) 3577400 Ext. 125.

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spent by the state including spending in- federal money, and $4.6 billion for public safety. Beyond that, the governor’s proposal creases mandated by law.

“It was budget growth on autopilot,” also creates a plan for the state to take over the entire cost of Medicaid growth over the Adams said.

Cuomo’s budget this year is $132.5 bil- next three years. Cuomo is proposing a new lion dollars, slightly lower than last year, and pension reform plan, called Tier VI, which includes an optional 401k, there is a $2 billion deficit. raising the retirement age, That deficit is down by a proand requiring higher injected $3.5 billion because of come employees to contribrevenue brought in from the ute more to retirement tax reform bill that the goverplans. The budget also innor signed into law in Decemcludes key funding to reinber. Under the law, the tax state the toll rebate program surcharge for millionaires was for residents of the kept while other taxes were Rockaway Peninsula and dropped.

Broad Channel who use the Mandated in the budget is Cross Bay Veterans Memoa 4 percent increase in Medicrial Bridge. aid spending, a 2.2 percent Robert Megna, increase in SUNY/CUNY G o v . A n d r e w C u o m o , Cuomo’s budget director, funding and a 2 percent over- d u r i n g a s p e e c h a t said the budget language all spending increase cap. The Q u e e n s C o l l e g e l a s t forces state agencies to betbudget also includes a 4 per- month. ter focus on what their cent increase in school aid which will be dependent on school districts money should be spent on and gives leeway approving a teacher evaluation system by to different ways of doing that.

“To avoid cuts in services, local aid or Jan. 17, 2013. Included in the budget is $15 billion for infrastructure projects including tax increases, the Executive Budget dibridges, roads, sewers and the MTA. Also in rects State agencies to be more efficient the budget, $134 million for the Environ- and focuses resources on their core promental Protection Fund- the same amount as grams and services,” Megna said. “The last year, a one percent increase in funding flexibility language will allow for a range for mental hygiene agencies, $93 million of operational measures and will improve more for child care, to offset a reduction in functions such as procurement, real esTribune Photo by Ira Cohen

By DOMENICK RAFTER One year ago, a freshly inaugurated Gov. Andrew Cuomo - still placing the final personal touches in the Executive Mansion- had an ambitious plan. New York’s fourth governor in five years wanted to make the muchmaligned state government work again- and it would start with the budget.

It had become commonplace that New York’s budget would be late, sometimes comically so. In 2010, the budget, which is due on April 1, was passed in August. Cuomo decided his first budget, which would close a $10 billion deficit and have to be agreed on by the notoriously-dysfunctional state legislature, would come on time. Few believed him.

But with a day left to spare, the state legislature approved a budget before the deadline for the first time in nearly three decades, and New Yorkers’ deep cynicism in the functionality of Albany was dealt a blow.

Now, Cuomo, still basking in sky-high approval ratings and coming off a successful push for marriage equality and tax reform, is looking to do it again. Kenneth Adams, President and CEO of Empire State Development, the state’s economic development agency, said this year’s budget would not be as heavy a lift as last year’s.

“This year the process was simplified because of the hard work that was done last year,” he explained.

Adams said the budget reform process last year included changes to the way money was

Lancman Seeks To Unseat Turner

By ROSS BA RKAN After months of speculation by political insiders and outsiders alike, the whispers have been validated—Assemblyman Rory Lancman (D-Hillcrest) is running for Congress.

Lancman announced his congressional bid Tuesday, though the actual seat he is running for has yet to be confirmed. After the 2010 Census, New York was slated to lose two congressional seats, and one of them was rumored to be the 9th district in Brooklyn and Queens held by U.S. Rep. Bob Turner

(R-Middle Village), the former television executive who upset Assemblyman David Weprin (D-Little Neck) in a special election in September for the seat that belonged to Democrat Anthony Weiner. Congressional lines have yet to be released.

If that seat remains, Lancman said he will seek it. If not, he will focus on his Assembly bid, said his spokesman, Eric Walker.

Lancman said he is certain the 9th district will still exist in November, and asserted that there is no reason to believe New York City, which has not faced any dramatic population

cussing the issues that he would decline, will lose a Congressional bring to the forefront of his camseat. paign.

“When Bob Turner cast his first “Over 60 percent of Amerivote to make it easier to outsource cans don’t have a pension,” American jobs overseas, it was a Lancman said. “If a kid wants to real wake up call for me and the go to college, he will graduate people of Queens,” said Lancman with a staggering amount of debt. of the moment he decided to conWe have a tax system that honors sider a Congressional bid. wealth and not work.”

A lawyer by trade known for his Assemblyman Turner has clearly landed in ardent defense of Israel and ecoRory Lancman Lancman’s crosshairs; Lancman nomically progressive viewpoints, Lancman sounded a populist note when dis- asserted that the people of the 9th district where he lives “need a congressman,” implying that Turner does not live up to that lofty title. He said that Turner is “not the kind of representative we want to see in Washington.

We want to see someone who is focused on essentially have no rule,” Marwell said. leveling the economic playing field and delivMarwell and fellow Property Rights Foun- ering results.” dation attorney David Hawkins explained The timing of his announcement is twothat the Willets Point development battle has fold, he explained. One, the primary date has been greatly impacted by the 2005 U.S. been moved up to June, quickening the Supreme Court ruling in the case of Kelo v. election season, and two, he said he has City of New London, in which the Court raised “quite bit of money,” approximately ruled that local governments have a right to $130,000. take private land and turn it over to private Lancman was elected to the Assembly in developers for economic development.

2006. He attended Hillcrest High School, Economic Development Corporation Queens College, and Columbia Law School. spokeswoman Jennifer Friedberg said the He is the Chair of the Subcommittee on City’s response to the brief was filed with the Public Safety. Before his election to the court last week. A spokesman for the New Assembly, Lancman served on Community York State Supreme Court Appellate Divi- Board 8, at one time chairing the Youth sion Second Department said that the re- Education and Library Committee. sponse filed in the court is only available to Turner’s office did not return multiple those in the court and not the public. calls for comment as of press time.

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Firm Opposes Land Grab

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By ROSS BA RKAN A global law firm, which has experience with property abuse cases, has thrown its support behind the opponents of the Willets Point development plan.

Vinson & Elkins LLP recently filed an amicus brief – a document filed in court by someone not directly related to the case - in support of Willets Point business owners suing the City. The ongoing lawsuit, Serrone v. City of New York, challenged the planned redevelopment of Willets Point on several grounds, including compliance with environmental laws and the planned use of eminent domain. An amicus brief allows a group to show support in a case.

The law firm filed the brief on behalf of the Property Rights Foundation of America, Inc., a New York-based nonprofit that provides education about the right to own and use private property.

“Vinson & Elkins is one of the premier law firms in the United States,” Mike Rikon, a lawyer for Serrone, said. “They’re the premier condemnation lawyers in the country. The Property Rights Foundation has been supportive of property rights throughout the State of New York. At an annual meeting they had a few years ago, members of Willets Point United were invited to speak.”

Willets Point United, a coalition of Willets Point property owners committed to fighting eminent domain abuse at Willets Point, are among the petitioners in the Serrone lawsuit. Jeremy Marwell, an attorney for the Property Rights Foundation, said the timing of the brief’s filing reflects a particular recent challenge to property rights in New York City.

“The City’s position in this case boils down to the idea that once the City comes in and designates an area as blighted, courts

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In Our Opinion:

Get ‘Em, Gov After significantly reducing the state’s budget deficit last year, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is hoping to continue the trend with his latest budget proposal.

To close the final $2 billion deficit – down from $5.5 million last year – the governor’s budget proposal calls for a freeze on state agency spending and capping an increase in local government aid to 2.6 percent. If Cuomo’s proposal is accepted and enacted, his administration has projected a deficit of just $175 million the following year.

Bringing the state’s budget gap that low would be a miracle on par with getting the New York State Legislature to pass a budget on time, a feat Cuomo also accomplished last year and hopes to repeat with his latest budget proposal.

The biggest question that comes to mind when reviewing the proposal – and the common sense mandates that have been laid out for the state – is, why hasn’t anyone made these proposals before now?

It seems as though the culture in Albany is beginning to change under Cuomo’s leadership. The famously-dysfunctional legislative body is slowly but surely becoming more functional. Hopefully, the improvements continue, starting with the on-time passage of the governor’s budget for the coming year.

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Unfair Lines To The Editor: In regards to the newly –drawn district lines, these lines do not reflect fair and independent districts. The result of this plan will be matching excellent current Queens State Senators against each other.

This will result in losing excellent senators that were duly elected by their respective constituents. Our Community of Woodhaven has one senator, Joseph Addabbo. This is who we elected and who we chose and we are very pleased with our choice. It also has been stated that our Assemblyman, Michael G. Miller, will lose part of his district.

These proposed plans will be very disruptive to our Woodhaven community and our representatives.

We are very patriotic, and turn out to vote in every election and our votes and who we elect should be respected. It is heartening to know that our Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has every intention of vetoing this plan. Woodhaven thanks our Governor for this veto for we veto it as well.

Maria A. Thomson, Woodhaven

Opposing View To the Editor: As the curtain falls on the Flushing Chamber of Commerce and Myra Baird Herce’s “career” faces its twilight, the Committee to Save

the RKO Keith’s Theatre of Flushing, Inc. is insulted and outraged that she now claims to have pushed for the restoration of the theatre.

Quite the contrary, as witnessed by our committee, which began its work in 1981, advocating for the theatre’s restoration and use as a multicultural community resource.

This would definitely have put a different spin on Flushing, decades ago and for the better.

Our committee was invited to, and attended, all of the Community Board 7 committee meetings regarding the RKO Keith’s site. We never heard Ms. Herce advocate for the restoration of this theatre. She merely accepted the legal requirement of preserving the landmarked spaces, which include the ticket lobby and grand foyer.

Nowhere in our committee’s long collective memory did Ms. Herce exhibit any interest in preserving or restoring the Keith’s Theatre.

This represents the shabby attempt of an exiting diva to rewrite a painful part of Flushing’s history.

We leave it up to your readers to decide whom to believe—our committee volunteers who put in decades of unpaid labor, or Ms. Herce, a paid consultant and throw-back to the Donald Manes era.

Jerry Rotondi, Acting President, Committee to Save the RKO Keith’s Theatre of Flushing, Inc.

Michael Schenkler Publisher/Editor-in-Chief

To The Editor: I was delighted to read the new USDA guidelines requiring schools to serve meals with twice as many fruits and vegetables, more whole grains, less sodium and fat and no meat for breakfast. The guidelines were mandated by the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act signed by President Obama in December 2010 and will go into effect with the next school year.

The new guidelines offer a welcome change from USDA’s tradition of using the National School Lunch Program as a dumping ground for meat and dairy surpluses. Not surprisingly, 90 percent of American children are consuming excess fat, only 15 percent eat recommended servings of fruits and vegetables, and one-third have become overweight or obese.

These early dietary flaws become lifelong addictions, raising their risk of diabetes, heart disease, and stroke.

In recent years, Hawaii, California, New York and Florida legislatures asked their schools to offer daily vegetarian options, and most school districts now do. The Baltimore public school system offers its 80,000 students a complete weekly break from meat.

Parents should continue to insist on healthful plant-based school meals, snacks, and vending machine items. They can consult f n s . u s d a . g o v / c n d , www.healthyschoollunches.org, and www.vrg.org/family.

Freddy Green, Flushing

Retirement Reasoning To The Editor: A recent article about people not having enough money to retire raises an interesting question: whose responsibility is it to make sure you have enough money to retire, you or your employer? I am sure that the complainers don’t take into consideration all the money they wasted that could have been invested while they were working to that magic age.

Of course, people who work for the government don’t have those complaints; they have generous tax payers to thank for their fine retirement monies, mush of which is spent in Florida!

Comptroller John Liu found that non-governmental workers don’t have the necessary funds when retirement time comes. Solution: maybe the comptroller can set up a fundraising group to help these hardpressed residents.

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Congratulations To The Editor: Kudos to Mr. Frederick Beddel Jr. for his letter in the Jan. 12-18 Queens Tribune regarding Pope Benedict XVI elevating Archbishop Timothy Dolan to be Cardinal.

As a proud Catholic, I feel the same about Pope Benedict XVI, who follows in the footsteps of Pope John Paul II, his leader.

Again, congratulations to new Cardinal Timothy Dolan. We are very happy for you.

Krystyna Sevilla, Forest Hills

Need New Lines To the Editor: Over the last few years, we have experienced tornados, snow and ice storms, hurricanes and other major rain storms. During these events, power is often lost and lines are down, making roads impassable and walking treacherous. Sometimes injuries and fatalities result. The problems are acute during the time that we experience them. However, we should be considering long term solutions to these issues during nonemergency times.

I believe that the time has come to seriously consider putting all power lines underground. Many elected officials have recommended this to be done. It would significantly cut down on loss of electric, telephone and cable service, reduce safety hazards, eliminate the need to severely prune trees to prevent the branches from touching wires and raise property values due to more aesthetically pleasing looking neighborhoods.

This is an extensive and expensive project, especially during these difficult economic times. A project of this magnitude would take years to complete and would have to be done in stages, however, the eventual benefits derived would be substantial.

What has been suggested is that during street reconstruction projects, when new water mains and gas lines are laid, why not put pipes down to enable power lines to be placed underground? This would cut down on overall expenses and alleviate some of the inconvenience to residents if this work were done when the ground had to be opened anyway for other infrastructure work.

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P.S. – Isn’t it ironic that the tax payer who supports the retired government employee suddenly finds that he doesn’t have enough money for his own retirement, because he gives it to help the government employee retire!

Kenneth L. Brown, Forest Hills

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We need to look forward into the new century at more progressive solutions to current problems, solutions that are in the public interest and that are economically and environmentally responsible.

Henry Euler, Bayside

Be Prepared To The Editor: The year 2012 promises to be a year of momentous and consequential events among them the end of the Mayan Calendar and the possible re-election of President Obama.

Either event has the potential to cause some dismay, discomfort and suffering.

The disastrous effects of President Obama’s economic policies are a matter of record. His intense relentless commitment to social justice and a redistributive agenda has added almost 5 trillion dollars to our debt in just three years. His spending, borrowing, stimulating, loans to benefactors and collaborators for investments in unproven “green” energy, TARP bailouts of banks and institutions have not increased employment or improved the economy. These policies are manifestations of an antipathy to the capitalist system and rule of law. Unfortunately, many Americans are oblivious to the consequences of unsustainable budget deficits in spite of reports from Greece and other EU countries whose welfare state economies have devastated them to the brink of ruin. Anyone with a modicum of intellectual honesty must acknowledge you cannot legislate the poor into prosperity nor multiply wealth by dividing it.

Are we as human beings not really responsible for our own acts and so we need a government to direct and control us? Must we yield our individual rights to a ruling elite that makes any laws it wishes and forces them upon everyone in any manner it wishes?

Ayn Rand, author of “Atlas Shrugged”” warned, “When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors; when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by work, and your laws no longer protect you against them, but protect them against you, you may know that your society is doomed”.

Should we prepare for more than one cataclysmic event in 2012? We cannot change the Mayan Calendar but we can vote.

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Legislative Redistricting: Crossing The Lines

By MICHAEL SCHENKLER It’s really hard to believe.

I’ve been sitting and watching the surreal redistricting process in Ne w York State for months, with every factor laid out front except the results. The players all understand the factors which produce fair districts.

Perhaps it would be more precise to say the players all know the factors that produce unfair districts: you don’t divide a community unnecessarily – a political, ethnic or racial community; you don’t divide a geograph ic community unnecessarily – you keep districts compact and contiguous; you do not dilute the vote of a particular population by providing one constituency with minimum population districts and another with maximum.

Now I would include that incumbenc y or par t y affiliat ion should not be considered when

drawing lines, but I may not have case law on my side on that one.

It doesn’t really matter; every rule of fairness and equity has been violated by the most partisan redistricting process imaginable.

With the eyes of the people and media on them, the New York State legislature has had its controlled commission – LATFOR – break every rule in the book while under the intense spotlight of scrutiny. The most dysfunctional legislature in the nation may also be the most self-serving.

The Republican-controlled State Senate has come up with a map — adding a district in an area of the State which lost population — which may allow their party to retain control of their house even if their party registration is significantly a minority. The Dems in the Assembly played games too. But the losers, if these lines are adopted, are the people. The minority communities which have been intentionally divided to dilute their voting strength are the big losers.

But perhaps the biggest loser is New York State, which has been in a state of decline for decades largely because of a dysfunctional legislature. It could, for the next decade, continue the status quo by adopting these unfair district lines to perpetuate the status quo.

It was the Boston Gazette in

1812 which coined the word “gerrymander” in recognition of the guile of Massachussettes governor Elbridge Gerry who directed the redrawing of the state’s senate districts. The paper combined the governor’s word with “salamander,” the shape of one of the districts.

Governor Ger ry’s legacy is alive and well and multiplying in

New York State.

Now the perverse new New York State maps, once final, have to be voted upon and passed by both houses of the legislature and not be vetoed by Governor Cuomo – two-thirds of both houses could not be found to override the veto.

Now, the Governor, since day one, has said redistricting must be

An early political cartoon from 1812 commenting on the drawing of State Senate Districts in Massachusettes to favor the candidates of Governor Elbridge Gerry. The salamander shaped district above coupled with the Governor’s name led the Boston Gazette to coin the word “Gerrymander” to describe the process that members of the New York State legislature uses every ten years to perpetuate themselves.

done by an independent commission in order to avoid the veto pen.

However, rumors of deals, claims

by Republican Senate insiders, a tightening deadline imposed by the courts mandate of a June Congressional Primary and the talk from Cuomo and his administration that suggest a compromise from the existing lines may be possible.

Cosmetically fixing some of the most egregious violations of LATFOR: eliminating the Senate’s new 63rd district, redrawing districts so incumbents (in two Queens districts) are not drawn into a fight with other incumbents in their own party, and straightening out some of the zigs and zags to respect community lines more, does not in any way provide independence to the process. A phony compromise is no solution.

Andrew Cuomo, who to date has done a remarkable job as Governor – got the “remarkable,” I don’t use that word often – has no choice but to veto the work of LATFOR if he wants to continue to be recognized as an exceptional Governor and leader.

Should the Governor veto the lines as passed by the legislature, the map drawing will fall to the courts. That is the best hope for the people and the future of New York State.

MSchenkler@QueensTribune.com

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The Guv’s Guy Visits The Trib

Kenneth Adams, President & CEO, Empire State Development Corp. and Trib Publisher, Michael Schenkler at the Trib office last week.

Ken Adams, the head of the Empire State Development Corp. visited the Trib to provide us with some insight into the Governor’s budget.

You’ll read the nitty gritty of the interview and the budget presentations elsewhere in the paper.

To me, the significance was that the Governor's team continues to impress.

Ken Adams is bright, knowledgeable and has a sense of humor. As he sells the Guv's budget, in reality he is spreading hope that New York State's future just may be looking up.

Couple the Cuomo team and an ontime meaningful budget with fair redsitricting, and New York is on the way to recovery while the Governor is on the way to political stardom.

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at 11:00 a.m., prem. k/a 9911 193rd St., Hollis, NY. Said property located on the easterly side of 193 rd St. (Cornwall St.) 100 ft. southerly from the SE corner of 193 rd St. and 99 th Ave. (Atlantic Ave.), being a plot 100 ft. x 45 ft. Approx. amt. of judgment is $527,863.47 plus costs and interest. Sold subject to terms and conditions of filed judgment and terms of sale.

MICHAEL DIKMAN, Referee. COHN & ROTH, Attys. for Pltf., 100 East Old Country Rd., Mineola, NY #80798 ___________________________________ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: JSDC MANAGEMENT LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/04/12.

Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 34-47 42nd Street, #2RL, Astoria, New York 11101. Purpose: For any lawful purpose. ___________________________________ G & D INSTALLATION LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 9/8/ 11. Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: G Moller, 166-19 24 th Ave., Whitestone, NY 11375.

General Purposes. ___________________________________ BIG CITY SPORTS LLC, a domestic LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/ 27/2011. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 154-38 11 th Ave., Whitestone, NY 11357. Reg Agent: Demian Deviccaro, 154-38 11 th Ave., Whitestone, NY 11357. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. ___________________________________ File No.: 2011-634 CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK BY THE GRACE OF GOD, FREE AND INDEPENDENT To: Audrey Lynch Errol Lynch Margaret Carter Maxwell Lynch Glendon Lynch Marcia Lynch Jeffrey Flacks for Marcia Lynch Andrew Jackson Michelle Thompson Trecia Hall Human Resources Administration Hempstead Park Nursing Home Gina Dubner Nadia Denis, MD FDNY/EMS Hunter EMS Elmont Medical PC Queens Hospital Center Park Avenue medical Assn.

PC Nasser Hassani, MD Robert Sperber, MD Abul Husain Moral, MD Dolly Wahid, MD Eric Cantos, MD Attorney General of the State of New York The unknown distributees, legatees, devisees, heirs at law and assignees of UNA MARIE LYNCH AKA MARIE LYNCH, deceased, or their estates, if any there be, whose names, places of residence and post office addresses are unknown to the petitioner and cannot with due diligence be ascertained. Being the persons interested as creditors,

LEGAL NOTICE legatees, distributees or otherwise in the Estate of UNA MARIE LYNCH AKA MARIE LYNCH, deceased, who at the time of death was a resident of 115-15 204 Street, St. Albans, NY 11412, in the County of Queens, State of New York. SEND GREETING: Upon the petition of LOIS M. ROSENBLATT, Public Administrator of Queens County, who maintains her office at 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, Queens County, New York 11435, as Temporary Administration of the Estate of UNA MARIE LYNCH AKA MARIE LYNCH, deceased, you and each of you are hereby cited to show cause before the Surrogate at the Surrogate’s Court of the County of Queens, to be held at the Queens General Courth o u s e , 6 th F l o o r , 8 8 - 1 1 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, City and State of New York, on the 15 th day of March, 2012 at 9:30 o’clock in the forenoon, why the Account of Proceedings of the Public Administrator of Queens County, as Temporary Administration of the Estate of said deceased, a copy of which is attached, should not be judicially settled, and why the Surrogate should not fix and allow a reasonable amount of compensation to GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ., for legal services rendered to petitioner herein in the amount of $9,731.18 and that the Court fix the fair and reasonable additional fee for any services to be rendered

by GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ., hereafter in connection with proceedings on kinship, claims etc., prior to entry of a final Decree on this accounting in the amount of 6% of assets or income collected after the date of the within accounting; and why the Surrogate should not fix and allow an amount equal to one percent on said Schedules of the total assets on Schedules A, A1, and A2 plus any additional monies received subsequent to the date of this account, as the fair and reasonable amount payable to the Office of the Public Administrator for the expenses of said office pursuant to S.C.P.A. §1106(4); and why the Temporary Letters of Administration duly issued by the Surrogate’s Court on February 28, 2011 should not be revoked; and why Letters of Administration should not be issued to the Public Administrator; and why the claim from the Human Resources Administration in the amount of $67,066.33 should not be paid; and why the claim from Hempstead Park Nursing in the amount of $55,799.46 should not be paid; and why the claim from petitioner should not be authorized to retain the sum of $16,000.00 to satisfy the contingent and possible claim of Gina Dunbar for a period of six months from the date of the decree to be settled hereon; and why the claim from Nadia Denis, MD in the amount of $670.00 should not be rejected; and why the claim from FDNY/EMS in the amount of $2,220.00 should

LEGAL NOTICE not be rejected; and why the claim from Hunter EMS in the amount of $1,092.00 should not be rejected; and why the claim from Elmont Medical PC in the amount of $5,315.00 should not be rejected; and why the claim from Queens Hospital Center in the amount of $3,224.17 should not be rejected; and why the claim from Park Avenue Medical Association PC in the amount of $426.00 should ot be rejected; and why the claim from Nasser Hassani, MD in the amount of $50.00 should not be rejected; and why the claim from Robert Sperber, MD in the amount of $25.00 should not be rejected; and why the claim from Abul Husain Moral, MD in the amount of $308.00 should not be rejected; and why the claim from Dolly Wahid in the amount of $82.00 should not be rejected; and why the claim from Eric Cantos, MD in the amount of $1,327.00 should not be rejected; and why each of you claiming to be distributee of the decedent should not establish proof of your kinship; and why the balance of said funds should not be paid to said alleged distributees upon proof of kinship, or deposited with the Commissioner of Finance of the City of New York should said alleged distributees default herein, or fail to establish proof of kinship, HON. PETER J. KELLY Surrogate, Queens County MARGARET GRIBBON Clerk of the Surrogate’s Court Dated, Attested and Sealed 12 th day of January, 2012 GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ. (718) 459-9000 95-25 Queens Boulevard 11th Floor Rego Park, New York 11374 This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not obliged to appear in person. If you fail to appear it will be assumed that you do not object to the relief requested unless you filed formal legal, verified objections.

You have a right to have an attorney-at-law appear for you. Accounting Citation ___________________________________ PROBATE CITATION File No. 2011-4382 SURROGATE’S COURT – QUEENS COUNTY CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO: Steven Kaleda; Kevin Kaleda; Christopher Kaleda; Tammy Pries; Caroline Catalino; Joann Butler; Francis J. Baroncini, III; Robert Koch; and Stefani Scoblick; and, To the heirs at law, next of kin, and distributees of MABEL KOCH aka MABEL M. KOCH, deceased, if living, and if any of them be dead, to their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, legatees, executors, administrators, assignees and successors in interest whose names and whereabouts are unknown and cannot be ascertained after due diligence; and, A Petition having been filed by ELSIE P. KOCH, who is domiciled at 508 Bay 5 th Street, West Islip, New York 11795 YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the

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Surrogate’s Court, Queens County, at 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, New York, on March 8, 2012 at 9:30 AM o’clock in the forenoon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of MABEL KOCH aka MABEL M. KOCH lately domiciled at 8811 Moline Street, Bellerose Manor, County of Queens, State of New York, admitting to probate a Will dated June 18, 2001 and Codicil dated November 9, 2004, a copy of each of which testamentary instrument is attached, as the Will and Codicil of MABEL KOCH aka MABEL M. KOCH, deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that LETTERS TESTAMENTARY issue to: ELSIE P. KOCH JAN 19 2012 (Seal) HON. PETER J. KELLLY Surrogate /S/ MARGARET M. GRIBBON Chief Clerk BRIAN M. FLYNN, ESQ. Attorney For Petitioner 74 Carleton Avenue, East Islip, New York, 11730 Phone No.: (631) 2777714 (Note: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear, it will be assumed you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you.) ___________________________________ 8101 Flatlands LCL. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/13/11.

Office in Queens County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to10210 Metropolitan Ave Ste 200, Forest Hills, NY 11375. Purpose: General ___________________________________ 141-22 ROCKAWAY BOULEVARD LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/21/11. Office location: Queens County.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Helen Sanders, 579 S. Main St., Freeport, NY 11520.

General Purposes. ___________________________________

SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer on the Plaintiff’s Attorney within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service where service is made by delivery upon you personally within the state, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. TAKE NOTICE that the foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of Queens, dated January 10, 2012 and filed in the office of the clerk of the County of Queens at 88-11 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica New York 11435. TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the object of this action is to obtain judgment against the defendant for an absolute divorce, that the bonds of matrimony between the plaintiff and the defendant be forever dissolved and such other, further and different relief as may be just and proper. Dated: January 24, 2012 Sung-Won Park Attorney for Plaintiff Park & Park, LLP 41-23 Murray St., Ste. 207 Flushing, NY 11355 (347) 732-9756 ___________________________________ Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 1/ 23/12, bearing Index Number NC-000003-12/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me the right to: Assume the name of (First) Kirolos (Last) Ibrahim My present name is (First) Kirolos (Middle) Atef (Last) Abdel Sayed aka Kirolos Abdel Sayed My present address is 23-17 121 Street, College Point, NY 11356 My place of birth is Egypt My date of birth is December 24, 1991 ___________________________________

NOTICE OF MEETING: Notice is hereby given that the Annual Meeting of the members of FLUSHING CEMETERY ASSOCIATION will be held at the office of the Cemetery, 163-06 46 th Avenue, Flushing, Queens County, New York on Friday, March 9, 2012, at 10:00A.M. for the purpose of electing Trustees, approving the renewal of its policy of indemnification insurance for its Trustees, Officers, and Employees and the transaction of other business as may properly be brought before the meeting.

Dated: January 24, 2012 JOAN H. CORBISIERO, Secretary ___________________________________ SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS SUMMONS WITH NOTICE Index No. 20212-11 WANG CHUL MOON Plaintiff, -againstSUNG HEE JUNG Defendant.

ACTION FOR A DIVORCE To the above named Defendant: YOU ARE HEREBY

Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 1/ 17/12, bearing Index Number NC-001041-11/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me the right to: Assume the name of (First) Nicole (Last) Wu My present name is (First) Li (Middle) Juan (Last) Wu (infant) My present address is 84-35 57 th Rd., Elmhurst, NY 11373 My place of birth is China My date of birth is March 08,1999 ___________________________________ J Coco Realty LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/7/11. Office in Queens County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 28-60 31 st St, Astoria, NY11102. Purpose: General.

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Notice of Formation: MD GOLDEN REALTY, LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/21/ 2011. Office Loc.: QUEENS COUNTY. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 39-07 PRINCE STREET, STE. 4C, FLUSHING, NY 11354 Purpose: Any lawful activity. ___________________________________ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: DK NEWTOWN LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/08/11.

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, 49-04 Skillman Avenue, Woodside, New York 11377.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose. ___________________________________ Notice of Formation of Lamuz Enterprises, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY SSNY on 10/5/2011. Office location: Queens County.

Princ. Office of LLC: 7014 13th Ave., Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it m ay be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Lamuz Enterprises, LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity. ___________________________________ Notice of formation of China US New Immigrant Service Center LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York SSNY on 12/20/2011. Office located in Queens County.

SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC to 120-04 Graham Court, College Point, NY 11354. Purpose: any lawful purpose. ___________________________________ Notice of Formation of 14115 82 nd DRIVE REALTY COMPANY, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/30/11. Office location: Queens County.

Princ. office and regd. Agent of LLC is: c/o Mr. William C h u p a , 2 4 6 - 1 1 8 6 th R d . , Bellerose, NY 11426. Latest date on which the LLC may dissolve is 12/31/2099. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity. ___________________________________ NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT: QUEENS COUNTY. WELLS FARGO BANK N.A. AS TRUSTEE FOR CARRINGTON MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST SERIES 2006 FRE1 ASSET-BACKED PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, Pltf. vs. MONA LILAVOIS, et al Defts. Index #19610/10.

Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure and sale dated Dec. 13, 2011, I will sell at public auction at the Queens County Supreme Court, Courtroom 25, 88-11 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY on Feb. 17, 2012

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Queens This Week School Remembers Columbine Victim Stephen A. Halsey JHS 157 in Rego Park will continue efforts to promote environmental safety and the prevention of bullying in schools as a part of the Rachel's Challenge program.

Students and staff at the school will take part in "Respect For All Week" Feb. 13-17 by participating in the program, named after a student killed during the attack at Columbine High School in April 1999.

Soon after Rachel Scott's death, the 17year-old's family discovered journals and diaries she had written, which expressed her virtues and missions. Rachel recommended that her peers follow five challenges in efforts to continue a pattern of positive attitudes.

The challenges were: accepting and having tolerance for all, writing daily journals, choosing influences, sharing kind words and compassion for others, and finding five important people to start a "chain reaction" with.

After the incident at Columbine, Rachel's father, Darrell Scott, established the Rachel's Challenge in schools nationally.

On Monday, students and staff will emphasize the importance of each challenge.

The presentation will consist of a morning assembly to enlighten students about Rachel's life and writings. Later at 7 p.m., parents, teachers and community members will attend an adult workshop to discuss child safety, health and Rachel's Challenge.

"I believe that Rachel's Challenge will have a positive impact in our school building," Assistant Principal Maria Napolitano said. "I believe this program will replace fear of being misunderstood and/or unaccepted by others with students demonstrating more acts of humanity, as well as compassion for others.

It is my hope that the program will inspire students to make a positive difference in Halsey and the world."

Napolitano said families and community members were encouraged to participate in the upcoming sessions.

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Librar y Welcomes Korean Officials In the media-packed room, the instructor, Meenakshi Bhuwaneswar, carried on as if no one was there, speaking to her students in a language they were still in the process of learning - English. White rice should be avoided, and so should many fatty foods, she said in a nutritional lecture. Her students nodded.

The class served as a way for the Flushing Library and the New York City Human Rights Commission to welcome human rights officials from South Korea to an ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) class at the Flushing Library. Held on Feb. 2, the class allowed Dr. Jaechul Kim, a senior research fellow and chief of the Social and Cultural Dept. in Gwangju Development Institute, and Kyung-ryul Lee, director of the Human Rights Office of Gwanju City, to participate in the class and exchange ideas about human rights.

Assemblywoman Grace Meng (D-Flushing) attended the morning class, which provided Korean, Chinese, and Hispanic students a chance to polish their English skills and learn about their employment rights. As the City Human Rights and South Korean officials filed in, the class discussion shifted from nutrition to matters of employment discrimination.

Kim and Lee spoke in English and with the assistance of a translator to the class.

"Can someone tell me what comes to your

mind when you hear the word discrimination?" asked Katie Bracken, director of the Queens Community Service Center at the City Human Rights Commission. Bracken helped lead the class. "Does anyone know what that word means?"

Silence. The adult students shifted in their seats, deep in thought. Finally, one of them spoke up.

"If I need help, and I am Hispanic, and they say I don't help you because you're Hispanic," she answered.

"To deny, to be treated differently?"

Bracken replied, ensuring that the woman explained her answer fully. "We at the Commission are where you come to if you feel you've been treated differently, or not the same, or not equal."

Dr. Kim and Lee both said they were impressed with how the Human Rights Commission in America conducts its business.

The City Human Rights Commission enforces the City's Human Rights Law which prohibits discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations based on race, color, creed, age, national origin, citizenship status, gender, sexual orientation, disability, and marital status.

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—Ross Barkan

Facility Will Rid Bay Of Bad Odors Howard Beach residents can finally exhale this summer. The ongoing efforts to clean Jamaica Bay are now turning toward the bay's aroma.

A new facility completed this week in Howard Beach aims to curb odors in a busy tributary of Jamaica Bay used by private boats adjacent to the populated neighborhood. The Shellbank Basin Destratification Facility, located on the shore near Shellbank Basin - a mile-long river which runs adjacent to Cross Bay Boulevard in Howard Beach, will use air bubbles to circulate the water and pump oxygen into the basin, preventing water at the head of the basin from becoming anoxic - a condition in which the water is deprived of oxygen leading to foul odors and making the water unsuitable for life.

"This is another bit of good news for New Yorkers who love Jamaica Bay," said DEP Commissioner Carter Strickland. "Living near the water is great, but not when it is so stagnant that it creates unwelcome odors.

This facility addresses that issue as air will now be distributed throughout the water body, preventing the conditions that led to odors in the past and improving the overall ecology of the basin so that fish will want to remain."

Anoxic waters have long been an issue in Jamaica Bay, stifling life and often causing terrible odors, especially on hot days. The odors have been a constant problem especially to residents who live along Shellbank Basin. At the head of the basin, near Cross Bay Boulevard and 157th Avenue, massive fish kills and stench have been an ongoing problem, occurring during the summer. In September 2008, thousands of dead fish covered the surface of the basin, causing a terrible smell that spread out through the neighborhood.

Local officials, who long have fielded complaints from Howard Beach residents about the situation in Shellbank Basin, praised the facility's completion.

"I believe the DEP facility built near the Shellbank Basin is a step in the right direction environmentally," said State Sen. Joseph Addabbo Jr,. (D-Howard Beach). "I am optimistic that the efforts of the DEP will improve the condition of the water in the basin, the quality of life for my constituents

and the fish there, and eliminate the odors that have plagued the area for years.

"DEP has developed a creative, low-tech solution that addresses the occasional unpleasant odors in the waters of Shellbank Creek," said Councilman Eric Ulrich (ROzone Park). "I applaud their efforts and thank the commissioner for making sure my constituents get the relief they deserve."

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—Domenick Rafter

Ferreras Breaks Ground On New School Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras (D-East Elmhurst), along with other elected officials and community leaders, broke ground last week on a new school on Northern Boulevard in Corona.

PS 287, which will be located at 110-08 Northern Blvd., will be the first of four schools Ferreras and a coalition of parents have advocated to be built in the 21st Council District to help ease school overcrowding.

Borough President Helen Marshall, State Sen. Jose Peralta (D-East Elmhurst), Assemblyman Jeff Aubry (D-Corona) and School Construction Authority President Lorraine Grillo also participated in the ceremony.

“We are delighted to break ground on a new school that will serve the students of District 24 in Queens,” Grillo said. “In this school, as with all new school construction projects, we will be incorporating a number energy saving systems such as light sensors and computerized heating and air conditioning components.”

The school is the first to be built in under Ferreras’ leadership, and since she took office, she said she has worked closely with organizations such as Make the Road New York, Queens Congregation for Action, La Fuente NYCPP and local parent associations to form the “Too Crowded to Learn” coalition. The group works to resolve unacceptable conditions in the district’s schools.

“As a former Beacon School director at PS 19, which is not only the most crowded school in my district, but also one of the most crowded in the city and in the country, I know first-hand how hard overcrowding affects a school and the education a student receives,” Ferreras said.

She said this new school is a “major step in the right direction toward remedying a serious education deficit in Queens,” while thanking the Dept. of Education and its chancellor for making the groundbreaking possible.

According to Ferreras’s office, the community has been supportive of the effort to build new schools in the area. After extensive conversation, the interested parties decided the best location for the school would be at Northern Boulevard between 110th and 111th Streets.

“This community desperately needs this school,” Peralta said. “And this community desperately needs this school to be the first of many. We are enormously appreciative of the commitment made by the Mayor, school chancellor and the School Construction Authority to making a dent in the school overcrowding that has persisted here for decades.”

The school is scheduled to open in September 2013 and will provide 420 new seats for students from Pre-K through 5th Grade.

“This is a historic moment for parents, students and the entire community that our pleas and needs have been heard,” said Berta Flores, parent leader of La Fuente NYCPP. “As a parent in Corona, I understand the relief these new developments will bring to my children’s academic and social development.”

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Eastern Queens United Presses On Infuriated by the recently-released State Assembly and Senate lines, the organizers of Eastern Queens United are digging in for a fight that will be difficult to win.

The coalition of numerous civic organizations in Eastern Queens has been calling for the communities of Bellerose, Glen Oaks, New Hyde Park, Queens Village, and Floral Park to be united in a single Assembly and Senate district in a similar shape to Mark Weprin's (D-Oakland Gardens) City Council district. Tasked with redistricting after the release of new Census numbers, the State Legislative Taskforce on Demographic Research and Reapportionment has left the communities divided among three Assembly districts, as they have been.

A new, thinner Assembly District 24 has especially enraged the group.

The districts are served by Assemblymen Ed Braunstein (D-Bayside), David Weprin (D-Little Neck), and Assemblywoman Barbara Clark (D-Queens Village). The next step, explained Eastern Queens United legal counsel Ali Najmi, is protest.

"There are weekly mandated public hearings," Najmi said. "We wil be there in force.

I think this redistricting process is very detrimental to local power with the community.

It's quite devastating."

Bob Friedrich, president of the Glen Oaks Village Co-Op and an organizer for Eastern Queens United, testified at the LATFOR hearings on Tuesday.

"The shameless gerrymandering of our community has been an insult to the honest efforts and hard work of our civic groups," Friedrich read in his testimony. "We provided LATFOR with carefully detailed maps, census tracts, and the names of our communities of interest. Instead, you chose to ignore our request in its entirety, and then carved up our neighborhoods into unidentifiable blobs on a map."

Calling the district lines an abomination, Friedrich said in an interview Eastern Queens United is not going down without a fight.

"I am somewhat optimistic," he said. "If they don't do what we're asking, we're calling on the governor then to veto these lines."

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Member Installation:

The Ozone Tudor Civic Association held its installation meeting in January.

Pictured (from left) are the board members and its executive board: Inez Federico, Dooly Rosario, Maddie D’Avino, Pat Dardani, Liz Oelbaum, Joe Vega, President Frank Dardani, and installing officer State Sen. Joseph Addabbo.

List for the fall 2011 semester at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn.

Rita Mercieca

Andrea Slavin

The North Shore-LIJ Health System recently announced Rita Mercieca, RN, as executive director of Forest Hills Hospital.

As executive director, Mercieca is responsible for the day-to-day administration of Forest Hills Hospital. She succeeds Geralyn Randazzo, RN, MS, CNAA, who was recently named vice president of case management in the health system’s Post-Acute Services.

Andrea Slavin of Floral Park, a student at Queens College, was recently selected to serve as an Up2Us Coach Across America coach at America SCORES NY over the summer. Slavin, a senior at Queens College, plays soccer and will work with students in urban communities to help them with soccer, writing, creative expression and service learning.

“I’m passionate about sports, because it’s been a constant variable in my life that has given me great self-confidence. As a child, and even now, sports were a way for me to feel as if I had a purpose and gave me importance,” she said.

Local students received degrees during fall 2011 commencement ceremonies at SUNY New Paltz. They include: Douglaston: Samantha Kossin, BA in political science; Sarah Citrin, BA in English.

Local students were named to the Dean’s List for the fall 2011 semester at St. Bonaventure University in St. Bonaventure.

They include: Bayside: Mary Cole.

Middle Village: Edward Caraccioli, Nazarine Caraccioli.

Local students were named to the Dean’s List for the fall 2011 semester at the University of New Haven in West Haven, Conn.

Students recognized include: Francisco Alvarez of Astoria, Audra Clyburn of South Ozone Park, Tania Gonzalez of Woodside, Grace Kazlusky of Glendale, James Kazlusky of Glendale, Iajhiah Lucas of Jamaica, Eliot Pacheco of Ozone Park, Michelle Peralta of Ozone Park, Annamaria Primiani of East Elmhurst, Louis Rizzo of Whitestone, Ariel Schiffer of Bayside and Joseph Totino of Whitestone.

Bong Hei Wong of Oakland Gardens was named to the Dean’s List for the fall 2011 semester at Alfred State College.

Ashley Boyle of Queens Village was named to the President’s List for the fall 2011 semester at Alfred State College.

Marta Parys and Rose Schaeffer of Oakland Gardens were named to the Dean’s

Nia A. Albert of Forest Hills recently passed the Certified Patient Care Technician exam. She is a graduate of the Patient Care technician program at the Clifton, N.J., campus of Dover Business College.

Charissa Ng of Forest Hills was named to the Dean’s List for the fall 2011 semester at Tufts University in Medford, Mass.

Local residents were named to the Dean’s List for the fall 2011 semester at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn. They include: Ozone Park: Catrina Grieco and Severino Randazzo.

Woodhaven: Dana Cubillan.

Marine Corps Pfc. Ryan D. Singh, a 2010 graduate of Richmond Hill High School, recently graduated from the Marine Aviation Supply Specialist Course with Marine Aviation Training Support Squadron One, Marine Aviation Support Training Support Group 21, Meridian, Miss.

Parwinder Singh of South Richmond Hill was named to the Dean’s List for the fall 2011 semester at Clarkson University in Potsdam.

Charles Russell of Ozone Park was named to the Dean’s List for the fall 2011 semester at St. Michael’s College in Colchester, Vt. Army Private Alexis J. Rodriguez has graduated from basic infantry training at Fort Benning, Columbus, Ga. During the nine weeks of training, the soldier received training in drill and ceremonies, weapons, map reading, tactics, military courtesy, military justice, physical fitness, first aid, and Army history, core values and traditions.

He is the son of Ramiro J. Rodriguez and Carmen S. Lombana of Woodhaven and is a 2004 graduate of Thomas A. Edison High School in Jamaica.

The New York Lottery announced the

Local students were named to the Dean’s List for the fall 2011 semester at The University of Hartford in Hartford, Conn.

They include: Richmond Hill: Kasie Rodriguez, Kevin Ruiz.

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The New York Lottery recently announced the names of area Lottery players who claimed a winning ticket from one of the Lottery’s live drawings Jan. 15-21. The following winners each received a cash prize valued at $10,000 or more.

Dimitrios Karakekes of Bayside won $10,000 on the Powerball drawing Nov. 2.

Karakeke’s winning ticket was purchased at Village Apothecary, 346 Bleeker St., New York.

Carlos Robles of Jackson Heights won $10,000 on the Powerball drawing Nov. 19. Robles’s winning ticket was purchased at the 7-Eleven, 146-26 Northern Blvd., Flushing.

Randy Heeralall of South Ozone park won $10,000 on the Powerball drawing Jan. 14. Heeralall’s winning ticket was purchased at 111 Deli Grocery, 127-01 111th Ave., South Ozone Park.

Francis Mulligan of Long Island City won $35,866 on the Take Five drawing Jan. 11. Mulligan’s winning ticket was purchased at Cronin & Phelan, 38-14 Broadway, Astoria.

Devon Napier of Jamaica won $10,000 on the Win 4 drawing Dec. 4. Napier’s winning ticket was purchased at the S&F Petro, 148-12 Rockaway Blvs., South Ozone Park.

Daniel Gilliard of St. Albans won $36,460 on the Take Five drawing Jan. 17.

Gilliard’s winning ticket was purchased at Mejia Deli & Grocery, 113-27 Farmer’s Blvd., St. Albans.

Melissa Munnelly of Middle Village won $25,000 on the Win 4 drawing Dec. 22.

Munnelly’s winning ticket was purchased at Pramukh 71, 107-36 71st Ave., Forest Hills.

Giovanna Ragusa of Jackson Heights won $69, 609 on the Take Five drawing Jan. 18. Ragusa’s winning ticket was purchased at Jackson Heights Stationery, 7523 31st Ave., East Elmhurst.

Local students were named to the President’s List for the fall 2011 semester at Berkeley College, which has campuses in New York City and New Jersey. They include: Forest Hills: Miraj Modi, Marie Esther Saintable.

Kew Gardens: Lissette Rodriguez.

Rego Park: Susan Leviyev.

names of area Lottery players who claimed a winning ticket from one of the Lottery’s live drawings between Jan. 29 and Feb. 4.

The following winners each received a cash prize valued at $10,000 or more.

Lisa Laquidara of Whitestone won $36,658 on the Take Five drawing Jan. 28.

Laquidara’s winning ticket was purchased at the Nor-Cross Service Station, 17-55 Francis Lewis Blvd., Whitestone.

Vincent Lai of Flushing won $47,990 on the Take Five drawing Dec. 25. Lai’s winning ticket was purchased at the Hong Kong Supermarket, 37-11 Main St., Flushing.

Hugo Mrwik of Flushing won $10,000 on the Mega Millions drawing Jan. 27.

Mrwik’s winning ticket was purchased at the MCM Cards & Gifts at 888 Walt Whitman Road, Melville.

Manuel Hernandez of Richmond Hill won $10,000 on the Win 4 drawing Jan. 26. Hernandez’s winning ticket was purchased at Compare Foods, 241-11 Linden Blvd., Elmont.

Xiu Fang of Corona won $10,000 on the Mega Millions drawing Jan. 31. Fang’s winning ticket was purchased at Sunshine Foods, 49-02 108th St., Corona.

Murray Lipford of Jamaica won $10,157 on the Mega Millions drawing Jan. 31. Lipford’s winning ticket was purchased at the Rodriguez Mini Market, 11901 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica.

Zeena Harris of Jamaica won $250,000 on the Mega Millions drawing Dec. 27.

Harris’s winning ticket was purchased at the Stop 1, 137-38 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica.

Marian Swirk of Ozone Park won $74,627 on the Take Five drawing Feb. 1.

Swirk’s winning ticket was purchased at the Bread & Butter Grocery at 705 Port Washington Blvd., Port Washington.

Compiled by JASON PAFUNDI

102nd Precinct MISSING MAN: The police are seeking the public’s assistance in locating a 77-yearold man who was reported missing on Tuesday, Jan. 31.

According to authorities, Hector Torres was last seen leaving a residence at 95-03 76th St. in Ozone Park at 1 p.m. to go for a walk.

He is described as being 5-foot-7, weighing 153 pounds with brown eyes and gray hair. He was last seen wearing a blue sweatshirt and a black baseball hat.

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of this missing person is asked to call Crime Stoppers 1-800-577-TIPS. The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at nypdcrimestoppers.com or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) and then entering TIP577.

All calls are strictly confidential.

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109th Precinct MISSING WOMAN: The NYPD is seeking the public’s assistance in locating a missing 58-year-old Asian woman.

Myung Chung was last seen inside her residence at 140-40 Sanford Ave. in Flushing on Thursday, Feb. 2, at approximately 11 a.m. She is described as being 5-foot-6 and 120 pounds. She was last seen wearing a yellow jumpsuit, a dark brown leather jacket and sneakers.

Anyone with information in Myung regards to this missing person is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577TIPS (8477). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at nypdcrimestoppers.com or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) and then entering TIP577.

All calls are strictly confidential.

113th Precinct MAN MURDERED: On Wednesday, Feb. 1, at approximately 7:20 a.m., police responded to a report of a man stabbed inside of 116-38 148th St. in South Jamaica. Upon arrival, police discovered the first victim with a stab wound to his torso and a second victim with a laceration to her neck.

EMS also responded to the location and transported the first victim, Clinton Forde, 29, to Jamaica Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The second victim, a oneyear-old female, was listed in stable condition.

A 33-year-old black male was arrested at the scene and charges are pending. The investigation is ongoing.

MAN KILLED: On Sunday, Feb. 5, at approximately 1:16 a.m., police responded to a call of a male shot in front of 147-17 123 Rd. in South Jamaica.

Upon arrival, police observed Cody Khan, a 20-year-old black man with a gunshot wound to the chest. EMS responded and pronounced Khan dead at the scene.

There have been no arrest(s) at this time, and the investigation is ongoing.

Anyone with information in regards to this investigation is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at nypdcrimestoppers.com or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) and then entering TIP577.

All calls are strictly confidential.

114th Precinct ASTORIA WOMAN KILLED: On Thursday, Feb. 2, at approximately 8:29 p.m., police responded to a 911 call reporting a female unconscious and unresponsive at 26-80 30th Street Apt. 2G in Astoria.

Upon arrival police discovered the victim, 33-year-old teacher Tara Hawes, with a laceration to her throat; EMS also responded to the location and pronounced the victim dead.

The medical examiner, upon examination of the body, determined that the victim did not have a laceration to her neck, but died of blunt force trauma to her head.

The victim’s husband, Jordan Hawes, 32, was wanted for questioning in regards to the homicide. He was found in Bridgeport, Conn. and was called a fugitive from justice and charged with possession of a stolen car, according to Connecticut State Police.

The police said he was driving a stolen 2008 Jeep with New York plates when he was apprehended. The NYPD has called him a “person of interest” in his wife’s murder.

Anyone with information in regards to this investigation is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at nypdcrimestoppers.com or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) and then entering TIP577.

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District Attor ney TSA EMPLOYEE ARRAIGNED: DA Richard Brown announced that a TSA agent at JFK Airport has been arraigned on charges of grand larceny and other offenses in connection with the alleged theft of $5,000 cash from a passenger’s jacket as he was going through airport security on Wednesday, Feb. 1.

According to Brown, the defendant, Alexandra Schmid, has been employed by the TSA for approximately four and a half years. She was arraigned on a criminal complaint charging her with one count of thirddegree grand larceny, one count of fifthdegree criminal possession of stolen property and one count of official misconduct.

Schmid, 31, of Brooklyn, faces up to seven years in prison if convicted and was released on her own recognizance and ordered to return to court on Feb. 27.

According to the charges, Schmid was on duty at approximately 8 p.m. on Feb. 1 in JFK’s Terminal 4 screening area when passenger Momin Lultan Ahmed placed his jacket in a bin as part of the pre-boarding screening process and places the bin on an X-ray conveyor belt.

When Ahmed retrieved his suit jacket, he allegedly discovered that $5,000 in $100 bills was missing from his jacket pocket.

The complaint further charges that another TSA officer had observed Schmid remove the envelope from Ahmed’s jacket pocket and place the envelope into a blue latex glove. Thereafter, Schmid allegedly left the screening area and went to the bathroom.

It is alleged that when the defendant was later confronted by Port Authoriy police, five $100 bills were found on her person.

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Drivers Arrested In Fraud Conspiracy

By ROSS BA RKAN Last April, Hong Xian Liu, a taxi driver for the Flushing-based Yes Car Service, alleged federal agents detained him for 12 hours and ordered him to say that the abuse he suffered at the taxi company was a lie.

They said that if he did not lie, he would be imprisoned or deported.

The first day of this Lunar New Year, Jan. 23, Liu and two other drivers, Bi Sheng Liu and Lin Guo, were arrested and charged with conspiring to defraud the federal government, a ironic twist to a story that was once about how Yes Car Service whistleblowers came forward to accuse their boss, Tony Luo, of beating, harassing, and exhorting money from them. A total of eight Yes Car Service drivers have been arrested so far.

A federal agent from the U.S. Dept. of Labor, Kenneth W. Jacoutot, said in a court affidavit that Liu improperly collected unemployment insurance after the three men gave false testimonies at a State hearing. One of the drivers has been released on bail. Advocates for the drivers view this as dangerously skewed justice.

“It’s absurd,” said Tracy Kwon, a representative from the Justice Will Be Served!

Campaign, an advocacy group sponsored by the Chinese Staff & Workers Association and National Mobilization Against Sweatshops. “At most, when a driver is found he shouldn’t be collecting unemployment, the State would say you should payback the unemployment.”

Robert Nardoza, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of New York, said he could not comment on the case. The arrests came after several years of court battles and protests. In 2009, Yes Car Service driv-

ers urged the U.S. Justice Department to investigate the taxi and van company for failure to pay wages, workers’ compensation insurance, and unemployment insurance.

They also petitioned the New York Dept. of Labor, which was more responsive — the NYSDOL undertook an investigation and determined that despite Luo’s claim, Liu was an employee of the company and not an independent contractor.

He was awarded unemployment insurance. To make his case, Liu brought in the other two drivers as witnesses and showed the court a Yes Car Service employee manual detailing the seven-day shifts they had to work.

Luo appealed the decision, arguing the

manual was fabricated. It was during the time of the hearings, in April 2011, when several of the drivers allege federal agents pressured them to say the Chinese Staff & Workers Association told them to lie in court. Luo did not return requests for comment as of press time. The appeal is ongoing.

“This is only possible because Flushing is a labor disaster zone,” said Sarah Ahn, an organizer of the newly-emergent Flushing Workers’ Center. “The U.S. Attorney General should investigate this and see the clues behind the arrest. It just doesn’t add up.

Where are these agents coming from? It looks like they’re trying to protect Tony Luo.” Ahn said many immigrant workers in Flushing are subject to harsh and illegal work-

ing conditions that go unreported; they are often unaware of their labor rights and fear retribution for calling attention to abuse.

Drivers at Yes Car Service have said they were forced to work 16 hour days with no overtime pay and hand over a “protection fee” to Luo, which could be as much as $400 a week, according to Kwon.

Petitions to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate the circumstances of the arrest have so far gone unanswered. The Justice Will Be Served! Campaign is planning a rally for Mar. 1. The location has yet to be determined.

Reach Reporter Ross Barkan at rbarkan@queenstribune.com or (718) 3577400, Ext. 127.

Nurses, Hospital Avert Strike

By ROSS BARK AN One week earlier, the nurses of Flushing Hospital Medical Center gathered in the cold—and inside Sunrise Coffee Shop—with politicians and supporters, fearing that a strike, only days away, would be inevitable.

Two days later, there was no more strike.

On Saturday, Feb. 4, the bitter labor struggle between Flushing Hospital’s sponsor, MediSys, and the nurses, represented by the New York State Nurses Association, came to end with a tentative agreement on a new contract through 2014 that will be ratified today.

When the old contract expired at the end of 2011, the nurses were infuriated that hospital management failed to sign an interim agreement to continue payments to health and pension benefits. With an interim

agreement still unsigned on Jan. 23, NYSNA announced the nurses had voted overwhelmingly to strike. The date was set for Tuesday, Feb. 7, in compliance with federal labor law that health care personnel issue a notice at least 10 days before a strike. If they did strike, it would have been the first NYSNA strike in a decade.

Mark Geno ves e, a s p o kesman for NYSNA, said he could not yet comment on the terms of the agreement. However, it was reported in other outlets that the nurses agreed to small givebacks — they will now contribute $25 to $100 per month for their health plans, though they will not have to contribute to their pensions. They will forego raises in 2012 for wage increases the following two years.

While hospital management had remained

terse about the once acrimonious negotiations, the nurses were very public about their indignity. Donning bright reds, the nurses picketed outside the hospital on 45th on a sunny morning in early January, waving signs and encouraging passing motorists to honk their horns in support of their cause.

Strike notices are a typical negotiating tactic that unions employ to pressure management, said Rebecca Givan, assistant professor of collective bargaining at Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

Flushing Hospital would not comment on the terms, but did put out a statement saying they had reached a tentative 3-year contract agreement.

Reach Reporter Ross Barkan at rbarkan@queenstribune.com or (718) 3577400, Ext. 127.

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Peck Recalls Playing, Coaching Career

BY VERONICA LEWIN When Carolyn Peck was a fifth grader in Tennessee, she tried out for the cheerleading and basketball teams at her school. After the initial tryouts, she checked the list to see if she made it to the final round for one of the teams. She made both and was now faced with a choice — her school did not allow students to play for both the basketball and cheerleading teams.

Realizing she was already taller than most of her elementary school teachers, Peck picked up a basketball and never looked back.

Though her choice led her to be the first black woman to coach a NCAA Championship team, Peck expressed a hint of remorse on Tuesday for not choosing the pompoms instead.

“I would have made one heck of a pyramid,” she said.

Peck, now an ESPN analyst, spoke at Queens College on Tuesday in honor of Black History Month. A crowd of mainly student athletes and communication majors filled the Rosenthal Library to hear about the steps she took that led to her current role on television.

Peck played basketball from elementary school to high school, and was a 6-foot-4 center by the time she reached her senior year.

Peck was recruited by almost every school in the country. A recruiter from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., told her the women’s basketball team had never reached the NCAA tournament, but things would be changing soon. He was right.

During Peck’s first season with the Commodores, her team became the university’s first to make it to the tournamnet. Peck graduated with a degree in communications in 1988.

Carolyn Peck, NCAA-title winning coach.

After playing competitively for more than a decade, Peck wanted to pursue another career. Peck hung up her jersey and worked for an NBC affiliate in Nashville before taking a sales job with a pharmaceutical company.

Three years later, the court called Peck back and she went overseas to play professionally in Italy for three weeks. She went on to play in Japan for two years, helping her team win the league championship during her final season.

Peck returned to the States with the mission to make a difference.

“I never dreamed that I would be coaching,” she said.

She took a job as an assistant basketball coach at the University of Tennessee, making just $16,000 a year. Her family told her to not

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take the job because she would never be able to advance out of the position.

Peck took it as a challenge.

“Sometimes you have to take a step back to move forward,” she said.

She moved on to be an assistant coach at the University of Kentucky and Purdue University. After her first season at Purdue, she was offered her first head coach position.

During her first season, the Boilermakers went 23-10, and ended their season with a loss in the Elite 8. The following season would be her last at the university.

The WBNA was starting the Orlando Miracle franchise in Florida, and Peck was hired to lead the team. Peck did not want to leave Indiana without making history first.

Her team went 28-1 in the 1998-99 season,

winning the championship. Peck became the first black woman to coach a championship team. Two years later, Peck was asked to be a basketball analyst at ESPN while she coached.

The Miracle moved to Connecticut and Peck was offered the head coaching job at the University of Florida.

While things started out well with the Gators, including making two trips to the NCAA Tournament. But after a 14-game losing streak during the 2006-07 season in which the team finished with a 9-22 record, Peck was not asked to return.

“I was fired. That bites,” she said while shaking her head.

Days after being fired, ESPN called to offer her a four-year contract to be a full-time analyst. Peck then thought back to her preteen years, where she would tune in once a week to the NFL Today. A young Peck admired Jayne Kennedy, the first black woman to anchor the show, and hoped to have her job one day.

“I want to do that,” she would say to herself. Now was her chance.

Peck said she enjoys being able to critique players and coaches, instead of being critiqued herself.

At an early age, Peck was advised how race can play a factor in one’s success.

“Because you are black, you have to perform at 110 percent just to be considered average,” her grandmother would often tell her.

She never let these words discourage her, and always tried to prove people wrong.

“Don’t tell me I can’t do something,” Peck said.

Reach Reporter Veronica Lewin at vlewin@queenspress.com or (718) 3577400, Ext. 123.

Sunnyside Girl The New Voice Of Dora

By JASON PAFUNDI An afternoon on Sesame Street with First Lady Michelle Obama. A role in a movie with Catherine Zeta-Jones. Over $250,000 a year in earnings. And a job as the new voice of Dora the Explorer.

Not bad for an 11-year-old girl from Sunnyside.

Cleary, she is not your average sixth grader. She is whatever she wants to be, whether that is a singer, a model, an actress or a straight-A student.

Being hired as the latest Dora the Explorer on Nickelodeon is just the next stop on the career train for Fátima Ptacek, Ptacek said she got the role of Dora after being called in for an audition where she sang and read lines. And while she was so excited to get the job, she had to keep it a secret for more than a year, until last week, when Nickelodeon announced the new Dora in advance of last week’s season premiere.

“All of the Doras were really amazing, and I’m so honored to follow in their footsteps as the voice of Dora the Explorer,” she said.

Ptacek said she records audio in her own voice — there is no special Dora voice — usually once or twice a week for three hours, doing dialogue and song, which she said “is an average day for Dora.”

She said that in the beginning, it was hard recording in a studio behind a microphone.

“I wasn’t used to talking to people who weren’t really talking back to me,” Ptacek said. “And not seeing my own face was a little strange, but I’ve adapted to it and I love it.”

Being the new Dora certainly has its advantages, including at school, where she has a strong group of friends.

Ptacek has a Wikipedia page listing all her career accomplishments, and for an 11-year-

make it easy to stay focused. old they are extensive, including She said she rarely misses any meeting the First Lady, acting in work and has tutoring sessions to more than 50 commercials and make sure she stays caught up roles in TV shows and films. with her studies. Her favorite sub“I definitely feel like I live the jects include social studies, scilife of a princess, if not even better ence and math. than that,” she said.

And if she does not seem busy She started out doing print enough, Ptacek, who speaks Enwork and small photo shoots. Her glish and Spanish, is studying Manfirst big break was a commercial darin Chinese, which she hopes to for Chase. Ever since, she has practice more when she visits gotten busier and busier. This year China — hopefully in the near fualone she has three movies comture. ing out — Anything’s Possible, “I’ll be able to speak to so much Tio Papi and The Miracle of more of the world than I already Spanish Harlem. can with English and Spanish,” Her parents — a mother from she said.

Ecuador and a father of NorweShe said she wants to explore, gian, Czech and Irish descent — just like Dora, and also hopes to place a huge importance on eduvisit Japan, because she loves Japacation. In fact, Ptacek said the money she has earned in enter- Sunnyside’s Fátima Ptacek is the new voice of Dora the Ex- nese culture and has many Japanese friends, and Ecuador, because tainment is in an account that she plorer. she wants to visit one of the councan access once she graduates col“Mrs. Obama is such an amazing person,” tries that are in her blood. lege.

With all the accomplishments at a young And despite all her success in entertain- she said. “She is very tall and I literally look ment, Ptacek’s future plans include a life up to her. Her messages about health and age, Ptacek has remained humbled and thankoutside the business. She wants to go to obesity and the work she is doing are great. ful for all the opportunities she has been given.

She is super sweet and I’m proud to have She said that while acting and singing and Harvard and become a lawyer. modeling will always be a part of her life, she “My education is first above all of this,” worked with her.”

The average person would probably be wants to be known for everything that she does. she said. “My parents and I set high standards “I definitely want to do a lot of charity for myself, and going to Harvard is more uneasy or nervous being around the First important than anything I’m doing. I need Lady or movie stars or in front of camera, but work when I get older,” she said. “I really feel for people that are less fortunate, and I want not Ptacek. education in my life.”

“My personality has zero percent shyness them to know that we care about them and And by the way, she also wants to be the in me, and I’m never intimidated by anyone,” that they aren’t alone in this world.” first female President of the United States.

Dora the Explorer airs on Nickelodeon Meeting the First Lady has been one of the she said.

Balancing school with such a busy life weekdays at 10 a.m., 1 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. highlights of Ptacek’s life. They appeared, Reach Reporter Jason Pafundi at along with Elmo, together on the 40th anni- outside the classroom would probably be difversary episode of Sesame Street to plant ficult for most children. But not for Ptacek, jpafundi@queenstribune.com or (718) 357who said the high standards she has for herself 7400, Ext. 128. vegetable seeds in a garden.

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PARKER PROVIDES TOP CARE FOR OLDER ADULTS

By JOANNA GONZALEZ The Parker Jewish Institute, a healthcare and rehabilitation center for older adults, is considered one of the best in the nation.

Located in New Hyde Park, Parker provides topof-the-line nursing home care by highly-touted medical professionals ranging from nurses to social workers and even pharmacists.

Aside from retirement, older adults can turn to Parker when in need of recovering from surgical procedures, strokes, amputation, injuries and illness.

Since the mid 1980s, Parker “was the national pioneer in restorative therapy for older adults.”

Unlike most retirement and nursing homes, Parker provides patients with the chance and comfort to stay integrated and balanced between the institution, family, friends and home, through their abundant community health programs.

Ronald Shafran, associate vice president of public affairs and government relations of Parker Jewish Institute, said he believes that Parker is right on point in making the necessary professional changes for an evolving and maturing society like Queens.

“Parker is meeting the challenges of a rapidly increasing adult population with growth and innovation, while maintaining the warmth and compassion that have always distinguished Parker’s services and staff,” he said.

Since being acclaimed for establishing the first Geriatric Fellowship Program in the nation, over the years, Parker has become affiliated with colleges and universities that cater to geriatric heath care and education, including the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine and Winthrop University Hospital.

Some notable hospitals and clinics Parker is also associated with are the Long Island Jewish Medical Center

and the North Shore LIJ Health System.

One of Parker’s biggest accomplishments is The Nerken Center for Research, which focuses specifically on the study of emerging and rising issues of aging, with Alzheimer’s being their paramount project. Other ongoing medical complications such as dementia, anemia, osteoporosis, palliative care, Neurogenic Orthostatic Hypotension, etc. are among the research center’s main concerns.

Another of Parker’s most recent successes is the Queens-Long Island Renal Institute, which is considered a state-ofthe-art chronic hemodialysis center that

not only serves patients at Parker, but as well as residents of New York City and Long Island.

“Parker regularly receives recognition for its excellence,” Shafran said. For example, the Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation was recently voted the ‘Best in the Borough’ and also received a ‘Health Care Heroes’ Award for excellence, innovations, and contributions to the enhancement of the value and quality of health care on Long Island.”

Reach Intern Joanna Gonzalez at intern@queenstribune.com or (718) 357-7400, Ext. 124.

SEARCH ON FOR SUPER SENIORS

The Home Instead Senior Care office serving seniors in Queens has announced the “Salute to Senior Service ” program to honor senior volunteers for the tireless contributions they make to their local communities.

The program will include a search for the most outstanding senior volunteer in each state and culminate with the selection of a national Salute to Senior Service winner during Older Americans Month in May. Nominees must be 65 years of age or older and volunteer at least 15 hours a month. Nominations will be accepted at www.SalutetoSeniorService.com through March 15, 2012. Nomination forms also can be requested at ckoehler@homeinsteadinc.com.

State Senior Hero winners will receive plaques, and their stories will be posted on the SalutetoSeniorService.com website.

In addition, $5,000 will be donated to the national winner’s nonprofit charity of choice.

According to research conducted by the Home Instead Senior Care® network, 52 percent of seniors volunteer their time through unpaid community service. Nearly 20 percent (one in five) of seniors surveyed started volunteering when they reached the traditional age of retirement – 65 or older. Furthermore, 20 percent of seniors who volunteer say that their community service is the most important thing they do.

“Helping others defines life for many

local retired seniors,” said Beverly Silver owner of the Home Instead Senior Care office in Forest Hills. “And what a difference we have observed in seniors’ health, attitude and outlook among those who choose to stay active as they age.”

Dr. Erwin Tan, director of the Senior Corps, a national organization that links more than 400,000 Americans 55 and older to service opportunities, agrees. “The one thing that I hear constantly from the seniors in our programs is that volunteering gives them a purpose in life – they say that it’s the reason they get up in the morning.

For more information about the Salute to Senior Service program or Home Instead Senior Care, please call (718) 5209009.

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From Queens To Eternity:

Borough’s History Can Be Seen In Its Cemeteries

By DOMENICK RAFTER No matter where you are in Queens, you’re never too far away from a major party presidential candidate, a world renowned jazz musician, an Olympic gold medalist, a famous mobster, an iconic magician and a popular religious leader.

But don’t worry about running into these people, they don’t “live” in Queens, instead they rest here – in peace.

Queens is known for many things- the Mets, the air por ts, its diversity, the World’s Fair, but one of the borough’s true hidden gems are the rolling hills and quaint green pastures few people have any interest in going to- its cemeteries.

The sprawling graveyards that dot the landscape across the borough are not just home to dead bodies, but home to millions of stories of lives both short and long, told on stone tablets lined up like houses on a typical Queens residential block. They also help tell the story of a borough’s growth and its ongoing fight to preserve its history while planning its future.

“Most people see cemeteries as morbid,” said Steven Duer, cemetery historian and co-author of a book about Cypress Hills Cemetery, in 2010. “I don’t see them in any way like that; I see cemeteries in a different way. They’re historical treasures and chock-full of interesting stories”.

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Millions Lie Here The 2010 Census listed the population of Queens at 2,230,722. But those are people living and breathing. Add in those who are spending eternity at peace in the borough, that number more than doubles. Calvary Cemetery has more internments than people living in Queens - 3 million - more than any other in the country.

Many of the names of those who lie at rest in Queens have life stories that are widely known, and their final resting places are often only steps from where we walk every day. Just feet from busy Jamaica Avenue in Downtown Jamaica lies a man who nearly became President of the United States. Rufus King ran for President unsuccessfully in 1816 against James Monroe, and for Vice President twice. King is not the only major presidential candidate to be laid to rest in Queens. Former New York Gov. Al Smith, the first Catholic to earn a major party’s nomination for President in 1928, is buried in Calvary Cemetery. Only a few feet away, former U.S. Sen. Robert Wagner who helped create the Social Security system - lies with other members of his family, including his son, New York City Mayor Robert Wagner. Among the other notable figures buried in Queens: magi-

roughly the same time as other outerborough cemeteries like Brooklyn’s Greenwood and Cypress Hills and Woodlawn in the Bronx began digging their first graves.

Over the next century and a half, millions of stories - grandparents, parents, children, war veterans, businessmen, politicians, preachers, immigrants and artists - all a piece of the story of America - ended their journeys in these grounds.

Protecting The Stories

Bayside Cemetery in Ozone Park has been revitalized in recent years after decades of neglect. cian Harry Houdini, who is buried in Glendale’s Machpelah Cemetery, jazz m usicians Louis Ar mstrong, Dizzy Gilespie and preacher Adam Clayton Powell Sr., all buried in Flushing Cemetery. Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the last Rebbe, or spir itual Hasidic leader, of the Chabad-Lubavitch sect of Judaism, is buried at Montefiore Cemetery in Springfield Gardens. His grave has become a pilgrimage site and steady throngs of people visiting it can be seen daily along Francis Lewis Boulevard.

But the vast majority of stories are not known to the outside world. Were it a baby who died at birth buried with her grandparents at Calvary Cemetery or a woman interred at Mount Hebron Cemetery who survived the Holocaust, outlived her children and died at age 103, the only ones who know the full story told on those stone tablets are the surviving loved ones who often regularly visit these graves.

Here Lies Queens’ First Residents

The borough was home to cemeteries long before it was home to the metropolis that lives in it today. Many of the original cemeteries in the borough are long gone and those that survive are hidden away, often forgotten about or overlooked.

Rufus King’s grave in Downtown Jamaica is one of many in Grace Church Cemetery, near the intersection of Jamaica Avenue and Parsons Boulevard.

The odd juxtaposition of centuries-old gravestones sitting next to modern brick buildings that house hair salons and fastfood restaurants is hard to miss.

Across the borough, small graveyards that were once part of a rural coastal forest now exist alongside modern buildings, highw ays and subways. Many of these tiny cemeteries feature graves with familiar names .

Woodhaven’s WyckoffSnediker Cemetery, located behind St. Queens is the final resting place for many notable people Matthew’s Church on including former New York Governor Al Smith, the first Jamaica Avenue, is the Roman Catholic to be nominated for President of the final resting place for more than 100 memUnited States by a major party.

bers of the Wyckoff and Snediker families, early Dutch settlers who lived in the areas of what are now Ridgewood, Cypress Hills, Bushwick and Woodhaven.

The Moore-Jackson Cemeter y in Woodside sits adjacent to someone’s backyard and interred in its graves are some of the area’s earliest settlers, including the relatives of 19th century educator Clement Clarke Moore, to whom the Christmas poem “T’was The Night Before Christmas” is attributed. Just a few steps from Cross Bay Boulevard in Ozone Park, four gravestones sit in a vacant lot surrounded by residential homes. They are par t of the for mer Southside Bur ial Ground, originally a half-acre big. Among those buried here, people with the surname Van Wyck- like the expressway that bisects Queens.

Birthplace of Undertaking The large expansive cemeteries we see today in Queens began when the New York Legislature passed the Rural Cemetery Act in 1847, a law that not only moved graveyards away from the state’s major cities, but also completely changed the way we bury the dead. Before that law, corpses were buried in churchyards or on private land, but once the law passed, nonprofits were authorized to establish cemeteries away from Manhattan and other urban areas in the State; the industry of undertaking commenced, and burying the dead became a commercial business. As with many businesses, owners tried to find ways to circumvent regulations. The Rural Cemetery Act limited organizations from purchasing more than 250 acres of land in a single county. Trying to dodge the law, which would require them to open cemeteries far from each other, organizations sought to purchase large parcels of land straddling county lines, which led to the prominence of cemeteries along the Brooklyn/Queens border we see today.

Those cemeteries that run along the glacial moraine straddling the border were among the first to open outside Manhattan. At the time, the population of Queens was only about 35,000 people.

In the last half of the 19th Century, many of the cemeteries that now rank as the borough’s most notable opened their gates for the first time. Calvary opened in 1848, Kew Gardens’ Maple Grove in 1875, St. John’s in Middle Village in 1879 and Mt. Zion adjacent to Calvary in 1893-

Unfortunately, many of these stories are lost to history and lost to the societal changes and growth.

Much of Ozone Park’s Southside Burial Ground was lost when the neighborhood was developed almost a century ago and now lies under the pavement of 149th Avenue. All that’s left of Fresh Meadow’s Brinkerhoff Cemetery is a vacant plot of land that preservationists have been fighting a prolonged battle to save. As the once rural community surrounding these graveyards grew, the graves, and stories of those buried in them disappeared, overrun by the growth of a metropolis Preservationists, historians and local residents have sought to save some of Queens’ historic cemeteries from being lost to time. Bayside Cemetery in Ozone Park became notorious for its overgrowth, vandalized graves and general disrepair. In recent years, there has been a successful attempt at restoring the cemetery led by the Community Association of Jewish At-Risk Cemeteries (CAJAC). Much of the overgrowth is gone and some of the vandalized and weathered graves repaired. In Flushing, Martin’s Field was lost to history- and a playground- until one Bayside man, Mandingo Tshaka, discovered proof that the park was once a cemetery for Native-Americans and African-Americans.

After years of persistence, the playground was moved and Martin’s Field was dedicated as a memorial park.

The newer, larger cemeteries are mostly still in use and are taken care of by their owners, but the older ones are maintained by historical societies or selfappointed guardians- if at all. Jamaica’s Prospect Cemetery, located near York College, is maintained by a private group, the Prospect Cemetery Association.

Lawrence Cemetery in Bayside is maintained by the Bayside Historical Society.

Remsen Cemetery in Forest Hills, where Revolutionar y War Colonel Jeromus Remsen is buried, had been cared for by a local chapter of the American Legion until the Parks Dept. took it over in 2008.

The move caused a skirmish with some locals who faulted the City for letting the tiny graveyard deteriorate in the first place.

Those who take care of the cemeteries say they are attempting to restore the dignity of those who are buried there and preserve their stories for families to remember and future generations to unearth.

“We want to make the cemetery a place where people can go to remember their loved ones and not feel sick,” said Peter Kaufman, a volunteer who helped clean up Bayside Cemetery in 2010.

Reach Reporter Domenick Rafter at drafter@queenstribune.com or (718) 357-7400 Ext. 125

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Happy New Year

Councilman Peter Koo and U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman walk in the parade to celebrate the Lunar New Year. The parade walked down Main Street in Flushing on Saturday.

Local businessman John Messer with his son Ryan, during the Lunar New Year festivities at Queens Crossing.

A Super Game

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Queens residents at Applebee’s and Bourbon Street in Bayside enjoy watching as the New York Giants beat the New England Patriots 21-17 during Sunday’s Super Bowl.

Business As Usual

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The Queens Chamber of Commerce held its annual breakfast at the Marriott LaGuardia Hotel Tuesday. Pictured (from left) are Shanie Persaud, Queens Tribune director of advertising and marketing; Borough President Helen Marshall and Carol Conslato, Queens Chamber president and director of public affairs for Con Ed.

Jack Friedman, executive director of the Queens Chamber of Commerce, works the room during a business card exchange event last week at Bourbon Street.

Mentoring Day

Go Red The staff of North Shore LIJ Medical Center wore red on Feb. 3 during National Wear Red Day For Women to raise awareness of heart disease. The day-long event included a performance of “The Angina Monologues.” Pictured (from left) are Chantal Weinhold, executive director of LIJ Medical Center; Stacey Rosen, MD, vice president of Women’s Health Clinical Service; and Jennifer Mieres, MD, senior vice president, Office of Community and Public Health for North Shore LIJ. Queens Borough President Helen Marshall and the Big Brothers Big Sisters organization teamed up to celebrate Jan. 30 as Mentoring Day in Queens. Big Sister Tippy Latnhotha (R) was on hand for the ceremony at Borough Hall with “Little Sister” Stephanie - both residents of Queens.

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Your meal may star t with a cheese plate featuring some prosciut to and salami and a side of fresh honey- honeycomb included- a tangy Dijon mustard, pecans and cornichons. A second course features mixed mushroom soup and a salad w ith hear t of romaine let tuce drenched in tasty CaeGenting Palace at Resorts World New York Cit y Casino sar dressing. will offer a special Valentine’s Day meal.

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By DOMENICK RAFTER Valentine’s Day is on a Tuesday this year, and that makes it less likely a couple would want to venture far for a dinner out. A weeknight usually means early to bed or home late from work.

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and feast on garlic lamb chops, Genting Palace’s signature fried rice, featuring scallops, shrimp, crab meat, pine nuts and scallions and a real Ch ine se de sser t of ginger soup and brown sugar.

Both restaurants allow you to make reservations online at rwnew york.com. RW Prime opens for dinner at 5 p.m. and the kitchen is open until 11:30 p.m. Genting Palace is opened for dim sum lunch at 10 a.m. and dinner at 5 p.m.

For those who want to play the slots on the most romantic day of the year, Resor t s World N YC w ill be giving a free box of chocolates to the first 1,000 Genting Rewards members to come to the casino on Feb. 14.

Just go up to the Genting Rewards counter and claim your candy.

Reach Reporter Domenick Rafter at drafter@queenstribune.com or (718) 3577400 Ext. 125.

Forest Hills Singer Makes Musical Comeback

By ROSS BA RKAN 1955 was a seminal year in music history. Chuck Berr y recorded his first single, “Maybelline,” and Elvis Presley drove the girls (and the grayhaired) mad. T hat same year, a young Bob Stewart signed to MGM Records, but his rise to fame would not be so meteoric.

In music, t iming is ever y t hing, and Stewart, a Forest Hills resident, was a big band singer when his genre of music—a large orchestra, jazz-influenced, backing a charismatic vocalist—was losing the bat tle with rock n’ roll on the char t s.

Fresh out of high school and signed to a major label by 20, Stewart toured the country but could never produce the number one hit that MGM wanted.

Frank Sinatra’s Swing Era had died, and Stewart found himself without Bob Stewart’s CD is available from VWC records. the spotlight he desired. par ticular at tention to the lyrics and meanHe left the business to pursue his other ing of a song. Interpretat ion is a major part passion, fishing. Big Captain Bob, with his of what I do.” captain’s license and fishing vessel in SheepStewart has been singing since he was fiveshead Bay, had stopped crooning. years-old, enter taining al l the adults in the Bob Stewar t is back. room. During his early career, he was a fea“What I do is ver y contrar y to what’s go- tured per former at WLW-TV in Cincinnat i ing on today, just making sounds and flash- and had his face slapped on cabs throughing lights,” said Stewar t, who will per form out the Queen City. at the Flush ing Librar y on Feb. 13. “That He calls himself an interpreter of the isn’t what I do.”

“Great American Songbook,” an unofficial Ste war t, who si ngs i n a baritone, be- compilation of what some consider the gan his comeback in 1985, but he was greatest American songs of the 20th censtill, in his own words, half into singing tur y, including tune s by the like s of Duke and half into fishing. It wasn’t until re- E l l i n g t o n , I r v i n g B e r l i n , a n d G e o r g e cently t hat Ste war t t hre w h imself i nto Gershw in. “How Do You Keep the Music touring, though this time he will be stay- Playing,” popularized by jazz singer and i n g l o c a l . H e h a s r e c e n t l y pe r fo r m e d pianist Shirley Horn, is one of his favorite around Ne w York Cit y at clubs a nd pri- to per for m. vate par t ie s. Although he gre w up admirThough other types of music keep swing i n g S i n a t r a , S t e w a r t s a i d h e n e v e r music from being chart-topping, Stewart still “wa nted to be a wa nnabe.” He’s always see s interest in what he doe s. Younger wa nted to do th ings “my way.” people, he said, are more open to swing and The pun may be intended. invariably like it when they hear it.

“I bring a different kind of aspect to singStewar t may have a point—Sinatra has ing,” said Stewar t. sold more than 20 million records since his He grew up in the Bronx and at tended the death in 1998.

High School of Music & Art in Manhat tan, “Now that I’ve renewed my singing caw h i c h w a s e v e n t u a l l y m e r g e d w i t h reer, I’m pret t y much just tr ying to stay LaGuardia High School. For the last 30 busy,” he said. years, he has lived in Forest Hills.

Reach Reporter Ross Barkan at “I learned how to use my trained voice. I rbarkan@queenstribune.com or (718) 357just didn’t start to sing from nowhere. I pay 7400, Ext. 127.

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spaghet ti w ith anchov y sauce. He ended up moving down the menu and choosing a chicken dish, chicken parmigiana. It should be noted that he used to often order a chicken parm sub at a local restaurant in college, so his choice was not surprising.

I am a huge fan of The Clinton’s pizza, and I had not eaten pizza in a while, so that was my choice. I ordered a small pizza Located in a former Prohibition-era with meatball topping, well done, with exspeakeasy, The Clinton restaurant in tra cheese for $13.75. And let me tell you, Whitestone has been serving homemade it was well wor th the price.

The pizza came out and the crust was Italian cuisine since 1939. cooked per fectly, not too burnt The restaurant has the distinction of being the place where my RESTAURANT but with a lit tle black on it. The meatballs were plentiful, which is mother first met all of my dad’s always a concern when you orclosest friends some 35 years der pizza. Some restaurants ago. I have visited numerous skimp on the topping, but not times and each time I have had The Clinton. something different.

Both my friend and I thoroughly The Babich family, owners of enjoyed our meals. It was a Friday The Clinton, offers a wide-rangnight and the place was crowded, ing assor tment of Italian dishes, but the service was terrific. Our including 17 pasta choices. Durserver continually stopped at our ing my most recent visit, my friend and I star ted off w ith t wo appetiz- table to refill our water and ask us if we ers, fresh mozzarella and tomato — my fa- needed any thing. Sometimes, no matter vorite — and shrimp cocktail — his choice. how good the food is, if the service is poor, Mozzarella sticks are something I order the whole experience is a negative.

This experience was 100 percent posialmost any chance I get, and this fresh mozzarella and tomato is what I would de- tive. My friend said he would be recomscribe as a fancier version of cheese sticks. mending The Clinton to his friends and family, and I have continued to do the It did not disappoint.

The shrimp cocktail, at $10.50, was well- same.

The Clinton, in addition to its pasta, worth it, according to my friend. I am not a big shrimp fan, so I am not up-to-speed pizza and chicken offerings, has 17 differon what a shrimp appetizer should cost, ent seafood dishes, including flounder but he said this was the right price. The franchese, shrimp scampi and lobster tails shrimp tasted fresh and not just something fra diavolo, all served with either pasta or that was frozen and then re-heated, which vegetable.

If you are looking for a nice Italian resdefinitely makes a huge difference in taste taurant and you are in Whitestone, you and even texture.

For di nner, my friend was goi ng to could do much worse than the quaint and choose one of the 17 pasta options, includ- charming Clinton.

-Jason Pafundi ing meat tor tellini, penne a la vodka or THE CLINTON 9-17 Clintonv ille St., Whitestone (718) 746-4800 w w w.theclintonrestaurant.com CUISINE: Italian HOURS: Sun., Mon. noon to 10 p.m.

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a surf and turf featuring a slab of filet mignon- cooked the way you want it- and half a lobster, featuring an assortment of sauce s to choose from including the house BBQ, a South American chimicuri, red wine bordelais and classic bearnais.

Leave room for desser t since t here’s an excellent selection including a New York cheesecake topped with fresh berries and a triple berry sauce, a chocolate molten cake, a crème brulee or an apple tar t.

RW Prime also has a wine bar where the ent ire menu is also offered, if sit t ing at the bar is more your style. There is also a special prix fix menu Mondays through Thursdays.

If red meat is not your thing, across the way is Genting Palace. The casino’s authentic Chinese restaurant is a place to have some real Chinese cuisine, not that storefront takeout type. Have a hot glass of fresh green tea

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EXHIBIT SOCRATES SCULPTURE Through March 4 Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition at Socrates Sculpture Park.

956-1819.

QUEENS PROJECT Through March 31 “Vignettes from the Queens Project” at the Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main Street, Flushing.

THE SPRING Through April 25 “In Perpetuum II: The Spring: Anne S h er w ood P u n d y k ” a t t h e Queens College Art Center.

997-3770.

DINNER VALENTINE’S DAY Saturday, February 11 spaghetti dinner fund raiser at Church of the Resurrection in Kew Gardens. 847-2649. $12 adults, $8 children.

FLEA MARKETS FLEA MARKET Saturday, February 11 10-4 Tr i n i t y U n i t e d M e t h o d i st Church, 86-02 108 th Street, Richmond Hill.

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MISCELLANEOUS TAX PREP DAY Friday, February 17 free tax preparation day with CUNY volunteers in Ozone Park 104. 497-1630.

METRO CARD VAN Wednesday, February 29 10-noon Howard Beach Senior Center and 1-3 Stop and Shop on Myrtle Avenue in Glendale.

SINGLES SINGLES Wednesday, February 22 “Is There Such A Thing As Perfect Love?” Wednesday Night Singles Group of the Samuel Field Y in Little Neck.

7-9. $7 Adult Center members, $9 others. Hot beverages and bagels. 225-6750, ext. 236.

SIMCHA SINGLES Sunday, February 26 prePurim part y at 2 for those over 30. $10. Little Neck Jewish Center. 516-4871466.

MEETINGS CAMBRIA HTS LIB. Saturdays, February 11, March 10, April 14 Friends Board of Directors of Queens Library at Cambria Heights meet 4-5:15. 5283535.

CATHOLIC VETS Mondays, February 13, March 12 American Martyrs Catholic War Veterans Post 1772 in Bayside. 468-9351.

VFW 4787 Mondays, February 13, 27 Whitestone VFW Community Post meets. 746-0540.

CIVIL AIR PATROL Mondays Falcon Senior Squadron at 7 at JFK Airport.

781-2359.

LIONS CLUB Tu e s d a y s , F e b r u a r y 1 4 , March 13 Lions Club of Ravenswood at 6:30 at Riccardo’s by the Bridge, 2101 21 st Avenue, Astoria.

MEN’S CLUB SOCCER Tu e s d ay e ve n i n g s F o r e st Hills Jewish Center 8-9:30.

263-7000.

FRESH MEADOW CAMERA Tu e s d a y s Fre s h M e a d o w s Camera Club. 917-612-3463.

ADVANCED WRITERS Tuesdays Advanced Bayside Writers’ Group meets at 6:30 in the Terrace Diner, 212-97 26 th Avenue, upper level.

DEMOCRATIC CLUB Wednesday, February 15 Clinton Democratic Club meets at 25-59 Francis Lewis Blvd., Flushing at 7.

TOASTMASTERS Wednesdays, February 15, March 7, 21 learn the art of public speaking at the Voices o f Ro c h d a l e To a st m a ste r s Club in Jamaica. 978-0732.

FLUSHING CAMERA Wednesdays, February 15, 29 Flushing Camera Club at Flushing Hospital. 479-0643.

KNIGHTS OF PY THIAS

RELIGIOUS TEMPLE BETH F r i d ay, F e b r u a r y 1 0 To t Shabbat at 6 and Shabbat at 7:30. Saturday, February 11 10 Shabbat Service and Torah Study. Friday, February 17 Shabbat service at 8.

Saturday, February 18 Shabbat Ser vice and Torah Study at 10. Temple Beth S h o l o m , 1 7 2 nd S t r e e t a n d Northern Blvd., Flushing.

464-4143.

HOLOCAUST REM. Sunday, February 12 Third Annual Queens International Holocaust Remembrance Day at Queens College 1-4 at the Student Union.

FORGOTTEN REFUGEES Sunday, February 12 Little Neck Jewish Center Israel Advocacy Committee presents the film “The Forgotten Refugees” at 7 at 49-10 Little Neck Parkway. Coffee and cake follows.

ADULT STUDY Saturday, February 18 Queens Communit y for Cultural Judaism presents an introductory session of adult study group on Jewish Humanist Philosophy. UUCQ, Ash Avenue and 149 th Street, Flushing at 2:30. 380-5362.

Wednesdays, February 15, March 7, 21 Queensview Lodge 433 in Whitestone.

917-754-3093.

BARBERSHOP Wednesdays Jamaica Chapter of t he Societ y for t he Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet in Flushing. 468-8416.

MEN’S PRIDE GROUP Thursdays, February 16, March 1, 15 Queens Pride House Men’s group 7-9. 4295309.

CIVIL AIR PATROL Thursdays at 3 at August Martin HS, 156-10 Baisley Blvd., Jamaica. 525-6925.

LEADD CLUB Thursday evenings and one Saturday afternoon. Recreation Socialization Program for Learning Disabled Adults. 18+, able to travel on public transportation.

Arn310@aol.com information.

WOMEN’S GROUP Fridays Woman’s Group of Jamaica Estates meets at noon. 461-3193.

GOLD COAST ROTARY Fridays 516-466-3636.

CLUTTERERS ANON. Fridays Learn how to gain control of your life by eliminating your clutter. 7127656.

PUBLIC SPEAKING Saturdays, February 18, March 3, 17, 31 learn how to communicate ef fectively.

10-12:15 at Elmhurst Hospital. 424-9754.

P-FLAG Sundays, February 19, March 18 P-FLAG, a support group for parents, families and friends of lesbians and gays, meet in Forest Hills.

271-6663.

TALKS AMERICAN DOCUMENTS Saturday, February 11 Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” discussed. Free. Saturday, February 18 visual images of Catholic nuns in contemporary culture. $5. 1pm at the Greater Astoria Historical Societ y, 35-20 Broadway, 4 th floor, LIC. SEASIDE Monday, February 13 “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” discussed at 6:30 at the Seaside librar y.

HILLCREST Tuesday, February 14 “The Year of Magical Thinking” discussed at 2 Hillcrest library.

FEELING SAFE Thursday, February 16 “Feeling Safe In Your Relationship” with the Strong Women’s Group at the LIC library at 2.

EARLY AFRICANS Thursday, February 16 Exploring the African Presence in Early NY at 6:30 at the Lefrak Cit y library.

LITERARY SOUP Thursday, February 16 at the Queens Village library at 6:30. Call 776-6800 for title.

CALLIGRAPHY Thursday, February 16 appreciation of classical Chinese calligraphy at the Flushing library at 6:30.

EDUCATION/GAMES/CRAFTS POWERPOINT/EXCEL Thursday, February 16 Pomonok library. Register.

FEDERAL JOBS Thursday, February 16 learn about federal employment Central library. 990-5102.

POWERPOINT Friday, February 17 at the Hillcrest library. Register.

INTRO INTERNET Fridays, February 17, 24 Central library. 990-5102.

BEGIN COMPUTERS

Friday, February 17 at the Middle Village library and Auburndale library. Register.

PUBLIC SPEAKING Saturday, February 18 learn to communicate effectively at Elmhurst Hospital. 646436-7940.

JOB SEARCH Saturdays, February 18, M a r c h 3 C e n t r a l l i b ra r y.

Register.

INTERVIEW PREP Saturday, February 18 Jackson Heights library at 3.

ENTERTAINMENT POPULAR OPERA Saturday, February 11 at the Peninsula library at 2.

LUNAR CONCERT Saturday, February 11 Lunar New Year Concert at the Flushing library at 2.

SOUTH AMERICAN Saturday, February 11 South American Rhythms at the Sunnyside library at 3.

STUPID CUPID Saturday, February 11 Queens Pride Lion Club’s Stupid Cupid Part y in Jackson Heights. www.queenspridelionsclub.org DELTA BLUES Saturday, February 11 at 3:30 Langston Hughes library.

JAZZ TRIBUTE Saturday, February 11 tribute to Abbey Lincoln Langston Hughes library at 6:30.

CON BRIO ENSEMBLE Sunday, February 12 Con Brio Ensemble presents a twilight concert at Church in the Gardens in Forest Hills at 4:30. $12. 50 Ascan Avenue, Forest Hills.

FORGOTTEN REFUGEES Sunday, February 12 Little Neck Jewish Center Israel Advocacy Committee presents the film “The Forgotten Refugees” at 7 at 49-10 Little Neck Parkway. Coffee and cake follows.

LIVE JAZZ & R&B Sundays, February 12, 19, 26, March 4, 11 live jazz and r&b 6-10 at Déjà vu, 18025 Linden Blvd., St. Albans.

OPEN MIC POETRY Mondays, February 13, March 12 Barnes & Noble, 1 7 6 - 6 0 Un i o n Tu r n p i k e , Fresh Meadows at 7:30.

DUO D’AMOUR Monday, February 13 French music at 3 at the Whitestone library.

SINATRA DUETS Monday, February 13 music by Sinatra, Darin, Natalie Cole and more at the Woodhaven library at 4.

AMER. SONGBOOK Monday, February 13 the Great American Songbook at the Flushing library at 6.

DISABILITIES FILMS Monday, February 13 4 th Annual NY Reelabilities Film Festival at the Central Queens YM-YWHA. 2685011, ext. 151.

MUSICA ANDINA Monday, February 13 at the Richmond Hill library at 6.

MAE C. JAMISON Monday, February 13 at the South Ozone Park library at 6.

JAZZ & MORE Monday, February 13 at the Rosedale library at 6:30.

OPEN MIC Monday, February 13 at 7:30 at Barnes & Noble, 1766 0 Un i o n Tu r n p i ke , F re s h Meadows.

LOVE STORIES Tu e s d a y, F e b r u a r y 1 4 Maspeth library at 2:30. Saturday, February 18 at the Steinway library at 2:30.

Love Stories from Beyond.

BLUES Wednesday, February 15 all about the Blues at the Auburndale library at 2:30.

SOJOURNER’S TRUTH Wednesday, February 15 at the Flushing library at 6.

PIANIST Wednesday, February 15 Constantine Finehouse performs Forest Hills library at 6:30.

LOL Wednesdays, February 15, 22, 29 break through the winter blues with shows of Laurel and Hardy and more at the Poppenhusen Institute.

358-0067. 1-4.

BROADWAY Thursday, February 16 Broadway Through the Years at 1:30 at the Kew Gardens Hills library.

LULLABY OF BWY. Thursday, February 16 at the Mitchell-Linden library at 2. Saturday, February 18 at the Forest Hills library at 2:30.

SOUTH AMERICAN Thursday, February 16 South American Rhythms at the Far Rockaway library at 6:30.

MOTHER LANGUAGE Friday, February 17 read poetry in your own language at the Hollis library at 4.

JAPANESE MUSIC Saturday, February 18 modern improvisational music Flushing library at 2.

WINANS PERFORM Saturday, February 18 Bebe and Cece Winans Queens College.

MOTOWN TRIBUTE Saturday, February 18 at Queensborough Communit y College. 631-6311.

GREAT PIANISTS Saturday, February 18 at 3 at the Central library.

AFRICAN ART Saturday, February 18 MoMA presents Picasso, Matisse and Africa at the Fresh Meadows library at 3.

STAMP SHOW Sunday, February 19 Ramada Hotel, 220-33 Northern Blvd., Bayside 10-4:30.

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SELF DEFENSE Saturday, February 11 1012 Silver Foxes, for ladies 50 and over. 1-3 Pre-teens and moms. 4-6 Teens and moms.

7-9 Women 21 and over.

Self defense courses at Martin Luther High School in Maspeth. $35. 894-4000, ext. 133.

BALLROOM DANCING Mondays, February 13, 27, March 5, 12, 19, 26 at the Forest Hills library at 6:30.

INTRO EMAIL Mondays, February 13, 27 at the Central library. 9905102 register.

LIC CRAFT CLUB Monday, February 13 at the LIC library at 1.

ARTIST WORKSHOP Monday, February 13 artist workshop instruction in realistic and abstract portraits Forest Hills library at 2.

JOB SEARCH Mondays, February 13, 27 Job Search at the South Jamaica library at 2.

JOB INFORMATION Monday, February 13 learn how to research information on the internet and more Middle Village library at 4.

RESUMES Monday, February 13 at the Central library. 990-5102.

SOCIAL MEDIA Tuesday, February 14 business users can learn more about social media at the LIC library at 2:30.

COMPUTER CLASS Tuesdays, February 14, 21, 28 at the Bellerose library at 10:30 and 11:15.

POWERPOINT Tuesday, February 14 at the McGoldrick library. Register.

INTRO COMPUTER Tuesdays, February 14, 21, 28 at the Queens Village library. Register.

BASIC COMPUTER Tuesdays, February 14, 28, March 6 at the Rosedale library at 10:30 and the LIC library at 11.

COMPUTER CLASS Tuesday, February 14 at the Sunnyside library. Register.

HEALTHY COOKING Tu e s d a y, F e b r u a r y 1 4 healthy cooking with spices at the Peninsula library at 1.

RESUME WORKSHOP Tuesday, February 14 at the LIC library at 1:30.

GOING TO CUNY? Wednesday, February 15 free college prep workshop to show how to select a CUNY college and complete the CUNY application.

LaGuardia Communit y College. 482-7244.

NOOK NIGHT Wednesday, February 15 at 7 Barnes & Noble, 176-60 Union Tpke, Fresh Meadows.

RESUMES Wednesday, February 15 at the Central library at 10:30 and the Seaside library at 2 INTRO INTERNET Wednesdays, February 15, 22, March 7 at the Windsor Park library. Register.

POWERPOINT Wednesday, February 15 Central library. 990-5102.

INTER. COMPUTER Thursday, February 16 intermediate computer at the LIC library at 10.

DINING & ENTERTAINMENT

Queens Today

DINING & ENTERTAINMENT

Queens Today SENIORS SELF DEFENSE Saturday, February 11 Silver Foxes self defense intro 10-12 at Martin Luther High School in Maspeth. 8944000, ext. 133.

DUPLICATE BRIDGE Mondays Lunch, lesson and c o n g e n i a l p l ay. P r i d e o f Judea. 423-6200.

STAY WELL Mondays at the Central library at 10 and Wednesdays at 10:15 at the East Elmhurst librar y. Learn how special exercise and relaxation techniques make a difference in your life.

AARP 4158 Tu e s d a y s , F e b r u a r y 1 4 , March 13 North Flushing chapter 4158 meets at noon at the Church on the Hill, 167-07 35 th Avenue, Flushing. New members and visitors welcome.

TAX HELP Tuesdays, February 14, 21, 28, March 6, 13, 20, 27 at the Hollis library. 465-7355.

KEW GARDENS Tuesday, Februar y 14 Valentine and birthday part y at noon. Wednesday, February 15 ESL at 1. B Wednesday, February 22 winter soup recipe at 1. Wednesday, February 29 Jazzercise at 11. Mondays 1:30 dancercise, 2:30 comedy workshop. Fridays tai chi at 10, Dancercise at 1:30. Kew G a rdens Communit y Center.

CAREGIVERS Tuesdays Caregivers Support group at 3:30-4:30 Selfhelp Clearview Senior Center, 208-11 26 th Avenue, Bayside. 631-1886.

STARS Wednesdays, February 15,

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PARENTS SELF DEFENSE Saturday, February 11 preteens and mom 1-3 at Martin Luther High School in Maspeth. 894-4000, ext.

133.

AUTISTIC KIDS Sunday, February 12 innovative method to reach autistic children at noon at the Central Queens YM-YWHA, 6 7 - 0 9 1 0 8 th s t r e e t , F o r e s t Hills. 268-5011, ext. 151.

THEATER CHERRY ORCHARD Through February 11 LaGuardia Performing Arts Center presents Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard in two versions – classical and experimental. $5, $8 both performances. 482-5151.

HENRY V Through February 18 TITAN Theater Company presents “Henry V” at the Secret Theatre in LIC. 392-0722. $15 advance, $18 at the door.

TUPAC February 17, 18 Black Spectrum Theatre in Jamaica presents “The Tragedy of Tupac or Who Shot Me?” 7231800, ext. 14.

22, 29, March 7 Senior Theater Acting Repertory meets at 10:30 at the Hollis library.

LET’S BOWL Wednesdays, February 15, 29 Wii gaming program for seniors at the Fresh Meadows library at 2.

BRIDGE Wednesdays Reform Temple of Forest Hills. 2612900.

STAY WELL Wednesdays at 10:15 at the East Elmhurst library for exercise and other health related programs.

DRIVER SAFETY Thursday, February 16 AARP Driver Safet y Program at the Auburndale librar y.

641-3911 to register.

MEDICAL ID CARDS Thursday, February 16 free senior medical ID cards at

the Middle Village Senior Center, 69-10 75 th S t r e e t , Middle Village. 738-1111 for application.

TAX PREP DAY Friday, February 17 free tax preparation day with CUNY volunteers in Ozone Park 104. Bring last year’s W2s, all tax forms, SS card, etc.

STARS Fridays, February 17, 24, March 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 Senior Theater Acting Repertory meets at the Queens Village library at 10:30.

AARP QUEENS CHORUS Fridays through March rehearsals at 1 at the Selfhelp Clearview Senior Center.

523-1330 information.

FREE LUNCH Saturdays, February 18, March 17 All Saints Church in Richmond Hill. 849-2352 reservations.

TEENS SELF DEFENSE Saturday, February 11 teens and moms self-defense introduction 4-6 at Martin Luther High School in Maspeth. 894-4000, ext.

133.

JOB SEARCH Saturdays, February 11, 18, March 3, 17 at the Central library at 10:30.

CHESS CLUB Saturdays Flushing library at 2.

AFRICAN-AMER DANCE Monday, February 13 at the Rochdale Village library at 3:30. Thursday, February 16 at the East Elmhurst library at 4. Monday, February 27 at the Rosedale library at 4.

HEART CRAFT Monday, February 13 at the Flushing library at 4.

TEEN STUDY Mondays through Thursdays at the Lefrak Cit y library at 4.

KNIT & CROCHET Mondays Douglaston/Little Neck library at 4.

TEEN CHESS Mondays at 6 Bayside library.

MEDITATION Tuesdays, Februar y 14, 21 and Thursdays, February 16, 23 at the Broadway library.

HOMEWORK & GAMES Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays homework help and teen gaming at the Fresh Meadows library at 4.

LIC CHESS CLUB Tuesdays LIC library at 4.

BOOK BUDDIES Tuesdays Windsor Park library at 4.

GOING TO CUNY? Wednesday, February 15 free college prep workshop to show how to select a CUNY college and complete the CUNY application.

LaGuardia Communit y College. 482-7244.

MOVIE MAKER Wednesday, February 15 Movie Makers’ Club at the Flushing library at 4.

3D ECO ART Wednesday, February 15

create an environmentally themed painting at the LIC library. 752-3700.

RESUME WRITING Wednesdays 4 Arverne library.

GAME DAY Wednesdays Howard Beach and St. Albans libraries at 4.

CHESS Wednesdays at 3:30 Queens Village library.

KNIT & CROCHET Wednesdays South Ozone Park library at 1. Knit at the Bayside library. Register.

KNITTING CLUB Wednesdays at the Bayside library. Register.

TEEN THURSDAYS T h u r s d ay s B ay Te r ra c e l i brary at 3.

CHESS CLUB Thursdays 4-5:30 Douglaston/Little Neck library. East Flushing library at 5.

TALENT SHOW Friday, February 17 at the Peninsula library. Register.

YOUNG REFORMERS Fridays, February 17, 24 at the Laurelton library. Register WII GAMING Fridays, February 17, 24, March 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 wii gaming at the Astoria library at 4:30.

TEEN HAPPY HOUR Fridays at 4 Flushing library.

CHESS CLUB Fridays Auburndale library a t 3 : 3 0 . Tu t o r i a l a t t h e Woodside library at 4.

ARTS & CRAFTS Fridays Briarwood library at 4.

GAME DAY Fridays Woodhaven library at 4:30.

GAME PLAYERS CLUB Every Friday at 4 Hillcrest library.

TEEN FRIDAYS Fridays Seaside library at 4.

TRIVIA CONTEST Monday, February 20 Presidents’ Day Trivia Contest Far Rockaway library at 4.

TEEN JEOPARDY Tuesday, February 21 at 4 at the Flushing library.

YOUTH Wednesday, February 15 at the South Hollis library at 4.

KNITTING Wednesdays Bayside library at 4.

KNIT & CROCHET Wednesdays at the South Ozone Park library at 1.

GAME DAY Wednesdays Poppenhusen library at 4.

BOOST READING Thursdays, February 16, 23 BOOST Reading Buddies at 5 at the McGoldrick library.

SCAVENGER HUNT Thursday, February 16 at the Seaside library at 4.

PEN PAL Thursday, February 16 at the Windsor Park library at 4.

AFRICAN DRUM Thursday, February 16 make your own African drum t the Hollis library at 4:30.

KIDS CLUB Thursday, February 16 at the Hillcrest library at 5. For those 8-12.

AFRICAN-AMER. STORY Thursday, February 16 African-American Stories with Bob “Bobaloo” Basey at the Far Rockaway library at 5.

KING PLAY Thursday, February 16 Martin Luther King play at the Laurelton library. Register.

DRAMA POSSE Thursday, February 16 at the Hillcrest library. Register.

CRAFT TIME Thursdays 3:30 Ozone Park library.

COLOR & CRAFT Fridays, February 17, 24, March 2 Kids Coloring and Craft at 11 at the Queensboro Hill library.

ACTIVITY TIME Fridays, February 17, 24 at the Briarwood library at 3:30.

LIBRARY BUDDIES Fridays, February 17, 24, March 2 at the Auburndale library at 4.

PRE-SCHOOL CRAFTS Friday, February 17 at the Sunnyside library. Register.

READ TO ME Friday, February 17 at 3 at the Briarwood library.

WII GAMING Fridays, February 17, 24, March 2, 9 at the Astoria library at 4:30.

ARTS & CRAFTS Friday, February 17 at the East Flushing library. Register.

JAVAKA STEPTOE Friday, February 17 celebrate Black History Month with celebrated children’s book author and illustrator Javaka Steptoe at the Langston Hughes library at 4.

TALENT SHOW Friday, February 17 at the Peninsula library. Register.

CRAFT DAY Friday, February 17 BOOST Craft Day at the McGoldrick library at 5.

TODDLER CRAFT Fridays Briarwood library at 10:30.

READ TO ME Fridays Briarwood library at 3.

ARTS & CRAFTS

Fridays at 2 Queens Village and LIC libraries. Briarwood library at 4.

GAME DAY Fridays Queens Village library at 2.

FLASH FRIDAYS Every Friday at 3 Ozone Park library.

GAME PLAYERS Every Friday Hillcrest library at 4.

CHESS CLUB Fridays Auburndale library at 3:30. Tutorial at 4 at the Woodside library.

GAME DAY Fridays Rochdale Village and Windsor Park libraries at 4.

TWEEN ZONE Fridays LIC library at 2:30 for those in grades 5-8.

BOOST GAME DAY Fridays Central library at 4:30 and at 5 McGoldrick library.

CUB SCOUTS 351 Fridays at St. Nicholas of Tolentine. Boys in grades 15. 820-0015.

FAMILY STORY TIME Saturday, February 18 at the Flushing library at 11.

BLACK HISTORY Saturday, February 18 at 11 at Barnes & Noble, 176-60 Union Turnpike, Fresh Meadows.

DOKTOR KABOOM! Sunday, February 19 Doktor Kaboom! Is an interactive science comedy for all ages at the Queens Theatre in the Park at 1 and 3. 7600064.

HEALTH BLOOD DRIVES Sunday, February 12 Forest Hills Jewish Center, Hollis Hills Jewish Center, Our Lady of Fatima in Jackson Heights Monday, February 13 St. John’s Universit y in Jamaica. Sunday, February 19 St. Mary Gate of Heaven in Ozone Park, Harley Davidson in LIC and St. Nicholas of Tolentine in Jamaica. LI Blood Services. 1800-933-2566.

TAI CHI Mondays and Thursdays at 11 at the Cardiac Health Center in Fresh Meadows.

670-1695. $5.

ALZHEIMERS Tuesdays, February 14, 28 Caregiver Support Group in Forest Hills. 592-5757, ext.

237.

HEALTHY COOKING Tu e s d a y, F e b r u a r y 1 4 healthy cooking with spices at the Peninsula library at 1.

CAREGIVERS SUPPORT Tuesdays Western Queens Caregiver Network in Sunnyside. 5:30-6:30. 7846173, ext. 431. Also, 3:304:30 Selfhelp Clearview Senior Center, 208-11 26 th Avenue, Bayside. 631-1886.

HEALTHY HEART Thursday, February 16 Healthy Diet for the Family: H ow to p r e ve n t O b e s i t y.

Thursday, February 23 Cardiac Risk Factors. Healthy Heart lectures at the Flushing library at 2.

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VALENTINE CRAFT Monday, February 13 preschool craft at the Windsor Park library at 1:30. For Kids at the Queens Village library at 3.Valentine Place Mats at the Hollis library at 4:30.

Ages 6-11.

BEAUTIFUL OOOPS Mondays, February 13, 27, March 5 making accidental art at the North Forest Park library. Register.

AFRICAN-AMER DANCE Monday, February 13 at the Rochdale Village library at 3:30. Thursday, February 16 at the East Elmhurst library at 4. Monday, February 27 at the Rosedale library at 4.

BOOST MATH Mondays, February 13, 27 Math games at the McGoldrick library at 5.

LEGOS BUILDERS Mondays, February 13, 20, 27, March 5 at the LIC library at 6:15.

KNIT & CROCHET Mondays at 4 Douglaston/ Little Neck library.

HOMEWORK HELP Mondays 3:30-5:00 Bayside library.

YOGA AND ME Tuesdays, February 14, 21, 28, March 6 yoga and me for pre-schoolers at the Douglaston library. Register.

POETRY Tu e s d a y, F e b r u a r y 1 4 Valentine’s Day Poetry Reading and Writing at the Baisley Park library at 4.

VALENTINE CRAFT Tuesday, February 14 at the Windsor Park library at 4.

For those 5-11.

BOOK BUDDIES Tuesdays, February 14, 21, 28, March 6 at the Hillcrest library at 3:30.

BOOST WORD Tuesdays, February 14, 21, 28 BOOST Word of the Week at the McGoldrick library at 5.

CHESS CLUB Tuesdays LIC library at 4 and Rosedale library at 4:30.

LIBRARY BUDDIES Wednesdays, February 15, 22, 29, March 7 at the Auburndale library at 4.

HAPPY HAPPY STORY Wednesdays, February 15, 22, 29, March 7 story time at the LIC library at 10:30.

BOOST HEALTH Wednesdays, February 15, 22, 29 BOOST health and science at 5 at the McGoldrick library.

FAMILY COLORING Wednesdays, February 15, 22 family coloring and story time at 10:30 at the Bay Terrace library.

S TORY T I M E Wednesdays, February 15, 29, March 7 at the East Elmhurst library at 11:30.

PRE-SCHOOL GREEN Wednesday, February 15 pre-schoolers go green with a musical story at the Broadway library. Register.

FAMILY MOVIE Wednesday, February 15 at the Seaside library at 11.

HEART IN A BOX Wednesday, February 15 craft at the East Flushing library. Register.

AFRICAN-AMER SONGS

DINING & ENTERTAINMENT

Queens Today

Models Of Queens

Olivia Mignone Home: Bayside Age: 20 Height: 5' 1" Weight: 100 lbs Stats: 34-24-34

Ja Rule

Alan Hevesi

New OddHollis-native Couple Ja Rule, behind bars

You thought the pairing of Busta Rhymes and Martha Stewart at the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards was weird? Wait 'til you hear whose been chillin’ together in an Upstate prison.

Sharing the same cell block are a famous, but not at all alike, pair of Queens’ own: former State Comptroller and Forest Hills political figure Alan Hevesi, locked up after being convicted of a “pay to play” corruption scheme, and rap star,

A Mini-Filet When she was just a freshman in Cardoza High School, Olivia Mignone had already known for years that she wanted to be a model.

She practiced her strut, took good care of herself and was ready for the runway.

Except that she was too short.

“It was just something I’ve always been interested in,” Olivia said. “I was always obsessed with fashion magazines, TV shows, fashion shows.”

As a petite model, she started participating in charity fashion shows for about a year before “I found out that I was going to be 5foot-1 or 5-foot-2 at the most,” she said. Disheartened, she considered shelving her dream. But af-

ter talking with an inspiring counselor, she decided she needed to take a different approach.

It was then that Olivia founded Shortstack Models, a company and self-esteem organization that helps girls who want to take a stab at the modeling industry –and who are no taller than 5-foot-6.

“I kinda thought it was a stupid idea at first, but then it clicked,” she said.

Since then, there have been about 23 girls in the program each year, and Olivia has been thrilled to see the changes the program has had on its members.

“It didn’t start as a self-esteem program, but when you get a group of young girls together it just

turned into that,” she said.

Olivia has worked with a wide range of photographers and small clothing companies, and is still learning.

After graduating from Cardozo, Olivia has taken time off to focus on Shortstack, her modeling and her future – perhaps in the management side of modeling. She plans to attend St. John’s.

When not busy with the company or as a model, Olivia enjoys hanging out with friends on Bell Boulevard or at Bay Terrace, and also climbing trees.

“I’m actually a huge tomboy,” she admitted. “I’m not the type to go get my nails or hair done. I just do what I want to do.’

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Food Award?

Just days before the Grammy

How to get blood from an elected official: Use a camera

Blood Giver How many of us have to flinch or look away when the doctor takes blood? How many get faint and pass out?

Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi might be one of those people.

Recently, he gave blood at a blood drive at Forest Hills High School part of a series of blood drives around the country. While giving blood, a picture was snapped of a flush-faced Hevesi holding the supportive hands of State. Sen. Toby Stavisky and Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz.

Andrew, you think giving blood is scary, wait until you study the new district maps.

Awards, a list of Nicki Minaj’s food demands while on tour were revealed to “Wonderland” magazine. While most of the South Ozone Park native’s demands were healthy foods, Nicki can’t prepare for a show without having Belgian waffles with butter, syrup, whipped cream, powdered sugar and strawberries. Her most pressing request? Three dozen pieces of “spicy” fried chicken, with lots of wings of course. How else would she make some new jewelry.

Van Wyck Zone Van Wyck traffic patterns make little sense. One day, traffic flows almost perfectly from Jewel Avenue to Rockaway Boulevard.

Another day, the crawl is so bad, it seems like the tombstones in the cemetery next to the expressway are neck and neck with your car.

Van Wyck delays, minus accidents, seem to follow little logic these days.

Merge onto the expressway, and you’ve entered the Van Wyck Zone.

Confidentially,

for guns possession.

The two have apparently become good friends according to the Daily News, with Ja Rule learning a bit about politics from the former Assemblyman whom he’s nicknamed “Hevey.”

“He told me how it’s like pulling teeth with the two parties trying to get bills passed,” Ja Rule said.

Sounds like a reality show in the making: “Queens Behind Bars”

Bathroom Decorating

Queens kid Lamar Odom and wife Khloe Kardashian redocorate And just when you thought it mouth, complete with pouty red could not get any weirder with the lips. The urinals, of which there are Kardashian family. According to many on display in a Rolling Stones a TMZ report, Khloe Kardashian museum in Germany, have been and her husband, South Jamaica’s criticized for being demeaning to Lamar Odom, are having a unique women. bathroom fixture removed from Amazingly, then again, maybe their home in California during an not considering this is the upcoming remodeling.

Kardashians, the urinal is not beThe fixture being removed is a ing removed for being demeaning urinal in the shape of a wide-open or weird or disgusting.

TMZ said sources told them New York . . . that the urinal was being removed because it did not fit Kardashian and Odom’s home’s new décor.

Just as the mouth on their urinal is being slammed shut, figuratively, one can only hope the same thing happens to the mouths of the Kardashians. Literally!

Astoria Love A nice smile won’t always encourage some people to date outside of Queens. If you’re looking for love without having to cross a bridge, look no farther than the west side of the borough. According to a study released by dating website OKCupid, Astoria residents are the most compatible people in the City. Why go to Manhattan when you and your date can get an awesome view of the skyline at Astoria Park?

LEGAL NOTICE

complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. QUEENS County is designated as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the location of the mortgaged premises. Dated: December 21, 2011, /s/, Mark K. Broyles, Esq. FEIN, SUCH & CRANE, LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff Office and P.O. Address 28 East Main Street Suite 1800 Rochester, New York 14614 Telephone No. (585) 232-7400 (DISTRICT:, SECTION:, BLOCK: 8887, LOT: 31).

NATURE AND OBJECT OF THE ACTION. The object of the above action is to foreclose a mortgage held by the Plaintiff recorded in the County of QUEENS, State of New York on April 25, 2006, in CRFN 2006000229484, said mortgage was then assigned by Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Griffin Mortgage Corporation to Griffin Mortgage Corporation by virtue of a GAP Assignment of Mortgage, executed January 13, 2011, and sent to the County for recording on January 17, 2011, which mortgage was further assigned to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for IndyMac Bank, F.S.B. by virtue of an Assignment of Mortgage, recorded in the QUEENS County Clerk’s Office on August 8, 2006, in CRFN 2006000447527, which mortgage was further assigned to the Plaintiff by virtue of an Assignment of Mortgage, executed on January 13, 2011, and sent to the County for recording on January 17, 2011. TO THE DEFENDANT, except MIGUEL H. SEGOVIA, the plaintiff makes no personal claim against you in this action. To the above named defendants: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Hon. Jaime A. Rios, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of N.Y., dated January 27, 2012 and filed along with the supporting papers in the Queens County Clerk’s Office. This is an action to foreclose a mortgage. The premises is described as follows: Beginning at the point on the northerly side of 86th Avenue (formerly Elmwood Street) distant 170 feet westerly from the corner formed by intersection of the westerly side of 96th Street (formerly Willard Avenue) with

LEGAL NOTICE the northerly side of 86th Avenue; being a plot 100 feet by 40 feet by 100 feet by 40 feet. Premises known as 94-31 86th Avenue, Woodhaven, N.Y. 11421. ___________________________________ NOTICE OF LEGAL POSTPONEMENT OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF QUEENS, MID-ISLAND MORTGAGE CORP., Plaintiff, vs. REGINALD FENTON, ET AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly filed on December 07, 2011, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Queens County Courthouse, Courtroom 25, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, NY on February 24, 2012 at 11:00 a.m., premises known as 166-03 Nadal Place, Jamaica, NY. ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough and County of Queens, City and State of New York, Block 10194 and Lot 31. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #24930/2010. The original sale was scheduled for January 27, 2012 at 11:00 a.m.

Nora Constance Marino, Esq., Referee We are a debt collector attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Stagg, Terenzi, Confusione & Wabnik, LLP, 401 Franklin Avenue Suite 300, Garden City, NY 11530, Attorneys for Plaintiff ___________________________________ Notice is hereby given that an order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County, on January 26, 2012 Index No. 5/12, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, New York, grants infant the right to assume the name of Aliya Khan. Infant’s present name is Agar Khan. Infant’s address is 150-10 Jewel Avenue, Flushing, New York. Infant’s place of birth is Queens, New York on July 16, 1995. ___________________________________ Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 12/22/11, bearing Index Number NC-001200-11/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me the right to: Assume the name of (First) Nikoleta (Middle) Sarah (Last) Barr My present name is (First) Nikoleta (Last) Khayumov My present address is 99-19 66 th Road, Apt. #1D, Rego Park, NY 11374 My place of birth is Uzbekistan My date of birth is November 05, 1984 ___________________________________ Notice of Formation of Common Sky LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY SSNY on 1/24/2012. Office location: Queens County.

Princ. office of LLC: 3545 32 nd ST. #1F, Long Island City, NY, 11106 SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Common Skky,

LEGAL NOTICE LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity. ___________________________________ Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 12/22/11, bearing Index Number NC-001205-11/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me the right to: Assume the name of (First) Iris (Last) Sergio My present name is (First) Carmen (Middle) Iris (Last) Sergio aka Carmen Iris Martinez, aka C. Iris Martinez, aka Iris Martinez, aka Iris Sergio My present address is 267-15 83 rd Avenue, Floral Park, NY 11004 My place of birth is New York, NY My date of birth is December 08, 1955 ___________________________________ “Notice of Formation of The Tejas Group LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY SSNY on 1/3/2012.

Office Location: Queens County. Princ. Office of LLC: 87-52 108 th Street, Richmond Hill, NY 11418. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o The Tejas Group LLC c/o Deepan Bajwa, Esq. at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.” ___________________________________ Supreme Court, Queens County, Matter of Juanita Watkins a.k.a. Juanita E. Watkins an incapacitated person, pursuant to Court Order dated January 24, 2012, of Hon. Howard G. Lane, JSC, for application to sell premises 1077 Dean Street, Brooklyn, New York 11235 on March 19, 2012 at 11:00 am. In IAS Part MGM, Supreme Court – Queens County 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, New York 11432 under contract subject to court approval for $700,000.00 call Zenith T. Taylor, Esq. (718) 268-1300 for info ___________________________________ CRESPO MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING SERVICE PLLC, a Prof. LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/13/2011. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against

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it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 70-18 57th Dr., Apt 1, Maspeth, NY 11378. Purpose: To Practice The Profession Of Lic. Mental Health Counselor. ___________________________________ POST NATURE ART, LLC, a domestic LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/ 28/2011. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Marica Cooper, 104-20 68th Dr #B37, Forest Hills, NY 11375.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. ___________________________________ Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 1/ 26/12, bearing Index Number NC-001289-11/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me the right to: Assume the name of (First) Jeremy (Last) Taylor My present name is (First) Artem (Last) Nagimov My present address is 3180 43 rd Street, Apt. #17, Astoria, NY 11103 My place of birth is Russia My date of birth is August 21, 1987 ___________________________________ Notice of formation of AURALNATION LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York SSNY on 11/25/2011.

Office located in QUEENS. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC 11554 220 STREET QUEENS NY 11411. Purpose: any lawful purpose. ___________________________________ Notice of Formation of Amapola, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY SSNY on1/13/2012. Office location: Queens County.

Princ. office of LLC: 102-25 46 th Ave., Corona, NY 11368.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Amapola, LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity. ___________________________________ Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 1/ 4/12, bearing Index Number

NC-001220-11/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me the right to: Assume the name of (First) Michelle (Middle) Yun Yan (Last) Huang My present name is (First) Yunyan (Last) Huang (infant) My present address is 20707 35 th Ave, Bayside, NY 11361 My place of birth is Guangzhou, Guangdong, China My date of birth is April 03, 1995 ___________________________________ Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 1/ 25/12, bearing Index Number NC-000004-12/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me the right to: Assume the name of (First) Nicole (Middle) Schlott (Last) Sullivan My present name is (First) Nicole (Last) Sullivan aka Nicole Schlott My present address is 17-27 160 th Street, Whitestone, NY 11357 My place of birth is Queens, NY My date of birth is July 21, 1975 ___________________________________ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PRINCESS NEHA, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/30/ 2011. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: PRINCESS NEHA, LLC-34-33 75 th Street, Jackson Heights, NY 11372. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity. ___________________________________ PUBLIC NOTICE: In accordance with their traditional policy on nondiscrimination and applicable Federal and State statutory provisions, the Franklin Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing, 142-27 Franklin Avenue, Flushing, New York 11355, declares that this institution declares that this institution operates to serve all persons without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual preference, handicap or source of payment.

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Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 11/30/11, bearing Index Number NC-001098-11/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me the right to: Assume the name of (First) Joseph (Middle) Harry (Last) Christophe My present name is (First) Harry (Middle) Joseph (Last) Christopher aka Joseph Christopher, aka Joseph Harry Christophe, aka Harry Christophe, aka Harry J Christopher, aka Harry Joseph Christophe, aka Harry Joseph Christophe My present address is 179-18 Mathewson Ct., Jamaica, NY 11434 My place of birth is Haiti My date of birth is February 17, 1957 ___________________________________ SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS. Index No. 1391/ 2011. STATE OF NEW YORK. SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF QUEENS. U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE, FOR GSR MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006-5F, Plaintiff, vs.- MIGUEL H. SEGOVIA, if living and if he be dead, and all persons who are wives, lienors, heirs, devisees, distributes, successors in interest of such of them as may be dead, and their husbands and wives, heirs, devisees, distributes, and successors in interest all of whom and whose names and places are unknown to Plaintiff; ORFA N. VASQUEZ; CITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; “JOHN DOE” AND “JANE DOE” said names being fictitious, it being the intention of Plaintiff to designate any and all occupants of premises being foreclosed herein, Defendants. Mortgaged Premises: 94-31 86th Avenue, Woodhaven, N.Y. 11421. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. In the event that there is a deficiency in the sale proceeds, a deficiency judgment may be entered against you. That this action is being amended to correct the name of the defendants to add the possible heirs of MIGUEL H. SEGOVIA as a necessary party to the action, as he cannot be located. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME. If you do not respond to this summons and

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