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Vol. 44, No. 27 July 3-9, 2014 • queenstribune.com
PROTEST
GETS NASTY
Opponents of a homeless shelter in
Elmhurst turned their ire towards
shelter residents during a protest
and open meeting Monday night.
By Jackie Strawbridge … Page 14
Queens College
Names New
President
Flushing Commons
Breaks Ground
On Construction
Queens Native
Ready For Return
On TBS Show
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LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of VALUESSENTIAL LLC. Articles of
Organization filed with the
Secretary of State of New
York (SSNY) on 04/25/2014.
Office location: Queens
County. SSNY designated
as agent of the LLC upon
whom process against it may
be served. SSNY shall mail a
copy of any process served
against the LLC to: The LLC,
4040 75th St Apt 6F, Elmhurst,
NY 11373. Purpose: any lawful activity.
________________________
Tristate Healthy Vending,
LLC Arts. of Org. filed with
Secy. of State of NY (SSNY)
on 3/5/14. Office in Queens
Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail process to C/O Gagne
Edwards, 221-25 114th Rd.,
Cambria Heights, NY 11411.
Purpose: General.
________________________
Notice of Formation of RW
1217 E. 233RD LLC Arts. of
Org. filed with Secy. of State
of NY (SSNY) on 05/20/14.
County. Princ. office of LLC:
95-25 Queens Blvd., 10th Fl.,
Rego Park, NY 11374. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
mail process to c/o Laundry
Capital Co., LLC at the princ.
office of the LLC. Purpose:
Any lawful activity
________________________
Desi Realty, LLC Arts. of Org.
filed with Secy. of State of
NY (SSNY) on 5/9/02. Office in Queens Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
be served. SSNY shall mail
process to 38-08 Bell Blvd,
Bayside, NY 11361. Purpose:
General.
________________________
New Inceptions, LLC Arts. of
Office in Queens Co. SSNY
desig. agent of LLC upon
whom process against it
may be served. SSNY shall
mail process to Justin Garcia,
4210 Colden St, Flushing, NY
11355. Purpose: General.
________________________
SUPREME COURT – QUEENS
COUNT Y IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION
OF ROCHELLE NOVOTNY
AND BRIAN DEMASTERS,
CO-GUARDIANS OF THE
PROPERTY OF JAMES JOSEPH DE MASTERS A/K/A
DEMASTERS, AN INCAPACITATED PERSON, TO SELL
CERTAIN REAL PROPERTY
BELONGING TO SAID INCAPACITATED PERSON.
PURSUANT TO AN ORDER
OF THIS COURT DATED
6/5/2014, BY HON. LEE A.
MAYERSOHN, A JUSTICE OF
THIS COURT, AN APPLICATION TO SELL PREMISES
73-24 52ND AVENUE, MASPETH, NEW YORK, BEING A
PLOT 75 x 20.19 FEET WILL
BE MADE ON THE 15TH DAY
OF JULY, 2014 AT 9:30 A.M.
AT I.A. PART 22G OF THE
SUPREME COURT AT 8811 SUTPHIN BOULEVARD,
JAMAICA, N.Y. 11435. SAID
PROPERTY IS PRESENTLY
UNDER CONTRACT, SUBJECT TO THE APPROVAL OF
THE COURT, FOR THE PRICE
OF $530,000.00. CONTACT
THERESA E. CROWLEY, ESQ.
OF DOUGLASTON, NEW
YORK, ATTORNEY FOR COGUARDIANS, AT ROSSI &
CROWLEY, LLP 42-24 235TH
STREET, DOUGLASTON,
N.Y. 11363 (718) 428-9180.
________________________
AIROZ LLC, a domestic
LLC, filed with the SSNY
on 5/9/14. Office location:
Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom
process against the LLC may
process to The LLC, 87-28
130th St., Richmond Hill, NY
11418. General Purpose.
________________________
Notice of Registration of
Yeh and Company LLP, Cert.
of Reg. filed Sec’y of State
(SSNY) 5/6/14. Office location: Queens County. SSNY
designated as agent of LLP
mail copy of process to
21738 51st Ave., Oakland
Gardens, NY 11364. Name/
addr. of each gen. ptr. avail.
at SSNY. Purpose: any lawful
activities.
________________________
Notice of Formation of Leaders for Success a limited liability Company LLC:, Articles of
York (SSNY) on 03/07/2014.
County. SSNY designated
as agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail a
against the LLC to: United
States Corporation Agents,
INC. 2014 13th Avenue, Suite
202 Brooklyn, NY 11228.
Purpose: any lawful purpose
or activity.
________________________
Ebiz Connect LLC Arts. of
desig. agent of LLC upon
process to 5011 38th St.,
Long Island City, NY 11101.
Purpose: General.
________________________
Notice of Formation of Gypsy
a gogo, LLC, a limited liability
company. Articles of organization filed with the Secretary
of the State of New York
(SSNY) on 03/24/2014 office
location: Queens County.
SSNY has been designated
be served. SSNY shall mail a
against the LLC to: 71-11 70th
Street Glendale New York
11385. Purpose: any lawful
act or activity.
________________________
TIME PROPERT Y MANAGEMENT, LLC, Arts. of
Org. filed with the SSNY
on 05/13/2014. Office loc:
Queens County. SSNY has
been designated as agent
the LLC may be served. SSNY
shall mail process to: Jikun
Zheng, 19624 50th Ave.,
Fresh Meadows, NY 11365.
Reg Agent: Jikun Zheng,
19624 50th Ave., Fresh Meadows, NY 11365. Purpose: Any
Lawful Purpose.
________________________
Notice of formation of HITMOUSE PRODUC TIONS
LLC. Articles of Organization
filed with the Secretary of
State of New York SSNY on
04/21/2014. Office located
in Queens County. SSNY
has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall
mail copy of any process
served against the LLC to
HITMOUSE PRODUCTIONS
LLC, 51-18 71st Street, Woodside, NY 11377. Purpose: any
lawful purpose.
________________________
SUPREME COURT OF THE
STATE OF NEW YORK –
COUNTY OF QUEENS INDEX# 22827/2013 FILED:
6/6/2014 SUPPLEMENTAL
SUMMONS AND NOTICE
Plaintiff designates Queens
County as the place of trial.
Venue is based upon the
County in which the mortgage premise is situated. JP
MORGAN CHASE BANK,
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
Plaintiff, against John Dietz,
Esq., as Temporary Administrator for the Estate of Nelson P.
Roane, his respective heirsat-law, next-of-kin, distributes,
executors, administrators,
trustees, devisees, legatees,
assignees, lienors, creditors
and successors in interest and
generally all persons having or
claiming under, by or through
said defendant who may be
deceased by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, any
right, title or interest in the
real property described in the
complaint herein, CRIMINAL
COURT OF THE CITY OF
NEW YORK, CITY OF NEW
YORK DEPARTMENT OF
TRANSPORTATION PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU,
NELSITA ROANE WILLIAMS,
NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE, UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA-INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, Defendant(s).
TO THE ABOVE NAMED
DEFENDANTS: NOTICE
YOU ARE IN DANGER OF
LOSING YOUR HOME IF
YOU DO NOT RESPOND
TO THIS SUMMONS AND
COMPLAINT BY SERVING
A COPY OF THE ANSWER
ON THE ATTORNEYS 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 YOU
CASE IS PENDING FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION
ON HOW TO ANSWER
THE SUMMONS AND PROTEC T 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 SUMMONED
to answer the complaint in
this action and to serve a
copy of your answer, or, if
the complaint is not serviced
with this summons, to serve
a notice of appearance on
the Plaintiff’s attorney within
20 days after the service of
this summons, exclusive of
the day of service (or within
30 days after the service is
complete if this summons is
not personally delivered to
you within the State of New
York); The United States of
America, if designated as a
Defendant in this action, may
appear within (60) days of
service thereof 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. NOTICE OF NATURE
OF ACTION AND RELIEF
SOUGHT: THE OBJECT of
the above captioned action
is to foreclose on a mortgage
executed and delivered to
Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc., solely
as nominee for Residential
Home Funding Corp.,, which
was duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County
of Queens on April 23, 2013,
as CRFN 2013000159932
and the Recording Tax was
duly paid. Said mortgage was
then assigned to Plaintiff by
an assignment of Mortgage
recorded in the Queens
County Clerk’s Office on
November 14, 2013, as CRFN
2013000469744, covering
premises known as 150-26
116th Avenue, Jamaica NY
11434 (Block 12201 Lot19).
The relief sought within action
is a final judgment directing
the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the
debt described above. To
the above named Defendants:
The foregoing summons is
served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of
the Hon. Orin R. Kitees, a
Justice of the Supreme Court
of the State of New York, filed
along with the supporting papers in the office of the Clerk
of the County of Queens on
05/07/2014. This is an action
to foreclose on a mortgage.
ALL that certain plot, piece
or parcel of land, with the
buildings and improvements
thereon erected, situate, lying
and being in the Borough of
Queens, County of Queens
and City and State of New
York. BLOCK 12201 LOT19.
Said premises known as 15026 116th Avenue, Jamaica NY
11434. YOU ARE HEREBY
PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE
ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY
INFORMATION OBTAINED
WILL BE USED FOR THAT
PURPOSE. By reason of the
default in the payment of the
monthly installment of principal and interest, among other
things, as hereinafter set forth,
Plaintiff, the holder and owner
of the aforementioned note
and mortgage, or their agents
have elected and hereby accelerate the mortgage and
declare the entire mortgage
indebtedness immediately
due and payable. The following amounts are now due
and owing on said mortgage,
no part of any of which has
been paid although duly
demanded: By virtue thereof,
plaintiff has heretofore elected
and by these presents hereby
elects to accelerate the entire
unpaid principal balance of
$314,049.65 with interest
from June 1, 2013, to be immediately due and payable
under the mortgage herein
foreclosed. UNLESS YOU
DISPUTE THE VALIDITY OF
THE DEBT, OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, WITHIN
THIRTY (30) DAYS AFTER
YOUR RECEIPT HEREOF
THAT THE DEBT, OR ANY
PORTION THEREOF, IS DISPUTED, THE DEBTOR JUDGMENT AGAINST YOU AND
A COPY OF SUCH VERIFICATION OR JUDGMENT WILL
BE MAILED TO YOU BY THE
HEREIN DEBT COLLECTOR.
IF APPLICABLE, UPON YOUR
WRITTEN REQUEST, WITHIN
SAID THIRT Y (30) DAY
PERIOD, THE HEREIN DEBT
COLLECTOR WILL PROVIDE
YOU WITH THE NAME AND
ADDRESS OF THE ORIGINAL
CREDITOR. IF YOU HAVE
RECEIVED A DISCHARGE
FROM THE UNITED STATES
BANKRUPTCY COURT, YOU
ARE NOT PERSONALLY
LIABLE FOR THE UNDERLYING INDEBTEDNESS OWED
TO PLAINTIFF/CREDITOR
AND THIS NOTICE/DISCLOSURE IS FOR COMPLIANCE
AND INFORMATIONAL
PURPOSES ONLY. HELP
FOR HOMEOWNERS IN
FORECLOSURE New York
State requires that we send
you this notice about the
foreclosure process. Please
read it carefully. SUMMONS
AND COMPLAINT You are in
danger of losing your home. If
you fail to respond to the summons and complaint in this
foreclosure action, you may
lose your home. Please read
the summons and complaint
carefully. You should immediately contact an attorney
or your local legal aid office
to obtain advice on how to
protect yourself. SOURCES
OF INFORMATION AND
ASSISTANCE The State encourages you to become
informed about your options
in foreclosure. In addition to
seeking assistance from an
attorney or legal aid, there
are government agencies, and
non-profit organizations that
you may contact for information about possible options,
including trying to work with
your lender during this process. To locate an entity near
you, you may call the toll-free
helpline maintained by New
York state Banking Department at 1-877-Bank-NYS or
visit the Department’s website
at www.banking.state.ny.us
FORECLOSURE RESCUE
SCAMS Be careful of people
who approach you with offers
to “save” your home. There
are individuals who watch for
notices of foreclosure actions
in order to unfairly profit from
a homeowner’s distress. You
should be extremely careful
about any such promises and
any suggestions that you pay
them a fee or sign over your
deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for
profit to enter into a contract
which fully describes the
services they will perform
and fees they will charge, and
which prohibits them from
taking any money from you
until they have completed
all such promised services.
Section 1303 NOTICE YOU
ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING
YOUR HOME If you do not
respond to this summons and
complaint by serving the 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 may
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
MORTGAGE COMPANY)
AND FILING AN ANSWER
WITH THE COURT. Stiene
& Associates, P.C., Attorneys
for the Plaintiff, 187 East
Main Street, Huntington, NY
11743
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Queens DeaDline
Queens College Names New President
BY JOE MARVILLI
Staff Writer
After months of interviews with
dozens of candidates, Queens College
has a new president.
The Board of Trustees of the City
University of New York has selected
Dr. Félix Matos Rodríguez as Queens
College’s replacement for Dr. James
Muyskens, who retired last year. He
will take over from interim president
Dr. Evangelos Gizis this fall.
Rodríguez is an Ivy League educated scholar, administrator, teacher and
former cabinet secretary of the Dept.
of Family Services for the Common-
wealth of Puerto Rico. He received
his Ph.D. in history from Columbia
University and taught at several esteemed universities, including Yale,
Northeastern University, Boston College and the Universidad Interamericana-Recinto Metro in Puerto Rico.
Additionally, Rodríguez was the head
adviser on Health and Social Welfare
to the Governor of Puerto Rico from
2005 to 2006.
This is not the first CUNY institution Rodríguez will head, as he has
been president of Hostos Community
College/CUNY since 2009.
CUNY Chancellor James Milliken
recommended the appointment of
After Ragusa’s Death, New
Queens GOP Leadership
BY LuIs GROndA
Staff Writer
With the passing of Phil Ragusa, the
Queens GOP party has a new leader.
Robert Beltrani, who was the executive vice chairman and second in
command under Ragusa, will take
over as the chairman of the Queens
Republican party.
According to Robert Hornak, the
spokesperson for the party, its bylaws
state that the executive vice chairman
is automatically elevated to the head
position if the chair position is left vacated. Ragusa passed away last week
after a short battle with leukemia.
Beltrani is a law judge in the New
York State Division of Parole. He ran
an unsuccessful campaign in a special
election for former State Sen. Hiram
Monserrate’s seat in 2010 after he was
expelled from the State Senate in relation to an assault conviction. Beltrani
also ran for a position in the New York
Supreme Court three times, most recently in 2012.
Hornak said Beltrani will serve out
the rest of Ragusa’s term, a little more
than one year, and they will reconvene
for an election again in September 2015.
But who will lead the party into the
future, whether it is Beltrani or somebody else, is up in the air. Hornak said
it is too soon to speculate about that
when asked, saying Ragusa’s death is
still too fresh in their minds to discuss
their long-term plans.
A spokesperson for the New York
State GOP, David Laska, said it is the
Queens GOP’s decision about what
they should do in the future.
“With the unfortunate passing
of Chairman Ragusa, it’s up to the
Queens County Committee, not the
State Party, to work within their bylaws to determine how to move forward,” he said in a statement.
Robert Beltrani
Phil Orenstein, the head of the
Queens Village Republican Club, said
they will work with whoever takes over
as the party head and his focus is on
building up the club and trying to get
more Republicans elected in Queens.
The club hosted Rob Astorino, the
Republican candidate for Governor
running against incumbent Andrew
Cuomo, as its most recent meeting.
He added that the new leadership
also offers an opportunity to bury the
axe and end whatever conflict exists
within the party.
“People are seeing more and more
that we have to mend fences for the future of the party,” Orenstein said.
Earlier this year, Ragusa’s reelection was petitioned in court after
questions were asked about the way
the vote was handled. A coalition led
by Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone
Park) wanted to overturn the vote, but
a judge ruled there was not enough evidence to do so. Ragusa won re-election
against former U.S. Rep. Bob Turner.
Representatives from Ulrich’s coalition did not return requests for
comment.
Reach Luis Gronda at (718) 3577400, Ext. 127, lgronda@queenstribune.com, or @luisgronda.
Rodríguez out of the four
finalists, stating that he felt
the new president’s leadership and commitment
would serve Queens College well.
“He brings to Queens
College an impressive
blend of scholarly accomplishment, public service,
a strong commitment to
student success and a deep
belief in the University’s
educational mission,” Milliken said.
The decision was ultimately made by the Search
Committee, chaired by the
Hon. Philip Berry, vice
chair of the CUNY Board
of Trustees. Other trustees,
a CUNY college president,
faculty, student and alumni representatives were all
members of the committee
as well.
Rodríguez said he was
happy to join the Queens
College community and
eager to get to work in preparing for the next school year and
beyond.
“I look forward to joining the vibrant community of students, faculty, staff and alumni that have made
Queens College a beacon of excellence, opportunity and innovation
throughout the years,” Rodríguez
said. “In the spirit of Queens College’s motto - ‘We learn so that we
may serve’ - I pledge to put all the
experience and learning of my schol-
Félix Matos Rodríguez
arly, administrative and public sector
career at the service of an institution
that has, and will continue to serve
Queens, New York City and the nation with the highest standards of
excellence and dedication. I look forward to becoming a member of the
Queens campus community for many
years to come.”
Reach Joe Marvilli at (718) 3577400, Ext. 125, jmarvilli@queenstribune.com, or @JoeMarvilli.
John Haggerty Jr.
Conviction Upheld
BY JOE MARVILLI
Staff Writer
The conviction of Queens political consultant John Haggerty Jr. was
sustained this week in New York
State’s highest court.
The State Court of Appeals decided in a 6-0 ruling to reject Haggerty’s argument to overturn his
2011 conviction of second-degree
grand larceny and money laundering. He was found guilty of buying
a house with nearly $1 million that
was supposed to go to a ballot security initiative in the 2009 mayoral
election.
Haggerty’s defense argued that
prosecutors violated the best evidence rule. The defense had said
that relying on witnesses to establish
former mayor Michael Bloomberg’s
ownership of a trust rather than admitting the trust documents went
against this rule. The Court of Appeals ruled that the challenge lacked
merit and the original conviction
was reaffirmed.
In December 2011, the Republican consultant admitted his guilt
at a sentencing hearing, though he
was unable to avoid jail time. Justice
Ronald Zweibel of the State Supreme
Court in Manhattan sentenced Haggerty to one and a third to four years
in state prison. Haggerty also had
to pay a restitution of $750,000, the
amount he was convicted of stealing.
City Council Approves Municipal IDs
By Jackie StrawBridge
Staff Writer
All New Yorkers, regardless of citizenship, are now eligible for City identification cards.
The City Council voted last Thursday to approve the creation of municipal IDs, which would allow undocumented New Yorkers to open bank
accounts, obtain a driver’s license, enroll in a public school and access other
City services.
Information on the card will include the cardholder’s name, date of
birth, address and photograph, as well
as an expiration date. Cardholders
may also opt to list a self-determined
gender, which will allow for cardholders such as transgender and intersex
individuals to define their gender.
No permanent address is required
to obtain the card – acceptable proof
of residence documents include written verification from a City-funded
homeless shelter or from a City hospital, health clinic or social services
agency.
Councilman Daniel Dromm (DJackson Heights) co-sponsored the
legislation with Councilman Carlos
Menchaca (D-Brooklyn).
According to Dromm, the City
Council worked with the NYPD regarding the safety of these cards.
Dromm said negotiations determined
that a to-be-chosen City agency other
than the NYPD will keep municipal
ID documents for two years.
“With this two-year agreement, I
think that if there will be any cases of
fraud, we have a way to go back and
trace it,” Dromm said. “I’m not worried about the potential for fraud, especially because the NYPD is not worried about it now.”
Daniel Coates of Make the Road
New York, a nonprofit that advocates
for Latino and working class communities, said he believes the card’s
potential for wide appeal will work
against any stigma that may become
attached to it.
“That’s our challenge ahead,” Coates
said. “The ability to choose your own
gender [and] the fact that the card will
be accepted by all agencies, including
the NYPD, will both go a long way to
making it broadly attractive, but also
really useful for people across the City
through all sorts of walks of life.”
“By virtue of a lot of people having
it, it gets rid of any stigma attached to
it,” Coates added.
Dromm similarly said he hopes the
City ID will attract a wide range of
cardholders.
“This is a municipal ID for all and
everybody in the City can get this
card,” Dromm said, adding that the
City Council will work with the Mayor’s office to attach certain perks to the
card, such as discounts to cultural institutions or partnerships with banks.
“I’d like to say that this will be the
must-have accessory for all New Yorkers,” Dromm added.
Bianey Garcia is a transgender
woman and the LGBT organizer at
Make the Road New York. She said
she intends to get the municipal ID “as
soon as possible.”
“For my community, it’s very important, because they can choose their
gender and they can show that ID to
the police,” Garcia said. “Before this,
my community, being stopped by the
police and sometimes they don’t have
any type of ID, and they get arrested
for it.”
“We were fighting for this for many
years,” Garcia added.
A handful of other cities, including
New Haven, Asbury Park, San Francisco and Oakland, have instated or
will soon instate municipal IDs. New
York City’s municipal ID program
will be the largest in the country.
Reach Jackie Strawbridge at (718)
357-7400, Ext. 128, jstrawbridge@
queenstribune.com or @JNStrawbridge.
Ribbon Cutting
On Sunday afternoon, June 29, Chazaq held a ribbon-cutting
ceremony to dedicate its new office, combined with a rally with
many elected officials. Local rabbanim and community members
attended as well.
Chapin Home Celebrates 13 Centenarians
BY JORDAN GIBBONS
Staff Writer
Last year, Mary Nuccio was concerned she was not going to see her
100th birthday, so she had her brother
write President Barack Obama to get
her centenarian letter a year early.
She received that letter and is now
waiting for another one to celebrate
reaching 100, along with 12 other residents at Chapin Home for the Aging
in Jamaica.
The nursing home, which opened
in 1869, celebrated 13 residents on
June 27 who are already 100 or will
be reaching triple digits this year. Jennifer McManaman, Chapin’s assistant
administrator, said she credits Nuccio’s persistence for helping the home
realize how many centenarians they
had.
“I’m the first in my family to live to
100,” Nuccio said. “I don’t know the
secret.”
One of her daughters had an idea
about what may have helped Nuccio
reach the centennial mark.
“She walks everywhere,” Marylyn
Fidler said. “She likes cake and stuff
like that but she eats a Mediterranean
diet mostly.”
Kate Kuhle, a current employee
and former volunteer at Chapin, called
Nuccio “the mayor of Chapin.”
Denzil Cendrecourt of Cambria
PhotoS by JordAn GibbonS
Joanne Valentine visited her mother Mary nuccio with her sister Marylyn Fidler to celebrate Jamaica resident James Kee will be celebrating his
Mary’s 100th birthday.
101st birthday in october.
Heights attended the celebration with
his family to spend the day with his father, Ivo, who also turned 100 in January. Ivo has lived at Chapin for two
years, along with several friends.
“I think it’s a pleasure having him
here. It’s a beautiful place,” Denzil
said. “Since I’ve come here, I’ve made
more friends.”
Ivo has trouble hearing, but he
proudly held onto his plaque from the
President throughout the celebration.
The residents and their guests
were treated to a series of prayers,
songs and performances. They were
sent certificates from Councilman
Paul Vallone’s (D-Bayside) office
and were handed State Senate resolutions by State Sen. Tony Avella (DBayside) honoring their 100 years.
Assemblyman David Weprin (DFresh Meadows) and Councilman
Rory Lancman (D-Hillcrest) also attended the event and congratulated
the centenarians.
The most difficult part of living
past 100 seemed to be keeping track of
the years beyond the landmark. Eight
of the residents being honored had
passed 100, including Mildred Gent,
who brought 107 years of experience
to the party.
Former New Jersey resident Annette Funghini, 102, had some sound
advice for people of any age, despite
the fact that she did not care to pay attention to her own age.
“I don’t even know myself; the
age goes by but I don’t keep track,”
Funghini said. “Just try to be gentle
and kind to everyone. Live a good normal life and don’t overdo yourself.”
Reach Jordan Gibbons at (718)3577400 Ext. 123, jgibbons@queenspress.
com or @jgibbons2
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Many in the City are still recovering from the recent financial crisis, leaving countless men and women without jobs and without a means to provide for their families.
Understandably, in such situations, times become too tough and those hit hardest
are sometimes left without a roof over their heads.
Such is life for many of the families now residing at the Pan American Hotel in
Elmhurst.
The Dept. of Homeless Services may have handled the decision to house homeless
individuals at the hotel improperly, but the actions of the protesters earlier this week
were shocking, and showed a callous lack of compassion.
With unemployment still high and the job market still recovering, many of these
families need that shelter in order to help create a better life, not just for themselves,
but for their children. Without a roof over their heads, it is almost impossible to find
even the most basic employment. Without a roof over their heads, education suffers.
Without a roof over their heads, these children are just as likely to be left in the same
situation when they become adults.
Is it not better for these homeless families to be housed in what was an empty hotel building, where they have an opportunity to sleep somewhere other than a park
bench, a subway car or on the street? Would we rather these children have no roof
over their heads, no bed to sleep in or no room where they can do homework?
These families deserve better than to have a mob of people yelling at them to
leave or to find a job. They likely already feel like second-class citizens. There was no
reason for protesters to take their frustrations with the Dept. of Homeless Services
out on the individuals seeking shelter at the empty hotel. The actions of those protesters were abhorrent, and those families who are now housed at the Pan American
deserve no less than an apology, not just from that mob, but from the local officials
who allowed it to happen.
In Your opInIon
Progress Is Progress
I
To The Editor:
dread the upcoming 2014
mid-term election should
it reflect the disastrous
2010 election, which voted
into power the “Do-nothing
Congress” of the Regressive
Party, setting our country back
in time. This was all due to
those overconfident no-show
Democrats. Shame on them
sitting on their lazy butts.
However, let us look forward
to the upcoming 2016 Presidential Election, which has the potential to be quite monumental.
When one looks back at all past
Presidential elections, a pattern
presents itself. All elections
prior to President Kennedy
were won by candidates of the
various denominations of the
Christian Protestant religious
segment of our many faceted
country. With the election of
John Kennedy, we had our first
Christian Catholic President.
Our most recent election
was that of a brilliant man born
in Hawaii, Harvard/Columbia
educated by the name of Barack
Hussein Obama. For those who
may not have noticed, he is a
Black man, African American
or whatever is one’s favorite
term.
GOT A BEEF?
WRITE THE TRIB!
We are now on the cusp
of electing the first woman.
Her name is Hillary Rodham
Clinton. Remember, the wife of
popular President Bill Clinton?
Senator, Secretary of State...
that one. Wow!
All these dramatic movements have been done by the
same political party. I wonder
if our next candidate will be
Jewish, maybe ironically a Native American. And the forward
beat goes on.
Nicholas Zizelis,
Bayside
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Queens County’s
Weekly Newspaper Group
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Published Weekly
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Marcia Moxam Comrie
Contributing Editor
Ria McPherson
Comptroller
closing polling sites for everyone makes more sense.
Closing polling sites disenfranchises thousands of
voters for the sake of a few.
Kew Gardens Hills voters lost
their chance to cast ballots at a
conveniently located site when
the BOE abandoned PS 164
over two years ago. Unless the
BOE corrects this situtation, its
initials really stand for Barrel
Of Errors.
Richard Reif,
Flushing
Rest In Peace Phil Ragusa
I
To The Editor:
have just read the news
with much sadness of
the passing of Queens
Republican Party Chairman
Phil Ragusa. I have met him
on many occasions during
a number of political campaigns I was involved with.
These were at former Mayor
Bloomberg’s campaign kickoff
in Queens, former Senator
Frank Padavan’s campaigns
and finally at President of
Glen Oaks Village co-op association Bob Friedrich, who
ran for City Council and State
Assembly. I found Phil Ragusa
most personable, honest and a
man of integrity. I also found
him to be concerned for the
community and its residents
and wanted to make things
better with his ideas and goals
for the betterment of all concerned. Now for that I say Phil
Ragusa will be truly missed for
he was the voice of all we hold
most dear. God bless you Phil
for all that you stood for and
let me also offer my heartfelt
prayers for your family who
will be missing and grieving
at this sad time of mourning.
Frederick R. Bedell Jr.,
Glen Oaks Village
Be Careful With Fireworks
T
To the Editor:
he Fourth of July brings
celebration, relaxing
time spent with family
and friends, barbecues and
beautiful firework displays
done by professionals with the
fire departments supervising
the safety aspect. Unfortunately, this holiday can bring
tragedy when firecrackers are
used by individuals.
On June 27, 1978, I had open
heart surgery for a congenital
heart defect. A week later
(July 4), I was still in ICU. A
teenager was brought into the
hospital because he blew off
his hand while playing with
firecrackers with his friends.
He was screaming, in a lot of
pain. I still hear his screams
in my sleep. His pain was so
unnecessary.
So, please enjoy the beautiful, colorful, professional
fireworks, but individuals
shouldn’t use sparklers or
firecrackers themselves. Have
a safe holiday.
Debbie Vogel,
Rego Park
150-50 14th Rd., Whitestone, NY 11357 or you can e-mail the Trib
at news@queenstribune.com. We reserve the right to edit for length.
Michael Nussbaum
Queens Tribune (718) 357-7400
E-mail Address: news@queenstribune.com
150-50 14th Road
Whitestone, NY 11357
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To The Editor:
YC’s Board of Elections cited a low voter
turnout for the June
primary and a declining participation rate over the last
few years.
There’s a good reason why.
The BOE closed a number
of polling sites because they
were deemed inaccessible to
handicapped voters under the
Americans With Disabilities
Act. Sending absentee ballots
to disabled voters instead of
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SUMMONS, NOTICE AND
BRIEF STATEMENT OF NATURE OF ACTION CONSUMER CREDIT TRANSACTION SUPREME COURT OF
THE STATE OF NEW YORK
COUNTY OF QUEENS INDEX NO. 7869/13 GENERATION MORTGAGE COMPANY, Plaintiff, -against- SYLVAN
DUNKLEY; SECRETARY OF
HOUSING AND URBAN
DEVELOPMENT; ALL UNKNOWN HEIRS, DEVISEES
AND PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES OF IVAN DUNKLEY,
AND ANY OF HIS, HER OR
ANY OF THEIR SUCCESSORS
IN RIGHT, TITLE AND INTEREST; NYC DEPARTMENT OF
FINANCE-PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU; STEVEN
DUNKLEY; “JOHN DOE
#1- #50”and “MARY ROE
#1- #50”, the last two names
being fictitious, said parties
intended being tenants or
occupants, if any, having or
claiming an interest in or lien
upon the premises described
in the complaint, Defendants.
TO THE DEFENDANT ALL
UNKNOWN HEIRS, DEVISEES AND PERSONAL
REPRESENTATIVES OF IVAN
DUNKLEY AND ANY OF
HIS, HER OR ANY OF THEIR
SUCCESSORS IN RIGHT,
TITLE AND INTEREST: YOU
ARE HEREBY SUMMONED
and required to serve upon
plaintiff’s attorneys an answer
to the complaint in this action
within twenty (20) days after
the service of this Summons,
exclusive of the day of service,
or within thirty (30) days
after service is complete if
the Summons is not personally delivered to you within
the State of New York. The
United States of America, if
designated as a defendant
in this action, may answer or
appear within sixty (60) days
of service hereof. In case of
your failure to answer, judgment will be taken against you
for the relief demanded in the
complaint. Trial is desired in
the County of Queens. The
basis of venue designated
above is that the real property,
which is the subject matter
of this action, is located in
the County of Queens, New
York. NOTICE YOU ARE IN
DANGER OF LOSING YOUR
HOME IF YOU DO NOT
RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT
BY SERVING A COPY OF
THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE MORTGAGE COMPANY WHO
FILED THIS FORECLOSURE
PROCEEDING AGAINST
YOU AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT A
DEFAULT JUDGMENT MAY
BE ENTERED AND YOU CAN
LOSE YOUR HOME. SPEAK
TO AN ATTORNEY OR GO
TO THE COURT WHERE
YOUR CASE IS PENDING
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON HOW TO AN-
SWER THE SUMMONS AND
PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY.
FORECLOSURE ACTION.
YOU MUST RESPOND BY
(MORTGAGE COMPANY)
WITH THE COURT. HELP
FOR HOMEOWNERS IN
FORECLOSURE New York
State Law requires that we
send you this notice about the
read it carefully. Summon and
Complaint You are in danger
of losing your home. If you
fail to respond to the summons and complaint in this
foreclosure action, you may
lose your home. Please read
the summons and complaint
carefully. You should immediately contact an attorney or
local legal aid office to obtain
advice on how to protect
yourself. Source of Information and Assistance The State
encourages you to become
in foreclosure. In addition to
seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid office, there
are government agencies and
non-profit organizations that
you may contact for information about possible options,
including trying to work
with your lender during this
process. To locate an entity
near you, you may call the
toll-free helpline maintained
by the New York State Department of Financial Services
at to 1-800-269-0990 visit the
Department`s website at
www.dfs.ny.gov. Foreclosure
rescue scams Be careful of
people who approach you
with offers to “save” your
home. There are individuals
who watch for notices of
foreclosure actions in order
to unfairly profit from a
homeowner’s distress. You
should be extremely careful
about any such promises
and any suggestions that you
pay them a fee or sign over
your deed. State law requires
anyone offering such services
for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes
the services they will perform
and fees they will charge, and
which prohibits them from
taking any money from you
until they have completed
all such promised services.
The foregoing Summons is
served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of
Honorable Robert J. McDonald, Justice of the Supreme
Court of the State of New
York, signed on the 13th day
of May, 2014, in Long Island
City, New York and to be
duly entered in the Queens
County Clerk’s Office, in
Long Island, New York. The
Nature of this action pertains
to a note and mortgage held
by Plaintiff on real property
owned by the above named
defendants as specified in the
complaint filed in this action.
The above named defendants
have failed to comply with
the terms and provisions of
the said mortgage and said
instruments secured by said
mortgage, by failing and
omitting to pay the balance
due and owing and the
Plaintiff has commenced a
foreclosure action. Plaintiff is
seeking a judgment foreclosing its mortgage against the
real property and premises
which situates in the City of
New York, County of Queens
and State of New York and
is commonly known as 12018 230th Street, Cambria
Heights, New York 11411
and all other relief as to the
Court may seem just and equitable. DATED: June 11, 2014
SCHILLER & KNAPP, LLP BY:
WILLIAM B. SCHILLER, ESQ.
Attorneys for Plaintiff 950
New Loudon Road Latham,
New York 12110 Telephone:
(518) 786-9069 13-1638
________________________
Notice of formation of Grand
Forest USA, L.P. Articles of
York SSNY on 06/13/2014.
Office located in Queens
County. SSNY has been
designated for service of
process. SSNY shall mail
against the L.P. to 36-34 Maint
Street, RM 6F, Flushing, NY
purpose.
________________________
Notice is hereby given that a
license, number 1279156 for
a “Restaurant Wine License”
has been applied for by the
undersigned to serve Beer/
Wine at retail in the restaurant
under the Alcohol Beverage
Control Beverage Control
Law at Grandma Dim Sum
Inc., located at 40-24 College Point Blvd., Flushing,
NY 11354 for on premises
consumption.
________________________
Stone Expo & Cabinetry LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
8/8/11. Office in Queens
Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC
mail process to 36-07 Bud Pl,
Flushing, NY 11354. Purpose:
General.
_______________________
Notice of Formation of AUDIONAUGHT SOUND LLC.
Articles of Organization filed
with the Secretary of State
Office Location: Queens
Count y. SSNY has been
designated as agent upon
copy of process to c/o United
Inc., 7014 13th Ave, Ste 202,
Brooklyn, NY 11228. The
registered agent of the limited
liability company whom process against it may be served
is United States Corporation
Agents, Inc., 7014 13th
Ave, Ste 202, Brooklyn, NY
11228. Purpose: Any lawful
purpose.
________________________
Sea Town Corona NY LLC
Arts of Org filed with NY Sec
of State (SSNY) on 8/9/13.
Office: Queens Count y.
SSNY designated as agent
of LLC upon whom process
mail process to: 262-16 59th
Ave, Little Neck, NY 11362.
General Purposes.
________________________
Ming Properties, LLC Arts of
Org. filed NY Secy of State
(SSNY) 5/15/14. Office:
Queens Co. SSNY design.
agent of LLC upon whom process may be served and shall
mail copy to princ. address &
RA: Ming Yuan Li 196-16 67th
Ave. #2F Fresh Meadows, NY
activity
________________________
Notice of Formation: 8 Ave L
& A Realty LLC, Art. Of Org.
filed with Sec. of State of
NY (SSNY) on 04/28/2014.
Office Loc.: Queens County.
SSNY designated as agent
against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail process to:
42-28 Forley Street, Elmhurst,
NY 11373 Purpose: Any lawful activity.
________________________
Notice of Formation of 17511 Liberty Realty LLC. Articles
of Organization filed with the
York SSNY on 4/21/2014.
Office located in Queens
County. SSNY has been designated for service of process.
SSNY shall mail copy of any
process served against the
LLC to: 175-11 Liberty Ave.,
Jamaica, NY 11433. Purpose:
any lawful purpose.
________________________
Notice is hereby given that
a license, #TBA has been
applied for Kitchen 79 Inc. to
sell beer, wine only at retail in
a restaurant. For on premises
consumption under ABC law
at 37-70 79th street Jackson
Heights NY 11372.
________________________
LLC, Articles of Organization
filed with the Secretary of
State of New York (SSNY) on
05/27/2014. Office location:
Queens County. SSNY has
been designated as agent of
the LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail a copy of
process to the LLC: 136-14
Northern BLVD., Apt 2F,
Flushing, NY 11354. Purpose:
any lawful purpose.
________________________
Notice of Formation of
ZIMBA PROPERTIES LLC
Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon
process to Kelsy Zimba, 71-37
70th St., Apt. #B, Glendale,
NY 11385. Purpose: Any
lawful activity.
________________________
Notice of Formation of
UNIQUE BRACELET, LLC
Queens County. Princ. office
of LLC: 3100 47th Ave., Long
Island City, NY 11101. SSNY
mail process to c/o Ekmel
Anda, D.C. Group, Inc., d/b/a
Unique Settings of New York
at the princ. office of the LLC.
Purpose: Any lawful activity.
________________________
ZANETIS PROPERTIES LLC
Arts. Of org. filed with the
SSNY on 2/19/2014 Office
loc. Queens County. Agent
against the LLC may be served
and shall mail copy to 100-04
Shorefront Parkway Ste 22B
Rockaway N.Y. 11694 Purpose: Any lawful activity
________________________
an Order entered by the Civil
Court, Queens County on
APR 28 2014 bearing Index
Number NC-000176-14/
QU, a copy of which may
be examined at the Office
of the Clerk, located at 89-17
Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica,
NY 11435, grants me the right
to: Assume the name of (First)
Rohanie (Middle) Jenny (Last)
Dhanwa My present name is
(First) Rohanie (Middle) Jenny
(Last) Budram aka Rohanie J.
Budram, aka Rohanie J. Khan,
aka R.J. Budram My present
address is 131-26 132nd St,
South Ozone Park, NY 11420
My place of birth is Brooklyn,
NY My date of birth is September 27, 1984
________________________
an order entered by the Civil
Court of Queens County, on
the 4 day of June, 2014, bearing Index No. 485/14, a copy
of which may be examined at
the office of the clerk, located
at 89-17 Sutphin Boulevard,
Jamaica, NY 11435, grants
the Minor Child the right to
assume the name Anil Singh.
The Minor Child’s present
address is 212-29 Hillside
Avenue, Apt. #4MW, Queens
Village, NY 11427. His date
of birth is August 26, 2000.
His present name is Anil
Amir Alie.
________________________
JUN 11 2014 bearing Index
Suneel (Last) Thapar My present name is (First) Neil (Last)
Tapar aka Suneel K Thapar,
aka Suneel Kimar Thapar, aka
Suneel Thapar My present address is 263-10 83 Ave, Floral
Park, NY 11004 My place of
birth is India My date of birth
is March 16, 1949
________________________
an Order entered by the
Civil Court, Queens County
on JUN 19 2014 bearing
Index Number NC-00046514/QU, a copy of which
may be examined at the
Office of the Clerk, located
at 89-17 Sutphin Boulevard,
Jamaica, NY 11435, grants
me the right to: Assume the
name of (First) Gurbinder
(Middle) Singh (Last) Pallian
My present name is (First)
Gurbinder (Last) Singh aka
Gurbinder Singh Pallian,
aka Gurbinder S Pallian, aka
Gurbinder Pallian My present
address is 114-08 107th Ave,
1st Fl,, South Richmond Hill,
NY 11419 My place of birth
is India My date of birth is
January 09, 1991
________________________
Notice of Formation of CYNK
LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with
Secy. of State of NY (SSNY)
on 6/13/14. Office location: Queens County. SSNY
mail process to: The LLC, c/o
Segan LLC, 33-00 Northern
Blvd., 2nd Fl., Long Island
City, NY 11101. Purpose:
any lawful activity.
______________________
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: 25-62 REALTY
LLC. Articles of Organization
were filed with the Secretary of State of New York
(SSNY) on 04/24/14. Office
location: Queens County.
SSNY has been designated
mail a copy of process to
the LLC, c/o Konstantinos
Vasilopoulos, 149-24 Cross
Island Parkway, Whitestone,
New York, 11357. Purpose:
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
THAT A SERIAL NUMBER
12878725 FOR A FULL
LIQUOR LICENSE HAS
BEEN APPLIED FOR BY
THE UNDERSIGNED TO
SELL LIQUOR AT: 83-27
ROOSEVELT AVENUE, JACKSON HEIGHTS, NY 11372;
QUEENS COUNTY FOR ON
PREMISES CONSUMPTION
BY: GIMEGA CORP. 83-27
ROOSEVELT AVENUE, JACKSON HEIGHTS, NY 11372
________________________
Notice of Formation of a Limited Liability Company (LLC):
Name: SHERWOOD TRADE
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$1 Million: Yours To
Spend
Staff Writer
Western Queens residents have $1
million to spend.
Participatory budgeting, a process
by which community members decide
how capital funds are spent, will begin
this fall in the neighborhood.
Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (DSunnyside) will hold two information
sessions next week to introduce residents to the process. The information
sessions will be held Tuesday at Sunnyside Community Services and Wednesday at the Jacob Riis Neighborhood Settlement House in Long Island City. Both
sessions will begin at 6:30 p.m.
The year-long participatory budgeting process consists of a series of
public meetings, concluding with a
public vote.
Only capital funds – the money
used to pay for physical infrastructure
– are available for participatory budgeting in New York City. Projects such
as bringing laptops to high schools,
installing security cameras in public
housing complexes or rehabilitating
parks might receive funding from participatory budgeting.
This session marks the first time
that participatory budgeting is coming
to western Queens.
During last year’s participatory budgeting session, residents
of Fresh Meadows and Bayside
saw SMART boards set up in
elementary and middle school
classrooms, fitness equipment
installed at Cunningham Park
and upgraded security at three
libraries.
To RSVP for next week’s participatory budgeting information sessions, email anasner@council.nyc.
gov or call (718) 383-9566 ext. 1.
Photo by JACKIE StRAWbRIDGE
Reach Jackie Strawbridge at
(718) 357-7400, Ext. 128, jstraw- Astoria heights Park received an albridge@queenstribune.com or @ location of $1.6 million for renovations.
JNStrawbridge.
Renovations Coming
To Astoria Heights
Playground
Staff Writer
Astoria parents’ protests have paid
off.
Last Thursday, the City Council adopted a Fiscal Year 2015 budget that
includes $1.6 million in funding for
renovations at Astoria Heights Park,
long criticized by neighborhood families as dirty and even dangerous.
The funding was allocated by Borough President Melinda Katz and
Councilman Costa Constantinides
Best Wishes
For A Happy and Safe
Fourth of July
Congresswoman
GraCe MeNG
6th District
Paid for and authorized by
Grace for New York
(D-Astoria). According to Constantinides, the money will go towards a
complete redesign of the park, including new playground equipment, new
benches, gates for toddlers and relocating adult fitness equipment away
from the playground area.
“I think this is going to be a major
renovation… really making it a more
welcoming, cleaned up park,” Constantinides said.
Lynn Kennedy is the founder
of Friends of Astoria Heights Playground, a neighborhood organization
that has been pushing for upgrades
to the playground for almost a year.
Problems include exposed tree roots,
an eroding perimeter, loose garbage
and buckled floorspace.
“I am elated that we got the funding so soon. I really believe that our
group has played a major role on facilitating the speed with which this has
happened,” Kennedy said.
“The project now needs to be put
into momentum and Costantinides is
asking for our group’s help in holding
the Parks Dept. accountable,” Kennedy added. “We are looking forward
to playing a role in the new design of
the playground and its approval with
Community Board 1.”
Constantinides said that Friends of
Astoria Heights Park “absolutely” had
a direct hand in securing this funding.
“They’ve been amazing,” Constantinides said. “Anytime if you see so
involved parents and members of the
community coming together, it’s very
heartening. And we wanted to make
sure that their concerns were met, and
we’re very excited about seeing this allocation moving forward.”
Friends of Astoria Heights Park
will continue its community engagement programs throughout the summer. Among other events, a free junior tennis league for kids five to 18
years old will begin on July 7, and on
July 20, volunteers will gather to paint
the park’s walls and garbage cans.
A separate $1 million of the budget
is allocated for renovations at Moser
Park in Jackson Heights.
Budget Helps
Services For Dist. 19
By JOe MarViLLi
Staff Writer
Now that the City budget has been
made official, the breakdown of who is
getting what is out in the open.
In District 19, the northeast Queens
area covered by Councilman Paul Vallone (D-Bayside), priorities have gone to
the neighborhood schools, senior centers
and parks, with funding also taking care
of dozens of other needed services.
The public schools in the district received a significant chunk
of change from the councilman’s
capital funding allocations. Each
school in the district received a base
of $50,000, with several institutions
getting additional funds.
PS 184 is getting $200,000 to renovate its playground. A total of $250,000
will go to JHS 185 for electrical and
technology improvements. Technology upgrades for PS 31, PS 32 and Bayside High School will cost $120,000,
$100,000 and $155,000, respectively.
PS 209 will get an improved gym and
auditorium at a cost of $169,000.
“I was determined to protect, preserve and enhance our students’ futures,” Vallone said.
A large capital funding allocation
is also going to MacNeil Park, which
will receive $100,000 to improve its
seawall and seawall fencing and to repair the walking path. Poppenhusen,
Whitestone and Auburndale Libraries
will also each get $86,000 for security
system upgrades.
Vallone used his discretionary
funding to help dozens of social services, cultural institutions and community centers in his district. Many senior
centers, such as the CCNS Bayside
Senior Center, the Angelo Petromelis
Senior Center, the North Flushing Senior Center and Selfhelp Community
Services, received a bump in funding
between $5,000 and $10,000.
Other locations that received funding included the Samuel Field YM &
YWHA, to which Vallone gave $17,500
for a senior transportation service and
$10,000 for programs that help autistic children.
The councilman also gave $20,000
to the Bayside BID for a feasibility
study to convert the DOT lot into multilevel parking structure and $7,500 to
replace the roof of the College Point
Community Ambulance Corps headquarters.
“The fiscal budget for 2015 includes critical new initiatives that will
improve the lives of all New Yorkers
and is a clear victory for our communities. Our district can proudly
say we are once again a priority as we
stand tall in Northeast Queens,” Vallone said.
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STATE OF NE W YORK
COUNT Y OF QUEENS
S U P P L E M E N TA L S U M MONS AND NOTICE Index
No. 1510/2014 Date Filed:
6/24/2014 Deutsche Bank
National Trust Company,
as Trustee for Long Beach
Mortgage Loan Trust 20031, Plaintiff, against Dayawati
Mohabir, if he be living or
if he be dead, his spouse,
heirs devisees, distributees
and successors in interest, all
of whom and whose names
and places of residence
are unknown to Plaintiff;
Brooklyn Union Gas Go dba
National Grid; City of New
York Environmental Control
Board; City of New York
Parking Violations Bureau;
City of New York Transit
Adjudication Bureau; State
of New York; and “JOHN
DOE #1” through “JOHN
DOE #10”, the last ten names
being fictitious and unknown
to the Plaintiff, the person or
parties intended being the
person or parties, if any, having or claiming an interest in
or lien upon the mortgaged
premises described in the
complaint, Defendant(s).
PROPERTY ADDRESS: 10452 118th Street, Richmond
Hill, NY 11419 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 a notice of appearance on
the attorneys for the Plaintiff
within thirty (30) days after
the service of this summons,
exclusive of the day of service. The United States of
defendant in this action, may
appear within sixty (60) days
of service hereof. In case
of your failure to appear or
answer, judgment will be
taken against you by default
for the relief demanded in
the complaint. NOTICE OF
NATURE OF ACTION AND
RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above captioned
action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $206,250.00
and interest, recorded in
the QUEENS County Office of the City Register on
April 9, 2003, in CRFN
2003000084084 covering
premises known as 104-52
118th Street, Richmond Hill,
NY 11419. The relief sought
in the within action is a final
judgment directing the sale of
the premises described above
to satisfy the debt secured
by the Mortgage described
above. Plaintiff designates
QUEENS County as the place
of trial. Venue is based upon
the County in which the
mortgaged premises is situated. NOTICE YOU ARE IN
DANGER OF LOSING YOUR
HOME IF YOU DO NOT
RESPOND TO THIS SUM-
MONS 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.
FORECLOSURE ACTION.
YOU MUST RESPOND BY
(MORTGAGE COMPANY)
WITH THE COURT. Dated:
May 14, 2014 Frank M. Cassara, Esq. Associate Attorney
Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC
Attorneys for Plaintiff 175
Mile Crossing Boulevard,
Rochester, NY 14624 (585)
247-9000 Our File No. 13031197 Premises known as
104-52 118th Street , Richmond Hill, NY 11419. All that
certain property situate, lying
and being in the Borough
and County of Queens, City
and State of New York. Block
9571, Lot 31
________________________
STATE OF NE W YORK
COUNT Y OF QUEENS
Index No.: 8931/07 Date Purchased: 4-6-07 SUMMONS
Plaintiffs designate Queens
County as the place of trial.
The basis of venue is: Location of Occurrence Plaintiffs
reside at: 30-63 14th Street,
Apt. 2R, Astoria, NY 11102
County of Queens DENNIS L.
MARTINEZ and LUIS MARTINEZ, Plaintiffs, -against- WALTER McSWEENEY, WALTER
McSWEENEY as Executor of
the Estate of ELLEN LASZCZEWSKI and GILBERTO
RIVAS, Defendants. 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 attorneys within
twenty days after the service
of this summons, exclusive of
the day of service, where service is made by delivery upon
you personally within the
state, or, within30 days after
completion of service where
service is made in any other
manner. In case of your failure
to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against
you by default for the relief
demanded in the complaint.
Dated: Bronx, New York
April 2, 2007 RICHARD E.
NUNEZ Corpina, Piergrossi,
Overzat & Klar, LLP Attorneys
for Plaintiff(s) DENNIS L.
MARTINEZ and LUIS MARTINEZ 2344 Eastchester Road
Bronx, New York 104695911 718-515-6000 Our File
No. 16223 TO: GILVERTO
RIVAS 611 Onderdonk Avenue Ridgewood, NY 11385
WALTER MCSWEENEY 611
Onderdonk Avenue Ridgewood, NY 11385 WALTER
MCSWEENEY as Executor of
the Estate of ELLEN LASZCZEWSKI 611 Onderdonk
Avenue Ridgewood, NY
11385 “In this negligence
action, the plaintiff, DENNIS L. MARTINEZ (female),
seeks to recover damages for
serious personal injuries she
sustained on June 25, 2006,
when a defective window in
the living room of an apartment at the premises located
at 611 Onderdonk Avenue,
Ridgwood, New York, ownerd by Walter McSweeney
and the Estate of Ellen Laszczewski, fell on her hand. The
subject window was located
in an apartment, which at
the time, was occupied by
Gilberto Rivas. The plaintiff,
LUIS MARTINEZ, seeks to
recover for loss of services
due to the injuries sustained
by his spouse, DENNIS L.
MARTINEZ. Plaintiffs seek
judgment against the defendants on both causes of action in a sum which exceeds
the jurisdictional limits of all
lower courts which would
otherwise have jurisdiction,
together with the costs
and disbursements of this
action. ”
________________________
SUMMONS Index No.
11204/11 D/O/F: 5/9/2011
Premises Address: 63-41
110TH ST FOREST HILLS, NY
11375-1881 BLOCK 2182
LOT 103 STATE OF NEW
YORK SUPREME COURT:
COUNT Y OF QUEENS
WELLS FARGO BANK, NA
DBA AMERICAS SERVICING
COMPANY 3476 Stateview
Boulevard Ft. Mill, SC 29715,
Plaintiff, -against- BHARGAVI
PATEL, NEW YORK CITY
ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD, NEW YORK
CIT Y PARKING VIOL ATIONS BUREAU, NEW YORK
CITY TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU, NEW YORK
STATE DEPARTMENT OF
TAXATION AND FINANCE,
UNITED INTERNATIONAL
BANK, JOHN DOES (said
names being fictitious, parties intended being possible
tenants or occupants of premises and corporations, other
entities or persons who have,
claim, or may claim, a lien
against, or other interest in,
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 Attorneys within
twenty (20) days after the
service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service,
where service, or within thirty
(30) days after completion of
service where service is made
in any other manner, than by
personal delivery within the
State. The United States of
Defendant in this action, may
answer or appear within sixty
(60) days of service hereof. In
case of your failure to appear
or answer, judgment will be
taken against you by default
for the relief demanded in the
Complaint. NOTICE YOU
ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do
not respond to this summons
and complaint by serving a
copy of the answer on the
attorney for the mortgage
company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against
you and filing the answer with
the court, a default judgment
may be entered and you can
lose your home. Speak to an
attorney or go to the court
where your case is pending
for further information on
how to answer the summons
and protect your property.
Sending a payment to your
mortgage company will not
stop this foreclosure action.
YOU MUST RESPOND BY
(MORTGAGE COMPANY)
WITH THE COURT. Queens
County is designated as the
place of trial. The basis of
venue is the location of the
mortgaged premises foreclosed herein. Dated: May
5, 2011 Stuart P. Frame, Esq.
Steven J. Baum, P.C. Attorneys
for Plaintiff 220 Northpointe
Parkway Suite G Amherst, NY
14228 Tel.: 716-204-2400
Help For Homeowners In
Foreclosure New York State
Law requires that we send
you this notice about the
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
in foreclosure. There are
government agencies, legal
aid entities and other nonprofit 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 (1-877-2265697) or visit the Department’s website at www.banking.state.ny.us. The State does
not guarantee the advice of
these agencies.
________________________
Thomas (Middle) Lanchun
(Last) Liu My present name
is (First) Lanchun (Last) Liu
My present address is 6940
224th St., Oakland Gardens,
NY 11364 My place of birth
is China My date of birth is
April 25, 1974
________________________
MAY 20 2014 bearing Index
NY 11435, grants me the
right to: Assume the name
of (First) Kiesha (Last) Garcia
My present name is (First)
Lekeisha (Middle) Mecca
(Last) Garcia aka Lakeisha M
Garcia My present address is
95-21 150th Road, Ozone
Park, NY 11417 My place
of birth is Brooklyn, NY My
date of birth is December
01, 1988
________________________
right to: Assume the name of
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(Last) Ramos My present
name is (First) Jeanette (Last)
Ramos aka Jeanette Koon aka
Geanette Koon My present
address is 24906 57th Ave.,
Little Neck, NY 11362 My
place of birth is Manhattan,
NY My date of birth is March
04, 1981
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right to: Assume the name
of (First) Kuldip (Middle) Rai
(Last) Sehdev My present
name is (First) Nfn (Last)
Kuldip My present address
is 93-18 124 ST., Richmond
Hill, NY 11419 My place of
birth is India My date of birth
is March 12, 1959
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LACCQ Grads Look Ahead To Citizenship
Staff Writer
A handful of Queens residents took
a step towards American citizenship
this weekend.
In an afternoon ceremony at the
ARROW Community Center in Astoria, students of English as a Second
Language and U.S. Citizenship test
preparation at the Latin American
Cultural Center of Queens (LACCQ)
received certificates of completion.
Students graduating from the program on Saturday represented a wide
range of native countries, from Colombia to Tibet.
The program, which runs every Sat- Aida Gonzalez-Jarrin (third from right) with her ESL and citizenurday for three months at ARROW, ship test preparation students, who graduated from the LACCQ
is taught by Aida Gonzalez-Jarrin, a program on Saturday.
Queens resident and State-certified
teacher. She said that many of her most rewarding aspect of teaching tremely rewarding. We actually have a
students take the U.S. citizenship test English as a Second Language and little celebration, we take a picture, I
right after completing the course, al- citizenship test preparation is hearing present the student with an American
though registration for the test is not how improved English has changed flag.”
LACCQ President Nayibe Núñeza requirement – students are accepted her students’ lives.
“They come to me after a week of Berger started English as a Second
to the program with no restrictions.
“There is a need [for this program] work and say, ‘oh, teacher, I was able Language and citizenship test classes
in the community,” Gonzalez-Jarrin to use this sentence and that sentence about two decades ago.
“Learning English opens opportusaid. “Especially Queens being a bor- in my office, and they understood
ough of immigrants, so many im- me,’” Gonzalez-Jarrin said. “There was nities,” Núñez-Berger said. “It’s very
migrants from so many parts of the one occasion where one student said, important, even if the person has a big
world that need to become integrated, ‘I even asked for a raise following your accent like mine, we are able to communicate and read and write, and also
that need to gain power through lan- vocabulary, and it worked.’”
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“I think it is crucial that we give
this opportunity to new immigrants,”
Núñez-Berger added.
Student and Astoria resident Maria
Potesta will be taking her citizenship
test in two months. She said that because of this class, she feels prepared
for the exam. Potesta plans to study
medical assistance once she becomes
naturalized.
“[Aida] is fanastic. The students
really love her. She is very creative,”
Núñez-Berger said. “She gives them
information that they can use right
now… she’s just wonderful.”
“I really like what Aida teach to us,
because she helps a lot in all the history about the United States,” Potesta
added. “She’s a very dedicated person.”
Of the graduation ceremony,
Potesta said, “it was very interesting,
very nice, beautiful.”
“We are friends like we are family,”
she added, nodding to her classmates.
“Everybody cooperates. We are family, we cooperate for all this.”
Immediately after the graduation,
Gonazalez-Jarrin and her students sat
down to keep working, reading as a
group through a biography of Thomas
Jefferson.
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Application Assistance
For Parents Who Have Children In a NYC Public School
Saturday, July 12, 2014
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or call Immigrant Affairs at 212-788-7654
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Newtown High School
48-01 90th Street
Elmhurst, NY 11373
Flushing Commons
Breaks Ground
BY JOE MARVILLI
Staff Writer
dent Melinda Katz said that the project shows how Queens is becoming
an attractive opportunity for investors.
“This is about Flushing Commons
but this is also about the Borough of
Queens. This is about the fact that we
have investments that are coming into
our Borough,” she said. “Isn’t that a
great thing for our Borough?”
The $900 million investment is
expected to create 1,900 permanent
jobs at Flushing Commons, including
high-quality building service jobs as
part of the developer’s agreement with
SEIU 32BJ.
“Once this project is completed, it
will play a significant role in cementing Flushing’s transformation into an
economic power center of Queens,”
Councilman Peter Koo (D-Flushing)
said.
In response to concerns about the
impact construction would have on
nearby small businesses, the City Economic Development Corporation and
local elected officials created a $2.5
million small business assistance fund,
administered by Asian Americans for
Equality.
John Choe, of One Flushing, said
his organization will help local businesses near the site.
“We still have a lot of concerns
about the impact on mom-and-pop
stores and local merchants in the surrounding neighborhood,” he said.
“We’ll continue to do everything we
can to assist and support the local
business community.”
To keep up with the Flushing Commons construction, visit www.flushingcommonsupdates.com.
After years of discussions and delays, the Flushing Commons project
finally broke ground this week.
On June 30, several stakeholders,
elected officials and community leaders met in the heart of downtown
Flushing for the groundbreaking ceremony. Set on the former site of Municipal Lot 1, many comments from
the event were about the transformative impact the $1 billion development
will have on the neighborhood.
The project will turn a 5.5-acre parcel of land into a mixture of residential housing, commercial space, retail,
community facilities and a 1,600-space
public parking garage. The LEED-certified structure will be completed in
two phases to reduce any disruptions.
“Flushing Commons owes its origins to the community leaders, who
over 12 years ago, went to the City to
seek support in redeveloping this dynamic community,” Michael Meyer,
president of TDC Development at
F&T Group, said. “This project that
will transform Flushing is a result of
that initiative and is thus a model of
what public-private partnerships can
accomplish.”
U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing)
also praised Flushing Commons for
getting off the ground. She promised
to help community members who may
be affected by the development.
“No great and big project is perfect,
but we will continue to partner together to make sure that the interests
of as many people in our community
are taken care of,” she said.
Phase 1 will have about 219,000square-feet of office and retail space,
150 units of housing and a 982-space
parking lot. This
portion of the project is aiming for an
early 2017 completion. Phase 2 will
construct 242,000square-feet of office
and retail space, 450
residential
units,
618 parking spaces,
a YMCA recreational facility and a
1.5-acre public plaza. This final part of
Flushing Commons
Photo by JoE MArvilli
has a completion the groundbreaking ceremony at Flushing
date of 2021.
Commons featured (from left) Kent Daiber
Now that the of Starwood Property trust, Andrew Axelrod
groundbreaking has of Mount Kellett Capital Management, rick
taken place, con- Sondik of rockefeller Group, John livingston of
struction will be- AECoM Capital, Michael Meyer and Michael lee
gin in earnest, with of F&t Group, bP Melinda Katz, Councilman Pe2,600 union con- ter Koo, U.S. rep. Grace Meng, State Sen. toby
struction jobs being Stavisky, Assemblyman David Weprin and Asused for the work.
semblyman ron Kim’s representative, yuh-line
Borough Presi- Niou.
POLICE BLOTTER
102nd Precinct
Grand Larceny - The NYPD
is seeking the public’s assistance in locating two suspects wanted in connection with Grand Larcenies.
At approximately 2:30 p.m. on June
10, the suspects entered the Placid
Wireless store located at 74-10 101st
Ave., and removed an Apple iPhone 4,
Apple iPhone 4S and a Samsung Galaxy phone.
20, suspects entered the Boost Mobile
store, located at 80-10 Jamaica Ave.,
opened a closed shelf and removed an
Apple iPhone 5s and Samsung Galaxy
phone.
The first suspect is described as a
Black male, 5’6”, with dark complexion. The second suspect is described as
a Hispanic male, 5’6”, with black hair
and light complexion.
Anyone with information is asked
to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers
at (800) 577-tips, visit www.nypdcrimestoppers.com or text tips to
274637(CRIMES), then enter TIP577.
All calls are confidential.
105th Precinct
Homicide - At 10:19 p.m. on June
28, police responded to a 911 call of an
aided male in front of 120-47 219th St.
Upon arrival, officers discovered
Jason Bragg, 33, of the Bronx, unconscious and unresponsive, with head
trauma, lying in the street. EMS also
responded and pronounced the male
dead. Further investigation revealed
that Bragg sustained a gunshot wound
to the head. The case has been classified as a Homicide.
106th Precinct
assauLt - The NYPD is seeking the public’s assistance in locating
three 18-25-year-old males wanted in
connection with an assault.
At 6:20 p.m. on June 10, the suspects entered the Aladdin Hookah
Bar, located at 109-08 Liberty Ave.,
approached the 17-year-old victim
and began to repeatedly punch and
kick him before striking him in the
head with an unknown metal object
before fleeing. The victim sustained a
laceration to his head as a result of the
incident and was treated at Jamaica
Hospital.
108th Precinct
assauLt - The NYPD is asking
for the public’s assistance in ascertaining the whereabouts of an individual
wanted for questioning in connection
to an assault.
At approximately 12:10 a.m. on
June 21, the victim, Roberto Martires, 56, was punched in the face by
an unknown person in front of 69-04
Roosevelt Ave. The victim was taken
to Elmhurst General Hospital in criti-
cal condition and was pronounced
dead on June 24.
The individual wanted for questioning is a Hispanic male, early to
mid-twenties, with facial hair.
109th Precinct
investiGation - At approximately 10:10 p.m. on June 29, police
responded to a 911 call of an emotionally disturbed person inside 169-17
Underhill Ave.
Upon arrival, police observed a
41-year-old male on the floor with injuries to both wrists and an eight-yearold male unconscious in a bed. EMS
responded, transported the man to
Queens General Hospital in stable condition and pronounced the eight-yearold victim dead on the scene. The Medical Examiner will determine the cause
of death. The name of the deceased is
being withheld pending family notification. The investigation is ongoing.
robbery - At 2:33 p.m. on April
23, police responded to a 911 call of a
robbery inside of 212-03 15th Ave.
Upon arrival, police determined
that two Hispanic males claiming to
be maintenance workers forced their
way into the location and assaulted a
female, 85, and a male, 86. The female
sustained bruising to the face and
body, while the male sustained head
injuries. Both were taken to New York
Hospital Queens in stable condition.
Police arrested Christopher Ramirez, 24, of Queens, and charged him
with robbery, burglary and assault in
regards to the incident.
114th Precinct
burGLaries - The NYPD is asking the public’s assistance in locating
suspects wanted in connection with
two burglaries.
At approximately 7:40 a.m. on June
17, the suspects entered a residential
building located in the vicinity of 35th
Avenue and 30th Street, gained access
to an underground parking garage and
removed a blue Cannondale mountain
bike that was chained to a bicycle rack.
26, the suspects entered a residential
building, located in the vicinity of 30th
Avenue and 37th Street, forced open
a door leading to a basement storage
area and removed a Trek mountain
bicycle.
legislative update
Summer Activities
For Youth
In an effort to keep children busy
and out of trouble after summer’s dismissal bell, Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Ozone Park) teamed up with
Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone
Park) and recently hosted a school
safety meeting with local schools to
compile a list of resources and activities for parents to do with their
children during the quiet summer
months.
“As a father of two young children,
I understand the importance of keeping our children occupied during the
summer months,” Goldfeder said.
“This fun list of activities is a great way
for parents to spend some quality time
with their children throughout the
summer.”
“I am happy to partner with Assemblyman Goldfeder to offer this list of
resources for parents,” Ulrich said. “It’s
a list of great places for parents and
kids to visit and enjoy together. Every
one of the suggested locations came
from Rockaway parents and I encourage everyone to check them out.”
After several students were found
roaming the streets after school and
causing mischief, Goldfeder, Ulrich
and school officials took the initiative to create a list of programs and
activities to ensure children can leave
the classroom for the summer months
and stay out of harm’s way.
“Queens is filled with fun activities
for children and teenagers of every age
to enjoy,” Goldfeder added. “Participating in some of these activities is a
great way to spend time with our kids
and even educate them when school is
not in session.”
Avella Praises
Hydrofracking
Ban
State Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside)
praised the New York State Court of
Appeals 5-2 ruling, which affirmed the
rights of two towns, located in upstate
New York, to use local zoning ordinances to ban fracking from natural
gas, despite land owners signing leases
with natural gas companies for the
land use.
In its ruling, the Court of Appeals
indicated that the State’s oil and gas
law does not in any way suggest that
local municipalities cannot use zoning procedures to regulate land uses
within their own borders.
“The entire State of New York can
hail this decision as a win,” Avella
said. “I commend the State’s highest
court for making what can be viewed
as historic and precedent setting decision to uphold the rights of local municipalities over the greed of natural
gas companies.”
Avella has led the fight against
banning hydrofracking in New York
State after introducing the ban legislation shortly after taking office. He has
since introduced numerous other legislation aimed at preventing fracking
waste and regulating working conditions at fracking fields.”
Maloney Decries
Hobby Lobby
Decision
U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Astoria) this week released a statement
on the recent Supreme Court decision in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby and
Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. v.
Sebelius.
“The Supreme Court just put employers in between a woman and her
doctor. The conservative members of
the Court have declared that employers at closely held corporations may
impose their own religious views on
the health care choices of employees
and restrict a person’s medical insurance coverage so that it doesn’t offend
the boss’s personal beliefs. To that message, they attached an annual bill for
$269—the average increase in out-ofpocket costs for contraception that millions of women may face as a result of
this deeply flawed decision,” she said.
“The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision
in this case has chilling implications
that extend far beyond a woman’s access to health care and contraception.
It invites corporations to discriminate
against their employees based on the
personal religious beliefs of bosses. It
invites religious objections to further
critical health care benefits and other
federal laws that are against the boss’
personal preferences. It is a step in the
wrong direction, and further demon-
Water Conservation
the New York City department of environmental protection
(dep) and assemblywoman Nily Rozic recently distributed approximately 300 60-gallon rain barrels to residents in Queens.
Rain barrels can help lower a homeowner’s water bill, while reducing the amount of water that enters the City’s sewer system,
and conserving water from the City’s unfiltered drinking water
supply. sunday’s event was held at george Ryan Middle school JHs
216 in Fresh Meadows and the rain barrels were provided free of
charge.
stration of the backward thinking of
the Court’s majority,” she added.
Katz Thankful For
Pavillion Funds
Queens Borough President Melinda Katz recently commended Mayor
Bill de Blasio, City Council Speaker
Melissa Mark-Viverito and the members of the City Council for agreeing
to include more than $4.8 million for
the restoration of the New York State
Pavilion in the Capital Budget the City
Council approved early this morning.
The funding, combined with nearly
$1 million that Katz allocated to the
Pavilion from her portion of the newly
adopted Capital Budget, means that
a total of $5.806 million has been set
aside to begin the restoration of the
Pavilion.
“I am thrilled that Mayor de Blasio,
Speaker Mark-Viverito and the City
Council have recognized the importance of taking this first step to help
ensure the New York State Pavilion
will be enjoyed and admired by Queens
residents and visitors for many more
decades to come,” Katz said.
The funding includes $4.2 million
provided by Mayor de Blasio, $628,000
provided by Speaker Mark-Viverito
and $979,000 provided by Borough
President Katz.
Volunteer
Ambulance Aid
Academic Excellence
state sen. toby ann stavisky (d-Flushing) awarded sharon Yeung
the leonard p. stavisky award for academic excellence at today’s
graduation at ps 242, the leonard p. stavisky school. pictured
are Councilman peter Koo (d-Flushing) and stavisky congratulating Yeung along with her mother, Wen Qing Yang and principal
patricia Costa.
In recognition of the extraordinary
public service provided by members
of volunteer fire and ambulance corps,
State Sen. Joseph Addabbo, Jr. (DHoward Beach) joined with his Senate
colleagues in passing a package of legislation to help these volunteers better
manage their organizations, save money
on taxes, gain access to new educational
opportunities and be able to take leaves
of absence from work to help others
during times of emergency.
“Night and day, 365 days a year,
our vollies stand ready, willing and
able to respond to emergencies and
save the lives of others, often while
putting their own health and safety at
risk,” Addabbo said. “Volunteerism
is a vital and welcome calling in our
communities, and it is fitting that we
take steps to assist and recognize the
efforts of our volunteer fire and ambulance corps as they give selflessly of
themselves to all of us.”
Protesters Clash Outside Pan Am Hearing
Staff Writer
Cries of “get a job,” “pay your
rent” and “get out” rang across
Goldsmith Street in Elmhurst Monday night, as protesters of the Pan
American homeless shelter met
counter-protesters from the shelter.
Thirty-six families were moved
into the Pan American hotel in early June, to the surprise of the community and elected officials. Ninety
now live there. The DHS had initially declared the site unsuitable,
but then granted Samaritan Village
an emergency decree to open the
shelter.
The community has since been
vocal in challenging the City’s decision to quietly put a shelter in an
area already burdened with some
of the most overcrowded hospitals
and schools in New York.
Hundreds of Elmhurst residents
calling for the shelter to be shut
down gathered on the lawn outside the Elks Lodge in the early
evening, where inside, Community
Board 4 was holding a public hearing on the shelter with elected officials, community members and
representatives from the Dept. of
Homeless Services and Samaritan
Village, which runs the shelter.
The protesters faced a group of
counter-protesters from the shelter, booing and shouting. One child
waved a sign reading “2, 4, 6, 8,
who do we NOT appreciate? Hobos, hobos!”
The counter-protest group,
which grew in about an hour from
eight individuals to roughly two
dozen, consisted
swered had [DHS and Samostly of shelter
maritan Village] notified the
residents with chilcommunity in advance.”
dren,
alongside
The number that they’re
some community
asking to put in here, withadvocates.
out any additional services
Michael West
to the community, is unaclives in the Pan
ceptable,” Dromm added.
American shelter
Resident Jenny Shao
with his wife Lale
distinguished between layWest and fiveing fault on the residents of
month-old son.
the shelter and on the DHS
“She’s
workand Samaritan Village.
ing, I’m working,
“Homeless people, we
we’re doing what
do need to support them.
we got to do to
But is putting a shelter in
get the money up
Pan Am the right support
so we can get our a crowd protesting elmhurst’s Pan am homeless shelter that they need?” Show
apartment,” West gathered Monday outside a public hearing on the shel- asked. “I work at a school
said. “Everybody’s ter.
where I don’t even have
working to get out right now.”
“Our crime has already started money to buy textbooks. So what
DHS statistics indicate that the going up, you have no control over are you doing for our schools?
number of people in homeless shel- them,” she said. “Half those people You want the children to go to our
ters has risen steadily since 2012.
need to get up off their fat butts schools, and I want the children to
According to Lorraine Stephens, and get a job.”
go to our schools. So what are you
first deputy commissioner of the
According to Deputy Inspector doing for us?”
DHS, there are currently 54,000 in- Ronald Leyson, the 110th precinct
Shao also blasted the DHS for
dividuals in City shelters, 11,000 of has seen no uptick in crime that putting a shelter in “a community of
which are families. Stephens called it can attribute to the shelter, and immigrants who often don’t have a
homelessness a City-wide crisis does not expect to.
voice.”
and said the DHS is not sure what
Ivelisse Torres is a shelter resiOdette Lupis came to the hearis causing it.
ing from Astoria to speak out for dent who works in retail.
Some of the shelter protesters’ the shelter’s residents.
“We’re here because they’re
sentiments were echoed during
“I’m looking for work, and as against us,” Torres said. “They’re
the hearing inside.
everybody who’s looking for work saying we don’t have jobs. MajorOne speaker who did not identi- knows, you don’t find it when you ity of us have jobs, they just don’t
fy herself said, “long-term residents need it. So I could be your next want us there.”
of Elmhurst, Queens have worked homeless person,” she said.
“They don’t know us, they don’t
long hours and we’re motivated to
After the hearing, Councilman know what we’ve been through,
have a roof over our heads” while Daniel Dromm (D-Jackson Heights) they just don’t want us there,” Torothers get a “free ride” and “free said that “many of those questions res added.
pass.”
and the characterizations of the
Resident Regina Quiet said she people [in the shelter] that some of (718) 357-7400, Ext. 128, jstrawhas seen people skulking outside the people had here tonight, those bridge@queenstribune.com or @
and followed them to the shelter.
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Independence Day Events Coming To Queens
With flags waving everywhere
and the red, white and blue colors being shown all around, July
4 is one of the most celebrated
holidays in the United States. For
Queens, another reason to celebrate this Independence Day
is that Macy’s fireworks will once
again be viewed in various locations in Queens. But before the
fireworks began, there are several events to commemorate the
day.
The Fourth of July celebration kicks off on July 3 with Our
Valued Commodity’s second annual Independence Day Carnival
Explosion for four nights; July 3-6.
Each night, the carnival will begin
at 5 p.m. and end at midnight. On
July 5, there will be a free firework show at 9 p.m. The carnival
will be held at Padavan-Preller
Field, located at 236-02 Hillside
Ave., Bellerose. For information,
call (718) 465-2225 or visit www.
ovcnyc.org.
On July 4-5, the Forest Park
Carousel has a Magic and Circus
Show with non-stop excitement and
entertainment as Zabo the Clown
works his juggling, unicycling and
prop balancing skills. Act 1 of Zabo
the Clown will be shown on July 4
and Act 2 will follow on July 5. On
July 5, Champu the Magician will
engage guests in a magical and
hilarious experience. Both events
are free and located at Forest Park
Drive off Woodhaven Boulevard,
Woodhaven. The shows will begin
at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. For information, call (718) 788-2676, email
info@nycarousel.com or visit www.
nycgovparks.org.
The Fantasy Forest at Flushing
Meadows Corona Park will hold
two events on Friday and Sunday.
On Friday, be amazed by Omar’s
4th of July Spectacular and on
Sunday, be entranced by The Sammie & Tudie Show. Both shows are
free and will be held at 2 p.m. and
4 p.m. on both days. Both events
will be at Fantasy Forest at Flushing Meadows Carousel, located at
111th Street and 55th Avenue. For
information, call (718) 788-2676.
LIC Landing in Hunters Point
Park will host its first annual July
4 BBQ from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. A
local DJ will have guests dancing
all night. The ticket for this event
is $100 for the unlimited food and
drinks. There is no charge for children under 10. A portion of the
proceeds will be donated to the
Hunters Point Park Conservancy.
For information, call Frank at (917)
403-7664 or visit LICLanding.com.
The restaurant is located at 52-10
Center Blvd., Long Island City.
For those wishing to spend
Independence Day watching
fireworks, Resorts World Casino
will hold a 4th of July fireworks
viewing event at Bar360 and on
their 6th floor parking lot at 74110 Rockaway Blvd., Jamaica,
Queens. The view will begin at
7 p.m. For information, call (718)
215-2828 or visit www.rwnewyork.com.
The New York Mets will also
host a fireworks display at Citi
Field in celebration of Independence Day following the game vs.
the Texas Rangers. Fireworks will
be launched from Citi Field’s roof
and the centerfield grass, providing a 360 degree experience
for fans throughout the ballpark.
Fireworks Night will be presented
by Citi. Tickets for the game are
on sale at Mets.com and (718)
507-TIXX.
Hyatt Place Flushing LGA Hotel Opens
BY JOE MARVILLI
Staff Writer
The first piece of One Fulton
Square in Flushing is now open for
business.
Hyatt Place Flushing LaGuardia
Airport opened its doors on May 29,
becoming the first Hyatt brand to
make its home in Queens. The 168room hotel is the first part of One Fulton Square, a mixeduse project. With a
number of amenities,
several designed exclusively for Flushing,
the hotel has already
proven itself a success.
Although
Hyatt
generally has a universal design and
brand, the owners of F&T Group,
which owns One Fulton Square,
were able to get some modifications
to fit the hotel’s clientele, which they
think will mostly be Asian. Some of
the artwork in the lobby traded out
an oak tree for cherry blossoms
and added Asian vases rather than
American styles. As part of its A.M.
Kitchen Skillet complimentary breakfast, the hotel will serve miso soup,
ginger, seaweed and other Asian
offerings. The hotel also has a 24/7
menu and complimentary coffee and
tea in each room.
The 168 rooms at the Hyatt break
up into 82 king-bedded rooms, 83
double-queen-bedded rooms and
three nearly-700-square-foot suites.
The rooms have pullout sofas, minifridges, desks, wardrobes with a
safe and complimentary Wi-Fi. The
42-inch flat screen HDTVs in each
room also come with five Chinese
cable channels.
“The rooms are bigger than most
you see in New York City,” general
manager Tony Schatz
said.
Once a guest leaves
his or her room, they can
head to one of three fitness centers throughout
the hotel. There is an indoor, heated pool on the
rooftop level. Towards
the end of the year, a restaurant
lounge on the other side of the roof
will open, complete with an outdoor
area. There are also meeting rooms
for business on the third floor.
For those worried about noise
from incoming airplanes heading to
LaGuardia Airport, the hotel’s windows are triple-pane glass, which will
keep noise from leaking through.
Besides everything available inside its walls, Hyatt Place Flushing
is close to plenty of fun activities as
well. The hotel is less than a mile
from Citi Field, just over a mile away
from the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center and about two
miles from the Hall of
Science. For transportation, the 7 train is a
block away. There is
also a complimentary,
24-hour shuttle toand-from LGA.
Developers hope
the retail area of One
Fulton Square will
start to fill up with restaurants and stores,
giving hotel guests
another close option
for their eating and
shopping needs. The Customers who visit Hyatt Place Flushing Laretail section had to Guardia Airport will enjoy a fantastic view of the
wait for the Hyatt to City, large rooms and other amenities.
get its occupancy certificate. Now that the hotel is set, the China. We’ve seen a lot of positive
response.”
retail can start moving forward.
Schatz added that the Hyatt’s cus“Once this is up and running,
we believe it’ll be much more of an tomers will benefit more and more as
amenity to our hotel guests,” Schatz parts of One Fulton Square and Two
Fulton Square open.
said.
“Being part of this multi-faceted
The Hyatt has about 50 employees on staff, some of whom speak mixed-use complex is going to be
Mandarin. Schatz said the Asian great for the hotel and customers.
market is growing very quickly and I think they’ll really appreciate the
the Hyatt is looking to appeal to that other components once they open
up,” he said. “I think it’ll be great for
market.
“They like the cultural component the community too to have all these
here. When you come from China, amenities here. Flushing will appreyou stay for a week-and-a-half or two ciate it.”
Reach Joe Marvilli at (718) 357weeks,” he said. “A lot of our signage
is bi-lingual. We want to be welcom- 7400, Ext. 125, jmarvilli@queenstriing to the Asian customer base in bune.com, or @JoeMarvilli.
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Op-Ed: The Real Tale Of Two Cities
By Andrew Siegel
State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman recently announced new
steps to assist unbanked New Yorkers gain access to bank accounts;
namely, by limiting the use of predatory financial background checks of
prospective customers.
New York’s licensed check cashers applaud these efforts. But we
proudly note that we have been providing low-cost financial services to
unbanked and underbanked New
Yorkers – from check cashing to
money transfers to bill payments –
in an affordable, transparent way for
the last 70 years.
But let’s be clear - bank accounts
alone are no silver bullet. The reality is that just months after Mayor
de Blasio swept into City Hall on
his “Tale of Two Cities” campaign
slogan, New Yorkers throughout
the second City remain without the
basic financial wherewithal to move
away from the financial edge. The
real problem is that thousands and
thousands of New York City families
live paycheck to paycheck – perched
perilously close to the personal financial cliff.
The fundamental misconception
about unbanked and under-banked
New Yorkers is that bank accounts
alone would help them avoid unsound financial decisions and con-
sequences. Nothing could be farther
from the truth.
On any given day, these hardworking New Yorkers, who have
bank accounts with well-respected
financial institutions, still cannot
pay all of their bills. They typically
have jobs and regular paychecks,
but still can’t pay monthly expenses.
The result is that New Yorkers
living in the second City face a terrible choice: either pay a late fee
waiting for their paycheck to clear
or pay an overdraft fee imposed by
their bank.
For New Yorkers on the financial edge, there is another option:
a licensed check casher. Licensed
check cashers across New York
cash annually an estimated $12 billion in checks. The average check
size is under $500.
There is a fee to cash the check
just like any other service. But the
difference is that licensed New York
check cashers cannot charge more
than a maximum fee of 1.98 percent – the lowest rate in the country.
If you could choose between a $50
late fee with your utility company –
and the long-term negative credit
mark – and a $10 check cashing fee,
which one would you choose? When
every dollar counts, a $40 savings is
enormous.
As illustrated by recent studies
conducted by the New York City
Dept. of Consumer Affairs, many
New Yorkers - unbanked and underbanked both - choose to use licensed check cashers to conduct
their financial business because they
offer competitive pricing and convenience.
Simply put, New Yorkers living in
the second City make sound financial decisions in conducting their financial lives because they have no
room for error. This is the true reason why many New Yorkers choose
to open or close bank accounts. For
Andrew Siegel is the president
of the Financial Service Centers
of New York.
New Hotel Coming
By JAckie StrAwBridge
Staff Writer
They are springing up like mushrooms in western Queens.
Permits were filed in mid June for
a 13-story, 122-room hotel in Astoria. It will be located at 37-10 24th
St., the former site of the demolished
Jung Sun Laundry Corp building,
according to the company’s now defunct Facebook page.
The hotel will include a restaurant
and bar.
According to reports, the developer is Gurpal Cheema’s New Generation Development. New Genera-
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these New Yorkers, check cashers
are simply the smarter financial decision
Protecting New Yorkers from financial predators is the right thing to
do. But the underlying issue is that
we need to identify the services New
Yorkers actually need and use – and
then work with the small businesses
that are already providing those services. That’s a strategy we can all
bank on.
tion purchased the site in September
2012 for $3.3 million, and a demolition application was approved in
February 2013.
Developers could not be reached
for comment as of press time.
This hotel will be located a short
walk from the Paper Factory Hotel,
which opened earlier this year on
36th Street, and is also flanked by a
Country Inn & Suites, a Quality Inn,
Ramada Long Island City and a Best
Western Plaza.
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JNStrawbridge.
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On Monday, developer Carl Mattone (right) hosted a fundraiser at his house in Douglaston for Queens Borough President Melinda Katz (center). They are pictured with
U.S. Rep. Joseph Crowley, head of the Queens Democratic Party. Photo by Dominick
Totino Photography.
Grant Presentation
Citi and the New York Mets teamed up with City Harvest and Mets legend Rusty
Staub to help fight hunger. The event featured Citi and Mets volunteers who repacked
20,000 pounds of apples to deliver to families across the City.
Field Trip To The Beach
Members of the Jewish Community Relations Council’s Queens Fellowship grantmaking committee presented a $5,000 grant to the Rockaway Waterfront Alliance at
the fellowship’s closing ceremony Tuesday night. Photo by Jackie Strawbridge.
Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder hosted a group of students from Pennsylvania to show
them firsthand the impact Superstorm Sandy had on the surrounding community
and educate them on the ways to help families as they continue to rebuild.
Queens Runners Race Through Flushing Meadows Corona Park For 5K
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LEISURE
Jodi Long: From Queens To The Screen
BY JOE MARVILLI
Staff Writer
If you turn on the television or head
to the movies this year, you will have a
chance to watch one of Queens’ finest
in action.
From the beginning of the 20th
century to today, many stars have come
out of Queens to leave their mark on
the world of culture, a tradition that
actress Jodi Long is continuing with a
hit TV show, a new film and decades of
memorable performances.
Long may originally be from Woodside, but nowadays, she is most known
for her new home in Pittsburgh on the
TBS series, “Sullivan and Son.” In the
show, she plays Ok Cha, the Korean
immigrant mother of Steve, the main
character who takes over his parents’
bar. Ok Cha uses tough love to get her
point across, often proving herself to be
right in the end.
“I thought it was a really funny
script and I recognized this woman,”
Long said. “They’re willing to work with
me and write to my strengths and ask
what it is I like to do. They asked me
and I said I like to do physical comedy.
So they started writing towards that.
What a gift.”
“Sullivan and Son” just started its
third season on June 24, with an episode
featuring Ken Jeong from “The Hangover” and “Community.” Although it
moved from Thursday nights to Tuesday nights, the show will not be slowing
down any time soon. This season will
include special guests like Kunal Nay-
also hit theaters. Titled “A
Picture Of You,” this heartfelt
dramedy is about a brother
and sister whose mother
passed away. While they are
closing up her house, they
discover something about
her that throws everything
into a tailspin. Long said her
manager believed the film
offered something different
for the actress and she enjoyed the script. She added
that she was happy to see the
film meet some success.
“We just opened last Friday at the AMC Loews 7 on
10th Street and 3rd Avenue
and they just expanded us by
another week to July 3. That
means that the box office
for the weekend was good,”
Long said. “I’m so thrilled
because it’s just a little movie
and it got a little exposure in
New York.”
Long’s love for acting
came from growing up with
the craft, thanks to her parents, who were vaudevillian
entertainers. Long said she
Actress Jodi Long, who grew up in Wood- grew up backstage and did
side, is starring in the TBS series, “Sulli- her first Broadway show
van and Son,” which just started its third when she was 7. While she
was attending the High
season.
School for Performing Arts,
yar from “The Big Bang Theory” and Long was given a scene from the Natalie
Wood film, “Splendor In The Grass.”
comedian Margaret Cho.
Around the same time that “Sullivan From then, she was hooked.
The actress also spent some time
and Son” resumed, Long’s latest film
behind the camera for “Long Story
Short,” a documentary she wrote about
her parents, who appeared on “The Ed
Sullivan Show” in 1950 as the singing,
dancing, comedy act, Larry and Trudie
Leung.
“I went about trying to find the
footage of it, which I did and I showed
it to my parents, who had never seen
themselves,” she said. “In those days, Ed
Sullivan was live and no one had a VCR.
It was really quite a gift to them, to be
able to see themselves 50 years later.”
Although she learned a lot from the
process of making a film, Long said
that it was also a major undertaking
that required a large amount of time
and commitment to see it through to
completion. The documentary also gave
Long another perspective to her craft.
“I love acting but what I really am is a
storyteller,” she said. “How do you tell a
story? How do you convey it in the first
30 seconds or one minute of a film, that
it’s going to compel people to not change
the channel? That’s the challenge. And
that to me is really interesting.”
Long said that perseverance and
perfecting your craft are necessary to
make it as an actor, particularly to deal
with rejection and other challenges that
come in the world of show business.
“If you really believe in yourself
and you believe what you have to say
is unique, go for it. You have to have
that unrelenting drive underneath,”
she said.
Reach Joe Marvilli at (718) 357-7400,
Ext. 125, jmarvilli@queenstribune.com,
or @JoeMarvilli.
Dutch Kills Artist Documents Shifting Surroundings
BY JAckIE StRAwBRIdgE
Staff Writer
Dutch Kills is the subject of Salvador
Espinoza’s photography, and it refuses
to sit still for a portrait.
Espinoza, a Dutch Kills resident
for more than 30 years, is a fine arts
photographer, photojournalist and
member of Long Island City Artists. His
project, “We Will Be Here,” documents
the changing landscape of Dutch Kills,
photo by photo.
For Espinoza, “We Will Be Here” is
somewhat personal, constituting in part
his slipping grasp on the Dutch Kills he
knew growing up.
“Every time I would come [after
moving away], I’d see a different building being knocked down or a new one
being built, the landscape changing
week to week,” Espinoza said. “All the
places I’d known growing up were just
disappearing, and I kept thinking to
myself that someone should document
what was going on.”
He also remembered seeing a
photography book published by the
Greater Astoria Historical Society of
the area at the turn of the century.
“That got me thinking about documenting Dutch Kills and what it was to
people before this rezoning,” he said.
In 2008, Dutch Kills was approved
for rezoning that removed restrictions
on residential development and conversations.
Espinoza moved back to Dutch Kills
from Sunnyside in 2010. He said, “[this
project has] also made me reflect and
come to terms with the fact that I cannot afford a home here and that unfortunately, I’ll have to look elsewhere.”
Richard Mazda is a Long Island City
artist and owner of the Secret Theatre.
He told the Queens Tribune in May that
he has found an “amazingly diverse and
talented group of artists that clustered
around western Queens.”
However, he added, “the possibility of the real estate boom is some of
those artists might be moved out from
higher rent.”
“I’m not fundamentally opposed to
development in Dutch Kills; as with all
things evolution and change is vital,”
Espinoza said. “I do think that going
forward, when this kind of rezoning
takes place, it’s important to
consider the effect it has on
working class neighborhoods.”
Espinoza is constructing
this project at a time when the
transformation of Long Island
City dominates the community
consciousness.
In late June, Community
Board 1 voted to deny Alma
Realty’s proposed development
at Astoria Cove, unless a number of conditions – including Salvador Espinoza’s “We Will Be Here”
increasing affordable housing documents the changing face of Dutch
units and promising to use local Kills.
labor in construction – are met
by developers.
the most out of what they could and in
“I hope people could see that Dutch doing so they created a community that
Kills, even with all the rezoning and to me is really special.”
development that has happened, was
According to Espinoza, the project
and still is a neighborhood made up is still growing and evolving. He is acof people who have strong ties to their cepting photo submissions from the
community,” Espinoza said.
community and is interested in taking
“These weren’t people who decided portraits of area residents. Interested
to come here because it was trendy or parties should visit facebook.com/
to start businesses to make money off dutchkillswewillbehere.
of tourists. They were here because of
circumstance or they genuinely loved 357-7400, Ext. 128, jstrawbridge@
the area,” Espinoza added. “They made queenstribune.com or @JNStrawbridge.
Dining & Entertainment
QUEENS TODAY
THURSDAY 7/3
“ATTACK THE BLOCK”
Bayside Library will host
a free screening of British sci-fi comedy, “Attack The Block,” starting
at 11:15 a.m. This R-rated
film is about a teenage street
gang that fights off predatory alien invaders. Bayside
Library is located at 214-20
Northern Blvd.
POETRY, FREEDOM
AND YOU
At Flushing Library, poets and aesthetic realism consultants Margot
Carpenter and Karen
Van Outreyve explain
the true poetry in “The
Star-Spangled Banner,”
as well as poems from
Mother Goose, Edward Lear,
Robert Louis Stevenson and
more. The free event starts
at 3 p.m.
FRIDAY 7/4
FOURTH OF JULY
For a listing of Fourth of
July events, see page 14.
EMILY ASHER’S
GARDEN PARTY
The Louis Armstrong House
Museum will present an
afternoon of jazz in Louis’
Garden at 2 p.m. Emily Asher’s Garden Party, a
versatile musical ensemble
led by Asher’s tenacious
trombone and sweet vocals,
will perform at the event.
Tickets cost $18 per person
and can be bought at www.
louisarmstronghouse.org.
Call (718) 478-8274 for more
information.
SPOTLIGHT OF THE WEEK
LORD, REVIVE THIS LAND
WEDNESDAY 7/9
Queens College will hold
a three-day conference,
starting on July 4, focused on the restoration
of God and renewal in
the Holy Spirit. Pastor
Jeff Taguchi and Minister
Tony Hsu from New Life
Christian Center, Irvine, CA,
will speak about connecting
churches, sharing ministry
experiences, equipping
Christians and providing
renewal in the Holy Spirit to
build a radiant church. The
event is free and takes place
at the Goldstein Theatre.
SATURDAY 7/5
COOL HAND SEWING
Stop by the Maker Space on
July 5 from 1:30 p.m. to 3
p.m. and from 3:30 p.m.
to 5 p.m. for a chance to
sew your own sunglasses
case. You will learn how
to measure and cut fabric,
sew a few different hand
stitches, and how to attach
buttons, straps and other
trimmings. If you already
have a case for your sunglasses, you can learn how
to sew a cool beach bag
or hip pouch. Workshops
are recommended for ages
6 and older and cost $5
per adult/child pair. Email
rbingham@nysci.org or call
(718) 699-0005.
SPACE ODYSSEY
WEEKEND
The See It Big! sci-fi series at
the Museum of the Moving
Image concludes in spectacular fashion with ultrarare 70mm screenings of
Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece “2001: A Space
Odyssey,” this Saturday
and Sunday at 3 p.m. and
6:30 p.m. Tickets are $12 for
non-members and include
access to the museum’s galleries and other same-day
screenings. For information,
call (718) 777-6800.
SUNDAY 7/6
THE BEAUTY OF KUNQU
Dezhang Wu and Ling Yang,
resident artists of the Kunqu
Society and students of
its workshop, will present
“THE WIZARD OF OZ”
Enjoy a night at Flushing
Meadows Corona Park watching
a 1939 classic. “The Wizard of Oz”
will air in a free screening from
7 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the 111th
Street Parking Lot in the park.
Relive the magic of watching
Dorothy travel to a magical land
in a tornado and embark on a
quest to see the Wizard who can
help her return home.
highlights from Kunqu
classics and introduce
the art and beauty of
Kunqu at the Flushing
Library. This concert will
take place in the lower level
auditorium, from 2 p.m. to
4 p.m. For more information, call (718) 661-1200.
For more information, call
(718) 235-4100.
WEDNESDAY 7/9
OUTDOOR CINEMA
COMMUNITY DAY AT
NOGUCHI MUSEUM
Friends and neighbors are
invited to visit the Noguchi Museum for free admission and a variety of
programs. “Open Studio”
will take place from 11 a.m.
to 3 p.m. A free public tour
is offered at 2 p.m., and
from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m., there
will be a special “Center
of Attention” conversation
focusing on a single work of
art. For more information,
call (718) 204-7088.
TOUR DE QUEENS
The 2014 Tour de Queens,
presented by Jamis, offers
New Yorkers the ultimate
staycation. This year’s ride
will start in iconic Flushing Meadows Corona Park,
in the plaza between the
Unisphere and the Queens
Museum of Art. The tour
will be approximately
20 miles, and will visit
the great northeastern
Queens neighborhoods
of Flushing, East Flushing, Murray Hill, Auburndale, Bayside, Bay Terrace,
Beechurst and Whitestone.
The rest stop this year will
be at Little Bay Park. More
information is available at
tourdequeens.org.
MONDAY 7/7
“LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL”
Whitestone Library will
present a screening of the
1997 Italian tragicomedy, “Life Is Beautiful.” In
this WWII film, a carefree
Jewish-Italian man named
Guido (Roberto Benigni)
moves to Arezzo, marries
and has a son. Life is beautiful until his family is sent
to a concentration camp,
where, separated from his
wife, Guido devises a game
to help his son survive. The
film will start at 3 p.m.
SUMMER DANCE
INTENSIVE
Starting Monday and running until July 13, Dance
Entropy holds its annual
Summer Dance Intensive
at Green Space in Long
Island City. The intensive
is open to all dancers, actors
and movement lovers of
every type, and incorporates
dance technique, choreography, nutrition and Pilates.
$50 off early registration
(before June 30). For more
information, call (718) 9563037.
DANCING UNDER THE
STARS FINALE
From 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.,
celebrate the closing
of Forest Park’s season
of free ballroom dance
lessons. A live performance
by the Nick Russo Latin Jazz
quintet will accompany the
dancing. Admission is free.
Socrates Sculpture Park will
show an outdoor screening of Moussa Touré’s
“La Pirogue” on Wednesday at 7 p.m. The drama
tells of 30 men and one
woman who set out on an
illegal, seven-day voyage
from the coast of Senegal
to Spain. The film begins at
sundown and runs for 90
minutes. For more information, call (718) 956-1819.
THURSDAY 7/10
SUMMER RECITAL
The Metropolitan Opera’s popular Summer
Recital Series returns
with a free concert in
Socrates Sculpture Park at 7
p.m. No tickets are required
for the
performance,
which
will feature arias
and duets
from a
variety of
operas,
along
with selections from the American
Songbook sung by rising
opera stars; soprano MaryJane Lee, mezzo-soprano
Ginger Costa-Jackson, and
baritone Yunpeng Wang,
joined by pianist Dan
Saunders. The performance
will run approximately one
hour. For additional information, please call (212)
362-6000 or visit the Met
website at www.metopera.
org/parks.
Queens today
SENIORS....................
Skype a CroSSword
Monday, July 7 @ 1:00PM
We solve the puzzle
together using your home
computer and Skype.
718-464-0084. QUEENS
VILLAGE, 94-11 217 Street,
718-776-6800
elder law, eState
planning, and
truStS
BAYSIDE, 214-20 Northern
Boulevard, 718-229-1834
veteranS benefitS
Come to the Kew Gardens
Community Center on
July 8, 2014 at 11:00 AM
to hear about Veterans’
Benefits, Social Security Benefits & New York
State’s Final Disposition
Law. The location is 80-02
Kew Gardens Road Suite
202, phone #718-268-5960
bingo
Tuesday, July 8 @ 2:00PM
This is a teleconferenced
event open to older adults
and the homebound. Call
718-464-0084 for bingo
cards, chips and access
numbers. QUEENS VILLAGE, 94-11 217 Street,
718-776-6800
tueSday MovieS for
older adultS
Join us for recent releases
and classics: “Shaft”; “Chicago” ROCHDALE VIL-
LAGE, 169-09 137 Avenue,
718-723-4440
you be the Judge
Wednesday, July 9
@11:00AM This is a
teleconferenced program
for older adults and the
homebound. First-time
participants must call
718-464-0084 for access
numbers. QUEENS VILLAGE, 94-11 217 Street,
718-776-6800
cOmputERS............
begin CoMputerS
Tuesdays through July
29 Woodside library at
5:45.
Mobile deviCeS
Wednesdays through July
30 Woodside library at
10:30.
beginnerS’ CoMputer boot CaMp
Monday, July 7 @12:30PM
Preregister at jobmap
queenslibrary.org or call
718-634-4784. ARVERNE,
312 Beach 54 Street
introduCtion to
CoMputerS
Tuesday, July 8 @10:00AM
Call 718-661-1280 for
details. FLUSHING, 41-17
Main Street, 718-661-1200
MiCroSoft word
for beginnerS
Tuesday, July 8 @10:00AM
Preregistration is required
at the Cyber Center.
FLUSHING, 41-17 Main
Street, 718-661-1200
the teChnologiSt
Call the library for a 30minute appointment with
a staff member. CORONA,
38-23 104 Street, 718-4262844
CoMputer baSiCS
Wednesday, July 9
@10:30AM WOODSIDE,
54-22 Skillman Avenue,
718-429-4700
Mobile deviCe
CoMputer ClaSSeS
Wednesday, July 9
@10:30AM WOODSIDE,
718-429-4700
CoMputer baSiCS
Wednesday, July 9
@11:00AM Space is
limited. Preregistration is
required. SOUTH OZONE
PARK, 128-16 Rockaway
Boulevard, 718-529-1660
tEENS & KIDS......
teen read/CraftS
Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday, July 3 Lefferts
library at 3.
SuMMer reading
Tuesdays
and
Thursdays book buddies at the
Ridgewood library at 2.
teen CraftS
Tuesdays and Thursdays
McGoldrick library at 4.
Crafty tueSdayS
Tuesdays
Cambria
Heights library at 4.
Grades 1-5.
draMa Club
Tuesdays Central library.
Register.
teen Mediation
Tuesdays Central library
at 4.
SCienCe fun
Wednesdays through August 20 Douglaston library at 3.
drawing Club
Wednesdays LIC library
at 4.
reading for fun
Wednesdays
Laurelton
library at 3:30.
wii gaMeS
Wednesdays McGoldrick
library at 4.
Manga drawing
Thursdays ages 10-17 South
Ozone Park library at 4.
faMly StorytiMe
Thursdays through July 31
Bay Terrace library at 11:30.
18 months to 4 years.
teen SuMMer fun
Space is limited; preregistration is required.
WINDSOR PARK, 79-50
Bell Boulevard, 718-4688300 bus: Q46 / train:
teen SuMMer reading Club
CORONA, 38-23 104
Street, 718-426-2844 bus:
Q23, Q48 / train: 7 to
103rd St/Corona Plaza
hip hop and poetry
in verSe
RICHMOND HILL, 118-14
Hillside Avenue, 718-8497150
gaMing wedneSdayS
Wednesday, July 9 @
3:00PM QUEENSBORO
HILL, 60-05 Main Street,
718-359-8332
SuMMer reading
book buddieS
Wednesday, July 9 @
4:00PM Children in
grades K-3 team up with
teen buddies ages 12-18
to improve literacy and
enjoy the fun of reading.
BAY TERRACE, 18-36 Bell
Boulevard, 718-423-7004
wii gaMeS
Wednesday, July 9 @
4:00PM MCGOLDRICK,
155-06 Roosevelt Av. 718461-1616
teen tiMe
Wednesday, July 9 @
4:00PM NORTH HILLS,
57-04 Marathon Parkway,
718-225-3550 bus: Q30
reading buddieS
Wednesday, July 9 @
5:00PM CORONA, 38-23
104 Street, 718-426-2844
SuMMer reading
Wednesday, July 9 @
5:00PM NORTH FOREST
PARK, 98-27 Metropolitan
Avenue, 718-261-5512
ENtERtAINmENt..
reCitalS
The Metropolitan Opera’s popular Summer
Recital Series returns with
a free concert in Socrates
Sculpture Park in Queens
on July 10 at 7 p.m. No
tickets are required for the
performance.
the daily puzzle
The Queens Library makes
puzzles available to adults
every day. RICHMOND
HILL, 118-14 Hillside
Avenue, 718-849-7150
Monday Movie
“Life is Beautiful” (“La
vita è bella”)
WHITESTONE, 151-10 14
Road, 718-767-8010
MitCh kahn SingS
aCadeMy
Wednesday, July 9 @
2:00PM WINDSOR PARK,
79-50 Bell Boulevard, 718468-8300
Movie afternoon
Wednesday, July 9 @
3:00PM “The Monuments
Men” (2014), rated PG-13.
QUEENS VILLAGE, 94-11
217 Street, 718-776-6800
bus: Q1, Q27, Q36, Q88
/ train: LIRR to Queens
Village
EDucAtION..............
finanCial CoChing
Thursday, July 3 Central
library at noon.
think poSitive
Thursday, July 3 Central
library at 6.
finanCial CoaChing
Thursday, July 3
@12:00PM
Call 718-990-8625 to
make an appointment to
speak with a counselor.
CENTRAL LIBRARY, 89-11
Merrick Boulevard, 718990-0778
engliSh ClaSSeS
Thursday, July 3 @ 3:30PM
DOUGLASTON/LITTLE
NECK Library, 249-01
Northern Boulevard, 718225-8414
engliSh
ConverSation
Monday, July 7 @11:00AM
CORONA, 38-23 104 Street
eMergenCy
preparedneSS
ASTORIA, 14-01 Astoria
Boulevard, 718-278-2220
CitizenShip ClaSS
MCGOLDRICK, 155-06
Roosevelt Av. (off Northern Blvd), 718-461-1616
HEALtH......................
autiSM prograM
Tumbling with Autism
in Glendale. Call 4171216.
CaregiverS
Cancer support services
in Western Queens. 2685060, ext. 226.
danCe fitneSS
Sat urdays through July
12 LIC library at 3.
workoutS
Wednesdays South Jamaica library at 5:30.
introduCtion to
pilateS
BROADWAY, 40-20 Broadway, 718-721-2462
gentle yoga with
Mirelle netelle
WOODSIDE, 54-22 Skillman Avenue
Shapeup nyC: zuMba
BAYSIDE, 214-20 Northern
Boulevard, 718-229
Shapeup nyC: zuMba
WOODHAVEN, 85-41 Forest Parkway, 718-849-1010
yoga
Wednesday, July 9 @
5:30PM WOODSIDE,
718-429-4700
mEEtINGS................
Quilting Club
Mondays
Alley Pond
Environmental
Center
2:30. $5. 229-4000.
rh QuilterS
Tuesdays noon at the
Richmond Hill library.
CheSS Club
Tuesdays LIC library at 4,
Windsor Park library at
5:30 and Howard Beach
library at 4.
drawing Club
Wednesdays LIC library
at 4.
waterColor ClaSSeS
National Art League, 44-21
Douglaston Pkwy, Douglaston, Wed., 9:30 a.m. to
12:30 p.m. All techniques,
beginner to advanced with
demonstration. Call: (718)
969-1128.
Quilting Club
GLEN OAKS, 256-04
Union Turnpike, 718-8318636
Tuesday, July 8
@12:00PM The Quilters
meet Tuesdays at noon.
RICHMOND HILL, 118-14
Hillside Avenue, 718-8497150
SCrabble Club
FRESH MEADOWS, 193-20
Horace Harding Expressway, 718-454-7272
ENVIRONmENt.......
food waSte dropoff
Saturdays 1-3 at the Broadway and LIC library.
CoMpoSting
Tuesdays Woodside library 5:15-6:30.
Jh SCrapS
Tuesday 6-8pm and Saturdays 10-2 35th Avenue
between 69th Street and
the BQE. Bring coffee,
tea, fruit, veggie scraps.
eMpower nyC:
Save energy, Save
dollarS
QUEENS VILLAGE, 94-11
217 Street, 718-776-6800
Send event listings
two weeks in advance
to queenstoday@
queenstribune.com
QUEENS FOCUS
Alexandra Katechis of Bayside
and Samantha Kantor of Little Neck
were named to the Dean’s List for the
spring 2014 semester at Clark University in Worcester, Mass.
Queens Village: Samuel Jenkins,
Melissa Kempadoo, Gaitre Sackichand, Richard Stuart.
Whitestone: Daniel Adler, Nicole
Rubing, Konstantinos Stathopoulos.
Local students were named to the
Dean’s List for the spring 2014 semester at SUNY Geneseo. They include:
Bayside: Judy Choi, Danielle
Kahn.
Bayside Hills: Gregory Palermo.
Douglaston: Christine Fisher.
Flushing: Bo Kyung Park, Tessa
Horn, Silvia Kim, Hannah Loo, Natalia Bagnowska, Jenny Chang.
Fresh Meadows: Kimberly Hui,
Hannah Wang, Lijing Huang.
Oakland Gardens: Leo Lau.
Queens Village: Brianna Allison.
Whitestone: Kristina Tricomi,
Fernando Pantazis.
Asia Ewart of Queens Village and
Andrew Mancini of Bellerose were
named to the Dean’s List for the spring
2014 semester at The College of Saint
Rose in Albany.
Local students received degrees
during spring 2014 commencement
ceremonies at Hofstra University.
They include:
Bayside: Judy Lee, Rita Muncipinto, Jennifer Ryder, Tzu Chun Yang.
Bellerose: Feroze Ali, Nicole
Choffel, Margaret Christy, Margarey
Doherty, Richard Glinnen, Steven
Jecewiz, Navpreet Kaur.
Douglaston: Mariann Scoufaras.
Floral Park: Avipreet Kaur, Stanley Thomas, Alex Zaharakis.
Flushing: Pavlos Malonoukos, Shlomit Sanders.
Fresh Meadows: Marline Bellevue,
Jonathan Kung, Laurent Octobre.
Little Neck: Omotara James, Maggie Sidarous.
Oakland Gardens: Jeffrey Wong.
Alec Limandri of Bayside and
Xulan Deng of Flushing will attend
Clarkson University in Potsdam during the fall 2014 semester.s
The New York Army National
Guard has announced the promotion
of members.
Gregory Coty of Queens Village has
been promoted to private first class.
Shaun Clarke of Queens Village
has been promoted to specialist.
Karel Kassad of Flushing has been
promoted to staff sergeant.
Mingyong Yen of College Point
has been promoted to staff sergeant.
Kevin Tran of Flushing has been
promoted to private first class.
Terence Chung of Oakland Gardens has been promoted to private.
Jacquelyn Herbert of Bellerose has
been promoted to private.
Brian Quiceno of Whitestone has
been promoted to staff sergeant.
Jingjing Shi of Fresh Meadows has
been promoted to staff sergeant.
Treowe Carlson of Fresh Meadows
has been promoted to private.
Christopher Dunn of Queens Village
has been promoted to private first class.
Travis Clarke of Queens Village
Reading Aloud
State Sen. Joseph Addabbo, Jr. spent an afternoon reading aloud
to children of PS 58 School of Heroes in Maspeth.
Nazim Yusaf of Queens Village has
been promoted to specialist.
Alex Chiqui of Queens Village has
been promoted to private first class.
Juan Rodriguez of Queens Village
ceremonies at SUNY New Paltz. They
include:
Bayside: Jennifer Beiner.
Flushing: Christine Baynes, Shirley Ho, Han Lee, Alexandra Sobrino.
Little Neck: Richard Kim, Matthew Koopersmith, Roberto Revello.
Oakland Gardens: Ross Belsky.
Queens Village: Olutayo Oni.
Whitestone: Konstantinos Davaros, Fabio Perla, Angela Salerno.
Fiona Lau of Woodhaven will attend Clarkson University in Potsdam
during the fall 2014 semester.
Happy Anniversary
Abe and Ida Kronenfeld will celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary on July 6. They have three children, five grandchildren
and five great grandchildren. They are renown ballroom dancers,
DJed the music and led line dancing at the Deepdale Pool Club for
many years.
Dean’s List for the spring 2014 semester at SUNY Geneseo. They include:
Forest Hills: Joseph Figliolia, Abigail Stein.
Ozone Park: Joel Pineda, Carolann Cely.
Woodhaven: Gabrielle Rosato.
ceremonies at Hofstra University.
They include:
Belle Harbor: Kaitlyn Romeo.
Far Rockaway: Mickhael AdasiJantuah, Daniel Kawelblum, Jasmine
Phillips.
Forest Hills: Brittney Davis, Andrew Torrents.
Ozone Park: Victoria Bohme, Jordan Gilels.
Rego Park: Jiayue Dai, Gabrielle
Weinblatt, Jiaxin Wu.
Richmond Hill: Adrian Singh.
Dean’s List for the Spring 2014 semester at the College of Saint Rose in Albany. They include:
Breezy Point: Mary Kate Nestor.
Broad Channel: Megan Fuchs.
Rockaway Park: Kyra Meli.
ceremonies at SUNY New Paltz. They
include:
Broad Channel: Ronald Lonnborg.
Ozone Park: Sandra Arellano.
Rockaway Park: Michael Carnacchio.
Rockaway Point: Lauren Reid, Julianna Sebade.
The New York Army National
Guard has announced the promotion
of members.
Anthony Delacruzcortes of Woodhaven has been promoted to private
first class.
Javier Mercado of Richmond Hill
has been promoted to sergeant.
Victoria Batte of Far Rockaway
has been promoted to private.
Classifieds
CALL: 718-357-7400
help wanted
help wanted
help wanted
E-mail: queenstribuneads@aol.com
help wanted
help wanted
Career Opp. Post entails delivery
of bakery products by box truck.
No special lic. Early morning start.
this may be your chance to
associate w/one of the finest
LePage bakeries destrib. of
Wonder Bread & Natures own.
Deliver, display & sell co. product
line on your assigned sales route.
Call Datton 1-888-786-0791
training
DENTAL ASSISTANT
TRAINING PROGRAM
P/T Evenings. In Queens,
Brooklyn & Nassau
Placement Assistance
Licenced by NYSED
Established 30 Years
1-888-595-3282 ext 18
help wanted
CABINET MAKERS
w/Experience For Queens
Wood Shop
718-932-7744
HHA’s & PCA’s
English/Spanish Speaking
Call Mon-Fri 10am-4pm
Alternate Staffing
Real
Estate
apt for rent
ASTORIA
Totally Updated
1 BR Apt. Close to trans.
750 or above credit score
Reference, No pets
Non smoker preferred
Call 516-713-8616
WHITESTONE • BAYSIDE
Mature person wanted
for part time work
in the Queens Village area
to answer phones, type
(must know word), file etc.
for 16 to 18 hrs per week
Monday, Tuesday & Friday preferred.
Please send resume to
Jackie @ 718-465-2301
or email to trricottaelec@aol.com
business/finance
business/finance
WEALTH BUILDING OPPORTUNITY
We are one of the fastest growing privately held
companies expanding in the NYC & NJ area. We are
looking for men & women interested in earning a full time
income on a part time basis. This is not a job this is a
business opportunity no exp. nec. we will train.
MEETINGS EVERY THURSDAY, 7 P.M.
CROWN PLAZA
138-10 135TH AVE (9 FLR.)
JAMAICA NY 11436
TEXT TO: PODERL ATINO @ 55469
FOR FURTHER INFO CALL: 347-672-0585
WANTED
AUTO BODY
COLLISION REPAIR
MAN & AUTO PAINTER
MUST HAVE AT LEAST
10 YRS EXP.
MUST HAVE SPRAY GUN.
M-F 8AM-5PM
CALL 718-584-0336
HHA, PCAs Live in/out
Work in your neighborhood
Start Immediately
Permanent Cases
Flexible & Long HRs Available
Bilingual a plus Span/Eng
2wk vac, sign on bonus
QUEENS, BKLYN, MANH, BX
& NASS. CTY
718-261-6400
Email: lynnagency@aol.com
www.lynnhomecare.com
business opp.
BECOME A SEMINAR
MILLIONAIRE!
HOW? THOUSANDS OF CLIENTS
MAKE ADVANCE PAYMENTS
FOR REGISTATIONS AND
ATTENDANCE. NO EXPERIENCE
REQUIRED. PARTNERSHIPS
AVAILABLE NATIONWIDE. NO
COMPETITION ANYWHERE.
305-546-3745
situation wanted
Exp. Woman Available
to take care of elderly or child.
M-Fri. Full time/Part Time
w/Certified “CNA” exp.
718-762-8991
Call Alana
QUALITY CONTROL ANALYST
(Flushing, NY)
Perform quality control
testing and report
findings to management.
Must possess excellent
communication skills,
must be highly organized.
Mail resume to:
Sure Shot Termite
& Pest Control, Inc.
Attn: HR, 158-21
Horace Harding Expwy,
Flushing, NY 11365.
DRIVER NEEDED CDL CLASS B
Lic. w/HAZMAT, tanker
endorsement Bklyn based
oil tank cleaning co.
Call Francine 718-975-3963
TELEMARKETERS PT
FLEXIBLE HOURS
Salary plus commission
Non smoking building
Glendale Area
Call Mr. Robert’s
718-418-6589
NURSES AIDE
(CNA) TRAINING
21 days training
only $535.
Flexible payment plans.
Job placement
Assistance Avail.
Call Today
718-480-1804
Stunning 3BR, 2BA, 1450 SF,
custom built ....................................$2200
Gorgeous 3BR, updated kitchen, new
baths, new carpets, HW, freshly painted,
heat incl...........................................$2100
Fabulous 2BR, Renovated kitchen,
ren. bath, HW, freshly painted .......$1,850
Spacious 2BR, PVT entrance, HW,
heat included .................................$1,600
Lovely 2BR, 1st floor, 5 rooms total,
plus heat ....................................... $1,500
Good Loc., 2 BR, 1st floor, heat inc....$1,500
Great 1 BR, 1st floor, Heat Inc.......$1,350
ADRIANNE REALTY
718-767-0080
BAYSIDE - BELL BLVD.
2BR, Huge LR,
Din w/Balcony, EIK,
dishwasher, 1 Full Bth.
Walk to LIRR &
all facilities $1800
Call Owner 718-224-8903
loans
Need Money? Bad Credit?
Homeowners 67yrs+
Call 1-888-859-8989
for FHAHECM benefits
Business Owners age 26+
Call 917-439-0861
Advisors Mortgage Group
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professional space
HOWARD BEACH
PROFESSIONAL OFFICE
SPACE AVAILABLE
Free customer parking
as available
Call Art at 480.991.7315
For More Info visit
Pan-Bay-Center.com
HOWARD BEACH
PROFESSIONAL OFFICE
Space, 2,945 sq. ft.
Second Floor with Elevator
Free customer parking
as available
Call Art at 480.991.7315
For More Info visit
Pan-Bay-Center.com
718-972-2500
Ext. 10 or 38
DRIVERS
Hiring Delivery Box Truck Drivers
for FRESHDIRECT! Weekly pay!
Benefits! Growth Opportunity! DOT
card/medical Certificate required!
Non-CDL $11/CDL $12 to start
Apply at www.freshdirect.com/jobs
Call James 718-404-7311
For immediate interview
Real
Estate
house for sale
JAMAICA
1 Family Detached
Fully Renovated
4 BR New Kit & Bth
2 Car gar., Drvwy.
New Appli, Fin. Bsmt
ONLY 3.5% DOWN
Call Owner
631-429-3961
BAYSIDE
3 Bedroom 2 bath SD
Colonial. Hdwd Floors,
Full fin bsmnt. Beautiful Eat
in Kitchen. Call Today!!
TMT Realty 718-229-5200
FREEPORT - Waterfront House
116 E. 1st St. 125ft bulkhead
4 slips, 3 BR, 2 Bth, hard wood flrs,
2 car garage. $475 K -A Must See!
516-509-1068
warehouse 4 sale
RIDGEWOOD-QUEENS
WAREHOUSE
2nd Floor Loft 4000 Sq. ft.
Clean- Secure- 3 phase pwr.
Gas Heat- Heavy Floor Load
$3500/mo.
516-946-7771
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7 UNIT INVESTMENT
PROPERTY
In Ozone Park. Rental 120K
2 Family Custom Built
New House In
Wakefield $799K
Contact Raj
917-957-9969
Stamford, NY. Close to Ski lodge
and Windom Baseball Hall of Fame. 6 yr
old Ranch 3 brs, 2 full bths, kit, dining rm,
Bsmt., garage, huge generator, water filter system. Move-in-cond. Great views.
40 ft storage bin, 24 ft shed. Reduced to
$169K. DVD avail. Owner will
partially finance qualified buyers.
718-979-2265
Real Estate
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718-217-2000
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845-252-3547
Health
Services
GRAND OPENING
BODY WORK
347-644-6652
body work
162nd St. &
Northern Blvd.
60 min. Body Work
30 min. Free Foot Massage
7 Days 10:00am - 9:30pm
718-357-8889
*FREE
REAL ESTATE
SEMINAR
192-04 Northern Blvd.
Flushing, NY 11358
June 26th 2014
@ 7:00 pm
massage therapy
3 BR Craftsman Home w/formal
DN RM, window seat, wood floors,
River views, deck, priv. yd, shed
90 Minutes
r.e. seminar
718-454-9000
DELAWARE RIVERFRONT
$35
ESTATE SPECIALIST
Call now to register and get
additional details. Inviting
all Buyers and Sellers.
Don’t miss out.
Complimentary snacks and
refreshments will be served.
upstate
$35
upstate
DOWNTOWN BINGHAMTON
Great Investment or house to live in.
2 Fam. Vic. Old world style,
6 RM on 1st & 2nd Floor,
fireplace, Attic, Bsmt, Pvt. Drwy, Gar
$1800 income, Asking $129K
347-866-5619, 607-655-1962
718-266-9700
massage therapy
90 Minutes
60 min. Body Work
30 min. Free Foot Massage
7 Days 10:00am - 10:00pm
718-888-1070
164-03 Northern Blvd. Fl. 1
Flushing, NY 11358
GRAND OPENING
Bodywork $40/hr Plus
20min Free Foot Rub
Women & couples
Welcome
87-18 Queens Blvd, 2Fl Elm
347-200-7200
BEST BODY RUB
BY BEAUTIFUL
ASIAN GIRLS
$50/HR
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$40/hr
body work
Health Services
PLUS 30 MINUTES
FREE FOOT RUB
718-224-0648
200-12 44 AVE BAYSIDE
massage therapy
body work
FOREST HILLS
BODY WORK
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7 Days 10am - 12am
718-520-6688
109-09 72nd Road 2nd Fl.
Bet. Queens Blvd. & Austin St.
massage therapy
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body work
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917-251-9689
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We treat many health issues
NYS Licensed
Call
6am-8pm
718-321-2235
143-25 41 Ave Flushing NY 11355
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acupuncture
acupuncture
Medical
Medical Acupuncture
Acupuncture
GRAND
OPENING
ACU SPA
11am-10pm • 1 hr. $40
718-205-2502
85-14 Queens Blvd. 2nd Fl.
Elmhurst NY
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Most Insurance Accepted
(718) 961-9618
39-07 Prince Street, 4J, Flushing, NY 11354
(Tue, Thurs & Sat)
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• Full service including challenge denials,
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108-18 Queens Blvd. Suite 801, Forest Hills, N.Y. 11375
(718) 575-5700
research study
research study
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with type 2 diabetes.
Qualified participants will receive all study related care and study medication
at no cost and may be compensated for travel.
YOU MAY QUALIFY IF YOU:
1. Are 18 years or older
2. Have had a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes for at least 6 months
3. Are receiving treatment with any basal insulin with or without oral
antidiabetic drugs for at least 6 months
4. Are at high risk for developing hypoglycaemia (i.e. recent hypoglycemic
episode, severe hypoglycemic episode, hypoglycaemic unawareness,
moderate chronic renal failure or insulin usage for more than 5 years
5. Have an HbA1c level of not more than 9.5%
6. Have a body mass index (BMI) of less than 45 kg/m2
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40-44 82 St., Elmhurst, Queens
(1 blck frm Roosevelt Ave. #7 Train)
Accept Major Insrnce, Credit Cards
awnings
CLASSICAL CUSTOM
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air conditioning
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PULMONARY DISEASE
also known as
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Qualified participants must:
• Have COPD
• Be 40 years of age or older
• Be a current or former smoker
Those who qualify receive study-related
exams, evaluations and study drug or
placebo at no cost. Medical insurance
is not required and compensation for
time and travel may be provided.
For more information call
Home
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bathrooms
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orTOO
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construction
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cleaning
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bathrooms
CONSTRUCTION & DESIGN
EXTERIOR:
EXTERIOR: Roofing • Siding • Decks
Concrete • Brick
Driveways
Pavers • Stoops
We do it•all!All
household•needs!
INTERIOR:
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• Sheetrock • Wood Floors
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construction
construction
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• New Homes/Doors/Windows
• Alterations & Repairs
• Kitchens & Bathrooms
• Tile, Marble & Granite
10
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Contractor License#: 2002036-DCA • Elmhurst NY
We Specialize in All Aspects of
Home Improvement Works
Commercial Properties, Clinics & Stores
• Remodeling • Renovation • Alteration
Repair
Repair && Conversions
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Kitchens, Bathrooms, Living Rooms, Basements,
Garage, Skylight, Windows, Flooring, etc.
Tel: 646-226-8602 (Pan)
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construction
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carpentry
GARY GRAY
718-658-7264
•Kitchens •Bathrooms
•Custom Closets •Windows
•Doors •General Contracting
Lic #858480
Approved by NY Rising & EPA
for Sandy Repairs
•Quality Workmanship
ceramic tile
CERAMIC TILE
ITALIAN
PORCELAIN
UP TO 80% OFF
STORE PRICES
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One call we do it all - big or small.
25 years of experience, thousands of
satisfied customers, licensed.
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Clean ups
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Design
Patios
Planting
Side walks
Lawns
Fences
Rock Garden
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Waterfalls
Power washing
Tree Service
Call at (516) 270-0443
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contracting
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COST RITE
CONTRACTING
Free Estimates • Licensed & Insured
• Kitchens
• Tile Work
• Painting
• Doors
• Bathrooms
• Sheetrock
• Wood Floors
• Carpentry
• Windows
718-945-6612
917-676-0021
Ken LIC# 1210212
AHMED
CONSTRUCTION CO.
Brickwork, Sidewalks, Waterproofing,
Roofing, Painting, Silicone Coating,
Steam Cleaning, Pointing, Sheetrock
Tel. 718-740-2532
Cell 917-862-1632
Free est.
Lic # 1001349
floors
J&S FLOOR SERVICE
K&B
chimney cleaning
chimney cleaning
Improvement Ltd.
Chimney
Cleaning
$39.99
floors
floors
chandelier repair
CHANDELIER MAN
Professional Cleaning
Repairing & Rewiring
Free Estimates
John McCahill
“Safeguard
Your Home”
20-24 121st Street
College Point, NY 11356
718-762-0623
347-439-8907
Chimney Cleaning • Repairs
FREE
Caps • Relining
ESTIMATES
Licensed & Insured
NYC# 2005308
fences
FENCES/AWNING
& IRON WORKS
718-819-0200
www.kbchimneyny.com
furniture repair
furniture repair
MY HOUSE
home improve
HOME IMPROVEMENT Inc.
Extensions, Kitchen/Bsmnt
Bathroom, Tiles, Painting
Sheetrock, Carpentry, Cement
All Kinds of Woodwork
We do it all! All household needs!
NO JOB TOO BIG OR
TOO SMALL!
LOW
PRICES !
Call Adrian
718-974-6983
Lic & Insured #1282515
gutters
gutters
REPAIRS
repairs
All Leaks on Pipes,
Faucets, Toilets,
Shower Bodies,
Radiator Valves.
Clear Stoppages in
Sinks, Tubs, Also Install
Hot Water Heaters
Free Estimates
Cheap Rates
Licensed & Insured
Ask for Bob
718-968-5987
handyman
For all the Repairs You Need
Around Your House
YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
HANDYMAN
Painting * Plumbing
Electrical * Yard Clean-Up
Basement & Garage Clean-Out
* Power Washing
* Gutter Cleaning
* Window Washing
* Cleaning Services
We Can Do It All
FREE ESTIMATES
Ray 718-791-7726
Stacy 347-276-0742
Your Friendly
handyman
HANDYMAN
Painting, Wallpapering, Tiling,
Clogged Tubs, Carpentry, Roofing.
No Job is too small for us!
We also alter clothes in your home
Call William (718-793-3531)
HANDYMAN JOE
Painting Specialist, Tile Work,
Bathrooms & all types
of Installation
Free Estimates
Reasonable Rates
718-907-0618 • 917-865-5033
Lic. & Insured
Window guards,
sec. doors, PVC fences
& chainlink, wood retractible
& allumin awnings
718-533-6899
home improve
Mr. G’s Home
Improvements
Bathrooms • Carpentry • Kitchens Painting • Decks • Windows
Doors • Tiles • Wallpaper
• Free Estimates
No Job Too Small • Lic. 1035048
718-762-1442
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Newspaper
telephone serv.
•Scraping •Polyurethane
•Staining
•Bleaching White Floors
•Waxing •Stripping
•Repairs & Installation
We also do Painting,
Wallpaper Removal,
Tiling & Dry Wall
Reasonable Prices • Free Estimates
917-459-2421
718-464-4535
24/7
WOOD FLOORS
Sanding & Refinishing
89¢sq.ft.
718-926-4621
DECK RESTORATIONS
exterminator
ACE PEST CONTROL
Over 35 years service
to the community
Residential/Commercial
Call for all your
pest problems
718-225-8585
Lic. & Ins.
Full Service
Exterminating and
Do It Yourself Center
Bed Bugs, Termites,
Roaches, Rodents,
Ants & Fleas Treated
718-206-0696
bugtechs.com
telephone serv.
moving services
painting
moving services
Home Services
plumbing
heating
roofing
painting
FIVE STAR CARTING INC
rubbish removal
Roll Off Service
Phone: (718) 349-7555
Fax: (718) 349-7668
58-35 47th St
Maspeth NY, 11378
Garbage Removal Cleanouts
Shredding/Records Destruction
Construction Debris Removal
(Discount With Mention Of Ad)
roofing
SERVICE
A1TREE
tree services
ON TOP CONSTRUCTION
& ROOFING
Lic.# 1301530
PAINTERS & TILES R US
HANDYMAN
I Will Beat Any Estimate
Interior & Exterior - Over 20 Years of Experience
BASEMENTS • KITCHENS • BATHROOMS
•
•
•
•
•
•
Painting/Skincoating
Bathrooms
Custom Tile Installation
Sheetrock & Taping
Flooring
Carpentry/Doors
•
•
•
•
•
•
Wallpaper Removal
Tile Repair
Water Damage Repairs
Wood Floors
Plasterwork & Moldings
Custom Decks
LOW
PRICES
Call Anthony 347-226-0202
15% OFF Fully Insured • Free Estimates
with this ad
ALL WORK GUARANTEED!
painting
LOCAL
PAINTER/
HANDYMAN
No job too big or too small.
Free Estimate.
Senior Citizen Discount.
Work area cleaned daily.
Polite, professional service.
718-352-2181
PETE’S
PAINTING
Handyman Services
YOU WANT IT
DONE RIGHT-
YOU NEED TO CALL ME!
•Painting •Plastering
•Cleanouts
•Landlord Discounts
•Senior Citizen Discounts
646-533-9982
INSURED
roofing
OLD H.P.
WATERPROOFING &
ROOFING
• Steam Cleaning • Brick Pointing
• Cement & Brickwork • Stucco
• Windows • Shingling
• Flat Roofs
• Gutters & Leaders
• Painting • Scaffold Work
Free Estimates
All Work Guaranteed
Fully Insured/Lic. #883368
(718) 969-6752
Insured Bonded
• Roofing
• Shingles
• Rubber Roofs
• Skylights
Family Owned
25 Years Exp.
We Start / We Finish
• Soffits
• Rip-Outs
• Waterproofing
• Carpentry
• Masonry
• Sheetrock
• Painting
• Power Washing
15% Senior Discount - FREE ESTIMATES
All Work Guaranteed - Owner Operated Every Job
CELL:
786-763-5888
TOP QUALITY ROOFING, INC .
Residential
We’ll Beat Any Legitimate
Company’s Price
Roof Removals
Tear Offs & Installations of Roof Shingles
Roof Repairs, Vinyl Siding,
Gutters & Leaders
Complete Clean-up
No Salesman/No Subcontractors
Deal Direct with Owner
All Work Guaranteed
516-775-2499
Fully Lic/Ins NYC 2003931 • DCA Nass H17737000 • Suffolk 29.0025/HI
windows
Windows
Falling Down?
Glass Fogged or cracked?
Need Caulking
or rescreening?
Window & Door
Repairs & Replacements.
SAVE $20
ON JOBS
OVER $100
WITH THIS AD
windows & screens
That Guys’s Coupon
Window & Screen
CALL DEN-MAR:
Repair or Replacement
Call or Text Adam Ortiz
den-marcontracting.com
Quality Work in Exchange
For Monetary Compensation
718-457-8068
License # 0672990
rubbish removal
(917) 771-2748
WE SHOW UP
• Pruning
• Toppings
• Removals
24 Hour Emergency Service
Fully Insured |Senior Citizen Discount
TOM
718-430-7142
917-364-9059
upholst. cleaning
STAY FRESH
CARPET
UPHOLSTERY
CLEANING
Professional & Reliable
Quick-Dry Formula
Deep Stain Removal
Stain-Guard/Coating
10% OFF w/Ad
718-316-2300
General Services
autos wanted
autos wanted
attorney
attorney
• FALSE ARRESTS
• CRIMINAL DEFENSE
• PERSONAL INJURY
auto repair
auto repair
• ACCIDENTS
• POLICE BRUTALITY
• TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS
LAW OFFICES OF
MICHAEL J. LARSON, P.C.
401 Broadway, Suite 806, New York, NY 10013
Free Consultation • 212-528-0886
Email: Michael@mlarsonlaw.com • www.mlarsonlaw.com
*No fee on false arrest or personal injury cases
unless you recover*
Former prosecuter and United States Army Attorney
FAST DIVORCE
divorce
divorce
ANNULMENT
PROXY MARRIAGE
THE PROCESS IS
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978-443-8387
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SERVING THE COMMUNITY FOR 50 YEARS
COMPUTER
HELP
computer services
WANTED: USED CARS!!
HIGHEST CASH PAID!!
WE VISIT YOU!!
ANY YEAR CONDITION & MILEAGE
OR DONATE TAX DEDUCTIBLE
- PLUS CASH!
CALL JOHNNY: 516-297-2277
ANY CONDITION
fishing
or neverenufffishing.com
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on Facebook
Queens Tribune
Newspaper
Accepted
AuSum
LEARNING CENTER
preschool
Pre Preschool Development
Starting June 28. Ages 2-4.
www.AuSumLearningCenter.com
917-783-0268
AuSumEducation@gmail.com
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718-261-8314
MAP
merchandise 4 sale
Hagstrom 5 Boros Atlas
FINAL
EDITION
$24.95
800-327-7992
tutoring
fishing
Open Boat, 7 Days a Week
Day 7am-2pm • Nite 6:30-midnight
FLUKE • PORGIES • STRIPERS • BLUES
Leaving from
Charters Available
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$5 OFF Call 516-322-7442 AllFlushing
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Problem Fixing,
DSL/Cable Connection
Internet Troubleshooting,
Data Recovery, Tutoring,
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Performance Tuning,
Networks
Home or Office
PLACE YOUR AD HERE
718-357-7400 Ext. 151
Ph.D.
PROVIDES OUTSTANDING
TUTORING
in Math, English, S.A.T.,
Regents. All levels.
Dr. Liss 718-767-0233
Home Tutoring
Experienced Teachers
Reasonable Rates,
Elementary Thru College,
All Subjects & Exams
HIGH GRADE
TUTORING SERVICE
Call
718-740-5460
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General Services
dating service
dating service
birth injury
legal
funeral services
funeral services
bus tours
bus tours
personals
personals
Upbeat, kind, friendly gentleman
Age 66 seeks companion like minded
for Dream Vac. Looking for a woman
40-60 y.o. medium build, long hair
to accompany me on a dream trip
Aug 12-Aug 22 Tues-Fri to Maui Hawaii
ALL EXPENSES PAID
Luai Dinner, Sunset cruise, shows.
Includes all meals, Ent.
Too much to mention
Call Myron 917-972-9220
advisor/reader
SPIRITUAL HEALER &
ADVISOR: MOTHER KING
Gifted Miracle worker. Never fails.
Over powers all evil.
Reunites lovers, stops divorce &
break up. Also helps in court
cases/immigration
& financial blessings.
Free Reading & Prayer
518-618-5673
****MISS****
RASTAFARI
Sent by God to help.
Helping in Love,
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Call for a free reading.
GUARANTEED
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Your
Ad
Could
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5’11”, 300 LBS
Looking to meet a
sweet woman.
Please give me a call
718-217-9788
advisor/reader
BIANCA
SPIRITUAL
ADVISOR
Reunites Lovers Forever!
Call: 1-857-266-6977
KING DAVID
Specializes in Spiritual
& Impossible problems,
Restores Good Luck! Love,
Stops Cheating, Wins
Court Cases, Lawsuits,
Success, Business
Results Guaranteed!
1 FREE QUESTION BY PHONE
631-703-4882
DJ’S SHORT NOTICE
DJs/Parties
DJs/Parties
Energetic DJ’s. Professional Sound Systems. Light and
Smoke Show. $295.00 Wedding Specialist.
Karaoke Available. Waitresses, Waiters & Bartenders.
Guitar Sing-a-Long, Children’s Pop Show, Clowns,
Characters. Reasonably Priced
PROFESSIONAL VIDEO TAPING
AVAILABLE
516-785-1976
5 HOUR BLOCK PARTY PACKAGE, MOON BOUNCE,
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psychic
psychic
office furniture
office furniture
self help
self help
pet sitter
wanted to buy
PET SITTER AVAILABLE
Local dog groomer with 27 years
experience will pamper your pet in my
home or yours: Fenced in yard,
Daily walks available, Unlimited Hugs
and kisses, References available,
Boarding charges $25 & up per day.
Lisa- 917-478-5493
wanted to buy
BUYING/SELLING
Gold, gold coins, sterling silver,
silver coins, diamonds, fine watches
(Rolex, Cartier, Patek Philippe)
paintings, clocks, furs, estates.
Call Jay for appt 917-696-2024
Old Clocks & Watches Wanted
By Collector, Regardless of
Condition - Highest Prices Paid
917-748-7225
TOOLS, ALL KINDS.
Watches, broken or working lighters,
cameras, knicknacks, toys, trains,
pens, costume jewelry, statues,
clocks, mirrors & pre-1965 furniture!
Call me first, I will buy it all!
No matter what condition. Courteous
& pleasant. Immediate payment
& removal. In business 38 years.
You’ve seen me on PBS & NY1
(718) 740-8887, LV. MESSAGE.
WE BUY
ANYTHING OLD
Costume jewelry, fountain pens,
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World Cup Fever
Q
CONFIDENTIAL
poets oF QUeeNs
Angy Rivera
QConf is edited by:
Steven J. Ferrari
In anticipation of the United States and Germany World
Cup match last week, Head
Coach Jurgen Klinsmann
wrote up a mock excuse note
for employees to give to their
managers to take the day off.
The majority of us nineto-fivers laughed it off and
wished our boss would accept
an excuse like that.
But, a couple of offices
jumped on board and extended
their lunchtime an hour to allow their workers to partake in
the match.
The Mayor’s Office tweeted
out a picture of the entire staff
breaking to enjoy the game
and support the USA with the
words, “We believe that we will
win! Go Team #USA! #USAvsGER #OneNationOneTeam.”
Gov. Andre w Cuomo
tweeted out a letter to Coach
Klinsman that read:
"I was pleased to read your
letter providing American soccer fans with a form excuse to
their boss requesting time off
to watch the USA-Germany
match today.
"The State of New York
stands strongly behind Team
USA. Therefore, I am approving
an extra hour of an extended
lunch today for every New York
State employee, beginning at
12 p.m., so they can root Team
USA on to victory.
"On behalf of all New Yorkers, I wish you and the entire
team the best of luck. New York
believes that we will win.
"Best regards,
"Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo"
Good thing the Governor’s
and Mayor’s offices do not have
important work to get done
during the World Cup.
Mets Doc Needs Funding
The wild adventure that was
the 1986 World Series Champion New York Mets could be
coming to the big screen with
your help.
Heather Quinlan, a long
time Mets fan, has started a
Kickstarter campaign to fund
a movie about the 1986 New
York Mets run to its World
Series championship.
That year’s team featured a
cast of characters, including
Darryl Strawberry, Dwight
Gooden, Keith Hernandez
and Ron Darling.
Among the memorable moments that occurred that year
include Boston Red Sox first
baseman Bill Buckner letting
a ground ball slip underneath
his glove and out into right
field.
The Mets ended up winning
the championship after that
play and continuing the Red
Sox’ infamous run of not winning the World Series, which
they subsequently ended in
2004.
Quinlan has reportedly
interviewed some members
of the Mets that year, including Strawberry, Gooden and
Mookie Wilson, but is looking for money to continue the
project.
According to the Kickstarter
page for the film, she is looking
for $50,000 for the film and has
raised a little over $3,600 for the
documentary as of press time.
Quinlan has produced
other movies such as “If These
Knishes Could Talk,” which is
about the New York accent.
Let’s get some money raised
so that Quinlan can tell the
story of what is the most memorable team in Mets history!
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We Know How
To Tip
If you’ve been ordering
takeout here in the Borough,
chances are you’ve got some
good karma coming your
way.
According to data compiled
by the online food delivery
site GrubHub, Queens eaters
are among the best delivery
tippers in the City – especially
generous neighborhoods include Sunnyside (ranking
fourth in the City), Flushing
(ranking eighth) and Astoria
(fifteenth).
Queens itself is the secondbest tipping borough, leaving
an average 14.9 percent on the
tab and beat out by Brooklyn by
only one-tenth of a percent.
When the food is as good
as it is in our Borough, it
only makes sense that hungry residents would want to
show their appreciation to
the intrepid deliverymen and
women bringing it to their
doorsteps.
Some of the City’s wealthiest neighborhoods also turn
out to be – perhaps not coincidentally – full of Scrooges. The
richest portion of the Upper
East Side doesn’t even rank in
the top 20, to which we here at
QConf can only say, “no soup
for you!”
Angy Rivera (right) with her mother, Maria Yolanda Rivera.
There are many outlets
available to deal with issues
going on in one’s life. Angy
Rivera, a Flushing resident,
gets through her life experiences by turning them into
poetry. The writing form allows her to speak her mind
more freely than she can in
other mediums.
“It can be difficult for me
to express myself otherwise.
Poetry allows me to write
out all my feelings in full or
incomplete sentences, without any structure, research or
bibliographies,” she said.
Poetry became a large
part of Rivera’s life when
she was in high school. It
was during this time that
she learned how much her
undocumented immigrant
status would affect her life.
Rivera immigrated from
Colombia in 1994. Besides
immigration, Rivera has also
written about other subjects
that matter to her, such as
social justice, women’s rights
and gentrification.
Gentrification is the subject of one of her latest
poems, “Community Not
Condominiums.” Rivera said
that she is frustrated and saddened by the shift towards
wealthier residents.
“Flushing is filled with
immigrants and people like
me who are just trying to
make it by with their families.
Their determination to make
it is what I wish to capture
through this poem,” she
said.
"Community Not
Condominiums"
Last stop last stop
Stand clear of the closing
doors
Two blocks up from the
last stop you can buy four
dollar sushi roles
Hot pot dinners
Fried and steamed dumplings
Buy 1 get 1 free taro,
coconut, apple, chocolate,
mango bubble teas milk tea,
and green tea
Busy mall
Chinese New Year
Dim sum
Moon festivals
Red decorations
Admiring the dragon racing up and down the streets
It’s a tradition
There are no strangers
here
This is community
How will Doña MarÍa sell
her tamales, arepas, café y
chocolate
When the streets become
businesses she cannot pronounce
Will her café con leche
compete with Starbucks?
These signs of a cleaner
and safer Queens erase the
resiliency already here
We weren’t dirty to begin
with
Will her house stand untouched during gentrification?
My childhood is splattered
across the windows of houses
and buildings in Queens
Woodside, Corona,
Elmhurst, Roosevelt and
Flushing
Home away from home
The only communities that
have nurtured my growth
Where I met Mexican and
Dominican food
Where I learned to play
dominoes and heard Bachata
playing from the neighbor’s
window
Home away from home
Where I was welcomed
since I was 4
Español spoken on my
block I never felt alone or
scared
Community not condominiums
There are no strangers
here
Doña MarÍa packs up her
truck
Her casita awaits
Tomorrow will be a new
day
Filled with hopes that
these streets will always stay
the same
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