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Red-faced Port Authority officials arecalling for an investigation into justhow a Howard Beach man was able to

swim up to John F. Kennedy International Air-port from Jamaica Bay and breach the securityperimeter without being noticed last week.

And in a scathing letter to Port AuthorityExecutive Director Patrick Foye, the union rep-resenting PA police officers is calling the air-port’s perimeter detection system an “expen-sive piece of junk with no value as a securitydeterrent” while manned patrols have beenslashed outside the airport.

Daniel Casillo, 31, was operating a personalwatercraft in the bay on Friday evening, Aug.10, when it became disabled. Unable to con-tact help, he swam for the nearest landmass,which happened to be the airport grounds.

Casillo, wearing a bright yellow life vest,was then able to climb an 8-foot barbed wiresecurity fence and cross at least one workingrunway at one of the busiest airports in theworld.

Despite a perimeter security system put inplace by the Port Authority at a cost estimat-ed by multiple sources to be in excess of$100 million, Casillo was able to walk unde-tected and unchallenged into an aircraft ramparea outside JFK’s Terminal 3, which houses

operations for Delta Air Lines.Shortly after being approached by a Delta

employee and asking for help, he was arrestedand charged with criminal trespass. He is freepending a court appearance on Oct. 2.

JFK is protected by a Perimeter IntrusionDetection System produced by the Massachu-setts-based Raytheon Company.

The system consists of sensors, motiondetectors and closed-circuit television camerasthat are supposed to be monitored by civiliansecurity personnel who are not affiliated withthe Port Authority’s own police department.

According to the website of the PortAuthority of New York and New Jersey, JFKcovers 4,930 acres and has nine miles of run-ways and 30 miles of roadways.

Representatives of the Port Authority didnot return calls seeking comment on the mat-ter, but did release a statement.

“The Port Authority took immediate action toincrease its 24/7 police presence with round-the-clock patrols of the facility’s perimeter andincreased patrols by boat of the surroundingwaterway,” it said. “We have called for an expe-dited review of the incident and a completeinvestigation to determine how Raytheon’sperimeter intrusion detection system — whichexceeds federal requirements — could beimproved. Our goal is to keep the region’s air-ports safe and secure at all times.”

The Port Authority also operates LaGuardiaAirport in Queens and Newark-Liberty andTeterboro airports in New Jersey.

An expert on airport security matters,speaking to the Chronicle on the condition ofanonymity, said while federal standards are inplace, each airport — or the Port Authority inthe case of JFK — is responsible for its ownperimeter security, which is incorporated intoan Airport Security Program, or ASP.

The security expert said an ASP takes intoaccount each airport’s unique footprint, loca-tion and possible security challenges. EachASP must incorporate perimeter security, pre-vention and detection of unauthorized entry,and the presence and movement of both indi-viduals and vehicles entering or already withinso-called secured areas.

The federal Transportation Safety Adminis-tration regulates each airport’s compliance and

regularly conducts comprehensive securityinspections.

On Monday a spokeswoman for the TSAwould say only that “the TSA is workingwith the investigating authorities” in the

PA ripped on JFK security breachStranded swimmer walks undetected from bay onto runways, secure areas

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The view from the water: A stranded jet-skierwas able to penetrate deep into secure areasof Kennedy Airport last week after swimming infrom Jamaica Bay. FILE PHOTO

“An expensive piece ofjunk with no value as a security deterrent.”

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SOUTH UEENS NEWSQGarbage rules at North Conduit lot

Owners received violations in 2007, but civic leader sees no change

by Domenick RafterAssociate Editor

When the George Seuffert Bandshellin Forest Park hosts concer ts, theacoustics are so good, the music can beheard in the streets of Woodhaven up to amile away, but when Irish crooner AndyCooney sang with his world-famous bandduring Irish Night on June 16, some ofthe concert could not be heard feet away.

Concertgoers say people on motorcy-cles disrupted the concert, riding aroundthe parking lot and allegedly riding nearthe bandshell itself.

But Community Board 9 District Man-ager Mary Ann Carey said she never gotany complaints about motorcycles dis-rupting the concert.

“We haven’t received any complaintsabout motorcycles in Forest Park,” shesaid noting that there are no regulationsagainst motorcycles being in the park.

“They have to follow the same rulesand regulations as other vehicles,” sheadded.

Motorcyclists often use the parking lot

at the bandshell to ride around. The lot isusually empty unless there is an event atthe bandshell or the carousel.

A spokesman for the Parks Depart-ment said it also did not receive com-plaints about the motorcyclists from theJune event and does respond to com-plaints in Forest Park.

Carey said the Parks Department islacking in enforcement off icers inQueens. Most of the few off icersassigned to the borough are on RockawayBeach or in Flushing Meadows CoronaPark during the summer and they do notwork at night, when the park is notoriousfor being a haven for illicit sex anddrugs.

But she noted the park has beendoing well this summer, hosting a num-ber of events during June and July withmore events planned for the fall, includ-ing a Back to School Festival at VictoryField on Sept. 6, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.She also said the long-awaited reopen-ing of the carousel this year was a boonfor the park. Q

CB 9, Parks say no complaints filed

Parkgoers fret aboutmotorcycle noise

A passenger arriving at Kennedy Airportwas arrested on federal narcotics smugglingcharges after federal Customs and BorderProtection officers allegedly found heroin in38 packages of hair treatment that she wascarrying.

In a statement issued on Thursday, CBPofficials said Emilce Cardona was arrestedon July 25 after flying in from Colombia.

Authorities said the bags were packed in herluggage, and contained a pasty brown sub-stance that tested positive for heroin.

“This latest seizure demonstrates thesteadfastness of the CPB officers on theground to detect, detain and deter those whowould try and import these illegal sub-stances,” said Robert Perez, the agency’sdirector of field operations in New York.

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A lonely cricket chirped itsmorning song, echoing over eventhe cacophony of airplane jets, autoengines, and the screech of passingsubway trains. The cricket was themetaphorical needle in a haystack,lying hidden among the overgrownweeds and yellow wildflowers thatgrow without care.

Seen on a map, the northwestcorner of Cohancy Street and NorthConduit Avenue looks like primereal estate. Located just off thebusy Belt Parkway, adjacent to theAqueduct-North Conduit subwaystation and steps from AqueductRacetrack and Resorts World Casi-no New York City, the site appearsto be an ideal place for a generalstore, deli or restaurant. Every day,dozens of people stroll by headingfor the subway. The site is passedby traffic heading west on NorthConduit Avenue toward Cross BayBoulevard and traffic into and outof Howard Beach looking to avoid

the busy boulevard. But no busy commercial or even

residential establishment sits on thecorner. Instead, the 35,000-square-foot site is home to overgrownweeds, dilapidated buildings, anoticeable amount of litter andchirping crickets.

The site belongs in a “hall ofshame,” said Howard Kamph, presi-dent of the Ozone Park Civic Asso-ciation, who has been seeking somemaintenance of the plot, which hasbeen vacant for decades. He said thesite is not only an eyesore, but also asafety hazard, especially for com-muters who walk past the area toand from the subway station at nightand early in the morning.

“Somebody could get pulled inthe back of the building, getmugged, raped and murdered andno one would ever find your body,”Kamph warned.

At one time, the corner washome to a business. A gas stationand auto body shop sat on the site,with just the old garages remaining

as ruins representing a differenttime period. In winter months, thesigns advertising “lubrication” and“repairs” can be seen, but in themiddle of August, the entire garageis engulfed in greenery. Kamph saida newsstand existed on the site for ashort time but did not survive.

“There’s no parking,” he said.“All you get is customers whowalk by.”

The site is actually four differentlots. Two are completely vacantwhile the other two host the aban-doned service station, built in 1955,and a red brick building that lookslike it was once a home, built abouta century ago, according to Build-ings Department records. Behindthe site, a construction companydoes business, the only sign of anycommerce in the area. The neigh-borhood surrounding the land isless dense than most of SouthwestQueens. Unkempt meadows arejust as common as homes here andthe stretch of Cohancy Street justnorth of North Conduit Avenue is

devoid of sidewalks. For a time, furniture was sold on

the site off the back of a truck thatallegedly came from North Caroli-na, but that business was shut downin 2007 after the owner of the lot

was given a summons from theBuildings Department.

That same year, Kamph contact-ed then-Councilman Joe AddabboJr. about the land and Addabbo


The vacant site at North Conduit Avenue and Cohancy Street in Ozone Park isthe former site of a gas station and newsstand, and now plays host toovergrown flora and crumbling buildings. PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER

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A proposed soccer stadium in Flushing Meadows Park anda possible gambling casino in nearby Willets Point came tothe fore this week, although neither proposal is likely to hap-pen anytime soon.

The plan to put a soccer stadium in the borough’s largestand busiest park was floated in June when Major LeagueSoccer officials met with elected officials. The New YorkPost reported on Monday that MLS is nearing a deal withstate and city officials to build a nine-acre $300 million,25,000-seat facility and nine public soccer fields.

Although no sources were named, the indication is that theonly holdup is approvals by the state, city and MetropolitanTransportation Authority because public parkland isinvolved. The story said construction could begin early nextyear, once agreement is reached on replacing the lost park-land with the same amount of land elsewhere .

But several individuals aware of the project, who asked toremain anonymous, told the Queens Chronicle that it was nota done deal and would take time to complete the negotiationsand garner the approvals. One person indicated that thedevelopers need to identify nearby parkland, which couldcome from MTA or Department of Transportation property,to replace the nine acres and add the soccer fields.

Twenty games would be played and only when the Metsare out of town, with the season running from March toNovember. Parking is proposed at Citi Field, which is prob-lematic. The Mets’ parking lot is located some distance fromthe proposed site of the soccer stadium.

In addition, the Mets have their own plan for the future useof the lot; they want to convert it into a large shopping center

and parking garage. At this point, it is unclear if that plan iseven legal, since the site is located on public parkland.

The soccer stadium would be built at the Fountain of thePlanets, one of the few remaining relics of the 1964-65World’s Fair. Preservationists like Greg Godfrey, president ofthe Flushing Meadows Corona Park World’s Fair Association,is not happy about it. His group wants the fountain restored,not destroyed.

State Sen. Jose Peralta (D-Jackson Heights), however, hasbeen a big booster for the stadium. “It’s encouraging to seethe progress that is being made on an economic developmentproject that will create badly needed construction and perma-nent jobs,” Peralta said. “With a centrally located soccer sta-dium that has Citi Field and the United States Tennis Centeras neighbors, and an extensive transportation infrastructureservicing the area, there is the potential to create in North-Central Queens a world-class sports and entertainment desti-nation that is second to none.”

A spokeswoman for MLS offered the following guardedstatement regarding progress on the proposal: “We arethrilled about the prospect of being in Queens and bringingthe world’s sport to the world’s park. We are in exploratorydiscussions with the city and with Queens officials and lookforward to working with the community to build a world-class soccer facility for all to enjoy.”

The plan will have to undergo the uniform land use reviewprocess, a nine-month public procedure, so all who wereinterviewed agreed construction is not likely to begin forsome time.

Dan Andrews, spokesman for Borough President HelenMarshall, said MLS officials had met with her about sixweeks ago. Marshall told them her concerns over parking.

Also concerned about parking is Community Board 7Chairman Gene Kelty. “Where would the overflow go?” heasked.

He said the board has asked for a meeting with MLS, butnothing has been set up yet. “We want to hear what theirplans are and how it will affect the expansion project at theUSTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center,” Kelty said.

Soccer and casino dreams for QueensSeparate proposals have a long way to go but could become reality


The Fountain of the Planets as it looked during the 1964-65World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows Park. It could be the site of a$300 million professional soccer stadium. FILE PHOTO

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No new gun lawsDear Editor:

I would applaud senators Gianaris’ and Peral-ta’s initiatives in “State senators try for toughgun control laws,” (Aug.9) — if the provisionsof their laws would apply to criminals.

Law-abiding citizens and shopkeepers whowant to protect their lives and those of theirfamilies or employees are the only ones whowould suffer the consequences of these ill-conceived and further restrictive initiatives:more delays, more paperwork, more money.Just ask the defenseless Dominican livery cabdrivers who are easy prey for criminals. Felonswould continue to get their weapons easily andinexpensively.

Since the police always arrive after the crime,politicians should be held responsible for mak-ing it near impossible for citizens to protectthemselves. Ironically, in countries that havestrict gun-control laws, such as the United King-dom and Australia, crime has risen significantly,whereas in a state such as Vermont that has nogun-control laws, the crime rate is the next tolowest in the United States.

I am glad that we have a Republican majorityin the our Senate, endowed with common-sense,that would not pass such futile and onerous leg-islation. A recently released federal reportshows that while the bulk of the weapons recov-ered from crimes in our state were traced toother states, the largest single source remainsNew York itself, where 1,595 were first pur-

chased. Has anyone asked what happens to theguns confiscated by the police?

Nicholas A. NeuhausHoward Beach

Bet on Resorts WorldDear Editor:

In May, the Resorts World casino at Aque-duct topped the nation in slot machine revenuefor the month, generating $57.5 million. Earlierthis month, Resorts World shattered the weeklyrecord for gross slot gaming revenue and tax-generation in the State of New York, taking innearly $15 million and sending $6.5 million ineducation funding upstate in just seven days,from July 1 to July 7. Resorts World is recover-ing tens of millions of monthly gaming dollars,which were initially going to casinos in neigh-boring states.

With world-class gaming right here inQueens, there has not only been an influx ofcasino patrons, but an influx in tourists to theborough as a whole, which has been a boon toour local economy. New Yorkers and touristsalike are aware that they no longer have totravel to neighboring states to have a wonder-

ful world-class gaming experience, it existsright here in Queens.

In March, the Assembly passed legislation asthe first step in the process to amend the stateconstitution to allow for enhanced casino gam-ing at seven facilities across the state. The con-stitutional amendment would need to be passedagain by both houses in the Legislature before itwould go to voters in a referendum for approval.While there has been much discussion aboutother potential sites, should we really be gam-bling with established success?

There is no need to look any farther thanResorts World at Aqueduct, a proven locationand partner for enhanced gaming. Since theybegan operations, Resorts World has been avaluable community neighbor who has workedhand-in-hand with elected leaders, the NYPDand the community to ensure a seamless devel-opment at the Aqueduct facility. Given the righttools, Resorts World will continue to exceedevery expectation, expand on their local work-force and stimulate our local economy. A major-ity of the nearly 1,700 jobs that were created byResorts World were given to Queens residents;in addition, local businesses are thriving fromthe influx of visitors.

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EDITORIAL AGEPKick off soccer, bench the casino

This week two separate proposals to make northernQueens a bigger entertainment destination than italready is with Citi Field and the U.S. Tennis Center

made news. We think one would be a great addition to thearea, and the other, not so much.

The first is a plan to build a Major League Soccer stadiumin Flushing Meadows Park where the Fountain of the Planets,a remnant of the 1964-65 World’s Fair, is now. It’ll be tough tosee yet another relic of Queens’ past disappear, but the stadi-um would draw thousands of people to games, providing morewholesome family entertainment here in the borough andboosting the economy.

Queens being home to so many immigrants, many of themost recent from countries where soccer is king, it only makessense to build an arena for the sport here. As a spokeswomanfor MLS put it, such a facility would “bring the world’s sportto the world’s park.” As it stands now, fans have to go to NewJersey, where the Red Bulls play, to watch professional soccer.The game that everyone else in the world aptly calls “foot-ball,” a game that’s getting more popular all the time amongnative-born Americans as well as immigrants, should have aprofessional home in New York.

That said, the stadium cannot be built overnight. Since itwould be erected in a park, an equal amount of land else-where, nine acres, would have to be set aside as parkland. Italso would require approvals from a number of city and stateagencies. And the plan, at least what’s known of it at thispoint, could use some tweaking. It calls, for example, forpatrons to park at Citi Field, but that’s quite a distance awayfrom where the stadium would be built. Still, it’s a plan worthpursuing, with benefits that outweigh the costs.

Not worth pursuing is another possible plan for northernQueens that made the news this week, a casino at WilletsPoint. There’s enough planned for Willets Point already, andthere’s no need for a second gambling mecca in Queens. If thestate legalizes Vegas-style gaming, as it seems inclined to do,Resorts World Casino New York, the popular new racino atAqueduct Race Track, is the right location for it.

Luckily, the Willets Point casino is not a serious plan that’smoving forward, like the soccer stadium, but simply a trialballoon that Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver floated. We saystick a pin in it. Mayor Bloomberg and Seth Pinsky, presidentof the city’s Economic Development Corp., seem to agree. Inthis instance, we’ll place our bets with them.

The city Landmarks PreservationCommission did the right thing thisweek in landmarking Brinckerhoff

Cemetery in Fresh Meadows, a vestige ofsome of Queens’ earliest European settlers.

The site isn’t much to look at, but it’s whatlies beneath that has historical and emotion-al value: whatever is left of the remains of atleast 77 people, and markers over many oftheir graves, which a prior owner admittedburying to lessen the land’s significance.

Barring an appeal unlikely to succeed, thelandmarking prevents the current ownerfrom building houses on the site. Next thecity, or some private group, must come upwith the funds to buy the land, restore it andshow proper respect to our ancestors whorest there. The owner must be made whole,of course, but he also must be preventedfrom building any “Poltergeist” houses onland that is sacred to the history of Queens.

A landmark move

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sent more than $330 million to the state, whichincludes more than $212 million to the stateeducation fund. For too long, New York Cityhas forfeited potential revenue to neighboringstates like New Jersey and Connecticut becauseof its lack of gaming. Building Resorts World atAqueduct was the right decision for New YorkState and our community. In these tough eco-nomic times, revenue-generating, job-creatingopportunities are few and far between, andgiven the opportunity to expand, the safest betwould be for Resorts World at Aqueduct.

Phillip GoldfederNYS Assemblyman for the 23rd District

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MTA mistreats disabledDear Editor:

The recent MTA construction of an auxiliaryentrance/exit at the Briarwood-Van Wyck E-Fsubway station with a stairway is not compliantwith the maximum extent feasibility standardsfor accessibility for persons with disabilities inwheelchairs.

The Americans with Disabilities Act Stan-dards for Transportation Facilities apply to theconstruction and alterations of transportationfacilities effective Nov. 29, 2006. Specifically,the standards for accessible routes (Chapter 4:402) require “one or more of the followingcomponents: ramps ... elevators” for wheelchairaccessibility. The projected construction of anelevator at this station also is noncompliantsince its terminus will be the mezzanine, not thestation platform. Therefore, upon final comple-tion of this boondoggle accommodating the VanWyck Expressway widening of the Kew Gar-dens Interchange Project, we shall have MTAessentially noncompliant with ADA standardseffective in 2006. Wheelchair-bound personswith disabilities will be forced to dodge con-gested vehicular traffic along Queens Boule-vard toward the Kew Gardens station, whoseelevator is ADA-compliant at the station level.The present Van Wyck bridge and contiguousconstruction site is a nightmare of obstacles anddangerous vehicular traffic flow.

I suggest a class-action lawsuit by personswith disabilities against the MTA for permanentnoncompliance in Briarwood with the federalADA standards for public transportation facili-ties. A protest of a thousand wheelchair-boundsubway commuters here in Briarwood withsummonses and complaints heading for theFederal District Court in Brooklyn would be awelcome event for the MTA.

Joseph N. ManagoBriarwood

Shop, work where you wishDear Editor:

In the Aug. 9 issue, Democratic City Councilcandidate Matthew Silverstein stated that ifelected he “would fight every day to block com-panies such as Walmart from entering our com-munity” (“Not if I’m elected,” Letters). Hisargument is that Walmart is anti-union, payslow wages and benefits and would kill offmom-and-pop stores.

Let’s have a reality check. Walmart is popu-lar because it offers a wide selection of goods at

low prices. If companies like Walmart are pro-hibited from operating in the city, the effectwould be a tax on the poor and middle-classpeople Mr. Silverstein claims to represent. Peo-ple would have to pay higher prices at existingstores, making it harder to stretch the moneythey have.

No one is forced to work at Walmart. Liber-als like Mr. Silverstein would rather see peopleunemployed than work at Walmart. Let theworkers make that choice. Also, Walmart’scompetition is mainly other large stores, notmom-and-pop stores. It should be pointed outthat mom-and-pop stores usually offer low payand little or no benefits. Why not complainabout them?

Is the city’s unemployment rate so low thatwe could afford to turn away potentialemployers?

Mr. Silverstein should realize that if electedhe would represent all the people and not justthe unions.

Lenny RodinForest Hills

Flip-flop RomneyDear Editor:

We all know how Gov. Mitt Romney offend-ed his British host at the London Olympics.However, his biggest gaffe took place in Israel.Trying to win Israeli support for his presidentialbid, he praised Israel’s national health system.He cited the excellent health of its citizens andthe system’s low cost. Romney stated that theirnational health system’s cost was only 8 percentof gross domestic product, compared to thehigh 18 percent in the United States.

What Romney overlooked was the kind ofhealthcare system that exists in Israel. LikeBritain, Israel has a socialistic healthcare phi-losophy where universal coverage is requiredfor all citizens; premiums are deducted fromsalaries; the government sets prices and regu-lations; and the health insurance industry isnonprofit.

Sounds to me like Gov. Romney, the GOPcandidate for president, likes socialized medi-cine. I wonder if the Tea Party folks in theRepublican Party are aware of his road-tripgaffe. Yet Mr. Flip-flop Romney is telling hissupporters that he intends to repeal Obamacare(Romneycare when he was the Bay State gover-nor) on day one of his presidency.

Anthony G. PillaForest Hills

Ryan a great choiceDear Editor:

Gov. Mitt Romney has just picked Rep. PaulRyan (R-Wisconsin) as his running mate, towhich I say, kudos, great pick. Here is a trueconservative and a true American who wantsour country back on track and back to work.Ryan wants us to get back to the principles thathave made us great. Like he said when he wasin Norfolk, Va., “America is more than just aplace ... it’s an idea. Our rights come fromnature and God, not government.”

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Members of the Lindenwood Alliance donot want a liquor store in the LindenwoodShopping Center and they voted to send aletter to the State Liquor Authority opposingthe store’s application for a license at theirAugust meeting.

Alliance President Joann Ariola told thegroup gathered at the Rockwood Park Jew-ish Center on Monday night that the vastmajority of the calls, letters and emails shereceived from Lindenwood residents wereopposed to the opening of the liquor store,which is to be located in the former bagelstore across the street from PS 232.

Cathy Napolitano, representing the man-agement company of the Lindenwood Shop-ping Center, said that before they enteredinto negotiations with the liquor store own-ers she contacted the SLA, and was advisedthat since the proposed liquor store was 338feet from the school it met the agency’s cri-teria, which is 200 feet. “We proceededwith negotiations,” said Napolitano, notingthat the shopping center store has beenvacant for approximately two years.

“In negotiating with various prospectivetenants, our concern was that we had anentity that would blend with the other mer-chants,” Napolitano said, adding, “We neverexpected there to be any kind of oppositionto the entity of a liquor store.”

She told the members that managementhad executed a lease with the liquor storeowners several months ago and they have ahearing scheduled with the SLA for Aug. 29.

“We feel very conf ident that a liquorstore will enhance the shopping center andoffer services to the community. It’s unfortu-

nate that there has been so much opposi-tion,” Napolitano said.

John Springer, representing GNG Wine &Liquor and its owner Gurinder Singh,explained what he said were the benefits ofhaving a liquor store in the community.

“In terms of best use of that location theliquor stores are well lit, they tend to beclean and they don’t tend to have peoplecongregating outside them. It’s not like abar,” he said. “This is a nice clean type ofstore that doesn’t produce a lot of garbage,”Springer said.

“It certainly does not comply with whatthe community thought would be some-thing that would benefit the community,”Ariola said, acknowledging that the appli-cation comes within the letter of the law.She said that she was concerned aboutpedestrian and motor vehicle accidentswith an increase of cars coming in andleaving the center.

“I just don’t think that it is within thespirit of what the community of Lindenwoodis interested in having,” she added.

Lindenwood resident Joe Quijano saidthat there were already other liquor stores inclose proximity, near the Lindenwood Dineron Linden Boulevard and on Cross BayBoulevard.

Noting that the owners of the proposedliquor store may get their liquor licenseapproved by the SLA over the community’sobjections, Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) recommended that the Alliancekeep the lines of communication open withthe owners.

Ariola agreed with that suggestion, sothey could bring to the owner’s attention any

Lindenwood civicopposes liquor storeAlliance says store planned forshopping center too close to PS 232


Members of the Lindenwood Alliance vote to send a letter to the State Liquor Authority opposingthe opening of a liquor store in the Lindenwood Shopping Center because they deem it too closeto PS 232. PHOTO BY STEPHEN GEFFON

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Senior Marilyn Spoor performed a tap dance to “Singing in The Rain” with AmandaVillaggi, left, and Sabrina Mastrangelo, juniors at The Mary Louis Academy andsummer volunteers at the Howard Beach Senior Center, during the talent show.

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Lenny Ciaccio and Sarah Benetiz partnered for a danceperformance.

At the beginning of the show, seniors performed atai-chi routine.

Christine Titone, left, a former school teacher read a poemabout her old job, while 90-year-old Muriel Stemann toldjokes and sang an old classic, “Yours.”


For the past three years, the Howard BeachSenior Center has put together a biannualtalent show featuring acts from many of its

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by AnnMarie CostellaAssistant Editor

Wearing a tan cowboy hat, red plaid shirtand red corduroy pants, R.W. “Curly”Hall, a man who said he always feltdestined to be a cowboy, walks over to

his horse, Sparky, and proudly demonstrateshow the two communicate.

Though Sparky is 17 years old, he followsHall’s commands with great ease. He can countby striking his foot against the floor the numberof times that you ask him to, shake hands byraising his heavy hoof and presenting it to you,back up, turn around, bow, give kisses and evenremove your hat — all for a reward of a fewtasty carrots.

It’s clear from their interaction that Hall andSparky are not merely companions, but goodfriends. He has another horse buddy named J.Diamond, 20, who salivates at the sight of a bagof carrots. The horse smiled for a visitor Mon-day, bearing all his teeth at Hall’s command.

“His name originally was J.J., and one day alittle girl who was out here riding said ‘Oh, heis so pretty and cute, he looks just like a dia-mond.’ And I thought, she’s right. His eyessparkled and his coat was all shiny.”

Hall goes to the stable every afternoon totend to his horses. He is a member of the Feder-ation of Black Cowboys, a group formed in1994 by men who shared a common love ofhorses and wanted to celebrate the forgottenlegacy of the Black West. Since 1998 the grouphas housed its horses at the Cedar Lane Stablesin Tudor Park, located at 82-02 Linden Blvd. inHoward Beach.

Many African Americans went west afterescaping slavery, and more followed after theEmancipation. The cowboy lifestyle wasappealing because they believed it was a profes-sion where they would be less likely to experi-ence racism, where a good work ethic out-weighed one’s skin color.

Cedar Lane Stables is home to about 50horses of all ages and five ponies. They are fedtwice a day — once in the morning, and once in

the evening, and their diet includes differenttypes of grains.

“The horses are generally very happy,” Hallsaid. “They don’t have to do much. All theyhave to do is walk around and then sometimesthey are taken out by the owners to do paradesand stuff. They have a very leisurely life.”

The Federation of Black Cowboys givesback to the community in many ways includingparticipating in the NYPD’s National Night OutAgainst Crime, an event the promotes safety,and giving pony rides at events held by theBaisley Pond Civic Association, The Sean Eli-jah Bell Foundation and other communitygroups. They give free tours to interestedpassersby and hold group clinics, for a smallfee, to teach children about riding and caringfor horses as well as how a horse farm operates.

The federation is able to give its membersdiscounted horse accommodations due to themoney it raises from doing parades and otherevents, Hall said, but the cost of equine carevaries.

Hall, 69, a married father of three and life-long resident of Jamaica, is cheerful, soft spo-ken, friendly and always ready to greet peoplewith a bright smile and a “Howdy, pardner.”Growing up he remembers watching film andtelevision cowboys like John Wayne, RoyRogers and Gene Autry.

“I said ‘I’d like to do that,’” Hall recalled. “Iwant to rustle up the cattle and move themdown the prairie and all that type of thing. So,that was when the love was instilled into me.”

When Hall was around 11 or 12, his mothertook him horseback riding for the first time.After that, he was hooked and began ridingevery weekend with friends. At that time, it cost$1.50 per hour. It was also around that time thatHall went with his Cub Scout troop to a rodeoat the old Madison Square Garden and wasmesmerized.

“I saw the cowboys and I had a desire, but itwas a just a dream,” Hall said. “I didn’t thinkthen that I would be able to do that one day,because I was just a little fellow.”

In 1989, Hall’s friends told him about a placecalled “the hole,” a ranch located across thestreet from where Cedar Lane is today, populat-ed by black cowboys and home to 150 horses.

“There were cowboys of my color, whichmeant [race] didn’t mean anything. They werecowboys,” Hall said. “They were from mycommunity, my neighborhood. They wereguys who had horses and got together becauseof the love of it.”

Hall leased a horse, because he didn’t havetime to take care of one on his own, and hestarted riding at least three times a week. Afew years later as his construction businessstarted thriving, he got to ride less often.

Hall eventually realized his lifelong dreamin 2000, at the age of 57, when he participated

in a rodeo in Philadelphia. “I said, ‘Wow, lookat this. Things that I didn’t wish for, butthings that I desired have come to me,’” Hallrecalled. “It was my destiny.”

After retiring three years ago, Hall hasplenty of free time to dedicate to his favoriteform of recreation. His background in con-struction even came in handy at the stables ashe built some of the stalls on the property.

“I was clean-cut at one time, but now Ienjoy being dirty,” Hall said. “It’s really a morerelaxing way of life. Being a cowboy is fun.”

Hall got his nickname after he shaved hishead for the first time while at a cowboy con-vention in Arizona. “I was losing my hair any-way. I was going bald,” Hall said. “And theyall said, ‘We’re going to call you Curly.’” Q

A taste of the Old West in Howard BeachCurly Hall of the Federation of Black Cowboys always loved to ride horses

Curly Hall gets a kiss from his horse Sparky. PHOTOS BY ANNMARIE COSTELLA

Horse owners and caretakers constantly work to keep the horses clean, well fed and happy. J. Diamond salivates as he waits for some carrots, his favorite treat.Fo

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With August in full swing, the Centers forDisease Control and Prevention is warningresidents that some areas of the country areexperiencing earlier and greater activity ofthe West Nile virus.

Although New York does not appear to beamong the high-risk states, August and Sep-tember are considered the peak season forthe virus, which can be fatal in some cases.So far this year, a total of 390 cases nation-wide, including eight deaths, have beenreported to the CDC.

That is the highest number reportedthrough the beginning of August since 2004.Almost 80 percent of the cases have comefrom Texas, Mississippi and Oklahoma.

So far, one case has been reported in NewYork City, and the Staten Island resident hassince recovered. Last year, the city reported12 cases with two fatalities, both fromQueens.

Selected pesticide spraying in Queens thissummer continues in areas with high concen-trations of mosquito pools infested with thevirus. Most have been over marshy areas.

Approximately one in five people who areinfected with the virus will develop flu-likesymptoms with less than 1 percent develop-ing a serious neurological illness such asencephalitis or meningitis.

People over 50 and those with compro-mised immune systems are at greater risk forserious illness. About 10 percent who developsuch infections will die, health officials say.

The best defense against getting bitten,according to the CDC and the city Depart-ment of Health, is to take the following pre-cautions:

• Use insect repellent when going out-doors.

• Wear long sleeves and long pants duringdawn and dusk hours.

• Repair screens.• Empty standing water from pools, flow-

erpots, buckets and other outdoor areaswhere water can accumulate. They are breed-ing grounds for mosquitoes.

The virus is considered very dynamicand the number of cases fluctuates fromyear to year. There was a low level of casesin 2011, while 2010 was considered an epi-demic year.

Weather is also a factor. High tempera-ture promotes multiplication of both theWest Nile virus and the mosquitoes thatcarry the disease.

The virus was first discovered in Col-lege Point in 1999, when there were 47cases throughout the city and four fatali-ties, most of them in Queens. Followingthe initial outbreak in Queens, the virushas spread across the country.

Because the virus struck here first, thecity has become a leader in proactivelygoing after mosquitoes by treating stand-ing water sites such as in parks andmarsh areas with nonchemical larvacidesand when necessary, applying chemicalpesticides in affected areas.

This summer, Queens residents havebeen complaining about the large numberof mosquitoes in their yards. “I can’t gooutside without spraying myself withDEET. Otherwise, I get eaten alive,” aMiddle Village gardener said.

However, not all mosquitoes carry thevirus, primarily just the culex pipiens. Q

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Police ID bodyfound in home

Police have identified the body of ayoung woman found in a container in ahome in Richmond Hill earlier thismonth.

The woman was identified on Tues-day as Samantha Bermudez, 19, of 657W. 161 St., Apt. 1E in Manhattan.Police had classif ied her death as ahomicide.

Her body was found by officers fromthe 102nd Precinct, wrapped in plasticand placed in a bin in the attic of ahome at 97-26 Van Wyck Expresswayon Aug. 4 shortly before noon, afterpolice were called to the home to inves-tigate a foul smell.

The call was place by the brother of aman who committed suicide at thehouse on July 20. He had come to thehome to gather up the belongings of thesuicide victim.

According to police sources,Bermudez was stabbed more than 20times in the neck and torso. Policewould not identify a suspect in hermurder or say if the suspect may havebeen the man who killed himself. Theysaid they could not confirm how longthe body may have been in the box, butsuspected it had been at least a fewweeks. Q

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It’s been three and a half years since Coun-cilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) won aspecial election to replace Joe Addabbo Jr.after the latter’s ascension to the state Senate.Now, the 27-year-old Ozone Park native isrunning against his predecessor for the seatin Albany.

The district — which includes Glendale,Howard Beach, Maspeth, Middle Village andOzone Park — was in Republican hands fordecades before Addabbo won it in 2008. Itwas redrawn to include conservative-leaningneighborhoods like Kew Gardens Hills,home to a large bloc of Orthodox Jews, andBreezy Point. The new lines make the districtmore competitive, and that attracted Ulrich,who had been lobbied to run for the seat in2010 and also for the seat vacated by formerRep. Anthony Weiner in 2011, which waswon by Rep. Bob Turner (R-Middle Village).

“This is a very competitive district; there’s achance for me to serve in the majority confer-ence in the State Senate,” Ulrich said during aninterview at the Queens Chronicle office lastweek. “I think I can make a difference.”

But county Republicans have not madethe path clear for Ulrich. The Queens GOPestablishment, led by Phil Ragusa, has beenat odds with Ulrich, who supported former

Councilman Tom Ognibene’s attempt towrestle control of the party from Ragusa lastyear. Ragusa has thrown his support behindForest Hills attorney Juan Reyes in the GOPprimary on Sept. 13. The primary challengeis one hurdle Ulrich has to clear before hecan take on Addabbo in September.

Ulrich warned Republicans would bethrowing the seat if they nominated Reyes,since Ulrich already has the ballot lines ofthe Conservative and Independence partiesand could only vacate the lines if he wasnominated for a judgeship, which is impossi-ble since he has no legal background. Thatwould lead to Reyes and Ulrich splitting theGOP vote.

Reyes has accused Ulrich of not beingconservative enough and backing someissues Democrats support including raisingthe state’s minimum wage.

Reyes opposes raising the minimum wageand said it would cost the state jobs, an argu-ment Ulrich rejects.

“Regionally speaking, the minimum wageis higher in several states adjacent to NewYork,” he said. “To say a husband and wifecan pay a rent or a mortgage, can send theirchildren to school, can afford the gas, tolls,taxes, fees, bills, on $7.25 an hour, that’sridiculous, there’s no way.”

Ulrich said he wants to run a campaign

specifically on issues and outlinedhis positions on a number of them.

On gun control, Ulrich said theproblem is not with New York’s gunlaws, which he said are among thestrictest in the country, but rather thelaws in other states, especially in theSouth. He said many illegal guns foundin the city come from out of state,where they are bought at gun shows.

Ulrich also supports hydrofrack-ing, providing scientif ic evidenceshows it does not do harm and thereis oversight from the EnvironmentalProtection Agency. He said frackinghas the potential of being a job cre-ator upstate, which would boost rev-enue to state coffers. He praised Gov.Andrew Cuomo’s careful considera-tion of fracking.

“I think he’s doing what he doesbest, sitting back, listening to bothsides,” he said.

Ulrich criticized Addabbo’s vote forthe MTA payroll tax in 2009 and said he was aparty-line voter in the Senate, while he wouldnot be and would stand up to GOP leaderDean Skelos if he disagreed with his party.

“I have made it known to [Skelos] and toanyone else who wants to know that my firstand foremost obligation is to my constituents,”

he said. “I’m happy to be a party guy on theissues I agree with them on. I’m not afraid tostand up to them when I disagree with him.”

He noted that he is not in the county party’sleadership’s good graces.

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Councilman Eric Ulrich is running for the state Senateagainst Democratic incumbent Joe Addabbo Jr., but willfirst face Forest Hills attorney Juan Reyes in the Sept. 13primary. PHOTO BY PETER C. MASTROSIMONE


Seven charter schools have applied toopen in Queens in the fall of 2013 and arein the beginning of undergoing the rigor-ous approval process.

The seven schools — 21st CenturyPreparatory Charter School; Angela John-son Charter School; ASPIRE CharterSchool; Community Charter School forSuccess; the Whole Elephant CharterSchool; and the Science, Math, Arts-Research Technology University Prepara-tory Charter School — have all submittedletters of intent to the state Department ofEducation in the second round of applica-tions. As of Aug. 2, some of the schoolsare listed as not having completed theirapplications. The state will begin accept-ing a third round of applications thisweek.

The public hearings for two of theschools have already been scheduled. Ahearing on the 21st Century PreparatoryCharter School is set for Wednesday, Aug.22 at 6 p.m .at the office of District 26,

90-27 Sutphin Blvd. in Jamaica. The pub-lic hearing for the Community CharterSchool for Success, slated for District 27,which includes Southwest Queens and theRockaways, will be held on Friday, Aug.24 at 6 p.m. at Beach Channel HighSchool in the Rockaways. Anyone wish-ing the speak at either hearing is asked tosign in by 5:30 p.m.

All of the schools, except the WholeElephant Charter School, are slated forEastern or Southern Queens. The WholeElephant is slated to be a bilingual Chi-nese/English school that will servekindergarten through grade five and bebased in Flushing.

The state DOE will make a final deter-mination on which charter schools canopen in October.

There is only one charter school open-ing in the borough this September. TheCentral Queens Academy Charter Schoolis slated to open serving District 24 andEnglish Language Learners in grades fivethrough eight. It will be located in the for-mer Montessori school in Elmhurst. Q

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Seven charters eyeQueens in fall 2013

Queens, Manhattan and Brooklyn politi-cians and Public Advocate Bill de Blasiomet at Macy’s headquarters in HeraldSquare on Monday to discuss the future ofthe famed July 4 fireworks show.

Macy’s moved the launch location in2009 to the Hudson River to celebrate the400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s sail-ing up his namesake waterway. That year,the show was blocked from view for mostof Queens by the Manhattan skyline.

Since then, Macy’s promised advocatesthe move would only be temporary, butfour Independence Days later, the bargesthat carried the Macy’s show still sat on theNew York-New Jersey border.

“The meeting was very informative. Ilearned more about the massive f ire-works show than I have ever wanted toknow,” Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D-Astoria) said.

Although informational, no agreementwas made.

“Nothing definitive,” Vallone said, addingthat more meetings will be scheduled.

De Blasio has circulated a petition ask-ing for the fireworks to be moved back tothe East River. In July, 1,000 people hadsigned.

The Hudson River is a wider body ofwater, and unlike the East River, it does nothave any bridges spanning it south of theGeorge Washington Bridge, which makes itan easier place to park barges full ofexploding fireworks. But the show wasdone on the East River for a number ofyears, and de Blasio believes an East Rivershow is better for all residents of New YorkCity, including Queens, where people inhigh-rises in Forest Hills and Flushingcould have good views of the show.

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Under its bylaws, the New York PoliceDepartment enforces a strict dress codepolicy; men are to be clean shaven andall officers must wear a hat.

But for practicing Sikhs, those policiesforce a choice between a career in lawenforcement and religious requirements.

Sikhs are banned from cutting hair,according to religious doctrine, requir-ing the beards and the turbans. Nowsome off ic ia ls are pushing MayorBloomberg and NYPD CommissionerRay Kelly to change the policy to allowSikh off icers to keep their beards andturbans on the job.

The issue was reignited after the massshootings on Aug. 5 in a Sikh gurdwarain Wisconsin. Gurdev Singh Kang, presi-dent of the Sikh Cultural Center in Rich-mond Hill, publicly asked for the policyto be changed while standing withBloomberg and Kelly at a press confer-ence the day after the shootings. His callhas been echoed by Comptroller JohnLiu, a potential mayoral candidate in2013, as well as elected off icials whorepresent Sikh communities.

“In the wake of the Wisconsin killings,which have shocked the national con-science, our city can enact meaningful

inclusion of this community by changingNYPD rules to allow Sikhs to serve with-out having to forsake their turbans andbeards,” Liu said in a statement lastweek. “Shouldn’t the NYPD, providingsecurity in one of the most diverse citiesin the world, proudly display its owndiversity?”

Liu also noted that other religiousgroups often need exemptions, such asOrthodox Jews.

In 2009, the military made a religiousexception for two Sikhs in the U.S. Army.The military banned beards in 1984 buthad grandfathered in Sikhs who wereserving at the time, including a colonel.

Sikhs have been serving in the U.S. mili-tary since World War I.

Other police departments, includingWashington DC, have also made excep-tions to its policies for Sikhs. The MTAdropped its ban on turbans after SikhMTA employees agreed to affix the MTAlogo to them.

The NYPD had been forced by litiga-tion to make the exception before. In2004, they reinstated two Sikh traff icenforcement officers after they were dis-missed for refusing to trim their beards.Both officers have since left the depart-ment and despite legislation passed in2011 and sponsored by CouncilmanMark Weprin (D-Oakland Gardens), theNYPD has not officially changed its poli-cies, though Sikhs are allowed to wear asmaller turban, called a patka, commonlywon by Sikh children and teenagers,because the NYPD’s trademark hat f itsover it.

Weprin’s brother, Assemblyman DavidWeprin (D-Little Neck), said on Sundaythat he is introducing state legislationthat would exempt a person from dresscode laws on religious grounds.

Weprin went further, even disagreeringwith the MTA’s rule for Sikhs to put theagency’s logo on the turban, calling it“not religiously proper.” Q

Pols push NYPD on turban banSay ban infringes on freedom, breeds intolerance

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Two redistrictingmeetings added

The city Districting Commission,which will hold five public hearings onredrawing lines for the City Councilbetween Aug. 13 and 23, has announcedthat it will hold two public meetings fol-lowing those sessions.

No testimony will be allowed at thenewly announced meetings, though thepanel says there will be additional oppor-tunities for public input later. The meet-ings will be held at 1 p.m. on Aug. 24and Sept. 4 in the City Council chambersat City Hall.

In Queens, people can speak at thehearing that will be held from 5 to 9 p.m.Aug. 21 at the Flushing Library, locatedat 41-17 Main St. Individuals wishing topre-register for speaking time or to sub-mit written testimony in advance may doso by signing up at nyc.gov/districting.Those who want to address the commis-sion at a hearing will get up to three min-utes of speaking time.

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Eight Queens residents were among 13people indicted last week in connectionwith an alleged identity theft and counter-feit credit card ring operating out of theborough.

In a s ta tement issued on Aug. 8 ,Queens District Attorney Richard Brownsaid the ring allegedly stole bank accountnumbers and other personal informationto fund shopping sprees as far away asNew Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware andFlorida.

The ring was allegedly headed by Isijo-la Olusegan, 21, and Darcel Kirby, 46,both of Elmont, LI. Olusegan was arrestedin Texas ona Queens County warrant.

Brown’s office identified the other defen-dants as Simone Abraham, 29, of Jamaica;Jamel Bartholomew, 27, of Rockaway;Michael Cruz, 31, of Queens Village; NicoleFreeman, 26, of Jamaica; Maiesha Lovejoy,21, of Jamaica; Louise Morpeau, 21, of Hol-lis; Ari Parhan, 22, of Rockaway Beach;Sarah Powell, 24, of Queens Villlage; andShanell James, 21, Michael Ferguson, 26,and Barakat Abiola, 23, of Brooklyn.

The complaints allege that the defen-dants “defrauded scores of unsuspectingconsumers, retailers and financial institu-tions” between June 24, 2011 and March23, 2012.

Brown’s office said the defendants were“variously charged” with crimes thatinclude f irst-, second- and third-degreeidentity theft; third- and fourth-degreegrand larceny; f irst- and second-degreecriminal possession of a forged instru-ment; f irst-degree falsifying of businessrecords; petit larceny; first-degree schemeto defraud; and fifth-degree conspiracy.

“Credit card fraud and identity theftcontinue to flourish as more and morefinancial transactions occur over the Inter-net,” Brown said in a statement released byhis office. “These crimes cost millions ofdollars in losses to consumers, businessesand financial institutions and will be vig-orously investigated and prosecuted.”

The complaints allege that the defen-dants fraudulently obtained credit cardaccount numbers through various means,and used the information to manufactureforged credit cards and identif icationcards.

The cards were then given to “shop-pers” who allegedly used them, along

with counterfeit cash and traveler’s checksat stores that include Best Buy, HomeDepot , Loehmann’s , Walg reens andSephora.

Brown’s office stated that in some cases,often after paying with the forged traveler’schecks, items were returned to the storesfor cash refunds.

The investigation was conducted by theNYPD’s Financial Crimes Task Force andSpecial Investigations Division with assis-

tance from the United States Postal Inspec-tion Service.

Brown’s office said authorities learnedof the alleged ring as part of an investiga-tion code-named “Operation Swiper.”

That investigation began in Ozone Parkin October 2009 and resul ted in 111arrests or indictments in October 2011.Law enforcement sources said the ringwas responsible for the theft of $13 mil-lion over a 16-month period, at locatings

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Brown at the time called it the largestand one of the most sophisticated identitytheft-credit card fraud cases in history.

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wake of the JFK incident.Staffing, as opposed to relying on tech-

nology, has been a sticking point betweenthe Port Authority and its Police BenevolentAssociation, the union that represents thePA’s police officers.

A union spokesman has called for a thor-ough investigation of the matter by the PA’sInspector General’s Office. Union PresidentPaul Nunziato, in a four-page letter datedAug. 13, asked that any probe include acomprehensive review of the contract withRaytheon and continued PA payments to thecompany for a PIDS system that he claims“manifestly does not function.”

Nunziato’s letter states that whole sec-tions of security fence have been destroyedby weather, with the system giving no indi-cation over the course of months that thebarrier was down.

“We can show you repeated instanceswhere the PIDS did not detect a breach,”said PBA spokesman Bobby Egbert. “Andnot a single instance where it did.”

“The Port Authority has spent hundredsof millions of dollars on a system that failedto detect a man wearing a bright yellow lifevest who was looking for help,” Nunziatowrote. “This is not the first individual togain access to the airside without setting offa PIDS alert. Imagine what a team of terror-ists, not looking to be found, could do.”

Nunziato, a PA police officer for more

than 25 years, is no novice when it comes todealing with threats of terrorism — the PortAuthority buried 37 of its officers who diedresponding to the 9/11 attack on the WorldTrade Center in 2001.

“I do not want my members to die inanother terrorist attack,” the letter states. “Ido not want the public to be endangeredevery time they use our facilities. I do notwant to see my members forced from theirhomes by another round of 12-hour tours,seven days a week because the agency, yetagain, failed to prepare for the inevitableattack on our facilities.”

Speaking Tuesday night, Egbert, whoalso is a PA officer, said Casillo would havebenefited from a working system.

“He was able to climb a fence and mayhave walked up to two miles,” Egbert said.“If the system had been working it wouldhave detected him and we would have cometo him and given him aid.”

Egbert also said cuts to land, marine andair patrol manpower in recent years should betaken by the public as a safety issue, not abargaining chip during contract talks. Nunzi-ato’s letter hammered home the same theme.

“Let me be clear, I welcome any technol-ogy that will make our facilities moresecure,” he wrote. “Again and again, PortAuthority executives with no understandingof security deploy technology not to assistus in securing our facilities, but instead as ameans of eliminating police.” Q

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About 170 senoirs enjoyed a free con-cert of big band and swing music on Aug. 9in the St. Helen School auditorium inHoward Beach as the Frank Pedulla andThe Music Staff Swing Orchestra, shownabove, played for the dancing crowd duringthe Arnie Mig Memorial Concert.

The concert was sponsored by state Sen.Joe Addabbo Jr., Assemblyman PhilGoldfeder and local elder law firm Brady &Marshak.

The concert had been planned for out-doors, but was moved inside due to threat-ening weather.

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Most drivers have felt that moment ofconfusion, when he or she hears sirens andsees flashing lights in their rearview mirrorand tries to pick what side to pull over to.

Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D-Astoria)wants to make that decision easier. Lastweek Vallone, the chairman of the council’sPublic Safety Committee, sent a letter to theDepartment of Transportation asking it todo a study of Queens Boulevard. Althoughthe decision is not up to the council, Vallonewould like to see an emergency lane run-ning each way on the roadway, on average a10-lane road from Long Island City toJamaica.

“I would like to see an emergency laneexactly like they have in Manhattan, lanesthat let drivers know what lane to clear ifthey hear sirens,” Vallone said. “QueensBoulevard at rush hour is at least as con-gested as any Manhattan Street.”

A spokesman for the DOT said it wouldconsider the request for this and otherstreets in conjunction with the Fire Depart-ment.

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and they tell me the lanes would help themrespond more quickly,” Vallone said.

Councilman Leroy Comrie (D-St.Albans) said “it makes perfect sense. Theyhave it on major avenues in Manhattan andQueens Boulevard is wider than mostthere.”

The cost of the lanes would be the priceof paint for denotation and a transportationstudy, according to both the politicians.

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After more than a decade of waiting, theFresh Meadows community cheered the newsTuesday that the city’s Landmarks PreservationCommission landmarked the beleaguered his-toric Brinckerhoff Cemetery.

“We are very happy and will now work withother groups to buy it,” said James Gallagher,president of the Fresh Meadows HomeownersCivic Association, who has led the drive forlandmarking.

The property’s current owner, Le Dan Cai,wants to build two houses on the site andasked the LPC in the spring to make a decisionon landmarking. The property has been eyedby the city agency for 12 years, but no actionhad been taken.

Cai bought the land, which is located on182nd Street, near 73rd Avenue, in 2010. The45-by-120-foot site is now overgrown with ivyand there are no visible gravestones. The fami-ly cemetery dates back to 1730 with the lastinterment in 1872.

“This cemetery, despite all the changesthat have occurred around it, remains one ofa handful of sites that directly ties New YorkCity to its earliest days as a Dutch settle-ment,” said LPC Commission ChairmanRobert Tierney.

The burial ground had been sold illegally by

the city in 1961 after being erroneously con-demned for nonpayment of taxes. That owneradmitted later that in the 1980s he buried theremaining gravestones to hide them.

Efforts by the Queens Historical Society 12years ago to purchase the site were unsuccess-ful and the property remained in limbo.

Though the property is now protected, Caican claim a financial hardship and if granted itwould reverse the landmark designation. ButCity Councilman Jim Gennaro (D-FreshMeadows) doesn’t believe that will happen inthis case.

“It would be a waste of the owner’s time and

money,” Gennaro said. “He got it at a relative-ly low price knowing it was a burial ground.The financial hardship claim is not going tohappen.”

Lisi de Bourbon, spokeswoman for theLPC, said that an owner must show the proper-ty is incapable of earning a net return of 6 per-cent. Since 1965, the commission has only had16 hardship cases, with 13 granted.

“There is no less sympathetic case than thisone,” Gennaro said. “As to the owner, he willwant to cut his losses since the property haszero development value. The price will be setaccordingly.”

The owner also could file a suit seeking tooverturn the decision.

The councilman said it’s unlikely the citywould purchase the property, which was sold toCai for $105,000. “No city agency would wantto maintain it,” he said. “You could use citydollars to pay for the property and then turn itover to a nonprofit group to maintain it.”

Although the Parks Department does ownseveral historic burial grounds, most are withinlarger park facilities and some are maintainedby private groups.

Cai’s spokesman, Kelvin Zou, said Tuesdaythat no decision has been made yet on how toproceed with the property.

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Historic cemetery is landmarkedBrinckerhoff burial ground finally receives designation from city


Members of the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission study a slide of the BrinckerhoffCemetery in Fresh Meadows during a hearing in March. The site was approved for landmark statuson Tuesday. FILE PHOTO

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Milton G. Bassin, the longtime York Col-lege president credited with building theschool from the ground up and saving it fromclosure during the fiscal crisis of the 1970s,died on Aug. 13. He was 88.

Bassin was York’s second president and itslongest serving, heading the school from1971 through 1991, during which time hespearheaded construction of the campus indowntown Jamaica. When the school’s veryexistence was threatened, he exhibited whatthe current administration called “a steelydetermination and knack for bringing theexternal community together with the collegecommunity” to maintain it as a four-yearschool in Jamaica.

“Without Milt Bassin, the York Collegecampus in Jamaica would never have beenbuilt,” said Dolores Swirin, the school’s vicepresident for institutional advancement.“Thanks to Milt, thousands of students havereceived a high-quality education at a seniorcollege in the heart of Southeast Queens.Milt won the deep respect of faculty, staff,students and the community for his work. Hewill be deeply missed by all of us at York.”

Born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in 1923to Russian immigrants, Bassin was a staunchadvocate of a tuition-free City University ofNew York on behalf of students who, likehimself, came from humble beginnings.

Bassin earned a bachelor’s degree inmechanical engineering from City College in1944 and a master’s degree from PolytechnicInstitute of Brooklyn in 1954. He also servedin the United States Navy.

He began his CUNY career as an instruc-tor in mechanical technology at New YorkCity Community College, now New YorkCity Technical College, and worked his wayup the ranks from dean to dean-in-chargeand eventually, president. He headedNYCCC from 1966 to 1971, when he tookover at York.

Under his leadership, York College gradu-ated thousands of students who now serve asrespected physicians, researchers, New YorkCity judges such as Jeremy Weinstein andGeorge Grasso; college professors — someof whom now teach at York; and numerous

other successful professions.In 2007 York showed its appreciation for

his service with an honorary doctoratedegree, which meant the world to him. Lastfall the college family also honored Mr.Bassin at York during its 45th year anniver-sary celebration where he basked in the loveof faculty, community members and alumni.

Bassin was the son of Miriam and MaxBassin; devoted husband of 58 years to Ber-nice; cherished father of Lori and Robert(Alison); adored grandfather of Noah andMaya Sharma; brother of the late Ruth Shor;and brother and best friend of Gene Bassinand loving nieces Anita, Debbie, Jan andMichelle.

He was an avid fisherman and lifelong fanof the Adirondacks and the New York Yankees,a man whose unconditional love for his family,wise counsel and dry wit will be missed.

Funeral services were held Wednesday atTemple Beth El of Great Neck. Bassin’s fam-ily requests that contributions be made to theYork College Foundation, 94-20 Guy R.Brewer Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11451. Q

Longtime York presidentMilton Bassin dies at 88

Milton G. Bassin headed York College for 20years, establishing its campus and ensuring itssurvival. PHOTO COURTESY YORK COLLEGE

reached out to the Department of Sanita-tion, Department of Health and MentalHygiene and the owner of the lot closest tothe intersection, Theresa Soffos. In his letterto Soffos, Addabbo requested the owner puta fence on the property, which did lateroccur. The owners of the lots received warn-ing notices from the Department of Healthand Mental Hygiene and the Department ofSanitation issued violations at that time.

But five years later, little has changed. Today, the red building is being swal-

lowed by overgrowth, its windows boarded

up by rotting plywood. A newer sign,advertising a day care center, hangs fromthe roof, but is being obscured by over-grown weeds. A larger, more visible, ad fornearby real estate stands next to the side-walk. Kamph said he was not sure if thesigns were posted illegally or if the ownerhad allowed them to be placed there.

In an email to Kamph earlier this month,Community Board 10 Chairwoman BettyBraton said Sanitation has since come atthe board’s request, and the owners of thelots are billed by the city for the cleanup.

Kamph said he would like to, at the veryleast, see a new fence installed at the site,preferably one with privacy slats so no onecould see or get in. Q

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Kent Augustine, 16, of Jamaica has some ofthe fastest fingers in the country when it comesto texting. The teen took second place in the6th Annual LG National Texting Championship,held in Times Square on Aug. 9.

Augustine, center and inset, who can type3.5 characters per second, started textingwhen he was 10 years old and, on average, hesends 300 texts per day. He won $10,000.

“Texting is one of the most popular forms of

communication and yet it continually surprisesus just how fast these kids can draft and sendout a message,” James Fishler, LG’s senior vicepresident of marketing, said in a preparedstatement.

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“Also, who is the clientele for the games?The ticket prices may eliminate localsfrom attending.”

Also on Monday, the Daily Newsreported that Assembly Speaker SheldonSilver (D-Manhattan) is looking at eitherConey Island or Willets Points for a casi-no. The story indicated the Bloombergadministration is privately backing WilletsPoint as a suitable location.

The state Legislature took the first steptoward authorizing up to seven casinos inthe state with New York City set for one.Plans are not expected to come to fruitionuntil next year.

City officials, however, were quick todeny their interest in the Willets Pointlocation. Seth Pinsky, president of thecity’s Economic Development Corp., toldthe Chronicle on Tuesday there is nointerest in having a casino there.

“We have not sought a casino at WilletsPoint and are not seeking a casino at Wil-lets Point,” Pinsky reiterated in an email.“Our goal remains to develop WilletsPoint in a manner that is ultimately consis-tent with the zoning passed in 2008.”

During a press conference on Tuesday,Mayor Bloomberg offered the followingdenial: “As God as my witness, I neverheard anybody suggest either [location]and nobody certainly asked me. But youknow, listen, I’ve always been reticent to

support gambling because I think it is avery regressive way to tax the public.”

Willets Point United, a group of landowners and business owners who do notwant to move, are against both the casinoand stadium proposals. “As far as WilletsPoint is concerned, gambling at WilletsPoint is a bad bet — and if the administra-tion signs off on it they will be doublingdown on irresponsible planning,” thegroup said in a statement to the Chronicle.“EDC has already jettisoned any semblanceof the ‘next green neighborhood’ by its pro-motion of the Mets Mall, the elimination ofaffordable housing and living wage, andthe inclusion of a gambling casino wouldbe the toxic frosting on the EDC cake.”

Regarding the soccer stadium, WPUsaid, “The city still faces an alienationchallenge on the Mets Mall, and if onethinks that a 62-acre development at Wil-lets Point will overrun the existing roadand mass transit infrastructure, imaginethe addition of a soccer stadium and acasino. They will be airlifting fans out ofFlushing Meadows by the time this hare-brained scheme is done.”

Kelty said he doesn’t trust the EDC andbelieves the city would back a casino atWillets Point, “if the price is right.” Henoted that ULURP would also be requiredbefore the plan could move forward atWillets Point. “It will also affect traffic inthe area,” he added. Q

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by Peter C. MastrosimoneEditor-in-Chief

It’s not just the Biblical rainstorms of yester-day, and, it seems, much of this summer, thathave many residents of Queens and the otherboroughs feeling soaked — it’s also their waterbills. And for many, it’s not just the routine ratehikes that have ranged from 5 to 15 percent fornine of the past 10 years. There are people outthere getting socked with quarterly bills that aresometimes double, triple, or even 10 times asmuch as what they had been paying.

The Department of Environmental Protectioninsists all the unexplained spikes are due to fac-tors like leaks. But many home and businessowners aren’t buying it, and neither is PublicAdvocate Bill de Blasio. They blame the auto-mated meter readers the DEP has been replac-ing old-fashioned meters with. Last Thursday deBlasio held a hearing at his Manhattan officeinto the spikes in billing, and several Queensresidents and business owners were amongthose testifying.

One of those who spoke is Anthony Castori-na, owner of The Alps Provision Co. in Astoria,a dried sausage manufacturer and wholesaler.Castorina saw his water bill jump from a littleunder $2,000 a quarter to nearly $20,000 afterthe new meter reader was installed.

If unresolved, the spike just may be one ofthe things that drives Castorina to relocate to

New Jersey with many, but not all, of his 23full-time employees. The Whitestone residentplans to expand and hire maybe 15 more people,but he just might do it in the Garden Statebecause, he says, “New York is ridiculous now”when it comes to the cost of doing business —and a water bill that jumps 1,000 percent in onequarter is one more straw on the camel’s back.

When Castorina first got a bill spike, he said,he called the DEP and the agency told him to geta plumber to search for problems like leaks. “Hecame and checked, and no leaks,” Castorina said.

He didn’t find the agency to be all that help-ful either, a complaint de Blasio said is just ascommon as complaints about sudden spikes inrecorded water usage.

“It’s hard to make an argument with theDEP,” Castorina said. “There’s a form, but youdon’t know how to get to it.”

Seeing de Blasio speak on television abouthis upcoming hearing, Castorina called his stafffor help, and they helped him find the DEP’scomplaint form. After that was filed, the agencysaid it would send someone out to take a look,on July 30, but no one ever came, he said. NextCastorina told his story at the hearing, whichwas attended by an Environmental Protectionofficial and a pair each of city and state law-makers, including Councilman Dan Halloran(R-Whitestone) and Assemblyman DavidWeprin (D-Little Neck).

“The DEP took my information at the hear-ing, but I still haven’t heard anything,” Castorinasaid. He added that he has paid the bills, sincethe DEP can put liens on properties where theygo unpaid.

During the hearing, the DEP insisted that ofall the thousands of automated meters it’sinstalled, none have any technical problems, acontention Castorina said drew laughter fromsome in the crowd, including at least one electedofficial.

It’s the agency’s insistence that none of theusage spikes are incorrect, and the way itallegedly treats complainants like Castorina thatde Blasio is seeking to address through threebills his office is drawing up. As the publicadvocate, de Blasio can introduce legislation inthe City Council just like any of its regularmembers.

“The DEP isn’t even admitting there’s a prob-lem,” de Blasio, who is a Democratic candidatefor mayor next year, said in a phone interviewWednesday. “Their motto could be ‘The cus-tomer is always wrong’ at this point. Some ofthese cases are outrageous. Two people from twoboroughs got bills showing 1,000 gallons wereused overnight; that’s impossible. The DEP issimply not willing to work with the consumer.”

To change that, de Blasio’s three bills would:• simplify water bills so customers can more

clearly see when spikes in usage are recorded

and so the appeals process is more clear;• force the DEP to do its own inspections of

plumbing at no cost when people experiencesudden cost increases of more than 100 percent,rather than making customers hire private con-tractors; and

• bar the agency from placing liens on prop-erties when people don’t immediately pay“extraordinary, unusual or disputed charges.”

Asked how much it might cost the city toalways do its own inspections, de Blasio said hehadn’t come up with a figure yet, but that theagency charges $180 to do the job now and “thequicker we resolve these bills, the quicker therevenue comes into the city.”

Asked how the city could force payment oflegitimate bills without the power to place liens,he said, “I’m not looking to take that poweraway from the city, I just don’t want it to be usedso readily when there is a true dispute.”

De Blasio said his office had received rough-ly 500 complaints about water bill spikes beforethe hearing, 158 of them from Queens — morethan any borough other than Brooklyn, whichyielded 192.

The public advocate encourages anyone elsewhose water bill has jumped unexplainably tocontact his office at (212) 669-7250 or via emailat [email protected].

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To help promote Ron Teri, an aspiringhip-hop artist from Howard Beach andCotto’s boyfriend, she and her friend Aman-

da Pereira thought of putting the drawingon T-shirts and selling them at his concerts.With the help of Ron’s manager and broth-er-in-law James Kilkenny, she bought theequipment she needed to make the shirtsand produced them to sell at the concerts.

They turned out to be a hit.They decided to make more in various

colors and sizes.and with that, KilzoneApparel was born, joining a hip-hop cloth-ing industry that is known for its long his-

tory of fashion staples, from tracksuits inthe 1980s to large gold chains in the 1990sand brands like FUBU and Rocawear.

The name of the clothing line comesfrom Kilkenny’s entertainment company,Kilzone Entertainment, which manages Teriand two other local hip-hop artists, Joe Dand Mason. The rappers have performed anumber of concerts around the metropoli-tan area.

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graduate of PS 232 and Robert H. GoddardHigh School of Communication Arts andTechnology, described the goal of KilzoneApparel to be “an urban clothing line origi-nated from the minds of a younger genera-tion with an old-school vibe.”

She said the T-shirt business is startinglocally, with friends, family and Kilzone’sfan base as their main customers.

Recently, Cotto’s artwork received somelocal attention when she and Pereiramanned a vending both at the Our Lady ofGrace feast in Howard Beach to sell theirshirts. They also gave out window decalsfeaturing the drawing to promote it.

Now, Cotto said Kilzone Apparel isworking on trademarking her drawing andcreating a website to sell the shirts publicly,and eventually they hope to sell them instores as well.

For the upcoming winter months, Cotto saidthey are planning on selling crew-necksweaters, hoodies and beanies, all popular arti-cles of clothing in the hip-hop community. Q

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Tina Charles has played basketball for theNo. 1 high school team in the country atChrist the King in Middle Village, won aDivision I national championship at the Uni-versity of Connecticut and was a No. 1 draftpick and rookie of the year for the Connecti-cut Sun of the WNBA.

And now, to that already impressiveresume, Queens’ favorite daughter of the2012 London games has added an Olympicgold medal.

Charles, born in Jamaica, and fellowChrist the King alumna Sue Bird were keyperformers as the United States womencapped off a perfect 8-0 tournament in Lon-don on Aug. 11 with an 86-50 drubbing ofFrance.

The win gave the U.S. women their fifthconsecutive gold medal and extended theteam’s Olympic winning streak to 41 games.

Charles finished the tournament with 84points. Official statistics from the “London2012” website list her team-leading 59rebounds as third-most in the tournament,and her 7.4 per game fifth-best.

Bird finished with 49 points, including 11against France in the gold medal game.

Bird’s seven three-point shots in Londonled the U.S. squad, and her 36 assists and 4.5assists per game were both second-most in

the tournament.Bird will add her new bauble to a trophy

case that already contains Olympic goldmedals from Beijing in 2008 and Athens in2004.

It is the first Olympic medal for Charles.Two other women on Team USA with ties

to the borough did not fare quite as well intheir events, though Alysia Johnson Montanocame awfully close.

Montano, who was born in Queens butgrew up in California, took fifth place in thefinals of the women’s 800-meter run, comingin a scant 1.74 seconds behind gold medalistMarlya Savinova of Russia.

The former NCAA and United Statesnational champion in the event, Montanomissed the silver medal by seven-tenths of asecond, and the bronze by 0.34 seconds.

In the women’s 10-meter platform divingcompetition, Brittany Viola earned her wayto the semifinals, but did not make the cutfor the last day of the competition.

The daughter of former New York Metsand St. John’s University pitching star FrankViola, she finished 15th overall in a field of28 semifinalists.

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The High School for Arts and Business’once-drab, gray outside wall now hassomething to show off.

Students ages 14 to 21 with the public-ar t foundation Groundswell’s SummerLeadership Institute worked diligently withthe city’s Department of Transportation andthe high school on creating the educationalmural since July 5 and will unveil theirfinal product on Aug. 31 at 11 a.m.

The school is located at 105-25 HoraceHarding Expressway North at 108th Street,next to the Long Island Expressway.Though no fatalities have happened at thecongested Corona corner, DOT communitycoordinator Michelle Kaucic said therehave been some close calls — hence themural project.

Through studying the neighborhood andthe busy intersection — where cars enter,exit and cross under the expressway — themuralists decided vehicles need to slowdown and obey the speed limit. There isalso a yield sign on the street corner wherethe mural is being erected that drivers failto acknowledge, Kaucic said.

“I did the most important part in themural, the 3 [on the 30 mph sign],” studentworker Christian Montufar said. “Maybethey will drive a little slower to take a look.”

The vibrant, multicolored mural combinesthe ideas of art and business — the focus ofthe high school — with traffic safety. Twolarge figures on the center left were designedby Arts and Business student Ivonn Bernal, 16.The concept, she said, is that the boy who isn’tpainted in yet has drawn the whole mural.

“The student [the boy in the mural] hasmade his art come to life,” said Bernal ofElmhurst.

In the mural a man in a suit with the cam-era around his neck and the computer screenas his head is the boy in the mural’s creationand combines the concept of art and business,

Bernal said, and the scene around him hasvarious aspects of driving safety — yieldsigns, winding roads and the oh-so-importantspeed limit.

In July the students, who work 9 a.m. to 4p.m. for $7.50 an hour, participated in on-site seminars about driving precautions anddriving impairment. The project is funded bya New York State’s Stop DUI grant.

“We talked about why people do whatthey know they shouldn’t,” Kaucic said.

Students sketched during the workshops,while lead artists with Groundswell, YannaDimitrova and Olivia Fu, compiled the draw-ings to make a cohesive mural.

Next the 11 students, two artists and Kau-cic of the DOT made a grid of the work.Each box of the grid duplicates a section ofthe smaller cohesive image. Then they set towork with acrylic paint to fill in the boxes.

“It’s sort of like coloring in a giant color-ing book,” Dimitrova said.

In addition to educating the public andmaking the corner safer for the neighbor-hood and the school, the students haveformed friendships. Many of the studentemployees come from Queens, but otherscome from Brooklyn and Manhattan.

“Painting the actual mural is great and weget to hang out with friends,” said EstherYuabov, 14, from Flushing. “We’ve formed arelationship.” Q

Mural teaches traffic safety in CoronaStudents, Groundswell and the DOT will unveil work on Aug. 31

Christian Montufar, a graduate from the High School for Arts and Business, is part of the teampainting a mural alongside of the Horace Harding Expressway. PHOTO BY JOSEY BARTLETT

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Two dozen more trees near the site of anatrium under construction at Borough Hallhave gone to that great woodchipper in thesky after city officials determined it wouldbe too costly and risky to transplant them.

Geoffrey Croft, president of NYC ParkAdvocates, has been following work on theatrium since early April, right after the citycut down nine cherry trees in full bloom inBorough Hall’s courtyard.

He was critical of the decision and subse-quently established a paper trail that hebelieves showed a pattern of changing storiesand duplicity on the part of the Bloombergadministration over the tree plan.

But even he was taken aback on theremoval of the additional 24 trees last week.

“Basically they made a promise that theremaining trees would be preserved,” Croftsaid. “They decided that healthy, 40-year-oldtrees were not worth saving. It really isunfortunate.”

Croft has uncovered paperwork in recentmonths that he says casts grave doubts on thecity’s contention that the original nine treeswere removed because of disease — a storyCity Hall played up after other agencies orig-inally said they were removed to allowaccess for heavy construction equipmentemployed on the project.

A statement received from the city onTuesday said off icials were relying on areport filed in April when they decided to cutdown the additional trees.

“An arborist report evaluated the 24

remaining trees at the construction site andfound a number of complicating factorsinvolved in transplanting existing trees fromthis location, including age, size, and season.”

The season refers to a decrease in a tree’schances for survival if it is transplanted afterwinter when it has entered its growing season.

“In summary, although tree transplantationmay be attempted for some of the smaller treeslocated in the courtyard, most factors indicatethat replacement with an adequate number ofyounger, healthy trees would have a higherprobability of success,” the report concluded.

The statement from City Hall said thatfinal consultation among the Borough Presi-dent’s Office, and the city’s Department ofDesign and Construction and Department ofCitywide Administrative Services deter-mined that the risks and costs involved withtransplanting the trees indicated that it wouldbe better to remove them and replace themonce the atrium is complete.

“I guess trees don’t count unless they arepart of Mayor Bloomberg’s ‘million tree’ ini-tiative,” Croft said.

The city said more than 50 new treeswould be planted, though would not com-ment on how old or how large they will be,nor how long it would take to replace theones that had become an attraction behindBorough Hall.

They were a favorite of brides and wed-ding photographers who participated in mar-riages at the building.

They have been replaced by entrepreneurswho have set up decorated trellises that canbe used in pictures. Q

More trees felledfor Boro Hall atriumCity calls transplant chances tooiffy and too costly to implement

Bridal photos once taken in front of blossoming cherry trees behind Borough Hall now comewith the option of a construction fence. More than 30 trees have been cut down to date toaccommodate construction of a $14 million atrium in the courtyard. PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON

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Ulrich said he supports tax credits forparents who send their children to pri-vate schools and wants to find a steadyrevenue stream for education moneythat would be lost by the credit, sayingthat would be the first bill he proposesas a state senator. The 15th Senate Dis-trict includes a large population ofOrthodox Jewish and Catholic familieswho send their children to privateschools.

He said he supported Gov. Cuomo’screation of a new pension system, TierVI, and said the state can save money byrolling all public employees into thestate pension system. Many are not apart of it because they are in patronagepositions, he said.

Both Reyes and the campaign arm forthe Senate Democrats have criticizedUlrich for his association with JohnHaggerty, who was convicted in 2010 oflaundering money from Mayor MikeBloomberg’s re-election campaign.Ulrich did not deny he has a friendshipwith Haggerty, whose brother Bartworked in Ulrich’s office for a time, butsaid Haggerty has no connection what-soever to Ulrich’s campaign.

“I don’t throw my friends under thebus,” he said. Q

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The FDNY Bravest Boxing Teamwill play host to the New EnglandLaw Enforcement Team at ResortsWorld casino in 12 separate bouts onFriday, Sept. 14 at 8 p.m. Doors openat 7 p.m. Tickets are $25 for generaladmission and $50 for VIP ringsideseats and can be purchased at fdny-boxing.eventbrite.com. For additionalinformation, call (917) 282-8727 or(917) 816-695

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The FDNY Bravest Boxing Teamdoes a number of events over the yearto raise money for the charit ies,including the annual fight nightagainstthe NYPD team, the Fighting Finest,which will take place on Nov. 19 atMadison Square Garden. Q

City Council member Karen Koslowitz issurrounded in her Forest Hills office by someof the school supplies for homeless childrencollected in Volunteers for America’s“Operation Backpack.”

Koslowitz’s office was one of three desig-

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There were lots of NYPD officers andDepartment of Parks employees by thewaterfront in Astoria Park and milling aroundthe Olympic-sized pool on Monday morning.

However, as one real Department of Parks

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efforts were two Brinckerhoff descendants,William Manger Jr. and Matthew Brincker-hoff. Manger, a banker who lives in Man-hattan, testified in favor of the proposal atan LPC hearing.

The Brinckerhoffs were prosperousDutch farmers, who had large land hold-ings in the borough.

Reached on Tuesday, Manger said hewas thrilled the site had been landmarked.“I am very pleased,” he said. “The LPC didthe right thing.”

The descendant believes a group willcome together to buy the site. “I’m opti-mistic they will be able to do it and I planto stay involved with this,” Manger added.

He said it could take “a whole lineup ofpeople” to provide funding and that the citycould help and make it a public-privatepartnership.

Matthew Brinckerhoff, a Manhattanlawyer who lives in Brooklyn, discoveredthat his grandmother, six times removed,named Aeltie, was the first to be buried atthe site and hers was the only gravestonewritten in Dutch.

A 1919 city survey of the site found 77graves, recorded the inscriptions and pin-pointed their locations. The last knownphotograph of Aeltie’s gravestone wastaken in 1935.

“It’s undeniable that there are remainsthere,” Brinckerhoff said. “It’s fantastic

about the landmarking; a welcome develop-ment and justified.”

The two distant cousins want the head-stones recovered and put back and if someare missing, for each grave to be marked insome manner.

Gallagher said he has been in touch withorganizations such as the Queens CountyFarm Museum and Maple Grove Cemeteryand others to help with purchasing the prop-erty. He has a commitment from Mangerthat the St. Nicholas Society will help.

“We must act quickly,” Gallagher said.“We need to form a nonprofit to administer,develop and maintain the area.”

He also plans to meet with BoroughPresident Helen Marshall for input on fund-ing.

Gennaro said that the landmarking “wasthe big domino. I’m confident we’ll be ableto preserve the site befitting its history.”

He also would like to uncover the grave-stones. “We need to preserve and learnfrom the site with dignity,” Gennaro added.“It’s a treasure trove.”

Twelve other cemeteries in the cityhave been designed as landmarks in thepast. In Queens, they include: theLawrence Graveyard in Astoria, theLawrence Cemetery in Bayside, theMoore-Jackson Cemetery in Woodside,Prospect Cemetery in Jamaica, RemsenCemetery in Rego Park and the RichardCornell Graveyard in Far Rockaway. Q

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The city’s Department of Homeless Ser-vices said Tuesday that it has not received aproposal for a multiple-dwelling homelessshelter for 76-18 Cooper Ave. in Glendale.

But many residents and some elected offi-cials believe that the rumored shelter is muchmore than a rumor.

Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley (D-Middle Village) addressed the matter in a let-ter to her Glendale constituents last week.

Crowley wrote that she had recently spokento the owner, Michael Wilner of Wilner RealtyManagement of Jericho, LI. She stated Wilnerconfirmed that he has had contact with a non-profit organization with interest in bringing ashelter to the property, once a factory, whichhas been vacant for about 20 years.

Crowley’s letter said the property’s zoningdesignation does not allow for residentialbuildings but does permit hotels — and thatthe city has recently interpreted that to allowshelters on similar sites.

The councilwoman stated her blanketopposition to any such designation in her let-ter, saying she would like to see it used forsome form of community center or recre-ational use. Her chief of staff, Lydon Sleeper,reiterated her position in a statement issuedon Tuesday.

“The council member does not support

any attempt to put a multiple-dwelling shel-ter on Cooper Avenue and will do everythingin her power to prevent it,” Sleeper said.

Wilner’s group also owns an adjacentproperty on Cooper that is undergoing workfor a soon-to-open sports apparel/recreationbusiness and a bistro.

Wilner could not be reached for comment,though he told Crowley that the site is on theopen market.

Kathy Masi, a member of the executiveboard of Community Board 5 and presidentof the Glendale Civic Association, said Tues-day that she and her neighbors are taking

nothing said by city agencies or developerson faith.

“If people are talking about it like this,there has to be some validity to it,” Masisaid. “Clearly the owner of the property hasbeen in discussion with a city agency. Wecan’t get a straight answer.”

She also said the property is located nearseveral schools.

“It’s a factor,” she said. “PS 87, PS 49 andPS 128 are all within a short distance of thisfacility.”

She confirmed that CB 5 has not receivedany contacts on the subject from the city,Wilner or a potential operating entity.

But opposition is growing and gettingorganized. Petition drives are underway.

“New York City has recently been drop-ping shelters in the middle of residentialneighborhoods with little or no notice,” shesaid. “We’re going to have to be ahead ofthem.”

And it appears that Glendale will be ableto count on its neighbors should a sheltermove beyond rumors to the proposal stage.

“We’re girding to join them to fight this ifthat is what’s necessary,” said Lorraine Sciul-li, first vice president of the Juniper ParkCivic Association in Middle Village. “Wemay not have a formal meeting about it untilwe know something further, but we’re goingto stay on this.” Q

Glendale reacts to shelter rumblingsGroup discussed Cooper Ave. site with owner; city has no proposal

The owner of an old factory site at 76-18 Cooper Ave. has discussed the property with a groupinterested in creating a homeless shelter, though city officials have received nothing formal, andGlendale residents are ready for a fight. PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON

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Recently, a woman and her boyfriend went into an unassuming gold buying and cash loan shop on Queens Boulevard. She had a $35 offer on her ring from another area shop, but was looking to get a better deal. In what may be viewed as poor business acumen, she told her new prospective buyer what her previous offer was. Still, after examining her piece, he offered her $1,600. He did so, as he says, “...because that’s what it was worth.”

The plight of the worker who’s hard-up for cash in today’s economy is something that Arthur Elias and Edward Goldberg can relate to first-hand, having been laid off from their jobs in jewelry manufacturing. They understand that people get into situations where they just need a little cash fast to make the bills and Ice Jewelry Buying Service hopes to help out in the most honest way they can.

“For this, I like to think we’re doing the community a service,” Elias said. “We’re in the business of helping people who are in a tough spot. They can come to our store and know that we can educate them on what they have and we’ll give them what their items are worth. When that woman told me her previous offer, it made me wonder how many times this happens — how many people who really need that money get taken advantage of?”

Elias opened his Rego Park shop with Goldberg less than a year ago, and already they’re seeing a lot of repeat customers and referrals. This is a sign to them that they’re doing something right — the pawn business typically deals in one-time transactions but Elias is determined to break that mold, building a reputation on trust.

“Everyone around here is buying gold these days; you can go into the barber shop down the road and sell your jewelry. The problem with all these places is they treat everything

like it’s a one-shot deal and we don’t do that,” Elias said.

In addition to buying gold, silver, diamonds, watches and coins, Ice Jewelry Buying also offers instant cash loans for jewelry and eBay selling services.

Their cash loans program is straightforward and simple. “It’s a perfect solution for someone who has a bill due and a check on the way,” Goldberg said. “But we make sure they have a game plan to buy their jewelry back before the end of the term. Sometimes these are people’s heirlooms we’re talking about and we respect that.”

For those who are less Internet-savvy or just don’t have the time, Ice Jewelry Buying offers a convenient eBay sales service. If what a customer has isn’t an item that Ice Jewelry Buying would purchase, like a handbag or antique furniture, they can help find a buyer on their eBay store. Elias consults with the

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For anyone who has ever dealt with the hassle of sel l ing and shipping an item on eBay — all the

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“At the end of the day, I just want people to feel comfortable doing business with us. People have this conception of gold buying stores as these slimy places with slimy people, and they’re typically right. But we want to be different. I don’t think it’s cool to see someone buy a ring for $200 and put it in their counter for $800. We don’t do that.”

Ice Jewelry Buying Services is located at 98-30 Queens Blvd. in Rego Park. Hours of operation are Monday-Friday from 11am to 7:00pm and Saturday 10am to 5pm; Sunday private appoinments are available. Call for more information (718) 830-0030. Q

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Visitors can have unlimited carousel rides, including face-painting for $10 — orenjoy individual rides for $3. There will be a raffle, including some great prizes and amagic show.

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Ulrich touted the recently passed on-time balanced city budget which had notax increases and avoided teacher layoffsand restored funding to fire companies andlibraries. Addabbo, whose is running forre-election in a newly redrawn district thatnow includes Lindenwood, spoke about

Resorts World Casino New York City, not-ing that it had brought in over $200 millionto the state with over $100 million going toeducation which does trickle down to localschools. Goldfeder told the audience thatResorts World was a great communitypartner and a tremendous neighbor. Hesaid they have created 1,700 jobs in thecommunity.

He also said the management of theLindenwood Shopping Center has been agood neighbor, responsive to him and hisoffice.

The next meeting of the LindenwoodAlliance will be held on Monday, Sept. 10at 7:30 pm at the Rockwood Park JewishCenter. Q

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by Ron MarzlockChronicle Contributor

When someone mentions Broadway inQueens, most think of the largely commer-cial strip that runs from Astoria to Elmhurst.But there’s another Broadway, one thatcurves through one of the most unusualneighborhoods in Queens, the HamiltonBeach section of Howard Beach.

Driving down Cross Bay Boulevard inHoward Beach, one can see Shellbank Basinjust to the east. But a second inlet, HawtreeBasin, is secluded from view — just asHamilton Beach, the neighborhood betweenHawtree and the western edge of KennedyAirport, is secluded from the rest of Queens.

Hamilton Beachers have always beenindependent. When their post office refusedto join the greater Jamaica Postal District asa substation or branch in 1927, it got shutdown, but the name remains. Also unusualfor Queens, street numbers on Broadwayrun from 1 through 155.

Houses in Hamilton Beach were built justa few feet above the tide, and sewage dis-posal and street surface drainage havealways posed problems.

Records show the area was originallyinhabited by German-Americans withnames such as Strumpler, Miller, Schmitt,

Scheuermann and Winkelmann. By the1960s the names had changed to O’Shaugh-nessy, O’Toole, Smith and Kelly — Irish-Americans with a great love and passion forthe grassy bay and fishing.

Today 143 Broadway, along with threeadjacent parcels on the canal, is up for saleas a “handyman’s special” for $249,000. Itcould be a desirable place, and a challenge,for an independent and rugged person witha love of nature. Q

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SPORTS EATBThe real Olympic gold

by Lloyd CarrollChronicle Contributor

The biggest winner of the 2012 Olympicshad to be gymnast Gabrielle Douglas. TheLondon Games were not yet over when sheinked a $100 million endorsement deal withKellogg’s and her face was quickly plasteredon Corn Flakes boxes. She also made thecover of People.

Douglas hails from Virginia Beach and Iguess it’s safe to say that Mets third basemanDavid Wright is now the second mostfamous athlete from the Tidewater area.

Even though she did not earn a medal,track & field star Lolo Jones should alsoclean up on the endorsement front because ofher modelesque looks. Jones has bristled atthe notion that she is the Anna Kournikova oftrack because she has actually won somecompetitions, whereas Anna never even wona Mickey Mouse tennis tournament.

No athlete ever had more economicallyriding on the outcome of one game thanU.S. Women’s Soccer goalie Hope Solo.Last year she watched millions of dollars inendorsement deals fly right out the windowwhen the U.S. team blew a pair of late leadsand lost to Japan in the final game. Shequickly learned that in this country youmight was well come in 200th if you aregoing to finish second.

Solo, and her equally photogenic team-mates, Carli Lloyd and Alex Morgan, cer-tainly knew what the stakes were when theymet Japan in a rematch last Thursday in Lon-don. This time they did not blow any leads asthey held on for a 2-1 victory for the gold.You can be sure that their business agents’phones have been ringing off the hook.

The Mets unveiled the 2013 All-StarGame logo earlier this month and it now hasa permanent place under the centerfieldscoreboard. I think it’s an eyesore. It’s basi-cally the Mets’ Manhattan skyline and bridgelogo (no problem there) marred by “ALLSTAR GAME” in oversized letters below.

At the press conference, Deputy MayorPatty Harris claimed that the game will haveupwards of a $200 million positive economicimpact for the area. Tim Brosnan, the MajorLeague Baseball vice president of businessaffairs, promises that New York charitableorganizations will have their coffers enrichedby at least $5 million.

Flushing native, longtime Maspeth resi-dent and host of Sirius XM’s morning “RotoExperts” fantasy sports show Scott Engelwill be hosting a panel that includes Heis-man Trophy winner and Pro Football Hall ofFame inductee Tony Dorsett at this week-end’s Fantasy Football Fest taking place atthe Atlantic City Convention Center. Q

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Artist Soonae Tark’s acrylic paint-ings are just as fun as their names might suggest — “Sugar candy,” “Gathering,” “Orange in an or-

ange” and “Love you.”The titles might not be unique — though

much more intriguing than “untitled 1”— but, the style is all Tarks. The Seoul, South Korea-born painter shifted her look to stacked-up blocks 16 years ago when she moved to the United States.

She began playing with shape and color

with doodles on paper, she said. Tark con-tinues to draw to keep disciplined in her craft, and as a remedy for painter’s block. Some of her drawings will be displayed at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning for eight weeks beginning in September.

Those original drawings started with sharper square blocks that eventually morphed to the rounded rectangle that can be viewed at Yegam Art Space in Flush-ing though Sept. 8. The paintings in this exhibition range in canvas type — wood, Plexiglas, typical fabric canvases and paper — and in size, from a half foot by half foot to a couple feet tall.

Tark paints these stacks of rounded rect-angles in towers that look like in real-life

they would topple over more easily than a wobbly Jenga column. However, on Tark’s canvases the pillars look surprisingly sound.

“They are very stable and have harmo-ny,” said Yegam Art Space curator Dong Hee Lee, adding that the works remind her of Stonehenge.

The appearance of balance doesn’t al-ways rely on the size of the shape, but on color as well. The darker-colored shapes ooze a sense of heft whereas the cream-colored and yellow blocks, no matter how large, seem to float.

“Color has weight,” Tark said. “White versus black balances out.”

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Artist Soonae Tark stands with her paintings “Gathering,” right, and “Sending” at Yegam Art Space in Flushing.


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EXHIBITSThe Queens Botanical Garden presents the JamaicaEstates Association Art Show “The Artist Within:The Urge to Create” on view through Sept. 30, Tues-day through Sunday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in theGallery of the Visitor Center and AdministrationBuilding, 43-50 Main St., Flushing.

AUDITIONSThe AARP Queens Chorus performs at Queensnursing homes and rehab/senior centers. If interest-ed in joining call (718) 523-1330 for audition dates.

The Queens College Choral Society is seekingnew members for its 2012-13 concert season.Auditions for new members will take place on thefollowing Wednesdays in Room 246 of the MusicBuilding at Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Blvd.,Flushing: Aug. 22 from 6-8:30 p.m. and Aug. 29,Sept. 5 and Sept. 12 from 6-7:15 p.m. Rehearsalsare held from 7:30-9:45 p.m. on Wednesdays atQueens College and will begin on Aug. 29. A newmember welcome party will be held on Wednes-day, Sept. 19. Auditions consist of basic singingskills; no preparation is necessary.

THEATRETheatre By The Bay, the community theater groupof Bay Terrace Jewish Center, 13-00 209 St., Bayside,will present a full-day festival of readings of originalplays on Sunday, Aug. 19 starting at 1 p.m. Generalseating with admission to any or all of the plays inthe festival is $10 payable by cash or check only. Formore information call (718) 428-6363, Thursday, 9a.m. to 5 p.m. or Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

A Queens performance for Theater for the NewCity’s 2012 Street Theater tour, “99% Reduced Fat,or, You Can Bank On Us,” an operetta for the street,will be offered free on Sunday, Aug. 26 at 2 p.m. atTravers Park, 34th Avenue between 77th and 78thstreets, Jackson Heights.

MUSICLouis Armstrong House Museum, 34-56 107 St.,Corona, announces a jazz program with LuckyDogs on Saturday, Aug. 18. Held in the ArmstrongGarden at 2 p.m. the concert features a traditionaljazz band that plays and promotes the music ofLouis Armstrong. Tickets are $15 and include his-toric house tour.

Queens Jewish Community Council presents JewishMusic Under the Stars on Wednesday, Aug. 22 witha Bukharian Festival at 7 p.m. at Cunningham Park,Union Turnpike and 196th Street in Fresh Meadows.

FLEA MARKETSSt. Nicholas of Tolentine Parish continues to run itsoutdoor flea market every Saturday and Sundaythrough Nov. 25 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., but willbe closed on Sunday, Aug. 19. It is located at theintersection of Parsons Boulevard and Union Turn-pike in Jamaica.

HEALTHJoin Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06Northern Blvd., Douglaston, for its seventh blooddrive on Wednesday, Aug. 22 from 2-8 p.m. Call(718) 229-4000 ext. 200 and speak to Liz to sched-ule an appointment. Free babysitting available tothose parents who need it.

MEETINGSSoutheast Queens Camera Club meets at Roy WilkinsPark, 177-01 Baisley Blvd., Jamaica, Tuesdays at 7:30p.m. with Introduction to Digital Photography on Aug.21 and Aug. 28. Bring camera and manual.

Free public speaking/effective communicationmeetings are held on the first, third and fourth Sat-urdays of the month at 10 a.m. Learn to be comfort-able speaking before an audience. Meetings areheld at the Elmhurst Hospital Center, Conferenceroom A-1-15, 79-01 Broadway. Contact club vicepresident membership at (646) 748-8290.

CLASSESThe Voelker Orth Museum, 149-19 38 Ave., Flushing,is offering a jewelry-making workshop on Friday,Aug. 24 from 1-2:30 p.m. Instructor Lynn Hanousekwill cover basic jewelry-making techniques for work-ing with memory wire and beads. Participants willbe able to create something to wear for fall wear orfor their gift collection. Workshop fee is $4 and $3for members. All supplies are provided.

This summer, members of St. Josaphat Parish’sWomen’s Craft Club are offering free instruction inknitting, crochet, needlepoint and holiday crafts foryouth. This opportunity is open to children agesseven and up (and their parents/guardians), and allmaterials will be supplied. The Craft Club meetsevery Tuesday in August from 1 to 3 p.m. in St. Jos-aphat’s Parish Hall, next to the church on 35 Avenueoff 210 Street in Bayside.

The New York State Safe Boating class will betaught by qualified U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliaryinstructors at the Thai Rock Restaurant, 375 Beach92 St. in Rockaway Beach on Saturday, Aug. 18 from9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The fee is $65, learning materialsand lunch included. For more information, call MikeKaff at (917) 952-7014 or email [email protected] register online go to Flotilla 12-01’s website atuscgaux1201.org.

Astronomer Mark Freilich will offer an astronomyclass on Saturday, Aug. 18 from 8-10 p.m. at AlleyPond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd.,Douglaston, for ages 7 and over. Cost is $10 mem-bers, $12 non members, $7 for children ages 7-12.Pre-register by calling (718) 229-4000.

Free English classes will be given every Saturdaythrough Sept. 8 from 10-11 a.m. at New People’sChurch of NY, 46-04 162 St., Flushing. To reserve yourseat, register online at newpeopleschurch.com/eng-lish.php.

The Queens Community House, Pomonok Center,67-09 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, is offering Zumbawith Nando Zee on Thursday nights at 6 p.m. for $10per person. Participants must wear sneakers and beat least 16 years old. For information call Amy at(718) 591-6060.

Italian Charities of America, 83-20 Queens Blvd.,Elmhurst, teaches ballroom dancing every Mondayand Friday night from 7:15 to 8 p.m. followed by asocial dance. Cost is $10.

The Flushing Camera Club meets at 7:30 p.m. inthe auditorium of Flushing Hospital, enter at 45thAvenue and Burling Street on the first, third and fifthWednesdays of the month. For information, visitflushingcameraclub.org.

The Jackson Heights Art Club offers art classes inall mediums, adults, children, days, evenings. Class-es are held at St. Mark’s Church, 82nd Street and34th Avenue. Costs are: adults, $75 for four sessions;children seven years and up, $50 for four sessions.

Membership available. For information, call Geral-dine at (718) 446-4709.

Mindfulness Meditation one-hour class with RabbiMichael Weisser at Free Synagogue of Flushing, 41-60 Kissena Blvd., on Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. Free. Formore information, call (718) 961-0030 or [email protected].

The YWCA of Queens, 42-07 Parsons Blvd., Flushing,has expanded its GED preparation program toinclude free adult classes. Tracks vary in lengthfrom 10 to 20 weeks depending upon entrance testresults. Contact the YW and sign up for the nextplacement examination. Call Stacy McKelvey at(718) 353-4553 for more information or to reserveyour placement exam seat.

A one-hour auto clinic for women is held the thirdsaturday of every month at 3:30 p.m. at Great BearAuto Repair Shop, 164-16 Sanford Ave., Flushing.Call to reserve at (718) 762-6212.

Ongoing drawing class every Wednesday 1-4 p.m. atthe National Art League, 44-21 Douglaston Pkwy,Douglaston. Instructor, Marc Jasloff. Call (516) 223-7659. Fee: $25 per class.

REUNIONBayside High School class of 1962; 50th yearreunion on Sunday, October 7 to be held at theCourtyard Marriot at Laguardia, from 2-6 p.m. Forinformation contact [email protected]

SOCIAL ACTIVITIESThe Wednesday Night Singles Group of the SFYAdult Center, 58-20 Little Neck Parkway, Little Neck,invites you to social evenings with special guestspeakers on the second and fourth Wednesdays ofeach month from 7-9 p.m. Fee: $7 Adult Centermembers, $9 nonmembers.

SPECIAL EVENTSA farmers market will be held every Friday until fallfrom 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Dalia Avenue off MainStreet, near the Queens Botanical Garden.

Meet craftspeople as they demonstrate crafts fromthe 1800s on Friday, Aug. 17 and Saturday, Aug. 18,both noon to 4 p.m. at the King Manor, 150-03Jamaica Ave., Jamaica.

On Sunday, Aug. 26, the 31st Street Festival, spon-sored by the Kiwanis Club of Astoria, will be held, on31st Street between Ditmars Boulevard and 21stAvenue, from noon to 6 p.m. Food vendors, craft ven-dors, games rides, North Shore Animal League mobilepet adoption and general vendors. Fun for the wholefamily. Call (718) 444-6028 for more information.

SUPPORT GROUPSCo-Dependents Anonymous (women only) meet-ings are held every Friday from 10 to 11:45 a.m. atResurrection Ascension Pastoral Center, Fr. FreelyHall, 85-18 61 Rd., Rego Park.

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The Theatre By The Bay Original PlaysFestival, running all day on Sunday, shouldbe a playgoers delight, offering a half-dozen works that have been expanded,revised or written specifically for the event,including dramas, a children’s musical anda fable that borders on operetta.

The pieces will be performed with scriptsin hand. Some works will be staged, whileothers will be read by actors seated infor-mally across the stage.

“For the longest time I wanted to broad-en the work we do,” said the group’s pro-ducer-director, Lawrence Bloom, who orga-nized the event.

Bloom’s own contribution to the festival,scenes from a drama-in-progress called

“Dreamer’s Lullaby,” takes on a “TwilightZone” feel while relating the tale of a specialtrain and one man’s desire to hop on board.

Bloom wrote the two-act play, producedin 1964, while he was a freshman in col-lege. Now, he has taken the title and“started from scratch,” he said, but keptthe basic concept.

“I’ve had 50 years to think about it,”Bloom said.

For Michael Chimenti, preparation on hispiece, “Johnny and the Thinking Machine,”also harkens back to his college days.

“Being an actor, I was always on thelookout for a new piece to perform,” hesaid. During that time he was introduced toa short story called “Ickitwick,” a fantasyabout a l itt le boy who encounters amachine with a heart.

“This would make an adorable show forkids,” he thought, and it’s been on hisbucket list ever since.

A few years ago, Chimenti was involvedin a community theater production wherehe met Frank Sanchez, a young musicianwith a shared interest in playwriting.Together, they began to adapt “Ickitwick”for the stage.

When the show has its first public per-formance on Sunday, the audience willinclude the original story’s writer, PhyllisHolliday, who is flying in from Californiafor the occasion.

“I told her the idea and she said, ‘Youhave my blessing,’ “ Chimenti said.

Thomas Newby Jr. turned to anotherauthor for his inspiration, setting the words of

boroNew plays get first crack at stage time

Andrew Anton, left, Drew Luback, Lila Edelkind, Isabel Robin and Michele Mazzocco inthe Orginal Plays Festival will perform six unique works with scripts in hand.

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13-00 209 St., BaysideTickets: $10, (718) 428-6363

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Giuseppe Purich bounded up to thepodium at Astoria Pool on Aug. 8 toreceive his award for Outstanding Swim-mer and Male Senior Citizen, during thevenue’s annual celebration.

Last November, Purich, 84, sufferedfrom a stroke that left the right side of hisface paralyzed. However, the avid swim-mer, who joined Astoria Pool’s SeniorSplash program in 2006, wouldn’t let thisobstacle get in his way.

“He is in awesome health,” Council-man Peter Vallone Jr. said. “He couldprobably play volleyball with me.”

The stroke also affects Purich’s balanceand muscle strength. He says swimminghas helped him manage back and legpain, and regain mobility and balance.

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Tark’s style also lies in her smoothand exact brush stroke. The acrylicpaint is applied in such a way that theviewer can’t see a brush stroke. Theedges of each shape are exact andneat. Even the sides of the canvas aredrawn with X-Acto-knife precision.

During the last four years she hasstarted playing with using Plexiglasand wood as canvases. Tark, a Sunny-side resident, was commissioned bythe city’s Department of CulturalAffairs to paint a 20-by-8-foot muralin Woodhaven’s PS 306 on wood.

She said she liked the weight of thematerial. The same applies to herPlexiglas works, which are displayedfor the first time at the gallery.

“Plexiglas is so much fun,” Tark said.

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“Orange in an orange,” left, shows off Soonae Tark’sclassic rounded-block shape and masterful balancing ofcolor and size. Her series of smaller paintings are anexperiment of back-to-back blocks of vibrant colors onwood. PHOTOS BY JOSEY BARTLETT

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SUPPORT GROUPSThe Center for the Women of New York is nowaccepting registration for a new session of itsWomen’s Support Group. The group meets atQueensborough Hall, 120-55 Queens Blvd., Room325, Kew Gardens, every Thursday from 6-7:30 p.m.To participate no prior group experience is neededand there is no fee. For information and an interviewappointment, call the Center for the Women of NewYork at (718) 793-0672.

A bereavement group will meet this summer at the Bayside Senior Center, 221-15 Horace HardingExpwy. Pre-registration is a must. Call (718) 225-1144.

Nar-Anon is a self-help support group or anyoneaffected by a loved one’s use/abuse of drugs. Thegroup meets every Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in thebasement lounge at the Church in the Gardens, 50 Ascan Ave., Forest Hills. For information, call1(800) 984-0066, or go to nar-anon.org.

Drug problem? Call Narcotics Anonymous Helplineat (718) 962-6244 or visit westernqueensna.com.Meetings are held seven days a week.

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SENIOR ACTIVITIESThe Rockaway Boulevard Senior Center, 123-10143 St., South Ozone Park, offers service programsMonday-Friday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. lunch is at noon with asuggested donation of $1.50. Exercise programsinclude: tai chi stretch, dance groups, choral group,ceramic, camera class, computer classes, trips, birth-day parties and more. For more information, call(718) 657-6752.

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“He consistently comes.He only has missed twicethis year,” Saravia said.

A veteran of the Italianmarines, Purich moved to New York inthe 1970s from Venice, Italy. Heworked in construction for 10 years andfor the Transit Authority for 18 years.

The swimming program, organizedby the Department of Parks and Recre-at ion, Community Board 1 andCatholic Charities, has given seniorsand the disabled a time and place toexercise and socialize since 1981.

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participant Mary Tompkins said.Seniors have full rein over a third of

the Olympic-sized pool from 11 a.m.to 1 p.m. three days a week. The mid-dle of the pool is open to the publicand the far end is for individuals withdisabilities, which allows Parks andRecreation employees to give themspecialized attention.

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Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. presented Giuseppe Purich withthe award for 2012 Outstanding Swimmer/Male Senior Citizenat the Senior Citizen/Special Populations Celebration Day atAstoria Pool. PHOTO COURTESY NYC COUNCIL

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King Crossword Puzzleseveral Shakespearean sonnets to music.

Written for a graduate program in lieuof a conventional term paper, Newby’scompositions formed the basis of whatbecame “A Shakespeare Cabaret,” whichhe will perform in a robust baritone at thefestival.

“I’ve wondered what I could do withthis,” Newby said. “It’s been lying dormanton a shelf for 39 years.”

A full-length musical, “KATrina,” willcap the event beginning at 7:30 p.m.

“KATrina,” under Bloom’s direction andfeaturing a cast of 10, is a fable about cats.The festival’s most ambitious work, itrequired six weeks of rehearsal leading upto opening night.

The other works to be performed are“Every Time I Fall Back,” a drama byJenifer Badamo, and “Can E-Mail Keep UsTogether?” by Stanley William Hathaway.

Many faces familiar to Theatre By TheBay audiences wil l be seen on-stagethroughout the festival.

Frequent Theatre By The Bay leadingman John Canning finds “the newness ofthe ideas and the music exciting. Most ofthe plays I’ve been involved with are showsthat are known commodities.” And beingdenied movement on stage brings extra

challenges. “The sentiments and meaningsof the text have to come through the waythe lines are said,” he said.

Bloom’s son, Steven, a professionalactor, makes a return appearance for thisproduction.

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SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONSIndex No.: 680/12

Date of Filing: July 18, 2012SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS

JAMES B. NUTTER & COMPANY, Plaintiff,-against-

KAREN WASHINGTON AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF THE ESTATE OF SAMUEL CROSS; THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF THE ESTATE OF SAMUEL CROSS DECEASED AND SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF ANY OF THE AFORESAID DEFENDANTS WHO MAY BE DECEASED AND THE RESPECTIVE HEIRS AT LAW, NEXT OF KIN, DISTRIBUTEES, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, TRUSTEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, ASSIGNEES AND SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF THE AFORESAID CLASSES OF PERSONS, IF THEY OR ANY OF THEM BE DEAD, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE HUSBANDS, WIVES OR WIDOWS, IF ANY, ALL OF WHOM AND WHOSE NAMES AND PLACES OF RESIDENCE ARE UNKNOWN TO THE PLAINTIFF, if living, or if either or all be dead, their wives, husbands, heirs-at-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, assignees, lienors and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF THE ESTATE OF SAMUEL CROSS DECEASED AND SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF ANY OF THE AFORESAID DEFENDANTS WHO MAY BE DECEASED AND THE RESPECTIVE HEIRS AT LAW, NEXT OF KIN, DISTRIBUTEES, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, TRUSTEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, ASSIGNEES AND SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF THE AFORESAID CLASSES OF PERSONS, IF THEY OR ANY OF THEM BE DEAD, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE HUSBANDS, WIVES OR WIDOWS, IF ANY, ALL OF WHOM AND WHOSE NAMES AND PLACES OF RESIDENCE ARE UNKNOWN TO THE PLAINTIFF, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, of any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, and the respective husbands, wives, widows or widowers of them, if any, all of whose names are unknown to plaintiff; NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION; NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD; NEW YORK CITY PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU; NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA O/B/O SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA-INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; STATE OF NEW YORK; ‘’JOHN DOES’’ and ‘’JANE DOES’’, said names being fictitious, parties intended being possible tenants or occupants of premises, and corporations, other entities or persons who claim, or may claim, a lien against the premises, Defendant(s).

TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: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 within twenty (20) days after service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service, where service of this summons is made by delivery upon you personally within this state, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner, and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.

NOTICEYOU 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.YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT, AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.

TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS:The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Honorable Diccia T. Pineda-Kirwan of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, signed on June 18, 2012, and filed with supporting papers in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Queens, State of New York.The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, executed by SAMUEL CROSS and LIZZIE CROSS to JAMES B. NUTTER & COMPANY, bearing date April 21, 2008, in the principal amount of $544,185.00, which mortgage was recorded in Queens County, State of New York, on May 19, 2008, in CRFN: 2008000201198.Said premises being known as and by 534 GRASSMERE TERRACE, FAR ROCKAWAY, NY 11691.

Dated: May 2, 2012Batavia, New York

Virginia C Grapensteter, Esq.ROSICKI, ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff

Batavia Office 26 Harvester AvenueBatavia, NY 14020

585.815.0288Help For Homeowners In Foreclosure

New York State Law requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process. Please read it carefully. Mortgage foreclosure is a complex process. Some people may approach you about “saving” your home. You should be extremely careful about any such promises. The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. There are government agencies, legal aid entities and other non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about foreclosure while you are working 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. The State does not guarantee the advice of these agencies.

SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEYCHANCERY DIVISION, FAMILY PART, PASSAIC COUNTY

DOCKET NO.: FM-02-2054-12TO: CARLOS IVAN GARCIA, Defendant.YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED in a Civil Action filed in the Superior Court of New Jersey by PAULINA GALEANO (et al., if more than one plaintiff) as plaintiff(s) against CARLOS IVAN GARCIA (et al., if more than one defendant) as defendant(s). This lawsuit was instituted to obtain a divorce between Plaintiff and Defendant. R. 4:4-5(a)(3)(A)).If you dispute this lawsuit, you or your attorney must file a written answer or a general appearance in accordance with R. 5:4-3(a) and proof of service on or before 35 days from today with the deputy clerk of the Superior Court for the county listed above at the following address: SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY - PASSAIC COUNTY COURTHOUSE - 401 GRAND STREET, PATERSON, NEW JERSEYA $135.00 filing fee payable to the Clerk of the Superior Court must accompany your answer or motion when it is filed. You must also send a copy of your answer or appearance to plaintiff’s attorney at the following address: 434 21ST AVENUE, PATERSON, NJ 07513A telephone call will not protect your rights; you must file and serve a written answer or appearance (with fee) if you want the court to hear your defense.If you do not file and serve a written answer or appearance by the deadline noted above, the court may enter a judgment against you for the relief plaintiff demands, plus interest and costs of suit. If judgment is entered against you, the Sheriff may seize your money, wages or property to pay all or part of the judgment.If you cannot afford an attorney, you may call the Legal Services office in the county where you live. If you do not have an attorney and are not eligible for free legal assistance, you may obtain a referral to an attorney by calling one of the Lawyer Referral Services attached hereto.JENNIFER PEREZSuperior Court Clerk


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Tito Soto likes to see people working, especially in these difficult times. So when he decided it was time to do major renovations on his house — more than he could do himself, though he’s always working on some project or another — he was glad to hire the crew of con-struction workers that has been doing the job.

“They’re hardworking guys, very hardworking guys,” said Soto, who learned something about hard work during his 32 years as an electri-cian for the MTA. “I’m happy to be putting people to work with the way the economy is. I told them every day, ‘I’m glad to see you guys working.’”

Soto didn’t select the crew all on his own, however. The company was prescreened for him by the group that helped make the entire project — and the jobs it created — possible: Housing Rehabilitation Assistance.

HRA is the organization that’s helping homeowners all over the city and on Long Island do the home renovations of their dreams, by not just screening for the best contrac-tors but working with banks to get the loans for major projects, finding extra financial assistance for cli-ents who qualify, explaining the tax breaks that come with energy-effi-cient door and window treatments and new insulation — and ensuring that the job is always done right by holding contractors’ payments in escrow until clients certify that they’re absolutely satisfied.

“The services offered by the HRA extend beyond just financial assis-tance for home improvement proj-ects,” an administrator with the program explains. “We have imple-mented numerous processes to ensure that projects completed by

HRA-approved contractors are done to the homeowner’s satisfaction.”

Soto cer tainly is. “I’m quite pleased with the work and would def-initely recommend them to anybody interested in spending a little money to fix up their house,” he said.

Soto’s home, built in 1920 in a hilly section of the Bronx, provides a perfect example of how utiliz-ing HRA can help the homeowner. Though solid overall, it had a roof that leaked for years, a drafty foyer, some bad floor joists and a small kitchen that needed a modern makeover.

It wasn’t that Soto wanted to upgrade the home he’s lived in for 27 years just for himself. With his daughter and his grandchildren hav-ing moved out for a place in the suburbs a few years ago, he’s decid-ed it’s getting near time to sell. So he needed more curb appeal and a more inviting interior, one where the kitchen and foyer matched the qual-ity of other rooms he remodeled himself over the years.

He will miss his home, but Soto has been retired for nearly 23 years and says it’s time to move to an apartment where someone else can take care of the maintenance.

“I’m fixing it up for the next owner,” he said. “It’s cozy and I love it, and if it wasn’t for the snow and the grass and everything else, I’d stay here. But I don’t need a house. It’s just me; the kids are gone, and it’s time to move on.”

Unt i l he does sel l, Soto’s enjoying a new level of comfort and style provided by those HRA-approved workers he’s so glad to be employing.

The f irst thing they did was replace the roof, taking care of the leaks. On the inside, the kitchen was the first part of the project to

be finished. Formerly a bit drab, it now features new granite counter-tops and complementary floor tiles in soft, eye-pleasing earthtones, rich real-wood cabinets, a ceramic brick backsplash and wall treat-ment, a gleaming stainless steel stove, new lighting, energy-efficient windows and a new door.

“I love these cabinets; they still smell like wood,” Soto said as he made himself dinner one recent night. “These are not the cabinets you buy in your local Home Depot. And the ceramic brick is beautiful; it’s a beautiful selection.”

It’s not just the parts you see that have been upgraded, though. The HRA-approved crew removed and replaced all the walls, the floor, the joists below it and the ceiling. Because the home had settled over the years, when they replaced the rafters they also had to raise the floor. To make up for the difference, they then lifted the ceiling a little, allowing those new wood cabinets to fit as well as they do. Since the kitchen juts out of the rear of the house, and none of the second-floor rooms are above it, they were able to make the adjustments with-out causing any other issues.

That’s how it is with the con-tractors HRA suppor ts — they respond to whatever unique needs a client has.

The only thing Soto decided to change after the kitchen was done was the color of the door, so he was repainting that when he received a visitor recently. Soto just couldn’t resist getting in on the work some-how. “I love projects,” he said.

In the foyer, which looks out over the hilly street, the crew removed the old ceiling, walls and front win-dows. They replaced any beams that had rotted because of the

leak and put in a beautiful new bay window that gives the home’s curb appeal a major boost.

Since there’s nothing like a first impression, that window alone will have a big impact on prospective buyers.

“It’s a tremendous, tremendous difference,” he said. “Without a doubt, just seeing it adds value to the house.”

Like many HRA clients, Soto found out about the program through a card that came in the mail. Deciding it was worth check-ing out, he called and met with HRA representatives, who explained how the program works.

“They were ver y amiable,”

he said. “They make you feel comfortable, because it is a big investment.”

He received financial assistance for the window treatments and help with getting the loan that cov-ered most of the project, and has remained in touch with his HRA rep-resentative as the work continues.

“I would recommend them to anybody,” Soto said.

To find out if you qualify for the Housing Rehabilitation Assistance program, just call HRA toll-free at 866-791-6302. Tell them you read about the great job they’re doing for Tito Soto, and they’ll be sure to give you the same level of excel-lent service.

Rich wood cabinets, granite countertops and ceramic brick make Tito Soto’s kitchen more inviting than it’s ever been.

Soto’s HRA-approved contractors replaced inefficient windows in the foyer with a beautiful new bay window, adding tremendously to his home’s curb appeal.

New windows in the kitchen not only make it more appealing but also reduce energy costs and provide Soto with a tax break.

Soto enjoys his cozy new kitchen, but decided to repaint the door.

A new level of style and comfort

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Offi ce: 516-775-7000

Raymond Guarino, Jr.

Agent / Broker

516.775.7000882 Hempstead Tpke.

Franklin Square, NY [email protected]

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MINEOLA RESTAURANTEstablished Restaurant/Pizza business w/

Lquor Lic., 2nd fl r apts. Income: $4500. Great location near train and Winthrop Hospital.

FREE MARKET APPRAISALSThomas J. LaVecchia, Licensed Real Estate Broker

www.howardbeachrealty.com

137-05 Cross Bay Blvd.Ozone Park, NY 11417 718-641-6800

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HOWARD BEACH/OZONE PARKHoward Beach, 3.5 Rm 1 BR Apt, Terrace, Laundry Room on Premises, and parking.

APARTMENTS FOR RENT

Houses Wanted - Free To List - Free Credit Check - Call Now!

OZONE PARKProfessional Office/Desk Space Available.

Call 718-641-6800, Ask for Tom

PROFESSIONAL OFFICE SPACE

HOWARD BEACH ROCKWOOD PARK

Hi Ranch, 49x100, 10 Rms, Fireplace, Many Extras, 4 BRs,

3 Baths, Inground Pool, Garage, Pvt Dvwy. New Lower Price! Call Now!

HOWARD BEACH4 Rms, 1 BR Hi Rise Co-op, All redone, New Granite Kit,

New Bath, New Appl. PARKING AVAILABLE! Asking $112,500

OZONE PARK1 Family Det, 6 Rms, 3 BRs, 2 Baths, Fin Bsmnt, Garage, 22x121 Lot, Mint Condition!

Asking Only $389K

HOWARD BEACH2 BR Garden Co-op, 2 fl, Pet ok,

Washer/Dryer allowed.Asking only $130K, Call Now!

HOWARD BEACHGarden Co-op 1st fl, 2 BRs, Pet friendly dogs ok, Updated kit and bath, Hardwood floors, Storage

room, Laundry room on premises. Reduced $149K

HOWARD BEACH5 Rms, 3 BR Garden Co-op,

Pet friendly, 1st Fl., H/W Floors, Updated Kit & Bath, Excel Condition. Call Now!

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