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LOADING CORP., pursuant to Business Corporation Law § 1104-a, and for the Judicial Supervision Pursuant to Busi-ness Corporation Law § 1008(a) of the Winding Up of the Affairs of QUADROZZI EQUIPMENT LEASING CORP., QUADROZZI RE-A L T Y C O R P a n d QUADROZZI ACQUISI-TION CORPORATION, dis-solved corporations, Respon-dents, and THE ESTATE OF JOHN QUADROZZI, THE-RESA (TESS) QUADROZZI, BOTH INDIVIDUALLY AND AS EXECUTRIX OF THE ES-T A T E O F J O H N Q U A D RO Z Z I , J O H N QUADROZZI, JR., CATHE-RINE QUADROZZI, THE-RESA QUADROZZI, (JR.), REGINA QUADROZZI, AND JULIANNA FORTNE Y, CROPSEY AVENUE LAND ENTERPRISES, LLC, FAE HOLDINGS 390783R, LLC, CONCRETE MANUFACTUR-ING COMPANY LLC, SOUTH RED HOOK WORKS CORP., QUADROZZI NUTRAX CORP., QUADROZZI STU-D I O S , I N C . , a n d QUADROZZI URBAN EN-TERPRISES, INC. Additional Respondents. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE UPON re-view and consideration of: (i) the Verified Petition for Judi-cial Dissolution, dated March 14, 2014 (the “Petition”), and the accompanying exhibits; (ii) the Memorandum of Law dated March 14, 2014; and (iii) upon all other papers and proceedings heretofore had and filed herein, LET the Re-spondents and the Addi-tional Respondents show cause at Part 18, Room 41 of the Supreme Court of the State of New York for the County of Queens, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, New York, to be held on the 2nd day of April, 2014 at 2:15 PM, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard, (the “Hearing Date”) why an Or-der should not be made and entered, as follows: (1) pursu-ant to New York Business Corporation Law (“BCL”) §1115, a temporary restrain-ing order, preliminary and permanent injunction enjoin-ing and restraining the re-spondents and additional respondents Estate of John Quadrozzi, Theresa (Tess) Quadrozzi, both individually and as Executrix of the Estate of John Quadrozzi, John Quadrozzi, Jr., Catherine Q u a d r o z z i , T h e r e s a Quadrozzi, (Jr.), Regina Quadrozzi, and Julianna Fortney (collectively, the “Majority”) and BAY 32ND PLACE DEVELOPMENT CORP., BEACH CHANNEL DRIVE LAND ENTERPRISES, INC., AMSTEL RECYCLING AND CONCRETE CORP., QUALITY ASSURANCE CONCRETE CORP., QUALI-

TY CONCRETE OF NEW YORK, INC., QUADROZZI ENTERPRISES INC., GOW-ANUS INDUSTRIAL PARK, INC., MASPETH CONCRETE LOADING CORP., QUEENS CONCRETE DELIVERY & LEASING CORP., RED HOOK CONCRETE LOADING CORP., (collectively, the “Ac-t i ve C o r p o r a t i o n s ” ) , QUADROZZI EQUIPMENT L E A S I N G C O R P . , QUADROZZI REALT Y CORP. (including its wholly owned entity Cropsey Ave-nue Land Enterprises LLC, and FAE Holdings 390783R, LLC, to the extent this entity holds any interest in 1705 Hart Place, Brooklyn, New York a/k/a 3068 Cropsey Avenue, Brooklyn, New York [the “Cropsey Property”]), and QUADROZZI ACQUISI-TION CORPORATION (col-lectively, the “Inactive Corpo-rations,” and, along with the Active Corporations, collec-tively, the “Corporations’), and CONCRETE MANUFAC-TURING COMPANY LLC, SOUTH RED HOOK WORKS CORP., QUADROZZI NU-T R A X C O R P. , a n d QUADROZZI STUDIOS, INC., and QUADROZZI URBAN ENTERPRISES, INC. (collectively, the “Diversion Corporations”), together with their respective employees, agents, attorneys, servants, and all persons acting on their behalf, at their request, or with their knowledge, with-out the express written con-sent of the Petitioner, the Court, or a receiver ap-pointed by the Court, from: a) utilizing the funds of the Corporations or the Diversion Corporations to pay counsel fees for the Majority or the Diversion Corporations in-curred in the defense of the instant Petition; b)transacting any business or exercising any corporate powers and/or authority on behalf of the Corporations or the Diversion Corporations without the express written consent of Petitioner, the Court, or a receiver appointed by the Court; c) collecting or receiv-ing any assets, debts, or property of the Corporations or the Diversion Corporations and from paying out or oth-erwise transferring or deliver-ing any assets or property of the Corporations or the Diver-sion Corporations; and/or d) selling, transferring, leasing, assigning, encumbering, dis-sipating, or otherwise divert-ing any assets of the Corpora-tions or the Diversion Corpo-ration and/or e) selling, transferring, leasing, assign-ing, encumbering, dissipat-ing, or otherwise diverting the Cropsey Property, unless the proceeds of the sale of the Cropsey Property are deposited into the attorney escrow account of the Peti-

tioner’s counsel; (2) pursuant to BCL § 1104-a, dissolving the Active Corporations; (3) pursuant to BCL § 1008(a), subjecting the Inactive Cor-porations to this Court’s judi-cial supervision of the winding up of their affairs; (4) pursuant to BCL §§ 1008(a), 1113, and 1 2 0 3 , a p p o i n t i n g ___________ as a temporary/interim receiver to manage the affairs of the Corporations pendente lite and pending the dissolution of the Active Corporations and the judicial supervision of the Inactive Corporations; (5) pursuant to BCL § 624 and 1104-a(c), directing the Respondents and the Additional Respon-dents to immediately make available to Petitioner: a) for inspection and copying, all of the books and records of the Corporations and the Diver-sion Corporations for the last three years, including all minutes of shareholder meet-ings and current annual bal-ance sheets and profit and loss statements and; b) for inspection, all of the real properties, buildings, and/or equipment pertaining thereto, owned and/or leased by the Corporations and the Diver-sion Corporations; (6) pursu-ant to BCL § 1111(c), ordering the distribution of property of all the Corporations, ac-cording to the respective rights of the shareholders; and (7) granting to Petitioner such other and further relief as this Court deems just and proper. SUFFICIENT CAUSE APPEAR-ING, it is hereby ORDERED that, pursuant to New York Business Corporation Law §1115, pending hearing and determination of the Verified Petition for Judicial Dissolu-tion, dated December 5, 2013, the Estate of John Quadrozzi, Theresa (Tess) Quadrozzi, both individually and as Executrix of the Estate of John Quadrozzi, John Quadrozzi, Jr., Catherine Q u a d r o z z i , T h e r e s a Quadrozzi, (Jr.), Regina Quadrozzi, and Julianna Fortney (collectively, the “Majority”) and BAY 32ND PLACE DEVELOPMENT CORP., BEACH CHANNEL DRIVE LAND ENTERPRISES, INC., AMSTEL RECYCLING AND CONCRETE CORP., QUALITY ASSURANCE CONCRETE CORP., QUALI-TY CONCRETE OF NEW YORK, INC., QUADROZZI ENTERPRISES INC., GOW-ANUS INDUSTRIAL PARK, INC., MASPETH CONCRETE LOADING CORP., QUEENS CONCRETE DELIVERY & LEASING CORP., RED HOOK CONCRETE LOADING CORP., (collectively, the “Ac-t i ve C o r p o ra t i o n s ” ) , QUADROZZI EQUIPMENT L E A S I N G C O R P . , QUADROZZI REALTY CORP. (including its wholly owned

entity Cropsey Avenue Land Enterprises LLC, and, FAE Holdings 390783R, LLC, to the extent it holds any interest in 1705 Hart Place, Brooklyn, New York a/k/a 3068 Cropsey Avenue, Brooklyn, New York [the “Cropsey Property”], and QUADROZZI ACQUISI-TION CORPORATION (col-lectively, the “Inactive Corpo-rations,” and along with the Active Corporations, collec-tively, the “Corporations”), and CONCRETE MANUFAC-TURING COMPANY LLC, SOUTH RED HOOK WORKS CORP., QUADROZZI NU-TRAX CORP., QUADROZZI STUDIOS, INC., and QUADROZZI URBAN EN-TERPRISES, INC. (collectively, the “Diversion Corpora-tions”), together with all of their respective employees, agents, attorneys, servants, and all persons acting on their behalf, at their request, or with their knowledge, are immedi-ately restrained and enjoined, without the express written consent of the Petitioner, the Court, or a receiver appointed by the Court, from: a) utilizing the funds of the Corporations or the Diversion Corporations to pay counsel fees for the Majority or the Diversion Corporations incurred in the defense of the instant Petition; b) transacting any business or exercising any corporate pow-ers and/or authority on behalf of the Corporations or the Diversion Corporations with-out the express written con-sent of Petitioner, the Court, or a receiver appointed by the Court; c) collecting or receiv-ing any assets, debts, or property of the Corporations or the Diversion Corporations and from paying out or oth-erwise transferring or deliver-ing any assets or property of the Corporations or the Diver-sion Corporations; d) selling, transferring, leasing, assign-ing, encumbering, dissipating, or otherwise diverting any assets of the Corporations or the Diversion Corporations; and/or e) selling, transferring, l e a s i n g , a s s i g n i n g , encumbering,dissipating, or otherwise diverting the Cropsey Property, unless the proceeds of the sale of the Cropsey Property are depos-ited into the attorney escrow account of the Petitioner’s counsel. [NOTE: The Court bracketed this section of the Order with “NOTE” to reflect the Court’s Order during the hearing that all of the Respon-dents and Additional Respon-dents are enjoined and re-strained from transferring any asset of the Corporations or the Diversion Corporations in excess of $1,000 and any motor vehicle or truck belong-ing to the Corporations or Diversion Corporations in escess of $500. See March 14, 2014 Transcript of Pro-

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Photo by Joe MarvilliAt the Queens Museum, Borough President Melinda Katz an-nounced the 1939 and 1964 World’s Fair anniversary celebrations, which will run through October.

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BY JOE MARVILLIStaff Writer

Get ready to celebrate.Queens will host seven months’

worth of events throughout the Bor-ough to honor the 50th anniversary of the 1964 World’s Fair and the 75th anniversary of the 1939 World’s Fair. The festivities were announced on March 28 in one of the buildings con-structed for the ’39 World’s Fair, the same structure that now houses the Queens Museum.

The announcement was led by Queens Borough President Melinda Katz and Assemblywoman Margaret Markey (D-Maspeth), the co-chairs of the World’s Fair Anniversary Commit-tee, an umbrella group that includes elected officials, the Dept. of Parks and Recreation, NYC & Company, the Queens Tourism Council and partici-pating cultural organizations.

Katz said that the World’s Fairs both contributed to the development of Queens and represented the great-ness of the Borough.

“We are in the World’s Borough. It is our asset. It is our strength,” she said.

Katz added that these celebrations will draw attention to Queens and help her goal of making the Borough stand out as a must-see destination for New Yorkers and for those visiting.

“You should never come to the City of New York as a tourist and think you have seen the City of New York until you have been to the Borough of Queens,” Katz said.

Markey said that the 1964 World’s Fair also added to Queens’ diversity.

Many of the people who worked at the various national pavilions wound up staying in the Borough, settling down and raising their families here.

One of the biggest supporters of the World’s Fair, CEO of Gristedes Foods and former mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis, was at the announcement.

“I think it’s wonderful that they’re doing it. The over-60 crowd is going to have wonderful memories,” he said. “When [Katz] was talking about it at her press conference, it brought back some sweet memories of my youth.”

Catsimatidis added that he would love to see the World’s Fair return to the City, with the same type of vi-sion that was prevalent in the 1960s. “I think it will inspire our youth. It will be great economic development in New York,” he said. “I’m going to urge Mayor de Blasio and Gov. Cuomo to at least do a study on what a World’s Fair could do for our City and our State.”

[Editor’s Note: See an op-ed from Catsimatidis on page 6.]

The biggest event of the summer will be the World’s Fair Anniversary Festival on May 18. Running from 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Unisphere, the celebration will feature tours of historic World’s Fair sites, memora-bilia exhibits, a visit from Mr. Met and more. Afterwards, there will be a con-cert from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

For more information on these events and all the others happening this summer, visit www.nycgo.com/worldsfair.

Reach Joe Marvilli at (718) 357-7400, Ext. 125, [email protected], or @Joey788.

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BY TRIshA sAkhuJAStaff Writer

Residents, local businesses and com-munity groups voiced concerns to Met-ropolitan Transportation Authority representatives about the dire need for a shuttle bus that goes directly to Grand Central during the weekends of the No. 7 train shutdowns, between Times Square and Queensboro Plaza, during a special meeting last week at PS/IS 78.

MTA representatives, including MTA President Carmen Bianco, ex-plained to concerned train-riders and local elected officials that the No. 7 train shutdowns will in fact lead to long-term solutions, but until then, they cannot provide a shuttle bus.

Bianco said according to the data they have collected, a shuttle bus from Long Island City to Grand Central would not be plausible because they “know a lot of riders are not going to Grand Central.”

“The very best thing we can do is get our customers to one of our trains to get to their destination,” he said.

The alternative route Bianco sug-gested MTA customers take is a shut-tle bus to Queensboro Plaza and then the E, F, N or S train to Manhattan.

The room full of 200 concerned residents, who quickly responded with outspoken criticism after listening to Biancos’ answer, raised their hands in unison when Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) asked whether they frequently travel to Grand Cen-tral and would use a shuttle bus pro-vided by the MTA.

State Sen. Michael Gianaris (D-As-toria) said he would like to see the data the MTA has collected, which proves customers from LIC do not frequently travel to Grand Central.

In addition to community disap-proval, the two-and-a-half hour meet-ing also included an in-depth explana-tion of the three infrastructure projects

that will take place during the No. 7 train shutdowns that began in Febru-ary and will continue through July, with an additional nine more closures expected later in the year.

Bianco said he understands the up-coming weekends of shutdowns will be an inconvenience to everybody.

“I know it’s inconvenient, but we have to do this,” he said. “But let me apologize for the inconvenience.”

MTA representatives took turns ex-plaining the needs, the challenges and benefits of the work being done to a system that was first built in the 1800s.

The three infrastructure projects in-clude maintenance work in the Stein-way Tube, enhancing the communica-tion system, known as Communication Based Train Control and finally, re-placing the elevated tracks that are past their 25 year life expectancy.

Even though many residents would have liked to see the No. 7 train shut-downs completed during a shorter time span, Bianco explained the work must be done during daylight hours and over the weekends for long periods at a time.

Bianco said after the work is fully complete in 2017, it will increase ca-pacity for riders by 10 percent, or two more trains per hour.

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Photo by trisha sakhuJaCouncilman Jimmy van Bramer (left) and MTA president Car-men Bianco discuss the no. 7 train shutdowns.

Katz Asks Galante To Take Leave Of Absence BY NATALIA kOZIkOWskAStaff Writer

Earlier this week, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz sent an open letter to embattled Queens Library CEO Thomas Galante, recommending that he take a leave of absence.

Galante has been under fire by me-dia and elected officials alike for his $391,994 annual salary and $140,000 in office renovations.

Allegations that taxpayer money was used to fund Galante’s six-figure salary and lavish office upgrades, which in-cludes a private outdoor smoking area, prompted the City Council to hold an oversight hearing and City Comptrol-ler Scott Stringer to launch an audit of all three library systems.

In the open letter, which was sent out to press, Katz warned Galante that in order for Queens Library to contin-ue to receive funding from her office

and the offices of other elected officials in the Borough, they must have “faith in the integrity of the institution and its leadership.”

“Given the current state of uncer-tainty and turmoil, I don’t believe you will be able to successfully lead the institution through this budget cycle and the Library will suffer, which is an outcome nobody wants,” she wrote.

Katz went on to say that in order to ensure the Library’s continued growth and success, the best option for Gal-ante is to temporarily step down.

“Your voluntary suspension of leadership would go a long way to-wards realizing those goals and restor-ing public faith in this vital institu-tion,” she wrote.

A spokesperson for Queens Library declined to comment.

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By Luis GrondaStaff Writer

During two workshops last week, residents got a more detailed look at what the QueensWay could look like if the proposed pedestrian/bike path were to become a reality.

Representatives from the two design companies working on the QueensWay presented the most de-tailed plans to date at public work-shops in Forest Hills and Richmond Hill last week.

The Trust for Public Land, a non-profit company that specializes in building parks like the High Line in Manhattan, would like to convert the vacant 3.5-mile stretch of land into the QueensWay, which would run between Ozone Park and Rego Park. Transit advocates want to reactivate the LIRR line, citing the need to improve public transportation in southern Queens.

The QueensWay plan is divided into six parts: The Clearing, North Passage, Metropolitan Hub, Forest Park Grove, South Passage and The Elevated.

The Clearing is the most-northern section of the proposed QueensWay, covering Forest Hills, including the Forest Hills Little League Fields. The North Passage is just below that, cov-ering Rego Park and intersecting Yel-lowstone Boulevard.

The Metropolitan Hub is further down on Woodhaven Boulevard, in-cluding the Metropolitan Avenue shopping corridor in Forest Hills and Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School. Forest Park Grove covers For-est Park and the area surrounding the park including Forest Park Drive and Park Lane South.

The South Passage runs along Ja-maica Avenue, intersecting with 104th Street and going down past Atlan-tic Avenue. The Elevated would run above Ozone Park, covering major streets such as 101st Street and Liberty Avenue.

Some of the proposed amenities the

QueensWay would bring include an outdoor space for games and commu-nity events on the Elevated portion of the path, a zip line across Forest Park, the ability to ski in the park during the winter and an “adventure playground” for children at the Clearing section of the QueensWay.

Adam Lubinsky said each area that would make up the QueensWay has its unique factors and they took that, a long with community input from the last round of public workshops held last year, when coming up with the designs shown last week.

“We’ve been very careful to say, it’s wider here, it’s higher here, there are

more trees here and to really be re-sponsive to those different contexts,” he said.

Following the presentation, resi-dents both for and against the project spoke during the public hearing por-tion of the workshop.

Annie Green, a Richmond Hill resident, supports the QueensWay because it would help businesses ad-jacent to the path and it would con-nect the five neighborhoods that the QueensWay would run along.

“We love the idea of those neigh-borhoods being connected together,” she said, adding that it would also boost property values in the area.

Fernando Morales, an Ozone Park resident, said he initially supported the QueensWay but has since changed his mind because of the way the neigh-borhood has changed in recent years.

“I don’t see it being that great, es-pecially in the area that I live in,” he said, adding on to another resident’s concern about the potential garbage it could bring to the area. “My block alone…there’s just trash all over the neighborhood. No one uses trash bins, especially in this area.”

The group is expected to come out with a final report and design in June, when the feasibility study is completed.

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

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One rendering shows community events could come to the pro-posed QueensWay.

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Elected officials and civic leaders came together in Flushing to demand comprehensive immigration reform, not next year, not eventually, but right now.

U.S. Rep. Steve Israel (D-Melville) was joined by civic leaders and elected officials from northeast Queens to call for a vote in the House of Represen-tatives on immigration reform. Ac-cording to the Congressman, the bill is being blocked from coming to the floor by House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). The group was calling for Boehner to let the bill get a vote.

H.R. 15, the Border Security, Eco-nomic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act, has 199 co-spon-sors, three of them Republicans. Israel said that another 30 Republicans have said they support immigration reform.

“It would grow our economy. It would secure our borders. It would unite families. It would create path-ways to citizenship. It would sup-port small businesses in Flushing and throughout the country,” he said. “My constituents want there to be a vote. There’s no more excuses and no rea-son to delay it.”

According to the Congressional Budget Office, the bill would reduce that national deficit by $900 billion

over 20 years. Besides the economic benefits, the reform would reduce the mass deportations throughout the country that has separated families.

“House Republicans are turning deaf ears to Americans. They are also turning cold shoulders to the sufferings of immigrants, whose families are torn apart, whose dreams are shattered by our nation’s broken immigration sys-tem,” S.J. Jung, president of the MinK-won Center for Community Action, said. “We will not rest until we break through Republican opposition. Immi-gration reform is not just about immi-grants. It’s about our nation’s future.”

Two of the assembly members on

hand at the rally, Nily Rozic (D-Hill-crest) and Ron Kim (D-Flushing), are first-generation Americans. Both of them argued that everyone deserves the same opportunities they had when they came to this country.

“At the State level, we’re doing whatever we can to make sure we’re a strong voice for immigrant rights and immigrant reform,” Kim said.

Rozic echoed Kim’s thoughts and promised to keep fighting in Albany and in Washington D.C. for reform.

“We’re just like everyone else. We came to this country looking for one thing; a better life,” she said. “Just last night, we had Vice President [Joe]

Biden saying that these undocument-ed immigrants are Americans. They are just like you and I.”

While the focus of the event was on immigration reform at the federal level, several elected officials and civic leaders talked about the New York State DREAM Act, which had recently failed to pass in the State Senate.

“What happened in the State Senate, in defeating the DREAM Act, was un-conscionable. We sat there on the floor of the Senate and we realized that this was a sham vote. We’ve got to make sure that the next time the DREAM Act comes up, that it passes,” State Sen. Toby Stavisky (D-Flushing) said.

Steve Choi, executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition, said that New York State should be taking an active role in passing im-migration reform and become a trail-blazer in the U.S.

“Nearly a quarter of New York State’s population are foreign-born and we need to be a leader for the rest of the country,” he said.

Although U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing) had originally planned to be at the rally, a death in the fam-ily prevented her from attending. She sent a message of her support for im-mediate immigration reform.


Elected Officials Call For Immigration Reform

Photo by Joe MarvilliU.S. Rep. Steve Israel was joined by civic leaders S.J. Jung, Yen Chou and Steve Choi, as well as assembly members Ron Kim and Nily Roz-ic and State Sen. Toby Stavisky, in his call for immigration reform.


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We can only imagine what the organizers of the 1939 and 1964 World’s Fairs would think if they saw how the world has changed in the ensuing years. Maybe they would be in awe of the advancements in science and technology. Just as likely, they could be disappointed that we have not progressed even further.

The two World’s Fairs held at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in the last century were showcases of what could be, providing generations with a glimpse of the future. But the future is ever-changing and as new generations grow up more comfortable with new technologies, there is no better time to show off what our futures hold than right now.

And there is also no better place to host a new World’s Fair than right here in Queens. The Borough is home to representatives of cultures all over the world. The idea of fostering togetherness and understanding of different cultures is a way of life here, so why not give us the opportunity to spread that message to others?

This year, we celebrate two World’s Fair anniversaries, and the office of new Bor-ough President Melinda Katz is rolling out plans to commemorate those events. But we should do more. We should begin planning a new World’s Fair, one that will look to our future and take pride in our present.

Looking Towards Tomorrow

By John Catsimatidis

This past week, Queens Bor-ough President, Melinda Katz, and a number of elected, civic and community leaders held a news conference to announce a series of events to commemo-rate the 75th Anniversary of the 1939 World’s Fair and the 50th Anniversary of the 1964-65 World’s Fair.

Sadly, to New Yorkers who aren’t old enough to remem-ber the 1964-65 Fair, their sole image of it are some dilapidate structures, badly in need of maintenance and, quite frankly, an eyesore and disgrace to the City. They sit in Flushing Meadows Corona Park as rusting remnants of the forgotten past.

I challenge those younger New Yorkers to walk up to someone they know in their mid-50s or older and ask this simple question: did you go to the 1964 World’s Fair?

I guarantee you, that if the individual attended, their face

will brighten and they will respond along the lines of “Oh yes, it was great!”

I turned 15 in 1964 and I went to the fair numerous times, with both my parents and my buddies from school. It was what I like to call a “WOW” moment, and for a kid who had grown up poor in Harlem, it opened my eyes as to what the world had to offer and what the future held. Fifty-one mil-lion people visited the 1964-65 World’s Fair, which, at the time, nearly equaled the total popula-tion of Great Britain.

Last year, during my race for mayor, my campaign did a great deal of polling. One of the most interesting findings was that 73 percent of New Yorkers were in favor of New York City hosting another World’s Fair.

New Yorkers instinctively understand the benefits of an-other World’s Fair; job creation, economic development, as well as long overdue improvements to infrastructure and mass tran-sit systems are only a few of the

benefits that spring to mind.It’s time that New York City

explores the concept of hosting another World’s Fair and like New Yorkers always do, we should be thinking outside of the box.

Let’s look at the concept of a World’s Fair in all five boroughs, linked by improvements to our mass transit system, includ-ing the development of a long overdue Water Borne Transit System that will take advantage of one of New York City’s great natural resources; its harbor.

Let’s entice major high tech corporations and growing eco-nomic powerhouses like China, Russia or India to showcase their vision of what the world will be like by the end of the 21st Century.

Let’s challenge the exhibi-tors to create reusable and sustainable pavilions; facilities and infrastructure that would truly benefit our City and its people long after the fair had closed. Examples could range from a company like Microsoft

building a pavilion that could be easily refitted to house busi-ness incubators for new high tech start-up companies or if the NFL, the NBA or Major League Baseball were to build a pavilion, it could be designed to have a secondary use as a field house or training facility for our public schools and CUNY Colleges.

In 1964, jet travel was a fairly new form of transportation used by a small segment of the population and our airports were designed for that time. Wouldn’t a World’s Fair be a great incentive to update and improve our airports, bring-ing them up to the standards of other major international cities and perhaps finally link-ing LaGuardia to a rail system that would carry travelers into Manhattan?

What we can achieve is merely constrained by the limits of our vision and inge-nuity.

New York City is home to some of the greatest minds

in fields like finance, urban planning, architecture and con-struction, not to mention scores of Fortune 500 Companies with their headquarters either locat-ed in the city or its suburbs. It’s time for Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio to encourage our business and civic leaders to create a partnership between the private and public sectors so as to examine the feasibility of a New York World’s Fair for the 21st Century.

John Catsimatidis is Chair-man and CEO of the Red Apple Group, one of New York City’s largest privately held companies. In 2013, he was a Republican candidate for mayor.

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To The Editor:This letter is in response to the article “North-east Queens Face-off ”

(Queens Tribune – March 27-April 2) on my message to Congressman Steve Israel on his small business tour.

I want to thank Congress-man Steve Israel for the head-line and his quick comeback. But regrettably he’s missing the main point.

While his legislation is helpful, it’s like bailing out the ocean with a thimble, since small businesses have been hit especially hard by the financial crisis. The elephant in the room is the Affordable

Care Act, aka Obamacare, an issue which Congressman Israel avoids like the plague. I tried to bring it up when I called it “the biggest job killer in America” in order to shed light on the crippling federal legislation and mandates that are hurting small businesses the most.

Only 33 percent of voters believe Israel deserves reelec-tion, and 52 percent disapprove of President Obama’s perfor-mance. There is good reason why Israel refuses to defend President Obama’s policies and discuss Obamacare.

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qUEENS thiS wEEkHospital Adds Women’s Health CenterBY TRiSha SakhujaStaff Writer

Elmhurst Hospital has expanded with a facility to primarily serve wom-en’s health services.

The 17,370-square-foot Women’s Pavilion will serve as the new outpa-tient healthcare facility to serve pre-natal and comprehensive obstetrical services for women in Queens.

On Friday, Senior Vice President of the Queens Health Network Chris Constantino welcomed Queens Bor-ough President Melinda Katz, local elected officials and representatives from the hospital, to cut the ribbon for the $16.3 million Women’s Pavil-ion that is expected to start accepting patients on June 1.

Constantino said that building the new state-of-the-art Women’s Pavil-ion allows the hospital to expand their scope of services for women.

Former CB9 Chair Attacks DM CareyBY LuiS GRoNdaStaff Writer

Former Community Board 9 Chairperson Jim Coccovillo had some parting shots for District Manager Mary Ann Carey before leaving the position.

In a letter written to CB9 dated March 25, obtained by the Queens Tri-bune, Coccovillo had several negative comments about the long-time Dis-trict Manager, with whom he worked while he was Chairman.

Coccovillo described Carey’s con-duct as “inappropriate” and “unprofes-sional,” making internal CB9 matters public as a protest against decisions of which she did not approve.

The letter refers to a decision CB9’s executive board made last year to put Carey on a six-month probation pe-riod after a motion was made to re-move her from the District Manager position.

Coccovillo also mentions in the let-ter an accusation Carey made during a CB9 meeting earlier this year that Coccovillo harassed her and other CB9 office members. He describes the accusation as “alarming” and without merit.

“This in itself raises a deep concern about her judgment in holding the po-sition of District Manager that holds a very high level of liability for CB9 and the Borough Presidents Office,” Coc-covillo wrote.

He also wrote that Carey’s behav-ior and conduct “has not sustained the level of professionalism and confi-dence” that allows the board members to put their full trust in her.

According to Coccovillo, Carey

agreed to provide a weekly report to the chairperson and the reports “have not been supplied in an acceptable manner.”

Coccovillo was CB9 chairperson for one year. His time leading the board was marred in controversy and conflict, including the aforementioned motion asking to dismiss Carey as well as another motion asking to remove CB9 member Sam Esposito for alleged anti-Semitic comments he made to-wards other board members.

The letter Coccovillo was intended to be placed in Carey’s personal file; a copy was faxed to the Queens Tribune on Tuesday afternoon.

Carey signed that she received the letter and wrote a paragraph disagree-ing with Coccovillo’s sentiments.

“I do not agree with the statements made on the reverse side,” she wrote.

When reached by phone, she add-ed that the letter was not intended for public consumption and that she had no further comment.


Forest Park Carousel ReopensBY LuiS GRoNdaStaff Writer

The Forest Park Carousel is re-opening for its third season since be-ing taken over by its current operator, New York Carousel.

Ami Abramson, the head of the company that operates the carousel in Forest Park and in Flushing Mead-ows Corona Park, said it has been a successful two years so far, with more people visiting the carousel as it gains more attention.

According to Abramson, about 30,000 people rode the carousel this past season, compared to about the 25,000 that got on the merry-go-round the first year it reopened.

Abramson said the increased rider-ship was due to accolades becoming a landmark, and the continued promo-tion of the ride including its events they would host during the summer.

“We see a tremendous amount of repeat customers as well as new peo-ple,” he said.

Although there will be no new addi-tions to the carousel this season, there are plans to add new rides next year.

According to Abramson, they have gotten approval from the Parks Dept. to add two new rides to the Carousel next year.

It is unknown what rides will built at the site, likely rides that cater to younger children and families, Abram-son said, but they expect to know that for sure later this year.

Abramson said the plans for the new rides should be finalized by fall 2014 and it will be ready for next sea-son in fall 2015.


Black Belt Center Festival On SundayBY joE MaRViLLiStaff Writer

The spirit of Taekwondo is alive and well in Bayside, at the New York Black Belt Center. For proof, one will have to go no further than attending the school’s festival/championship this Sunday.

The event will take place on April 6 at Divine Wisdom Catholic Academy’s Bayside campus, in the gymnasium of St. Roberts Bellarmine. It will be com-petitive for all of the participants but all of the students will receive a 2014 Championship trophy.

“It’s set up like a competition but there’s no winners or losers,” Head-master Joseph Lupo Jr., the center’s founder, said. “Every child goes home with a trophy. Every kid leaves a win-ner.”

This is the third year that NYBBC has held this festival, with the num-ber of participants growing each time around. This year, Lupo said that about 200 students will take part.

Besides the number of competitors, this year’s festival is also special be-cause it is the first time that the school is promoting black belts. Seven stu-dents in total will receive promotions, with one student earning a fourth-de-gree black belt.

“Promoting black belts is the pin-nacle of any martial arts school. It’s a big accomplishment,” Lupo said.

The black belt examination will start at 9 a.m. The festival/tournament will run from noon to 6 p.m. The event is open to the public.

“Everything’s done in the spirit of taekwondo,” Lupo said. “They learn at the end of the day that as long as you try your hardest, that’s what counts.”

St. Roberts Bellarmine is located at 56-15 213th St., Bayside. The New York Black Belt Center is located at 216-03 Horace Harding Expy., Bay-side. For more information about its programs, call (718) 224-0855.


Fort Totten BusesAccess RestoredBY joE MaRViLLiStaff Writer

The Dept. of Transportation has finished repaving Duane Road. With the end of construction comes the re-turn of two Fort Totten buses.

Since the Fort Totten parking lot is being renovated, the Q13 and the Q16 buses have been using Duane Road near Totten Avenue inside of

Fort Totten to turn around at the end of their routes. However, the poor condition of the road made the turns impossible. The repaving has resolved this situation.

Before this solution came together, the two buses were using other streets to turn around, affecting neighbor-hood residents and bringing up con-cerns with traffic congestion and safety. Duane Road was covered in potholes, many of which were deep enough to damage the buses’ under-carriages.

Community Board 7 district man-ager Marilyn Bitterman said she heard about the issue from community members and then proceeded to reach out to the Metropolitan Transporta-tion Authority, DOT and Borough President Melinda Katz to get the problem fixed.

“I would like to thank everyone for their cooperative effort in getting the road repaired, especially the office of the Borough President,” Bitterman said.

Now that the road has been re-paved and the buses can make their turns again, community leaders are relieved.

“On behalf of the entire commu-nity, I want to thank everyone for their efforts in making it possible for the Q13/Q16 buses to once again turn around inside Fort Totten,” War-ren Schreiber, President of the Bay Terrace Community Alliance, said. “When people work together in an at-mosphere of good will, positive things can be accomplished.”

Assemblyman Ed Braunstein (D-Bayside) was also happy to see the turnaround restored. In June 2013, the assemblyman had arranged the agreement between the MTA and community leaders to prevent the two lines from going through residential streets.

“This is good news for our constit-uents in Bay Terrace. We should also not forget to thank the U.S. Army for continuing to allow the buses to travel within Fort Totten,” Braunstein said.




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By Trisha sakhujaStaff Writer

After months of complaining about the airplane noise that looms over the inner communities living close to La-Guardia and JFK airports, last week Gov. Andrew Cuomo directed the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to conduct a comprehensive re-view of the noise issues.

“Airport noise is rightly an impor-tant concern for residents of Queens, the Bronx and Nassau County and that is why I am directing the Port Authority to open a full and thorough dialogue with the impacted communi-ties while also pursuing a noise study to better address the issue,” Cuomo said in a statement.

Port Authority Executive Direc-tor Pat Foye said the PA has taken big steps to address noise surrounding lo-cal airports.

“We are committed to working with all communities we operate in to address their concerns, while bring-ing JFK and LaGuardia airports into the 21st Century and maintaining the viability of our airports as major eco-nomic engines for the metropolitan region,” Foye said in a statement.

The PA will work closely with the Federal Aviation Administration to ad-dress overall noise concerns through a noise study and two roundtable discus-sions with select community organiza-

tions and representatives of local elect-ed officials, during the month of April.

Janet McEneaney from Queens Quiet Skies, a local group advocating to reduce noise from local airports across the City, said they are hopeful that they will be invited to attend the roundtable discussions.

“We see a real opportunity to make a difference in the lives of hundreds of thousands people with these Port Authority initiatives,” she said. “These roundtables will give us a voice in the decision making process.”

In addition to the roundtables, the PA is moving ahead with Cuomo’s direc-tive to double the existing portable noise monitors at LGA and JFK airports.

Furthermore, the comprehensive Part 150 Study will better-evaluate noise impacts to the communities sur-rounding JFK and LGA airports with the use of an experienced aircraft noise consulting firm.

McEneaney said the noise studies could take anywhere from 18 to 36 months, but they will provide needed information about where the noise is the worst.

The Part 150 Study is an effort to identify residences, schools, li-braries, hospitals/nursing homes and places of worship adversely im-pacted by aircraft noise. The study will further recommend measures to mitigate excessive noise where pos-sible and seeks to limit future devel-

opment in potential problem areas.According to Cuomo’s statement,

a new aviation office will be staffed with a dedicated team, which will be responsible for collecting and review-ing noise data, while also responding

Noise Study To Review Airplane Disruptionsto community complaints.

Calls made to the PA were not re-turned in time for press.

Reach Trisha Sakhuja at (718) 357-7400, Ext. 128, [email protected], or @Tsakhuja13

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Jewish-American and Korean-American leaders came together in Bayside for a discourse about nurtur-ing community collaboration.

The Jewish and Korean-American Intercultural Dialogue was held at the Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center and Archives at Queensbor-ough Community College on March 31. Hosted by U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing), the evening featured performances, guest speakers and a discussion about how the two com-munities could work together.

After introductions by Dr. Arthur

Meng Hosts Jewish-Korean DiscussionFlug, the executive director of the Kupferberg Center, Meng spoke to the audience about the commonalities be-tween the Jewish and Korean people.

“South Korea and Israel know a little bit of what it’s like to live and work in a bad neighborhood. Locally, our families co-exist,” she said. “We have so much in common, whether it’s family values, educational values.”

Meng was followed by Se-Joo Son, the Consul General of the Republic of Korea, who said that the two commu-nities shared abuse at the hands of the Axis Powers during World War II.

“Our two peoples also share one common, violent experience,” he said. “We need to work closer together to

never permit such terrible tragedy to befall our future generations.”

The discussion itself featured Rabbi Robert Kaplan, director of the Cen-ter for Community Leadership; Dong Chan Kim of the Korean American Civic Empowerment group; Torah Center of Hillcrest Rabbi Moshe Faskowitz; and Linda Lee, from the Korean Community Services of Met-ropolitan New York.

The four panelists talked about community issues and inter-commu-nity partnerships.

Lee mentioned that one significant issue for both ethnicities is immigrant aging, with the need for better re-sources to communicate with seniors.

Faskowitz said that poverty, secu-rity and housing were all important issues for his community. He added that he believes the younger genera-tion will best be able to work together on these problems.

Kim said a main concern for many Asian communities was immigration reform and building better health-care.

For Kaplan, the dialogue was part of the solution that he felt his Jewish community needed to address; how to effectively work with and build leader-ship with other communities.


Mayor Bill de Blasio announced new leadership and changes to the City’s Sandy rebuilding and recovery team last week.

The mayor appointed Bill Gold-stein as the new Senior Advisor to the Mayor for Recovery, Resiliency, and Infrastructure, Amy Peterson will be the new Director of the Housing Re-covery Office and Daniel Zarrilli was named the Director of the Office of Recovery and Resiliency.

He also announced that the City will reallocate $100 million to fund

De Blasio Announces Sandy Rebuilding Changesrebuilding homes that were destroyed by Superstorm Sandy and start giving checks to homeowners who signed up for City programs such as Build It Back.

The announcements came after concerns were raised about the prog-ress the City had made regarding be-coming more resilient from a future storm like Sandy and the leadership to lead those rebuilding efforts. De Blasio had not named a new Sandy leader-ship team in the four months since he took office.

“Since day one, my administration has prioritized the fast and efficient delivery of relief to affected families, and now we begin to see results,” de Blasio said. “Construction has started, the first checks are on the way, and we are making immediate policy and staff changes to further expedite and streamline the process – so that New Yorkers get the help they need now.”

On Monday, Peterson attended a City Council oversight hearing about Build It Back where she was drilled with questions and testimonies from

residents affected by the storm and elected officials.

Both Councilman Eric Ulrich (R- Ozone Park) and Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Ozone Park) released statements following the oversight hearing. They both attended the hear-ing and questioned Peterson about the program.

Goldfeder said almost 7,000 house-holds have applied for Build It Back in his district and none of them have gotten the help they need in rebuild-ing their properties.


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Homicide – At 3:20 p.m. on March 30, police responded to a 911 call of a male shot in front of 143-07 Lakewood Ave., Jamaica. Upon arriv-al, police discovered two males shot at that location. The first victim, identi-fied as Khalil Bowlin, 17, of Jamaica, was shot in the torso and taken to Jamaica Hospital, where he was pro-nounced dead.

The second victim was shot in the leg and taken to Jamaica Hospital in stable condition.

The investigation is ongoing.

double Homicide – At 6:30 p.m. on March 27, police responded to a 911 call of two people shot inside of 1815 Summerfield St., Ridgewood.

Upon arrival, police discovered two people shot inside the location. The first victim has been identified as Nat-alie Mejia-Tavares of Ridgewood. She was discovered with a gunshot wound to the torso, dead at the scene. The second victim, an unidentified male, was also found dead at the scene with a gunshot wound to the head.

The investigation is ongoing.

Homicide – At 1:55 p.m. on March 27, police responded to a 911 call of a male stabbed inside of Select Stylez Barbershop, located at 227-14 Merrick Blvd., Laurelton.

Upon arrival, police discovered the victim, identified as Carl Richardson, 19, of Jamaica, unconscious and unre-sponsive with stab wounds to his torso. EMS also responded to the scene and transported the victim to a local hos-pital where he was pronounced dead.

A suspect, a 34-year-old Black male, was taken into custody on the scene and charges are pending.

Homicide Arrest – On March 27, police announced they had arrest-ed an individual connected to a homi-cide investigation from 2012.

According to police reports, on May 19, 2012, police discovered Shakey Foster-Bay, 24, with gunshot wounds to his arm, leg and torso. The victim was pronounced dead at Jamaica Hos-pital.

Following an investigation, police last week arrested Tracey Johnson, 28, of Snellville, Ga., and charged him with second-degree murder, criminal use of a firearm and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon.

Attempted rApe – The NYPD is asking the public’s assistance identi-fying a suspect wanted in connection to an attempted rape.

Got info?Call Crimestoppers at1-800-577-tiPS

(8477)or text tips to

CRiMES (274637) then enter TIPS577

At 3:25 a.m. on Feb. 23, the victim, a 22-year-old female, was walking on 30th Avenue in Astoria when the sus-pect approached her from behind and pushed her to the ground, attempting to rape her. The victim fought with the suspect, causing the suspect to flee.

The suspect has been described as an Hispanic male in his early 30s, 5-foot-7, weighing 145 lbs. Surveil-lance photos of the suspect have been obtained during a video canvass of the area.

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

collision investigAtion – At 11:07 p.m. on March 28, in the vi-cinity of Grand Central Parkway and 31st Drive, police responded to a 911 call of a pedestrian struck.

Upon arrival, officers observed the victim, identified as Fidel Vidal Diaz, 31, of Flushing, unconscious and un-responsive with severe trauma to the body.

Preliminary investigation deter-mined that the victim crossed the Grand Central from south to north, making it to the center median. While attempting to cross the westbound lane, the victim was struck by two vehicles. Both vehicles’ operators re-mained at the scene. The investigation is ongoing.

This suspect is wanted for ques-tioning in an attempted rape within the confines of the 114th Precinct.

April 4, 2014 #March4TheDream

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When it comes to helping out their neighbors in Queens, Major Homes offers a unique service for those stuck in a bad situation.

For the last decade, Major Homes’ owner Mitch Kersch and his son, Ja-son, have dedicated some of their time to free renovations and con-struction projects for families who have been impacted by harsh cir-cumstances.

Mitch said that giving back and helping others has always been a big part of his life. His generosity went to the “next level” though after he saw the movie “Pay It Forward,” a 2000 film starring Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt and Haley Joel Osment.

“I decided to start this because I always loved giving to others and helping people in need,” Mitch said. “I always like to give back to the community.”

To find people who qualify for this work, Mitch asks people to send in letters, which he then goes through with Jason to determine those that are legitimate. From there, they meet with the people and see where the program goes from there.

Several individuals and families have benefitted from Major Homes’ charitable efforts.

Mitch mentioned that one cus-

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tomer lost three fingers in a freak ac-cident at work. As a result, the siding he had planned to do himself was derailed, until Major Homes came in and did the work free of charge.

In another case, Major Homes gave a new kitchen to a family whose three children have Cystic Fibrosis, a recessive genetic disorder that criti-cally affects the lungs.

Mitch added that being able to improve the lives of others, using his four-generation renovation com-pany to do so, is a reward in and of itself.

“The feeling of being able to help out is amazing. People that know me, know that I would much rather give than to receive,” he said.

The program for free services is offered year-round and is available to those in Queens and Nassau counties. Major Homes specializes in windows, roofing, siding, doors, awnings, kitchens, bathrooms, base-ments, dormers and extensions.

Mitch said that more people should keep an eye out for others in need.

“People need to understand it is not about them only,” he said. “We all need to help out each other.”

If you would like to contact Ma-jor Homes about their needy fami-

lies’ assistance, send an email to [email protected], call (718) 229-5741 or send a letter to their Bayside office, located at 48-52 Clearview Expy.


TribCo Inc. this week announced the appointment of Ron Shafran as president of Multi-Media, the company’s public rela-tions subsidiary.

Shafran will take over day-to-day responsibili-ties for the firm, which will include advertising and printing for public relations campaigns.

Before taking on the new role at Multi-Media, Shafran served as the associate vice president for public affairs and government relations at Parker Jewish Institute for Healthcare and Rehabilitation in New Hyde Park. Shafran has broad experience in health care, human services, real

estate, government, politics and ed-ucation.

“In the age of commu-nications, being the presi-dent of a company that will meet the needs of private and public sector clients through the full constel-lation of media is going to be a great adventure,” Shafran said.

TribCo President Mi-chael Nussbaum, who also serves as publisher of the Queens Tribune, noted that he looked forward to working with Shafran.

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An agreement has been reached on the 2014-15 State budget, which will offer relief and incentives to businesses and homeowners.

The State Legislature passed the budget in the evening of March 31, with Gov. Andrew Cuomo signing it into law just before midnight the same day. The deadline for passing the State budget is April 1, making this the fourth consecutive on-time budget. With multiple tax cuts and increased funding for economic de-velopment, Cuomo said the budget will help New York’s economy con-tinue to prosper.

“This budget maintains the fis-cal discipline that has characterized the last three years of progress by holding the growth in spending be-low two percent, while also making broad tax cuts that will help hom-eowners and businesses thrive,” Cuomo said.

One of the biggest pieces of the State budget is $1.5 billion in prop-erty tax relief. The package is de-signed to encourage local govern-ments to share services and reduce the financial load on taxpayers. In the first year of this reform plan, New Yorkers will receive property tax relief if their local government, such as New York City, stays within the property tax cap. The property tax cuts will be extended for a sec-ond year in jurisdictions that com-ply with the tax cap and have put forward a plan to save one percent of their tax levy per year, over three years.

The tax on manufacturers’ in-come will drop from 5.9 percent to zero. The budget will also establish a 20 percent property tax credit for manufacturers who own or lease property.

The State’s estate tax exemption

level will increase from the current $1 million threshold to $5.25 million, falling in line with the existing fed-eral exemption limit.

The 18-A Energy Tax Utility Sur-charge will be phased out over the next three years, eventually saving New York business owners a total of $600 million. This move thrilled the Queens Chamber of Commerce’s president, Al Pennisi, who said that New York busi-nesses and residents pay some of the highest bills in the country.

“At the Chamber of Commerce, we are pleased to see these re-forms included in this year’s bud-get and look forward to continuing to work with the Governor and the State Legislature to ensure Queens’ economy grows and businesses have every chance to succeed,” he added.

Pennisi also said he was happy to see the corporate capital tax eliminat-ed and the business tax rate reduced from 7.1 percent to 6.5 percent.

The budget will also continue to put funding towards the Regional Economic Development Coun-cils that were founded in 2011. The councils focus on the unique strengths and priorities of each re-gion in the State, in order to maxi-mize their economic potential. The budget will give $150 million in flex-ible new economic development capital funding and $70 million in State tax credits for a fourth round of the REDC process.

Queens elected officials praised the on-time budget as well as the benefits it will have for small busi-nesses, homeowners and Queens’ economy.

“During this year’s budget negoti-ations, the State Legislature worked in a bi-partisan way to implement a much needed tax relief program for all New Yorkers,” State Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) said.

State Sen. Joseph Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) also commended the tax relief in the budget.

“Since this was a rare State bud-get with a surplus of funds, it rightfully sought to provide property tax relief to homeowners and renters. Individuals who pay some of the highest taxes in the country will be given a credit based upon their income level and real estate taxes paid,” he said.

Reach Joe Marvil-li at (718) 357-7400, Ext. 125, [email protected], or @Joey788.

State Budget Helps Businesses

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the 2014-2015 State budget on March 31. The budget will offer tax relief for businesses and homeowners.



Notice of formation of Z & L ORIENTAL SKY, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secy. Of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/02/2013 Office loca-tion: Queens County. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC. SSNY shall mail process to 39-15 Main ST Suite 301, Flushing, NY 11354. Purpose: any law-ful activities.________________________Name of LLC: Africa USA LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 3/3/14. Office loc.: Queens Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act.________________________Notice of Formation of DGF ENGINEERING LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York SSNY on 1/15/2014. Office located in Queens County. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC to 4601 39th Ave Apt 608 Sunnyside, NY 11104. Purpose: any lawful purpose.________________________Notice of Formation of 4248 AMG LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/6/14. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 136-19 Franklin Ave., #6A, Flushing, NY 11355. Purpose: any lawful activity.________________________Notice of Formation of W 407 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 2/20/2014. Office location: Queens County. Princ. bus. addr.: 451 Seneca Ave., Ridgewood, NY 11385. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. Term: until 12/31/2099. Purpose: all lawful purposes.________________________SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF OBJECT OF ACTION SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS ACTION TO FORECLOSE A MORTGAGE INDEX NO. 14854/10 WELLS FARGO BANK, NA, Plaintiff, vs. JUAN C. GREGORY A/K/A JUAN CARLOS GREGORY, TERESA GREGORY, CRIMI-

NAL COURT OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, DAVID RODRIGUEZ, NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD, NEW YORK CITY PARKING VIO-LATIONS BUREAU, NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT ADJU-DICATION BUREAU, UNIT-ED STATES OF AMERICA ACTING THROUGH THE IRS, GREGORY RAMOS, PEDRO BERA, JOHN DOE (Said name being fictitious, it being the intention of Plaintiff to designate any and all occupants of premises being foreclosed herein, and any parties, corporations or entities, if any, having or claiming an interest or lien upon the mortgaged premises.), Defendant(s). MORTGAGED PREMISES: 37-29 98TH STREET, Corona, NY 11368 BLOCK 1761 LOT 56 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT: You are hereby summoned to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your an-swer, or if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff(s) attorney(s) within twenty days after the service of this Summons, ex-clusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. The Attorney for Plaintiff has an office for business in the County of Erie. Trial to be held in the County of Queens. The basis of the venue designated above is the location of the Mortgaged Premises. Dated this 21st day of March, 2014, Gross, Polowy & Orlans, LLC Attorney(s) for Plaintiff(s), 25 Northpointe Parkway, Suite 25, Amherst, NY 14228 TO: DAVID RODRIGUEZ, Defendant(s) In this Action. The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publica-tion, pursuant to an order of HON. DAVID ELLIOT of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, dated the 27th day of February, 2014 and filed with the Complaint in the Office of Clerk of the County of Queens, in the City of Jamaica. The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, executed by Juan C. Gregory A/K/A Juan Carlos Gregory and Teresa Gregory dated the 18th day of September, 2001, to secure the sum of $332,920.00 and recorded at Liber 6060 of Mortgages at Page 2378 in the Office of County of Queens, on the 29th day of October, 2001; which mortgage was duly as-

signed by assignment dated the 7th day of June, 2010, and sent for recording in the Office of the of the Clerk of Queens County. The prop-erty in question is described as follows: 37-29 98TH STREET, Corona, NY 11368 SEE FOLLOWING DESCRIP-TION Block 1761 and Lot 56 ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough and County of Queens, City and State of New York, known and designated as and by the Lot No. 123 on a certain map entitled “Map of Property in the Town of Newtown, Queens County, Long Island, belonging to Daniel B. Taylor, surveyed June 1854, drawn November 1854, Van Alst and Messerole, C.E. and C.S.” and filed in the Queens County Clerk’s Office on Feb-ruary. 23, 1856 as Old Map No. 364, New Map No. 2468, bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at a point on the Easterly side of 98th Street, formerly known as 41st Street and Evergreen Avenue, distant 375 feet Northerly from the corner formed by the intersection of the Easterly side of 98th Street with the Northerly side of 38th Avenue, formerly known as Washington Place; RUNNING THENCE Easterly at right angles to the Easterly side of 98th Street, 100 feet; THENCE Northerly parallel with the Easterly side of 98th Street, 25 feet; THENCE Westerly again at right angles to the Easterly side of 98th Street, 100 feet to the Easterly side of 98th Street; THENCE Southerly along the Easterly side of 98th Street, 25 feet to the point or place of BEGIN-NING. Premises known as 37-29 98th Street, Corona, New York DATED: March 21, 2014 Gross Polowy Orlans, LLC Attorney(s) for Plaintiff(s) 25 Northpointe Parkway, Suite 25 Amherst, NY 14228. The law firm of Gross Polowy Orlans, LLC and the attorneys whom it employs are debt collectors who are attempting to col-lect a debt. Any information obtained by them will be used for that purpose. 223430________________________CENTRAL HEALTH CHOICE, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 08/16/2012. Office loc: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom pro-cess against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: Corporation Service Company, 80 State Street, Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.________________________Notice of formation of SUG-AR MAMAS PARTY CO LLC. Articles of Organization

filed with NY Dept. of State 02/13/2014. Office location Queens County. New York Secretary of State (SSNY) is the designated agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: c/o United States Corporation Agents Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful activity________________________Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on MAR 04 2014 bearing Index Number NC-001321-13/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) Sky (Last) Morales My present name is (First) Dionne (Middle) Joy (Last) Delvalle aka Dionne J Del-valle My present address is 93-05 95th Avenue, Apt. #2F, Ozone Park, NY 11416-1512 My place of birth is Brooklyn, NY My date of birth is April 28, 1985_______________________Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on MAR 24 2014 bearing Index Number NC-000238-14/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me the right to: Assume the name of (First) Nartesha (Middle) Nadine (Last) Hicks My present name is (First) Nartesha (Middle) N (Last) Person-Brewton aka Nartesha Brewton aka Nartesha Nadine Person, aka Nartesha Nadine Hicks, aka Martesha Brewton My pres-ent address is 109-60 135 Street, South Ozone Park, NY 11420 My place of birth is Queens My date of birth is October 05, 1976________________________

Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on FEB 03 2014 bearing Index Number NC-001280-13/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) Luis (Middle) Enrique (Last) Gallardo My present name is (First) Luis (Middle) E (Last) Gallardo Moloche aka Luis Enrique Gallardo aka Luis Gallardo aka Luis E Gallardo My present address is 150-22 Roosevelt Ave 2Fl, Flushing, NY 11354 My place of birth is Peru My date of birth is January 10, 1994________________________WORLDWIDE TECHNOL-OGY USA LLC, filed with Secretary of State of New

York (SSNY) on 02/25/2014. Office location Queens County. SSNY designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copies of any process against the LLC, 13525 96th St., Ozone Park, NY 11417. Any Lawful purpose._______________________Notice of formation of For-ever Mrs. LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York SSNY on February 19 2014. Office located in Queens County. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC to 100-23 195th Street Hollis NY 11423. Purpose: any lawful purpose.________________________

SUMMONS Index No. 1190/2013 STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF QUEENS EX-TRACO BANKS, N.A. Plaintiff vs ANY UNKNOWN HEIRS, DEVISEES, DISTRIBUTEES OR SUCCESSORS IN IN-TEREST OF THE LATE ELFIE MOWATT, IF LIVING, AND IF ANY BE DEAD, ANY AND ALL PERSONS WHO ARE SPOUSES, WIDOWS, GRANTEES, MORTGAGEES, LIENORS, HEIRS, DEVISEES, DISTRIBUTEES OR SUCCES-SORS IN INTEREST OF SUCH OF THEM AS MAY BE DEAD, AND THEIR SPOUSES, HEIRS, DEVISEES, DISTRIBU-TEES AND SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST, ALL OF WHOM AND WHOSE NAMES AND PLACES OF RESIDENCE ARE UNKNOWN TO PLAINTIFF, VALERIE ELAINE MOWATT, CITY OF NEW YORK ENVI-RONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD, TRANSIT ADJUDI-CATION BUREAU, CITY OF NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE IN-TERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, NEW YORK STATE DEPART-MENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE, And JOHN DOE, Defendants This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. To the above named Defendants: You are hereby summoned to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the plaintiff’s attorneys within thirty days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service, 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 LOS-ING 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 fore-closure 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 ATTOR-NEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: March 26, 2014 The forego-ing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of Hon. J. Rob-ert J. McDonald , Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, signed the 28th day of February, 2014, Queens, New York. The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage on the following property: Block: 13106 Lot: 29 ALL that certain plot, piece, or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough and County of Queens, City and State of New York, bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at a point on the easterly side of 225th Street (formerly Cortland Boulevard) distant 301.53 feet southerly from the corner formed by the intersection of the easterly side of 225th Street and the southerly side of Merrick Boulevard, as said street and boulevard are shown upon a certain map entitled, “Laurelton, Borough of Queens, City of New York, Property of Laurelton Land Co., 50 Church Street, New York City, William H. Reynolds, President, Francis P. Murphy C.S.” and filed as map #987 on 7/12/1910; RUNNING THENCE easterly at right angles to the easterly side of 225th Street, 100 feet; THENCE southerly parallel with the easterly side of 225th Street, 25 feet; THENCE westerly again at right angles to the easterly side of 225th Street, 100 feet to the easterly side of 225th Street; THENCE northerly along the said east-erly side of 225th Street, 25 feet to the point or place of BEGINNING. These premises are also known as 134-31 225th Street, Laurelton NY, 11413. Victoria E. Munian, Esq. Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 700 Crossroads Building 2 State Street Rochester, New York 14614


National Miniority Health Month


It is not always an easy feat to wIt is not always an easy feat to walk into a doctor’s office expecting to receive affordable health care, especially as a minority.

Roger Milliner, deputy executive director of marketing for MetroPlus Health Plan, said they have been working hard to provide great ac-cess to healthcare to minorities living across the City.

For minorities, the Affordable Care Act is an opportunity to provide access to healthcare for minorities living in low income neighborhoods across the four Boroughs, excluding Staten Island, Milliner said.

“By people signing up to get health insurance, we are opening up an avenue for them to access pro-viders and specialists that they may have not had access to in the past,” he said.

MetroPlus Health Plan offers low to no-cost health insurance to eligible people living in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx. It has partnered with the City’s Health and Hospitals Corporation to provide primary and preventive care.

Of the one million that already signed up for health insurance through the New York State Mar-ketplace, Milliner said 70 percent of

New Laws Improve Minority Healthcare

them did not have insurance coming into the exchange.

“This shows a lot of people were not insured, which causes people to go to the doctor less because they did not have the means to pay for it,” he said.

In years past, Milliner said many undocumented immigrants have been reluctant to visit a doctor, but have no choice to go to the emer-gency room, where they would be limited to providers and proper healthcare.

Through the ACA, all policies now require patients to receive 10 es-sential health benefits, Milliner said, that gives everyone access and a peace of mind when it comes to their health.

By enrolling for a health policy with the ACA, Milliner said every pa-tient receives benefits that were not provided in the past, including ambu-latory patient services, emergency services, hospitalization, mater-nity and newborn born care, mental health and substance use disorder services, prescription drugs, rehabil-

itative and habilitative services and devices, laboratory services, preven-tive and wellness services for chronic disease management and pediatric services.

Milliner said the new healthcare laws allow people to stay on the same health insurance for longer, thus preventing people from falling ill.

As for the many misunderstand-ings that arose with the implementa-tion of the ACA, Milliner said more and more people understand the healthcare law better, especially mi-norities.

“If you look at last year compared to more recent months, a lot more minorities have become knowledge-able about the nuances about the enrollment process because when you have almost a million people enrolled, they are talking to other people who have it,” he said.

As the enrollment period to sign up for the Affordable Care Act end-ed on March 31, Milliner said it is vital for those who did not sign up yet, to try and sign up during the extended period through April 15. Milliner said those looking to ap-ply during the extended period must attest to the New York State Marketplace that they tried to ap-ply for health insurance, but were not able to enroll through no fault of their own. Another way to apply for health insurance past the dead-line is to qualify for a life-changing event, Milliner said.

For more information about the Marketplace or MetroPlus Health Plan, call their customer service line from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. seven days a week at 1 (800) 475-6387.


By jOE MarViLLiStaff Writer

A Queens councilman is work-ing with two of his colleagues to in-crease efforts to identify and prevent the spread of Hepatitis in New York City.

Councilmembers Peter Koo (D-Flushing), Margaret Chin (D-Manhattan) and Corey Johnson (D-Manhattan) introduced legislation towards the end of March that would require the Dept. of Health and Men-tal Hygiene to issue an annual report on its work to recognize and stop Hepatitis B and C.

According to the Center for Dis-ease Control, Hepatitis B affects one in 12 Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. While 1.2 million Ameri-cans are infected with the disease, it disproportionally affects those two ethnicities. The medical condition affects less than five percent of the U.S. population in total. However, 50 percent of those who do suffer from the illness are Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

The CDC added that since many people live with the disease without having symptoms, as many as two out of three Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders live with the virus without knowing they have it.

Koo, who is a pharmacist by trade, said that the bill would help com-munity-based organizations, health professionals and government part-ners to combat new infections and to make sure that the proper care is available for those affected by the medical condition.

If passed, Koo’s legislation would require an annual report to be sub-mitted to both the City Council and the Mayor. The report would include

infection rates, identified causes of new incidents, demographic data, the number of deaths and liver can-cers, the number of vaccinations completed for the disease, funding for the previous fiscal year allotted for Hepatitis B and C programs and more.

“It’s a very dangerous disease if you don’t take care of it and it can be transferred to other people,” Koo said, adding that Hepatitis can be just as serious as cancer or AIDS.

There are several barriers to Hepatitis B screenings in the Unit-ed States for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, according to the CDC. Besides the language bar-rier, there is a lack of knowledge and awareness of the disease and its dangers. Many immigrants who do know about the illness may have cultural beliefs that attach a stigma to a positive Hepatitis B diagnosis. A lack of health insurance also con-tributes to a low testing rate for this community.

Koo said he has been working on Hepatitis outreach and awareness in his district since before he was elected to office.

“Two or three times a year, our office sponsors seminars with local Hepatitis doctors,” he said. “So peo-ple are not afraid of it. It is a treat-able disease.”

The councilman added that peo-ple who are unusually tired or suffer from jaundice should get tested for Hepatitis as soon as possible. He added that whenever your blood is drawn for a check-up, you can ask to be tested for Hepatitis at no ad-ditional cost.


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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS Index No. 22497/2011 SUP-PLEMENTAL SUMMONS WITH NOTICE U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, BUT SOLELY AS LEGAL TITLE TRUSTEE FOR LVS TITLE TRUST I, Plaintiff, -against FATIMA CORCINO A/K/A FATIMA L. CORCINO, if she be living and if she be dead, the respective heirs-at-law, next-of-kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors and successors in interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said defendant who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or inheritance, lien or otherwise any right, title or interest in or to the real property described in the complaint, HERNAN MEDINA A/K/A HERNAN A. MEDINA, BEN-JAMIN BEECHWOOD LLC, BOARD OF MANAGERS OF HARBOUR POINTE AT ARVERNE BY THE SEA HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIA-TION II, INC., CITY OF NEW YORK, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING PRESERVATION & DEVELOPMENT, BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., CROSSBAY IMAGING, NEW YORK CITY PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU, NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CON-TROL BOARD AND NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT ADJU-DICATION BUREAU , NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FI-NANCE, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA-INTERNAL REV-ENUE SERVICE and STEVE DESLANDES, Defendants. To the above named defen-dants: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the amended complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the amended complaint is not served with this supple-mental summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the plaintiff’s attorneys within 20 days after the service of this supplemental summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); 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. Premies lying and beig in the Borough Of Queens. BEGINNING at a point on the easterly side of beach breeze place, 191.44 feet northerly from the corner formed by the intersection of the easterly side of Beach Breeze Place with the northerly side of Aquatic Drive; being a plot 93.17 feet by 93.17 feet by

22.92 feet. 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 ATTOR-NEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. The foregoing supplemental sum-mons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Honorable Bernice D. Siegel, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Queens County, dated the 19th day of July, 2013 and duly entered in the office of the Clerk of the County of Queens, State of New York. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT This is an action to foreclose a mort-gage lien on the premises de-scribed herein. The object of the above captioned action is to foreclose a First Mortgage to secure $268,750.00 and in-terest, recorded in the Office of the City Register of Queens County on February 7, 2005 in CRFN 2005000075832, which mortgage was as-signed to CitiMortgage, Inc. by assignment of mortgage dated June 1, 2006 which was recorded in the Office of the City Register of Queens County on June 19, 2006 in CRFN 2006000346295; and a Second Mortgage to secure $179,750.00 and interest, recorded in the Office of the City Register of Queens County on June 19, 2006 in CRFN 2006000346291; which mortgages were con-solidated by Consolidation, Extension and Modifica-tion Agreement recorded in the Office of the City Register of Queens County on June 19, 2006 in CRFN 2006000346292, consolidat-ing the First Mortgage and the Second Mortgage to form a single lien in the amount of $448,500.00 (the “Consolidated Mortgage”), which mortgage was fur-ther assigned to U.S. Bank National Association Not In Its Individual Capacity, But Solely As Legal Title Trustee For LVS Title Trust I, by as-signment of mortgage dated May 4, 2012, which was recorded in the Office of the City Register of Queens

County on June 5, 2012 in CRFN 2012000219691, covering premises known as 248 BEACH BREEZE PLACE , ARVERNE , COUNTY OF QUEENS, CITY AND STATE OF NEW YORK (Block 16089, Lot 16 ). The relief sought in the within ac-tion is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above. The Plaintiff also seeks a deficiency judgment against the Defendants, HERNAN MEDINA A/K/A HERNAN A. MEDINA AND FATIMA CORCINO A/K/A FATIMA L. CORCINO, for any debt secured by said Mortgage which is not satisfied by the proceeds of the sale of said premises, unless discharged in bankruptcy. Block 16089, Lot 16 Dated: Rego Park, New York _______________, 2014 SWEENEY, GALLO, REICH & BOLZ, LLP. By: Rose-marie A. Klie, Esq. Attorneys for Plaintiff, 95-25 Queens Boulevard, 11th Floor, Rego Park, New York 11374 (718) 459-9000________________________SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS In-dex No. 16769/2013 Date Summons Filed: Sept.5, 2013 Plaintiff designates the Queens County as the place of trial. The basis of venue is CPLR §503 Plaintiff resides at 47-31 Union Street, 1st Fl, Flushing, NY 11355 SUMMONS WITH NOTICE ZHONG GAO, Plaintiff, -against- HUIFANG CHEN, Defendant. ACTION FOR A DIVORCE To the above named Defendant: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer on Plaintiff’s Attorneys 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 of New York, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. Dated: September 05, 2013 Flushing, New York NOTICE: The nature of this action is to dissolve the mar-riage between the parties, on the grounds: DRL §170 subd. (2) abandonment. A copy of the Notice of Automatic Orders (D.R.L.236) and the group health insurance plan under D.R.L§ 255 is attached. The automatic orders shall remain in full force and effect during the pendency of the action. The relief sought is a judgment of absolute divorce in favor of the Plaintiff dissolv-ing the marriage between the parties in this action. Automatic Orders and DRL

§ 255 The automatic orders shall remain in full force and effect during the pendency of the action, unless terminated, modified or amended by fur-ther order of the court upon motion of either of the parties or upon written agreement between the parties duly executed and acknowledged. The automatic orders are as follows: (1) Neither party shall sell, transfer, encumber, conceal, assign, remove or in any way dispose of, without the consent of the other party in writing, or by order of the court, any property (includ-ing, but not limited to, real estate, personal property, cash accounts, stocks, mutual funds, bank accounts, cars and boats) individually or jointly held by the parties, except in the usual course of business, for customary and usual household expenses or for reasonable attorney’s fees in connection with this action. (2) Neither party shall transfer, encumber, assign, remove, withdraw or in any way dispose of any tax de-ferred funds, stocks or other assets held in any individual retirement accounts, 401K accounts, profit sharing plans, Keogh accounts, or any other pension or retirement ac-count, and the parties shall further refrain from applying for or requesting the pay-ment of retirement benefits or annuity payments of any kind, without the consent of the other party in writing, or upon further order of the court; except that any party who is already in pay status may continue to receive such payments thereun-der. (3) Neither party shall incur unreasonable debts hereafter, including, but not limited to further borrowing against any credit line secured by the family residence, further encumbrancing any assets, or unreasonably using credit cards or cash advances against credit cards, except in the usual course of business or for customary or usual household expenses, or for reasonable attorney’s fees in connection with this ac-tion. (4) Neither party shall cause the other party or the children of the marriage to be removed from any existing medical, hospital and dental insurance coverage, and each party shall maintain the existing medical, hospital and dental insurance coverage in full force and effect. (5) Nei-ther party shall change the beneficiaries of any existing life insurance policies, and each party shall maintain the existing life insurance, automobile insurance, hom-eowners and renters insur-ance policies in full force and effect. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT pursuant to DRL § 255. Prerequisites for judgments under articles nine, ten and eleven of this chapter; health

care coverage, that once the judgment is signed, a party thereto may or may not be eligible to be covered under the other party’s health insur-ance plan, depending on the terms of the plan. Provided, however, service upon the defendant, simultaneous with the service of the summons, of a notice indicating that once the judgment is signed, a party thereto may or may not be eligible to be covered under the other party’s health insurance plan, depending on the terms of the plan, shall be deemed sufficient notice to a defaulting defendant.________________________File No.: 2012-1421/C CI-TATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK BY THE GRACE OF GOD, FREE AND INDEPENDENT To: Regina Strauss, Regina Good, Margaret Schiller, Peter Laizik, TEM Manage-ment Corp., Attorney General of the State of New York The unknown distributees, legatees, devisees, heirs at law and assignees of INGE-BORG FALKEN, deceased, or their estates, if any there be, whose names, places of residence and post office ad-dresses are unknown to the petitioner and cannot with due diligence be ascertained. Being the persons interested as creditors, legatees, distribu-tees or otherwise in the Estate of INGEBORG FALKEN, deceased, who at the time of death was a resident of 81-45 Lefferts Boulevard, Kew Gardens, NY , in the County of Queens, State of New York. SEND GREETING: Upon the petition of LOIS M. ROSEN-BLATT, Public Administrator of Queens County, who maintains her office at 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, Queens County, New York 11435, as Administrator of the Estate of INGEBORG FALKEN, deceased, you and each of you are hereby cited to show cause before the Surrogate at the Surrogate’s Court of the County of Queens, to be held at the Queens General Courthouse, 6th Floor, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, City and State of New York, on the 15th day of May, 2014 at 9:30 o’clock in the forenoon, why the Account of Proceedings of the Public Administra-tor of Queens County, as Administrator of the Estate of said deceased, a copy of which is attached, should not be judicially settled, and why the Surrogate should not fix and allow a reasonable amount of compensation to GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ., for legal services rendered to petitioner herein in the amount of $48,253.42 and that the Court fix the fair and reasonable additional fee for any services to be rendered by GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ., hereafter in connec-

tion with proceedings on kinship, claims etc., prior to entry of a final Decree on this accounting in the amount of5.5% of assets or income collected after the date of the within accounting; and why the Surrogate should not fix and allow an amount equal to one percent on said Schedules of the total assets on Schedules A, A1, and A2 plus any additional monies received subsequent to the date of this account, as the fair and reasonable amount payable to the Office of the Public Administrator for the expenses of said office pur-suant to S.C.P.A. §1106(4); and why the claim from TEM Management Corp. in the amount of $25,000.00 should not be rejected; and why each of you claiming to be a distributee of the decedent should not establish proof of your kinship; and why the balance of said funds should not be paid to said alleged distributees upon proof of kinship, or deposited with the Commissioner of Finance of the City of New York should said alleged distributees de-fault herein, or fail to establish proof of kinship, Dated, At-tested and Sealed 21st day of March, 2014 HON. PETER J. KELLY Surrogate, Queens County Margaret M. Grib-bon Clerk of the Surrogate’s Court GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ. (718) 459-9000 95-25 Queens Boulevard 11th Floor Rego Park, New York 11374 This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not obliged to appear in person. If you fail to appear it will be assumed that you do not object to the relief requested unless you file for-mal legal, verified objections. You have a right to have an attorney-at-law appear for you. Accounting Citation________________________Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on JUL 03 2013 bearing Index Number NC-000527-13/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) Genesis (Middle) Gregory (Last) Dowd My present name is (First) Gen-esis (Middle) Gregory (Last) Agustin aka Genesis Villar-ruz Agustin, aka Genesis G Agustin, aka Genesis Agustin My present address is 92-14 Silver Rd., Ozone Park, NY 11417 My place of birth is Saudi Arabia My date of birth is October 15, 1988


BY NATALIA KOZIKOWSKAStaff Writer

As part of its mission to provide health services to communities in need, EmblemHealth, the largest New York-based health insurer, has been offering locals a variety of health workshops at their health guidance center in Cambria Heights.

“We say we’re bringing care back to healthcare,” said Dan Shur, direc-tor of strategic planning and admin-istration at EmblemHealth. “In care, we’ve actually brought in the whole technician of it – it’s not just about the provisioning of healthcare but its concerns, considerations, respect. It’s about being very effective and taking care of people’s needs.”

From low-impact Zumba to yoga, to workshops about managing your blood pressure and managing dia-betes, EmblemHealth Neighborhood Care is committed in its goal to be more than just an insurance provid-er.

“We are very, very proud of what we are doing in Neighborhood Care because what we’re doing is taking away the obstacles that keep our community from taking care of their health,” Patricia McDonald, commu-nity liaison for Neighborhood Care said in an earlier interview with the Tribune. “We’re providing communi-ty resources when someone comes in [and] we are developing partner-

ships with our community, which is our community integration.”

The Cambria Heights Neighbor-hood Care Center also gives resi-dents a chance to meet with experts who listen to their health challenges. Their qualified team of experts is comprised of healthcare solution specialists, community liaisons, a registered nurse, a pharmacist and a behavioral health specialist.

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In addition to its health workshops and health guidance services, the 2,800-square-foot Cambria Heights facility has a wide variety of special activities that are available for free. Visitors have access to a health and wellness library, education classes and seminars, an Xbox Kinect fitness station, an iPad station and a “neigh-borhood room,” where residents can mingle and interact with one another.

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EmblemHealth Neighborhood Care is located at 206-20 Linden Blvd., and is open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Saturday. You must RSVP for classes before at-tending. For more information about the classes available or to RSVP, call (866) 539-0999.


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By Luis GrondaStaff Writer

Although asthma affects thou-sands of people each year, there is one demographic in particular that the sickness is more prevalent.

The asthma rate among His-panics is higher than other ethnici-ties. According to the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services’ Office of Minority Health, 3,600,000 His-panics reported to have asthma in 2011. The same office also said that Hispanics are 30 percent more likely to visit the hospital for asthma com-pared to non-Hispanic whites.

According to Dr. Patrisha Woolard-Pickens, the director of the Pediatric Department and the head of the Asthma Navigation program at Wyckoff Hospital, said the primary reason for the higher rates among Hispanics is the be-cause of the low social economic status that many of them are in.

She said the poor condition that they most likely live in is the primary reason for getting the dis-ease at a higher rate. Their living conditions, including mice, rats and roaches, attract disease and sick-ness.

“It’s probably not the race, it’s the conditions that they are living in,” she said.

When they do get sick, Woolard-Pickens said, they are unable to visit the doctor as frequently or as fast to get a diagnosis on the sickness and to help cure it.

By naTaLia KoZiKoWsKaStaff Writer

Last week, students and teachers at Hillcrest High School were tested for tuberculosis after one student contracted the potentially fatal bac-teria.

According to a statement issued by the Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene, as a safety precaution, on March 25, the City agency tested 170 students and six staffers who may have been exposed.

The infected student is reportedly doing well and is currently being treated.

TB is spread through the air when people who have an active infection cough, sneeze or otherwise transmit respiratory fluids through the air.

Most infections do not have symp-toms. About one in 10 latent infec-tions progress to an active disease

Asthma Rates High Among HispanicsAnother reason for the increased

cases, according to the doctor, is that asthma tends to run in families and can be passed down to their offspring. There are even more reasons for the higher rate that the medical field does not understand yet but is continuing to study, Wool-ard-Pickens said.

Asthma is the narrowing or blocking of the airways to the lung. People who have the disease often have trouble breathing, experience wheezing and have shortness of breath.

According to a fact sheet about asthma among Latinos created by the Environmental Protection Agen-cy, asthma is the leading chronic

disease affecting children in the United States.

Asthma rates have increased over the years, including among children. It has increased 160 percent among four-year-olds and 74 percent among chil-dren aged between 5 and 14.

A new program that Wyckoff has

started this week is the asthma navi-gation program.

The program allows medical per-sonnel from the hospital to focus more attention on people who have asthma. They do this by visiting the patient at home, along with a social worker, to see how they are doing in their recovery. The purpose of the social worker, the doctor said, is to analyze the person’s living condi-tions and see how that can be im-

which, if left untreated, kills more than 50 percent of those infected.

Although TB is an airborne infec-tion, the DOHMH does not feel that students and staffers at Hillcrest are currently at risk.

“Given that the person with TB is receiving treatment, there is no health risk to students or staff cur-rently at the school,” the statement read.

“DOHMH routinely conducts in-vestigations into infectious TB cases at schools, worksites, etc. During these investigations, we test ex-posed persons, so that we can treat and prevent future cases of TB,” the release went on to say. “With proper care and treatment, TB can be pre-vented and cured.”


Hillcrest Students Tested For TB

proved to help the patient’s health related to their asthma and overall.

There will also be facilities at the hospital that are specifically dedicat-ed to patients with asthma, Woolard-Pickens said.

Patients who enroll in the program will also keep two types of diaries: a paper diary and an electronic diary. The paper diary, she said, will pri-marily be for tracking when they feel any symptoms and the electronic di-ary is for keeping track of what medi-cines they have taken.

“it’s probably not the race, it’s the conditions that they are living in.”

- Dr. Patrisha Woolard-Pickens,

head of the Asthma Navigation program at

Wyckoff Hospital

The program is funded through a grant provided by the State Dept. of Health. It is a three-year grant, pay-ing $1.3 million each year.

Woolard-Pickens said the hope after the three years is that the hospital can continue running the program after the grant expires but it is possible that they could apply for another grant if that is not the case.


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this season will be how much the Mets will miss their best pitcher, Matt Harvey. Their stud hurler needed Tommy John surgery in the offseason and is expected to miss the entire 2014 season. Harvey has been discussing a possible return back from the injury in September, but pitchers who undergo that surgery generally need an entire season to recover and rehab their arm.

To supplement the starting rotation, the Mets signed 40-year-old pitcher Bartolo Colon to a two-year, $20 million deal. Colon had a surprisingly dominant season last year in Oakland, finishing with an 18-6 record, 2.65 earned run average and 1.17 walks and hits per inning.

Although it remains to be seen whether or not Colon can repeat last

year’s numbers, he will look to help replace Harvey’s production and further boost a rotation that also has some problems going into the season. Jonathon Niese, who was slated to start opening day for the Mets, will start the year on the disabled list with inflammation in his elbow.

While the majority of the rotation for the team is set as they open their season against the Nationals, there are still other questions at key positions.

Before spring training began, there was uncertainty about who would play shortstop and first base. Both Ruben Tejada and Ike Davis, the starters at those positions for the majority of the season, struggled last year and were demoted to Triple-A.

There was an open competition

Photos by Bruce Adler

Mets Look To Improve As 2014 Season Begins

for both positions as the spring got started, but the incumbents seemingly have retained their positions for now. Mets manager Terry Collins suggested that there would be a rotation at first base, with Duda and Josh Satin sharing duties with Davis.

As for shortstop, Tejada has the job, but it remains to be seen how long his leash is. Omar Quintanilla and Wilmer Flores were his main competition, although Flores has been sent to Triple-A to start the year and Quintanilla is considered a back-up utility player. Many have called for the Mets to sign free agent shortstop Stephen Drew, though the former Red Sox infielder remains unsigned to start the season.

In a back and forth game between the Mets and the Nationals, the Mets lost opening day 9-7 in 10 innings.

The Mets got off to a promising start, taking a 4-2 lead after two innings, including a three-run home run by Andrew Brown, who was playing left field and hitting fifth instead of the injured Young.

The Nationals tied it up in the 7th when Dillon Gee and the Mets bullpen were unable to hold on to their two-run lead.

After an Anthony Rendon RBI double made it 4-3 Mets, Collins pulled Gee from the game and brought in Carlos Torres to face Nate McLouth. Torres walked McLouth to load the bases and then Collins brought in lefty reliever Scott Rice to face Denard Span. Another walk by Rice forced in the tying run.

With the game tied at five in the 10th inning, the Mets bullpen further imploded. First, an Ian Desmond sacrifice fly put the Nats ahead 6 to 5, then Rendon was clutch for Washington again, hitting a three-run homer to make it 9 to 5. The Mets scored two runs in the bottom of the inning, but their comeback bid proved unsuccessful.

Following the game, the Mets announced that closer Bobby Parnell has a partially torn ligament in his elbow and would be going on the disabled list. The team announced that Parnell is out indefinitely and may

need surgery. Jose Valverde will serve as the team’s closer while Parnell is out.

The preseason over/under for the Mets is 74.5 wins. While that is about the same number of wins they had last year, General Manager Sandy Alderson has been quoted in saying he thinks the team can win 90 games this year.

Although it is hard to see the team reaching Alderson’s goal, they should be able to exceed last year’s record, providing everybody stays healthy. The future looks bright for the Mets, especially with Harvey’s expected return next season.


By LUIS GRONDA Staff Writer

Dillon Gee (left) and Bobby Parnell pitched in the Mets 9-7 opening day loss to the Washington Nationals.

After finishing last season with a 74-88 record and missing the playoffs for the seventh

consecutive season, the New York Mets are looking to take a step forward this year and give their fans some excitement later on in the season.

The team made some changes during the winter and spent some money to improve the ball club, something that was not seen in the past few years due to financial troubles.

Their first order of business was to improve the outfield, which many considered among the worst in the league. They signed former Yankees outfielder Curtis Granderson to a four-year, $60 million contract, the most they spent on a new player this winter.

Although Granderson was hurt for much of his last season with the Yankees, only playing 61 games in 2013 due to being hit in the hand twice by a pitch, the 33-year-old brings much needed speed, power and credibility to the outfield trio.

They also signed Chris Young to a one-year deal worth $7.25 million. He batted .200 with 12 home runs and 10 stolen bases in 335 at-bats last season with the Oakland Athletics. Although he could have one of the other outfield spots as the year starts, he is also competing with Juan Lagares, Eric Young Jr. and Lucas Duda to roam the outfield. Young missed opening day against the Washington Nationals with a right quad injury.

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Queens Borough President Melinda Katz presented a Proclamation to Eileen Sullivan (seated), executive assistant District Attorney for Queens DA Richard Brown, during a ceremony in the Borough President’s office on Friday. Sullivan continues to serve under Judge Brown and is responsible for developing and implementing the office’s comprehensive initiatives to combat domestic violence.

Honoring Women of Queens

Proclamation For Dedication

In observance of Colon Cancer Awareness Month, Dr. Robert Brunner held a free seminar on care and early detection at the Peter Striano Senior Center in Howard Beach on March 25. Pictured (from left) are Lisa Alejandro, case manager at the center; Brunner, administrative assistant Rosalie Hawk and Margaret Petruzzo, Brunner’s office manager. Photo by TJ Eisenhauer.

The Latin American Cultural Center of Queens held its 28th annual celebration of Women’s History Month on March 30 in Jackson Heights, honoring women of Latin descent. Above, recipients of the Jo-vita Idar Award (from left) include: Roslyn Nieves, community development director at Queens Pub-lic Television; U.S. Rep. Grace Meng, youth leader Alsa Alvarado and Fanny Guadalupe, of Sisa Pakari Andean Folklore. They are pictured with LACCQ president Nayibe Nunez-Berger and LACCQ found-er Aida Gonzalez-Jarrin. At left, Nunez-Berger also presented Assemblywoman Nily Rozic with the Jo-vita Idar Award. Photos by Steven J. Ferrari.

Seminar On Early Detection

After throwing out the first pitch at Monday’s New York Mets home opener, Mayor Bill de Blasio (center) sat in the stands to watch the game. Also in attendance at the game were Tribune publisher Michael Nussbaum (left) and his son, Eric.

Meeting Up On Opening Day

First Meeting

During a presentation to com-memorate the Borough’s first arts district in Astoria, Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer tries on a ring-master jacket from the wardrobe department at Kaufman Astoria Studios. For more on the new arts district, see the story on page 26. Photo by Walter Karling.

Councilman Paul Vallone held his first roundtable meeting with community and business leaders from the Korean-American community last week.

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On Friday, western Queens officials and community members gathered outside of Kaufman Astoria Studios to announce the Borough’s newest desig-nation as an arts district.

In addition to the 94-year-old film studio that recently expanded as the sole outdoor lot for productions in the City, the arts district also includes the only museum dedicated to the art and history of television, film and digital media; and a nonprofit organization that supports and develops artists and art organizations.

The Kaufman Arts District, which will run from Steinway Street to 31st Street and from 34th Avenue to 37th Avenue, is comprised of Kaufman Astoria Studios, the Museum of Mov-ing Image and the Queens Council on the Arts.

The mission of the arts district is to advance and promote the area as a world-class vibrant cultural destination and a home for creative industries.

Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-

Sunnyside) presented the proclamation on behalf of the City to the founding partners and elected officials.

“This corner of Queens has quickly become a vibrant community of cul-tural venues and arts organizations that have attracted some of our generation’s greatest artists,” he said. “Today we solidify the Kaufman Arts District as one of New York City’s premiere desti-nations for arts and culture.”

U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Asto-ria) said together, the founding partners will work collaboratively to attract more art-related projects, organizations and professionals to this community.

“I am thrilled by the creation of the Kaufman Arts District, which recog-nizes the importance of arts in Western Queens,” she said.

State Sen. Michael Gianaris (D-Astoria) reminisced about how desolate this 24-block zone once was, but now, he said “western Queens has blos-somed side by side into a Citywide landmark.”


Queens Proclaimed As An Arts District

By jOE MarViLLiStaff Writer

The Queens Botanical Garden will kick off both its opening weekend and the World’s Fair Anniversary season with a special flower exhibit.

“Taiwan: A World of Orchids” will be presented in partnership with the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office. Starting on April 5, the display will feature an array of orchids available to view from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. This exhibit will be enhanced with activities and performances, along with a plant and orchid sale on April 6.

According to the botanical garden, Taiwan’s subtropical climate makes it the ideal location for growing orchids. It is the foremost center for research and development of the orchid industry, as well as its largest exporter.

Besides taking time to stop and smell more than 250 orchids, the Queens Botanical Garden will include many activities, ceremonies and more that should keep attendees entertained all day. Botanical craft workshops for chil-dren will be offered from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. There will be a traditional Chinese tea ceremony accompanied by a musical performance on the guqin, a Chinese seven-stringed zither. That ceremony will run from 1:45 to 2:30 p.m.

The “Techno Prince” Dancing Doll,

a contemporary version of an ancient Taoist deity who dances to electronic music, will also make an appearance. If you want to see this phenomenon first-hand, he will be on-hand between 12:45 p.m. to 12:55 p.m. on the Terrace roof.

Susan Lacerte, the botanical garden’s executive director, said that the exhibit was chosen to kick off the anniversary festivities due to Taiwan’s historic role in the World’s Fair half a century ago.

“The first international entity to break ground for the 1964 World’s Fair was Taiwan,” Lacerte said during the World’s Fair Anniversary kick-off press conference at the Queens Museum.

On April 6, the Opening Week-end celebrations will continue with children’s activities from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., an all-day plant and orchid sale and special appearances by Flora, the garden’s mascot.

“The orchid event and the whole World’s Fair season will truly be fun and memorable,” Ambassador Paul Wen-liang Chang, from the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York, said.

Queens Botanical Garden is located at 43-50 Main St., Flushing. For more information, call (718) 886-3800 or visit www.queensbotanical.org.


Botanical Garden Holds Orchid Exhibit

Lynn Lobell, Queens Council of the Arts (left), Assemblywoman Margaret Markey, Kaufman Astoria Studios president Hal Rosen-bluth, Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, State Sen. Michael Gianaris and Carl Goodman, from the Museum of Moving Image, hold the proclamation for the Kaufman Arts District.

Rob Torres, an award-winning clown in the new Big Apple Circus show, has performed around the world without using words, sharing with every audience the universal language of laughter. Among his many achievements, the native New Yorker performed a one-man show in seven countries, toured with another circus to 121 American cities and created shows for Walt Disney World resorts in Orlando, Fla.

Torres will come back to perform in New York during the Big Apple Circus’ tour in Cunningham Park in May.

“In Cunningham Park, the arena is really perfect,” he said. “It allows the audience to see the acts as closely as they would street performers, com-bined with the comfort of seats.”

A graduate of a now-shuttered clown college in Florida, he also stud-ied clowning in Mexico and Europe, and performed in a celebration for the 20th anniversary of the popular children’s show, “Sesame Street.” Using silly expressions, playful antics and zany interactions with both kids and adults in the audience, Torres creates cascades of laughter wherever he goes, playing an everyman character with the joy of Jerry Lewis and the hilarity of Harpo Marx.

“I get inspiration for my character’s

actions from life’s daily dilemmas,” he said.

The performances in the new show “Luminocity,” are centered around ac-tivities in Manhattan’s Times Square. The acts include Ty Tojo, a teenage juggler from Japan; Jenny Vidbel, an American woman who works with ponies; the amazing Dosov Troupe from Russia, that works with a tee-terboard, and the Russian Acro-Duo; Duo Guerrero (Werner Guerrero and Aura Cardinali), fantastic high-wire performers from Portugal; Canadian acrobat Daniel Cyr; and Pierre Ginet from France, whose clever act is full of surprises.

The Big Apple Circus will perform at Cunningham Park, located at 196-22 Union Turnpike in Fresh Meadows, just west of Francis Lewis Boulevard, from May 18 to June 15. The show is two hours long with a 15 minute intermission and takes place in an air-conditioned tent. For tickets, go to www.bigapplecircus.org or call (888) 541-3750.

For more information, call the Ticket Information line at (800) 922-3772.

-Barbara arnstein

Clowning Around With Big Apple Circus

Rob Torres

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FROZENThe New York Hall of Sci-ence will air the Disney movie “Frozen” in 3D on April 4, 5 and 6. Join Anna as she sets off on an epic journey, teaming up with rugged mountain man Kristoff and his loyal rein-deer Sven, to fi nd her sister Elsa, whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom of Arendelle in eternal winter. Tickets are $9 for adults and $6 for children, seniors and students. Call (718) 699-0005 for the screening times.

“THE GEMINI KILLER”Theatre Time Produc-tions will hold a stag-ing of a new play, “The Gemini Killer.” Written and directed by Tom Wil-liams, this mystery thriller will be held at the Colonial Church of Bayside, located at 54-02 217th St. It will start at 8 p.m. and repeat on April 5 at 8 p.m. and April 6 at 3 p.m. Tickets are $16 for general admission and $14 for seniors and children. Call (347) 358-8102 or visit www.theatretime.org for tickets.

RUTH WILSON GILMOREProfessor Ruth Wil-son Gilmore, author of

“Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Op-position in Globalizing California,” will take part in an interactive conversa-tion and walkthrough of a Queens Museum exhibi-tion. She will be part of a museum survey on “Do you want the cosmetic version or do you want the real deal? Los Angeles Poverty Department, 1985-2014.” Accompanied by Larissa Harris, the event will run from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Call (718) 592-9700 for more information.

TAIWAN: A WORLD OF ORCHIDSThe Queens Botanical Garden will display a se-ries of stunning orchids, along with children’s crafts. There will be a Techno Prince Dancing Doll performance at 12:45 p.m., a garden tour at 1 p.m., a tea ceremony at 1:45 p.m. and a live musical performance at 1:45 p.m. There will also be samples of Taiwanese treats on hand. The day will last from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Queens Botanical Garden is located at 43-50 Main St., Flushing.

ONE NIGHT IN FROGTOWNFlushing Town Hall will present “One Night In Frogtown,” a multimedia musical based Philip Pelletier’s story. This acclaimed diversity story will come to life through projected animations, a live story reading and live music performances. Copies of the book are available in the gift shop and Pelletier will sign books after the show. The show starts at 2:15 p.m. Tickets are $12 for general admission, $10 for members and $8 for children. Call (718) 463-7700 for more information.

NEW LEGEND BOXING World-Ranked Juan Dominguez will take on German Meraz to headline a boxing event at Resorts World New York City Casino. Doors open at 6 p.m. with the fi rst bell at 7 p.m. Co-featured matches include Rafael Vazquez in action, and an eight-round bout between undefeated middleweight Frank Galarza and Franklin Gonzalez. Tickets are available at www.newlegendboxing.com.

RIDGEWOOD MARKETGottscheer Hall in Ridgewood will host the Ridgewood Market from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. It is the one year anniversary of the market. There will be more than 40 independent and local artisan vendors at the market. There will also be food, pastries and alcohol. The event is considered kid friendly and date friendly. Gottscheer Hall is located at 657 Fairview Ave. in Ridge-wood.

BALLROOM DANCEJing Chen studied ballroom dance at the school founded by internationally acclaimed dancers Mr. and Mrs. Lu Ming Da. Mr. Chen is a skilled instructor who will give lessons in ball-room basics for beginners and offer training for more advanced students. The dance class will run from 6:30 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. at the Forest Hills Library. The library is located at 108-19 71st Ave.

WORLD’S FAIR TALK The Greater Astoria Histori-cal Society will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1964/1965 New York World’s Fair with a lecture, part of the Long Island City Forum Lecture Series at 7 p.m. at the GAHS gallery, 35-20 Broadway, Long Island City. The fair is best remembered as a showcase of mid-20th-century American cul-ture and technology. The nascent Space Age, with its vista of promise, was well

represented. It remains a touchstone for New York–area Baby Boomers, who visited the optimistic fair as children before the turbu-lent years of the Vietnam War, cultural changes and increasing struggles for civil rights. Images used in the program were never seen by the public. Fee: Free for GAHS members. $5 for the public.

DEREK WALCOTTNobel Prize-winning au-thor Derek Walcott will appear at Queens College as part of its evening read-ings series. He is the author of the volumes of poetry “Omeros,” “The Bounty” and “White Edrets.” Walcott will be interviewed Leonard Lopate in the music build-ing. The event costs $20 and starts at 7 p.m.

BEATLES TRIBUTEA Beatles Tribute band, Beatlemania, will per-form at Resorts World Casino on April 9. They will perform classic songs such as “Come Together,” “Back in the U.S.S.R” and “Black-bird.” The show will begin

at 8 p.m. Resorts World is located at 110-00 Rockaway Blvd in South Ozone Park.

A WINE & CHEESE TASTING EVENT Join us for an evening of cheese and wine as our Maî-tre Fromager, Max Mc-Calman, introduc-es you to the basics of cheese and wine pairing. Along the way you will learn the differences between milk types, their range of aromas, fl avors and textures, and also how to shop, care for and present fi ne cheese. Engage your mind and your palate as you enjoy seven carefully selected cheeses paired with four delicious wines over the course of this two-hour evening of bliss! Come join in for only $70. Register two or more and get $10 off each! For information, visit www.artisanalcheese.com.

DEVIL SCIENCE THEATERThe Laughing Devil Com-edy Club in Long Island City will host an evening of cult fi lms, alcohol and comedians. Finally, a time when people are encour-aged to talk at a theater and heckle at a comedy club. Show begins at 10:30 p.m. Admission is $6.

THE MANHATTAN TRANSFERThe Manhattan Transfer, a

Grammy-winning jazz fusion vocal group, will perform at Queensborough Community College at 3 p.m. With 10 Grammy awards to their name, the group is the most popular jazz vocal group of the 20th century.

Tickets are $40. To attend, visit qcc.cuny.edu/qpac/boxOffi ce.asp or call (718) 631-6311.

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Air Force Airman 1st Class Wash-ington X. Morales Rosales graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San An-tonio, Texas. The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military disci-pline and studies, Air Force core val-ues, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.

Morales Rosales is the son of Hilda Merlo of Fresh Meadows and grand-son of Laura Merlo of Flushing.

VFW Post 4787, located at 19-12 149th St., Whitestone, will hold its monthly meeting at 8 p.m. on April 14. All veterans who served overseas are invited to attend.

Xiao Li of Fresh Meadows received a Master of Business Administration degree during fall 2013 commence-ment ceremonies at Brenau University in Gainesville, Ga.

Local students were named to the Dean’s List for the fall 2013 semester at SUNY New Paltz. They include:

Bayside: Jennifer Beiner, Sara Feinstein, Michelle Gavora, Rebecca Solomowitz, Asia Thornton.

Bellerose: Caitriona Fox, Emily Lazo, Danielle Weisbord.

College Point: Jennifer Hong.Douglaston: Evan Rosenberg. Floral Park: Sherlyn Abdullah.Flushing: Natalia Ballester, Chris-

tine Baynes, Romina Carvaca, Emily Demirijian, Hannah Fertig, Jamie Han, Alice He, Xiuyan He, Melissa Iachetta, Melissa Maske, Sanghee Min, Lindsay Price, Usman Shakil, Alexandra Sobrino, Alexis Weis-man.

Fresh Meadows: Aris Robinson, Kirby Simone.

Glen Oaks: Chloe Baker, Sabrina Sarro.

Little Neck: Alexa Giokas, Mat-thew Koopersmith, Renee Petrillo, Leah Revello, Robert Revello, Carly Shaw.

Queens Village: Olutayo Oni.

The St. Anastasia Knights of Columbus Council 5911 recently held its annual St. Patrick’s and St. Joseph’s Night at the parish annex in Douglaston.

Whitestone: Konstantinos Da-varos, Sunny Hoang, Angela Salerno, Conor Tuohy.

Belle Harbor: Cathryn Brown, Me-gan LaCognata.

Far Rockaway: Latina Khalil.Forest Hills: Peter Camilleri, Mol-

ly Massiello, Sharon Morato, Sha-ranne Ng.

Kew Gardens: Alana Davila, Alex-andra Griffiths, Dean Jones, Daniel Silversmith.

Ozone Park: Sandra Arellano, Sa-brina Bode, Rosalba Corrao, Aseah Khan.

Rego Park: Rachel Blum, Kevin Lovo.

Richmond Hill: Kimberly Baldeo Ward.

Rockaway Park: Michael Carnac-chio, Katelyn Gill, Michael McCann, Joshua Nelson, Nicole Tesoriero, Matthew Van-Leer Greenberg.

Woodhaven: Alexandra Breton, Alexa Criollo, Marfry Hernandez.

Local students enrolled at Fordham University were recently inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi honor society. They include:

Queens Village: Kerren Griffith. Whitestone: Timotheos Timothe-

atos Pariotakis.

The New York Army National Guard recently announced the reen-listment of members in recognition of their commitment to serve commu-nity, state and nation.

Sgt. James Kim of Flushing has re-enlisted to continue service with the 145th Maintenance Company.

Sgt. Mingyong Yen of College Point has reenlisted to continue service with the 37th Finance Detachment.

Staff Sgt. Wei Hsu of Oakland Gar-dens has reenlisted to continue service with the 4th Finance Detachment.

Sgt. Gerald Edwards of Far Rock-

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Student Council MeetingBorough President Melinda Katz recently met with Corona Arts & Sciences Academy Principal Beth Hert and six members of the school’s student council. The public middle school opened in Sep-tember.

away has reenlisted to continue service with the 1156th Engineer Company.

Staff Sgt. Annette Laffosse of Arverne has reenlisted to continue service with the Company C, 101st Signal Battalion.

Specialist Julio Munoz of Ozone Park has reenlisted to continue service with the Company D, 1-69th Infantry.

Professor Richard McCoy of the Queens College Dept. of English was named Distinguished Professor by the City University of New York Board of Trustees.

Overeaters Anonymous meets at the Rego Park branch of the Queens Library, 91-41 63rd Drive, Thursdays at 11:15 a.m. The group is designed for weight loss and eating disorders.

The Forest Park Runners Club will present the Forest Park 4-mile Road and Trail Race, starting 10 a.m. May 18. For information and online registration, visit www.forestparkrun-ners.org.

Upcoming events at the Howard Beach Senior Center include:

Tai Chi with Elaine Fleischman, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Mondays.

Chair aerobics with Charlie Ro-emer, 10:45-11:45 a.m. Mondays.

Tap Dance with Lois, 9:30-10 a.m. Tuesdays.

Project Staywell exercises with Irma Mains, 10:15-11:15 a.m. Wednes-days.

Art Class, 9:30-11:30 a.m. and 12:30-2:30 p.m. Thursdays.

Supervised Bridge, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Fridays.

Yoga, 10-11 a.m. Fridays. Duplicate Bridge, 12:45-2:45 p.m.

Fridays. The Howard Beach Senior Center

is located at 155-55 Crossbay Blvd., Howard Beach. For more informa-tion, call (718) 738-8100.

State Sen. Joseph Addabbo and Assemblyman Michael Miller will host a community recycling day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 6 at the Seuffert Bandshell parking lot in Forest Park. Accepted items will include clothing and textiles, electronics, paper, carpet-ing and household goods. Participants can also donate books and eyeglasses.

For information, call Frank Fazio in Addabbo’s office at (718) 738-1111.

Upcoming events at the Kew Gar-dens Community Center include:

The Story of Passover, 1:30 p.m. April 9.

Healthy Living with Dr. Herbert Gingold, 1:30 p.m. April 10.

The Kew Gardens Community Center is located at 80-02 Kew Gar-dens Road, Suite 202, Kew Gardens.

Frank Caplan of Howard Beach, a student at Queens College, was named to the Honor Roll as a baseball player during the East Coast Conference Player of the Week awards earlier this month.

Catherine Muldoon of Rockaway Park was named to the Dean’s List for the fall 2013 semester at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H.

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Emma Wisniewski

We are sure the offices of William Scarborough have been busy and chaotic, what with his ongoing investigation and all. But what we didn’t think is that things

were getting so out of hand that Assembly Speaker Shel-don Silver’s of-fices would be helping out.

Last week, while trying

to get in touch with the Assem-blyman for a comment about the recent FBI raids, we got transferred to the most unlikely of places – the offices of Silver…twice!

We here at QConf aren’t sure whether the calls are being forwarded to the Speaker’s office on purpose or whether the lady at the front desk was confused about the extension, but either way, we find the whole thing to be rather humorous.

A workshop discussing the QueensWay last week pro-duced an awkward moment during the presentation. As last week’s presentation began, Adam Lubinsky, rep-resenting WXY Studio, one of the companies involved in designing the proposed pedestrian path, introduced Neil Giannelli, a staffer for State Senator Joe Addabbo, as representing the senator at last Wednesday’s meeting in Richmond Hill. Giannelli created No Way Queens Way, a neighborhood group consisting of residents living on 98th Street in Wood-haven who are opposed to both creating the QueensWay and reviving the LIRR line that used to run along the vacant land. He has been attending the workshops as a representative of his neighborhood, not on Addabbo’s behalf.

ACTORS OF QUEENS QCONF

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For Emma Wisniewski, acting is not just an inter-est. It is in her DNA. Both of her parents were actors and she remembers watching her mom perform when she was very young.

“My parents were both ac-tors as well - in fact, my earli-est memory is of my mother playing Lady Macbeth, and as a kid I always thought, that is the absolute coolest job in the world,” she said.

Starting with her first drama classes in elementary school, acting has taken Wisniewski from the Frank Sinatra High School for the Arts to The Secret Theatre, from Off-Broadway to St. Louis. The Astoria actress has appeared onstage and on camera throughout her career.

While she described her-self as a “shy and insecure kid,” acting gave Wisniewski a way to project herself and have people listen to her. As she got older, she also fell in love with the art of storytelling and the way ac-tors translate those stories to an audience.

“Actors have a unique power to communicate im-portant things in a way that people understand more deeply, because when you watch a play or film, you recognize and empathize with the people in front of you and that hooks you in,” she said.

Although Wisniewski learned plenty at New York University’s Tisch/Stella Adler Studio of Acting, her time with The Secret Theatre gave her the first taste of a real-world theater program. She said that experience gave her a b e h i n d - t h e -scenes look at the day-to-day work of a theater as a

business and a career.“I developed an appre-

ciation for all the other jobs that need to be done to put on a show,” she said. “But most importantly, it was my first opportunity to watch professional actors at work. There's really nothing like working with someone who's been doing it a lot longer than you.”

Last fall, Wisniewski’s journey led her Off-Broadway to the Pearl Theatre Com-pany’s production of “You Can Never Tell,” by George Bernard Shaw. The four-act comedy is set in a seaside town and tells the story of Mrs. Clandon and her three children who do not know their father’s identity.

“I couldn't have dreamed up a more perfect first profes-sional job. I'll be coming back to the things I learned there for the rest of my career,” Wisniewski said.

Wisniewski temporarily left New York for St. Louis, where she just wrapped up a role in the premiere of “Soups, Stews and Cas-seroles: 1976” by Rebecca Gilman, her first regional appearance.

“Although I love the clas-sics, new work has always been very exciting to me, and the prospect of being a part of a world premiere was some-thing I just couldn't pass up - especially when the play-wright is Rebecca Gilman, whose work I've admired for ages,” she said. “She's one of the best America's got right now, so I was thrilled.”

Wisniewski said she plans to head back to New York and begin auditioning again to find her next role.

To keep up with her lat-est work, visit www.emma-wisniewski.com.

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So when Lubinsky intro-duced him as the Senator’s rep, he launched into a rant in front of everyone in attendance, accusing the presenters of men-tioning that on purpose. “It’s not enough that they’re looking to destroy my property values, the safety of my children and jobs for Ozone Park, but now they want to [expletive] me over with my boss,” Giannelli said, as the audience looked on confused. Despite Lubinsky imme-diately apologizing, the rant created an awkward moment for what otherwise was a lively but friendly discussion about the proposed QueensWay. When asked about the inci-dent afterwards, Giannelli said while he may have overreacted, his job with the Senator is to help people as much as he can and he does not want his per-sonal views to interfere with that.

Strange Connection

The Queens Tribune and PRESS of Southeast Queens recently said goodbye to a long-time advertising representative, Merlene

Carnegie (center, pictured with advertising manager Maureen Coppola and Publisher Mike Nussbaum). Carnegie celebrated her

retirement at our offices last week before moving to Charlotte, N.C.

A Fond Farewell

As the 2014 baseball sea-son finally got underway this week, Queens' hometown team got some more disappointing news. According to a recent poll by Quinnipiac University, 50 percent of baseball fans in the home of the Mets root for New York's other team, the New York Yankees. Only 43 percent of Queens baseball fans cheer on the Amazin's. Sure, the Bronx Bombers have been to the World Se-ries - and won it - a lot more than the Mets. And maybe the Mets haven't had the best few years. But there's 162 games to be played this year before the postseason and Mets gen-eral manager has predicted

No Amazin' News For Mets

his team will win 90 games this season. So, someone has some hope for the franchise. Despite the growing popu-larity in Queens for that other team, we'll still be following the exploits of our hometown team. In fact, be sure to check this issue for a preview of the Mets' 2014 season!

NEW YORK STATE LEADERS, YOU MADE HISTORY FOR KIDS AND FAMILIES!Albany leaders heard the voices of kids and families and championed policy changes to help ensure all schools, including public charter schools, are treated equally.

By standing with parents, they set a new standard for public education across the country.

Thank you, Governor Andrew Cuomo, Senator Dean Skelos, Senator Jeff Klein, Speaker Sheldon Silver, and other leaders for investing in education.

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United Federation of Teachers A Union of Professionals • 52 Broadway, New York, NY 10004 • www.uft.orgOfficers: Michael Mulgrew President, Emil Pietromonaco Secretary, Mel Aaronson Treasurer, LeRoy Barr Assistant Secretary, Mona Romain Assistant Treasurer Vice Presidents: Karen Alford, Carmen Alvarez, Catalina Fortino, Anne Goldman, Janella Hinds, Richard Mantell, Sterling Roberson

New York City is in the midst of a teacher exodus. More than 32,000 teachers walked away from jobs in New York City

classrooms in the last eleven years, with more than one in eight leaving for jobs in nearby suburban systems that have higher pay, lower class sizes and better teaching conditions.The previous mayor claimed poverty while rolling up multi-billion-dollar surpluses. His Department of Education raised class sizes, focused instruction on test prep rather than real learning, and forced teach-ers to generate reams of unnecessary pa-perwork. Tens of thousands left, and more than 25 percent of all city teachers are now contemplating leaving within three years.For me as an educator, the most troubling part of this teacher exodus is that the number of resignations among mid-career teachers (6-15 years of experience) nearly doubled between 2008 and 2013, even

in the teeth of the recession. These are teachers who have honed their craft, know how to reach struggling students, and are invaluable as mentors for their newer col-leagues.But under the circumstances it’s hard to blame the thousands of teachers who left our classrooms for the suburbs – or the

teachers who say they are now planning on leaving. Or the thousands of highly quali-fied graduates who will choose one of these districts rather than New York City for their first teaching job unless conditions improve.Obviously teachers have a personal stake in this. But so does every public school parent. If New York City is serious about having a first-class school system, it has got to find a way to slow the loss of teachers, particularly to the suburban areas where pay and work-ing conditions are so much better.The city’s economy is steadily improving, and honest budgeting will show that new resources are available from the city and the state.

Critics keep saying that New York City cannot afford to treat its teachers and students fairly. But the real question is this — can we

afford not to?— Michael Mulgrew

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