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Vol. 45, No. 32 August 6-12, 2015 • queenstribune.com
FAITH
RESTORED
A year after spearheading the sacking
of embattled CEO Tom Galante for a
spending scandal, Borough President
Melinda Katz allocates $14 million for
Queens Library improvements.
By Domenick Rafter, Page 3.
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Queens DeaDline
Katz Renews Faith, Funds In Library
By Domenick RafteR
Editor in Chief
A little more than a year after Borough President Melinda Katz removed
six members of the Queens Library’s
Board of Trustees after they supported retaining CEO Tom Galante amid
controversy that he misspent library
funds, Katz appears to have regained
some faith in the organization.
The borough president announced
this week an allocation of $14 million
of her Fiscal Year 2016 discretionary
capital funds for important expansions, renovations and technology
across 12 library branches throughout
the borough.
“The millions of families who rely
on the Queens Library services deserve
nothing less than a world-class library system,” Katz said in a statement. “The Board of Trustees – which
the Mayor and I reformed in 2014
thanks to prompt state legislation –
continues to move the Library in the
right direction consistent with its educational purpose. This capital allocation will help ensure the Queens Library branches remain up-to-date
and better able to serve its educational
purpose as a community hub of learning, literacy and culture.”
According to Katz’s office, the $14
million includes:
$3.8 million for the expansion of
the Arverne branch
$3.5 million for interior renovations at Baisley Park
$96,000 for security cameras at Bay
Terrace
$500,000 for the upgrading of the
HVAC system, and $65,000 for security cameras, both at Douglaston/
Little Neck
$81,000 for security cameras at East
Flushing
$2.75 million for a second elevator
at the Flushing branch
$800,000 for to replace the Ozone
Park branch’s roof
$78,000 for security cameras at
Rosedale
$2.2 million for exterior façade and
multi-purpose room renovations at St.
Albans
$81,000 for security cameras at
South Ozone Park
$95,000 for security cameras at
Steinway, and
$122,000 for security cameras at
the recently-renovated Woodhaven
branch.
“Queens Library greatly appreciates the investment Borough President Katz is making in library infrastructure and technology,” Interim
President and CEO Bridget QuinnCarey said in a statement. “Creating
inviting, inspiring spaces and keeping our library buildings in a state of
good repair protects the resources our
community libraries offer, and ensures
a welcoming and secure environment
File Photo
Borough President Melinda Katz allocated $14 million in capital
funds for the Queens library.
for millions of customers.”
In the wake of scandal last year,
in which Galante and other senior library staff were accused of using the
organization’s funds for lavish dinners
and renovations for Galante’s personal office, the library has been under a
criminal probe by the FBI and an audit
from City Comptroller Scott Stringer’s
office. The Board of Trustees refused
to remove Galante as president in early 2014, and Katz successfully sought
a change in state law to allow her to
remove members appointed by the
borough president. She did, removing
six members who supported Galante,
and named new members who voted
to oust him.
Stringer’s audit, in his words,
“raised questions” about the involvement of Quinn-Carey, though he and
other officials lauded her for forcing
out several other top library officials
earlier this year.
After Promise Of Removal, Offenders Found
By tess mcRae
Editor
A little more than a month ago,
Councilman Ruben Wills (D-South
Jamaica) stood in front of the Skyway
Motel on South Conduit Avenue –
now a men’s homeless shelter – and
announced the removal of convicted
and registered sex offenders.
“As of today [July 7], the [Department of Homeless Services] announced that Skyway is not a compliant shelter and they will be removing
the sexual offenders in an expedited
basis out of the shelter,” Wills said at
the time.
However, the councilman recently
discovered the placement of two new
sex offenders in Skyway after a socalled commitment from DHS.
“It’s been about 32 days now and
up until this point, we hadn’t heard
much, but we now know the shelter
swapped four men out and four men
in and two of those individuals are
convicted sex offenders,” Will said
during a press conference on Tuesday
in front of the shelter.
Controversy erupted over the discovery of sex offenders within the
shelter because of it’s proximity to an
Photo by tess McRae
Councilman Ruben Wills held a
press conference after he discovered two sex offenders had
been newly-placed at the skyway shelter.
elementary school.
The two new offenders both committed sex acts with children – one age
10, the other age 6 – that they knew
through some kind of pre-existing relationship with the victims’ families.
Though Wills said he was frustrated by the new development, he aired
on the side of caution, saying the shelter agency reported the two residents
were in the pipeline prior to their
commitment made in July.
“I just got off the phone with the
administration, and they guaranteed
they are aggressively moving up the
schedule to remove all sex offenders
out of this shelter because this is, as
you know, a non-compliant shelter,”
Wills said. “They admitted that the
swap was not intentional and that it
was already in the system, I have no
other choice but to believe that.”
Not only, Wills said, is the noncompliance a hindrance on the community and taxpayers, but also on the
shelter residents who are compliant.
The elected official, whose district has
one of the highest number of shelters
in the borough, said a shelter not operating in compliance with the law
puts the civil liberties of non-offender
residents at risk.
Wills said he anticipates the two
offenders to be removed before the
start of the school year, but added the
NYPD beefed-up security during ar-
rival and dismissal times in the past.
“The precinct has just been great,”
he said. “But I want to emphasize that
no incidents have occurred involving
our children, but their safety is certainly a priority.”
The DHS, in a written statement issued to the Queens Tribune, said they
provide their own security as well to
ensure children and neighborhood
and shelter residents are safe.
“We are working aggressively to
secure appropriate shelter placements
for these residents. The facility continues to have increased security, including seven guards on duty 24 hours a
day, seven days a week, and security
transports clients to and from the subway,” the agency’s statement read.
Perhaps the most productive result of the discovery will come in the
form of a complete review of the DHS
screening process.
Should DHS renege on their review, or should additional offenders
be found after the relocation of the
two currently in residence at Skyway,
Wills said he will be there, continuing to fight for his constituents. Reach
Editor Tess McRae at (718) 357-7400
ext. 123, [email protected] or
follow her on Twitter @tess_mcrae.
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Residents Fret Over Planned Youth Facility
By Jon Cronin
Alarmed residents of Queens Village
packed the Church of the Living God on
Jamaica Avenue Friday night, regarding
what may be the eminent occupation of
Close to Home program hosting a juvenile detention center in their residential
neighborhood at the corner of 207th
Street and Jamaica Avenue.
“The fact that all of you came out
tonight is impressive,” said state Sen.
Leroy Comrie (D-St. Albans), who organized the event. Comrie explained
the Close to Home program was initiated by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to have
juvenile criminals serve their time
closer to their families rather than
hundreds of miles upstate.
“Good thought, but the practical
implementation of it is problematic,”
said Comrie.
The theme of the evening’s meeting was organization. “We to need to
come up with a clear plan of action,”
said Comrie.
First, Comrie believes, they should
organize a meeting with the owner of
the property and find out his shortand long-term needs are. He encouraged everyone to leave their phone
numbers to stay informed.
He believes that Boystown, NY, a
youth-centered not-for-profit charity,
was implementing the Close to Home
program, has ended their contract recently and now the project is on hold.
Community Board 13 member
Richard Hellenbrecht said they should
continue their efforts with lawyers
Paul Thomas and Ali Najmi, a City
Council candidate, who are both offering their services pro-bono.
Najmi, who is running to replace
Mark Weprin, believes the center,
“demonstrates severe economic and
safety issues.”
Pastor Brian Gibbs, said he hopes
the meeting “is a chance to engage ACS
(Administration for Children’s Services,)” and that there is no effort to categorize this children and that they can
hopefully secure funding that will aid
in the improvement of their lives.
Comrie agreed, “This could an opportunity to provide services in a way
that the community wants.”
Community Board 13 Chairman
Bryan Block said he believes they
should “Flood the governor with calls
everyday. They will know this community exists.”
Hellenbrecht added that ACS met
with CB 13 in March and told them
the area has many beds for those areas.
He did some research and discovered
information from the State Office of
Mental Health in which community
boards 12 and 13 have a much higher
saturation of group homes than other
local boards.
Terryl Ebony DeMendonca, a candidate for the State Assembly, said that
when she met with the ACS in March
at the Community Board 13 meeting
were incredibly disrespectful.
“We’re coming regardless of if
you like this or not…You don’t have
a choice,” she quoted them as saying. She believes their comments were
rude, adding, “They work for us, we
don’t work for them.”
Dosamantes Misses CFB Deadline
By Lynn Edmonds
Staff Writer
District 23 candidate Celia Dosamantes had not disclosed her campaign contributions to the Campaign
Finance Board as of Tuesday, making her just shy of three weeks late to
file, and possibly ineligible to receive
matching funds for money she raised
prior to July 11.
The Campaign Finance Board
requires all candidates to file their
contributions at given deadlines, as a
means of ensuring public accountability. Candidates who collected contributions from at least 75 people within
their district and met other require-
ments can get up to $6 from the city
for every $1 contributed to their campaign by New York City Residents.
Dosamantes, a former aide to Rep.
Grace Meng (D-Flushing) and Assemblyman David Weprin (D-Fresh
Meadows), said she had not filed because she “found errors on some of the
contributor’s forms and checks.”
“I had a choice, I could file on time,
and have incorrect, incomplete information, and that wouldn’t be fair to
the people in my district, or, I could
file late,” the candidate said.
Dosamantes said she had personally
tracked down each individual to correct
the checks and forms that were inaccurate, and this had delayed her filing.
Late filing for City Council races
are penalized at $50 a day, though the
campaign finance board can adjust the
fine at their discretion. If the information is not filed by Aug. 10, the failure
to file fee is set at $750.
Matt Solars, a spokesman for the
NYC Campaign Finance Board, said that
in recent years the board had succeeded
in reducing late filings by improving
their online disclosure software and assigning liaisons to each campaign.
In 2005 election cycle, for instance,
153 campaign finance statements were
filed late. In the 2013 election cycle
that number dropped to 88.
The District 23 primary will be held
on Sept. 10.
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Is One Auxiliary Car Enough At The 109th?
By Lynn Edmonds
Staff Writer
Auxiliary police officers in the
109th Precinct, which covers Flushing and Bay Terrace, said they did not
have enough cars to get to their details,
especially during the summer months
when they are stationed at Flushing
Meadows Corona Park and at the Fort
Totten fireworks display.
The fireworks on July 1 was especially tough, with around 60 auxiliaries
on duty that day, and only one vehicle
slated for the auxiliary force.
“Do you know how many times
we had to go back and forth to the
precinct?” one officer, who asked to
remain anonymous, said. “We had to
borrow a friend’s van.”
Auxiliary police are local volunteers who aim to increase uniformed
presence on the street, both for the
sake of preventing crime and improving community-police relations. They
typically work events such as carnivals, church processions, or the scene
of an accident.
As such, both their mission to be
accessible to the community and the
specific duties that they carry out require them to be on foot rather than in
a patrol car.
But three officers at the 109th Precinct insisted that the single car they
had slated for auxiliary use was not
enough considering that they had
File Photo
Some auxiliary cops at the
109th Precinct think one auxiliary cop car is not enough.
around 100 auxiliary officers, and that
their precinct extended all the way
from College Point to the Cross Island
Parkway.
“It’s very frustrating, very hard,
because you do these details and you
get on average 10, 15, 20 [officers] and
you can’t get them there,” the auxiliary officer said.
The officer and his associates said
they had reached out to local officials
funds for a vehicle.
“I hear that right now these big
guys like [Councilman] Peter Koo,
[Councilman Paul] Vallone, they all
just allocated like a million dollars in
funds. Couldn’t a couple of them just
split it or something?”
He said they weren’t asking for
much.
“Give us the hand-me downs, give
police precincts to have only one auxus the used cars.”
The auxiliary officers said they iliary vehicle, for doing post checks,
would approach electeds while on shift not patrols.
“They are meant to walk, they are
and mention the issue, but that they
didn’t feel comfortable writing a letter, supposed to have specific stationary
as some politicians had requested, due posts,” he said of auxiliary officers.
“I don’t ever remember having
to department protocol.
Koo had nonetheless recently been more than one car, possibly a van,” Simade aware of the issue through more manowitz added.
Only in certain years would a van
formal channels.
“Council Member Koo met with be added to the roster, if the departthe Deputy Inspector of the 109th ment had an old one to spare, he said.
An officer who an[Precinct] on another
swered the phone in the
matter when the DI
107th Precinct, which
mentioned they could “We’re treating that
covers Fresh Meaduse an auxiliary van. request seriously, and
ows and South FlushWe’re treating that exploring how we can
ing, said they had one
request seriously, and make it happen in the
auxiliary car, while an
exploring how we can future.”
make it happen in the
– Scott Siebert, officer who answered
future,” Communicaspokesperson, the phone in the 105th
tions Director Scott
Councilman Peter Koo Precinct, which covers
neighborhoods from
Siebert said.
Bellerose to Rosedale,
Siebert also noted
that Koo had recently won funding for said they had two vehicles.
But the 109th Precinct officer said
more police officers in the 109th Prethat he was sure the 107th Precinct
cinct.
Assemblyman Michael Simanowitz had a 15-passenger van, and at least
(D-Kew Garden Hills), who’d been a two other auxiliary cars.
And besides, he said, they have
commanding auxiliary officer in the
107th Precinct before he became an fewer auxiliary officers.
“We’ve been battling this for a long
assemblyman, admitted that in the
case of the Fort Totten fireworks, “if I time, and we’ll probably battle it for
was the driver, I don’t know how hap- more to come,” the officer said.
Reach Lynn Edmonds at (718) 357py I would be about having to make
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EDIT PAGE
In Our OpInIOn
In YOur OpInIOn
A Better Queens Library
Last year the Queens Library went through an ordeal when it was discovered
then-CEO Tom Galante and other top officials misused funds. The revelation left
Queens and the rest of the library system shaken and threatened the reputation of
the Queens Library, one of the most highly-regarded library systems in the country,
and the public’s confidence at a time when the public budgets were being squeezed
and groups are fighting for pieces of a dwindling pie.
While questions still remain over what interim CEO (and former COO) Bridget
Quinn-Carey knew and what she was involved in during the spending scandal, it
appears that the organization has made strides to improve its reputation.
Today, a year after Borough President Melinda Katz lobbied the State Legislature
to give her the authority to force change in the library’s leadership, she is signaling a
renewed trust in the Queens Library by investing $14 million in much-needed capital
funds into the organization. The end result will be a better library experience for its
customers and a stronger organization.
While we praised Katz’s swift attention to last year’s scandal, and her funding
of the organization’s needed capital expenses, we implore her, and all of our public
officials, to remain vigilant against spending abuses We expect the new leadership
at the Queens Library to continue their work to restore and keep the public’s trust.
Put LaGuardia Money Elsewhere
H
To The Editor:
e re i n Nor t h e a s t
Queens, airplane noise
from LaGuardia Airport is overwhelming, from
before 6 a.m. to well after midnight most days, with planes
booming overhead every one
to three minutes, one after another, after another. Don’t tell
me I shouldn’t have bought a
house near an airport – this was
not a problem when I bought
18 years ago, and only started
within the last few years.
We do not need a modernized airport. We need to replace
short-haul flights of less than
600 miles with high-speed rail.
We do not need a modernized
airport; we need subways and
commuter railroads that work.
Put our tax money where a
huge majority of New Yorkers
want it, Mr. Cuomo: subway
and railroad maintenance and
repair, and new subway and
commuter railroad facilities
and lines. Find a way to raise
the multiple billions needed to
do this by making Wall Street
and the wealthy pay their fair
share. Stop being a politician,
and become a leader, if you’re
capable of that. No money for
LaGuardia Airport!
David R. yale,
Bayside
Op-ED
Congress Should Vote Down Bad Iran Nuclear Deal
By AssemBlymAn
michAel simAnowitz
O
ver the last number of
weeks, there has been
a great deal of debate
over the pending lift of global
sanctions on Iran. Pundits on
both sides of the issue will
earnestly make the case for
their given position. Those who
support the deal say that this
will bring peace and stability to
the region. They maintain that
this is the only way to assure
that Iran doesn’t achieve the
capability to create a nuclear
weapon. Those opposed say
that Iran is not to be trusted
and the lifting of sanctions will
bring them dangerously close to
achieving a nuclear weapon.
I count myself among the
skeptics.
I fear that this deal will fail
to fully dismantle Iran’s nuclear
program. By the White House’s
own admission, the deal doesn’t
provide for “anytime, anywhere” inspections. These
inspections are not intrusive
enough to ensure that Iran does
not cheat. So I ask, how can
we be sure that a country that
has routinely lied and cheated
on previous inspections be
trusted? It has never responded
properly to the concerns of previous international inspectors.
There is no sure way to keep
Iran from achieving nuclearthreshold status.
In fact, a former Deputy
Director of the International
Atomic Energy Agency, Olli
Heinonen, said a provision that
gives Iran up to 24 days to grant
access to inspectors might enable it to escape detection. “It
is clear that a facility of sizable
scale cannot simply be erased in
three weeks’ time without leaving traces. However, a 24-day
adjudicated timeline reduces
detection probabilities exactly
where the system is weakest:
detecting undeclared facilities
and materials.”
In return for its compliance,
Iran will receive sanction relief
to the tune of $150 billion. In
addition, not only will the embargo on conventional weapons
be lifted, but the embargo on
selling Iran ballistic missiles
and ballistic missile technology
will be lifted. The result? As Iran
continues to develop a nuclear
weapon, it will be able to buy
and develop ballistic missiles
to deliver that weapon.
Another important question
is how much of that $150 billion
will end up in the hands of terrorists. Iran’s financing of Shiite
death squads in Iraq and Taliban
terrorists in Afghanistan is well
known. Iranian terrorist proxies, such as Hamas, Hezbollah
and Islamic Jihad, are responsible for countless American
deaths – not to mention the
thousands of missiles aimed at
civilians in Israel. This “historic
deal” makes no demand Iran
abandon its bad behavior.
Congress now has less than
60 days to act. They must not go
along with this bad deal. They
must tell the President and
the international community
that any deal must include a
truly verifiable end to Iran’s
nuclear program and an end
to its state sponsored terrorist
surrogates.
Michael Nussbaum
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upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail process to the LLC,
3731 73rd St Ste# 6S Jackson
Heights, NY 11372. Purpose:
Any Lawful Purpose
________________________
TDA Universal LLC Arts of
Org filed with NY Sec of
State (SSNY) on 4/2/15. Office: Queens County. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process may
be served. SSNY shall mail
process to: 61-14 212th St,
Bayside, NY 11364. General
Purposes.
________________________
Notice of formation of D & F
REGO PARK LLC Arts. of Org.
filed with the Sect’y of State
of NY (SSNY) on 5/18/2015.
Office location, County of
Queens. The street address is:
237-29 Hollywood Ave., Little
Neck NY. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail process to: c/o The
DeIorio Law Group PLLC,
800 Westchester Ave., Ste.
S-608, Rye Brook, NY 10573.
Purpose: any lawful act.
________________________
NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME
CO U R T CO U N T Y O F
QUEENS Bank of America,
N.A. s/b/m to BAC Home
Loans Servicing, LP f/k/a
Countrywide Home Loans
Servicing, LP, Plaintiff, against
Audrey D. Coburn a/k/a
Audrey Denise Wright, et
al., Defendant(s). Pursuant
to a Judgment of Foreclosure
and Sale duly dated 4/6/2015
I, the undersigned Referee
will sell at public auction
at the Queens County Supreme Court, 88-11 Sutphin
Boulevard, Jamaica, New
York, in Courtroom #25 on
08/14/2015 at 10:00AM,
premises known as 111-63
147th Street, Jamaica, NY
11435 All that certain plot
piece or parcel of land, with
the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying
and being in the Borough and
County of Queens, City and
State of New York, BLOCK:
11964, LOT: 68. Approximate amount of judgment
$319,989.10 plus interest
and costs. Premises will be
sold subject to provisions
of filed Judgment Index#
15463/2009. Susan L. Borko,
Esq., Referee FRENKEL LAMBERT WEISS WEISMAN &
GORDON, LLP Attorney for
Plaintiff, 53 Gibson Street,
Bay Shore, NY 11706 01046036-F00 1145098
________________________
Notice of Formation of
GEORGE ENGEL LIC, LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
06/23/15. Office location:
Queens County. Princ. office of LLC: 34-07 37th Ave.,
Long Island City, NY 11101.
SSNY designated as agent
of LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail process to
the LLC at the addr. of its
princ. office. Purpose: Any
lawful activity.
________________________
Notice of Formation of Black
Mirror Comics, LLC. Arts. of
Org. filed with Secy. of State
of NY (SSNY) on 6/24/15.
Office location: Queens
County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail process to:
Registered Agent Solutions,
Inc., 99 Washington Avenue,
Ste. 1008, Albany, NY 12260.
Purpose: any lawful activity.
________________________
Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC).
Name: 11-11 LIC DEVELOPMENT, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary
of State of New York (SSNY)
on 06/25/2015. NY office
location: Queens County.
SSNY has been designated as
agent of the LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. The address to which
the SSNY shall mail a copy of
any process against the LLC
served upon him/her is ALEX
LAU, 136-19 FRANKLIN AVE,
SUITE 6A, FLUSHING, NY
11365 Purpose of LLC: Any
lawful purpose.
________________________
Notice of formation of EZ
5727 LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary
of State of New York SSNY
on 6/22/2015. Office located
in QUEENS. SSNY has been
designated for service of
process. SSNY shall mail copy
of any process served against
the LLC 5727 263 St. Little
Neck, NY, 11362. Purpose:
any lawful purpose.
________________________
Notice of Qualification of
SPG JFK II LLC. Authority
filed with Secy. of State of NY
(SSNY) on 06/15/15. Office
location: Queens County.
LLC formed in Delaware
(DE) on 06/09/15. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail process to: c/o Seagis
Property Group, LP, 100
Front St., Ste. 350, West
Conshohocken, PA 19428.
Address to be maintained in
DE: c/o The Corporation Trust
Company, 1209 Orange St.,
Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts
of Org. filed with the DE Secy.
of State, John G. Townsend
Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4,
Dover, DE 19901. Purpose:
any lawful activities.
________________________
Nurge Realty LLC, a domestic
LLC, filed with the SSNY on
6/15/15. Office location:
Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom
process against the LLC may
be served. SSNY shall mail
process to The LLC, 56-10
Nurge Ave., Maspeth, NY
11378. General purpose.
________________________
NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY
OF QUEENS MorEquit y,
Inc., Plaintiff, against Lorna
A. Gilbert a/k/a Lorna Gilbert; William A. Gilbert, III
a/k/a William A. Gilbert
a/k/a William Gilbert; et al,
Defendant(s). Pursuant to
a Judgment of Foreclosure
and Sale duly dated October
3, 2013 I, the undersigned
Referee will sell at public auction at the Queens County
Courthouse, Courtroom #25,
88-11 Sutphin Boulevard,
Jamaica, New York on August 14, 2015 at 10:00AM,
premises known as 115-45
198th Street, Saint Albans, NY
11412. All that certain plot
piece or parcel of land, with
the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying
and being in the Borough and
County of Queens, City and
State of NY, Block 11039 Lot
21. Approximate amount of
judgment $222,511.36 plus
interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to
provisions of filed Judgment
Index# 21469/2012. Wyatt
N. Gibbons, Esq., Referee
Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC
Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff
175 Mile Crossing Boulevard,
Rochester, NY 14624 (877)
759-1835 Dated: July 7, 2015
1145446 7/16, 7/23, 7/30,
08/06/2015
________________________
DOLPHIN DATA CAPTURE,
LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with
the SSNY on 06/08/2015.
Office loc: Queens County.
SSNY has been designated
as agent upon whom process against the LLC may
be served. SSNY shall mail
process to: 1805 215 St., Apt.
11E, Bayside, NY 11360. Reg
Agent: Gregg Marwin, 1805
215 St., Apt. 11E, Bayside, NY
11360. Purpose: Any Lawful
Purpose.
________________________
SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF QUEENS STATION
L AND CORP., Plaintif f
against JAMES STATON,
Defendant(s). Pursuant to a
Judgment of Partition and
Sale entered on March 13,
2015. I, the undersigned
Referee will sell at public auction at the Queens County
General Courthouse, 88-11
Sutphin Boulevard, Court
Room # 25, Jamaica, N.Y. on
the 14th day of August, 2015
at 10:00 a.m. Said premises
known as 27-50 McIntosh
Street, Queens, N.Y. (Block:
1659, Lots: 34). Premises will
be sold subject to provisions
of filed judgment and terms
of sale. Index No. 13217-12.
Stephen D. Hans, Esq., Referee. Howard M. Lefkowitz,
Esq. Attorney(s) for Plaintiff
32 Flag Hill Road Chappaqua,
New York 10514 Tel: 914769-7668
________________________
SUPREME COURT OF THE
STATE OF NE W YORK
COUNTY OF QUEENS Index
No. 706486/2014 Date filed:
6/8/2015 SUPPLEMENTAL
SUMMONS Premises being
foreclosed: 80-37 Cypress
Avenue Ridgewood, NY
11385 ACTION TO FORECLOSE MORTGAGE ON
PROPERTY SITUATED IN
QUEENS COUNTY OneWest
Bank N.A., Plaintiff, -againstMazimiliano Hurtado a/k/a
Maximilliano Hurtado a/k/a
Maximiliano F. Hurtado and
all the heirs at law, next of
kin, distributees, devisees,
grantees, trustees, lienors,
creditors, assignees and successors in interest of any of
the aforesaid defendants at
law, next of kin, distributees,
devisees, grantees, trustees,
lienors, creditors, assignees
and successors in interest
of the aforesaid classes of
persons, if they or any of
them be dead, and their respective husbands, wives or
widows, if any, all of whom
and whose names and places
of residence are unknown to
the plaintiff, except as herein
stated, Secretary of Housing
and Urban Development,
City of New York Environmental Control Board, Petro,
Inc, Velocity Investments,
LLC, CSGA, LLC, Midland
Funding LLC doing business
in New York as Midland
Funding of Delaware LLC,
New York. State Department
of Taxation and Finance-Tax
Compliance Division¬C.0.ATC, Internal Revenue Service-United States of America, Defendant(s), TO THE
ABOVE DEFENDANTS: YOU
ARE HEREBY SUMMONED
to answer the complaint in
this action, and to serve a
copy of your answer, or if
the Complaint is not served
with this Summons, to serve
a Notice of Appearance on
the Plaintiff’s attorneys within
twenty (20) days after the
service Of the Summons
exclusive of the day of service
or within thirty (30) days
after completion of service
where service is made in
any other manner than by
personal delivery within the
State. In case of your failure
to appear, or answer, judgment will be taken against
you by default for the relief
demanded in this Complaint.
WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO
COLLEC T A DEBT, ANY
INFORMATION OBTAINED
WILL BE USED FOR THAT
PURPOSE. TO THE ABOVE
NAMED DEFENDANTS: The
foregoing Summons is served
upon you by publication
pursuant to an Order of the
Hon. Robert J. McDonald, a
Justice of the Supreme Court,
Queens County, entered May
20, 2015 and filed with the
complaint and other papers
in the Queens County Clerk’s
Office. The object of the action is to foreclose a mortgage
recorded in Office of the
Register of the County of
Queens on Aug. 29, 2005
in CFRN#2005000482586
covering prem. k/a 80-37
Cypress Ave., Ridgewood,
NY a/k/a Block 3731, Lot
115. NOTICE YOU ARE
IN DANGER OF LOSING
YOUR HOME If you do not
respond to this summons and
complaint by serving a copy
of the answer on the attorney
for the mortgage company
who ‘filed this foreclosure
proceeding against you and
filing the answer with the
court, a default judgment
may be entered and you can
lose your home. Speak to an
attorney or go to the court
where your case is pending
for further information on
how to answer the summons
and protect your property
Sending a payment to your
mortgage company will not
stop this foreclosure action.
YOU MUST RESPOND BY
SERVING A COPY OF THE
ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF
(MORTGAGE COMPANY)
AND FILING THE ANSWER
WITH THE COURT. Dated:
Carle Pace, New York June
4, 2015 Cynthia L. Malone,
Esq. Stein, Weiner & Roth,
L.L.P. Attorneys for Plaintiff
One Old Country Road,
Suite 113 Carle Place, New
York 11514 (516)-742-1212
66350/INDY-FF WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A
DEBT, ANY INFORMATION
OBTAINED WILL BE USED
FOR THAT PURPOSE.
________________________
Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company (LLC)
Name: JOMEIRA REALTY,
LLC Articles of Organization
filed by the Department
of State of New York on:
04/06/2015 Office location:
County of Queens. Purpose:
any and all lawful activities.
Secretary of State of New
York (SSNY) designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against is may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to: c/o Schwartzman Garelik Walker & Troy,
P.C. 355 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10017
________________________
Holding 12, LLC, a foreign
LLC, filed with the SSNY on
6/23/15, using the fictitious
name Court Square 12 Holding, LLC. Office location:
Queens County. SSNY is
designated as agent upon
whom process against the
LLC may be served. SSNY shall
mail process to The LLC, 5101
Grand Ave., Maspeth, NY
11378. General Purposes.
________________________
Notice of Formation of 11-07
Welling Court LLC. Arts. of
Org. filed with Secy. of State
of NY (SSNY) on 6/21/12.
Office location: Queens
County. SSNY designated
as agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail
process to: The LLC, 11-07
Welling Court, Long Island
City, NY 11102. Purpose:
any lawful activity.
________________________
Notice of formation of Abdon’s Vdip, LLC. Articles of
Organization filed with the
Secretary of State of New
York SSNY on 6/3/15. Office
located in Queens county.
SSNY has been designated
for service of process. SSNY
shall mail copy of any process
served against the LLC to
BUSINESS FILINGS INCORPORATED 187 WOLF RD
SUITE 101 ALBANY, NY
12205. Purpose: any lawful
purpose.
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qUEENS thiS wEEk
Photos by jon cronin
tom wilke, and his wife Barbara, of Glendale are among the
borough’s largest beekeepers.
wilke’s bees are kept in hives in
Glendale, Ridgewood and this
Long island City rooftop, under
the queensboro Bridge.
Meet Glendale’s
Keeper Of The
Honeybees
By Jon Cronin
When shaking the hand of a large
burly man on a bar stool at a local
Ridgewood brewery, no one expects
him to say, “Oh, I’m one of the largest
beekeepers in Queens.”
He did and added, “Would you
like to see my hives?” It was an interesting question that wouldn’t usually
pull someone off a comfortable seat
with a fresh pint in hand.
He introduced himself as Tom Wilke, a Glendale resident, and urged, “It’s
just out back,” behind the brewery. Indeed there were two colorful hives behind Finback’s warehouse style brewery. It was a warm summer night, not
yet into the dog days and there was not
a lot of activity around the hives.
With only cell phones to light the
activity of the bees, Wilke opened the
hives and motioned to come over and
smell the honey. Hesitance became the
operative word.
Walking back inside, Wilke noticed he had been stung and turned
to his wife Barbara to ask for a credit
card. The reason you get a card or
something of the like, he explained, is
because sometimes bees leave the sack
attached to the needle and squeezing
it then pulling would only inject more
venom. He then quickly removed it
with the scrape of a card.
Wilke has owned and operated Wilke Apiary for the past four years, after
being inspired by a farmer in upstate
New York. He took a class and ordered
his first two. “It’s relaxing,” he said.
In addition to the hives behind Finback brewery, he has several other locations throughout Queens. There are
two rooftops in Ridgewood and three
in Long Island City. It is there, on the
roof of a warehouse in Long Island
City, that Wilke keeps his largest set
of 11 hives, under the shadow of the
Queensboro Bridge, with the cityscape
as a backdrop.
As protection he calms the bees
with a tin smoker that burns burlap.
He notes this week he may not harvest
that much honey. He’s just stopping
by to check on their health and may
take a few frames, cut the caps off the
honeycombs, put them in a large spinner out of which he could get 30 to 40
pounds of honey.
Most people would be intimidated
by the swarm they see around a hive,
but it encourages Wilke.
“It shows their healthy…The bees are
orientating themselves. It’s like GPS,”
he explained. He said the bees will fly
up to three miles away and know their
way back once orientation sets in.
He explains that he buys Italian Carnolian honey bees that don’t
swarm like other sub-species of bees.
While picking his hive locations in
the concrete jungle, Wilke said he’s
been lucky. He shares the warehouse
rooftop with a local restaurant that
also uses the rooftop to grow vegetables and in throughout the spring the
bees can pollenate.
He still maintains his first location,
in the Long Island City Community
Garden which Barbara calls, “A little
oasis.” They have two hives there and
often enjoy coffee in the garden on
cool Sunday mornings.
For those who want to taste the end
product, Wilke’s honey is on sale at
the Ridgewood Market and in many
local restaurants and breweries that
enjoy buying local.
ten chickens strolling on 69th Avenue between Dartmouth and Exeter
streets, just steps from the Forest Hills
Tennis Stadium, late last month.
Several pedestrians, and at least
one cyclist, rode on, unfazed by the
feathery frolickers.
According to Frank Gulluscio, district manager of Community Board 6,
there haven’t been any complaints or
phone calls made about the lighthearted occurrence.
Pet owners are permitted to have
hens as pets throughout the five boroughs under New York Health Code
as long as neighbors don’t file a complaint. Residents don’t have any legal
obligations to register chickens as pets,
so the amount of chickens New Yorkers are raising is unknown. However,
city residents are not legally allowed to
own roosters.
Though a strange sight, a quick
search of social media shows New Yorkers have spotted roaming chickens in
recent years in neighborhoods such as
Jamaica, Richmond Hill and Corona.
Currently, Just Food has 834 registered members in its NYC-based City
Chicken Meetup group. The New York
Times reported the group had just 400
members in 2012.
By those statistics, there is all the
reason to believe that owning chickens in NYC is a growing phenomenon
and it will likely become common for
Queens residents to see a few loose
chickens wandering the streets.
Flushing BID Festival
By Lynn Edmonds
Staff Writer
The Flushing Business Improvement
District hosted their second annual festival on Saturday in Downtown Flushing, doubling the number of vendors
from the previous year, for a busy event
that gathered crowds despite the heat.
Restaurants such as Hong Kong
Taste, based in Elmhurst and Song’s
Family Food, based in Flushing, sold
a colorful array of dishes varying from
dim sum to Kimbap.
Bianca Ng, who chaired the program committee that organized the festival and sits on the board of directors,
said Flushing needed to think big in
terms of street festivals, like Brooklyn
and Manhattan do.
“Flushing is the business city,” she
said, “We want to have some festivities
to showcase the diversity of Flushing.”
Carrie, from Long Island, said the festival created a bridge between Chinese business owners and visitors who were not
familiar with their products or culture.
“When people don’t know a lot
about Chinese culture this is a good
way to introduce it to them.”
Ng also pointed out that the festival
featured cuisines from various provinces in China as well as Hong Kong,
Vietnam and Korea.
One Korean vendor was Song’s
Family Food, a family-owned business
started 10 years ago.
Eric Song, the grandson of the
founder, manned the booth. He sold
what is sometimes referred to as “Korean sushi” – Kimbap.
Asked the difference between Kimbap
and sushi, Song explained that Kimbap
is usually filled with cooked meats rather
than raw fish, and the rice is seasoned with
salt and sesame oil instead of vinegar.
Flushing-based Kung Fu Tea, which
bills themselves as the fastest growing
bubble tea business in North America,
with over 50 franchises, was also selling
their popular strawberry lemon tea.
In addition to food, other vendors
sold clothes or promoted businesses,
clubs and associations.
Diablo Team NYC offered a free lesson in Chinese yoyo for passersby.
“It’s easy to learn, hard to master” a
club member explained.
For one attendee, Frank Zhang, the
event only inspired him to think he
could do it better.
He pictured mixing it up with a
southern Cajun Crawfish boil.
He was looking for something “different,” he said. “Queens is not caught
up to Taiwan and China.”
Chickens Roam Free
Around Forest Hills
By FranCo Fino
An abundance of chickens were
spotted free-roaming in Forest Hills
these past few weeks. According to an
eyewitness account by a Queens Tribune staff member, there were about
Photo by Domenick RafteR
Chickens stroll along 69th Avenue in Forest hills Gardens last
month.
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CitiBike Finally Rolls Into Long Island City
By yvette Brown
Staff Writer
well with the community
every step of the way.
Councilman Jimmy Van
Bramer (D-Sunnyside) also
Bike share has finally
said he is looking forward
come to Queens.
to the CitiBike expansion
The expansion in
to the rest of Queens.
Queens began on Wednes“Since its inception Citi
day, when DOT CommisBike has provided New
sioner Polly Trottenberg,
Yorkers with a vital alternaMotivate CEO Jay Walder
tive mode of transportation
and other elected officials
that is empowering tens
and community leaders
of thousands every single
joined together for the
day,” Van Bramer said in
ribbon-cutting ceremony
a written statement. “Now
on Center Boulevard. This
we in Queens will have that
marks the first CitiBike
Photo Courtesy Nys seNate opportunity. For years I
installation in Queens
which will double the size State Sen. Mike Gianaris and other officials kick off fought to have our borough
incorporated into the naof the bike share network CitiBike in Long Island City Wednesday
tion’s largest bike share
from 6,000 to 12,000. The
next wave of CitiBikes to be installed bringing CitiBike to Astoria and other network and today that becomes a rewill continue to expand into Harlem, parts of western Queens. LIC was ality. I look forward to continuing our
Astoria, Prospect Heights, Boerum originally supposed to be part of the collaboration as we work to expand
Hill, Cobble Hill, Red Hook and Gow- original wave of CitiBike stations, but this popular program into Astoria,
anus by 2017.
due to Hurricane Sandy, plans had to Sunnyside, Woodside and beyond!”
The expansion is supported by an
“I am proud to have gotten western be reconstructed and LIC CitiBike staincreased sponsorship from Citi of
Queens included in the CitiBike ex- tions were delayed.
pansion plans,” said state Sen. Michael
With LIC being added to the first about $70.5 million which will extend
Gianaris (D-Astoria). “I look forward phase of expanding CitiBike into through 2024, a $21 million increase
to our other neighborhoods enjoying Queens, Gianaris said he believes the in the credit facility from the Goldthe benefits of CitiBike in the near fu- DOT will advise cyclists on the best man Sachs Urban Investment Group
ture.”
structured way to travel from western and an infusion of private capital from
When CitiBike was first introduced to eastern Queens. So far, Gianaris’ Motivate investors.
Motivate, a partner in helping with
several years ago, Gianaris encouraged team has not received any complaints
the opportunity to meet with the De- from members of the community. His the expansion of CitiBike, replaced the
partment of Transportation to discuss team said the DOT communicated software that powers CitiBike and re-
placed hardware at all existing stations
and docking points which helped Motivate to deliver accurate information
to customers through the CitiBike app
and improve the ease and reliability of
docking bikes. The bike offers a series
of new features and comforts including higher-quality parts and upgraded
seats to prevent water from pooling
when it rains. That way the bikes will
spend more time on the road and less
time in repair shops.
“Bike share will allow people to enjoy our neighborhood in a healthy, fun
way and facilitate easier travel around
western Queens, an area in dire need
of better mass transit.” said Gianaris.
“I am thrilled to see western Queens
given the opportunity to enjoy the
benefits of Citi Bike and look forward
to its further expansion into more of
our neighborhoods.”
The first 139 stations of CitiBike’s
expansion will be installed by early
fall. CitiBike’s annual membership is
$149 a year, but $60 for any New York
City Housing Authority resident. To
celebrate the expansion of CitiBike,
they’re offering a $25 discount to new
members who sign up by Aug. 31. For
more information about the stations
and memberships, visit citibikenyc.
com/expansion.
Reach Yvette Brown at (718)3577400 ext.128, ybrown@queenstribune.
com or @eveywrites
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State Renews Law Easing Ticketing Rules
By Franco Fino
Though New York’s restricted ticketing law was renewed this Spring, the
debate over whether or not rules regulating how tickets are resold are fair to
consumers continues.
Assemblywoman Margaret Markey
(D-Maspeth) sponsored the extension
of the law against restricted ticketing
in April.
Despite the continued discussions
regarding the legislation, a spokesperson for Markey said it would be
“highly unlikely” that there would be
any future complications regarding
renewing the law this upcoming year.
“The bill speaks for itself,” said a
Markey spokesman. “The existing system seems to be working.”
New York previously had a strict
law limiting the price for which tickets
could be resold on the open market.
With much pressure from a diverse
statewide coalition in opposition to
the restricted ticketing scheme, the
law preventing scalping was replaced
in 2007 with legislation allowing the
reselling of event tickets on the open
market, regulated by the Department
of State.
Then-Gov. David Paterson signed
an extension of the law in 2010, after
it expired. During that small window
of time, New York had reverted to its
previous anti-scalping law that saw
the resale of tickets containing a maximum price of two dollars above face
value.
Under a restricted ticketing system, when an individual purchases a
ticket to an event such as a New York
Mets game, those tickets become directly linked to the buyer’s credit card.
When the purchaser arrives to the
event, he or she must present a credit
card and photo identification to enter
the event. Ultimately, the purchased
tickets become non-transferable and
become difficult for consumers to give
away their tickets.
“Restricted ticketing is unique
in that it offends across the political
spectrum, negatively impacts diverse
constituencies, and would handicap a
wide variety of nonprofits, community
institutions and schools,” said Michael
Tobman, a Brooklyn-based political
consultant who helped organize New
Yorkers For Fan Fairness, which opposes restricted ticketing. “As far as
corporate grabs go, restricted ticketing instigates important opposition.”
The market scheme restricting
ticketing does not only present a level
of difficulty for people who actually
purchase tickets to attend events. As
previously mentioned, there are issues
for individuals seeking to buy tickets
as gifts for a friend or family member
as well as non profit organizations that
donate tickets to large groups. It also
affects people that desire to sell their
tickets through secondary marketing
companies.
The practice of restricted ticketing
also affects local restaurants and businesses that are in the vicinity of large
event venues.
“Limiting a ticket buyer’s ability
to resell or gift a ticket if their plans
change and they can no longer attend
an event, will, ultimately, mean that
fewer people will attend events,” said
the New York State Restaurant Association in support of Markey’s extension of the bill. “This, in turn, will
have a negative impact on restaurants
because fewer people attending an
event means fewer people patronizing
the bars and restaurants. It will also
impact any business which relies on
attendance at local events.”
As the NYSRA points out, the industry relies heavily upon individuals
who use buses or taxis to attend events
such as baseball games or concerts.
“When tour operators sell transportation and entertainment packages, the event tickets they purchase
must be transferable to their customers,” said the Bus Association of New
York State in a released memo. “With
restricted tickets, tour operators are
unable to buy quantities of tickets in
advance that can later be given or emailed to individual tour purchasers.”
The legislation banning restricted
ticketing remains one that has to be
renewed every year. The current law
will expire on May 14, 2016.
Jamaica’s
Best Pie
Photo by Walter Karling
Althea Viola proudly wears her
1st place ribbon and holding
her champion blueberry pie,
the winning dish at last month’s
Jamaica Pie Festival.
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POLICE BLOTTER
murder with depraved indifference and
leaving the scene of a fatal accident. He
ROBBERIES – The NYPD is seek- was arraigned, however, on charges of
second-degree murder,
ing the public’s assisfirst-degree manslaughtance in locating the
ter, leaving the scene
suspects wanted for
of an incident without
two robberies in Fresh
reporting a death and
Meadows and Springfourth-degree criminal
field Gardens.
possession of a weapon.
On Friday, July 10
According
to
at 10:25 p.m., two susQueens District Atpects walked into the
torney Richard Brown,
RadioShack located at
the incident allegedly
187-12 Horace Hardbegan when Jordan
ing Expressway in
drove up to Aranbayev
Fresh Meadows. The
as the victim was getfirst suspect, a black
ting out of the car and
man wearing a gray
allegedly began an arshirt, black sweater,
gument with him. Jorblack-and-white basedan later allegedly reball cap and black
sneakers, displayed a Police are looking for versed and backed over
silver firearm while the this man in connection Aranbayev, then fled
second suspect, a black with two robberies; one the scene.
Jordan faces 25
man wearing a light in Fresh Meadows and
gray shirt and a black another in Springfield years to life in prison if
convicted.
hoodie, tied up two Gardens.
employees with duct
113th Precinct
tape and then removed approximately
SMARTPHONE LEADS TO AR$400 and various electronics devices.
The suspects then fled to parts un- REST – Two police officers of the
113th Precinct were quickly able to
known.
catch a suspect in a lie and make an
There were no injuries reported.
Then, at approximately 3:25 p.m., arrest thanks to their newly issued deon Tuesday, July 28, two males en- partment smartphone.
On Monday, July 27 at 7:03 a.m.,
tered the Metro PCS store located at
219-25 North Conduit Ave. in Spring- Police Officers Jose Suriel and Angel
field Gardens The men were wearimg Ramos, both assigned to patrol in unihoodies, produced silver firearms, and form, responded to a 911 call for a stotook the 30-year-old female clerk and len vehicle at 120-31 Nashville Blvd.
a 47-year-old male customer to the in St. Albans. Upon arrival they were
rear of the store where they tied them met by Gary Joseph, 31, who stated
up. The suspects then removed money to police that several hours earlier, he
from the cash register and numerous left his vehicle running with the keys
inside and when he returned several
cell phones before fleeing on foot.
Police believe the same suspects minutes later, the car was missing. He
added that he did not call police right
committed both robberies.
away because he thought that it was
112th Precinct
possible that his friends were playMURDER ARREST – Police have ing a joke on him. The officers used
arrested a suspect in the hit-and-run their department-issued smartphone
to run the license plate of the vehicle
murder of a jeweler in Forest Hills.
On Sunday, July 19, at approxi- and discovered it had been involved in
mately 11:17 p.m., police responded a vehicle accident earlier in the night
to a 911 call of a pedestrian struck in at approximately 3:45 a.m., just a few
blocks away at 198th Street and 122th
front of 110-20 71st Ave.
Upon arrival, officers discovered Avenue in St. Albans.
Using that information, they were
Aron Aranbayev, 40, of Forest Hills
unconscious and unresponsive in the able to contact a witness who provided
street with severe head trauma. EMS a description of a person leaving the
also responded to the location and scene of the accident that matched Jotransported the male to Jamaica Hos- seph’s appearance. Joseph was transpital Medical Center where he suc- ported to the 113th Precinct station
cumbed to his injuries on July 20. It house where he admitted to police that
was determined the victim was struck he was driving the vehicle when, in an
by a dark colored Dodge Magnum. attempt to avoid striking a cat in the
Police then undertook a search for the road, struck three parked vehicles and
left the scene of the accident.
driver of the Magnum.
Officer Suriel and Ramos credited
On July 30, police arrested Charles
Jordan, 46, an MTA train operator their smartphone for allowing them to
whom police believe was driving the access information and quickly conMagnum. He was charged with sec- duct an investigation that resulted in
ond-degree murder, second-degree an arrest.
107th Precinct
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Seventy Years Later, One ‘Comfort
Woman’ Still Fighting For Justice
By Lynn Edmonds
Staff Writer
“I Would Live
200 Years If Necessary”
t age 88, Yong Soo Lee
is one of the few Korean
“comfort women” still alive.
And she’s driven to continue
pressing the Japanese government to acknowledge the crime
that lay behind the euphemism
“comfort woman” – forced prostitution and sexual slavery.
It is estimated the Japanese Imperial Army forced around 200,000 women, primarily Korean and Chinese, into
sex slavery for their soldiers during
World War II.
Lee herself was kidnapped from
her family’s farm in Korea at age 15
and held at a Japanese military outpost in Taiwan.
Her campaign brought her from
Korea to Queensboro Community
College, where she gave a speech introduced by Dongchan Kim, president
of the Korean American Civic Empowerment group, and Councilman Paul
Vallone (D-Bayside).
Lee did not speak out about the
rape and abuse she experienced
until 1991, when she was in her midsixties.
“At first I didn’t know there were
many other victims like me, I thought
I was the only one,” Lee told the audience through a translator. “Later
on I learned there were many victims
like me who went through the same
thing.”
Since then, she has been a vocal activist, touring the world to raise
awareness about comfort women and
to campaign for an end to sexual violence. She said the support she got
from the people she met in her travels
encouraged her to continue speaking
out.
“Now I am not merely a victim any
more. I came here as an activist,” Lee
said.
Lee especially addressed her
speech to two women in the front row.
Who, like her, were stooped and wrinkled. “My sisters,” she called them.
They were Jewish survivors of the Holocaust and Queens residents, Ethel
Katz and Hanne Liebmann.
“My sisters please, fight with us;
you know you are not that old. You are
at the age when you can love someone,” she said, looking at them.
Liebmann said she had called Lee
her “sister” the last time they met,
years ago. She felt Lee was deliberately evoking that shared moment.
Katz and Liebmann held Lee’s
gaze as she spoke to them. When she
finished speaking, Liebmann stood up
and reaching out a hand to still-seated
Katz. Together, the two holocaust survivors presented Lee with a gift bag
brimming over with tissue paper. Afterward, the three women stood in still-
Photos by Lynn Edmonds
A
Holocaust survivors Ethel Katz and Hanne Liebmann join “sister”
and former comfort woman yong soo Lee at Queensboro Community College last Thursday.
ness and held hands for over a minute goals as an activist.
“In order to solve sexual violence I
while audience members and press
will live 200 years if necessary so I can
snapped photos.
“Even though she is far removed tell the sisters in heaven I did it for you,
from my world, if you wish, you still feel I resolved it while I was alive.”
During her speech, Lee also espesort of a kinship,” Liebmann, who was
born in Germany and put in a concen- cially addressed students and teachers. “I want you to learn and teach
tration camp in France, said.
Nonetheless, she said she could the correct history so that this kind of
not fathom the abuse that Lee had tragedy will never happen again,” Lee
said, telling them that “they are going
suffered.
“What she experienced is so hor- to be the ones who resolve the issue
rendous; I can’t even get my head of sexual violence.”
around it,” Liebmann
said. “Can you imagine
one man after another
taking advantage of
these children?”
The two women are
also both committed to
sharing their testimony.
Lee said she feared
that as horrifying as her
story is, it could be forgotten after her death,
and official history of
The Rising Sun would
contain a glaring omission.
“Most of the grandmas are very old” Lee
said, referring to other
comfort women. “Japan
is waiting for them to die
away.”
But she said she
could not rest in peace sora Kim sings to former comfort woman
until she’d achieved her Lee.
Ensuring the accurate re-telling of
history, even after the last survivors
have passed away, is one of the goals
at the of the Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center, which pairs 30 student
interns with former comfort women in
Korea and 20 with Holocaust survivors.
Several of them made paintings
which represented the ordeals the
comfort women underwent. One pictured an emaciated young woman
crouching and clinging to the skirt of
another woman, while a swirl of flowers that partially concealed the crouching woman’s body trailed across the
page as if blown by the wind.
When Lee returned to her parents’
home after the war, she was so starved
and changed that her mother called
her a ‘ghost’ and drove her away. Only
after a year’s time did she accept her
as her daughter.
The center also featured artwork by
Steve Cavallo, who painted watercolors of several Korean comfort women,
including Lee.
“When I first started painting them
they were statistics,” he said. But after meeting several former comfort
women in Korea, he became more
and more deeply invested in the project, which he worked on for over six
years.
His exhibit was one of many at The
Holocaust Resource Center, which
contains original documents, photographs, and audio tapes preserving
the testimony of holocaust survivors.
An interview the director of the center, Dan Leshem, conducted with Lee
will be preserved in the archives and
made available online.
“We really need heroes of memory
like Ms. Lee to help us learn from our
past,” he said in his introduction.
Speaking after Leshem, Vallone
added that Lee’s story had touched
him on a personal level.
“Even though I’m a council member, I’m here as a father, I’m here as
a son. I’m here for my children, to say
thank you, for your courage,” Vallone
said.
The councilman has helped secure
funding for the center.
To conclude the presentations,
singer Sora Kim belted out a Korean
song, accompanied by
translated lyrics on a
PowerPoint slide. In a
white gown, she made
her way across the room
and took Lee by the hand,
and coaxed her up from
her seat. She sang directly to her, “we may fall, but
we rise again.”
The
presentations
were followed by a reception where audience
members, many of them
Korean, greeted Lee and
took photos with her.
At the end of the event
Lee spoke to Liebmann
again, in English. “Goodbye, sister,” she said.
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LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
S U P P L E M E N TA L S U M MONS Index No.:
703897/2015 Date of Filing: June 22, 2015 SUPREME
COURT OF THE STATE OF
NEW YORK COUNTY OF
QUEENS WELLS FARGO
BANK, N.A., Plaintiff, -againstNICOLE BIRCH AS HEIR AT
LAW AND NEXT OF KIN
OF JOY BIRCH AKA JOY V.
BIRCH; NICHELLE BIRCH AS
HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF
KIN OF JOY BIRCH AKA JOY
V. BIRCH; TYRONE BIRCH,
JR. AS HEIR AT LAW AND
NEXT OF KIN OF JOY BIRCH
AKA JOY V. BIRCH; NEW
YORK CITY PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU; NEW
YORK CITY TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU; NEW
YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD;
JOHN DOE 1 THROUGH
50; JANE DOE 1 THROUGH
50, INTENDING TO BE
THE UNKNOWN HEIRS
OF THE ESTATE OF JOY
BIRCH AKA JOY V. BIRCH
WHO WAS BORN IN 1950
AND DIED ON AUGUST
24, 2010, A RESIDENT OF
THE COUNTY OF QUEENS,
WHOSE LAST KNOWN ADDRESS WAS 118-29 205TH
STREET, SAINT ALBANS, NY
11412, THEIR SUCCESSORS
IN INTEREST IF ANY OF THE
AFORESAID DEFENDANTS
BE DECEASED, THEIR RESPECTIVE HEIRS AT LAW,
NEXT OF KIN, DISTRIBUTES, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, TRUSTEES, LIENORS,
CREDITORS, ASSIGNEES
AND SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF THE AFORESAID
CLASSES OF PERSON, IF
THEY OR ANY OF THEM BE
DEAD, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE HUSBANDS, WIVES
OR WIDOWS, IF ANY, ALL
OF WHOM AND WHOSE
N A M E S A N D P L AC E S
OF RESIDENCE ARE UNKNOWN TO THE PLAINTIFF; CRIMINAL COURT
OF THE CIT Y OF NEW
YORK; CHASE MANHATTAN BANK; ‘’JOHN DOES’’
AND ‘’JANE DOES’’, said
names being fictitious, parties intended being possible
tenants or occupants of premises, and corporations, other
entities or persons who claim,
or may claim, a lien against
the premises, Defendants.
TO THE ABOVE-NAMED
DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE
HEREBY SUMMONED to
answer the complaint in this
action and to serve a copy of
your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this
summons, to serve a Notice
of Appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorney(s) within twenty
(20) days after the service
of this summons, exclusive
of the day of service, where
service is made by delivery
upon you personally within
the State, or within thirty
(30) days after completion of
service where service is made
in any other manner, and in
case of your failure to appear
or answer, judgment will be
taken against you by default
for the relief demanded in
the complaint. NOTICE YOU
ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do
not respond to this summons
and complaint by serving a
copy of the answer on the
attorney for the mortgage
company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against
you and filing the answer
with the court, a default
judgment may be entered
and you can lose your home.
Speak to an attorney or go to
the court where your case is
pending for further information on how to answer the
summons and protect your
property. Sending a payment
to your mortgage company
will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST
RESPOND BY SERVING A
COPY OF THE ANSWER ON
THE ATTORNEY FOR THE
PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE
COMPANY) AND FILING
THE ANSWER WITH THE
COURT. YOU ARE HEREBY
PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE
ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT, AND ANY
INFORMATION OBTAINED
WILL BE USED FOR THAT
PURPOSE. TO THE ABOVENAMED DEFENDANTS: The
foregoing summons is served
upon you by publication
pursuant to an Order of the
Honorable Thomas D. Raffaele of the Supreme Court
of the State of New York,
signed on June 9, 2015, and
filed with supporting papers
in the Office of the Clerk of
the County of Queens, State
of New York. The object of
this action is to foreclose a
mortgage upon the premises
described below, executed
by JOY BIRCH AKA JOY V.
BIRCH and TYRONE BIRCH
to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS,
INC. AS NOMINEE FOR 1ST
REPUBLIC MORTGAGE
BANKERS, INC. ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS,
bearing date August 18,
2006 and recorded in CRFN:
2006000528917 of Mortgages in the County of Queens
on September 20, 2006.
Thereafter said mortgage was
assigned to WELLS FARGO
BANK, N.A. by assignment of
mortgage bearing date April
5, 2012 and recorded under
CRFN 2012000151169 of
Mortgages in the County of
Queens on April 17, 2012.
Said premises being known
as and by 118-29 205TH
STREET, SAINT ALBANS, NY
11412. Date: May 29, 2015
Batavia, New York Virginia C
Grapensteter, Esq. ROSICKI,
ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES,
P.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff
Batavia Office 26 Harvester
Avenue Batavia, NY 14020
585.815.0288 Help For Hom-
eowners In Foreclosure New
York State Law requires that
we send you this notice about
the foreclosure process.
Please read it carefully. Mortgage foreclosure is a complex
process. Some people may
approach you about “saving” your home. You should
be extremely careful about
any such promises. The State
encourages you to become
informed about your options
in foreclosure. There are
government agencies, legal
aid entities and other nonprofit organizations that you
may contact for information
about foreclosure while you
are working with your lender
during this process. To locate
an entity near you, you may
call the toll-free helpline
maintained by the New York
State Banking Department at
1-877-BANKNYS (1-877-2265697) or visit the Department’s website at www.banking.state.ny.us. The State does
not guarantee the advice of
these agencies.
________________________
Notice of Formation of DEAN
REALTY ASSOCIATES, LLC.
Articles of Organization
filed with the Secretary of
State of New York SSNY on
07/31/14. Office located in
Queens, County. SSNY has
been designated for service
of process. SSNY shall mail
copy of any process served
against the LLC to 13833
225th Street, Laurelton, NY
11413. Purpose: any lawful
purpose
________________________
Notice of formation of ASG
Estate LLC. Articles of Org.
filed with the Secretary of
State of New York (SSNY)
on 7/1/15. Office located in
Queens County. SSNY has
been designated for service
of process. SSNY shall mail
copy of any process served
against the LLC to: The LLC,
108-47 51st Avenue, Corona,
NY 11368, Purpose: Any lawful activity or purpose.
________________________
SUPREME COURT OF THE
STATE OF NE W YORK
COUNTY OF QUEENS SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS
INDEX NO.: 12541/13 GDBT
I TRUST 2011-1, Plaintiff,
-against- SHANAZ CHOWDHURY if living, and if he
be dead, any and all persons
unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to
have an interest in, or generally or specific lien upon the
real property described in
this action; such unknown
persons being herein generally described and intended
to be included in the following designation, namely:
the wife, widow, husband,
widower, heirs at law, next
of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees,
legatees creditors, trustees,
committees, lienors, and
assignees of such deceased,
any and all persons deriving
interest in or lien upon, or
title to said real property
by, through or under them,
or either of them, and their
respective wives, widows,
husbands, widowers, heirs at
law, next of kin, descendants,
executors, administrators,
devisees, legatees, creditors,
trustees committees, lienors
and assigns, all of whom
and whose names, except
as stated are unknown to
plaintiff; THE PEOPLE OF
THE STATE OF NEW YORK;
MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC
SYSTEMS INC., as Nominee
for Lehman Brothers Bank
FSB; CAPITAL ONE BANK;
CACH, LLC; STATE FARM
FIRE AND CASUALTY INSURANCE CO; NYC PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU;
NYC ENVRIONMENTAL
CONTROL BOARD; and
JOHN DOE “1” through
“10” the last ten names being fictitious and unknown
to Plaintiffs, the persons
or parties intended being the tenants, occupants,
persons or corporations, if
any, having or claiming an
interest in or lien upon the
premises described in the
Complaint, Defendants, TO
THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY
SUMMONED to answer
the complaint in this action
and to serve a copy of your
answer, or, if the complaint
is not served with the summons, to serve a notice of
appearance on the plaintiff’s
attorney within twenty (20)
days after service of the summons, exclusive of the day of
service, where service of the
summons is made by delivery
upon you personally within
the state, or within thirty
(30) days after completion
of service where service is
made in any other manner,
and in case your failure to
answer, judgment will be
taken against you by default
for the relief demanded in
the complaint. NOTICE YOU
ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do
not respond to this summons
and complaint by serving a
copy of the answer on the
attorney for the mortgage
company who filed this foreclosure proceedings against
you and filing the answer with
the court, default judgment
may be entered and you
can lose your home. Speak
to an attorney or go to court
where your case is pending
for further information on
how to answer the summons
and protect your property.
Sending a payment to your
mortgage company will not
stop this foreclosure action.
YOU MUST RESPOND BY
SERVING A COPY OF THE
ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF
(MORTGAGE COMPANY)
AND FILING THE ANSWER
WITH THE COURT. YOU
ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A
DEBT, AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE
USED FOR THAT PURPOSE
TO THE ABOVE-NAMED
DEFENDANTS: The foregoing summons is served upon
you by publication pursuant
to an Order of the Honorable
Darrell L. Gavrin a Justice of
the Supreme Court of the
State of New York, signed on
the 15th of May 2015 and
filed with supporting papers
in the Office of the Clerk of
the County of QUEENS, State
of New York. The object of
this action is to foreclose a
mortgage upon the premises
described below, executed by
SHANAZ CHOWDHURY to
BNC MORTGAGE INC. Said
premises being known as and
by 111-60 145th STREET, JAMAICA, NY 11435. Premises
lying and being in the County
of Queens. BEGINNING at
a point on the westerly side
of 145th Street, 128.00 feet
northerly from the corner
formed by the intersection
of the westerly side of 148th
Street and the northerly side
of Linden Boulevard; being
a plot 100.00 feet by 14.00
feet by 100.00 feet by 14.00
feet. Dated: June 23, 2014
Tuckahoe, New York Jeffrey
A. Kosterich, Esq. JEFFREY A.
KOSTERICH, LLC Attorneys
for Plaintiff 68 Main Street
Tuckahoe, New York 10707
914-395-0055
________________________
At an IAS Part 34 of the
Supreme Court of the State
of New York, County of
Queens, held in and for the
Courthouse located at 88-11
Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica
NY, on the 20 day of July,
2015. Index No.: 8646/15
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
PRESENT: HONOR ABLE
ROBERT J. MCDONALD
J.S.C. In the Matter of the Application of ANN FOLAN and
MAUREEN RAMSBOTTOM,
Shareholders in THE FOLAN
REAL ESTATE GROUP, INC.;
Petitioners, For the Dissolution of THE FOLAN REAL
ESTATE GROUP, INC., and
ANN FOLAN and MAUREEN
RAMSBOTTOM, on behalf
of THE FOLAN REAL ESTATE
GROUP, INC. -against- ANNMARIE FOLAN and DEIRDRE
FOLAN, Respondents. Upon
the annexed Verified Petition
of ANN FOLAN and MAUREEN RAMSBOTTOM (“Petitioners”), fifty percent (50%)
shareholders of THE FOLAN REAL ESTATE GROUP,
INC. (hereinafter, the “Folan
Group”), a corporation incorporated and existing under
the Business Corporation
Law of the State of New York,
verified on July 8, 2015, and
upon the exhibits annexed
hereto, LET, Ann-Marie Folan and Deirdre Folan, the
remaining fifty percent (50%)
shareholders of the Folan
Group, the New York State
Tax Commission, the New
York State Attorney General
and all other registered persons, or their attorneys, show
cause at CMP, Room 25 at
the Supreme Court of the
State of New York, County of
New York, at 88-11 Sutphin
Boulevard, Jamaica, NY, on
the 16th day of September,
2015, at 2:15 in the p.m., or
as soon thereafter as counsel
can be heard, why an Order
should not be entered herein
granting the following relief:
A. Dissolving the Folan
Group pursuant to New York
Business Corporation Law
(“NY BCL”) § 1104 et seq.;
B. Adjusting the rights and
interests of the shareholder of
the Folan Group pursuant to
NY BCL § 1104-a; C. Enjoining Ann-Marie and Deirdre
Folan from future actions and
activities of the Folan Group,
pursuant the NY BCL § 1104;
D. Compensatory damages
as proven at trial, and actual
damages in an amount no less
than seventy thousand dollars
($70,000.00); E. An accounting of all commissions collected by Respondents since
January 2014; F. Punitive
damages for Respondents’
conversion and willful and
intentional breach of oral
contract, in an amount to be
determined at trial; G. Petitioners’ costs and expenses
incurred herein; and H. Such
other and further relief as the
Court deems just and proper.
ORDERED, that a copy of
this Order to Show Cause
shall be published in Queens
Tribune, a newspaper in general circulation in the County
of Queens, once in each of
the 3 weeks before the time
appointed for the hearing
thereon; and it is further
ORDERED, that a copy of
this Order to Show Cause
and Verified Petition, and the
papers upon which they are
based, shall be served upon
The Folan Group and the
New York State Commission,
in the manner, and within the
time, prescribed in the NY
BCL §1106(c)., and the New
York State Attorney General,
in the manner, and within the
time, prescribed in the NY
BCL, and upon Ann-Marie
Folan and Deirdre Folan,
shareholders of the Folan
Group, by personal delivery
at their residential addresses
or actual places of business,
all on or before August 5,
2015, which shall be deemed
good and sufficient service.
ENTER, HON. ROBERT J.
McDONALD J.S.C.
________________________
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RENTING • OWNING • DEVELOPING • INVESTMENT • FINANCE
Real Estate
MARKETPLACE
VOL. 2 NO. 8 JULY 6-12, 2015
ARE RENTS REALLY FALLING?
Prices Are Down
In Queens Last
Month, But…
BY LYNN EDMONDS, Staff Writer
But Queens renters
shouldn’t get too excited.
The data is not indicative of a true downward
trend in rental prices in
the neighborhoods of Astoria, Long Island City,
Woodside and Sunnyside,
Jonathan Miller, the real
estate expert whose company prepared the report
for Eliman, said.
The president of Miller Samuel Inc. said that
while the rental market
in Northwest Queens
has been “volatile” over
the past year, at times
dropping or jumping in
response to changes in
inventory, the decrease
seen in June is by no
means part of a long-term
trend.
Every month the flood
of new units that enter the
market can sway rental
prices; higher if they are
luxury or large apartments,
or lower if they are studios
and one bedrooms.
In some months, 50 percent of the rental stock has
been new units, making it
a real challenge to compare
the true cost of rent from
month to month.
Miller said in the month
of June about one-quarter
of the properties were new,
and they happened to be
smaller ones. That pulled
down the median rental
price as compared to last
year.
Though rents in Northwest Queens are not falling,
it remains true that the rent
in Queens has stayed relatively stable, while Manhattan and Brooklyn continue
to break record-highs almost every month.
That makes Queens an
attractive borough for renters and buyers.
“Queens is the new
Brooklyn”
Miller
said.
“That’s really a reference to
housing prices.”
“People initially were going to Brooklyn because it
was more affordable than
Manhattan, then it became
PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER
Despite rampant development, Northwest Queens saw a drop in rent prices in
June, but it’s not what you think.
a sort of destination. And
now those people that went
directly to Brooklyn are now
going to Queens.”
But Northwest Queens’
relative affordability is not
likely to last for long.
All the new units that
flood the housing market
each month and indicative
of one thing – “explosive”
development, Miller said.
Once there’s no more
land left to develop, rents
have nowhere to go but
up.
Additionally, as developers snag properties, land
prices have shot up, causing
developers to start preferring to build condominiums
over rentals. When land
prices are high “the math
doesn’t work” for developers to build rentals, Miller
said. Instead, they turn to
condos where they can
pass on the high price
of land to the consumer,
and make back their investment.
“When the rate of
development for rental
begins to cool and transition to condo, you have
less rental product out
there,” Miller said. That
combined with a strong
economy and tight credit
would mean higher rents
for northwest Queens.
So despite some deceptively good news in
June, Miller concluded
that any drop in rents
was just a “temporary
transition period.”
“I don’t see what’s in
the future that’s going
to make rental prices, as
a general trend, be reduced,” he said.
CHART COURTESY DOUGLAS ELLIMAN
T
he average
rental price
in Northwest
Queens is more
than 10 percent
lower than it was a
year ago, a June 2015
report by Douglas
Elliman Real Estate
said.
Page 2 aug. 6-12, 2015
Tribune/Press Real estate MaRketplace
Real Estate Spotlight:
Jamaica
By MICHAEL STAHL
O
ver the past halfdecade or so, New
Yorkers have been
inundated with stories
about which neighborhood
in Queens will be “the next
Williamsburg.”
Property values have drastically
increased in Long Island City over
that time span, and with a number
of new high-rise residential developments either under construction
or in their planning phases there not to mention the area possesses a
waterfront and skyline views - one
can argue that we already have the
answer to that question. Still, ink
has dried on declarations that Astoria is in the running, and several
published reports have anointed
Ridgewood as such. But a buzz has
been brimming among real estate
brokers and speculators alike that
an unlikely hot spot for investors is
emerging a bit further east.
“We are seeing buyers who are
priced out of Brooklyn exploring
different parts of Jamaica,” said Susanne Gutermuth, a broker with
seven years of experience who works
out of Douglas Elliman’s office on
Northern Boulevard in Bayside, in
an email. She added that investors
are especially looking “for two-family houses where the owner can occupy one floor and rent out the other
apartment.” Along with the area’s
affordability, Gutermuth points to
several prime selling points Jamaica
offers, including its many parks, restaurants and the transportation hub
at Sutphin Boulevard and Archer
Avenue, where the Long Island Railroad Jamaica transfer hub is located,
along with the E, J, and Z train stops.
A handful of buses and the JFK Airport AirTrain run there as well. All
told, a commuter can easily travel to
Midtown Manhattan from the area
in under 40 minutes.
Nelson Leon, a broker at Citi
Habitats, concurs with the notion
that Jamaica is undoubtedly an “upand-coming neighborhood” where
hopeful tenants are virtually assured
of a great deal. He wrote in an email
that building owners in Jamaica
“have been converting old buildings
into desirable … residential rental
units. Most apartments in Jamaica
are huge compared to other areas
where space has been shrinking.”
He indicated that there are spacious
one-bedroom apartments listed for
less than $1,400 per month in rental
costs and two-bedroom flats running
less than $1,700, whereas most other
parts of Queens will see comparable
apartments go for three to five hundred dollars more. Leon also pointed
out that, in an effort to attract renters, Jamaica building owners are offering sizable incentives, including
no broker’s fee agreements and one
month of free rent.
LaToya Reina, another Douglas
Elliman broker with strong ties to
the local community, said that once
the luxury rental building Moda
opened its doors in 2012 just off Parsons Boulevard on 89th Avenue, the
real estate world truly began to take
Jamaica seriously. “We’ve never seen
anything like that in the area,” she
said.
An eye-pleasing construct with
a brick and stone façade, Moda
contains 346 units – studios and
one- and two-bedrooms – throughout its eight stories. It boasts LEED
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Jamaica
(continued from page 2)
certification and features a Manhattanlike list of amenities: 24-hour doorman
and concierge service, two entertainment
rooms, a fitness center, indoor parking
and on-site laundry. A studio rental apartment is listed for nearly $1,700 a month,
while a two-bedroom costs $2,350 a month
in rent.
Borough President Melinda Katz, along
with Mayor de Blasio’s office announced a
“Neighborhood Action Plan” for Jamaica
this past April. Aimed at revitalizing the
region and transforming it into a “thriving residential and commercial neighborhood,” the plan and its $153 million in
public funding will begin its initial implementation over the course of the next three
years. According to the plan’s outline, it
will provide jobs and small business support in Jamaica, along with a stronger focus
on developing cultural houses and events,
increase transportation options, helping
expand opportunities for affordable home
ownership, among other benefits. Surely,
these actions will only boost property values that are already on an upswing.
According to a streeteasy.com report
obtained by the Queens Tribune on Jamaica real estate trends, the median recorded
sales price for all homes sold there so far in
2015 is more than 45 percent higher than
it was last year, and that figure comes af-
ter the same statistic more than doubled
between 2013 and 2014. What’s more, the
median recorded sales price in 2015 stands
at $380,000, which is, rather astonishingly,
more than $120,000 higher than the median asking price. Inventory is down more
than 28 percent this year when compared
to 2014 and, thus, the property sample
size is rather small. But this discrepancy
between sales and asking prices points to
an amazingly heightened interest in local
real estate investments.
Gutermuth noted in her email that
there have historically been a number of
foreclosures in the area, which has kept
real estate figures depressed. However,
she predicts first-time home buyers will
soon discover the area, helping to swell
the already rising prices. She added: “With
downtown Jamaica seeing a great upswing
with new developments and hotels being
built, it will have an impact on the surrounding area.”
One prevailing problem in Jamaica is
crime. The neighborhood frequently shows
up on crime studies as one of the worst areas in the entire borough. Still, crime rates
are arguably equal to or lower than those
found in Bedford Stuyvesant and Crown
Heights in Brooklyn, two neighborhoods
that have seen its fair share of development and rising real estate prices in recent years. Fortunately for Jamaica, efforts
to minimize crime were also outlined in
Katz’s Action Plan.
“If you look at the trends starting in
Western Queens on into Corona and even
Queens Village,” Reina said, “you have to
think Jamaica’s next.”
LIC Plot Sold
For $104M
By yvette Brown Staff Writer
Cushman & Wakefield announced the closing of $104 million land loan just north of One Court Square in Long Island
City, and has retained on an exclusive basis to sell a development site at 41-05 29th St.
The land loan site consists of nine parcels and contains
about 780,000 square feet of development potential for residential office, retail and hotel use.
“We found a great lender who also recognized the upside
in the Long Island City submarket, and closed the loan within five weeks,” said Cushman & Wakefield’s Morris Betesh,
who handled the transaction, in a written statement. “We
are excited about the future potential for this site and the
creative development we know our client will deliver.”
The site, located on 29th Street is being sold for more than
$6 million and is a two-story building on a 75-foot by 51foot lot. It features a development potential of about 27,000
square feet. The site is also situated within the mixed use
zoning districts. There are no violations and no permits have
been filed.
“Its proximity to Queens Plaza and many of the neighborhoods biggest developments put this site at the center of
much of the action happening in the neighborhood,” said
Cushman & Wakefield’s David Chkheidze, who is exclusively
marketing the site, in a written statement. “The favorable
R10 zoning allows for 12.0 [Floor Area Ratio] that alone will
garner tremendous activity on this site.”
Reach Yvette Brown at (718)357-7400 ext. 128, ybrown@
queenstribune.com or @eveywrites
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Tribune/Press Real estate MaRketplace
The Alexander In Rego Park: Ready For Move Ins
By Crystal lau
T
he Alexander in Rego
Park, a new luxury
rental building
located above Rego Center
at 61-55 Junction Blvd., is
now available for leasing and
immediate occupancy.
The new LEED-designed residential building offers 312 residences,
ranging from studios to one and
two-bedroom apartment layouts.
Aside from the upscale finishes and
open layout, the residencies also feature nine-foot-high ceilings, white
oak flooring, Caesarstone quart
countertops, Italian porcelain tiling
within the kitchen and bathroom,
and Whirlpool stainless steel appliances.
The building’s concept emulates
that of Sky View Park, the luxury
condominium tower complex that
sits atop of Sky View Center in
Flushing, situated within the hearts
of their respective neighborhoods,
they each offer similar amenities to
suit their occupants’ lifestyles.
The Alexander allows residents
access to all of their recreational and
social amenities, including 24-hour
concierge, a private state of the art
fitness center complete with cardio
and strength-training equipment, a
game room, a public lounge with a
kitchen and fireplace, both indoor
and outdoor children’s playgrounds,
and an outdoor landscaped terrace
with seating, cabanas and a barbecue area.
Rising 27 stories above Rego Center, residents are offered a stunning
view of the Manhattan skyline across
the water, ease of access to many
retail shopping areas and eateries,
and transit to Central Queens and
beyond. The location of the building offers convenient traveling; resident can easily reach subway service
to Manhattan via the M and R lines
nearby at the 63rd Drive-Rego Park
station, and is in close proximity to
the Long Island Expressway with
connections to the Queens-Midtown Tunnel and Manhattan.
The Alexander is also situated
near several of Queens’ most popular attractions, including the Queens
Botanical Garden, the Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows-Corona
Park, Citi Field, and the National
Tennis Center.
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community,” said Geoff Smith, vice
president of development for Vornado Realty Trust. “This vibrant,
family-friendly area has a strong
sense of community and is bustling
with retail, dining and recreational
activities. We believe The Alexander is a perfect complement to the
area, and one that will attract both
existing and new residents who are
drawn to Rego Park’s attributes and
desire a more modern, amenity-rich
lifestyle.”
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A rendering of one of The Alexander’s residences.
The Alexander
in Rego Park
is finally
available for
leasing.
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LEISURE
Artists Selected For Jamaica Flux 2016
The Jamaica Center for Arts and
Learning announced the names of 19
artists and artist collectives commissioned to create site-specific artwork
for the Jamaica Flux: “Workspaces &
Windows 2016.”
The program is a large public art
project organized and presented by
JCAL, a community-based arts organization in Downtown Jamaica. “Workspaces & Windows 2016” is the fourth
iteration of Jamaica Flux. The program
successfully mounted pieces in Jamaica
in 2004, 2007 and 2010.
The group of artists, ranging from
all walks of life, include: Hannes Bend,
Adam Brent, Aurora De Armedi, Ayana
Evans, Nicholas Fraser, Samantha Holmes, Anna Lise Jensen, Sue Jeong Ka,
Kakyoung Lee, Rejin Lys, Shervone
Neckles, Jeffrey Allen Price, Dominique
Sindayiganza, Stand Squirewell, Thiago
Szmrecsanyi, Ed Woodham and Ellie
Ironss and Dan Phiffer; John H. Locke
and Joaquin Reyes; and Lily & Honglei.
Artists were selected by a panel
which included Jamaica Center Business Improvement District Executive
Director Rhonda Binda, founder of “A
Better Jamaica” Greg Mays, Sutphin
Boulevard Business Improvement District Executive Director Simone Price
and others.
critical issues in the community.
The locations of the finished multidisciplinary and interactive works
are not yet available, but those who
are interested can receive updates
at jcal.org.
The project offers artists resources to help them produce
experimental art in public realms,
engages community members on
ways to combat negative public
perceptions of Southeast Queens
through art, and crates a forum
for discussion on meaningful
community involvement. It also
aims to increase the public’s access
to contemporary art and makes it
an important and integral part of
daily life in Southeast Queens.
For more than 40 years, JCAL
File photo has presented and supported the
Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning announced the 19 artists who work of emerging artists, women
will participate in Jamaica Flux 2016.
artists and artists of color in Jamaica. JCAL has been a cultural
Not confined by gallery walls, Ja- Flux aims to challenge traditional as- resource in the community and to all
maica Flux is a contemporary public sumptions about where art should be artists in New York City. Serving more
art project in which visual and perfor- displayed and explores the relationship than 25,000 people annually, a central
mance art are displayed at a variety of between art, commerce, urban renewal part of JCAL’s mission is to encourage
participation in the arts and contribute
locations along Jamaica Avenue. The and community.
This year, Jamaica Flux is expanding to the cultural enrichment of Queens.
locations – banks, stores, restaurants,
To follow along with the artists’ jourstreet corners, phone booths, parks and its focus to emphasize public engageother public spaces – are as diverse as ment and contemporary art as a vehicle neys and receive real-time updates, like
the art. JCAL’s presentation of Jamaica to examine and discuss solutions to Jamaica Flux 2016 on Facebook.
www.queenstribune.com • Aug. 6-12, 2015 Tribune Page 25
Free Movie Screenings Major Homes Pays It
Forward Once Again
At Queens Theatre
Queens Theatre has partnered with Lincoln Center Education to present free outdoor
screenings of some of the most
very impactful Lincoln Center
performances in the past three
years.
These screenings have taken
place every Tuesday of August
during the evening at 8 p.m.
in Flushing Meadows Corona
Park on the Festival Lawn right
behind Queens Theatre.
The performances are projected on a 26-foot screen connected to a 300W speaker to
accommodate a crowd of up to
a thousand people and reflect
Lincoln Center’s eclectic programming as well as the diverse
population that is present in the
Borough of Queens.
These screenings will be held
on Queens Theatre’s main stage
if severe weather persists.
The series started on Aug. 4
with the screening of the awardwinning musical Sweeney Todd
by the New York Philharmonic
starring Emma Thompson and
Bryn Terfel and conducted
by New York Philharmonic’s
music director, Alan Gilbert.
The Villalobos Brothers, who
are considered one of today’s
leading world music and contemporary Mexican ensembles,
will have a screening of their
2014 Lincoln Center concert
on Aug. 11. Their performance
will be followed by a Gala performance of superstar cellist
Yo-Yo Ma and the New York
Phil Harmonic on Aug. 18. The
screening series will end on
Aug, 25, with the 2012 Richard
Tucker Opera Gala featuring
opera’s leading voices Dmitri
Hvorostovsky, Olga Borodina,
and Marcello Giordani as well
as many more celebrating some
of the most iconic pieces of the
repertoire.
These screenings represent
a unique opportunity for the
Queens community to come
together and be exposed to
many artists with a sundry of
performing arts forms they
may not be familiar with. They
will also be a great occasion for
Queens Theatre to attract new
audiences for its year-round
programming.
Major Homes is once again offering a was derailed, until Major Homes came in and
unique service for those stuck in a bad situ- did the work free of charge.
In another case, Major Homes gave a new
ation.
For the last decade, Major Homes’ owner kitchen to a family whose three children have
Mitch Kersch and his son, Jason, have dedicat- Cystic Fibrosis, a recessive genetic disorder
ed some of their time to free renovations and that critically affects the lungs.
Mitch added that being able to improve
construction projects for families who have
the lives of others, using his four-generation
been impacted by harsh circumstances.
Mitch said that giving back and helping renovation company to do so, is a reward in
others has always been a big part of his life. and of itself.
“The feeling of being able to help out is
His generosity went to the “next level” though
amazing. People that know me,
after he saw the movie “Pay It
know that I would much rather
Forward,” a 2000 film starring
“I always like to
give than to receive,” he said.
Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt and
The program for free serHaley Joel Osment.
give back to the
vices is offered year-round and
“I decided to start this becommunity.”
is available to those in Queens
cause I always loved giving to
—Mitch Kersch,
and Nassau counties. Major
others and helping people in
owner,
Homes specializes in winneed,” Mitch told the Queens
dows, roofing, siding, doors,
Tribune last year. “I always
Major Homes
awnings, kitchens, bathrooms,
like to give back to the combasements, dormers and exmunity.”
To find people who qualify for this work, tensions.
Mitch said more people should keep an
Mitch asks people to send in letters, which
he then goes through with Jason to deter- eye out for others in need.
“People need to understand it is not about
mine those that are legitimate. From there,
they meet with the people and see where the them only,” he said. “We all need to help out
each other.”
program goes from there.
If you would like to contact Major Homes
Several individuals and families have
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QUEENS TODAY
FRIDAY 8/7
JACQUELINE KENNEDY
ONASSIS: A MULTIMEDIA
PRESENTATION
Lecturer Mailyn Carminio
takes you beyond the familiar narrative of Jacqueline
Kennedy Onassis’s life.
This presentation, told
through over 100 photographs, many rarely
seen, covers her life as a
bibliophile, equestrian,
wife, mother, First Lady,
preservationist and family matriarch. The free
lecture is from 1.15 to 2.45
p.m. at the Queens Library
in Bay Terrace, 18-46 Bell
Blvd.
and entertainment. This
one-clown show will make
guests think they are watching a 3-ring circus! Shows
at 2 and 4 p.m., Forest Park
Carousel, Woodhaven Boulevard and Forest Park Drive
in Woodhaven.
BIOBUS AT THE NY HALL
OF SCIENCE
The world’s only state-ofthe-art microscope facility is
housed on a solar-powered
1974 transit bus. Visitors
get to zoom in on the
tiniest animals to find
their microscopic hearts
and use a hand held
microscope to magnify
your own eye and watch
it pulsate in response to
light. Admission is free
with NYSCI admission. The
event takes place on the
8th and 9th from noon to 4
p.m. and the 10th through
the 14th from 11 a.m. to
4 p.m. For more information, visit nysci.org or
call (718)699-0005.
SATURDAY 8/8
DIRTY GIRL MUD RUN
The Dirty Girl Mud Run
is a 3.1 mile obstacle
course run for women,
and women ONLY! If you’re
an uber cross fitter looking
to make your weekend more
challenging, Dirty Girl Mud
Run has a place for you. If
this is your first time running an organized obstacle
run or 5k, YOU WILL GET
TO THE FINISH LINE! Over
900,000 women of all ages,
shapes, sizes and athletic
backgrounds have completed this obstacle course
since it’s debut in 2011
in this race against breast
cancer. Flushing Meadows
Corona Park, starting at 9
a.m. For more information
visit godirtygirl.com. Registration is $75.
ZABO CIRCUS SHOW
Other than clowning
around, Zabo’s skills
include juggling, unicycling, and prop
balancing. His show
brings non-stop excitement
CHINESE THEATRE
WORKS - HOLDING UP
HALF THE SKY
Opera and puppet spectacle
spanning 2,000 years of
Chinese history presents the
lives of four legendary Chinese women warriors - Hua
Mulan (made famous in ancient ballads and opera, and
more recently by Disney),
Hongxian (Tang Dynasty),
She Saihua (Song Dynasty),
and Qiu Jin (early 20th
century).2 p.m. Flushing
Town Hall 137-35 Northern
Blvd. $8.
SCHOOL SUPPLIES
GIVEAWAY
State Sen. Jose Peralta will
be holding his annual Back
to School supplies giveaway on 98th Place, right
off 57th Avenue in Corona,
behind St. Paul the Apostle
Church from 10 a.m. to
1 p.m. More than 2,100
backpacks will be distributed on a first-come,
first-serve basis while
supplies last. There is a
limit of one backpack per
student who is present at
the event.
SPOTLIGHT OF THE WEEK
SATURDAY 8/8
DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL
The Hong Kong Dragon Boat
Festival in New York is the largest
multi-cultural festival in the New York
metropolitan area and the biggest
festival of its kind in the U.S.
With cash & and prizes at stake
for the US Dragon Boat Open
Championships, the festival takes
place over two days on the site of the 1964 World’s Fair, in Flushing Meadow Park.
The opening day parade at noon on Saturday, Aug. 8 will be followed by the New
York City Championship Races. The U.S. Dragon Boat Open Championship will be
held on Sunday, August 9th with the teams vigorously competing for their share
of the cash and prizes.Racing starts at 9 a.m. and events last throughout the day
until approximately 5 p.m. each day, rain or shine.
Additionally, the festival will include presentations on traditional Chinese arts,
martial arts demonstrations, the traditional dragon dance, musical performances,
and a food court. Free admission, rain or shine. For more information visit hkdbfny.org.
GROWING UP ASTORIA
7TH ANNUAL REUNION
PARTY
Join all of Astoria in a
party you won’t forget
with drink specials and
giveaways all day and
night. The event takes place
from 4 p.m. to 3 a.m. at 3119 Newtown Ave. The Coors
Light girls will be there at 6
p.m. For more information
visit katchastoria.com or
call (718)777-2230.
SUNDAY 8/9
THEATER BY THE BAY
Theatre By The Bay presents
a One Act Play Festival featuring original
plays by local playwrights at 1 p.m. at Bay
Terrace Garden Jewish Center, 13-00 209th St, Bayside.
Tickets $10. Complimentary
Refreshments.
THE TEE-TONES MOTOWN CONCERT
Bring a chair or blanket
and enjoy Motown and
doo-wop music from
the 50’s, 60’s, and the
70’s at Little Bay Park,
Totten avenue and Cross
Island Parkway, Bayside.
This free event is from 5 to
6 p.m.
QUEENS SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA
Enjoy an evening of classic music by the Queens
Symphony Orchestra at
the George Seuffert Bandshell, Forest Park. Free. 6:30
p.m.
MONDAY 8/10
RAIDERS OF THE LOST
ARC IN CUNNINGHAM
PARK
In this film, archaeologist
and adventurer Indiana
Jones is hired by the US
government to find the
Ark of the Covenant
before the Nazis. The film
starts at 8 p.m. The movies
will be screened near the
bocce courts. Enter the park
through the lot on Union
Turnpike at 196th Place and
bring lawn chairs. Cunningham Park, Oakland Gardens.
WEDNESDAY 8/12
SHAKESPEARE IN THE
GARDEN: THE MERRY
WIVES OF WINDSOR
Shakespeare’s farce
about courtship, jealousy and friendship,
features one of the most
beloved comedic characters
of all time, Sir John Falstaff, banished to Windsor
and running out of money,
devises what he thinks is
a fool-proof plan: seduces
the wives of the two richest
men in town. Unfortunately for him, the women
immediately see through
his scheme…and proceed
to turn the tables on him.
Meanwhile, mayhem ensues
as three local suitors vie
to marry the local heiress.
The free event starts at 7.30
p.m. for choice seats and a
children’s pre-show arrive
at 7 p.m. The show will be
held at the Voelker Orth
Museum, 149-19 38th Ave.,
Flushing. For more information visit vomuseum.org.
THURSDAY 8/13
LIGHT ON SOUND
Join us for the opening of
“Light on Sound,” This
interactive poetry installation by artists Maya Pindyck and Jessica Houston
brings together Flushing’s
multicultural community
and the legacy of Lewis
Latimer, poet and inventor
of the carbon filament for
the incandescent light bulb.
The Poetry Celebration
is a one-night open mic
event featuring Flushing
residents who contributed to the installation,
including guests and poets
with hearing impairments
or difficulty hearing. CART
and ASL interpreters will be
provided; Lewis H. Latimer
House is wheelchair accessible. The event will be held
at the Latimer House, 34-41
137th St., Flushing, from 6
to 9 p.m. This event is free.
Registration is requested
at [email protected].
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QUEENS FOCUS
Throwback Thursdays Shore Road, Astoria
Courtesy Greater astoria HistoriCal soCiety, VinCent seyfried ColleCtion
This image, provided by the Greater Astoria Historical Society
shows Shore Road in Astoria Park near the present-day Hell Gate
Bridge. Shore Road in along the Hell Gate in Astoria Park once
was the road to large estates that lined the East River in Western
Queens. If you have historical photos or postcards you would like
to share with the Queens Tribune, send them to us by mail at
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LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
Variance (§72-21) to enlarge a community facility
(Sephardic Congregation),
contrary to floor lot coverage
rear yard, height and setback
(24-00). R4-1 zoning district.
Address: 141-41 72nd Avenue, 72nd Avenue Queens.
BSA Calendar Number: 6014-BZ Applicant: Law Office
of Jay Goldstein, PLLC, for
Sephardic Congregation of
Kew Gardens Hills, owners.
This application has been
calendared for Public Hearing *Tuesday, August 18,
2015, 10:00 A.M. session, in
Spector Hall, 22 Reade Street,
Borough of Manhattan.
________________________
IK 2012 LLC Arts of Org filed
with Secy. of State of NY
(SSNY) on 2/12/15. Office
in Queens Co. SSNY desig.
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served & shall mail process to
102-10 Metropolitan Ave Ste
200, Forest Hills, NY 11375.
Purpose: General.
________________________
Gp Home Solution, LLC
Arts of Org filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
4/24/15. Office in Queens
Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served & shall mail
process to Gyorgy Palyusik,
6461 Ellwell Cres, Rego Park,
NY 11374-5030. Purpose:
General.
________________________
Notice of formation of Decorum L’affair Rental & Event
Planning, LLC. Articles of
Org. filed with the Secretary
of State of New York (SSNY)
on 5/18/2015. Office located
in Queens County. SSNY has
been designated for service
of process. SSNY shall mail
copy of any process served
against the LLC to: Registered
Agent: United States Corporation Agents, Inc. 7014 15th
Ave, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY
11228. Purpose: Any lawful
activity or purpose.
________________________
Notice is hereby given that
an Order entered by the
Civil Court, Queens County
JUL 23 2015 bearing Index
Number NC-000440-15/
QU, a copy of which may
be examined at the Office
of the Clerk, located at 89-17
Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica,
NY 11435, grants me the right
to: Assume the name of (First)
Dikshat (Last) Kumar My present name is (First) Dikshat
(Last) . My present address is
104-18 111 Street, Richmond
Hill, NY 11419 My place of
birth is India My date of birth
is February 28, 1987
________________________
Notice is hereby given that
an Order entered by the
Civil Court, Queens County
JUL 27 2015 bearing Index
Number NC-000478-15/
QU, a copy of which may
be examined at the Office
of the Clerk, located at 89-17
Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica,
NY 11435, grants me the
right to: Assume the name
of (First) Melissa (Middle)
Casalino (Last) Quiroz My
present name is (First) Melissa
(Last) Casalino aka Melissa
Quiroz My present address
is 213-01 75th Ave, Apt 1B,
Oakland Gardens, NY 11364
My place of birth is Bronx, NY
My date of birth is October
09, 1973
________________________
Notice is hereby given that
an Order entered by the
Civil Court, Queens County
JUL 06 2015 bearing Index
Number NC-000404-15/
QU, a copy of which may
be examined at the Office
of the Clerk, located at 89-17
Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica,
NY 11435, grants me the right
to: Assume the name of (First)
Kelly (Middle) Jenipher (Last)
Linares Mendoza My present
name is (First) Kelly (Middle)
Jenipher Linares (Last) Mendoza My present address is
103-19 120th Street, South
Richmond Hill, NY 114192009 My place of birth is
Queens, NY My date of birth
is October 22, 1995
________________________
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Flushing House
Director Of
Operations Honored
David Barr, Flushing House Director of Operations, will receive the
“Employee of Distinction” Award
from LeadingAge New York.
LeadingAge Executive Vice President Dan Heim will present the award
and a $100 check to Barr, during a ceremony at Flushing House on Aug. 13
at 1 p.m.
LeadingAge will also invite local
New York State Assembly and Senate
members, who will present a legislative resolution in recognition of Barr’s
extraordinary dedication to serving
older adults.
Nominations were sought for LeadingAge
New
York’s 15th annual “Employee
of Distinction”
Awards to recognize the extraordinary dedication of front-line
staff from member
facilities.
Members of the
David Barr
New York State
Legislature, state regulatory agencies,
advocacy agencies, plus other groups,
served on the awards committee to review the nominations. LeadingAge New
York represents not-for-profit, missiondriven and public continuing care providers, including nursing homes, senior
housing, adult care facilities, continuing
care retirement communities, assisted
living corporations and community service providers.
Examples of his dedication to quality include two recent projects. One
was expansion and renovation of the
kitchen and dining room at Flushing
House. Another example found him
coordinating an innovative solution to
end the basement flooding from Superstorm Sandy. Because of his technical
expertise, Barr realized that the foundation floor needed to be excavated in
order to install an emergency overflow
ejector pump. Since his solution was
implemented, residents and staff have
not been inconvenienced by flooding,
plus Flushing House has saved hundreds of thousands in damages. This
super example may be of great value
to other facilities with similar problems. Contact Barr at [email protected]
to obtain a report on the Superstorm
Sandy Flood Remediation Project.
Barr started at Flushing House in
2003. He has served as Food Service
Manager and a member of their Marketing Department. He was promoted
a few years ago to become the Director
of Operations at Flushing House. As
such, he is responsible for supervising a staff of several management and
union employees. Barr interfaces daily
with many outside contractors, such
as plumbers, electricians, carpenters,
elevator mechanics, and a variety of
building service and product providers. He makes sure day-to-day operations run smoothly.
Queens Native
Named Head Of
Historical Districts
Council
The Historic DistrictsCouncil -- advocate for all of New York City’s historic neighborhoods – has named
Daniel J. Allen as board president.
“Mr. Allen has been a valued member of the HDC board for several years.
His knowledge and experience as both
a professional and community preservationist make him an ideal candidate
and we are very happy to welcome him
into this new position.” said Simeon
Bankoff, HDC’s Executive Director.
As Board President, Allen is responsible for maintaining and promoting
HDC’s mission of preserving the history of New York City’s built environment and advocating for its residents.
Allen is the 10th Board President, succeeding Leo J. Blackman, who served
as HDC’s Board President from 2014
to 2015. Mr. Blackman also served as
President from 2008 through 2011 and
continues to serve on HDC’s Board of
Directors. Allen has been on the board
since 2007.
“I’m thrilled to be taking on this
role in this truly vital organization”,
said Allen. Prior to becoming Board
President, he served as Vice President
on the board from 2010-2013 and has
been co-chair of HDC’s Public Review
Committee since 2009.
The committee is responsible for
reviewing all public proposals affecting historic properties in New York
City and formulating a position on
them; HDC is the only organization in
New York City which does this comprehensive review. In 2014, the Historic Districts Council reviewed over
400 proposals and testified before the
Landmarks Preservation Commission
on over 175 projects.
A long-time resident of Queens, Mr.
Allen currently teaches in the Historic
Preservation program at Columbia University and is a principal at CTA ARCHITECTS, a New York architecture firm
specializing in new design, restoration,
rehabilitation, interior design, affordable
housing and historic preservation.
In addition, he is a registered architect in the state of New York, a
member of the American Institute of
Architects, and serves on the board of
the New York Preservation Archive
Project (NYPAP). Mr. Allen is also a
member of the Association for Preservation Technology International and
the Society of Architectural Historians.
He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts
degree from The Cooper Union and
a Masters of Science in Historic Preservation from Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture,
Planning and Preservation.
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Go to
LouisArmstrongHouse.org
for our schedule of
free summer events!
Saturday, August 15th
Cynthia Sayer &
Her Sparks Fly Quartet
2:00 pm
Advance Tickets: $18 at LouisArmstrongHouse.org
Includes red beans ’n rice & sweet tea!
Louis Armstrong House Museum
34-56 107th Street
Corona • Queens • NY 11368
718.478.8274
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140 Oak Rd. Drive
Cherry Ville, NC
2,271SF 4Br, 2.5Ba ELK, H/W
Flrs, Frplc, Covered Dbl Dock w/
Pwr Lifts, Low Taxes $387K
704-297-3987
HOWARD BEACH
Lindenwood
2 BR, 1 Bath Co-op on first floor.
Newly renovated. Mint condition.
Hardwood floors, pets allowed.
Parking and storage available.
Custom wood window frames.
Asking $195K Neg.
By Owner
646-739-3142
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Lindenhurst, NY
Colebrook, CT
Babylon, NY, 52 Frederick Ave. $424,900
$355K
Old charm Colonial in the Heart of Babylon Village,
4BR/2Bth, Lr, Den, Eik, Fdr, Mud Room, Full Bsmt, Cac, C-Vac,
Fenced yard w/lgp, 2 Car Gar, Near Vge Amenities
3BR, Split, 2Bth, Den, Solar update, Updated kit.
s.s appl., Cent Air, Alarms Too Much To Mention!
631-831-4247
631-831-4247
The Admiralty
3BR, 2.5Bth, 2200 sq.ft.
Private Marina, Tennis Courts
Clubhouse Gym, IGP
Over 200 Acres of Trails/Gardens
Attached 2 car gar. $550K
Suzy Fallon • Island Polo Realty
631-223-5526
FLORIDA
ORLANDO Vicinity - Water Views
Lakefront Spacious 3,698sf
1 Fam, built 2013, Det, 5 BR - 2
Master BR w/Sep Ba, 4.5 Ba total, Lr,
Dr, Gourmet Kit w/pantry, S/S Appls
& Island, Drvwy, Bkyd, 3 Car Gar on
9,757sf lot in Gated Comm. w/sec.
guards, Pvt. Boat Dock can be built.
Asking $625K.
Owner
443-875-9204
FLORAL PARK
OPEN HOUSE Sat. 8/7 1-5PM
1387 Jefferson St. FL PK, 11001
Beautiful Spacious Corner Cape
Walk to Fewanaka H.S.
4 Large BR, 3Bth, Giant KIT.
Lg Fin. Bsmt. all Updates
Near Shops & Transp.
516-354-4098
Latourette, Staten Island, NY
One family attached,
move in condition.
Hardwood floors, open floor plan,
yard, three bedrooms, three baths,
finished basement and garage.
Easy commute.
$438,888
CLAIRE PROPERTIES
Direct: 917-974-2238
Office: 718-524-4424
WOW
Contemporary Style Home,
3BR, 2BT, Solarium Rm, Shed,
Brickwall Fireplace, Hot Tub
& More. In a Private Gated
Comm. with Pools, Lakes,
Tennis & More. Close to all
Major Attractions.
A must See At This Price.
You Won’t Be Disappointed.
$89,900. Call 570-350-2245
JAMAICA
Single Family Home
on a beautiful block
featuring 3 BR,
2 Bath, LR, FDR,
PVT Driveway.
Call
(718) 454-9000
For More Info
So. Adirondack Lake Property! 111 acres $222,900 3 hrs NY City, 40 mins Albany! Great
deer hunting, huge timber value! Pristine Lake!
Call 888-905-8847 woodworthlakepreserve.com
PLACE YOUR AD
718-357-7400
Ext. 151
OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY 8/9, 1-2:30PM
NEW LISTING
Port Jefferson, NY
Babylon, NY
14 Burnage Lane
30 Jefferson Landing Circle
Seller Transferring, Motivated.
Diamond Condition, over 3,000
Sq. Ft. of Luxry in a Desirable
Jefferson Landing. Beautifully
Updated, Impeccably Maintained.
Big Price Drop $679K
www.StJamesBestlisting.com
Carmela Kaiser
Fortune Realty of L.I.
631-320-0800
BALDWIN HARBOR
Pristine SFR on corner
property. 3 BR/2BTH w/wood
floors, fenced yard & garage.
Possible Mother-Daughter!
$399.999
Topper Realty - Bette Richman
516-902-3770
BALDWIN
HARBOR
LONGSFRBEACH
Pristine
corner
Walk
to Beach!on
Beautifully
property.Ranch
3 BR/2BTH
w/wood
Detailed
w/ Ocean
View.
fenced
yardMaster
& garage.
3floors,
BRs/2.55
Bths,
Ste,
Mother-Daughter!
FP,Possible
HW Floors
& Fin Basement
$399.999
$685,000
Topper
- Bette
Richman
TopperRealty
Realty
- Carol
Okin
(516)
902-3770
516-680-4398
Near Cooperstown, NY
10yr old Salt Box, 2BR, 1.5BT on
3 Acres. Lakeview & Co-owned
Lake Parcel, 15 Apple Trees, 10
Cherry Trees. Stone Fireplace &
Chimney. Wood flrs, low taxes.
$255k
315-858-9911
office space 4 rent
LUXURY COMMERCIAL
OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT
Upscale, commerical office
space in prime, busy
Richmond Hill location. Near
all transportation. Conference
room and parking available.
Turnkey setup perfect for
professionals at affordable
rents from $500 to $1,200 per
month. All inclusive.
718-849-6900
164-14 95 St,
Howard Beach NY 11414
Brick, 3 Story - 2 Fam
BOATER'S DREAM
Asking Price $699,000
Perfectly manicured Landscaping &
Large water-front Backyard,
New Dock & Bulkhead, 1 Car Garage
Capri Jet Realty Corp.
Robert Napolitano
718-388-2188 • 646-400-3609
www.caprijetrealty.com
land 4 sale
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New York State
Catskills-Mohawk
Herkimer Co.
apartment 4 sale
Bayside North
Asking $173,000
1 Bed Co-op Upper/Garden Apt.
All new kit., bath, SS appliances
Low Maint. Can rent.
A must see.
Call 646-321-6961
TMT Realty Group
20 Acres for sale on top of Mountain
with amazing views. Ready to build.
3 Hrs. from NYC $84.999.
Owner 917-442-3275
$8,000 COMPENSATION. EGG DONORS
NEEDED. Women 21-31. Help Couples
Become Families using Physicians
from the BEST DOCTOR’S LIST.
Personalized Care. 100% Confidential.
1-877-9-DONATE; 1-877-936-6283;
www.longislandivf.com
Tastefully Renovated 4 beds/3bths
Hi Ranch w Spacious Open floor plan,
Granite counters, Wood floors,
Master ensuite, 2 car gar, Lrg yard,
Near Babylon Village, LIRR, 40 mi to NYC
$429,000
Joanne Toscano Brady
631-786-3151
Coach Realtors West Islip
631-587-1700
Custom 3,000sf
Log house on 10ac.
3bdrms/3bths Central Air
$795K
realtor.com #L10057096
Cohen Agency 866-671-5535
or M.Cohen 860-307-2594
Steers Estate c1929 Colonial, 7BR/7BA,
4+Ac, Stables, Gardens, Terraces,
IGP, on Greenbelt. 6FP, LR, FDR, Den,
Master Wing, Nursery, 2 Powder Rms.
4-bay Gar. Beach/Tennis
$3,500,000
Suzy Fallon • Island Polo Realty
631-223-5526
BALDWIN
HARBOR
OCEANSIDE
Several
available
Pristinehomes
SFR on
cornerin
Oceanside3area
b/w $300-400K
property.
BR/2BTH
w/wood
Easy
accessyard
to parkway
floors,
fenced
& garage.
& LIRR. Search
the MLS at
Possible
Mother-Daughter!
www.AngiesHomeListings.com
$399.999
Realty
Angie
Topper
Topper Realty - Bette Vazquez
Richman
(516)
902-3770
516-425-3885
commercial prop.
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OFF RTE 78 NEW JERSEY
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AVAILABLE - HI CEILINGS
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CALL FOR MORE INFO
WHITESTONE:
3 BRAND NEW 2BR/1BA
1800Sq.Ft. ......................$1,800 + UTIL
1 Very LG 2BR.............................$1,800
Commercial Space 500Sq.Ft. Heat Incl.
New 3BR/2BA 1st flr. ...................$2,200
FRESH MEADOWS:
2 BRAND NEW 2BR W/BackYd.
Includes Heat Washer/Dryer.........$2,400
ASTORIA:
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FLUSHING:
EXTRA LG. 1BR INCL HEAT........$1,400
ADRIANNE REALTY
718-767-0080 • 917-821-9518
room 4 rent
Ridgewood
Room for Rent in Large
2 Bedroom Apt. Share Kit, Bath,
Living room Female preferred,
G+E Inc. Laundry rm. in bldg.
$825/month
MORRIS PARK - Indian Village
Det. Brick Lg 2 Fam used as a 1
family. 6BR, 4 full Bth. 1 1/2 Bth
Breathtaking landscape
w/amazing back yd.$839k
Beautiful 1980 Brick semi-det. 3
fam. in prime
WILLIAMSBURG $2.1M
Ferris Properties Corp.
Call Laura 347-633-1207
house bought
Lloyd Harbor, NY
Gold Coast 4 Acre Estate
apartment 4 rent
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mort. modification
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realtor
realtor
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REAL ESTATE
Serving Queens, NY
DAYS 516-946-7771
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community in Toms River, NJ
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[email protected]
www.claireproperties.com
OFFICE 718-766-9175
CELL 917-774-6121
EMAIL: Jfi[email protected]
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Totally renovated with new heating,
siding, roof and much much more.
1st Floor:
2 room apartment with all new kitchen
including granite countertops and
radiant floor heating and separate
entrance to yard
2nd Floor:
Living room, kitchen and 2 bedrooms
with separate entrance to private
backyard.
Lot size: 25x100
House: 21x28
Asking $525,000
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Denise Paul,
Lic. RE Assoc Broker
#347-837-0310
Pernod Real Estate
52-59 69th Street,
Maspeth, NY 11378
(P) 718-424-2319
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contracting
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awnings
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Big Apple Games:
Key To Development Of High School Athletes
By Carmine CarCieri
From July 6 to Aug. 6, the Big
Apple Games produced its 32nd annual summer event, as a designed
extension of the Public Schools Athletic League, and presented a perfect opportunity for New York high
school student-athletes to stay in
shape before their upcoming sports
seasons.
The program, which was offered to children from grades four
through 12, took place in all five
boroughs and was funded by the
Department of Education. The junior high portion of the event was
held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. while the
group also had an option of relaxing
in the recreational centers from 1 to
5 p.m. High school players held their
workouts from 6 to 9 p.m. Monday
through Thursday.
While baseball, softball, track
and field, cricket, soccer, volleyball,
stunt cheerleading and wrestling are
featured in the Big Apple Games,
football is the most
until mid-August, with
anticipated sport and
Long Island City beginthat forced the marning on Aug. 16, but
quee summer camp
chemistry and commuto open three sessions
nication is at a premium,
per week for five weeks
especially during the offat two separate locaseason.
tions – Jamaica High
Not only will playSchool and Bayside
ers interact with one
High School – for the
another but they also
Queens football stars.
can pick up tips from
This event has become
coaches through fundaa training-camp like
mental, individual and
atmosphere that gives
team drills.
these youngsters a
The event did run
chance to make drastic
into a minor setback at
leaps in their on-field
the end of July due to
approach, off-the field
uncharacteristic weather
Photo courtesy of big aPPle games
communication and
conditions and heat isThe Big Apple Games continued its annual training.
ability to relate to their
sues, as they had to canteammates.
cel three sessions during
“I have been attending the games to improve their strength, condi- the week of July 26.
[at Bayside High School] with my tioning and football skills and they
The PSAL football season begins
players and we have about 20 to 25 love it. They are working hard and on Sept. 5 with a number of intrigukids that attended every day,” Long are clearly eager to learn.”
ing match-ups while track and field,
Island City head coach Joe HoughMost high school squads don’t soccer, volleyball and wrestling beton said. “These athletes are looking begin their official practice schedule gin their season shortly thereafter.
Queens kids: Mamadou Diarra and Hamidou Diallo
By Carmine CarCieri
Photo courtesy of t wit ter
From Queens to Woodstock
Academy to the New York Jayhawks,
four-star recruit Mamadou Diarra
(Class of 2016) and five-star recruit
Hamidou Diallo (Class of 2017) have
grown up as teammates and friends
on the basketball court, competing
against the top talent in the nation.
That journey could extend to the
college ranks where Diallo can join
the recently committed Diarra at
Connecticut to play under the tutelage of former pro Kevin Ollie.
The Queens natives have
been a major factor on the recruiting
trail after successful outings with the
Jayhawks this spring and impressive
performances in high school games
during the winter.
Diarra committed to the Huskies
in May despite offers from multiple
other schools including Boston University, Canisius, Drexel, Duquesne,
Hofstra, Kansas State, Manhattan,
Minnesota, Rider, St. Bonaventure,
Temple and VCU. The 6-foot, 8-inch
tall center is ranked 98th in ESPN’s
top 100 rankings for the class of
2016 and is the sixth
best prospect in the state
of New York.
Diarra is a true power forward with great
explosion in the paint,
including a dominant
ability to play above the
rim and the talent to
rebound on both ends
of the floor. The undersized big man also plays
with a ton of energy and
urgency while running
the floor with ease and
showing a solid touch
around the basket.
Five-star shooting
guard, Diallo, is ranked
30th on ESPN’s top 60
for the class of 2017 and his stock is
quickly rising. The 6’4” 175 pound
long, athletic, attacking guard holds
offers from UConn, Duquesne, Indiana, Iowa State, Louisville, Minnesota, St. John’s, North Carolina State,
Providence, Seton Hall, St. Bonaventure, Temple, St. Peters, USC and
Wake Forest.
Diallo, who will play in the up-
Hamidou Diallo
coming Under Armour E24X game
in New York during the first week
of August, can score in a variety of
ways and from all three levels on the
court while also showing the ability
to get out in transition.
His quickness and athleticism
could make him a perfect fit at Louisville, St. John’s or Indiana, but his
chemistry on the fast break with Di-
Mamadou Diarra
arra could have a huge impact on his
final decision. Coach Ollie also relies
on and features his guards more than
most of the programs in the country.
If Diallo and Diarra do become
teammates, the American Athletic
Conference better watch out because
the potential would be there for the
Huskies to possibly be one of the
most feared teams in the nation.
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