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LANDSLIDE!Leroy Comrie overwhelmingly defeated incumbent State Sen. Malcolm Smith in Tuesday’s Primary election. By Jordan Gibbons … Page 3. Editorial: Comrie victory is a chance for a new beginning for Southeast Queens ... Page 6

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News BriefsRichmond Hill Library Reopened

The Queens Library Richmond Hill branch located at 103-34 Lef-ferts Blvd. has reopened for public service following its roof renovation.

Normal hours of operation have resumed. The library reopened ahead of schedule.

The project was managed by the City Dept. of Design and Construc-tion.

Key Food Opens Howard Beach Location

Howard Beach residents call-ing for another supermarket in the neighborhood have finally gotten their wish.

The new Key Food location at 163-20 Cross Bay Blvd. in Howard Beach opened its doors last Friday to much joy and celebration. The supermarket replaces the Duane Reade store that was there before Superstorm Sandy and gives Waldbaum’s a competitor in the area.

Hundreds of residents lined up to do their shopping at the new store at the opening.

The store’s owner, Frank Almon-te, said they pledge to deliver the highest quality service to the Howard Beach community.

“This is overwhelming; I’ll be hon-est with you. I’m very happy to see all these fine community leaders sup-port our cause,” he said.

The new supermarket drew mostly positive reviews from its new custom-ers. The majority opinion was that it is a welcomed addition to the neigh-borhood and provides a competitor to the two nearby Waldbaum’s locations in Howard Beach and Lindenwood.

Frank Valvo, an 83-year-old How-ard Beach resident, called the store opening a “necessity” and said he is more likely to walk to the Key Food, located three blocks away from his house, instead of taking the bus to

the Howard Beach Waldbaum’s lo-cated at 156-01 Cross Bay Blvd.

The building had been vacant since Sandy hit southern Queens and Rockaway almost two years ago. Although the majority of businesses eventually reopened, Duane Reade never returned to the Howard Beach location, leaving uncertainty for the then-vacant building.

Eventually, the Almonte family opened the Key Food in a process that took about one year to get to the ribbon cutting due to delays of con-struction during renovation.

Delay in A Train Station Renovations

Renovations at some A train sta-tions are going to take a little longer than expected.

The subway platforms at 88th and 104th Streets are expected to be re-opened to straphangers on Sept. 29, more than a month after the original-ly-announced target date.

According to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the reason for the delay is so the transit agency can perform some extra work on the subway stations.

“This delay is due to our need to make additional, unanticipated re-pairs to badly deteriorated steel gird-ers supporting the station platforms,” MTA spokesperson Kevin Ortiz said in an email.

The work on the Rockaway-bound side of the platform began last year and was expected to be finished on August 18th of this year. Renovations would then begin on the Manhattan-bound side soon afterwards.

That will now begin on Oct. 4, a few days after the Rockaway-bound plat-form is finished. Ortiz said that work is expected to take about 14 months to complete, which would put it at a December 2015 completion date.

Ortiz also said new costs have not yet been calculated to include the un-anticipated repairs.

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BY JORDAN GIBBONS

Former Councilman Leroy Com-rie convincingly defeated incumbent State Sen. Malcolm Smith (D-Hollis) and attorney Munir Avery in the Pri-mary election for the 14th District Tuesday night.

Smith has held the seat for 13 years, but his legal issues based on an alleged corruption scheme to bribe his way onto the Republican mayoral ticket in 2013 prompted Queens leg-islators and the Southeast Queens community to call on Comrie to bring a new face to Albany.

Comrie ended up with 69.4 per-cent of the votes. Smith finished with 18.9 percent and Avery had 11.8 percent. Comrie pulled in more than 9,000 votes out of the impres-sive 13,000-plus voters who came in droves to the polls for a mid-term pri-mary election.

“I’m just humbled that the num-bers are strong and the turnout is better than normal to show the com-munity is making a strong statement of support for my candidacy,” Com-rie said

With the support of Mayor Bill de Blasio, Borough Presi-dent Melinda Katz, U.S. Rep. Greg Meeks (D-Jamaica), Councilmem-bers Donovan Richards (D-Laurelton) and I. Daneek Miller (D-St. Albans), Comrie was able to gather more than enough votes to bring that change to the State Senate.

“It feels good, it’s a gratifying win,” Comrie said. “It’s a real testa-ment to the power of the community, actually. While I was honored with

unprecedented support from every major quarter, I was overwhelmed by the reaction from the community.”

Earlier in the day, Comrie was joined by a number of elected of-ficials, including de Blasio, Assem-blyman Mark Weprin, Councilmen Donovan Richards and Daneek Miller and State Sen. Mike Gianaris to campaign outside of Jamaica Sta-tion.

The Mayor and other elected of-ficials shook hands with voters out-side the transportation hub, urging passers-by to vote for Comrie before polls closed.

During his victory celebration, Comrie noted the decline in support Smith received from the community, which has repeatedly been let down by its legislators in the past for a vari-ety of corruption charges.

“They were disappointed in the incumbent and they really wanted someone that would have experience to go to Albany to deal with the ma-jor issues that are coming up in the 2015 legislative agenda,” he said.

Smith did not return calls for comment on the election results. Comrie has no Republican challeng-

er for the November elections.Gov. Andrew Cuomo led the way

on Tuesday night as the highest-profile of three Queens incumbents elected.

The governor held off a Demo-cratic Primary challenge from Ford-ham law professor Zephyr Teachout, taking 62 percent of the vote state-

wide. While Cuomo lost a number of counties up-state, Democratic voters in Queens overwhelmingly came out to support the incumbent. More than 74 percent of Queens voters supported Cuomo.

The governor’s cho-sen running mate, former Buffalo U.S. Rep. Kathy Hochul, also held off an upstart challenge from Tim Wu, taking almost 60 percent of the vote.

Cuomo, who was large-ly out of the public eye on Primary Day, released a

statement congratulating Teachout and Wu while touting his victory along with Hochul.

“Today’s outcome is a testament to the progress we have made togeth-er over the last four years: restoring economic opportunity, replacing dys-function with results, putting people before politics and re-establishing New York as a progressive leader for the nation,” the statement read.

State Sen. James Sanders (D-South Ozone Park) also ran away with his primary election, easily stav-ing off Everly Brown and Gian Jones. Sanders also has no Republican op-ponent in the November elections so he will maintain is seat in the 10th District for another two years.

Sanders received nearly 6,000 votes and finished with 74.5 percent of the vote. Brown ended up with 21.9 percent and Jones finished with 3.6 percent.

Reach Jordan Gibbons at (718)357-7400 Ext. 123, [email protected] or @jgibbons2.

Comrie Steamrolls Smith On His Path To Albany

BY JORDAN GIBBONS

Police Commissioner William Bratton announced last week that the NYPD will be starting a body camera pilot program in the near fu-ture, with the goal of eventually insti-tuting the entire police force with the technology.

A total of 60 cameras will be used in the top five high-crime precincts, one in each borough. In Queens, the 103 Precinct in Jamaica will be the first to test out the devices that aim to prevent unconstitutional stop-and-

frisk searches by officers and to also protect officers and the City from al-legations of police misconduct and false arrests.

Assistant Chief of Patrol Borough South David Barrere said that the cameras, which will either be worn on eye glasses or on a tie clip, will be used by police officers who vol-unteer to be a part of the program. Bratton’s office is currently figuring out the details before the program is implemented, Barrere said.

“They’re working on a procedure that is going to apply to all pre-

cincts,” he said. “I think it’s going to be a good thing.”

Public Advocate Letitia James has been advocating for the NYPD to begin using this program for sever-al weeks following the death of Eric Garner at the hands of police officers in Staten Island and the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.

“Cameras help departments to improve and correct protocol. Cam-eras also provide greater transpar-ency, accountability and fairness,” a spokesperson for James said. “In fact, the use of cameras can help to

save the City money by reducing the amount we pay out for allegations of police misconduct, which amounted to $152 million last year. Of equal importance, a wrongfully accused of-ficer who behaved properly is more likely to be exonerated.”

Barrere said that it has not been decided whether the cameras will be on all the time or if officers can turn it on when they come across a poten-tial situation.

Reach Reporter Jordan Gibbons at (718)357-7400 Ext. 123, [email protected] or @jgibbons2.

NYPD Body Camera Program Coming To Jamaica

Mayor Bill de Blasio came down to Parsons Boulevard and Archer Avenue on Tuesday, to encourage commuters to vote for Leroy Comrie.

Leroy Comrie thanked his many supporters Tuesday night for helping him during his successful campaign for State Senate.


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Councilman Donovan Richards (D-Laurelton) held a press confer-ence at the corner of Parsons Bou-levard and Archer Avenue to unveil the new Q114 bus service for riders in Rosedale, Springfield Gardens and the Rockaways.

The new route will operate as a limited-stop line along Guy R. Brewer Bouel-vard and 147th Avenue, but will provide the same local service south of Brookville Boulevard as the local Q113 previ-ously did.

“The former 113 bus line would take you around 60 or 70 stops to get into the Rock-aways,” Richards said. “The 114 cuts 27 stops. And this is a huge relief for many of our stu-dents who you’ll see lining up going to school, people who need to travel this way to get to work.”

The need for more reliable service came about when Jackie Campbell, president of the Rosedale Block Association, began petitioning the MTA last year. She said that the addition of the Q114 was welcome, but will not fix all of the issues fac-

ing residents of Rosedale.While the Q114 was still in the

proposal stages, Campbell said that more than one bus needs to service the end of the line on Francis Lewis Boulevard.

“What happens to residents who live on the other side of Rosedale?” Campbell said.

Richards is aware of the need for more public transporta-tion changes for South-east Queens residents and he said he is look-ing at more improve-ments.

“There is still a lot more work to get done,” Richards said. “This is a huge step in the right direction for the MTA and for residents of Southeast Queens. We

still have to look at other services: the Q5 service, the A train service, and we still have a lot of work with the 22 out of the Rockaways and also extending the 52.”

The Q111, which provides fre-quent local service between Ja-maica Center and Francis Lewis Bouelvard and 148th Avenue in Rosedale has also seen changes of its own along with the Q113, ac-cording to Darryl Irick, president

of the MTA Bus Company.“We’ve also made schedule im-

provements on the local 111, the Q113 limited stops, in an effort to provide reliability for all of our rid-ers,” Irick said.

Irick said that the Q113 line is one of the busiest in the City and the new changes will help to meet the increas-ing needs of the community and help to make the service available to more riders.

“The Q114 was introduced to

meet the ongoing and growing needs for faster and more reliable service along the Guy R. Brewer Boulevard/ 147th Avenue corridor,” Irick said. “On average, more than 25,000 bus riders travel on this bus line each weekday. Experience has shown us that new limited stop routes are well received by riders and they can actu-ally generate more ridership.”


New Bus Line Hit The Road Last Week

President of the MTA Bus Company Darryl Irick said the new service will gen-erate more ridership, standing alongside Councilman Donovan Richards.

“This is a huge step in the right direction for the MTA and for residents of Southeast Queens.”

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BY JOE MARVILLI

Councilman Mark Weprin (D-Oakland Gardens) announced a new cleanup initiative for his district, part of a Citywide program that is start-ing up this year.

Through the City Council’s NYC Cleanup Initiative, Weprin secured more than $70,000 in funds to pro-vide additional sanitation services at select locations in eastern Queens. The year-long pilot program will tar-get areas that have been subject to cleanliness complaints, but fall out-side the responsibility of homeown-ers or business owners.

The councilman selected a few or-ganizations to cover this extra work. The Doe Fund will handle sweep-ing, bagging and litter removal. The Horticultural Society of New York, working in conjunction with the Association of Community Employ-ment, will take care of weed clearing, mulching of tree pits and weed main-tenance. The Dept. of Sanitation will help as well, with additional pickups at frequently overfilled trashcans.

Weprin received a little more than $70,000 for the cleanup efforts, with $40,000 going to the Doe Fund, $12,310 going to DSNY and $19,818 going to the Horticultural Society.

“There’s noth-ing better than a clean neighbor-hood and there’s so many little is-sues that need to be taken care of. We need extra re-sources in order to make them look right,” Weprin said. “We’re delighted to be joining with a number of groups…to help make sure our neighborhood looks great. I live in a great neigh-borhood. We want to make sure it is a clean place to live, work and raise a family.”

The specific locations for the cleanup efforts include Union Turn-pike from 188th Street to 193rd Street, the Grand Central Parkway service road at Stronghurst Avenue and Little Neck Parkway at the Grand Central Parkway underpass. Four in-tersections will also be covered: Hor-ace Harding Expressway and Spring-field Boulevard, Union Turnpike and Springfield Boulevard, Hillside Av-enue, Braddock Avenue and Spring-

field Boulevard, and Hillside Avenue and Little Neck Parkway.

Both the Doe Fund and ACE will provide about two members working four days a week. The two organiza-tions are not only cleaning the neigh-borhood, but also helping to train people looking to break out of cycles of homelessness, incarceration or substance abuse.

“I want to recognize the hard work of the men in blue who you see working every day, all across the City,” George McDonald, president

Mark Weprin Announces Cleanup Initiativeand founder of the Doe Fund, said. “We always pay above the minimum wage. At the end of our nine-to-12-month program, we pay two days a week for folks to go on a job search. They get a job in the private sector; they get their own housing they pay for with that job.”

Laura Hansen add-ed that Horticultural Society trains its work-ers to put them on a green career path.

“We work with people coming off of

Rikers Island and put them in a voca-tional track to horticultural careers,” she said. “It’s a mutually beneficial relationship. While we’re serving the district, this district is serving our crews by giving them a second chance.”

The funding will cover the cleanup initiative for a year, with the program up for renewal in next year’s City bud-get.

Reach Reporter Joe Marvilli at (718) 357-7400, Ext. 125, [email protected], or @JoeMarvilli.

Councilman Mark Weprin stood with members of the Doe Fund, the Horticultural Society, the Dept. of Sanitation and community residents to announce a new cleanup initiative.


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A Personal PerspectiveBY MARCIA MOXAM COMRIE

A Return To Integrity On Tuesday, voters who live within the 14th State Senate District

came out in droves to say that they have had enough. More than 13,000 people came out for the Primary between embattled incumbent State Sen. Malcolm Smith and former Councilman Leroy Comrie, choosing to replace Smith.

Smith was vocal in this campaign about his experience and how valuable it was to the people within the district, but his upcoming bribery trial seemed to be too much for his constituents to take. Smith is not the only official in Southeast Queens to have come under legal scrutiny. Two years ago, former State Sen. Shirley Huntley was arrested for her part in a scheme involving a non-profit. Just earlier this year, Councilman Ruben Wills faced his own investigation on fraud charges.

We hope that Comrie’s victory on Tuesday is a signal that the com-munity in Southeast Queens will no longer accept this type of behavior from its officials. Instead of lining their own pockets and improving their own lives, elected officials should be focused on improving the lives of the people within their districts. We have faith that Comrie will do just that, as he did during his 12 years within the City Council.

Leroy Comrie has been a friend of this newspaper for a long time. His wife, Marcia, was one of the founders of the PRESS of Southeast Queens and still contributes a weekly column here. We have gotten to know Comrie well over the years, and he has always been a man who wants to do the right thing, not for himself, but for those who he represents.

To the residents of Southeast Queens, we urge you: do not expect anything less than a full-throated defense of your community from your elected officials. You have started on the right road with Tuesday’s Primary and we hope you continue down that path.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is a most unusual elected official. Challenged by a neophyte candidate in last week’s Pri-mary, the governor treated the entire thing like a non-event after failing to knock her off the ballot.

Law professor Zephyr Tea-chout tried everything possible to get Cuomo to debate her or to at least respond to her numerous barbs, but no bite from the governor. His kind of strategy would not work for the mere mortals running for local elections, but somehow he was able to get away with it.

Candidates in local elec-tions usually engage in at least three district debates and a televised one on Time Warner Cable’s NY1. Not so with Cuomo in the Primary. He remained dismissive of his opponent and in so doing, seemed to disrespect the vot-ers. Teachout was not some flake running on a line she created to get attention (re-member The Rent is Too Damn High Party?). Teachout was

a Democratic candidate with something to say whether he liked it or not. She is an Ivy League-educated law profes-sor at a reputable university.

In her words, the Gover-nor’s failure to debate her was a disservice to democracy. One has to agree. As a voter, I feel taken for granted. In nearly eight years in public office thus far – first as attorney general and now as governor, Cuomo has not done a single television interview. The only time you see him on TV is when he is making an announcement at a press conference.

By acting like Teachout’s challenge was a non-issue, Cuomo made her a sympa-thetic figure and women voters don’t like seeing women treat-ed as less than. Remember the dismissive, “You’re likeable enough, Hillary” response that candidate Barack Obama gave candidate Hillary Clinton during a debate?

There is also the other side of the coin, and once again, Hillary was on the receiving end. Dur-ing a debate in her first Senate run, Republican Rick Lazio left his own lectern to get into Clinton’s face with a document

telling her to “Sign it! Sign it!” The document, apparently, was a declaration that she would not accept “soft money.”

Men were aghast and women appalled at how physi-cally aggressive he was. He came across as a bully. The fallout was so bad for him that in the ensuing days his campaign dispatched his wife to do damage control. She held a press conference to explain how gentle “Rick actually is.” But the damage was done. He’s now a footnote.

But where Lazio came across as an aggressive bully, Cuomo now comes across as a passive-aggressive one. His inaction caused him to lose more votes than he otherwise might have. Teachout should never have received the 30-plus percent of Tuesday’s votes that she got. There is no way she should have done that well as a first-time candi-date for office against a fairly popular incumbent governor. Clearly, Teachout got some protest votes here.

Cuomo seems to feel that he is “to the manor born” (in this case, the Governor’s Mansion) and that he doesn’t have to suf-

fer fools gladly to get and keep it. Remember how he waited for David Paterson to realize his running for his own term for governor would be a fool hardy venture? Cuomo waited him out then ascended the throne after defeating weaker candidates than he.

One has to wonder who advises him.

Governor Mario Cuomo, Andrew’s father, was a master politician and surely his son has learned a thing or two from him. But it’s hard to imagine Mario Cuomo not engaging an opponent. Where the father was genial, Andrew Cuomo seems more… brusque. He’s not a bad sort, and he does deserve a second term, but it would be nice to see him show that he “gets it.”

Meanwhile, he won’t be able to ignore Rob Astorino in the General Elections. For starters, Astorino is a Repub-lican challenger so this is not a matter of two Democrats with some similar ideas, going after the nomination. Cuomo will have to lock horns with this opponent and earn his reelec-tion if there is to be one.

Bring it, Andrew!

Teachout Taught Cuomo A Thing Or Two

Remember The Victims Of 9/11

To The Editor:I’m greatly troubled

by the belief of some who think we must move on that there is too much talk of 9/11 after 13 years, I beg to differ. We lost thousands of good people, including 343 firefighters who gave up their lives to save others. A husband lost his wife, a mother lost her daughter, and friends lost friends. How does one forget? We need to remember all that we have lost on that day of terrorism, that was pure evil. Future generations need to know what happen on that day of infamy.

When we disregard history, we are doomed to repeat it. As long as there is terrorism in the world, we need to remember what happen on 9/11. This Sep-tember 11, may God bless America and let us still mourn all the good people

that were taken from our midst.

Frederick R. Bedell Jr., Glen Oaks Village

Hurricane Relief Trouble At The

Red Cross?To The Editor:

I was a hurricane victim as I live a block from the ocean in Rkwy Park many years and suffered a lot of mental suffering during the hurricane. The Red Cross got $300 Million in 2012 by many naive suckers for hurricane victims, yet denied many any financial aid until two NYC papers exposed the Red Cross.

It screwed over 1000 hurricane victims with lies .

Has your free commu-nity paper ever exposed the Red Cross for screwing many disaster victims?

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As the 13th anniversary of 9/11 passed, four first responders gath-ered in Rego Park on Tuesday to re-member that tragic day and discuss the health issues they have been bat-tling as a result of being at Ground Zero.

The first responders, all of whom are Queens residents, sat down at North Shore-LIJ’s Queens WTC Clinical Center of Excellence to share their personal stories and talk about the treatment they have re-ceived at the center as a result of the Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensa-tion Act.

The four first responders at the press conference were: Patricia Workman, 76, from Flushing, Joe Ra-mondino, 52, who lives in Maspeth, Christian Foggy, 67, a Jamaica resi-dent and John Licato, who resides in Howard Beach.

Workman was a Red Cross volun-teer at the time the planes crashed into the Twin Towers. She spent two years providing assistance to other first responders. In 2008, she was di-agnosed with multiple myeloma after she asked for treatment for several fractures and other health concerns.

Ramondino was at Ground Zero for two months, lending a helping hand to whatever was needed, includ-ing joining the bucket brigade to help remove buckets of debris from the site. He was diagnosed with lympho-ma last year and has been a patient at the center since earlier this year.

Foggy was an NYPD elec-trician during that time. He spent about two months help-ing transport electric gen-erators to Ground Zero and connecting light and other needs to that area. Foggy was diagnosed with prostate can-cer in 2012, but was declared cancer-free in 2013.

Licato is now a retired NYPD officer, but dur-ing that time, he was in the 110th Precinct in Corona. He was at Ground Zero for several months. In 2012, he felt a lump on his neck. A few months later, he was di-agnosed with neck cancer. Licato has been a patient at the center for just more than a year.

At the press conference, Dr. Jac-queline Moline, the Vice President and Chairperson of population health at the hospital, said the work they do at the center is their way of giving back to the people who put their lives on the line to try to help people in a terrible situation.

“We had selfless individuals, thou-sands upon thousands of folks, be volunteers and all they thought about was getting involved in the rescue and recovery efforts,” she said.

The quartet described how they felt when they were first diagnosed with their diseases.

“When you hear that ‘c’ word, it’s a life changing diagnosis. It’s a life changing word,” Licato said, refer-

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ring to his neck cancer. “I’m saying, ‘my god I’m 50 years old and I’m go-ing to die.’ It’s just not supposed to happen, you’re supposed to live an-other 20 to 30 yearss.”

Ramondino described getting that news as “devastating” but also had a more positive outlook on his situ-ation.

“It’s just something you have to accept and move on with it. Things could always be worse,” he said. “We’re still here. A lot of people lost their lives that day. We’re the lucky ones.”

They were also asked if they had any sort of regret about going to Ground Zero considering the diseas-es they are battling now. In hindsight, they all said they would do it again.

“I’m sure all of us would respond again in the same way because that’s what we were there for,” Foggy said. “Whenever there’s a situation such as the worst of human behavior, from that moment on, you saw the best of human behavior, where everybody came together.”

The day after the press confer-ence, Workman was scheduled to go to Washington D.C. to testify be-fore a congressional committee on 9/11-related illnesses. She said she planned on relaying her story about her illness and urged lawmakers to continue funding for programs like the WTC center at North Shore-LIJ.

Reach Reporter Luis Gronda at (718) 357-7400, ext. 127, [email protected] or @luisgronda.

9/11 first responders, along with dr. Jacqueline Moline, discuss the tragic events of that fateful day 13 years ago. From left to right: Moline, John Licato, Christian Foggy, Joe ramondino and Patricia Workman.

By Jordan GiBBons

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, nearly 3,000 innocent lives were taken in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pen-tagon and United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania.

The City and the nation united together in the aftermath of that tragic morning to rebuild and to console the families of lost loved ones. Even now, first responders are still suffering from illnesses related to the recovery efforts that occurred for years after the attacks.

Mayor Bill de Blasio was at Ground Zero earlier this week to pledge his support to reauthorize the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act for Sept. 11 first responders.

“It’s so appropriate that we re-member 9/11 in so many ways. It’s so appropriate that we have the

powerful memorial near this site that people go to and reflect upon those they lost, they reflect upon what we owe to their memory,” de Blasio said. “Let’s do more than just reflect upon those who are still alive, who we can help right now, whose suffering we can ease. Let’s devote ourselves to them. Let’s walk hand in hand with them. Let’s get our Congress to do the right thing and support our heroes.”

This week marks the 13th anni-versary of that day and there were several events throughout the City where the victims and heroes of that day were remembered and hon-ored.

The annual anniversary ceremo-ny at the 9/11 Memorial Plaza at the World Trade Center began at 8:39 a.m. and had six moments of silence signifying when each tower was hit and collapsed, when the Pentagon was struck and when

Flight 93 crashed. The names of the victims of both the 1993 and 2001 attacks were read. An honor guard made up of members from the FDNY, NYPD and Port Au-thority Police were also in atten-dance.

For the first time, family mem-bers of the victims of both attacks were exclusively invited to visit the National September 11 Memorial Museum to tour the museum from 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Sept. 11. The museum was closed to the general public.

The “Tribute in Light” began at 6 p.m. on Thursday as two beams of blue light stood strong in the sky until sunrise Friday morning, sym-bolizing the Twin Towers.

In Bayside Hills, residents gath-ered at the 9/11 memorial plaque at Bell Boulevard and the Horace Harding Expressway at 7 p.m. for the Bayside Hills Civic Associa-

tion’s candlelight tribute.Another candlelight vigil took

place at Juniper Valley Park between 77th and 78th Street at 7:30 p.m.

On Saturday Sept. 13, St. Mi-chael’s Cemetery in East Elmhurst is hosting its two-mile Remember Me Run in honor and celebration of the first responders who sacrificed their lives on 9/11. The run begins at 3 p.m. and will be followed by a memorial service to remember the first responders. There is a $25 registration fee and the proceeds will be donated to the Christopher Santora Scholarship Fund, which was started in memory of a FDNY firefighter who lost his life on 9/11 after only 2 months on the job. For more information, visit, www.st-michaelscemetery.com/remember-me-run.


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109th PrecinctHomicide

At approximately 5:33 p.m. on Sept. 8, police responded to a call of an assault with shots fired in front of 133-58 41st Ave. in Flushing.

Upon arrival, police observed one male, identified as Xie Bin, 51, of Flushing, and one female, identi-fied as Ya Ling Meng, 46, lying on the sidewalk with gunshot wounds to their heads. EMS responded and pronounced both individuals dead at the scene. Further investigation re-vealed that the male displayed a fire-arm and shot the female one time in the head. The male then shot himself one time in the head. The investiga-tion is ongoing.

110th PrecinctSexual Abuse

The NYPD is asking the public’s assistance with the whereabouts and identity of the following individual wanted in connection to two sex abuse incidents within the confines of the 110th Precinct.

At approximately 3 p.m. on Sept. 4, an unknown male approached a 25-year-old female employee of a clothing store located inside the Queens Center Mall in Elmhurst. The suspect placed his hand along the victim’s leg and grabbed her genital area over her clothing. The

suspect fled and approxi-mately five minutes later, he approached a 34-year-old female from behind, put his arms around her waist and began rubbing his groin area on her but-tocks, over the clothing. The suspect then fled.

The suspect is described as a Hispanic male, 30-35 years old, approximately 6-foot-1, between 200-230 lbs., with dark hair. He was last seen wearing a blue varsity jacket with red sleeves, black sun-glasses, dark jeans, white sneakers, a black baseball hat, white scarf and carrying a briefcase.

Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stop-pers at (800) 577-tips, visit www.nypdcrimestoppers.com or text tips to 274637(CRIMES), then enter TIP577. All calls are confidential.

112th PrecinctAssault

The NYPD is asking the public’s assistance identifying and locating the following suspect wanted for an assault incident that occurred within the confines of the 112th Precinct.

At approximately 11:45 a.m. on Aug. 23, a 20-year-old male victim, who was on a southbound R train,

This suspect is want-ed for an assault that occurred within the confines of the 112th Precinct.

Surveillance photos of the three suspects outside the Bohe-mian Hall Beer Gar-den in Astoria.

was punched in the mouth and the nose with a closed fist by the sus-pect as the train doors opened at the 63rd Ave-nue station. After the as-sault, the suspect fled on foot toward street level.

The victim sustained a bloody nose and a lac-eration to his right upper lip, but was not hospital-ized as a result of this incident. There were no words exchanged prior to the assault between the victim and the suspect.

The suspect is described as a white male or Hispanic in his late 20s or 30s, 5-foot-7, 170 lbs. The suspect was last seen wearing a pink short-sleeve polo shirt, pink and grey striped shorts with a white string and a book bag.

Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stop-pers at (800) 577-tips, visit www.nypdcrimestoppers.com or text tips to 274637(CRIMES), then enter TIP577. All calls are confidential.

113th PrecinctCity Employee Arrested

At 10:45 p.m. on Sept. 4, inside of Rockaway Tire Center, 153-36 Rock-away Blvd., Jamaica, police arrested Jason Whyte, 37, an NYPD officer,

and charged him with second-degree felony assault, petit larceny and third-degree misdemeanor assault.

114th PrecinctBurglary

The NYPD is asking the public’s assistance identifying the suspects wanted for a burglary within the con-fines of the 114th Precinct.

At approximately 2:25 a.m. on Sept. 2, two of the three suspects scaled the fence in the rear of the

Bohemian Hall Beer Gardens, located at 26-19 24th Ave., Astoria, while the third stood look out. The two then went inside and re-moved bottles of vodka, te-quila, bourbon, scotch, rum and gin. All three then fled the location to-gether.

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By LuiS GrondA

With the recent rash of home-less shelters popping up throughout Queens, there is a non-profit compa-ny looking to open up a transitional homeless shelter somewhere in the Borough.

A company called Vines New York is looking for property to build an approximately four-to-five story building that would house about 20 to 25 homeless women with chil-dren, according to Mary Hernandez, the company’s president.

In an interview with the PRESS of Southeast Queens, Hernandez said they want to offer temporary housing to these women who do not have a roof over their heads and offer them support services. She said they want to help these women better them-

selves so they can get their own hous-ing and keep it.

“You have to learn how to obtain that apartment, you have to learn how to better yourself so that you can keep that apartment,” she said.

Hernandez said that while the women are in the home, they would assist them in finding permanent housing. Their goal is to get them out within six months, she said.

The St. Albans-based company has sent out a letter to each of the 14 Community Boards in Queens introducing the company and asking for their support. The letter itself is vague about what the plans are with the potential housing, but Hernandez said they would like to meet with any of the CBs in the near future.

There has been much controversy with the recent homeless shelters

that have opened up in Queens, in-cluding the one at the Pan Am Hotel in Elmhurst and the proposed shel-ter in Glendale. Residents have ral-lied against the shelters because of a variety of reasons including the kids from the shelter potentially over-crowding the local schools and the crime it could bring.

When asked about residents’ dis-approval for homeless shelters, Her-nandez said there needs to be a com-mon ground on this issue because the problem of homelessness is not going away unless something is done about it.

“There should be a compromise so that we can still help these peo-ple,” she said.

Some of the Community Boards who received the letter reached out to Hernandez asking to speak about it, but

non-Profit Looks To open Another Shelterhave not received a response yet. That includes Community Boards 1 and 8.

Community Board 10 Chairper-son Betty Braton read the letter dur-ing their meeting last week. They in-dicated that they would be unlikely to support their plan considering there is a similar facility within CB10, the Skyway Hotel in South Ozone Park.

As for its location, Hernandez said they have looked in areas such as Springfield Gardens, Hollis and Rockaway, but they are “looking for the best location in Queens.”

The company does not have a website or any sort of online pres-ence but they are listed on the New York State Dept. of State database as an active company.

Reach Reporter Luis Gronda at (718) 357-7400, ext. 127, [email protected] or @luisgronda.


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The New York Cosmos soc-cer team held back-to-school soccer clinics for Queens kids as part of a City-wide tour on Sept. 8 at Flush-ing Meadows Corona Park.

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Serena Williams celebrated her 18th Grand Slam tennis victory on Monday, defeating Caroline Wozniacki to win the U.S. Women’s Open.

Dual Campaigns

Supporters for both State Sen. Malcolm Smith and his opponent, Leroy Comrie, gathered outside of Jamaica Station to campaign for their candidates as Primary Day began to wind down.

Honoring The MilitaryIn Bayside, on the Bell Bou-levard overpass of the LIRR, there is a series of flags flying in the wind. Edward Teran, the founder of American Vision, has spearheaded these flags, which include two American flags and all eight branches of the military. The project, sponsored by Daughters of the American Revolution, started five years ago. Every six months, the mili-tary flags are rotated and the American flags are refreshed three times a year.

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BY JOE MARVILLI

Queens College’s Godwin-Tern-bach Museum will welcome students back for the new semester with an exhibit on a cultural icon.

The museum will look at the work of experimental artist Andy Warhol in “Andy Warhol’s Photo-Aesthetic and Beyond.” The exhibit, which will include photographs and silk-screen prints from the Andy Warhol Foundation as well as loans from other collections, will look at the artist’s photog-raphy style and its place in the genre of Pop Art.

“We had planned to do this show some years ago when we first got the do-nation of photographs from The Andy War-hol Foundation for the Visual Arts, but it didn’t work out,” Amy Winter, God-win-Ternbach’s

director, said. “Then last year,

Godwin-Ternbach Looks Back At Warholwe got an additional donation of sev-en silkscreen prints, and at the same time, our new Modern and Contem-porary Art professor, Eddie Powers, is a Warhol expert - he’s lectured on Warhol at MoMA - so it was a perfect time to do it.”

These recently donated silkscreens include portraits of American icons, such as Muhammad Ali and Sitting Bull, as well as landmarks like the Brooklyn Bridge and Cologne Ca-thedral. Warhol made the prints by taking a Polaroid portrait image, silk-screening it onto paper or canvas and

adding silkscreen ink in a bright ar-ray of nearly psychedelic colors.

Winter added that despite Warhol’s efforts to make art that anyone would be able to afford, his work on canvas sells for tens

or hundreds of millions. “I find

it somewhat ironic that his stated intention

and feeling was that

‘art should be for everyone’ and his use of printed media, advertising, brands, celebrities, news and inex-pensive methods of production,” she said. “But affordable it is not, for the average person. As one of our labels reads: ‘While few of us can afford an original Warhol artwork, we can buy a can of soup.’ I wonder what Andy would say to the way things are now – art is once again only for the rich and famous.”

Warhol’s work also fits into mod-ern culture, particularly today’s media saturation and celebrity worship, both of which the artist displayed through his work nearly 50 years ago.

“He and his art tell us so much

about our contemporary culture even while being so accessible to the average person,” Winter said. “He understood the significance of fame, and created images of celebrities, for instance, that many critics have dis-cussed in terms of his perceptiveness (and somewhat ironic understand-ing) of the way we worship celebri-ties and fame.”

“Andy Warhol’s Photo-Aesthetic and Beyond” opens on Sept. 11 and runs until Nov. 1. There will be an opening reception at the museum on Sept. 18 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.


BY JAckIE STRAWBRIdGE

New Yorkers will get a chance to see how movie magic is made on our City streets at “New York on Location,” next Sunday in Astoria.

The free event, presented by the Museum of the Moving Image, Theatrical Teamsters Local 817 and Kaufman Astoria Studios, will bring the public behind the scenes of film and TV outdoor shooting. Through-out the day at the museum, the Kaufman Astoria Studios backlot and surrounding streets, spectators will tour star dressing rooms, special effects trucks and light and camera equipment, while stunt profession-als perform. Food will also be avail-able from movie catering trucks.

“All those names that you see at the end of a film – what are they doing? The museum has devoted itself to that,” said Carl Goodman, executive director of the Museum of the Moving Image.

“It’s wonderful to learn about what they are doing when they’re making movies on the street. But even more exciting is that we actu-ally can meet the people who do it – it’s almost like a living exhibit,” Goodman continued.

The Museum of the Moving Im-age originally presented this event in 2007. Goodman said the muse-um was glad for the opportunity to revive it now that there is increased space from their new courtyard and the Kaufman Astoria Studios back-lot, which both opened in 2013.

He also noted that Queens is a particularly appropriate host for

a celebration of film production, as the home to Kaufman Astoria Studios and Silvercup Studios, and where so many prominent shows and movies have been made, such as “Orange is the New Black,” “Men In Black” and “Sesame Street.”

For Tim Gallin, an event orga-nizer and veteran stuntman, “New York on Location” provides film and TV craftspeople an opportu-nity to give back to the City.

“It’s a good thing for the people of New York to have an under-standing of what all the equipment and all the people in their neighbor-hood are doing,” Gallin said. “We respect your neighborhood and we want to say thanks for letting us come in and work.”

Gallin also noted that he invited many young and emerging stunt-people to volunteer for “New York on Location,” because the event of-fers a chance to network and show off their skills.

According to Gallin, some fea-tured stunts will include high falls, martial arts and car demonstra-tions. Goodman also noted that spectators can look forward to del-uges of movie snow, rain and wind, and can have a movie star moment with makeup demonstrations in de-luxe trailers.

“New York on Location” will run from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sept. 21. In the case of rain, the event will be rescheduled for Sept. 28.

Reach Reporter Jackie Straw-bridge at (718) 357-7400, Ext. 128, [email protected] or @JNStrawbridge.

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BY JAckIE STRAWBRIdGE

The show will go on.Long Island City’s Secret The-

atre reached its fundraising goal of $10,000 last week, two days before its deadline. The campaign, called “Can You Keep the Secret” and hosted on fundraising site Indiegogo.com, gar-nered almost $11,000 in total.

According to Richard Mazda, founder and artistic director of the Se-cret Theatre, financial problems arose due to building fines and permits.

Mazda described feeling both “humbled” and “elated” by the results of the fundraiser. He said the funds will go towards upgrades and renova-tions such as adding a restroom to the Secret’s smaller venue space.

“What’s important about it, that I’d like people to take away, is it’s not just the money,” Mazda said. “It’s the support that gives me mental energy to move forward, to make sure that we correct any problems, that we sur-vive for a long time.”

According to Mazda, part of mak-ing this success sustainable involves continued fundraising. He pointed to a planned fundraiser hosted by

the Hunter’s Point Civic Associa-tion, which HPCA president Brent O’Leary confirmed is slated for the end of this month or early October.

“When I heard that the theater was in trouble, I called [Mazda] im-mediately,” O’Leary said. “The Se-cret Theatre is one of the cultural assets of Long Island City and West-ern Queens, so we wanted to make sure that it stayed alive.”

Mazda also noted that the theater might modify its production model by, for example, increasing weekday classes and activities to make up for slow periods during summer and winter vacations.

For now, Mazda said, he is look-ing forward to continuing Secret Theatre work.

“If you look at the fundraiser as a kind of vote of confidence, I think that we were answered loud and clear that the community wants us and they want us to survive,” Mazda said.

He added, “now, if anything, I feel more engendered to give back.”

Reach Reporter Jackie Strawbridge at (718) 357-7400, Ext. 128, [email protected] or @JN-Strawbridge.

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FRIDay 9/12 SPOTLIGHT OF THE WEEKCLASSICAL QUARTETThe New York Classi-cal Quartet, featuring violinists Judson Grif-fin and Margaret Ziem-nicka, violist Chiu-Chen Liu and cellist David Bakamjian, will put on a concert at King Manor Museum in Jamaica. The group will share the riches of the string quartets of Joseph Haydn, the first mas-ter of the form in the 18th century. Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 at the door. For reservations and more information, visit kingman-or.org/events/concert.php or call (718) 206-0545.

CEMETERY CLEANUpThe Woodhaven Cultural & Historical Society, the Woodhaven History Club and All Saints Cemetery will host the third an-nual cleanup of the cemetery beginning at 9 a.m. The groups get to-gether to clean parts of the Woodhaven-based cemetery. The cleanup will go on until noon. For more informa-tion, please contact the cultural society at [email protected].

COMEdY FUNdRAISERResorts World Casino will host a fundraiser for the Boys and Girls Club of Metro Queens. The fundraiser is a com-edy show featuring several comedians. They include A.G. White, Marshall Bran-don, Kenny Williams and more. All proceeds from the show will go to the club. The show begins at 10 p.m. Tickets for the show cost $25. Resorts World Casino is located at 110-00 Rockaway Blvd.

‘THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM’The Natural History Muse-um, a new ongoing project initiated by arts collective Not An Alternative, will

have its grand opening at the Queens Mu-seum from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. The ribbon-

cutting ceremony and reception starts at 5 p.m., followed by a presentation at 6 p.m. and the rest of the reception at 7 p.m.

OkTObERFESTThe Poppenhusen Insti-tute will hold an Okto-berfest fundraiser from noon to 6 p.m. Historic pre-sentations, German singers and dancers, tournaments, games, face painting and a beer stein holdings contest are some of the highlights at the festival. German-American food, beer, wine, apple strudel and black for-est cake will be available for purchase. Admission is $15. Call (718) 358-0067 or email [email protected] for more information.

pARk FAIRThe Richmond Hill Block Association will host its 41st park fair. The free event will have rides, games, carnival food, dance and music groups and raffles. The fair will begin at 10 a.m. and finish at 6 p.m. The event will take place at Forest Park, which is located at Myrtle Avenue and Park Lane South. For more information, call the RHBA at (718) 849-3759.

TOUR NOgUCHI MUSEUMArtist Rona Pondick will lead a tour of the Mu-seum, lending her unique perspective to the experi-ence of seeing Noguchi’s work. Pondick’s attention to detail, from structure to surface, makes her uniquely qualified to give visitors a high-resolution look at No-guchi’s work. The tour runs from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. For more information, call (718) 204-7088.

WHAT’S THE bUzz AbOUT bEES?Celebrate bees at this family-friendly workshop at the Queens Botanical Garden. From noon to 1:30 p.m., take a tour of the Bee Garden, learn about these amazing insects, sample local honey and make a beeswax candle to take home. Registra-tion is required and can be completed at www.eventbrite.com/e/whats-the-buzz-about-bees-tickets-12475351111. Tickets cost $5.

CARdbOARd CREATIONSTransform cardboard pieces into cool cre-ations at the New York Hall of Science. The Little Makers workshop is recommended

for children ages 18 months and older and will be held in the museum’s Maker Space. There is an $8 mate-rials fee per family, plus mu-seum admission. For more information, visit nysci.org/little-makers or call (718) 699-0005.

MYRTLE AvENUE FESTIvALThe Myrtle Avenue Business Improvement District will host the Myrtle Avenue Festival from noon to 6 p.m., along Myrtle Avenue between Wyckoff Avenue and Fresh Pond Road in Ridgewood. There will be plenty of food, music and fun for everyone to enjoy.

pATTI LUpONETony and Olivier Award winner will appear at Queensborough Per-forming Arts Center in her new concert, “COULDA, WOULDA, SHOULDA... played that part.” She will perform songs from mu-sicals that she could have played, should have played, did play and will play. Tick-ets cost between $55 and $65. The concert starts at 3 p.m. To buy tickets, visit www.qcc.cuny.edu/qpac or call (718) 631-6311.

STITCH N’ pITCHThe 8th Annual Stitch N’ Pitch will take place at 1:10 p.m. at Citi Field, hosted by the New York Mets and Metropolitan Hos-pitality. Attendees will enjoy discounted seats in the Left Field Landing and an op-portunity to stitch 7x9 inch squares to benefit Warm Up

America, a non-profit organization that collects and distrib-utes hand-knit afghans, caps and other items

to a variety of social service agencies nationwide. A com-plimentary limited edition “Mrs. Met” plush doll will be included in the price of admission for the first 1,000 fans purchasing tickets through an advanced offer at www.mets.com/stitchn-pitch. Tickets are $30.

‘MORE THAN JUST A pIECE OF SkY’At 8 p.m., Marissa Perel’s “More Than Just A Piece Of Sky” comes to the Chocolate Factory. The performance mines per-sonal and cultural exile as a site for the exploration of gender and sexuality, knowledge and power, and ability and disability. Perel examines her relationship to patriarchy, inheriting Jew-ish narratives of diaspora, and creating new narratives where difference can create new terms and ways of see-ing self and other. Tickets

are $15. For more informa-tion, call (718) 482-7069.

QUEENS COLLEgE ORCHESTRAThe Queens College Orchestra will perform several works at LeFrak Concert Hall at 12:15 p.m. Led by music director Mau-rice Peress, they will play “Appalachian Spring” by Aaron Copland, “An Ameri-can in Paris” by George Gershwin, “Black, Brown, & Beige Suite” by Duke El-lington and a piece by Leo Kraft. Call (718) 997-3800 to learn more.

THAT OLd MERCER MAgICVocalist Diane Hoffman presents a musical trib-ute to Johnny Mercer, the prolific lyricist responsible for close to 1,500 songs, including “Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive,” “That Old Black Magic,” “Come Rain or Come Shine” and other American standards. She will sing at Bay Terrace Library, located at 18-36 Bell Blvd., at 1:30 p.m.

SUNNYSIdE TRIvIA NIgHTThink you are smart? Come out and prove it at trivia night! The fun starts at 8 p.m. at Sunnyside’s Bliss Street Station bar. $15 per person, $50 per team. Prizes and drink specials are available and all funds raised will be donated to the Leukemia & Lymphoma So-ciety. For more information, call (718) 729-2547.

The 34th edition of the antique motorcycle show at the Queens Farm Museum will run from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. This show will include a display of various makes and models of motorcycles that have been out of production for 10 years or more. Music, farmhouse tours, hayrides and food will provide fun for the entire family.

Admission is $5 per person. Call (718) 347-3276 to learn more.



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PeopleAllstate Insurance agent Pierre Ki-

shun, whose office is located in Rich-mond Hill, has received the Agency Hands in the Community Award for his commitment to volunteering in the community.

Aleisha Benjamin of Queens Vil-lage has received an $18,800 Presi-dential Scholarship from SUNY Oswego. Benjamin has enrolled at the college as a freshman for the fall 2014 semester.

Army Pvt. Anthony Brown has graduated from basic combat train-ing at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C. During the nine weeks of training, the soldier studied the Army mis-sion, history, tradition and core val-ues, physical fitness, and received instruction and practice in basic combat skills.

Brown is the son of Anthony and Audry Brown of Jamaica.

Vivian Uwechue of Springfield Gardens received a Master of Sci-ence in Engineering Management degree during summer 2014 com-mencement ceremonies at Western

New England University in Spring-field, Mass.

Our Lady of Fatima Church, locat-ed at 25-02 80th St., Jackson Heights, will host a defensive driving course for insurance and point reduction, spon-sored by the National Safety Council from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sept. 27. Cost is $45. For information and reg-istration, call (631) 360-9720.

District Council 16 Cement and Concrete Workers Training and Edu-cation Fund will hold a recruitment Oct. 1-15 for 12 skilled construction craft labor apprentices. Applica-tions can be obtained from the DC 16 Training Center, 29-18 35th Ave., Long Island City, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekdays during the recruit-ment period, excluding Columbus Day. Only the first 300 people to re-spond will receive an application. For information, call (718) 392-6970.

Briarwood Action Network will pay tribute to the heroes and victims of 9/11 during a “Day of Service and Remembrance” volunteer event, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 13 at Bri-

arwood Playground, on 148th Street. For information, visit www.briarwoo-dactionnetwork.com .

The New York Library Associa-tion’s Public Libraries Section has announced that Queens Library will receive the prestigious 2014 Best Practices Award for the development of its Mobile Discovery and Delivery Platform. The award is given every two years to a public library or pub-lic library system that has focused on the best use of technology to pro-mote library services. The award will be presented at the annual confer-ence in Saratoga in November.

The Mobile Disc overy and Deliv-ery Platform is a custom interface for the Google Nexus Tablets that the li-brary lends to customers, free, using their library cards. It is pre-loaded with library-curated information on job skills training, education, immigrant services, library resources and more.

The New York Army National Guard has announced the reenlist-ment of members in recognition of their continuing commitment to serve community, state and nation.

Specialist Jose Navarro of South Ozone Park has reenlisted to con-tinue service with the 133rd Quarter-master Support Company.

Specialist Andy Woods of Ozone Park has reenlisted to continue ser-vice with the Company B, 642nd Support Battalion.

Sergeant Rodney Allen of St. Al-bans has reenlisted to continue service with the Company B (Maintenance), 427th Brigade Support Battalion.

Local students have enrolled as first-year students at SUNY Oneonta for the fall 2014 semester. They in-clude:

Cambria Heights: Celeena Car-rington.

Ozone Park: Kevin Torres. Queens Village: Taylor Rosales. Richmond Hill: Waldo Espinal. St. Albans: Jasmin Espinal. South Ozone Park: Alyssa Mo-

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Two more individuals have been selected for the Queens Library’s Board of Trustees.

Over the past few days, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the appoint-ment of Martha Baker to the Board of Trustees. Queens Borough President Melinda Katz did the same, selecting Earl Simons for board membership.

Simons, who lives in Cambria Heights, is the director of Govern-ment and Community Relations at York College. He is responsible for overseeing civic engagement efforts, organizing special events and helping to secure federal, State and local fund-ing to support the college’s capital im-provement and program initiatives.

“Mr. Simons’ impressive back-ground in higher education and gov-ernment, which includes extensive experience in overseeing capital and operating budgets, makes him a su-perb choice for appointment to the Board. His intellect, work ethic and commitment to public service will be a great asset to the Queens Library,” Katz said.

Before joining York College, Si-mons served as the director of Bud-get and Grants for former Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields.

“I am honored to serve as a mem-ber of the Board of Trustees for the Queens Public Library,” Simons said. “The Library is a critical resource to all Queens’ residents. I thank Queens Borough President Katz for appoint-ing me to this important position and look forward to serving with this exciting team.”

A resident of Fresh Meadows, Baker is the founder of Equity in Education and Employment. This or-ganization provides program design, advocacy and training to improve

opportunities for women and girls. Outside of the group, Baker has campaigned at a local and national level for secure leave policies that sup-port working families as well as women in the workplace. She is also the founder of the Eleanor Roosevelt Legacy Committee.

Baker is on the steering committee of the NY Paid

Family Leave Insurance Campaign. She formerly served as executive di-rector and CEO at Nontraditional Employment for Women. She was the deputy director of operations at the New York State Workers Compensa-tion Board and served as the execu-tive director of the Commission on the Status of Women during Mayor David Dinkins’ administration.

“The Queens Library has always provided a foundation for children. With our growing and diverse popu-lation, we have to continue expand-ing and innovating to meet the needs of today’s youth, seniors and working families. Programs, services, books and e-books are all part of today’s

Two New Appointees For Library Boardlibrary world and Queens should be the best,” Baker said. “Thank you to Mayor de Blasio for giving me the opportunity to assist the board in re-storing the library’s much-deserved great reputation.”

Baker and Simons will join Coali-tion for Queens founder, Jukay Hsu, and CUNY’s Campus Planning and Facilities Management Vice Presi-dent, Robert Santos, on the Library Board.

“We look forward to working with them and continuing the legacy of world-class library service for the people of Queens,” Thomas Galante, President and CEO of Queens Li-brary, said about the new appointees.

The need to fill seats came out of a controversy over Galante’s sal-ary and spending practices. Frustra-tions from Katz and de Blasio over the trustees’ votes against removing Galante and their rejection of Comp-troller Scott Stringer’s audit request led to the removal of eight trustees from the board.


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BY JORDAN GIBBONS

Sept. 8 marked the birth of the Virgin Mary and the Feast of the Nativity, which commemorates her birth.

According to the Protoevange-lium of James, which was written in the second century, Mary’s parents, Joachim and Anna, were childless for many years. Despite their faithfulness to God, their prayers for a child went unanswered. Joachim went to the temple one day to make an offering, but he was turned away by the high priest because of his lack of children. Riddled with shame, he retreated to the hill country to live among the shepherds and their flocks.

While Joachim prayed in the hills, Anna was praying at the same time at their house in Jerusalem when an angel appeared to both of them and said that Anna would have a child whose name would be known throughout the world. Anna prom-ised to offer her child as a gift to the Lord. Joachim returned home and shortly after, Mary was born. Pious tradition places Mary’s birthplace in Tzippori, Israel.

The feast, similar to the Assump-

tion of Mary, originated in Je-rusalem. Tradition celebrates the event as a liturgical feast in the General Roman Cal-endar and in most Anglican liturgical calendars on Sept. 8, nine months after the so-lemnity of her Immaculate Conception on Dec. 8. The Eastern Orthodox celebrates the Nativity of the Theotokos on Sept. 8.

The feast began in the fifth century as the feast of the “Basilica Sanctae Mariae ubi nata est,” now called the Basilica of Saint Anne. The original church, built in the fifth century, was a Marian basilica erected on the spot known as the shepherd’s pool and thought to have been the home of Mary’s par-ents. In the seventh century, the feast was celebrated by the Byzantines as the feast of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The feast is also celebrated by Syr-ian Christians on Sept. 8 and Coptic and Ethiopian Orthodox Christians on May 9. In Rome, the feast began to be held toward the end of the sev-enth century after it was brought

there by Eastern monks. The feast is also included in the Tridentine Cal-endar.

The winegrowers in France called the feast “Our Lady of the Grape Har-vest.” The best grapes are brought to the local church to be blessed and then some bunches are attached to hands of the statue of Mary. A festive meal, which includes the new grapes, is part of this day.

The scene of the feast was fre-quently depicted in art, as part of

cycles of the Life of the Virgin. Late medieval depictions are often valu-able records of domestic interiors and their fittings; at this period the setting was often in a wealthy house-hold.

In Islamic scripture, the birth of Mary is narrated in the third sura (chapter) of the Qur’an with refer-ences to her father Imran, after who the chapter is named, and her moth-er, Hannah. Hannah prayed to God to fulfill her desire to have a child and vowed, if her prayer was accept-ed, that her child (whom she initially thought would be male) would be dedicated to the service of God. She prayed for her child to remain pro-tected from Satan and Muslim tradi-tion records a “hadith,” which states that the only children born without the “touch of Satan” were Mary and Jesus.

Although the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary is not celebrated today with the same solemnity as the Immaculate Conception, it is still an important feast, because it prepares the way for the birth of Christ.


Feast Of The Nativity Of The Blessed Virgin Mary

BY JORDAN GIBBONS

Haraya, the Pan-African student coalition at St. John’s University, is hosting its first Haraya week on cam-pus, from Sept. 15-19.

The week will have educational, cultural and social events for the en-tire St. John’s community.

Kareemah Sellers, Haraya’s vice president of services, said that any-one can enjoy the festivities next week and anybody can join Haraya.

“We’ve been very influential on campus,” she said. “We’re going to keep it going this year with our theme ‘The Legacy Never Ends.’”

Haraya started in 1968 and serves as the umbrella organization for all Pan-African cultural organizations. Their events are geared towards creat-ing growth in the areas of academics, community service and social events.

The first day will consist of an

event for various music artists, poets and spoken word artists to showcase their creative talents. Tuesday will have a freshman mixer for incoming students to network with Haraya’s ex-ecutive board, as well as each other.

Wednesday is entitled “Still I Rise” and will be a day dedicated to overcoming the troubles affecting the Pan-African community. It will address subjects related to police brutality and government. Haraya will also be collaborating with vari-ous other cultural organizations and Greek Life to hold a peace vigil and march against violence.

On Thursday, Seen But Not Heard, an organization with a mission to be the voice of the unheard on St. John’s campus, will conduct an in-formational meeting for students.

Haraya will end the week on Fri-day with a barbecue and a 90s-themed party for the entire student body.

“Our focus is to uplift, educate and enlighten the entire St. John’s community,” Sellers said.

Sellers, a senior, has been with Haraya since her freshman year and said Haraya is like a family but the part she appreciates the best is being help to help people through the vari-ous service projects they undertake each year.

They have done projects with the Liberty Partnership Program on campus, which offers comprehen-sive pre-collegiate/dropout preven-tion programs, as well as the Project Heights youth program and the Har-lem Educational Activities Fund.

“My favorite part of Haraya is knowing the feeling that you can in-fluence someone else’s life for the better,” Sellers said. “Not only influ-ence someone else’s, but your own life, as well.”

Haraya also collaborates with

Campus Ministry to do breakfast and midnight “runs,” where they travel to certain locations to hand out food to the homeless. They do two a semes-ter and the next midnight run will take place on Oct. 9 and will begin at 8 p.m.

“It’s mostly about the interac-tion with the people,” Sellers said. “We make sure to show them a good time.”

Haraya is also co-sponsoring a col-lege readiness program on Oct. 11.

If any students would like to join or learn more about the program, they can go to the DeAngelo Center, Room 111. Someone will be available in the room during school hours. For more information about Haraya week and the coalition in general, email [email protected].


Celebrating Pan-African Culture At St. John’s

“The Birth of the Virgin Mary” by Giotto, in the Scrovegni Chapel, Padua, Italy.


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Sept. 12Classical Concert

The New York Classical Quartet is having a concert at the King Manor Museum next Friday, featuring vio-linists Judson Griffin and Margaret Ziemnicka, violist Chiu-Chen Liu and cellist David Bakamjian. Their mission is to share the riches of the string quartets of Joseph Haydn, the first master of the form in the 18th century, a giant of Western culture, a musical Shakespeare, the Michelan-gelo of his era and art. Tickets cost $25 in advance, $30 at the door. For more information or for reservations, visit kingmanor.org/events/concert.php, email [email protected] or call (718) 206-0545 x13. King Manor is located at 150-03 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica.

Sept. 12-13Art exhibition

The Artists Co-Op exhibition “Lo-cal Color” takes a closer look at de-tail, meaning, metaphor and materi-als used by 12 artists who have ties to Queens. This is the last week to view the exhibit at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning as it closes on Sat-urday. Artists Co-Op is a JCAL pro-gram designed for Queens-based art-ists to curate, produce and present their work. Featured artists include Ludger Balan, Vladimir Cybil Char-lier, Robert Craddock, Lan Ding Liu, Laura Fayer, Janet Henry, Joseph Isahack, Rejin Leys, Carla Lobmier, Dominque Sindayiganza, Shenna Vaughn and Mary Burton Wheeler. Gallery hours for Friday are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The exhibit is free to view and JCAL is located at 161-04 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica.

For more information, call (718) 658-7400, visit www.jcal.org or email [email protected].

Sept. 13Open House

On Saturday, Councilman I. Daneek Miller (D-St. Albans) is hosting an open house at his dis-trict office, which began operations earlier this year. Constituents in the district, members of the community and the press are invited to stop by from noon to 3 p.m. to meet with the Councilman and his staff. Light refreshments will be served and the backyard will be open, weather per-mitting. Miller’s office is located at 172-12 Linden Blvd., St. Albans, between 172nd and 173rd Streets on Linden Boulevard, across from the Robert Ross Johnson Family Life Center.

Sept. 13-14Breast Cancer Screening

The American-Italian Cancer Foundation mobile, No-Cost Breast Cancer Screening program, which provides mammograms and clinical breast exams to uninsured and medi-cally underserved City women, is scheduled to conduct screenings in a variety of areas in Southeast Queens over the next few weeks. They will be at True Zion Gospel Temple on Saturday, which is located at 145-21 Liberty Ave. On Sunday, they will be at the Robert Ross Johnson Family Life Center, which is located at 172-17 Linden Blvd.

Sept. 14Awards Dinner

The United for Progress Demo-cratic Club will be having its 20th annual awards dinner on Sunday to honor Assemblywoman Barbara Clark (D-Queens Village), the Rev. Phil Craig, Gail Archer and Kevin Livingston. The buffet dinner will be held at Antun’s Caterers from 4 to 9 p.m. and is located at 96-43 Spring-field Blvd., Queens Village. Tickets cost $80.

For more information, call (718) 454-5632 or (718) 723-5970.

Car ShowResorts World Casino is hosting

the Super Tuner Show, a custom car show on Sunday from 1 to 8 p.m.

There will be more than 400 cars, bikes and trucks featured at the show, featuring over 50 categories of auto-motive excellence. Simplicity Auto Club will handle the show portion of the evening, presenting more than 30 awards for Best in Show groupings. Conn Men Stunt Team and Star Rid-ers will perform a stunt bike show and Waynespeed Auto will host a Horsepower Wars Dyno Competi-tion. Tickets cost $20 and can be pur-chased at the door. Resorts World is located at 110-00 Rockaway Blvd.

Sept. 15-19Haraya Week

The Pan-African Student Coali-tion at St. John’s University is hav-ing its first Haraya week on campus. The week will be filled with educa-tional, cultural and social events to uplift the St. John’s community. On Monday, there will be a Cof-feehouse for various music artists, poets and spoken word artists to showcase their creative talents. On Tuesday, there will be a freshman mixer for incoming students to net-work with Haraya’s executive board, as well as each other. Wednesday

is entitled “Still I Rise” and will be a day dedicated to overcoming the troubles affecting the Pan-African community, such as police brutality and government. There will also be a peace vigil and a march to speak out against violence. On Thursday, Seen But Not Heard, an organiza-tion with the mission to be the voice of the unheard on campus, will con-duct an informational meeting for students. Friday will end the week with a barbeque and a 90s-themed party for the student body.

Sept. 16Storm Recovery

On Tuesday, the Governor’s Of-fice of Storm Recovery is having a public meeting at the Birch Fam-ily Center in Springfield Gardens. A committee of local residents and civic leaders from the Idlewild Wa-tershed will be on hand to develop a Community Reconstruction Plan to protect residents and businesses from future storms. The commit-tee is looking for ideas on how to develop reconstruction strategies to increase the community’s resilience and to brainstorm project ideas that should be evaluated for inclusion in the plan. The meeting will be from

7:30 to 9:30 p.m. and the center is located at 145-02 Farmers Blvd.

Sept.17Naturalization Ceremony

King Manor Museum will be host-ing its annual naturalization ceremo-ny on the 227th anniversary of the signing of the United States Consti-tution. The event will welcome up to 75 new U.S. citizens at 11 a.m. King Manor was the home of Rufus King, who was one of the original framers of the Constitution. The U.S. Citi-zenship and Immigration Services will conduct the ceremony. Follow-ing the oath ceremony and remarks, the new citizens will sign their name to a replica of the U.S. Constitution and have their photos taken with a life-size statue of Rufus King. The King Manor Museum is located at 150-03 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica.

For more information, visit www.kingmanor.org.

It may still be 90 degrees outside, but Councilman Paul Vallone (D-Bayside) is already making plans for the holidays. Vallone announced recently that he is bringing back the Santa Claus Pa-rade that has not marched down Bell Boulevard since 2004. Bayside resi-dent Ben Fried began organizing the event in 1995 and raised funds by asking local mer-chants to chip in $10 each to cover the expenses. In 2005, no one was able to organize it so it fell to the wayside. Fried passed away last year at the age of 98 and was hon-ored by Vallone when a portion of 43rd Avenue was renamed after him. While we here at QConf think it’s a great idea to get the community together during the holidays, the only thing that would make this idea better is if Vallone volunteered his time to be Ol’ Saint Nick himself and toss candy canes to his constituents.

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Some bands create music that you want to listen to with your headphones on at night, sitting back, closing your eyes and focusing all your attention on the intricacies and subtle melodies that come up. Penny Louis fits this category wonderfully. With touches of keyboards, strings and tight, almost jazzy guitar lines, this west-ern Queens group writes songs with many layers to unveil.

The five-piece has slowly evolved since its first two members, vocalist/keyboard-ist Pauline and percussionist MC, started jamming together in 2012. The two were friends before they were collabora-tors, a situation that was true for most of the group’s origin. MC was friends with a violinist, May, who joined Penny Louis. While John, the bassist, discovered the band through Facebook videos in early 2013, he too had run into the band when they played a restaurant during his dinner. Guitarist Nikholai is the latest addition to Penny Louis.

For Pauline, Penny Louis challenged her both on stage and off. She said she strug-gles with her stage presence during live concerts as well as with creating a sound that stands out from the thousands of bands already in existence.

“Personally, it would be the parts where I'm not singing or playing the guitar or keys. My band would tell you that I was horrible at talking to the audience and outside of thank you's and how are you's, I'm just pretty much speechless,” she said. “Another thing would be creating an original sound

that sets you apart from other musicians who are already out there.”

Despite these challenges, Pauline said she loves play-ing live and getting the audience’s attention with the band’s songs, no matter how the crowd chooses to experi-ence and enjoy the music.

“Ironically, I do love being on the stage and singing my songs, swaying my hips a little, nodding my head, clos-ing my eyes and feeding off of the crowd's energy,” she said. “Whether they're danc-ing like a looney or as quiet as a church dweller, it's amazing to have an audience.”

Penny Louis also pushed Pauline to write more often, using time at work on the train to create sounds in her head that she can bring back to the band for them to build on.

The group is working on its debut EP/album, a process that has been both frustrat-ing and inspiring for Pauline. She compared the nature of writing and recording a song to an oil painting. The final product is not discovered or noticeable at the beginning of the road.

“I have learned so much because of it. I am more atten-tive, I am more open-minded and I can pinpoint what I wanted to add or tweak,” she said. “I also think that the band improved after we started recording - we are more aware of what we are playing and how it would sound together.”

Penny Louis will play at Choga Restaurant in Manhat-tan on Sept. 24 and The Bitter End in Brooklyn in October. For the latest from Penny Louis, visit www.wearepen-nylouis.com.

If you can’t get tickets, just get a drone. That was the thinking be-hind one Yonkers resident’s scheme for a sneak peek at the Serena Williams-Flavia Pen-netta semi-final match at the U.S. Open last Wednesday. Police spotted the drone hovering near empty courts early in the evening, and had its pilot, Daniel Feighery, in custody before Williams’ match point.

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Feighery was charged with reckless endangerment, viola-tion of local law and failure to comply with a sign, according to reports. Instead of joining tennis fans for a beer in the Borough that night, Feighery – and his drone, which the police confis-cated – spent an unceremoni-ous night at the 110th precinct station house. Game, set, match, Queens cops.

A former Queens Tribune reporter has found himself at the center of a fairly gruesome trial out in Chicago's south suburbs. Joseph Hosey worked for the Tribune in the early-1990s, under editor David Oats, be-fore moving to Illinois. As a reporter for Patch.com, Hosey broke the story last year of a double murder in Joliet, south of Chicago. Hosey got a hold of police reports before any other reporters and used the detailed info from those reports to tell the tale of a gruesome double murder. The stories led to an inves-tigation on how Hosey got a hold of the police reports - 500 city officials swore they never released them. Hosey was ordered to reveal his source. He refused, and is now facing

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Something Stinks In Queens According to this survey, you might want to cover your nose the next time you are in Malba. The neighborhood was found to be the smelliest in Queens, according to the web-site brickunderground.com, which conducted the survey of the stinkiest areas in the five Boroughs. The study collecting 311 odor-related complaints be-tween July 2013 and 2014, based off the population of the 2010 census. The survey found that, dur-

ing that time period, there were 29.9 odor-related complaints per capita in Malba. Second on that list is Lindenwood, the southern Queens neigh-borhood adjacent to Howard Beach, with 22.75. Third is Nesponsit with 21.9, after them is St. Albans with 17.8 and rounding out the top five is College Point with 17.2. Data was also posted for the least smelly neighborhoods in Queens, with North Corona, Corona and Woodside found to have the least smell complaints during that year.

heavy fines and jail time as a debate over Sunshine Laws in Illinois rages. QConf is following the case closely, as Hosey's case not only could affect the future of Sunshine Laws - which call for transparency in government - but also because he's an alum of this publication. Good luck, Joe!

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