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Vol. 45, No. 17 April 23-29, 2015 • queenstribune.com
PENCILS
DOWN
Controversy over opt-out of State tests
heats up in Queens.
By Jackie Strawbridge... Page 5
Residents File
Lawsuit To Stop
Juvenile
Detention Center
PAGE 3
LIC Clock Tower
May Soon Be
Landmarked
PAGE 4
COLLEGE
GUIDE 2015
Tips On Preparing
For, And Graduating
From College
PAGES 21-33
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Queens DeaDline
Lawsuit Filed Against Detention Center
By Luis Gronda
Staff Writer
The fight against the proposed
South Ozone Park juvenile facility has
gone to court.
The South Ozone Park Civic Association West and three residents filed a
class action lawsuit on Tuesday against
the owner of the property, KAD of
Queens LLC and the group that would
operate the proposed facility, Sheltering Arms Children and Family Services, who would run the center for
the Administration for Children’s Services as part of the agency’s “Close to
Home” Program.
The suit filed in Queens County
Court aims to stop the controversial
juvenile detention center from opening at 133-27 127 St. in South Ozone
Park. Residents have voiced their displeasure for the proposal since news
was released about ACS’ plan last year.
They have held weekly rallies outside
the vacant property.
The suit alleges that the owner of the
building, KAD of Queens LLC, have
not followed City building codes since
it purchased the property last year from
its former owner, Patrick Khan, a Community Board 9 member.
This includes not meeting regulations of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The Buildings Department
launched an audit last month against
the plan for the building in relation to
the property’s zoning and whether or
not it can obtain an ADA waiver.
Residents have also raised concerns
about the center being close to anoth-
Photo By Luis Gronda
a protestor at Community Board 9 in February rallying against
the proposed detention center at a site that was once owned by a
CB 9 member.
er juvenile facility located one block
away from 127th Street and close to
the Skyway homeless shelter.
Councilman Ruben Wills (D-Rochdale Village), who announced the lawsuit filing in a press release, said the
concerns from the South Ozone Park
community should not be dismissed
as a “NIMBY” issue.
“Since 2011, these proud citizens
have been saddled by the City with
responsibilities they never asked for,
and left to cope with the unintended
consequences of those actions,” Wills
said in a statement. “They’ve done
more than their share, but now they’re
at the end of their rope. ACS has ad-
dressed neither their concerns nor
mine, particularly about the property
owner and architect’s non-compliance
with existing laws, and I will continue
to apply the full weight of my office to
ensure they do so. I wholeheartedly
stand-by their complaint.”
The plaintiffs on the complaint are
the South Ozone Park Civic Association West, which is headed by Anthony Gellineau, and three neighborhood
residents, Cynthia Soria, Yudraj Tuwari and George Savich. They are represented by Manhattan-based attorney and former Brooklyn City Council
candidate Natraj Bhushan.
Gellineau said ACS “blindsided”
the South Ozone Park community by
opening a facility three years ago and
they are attempting to do the same
once again.
“Now, by proposing to open one of
its six Limited Secure facilities only a
block away from the Non-Secure one,
ACS has added insult to our injury.
This prison will further unravel our
community, much like the first facility
has,” he said.
Soria, who lives next door to the
building where the proposed facility would be placed, said she believes
ACS has not listened to the community about their concerns.
“If it were to open, I don’t know
how I’ll be able to ensure the safety and
privacy of my children once my family
begins sharing a border with youth offenders,” she said in the release.
In an email, an ACS spokesperson said the agency is disappointed to
learn about the lawsuit.
“In collaboration with Sheltering
Arms, our goal is to provide a safe and
stable environment for young people
to receive residential rehabilitation
services while in our care, while also
ensuring the safety of residents and
the surrounding community. We are
committed to continuing conversations with community leaders and
elected officials in Queens and South
Ozone Park to ensure that they are
fully briefed on our plans and that
we address their concerns,” said ACS
spokesman Christopher McKniff.
Reach Luis Gronda at (718) 3577400, Ext. 127, [email protected], or @luisgronda.
Contaminants Could Stall College Pt. Sale
By danieL offner
Staff Writer
Queens Borough President Melinda Katz met with developers and
community stakeholders on April 16,
to discuss the disposition of two parcels of property in College Point – one
owned by the City, the other owned
by the NYC Economic Development
Corporation – to S&L Aerospace Metals, a neighboring business.
The land use hearing, part of the
Uniform Land Use Review Procedure,
or ULURP, comes a week after members of Community Board 7 voted 33
to 3 to deny the sale, due to unresolved
issues with the EDC.
“We support S&L,” Chuck Apelian,
first vice chair of CB 7, said. “That’s
where the integrity of the story ends.”
According to Apelian, Cofire, an
adjacent asphalt manufacturing plant,
originally requested a land swap with the
EDC in 2010, with plans to build a new
asphalt plant on the adjoining property.
CB 7 voted in favor of the land
swap with the caveat that the EDC
require Cofire to remediate the site to
industry standards after finding an oil
spill located under the property.
“None of these [stipulations] took
place,” Apelian told the Queens Tribune in a recent interview.
When the board asked the EDC
why nothing went forward, they were
told the agreement was nonbinding
and wasn’t part of the deed restrictions, as originally promised.
“We want to see this through, but
we can’t do it on the backs of broken
promises,” Apelian said. “We support
S&L [aerospace metals], but now we
are mixed in a mess.”
According to Alexandra Kaplan, an
EDC spokesperson, a stipulation agreement was struck between Cofire and
the State Department of Environmental
Conservation that requires the company
to conduct remediation at the site, until
the DEC determines it is clean.
“The majority of the ongoing work
is on the EDC portion,” Kaplan said.
“If Cofire were to walk away the DEC
would remediate, so either way the site
is getting remediated.”
At the hearing, the DEC case manager said the contamination stems
from six underground fuel tanks,
which were removed in 1998. But
while some of the oil contamination
has been removed from parts of the
property where they detected high
concentrations, certain parts of the
property have not been investigated.
“The DEC would require some type
of investigation of soil and groundwater before any construction takes place
to ensure the spilled fuel did not travel
underneath that part of the property,”
the DEC representative said.
According to the DEC, the owners of Cofire implemented a soil vapor
extraction system – which pumps air
into the ground where contaminated
soil was detected to pick up molecules
of contaminates – in 2009 and finished
work in 2013.
“The problem still remains that there
is high concentrations of oil contamination in that upper left corner,” the DEC
representative added. “The site is far
from cleaned up… the project has a long
time to go in our professional opinion.”
Even though Cofire is obligated
to remediate the property, several
questions were left unanswered as to
whether or not S&L can acquire the
encumbered property with plans to
expand its facilities by 24,000 sq. ft.
“You issued an [Request for Proposals] on a site that you don’t have
closure on at all,” Katz said, addressing
the EDC representatives in the room.
“You can’t build there, you can’t do
anything there. So what did EDC hope
to accomplish?”
EDC officials said it was unclear
how long the cleanup would take, but
feel that since the contamination is located underground, it would be possible for S&L to occupy one of the lots
while the remediation is being completed by Cofire.
“I will work with EDC a little more
over the next few weeks,” Katz said,
closing the hearing. “I am still unclear
as to how improving this helps the
community.”
Reach Daniel Offner at (718) 3577400, Ext. 125, doffner@queenstribune.
com, or @DanielOffner.
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In Woodhaven, A Mixed Reception To SBS Plan
By Luis Gronda
Staff Writer
Residents got their first chance to
publicly discuss the proposed Woodhaven-Cross Bay Select Bus Service
plan that the City is hoping to implement since the official proposal was
released last month.
Last week, the Department of
Transportation and the MTA held
the first of four public workshops,
with this one held at PS 306 in Woodhaven, that are scheduled along the
corridor.
Residents and transit advocates
attending the meeting sat in separate
groups and listened to a presentation
of the agency’s plan from various DOT
and MTA staffers.
The agencies revealed for the first
time several street changes they are
proposing to make as part of implementing SBS. This includes eliminating and adding multiple left hand turns
for drivers traveling along Woodhaven
and Cross Bay boulevards.
Among the turns they want to
change is taking away the left turn
on Woodhaven heading south onto
Rockaway towards Resorts World Casino. They also propose to take away
the left turn on 101st Avenue in Ozone
Park and move that to 103rd Avenue
instead. They also would like to eliminate left turns at Myrtle Avenue and
Union Turnpike.
The changes are being made to accommodate the new SBS bus lanes and
stops that would be installed as part of
the project, officials at the meeting said.
The proposals received mixed reviews from residents in attendance,
who were nearly unanimous in their
opposition towards eliminating the
turn onto Rockaway because of the
potential headache it could cause drivers trying to get onto Rockaway Boulevard or Liberty Avenue. It could also
be a problem for the casino buses from
Manhattan that drop patrons off at the
Racino, they said.
Another left turn they hope to
eliminate is at Woodhaven and Jamaica Avenue to replace that turn in both
directions, they are proposing to add a
turn on 85th and 86th roads.
Ruben Ramales, a Woodhaven
resident, said the turn heading
southbound makes sense because it
is not far from Jamaica but northbound does not because there is a
huge distance to cover if you are try-
ing to get on Jamaica Avenue.
“The last left turn you could have
made would have been on Atlantic
Avenue and that’s if you got on the
service road,” he said. “If you missed
the service road, your last turn would
be two blocks south of that.”
The next SBS workshop will be on
April 23 at Queens Metropolitan High
School in Forest Hills.
Reach Luis Gronda at (718) 3577400, Ext. 127, [email protected], or @luisgronda.
Clock Tower May Be Landmarked
By Jackie strawBridGe
Staff Writer
A months-long effort to landmark
the Long Island City Clock Tower may
soon end in success.
At a public hearing of the Landmarks Preservation Commission on
Tuesday, all comments regarding
landmarking the clock tower – the
former Bank of Manhattan building at
29-27 Queens Plaza North – was positive, including from the Commissioners, according to the agency.
A campaign to landmark the Clock
Tower, spearheaded by Michael Hall
and Matthew Chrislip of the architecture coalition +Partners, became
especially urgent last November when
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building was once
will continue to gaththe tallest in Queens.
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Decorative crests, garpetition in anticipagoyles and the clock
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was tentatively set for
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and Chrislip as deLPC
spokesperson
serving of landmark
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status.
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Junior’s Moving From Maspeth To NJ
By Luis Gronda
Staff Writer
more focused on affordable housing
since Mayor Bill de Blasio took office and the new space will offer them
A longtime bakery factory in more room to operate. Rosen did not
Queens is packing its bags and mov- respond to requests for comment as of
press time.
ing to south Jersey.
The new facility in Burlington,
Junior’s Cheesecake announced last
week that it is relocating its Maspeth N.J. is 100,000 sq. ft., compared to the
20,000 sq. ft. at its soon-to-be former
factory to New Jersey later this year.
The cheesecake giant is reportedly home at 58-42 Maurice Ave.
A few years ago, Junior’s Cheesemaking the move for two primary reasons: a bigger space and cheaper rent. cake was among the businesses in
Its owner, Alan Rosen, said in pub- opposition of the City Department
lished reports that rent has become of Transportation’s Maspeth Bypass
too expensive for their business in plan, which eventually changed the
the five Boroughs, which has become street direction of Maurice Ave to
one-way and forced trucks using
that area to use a different route to
move its products.
The bypass was meant to steer
Brooklyn-bound truck traffic away
from Grand and Flushing avenues
through a more industrial part of
Maspeth.
Junior’s opposed the move because it would make truck deliveries
more difficult for the company and
it would force them to leave their
product outside for a longer period
of time, which they claimed could
become problematic during the
summer months.
Jean Tanler, head of the Maspeth
Photo By Luis Gronda
Junior’s Cheesecake will move its Industrial Business Zone, which
factory location from Maspeth to the Junior’s factory lies in, said she
believes the bypass issue was a conBurlington, N.J.
tributing factor to their departure.
“I know that they were looking to
grow and there are some limitations
for that property,” Tanler said.
Gary Giordano, district manager
of Community Board 5, said he is unsure how the bypass decision affected
Junior’s after the change was made,
as the Board never heard from them
regarding that issue, but he said they
were loudly against it back then.
The space Junior’s will leave behind
should not be too difficult to fill, Giordano said, though he believes a company, or companies, that lack a temperature sensitive product like cheesecake
should move into the building.
Tanler said it is a “tight market” for
manufacturing and industrial companies right now because of the focus on
finding properties to build affordable
housing. The City Council will soon
hold a public hearing on the “Engines
of Opportunity” report, which aims to
change zoning laws to benefit those
industries.
“We’re at a point where the zoning
needs to be modernized for manufacturing companies,” Tanler said.
Reach Luis Gronda at (718) 3577400, Ext. 127, [email protected], or @luisgronda.
LIC
Partnership
Breakfast
Elizabeth Lusskin, Esq. president of the Long Island City
Partnership speaks during
the organization’s annual real
estate breakfast on Wednesday at the Con Ed Learning
Center on Vernon Boulevard.
The breakfast provided an
opportunity to outlined the
hot real estate market in the
neighborhood.
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EDIT PAGE
In Our OpInIOn
Kids Should Come First
Ultimately, parents are responsible for their children. It is well within their right
to refuse to allow their children to take State tests, if that is what they choose, as an
increasing number of parents in Queens have done.
But there are parents who are opting out of the tests not because they question
the educational benefit of their children, but rather because Gov. Andrew Cuomo has
said they will count toward 50 percent of their children’s teachers’ evaluations. That
fact, they claim, is unfair. Critics say the tests, instituted as part of Common Core, a
national policy, are being used by Cuomo to break the powerful teachers union.
Not in the equation are whether or not the tests hinder or advance their child’s
education.
It’s unfortunate that this issue has become a political football tossed between
the Governor and the teachers unions. Educational policy should be about one
thing:providing children with the best education possible so they can compete on a
global stage. The only question we should be asking about the opt-out movement is
whether or not children benefit, or are hurt, by not taking the State tests.
In YOur OpInIOn
Replace Bad School Leaders
I
To The Editor:
n 2003, the course of
public education in New
York City began a radical
change. We had a new mayor,
Michael Bloomberg, who
promised to run the schools
“like a business,” and under
mayoral control, he would be
fully accountable for student
achievement.
In order to achieve his goals
and after abolishing the Board
of Education and local school
boards, he hired a chancellor
who would serve at his “pleasure.” Therefore, in order to keep
his new job, the new chancellor
Yes To Marijuana
A
To The Editor:
pril 20th National Pot
Day made sense. Consumption of marijuana for both medical and
recreational use is part of mainstream America, transcending
generations.
Consumers have voted with
their dollars, making marijuana
consumption a multibilliondollar enterprise today. Legalize it and add a sales tax.
Revenues will more than cover
the costs of any abuse. Our tax
dollars will be better used if
police and judges spend more
time prosecuting those who
commit real crimes against
individuals or property than
going after those who consume
or distribute marijuana.
Citizens have more to fear
from murder, arson, rape, muggings, robberies, auto and identity theft or home break-ins than
individuals who get high in the
privacy of their own home.
At 18, you are old enough to
vote, pay taxes, take out a bank
loan and serve in the military
– but not consume marijuana.
This makes no sense.
What consenting adults
consume, inhale, perform,
read or view in the privacy
of their own home or private
social club isn’t the concern of
government.
It is time to permit consenting adults to access any
so-called illegal products or
substances without fear from
government harassment
Larry Penner,
Great Neck
Joel Klein, with limited education experience, needed to push
Bloomberg’s agenda, which was
to privatize public schools no
matter how harmful to the school
communities it was.
Superintendents were
stripped of most of their power
and bloated bureaucracy in the
form of Networks emerged
as the “support” system for
schools and their leaders. Local
school boards were dissolved
and replaced by the Community Education Council, giving
parents the illusion that they
had a voice in their children’s
education. They did not.
Because principals and superintendents no longer had
tenure or due process rights
like they had in the past, the
fate of teachers and students
had been sealed.
Destabilization of a school
involved many steps and full
compliance from school leaders whose actions were fully
defended by the Networks’ legal
department, often dubbed “Legal,” which included hundreds
of attorneys ready to advise
principals on how to “get”
teachers. Many veteran school
administrators were them-
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selves pushed out of the system
only to be replaced in many
cases by principals who had
graduated from the Leadership
Academy – a fast-tracked alternative administration training
program who trained aspiring
principals with minimal, if any,
educational background.
Once principals were given
full control of their school’s budget, the DOE starved each of its
schools of funding prompting
principals to push veteran (and
more expensive) teachers out,
sometimes in unethical ways.
Principals were then required to
implement low quality reading
and math programs. Many parents objected to the programs
used in their children’s schools
but complaints fell on deaf ears.
Textbooks were eliminated.
Spelling and grammar were
gone. Phonics instruction became taboo and social studies
and science were rarely taught.
Teaching content was out, discovery learning (students teaching themselves and each other)
was in. This would ensure poor
reading and math scores on the
upcoming new and very difficult
Common Core tests.
Principals, particularly new
and inexperienced principals,
created a hostile atmosphere
in their schools ensuring high
turnover and new and untenured teachers replacing anyone
who left. These new teachers
were often too inexperienced or
too frightened to speak out and
advocate for students, much less
themselves. In addition, these
principals repeatedly violated
the terms of the teachers collective bargaining agreement fully
knowing “Legal” would support
them and, most disturbingly,
UFT leaders would not defend
their members.
Students were placed in
huge classes despite the research showing that smaller
class sizes increases student
achievement. Classes were
heterogeneously mixed, which
means students with varying
abilities were all placed in one
class. The teacher was responsible for “moving” students in
these tremendous classes with
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all these diverse levels and
tracking all the “data” to plan
instruction. There was to be
no standardized instruction
whatsoever. Learning had to
be “differentiated,” yet the
tests were anything but. Integrated Co Teaching classes
also debuted. General Education students and struggling
students with individualized
education plans were mixed.
This was hardly a beneficial
setup for students with IEPs
who would have benefitted
from a smaller class.
Principals in the new regime
enjoyed full autonomy and could
be questioned by no one. They
were accountable to no one. They
could abuse staff and students
with impunity. There would
be no discipline for most. And
they knew it. Most egregiously
of all, students were often an
afterthought since any of the
school’s money would least
likely be spent in the classroom.
They removed arts and sports
programs from their schools
regardless of protests. It didn’t
matter. Voices, even those of
students, were seldom heard.
Although the recent dissolution of the useless Networks and
the superintendents regaining
their power was a welcome
change, no real changes have
been made to positively impact
our students and their teachers.
Many schools are still suffering
the poor quality reading and
math programs. Consultants
continue to eat up the schools’
budget. Many principals still violate their teachers’ contracts and
harass and abuse hard-working
teachers with no end in sight.
If Chancellor Fariña really
wants to support schools, she
needs to replace corrupt and
incompetent school administrations, purpose the system
of all those attorneys, protect
teachers and students from the
harmful effects of Common
Core tests, provide quality and
research-based reading and
math programs and stop wasting money on vendors.
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DOT: No Bus-Only
Lane For Main
Street
By Daniel Offner
Staff Writer
After a meeting with the Kew Gardens Hills Civic Association, last week,
officials with the MTA and Department of Transportation said they will
not pursue a dedicated bus-only lane
along the Q44 bus route from Downtown Jamaica to Flushing.
The idea, which was presented as
part of a proposed Select Bus Service
plan, was pulled from the proposal
after being met with resistance from
community stakeholders, local businesses and elected officials.
Businesses in Queensboro Hill and
Kew Gardens Hills were opposed to
both options – for either a curbside
or offset bus lane – presented by the
MTA and the DOT last January. They
worried it would greatly reduce critical
parking space in the retail districts.
Councilman Rory Lancman (DHillcrest), whose district includes Kew
Gardens Hills, said he was pleased to
see that the DOT and MTA have listened to the community’s complaints
and will not be moving forward with
plans for a bus-only lane.
“A dedicated bus-only lane in Kew
Gardens Hills was always the wrong
choice for our community,” Lancman
said in a statement. “The proposed
bus-only lane would have increased
congestion, reduced parking spaces,
hurt businesses and diverted cars onto
residential streets.”
Lancman was joined by State and
Federal officials, who echoed that the
proposed bus-only lane would reduce
parking, hurt storefront businesses,
slow automotive traffic and divert
drivers onto residential streets with
only marginal improvements in bus
transit speed.
“This particular dedicated bus-only
lane along the Main Street strip in Kew
Gardens Hills would have negatively
impacted residents and businesses in
the neighborhood,” U.S. Rep. Grace
Meng (D-Flushing) said in a statement.
“We appreciate DOT and MTA officials
for listening to the community and being responsive to their concerns.”
“Government works best when the
concerns of the people it represents
are heard,” State Sen. Joseph Addabbo
(D-Howard Beach) said. “That’s what
seemed to have happened here on
Main Street in Kew Gardens [Hills]
and I appreciate the DOT and others
for hearing the concerns of my constituents in regards to removing the
proposed dedicated bus lane. I am
hopeful that the DOT continues to listen to the concerns of the people as it
works towards making traffic changes
throughout the Borough.”
Instead of a bus lane, the MTA
and DOT say they will focus on other
ways to improve traffic and safety for
pedestrians, bicyclists and drivers,
including better street design, traffic
light synchronization and off-board
fare collection.
“We can improve the flow of traffic
for all commuters and make our streets
safer for motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists alike,” State Sen. Toby Stavisky
(D-Flushing), said, “without the drastic
step of a dedicated bus lane.”
Reach Daniel Offner at (718) 3577400, Ext. 125, doffner@queenstribune.
com, or @DanielOffner.
LIC Tour Highlights
Need For Green
Workers
By Jackie StrawBriDge
Staff Writer
With the green economy blooming in New York City, a springboard
for a new generation of workers in
this sector can be found in a corner of
Queens.
Members of the City Council visited Solar One, a green energy education center tucked underground
in Long Island City, on Monday to
learn about its programs and, briefly, to try their hands at solar panel
installation. Solar One partners
with workforce training organizations throughout the City to prepare
New Yorkers for jobs in green building construction and maintenance,
among others.
Guided by site manager James King,
Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito (D-Manhattan/Bronx), Environmental Protection Committee Chairman Councilman Donovan Richards
(D-Laurelton) and Councilman Jimmy
Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) toured the
facility, looked at weatherization and
ventilation equipment and learned
how solar panels convert sunlight into
useable energy.
The tour also passed through a class
of about 20 students, nearing completion of their 6-week training program,
where the Council members spoke
about the necessity of making New
York more sustainable and fostering
green jobs.
“We need to consume less energy.
We need to be more efficient and
these jobs are the way of the future,”
Mark-Viverito said to the class. “What
you’re doing is really, really important
in terms of really helping New York
City go to that next level.”
Richards, who sported a green tie
for the occasion, commented on the
importance of green jobs for communities of color in particular.
“We have to get communities prepared,” Richards said. “We have to
start getting engaged in this economy.
There are other communities who are
way ahead of us and who are taking
advantage.”
“There’s no reason that you can’t
be able to install a solar panel in Edgemere [in the Rockaways],” he added.
Richard’s committee sparked a
$50,000 grant to Solar One this year,
through the Greener NYC initiative,
according to his office.
One student, who identified himself as Ron, said he came into the
program with little knowledge about
sustainability and called the training
“enlightening.”
“We have a combination of things
to learn,” he went on. “It’s basically the
fundamentals, just to give us an introduction [and] understanding so that if
we decide in the future we want to pursue anything of that nature any further,
then we have the tools to do it.”
Reach Jackie Strawbridge at (718)
357-7400, Ext. 128, jstrawbridge@
queenstribune.com or @JNStrawbridge.
Noise Barriers
Coming To FH
Tennis Stadium
By luiS grOnDa
Staff Writer
Photo By Daniel offner
the q44 limited, pictured here, will not be seeing a bus-only lane
according to MtA and DOt officials.
Going into its second year of concerts, the shows at the Forest Hills Tennis stadium have received mixed reviews
from residents: some are welcoming the
concerts, while others are still unhappy
about the noise it produces.
The concert promoters told a meeting of residents and stakeholders in
Forest Hills on Tuesday night that
they have allocated between $500,000
and $600,000 to installing sound barriers, to mitigate noise concerns.
According to Jon McMillian with
the Madison House Presents, the concert promoters, there are four steps
they will take to address the noise: install “noise blockers” along the fence
that surrounds the stadium, redesigning the side walls next to the stage to
block sound from leaking out, installing 10 stairway covers inside the stadium and building “sliding panels” that
aim to patch up any other sound area
that is not accounted for.
McMillian said these renovations
will hopefully move the sound up
through the stadium instead of out
through the sides and into residential
neighborhoods.
“If you’re standing on the corner
of 69th [Avenue] and Burns [Street]
and you can look into the stadium, the
sound is looking back at you. We’re trying to block all those places,” he said,
explaining the first step of their plan.
“The point is if you’re in the throes of
the sound, there will be something in
between you at the fence line.”
McMillian added, during last year’s
concerts, they, along with the Department of Environmental Protection,
would take sound measurements to
make sure the decibel levels did not
exceed legal limits. They did receive
one violation last year for exceeding
noise levels, McMillian said.
“We can continue to do the measurement dance with the DEP, we
can continue to skirt the line… rather
than put ourselves in a position where,
either seem like we’re not doing the
right thing or accidently not doing the
right thing, we are going to make some
significant changes,” he said.
A few community members said
that the noise a few hours before and
after the show, is almost worse than the
concert itself. They said it stems from
the act playing a sound check during
the middle of the day and warm up for
that night’s show. The noise afterwards
is from the moving company packing
up the equipment.
Mike Luba, president of Madison
House Presents, said they would consider moving the time they leave to early
the next day after the show, but that depends on the artist’s touring schedule.
Some artists leave as soon as the show
is over in order to travel to the next city
on their schedule, Luba explained.
Regarding sound check before the
show, he said that also depends on the
artist as some need to warm-up before
a gig while others do not.
Reach Luis Gronda at (718) 3577400, Ext. 127, [email protected], or @luisgronda.
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CAPRIOGLIO BROS. LLC, a
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SSNY on 2/12/15. Office
location: Queens County.
SSNY is designated as agent
upon whom process against
the LLC may be served. SSNY
shall mail process to Eugene
Caprioglio, 212-72 16 Ave.,
Bayside, NY 11360. General
Purposes.
________________________
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and Sons Equities LLC. Art. Of
Org. filed with SSNY 2/3/15.
Office Location: Queens
County. SSNY designated as
agent for process. SSNY shall
mail a copy of any process
to: Ruben and Sons Equities
LLC, 84-04 210th St., Queens
Village, NY 11427. Purpose:
To engage in any lawful act
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________________________
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filed with Secy. of State of NY
(SSNY) on 1/20/15. Office
in Queens Co. SSNY desig.
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served & shall mail process
to 677 Dawson Street LLC,
136-20 38th Ave Ste 3a Office 106, Flushing, NY 11354.
Purpose: General.
________________________
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Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY
shall mail copy of process
to the LLC, 32-75 Steinway
Street, Ste 211, Astoria, NY
11103. Purpose: Any lawful
purpose.
________________________
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SSNY on 01/20/2015. Office
loc: Queens County. SSNY
has been designated as agent
upon whom process against
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shall mail process to: The LLC,
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Purpose.
________________________
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Name: Otto NYC LLC. Articles of Organization field with
Secretary of State of New
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NY office location: Queens
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upon whom process against
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SSNY shall mail a copy of
the process against the LLC
served upon him/her is The
LLC 118-35 Queens BLVD
Forest Hills, NY 11375. Purpose/character of LLC: Any
Lawful Purpose.
________________________
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3108 Northern Blvd Investors
LLC. Authority filed with NY
Dept. of State on 3/2/15.
Office location: Queens
County. Princ. bus. addr.: c/o
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36th St., 3rd Fl., Long Island
City, NY 11106. LLC formed
in DE on 2/24/15. NY 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
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regd. agent upon whom
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Cert. of Form. filed with DE
Sec. of State, 401 Federal St.,
Dover, DE 19901. Purpose:
all lawful purposes.
________________________
S U P P L E M E N TA L S U M MONS INDEX NO.
703360/2014 SUPREME
COURT OF THE STATE OF
NEW YORK COUNTY OF
QUEENS Plaintiff designates
Queens County as the place
of trial situs of the real
property JAMES B. NUTTER
& COMPANY, Plaintiff, vs.
JUDITH HAMILTON AS
HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF
THE ESTATE OF JUNIUS M.
BOONE; PAUL SCALES AS
HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF
THE ESTATE OF JUNIUS M.,
BOONE; ALTHEA SCALES
AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE
OF THE ESTATE OF JUNIUS
M. BOONE; any and all
persons unknown to plaintiff,
claiming, or who may claim
to have an interest in, or
general or specific lien upon
the real property described
in this action; such unknown
persons being herein generally described and intended
to be included in the following designation, namely:
the wife, widow, husband,
widower, heirs at law, next
of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees,
legatees, creditors, trustees,
committees, lienors, and
assignees of such deceased,
any and all persons deriving
interest in or lien upon, or
title to said real property
by, through or under them,
or either of them, and their
respective wives, widows,
husbands, widowers, heirs at
law, next of kin, descendants,
executors, administrators,
devisees, legatees, creditors,
trustees, committees, lienors
and assigns, all of whom and
whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff;
SECRETARY OF HOUSING
AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; HAML A CORP.;
QUEENS CITY SAVINGS &
LOAN; CHEMICAL BANK
AS TRUSTEE UNDER THE
POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT DATED
AS OF JUNE 1, 1992 SERIES
1992-3; BENEFICIAL MORTGAGE CORPOR ATION;
NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT
ADJUDICATION BUREAU;
PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF
NEW YORK; UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA; “JOHN DOE
#1” through “JOHN DOE
#12,” the last twelve names
being fictitious and unknown
to plaintiff, the persons or
parties intended being the
tenants, occupants, persons
or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in
or lien upon the premises,
described in the complaint,
Defendants. MORTGAGED
PREMISES: 187-50 Hilburn
Avenue, Saint Albans, NY
11412 Block 10436; Lot 25
To the above-named Defendants: YOU ARE HEREBY
SUMMONED to answer the
complaint in this action and to
serve a copy of your answer
or, if the complaint is not
served with this summons, to
serve a notice of appearance
on the Plaintiff’s Attorney
within 20 days after service
of this summons, exclusive
of the day of service (or
within 30 days after service
is complete if this summons
is not personally delivered to
you within the State of New
York) in the event the United
States of America is made a
party defendant, the time to
answer for the said United
States of America shall not
expire until (60) days after
service of the Summons;
and in case of your failure
to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against
you by default for the relief
demanded in the complaint.
NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT
THE OBJECT of the above
caption action is to foreclosure a Mortgage to secure
$720,000.00 and interest,
recorded in the Office of the
City Register of the City of
New York, County of Queens
on July 8, 2009 in CRFN
2009000207996, covering
premises known as 187-50
Hilburn Avenue, Saint Albans,
NY 11412. The relief sought
in the within action is a final
judgment directing the sale
of the premises described
above to satisfy the debt
secured by the Mortgage
described above. Queens
County is designated as the
place of trial because the
real property affected by
this action is located in said
county. NOTICE YOU ARE
IN DANGER OF LOSING
YOUR HOME. If you do not
respond to this summons and
complaint by serving a copy
of the answer on the attorney
for the mortgage company
who filed this foreclosure
proceeding against you and
filing the answer with the
court, a default judgment
may be entered and you can
lose your home. Speak to an
attorney or go to the court
where your case is pending
for further information on
how to answer the summons
and protect your property.
Sending a payment to your
mortgage company will not
stop this foreclosure action.
YOU MUST RESPOND BY
SERVING A COPY OF THE
ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF
(MORTGAGE COMPANY)
AND FILING THE ANSWER
WITH THE COURT. Dated:
February 9, 2015 RAS Boriskin, LLC, Attorney for Plaintiff
By: Thomas Zegarelli, Esq.
900 Merchants Concourse,
Suite LL-13, Westbury, NY
11590 (516) 280-7675 1447239
________________________
occupants of premises, and
corporations, other entities
or persons who claim, or
may claim, a lien against the
premises, Defendants. TO
THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY
SUMMONED to answer
the complaint in this action
and to serve a copy of your
answer, or, if the complaint
is not served with this summons, to serve a Notice of
Appearance on the Plaintiff’s
attorney(s) within twenty
(20) days after the service
of this summons, exclusive
of the day of service, where
service is made by delivery
upon you personally within
the State, or within thirty
(30) days after completion of
service where service is made
in any other manner, and in
case of your failure to appear
or answer, judgment will be
taken against you by default
for the relief demanded in
the complaint. NOTICE YOU
ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING
YOUR HOME If you do not
respond to this summons and
complaint by serving a copy
of the answer on the attorney
for the mortgage company
who filed this foreclosure
proceeding against you and
filing the answer with the
court, a default judgment
may be entered and you can
lose your home. Speak to an
attorney or go to the court
where your case is pending
for further information on
how to answer the summons
and protect your property.
Sending a payment to your
mortgage company will not
stop this foreclosure action.
YOU MUST RESPOND BY
SERVING A COPY OF THE
ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF
(MORTGAGE COMPANY)
AND FILING THE ANSWER
WITH THE COURT. YOU ARE
HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE
THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT,
AND ANY INFORMATION
OBTAINED WILL BE USED
FOR THAT PURPOSE. TO
THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing
summons is served upon you
by publication pursuant to
an Order of the Honorable
David Elliot of the Supreme
Court of the State of New
York, signed on March 2,
2015, and filed with supporting papers in the Office
of the Clerk of the County of
Queens, State of New York.
The object of this action
is to foreclose a mortgage
upon the premises described
below, executed by MANUEL
A. PADILLA and MARGARET
B. PADILLA, to VERTICAL
LAND, INC bearing date
June 14, 2007 and recorded
in CRFN 2007000561139 in
the County of Queens on
November 8, 2007. Thereafter the aforesaid instruments
were assigned to MORT-
GAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC.
AS NOMINEE FOR BANK
OF AMERICA, N.A., its successors and/or assigns by assignment of mortgage dated
April 9, 2010 and recorded
on May 10, 2010 in the office
of clerk of Queens County in
CRFN: 2010000155391. The
aforesaid instruments were
thereafter corrected by Corrective assignment of mortgage dated September 13,
2010 and recorded on September 23, 2010 in the office
of clerk of Queens County
in CRFN: 2010000321388.
Thereafter, the aforesaid instruments were assigned to
CHAMPION MORTGAGE
COMPANY by assignment
of mortgage dated May
31, 2013 and recorded on
June 17, 2013 in the office
of clerk of Queens County
in CRFN: 2013000238498.
NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE
LLC is doing business as
CHAMPION MORTGAGE
COMPANY, therefore the
Plaintiff is the real party in
interest. Said premises being
known as and by 103-10
223RD STREET, QUEENS
VILLAGE, NY 11429. Date:
March 11, 2015 Batavia, New
York Virginia C Grapensteter,
Esq. ROSICKI, ROSICKI &
ASSOCIATES, P.C. Attorneys
for Plaintiff Batavia Office 26
Harvester Avenue Batavia, NY
14020 585.815.0288 Help
For Homeowners In Foreclosure New York State Law
requires that we send you this
notice about the foreclosure
process. Please read it carefully. Mortgage foreclosure
is a complex process. Some
people may approach you
about “saving” your home.
You should be extremely careful about any such promises.
The State encourages you to
become informed about your
options in foreclosure. There
are government agencies,
legal aid entities and other
non-profit organizations that
you may contact for information about foreclosure while
you are working with your
lender during this process. To
locate an entity near you, you
may call the toll-free helpline
maintained by the New York
State Banking Department
at 1-877-BANKNYS (1-877226-5697) or visit the Department’s website at www.
banking.state.ny.us. The State
does not guarantee the advice
of these agencies.
________________________
HJO HOLDINGS LLC Articles
of Org. filed NY Sec. of State
(SSNY) 1/11/12. Office in
Queens Co. SSNY design.
Agent of LLC upon whom
process may be served.
SSNY shall mail copy of
process to The LLC 37-39
75th St. Jackson Heights, NY
11372. Purpose: Any lawful
activity.
________________________
SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS
Index No.: 702553/2014
Date of Filing: March 11,
2015 SUPREME COURT OF
THE STATE OF NEW YORK
COUNTY OF Queens Nationstar Mortgage LLC d/b/a
Champion Mortgage Company, Plaintiff, -against- PATRICIA A. PADILLA AS HEIR
AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN
OF MANUEL A. PADILLA;
JOHN DOE 1 THROUGH
50; JANE DOE 1 THROUGH
50, INTENDING TO BE THE
UNKNOWN HEIRS, DISTRIBUTES, DEVISEES, GRANTEES,
TRUSTEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, AND ASSIGNEES OF
THE ESTATE OF MANUEL A.
PADILLA WHO WAS BORN
ON 1930 AND DIED ON
2012, A RESIDENT OF THE
COUNT Y OF QUEENS,
THEIR SUCCESSORS IN
INTEREST IF ANY OF THE
AFORESAID DEFENDANTS
BE DECEASED, THEIR RESPECTIVE HEIRS AT LAW,
NEXT OF KIN, AND SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF
THE AFORESAID CLASSES
OF PERSON, IF THEY OR
ANY OF THEM BE DEAD,
AND THEIR RESPEC TIVE
HUSBANDS, WIVES OR
WIDOWS, IF ANY, ALL
OF WHOM AND WHOSE
NAMES AND PLACES OF
RESIDENCEAREUNKNOWN
TO THE PLAINTIFF; KRISTINE
HILBERT AS BENEFICIARY
UNDER THE LAST WILL AND
TESTEMENT OF MANUEL
A. PADILLA; DEANNE BODIN AS BENEFICIARY UNDER THE LAST WILL AND
TESTEMENT OF MANUEL
A. PADILLA; EVA LETICIA
PADILLA AS BENEFICIARY
UNDER THE LAST WILL AND
TESTEMENT OF MANUEL
A. PADILLA; NEW YORK
CITY PARKING VIOLATIONS
BUREAU; NEW YORK CITY
TRANSIT ADJUDICATION
BUREAU; CRIMINAL COURT
OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK;
NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND
FINANCE; UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA - INTERNAL
REVENUE SERVICE; UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA OBO
SECRETARY OF HOUSING
AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; “JOHN DOES” and
“JANE DOES”, said names being fictitious, parties intended
being possible tenants or
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Educating Students On Sickle Cell Anemia
BY JORDAN GIBBONS
Staff Writer
When Gloria Rochester’s daughter
was two years old, she started limping.
The doctor said it was just trauma and
told Rochester to put an ice pack on
it. When it came back a few months
later, Rochester became even more
concerned and this time the doctor
ran some tests.
They found out that she had sickle
cell anemia, and the doctor said that she
would not live past her 20th birthday.
Rochester did not receive any information from the doctor and was
not introduced to any genetic counselors or support groups, so she decided
to educate herself.
“My life was turned upside down
and I had to change my whole life
around,” she said. “I went to the library
to learn everything about sickle cell.”
She decided to dedicate her life to advocating for awareness about the disease
and it all started in her basement when
she formed the Queens Sickle Cell Advocacy Network, which is the only sickle
cell advocacy group in New York.
Now her daughter is 41 years old
and has three children of her own.
On Tuesday, Rochester organized
a discussion at York College to continue to educate and advocate for the
disease by educating young minds in
the community.
“York College really has people
from all over the world,” she said.
“Maybe we can influence them to go
study some areas of sickle cell.”
Sickle cell anemia is the most common form of sickle cell disease, which
is a serious disorder in which the
body makes sickle-shaped red blood
cells. Sickle cells are stiff and sticky so
they tend to block blood flow in the
blood vessels of the limbs and organs.
Blocked blood flow can cause pain
and organ damage as well as raising
the risk for infection and acute chest
syndromes such as pneumonia.
Rochester said that in the early
1970s, people did not speak about
sickle cell and there was little information available about the financial costs
and treatments associated with treating the disease, which has no cure.
“I really make it my duty that I would
not have another person go through the
hardships I did and to overcome some
of the stigma,” she said.
The discussion featured presentations from hematology experts such
as Dr. Scott Miller, chief of the division of hematology/oncology at SUNY
Downstate Medical Center, who explained the risks sickle cell patients
cope with and the treatments such as
red blood cell transfusions.
Miller stressed the importance of
patients taking hydroxyurea, the only
approved medication for sickle cell.
Photo by Jordan Gibbons
Gloria Rochester, Queens Sickle
Cell Advocacy Network founder.
“I would argue that people should
take hydroxyurea at age nine months or
older,” Miller said. “Older people should
start now, even if they feel well.”
Aaron Lloyd, a freelance writer,
screenwriter and filmmaker, participated in the discussion to talk about
his own battle with sickle cell anemia
and the documentary he is currently
writing, producing and directing on
sickle disease titled, “Sickler.”
Lloyd said after the discussion that
most people do not talk about the social impacts associated with the disease such as employment difficulties
and relationship struggles.
“I basically had to find a way to
employ myself,” Lloyd said. “I lost so
many jobs because of missing so much
work. I ended up on disability.”
He also said that many people he
knows with the disease have trouble
maintaining relationships because of
how often they are in the hospital and
how easily they get sick. There is also
an issue if both partners have sickle
cell, because of the likelihood that the
sickle cell gene could get passed on to
any children.
“I’m lucky I have a relationship,”
he said. “Thankfully, my wife doesn’t
have the trait so we can have children safely. If she had the trait, that
would’ve been a serious discussion.”
Lloyd has been going around interviewing doctors and people with
the disease for his documentary, while
he is working on a trailer to stimulate
crowdfunding for the project.
“I’m trying to humanize people
with the disease,” he said. “Through
that commonality, I can really show
the disease that way.”
Lloyd’s work can be seen on his
sickle cell disease blog, Crisis Over, at
www.crisisover.net.
The Queens Sickle Cell Advocacy
Network is currently in pre-registration for its annual New York Walk For
Sickle Cell event in September. For
more information, visit www.newyorksicklecelladvocacynetwork.com or
call (718) 712-0873.
Reach Jordan Gibbons at (718) 3577400, Ext. 123, jgibbons@queenspress.
com or @jgibbons2.
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Health System, discusses what you need to know about this condition.
What causes pain during sex?
There are many causes of sexual pain in women.
Many causes may be gynecologic in nature, while
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the body. Infections, post-menopausal changes,
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Zephyr Teachout Coming To Forest Hills
By Luis Gronda
Staff Writer
Court in a lot of ways,” she said. “I
thought of initially it as a letter to Justice [John] Roberts and Justice [AnA former candidate for New York tonin] Scalia. But it’s also a letter to
Governor is coming to Forest Hills ourselves. We have to remember the
later this month to discuss her book, anti-corruption roots of our history.”
One case she discusses is 2010’s
State politics and more.
Zephyr Teachout, the Fordham Citizens United v. Federal Election
Commission
decision,
University law professor
which allowed wealthy corwho ran against Gov. Anporations to spend an undrew Cuomo last year in
limited amount of money
the Democratic primary
to fund and influence powill appear at the Central
litical campaigns.
Queens Y on April 27 to
Teachout said, by writing
talk about her book “Corthe book, she hopes to get
ruption in America: From
people to think about how
Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff
money affects this country’s
Box to Citizens United.”
Teachout
garnered Zephyr Teachout political system and support
ways of changing that.
much attention last year for
“We have this extraordinary histhe surprisingly close race between her
and Cuomo, despite the Governor’s tory in this country, but money and
politics is threatening to undermine
campaign kitty being much higher.
The former candidate has since it,” she said.
When asked about the State budget
continued teaching at Fordham and
promoting her book, which was re- that recently passed, Teachout called
it “terribly disappointing” and said it
leased in September 2014.
In an interview with the Queens Tri- does not do enough for infrastructure
bune, Teachout said the book is about and education in the State.
In an interview with the Tribune
the history of corruption and how the
idea of corruption has changed over earlier this month, State Sen. James
time from when the founding fathers Sanders (D-South Ozone Park) quesof this country focused on eliminating tioned whether or not Gov. Cuomo is
corruption to now, as the idea of cor- a Democrat because of his tactics during the State budget negotiations. Tearuption has changed over time.
“It’s really a letter to the Supreme chout, who calls herself a traditional
Democrat, agreed with that sentiment.
“He certainly pushed for a Republican Senate and his ideological priorities seem to be more ‘trickle down’ than
really investing in the public,” she said.
“I don’t believe in loyalty oaths but he
doesn’t fall in line with the traditional
values of a Democratic party.”
The former candidate said she has
traveled around the State discussing
her book, often beginning with talking
about the book itself then veering off
into State and local issues. Teachout
said she wrote the book before her unsuccessful run for Governor.
Teachout will speak at 1:30 p.m. There
is a suggested donation of $5 for members
of the CQY and $8 if you are not a member. The Central Queens Y is located at
67-09 108th Street in Forest Hills.
For more information on the event,
contact Peggy Kurtz at 718-268-5011
ext. 151 or email [email protected].
Reach Luis Gronda at (718) 3577400, Ext. 127, [email protected], or @luisgronda.
By Jackie strawBridGe
Staff Writer
be especially difficult for seniors trying
to cross the street.
“From a pedestrian point of view, I
thought it was good,” Coles said.
Ferreras, who allocated $800,000 for
upgrades to Astoria Boulevard last year
according to her office, said that “conditions on that street have been challenging our community for many years.”
Last week, the DOT completed safety improvements on another section of
the road, where Astoria Boulevard, the
Grand Central Parkway and 31st Street
meet in Astoria. The improvements,
which include an extended median
and new lane markings, are intended to
make the intersection easier to navigate.
Reach Jackie Strawbridge at (718)
357-7400, Ext. 128, jstrawbridge@
queenstribune.com or @JNStrawbridge.
Astoria Blvd Changes
Vision Zero, the City initiative
aiming to eliminate traffic deaths in
New York, is pulling up on Astoria
Boulevard in East Elmhurst.
Last Thursday, Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras (D-East Elmhurst) hosted a
community workshop to provide input
on the Department of Transportation’s
redesign plans on Astoria Boulevard, a
“priority area” with crooked intersections and complicated traffic patterns.
According to the agency, these
plans include improving intersections
and enhancing medians.
Gregory Coles, who runs A Child’s
Place just off of Astoria Boulevard on
108th Street, said that the corridor can
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Page 14 Tribune April 23-29, 2015 • www.queenstribune.com
POLICE BLOTTER
drove alongside a 28-year-old male
victim’s vehicle on Hoffman Drive
HOMICIDE – On Sunday, April while approaching the intersection of
19 at approximately 2:29 p.m., police Woodhaven Boulevard and blocked
the victim from driving
responded to a male
his vehicle. The suspect
stabbed at 85-29 114 St.,
then approached the
Apt. 3C in Richmond
victim’s driver side winHill. Upon arrival the redow, displayed a firearm
sponding officers discovand discharged a round
ered David Hightower,
striking the victim in the
50, stabbed one time to
forearm. The suspect rethe chest. EMS responded and transported the Police are looking turned to his vehicle and
victim to Jamaica Hos- f or the man who drove southbound on
pital where he was pro- was driving this ve- Woodhaven Boulevard.
Anyone with infornounced deceased.
hicle on March 29
Police later arrested in connection with a mation in regards to this
Nickel McLean, 19, the shooting in Elmhurst incident is asked to call
the NYPD’s Crime Stopvictim’s stepson and that day.
pers Hotline at (800)
charged him with second-degree murder and criminal pos- 577-TIPS. The public can also submit
their tips by logging onto the Crime
session of a weapon.
Stoppers Website at nypcrimestop103rd Precinct
pers.com or texting their tips to
HOMICIDE – On Sunday, April 274637(CRIMES) then enter TIP577.
19 at 4:25 a.m., police responded to All calls are kept strictly confidential.
a male stabbed at the corner of 184th
112th Precinct
Street and Jamaica Avenue in Hollis.
BURGLARY – The NYPD is askUpon arrival responding officers discovered Otto Emilio Ajpacaja-Cua, ing the public’s assistance identifying
39, of Jamaica, stabbed in the chest a suspect wanted for a residential burand right thigh. EMS responded and glary in Forest Hills.
On Wednesday, April 8 at 6:30
transported the victim to Jamaica
Hospital where he was pronounced p.m., an 87-year-old female returned
deceased. There are no arrests and the to her apartment in the vicinity of
Dartmouth Street and Tennis Place
investigation is ongoing.
to find her ground floor window
104th Precinct
open. The female victim found that
FOUND DEAD – On Friday, April her jewelry, a computer and an Apple
17 at 8:50 a.m., police responded to a iPad were missing from her bedroom.
report of an unconscious male inside There were no injuries reported in reof a vehicle at 64-01 77 St. in Maspeth. gards to this incident.
Suspect is described as a male, wearUpon arrival, responding officers discovered James Hanrahan, 25, inside of ing all black with a Yankee hat and
a parked vehicle at the location. EMS carrying a bag containing a laptop.
Anyone with information in realso responded to the location and
pronounced the victim deceased at gards to any of these incidents is asked
the scene. The medical examiner will to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers
determine the cause of death and the Hotline at 800-577-TIPS. The public
can also submit their tips by logging
investigation is ongoing.
onto the Crime Stoppers Website at
105th Precinct
nypdcrimestoppers.com or texting
HOMICIDE – On Thursday, April their tips to 274637(CRIMES) then
16 at 4:20 p.m., police responded to enter TIP577.
a 911 call of a male stabbed on 230th
CITY EMPLOYEE ARRESTED –
Street in Laurelton. Upon arrival
responding officers discovered the On Tuesday, April 14 at approximatevictim, Dshawn Rogers, 40, who is ly 9 a.m.., Laytonia Smith, 35, a school
homeless, unconscious and unrespon- safety agent, was arrested and charged
sive. EMS also responded to the scene with grand larceny, welfare fraud, faland transported the victim to Jamaica sifying business records and offering
Hospital where he was pronounced to file a false instrument.
deceased. There are no arrests and the
investigation is ongoing.
102nd Precinct
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SHOOTING – The NYPD is asking the public’s assistance identifying
the suspect wanted for a robbery in
Elmhurst.
On Sunday, March 29 at approximately 4:15 a.m., an unidentified
suspect driving a black Chevy Yukon
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www.queenstribune.com • April 23-29, 2015 Tribune Page 15
Opt Out Hits
Queens
Different Answers To The Testing Problem
For anyone familiar with the
scratch of a No. 2 pencil over scantron sheets, the idea of skipping a
standardized test may seem inherently appealing. This year, a growing
number of students throughout New
York will be doing just that, as part
of the “opt-out” movement against
State tests; a modest number of
Queens students will join their ranks.
However, parents, educators and
officials in the Borough are divided
over whether opting out will prove effective, or counterproductive.
Elementary and middle school
students wrapped up the State English Language Arts tests last week
and will finish math tests on Friday.
The number of opt-outs is still unclear. Officials at both the State
Education Department and the City
Department of Education said the
agency will release data after test
administration is completed, while
some education advocates have
begun collecting numbers. The
group United to Counter the Core
(U2C) has an incomplete list that
counts roughly 185,000 opt-outs as
of press time.
About 1.1 million students are
eligible for the tests statewide, according to the State Department of
Education.
For many parents who choose it,
opting out is a protest against what
they see as a backwards education system. U2C has described the
act as civil disobedience, although
opting out is legal and individual students are not punished for refusing
the test.
Jackson Heights resident Danny
Katch, whose daughter attends
fourth grade at PS 69, said he removed her from testing because he
believes that, rather than measuring her learning, it “actually is taking education away,” by creating
“busywork” and teaching rigid reading passages instead of literature.
Assemblywoman Cathy Nolan
(D-Sunnyside), chair of the Assembly Education Committee, also
spoke in support of opting out, calling it an important measure in the
broader education reform effort.
“I am not against all tests; however, it is clear that there are issues with current State testing poli-
Photo by Jackie Strawbridge
By JACkiE StRAwBRiDgE - StAFF wRitER
Parent Danny Katch opted his daughter, a fourth grader, out of the
ELA test.
cies,” she said in a statement to the
Queens Tribune. “As we consider
ways to fix these issues in the longterm, it is important that we give
parents the tools and information
they need to make decisions about
their children in the present.”
In early April, Nolan introduced
a bill that reaffirms parents’ right to
refuse the tests and provides for alternative activities during testing to
students who have opted out.
In New York particularly, an additional component of the opt-out
movement was Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposal to base 50 percent of
a teacher’s evaluation on the State
test scores of his or her students.
“That’s purely vindictive against
teachers,” Katch said. “It’s affecting
kids just as much, because it’s all
about test prep. If you tell teachers
that 50 percent of their evaluation is
going to be based on two standardized tests, then you can believe
that most of what those kids are going to be doing all year is preparing
for those standardized tests.”
At a press conference last week
highlighting Queens parents who
have opted out, including Katch,
Councilman Daniel Dromm (DJackson Heights), chair of the
Council Education Committee,
spoke vehemently against tying
tests to teacher evaluations.
“I do not believe that our stu-
dents should be used as guinea
pigs in the Governor’s battle against
teachers,” Dromm said.
While many parents agree that
State tests should not carry such
weight in teacher evaluations, not
all believe opting out is the best
way to combat the policy.
Deborah Alexander, a member of
District 30’s Community Education
Council, said she opposes opting out
as both a parent and an activist.
“I don’t fault any parent for doing what they believe is the best
for their kids,” she said. “For my
children, I think opting out gives
the test more power than it actually
has… It creates a fear of something
that is difficult.”
District
Regarding education reform, Alexander continued, she is focused
on lobbying Albany to lower the
stakes for teachers, which she believes will in turn remove the significance and stress of test prep.
“You can’t ask a teacher not to
prepare, not to worry about his or
her job. I think the evaluations at
this point are what’s causing the
test prep,” she explained.
At a meeting with CEC 30 last
week, Education Chancellor Carmen Fariña similarly said that while
she opposes tying the tests to half
of the teacher evaluation, she does
not believe opting out is the best
way to address it.
Fariña said she believes basing
30 percent of an evaluation on tests
would be fair, and that she has been
arguing that point in Albany.
“I’m here to tell you that [testing
is] not going to be the main way
we’re evaluating teachers,” Fariña
said. “Principals need to have the
autonomy to evaluate teachers 70
percent across on the things that
they consider important. We cannot look at the test scores as the
end and be all.”
“We’re really working on this but
I don’t believe opting out is the answer,” she went on.
Fariña added that some of the
problems with testing can be addressed by improving test prep –
focusing on stamina and independent reading, for example – and
encouraging communication between parents and principals regarding test prep policies. She also
described testing as a necessary
education tool, but noted that she
would prefer “diagnostic tests” that
measure student growth over the
course of a year.
For some, the opt-out movement at least serves the purpose
of raising awareness for education
reform.
“It’s got everybody’s attention,”
CEC 30 President Jeff Guyton said.
“It’s really raising the issue to the
point where it has to be addressed
by people implementing this policy.”
“This has to do with individual concerns of parents,” he added. “And I
think that it’s a large enough number
that this issue of testing is really going to have to be addressed.”
Reach Jackie Strawbridge at
(718) 357-7400, Ext. 128, [email protected] or @
JNStrawbridge.
ELA Opt-Out Math Opt-Out
District 24 (Middle Village, Corona)
18
N/A
District 25 (Flushing)
2
N/A
District 26 (Bayside)
52
N/A
District 27 (South Queens, Rockaways)
4
N/A
District 28 (Forest Hills, Jamaica)
5
N/A
District 29 (SE Queens)
1
N/A
District 30 (Astoria, Jackson Heights)
18
N/A
Source: United to Counter the Core
The number of opt-outs in Queens for the ELA tests by district.The
Math opt-out information is unavailable because the test is still going on.
Page 16 Tribune April 23-29, 2015 • www.queenstribune.com
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
SUPREME COURT OF THE
STATE OF NEW YORK –
COUNTY OF QUEENS INDEX# 708240/2014 FILED:
2/24/2015 SUPPLEMENTAL
SUMMONS AND NOTICE
Plaintiff designates QUEENS
County as the place of trial.
Venue is based upon the
County in which the mortgage premise is situated.
REVERSE MORTGAGE SOLUTIONS, INC., Plaintiff,
against WILLIAM M. YOUNG
AKA WILLIAM YOUNG if he/
she be living and if he/she be
dead, the respective heirs-atlaw, 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(s)
who may be deceased, by
purchase, inheritance, lien or
inheritance, any right, title or
interest in or to the real property described in the Complaint, SECRETARY OF
HOUSING AND URBAN
DEVELOPMENT, NYS DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION
AND FINANCE, NYC ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL
BOARD, NYC PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU, CITIBANK (SOUTH DAKOTA)
N.A., QUEENS SUPREME
COURT, CRIMINAL COURT
OF THE CIT Y OF NEW
YORK, NYC TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU, BOSTON SERVICE CO, HANN
FINANCIAL SERVICE CORPORATION, HILLSIDE MANOR REHAB & EXTENDED
CARE CTR LLC, BOARD OF
DIRECTORS OF PARKLANE
SOUTH CONDOMINIUM,
BOARD OF MANAGERS OF
PARKLANE SOUTH CONDOMINIUM, and “JOHN
DOE” and “JANE DOE”, the
last two names being fictitious, said parties intended
being tenants or occupants,
if any, having or claiming an
interest in, or lien upon the
premises described in the
complaint, UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA, Defendant(s).
TO THE ABOVE NAMED
DEFENDANTS: NOTICE
YOU ARE IN DANGER OF
LOSING YOUR HOME IF
YOU DO NOT RESPOND
TO THIS SUMMONS AND
COMPLAINT BY SERVING A
COPY OF THE ANSWER ON
THE ATTORNEYS FOR THE
MORTGAGE COMPANY
WHO FILED THIS FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING
AGAINST YOU AND FILING
THE ANSWER WITH THE
COURT, A DEFAULT JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED
AND YOU CAN LOSE YOUR
HOME. SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY OR GO TO THE
COURT WHERE YOU CASE
IS PENDING FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION ON HOW
TO ANSWER THE SUMMONS AND PROTEC T
YOUR PROPERTY. SENDING A PAYMENT TO YOUR
MORTGAGE COMPANY
WILL NOT STOP THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION. YOU
MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY
FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND
FILING THE ANSWER WITH
THE COURT. YOU ARE
HEREBY SUMMONED to
answer the complaint in this
action and to serve a copy of
your answer, or, if the complaint is not serviced with this
summons, to serve a notice
of appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorney within 20 days
after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of
service (or within 30 days after
the service is complete if this
summons is not personally
delivered to you within the
State of New York); The
United States of America, if
designated as a Defendant in
this action, may appear
within (60) days of service
thereof and in case of your
failure to appear or answer,
judgment will be taken against
you by default for the relief
demanded in the complaint.
NOTICE OF NATURE OF
AC T I O N A N D R E L I E F
SOUGHT: THE OBJECT of the
above captioned action is to
foreclose on a reverse mortgage with the maximum
principal amount of
$525,000.00 dated August
28, 2008, executed by
defendant(s) WILLIAM M.
YOUNG AKA WILLIAM
YOUNG to WORLD ALLIANCE FINANCIAL CORP.
recorded on October 15,
2008
in
CRFN:
2008000404959, in the Office of the Clerk of the
County of QUEENS. WORLD
ALLIANCE FINANCIAL CORP.
assigned all of its rights, title
and interest in the Reverse
Mortgage by way of a corrective assignment executed July
2, 2010 to REVERSE MORTGAGE SOLUTIONS, INC.,
and recorded in the Office of
the Clerk of the County of
QUEENS on July 28, 2010, in
CRFN: 201000025134. Said
corrective assignment of
mortgage corrects the assignment executed April 17, 2010
and recorded in the Office of
the Clerk of the County of
QUEENS on May 5, 2010, in
CRFN: 2010000151100 for
reason of incorrect assignee,
covering premises known as
8410 101st Street, Unit 2B,
Richmond Hill, NY 11418
AKA 84-10 101st Street, Unit
2B, Richmond Hill, NY 11418.
(Block 9177 Lot 1023). The
relief sought within action is
a final judgment directing the
sale of the premises described
above to satisfy the debt described above. To the above
named Defendants: The foregoing summons is served
upon you by publication
pursuant to an order of the
Hon. Howard G. Lane, Justice
of the Supreme Court of the
State of New York, and filed
along with the supporting
papers in the Office of the
Clerk of the Count y of
QUEENS on 2/24/2015. This
is an action to foreclose on a
reverse mortgage. Parcel I:
ALL that certain, plot, piece
or parcel of land, with the
buildings and improvements
thereon erected, situate, lying
and being in the County of
Queens, State of New York,
Parcel II: ALL that certain, plot,
piece or parcel of land, with
the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the
Borough of Queens, County
of Queens, City and State of
New York, Block 9177 and
Lot 1023. Said premises
known as 8410 101st Street,
Unit 2B, Richmond Hill, NY
11418 AKA 84-10 101st
Street, Unit 2B, Richmond Hill,
NY 11418. YOU ARE HEREBY
PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE
ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED
WILL BE USED FOR THAT
PURPOSE. By reason of the
default in the payment of the
monthly installment of principal and interest, among
other things, as hereinafter
set forth, Plaintiff, the holder
and owner of the aforementioned note and mortgage,
or their agents have elected
and hereby accelerate the
mortgage and declare the
entire mortgage indebtedness immediately due and
payable. The following
amounts are now due and
owing on said mortgage, no
part of any of which has been
paid although duly demanded: The balance of the principal due upon said Note and
Reverse Mortgage as of June
17, 2014, is $272,244.72
together with all sums that
may be due for interest, taxes,
insurance, loan advances
and/or fees for inspections,
property preservations or
other expenses incurred to
protect the property, and
expenses and costs of suit as
may be allowed by the loan
documents and/or approved
by the court. UNLESS YOU
DISPUTE THE VALIDITY OF
THE DEBT, OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, WITHIN
THIRTY (30) DAYS AFTER
YOUR RECEIPT HEREOF
THAT THE DEBT, OR ANY
PORTION THEREOF, IS
DISPUTED, THE DEBTOR
JUDGMENT AGAINST YOU
AND A COPY OF SUCH
VERIFICATION OR JUDGMENT WILL BE MAILED TO
YOU BY THE HEREIN DEBT
COLLECTOR. IF APPLICABLE, UPON YOUR WRITTEN
REQUEST, WITHIN SAID
THIRTY (30) DAY PERIOD,
THE HEREIN DEBT COLLECTOR WILL PROVIDE YOU
WITH THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE ORIGINAL
CREDITOR. IF YOU HAVE
RECEIVED A DISCHARGE
FROM THE UNITED STATES
BANKRUPTC Y COURT,
YOU ARE NOT PERSONALLY LIABLE FOR THE UNDERLYING INDEBTEDNESS
OWED TO PL AINTIFF/
CREDITOR AND THIS NOTICE/DISCLOSURE IS FOR
COMPLIANCE AND INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES
ONLY. HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE
New York State requires that
we send you this notice about
the foreclosure process.
Please read it carefully. SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT
You are in danger of losing
your home. If you fail to respond to the summons and
complaint in this foreclosure
action, you may lose your
home. Please read the summons and complaint carefully. You should immediately contact an attorney or
your local legal aid office to
obtain advice on how to
protect yourself. SOURCES
OF INFORMATION AND
ASSISTANCE The State encourages you to become informed about your options
in foreclosure. In addition to
seeking assistance from an
attorney or legal aid, there
are government agencies,
and non-profit organizations
that you may contact for information about possible
options, including trying to
work with your lender during
this process. To locate an
entity near you, you may call
the toll-free helpline maintained by New York state
Banking Department at
1-877-Bank-NYS or visit the
Department’s website at
www.banking.state.ny.us
FORECLOSURE RESCUE
SCAMS Be careful of people
who approach you with offers
to “save” your home. There
are individuals who watch for
notices of foreclosure actions
in order to unfairly profit from
a homeowner’s distress. You
should be extremely careful
about any such promises and
any suggestions that you pay
them a fee or sign over your
deed. State law requires
anyone offering such services
for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the
services they will perform and
fees they will charge, and
which prohibits them from
taking any money from you
until they have completed all
such promised services. Section 1303 NOTICE YOU ARE
IN DANGER OF LOSING
YOUR HOME If you do not
respond to this summons and
complaint by serving the
copy of the answer on the
attorney for the mortgage
company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against
you and filing the answer with
the court, a default judgment
may be entered and you may
lose your home. Speak to an
attorney or go to the court
where your case is pending
for further information on
how to answer the summons
and protect your property.
Sending a payment to your
mortgage company will not
stop this foreclosure action.
YOU MUST RESPOND BY
SERVING A COPY OF THE
ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF
MORTGAGE COMPANY)
AND FILING AN ANSWER
WITH THE COURT. Kozeny,
McCubbin & Katz, LLP, Attorneys for Plaintiff, 40 Marcus Drive, Suite 200 Melville,
NY 11747 Our File 24501
________________________
Notice of Formation of
VOICE BOX MEDIA, LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
03/05/15. Office location:
Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon
whom process against it may
be served. SSNY shall mail
process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany,
NY 12207, regd. agent upon
whom and at which process
may be served. Purpose: Any
lawful activity.
________________________
GB GREEN GASTRONOME,
LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with
the SSNY on 03/02/2015.
Office loc: Queens County.
SSNY has been designated
as agent upon whom process against the LLC may
be served. SSNY shall mail
process to: The LLC, 106
Sheephill Road, Riverside, CT
06878. Purpose: Any Lawful
Purpose.
________________________
ACCURA RESTORATION &
WATERPROOFING LLC, a
domestic LLC, filed with the
SSNY on 3/17/14. Office
location: Queens County.
SSNY is designated as agent
upon whom process against
the LLC may be served.
SSNY shall mail process to
c/o United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th
Ave., Ste. 202, Brooklyn, NY
11228. General Purposes.
________________________
FORMATION in New York
Notice of formation of 57-67
XENIA STREET LLC. Arts of
Org filed with Secy of State
of NY (SSNY) on 3/12/15.
Office location: Queens
County. SSNY designated as
agent upon whom process
may be served and shall mail
copy of process against LLC
to: 136-20 38th Ave., Flushing, NY 11354. Purpose: any
lawful act.
________________________
RH NOSTRAND LLC. Art. of
Org. filed with the SSNY on
05/22/12. Office: Queens
County. SSNY designated as
agent of the LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to the LLC, 116-16
Queens Blvd., Suite 260, Forest Hills, NY 11375. Purpose:
Any lawful purpose.
________________________
63-06 75TH STREET LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of
State (SSNY) 3/5/15. Office
in Queens Co. SSNY desig.
agent of LLC upon whom
process may be served. SSNY
shall mail copy of process
to 63-06 75th St., Middle
Village, NY 11379, which is
also the principal business
location. Purpose: Any lawful
purpose.
________________________
Notice of Formation of
TRISTAN Production LLC
filed with Secy. of State of NY
(SSNY) ON 10/08/2014 Office location Queens County.
SSNY is designated as agent
upon whom process against
the LLC may be served. SSNY
shall mail process to the LLC:
83-45 broadway apt 432
elmhurst NY 11373. General
Purposes.
________________________
Notice of formation of REY
WILLYS CONSTRUCTION
LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary
of State of New York SSNY
on 08/06/14. Office located
in QUEENS. SSNY has been
designated for service of
process. SSNY shall mail
copy of any process served
against the LLC 34-15 94 ST.
#2D, JACKSON HTS., NY,
11372 Purpose: any lawful
purpose.
________________________
Notice of Qualification of
MADISON-SPINEL STORAGE I LLC Appl. for Auth.
filed with Secy. of State of NY
(SSNY) on 03/20/15. Office
location: Queens County.
LLC formed in Delaware (DE)
on 03/12/15. Princ. office of
LLC: 270 Lafayette St., Ste.
1505, NY, NY 10012. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail process to the LLC at the
princ. office of the LLC. DE
addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation
Service Co., 2711 Centerville
Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE
19808. Cert. of Form. filed
with Secy. of State, State of
DE, Div. of Corps., John G.
Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal
St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.
Purpose: Acquisition and development of real estate.
________________________
Vax Venture LLC Arts of Org
filed with Secy. of State of
NY (SSNY) on 1/6/15. Office
in Queens Co. SSNY desig.
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served & shall mail process
to 64-18 Perry Ave, Maspeth, NY 11378. Purpose:
General.
________________________
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Your Legal Copy to:
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COLLEGE GUIDE 2015:
How To
Get Here
Tips for receiving a quality
higher education
For most people, choosing
a college is the first major life
decision they will undertake.
A myriad of factors must
be taken into account – a
student’s focus, reputation
of the school, location and of
course, arguably the most
important of all, cost.
Even once the acceptance
letters have been received and
a student is committed and
enrolled, the hard decisions do
not end. Financial aid, choosing
majors and finding internships
all add to the stress.
Our special College Guide
includes tips on preparing to
apply, beginning college and
how to make your higher
education experience less
stressful so you may one day
“walk” in your cap and gown.
The Test: What you need to know about the new SAT
T
he SAT - widely considered
to be one of the most important exams a student will
take in his or her academic life
- is changing drastically. When
students sit down for the test in
March 2016, they’ll encounter a
completely redesigned format
that places significant emphasis
on college and career readiness
and skills such as reasoning, data
analysis and critical thinking.
The SAT, which impacts high
school students’ college admissions success, scholarship dollars
and futures, will affect nearly 2 million students. In order to tackle the
test with the right amount of knowledge and confidence, students and
their parents must approach preparation for the exam in an entirely
different way.
“The redesigned SAT will demand more from students than
ever before,” Dr. Raymond Huntington, co-founder of Huntington
Learning Center, a tutoring and test
prep company that places curricular knowledge at the center of test
prep, said. “In the history of the SAT,
preparation has never been more essential to success than it will be with
the redesigned exam. Students must
have deep foundational knowledge
and demonstrate ability to reason,
analyze and think critically in realworld contexts. Cramming for the
test or employing test-taking tricks
will not get students the knowledge
or scores they need to enter and succeed in college.”
To prepare properly for the exam
and achieve the desired result, here
are tips for both parents and students:
1. Understand the changes:
The exam has been overhauled
with changes to both format and
content. Test length, timing and
score components for the redesigned SAT will be different than
its predecessor. For example, students will no longer be penalized
for answering a question incorrectly. With regard to content,
students will be expected to master concepts that address college
and career readiness and key
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City Colleges Lend a Hand to DACA Students
BY JORDAN GIBBONS
W
hile the Federal government
has delayed the expansion of
the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, students
who have already been accepted for
DACA have some helpful tools available to them throughout Queens.
In 2012, the Secretary of Homeland Security announced that children who came to the United States
with their undocumented parents
before reaching their 16th birthday
and have attended or graduated
from school, among other guidelines, can request consideration to
defer being removed from the country for a period of two years.
The City University of New York
established CUNY Citizenship Now
in 1997 to offer resources for immigrants, regardless of their status.
Students in DACA status are eligible
to be considered New York residents
and not classified as undocumented
because of their lawful presence in
the country.
At York College in Jamaica, CUNY
has an Immigration Center that can
help students get help applying for
DACA, in-state tuition and financial
Protests call for the passage of the DREAM Act in 2012 to allow undocumented
immigrants who came to the U.S. as minors to receive permanent resident status. It’s failure led to the Obama administration’s implementation of DACA.
assistance issues. York also accepts
applications from anyone.
“Students in an undocumented
status are not prevented from applying to York College/CUNY, but
the status may impact their ability
to receive in-state tuition,” a York
spokesperson said. “The students
must meet the academic criteria to
the college.”
Students and families can contact
the York College Admissions Office for
more information at (718) 262-2165.
All CUNY students, including undocumented students, benefit from
a 2001 State law that expanded
who can qualify for in-state tuition.
Students who have attended a State
high school for two or more years,
graduated or received a State GED
and applied to attend a CUNY institution within five years of receiving
a State diploma or GED can pay instate tuition. Individuals who have
not resided in New York for one year
are also eligible, but must file an af-
fidavit stating that they will apply to
legalize their status as soon as they
are eligible.
DACA students are also eligible to
apply to Queens College, according
to Chelsea Lavington, Queens College’s director of admissions.
“We don’t discriminate based
on immigration status,” Lavington
said. “As long as you are academically eligible for Queens College, we
accept anyone.”
St. John’s University’s Center
for Latin American and Caribbean
Studies recently benefited from a
grant through the DACA program.
CLACS is using the funds to create
programming for immigrant students who hope to attend college,
such as offering eligible students
free adult literacy classes designed
to help them qualify for the program and purchasing tablets for
classroom use.
For more information about
CUNY Citizenship Now, contact the
York College Immigration Center at
(718) 262-2983, the Flushing Immigration Center at (718) 640-9223.
Reach Jordan Gibbons at (718) 3577400, Ext. 123, jgibbons@queenspress.
com or @jgibbons2.
St. John’s is on a Mission to Achieve and Serve
I
n my first year as president, I
often remind my fellow administrators and our faculty and
staff that we come to work at St.
John’s University not just because
it is our job, but because we have
a responsibility to help transform
the lives of our students, one individual at a time. Historically, St.
John’s mission has been to provide
excellent education for all, especially for those lacking economic
or social advantages. However, it
is not enough to provide access to
education--we must also ensure
student success. Helping students
succeed is our goal, starting from
the admission process, financial
aid application, registration, to
helping students survive the first
day, the first month, the first year
and all through their senior year
by providing outstanding academic programs, mentoring, advising
and student services support.
To help ensure student success,
St. John’s University announced in
January that it will freeze tuition
and fees, and room and board costs
for all current and incoming full
and part-time undergraduate and
graduate students at its Queens,
Manhattan, Oakdale and international locations for the 2015-16
academic year. For Staten Island
students, the University will re-
duce undergraduate
tuition by $10,370 for
the 2015-16 academic
year and freeze room
and board costs and
fees. Recent administrative restructuring and the nature
of academic offerings
at that campus have
made this tuition reduction possible.
Why did we do
this? This initiative
was undertaken because St. John’s is
aware of the significant financial
challenges facing college students
and their families. We took this action in an effort to help alleviate
those burdens. Addressing the rising cost of higher education must
be a priority, particularly in view
of St. John’s mission as a Catholic
and Vincentian University committed to providing students with an
affordable education. In this time
of increased competition among
colleges and universities to recruit
and retain students while facing
calls for greater accountability and
return on investment, we felt that
a bold move was necessary. Thus,
we have made a firm commitment
to reduce expenses, increase efficiency and pass along those sav-
ings to our students.
It is our sincere hope
that this initiative
will provide students who otherwise
would not be able
to afford college the
opportunity to realize that dream at St.
John’s University.
In addition to this
tuition initiative, St.
John’s has a tradition of helping students by awarding
generous financial
aid packages to qualified students.
Currently, more than 96 percent of
students receive financial aid, and
last year the university awarded
over $219 million in scholarships
and financial aid.
St. John’s University offers
hands-on career development
where classroom learning delivered by outstanding faculty is combined with real-world experiences.
Significant investments have been
made to expand internship opportunities, career placement, job
readiness programs and services
to help shape the professional
paths of our students. In addition,
our far-reaching network of over
172,000 alumni is a ready resource
for our students. In recognition of
the University’s success in career
placement,
BusinessInsider.com
recently ranked St. John’s 14th
among the Top 50 Most Underrated Colleges in America.
Outside the classroom, St. John’s
offers a dynamic and caring campus life enriched by over 180 clubs
and organizations and 17 Division I men’s and women’s NCA A
athletic teams that compete in the
storied Big East Conference. Our
campus borders are endless as we
offer a global academic education
with our own campus in Rome,
Italy and expansive study abroad
opportunities in Paris, France and
Seville, Spain.
This is an exciting time in our
history as we look forward to celebrating 150 years in 2020. We remain committed to our tradition of
academic excellence and serving
those in need, while being innovative in delivering education that
prepares our students for success
in their future careers. We invite
prospective students to explore the
promise and possibilities of attending St. John’s University, where
we turn aspirations into achievements.
Dr. Conrado “Bobby”
Gempesaw, Ph.D.
President, St. John’s University
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Financial tips for adults going back
to college
T
he ever-rising price tag of college education has been in the
news for years, with the average
cost hovering just less than $20,000
a year, according to the National
Center for Education Statistics. That
number, however, speaks to first-timers enrolled full-time in a four-year
or two-year college. What about
adult learners - professionals either
looking to continue their education
and earn another degree, or those
who are returning to school to finish
an incomplete degree?
“Many adult learners already in
the workforce juggle a number of
expenses besides tuition and textbooks,” Tracy Lorenz, president of
Western International University
(West) said. “They’re paying mortgages or rent, childcare costs, utility bills, car payments and more.
Earning a degree can put a strain on
their finances.”
Cost was the biggest barrier to
continuing education cited by 1,000
women in an online survey conducted by West. Respondents, who had
indicated an interest in returning to
college, said cost trumped an institution’s prestige in influencing their
choice of learning institution.
If you’re considering returning to
school as an adult learner, it’s essen-
tial to find effective ways to control
education costs and manage your
overall finances. Here are five steps
that can help you control costs while
earning a degree:
1. Comparison shop for the best
tuition and costs.
Many adult learners find that
online degree programs offer the
best value in terms of cost and quality of education. Not only is tuition
typically less, online programs offer adult learners greater schedule
flexibility - so they can continue
earning a living wage and arrange
their schedules to minimize costs like
childcare and transportation.
2. Prior learning assessment
credits may lower costs.
First-time students have a lot to
learn and the costs of a full-time
education at a four-year college reflect that. Adult learners, however,
already have professional and life
experience under their belts, and
many institutions have created programs that take this into account.
You may hold professional certifications, licenses or corporate training
that could also qualify as collegelevel credit toward a degree.
3. Find ways to lower textbook
costs.
Many schools sell used textbooks
at a lower cost than new. You may
also be able to buy or rent textbooks
through a variety of independent
online websites. Many online degree
programs also include digital copies of textbook and course materials
with no extra charge.
4. Explore financing options.
It’s important to explore all financing options - from loans and
grants to other forms of financial
aid. Many employers offer tuition
reimbursement programs, while
other students may qualify for additional assistance for their service in
the military. To determine if you are
eligible for federal financial aid, visit
studentaid.ed.gov.
5. Practice financial planning.
Smart money management habits
are always valuable - especially when
you’re paying for a college degree. If
you haven’t already done so, create a
personal budget that will allow you to
track monthly expenses and income.
Curtail discretionary spending, but
don’t eliminate important long-term
financial goals such as saving toward
retirement or to buy a home.
CUNY offers access to excellence and
opportunity, affordability and support
T
his year’s high school graduates who have a B average or
better now qualify for a $400
per semester merit grant at the City
University of New York, thanks to a
New York City Council Merit Scholarship. In Fall 2014, the first time
this grant was available, 11,800
students were eligible.
This is just one of the extraordinary aspects of education at New
York City’s public university. The
CUNY value includes outstanding
academics, an award-winning faculty, financial support, affordability and state-of-the-art campuses
across the city.
For many City University students, the path to higher education starts at a community college
– and that option is getting even
better for those who choose to en-
roll in the nationally recognized Accelerated Study in
Associate Programs (cuny.
edu/asap).
Over the next
three years, this fast track to an
associate degree is expanding to
serve 13,000 students a year. Almost six in 10 ASAP students earn
an associate degree in two or
three years – far above the normal
rate.
President Barack Obama singled
out ASAP as a model. Ohio is copying the program. So is the State
University of New York.
What makes ASAP work? Focused
educational programs; highly supportive faculty and staff; tutoring;
free tuition; free
MetroCards; textbook aid; career
advice; personalized advisement;
family-friendly
schedules; and
support to help
graduates either work or transfer to
four-year colleges.
Twenty-two percent of ASAP
students major in science, technology, engineering and math – fields
with increasing job potential. The
growing number of majors include
computer information science,
health technology, media technology and electrical and mechanical
engineering.
ASAP is now at six community
colleges and Medgar Evers College;
the College of Staten Island and
New York City College of Technology will come on board later.
Some high school graduates
need help with basic skills before
they begin college, so CUNY created CUNY Start (cuny.edu/cunystart). In 15 to 18 weeks of concentrated study, students prepare for
CUNY’s entry tests in reading, writing and math.
CUNY Start works. Half of its
full-time students tested ready for
college in all areas. Another third
needed more help in one area.
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very year, hundreds of thousands of students
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SUMMER SESSIONS
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Is College For You?
Y
ou hear these days that attending college may be less
important in an age where
entrepreneurship trumps credentials. Think of the dot-com billionaires who never finished college!
And look at the rising cost of a college education. Maybe you don’t
need college. Think again!
Recent figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics list a number of relatively high-paying professions expected to grow rapidly
until 2022. The majority fall into a
few general categories:
• Healthcare workers, such as
registered nurses, dental hygienists, radiology technicians and
healthcare administrators.
• IT workers, including web developers, network managers and
database managers.
• Technicians of almost every
kind.
• Construction-related workers, including architects, civil engineering technicians, construction
managers and estimators.
What do these positions have
in common?
They require college degrees,
and you can prepare for any of
them at a college of technology.
New York City College of Technology/CUNY (City Tech) is the largest public college of technology in
the Northeast. Located in the heart
of Downtown Brooklyn, and at one
of the City’s major bus and subway
hubs, it is a unique college. More
space is devoted to specialized labs
than to general purpose classrooms.
Students and faculty, the majority
with successful careers in their chosen field, work side-by-side in these
specialized labs.
Where Will College Take You?
A recent study by the Pew Research Center shows that whatever
the cost of attending college, it is
less than the cost of not attending.
The gap between the annual salary
of college graduates and non-graduates has grown wider each year
since the mid-1980s. In 2013, the national average salary of young workers (ages 25-32) with a four-year
college degree was $45,500. That
of workers with only a high school
diploma was $28,000. And that gap
will grow over time. The worker with
a college degree will earn over a million dollars more in his or her career
than one without.
But salary is only one reason for
attending college. The same study
Plaza College: From
Fire to Forest Hills
I
t’s been a year since a massive fire
gutted the campus of Plaza College in Jackson Heights, but now
the school is thriving in a new location just a few stops away from the
subway.
In April 2014, a three-alarm fire
broke out on the third floor of the Bruson Building, home to Plaza’s Jackson Heights campus for four-plus decades. Plaza College opened in Long
Island City in 1916, subsequently moving to the building on 37th Avenue in
Jackson Heights in 1970.
“I live a few blocks away from
where Plaza used to be located, and I
heard all the sirens,” said Ana Mira, a
student at Plaza College. “I felt sad and
surprised because just five days before,
the semester had ended. The first thing
that went through my head was anxiety. We were supposed to start a new
semester within a few days, and it was
clear that we were not coming back to
this building. The new campus is more
than I expected, beyond what I imagined. Plaza has become a huge part of
my life and represents the key that has
opened the door to my dreams.”
In September 2014, Plaza College
says that college graduates get more
satisfaction from their employment,
and are more likely to afford alternatives to living at home. They have
more opportunities for advancement. Going to college launches a
career, not just a job.
Can you afford college?
Students at City Tech pay the
low CUNY tuition and benefit from
a wide range of financial aid pro-
officially opened their new ultramodern campus in Forest Hills featuring
state-of-the-art medical classrooms
and labs. Students are educated with
strong academic fundamentals and
receive hands-on, career-ready experience to succeed in their professional
endeavors. A private, specialized institution, Plaza’s curriculum is tailored
to meet the needs of a diverse population, offers students a distinct mix of
business, liberal arts and allied health
courses. As a teaching and learning
College, Plaza, rooted in a tradition
of excellence, teaches its students the
social, ethical and cultural values
needed to become respected members
of the community. Teaching the processes of critical thinking, collaboration, and lifelong learning, Plaza prepares its students to participate and
compete in today’s global economy.
“Through tragedy comes triumph.”
Charles E. Callahan IV, director of
strategic initiatives at Plaza College,
said. “While the fire destroyed our
home in Jackson Heights, we were
resilient in rebuilding and couldn’t
be happier at our new home in the
‘Heart of Queens,’ Forest Hills.”
The new SAT
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skills such as analysis and reasoning. For instance, all reading
content will be passage-based
and will place strong emphasis
on students’ ability to understand
vocabulary in context, focusing
on more commonly used words,
rather than simply demonstrating
reading comprehension.
2. Know the dates: The first
administration of the redesigned
SAT is scheduled for March 2016.
The class of 2017 and 2018 are
most affected by the change, but
the class of 2016 still has an opportunity to take the current SAT
in January 2016, which is likely
the safest bet. Regardless of the
format, it is never too early to
start preparing for these exams,
as it is the best way to ensure success and avoid last-minute, ineffective cramming. Some students
begin preparing a few months in
advance; for others, it’s several
months or longer.
3. Be aware that tips and
tricks won’t work: The redesigned SAT requires a mastery of
core academic concepts and an
ability to apply these concepts
in real-world scenarios. For example, in the evidenced-based
grams. More than 85 percent of
City Tech students graduate without education debt. In 2014, over
90% of the City Tech graduates
who responded to an exit survey
had found employment in an area
related to their studies within six
months of graduation. You may
want to take a good look at this
excellent career-starter right in
your backyard. You can get more
information at citytech.cuny.edu .
reading and writing section,
questions will feature charts and
graphs similar to ones students
will most likely encounter in science and social science majors as
well as their careers. Math questions will also test more complex
skills, and questions will build on
one another.
4. Know your options: As the
SAT will see significant changes,
which could cause uncertainty on
the part of students and parents,
the ACT is another viable collegeentrance exam option. The ACT,
which focuses on core high school
curriculum and what a student
has learned, is accepted at all
four-year U.S. colleges and has
overtaken the SAT in popularity.
Huntington, whose team of
educational experts analyzed the
new test’s blueprint to uncover key
changes and developed a rigorous curriculum to address them,
is launching a new SAT prep program in July that will be available
in its 260 centers across the nation.
For more information about
the redesigned SAT, including key
dates and considerations, visit
w w w.huntingtonhelps.com/program/sat-redesigned and download a free copy of “Huntington’s
Guide to the Understanding the
Redesigned SAT.”
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COLLEGE GUIDE
York College: A half
century of learning
in Queens
N
estled in the heart of Jamai- academic institutions. York is the
ca, York College is a com- only CUNY senior college offering
munity staple.
majors in gerontology, biotechnolFor almost 50 years, York, a se- ogy, information systems managenior college in the City University ment and aviation management.
of New York’s (CUNY) system, has
With the college’s close proximgrown from its
ity to two of the
early beginnings Founded: 1966
most heavily trafto an institution Students: 8,259 enrolled
ficked airports in
that consistently
the nation, the
Application Deadline for
graduates
the
aviation managebest and bright- Admissions: June 1
ment major gives
est.
many of our stuAccepted: 64.6 percent
York College
dents a hands-on
provides instruc- Tuition and Fees: $6,396
knowledge of the
in-state; $16.416 out of state
tion in more than
industry.
50 areas of study, Most Popular Majors: PsyThe York expeand it features chology, General; Business
rience is nurturAdministration and Managea set of distinc- ment, General; Social Work;
ing and enriches
tive options that Accounting; and Health
the lives of our
make it stand out Teacher Education.
students. Whether
among New York
it is career readi-
ness or the pursuit of a higher level
of study, a York education prepares
students for the road ahead. In the
last three years, York students have
gone on to elite graduate and professional schools and have participated in research projects that have
the potential to transform the lives
of millions. York graduates are now
pursuing advanced degrees at institutions like Brown University, Stony
Brook Medical School, Cambridge
University and many others.
York provides not only a world
class education, but most of its students also start their post graduate
lives without the overwhelming bur-
den of debt. The Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS),
NerdScholar, a scholarship information organization and website,
recently listed York College as the
“US College with the lowest student debt in 2013” ($2,271).
Campus life at York is enhanced by its diversity of students
who hail or descend from all over
the world. It is a warm, welcoming environment that nurtures
learning and community. Come
visit us.
For more information about
York College, visit York.cuny.edu
or call (718) 262-2000
From the president, students, faculty
and staff of York College/CUNY:
CONGRATULATIONS
to all ACCEPTED STUDENTS
to our College!
You and your parents or guardians are cordially invited to the newly-admitted
students’ reception. This is an exciting time in your life, and we’re delighted to
welcome you to the amazing community and traditions of York College.
Here are five reasons you and your family
should attend the Accepted Students’ Reception:
t Confirm your place in the incoming class
t Learn more about our exciting programs and majors
t Learn about student life and pre-registration steps
t Speak with Admissions and Financial Aid Counselors
t Tour our 50-acre state-of-the-art campus
Join us for this
exciting event!
Sunday, May 3rd, 2015
RSVP by visiting www.york.cuny.edu/accepted
or calling 718-262-2165. The program will commence
at 12:00 sharp and conclude at approximately 4:00 p.m.
in the Atrium of the Academic Core Building,
94-20 Guy R. Brewer Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11451.
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Find your place in the world
Academically rigorous. Amazingly affordable. Truly global.
With more than 170 undergraduate and graduate programs, Queens College opens doors
to careers in the arts & humanities, business, education, the sciences, and social sciences.
• An accessible, award-winning faculty dedicated to scholarship and research
• Placed eighth among Top Public Regional Universities in the North by U.S. News &
World Report’s Best Colleges 2014
• Ranked #2 nationwide by The Washington Monthly for giving students the
“Best Bang for the Buck”
Learn more about Queens College at findyourqc.info
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PIX
Masons Honor NYFAC
Kicking
Up A
Storm
St Johns Red Storm
alumnus, and current
New York City FC defender Chris Wingert
breaks up an attack
by Portland Timbers
midfielder
Ishmael
Vartey during first
half action at Yankee
Stadium on Sunday.
The Timbers defeated
NYCFC however 1-0.
Photo by Bruce Adler
On Tuesday, April 14, New York Families for Autistic Children (NYFAC) President
& CEO Andrew Baumann was presented with “The Douglas MacArthur Award for
Exemplary Service to Youth” by the Springfield Gardens Masonic Lodge, No. 1057.
The award was bestowed to Baumann, along with fellow honorees James and Hedwig
DeBonet, for his “endearing work in developing NYFAC and [his] dedication to the
less fortunate.”
Earth Day Poster Winner
Welcome New Trees!
NYC Parks and PwC teamed up with the New York Knicks on Thursday to plant
3,500 trees and 1,050 shrubs in Alley Pond Park in Queens. Attendees included NYC
Parks Commissioner Mitchell J. Silver, FAICP, Knicks legend Walt “Clyde” Frazier
and former Knick Jerome Williams, the Knicks City Dancers, PwC Partner and New
York Market Youth Education Leader Mitch Roschelle, students from P.S. 161 and
more than 100 volunteers from PwC’s New York market, the Knicks, and Parks. Photo by Daniel Avila
State Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky (D-Flushing) visited PS 220 Monday to congratulate
the winner of her annual Earth Day poster contest. This year’s winner was 4th-grader
Tristan Lujan, who created a poster about why we should remember to reduce, reuse
and recycle this Earth Day.
Newtown Creek Presentation
A Friend From The Far East
Last Thursday, Assemblywoman Nily Rozic and Queens College
President Félix V. Matos Rodriguez toured
Townsend Harris High
School with Ambassador Reiichiro Takahashi, Consul General of
Japan in New York. The
Ambassador’s visit commemorates the United
States’ first Consul to Japan, Townsend Harris, whose mission paved the way for today’s strong diplomatic relationship. The visit also continues to build on the longstanding and productive friendship between THHS and its Japanese sister school,
Shimodo High School.
In anticipation for Earth Day, the Ridgewood Democratic Club heard from Willis
Elkins, Program Manager of the Newtown Creek Alliance about the many policies
and issues being worked on and advocated by the Alliance to help improve the environment in and around Newtown Creek. State Senator Joseph Addabbo also attended
and gave an update on both the recently enacted state budget and spoke on the many
issues related to Ridgewood and Western Queens.
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For over 25 years, New York City police officers’ salaries have lagged far behind the
average for police officers in our area and around the country.
Now that its fiscal outlook is brighter than ever, our city has an opportunity to end
decades of labor discord by investing in the public safety that all New Yorkers deserve.
Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association of the City of New York
125 Broad Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10004 • 212-233-5531
Patrick J. Lynch, President
www.nycpba.org
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LEISURE
Night Market Coming To Flushing Meadows
By Daniel Offner
Staff Writer
Get your pocketbook ready, because
the first-ever Queens International
Night Market is coming to Flushing
Meadows-Corona Park this Saturday
night, from 6 p.m. to midnight.
John Wang, founder and organizer
of the night market, said he became
inspired to bring the international night
market to the Borough from some of
the Asian-inspired marketplaces he
visited as a kid.
Although the idea is nothing new –
having existed in Asian, African, Latin
American and Western European countries for years – it would be the first of
its kind to be held in New York City.
“In some ways, it’s sort of like a
cultural flea market that happens at
night,” Wang said. “The premise is to
highlight as many of the cultures and
ethnicities from Queens and New York
City as possible.”
Open ever y Saturday
through October, the Queens
International Night Market
promises to be a family-friendly
event featuring more than 60
vendors selling merchandise,
artwork and food. It will also
feature small-scale cultural performances and entertainment,
celebrating the rich cultural
diversity and heritage of the
Borough.
In order to cover the cost of
equipment, rental and permit
fees, Wang turned to the crowd-funding
website Kickstarter.com to try and secure the necessary funds.
However, after the attempt to fundraise via a crowd-sourcing campaign
went bust – raising only $14,052 of their
$100,000 goal – Wang said he wound up
going to outside investors to help subsidize vendors and cover expenses.
“My guess is that we will sort of
launch smaller than we hope to grow
into,” Wang said, noting that the first
few nights will serve as a test to work
out any kinks. “We hope that the people
are receptive to it and it will become a
mainstay.”
Despite numerous announcements
and promotion for the night market,
members of Community Board
4 were not enthused to discover
that shoppers would be swarming the park after-hours, stressing a short-supply of parking
spaces for consumers.
“This is a residential community… there is no parking
here to begin with,” one Board
member said. “You’re going to
have cars driving up and down
at midnight?”
Wang said that while the
night market is free and open
to the public, parking will be
made available at the New York Hall
of Science.
To learn more on the upcoming
Queens International Night Market or
to become a vendor, visit queensnightmarket.com.
Reach Daniel Offner at (718) 3577400, Ext. 125, doffner@queenstribune.
com, or @DanielOffner.
Musician Of Queens: J. Walter Hawkes, LIC
By Jackie StrawBriDge
Staff Writer
When he’s not working in his studio
– a Long Island City space called the
Blat-O-Box – Hawkes can be found
Long Island City-based trombonist performing a wide range of music with
J. Walter Hawkes is an expert in his field different groups.
He has masterful control of the
but a kid at heart.
The Emmy-winning composer, trombone, capable of making it murarranger and performer said he was mur, sing or wail as if it had vocal cords.
“originally drawn to [the trombone] for Although he said he is drawn to loudness and calls himthe funny noises
self “the Blat Boy,”
it would ma ke”
he is comfortable
in the car to ons
playing any style,
he watched as a
from searing swing
kid; now, as a proto soft ballads.
fessional, he has
Hawkes plays
given a musical
Latin Jazz with the
backbone to shows
Willie Martinez La
from Blue’s Clues
Familia Sextet, trato Sesame Street to
ditional jazz with
The Wonder Pets.
Kevin Dorn’s Big
Fo r Haw k e s ,
72, Tin-Pan Althis work is reley tunes with the
warding in the huPre-War Ponies
mor and creativity
and collaborates
that it demands.
with fellow Long
“I love taking a
Island City-based
script and bringing
composer Pat Irout the humor,” he
win, with whom
explained. “I rehe will perform at
ally enjoy adding
the LIC Arts Open
the things to make
in May.
people laugh even
The trombonmore than they J. Walter Hawkes wails on the
ist is also accomwould if they only trombone.
plished on an inheard the joke.”
strument with an
“I also enjoy the
incredibly huge musical palette I get entirely different personality: the
to work with in the shows I work on, ukulele.
Hawkes said that before he picked up
especially with [the PBS show] ‘Peg
+ Cat,’” he added. “One episode is in the instrument, he “would have never
outer space, the next one might be on considered playing something like the
a farm and the next one could be in ukulele.” But when he was given his
Indonesia. It’s always changing and I grandfather’s ukulele, he found it was “a
beautiful instrument, made of Hawaiian
learn something every time.”
Koa wood in the late thirties.”
“It can sound pure and clear, like a
harp,” he went on. “At the time, I lived
in an SRO on St. Mark’s Place in the
East Village, and trombone music was
not very – uh – popular with my many
close neighbors. I found myself practicing that little beautiful sounding instrument quite a bit during that era, both in
my little apartment and while I was on
the road extensively. It’s small enough
to practice in the back seat, and quiet
enough not to really disturb anyone.”
Music fans who want to hear Hawkes
on either instrument can visit his website, blatboy.com. On April 28, he will
accompany Queen Esther on Billie
Holiday tunes at Minton’s Playhouse
in Manhattan.
Reach Jackie Strawbridge at (718)
357-7400, Ext. 128, jstrawbridge@
queenstribune.com or @JNStrawbridge.
Open Call For LGBTQ
Performers At FTH
By Jackie StrawBriDge
Staff Writer
LGBTQ artists have an opportunity to kick off Pride Month in Jackson
Heights this summer.
Flushing Town Hall has released
an open call for Queens-based artists
who identify as LGBTQ, to perform
in a free, outdoor concert at Diversity
Plaza – next to Broadway and Roosevelt
Avenue in Jackson Heights – on June
6, one day before the Jackson Heights
Pride Parade. Musicians, dancers, poets, actors and other performing artists
are encouraged to apply.
“The open call is really to give these
artists visibility within the community,” FTH deputy director Sami Abu
Shumays said. “We’re hoping that our
audience takes away a feeling of shared
humanity, feelings of recognition, of
positivity despite differences.”
Applications must include a short
statement of interest (200 words maximum) and biography (300 words maxi-
mum), as well as three work samples.
Artists should email their applications
to Shumays at [email protected] by May 1 with the subject
LGBTQ Open Call 2015.
For this year’s concert, Shumays said
FTH particularly seeks LGBTQ artists
from minority and immigrant communities, whom he said “face double
layers of discrimination within the
mainstream community.”
“We think of the arts in that context
as something that celebrates people and
gives people an opportunity to celebrate
who they are,” Shumays continued. “To
speak openly about who they are, and
to sing, or dance, or perform something
that comes from the heart.”
Flushing Town Hall will select
three to five applicants to perform. The
selected artists will receive a modest
honorarium. Artists will be notified
the week of May 11.
Reach Jackie Strawbridge at (718)
357-7400, Ext. 128, jstrawbridge@
queenstribune.com or @JNStrawbridge.
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FRIDAY 4/24
FLAmENCo AmALGAmA
An exciting show at Sunnyside’s Thalia Spanish Theatre featuring traditional
and contemporary flamenco music and dance,
celebrating the various
cultures that come together and are united by
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dance floor! Each artist
performs a set, and then
play an impromptu jam
together for the final act.
Flushing Town Hall
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love fabric and textiles? Or
would you like to learn?
Join other sewing enthusiasts in an afternoon of
creating and socializing. 1-4
p.m., Bayside Historical Society at 208 Totten Ave. Fort
Totten Bayside. $8 Members, $10 non-members.
ART CoNNECTIoN
Artists will have the opportunity to have their
portfolios critiqued by
Queens Museum curatorial staff. The speed consultations will be an opportunity for artists to engage
in focused, private meetings
with experts in the field.
Artists will also have the
chance to sign up to participate in a slide slam of their
artwork. Registration begins
at 2, portfolio reviews run
3 p.m. to 5 p.m., followed
by a slide slam of artwork
slideshows, video and readings and a cocktail party
until 7 p.m. RSVP at http://
bit.ly/1ETH8Xc. To submit
work for the slide slam visit
http://bit.ly/1HFvL8W.
HEARTWoRN SuBWAYS
2.0
An evening of short
solo sets at Trans Pecos in
Ridgewood by NYC songwriters Tall Firs, Sue Garner
(Vietnam, Run On), Lee
Ranaldo (Sonic Youth, Lee
Ranaldo and the Dust), and
Alan Licht (Run On, Lee
Ranaldo and the Dust, etc.).
The show begins at 8 p.m.
and tickets cost $10.
QuEENS JAzz
ovERGRouND SpRING
JAzz FESTIvAL 2015
Come to the third annual
Queens Jazz OverGround
Spring Jazz Festival and
enjoy 10 hours of free
jazz at Flushing Town
Hall, 137-35 Northern
Blvd., from noon to 10 p.m.
Featuring performers from
around Queens, from jazz
legends to up-and-coming
artists, the afternoon will
feature master classes by top
Queens-based music educators and performances by local middle and high school
jazz ensembles, before evening performances in both
the theater and gallery.
DAKIN HART: ICoNIC
DISpLAY
Iconic Display looks at
the frames and contexts
that are, whether we are
conscious
of them, or
not, or consent to be
influenced
by them,
or not,
inextricably
entwined
with our understanding
of specific bodies of work.
1-2 p.m., Noguchi Museum,
9-01 33rd Road at Vernon
SPOTLIGHT OF THE WEEK
SATURDAY 4/25
NERD IS THE NEW BLACK
Charles McBee brings smart, edgy and
hilarious stand up comedy live to Q.E.D
Astoria. The comedians featured on this
show headline clubs and colleges all over
the country and are also featured on
MTV, VH1, NBC’s Last Comic Standing
and Saturday Night Live.
$10 in advance, $15 at the door. Show
runs 9 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
Blvd. Long Island City. $10
Adults, $5 Students/Seniors.
SpRING FLING FoR
EARTH DAY
Tours of the Gardens
and Vander Ende Onderdonk House, plus crafts,
games, music & entertainment. Light refreshments
will be available. 12-4 p.m.,
The Vander Ende-Onderdonk House
1820 Flushing Ave. Ridgewood.
SUnDAY 4/26
THE AmERICAN JEWISH
SYmpHoNY
Join the American Jewish
Symphony, an electrif ying
50-piece ensemble dedicated to the performance of
orchestral works of distinction that explore Jewish
Cultural heritage and
experience, at the Queensborough Performing Arts
Center at 3 p.m. The Eastern European program
features selections of
music from Klezmer
and folk traditions to
music of the American
Yiddish Theater, which
became a powerful influence on the Broadway musical. The performance will
also feature special guest
performer Mike Burstyn,
one of the world’s most
popular Jewish entertainers. Tickets are $42 to $48.
For more information or
to buy tickets visit www.
visitqpac.org.
SAvE THE EARTH
ToDDLER TALES
Kids ages 3 to 4 years old
can join the Alley Pond
Environmental Center,
228-06 Northern Boulevard
in Douglaston, from 10:30
a.m. to noon, as they listen to a nature related
story followed by a fun
craft. Enjoy a snack, meet
an animal and take a trail
walk (weather permitting).
Limit 12 participants.
Costs $18 per child to
participate.
demos, and a beer tent!
11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Queens
Botanical Garden, 43-50
Main St., Flushing $2 to $4.
monDAY 4/27
zEpHYR TEACHouT oN
CoRRupTIoN
QuEENS’ NEWEST
oRCHESTRA
Join in the revelry of the
Borough’s newest music
group, the Queensboro
Symphony Orchestra, as
they perform their second
concert-ever at Mary’s Nativity Church, 46-02 Parsons
Blvd. in Flushing at 7 p.m.
Led by acclaimed maestro
Dong-hyun Kim, the orchestra will perform classics
like Beethoven’s “Egmont
Overture,” Handel’s “Royal
Fireworks Music,” Haydn’s
“Trumpet Concerto (featuring Chulho Kim)” and a
world premier from local
composer Paul Joseph. Admission is a free-will offering. For more information
call (718) 359-5996.
CoLLEGE poINT TouR
The college that gave
College Point its name is
long gone but we have
plenty of other sites to
see in this former company town built in large
part by entrepreneur and
railroader Conrad Poppenhusen. Meet at Poppenhusen
Institute, 14th Road and
114th Street at noon. (#7
train to Main Street, northbound Q65 bus). $20.
ARBoR FESTIvAL
Enjoy activities for all ages,
including a petting zoo,
arts & crafts, live music,
face-painting, food and
craft vendors, compost
Former gubernatorial candidate Zephyr Teachout will
be at the Central Queens
Y in Forest Hills. She will
discuss her
book “Corruption
in America: From
Benjamin
Franklin’s
Snuff Box
to Citizens
United” which is about
corruption in this country’s
political system. The talk is
scheduled to begin at 1:30
p.m. There is a suggested
donation of $5 for members
of the CQY and $8 for nonmembers.
THURSDAY 4/30
INTERNATIoNAL JAzz
DAY
Watch an exclusive
screening of Louis
Armstrong’s complete
concert performed in
East Berlin in 1965. Presented by the Louis Armstrong House Museum, the
program will be held at the
Museum of the Moving Image starting at 6:30 p.m. and
costs $15.
GoT
EvENTS?
Send all information to
[email protected]
or mail to:
150-50 14th Rd.,
Whitestone, nY 11357
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LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
SUMMONS Index No.
706679/2014 D/O/F: September 17, 2014 Premises Address: 118-42 197Th St Saint
Albans, NY 11412 SUPREME
COURT OF THE STATE
OF NEW YORK COUNTY
OF QUEENS NATIONSTAR
MORTGAGE LLC D/B/A
CHAMPION MORTGAGE
COMPANY, Plaintiff, -againstBRANDON WRIGHT AS
HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT
OF KIN OF ELIZABETH
WRIGHT A/K/A ELIZABETH
WRIGHT-FARRAR; CLARENCE FARRAR AS HEIR AT
LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF
ELIZABETH WRIGHT A/K/A
ELIZABETH WRIGHT-FARRAR; GEORGE WRIGHT AS
HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF
KIN OF ELIZABETH WRIGHT
A/K/A ELIZABETH WRIGHTFARRAR; HENRY E. WRIGHT
AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT
OF KIN OF ELIZABETH
WRIGHT A/K/A ELIZABETH
WRIGHT-FARRAR; SYLVIA
WRIGHT AS HEIR AT LAW
AND NEXT OF KIN OF ELIZABETH WRIGHT A/K/A ELIZABETH WRIGHT-FARRAR;
TARYN WRIGHT AS HEIR
AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN
OF ELIZABETH WRIGHT
A/K/A ELIZABETH WRIGHTFARRAR; JOHN DOE 1
THROUGH 50; JANE DOE
1 THROUGH 50, INTENDING TO BE THE UNKNOWN
HEIRS, DISTRIBUTES, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, TRUSTEES,
LIENORS, CREDITORS, AND
ASSIGNEES OF THE ESTATE
OF ELIZABETH WRIGHT
A/K/A ELIZABETH WRIGHTFARRAR WHO WAS BORN
ON FEBRUARY 4, 1931 AND
DIED ON MARCH 5, 2011, A
RESIDENT OF THE COUNTY
OF QUEENS, THEIR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST IF ANY
OF THE AFORESAID DEFENDANTS BE DECEASED,
THEIR RESPECTIVE HEIRS
AT LAW, NEXT OF KIN, AND
SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF THE AFORESAID
CLASSES OF PERSON, IF
THEY OR ANY OF THEM BE
DEAD, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE HUSBANDS, WIVES
OR WIDOWS, IF ANY, ALL
OF WHOM AND WHOSE
N A M E S A N D P L AC E S
OF RESIDENCE ARE UNKNOWN TO THE PLAINTIFF;
NEW YORK CITY PARKING
VIOL ATIONS BUREAU;
NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT
ADJUDICATION BUREAU;
CRIMINAL COURT OF THE
CITY OF NEW YORK; DISCOVER BANK ; JPMORGAN
CHASE BANK, N.A. S/B/M
CHASE MANHATTAN BANK
USA N.A.; NEW YORK STATE
DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION & FINANCE; QUEENS
SUPREME COURT; UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA - INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE;
NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL
BOARD; UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA O/B/O SEC-
RETARY OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT;;
‘’JOHN DOES’’ AND ‘’JANE
DOES’’, said names being
fictitious, parties intended
being possible tenants or
occupants of premises, and
corporations, other entities
or persons who claim, or
may claim, a lien against the
premises, Defendant(s), TO
THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY
SUMMONED to answer the
Complaint in this action,
and to serve a copy of your
Answer, or, if the Complaint
is not served with this Summons, to serve a Notice of
Appearance on the Plaintiff’s
Attorneys within twenty (20)
days after the service of this
Summons, exclusive of the
day of service, where service
is made by delivery upon you
personally within the State,
or within thirty (30) days
after completion of service
where service is made in any
other manner, and in case
of your failure to appear or
answer, judgment will be
taken against you by default
for the relief demanded in
the complaint. NOTICE YOU
ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOMEIf you do
not respond to this summons
and complaint by serving a
copy of the answer on the
attorney for the mortgage
company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against
you and filing the answer with
the court, a default judgment
may be entered and you can
lose your home. Speak to an
attorney or go to the court
where your case is pending
for further information on
how to answer the summons
and protect your property.
Sending a payment to your
mortgage company will not
stop this foreclosure action.
YOU MUST RESPOND BY
SERVING A COPY OF THE
ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF
(MORTGAGE COMPANY)
AND FILING THE ANSWER
WITH THE COURT. The following notice is intended only
for those defendants who
are owners of the premises
sought to be foreclosed or
who are liable upon the
debt for which the mortgage
stands as security. YOU ARE
HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE
THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT,
AND ANY INFORMATION
OBTAINED WILL BE USED
FOR THAT PURPOSE. The
present amount of the debt
as of the date of this summons: $399,546.04, consisting of principal balance of
$283,918.41 plus unpaid accrued interest of $67,209.97,
escrow/impound shortages
or credits of $22,016.79, late
charges of $0.00; Mortgage
Insurance Premium charges
of $24,207.14; Broker`s
Price Opinion/Appraisal of
$325.00; Property Inspection
and miscellaneous charges
of $647.00; attorney fee
$1,200.00 and surrogates
search fee $21.73. Because
of interest and other charges
that may vary from day to
day, the amount due on the
day you pay may be greater.
Hence, if you pay the amount
shown above, an adjustment
may be necessary after we
receive the check, in which
event we will inform you.
The name of the creditor to
whom the debt is owed: NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC
D/B/A CHAMPION MORTGAGE COMPANY. Unless
you dispute the validity of the
debt, or any portion thereof,
within thirty (30) days after
receipt hereof, the debt will
be assumed to be valid by the
herein debt collector. If you
notify the herein debt collector in writing within thirty
(30) days after your receipt
hereof that the debt, or any
portion thereof, is disputed,
we will obtain verification
of the debt or a copy of any
judgment against you representing the debt and a copy
of such verification or judgment will be mailed to you
by the herein debt collector.
Upon your written request
within 30 days after receipt
of this notice, the herein
debt collector will provide
you with the name and address of the original creditor
if different from the current
creditor. Note: Your time to
respond to the summons and
complaint differs from your
time to dispute the validity
of the debt or to request the
name and address of the
original creditor. Although
you have as few as 20 days
to respond to the summons
and complaint, depending on
the manner of service, you
still have 30 days from receipt
of this summons to dispute
the validity of the debt and
to request the name and address of the original creditor.
TO THE DEFENDANTS: The
Plaintiff makes no personal
claim against you in this action. TO THE DEFENDANTS:
If you have obtained an
order of discharge from the
Bankruptcy court, which
includes this debt, and you
have not reaffirmed your liability for this debt, this law
firm is not alleging that you
have any personal liability for
this debt and does not seek
a money judgment against
you. Even if a discharge has
been obtained, this lawsuit
to foreclose the mortgage
will continue and we will
seek a judgment authorizing
the sale of the mortgaged
premises. Dated: September
16, 2014 Joshua P. Smolow,
Esq. ROSICKI, ROSICKI &
ASSOCIATES, P.C. Attorneys
for Plaintiff Main Office 51
E Bethpage Road Plainview,
NY 11803 516-741-2585
Help For Homeowners In
Foreclosure New York State
Law requires that we send
you this notice about the
foreclosure process. Please
read it carefully. Mortgage
foreclosure is a complex
process. Some people may
approach you about “saving” your home. You should
be extremely careful about
any such promises. The State
encourages you to become
informed about your options
in foreclosure. There are
government agencies, legal
aid entities and other nonprofit organizations that you
may contact for information
about foreclosure while you
are working with your lender
during this process. To locate
an entity near you, you may
call the toll-free helpline
maintained by the New York
State Banking Department at
1-877-BANKNYS (1-877-2265697) or visit the Department’s website at www.banking.state.ny.us. The State does
not guarantee the advice of
these agencies.
________________________
TSC 2016, LLC, a domestic
LLC, filed with the SSNY
on 3/9/15. Office location:
Queens County. SSNY is
designated as agent upon
whom process against the
LLC may be served. SSNY
shall mail process to The LLC,
36-06 43rd Ave., Long Island
City, NY 11101. General
purpose.
________________________
Notice is hereby given that
an on premises license, #TBA
has been applied for by Pico
de Gallo Inc to sell beer, wine
and liquor at retail in an on
premises establishment. For
on premises consumption
under the ABC law at 82-12
Roosevelt Avenue Jackson
Heights, NY 11372.
________________________
LO N D O N O I N T E R N A TIONAL, LLC, Arts. of Org.
filed with the SSNY on
02/26/2015. Office loc:
Queens County. SSNY has
been designated as agent
upon whom process against
the LLC may be served. SSNY
shall mail process to: The
LLC, 150-40 Jewel Ave., Ste
66B, Flushing, NY 11367.
Reg Agent: Eliana Londono,
150-40 Jewel Ave., Ste 66B,
Flushing, NY 11367. Purpose:
Any Lawful Purpose.
________________________
GP REALTY MANAGEMENT,
LLC, a domestic LLC, filed
with the SSNY on 3/3/15.
Office location: Queens
County. SSNY is designated
as agent upon whom process against the LLC may
be served. SSNY shall mail
process to The LLC, 4240
Bell Blvd., Ste. 601, Bayside,
NY 11361-2861. General
purpose.
________________________
70 Exeter Realty LLC Arts
of Org. filed SSNY 3/24/15.
Office: Queens Co. SSNY
design. agent of LLC upon
whom process may be served
and shall mail copy to C/O
Cooperman Lester Miller
Carus LLP, 1129 Northern
Blvd. #402 Manhasset, NY
11030. Purpose: any lawful
activity.
________________________
Shankar Sadhwani, M.d. PLLC
Arts of Org filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
2/24/15. Office in Queens
Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served & shall mail
process to Shankar Sadhwani,
86-35 Queens Blvd Ste 2G,
Elmhurst, NY 11373. Purpose: Medicine.
________________________
TSC PLANS & LOGISTICS,
LLC, a domestic LLC, filed
with the SSNY on 3/16/15.
Office location: Queens
County. SSNY is designated
as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be
served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 3606 43rd
Ave., Long Island City, NY
11101. General purpose.
QUEENS FOCUS
Post Your Photos At
@SignsOfSpringNYC
In honor of the arrival of spring, the
de Blasio Administration announced
today the relaunch of the City’s official
Instagram channel with an online contest encouraging New Yorkers to submit photos of the city in springtime.
Winners of #SignsOfSpringNYC will
serve as Instagram ambassadors on @
nycgov, the official Instagram account
of New York City government.
The #SignsOfSpringNYC contest
will engage New Yorkers from across
the five boroughs, giving voice to a diverse range of perspectives and photographic styles on the City’s official Instagram account. Submissions will be
accepted via a web form hosted on nyc.
gov and one ambassador from each
borough will be selected by a panel of
judges. In order to be eligible, photos
will need to be submitted in a square
format by end of the day on May 3.
The judging and vetting period will
take place from May 4 to 15.
The five judges who will select the
final ambassadors are:
Chirlane McCray, First Lady of
New York City
Nisha Agarwal, Commissioner of the
Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs
Mitchell Silver, Commissioner of
the Department of Parks and Recreation
Tom Finkelpearl, Commissioner of
the Department of Cultural Affairs
Rob Bennett, Chief Mayoral Photographer
Winners will be announced on May
15 and the winning photos will be
showcased on the @nycgov Instagram
channel and in public spaces throughout New York City. Ambassadors will
serve through August 31, and will also
have special access to an official City
event, where they will have the opportunity to photograph for the @nycgov
account.
Four new members of Community
Board 7 have been appointed. They
are:
Belal Salim, Vincent Gianelli,
Kevin Kang and Alison Tan
Christine Garcia of Glen Oaks,
whose major is Anthropology; is one
of 131 students received the SUNY
Oneonta 2014-2015 Susan Sutton
Smith Award for academic excellence.
To be eligible for the award, a student
must be a freshman, sophomore or junior with a grade-point average of 3.9
or higher.
Student award winners receive a
certificate, a gift card to the campus
bookstore, and an invitation to attend
the annual Susan Sutton Smith Lecture and reception that was held on
April 14.
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LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
SUPREME COURT OF THE
STATE, OF NEW YORK
COUNTY OF QUEENS Index
No. 706099/2013 Date filed:
10/8/14 SUPPLEMENTAL
SUMMONS Premises being
foreclosed: 177-33 Leslie
Road Jamaica, NY 11434
ACTION TO FORECLOSE
MORTGAGE ON PROPERTY SITUATED IN QUEENS
COUNTY OneWest Bank,
FSB, Plaintiff, -against- James
E. Files a/k/a James Files
a/k/a James Edward Files
and all the heirs at law, next
of kin, distributees, devisees,
grantees, trustees, lienors,
creditors, assignees and successors in interest of any of
the aforesaid defendants at
law, next of kin, distributees,
devisees, grantees, trustees,
lienors, creditors, assignees
and successors in interest
of the aforesaid classes of
persons, if they or any of
them be dead, and their respective husbands, wives or
widows, if any, all of whom
and whose names and places
of residence are unknown to
the plaintiff, except as herein
stated, Secretary of Housing
and Urban Development,
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE
OF NEW YORK, and THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Defendant(s). TO THE
ABOVE DEFENDANTS: YOU
ARE HEREBY SUMMONED
to answer the complaint in
this action, and to serve a copy
of your answer, or if the Complaint is not served with this
Summons, to serve a Notice
of Appearance on the Plaintiffs attorneys within twenty
(20) days after the service of
the Summons exclusive of the
day of service or within thirty
(30) days after completion of
service where service is made
in any other manner than by
personal delivery within the
State. In case of your failure
to appear, or answer, judgment will be taken against
you by default for the relief
demanded in this Complaint.
WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO
COLLEC T A DEBT, ANY
INFORMATION OBTAINED
WILL BE USED FOR THAT
PURPOSE. Plaintiff designates QUEENS County as the
place for trial. Venue is based
upon the County in which
the mortgaged premises is
situated. TO THE ABOVE
NAMED DEFENDANTS: The
foregoing Summons is served
upon you by publication
pursuant to an Order of the
Hon. Rudolph E. Greco, Jr., a
Justice of the Supreme Court,
Queens County, dated Sept.
2, 2014 and filed with the
complaint and other papers
in the Queens Office of the
Register on Jan. 8, 2007 in
CRFN#2007000012233 covering prem. k/a 177-33 Leslie
Rd., Jamaica, NY a/k/a Block
12484, Lot 100. NOTICE
YOU ARE IN DANGER OF
LOSING YOUR HOME If you
do not respond, to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on
the attorney for the mortgage
company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against
you and filing the answer with
the .court, a default judgment
may be entered and you can
lose your home. Speak to an
attorney or go to the court
where your case is pending
for further information on
how to answer the summons
and protect your property.
Sending a payment to your
mortgage company will not
stop this foreclosure action.
YOU MUST RESPOND BY
SERVING A COPY OF THE
ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF
(MORTGAGE COMPANY)
AND FILING THE ANSWER
WITH THE COURT. Dated:
Carle Place, New York October 8, 2014 Rosamaria M.
Sagese, Esq. Stein, Wiener &
Roth, L.L.P. Attorneys for Plaintiff One Old Country Road,
Suite 113 Carle Place, New
York 11514 (516)-742-1212
63645/1NDY-FF WE ARE
ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT
A DEBT, ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE
USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.
#85806
________________________
STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT COUNT Y OF QUEENS Filed:
March 24, 2015 Index No.:
700721/2014 SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE Mortgaged Premises: 7
-01 College Pt Blvd College
Point, (City of New York)
NY 11356 NATIONSTAR
MORTGAGE LLC, Plaintiff,
vs. CARLOS E. CORONEL,
if living, and if he be dead,
his 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 who may
be deceased, by purchase,
inheritance, lien or otherwise,
any right, title or interest in and
to the premises, Defendants.
TO THE ABOVE NAMED
DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE
HEREBY SUMMONED to
answer the Complaint in the
above entitled action and to
serve a copy of your Answer
on Plaintiff’s attorney within
twenty (20) days after the
service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service,
or within thirty (30) days after
completion of service where
service is made in any other
manner than by personal
delivery within the State. The
United States of America, if
designated as a Defendant
in this action, may answer or
appear within sixty (60) days
of service hereof. In case of
your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken
against you by default for the
relief demanded in the Complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE
OF ACTION AND RELIEF
SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the
above captioned action is for
the foreclosure of: Mortgage
bearing the date of September 29, 2006, executed by
Carlos E. Coronel, An Unmarried Man to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems,
Inc., as nominee for Lehman
Brothers Bank, FSB to secure
the sum of $568,000.00, and
interest, and recorded in the
Office of the Clerk of Queens
County on October 23, 2006
in CRFN 2006000592053.
That Mortgage Electronic
Registration Systems, Inc., as
nominee for Lehman Brothers Bank, FSB duly assigned
said Note and Mortgage to
Aurora Loan Services, LLC by
Assignment dated November
24, 2008 and recorded on
April 17, 2009 in the Office of
the Clerk of Queens County
in CRFN 2009000113615.
That Aurora Loan Services,
LLC duly assigned said Note
and Mortgage to Nationstar
Mortgage, LLC by Assignment
dated September 18, 2012
and recorded on October 26,
2012 in the Office of the Clerk
of Queens County in CRFN
2012000426146. The relief
sought in the within action
is a final judgment directing
the sale of the Mortgaged
Premises described above
to satisfy the debt secured
by the Mortgage described
above. Plaintiff designates
Queens County as the place
of trial. The basis of venue is
the County in which the Mortgaged Premises is situated.
Block: 3964 Lot: 1 DATED:
March 18, 2015 Rochester,
New York NOTICE YOU ARE
IN DANGER OF LOSING
YOUR HOME If you do not
respond to this summons and
complaint by serving a copy
of the answer on the attorney
for the Mortgage company
who filed this foreclosure
proceeding against you and
filing the answer with the
court, a default judgment
may be entered and you can
lose your home. Speak to an
attorney or go to the court
where your case is pending
for further information on
how to answer the summons
and protect your property.
Sending a payment to your
Mortgage company will not
stop this foreclosure action.
YOU MUST RESPOND BY
SERVING A COPY OF THE
ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF
(MORTGAGE COMPANY)
AND FILING THE ANSWER
WITH THE COURT. DAVIDSON FINK LLP Attorneys for
Plaintiff 28 East Main Street,
Suite 1700 Rochester, New
York 14614 Tel: (585) 7608218 WE ARE ATTEMPTING
TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY
INFORMATION OBTAINED
WILL BE USED FOR THAT
PURPOSE. SCHEDULE A LEGAL DESCRIPTION ALL that
certain plot piece or parcel of
land, 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 corner formed by
the intersection of the easterly
side of College Point Boulevard, formerly 13th Street,
with the southerly side of 7th
Avenue, formerly Avenue F;
THENCE easterly along the
southerly side of 7th Avenue,
100 feet; THENCE southerly
parallel with the easterly side
of College Point Boulevard,
25 feet; THENCE westerly
parallel with the southerly
side of 7th Avenue, 100 feet
to the easterly side of College
Point Boulevard; THENCE
easterly along the easterly side
of College Point Boulevard,
25 feet to the point or place
of BEGINNING.
________________________
File No.: 2013-400/A CITATION THE PEOPLE OF
THE STATE OF NEW YORK
BY THE GRACE OF GOD,
FREE AND INDEPENDENT
To: Highland Care Center,
Father Pedro Lawrynick, Attorney General of the State of
New York The unknown distributees, legatees, devisees,
heirs at law and assignees
of PAULINA DEMBICKY
aka PAWLINA DEMBICKY,
deceased, or their estates, if
any there be, whose names,
places of residence and post
office addresses are unknown
to the petitioner and cannot
with due diligence be ascertained. Being the persons
interested as creditors, legatees, distributees or otherwise in the Estate of PAULINA
DEMBICKY aka PAWLINA
DEMBICKY, deceased, who
at the time of death was a
resident of 184-07 Wexford
Terrace, Jamaica, NY, in the
County of Queens, State of
New York. SEND GREETING:
Upon the petition of LOIS M.
ROSENBLATT, 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 PAULINA
DEMBICKY aka PAWLINA
DEMBICKY, 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
28th day of May, 2015 at 9:30
o’clock in the forenoon, why
the Account of Proceedings
of the Public Administrator 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 $32,065.80 and
that the Court fix the fair and
reasonable additional fee for
any services to be rendered
by GERARD J. SWEENEY,
ESQ., hereafter in connection with proceedings on
kinship, claims etc., prior to
entry of a final Decree on this
accounting in the amount
of 6% 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 pursuant to S.C.P.A. §1106(4); and
why the claim of Highland
Care Center in the amount
of $22,963.32 should not be
rejected; and why the claim
of Father Pedro Lawrynick in
the amount of $22,963.32
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 default herein,
or fail to establish proof of
kinship, Surrogate, Queens
County Margaret M. Gribbon
Clerk of the Surrogate’s Court
GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ.
(718) 459-9000 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 formal legal, verified objections.
You have a right to have an
attorney-at-law appear for
you. Accounting Citation
________________________
163 STUYVESANT LLC, Arts.
of Org. filed with the SSNY
on 09/16/2014. Office loc:
Queens County. SSNY has
been designated as agent
upon whom process against
the LLC may be served. SSNY
shall mail process to: The LLC,
55-25 69th St., 2nd Fl, Maspeth, NY 11378. Purpose:
Any Lawful Purpose.
________________________
Notice of Formation of DAKH
II, LLC amended to DAK II SOLUTIONS, LLC. Arts. of Org.
filed with Secy. of State of NY
(SSNY) on 10/2/07. Office
location: Queens County.
SSNY designated as agent
of LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail process to:
22-60 46th St., Astoria, NY
11105. Purpose: any lawful
activity.
________________________
Ny City Movers LLC Arts of
Org filed with Secy. of State
of NY (SSNY) on 1/22/15.
Office in Queens Co. SSNY
desig. agent of LLC upon
whom process against it
may be served & shall mail
process to Amar K. Shetty,
4291 Crommelin St Fl 1,
Flushing, NY 11355. Purpose:
General.
________________________
Notice of formation of JODAY PARTNERS LLC. Articles
of Organization filed with the
SSNY on 03/05/2015. Office location in Queens, NY.
SSNY has been designated
for service of process. SSNY
shall mail copy of any process
served against the LLC at
15350 89th Avenue suite 823
Jamaica NY 11432. Purpose:
any lawful purpose.
________________________
WALTON/BRIARWOOD,
LLC Articles of Org. filed
NY Sec. of State (SSNY)
3/18/15. Office in Queens
Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC
upon whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to 36-35 Bell Blvd.,
Bayside, NY 11361, which is
also the principal business
location. Purpose: Any lawful
purpose.
________________________
360 CB Capital Fund Manager Bronstein Member LLC
Arts of Org. filed NY Secy of
State (SSNY) 3/6/15. Office:
Queens Co. SSNY design.
agent of LLC upon whom
process may be served and
shall mail copy to c/o Bronstein Properties LLC 108-18
Queens Blvd. S302 Forest
Hills, NY 11375. Purpose:
any lawful activity.
________________________
SAMCHRIS, LLC, a domestic
LLC, filed with the SSNY on
10/2/14. Office location:
Queens County. SSNY is
designated as agent upon
whom process against the
LLC may be served. SSNY
shall mail process to The
LLC, c/o Mariela Marinez,
Esq., 83-13 Northern Blvd.,
Jackson Heights, NY 11372.
General purpose.
________________________
Notice of Formation of Thrust
Drilling LLC. Arts. of Org. filed
Secy. of State of NY (SSNY)
on 7/1/09. Office location:
Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon
whom process against it may
be served. SSNY shall mail
process to: The LLC, 35-06
Farrington St., 2nd Fl., Flushing, NY 11354. Purpose: any
lawful activity.
________________________
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Sports
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A Familiar Face Takes Over Holy Cross Football
BY JORDAN GIBBONS
Staff Writer
When Tom Pugh stepped down as head coach
of the Holy Cross varsity football team after his
42-year tenure, the school knew it had big shoes
to fill.
Thankfully, the school did not have to look far
to find his replacement. Last week, Holy Cross announced that Pugh’s assistant, Tim Smith, would
take over the reigns.
“Coach Pugh has been my longtime friend
and mentor and it is going to be a challenge to fill
those shoes,” Smith said. “I am very excited that
they chose me for this position.”
Smith has primarily been a defensive coordinator during his coaching career, but he has been
an offensive coach at St. Francis Prep and a head
coach at Nazareth Regional High School.
He said that he will compile the offensive
gameplan with his offensive assistants and oversee
the offense, while calling the defensive plays.
Pugh credited Smith with a lot of the success
of the program over the last three years.
“Tim is considered one of the best defensive
coaches in the league,” Pugh said. “He’s done a
heck of a job.”
While Pugh has retired, Smith does not plan
to let him get too much rest and relaxation dur-
Head coach Tim Smith (l.) with former head
coach Tom Pugh.
ing the football season. He said he’s going to use
Pugh’s experience and input as much as possible.
“You think I’m going to let him get away?”
Smith joked. “I’m not letting him leave that easy.”
Smith is a FDNY Captain currently assigned
to the Community Affairs Unit. He said that Engine Company operations is one of the closest
jobs to football.
“You work together and you rely on each other,”
Smith said. “So, I really see the two jobs as parallels.”
Smith sees his coaching style as a middle
ground between a player’s coach and a discipli-
narian that he referred to as “hard but fair.”
He feels that he is in tune with players and
what they hope to achieve, while also being a
guiding force in their lives.
“I think that the kids respect me, but at the
same time, I try to teach them life lessons,” he said.
Smith credited Pugh with teaching him some
crucial lessons on coaching high school students
beyond just a focus on football.
“You have to have humility as a coach. Most
importantly you have to go as far as you can to
help players reach their goals,” Smith said. “You
have to be innovative when it comes down to
helping these kids achieve their goals.”
Smith has an additional challenge to tackle
since longtime assistant coach Stan Aufieri also
retired, but he said that he is going to try to mold
a crew out of who he has left and make any additions to the staff as he sees fit and he is confident
his staff and the players will continue to succeed.
“We have some very good returning players
that will work hard to reach their full potential
as student athletes,” Smith said. “With continued
support from our faculty, coupled with dedication
from players and coaches, I know that our program will be successful in developing good football players and great men.”
Reach Jordan Gibbons at (718)357-7400, Ext.
123, [email protected] or @jgibbons2.
PSAL Standings
BOYS BASEBALL VARSITY (As of April 22)
Queens A Central
School
W L
Pct.
Forest Hills
5
0
1.000
Richmond Hill
5
0
1.000
Robert Goddard HS of
Comm Arts and Tech
5
2
0.714
Hillcrest
2
3
0.400
Thomas Edison
1
3
0.250
Robert F. Kennedy
0
5
0.000
Queens A South
School
W
Martin Van Buren
6
Queens High School of Teaching
6
Jamaica
3
The Scholars Academy
1
Springfield Gardens
1
Far Rockaway Educational
Campus
0
Queens A North
School
W
Maspeth
6
Queens Vocational Tech
6
Information Technology HS
3
Frank Sinatra School of the Arts
1
Robert F. Wager Jr
1
Renaissance
0
School
Bayside
Townsend Harris
William C. Bryant
Queens AA East
W
6
4
3
L
1
1
5
3
6
Pct.
0.857
0.857
0.375
0.250
0.143
6
0.000
L
1
1
5
3
6
6
Pct.
0.857
0.857
0.375
0.250
0.143
0.000
L
2
2
1
Pct.
0.759
0.667
0.750
Academy of American Studies
Grover Cleveland
HS for Arts and Business
1
1
1
3
3
4
0.250
0.250
0.200
L
1
2
3
4
5
4
Pct.
0.833
0.667
0.571
0.333
0.286
0.200
Academy for Careers in
TV and Film
0
8
0.000
GIRLS SOFTBALL VARSITY (As of April 22)
Queens A
School
W L
Pct.
HS for Construction
7
1
0.875
Bayside
7
2
0.778
Francis Lewis
6
1
0.857
Forest Hills
3
3
0.500
Frank Sinatra School for the Arts
3
3
0.500
Benjamin Cardozo
2
5
0.286
Willian C. Bryant
1
6
0.143
John Bowne
0
8
0.000
Queens B II
School
Jamaica
Springfield Gardens
Robert F. Kennedy
Thomas Edison
Hillcrest
Martin Van Buren
Queens High School of Teaching
Campus Magnet
W
7
5
4
4
4
2
1
0
L
1
1
1
2
4
7
4
7
Pct.
0.875
0.833
0.800
0.667
0.500
0.222
0.200
0.000
Queens B III
School
Grover Cleveland
Metropolitan Campus
Townsend Harris
Newtown
Maspeth
Flushing
Franklin K. Lane Campus
W
6
5
5
3
2
2
1
L
1
1
1
1
2
5
6
Pct.
0.857
0.833
0.833
0.750
0.500
0.286
0.143
Queens B I
School
Academy for American Studies
Baccalaureate School for
Global Education
Queens Vocational
Information Technology
Queens High School Complex
Long Island City
Robert F. Wagner Jr.
Queens B IV
School
Richmond Hill
The Scholars Academy
Beach Channel/Channel View
Robert Goddard HS of Comm
Arts and Tech
John Adams
August Martin
Far Rockaway Educational Campus
W
5
4
3
L
2
1
3
Pct.
0.714
0.800
0.500
2
2
0
0
2
3
6
6
0.500
0.400
0.000
0.000
Queens AA West
School
W
Beach Channel/Channel View
5
Franklin K Lane Campus
4
Bushwick Campus
4
Transit Tech CTE High School
2
EBC/Bushwick Leaders
2
Metropolitan Campus
1
W
7
L
1
Pct.
0.875
7
6
3
3
2
1
2
1
3
3
5
6
0.778
0.857
0.500
0.500
0.286
0.143
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