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Vol. 41, No. 20 May 19-25, 2011

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Boro High Schools To Be Restarted

By STEFAN SINGH The organizations will have three years to Six Queens high schools are among nine revamp the schools' curriculum and create a New York City schools that are slated to be recipe for success, after which the school will "restarted" under the Obama Administration's be re-evaluated. The leadership structure in School Improvement Grant. the school can remain the same under this John Adams, Richmond Hill, Grover model; however, the organization in charge Cleveland, August Marmay recommend the tin, William C. Bryant and hiring and firing of staff Newtown were all memmembers. All final de"A great deal of bers of the "Persistently cisions will be made by important work, Lowest Achieving" list Chancellor Dennis however, lies ahead." and unsure of their fate Walcott and the DOE. —State Sen. Jose Peralta until the New York City The "restart model' Dept. of Education anserves in clear contrast nounced that the schools to what has happened would not be closed, but rather would "re- in dozens of schools across Queens in the start" as charter schools operated by a non- last few years that are being "closed," with profit organization. their administration and high percentages The "restart model" was one of four meth- of teaching staff removed and the school ods the DOE could have chosen to try to renamed. Jamaica High School was among turnaround the City's most underperforming those in Queens that was branded with schools. Under the "restart model," each closure earlier this year. Jamaica High school will be partnered with a non-profit School, unlike these six, will no longer charter management organization or educa- accept new students for the coming school tional management organization that will be year; new, smaller schools will be populated selected by the state legislature through a within its structure. rigorous review process.

Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas (D-

Queens Air Improves, But Still Not So Great are helping too, with more fuel-efficient cars and greener living.

“When it comes to cleaning up our air, it’s a mixture we can do in our own houses, as well as the city, state, and federal level,” Seilback said.

Air pollution has a migratory ability to travel with westerly winds, according to Seilback. So while it is tempting to blame the power plant next door in Astoria or major international airport a few blocks away, the specific effect of industrial areas and hightraffic locales is difficult to quantify.

“The short answer is yes, in all these places, there’s a greater chance to be susceptible to [respiratory problems],” he said.

“The problem is we don’t have enough data. It would be great to know street by street.”

The Metropolitan Area as a whole ranked 25th on the ALA’s list of 25 most polluted cities. The City had dropped off the list, but climate-fixing efforts by other cities saw it return to the queue. The City’s ozone levels have it ranked 17th in the nation – that would be 17th worst, not best.

The ALA’s recommendations for coping include a heightened awareness of air quality levels, especially during the coming months, when summer heat causes spikes in pollutants.

Overall, the city’s air has never been in better shape, Seilback said, but it’s not time to celebrate yet.

“The air is improving but we’re nowhere near done,” Seilback said. “If someone was to come after the first Earth Day and see where our air quality is today, they would think our progress is great.”

To find out more about the ALA’s report, visit stateoftheair.org Those hoping to raise awareness about air quality issues can join the ALA in its Fight for Air Walk in Battery Park on May 21. For more information, visit lungusa.org.

Reach Deputy Editor Joseph Orovic at jorovic@queenstribune.com or (718) 3577400, Ext. 127.

created by the U.S. Dept. of Education, is part of a $4 billion effort by the Obama Administration to reduce drop-out rates, increase graduation rates and prepare students to be successful in life.

"A great deal of important work, however, lies ahead," State Sen. Jose Peralta (D-East Elmhurst) said of Newtown High School. "I look forward to working with the school community - parents, staff and students - and the Dept. of Education in developing Newtown High School into one of the city's premier neighborhood high schools."

Reach Reporter Stefan Singh at ssingh@queenstribune.com or (718) 3577400, Ext. 128.

Two Boro Men Aimed To Attack Jews: Police

By DOMENICK RAFTER Two Queens men were arrested last week and charged with plotting to blow up a series of unnamed synagogues around New York City.

Ahmed Ferhani, 26, and Mohammed Mehdi Mamdouh, 20, both of Whitestone, were arrested after they allegedly attempted to purchase guns, ammunition and grenades from undercover cops on the West Side of Manhattan on May 11. Ferhani was arrested first, on West 58th Street near the West Side Highway, as he tried to buy the weapons.

Mamdouh was arrested a few blocks away, a few minutes later.

According to the NYPD, Ferhani said he wanted to obtain more handguns, silencers, grenades and bulletproof vests. He is said to have told undercover cops that he hated Jews and wanted to blow up a Manhattan synagogue. He also said he felt Muslims were being “treated like dogs.”

Mamdouh is also said to have told undercover cops that he wanted to kill Jews. Ferhani allegedly told the officers that they would grow beards and disguise themselves as Hasidic Jews to gain access to the synagogues. He also allegedly hinted that he wanted to target the Empire State Building.

In a statement, Allan Jaffe and Michael Miller, President and Executive Vice Presi-

dent of Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, lauded the NYPD’s work.

“The Jewish Community Relations Council of New York highly commends Mayor Michael Bloomberg, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, and Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance on the interception and arrest of two terrorist plotters from Queens,” the statement read.

“The New York Police Department performed expertly and heroically to prevent what would likely have been a vicious attack on a synagogue and members of the Jewish community resulting in death and destruction. We hail their professionalism.”

The NYPD said the two suspects were “lone wolves” and are not part of a larger terrorist organization. Ferhani holds resident status because he immigrated to the United States at age 10 with his family, seeking political asylum. His case is under review and he may face deportation to Algeria. Mamdouh, despite having been born in Morocco, is an American citizen.

Earlier this month, the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security warned local law enforcement about the possibility of terrorist attacks in response to the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan on May 1.

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

Ahmed Ferhani stands in a photo from a modeling Web site with the Whitestone Bridge in the background.

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By JOSEPH OROV IC Breathing has become markedly easier in the borough since the mid-1990s, but air quality leaves a bit more to be desired, according the American Lung Association’s annual State of the Air report.

Queens has improved its ozone and particle pollution over the last two decades, earning a D and C in the categories respectively (the letter grades are analogous to schools’).

The scores are based on the color-coded Air Quality Index developed by the Environmental Protection Agency – familiar to most through weather forecasts altering viewers of “high ozone levels.” Generally, the higher the number of bad ozone days, the worse a county’s grade. The ALA’s report uses figures collected between 2007 and 2009.

Our borough saw its number of ozone days drop from 14 to eight, earning it a D. Queens also earned a C for particle pollution, a far cry from its F in last year’s survey.

“A ‘D’ isn’t failing, but you wouldn’t want to put it on your fridge,” said Vice President for Public Policy and Communications at ALA New York Michael Seilback.

Ozone – commonly known as smog – is formed when sunlight mixes with vapors from burnt fuel. Particle pollution is a deadlier cocktail of industrial byproducts, from ash to soot and diesel exhaust. As a whole, we are responsible for the chemicals that harm us, Seilback said.

Days with particularly high pollution tend to have adverse effects on specific susceptible groups, including asthmatics, folks with lung or heart problems and seniors.

“If we want to achieve better lung health, we must have healthier air,” said Dr. Irwin Berlin, board chair of the American Lung Association in New York and Chief of the Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine Division at Elmhurst Hospital Center.

Seilback attributes the borough and City’s improvement to environmentally conscious policies that address pollution-spewing power plants and dirty home heating fuel. Residents

Astoria), an alumna of Bryant High School, is pleased with the decision to "restart" the school rather than close it completely.

"Bryant is a school on the rise and I'm glad the state has come to that realization," she said. "The leadership of Principal Aaron Perez and his staff has inspired tremendous progress over the last few years. I hope the EMO works constructively with the school to continue making improvements and wisely use the influx of federal funding towards that goal."

Each school can now qualify for up to $6 million in federal grants over a three-year period. The funds are part of more than $308 million provided to New York State through the School Improvement Grant. The grant,

City, Comm. Boards Differ Digitally

By JASON COHEN In efforts to expand communication with constituents, Mayor Mike Bloomberg and his Chief Digital Officer Rachel Sterne unveiled the Road Map for the Digital City this week, the City’s plan to make New York the first technologically-advanced city.

Recently-formed partnerships with Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and Tumblr will expand how the government communicates with its constituents. The collaboration with Facebook will launch over the next 45 days and will include the City’s first official Facebook page, with Facebook-sharing features on nyc.gov, and will give New Yorkers the opportunity to voice their opinions, engage in discussions, ask questions and participate in citywide polls.

“Social technologies like Facebook can enhance transparency, collaboration, information sharing and citizen engagement, and we’re excited to be part of this initiative,” said Facebook Director of Public Policy Tim Sparapani. “It is our hope that Mayor Bloomberg’s program becomes a model for other cities to replicate as governments around the world find innovative ways to connect with citizens provide information and deliver services.”

Not all of the five boroughs are caught up to speed with Bloomberg and his fast-pace technological government. While many people throughout the City and the country are active in social media, the Community Boards in Queens are not quite there yet. Lucille Hartman, district manager of Queens Community Board 1, explained that members of her board aren’t computer savvy.

“This board is not the most advanced board,” she said.

Although the board has a Web site, people still often ask Hartman to fax them something or even to send something by mail. Using Twitter or Facebook is not out of the question, but something that is years ahead of them, she said.

CB 9 has its own Web site. District Manager Mary Ann Carey said she does not understand why the mayor needs to implement Facebook and other forms of social media within the government.

“Does he want us to sit on Facebook all day,” Carey asked.

Like other community boards, CB11 does not use any form of social media, said

“It’s too labor-intensive.”

The City will create an @nycgov Twitter account, and New York will be the first city to use Twitter’s newly-announced Fast Follow service, which will allow people to see Twitter updates via SMS simply by texting “follow nycgov” to 40404. By linking Foursquare to the government, it will offer businesses better marketing opportunities.

Tumblr, a New York-based company, plans to work with government agencies to enhance their photo and video sharing.

Reach Intern Jason Cohen at jcohen@queenstribune.com or (718) 3577400, Ext. 124.

White Roofs Help Keep You Cool

By STEFAN SINGH Last year, NYC CoolRoofs and volunteers from around the City worked with business owners to paint 1 million square feet of rooftops white. This year, they plan to take their plan further, with their initiative to lower air conditioning costs around the city.

On May 5, dozens of volunteers pitched in to coat the black tar roof of the Sunnyside Community Service building with white reflective paint.

The Long Island City Business Development Corp. has worked closely with NYC CoolRoofs since the program piloted in 2009. As part of its mission to promote government programs and assist local businesses, the LICBDC reached out to the SCS to join their program. The 14,000 square-foot rooftop is just one of many NYC CoolRoofs aims to coat this summer.

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District Manager Susan Seinfeld. Although most people own a computer, there are still many people that do not, Seinfeld said. To use Twitter at a community board is simply too much and not needed, she added.

CB 14 District Manager Jonathan Gaska said his board recently launched a Web site, and handles most of its communication via email. But technology, just like life, is one step at a time, he said. The idea of creating a Facebook page for CB14 intrigues Gaska and it is something the board will look into down the road.

“I can’t see us doing Twitter,” he said.

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Community College, and the MoMA warehouse in the initiative to help Queens go green.

Standard black tar roofs can reach temperatures of 190 degrees during the summer.

By applying highly reflective coating to the roof, the internal temperature of the building can drop up to 30 percent. The city’s research shows that the coated roofs can save business owners up to 9 cents in electricity per square foot per year. Over the course of three years the amount saved in air conditioning bills covers the cost of the project.

“This exciting initiative will not only reduce our energy use and save money, but also help improve air quality so that everyone in the community can breathe easier,” said Judy Zangwill, executive director at SCS. The LICBDC recommends all local business owners join their initiative. “Your build-

ing can be next,” said Dan Miner, LICBDC’s senior vice president of Business Services.

NYC CoolRoofs will provide a free roof inspection, discounted purchase of roof coating, and best of all, volunteer labor to apply it, for all building owners who agree to share before and after energy bills with the City.”

According to Miner, if you own the building that your business occupies, it was built before 1980, is only one or two stories tall and has a black tar roof, your business fits the profile. “You will get return on your investment within three years, so call today to sign up,” he said.

For more information about the NYC CoolRoofs contact the LICBDC at (718) 7865300, Ext. 27 or visit licbdc.org.

Reach Reporter Stefan Singh at ssingh@queenstribune.com or (718) 3577400, Ext. 128.

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Soc Sec To Shutter Glendale Location The decision is concerning to some who worry the Rego Park office is not as accessible to senior citizens in Western Queens as the Glendale office is.

At the May meeting of Community Board 5, Chairman Vincent Arcuri told a representative of U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-Kew Gardens) that he wanted the office to stay open because he was worried about the ability for senior citizens in Glendale and Ridgewood, the two neighborhoods serviced by the Myrtle Avenue office, to access help at the Rego Park office, which already serves a wide swath of Queens. Other Western Queens neighborhoods are already served by the Long Island City office on Crescent Street.

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No jobs will be lost in the move. The Glendale staff will continue to work out of the Rego Park office.

Weiner picked up the gauntlet, and joined senior citizens in front of the Glendale office on Tuesday to demand the Social Security Administration keep the location open.

He said the office is not only utilized by Glendale and Ridgewood residents, but also residents from Middle Village and Maspeth. Now, residents would be forced to take The Social Securit y Administration office in Glenbuses or drive to other locations in dale will close in the summer, diverting residents Rego Park, Long Island City or to Long Island Cit y, Rego Park and Brooklyn for services.

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“Some people would have to travel miles to get to their community of- retirees aren’t as computer savvy as younger fices,” Weiner said. “We don’t have a district folks. that has large government buildings. When “Perhaps at some point in the future an office like this one closes, it’s a body senior citizens will be able to better access the blow.” internet,” he said. “But right now, that’s not A s s e m b l y m a n M i k e M i l l e r ( D - realistic. If that was the case, you wouldn’t Woodhaven), said the community of Glen- see the type of traffic here as you see.” dale is already “underserved” noting that it Arcuri said Community Board 5 is popustill doesn’t have a post office or its own zip lated by a lot of immigrant families who are code, which it still shared with Ridgewood. better served by face-to-face meetings with But Shallman said the decision to close staff at the office. the office was made after talking to the office “To go online and read forms that even I manager in Glendale, who said most of the have trouble reading is really difficult,” he people who visit the Myrtle Avenue office do said. so to replace lost Medicare cards and enroll in Shallman noted consolidating offices is prefMedicare, both of which can be done online erable to cutting jobs as a way for the agency to at socialsecurity.gov. save money. No specific date for closure has “We are encouraging people to use the been set, but Shallman said the office would Web site for problems like replacing lost shut down “mid-summer.” Weiner said the cards, so field offices can concentrate on office could shut down as early as July. issues that require face-to-face meetings,” Reach Reporter Domenick Rafter at Shallman added. drafter@queenstribune.com or (718) 357But Weiner said senior citizens and new 7400, Ext. 125.

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By DOMENICK RAFTER The Social Security Administration announced last week that it would close its office at 67-10 Myrtle Ave. in Glendale and combine the office with its Rego Park center at 63-44 Austin St. in the face of federal budget cuts.

“We announced last week to the politicians and local community leaders that we are going to consolidate the offices,” said John Shallman, spokesman for Social Security Administration, “Nationwide, we are having to looking how to provide service. The facts are we just received our 2011 budget and it was less than our 2010 budget, and 2012 is looking austere as well.”

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Edit Page In Our Opinion:

Is This What We Wanted?

When your computer stops acting right, programs freeze and your internet connection slows to a crawl, the first thing any tech guy will tell you is to restart. The process is quick, simple and usually works.

The hope that a push of the restart button will be an instant fix for six troubled Queens high schools might not be reasonable. It took a while for schools to get into bad shape – it may take a while for them to be fixed.

We have opined on this page before that the Dept. of Education gets bogged down in terminology that seems scary, like the word “closure;” that it makes decisions that seem to slight communities, like taking away a school’s name.

There are a handful of differences between the “restart” model that will affect the six schools mentioned in our cover story and the “closure” that is happening with Jamaica High School. The former seem to have a chance at survival; the latter seems to have been kicked while it was down.

“Closing” a school, which is not the actual shuttering of a building, is a much harsher term and is divisive, even if the intent is fairly the same as “restart.”

A “restart” implies new life, a new chance and hope for improvement, even if you’re cutting out the administration, bringing in a charter school to run the place and starting the clock on a three-year countdown, the end result of which could be the same as the kick in the ribs that Jamaica High School and its surrounding communities got.

The DOE seems to be learning that even the unkindest of cuts can be made to sound prettier. Looks like they have been paying attention.

In Your Opinion: Pot/Kettle To The Editor: Re: “Public Advocate Eyes Illegal Conversion Fix” (May 12-18).

Bill de Blasio complains about the DOB as unresponsive to complaints.

Has anyone tried to reach HIS office by email or phone? No one ever responds – ever! Totally unresponsive!

Shirley Sacks, Forest Hills

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Dow ntow n Flushing To The Editor: Two weeks ago, a reader was lamenting, perhaps the better word is complaining, that Downtown Flushing had 19 banks along a onetenth mile stretch of Main Street from Franklin Avenue to Northern Boulevard.

The real distance is more like a mile. The implication of so many banks on one street is that it was catering to a certain ethnic group.

A closer inspection reveals these banks are well known names such as Capital One, Bank of America, TD Bank, Citibank, Chase, amongst

other local banks, all with their doors open for business for all people.

Another reader complained that the local supermarkets doesn’t sell deli meats; supermarkets are on every block, yet in the new JMart that opened up on Main Street, the same market that she refuses to enter, is a farm-style deli that is staffed, and on display inside the counter in plain view is salami, kielbasi, sausages, cut meats and other delicacies.

Such items may be foreign to Asians, but certainly not to others who may purchase them.

I wonder if the above people would complain that there are more than 20 bus lines which converge into Downtown Flushing, or the fact that there are three Duane Reade drug stores within a quarter-mile of each other. What about the Main Street LIRR underpass where the LIRR rents out the space between the pillars that is eight inches deep to vendors? It is not any one ethnicity that is benefiting from the vibrancy of Downtown Flushing.

There are communities in Queens and elsewhere that would welcome in their neighborhood even one tenth of the banks, or bus

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routes, or supermarket, that abound in Downtown Flushing. Only in America does someone complain about too much of anything.

And to answer the final question, the restaurants do not serve one from column A and one from column B, but that duck on display in the window hanging on a rack is delicious and quite edible.

If enough locals of all nationalities shop in Downtown Flushing, who knows, maybe Wal-Mart may come. Peter Koo, the local councilman and owner of five drug stores in the area said he would welcome such competition.

John Ngai, Rego Park

Anthem Respect To The Editor: Our National Anthem is not the blues or a rap, a ballad or a torch song. I would suggest that Christina Aguilera and the other pop starts who insist on putting their own slant on the anthem go to YouTube.

Punch in the name Sara Kahan and listen to a beautiful young lady from Queens with a wonderful voice as she sings at a Mets game at Citi Field; respectful and proper. Well done, Sara.

Jack Cohen, Bayside

No Gay Marriage To The Editor: In reading your article in the May 5 issue of the Queens Tribune, it was very obvious that Charlie Ober is totally out of touch with the people of Ridgewood and, indeed, the people of Queens.

As a resident of Ridgewood, he cannot be oblivious to the large influx of Polish immigrants into the community, most of whom subscribe to Blessed John Paul II’s legacy that marriage is a sacred union between a man and a woman and this union is the basis for the family structure throughout the world.

Ober’s posturing and the media blitz to legalize same sex marriages is just that - a media farce. We in Queens, and especially Community District 5, comprising Ridgewood, Glendale, Maspeth and Middle Village, are probably the most diverse area in the world and strongly support the traditional family structure and traditional marriage between man and woman.

No matter where one comes from or what religion one might espouse to, the sentiment of the majority remains the same - marriage is between one man and one woman.

Just look at the statistics you published.

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“Kochciuszko” To The Editor: On Apr.7-13 in your newspaper Mr. Bob Freidrich wrote a comment regarding Kosciuszko Bridge – calling it “Kochciuszko” – saying that a bridge was named after former Mayor Ed Koch. I don`t know from where he got that information. This is absolutely not true.

The bridge was named after a skilled engineer, general and patriot Tadeusz Kosciuszko, who came from Poland to this country to serve in Washington’s army during the American Revolution in their struggle for independence.

Mr. Freidrich, you can learn more about Tadeusz Kosciuszko by visiting Kosciuszko’s House in the Polish American Cultural Center Museum in Philadelphia.

As a Polish American citizen, I need you to correct your mistake publicly in the Tribune. I feel very proud of my hero Tadeusz Kosciuszko.

Krystyna Sevilla

Leave A Tip To The Editor: What one should leave for a tip when dining out, ordering take out or delivery is something everyone should think about. My wife and I don’t mind occasionally paying a little more to help our local businesses survive.

Don’t forget your cook and server at your favorite local neighborhood restaurant. We try to tip 20 percent against the total bill including taxes.

If it is an odd amount, we round up to the next dollar. If we can afford to eat out, we can afford an extra dollar tip. Delivery people who deal with traffic and bad weather also deserve a 15-20 percent tip. When ordering take out, we always leave a dollar or two for the waiter or cook. It is appreciated.

James Mammarella

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What Box Office?

To The Editor: It might be simpler to find out the identities of the specific Navy SEALS who participated in the Bin Laden mission than it would be to figure out when the Queens College Kupferberg Center Box Office is actually open.

I assume that the choral concert scheduled for Saturday, May 14, took place, despite the top secret ticket purchasing availability. After literally a couple of hours’ inconvenience in multiple futile attempts to get tickets I gave up, resigned that it was “not meant to be.”

If you phone the Kupferberg Center, there is a recorded announcement that does not mention box office hours of operation and it takes no messages.

I visited them in the middle of the day during the week prior to the Beethoven concert and they were closed. Nowhere on the building is it posted when they are open for business. I went to their Web site and saw that the box office is open Fridays until 6 p.m. On May 13, the day before the concert I wanted to attend, I found a parking space a quarter mile away after rearranging my schedule to enable to go there, and at 5:10 p.m. the box office was already closed and padlocked with no sign of life. Still I waited, rang a bell (that went unanswered), but it was hopeless, so I left.

No doubt the actual performance was more professional than the Kupferberg operations strategy. But really, the box office ought to get its act together or else potentially lose many patrons. I, for one, have certainly abandoned them.

Ron Isaac, Fresh Meadows

An article appearing in the April 28 edition of the Queens Tribune regarding a St. Francis Hospital Affiliate, the Cardiac Interventional Group, contained inaccurate information.

The Cardiac Interventional Group, an affiliate of the renowned Roslyn-based St. Francis Hospital, was established in Queens in April 2008, when a team of cardiologists opened their offices at a 188th Street location in Fresh Meadows. The practice moved in April 2011 to 163-03 Horace Harding Expressway, just off the Long Island Expressway, still in Fresh Meadows but now in an even more centralized location.

We apologize for the confusion.

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Guns, Terrorists And Civil Liberties

By HENRY J. STERN Accustomed as we have become to various scenarios which involve corruption, cronyism, incompetence, foolishness and favoritism, we were nonetheless surprised to learn that last Thursday, a vote was taken by the Henry House Judiciar y which defeated an anti-terrorism initiative which we, in our naiveté, believed would have been unobjectionable.

The proposal would give the At torney General of the United States authority to deny the transfer of a firearm to someone who is on the government’s Ter ror ism Watch List. It came as an amendment to H.R. 1800, offered by U.S. Rep. Michael Quigley of Illinois.

The amendment is only one sentence long, although it is a long sentence. Here it is, in full: “The Attorney General may deny the transfer of a firearm if information obtained through the use of authorities under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.) indicates that a prospective firearm transferee is or has been engaged in conduct constituting, in preparation for, in aid of, or related to terrorism, and the Attorney General has a reasonable belief that the pro-

spective transferee may use a firearm in connection with terrorism.”

The Quigley Amendment was defeated by a party line vote, 11 Democrats in suppor t, 21 Republicans in opposition. Republican U.S. Rep. Peter King of Long Stern Island, chair of the House Committee on Homeland Security, has introduced similar legislation, also pending before the Judiciary Committee and not yet brought to a vote.

The quest for authority to deny a firearm to a potential terrorist began in the Bush administration, but such a bill was twice rejected by Congress, largely because of opposition by the National Rifle Association, one of the most powerful lobbies in the United States. The chair of the House Judiciary Committee is currently Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, a state where gun ownership by individuals is highly valued.

The House decision was noted that afternoon by Mayor Mike Bloomberg in a press conference dealing with the arrest of two lone wolf terrorists in Queens. He said: “Let me just point out that even as the NYPD continues to do such great work in this area, today there

was a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives on a measure that would have prevented people on the terrorist watch list from purchasing guns. I’m sorry to report that measure failed. Our Coalition of Mayors Against Illegal Guns has urged Congress to pass such restrictions, and last night’s arrest is a perfect illustration why.”

In an April 28 Associated Press ar ticle, Eileen Sullivan reported that last year, according to FBI figures, 247 people on the terror watch list “who were allowed to buy weapons did so after going through required background checks as required by federal law.”

Her article is a thorough analysis of the issue, citing both sides. It is well worth reading.

There are people out there who strongly oppose this bill, which seems so sensible to many others. Their position is expressed by the National Rifle Association, whose staff has prepared a brief stating their case.

Each side in this controversy refers to the other as “extremists.”

It was not, however, leftist radicals who killed 169 people at the Oklahoma City federal building on April 19, 1995, deliberately marking the second anniversary of the Branch Davidian fire in Waco, Texas, which killed 54 adults and 21 children.

That is the day before Hitler’s birthday, April 20, a date the teenaged Columbine murderers commemorated in 1999 by shooting to death 12 fellow students and one teacher and injuring 21 others. Six people died when U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot on Jan. 8 while greeting constituents in her Arizona district.

The arguments made by the NRA parallel in some ways those of leftist organizations who defend terrorists by claiming that their Constitutional rights have been abridged at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere by detention, interrogation, rendition and other practices intended to elicit information from those unwilling to supply it voluntarily. Like the NR A, these groups challenge the executive branch exercising its powers, and sometimes they prevail in the judicial branch, which is traditionally more sensitive to individual liber ties than the branch whose elected leaders have historically felt a greater responsibility to keep Americans safe from harm.

The NR A’s challenge to executive authority is manifest in the legislative branch, where its influence is strong, due to its large membership scat tered in swing states, and its effective lobbying a nd political act ion. Pre sident Barack Obama and the Justice

Department are regularly accused of violating the rights and desires of gun owners.

The Quigley amendment does not forbid possible terrorists from purchasing guns, it simply gives the Attorney General the right to prevent such a transaction if he has “a reasonable belief that the prospective transferee may use a firearm in connection with terrorism.” Does that not appear sensible? Most transactions are likely to be approved, but there is value in the Justice Department knowing which potential terrorists are buying guns.

We did not anticipate the result in the Judiciary Committee, but we should have foreseen it considering the legislative history of this mat ter. We know t hat any form of restriction on the sale or use of firearms engenders fierce resistance by a spectrum ranging from hunters to survivalists, possibly including both Birchers and birthers. What we did not realize was that, even when the prevention of terrorists from taking the lives of Americans is at stake, the right to transfer firearms still takes precedence.

God bless America. His blessing may be necessary for its protection. starquest@nycivic.org

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A New Idea To Reform Member Item Spending

By MATTHEW SILVERSTEIN Over the last few years, the nonprofit world has really been hammered by the bad economy. In Ne w York State, the nonprofit world was forced to swallow another bitter pill this year, with the complete elimination of all member items from the state budget.

One might ask, what exactly is a member item? A member item is a grant of money given to nonprofits by members of the State Legislature. This grant is used by nonprofits for communit y-based programs. Many organizations servicing senior citizens, veterans, people living with HIV/AIDS, LGBT homeless youth and the disabled depend on this funding for their organization’s survival. Many of these programs will be forced to shut down with the elimination of this funding.

I under sta nd Gov. Andre w Cuomo’s desire to clean up Albany and balance the budget, however, taking away member items is really going to hurt the public more in the long run. Instead of advocating for restoration of member items, here is a new concept (borrowed from Texas), that will help nonprofits survive and will help clean up Albany.

The Fund for Veterans Assistance was created by the Texas State Legislature in 2005. Money from the fund is given out to local and statewide veterans programs.

This funding helps supports job placement programs, nursing care, educational scholarships, counseling services and other important programs. The money is given out

by a commission in which its members are appointed by the governor and the legislature. The fund is supported financially off the revenue from Veterans Cash, which is a $2 scratch off lottery ticket.

So here is what I am proposing for New York. Either the legislature or the governor should establish the “Fund For Community Assistance.” An 11-member commission can be set up. Five members w il l be appointed by Gov. Cuomo. Three members will be appointed by State Sen. Majorit y Leader Dean Skelos, and three members will be appointed by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Si lver.

These 11 members will be responsible for giving out funds to nonprofits, and they will be responsible for determining how effective these programs are, through performance-based contracting. The money for the fund will be raised off the New York State Lot ter y Division’s new scratch off game, titled “Communit y Cash”. Th is new game will be marketed so that people know that all proceeds from this game go towards funding communit y programs in Ne w York State.

Since the Veterans Cash game was created back in 2009, over $11

million has been raised to support Texas Veterans. If Texas can do this, so can New York. I’m sure that if properly marketed, the State would be able to raise much more than the $11 million raised in Texas.

This simple solution saves our state’s nonprofits and helps clean up the member item spending process, which for decades has been

politically-motivated and scandalridden. So Gov. Cuomo and the state legislature, the ball is now in your court.

Matthew Silverstein is the 2nd Vice President of the Bay Terrace Community Alliance, a non profit in Bay Terrace, Queens and the Democratic State Committeeman for the 26th AD.

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SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF OBJECT OF ACTION STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT: COUNTY OF QUEENS ACTION TO FORECLOSE A MORTGAGE INDEX NO.: 8734/09 WELLS FARGO BANK, NA Plaintiff, vs. MARIA FERNANDEZ, ET. AL. Defendant(s). MORTGAGED PREMISES: 80-64 89TH AVENUE A/K/A 8064 89TH AVENUE WOODHAVEN, NY 11421 SBL #: BLOCK 8965, LOT 21 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT: You are hereby summoned to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff(s) attorney(s) within twenty days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

The Attorney for Plaintiff has an office for business in the County of Erie. Trial to be held in the County of Queens.

The basis of the venue designated above is the location of the Mortgaged Premises.

Dated this 26th day of April, 2011, TO: MARIA FERNANDEZ, Defendant(s) In this Action. The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an order of HON. DUANE A. HART of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, dated the 15th day of April, 2011 and filed with the Complaint in the Office of the Queens County Clerk, in the City of Jamaica. The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, executed

by MARIA FERNANDEZ dated the 11th day of September, 2006, to secure the sum of $365,600.00 and recorded at Instrument No. 2006000531475 in the Office of the City Register of the City of New York, on the 20th day of September, 2006. The property in question is described as follows: 80-64 89TH AVENUE A/K/A 8064 89 TH AVENUE, WOODHAVEN, NY 11421 SEE FOLLOWING DESCRIPTION Block 8965 and Lot 21 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, bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at a point on the Southerly side of 89th Avenue (formerly known as Fifth Street), distant 608 feet 4 inches Easterly from the corner formed by the intersection of the Southerly side of 89th Avenue with the Easterly side of 80th Street (formerly known as Shaw Avenue); RUNNING THENCE Southerly parallel with 80th Street and part of the distance through a party wall, 100 feet; THENCE Easterly parallel with 89th Av-

enue, 16 feet 8 inches; THENCE Northerly again parallel with 80th Street, 100 feet to the Southerly side of 89th Avenue; THENCE Westerly along the Southerly side of 89th Avenue, 16 feet 8 inches to the point or place of BEGINNING. Premises known as 8064 89th Avenue, Woodhaven, New York HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE NEW YORK STATE LAW REQUIRES THAT WE SEND YOU THIS NOTICE ABOUT THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY. SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME. IF YOU FAIL TO RESPOND TO THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT IN THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION, YOU MAY LOSE YOUR HOME. PLEASE READ THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT CAREFULLY. YOU SHOULD IMMEDIATELY CONTACT AN ATTORNEY OR YOUR LOCAL LEGAL AID OFFICE TO OBTAIN ADVICE ON HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF. SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE The state encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid office, there are government agencies and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Banking Department at 1-877-BANK-NYS (1-877-226-5697) or visit the department’s website at WWW.BANKING.STATE.NY.US. FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS Be careful of people who approach you with offers to “save” your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner’s distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services. § 1303 NOTICE NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERV-

ING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. DATED: April 26, 2011 Steven J. Baum, P.C., Attorney(s) For Plaintiff(s), 220 Northpointe Parkway Suite G, Amherst, NY 14228 The law firm of Steven J. Baum, P.C. and the attorneys whom it employs are debt collectors who are attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained by them will be used for that purpose. _______________________________________________________________ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: AJA CRESCENT, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/23/10.

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, 32-75 Steinway Street, Suite 211, Astoria, New York 11103. Purpose: For any lawful purpose. _______________________________________________________ CITATION File No. 2010-339 SURROGATE’S COURT, Queens COUNTY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God free and Independent TO: Courtney Schariff ANTHONY LAGUIDI and GARY LAGUIDI, next kin and distributees of DONALD MILLER, deceased, if living and if dead, to their heirs at law, next of kin and distributees whose names and places of residence are unknown, and if they died subsequent to the decedent herein, to their executors, administrators, legatee, devisees, assignees and successors in interest whose names and places of residence are unknown and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained A petition having been duly filed by Nancy Holstein who is/are domiciled at 44 S. Lakeview Drive, Jackson, New Jersey 08527, United States YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Queens County, at 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, New York, on June 2, 2011, at 9:30 o’clock in the forenoon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of DONALD MILLER lately domiciled at 144-39 Sanford Avenue, Flushing, New York 11355 United States admitting to probate a Will dated August 17, 2005, a copy of which is attached, as the Will of DONALD MILLER deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that: X Letters Testamentary issue to Nancy Holstein Dated, Attested and Sealed, APR 04 2011 Seal HON. Peter J. Kelly Surrogate MARGARET M. GRIBBON Chief Clerk Claudia Lanzetta, Esq. Print Name of Attorney Law Office of Ann-Margaret Carrozza Firm (718) 224-4746 Tel. No. 213-38 40 Avenue, Bayside, New York 11361 Address 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. _______________________________________________________ SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF OBJECT OF ACTION STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT: COUNTY OF QUEENS ACTION TO FORECLOSE A MORTGAGE INDEX NO.: 10243/10 JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS PURCHASER OF THE LOANS AND OTHER ASSETS OF WASHINGTON MUTUAL BANK, FORMERLY KNOWN AS WASHINGTON MUTUAL BANK, FA (THE “SAVINGS BANK”) FROM THE FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION, ACTING AS RECEIVER FOR THE SAVINGS BANK AND PURSUANT TO ITS AUTHORITY UNDER THE FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE ACT, 12 U.S.C. §1821(D) Plaintiff, vs. LESLIE R. GREY, ET AL. Defendant(s).

MORTGAGED PREMISES: 514 BRIAR PLACE FAR ROCKAWAY, NY 11691 SBL #: BLOCK: 15771 LOT: 7 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT: You are hereby summoned to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff(s) attorney(s) within twenty days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

The Attorney for Plaintiff has an office for business in the County of Erie. Trial to be held in the County of Queens. The basis of the venue designated above is the location of the Mortgaged Premises. Dated this 27th day of April, 2011, TO: LESLIE R. GREY, Defendant(s) In this Action.

The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an order of HON. ALLAN B. WEISS of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, dated the 11th day of April, 2011 and filed with the Complaint in the Office of the Queens County Clerk, in the City of Jamaica. The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, executed by LESLIE R. GREY dated the 7th day of March, 2008, to secure the sum of $345,000.00 and recorded at Instrument No. 2008000117884 in the Office of the City Register of the City of New York, on the 24th day of March, 2008; The property in question is described as follows: 514 BRIAR PLACE, FAR ROCKAWAY, NY 11691 SEE FOLLOWING DESCRIPTION Block 15771 and Lot 7 ALL the 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, bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at a point on the Easterly side of Briar Place, as widened, distant 116.80 feet Northerly from the Northerly end of the curve connecting the Easterly side of Briar Place, as widened with the Northerly side of Collier Avenue, as Widened; RUNNING THENCE along the Easterly side of Briar Place, as widened along the arc of a curve having a radius of 174.00 feet, a distance of 30.43 feet; THENCE North 69 degrees 09 minutes 38.8 seconds East, 106.48 feet; THENCE North 39 degrees 16 minutes 30 seconds East, 4.58 feet; THENCE South 37 degrees 08 minutes 02.8 seconds West, 48.53 feet; THENCE South 69 degrees 09 minutes 38.8 seconds West, 71.09 feet to the Easterly side of Briar Place, as widened, at the point or place of BEGINNING. Premises known as 514 Briar Place, Far Rockaway, New York HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE NEW YORK STATE LAW REQUIRES THAT WE SEND YOU THIS NOTICE ABOUT THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY. SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME. IF YOU FAIL TO RESPOND TO THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT IN THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION, YOU MAY LOSE YOUR HOME. PLEASE READ THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT CAREFULLY. YOU SHOULD IMMEDIATELY CONTACT AN ATTORNEY OR YOUR LOCAL LEGAL AID OFFICE TO OBTAIN ADVICE ON HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF. SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE The state encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid office, there are government agencies and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Banking Department at 1-877-BANKNYS (1-877-226-5697) or visit the department’s website at WWW.BANKING.STATE.NY.US. FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS Be careful of people who approach you with offers to “save” your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from

a homeowner’s distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services. § 1303 NOTICE NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending 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. DATED: April 27, 2011 Steven J. Baum, P.C., Attorney(s) For Plaintiff(s), 220 Northpointe Parkway Suite G, Amherst, NY 14228 The law firm of Steven J. Baum, P.C. and the attorneys whom it employs are debt collectors who are attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained by them will be used for that purpose. _______________________________________________________________ Notice of Formation of CHARLOTTE JONES OPTICIANS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/12/11. Office location: Queens Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: T h e L L C , 8 8 - 5 1 7 5 th S t . , Woodhaven, NY 11421.

Purpose: any lawful activities. _______________________________________________________________ Yofresh Hicksville, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/26/ 11. Office in Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 53-03 190 th St., Fresh Meadows, NY 11365. Purpose: General.

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FAMILY COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS Docket No. NN-24872/10 CHILD NEGLECT CASE In the Matter of a Proceeding under BABY GIRL HOPE Article 10 of the Family Court Act DESTINIY HOPE Respondent IN THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK NOTICE: PLACEMENT OF YOUR CHILD IN FOSTER CARE MAY RESULT IN YOUR LOSS OF YOUR RIGHTS TO YOUR CHILD. IF YOUR CHILD STAYS IN FOSTER CARE FOR 15 OF THE MOST RECENT 22 MONTHS, THE AGENCY MAY BE REQUIRED BY LAW TO FILE A PETITION TO TERMINATE YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND TO COMMIT GUARDIANSHIP AND CUSTODY OF YOUR CHILD TO THE AGENCY FOR THE PURPOSES OF ADOPTION. ALSO, THE AGENCY MAY FILE BEFORE THE END OF THR 15-MONTH PERIOD, IF SEVERE OR REPEATED CHILD ABUSE IS PROVEN BY CLEAN AND CONVINCING EVIDENCE, THIS EVIDENCE MAY CONSTITUTE THE BASIS TO TERMINATE YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND TO COMMIT GUARDIANSHIP AND CUSTODY OF YOUR CHILD TO THE AGENCY FOR THE PURPOSES OF ADOPTION. TO: DESTINY HOPE A Petition under Article 10 of the Family Court Act having been filed with this Court, and annexed hereto YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to appear before this court at 15120 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11432, Part 1, On JUNE 21st, 2011 at 11:00 AM o’clock of that day to answer the petition and to be dealt with in accordance with Article 10 of the Family Court Act. ON YOUR FAILURE TO APPEAR as herein directed, a warrant may be issued for your arrest.

BY ORDER OF THE COURT HON. JUDGE MARYBETH RICROATH JUDGE OF THE FAMILY COURT Dated: April 6, 2011 FURTHER NOTICE Family Court Act (statute symbol) 154(c) provides that petitions brought pursuant to Articles, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 10 of the Family Court Act, in which an order of protection is sought or in which a violation of an order of protection is alleged, may be served outside the State of New York upon a Respondent who is not a resident of domiciliary of the State of New York. If no other grounds for obtaining personal jurisdiction over the Respondent exist aside from the application of this provision, the exercise of personal jurisdiction over the respondent is limited to the issue of the request for, or alleged violation of, the order of protection.

Where the Respondent has been served with this summons and petition and does not appear, the Family Court may proceed to a hearing with respect to issuance or enforcement of the order of protection.

ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION OF Steinway Auto Sales LLC Under Section 203 of the Limited Liability Company Law FIRST: The name of the limited liability company is: Steinway Auto Sales LLC SECOND: The county, within this state, in which the office of the limited liability company is to be located is: Queens THIRD: The Secretary of State is designated as agent of the limited liability company upon whom process against it may be served.

The address within or without this state to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the limited liability company served upon him or her is: John Salvio 20-02 Steinway St Astoria, NY 11105 USA John Salvio (signature of organizer) John Salvio (print or type name of organizer) _______________________________________________________________ Notice of Formation of DT Event Planning, LLC, a limited liability company. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of the State of New York (SSNY) on January 5, 2011. 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 any process served against the LLC to: 137-48 Francis Lewis Blvd Laurelton, NY 11413 Purpose: any lawful act or activity. _______________________________________________________________ Notice of Formation of HVAC O.G.R. GENERAL CONTRACTOR LLC, a limited liability company. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of the State of New York (SSNY) on 03/16/2011.

LEGAL NOTICE 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 any process served against the LLC to: 88-05 MERRICK ROAD #5G, Jamaica, NY 11432 Purpose: any lawful act or activity. _______________________________________________________________ “Notice of formation of NYC Triad LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/21/2011. Office Location: Queens County. SSNY designated for service of process to C/O The LLC, 150-24 25th Drive, Flushing, NY 11354. Purpose: Any lawful activity” _______________________________________________________________ GNL LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/23/11. Ofc in Queens Cty. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 6015 Putnam Ave 1 Fl, Ridgewood, NY 11385.

Purpose: General _______________________________________________________________ ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION OF Xtreme Construction of Queens LLC Under Section 203 of the Limited Liability Company Law FIRST: the name of the limited liability company is: Xtreme Construction of Queens LLC SECOND: The county within this state in which the office of the limited liability company is to be located is: Queens THIRD: The Secretary of State is designated as agent of the limited liability company upon whom process against it may be served. The address within or without this state to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the limited liability company served upon him or her is: John Conway 135-22 95 Street Ozone Park, NY 11417 K Walsh (signature of organizer) Kerry Walsh, Organizer (print or type name of organizer) _______________________________________________________________ Notice of Formation of Things I Don’t Understand, LLC a limited liability company. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of the State of New York (SSNY) on 1/20/2011. 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 any process served against the LLC to: 41-14 49 th Street Apt 1R, Sunnyside, NY 11104 Purpose: any lawful act or activity. _______________________________________________________________ RHYTHMZ DANCE & FITNESS STUDIO, LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC), filed with the Sec of State of NY on 3/10/11.

NY Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/ her to The LLC, 252-15 Union Tpke., Bellrose, NY 11426.

General Purposes. _______________________________________________________________ Notice of Formation of HGL

LEGAL NOTICE MEDICAL MANAGEMENT SERVICES, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/14/11. Office location: Queens County.

Princ. office of LLC: 9320A Roosevelt Ave., Ste. 3AB, Jackson Heights, NY 11368.

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. _______________________________________________________________ ZAMS GROUP LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC), filed with the Sec of State of NY on 3/22/11.

NY Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/ her to The LLC, 242-19 149 Ave., Rosedale, NY 11422.

General Purposes. _______________________________________________________________ Notice of Formation of VRETTOS HOLDINGS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/7/ 09. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 44-12 4 3 rd Avenue, Sunnyside, NY 11104. Purpose: any lawful activity. _______________________________________________________________ SUMMONS AND NOTICE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS INDEX NO. 20555/10 NYCTL 2009A TRUST, and THE BANK OF NEW YORK as Collateral Agent and Custodian for the NYCTL 2009-A Trust, Plaintiffs, - against – LIGHTHOUSE DELIVERANCE CHURCH OF CHRIST HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD, NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE, PHILIP CANNIZZARO, GRACE CANNIZZARO, if living and if he/she be dead, any and all persons unknown to plaintiffs, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or generally or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely, the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, descendents, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, successors in interest and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, descendents, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, successors in interest, and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as

LEGAL NOTICE stated, are unknown to plaintiffs, and “JOHN DOE No. 1” through “JOHN DOE No. 100” inclusive, the names of the last 100 defendants being fictitious, the true names of said defendants being unknown to plaintiff, it being intended to designate fee owners, tenants or occupants of the liened premises and/ or persons or parties having or claiming an interest in or a lien upon the liened premises, if the aforesaid individual defendants are living, and if any or all of said individual defendants be dead, their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, committees, devisees, legatees, and the assignees, lienors, creditors and successors in interest of them, and generally all persons having or claiming under, by, through, or against the said defendants named as a class, of any right, title, or interest in or lien upon the premises described in the complaint herein, Defendants. ADDRESS: BLOCK: 12983 LOT: 27 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action within twenty days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service or within thirty days after service is completed if the summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above entitled action is to foreclose a tax lien for the amount due and interest, recorded in the office of the Register/Clerk of the County of QUEENS on the 25 TH day of AUGUST, 2009 and bearing County Register File Number 2009000271516 covering premises described as follows: ADDRESS: BLOCK: 12983 LOT: 27 COUNTY: QUEENS The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the tax lien described above. Plaintiff designates QUEENS County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the county where the Property being foreclosed upon is located. WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT, ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: A P R I L 2 1 , 2 0 1 1 New York, New York WINDELS MARX LANE & MITTENDORF LLP MICHAEL H. RESNIKOFF, ESQ. ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFFS 156 W E S T 5 6 TH S T R E E T N E W YORK, NEW YORK 10019 PHONE: (212) 237-1102 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Court dated FEBRUARY 28, 2011 and filed along with the supporting papers in the QUEENS County Clerk’s Office. This

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is an action to foreclose a tax lien. SCHEDULE A - DESCRIPTION ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PAREL 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, KNOWN AS BLOCK 12983 LOT 27 AS SHOWN ON THE TAX MAP OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. Reference #: 700777.364 _______________________________________________________________ Notice of Formation of SDUFF, LLC, a limited liability company. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of the State of New York (SSNY) on APR 05, 2011.

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 any process served against the LLC to: 10920 71ST ROAD APT. 2E FOREST HILLS, NEW YORK, 11375. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. _______________________________________________________________ Name: TODA BOREOLAM, LLC Art. of Org. Filed Sec. Of State of NY 02/25/2011. Off. Loc.: Queens Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to THE LLC, 86-46 Clio Street, Holliswood, NY 11423. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. ______________________________________________________________ Notice of Formation of [Sadko Collection LLC], a limited liability company. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of the State of New York (SSNY) on [3/ 11/11]. 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 any process served against the LLC to: [5-26 46ave 2FL Long Island City, NY 11101] Purpose: any lawful act or activity. _______________________________________________________________ Notice of Formation of The Law firm of Russo & Blissett, a Professional Limited Liability Company. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of the State of New York (SSNY) on March 28, 2011. The office is located in Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the PLLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the PLLC to 101-05 Lefferts Blvd Ste 207, S. Richmond Hill, NY 11419.

The PLLC shall practice in the profession of LAW. The PLLC was opened under §1203 of the Limited Liability Company Law. _______________________________________________________________

THIRD: The Secretary of State is designated as agent of the limited liability company upon whom process against it may be served. The address within or without this state to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the limited liability company served upon him or her is: The Secretary of State 2306 21 Street 3B Long Island City, NY 11105 3704 USA Jocelyn Hsu (signature of organizer) Jocelyn Hsu (print or type name of organizer) _______________________________________________________________ Notice of Formation Strefion LLC art. of org. filed Secy. of State NY (SSNY) 2/11/11. Off. Loc. in Queens Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 25-51 46 th St, Astoria, NY 11103. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. _______________________________________________________ Name of LLC: Translational Cell Science LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 4/4/11. Office loc.: Queens Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. Agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act. _______________________________________________________________

ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION OF Jabo Business LLC Under Section 203 of the Limited Liability Company Law FIRST: The name of the limited liability company is: Jabo Business LLC SECOND: The county, within this state, in which the office of the limited liability company is to be located is: New York

ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION OF PT BUILDING SUPPLY LLC Under Section 203 of the Limited Liability Company Law of the State of New York FIRST: The name of the limited liability company is: PT BUILDING SUPPLY LLC SECOND: The principal office of the limited liability company is to be located in the County of Queens. THIRD: The Secretary of State is designed as agent of the limited liability company upon whom process against it may be served. The address within or without this state to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the limited liability company served upon him or her is: The Limited Liability Company 39-07 Prince Street, #3B Flushing, NY 11354 FOURTH: the business and affairs of the limited liability company shall be managed by or under the direction of the Board of Managers.

In addition to the powers and authority expressly conferred upon them by statute or by this Articles of Organization or the Operating Agreement, the managers are hereby empowered to exercise all such powers and do all such acts and things as may be exercised or done by the limited liability company. THE UNDERSIGNED, being the organizer hereinbefore named, for the purpose of forming a limited liability company pursuant to the Limited Liability Company Law of the State of New York, does make this articles of organization, hereby declaring and certifying that this is my act and deed and the facts herein stated are true, and accordingly have hereunto set my hand this 30 th day of March, 2011. Tracy Yang, Organizer

Queens This Week Suspects Arraigned In Pizzeria Murder

Skateboarders in South Queens will have a new place to show off their skills.

With funding acquired by Borough President Helen Marshall and City Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park), the Parks Dept. announced it would construct a new facility, including a skate park, at the London Planetree Park along Atlantic Avenue be-

The borough's public library system got a needed cash infusion from Assemblywoman Grace Meng (D-Flushing), who announced three of Queens' public libraries will receive $1.3 million from $14 million given to the City in public library construction grant funds.

The Flushing branch, at 41-17 Main St., will get $433,786 to upgrade its check out, add 3,000 sq. ft. of space, install new lighting, partitions, flooring, and improve public access.

The announcement came days before a rally on the steps of the Flushing Library, planned for this past Wednesday, to push for further financial support of the library.

Bayside's library, at 214-20 Northern Blvd., will receive $350,691 for interior renovation, an alarm system and improved access, electric service and lighting.

The Queensborough Public Library's Central hub at 89-11 Merrick Blvd. will get $564,038 in funds for electrical and mechanical renovations.

The cash comes at a time when a recent survey showed public libraries around the

A Whole New World: Photo by Domenick Rafter

St. Mary Gate of Heaven School brought Disney's Aladdin to life for a handful of performances on May 6 and 7.

Cultural Lessons Through Ar t Project Kindergarten and Nursery School students at the Forest Hills Jewish Center hosted their annual Art Exhibition on Wednesday, May 18, titled "Countries Around the World," featuring artwork, murals and food samplings from seven nations.

The event, which has been held annually for at least five years, coincides with the end of the school year and there is always a different theme, though this year is one of the few where the theme was not literary.

"This is like our culminating year-end event," said Lynn Fisher, a teacher at the school.

The more than 100 children, ranging from toddler age through kindergarten, created works of art from or representing seven different countries: China, France, Iran, Italy, Mexico, Morocco and South Africa. The countries were chosen because they represent nationalities of the teachers at the school. "[The teachers] all have a background in these cultures. We have a South African teacher, a Persian teacher," Fisher said. "We found some artists from those countries, and the kids created their own versions of their work."

Each of the seven countries represented included an interactive component to the project. For example, South Africa, which hosted the 2010 World Cup, was represented by a soccer field in the Jewish center's main ballroom, where kids were able to color their own flag, pin them on their clothes and play an abridged game of soccer. As part of their education, the students learned about each country's culture and history, including South Africa's historic hosting of the World Cup. "The kids in each class really learned a lot about each culture," Fisher said.

The two-hour showing was held from 68 p.m. on Wednesday.

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Boro Artists Team Up In Exhibit At Galler y Some of New York City's best unknown artists gathered at the Standard Motors Building on May 11 in Long Island City to display some of their most treasured works.

The intimate event, conveniently titled, "Queens Creative," and sponsored by Acumen Capital Partners, attracted a crowd who proudly came to support and shed light on artists Michael Hew Wing, Alicia Degener, Brian Petro and Pedro F. Vintimilla.

The creative energy and differences that exude from the artists are displayed through their works. A walk across the cozy showroom shows distinctive stylistic differences from Hew Wing's brooding interpretations of nature to Petro's abstract art, to Degener's colorful perceptions of various landmarks to Vintimilla's dark and mysterious pieces.

The artists' backgrounds are as diverse as their crafts. Vintimilla, originally from Ecuador, attributes the dark theme of his pieces to his early years in California, when he was an exchange student having to adapt to a new

Brian Petro in front of one of his pieces. country and language without the comfort of friends.

"In my later pieces, I incorporate more colors. Not a lot of colors, but some red, blue, yellow," Vintimilla explained. He said the addition or absence of colors in his art is a reflection of his mood.

"I feel more comfortable now than before, and you can see through the colors I started to use," he added.

Hew Wing's pieces have a similar progression. "I used to do a lot of family portraits and political pieces, which were a lot of work," he said. "I needed a break and my more recent pieces are less serious, inspired by nature and how they relate to the human form."

A few feet away, Degener's generous use of colors and images of notable New York structures provides a lighter note to the event.

Degener has come a long way from an art student who admitted she was horrible at perspective and whose teachers would move her to the back of the classroom. "Now I'm part of an art exhibit," she laughed.

Lastly, while former Sports Medicine major Petro's abstract style conveys a sense of liveliness and effervescence, the inspiration behind his pieces are much more profound.

"My parents died when I was 23, and they are the biggest inspirations behind my works," Petro said. Overwhelmed with emotion, he admitted through tears that 50 percent of the time, he derives inspiration from them, while the other 50 percent of the time, he "just [does] whatever that comes to mind."

Petro's Czech and Polish heritage also plays a large part in creating his pieces.

For more information on any of these artists, visit their Web sites. For purchase inquiries, the artists can be reached through email. Reach Michael Hew Wing at hewwing.com or mhewwing@gmail.com; Pedro Felipe Vintimilla at pedrofelipeportfolio.blogspot.com or pfvintimilla@gmail.com; Alicia Degener at aliciadegener.squarespace.com or aliciadegener@me.com; and Brian Petro at brianpetro.com or Brian.Petro@verizon.net Reach Intern Jing Chen at jchen@queenstribune.com or (718) 3577400. Ext. 124.

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city need more than $2.53 billion in construction and renovation funding. Some still lack computers and an internet hook up, face lackluster space for growing book collections, and many of the buildings are unable to accommodate disabled patrons. The buildings themselves have not aged with grace, as 40 percent are more than 60 years old.

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The alleged masterminds behind the 2009 robbery that ended in the murder of Gerardo "Jerry" Antoniello, the son of the former owner of a popular Ozone Park pizzeria, have been arrested and arraigned.

Vincent Mineo, 29, and Frank LaCorte, 29, both of Ozone Park, were arraigned on a 22count indictment on May 11 that included two counts of second-degree murder, and multiple counts of burglary, robbery and conspiracy in connected with three Queens robberies.

One of those robberies was the Sept. 9, 2009, incident in which Romeo Antoniello, then-owner of the popular Romeo's Pizzeria on Cross Bay Boulevard in Ozone Park, was attacked while entering his home on North Conduit Avenue, only a few blocks from the pizzeria, around 10 p.m. The suspects tried to enter the home, and Romeo's son, Jerry, was shot in the head while trying to protect his family. He later died at Jamaica Hospital.

His murder sent shockwaves through the neighborhoods of South Queens, especially among Romeo's customers and those who knew the Antoniello family, who lived in the one-story home overlooking the busy Belt Parkway/Conduit Boulevard/Cross Bay Boulevard interchange bordering Ozone Park and Howard Beach.

In the days after Jerry's murder, a makeshift memorial was set up in front of the pizzeria with flowers and candles covering the restaurant's entrance at 134-24 Cross Bay Blvd. Signs reading "Justice for Jerry" appeared at the pizzeria and outside the office of the masonry company at 98-13 101st Ave., owned by Jerry's brother Angelo. The Antoniello family later sold the pizzeria and their home. Romeo, who was being treated for cancer at the time of the attack, has since passed away.

Three suspects were arrested in December 2009, but police had been looking for others, including Mineo and LaCorte, who Queens DA spokesman Kevin Ryan said are charged with "orchestrating, planning and executing" the robbery, as well as the two other robberies.

Mineo and LaCorte are being held on $2.5 million bond, or $1 million cash with a bail sufficiency hearing. They are due back in court Aug. 26.

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tween 88th and 89th Streets in Ozone Park, two blocks west of the busy Pathmark Shopping Center, where skateboarders often use the parking lot to skate.

The site includes a playground on the south side and handball courts on the north side along Atlantic Avenue; in the center is a large asphalt field that often hosts a full basketball court, two half-basketball courts, a softball field and a large open field. It is utilized by residents in Ozone Park and Woodhaven.

The Parks Dept. plans to make the park useable year round and add more flora to the location, situated in a densely populated neighborhood, far away from any other major parks. The asphalt will be removed. The current full basketball court will remain with a twin court constructed on the opposite side of the park. In the center of what was the asphalt field, a new state-of-the-art skating park will be constructed featuring what the agency calls a "true street skating environment." The handball court and the playground will not be touched.

Surrounding the skate park will be green space featuring trees and other plants that will replace the asphalt that was once there.

There will also be seating areas and walking trails.

The plan also calls for improved drainage at the site, allowing water to flow from the basketball courts and the skating area into the green space The borough president allocated $1 million toward the park, while Ulrich allotted $600,000 in funds. No specific start date for the project has been set.

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Queens CLOSEUP Annie Get Your Gun Interested performers are invited to audition for Theatre By The Bay’s production of Irving Berlin’s “Annie Get Your Gun” on Tuesday, June 14, 7:30 p.m., Thursday, June 16, 7:30 p.m. at Bay Terrace Jewish Center, 13-00 209th St., Bayside. For more information call the Temple office at (718) 428-6363.

There are acting, singing and dancing roles available as well as chorus work. Men, women, children and teenagers are needed.

Rehearsals begin in August with performances set for November. Those auditioning should bring music and be prepared to sing to piano accompaniment (an accompanist will be provided), be ready to dance to a combination that will be taught and read lines from a furnished script. All roles are open.

The Book for the show is by Herbert and Dorothy Fields as revised by Peter Stone.

Music and Lyrics are by Irving Berlin. The Director of the show is Lawrence F. Bloom, the Musical Director is Alan Kingsley and the Choreographer is Jessica McCuiston. The Producers are Lawrence F. Bloom, Barbara Koenig and Martha Stein. “Annie Get Your Gun” is presented by special arrangement with R& H Theatricals.

Genealogy Bayside Historical Society will present a genealogy lecture series this June, Lost & Found: Researching Family History in Contemporary America, which will offer an insider’s tour of the culture of family history research and provide participants with the

tools and skills needed to discover their past and tell their story.

Part one of the series, Connecting with Kin, will be held on Wednesday, June 1 at 7 pm, and part two, Finding and Reading Records, will be held on Wednesday, June 15 at the same time. Geared for both the novice and experienced family researchers (or anyone curious about exploring the past), the programs are expected to culminate with a workshop this fall, Telling the Story, which will help participants package the results of their research.

Admission per lecture is $10 ($5 for BHS members). Reserve in advance by calling (718) 352-1548. For more information, visit baysidehistorical.org.The series features guest speaker Dr. Barbara A. Bianco, a cultural anthropologist with research and teaching interests in kinship and community in American and eastern Africa. She taught at Vassar College and New York University, and is co-editor of a study on the New York African Burial Ground.

National Ar t League Color theory as a composition tool in still life painting, a demonstration, will be held at the National Art League by artist Mary Nagin on Friday, June 3, 8 p.m., at 44-21 Douglaston Pkwy. Admission is free. The public is invited to attend.

Strawber ry Festival A Strawberry Festival will be held at 1:30 p.m. at the Plattduetsche Park Restaurant on Wed. June 1. Come and enjoy delicious treats

like strawberry shortcake and butter cake.

There will also be entertainment, raffles, prizes & more! Proceeds will benefit the Plattduetsche Retirement Home. $7.50 admission fee. For more info. please contact Wendy at (718) 479-0352

Children’s Ar t The National Art League CHILDREN’S ART EXHIBITION will be held June 6-30 at the National Art League headquarters, 44-21 Douglaston Pkwy. Gallery Hours are 1-4 p.m. Monday through Thursday and Saturday. Admission is free. The public is invited.

Weight Loss Expo The first Long Island Medical and Surgical Weight Loss Expo will be held Saturday, May 21, at the Uniondale Marriott from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free admission if you register in advance. Sponsored by South Nassau Hospital and the Long Island Plastic Surgical Group. To learn more or register go to southnassau.org or call (516) 374-8650.

Hillcrest Concer t The Hillcrest Jewish Center, 183-02 Union Tpke., will hold an evening of song and music with Cantor Moti Fuchs, Israeli singing sensation Magda Fishman and pianist Issac Steiner with the HJC Youth Choir on Sunday, May 22, 7:15 p.m.

Tickets range from $30 to $60 with VIP tickets (including a pre-show dinner) for $100. Children under 12 get one free ticket for every $40 and up ticket purchased. Reserve seats by calling (718) 380-4145.

Weprin Town Hall Assemblyman David Weprin will hold a Town Hall Meeting on Sunday May 22, 10 a.m. to noon at the Samuel Field Y. Recently appointed Commissioner of the NYS Dept of Homes and Community Renewal Darryl Towns will speak about rent regulations, SONYMA, affordable mortgage products and more.

Agency Representative from the NYS Dept. of Insurance, the NYS Comptroller’s Unclaimed Funds Program, NYS Epic, NYC Dept. of Finance, and various other state and city agencies will be available to address constituent concerns and provide general information.

Refreshments will be served. RSVP to (718) 428-7900 or weprind@assembly.state.ny.us.

Be A STAR Would you like to really find out if you can act? Join our group of older adults inspired by a theatre professional who achieves exceptional results. Rehearsals are held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesdays at the Hollis Public Library, 202-05 Hillside Ave., and on Fridays at 10:30 a.m. at the Queens Village Library, 94-11 217th St. Call (718) 776-0529 for more information.

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Dr. Richard Schwarz The North Shore-LIJ Health System has appointed Jeremy Boal, MD, the former medical director of Long Island Jewish Medical Center, as chief medical officer (CMO).

As the CMO, Dr. Boal is responsible for the overall management of clinical, education, research and operational issues related to the

medical and clinical affairs of the 15-hospital health system, which has more than 9,000 affiliated physicians throughout the New York metropolitan area, including 2,000 full-time faculty.

In a related announcement, North ShoreLIJ appointed Richard Schwarz, MD, to succeed Dr. Boal as medical director of LIJ Medical Center, a 452-bed adult tertiary care teaching hospital located on the QueensNassau border. At LIJ, he oversees medical affairs, quality management, patient safety issues and standards of care at the hospital, which has more than 3,000 affiliated physicians. Dr. Schwarz previously served as medical director of Mount Sinai Medical Center’s North Shore Medical Group in Huntington.

Dr. Boal succeeds Lawrence Smith, MD, to whom he will report, and who will continue to serve as North Shore-LIJ’s executive vice president and newly appointed physician-in-chief, designating him as the health system’s senior physician on all clinical issues. Dr. Smith is also dean of the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine, which will admit its first class of 40 students this August.

“Jeremy Boal brings a passion to medicine and patient care wherever he serves, whether it be in a hospital in New York City or in the suburbs or overseas on a medical mission,” said Dr. Smith. “His commitment to excellence and safety in healthcare and his

ability to energize physicians and staff members is a major asset to the health system and the community.”

Dr. Boal received his medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and a Bachelor of Science degree from McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

Dr. Schwarz is board-certified in internal medicine and nephrology as well as gerontology. He has been in private practice in Huntington, NY, and held a full-time faculty position at State University of New York at Stony Brook in the Division of General Medicine. Dr. Schwarz became the chief of general medicine at Stony Brook as well as director of the Medical Consultation Service.

While at North Shore Medical Group, he also served as chief of medicine at Huntington Hospital. He was also the founding medical director of both Carillon and Island Rehab Commack Dialysis Centers. Dr. Schwarz has received numerous awards including Outstanding Teaching Attending of the Year at Stony Brook and the National Medical Award in Nephrology by the Kidney and Urology Foundation of America. He is associate professor of clinical medicine at Stony Brook School of Medicine.

“We’re fortunate to recruit a seasoned physician like Richard Schwarz, who will be a strong clinical leader for LIJ and the 3,000 physicians who practice there,” said Dr. Smith. “Over the years, Dr. Schwarz has developed close working relationships with doctors and hospitals across the health system and helped strengthen our partnerships with community-based physicians and staff members across the region. With his clinical expertise and teaching background in internal medicine, nephrology and gerontology, he will play a major role in our graduate

medical education programs.”

Sunday, May 1 was filled with music, fun and family at a wonderful presentation of almost 100 students who are learning to perform their hearts and souls out along with their very skillful music teachers.

Real Brave Audio is a hidden treasure squeezed in between the local shops on 69th Avenue in Fresh Meadows, and as a bonus partnered with PS 26 where their concerts are held.

Each student was accompanied by music teachers either playing guitar, bass, drums, or trumpet which to me as a musician enhances and raises their level of confidence, self esteem and performance – even if it’s their first time which was for most of them !

There were students who played very modern pieces and few performed classical standards. Some of the students were brave warriors walking on to the stage acting very serious and some had to tough it out and adapt themselves in self control to finish their pieces successfully.

Kudos to Real Brave Audio for acknowledging how important it is for their students to feel the passion of the music by playing along with them. Letting them hear the sound of music with a group and teaching them timing and stage presence which is so important at the beginning of building on their craft.

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Elder In School Program Needs Help

By STEFAN SINGH Carl Zimmerman, an 81-year-old retired artist from Bayside, has dedicated the last 20plus years of his life to working with elementary age children, but now he can no longer go out to the schools and volunteer or operate his program on an everyday basis.

Zimmerman is the Director of the Adults and Children Together (ACT) program and the founder of the ACT/Mentor/Peer (AMP) program. These non-profit programs aim to inspire young children who are at risk of falling behind, to succeed in school. The program is at risk of collapse right now as Zimmerman no longer has the energy to keep it running. Simply put, he needs help.

Zimmerman is looking for an Executive Director; someone he can essentially hand the program over to. The only problem is finding a source funding to pay for the new position.

The ACT program was founded by Julia Goldstein after 60 years as a teacher. When she retired from teaching, she moved to a new career in the Division of Parole. She spent years talking to convicts and learned that many young men and women end up in jail because they did not have anyone to inspire them when they were young; they were never convinced that they could be successful and so they strayed to a negative path, Zimmerman said. Goldstein decided that if she could get to the children early in life when they are at risk she could break the cycle and so she created the ACT program.

The program brings grandparent-like figures into schools and pairs them up with an academically struggling child. Once a week the child’s “adopted grandparent” pays a visit to them and spends 45 minutes with them. They provide the child with one-on-

one attention and inspire them to be better in life, try harder in school and to be successful.

In 1990, three months after Zimmerman retired, he saw Goldstein on TV talking about her program. He reached out to her and before he knew it she was a guest in his house.

Goldstein was so impressed by Zimmerman’s interest in the program that she made him her director and asked him to help expand the program across New York City schools.

In order to work with NYC schools, Zimmerman created the AMP program, a non-profit volunteer organization. AMP is an extension of the ACT program, meeting the standards needed to operate in school buildings.

Less than four years after Zimmerman stepped in, Goldstein passed away, but not before Zimmerman made her a promise. “I promised her that this program would never

die,” he said. “I’m going to die first.”

Zimmerman is currently disabled and has four stress-related diseases that add to his concern about fulfilling his promise.

Zimmerman said he has made numerous failed attempts to contact Mayor Mike Bloomberg and the Dept. of Education. The fact that DOE Chancellor Dennis Walcott is not reachable by phone or letter is despicable, he said. “I would swear it in court that this man isn’t worth his weight in anything as far as the school system goes, and now he’s the Chancellor of New York City Schools,” said Zimmerman.

He considers it pathetic that, according to his numbers, 50 percent of students drop out of school. “They drop out of school and drop out of society to usually become a greater expense to the taxpayer,” he said.

Zimmerman believes that the school sys-

tem in place is flawed and that Walcott and the mayor are wasting money - money that can be invested into programs like ACT and AMP that actually make a difference. He said they will “someday face the reality that all the money that goes into our public schools cannot pay for the early childhood failure that prevails in our educational system.”

ACT has a proven track record and has been nationally recognized by three former Presidents. The program that allows grandparent figures to extend their love to children and better their lives is on its last legs. This program that once served 42 elementary schools in Queens is currently inactive. Unless Zimmerman can find a source of funding to resuscitate the program, it will die.

Reach Reporter Stefan Singh at ssingh@queenstribune.com or (718) 3577400, Ext. 128.

New Site Helps Keep Bay Clean

By DOMENICK RAFTER The DEP opened a new retention facility in Brooklyn last week t hat will fur ther help to clean the waters of one of Queens’ most important bo dies of water.

DEP Commissioner Cas Holloway officially opened the Paerdegat Basin Combined Sewer Outflow Facility, which consists of four retention tanks that can hold 30 million gallons of sewer overflow, and another 20 million gallons can be stored in the connecting sewers, keeping the sewage from flowing into Paerdegat Basin, a channel little more than a mile long, that connects to Jamaica Bay and serves as a border between the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Canarsie and Bergen Beach.

The facility also has the ability to screen out large piece of debris and floatables like plastic bot tles, before the water is stored in the tanks. DEP built an odor control system and all process areas will be ventilated and receive odor control treatment of five exhaust air trains with the latest advances of technology and also carbon filters and variable speed fans. A pumping station within the facility helps send the retained wastewater back to the Coney Island Wastewater Treatment Plant a few miles southwest.

Environmentalists lauded the new facility and the positive effect it will have on water quality in one of the eastern seaboard’s largest marshlands.

“This is a huge step in returning Jamaica Bay to a wetland and estuarine area of nat ional impor t a nce,” said Jamaica Bay Ecowatchers President Dan Mundy Sr. The Paerdegat Basin CSO is the largest of the four sewer overflow retention facilities built in New York City. Two of the four are in Queens: the Flushing Bay facility in Flushing and the Alley Creek facility in Bayside, which is scheduled to open later this month. T he four th facilit y, the Spring Creek facility in Brooklyn, also serves Jamaica Bay. Reach Reporter Domenick Rafter at drafter@queenstribune.com or (718) 3577400, Ext. 125.

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Sleep Doc Offers Relief For Epilepsy VNS helps with that,” he said. “They are also more aler t, whereas those who are on medicat ion usually feel cloudy.”

The device is bat tery-operated, and lasts for approximately seven years, after which a shor ter procedure has to be performed to replace the battery.

Despite the multiple benefits of the procedure, Dr. Ne y strictly recommends VNS as a last resor t, for those who cont inue to have seizures despite being on medication.

“I’ve treated 200 epileptics, 90 currently, who all came to my office because nothing else worked,” he said.

Dr.Ney’s office, Ney Centers For Epilepsy Care And Sleep Medicine, is located on 4518 Little Neck Pkw y., and can be reached at (718) 352-3370.

Reach Intern Jing Chen at jchen@queenstribune.com or (718) 3577400, Ext. 124.

Tribute At Haym Salomon Memorial

By JACK ZUCKERMAN The annual tribute to Haym Salomon was held on Sunday, May 16, at the Square across from the Queens Library branch on Vleigh Place between 72cd Road and Main Street in Kew Gardens Hills. He was a Polish immigrant who helped to finance the Continental Army under Gen. George Washington during the American Revolution in 1776.

The event was sponsored by the Queens County Council of the Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A., the oldest Veterans organization in the U.S. established in 1896. Jeff Gottlieb of the Queens Jewish Historical Society served as the Master of Ceremonies.

Among the many veterans present were: Commander David Rivkin Post 415; Commanders Bill Singer and Jason Kaatz of Queens County JWV; and Sid Auerbach, Past Commander Post 793,who helped set up the monument more than 30 years ago.

Tribute was paid to recently-deceased former Commander Herbert Rosen, who chaired the Haym Salomon committee for many years. Rosen died on April 18. The Junior ROTC of Francis Lewis H.S. pro-

vided the Color Guard and for the first time a Color Guard from the Sons of the American Revolution was also present.

Other dignitaries present were Warren Hecht of the Queens Jewish Community Council and Sarah Andrews and Barbara Paxton, direct descendants of Haym Salomon. Politician who paid their respect at the ceremony included State Sen. Toby Stavisky (D-Flushing), M i k e S i m a n o w i t z , Veterans salute as the Francis Lewis JROTC Color Guard Chief of Staff to recently presents flags at the Haym Solomon Memorial. retired Assemblywoman Nettie Mayersohn (D-Flushing); of the event and is writing a documentary on Deputy Boro President Barry Grodenchik the life of Haym Salomon. and Assemblyman David Weprin (DJack Zuckerman is the Adjutant and Bellerose). Bill Sachs of California took film Historian for Post 415.

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By JING CHEN Some 20 percent of all epileptics do not respond to medications. For those sufferers, neurologist Dr. Gershon Ney runs a unique clinic in Lit tle Neck, the only one of its kind in Queens, where he provides an alternative treatment known as Vagus Nerve St imulation, which according to Ney, has a proven high success rate.

“After two or three years, 50 percent of patients have decreased seizures,” explained Dr. Ney, who has 25 years of experience with VNS. VNS is a relatively minor procedure that includes surgically implanting a quarter-sized device through the left underarm, where tiny wires are then inserted underneath the skin.

A tiny incision is then made on the neck to expose the vagus nerve, where the device is then placed.

The electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve is thought by scientists to help decrease the amount of seizures. This technique was approved by the FDA in the 1990s, but Ney was one of the first pioneers to support and experiment with this procedure in animals prior to its approval.

VNS requires a relatively short operat ion that takes about an hour to complete, with the patient under general anesthesia and requires no hospital stay. According to Ney, there are virtually no serious side effects associated with this surgical procedure, although some have complained of mild throat pain and discomfor t.

Dr. Ney also said the procedure provides relief for those suffering from depression.

“A lot of epileptics also have depression and

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109th Precinct FOUND IN WATER: On Wednesday, May 11, at approximately 8:52 a.m., police responded to the East River near the Clearview Expressway and Willets Point Boulevard in Bay Terrace for a report of a person in the water.

Upon arrival Harbor Patrol Officers discovered an unidentified white man unconscious and unresponsive in the water. He was taken to 601 Totten Rd. in Fort Totten where EMS was waiting and was pronounced dead.

The Medical Examiner was to determine the cause of death, and the investigation was ongoing. Identification of the deceased is pending family notification.

110th Precinct BABY ABANDONED: On Tuesday, May 10, at around 2:30 p.m., police responded to the emergency room of Elmhurst Hospital at 79-01 Broadway in Elmhurst. Upon arrival, responding officers discovered a newborn baby girl inside a trash can in an emergency room bathroom.

The mother, Dawa Lama, 23, of 37-26 65th St., Woodside, fled the hospital on foot.

Lama was later located and subsequently charged with first degree assault and first degree reckless endangerment.

The infant remains in critical condition.

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115th Precinct FOUND STABBED: On Saturday, May 14, at 5:28 a.m., police officers responded to a man in cardiac arrest at 108-14 37th Ave. in Corona.

Upon further investigation, it was discovered that a Hispanic man in his 20s was stabbed three times in the chest. EMS responded and transported the victim to New York Hospital Queens where he was pronounced dead on arrival. There were no arrests at this time and the investigation was ongoing.

Notification is pending proper family notification.

From the DA AIRPORT SHOOTERS SENTENCED: Two men have been convicted of first-degree assault and other charges in connection with the 2009 shooting of a California man during a drug deal gone bad at LaGuardia Airport. The defendants were convicted by separate juries following a month-long trial. Two other defendants earlier pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the case.

The defendants were identified as Adolfo Gonzalez, 23, of Albany Avenue in Brooklyn, and Dario Campbell, 27, of Linden Boulevard, Jamaica.

According to the trial testimony, the victim, Devon Martinez, 26, was visiting from California and staying at the LaGuardia Airport Marriott Hotel in East Elmhurst, when on Aug. 24, 2009, he was lured from his room under the pretense that he was going to engage in a drug deal. He was picked up by the defendants at the hotel in a silver Nissan Pathfinder registered to fellow defendant Javier Rodriguez of Brooklyn.

Once inside the vehicle, a gold chain was taken from the victim by defendant Campbell, who also took the victim’s watch and cell phone. The defendants then took a wrong turn into LaGuardia Airport and the victim managed to unlock the door and jump out.

The victim was shot in the back by defendant Raymundo Martinez-Flores of Brooklyn as he jumped out of the car near a taxi holding lot inside airport grounds. He underwent surgery at Elmhurst Hospital and had to have one of his kidneys removed, but survived.

Rodriguez and Martinez-Flores both plead

guilty last year and were each sentenced to five and one-half years in prison. Rodriguez plead guilty to first-degree robbery and Martinez-Flores pleaded guilty to first-degree assault.

Gonzalez and Campbell were each convicted of first-degree assault, first-degree robbery and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon by separate juries following a month-long trial. Gonzalez’s jury returned a verdict on May 10. Campbell’s jury returned a verdict on May 11. The defendants face up to 25 years in prison when they are sentenced on June 13.

UNHOLY VOLUNTEER: A 25-year-old Whitestone man who served as a volunteer religious instructor at three Catholic schools in Northeast Queens has pleaded guilty to second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument for forging and cashing five checks, totaling more than $7,700 that belonged to the Religious Education Office at St. Mel’s in Whitestone.

Joseph Denice, of 15th Avenue in Whitestone, has been held in jail in lieu of $15,000 bail since his arrest in January 2011. He appeared before a judge on Monday and pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, one count of second-degree falsely reporting an incident, one count of firstdegree falsifying business records and one count of second-degree falsifying business records.

Denice also pleaded guilty in connection to anonymously calling 911 and falsely reporting emergencies and with calling the City’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) to falsely report neglect and abuse by parents.

According to the criminal charges, Denice found starter checks from St. Mel’s Religious Education Office in December 2010 and wrote out five of the checks, totaling $7,707.22, in his name. He then had his mother deposit them in her checking account, telling her that they were paychecks.

Denice placed five anonymous calls to 911 between March and June 2010, falsely alleging that there was either an odor of gas or fire at locations near his residence. New York City Fire Dept. personnel responded to each of the calls. All five calls proved unfounded.

Denice made anonymous calls to ACS in October 2009 and March 2010, alleging, respectively, that an 11-year-old child was the victim of physical abuse committed by his parents, and that a 12-year-old boy was the victim of neglect by his parents. As a result, ACS opened lengthy investigations into both matters.

In addition to volunteering at St. Mel’s, Denice also assisted at St. Luke’s in Whitestone and St. Kevin’s in Flushing. He has been terminated from all three schools.

Sentencing is set of June 1 and Denice could face five to 10 years in prison.

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World’s Fair Ghosts:

Hunters Seeking Traveling Spirits Set Their Eye On Flushing Meadows

Where Ghosts Tread

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This spot, a grassy patch alongside the Pavilion, saw more than 24 million living folks wander by for two wondrous seasons almost 50 years ago. The Kandel brothers posit many of them went off to Vietnam shortly after, leaving behind happy memories of an extravagant World’s Fair. Some never returned.

Their energies, according to the duo, have come back to a spot where “for some, this was the last time they had a good time,” according to Stew.

It stands in stark contrast to the com-

plete lack of fun in trying to fix malfunctioning technology.

The brothers quarrel briefly over how to exactly use the damned recorder. The batteries can’t possibly be dead; even the Ghost Doctors, as they call themselves, have a hard time believing it.

Stew, tall and lanky with unruly limbs, squints below his crop of black hair and jabs at a few buttons. Pete, himself an unfortunate doppelganger for an elder Shaggy from Scooby Doo, with fuzzy beard and bowl hair, gives it a try. No luck.

Batteries are dead. They return their focus to the camera.

“Are you sure it was fully charged?” they ask repeatedly. Yep. Definitely was.

“Boy, that’s weird man,” Pete says.

“Reminds you of what Phillip Johnson said. ‘In a way, the ruin is even more haunting than the original structure.’”

In that brief exchange, two things immediately become apparent: the Ghost Doctors are at the very least thorough, and unwilling to chalk up every single incident to celestial energies trying to communicate with the living; and the two are damn near biblically versed in the history of the park, as Pete proves with his casual, but wholly accurate, quote of the Pavilion’s architect.

Well-Versed Hunters The brothers, who offer ghost hunting tours of the park, may also be two of its best students. They have to be; it’s part of their job.

“The more historic, the more things happen in a certain area, the more things might turn up,” Stew says. It does not creep them out either. “It gives it more historical significance.”

As they roam the park, they offer odd tidbits of history, misconceptions and how it all relates to what they do. Even if you’re a skeptic, at the very least you learn about: the lack of a German pavilion (the eagles on some flag poles are not from the Nazis, they just look a bit off); the City’s second-oldest manmade

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By JOSEPH OROVIC Roaming past the first home of the U.N. General Assembly, now the Queens Museum of Art, Pete and Stew Kandel point to a part of Flushing Meadows Corona Park that has beguiled them, and many others, for years: The New York State Pavilion.

The Tent of Tomorrow resembles a gloomy shadow of its former self, its neighboring towers reduced to rusting masses seemingly ready to topple. They stand as one of the four remaining structures from the 1964-65 World’s Fair, made creepier by the day’s intermittent rain.

It seems only fitting to scope the place out with a couple of ghost hunters.

“One thing you learn really quickly is always bring extra batteries,” Stew says.

“The energies, as we like to call them, tend to drain them.”

This all seems fairly rote for a born skeptic, right? Covering their bases should any “energies” feel particularly lazy that afternoon. No response from the spirits of the deceased? Wouldn’t you know it, the batteries are dead. What a coincidence? Got these guys’ game all figured out.

But then things get a bit bizarre.

A camera – not theirs – fully charged as of two minutes ago, goes dead. Ditto to Pete’s tape recorder. (Thank goodness for cell phone cameras.)

The Ghost Doctors, Pete and Stew Kandel, checking for energies by the State Pavilion. object, the nearly 2,000-year-old Column of Jerash; and the first World’s Fair’s NYPD heroes, Joseph Lynch and Ferdinand Socha, who were killed inspecting a ticking suitcase that exploded at the British Pavilion on July 4, 1940.

So what does it say about our borough and its state of affairs when two guys who chase the remnant energies of the deceased know more about its biggest park than most residents, some elected officials and perhaps Parks Dept. employees?

Looking For The Lost Officers Lynch and Socha are of particular interest to the Kandels, and they have been monitoring the former site of the British Pavilion – now a soccer field – in the hopes of catching them. They’ve admittedly had little success.

“I’m not going to say it’s like those TV shows, where every time they go out something happens,” Pete says. “I don’t buy that at all.”

Other energy dead zones, pardon the pun, include a time capsule left in 1964.

One can only conclude Time Capsules have always been boring, even if they contain a letter from Albert Einstein, as 1939’s does.

Hallowed Ground

Stew Kandel inspects the Column of Jerash for activity.

The brothers’ shared enthusiasm for the park’s history lumps them into a strange category of misfits and romantics. Chief among them was former Tribune editor David Oats. His successor, Greg Godfrey, President of the Flushing Meadows-Corona Park World’s Fair Association, was not shocked by the Kandels’ findings.

“David and I […] posited the ground was sacred,” he said. “I really believe there was some energy there.”

He fell shor t of fully endorsing the Ghost Doctors’ “energies” explanation, but Godfrey does find some kinship with them.

“There’s a theory in urban planning that goes back a long time,” he said.

“There are certain locations in the world which have high energy readings. The

fact that they took the time to do this, I’m not surprised at all.”

To the skeptics, Pete and Stew fall short of offering the Bronx salute. This is, after all, Queens. But they point to instances of energy being instantly transferred from the dead to the living, as a friend experienced when a family member died.

“You can’t explain that,” Pete says.

A Lost Connection There is one final caveat to the Ghost Doctors’ work. The brothers believe energies favor objects and buildings over geographic locales.

“Anyone who does this sort of work believes that objects and places where people went, they just are still there,” Pete says.

Godfrey himself is not too far off from them on this, sidestepping the spiritual theorization.

“What I can tell you is that I feel a spiritual connection to [the park],” he said.

“There’s some memory, there’s something special, there’s some energy that’s there that draws people.”

If you count yourself among the skeptics, suspend your disbelief for a moment.

Should the Kandel brothers be right, the fight to restore the State Pavilion benefits not just current and future, but also past generations, whooping it up in the park right now, as they did in the Space Age, when the Ford Mustang was introduced to the world in Queens, and before that, television.

Take out the spooky talk, and the notion of preserving our past remains, according to Godfrey.

“Belief in the future is a belief in where you’ve been,” he said.

The Ghost Doctors, coincidentally, endorsed the State Pavilion’s preservation as well. You can learn more about them at ghostdoctors.com.

As their tour of the park moves past the structure, the camera and recorder’s batteries return to a full charge. Weird.

Reach Deputy Editor Joseph Orovic at jorovic@queenstribune.com or (718) 357-7400, Ext. 127.

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Vallones Honored By HANAC

Clean Up Day

On May 10, Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. joined his family at the HANAC’s George T. Douris Senior Residence for the unveiling of a terrace on the 15th floor named for him and his father. Pictured l. to r.: HANAC Exec. Dir. John Keiteris, Chairwoman Angie Douris, Councilman Vallone, Perry Vallone, Peter Vallone Sr., Tena Vallone and senior residents.

On Saturday, May 14, Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer joined forces with the Sunnyside United Neighborhood Network (SUNN), Sunnyside Boys and Girls Club and neighbors in a community effort to clean up local streets and parks. Van Bramer is pictured here painting over graffiti with his nephews Joshua, Christopher and James.

Doo-Wop Sounds

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Kenny Vance and The Planotones, Shirley Alston Reeves (the original lead singer of the Shirelles), The Legendary Teenagers, The Dimensions and The Original Chimes performed Sunday, May 15, at Colden Auditorium in Queens College.

Photos by Ira Cohen

Recycling Day

State Sen. Joe Addabbo with staff from eGreen Management at the third free Recycling Day he held in his district.

Wearable Collections, Secure Shred and CarpetCycle also had trucks in Forest Park’s Seuffert band shell parking lot. Along with Addabbo’s staff, other volunteers were from the Grow NYC Outreach & Education Office.

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Queens Biathalon

The Queens Biathalon was held along the Cross Island Parkway on Sunday morning, with competitors running and biking between the Grand Central Parkway and Fort Totten.

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On May 13th, Elmhurst Hospital Center (EHC) held a ribbon-cutting for its new “Walkway of Honor” memorial path. The walkway contains memorial bricks with personalized inscriptions that have been purchased by individuals and local businesses in support of the non-profit Elmhurst Hospital Center Auxiliary. The ceremony was attended by hospital administrators and employees as well as local elected officials, including Queens Borough President Helen Marshall, NYC Council members Danny Dromm and Elizabeth Crowley and NYS Assembly members Michael DenDekker and Francisco Moya.

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Circus Back In Queens May 21-June 5

By BARBARA ARNSTEIN “I have taken abused and neglected animals, turned them around by building up their trust, and made them into stars,” said Jennifer Vidbel , who cur rently performs in a Big Apple Circus act with 40 animals (none of which was ever neglected), including an Arabian stallion, two sheep dogs, three terriers, a dozen white ponies, and goats who ride ponies. “When I’m looking for dogs, I’ll always check the pound first. The most important thing is that they have fun per forming. I can tell right away if any dog likes to perform and show off. Goats are naturally show-offs.”

The Big Apple Circus is returning to Cunningham Park from May 21 to June 5, presenting the show “Dance On!” Its many exciting performers include the award-w inning clowns Rob Torres and Barry Lubin (aka “Grandma”), the acrobatic Kenyan Boys, the all-female “X Bud Roses Troupe” of Chinese contortionists and other international stars.

“I started performing when I was about 8 years old, riding an elephant,” said Vidbel, who is a third-generation circus performer and animal trainer. “It was part of our family; we raised them. When my animals retire, they go home to our family farm in upstate New York.”

“I trained my first pony when I was 12”, she said. “Since I was a ver y lit tle girl, I’ve always dreamed about being in the Big Apple Circus, and this year is my dream come true.

It has high-tech lighting, wonder ful music and costumes that really make you look your very best.”

Torre s, who was born in New York and lived in Sunnyside, has been performing for 20 years.

“My clown character is a magnified version of me in my everyday life, but funnier,” Torres said.

The graduate of Ringling Brothers’ Clown College will perform at Cunningham Park for the first time. “I’m clumsy some-

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Sunnyside clown Rob Torres will join the Big Apple Circus at Cunningham Park May 21 to June 5.

Queens Lyricist Offers People In The Pictures

By ELYSE TREV ERS Belle Harbor-born Mike Stoller is famous as par t of the songwriting team Leiber and Stoller. Their songs were performed by Elvis Presley, The Drifters, The Coasters and Ben. E King. Recently, he collaborated with Artie Butler to write the music for “People in the Pictures,” a Roundabout Theater Company production at Studio 54.

The musical, with book by Iris Rainer Dar t (“Beache s,”) star s the incomparable Tony-award-winner Donna Mur phy. Set in 1977, the show deals with several themes, all through the life of Raisel, a Holocaust survivor.

As Bubbie, grandmother to precocious Rachel (played by talented young Maya Goldman,) Murphy’s character is suffering slightly from dementia as she struggles to share her history. She also is in conflict with her daughter, Red, a comedy writer for television. As she tells her stories, she is surrounded by several ghosts of her former acting company, The Warsaw Gang, a Yiddish theater company that performed in small villages in Poland prior to World War II. She and the members of her troupe traveled to present their shows, but the emphasis was always on the comedy. The troupe’s at t itude is that the only way to survive is t hrough laughter a nd comedy. Perhaps that’s why the show was originally titled “Laughing Mat ters.” This premise allows Murphy to clown it up and in some scenes, she channels the accent of Barbra Streisand in “Funny Girl.”

As histor y tells us, humor and compromise are not enough to ensure their survival.

In one segment Yossie Pinsker (played by the delightful Chip Zien) is harassed and disparaged as a “dirty Jew” by street thugs until he works out a payment with them. Later, when he runs out of money, they kill him. The musical tries to incorporate the prejudices and bigotry that lead to the mass murder of the Jews with the musical and the comedy.

Even in the jokes and comic songs, there’s an underlying recognition of persecution.

Raisel’s stor y telling has a unique twist: as her memory is failing her, she sometime s rewrites her stories, causing her ghosts to correct her. The characters in her past are alive in her memor y and appear onstage as the people in the old pictures she has kept.

The lyrics are often clever and the music

tuneful (‘skit t ish’ rhyming w ith ‘Yiddish’).

Many of the songs are bouncy and joyous.

However, the songs that Red (Nicole Parker) sings are plaintive and melancholy, sobering the mood. It’s unfor tunate because she, too, has a terrific voice, yet she only gets to sing doleful melodies.

The humor is the best part of the show and there are several vaudevillian-style jokes, such as “They call us Jewish hams – an oxymoron,” or “He has no talent so we made him the director.” As Raisel teaches her granddaughter, some of the humor comes from hearing the Yiddish-isms and the accents coming from the mouth of a 10-year-old.

Murphy is wonderful. Without makeup or major costume changes, she is able to instantly become young Raisel and then add 35 years to become elderly. A slight stoop, a craggy voice and her aging is complete. The elderly lady has a sarcastic edge to her voice and the younger woman has more energy and a lilt.

Murphy shines in her troupe numbers.

She is backed by an experienced and skilled cast, including Joyce Van Pat ten as the aging femme-fatale, Zien, Lewis J. Stadlen and other performers. But Murphy still dominates the entire show.

The biggest problem is that the show is overly ambitious with too many themes. After all, it is still a Broadway musical, not a Ken Follet t tome. In addition to the Holocaust themes, it deals with typical motherdaughter interactions, as well as anger between them caused by the events during the war, dementia and an aging parent, The show could have been quite successful because it has a natural appeal for women’s groups. The most entertaining segments are those dealing with the acting troupe, its plays and moviemaking. A colleague suggested using all of the Yiddish theater scenes in the first act, but personally I liked the flashback technique.

Despite his many rock-and-roll hits, Stol ler obviously is at tracted to Broadway theater musicals. Perhaps the Queens-born songwriter recalled his own words from his famous 1960‘s songs “The neon lights are brighter there” and it’s true.

The show runs through June 19 at Studio 54, 254 W. 54th St. Ticket s are available by calling (212) 719-1300 or going to roundabouttheatre.org.

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the balsamic in one bite, the southwestern flavor of the corn and bacon in the next. Though I had a small salad just to taste, a large Zola salad definitely screams to be a meal itself.

Tim offered me four of his famous mozzarella sticks, which were less like st icks and more like “Italian Pierogis.”

These aren’t the mass-produced frozen In Italian, la bottega means “the shop.” sticks you buy in the supermarket; the The word is often used to describe that cheese, made on site, is fresh and gooey and melts in your mouth. It is small market down in the piazza where you buy your cheese, RESTAURANT enveloped in a stunning mixture of flavors, which Tim created all meats, fish, bread and perhaps a on his own like a chemist in a new sauce pan; ever y thing you lab. These are the type of mozmight need to make, say, a zarella sticks that needs to be panini. But in Bayside, “the enjoyed with a fork and knife. shop” is where you get the panini T he por tobel lo br uschet ta made for you, almost any way you was next on my menu. On long want it. strips of roasted Italian bread lie La Bot tega, located along a large roasted portobello mushbusy stretch of Bell Boulevard rooms, which crown the dish, between Northern Boulevard and the Bayside LIRR station, is a new addi- along with tangy goat cheese and fresh tion to the busy downtown strip. It opened walnuts. It was the nuts that at tracted me last fall, the first Queens location for the to the dish, and they did not disappoint. chain that has set up shop all over Long They seemed to enhance the flavor of the Island, and survived a harsh w inter. La Por tobello, while toning down the goat Bot tega owner Pasquale said the site is cheese.

Then it was panini time. There are doznow finding a real customer base; local businesses at lunch; commuters coming off ens of different paninis, to choose from; the LIRR in the evening. Offering free de- it’s almost impossible to pick just one. livery, the y are also becoming popular for There are chicken, pork, seafood, beef, cured meats and even vegetarian and glutheir take out.

Walking into La Bot tega’s Bayside res- ten-free paninis. I finally set tled on the taurant, the scener y is more pizzeria than “ P r e g o ” p a n i n i , a s u g g e s t i o n f r o m sit-down eater y, but h idden in the back, Pasquale. T his was a prosciutto lover’s away from the hustle and bustle of Bell Bou- dream. Sandwiched between the thick and levard, is the dining room, crowned with a tasty krispina bread is prosciut to, saunteed bar in the back that Pasquale hopes will spinach, grilled red onions and fontina serve liquor once the restaurant gets its li- cheese.

The paninis are big, so make sure to cense. I met also with L a Bottega’s chef, Tim, who tells me a lit tle about his love of leave room for them; if you do fill up with some left, definitely ask for a doggy bag. I cooking.

I started w ith a Zola Salad, an exciting took half the panini home and to my surmixture featuring baby arugula, mush- prise, it remained just as tasty reheated r o o m s , r e d o n i o n s , c o r n , b a c o n , later as it was taking the first bite in the gorgonzola crumbles and balsamic dress- restaurant, so your dining experience at ing. This was a thrill. With so many in- “the shop” can continue even after you gredient s, ever y forkful unear t hed a dif- pay the check.

—Domenick Rafter ferent flavor; the smooth sharp taste of LA BOTTEGA 42-29 Bell Blvd., Bayside (718) 906-6311 CUISINE: Italian Hours: SUN-THU 11 AM-11 PM; FRISat 11 am-Midnight PARKING: Street CREDIT CARDS: All Major

times. I’ll open a door and a doorknob might come off. The things that people are embarrassed about? I’m amused by them,” he said.

“Some people only do what they love after they ret ire. But I get to play every day.”

In the current Big Apple Circus show, he per forms t wo rout ine s. Per forming is be st, he said, when he is “working with an audience as opposed to doing something for them.” He de veloped many of his hilarious audience-pleasing skills as a street performer in Manhattan, in places such as Central Park.

“All the performers are here for one reason, to work hard and show our audiences the best that we can be, and have fun doing it,” said Vidbel. “It’s not a job; it’s a way of life.”

For more information, go to bigapplecircus.org, or call (800) 922-3772, Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Tickets range from $15 to $45.

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DINNER TEA Saturday, May 21 Nativit y Columbiettes Tea at noon.

835-6853, $10.

YOUNG ISRAEL Sunday, May 22 Young Israel of New Hyde Park will hold its 56 th Anniversary Journal Dinner in Great Neck.

343-0496.

QUEENS GO RED June 9 Queens Go Red for Women Breakfast with the American Heart Association.

516-450-9123.

LICBDC REAL ESTATE June 15 breakfast in LIC. 786-5300, ext. 21.

JEWISH WOMEN June 21 luncheon by the NY section of the National Council of Jewish Women. 1-800829-NCJW.

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HEALTH EMS CELEBRATION Saturday, May 21 the Little Neck Douglaston Communit y Ambulance Corps will host an EMS Celebration Day Open House 11-4 at 42-18 Marathon Parkway, Little Neck. Free food, equipment demonstrations, health and safet y education, raf f les, more.

RELAY FOR LIFE Saturday, May 21 College Point Relay for Life for the American Cancer Societ y.

917-443-6989.

WEIGHT LOSS EXPO Saturday, May 21 a medical and surgical weight loss expo will be presented from 10-4 at the Uniondale Marriott. $5 at the door; free in advance 516-374-8631.

Professionals, screenings, cooking demos, samples, more.

CHAIR YOGA Monday, May 23 at the Bellerose librar y. Register.

ZUMBA Monday, May 23 at the Lefrak Cit y library at 6.

ALZHEIMERS Tuesday, May 24 Caregiver Support Group in Forest Hills. 592-5757, ext. 237.

HATHA YOGA Thursday, May 26 at the Queensboro Hill library at 6.

BLOOD DRIVE Sunday, June 12 9-2 at Queen of Angels Church in the Parish Center, 43-18 Skillman Avenue, Sunnyside. 646-541-6526.

EDUCATION/GAMES/CRAFTS WOODBLOCK PRINTING Easy method in full color at the National Art League.

969-1128.

JH ART CLUB Classes in all art forms days and evenings for children and adults. 454-0813.

US CITIZENSHIP Saturdays, May 21, 28 Pathway to US Citizenship at the Steinway library at 3.

CRAFT CLASSES Saturdays 11-3 Maria Rose International Doll Museum in St. Albans. 276-3454.

SCRABBLE CLUB Saturdays at 10 at Count Basie Jr. HS, 132 nd Street and Guy R. Brewer Blvd. 8865236.

PET OWNERS Saturdays (not on holiday weekends) from 1-4 free Doggie Boot Camp at Crocheron Park in Bayside (weather permitting). 4545800. Reservations required. Donations accepted.

CAREER POTENTIAL Saturday, May 21 discover your career potential at the Central library at 11.

DEFENSIVE DRIVING Saturday, May 21 e: Defensive Driving at Wesley United Methodist Church in Franklin Square. 516-8728062.

JOB SEARCH Saturday, May 21 Job Search and Networking Strategies at the Broadway library at 3:30.

PUBLIC SPEAKING Saturdays, May 21, June 4, 18 learn to communicate effectively at Elmhurst Hospital. 646-436-7940.

GLASS PAINTING Sunday, May 22 1-2:30 at the Queens Botanical Gardens. 886-3800, ext. 230.

BALLROOM DANCE Monday, May 23 ballroom dancing at 6:30 at the Forest Hills library.

DRAWING CLASS Mondays at the National Art League in Douglaston. 3610628.

EMAIL Monday, May 23 at the Fresh Meadows library. Register.

JOB SEARCH Monday, May 23 Job Search and Networking Strategies Baisley Park library at 6.

COMPUTER CLASS Tuesdays, May 24, 31 at the Rosedale library at 10:30.

INTRO INTERNET Tuesday, May 24 introduction to internet and email at the McGoldrick library at 10:30.

JOB INFORMATION Tuesday, May 24 job information center orientation at the Central library at 3.

COMPUTER BASICS Tu e s d a y, M a y 2 4 a t t h e Astoria library. Register.

BASIC COMPUTER Tuesdays, May 24, 31, June 7 at the Glendale library.

Register.

WATERCOLOR CL ASS Wednesdays at 9:30 at NAL. Traditional and contemporary, all levels. 969-1128.

CHINESE LANGUAGE Wednesday, May 25 learn Chinese at the Laurelton librar y. Register.

WII TIME Wednesday, May 25 play Wii at the Peninsula library at 4:30.

BASIC COMPUTER Wednesday, May 25 internet searching at the Windsor Park library. Register.

YOUR CAREER Thursday, May 26 “Taking C h a r g e o f Yo u r C a re e r ” from 1:30-3:00 at the Central library.

US CITIZENSHIP Thursday, May 26 Pathway to US Citizenship at the Sunnyside library at 5:30.

COMPUTER CLASSES Thursday, May 26 at the Rosedale library at 6.

INTRO EXCEL Thursday, May 26 at the Pomonok library. Register.

INTRO POWERPOINT Thursday, May 26 at the Pomonok library. Register.

CAREER POTENTIAL Thursday, May 26 discover your career potential at the Central library at 3.

QUILTING CLUB Thursday, May 26 at the Laurelton library at 6.

JOB SEARCH Thursday, May 26 job search and networking strategies at the Richmond Hill library at 6.

BALLROOM DANCING Thursday, May 26 for beginners at the Woodside library at 6:30.

PAINTING WORKSHOP Fridays through June 24 N e w C re a t i v i t y a n d A d vanced Painting Workshop at National Art League. 1-646546-2296.

BASIC COMPUTER Friday, May 27 at the Auburndale library at 11.

COMPUTER CLASS Friday, May 27 at the Middle Village library. Register.

ALUMNI WOODSIDE REUNION Saturday, May 21 Woodside Reunion will be held at the Knights of Columbus Hall. 631-467-6091.

ENVIRONMENT TREE CARE Saturday, May 21 free tree care workshop at the Central library 2-4.

DANCE COUNTRY WESTERN Saturday, May 21 Savannah Sky performs at the Mothers Day Dance. $12. Glendale Memorial Building, 72-02 Myrtle Avenue at 7:30. 7634328.

ISRAELI FOLK Mondays 7:15-9:45 at Hillcrest Jewish Center, 18202 Union Turnpike. $10 session. 380-4145.

LINE DANCING Mondays 6:30-9:30 at Kowalinski Post 4, 61-57 Maspeth Avenue. $7. Cake and coffee. 565-2259.

ENTERTAINMENT and 37 th Street, Astoria. $10 adults. 777-6888.

ART SHOW Saturday and Sunday, May 21, 22 10-5 the Jackson Heights Art Club’s 56 th Annual Members Show at the Parish House, St. Mark’s Church, 33-50 82 nd Street.

Awards ceremony Saturday night 7-10.

SARI GRUBER Sunday, May 22 Sari Gruber, soprano, performs at LeFrak Concert Hall at Queens College. $36. 7938080.

STAMP SHOW Sundays, May 22, June 26 Bayside Stamp Show at the Ramada Inn in Bayside. 104:30. Free.

ABSOLUTELY ANNA Sunday, May 22 Anna Berger will present a onewoman show at the Bay Terrace Jewish Center. $20.

428-6363.

JAZZ & WINE Sunday, May 22 the Bayside Historical Societ y will offer a concert of jazz with wine and cheese at 2 at Fort Totten. $20. 352-1548.

BEETHOVEN Sunday, May 22 Oratorio Societ y of Queens performs at Queensborough Community College at 4. $25. 2793006.

CHINESE ART Monday, May 23 introduction to Contemporary Chinese Art at 6 at the Flushing library.

FOLKLORIC DANCE Monday, May 23 Folkloric dance of Paraguay at 6:30 at the Flushing library.

SINATRA… Monday, May 23 tribute to the music of Sinatra, Manilow, Sedaka and more at the Middle Village library at 7.

US NAVY BAND Tuesday, May 24 US Navy Band Northeast performs at Flushing Town Hall at 7. Free.

463-7700, ext. 22.

WORLD CLASSICS Tuesday, May 24 world classics concert with Horacio Laguna at 1:30 at the Bay Terrace librar y.

GREAT LOVES Tu e s d a y, M a y 2 4 G r e a t Loves of Stage and Screen: A Concert featuring Phyllis Lynd and Sean Mahony at the Rego Park library at 2.

BELLE’S PLAYERS Tu e s d ay, M ay 2 4 B e l l e ’ s Players will perform at the Kew G a r d e n s C o m m u n i t y Center, 80-02 Kew Gardens Road, suite 202 at noon.

Birthday part y for those born in May follows.

BINGO Tuesdays at 7:15 at American Mart yrs Church, church basement, 216-01 Union Tu r n p i k e , B a y s i d e . 4 6 4 4 5 8 2 . Tu e s d ay s at 7:15 (doors open 6) at the Rego Park Jewish Center, 97-30 Queens Blvd. 459-1000.$3 admission includes 12 games.

SYMPHONY GALA Wednesday, May 25 a Night at the Opera with the Queens Symphony Orchestra. 570-0909.

POETRY NIGHT

Thursday, May 26 PS 135 poetry night at 7 at Barnes & Noble, 176-60 Union Turnpike, Fresh Meadows.

OPEN MIC Thursday, May 26 open mic at the East Elmhurst library at 6.

LIVE JAZZ Fridays through December 13 at 180-25 Linden Blvd.., St. Albans. 347-262-1169 ticket information.

SHERRY CHOW GROUP Saturday, May 28 chamber music at 2 at the Flushing library.

SEUSSICAL Saturday, May 28 at Queens Theatre in the Park.

760-0064.

JAMAICA BAY CRUISE Saturdays, May 28, June 18 Jamaica Bay Cruise 4-7 from Brooklyn. 318-9344.

MEMORIAL PARADE Sunday, May 29 at 2 at the intersection of 28 th Avenue and College Point Blvd., ending at 5 th Avenue and 119 th Street.

CEREMONY & PARADE Monday, May 30 at the Whitestone Memorial Field, 149 th Street and 15 th Drive starting at 11.

MEETINGS JEWISH VETS Sundays, May 22, June 26 Jewish War Veterans of the USA Lipsky/Blum Post meet at the Garden Jewish Center. 463-4742.

ST. ALBANS CIVIC Sundays, May 22, June 26 St. Albans Civic Improvement Association meets at 1:30 at St. Albans Lutheran C h u r c h , 2 0 0 th S t r e e t a n d 1 1 9 th A v e n u e in the undercroft. 276-4263.

VFW 4787 Monday, May 23 Whitestone VFW Community Post meets. 746-0540.

TOASTMASTERS Mondays, May 23, June 6, 20 True Potential Toastmasters meet at 7:10. 646-2691577.

FRESH MEADOW CAMERA Tuesdays the Fresh Meadows Camera Club meets.

917-612-3463.

WOMANSPACE Wednesdays Womanspace, a discussion group devoted to issues concerning women, meets 1-3 at the Great Neck Senior Center, 80 Grace Avenue. New members welcome.

FH VAC Wednesdays, May 25, June 22, July 27 Forest Hills Volunteer Ambulance Corp meets. 793-2055.

ADVANCED TOASTMASTER Thursday, May 26 learn the art and science of public speaking. 525-6830.

HORIZONS CLUB Thursday, May 26 the Senior Quartet performs at a meeting of Horizons, for those 55 and over, at the Re fo r m Te m p l e o f F o r e st Hills, 71-11 112 th Street at noon. $3 includes coffee and cake.

TASK FORCE Saturday, May 28 29 th AD Task Force meeting.

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WALKING TOURS Saturday and Sunday, May 21, 22 LIC. Wednesday, May 25 #7 Sunnyside to Jackson Heights. Call 9618406.

RAKONTO Saturday, May 21 Daniel Kelly and Friend perform jazz at Flushing Town Hall.

463-7700, ext. 222.

ASTORIA HISTORICAL Saturday, May 21 History Round Table to honor and salute veterans at 1. $5. Saturday, June 4 “Episode 6: New York: A Documentary” at 1. Free. Sunday, June 5 walking tour of Old Astoria Village. $10 at 11am. Monday, June 6 Documentary on Newtown Creek at 7. $5.

Saturday, June 18 History Round Table with the events of the Civil War in 1861 at 1. $5. Greater Astoria Historical Societ y, 35-20 Broadway, 4 th floor. 278-0700.

OPEN HOUSE Saturday, May 21 the Church of the Resurrection will participate in the Sacred Sites Open House from 103. Come visit and enjoy a tour of the historical church.

85-09 118 th Street, Kew Gardens. 847-2649.

REGINA CARTER Saturday, May 21 Regina Carter’s “Reverse Thread” at 8 at Queens Theatre in the Park. 760-0064.

TEA Saturday, May 21 Nativit y Columbiettes Tea at noon.

835-6853, $10.

SYMPHONY 101 Saturday, May 21 Shake, Rattle and Roll for the family at the Lefferts library at 1 and at the Bayside library at 3.

SWEET CYANIDE Saturday, May 21 premiere rock band at the Flushing library at 2.

BIG BAND Saturday, May 21 Stan Auld performs at the Forest Hills library at 2.

BLUES Saturday, May 21 Jumpin’, Jivin’ and Croonin’ the Blues with Eddie Lee Isaacs at 2:30 at the Langston Hughes library.

EMS CELEBRATION Saturday, May 21 the Little Neck Douglaston Communit y Ambulance Corps will host an EMS Celebration Day Open House 11-4 at 42-18 Marathon Parkway, Little Neck. Free food, equipment demonstrations, health and safet y education, raf f les, more.

MOVING IMAGE Saturday, May 21 “Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer,” “The Member of the Wedding” and “Culture Vision NYC.” Sunday, May 22 “Malcolm X: Bigger Than The screen” and “The Bleak Night.” Friday, May 27 independently animated: An Evening with Bill Plympton.

Saturday, May 28 “Persepolis,” “Adventures in Plymptoons,” “Hair High” and “Idiots and Angels.”

Sunday, May 29 “Persepolis, “Bodyguards and Assassins” and “Serpico.” Museum of the Moving Image, 35 th Avenue

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Queens Today RELIGIOUS TEMPLE BETH Friday, May 20 Shabbat Serv i c e s a t 8 . Te m p l e B e t h Sholom, Flushing. 463-4143.

ASTORIA CENTER Saturday, May 21 adult Bat Mitzvah Ceremony during Shabbat Services 9:30.

Astoria Center of Israel, LIC. 278-2680.

SISTERHOOD SHABBAT Saturday, May 21 the Forest Hills Jewish Center’s S i s t e r h o o d ’ s 8 1 st A n n i v e r sary Shabbat.

CULTURAL JUDAISM Saturday, May 21 Queens Communit y for Cultural Judaism presents Leo Hershowitz at 2 Unitarian Congregation of Queens.

380-5362. $5 non-members.

OPEN HOUSE Saturday, May 21 the Church of the Resurrection 10-3. Come visit and enjoy a tour of the historical church.

85-09 118 th Street, Kew Gardens. 847-2649.

BBQ Sunday, May 22 Congregation Machane Chodosh will hold a Lag Ba’omer BBQ with music, fun, food and activities for all ages. $7 adults or $15 family. Forestdale, Inc. 793-5656.

COOKING FOR SHAVUOT Tuesday, May 24 at 7 at the Central Queens YM-YWHA. 268-5011. $18 advance.

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MISCELLANEOUS DOG/CAT VACCINE Through July 30 Petland Discount locations offer low cost dog and cat vaccinations. Contact your local store.

INSTALLATION Saturday, May 21 Daniel Post of VFW Post 2813 will hold its installation of officers at 3 at the Post Canteen, 51-27 Queens Blvd., Woodside.

HEART RIDE Saturday and Sunday, May 21, 22 Heart Ride cycling experience to raise funds for the American Heart Association. Contact the web at www.AmericanHeartRide.org.

RELAY FOR LIFE Saturday, May 21 College Point Relay for Life for the American Cancer Societ y.

917-443-6989.

TALENT SHOW Saturday, May 21 Sky View Center, NYT V8 Talent Show Kick-Off Event at the Sky View Center in Flushing, 4024 College Point Blvd. 122"30. Free.

CANDLELIGHT Monday, May 23 Annual Candlelight Ceremony at 8 at Maspeth Memorial Park, corner 69 th Street and Grand Avenue. Rain location American Legion Hall, 66-28 Grand Avenue.

SPAY/NEUTER Tu e s d a y, M ay 2 4 5 5 - 5 2 Myrtle Avenue, Ridgewood starting at 7. Sunday, May 29 37-55 82 nd Street, Jackson Heights starting at 7.

LICBDC LAUNCH Wednesday, May 25 LICBDC Spring Gathering and Rebranding Launch in LIC. 786-5300, ext. 21

TEENS TEEN TUTORING Saturday, May 21 at the Bayside library at 10.

BOOST Monday, May 23 Best Out of School at the Arverne library at 3.

SCIENCE SHOW Monday, May 23 Vinny Voltage Science Show at 4 at the Steinway library.

LAPTOPS Monday, May 23 3-5 at the Laurelton library.

BOOK BUDDIES Monday, May 23 at the Laurelton library at 3.

TEEN TUTORING Monday, May 23 at the Bayside library at 3:30.

GAMING FUN Monday, May 23 at the Lefrak Cit y library at 3:30.

PAINTING Monday, May 23 Langston Hughes library at 4.

TEEN COMPUTER Monday, May 23 Rochdale Village library. Register.

TEEN CHESS Monday, May 23 at the Bayside library at 6.

CHAMP PROGRAM Monday, May 23 college and career preparation for teens at 6 at the Langston Hughes library.

BOOK MAKING Monday, May 23 South Jamaica librar y. Register.

GAME ON! Tuesdays, May 24, 31 at 3 at the Glendale library.

BOOST Tuesdays, May 24, 31 at the Arverne library at 3.

LAPTOPS Tuesdays, May 24, 31 at the Laurelton library at 3.

BOOK BUDDIES Tuesdays, May 24, 31 at the Laurelton library at 3.

READING BUDDIES Tuesdays, May 24, 31 at the Auburndale library at 4.

TEEN GAME DAY Tu e s d a y, M ay 2 4 a t t h e Rochdale Village library at 4.

VINNY VOLTAGE Tuesday, May 24 Vinny Voltage Science Show at 4 at the Broadway library.

BUILD VOCABULARY Tu e s d a y, M ay 2 4 a t t h e Laurelton library. Register.

MINI-TABLE TENNIS Tuesday, May 24 at the LIC library at 4.

BOOK MAKING Tuesday, May 24 South Jamaica librar y. Register.

LAPTOPS Wednesday, May 25 at the Laurelton library at 3.

CATS Wednesday, May 25 Council of Advisory Teens meets at the Flushing library at 5.

BOOK BUDDIES Wednesday, May 25 at the Laurelton library at 3.

CHESS & CHECKERS Wednesday, May 25 at the Woodside library at 3.

GAMING FUN Wednesday, May 25 at the Lefrak Cit y library at 3:30.

TEEN GAMES Wednesday, May 25 at the Central library at 4.

TEEN COMPUTER Wednesday, May 25 Ro c h d a l e V i l l a g e l i b r a r y.

Register.

WII TIME Wednesday, May 25 at the

Peninsula library at 4:30.

TASK FORCE Thursday, May 26 at the Arverne library at 6.

READING BUDDIES Thursday, May 26 at the Auburndale library. Register.

RELAX & LISTEN Friday, May 27 Relax, Listen & Chat at the Bay Terrace library at 3:30.

BOOST Friday, May 27 at the Arverne library at 3.

TEEN BOOK BUDDIES Friday, May 27 at the Briarwood library at 3.

TEEN HAPPY HOUR Friday, May 27 at the Flushing library at 3.

LAPTOPS Friday, May 27 at the Laurelton library at 3.

READING BUDDIES Friday, May 27 at the Auburndale library. Register.

TEEN ARTS Friday, May 27 arts and crafts at the Briarwood library at 4.

TEEN DRAMA CLUB Friday, May 27 at the Central library at 4.

TALKS HOME OWNERSHIP Saturday, May 21 Jackson Heights library at 3.

HANNAH RIGLER Sunday, May 22 at 10 after breakfast ($3) at 9:30, Hannah Rigler, author of “10 Prisoners of War Saved My Life” will speak at Temple Beth Sholom, 171-39 Northern Blvd., Flushing.

OCEAN SHIPPING Tuesday, May 24 LaGuardia C o m m u n i t y C o l l e g e p re sents “The Business of Ocean Shipping” at the Flushing library at 6.

HISTORICAL SOCIETY Thursday, May 26 interview with the author Stefanie Pintoff 6:30-8:00 at the Kingsland Homestead, 14335 37 th Avenue, Flushing. $5 members, $8 non-members.

939-0647, ext. 14.

FRESH MEADOWS Thursday, May 26 “Lost Cit y of Z” discussed at 2:30 at the Fresh Meadows library.

THEATER ARSENIC & OLD LACE Friday, May 20 at 8 and Sunday, May 22 at 3. Communit y Church in Douglaston. $15. 631-4092.

DESIGN FOR MURDER Fridays and Saturdays, May 20, 21, 27, 28 and Sunday, May 22 and Saturday, May 28 at 2 at Zion Episcopal Church in Douglaston. $15.

482-3332.

TRIBUTE TO FILM Saturday, May 21 at 8 and Sunday, May 22 at 3 FSF Communit y Theatre Group in Flushing. 516- 354-3017. $16.

KING AND I Saturday, May 21 at 6 and Sunday, May 22 at 2. The St. Mary’s Drama Guild youth group presents “The King And I” in Woodside.

672-4848.

YOUTH CHESS CLUB Wednesday, May 25 at the Poppenhusen library at 4.

WII Wednesday, May 25 at the Peninsula library at 4:30.

BOOST MATH Wednesday, May 25 at the McGoldrick library at 5.

KINDERGARTEN STORY Wednesday, May 25 at the Bellerose library at 3:30.

BOOST Thursday, May 26 at the Arverne library at 3.

GAMING FUN Thursday, May 26 at the Lefrak Cit y library at 3:30.

KICKBALL CRAFT Thursday, May 26 Cambria Heights library at 3:30.

MAY CRAFT Thursday, May 26 Windsor Park library. Register.

BUTT BOOK Thursday, May 26 Kew Gardens Hills library at 4:30.

READING BUDDIES Thursday, May 26 at the Auburndale library. Register.

ARTS & CRAFTS Thursday, May 26 at the Auburndale library at 4.

BOOST SCIENCE Thursday, May 26 at the McGoldrick library at 5.

T WILIGHT TALES

Thursday, May 26 at the Douglaston-Little Neck library. Register.

FAMILY PLAY TIME Friday, May 27 Queensborough library. Register.

READING BUDDIES Friday, May 27 at the Auburndale library. Register.

GO GREEN Friday, May 27 Go green with sustainable design at the Flushing library at 4.

YU-GI-OH TOURNAMENT Friday, May 27 at the Queensboro Hill library at 4.

BOOST Friday, May 27 Boost Game Day at the McGoldrick library at 5.

CHESS CLUB Fridays at the Poppenhusen library at 3:30.

GAME DAY Fridays at 3:30 at the Queens Village library.

GAME TIME Friday, May 27 at the Windsor Park library at 4.

CHESS CLUB Friday, May 27 at the Douglaston/Little Neck library. Register.

YOUNG CHEFS Saturday, May 28 at Alley Pond Environmental Center.

229-4000.

SENIORS SENIOR CHORUS Like to sing? The AARP Queens Chorus holds practice rehearsals for performances at nursing homes, rehab and senior centers.

523-1330.

FREE LUNCH Saturdays, May 21, June 18 at All Saints Church in Richmond Hill. 849-2352 reservations.

ELDER LAW Monday, May 23 at 6:30 at t h e W i n d s o r Pa r k l i b ra r y.

Thursday, June 2 at 2 at the Woodhaven library and 6:30 at the White stone libra r y.

Monday, June 6 at 6:30 at t h e D o u g l a s t o n l i b ra r y.

Thursday, June 16 at 6:30 at the Bay Terrace librar y.

“Elder Law, Estate Planning, Trusts & Asset Protection.”

CLEARVIEW Monday, May 23 Spring Concert by PS203 at 10. Fri-

FLEA MARKETS FLEA MARKET Saturday, May 21 9-4 at the Renaissance Charter School, 35-59 81 st Street, Jackson Heights.

RUMMAGE & CAKE Saturday, May 21 10-4 and Sunday, May 22 9-3 rummage sale and ethnic Polish bake sale at St. Josaphat’s, 3 5 th A v e n u e a n d 2 1 0 th Street, Bayside.

CRAFTS FAIR Thursday and Friday, May 26, 27 10-1:30 at PS721, 5712 94 th Street, Elmhurst.

YARD SALE Saturday, May 28 Annual S p r i n g Ya rd S a l e 9 - 5 a n d Sunday, May 29 12-5 at Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, 157-16 65 th Avenue at Parsons Blvd.

day, May 27 Current Events at 12:45. Clearview Senior Center, 208-11 26 th Avenue, Bayside. 224-7888.

AARP 1405 Mondays, May 23, June 6 Flushing AARP 1405 meets at the Bowne Street Communit y Church, 143-11 Roosevelt Avenue at 1.

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

BELLE’S PLAYERS Tu e s d ay, M ay 2 4 B e l l e ’ s Players will perform at the Kew G a r d e n s C o m m u n i t y Center, 80-02 Kew Gardens Road, suite 202 at noon.

Birthday part y for those born in May follows.

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

DEFENSIVE DRIVING Wednesday, May 25 at the Queens Village library. 4688643.

STARS Wednesday, May 25 at 10:30 at the Hollis library and Friday, May 27 at 10:30 at the Queens Village library.

Senior Theater Acting Repertory meets.

HORIZONS CLUB Thursday, May 26 the Senior Quartet performs at a meeting of Horizons, for those 55 and over, at the Re fo r m Te m p l e o f F o r e st Hills, 71-11 112 th Street at noon. $3 includes coffee and cake.

FREE LUNCH Saturdays, May 28, June 25 at Church of the Resurrection in Kew Gardens. 8472649 reservations.

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APEC SAFARI Saturday, May 21 safari at Alley Pond Environmental Center. 229-4000.

SCULPTURE PARK Saturdays through September 24 the Socrates Sculpture Park will hold drop-in workshops for families.

TEEN TUTORING Saturday, May 21 at the Bayside library at 10.

FAMILY STORY TIME Saturdays, May 21, 28 at the Lefferts library at 2:30.

SCIENCE LAB Saturdays, May 21, 28 at the Central library at 11.

S TORY TIMES Saturdays at 11 and Tuesdays at 10:30 weekly story times at Barnes & Noble, 1766 0 Un i o n Tu r n p i ke , F re s h Meadows.

YOGA & ME Monday, May 23 for preschoolers at the Briarwood librar y. Register.

READ TO A DOG Monday, May 23 at the Sunnyside library. Register.

BOOK MAKING Monday and Tuesday, May 23, 24 at the South Jamaica library. Register.

BOOST Monday, May 23 at the Arverne library at 3.

HOMEWORK HELP Monday, May 23 at the McGoldrick library at 3.

TEEN TUTORING Monday, May 23 at the Bayside library at 3:30.

GAMING FUN Monday, May 23 at the Lefrak Cit y library at 3:30.

CHESS CLUB Monday, May 23 at the Lefferts library at 6.

GO GREEN Monday, May 23 Go Green with Sustainable Design at the LIC library at 4.

BOOST Tuesdays, May 24, 31 at the Arverne library at 3.

BOOK BUDDIES Tu e s d a y, M ay 2 4 a t t h e Hillcrest library at 3:30.

READING BUDDIES Tuesdays, May 24, 31 at the Auburndale library. Register.

BALLOON SCULPTING Tu e s d a y, M ay 2 4 a t t h e Rego Park library. Register.

PENGUIN EXPLORERS Tuesday, May 24 at the Corona library at 4.

NUTRITION WORKSHOP Tu e s d a y, M ay 2 4 a t t h e Laurelton library. Register.

CIRCLE OF FRIENDS Tuesdays, May 24, 31 at the Glen Oaks library at 11.

BOOST READING Tuesdays, May 24, 31 at the McGoldrick library at 5.

BOOST Wednesday, May 25 at the Arverne library at 3.

CHESS & CHECKERS Wednesday, May 25 at the Woodside library at 3.

FOLDED PUPPET Wednesday, May 25 at the East Flushing library at 4.

FUN READING CLUB Wednesday, May 25 at the Bay Terrace library at 3:30.

GAMING FUN Wednesday, May 25 at the Lefrak Cit y library at 3:30.

READING BUDDIES Wednesday, May 25 at the Auburndale library at 4.

DINING & ENTERTAINMENT

Queens Today

LEGAL NOTICE

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NARGENTINO DISUNNO NARGENTINO LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC), filed with the Sec of State of NY on 3/24/11. NY Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/ her to The LLC, 167 Tulip Ave., Floral Park, NY 11001.

General Purposes. ______________________________________________________________

or interest in the premises described in the complaint adverse to that of the plaintiffs because of the mortgages described in the petition, BERNARD STARR, HILDA STARR KELLER, LINDA STARR WIENER, BARTON STARR a/k/a BARRY STARR, JAMES DAVID STARR a/k/a JAMIE STARR, STANLEY I. RUBENFELD, SHEILA PAKULA, KEITH M. USISKIN a/k/a KEITH S. USISKIN, SUSANNE a/k/a SUZANNE USISKIN, NATALIE ROY f/k/ a NATALIE SUE USISKIN, Defendants. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to serve upon Plaintiff’s attorney an answer to the Complaint in this action within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after service is complete if the Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this answer, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. In case of your failure to answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

Trial is desired in the County of Queens. The basis of venue situs of real property encumbered by mortgages which are sought to be discharged in the within action. The nature of the action is an action brought pursuant to Article 15 of the Real Property Actions and Proeedings Law to compel the determination of possible claims to real property known on the Tax Map of the City of New York for the Borough of Queens as Block 4737, Lots 19 and 20, which may be made by the defendants. The relief sought is the discharge of (a) a mortgage in the amount of $ 11,100.00 made by Leonard F. Borrelli to William Starr dated June 14, 1961, and recorded on June 14, 1961 in the office of the Register of the City of New York, County of Queens, in Liber 7861 of Mortgages, at page 466; (b) a mortgage in the amount of $ 12,500.00 made

by Leonard F. Borrelli to George Rubenfeld dated April 10, 1964, and recorded on April 14, 1964 in the office of the Register of the City of New York, County of Queens, in Liber 8381 Mortgages, at page 408; and (c) a mortgage in the amount of $ 35,400.00 made by Leonard F. Borrelli to Isadore Usiskin dated October 8, 1964 and recorded on October 23, 1964 in the office of the Register of the City of New York, County of Queens, in Liber 8506 of Mortgages, at page 37. Dated: March 7, 2011.

MICHAEL S. WINOKUR, Attorney for Plaintiff, Office and Post Office Address, 75-81 183 rd Street, Flushing, New York 11366, Telephone number (718) 264-7400. To the above named defendants: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of

the Hon. Allan B. Weiss, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of N.Y., dated April 6, 2011 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: Parcel I – All that certain piece or parcel of real property with the improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Queens, County of Queens, City and State of New York, known and designated as Lots 51, 52, and 53 in Block 3 on a certain map entitled, “Map of Flushing, 3rd W a r d , B o r o u g h o f Queens, City of New York”, said map having been prepared by A.U. Whitson, C.E., completed August 20, 1923 and filed on October 11, 1923 as Map No. 438, in the Officer of the Clerk of the County of Queens, more particularly bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point on the southerly side of 20 th Road, distant 306.76 feet east of the easterly side of 154th Street; Running thence southerly parallel with the easterly side of 1 5 4 th S t r e e t , 1 0 0 f e e t ; Thence easterly parallel with the easterly side of 154 th Street, 60 feet; Thence northerly parallel with the easterly side of 154 th Street, 100 feet to the southerly side of 120 th Road; Thence westerly along the southerly side of 20 th Road, 60 feet to the point or place of beginning. Said premises known as and by the street number 154-34 20 th Road, Whitestone, New York 11357. Said premises being known on the Tax Map of the City of New York for the County of Queens as Block 4737, Lot 20. Parcell II – All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected lying and being in the Borough and County of Queens, City and State of New York, known and designated as all of Lot 54 and the Easterly 15 feet of Lot 56 in Block 9 on a certain map entitled “Map of property belonging to the Flushing Drive Club Realty Association, Inc. situate at Flushing, Third Ward. Borough of Queens, City of New York”, said map having been prepared by A.U. Whitson, C.E. completed 8/20/1923 and filed on 10/11/1923 as Map 438, in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Queens, more particularly bounded and described according to said map as follows: Beginning at a point on the southerly side of 20 th Road distant 271.78 feet easterly from the intersection of the southerly side of 20 th Road and 14 th Avenue, now 154 th Street; Thence southerly and parallel with the easterly side of 154 th Street, 100.01 feet; Thence easterly and parallel with the southerly side of 20th Road, 35 feet; Thence northerly and again parallel with the easterly side of 154 th Street, 100.01 feet to the southerly side of 20 th Road; Thence westerly along the southerly side of 20 th Road,

35 feet to the point or place of beginning. Said premises are presently known on the Tax Map of the City of New York for the Borough of Queens as Block 4737, Lot 19. ______________________________________________________________

203 of the Limited Liability Company Law FIRST: The name of the limited liability company is: OAE INTERNATIONAL, LLC SECOND: The county within this state in which the office of the limited liability company is to be located is: Queens THIRD: The Secretary of State is designated as agent of the limited liability company upon whom process against it may be served. The address within or without this state to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the limited liability company served upon him or her is: NAOKI OKAI, 80-59 LEFFERTS BLVD. KEW GARDENS, NY 11415 NAOKI OKAI (signature of organizer) NAOKI OKAI (print or type of organizer) ______________________________________________________________

dividuals and individuals with disabilities. Buses acquired by private non-profit organizations through this Federal program may be leased to private for profit operator interested in provision of these specialized transportation services. Any private-for profit operator interested in providing the above service using the Section 5310 grant vehicle or its own buses should contact Mr. Curtis Stembridge at (718) 6586660 ext 14, within 15 calendar days to request a copy of the service proposal. The private operator may then submit a proposal for service, including an itemized budget for the fee it would require to operate the service.

The private operator’s proposal must be submitted to the applicant within 15 calendar days after receipt of the service proposal. In the event you choose not to become involved with the program. Please provide a signoff letter to the above applicant. ______________________________________________________________

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: 29-03 HUNTERS POINT AVENUE, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/30/11. 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, 213-19 99 th Avenue, Queens Village, New York 11429. Purpose: For any lawful purpose. ______________________________________________________________

Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 5/ 11/11, bearing Index Number NC-000504-11/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) Tsering (Middle) Dekyi (Last) Lama My present name is (First) Tsering (Last) Dekyi aka Tsering Dekyi Lama aka Tsering Lama My present address is 37-15 64 th Street, Apt #5G, Woodside, NY 11377.

My place of birth is Nepal My date of birth is October 31, 1991 ______________________________________________________________ Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 5/ 11/11, bearing Index Number NC-000505-11/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) Tenzin (Middle) Nordon (Last) Lama My present name is (First) Tenzin (Last) Nordon aka Tenzin Nordon Lama aka Tenzin Lama My present address is 37-15 64 th Street, Apt #5G, Woodside, NY 11377 My place of birth is Nepal My date of birth is August 01, 1990 ______________________________________________________________ Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 4/ 5/11, bearing Index Number NC-000267-11/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) Shen (Middle) Cai (Last) Yu My present name is (First) Jason (Last) Yu aka Shen Yu aka Shen C. Yu aka Shen Cai Yu My present address is 92-03 4 8 th A v e n u e , 1 st F l o o r , Elmhurst, NY 11373 My place of birth is China My date of birth is September 19, 1988 ______________________________________________________________ ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION OF OAE INTERNATIONAL, LLC Under Section

Notice of Formation JYA Realty LLC art. of org. filed Secy. of State NY (SSNY) 12/23/ 10. Off. Loc. in Queens Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 37-39 30 th St, Long Island City, NY 11101. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. ______________________________________________________________ Notice of formation of C.R.Donald Group, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 3/30/ 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: 90-59 56 th Avenue #2M, Elmhurst, NY. Purpose: any lawful purpose. ______________________________________________________________ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: BREAD THEATRE LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/11/11.

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, 35-20 9 th Street, Long Island City, New York 11106.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose. ______________________________________________________________ Public Notice of Intent To Provide Transportation For Elderly Individuals and Individuals with Disabilities Utilizing Federal Funds Bus and Taxi Operators are hereby notified that The Allen A.M.E. Senior Transportation Program is applying for a grant, under Section 5310 of Chapter 53 of title 49, United States Code, to acquire a grant vehicle to operate specialized transportation services within the South East Queens area to meet the needs of the elderly individuals and individuals with disabilities. The purpose of this notice is to invite private for profit bus, taxi and ambulette operators to participate in development of the proposed transportation program and in the provision of transportation services to elderly in-

"Notice is hereby given that a license, for beer, liquor and/or wine shall be applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, liquor and/or wine at retail in a restaurant, under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 35-50 31 st Street, Astoria, New York for onpremises consumption.

VALENTINA GROUP, INC." ______________________________________________________________ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: CXC REALTY LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/11/11. The latest date of dissolution is 12/31/2111.

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, 39 Kings Point Road, Great Neck, New York 11024. Purpose: For any lawful purpose. ______________________________________________________________ Notice of Formation of DATAR CAB LLC, a domestic LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/22/2011.

Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: Jaspreet Singh, 133-48 123 Street 2 nd Fl, Jamaica, NY 11420. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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Index No. 7335/11. SUMMONS WITH NOTICE. DATE PURCHASED: MARCH 24, 2011. SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS LOIS SENZER, as executrix of the Last Will and Testament of Leonard F. BORRELLI, Deceased, and CAMISI CONSTRUCTION, LLC, Plaintiffs, -against- WILLIAM STARR, GEORGE RUBENFELD, and ISADORE USISKIN, if said above named defendants be living, and if any of said defendants be dead, then any and all other persons who may claim as heirs-at-law, next-of-kin, devisees, distributees, legal representatives, and successors in interest of said defendants, their wives or husbands, creditors, mortgagees, lienors, assigns and legal representatives of them and the successors in interest of said heirs-at-law, next-of-kin, devisees, distributees and legal representatives, their wives, husbands, creditors, mortgagees, lienors, assignees and legal representatives of them and if any specifically named defendant or any defendants named as a class be dead, then their heirs-at-law, next-of-kin, devisees, grantees, distributees, husbands, widows, wives, executors, trustees, administrators, assigns, mortgagees, lienors and successors in interest and generally all parties having or claiming to have an interest in or lien upon the premises described in the complaint of any amendment thereto by, through or under any of said specifically named defendants herein or by, through or under any of the other defendants herein named specifically or as a class, all of whom and whose places of residence are unknown to the plaintiff and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained claims or may claim to have, or it appears by the public records that they may claim, some estate

Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 4/ 7/11, bearing Index Number NC-000232-11/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) Joan (Last) Kuziemko My present name is (First) Joan (Last) Kuzienko aka Joan Kuziemko My present address is 44-10 Mac Nish Street, Apt #5C, Elmhurst, NY 11373 My place of birth is New York, NY My date of birth is July 02, 1946 ______________________________________________________________

Windows Of Opportunity

Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott

Really, NYPD?

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Apparently, rank doesn’t matter in Queens when you’re guilty of “Driving While Black.”

The saying is rooted in the frustration of many black communities, including ours in Southeast Queens, where the perception is that cars get pulled over for bogus reasons when the driver is black.

The latest victim? Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott, who was being driven home to St. Albans two weeks ago shortly before midnight when he was pulled over by two cops. One cop said that the car made a turn without using a signal, but Walcott leaned over, identified himself, and said he had heard the clicking sound of the signal.

After a license check, the driver and Walcott were able to leave without a ticket, but Walcott immediately filed a complaint with the NYPD, which has launched an internal investigation into the matter.

In 2008, a white police officer was disciplined when he pulled over a black driver for no true reason, and the driver turned out to be a high-ranking member of the NYPD out of uniform.

Oh – best part – when Walcott asked for the officers’ badge numbers, neither identified themselves.

Good going, cops. Building that community trust, we see.

The Bayside-based non-profit Windows of Opportunity, which offers teens and young adults innovative programs to address self-esteem, has started Shortstack, a modeling company for girls too petite to meet the standards of the modeling industry.

Sporting a list of more than a dozen young ladies from Queens neighborhoods, the models of Shortstack participate in community service and charity events, photo shoots, workshops, trainings, rehearsals, field trips and fashion shows to become a family and change the standards.

Recently, they pitched in to clean up a Queens Village playground for Earth Day. Here, the gals sported a little more fabric than the couture lines they model, but their hard work and dedication paid off to help neighborhood children have a clean and safe place to play.

Shortstack will hold a charity show June 17 at the Midtown Loft & Terrace to raise funds for Windows of Opportunity. To learn more about the event, go to wooshortstack.org or call (718) 916-6037.

We’re sure the Shortstack girls will continue to grace our pages in the coming weeks. Be sure to keep coming back to see these girls prove that you don’t need height to make it big.

The girls from Shortstack (l.-r): .Carla Galvianes, Nicole Gim, Emily Taylour Gural and Joaly Trinidad

When it comes to caring for the environment, Queens has always been an eco-friendly green machine.

So it was no surprise to discover Long Island City resident Erik Baard won the Greenest NYer contest.

Baard is responsible for the LIC Community Boat House and the planting of Pippin apple trees.

The contest was organized by Empire State Development, best known for its “I Love NY” campaign.

As the premiere borough for parks and natural environs, it’s only fitting Erik hails from Queens.

Green Giant

Queens Rising The chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, has a big job ahead of her to prepare for next year’s elections – but given her beginnings, we’d like to think she’s ready for the job.

Born in Forest Hills, she moved out to Long Island as a teen and ended up at the University of Florida, where, unlike other students who go there to major in tanning, she earned her undergrad and a Masters in political science by the time she was 24. At age 26, in 1992, she became the youngest woman ever elected to the Florida state legislature, where she served for eight years before moving up to the Florida State Senate.

In 2004 she raised $1 million for a Congressional run and took the seat of her retiring mentor, Peter Deutsch. In her time in office she has raised three kids, fought off cancer, had a double mastectomy and still comes out of the corner swinging, which is why President Barack Obama tapped her for this prominent role.

She joins a long list of prominent national figures, such as Queens native Ron Brown as well as Howard Dean and Chris Dodd.

Go get ’em, Debbie.

Erik Baard (left) of Long Island City is greener than you.

Models Of Queens It Gets Worse It never ends.

If you think Mets fans have been suffering this spring, how do you think the team feels?

Just this past week, the Amazin’s lost No. 1 pitching prospect Jenri Mejia until next year, former All-Star pitcher Chris Young for the season and even newcomer first baseman Ike Davis headed to the DL because – get this – he and David Wright collided on a play that Pitcher Mike Peflrey should have dealt with in the first place.

Last Tuesday night in Colorado, on a routine soaring pop-up near the pitcher’s mound, Pelfrey backed away as Wright and Davis both came in from the corners.

They both called for it, but neither could apparently hear the other.

They collided right in front of Pelfrey, with Davis smashing into

Ike Davis isn’t smiling today, and neither are Mets fans.

Wright and rolling his left ankle in the process.

The only good news to come was that Wright made the catch and was able to hold on to the ball.

This team is, player by player, falling apart; its finances are in ruin; and its fans just aren’t showing up.

How long until football season?

Confidentially, New York . . .

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