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Vol. 17, Issue No. 27 • July 8-14, 2016
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FIFTEEN
ARRESTED
AFTER ALLEGED
PROSTITUTION
HOUSE RAIDED
IN LAURELTON
BY TRONE DOWD
A major “prostitution party” taking place in Laurelton early Saturday morning was busted up by officers of the 105th Precinct, resulting in the arrests
of 15 individuals.
News of the activity broke shortly after police
made their way into the home located on 131-48 232
St. Commanding officer of the 105th Precinct Inspector Jeffrey Schiff sent an email to constituents
and the press detailing the specifics of the arrests,
include the discovery of multiple weapons, drugs
and prior offenders.
Schiff spoke with the Press of Southeast Queens
about the bust. He said that he and his officers re-
ceived information about the party through undisclosed sources Friday night. They were able to get
specifics on the date, time and location of the party.
Undercover cops were then able to gain access to
the house using details provided by the source.
“There were 15 arrests total,” he said. “Ten prostitutes including the madam, five Johns including
the homeowner and the pimp.”
Police were able to recover three guns and “a vast
amount of cocaine and marijuana.” Although prostitution and drug busts don’t seem to be as rampant as
some other index crimes that take place in Southeast
Queens, Schiff said that it is indeed a problem that is
more common that most assume.
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SeQ non-Profit Investigated by City
By Trone DowD
File Photo
The City of New York Department
of Investigation is currently in the
middle of a probe involving one of
Southeast Queens’ more well-known
not-for-profits. The investigation implicates former state Sen. Shirley
Huntley, who went to prison on corruption charges, DNA Info reports.
The Clergy United for Community
Empowerment is a St. Albans-based
nonprofit that aims to bring HIV prevention and intervention, education
on how to reduce infant mortality
and domestic violence and distribution of clothing to the poor. Its board
members are made up of local clergy
in Southeast Queens.
The investigation of Clergy United began this past May. The probe
looked specifically at the work of
Rev. Dr. Ernestine Sanders, leader
of the Evangelical World-Wide Ministries as well as the CEO and vice
president of the non-profit.
The group has been known to have
influence in the Southeast Queens
political world. In the past, they have
endorsed candidates during election
years, and their support has been
sought after by incumbents and challengers alike. One former candidate
who gained their approval was none
other than Huntley. From 2007 to
2010 she donated $75,000 to the
organization according to DNA Info.
a fraction of the $219,000 total the
organization has received from City
Council over the years.
Miller told the Press of Southeast
Queens that he has been diligent in
monitoring where his money was going when it came to funding Clergy
United.
“It is the duty of every Council
Member to ensure that taxpayer
money is being used responsibly, and
that is why over the past two years
my office has enacted strict controls
to ensure that all discretionary funds
we allocate are used for the expressed
purposes,” said Miller. “This includes
adhering to the Terms and Conditions adopted by the Council last
year which required organizations to
provide a written report on Councilfunded programmatic activities. Our
office works very closely with the
Council’s Finance Department and
General Counsel’s Office to ensure
that organizations follow the rules
and requirements that come with receiving discretionary funding. I will
continue to oversee the programs
these funds were meant to support,
to ensure that they benefit those who
need them in Southeast Queens.”
When the Press of Southeast
Queens asked whether or not they
had followed up with the donated
funds, we were told the funds went
towards domestic violence initiatives that were to be held by the
Former State Sen. Shirley Huntley,
who spent time in prison for funneling money to a fake non-profit, gave
$75,000 to Clergy United.
During Huntley’s trial in 2012, Clergy United was one of a few organizations and groups who supported her.
According to DNA Info, the group
even threw her a party celebrating
the former politician’s release from
jail in 2014.
Huntley wasn’t the only one to
donate money to direct funding towards the non-profit. The Health Department for AIDS and Councilman
I. Daneek Miller (D-St. Albans) contributed towards the group’s cause.
In fact, Miller allocated $63,438 to
Clergy United in the 2016 fiscal year,
non-profit and was not to be monitored by the City Council.
“The Department of Health and
Mental Hygiene is the agency who
writes the report,” a representative
said. “Clergy United reports back to
them on how they are supposed to be
using the money. I don’t know what
Clergy United told the agency.”
In Southeast Queens, some have
questioned whether or not the group
had produced any of the work they
claimed to be advocating for. One
anonymous source who told the Press
of Southeast Queens that they were
once fairly close with the organization said they have since distanced
themselves from the group, calling it
“a breakfast club.”
“They had never done any financial exposure of the funds,” the
source said. “I didn’t see what was
being done in the community.”
The source said that some of the
longstanding issues in Southeast
Queens that needed to be addressed
were brought up many times to the
organization by residents and members and were often times ignored by
higher ups.
The Press of Southeast Queens
reached out to Clergy United for a
statement on the ongoing investigation and was unable to receive a comment.
Reach Trone Dowd at (718) 3577400 x123, [email protected]
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Cops Bust Prostitution Party in Laurelton Home
don’t know it’s going to happen. Often times you need a codeword to get
“It’s not as rare as you might into the location. If you don’t get the
think,” he said. “The enforcement right code word that could raise susis rare because it’s hard to get into picions that you aren’t who you say
these locations. A lot of these pros- you are. There’s a lot that goes into a
titution parties are about who you bust like this.”
know. It’s not just open to the genSchiff explained that it is often
eral public. Sometimes it’s a last times very dangerous for undercover
minute notification. Sometimes you police and even civilians trying to
gain access to the illicit activities.
“It is very dangerous
for the cops especially,” he
said. “They can be searched.
Sometimes they have to go
in without being armed.
Sometimes they have to
go in without any form of
surveillance on them. It depends on the location.”
Information about the individuals arrested have yet to
be made public, but Schiff
described one of the perps
arrested as “a very bad guy.”
The house at 131-48 232 Street.
“He had been arrested be-
Photos Courtesy of nyPD
(continued from page 1)
In addition to the 15 individuals who were arrested, guns, marijuana and cocaine were all recovered by police at the Laurelton home Saturday morning.
fore for homicide, was the victim of
a shooting, involved in gang activity
and was the individual charged with
possession of the guns recovered during the raid,” he said.
He promised to elaborate on further details of the other individuals
in the near future.
Schiff credited community involvement for the arrests made that night,
something that he has been pushing
for since becoming commanding officer of the 105th Precinct back in
March.
“This was a major hit for the community,” he said. “It goes to show
you that this is exactly what I’ve been
talking about. Without community
involvement, we wouldn’t have been
able to do this enforcement. This was
a very small network of Johns and
prostitutes and without the community we would have never even identified this location let alone do what
we had to do.”
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Pols Mull discounts For dashboard Cameras
BY Ariel HerNANdez
Photo Courtesy NY State Senate
Last week, state Sen. Jose Peralta
(D-East Elmhurst) and Assemblywoman Alicia Hyndman (D-Springfield Gardens), with the support of
state Sen. Toby Stavisky (D-Flushing), unveiled a proposed legislation
that will provide an automobile insurance premium discount for noncommercial vehicles that have an operating dashboard camera installed.
“Currently, insurance companies
apply discounts for drivers who have
airbags, they apply discounts for drivers who take defensive driving courses, and they also apply discounts for
drivers who have safety seatbelts, so
why not apply similar discounts for
drivers who install dash cams at their
cost,” said Peralta. “We must ensure
that we use 21st century technologies
that are available today, to promote
road safety for tomorrow.”
According to Peralta, the use of
dash cams is increasing in the U.S.
and the cameras are very popular
across the world, with sales in the
UK already up 900 percent.
Although the legislation aims
to promote motor vehicle and road
safety, Peralta said that more people
will purchase dash cams if they understand how the devices can help
and if people had an incentive like a
five percent discount.
Dash cams could also
help investigations into
staged crashes and other
crimes.
“If people are being
taped by dash cams, maybe they will think twice
about engaging in reckless
road activity or leaving the
scene of an accident,” Peralta said.
Just last week, there was
a fatal hit-and-run accident State Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky, state Sen. Jose
in Corona, which resulted Peralta and Assemblywoman Alicia Hyndman anin the death of a 21-year- nounce the proposed legislation.
old woman and left several
people injured.
will be passing her [driver’s] exam
“If vehicles within the vicinity very soon and as a parent, I would
of this accident had a dashcam in- like to have the dash cam installed,
stalled, we would have footage of not just for the insurance discount
exactly what happened, which would but to see how she’s driving,” Hyndin turn further the investigation,” man said.
Peralta said. “This plague has to end.
The proposal’s provisions are as
Enough is enough. Hit-and-run acci- follows: An insurer is required to redents are taking the lives of too many view dashboard camera footage folNew Yorkers, and we must ensure we lowing the submission of a claim, the
put all the necessary tools in place to insurer may request records related
combat this epidemic.”
to the installation of dashboard camNot only will this proposal act as eras in a vehicle from the New York
a witness to vehicular accidents, but State Department of Motor Vehicles,
Hyndman said that as a parent, this a certified inspector can determine
is something she’d want in her own whether a dashboard camera is inchild’s car.
stalled during a safety inspection,
“I have a teenage daughter who and DMV is allowed to promote rules
and regulations such as the size and
location of the device in the vehicle.
The sound of the traffic along
Queens Boulevard was far louder
than Stavisky as she began to explain
why she supports the legislation and
she didn’t hesitate to address it.
“You can just hear the cars
zooming down Queens Boulevard,”
Stavisky said. “Vision Zero means
that there will be zero accidents. I
have been to so many press conferences where we call for traffic safety
and pedestrian safety particularly in
this part of Queens and particularly
in Downtown Flushing.”
Hit-and-run accidents have been
a widespread problem in New York
for years. During an eight-day period
this month, there were four fatal hitand-runs in the city.
Stavisky said that several years
ago, there was an accident that took
place on Main Street and Maple
Avenue, where a child was crossing
the street holding her grandmother’s
hand when a taxi hit the child and
killer her.
“But there was a car in the same
vicinity who had a traffic cam and
as a result, the driver’s claim that he
had the right-of-way, was disproved,”
Stavisky said. “The evidence was
there because there was a traffic
cam.”
Adams Picks Up new endorsements
As the state senate primaries
heat up for the summer, District 10
hopeful Adrienne Adams picked up
yet another valuable endorsement,
this time from none other than the
Queens Borough President.
“Adrienne Adams has been a tireless advocate for our children and
our schools for years,” said Melinda
Katz. “She is a true leader who always stands up and fights for what
is right. That’s why she successfully
fought back against school co-locations in her community, and I know
as our next state Senator she’ll not
just fight for our children, but she
will help our seniors and improve
our quality of life. I am excited to endorse Adrienne Adams for State Senate because she is the right woman
for the job and will be a tremendous
ally in Albany.”
While there has been rifts in
recent years between Community
Board 12, which Adams is the Chairperson of, and the Borough President’s lack of action concerning the
inundation of supportive housing
as well as other issues affecting the
predominantly black neighborhoods
of southeast Queens, the two politicos share a mutual friendship that
Photo Courtesy Twitter
By Trone DowD
Left to right: Councilman rory Lancman, Stacy Pheffer-Amato, Councilwoman elizabeth Crowley, Adrienne Adams and Councilman Barry Grodenchick.
has developed over time.
“I’ve always admired how Queens
Borough President Melinda Katz has
been a strong fighter for all Queens’
families,” Adams said. “I have
worked with the Borough President
for years as chair of my community
board and on the Queens Borough
Public Library Board of Trustees
and I look forward to working with
her to keep moving Queens forward
when I’m in the State Senate.”
Earlier this week, the senate hopeful also received support from Council members Barry Grodenchik (DOakland Gardens), Rory Lancman
(D-Hillcrest) and Elizabeth Crowley
(D-Glendale) as well as state assembly hopeful for District 23 Stacey Pheffer-Amato. The five met on Tuesday to discuss support for the Adams
platform. A photo of the elected of-
ficials and Adams was tweeted via
Grodenchik’s Twitter account.
Adams has picked up a number of
high profile endorsements from all
over the borough since announcing
her campaign for senate in February. In addition to the Queens Borough President, she has received
endorsements from former Mayor
David Dinkins, former congressman
and Reverend of the Greater Allen
A.M.E. Cathedral Floyd Flake in
front of the presumptive Democratic
Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, Floyd’s successor Rep. Gregory
Meeks (D-Jamaica) and Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Rockaway
Park). She has also received support
from a number organizations including the Women’s Equality Party, the
Stonewall Democratic Club of New
York City and the Queens County
Democratic Committee.
The primary, which looks to be the
marquee race for Southeast Queens,
will take place in September. Adams
will be challenging Senate District 10
incumbent James Sanders Jr. Sanders won his seat in 2012 against then
incumbent Shirley Huntley, who was
under indictment at the time.
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DOH Put Kids At Risk
The results of City Comptroller Scott Stringer’s audit showing
that the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene falsified lead
testing reports leaves us outraged and baffled.
How could anyone in charge of making sure these tests get done
be so unconcerned and thoughtless with a problem so serious?
Children have lost their lives to lead poisoning; many more have
suffered lifelong health problems. This is not a minor issue.
What makes this situation different than the type of careless
action that lead to the poisoning of the water in Flint, Michigan?
In that case, bureaucrats carelessly made a decision to save money
and time without thinking of the possible effects on the population.
The same thing rings true here.
To hear that it is not uncommon for day cares to not have
their water tested before they are issued permits to open is mindboggling. We get it’s a big city and red tape takes time to clear,
but we’re talking about the health and safety of children. How
can parents trust that the centers they’re leaving their kids at all
day are safe?
Day care is a necessity in a city with such a high cost of living.
It is especially vital for poor and minority children whose families
utilize day cares more often than affluent children. Might that
be a reason why our government isn’t willing to cross every t and
dot ever i?
We say let’s haul officials from the DOH in front of a committee and let them explain their carelessness, and let’s make
sure we prioritize the health and safety of children over meeting
deadlines.
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More Pain More Protests And Nothing Changes
A Personal Perspective
By MARCIA MOXAM
COMRIE
I find it excruciatingly difficult to keep writing about
police misconduct toward
African Americans.
It is the civil rights issue
of our time.
We cannot avoid coming
in contact with police. They
are necessarily everywhere;
but why must so many use
such extreme measures in
carrying out their duties in
our communities? We are
exhausted from dealing with
these tragedies. Our hearts
feel like they will burst from
the grief of it all.
It is especially painful when
there is either no indictment,
indictment but no conviction,
or in at least one recent New
York case, conviction but no
punishment. We live in fear
for our children – especially
our male children. Our hearts
ache with fear.
We are by no means condemning the entire lawenforcement community. We
all have friends and relatives in
this important profession. We
also see many officers whose
names we do not know, doing
remarkable jobs every day.
Many of us have dealt with
the police in incidents that
go perfectly fine. But Lord
when it goes wrong it goes
horribly wrong!
There are people who
resent the term “Black Lives
Matter,” because it supposedly leaves out the importance
of other lives. Well other lives
are not being snuffed out by
the police at the slightest
provocation, are they?
All lives, including the
police’s, do indeed matter.
But ours seem to matter least
of all lives. And one might
argue that Black-on-Black
crimes cause more deaths
in our community than does
police. That is true. But no
one is condoning that either.
And when caught, the perps
in those cases are punished to
the full extent of the law.
But here we are only in the
first week of July 2016 -- summer time – and we already
have two controversial shooting deaths by police.
Outside Minneapolis, a police officer shot and killed motorist Philando Castile, while
his fiancé live-streamed the
gruesome incident and their
four-year-old child sat in the
back seat of the family’s car.
This happened just a couple of
days after another officer had
shot and killed Alton Sterling
in Baton Rouge, La.
The cases are shocking
in their graphic nature and
seemingly unnecessary force.
Castile allegedly told the officer he had a licensed weapon
in his pocket with his wallet.
Obviously the drivers’ license
is in his wallet and when he
reached to get the wallet the
officer apparently fired (I have
not and will not, watch these
videos).
Sterling was held immobile on the ground by two
officers, one of whom yelled
out that “the suspect” had a
gun. Rather than unarm him
they shot and killed him.
There was no need to shoot
since the guy, even if he were
so inclined, could not get to
the weapon to shoot at the
officers. All they had to do
was cuff and disarm him.
Instead, they choose to kill
him in a hail of bullets.
The scenario once again
defies logic.
As a community, we are
lethargic with grief that we
continue to have to grapple
with this issue. We are not
condoning any sort of civilian
misconduct where there may
be misconduct. We are just
desperate for a better way to
police our communities.
Our Lives
News Briefs
Braunstein and
Avella Passs
Tax Breaks For
Co-Ops
Photo by Lynn Edmonds
More co-op and
condo owners will
be eligible for a tax
break next year after
a bill sponsored by
State Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) and
Assemblyman
Ed
Braunstein (D-Bay- (Left to right): Assemblyman Ed Braunstein, state
side) made it through Sen. Tony Avella and President of Glen Oaks Village
the NYS Senate and Bob Friedrich announced that more co-ops and conAssembly, the elected dos will now be eligible for a tax abatement.
officials announced
last Monday at the Glen Oaks Oval.
Queens Borough Public Library loThe J-51 tax abatement, which cated on 117-11 Sutphin Boulevard
provides a property tax exemption in Jamaica, came as the department
for building renovations, was expand- recently released its list of awardees
ed to include co-ops and condos with for the Public Library Construction
an assessed value of $32,000 or less, Program for its 2015-2016 fiscal year.
up from $30,000. Under the new leg- The money awarded to the library
islation, the eligibility threshold will comes from the $14 million from last
also rise with the cost of living.
year’s state budget allocated by the
Bob Friedrich, President of Glen State Legislature and Governor AnOaks Village, said the tax abatement drew Cuomo to help fund the conprogram helped reduced costs 16 struction program.
percent at Glen Oaks, the largest
“This is something we’ve been
housing co-op in Queens.
fighting for,” said Sanders. “The li“This issue is not sexy and does brary is a pillar of our community
not garner much conversation and it is essential we keep it up to
around the dinner table, but is truly date.”
one of the most important programs
The money will be used to redethat help keep our affordable co-ops sign the Library’s meeting room, and
affordable!,” Friedrich said.
for renovations to its first floor inteWarren Schreiber, President of rior and restrooms to keep in accorthe Bay Terrace Cooperative Section dance with regulations by the AmeriI, agreed.
cans with Disabilities Act.
He stressed that “many properties
“These funds will ensure all our
would fall into disrepair or become neighbors, including those with disunaffordable to middle class fami- abilities, can enjoy the library and all
lies” without the program.
it has to offer,” said Sanders.
Since 2013, only co-ops and conDennis Walcott, president and
dos that had an assessed value of CEO of Queens Library,said Cuomo
less than $30,000 could qualify for and the state legislature should be
the abatement, though between 1992 commended on their leadership and
and 2013 the cut off was $40,000.
providing the funding for the renovaCo-op and condo owners have tions.
long complained that they have to
“Safe, inviting, inspiring public
pay disproportionately high taxes library spaces are critical to how
compared to homeowners.
effectively we are able to fulfill our
–Lynn Edmonds educational and cultural mission,”
said Walcott.
Funding for the Baisley Library
Renovations for Baisley
and other awardees will be distributed next spring, at which time the
Park Library
With more than $15 million in the funding for the Library Construcstate funding allocated for improving tion Program in the 2016-2017
the public library system, the New state budget has increased to $19
York State Education Department million. That funding will provide
awarded one library in Southeast up to 75 percent of approved costs
Queens nearly $500,000, according of acquisition, construction, renoto a release by state Sen. James Sand- vation, or rehabilitation of public
libraries or public library system
ers Jr. (D-Rochdale Village).
Announcement of the funding, headquarters, according to the progranted to the Baisley Park Com- gram’s website.
–Rodney Gantt
munity Library, a branch of the
Alton Sterling and Philando Castile were killed by police despite their cooperation with police.
when will The Denial Stop?
By Trone DowD
Within a 24-hour period, the
American public was provided with
not one but two examples of what
kind of value a Black life has in most
corners of the country.
Alton Sterling, a 38-year-old father
of four who was selling CD’s in front
of his local convenience store in order to support his family, was killed
by police Tuesday night in Baton
Rouge, La.. The cops involved tackled Sterling to the floor and pinned
him to the ground by his arms and
legs. When one officer discovered
that Sterling had a gun on his person,
he was shot multiple times, point
blank in the chest.
Footage shot by nearby witnesses
show that at no point was Sterling
holding or reaching for a gun. At no
point was he an immediate threat to
the officers that decided to take his
life.
Not even a full day later, the Daily
News reported that Philando Castile,
a 32-year-old man from Minneapolis,
Minn was shot and killed during a
routine traffic stop. Castile informed
the officer that pulled him over that
he was a licensed gun owner and was
only reaching for his wallet in order
to show the proper identification
that had been requested. Despite his
total cooperation with the law, officers shot Castile in the chest multiple times in front of his girlfriend
and her four-year-old child.
Footage shows Castille slowly fading as his girlfriend looks on in shock
live streaming the altercation to Facebook. The officer who shot him
had his gun continuously pointed at
the dying man, barking orders at his
girlfriend.
While many Americans watched in
disbelief as footage of the brutal executions made its rounds on news outlets,
socially aware Americans sadly did
not. For many, this was just another
discouraging defeat in our seemingly
endless battle for justice. Another
person added to the climbing body
count of American law enforcement.
In the last few decades, people have
become desensitized to what has been
depicted in these videos.
But despite what is seen in eyewitness video, there are still detractors
towards acknowledging these issues.
The Black community has been
told that its frustrations are not valid.
That these slayings are somehow justified. We are told this by individuals
who will defend their second amendment rights valiantly even in the
wake of the massacres, but remain
silent when black men are killed for
exercising those same rights during a
routine stop or arrest.
We have been told that maybe if
those killed hadn’t been so unruly,
that they may have lived to see another day. That their deaths are only the
result of prior crimes, as if officers
had the time to find out that Sterling
was arrested in previous years before
pulling the trigger.
But how is it that police have the
ability to apprehend men like James
Holmes and Dylan Roof for crimes
way more heinous than selling CD’s
in front of a convenience store without the arrest resulting in the suspect’s death?
While it is easy and more importantly true to say that this issue obviously doesn’t apply to all cops, this
issue has become enough of an epidemic that it needs to be addressed
as a nation instead of excused. A total of 136 black men have been killed
by police just 189 days into 2016.
This trend will only continue as the
nation somehow remains ignorant to
a problem as clear as day.
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Stringer: Some Day Cares Not
Tested For Lead In Water
BY JON CRONIN, EDITOR
According to the DOHMH, “Water is not a cause of lead poisoning
City Comptroller Scott Stringer announced last week that
in New York City. Most often, paint
is implicated. Of the 840 children
of approximately 2,300 Group Child/Day Care centers
6 years of age that were identiacross New York City, almost 60 percent of them failed to under
fied with elevated blood lead levels in
ensure that childcare providers tested their water for lead.
2014 (most recent confirmed data),
none were attributed to lead in water
and lead poisoning among children
has fallen by 80 percent
The risk to thousands
since 2012.
of pre-schoolers was disThe auditors only recovered in an audit by
viewed a sample of 119
NYC Comptroller Scott
permits issued between
M. Stringer. Stringer’s
Aug. 29, 2012 and
auditors claimed that
Aug. 29, 2014, to make
DOHMH officials orsure those daycares
dered staff members “to
were properly permitenter false information
ted. Out of those 119,
into the agency’s tracking
only 49 were tested.
database to indicate that
Of those 49, five had
a lead test was completed
“unacceptable levels of
at centers in a sample
lead,” stated a release
of daycare centers, even
from Stringer’s office.
when it had not been.”
Three of those five sub“The health of our
mitted a corrective plan
children is non-negotiaand were later cleared
ble,” Stringer said. “The
of lead contamination.
fact that the Department
File Photo
Stringer’s auditors
of Health directed its NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer uncovered dozens of day care
employees to enter false centers that had not yet had their water tested for lead, were listed could not find at the
information in an official as tested according to the Department of Health and Mental Hy- DOHMH either hardcopy or digital files that
database is a blatant vio- giene.
testing ever occurred
lation of public trust. It
should not take an audit to ensure parents’ peace of mind we will soon at the other 70 centers and written
that a City agency is doing its job to post the status of each test online. instructions were found that ordered
protect our kids.”
But the fact remains: water is not to falsely record that lead testing was
Julian Martinez, a spokesperson a source of lead poisoning in New conducted at those sites so permits
for the DOHMH, said, “The Health York City – lead in water tests aim could be given.
According to Stringer’s office
Department has addressed water to ensure that aging pipes are not distest reporting issues that dated back turbing the excellent quality of our the DOHMH said test failures had
to 2012. All child care centers have water. We want to be clear: our kids “the unintended result of blocking
renewal permits, which prompted
been tested for lead in water, and for are not at risk.”
them to create the ‘workaround’ of
instructing their staff to enter incorrect information into CCATS,” and
that testing would only be conducted
when there was evidence that children had lead poisoning.
A DOHMH spokesperson noted,
“The Health Code does not stipulate
the need of a water test for permitting a child care facility.”
Stringer’s audit also states that
DOHMH said this testing is under
the purview of the Administration for
Children’s Services or the New York
City Housing Authority with whom
these agencies were affiliated, but
had no evidence to support it. Upon
further investigation they found that
52 of those 70 had no affiliation with
either ACS or NYCHA.
Finally, the agency said it had
ended the practice of entering false
information about lead tests in 2012.
But the auditor’s sample, for permits
from 2012 through 2014, found the
practice had not changed.
DOHMH has since reviewed all
70 sites. Nine of them are closed
and the remaining 61 are compliant.
Stringer’s office announced that
DOHMH reviewed its entire database, “to finally ensure that lead tests
had been conducted at all sites and
found that 95 percent of the 2,300
daycare center sites did not have
elevated lead levels and the remaining five percent had begun remediation.”
Reach Jon Cronin at 718-357-7400
x125, [email protected], or
@JonathanSCronin.
Queens Day Care Centers Who Do Not Have Lead Test Reports
Lifeline Center For Childhood Development
There Is No Place Like Home
International One Step Day Care 11 Corporation
YMCA of Queens
New World Educational Center
Heartshare Human Services of New York
It's A Happy Day At Kiddie Corner
Dayton Towers West Playgroup
The Nurturing Center
Aunty Jean's Place, Inc
Crayon Box, Inc
St. Nicholas Church
80-09 Winchester Boulevard
12-18 154th Street
64-11 Utopia Parkway
42-07 Parsons Boulevard
137-37 Farmers Boulevard
118-03 101st Avenue
243-37 Merrick Boulevard
105-00 Shore Front Parkway
112-18 Springfield Boulevard
118-17 Guy R. Brewer Boulevard
44-10 196th Street
43-08 196th Street
Queens Village
Whitestone
Fresh Meadows
Flushing
Locust Manor
Richmond Hill
Rosedale
Rockaway Beach
Saint Albans
South Jamaica
Auburndale
Auburndale
Stats Courtesy NYC Comptroller’s Office
12 centers in Queens did not have their water tested, mostly in Northeast and Southeast Queens.
Police Blotter
Borough Beat
BY ARiel HeRNANDez
Rendering Courtesy Friends of QueensWay
Friends of the QueensWay, elected officials and the Trust for Public
Land have announced that they have
officially raised the $1 million they
needed in order to begin the design
process for Phase one of the QueensWay.
“I am excited to see that we are
now ready to start the design phase
of the first part of the QueensWay
project,” Assemblyman Andrew
Hevesi (D-Forest Hills) said in a
press release. “I am proud to have
helped fund this phase, and I encourage the construction of phase
one after the design is done. The
Queensway Plan will benefit our
local economy, allow an additional
green space in our urban landscape,
and will literally link local communities together through the 3.5 miles
of property that this project will connect. I look forward to continuing to
work with the Friends of QueensWay
and my colleagues in government to
make this plan a reality.”
Of the $1 million raised, $444,000
was granted by the State Office of
Parks, Reaction and Historic Preservation and Governor Cuomo’s
Regional Economic Development
Council; $250,000 was from Hevesi;
$250,000 was from Councilwoman
Karen Koslowitz (D-Forest Hills)
and the remainder of the balance
came from private donors.
“As an early funder and supporter of the QueensWay, the Citizens
Committee for New York City is
thrilled to see this project take another major step forward in becoming a reality,” said Peter Kostmayer,
Chief Executive Officer of the Citizens Committee for New York City.
“These types of projects are never
easy but when communities organize effectively, such as in the case
of the QueensWay, great things can
happen to improve the quality of life
in those neighborhoods and with
improvements to the environment,
education, transportation, security
and health, the QueensWay is a winwin for all of Queens and the City of
New York.”
Phase one is a half mile long
stretch from Metropolitan Avenue to
Union Turnpike and will provide new
recreational and educational opportunities, such as pedestrian and bike
access to Forest Park, outdoor classrooms for the Metropolitan Educational Campus, and enhanced facilities for the Glendale Little League,
to families and children.
This phase will include a bike, jogging and walking path, upgrades for
the facilities of local little leagues,
schools, community and cultural
amenities and improvement to the
quality of life.
Marc Matsil, Director of the Trust
for Public land, told the Queens Tribune that QueensWay will be sur-
A rendering of the QueensWay
rounded by some of the deadliest
roads in Queens, in which he said
are known as the ‘boulevards of
death’.
“Almost 100,000 people live within a 10-minute walk of the QueensWay and every one of them will
benefit when it is built,” Matsil said.
“It will also help to reduce automobile-pedestrian fatalities by getting
kids out of traffic, while contributing to the local economy.”
Similar to the QueensWay project,
the Trust for Public Land recently
opened the 606, a rails-to-rails greenway in Chicago that transformed
their neighborhoods and according
to Matsil, has become “an amazing
resource of the city of Chicago.”
One of QueensWay’s goals is to
keep kids out of danger by getting
them out of the street. The project
would ultimately make it possible for
people to bike from Jamaica Bay to
Flushing Bay out-of-traffic.
According to Matsil, Phase 1 is
projected to take up to two years to
be completed.
“This is a monumental step forward for the QueensWay,” said Travis Terry, member of the Steering
Committee of the Friends of the
QueensWay.
When, and if, the overall project
is completed, it will transform a 60year old abandoned rail line in Central Queens into a new 3.5 mile, 47
acre family friendly park.
Over the next few
weeks, QueensWay
will be announcing
ways for the community to pitch ideas
and contribute to the
process.
“The start of
the design process
brings the QueensWay one step closer
to becoming a reality,” said Congressman Joe Crowley
(D-Queens/Bronx).
“This announcement
is an exciting development for a unique
park that will present
great health and environmental benefits
for our borough and
I’m thrilled to see
the project moving
forward.”
Reach Ariel Hernandez at (718)
357-7400 x144 or [email protected]
Photo Courtesy NYPD
Plans For QueensWay’s First Phase
The cache of fireworks discovered
by police in South Ozone Park last
month.
106th Precinct
Fireworks Seizure
On Wednesday, June 29, at approximately 4:30 p.m., Sergeant Joseph Muir and Detective Nathaniel
Tauber observed a collection illegal
fireworks in plain view at a private
residence in South Ozone Park.
Upon further investigation they recovered an even larger quantity of illegal fireworks on the premises.
Kevin Isuardeen, 21, was charged
with the unlawful sale of fireworks.
Isuardeen’s cache included 26 multishot fireworks, three variety packs,
seven rolls of firecrackers, three
packs of mortars, two packs of Roman candles and four multi-shot missiles.
113th Precinct
Man Stabbed To Death
On Monday, July 4, at approximately 2:40 p.m., police responded
to a 911 call for male stabbed inside
of a residence on Merrick Boulevard
in St. Albans.
After arriving on the scene, officers discovered a 50-year-old male
unconscious and responsive with apparent stabbed wounds to the chest.
EMS arrived on the scene and
transported the victim to Jamaica
Hospital Medical Center where he
was pronounced deceased.
There have been no arrests at this
time and the investigation is ongoing. The victim’s identification is being withheld pending proper family
notification.
Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call
the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline
at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for
Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
The public can also submit their tips
by logging onto the Crime Stoppers
website at NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or by texting their tips
to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter
TIP577.
CALL CRIME STOPPERS
1-800-577-TIPS
pix
Jamaica Restaurant Crawl
Top, the restaurant
crawlers gather in
front of the first
stop: Don Nico’s
on 161st Street
during the Second
Annual Jamaica
Restaurant Crawl
on June 30.
Right, Celia Gamarra, Theresa Bishop
and James Vaccaro
give a toast to the
town.
Jalen Melvin, 10, thanks his mom, Renee Melvin, for the tasty treats.
Philippa Karteron and Mark Chen savor the hamburgers from Moda
Grill.
Janey Chao presents the pastry
from Nutripan Colombian Bakery.
Photos by Walter Karling
RENTING • OWNING • DEVELOPING • INVESTMENT • FINANCE
Real Estate
MARKETPLACE
VOL. 3 NO. 7 JULY 8-14, 2016
PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER
WAR ON
ZOMBIES
Cuomo signs legislation aimed
at mitigating the problem of
vacant, unkept homes.
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Battle Line Z:
Tribune/Press Real estate MaRketplace
state once calling the crisis “an enduring legacy of the housing crisis.”
Here in Queens, neighborhoods
have been affected deeply by foreclosures. In fact, there is a foreclosed
property for every 1766 homes according to realtor site RealtyTrac. Of
all of the sections of the borough,
Southeast Queens was affected the
most severely after the foreclosure
crisis in 2008. In fact, the top five
neighborhoods where foreclosures
By TRONE DOWD Editor
are most common, Cambria Heights,
Springfield Gardens, St. Albans,
South Ozone Park and Queens Village, are all located within the promowards the end of
inently minority residential borders
June, Gov. Andrew
of Community Board’s 12 and 13.
Cuomo signed the
The rest of the borough, outside of
the Rockaways, fared better than the
most significant piece
state average with neighborhoods
of legislation meant to
like Rego Park, Forest Hills and
prevent the effects neglected
Whitestone far exceeding the rest of
the effects of foreclosure.
properties have on the
Southeast Queens city politicians
communities that house
were happy to see such progress bethem.
ing made to end the effects of zombie
properties. Councilman I. Daneek
Cuomo signed the bill into law as
Miller (D-St. Albans), who has been
part of the 2016 Legislative Session
at the forefront of housing issues in
in hopes that it will contribute to the
Southeast Queens, said that he was
economic success of communities all
“pleased to see the Community Resover New York State, and took a tour
toration Program finally being impleof the state visiting affected commu- without being auctioned off and a ing changes, the legislation will help mented to help working families refinities at events in Syracuse, Long Is- 180-day limit on making sure the establish an electronic registry of nance and get the support they need.”
land and in Manhattan. Commonly property is reoccupied after receiv- vacant and abandoned properties
“Southeast Queens has one of
in the state. The legislation will also the largest populations still recovreferred to as “Zombie Properties,” ing the title.
“For many New Yorkers, homes promote talks between local govern- ering from the housing bubble of
the practice consists of banks that
foreclosure and leave suddenly va- are our single most important in- ments and mortgagees responsible 2008,” Miller said. “With a limited
cant properties to deteriorate. These vestment, but that investment can for property maintenance hopefully number of options to help them get
homes quickly become eyesores in be undermined by the blight of ne- bringing an end to the “Zombifica- back on sound financial footing, this
the communities, affecting the prop- glected and abandoned properties,” tion” of local communities.
program will allow families to work
“This law is major victory for with an organization whose focus is
erty value of nearby neighbors who Cuomo said. “For each zombie home
may consider their homes their most that we cure and for each that we New Yorkers living in communities on helping them stay in their home,
prevent with this legislation, we are throughout the state, as it will give instead of making a profit, keeping
valuable asset.
As a part of the legislation, the saving entire neighborhoods from regulators and law enforcement the families in their communities.”
state would now impose new “pre- the corrosive effect of blight and ne- tools they need to revitalize neighThe councilman credited his colforeclosure duties” in the form of glect. I thank my colleagues in the borhoods that have been devas- leagues Donovan Richards (D-Lauimposing a requirement for banks Assembly and Senate for seeing a tated by the proliferation of zombie relton), Ruben Wills (D-Jamaica),
to maintain these abandoned crisis and helping to turn it into an homes,” state Attorney General Eric and Dan Garodnick (D-Manhattan)
homes for as long as they remain opportunity for people to realize the Schneiderman said.
for their efforts in the fight against
Schneiderman has been a long abandon properties in their perspecvacant. Before, a bank or mort- great American Dream of homeowntime advocate for trying to stop the tive districts.
gagee had to maintain the property ership.”
“To help keep track of the sweep- slew of abandoned properties in the
once a judgment of foreclosure and
State Sen. Leroy Comrie (D-St.
sale was obtained. This of
Albans) also commended the
course, contributed to the
governer’s efforts.
barrage of abandoned prop“As the statistics show,
erties in areas like SouthSoutheast Queens is ground
east Queens with next to no
zero for the foreclosure
upkeep on local properties.
problem in New York State;
Under this law, the bank or
unscrupulous realtors and
mortgagee has a lawful duty
lenders have been preying
to maintain and secure a
on the elderly and first time
residential property where
home-buyers for decades,”
there is a reasonable basis
said Senator Leroy Comto believe it is vacant and
rie. “[This] will provide adabandoned, and could face
ditional resources to help
up to $500 in civil penalties
people avoid foreclosure and
for each violation per propincrease penalties and close
erty everyday that it goes
loopholes forcing banks and
unaddressed.
property owners to be held
There is now an expedited
accountable for these ‘zomforeclosure process is being
bie homes’ that have long
introduced and can be rebeen abandoned and are
quested in court if a property
blights that are destabilizing
is no longer wanted by homour neighborhoods.”
eowners. In addition, there is
Reach Trone Dowd at (718)
90-day limit on how long a New state legislation aims to punish banks and mortgage holders who do not main- 357-7400 x123, tdowd@queenhouse can remain foreclosed tain Zombie properties.
spress.com or @theloniusly
Bringing an End to an Epidemic
Of Zombie Properties
T
PHOTO by bruce adler
July 8-14, 2016 Page 3
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Record Breaking
Acquisition Made
in Jamaica
By TRONE DOWD Editor
T
uesday Night, GFI
Realty Services, LLC
announced that it
had made the single biggest
acquisition of property in
the history of Jamaica.
PHOTO COURTESY GFI REALTY SERVICE, LLC
Located at 150-01 through 15011 88th Ave, the 79,200 square foot
property comprises six four-story
buildings. With a total of 96 walkup apartments and eight storage
units between them, GFI Realty
purchased the sprawling complex
for a whopping $21.5 million, breaking previous records of property
purchases in the transforming
neighborhood.
“Given that there are several signs
the Jamaica neighborhood is on the
rise, we were able to meet the seller’s expectations for this portfolio
by securing a price that was among
the highest for this area,” said GFI
Realty Associate Director of Investment Sales Josh Orlander.
According to a press release
shared with the public shortly after
the purchase, a big part of the cost
was the building’s prime location
for outsiders coming into Southeast
Queens. With its proximity to public transit and ease of access to the
rest of the borough and Manhattan,
it will be easier for prospective buyers and renters who want to live in
the developing and trendy Southeast Queens area.
At $21.5 million, the breakdown
of the investment equates to about
$224,000 per unit.
“Jamaica is seeing some exciting
developments at the moment, and
this sale is certainly a testament to
the increasing desirability of this
section of Queens,” said Yosef Katz,
GFI Realty’s Managing Director of
Investment Sales. “In addition to
the location, there are several features of these buildings that the
buyer was particularly interested
The site in Jamaica
last winter.
“Jamaica is
seeing some
exciting
developments.
”
–Yosef Katz,
GfI RealtY seRvIces, llc
in, particularly the size of the units,
which can easily be converted to
add additional bedrooms.”
Realty site StreetEasy predicted
last year that Jamaica will soon be
hottest neighborhood in New York
City for developers and renters alike.
This acquisition is likely to be just
the beginning of a surge in
interest in the area.
In 2005, StreetEasy gave
the same honor to Williamsburg in Brooklyn, a
prediction that would come
to fruition in the following
decade.
In recent years, Jamaica
has already seen commercial interest boom as several large-scale development
projects, including the 240key Hilton Garden Inn, a
584-unit rental project, and
the conversion of the former Mary Immaculate Hospital to 324 apartments, are
currently in progress.
Reach Trone Dowd at
(718) 357-7400 x123, tdowd@
queenspress.com or @theloniusly
Housing Advocates Want State Money Now
By LyNN EDMONDS Staff Writer
H
ousing advocates are
frustrated that $2
billion dollars Gov.
Andrew Cuomo promised to
combat homelessness and
support affordable housing
in his April 1 budget are not
available yet.
As long as the $2 billion is not released, 1,360 potential units remain
in limbo, a study by the New York
State Association for Affordable
Housing found.
But the Governor counters that
he is meeting benchmarks to
achieve his goal of creating 6,000
units of supportive housing, a lowcost housing that comes with social services and is considered to be
one of the most effective means of
combating homelessness, over a five
year period.
His office is moving forward on
1,200 units this year, putting them
exactly on target, a spokesperson for
the Governor added.
Nonetheless, developers and
housing advocates are eager to see
the full $2 billion earmarked in this
year’s budget dispersed.
The money cannot be unlocked
until Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx)
and State Senate Majority Leader
John Flanagan (D-Suffolk County)
reach an agreement, or memorandum of understanding, on how it
will be spent. But since they didn’t
reach that agreement by the end of
the legislative session on June 16, a
large question mark remains as to
when it will happen.
The uncertainty puts developers
across the state and throughout the
five boroughs in a precarious position, NYSAFAH says. Those that
were counting on state funding to
help make their projects economically feasible are now stalled.
NYFASAH CEO Jolie Milstein
says that as long as that $2 billion
is not released, future projects can’t
take shape. The 1,360 number “really underrepresents the universe of
projects that may never get built,”
she added.
NYSAFAH could not give a precise
number for the units in Queens that
might be at risk due to the unavailability of funding.
Cuomo’s office said that though
they were proud of their accomplishments regarding supportive
housing so far, they were still pushing to reach an agreement on the
remaining funds.
“It was Governor Cuomo who
made and secured the unprecedented $20 billion five-year commitment
to affordable and homeless housing.
The first $150 subject to the MOU
has been released and we’re eager to
reach an agreement on the balance.
We urge the legislature to join us in
keeping these projects moving and
helping to ensure every New Yorker
has a safe, decent and affordable
place to call home,” a spokesperson
for the Governor said.
An Assembly Democrat confirmed published reports that say
that negotiations stalled on the
MOU because of disagreements
over how the two billion would be
spent.
Heastie wanted $100 million to go
to NYCHA.
“NYCHA has been neglected by
the federal government, by the state
government and by the city level of
government for well over 20, maybe
even 30 years,” Assemblyman Keith
Wright (D-Manhattan), Chair of the
Housing Committee, told Politico.
The Republican-controlled state
Senate, on the other hand, did not
want to sign off on the MOU until
there was a reinstatement of the
421-a tax break for the developers,
an Assembly Democrat told the
Queens Tribune. But Democrats
in the Assembly do not want to reinstate 421-a – unless it is accompanied by stronger protections for
rent-stabilized and rent-controlled
apartments. As such, multiple affordable housing questions may be
resolved – or not resolved – simultaneously.
Reach Lynn Edmonds at (718) 3577400 x127, [email protected] or @Ellinoamerikana
July 8-14, 2016 Page 5
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Former Abbracciamento Property Exists In Limbo
By JON CRONIN Editor
T
he former Joe
Abbracciamento
restaurant at 6282 Woodhaven Blvd. has
existed in limbo for more
than two years after being
sold in 2014.
The former restaurant has
become less attractive in
the last two years.
PHOTO by JON CRONIN
The site, which exists between
63rd Avenue and 62nd Drive, included the former restaurant and
several other stores. It initially
sold for approximately $8 million
to a California-based firm owned by
Daniel Shalom and run by Keystone
Management. Last year the property was sold again for $10.8 million
to a company named 62-98 Realty
LLC, which online documents record as being created on Oct. 31,
2014, and whose address, according
to a Google search, is a residential
home on Poplar Avenue in Flushing.
According to documents from the
City Department of Finance, the
sale went into contract on Oct. 28,
2014 and the date of the final sale
was Feb. 6, 2015. Their grantor was
listed as Woodhaven Capital LLC,
and the member signing was Shibber Kahn. The member signing for
62-98 Realty LLC was Aiyun Chen.
Gary Giordano, District Manager
of Community Board 5, said they
know the lot as 84-47 63rd Ave.,
block 2977, lot 22. He said there are
still plans on file for a seven story
apartment building with 119 dwelling units.
He said the plans are filed with
the name The Nyron Hall Engineering services, 86-22 Broadway,
Elmhurst, with the phone number
718-204-0300, but the operator at
that location announces that they
are the Criterion Group, a company
owned by Shibber Khan. The operator stated that she would not speak
to the press and no one at that location would.
Bob Holden, Chairman of the Juniper Park Civic Association, said
that he wished they could have
downzoned that area when they
were changing the zones in the early
2000s.
According to the NYC Department of Buildings website, an application was filed on Dec. 14, 2015
for a “Mechanical means equipment
permit filed in conjunction with
demolition and fence application,”
but no physical action can be seen
from the street on the property at
this time.
Joe Abbracciamento Restaurant
closed in March in 2014 after 65 years
of service to the community and soon
after the family sold the entire lot.
Reach Jon Cronin at (718) 3577400 x125, jcronin@queenstribune.
com, or @JonathanSCronin.
Sanford Avenue Shows Signs of Gentrification
By LyNN EDMONDS Staff Writer
S
anford Street
in Flushing is
undergoing
an intense bout of
gentrification, one
resident on the street told
the Queens Tribune.
The resident, who wished to
remain anonymous because he
feared retaliation from his landlord, said he was concerned about
a number of telltale indicators of
gentrification on his street. Those
signs included turnover in building owners, aggressive construction on rent-stabilized buildings,
entire apartment buildings that
were empty and turnover among
residents.
Tarry Hum, a professor at
CUNY, said as much in an op-ed
for the Gotham Gazette on May
2. Her research found that 11 per-
cent of 388 rent-stabilized buildings
in Flushing were sold in the period
between 2010 and January 2016.
Specifically, seven rent-stabilized
buildings in Flushing, containing
488 apartments, changed hands in
December 2015, with Treetop Development LLC buying the units from
Algin Management.
She said the turnover was an indication that investors were speculating they could get higher rents in
years to come.
Hum added adding that the
$138.8 sale was financed by ACORE,
a group that is ultimately backed by
Tokio Marine Group, an insurance
group in Japan.
“The purchase of seven Sanford
Avenue rent-stabilized buildings,
financed by transnational private
equity investors, illustrates how
multi-family rental properties in the
outer boroughs are treated as global
investment vehicles with tremendous potential profits,” she wrote,
adding, “in order for those profits to
be realized, however; rents will have
to increase substantially.”
The Sanford Avenue resident sees
changes to his building as just another way for his new landlord to
justify increasing the rent on the
rent-stabilized building. Landlords
are allowed to tack on construction
costs to rent. And though that cost
is supposed to come off once the
balance if paid off, it typically never
does.
He said in recent years his landlord at 132-40 Sanford Ave. had
done substantial improvements
on the building, included new elevators, a new irrigation system
for outdoor plants, new mailboxes,
new energy saving lighting in the
hallways, new energy saving outdoors lighting, new CCTV security cameras outdoors and indoors,
drapery, sofas and frame paintings
for the lobby, new outdoor gates
and fences, a new building number
and a new intercom system. Those
changes had been used to justify
rent increases.
Since a new landlord has bought
the building, he said the cycle is
happening all over again. “Now
they are replacing the lights with
incandescent light bulbs and lowering the ceiling in the hallways,”
he said. “Seems we are regressing.”
He added that Treetop recently
gutted the lobby of another rentstabilized building that they
bought.
He also complained of a lack of
hot water in his building in May.
“This is day two,” he wrote.
“textbook harassment.”
Every time tent-stabilized units
turn over, landlords are legally allowed to raise the rent by a certain
percentage. When the total rent
rises to a certain threshold, the
unit then becomes market rate.
This system incentivizes landlords to push tenants out in order
to be able to raise rents faster.
In May, the resident estimated
that 10 of 94 units in his building
had recently been evacuated.
Reach Lynn Edmonds at (718)
357-7400 x127, [email protected] or @Ellinoamerikana
July 8-14, 2016 Page 7
The Changing Face Of Retail In NYC
By Michael Stoler
W
hile the
commercial real
estate market
continues to grow and
expand, one sector of
the market, national and
regional retail chain stores
seem to be losing steam.
file photo
Landlords are feeling the effect of
the bankruptcies after the closing
of retail locations like Aeropostale,
Eastern Mountain Sports, PacSun,
Quicksilver, Sports Authority, Fairway Market, and A & P. This reduction in stores is compounded by the
increased pressure by e-commerce,
lower revenues and general consensus regarding the number of brick
near the financial district and Bat- Last month, Barnes & Noble also
and mortar retailers.
The prominent national and lo- tery Park. The store is slated to open closed its store at the base of the
cal retailers that are shrinking their in October 2016, with 7,358 feet on Citicorp Center on Third Avenue &
store count include Men’s Ware- the ground and 40,894 on the lower 53rd Street.
Looks like Apple is continuing
house, Jos. A. Bank, Chico’s, White level of the property. Fairway MarHouse Black Market, Finish Line, ket had signed a lease for the space its expansion in the Big Apple. The
American Eagle Outfitters, Ralph but never opened a store. July 20th company, which has six retail locaLauren, Macy’s, Sears, Barnes & No- is the scheduled date for the open- tions in Manhattan, will be opening
ble, Office Depot, Staples, Scoop, ing of Target outpost in Forest Hills. its first store this summer in WilThe 21,000 sq. ft. store, located at 70- liamsburg at 247 Bedford Street.
and Uniglo.
While these retailers are having 00 Austin Street, will be part of the Industry leaders believe that chain
an effect on the face of retail, other retailer’s flexible format ‘stores. The has executed a lease with a major
retailers are setting their sites for ex- Target replaces the former Barnes & residential developer for a second
pansion in the metropolitan region. Noble, which closed last December. store in the borough to be opened
near the Brooklyn AcadLeading the pack is Taremy of Music and the Barget, which recently signed
clay Center.
a lease for a 38,000 square
This summer, the Fairfoot site at 1715 East 13th
way market on Second
Street in the Sheepshead
Avenue and 30th Street
Bay section of Brooklyn.
in Manhattan, will have a
This summer, CityTarget
new competitor with the
will open a 125,000 square
opening of a Trader Joe’s
foot store on the entire
store located in the forsecond floor of City Point,
mer Food Emporium at
a massive retail and resiEast 32nd Street and Third
dential complex located
Avenue. Later in the year,
in Downtown Brooklyn.
Trader Joe’s will be openConstruction is undering yet another location
way in lower Manhattan
in Downtown Brooklyn at
for the Target small forCity Point, sharing it with
mat city store. The store
Century 21, Alamo Draft
is near the World Trade
house Cinema and DeKalb
Center complex and located at 255 Greenwich Barnes & Noble closed both its Queens stores at the Market Hall, filled with
food vendors.
Street (at Murray Street) beginning of this year.
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After Flushing West:
F&T Executive VP Helen Lee replied,
“Forget 10 years, Flushing will be dramatically different in just five years.
We’ve curated each of the commercial tenants in all of our projects, a
process which is essential in reshaping the dynamic of our community.”
So if development is so important
to the Flushing community, then why
was the Flushing West proposal withdrawn? According to Council Member
Koo and Assemblyman Kim’s public statements, the original Flushing
West Affordable Housing Plan threatened to further increase the population density of Downtown Flushing
without addressing its urgent need for
infrastructure improvements.
Flushing has historically grown on
its own, without government accommodations such as special tax breaks
and substantial rezonings, such as incentives provided for in Manhattan’s
Hudson Yards or [pending] Midtown
East rezoning. “I commend Council
Member Dan Garodnick’s Midtown
East rezoning plan, which was a first
of its kind. Perhaps Flushing needs a
similar plan, one that allows the city
to create a budget for infrastructure
improvements paid for by a combination of public and private money.
The budget could be monetized by
selling valuable air rights to developers which [theoretically] could be
created out of thin air,” said former
City Comptroller John Liu.
Is Liu onto something? With all
the recent talk about the rezoning of
Flushing West and overpopulation
in Downtown Flushing, there hasn’t
been much talk about other parts
of Flushing. Theoretically, rezoning
other parts of Flushing could reduce
crowding in Downtown Flushing by
directing people away from Downtown, while more importantly allowing the city to sell air-rights from
city-owned properties to developers. The unsold air-rights are an untapped gold mine, as the profits from
these air-rights sales could result in
hundreds of millions of dollars for
said infrastructure improvements.
Just like Manhattan or Shanghai,
Flushing (which is a junior hybrid of
both), has all the necessary ingredients for it to evolve into one of the
most desirable places to live in the
21st century. But with congestion
and lack of city funding at the root of
many of Flushing’s other problems,
its growth may be approaching a
bottleneck. Perhaps the solution to
these problems will be found not in
the Flushing West Rezoning, but in a
new rezoning plan that will address
other areas of Flushing.
got even stronger. This is because we
are not just a community where people can buy cheap [restaurant] food
or do inexpensive grocery shopping,
but it’s a place where you can do everything you need to do without a car.
The BID was created to solve some
of the problems facing the business
community, but a single organization like the BID can’t fix everything –
that’s why we need everyone to work
together.”
While Flushing is widely considered
by many to be the largest Chinatown
in the Western world, some believe
that its demographics are changing
quickly. “There’s a large prosperous
Chinese population in Flushing, but
order for Flushing
the diversity of Flushing is unrivaled
to reach its full
anywhere else,” said Simon Gerpotential as an
son, President of the Greater
international
Flushing Chamber of Comdestination,
merce. “It has to do with
“We need to
the fact that Flushing has
improve infraalready become a worldstructure -- the
class destination and
subway, streets
people come here from
and sidewalks are
all over the world. I tell
Michael Cheng
too crowded, and
my friends if you want
that’s why in the coming months, to see the future, come to Flushing.
DOT will make the sidewalks nine Flushing is what America is and will
inches wider on Downtown Main be, and it’s a great thing.”
Street. But we still need to find ways
Several staple community centers
to make the 7 Train more reliable.”
or nonprofits, such as the Flushing
Don Capalbi, President of the Y and Greater Flushing Chamber
Queensboro Hill-Flushing Civic As- of Commerce, are witnessing exsociation, suggested that in order plosive growth. Established in 1926,
to relieve some of the subway’s con- the Flushing Y’s membership has
gestion, the city could explore op- increased by nine percent year-overtions of allowing Queens residents year for the last two years. According
to ride into the city at an affordable to Executive Director Jen Silvers, “It
cost on the LIRR track when the new also seems as though greater Flushplan lets it stop at the Grand Central ing’s population is becoming more
Station. Relief of subway and traf- gentrified, as our constituency is
fic congestion is crucial to Flushing now becoming more ethnically dibecause its businesses rely heavily verse.” Council Member Koo added,
on tourists who come for the unique “I would like to see the gentrification
dining and shopping experiences as of Flushing continue as it is imporwell as those who commute from all tant for the development of a diverse
over the tristate area to see their doc- community as well as for tourism.”
tors, lawyers, accountants and to do
Real estate development has
their grocery shopping.
played a critical role in attracting
Flushing has a unique and self- this new growth and diversity. F&T
sustaining micro-economy, largely Group is arguably the most prolific
fueled by immigration. According to Flushing developer, with over five
Flushing BID Executive Director Dian million square feet of projects being
Yu, “During the financial recession of planned or already under construc2009, Flushing thrived through it and tion. When asked about their viin the end, the business community sion for Flushing 10 years from now,
A Collaborative
New Vision For
The Future
by Michael cheng
B
usting at its seams
with foot traffic
comparable to that
of Times Square, 22 bus
lines, the 7 train, and a LIRR
stop, Downtown Flushing
has the highest pedestrian
count in all of New York
outside of Manhattan. But
an unreliable subway that
breaks down on a regular
basis, a subway platform
that often gets so crowded
it leaves commuters no
place left to stand, and
roads so crammed that
drivers consider finding
street parking a blessing
– these are just a few of
the nightmares plaguing
Queens’ most vibrant
neighborhood.
FILE PHOTO
Several community hopefuls were
optimistic that the Flushing West Affordable Housing Rezoning Plan was
the key to getting a spotlight shined
on Flushing and paving the way for
the city to begin funding long-time
anticipated infrastructure improvements. But following the city’s withdrawal of the Flushing West proposal, several community leaders are
now in agreement that Flushing is
in need of new vision, planning, and
funding.
In June 2016, a Commercial District
Needs Assessment of over 200 local
organizations and businesses jointly
conducted by NYC SBS (Small Business Services), the Greater Flushing
Chamber of Commerce and Downtown Flushing BID revealed the top
challenges facing the community:
high commercial rents, congestion,
lack of affordable parking, cleanliness, and the need for more governmental interagency collaboration
and support to address these issues.
“Transportation infrastructure is
at the forefront of issues to be tackled,” said Assemblyman Ron Kim
(D-Flushing). Council Member Peter Koo (D-Flushing) agreed that in
The death of the Flushing West plan leaves questions over what the
future of the Northeast Queens commercial hub will entail.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Mike Cheng is a Principal of the
Flushing-based real estate development firm Epos Development. He
is also a Board Member for Queens
Community Board No. 7, and on the
Board of Directors for the Greater
Flushing Chamber of Commerce,
Flushing Y, and Korean-American
League for Civic Action.
A&E
Jamaica art Exhibition Enters Final Week
By Matt Shortall
Photo by Whitney Browne
Photo by Matt Shortall
Local artists and community leaders met inside a storefront in Jamaica
Queens on Thursday for the closing
ceremony of the Jameco Exchange,
an exhibition which celebrates the
past, present and future of a dynamic
and culturally- diverse neighborhood.
The Jameco Exchange, sponsored
by the Jamaica Center Business Improvement District (BID), as well
as No Longer Empty (NLE), a nonprofit organization that orchestrates
site-specific public art installations
in empty storefronts, is about transactions in every sense of the word.
The exhibition was made possible
through a Neighborhood Challenge
grant received by No Longer Empty
from the NYC Department of Small
Business Services and the New York
City Economic Development Corporation.
The overarching theme of the exhibition is focused on how different
groups of people exchange ideas, stories, knowledge, goods and services.
The gallery takes its name from
the Jameco (Yameco) Native Americans, for which the neighborhood of
Jamaica was named after. Before the
arrival of the Dutch, Jamaica Avenue
was an ancient trail for tribes as far
away as the Ohio River Valley and
the Great Lakes who came to trade
animal skins and furs.
According to Rachel Gugelberger,
Associate Curator for NLE, Jameco
Exchange tries to honor that history.
“Jamaica is still a place of movement, exchange and immigration,”
she said.
Derek Irby, executive director at the
165th Street Mall
Improvement
Association, believes more
projects like Jameco
Exchange will benefit
the area.
“Our business community cannot flourish
without culture,” he
said. “I love being able
to come in here to relieve tension. You can
come in here every day
and look at the same
piece of art and you
will see something different every time.”
Margaret Rose Vendryes is an artist whose
work deals with themes
of race and gender (above): a look at some of the artwork on
identity. The African display at the Jameco Exchange. (right):
Diva Project is a mul- Featured artist Margaret rose Vendryes.
timedia
interactive
installation combining music, paint- uted to the piece by drawings and fashion. Her album cover in- ing, paintings, adding small
spired paintings feature iconic black objects and collaging. The
female artists such as Tina Turner, “finished” painting was
Lena Horne and Eartha Kitt wearing displayed underneath a
stop-motion video showing
African masks.
“What I hope is that art and artists the projects evolution and
will remain important to Jamaica, metamorphosis.
The Jameco Exchange
Queens,” said Vendryes. “I grew up
here. It’s in my skin and in my blood. will be open through July
I like to think of African Divas as a 17 before the store space
representation of the transformation will be returned back to
Aaron Schwartz, President
of this neighborhood.”
Ezra Wube, an artist whose work of the 165th Street Mall
utilizes mixed media, commissioned BID. Those interested
Words of Wisdom for the Jameco Ex- can find a full calendar of
change. Wube worked on-sight each events on nolongerempty.
week to engage visitors who contrib- org.
Digital Polls open to Decide Pavilion’s Future
By Matt Shortall
One of New York City’s most recognizable structures is set to get a
makeover.
The New York State Pavilion,
built for the 1964-65 World’s Fair,
had been neglected for years, until
recently when it was given a paint
job and structural work, and now a
contest is underway to compete to
design the structure for a new generation.
More than 250 design plans from
across the country and around the
world have been submitted to the National Trust for Historic Preservation
to reimagine the Pavilion.
The National Trust, in cooperation with Borough President Me-
linda Katz and the non-profit group
People for the Pavilion, is sponsoring
the International Ideas Competition
to repurpose the long-idle landmark
in Flushing Meadows Corona Park.
“This fun, interactive campaign
is – by design – an important part
of the overall efforts to restore this
National Treasure into a visible icon
befitting the World’s Borough for
generations of families and visitors
to enjoy,” said Katz in a statement.
Jason Clement, the community outreach director for the National Trust,
believes history is worth the cost of
preservation. “Some of the most recognizable structures that we all know
and love were actually built for [the]
World’s Fair, including the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Space Needle in Se-
attle. So, the Pavilion is truly in great
company,” said Clement via email.
“This Philip Johnson-designed masterpiece is not only a New York City icon,
but could be a dynamic focal point for
a resurgent Queens.”
Among the hundreds of proposals
submitted, the creative renderings include “Tomorrowland: Where Future
Histories are Imagined,” which envisions the Pavilion as an ancient ruin
covered in ivy and allows visitors to
contemplate their own place in the
long arc of history.
For beer lovers, “Queens Brew”
aspires to build an urban hops garden inside the Pavilion that will serve
up locally brewed refreshments.
“We could not be more excited
with the creativity and depth of the
entries we have received,” said Clement. “Everyone from a thirteen-yearold kid to professional architects
have weighed in with their vision for
the future of the Pavilion.”
All proposals can be viewed on
Savingplaces.org, where visitors can
vote for their favorite.
On July, 18, the submission with
the most votes will be crowned the
“Fan Favorite” and win $500. First,
second and third place winners will
be chosen by a panel of judges and
will receive $3,000, $1,000 and $500
respectively. The judges’ picks will
be announced on Aug. 3.
An exhibition spotlighting all the
winners will begin on Aug. 8 at the
Queens Museum and run through
the end of the month.
QUEENS TODAY
FRIDAY 7/8
the Manhattan skyline to build expressive
kites, and then fly them
in the park. 11 a.m. to 3
p.m., Vernon Boulevard and
Broadway
AYAZAMANA
BOB DYLAN
A music legend performs
with Mavis Staples.
$50 to $365. Forest Hills
Stadium, One Tennis Place.
This event will start at 7:30
p.m.
BEACH CAMPFIRE
Bring a blanket or chair
to sit on, a musical instrument if you play one, and
fixings to make s’mores or
roast marshmallows. Free.
Riis Landing, Beach 169th
Street, Breezy Point, at 7
p.m.
LANDSCAPE IN THE MIST
AND THE BROADCAST
Screened as part of a
retrospective on Greek
director Theo Angelopoulos, Landscape follows
an adolescent girl and her
little brother as they hop
trains and hitchhike to
Germany, where they think
their father lives. Broadcast
is a 22-minute satire about
journalists searching for the
ideal man. $12. Museum of
the Moving Image, 36-01
35th Ave., Kaufman Arts
District. 7 p.m.
Discover the richness of
Ecuadorian culture through
colorful costumes and
live music. Ayazamana
performs dances from
the Coast, Andes, and
Amazon regions. $25.
Frank Sinatra High School
of the Arts, 35-12 35th Ave.,
Kaufman Arts District. 7:45
p.m.
SAMITA SINHA AND
BRIAN CHASE
Vocal artist Sinha and
drummer Chase respond
to the sounds of the museum, sculpting a space for
listening within the cavernous skylight atrium. Queens
Museum, NYC Building,
Flushing Meadows Corona
Park. 11:15 a.m.
QUEENS MEMORY
The Queens Memory Team
scans photographs, postcards, and other memorabilia and save them
to a thumbdrive you
can take home. Free. King
Manor Museum, vicinity
of 153rd Street and Jamaica
Avenue, Jamaica at 1 p.m.
Two of Ireland’s finest
traditional musicians.
Daly plays the accordian,
Cranitch is on the fiddle.
$22/$17 for seniors, students, and the unemployed.
New York Irish Center, 10-40
Jackson Ave., LIC. 7:30 p.m.
SUNDAY 7/10
FLOWER PARADE
This seventh annual parade includes
eight-foot-tall floral ornaments called
“silletas” carried by Colombian silleteros,
flower floats, dance performances, live
music, antique cars and the Flower Queen.
Free. Northern Boulevard between 69th
and 88th streets, Jackson Heights. Kicks of f
at noon.
ramble south of the border
- via the #7 train. Tastes will
include Colombian cholados, Uruguyan arrollados,
Argentinian mini-pastries
filled with dulce de leche,
and rotisserie chicken (and
vegetarian alternatives) at
an Ecuadorean restaurant...
to name a few. Meet at 1
p.m. in front of Capital One
Bank, 37-02 82 St., at 37th
Avenue.
SUNDAY 7/10
At Socrates Sculpture Park,
Long Island City. Using
recycled materials, children
and their families draw
inspiration from the
park’s fantastic view of
IVA BITTOVÁ
This Czech violinist/singer/
composer is recognized
worldwide for her unique
solo style, displaying a musical worldview and visionary creativity unlike any
other. The program includes
Bittová and pianist
Antonin Fajt performing
their own compositions,
improvisations, and
Moravian and Slovakian
songs by Leos Janacek and
Bela Bartok. Noguchi Museum, 9-01 33rd Rd., LIC. 3
p.m.
QUIET CLUBBING
BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE
A workshop for all ages
that explores the world
and life cycle of butterflies. Free. Maple Grove
Lake near the Center at
Maple Grove Cemetery, 12715 Kew Gardens Rd., Kew
Gardens. 2 p.m.
PIEDMONT BLUTZ
This group preserves the
Piedmont Sound. Part
of the Summer Sundays
in the Park series. Free.
Travers Park, 78th Street
between 34th Avenue and
Northern Boulevard, Jackson
Heights. 4 p.m.
‘ALEXANDER THE GREAT’ CRAFTS FESTIVAL
FESTIVAL OF KITES AND
KAYAKS
superstar actor Rajnikanth. $12. Museum of the
Moving Image, 36-01 35th
Ave., Kaufman Arts District. 6:30 p.m.
director Theo Angelopoulos, “Alexander” is a
take on 19th century history with a tribal warlord
who kidnaps British tourists.
$12. Museum of the Moving
Image, 36-01 35th Ave., Kaufman Arts District. 5 p.m.
JACKSON HEIGHTS NOSH
WALKS
Taste the foods of Colombia,
Peru, Uruguay, Argentina,
Ecuador (and more) as we
Artist Rejin Leys teaches
how to make beautiful
pulp paper in a few simple
steps. Free. Lewis H. Latimer
House, 34-41 137th St.,
Flushing. This event starts
at 2 p.m.
FOR THE LOVE OF A MAN
monthly showcase of India’s
New Wave Cinema, “Love
of a Man” is a documentary
on celebrity worship. It
profiles three men who
are obsessed with Tamil
MONDAY 7/11
METROPOLITAN OPERA
SUMMER RECITAL SERIES
Arias with soprano
Michelle Bradley, tenor
Kang Wang, and baritone Yunpeng Wang.
Free. Socrates Sculpture
Park, 32-01 Vernon Blvd.,
LIC. 7 p.m.
TUESDAY 7/12
SWING NIGHT
The 2016 Juniper Valley
Park Summer Concert
Series kicks off with the
Gerard Carelli Orchestra. Free. Space at 80th
Street and Juniper Boulevard
North, Middle Village. 7 p.m.
THE SECOND
RENAISSANCE OF
RAILROADS IN LONG
ISLAND CITY
Dance at this outdoor
party with a headset,
three DJs to choose
from, and a waterfront
floor overlooking the
city skyline. LIC Landing,
52-10 Center Blvd. 6 p.m.
SATURDAY 7/9
JACKIE DALY AND MATT
CRANITCH IN CONCERT
SPOTLIGHT OF THE WEEK
WORLD’S FAIR HISTORY
WALKING TOUR
A one-hour stroll with
emphasis on former
World’s Fair sites.
Repeats on the second Sunday of each month through
October. Meet at the Unisphere, Flushing Meadows
Corona Park. This runs
continually from 11 a.m. to
2 p.m.
THE TRAVELING PLAYERS
director Theo Angelopoulos, Traveling Players
weaves through time as
actors perform through the
landscape of Greek history
in the years between 1939
and 1952. $12. Museum of
the Moving Image, 36-01
35th Ave., Kaufman Arts
District. 2 p.m.
Explore various historic
sites and an urban farm
with Queens historian Jack
Eichenbaum. $20. Meet at
Hunter’s Point Avenue 7
train station, LIC. 6 p.m.
WEDNESDAY 7/13
SALSA WARRIORS
Lessons, dancing, and a
live salsa band. Free. The
Unisphere, Flushing Meadows Corona Park. 7 p.m.
‘L’ATALANTE’
This 1934 French movie
follows a river barge
captain who marries a
country girl. They take the
boat to Paris, where problems present themselves.
Free. Socrates Sculpture
Park, 32-01 Vernon Blvd.,
LIC. 7 p.m.
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Remembering An American Hero
BY TRoNe DoWD
over the Fourth of July weekend,
America lost one of its most prominent and perseverant black heroes,
Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, member of the
legendary Tuskegee Airmen.
Brown died at the age of 94 at a
hospital in Riverdale in the Bronx.
An avid Civil Rights activist and pioneer in the fight for equal rights, the
World War II veteran leaves behind
a legacy that will not be soon forgotten.
As a member of the United States
Air Force, Brown led the Tuskegee
Airmen, a group of black military
men that joined the service despite
the U.S.’s reluctance to integrate
blacks and whites in the fight against
the Axis Powers. During his years of
service, Brown earned the rank of
Captain and was a Squadron Commander of the 100th Fighter Squadron of the 332nd Fighter Group. In
combat, he shot down both an FW190 fighter jet and a German Me262 fighter jet, the first American,
regardless of race, to do so during
the war.
Brown flew 68 total missions in
the Air Force during the war and was
later awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross as well as the Congressional Gold Medal in 2007.
Dr. Roscoe C. Brown
After the end of World War II,
Brown returned to the U.S. with
plans of becoming an educator. He
had always been academically sound.
Before enlisting in the military, he
attended the Springfield College in
Massachusetts, becoming the valedictorian of the graduating Class
of 1943. Upon his arrival home, he
went to school and earned his Master’s and his doctorate at New York
University.
Brown soon became a director of
NYU’s Institute of Afro-American
Affairs. He was also a professor at
NYU before becoming president of
Bronx Community College in 1977.
After leaving BCC, in 1993 he became the director of the Center for
Education Policy at the Graduate
School and University Center of the
City University of New York.
Here in Southeast Queens,
Brown’s death had quite the effect on
local politicians and institutions. The
Press of Southeast Queens spoke to a
number of elected who shared their
thoughts on the man’s passing.
“This week, we have lost one of
our heroes, Dr. Roscoe Brown Jr,”
said Councilman I. Daneek Miller
(D-St. Albans). “As a proud member of the Tuskegee Airmen, Captain
Brown and his fellow pilots proved
to the world that African-Americans
were equal to, and superior to many,
in piloting aircraft. He and his fellow
airman carried the campaign for respect and opportunity into peacetime
and were instrumental in integrating
our armed forces. My thoughts and
prayers are with the Brown family in
this time of mourning.”
“Dr. Roscoe Brown was a true pioneer and a leader,” said state Sen. Leroy Comrie (D-St. Albans). “He was
an inspiration to so many people in
this city, state and country.”
Comrie told the Press of Southeast Queens that he had the chance
to meet Brown on several different
occasions and spoke glowingly of the
late veteran.
“His generosity, his spirit, his ability to speak to everyone. Dr. Brown
was a true renaissance person and
his passing is a real loss to our community,” he concluded.
“The York College community is
saddened by the death of Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, a hero pilot with the
legendary Tuskegee Airmen during
World War II, and a longtime CUNY
colleague and friend to York,” York
College President Marcia Keizs said
in a public statement. “Our history
is the richer for Dr. Brown’s life of
service. We salute his memory and
are thankful for his innumerable acts
of service to our nation, our city and
our university family.”
Brown had a special relationship
with the Southeast Queens college.
In 2009, surviving members of the
Tuskegee Airmen, including Brown,
were honorees at the school’s annual gala. The school also features a
gold Tuskegee Airman statue in the
atrium of the Academic Core Building.
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People
Daniel Recker, a senior at Bob
Jones University pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in computer
science, was hired before graduation
by Cloud Health in Boston, Massachusetts as a software developer.
Recker is a resident of Rosedale.
Alimot S. Yusuff of Rosedale has
been selected for membership in the
Art and Art History honorary society at St. Lawrence University in
Canton, New York.
Yusuff is a member of the Class
of 2016 and is majoring in environmental studies and fine arts. She attended New York Harbor School.
The following local residents recently were initiated into The Honor
Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic
disciplines.
Nikaela Bryan of Rosedale was initiated at University of Maryland, Baltimore Campuses and Rosa Moore of
Saint Albans was initiated at State
University of New York at Cortland.
Randy Perez, a resident of Queens
Village and a student at Nassau Community College, was the recipient of
a 2016 State University of New York
(SUNY) Chancellor’s Award for
Student Excellence at a recent ceremony held in Empire State Plaza in
Albany.
Congratulations to the following
Farmingdale State College students
on their inclusion on the Dean’s List
for Fall 2015.
ebunoluwa Adebajo of Cambria
Heights; John Cassidy, Justin Paruvaparampil, Jelani Staine and Philip
Hardial of Queens Village; Shahrukh ejaz, Peter Henry, Md Islam,
Sherisse Headley and Adrian Jonassaint of Jamaica; Asiya Golden of
Rosedale; Sheena Lewis and Alexis
Muir of Laurelton; Nakia Lide, Nia
Peters and Kevin McPhoy of Saint Albans; Rosemarie Perez of Far Rock-
away; D’Vora Biderman of Hollis and
David Tatum and Suzan Williams of
Springfield Gardens.
Congratulations to the following
Farmingdale State College students
on their inclusion on the President’s
List.
Sieam Alam and Raveena Ramratton of Queens Village; Lindsay
Bascom of Hollis; Aaron Brown,
eddy Mingki and Fatou Ndao of Jamaica; Brendon Ricketts of Cambria
Heights and Parris Kelson of Far
Rockaway.
Major General Anthony P. German, the Adjutant General for the
State of New York, announces the
promotion of members of the New
York Army National Guard in recognition of their capability for additional responsibility and leadership.
Lauren Henderson from Rosedale,
serving with the 133rd Quartermaster Support Company is promoted
to the rank of Private. Crystal Beck-
ford from Laurelton, serving with
the 4th Finance Detachment is promoted to the rank of Staff Sergeant.
Jean Antoine from Jamaica, serving with the 719th Transportation
Company is promoted to the rank
of Private First Class. Andre Anderson from Jamaica, serving with the
719th Transportation Company is
promoted to the rank of Specialist.
Anthony Quist from Far Rockaway,
serving with the Headquarters,
27Tth Finance Management Battalion is promoted to the rank of Private First Class.
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Faith
The Importance of Trying to Trust
By Rev. PHIlIP CRaIg
Greater Springfield Community
Church
Scripture: Psalms 118: 8-9
Today’s scripture reminds us of
one very important word that can
change your life: TRUST! Trust is
something you rely on, something
you put your confidence in. Trust
may be the most vital ingredient to a
successful relationship; however, having trust in the wrong thing or person
can be catastrophic. This is what the
writer is trying to get in our spirits
with verse 8-9. The Author specifically tells us who and who not to trust.
In a world filled with distrust, many
of you reading this sermon may have
been victims to some level of disappointment from someone you once
trusted, and now you’re just plain
disgusted. Having trouble in trusting
is more common than you think it
is. Many people you may know have
been victims of betrayal as well, so
when you meet someone, all parties
have walls up that ultimately stops
progress, integrity, and commitment
to mature on a level that manifests
into healthy relationships and end
results.
The key in trusting
feel comfortable or not so
again is not to jump into ancomfortable with. Once that
other relationship the way you
feeling is received, you will
have done in the past, but to
be able to make a wise deestablish a relationship with
cision. Therefore put your
God where you put
total trust in God and
ALL your trust in
God will let you
Him. If you’re not
know whom you
used to doing so,
can trust moving
trusting
God
forward.
can be challengThose
ing. However,
who can trust
when you find
each
other
Rev. Phil Craig
yourself in a situcan co-create,
ation where God is all you got and be spontaneous, and contribute to
you watch how He will make a way each other’s well-being. What’s more
out of no way, you have obtained a is trust promotes integrity, enhances
very valuable revelation. Trusting in creativity, builds teamwork, reduces
God is saying “God I don’t know unnecessary fear, builds positive
how, but I believe it is going to get energy, and makes the relationship
accomplished. I believe I will get the more fun to work with each other.
house. I believe graduation is right Life’s relationships are important,
around the corner. I believe my heal- necessary, and vital to our growth
ing is closer now than ever before.” and development. Trust is the very
When you trust God, you don’t have fabric that produces successful relato put your trust in people and gam- tionships, whether it be a personal
ble on your odds if they will eventu- relationship, a family relationship,
ally betray you or not, because when a friendship, or even a relationship
you put your trust in God, He will at work. Whatever the relationship,
deposit in you a gift called discern- you need a certain level of trust to
ment. A discerning spirit will read push through the normal barriers to
the other person’s spirit and send receive the necessary breakthrough.
you back a report you should either When you operate with people who
trust each other, you will find they
effectively communicate, respect
one another, and they incorporate
a transparency of process. As a Pastor, I have come to understand that
these three points are necessary for
my success in dealing with various
characters and attitudes. It’s important to practice trust in everything
you do. Just think how much better
this world would be if everyone was
trustworthy. Although we may not be
able to trust everyone, we can always
trust
God! God Bless!
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Hillcrest High School
By BoB HaRRIs
Soraya Alli, a graduating senior at
Hillcrest High School and resident
of Jamaica, has been commended by
her college counselor Ms. Gordon
for her outstanding achievements in
academia.
Alli was recently accepted into
the Macaulay Honors College at
CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice with a full tuition scholarship. She will also receive a laptop
and a $7,500 opportunity fund for
the study abroad. Her plans are to
study Computer Science and Information Security with aspirations of
working for the National Security
Agency or the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Alli has also received a plethora of
accolades and awards for her efforts
inside the classroom. This includes
a $20,000 New Visions Scholarship
for undergraduate study, a Generation Google Scholarship one time
award of $10,000 for the 2016 fall
and 2017 spring semester, a Ronald
McDonald House Charity Scholarship of $16,000 for undergraduate
study, a $500 Scholarship for Academic Excellence every year, an Albert Shanker Scholarship of $5,000
for Undergraduate Study, and a
Gates Millennium Scholarship which
provides funding for undergraduate
and graduate expenses beyond what
other scholarships provide.
Alli is also a Questbridge finalist,
which connects the world’s brightest low income students to some of
the best universities in the U.S. to
provide them with advice and any
needed assistance.
Photo Courtesy of Bob Harris
Hillcrest senior awarded Numerous scholarships
soraya alli
SportS
Press of southeast Queens
It took overtime but the Rosedale
All-Stars defeated Hicksville Elite,
4-2, to win the Boys-Under-19 Eastern
New York Premier League (ENYPL)
championship. This Eastern New York
Youth Soccer Association (ENYYSA) title match-up between two Long
Island Junior Soccer League (LIJSL)
teams took place on June 18 at the Peter Collins Soccer Park in Plainview,
Long Island.
Chris McLoughlin scored a hat
trick for Rosedale, while Kashane
Ashmead added the other goal.
“We had many opportunities and
finally put our chances away toward
the end of regulation and in overtime,” said Rosedale Coach Patrick
O’Connor. “The red card to their player at the end of the first half changed
the game as we were having problems
possessing the ball up to that point.”
The ENYPL, the Gateway to Regional Play, is the oldest continuous
Premier League in the United States.
With over 100,000 youth soccer
players–both boys and girls–and more
than 25,000 volunteers, the non-profit ENYYSA stretches from Montauk
Point, Long Island to the Canadian
border. Members are affiliated with
11 leagues throughout the association,
which covers the entire state of New
York east of Route 81. ENYYSA exists to promote and enhance the game
of soccer for children and teenagers
between the ages of five and 19 years
old, and to encourage the healthy development of youth players, coaches,
referees and administrators. All levels
Photo Courtesy eNyPl
Rosedale Boys Soccer Team Wins In Overtime
Rosedale All-Stars Championship Team.
of soccer are offered–from intramural, travel team and premier players
to Children with Special Needs. No
child who wants to play soccer is
turned away. ENYYSA is a proud
member of the United States Soccer
Federation and United States Youth
Soccer Association.
Jim Hickman, An Original Met, Passes Away
By DAvID RuSSell
Original Met outfielder Jim Hickman passed away on Saturday at the
age of 79. Of all the players on the
roster in April 1962, Hickman remained the longest, playing with the
Mets through the 1966 season.
“I considered him one of the
more decent and perhaps underrated
guys that I played with in the early
going,” said Ron Swoboda, a teammate of Hickman’s from 1965-66.
Hickman’s name is seen throughout the Mets record books. In 1963,
Hickman became the first Met to
hit for the cycle, and a month later
became the last player to hit a home
run at the Polo Grounds. He also
hit a walk-off grand slam against the
Cubs during the season. When the
team moved to Queens, Hickman
Wilmer And The Fans
Photo by Bruce Adler
Proving good things happen to good people, Mets 3rd baseman Wilmer Flores
greets two young fans before Sunday’s game against the Cubs at Citi Field.
Wilmer wound up going 6 for 6 with two home runs.
became the first Met to get hit by a
pitch in Shea Stadium history. Then
he became the first Met to get hit by
a pitch in stadium history. In 1965,
Hickman accomplished another feat
when he became the first Met to hit
three home runs in one game when
he did it in a meeting with the Cardinals and future Met pitcher Ray
Sadecki.
Swoboda made his debut in 1965
and even as the two would compete
for playing time, Swoboda respected
Hickman. “When I first met Jim
Hickman, I was trying to figure out
what the heck I wanted as a player,”
Swoboda said. “He looked like somebody who knew what he was. He was
a grown up in a way. A lot of people
in that game at that time were not
necessarily grown-ups.”
Swoboda and Hickman ended up
playing on the same winter ball team
in Puerto Rico. Swoboda was trying
to improve while Hickman was seeing
how much he had left. After the 1966
season, Hickman was traded to the
Dodgers for Tommy Davis. “I considered him a pretty darn good player,”
Swoboda said. “I never could quite
understand why they didn’t think a
little bit more of him. He could do
everything. He could play center
field if you needed him to. He could
hit with power.”
Hickman had one unproductive
season with the Dodgers before a
resurgence with the Cubs. Hickman
made his only All-Star team in 1970,
a season in which he hit 32 home
Jim Hickman
runs. His time with the Cubs made
him a Met rival when the two teams
battled for the pennant in 1969. In
one game, Swoboda hit a ball to center which Hickman misplayed and
Swoboda ended up on second. The
next day, an article appeared where
Swoboda was quoted saying “Once
a Met, always a Met,” when asked
about the play.
“I didn’t say it,” Swoboda recalled. “And I wouldn’t have said it
about him because I thought he was
a pretty good ballplayer. He confronted me rather gentlemanly and asked
if I said that. I said, ‘No. That’s not
how I feel.’ He didn’t appreciate the
quote. I don’t know where it came
from but it got me crossways with
him because somebody made up a
quote.”
Hickman’s playing days ended
with the 1974 Cardinals and later
became a coach, serving as a hitting
instructor in the Reds minor league
system from 1987-2006.
What’s Up
Future events
the Jamaica Dance Festival
With Avenue NYC funding from
the New York City Department of
Small Business Services, and the generous support of the Mertz Gilmore
Foundation, Partnership for Parks,
and the New York City Department
of Parks and Recreation, A Better Jamaica presents, “The Jamaica Dance
Festival: A Celebration of Jamaica’s
Rich Dance Legacy and Its Dynamic
Future.”
Free and open to the public, The
Jamaica Dance Festival will present
five professional dance companies
over the course of five consecutive
Saturdays starting July 16 and ending Aug. 13. Each of the companies
will be presented on a 40’ x 32’ stage
erected in Rufus King Park in front
of the King Manor House.
The following companies are
scheduled to perform:
Saturday, July 16 – Pajarillo
Pinta’o
Saturday, July 23 – Nai Ni Chen
Dance Company
Saturday, July 30 – Sonali Skanden & Jiva Dance
Saturday, August 6 – Abakua Afro-Latin Dance Company
Saturday, August 13 – Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company
Each week, the presentation of
the professional company will be
preceded by a performance of a local
youth dance ensemble. The performances will begin at 7:00 p.m. For
more information, reach out to A
Better Jamaica at the phone number
(718) 657-2605.
Aug. 5
the Jamaica JAMs Festival
Jamaica Avenue’s commercial
strip from Parsons Blvd to 170th
Street will come alive once again as
Cultural Collaborative Jamaica celebrates the 20th Annual Jamaica Arts
& Music Summer Festival.
The two-day event, hosted by the
JAMS Festival Committee, kicks off
with JAMS Under the Stars 6 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 5 at Rufus King Park.
Performances for this moonlit event
will include a variety of talent paying
homage to legends of jazz, rhythm &
blues, rock and funk music.
On the following Saturday the outdoor extravaganza starts at 11 a.m.
and will run to 7:00 PM along the
Jamaica Avenue commerical strip.
Activities will include live entertainment, a children’s zone featuring
fun activities like face painting and
clowns, health and wellness pavilion,
mouthwatering treats from various
food vendors around the city, arts
and crafts from local artisans and
Rockaway Beach
Sun July 10 at 6:00 p.m. @ RockSpringfield Gar- away Beach, Beach 94th Street and
dens,
Bayside, Shore Front Parkway in the RockFar Rockaway, aways
College
Point
In partnership with Kupferberg
and the campus Center for the Arts, NYC Parks and
of St. John’s Uni- City Councilmember Eric Ulrich
versity in JamaiLed by co-founder and lead singer
ca. All concerts Pepe Cardona, Alive N’ Kickin’ has
are free admis- been a mainstay of the New York/
sion, held rain New Jersey/Connecticut music scene
or shine, and last for decades. Their number one hit
approximately
single --”Tighter, Tighter”--was writ90 minutes each ten and produced by Tommy James
(with the excep- of Tommy James and the Shondells,
tion of the June who also wrote and recorded such
26 “Only in hits as “Mony, Mony,” “I Think
Queens” Sum- We’re Alone Now,” and “Crimson
mer
Festival). and Clover.” Tighter, Tighter” sold
The full schedule over a million copies and earned
of Katz Concert Alive N’ Kickin’ a gold record.
the Abakua Afro-Latin Dance Company is just one of the Series events can
JAMes DALe – Gospel
groups participating in the five week long Jamaica Dance be found below.
For more inforSun July 17 at 5:00 p.m. @ SpringFestival.
mation, go to field Park, Springfield Boulevard
between 146th and 147th Avenues in
more. JAMS will also bring back its www.queensbp.org/katzconcerts.
Springfield Gardens
Classic Car Showcase featuring vinALIve n’ KICKIn’ – Cover band
tage, restored and new autos.
(continued on page 26)
The daylong affair is sponsored by from the 60’s to today
various community, city and national
businesses and organizations, including Community Board 12, Jamaica
LEGAL NOTICE
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Center Improvement Association,
the 103rd Precinct, Jamaica YMCA,
National Amusements, United States SUPPLEMENTALSUMMONS Shakira Mclaurin, Shativa YOUR HOME If you do not
No. 12697/2014 Filed:
McLaurin, Troy Starks, Char- respond to this Summons and
Army, Money Gram, Empire Blue Index
June 10, 2016 Plaintiff desigmaine Blount, Defendants. Complaint by serving a copy
and others.
nates Queens County as the TO THE ABOVE NAMED
of the answer on the attorney
Aug. 14
Jazz in the garden and Buffet
Dinner Fundraiser
Presented by the Federated Blocks
of Laurelton. Join us as we celebrate
another year of bettering the community. Donations will be set at $35 a
person. Festivities will include a delicious dinner prepared and provided
by members of the civic group, as
well as live music provided by traditional jazz and rock band 2-4-1 for
patrons sit back and enjoy.
The dinner will take place Auguest
14, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. For more
information how to get tickets, plase
contact us at the office telephone
number (718) 514-0223.
the Queens Concert series
The 2016 Katz Concert Series
kicks off on June 26 right here in the
borough of Queens. Whether you’re
trying to stay in Southeast Queens
or willing to take the subway, there
bound to be a show for you. From
R&B singer Ginuwine to hip hop
group Kid ‘n Play to Mo’Town throw
backs the Moon Lighters, Queens is
the place to be for some of the coolest performances this summer. Concerts will takes place in Forest Hills,
place of trial. Venue is based
upon the County in which
the Mortgage premises is situated. SUPREME COURT OF
THE STATE OF NEW YORK
COUNTY OF QUEENS U.S.
Bank Trust, N.A., as Trustee
for LSF9 Master Participation
Trust Plaintiff - against - Cecil
Smith, as Administrator of
the Estate of William Smith,
deceased, Brenda Smith, as
Heir to the Estate of William
Smith, deceased, if Brenda
Smith be living and if she be
dead, any and all persons
who are spouses, widows,
grantees, mortgagees, lienor,
heirs, devisees, distributees,
or successors in interest of
such of the above as may
be dead, and their spouses,
heirs, devisees, distributees
and successors in interest, all
of whom and whose names
and places of residences are
unknown to Plaintiff, William
Smith as Heir to the Estate
of William Smith, deceased,
Selwyn Smith as Heir to
the Estate of William Smith,
deceased, Akeem Smith, as
Heir to the Estate of William
Smith, deceased, United
States of America, New York
State Department of Taxation
and Finance, New York City
Environmental Control Board,
New York City Parking Violations Bureau, New York City
Transit Adjudication Bureau,
DEFENDANT(S): 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 attorneys for the plaintiff within
twenty (20) days after service
of this Summons, exclusive of
the day of service (or within
thirty (30) days after service
is complete if this Summons
is not personally delivered to
you within the State of New
York). In case of your failure
to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against
you by default for the relief
demanded in the Complaint.
NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT
THE OBJECT of the above
captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure
$256,900.00 and interest,
recorded in the Office of the
City Register of the City of
New York on April 20, 2007,
in CRFN 2007000206042,
covering premises known
as 189-35 117th Road, Saint
Albans, NY 11412. 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. NOTICE YOU
ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING
for the Mortgage company
who filed this foreclosure
proceeding against you and
filing the answer with the
court, a default judgment
may be entered and you can
lose your home. Speak to an
attorney or go to the court
where your case is pending
for further information on
how to answer the Summons
and protect your property.
Sending a payment to your
Mortgage company will not
stop this foreclosure action.
YOU MUST RESPOND BY
SERVING A COPY OF THE
ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF
(MORTGAGE COMPANY)
AND FILING THE ANSWER
WITH THE COURT. Dated:
Williamsville, New York April
12, 2016 By: Stephen J. Wallace, Esq. Frenkel, Lambert,
Weiss, Weisman & Gordon,
LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 53
Gibson Street Bay Shore, New
York 11706 (631) 969-3100
Our File No.: 01 -070880-F00
TO: Cecil Smith, as Administrator of the Estate of William
Smith 1434 East 88th Street,
2nd Floor Brooklyn, N Y 1
1236 Brenda Smith, as Heir
to the Estate of William Smith
United States of America New
York State Department of
Taxation and Finance
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What’s Up
(continued from page 25)
Center for the Arts, NYC Parks and
City Councilmember Donovan Richards, Jr.
Born and raised in Jamaica
Queens, New York, James Dale, the
son of Annie and James Dale Jr., has
a strong love for music. At the age of
14, James was enrolled into a gifted
music program where he developed
as a vocalist and songwriter. James
recently released his new single entitled “Change My Life,” from his first
solo project, “The Introduction.”
QUEENS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Wed July 27 at 7 p.m. @ St John’s
University.
In partnership with St John’s
University and Queens Symphony
Orchestra
Queens Symphony Orchestra is
the borough’s only professional orchestra and the oldest and largest
professional arts organization in
Queens. QSO is comprised of professional, Local 802 union musicians
who also perform on Broadway and
with the New York City Ballet and
other freelance regional orchestras.
QSO’s vision and mission statements
reflect the organization’s priority of
service to the culturally diverse members of the Queens community. QSO
has continued to provide numerous
programs to the borough of Queens,
presenting at least 25 concerts
throughout the year, serving 30,000
residents, including 8,000 youth.
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