A Night With The “Oldies”

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2013
THE WOODSIDE HERALD
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SERVING SUNNYSIDE-WOODSIDE AND LONG ISLAND CITY
VOL. 79, NO. 41
WOODSIDE, L.I.C., N.Y. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2013
FREE
by Mary Caulfield
(continued on page 4)
7th Annual Oktoberfest
Over one hundred volunteers
met under the Sunnyside arch on
Saturday October 5th. They meant
to make a difference in the neighborhood. They did.
In three hours they polished
the streetscape and helped insure a
bright spring in 2014. Sunnyside
Shines and Council Member
Jimmy Van Bramer’s office provided experienced management,
guidance and support. They united
with Greening Western Queens,
Trees New York and the New York
Restoration Project to employ three
local girl scout and brownie troops,
a contingent of students from NYU
and a medley of neighborhood
denizens to green up the heart of
the neighborhood.
The organizations outfitted
people with weeders, trowels, compost, mulch and daffodils. The people
split into self-assigned teams. First
went the rakers, then the cultivators,
composters, planters and mulchers.
Sweepers and baggers followed up
everywhere. A lone tree trimmer—
trained in the detailed art of removing damaged and dead twiggery—
wielded his long-poled saw like a
knight brandishing his lance.
A Night With The “Oldies”
by Peter Ross
by Debra McGowan
With good weather, a neighborhood came together to celebrate the seventh annual
Oktoberfest, Arts and Crafts Fair,
with Pumpkin Patch, at Sunnyside
Gardens Park on Saturday October 5th. There was something for
everyone in the neighborhood.
Lisa Jacobsen, the president of
the Sunnyside Gardens Park said
“ We have a variety of activities
taking place all within the confines of the park.” Over 20 local
artists sold their wares and were
organized by Samantha Hogan
and Jenn Busnel. Local musicians
provided live performances including Richard Younger, “Super Cools” from Sunnyside
AHRC, “Bad Poets”-a Brooklyn
duo, “Little Fiddlers” from
Sunnyside String School along
with “There They Go” a group
organized by Alex Hegyi , a
Woodside resident. Children’s activities were numerous with face
painting by Laura Senicea, crown
making, sand art and pumpkin
painting. All-in-One Entertainment
provided pony rides, a 20 foot high
giant slide and a 28 foot high climbing wall. The pumpkin patch was
bursting with 1000 pumpkins. As
in years past the picnic area transformed into a classic german beer
garden with bratwurst and
sauerkraut to black forest cake and
flowing beer truck from Budweiser.
(continued on page 8)
On the evening of Saturday
September 28th Sunnyside Community Services on 39th Street was
transformed back in time as the
Kiwanis Club of Sunnyside and
Sunnyside Community Services
(SCS) co-sponsored an “Oldies
Night” complete with pasta supper.
The fundraiser, the proceeds of
which will be used to help fund the
programs of the Kiwanis Club and
Sunnyside Community Services,
was attended by a mixed aged crowd
of approximately sixty very enthusiastic and energetic “oldies lovers” who showed their best moves
to tunes covering the decades of the
50’s, 60’s and 70’s. The musical
group Tony K. and Boardwalk kept
the crowd excited and engaged as
they played songs from musicians
as varied as the Beach Boys to
Frank Sinatra and you can believe
the group did it “Their Way,” which
of course they ended the night with.
(continued on page 5)
Tony K. croons Sinatra’s “My Way” between the Ross sisters as he
closes out “Oldies Night” at Sunnyside Community Services. More
proof that good music knows no age boundaries.
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location due to poor pavement conditions, and he pushed DOT to
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Local residents are concerned
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CM Daniel Dromm, along with many officials and community members, dedicated the
corner of 102nd Street and Strong Avenue to former Community Board 4 District Manager,
Richard Italiano. Pictured (l) to (r): Council Member Daniel Dromm, Richard’s son Brian,
Richard’s wife Carol, Richard’s daughter, Cristina Stellmann holding her son Nicholas and
her husband Michael holding their oldest son, Michael Richard.
Council Member Daniel Dromm (DJackson Heights, Elmhurst), along with
several elected officials, and community
members, unveiled a street sign at 102nd
Street and Strong Avenue in Corona conaming the corner for Richard Italiano, a
former Community Board 4 district manager and Corona community activist.
“Richard Italiano was a beloved member of the Corona community,” said
Dromm. “His contributions to the neighborhood range from serving as the district
manager of Community Board 4 for more
than seven years, on the Community Emergency Response Team, the Flushing Meadows Corona Park Conservancy, the New
York Hospital-Queens Community Advisory Council, the 110th Precinct Community Council and the Italian Heritage and
Culture Committee of Queens County.
With a voice he never raised, Richard
accomplished big milestones for the community he loved so dearly. He is sorely
missed by all.”
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Neighborhood Shine’s Up Sunnyside Sidewalks
From one tree and its inelegantly
named home in the concrete—its pit—to
the next they spread out. On Greenpoint
Avenue, Queens Boulevard and 46th
Street they got on their knees to transform
the earth. Depressions in the sidewalks—
usually strewn with the plastic bottles
and caps, paper cups, chewed gum and
cigarette butts city dwellers leave in their
wake—became tidy open patches. When
the work was done the mulched, enriched
earth lay ready and able to nurture the 90
hard-working street trees and 2,400 newly
planted daffodils.
“This was such an exciting collabora-
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tion between so many great local organizations, and a great first step to care for
Sunnyside street trees. A cleaner and
greener commercial district is better for
local businesses and we look forward to
more events like these to bring the community together,” said Sunnyside Shine’s
director Rachel Thieme.
Looking around at the biggest cleanup
in the four years he has sponsored them,
Van Bramer said, “It never ceases to
inspire me that we have so many good
people in this neighborhood.”
It seems their work transforms more
than just the sidewalks.
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A Night With The ‘Oldies’
Steve Sirgiovanni, the Lieutenant Governor of the Queens West
Division of Kiwanis, congratulates Kiwanis Club of Sunnyside
President Carol Masiello on another wonderful event as he
encouraged the Club to do bigger and better things for the youth
in the community.
These ladies knew not only all the moves but all the words as
well as they danced a storm during “Oldies Night”. Well
done Jean Marie (on the left) and Barbara (center)!
Tony K. belts out a tune as he and “Boardwalk” dazzle the
crowd with sounds of performers past during the Kiwanis
Club of Sunnyside/Sunnyside Community Services “Oldies
Night” Fundraiser Event.
In between the musical sets
the crowd indulged in a pasta supper catered by LaBella Pizzeria
with a delicious antipasto prepared by none other than Kiwanis
member and Sunnyside Drum
Corps Director Anthony (“Tony”)
Lana, a 50/50 raffle, and door
prizes including gift cards to New
York Style Eats and Sidetracks
Restaurants which were graciously donated for the event. In
all it was a great night and the
attendees were sorry to see it end.
They were not left wanting though
as the Kiwanis Club of Sunnyside
vowed to do it again next year so
keep on the look-out and purchase your tickets early! The
Sunnyside Kiwanis Club and SCS
would like to thank everyone who
came out to make the night special and LaBella Pizzeria, New
York Eats, White Castle, Electro
Freeze Tri-State, Sidetracks, Triad
Management, Local 372 of DC37
and of course Tony K. and Boardwalk for all their donations and/or
assistance with the event. The
Kiwanis Club of Sunnyside would
also like to thank Steve
Sirgiovanni, the new Lieutenant
Governor for the Queens West
Division of Kiwanis in New York,
for coming out and participating
in this festive affair.
The Kiwanis Club of
Sunnyside invites all adults in
the neighborhood to check out
and get more information on the
Club by stopping by the Club’s
meetings, which are held at Sidetracks Restaurant (45-08 Queens
Boulevard in Sunnyside) at 6:00
PM every second and fourth
Thursday of each month. Additionally, the Club may be
reached at sunnysidekiwanis
@gmail.com. They look forward to seeing you all as they
continue to “Serve the Children
of the World”.
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File
No.:
2012-4982/A
CITATION THE PEOPLE OF
THE STATE OF NEW YORK BY
THE GRACE OF GOD, FREE
AND INDEPENDENT To:
Attorney General of the State of
New York The unknown
distributees, legatees, devisees,
heirs at law and assignees of
DAVID LAMBERT, deceased, or
their estates, if any there be, whose
names, places of residence and
post office addresses are unknown
to the petitioner and cannot with
due diligence be ascertained.
Being the persons interested as
creditors, legatees, distributees or
otherwise in the Estate of DAVID
LAMBERT, deceased, who at the
time of death was a resident of
195-44 Woodhull Avenue, Hollis,
NY 11423, in the County of
Queens, State of New York. SEND
GREETING: Upon the petition of
LOIS M. ROSENBLATT, Public
Administrator of Queens County,
who maintains her office at 88-11
Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica,
Queens County, New York 11435,
as Administrator of the Estate of
DAVID LAMBERT, deceased,
you and each of you are hereby
cited to show cause before the
Surrogate at the Surrogate’s
Court of the County of Queens, to
be held at the Queens General
Courthouse, 6th Floor, 88-11
Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, City
and State of New York, on the
21st day of November, 2013 at
9:30 o’clock in the forenoon, why
the Account of Proceedings of the
Public Administrator of Queens
County, as Administrator of the
Estate of said deceased, a copy of
which is attached, should not be
judicially settled, and why the
Surrogate should not fix and allow
a
reasonable
amount
of
compensation to GERARD J.
SWEENEY, ESQ., for legal
services rendered to petitioner
herein in the amount of $5,221.71
and that the Court fix the fair and
reasonable additional fee for any
services to be rendered by
GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ.,
hereafter in connection with
proceedings on kinship, claims
etc., prior to entry of a final Decree
on this accounting in the amount
of 6% of assets or income collected
after the date of the within
accounting; and why the Surrogate
should not fix and allow an amount
equal to one percent on said
Schedules of the total assets on
Schedules A, A1, and A2 plus any
additional monies received
subsequent to the date of this
account, as the fair and reasonable
amount payable to the Office of
the Public Administrator for the
expenses of said office pursuant
to S.C.P.A. §1106(4); and why
each of you claiming to be a
distributee of the decedent should
not establish proof of your kinship;
and why the balance of said funds
should not be paid to said alleged
distributees upon proof of kinship,
or
deposited
with
the
Commissioner of Finance of the
City of New York should said
alleged distributees default herein,
or fail to establish proof of kinship,
Dated, Attested and Sealed 24th
day of September, 2013 HON.
PETER J. KELLY, Surrogate,
Queens County, Margaret M.
Gribbon, Clerk of the Surrogate’s
Court GERARD J. SWEENEY,
ESQ. (718) 459-9000, 95-25
Queens Boulevard, 11 th Floor,
Rego Park, New York 11374. This
citation is served upon you as
required by law. You are not
obliged to appear in person. If
you fail to appear it will be
assumed that you do not object to
the relief requested unless you file
formal legal, verified objections.
You have a right to have an
attorney-at-law appear for you.
Accounting Citation 10/4/13, 10/
11/13, 10/18/13, 10/25/13
PROBATE CITATION
FILE
NO. 2012-4931 SURROGATE’S
COURT- QUEENS COUNTY
CITATION THE PEOPLE OF
THE STATE OF NEW YORK By
the Grace of God Free and
Independent TO: Brenda Collins
Tonary, Michael Cuomo, Patricia
Cuomo,
Patrick
Cuomo,
Augustine Cuomo, and Patricia
Cuomo if living and if dead, to his
or her heirs at law, next of kin and
distribute whose names and places
of residence are unknown and if
he or she died subsequent to the
decedent herein, to his or her
executors,
administrators,
legatees, devisees, assignees and
successors in interest whose name
and places of residence are
unknown and to all other heirs at
law, next of kin and distributees
of JEAN CUOMO, the decedent
herein, whose names and places
of residence are unknown and
cannot after diligent inquiry be
ascertained, to the Public
Administrator, County of Queens
A Petition having been duly filed
by Barbara Dolan who is domiciled
at 1605 Pass-A-Grille Way # 14,
St. Pete Beach, Florida 33706
YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO
SHOW CAUSE before the
Surrogate’s Court, Queens
County, at 88-11 Sutphin
Boulevard, Jamaica, New York,
on the 31st day of October. 2013
at 9:30 A.M. of that day, why a
decree should not be made in the
estate of GLORIA CUOMO AKA
JEAN CUOMO lately domiciled
at 211-01 75 th Avenue, Apt. 2-L,
Bayside, New York 11364
admitting to probate a Will dated
July 10, 2009 a copy of which is
attached, as the Will of GLORIA
CUOMO AKA JEAN CUOMO,
deceased, relating to real and
personal property and directing
that Letters Testamentary issue to:
Barbara Dolan Sealed Aug.
22,2013 HON. PETER J. KELLY,
SURROGATE, Margaret M.
Gribbon, Chief Clerk. Attorney
for Petitioner: Adam Wilner, 232
Madison Avenue, Suite 909, New
York, New York 10016, 212-9532300. 9/20/13, 9/27/13, 10/4/13,
10/11/13
Citation File No. 2012-4005A
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE
OF NEW YORK BY THE GRACE
OF
GOD,
FREE
AND
INDEPENDENT, TO: NYC
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL
SERVICES, 180 Water Street, 17 th
Floor, New York, NY 10038, NYS
Attorney General, 120 Broadway,
New York, NY 10271. The heirs
at law, next of kin, and distributees
of CHRISTOPHER ELIJAH
FEATHERSTONE, deceased, if
living, and if any of them be dead
to their heirs at law, next of kin,
distributees, legatees, executors,
administrators, assignees and
successors in interest whose names
are unknown and cannot be
ascertained after due diligence,
being interested as creditors,
legatees, devisees, beneficiaries,
distributees, or otherwise of the
Estate of CHRISTOPHER
FEATHERSTONE A petition
having been duly filed by
SHALEMA FEATHERSTONE,
who is domiciled at 95-20 222 nd
Street, Apt. 6D, Queens Village,
NY 11429. YOU ARE HEREBY
CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before
the Queens County Surrogate s
Court, at 88-11 Sutphin Blvd,
Jamaica, NY 11435 on the 7 th day
of November, 2013 at 9:30 a.m.
WHY, there should not be a Decree
authorizing
SHALEMA
FEATHERSTONE
as
Administratrix 1) To compromise
and settle a certain cause of action
for conscious pain and suffering
of the decedent against the
defendants Sidney Barnett and
Eddie Barnett and their insurance
carrier, GEICO for the sum of
$102,000.00, and 2) To
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discontinue the action against
defendants Sidney Barnett and
Eddie Barnett, and 3) Allocating
the settlement of $102,000.00 for
decedent
s conscious pain and
suffering, and 4) To discontinue
the cause of action for wrongful
death and 5) Fix and allow the fee
to LOUIS C. FIABANE, ESQ. for
legal services, out of the proceeds
of this settlement the sum of
$33,220.00 and disbursements in
the amount of $2,340.00, and 6)
To disallow any possible claim of
NYC Department of Social
Services and giving up the father
s share of the Estate, 7)
Allocating the balance of the
settlement as follows – 100% to
petitioner
SHALEMA
FEATHERSTONE, 8) Modifying
the Restrictions in the Limited
Letters of Administration
heretofore issued to your petitioner
on the 5 th day of December, 2012
to permit said compromise, and 9)
Dispensing with the filing of a
bond, and 10) Judicially settling
the account of SHALEMA
FEATHERSTONE,
as
Adminstratrix for this proceeding.
Dated, Sep 10 2013 Attested and
Sealed, HON. PETER J. KELLY,
Surrogate, County of Queens,
Margaret M. Gribbon Clerk of the
Surrogate
s Court. Attorney:
Louis C. Fiabane, 947 SECOND
AVENUE, NEW YORK, NY
10022 (212) 888-8922 Note: This
citation is served upon you as
required by law. You are not
obliged to appear in person. You
have a right to have an attorney
appear for you. If you fail to appear
it will be assumed that you do not
object to the relief requested. 9/
20/13, 9/27/13, 10/4/13, 10/11/13
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Sunnyside Chamber October Luncheon
Rigoberto Cardoso (Pronto Car Service), Lily Gavin (Dazies Restaurant), Seth Bornstein (E.D.,
QEDC), Laura Heim (Sunnyside Architect), Gerry Lederman (Triad Management) and Chairman
of the Sunnyside Chamber Board Ira Greenberg, Esq.
The Chamber luncheon on
October 8th enjoyed a 3rd return
visit from Seth Bornstein, who is
in his fourth year as Executive
Director of QEDC. Seth explained
how he ‘enjoys the job and the
people he gets to meet. His office
helps to create and retain jobs,
working with over 1,000 people
per year and helping to operate a
number of programs.’
In the last year his office has
worked in Corona – around the
newly designed pedestrian plaza at
103rd Street; and in Rockaway,
where he sponsored a series of
marketing programs to let people
know the beaches were open this
summer, despite the devastation of
the hurricane.
He was particularly proud of
their work with the Entrepreneur
Space in nearby Long Island City,
which is home to 200 small businesses. Over 50 have left to open
their own kitchens – thereby creating new jobs and revenues.
The Home Improvement Con-
tractor Training Program has
helped license over 200 handymen
and women so they are now legitimate businesspeople.
He explained in Queens – the
borough-wide tourism imitative
is coming into its own – largely
through the efforts of your
Sunnyside neighbor Rob MacKay.
It wasn’t long ago that the concept
of tourism in Queens was not taken
very seriously. Today we have
100 hotels, world-class museums,
the best restaurants, sporting
events and of course our neighborhoods – just a walk down a
street in many of communities
qualifies as a great attraction. It’s
In Queens program sponsors our
website, social networking, events
and most importantly garners exposure for our members.
QEDC has found ways to find
jobs for those that may not have
the tech skills - and it is for that
reason he is very bullish on the
food industry. No matter how
much the economy gyrates we all
have to eat. That sector has thousands of jobs – from entry level to
highly technical.
“Often times I am asked to
speak at various City Council
hearings. When I do, I hardly
ever recite facts and figures – but
tell a story – of an immigrant
business that has expanded; or
improvements to a neighborhood
the contributed to its success; or
the ability for a small
businessperson to expand their
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but the most successful and well
balanced will be those who never
forget it’s the person – the one
with the heart, the brain and soul
– that matter more than the aggregated data,” said Seth.
Annual Pumpkin Fair
Saturday October 12th
11am - 6pm
All Saints Church, 43-12 46
Street, Sunnyside.
For more information call
718-784-8031
Nick Gulotta (staff member representing CM Van Bramer) Lily Gavin.
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7th Annual Oktoberfest
This festival is Sunnyside Gardens largest fundraiser during the year. The funds are used to
help maintain the park and to keep low membership fees so that any family can become
members. “None of this could have happened without park members volunteering, donating
goods and using their talents.” Said Debra McGowan, Chairperson of the Oktoberfest. “They
do it all for the love they have for this very special park.”
Richard Younger, Professional Musician,
Guitarist & Sunnyside resident.
“Super Cools” from Sunnyside AHRC organized by Earl Times
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